He hears her take a deep breath before she moves in for the kill. Damon sighs, grabbing the blonde girl before the stake could get anywhere near him, twisting her wrist and getting a a hiss in response. He hears her heart rate increase, and thinks she must be the worst vampire hunter he's ever come across.
"I'll take this." He says as he plucks the stake from her hand and pulls her to his chest as he smells her neck. "This is easy." he rips her necklace off, and looks her in the eye. "Who sent you?"
She spits in his face as tries to she wriggle free. Damon wipes the saliva from his face and turns her around to hold her at arms length, "Why can't I compel you?"
The girls blue eyes flicker down to her necklace before coming back up to her face, for once she's completely still, "Your my first k-" her voice is hushed.
"The first ever vampire you've ever come across?" Damon lets out a humorless laugh.
She shakes her head, blonde curls swirling around her face, "No, I've meet one before, it's just fuzzy when I think-"
Damon's grip tightens a little, "Compulsion then." He says.
Her eyes widen, but before she can process he shoves something in her face and she is forces to swallow or die. As soon as the liquid is down, death is upon her with the sound of a crack. Damon picks her up bridal style, after he grabs the stake and her necklace.
The girl wakes up passed out in the back of the cab, she sits up and looks around. She's in a secluded alleyway, with a sleeping driver, and a vampire playing with her stake as he sits on the hood of the car.
"The cab was easy to hail, he probably assuming we were a couple that had a little too much to drink. Now, I'm going to need you to drink that." Damon says, as his eyes move from the stake to the driver's neck.
Her eyes snap to his before following his gaze to the drivers bleeding neck. "No!" She says as she pushes herself far back into the seat.
Damon slides off the hood and makes his way to the open door, "Your in transition, if you don't drink that you'll die."
"If I do?" Her voice is filled with disgust.
He shrugs as he fiddles with her stake, "You become a vampire. Don't worry, I'll kill you after I find out who sent you."
He sees the hesitation and loathing, and sighs knowing this wont be easy. He leans in the cab and pushes her face against the man's neck, knowing her instincts will kick in. Not a moment later does he hear her drinking, which doesn't surprise him. What happens next does.
The girl pushes her head back, with her new found strength, and causes Damon to let go. At first he thinks it's her reaction to her transition, but upon closer inspections it's her compulsion being released.
She holds her head in anguish as blood makes it's way down her face, which now contains fangs. Her eyes are closed as tears leak out. He is mildly shocked by the amount of time it takes for her to gain her memories; this compulsion must have gone on for a long time.
She gains control within minutes, not even disturbed by the bleeding body, "Enzo." Her voice is so soft humans would miss it.
Despite his emotions being off, Damon still feels a slight twinge at his owls cell mates name. The man he left behind.
Her face is back to it's human state, if it weren't for the blood on her face she would look normal. "Enzo, he compelled me to forget and live a happy life. Fourteen and a half months, vanished."
Her blue eyes lock with his, they are full of questions as his brain pieces the information together. "I watched him get cut open every day, and he took that away from him, instead choosing to carry his pain alone."
The realization hits him like a ton of bricks. "He wasn't alone." Damon intersects.
Her eyes widen, "You were with him? I know where he is, we should free him!" Her excitement is slowly killing him as the switch inches closer to on.
"Caroline." He says, as it all clicks together. This is the girl Enzo was talking about, and he didn't lie, she is gorgeous and impressive. A baby vamp with a bleeding man next to her, and yet she shows so much control.
Caroline doesn't seem to hear him. "But first." She says to him before diverting her attention to the cab driver, "We need to get him to a hospital."
Damon rolls his eyes, he just bites into his wrist and forces blood down his throat. Caroline watches in awe as the man's skin stitches back together a color returns to his face. She looks down at her wrist in amazement, "So this is the key."
Damon opens his mouth to deliver the news, "Ca-"
"Why won't he wake up?" She asks worriedly.
Damon pulls her out of the car before going to the man and lifts his compulsion, "Forget about this night." The man drives off, leaving the two alone.
"We can sneak in tonight, Robert is always asleep, and just steal the keys-" her enthusiasm is contagious.
He swallows hard, struggling to keep it in control, "Enzo, is dead."
Her brows are pushed together, "What?"
Damon looks away, hating himself, "I left him to die."
He chances a look at Caroline's face, and regrets it, she is seemingly frozen in disbelief, shock, hatred, love, and grief as tears silently fall down her face. He lets the stake rattle at her feet as he goes off into the night, knowing he ruined her life in more ways than he could count.
A/N I hope you like the Damon/Caroline meeting. I wanted Damon to be her sire, like on the show, and I wanted to show his humanity (Even if he likes to pretend he doesn't have one). I hope you guys enjoyed.
Until next time!
Loveklaroline - Your English is a million times better than my French. All I can say is "Hello" and "Hi, my name is...", I don't even know how to write either of those. I am updating my other stories, it's just a very slow process between school and my writers block. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, Caroline was in it (: Where I live most people are in school for 13 years, from age 5-18, and some go off to get a college degree. there are exams here too, but those happen at the end of the school year. I hope that answers your question. I hope the rest of your exam goes well!