Chapter 10

Audrey made one last curl into Elena's hair. She grabbed hairspray from the coffee table next to her and sprayed it onto Elena's hair. Next was the corset. Audrey was not jealous that Elena had to wear the dress and the corset. It looked really painful and as Audrey tightened it Elena bit her lip and whined.

"Ouch, this dress hurts," Elena smiled with a tiny moan.

"Suck it in, baby," Jenna walked into the room and smiled to Elena. Audrey stepped back and Jenna took over. She glared around the room and hit her thighs.

"Listen I'm going to go, but I'll see you later," Audrey smiled to Elena through the mirror. Her sister nodded with a tiny smile.

Audrey flipped her hair back and walked closer to the parade, to see Elena and Stefan on the float. Before she had arrived to watch the parade she had bumped into Damon who was kind enough to inform her that John might be her father. As if it wasn't enough that John was an awful uncle he now was an awful dad. She had a navy blue dress that reached her knees and a white denim jacket.

Elena and Stefan were holding hands on the float, Caroline and Matt were also very comfortable with each other. Audrey raised her hand to wave at them. Elena's shining smile reached Audrey's eyes and her sister waved to her with a happy face. Audrey then looked at Stefan and smiled to him as well. He seemed happy as well, not at all blood lusty. Audrey's eye contact with them got disconnected as her least favorite Salvatore walked in front of her. His wide smirk and cute eye thing were too overwhelming to Audrey. She snorted with an eye roll and directed her eyes else where, ignoring him completely.

"Well aren't you grumpy today," Damon said with a wider smirk Audrey couldn't resist to glance; and chuckle to.

"I'm not grumpy," she stared him, "I just don't like you."

Damon chuckled and took few steps forward. Audrey moved her eyes back to the float and kept ignoring Damon.

"You can't ignore me forever," he said with a wide and cocky smile.

"You're right," Audrey smiled and glanced at him, "I'm not a vampire. I can only ignore you till the day I die."

"Okay I'm sorry." Audrey turned her head to Damon with a frown. His cocky expression suddenly had changed into a very serious one.

"For what?" she raised one of her brows with a face full off surprise.

"For telling you the truth about who's your father so inappropriately," he said with a sincere look on his face. Audrey bit the inside of her lip and studied Damon's face. Was he truly sincere or just playing? Either way Audrey nodded, accepting the apology and smiling a little.

"Thank you Damon," she said making him look confused.

"For what?"

"For not being such an ass," tiny smirk was created on Audrey's face. Damon glanced at the sky and laughed silently. Audrey raised her eyes and pointed at Damon.

"And don't you make me regret what I said," her words started to echo in Damon's ears as she walked away.

Audrey walked inside the Mystic Grill and saw Jeremy sitting there on one of the tables. She started making her way to him until she noticed Damon. He smirked to her and made her forget what she was doing. Damon got to her still with a wide smirk and doing his sexy eye thing.

"Don't," Audrey raised her hand to him and glanced over to Jeremy.

"Before you start the flirty comments and the sexy eye thing I need to talk to Jeremy," Audrey said and took a deep inhale. Jeremy and Elena's relationship was on hot rocks because Elena erased Jeremy's memory after Vicki's death. And as always, she tried to make it right between her brother and sister.

"What's up lil' bro?" Audrey smiled and drummed the table. Jeremy sighed and avoided Audrey's eye contact. She grabbed his hand and forced him to look at her.

"Tell me, Jer," she said and looked at him.

"Did you agree to it? Audrey?" he asked and looked obviously hurt. His brown eyes were so questioning and sad that it made Audrey feel bad for him.

"Listen Jer," she started but her little brother cut her off and pulled his hand away.

"You both lied to me and made Damon erase my memory. I don't want to listen to you," he said and looked at his hands; clearly hurt.

"We used to tell each other everything Audrey. You used to have my back!" he almost yelled.

"And I still do!" Audrey tried to search his eyes. "Look at me Jer."

Jeremy directed his gaze into Audrey's eyes.

"Elena and I thought that that was the right thing to do. You were miserable and it was like mom and dad all over again. I didn't want to see you so sad. You were so hurt and we did it because you are our brother, even though not by blood you will always be my little brother," she almost had tears in her eyes. She smiled softly to Jeremy.

"Please, we can work this out Jer. Don't shut me out forever, just tell me what can I do?"

"You can go to hell," and with that Jeremy got up from the table and headed out. Audrey sighed deeply and put her head in her hands. She rubbed her temples and raised her eyes again, ready to follow her brother, but the thought of his secong outburst terrified Audrey more. She decided to just let him be alone for a while because with 55 % certainty Elena was the next one to push their little brother's buttons.

"Hey," she turned around and faced the source of the dark voice. In her surprise it was Jace.

"Hey?" Audrey frowned her brows but gestured Jace to sit down.

"I saw you and Jeremy fight. What's wrong?" he asked and made Audrey swallow and glance at him with an uncomfortable sensation inside of her. Audrey stared Jace's grey eyes and smiled slightly.

"Nothing really. What's up with you? I mean you are talking to me, that's unusual," Audrey giggled and watched Jace's expression.

"Nothing," he laughed and grinned. "Sorry if I've been rude to you, it's just some stuff happened, but my brother explained it to me." Audrey tried to keep a straight face, but come on. That sentence was just hilarious. She burst to giggles and snickers.

"What?" she laughed. "Going through puberty?"

"Haha," Jace laughed straight back. "Very funny."

"My body's going through changes, but it's kay now, my big bro explained it all," Audrey tried to copy her friends voice; failing miserably.

"Are you mocking me?" Jace got closer with narrowed eyes. Audrey glanced at him with a crooked smile. His grey eyes wondered in her face.

"Having fun?" Audrey asked, ignoring Jace's question.

"I guess," he said shyly. "Lot of special days around here."

"Yeah well, that's what it's like in a small town like Mystic Falls," she said wondering what would it be like to live in a city.

"So," Jace said and looked at Audrey with a questioning look, "are you free tomorrow? Maybe you would like to do something?"

Audrey got amazed by Jace's question. Sure they were friends and he wasn't a bad looking guy but there was just something she felt he hid from her. Audrey was just about to answer as she felt someone grab her arm. She turned her look to her side and saw Damon.

"I need to talk to you," he said and almost forcefully lifted her from the chair. She furrowed her brows but nodded. Before she started to leave she glanced back at Jace.

"To your question I say yes," she smiled before went after Damon. The anointment was indescribable.

"What?" she asked from Damon as they got out of the Grill. The evening was starting to set and it wasn't as light as it was before.

"Listen," Damon grabbed her hand into his hands and sighed. "You need to get out of here. The tomb vampires are here."

Audrey drew in a deep breath and stared Damon's ice blue eyes.

"I don't have my car, Damon. What do I do?" she was shivering. She glared around in hope to find Stefan and Elena. Damon seemed hopeless. He looked around with the same kind of look like Audrey. Then a hero hair popped up and Damon could relax.

"Stefan," Audrey relaxed in an instant and she looked at him. Elena came straight after him; they held hands.

"Take Audrey and go," Damon nearly pushed Audrey into Stefan's lap.

"What? Damon no," she tried to reach for him but he had already sped away. Audrey felt someone pull her from her arm as she tried to figure were Damon had went.

"Come on Audrey," Elena pleaded. Audrey turned to her twin and saw the desperation in her eyes so she nodded and followed her sister. They walked briskly away, through the town square and to the sidewalk. Then he fell down.

"Stefan!" Elena's desperate voice called as he fell down with a grunt.

"My head!" Stefan said loudly. People were starting to turn their heads.

"Stefan could you keep it down, please," Audrey whisper yelled.

"He's hurting," Elena said and got down with Stefan. Audrey tried to hide them behind her. Deputies were getting dangerously close. She smiled widely to the deputies. They started running and her smile disappeared.

"Oh shit," Audrey got out.

"What?" Elena asked from the ground. Audrey almost panicked but in their luck Ric stepped in. She didn't exactly hear what he said but the deputies went away. Alaric got to them and went straight to Stefan. He started helping him get up.

"I don't know what happened, he just dropped," Elena glared at Ric.

"Yeah, he's not the only one. The cops have gotten everyone who's gone down, injecting them with vervain," Ric sighed and Audrey felt like she could faint.

"What?" Elena asked and everyone turned their gazes to Stefan.

"They're rounding up the vampires," Audrey gulped and glared at Elena, Stefan and Ric. They decided that Ric would go look around if there were other vampires going down as well. After a while Stefan said that the pain was gone.

"It was like needles were piercing my skull and it just stopped," Stefan said just before Ric arrived back to them. Audrey crossed her hands over her chest. She couldn't admit that she was worried. Where was Damon? If they were rounding up vampires he would be in danger.

"I saw at least 5 vampires go down. They're taking them to your family's old building," Ric said with a dark sigh.

"It's the Gilbert's device. It has to be," Stefan said with confidence. Audrey frowned. But Bonnie unspelled it, right?

"But how did he get it to work? Bonnie unspelled it," Elena said exactly what she thought. Sometimes she didn't even wonder the twin affect. When they were smaller they literally continued each other's sentences.

"Maybe she didn't," Audrey said in a blurr. "I mean think about it."

"But we saw her do it," Elena argued with a glance towards Audrey.

"No, no, no he's right. Think about it. We asked Bonnie to deactivate a device that could protect people against vampires," Stefan reasoned. Ric nodded from the background.

"So we could protect you," Elena said with a simple, but caring smile.

"Stefan and Damon, vampires, remember?" Audrey said with a 'duh' face. "Where's Damon?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen him since this started," Ric was worried. Audrey saw it, and so was she. A sudden panic too over her body. No, not about Damon, but about her brother. Anna, her brother's girlfriend was probably down too.

"Ric can you take Jeremy home?" she placed her hand on Ric's shoulder. He nodded with a tiny smile.

"Of course," he started to leave and Audrey felt relief.

"Let's go and find Damon," she raised her brows and squeezed her lips together.

They began to walk briskly but then suddenly Stefan stopped.

"Wait, I can hear them. The building is on fire," he frowned and glanced at Elena and Audrey.

"What?"

"The building's on fire!"

They ran again, now more briskly and towards Grayson's office, Audrey and Elena's father's office. John was standing there and Audrey, without thinking stormed in front of him.

"What did you do? Where's Damon?"

"With the rest of them, where he should be. It's over for Damon," John said, kind of smug.

"You're crazy," Audrey scoffed and placed her hand on her forehead.

"Why? Because I'm doing what should have been done a hundred and forty five years ago? This is the right thing, Audrey," he seemed annoyed. Stefan looked at the building and John moved his stare to Stefan.

"Go ahead, you won't make it out. It'll save me the trouble of killing you myself."

As Stefan and Elena discussed about the entrance Audrey focused on John. She knew she could distract him but she also wanted to confront him.

"They are people! You are taking their lives away from them!"

"Why should that matter to me?" John asked with an annoyed chuckle.

"What if I was a vampire? Would you kill me?" Audrey kept a long pause before continuing. "After all you are my father."

"You know," he looked astonished.

"I know."

Audrey realized that Elena and Stefan had got away from John and she smiled to herself. She distracted him without him even noticing.

"Now I'm asking you to let me pass," she said to her father. John looked at her for a while but stepped out of the way. Audrey continued on walking to her dad's office. There was something going on. Stefan ran inside and Elena tried to go too, but Bonnie stopped her.

"Elena, you can't go in there!" Bonnie yelled and grabbed her by the arms.

"Bonnie, what are you doing?" Elena seemed as confused as Audrey. Audrey went to them with questioning brows.

"I'm sorry I lied to you," Bonnie said and closed her eyes. She was reciting a spell. "Ex spiritum intacullum, in terrum incendium, fes matos salvis adisdum!"

"Bonnie, I've got to get in there!" Elena whined. Audrey glanced at Bonnie who was still reciting the spell and scratched her head.

"Elena you're my sister and I love you, but shut up!" she almost spelled the words out of her mouth. Elena scowled at Audrey. Yeah yeah, awful of her to explode that way to her sister, who's vampire boyfriend was in a basement on fire.

"Bonnie?" Audrey asked and Bonnie finished the spell. She opened her eyes and watched Elena intently. Then Stefan and Damon stumble out of the building; Damon leaning on Stefan, needing help to stand still. Audrey didn't think. She ran to them before Elena and first looked at Stefan, to see if he was okay. His green eyes were tired and he looked at Audrey with a tired smile. She nodded to him and grabbed Damon's head in her hands.

"Are you okay?" she asked and tilted her head while looking into Damon's eyes. He nodded with a tired smile as well. Damon straightened his posture and Audrey pulled him into a quick hug. She could let him know that she didn't hate him.

"Hey, Stefan", Audrey walked to him at the Grill. "Have you seen Damon, he kind of disappeared."

"No I haven't, why", he asked. Audrey took a deep breath.

"He just disappeared", Audrey said with a sigh and rubbed her neck. She saw Stefan's eyes get wider.

"Where's your bracelet?!" he grabbed her wrist and studied it. Audrey's eyes got wider as well.

"I-", she started. "I don't know." Audrey blinked repeatedly trying to remember what happened 20 minutes ago.

"Do you think I was compelled?" Audrey gasped and placed her hand over her mouth. They shared a meaningful look.