Chapter Twenty-One

A/N: I got a decent amount of reviews so here's the next chapter as promised! So I may have failed in making you guys like Jules and Matt in this chapter but oh well haha. I'll have them redeem themselves soon. I'm also taking suggestions for an ending. So drop me a comment and tell me what you want!

Monster

"Where are we?" Tyler asked lazily.

"My house of course," Jules replied, taking the restraints off of Tyler.

Tyler rubbed his wrists where the chains had been. They were a little soar and red from the metal rubbing against it.

"We're in Florida?" Tyler asked. "Why?"

"So we can start our new life together of course," Jules said and smiled. "We can pick up right where Mason and I left off."

"Okay but I'm not Mason," Tyler said. "I'm Tyler and I'm about ten years younger than you. Are you crazy?"

Tyler already knew the answer to that.

"It doesn't matter. We can be together," Jules said.

"No we can't. Remember that girl, Caroline?" Tyler asked. "Yeah well I'm in love with her and I won't stop until I'm back with her."

"Forget about her. She's frozen in a few different ways actually," Jules said. "She's cold. Her body and her soul. And she's frozen in time. She'll never be different but you'll change. You're dying right now and I want to die right alongside of you."

"You're really freaking me out, Jules. I thought you were a little off when we first met but now I know that you're just out of your mind," Tyler said. "I'm out of here. I'm sorry I can't be what you want."

Tyler stepped to the door and Jules put a hand up to stop him. Tyler then picked up her hand and moved it out of his way.

"Look, just let me go. I have friends and a girl to get back to," Tyler said, forcing her hand down.

"You can't overpower me. I've seen many moons," Jules said and she bent his arm behind his back.

"But you're not that old," Tyler said, trying to wrestle his arm free.

"I'm almost a hundred years old, Tyler." Jules pulled his arm a little more forcing him to stand right up against her front or she'd break it.

"How is that even possible?" Tyler asked, confused.

"When you cut yourself or get shot it heals right?" Jules asked and Tyler nodded. "Well what do you think happens when you get a heart attack or high blood pressure or whatever happens to old people?"

"Well I'd die," Tyler said.

"Wrong. You don't," Jules replied. "That stuff can't hurt us. We don't age like normal because we heal so rapidly. I haven't physically aged more than a year since I've been turned."

"So why did you say I can't be with Caroline?" Tyler asked.

"Because you will eventually die. She won't. Years mean nothing to her. Decades and centuries will mean nothing to her eventually. So what if you last a thousand, two thousand years … what do you think will happen when your age starts to show?" Jules asked. "Stay with me. We'll age together and we'll die together."

"You're crazy," Tyler said. "You're a crazy bitch."

Jules huffed and pulled Tyler's back into her chest. She took her other hand and pulled Tyler's head back so they were face to face. She put her lips to his and forced a kiss.

He jerked his head away as a reflex and it caused his arm to break. He screamed out in pain but Jules ignored it and pushed him back against the wall.

"Why couldn't you just love me?" Jules asked and she started to cry.

"What's wrong with you?" Tyler shouted and shoved her off of him, causing pain to shoot up through his broken arm.

He could feel that it had healed but not in the right place. The bones were misaligned and the only way he would be able to fix it would be to re-break it.

Jules took a stalk of wolfs bane out of her jacket pocket and touched it to Tyler's chest making him curl up in agony.

"I just wanted you to love me," Jules said and she touched him again with it.

"Mason never loved you, did he?" Tyler breathed out. "That's why you're trying to correct your mistakes with him by making me love you? Well it's not going to happen."

"He left me for that Katherine bitch," she said gravely.

"She's not all there either but I'd prefer her over you any day," Tyler said smirking.

Jules put the wolfs bane on him again and laughed through the pain. It made her angry that he was mocking her so she struck him across the face, making him go unconscious.

"You will love me," she whispered.

…

"So why didn't you kill me when we were together?" Caroline asked Matt.

"I think it's because I really cared about you and we made love. It wasn't just lustful sex so I kind of held back. But if we had stayed together I would have probably eventually killed you. My mom told me that me and Vick's dad just got sicker and sicker until he died suddenly one day," she said.

"What about Elena?" Caroline asked.

"The same thing I guess," he replied. "And because she was my first I was still kind of awkward and you know."

Matt blushed a little.

"Oh a bashful succubus," Caroline smiled. "That's a new one."

"Incubus," Matt corrected with a smirk. "I realized I can manipulate people to do whatever I want too."

Caroline looked at him inquisitively.

"I just kind of flirt with them I guess but I have to touch them and then they'll pretty much do what I ask them to. It's really weird," Matt said. "I got out of paying a few bills at restaurants but now I got a bunch of waitresses calling my house all the time."

They both laughed together.

"So I hate to harsh the mood right now but I think we have to talk about this," Caroline said. "On a scale from one to ten how mad are you about me and Tyler?"

"At first I was pretty pissed but now I don't know," he said. "I have all this new stuff to deal with now that I kind of get why you turned away from me when you first transformed. And I kind of get why you and Tyler got closer during that time. But it's weird now because now I feel like the only people I can talk to about my condition are you and Tyler."

"Well I'm glad to hear that," Caroline said.

"And even though I'm not over you, I feel like I can move on. I feel really different. I'm not the nice, sweet guy everybody thought I was anymore," Matt said. "It's liberating but also terrifying."

"I'm really happy you came with me, Matt." Caroline smiled at him.

"I am too," Matt said. "But we've driving for hours and you forget that some of us still have to eat normal food."

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry," she said. "Let's go get you something."

They drove a few more miles until they saw a diner on the side of the highway. They stopped and got out of the car. Caroline went ahead of him but he grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Wait," he said. "I just want to see something."

He pushed up her sleeve and touched her bare arm. She felt a weird warm sensation rise start in her toes and rush up through her entire body. It was a tingling sensation and she felt happy all of a sudden.

Matt stepped in and pulled her face to his in a soft kiss which she readily returned.

"Wait, stop!" Caroline cried and she slapped Matt across the face. "Did you just …"

"Yeah I'm sorry!" Matt called after her.

"What happened to being over me?" Caroline yelled and hopped back in her car.

She drove away angrily leaving Matt there standing by himself.

"Damnit!" Matt yelled, kicking a cluster of stones in front of him out of frustration.

He didn't know why he did it. He just felt so hungry but not for food. It was a nagging, frustrating feeling. He didn't think his powers would work on a vampire but when it did he took it as an opportunity.

He got what he needed from her but he lost her friendship for sure.

"Why so sad?" A female voice said from behind him.

Matt turned around and was shocked by who he saw.

"Elena?" he said.

"Can people stop confusing me with her already?" she said. "It's Katherine."