Chapter 14
Audrey, Elena and Bonnie were at Mystic Falls high school preparing for the carnival. Now that Caroline was at the hospital, healing and that was good. Audrey was in a very chipper mood and Elena had questioned her in the morning when they were eating breakfast. Audrey had put a little bit of cinnamon in their coffee. Jenna had furrowed and made a comment about boys, hinting to Damon. Audrey had smiled to her strawberry blonde haired aunt mysteriously and winked. Jenna had scoffed but created a playful look.
Audrey put her hair on a wavy ponytail. She had jeans and a grey hoodie on. Her makeup was also very light, like always. The thing that caught attention in her face was her eyelashes.
"Katherine looked just like you guys, it was freakish," Bonnie woke Audrey from her thoughts. Elena nodded and sighed.
"She is our ancestor. Hey, I moved the student booth into the cafeteria."
"Your vampire ancestor and she didn't just resemble you like a family member would. She was you," Bonnie still wondered. Audrey concentrated on taking toys out of the box.
"I don't know, I can't explain it. It's creepy, that's all I got," Elena said. Audrey chuckled and her friends glanced at her with confused looks.
"Audrey do you know something I don't?" Elena asked. Audrey frowned her lips and shook her head.
"No of course not. Why would you think that?" Audrey smiled to her sister. It was wrong of her not to tell, but she was still kind of pissed.
"How do you know she's not still out there pretending to be you? I mean she could be pretending both of you. Audrey with curls and Elena with straight hair. She is a spitting image of you guys," Bonnie continued with a brow raise.
"We don't but we could sit here and be tortured by the not-knowing or we could get these prizes to the ring toss," Elena spoke for Audrey. Again.
"So Audrey," Elena started with a wink. "Why were you so happy this morning?"
"Yeah Audrey? Usually you are super grumpy. Especially if Caroline has forced you into doing something you don't want to do," Bonnie snickered.
"Is it a boy?" Elena asked and pretended to be shocked.
"A girl?" Bonnie laughed and pushed Audrey playfully on the shoulder.
"We won't judge," Elena laughed and opened a new box of the prizes to the ringtoss.
"I am just happy because of something someone did for me. It was really sweet and, yeah. I don't know what I feel, honestly. So stop talking about it and focus," Audrey chuckled with a tiny frown.
"Okay, sorry, I'll focus. We have to make Caroline proud or she will kill us. I don't know how she does all of this," Bonnie changed the subject. Audrey sighed from relief. It wouldn't take long for them to figure out that someone gave her that necklace and that someone was Damon Salvatore.
"Well because she's not human, obviously," Elena said with a smile.
"Obviously," Audrey said and they all laughed. Audrey felt someone get behind her and turned immediately around. Jace Everett stood there with a cocky smile on his face. Audrey punched him.
"What are you doing here?" she said smiling still. Jace shrugged with a smirk.
"Thought I'd find you here, knowing you are friends with Caroline. She probably forced you into this," he put his hands in his pockets. Elena and Bonnie whispered something to each other and giggled. Audrey played with her necklace and leaned on her left foot.
"Well you found me. What do you want?" Audrey raised her other brow and gestured with her hands for him to say something.
"I, uh, just figured that you'd maybe want to spend time tomorrow? Or am I just making up the fact you said you could hang out some time," Jace's face full of hope Audrey remembered.
"Yeah, yeah sure," she said with a nod. Just yesterday she had kissed Damon. She had shown him that she wanted him. And she was so screwed up. Audrey didn't know what she wanted. For crying out loud she was only 17! She wasn't suppose to know what she wanted; she was suppose to enjoy life.
"I'm gonna' go prepare the carnival but I can call you today, to make up something."
"Fine," Jace seemed really pleased. "I'll see you around."
"Yeah, sure," Audrey nodded with wide eyes. She watched him turn on his heels and walk away. After a few feet he turned around and winked to Audrey. She laughed to him and placed her hand on her forehead.
"Okay, you are charming. I get it!" Audrey laughed as she turned around back to Elena and Bonnie who were giving meaningful looks to her.
"Shut up," she said as she got to them.
"We didn't say anything," Bonnie said in a high pitched voice. Audrey walked over to Bonnie and pushed her and slapped Elena's arm. Good, now that Jace was involved they thought it was about him, but Audrey knew that her heart beat to someone else.
Audrey watched others have fun at the carnival. It made her smile, seeing the kids run around, happy; not knowing about vampires or anything supernatural. Jace was few feet away from her, playing something with his friends. Few glares were changed before someone blocked her view. Audrey looked at the blocker. Dark blonde hair, brooding brows with green eyes.
"Stefan? What's wrong?" she said. Audrey's brows got closer together.
"You need to come with me," he grabbed Audrey by the arm and started leading her inside the high school. They quickly were inside Ric's class, which had come very familiar to Audrey. Not just because of his history lessons, because the Scooby gang met there when problems arrived.
Soon Elena and Damon got in there as well. Audrey was a bit offended; Damon was avoiding her.
Damon broke the news to them. Caroline was a vampire. Audrey knew it was her fault. She told him to feed her his blood, so she could heal.
"How did this happen?" Stefan sat next to Elena and he glanced at Damon. Audrey sat on a school desk and stared at her feet.
"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her and A plus B equals..." Damon answered with a tiny smirk.
"But why?" Elena wondered. Damon knew an answer to that.
"Because Katherine is a manipulative nasty little slut." He smirked. Audrey scoffed to that.
"I met her she isn't half bad," Audrey raised her left shoulder with a smile. Everyone looked at her. Audrey coughed and tried to think what she'd say next. "I mean she wasn't, uhm, mean to me."
"Well she loves herself, maybe you remind her of her," Damon smiled crookedly and looked at Audrey. She pouted her lips and watched Damon under her brows. Audrey got tiny shivers from his blue eyes. Oh he had truly gotten under her skin.
"And she said "game on"? What is that even mean?" Stefan said and rubbed his chin.
"It means she's playing dirty, she wants us to know."
"But why Caroline?" Elena's voice sounded helpless.
"I don't know."
"Caroline must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her," Stefan finally brought up. Caroline must be freaking out.
"Oh I think she does. All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition," Damon told them.
"We have to find her."
"Yep and kill her." The brothers spoke.
"No absolutely not. You are not going to kill Caroline," Audrey got up from the desk. She shook her head. "No."
"She knows who we are. She's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her," Damon got closer. He seemed really passionate about that. Audrey decided not to give in, this was Caroline. She would not die.
"You're not going to kill her, Damon," Stefan stepped in with a more strict tone. Damon scoffed with a roll of eyes.
"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story's gonna end, just flip to the last chapter and..." Damon switched meaningful looks with Stefan. He knew Stefan was thinking it.
"It's not an option Damon," Elena frowned and crossed her arms.
"No? Your silence is deafening, Stefan. Wait, wasn't there a school carnival the night you staked Vicki? Talk about a town where story repeats herself. You know I'm right," Damon's voice grew stronger after every word.
"We're not gonna kill her," Stefan said with a shook of his head.
"It's the only way," Damon glanced at Elena.
Audrey got mad; she stormed out of the class room while mumbling swear words. She needed to find Caroline before Damon. When she got out of the high school it was darker. And the search for Caroline begun.
For a long moment she didn't find her and got frustrated.
"Okay calm down," she said to herself and closed her eyes. She heard crying, it was really close. She opened her eyes and started to run towards the cry. There was arguing, she recognized Elena's, Stefan's, Damon's and Caroline's silhouettes. Audrey speeded the last few steps, she couldn't be late.
Damon rushed over to Caroline, who was with Stefan.
"Damon no!" she screamed and he stopped. He froze in place. "She's my friend."
He hesitated for a while, staring at frightened Caroline who had blood all over her face. Damon dropped his arm and moved away. He turned to Audrey, who was few feet from him.
"Whatever happens, it's on you," he said and dropped the stake. Audrey moved closer, she went for Elena. Then Bonnie arrived with a shocked look.
"Caroline?" Bonnie gasped as she saw the blood on her face.
"It's okay, come on," Stefan said to Caroline who had an apologizing look.
"No, you're not; you can't be," Bonnie said as she went for Caroline. Bonnie grabbed Caroline by the hand and was horrified. Caroline was a vampire and there was nothing Bonnie could do.
"Bonnie?" Caroline asked as Stefan tried to get her inside. Bonnie saw a dead body.
"Oh god!"
"Bonnie..." Caroline pleaded for her friend. Bonnie walked to Elena and Audrey. Damon arrived with a shovel in his hands.
"I can't believe this is happening," Bonnie said nearly in tears. Damon scoffed and dragged the shovel.
"Come on, don't pout about it, I've got a body to bury," he said. He looked at Audrey.
"I thought you were calling the shots, no? It sucks to be you, buddy. "
Bonnie looked at Damon, pissed. She started giving him headache and as Damon falls holding his head, Bonnie opened a faucet with her powers and leaded the water that was coming out of the hose, to Damon. Audrey didn't know what to do, plus she started to feel dizzy.
"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt," Bonnie said in her scary witchy voice.
"I didn't do this," Damon grunted from the ground.
"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault," Elena tried to convince Bonnie.
"Everything that happens is his fault Elena."
"Bonnie, what are you doing?"
Sentence after sentence Audrey just got more sick. Something wasn't right. She didn't feel right. Bonnie made the water set to fire. It went directly to Damon, setting him on fire.
"Bonnie stop it!" Elena yelled as Damon started burning.
"Bonnie, Bonnie, stop it! You're going to kill him!" Elena screamed Damon still burning. He yelled and tried to put the flame off. Audrey felt sick. She collapsed on her knees and started to cough uncontrollably. She realized that she had coughed blood. Looking at the ground shocked her sister jumped to Bonnie saving Damon.
Audrey smiled but vomited more blood. It hurt, it burnt her throat. It felt like she was vomiting acid. Her vision got dark and she passed out. Only few yells were made before she was completely unconscious.