Chapter 31

Elena stood up and drank the blood that was sitting on her nightstand. Rage was running through her veins.

She decided to take her sweet time and take a shower, a long shower just to be a pain.

Downstairs Cassie walked through the door, "is she up yet?" she asked Stefan.

Stefan turned on his vamp hearing. "She is in the shower," he told her.

"Well it's about time" Katherine said, "It's been two days"

Stefan chuckled. "Well Cassie did do a number one her" he said.

Cassie smiled. "Well its time to get the gang together." She said.

Katherine stood up and walked over to her, "are you sure you want everybody to know?" she asked.

"Pretty much everyone knows something, I might as well tell everyone at one time." She said.

Katherine nodded and Damon walked into the room. "What are you guys talking about."?

"How Cassie kicked your girlfriend's ass" Katherine said.

Cassie clenched her jaw at hearing Katherine's words but didn't say any comment.

Damon glared at Katherine who smirked.

"Ok I'm calling everybody" Cassie said standing up.

"I'll help" Stefan said wanting to be out of this conversation just as much as Cassie did.

Cassie nodded and the two of them walked into the kitchen to call everyone.

Elena stepped out of the shower, thirty minutes later and decided to do her hair. Smiling she grabbed her blow dryer and started to dry her hair, anything to keep Cassie waiting on her.

Everyone was sitting in the living room.

Alaric, Mason, Katherine, Stefan, Damon, Katherine, Jeremy, and Cassie, the only person that wasn't there was Elena.

"I swear if she isn't down here in five minutes I'm going to get her" Katherine said.

Cassie laughed. "She is doing it on purpose, she wants me to wait on her."

Jeremy handed Cassie a mug. "Here" he said.

She smiled and took a drink. "Is that hot chocolate with"

"Vodka" Alaric said. "I figured you needed some extra comfort"

Stefan laughed. "You two are defiantly related," he said.

Cassie smiled and took another drink.

"Finally" Katherine groaned "the princess has decided to grace us with her presence"

Elena walked into the room. "I didn't realize this would be a family affair," she said.

"They deserve to know and I am only telling this story once so," Cassie said trailing off.

Elena didn't say anything and sat next to Damon who put his arm around her.

"So what is it you wanted to tell me?" Elena asked snuggling into Damon.

"Well I wanted to tell you that you are" Katherine began.

"Not today Rin" Cassie interrupted.

Katherine looked at her and nodded sitting back in her seat.

Cassie took a drink of her vodka chocolate. And stood up.

"You need to know why I didn't come home," Cassie said.

Elena scoffed "I know why you didn't come home" she said, "You didn't come home because."

"Elena" Jeremy said. "Let her explain."

Elena rolled her eyes.

"And to know the reason why, you need to hear the entire story" Cassie kept going like nothing had happened. "You all do"

Cassie gulped and stood to face the fireplace watching the flames as she traveled back into her past.

"It was November 2008, Mason and I were at a bonfire during our first year at college." Cassie began. "Well we were stupid and drunk and had sex without protection."

Alaric blushed and coughed trying to get what he heard out of his mind.

"I found out I was pregnant in December when I came home, my dad's a doctor and could spot the signs. I decided to keep going through college and everything was fine until May 23" Cassie said.

Mason stood up and walked over to her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"I could tell something was wrong so I called my dad, he was keeping me calm telling me the pains I was having were normal, until the blood came. I started screaming and it distracted my dad who was driving. The last thing I remember hearing is my parents screams as the went over the bridge and then I passed out." She said at a whisper.

Mason hugged her.

"I woke up three days later to find out that I lost the baby because of the stress I put myself through especially during finals week, and that my parents were dead." She said. "I went to the funeral to find that my sister wouldn't talk to me, turns out she was in the car and she blamed me for the accident."

Alaric and Stefan looked at Elena who didn't say anything.

"But it was ok, I blamed myself too, so Mason and I went down to Florida for the summer, where he triggered his werewolf gene and then he met Katherine. We decided after that summer that we still loved each other but not in love with each other so we broke up, and I went back to college."

She turned around to face them and sat down in a chair.

" I took a parapsychology class and the professor had these tattoos on his arm, I thought I was going crazy because everyone else I talked to couldn't see them. But he called me in and explained why I could see them and no one else could. Turns out he was apart of the brotherhood of the five. And since I was a potential I could see them. Uncle John had told me about the vampires and legends of Mystic Falls so that wasn't a shook, but what was a shock was when he to my the hunter's headquarters." She said.

"Headquarters?" Alaric asked

Cassie nodded " the headquarters for the hunters of the supernatural, its where they train hunters so they aren't hopelessly lost when they face a supernatural. With their help and Katherine's explanation I soon understood everything and started training. I finished that semester of college but I couldn't keep up the training and the classes so I dropped out. Aunt Jenna asked me to come home and help, Jeremy was doing drugs and Elena spent her days in the graveyard. So I did. I wanted to see my sister and talk to her so I found her sitting at the Mystic Grill, with Stefan" she said looking over at him.

Stefan looked confused at Cassie.

"My heighted hunters instincts told me he was a vampire, but the way the two of them were talking and looking at each other, they were happy and I knew I couldn't control myself, I wasn't that trained yet, so it would have been either I killed Stefan or more then likely Stefan killing me. So I left, but I made sure to keep tabs on them, knocked some sense into my baby bro and kept training."

Jeremy laughed, "she ripped me a new one, you didn't have to compel me to stop doing drugs, Cassie already did."

Alaric and Cassie laughed.

"Then Jeremy called me freaking out, Elena was a vampire and he had the mark of the five on him." Cassie said.

"You told her?" Elena said, "How did you know she knew about vampires"

Cassie laughed, "He didn't, after he said it at first you should of heard how he tried to cover it up."

"Yep then she called moi and dragged me back to mystic falls." Katherine said.

Cassie shrugged her shoulders "its true" she said simply.

"So that's it," Elena said.

"That's it" Cassie said

"I have questions," Elena said

"I knew you would" Cassie said looking at Katherine.

"Alright everybody story time is over lets leave the two of them to their Q&A" she said getting everybody else out of the room.

Cassie mouthed a thank you to Katherine who mouthed good luck to her. Cassie chuckled.

"Shoot" she told Elena sitting down in a chair.

"Is what you said the truth?" she asked.

Cassie nodded "every word"

"So you are one of the hunters like Jeremy is" she said.

"Yep" Cassie said popping the p

"And you came back earlier?" Elena said.

"I did" Cassie said.

"Why didn't you stay?" Elena said.

"I wasn't ready to live in peace with vampires yet, and you looked so happy." She whispered. "I wasn't going to be the one who took that from you again"

"You knew how mad I was going to be that you didn't come back," Elena said.

"I did, and I was ok with that, because I saw you smile for the first time in months at that table." Cassie said.

Elena was quiet for a while. "I blamed you for the accident." She said.

"I know" Cassie said.

"But what I really didn't want to face the truth, it was just as much my fault" Elena said.

"It was an accident" Cassie said, "it took my several bottles of whiskey and one or two therapists for me to learn that, but it was no one's fault."

"Why didn't you say anything to me?" Elena asked.

"I didn't know what to say," Cassie said, "Why didn't you call me? You know the phone works both ways"

"Because as long as I didn't hear you explain anything, you could be the bad guy." Elena said. "I remember growing up, you always could say things to calm me down."

Cassie laughed "did it work this time?" she asked.

"Yes" Elena huffed. "Everything you did you did for me and Jeremy," she started to cry. "I'm so sorry Cassie"

Cassie hugged her. "Its ok" she said

Cassie stood up and left the room.

"Where are you going?" Elena asked. "I thought we were having a moment."

"We were and now every thing up to when I got here has been explained and forgiven. But forgive me if I don't want to be all buddy buddy with my sister who literally hit on the guy I liked the moment I left the house." Cassie said and left.

Elena didn't say anything as she watched her sister leave. Everything she had thought for the past two years almost had been changed. Her older sister had been protecting her happiness and choosing to not be with her family all for her. Shame and guilt were coursing through her, when Katherine walked in.

"So mini me, tell me how does the crow taste?" she asked.

Elena looked at Katherine. "Is it true?" she asked.

"Yep" Katherine said popping the p "its true she stayed away from her family so you could have your epic love story with Stefan. Turns out it was for nothing."

"What do you mean?" Elena asked.

"I mean, that after everything your sister and hell even Stefan have done for the two of you to be together, you literally spat in their face the moment Damon wasn't worshiping at the Elena alter." She spat at her.

Elena stared at Katherine.

"Even I will admit what I did to those two boys was bad, but what you are doing to your sister" Katherine said. "Its horrific" and with that she left the living room leaving Elena alone.

Stefan and Damon were upstairs.

"I don't understand, you said you were over Elena" Stefan said. "You told me that you liked Cassie."

"I thought I was, then Elena came and was all I pick you Damon, and well you know the rest." Damon said.

"Well, what about Cassie, you told her you loved her Damon" Stefan said.

"That's not something you say lightly, even you"

"I was drunk," Damon said. "I say a lot of things when I'm drunk. And why are you even concerned about this brother? Upset that Elena chose me?"

Stefan shook his head. " Of course I am upset Damon I love her, everything I have done for the two of us. But that's not the point. The point is Damon that you have done some terrible things, but this I think is the worst thing. You played with Cassie, said you loved her then dumped her for her sister. You did exactly what Katherine did to us, and you destroyed a pair of siblings." Stefan yelled.

"Please they will be fine, after this big heart to heart they had, all will be forgiven between the two of them." Damon said ignoring the whole Katherine comment.

"Are you drunk. Do you honestly think that the two of them will be ok after what happened?" Stefan asked.

Damon rolled his eyes, and walked past Stefan.

Cassie walked to the bar where she found Alaric sitting at the bar. She hopped on the stool next to him and ordered a glass.

"We still aren't done talking" Alaric said.

"I know" Cassie said. "That's why I am here."
"Why was Katherine being rude to Elena, well more then normal?" Alaric asked.

"Damon and I slept together after I took him home, and before the whole Faye thing we were going to tell you that we were going to try being a couple" she said.

"What happened?" Alaric said.

"Elena did" Cassie said. "She threw herself at Damon, and he caught her."

Cassie drained her drink and ordered another one.

"It was the first time I felt something since Mason" she said.

"I'm sorry" Alaric said. "About your baby"

Cassie nodded tears in her eyes. "They had to preform an emergency hysterectomy, I was bleeding out, so I cant have kids anymore."

Alaric put his arm around his daughter.

"All I got was a scar, and some apologies," she said.

Cassie laid her head on Alaric's shoulder.

"Is there anything else?" she whispered.

"Can you tell me about the hunter's headquarters?" Alaric asked.

"Tomorrow, Jeremy needs to know to" she said.

Alaric kissed the top of her head. "You called me dad"

Cassie smiled as tear came down her cheek. "I did," she agreed.

Klaus and Rebecca were sitting at the both and overheard the entire conversation, including about Cassie losing her baby and the whole Damon Elena thing.

Klaus stood up to go walk over there.

But Rebecca grabbed his arm. "Not now Nik" she said. "Let her be with her family"

Klaus nodded and sat back down at the table thinking about how he was going to handle this new development in the Cassie situation.

AN: so Elena knows and was put into her place! about time if you asked me.

So i have absoultly no idea if vodka and hot chocolate are good together, but i think it would have a better chance then bourbon and hot chocolate.

and what do we think klaus is going to do?