Chapter 33
Cassie let Jeremy have the weekend off so he, Matt, Mason, and Tyler went to the lake house.
Cassie walked into the grill.
"Cassie" Caroline squealed from a booth, Cassie turned and walked over to where Caroline and Bonnie were sitting.
"hey girlies" Cassie said sliding next to Caroline.
"since the boys are having a guys weekend, we decided to have a girls weekend, you in?" Caroline asked.
Cassie smiled. "I promised Rebecca we would eat a ton of ice cream tonight" she told them.
"she can come" Caroline said.
"Care" Bonnie said,
"Oh get over it Bonnie, she has been better since Cassie came and I don't mind spending time with her." Caroline said.
"Bonnie what's your problem with Becca?" Cassie asked.
"she is an original" bonnie said.
"and you're a witch" Cassie said.
"I didn't ask to be" Bonnie defended herself.
"and neither did she, but you need to give her a chance" Cassie said.
"Fine, we can all have a girls night with ice cream" Bonnie said.
Rebecca walked in and looked and saw Cassie and the girls, she smiled as Caroline waved her over to them.
Rebecca walked over and sat next to bonnie. "what's up" she asked.
"that ice cream night we planned." Cassie said.
"ya" Rebecca said hesitantly. "We can take a rain check, if that's what you need" she was looking at Caroline and Bonnie.
"no, I promised we were going to have it, I just wanted to know if we could add people to the party?" Cassie clarified.
"really?" Rebecca asked perking up. "that would be lovely, of course you guys can come" she said talking to the two other girls.
"Anybody else?" Bonnie asked.
"well Rin left town, said she wanted to track down a few things so she isn't here" Cassie said.
"Elena?" Caroline asked.
Rebecca and Cassie looked at each other, the other two girls didn't know that Elena was with Damon, and that Cassie wasn't.
As if fate made it so Elena and Damon walked into the grill, holding hands.
Caroline's eyes grew wide and she looked at Cassie who looked anywhere but the two of them.
"What?" Bonnie asked turning around to see Damon and Elena give each other a kiss.
"when?' Caroline asked.
Elena heard the girls and walked over to them.
"hey guys, what's up?" she asked.
"Girls night" Bonnie said.
"oh, let me grab a chair." Elena said looking for an empty chair.
"Here don't bother, take mine" Cassie said standing up and grabbing her bag, " I have some super secret hunters stuff to deal with"
"Cassie" Rebecca said but Cassie ignored her and started to leave before Alaric walked in.
"Daughter of mine, you look like you need a drink," Alaric said.
"oh father of mine, you know me so well" she teased back "but unfortunately, I cant be buzzed in the middle of the day, I have some things to deal with."
Alaric looked to the bar and saw Damon. "oh I understand" he said.
Cassie looked back at the bar. "nope, that was yesterday's problem I have officially moved on and don't care about it, we have bigger things to worry about."
"Hey" he said giving her a hug. "There isn't anything out there that isn't bigger then you"
"Your good at this dad thing you know that?" she asked.
"so I've been told" he said "come on, lets go deal with this "bigger problem"" he said using air quotes.
The two of them left the grill and headed to the boarding house.
Caroline looked at Elena "are you serious" she asked.
"what?" Elena said.
"Damon" Bonnie clarified.
"I'm just going to go" Rebecca said slipping out of the booth.
"look" Elena said once Rebecca had left to go sit at the bar. "I know its sudden, but it feels right."
"feels right? Feels right!" Caroline said "Elena, you and Stefan are meant to be together, you have that epic romance."
"Caroline" Elena said.
"No, think about everything Stefan has done for you two" she said. "Not to mention Cassie, how can you do that to your sister"
Elena ran her hands through her hair. "look, all I know is that I want to be with Damon and I told Damon that, he is the one who decided to leave Cassie so if you are angry then be mad at him."
Caroline didn't say anything but glared at Elena. Her fists were clenched on the table.
"Look lets just drop this" Bonnie said. "Elena we are having a girl's night tonight are you coming?"
"sure, I would love to" Elena said.
"great" Caroline said before getting up and leaving.
"What's her problem?" she asked Bonnie.
"Elena I don't want to get into this" Bonnie said.
"Tell me" Elena told her.
"your sister was into Damon and he was into her, and then you just walked in and pretty much stabbed her in the back and went after him. It pretty much goes against every girl code there ever was and Caroline thinks of Cassie as an older sister." Bonnie said. "Look, its none of my business, so I'm staying out of it. I am just here to meet the professor who took over my grams class"
"Really?" Elena asked "who is he?"
"His name is Shane" Bonnie said "he called me and said he found some of my grams things and wanted to give them to me."
"That's great Bon" Elena said.
Bonnie smiled. "So I'm going to ask one time then I'm never going to mention it again. You and Damon" she said. "are you happy?"
Elena looked over at Damon who was talking to Rebecca. "I don't know, we really haven't had any time to be happy, but I know that I want to be with Damon"
Bonnie squinted her eyes at Elena trying to decide about what Elena was saying.
"What?" Elena said noticing Bonnie staring at her.
"Nothing" Bonnie said
"So what are we going to do tonight?" Elena said
Rebecca walked over to the bar and sat next to Damon. "you're an ass" she told him.
"well I have been called worse" Damon said downing his drink.
Rebecca slapped him over the head "I'm serious" she said. "What you did was unforgivable"
"Ok a its none of you business and b… what I just said" he said
Rebecca rolled her eyes and looked over and saw Cassie and Alaric. "Well its clear that she has gotten over you" she said.
"Well that's probably the best seeing as how I can't remember any feelings I felt for her." He mumbled downing another drink.
"That's just rude" Rebecca said. "What do you mean you don't remember your feelings"?
"Its just that, I remember everything I just don't remember feeling anything, its like I saw what happened between was in a movie" Damon said.
"That's… weird" Rebecca said taking a sip of her drink.
"I thought so too, but Cassie didn't think it was" Damon said.
Rebecca did a spit take. "You told her you don't remember having a feelings for her"
"I thought it was weird so I wanted her opinion on it." Damon said.
Rebecca shook her head, "you and Elena deserve each other" she said standing up and leaving Damon as Elena came over.
"Hey" Elena said taking Rebecca's seat "what was that about?"
"No idea" Damon said.
"Are you happy?" Elena asked.
Damon looked at her "what do you mean?"
"I mean," she said grabbing his hands "are you, Damon Salvatore, happy that you are with me?"
Damon leaned toward her and kissed her. Pulling back he looked her in the eyes. "Yes, Elena gilbert, I am happy"
"Good" she said smiling.
Alaric and Cassie walked into the boarding house. "Stefan" Cassie called.
The two of them walked into the living room.
"Stefan" Alaric called.
Stefan leaned up from where he was laying on the couch. "You guys do know that I am a vampire right, that means heightened hearing"
"Oh sweetie" Cassie said taking in his appearance.
"You need a shower," Alaric said.
"Stef go take a shower then you can help us with some super secret hunter stuff" Cassie said walking over to Stefan and taking his drink from him. She downed it herself as she pulled Stefan off the couch.
Stefan grumbled some words as Cassie pulled him off the couch. He walked up the steps showered and got changed.
After Stefan walked up the steps Cassie turned to Alaric who was smiling.
"You can't get buzzed in the middle of the day," he said.
"Oh shut it," she said playfully shoving him as she cleaned up a little bit in the front room.
"Why is he so torn up?" Alaric asked.
Cassie shook her head, "you are such a guy, Damon and I weren't anything but Stefan and Elena were"
"Oh" Alaric said, the pieces of the puzzle where fitting in.
"Yep" Cassie said
"Ok, I'm nice and clean again what did you want to tell me?" Stefan asked
"You can't tell anybody that you two know this" Cassie said sitting down.
"Why is it a secret?" Alaric asked
"It's a super secret hunter secret" Stefan said mockingly.
Cassie scrunched up her nose and made a face at Stefan. "If you cant respect the super secret hunters stuff, you cant hear it"
Alaric laughed as Stefan held up his hands in surrender.
"Ok, so there have been rumors flying around that Mikael is back" Cassie said.
"Mikael" Alaric said.
"As in daddy original Stefan clarified.
"Yep" Cassie said popping the p "Klaus has had Elijah and Kol running around trying to track down the rumors, everybody thought they were rumors."
"Until Faye was un-daggered," Stefan said.
"That's who they think un-daggered her?" Alaric asked
"Well we don't have any other leads" Cassie said
"And when we daggered Faye, we gave them her twin Robert" Cassie said.
"Putting them both together" Stefan finished off.
"We have Elijah and Kol with the coffins but" Cassie trailed off.
Alaric and Stefan both nodded.
"So what do we do?" Alaric finally asked.
"I have know idea," Cassie said sitting down. "This is a brand new territory"
"Well, what use are you?" Alaric teased.
"Easy now" Cassie said.
"Ya, can we get a new hunter" Stefan continued to joke "there is Jeremy and you how about the other three?"
Cassie laughed. "Well there is Vaughn but if you thought Connor was crazy"
Stefan groaned "looks like we are stuck with you"
Alaric laughed while Cassie threw a pillow at him. "There is no need to be mean," she said.
"So do you guys have any plans?" Cassie said.
"The last time Mikael came he made it pretty clear that he didn't care who died in his quest to kill Klaus" Alaric said.
"Right, that's why you brought Katherine in" Cassie said
"Right" Stefan said
Cassie groaned and laid her head back on the couch "is it always like this in mystic falls?" she asked.
"Pretty much" Stefan said sitting next to Cassie.
Cassie groaned again.
"I need a drink," Stefan said.
"Sorry boozy" Alaric said "no more today"
Cassie chuckled and Stefan hit her with a pillow.
"Hey" she said while Alaric laughed.
Alaric left leaving the two of them sitting on the couch.
"Stefan?" Cassie asked.
"Mmm" he replied.
"Have you talked to Damon?" she asked.
"No" Stefan said "why?"
"Two reasons" Cassie began "one, don't hate your brother because you think he broke my heart or anything"
"Dually noted, I hate my brother because he took my girlfriend away from me," Stefan said.
Cassie laughed "good"
"what's the second reason" Stefan said.
Cassie took a deep breath. "Damon came over the other day, and we was saying that he didn't remember feeling anything towards me."
"Ouch" Stefan said. "Can I hate him for that."
Cassie laughed again. "That's what I thought, but he said he remembers being jealous when Skylar was dancing with me, but he doesn't remember how it felt to be jealous about me."
Stefan turned his head towards Cassie "that's weird"
Cassie turned her head to Stefan "that's what I thought, but then he said he didn't remember saying he loved me, so I yelled at him to go talk to Elena about his feelings."
Stefan laughed. "Nice"
Cassie laughed with Stefan.
"How are you feeling?" she asked him.
"Drunk" Stefan
Cassie laughed "that's because you didn't eat anything while you were drinking"
"I am a vampire those rules don't apply" Stefan said.
"Of course they do, why do you think we eat ice cream and drink" Cassie said.
"So I forgot the ice cream?" Stefan asked.
"Yep" she said popping the p
"Damn" Stefan groaned. "next time"
Cassie laughed. "I like drunk Stefan, he seems more at ease"
"At ease?" Stefan asked.
"Ya," Cassie said turning her head so she was facing the ceiling again "when your not drunk, your so uptight and tense, you walk with the weight on your shoulders, and I know why you are so cautious around people, its just that I trust that you can be yourself around people, why cant you?"
"I'm trying" Stefan said. "And its getting better, I have Caroline helping me but, it's going to take some time." He finished staring back at the ceiling.
"Do you think you can do it?" she asked
"I think I will be able to after some time" Stefan replied.
Cassie swatted him across the chest. "That's not an answer, do you think you can do it?"
Stefan was quiet for a while.
Five minutes went by,
Ten minutes went by.
Stefan still hadn't answered.
"Well I think you can" Cassie finally said. "Not for Elena, or for your brother." Cassie got off the couch. "But for you Stefan Salvatore." She said poking him in the chest. "You're a good person Stefan, I know you can control it, have a little faith in yourself." She finished as she left the house, leaving him alone with his thoughts.
Cassie walked into the gilbert house. She sighed as she set her bag and coat on the couch and walked into the kitchen.
She had a bunch of mundane household chores she needed to do. Strangely Cassie enjoyed doing chores, especially after she became a hunter; it brought back a sense of normal that she desperately missed. She turned on he music and jammed while she picked up the living room and kitchen.
She finished cleaning and sat down with all of the financials trying to make sure the house and Jeremy and Elena were ok, when her phone rang.
"Hello" she sang.
"Cassie I don't want to" Kol whined
"Kol?" she asked laughing.
"Make Elijah do it" Kol whined
"Kol, put Elijah on the phone" Cassie said.
"Cassandra" Elijah said.
"Elijah, my very levelheaded friend what is your little brother whining about" Cassie said.
"I heard that" Kol said from the background.
Hey" he said as Cassie heard a thump
Cassie laughed.
"Cassandra pardon my brothers whining I apologize for the inconvenience," Elijah said.
"Its, ok Elijah, is there anything I can do?" Cassie asked.
"No, thank you" he replied, "I can handle Kol"
"Ok" Cassie said laughing, "I'll talk to you two later"
"Goodbye" Elijah said before hanging up the phone.
"That was so weird" Cassie said to herself.
Cassie put away all of the files and walked upstairs to her room.
She laid down on her bed and thought for a while. As much as she played it off, it hurt her that her sister would do that to her. And if she was being honest with herself she really didn't want to go spend the night hanging out with her, she wasn't ready, not yet.
She picked up her phone and called Caroline.
"What's up Cassie" Caroline's voice said through the phone.
"I think I am going to skip out on girls night," Cassie said.
"What?!" Caroline yelled "why?"
"I just, I don't want to feel like I am crashing your girls night," Cassie said.
"Cassie" Caroline said "your not"
"Yes, I would be, its all of you guys and your in high school and I would just feel out of place" she mumbled.
"Cass" Caroline said, "Is it because Elena is going"
"No, Caroline its not, I would just feel out of place" Cassie said.
"Fine, but you are telling Rebecca" Caroline said.
"Cant you just tell her I am sick or something?" she asked.
"Nope" Caroline said.
Cassie groaned. "Fine, have a nice night care" she said before hanging up.
Cassie took a shower while she thought about how she was going to tell Rebecca she wasn't coming tonight.
She got out and dressed in jeans and a dark blue button up shirt. Her hair hung in her natural curls and she walked down to the couch.
She laid on the cushions and put her feet over the back so she was effectively sitting upside down. She picked up her phone.
"Don't even think about it" a voice came from outside the front door.
Cassie froze and rolled off the couch. She slowly walked over to the front door.
"Becca?" she asked from the other side of the door.
"Who else?" Rebecca called.
Cassie shook her head and opened the door.
Rebecca was standing there, her hands on her hips. "You are not cancelling on me," she said.
Cassie stepped to the side and held out her arm for Rebecca to come in.
"I brought the good stuff," she said holding up bottles.
"And that's why you're my favorite" Cassie said as Rebecca walked in and sat on the couch. "So what are we going to watch?"
"Watch?" Cassie asked.
"Yes, what movie are we going to watch?" Rebecca said.
"Um, we could watch the breakfast club" Cassie said.
"Hm, never seen it" Rebecca said.
"Oh my god" Cassie said. "Go get some glasses and sit, we are watching this movie"
Cassie walked up to her room, while Rebecca got the glasses.
Cassie walked back down the steps and she heard the knock on the door, she opened it and saw Stefan.
Cassie turned her head to side to show her confusion and Stefan held up a bag of ice cream. "I want to do it right this time," he said.
Cassie laughed. "Becca, grab another glass" Cassie stepped to the side while Stefan walked in.
The three of them sat and ate ice cream and drank while they watched the breakfast club, pretty in pink, and they were in the middle of sixteen candles, when they heard music outside.
Cassie paused it and the three of them looked at each other in confusion.
"What is that?" Cassie asked.
"It sounds like music," Rebecca said.
"Uh, guys" Stefan said peaking out the window.
The two girls walked over to the window.
"Shut up" Cassie said.
The music was coming from Klaus who was standing outside the car, holding
a boom box.
"Did you?" Cassie asks.
"No, he didn't even know I was here" Rebecca said.
"What should I do?" Cassie asked.
Stefan and Rebecca looked at Cassie, "Cassie we have spent the entire night watching eighties movies, here is your eighties movie" Stefan said.
"Why is he here?" Cassie asked.
"Maybe its because he thought he said something to upset you the other night" Rebecca said.
"The other night" Cassie said "no, he didn't say anything to upset me, if fact he was actually really nice and comforted me"
"Love" Klaus called. "This is actually really uncomfortable and if you could come out"
Cassie and Rebecca laughed.
"Ok guys, you two are more then welcome to stay here and finish the eighties movie marathon." Cassie said slipping on her black ballet flats and going outside.
Elena walked up to Caroline's door and knocked before going inside.
"We are missing a few people, aren't we?" she asked seeing only Caroline and Bonnie.
"Your sister was needed for some hunters stuff with Rebecca" Caroline lied to her.
"Plus, we haven't gotten to spend a lot of time together recently" Bonnie said.
Elena smiled and sat down with the girls at the table, she grabbed a slice of pizza.
"So Bonnie, how did the meeting with the professor go?" Caroline asked.
"Good" she said smiling. "He really knows his stuff, plus I think that he is going to help me with my witchcraft."
"That's great Bon" Elena said.
The three settled back into uncomfortable silence.
"Caroline just say" Elena finally said.
Bonnie looked at Caroline silently begging her not to say anything
"Nope, I have nothing to say" Caroline said. "Cassie and I have talked about it, and I am over you totally stabbing your sister in the back"
"Subtle" bonnie said to Caroline.
Caroline shrugged her shoulders.
"I didn't stab her in the back Care." Elena said.
"Lets agree to disagree" Caroline said.
"I have a great idea" bonnie added "lets change topics"
"Great idea" Caroline said. "I think Tyler is hiding something from me"
"What makes you think that?" bonnie asked.
"He was on the phone with some girl named Hayley and they were talking about something in hushed tones" she said sadly
"Who is Hayley?" Elena asked.
"I don't know," she said. "And I asked Tyler about it and he blew it off,"
Bonnie rubbed her shoulders "I'm sure its nothing" she said trying to reassure Caroline.
Elena walked over to the sheriff's alcohol cabinet and pulled out a bottle.
"Here" Elena said pouring some into three glasses.
"To getting things back to normal" Elena said.
"I'll drink to that" bonnie said.
"I just want all of this cure drama done with," Caroline added.
The three girls smiled and drank to there toast.
Rebecca and Stefan watch Cassie walk out of the house.
"Do you really not know what he is doing" Stefan asked.
"No idea," Rebecca said.
"What did you mean maybe he is trying to make up for the other night?" Stefan asked.
"Cassie came over and we were talking about who could of un-daggered Faye and Nik being an ass and said something about Elena. I thought Cassie got upset and left but apparently that wasn't the case," Rebecca said.
Stefan laughed "yep, Cassie is a big girl, she isn't going to let the high school antics of her sister upset her" he said taking a drink from a bottle.
The two of them sat on the couch in silence for a while.
"Why do you want the cure?" Stefan finally asked.
Rebecca smiled "because I want to grow old and have a family, and have someone who loves me enough to stand outside with a boom box" she whispered.
Stefan grabbed her hand "you'll get that someday" he told her.
"How do you know?" she asked
"Because I know you, and that means I know that somewhere deep inside of you is a beautiful girl who is capable of being a person, she is just scared to show it sometimes" he told her.
Rebecca turned to Stefan, tears shining in her eyes. "That was the nicest thing that someone has said to me in a long time" she whispered.
Stefan smiled "so, should we continue our movie marathon?" he asked jumping topics.
Rebecca laughed, "of course, there are still a bunch of movies I haven't seen yet."
Cassie walked over to Klaus. "Ok where do you find the boom box?" she asked laughing.
Klaus shrugged his shoulders "I know a guy"
She smiled "what are you doing here Klaus?" she asked.
"Well love, I was on my way over here to talk to you and I heard the movies so I decided to take you away from your movie marathon with style" he said.
Cassie shook her head and rolled her eyes "what did you need?"
"Fancy a road trip?" Klaus asked.
Cassie stared at him. "Why?"
"Someone tried to steal the coffins so I figured me and you could take a trip and go see Elijah and Kol and find out what happened." He said.
Cassie was quiet for a minute; all she had was her phone with her.
Klaus held his breath; he wanted to spend some time with Cassie. She was beautiful. Dressed in her button down shirt, her hair hung naturally in curls and it was clear she wasn't trying to impress any one with her dress. In Klaus's opinion this was the prettiest he had ever seen her, she was at ease.
"Sure," she finally answered "why not?"
Klaus smiled "why not" he repeated.
He held open the car door as Cassie got in and then blurred over to his side. He smiled as he started the car.
"It was very impressive" Cassie said.
Klaus looked over at her in confusion.
"The boom box, it was a nice way to drag me away from my movie night" she clarified.
Klaus laughed, and Cassie slipped her shoes off so she could put her feet up on the seat, effectively curling herself into a ball in the car seat. The two settled into comfortable silence as Klaus drove away from Mystic Falls.
AN: So yes, i took some themes from last weeks episode, dont shoot!
as always read, review and i hope you enjoy!