A/N: So, after this chapter, it is highly possible that you will hate me after this. The ending is very…dramatic? I think that's the word I'm looking for. And it's kinda a cliffhanger. Reason I say this is because I got the idea for this from a song that was on TVD (Episode 13, Daddy Issues, at the end with the last Caroline/Stefan scene where he brings Bonnie and Elena to come over to Caroline's house) it's called Losing Your Memory by Ryan Star. It's actually a really beautiful song, but it inspired this chapter and…maybe you get a good idea about wat's going to happen from the title? Who knows ;) xoxo, Avril
Chapter Five: Losing Your Memory
"Wow, 11 already? Your boyfriend is really taking your time, you sure he's coming princess?" Jules asked with a smirk on her face
"He'll come." Caroline said, barely a whisper, but it hurt her to talk any louder. She had splinters all over her still, to tired and weak to bother removing them no matter how much they hurt her, and even if she tried to, Jules would just shoot her with more of them, so what was the point?
"You sure have a lot of faith in him." Jules sighed "So, Caroline, Stefan Salvatore's second choice, how does that feel, huh?"
"I'm not-"
"Oh please. You were always his second choice. I haven't even been in this town that long and in that short time, I've seen Stefan move from pretty little golden girl Elena Gilbert, to…you." Jules said "You really think he left Elena for you? Or maybe he left because he was stupid enough to kiss you and she wouldn't take him back."
"How do you know all this?" Caroline asked and winced in pain
"You learn a lot from listening around here." Jules said "No one seems to know the meaning of the word privacy in this town. Or enhanced hearing."
"…Stefan's coming." Caroline said
"Doesn't matter to me if he comes with his pathetic excuse of a brother or not. I have you right here. And we still have one more hour left to play." Jules said and shot some more vervain at Caroline and it made her cry out again as soon as it hit her skin.
"So, what's the plan, go swooping in and while I'm handling all the wolves coming at me, you go swooping in, get the girl, and save the day?" Damon asked with a sarcastic tone, as always
"Damon, I'm going to be helping you fight them off, once their done, we both go get Caroline." Stefan said to Damon as they were walking through the woods, looking for the RV that Jules told them about that was close to the old Lockwood manor. "There it is." Stefan sighed a sigh of relief once they finally found the place. "Remember, we-"
"Yeah, yeah, I got the plan." Damon said and strolled off towards the RV, knocked on the door and stood there waiting with Stefan now close by.
"So you came to die after all?" Jules asked as she walked out of the RV.
"I'm here, aren't I?" Damon asked annoyed
"Where's Caroline?" Stefan asked
"Inside, sleeping off the vervain and wooden splinters." Jules said and a smile crossed her face when she saw both Stefan and Damon react to hearing that she had been hurting Caroline. "Wow, so it is true. You both move on from the Katherine look a like to Malibu Barbie?"
"Just give us Caroline." Damon hissed
"Us? I think your mistaken there Damon. Stefan get's his little girlfriend and her mother and walks free while you…well, you die a poetic and tragic death." Jules said and as soon as she said that, people who were most likely werewolves started walking out from behind trees and circled Damon and Stefan now. There had to be at least 15 of them. "And my friends here are going to make sure of that. Now stay like good little vampires and I'll go get blondie and her mom." Jules said and Damon and Stefan stood frozen in their spot while Jules walked back inside.
Jules untied Caroline's mom first and without a word, sent her outside to Stefan and Damon. Next Jules went to Caroline, but before she opened up her cage, she grabbed a needle that was full of this light blue liquid and leaned in close to reach out to Caroline and inject it into her shoulder.
"What was that?" Caroline asked
"Just a little present for you boyfriend later." Jules said "Werewolves know witches too." And with that, Jules opened up Caroline's cage and stepped back to let her out.
Caroline cautiously got out of her cage and stopped, thinking about attacking Jules, but noticed the gun in her hands and all the things still on the table, and she walked out the door instead. Stefan and Damon were horrified when they saw what Jules had done to Caroline this whole entire time. Caroline walked up to Stefan in tears and Stefan gently held her and tried to take a few of the splinters out of her while her confused and equally horrified mother stood by, not knowing what to do or what was happening.
"Caroline, take your mom and get out of here." Stefan whispered to her, just quiet enough for her to hear. She pulled away, wiped her tears, and nodded. She walked off towards her mom and gently pulled here away into the forest, she refused to leave, but she was getting far away enough to where her mother wouldn't be in danger. She didn't need to know Stefan and Damon's plan to know that they were going to fight their way out of there to save Damon's life too.
It didn't take long, as soon as Jules realized what was going on, she ordered everyone to attack them and Stefan and Damon started fighting everyone that came at them. It seemed like an army to Caroline, and she wanted to go fight, but she knew she'd get herself killed being so weak and so…tired. She was really tired all the sudden.
"Caroline, honey, what's going on?" Her mother asked with fear in her voice
"I-I don't know." Caroline said just as scared but her eyelids were starting to drift closed.
Just as Caroline felt that Stefan and Damon were going to die, Bonnie comes walking up to the fight from what seems like out of nowhere and all werewolves fall to the ground, just as Stefan and Damon usually do when Bonnie uses that power on them.
"Leave." Bonnie said firmly to them and before she could see Stefan and Damon walk away, Caroline fell asleep and hit the ground. The last things she heard around her were her mother freaking out and Stefan and Damon rushing to her side and trying to wake her up.
Stefan was just coming back from the hospital where Caroline's mom was for now. He had to compel her to forget about everything from the past few hours and now he was still worried sick about Caroline. She was still fast asleep at the Boarding House in the living room, at least that was what Bonnie told him. He walked through the front door of the Boarding House and went right to Caroline's side. She was still sprawled out on the couch, sleeping. She looked so peaceful. She probably was finally in peace since Stefan noticed that Bonnie and Damon managed to get all the splinters out of her and she was healing up slowly. Stefan gently stroked the side of her face and brushed the hair out of her face as he quietly hoped that Caroline would wake up soon and that everything would be okay again. Just like how things were before Damon locked him away. They'd be normal, happy, and together again. Maybe even if she still wanted to, he'd take her out of town, get her away from all this craziness, just to get the chance to hold her in his arms again and him knowing that he could protect her from everything that tried to harm her. Even though he knew that wasn't true, that he couldn't protect her from everything, he would die trying if he had to. Just for her and only her.
"I wanted to give her blood, but she's still out like a light." Damon said walking into the room and putting a glass of blood on the table for Caroline when she woke up.
"Thanks for taking care of her." Stefan said to Damon
"Yeah, whatever." Damon sighed and sat down in the chair that was next to the couch.
"What do you think caused this?" Stefan asked Bonnie
"Well, either she was in so much pain, she passed out, or wolves know more then they let us think they do." Bonnie sighed
"Meaning?" Damon asked
"Meaning there are only a handful of things that can make a vampire randomly pass out like that." Bonnie said "It wasn't my spell, I know that because it was geared towards werewolves and you two were fine."
"Keep going, skip the obvious ones." Damon said
"Alright, so unless one of you has the device on you from Founder's Day that only Caroline could hear. There's two things that could have happened here," Bonnie sighed "Either Jules had a witch cast a spell on her that will cause her to die in a week in her sleep. Or, she used a memory potion on her."
"Memory potion?" Stefan asked confused
"Yeah. Usually memory loss only happens as what could be a side effect from a spell backfiring. But since I doubt Jules had a witch there with her, it was a memory potion. Meaning whenever Caroline wakes up again…she won't remember." Bonnie said
"Won't remember what specifically?" Damon asked
"It depends on how strong the potion was made. Could be anywhere from the past few hours to the past few years." Bonnie shrugged "We won't know until she wakes up."
"As much as I wouldn't mind getting a clean slate with Blondie," Damon said as him and Stefan wandered around the library in the Boarding House. "I really don't want it to be like this."
"I'm sure she wouldn't mind forgetting the past few days either. But this is serious Damon, if that potion is strong enough, not only will she forget us, she'll forget being a vampire and everything that goes with her being a vampire. It could be dangerous." Stefan said
"Look, I doubt that thing goes back to the point of where she forgets what she is. You heard Bonnie, it could also be a specific person she's made to forget, we don't know until she wakes up." Damon said
"Could be specific people too." Stefan added "I just want her to wake up so we know what we're dealing with here now."
"Don't we all want Sleeping Beauty to wake up?" Damon asked and took a sip of his drink.
"…Hello?" Stefan and Damon heard Caroline's voice call out and they dropped everything and ran out there to her.
She seemed startled by them just appearing out of nowhere. She looked at them both completely confused, and quite frankly, she looked a little scared too.
"Caroline…do you know who we are?" Stefan asked her
"…N-No." Caroline said scared and shook her head
And that was when Stefan and Damon faced their worst nightmares. Caroline forgot completely who they were. It was written all over her face. She was scared more then anything. She was locked up in a strange house sleeping on a strange couch with just strange people in it. She just wanted to go home to her mom and call Bonnie and Elena and tell her about her weird night, hopefully they would make her feel better. And maybe she'd get something to eat on the way home to, if these crazy people let her leave, she was starved. She just wanted to go some place where everything would make sense, even though she had to admit that the strangers were quite handsome, they were still strangers and god knows what happened to her that led to her passing out on their couch.