Hey guys hope you are enjoying! Here it is chapter 3, quite a long one but again lots of content. There's been comments asking about who's going to make an appearance and if certain people will be vampires etc. I don't wanna give you any spoilers all will be revealed soon enough, but I will say that all our favourite characters will make an appearance sooner or later, as well as a few oiginals! Please review and tell me what you think, I'm really enjoying writing this and hope you're enjoying reading! :)

Caroline and Enzo just stood there, staring back at one another, trying to digest the realisation both of them had just had.

Enzo's mind was racing, he had been thinking about what her blood tasted like earlier that day, not that he was going to try it, he was kicking himself for spending so much time trying to figure out how to pursue her without hurting her and worrying about her reaction to his vampire state, and worrying of the day he would have to compel her not to be afraid because he couldn't stand the thought of her running scared. Enzo had thought all this was inevitable and their relationship could only be real for so long before he had to eliminate her fear. All this had all changed in an instant, she was a vampire too, Enzo's brain was frantic trying to figure out what this all meant, was she happy or angry? And would she feel more comfortable with him now or would she still be scared of him like she would be if she was human. He examined her face, he couldn't tell what she was thinking, Caroline looked slightly relieved he thought, she definitely didn't look angry, maybe she was just in shock. Neither of them had said anything for a while, both just staring at each other trying to figure out what to say, Enzo didn't want her to be scared of him, she seemed new, definitely not as old as him, so he decided to break the silence,

"Well sweetheart, didn't see that one coming." He said as his face softened and he gave her a sweet smile.

Caroline's face instantly shifted and she visibly relaxed, perhaps if she was scared it had been eliminated by his ability to make a joke at a time like this.

Caroline's mind had been racing just like Enzo's had, she had finally met another vampire, she no longer cared that he was pompous and arrogant, the thought that he had been a vampire all this time, and hadn't hurt her despite thinking she was human filled Caroline with a sense of hope, that perhaps he wasn't such a dick after all, he was just a smug bastard. Caroline laughed, she was still tipsy and didn't know what else to do in a situation like this

"Seriously, your making a joke right now?" Caroline said back to him while giggling. She stopped giggling and her face fell slightly, she was still happy but was slightly overwhelmed by finally finding someone like her, she had been all alone since turning and wasn't convinced she knew how to control her blood lust, now she had someone to talk to.

Enzo saw her face fall and his changed too, he was concerned for her. He took a step closer to her and looking down to meet her eyes, he searched them for any clue to how she may be feeling, she looked more relaxed than she did a few minutes ago but there was still something wrong.

"What's wrong?" Enzo pleaded, the worry more evident in his voice than he would have liked.

Caroline knew that she should have stepped away and wait until tomorrow to talk to him when her head would be clear, and Caroline wasn't the sort of girl to feel sorry for herself, she hated the idea of him seeing her vulnerable but she also had the feeling he would do anything to make her feel better, it was actually becoming more and more obvious that he was a caring guy. Caroline gave in and decided to share with him what she was thinking about, she was just so relieved.

"This sounds bad, but I'm glad you're a vampire.. You're the first vampire I've met, I've sort of been on my own since I turned." She said with a sad smirk, looking up into his worried eyes.

His heart melted, the idea of her being alone and scared made him angry, angry at whoever turned her and left her to fend for herself, and whoever was the cause of her running away to England, his face then softened

"well you can't have been a vampire for very long then love, this world is crawling with them.. How long has it been?"

"A little over a month I think" Caroline replied matter of factly, genuinely trying to remember how much time had passed.

Enzo's face turned to one of complete shock, he thought back to a time when he was that new and thought of how he was totally out of control, he could only imagine the control this sweet girl must have had for being able to live a seemingly normal life without running around ripping into people's throats like a monster with no remorse, like he had. He looked at her with amazement, she was really something. Hiding behind her brave face was just a scared girl who was all alone, in that moment Enzo lifted his had to her face and his thumb grazed her slightly blushed cheek, he looked down at her with a look of pure awe.

Caroline's heart pounded at his touch, as she looked up into his brown eyes she saw that he was concerned, and she realised that just like her, he had put up a front, a cheeky arrogant bad boy who always had a witty comeback, but he wasn't all that, just like she wasn't always the self assured strong and confident woman she appeared to be, he had a story too.

Caroline snapped out of her tipsy fuzzy moment of flirtation and broke the contact, although not with a scoff and roll of her eyes like she normally would have. She continued to look up at him with a genuinely content look on her face, he returned her look with a small smile.

"I should go to bed, it's been a long day.." Caroline whispered sweetly, backing off towards her door, opening it and looking back to meet his gaze. He hadn't moved from where he was standing and his eyes still burned into hers.

"Goodnight, Caroline." He said slowly, in that low husky voice of his.

"Goodnight Enzo." Caroline replied in the same slow way, dragging out the goodnight. She didn't really want to go inside without asking him the million questions she had, but she knew she would embarrass herself far less if she waited for the freshness tomorrow would bring, Caroline stepped backwards inside her room and began to close the door, keeping the eye contact for a few moments longer before the door was closed between them.

Caroline stood for a moment in total shock, staring at her closed door,

"oh my god.." she muttered to herself with her hands over her mouth, although a happiness was still painted on her face.

On the other side of the door Enzo still stood where he was for a few moments longer, looking at the outside of her door..

"Bloody hell.." He chuckled, with an amused look on his face.

Enzo then turned on his heel and sauntered back to his room feeling totally bewildered by her, and not for the first time that day.

Enzo slept well that night, better than he had in a long time. His past had been filled with traumatic experiences and he had felt more hurt than anyone deserves in a lifetime, but tonight he felt content knowing his new blonde addiction was a few doors away and he did not wake up in the night screaming like he had every night over the past weeks, no more night terrors. Instead he dreamed of flawless skin and her perfect lips.

Maybe she would save him.

Caroline awoke with sunlight beaming in through her windows and birds singing, her bed was like heaven and she didn't really want to get out of it just yet. She was hangover free and felt better than she deserved, her and Elena must have drank at least two bottles of tequila yesterday. Oh god yesterday, for a fleeting moment Elena had forgotten all about her interaction with Enzo late last night and the revelation that followed, and she smiled, she had met someone just like her.

Caroline checked her phone and had a text from Elena making making sure Caroline had got got home safely and demanding that they do it again asap. Caroline laughed and sent a quick reply to her new friend, before putting her phone back down and collapsing back into her soft bed with a poof, despite her horrible past few weeks and all the heartbreak she felt, she really was in paradise right now, and things were starting to look up.

Caroline was in a good mood this morning, for once in weeks she didn't regret the day before it began, so she decided to go with it. She checked her alarm clock, it was just after 9 o'clock, and in a moment of confidence Caroline decided to get up and go talk to Enzo. Although she would never admit he was the reason why, she took special care in getting ready and making sure she looked perfect. She wore her favourite white sundress that showed off her curves and a bit of leg, knee high riding boots and her brown leather jacket, she also applied a little bit more lipgloss than normal.

As she opened her door to go and knock on his, she realised she didn't know what room he stayed in, was he even staying here at all or was that a lie to make him coming a visit less creepy? Crap. Caroline ventured downstairs and figured she could compel the owner to tell her, but since she was almost out the door she may as well go and get coffee first so she wasn't barging in and probably walking him up without a bit of caffeine. She quickly headed out the door and round the corner to a nearby coffee shop and was back before she knew it, she was actually quite excited. After compelling the owner and getting his room number, Caroline quickly headed back upstairs before the coffee got cold. He was staying in the room two doors down from her, the idea of having him this close by filled Caroline with a confusing sense of security.

Caroline playfully chapped the door a few times, she only waited a few seconds before the door swung opened, and there he was. Caroline's lips parted slightly at the sight of him standing there. He was standing before her barefoot, with nothing on but a pair of jeans, Caroline noticed the top button was undone, he'd obviously thrown them on to answer the door in semi-decent attire, his bare chest was glorious, a few hairs here and there, and his hair was messy and unkept, like he had just woken up, like she expected. He was wearing that same smug look on his face as he noticed Caroline's eyes wander momentarily, taking him in.

"Good morning sweetheart." He grinned, his voice still hoarse, low and sexy like he'd just woken.

"I come baring coffee." Caroline quickly composed herself as she handed him one of the two cups she was holding and wandered past him into the room.

"And you know my room how? Who's the stalker now?" He added playfully, closing the door and turning to face her.

"Seriously? Your asking me that question?" Caroline teased. "At least I knocked, and I brought coffee."

"Fair point." He grinned innocently.

Caroline wandered over to his bed and took a seat on the edge, she sipped her coffee and looked up at him expectantly, like he was supposed to know she was here to talk about vampire stuff. Enzo looked back at her also sipping on his coffee, he was just standing there grinning and enjoying the sight of Caroline sitting on his bed in what he may add was a rather sexy little outfit. He was also in a good mood today after having the best night sleep he'd had in months, and didn't argue with her barging into his room, well how could he, but then even on his worst day she could come and go without any complaints from him. The room was still a bit messy but she didn't seem to care, he liked that, she obviously wasn't uptight or judgemental. He watched her eyes wander down from his face to his bare chest and couldn't help but enjoy it.

"Are you going to put some clothes on?" Caroline asked raising an eyebrow in a sarcastic tone.

"Are you sure you want me to? Seem to be enjoying the view." He teased with a huge grin on his face, as he tore his eyes away from hers and made his way towards his wardrobe to throw on a shirt.

As he turned his back to her Caroline rolled her eyes at him, but she couldn't argue with his teasing remark, although she didn't realise she was being so obvious. She looked at his bare back and it was just as sexy as his chest, she could see the muscles in his back and shoulders move as he walked towards his wardrobe. God she was just as bad as Elena was last night swooning over that bartender guy, Caroline distractedly wondered what happened there, they were pretty deep in flirting mode when she left, she made a mental note to ask Elena how it went.

Moments later caroline was brought back into the room as Enzo walked back towards her, he had put on a tight white shirt, if anything that was even worse than the nakedness.

Just then she felt her phone buzz in her bag and retrieved it to find a text from Elena asking to get lunch in a couple of hours, she replied that she'd love to and threw her phone back in her bag quickly not wanting to be rude and have barged into Enzo's room to sit on his bed and text. This was good, with him all flirtatious and her failing attempts to resist jumping his bones like she'd dreamt about last night, meeting Elena gave her a quick escape route if things got too heated.

Caroline stood up and moved away from the bed and sat down at the other side of his room in a little arm chair placed directly across from a small couch, with a table between them. Enzo followed suit and sat on the couch, leaning back and stretching his arm across the back of the sofa looking very relaxed, he put on a good show, but having Caroline in his room with the revelation from last night, he was extremely nervous and didn't want to say the wrong thing.

Caroline sat forwards slightly to remove her coat, with her arms stretched behind her, the dress pushed into her chest revealing the slightest bit of cleavage that had Enzo's heart racing, he could sit and watch her all day. Caroline finally seemed to sit back and relax into her chair and she locked eyes with Enzo who she just noticed had been sitting watching her with a grin on his face.

"Penny for your thoughts?" He smiled.

"How long have you been a vampire?" Caroline cut to the chase.

"A long time sweetheart."

"Seriously give me a number?"

"Over a hundred years." He smirked, knowing this would shock her having been a vampire little over a month, the idea of being ageless doesn't settle in for a while, somehow you still think you're going to grow old.

"Wow. You're ancient." She giggled.

"We'll little miss sunshine, you're taking this better than I thought, and you're in a rather good mod today." He smiled, a genuine smile, not sarcastic or mischievous, he was happy she was happy.

"Yeah..for the first time in a while things are looking up." She said sweetly, looking up to meet his gaze, she knew deep down he was the reason, but wouldn't say it out loud just yet, not until she knew him better. They stared at each other not saying anything for a moment, Enzo had the feeling that meeting another vampire was something she had longed for, and he beamed at even the slight thought that he could be the reason for that smile she was wearing.

"Who turned you?" Enzo asked Caroline, she said he was the first vampire shed met, obviously not counting her creator.

Caroline opened her mouth as if to say something but nothing came out, she looked frustrated, like she always was when she tried to think of who had turned her into a vampire, but she could never remember.

"I don't know." Caroline answered quietly but honestly.

"You don't know? Enzo repeated her words "what do you mean you don't know?" He was genuinely confused.

"I mean I can't remember who turned me, every time I try to think about it there's this blank space where the memory is and it's just out of reach, I don't remember what he looked like or why he turned me, I don't remember anything about it, I was just human one day and a vampire the next." Caroline said sadly,

because the thought genuinely made her sad, she got really confused and frustrated whenever she thought about it. Caroline didn't want to mention that she remembered a name, Enzo seemed very protective and she knew he would find him somehow and probably kill him before she got the chance to ask him why. She wanted to drop the subject, there was nothing to talk about if she couldn't remember anything so what was the point.

"That's very strange Caroline, it sounds like compulsion, but we both know that's not possible.. Do you want to talk about something else?" He added, genuinely concerned and didn't want to see her upset for another second.

Caroline nodded, grateful for his sensitivity, she snapped herself back into her good mood and continued to ask him all the questions she could think of. Enzo didn't complain once and simply answered anything that came out of her mouth, however ridiculous the questions were.

A little while later while her and Enzo were talking and laughing with each other, Caroline was feeling extremely relaxed around him and was shaving a good morning. Caroline mindlessly looked at her watch to check the time,

"Crap! Enzo I've gotta go I've got lunch plans that you've made me late for." She stood up quickly and gave him a sarcastic glare.

He laughed loudly and freely, he was happy that Caroline was no longer giving him the cold shoulder and was at least beginning to think of him as a decent person. She obviously had her reasons for putting on her hard front the same way he did, but during all the time they talked they never got round to her explaining why she came to London, but they'd get to that another time. He did however clear up the issue of her relationship status, she was single thank goodness, however upon him asking the question Caroline rolled her eyes at him just like he had expected she would, but he knew better than to be offended, he knew her a bit better than that by now.

Enzo stood with her and walked with her to his door, she swung round to say good bye to find him standing a lot closer than she thought he had been and their faces were only a few inches away from each other. His eyes not leaving hers, he leaned in closer and reached his arm out behind her to grab the doorknob, and opened the door for her. They were still standing inches apart and he knew they could both feel the electricity. His teasing gesture of opening the door for her while they were face to face and so close to each other, made Caroline shoot him a mischievous look as she raised one eyebrow and bit her lip slightly with a grin on her face. Enzo's eyes dropped to her perfect bottom lip which was placed between her teeth and he knew she was playing him at his own game. Enzo swallowed nothing, his heart was beating faster but he never flinched. His eyes shot back up to hers.

"Drop by anytime gorgeous." He said cooly, in his low husky voice.

Caroline could feel his breath on her face, the anticipation was killing her but she didn't give in, she tipped her head to one side still looking deep into his eyes, and just like that she turned on her heel and exited the room leaving Enzo standing in his doorway with a dry mouth and his heart beating like a drum. His eyes staring out of the open door where she left he didn't move, and he had a look on his face that said 'well played'.

"Bloody hell Caroline Forbes, what are you doing to me?" He said to himself with a grin on his face as he stepped back and closed his door.

She was already late and knew if she kissed him she wasn't getting out of his bed anytime soon, and she didn't want to stand up her friend. Anyway, that all got a bit heated way too fast, she got caught up in the moment, I mean she'd only known him a day for goodness sake. In that moment she realised how much she was beginning to care for him, he had sat the whole morning answering her questions without snarky comments, well not many anyway, even when he was being his sarcastic self he was still harmless. Still she had to focus on building a life for herself here in her new surroundings and couldn't get caught up in anything so soon, but she couldn't deny when she was with him she felt so free, like she could be herself with no judgement.

Caroline continued to have these thoughts whirling around her head as she rushed through the city to a nearby diner where she had agreed to meet Elena. She was finding it surprisingly easy to make her way around, it seemed that everything she needed was right on her doorstep here in the busy city. Caroline approached the diner and could see Elena sitting at a table already through the large windows.

Caroline rushed through the doors and the bell on the door made Elena look up and she noticed Caroline. Caroline hurriedly walked over to the table a bit flustered from trying to beat her watch, she was fifteen minutes late, she grinned to herself thinking about the way she left Enzo standing in his room after running out of the door.

"Hey I'm so sorry I'm late, got caught up with something." Caroline said apologetically smiling at Elena, who was beaming back, not caring one bit about Caroline's frantic lateness.

"Caught up with what, God did you run here." Elena teased.

"Yeah pretty much, didn't realise the time I only left 10 minutes ago." Caroline said without looking at Elena.

They had only known each other a short time but Elena knew a guilty face anywhere, Caroline was hiding something. Elena looked at Caroline expectantly with an amused smirk on her face.

"So just exactly what was it that had you so distracted that you forgot about our lunch date?" Elena said playfully, looking at Caroline with a fake look of sincerity.

Caroline replied "nothing.." At first and looked innocently at her menu, Elena was still looking at her almost laughing now, Caroline buckled under Elena's stare and eventually fessed up, not about the whole 'I figured out that creepy guy from yesterday is a vampire too and I was interrogating him all morning while shamelessly flirting with him'. Caroline twisted the truth a little.

"Fine. That guy from yesterday? Well yeah we got to talking last night when I got back, and we had coffee this morning in his room, and we ended up talking for hours. That's all." Caroline said shamefully, knowing fine well Elena was going to tease her about it.

"Well well, I was kidding last night about you finding bad boy British guy, what's he like?" Elena said excitedly digging for more gossip.

Caroline wanted to change the conversation, she called the waitress over to order and they did, this took a few minutes and Caroline hoped Elena would forget about what they were saying, but she hadn't, Elena was still staring at Caroline.

"He's your textbook bad boy, totally arrogant, but somehow totally charming. Let's leave it at that. Oh I forgot to ask how did it go with that bartender stefan?"

The mention of stefan was enough to make Elena go of on a rant about her new obsession, apparently after Caroline had left the two had talked all night and closed the bar. She was so excited about the whole thing, Caroline hadn't heard the bartender talk he usually kept quiet unless he and Elena were gazing into each other's eyes infatuated with each other, but apparently Elena was wrong about him being British, he was American too, he moved over here a few months ago for some new surroundings or something. Elena also told Caroline about having a job interview that morning for a little café down the street from her place that would be just perfect for her and she said the people who worked there seemed really nice too.

"Ohh! That's what I wanted to talk to you about.. I'm going out for a drink tonight with stefan and his brother, I told them I'd invite you! I invited a couple of people who work in the café to come too so I can get to know them a bit before I start. So what do you think, up for another night of partying? Although it will be less sad with more of us." Elena said while giggling, she was such a social butterfly, no problems talking to anyone, inviting almost complete strangers out for drinks, Caroline wished she was more like that.

"Oh I don't know Elena, I mean I'm still recovering from last night and I don't know these people.." Caroline was cut off by Elena..

"Oh come on we don't know anyone that's the point! Hey you can bring your new boyfriend." Elena said with a suggestive raise of her eyebrows.

Caroline was giggling "He's not my.." Caroline was cut off again..

"If you don't I'll have to set you up with Stefan's brother, who from what I've heard it a nasty piece of work." Elena added.

"You're not going to let this go are you?" Caroline teased.

"Nope!" Elena beamed at Caroline, making Caroline burst out laughing.

"Fine I'll ask him, but no promises!" Caroline said while smirking at Elena with a facial expression that said, 'you are so dead'