Chapter 4 Brave New World Pt2

"Where do you think she could be?" They had be looking for her for through the carnival crowd but it's been over twenty minutes but they hadn't found her.

Damon picks up a wooden tent peg on the ground as they pass by.

She stops when the wind changes and turns around in the direction the when just blew. Damon notices and stops with her. "What is it?"

"Blood, I smell blood," she didn't recognize the iron scent that she was use to but instead it made her mouth water and her heart pump faster in her chest and she knew, "and lots of it." She follows the smell and Damon follows her to Caroline.

She's crying next to a body when they arrive. She has blood all over her face.

"He's dead. I killed him." Alyssa eyes scan over to the guy laying in the back of the truck. "What's wrong with me?" She continues to cry and Alyssa stands by and watches and Damon comforts her.

"Hey, hey it's okay." He moves some of the hair of her hair. "I can help you."

She watches Caroline hopefulness. "You can?"

Part of her knew that what Damon was wrong but another part of her, a stronger part can only see Vicki, and Stefan killing her and she didn't want him to to.

"Yeah, I have to."

"What are you gonna do?"

"The only thing I can do. I'm go to kill you."

Caroline jumps down from the back of the truck bed. "Please don't! I don't want to die!"

"Yeah, but you are already dead."

"No! I'm not." Caroline's freak out made her think of Vicki, and how scared she must have been after everything that was happening to her and how she had wished someone would be able to save her. "Don't say that, okay? Just help me!"

"Okay."

"Okay? Just help me please! Please, please!"

"Okay, okay. It's the only way."

He embraces her and Alyssa sees him and raise the stake be her back ready to kill her, and she wedges herself in between them, "stop, Damon, stop."

Damon hesitates, staring at her. Then he drops his arm and the stick.

Stefan arrives with Elena and Elena reaches for Caroline who freaks out and pushes her away thinking that she's Katherine.

"Get away from me! You killed me!"

"No, no, no, no Caroline! That wasn't me. You know that! That was Katherine."

"No! Then why did she look like you?! And why, why did she do this to me?"

"Stefan," Elena says trying to comfort her friend know that she would let her, "we've got to get her inside."

Stefan turns to her, "It's okay Caroline, come with me." He turns to Alyssa, "are you going to be okay?"

"Yeah, just go help Caroline." Stefan goes with Elena inside to help Caroline.

Damon is nowhere to be seen when she turns around and for the first time she realizes she's alone. The smell of blood was strong as it called to her, what little was left. She took a step closer peering in the back of the truck.

There's a small pool of blood on the bed of the truck and she could feel the blood rushing through her. She could feel it calling out to her and she reaches out and touches it. She slowly brings her hands to her lips.

"What are you doing?"

Alyssa turns around to find Elena standing with Bonnie, and she hides her hand behind her back, "nothing."

Damon walks up with a shovel and uses the distraction as a chance to walk away. She ducks into the nearest bathroom frantically wiping the blood off her hands. She comes out of the bathroom when she starts to feel dizzy and have to lean against the wall.

She shakes it off and continues down the hall. She makes it a few more steps before the dizzy spell comes on again and her sight becomes blurry. She stops and leans against the wall pulling out her cell phone. She tries to dials Stefan's number as best she can and after the third attempt she succeeds.

"Stefan," her voice sounds weak to her own ears and that's all she can manage before she starts to lose consciousness. "Stefan," she manages before the phone slips from her hand. Before she closes her eyes she sees a blurry outline of a male.

"It's okay," she feels herself get lift up and smells the familiar scent that she has grown accustomed to and long with the feeling, "I got you."

Damon closes the door behind him as he leave his room and goes downstairs to meet Stefan who stands when he walks back into the living room.

"You mind telling me what the hell is going on."

"She's in transition."

"Yeah I figured that part out when I saw her practically drooling over my cup earlier. What I don't get is why you haven't given her blood yet?"

"She doesn't want it."

Damon knew that what he was really saying that she wanted to die.

"Then don't give her a choice."

"I'm not about to force that decision on her."

"You've done it already. It should be easy by now."

"This isn't about me or you. This is Alyssa's decision and she's made it and you have to respect."

"How long have you known about this anyway?"

"I was there when it happened. Katherine-"

"Of course it" was Katherine. When I find her that bitch is dead." He starts to leave out.

Stefan stops him as he past, "I know you're upset but you need to be here. She's going to want you here. However you're feeling right now, now's not the time to be selfish."

Damon consider what he was saying and as hard as it was going to be he put aside his anger, for the moment and went upstairs.

Stefan pulls out his cellphone and calls Elena.

Damon walks into the room without knocking and see her sitting up on the bed. "I wasn't sure whether or not you were going to come. I figured you'd be off somewhere trying to hunt down Katherine."

"You know me," he sits beside her, "I'm full of surprises."

"I do know you. So I know you're going to use this as an excuse to go back to be the old Damon. The one who didn't care about anything or anyone. You can't do that. You can't let her win."

"She can't win if she's dead."

"Make sure you make it hurt."

"Thought you didn't want me to go back to the old Damon."

"For Katherine, I think I can make an acception."

Elena walks into the boarding house frantically searching for Stefan, "Stefan," she calls out and he steps out into the hall. "Where is she?"

"Upstairs with Damon," she starts after them Stefan stops her. "There going to need to a minute."

"How can this happen Stefan? Why didn't she tell me?"

"She wanted one day."

"What am I going to tell Jeremy and Jenna, Matt?"

"I don't know." He walks over to her. "Elena, I am so sorry."

"I don't think I can do this Stefan." She cries and he pulls her into his arms.

Alyssa stood alone squinting in the dark searching for Damon who was sitting beside her when the lights suddenly cut on and music starts to play. She turns to the source to find Damon standing by the door. A disco light hang up from above the room. She also happens to be wearing the same outfit she had been wearing for the dance.

"Out of the places you could taken us to you choose the high school gym?" She looks at him at him as he walks over to her.

"Why not?" He takes her by the waste and she wraps her arms around him. "You wanted a normal day."

"Yeah I did ask for a normal day." The begin to sway back and forth. "But for some people Paris could be a normal day or Venice. Let's go to paris. "

"I find Paris highly overrated."

"Yeah well you've had over a hundred and fifty years worth of experiences. I'm pretty sure dressing yourself has also become pretty tedious. Plus this is my fantasy shouldn't I be able to get what I want."

He spins her, "not even in your head."

Elena was waiting downstairs for Damon to come so she could see her sister. She checks the stairs. "How long is going to stay up there?"

"I don't know," but he suspects that they had a lot to talk about.

"What can Damon possible even have to say to her?" She turns to him as she asks. "I know they've gotten close with the whole Vicki thing. Unless...You don't think?"

Stefan looks at her and shrugs and Elena interrupts that as confirmation.

"I have something for you." They stop dancing and she pulls out an envelope with his name on it. "Of course this isn't the real thing, Stefan has it. I wrote one for each of you. Each of yours are different of course because not everyone can know the full story. In your's I wrote a letter explaining everything. It also has a few other that's that may surprise you. Things I wanted to say but never did. Now it looks like I'm never going to get the chance to say everything. But there is one thing that I know I'd regret saying if I didn't, I love Damon Salvatore, despite everything. And it is my greatest hope that you find whatever it is that you're looking for," she hands him the envelope that contains the letter, "even if that's with Elena."

He looks down at the envelope and then looks back up.

She leans forward pressing a light kiss to his lip and backs away, "goodbye Damon."

She turns around and he watches her walk out of the gym doors.

He wakes up from the dream leaving her to rest in peace. He makes his way downstairs where he sees Stefan and Elena waiting.

"Is she?" Elena asks and he silently heads over to the bar and pours himself a drink.

Elena starts towards the stairs and Stefan follows him but she stops him. "I need to do this alone."

Stefan nods understanding and leaves her to go say goodbye to her sister while he stays and deals with Damon.

He pulls the letter out of his back pocket that he got while Damon was upstairs with her. "She left you this."

Damon refuses to take it so he just sits it down and leaves out of the room so that he could read it alone. Damon downs the rest of his drink before picking up the letter and opening it. His eyes scans over the words and he reads what she has already confess and more. He looks in the side the envelope and sees the necklace filled with vervain that he had given her weeks ago and tosses the glass in the fireplace.

Elena comes back down with a pale look on her face and walk over to Stefan who waits for her with open arms. "I couldn't do it Stefan." She confess and he's almost afraid to asks what she means. "I couldn't let her die."

He notices blood dripping from a open cut on a her palm and only then he realizes what she meant.

Damon rejoins them and Stefan let her go as they turn to him, "what did you do?"

Upstairs, Alyssa awakes from her half dead state a newly made vampire.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait computer went down and still is had to post this from my phone. But here's another chapter hope you enjoy second part of this story will be posted soon.