A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it's been a while, I got kinda stuck on what to write next, like how Caroline would react to Damon and I think I kinda figured out what should happen next. I gotta get back to writing my other story too, I've been in the middle of writing a crossover story right now :P But since I'm in the mood for some of my favorite couple today, which would be the lovely Steroline ;) I'm gonna give you guys this chapter today, I hope you like it! xoxo, Avril
Chapter Four: We Could Have Had It All
"Damon…want to explain this to me?" Caroline asked and looked right at him, making sure he could see the hurt in her eyes.
"I…I…" Damon said
"Just let him out." Caroline said and shook her head as she looked away from Damon, she was disgusted with him now, how could he have done this to her? She trusted him. She thought he was starting to become like a friend to her. They could have been good friends, but now, Damon would be luck if she ever looked at him again.
Damon walked over to the door and opened it up to let Stefan out. Damon stood there, holding the door open as Stefan walked by him and after a quick glare in Damon's direction, Stefan walked right over to Caroline and hugged her and she hugged him back tightly, blinking back tears as she was finally able to hold Stefan again.
"Come on, let's get out of here." Stefan said and gently pulled away from Caroline, even though she didn't want to let go of him yet, she listened and grabbed onto Stefan's hand tightly.
Before they walked completely out of the room, Caroline let go of Stefan's hands and she gave him a silent look, Stefan knew she wanted to talk to Damon now. So he quickly kissed her on the cheek and walked upstairs. Once Caroline heard the door shut, she looked over at Damon who was still standing by the door on the other end of the hallway.
"…I just have to ask you one thing." Caroline said. "Why did you do this to me?"
"…I don't know." Damon said simply and shrugged
"You don't know?" Caroline asked as harshly as she could. "You knew locking Stefan away and having me think that he just disappeared off the face of the earth because he didn't love me anymore would hurt me more then anything else in this world, but you did it anyway! You know Damon, I always knew you were a jerk, but for a minute there, just for a minute, I believed that you were my friend. That you cared about me. That you changed…God was I stupid to ever believe that." Caroline sighed "You are still the same Damon Salvatore that you were when you first came into this town, aren't you?"
"I wish I was. Because then I wouldn't care about a damn thing you're saying right now." Damon said "But sadly, that ship has sailed. I do care. I can't stop caring. I actually felt guilt for the first time since 1864 while I had Stefan locked up down here. And I hated every minute of it."
"So what was you're plan then? Tell me Damon, was it to get me to go run off somewhere with you, forget about Stefan and everyone here in Mystic Falls? What were you gonna do after that? When you had me away from everyone, what was your plan?" Caroline said, taking a few steps closer towards Damon, she knew she was pushing his buttons right now, just from the look on his face.
But before Caroline could take another step, Damon ran up to her and had her pinned up against a wall. Damon had that crazy look in his eyes that terrified Caroline and made her want to scream out for help like she was in some horror movie. But instead she stayed silent and tried to form words in her terrified state.
"I locked Stefan down here because I care about you." Damon said. Under normal circumstances, those words would have made Caroline care a little bit about Damon, but now, with this murderous glint in Damon's eyes, and that grizzly tone to his voice, it made her want to run away and hide.
"You know I care about Stefan more then I will ever care about you." Caroline spat and took her chance to push Damon off of her and he took a few steps back. "You are a monster Damon. Locking people that I care about away isn't going to make me just stop caring about them and move onto someone else! You can't make people care about you. It has to be earned, like trust. And sadly for you, you are no where near earning my trust, or having me care about you." Caroline said and with that, she stomped off upstairs and slammed the door so hard, she thought it would break.
Caroline took a few deep breaths before walking around the house again, looking for Stefan. She finally heard the shower on upstairs and knew that Stefan was in there. Instead of waiting downstairs and risking having to see Damon's face again, she walked upstairs and right into Stefan's room, shutting the door behind her and sitting on the bed, waiting for Stefan.
Caroline had cuddled up next to Stefan in his bed after he was dressed and out of the shower. She felt silly for being this clingy to him, but she couldn't help it. She missed him so much that while he was gone, it felt like part of herself was gone. She didn't want to ever have to feel that again, she just wanted it to be how it was supposed to be now, her and Stefan together forever. They had forever after all.
"So, how much did you miss me?" Stefan asked with a smirk as he looked down at Caroline
"Do I have to keep repeating myself?" Caroline asked with a smile "I missed you, a lot." Caroline said and kissed Stefan quickly
"I missed you too." Stefan smiled
"…Stefan…Don't ever leave me again." Caroline said
"I won't, I promise." Stefan smiled and kissed her
"I better go." Caroline got up and sighed "If I go now, I can catch my mom before she goes to work and tell her that you're back and I'm not staying here anymore."
"You sure?" Stefan asked with a s smirk
"Positive. I love you Stefan, but I can't be in the same house as that monster you call a brother." Caroline said and grabbed her bags. "I'll be back in ten minutes or so, okay?"
"Alright." Stefan said and got up and kissed Caroline "I'll be here, I promise."
"You better be." Caroline smiled before walking out of Stefan's door.
Caroline walked up to her front door, her mom's car was still in the driveway, she knew she would be leaving soon. Caroline looked through her bag for the keys to her house, when she stopped when she heard something moving inside her house, it was too loud and sudden to be her mother. She knew someone else was in there with her now. That was when Caroline finally noticed the all too familiar scent around her house, werewolf. Caroline gave up on try to find her keys and busted the lock on her front door and dropped her bag to the floor before staying perfectly quiet to listen in on what was happening. She heard no one talking, but she heard someone moving, quietly and slowly, almost as if they were tip toeing around her. She knew now that they knew she was here. She heard the steps coming from the kitchen. So she walked in there to find no one, but her mother, tied down to a kitchen chair with tape over her mouth.
"Mom!" Caroline said and ran over to her side, probably a little too fast, but she didn't care right now. Caroline struggled with the ropes, but as soon as she tried to get them off her mom, they burned her, they were soaked in vervain. They knew Caroline would come and try to save her mother, they were planning this, and now they had her trapped. She fell right into their trap.
"Sweet little Caroline." Jules said as she walked out into the kitchen "Come to save mommy now, huh? I'm surprised you came without your little vampire boyfriend, Damon is it?"
"Damon's not my boyfriend." Caroline spat "I'd rather date a dog instead of him."
"Ouch, sounds like he messed up somehow. Was it because he hid Stefan from you?" Jules asked
"…How did you know about that?" Caroline asked
"It seemed like something the desperate Damon Salvatore would do. With his little Elena still hot for Stefan, it was only a matter of time before he come chasing after you again." Jules said "Speaking of Damon, how is he doing today? Does he feel…guilty for anything?"
"I don't care." Caroline growled
"Huh, you think he would after killing Mason like that. Just ripping his heart right out of his chest." Jules said "It must have hurt like hell."
"I wouldn't know." Caroline said
"Yeah, funny thing about that." Jules said with a smirk "Until we get Damon, and make him feel what Mason felt, you're just going to have to do for now. Brady!" Jules yelled and Caroline turned around to see a man standing behind her with a gun pointed right to her chest and before Caroline could get it away from him, he pulled the trigger and she blacked out.
The next thing Caroline felt was the pain of waking up. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she wasn't home anymore. Instead she was on the floor of some cage inside what looked like an RV. When she tried to sit up, she felt the pain in her chest. She looked down at her shirt and saw blood right where her heart should be. If she was shot in the heart, how was she still alive? She reached in her shirt and pulled the bullet painfully out of her chest. It was a wooden bullet too, but where it was, she realized now that it just missed her heart. He could have killed her, but they weren't planning on killing her, at least not yet. And even though she was in terrible pain, she quickly started looking around the room for her mother to see if they brought her here too. But she saw no sign of her mother in the RV. In fact, she saw no one in the RV. So with no one there, Caroline scooted over to the cage door and tried to reach out there to open it up, but she couldn't reach the door. Once she thought she almost had it, she felt the worst pain in the world as someone squirted vervain right in her face and she quickly pulled back and tried to see who just did that to her. She looked up and saw the man that shot her, Brady.
"Well, well, well, look who finally decided to wake up." Jules said walking over next to Brady as she entered the RV. "I thought I heard a vampire hissing out in pain."
"Where am I?" Caroline asked through tears
"You don't need to know. All you need to know is that we are keeping you here and putting you through all the pain Mason felt until we get Damon Salvatore and make him pay for what he did to Mason." Jules said
"I didn't do anything to Mason though! I swear!" Caroline cried out
"You're still a vampire." Jules said and with that, Brady sprayed her again causing Caroline to curl up on the floor in pain
Just then, Caroline's cell phone went off and Jules took it out of her pocket and looked at who it was. She answered it without saying a word.
"Caroline, where are you?" Stefan asked frantically over the phone. "I went to your house and your not there, your mom's car and your car are still there but your both gone. Damon hasn't seen you, Tyler hasn't seen you, where are you?"
"Well, looks like the worried boyfriend made his escape." Jules said
"…Jules, where is Caroline?" Stefan asked and Caroline could hear the anger in his voice now
"She's here, waiting for your pathetic brother to come turn himself into us." Jules said
"You don't have her." Stefan said in disbelief
"You need proof?" Jules asked and looked over at Brady "He needs proof Brady."
An evil smirk crossed Brady's face as he picked up a real gun this time and aimed it right at Caroline and as soon as he pulled the trigger, Caroline let out the most terrifying scream Stefan could have ever heard. Caroline was shaking in tears and pain by now and she looked at her hands that she used to keep her face covered, and she saw wooden splinters in them now. She realized now with all the pain she was in that Jules took her jacket away from her so that all those wooden splinters could hit her bare shoulders now, along with her arms and exposed neck, Caroline knew now that it was a bad day to have picked to wear a halter top.
"That proof enough for you?" Jules asked with a smirk
"Jules, let her out now or I will kill you-"
"She's not going anywhere until you bring Damon to us." Jules said "So you have a choice Stefan. And if you don't bring Damon to us by midnight, your little girlfriend here will be dead." Jules spat "So who will it be? Your brother, or your girlfriend? You have 'til midnight." Jules said and hung up the phone and looked over at Brady again.
After a quick exchange of looks, Brady shot Caroline again and she let out another terrifying scream as Jules kneeled down next to her by her cage.
"We're going to have a lot of fun until midnight, aren't we Caroline?" Jules asked