Chapter 12 – Open tomb

"I'll talk about her to the council"

Damon decided.

"And Caroline? I promised to help her and I will but I can't teach her how to kill or not to kill"

I threw my best puppy dog eyes at Jasper who rolled his eyes and sighed.

"I can try but I can't control myself let alone show someone else how to control it"

"Oh please. You trained newborns"

Damon threw

"What's a newborn? And don't tell me 'babies'"

I rubbed my temples looking at both vampires. Jasper sighed, again, and went through his life story quickly for me.

"Okay, so you teach her how to hunt and whatnot and I'll be there for her with everything else"

We decided. Hiding a smile I took the guys with me to the Forbes household and left Damon with the sheriff and her werewolf, better bite that bullet now, and took jasper to Caroline's room with me. The young vampire was crouching under her bed to avoid the weak sunlight.

"Hey Caroline, this is my friend Jasper. You two have a few thinks in common"

"I'm hungry"

"I can show you how to hunt"

Jasper told smoothly and softly to the frightened girl.

"Caroline, can I see your jewel box?"

She handed it to me and went back to talking with jasper on how to control her thirst. For a vampire of a complete different kind, he sure knew the ins and outs of vampirism. Sitting on her bed I went through her jewel box until I found a simple lapis lazuli oval pendant hanging from a satin ribbon long enough to be a necklace or wrapped around her wrist. Following the instructions on the Book I put in direct sunlight and performed the spell on it. I handed it to Caroline and explained what it does. Now sure of herself she put it on, laughed at jasper's sparkliness and holding her hand in mine we all walked downstairs.

Damon was sitting in the living room with a more than a little horrified Liz and a pissed off mason yelling to the phone.

"You told them?"

He nodded

"Caroline..."

"I'm sorry mommy"

Caroline whispered. Her nervousness rubbed on both me and jasper but Liz was perfectly unaffected as she hugged her daughter ignoring her pointy teeth

"You're still you baby. Just don't bite mommy"

She told her daughter in the voice we all use to talk to babies. Mason joined us

"She's been taken care of"

He told Liz who nodded. Hell hath no fury like a mother of a newborn vampire.

"Shouldn't she be sharpening stakes to kill us both?"

Jasper whispered. Damon hissed

"Don't give her any ideas"

"Boys, zip it. She's a mom first even if she's bred to kill both your asses"

Mason chuckled and sitting down beside Liz we began talking about this and that.

"Bella as in Phil's Bella?"

"You knew Phil?"

"He stopped me from ripping a new one to a guy for harassing my then girlfriend. How is he?"

"Dead. Permanently so."

"What happened?"

"Dark lighter went after him so they could get to me next. Poor Phil didn't stand a chance"

The moment the sun went down Jasper took Caroline hunting. She looked freaked by the idea of killing an animal and Damon kept yapping on how he has human blood stored for when she needs it. Then he actually apologized to Liz for attacking Caroline less than 48 hours ago. I half expected her to attack him but she didn't. Mason however did mention the threat he'd pose to the vampires for three short nights every month but that he also had a plan to try and not hurt any.

"It's really strange how you all agree to this"

"What do you mean?"

Liz asked.

"I mean you were bred how to fight vampires your entire life but you didn't even blink when your daughter became one. You're not even mad that your new council buddy is one or that your boyfriend was killed by him or that your new boyfriend grows a tail!"

To my surprise Liz laughed

"I see what you mean but frankly the old rules of finding a vampire and kill it never worked. You saw the other night at your house, 5 killings happened in under a week"

She threw a dirty glare at Damon who smirked and noted he only committed 2 of those

"And the whole council has no idea of how to locate a vampire. Our methods are ancient and inefficient"

"And protecting your vampire daughter doesn't go against your duties?"

"Never."

"Do you want her to hate her daughter?"

Mason interjected. I shook my head frantically

"No! It's just... It's too sudden. Three days ago, at my house both you and Mr. Salvatore were ready to grab pitchforks and start a headcount of who is really human in town and now you're calm and collected. I'm scared you'll wake up tomorrow or whenever Caroline slips and kills or attacks someone and you'll kill her"

"She's my daughter. I love her; she can use my blood if she's so hungry"

Liz said defiantly. I smiled and she replied with another one

"Plus, I always had a crush on Mason"

We all laughed. A few hours later Caroline and jasper returned both drenched in blood. Caroline was disgusted on how she killed a deer and jasper looked upset at how she threw up the animal blood. Liz scolded her for being messy but promised to get her some human from the hospital and made all vampires in the room promise to try and stick to a non lethal diet. Afterwards Damon walked me home.

"Can I ask you something?"

He asked with all signs of cockiness absent from his face and tone

"Sure"

"You said Katherine is alive?"

"Yeah, she was skulking around. Why?"

"What did you do to her?"

"Nothing. I only sent her back erasing the memory of whatever reason she had to show up. Not sure if that worked though"

"Why?"

"I did the same think to you and Stefan and you two are still here"

He ran his hand through his head messing it up a bit.

"She's the reason I'm here"

I looked down.

"I can listen if you want to talk"

I said softly. With a wry laugh he told me about Katherine. How he met her and fell for her. How she was officially dating his brother and slept with Damon and how she was trapped in a tomb under the old church with a lot of other vampires.

"Those are the 'civilians' Stefan told about during class. A bunch of vampires"

I trailed, he nodded

"I wanted to open the tomb and get her out but you're saying she's not in it"

He kicked a pebble.

"Who locked them up?"

"A Bennet witch"

"Bennet as in Bonnie Bennet?"

"Yep"

He popped the 'p' and I rolled my eyes. It does make sense strangely

"How are they locked in?"

"Some sort of spell"

"Want to visit and make sure Katherine isn't in?"

"Can I?"

His eyes lit up like a kid in the candy store. I laughed and shook my head

"Only if you do what mommy says"

I said in the same voice I use when try to keep mom under control my entire life. With a smile better belonging to Rumpelstiltskin, he grabbed my hand, dragged me to his house, threw me in a car and drove fast.

"First of all never manhandle me, secondly why do all vampires drive so fast?"

"I'll keep it for the bedroom then"

He winked. I raised an eyebrow and glared at him copying the Bennet witch the best I could. He hissed in pain and lost control of the car for a moment

"Just to keep you in line"

I winked. He looked at me surprised before laughing aloud. He drove us to the other edge of town; we went on a short hike and ended up at a ruined church. I was immediately hit with pure anger and cold hate, I shivered.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Let's do this. Hold my hand it's the only way you'll be able to leave the tomb"

I took his hand in mine and began chanting a simple cancellation spell for those who are witches. He would never be able to get in or out on his own. Taking a mental step forward we were both inside the musty tomb.

"How big is this place?"

"Not big at all"

Hand in hand we walked among the graying bodies. They were in various states of decaying, fallen on the ground, clad in period clothes. Damon recognized a few as servants and workers of the time but no Katherine. When he was done he looked strangely sad and was holding to my hand too tightly. I got us out and we did what every normal person does when they find out their beloved have led them to believe a lie for 145 years.

We got plastered.