Thanks for the alerts! I have made a decision that this story is not going any where. It will be turned into a full story. Also if some of the readers didn't like the moment between Stefan and Caroline in the woods last chapter because it was to cheesy or to fast, I just wanted a defining&dramatic moment in the relationship.
Don't worry because it will go back to being slow paced. Also since this story is AU, Rose, Trevor and Slater will be making an appearance in the story, but Rose won't be Damon's "Special friend" shes his best friend.
Disclaimer:Disclaimed
Caroline
I covered my mouth to hold in the pain but it didn't work because Stefan and Elena heard. They broke apart and looked at me and Damon in horror.
Damon grabbed my arm to move me away from the window. We were off the proch walking to Damon's car when we heard Stefan and Elena running down the porch.
"Damon!" Elena yelled
"Caroline!" Stefan yelled after her.
Damon and I didn't stop, we got to his car and he opened the door for me. He was about to close it when Elena stopped him.
"Guys please wait!" Cried Elena.
"Wait? You want us to wait for you two to finish what you were doing and then hurt us? Thanks, but I don't wait for heartbreak." Damon said
"Damon you don't understand! Let me talk to Caroline." Stefan said.
"I think you told her enough lies Stefan." Damon said closing my door. I was glad Damon did all the talking, I don't know what to say.
Damon was walking around to the driver side of his car.
"Damon please wait!" Elena cried again
"You know what sucks the most Elena?" Damon asked with his hands on the hood.
Elena stood there silent with tears falling down her face.
"That I trusted you not to hurt me and thats exactly what you did." Damon said getting in his car.
He started the car and we left Stefan and Elena on the sidewalk. I sat in the passenger side of the car silently crying tears. I could see Damon's eyes were a little watery, but of course he had to be the big bad vampire.
"You okay Blondie?"
I laughed a little while wiping a tear. Damon could still be funny during times like these.
"Yea Damon I'm okay." I sniffed
He looked over at me and then back at the road. He made a U-Turn and turned left.
"Where are you going?" I asked Damon.
"Richmond." He said.
"Richmond? As in Richmond, Virginia?" I asked confused.
"No Richmond as in Richmond, Bolovia. Of course Virginia where else?" Damon said with sarcasm.
"Well excuse me if I want to know where I'm going." I shot back.
"Okay well were going to Richmond, Virginia to a little coffee shop that some friends of mine owns."
"Damon has friends that are still living? What were they not good enough to suck dry?"
"Haha Caroline. There not human friends, their vampires."
"So theres more than one friend?"I asked.
"Well I consider two of them friends. The third one is just the other two's friend and really annoying."
"Do they have names or you just call them one, two and three?"
"Rose, Trevor and Slater." Was all Damon said.
I decided to just leave it alone. We rode in silence all the way to the coffee shop.
About two hours later Damon and I pulled into a parking garage. we got out and he led me to an elevator.
"So why did you bring me here?" I asked while waiting for the elevator.
"Giving us a time out."
"A time out? What are we three?"
"Yes Barbie a timeout. A timeout from drama,pain,lies and heartbreak."
"So this is how you timeout? Going to drink to coffee with old friends? I was expecting a strip club." I said
Damon smirked."Well this isn't exactly what I do but I haven't see Rose in awhile so I decided nows a good time as any to come see her." Damon said getting into the elevator.
"So do you and Rose have a thing going on?" I asked following him in.
"Me and Rose? Hell no, shes my best friend."
"Wow I guess you do learn something new everyday." I said
Damon just smirked again. We went down the elevator in silence.
When we got out of the elevator Damon lead me down a hallway and to some big double doors.
He knocked a few times. A tall slender woman with short brown spiky hair opened the door. I was guessing it was Rose.
"Damon? Damon Salvatore!" She asked surprised giving Damon a hug. She had a British accent.
"Hey Rosebud!" Damon said with a huge smile on his face.
"My gosh! I haven't seen you in so long. Whats it been, ten years?"
"About." Damon said shrugging with the smile still on his face.
"Its good to see you again." She said hugging him again.
"Nice to see you to." Damon said
"Whos this?"Rose asked looking at me.
"Im Caroline, nice to meet you." I said shaking her hand.
"Nice to meet you to, I'm Rose." She said smiling.
"So Damon is this your new girlfriend?" Rose asked
"No were ju-" I started.
"Yea going on three years." Damon interuppted putting an arm around me with that infamous smirk.
"Um no actually were just friends." I said removing myself from Damon's embrace.
He chuckled."Wheres Trevor?" Damon asked walking with Rose into the double doors. I followed. The place was filled with alot of people. Damon told me its kind of like a vampire hang out place, so I'm guessing half of them were vampires.
"Hes around here somewhere." Rose said.
"Like maybe right here." Said a voice behind me. It also had an accent.
I turned and saw a tall long haired guy come up to me and Damon.
"Damon Salvatore, its been to long." The guy I assumed was Trevor said giving Damon a manly hug.
"Nice to see you to man." Damon said once the stopped.
Trevor looked over to me."Whos this?" He asked.
"Damon's friend Caroline." Rose said sitting on a stool next to the bar. Damon sat down on a chair next to her.
"Oh well nice to meet you." Trevor said kissing my hand. Normally I would have blushed and laughed but I smiled and said "Nice to meet you to."
"I see that you are also a vampire." Trevor said going to sit next to next to Damon. I took the seat in front of Damon.
"So she is." Rose said. I'm guessing Rose agreed because she didn't hear a heartbeat.
I noticed that neither of the had any trace of Lapiz Lazuli on them.
"Yea its kind of a long story. Damon said your also vampires so how are you in the sunlight without burning?" I asked.
"Some of us aren't lucky enough to be like Stefan and Damon and I see you as well, to have daylight rings." Rose started.
"So these windows keep the sun rays out but let the sunshine in, so its kind of a win-win situation." Trevor said smiling at me.
"Cool." Was all I could say.
"So Damon what brings you by?" Rose asked.
"Well Caroline and needed a timeout from some people and I haven't see you and Trevor in awhile so why not kill two birds with one stone?" Damon replied.
"Still the same old Damon." Trevor said smiling.
Rose and Damon laughed. "So wheres Slater?" Damon asked.
"Hes upstairs at his control center. Who knows what hes doing on that damn computer system." Rose said.
Damon leaned over to me. "Slater is the one that annoys the hell out of me."
"But yet I am still the most useful vampire you have ever meet." Said a voice. I was getting tired of all the voices popping up out of nowhere but I guess you have to get used to it especially if you hang with vampires the rest of eternity.
"Slater how are you man?" Damon asked with sarcasm in his voice.
"Not here to socialize Damon, just came to give Rose so information she wanted." Slater said giving Rose a few papers.
"Thanks Slater." Rose said.
Slater nodded and left.
"So I suggest that since we have a surprise visit from an old friend and hopefully a new friend to come of the centuries, how about we celebrate?" Trevor asked going to the bar.
Damon clapped. "Bring out the Bourbon." He said going to sit next to Rose on the bar.
"I'm so ready for a drink." Rose said.
They all looked at me. I sighed. "Why the hell not?" I said getting up.
"Yea Barbies gonna drink with the big vamps!" Damon yelled.
I looked at him and shook my head."Line 'em up!" I yelled.
Trevor put a glass in front of each of us and poured us all shots. About seven hours later I was getting pretty wasted.
It was around seven o clock and me, Rose, Trevor and Damon were sitting by a window laughing at something Trevor said but none of us remembered.
The place was pretty full. It went from quiet coffee shop to a really packed and loud bar. I've been hanging with Damon,Rose and Trevor the whole time taking shot after shot after shot. I was having a really good time all my worries went away. It was really dark out now.
It wasn't until Damon went with Trevor upstairs to feed off a few girls that Rose and I were alone.
"So how do you know Damon?" Rose asked pouring herself another drink.
"When Damon first came to Mystic Falls, I thought he was really attractive and I ended up being with him, but most of it was by complusion. So he compelled me to be his girlfriend, bloodbank and errand girl. I was attracted to him on my though. After I was turned I remembered everything and we were kind of at odds at first, but he grew on me." I told her.
"Damon has that affect. He can be a total ass but once you get to know him hes probably the most loyal and fun friend you'll ever have." Rose said.
"So how did you and Damon become friends?" I asked.
"His brother Stefan and I had a mutual friend who tried to hook us up together, but both Stefan and I declined. Later on she and I meet up with Damon at a bar in Chicago around 1896, she didn't like Damon very much but we took to each other very well and he became my best friend."
"By mutual friend do you mean Lexi?" I asked
Rose looked at me."How did you know?"
"Stefan and I were best friends and he talked about Lexi a few times. Kind of put two and two together." I said quietly.
"Were friends? Let me guess he was one of the people you and Damon were talking about." She asked.
I nodded. We sat there in silence, I took a sip of my drink.
Damon finally came back but without Trevor.
"Well Rosebud I think its about time I get Caroline back to Mystic Falls." Damon said reaching for his jacket. Rose and I stood up.
"Well it was good to see you again Damon." She said giving him a hug goodbye.
"Same here Rose."
"And don't take ten years to come see us again. Come visit soon." She told him.
Damon smiled. "Okay I promise."
They broke apart and smiled.
"Nice to meet you again Rose." I said shaking her hand.
"Same here Caroline, and please if you want you can visit us any time. With or without Damon." Rose said smiling.
"I think I may take you up on that offer." I told her with a big smile.
"Good to know." She said laughing.
Damon and I finally said goodbye and went to his car. When Damon started the car I checked my phone. It was filled with missed phone calls, text messages, and voicemails from Stefan and Elena. I deleted them all, not caring what either had to say.
I put my phone away and put my arm on the side of my head and leaned against it. Thoughts of Stefan going through my head.
"Thank you Damon." I said to him.
"For what?"
"For giving me this timeout. I really needed it even though I'm thinking about your brother right now."
"Your Brother? Ohh he messed up bad if you won't say his name." Damon said with that smirk again.
"I just don't want to go to sleep tonight thinking of him so the less about him the better." I said staring out the window.
"Well blondie your welcome and I hate to admit it but your pretty fun to hang out with."
"And before you said I was shallow." I smirked at him.
"I guess you learn something new everyday." He smiled. I smiled back. After that there was silence.
I told Damon to drop me off a block away from my house so I could go hunting. He told me he'll fill me up on blood tomarrow.
I was hoping Stefan wasn't out this late hunting. Its only a two hour drive from Richmond to Mystic Falls, but Damon took his time and it was now around one am. I heard a few bunnies sleeping a few feet away, the sound of their heartbeats didn't make me want to eat them, I guess I wasn't really that hungry. I just wanted to think.
I didn't want to walk these woods while thinking about you know who so I walked home. I wasn't sure if Stefan would be there so I went through the front door knowing that would be the last place he would be.
I unlocked the door and went in, my mom wasn't even home. I went upstairs to get pajamas so I could take a shower. After partying and having a pretty bad day I felt dirty and needed a hot shower to take the stress away.
About an hour later I was lying on my bed listing to music in the dark. I was really relaxed and comfortable when my phone vibrated.
"Ugh not now!" I groaned.
I paused my music and saw that it was Stefan calling me. I hestitated but finally answered.
"You have ten seconds." I told him
"Caroline what you saw was definitly not what It looked like. I didn't know what Elena was planning, I thought she just wanted to talk."
"Yea because you can get alot said and done with your lips." I thought to myself.
"What you saw meant nothing to me. I know your mad and hurt because I kissed you and spent the night with you and your probably confused about all the signals I was sending, but I can tell you right now I meant everything. Please Care just talk to me." Stefan pleaded.
"I'm sorry Stefan." I said hanging up. Tears rolled down my face.
I put my music back on and cried myself to sleep.
Stefan
"Im sorry Stefan." Caroline said before hanging up.
That was the last thing I heard from her the rest of the night.
I threw my phone on the bed and ran fingers through my hair and started pacing around the library. I messed up bad and it wasn't even my fault. Elena kissed me and as much as I tried to break away there was this pull on me, it was weird.
I feel so bad for having one of the best nights of my life with Caroline giving both her and me the idea that we could be together. We kissed each other, held hands, and spent a night together and we didn't even get to talk the next day and decide what we were going to do from there.
It wasn't fair. This amazing night with a girl I fell for gets ruined the next day and It didn't even have a chance to start. Am I doomed to be unloved or something? I mean I meet Katherine and Damon falls for her to, then she apparently 'dies' and I move on from her and she comes back saying she loves me when I want nothing to do with her. I fall in love with Elena and theres supernatural drama everywhere and my brother falls again for the girl I love, then I fall for a completely different girl and its ruined before I can legitimately express how I feel for Caroline.
Everyone says I get what I want, well that is the understatement of my life. I may get what I want but I have to pay the consequences for being selfish and deal with the quilt in the end.
I remember when Damon and Caroline drove off. Leaving Elena and I on the sidewalk. Elena was crying really hard and looking off to the car driving away.
"How could you do this Elena?" I remember asking her when the car was out of sight.
"I don't know." She sniffed.
I turned to her with a look of shock and anger. "What do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know why I did all this! I already feel quilty for hurting Damon now I feel even worse for hurting you and Caroline, obviously you two had something. I knew I was right." Elena said saying the last part under her breath.
"Right about what?" I asked
"That theres something going on between you and Caroline."
"So what if there was? Were not together Elena so it shouldn't matter and apparently you and Damon had something going on if your crying this hard and hes pissed with you. So whats going on with you guys?" I ask clearly getting annoyed with her.
Elena stood there silent. She looked down before she answered.
"I told Damon I loved him."
I stood there not in shock or suprised. Just stood there.
"So the truth finally came out? Well it still doesn't explain why your acting hurt and jealous. Pretty bitchy move Elena." I told her.
I never said or acted this way around her before only with Damon and Katherine, but she did this to herself and she no reason to act this way. Her and I are not dating and shes in love with my brother, why should it matter who I fall for?
Elena looked offended and hurt. "Stefan please just let me explain." She pleaded with more tears falling down her face.
"Save it Elena I am just to upset right now listen to you. This is low and I can't believe you of all people would do something like this. This is something Katherine would do and I'm shocked to think your the one who started all this." I said walking away.
"Stefan! Please you don't understand!" Elena yelled after me.
I just kept walking, not wanting to be next to her. I didn't know that this was the other side to Elena Gilbert.
Elena
I watched him walk away after I yelled for him to stop. That was the next person walk out of my life.
I lost Damon the one I truly did love. I lost Caroline my best friend since Elementary and I lost Stefan, the guy who was by my side through everything.
I couldn't believe I did this. I was just so afraid. Afraid of moving on without Stefan, I was afraid to love Damon because I love him to strongly and I was afraid of the change. It was moving way to fast.
I walked back inside after standing outside alone after Stefan left. I closed the front door and ran to my room, good thing I was home alone today or Jenna and Jeremy would be pestering me about why I'm crying. I went straight to my bed and cried myself to sleep, yelling at myself and figuring out ways to fix things. I went overboard with all this, got to dramtic. I should have just talked to Stefan and Caroline. I should have waited till I was ready to make a life with Damon to tell him I loved him. Too many 'I should haves'.
I woke up around eleven. The memories of the day coming back. I sat up and listened for Jeremy or Jenna. I heard Jeremy snoring in his room, but I got up to listen for Jenna. I opened my door and saw her's open and she was lying on her bed fast asleep. I closed my door again and went back to my bed.
I looked at my phone to see no new messages or anything. I really did piss everyone off. I called, texted, and left voicemails for Damon, Stefan, and Caroline. None of them returned a single one. I finally fell asleep again, with disappointment in myself.
Damon
I dropped Caroline off at the woods. She said she wanted to go hunting but I know she wanted time to herself.
It was really messed up how Elena both screwed us over like that, then again I am unfortunetly used to it. It still hurt though don't get me wrong, but she told me she loved me I didn't think she was going to do that.
Then again she is the doppelganger of the woman who did almost the exact same thing to me. Should have learned my lesson but who knew Elena had a side to her like that.
Too much wallowing in self pity, I need a hot bartender for a midnight snack.
Stefan
I can't sleep or stop thinking about Caroline. Its two-thirty in the morning and I'm on my roof looking at the sky. Its easy to get from my room to the roof. All I have to do is get on my balcony and jump up. I was hoping one night I would be able to take Caroline up here, she would love it.
Since our house is so close into the woods and away from town its really dark out here so the entire sky is filled with stars and the moon is very bright. Its beautiful the way the moon lights up the forest. Caroline would love it.
Its time like these that I wish my mother was still alive or that I got the chance to know her. I was only four when she died, Damon was eight but those were the best years of my life. I really need her to talk to right now. She was always the best person to talk to.
I remember when she would be the one to take me to my room when I was tired. She would lay with me and talk to me with her soothing voice, saying that she was proud to be my mom and how her sons got along so well and she couldn't wait to see what proud men we would be when we were grown. I would stare at her into her beautiful blue eyes. Damon was lucky that he looked exactly like her.
After talking with me, she would sing to me in Italian. I never did find out what the lullaby was, apparently she was the only one who knew it. When I asked Damon about it when were a little older he didn't know what I was talking about.
Damon and I were inseperable when we were younger, its hard to beileve that now but Damon and I were the best of friends. I miss those days.
After my mom died, our dad became a little more stricter. I was never disobedient even in my young age, but the standards he put up for us were hard to bear. I tried my hardest to fulfill them, I didn't want to disappoint my father since he was the only parent I had left. I didn't want to loose him either even if he was hard on me. Damon however kept the fire of my mother. He didn't like being pushed around because someone of higher authority told him what to do.
Damon wanted to keep the memory of my mother alive, he didn't want anyone to forget her, thats why he always acted the way he did. I never blamed him, I understood why he did it and Im thankful he did. He was brave enough to do it.
I never had anyone to talk to after my mom died. Thats why I took up jouranling. I felt lonely even though I had Damon, I was just afraid to bring up our mom with him because it was a pretty touchy subject with him.
When I was seven I believed that if I wrote in my journal and left it by the window when I was done, my mother would come down from heaven and read it, then she would fix everything that was bothering me.
I miss having her to talk to. I need her right now to help me deal with the pain Im having. I know she would know what to do in a situation like this, she was very smart. I need her right now to tell me how to fix everything with Caroline.
The only thing I can come up with of what she would say is 'Look into your heart not your head.'. That was her lifes motto. I remember her saying it all the time, even when she was yelling at my dad in Italian.
I hope what she would tell me helps my situation with Caroline. I don't know if I could stand losing her permanetly in my life. She made a big change in my life and I haven't felt this way in a long time. Thats why I choose to never let Caroline go. I love her to much.