Chapter Nineteen

A/N: Yup so I've heard some of you are having trouble viewing some of my chapters. I'm not sure what's going on but I'll everything I can. But in the mean time if you are reading this I'm assuming you're not having issues so enjoy this! And for the reviewer who said that they were glad I made Tyler immortal too, I didn't lol. He's still aging like a human. But I may work that into the plot later dum dum dum. haha. Stick around, barbs.

Monster

Sheriff Forbes got in her car and took the long route home. It was about the time Caroline would be coming home from school, but she didn't know that Caroline hadn't been going to school for the past few days.

What Matt had said was crazy and unbelievable but for some reason she felt she already knew. Somehow hearing it from someone else made it make sense in her mind. She just didn't know why.

She opened the door and she could hear Caroline's footsteps upstairs. She knew she had to face her sooner or later but it was too difficult for her. She'd been fighting her whole life to take down these creatures and now she knew her daughter was one. And apparently Tyler was one too. This was a boy she'd known since he was born. She went to school with his mother. How would Carol react to this?

Liz sighed. She didn't even know Caroline was dating Tyler. That's how close their relationship was. Under normal circumstances she'd be glad to hear it because he was the son of one of the most prominent founding families. But now there was this new supernatural plot twist and she couldn't be more displeased.

There was another creak of the floor boards and Liz realized there was someone else upstairs. It had to be Tyler. Normally she'd be mad at her for having boys upstairs but now with all the new problems it seemed so minor.

Liz mixed together some lemonade and poured it in a pitched. She then called Caroline downstairs.

"Hi, mom. I didn't hear you come in." Caroline smiled guiltily.

"Hey, Caroline. I want to talk to you about something," Liz said nonchalantly.

"Okay, what's up?" Caroline sat down suspiciously.

"I want to talk to Tyler too," Liz said.

A look of terror flashed across her face but Caroline recovered quickly. Tyler heard Liz and walked down the stairs slowly after throwing on his clothes in a hurry. He tried to dry his hair as best he could be he took one look at Caroline's sopping wet hair and knew Liz would know what was up.

"Hello, Sheriff." Tyler said politely.

"I wanted to apologize to you guys," Liz said, shocking the both of them. "Caroline, I know I don't pay attention to you enough and you felt that you needed to hide your relationship with Tyler from me. But I just want to tell you that you don't need to do that. I support whatever you do."

"That's so sweet, mom." Caroline looked back at Tyler to see if he was just as confused as she was and he indeed was.

"So I made you guys some lemonade. Drink up," Liz said, pushing a cup in front of Caroline and placing one in Tyler's hand.

"Cheers," Tyler said and he tipped the cup to his lips. Caroline followed suit.

But as soon as she took the first sip her throat started to itch and it got inflamed very quickly. Caroline fell to the floor clutching her throat.

"Mom, you vervained me?" Caroline choked out.

Tyler rushed to her side and held her head close to his chest.

"How did you know?" Tyler said angrily at Liz.

"Oh my God," Liz said. "It's true. She's a vampire."

The tears came fast to Liz's eyes and she stood up and grabbed a wooden spoon from the kitchen table. She held it out in front of her and anchored herself in a corner of the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" Tyler barked. "She's your daughter!"

"Why weren't you affected by the vervain too?" Liz said to Tyler.

"Maybe because I'm not a vampire," Tyler snapped as he tried to hold down Caroline's spasming body.

Tyler's eyes flashed gold and Liz could see every vein pulsing in his head.

"What are you?" Liz said, terrified. "Oh my God."

…

Matt had never felt the way he did right now ever before in his life. It felt like every nerve in his body was pulsating with electric and he felt energized beyond anything he'd ever experience. He hadn't even been living before. Whatever he'd taken from Amber Bradley was flowing through his entire body and he was craving more.

Maybe the first kill is what triggered this metamorphosis. Maybe like a werewolf he had to kill someone or like a vampire he needed to feed.

It was awfully reckless of him though. He had lured that poor girl in to see if his mother was telling the truth and he got carried away with her. He'd never completely let loose with anyone before like that - not Caroline and not Elena. He was always the nice guy, the respectable one that they didn't mind taking home to Mom.

But now he was dangerous and every fiber in his body told him he needed to seduce and feed off of whatever or whoever he could find. Feeling the way he did right now made him feel bad for chastising his mother for her ways. She was only trying to get this feeling. It was addictive.

He sat on the couch and closed his eyes, regretting telling Liz anything. He panicked and knew he'd be caught so he threw his friends under the bus. But he knew he had to fix it somehow.

….

Jules was watching the whole thing from the window. She was on her way out when she heard Liz driving up so she ducked into the bushes and watched.

"Are you a werewolf, Tyler?" Liz looked at him wide-eyed.

"Yes. So it would be a bad idea to do anything rash. Just let us go and we'll never bother you again. We'll leave town, okay? You can tell everyone we eloped or something," Tyler said, trying to get a grip on his anger.

"And have her disgrace this family further? I won't allow it," Liz said.

"Mom, please. Just let us go," Caroline said with a scratchy voice. "I promise we'll never come back."

"No," Liz said plainly.

Tyler stood up and Liz took her gun out of her waistband and pointed it straight at him.

"So you're going to kill us?" Tyler shook his head. "Go ahead because you know I won't hurt you."

Tyler took a step towards Liz with his hands up to try to calm her down but she was too on edge. She shot at Tyler three times, two of which struck him in the chest.

Liz dropped the gun, disgusted at what she had just done. Caroline screamed at the top of her lungs and rolled onto her back in pain.

She got up and had Liz by her neck in less than a blink of an eye.

"How dare you, Mom. You're dead to me," Caroline said seriously. "You better hope he doesn't die."

Caroline flashed her fangs at her mom and the black veins popped out of her eyes.

Liz was shaking with fear and she closed her eyes to try to block out the sight of Caroline's demonic face.

She reached back behind her and grabbed the pitcher of lemonade. She threw it at Caroline and her skin appeared to start burning. Caroline released Liz and she fell to the floor and watched as her daughter screamed bloody murder and tried to scratch her own skin off.

"I'm so sorry, Caroline." Liz started to cry as she chained up both Tyler and Caroline and dragged them to the basement.

'Perfect,' Jules said to herself and smiled.