I will be jumping from The Other Side to Mystic Falls every now and then. Reason being that unlike the actual show I want to give the chance for all the characters to develop but don't worry this is still a Bamon story. Just letting you know that Mystic Falls is set in the present, while The Other Side is set in the past and will eventually reach the present time.

Mystic Falls

"Caroline" Elena said weakly.

"Elena what are you doing here?" Caroline was eyeballing her up and down this was the first time in awhile she had seen Elena. She looked exactly the same but there was something off that Caroline couldn't exactly pinpoint.

"Oh you know" Caroline stopped staring at her when she caught her scent it was mingled in the air. She stepped inside the mansion and realized that the whole mansion smelt exactly like Elena.

"Wait a minute are you telling me this is where you live?!"

"What no, Caroline you're going crazy. I'm just visiting you know I live with Alaric." Elena explained her terrible lying skills prevailing yet again.

"Really"

"Duh where else would I live?" Caroline could hear the heartbeat she didn't need rushing and now she desperately wanted to know why Elena was lying to her. Caroline was just about to wreck havoc on Elena when Matt and Tyler stepped in tossing a football between each other. They were talking about last night's game but Matt was the first to break out of the trance.

"Hey Care what's up?"

"Just came to check if either of you have finished packing for tomorrow."

"Finished?" Tyler said as he squinted his eyes.

"We haven't even started" Matt said sheepishly, so that Caroline could have some mercy. But of course Caroline wasn't surprised about this predicament but right now she had to get to the bottom of this Elena ordeal.

"It's ok I won't yell at you guys if you tell me the truth?"

"We already did." Tyler said but he really didn't want to hear Caroline yell at him for the next 5 minutes about being irresponsible.

"Not that. tell me if Elena lives here or not?" Elena had been silent this whole time hoping that Caroline would be distracted about the unpacked luggage. Elena turned to Matt and Tyler and pleaded with her eyes for them not to snitch on her. Matt inhaled and decided to keep his mouth shut. But Tyler was coming to terms with throwing Elena underneath the bus as long as he didn't have to deal with Caroline.

"No yelling at us right?" Elena's eyes flared as she realized that Tyler was going to betray her.

"That's the deal."

"Yeah she's been living here for like a month." Tyler felt no regret as Elena glared at him.

"I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!" The boys took this as their cue to leave, but just as they made it to the door.

"And I will deal with the both of you later."

"Wait you said-" Tyler started.

"Later!" Matt pushed Tyler outside knowing very well that this was not the time to start arguing with Caroline.

"So would you like to tell me exactly why you have been lying to me?" Caroline asked quizzically as her head snapped back to Elena. Elena's eyes flickered wildly as she tried to come up with an escape plan but she finally threw in the towel because she had been caught.

"Look I didn't want you to get mad." Elena confessed.

"Why would I get mad?"

"Because Jeremy and I aren't living together, when we should be closer than ever" Elena ended on a sarcastic note and a dry smile.

"Well am I wrong? You guys should be together right now. We should all be together right now because we are all we have and yet this is the furthest we have ever been." Waves of hurt radiated from Caroline all she ever wanted was for everyone to be happy and remain friends. But right now they were neither and that saddened Caroline even more. Elena saw the truth in her words but offered no resolution.

"And of all places why would you choose to live with Tyler?!"

"I knew you would be mad that I didn't chose to live with you."

"Of course I would be! Plus I've slept over so many times I know that Tyler is a pig."

"I can't argue with you there." Elena said cringing at the memory of entering Tyler's room.

"So of all places why here?" Caroline asked still not understanding why Elena would dare chose the yet-to-be activated werewolf over her.

"Do you want the truth?"

"No I want lies, of course I want the truth!"

"Well the reason I chose Tyler is because he doesn't bother me, he lets me breathe. Unlike if I lived with you, you would've probably already micromanaged me to death." Elena let out a sigh of relief knowing that truth was out in the open. That is until she met Caroline's eyes that showcased an obvious dislike to her previous statement.

"I micromanage because I care." Caroline huffed.

"Yeah but you micromanage me more than anyone else and it drives me crazy, its as if your trying to suffocate me!" Elena yelled running her hands through her hair, hoping that this conversation would end soon because she was already getting sick of it. But that was the last straw for Caroline because she wasn't going to take anymore of this bullshit.

"Do you want to know why I micromanage you more than anyone else?" Caroline had grown dangerous.

"Yes!" Elena said challenging her.

"Because you and your life are a wreck. Everything you do and every choice you make fucks someone or everyone else over. You don't care about the consequences to anything as long as it results in whatever you want."

"Stop it!" Elena's veins flared up underneath her eyes and her fangs bare prepared to bite.

"You do realize that if it weren't for you we would all lead normal lives, right? So to answer your question I micromanage you the most so that I can salvage just a bit of happiness and sanity for the rest of us!"

"You know what I don't have time for this." Elena said grabbing her keys and heading for the door.

"What you don't have time for the truth." Caroline smiled ever so slightly just to spite her. Elena left before Caroline could catch her breaking down, she rushed towards her car. Caroline sat down on the steps of the staircase, satisfied with herself. But it didn't last long when she realized that she had crossed the line. Matt stepped in to the mansion alone with the football straddled to his chest. He was heading towards the kitchen when he noticed Caroline at the bottom of the steps with her hands covering her face.

"Hey what's wrong?" Matt asked sliding in next to her and setting his football to the side.

"I'm a terrible friend." She mumbled from behind her hands, the truth of what she had done hitting her like a bag of bricks.

"Caroline you and I both know that's not true." Matt chuckled; at how untrue that very statement was, in fact he started to laugh at how absurd the idea was. Caroline peaked from behind her hands to see him laughing whole-heartedly.

"Why are you laughing?" She asked quizzically, right now Matt looked like a madman to her, but she couldn't help but giggle a little.

"Because I think of all the things you have ever said, that has to be the craziest." He said managing to control his fit of laughter.

"Really?"

"Come on Care, you are one of my bestest friends in the world, you think I would have stuck around if you were terrible."

"Bestest?" She said a smile crawling on to her face; she thought about it as of late she didn't have many friends. Elena and Stefan were in their own world and well her only other bff was dead, she realized that Matt was her bestest friend too.

"Yeah you heard me," he said while getting to his feet and holding his hand out for her although he knew very well she didn't need it. But the gesture meant everything to Caroline so she gladly took his hand.

"Now let's get something to eat and you tell me what happened between you and Elena and then we could work on my bags." Matt said while leading them towards the kitchen.

"Yeah I almost forgot and where is Tyler?"

"He forgot he had an appointment, but don't worry he'll be back in time to finish packing."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes Care, I am sure. Can I eat something now?" Matt asked while dropping his football on the table and heading to the fridge he was starving.

"Ok, ok but make it quick I have a feeling that you have nothing ready."

"You are correct my friend." He said grabbing a box of pizza and putting some slices into the microwave to reheat, while biting into an apple. Caroline rolled her eyes as he turned around to face her.

"So are you gonna spill the beans or am I going to have to beat it out of you." He said taking another large bite out of this alarming red apple.

Caroline hesitated but she finally opened her mouth to speak, "Well you see I knew Elena was lying to me about living here, and I wanted to know why. She said because she would be more free here and because her and Jeremy needed to be separated and blah and blah. So I said why didn't she just to ask to live with me, then she was like I micromanage too much. So then out of nowhere I got really mad and I told her that I micromanage her the most because she ruins everyone's lives and that basically that everything that has ever happened is her fault…So basically I'm extremely fucked up!" Caroline finished finally being able to take another breath although she didn't actually need it.

Matt had stopped chewing his apple somewhere during her confession and his mouth was just a bit ajar, he was also slightly surprised at how fast Caroline could speak. They stood there in silence for a while just staring at each other mainly because neither knew what to say next. The ding of the microwave cut the silence that had fallen between them and just like that everything reanimated Matt started chewing and wiped his mouth as he finished his apple and threw away the core. He grabbed the pizza and sat down all the while brainstorming what he could possibly say next.

"Do you want some?" he said pointing to the pizza, forgetting her status as a vampire.

"No thanks" Caroline politely rejected as she was still full from this morning and plus she didn't like making a habit of eating actual food unless it was in front of her mom.

"Suit yourself." Matt shrugged while stuffing his face and enjoying the taste of his leftover pepperoni pizza. Caroline let him eat a bit but the look on her face was wary, as she wanted to know what he thought, and Matt was quite aware of it.

"Well first things first, we can both agree this wasn't one of your finest moments." Caroline nodded in slight embarrassment for him to keep on going.

"But that doesn't necessarily make you a bad person."

"Matt doing bad things makes you a bad person."

"Yes but you don't do bad things you did a bad thing, there is a difference. Everyone has times when they can't help but be assholes, we're human. No one is 100% good all the time and no one is 100% evil. There is bad in the good and good in the bad but I'm sure you know that." Matt said, satisfied with his answer and congratulating himself with another slice of pizza. Caroline mulled it over; she did know that, of course she did, had she not learned that with Klaus and Stefan. Heck she even saw a glimpse of it in Damon from time to time and Bonnie wasn't always a saint, well when they were here anyways. Matt could see the gears in her head churning so he decided to make it simple for her.

"Look all you have to do is apologize, and say you didn't mean it"

"But what if I did?"

"Then that's another story." Matt said chewing a lot more cautiously he understood that Elena could be annoying at times but what Caroline had said was quite harsh.

"I mean I know it's not her fault that all this happens to her but…"

"Look… I get it we all want to find someone to blame for the wreck that is our lives. Trust me I have blamed many people before including Elena but you know what I realized?"

"What?"

"That life constantly throws you curveballs, and instead of focusing on the pitcher, you should be focusing on the ball and throwing it out of the park."

"What? You know I don't understand football analogies."

"Baseball. It was a baseball analogy, Care."

"Whatever."

"It means that you should focus on fixing the actual problem instead of the person or thing giving it to you."

"Oh"

"So what's the actual problem?"

"I don't know."

"I think you do." Matt proclaimed while shifting back into his chair as he had now finished his pizza and his stomach was content.

"Really then, what is it? Since apparently you've become Yoda all of a sudden."

"I appreciate the reference. But just think about what has been bothering you nonstop lately Care?"

"Well… I absolutely hate the fact that none of us have hung out in the longest time and nobody seems happy anymore. What I'm saying is I miss our friendships and I miss Bonnie." Matt looked away he hadn't spoken to anyone about Bonnie in fact he doesn't quite think that anyone has discussed the topic of Bonnie's death. It was a subject he didn't like to dwell on because it slowly ripped him up inside. How many times had Bonnie put her life on the line for them and in the end she still didn't get happiness. He missed her so much; he would constantly catch himself dialing her phone number to talk to her until he remembered that she won't be picking up. He especially missed the little talks they would have at night sometimes when he would tell her about his day and she would always be so happy to hear that his life was still remotely normal. He would usually have to pry for her to even unveil just a little about hers, she never liked talking much about her day because it was usually tragic and she didn't like to dwell on it. So she would latch on to her happiest memory of the day and tell him all about it but Matt knew better he knew there was a world of hurt behind that voice. And he had always known that she deserved better, she deserved to be happy and that's what really made him miserable.

"I miss her too, Care."

"You do?"

"Of course I do."

"It's just that no one ever talks about it, you know?"

" Because no one wants to talk about their best friend dying"

"But maybe we should."

"What could we possibly say?"

"I don't know, I just want people to acknowledge the fact that she's dead, but it seems like no one actually cares!" Caroline exclaimed starting to get frustrated and her emotions getting the best of her. Matt thought about it besides himself he could only say that the death of Bonnie Bennett from what his eyes can see have only afflicted Jeremy and Caroline. Elena was distant and he could never tell what she was thinking and Tyler and Bonnie were never really close to begin with. And that was it the end of the list. That was it for the list of people who cared for Bonnie because all of her loved ones were dead.

"We we're her closest friends, but even then we didn't know what was going through her head half the time." Matt said thinking about all the times he found her hard in thought and then she would break out and feign him a smile.

"Maybe because we never really bothered to ask." Caroline confessed to the guilt that had been eating at her, since the day of her friend's demise. She knew that with all the problems they constantly had to deal with, Bonnie's ordeals we're constantly neglected. She hated herself for not acknowledging her more.

"Bonnie deserved better than all of us, she would go to the earth and back for us…and we couldn't even bother to notice when she died, the first time." Matt said this had been gnawing him in the mind since last fall. How they, how he didn't notice his best friend was dead for an entire summer. Caroline felt the same way, and the guilt clouded the air between them.

"You know if she here right now, she would find some way to make us feel better and-"

"Tell us that none of this our fault." Matt finished Caroline's sentence because they both knew that statement was a fact. They sat there and reminisced silently about their beloved deceased friend. Nobody knows exactly how long they sat there, but tears started to accumulate in Matt's blue eyes. Caroline's eyes had already let her tears fall on the tablecloth, but she began to wipe them and change the subject.

"Why don't we get started on your bags?" She said getting up out of her seat. Matt swallowed back his tears and stood as well.

"Yeah why don't we?" He said heading towards his room upstairs. Once they got there, Caroline was proud to see that Matt bags were open and so were his dressers, indicating that he had thought about packing before she got there.

"So are you excited to be attending Whitmore this year?"

"Yeah, you know I never thought I was going to college."

"Matt don't say that"

"You know it's true." Caroline frowned it made her sad that Matt thought he was never going to do anything.

"But I'm going now, thanks to Stefan." Matt said showing her that it was all ok.

"Don't you mean Damon?" Caroline giggled, before Stefan disappeared to god knows where he started a charity in Damon's name. Of all things a charity he knew Damon would have hated it, which is why he did it, to playfully jab his brother one last time. Underneath that charity there was a portion of it that gave scholarships to underprivileged kids who wanted to attend college but could not afford too. Caroline had urged Matt to apply, and within the next day he was accepted. Stefan eventually decided to leave Caroline in charge of the charity knowing that she would know what was best for the city, all Stefan did was send checks every month. Caroline couldn't find anyway to refuse his offer of becoming the president of a charity even though she knew it meant he was leaving. But she understood and they talked every now and then but he was always vague when it came to details. She missed him so much but she knew he had to do this so that he could allow himself to move on.

"Yeah, that's what I meant Damon." Matt chuckled. They knew very well Damon would not have been amused by this conversation, and they laughed at the thought of it. Eventually they finally started packing his bags and discussed all their plans for the incoming fall and by the time they were done, the sun was not far from setting and they shared excitement. Tyler had yet to return from his appointment so Caroline enlisted Matt to help Tyler when he arrived. She made Matt pinky promise that he'll do it, so they said their goodbyes and Caroline decided she'd go hunt down Elena so that she could apologize to her. She knew very well that Elena wouldn't pick up her calls now, so she decided to hunt her down by scent. It took her a while but she found her car parked on the outskirts of town and the sun had begun to set in the distance. She turned off the engine and hopped out her car and that's when her senses took over, she could hear muffled screaming and smelled lots of AB negative. She speeded towards the noise and was shocked out of her boots to see that Elena was biting into a stranger.

"Elena stop it!" Caroline yelled, but Elena didn't her thirst wasn't being quenched and the poor girl was close to being drained.

"Just one more bite." Elena begged but Caroline knew all to well that one more bite would kill this girl. So she ran forward and tossed Elena into a nearby tree before her fangs could make contact with the girl's skin.

"I'm sorry that you had to go through this, but it never happened. Today you hiked through the woods and watched the sunset then you hiked back home and nothing more happened. Now go home!" Caroline said compelling the girl to forget this moment, but before she let her leave she bit into her wrist and fed her, so that she could heal faster. Elena had gotten up and was infuriated as the girl ran away.

"I wasn't going to kill her!" Elena growled through her fangs.

"Really because it didn't look that way to me!"

"I had it under control." Elena said wiping the left over blood from her mouth.

"No you didn't, and do you mind telling me why the hell you're feeding on humans!" Caroline was beyond aggravated because Elena knew the rules blood bags and no more.

"I was hungry and I couldn't help myself."

"Since when are blood bags not enough?"

"Since-"

"This wasn't a one time thing was it, you've done it before?"

"Maybe look I've been hungrier than ever as of late."

"I didn't get Liv and her coven to break the Traveller's spell so that you could go and feed on whoever you want. I did it on the sole condition that all the vampires in this town would refrain from feeding on humans." Caroline was furious because it took a lot of work for Caroline to convince Liv especially since she almost died doing the spell allowing for everyone to come back from the Other Side. It had taken Caroline exactly 34 days for her to convince Liv to help her, and it took a bit longer to convince her coven who apparently are some pretty powerful witches. The only way they agreed is if the town remained safe from the torment of vampires and Caroline swore it would. Every week Caroline would do a sweeping of the city to make sure no new vampires had entered the city and that the ones that had were on board with her plan, if not she cursed them out with the help of Luke.

"I know you didn't."

"Then, why are you doing this Elena?"

"Shutup, I'm not going to tell her… Why?... because she'll tell me to stop!" Elena seemed to be having a conversation with a third party when there were only two present.

"Elena who are you talking to?" Caroline asked searching for someone hiding in the bushes.

"No one" Elena said just adding more suspicion to the situation.

"Really because it seems like you're talking to someone else."

"She won't understand, that's why I can't tell her she'll make you go away."

"Make who go away?" Caroline wondered walking slowly Elena who was looking to her left as if someone were there.

"How could that possibly be a good idea? I can't live without you." Then it clicked in her brain Caroline had figured out who Elena was speaking too.

"Are you talking to Damon?"

"What, how did you know?" Elena was lost and her eyes were far from the present situation. She was confused and scared as to how Caroline had unveiled her secret but she knew now. She looked back at Damon wondering if he somehow managed to tell Caroline without her knowledge. Which happened to be quite impossible considering that he was figment of her imagination.

"I didn't know you just told me. How are you seeing Damon?" Elena was mad at herself for snitching on herself but she also wasn't feeling her best in fact she was quite loopy and still very hungry.

"Luke whips something up for me." Elena felt queasy lately that was an after effect of the drug, and when the queasiness sets in Damon starts to fade. He put his shoulder on her to make sure if she was ok but then he was gone. She crumbled to the ground she hated it when he left.

"Wait so you're telling me that Luke gives you something so that you can hallucinate Damon?!" Caroline was in shock and she went to go pick up Elena from the ground but when Elena lifted her face, veins vibrated underneath her brown eyes.

"Yes and I need more!" Caroline shuddered to see her friend that way it was sick, because the person in front of her didn't seem like Elena it seemed like a monster. The sun had set over the horizon and the truth was out, Elena Gilbert had a drug addiction.

It was hot; no it was more than hot it was boiling. Her eyes fluttered open to find nothing but darkness, she squinted but still nothing.

"Where am I?" She probed the dark void in front of her, hoping that someone was there. But her voice was met with nothing but silence, and not just any silence but actual silence. The kind of silence where you don't hear anything not the hissing pipes, or the tumble of a generator working, or the sound of traffic outside. It was a silence that only the deaf achieved, which lead her to think that maybe she was deaf, she screamed to make sure and sure enough this girl heard the deafening high pitch of her scream break through the obscurity. A sigh slipped from her chest because she was glad she hadn't lost her senses although she might be blind. She perched herself on whatever surface she had been laying on and swung her legs over the edge, standing up for what seemed like the first time in a long time. She was determined on figuring out where she was and why she was there. But with the first step she took, she hit the floor. Her body was in a limbo and she was sure that if she could see anything it would all be a swirl, why did she feel so weak. How long had she been here, whatever here was. That's when her stomach twisted as if there was a monster trying to claw its way out, what she was feeling was hunger, but a hunger that was more intense then anything she had ever experienced before. She has been hungry before but this was a new type of a hungry a desperate type. She forced herself to get her feet yet again, her number one priority as of now was not finding out where she was but finding food. As she staggered around she could finally hear a humming, as she paid more attention to it she perceived that it was getting closer. It was a person and she couldn't help but feel her body flood with hope maybe this person could help with her escape and maybe even get her a hamburger. The humming had stopped and there was a dangling of keys, she was intrigued as to who would be behind the door. With a creak, light started to flood into the room, she quickly adjusted her eyes. There stood a man with brooding eyebrows, hero hair and a faint smile dangling on his lips.

"Stefan!" Out of nowhere she found balance and ran to him, she embraced him she never knew how much joy seeing his face could bring her. Stefan chuckled and embraced her back but it wasn't a soft embrace it was actually restricting, he brought his lips to her ear and whispered, "Think again."

Her eyes flickered up at him ad she released him immediately which only caused him to smile more, "Silas" she whispered the joy she had once felt was quickly replaced with an immense panic.

"That would be correct."

"What do you want?" For all the fear that was creeping into her heart she put on a brave front.

"Let's just say, I'm not quite to happy about how we left things." She didn't have to recall their last encounter to figure that he wasn't pleased with her. She didn't think about it she shoved him and made a run for it although she had no idea where she was heading, but she didn't exactly have the time to plan something that might actually work. For the first time her body was fluid and she had a speed she never had before, she took in all her surroundings when she came to a pause. She knew where she was. She was in her old high school; she had just run past Alaric's old history classroom. Now that she knew this she bolted for the exit and she could feel hope flicker inside of her as she neared the door, but it disappeared when the door wouldn't budge. She put all her strength into the door, knowing it was her last hope because Silas was approaching she could hear his footsteps cascading down he corridor. The door refused to budge and she let out a small cry, her death was impending and she couldn't find the strength to open this damn door.

"Don't waste your time, we're stuck here." He stated factually, he took his sweet time walking as she thought of another plan, until her stomach lurked again. This was not the time to be hungry, she thought but her hunger had been fighting to establish itself as her number one priority. Her thoughts of hunger went towards the thermos Silas had in his hand, he must have recently retrieved it. She could smell whatever was inside of it, and it was mouth watering she was dying to know what was in the thermos. After forcing her focus off the thermos she realized that Silas was only mere feet away from her, she searched for an exit when she spotted a bathroom. She knew it wouldn't save her but it would prolong her impending death enough so that maybe she could come up with a last minute plan. She dashed into the furthest stall and locked it, although she knew that those hinges wouldn't hinder Silas for a second. Bonnie's head was racing against the clock and Silas's slow, leisurely steps. He knew he had her pinned since the the second he first laid his eyes on her.

"Come on Bon Bon, don't you think this is becoming pathetic?" He yanked the door right of it's hinges, to find Bonnie cowering in the corner behind the toilet, she held back tears because she refused to give him the pleasure.

"Come on out, I don't bite" He snickered, his face contorted into the most sadistic grin, she had ever seen.

"Leave me alone, you monster!" She said rising to her full height, she decided that if she was going to die she wasn't going to die a coward. Her eyes met his and she was fearless, but her nose burned and her stomach churned the second she caught sight of the thermos. Whatever was in it smelt absolutely delicious then her eyes started to itch and her gums began to hurt. Silas laughed, instinctively she knew he was laughing at her, what did he do to her?

"I'd think twice before deciding which one of us is the monster here." She was confused but the thermos still called her name, Silas stepped aside and something caught her sight. She stepped forward in disbelief of what she was staring at, the thing in front of her had lost it's color it's eyes were black as coal and veins vibrated underneath those lifeless demon eyes, she hadn't realized it but the creature had been hissing it's crystal white fangs prepared for attack. A scream of despair ripped through Bonnie's chest as she glared at the monster, because the monster was her. There she stood as she began to register that she hadn't taken a breath or felt her heartbeat since she had awoken, she had become what she feared and despised. She was a monster in every sense of the word, the world stood still but her mind was spinning as she tried to process it all. She now knew what was in that beloved thermos Silas held and what frightened her the most, was that she craved it more than ever.

She woke up with a start, her chest heaving and fighting to bring air to her lungs, glad that her lungs needed it. Her body was drenched in sweat, the heat of all the blankets causing her to suffocate. She threw the blankets off her and ripped off the black leather jacket. Her breathing had yet to slow down, in fact it was speeding. Once again she didn't know where she was and she desperately searched her surroundings trying to find something anything familiar that could calm her down. But nothing bared a resemblance, until she caught a whiff of the air, which smelt of cinnamon banana pancakes.

"Grams?!"

Just wanted to let everyone know that this fanfic was based on my theory of what would happen in Season 6 so elements of Season 6 will be incorporated into the story. In fact you could kind of consider every 2-3 chapters to be an episode. Also don't worry Bamon is well on there way, and lemme know what you thought of the chapter.