A/N: UGH! Sorry for the little wait guys just been really stressed lately and also my birthday is coming up soon so I have other things on my mind ;D ahh the big eighteenth! OMG I have even begun coming up with a brilliant idea for a sequel to this haha it's crazy. Huge thanks to the follows/faves/reviews. It feels like I have been writing this forever now but there is so much to go! Thank you guys!
Chapter Thirteen - Memories.
Second Floor, Room Forty-Six (The Girl's Room).
It had been a slow thirty minutes since Kol's rude disruption that finalized the Mikaelson's were one-hundred percent staying in the same hotel.
Once he left the confused and annoyed group, the Salvatore's didn't bother asking any questions and retreated back to their room to get ready as the girls decided to do the same and went back inside.
"I'm slowly regretting that pillow fight now..." Bonnie muttered during the silent clean up of the feathers and bed-sheets sprawled out across the room.
"It reminds me of when you showed me you was a witch by levitating the feathers on my bed." Elena smiled as she lifted the blanket causing the down to fly everywhere. Bonnie began to laugh, remembering the happy time while Caroline frowned in confusion.
"Oh, so Elena got a lovely flying trick when she found out but I had to get some freaky voodoo, séance that gave me chills for weeks?!" Caroline huffed as all the feathers hit the ground.
"I did try telling you before?" Bonnie reasoned. Caroline shook her head and hands simultaneously at the Bennett witch before grabbing a half ripped cushion and chucking it to one side.
"Don't throw it to my side Care, it was on your bed..." Elena flung it back.
"No it wasn't. I have six cushions on my bed already and you have five?!" The blonde threw it again with much more force than before causing Elena to stumble back.
"My other one is on the floor near my night-stand!" The brunette charged the ripped pillow at Caroline once more. Unfortunately due to gravity the down inside the cushion flew out all over the vampire's beds.
"Um that was my cushion guys..." Bonnie noticed that her pull-out couch was missing one. Elena and Caroline automatically at the same time collapsed in defeat on their beds.
"I blame the originals for my mood." Caroline exasperated.
"Personally, I blame hunger. The last thing I ate was the chocolate chip muffin Bonnie and I shared." Elena answered for mostly herself.
"Well it's twenty past eight, doesn't the restaurant downstairs open at like seven?" Caroline sat back up and walked towards her wardrobe realizing she hasn't even changed.
"Then it must be open now." Elena copied the blonde and went to the other wardrobe to examine the clothes she had just placed in there.
"You two are not just going to leave me to clean all this up are you?" Bonnie scanned her hands across the half messy room.
"We can all clean it up after dinner Bon." Elena assured.
"Exactly." Caroline beamed as she pulled out her white, denim shorts and a black off the shoulder, cotton shirt.
"I'm going to the bathroom quick to put this on." She smiled before strolling down the small corridor.
"I'm not really hungry." Bonnie uttered. Elena paused to turn around to her best-friend.
"Really?" She looked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm tired more than anything." The witch shrugged, "I think I'm just going to have an early night and re-charge for tomorrow."
"Are you sure? We don't have to look around after if that's what you're on about?" Elena wondered what the true reason was behind this announcement.
"Honestly, 'Lena it's fine. You and Caroline go and let off some steam and I'll see you two in morning." Bonnie was adamant.
"Well, do you want us to bring some food up with us or-?"
"Elena..." The witch raised an eyebrow indicating her friend to stop worrying.
"How do I look?" Caroline disrupted the girls as she marched out of the bathroom door to reveal her first outfit decision for the holiday.
"Looking good Care. Who you dressing up for?" Bonnie winked.
"Myself." She scowled knowing full well what Bonnie meant.
"I think I'm going to go for this..." Elena pulled out a dark-red, flowy, skater-back dress with a cropped leather jacket.
"Ooo pretty, put it on now!" Caroline shooed her brunette pal towards the bathroom door to get changed and slammed it shut behind her.]
"Are you not going to decide what to wear?" She asked Bonnie while rummaging through her case of heels.
"I'm not coming." Bonnie sighed annoyed that she had to explain this once more.
"Say that again?" Caroline raised a blonde eyebrow towards the witch.
"I've already said this to Elena, I want an early night."
"You better not be like this every night Bonnie?" Caroline complained as she yanked out one silver platform and a black, suede wedge.
"Of course not." Bonnie groaned and slumped herself on the couch.
"Good. What ones?" Caroline held out the shoes for Bonnie to pick.
"Platforms." She pointed.
"Great minds think alike."The blonde smiled and threw the black wedge back in the case to pick out the other silver shoe. The girls were distracted once again with Elena entering into their views to give a little twirl.
"I seriously might have to steal that dress from you one day." Caroline admired.
"After me you can." Bonnie claimed.
"Hey, it's my dress. At least let me wear it a few times guys?" Elena laughed.
Caroline slipped on her heels and promptly stood up.
"Well, I'm ready." She brushed herself down and took a glance in the full body mirror attached to the wall before turning to Elena, "Come on!"
"Okay, hold on!" Elena cried and quickly grabbed her black, knee-high boots and bag.
"Oh god I almost forgot my own purse." Caroline ran over to her own night-stand to take hers and pulled out her cell briefly to check the time.
"Right I'm leaving, see ya Bon." She began to head for the front door.
"Will you let me just get my shoes on!" Elena hissed, frantically pulling on her last boot as Bonnie laughed at their squabbling.
"Don't kill each other tonight because you still got to clean up that mess later." She gestured towards their feather decorated beds.
Elena gave Bonnie a very brief hug and headed for the aggravating blonde vampire who was already headed down the hall.
"So who we knocking for first?" Caroline called out behind her as Elena briskly caught up.
"Matt and Jeremy are closer."
"Number thirty-one right?" The blonde tried to remember, "Wait, Elena I'm in the twenties?" She turned around to see Elena had now stopped and was standing in front of a door staring at her with an amused expression across her face. Caroline smiled sheepishly before backing up to her friend.
"You could of told me we were there?" She whispered while Elena knocked on the door.
"I wanted to see how long it would take before you noticed." She smiled as her brother Jer opened the door with a stumble.
"'Lena and Caroline are at the door!" Jeremy shouted out to Matt.
"Let them in!" He called from his bed. The girls gave each other a puzzled look before entering a room identical to theirs except the beds were on the opposite side of the wall. The vampire's noses scrunched with the sudden smell of the yeast coming from the guys free beverages.
"Have you been drinking?" Elena stated the obvious, unimpressed at her brother and her ex. Jeremy instantly said no where as Matt said the opposite.
"Well I'm guessing Matt is the one telling the truth here?" Caroline added another obvious comment.
"And Miss Forbes, you would be correct!" Matt slurred and fell back onto his pillow, however still keeping his beer bottle straight up in his hands.
"You was meant to say no Matt." Jeremy rolled his eyes and tried to punch the quarter-back, instead he ended up swinging for open air near Caroline.
"Where did you get the beers from?" Elena began to hunt around the room, picking up more empty bottles and food wrappers.
"The fridge." Matt pointed with his beer and eyes closed as he was now starting to feel the effects of six bottles and three shots of tequila in his system.
"You have a fridge?!" Caroline rushed over to the metal door next to their wardrobe to take a closer look.
"We do as as well Care?" Elena frowned.
"Ugh I get told nothing!" She cried and opened the door to find half a bottle of opened tequila sitting on a now empty shelf.
"We get tequila too!?" Caroline squealed as she pulled out the spirit. Elena abruptly snatched the bottle from her fellow vampire.
"You drank this as well?!"
Jeremy opened one eye at the screech from his sister.
"I didn't like that stuff very much, Matt drank most of that." He fanned his hand over in his drunk buddy's direction.
"Liar you had the exact same amount of shots as me!" The quarter-back's muffled voice arose from under many cushions. Suddenly Jer started laughing uncontrollably at the odd sight of Matt buried in pillows that caused him to sit back up.
"What's so funny man?" Matt began to chuckle as well and got no reply other than a louder laugh.
"Jer what is funny?" He repeated.
"I don't even know dude!" Jeremy managed to say and randomly the two guys erupted in stitches.
The girls just watched as the two of them continued to roll around like this was some joke the females didn't seem to get.
"Elena can we just go, I'm actually starving and if I don't eat in the next twenty minutes, I will have to resort in biting one of them two." Caroline voice was stern and the boys quickly hushed their giggling.
"Hey don't be using threats Care, we are not stopping you from leaving?" Matt answered as he regained his composure.
"We was going to invite you to dinner, but even if you want to go or not I think it's best if you stay indoors tonight for all of our sakes." Elena told them.
"Arr my stomach feels weird." Jeremy announced.
"Oh no, If he is going to be sick I'm leaving right now!" Caroline screeched and stood beside the front door for safety.
"Me and you are definitely talking about this tomorrow." Elena told her younger brother before leaving the two guys to deal with intoxicated minds.
"It's going to end up just being me and you at this rate." Caroline decided to start a conversation as they walked further down the second floor hall.
"Hmm." Elena hummed, not really paying attention.
"Elena he is nearly eighteen..." The blonde vampire spoke on behalf of Jeremy.
"I know he is?"
"Well, then let him be. He is old enough to make his own decisions now." She soothed.
Elena never had a chance to reply because unexpectedly the two girls bumped straight into two familiar figures.
"We were just about to knock for you?" Stefan said as he realized who he was standing in front of.
"Well same here." Elena smiled politely.
"Well, don't you two scrub up well." Damon simpered as he noticed the two female vampire's clothing choices.
"I would say thanks but I don't like you." Caroline sneered.
"Meh, life goes on..." Damon shrugged unhurt.
"Where's Bonnie?" Stefan noticed the trio was one girl down this evening.
"She wasn't really hungry and wanted an early night." Elena sympathized with the absent witch.
"And Matt and Jeremy are drunk so it's just us four tonight." Caroline added.
"Drunk?" The Salvatore's questioned together.
"Please do not ask." Elena sighed.
"How could they be drunk?" Damon ignored Elena's plea.
"They had a fridge full of alcohol including tequila!" The blonde mentioned.
"A fridge? Alcohol? Tequila?" Damon looked at everyone of them.
"Damon, we have a fridge in our room with the same inside?" Stefan glanced at him frustrated.
"I saw no such thing?" Damon glared.
"See Elena! I'm not the only one who never knew it was there!" Caroline exclaimed. Elena had enough talk of alcohol and fridges as she felt her stomach rumble uncontrollably.
"Can we just get moving before the restaurant closes?"...
Downstairs...
After a long awkward journey down the elevator and a short walk to the restaurant the four vampires were now waiting in a short queue just outside the doors to be taken to a table.
"We really should of have got here earlier?" Caroline complained as she tried to take a peek above a couple's head in front of her.
"Any sign of them." Elena almost whispered as she was talking about the four fellow vampires.
"Well I can't really see much at the moment but if I can't hear them that's usually a good sign." Caroline smiled hoping her words were true.
"I still don't get why we are down here waiting to eat when one, there is perfectly good alcohol in our rooms waiting to be drunk, two, outside this hotel there are many clubs and bars around and three, we don't necessarily need to eat food?" Damon had decided queuing and waiting around was his tipping point.
"Doesn't mean we don't get hungry?" Stefan argued.
"Yes for blood, not a piece of pecan pie." Damon continued to press a little too loudly.
"Would you like to turn your volume button down a bit? Or even better, off?!" Caroline hissed. He reluctantly listened after the glares from his brother and Elena and frowned.
"Damon, we got two weeks to go off and get dangerously drunk, just how you like it so the least you can do is sit down for dinner tonight?" The brunette vampire reassured. His frown stayed, however it softened towards Elena.
"Hello and welcome to the Palm Restaurant, how many would be seating this evening?" The restaurant manager asked Caroline from his small podium at the front door.
"Four please." She smiled – she liked being in charge if it wasn't already that obvious. Suddenly, she heard a male voice dramatically clearing his throat. She tensed and scowled, thinking it was Damon just to irritate her but when she turned around her little group were turned around as well.
Much to all of their dismay, Kol was standing right behind them smiling like a cheshire cat with his siblings not far behind him.
"I apologize sir but darling Caroline here meant eight." Kol corrected her. Elena and Stefan stared in utter shock as Damon and Caroline growled quietly.
"If I meant eight Mikaelson, I would of said eight?" Her teeth were gritted and fists were curled up into tiny balls.
Rebekah, Elijah and Klaus had now caught up with Kol as the restaurant manager was now starting to look really nervous with the confrontation.
"So out of all the restaurants on this resort you are going to eat at the same one as us?" Damon really wasn't impressed and never took his piercing gaze off Kol once.
"Free country Salvatore." Kol smugly replied.
"Why must you always have to make a bad impression?" Elijah muttered to his younger brother before moving him aside to speak.
"I believe my brother is right in his indication of it's a free country but we do not have to associate on the same table if you four do not wish?" Elijah explained.
"Thank god." Rebekah mumbled to Kol but wasn't really acknowledged.
"Then table for four please." Caroline turned back around to the manager.
"Um hold on a minute Care?" Elena paused the group once more, "Maybe we all should eat together?"
"What?!" Everyone minus Elijah and Klaus exclaimed.
"Well I'm just saying I'd much rather us all get along for the duration of this vacation than us all wanting to rip each others throats out every second we get?!" She now had them all listening.
"It's two hours at most that we all have to sit around the same table and it isn't like, Elijah, Klaus, Damon and Stefan haven't done it before?" She glanced at the four men especially leaving the other two originals looking reasonably confused.
"You four have had dinner together?" Rebekah looked almost disgusted.
"It wasn't exactly a friendly dinner party Rebekah?" Klaus glanced at her frustrated.
"Well, I definitely know what happens when you get invited to a Salvatore dinner party..." Elijah uttered seemingly displeased with the memories coming back.
"Yes well the past is the past..." Stefan tried to reason.
"I want to know what happens at one of your dinner parties?" Kol interrupted clearly not knowing the underlying meaning of his brothers comment. Klaus was about to tell him, however the manager bravely stood in explaining that they must hurry up and decide what it is they wish to do because there is a big queue forming behind them all. Caroline being automatically the voice for the gang thought about the answer to give very wisely.
"Table for eight please..." She muttered blankly ignoring the winning grin from Kol and the slight smile Klaus seemed to now have across his own face. Rebekah and Damon seemed to be the only two frowning as they all followed the manager to their table where as Stefan, Elijah and Elena had looks of relief. Caroline was the only one who's face no one could read. She wasn't happy nor was she angry, to be honest right now all she felt is hunger and if she had dine with foes then so be it...