A/N: So now Caroline has lost her memory, how much of it she's actually lost we will find out. Now the big challenge is going to be for everyone trying to figure out how to get her memory back or if she will ever get it back ;) xoxo, Avril

Chapter Six: Starting All Over

"Uh, thanks for bringing me home…Stefan, right?" Caroline asked trying to remember his name, she was already getting him confused with his brother a little bit.

"Yeah." Stefan said and nodded as he stood there on the porch with Caroline

"I'm sorry I just blacked out there at your house, I guess I was pretty dunk. I can't believe Bonnie and Elena just left me there though." Caroline huffed

"They were in rough shape too, Damon took them home before you woke up but, you really needed to lay down, you were way worse than they were." Stefan said

"Again, I'm really sorry." Caroline said "I'm just…stupid sometimes." Caroline smiled "I guess I'll see you around at school or something, right?"

"Yeah, I'll be there." Stefan said "Goodnight Caroline."

"Night." Caroline smiled and unlocked the door to her house and locked the door behind her. She had to admit, she picked a pretty good house to black out in back there, both of the Salvatore brothers were really hot. Even though she barely knew who they were, in a weird way, she felt like she knew them already. Then again, who wouldn't want to know the Salvatore brothers?

Caroline walked up to her room and was amazed to see that it was actually clean for once. No wonder why she went and got drunk with Bonnie and Elena, she probably needed one after cleaning her room. She thought about calling Bonnie and Elena and letting her know that she was okay now, but they were probably passed out, they would be hungover in school tomorrow. And speaking of hangovers, Caroline had no idea why she didn't have one right now, usually after she passes out like that and wakes up, she has a killer headache, but she felt perfectly fine, like nothing happened. But she did feel a little sore now that she thought about it, but there wasn't a mark on her.

Caroline went in the shower and felt a lot better already after that, she wasn't even sore anymore. After she got dressed for bed and ready to go to sleep, her cell phone went off. She grabbed it off the night table and looked at it strangely since her cell phone said Tyler was calling her but…Tyler hated her…so why would he call her?

"Hello?" Caroline answered confused

"Caroline! I heard about what happened tonight, are you okay? I'm sorry I wasn't there, I would have helped Stefan, Damon, and Bonnie but-"

"Tyler…what are you talking about? I'm fine. I was a little drunk and blacked out at the Salvatore house, but Stefan brought me home." Caroline said "And since when do you care about me anyway?"

"…What are you talking about?" Tyler asked sounding just as confused "Hold on a sec" Tyler said and pulled the phone away and looked at a text he just got from Stefan. "Oh, uh, never mind. You're fine I guess. Gotta go, see you tomorrow in school Care." Tyler said and hung up before Caroline could say a word.

"Weird." Caroline said and put her phone back on her night stand, rolled over in bed, and went to sleep.

"Just got done apologizing my ass off to Elena and telling her everything about Blondie." Damon sighed and sat down next to Stefan and started drinking.

"I told Bonnie and Tyler. Did you tell Alaric yet?" Stefan asked

"No, I'll do that in a minute." Damon sighed

"So, you and Elena okay now?" Stefan asked

"Not even close." Damon said "Apparently, I still have a lot more apologizing to do."

"I could have warned you about that, but you had to go all physco." Stefan said

"Yeah, yeah, no need for I told you so crap." Damon said "So, how much does Caroline remember?" Damon asked

"Well…she has no memory of us, of being a vampire, of dating Matt, or basically of anything ever since we came into town." Stefan said "She is a blank slate."

"Then what happens when she vamps out in the middle of class tomorrow because last I checked, she last fed on the day before yesterday." Damon said

"I'll watch her tomorrow." Stefan said "When she's not with me, Bonnie or Elena will take care of her."

"Speaking of Bonnie, she find out anything about how to get Caroline's memory back?" Damon asked

"No. Apparently it can only come back in pieces or sometimes it can't come back at all." Stefan said "There's no spell to bring her memories back."

"Wonderful." Damon said "So, once she finds out about vampires again, you think that will trigger anything?"

"Hopefully." Stefan said "Anyway, I better get to sleep then, apparently, I have school tomorrow."

"Good luck." Damon said with a smirk as Stefan walked upstairs and went to bed now too.

Caroline stood there in the hallways of the school, putting stuff into her locker, she found it hard to concentrate since she seemed to hear every single thing people were saying. It was annoying, like they were all talking with megaphones. And the sun, was it always that bright, even just coming in through the windows? Right now, she felt like she had a hangover with all of this going on around her and people slamming lockers shut wasn't helping. Caroline started looking around to see how Bonnie and Elena were holding up, but Bonnie was outside talking to Tyler…since when did Bonnie and Tyler talk? And why was Jeremy Gilbert following her like a lovesick puppy dog? And since when did he get cute? Everything just felt way too strange for her to just have had one drunken night last night, and then not even feel a hangover today. It was as if everything changed overnight and she just didn't feel like she belonged there right now.

"Hey Caroline." Tyler said from right behind her now, she barely even heard him walk up to her.

"Hi Tyler." Caroline said as she shut her locker and turned around to face him.

"How are you, uh, feeling today?" Tyler asked

"Okay I guess…no hangover really." Caroline said and shrugged "I don't know, it just feels weird being her today, like I've missed months or something instead of a few days…I think I'm just gonna go home."

"You sure?" Tyler asked

"Yeah, I just feel…out of it here. Tell Elena and Bonnie I left when you see them again, okay?" Caroline asked

"Sure." Tyler nodded and with that, Caroline head for the exit of the school, grabbed the keys out of her bag, and got in her car to go home, or at least anywhere but school, it was just too weird for her there today.

Caroline found herself sitting by the lake, not too far from the old Lockwood mansion. She had this feeling that something bad happened here, but she couldn't remember it. Just like how she couldn't remember why the Salvatores seemed familiar to her and she didn't even know who they were, or like how Tyler was nice to her when he usually thought she was shallow and neurotic. Nothing made sense today. She wanted to go to sleep and wake up and hope for everything to make sense again. Instead, she just sat there, skipping rocks across the lake, but instead of her usually sucking at it as always, she was actually pretty good now for some reason. Everything was calm and peaceful for the first time today…until she heard rustling in the bushes behind her and the strange scent hit her. She got up from where she was sitting and followed it, it let her right to the ruins of the Lockwood mansion where she saw a cute little rabbit sitting perched at the top of the steps.

"Hey there little guy." Caroline said with a smile and picked him up and held him in her arms. He squirmed around the first few minutes, but then stopped and just let her pet him. "How could I smell you all the way over from the lake?" Caroline asked herself curiously but shrugged and gave up, today made no sense anyway.

Caroline could have held that cute little bunny all day, but then she noticed that she could hear this low thumping sound. Almost like a…heartbeat. She realized it was the bunny she was hearing. As soon as she knew it was the bunny's heartbeat, she started thinking of the blood pumping through his veins in his body and then…her gums started to hurt really bad and her eyes felt all weird and tingly, and that's when the bunny started to squirm again. When Caroline realized that she wanted to bite into the bunny's neck, she quickly set him down.

"Go on, run, please run." Caroline pleaded and the bunny hopped away as fast as he could.

Caroline stood there, watching him for what seemed like hours, fighting back the urge to go chase him down and drink his blood. Why did she want blood so badly? It was all she could think about now. All she wanted was to chase that bunny, grab him, and drain all the blood out of him.

"Stop thinking about it Caroline. It's a bunny. It's blood. You are a human being, not some freak." Caroline said quietly to herself, trying to convince herself almost now.

Unable to fight it any longer, Caroline took off after that bunny faster than she had ever ran before. She caught it easily, scooped it up, and bit into it's neck drinking it's blood. It didn't taste as good as she thought it would, but all the sudden after she drank it, she felt a lot less hungry. She set the now dead bunny down on the ground and then it hit her what she had done when she saw the red blood all over the bunny's white fur.

"…Oh my god." Caroline said and took a step back. She just killed something and drank it's blood. How did she even do that? She covered her now bloody mouth with her hands and she felt something…sharp and pointy in her mouth…fangs? She had fangs?

She took off back towards the lake and looked into the water to see her reflection and aside from a bloody mouth and the fangs she now had, she noticed her eyes had a red tint to them and that she had veins under her eyes. She took a step back from the lake in horror and grabbed her cell phone out of her pocket and called Elena first, she just needed someone here, even if they'd call her a freak or a monster, she needed someone right now and Elena and Bonnie were the only ones she cold think of.

"Caroline, what's wrong? Where are you?" Elena asked quietly and Caroline realized that Elena must have had to sneak out of class to answer this.

"Sorry Elena but…I just need someone here right now. Something really, really bad just happened." Caroline said and felt tears stinging her eyes now.

"Okay, Where are you?" Elena asked

"At the lake by the old Lockwood mansion." Caroline said

"Alright, I'll be there as fast as I can." Elena said and hung up the phone with Caroline and called Stefan, she was going to need someone that could handle Caroline's strength if she just did what Elena thought she did, and even though she could have called Damon, she was still pretty pissed off at him for what he did to Caroline and what he tried to do with her.

Caroline ended up burying the little bunny while she waited for Elena. She put it underneath a nice shady tree and put a flower on top of his little grave. She felt so bad for killing that thing, she didn't even have any idea of what she was now or why she killed that rabbit, but she felt guilty for it. Even though her hands were now covered with dirt and blood, she didn't care, she just wanted the bunny to at least have a nice resting place.

"Caroline?" Elena said from behind her and Caroline turned to face her. Elena was a little taken aback to see her best friend still fully fanged and covered in blood, and apparently, some dirt too. But she was still getting used to Caroline being a vampire, and now with her memory loss, it was going to be even harder to get used to vampire Caroline.

"Elena…I did something really bad." Caroline said and felt the tears coming back.

Elena looked around Caroline and saw a tiny grave with a flower on top as Caroline stood up from off the ground. "You…killed a bunny?" Elena asked curiously and Caroline nodded.

"How did you know?" Caroline asked.

"That grave's way too tiny for a person." Elena said with a sigh of relief.

"…Person?" Caroline asked shocked "I…you think I would kill someone? …Have I ever killed someone?" Caroline asked as she felt tears roll down her face, she was that bad of a person now? She was a freakish murderer?

"No…Caroline, I don't think you would kill someone." Elena said "Look…I'm really no good with this whole…vampire thing you have here-"

"Vampire?" Caroline asked confused

"Just…Stefan!" Elena said calling for him now and he walked out from behind the trees now.

"You brought the new guy with you? Elena, I don't want people knowing that I'm some freakish murderer! Especially not the new guy!" Caroline said

"Caroline, he's not new, and he's here to help you way better than I ever could with this." Elena said

"You go ahead and leave Elena, I'll handle this." Stefan said and Elena nodded and walked back off towards her car and left leaving Stefan and Caroline alone.

"…I'm not a freak you know…at least…no, I am a freak." Caroline sighed and tried to wipe her tears away only to get dirt and blood on her face but she didn't care right now. "I just killed a bunny for blood."

"That's normal Caroline, you were hungry." Stefan said

"…Normal? You call killing a bunny normal? What town are you from because in Mystic Falls, last I checked, me and my friends don't go to the woods for lunch and pick up a few bunnies and maybe a few deer!" Caroline said

"Caroline…I don't really know how to explain all of this to you." Stefan sighed

"Explain what?" Caroline asked

"…Have you been feeling…strange today? Like, you're missing out on something?" Stefan asked

"All day." Caroline sighed.

"…Last night, you, Elena, and Bonnie didn't get drunk and come over to our house." Stefan said. "Last night…you were kidnapped and tortured by werewolves and you had your memory erased of the past few months."

"…Your insane." Caroline said and turned around to walk away but Stefan was already in front of her. "How-"

"Because," Stefan said and let his face change and Caroline looked at him shocked and confused, but not afraid. She thought Stefan was possibly a little crazy, but he was just like her, fangs and all. Maybe that was why she felt so comfortable around him last night? She knew somehow that he was like her even though she didn't know what she was herself? "I'm just like you."

Caroline bit her lip and looked at Stefan curiously. She knew it was wrong to probably just keep staring at Stefan like that, even though he was so close to her. She hesitated in wanting to just put her hands on him, to see if he was really there, if she really did have someone that was like here standing there. He must have noticed that because he took a step closer to her, obviously letting her know it was okay. She ended up gently resting her hand on Stefan's cheek and stroked the veins under his eyes with her thumb. They were just like hers, and he was really there.

"So," Caroline finally spoke up and slowly removed her hand from Stefan's face but ended up resting it on his shoulder, she just wanted to be close to him for some reason. "I was…kidnapped by werewolves? …And had my memory erased…which is why I can't remember much today?" Caroline asked and Stefan nodded. "No hangover?"

"No hangover." Stefan said with a small smile.

"…This sucks more then a hangover." Caroline sighed

"I know, but don't worry about it okay? Since it looks like you won't be getting your memory back anytime soon, I'll teach you again about how to control your bloodlust and stuff." Stefan said

"Something tells me it's not going to be easy." Caroline sighed

"Nothing is ever easy." Stefan said and that caused Caroline to smile a little bit for the first time today.

"Before we get to teaching and stuff…can I go home and clean up a little bit? I'm covered in dirt and bunny blood." Caroline said

"Yeah, I can come with you if you want me to?" Stefan offered

"…Yeah…that'd be nice." Caroline said "I hope it's not too weird to say this or anything since I don't remember how good of friends we were before but…I just feel safe with you. Like… I don't know, I just like having you around. You make me feel better." Caroline smiled

"No, it's not weird at all." Stefan smiled "We used to be…really good friends before."

"Good," Caroline smiled "…I hope we can be really good friends again."

"I hope so too." Stefan said.