Twisted Love
Season One
Isobel
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Back to the Mystic Grill, Alaric is sitting there in shock that his wife is standing beside him, just as he was trying to get over her, trying to fool himself that he would never see her again, here she is...
"It's good to see you." She admitted genuinely "You look good. I hear you're a high school history teacher? How is that?" The raven haired vampire attempted to make small talk.
"Where have you been, Isobel?" Alaric asked, his voice was full of deep hurt.
"I don't have any reasons that are going to comfort you. I don't have any explanations that are going to satisfy you. I wanted this." She referred to the immortal version of herself.
"It's that simple?" He scoffed.
"Yeah. You were supposed to mourn me, and move on." She told him as if it was really easy for him to forget about his wife.
"You're my wife, and I loved you. How could I not search for you?" Alaric asked his voice small.
"Because I wasn't lost, Ric." She shook her head gently before reaching for a napkin and began to write down on it "I understand that you know my daughters, Grace and Elena, pretty names... and I hear they've been looking for me. So..." She slid the paper to him "I want you to arrange for a meeting with us."
Alaric took the paper in his shaking hands, anger building up inside of him "You want me to deliver a message?"
She smiled at him "Yeah." she giggled gently.
Dropping the napkin in front of her he turned to face her "Screw you." He hissed "You self bitch." he got up and left the grill heading across the road to his car, as he got there he heard a whoosh from behind him and turned to see Isobel standing there looking more beautiful than ever under the dim street lights "What do you want from me?"
"I told you." She shrugged.
"I'm not going to do anything for you." Alaric replied but she grabbed him by the neck pinning him back against his car.
"You better tell Grace and Elena I want to meet, or I will start killing the citizens of this town one-by-one, starting with your history students. Got it?" She growled pushing him to the ground dropping the paper for him to collect as she walked away.
"Yeah, Elena and Caroline are making me help build the stupid Miss Mystic float for the Founder's Day Parade." Grace sighed as she spoke on the phone to Damon.
"Uh, the torture." Damon laughed "You left some books and clothes around here, you want me to drop them off?"
"I can come and get them if you want." Grace replied casually "I don't mind."
"What kind of gentleman would I be if I made you come and get them." Damon joked "I'll drop them off later for you."
"Thanks." She blushed gently "Oh, Elena wanted me to ask you how Stefan is doing..."
"Uh, him." Damon scoffed "He's terrible."
"Why? What's the matter?" A small hint of concern appeared in Grace's voice.
"He's just back to boring, straight-laced, off the junk. You've both successfully cured him of anything that was interesting about his personality." Damon smirked.
"Don't forget who help us." Grace grinned.
"I hate myself." He joked "Did Uncle John mention anything to you about my field trip with the History Teacher?" Damon questioned.
"Nope. Not that I know of, but that could be because I'm avoiding him..." Grace shrugged "Who knows. Why? What's he been up to?"
"I don't know, but I would love it if that human twin of yours and you could find out for me." Damon replied.
"I have to go." Grace replied.
"Have fun with the Mystic Queen, I know I did." He smirked.
"You're just terrible." She replied before hanging up on him.
At Mystic Falls High Alaric is using his history class to design the founder's day float and is handing out pieces of paper to help them.
"So these are the specs for the history department for the founder's day float we'll be recreating the battle of Willow Creek. Tyler has been nominated as the head of the protection design." Alaric informed the boy.
"by who?" Tyler asked.
"By me. I've been your sketches and they're good." Alaric replied.
"I'm not really into the whole..." He gestured to the team.
"Well, you just pick your team, be creative and..." Alaric trailed off as he saw Elena, Grace and Stefan walk in the room looking around, he quickly walked over to them throwing the paper on the table.
"Great!" Tyler rolled his eyes sarcastically before looking around the round table at Matt "You want to help me out with this?"
"Not really, no." Matt shook his head.
"Hey, Mr. Saltzman." Grace smiled about to walk over to her friends.
"Is something wrong?" Elena questioned the paranoid look on his face.
"Come with me. We all need to talk." He looked at the three and they all walk from the room.
"Let's reference last years Miss Mystic Float." Caroline typed into her notebook to get a good idea of what they would be doing "This is what they did last year." She turned the scene to show Bonnie who didn't look impressed "And this is exactly what we don't want to do."
"Ew." The witch agreed "So, what are we doing?"
"Southern classic elegance." Caroline smiled.
"Gone with the wing?" Bonnie questioned.
"How'd you know?" Caroline laughed in shock.
"You channel Scarlett, daily." Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"So true!" Caroline nodded before looking around the room looking for the twins "Where's Elena and Grace? They're supposed to be helping..."
"I don't know." Bonnie shrugged not really interested in the conversation.
"Ok, what's the deal?" The blonde questioned.
"What do you mean?" Bonnie looked away.
"Don't play dumb. You, Grace and Elena are fighting. Spill." Caroline demanded.
"It's nothing." She shrugged.
"It's not nothing." Caroline protested "You know this whole float is supposed to be about friends creating something together and everyone is fighting. Matt and Tyler hate each other, you, Grace and Elena are on the outs and I don't like it! And I can't fix it if I don't know what's wrong." She told the witch upset at the fall outs.
"I can't talk about it." Bonnie shrugged "Caroline, I'm sorry."
Alaric, Grace, Elena and Stefan are all sat in Alaric's teaching room waiting for Damon to arrive, the girls have just been told about Isobel being back in town.
"Damon, thanks for coming." Alaric gave him a look.
"Sorry I'm late. My dog ate my uh... Never mind." He tried to joke when he saw the looks on everyone face "What's with all the furrowed brows?" He poked Grace's cheek "Cheer up, it can't be that bad."
"I saw Isobel last night." Alaric stated in a 'I beg to differ' tone.
"Isobel is here? In town?" He looked down at the brunette telepath.
John pulled up outside a rather large mansion, it was clean and open, letting himself in he walked through the house to see two humans – male and female – dance to the peaceful music in their underwear, Isobel was watching on.
"You're late." She stated.
"I didn't realise I was on a schedule..." John smiled "What's with the side show?" He motioned to the dancers.
"Cherie is a little jazz singer that I picked up in a blues bar in Brooklyn." Isobel introduced the divine young blonde "And I got the cowboy at a gay rodeo in Amarillo." She looked at the deliciously handsome young fair haired man with a smile noting all the bite marks in private places.
"He's gay?" John questioned.
"Not right now, he's very good to me." Isobel smirked rising from her seat on the bed "Hey, Cherie? Cassez Vous." She told them in a close to perfect french accent, both of the humans leave the room leaving Isobel and John in there alone "I'm teaching them French." She informed him "Oh, I can smell the judgement coming off of you."
"well, they're people, Isobel and you are treating them like dolls." John replied, slightly disgusted.
"If we're going to be partners you really have to stop being such a hater." She shook her head.
"We're in a partnership together we share a mutual goal. Don't ever confuse that for an acceptance of your lifestyle." John replied nastily.
"My lifestyle?" She smirked "So, I assume that you still don't have the invention..."
"I'll get it. I said I would." He replied.
"Uh, you threatened to expose Damon Salvatore, that didn't work. You killed that Pearl lady, still no invention. I really don't think that your plan is working, John." She told him rolling her eyes.
"well, you being here is not going to help anything." He replied narrowing his eyes, she walked towards him slowing before reaching out and slapping him making him tumble to the floor.
"You failed, John." She spat "I'm going to take it from here."
Damon took a seat next to Grace who was gnawing on her nails as they continued to sit in Alaric's history room, Elena was next to Stefan, he was holding her gently.
"Did you ask her about Uncle John? Are they working together?" Damon asked Alaric.
"No." Alaric shook his head.
"No they're not?" Damon looked at him.
"No I didn't ask." Alaric made it clear.
"What about the invention?" The icy blue vampire questioned the history teacher again.
"Didn't ask." Alaric shook his head again.
"Did she know about the tomb vampires?" Damon quizzed yet again.
"I don't know." Alaric replied getting sick of Damon's game of 21 questions.
"Did words completely escape you?" Damon spat.
"No, I was a little too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask questions." Alaric replied just as frustrated.
"What did she want?" Damon glanced down at the 5'2" telepath before back up at the blue eyes history teacher.
"She wanted to see us, Damon." Grace replied "Me and Elena."
"Alaric is supposed to arrange a meeting. We don't know why or what she wants." Stefan added from where he sat with Elena.
"You don't have to see her if you don't want." Damon snaked his arm around Grace's waist "Neither of you do."
"We don't really have a choice." Elena pipped up finally.
"She threatened to go on a killing spree." Alaric told him.
"Oh, I take it that's not ok with you guys." Damon shrugged and Grace hit his chest.
"I want to meet her." She glanced across at Elena "'Lena?"
"Me too, if we don't then we'll regret it." Elena nodded in agreement and Damon gave them both a look of disbelief.
"You've got to be kidding me." He muttered.
It wasn't long until Alaric could arrange meeting for the three girls, Grace and Elena were sitting on their own whilst Stefan was standing at a pool table for their protection if Isobel was to try anything funny.
"Can you hear me?" Elena whispered under her breath to Stefan "Thanks for coming." this earned a smile from Stefan "I'm happy you're here, I love you." she whispered and Stefan mouthed 'I love you' back.
"I love you too, 'Lena." Grace joked and Elena pushed her with a laugh, yet the smiles soon dropped when a black haired woman sat opposite them.
"Hello Grace." She looked at the telepath with a small smiled "Hello Elena." She looked at the other twin with the same smile "You look like them, it's eerie."
"You've met Katherine and Fayth?" Grace questioned.
"They found me after I turned. Genetic curiosity, I suppose... They would be fascinated by you." She told them with a deadly smile.
"Is that how you can walk in the day?" Elena noted her beautiful necklace.
"Fayth helped me obtain it." She glanced at Grace.
"Who is our father?" Grace then questioned.
"Not important. He was a teenage waste of space." Isobel brushed the question off, but Grace and Elena were determined.
"A name would be nice." Elena replied.
"It would, wouldn't it." Isobel mused "You ask a lot of questions both of you."
"Why did you compel that man to kill himself? Right after he told us to stop looking for you?" Elena questioned.
"Dramatic impact." She shrugged "I wish it would be more effective."
"Human life means that little to you?" Grace creased her eyes brows.
"Means nothing to me." She corrected her daughter "It's just part of being what I am."
"No it's not. I know other vampires, that's not true." Elena shook her head.
"Your new boyfriend over there by the pool table? Stefan Salvatore." Isobel new it all "And you, you have Damon don't you..." Isobel smirked at Grace "Both are following in Fayth and Katherine's footsteps."
"I'm not with Damon." Grace shook her head avoiding eye contact with her mother.
"But you will be..." Isobel replied.
"we should be in there." Damon told Alaric as they stood outside of the Grill.
"No, Isobel made it clear, we're not to step a foot inside." Alaric replied to the frustrated Vampire.
"I'm not going to kill her in a crowded restaurant." Damon scoffed.
"You're not going to kill her period!" Alaric replied sharply.
"She ruined your life and you still want to protect her?" Damon asked in disbelief.
"She's my wife." He saw the look Damon was giving him and quickly tried to redeem himself "was my wife. I looked for the woman I married, but she wasn't there. Whoever that is she's cold and detached."
"Yeah, she's given up her humanity." Damon shrugged.
"You see I don't get that. Stefan still has his humanity he's a good guy. And you're a dick and you kill people but I still see something human in you. But with her there was... nothing." The history teacher shook his head.
"You can turn it off, like a button you can press." Damon explained "I mean, Stefan is different. He wants the whole human experience. He wants to feel every episode of How I Met Your Mother, so he shuts his feelings out. The problem is, as a vampire your instinct is not to feel. Isobel chose the easier road – not guilt, no shame, no regret. I mean, come one, if you could turn it off, would you?" he questioned.
"You haven't." Alaric replied.
"Of course I have, Ric. It's why I'm so fun to be around." Damon smirked.
"Why did you want to meet us?" Grace hissed "Can't be just to catch up."
"Because I'm curious about you, both of you. But the real reason is: I want what your uncle wants. Jonathan Gilbert's invention." Isobel explained.
"How do you know my uncle?" Elena questioned.
"I used to spend a lot of time here when I was younger. John has a crush on me for years." She laughed "He was the first one that told me about vampires."
"So what made you want to become one?" Elena asked.
"It's a very long listen of reasons, girls. All of which I'm sure you've both through about." Isobel looked at both Elena and Grace.
"No." Elena shook her head.
"I think your twin here begs to differ." Isobel caught the expression Grace was pulling "But, Elena, that was your first lie. It's inevitable, you're going to get old, both of you, Stefan and Damon won't." She smirked "Forever doesn't last very long when you're human."
"I'm sorry, but we don't have what you're looking for." Grace rose about to leave.
"Sit down." Isobel ordered catching the girls arm, she saw Stefan walking towards them "Tell your boyfriend to walk away." She looked at Elena.
"I don't have it." Grace told her.
"I know that." She smiled "But Damon does and you're going to get it for me."
"He's not going to give it to me." Grace shook her head.
Isobel smirked "the blood will be on your hands then." she removed her grip from Grace's wrist "It was nice meeting you girls." she left the building.
Grace sat back down and started to cry Damon walked in and saw her pulling up a chair next to her, Stefan came over and joined Elena letting her console in him, Bonnie was watching for across the bar with a disappointed look on her face.
"What happened?" Damon asked the crying girl pulling her into a hug.
Jeremy had been trying to get hold of Anna, but whenever he rang her all he got was her voicemail, he was beginning to get worried.
"Hey, Anna. Where are you? What's up? Uh... Give me a call when you get this." Jeremy hung up and saw Jenna walk in kitchen looking at him.
"How is Anna? I like that girl, she has fire." Jenna approved.
"I don't know. She won't return me calls." Jeremy replied as John entered the room.
"Girl trouble?" He questioned.
"No, no trouble." Jeremy shook his head "Anna just owes me a call, that's it." He shrugged.
"Is that the girl I saw you with at the founder's pageant? You two are getting hot and heavy? When was the last time you saw her?" John questioned.
"Why?" The young boy quizzed.
"I was just making conversation." he shrugged "No one else in this house likes me." He glanced across at Jenna "At least I can talk to you, especially if you need something to talk to about girls." he smiled.
"Oh please! I'm eating." Jenna announced disgusted as she left the kitchen with her bowl of cereal.
"So serious, how well do you know Anna?" John questioned his nephew.
"I know Anna extremely well." Jeremy replied.
"I want you to know that you can talk to me about anything. I'm here to answer any questions that you have, to help you in anyway I can." John smiled helpfully at the brunette.
"Why?" Jeremy asked.
"Because your dad would want me to." John replied.
"I'm good." Jeremy eyed him suspiciously before getting up and leaving the kitchen.
At Isobel's mansion Damon was playing strip poker with Cherie, he was already shirtless and the human was in her underwear yet again.
"You won again." Damon informed Cherie with a playful smiled "I hope I'm wearing my good underwear." he joked removing his belt when Isobel walked in.
"And it's just one blast from the past after anther." She smirked "no, no, no." She pointed to the removal of his trousers, he rolled his eyes and zipped them back up "Dégagé, Cherie." She ordered and Cherie left the room.
"It's good to see you, Isobel. It was just having fun with your naughty little minion." He smirked in the direction of the compelled girl pulling his shirt back on, but not buttoning it.
"How did you find me?" Isobel questioned.
Damon zipped towards Isobel pinning her against a wall "Search all the neighbourhood foreclosures and found the most expensive one." Damon replied staring down at her.
"mmm, I should have know. You're the one who taught me that. What are you really doing here?" She asked again narrowing her eyes this time.
"well, you caused quite a stir when you blew into town. Saw everyone except the man who made you. I'm a little hurt." He pouted.
"I'm so sorry." She rolled her eyes grabbing the back of his hair yanking him back "Did you bring the device?" she broke him his grip.
"ow." He rubbed the back of his head "What are you doing with John Gilbert?" He avoided her question.
"We dated a few times when we were young. He was a little bit in love with me." She shrugged.
"I'm sure. One of many." he rolled his eyes this time "Now, this little invention what do you want with me?"
"Oh, my personally? I don't want anything with it. I'm just going what I'm told. You know Damon, we're both on the same side." She informed him before Damon took her face aggressively in his hands.
"Oh yeah? What side is that?" Damon questioned.
"Fayth's. Katherine's." She smiled knowingly "She wants John Gilbert to have the device and I think that you know that she's not happy when she doesn't get what she wants."
"Why are you doing her dirty work?" Damon asked.
"Don't kill the messenger." She replied "We both know that you can't control Katherine, and Lord knows nothing will stop Fayth. She does what she wants."
"So do I." Damon shrugged.
"Oh really, Damon?" She moved towards him seductively "What show we do now?"
They begin to kiss and Damon moves her back on to the couch, Isobel flipped them so she was on top deepening the kiss, but Damon had had enough and moved her to the floor holding her by the neck.
"Now that I have your attention, listen up. You do not come into my town; threaten the people I care about. Going after Grace? Bad move. You leave her alone or I will rip you to bits because I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message." he whispered before lifting her head and smacking it agains the ground "Fayth wants something from me? You tell that little bitch to come and get it herself." Damon spat before getting up and leaving the house.
Grace was sitting in Elena's house when the door was knocked, Elena glanced across at Grace before standing up and walking to the door opening it and seeing Bonnie.
"Hi." Elena smiled slightly.
"Hi. I couldn't sleep last night. I saw that you and Grace were obviously upset about something and I didn't go over to even find out what was wrong. It's not me. That's can't be us. You're both my friends, Elena. If you need me I'm here and I'm sorry I couldn't show you that yesterday."
"we met our birthmother." Elena explained.
"Oh. Was it... Are you ok?" Bonnie asked as Elena started to cry and Bonnie embraced her quickly, giving Grace a heartfelt smile over her shoulder.
The next day Matt is helping create the float for the Founder's Day Parade, he is moving a flowery styled ladder onto the float when he see's Tyler walk over to him.
"Hey man." Tyler smiles "So Caroline tells me you've been on your own for the past two weeks. Is everything ok?" He asked.
"You're asking me about my mom. Seriously? Look, man, why don't I just tell her to give you a call when she comes back to town." Matt rolled his eyes.
"Dude, that's not what I meant ok? I'm just trying to... I don't know what to say..." He admitted.
"Good, don't say anything. You're a dick, end of story." Matt spat.
"I know." He nodded as Matt walked away "Whatever."
In a classroom inside of Mystic Falls high Bonnie is looking through Emily's spell book when Grace and Elena enter the room.
"Hey." The witch smiled "Thanks for meeting me. I wanted you to see this."
"Is that Emily's spell book?" Grace questioned.
"I've been going through it since Grams died. Check it out." She told the girls to come over, it was a sketch of the compass used to find Vampires.
"That's the Vampire compass." Grace stated.
"Yeah, according to Emily, Jonathan Gilbert never actually succeeded in inventing anything. Emily secretly spelled them all with magic. Compass, rings and the mystery device you told me about." She looked at the twins turning the page to show them the device.
"Yeah that's it. Well, a part of it. Damon only has the one piece." Grace remembered.
"Emily pledged her loyalty to Katherine and Fayth, but she couldn't stand by and watch innocent people get killed. This was the only way she could think of to help. To let Jonathan Gilbert believe that he'd actually invented these devices." She rolled her eyes.
"Does it say what it does?" Elena asked as Bonnie flipped the page beginning to read the different language.
"Are you sure this is what Isobel wants?" Bonnie asked unsure.
"Yeah, why?" Grace asked.
"This is a weapon." Bonnie stated "against Vampires." this left the girls shocked.
Elena walked across the school yard as her and Grace searched for Stefan, but Elena was spotted first by Jeremy who ran over to her following her through the crowd.
"Elena!" Jeremy called.
"Hey, have you seen Stefan? I need to find him." She looked through the crowd.
"No, not lately. Listen, do you have a second?" he asked.
"Yeah. What's up? What's going on?" She stopped turning around and looking at him.
"Well, it's Anna. I've left her all this messages and she hasn't gotten back to me, not even a text." he explained showing his worry.
"Anna? I didn't know that you guys were still friends." She looked surprised yet concerned for him.
"We're more than friends. Look, something could be seriously wrong and if you know anything you've got to tell me." Jeremy told her firmly.
"I haven't talked to her, Jer." She replied truthfully.
"Are you lying to me right now?" He asked.
"Why do you say that?" Elena asked.
"'Cause that's what you do. Lying. You lie about everything. I know what Anna is and I know that you know. So tell me, do you have any idea where she is?" He lowered her voice.
"No, but Jer… Jeremy wait!" She called as he walked off into the crowd.
"What's with him?" Grace walked over to her.
"He knows what Anna is..." Elena lowered her voice.
"You're joking right?" Grace asked in disbelief turning to be face to face with her mother "Isobel, what are you doing here?"
"I'm your mother, Grace. I want to be more involved in your life." Isobel smiled looking over Grace's shoulder at Elena "Both of your lives."
"We don't want you in our lives." Grace spat narrowing her eyes.
"I understand that. You both already have a lot of people that you care about but I've been studying." She grinned "Let's see if I got this right." She looked around to see Bonnie wandering through the crowded school yard too "There is the witchy best friend, Bonnie. Gonna stay away from her" She nodded looking over Elena's shoulder to see Jeremy frustrated on his phone "Oh... Sad little brother, Jeremy." She pouted before seeing the bubbly blonde bouncing on the float "And there's Caroline... Obnoxious Caroline. I got all my info from here by the way. She had no idea who I was and she would not stop yapping." She laughed before seeing Matt and placing her hand on Elena's shoulder "And there's Matt, friend, ex, yappy's future ex. Lots of connection there."
"Matt is not involved in this." Elena stated shrugging her mothers hand off.
"He's involved with you, isn't he?" Isobel shrugged.
"Look, you shouldn't be here. You need to leave." Grace told her firmly standing in front of Elena.
"No, I have some friend here too. Look, you see that man over there, standing next to Matt by the float." The girls looked over at the shady man as Matt was beneath the float doing some work "His name is Frank, he's very handsome and also quite handy and he'd noticed that the axles are a little rusty which is very dangerous." She nodded "So, all you have to do is apply a little bit of pressure and..."
"No!" Elena screamed, but Isobel stopped her and Grace from running over.
Frank jumped on the trailer making it collapse crushing Matt's arm, he let out a yell telling them to help, Tyler was the first to jump to Matt's help attempting to pull the trailer up off of Matt, all the football players jumped in next and that still wasn't enough for Matt to slide his arm out, Stefan quickly jumped in only using some of his strength to pull it up so Matt could move out holding his arm in agony
"call an ambulance." Stefan told Caroline going down to kneel next to Matt.
"Why are you doing this?" Grace spat.
"I'm showing you how easy it is to hurt the people you both care about." Isobel replied casually.
"Are you doing all this just because of Jonathan Gilbert's invention?" Elena asked.
"Hand it over and all will be stopped." Isobel shrugged looking at the telepath.
"I told you, Damon is not going to give it to me." Grace shook her head.
"I think that you underestimate how much Damon cares about you." Isobel smirked at the brunette.
"He'll kill you before he gives it up." Grace spat.
"Is that before or after I kill you brother Jeremy?" Isobel asked.
Both girls started frantically calling Jeremy's name, he was no where to be seen or found, Stefan look at them both as they were calling, when Grace turned back to look at Isobel she was gone too.
"The ambulance is saying 15-20 minutes." Caroline told Matt.
"I have my car." Tyler spoke up "I can take him to the hospital."
"Caroline can take me." Matt replied holding his arm in agony.
"I didn't drive." She shook her head.
"I'll wait. It's fine." Matt refused to let Tyler take him.
"You will not wait ok! You need to see a Doctor, Tyler is driving! End of story." The blonde showed her true anger.
"Fine!" Matt growled.
"Go." She told Tyler.
"I'll bring my car around." Tyler ran off into the crowd.
John walked into Isobel's house to see that she was standing in the foyer with her bags packed, he smiled at the thought of her leaving Mystic Falls.
"I see your packing. That's a good sign." John nodded.
"It won't be long now." Isobel replied.
"Did you get the missing piece? Where is it?" John asked.
"I don't have it yet." She shrugged.
"Then, why did you call me here?" John asked as Isobel walked away into another room, John followed.
"Because I have the next best thing." She grinned as she saw Jeremy in the surrounded by Cherie and Frank.
"What the hell are you doing?" John asked as he saw his nephew.
"Getting what I want." She shrugged.
"Yeah, but he is my nephew and you're going to let him go right this second!" John told her.
"That gaudy ring on your finger comes off." She reminded him.
"C'mon, Isobel, I know you ok? It's me John. You can't hurt a kid." He told her.
"I'll kill him to prove you wrong." She spat.
"Really? Are you that far gone? Look, I know you've changed but the old Isobel is somewhere in there, isn't she? Come on let him go." John was almost begging for his nephews safety.
"Faites le souffrir." Isobel told Cherie and Frank.
Her minions begin to start beating John until he is almost unconscious, Jeremy felt defenceless as he watched Isobel remove the ring from his finger.
"Let's see how you do without this." She walked from the room playing the black stone ring.
Bonnie, Grace, Elena and Stefan stood in Alaric's history room talking about how to get the device off Damon.
"Where is the device?" Bonnie asked.
"Damon has it." Grace replied.
"He's going to be difficult to reason with." Stefan nodded.
"We'll go talk to him, Grace can talk to him." Elena suggested
"He won't listen to me." Grace shook her head.
"Yes he will, just please, Grace, try. For Jeremy." Elena begged with her eyes.
"He's not just going to hand it over, especially if it's harmful to Vampires." Stefan informed Elena.
"He's right, 'Lena." Grace nodded.
"What is it's not?" Elena smiled looking at Bonnie leaving Grace and Stefan confused.
"Absolutely not." Damon told Grace firmly as the five of them stood in the library of the Salvatore Boarding House.
"Will you just hear me out?" Grace protested walking towards him.
"I'm not going to give the device to Isobel so she can give it to John who is going to turn it to kill me." He told her gripping her shoulders "I like being a living dead person."
"But it'll be useless." Grace told him with a glint of hope in her eyes "Bonnie can take its power away."
"I don't trust her." Damon looked over at Bonnie who sat with Elena and Stefan.
"I can remove the original spell." Bonnie shrugged.
"John and Isobel will never know." Grace explained with a smile.
"No, I'll get Jeremy my own way." Damon told her.
"really? How are you going to do that? Because Isobel is a vampire and Jeremy could be dead the second you walk through the door." Stefan spoke up.
"Are you even sure you're up for this?" Damon looked at the witch "I mean, no offence, you're no Emily Bennett. Emily knew what she was doing..."
"I've been practicing." Bonnie replied.
"It's not piano lessons, honey." Damon smirked and Grace hit his arm.
"What's your favourite book?" Bonnie stepped forward.
"What?" Damon narrowed his eyes.
"Name a book, any book." Bonnie shrugged at him.
"Name a book... How about 'Call of the Wind' Jack London." Damon replied with a small smirk.
Bonnie turned around closing her eyes, suddenly a book came flying out of the bookcase and Damon caught it before it could hit Grace, looking at the spine he chuckled.
"Jack London." He nodded "Great parlour trick..."
"We're doing this, Damon." Elena told him stepping forward.
"We're doing it our way, now please, give me the device." Grace held her hand out.
"I don't trust you, I tried to kill you." Damon looked at Bonnie.
"You're right, you can't trust me." She narrowed her eyes.
"But you can trust me." Grace made Damon looked at her "Please, Damon."
"What will you do for me?" He questioned
"Damon, please, I'll get down on my knees and beg if I have to..." Grace whispered looking up into his icy blue eyes.
Everyone watched in anticipation before Damon leaned down brushing his lips against her making Grace hitch her breath, he slowly slipped the device into her hand.
"Don't let me regret this." He whispered against her lips before kissing her passionately.
"Thank you." Grace whimpered pulling back.
John is laying against the couch after he awoke from his beating from Cherie and Frank, Jeremy walked in the room and handed him a wet towel.
"Here you go." The teen sat opposite him.
"Thank you." John began to clean the small wound on his head.
"What is she after?" Jeremy questioned.
"Your ancestor invented a weapon, a device that's extremely harmful to Vampires and we've been trying to get it." John explained.
"Why?" Jeremy asked.
"Because there's a group of Vampires from a long time ago that wants revenge on this town." John replied.
"But why would a Vampire help you kill other Vampires?" Jeremy asked shocked.
"She has her own reasons for wanting them dead... Look, Jeremy, no one ever thought Vampires would return to this town. Not in modern times, but they have and we have to destroy them." He explained to the teen.
"All of them? No, there are some good ones out there." Jeremy told him, he was obviously talking about his girlfriend Annabelle.
"There's no such thing." John replied bitterly.
"I don't believe that." The brunette shook his head.
"well, your dad did. And as his son that should mean something to you." John told him.
"How did my father know about all this?" Jeremy creased his eye brows.
"Who do you think told me about the family history?" John replied.
Bonnie opens Emily's grimoire and places the device next to it, opening the device she pulls a single piece out and begins the spell. After flickering lights and roaring fires and flames Bonnie was done.
"Done." Bonnie nodded as she gave the device to Grace again.
"Great, now what?" Damon questioned.
"Now we give it to Isobel." Elena spoke up.
Grace and Elena walked into the park just outside of the Mystic Grill, they both look at each other waiting for Isobel, and right on cue she appeared with the same smug smile on her face from the first time she had seen them.
"Where is the device?" Isobel asked.
"Where is my brother?" Elena asked.
"This isn't a negotiation." Isobel rolled her eyes "Where is the invention?" She asked again.
"Where is my brother?" Elena spat.
"Do you really think I came alone" Isobel laughed as Cherie and Frank arrive behind the two girls.
"Did you really think we'd come alone?" Grace asked as Damon and Stefan appeared behind Isobel.
"For God sakes, call home." Isobel told Elena.
"What?" Elena creased her eye brows.
"Call home and ask to speak to your brother Jeremy." Isobel told her.
Elena dug her phone out of her pocket and dialled 'home' it was answered after a few rings and Elena heard a voice she was pleased to her.
"Hello?" Jeremy asked.
"Jeremy, are you ok?" Elena asked and Grace breathed out a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Uncle John hit his head. It was an accident." Jeremy replied.
"We're all laughing." Jenna called from where she cleaned John's head wound.
"But yeah, I'm ok." Jeremy nodded laughing gently.
"I'll be home soon." Elena told him before hanging up "You were never going to hurt him..."
"No, I was going to kill him. Don't look for any redeeming qualities in my. I don't have any." Isobel told her daughters.
"But you took a risk with Damon." Grace announced looking at the icy blue eyed vampire over her shoulder "How did you know that he was going to give it to me?"
"Because he's in love with you." Isobel replied.
Grace looked somewhat shocked, Elena looked at Stefan, who was looking at Damon who seemed a little uncomfortable, quickly Grace passed her the device.
"Thank you." Grace nodded.
"For what?" Isobel smirked.
"For being such a monumental disappointment." Grace spat tears streaming from her eyes "It keeps the memory of my real mother perfectly intact." Elena nodded at this.
"Goodbye, Grace." Isobel told her "Goodbye, Elena." She looked at her "As long as you both have your Salvatore on your arm, you're doomed. Katherine and Fayth were smart. They got out. But we all know you're not them." She smirked before leaving with Frank and Cherie.
Grace let out a shaky breath as Elena rubbed her back gently, Stefan walked over and embraced Elena tightly in his arms, squeezing Grace's hand.
The telepath looked across the way at the icy blue Vampire, his jaw was slightly slack as they continued to make eye contact, but no words were spoken, it was almost like Isobel had ruined the moment for them.
Yet for Grace it was an odd sensation, she had gone from thinking of Damon as the mysterious stranger, to the vampire that controlled Caroline, to hating him, to kind of being friends, to kissing and now this... her heart was pounding in her chest as more tears escaped her eyes.
"I'll take her home." Elena whispered to Stefan.
Jeremy shut his phone again as Anna didn't pick up, Elena waked in the room and Jeremy turned to look at her.
"Jeremy, we have to talk about all this." Elena spoke first.
"No, we really don't." Jeremy shook his head.
"I don't know what Anna told you, but there are things that you need to know." Elena replied.
"Yeah? Because I'm pretty sure that your journal covered it..." He spat.
"You read my journal?" Elena was hurt.
"And save me the speech about invasion of privacy because I read a section about Damon erasing my memory, about what to Vicki." Jeremy was deeply hurt.
"Jeremy, please, you don't understand. The night Vicki died, it was like mom and dad died all over again. It was all over your face and it hurt so much to see you like that. I just want to take away your pain. I'm so sorry." Elena apologised.
"Get out." Jeremy told her.
"No, Jeremy." She shook her head.
"Elena! Just get out. Please." She left the room into their joint bathroom and turned back to him with a sad expression on her face.
"Jer, I-" but before she could speak anymore Jeremy slammed the door in her face.
In the hallway of Mystic Falls High Alaric is about to go home when he felt someone standing behind him, turning he saw Isobel standing there.
"What do you want?" He spat.
"I totally get it, you, here as a history teacher." She smiled nodding gently "It's good."
"What the hell are you doing? You act like you don't care and yet here you are hunting me down." Alaric replied.
"I'm leaving. I just through I'd say goodbye." She shrugged gently.
"You couldn't be bother the first time, so why now?" He asked tears stinging his eyes.
"You hate me. Good." She nodded.
"Does that make it easier for you? I mean, what is the whole point of this exercise?" He asked.
"What did you expect? You spent all this time trying to track me down. What did you think you would find?" She questioned.
"The woman who gave me this." he showed her the ring that brought him back to life after a supernatural death "I mean you act like you don't care but you care enough to protect me after you left."
"I was a different person back then." She shrugged.
"Right! And that person is gone. The woman that I married, the woman I loved, she's just… she's gone." He stated removing his ring and throwing it at her "You expect me to believe that?" He then threw his Vervain at the floor.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Well, I'm ring free, I'm vervain free. So, either kill me or compel me because I don't believe it. Not for a second." He shook his head.
Isobel pushes him back against the wall with ease holding him there "I wanted this, I needed this and I'm going to regret it forever. This was my mistake, not yours." She began to compel him "You're not going to remember this. I loved you, I did and when I think about what I gave up it hurts. But now your heart is free of me, it's easier this way. Goodbye Ric." She sighed sliding the ring back on his finger and leaving yet again.
Jeremy walked back into his room and yawned before turning off the light letting only the light from the street lap out the front illuminate his room, he turned and saw Anna standing in front of him upset.
"Anna? What are you doing here?" He asked shocked.
"My mother." She sobbed "She's dead."
"What?" Jeremy stepped towards her.
"She was killed." Anna told him crying harder.
"oh my God. Anna. Hey, I'm so sorry." He rubbed her arms.
"I know I'm not supposed to be here, but I don't have anywhere else to go." She sobbed as he embraced her, shhing her, telling her everything was going to be ok.
Damon was pouring himself a glass of scotch regretting not speaking to Grace about what Isobel said, when he heard footsteps enter the room.
"Would you like one?" Damon turned to Stefan "Say it, whatever it is, purge, get it out." He smirked.
"It's about what Isobel said..." Stefan started.
"What about?" Damon swigged his scotch.
"Well, I know that you and Grace have bonded and I know that she cares about you... and I know you care about her..." He noted.
"Well, this is going in an interesting direction." He smirked.
"I'm just concerned about Grace being hurt." Stefan replied "She considers you a friend, maybe more than that..."
"Same here, Grace is a very good friend. Actually, she might qualify as my only... friend... or more... Is that a problem?"
"So at the risk of sound like... well like a protective older brother-" he was cut off with a laugh.
"Oh, there's no risk, you do." Damon nodded.
"You will not hurt Grace. You will not treat her like Fayth treated you, or treat her as if she is Fayth. Because she isn't, you need to understand that before she gets really hurt." Stefan made it clear "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Sure, sure." Damon nodded turning away when Stefan zipped in front of him.
"Do you understand?" Stefan asked again.
"Whatever you say, man. I mean honestly we're just friends or maybe something more and as a friend or whatever I wasn't looking forward to tell her the truth anyway, or Elena for that matter." He chuckled "So, I'll let you do it..."
"What truth?" Stefan asked.
"About John. Because I know you guys don't like to keep secrets from each other." He smirked.
"What are you talking about?" He creased his eye brows.
"Am I the only one around here who has the ability to put two and two together? Isobel! Hello? She dated John when she was 15; she gets pregnant and ends up at the doctor's office of John's brother. Now, what do you think John's role is in all this? I mean, go ahead, and think about it, I'll wait. Did you get it? You there yet?" he paused.
"So you think that John is Elena and Grace's father?" Stefan cocked an eye brow.
"Ding, ding, ding!" Damon rolled his eyes.
"What proof do you have?" Stefan asked.
"I don't need any proof, that's a DNA test for John, Elena, Grace and Maury Povich to deal with but I know how well you deal with these bombs so… Sleep tight." He walks towards the stairs "Oh and when you do tell Grace and she needs a friend to talk to about anything, I'm here for her." He grinned before leaving the room.
"Hello?" John answered his phone as he sat downstairs in the Gilbert lounge.
"On your doorstep you'll find what you've been looking for." Isobel replied as she sat in the backseat on a car.
"And my ring?" John questioned.
"Don't screw this up. You know what you have to do, John" She told him as John went outside and picked up the large envelope bringing it inside the house.
"I got it. I won't fail." John replied opening the package letting the ring and the device slide out onto the table.
"You better not. Fayth wants all of those tomb vampires dead, and I want to add two more to that list." Isobel referred to the Salvatore brothers.
John placed the ring on his finger "Let me guess..."
"Stefan and Damon. I don't want this life for them." Isobel showed some kind of motherly instinct.
"That was always part of the plan. Consider them gone." John replied nodding gently
"They're our daughters, John. We owe that to them." Isobel sighed.
"I know." He replied hanging up on her.
At the Mystic Grill Bonnie and Caroline are sitting there pinning over what Bonnie had done, she didn't tell Caroline the full details but most of it.
"So you're not going to tell me what happened?" Caroline asked after a while of silence.
"I did something bad, Caroline, and I lied about it." The witch informed her.
"To who?" Caroline looked up suddenly interested.
"To Elena. To Grace. I pretended to do something I didn't really do." Bonnie shook her head.
"What are you talking about?" the blonde creased her eye brows.
"I couldn't do what she wanted me to do. It wasn't right. Grams would have never done it, so I couldn't either. But when Elena finds out, God, when Grace finds out... They're never gonna forgive me." Bonnie shook her head putting it down in what looked like shame...
A/N
Here's another chapter! Oh my God two in one night! Yay! Makes me feel so good, I hope you all enjoy it and please, review, alert and fav if you like :D Thanks for reading!
Only one more chapter left the season one! Yay! Tell me what you think of what Bonnie did. Or How Stefan is treating Grace like his little sister. Or what you think about Damon and Grace's relationship growing a little bit more :)
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