Because you're you-and I'm me
A/N: I realize a fan reviewed that I was stereotyping. I did not mean to offend anyone, and if I did, I apologize profusely. That was not my intention.
Disclaimer: I don't own the vampire diaries.
~VD~
"You want to what?" Stefan asked, incredulously. He looked his brother up and down. Something was wrong. For a second he let go of his rage. Lexie was dead. Damon had killed her. There had to be a deeper reason. Damon wasn't the monster anymore that he was when he first came to mystic falls. He wondered what drove him up the walls so much.
"I want to die. Will you kill me?" He asked, swallowing.
"Why would you want to…Oh my god. Where's Caroline?" Stefan connected the dots.
"Gone." Damon choked out. Stefan growled.
"What did you do?"
"I broke up with her."
"Why on earth would you...oh no. Damon! Tell me you didn't ask her to turn! Tell me!"
"I didn't ask her to turn?"
"Oh my god. You totally asked her to turn, didn't you?" He gasped. Damon nodded slowly.
"Now she hates me. I can see it in her eyes. She hates me." Damon pressed his lips together.
"You've known her for three weeks." Stefan exclaimed, dismayed.
"And she was the only good thing in my life." He sighed. "It feels like I've known her forever." He sighed. Stefan sighed, patted him on the shoulder, and then left. He didn't know what to say.
~VD~
"Caroline? Are you quite ready?" Klaus asked, rapping on her door. He was getting impatient. He heard some undefinable swearing behind the door, and rolled his eyes. He didn't do impatient. He was 1000 years old, for god's sake. He was about to knock again when the door opened. Caroline closed it behind her.
"I'm ready, you big baby." She said, looking grim.
"Why so glum, darling? Today should be the happiest day of my life."
"I like to save my happiness for when it's worth being happy. He's not dead yet." She said, dead serious. Klaus backed off.
"Alright then. Are you prepared?" He asked. She flung back her coat to reveal a several knives and a gun.
"Those things won't do you any good. You're going up against vampires, werewolves, witches, possibly demons." He pointed out. She smiled.
"Do you want to know a secret?" Caroline asked, widening her eyes.
"What?" Klaus asked amused.
"Yes they do." She answered.
"And how would you know?" Klaus asked.
"Mh…I have my ways." She said, walking towards the elevator.
"You going to tell me about it love?" He yelled after her. When she didn't respond he picked up his pace until he was walking next to her.
"What's the plan?" He inquired. She looked at him, her face emotionless.
"In and out. We kill the ones that do not flee, and then we kill Casper."
"And how do we do that?" Klaus scoffed. "He's almost as old as I am."
"You can be killed. Everyone can be. You just have to find their weakness, and exploit it." Caroline stated, getting into the elevator. When the doors closed, she balled her hand, and closed her eyes. Klaus looked at her curiously. Then the camera in the corner exploded. Klaus couldn't help but be amused.
"I can't be killed." He stated, eyeing the fried up camera.
"Really? White oak tree?" She smirked. He rolled his eyes.
"Burned to the ground almost a thousand years ago." He said, bemused. Caroline was squatting down to feel along the sides of the elevator wall. She looked up to Klaus, her eyes curious. He didn't know about the second one, then? Interesting. Keep that in mind, darling.
"Mikael says he knows how to kill you." She said, taking off a piece of the wall. It went with a loud clang. She looked at the elevator sign quickly. 4 more floors down, then the doors would open. She took out a large duffel bag.
"How do you know about Mikael?" He asked, dead serious.
"There's rumours. I guess I know they're true. Wow. So you spent 1000 years running from your father, huh?" She asked. Klaus ignored her. She sighed in annoyance.
"What's in the bag?" He asked once they exited the elevator.
"Weapons."
"How are weapons going to help you against these monsters? I trained them myself. They're quite excellent. If they see you coming with a gun, they're going to knock it out of your hand and use it on you. You're strong, but a headshot will kill you." He said, looking slightly worried. If this plan blew up in his face, Casper could turn Caroline, and then he'd be screwed. He had to stop that from happening.
"Then I guess it's a good thing they won't see us coming." Caroline said as she stepped out of the hotel.
~VD~
Bonnie awoke next to Jeremy the next morning.
"Hello." She smiled at him. He faced her, looking pained.
"What is this?" He asked.
"Us sleeping together?" Bonnie probed. He nodded. "Well, it's sex." She said, feeling the heat rush to her face.
"Mhm." Jeremy said, biting his lip. Staring off into the distance. Bonnie gathered all her confidence.
"Mindblowing sex." She said, wiggling her eyebrows. He couldn't help but chuckle.
"So…what's going to happen now?" He asked, unsure. He was trying to avoid an awkward morning after.
"You're going to be that kind of guy, really?" She asked.
"Uh…what?" Jeremy asked back, feeling confused.
"The one who needs everything explained to him?" Bonnie suggested.
"Well, with you, that seems like my only motherfucking option." Jeremy said, feeling annoyed. She laughed.
"We're dating, Jeremy. If you want." She said, kissing him. He smiled.
"Yeah. That sounds cool." He nodded. She laughed.
"Come on, we're late for school." She said, getting up. He rolled his eyes, and stood up. Bonnie was about to leave out the door, when she turned around.
"What if Elena sees me?" She asked, shocked. Jeremy dismissed it quickly though.
"Elena's been living at Stefan's. Jenna, however, might see you." He smiled. She laughed.
"Do you think she'll mind?" Bonnie asked. Jeremy winked at her.
"She won't. She's easygoing. Just don't get naked in front of her. I'm going to go brush my teeth." He left to go to the bathroom. Once he was out of sight, she smiled very broadly and let out a content sigh.
"I heard that." Jeremy called from the bathroom. Her smiled broadened even more.
~VD~
"Caroline Forbes. Stop this instant." Klaus said, racing after Caroline.
"Oh, Good job, blurting out my name like that, idiot. Be a little louder, I don't think they heard you yet." She said, sarcastically.
"We're about 800 meters off course. We're heading towards the hills." Klaus said, ignoring her obvious sarcasm.
"That's kind of the plan. What were you going to do? Go full-on Brawl? We're outnumbered by a lot." She stated. She was looking around. Closing her eyes every few seconds to concentrate. Then she would walk a few meters, concentrate again, and walk even more. It was putting Klaus off. She was planning something. She seemed confident this plan was going to work. Yet she hadn't told him a single detail.
"I hadn't thought about that." He said, following her still. Caroline finally reached a perch. It was a nice place. There were trees, gathered in a half circle. A small platform reached out. He had a perfect vision of the palace that Casper was housing in. Klaus acknowledged this.
"Smart. Except what are you going to do from here? Get out your bow and arrow and aim?" He asked, snorting.
"Why do you always have such little faith in me?" She asked, dropping her duffel bag to the ground.
"I don't know. You have some secret plan you're not telling me about?" Klaus asked.
"You're smart you'll figure it out eventually."
"Why are we up here? What is your freaking plan? And what do you want me to do?" Klaus asked again, frustrated. Caroline stood. She walked towards him.
"What I need you to do, is have my back. Can you do that?" She asked, holding out a pill.
"What's this?" He asked, looking at the blood red pill. Caroline raised her eyebrows.
"It works for 3 hours. It'll set free your werewolf side. Now can I trust you on this?" She asked, dead-serious.
"Yes. Yes you can." He said, after clearing his throat. He took the pill. He was about to put it in his mouth.
"Don't. You'll transform instantly. Wait until I finish this." She warned, opening the bag. She took out a sniper rifle. Klaus' eyes were about to bulge out.
"What is that?" He asked in amazement.
"It's a rifle. Weapons experts call it the 'Zerstörer'." She said, setting it up. She was making herself a sniper nest, right in front of his eyes. He couldn't believe it. Caroline Forbes. Who knew?
"I know that. How'd you get it?" He asked.
"Built it. Along with Jeremy and Tyler a few years back." She said, continuing to add things to it.
"Yeah…but this kind of weapon…" Klaus started. She shushed him.
"Has a firing range of over 500 meters. At this point, we are exactly 450 meters away from the Castle entrance, where the guards are. This rifle has the accuracy of almost 100 percent. Any shot is lethal to a human. Even if you hit the foot." She said, stopping him dead in his tracks.
"Yeah, to humans. These people are supernatural." Klaus said, stating the obvious. She rolled her eyes.
"Geez, you think I don't know that?" She asked, annoyed.
"No, I give you that much credit. That's my way of asking what you're going to do about it." He clarified.
"I have special bullets I developed. They're filled with vervain and ash. That's a deadly combination. If I land a headshot, the vervain will stun them, and the ash of the white oak tree will damage their brain permanently, so that their head blows up. Quietly. Nobody hears it." She said, quietly. Klaus was shocked.
"They'll still hear the shot." He pointed out. She pointed to the silencer and shook her head.
"They're vampires. They can hear stuff like that."
"The silencer is spelled. You think I didn't prepare for this?" She asked, amused, popping in a few of the bullets.
"What about the werewolves?" He asked, urging.
"It's not a full moon, most of them are harmless." She said, looking through the scope. "But of course I came prepared. Wolfsbane bullets. They don't have advanced healing like vamps. So a simple shot like that is going to do." She said, focusing on something in the scope.
"Demons?" Klaus asked.
"The demons are hiding inside. They're too afraid to fight. Besides…" She concentrated, breathing in deeply.
"There's only three of them there." She said, content.
"Mhm." Klaus wondered. "And how can you know how to tell apart the wolves from the vampires?"
"I can sense them." She said, studying the field with her scope. Klaus got tired of it quickly.
"How long are you going to just lie there?" He asked, being impatient. She shot him a death glare.
"Patience. I need to find them first." She whispered. He rolled his eyes. "There we go." She smiled, content. Then she popped a few bullets in. He watched carefully. Vampire, vampire, wolf, vampire, wolf, wolf, vampire, wolf, vampire, vampire. He raised his eyebrows.
"Game on." Caroline smiled.
~VD~
"Alaric Saltzman. I'm your new history teacher." Alaric spoke, as he turned around from the chalkboard at which he'd been standing in front of. Caroline hadn't been kidding. This place was crawling with the supernatural. He wasn't really a hunter. And Caroline had said to inform him first before he was going to kill someone. He spotted a vampire sitting in the first row, along with a gorgeous brunette, that looked a lot like Katherine Pierce. So, a doppelganger. In the backrow, he saw a potential Werewolf talking to one of his jock friends. He was human. A witch was sitting next to her human boyfriend. That had to be Bonnie.
"You might want to pronounce it Alaric, but it's Ah-laric. A name which I owe to my very dead great grandfather. Now Saltzman is of German origins, my family immigrated to Texas in the 1800's, however I was born and raised in Boston. Any questions?" He asked, studying his class carefully. This was going to be fun.
~VD~
Damon was wandering around the woods. He was bored. He had no idea where Caroline was. He wanted to find her. Wanted to apologize for being so stupid. He had to put himself in her situation. What seemed like an eternity to him, was only three weeks to her. Of course she'd said no. That, and the other reason Lexie mentioned before she died.
His Caroline would no longer be Caroline if she was a vampire. She'd be a supernatural killing machine. She'd have no control over her actions. She'd be worse than ripper Stefan. Of course she didn't want to be a vampire then. She needed her independence. She needed to know that she could do what she pleased. Otherwise she'd feel like a caged bird and eventually give herself a lobotomy or something. He didn't want that to happen. But he didn't want to lose her either.
The situation seemed hopeless. But Damon wouldn't give up on her yet. He'd go back in, like an addict. Relapse every time his better judgement told him to walk away from her, because he couldn't keep her. She was temptation. She was a drug. He knew he could only get so much of her. He knew there was a limited supply. But he took as much as he could, as fast as he could, until one day, he'd run out. Then he'd be in pain. Damon didn't want to imagine what would happen if she died. He had to find her.
But how? How do you find someone, who walked out of your life, possibly for good? Someone who walked out, because they couldn't be exactly who you wanted them to be. Wasn't that the problem he always had? People expecting him to be good, because he was nice once in a while? Had he thought she'd chose vampirism, because she was so okay with him being one? What had he done? How was he going to find her? He sighed. Then it hit him. The witch. Bonnie would know where Caroline was, wouldn't she? She was her best friend. He'd take his chances.
~VD~
"Greetings, druggie, witchy." Damon acknowledged amused, as he appeared behind Jeremy and Bonnie. Bonnie was saying goodbye to Jeremy and Tyler. Lucas was already sitting in the van. He was getting impatient. Bonnie kissed Jeremy goodbye, and then waved them off. She turned towards Damon, looking halfway to friendly.
"What are you doing here? I thought you were…" She trailed off.
"I was what, Bonnie?" He asked.
"With Caroline." She finished, then she turned around to look into the distance. He touched her shoulder to make her turn to him again. She shrieked. Her eyes looked cold for a second. Like she was a thousand miles away, mentally. Then she snapped back to reality, glaring at him.
"How could you?" She asked, raging. Damon raised his eyebrows, looking confused.
"I beg your pardon?" He requested.
"Asking Caroline to turn? What's your problem?" She yelled.
"Would it make things better if I told you I hate myself for it?" He wondered out loud.
"Not even remotely. It's all your fault! You're the reason she left." Bonnie stammered, then glared at him angrily.
"Are you going to help me find her anyway?" He asked, hoping desperately she'd say yes.
"If she walked out on you, that means she doesn't want you to find her. She'll come back if she decides to forgive you." Bonnie said, turning around, and walking away. Damon sighed in frustration. He ran his hand through his hair.
~VD~
"There are ten guards." Caroline said, her eyes closed. She put her hand on the sniper, looked through the scope one more time, and pulled the trigger. Rapidly, one sound after another came out of the rifle. The bullets were fast. He had to give her that. Klaus himself was using binoculars, watching the guards. One was down. Two. Three. Four. Five and Six too. Seven dropped to the floor next, and the last three followed suit. All in a matter of seconds. 3 seconds later, their heads exploded, and the bodies turned to ash. They hadn't even had a second to scream. Instant death.
Klaus couldn't think straight anymore. What Caroline had just done was amazing. There had been 10 of them. She had freaking hit ten people in the head, within five seconds. When had she gotten this good? How had that all not made a single sound? He looked at her.
"How'd you know that would work?" He asked, incredulous.
"I did some research." She shrugged, getting up. She took apart her rifle, and stowed it in the bag. She left the bag with the rifle on a tree. She took out a small handgun, and loaded the werewolf bullets in it. The pistol that was still hanging in her belt, was taken out, and loaded to the brim with vampire bullets.
"But that was incredible." He said.
"This isn't over yet. It's not even began. Save your commentary until we both make it out alive." She said. Starting to walk down the hill.
"Where'd you learn how to aim like that?" He asked, still feeling amazed.
"My dad taught me." She said, quickening her pace.
"I thought your dad was a homosexual?" Klaus asked.
"Yeah. One who has dedicated his life to eradicating the earth of its vampires." She said, incredulously. Klaus laughed. Then they fell into silence.
"Why did they pick me?" She asked suddenly, when they had reached the end of the forest. They were standing at the same level as the castle now. "You said you'd tell me one day. I think now's a good time as any." She tested. Klaus sighed.
"You're a direct descendant of Casper's line. And you're the only living one who has your power. You see, you have a different type of DNA strands. Yours can absorb qualities. But I'm sure you know. Your body is a machine. It adapts, it doesn't back down unless it knows it's safe." Klaus said, eyeing the castle before glancing at her. She breathed evenly.
"So what you're saying is…" She started.
"You're related to Casper? Yeah." Klaus said.
"That's why he's the only one who could control me?"
"Because he's the only other supernatural in your bloodline. It's kind of like my connection to the Petrova line." Klaus started.
"Ugh, Tati and Katerina." She smiled. "So…if I don't kill him, he'll turn me?" Caroline asked, suddenly feeling nervous. Those were very high stakes.
"I doubt he'll be able to capture you." Klaus shook his head, serious. "As I said before. Your body is a machine. It adapts. It pushes you until you're out of danger. So, you'll win the fight, the question is, once you slow down, will you survive?" Klaus stated. Caroline took a deep breath.
"I don't fear death. I only fear death at the hands of somebody else." She said. She turned to face him. "Can I trust you?" She asked, sincerely. He smirked.
"Of course you can, sweetheart."
"Good. Let's go. Take the pill." She ordered.
"Fantastic." He said, pleased.
~VD~
Prum prum prum….:D Yaaay, Chapter is done. Please review, and let me tell you whatchu think. I know, you're all aching for the Daroline goodness. This is going to be a long story. Damon and Caroline will be apart a bit longer, but this story has a happy ending guaranteed. So, be patient, my little Daroline lovers. And bear with me. Review. How do you think the fight will go? Who is going to go down? Who is going to betray who? A lot of betrayal. Also from Damon. And Lucifer will be back. - Chris