Twisted Love
Season One
Let The Right One In
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries Characters, I only own Grace :)
A clap of thunder awoke Grace from her dream, she glanced around the foreign room and wondered where she was, everything seemed more vibrant and her sensed seemed heightened. She held her head as a headache thumbed along to the cracking thunder.
"Morning, beautiful." Damon greeted her as he walked in from the bathroom stark naked
"Damon!" She squealed as she covered her chocolate brown eyes quickly
"Hmm? Or right yeah, I'm not decent." He warned her a little too late
"What am I doing here?" Grace asked her eyes stilled covered
Damon smirked "You hit you head, were knocked out, I fed you my blood, you've been out for hours." The vampire explained as he pulled on a pair of boxer briefs
"You what?" Grace threw her arms down gawping at him
"Now, now, Grace." Damon closed her mouth with one finger "You'll catch flies."
"Damon. You fed me your blood." Grace stared into his icy blue orbs "Are you being seriously?"
"You were unconscious, I didn't know if anything was broken, or if you were bruised... I had to help you in some way." Damon shrugged "That was the only way I could think of."
"How did I hit my head?"
"One of the tomb vampires attacked you." Damon told her "You need anything from downstairs?" He asked
"Can I go home?" Grace asked
"In this weather..." Damon peered out the window to see the heavy rainfall "I don't think so..."
"Like you were planning on letting me go anyway." Grace muttered
"You're right, now are you hungry?" Damon asked
"I could go for some food." Grace stood up noticing she was just in her panties and bra "Damon." She scolded
"You looked uncomfortable." He threw one of his button down shirts at her
"Ugh." She rolled her eyes "I need some real clothes if I actually plan on leaving today."
"You plan on leaving?" Damon asked as he walked down the stairs Grace in tow
Elena was fast asleep in her bed when her window suddenly burst open extremely violently, she jolted away and ran over shutting it.
"I love storms." Anna stated as she sat in Jeremy's room
"Is that a vampire thing? 'Cause I read Vampires don't like running water." Jeremy replied naively
"It's only Dracula." Anna lied "Yeah. He was a complete wuss, never showered, very smelly."
"Seriously?" Jeremy asked gullible
"First rule about Vampires, don't believe anything you read." Anna scoffed
"You got to tell me more. I got to know." Jeremy pressed her for information
"No, you don't." Anna shook her head "Because you're not going to be one."
"c'mon, you can't keep saying 'no' to me." Jeremy grinned
"Look, I'm not going to turn someone who learned everything he knows about Vampires from Netflix..." Anna told him firmly
"That's not true and you know it." Jeremy shot back
"Why do you even want this? Give me one good reason." Anna cocked an eye brow at him
"Because I..." Jeremy couldn't tell her the real reason, he was not sure if he knew the answer himself
"Hmm. Let me know when you can finish that sentence." Anna told him before Elena burst in the room, she brunette Vampire left the room before the older girl even saw her
"Hey, you're up." Elena stated
"Hey, what's up?" Jeremy jumped at the sudden appearance of Elena and the disappearance of Anna
"Looks like there's a big storm rolling in. Can you help make sure all the windows are closed?" Elena asked politely
"Yeah. Yeah. Sure." Jeremy nodded
Frederick walked into the living room of Ms. Gibbons house and started throwing wood into the fire place trying to get over the death of his girlfriend Beth-Anne, he felt Pearl standing in the door way and tried to change the 'I told you so' topic
"We're running low on blood." Frederick told her causally "You might want to send Anna to the hospital for some more." he added
"I'll send her out for some soon." Pearl nodded
"Maybe I could go with her... If the storm keeps up and it's dark enough, I might be able to go out during the day, no sun and all." Frederick asked hopeful
"I'm afraid not." Pearl replied flatly "Not after your stunt at the Salvatore house last night."
"He and his brother deserved it." Frederick spat
"And where did that get you? Your girlfriend Beth-Anne is dead." She reminded him and he visibly flinched at the memory of seeing her staked on the floor "And you have no one to blame but yourself, we can not live out lives about revenge. We have to have better control of our emotions."
"I understand, Ms. Pearl. I just wish I knew what you were up to." Frederick told her
"I'm going to make an exploratory visit into town soon to assess who's under the influence of Vervain and who isn't. Anna tells me that the players haven't changed much. It's still the Lockwood's, the Forbes', the Fells... The Johnson line has come to an... end I hear as the other girl discovered she was truly a Gilbert." Pearl muttered
"We should kill every last one of them." Frederick stood up angrily
"We are smarter than that, Frederick. These people are not our enemies. We don't hold grudges and resentment. We'll get our town back. We just have to have patiences." She warned him as she got up and left the room
"You heard her." Frederick said as three men walked into the room "No revenge. Patience. Self-control. She seems to have it all figured out, doesn't she?"
"Thanks for bringing me some clothes, 'Lena." Grace jumped down the stairs in her black skinny jeans and lose white shirt
"I think you looked better in my shirt..." Damon told her and she shot him a look
"No problem." Elena smiled ignoring Damon's comment "So what really happened last night?"
"It was a small attack on us, Grace just got in the way..." Damon shrugged
"Are you ok?" Elena asked her twin
"I'm fine." Grace nodded in response "So, what are we doing about these tomb vampires?"
"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night." Damon nodded as he finished blocking the broken window with some spare plywood they had laying around
"Yeah. And then what? We turn to the rest of the that house of Vampires and say, 'Oops. Sorry?'." Stefan replied sarcastically
"I can't believe you made a deal with her." Elena shook her head
"What deal?" Grace asked
"It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice. She's... scary." Damon shrugged before catching the look Grace was giving him "She's going to help me get Katherine back."
"Of course she is." Grace nodded "Damon gets what he wants, as usual. No matter who he hurts in the process." She muttered
"Is that jealousy I see, Grace?" Damon asked
"No." She scowled
"You don't have to be so snarky about everything." Damon told her "I saved you life."
"I woke up this morning in your bed to learn that all the Vampires have been released from the tomb... I've earned snarky, Damon." she told him firmly
"How long are you going to blame me for turning your birthmother into a vampires?" Damon growled
"I'm not blaming you, Damon. I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities." She told him narrowing her eyes
"Ouch." Damon placed his hand over his heart feigning hurt
"This isn't being very productive." Elena told them "Although, it is entertaining." she smirked
"We're going to figure out a way to deal with Pearl and the vampires, yeah?" Stefan told the girls before Damon walked from the room
"God, I'm sorry... he just makes me so cranky." Grace told them both
"He makes everybody cranky." Stefan replied with a small shrug
"So what are we going to do?" Elena asked
"Damon and I are going to handle everything, I promise." He pressed his lips to Elena's forehead
"Well, what about us? We can't just sit here and do nothing." Elena told him
"That's exactly what you're going to do, because that's what going to keep you safe, if you forgot Grace almost got killed last night." Stefan reminded here
"What about you two? You have to be safe, too." Elena looked at her boyfriend
"What do you mean? I'm perfectly safe. I have Damon, the self-serving psychopath on my side." he looked at Grace with a smirk
"Well, that's comforting." Grace muttered
Jeremy and Anna ran into the Grill from the ran both laughing at the wetness of each other, Anna was meeting her mother here later on
"Ok. We have some time. I'm not meeting my mom until later." Anna informed him
"Wait. Does your mom know you're a..." Jeremy trailed off
"The fact you would even think it's possible to keep something like that a secret from you own family is just further proof that you're not ready." Anna told him rolling her eyes
"'not ready' is a step up from 'no'." Jeremy grinned
"And a million steps down from 'maybe'." She countered "I like you bracelet." She told the boy
"Thanks." Jeremy smiled "My sister got it for me."
"Can I see it?" Anna questioned
"Yeah." Jeremy spilled the Vervain from his wrist and handed his freewill over to the Vampire
"You sister doesn't know you're hanging out with me, does she?" Anna asked smelling the Vervain on this piece of jewellery
"No. No. But I don't see why it would be a problem. It's not like she knows what you are." Jeremy smirked
"I'd rather keep it our little secret." She told him coyly
"You know, why don't you...why don't you keep this?" He told her closing her palm around the bracelet
"Why would you give this to me?" Anna asked
"Because. You like it. And I like you." Jeremy flirted
"You only like me because of what you want from me." Anna replied reading him like a book
"No. I...I like you." Jeremy smiled
"Um... You know, you should wear it. It looks better on you anyway." Anna handed him back the bracelet giving him back his changes of freewill around her
Meanwhile the other side of the Grill Matt and Caroline were talking about the night before his with mom and Damon
"I yelled at my mom last night. You know, I feel like the parent and the screwed-up kid." Matt admitted to his girlfriend
"Maybe she needed to hear it." Caroline reasoned
"Yeah, but just... I worry that if I push too hard, then she will take off again. 'cause that's her M.O. Just like Vicki, who I haven't heard from since she left." He reminded her of his sister
"Well, you can't control your mom, Matt, any more than you can control your sister." Caroline told him assuringly
"I wish that she would just try a little. You know? If she would just try to try, that'd be ok." Matt told Caroline clearly fed up with his mom's behaviour
"Maybe she'll surprise you. People have a tendency to do that. I should go before the roads get even worse from the storm." Caroline glanced over at the window
"Yeah. Are you sure you should be driving right now?" Matt asked concerned
"I have to. It's my dad's boyfriend's daughter's birthday. We have a non-traditional traditional ritual." She rolled her eyes
"Well, buckle up. Don't speed. Stay off your cell phone. And call me when you get there." Matt have her all the checks before leaning down and kissing her
"Got it. Anything else?" She nuzzled into his neck
"Yes." He kissed her again, only more passionately this time
"Bye." She giggled as she pulled back
"Bye." Matt replied
"Where'd the girls go?" Damon asked Stefan as he played with the clock
"They went back to Elena's place." Stefan replied pulling on his coat
"Hunting trip?" Damon questioned his younger brother
"That guy did a number on me last night when he stabbed me. I got to get my strength back up." Stefan replied
"I've got two litres of soccer mom in the fridge." Damon told him earning a look "No?"
"We'll talk when I get back." Stefan told him as he headed for the door
"Alright." Damon replied "Give my regards to the squirrels."
Stefan ran through the woods at the back of his house under the beating rainfall, he stopped when he felt as if someone was following him, glancing over his shoulder he saw two people in hoods standing there, as he turned to run he was suddenly stabbed in the gut with a stake.
"Ah." Stefan called out as he looked into the eyes of Frederick
Grace lay on Elena's couch playing games when she felt her phone vibrating in her pocket, she pulled it out and looked at the caller ID 'Damon' she pressed ignore when she heard the doorbell ring
"I got it." Grace called as she walked to the door opening it staring into a blue pair of eyes
"You're ignoring me." Damon stated as he walked in the house
"The six miss calls? Sorry. My phones dead." She lied flatly
"Is Stefan here?" Damon asked
"Not that I know of." Grace replied as she heard Elena come down the stairs "Stefan up there?"
"No. Why? Something wrong?" Elena asked concerned
"He went out to the woods and didn't come back." Damon told her "I can't get him on his phone so I figured he'd be here with you."
"It's going straight to voicemail." Elena told the two as she attempted to call Stefan
"Where do you think he is?" Grace asked
"You're not going to like what I'm thinking." Damon told Elena
Damon knew exactly where Pearl was hiding it, he slammed his fist against the door calling to them to 'let him in' Frederick came to the door
"Pearl's not home." The older Vampire told Damon "Hmm. Beautiful weather. Not a ray of sun in the sky." he noted with a smug grin
"Where's my brother?" Damon demanded
"Billy." Frederick called
Billy and another Vampire pulled a weak, injured Stefan into the hall so that Damon could see him and the state he was him. Damon felt a surge of angry and attempted to get in the house, but denied, a human lived here.
"You're dead." He growled
"Whoa. I'm sorry. You haven't been invited in." He smirked "Ms. Gibbons." he called and the compelled woman walked next to him
"Yes, Frederick, honey?" Ms. Gibbons smiled politely
"Never let this bad man in." Frederick compelled her further
"I'll never let him in." Ms. Gibbons repeated before walking back to where she was
"145 years left starving in a tomb, thanks to Katherine's and Fayth's infatuation with you and your brother. First few weeks, every single nerve in your body screams with fire. The kind of pain that can drive a person mad. Well... I thought your brother might've wanted to get a taste of that before I killed him. Billy."
Billy shoved a stake into Stefan's side before Frederick shut the door on Damon, he growled before running back to where Grace was in the car.
"What happened? Where is he?" Grace asked soaking in the rain
"They have him. I can't get in." Damon replied trying to turn her to get in the car
"Why not?" Grace asked
"Because the woman that owns the house is compelled to not let me in." Damon replied angrily
"I can get in." Grace told him trying to push past him
"You're not going in there." Damon captured her in his embrace
"I'm going!" Grace squirmed "I have to do this for Elena."
"You're not going. I wont let you, Grace." Damon told her firmly
"Why are they doing this? What do they want him him?" Grace asked cluelessly
"Revenge. They want revenge." Damon replied pulling his coat off putting it over her shoulders protecting her shivering body from the rain
"We've got to do something." Grace's teeth chattered
"I know." Damon nodded
"We can't let them hurt him, for Elena. We got to get him out of there." Grace told him determined
"I know. Grace, I know." Damon clutched her hands "But I don't know how to get him out."
Stefan was strung up by his hands in the basement if Ms. Gibbons house, it was Vervain ropes so he couldn't get away, they had all kind of tortured planned for the younger Salvatore brother
"Vervain on the ropes." Frederick told Stefan as if he didn't know
"Ah." Stefan called out
"That's got to sting." He pulled his head back and dropped some watery Vervain into his eyes, the sizzling sound began
"Ah!" Stefan yelled
"This isn't right!" Harper burst in the room
"He killed Beth-Anne. One of us, Harper. And don't you think for a second he wouldn't kill you if he had the chance. Pearl says we're not here for revenge, right? I sat that's exactly what we're here for." Frederick smirked "And then his brother. And anyone else that gets in our way."
"This is right!" Harper repeated grabbing Frederick, but he was overpowered
"You're gonna want to let go of me!" Frederick told him firmly
"Ms. Pearl will be home soon." He reminded him
"Ms. Pearl is no longer in change. Tie him up!" Frederick ordered Billy "And then stake him down." He added
"Elena, are you sure he will help us?" Grace asked her twin as they walked through the halls of Mystic High
"He has too." Elena replied
"Well, don't you look... alive." Damon announced as they all stepped into Alaric's history room
"You can't hurt me." Alaric stood up
"Oh, I can't hurt you." Damon nodded
"Mr. Saltzman, we need your help." Elena told him "Stefan's in the house and Damon can't get in because he's a Vampire... We need you."
"I would go, but-"
"Your life is valuable." Damon noted "Yours on the other hand." He looked at Alaric
"Stefan told us about your ring." Elena informed Alaric
"What about it?" Alaric twirled the black rock on his finger
"Let me recap... You tried to kill me. I defended myself. You died. Then according to my brother, your ring brought you back to life. Am I leaving anything out?" He asked sarcastically
"Yeah. The part where I try to kill you again. Only this time, I don't miss." Alaric squared up to the Vampire
Grace stepped out in front of Alaric as Damon stalked over, she was squashed between the two, before she pushed Damon back a little and Elena quickly stood in front of Alaric
"Back off." Grace warned the blue eyed Vampire
"Mr. Saltzman, please. This is Stefan." Elena reminded the history teacher
"I'm sorry, Elena. But it's not my problem." He told her almost sincerely
"That's a shame. Because the woman in charge of the crowd can help you find your wife." Damon shrugged casually
"What?" Grace whispered
"You're lying." Alaric accused
"Am I? Why don't you ask her yourself?" Damon paused placing his hands on Grace's lower back "C'mon ladies." he started to escort them from the room
"Alright!" Alaric stopped them "Wait. I'll go."
"So, I have an answer." Jeremy suddenly announced
"To what?" Anna questioned
"Why you should turn me." He grinned
"We're back to that?" Anna asked slightly fed up
"Look, I wake up everyday and I feel ok, but there's something missing. Like a... like a hole. Some people, they fit... in life, or whatever. I... I don't." Jeremy shook his head
"So, you want a pity-turn?" Anna asked and he looked up at her hopeful "I don't think so."
"You should turn me because I don't have anything else." Jeremy replied
"Do you even know why we turn other people? It's not to give someone a one-way ticket out of loner-hood. Ok? One, we need someone to do our dirty work. Two, revenge. Three, boredom... but, you know, that never turns out well. And then you know there's the obvious one. You love someone so much that you would do anything to spend all of eternity with them. Ahem. I'm sorry, but you don't fit any of those categories yet." She told him with a smirk
Anna glanced around the Grill and saw her mother walk in, Anna knew that her mother would be able to hear the conversation she was having as she began to walk towards them
"So, yeah. Just make sure your thesis is clear, and she'll love it. See you later." She jumped up quickly and sent Jeremy a text explaining everything with one word 'mom.' and closed the distance her mother was making "Mom, hey."
"Did you get everything?" Pearl asked slyly
"Yeah, the blood-bank was understaffed because of the rain. I was in and out." Anna explained
"Who is that you were talking to?" Pearl questioned
"A friend from the library." Anna answered vaguely
"Let's get home." Pearl replied turning when Mayor Lockwood came up to her to give her a gently warning about the roads
"Hey, you're not going out in that, are you? The roads are dangerous. Route 5 is completely flooded." The mayor explained
"we'll make do." Pearl replied with a small smile
"Mayor Lockwood, we have your table ready." A waitress told the Mayor and Tyler
"Great." Tyler smiled
"Mayor... Lockwood, is it?" Pearl questioned "I suppose it is treacherous outside. My name is Pearl." She introduced herself
"Hi." Mayor Lockwood shook her head
"This is my daughter Anna. We're just recently moved to town." She explained with a lie
"Welcome. Rickard Lockwood. This is my son Tyler." He gestured to his embarrassed Son behind him "Please – please, join us." He offered
"It would be a pleasure." She smiled and walked off in front her daughter close behind
"Be more creepy, dad. Not like your son is standing right here." Tyler hissed
"Grow up." Mayor Lockwood retorted "Elections are coming. She's a constituent. And a rick one, from the looks of it." He smirked at his alterer motive
"You can tell all that by looking at her ass?" Tyler asked sarcastically "Awesome. I'm going to shoot some pool." he got out his phone sending a message to Grace 'Want to meet at the Grill? I'll buy you some food ;)'
Elena, Grace, Damon and Alaric were all in Alaric's classroom still surround a table that was full of weapons to kill, or seriously injure a Vampire, or any other supernatural creature meaning to harm a person
"Teacher by day, Vampire hunter by night..." Damon stated
"I've got you to thank for that." Alaric countered
"Tyler wants to meet me at the Grill." Grace looked down at her phone, within seconds it was stolen from her hands "Damon!" She complained
"Guys, this is serious." Elena told them
Damon kindly handed her back her phone and Grace looked at the message 'Grace is current unavailable at the moment, never text again.'
She hit him "You're such a jerk!" she told him
"What are these?" Elena asked looking at syringe type objects
"Those are tranquillizer darts filled with Vervain." Alaric replied
"Can I borrow one?" Grace asked scowling at Damon
"Just get me in and I'll get Stefan out." Damon told Alaric ignoring Grace's comment
"That's your plan? You're just going to take them all on yourself?" Grace asked in disbelief
"Well, I'll be a little stealthier than that." He smirked "Hopefully."
"Whoa. What are you doing?" Alaric asked as Elena picked up a weapon
"I'm going with you guys." She stated
"Me too." Grace added
"No. No. No. No. No way." He told them both
"You need me. I'll get in. You could distract them and then I'll get Stefan out." Elena explained
"I'll be there to protect her." Grace noted
"You'll get yourself killed." he looked at the telepath and then you'll get killed too." He told Elena "You're not going in there."
"I'm going." Grace crossed her arms over her chest "You owe me."
"So, when you get me in, get out as quickly as you can. I know how to sneak around where they can't hear me. You'll basically be in the way." Damon explained to Alaric
"Damon, now is not the time to be the lone ranger." Grace told him
"Fine. You can drive the get away car." Damon rolled his eyes "You're not going in that house."
"You can't stop me." Grace narrowed her eyes
"It's Stefan we're talking about here. You don't understand." Elena shook her head
"Oh, I understand. I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it." He rolled his eyes
"Can you just not joke around for 2 seconds?" Grace asked
Damon suddenly slammed her back against the wall knotting his fingers in her hair that she would look up at him
"I can't protect you, Grace." He told her intensely "I don't know how many Vampires there are in there. That's how long it takes you to get you head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with you safety. Or this is will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from... including Stefan." He looked over his shoulder at a upset Elena "I know. I get it. I understand." he muttered against Grace's lips
"If we're going to go, let's go." Alaric suddenly announced awkwardly
"Where are you? I can barely hear you." Matt told Caroline as he busted tables in the Grill, he had his phone nested between his shoulder and his ear as he spoke
"Storm washed out Route 5. Now I"m detoured on some random backwoods path to hell." Caroline explained as she drove in the middle of no where
"Well, you should be talking while you're driving." Matt replied
"I know, right? I need one of those bluetooth thingies." She told him forgetting the name
"Look, you're breaking up. Just turn around and go back the same way you came. And watch the road. Ok?" Matt told her sternly
"ok." Caroline replied
Caroline decided Matt was right, she couldn't keep driving in this weather, she pulled out and her car skidded to a stop, when she went to reverse and turn back around her car would go anywhere. She opened the car door and glanced outside to see that the tired had sunk in the thick gloppy mud the rain water had made and to top it all off her phone was out of services, she had completely no bars.
Alaric ran up onto the porch of Ms. Gibbons house protecting himself from the heavy rainwater as he knocked the door, Frederick was the person to open it
"Oh, good, someone's home. Uh, could I use your phone? My car broke down a few miles up the road. This was the first house I saw." Alaric lied threw his teeth
"Well, lucky you." Frederick smiled evilly
"Yeah. Lucky me." Alaric nodded "It's no trouble, is it?"
"Not this slightest." Frederick moved aside so that Alaric could step indoors
"Great. Whew." He took his hood down "Hey, man, I really appreciate it. It's rough out there."
"Billy, show our visitor where the phone is in the kitchen and get me something to drink." He smirked
"Yeah. Sure thing." Billy returned the smirk
"Hey, Ms. Gibbons, this guy wants to use your phone." Billy told Ms. Gibbons as they walked in the room
"Oh, sure, honey. It's right there." She pointed
"Thanks." Alaric smiled as he walked towards the phone slipping a stake from under his coat sleeve As Alaric assumed Billy came for him, the history teacher turned and stabbed him in the chest with his stake and Billy fell to the floor dead. Quickly turning on the tap and the food processor so that no one would notice anything, the teacher grabbed Ms. Gibbons and led her to the back door
"What's going on?" She asked confused
"I'm really sorry. But you're going to need to invite a friend of mine inside." Alaric told him opening the door to reveal Damon
"Oh, I'm sorry. He's not allowed in the house." Ms. Gibbons explained
"Get her out of the house, now!" Damon told him and Alaric led her to the porch "Ms. Gibbons, tell me the truth. Are you married?" He asked casually
"no." She answered
"Parents, children, anyone else who lives on this property?" Damon asked again
"No. It's just me." She answered with a smile
"Good." Damon grinned and snapped her neck killing her
"You were supposed to compel her." Alaric looked at him in disbelief
"It doesn't work that way." Damon replied
"She is human." Alaric stated
"And I'm not! So, I don't care. Now, get out of here. And get rid of the body." Damon growled at the Vampire hunter
"Grace, what you would say if I was going to go in the house?" Elena asked her twin
"Well, I'd say... can I join you?" She grinned pulling out a Vervain syringe from her coat pocket
"I'm in the process of obtaining some property." Pearl explained to Richard "I understand that your family is the largest property owner in town."
"Well, yes we are. Dating all the back to the town's original charter." He told her something she already knew
"Your family came into a lot of new property in 1864." She remembered
"You know your history." Richard replied
"It's a passion of mine." She smiled darkly
Tyler is up at the bar reading the text Grace sent him with confusion, who had her phone? Suddenly Matt walked over to him to give him a pep talk about is dad
"Guy's not even subtle about it." Tyler rolled his eyes
"Who is that?" Matt asked curiously
"It's not my mother." Tyler retorted before walking away
Jeremy and Anna were texting each other from across the room, they were flirting with each other and Anna's mother caught this easily
"I'm sorry, Mayor. Do you know that boy over there?" Pearl questioned giving a gently head nod in Jeremy's direction
"Yeah it's Jeremy Gilbert." Richard replied
It didn't take Frederick long to notice that Billy hadn't returned from the kitchen and that Alaric had made no noise either
"Billy, what's the hold up?" Frederick called but there was no response
Frederick then motioned to another man to go see where Billy was, as the new Vampire walked into the kitchen he turned off the tap and food processor, he was about to walk into the pantry when Damon burst out, hitting him with the door and then staking him. The bodies were pilling up.
Alaric ran though the forest towards Damon's car which sat on the road, he opened the car door to see that Grace and Elena were no where to be seen
"Damn it." Alaric hissed grabbing his bag of weapons and slamming the door shut
Grace and Elena climbed up to the back porch of the house, the telepath glanced around the corner when they both suddenly heard a voice
"Billy, Jacob, get back in here!" Frederick called startling them both
Grace motioned to the staircase which would lead down to the cellar, they both quickly run across without being detected and dive down there. Elena quickly breaks the door and reaches in opening it.
The telepath walked in first and could hear the blasting music that a Vampire was playing down the end of the narrow hall, she took the syringe from Elena's hands and waited, she peaked around the corner when she Vampire saw her.
He was going to run to her and kill her, but was stopped when a stake appeared from no where and stabbed violently into his neck, he fell to the floor, another dead body.
"Are you insane?" Damon hissed as Grace and Elena appeared from around the corner
Caroline grew tired of waiting in her car for the signal on her phone to come back, she climbed out and held her phone in the air as if that would help the problem. She began to walk around and when she held it high enough she finally got one bar, but then she slipped and fell down a hill, as she tried to crawl her way back up, she grabbed a root and as she dead a corpses arm fell out, a scream erupted from the blondes lips
Anna walks away from the sinks in the Grill's restrooms and turns to leave the room, but her mother was standing there blocking her exit
"Jeremy Gilbert? Is that what you've been up to?" Pearl asked
"He's my friend. What's the big deal?" Anna asked
"His family is the reason I was stuck in a tomb for over a century." Pearl replied
"That doesn't mean he'll make the same choices." Anna argued
"I want you to stop seeing him." Pearl ordered
"I've been on my own for a long time, mother. I can make my own decisions." Anna replied bluntly
"Then stop acting like a child! As soon as Jeremy finds out what you are, he will turn on you..." Pearl inflicted her bad experiences with the Gilbert's onto her daughters relationship
"He already knows." Anna told her sharply
"What did you just say?" Pearl's voice was low
"He likes it. And he likes me." Anna confirmed
Pearl wound her hand back and let it go forward connecting with her daughters cheek, an audible crack echoed the room and Anna placed her hand on her cheek, a pink shade was rising where Pearl's hand had been
"Thank you for trying to help me." Stefan weakly told Harper
"They just needed somebody to blame." Harper tried to find reason behind all of this "Someone to punish."
Elena, Grace and Damon burst into the cellar to see a tied up Stefan and Harper, Damon keeps an eye on the door as Grace and Elena get Damon down
"Here." Elena wrapped Stefan's coat around his weak body
Stefan suddenly pulled the stakes that had been put into Harper's leg, Elena had to remove the other one from Harper's leg and they all left to the narrow hall way again
"Alright, go." Damon told the three
"What about you?" Grace asked
"You rescue, I'll distract." Damon told her "Go."
Elena, Grace and Stefan got to the staircase leading to the top of the house, Grace turned back and look longingly the way they just came
"Go." Grace told them
"Grace, no." Elena hissed "Now is not the time to play hero."
"I can't leave him in there on his own." Grace replied "Go, get Stefan out of here." and with that Grace turned and followed Damon, unknown to him
"Turn that down." Frederick ordered in the living room "It's too quiet." He noted
A woman in the doorway of the room suddenly fell down with a stake in her back, everyone watched her for a couple of seconds before the all processed what had happened
"Spread out." Frederick ordered "You two, back of the house. Go." he ordered and they left "Check out both of the rooms." He ordered another two "Cellar, now." He ordered the rest
Elena was helping Stefan to run through the woods leading to Damon's waiting car, suddenly Elena tripped on a root and took Stefan down with her
"uh." Stefan announced
"Can you make it?" She asked as she looked at her bloody hand, Stefan noticed this
"You ok?" He asked concerned at the sudden smell of blood
"Yeah. C'mon. We got to keep going." She jumped up helping him up too "c'mon."
Frederick walked past the dining room to see another one of the tomb vampires staked on the dinning room table, as he went to walk in Damon came out of no where and grabbed it beginning to fight him. It wasn't long until Frederick's reinforcements came along and tore Damon off of him giving him a chance to escape and find Stefan.
Throwing one of the vampires off Damon began to beat the other one down, the other vampires got up again and went for Damon when suddenly a stake appeared in his back, the vampire groaned as he fell to the floor.
Getting up off the other unconscious Vampire, Damon turned to see a scared telepath standing there after she'd just killed her first Vampire
"What the hell are you still doing here?" Damon demanded angrily
"Saving you." She stated like it was obvious
"That's not what I meant." Damon growled looking around "Be careful, please."
"I'll try."
"You'll do more than try, or I'll resurrect you and kill you myself." Damon threatened turning and searching the house for Frederick
"It's right over here." Elena told him moving him a little faster, she places him in the passenger seat of the car before running around and getting in herself, she went to put the key in the ignition but was surprised when there was no longer a key on the chair "Stefan."
Before she knew it a pair of hands burst through the window and grabbed Stefan from her reach, Frederick held a weak Stefan up into the air, his feet off the ground as the tomb vampire stabbed a small branch into his gut
"That is for Beth-Anne." He took the object he was using as a stake back out "And this is for the tomb-" he was about to stab
Elena quickly ran over and stabbed Frederick in the neck with the Vervain syringe that she had stolen from Alaric.
Frederick chocked as he let Stefan go and both the Vampires fell straight to the floor, Elena jumped on Stefan and tried to wake him, he was growing weaker and weaker, if she wasn't careful... he might not make it
Grace was standing in the middle of the hall where she had killed her first Vampire, she was hoping that Damon would return soon, or that they could both leave soon.
She was taken by surprise when she hit the floor a unknown Vampire hovering above her, he smirked down at the scared, weaker telepath
"Don't worry, sweetie, this isn't going to hurt at all." He lied as he crunched down into her throat
Grace screamed as loud as she could to attracted someone's attention, the Vampire was pulled from her body and she saw Damon holding him, then Alaric staked him with his air compressed stake gun.
"Are you ok?" Damon helped her to her feet holding her face between his hands
"I'm fine." Grace replied feeling the blood oozing from the wound "I'm fine." She repeated
"Here, take my blood." Damon bit into his wrist
"Damon, it's fine." She told him gently "I can't keep taking your blood whenever I get hurt, I can heal on my own."
"I'd feel a lot safer if you took it." Damon muttered smell her sweet blood
"So... what now?" Alaric asked awkwardly from behind them
"Frederick wasn't in the house... let's get out of here." Damon lead Grace towards the door with Alaric in tow
As they all walked outside onto the porch they saw Vampires stepping out of the fog so that they could see them. There was a lot of them
"How many of them Vervain darts do you have left?" Damon questioned pulling Grace closer into his side
"One." Alaric replied
"We're screwed." Grace muttered
"That's not going to be enough." Damon told Alaric "C'mon back inside." with that that all ran back inside the house
In a more quiet, safer part of town Matt walked into his kitchen to see that his mom was doing something she had never done before
"Hey, mom. What's going on?" He asked
"What's it look like?" Kelly replied with a small smile as she revealed her casserole laying it on the table for him
"Honestly, I wouldn't know. I've never seen it before." Matt replied
"Well, sit down." They both did "You might want to order a pizza. I'm out of practice." She warned him jokingly
"Mmm. Mystery casserole. Yum." Matt joked giving himself a nice health portion of the food
"Yeah. Some people aren't meant for the kitchen." She shrugged
"what?" He asked after a while of just his mom looking at him
"I know it's been rough, but I'm going to try. I mean, really try this time. You just have to bear with me, ok?" Kelly asked
"Ok." Matt nodded
"Ok. Good." Kelly grinned
The door was knocked and Matt glanced over his shoulder "You know I got it."
"That bad, huh?" She asked referring to her casserole
Matt smirked as he walked over to the door and opened it, Caroline was standing there, she looked so upset
"What happened to you?" Matt asked
Sheriff Forbes then came up behind Caroline with a solemn look on her face, it was then that Matt knew that something was wrong
"Hey, Matt." She nodded once at him
"Hey. What's going on?" Matt asked scared for the answer
"Is your mom home?" Liz Forbes asked
Meanwhile at the Grill Mayor Lockwood is just being informed of the news, and is about to leave to find his some
"Alright, give me 10 minutes." Richard told the person on the phone "And keep it out of the news till I get there." He saw Tyler chatting up a blonde girl "Grab your stuff, we got to go."
"Kinda got half a burger left." Tyler told him
"They found Vicki Donovan." Richard told his son
"Are you serious? Where was she?" Tyler asked
"Storm unearthed the grave off county road. They just brought her body down to the morgue." He replied
"Wait. She's dead?" Jeremy asked from where he had been standing behind them
"C'mon, we got to go." Richard told Tyler leaving the building
Tyler turned in disbelief to Jeremy and they both exchanged a look, before Tyler turned around and followed his father to his car
"Stefan, please. Stefan!" She begged trying to wake him looking over his shoulder to see that Frederick was moving again "Please get up. Get up, Stefan!" She begged before seeing the cut in the palm of her hand from earlier, she gently brushed the blood onto his bottom lip "Here."
"Elena, please run." Stefan told her as he woke tasting the sweet blood on his tongue
"No." Elena told him sternly
"Please." Stefan begged trying to move away from her so that his blood lust wouldn't take over
"Stefan. My wrist." She pulled her coat back "Here. Take my wrist. You need more blood." She told him not knowing the consequences
"Go, Elena. Run. Run..." Stefan attempted to warn her
"no." Elena shook her head "I trust you." she whispered
Stefan led her wrist to his mouth and crunched down as soft as he could, he was overtake by his addiction when the blood began to run down his throat.
"So, what you said to me to do this, about my wife. It was a lie, wasn't it?" Alaric asked Damon knowingly as they heard the Vampires banging on the door to the house trying to get in
"Yep." Damon nodded looking down at Grace as she continued to bleed "Please, just take my blood." he told her
"No." Grace shook her head as a thick line of ran down between her chest, Damon resisted ducking down and draining her dry.
"Stop!" Pearl's voice boomed on the over side of the door, she opened it and walked in with Anna by her side "What's going on here? What did you do?" She looked around at all the dead Vampires on the floor
"Me?" Damon scoffed "Your merry band of Vampires spent the day torturing my brother."
"Trust me. The parties responsible for this will be dealt with." Pearl told him
"Our little arrangement doesn't work unless you learn to control them." Damon warned her
"This wasn't suppose to happen." Pearl replied
"Well, it did." Damon moved Grace past the two Alaric following "if I had a good side... Not a way to get on it."
Frederick finally managed to get up in the woods and saw Stefan still on the floor looking almost dead. As he walked over he took the same branch that he used before and went to grab him, but as he did Stefan stood up too, grabbing Frederick slamming him back against a tree, now Stefan was the stronger Vampire.
Elena glanced around the tree she had been hiding behind to see that Stefan was repeatedly stabbing a already dead Frederick.
"Stefan! Stefan!" She grabbed his arm, but he turned and growled menacingly at her
Suddenly realising who he was growling at the veins beneath his eyes washed away and his fangs retracted, dropping the object he was using as a stake from his blood hand he watched Elena look at him in terror
It wasn't long until Elena and Grace were sat in the Salvatore Boarding house patching up their wounds
"Here." Elena laughed patting down Grace's large plaster for the bite on her neck "Are you feeling ok?"
"Yeah." Grace nodded "Could have been worse." she noticed the bandage on Elena's wrist "How about you?"
"I'll live." She smirked
Stefan walked into the room and saw the girls with the first aid kit, he took a step back and just stood in the door way when he suddenly felt someone hit him in the back
"Hey, baby-brother." Damon smirked at him "Grace, can I have a word?"
"Sure." Grace stood up leaving the room with Damon
"How are you doing?" Elena asked Stefan
"I'm ok. The wounds have mostly healed." Stefan replied
"Good." Elena nodded, she was still slightly scared to be around him, considering what happened earlier
"Elena..."
"Yeah?" She looked at him
"What you did today, coming to help me...You could have been killed." He told her
"I know." She whispered
"And what I did, I'm sorry that...I'm sorry that you had to see it." He apologised for his bloodlust
"I've just never...You were like this other person. And it's my fault. I made you..." he cut her off quickly
"What, no. no. no. You didn't make me do anything. You were saving my life. And I was saving yours. Everything's gonna be ok." He told her soothingly
Damon lead Grace outside and they both sat down on the hood of Elena's car that had been sat there all day
"How are you? I mean, with your neck being torn out and everything..." he attempted to joke
"it's ok... a bit tender." She touched the plaster gently "But by tomorrow I should be fine."
"How are you coping?" Damon suddenly asked
"With what?" Grace was confused
"You killed a Vampire today. Your first kill. How are you dealing with it?" Damon asked taking her hand
"erm..." She paused "I don't know how I feel, everything is a blur and I just have this feeling... it's not a good feeling..." she added
"Are you going to be ok tonight? You're welcome to stay here." he wiggled his eye brows
"Grace." Elena ran outside "Something's happened."
Elena and Grace drove to the Donovan house as fast as they could, as they walked in the mood hit them so hard, everyone was in mourning, both felt so guilty for knowing.
"Go see Matt." Grace told Elena
"Are you going to be ok down here?" Elena asked
"Yeah. I'll go see if Jer and Ty are ok." Grace walked past Kelly "I'm so sorry."
"Oh, it's not your fault, honey." Kelly sobbed
"I'm going to check on Jer and Ty." Grace informed the Sheriff and the mother
"Alright, thank you, Grace." Liz nodded continuing to comfort Kelly
Grace walked into the kitchen to see that no one was talking, Caroline was dishing out Coffee to everyone, as soon as she saw the telepath she hugged her
"Oh, Grace." Caroline whispered
"are you ok, Care?" Grace asked concerned for the blonde "I heard you... found her."
"Yeah." Caroline nodded "It was horrid, Grace. I can't get the image out of my head."
Suddenly the image flashed into Grace's head, she flinched and pulled back from the blonde, Caroline looked at her funny before walking upstairs to visit Matt
"Hey." Grace whispered taking a sit in-between Tyler and Jeremy "How are you two?"
As Caroline walked upstairs to give Matt his coffee she saw Matt and Elena hugging in the hallway as he cried into the crook of Elena's neck. Matt had just told Caroline that he wanted to be alone... but he wanted to see Elena...
Damon walked into the Grill to see Alaric sitting up at the bar, he deiced it was time to join him, the bartender put a glass of bourbon in front of him straight away
"That was fun. Oh, don't look at me like this." Damon smirked catching "I know you hate me. Guess what? Everyone hates me." He leant over and whispered "But you can't deny it. We were bad-ass." he laughed
Alaric had had enough of Damon, enough of his lying and games, he stood up and slammed his fist into Damon's jaw before walking out leaving him, alone.
"Happens." Damon announced to everyone that was gawping at the situation
Grace, Elena and Jeremy all walk into the Gilbert house, Jeremy just heads straight for the stairs and Grace budges her twin
"Jer, are you ok?" Elena asked
"I'm going to go get some sleep." Jeremy replied continuing to walk up the stairs
As he got into his room he shut the door slowly and suddenly something sparked inside of him and he began to tare up any bit of information about Vampires that he could find, until he found a newspaper with Vicki's picture on
"What are you doing?" Anna's voice came from behind him
"My... my friend Vicki... She's... she's dead." Jeremy cried
"Vicki? The one you thought was a..." Anna let the question hang
"Yeah. Turns out she's been dead all along." Jeremy turned to the brunette
"She's the reason you wanted to turn? You wanted to be with her?" Anna was hurt
Jeremy looked down at the picture of the drug addicted first love in the newspaper smiling back at him, with her tousled, teased blonde and brown hair and her wide chocolate brown eyes
"Look, I'm sorry." He announced as he looked back up, but the apology was empty and Anna was gone
Damon walked back into his voice after a while of drowning his sorrows at the Grill and walked into Stefan's room to check on him. As he walked in he felt the metallic stench of blood, seeing empty blood bags scattered around the room.
He stepped a little further in to see Stefan on the floor of the couch with blood layering his mouth and a almost empty blood bag in his hands as he looked up at his older brother hopeless. Damon didn't know what to do.
A/N
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