All My Children

The light shun through the curtains. I groaned. Yesterday had been... interesting, to say the least. First, the revelation that there was no way to 'fix me', then that all of the Originals had to die, thirdly that Klaus 'fancied' me (I was still curious as to what his definition of that word was) and last but not least, Damon stupidly threw a thousand year old Original Vampire over a balcony and broke his neck.

I reached over to the other side of my bed, getting my phone. I dialed Damon's number, hoping that this time he'd actually answer me. I was worried about him. What if he lashed out last night? It was difficult having the power to accidently throw a vampire over the edge, like he had - literally - with Kol.

But seriously, I didn't have time for this. I was dying for God's sake. I didn't know how much time I had left. That scared me.

"What?" Damon said after - finally - answering his phone.

"Damon! I called you like ten times last night. We need to talk."

"Sorry, I've been busy."

I sighed in frustration. "If you're mad at me, I'm gonna ask you kindly to get over it."

"Oh, I'm over it."

He hung up. Damon was over it? That was very un-Damonlike to say the least. I decided to go over to the Salvatore Boarding house. I put on a pair of denim jeans, a blue tank top and sneakers before heading to his house.

Just when I was about to knock, Damon opened the door, Rebekah standing beside him. She shot me a smirk before swaggering off, looking very happy with herself.

Anger and jealousy boiled inside of me. Rebekah? "Did you stop taking vervain or something?" I questioned, crossing my arms.

"You think Rebekah had to compel me?" Damon asked, going inside.

I stomped after him. "What's wrong with you? She's an Original! And it barely two weeks ago when you were jealous of Klaus! Last time I checked, I didn't sleep with him!"

He groaned. "Can we just move pass that, Louise? We're not together anymore. I don't care."

For some reason, that made me angry. Isn't that what I wanted? For him to 'not care'? It looked like it wasn't. Maybe I liked his protectiveness-bordering-on-possessiveness.

"So this is what it's like now, huh, Damon?" I asked, clenching my fists. "I say something stupid and hurt your feelings and this is how you lash out at me? By sleeping with her."

Damon poured himself a glass of scotch. "Well, maybe, for once, something I did had nothing to do with you or your sister."

I tried to restrain myself. All this anger wasn't good for my health. "You should know that Esther is planning on killing her entire family. She's linked them all together with a spell. Whatever happens to one, happens to all of them."

"Well, that's great!" Damon exclaimed cheerfully. "Klaus will finally be dead. We win! Why do you look like someone just shot a panda bear? Don't tell me you have feelings for Klaus?"

He sounded jealous. "Hey, you just slept with Rebekah, all that I've done with Klaus is be the recipient of his weird flirting. You have no right to be jealous."

"So it's true, huh?" His perfectly sculpted features twisted in anger.

"No, I don't have any 'feelings' for Klaus," I lied. No, no, no! I didn't lie, I do not have any feelings for Klaus. End of. "The reason I look like somebody just 'shot a panda bear' is because to kill Klaus, the rest of the Originals die. Like Elijah, who's a good person. He doesn't deserve to die!"

Damon scoffed. "I'm supposed to care about Elijah?"

"Shouldn't you at least care about your new bed pal?" I said, gesturing to the door the blonde Original had left through.

"Two seconds ago, you were pissed that I slept with her. You get your ex-lover vengeance, I get mine. It's a win-win!" I rolled my eyes and made to leave. Damon blocked my way. "Don't do anything to screw this up, Louise."

"Why are you doing this?"

Just as Damon was about to answer, Stefan walked into the living room. "He's right, you know. Klaus has to die. They all do."

"See? It's democracy in action," Damon said.

I looked between them, begging either of the two brothers to back me up. Neither of them did. I bumped into Damon on my way out, forcing him to spill his drink.

I snorted. At least something good happened on this visit.

Bonnie was burning sage, like Esther had done, while I ranted about Damon. "He was gloating. Like he was proud of himself for getting into her pants. Then he had the nerve to accuse me of having feelings for Klaus!"

"Do you?" Elena asked.

I gaped at her. "No!" I exclaimed in a 'you shouldn't even be asking me this' tone. "Of course not. We're trying to kill him here! And I'm not interfering!"

Elena shrugged. "I suppose. Is it working?" she questioned the vampire waiting outside the room.

Caroline entered and shook her head. "it's not working. I can hear every word you're saying about Damon, the vampire gigolo and Klaus, your ill-fated Romeo."

I gritted my teeth. "He's not my-"

"I don't know," Bonnie interrupted, sending us both a 'don't start' look. "It's a tricky spell."

"When Esther did it, she kept the sage burning. There was a lot more smoke," Elena told her.

"And it smelled worse," I stated, my nose scrunching at the memory of that horrific smell.

Bonnie raised an eyebrow and I shook my head. "Alright," Bonnie said. She relit the sage. "Try it again." Caroline scoffed and left the room in a diva-like tantrum. "Speaking of Esther, you should know that she came to see me and Abby this morning."

"And all this time you let me vent about Damon?" I exclaimed.

She shrugged. "I don't want you to worry."

"Right, well. What did the prolicidal witch want?" I asked her.

"She wanted to introduce herself," Bonnie replied. "Abby and I helped bring her back. She's channeling our entire ancestral bloodline for power. I think she thought she was being polite."

I scoffed. "How kind of her. Is there a way to stop her from channeling your line?"

She shook her head. "Even if there was, why would I want that?"

"I just feel bad," I answered honestly. "I know Klaus has done so much bad and I won't be shedding tears when he dies, believe me." That was half-lie, I wouldn't shed tears, but I... there was a part of me that didn't want to kill him, but I knew it was for the best. "But Elijah... he found a way to save Elena before the sacrifice and how to we repay him? By signing his death sentence. It doesn't feel right."

Elena, who had stayed quiet, spoke up, "I agree. Elijah tried his hardest to save me and now we've sentenced a moral man to die."

Caroline burst into the room. "Okay. First of all, this privacy spell is totally not working. Second, Elena, Lou-Lou-" Lou-Lou? I hadn't been called that since I was a kid! "-you guys are not doing this, Esther is doing this."

"There's no time to change your mind. He'll be dead by the end of the night," Bonnie added.

"What?" Elena breathed. I was shocked too... tonight? How were we suppose to save him by tonight?

"It's a full moon. Esther needs to harness the energy of a celestial event. She asked me and Abby to join her."

Silence followed Bonnie's statement. Full moon... of course, I had it marked on my calender, but it still sucked to hear it. And I deal with the guilt of killing a perfectly kind and moral Original? Great...

There was a knock on the door. "I'll get it," Elena said before leaving.

"I'm hungry for some human grub. Mind if I raid your kitchen?" Caroline asked.

I laughed. "Go ahead."

She smiled and skipped out of my room happily. Once she was gone, Bonnie spoke again. "You look nervous."

I wiped sweat off my forehead. Sweat I didn't know I was there. Since when did I nervous sweat? "Do I?" I asked shakily, letting out a small laugh. "Because I'm perfectly fine."

"I'm going to find some way to save you," Bonnie stated. "There has to be something... some way I can slow down the process."

I shook my head. "Don't worry, Bonnie. I think... I think I might become a vampire."

Her jaw dropped. "Wait, what?"

"I don't want to become one, but if I have to, I have to," I said, shrugging. "I'm going to live as a human as long as I can, but if a witch as powerful and old as Esther doesn't know how to save me, chances are, Bon, you won't either."

"I'm not going to let you become a vampire!" Bonnie exclaimed. "You... you can't. You just can't!"

"Bonnie, I want to live. The only way I can do thatis to become a vampire," I said. "You think I want to become one of them? No. But it's either vampirism or death, so I choose vampirism."

"I'm still going to look for a way to save you, so don't become one to hastily," she replied. Bonnie smiled reassuringly at me. "But I won't judge you. I know you'll be good... as good as a vampire can get."

I nodded. "I'll try." I got a text from Elena. Gone to the woods. I'll be back soon. "She's gone into the woods."

Bonnie frowned. "With who?"

I shrugged. "I dunno. She didn't say."

Caroline came back into the room, three packets of crisps in her hands. Two were closed and one was opened. She was stuffed the crisps into her mouth like there was no tomorrow. "Crisps?"

"Hey, where's Elena?" Ric asked me as I entered the kitchen.

"Gone into the woods," I replied. He shot me a questioning glance. "I don't know, maybe she's turned into a nymph? I'm not her bodyguard, Ric."

He sighed exasperatedly and frowned. "It's difficult being a guardian to twin sisters."

I smirked at him. "Quit feeling sorry for yourself. We're great." He brightened up and laughed a little.

"So, what's up with you and Damon?"

Suddenly things turned sour. I leant back on the counter, gripping it for dear life. If I let go, I might have punched something... or someone. And I didn't want to hurt Ric. "He's been an idiot lately."

"Oh?" Ric pressed.

"He's jealous... of Klaus!" I exclaimed. "And he's a hypocrite, really. Since he had sex with Rebekah."

My beloved alcohol guardian spat out his coffee. "Rebekah?"

I nodded. "Uh-huh. Blonde, Original Vampire, complete psychopath."

"Wow," Ric said, shocked that his best buddy had slept with an Original. "Did he stop taking vervain?"

I jumped up happily and pointed to him. "See? I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that!"

I hadn't had a Ric-day in a while. That day, he introduced me to Meredith, his perfectly sane, kind and pretty... girfriend? Were they even in a relationship?

We used to do it all the time before Jenna died. Whenever my bubbly aunt went to the bathroom, we'd talk vampires and werewolves and the possibility of the existence of ninja turtles. He voted yes, I voted no.

Kol and Klaus were sitting at the bar. I noticed the 'subtle' glances Klaus would give me every now and then. I ignored them as best as I could, but sometimes I felt my cheeks go red. I didn't blush. Blushing was for insecure girls with nothing to live for but boy drama. I wasn't that type of girl, so why the hell was I blushing?

Meredith noticed my rose tinged cheeks and winked at me knowingly. Ric was talking to Damon on the phone for the second time this evening.

"Yeah, no, they're still here. Yeah, they've drank their way through half the grill's liquor supply... So, what's the plan?... We'll need a distraction... I'm sure she'll be more than willing... You think I want Louise to be the bait?... Bye, Damon."

The vampire hunter nodded to me and I nodded back. I started walking over to Klaus, pretending to ignore him. Kol pointed at me as I approached them. I think he knew I could hear. "I remember her from last night. She looks like a tasty little thing."

I'm not food, dick. "Say another word and I'll tear out your liver." It kind of made me happy that he was standing up for my right to not be treated as food. "Louise!" I turned to look at him. "Join us for a drink?"

"I think I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon, but thanks for the offer." I spun on my heel and walked out of the Grill and onto the street.

"Louise!" the hybrid called, following me. Ignored him. "Louise!"

I turned around when I heard a car's horn beep. Klaus had almost got ran over by a car, that amused me a little. "Car... road! Road safety here!" I exclaimed quickly.

Klaus grinned. "You're lecturing me on road safety? It seems you do care about me."

"No," I said sternly. "I only care about the poor human driver who bumps into you and then realises that you're unmaimed, and then you kill him. All because Original Hybrid couldn't take a hint."

His grin fell. "Don't be angry, love. We had a little spat. I'm over it already."

"Maybe I'm not," I said, shrugging.

"How can I acquit myself?" the hybrid asked.

"Eh... let me think," I said, tapping my chin with my index finger in mock-thought. "Bring my aunt Jenna back... Hm... Oh! Go back in time and prevent Stefan from becoming a ripper! That'd be great!"

Klaus sighed, but his face was quickly covered with a Klaus-grin. "Oh, come on, take a chance, Louise." He sat down on a bench and stretched his arm out. "Talk to me. Come on, get to know me. I dare you."

Far be it from me to back down from a dare. "Fine." I rolled my eyes and sat down next to him. "What d'you wanna talk about?"

"I want to talk about you. Your hopes, your dreams, everything you want in life," Klaus explained.

"Just to be clear," I said with a smirk of my own. "I'm too smart to be seduced by you."

Klaus matched my smirk. "Well, that's why I like you. So, what do you plan to do with your life?"

Uh... did he forget the part that was going to die? Maybe he assumed I was going to become a vampire, like Damon did. "I'll be dead within the next few months." Klaus looked shocked. "As a vampire."

"So you've decided to turn?" He seemed happy.

I nodded. "Better half-dead then dead."

"You're right. What do you plan to do with your immortality?" Klaus asked.

I shrugged. "Get a PHD in pre-med, that's as far as I have figured out."

"You could do much greater things than become a doctor, Louise," he told me. "You could travel the world. There are sites to see and people to meet. You'll have it all at your fingertips."

I smiled at him. When he put it like that... vampirism didn't sound all that bad. Sure, I'd be stuck as an eighteen year old for eternity. I'd never have children and I'd have to feed on innocent blood. That was the downside, but there were so many up-sides.

Suddenly, Klaus stood up and placed his hand on his heart, gasping in pain. I got up as well. "What is it?"

The dagger... "What did you do?" Klaus growled.

"Nothing," I insisted.

He gripped my arms roughly. "What did you do?" he yelled, even angrier.

"Nothing," I spat. "Let go of me!"

He released me from his grip. "Kol!"

The hybrid ran into the Grill. I moved to follow him, taking a few steps, but then I felt a sharp pang in my stomach. It felt like I was being eaten alive. My brain was throbbing and blood dripped from my nose down to my chin and onto my top.

I fell onto the bench. It was like my magic was trying to claw it's way out. "Louise!" Caroline was rushing towards me. "Oh my God!" She picked me up, bridal style and carried me to her car. She put me in the front. "What happened?"

As she wrapped a red blanket around me, I responded, "It's a full moon, Caroline. Bonnie did a spell to take away my magic, now it's trying to come back."

Caroline got into the car quickly, putting her seat belt on in record time. "I never thought it'd be this bad." She bit into her wrist and offered me her blood. "Here, it might help."

I drank the blood from her wrist immediately. "Thanks."

"Your welcome." She started to drive. "So, when did it start getting like this?"

It was raining outside and I knew I caused it somehow. The rain was heavier and turned to hail, then to snow and then back to rain. "A couple of months ago. Before, I was only stronger on full moons. Klaus told Damon of some-some-" I sneezed and Caroline handed me a tissue. "Thanks." I blew my nose before continuing with the story. "There was a girl who was like me and she... she died."

Caroline nearly crashing into a post, but caught herself just in time. "What? No, no! You can't die!"

"It's going to happen, Caroline. Bonnie's tried finding a way, but even Esther doesn't know how to 'fix' me," I said. "I'm going to become a vampire."

She almost crashed again. "You're gonna what?"

"It's no big deal," I assured her. "I won't be dead. It'll be good." I was trying to convince myself more than her. "And I can live forever. Maybe it's not the worst thing."

"Maybe..." Caroline said, trailing off. "Does Elena know?"

I shook my head. "Not yet."

"You have to tell her!"

"I know."

There was a pregnant silence for a while. She pulled over in the driveway of my house. I was too weak to walk, so the vampire carried me into my room. "Elena will be okay. She'll be home soon. With Damon and Stefan and we'll have five dead Originals. Everything will be right and dandy."

She pulled the covers over my body and tucked me in. Caroline would make a great mother, I realised. Too bad she'd never have the chance. "Do you need anything?" Caroline asked.

"No," I said. "Just... stay with me. I'm... I'm scared."

I didn't like admitting to that. It made me sound weak. I wasn't weak, was I?

She nodded sympathetically. "I'll stay."

Mystic Grill Alleyway

Stefan awoke to the two Originals talking with his brother. "You may not care about Elena, but you do care about Louise," Elijah said to him.

The younger Salvatore stood up. "You have Louise?" Damon asked.

He shook his head. "If my mother plans to kill us, she must draw power from an even more powerful source than even an entire bloodline. On a full moon, the luna bruja's powers are magnified. If my mother channels the moon, the luna bruja and the Bennett bloodline, she'll have no problem killing us."

"Esther's channeling Louise," Damon realised breathlessly.

"It will kill her," Elijah said. Stefan noticed the anger in Klaus' eyes. "If my mother wishes to succeed she will have to drain all life out of Louise. As she did with Lucrezia."

Stefan's features scrunched in confusion. "Wait a sec, you said that this Lucrezia died because her powers became too much. Now you're saying it's because of Esther?"

"It was both," Klaus spoke up. "My mother, despite being a heartless bitch, didn't want to kill anyone at that time. She sensed Lucrezia's powers were becoming too much for her and simply shortened her lifespan, as she will do with Louise if we don't hurry up."

Damon was pensieve, before saying, "I know where they are."

Gilbert House

"Gahh!" I screamed, rocking the house literally. I shot up and clutched my stomach. Caroline dabbed a wet towel on my head. "Caroline, make it stop! Please make it stop!"

"I can't," Caroline said softly, her tone tinged in sadness and pity. "I'm so sorry."

I roared again. The wardrobe fell to the floor with a thump. The lamp on the other side my bed blew up, sending sparks flying around it.

"Louise, I know it's hard, but you need to calm down," Caroline urged. "Come on, anything. Deep breaths... Think of... think of Jeremy!"

The winds calmed down as I thought of my little brother. His smile, his bat... our life before our parents died. We had the perfect life. Our parents spoiled us, not too much though. My horse, Bobble... horse-riding sessions with Tim. When we went out to the lake house and Elena and I snuck out to go skinny-dipping in the dark. Mom found us and, instead of grounding us for being so silly, she laughed, but told us to 'get the hell inside before you freeze to death.' That was the summer before my parents died. A couple years before that, Dad taught us how to fish.

Who would have guessed that this would be how our lives turned out to be like?

The pain started again in my stomach and my head. It felt like I was about to implode.

Witch House

Damon force-fed his blood into Abby's mouth. "This will only hurt for a second." And then he snapped her neck, turning her into a vampire to save the girl he loved.

Gilbert House

A weight was lifted off of me. I felt fine... I felt fine! Caroline smiled at me, about to speak. Her phone rang. "It's Bonnie. I have to take it."

I got up and tidied up my room. I really could do with a maid or something. Or a professional fixer-upper guy.

Caroline ran back into the room, breathing heavily. "Bonnie's mom is a vampire!"

My stomach fell to the floor. "What? Explain."

Turns out, it was all because of me.

After a long, hot shower, I went back into my room, only a towel covering my body.

There was a letter on my bed. If this is from Klaus... I picked it up gingerly and read the neat, elegant handwriting.

"Louise,

Today I did things I abhor to protect the one thing I value most. My family. If anyone can understand that, it's you. I used your life as a tool to bargain with, and for that I am truly sorry. Your compassion is a gift, Louise. Carry it with you. As I will carry my regret.

Always and forever, Elijah."

A/N: Thank you so, so much to everyone who reviewed! I love you!

I noticed a lot of you guys ship Klouise. I absolutely love writing them. I'm trying to keep the dynamic with them different to the Klaroline relationship. And I have big plans for them in Season Four!

Can you guys answer a few questions for me about the story? It'd mean a lot! Sorry about the amount!

1. What's your favourite friendship? Stefan/Louise, Caroline/Louise, Bonnie/Louise or a different friendship?

2. Do you like the relationship between Alaric and Louise?

3. Would you like to read some flashbacks about Season One and Two? They'd be in the fourth season and would contain some Damise and Jenna/Louise aunt/niece bonding.

4. Would you like to see a Tyler/Louise past relationship? What'd you like to see in it?

5. Vampire!Louise, anyone? Or do you prefer her as a human?

6. Do you like the luna bruja storyline? I just wanted to give Louise a plot instead of writing her as just a girl in a love triangle. That's also why I had her break up with Damon, to show that she can be independent and strong on her own.

7. Do you like Louise's character? What is your take on her personality?

8. Last but not least, (I know I ask this like every chapter), Klouise or Damise?

I love to hear your suggestions and your reviews just warm my heart like hot chocolate!