Caroline, Klaus, and Bonnie had a silent car ride the entire way to Caroline's house. Bonnie's hair was still wet and her lips were still red from Kol's kiss, Caroline noted she was slightly shaking when she finally pulled to a stop in front of Caroline's house.
"So I'll see you later." Bonnie offers Caroline a soft smile, unlocking the doors to allow Klaus and Caroline out.
"Yep. I have to tell you about the Eiffel Tower." Caroline says with a wink at Klaus before getting out of the car.
Bonnie shoots her a smile before driving away.
Caroline looks over at Klaus, "Home sweet home, unfortunately for you, you still need to take the window." Caroline pats him on the shoulder with a small laugh and begins to walk to her patio, but he grabs her around the waist and hoists her over her shoulder.
"Hey!" Caroline protests, "What do you think you're doing?"
"I figured, since your Mother has seem to take a very large disliking to me, we could just go to my place." Klaus says, stalking in the direction of his house.
"This is kidnapping!" Caroline protests, "Besides, she'll freak and put a stake through my heart, I already left her to fly to France."
Klaus sets her down, putting his fingers under her chin and tilting her eyes up to meet his, "Are you sure you want to go back, love?"
With those eyes, she's not even sure what she wants anymore. She has to shake her head to get the haziness out of her eyes, "Yes, I'm sure." She swallows hard.
Caroline walks inside to see her Mother sprawled out on the couch, still in her sheriff uniform, the TV blaring Gossip Girl reruns. It's funny, because Caroline's obsessed with that show and her Mother absolutely despises it, so to see her Mother giving Blair a try was definitely serious.
Caroline finds the remote and turns the TV off and looks down at the coffee table to see posters.
Missing: Caroline Forbes.
She picks up the poster, her Mother picked her yearbook photo and Caroline grimaced at this. Her yearbook photos were always the worst, she remembered telling her Mother this on a continuous basis. But it did look like her. Well, it was her, so of course it had to look like her..
She picks up all of the posters and walks over to the trash can, discarding the papers with a huff. Caroline then puts a blanket over her Mom and shuts the lamp off before rolling her suitcase upstairs.
When Caroline opens her bedroom door, she's surprised a Original isn't laying on her bed.
Instead, it's Damon Salvatore.
"Damon, what are you doing here?" Caroline hisses, rolling her suitcase to her closet and just shoving it in.
Damon remains stretched out on her bed, his arms hung lazily behind his head as he stares at her with a smirk, "So, when were you going to tell me, blondie?"
Caroline decides to ignore him as she turns to her suitcase, sitting down on the ground and unzipping her suitcase and putting her clothes into drawers, "What are you going on about now?"
Damon grins, letting out a loud obnoxious chuckle, "So you're going to play the 'what did I do game?' How about we play the, 'what didn't you do' game."
Caroline rolls her eyes, "Lets start with you then. Speak to Bonnie lately?"
That shut Damon up for a moment. Caroline wasn't sure which was more shocking, actually being able to shut Damon up or the idea that Damon had a clue about Klaus and her.
Caroline continues though, "What about Abby? I know Bonnie hasn't been going to you for blood bags. Or speaking to you, how does it feel to have a witch against you?"
Damon is still silent, he seems to be biting his tongue.
"You put Bonnie through a lot of shit, you know that, don't you Damon?" Caroline throws him a look over her shoulder, "So before you lecture me on the things I'm doing in my life, maybe you should get yourself in check first."
His eyes are conflicted, torn between shouting at her and shouting at himself. It seems that he's fighting a battle inside of himself that Caroline can't put a finger on. That's what she always hated about Damon, he was so locked up and lost in himself. He was a lock without the key. He was a book without the words.
That's why they could have never worked, they didn't work when she was human, and they weren't going to work now either.
He put her through so much pain as a human, so many memories lost because of him. Now he was putting Bonnie through a similar pain, but she was being forced to deal with it for the rest of her life.
"I love Bonnie, and it's so unfair she has to go through all of this." Caroline breathes steadily, "Maybe it would have been better if Elena had died."
She couldn't even believe her own words, Elena was her friend - but, thanks to Elena, Bonnie had to try to hold onto a mother she barely knew as she became a vampire. She'd have to witness her Mother in her worst stages, the hunger and the torture it is not to feed.
Bonnie felt so small and fragile to Caroline, despite her spitfire nature. If you wanted Bonnie to hurt, you'd go for the forgotten family.
"Maybe it would have been." Damon mused, he cocks his head to look at her, "But it would have been much harder having to go to her funeral."
Caroline looks down at her suitcase, getting up and walking over to her bed, she sits next to Damon, "I don't care what you think you know about me. But I want to keep everyone safe."
"So dating the Hybrid is the way to do it?" Damon asks with a jerk of his head to the window, "I saw you two."
Caroline breathes in slowly, "Exactly. It's already destroyed Stefan, don't let it destroy anyone else too."
Damon looks curiously at her, "Stefan knows?"
Caroline nods, brushing a hand through her hair, "Yeah, he does. Ever since then, he's been pressing my buttons and annoying the hell out of me lately."
"I figured he knew something about you when you came barging into my house and threatening me." Damon says, playing with the bottom of his shirt, then he looks over at Caroline, "I don't know what you've gotten into blondie, but I hope you find a clean exit."
"I have plans." She simply says.
"If you don't want them ruined, don't let me anywhere near them. I'm usually in the mood for sneaky plans, but right now, the last thing I need to do is deal with your drama." Damon says, ruffling his hair.
Caroline looks down as she realizes he's talking about Bonnie, "You haven't talked to her?"
Damon groans, closing his eyes as he strokes his temples with his fingers, "I can't face her, blondie. I feel like I should, but knowing her, she'd kill me. I was the one who killed her Mom."
"Haven't even tried?" She presses.
Damon shrugs, "What can I say? I mean, put yourself in my shoes, what would you do?"
Caroline ponders this for a moment, "Apologizing and then staking myself would be a good apology." She says with a wink.
Damon shoves her a little bit, and Caroline shoves him back harder, almost sending him toppling off of her bed, he has a soft smile between his lips when he rearranges himself.
"You didn't mean what you said about Elena, did you?" Damon questions, his eyes burning with curiosity.
"Of course not." Caroline breathes, "I didn't want to look in the mirror and see a monster because I agreed with what you did."
She woke up to her phone buzzing as several texts leaked in, mainly from Bonnie, hysterical.
Where are you? Mom -
It's obvious Bonnie wasn't able to finish her text, so Caroline checked the time to see it said 10:00 AM, the time on her alarm clock read 10:05 and Caroline quickly rushed to Bonnie's house. Throwing open the door to see a groaning man on the floor.
Blood was smeared on the wall in the form of a handprint.
"Bonnie?" Caroline tentatively calls throughout the house, she hears a hushed whisper and goes towards it, she finds Bonnie cowering in a closet. Bonnie pulls her in with a small nimble shaking arm.
"A-Abby.." Bonnie whispers, clutching at the side of her neck, pulling her hand away to show blood on her hands, "I had to.."
Caroline hugs her to her, "It's fine, you had to, where is she?"
Bonnie points upstairs, Caroline makes a move to go upstairs but Bonnie grips her arm.
"Please don't leave me alone."
Caroline sighs, whipping out her phone and texting Damon.
Crisis at Bonnie's, Abby's gone psycho, it'd be a pretty good apology if you helped wrangle up her Mom.
Damon's reply is immediate.
On my way.
"Who did you text?" Bonnie asks, a slight shake to her voice.
Caroline just answers her question with a smile when she hears the front door open and feet clambering against the staircase.
"Come on, we have to see this." Caroline grips Bonnie's hand and drags her upstairs as Bonnie's wounds begin to heal thanks to Bonnie's witchy mojo.
"Abby, I know that you're scared." Damon says in a low voice.
"I bit my own daughter!" Her voice is above hysteria, her pale hands are gripping her face, her eyes wide open in horror, "I'm a monster!"
Damon holds out a hand to her, "I was a monster too. I did the same things you did, but we grow past it. We learn from our mistakes and we tame self control."
Abby's face is streaking with tears now, "I need to leave - I-I can't stay here anymore, I'll just hurt her again. I'll hurt her more then I already have."
Damon crouches down beside the hysteric vampire, "If you leave again, it'll hurt her even more. If you think leaving is a good solution, I can guarantee you that she'll be even more hurt by that. Bonnie's gotten to know you, she's helped you through this - don't leave her when you've come so close."
Abby sticks her stubborn chin up, "She'll be better off without me."
Caroline bursts into the room, ready to spit out a Caroline lecture right on the spot.
"No one is better off without their parents!" Caroline shouts, tears leaking from her face.
Abby looks up, struck by the sudden interruption.
"If you think you can just leave her, and that she'll go back to being happy Bonnie - she won't. I know Bonnie, I know she's struggling through this right now, but everyday I see her light up a little bit more. Her smiles seem genuine now instead of forced - all because of you Abby."
"So if you really want to make Bonnie hurt more, then leave. But just so you know, it hurts even more when a parents gone. I would know." Caroline breathes.
"How would you know?" Abby cries, her hands shaking.
"Because my Dad chose to kill himself instead of becoming a vampire." Caroline swallows hard, "Losing a parent is never easy. I'm not better off without him, I'm a crazy vampire mess! Don't let Bonnie turn into what I try so hard to hide."
Caroline knows Bonnie's listening, because she can hear her soft sobs through the wall.
Abby's eyes are drawn to the wall, and her vampire nature is calling.
Damon rubs a finger across her face, "Hey, lets get you fed." He pulls a blood bag out of his pocket and hands it to her, she devours it.
Her eyes seem to soften as she exhales in relief, "Mmm." She says.
"If you leave Bonnie, I can promise I'll hunt you down and bring you back." Damon says while she's drinking.
Abby raises her eyebrows at him but keeps drinking.
Bonnie finally comes into the room, but instead of heading for Abby, she heads for Damon.
He expects her to scream at him, thrash at him, slap him across the face and let him have it. But instead, she says,
"Thank you." And wraps her arms around his neck, pulling him into a hug, his arms circling his waist.
"I'm so sorry." Damon is speaking soft words into her ear, "It was you or her, and damn it, I couldn't do it to you." He's whispering, stroking her back.
Bonnie swallows hard, "I know, I know." She repeats, as they sway.
Caroline smiles at Abby, giving her a thumbs up, walking over to her and sitting beside her.
"You can do this." Caroline smiles at Abby.
Abby gives her a questioning look.
"I see hope." Abby says, looking at Bonnie and Damon.
Caroline grins, "I think I see it too."
A/N: Very cute chapter! Damon was pretty awesome and I felt the need to have Damon and Caroline and Bonnie moments, so yeah. Thanks for reading! :) xxxx