Authors Note: It has been way too long since I have posted anything on here and for that I do apologize with every fibre of my being. The girl that I was roleplaying this with has since deleted her tumblr so from here on out this is all me. I will not be updating this very often, which I suppose is obvious, because I have not had much of a Damon muse lately so this story is possibly going to suffer from that and again I humbly apologize to you all. I will, however, do my absolute best to give you all satisfactory chapters in the future.
All of that being said, here is the new chapter to my Consequences of Being Human story. I am going to continue having it so that one chapter is in Damon's point of view and then the next is in Caroline's like I have done with the previous two chapters, I hope you do not mind that I am going to continue that way I just believe that it shall help get things going or something like that xD... Anyway, hope you enjoy this new installment to my Daroline story.
Indiana, out.
Summary:
AU. Daroline. Damon is turned into a human, with no recollection of how he came to be such, until he receives a visit from both Emily and Sheila Bennett's ghosts. The witches inform Damon that he has only two weeks to go back and mend his broken relationship with Caroline. If he is unable to get Caroline to fall in love with him by the climax of this spell, he will die forever.
It would have taken much too long to walk to Caroline's stupid house, if the Bennett witches had not have turned him human he could just run there in much less time than it would take to even drive, and he was sure as hell not going to go the correct speed limit. Hell, he had a short amount of time as it was. Two damned weeks, who were they kidding? Caroline hated him and she had every single right to hate him, he was a dick and he knew that but that was just who he was and he was not going to change that for anyone. Not even Elena and he was supposed to be in love with her.
Why could they not just have given him two weeks to get Elena to fall in love with him? That way he could at least be happy about this little curse of theirs, but no, they had to make things difficult for him. How absolutely typical of them, it was almost as if they really and truly wanted him to fail and to be dead like them, but not, it did not really make that much sense to him.
His first steps out of the Boarding House had felt strange, his heightened senses were gone but that was not the only thing that was gone, his hunger for blood and death was no longer there, he no longer had an abhorrence to vervain or the sun, he also had no need for his daylight right. Which is the sole reason that he had taken it off and relish in the fact that the weight of it was no longer on his soft flesh, now it was replaced with the rays of sunlight and it actually made a small smile cross his pale lips. Maybe he could get a little bit of a tan now too, that would not be too horrible, at least he would no longer look like a freaking shut-in twenty-four seven. It was nice.
Pulling into the drive way of the Forbes home, he cut the engine to his car and quickly stepped out from behind the wheel, his black boots crunching against the bumpy pavement as he walked his way to the front door. He contemplated just walking in seeing as he no longer had to ask for permission to come into a persons home - not like he really needed it since he had already been let in a long, long time ago now - but instead he did the gentlemanly thing, curled his hand into a fist and knocked softly on the white door, then proceeded to wait for it to be opened. He straightened out the crisp black button-up t-shirt and yanked on his leather jacket in order to right it as it was a little on the rumpled and off-center side.
He could no longer hear when someone was walking throughout their house, or their footsteps as they were right about to open their door. At first he half expected Caroline to wrench open the door, ask him what he wanted in that huffy little voice of hers and then proceed to slam the door in his face but instead it was Liz which brought a small smile to his lips.
She said a quick 'Come in.' and then stepped aside to let him pass the threshold, to which he did gratefully. They talked for a few moments, her asking him if there was something that she could help him with, him answering with a polite no and a small explanation as to why he was coming to stop in for a visit; although he did not tell her the real reasoning behind it, he did not really want her to know that he had to try and 'seduce' her vampire daughter, for lack of a better word. No, that would not go so well, at least he did not think that it would go so well. Besides the fact that Liz and him were friends and she trusted him, he was not in the mood to go two rounds with over protective mama bear. No thank you.
It took a few more sentences from both parties before Liz announced that she had to be leaving or order to get to work on time, finally giving Damon the chance to walk up the stairs and on to Caroline's bedroom where her music became louder the closer that he got. He rolled his eyes once the melody and then the lyrics reached his ears, of course it was some girl band who incessantly complained about how they were misunderstood and how their parents did not know them and all of that annoying crap that he was definitely not in any mood to care for.
When he finally reached the door to her room he stood against the door jam, crossing his arms and just watching her for the few moments it took her to notice him, his eyes did nothing but stay on her person the entire time. He was unable to help the thoughts that had gone through his head about how he had treated the young blonde since meeting her all that time ago, all of the hurtful words that he spewed at her in anger, the constant attempts at her life and the constant threatening of said life and could now feel how it had made her feel. He did not know what was going on with him but he was feeling remorseful and that was one of the things that he never really ever felt, remorse, all this time it had been something that he could not even contemplate and yet, here he was, feeling the wretched sting of remorse.
What are you doing here? Is something wrong? Her questions were echoing throughout the entirety of his mind almost to the point of giving him an unbearable headache, her eyes seemed to be staring into his soul in those moments as she waited for his reply. Shaking his head to clear everything from his mind he finally opened his mouth to give her an answer, but at first nothing came out, it was almost as if he was unable to put it into words what was going on right now. He knew that he would be unable to tell her about Sheila and Emily turning him into a human and giving him just two weeks to get things between the two of them straightened out and get her to honestly and truly fall in love with him or he would die and would not be able to come back. He wanted to tell her, he really really did but then it would not be real, at least that is what he told himself. Her feelings needed to be real or he would die, it was simple as that.
He did not want to die, no, he liked living - loved it really and he was not willing to let it escape him, he needed to live. He just needed to and he was absolutely going to do whatever the hell it took so that he could live as long as he possibly could since his first life, the life that he was supposed to live as a human being, was taken away from him by force. Now eternity was his life and that was the one thing that he was not going to let slip through his fingers. That was just not a possibility, not even an option as far as he was concerned and if that meant that he would honestly and truly be nice to Caroline and maybe even risk falling in love with her he was not going to just up and let it go, he would take it because that is just what he needed to do.
The wound on his hand was still throbbing and he had wondered after a few moments how Liz had not noticed, but then again he had had his sleeve pulled over both hands in attempt to hide the bleeding appendage from the woman, she would ask way too many questions, like why he was not healing and he did not have the time to answer her questions, not like he really could answer them honestly anyway.
He noticed her studying him closely as he did not yet give her an answer to any of her questions, until her eyes landed on the blood that was now starting to slightly run down his pale fingers and inevitably onto the soft pink rug at his feet, but before it could he lifted his hand to have the blood start going down his arm instead, he did not need to get berated from Caroline for getting blood on her belongings. His eyes fluttered from his hand and then back to her again to see the concern that was in her green orbs, his brows rose in silent confusion as to what that feeling was doing flooding her irises but then once again shook it off, it was not important at that moment.
After a few more moments of him being quiet and slightly assessing her while she did the same to him, he attempted again to speak and this time the words did manage to flow from his lips. His voice sounded different even to his own ears and he wondered briefly if she would notice as well that it did not have quite the intensity that it usually did, it sounded slightly sorrowful and confused.
"It is nothing, you do not need to worry about it, it does not even hurt," he lied. It did hurt, it hurt like absolute hell but she did not really need to know that, it did not matter right now. He would get a bandage for it later, right now he just needed to tell her something, anything about what was going on, even if it would not be the complete truth. "I thought that maybe we could talk or something, it is kind of important."
Chapter Three is now ended, I know that it really is not that great and I am sort of thinking that I may delete this story and just start all over with them both talking in the same chapters etc. Also, I do know that there really is not much dialogue in this and I apologize.
As always, please R&R, I really do appreciate any and all criticism you may have about my story (: