A/N: So, this chapter will pretty much explain how exactly Caroline is going to get all her memory back; Stefan (trying) to apologize to Tyler for all the times he's gone completely physco on the kid and tried to kill him; and The Salvatore's trying to get along with this (somewhat) nicer version of Katherine (but is she really changing into a nicer person?). ;) xoxo, Avril
Chapter Nine: Even Angels Fall
"Let's see…" Katherine said and sat down on the couch in the living room with Damon and Stefan there now, waiting for her answer to their question, what was going to cure Caroline? "She's going to need werewolf blood." Katherine said
"Which is why we need Tyler." Stefan sighed
"Yep, and to keep her from dying a slow painful death because werewolf blood is not recommended for vampire, she's going to need human blood, lots of it." Katherine said
"That's easy." Damon said and shrugged "I don't see what the big deal is. She has a little wolf blood, the witch does their little spell thing, she remembers, has a little human blood, and she's all patched up."
"Not exactly." Katherine said "How can I say this? Oh, right, it can't just be any human blood."
"Of course not." Damon sighed "Fine, who do we need?" Damon asked "Let me guess, Blood of a doppelganger?"
"Nope. Try Gilbert blood. From a real Gilbert, not an adopted one." Katherine said
"So that means our choices are John…or Jeremy?" Damon asked
"Katherine we can't-"
"I don't make up the spells Stefan, the witches back in the 1800's do. Plus, is it really that much of a surprise? I mean Gilberts are just about involved in almost everything to do with this town, so I really don't see how them being involved in this spell is really that much of a shock." Katherine said
"She has a point." Damon said
"…We can't just walk up to Jeremy and feed him off to Caroline." Stefan said
"We kidnap him then." Damon said as Stefan glared at him "I'm kidding."
"It's not like she has to drain the kid dry." Katherine said "Just a little bit then and…a little bit over the next week."
"Week?" Stefan asked
"There's a tiny side effect to the whole thing with the wolf blood being in her system." Katherine said
"How tiny?" Damon asked
"She's going to have the side effect of a wolf bite for the next week after she has Tyler's blood. You know, delirium, blood lust, fever, coughing up blood." Katherine said
"No way. She's not doing this anymore." Stefan said "I'm not making her go through that just to get her memories back."
"Okay, so we'll stick with the way she's going and have her pass out in the middle of the grill because she remembers having lunch with me there. That'll go by perfectly unnoticed." Damon said sarcastically
"So, you'd rather she got terribly sick and possibly on the verge of death?" Stefan asked him.
"Neither one of the choices are great Stef, but either she can get them all back in one shot and you two can go off on your little fairytale eternity, or you can sit around, making her relive all those moments good and bad for the next fifty years and hope that as she slowly puts her memories back that she'll want to be your girlfriend again." Damon said "So what's it gonna be little brother?"
"…I'll go talk to Tyler tomorrow." Stefan said, defeated and knowing that this was the only real way to get Caroline's memory back
"I'll handle Gilbert." Damon said
"Coming!" Tyler yelled as he walked towards the front door and opened it and was surprised to see Stefan standing there. "…If you came here to kill me, I'd really rather not die right now, try coming back tomorrow, I have a history test that I really don't want to take, maybe you can kill me then."
"I didn't come here to kill you Tyler." Stefan said "I came here to talk to you."
"Well, then I suppose talking outside wouldn't change anything since you can already just walk into my house so…come in." Tyler said and stepped aside and shut the door behind Stefan. "What do you want?"
"To apologize for…you know, almost killing you." Stefan said
"Still about that?" Tyler asked "Look I'm fine with that now, whatever, but what I still don't get is why and the hell you left Caroline here crying her eyes out day and night while-"
"I didn't leave her Tyler." Stefan said "Damon decided to lock me up because he had a thing for Caroline. I would never leave her, especially not like that." Stefan said
"…I know the memory loss thing wasn't your fault either." Tyler said "Alright, we're cool." Tyler said "Anything else?"
"We need your help to get Caroline's memory back." Stefan sighed
"And how exactly am I going to be able to help?" Tyler asked
"Part of the whole spell of Caroline getting her memory back involves her drinking your blood." Stefan said
"Really?" Tyler asked confused and saw Stefan nod. "Yeah, I guess I can help, but it's gonna have to wait a few days."
"Why?" Stefan asked confused
"…Full moon tonight, remember? You'd think by now that you vampires would start keeping track of that but I guess now." Tyler said "Just stay out of the woods tonight and keep Caroline away too, okay?"
"Yeah, sure." Stefan said "Thank you Tyler."
"Yeah. Just know that I'm mostly doing this for Caroline." Tyler said
"I know." Stefan said
Caroline had managed to stay inside all day as Stefan and Damon asked her to while they went and took care of some things that they didn't tell her about. So she was stuck inside all day, drinking blood and having to deal with Katherine, which she wouldn't have minded much except Katherine always managed to find something to occupy herself and Caroline was left alone and completely bored out of her mind. But as soon as the sunset, Caroline was about ready to just run out of the house. Stefan and Damon told her to stay in all day, they never said anything about staying in all night too.
"Katherine." Caroline said walking into the library of the Salvatore house and saw Katherine sitting there, still reading.
"What is it now blondie?" Katherine asked and looked up from her book to look at Caroline.
"…Can I go outside now?" Caroline asked
"Why are you asking me? I'm not your mother or anything." Katherine said
"I know it's just, Stefan and Damon said to stay inside all day and now it's technically night time and I'm bored out of my mind-"
"If I say yes, will you shut up?" Katherine asked and Caroline nodded eagerly. "Fine, go have fun." Katherine huffed and Caroline walked out of the room with a smile plastered on her face.
"Caroline?" Stefan asked walking into the Boarding House with Damon right behind him and shutting the door. "Caroline?"
"Maybe she's asleep." Damon said and shrugged
"It's 9." Stefan said
"…Katherine?" Damon asked now and a few seconds later, Katherine appeared in front of both of them with a book still in her hands.
"What?" She asked
"Where's Caroline?" Stefan asked
"She went out, why?" Katherine asked
"You let her go out?" Stefan hissed
"She was annoying to the point of where I just wanted to grab a stake and kill myself. So I let her go out and finally got some peace and quiet in this place." Katherine said
"Do you even know what today is?" Damon hissed
"Thursday?" Katherine asked
"It's the full moon!" Stefan hissed and could feel his fangs coming out now
"Oh, really?" Katherine asked innocently "I didn't know." She said and shrugged
"I swear if she get's hurt before I find her I'll-"
"You'll do what Stefan? Kill me?" Katherine asked with a smirk
"Come on, let's go find her." Damon huffed and grabbed Stefan by the arm and dragged him back out of the house.
"I knew she wasn't really here to help!" Stefan said
"I think we all knew but were stupid enough to listen to her again." Damon sighed "You go check the woods, I'll check the town, call me if you find her and I'll call you if I find her." Damon said and with a quick nod from Stefan, both brothers took off trying to go find Caroline.
"Thanks for coming out here with me Jeremy." Caroline said as her and Jeremy walked out of the grill "I just didn't wanna be out here alone. Elena said she was tired and Bonnie was in the middle of reading something from one of her gram's books or something and…just thanks." Caroline smiled
"No problem Care." Jeremy said "I can take you back to the Boarding House if-" Before Jeremy could finish his sentence, he was cut off by a low deep growl that was coming from almost right behind him and Caroline.
Jeremy turned around to see a wolf standing there now, moving slowly towards them, more like moving towards Caroline since the wolves eyes were locked on her.
"Shit!" Jeremy said and looked up and saw that it was in fact, a full moon. Jeremy looked over at Caroline and she was wide eyed and frozen in fear. "Caroline, get out of here, now!"
"But-"
"This thing is hunting you Caroline, I'll be fine, just run!" Jeremy ordered.
Caroline wanted to protest but she kept her mouth shut and took off before the wolf could register what was going on. Once the wolf noticed Caroline was gone, it took off after her and Jeremy knew he had to call Stefan and Damon now as he ran over to his car, he knew there was nothing he could probably do to stop the wolf from getting Caroline, but he knew he would have to try since that thing would kill her. Jeremy didn't care which of the Salvatore's he'd call, as long as it was one of them.
"What Gilbert?" Damon answered harshly and Jeremy noticed right away that he must be looking for Caroline too.
"I was just out with Caroline and a wolf showed up. Caroline took off but the thing went after her." Jeremy said
"Are you an idiot? It's a full moon! You are supposed to stay inside!" Damon hissed
"Well I forgot and obviously so did everyone else!" Jeremy hissed
"Whatever, just, where did she take off to?" Damon asked
"Towards the lake by the old Lockwood Mansion." Jeremy said
"You've got to be kidding me." Damon sighed
"What?" Jeremy asked
"The old Lockwood Mansion, Tyler locks himself up over there! And I'm guessing that the wolf chasing her was Jules." Damon said
"I'm on my way there now." Jeremy said
"No, Jeremy, don't. Me and Stefan can handle this, just stay out of it, not much you can do up against a werewolf." Damon said "Just stay away from there Gilbert." Damon said firmly before hanging up and going to call Stefan, but Jeremy was ignoring what Damon said and heading over there anyway.
Caroline stood there by the lake, facing the wolf that managed to chase her all the way here and seemed like they were enjoying the moment of having her cornered here, pinned up against a tree and circling her, making sure that she won't go anywhere. The wolf occasionally liked to let out a loud growl at Caroline, making her jump and have to fight back the tears even harder. She remembered what Stefan and Damon told her about the wolves, one bite and they could kill you. But it was like the wolf was waiting for someone, but obviously the wolf wasn't going to wait any longer since it stopped circling Caroline and let out another loud growl causing Caroline to take off, but the wolf was quicker and cut her off dead in her tracks. The thing was playing with Caroline now, it wouldn't be long until it decided to kill her. Caroline turned around and took off in the opposite direction, but the wolf cut her off again and this time, they pounced onto her and it was snarling right in Caroline's face, enjoying the fear. Suddenly, there was another loud snarl and Caroline looked over and felt her heart sink when she saw another wolf standing there, she knew she was going to die for sure now.
But for some reason, the wolf pinning her down didn't look too happy about this other wolf being here. In fact, they growled even louder at this other wolf than when it growled at her. The second wolf charged towards the one that had Caroline pinned down, but before the other wolf could knock the one off Caroline, the wolf quickly sank it's teeth into Caroline's exposed shoulder and Caroline was instantly in pain, even after the other wolf knocked the one off of her. It felt like someone set her whole shoulder on fire. Caroline managed to look over at the two wolves fighting now and had no idea why one would be protecting her, but then she remembered that Stefan told her that Tyler was a werewolf, but she swore they only came out during full moon's. Caroline looked up at the night sky and saw it there plain as day, the full moon. So that was Tyler protecting her, then, who was the one that bit her and made her feel like this?
"Caroline!" Damon's voice yelled out to her and she looked over to see him and he seemed relieved, until he saw her shoulder and saw that he was too late. Then Damon looked like he wanted to kill someone, and that was a scary look as Caroline saw his eyes changing and the fangs coming out now.
Damon looked over at the two wolves and saw that one seemed to be fighting off the other, obviously Tyler was still enough in his right mind to fight off Jules. Damon let them continue fighting since he knew better than to try to put his hand in the middle of a killer wolf fight. Damon heard footsteps coming from behind them and thought it was Stefan at first, but when he heard they were too loud to be Stefan's he turned around to see Jeremy running up to them.
"Gilbert, I told you to go home!" Damon hissed
Jeremy ignored him and looked down at Caroline now who looked like she was still scared but like she was almost coming to terms now with what just happened. Jeremy looked at her shoulder and saw a nasty wolf bite there now and realized why Damon seemed so upset too, they were both too late to come and save her. Jeremy and Damon heard yelping from over by the wolves now and it looked like Tyler managed to beat Jules since she was backing up now and holding up one of her front legs, Tyler got a good hit on her. Tyler growled at her again and she limped off into the forest. Tyler turned to face Damon and Jeremy and saw Caroline's bloody shoulder, he knew he couldn't do anything until he was back to normal, at least not that he knew of. Not wanting to cause anymore trouble, Tyler trotted off back down the stairs into the cellar part of the Lockwood mansion. He got his fight in for the night, now all he wanted to do was sleep until he changed back.
Finally, Stefan showed up in the woods. Everything was quiet now, no wolves growling and fighting. No people yelling, everything just seemed too quiet. That was when Stefan noticed that Damon and Jeremy, who were kneeling next to Caroline now and slowly trying to sit her up, had their eyes locked on her shoulder. Stefan walked over closer and saw the blood and bite mark there on her shoulder now.
"…Caroline?" Stefan said weakly and Damon and Jeremy looked over at Stefan and saw the hurt and heartbreak on his face. Jeremy stood up and took a few steps away from Caroline so Stefan could go be by her now and Stefan immediately ran over to her side and held her hand.
"I'm fine." Caroline said, trying to lie as best as she could and put a small smile on her face.
"…Yeah…you'll be fine." Stefan said, trying to lie to himself and probably Jeremy and Damon too, though no one believed it, they at least pretended to for Caroline.
"Katherine is going to pay for this." Damon said firmly. "I'll make sure of that even if it's the last thing I do."
"Me too." Stefan said
"…Me too." Jeremy added and Damon and Stefan both looked at him. "Caroline is Elena's best friend, she's almost like another sister to me, I'm not gonna let Katherine get away with killing someone else in this town."
Though nothing else was said, Damon, Stefan, and Jeremy all came to the silent agreement of that they weren't going to let this happen. They would do anything they could to find a way to cure a wolf bite, even though they knew in the back of their minds that there was no way to cure one, they weren't about to give up. But they knew one thing for sure, no matter what, they were going to kill Katherine.
P.S. Don't kill me. I will think of a way to save our baby Caroline. We can't have a Stefan/Caroline story without Caroline! Just thought I'd throw in a little danger. And don't worry, Caroline will still get her memory back eventually :P