A/N: Don't fear, I refuse to let our Care-Bear die on us. (wow, I think of really cheesy nicknames…) Anyway, I'll find a way to fix up our little Caroline. Turns out Katherine was up to no good after all, letting Caroline go running around on a full moon. But, at least Tyler tried to save her, even though mean Jules sank her teeth into her, we'll see how much she likes that broken arm of hers that Tyler gave her :P So, with all of that rambling being said, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter ;) xoxo, Avril.
P.S. Because Rose was never really in this story, thus she was never bitten and the brothers don't really know what to expect from Caroline's wolf bite, other than what Katherine told them in the last chapter. And I happen to be on a bit of a writing streak right now, so I might update my other stories soon too :P
Chapter Ten: Look At What You've Done
Stefan carried Caroline into the Boarding House, holding her close to his chest and she kept her arms wrapped around his neck the whole time. Stefan avoided looking at Katherine who still had the nerve to be in that house after everything that's happened. Damon and Jeremy were shortly behind Stefan and Damon went straight for Katherine.
"Wow, you look pissed off, what happened?" Katherine asked with a smug look on her face
"You know damn well what happened." Damon growled at her.
"What ever are you talking about Damon?" Katherine asked innocently
In a second, Damon had Katherine pinned up against the wall in the living room and was fully ready to rip her heart out.
"You did this Katherine. Because of you now, Caroline is dying. I hope your happy." Damon hissed
"Of course I am. No one gets my Stefan except for me, memory loss or not." Katherine said with a smirk and pushed Damon off of her and saw Jeremy standing there in the living room now too "And you, little Jeremy Gilbert." Katherine said and started walking up to him as Jeremy slowly backed away "Sorry to say but, I don't think you should be alive anymore." Katherine said and walked up to him and pinned him against the wall and started draining him dry.
Damon started to come around again and stood up to see Jeremy on the ground now and Katherine kneeling beside him, reaching for the ring he still had on his hand so he couldn't come back to life. Obviously, Jeremy was important still to something, otherwise Katherine wouldn't be trying to kill him so badly right now. Damon ran over there and knocked Katherine back before she could grab the ring and after a few tumbles around the room, Damon finally managed to grab the stake he kept in the living room hidden under the coffee table and he held it there right over Katherine's heart.
"Go ahead Damon, what are you waiting for?" Katherine asked with a smirk
Damon, as much as he hated Katherine, couldn't find the strength to plunge that stake through the evil bitches heart. Damon stood up off of her and kept his gaze locked on her.
"Leave." Damon ordered
For the first time, without any snide last words, Katherine got up and did what she was told to do, she left. Damon didn't know if she would come back or what she would do, but all he knew was that Katherine was gone for now. All they had to do now was, hopefully, cure Caroline before she died. But first, Damon walked over to Jeremy and saw that he was breathing again and the bite mark from Katherine was already healed up, it'd still be a while before he woke up, but at least he was still alive. Damon scooped Jeremy up and set him down on the couch before running upstairs to go check on Stefan and Caroline. Damon walked into Caroline's room and saw that Stefan already had her down there in bed for the night. She looked fine, the bite was healing up and everything, so was a wolf bite really that deadly?
"How are you holding up?" Damon asked
"Fine, just kinda tired." Caroline said and took a sip from the glass of blood Stefan had sitting there on the nightstand next to her.
"I bet." Damon said
"We'll let you get some sleep Care, just remember, if you need anything, anything at all, you'll come and get me, okay?" Stefan asked her
"Okay." Caroline said and smiled faintly before Stefan leaned in and kissed her goodnight and got up off the bed, leading Damon out of the room with him.
"Katherine left." Damon said. "She tried to kill Jeremy. He's fine and healing right now, but I'm thinking Gilbert must still be important if she tried to kill him, she doesn't exactly just kill people for fun anymore."
"True." Stefan sighed.
"…What's wrong with you? Caroline looks fine." Damon said "Maybe we had it all wrong."
"That's the part that scares me. I don't think we had it wrong, you heard what Katherine said about what happened just after drinking wolf blood, she said they were similar to what happened if you were bit by one." Stefan said.
"And we're believing Katherine again?" Damon asked
"…Well, who do we exactly ask then for symptoms of a werewolf bite, if there are any?" Stefan asked
"Why not the little bitch herself who bit Caroline?" Damon asked
"Yeah, you're going to get her to tell us about a wolf bite." Stefan said sarcastically.
"Don't judge too soon brother, if we torture her the right way, I think we may get a cure to the bite as well." Damon said with a smirk. "After all you are pretty well trained in the werewolf torturing area." Damon said and Stefan rolled his eyes at him
Damon and Stefan heard Jeremy start gasping for air and he was sitting up on the couch now, awake and fully healed.
"Perfect timing Jeremy." Damon said
"For what?" Jeremy asked and coughed a little bit
"Me and Stefan are going wolf hunting and you are going to play vampire babysitter. Keep an eye on blondie while we're gone, got it?" Damon asked
"Yeah, sure." Jeremy said
"If anything happens or if she wakes up looking for us, call me okay?" Stefan said
"Will do." Jeremy said and with that, Stefan and Damon both walked out the front door and they were gone.
"Just thought I should let you both know right now," Alaric said as he followed Damon and Stefan throughout the woods, looking for Jules. They managed to drag him out of bed at 2 in the morning and was now here to help them catch Jules. "You're both idiots for trying to hunt down a wolf in the middle of the night during a full moon."
"Yeah, well, you're here too Ric. Looks like you're an idiot too." Damon said
"I'm not exactly here by choice, it was more like come with us to go wolf hunting or I'll snap your neck." Alaric said
"Damon, I told you not to threaten anybody." Stefan sighed
"It was the only way to get his lazy ass out of bed." Damon said
"Sorry, but unlike you two, I actually need sleep to be able to function." Alaric said "I can't be fixed up with just a glass of soccer mom in the morning."
"Okay, let's just stop the arguing now and focus." Stefan said
"Fine." Damon mumbled "She couldn't have gone far, she has a broken leg." Damon said
"Broken leg? Who gave her that?" Alaric asked
"Tyler. Kid's actually a pretty good fighter, when he's a wolf." Damon said as they arrived back at the lake where they last saw Jules. "So, are we splitting up to go find her or-"
"Isn't that her right there?" Alaric asked and pointed to the wolf, sleeping by the edge of the lake, or at least she looked like she was sleeping.
"Well, never mind then." Damon sighed and they all walked up towards the wolf but Stefan and Damon stopped a few feet away from it and looked at Alaric.
"Seriously?" Alaric asked
"Happy Early Birthday Alaric." Damon said with a smirk and handed him the needle that happened to be full of wolfs bane to knock her out and keep her asleep for at least the rest of the full moon.
"I really hate being the only human around here willing to do this crazy shit." Alaric sighed and walked up carefully and quietly to the wolf. Jules let out a low growl, but from the amount of blood around her by her leg, Alaric knew she would be too weak to move anywhere. Alaric injected her with the wolfs bane and her eyes fluttered closed and she was out for the night. He also noticed that Tyler got a few good hits in on her, she had dried bloody scratches on her ribs and he noticed how she kept her broken leg held close to her body. "She's out." Alaric said and Stefan walked over and picked Jules up. "Can we please get out of here before we have another life threatening situation pop up?"
"Stefan…Stefan!" Caroline called from upstairs as she slowly woke up.
Jeremy heard Caroline from downstairs and got up and went to go see what was going on with Caroline now before he called Stefan. Jeremy walked into her room and saw her pretty much half asleep, but he noticed her shoulder looked practically healed up for now.
"Hey." Jeremy said walking into the room. "Uh, Stefan and Damon went to go take care of…something."
"Oh." Caroline said and sat up in bed now and rubbed her eyes.
"I can call him if you wanna talk to him." Jeremy offered
"No. Sit." Caroline said and patted the bed in front of her.
"Uh…okay." Jeremy said and awkwardly sat down on the bed there with her.
"I just don't feel like being alone right now." Caroline said weakly.
"That's fine, I understand that." Jeremy said and smiled a little bit. "How are you feeling?"
"Okay." Caroline said and shrugged "As good as I can be for being bit by a werewolf."
"It doesn't hurt or anything, right?" Jeremy asked
"A little. It burned at first but now it's just kinda sore." Caroline said and coughed a little bit.
Jeremy noticed the empty glass sitting on the nightstand. "You hungry?"
"Yeah." Caroline said and nodded
"Alright, I'll be right back." Jeremy said and grabbed the glass and before he could walk away Caroline grabbed his hand and Jeremy looked back at her. "What's wrong?"
"…Am I gonna die Jeremy?" Caroline asked
Jeremy thought about it for a minute, he didn't know what exactly to say to Caroline right then and there, especially when looking into her eyes that were full of sadness and pain, so he did what anyone would do in that situation, he lied. "No, you're not gonna die Care, I promise."
Caroline smiled a little bit and finally let go of Jeremy's hand. Jeremy walked out of the room and downstairs into the basement where Stefan and Damon kept the blood cooler back there. It was kinda weird for Jeremy having to fill up a glass of blood instead of filling it with something normal, but Jeremy sucked it up and did it anyway because in a way, Jeremy felt kinda guilty for Caroline getting bit. He knew it wasn't exactly his fault, and in a way, if he never went with her, Caroline would have probably gotten ripped to shreds by that wolf. As Jeremy was walking back upstairs to Caroline, Jeremy called Stefan to see how things were going and to let him know that Caroline was up and moving around now.
"Hello?" Stefan answered
"Stefan, Caroline woke up just a few minutes ago." Jeremy said
"Is she okay?" Stefan asked concerned
"As far as I can tell, yeah." Jeremy said walking into her room and noticing that she wasn't in her bed anymore. "Caroline?" Jeremy asked
"What happened?" Stefan asked
"Hold on a sec." Jeremy said and put the phone and glass of blood down on the nightstand and turned around looking for Caroline again. "Caroline?" Jeremy called out again.
"Here." Caroline said from the bathroom door and it made Jeremy jump a little bit.
"I got you more blood." Jeremy said as Caroline walked over and got back into her bed while Jeremy picked up the phone again. "She's fine." Jeremy said to Stefan. "You can talk to her if you want." Jeremy offered
"…No, let her get some rest. I gotta go Jeremy." Stefan said
"Alright, bye." Jeremy said and hung up his phone and put it back in his pocket. "Need anything else, or are you good for now?"
"I'm good." Caroline said and started drinking her blood now.
"Alright…let me know if you need anything else, okay?" Jeremy asked
"Okay." Caroline said and smiled a little bit before Jeremy turned around and walked out of the room.
Stefan and Damon heard Jeremy walking around upstairs, going up to Caroline whenever she called for him, Stefan knew Caroline was in good hands for now. Stefan looked in through the opening in the door and saw Jules still passed out as a wolf there on the floor and her clothes that Damon found in the forest were there on the bed for when she woke up.
"She's not gonna wake up for a while now you know." Damon said
"I know." Stefan stated "…If you wanna go to sleep, go ahead, I can handle things down here for now. You might wanna relieve Jeremy of Caroline duty anyway."
"Yeah…I think I'll do that." Damon said "Call me when the bitch wakes up." Damon sighed
"Alright." Stefan said
Damon walked out of the basement and saw Jeremy, barely staying up, sitting on the couch, just waiting for Caroline to cal for him again.
"Get your rest Gilbert, you died tonight, I'll handle blondie from here." Damon said
Jeremy weakly nodded and with that, he passed out right there on the couch, not wanting to have to move again until the sun was up. Damon walked upstairs and decided to check on Caroline since her room was right on the way to his. Damon opened the door quietly and peaked his head in there. The lights were still on in the room, but Caroline was passed out. The TV was still on in her room there too, her and Jeremy must have been watching a movie and Jeremy left once she passed out. Damon turned off the TV in there and walked over and turned off the light in the room. He looked over at her shoulder while he was there and while it was all healed up mostly when Stefan and him left with Alaric, Damon noticed that now, it was starting to look like a bite again. Around the bite it was starting to get a little red, it look almost pink right now, and where the teeth marks actually were, they were getting bright red and were going to be bloody soon. Damon walked off into the bathroom and came back and patched up Caroline's shoulder while she was asleep so she wouldn't have to wake up to a bloody mess tomorrow morning from the wolf bite. Before Damon left, he quickly felt her forehead since she looked like she was having a fever and sure enough, she was starting to get a little warm. So much for the wolf bite healing itself. Before Damon walked out of the room, he gently kissed Caroline on the forehead before walking out of there.