Chapter 17

The pain could not be described. It was like a never ending hole in your stomach. And every time it had healed, someone clawed it open again. On porpoise. She lost sleep, even though she was asleep the whole time. The darkness was heavy; like a burden over her shoulders. Every sound was heightened. Every word, every whisper. The sounds of the cars, door slams; even steps. Even the sound of someone taking the shower.

Her eyes opened and she saw again. It was like she had been blind for years and only in death she found life. She was in her bed, in her own room. But she was alone. Why was she alone? Audrey could have sworn there was someone in this room just seconds ago.

Audrey got off of the bed. She was surprised by her speed. Her senses, they were amazing. She heard Elena and Jenna talking down stairs. She heard Damon and Stefan and Ric. She heard them all. Her vision was clear. Audrey could see every tiny detail of the room. She heard the electricity running. The water pipes.

"What happened to you?" Katherine's voice whispered in shock. Audrey turned around and frowned to Katherine's appearance.

"You look like shit," Audrey said with confidence

"This is all my fault and now I have ruined my chance," Katherine spoke to herself and looked at Audrey. "And of course you are a vampire that isn't good either."

"Should I scream for help or do you have something to say?" Audrey didn't know where this confidence was pouring, but it was. Katherine sped inches away from her.

"Honey, you're not a vampire yet. And I'm about five hundred years older than you," Katherine said with a smirk. Audrey breathed deeply and closed her eyes. When she opened them, Katherine was gone and someone was knocking on her door.

"Come in," she said and the door opened. Elena walked in the Salvatore brothers after her. Audrey pulled next to her bed and sat down. Quickly. She was in transition, she knew it.

"Are you okay?" Elena asked. Nobody dared to come closer than the door: Maybe it was a good thing, because Audrey felt like she could explode with emotions. First when Elena came in her room she wanted to scream leave me alone, but then after that she just wanted to cry and hug her sister.

"You are in transition."

Audrey started laughing uncontrollably. She couldn't help it. "You seriously ask if I'm okay? I'm fucking dead. What do you think?" the laughs started slightly turning into sobs and tears. Tears started falling from her eyes. "I'm dead."

Damon sped to Audrey and took her into a tight embrace. "Your emotions are heightened. Everything you feel is doubled up but you need to feed, to become a vampire."

It was all quite blurry. Audrey really didn't remember how she got from her house to the Salvatore boarding house, but there she was. On the couch, contemplating her eternity with a glass of blood in front of her. Damon had told her not to move, that he carried a surprise for her. Audrey had had her suspicions but decided to wait. She had not dared to touch the glass of blood. She felt desperate need to eat.

Audrey reached for the glass and started drawing it towards her lips. The crystal glass was touching her rosie lips. Suddenly she felt anger take control over her body and threw the glass with her new power to the floor. It shattered creating million pieces of glass.

"Audrey," Damon's voice woke her. He seemed to be the most important thing right now. Audrey got up and turned around. He stood there with a girl. The girl had bite wound on her neck. She was a blonde, probably starting high school soon. Audrey couldn't resist the urge to start slowly walking to them. With every step she took her whole body felt more vibrant and most of all more alive. She was now suddenly so close to the girl that she didn't even realize her next action.

Audrey grabbed the girl and moved her head to the blonde's neck. She felt a sudden tingle on her face. And her gums, what she felt wasn't pain, it was strange. It tasted bad but somehow good. It was very strange. Was being a vampire supposed to feel like this?

Her fangs left the girl's skin. Audrey didn't want to kill her so she tried her compulsion, but it didn't work? Both Damon and her were confused. Why didn't it work? Damon calmed her that it was probably only because of she was a new vampire. Not everything was there with a snap of fingers. Damon couldn't help but to wonder how Audrey's face didn't change as much as it should have but he put that on the fact that she was new. Tomorrow would be better; he was sure of it.

Just act normal. Elena glared at her from the breakfast table. Audrey knew why Stefan had joined their breakfast that morning. It wasn't because she had been a good little vampire these couple of days. Gladly Bonnie was kind enough to make a daylight necklace for her. The necklace had been the one Damon had given her. Bonnie knew that Audrey didn't want to be bad and that she was really dying. The reason was still uncovered. Jenna sipped from her colorful coffee mug and got up.

"Okay you kids have fun," she said and started cleaning up after herself. Jenna had some errands to run that Saturday and Audrey was glad. Now there were just Stefan, Elena and Audrey. She smirked and cut a piece of her pancake and placed it in her mouth. Stefan was waiting for her to do something radical now that they were alone. No humans in the house, well except Elena.

"So," Audrey started while eating. The human food still tasted good. "Am I going to be on lock down this day as well?"

Stefan sighed deeply, "We don't think it's your time to get out. Not just yet."

"Why?" she got up quickly, startling Elena. Audrey was starting to get sick off these new rules. "I'm better at controlling who I am than you Stefan."

"Don't overestimate yourself."

"For God's sake I am not!" she yelled and sped to him revealing her fangs. Her hiss frightened her twins sister. With a smirk she grabbed Elena's fork from the table and stabbed Stefan in the guts with it. Elena gasped and yelled for her boyfriend's name. He dropped to the ground and Audrey kicked him down. She smiled and cocked her head.

"How's that animal diet going for you?" Audrey laughed and kicked him again. "I have a problem with authorities if you haven't noticed."

"Audrey, concentrate in the good parts," her best friend pleaded. Stefan was on the ground and Audrey clearly had the upper hand. She had consumed a large amount of blood the past couple of days, just to be able to not to kill anyone close to her. "What good parts?" she whispered and was just about to kick him again.

The door of their house slammed open and with a swoosh Audrey was pinned against the kitchen wall. His beautiful face was full off veins and his fangs were out as he hissed to her. He was warning Audrey. His usually gentle hands were now squeezing the girl's throat roughly. Audrey tried to struggle her way out of Damon's grip. She did not like to be out of control.

"Let me go!" she almost screamed. So he did, he first sped them to the living room, so Stefan and Elena would have their moment. He pushed her to be the furthest from the kitchen. She smiled and lowered her eyes and with a smirk she lifted them to his piercing blue ones.

"Was I bad?" she asked innocently and moved her hands behind her back. With a smirk she took a few steps back. Damon didn't seem amused though Audrey was very amused. She had gotten over a hundred year older vampire to the ground groaning.

"Oh you seem very proud of yourself," Damon said with a very accusing tone. Audrey cocked her head and frowned.

"Well I am. Why wouldn't I be?" she smiled and took few steps forward. "I did make my point didn't I?"

Damon glanced at Elena and Stefan on the background. The brunette girl was helping her boyfriend. Stefan was groaning on the floor. Damon moved his gaze back to Audrey's light brown eyes. She was staring at him blankly. Why wasn't she feeling anything? Damon sped to Audrey and grabbed her by the throat. He moved her head to seek anything from her eyes.

"Do you have your emotions on?" his questioning look pierced through Audrey. She closed her eyes with a frown and opened them with a deep breath. Like waking from a trance. Maybe this vampire thing was really messing with her mind.

"Yes," she whispered dry.

"What?" Damon asked strongly, keeping her still in his grip.

"Yes!" Audrey shouted and shook him away from her. "But I will not be here anymore!"

"Then were will you be?" Elena's voice cut through the moment. Stefan and Elena walked to the scenery were Audrey and Damon were staring each other intently. They didn't disconnect even though Elena tried to talk to Audrey.

"Audrey you need to be here so you won't go and kill people," Elena said desperately. Audrey had watery eyes and she didn't know what to do. She just stared at him and he stared at her.

"Take me away," her voice was shaky. "You promised to me Damon. You promised to take me away."

"What?" Elena asked but before she noticed both Damon and Audrey were gone. Elena glanced at Stefan by her side. He shook his head and glanced back at Elena.

"I don't think Audrey has her emotions on fully."