Chapter 24

Brave New World

"Katherine and Rose looked just like the two of you, it was freakish," Bonnie comments, as we begin getting ready for the school carnival. Caroline had actually given me a list of things to do, to give to Elena and Bonnie. Some of them happened to be just ridiculous as well, but I guess it was better doing this than I don't know, thinking about how much I hate Damon.

Elena shrugs, "They are our ancestors," she reminds Bonnie.

"Your vampire ancestors and they didn't just resemble you two, like a family member might, they were you," Bonnie says and the thought made me cringe. Thinking of Rose running around being me made me sick.

"Look the entire things creepy," I reply, trying to chase the thought away from my mind.

"How do you know that their not still out there pretending to be you?" Bonnie questions us, pointing out my worst fear.

Elena sighs, "We don't but we could either be tortured by the not knowing, or I could get these prizes to the ring toss," Elena says, her words indicating like me, she wanted to forget all these crazy problems that were stacking up.

"Have either of you talked Damon since he killed, or tried to kill Jeremy?" Bonnie questions, and as soon as she says Damon I freeze. I just couldn't think about him right now, or the fact that he killed Jeremy right in front of me.

Elena gives me a sympathic smile as I sign, "No Bonnie, we haven't and don't want to talk to Damon," Elena informs her, firmly.

I smile at her support, needing someone to understand how I felt, "Exactly we are humans, and we have human stuff to do. Like making Caroline proud because I'll admit there was a death threat somewhere included in this list," I joke, trying to lighten up my own mood.

"Right sorry, I'll focus, I don't know how she does all this," Bonnie admits, looking around at the mess of the carnival preparation that surrounded us.

"That's because she's not human," Daniel comments, walking up to join us. I smile happy that he had come, swinging around to give him a hug.

"You came," I say in relief. I'll admit with everything going on I needed my best friend.

"Yeah well it was either this or well nothing interesting," he replies shrugging, sending me a smile to let me know we're okay.

"Well good, it means I can set you to work," I declare, handing him a bag of plush, which he takes reluctantly.

"All of a sudden, nothing interesting just got more appealing," he mutters jokingly.

"Well you can't back out now," Elena declares, half a smile on her face.

"Joys," he responds, rolling his eyes.

"Elouise," Stefan greets me as I frown going over the numbers of prizes while the carnival is in full swing.

"Hey Stefan," I mutter, my mind still focused on the task at hand it just seemed unfair that I had to do this and not enjoy the carnival.

"Are you alright?" he asks softly, a brotherly concern in his voice.

I sigh turning to face him, "Look I get it, everyone's concerned about this Damon thing but you know what Stefan the entire world does not revolve around him. Can't I just be working out numbers?" I snap in annoyance. Why did everyone have to assume I was upset about Damon? I mean I was but I didn't want to talk about it.

Stefan gives me another concerned look, "Elena mentioned she was worried and I'm worried too," he admits.

I frown, "Worried about me, or worried I'm going to snap at him and drive him into doing something worse?" I question. The truth was if I did happen to see Damon I would snap at him.

"I'm worried about you," Stefan says instantly, "I'm also worried about Damon Katherine and Rose have made him dangerous," he warns.

I sigh, "Thanks for the concern Stefan but I hate to be the one to point this out to you but Damon always been dangerous he does not need Katherine or Rose for that," I hiss, walking past Stefan. I just needed everyone to give up this Damon thing for tonight. I had enough to worry about.

Daniel hands me a teddy, a little bear with a bow on it. "For me?" I question, putting on a child's voice.

Daniel laughs, "Well you cleaned your room," he jokes back.

I smile as well, "Actually I didn't," I reply, thinking about my actual mess of a room. I sigh, "Thanks for this, for letting me have fun and forget everything," I say to him, realizing why I'd always rely on Daniel, because somehow he'd always know how to make me laugh, and when I needed to do. Daniel nods before a frown comes over his features as he stares at something behind me.

"Elouise," my name comes from the one voice I wasn't prepared to hear. I swing around to see Damon and I feel a rush of anger and something else, something that I could almost believe may be desire. God, you have to be kidding me.

"What?" I hiss at him, arms crossed as I took an angry stance.

"I know I'm the last person you want to see right now but I need you to come with me," he urges me.

I roll my eyes, "Go to hell," I retort, there was nothing that was going to come out of his mouth that I was interested in.

"Yeah, I need you to come with me right now, Elouise," he voice almost sounding desperate, maybe this was important.

"You should go," Daniel encourages me, making the decision for me. I nod, following Damon as he walks away.

Caroline was a vampire, a vampire, I clenched and unclenched my fist in anger. My sister, this was all my fault I should never have let Damon fed her his blood. I was so stupid. "How did this happen?" Stefan questions.

"Well I fed her my blood and Katherine and Rose obviously killed her and A plus B equals," Damon says leaving the sentence hanging.

"But why?" Elena asks, her voice strong. How did she do that, become faced with these things and remain strong.

"Because they're both manipulative nasty little sluts," Damon replies.

"And they said game on? What does that even mean?" Stefan asks, trying to work out what was going on.

"It means they're playing dirty, they want us to know," Damon responds.

Stefan shakes his head, "Caroline must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her," he says, making me feel worse for my sister.

"Oh I think she does. All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition," he explains, reminding me of when he used her as a human blood bag, the thought makes me cringe in disgust.

"We have to find her," Stefan announces.

"Yep," Damon agrees, "and kill her." I look at him in surprise he said that so callously like he didn't care.

"You're not going to kill Caroline," Elena declares.

"She knows who we are, she's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her," he argues.

"She's not a liability, she's my sister," I hiss, had he somehow forgotten that along the way? Damon looks at me, his blue eyes meeting my brown ones and for one second I think he's going to change his mind then he looks away.

"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire," Damon declares, "your mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on we all know how this story is going to end just flip to the last chapter. Besides Elouise you have another sister now."

I stare at him my eyes wide with disbelief and horror, "You did not just say that," I growl, fighting the urge to attack him. I march to the door, looking up to see Damon in front of me, "Get out of my way," I snap at him, anger overcoming my senses.

"It's the only way," he tells me, stepping out of the way.

"No its not," I reply, stepping out the door to go in search of my vampire sister.

I rushed over to Caroline, Stefan had managed to find her, the unfortunate thing was he had used the smell of blood to track her. "Get away from me," she yells at the sight of me, her face terrified, "you killed me, you both killed me," she cries when she sees Elena beside me.

"No, no, Caroline it wasn't me, it was Rose and Katherine," I seek to explain, needing my sister to calm down. Even as I said the words I couldn't help but feel they were a lie, I may not have killed her but it was my actions that resulted in this. Stefan thought they were doing it to him and maybe Katherine was, but Rose, Rose was doing this to me.

"No," Caroline yells, "then why did they look like you two. And why, why did they do this to me?" The confusion in her voice was evident and I felt tears stinging my eyes at her face, blood around her mouth from where she feed.

"Stefan we have to get her inside," Elena says.

Stefan nods, "Its okay Caroline, come with me," he tells her gently, as we lead her away from the body.

"She'll die, its only a matter of time," Damon calls from behind us.

"Yeah, maybe so, but its not going to happen tonight," Stefan replies.

"Oh yeah it is," Damon argues, grabbing the stake and rushing towards Caroline but I quickly stand in front of her. Nobody was hurting my sister ever again, not if I could help it.

"Damon, she's my sister," I tell him, trying to make sure my voice didn't shake.

Damon still holds the stake up, but then he drops it, "Whatever happens its on you," he warns me.

"Caroline?" the voice comes from Bonnie, I turn to see her.

"Its okay, come on," Stefan urges Caroline.

Bonnie's face looks in horror at the blood around Caroline's face, "No you're not you can't," she breathes, touching Caroline to confirm it.

"Bonnie?" Caroline asks her uncertain, wanting her friend to accept her.

"Oh god," Bonnie exclaims in horror, as she sees the body.

"Bonnie," Caroline starts but Stefan moves her forward, leaving the four of us here with a body.

"I can't believe this is happening," Bonnie admits to me and Elena, as we all try to process everything. It was kind of hard to do.

"Come on, don't pout about it, we've got a body to bury," Damon declares, arriving back with shovel in hand. I look at him, tears threatening to flood my eyes again. "I thought you were calling the shots," he says to me, "no, it sucks to be you buddy." Bonnie looks at him her stare intense and before I know Damon has fallen to the ground his hands on his head, trying to stop whatever pain Bonnie was causing. Water begins pouring out of the hose, and I look around in confusion, wondering what she was going to do.

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt," she reminds him, her voice deadly.

"I didn't do this," Damon complains through the pain.

"It isn't his fault, Bonnie," Elena argues, standing up for Damon, which was something I should have done, yet words had escaped me.

"Everything that happens is his fault," she hisses, concentrating. I stare at her, finally going it to panic mode, it was a lie I didn't hate Damon. I could never and now Bonnie was going to hurt him and I was so scared.

"What are you doing?" I choke out, as a fire begins where the water is slowly making its way towards Damon. "Bonnie, no," I cry, she couldn't.

"Bonnie, you're going to kill him," Elena yells at her friend, as the fire starts on Damon's body.

"You can't," I say, my voice a little more than a whimper. I stare at her knowing what I have to do, I jump over the flames as I grab her hand, ending her concentration. The fire vanishes around me and I breathe a sigh of relief.

"Why did you stop me?" she asks me confused.

"Because this can't be us," I mutter as Elena walks over, giving both me and Bonnie a hug as we walk away. I take one last look at Damon before shrugging and moving on, it didn't change the fact I was mad.

I knock on Caroline's door softly, Stefan had said she had headed home and I needed to see her. I needed to apologize. "Come in," she calls quietly. I open the door smiling when I see her.

"Hey," I choke out, my voice little more than a whisper.

"Hey," she says back as I take a seat across from her on the bed. "I have a confession," I admit, taking a deep breath, "this is all my fault. I let Damon give you vampire blood and I'm sure that Rose and Katherine turned you because Rose is hell-bent on ruining my life and its my fault. I want it to work out for you, I need you to fight Caroline, because I can't lose you. You're my sister, so please don't let Damon be right," I beg, looking into her blue eyes.

Caroline pulls me into a hug, "Its not your fault, you don't have a bad bone in your body," she whispers, making me smile, "I'll be fine I'm Caroline Forbes," she reminds me as she lets me go.

I laugh through my tears, "Yes, yes you are," I confirm as I see a figure at the window. "And I'm going to go," I tell her winking as I recognise Matt. Maybe I should have been more concerned for his well-being but if this was going to work out I was going to need to start trusting Caroline.

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