The Next Day:
Caleb wakes up in time for school and decides to go and goes and gets ready for the day. He puts on some jeans with a black v-top and goes into the bathroom, brushes his teeth and combs out his hair. When he thinks he is ready for the day he gets his bag and goes downstairs with his headphones in. After last night and what is on his mind he doesn't care to talk to anyone. He walks past Jasper when he gets to the bottom of the stairs and when Jasper tries to get his attention Caleb ignores him. He grabs his phone off of the coffee table and without saying a word to anyone he goes outside and starts walking to school. He takes a different way than everyone else. He had enough time so he goes through the forest and walks the path to the school.
A few minutes into walking Caleb starts hearing noises around him. He looks around him but doesn't see anything. He shrugs it off and keeps walking, listening to his music. Before Caleb can turn around he is thrown into a tree and is being held by his neck. When he opens his eyes he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
It was Katherine Pierce.
"What are you doing here? I thought you died?"
She smirks at him, holding onto his neck while Caleb tries to get out of her grip but she was too strong.
"I've been searching everywhere for you Caleb. I never thought I would find you where your older brother lives."
Caleb never told her anything about his brother. His eyes get big and Katherine lets go off him as he falls to the ground trying to catch his breath. He stumbles to get up off the ground and rubs his neck. He finally speaks when he finds his voice.
"How do you know he is here? I haven't seen you since you left me without telling me what the hell I was."
Katherine chuckles and smirks at Caleb. She walks back and forth while Caleb stands back and clears his throat.
"I know a lot Caleb. You probably thought I was dead but I always find a way out of death. I'm smarter than you think."
"You are not smart enough to stay away from me when I want to kill you."
"You can't kill me even if you try."
"I know you're not here to chat so what do you want?"
"I need you to do me a little favor."
Caleb really couldn't believe she was asking him for a favor when all she did was cause his life to be hell. Caleb laughs in her face which Katherine didn't like. She runs full force into him and into a tree and takes a tree branch and stabs him in the stomach, putting it in as deep as she can. Caleb, this time, fights back. He takes his fist and punches her square in the face and she falls to the ground, then Caleb takes out the tree branch out of his stomach and runs to her while she is on the ground and lunges the tree brunch into her back.
"You expect me to do you a favor after all the hurt and pain you put me through. Because of you I'm never going to be the same again. You made me into something I never wanted to be. Thanks to you my life will never be easy. I would never do you a favor. I hate you Katherine."
She pulls the tree branch out of her back and when Caleb turns his back she grabs him by the neck and turns him around, takes her fist and with all her strength, punches him in the face and it makes him going flying into a tree and he falls to the ground. He puts his hand to his face and sees blood on his hand. His back was hurting a lot from hitting the tree and stumbles to get up and fight back. Katherine takes advantage of this and kicks him back down to the ground. She takes his wrist and twists it backwards and Caleb couldn't take it anymore. He screams out in pain.
"Now that I have your attention you will listen to me and agree on what I need you to do or I will kill Jasper. Do you understand?"
Caleb violently nods his head while biting his lip.
"I'm glad we understand each other. Here is what needs to be done. There is this human that has failed me for the last time. I want her gone. I can't kill her since she will expect me to but you, Caleb; you can kill her for me."
Caleb violently shakes his no at her. If he killed her it would bring him back to his old ways and not even Jasper knows how bad he is with human blood. If he has one taste of it he won't be able to stop. She wasn't lying to him about killing Jasper, he knew that. If he doesn't agree his brother will be dead and he won't be able to get over that. He would probably kill himself to be with Jasper. Katherine lends down to him and roughly takes a hold of his face.
"If you don't do this, Jasper will be dead by tonight. You would be the blame for his death and I doubt you want that in the back of your mind."
Caleb didn't want to do this but he had no choice. Jasper wasn't safe until he did this. Caleb knew what this will mean. He will disappoint his brother and new family and after he did this, going back home wasn't an option. Caleb closes his eyes and nods his head in agreement to what she is asking of him.
"Good, now get up and follow me."
In a lot of pain Caleb gets up and stumbles at first but runs with his vampire speed, following Katherine.
Alice's Vision:
"Please don't do this, I'm sorry!"
Caleb was going after a young girl with his vampire face showing. Caleb was looking down at the ground, taking a deep breath and looks back up at the young girl with tears forming in his eyes.
"I'm sorry but I need to do this. I don't want to do this but I need to. I'm so sorry."
Caleb takes a hold of her neck and looks deep into her eyes and says,
"You won't feel any pain. You will not scream. It won't be long and it will be over with. I' am sorry I have to do this to you."
She agrees to everything that Caleb was saying to her. He pushes some of her hair out of the way and looks away again then bites into her neck. After a minute Caleb drains all of her blood and breaks her neck to be for sure she was dead. He runs at vampire speed out of the house and into the forest.
Jasper notices her face was terrified and she was saying 'no, no' over and over again. Jasper holds her in his arms and she looks up at him with concern for his brother and for what Jasper was going to do.
"What is wrong Ali? What did you see?"
"Caleb, he is going to kill an h-human."
Jasper's eyes are wide and his arms leave Alice's body. He takes his cell phone out and calls Caleb but it went to his voicemail. In anger and worry he throws his phone to the ground and it breaks into pieces.
"Where is he Alice?"
"He isn't far. He is in Settle."
"I'm going to try to stop him. Stay here and let everyone else know what is going on. I'll make sure he doesn't kill this human."
"Be careful Jasper."
He kisses Alice goodbye and leaves the school. He decides to run instead of taking his car. It will be faster. Jasper goes into the forest and runs as fast as his vampire speed will take him. He wasn't going to let Caleb kill a human. It will tear him apart inside if he did that. He hopes he doesn't get their late.
After an hour and half Jasper arrives in downtown Settle. He runs at normal rate to the house that Alice told him he was at. It takes him a few minutes but Jasper gets to the house his little brother is at. Without a second thought and just thinking of Caleb, he runs inside the house but was too late. The young girl falls to the ground. She was dead.
Caleb looks over and sees Jasper. Caleb was shocked he was here and tries to run away from him but Jasper blocks him. He looks at the young girl on the floor and couldn't believe he did what he did. He did this to protect his brother and his new family but Jasper was disappointed in him. That was the worst feeling ever.
"Caleb, why did you do this?"
"I don't need to explain myself."
Caleb wanted to tell him the truth but something came over him to not tell him anything. The human blood was affecting him. Jasper even knew it was affecting him because Caleb would have told him the truth.
"Caleb you killed a human. You probably don't think you need to explain yourself but you do."
"Just get out of my way Jasper."
When Jasper doesn't move, Caleb shoves him out of the way. Jasper falls to the ground and hits his head on the wall but wasn't going to let his brother leave in the condition he was in. He could kill another human and Jasper knew it would kill him inside once he comes back to his senses. Jasper gets up and takes his arm and pulls him back into the house, closing and locking the door. Caleb wasn't healed from the fight he had from Katherine so he fights though the pain but Jasper notices he was injured.
"Caleb I don't want to fight you. Just talk to me, tell me what made you do this."
"You seriously make me laugh. I don't need to tell you anything. I killed a human, big fucking deal. I'm old enough to do what I want and that includes killing and having human blood. I guess I'm not the brother you thought I was."
"This isn't you. This is the human blood talking. Open your eyes Caleb and see what you did was wrong. Come back to me Caleb."
Caleb tries to attack Jasper but Jasper knew what will bring him back. Before he touches Jasper he grabs a hold of Caleb and snaps his neck. Jasper knew it won't kill him, just knock him out for a few minutes to an hour. Jasper catches him before he falls to the ground and carries him into the living room where the couch was. He sets him on the couch, waiting for him to wake up. Jasper takes Caleb's phone since he broke his and scowls down to Alice's name and sends her a text message.
'Alice it's Jasper. Everything is fine. I had to knock Caleb out but he will wake up soon. I'll be back home soon with him. Don't worry, I love you.'
He closes his phone and puts it in his pocket. Caleb wasn't going to get his phone back after this. Jasper was his older brother and was a father to him whom means Jasper would have to deal with this until they get home and Carlisle has a talk with him. Jasper decides to see if Caleb was really injured and where. He wipes open his shirt and sees big bruises on both sides of his stomach where his ribs are. His nose had dry blood which probably meant he had a broken nose. He turns him on his side and sees his back wasn't any better. It looked cracked in some places and was bruised also. He took a bad beating from someone. His stomach had dry blood with a wound that looked like someone stabbed him with something. He turns him back on his back and sees all the old scars that Caleb has never showed him. They didn't look like he did them himself. They were old and like they came from sharp things.
Jasper didn't know half of what he went through without him. Seeing these scars he has and him this hurt was showing how bad everything was for his little brother. Caleb isn't the type to burden people with his problems and likes to handle everything on his own. It almost killed him in the process when he was harming himself and now it was killing him again and Jasper wasn't going to lose him to himself.
After only twenty minutes Caleb wakes up and looks around the room and sees Jasper next to him. Caleb jerks up but Jasper holds him from doing anymore damage to himself.
"What happened? What am I doing here Jasper?"
"Please tell me you remember."
"Remember what? What is going on?"
"What do you remember before you woke up?"
"I remember going to school but Katherine showed up out of no where's and started fighting with me. She asked me to do something for her and said if I didn't she would kill you but I don't know what she asked of me or anything else after that."
Jasper looks over at the dead woman on the ground and tries to not let Caleb see her but he looks where Jasper was looking and was in shock.
"Did I k-kill her?"
"Caleb listen to me, you wouldn't in the right mind when you did this. You thought my life was in danger."
Caleb gets up from the couch but almost falls to the ground. Jasper holds him and sits him back down.
"Jasper, I haven't killed or had human blood in years. Katherine knew what it does to me and she asked me to do this. I can't stay here. It won't be safe for anybody if I do."
"What? Caleb, what are you talking about?"
"I didn't tell you everything Jasper. I thought it wouldn't happen again."
"What is it Caleb?"
Caleb takes a deep breath and looks up at Jasper but looks away before he tells him. He wasn't proud of himself right now. He hated himself at this moment right now.
"When I was on human blood I wasn't the Caleb you see now. I was a careless, mean person. I didn't care about anyone or about what I did. I didn't even care about taking another human's life. Every time I had human blood, I needed more. I couldn't get enough of it. Human blood affected me in a way I never thought it could. For years I haven't had human blood. I knew how bad it affected me. Now that I had it again I won't be able to control myself. I'm going to want more and more."
Jasper didn't think human blood was this bad for him. The worst part was Katherine knew how it affected him and still made him kill a human. Jasper didn't know if he was going to be able to control himself around humans right now. He didn't look like he was going be able to. Jasper wished he told him sooner so he can help him but it's better than nothing that he told him now.
"We will help you, all of us will. You will not be going any where's. Everything will be fine Caleb. Let's get you home."
Caleb was too weak right now to fight. He was in pain and really tired. Jasper didn't think he should run in his condition so when they get to the forest, Jasper has him hop onto his back and Jasper runs back home with him, hoping everything will be fine with his brother.