Shiloh blinked her eyes open. This was the second time in two days she found herself waking up like this, she really didn't want to make a habit of it. For a second she thought that Stefan might have come back, but brushed the thought off, Stefan had only wanted to prove a point and scare Damon off. There was no point in coming back for her now. She tried to remember what happened. She was in the driveway with Caroline... Caroline. "Caroline?" Shiloh asked, looking around for her sister who she quickly spotted tied to a chair next to her. She looked down and noticed she was in a similar chair, bound there with chains.
"Shiloh? Where are we?" Caroline asked, attempting to break free from the ties.
"Looks like a cellar or something." Shiloh said, looking up and inspecting their surroundings.
"Who shot us?" Caroline asked.
"I don't know. With the way things have been going lately it could be just about anyone." Shiloh said, also pulling on her restraints. "Wait, do you hear that?" Shiloh asked, pausing to look up at the door.
"Hello! Is anybody there!" Caroline called.
"Care!" Shiloh hissed, but it was to late, the sounds of someone approaching the cellar told the girls they weren't alone.
"Who's that? Please." Caroline pleaded. The door was pulled open and a middle aged man entered.
"Hello, Caroline. Shiloh." He greeted.
"Daddy?" Caroline questioned.
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Shiloh and Caroline sat in silence, neither attempting to escape anymore. Instead, they listened intensely for any sounds coming from the outside. "Daddy, are you there? Why won't you talk to me? Dad!" Caroline called. Their father, Bill, entered the cellar, speaking gently to Caroline.
"Shhh. I'm so sorry this happened to you." He said.
"Dad..." Shiloh said wearily.
"I need an answer. How do you walk in the sunlight?" Bill asked.
"Dad, please. Let us go." Shiloh pleaded.
"Sweetheart, please, just answer me. Then we'll get on with it." Bill said.
"Is that all you want to know?" Caroline asked.
"That's all I want to know." Bill said.
"Care." Shiloh warned. Caroline didn't reply, just showed Bill her daylight ring.
"Interesting." Bill said, taking the ring from Caroline's finger.
"No, dad, no! What are you..." Caroline protested.
"Do you have one too?" He asked Shiloh, throwing the ring to the floor.
"Call Mom. I want to talk to Mom." Shiloh said.
"You're wearing the ring?" Bill asked.
"Please. I want Mom." Shiloh said.
"Just give him the ring, Shy." Caroline said. Shiloh refused to move so Bill walked forward, forcing the ring off of her finger and dropping it to the ground with Caroline's.
"What are you doing? Why do you want the rings?" Shiloh asked.
"Your ancestors built this place. People figured it was for unruly prisoners at the jailhouse, but... They had something else in mind. Vervain in the ventilation system to keep their subject weak. Reinforced steel containment chair. And that." Bill exited, returning with a blood bag.
"What are you doing?" Caroline asked. He held the blood bag up to Caroline who vamped out in response. Bill took the bag back.
"Blood controls you, sweetheart. This is how I'm going to fix you." Bill said.
"What?" Caroline asked. Bill pulled on a chain and sun entered the cellar, pouring down on Caroline who screamed in pain, her skin burning.
"Dad!" Shiloh screamed in fear.
"Your turn Shiloh." Bill said. "Try to control it."
"Dad, please don't do this." Shiloh said, her voice trembling with fear. Bill held the blood bag up. Shiloh closed her eyes tightly, trying not to breath. If she wasn't so hungry, she could do it. But she soon felt the familiar pulsing of the veins under her eyes and a searing pain as the sun hit her skin.
"That was good, Shiloh. Fight it." Bill said. He turned back to Caroline then.
"Stop! Don't hurt her!" Shiloh yelled.
"I'm trying to help her, Shiloh. I'm trying to help you both." Bill said.
"Then let us go!" She yelled.
"I'm sorry it has to be this way." He said, holding the bag up to Caroline. She vamped out and was punished with the harmful sun rays again.
"No! Please! Stop! Please stop! Please!" Caroline cried. The sun eventually disappeared. "We don't hurt anyone, I swear. Dad, I swear. I can handle the urges. I can!" Caroline said.
"If you could handle it, this wouldn't happen." Bill said, putting the bag in front of her and watching her face transform.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Caroline cried.
"It's not your fault, Care." Shiloh said, trying to give her a comforting smile.
"I'm conditioning you to associate vampirism with pain, in time, the thought of human blood will make you repress your vampire instincts completely." Bill informed them.
"That's impossible." Shiloh said.
"Daddy, you can't change who we are." Caroline said.
"Yes, I can" Bill said.
"No. You can't." Shiloh insisted.
"You remember this feeling?" Bill asked.
"No! No! No! No, no!" Shiloh repeated in a frightened voice. Bill pulled a chain again and the sun covered Shiloh, causing her to scream as the sun burned her skin.
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The hours went dragged on in agony for the Forbs sisters. It seemed Bill was determined to 'help' his two daughters for as long as it would take. The girls were now covered in burns, tired and becoming hopeless. It seemed nobody knew where they were, or even if they were gone. Shiloh hoped that their mother had noticed and was looking for them. Maybe she knew where this place was and she was on her way to rescue them. Shiloh always was a wishful thinking. "I want you to know, when Carol Lockwood called and told me about you two... I sat down and cried." Bill said.
"Carol?" Shiloh asked.
"Dad, I'm ok. We're okay. we learned to adapt. We don't need to be fixed. We can't be fixed." Caroline said.
"I've always taught you to try your best. I need you to try your best now." Bill said. He put the blood bag in front of Caroline and waited. "There, see? You're doing it." He encouraged.
"I can't." Caroline sobbed.
"Yes, you can. Fight the urge." Bill said.
"Daddy, I'm starving." Caroline said.
"I know you are, Care. Try." Bill said.
"Why? You know that this isn't going to work." Shiloh said.
"It has to work. It's the only option." Bill said.
"Why are you trying so hard to fix us?" Shiloh yelled.
"So I don't have to kill you!" Bill exclaimed. Caroline lost control, vamping out.
"Daddy, I'm sorry." Caroline cried.
"It isn't her fault!" Shiloh yelled, struggling once again against the grips keeping her to the chair.
"The sun's gone down. We'll try again tomorrow." Bill said, turning to leave.
"Dad." Shiloh said. Bill paused and turned back to her.
"You're making progress, Shiloh. You're doing good." Bill said.
"I'm not broken. I can't be fixed. And neither can we. If I get out of here, don't bother trying to find me, cause it won't end well for you." Shiloh said. Bill sighed, dropping his head for a moment before turning and leaving the cellar.
"Can he actually change us?" Caroline asked.
"What do you think?" Shiloh asked.
"It took me longer to vamp out the last time." Caroline said.
"We'll desecrate before we can train ourselves to not be vampires, Care. We have to get out of here." Shiloh said.
"I'm open to suggestions." Caroline said.
"Just keep trying, we'll think of a way out of here." Shiloh said.
"What if we don't?" Caroline asked.
"Someone has to be looking for us by now." Shiloh said.
"What if they aren't?" Caroline asked.
"Then we'll get ourselves out, Caroline. Just stop asking and start thinking. There has to be a way." Shiloh said. A gun shot rang out, drawing the girls attention to the cellar door. Seconds later, Jeremy and Tyler burst through the door.
"Tyler?" Caroline said in disbelief. Tyler rushed forward and broke the chains, freeing her. He then did the same for Shiloh.
"It's ok. We're going to get you out of here." Tyler said, comforting Caroline.
"My ring." Caroline said. Jeremy scoped up both rings, handing one to Tyler to slip onto Caroline's finger and putting the other on Shiloh's. The boys picked the girls up gently, cradling them to their chest as they left the cellar.
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Caroline, Shiloh, and Liz sat in Caroline's bed, leaning against her headboard. Caroline and Shiloh sipped on blood bags quietly. Caroline had finally stopped crying long enough to drain the blood bag and handed the empty bag to Liz. "Thank you." Caroline said softly.
"Honey, your dad... All our families, we have beliefs that have been passed on through generations. And we were taught never to stray from them." Liz said.
"You did." Shiloh said.
"You two taught me to look at things in a different way." Liz smiled.
"I just thought that he was the one who got me." Caroline said.
"He did. He will again." Liz said. Tyler arrived in the doorway and Liz got to her feet, reaching her hand down to help Shiloh up. "Come on, Shy." Liz said, leading her youngest daughter towards the door.
"Hey, mom?" Caroline spoke up. Liz turned back to Caroline. "Thanks for believing in me." Liz smiled lovingly at Caroline before leading Shiloh out. Shiloh could hear her sister crying in the bedroom as she left. Jeremy stood from his seat at the kitchen table when the two blondes entered.
"Hey." Jeremy said softly.
"Well, looks like I'm going to bed early. I'll be in my room if you need me." Liz said, touching Shiloh's arm and sending her a smile before heading off to her bedroom.
"How did you guys find us?" Shiloh asked. "How did you know to look?"
"You didn't come over last night. I tried calling, texting, you wouldn't answer. So I came over and Tyler was looking for Caroline." Jeremy said.
"You found us." Shiloh smiled.
"Shiloh... I'm sorry you had to go through that." Jeremy said. "How are you?"
"I didn't think we were gonna get out." Shiloh said, tears springing to her eyes. Jeremy quickly walked over to her, pulling her into a protective embrace. Shiloh finally let the tears fall.