To be with you Forever- Damon Salvatore/OC
Chapter 52- Dark surprise
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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Elena moved then, seemingly as fast as her vampire counterparts, stumbling blindly down into the darkness.
"Elena wait!" I called as Caroline sped after her, "They have guns!"
I gulped and followed after, wondering when this had become my life. I could hear movement and muffled voices below me and moved as quietly as possible down the steps, one by one, knowing the vampires below would hear me coming. Luckily, as far as I knew anyway, the others below were very much human with human senses.
I reached the opening just in time to see a blonde streak whip past, too fast for my eyes to properly pick up in the low light, the smell of blood however, was pungent enough to notice almost immediately.
"Caroline." I recognised Sherriff Forbes voice gasp.
I moved further inside, stumbling over what I knew without looking to be a body.
"Damon!" I cried, ignoring Elena and Stefan where they sat huddled together against the wall, he sat huddled, bleeding against the other side of the tomb, pale skinned, eyes sunken with pain.
"Damon." I whispered, kneeling to his level, avoiding his bloodied legs riddled with what was undoubtedly vervaine bullets.
Blue eyes met my own, "You have paint on your face." he rasped.
"You already knew that." I whispered.
"Here." Caroline's voice sounded, "Drink." A large body landed at our feet and I scrambled away from the lifeless corpse of the officer, shuddering.
Damon moved quickly and I noticed Stefan mirroring his movements on the other side, with the second body. I stood and stepped away unable to watch and met the eyes of the sheriff.
"I knew you knew something Kaye." She spat, disappointment evident in her eyes.
"They didn't deserve this." I replied turning away.
"They'll heal as much as they can." Elena stated, shimmying up beside me.
I nodded, resolutely ignoring the slurping sounds behind us. "Liz took vervaine, Damon will probably want to make her forget but I know Caroline wants to see if she can work things out."
Even as she spoke we could hear the blonde talking quietly to her mother.
"You stay away from me." her mother hissed, "You- your one of them- why are you one of them?"
"Mum-" Caroline started.
"No!" The sheriff scrambled closer to the wall, away from her child and I felt a lump form in my throat, the short time I ad my own mother she had been loving and understanding, I couldn't have bared to be in Caroline's position, to be something your mother had spent her life hunting and despising. To be hated this way.
"Mum-"
"You're vermin, all of you. You disgust me."
"Please" Caroline whispered, obviously sobbing.
"Stay away from me."
I felt Elena's hand slip gently into mine, she was no doubt remembering her own mother.
"Then we have no choice Caroline." Stefan's voice sounded, as he moved up beside Elena. "We have to make her forget."
"I'd rather forget than know that my child is a monster!"
"Fine." Stefan said, lurching forwards, seemingly fully healed, he grabbed the sheriff by her arms and dragged her forward, "We'll take her to the cells, wait for the vervaine to leave her system."
Elena followed close behind.
"Caroline-" I started.
"Don't." the crying girl spat following after the others, "Don't hurt her Stefan."
I turned towards Damon who was pulling himself slowly up the wall.
"Why haven't you healed like Stefan?" I asked, as I manoeuvred myself under his arm and attempted to take some of his weight.
"They shot me more." he replied through gritted teeth, "and Mason already poisoned me once today remember."
"Okay," I said, "We'll get you straight in bed when we get back."
"Oh really." he asked, his tone lowered to indicate his teasing.
"Shut up." I laughed, "We've got to get to your car at least."
"You're not driving." He groaned.
"Want to bet?"
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The sheriff sat quietly in the dark cell, resolutely ignoring her daughter as she pleaded with her.
I grimaced at the sob in Caroline's voice as her other turned her nose away from her. The poor girl. How had she come to deserve any of this?
"How's Damon?" Elena asked as she stepped up beside me.
"Sleeping. He probably will for a while. He definitely took the brunt of it."
"Cant imagine why." Elena mused wryly.
"Must be his winning personality and sunny disposition." I mumbled, "Sometimes even I want to shoot him."
Elena nodded, "How long do you think it will take for the vervaine to stop taking effect?" I asked.
"Stefan believes a few hours." she replied, "He'll know when it's time."
I nodded, "I just feel so bad for Caroline."
"Me too." Elena agreed just as Caroline swept past us, making her way upstairs. Crying.
"I should-" Elena started only to be interrupted by Stefan's voice.
"I'll go." I said, "You see what Stefan wants."
I followed after Caroline slowly, not wanting to startle or annoy her whilst she was in such a state.
"Caroline?" I said, softly, noticing her outside.
"Leave me alone." She groaned.
"Caroline," I crooned, as if approaching a caged animal, "I'm so sorry. It's going to be okay."
"It's not going to be okay!" She shouted.
"Okay," I placated, "Maybe not now- but it will be."
Caroline laughed, harsh and bitter, "Will you shut up Kaye!"
"Ca-"
"You drive me crazy! With you're holier than thou better than everybody, everything will be fine attitude." Caroline cried, "What gives you the right to be like that! This is your fault."
"What?" I asked, shocked.
"This is your fault!" she repeated, "Pearl wanted you and no one else. This happened to me because of you! My mum hates me, Matt hates me!"
"How can you say that?" I whispered, "This was happening long before I arrived."
"But it's worse now! Before you got here everyone was friends, Bonnie could actually stand to look at me, everyone was fine, we didn't have Pearl plotting things and werewolves- Hell even Damon was happier!"
"I didn't do anything!" I cried, "I had no idea any of this even existed until I came here, until Damon pursued me!"
"That's exactly it. Pearl came after me. After all of us. She taunted us and changed me and is still out there now, just waiting because you couldn't stay away from Damon!"
"Caroline- come on." I whispered, "This isn't- I- they're going to make your mother forget, it'll go back to normal."
"I wont." She growled, "I'll never go back to normal. I'll never be able to be myself around my mum."
I felt tears prick against the back of my eyes, "Caroline-"
"I hate you."
"What?" I gasped.
"I've always hated you, from the moment I woke up a monster. Why couldn't you have just stayed away."
"Caroline- please-"
"I mean it!" the blonde cried, "Just stay away from me!"
Caroline turned on her heel and slumped back inside, shoulders seemingly holding the weight of the world. I swallowed down the lump in my throat and wiped at my face needing at that moment to just be at home.
I pulled out my phone and sent a quick going home, talk later, text to Elena and began the walk home. It luckily wasn't too far and I made it home rather quicker than I had thought.
"Dad," I called, as I stepped into the warmth, voice thick, "You home?"
I heard nothing in response and moved wearily into the dining room, the room sat empty, on the table an empty dinner plate and half finished juice.
"Dad?"
Next to the plate sat a plain wooden box, a soft pine, but pretty nondescript, a folded letter lay above it.
I moved slowly, and flipped the lid, inside was indented foam in the shape of a gun, smaller indents for what could have been bullets. Why would my father need a gun?
I remembered the note and quickly grabbed for it. Inside in neat handwriting read,
Holt,
This should help you with your aforementioned vermin problem.
Liz Forbes
Liz Forbes was sending bullets and a gun to my father?
Vermin?
"You're vermin, all of you. You disgust me."
My breath quickened, heart pumping loud enough that I thought the neighbours could hear it.
A floorboard creaked in the hall.
"Dad?" I called, "That you?"
My father stepped slowly into the dining room, "Oh Kaye." he whispered, eyes flicking from me to the open box on the table, "Why must you snoop?"
He raised the gun.
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