Chapter 18

If anyone was good at being a vampire it was Katherine Pierce. When Katherine turned into a vampire it was the end of 1400's. Five hundred years of being a vampire had made everything in Katherine's life exciting. But being the doppelgänger made her life dangerous. Especially after she betrayed one certain vampire.

Audrey envied Katherine in a weird way. The girl knew how to make a mense and how to keep her emotions out of the way. Audrey didn't want to be emotionless but it would be so much easier. She couldn't shake the expression of Elena's face when Damon had grabbed her and taken her away. Just like he had promised.

Audrey moved her hand from the back of her neck to her daylight necklace. A small smile started to curl on her lips as the memory of the night that Damon gave her that crept into her mind. As the girl pulled her fangs out of her victim's skin she tried to enjoy the feed, but she wasn't able. She drew away and ran to the sink as she vomited the blood. Damon looked at her worried. This wasn't normal.

"You took a few too many, passed out and you won't remember anything when you wake up," Damon compelled him. The man nodded and walked out of the bar bathroom. Audrey was just wiping her mouth when Damon went over to her. "Are you okay?"

"No," Audrey cried and looked at him. "I can't feed. You say being a vampire is great but I don't think so. Everything feels disgusting and bad. I just want to kill myself."

"You're in luck because I'm coming over at your house tonight," Damon said with a crooked smile. He leaned onto the bathroom door as Audrey moved her eyes from the mirror to him. She frowned as wiped her mouth clean from the vomited blood. She was glad he was coming.

"What?"

"I'm coming to Jenna's barbecue," Damon said.

"Good, I could use a distraction," she said and walked over to him. Damon petted her cheek with a smile.

Audrey was itching to see Damon. She stared at herself from the mirror from her bathroom. She felt nervous, but why did she feel that way? First, a werewolf was coming over to dinner and he could kill her, and secondly Damon. She heard the doorbell ring. It was Caroline. The new hearing really helped her; she avoided almost everyone who was worried about her. Caroline was one of them though she as well was a vampire.

Then she heard Damon's voice. Maybe she was wrong, maybe it was in fact him, who came inside. She raised her eyes and walked away from the bathroom. Being a vampire was so weird, and the overwhelming feelings were just extra weird.

Audrey walked quickly the stairs down and saw Damon at the door. She stopped at halfway the stairs and just stared at him. He had peach cobbler in his hand which made her chuckle inside, but she didn't show it. Only thing showing was her shaky breathe and stare. Audrey looked so deep in his eyes she swore she could see him smiling behind that confusion.

"Damon," she swallowed and sped down, in which Damon's eyes widened. He pushed her against the wall and glanced at the living room and kitchen to see if any one noticed. He frowned and stared at her.

"Are you insane?!" He yelled at her. Why did he yell at her. She bit her lip and blinked many times before being able to say something.

"I'm sorry, I'm just... So glad to see you," her words made Damon smile. He felt like a million butterflies would've just started flying in his stomach. He shook the thoughts off and let go of her. Damon had stuff to do and unfortunately doing Audrey wasn't one of them. He grinned tiny to his own pun but decided not to share it.

"I'll talk to you later, okay? Go on and spend some quality time with your sister," Damon said to Audrey. The girl seemed like she snapped out of some kind of trance that were Damon's eyes and nodded. She licked her lips and created a one last glance at his gorgeous face before walked outside.

When she walked out she saw her twin sister. Elena was probably trying to reach Stefan; again. Audrey decided to cheer up her twin sister. She sat down tightly next to her and smiled widely. Elena closed her phone and looked at Audrey with a questioning look on her face.

"Want to see something cool?" Audrey wiggled her brows and made Elena chuckle slightly. Her twin sister nodded.

"Sure, why not."

Audrey grinned, this was her chance, to make Elena her best friend again. Make her her sister again. Then Caroline stormed in with a bowl of chips in her hand and sat down with them. Elena and Audrey first glanced at each other, then Caroline. Caroline ate chips and laughed.

"God! I cannot stop eating. Stefan says it's a great way to sublimate the cravings. It's horrible just fighting the urge for blood every minute of every day."

"I know that Stefan really hates that part of himself," Elena jumped in, trying to console Caroline.

But blondie wasn't kind on her next words, "Yeah and he hates that you're a constant temptation."

Audrey rubbed the temple of her head. What was up with blonde dracula? Why was she being such a bitch, or was that just because that being a vampire heightens every emotion and character you have. But in that case Audrey would be just a double of her human self, and she wasn't that.

"He said that?" Elena swallowed and searched Caroline's eyes.

"The desire to rip out your jugular every time he's with you? Trust me, it's there. It's why I had to break up with Matt."

Audrey jumped up and was a split second away from jumping on Caroline's throat and strangle her, or maybe break her neck. Being temporarily unconscious would be good for lil' Caroline over there. Gladly Audrey's little plan wasn't executed because of Alaric.

"Hey! Food's ready, come get it," Ric said and Audrey was the first one to react.

"Finally. I'm so hungry I could kill someone."

They were playing freaking pictionary. Audrey was a vampire and she was playing pictionary with Damon, Jenna, Ric, Mason and Caroline. Why the hell was she there again? Oh yeah, because of Damon. Damon had already made many references towards wolves and now it was Audrey's turn. She snickered as she walked to the board with a pen.

What could she paint? Okay now she got an idea!

Okay... First let's draw this huge tower...Oh yeah! It has a clock, draw it, great. That part is done.

"Big ben!" Jenna shouted.

"Uhm? London!" Damon's voice was next.

"England!" Caroline shouted.

Audrey shook her head and tried to draw a new form. Dog, no, a werewolf. USA's flag there to the werewolf. Then a couple of arrows from the werewolf to London. Everybody got silenced. Audrey turned around and shook her head.

"What? You are how old and don't know what this is?" she directed the comment towards Damon, mostly but Jenna, Mason and Ric as well.

Mason finally manned up, groaned and rubbed his chin. "American werewolf in London."

"Ding ding ding!" Audrey shouted and jumped a couple of times. "Good job Mason!" she said and winked at him. "He wins again!"

Audrey's eyes got caught up in Damon's glare of what the hell do you think you are doing.

"How is that a wolf?" Jenna asked with a frown on her face. Audrey turned her face and studied the drawing. She scoffed with a hint of amusement.

"Of course it's a wolf, Jenna, come on."

After the pictionary was the pie. Damon hadn't told his masterplan yet, but Audrey expected it to be something good. The pie finally got to the table and Damon created a meaningful glance at Audrey. She stared Mason intently. Audrey had a thing in her mind, what she could do. It was only a theory but she decided to play it out.

Every glance she changed with him was flirtatious. Seriously, with being a vampire all these urges just got in. For blood and, well, sex. With all the giggling and acting cute and dumb Audrey was bored. All of them just rolled eyes at her except Damon.

She was in the kitchen taking the pie from the box. Damon walked in with a slight smirk.

"Aunt Jenna is getting tipsy." Damon chuckle silently.

"Maybe you should stop plying her with alcohol," Audrey raised her brow as Damon got closer to her.

"I want her to like me," he said so innocently that Audrey snickered.

"How is operation Lockwood?"

"He's my new BFF. And I should ask you the same thing. Seems like you have your own plan," Damon scolded her with his eyes gently. Audrey smiled crookedly and turned her whole head towards him to face him. She looked around and then got closer.

"Okay so when you become a vampire you remember everything that you've been compelled to forget? I remember a lot of stuff, Damon. Kitty Kat has been really chatty with me, and just for you to know she mentioned something about a boyfriend..." Audrey smiled to him. She was excited about her discovery but Damon just shrugged.

"What does that have to do with anything? She could've easily meant Stefan."

Audrey just stared at him. He didn't believe her theory was correct, but come on! It had to be correct. Besides Katherine said something about ruining everything when Audrey became a vampire.

Jenna arrived and Damon immediately moved away from Audrey. She rolled her eyes at him but smiled to Jenna.

"There you are. Isn't this fun?" Jenna said and flipped her strawberry blonde hair. Audrey smiled the most human smile she could and got back to dealing with the pie. Damon and Jenna having their own conversation Elena walked to her.

"Hey could you finish this? I need to use the bathroom," Audrey asked and Elena nodded. Her brown hair strait and long she moved it back and took Audrey's place. She walked through the living room where Mason was. Ric was just going to the kitchen to help and Audrey created a meaningful glance at him and Katherine's signature smirk. He didn't respond to it, just smiled like he would smile to his teenage daughter.

"Yeah?" Mason frowned and waited for Audrey's response. She got confused but survived it and gave an awkward smile.

"The pie."

Elena, Caroline and Audrey were driving towards the Salvatore's when Caroline's car's tire burst. Now they were waiting for the tow truck. Audrey was getting anxious. They had been waiting forever.

"Are you sure the tow's coming? We've been waiting forever," Elena asked and eyed Caroline. The blonde just nodded multiple times with a nervous smile.

"I know, it's weird. They said they'd be here by now."

"Yeah. If they're not here in five minutes I'm going to murder someone and it's not going to be Elena," Audrey moved her dark brown eyes to Caroline who seemed offended. "I need blood, Caroline."

"I'm just gonna call Jenna," Elena tried and grabbed her phone. Caroline panicked.

"No! Let me try the tow people again. And I'll use my mad girl voice," she said trying to be funny.

"Can we just walk from here?" Elena asked and Audrey nodded.

"I know I can."

"I can't just leave my car," Caroline protested.

"We'll come back for it."

"Just give me a minute, Elena..."

"Caroline, what part of "I'm worried about Stefan" didn't sink in?"

"What's the rush? Why are you hurrying to get to a relationship that will never work?"

"Okay, look. I know that you're upset over Matt but will you stop projecting it onto me and Stefan please?"

"I'm not projecting anything! You're human, he's a vampire. You're gonna be 70 and in diapers and he's still gonna be smoking hot and you will never have his children, Elena! And you are too maternal to not have children!"

Audrey sighed to their bickering and rubbed her temples. With a few last sentences that Audrey didn't concentrate because new blood arrived. It was the tow truck. She grabbed Elena's hand and started walking away from Caroline.

"Let's go."

At the boarding house Audrey immediately sped up into the cellar to grab a blood bag. She didn't care about anything except the blood. When she got the drink on her lips she almost immediately drank it all and grabbed another one. Two blood bags, no more. Then she heard talking upstairs and didn't care about the groaning in the next room.

She sped up back upstairs and saw Elena and Katherine looking at each other. As soon as she stopped Katherine turned around with a mirk on her face.

"Well isn't this wonderful, all three of us in the same room. Kind of ironic that we are in the Salvatore boarding house, don't you think?" Katherine arched her brows.

"How do we look exactly like?" Elena asked with pure confusion. The brown eyes were glaring Katherine and Audrey in turns. Katherine turned around and looked at Elena.

"You're asking the wrong questions."

Stefan arrived and yelled for Elena. Audrey blinked and Katherine was gone, she could hear where she was going so without saying goodbyes she sped to follow her.

Just a few feet from the door of the Salvatore boarding house Damon stopped her. He grabbed her by her arms and stared at the confusion in Audrey's eyes. She felt like she wasn't able to breathe, his face staring at her; commanding to stop. Don't follow Katherine. Don't get yourself killed.

"Audrey you need to listen to me," Damon said as Audrey tried to avoid his eye contact.

"No. I need to... I need to get to her and, and-"

"Stop. Look at me. Calm down."

There was something in his blue eyes that calmed her down. She blinked her eyes couple of times before relaxing her tense body. She nodded. "Okay."