Twisted Love
Season One
Founder's Day
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
"Elena, your hair looks gorgeous." Grace smiled as she finished the last ringlet around Elena's pale, oval face "So luscious and pretty." She grinned at her twin.
They were in Elena's room preparing her for the Founder's Day Parade, Elena was going to be on the Miss Mystic Float with Caroline – the winner of the pageant – and the other female nominees with their partners.
"I really wish you would take up Carol Lockwood's offer." Elena looked over her shoulder as Grace began to tighten the corset on Elena's beautiful golden dress, it was a period piece and fit her slim figure perfectly "It would make me feel a lot better with you there up on that float with me."
"Elena, I'm just not up for it, I haven't slept very well, I'm still on edge, as much as I could love to get up there in one of these beautiful dresses and wave to an audience with a handsome gentleman on my arm, I'm just not there yet." Grace replied tying the bow at the back with a small smirk.
"You're going to make me beg, aren't you." Elena looked at her through the full length mirror.
"Maybe a little." Grace smiled sitting down at the dressing table beginning to curl her hair in the same style as Elena's, yet Grace's was longer and she had her side fringe to put with her, whereas Elena could get away with having no fringe and a middle parting.
"Here." Jenna walked in the room smiling as Grace was finishing off her hair "Tyler just dropped this off, a present from his mom..." She placed a large white dress bag on the bed "It's for Grace."
"Awesome, Grace, it's let you into this dress." Elena unzipped the bag to reveal a perfect deep purple dress with a pink sash, yet there was no sleeves or straps to hold it up on her petite frame "Wow, this is amazing..."
"Yeah, it's pretty nice." Grace ran her fingers over the silk.
"C'mon, let's get you dressed." Jenna chirped "You're going to look stunning, and Elena, you look gorgeous as ever." She kissed the humans forehead.
Quickly pulling the uncomfortable dress on both of the girls worked to make look more girly and devilishly pretty as ever.
"Wow." Elena looked at them both in the mirror "We look... old." She noted.
"Yeah we do." Grace nodded in agreement.
At Mystic Falls High Carol Lockwood had taken over for Caroline, considering she was going to be on the float, she was bossing everyone around trying to whip them into shape, it wouldn't be long until the parade would be starting.
"No, no, no. It's all wrong." Carol announced walking around with a clipboard, ordering people around "The marching band should be in front of the historic society." She told a few band people and they soon moved away from the wrath of Mrs. Lockwood "Matt, get up on the float." Carol told him with a kinder smile before turning to two other boys with a face like thunder "Boys, I asked you to put chairs on the founder's float." She saw the Miss Mystic girls wandering around "Ladies! Time to get on the float!" she ran over to them.
Stefan is standing alone, dressed in something he would have worn in 1864, Damon saw him and sauntered threw the crowd to be standing next to him with a smirk.
"Look at you, all retro." Damon wiggled his eye brows.
"What are you doing here?" Stefan questioned his older brother.
"Why wouldn't I be here?" Damon shrugged "Bonnie deactivated the Gilbert invention, Isobel is gone and it's founder's day!" He stated with a smile "I'm here to eat cotton candy and get my girl." He smirked as he thought of his little telepath.
"Don't start with me, Damon." Stefan shook his head, a small smile planted on his lips.
"Oh, you started this Stefan, with that whole 'I'm going to be the big brother that you never was to me, leave Grace alone' speech." He rolled his eyes "I'm enjoying that."
"As long as you heard it." Stefan stuck his hands in his pockets looking around.
"What?" Damon pretended to be hard of hear as a terrible joke, Stefan shook his head gently "You have no sense of humour, Stefan."
"Actually I have no sense of 'Damon humour'." Stefan replied.
"'Damon humour'... Hey look, I get it, I get it." He held up his hands almost innocently "I'm the better, hotter superior brother and you're scared, now that Fayth is out of the picture, that I'm going to treat Grace like Fayth treated me... or like she is Fayth... but don't worry." He placed a hand on Stefan's shoulder "Grace is not Fayth..."
"You're right, she's not." Stefan nodded.
Damon smirked and glanced to the side when his mouth fell ajar, Grace and Elena were walking across the school yard in their period dresses, Stefan's eyes grew wide when he saw the two, too. Both the girls smile gently in their direction and curtsied to them.
Jeremy was in his room getting ready for the Founder's Day Parade too, pulling on his costume he wasn't sure if he even wanted to go, suddenly Anna appeared behind him and he turned to her with a smile.
"Anna." He smiled.
"Look at you." She announced, eyeing his costume with great care.
"I know it's stupid, huh? I'm part of the parade, but how are you? I've been so worried and I feel awful." Jeremy looked down.
"Why? You didn't kill my mother, your uncle did." She perched on the end of his bed.
"Are you sure it was him?" Jeremy looked at her leaning back against his wall opposite her.
"Who else would have done it?" Anna looked up deep into his dark brown orbs.
"He doesn't understand, Anna. It's who he is. He hates all vampires. He's just doing what he thinks is ring." Jeremy attempted to defend him.
"Are you defending him?" Anna rose from her seat looking at her human.
"No, no way! It's just... I do understand where he's coming from. He's convinced all the tomb vampires want revenge on this town and he's just... he's trying to protect it." Jeremy replied fixing his outburst.
"They do want revenge or at least they did but that's why we separated form them." Anna shrugged gently "My mom wasn't after revenge; she just wanted her life back. I have to get out of town, Jeremy." She suddenly announced.
"You're leaving?" Jeremy looked at her shocked.
"I've been thinking, you could come with me." She took his hands "I could turn you. I mean, you said you wanted me to. Here." She handed him a flash of her blood "It's my blood." She clarified "if you die with it in your system you'll come back." She explained in simply terms.
"Anna..." Jeremy looked at her.
"I know you, what it's like for you... being alone, always feeling empty inside, no one to understand. But when you're a vampire you don't have to feel that way, you can shut it off. I can show you how." She smiled up at him.
"I wanted to." He nodded "I did." He pulled away from her and looked at the flask in his hands "But I don't think I can. Sorry." He whispered turning back around to face her, but she was already gone.
Grace, Elena and Stefan were talking in private about Damon's theory of John being their father, both were taken by surprised and wasn't sure if they believed it.
"John!" Grace asked a small laughed escaped her lips as she thought of the madness of the situation they were in.
"Is that even possible?" Elena then questioned.
"There is no proof, but he dated Isobel when she was a teenager and he was the one who brought her to Grayson's office for the deliver." Stefan shrugged gently.
"My whole life I've never like this man. I..." Elena stuttered over her words as she glanced over as she glanced at Grace who was just shrugging and avoiding eye contact.
"Sorry, I'm sorry." Stefan told the two "I just... I wanted to tell you both before Damon dropped it on you in some typically inappropriate way." He shrugged and Grace nodded, it was something he would do.
"No, I'm happy that you told us." Elena stroked his face gently "I really hope it's not true."
"Now what are we supposed to do?" Grace questioned "Do we just confront him and say 'Hey! Are you our daddy!." Grace looked at Elena as she began to giggle along with Stefan "Stefan, 'Lena, this is serious..."
"I know..." Elena stopped "I'm just never going to be ready for something like this... I've had enough family problems to sink a battleship. With learning about Grace. Jeremy hates me..." Grace went to protest but Elena shook her head "And why wouldn't he? My journal gave him every reason not to..."
"He's just hurt." Grace replied.
"She's right." Stefan nodded "He's confused."
"He said he'll never forgive me for Vicki, for taking away his memory, for lying to him." Elena whispered.
"He's your brother, he'll forgive you. Just give him some more time." Stefan rubbed her arms.
Caroline and Matt were taking pictures for the school website, and Bonnie was holding the camera for them both.
"Say cheese!" She pointed the camera at them.
"Oh wait." Caroline stopped them turning to Matt who had come out of hospital with a white cast on his arm, due to it be trapped under a trailer "Hide your cast, it's not era appropriate..."
"Seriously?" Matt looked at her in disbelief.
"Yes." She replied, waiting everything to be perfect, this was her day.
"Ok, fine." Matt moved to the other side of her so that his cast was hidden behind her back, Bonnie snapped the picture smiling at them both as Tyler walked over to them.
"I want one with Bonnie now." Caroline grinned.
"Here, I'll take it." Tyler took the camera from Bonnie as she ran over to her friend posing, Matt narrowed his eyes as the boy before turning to Caroline.
"I'll be on the float." Matt told her walking away.
"I said I was sorry." Tyler looked at Caroline.
"You made out with his mother and then you beat him to a pulp. You're going to have to do a little better than sorry." Caroline rolled her eyes before walking away.
Elena saw Jeremy walking through the crowd in his costume, she quickly ran after him as quick as she could in her restrictive dress.
"Jeremy!" She called him, but he didn't stop "I was wondering where you were." She slowed her pace to walk next to him "You look great and you guys did a really good job on the float." She smiled kindly at him.
"Go away, Elena." Jeremy told her.
"Jeremy, come on please! I don't want it to be like this between us." Elena told him.
"Why don't you have Damon erase my memory again? Then I could go back to being your in the dark little brother." Jeremy hissed.
"Jer, Please." She took his arm.
"Just don't." He snatched his arm away from her grip "You can't fix this that easily; something like this doesn't just get fixed." He told her before leaving her standing there on her own.
It wasn't much longer until the floats were parading around the town, Carol Lockwood was commentating into a mic about them, whilst citizens stood at the sides of the roads waving to everyone on the floats.
"Let's give a big hand to the Mystic Falls High School Matching Band!" Carol announced and everyone cheered "And for a little local history, Mr. Saltzman's students have recreated Virginia's Battle of Willow Creek." Carol announced as another float drove down the street, this one had Jeremy and Tyler on it in their solider uniforms "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our stunning Miss Mystic Falls court and their handsome escort." Carol introduced the next float, this one had Caroline, Matt, Elena, Stefan and Grace on, they waved to everyone in the crowd with happy bubbly faces "This is Caroline Forbes, Miss Mystic Falls. Aren't they beautiful?"
Grace spotted Bonnie in the crowd and waved, she had been to grateful to the witch for what she had done for her, for Damon and Stefan too, Bonnie waved back before Damon stepped out in front of her and waved to Grace with a smirk on his face, Grace rolled her eyes and looked at her feet.
Turning around to see Bonnie, Damon wandered over to her, she stepped back from him, not in fear, she just didn't want to talk to the Vampire.
"What do you want?" Bonnie questioned.
"Just watching the parade." Damon shrugged innocently, she turned and was about to leave "Where are you going?"
"Away from you." Bonnie answered.
"I want to say something." Damon told her.
"Just leave me alone-"
"Thank you." He cut her off "That device Emily spelled could have killed me. I don't take what you did lightly so... thank you." He smiled genuinely.
"I did it for Grace and Elena." Bonnie replied shrugging.
"I know that, but I'm still very grateful and... I owe you." Damon told her as they stare at each other for a long time "Enjoy the parade." He smiled.
In Grayson Gilbert's office just in other side of town John stood in there with Mayor Lockwood as they inspected the device, they know had all the pieces.
"This is the key." John held the device Isobel had given him "Once inserted, the device will be activated. It will work only one for an estimated time of 5 minutes." John informed Richard.
"Yes, how does it work?" Richard then asked stepping forward.
"It's a high pitch frequency that humans can't hear. Any vampires within a five block radius will be incapacitated, exposing them. At that time the Sheriff's deputies will inject them with Vervain and bring them here, where we will finish them off." John replied.
"And you're certain they're attacking tonight?" Richard doubted John.
"I had a source. One of the vampires from the tomb confirmed that attack." John replied "They want revenge for what our ancestors did in 1864. It makes us their target." he explained to the Mayor.
"We're taking an enormous risk. We're talking about our families, John!" Richard looked at John in disbelief.
"This is the only way to draw them out and kill them... all of them." John sighed thinking of protecting his daughters from the monster Salvatore brothers.
In a mysterious, abandoned building way across town all the tomb vampires were meeting to found out how it was going to go down tonight, to kill the founding families for what their ancestors did to them.
"Everyone listen up!" The leader announced "Plan stays the same. We will wait until the fireworks start, until them we blend it. Stay a part of the celebration; they'll never see us coming." He smirked before turing back to a board with a crudely draw picture of what the Falls would look like was draw on "This here is the stage." He elaborated "This is where the founding families are going to be. Any questions?" He looked around the room until he felt someone walk in the door beside him, turning he saw Anna standing there "Anna? What are you doing here?"
Damon is standing alone in the Grill when Grace walks in, she still has her same curled hair, but this time she was wearing a black of black skinny jeans, boots and a white t-shirt, that hung loose on her body.
"I like you better like this." Damon complimented her with a smile "Period look, it didn't suit you." He shrugged.
"Is that an insult?" Grace questioned with a small smile.
"Actually, Grace, it is a compliment of the highest order." Damon replied.
"Look, I know things have been a little tense between us since... well since the whole Isobel situation." Grace avoided eye contact, but that was all Damon wanted to look into her big brown orbs and tell her the truth... "But it's ok, I know you're having a rough time at the moment, and what we have may not lead to something... but I hope we can be friends." she whispered.
"Now look at me and say that." Damon took a step towards her.
"I can't do that." Grace replied looking down at her hands "Maybe it's best for us, so you should stop with the flirty comments and that eye thing you do..." she breathed out.
"Grace." Damon took her hands.
"Don't make me regret this, Damon." She whispered still not looking at him, Damon stared down at her hurt for a few more seconds before Grace walked away from him over to where Jeremy was sitting alone at a table.
"I don't believe that you and Elena can't fix this." She took a seat "We lied, we were wrong, but it wasn't just her, Jeremy. You're her brother and she loves you and we have to fix this... So tell me what can I do?" Grace begged, Elena didn't know she was here.
"You can go to hell, Grace." Jeremy spat before raising from his seat and leaving the grill walking past Damon who seems angry at him for what he just said to Grace, quickly he followed him from the Grill.
"I have so many emotions, but I don't have a way to express them. Being a teenager is so hard!" Damon mocked Jeremy as he followed him through the town square, which was filled with crowds of people celebrating.
"You're a dick." Jeremy spat.
"You don't talk to me like that! I'm not Grace. And for now on." Damon caught his arm pulling the teen towards him "Don't talk to her that way either."
"So, you're going to kill me just 'cause I hurt Grace's feelings?" Jeremy scoffed.
"Cut her some slack." Damon replied "She's just looking out for Elena..."
"They erased my memories!" Jeremy replied.
"No, I did! They were protecting you." Damon told him as if he was stupid.
"It wasn't their call to make." Jeremy tried to leave, but Damon just held his arm tighter "Let go of my before I cause a scene." he looked around at the people around him.
"You'll be unconscious before you even got a word out..." Damon spat when Stefan intervened between them.
"Let him go." Stefan ordered his older brother and Damon released him from his grip, Stefan placed himself between the two and looked at the human "Are you alright?"
"Yeah." Jeremy nodded.
Stefan peered over his shoulder at Damon "what my brother is trying to say is don't blame Grace and Elena for this. Damon turned Vicki. I killed her. She was a threat to you and the girls. I'm sorry that happened. I wish that it hadn't." Stefan shook his head mournfully.
"Shouldn't have made me forget..." Jeremy countered before walking away from the Vampires.
"Good cop, bad cop, I like it." Damon grinned.
"What are you doing?" Stefan turned back to him.
"He's being a punk." Damon shrugged.
"Grace's and Elena's relationship with Jeremy is none of your business. Stay out of it." The yonger brother warned.
"Oh, there's only one 'do-gooder' role available. My bad I'm sorry." Damon laughed shaking his head.
"Get over yourself." Stefan spat "We both know you're not doing this for the right reasons..."
"You seen, there you go with that little protective act again. What are the right reasons, Stefan? Enlighten me please!" Damon looked towards his younger sibling.
"Well, see Damon, it's only real when it comes from your desire to do the right thing for nothing in return and I know that it is a entirely foreign concept to you. I completely understand that you wouldn't get it." Stefan shrugged before walking away into the crowd.
"You want to use our town as bait?" Sheriff Forbes asked John and Mayor Lockwood in disbelief as they all stood in her police office, she shut the door quickly to stop anyone from hearing in.
"we're gone over the plans with all your deputies, they're on board." Richard informed her.
"You've gone behind my back?" Liz asked not believing what she is hearing.
"Yeah because we knew this is exactly how you'd react." Richard replied shaking his head.
"Our children are here." Liz told them both.
"Liz, we need to do this." John spoke up "We have no choice; this is the reason for the secret council. Our founding fathers created the secret council for this purpose."
"I'm the Sheriff." Liz announced after a long pause "It's my call and I say no."
"Richard, let me speak tot he Sheriff alone." John looks over and the Mayor who nods and leaves the room shutting the door behind him.
"John, you're not thinking clearly, I'm not going to change my mind about this." She told him firmly turning her back to him when she was struck in the head, she fell to the floor unconscious, John removes the gun from her belt and then attaches her with handcuffs to the radiator, one more glance at the unconscious woman and John left the room shutting the door...
Soon darkness creeped over Mystic Falls and Damon was wandering slowly around the parade keeping to himself when a familiar face appeared in front of him. Anna.
"You're still around?" Damon questioned.
"There's something you need to know. The vampires from the tomb are planning an attack tonight." She told him.
"How do you know this?" The younger vampire seemed skeptical.
"I went to them. They think I'm with them but I'm not. They want the founding families dead. That means Grace too, Damon..." Anna tried to reason.
"When is this supposed to happen?" Damon asked.
"When the fireworks start..." Anna replied and there was a long pause between them.
"John Gilbert wants to use the invention on them." Damon noted.
"Then we can't be here." Anna seemed now scared and wanting to get as far away from where she was standing as possible.
"It doesn't work, it's been deactivated." Damon replied calming her.
"Well, then a lot of people are going to die." Anna glanced around her at the innocent faces of children, mothers, fathers all celebrating and enjoying the festival.
"Where are they right now?" Damon questioned.
"They're already here." Anna replied.
The tomb Vampires appear in their little gang and the leader is in front of the pack leading them into the square.
"Remember, we don't know which of them ingested vervain. It's not about the feed, it's about the kill. You know what to do." He whispered to them as the all separate off into the crowd.
"Ric." Damon ran over to Alaric.
"Yeah?" Alaric pulled himself away from the crowd he was in to talk to the vampire.
"You keep those nifty little vampire darts in the car?" Damon questioned.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" He creased his eye brows.
"Because the square is crawling with tomb vampires. I think we might need a stake or two." Damon added to the list.
"Yeah, I got it." Alaric nodded leaving to go to his car.
Damon looked around and saw Grace talking with Elena, Stefan standing just beside them, walking swiftly towards them he grabbed the telepaths hand making her walk with him, Elena and Stefan following quickly.
"Damon. What are you doing?" She tried to pull her hand from his tight grip.
"Saving you life." He replied "Fifteen words or less... Tomb vamps are here, founding families are their target." He turned back to Stefan "Get them out of here now."
"Wait, where are you going?" Grace called worried for him.
"That's more than fifteen words, Gracie." He replied walking into the crowd.
"What about Jeremy." Elena whispered.
"We have to find him." Grace added.
"Let's go." He took both of them hands running into the crowd.
Tyler was standing inside of the Grill playing pool on his own, Caroline and Matt were sitting just across the room watching him.
"There was this time, freshmen year when Bonnie and I were in a fight and we swore that we would never talk again." Caroline told Matt, trying to be optimistic about the situation he is in with his best friend.
"Caroline, give it a rest." Matt told her firmly.
Richard Lockwood walked into the Grill to see his son playing pool, he was made that Tyler hadn't followed his orders to go home, it was for his safety.
"What are you doing here?" Richard walked over to his son "I told you to go home."
"I decided not to." Tyler shrugged.
"If I tell you to do something you do it." He caught his sons arm.
"Get off me!" Tyler snatched his arm back away from his father.
"Is everything ok?" Caroline ran over to her friends side, Matt following.
"Please Tyler; I need you to go home, now. Take your friends with you." The mayor told his son.
"Why? What's going on?" The blond questioned grabbing hold of Caroline's waist.
"I can't explained." He shook his head "All of you need to get home, now. Please." Richard begged.
After a long pause Tyler saw the urgency in his fathers eyes and nodded "Yeah, ok."
"Here, take my car, it's out back." He placed the keys in his sons hand "Caroline, Matt go with him." he urged them all to leave faster.
Jeremy walked from the restroom in the Grill where he had just been changing from his uncomfortable founder's day costume.
"Anna, what are you doing here? My Uncle could see you." Jeremy asked as he saw Anna.
"I don't care about that. I needed to find you. Come here." She dragged him into the ladies restroom shutting the door behind her making sure that nobody was in there with them.
Mayor Lockwood was making an speech to the citizens of his town, standing up on the stage in the middle of the square, the founding families stood there too, the Vampires from the tomb all stood watching in the crowd, vengeance deep in the cold eyes.
"For one hundred and fifty years, Mystic Falls has been the kind of town that everybody wants to call home, safe, prospers, welcoming. And we have the founders to thank for that. That's why I'd like to dedicate this evening's firework display to their legacy." He finished his speech as he nodded to one of the deputies off stage to give John Gilbert the go ahead "Enjoy the show!" He announced at the fireworks began to explode in the sky into pretty colours, quickly he evacuated the stage with his wife close by his side
"Where could he be?" Grace asked as they left the large crowd.
"I don't know." Stefan caught her hand again pulling her along with Elena "Stay close... we don't know how many tomb vampires are around..."
John was preparing the device for for it being used when the door opened behind him, turning slowly he saw a raven haired vampires standing there.
"Do you have any idea what you've done?" Damon spat.
"Yeah, as a matter of fact I do." John replied as Damon stepped towards him angrily, but John turned and activated the device for it's use, a high pitched noise emitted from it and Damon fell to the floor screaming, John reached out beside him and grabbed a syringe full of vervain.
Just outside Stefan, Elena and Grace we walking across the road when Stefan dropped to the floor too holding his head.
"What's going on?" Grace asked confused at Stefan's sudden outburst of pain.
"Stefan? What's wrong?" Elena asked kneeling beside him rubbing his back in small circles.
"My head." Stefan replied in pain.
"What?" Elena whispered.
"What's going on?" Grace asked.
"My head!" Stefan replied.
Grace closed her eyes and listened in on Stefan thoughts when all she could hear was a high pitched noise that made her drop to the ground trying to make it stop, as much as she tried to push Stefan's thoughts out of her head her guard was down and she couldn't put the wall back up as she had no strength, Elena looked over at her twin holding her head.
"Grace, what's happening?" Elena asked concerned.
"Elena, make it stop!" Grace screamed.
In the Mystic Grill in the restrooms Anna was talking to Jeremy when she suddenly clasped her head and began to scream too.
"Anna, what's wrong?" He held her in his arms as she began to cry in pain "Anna!"
"Please make it stop!" Anna begged.
Tyler was driving his fathers car home when he suddenly heard the noise run through his head, he grimaced and started to wince.
"What the hell is that?" Tyler questioned taking one hand off the wheel to place on his head, rubbing it gently.
"What's the matter?" Caroline asked from where she sat in the passenger seat beside him.
"That noise." He replied.
"Wait, what noise?" Matt asked from the back seat.
Tyler took both of his hands off the wheel to place on his head and begin screaming, the noise was too much, it was hurting.
"Tyler! Tyler!" Caroline screamed.
"Caroline! The wheel!" Matt yelled.
She tried to reach across and grab the wheel, but as she pulled at it, the car swerved hard and smashed into a wall...
Stefan and Grace were on the floor shaking with pain when one of the deputies runs over about to vervain them both, thinking they were both vampires, but Alaric stops him and tells him to go sort out another one.
Alaric ran over and grabbed Grace picking her up from the floor as well as Stefan – with the help of Elena – carrying them both down a pair of stairs leading into a dark alley, shielding them from people seeing.
"I don't know what happened, first Stefan dropped and then Grace dropped..." Elena told Alaric.
"Yeah, they're not the only ones. The cops have got everything who's down, injecting them with Vervain..." Alaric replied.
"What?" Elena whispered "They're rounding up the vampires." she worked it out.
"Please help him." Carol Lockwood looked down at her husband laying unconscious on the floor "He just went down." She explained, another cop came over making his way though the crowd to inject the mayor with vervain, Carol watched in shock, her husband wasn't a Vampire...
"Ah!" Anna screamed as Jeremy continued to hold her "my head!" A deputy walked in the room and pried the vampire from Jeremy's arms, as he spoke into his radio, pulling her from the room they injected her with Vervain too.
"Anna!" Jeremy yelled, but another cop held him back so he could run after her "Let her go! Anna!"
The device stops it's high pitch noise and John is putting all the captured vampires in the basement of Grayson Gilbert's office.
"The device is done; the only think keeping them down is vervain. We don't have much time, let's finish this." John told one of the deputies.
Damon began to wake up from his unconscious state to look around the room, still not being able to move his body, one of the cops was pouring gasoline everywhere, John turned to leave when a hand reached out and grabbed his ankle, he looked down and saw Anna laying on the floor.
"Anna." he whispered, Damon turned his head to look at them "You can help up; I'll take it from here." John told the cop and he nodded running up leaving the room, Anna attempted to get up, but John stopped her pulling a stake from his back pocket.
"Please... No." She whispered to weak to fight back.
He pushed the stake into her heart and she fell down dead, John took the canister of gasoline and began to pour it over the others, trailing it up the stairs as he gets to the top, pulling a match out he throws it and the fire starts. The basement was alight and Damon wasn't sure if he could get out.
"Are you ok?" Elena brushed the hair back off Grace's face.
"I'm fine." Grace whispered "What was that?" Grace looked around to see that Stefan was now better too, Alaric ran back down the sitars to them "It was unbearable."
"I saw at least 5 vampires go down. They're taking them to your families old building." Alaric told Grace and Elena.
"It's the Gilbert device. It has to be." Stefan spoke up.
"But how did he get it to work?" Elena questioned "Bonnie unspelled it."
"Maybe she didn't." Grace coughed.
"She did, we saw her do it." Elena replied.
"No, Grace is right. Think about it. We asked Bonnie to deactivate a device that could protect people against vampires." Stefan told his girlfriend.
"So we could protect you." Elena sat next to him.
"And Damon..." Grace whispered "Vampires. Where is Damon?"
"I don't know." Alaric admitted "I haven't seen him since this started."
"Can you get Jeremy? Take him down?" Elena asked Alaric.
"Of course." Alaric ran back up the stairs into the panicking crowds.
Carol Lockwood runs into Sheriff Forbes office to see that she is now awake and attached to a radiator by her handcuffs.
"Liz, are you ok?" Carol asked shocked.
"There's a key on my-"
"What's going on!" Carol cut her off.
"There's a key on my belt, I need you to get it." Liz pointed to her desk and Carol ran over grabbing the key passing it to her.
"I've been looking everywhere for you, something happened to Richard. They took him." Carol explained as Liz opened her cuffs and jumped up.
"Let's go." She ran from the room with the mayor's wife following.
Damon turns over away from the roaring fire around him, he see's Mayor Lockwood just waking up from his unconscious state.
"Mayor. Is that you?" Damon coughed through the smoke.
"What are you doing here?" Richard squinted.
"I'm a vampire." Damon replied and the mayor struggled away from him "What's your excuse? No, really. The vervain didn't affect you, you're not a vampire, what the hell are you?"
The Mayor shuffled away from Damon falling into a tomb vampires lap, it was the leader, he smirked down at him.
"Mayor Lockwood." The leader of the tomb Vampires announced before snapping his neck, killing him.
With the car crash incident Matt and Caroline are out awake of the car as the paramedics check over a knocked out Tyler on the floor.
"Hey, are you ok?" Matt wrapped his arms around the blonde.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." She assured him, she was feeling a little woozy, unbalanced.
"No, they need to check you out." Matt told her.
One of the paramedics opens Tyler's eye lid to check if he would respond to the small torch he shone it in, but when he opened it Tyler's eyes was glowing a golden topaz colour, he jumped back shocked.
"What the hell!" The paramedic exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Matt jumped to Tyler's side.
"The eyes." The paramedic couldn't find the words to explain them when Tyler woke up from his state.
"What happened?" He asked, his voice filled with grog.
"Dude, don't scare me like that." Matt told him firmly looking over his shoulder to see that Caroline had dropped to the floor falling unconscious.
"Caroline!" He jumped over to her "Over here." He called the paramedics over "Caroline, wake up." He whispered.
"Wait." Grace stopped Elena and Stefan from running "I can hear them screaming..."
"Me too." Stefan noted "This way." he lead the girls over to where John Gilbert was standing just outside of the Gilbert Office "This building is on fire."
"What?" Grace whispered "But Damon..."
"C'mon, we'll get him." Elena grabbed her hand pulling her towards the building.
Damon picked himself up onto all fours as the building began to fall down around him, a large beam fell from the ceiling crashing down onto the floor, Damon sighed, he began to think he was doomed and would never get out.
"Where is Damon?" Grace demanded as she saw John watching the building casually with his arms crossed over his chest.
"With the rest of them, where he should be. It's over for Damon." John replied slowly.
"No." She shook her head, Elena rubbed her back gently "You're crazy." Grace spat feeling tears began to sting her eyes.
"Why? Because I'm doing what should have been done a 145 years ago? This is the right thing, Grace." John told her, he noticed that Stefan was looking at the building "Go ahead, you won't make it out. It'll save me the trouble of killing you myself."
"You know the building well, is there another entrance?" Stefan asked Elena.
"Utility door, there's one around the side." Elena replied.
Stefan ran towards the building going down the alley that would lead him to the door, Grace and Elena went to follow but John caught their arms tightly.
"You take one more step and I'll alert those deputies that they missed a vampire." John hissed.
"I'm asking you not to." Elena replied.
"That doesn't mean anything to me." he shrugged away.
"As our father it should." Elena replied with narrowed eyes, they all stare at each other for a long couple of seconds.
"You know. You both know." John nodded.
"I wasn't sure, but now I am." Elena nodded.
Grace ran around him and Elena stared on for a few more seconds before following her twin around the side of the building.
"Hey! You can't go in there!" Bonnie yelled to Stefan but he opened the emergency door anyway about to run it "The fire will take you out."
"He's my brother, Bonnie." Stefan replied before running into the building, he got to the door that lead down to the basement placing his hand on the knob immediately pulling it back, the handle was too hot.
"Stefan!" Elena yelled as she got to the emergency door outside, Grace was about to go in, but Bonnie caught her arm
"you can't go in there." Bonnie told her firmly
"Get off!" Grace pulled her arm back "I can't believe you would do this. I understand you wanting to protect the town, but you lied to us..."
"Grace, I'm sorry-"
"Like saying sorry will make up for this." She shook her head turning away.
Closing her eyes the witch started to recite a spell, one she had memories, inside Stefan could finally open the door, the fire roared out at him, he took a step back when suddenly the fire began to die down to a small flicker letting him get in grab Damon and run out again at Supernatural speed, only seconds after they left the fire roared back to life trapping the rest of the fires.
Outside Bonnie opens her eyes again to look at Grace and nod slightly, she shrugged away from her looking into the smoky building.
"Bonnie... are they going to be ok?" Elena asked, but she didn't respond, she didn't need to when both the brothers came tumbling out, Elena and Grace looked at each other in relief.
Later that night Elena stood with Stefan in the grill whilst Grace was talking on her phone, she hadn't spoken to Damon after the fire had happened, he just left.
"The fire is out. The story is the building's old wirings is what caused it." Elena explained to Stefan.
"Did you see where Damon went?" Stefan glanced around the room looking for his older brother.
"No, he just kind of disappeared." Elena replied looking over at Grace who was still on the phone.
"Figures." He shrugged embracing her.
"I'm so glad you're okay." She whispered into his chest.
"I try so hard… to hate him. I guess it's just pointless." Stefan replied stroking her hair gently.
"You care about him, so do I and I know Grace cares about him an awful lot and I know that you are worried about that." Elena nodded looking up into his captivating hazel eyes.
"I just… you know, I know my brother.
"But Grace is a big girl, Stefan, she knows what she is doing..." Elena rubbed his arms "As much as I want to tell her to stay away from him, and I know you want to be a protective big brother and tell her to stay away from too, she is the only one who can make that decision." Elena explained glancing over at Grace again.
"I know the trouble he can cause." Stefan replied "I know what he is capable of."
"And I don't think he would ever cause any trouble with her, I don't think he can do it..." Elena shook her head gently as she pulled him into a passionate kiss "You have nothing to worry about, okay?"
"Jenna called, Jeremy's home." Grace walked over to the two "I'm just gonna run over to the school to pick up my dress, my clothes and the rest of my stuff and then I'll check on him." She informed her with a small smile.
"Alright, be careful." Elena replied as Grace walked from the building.
Jeremy sighed as he wandered around him room looking at the flash of ruby blood in a vial, dropping it in his bedside draw he turned to see the icy blue eyed vampires watching him in the door to his and Elena's joint bathroom.
"What are you doing here?" Jeremy asked.
"Anna's dead." Damon replied in a sincere voice.
"I figured that once they took her away." The teens voice was small and full of pain.
"I know you cared about her." Damon gave him a look.
"Yeah I did." He nodded.
"I saw her killed. I was watching and all I could think about was… I wanted to help her but I couldn't." Damon was obviously torn by the situation and haunted by the scene.
"Why are you telling me all this?" Jeremy asked hurting too.
"I took away your suffering once before, I can do it again but it's your choice." He promised stepping the room.
"Look, I know you think you took it away but it's still there. Even if I can't remember why. I still feel empty, alone and making me forget won't fix it. It won't fix what's really wrong." He whispered turning away.
"What I did to Vicki was wrong. Sorry for my part." Damon actually apologised and meant it.
"Anna said that vampires don't have to feel pain; that they could turn it off if they shut out their humanity." Jeremy looked over his shoulder at the vampire.
"It's very true." He nodded.
"Is it easier that way?" he asked coyly thinking to about the blood Anna had given him, thinking if he became what she was then the pain would stop, he wouldn't have to feel alone anymore.
"Is what easier?" Damon shook his head not following where the teen was going.
"Life." He replied simply.
"Life sucks either way, Jeremy, but at least if you're a vampire you don't have to feel bad about it if you don't want to." Damon shrugged walking towards his bedroom door.
"Is that what you did?" Jeremy questioned.
"I did it for a… I did it for a very long time and life was a lot easier." Damon nodded thinking back to Grace.
Matt is sitting alone in the hospital waiting for news on Caroline after she passed out when she got out from the car crash, Tyler walked over to him holding two coffee's.
"Hey man." He passed him a coffee "I'm so sorry. Look, I don't even know what happened."
"It's ok, man. She'll be alright." Matt nodded.
Sheriff Forbes walked from the room that Caroline was in to see them both sitting, Matt immediately jumped up to see what would be wrong with his girl.
"There was some internal bleeding' they're taking her down to surgery." Liz informed the boys.
"What else did they say? Is she going to be ok?" Matt asked scared.
"They're going to do everything they can." Liz patted his shoulder gently.
Matt nods gently before taking a seat next to his best friend that was driving the car, Sheriff Forbes glances at the guilty teen before remembering his fathers death.
"Tyler, have you walked to you mom?" Liz questioned.
"I left her a message telling her I was here." Tyler replied sipping his coffee.
"You need to call her." Liz replied.
"What is it?" Tyler asked now scared.
"It's your dad." Liz looked down mournfully tears beginning to sting her eyes.
Jeremy walked into the bathroom and took a good look at himself in the mirror, all he could see was the emptiness of his life, the loneliness of his heart, the betrayal of his loyalty. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out Anna's blood and nodded to himself, this was right. The pain would stop, he told himself as he guzzled down the metallic substance, searching his cupboards he found Elena's pain relief from after she got into the car accidents, they were strong, they would do the job. Popping the lid he dropped the white capsules out onto the side and picked one up bringing it to his mouth. The pain would stop.
Stefan walked from the Grill to see Bonnie walking towards him, he smiled and walked towards her too.
"Oh, hey." He smiled.
"Hey." Bonnie smiled at him.
"You just missed Elena and Grace." he informed her.
"I was looking for you actually." Bonnie replied.
"Oh." Stefan nodded slightly surprised.
"Elena and Grace are my best friends and because they love you and your brother I could let you both die in that fire..." She replied to him.
"I'm very grateful, Bonnie, I hope you know that." Stefan smiled gently.
"I do, but I hope you know that things have to change. Damon has to change." Bonnie nodded.
"We both want the same thing." Stefan explained.
"We both want to protect the people we care about. The difference is, for you Damon is one of them. You saw what I able to do tonight, I know who I am now and if Damon spills so much as one drop of innocent blood, or he lays a finger on Grace, I will take him down, even if that means taking you with him." Bonnie threatened.
"I don't want Grace hurt either." Stefan replied "Let's hope it doesn't come to that..."
"Let's hope it doesn't." She agreed.
Damon walks from the Gilbert house shutting the door behind him when he saw Grace approaching with Elena by her side, Jenna came to the door.
"Elena, why don't you come inside? Let's leave these two to talk." Jenna giggled letting Elena pass her into the house.
"What are you doing here?" Grace creased her eye brows tucking a lock of curled chocolate brown hair behind her ear.
"Failed and feeble attempt of doing the right thing..." Damon sighed.
"Which was...?" Grace questioned.
"It's not important. Let me take this for you." he takes her dress and her bag laying them on the porch.
"Thank you." Grace nodded eying him suspiciously.
"You know, I came to this town wanting to destroy it. Tonight I found myself wanting to protect it. How does that happen? I'm not a hero, Grace. I don't do good. It's not me." he shook his head.
"Maybe it is." Grace shrugged.
"No. Nah, it's reserved for my brother, and you... and Elena... and... Bonnie." He rolled his eyes "Even though she has every reason to hate me, still helped Stefan save me." Damon shook his head.
"Why do you sound so surprised?" Grace tilted her head gently.
"Because she did it for you. Which means that somewhere along the way you decided that I was worth saving. And I wanted to thank you for that." he stepped towards her.
"Your welcome." She replied.
He places a small peck on her cheek lingering there for a second before pulling back so he was only inches away from her pouted mouth, pressing his lips against her passionately he was the first to pull back.
"Do you want me to help you take your stuff to you place?" Damon asked, his voice was thick.
"Can we not go to your place?" Grace touched his cheek gently "I just want to be with you for a while."
"Of course." Damon nodded.
Jeremy was finishing off the last capsule when he wandered into his room and laid down on the bed. It was soon all be over, and his new life would be able to being, for Anna, for Vicki, he wouldn't be lonely. He thought as he closed his eyes for what could be the last time.
"What you said about being friends... I can't do that." Damon told her shutting his bedroom door.
"Why?" Grace questioned.
"Because I can't resist you anymore, Grace." Damon zipped towards her pressing his lips firmly against her, he knotted his fingers in her hair sliding his tongue between her lips to tangles with hers, as she began work on his button down shirt.
"Damon." She breathed pulling back.
"Grace, please." He pressed his forehead against hers looking deep into her orbs.
Connecting their lips again the both fell back on the bed, Damon on top of her looking down at her like she was some kind of angel, her hair a messy disarray of thick ringlets tangling down her body, she quickly pulled him into another kiss as he removed her shirt flipping him so she was on top...
John was in the kitchen when he closed the fridge holding a bottle of icy water in his hands, he jumped slightly when he saw Elena standing there.
"You scared me." He announced.
"Sorry." She purred walking into the kitchen more.
"You know, I first met Isobel when I was a teenager." He started feeling a little awkward "I fell in love with her instantly although I'm pretty sure she never loved me. She was special. A part of why I hate the vampires so much is because of what she became, how it ruined her and I never would have sent her to Damon had I known she wanted to turn." He shook his head mournfully "It was my fault. I'm telling you this because I hoped maybe you'd understand."
"Thank you." Elena nodded as she began to put cutlery away.
"Can I help?" John offered a smile.
"Sure." She smiled handing him a spoon when she grabbed a large, incredibly sharp knife and chopped down on the counter to decapitate his fingers the one with the ring on was most important to him, he let out a yell as she pushed him against the sink.
"Katherine!" He whispered.
"Hello, John. Goodbye, John." Katherine smirked revealing her true self before stabbing him in the gut reaching her phone in her pocket.
Grace snuggled into Damon after they were finished both smiling happily, satisfied with what they had done, when she heard her phone vibrating in her bag, jumping up she grabbed and saw who the text was from, a small smile appeared on her blood red lips.
It's done, I'll be waiting – Katherine
I'm on my way – Fayth
She sent back revealing herself to be Fayth and not Grace grabbing all her clothes from the floor glancing over her shoulder at Damon to see him laying there with his eyes closed.
"I'm cold." Damon pouted from where he lay under the covers naked "Come back to bed, Gracie."
"You're always cold." She smirked rolling her eyes pulling her clothes on "You're a Vampire, remember?"
"Oh right yeah. So are you going to join this vampire in bed for round two?" Damon grinned over at her.
"Sorry, I need to go meet up with... Elena." Fayth lied "See you soon."
"Alright." Damon grinned "Have fun."
"Will do." Fayth called grabbing her stuff and leaving the room, a smug smile on her face, she had back in town only a few days and she'd had Damon already.
"I can't believe someone would take our stuff..." Grace sighed as she walked up the steps to the Gilbert house.
"Are we sure we looked everywhere?" Elena asked grabbing the door handle.
"Everywhere it would be." Grace replied "You go check on Jeremy and then we'll go meet Jeremy at the hospital-" Before she could finish they both heard a noise from the kitchen, they both walk in the direction the noise came from...
A/N
Season one! Finished! Yes, feels so good and I almost got 100 reviews, sadly only got 99 :( oh well, still I'm going to try and get the next season up quicker than I did this one because I really like it, still tell me what you thought of the it please! Damon sleeping with Fayth :O oh dearrr
Anyway, review, alert and fav if you like :) I'm not sure whether to continue using this story or starting a new story for season two hmm... not sure, but I'm working on Season two right now, so yeah... Hope you enjoy!
Graciiee