To be with you Forever- Damon Salvatore/OC
Chapter 43- Problems at the carnival.
Summary: I knew he was going to kill me, This was Damon Salvatore, this could never end well and yet I couldn't stay away, the truth is, I didn't want to. Damon/OC
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So this is the carnival- I'm a little behind with the series obviously so just to reiterate- I'm doing my own thing mostly!
Also- in the last chapter I said at the bottom that I hated them- I meant love triangles. Not the Lockwood's. Personally I think Tyler and Mason would get it if I were given half the chance- have you seen those guns? Nothing on Damon though!
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A/N- After Halloween (31st) I wont have internet for something like five days- Now- If I don't completely kill myself from boredom during that time I will keep writing and post as soon as I can get it back! Also Ill try and update before we lose it!
Kaye's P.O.V
"So I tried to call Caroline at the hospital." Elena explained to Bonnie and I as the carnival crowds erupted around us, "I've got this whole list of things to do and don't even know what half of them are and I just know she'll kill me if something goes wrong tonight."
"Elena. Chill." Bonnie laughed, "I'm sure everything is sorted, just try and enjoy it yourself. Even Caroline being the slave driver she is wouldn't work this hard."
"She's right Elena." I added.
"Besides, tall dark and brooding approaches." Bonnie giggled as Stefan silently wound his arms around Elenas waist and kissed her temple gently.
"We'll leave you to it." I grinned as Bonnie mock bowed to the couple. I had been in a good mood all day, having spent it lazing around the house with my father and so far the carnival was running spectacularly. Bonnie wound her arm through mine and skipped forward. "This is seriously amazing, we never had anything like this back home." I stated gazing around me in wonder.
"Home?" Bonnie asked, "Isn't this your home now?"
"Course it is." I replied hastily, "You know what I mean!"
"Do you miss England?" Bonnie turned serious.
"Sometimes. My old friends, we never really kept in touch, but mainly I miss visiting my mum, it was always a comfort to visit her if I was sad or scared about something. I can do that here." I replied honestly.
"She's with you though." Bonnie smiled sadly, pointing a finger towards my heart, "Here." then my head, "and here."
"I know." I swallowed, voice cracking slightly, "Thanks Bonnie."
"So!" she cried, "Where shall we head first?"
"Fortune teller?" I asked.
"It's not as fun when you've got your own powers." she replied sullenly.
"Touché, want to throw some soft balls at glass bottles?" I offered, gesturing towards the booth a few feet away.
"Nah, they're rigged anyway."
"Of course they are. You'd be a picky date you know that?"
"I agree with that completely." she laughed, "Over there- I see Stefan and the evil brother!"
"Bonnie!" I scolded, "Stop that."
"Hey!" Stefan greeted, eyes still on Tyler who was cheering loudly after winning yet another arm wrestle, the crowd of boys and men alike around him, watched in awe.
"He's strong." I commented impressed as he easily dropped another hand to the table.
"Abnormally so wouldn't you say?" Damon drawled, bending to my ear height.
"Or high school athlete strong." Stefan replied, obviously aware of Damons ideas about the Lockwoods, "He's in all the teams Damon."
Damons eyes stayed trained on the boy as Tylers uncle I recognised from Mayor Lockwoods memorial stepped up to the stool, grinning at his nephew who seemingly agreed to take him on. Cheers erupted as uncle and nephew flexed.
"My moneys on the older guy." Bonnie whispered.
The two brunettes grabbed arms and struggled for a few seconds until Tylers knuckles hit the table, he grinned and gestured for people to now face his uncle, the winner.
"Hmmm." Damon murmured, "Who is that guy?"
"That's Mason Lockwood." I answered automatically, "He's Tylers uncle."
"When did you meet him?" Damon asked.
"The manor."
"I wonder.." Damon mused aloud, stepping behind his brother and pushing him forward roughly, "If you could beat him." Stefan stumbled slightly and turned to glare at his brother before deciding to go through with it anyway and turning towards the table. He said a few words before taking a seat opposite a grinning Mason. I watched intently as they grasped hands. After a few seconds both hands began to shake with excursion and Stefan began to frown. Eventually, Stefans knuckles hit the table with a thud, Damon growled.
"Wow." I murmured, "Mason really is strong."
"Must you sound so awed?" Damon complained, turning his attention back to Stefan with a , "You didn't even try." which made him sound like a completely petulant child.
"That's just it Damon." Stefan said, "I did try."
"And he won?" I asked, staring at Mason who was still beating competitor after competitor.
"Kaye, I'm going to head over there." she pointed towards a smaller group of people, headed by a boy I recognised from a few classes, "Sure." I grinned, "Say hi to Carter for me." Bonnie blushed as she turned away grinning.
I could hear Damon and Stefan bickering behind me but a flash of blonde caught my eye on the other side of the crowd as I moved to join their conversation. "Caroline? Ill find you guys later."
Whether somebody heard me I didn't know.
"Caroline!" I called, as I pressed my way past the crowds still surrounding the Lockwood brother. "Caroline?" I was sure it had been her I had seen, I recognised the jumper she was wearing, she had worn it to school a few times before. My main question though was should she be out of hospital by now? She had told us in the hospital that she wouldn't be able attend both Mayor Lockwoods memorial and this carnival. She had been devastated.
"Caroline!" I called catching up to her after practically running, when had she become such a quick walker anyway?
"What Kaye?" her voice sounded.
"Are you okay? Should you be out of hospital now?"
"I'm fine." She replied turning to face me, she stared, intently at me for a few minutes of silence breathing deeply, hands shaking at her sides before she ripped her eyes from me and roamed them around the carnival in search of someone else. "Don't I look fine?"
"Yeah, you look great Caroline," I said slowly, "but I thought the hospital was keeping you in?"
"They changed their minds." her response was vague, distracted and she seemed to be trying her best not to look at me or even- breathe?
"Right- Are you-"
"Where's Matt? Or Damon?" She cut over me.
"Uh- Matt I don't know- Damon is-"
"Thanks." She said over me again, before pushing past me and walking away.
"Huh." I wrinkled my nose, "weird."
Left alone I made my way back towards the crowd where she had headed, in search of someone. Damon and Stefan no longer occupied where we had been recently stood and Bonnie was still occupied in a long conversation with Carter and some of his friends. Elena was still off somewhere sorting out some stuff, that had to be the reason she was no longer hanging with Stefan. Caroline was obviously in a bad mood and ignoring me and looking at how she had stalked off ignoring everyone else who greeted her too.
"Sucks." I mumbled to myself as I moved past more people.
"Hey! Kaye right?" A voice called from behind me.
"Mason. Hey. Someone beat you then?" I gestured to where another guy had just taken his place and was arm wrestling one of the football team.
"What?" His eyes landed on the table, "Oh no. I didn't want to be there all night. Told someone else to take over. Your friend though, the tall guy? He put up a good fight."
"Really?" I puzzled, "You must be stronger than you look, cause Stefan's pretty damn strong."
"Must be." he replied vaguely.
The conversation wilted, nothing left to say to a stranger and it was with only a little relief that I saw Damon making his way through the crowds looking slightly harrowed and flustered. I frowned questioningly as his blue eyes met mine and he inclined his head in a gesture for me to go to him.
"Uh, I have to-" I stated pointing to where Damon stood.
"Ah right. Boyfriend?"
"No. No." I said as I glanced to Damon again who looked more impatient than usual. "Sorry I-"
He nodded with a smile as I made my way towards Damon, "What's up?" I asked immediately, "You look frazzled."
"Frazzled?" he coughed incredulously, before he shook his head and said in a more serious tone, "You need to come with me." He grabbed my arm quite roughly and pulled me through the crowds of people, it wasn't until we had passed the carousel that he stopped walking and by that time I was finding it almost impossible to catch by breath and rambling angrily about stupid vampires and not needing to breath.
"Have you seen Caroline tonight?" he asked, ignoring me, not even smirking like I had thought he would.
"Yeah, she said the hospital let her out, she was acting weird." I replied, "Why?"
"Did she touch you? Are you-"
"I'm fine." I replied incredulously, "Why would Caroline hurt me?"
"Because she's a vampire." He said in such complete seriousness that I at first assumed he was joking and let a laugh rip from my throat.
"Oh that's a funny one Damon." I laughed, "You're joking right." The serious expression never dropped, "Please say you are joking? Oh God, you're not joking."
"No."
"H-How?" I gasped, "She was fine. As in human fine."
"I gave her my blood, it was still in her system. As for who killed her. I don't know." He explained.
"Maybe she flat lined?" I asked hopefully.
"Not possible. Not with my blood in her system."
"Then someone-" I trailed off, "What do we do now?"
"We kill her."
"What? No!"
"That's exactly what Elena said." he answered.
"And as well she should have!" I cried, "You cant just kill Caroline you ass!"
"She's technically already dead so-"
"What is with you? Jesus. You're so-I- I cant even be near you when you're talking like that." I fumed, stepping away. "We cant kill her."
"I was hoping you would understand Kaye. She's dangerous. It's like another Vicki Donavan all over again. Its just a matter of time before she kills someone."
"Like you did?" I asked, ignoring the fact that it was probably a low blow, "Is she any more dangerous than you? Or Stefan? What if it was someone else in her place? Like Elena or me even? Would you kill us?"
"Yes." Was the deadpan answer without any hesitation or deviation before the space he had stood was completely empty.
"Damon!" I cried, "Son of a bitch!"
I stumbled forward, sprinting towards the edge of the parking lot where I couldn't say for certain at all but I thought he may have headed. My head was spinning. Caroline was a vampire. How could she be? She was dead and she came back but she couldn't flat line with vampire blood in her system. No, she was fully healed so that meant someone killed her. Oh God. Who killed her?
There! A familiar leather jacket. Boy am I glad I returned that to him. And black hair and its unmistakeably Damon and he's heading towards someone who I have no doubt is Caroline. "No." I groan, sprinting faster.
I don't call for Damon or Caroline, I just keep running towards them and then as if in a blur I'm there and Damon is slowly walking towards Caroline, stake held behind his back and before I can call out to Caroline I notice something else I the corner of my eye and then, there, on the van is a body and as I skid to a halt I see it's Carter and I don't know whether to scream or cry or puke and suddenly I've launched back to the ground, hitting it hard and I'm retching and mumbling "Oh God, Oh God, Oh God."
I looked over to Caroline and Damon and he's embracing her, and she's crying, there's so much guilt in her and she's staring wide eyed at me, she's covered in blood, but all I can think is that I cant remember Carters second name. I don't think I ever even knew it and I feel so guilty because now he's dead and Bonnie adored him and now everything is ruined and Caroline has to die. But she's still Caroline- Caroline Forbes. My friend. I pull myself up from the ground and Damon is pulling the stake back and there's a blur and Damon's on the floor with Caroline hidden behind both Stefan and Elena, the latter of which is also horrified by the sight and smell, Oh God the smell of death and so much blood, of Carters corpse.
"We're going to help you Caroline" Stefan promises over her sobs and admissions of guilt and apologies. I can hear Elena yelling at Damon, who replies with some heartless comment about needing to bury a body if they cant kill the vampire. I still feel sick. Ive never seen a dead body before. Not a human. Not a human.
"Hey guys! What's happening? Caroline?" Bonnies chirpy voice sounds, before she takes in her surroundings, Elena hiding her face from view of the body, me looking sickly, crying, Damon holding a freaking shovel, Stefan holding a sobbing and blood covered Caroline.
"What happ-" she draws in a shocked breath and the tears spring in seconds, "Carter?"
Elena stops her running to the body, stops her touching it and seeing too much of what is already imprinted in our minds forever. "Who did this?" she cries, eyes immediately landing on Damon who does nothing to dispel any accusations.
"I'm so sorry Bonnie. I didn't. I couldn't handle" Caroline spoke up, almost rambling.
"Caroline?" Bonnie whimpered, "You?" There was an obvious hint of disgust in her voice, "I-" She returned her gaze to the body, then to me, then to Damon and Elena.
"Come on Caroline." Stefan said quietly, "Lets go."
I watched him lead her away, then turned back to Bonnie who glared angrily at Damon. "This is your fault." she growled in a voice that wasn't hers and yet was. Then, although later I might think it my imagination I saw something change in her eyes, and if Elenas gasp was anything to go by then she did too. It wasn't the usual flash you saw when she did something magic, no it was more like there was someone else there, a sort of shadow. But before I could ponder anything more Damon grabbed at his head, screaming in a way I had never heard before. "Its your fault. You have to die. This cant happen again." Bonnie said, level, emotionless.
Then fire sprouted from the ground, raging, crackling, heading straight for Damon.
I heard Elena scream as it engulfed him, or perhaps that was me. "Bonnie stop it!" I cried, running towards where Damon rolled around the floor, crying, screaming in agony, only to stumble backwards again as the flames reached closer towards me.
I could hear Elena screaming at her to stop and I heard myself begging, "Please stop. Please."
"Bonnie!" Elena cried, stepping in front of the witch, pushing her. The jolt seemed to knock something within her as the flames abruptly stopped. Damon stilled, panting, heaving. I gasped and dropped down beside him, gently touching at his face, wiping at tears. "This isn't us Bonnie! This isn't you! We don't kill people!"
"It's his fault Elena," Bonnie whispered, "Carter is dead, Caroline is a vampire."
"He didn't do it Bonnie." I added from my position, "He didn't touch her."
Her eyes met mine, she blinked, if another shadow passed this time I didn't see it. "I- Oh my God- What did I do? Im so sorry, it wasn't me I - I don't know what came over me, Damon I'm sorry! Please I-"
"Just go Bonnie." I said quietly as Elena took her arm gently and began to lead her away only to meet Stefan and a newly clean Caroline on their way. Stefan eyes the scene before him wearily, his brother still on the ground smoking slightly, though no longer vocally pointing out his pain. I could already see his burnt skin healing through his clothes.
Stefan shook his head, and glanced at Elena, "Tell me later." he said as Bonnie stared guiltily at the ground, shock written on her own face.
"Tell them what you told me." Stefan directed to Caroline.
"The- The woman who k-killed me." Caroline stumbled, "She was short, brunette, late thirties, pretty. She said to tell you that she's still here. She's, she is still watching."
I drew in a deep breath as silence engulfed us, "Who is she?" Caroline asked.
I swallowed and met Damon's pain filled eyes, "Pearl."
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