A/N: Alright, I just wanted to make a little announcement thing for one of my stories, since I can't put it up on the actual story, if you don't read it, you don't have to read this part here. So, on my story I Need A Hero I already have a new chapter ready to put up there, but every time I try to, the website gives me this error message and it still hasn't been fixed yet. I've even tried making a new story just so I could put the chapter up! It would have been like a part 2 or whatever, but it still gave me an error message! So, I just wanted to let you guys know that I haven't forgotten that story, I've still been working on it, but I can't put up the new chapter until it gets fixed.
Anyways, I love you guys so much, and for those of you that are here to read this new chapter, I hope you like it ;) xoxo, Avril.
Chapter Eight: Adjusting
"Wait…so…just tell me one more time. I'm still really confused." Caroline said while she was sitting down in the living room of the Boarding House, listening to Stefan and Damon try to explain to her their whole story all over again so that she could understand that Katherine and Elena were two totally different people. But so far, it wasn't really getting though to Caroline.
"Bottom line Blondie," Damon spoke up. "Katherine and Elena are not the same person. It's not Elena going crazy and playing mind games with us. Think of Katherine as like….Elena's evil twin sister who just happens to be somewhere around 500 years old." Damon said
"…Okay…so Katherine was the one that change you two into vampires?" Caroline asked and Damon and Stefan nodded "And Elena…"
"Still the same Elena you remember. Well, a little different, but still basically the same." Damon said
"Okay." Caroline said "So, not to get completely off topic here but, just curious, who turned me into a vampire?"
"That's kinda…complicated." Stefan sighed
"No need to make this into a soap opera, Stefan" Damon said with a smirk. "You were on the verge of death so your little witch friend, Bonnie, made me give you some of my blood so you would heal. You were perfectly fine, but vampire blood stays in the system for a few days and Katherine came to visit you, killed you, and here you are."
"Thanks for putting that so gently Damon." Stefan said and glared at Damon.
"Don't give me that look Stef, how else were you going to tell her that the psychotic bitch herself is basically her vampire mommy?" Damon asked
"I heard that." Katherine said walking into the room.
"Good." Damon spat at her. "I'm not going to survive the next two weeks." Damon mumbled to himself
"Oh come on Damon, It'll be like 1864 all over again." Katherine said with a smirk.
"Stefan, I'm going to be anywhere but here for the rest of the night. Good luck." Damon said and grabbed his jacket off the couch and walked out the front door leaving Stefan alone with Katherine and Caroline now.
"Don't you have somewhere else to be Katherine?" Stefan asked her.
"Ouch Stefan. I didn't think you and Damon were so alike now. But fine, I'll go. Have fun with your empty headed cheerleader for the night." Katherine sighed and walked towards the front before stopping and turning back to Stefan. "Oh, and if I were you, I'd start making friends with werewolf boy again. You're going to need him to be friends with you." Katherine said and before Stefan could ask what she meant, she was gone out the front door.
"…Who's werewolf boy?" Caroline asked confused
"Tyler." Stefan sighed
"Wait, Tyler's a werewolf?" Caroline asked shocked
"It's another really long story, but yes." Stefan said
"Is there anyone normal left in this town?" Caroline asked
"Well…there's your mom…and Jenna." Stefan said
"…That's it?" Caroline asked
"…Yeah, pretty much." Stefan said and sat down next to Caroline now and put his arm around her.
"I hate not having my memory." Caroline said and rested her head on Stefan's shoulder.
"I know it sucks but, in a way, it's actually a good thing." Stefan said and Caroline looked up at him confused. "There were some pretty…bad things you had to go through recently and it would probably be better if you never remembered them, but since you are determined to get your memory back, just enjoy the next week or two you have of not remembering it."
"It can't be that bad." Caroline said.
"Trust me, it is." Stefan said and pulled Caroline a little closer to him now.
"You've got to be kidding me." Damon sighed as he walked up to Katherine in the graveyard, sitting on the ground in front of two graves. "Of all the places to go to in Mystic Falls and you had to come here."
"I knew you'd come here." Katherine said and kept her gaze on the two graves in front of her.
"I didn't know murderers came to see their victims graves." Damon sighed and sat down next to her and stared at the graves of Damon and Stefan Salvatore.
"You are such a drama queen Damon. I didn't kill you, you're still here. Plus, it's your own fault that you're a vampire. I didn't want to be saved. But you and Stefan had to come and save me and look at where that got you." Katherine said
"If I could go back in time and stop myself from going to save you, trust me, I would." Damon said
"You were blinded by love back then Damon, you were just too adorable sometimes." Katherine said with a smirk "Until, you know, you started getting a bit on the obsessive side and kept trying to track me down for the past hundred years."
"You haven't changed at all." Damon sighed "Why are you here Katherine?"
"I knew you would-"
"Not here." Damon said "I mean here in Mystic Falls and helping Caroline…at least I think you're helping."
"I don't know, gives me something to do. I've been around for 500 years and never met someone with a witch induced memory loss, I thought it'd be fun." Katherine shrugged
"Fun?" Damon asked and looked over at her. "That's the best lie you could come up with?"
"Alright fine, I care for the girl a little bit, happy?" Katherine asked and looked over at Damon now who had a confused look on his face.
"You're lying again…aren't you?" Damon asked
"Believe what you want, but it's true." Katherine sighed "I'm still allowed to care for people."
"Last I checked, you weren't able to care for people because I'm pretty sure you don't have a heart." Damon said
"Are you ever going to stop picking on me?" Katherine asked
"Why? Am I hurting your feelings Miss Katherine?" Damon asked sarcastically
"Fine. I get it. I'll leave." Katherine sighed and stood up. She reached for something in her pocket and pulled out a necklace and handed it to Damon. "This was to show you that I was here to help, for once." Katherine said as Damon took the necklace from her and he instantly realized that it was his mothers.
"How did you get this?" Damon asked
"I know people." Katherine said simply and shrugged. "I'll see you back at the house." Katherine said and with that, she was gone.
Stefan finally got Caroline to fall asleep and he carried her upstairs to let her sleep. He talked to her mother and even though he could tell that she wasn't fully adjusted to the fact of that her daughter and her boyfriend were vampires, she was trying her best and decided that until Caroline remembered and she could control her hunger again, that she should stay over there with the him and Damon. Stefan heard someone walking in downstairs and just assumed that it was Damon, until he heard the heels walking upstairs and knew that it was Katherine. Stefan quickly left Caroline's room and shut the door quietly behind him and Katherine was standing right there in front of him.
"Leave her alone for tonight Katherine." Stefan sighed
"Who said I was going to do anything to her?" Katherine asked
"…What do you want Katherine?" Stefan asked
"Why are you assuming that I want something Stefan? Is that how you really think of me? That I only do things to help myself?" Katherine asked
"Actually, yes, that's exactly what I think of you." Stefan said.
"I'll tell you what I told your brother, I'm here helping because contrary to popular belief, I actually care a little bit about blondie in there." Katherine said
"Liar." Stefan said
"Believe what you want to Stefan, but I'm telling you the truth." Katherine said "Did you talk to the wolf boy yet?"
"No, why?" Stefan asked
"Because if you don't, then your little girlfriend will die during the spell to get her memory back. So I suggest that you go talk to him." Katherine said
"Why?" Stefan asked "Why is Tyler so important to all of this?"
"Because his blood is going to be the main thing keeping Caroline alive during that spell, and unless you want her to become wolf chow, I suggest you start being friends with the kid." Katherine said
"…You know the spell?" Stefan asked
"Of course I know it. It's just that I can't do it since I'm not a powerful witch and Bonnie wouldn't last past the first sentence of the spell, it'd kill her, it's way too powerful, which is why I'm calling in a favor for you and having one of my witches come here and fix her up." Katherine said
"…What else needs to happen during that spell?" Stefan asked
"You're not going to like it." Katherine sighed