Twisted Love
Season Two
The Return
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
John closes the fridge in the kitchen after reaching in for a bottle of water, as he shuts the door he is surprised to see who he thinks is Elena, but it is actually Katherine pretending to be Elena.
"You scared me." He announced startled by her presence.
"Sorry." Katherine replied walking over to the sink beginning mindless chores that she imagines that Elena would do.
"Is Jenna home?" John questioned looking over his shoulder into the deadly quiet house.
"She had to just go out and meet the fire chief about the building." Katherine replied "She doesn't know the truth, they've covered it up..."
"Yeah I know." John nodded "How's Jeremy?"
"Holed up in his room." Katherine answered with a small shrug.
"That was amazing, Damon." Fayth rolled off of the younger vampire pulling the covers over them, she was pretending to be Grace just so she could have some kind of hold over her former lover once again.
"Did you except anything less." He leaned over and kissed her deeply with so much passion behind it.
"Mmm, I miss your kisses." Fayth mused.
"Yeah, I'm glad we decided to get past friends thing, too." He nuzzled into her neck nipping at the skin gently "I've had you in this bed so many times, just not this way." He rolled over so he was between her thin legs again, their bodies pushing together "I'm glad you're here right now, Grace, after tonight I need someone with me..." He admitted and as he looked away from her Fayth rolled her eyes at his soppiness.
"Oh, Damon." She acted smitten with him brushing her hands through his raven black locks.
"Can I help?" John questioned a small smile on his face as he reached for some of the washing up to do.
"Sure." Katherine smiled passing him some cutlery, she got her large knife in her hands and brought it down on his fingers effectively removing his ring that would bring him back to life if he was killed by anything supernatural, she shoves him back against the sink.
"Katherine!" He looked into the dark orbs to see no Elena, only Katherine.
Katherine darkened her face to prove that she wasn't Elena "Hello, John. Goodbye, John." She stabbed him violently hearing something from behind her, pulling her phone from her pocket she began to text her sister.
"We looked everywhere." Grace announced to Elena as they were walking up the porch into the Gilbert house.
"I know, who would have taken it..." Elena wondered allow "There was nothing good in my stuff, nothing worth stealing."
"Same." Grace sighed opening the door to the house "You go check on Jeremy and then we'll go meet Stefan at the hospital-" a noise came from the kitchen stopping them both in their tracks.
Both walk towards the kitchen looking through the arch to see John in a bloody heap on the floor by the sink, both girls quickly ran over to him, Grace grabbed the phone and Elena applied pressure to the wound.
"911, what's your emergency?" The voice asked.
"Hi, I-I need an ambulance to 2104 Maple Street." Grace's voice shook as she was in a hysterical panic.
John glanced over as Grace spoke on the phone to see the ancient Vampire bitching standing behind her, watching her carefully, inspecting her every move.
"Behind you." John rasped.
"What?" Elena asked.
"What did he say?" Grace then asked covering the mouth piece of the phone.
"Behind you." John spoke louder.
Grace and Elena screamed as they spun around to see that no one was there, hanging up the phone Elena came and stood next to Grace holding the knife in her hand, they both cautiously approach the hallway, Katherine speeds behind them, both turning quickly see that no one was there, then Katherine saw that the door was unguarded, she zipped out of it slamming it behind her making both of the girls scream.
"Jeremy!" Elena screamed dropping the knife racing up to his room Grace close behind "Jeremy! Jeremy!" Elena cried shaking his unconscious body "Jeremy! Please wake up!" she continued to shake him until he gasped back to life.
Soon paramedic's wheeled John from the house in a gurney when Stefan approached, he ran up the stairs to see Elena waiting for him, Grace was perched on the end of Jeremy's bed, as Jeremy lay propped up by pillows.
"What happened?" Stefan asked just outside of Jeremy's room.
"He said that Anna gave him her blood and then he took these pills and now... I mean he looks fine but then again so do you I just... I don't know." Elena shook her head as they both entered the room.
Stefan takes Jeremy's face inspecting it all over, examining his eyes especially "Look at me."
"I'm fine ok? I feel exactly the same." The way that Jeremy said that made Grace think that he was disappointed that he didn't die.
"Should I call a paramedic? What should I do?" Elena asked.
"No, he's fine." Stefan replied.
"You mean I'm not a vampire? Damn it!" Jeremy's voice was thick with sarcasm.
"Don't say that, you shouldn't wish you life away." Grace shook her head disappointed in him.
"Why would you want that?" Elena asked sitting next to him.
"Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight? She's dead." Jeremy spat angry with the situation he was in.
"I am very sorry about Anna, but it's very important that you listen to me right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you try and kill yourself right now, you could really be dead." Stefan had a sharp edge to his voice as he looked out for the boy, but Jeremy just shrugged away from him, a hand reached out and slapped him lightly to get his attention, it was Stefan's "Do you understand me?"
"Stefan..." Grace whispered.
"Yeah I understand." Jeremy replied.
"Good." Stefan nodded.
"What about the pills that you took?" Elena questioned.
"He didn't take enough to die so Anna's blood actually healed him." Stefan replied and Jeremy rolled his eyes.
"Miss Gilbert?" A police office stood at the door.
"We'll be right there." Elena held one finger up looking at Grace who nodded.
"You need to be at the hospital." Stefan told them.
"But..." Elena looked at him.
"No, I'll stay here with Jeremy." He smiled at them both.
"No, I don't need a babysitter." Jeremy refused.
"Yeah, you do." Grace nodded.
Matt is sitting alone in the hospital when Bonnie ran in, she had just heard about Caroline's accident from Tyler.
"How is Caroline?" Bonnie asked.
"She's not good, Bon." Matt's voice broke when he finally admitted it to himself.
"What happened?" Bonnie shook her head not sure if she was believing what she was hearing.
"We were driving and Tyler heard this noise and he got..."
"A noise?" Bonnie questioned, the Gilbert device was made for Vampires to hear... How did Tyler hear it? She thought to herself.
"Yeah, he got this migraine or something and he lost control of the car and... I thought that Caroline was fine and then... and then she wasn't so..." he shook his head.
Sheriff Forbes was alone in a different part of the hospital when Damon walked in, he had just heard about the accident too after just spending a passionate love making session with Fayth, when he really thought it was Grace.
"Liz, I came as soon as I got the message. Is she ok?" Damon questioned concerned for the blonde.
"She's in surgery it's... they're going everything they can. I need your help, Damon." She lowered her voice.
"Sure, anything Liz." He promised with a nod.
"Mayor Lockwood is dead. They thought he was a vampire. They put him in the basement." Liz informed him, of course Damon already knew this he was in the basement with him until Stefan rescued him from the burning building.
"Mayor Lockwood was a vampire?" Damon played dumb, although he didn't know what Richard Lockwood was.
"No, no. A mistake was made, they said he dropped like the others when John's device went off, but he... he couldn't have been a vampire, I've known him my whole life and I know Carol Lockwood is going to want answer and all I can think of right now is Caroline and..." She began to cry.
"It's ok." Damon wrapped his arms around the Sheriff as she weeped.
Elena and Grace finally arrive the hospital after everything with John and Jeremy. They spotted Bonnie in the waiting area, the telepath was still a little anger at her, but a time like this was when they needed to pull all together.
"Bonnie. How's Caroline?" Elena asked.
"She's weak. They don't know if she's going to make it." Bonnie whispered.
"What?" Elena asked as Bonnie embraced her.
"Is there not something you can do?" Grace finally spoke to the witch "Like a spell or something?"
"She doesn't know how, do you?" Damon asked standing behind Grace, his hands on her waist squeezing her gently.
"No, I don't." Bonnie sighed defeated.
"No, you don't because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that." Damon hissed.
"well, I can take down a vampire, that spell was easy to learn." Bonnie spat threateningly.
"I can give Caroline some blood." Damon offered.
"No, no way." Elena shook her head.
"No, just enough to heal her. She will be safe in the hospital and it will be out of her system in a day, she will be better, Elena." Damon promised.
"It's too risky." Grace shook her head.
"Do it." Bonnie spoke up, both Elena and Grace turned to her in shock "This is Caroline. We can't let her die. Do it."
"If I do this, you and me, call truce?" Damon asked Bonnie.
"No. But you'll do it anyway, for Grace." Bonnie smirked knowingly before walking away with Elena leaving the two alone.
"I know this is probably the last thing you want to do right now, but we should talk about what happened tonight." Damon told Grace, speaking about where it would leave them.
"Yeah, one of the tomb vampires got in the house and almost killed John." Grace replied shaking her head gently.
"What?" Damon creased his eye brows "When did this happen? After you left my place?" Damon asked.
"I wasn't at your place." Grace shook her head.
"C'mon, Grace, you know you were." Damon lowered his voice.
"When was I at your house?" Grace was so confused.
"really? Earlier, in my bed, we... you know, and we exposed our feelings, come on, we had sex Grace!" Damon hissed.
"Ok, whatever dream you had you have to remember it was only a dream." She went to walk away but he caught her arm in his grip.
"If you want to forget what happened fine, but I can't." Damon hissed.
"Grace, did Jenna tell me that she went to the fire department to fill in a report?" Elena walked over with a frustrated Jenna.
"No." Grace shook her head.
"You wouldn't know anyway, you were outside with Damon." Jenna replied.
"No, I wasn't." Grace denied looking at Elena "What is going on?"
Damon finally realised that it wasn't Grace who he had seen on the porch and taken home to his bed, it was Fayth "Oh, you've got to be kidding me." Damon spat.
Stefan is looking after Jeremy when he heard the front door open, walking downstairs he saw Elena walk it, but really it was Katherine posing again.
"Hey! How was Caroline?" He asked hugging her gently.
"Not good." Katherine accepted his embrace "Just what I needed." She muttered into his neck.
She attempted to kiss him, but he had already figured out it was Katherine, he grabs her by the shoulders and tosses her across the room.
"Katherine." He bared his fangs menacingly at her.
"At least one brother was fooled." Katherine smirked from hearing Fayth shenanigans with Damon earlier.
Stefan zips over and shoves her against the wall, she smirked and moved her to another wall hitting her against with with great force, but was thrown off guard when the front door opened, grabbing his arm and launching him towards the ground Katherine was able to make her escape.
"Stefan?" Elena walked over to him.
"Elena." Stefan announced as he saw his real girlfriend.
"What is happening?" Grace asked.
"Katherine and Fayth happened." Damon replied.
Damon and Stefan were in the Gilbert kitchen talking alone, whilst Elena checked on Jeremy and Grace was making some phone calls.
"Did she say what she wanted." Damon questioned.
"No." Stefan answered.
"They certainly know how to make an entrance." Damon shook his head side to side.
"She said at least one brother was fooled, what does that mean?" Stefan questioned.
"Fayth pretended to be Grace when I showed up earlier tonight." Damon replied shrugging.
"I told Jeremy, I can't lie to him anymore." Elena announced.
"Caroline is still in surgery." Grace hung up her phone standing opposite Damon.
"Are you alright?" Stefan asked.
"No." Elena shook her head "I'm not alright. I thought with all the tomb Vampires gone things would be getting better."
"I know, we all did." Stefan nodded.
"Katherine was in the house." Grace suddenly announced "That means she was invited in."
"What are we going to do?" Elena gasped.
"Move." Damon replied.
"Very helpful, thanks." Grace glared.
"Katherine wants you dead; there's zero you can do about it; you would be dead but you're not. So clearly she has other plans." Damon shrugged seeing the look Grace was giving him, he mouth 'what' to her.
"Right and we need to find out what those other plans are and not provoke her in the process. What happened tonight when you thought Fayth was Grace?" Stefan asked.
"To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead... we... had sex." Damon shrugged.
"And you thought it was me?" Grace asked and Elena gasped.
"What do you mean you had sex." Elena asked.
"Well, you know what two people like each other very much, they jump in a bed and-" Stefan ran for him, but Damon moved faster than he could catch him "Don't be obvious, Stefan." he smirked as Stefan walked towards him.
"Damon, give it a rest." Grace told him "You know I'm not like that. He had sex with Fayth, not me. I wouldn't." Something about Grace's tone made Damon take offence.
"Later." Stefan replied and Damon just nodded.
"John must know something. There has to be a reason why Katherine tried to kill him." Elena wondered aloud.
"She's Katherine." Damon replied "She loves to play games like her sister and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what they want before they want you to know." Damon shook his head.
"No, actually Elena's right, John could know something through Isobel. You mother, she was in touch with Katherine so maybe we can go to the hospital and talk to him." Stefan suggested.
"I've got a better idea." Damon spoke up.
"What's that?" Grace questioned.
"I'm just going to ignore the bitch. See you." He walked towards the door.
"Is that smart?" Grace asked.
"If Fayth thinks she's being ignored it will lure her out, she'll make her move." Damon shrugged.
"Yeah? And then what?" Stefan questioned.
"Stake her; rip her head off, and repeated for her sister." Damon replied with a smirk "Something poetic like that..."
The next day at the hospital Matt was waiting outside of Caroline's room whilst talking to Bonnie, he hadn't been home since the accident happened.
"You've been here all night?" Bonnie asked.
"Yeah, with the Sheriff." Matt replied.
"No one else?" Bonnie queried.
"Stefan's brother Damon stopped by late last night..." Matt shrugged.
"How is Caroline today?" Bonnie asked, hopeful that Damon had come there to give the blonde his blood.
"See for yourself." Matt opened the door.
Caroline was sitting up right in her bed, she had a health glow to her pale skin and looked super healthy, Bonnie gasped at her.
"Jersey Shore's on." Caroline informed her as she sat watching the small TV, but her sight was blocked when Bonnie embraced her tightly.
"Careful, still a little sore." She wiggled from her hug.
"Sorry." The witch apologised.
"It's ok, but they say I'm healing really quick." Caroline's eye lit up with delight.
"My turn." Matt leaned down and pressed his lips to hers, Bonnie started to cry from joy, she was so happy her best friend wasn't dead.
"Oh, isn't he cute." Caroline grinned up at the blond "Why are you crying?" She asked Bonnie as she saw the tears running from her eyes.
"I'm just happy you're ok." Bonnie sobbed.
"Oh, I love you guys!" Caroline grinned at them.
"We love you." Bonnie replied as they shared a group hug.
At the Lockwood Mansion it was the wake of the town Mayor, Carol walked through the building with Liz Forbes and Damon following her.
"I want to know exactly who's responsible for killing my husband." Carol spat.
"I'm looking into it, but you have to be straight with me. Is there any reason Richard was affected by the vampire device?" Liz lowered her tone.
"What are you implying? That he was one of them?" Carol spat.
"No, no one's implying that." Damon attempted to diffuse the situation.
"Your deputies screwed up, plain and simple which makes you responsible." Carol ignored Damon.
"Carol..." Damon tried to make her back off.
"Your husband is the one who helped John Gilbert execute his idiot plan in the first place." Liz spat.
"Liz..." Damon then tried to make her back off.
"Someone got my husband killed." Carol's voice broke.
"we're all on edge here. You've suffered a great loss, the whole town has. We have to stick together ok? Trust each other, we'll get through this." Damon then stepped in.
Tyler is outside on the porch greeting the guest who were coming to the wake of his father, suddenly a truck pulled up get outside and a handsome older man jumped up.
"So the black sheep returns." Tyler smirked.
"Tyler?" The man, who was probably in his 20s questioned.
"Yeah." Tyler nodded.
"What happened to you? In my mind you're twelve years old..." He noted.
"Then that's two years older than the last time you saw me, Uncle Mason." Tyler announced as they embraced each other laughing gently.
"Good to see you again." Mason laughed.
"It's good to see you, too. Come on inside." Tyler told him.
At Mystic Falls Hospital Elena and Grace are waiting just outside of John's hospital room for Stefan, he walked over to them and smiles gently.
"Ready?" Stefan questioned as they walked through the door.
"John?" Grace asked.
He begins to panic as he see's the two, but Grace and Elena both hold up there hands in defence and innocence.
"We're Grace and Elena, not Fayth and Katherine." Elena stated.
"we know that Katherine did this to you." Grace told him.
"We need to know why." Stefan then spoke.
"Where are they?" John asked.
"You tell us." Stefan countered.
"I don't know." John replied trying to sit up, but Stefan placed hand on his chest effectively stopping him from moving.
"You're a little too weak to play tough guy, why don't you just sit back and answer a few questions." Stefan told him, his voice was low and threatening.
Elena passed John his ring "Please, tell us why they are here. What do they want?" She asked.
"She'll try again; we can't help you if you don't confide in us." Stefan reasoned.
"In you?" John scoffed at Stefan.
"In your daughters then." He glanced to Grace and Elena by his side.
"My daughters should have driven a stake through yours and Damon's heart by now." John replied in a growl, before looking at both the girls "I never spoke to her directly, she never trusted me..." He shrugged before looking up at the Vampire "So either kill me or get out because I can't stand the sight of you with my daughters..."
"You see the world with such hatred. It's going to get you killed." Elena spat before leaving the room with her sister following.
Stefan was left alone with John, the Vampire hesitated before zipping over to him and catching John's throat beginning to choke him.
"You may be ok with dying but I have better plans for you." Stefan tore into his own wrist with his deadly fangs and forced his blood down John's throat "You now have my blood in your system, all I have to do is kill you. Now take my advice. Leave town. Grace doesn't want you here. Elena doesn't want you here. You've got 24 hours before the blood leaves your system, that's enough time to disappear or so help me God, I will turn you into a vampire and I will watch you hate yourself more than you already do." He released John's throat and he gasped in horror as he regained his regular breathing pattern "The clock starts now." Stefan added as he left the room.
Back at the Lockwood Mansion Damon is watching Mason and Carol talk from across the room, he is standing with Liz.
"Who is that guy with Carol?" Damon questioned curiously.
"It's the mayor's younger brother, Mason Lockwood." Liz replied.
"Is he in the council? Like John Gilbert when he rolled in?" Damon asked.
"He's not like John. For one, he's not an ass. He's not a believer either. He wants nothing to do with the council. He's too preoccupied in finding the perfect wave." She rolled her eyes as he casual surfer attitude.
"Thanks." Damon nodded appreciative for the information "See you." he walked into the crowd.
Just outside Katherine and Fayth both arrive, they were pretending to Grace and Elena again, Tyler walked outside and smiled at them.
"Hey, Elena." Tyler smiled "Hey, Grace." he hugged her, this was a shock to Fayth as she crinkled her nose, but as Tyler pulled back she smiled nicely at him "Thanks for coming, come on in." he invited them.
At the hospital Grace, Stefan and Elena were just leaving walking to Elena's car and she was curious for what he had said to John.
"Hey, I just have to swing by home to pick up Jenna and Jeremy so we can go to the Lockwoods'. How did you leave him in there? John?" Elena made clear.
"I... I asked him to leave town." Stefan replied.
"Asked or threatened?" Grace then questioned turning to him.
"Yeah, I threatened him." Stefan nodded looking down a little ashamed as his rash attitude.
"Good." Grace nodded "I want him gone."
"Me too. I know I shouldn't feel that way, but I don't want someone like that in my life, or Grace's life, or Jeremy's life." Elena added.
"I know." Stefan nodded leaning down and kissing his girlfriend gently.
"So what now?" Grace asked awkwardly as she leaned back against's Elena's car casually.
"Now... I need to find Damon." Stefan replied to her.
"Don't fight with him." Grace shook her head.
"No, Grace, he thought that Fayth was you..." Stefan shook his head gently.
"But that's not our main problem at the moment. Fayth and Katherine are. They're already messing with both of your heads. Let's be honest Damon is not exactly stable when it comes to her. The last thing we want to do is make it worse." Grace shrugged.
Meanwhile at the Lockwood Mansion, Damon and Bonnie were talking in private in the dinning room.
"Did you know that Tyler Lockwood was affected by the Gilbert Device?" Bonnie questioned.
"well I know it took the Mayor down." He glanced around him at the mourning citizens.
"Don't you want to know why?" She asked coyly.
"Yes, Bonnie. I would love to know why a non-vampire was tortured by the vampire torture device that you let John Gilbert use against us." He growled seeing the guilt creep over her face "Speaking of your guilt how is Caroline?"
"She's much better." Bonnie nodded.
"You're welcome." He smirked.
"No, you're welcome." She countered.
"Why am I welcome?" Damon creased his eye brows.
"You live to see another day." She hissed.
"No good deed goes unpunished with you, does it?" The vampire smirked shaking his head.
"Doesn't undue the bad. I know what you are Damon, you might have Grace and the Sheriff and everybody else fooled but not me." the witch spat "One wrong move and I'm gonna take you out."
"Now you need to stop with the witches' brood. You're starting to believe your own press." He scoffed.
She looked up at him and narrowed her bright brown eyes until they were slits beginning to chant a spell in her head, suddenly Damon clasped his head in pain.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you were saying?" She smirked gently as she walked out onto the porch to see Grace standing there, in reality it was Fayth looking out into the front lawn, but Bonnie didn't know that "Oh my God! Damon drives me crazy. I don't know how you put up with him... He's walking around like some kind of hero for healing Caroline when it's his fault all of this is happening in the first place." Bonnie growled venting her frustration.
"I'm sorry, Bonnie." Fayth answered watching the witch carefully "What Damon's done is just awful."
"Ok, I'm better. Hateful Damon moment over." She laughed touching Fayth's arm getting the same connection like she did the first time she touch Stefan. Gasping gently she tried to act as if she was ok "I've got to find Tyler and pay my respects. I'll be back." Bonnie walked back in the building and reached into her pocket calling Grace.
"Hi, what's up?" Grace asked as she walked out of Elena's house carrying a box for Jenna as the older woman locked the front door.
"Grace? Where are you?" Bonnie asked.
"Bonnie, I know we're late. We're literally just getting in the car, I have to go. Bye." Grace hung up attempting to juggle the box and put her phone in her pocket.
The young witch turned again and saw Fayth standing in her way, this time Katherine was standing next to her.
"We haven't officially met." Fayth flipped her long chocolate brown curls over her shoulder smiling almost kindly at her "I'm Fayth, this is Katherine."
"I know who you are." Bonnie gulped gently.
"Of course you do." Fayth giggled, the same giggle that Grace had, only this one was more deadly "You're the best friend, right? I've been putting all the pieces of Grace and Elena's life together. Isobel told me it was a bit of a puzzle. I do know who Jenna and Jeremy are..."
"And I met that delicious ex-boyfriend Matt." Katherine added getting a look from Fayth "Who is sweet on Caroline."
"And then there's you." Fayth smirked gently "The vampire-hating Bennett witch. Did I do good?" Fayth grinned biting her bottom lip gently.
Bonnie attempted to escape the room but Fayth flicked her head and Katherine zipped after her standing in front of the witch so she couldn't go, turning again she went to go the other way, but Fayth was already standing there a devilish look on her face. Narrowing her eyes again Bonnie started the same spell from earlier, Fayth feigned pain holding her head before looking back up with a evil look in her eyes.
"I've been around a long time Bonnie; you're going to have to do better than that." Fayth smirked throwing Katherine a look, immediately the sister caught Bonnie by her throat holding her back against a wall, both of the sisters faces changed to the darker Vampire looks, Bonnie thought on her feet and opened the doors to expose them to the other guests.
"Katherine." Fayth hissed and the sister heeled changing their faces back to almost human.
"Katherine." Stefan's voice came from the open door "Fayth."
"Stefan." Katherine smiled.
"Leave her alone." Stefan ordered his tone was even.
"Ok." Fayth shrugged walking past Stefan, he followed along with Katherine.
"What are you both doing here?" Stefan asked.
"After the way you treated me last night, Fayth and I thought that a public place would be less violent..." Katherine shrugged seeing a smirk crawl over her sisters face.
"You're taking this a little far don't you think? Grace or Elena could walk in at any moment." Stefan reasoned.
"But that's part of the fun, Stefan." Fayth told him "Damon's here... somewhere, I'm avoiding him, figure it might be a little awkward considering the whole of the other night he continued to call me Grace... Which I found very rude..." Fayth rolled her eyes when Matt Donovan walked over to them.
"Hey, guys." Matt smiled at them all.
"Hey, Matt. I heard that Caroline is doing much better. Her recovery was practically miraculous, you must be so relieved." Fayth nodded squeezing his hand gently.
"I am." Matt nodded "Thanks, Grace." He left.
"Uh! His eyes are so blue." Fayth giggled along with her sister.
"You need to leave now." Stefan told them both firmly.
"You're hurting my feelings, Stefan." Katherine told him a pout "Damon was so happy to see Fayth, then again he though she was that girl you are so protective over..."
"I'm not doing this with you." Stefan told her.
"Ok, how about we don't have a couples fight in front of all of your friends? Walk with me." Katherine asked.
"You know, this is a little awkward for me to be around when I don't have a date. I'm going to go now, this place is boring me." Fayth yawned "If you see Damon tell him I said hi." She batted her eye lashes seductively then left the building in a whoosh.
"Just tell me what you're both doing here." Stefan asked.
"Maybe I missed you... Is that an acceptable reason?" Katherine questioned.
"What game are you playing?" Stefan narrowed his hazel brown eyes as her.
"Why, you want to play with me?" She bit her bottom lip playfully.
"I don't know, how can I play if I don't know the rules?" Stefan countered.
"No rules, Stefan. Don't you remember? No rules." Katherine told him gently, she walked past him before glancing over her shoulder and holding her hand out for him to follow, instead he just walked past her, batting her hand away from him.
Outside Grace, Elena, Jenna and Jeremy all arrive outside, Jenna was carrying the box that contained food and they are all dressed up in a casual-formal attire, like everyone else who was attending the wake.
"Looks like the whole town has turned out." Jenna noted.
"Yeah. Well he is the Mayor." Grace grinned in her direction, and Jenna slapped her arm playfully.
"Why don't they save it for the funeral?" Jeremy questioned.
"That's what people do. The Lockwoods' were here for us when we went through this. It'll be quick; we'll drop off the food and pay our respects and go." Jenna promised.
"In and out? Sounds like a plan." Jeremy nodded at her.
Grace saw Damon standing on the porch and turns to the others "You guys go ahead, I'll be right there ok?" She walked towards the raven haired vampire "hey, how are you doing?" her voice was small.
"Great, Grace. Walking on sunshine, thanks for asking." Damon nodded sarcastically.
"Damon." Grace gave him a look.
"Grace." Damon mocked her knocking back the bourbon in his hand.
"We should be able to talk about this. Damon, we're close enough now. I really want to know how you are doing." Grace told him rubbing his arm gently.
"I had sex with you; I though it was really you under the covers with me... Doppelgänger hijinks ensued... how do you think I'm doing?" He asked a sharp edge to his voice.
"I think you're hurt." Grace nodded.
"No, I don't get hurt, Grace." he brushed her hair from her face.
"No, you don't admit you get hurt. You get angry and cover it up and then you do something stupid." he prodded him in his pec muscle.
"You're scared." He looked down into her deep chocolate brown eyes "You think Fayth is going to send me off the deep end, don't you?" He smirked when she avoid eye contact with him, but he put his finger under her chin and made her look up at him "I don't need her for that." he left her go turning to leave, but then stopping and turning back to her "You know... why is it such a surprise that I would want to have sex with you?" he asked clearly confuse "All we did before all of this was kiss and touch, you slept in my bed many times, we could have done it millions of times before this time, why not then?"
"That's not a surprise." Grace shook her head "I'm surprised that you think that I would just into bed with you so fast... That you think I'm that easy, that you can get me that easily."
"Now I'm hurt." Damon nodded before walking away.
"Damon." Grace called but he ignored her completely.
"Grace." Bonnie ran from the building to be standing next to her.
"Bonnie, what happened?" Grace asked seeing her friend was so frantic.
Jeremy was walking around the Lockwood Mansion trying to find a restroom to use, he walked into another room to see it was an office, Tyler was sitting on a couch drinking.
"Sorry, I was just looking for the-"
"Bathroom is down the hall." Tyler cut the younger boy off so that he could get back to being on his own.
"Hey look... I'm sorry about you dad." Jeremy told him genuinely.
"Today has been a big day of sorries from people who don't give a crap." Tyler nodded drunkly.
"I remember when my dad died; I had a house full of strangers telling me what a great guy he was." Jeremy remember the memory vividly "Anyway, I know how hard it all is."
"The difference is in your case it was true. My dad was a dick." He slurred.
"Yeah, yeah he was." Jeremy agreed, there was no use lying to the boy that would make him feel even worse.
"I found this in his desk." Tyler flashed a silver flask at Jeremy, it was obvious that it contained a strong alcohol, but Jeremy hesitated "He won't mind, he's dead."
"Yeah, you know what, sure." Jeremy nodded "Why not." He took the flask from Tyler's hand and lifted it to his mouth when Mason walked in.
"hey, what's going on in here? Tyler?" Mason asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Tyler shook his head defensively.
Mason looked at Jeremy "you have somewhere else to be?" He asked and Jeremy nodded giving him the flash and leaving, taking a seat next to his nephew he brought the flash to his lips taking a long swig before passing it over.
Katherine and Stefan were outside walking the Lockwood Ground, it was a gorgeous place, luscious green bushes and a beautiful pond.
"The Lockwoods' have a lot more land than they used to." Katherine noted "These actions from the tomb vampires built them quite a fortune." She nodded.
"Yeah, why did you and Fayth want them dead? You're both the ones who turned most of them." Stefan remembered.
"There's nothing more annoying than a vengeful vampire, Stefan. Just ask John Gilbert." She smirked.
"You know it sounds like Fayth put those words in your mouth, and the knife in your hand." Stefan nodded "Nothing's changed, you're still Fayth's footsoldier, the weaker sister, the puppet."
"But you have." Katherine nodded ignoring his insults "You're stronger; meaner; sexier." She smirked.
"Don't flirt with me, Katherine." Stefan spat "You're not Fayth and I'm not Damon; I haven't spent 145 years obsessed with you." He added.
"Yeah, based on your choice of women I'd say otherwise! Although, I'll admit it does bother me that you're falling in love with someone else." She nodded.
"I was never in love with you, Katherine." Stefan shook his head "You compelled me so none of my feelings were real."
"Believe what you want, Stefan." She shrugged gently "But I know the truth and deep down so do you."
"The truth? Well the truth is, you're the same lying, cowardice, scheming bitch that is hiding behind her sisters actions and playing by her sisters rules that you've always been. So, whatever it is that brought you here, why doesn't you just get on with it and leave town? Because if you don't, I will hunt you don't and I will rip your heart out, then go after your sister..." Stefan growled.
"You want to know why I'm here Stefan? I came back for you." She stopped them both and placed her hand on his chest, he quickly removed it.
"Well the problem is, Katherine. I hate you." He spat.
Her face turned colder as her emotions took over, grabbing a iron stem that was holding a candle she shoved it into his gut making him double over in pain "You hate me, huh? Well that sounds like the beginning of a love story, Stefan. Not the end of one." She spat before removing the iron from him and fleeing the scene.
It wasn't long until Elena arrived to find out what was wrong with him, she soon found his wound and began to clean it as they sat on a bench basking in the warm glow of the sun.
"You going to be ok?" Elena asked cleaning the blood away.
"Yeah, it will heal." Stefan shrugged as he held his shirt up for her.
"That's not what I meant." She gave him a look.
"I was trying to figure her out. I was playing along and I let her get to me." Stefan shook his head.
"Find anything?" Damon asked as he appeared behind Grace, he was still a little upset from earlier, but the drink he had sorted him out.
"Nope. I don't think they are here anymore, they left." Grace replied "We need to get out to Elena and Stefan."
"It's always about St. Stefan and Angelic Elena. Why can't be it about us for a second." He moved her back against the wall.
"Because there is no us." Grace replied turning her head away from him "I'm sorry, Damon, but you're just going to have to accept that..."
"Well I can't." He replied moving off of her.
They both walked in silence from the building to see Elena and Stefan talking, walking over they continued not to speak to one another.
"I couldn't see her anywhere." Grace noted.
"I tried to track her, but she's gone." He looked at Stefan's exposed stomach muscles "Oh. Cover up, Fabio." He heard a light smirk come from Grace beside him and Stefan pulled his shirt down "Looks like we have a crazy ex on the loose. You better watch out, looks like Katherine is trying to steal your guy." He smirked at Elena.
"Damon." Grace hissed.
"I'd watch out if I were you, Fayth doesn't like competition." Damon grinned down at her.
"That's not what's happening." Stefan told Elena and Grace confidently.
"Isn't it? I mean, It's only fair since I went after the girl you try so hard to protect, yet once almost drain and I had to step in and save the day." Damon nodded provoking a fight in Stefan.
"Elena, we should go check on Jenna and Jeremy." Grace told her awkwardly "Let me know when Damon stops being an ass." Grace hissed as she walked away with her twin.
"So what's it going to be huh? Fight to the death?" Damon shuffled around on his feet, like a boxer, holding his fists up "Go ahead, make your threats, stake your claim."
"I'm not going to fight you." Stefan told him shaking his head.
"Why?" Damon complained stopping his movements "I'd fight me!"
"Katherine and Fayth are going to try and play us against each other, you do know that right?" Stefan stood up getting frustrated with his brother.
"Brother, don't you worry, our bound is unbreakable." Damon smirked.
"We need to stay united against them. So yes, as much as I would like to kill you, I'm not going to fight you." Stefan shook his head.
"I had sex with Grace." Damon tried to push him further.
"Because you feel something for her!" Stefan announced angrily "Because you actually care and I"m not going to let Fayth come in here and destroy that part of you that is finally, after all this time, willing to feel something. She will try break you, they will try to break us and how we respond to that will define us. It's our choice. So no, I'm not going to fight you." Stefan growled before turning and leaving the blue eyed monster standing there.
At the Gilbert House John is packing his stuff, taking Stefan's advice and leaving town before things get ugly, Jeremy walked in and saw him with a suitcase in front of him.
"Jeremy." John sighed.
"What are you doing here?" Jeremy asked surprised.
"I'm packing, leaving." John replied.
"You you figured you kill all your evil vampires and then you leave town?" Jeremy hissed thinking back to his lover Anna.
"Not all, but enough. For now." John nodded "Can you tell Elena and Grace and I said goodbye?"
"Why don't you tell them yourself." Jeremy hissed turning away from him.
"You know, Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. That's what I know; that's what your father knew." John tried to play the family card.
"My father would have seen things differently." Jeremy tried to argue.
"No, he may have done things differently but there's not other way to see it." John shook his head.
"That ring on your finger, the one's that supposed to protect you. That was my father's right?" Jeremy questioned a little calmer now.
"Yeah." John nodded looking at the midnight black stoned ring on his finger.
"Then why didn't it protect him, why is he still dead?" Jeremy asked slightly tearing up.
"What happened to your parents wasn't supernatural, it was an accident. There's nothing that can save us from that." John shook his head mournfully.
"I wonder what he's think of all this, of me." Jeremy murmured.
"He would think that you're still young. You're still finding yourself, but you're a Gilbert and you've been exposed to this town's darkest secret ad with that comes responsibility." John patted his shoulder.
"I don't believe in that family legacy stuff." Jeremy shook his head.
"Sooner or later you'll have to." John told him.
Back at the Lockwood Mansion Tyler was stood in his father's office alone, he walks over to the desk to see and picture of him and his parents smiling and looking happy back at him, where did the happiness go? He thought as he smash the picture on the floor, a venomous rage wracked through him and in a blind anger he began to smash things that belonged to his neglectful, abusive father.
Carol Lockwood would hear a raucous coming from within Richard's office, running in she saw her son throwing objects around the room in a violent rage.
"Tyler! What are you doing!" She ran over.
"I hate him!" Tyler yelled.
"Oh, don't say that." Carol shook her head feeling tears stinging her eyes, she walked over to him and softly placed her hand on his heaving shoulders where he was breathing so heavy from his anger fit.
"Let go of me!" He pushed her away from him.
Mason had arrived to see where all of the loud noise had been coming from, he saw the state Tyler was in and then the way that Carol looked and tackled Tyler to the floor.
"Let go of me!" Tyler commanded.
"Tyler! Hey!" Mason held him until he calmed.
"I said get off me!" Tyler continued to be overly anger.
"Tyler! Look at me!" Mason ordered and Tyler began to calm "Look at me." He lowered his voice so it was subtle and not threatening "Calm down, settle down."
"Oh God." Carol breathed out.
At the Salvatore Boarding House later that day Damon was in the living room drinking away his sorrows still when Fayth walked in glancing around the large room.
"Very brave of you to come here." Damon noted glancing over his shoulder at his former lover.
"I wanted to say goodbye." Fayth nodded.
"Leaving so soon?" Damon questioned, not that he wasn't happy about it.
"I know where I'm not wanted." Fayth glanced down at her sea blue nails before up into his captivating eyes.
"Don't pout; it's not attractive on a woman your age." Damon smirked finishing off his bourbon.
"Ouch." She grinned at him "What, no goodbye kiss? No goodbye loving?" She looked at him.
"Why don't I kill you instead? What are you doing back here?" Damon rolled his eyes.
"I like it here. The nostalgia, the curiosity, etc." She shrugged.
"I'm better at the enigmatic one-liners, Fayth. What are you up to?" Damon questioned again.
"Trust me, Damon, when I'm up to something you'll know it." She zipped so she was standing in front of him, with heels on she was only inches away from his lips "Come on, kiss me or kill me. Which will it be Damon? We both know that you're only capable of one." A smirk fell from her lips as she went to kiss him, but Damon turned his head, feeling rejected anger washed over her and she pushed him to the floor straddling his waist "My sweet, innocent Damon." She pouted.
Damon reached up and clasped his hand around her throat before turning her on the floor so he was on top, he smashed his lips down against her "Now that's more like it." Fayth muttered, pushing the weaker Vampire against the wall ripping his shirt open continuing to kiss with such anger and passion all rolled into one. Knocking all the books off of a table Damon leaned Fayth back onto it and pressed soft kisses against her neck expected her to moan out like Grace did, but she didn't and he stopped.
"Ok wait, brief pause." He held one finger up "I have a question. Answer it and it's back to fireworks and rockets red glare. Answer it right and I'll forget the last 145 years that I spent missing you. I'll forget how much I loved you, I'll forget everything and we can start over. This could be our defining moment 'cause we have the time, it's the beauty of eternity." His voice shook as he looked deep into her chocolate brown eyes touching her curled locks and pale face "I just need the truth, just once."
"stop." Fayth placed her finger on his lips shaking her head "I already know the question. The truth is... I never loved you... you were just a play toy for me, Damon." She removed herself from him and left the room leaving the raven haired vampire staring off into the distance deeply hurt.
"Are you going to be ok? I just need to go and talk to Jenna." Elena looked at Grace as she stood in the bathroom.
"I'll be fine." Grace called.
Elena left the room shutting the door behind her as Grace walked in stretching her back gently she saw Damon sitting on Elena's bed, jumping slightly.
"Oh God, you scared me." Grace told him.
"I'm just doing my part in the neighbourhood watch." Damon slurred.
"Thanks for looking out for us, for me." She avoided eye contact with him.
"That's me, the trusted bodyguard, calm in crisis." He shrugged.
"You've been drinking." She could practically smell the alcohol rolling off his breath "And you're upset, that's not a good combination." Grace nodded.
"No I'm not upset." He laughed "Upset is an emotion specific to those who care."
"Come on, Damon. That's a lie, you care." Grace whispered.
"You are surprised that I thought you would want me to make love to you? You can't imagine that I believe that you would want me to?" Damon continued to bring up his disbelief in her.
"Damon..." Grace turned away.
"That all we've been doing here means nothing. All those nights. Those kisses. You're a liar, Grace." He spat "There is something going on between the two of us and you know it." He stands and walked over to her being just inches away from her body "And you're lying to me, you're lying to Stefan and Elena, but most of all you're lying to yourself. I can prove it."
"No." Grace shook her head as Damon leaned down and took her face between his hands passionately pressing his lips against hers moving them back onto Elena's bed, slowly he rose the material of Grace's shirt snaking his hand up to her bra "Damon don't. Want's wrong with you?"
"Am I lying about this?" Damon whispered "You want this just as much as I do."
"Stop, you're better than this." She placed her hands on his chest trying to push him away, even though her body screamed at her not to.
"That's where you're wrong." He muttered trailing his tongue down her throat making her breathing come out in thick rasps.
"No, Damon. I care about you, I really do. But I'm not sure you're ready for this. That you're ready for us. You've barely just got over Fayth." Grace told him and Damon stopped "You're not stable at the moment and yes that scares me..."
"Grace, are you ok?" Jeremy asked as he walked in the room "What are you doing here?" he asked as he saw Damon on the bed.
"It's ok, Jeremy." Grace slipped out from under Damon adjusting her shirt "Go back to bed."
"No, it's not ok, Grace." Damon hissed "He wants to be a vampire." He held Jeremy back against a wall, moving faster than the two could think.
"No Damon!" Grace exclaimed.
"You want turn off the pain? It's the easiest thing in the world. The part of you that cares just goes away, all you have to do is flip the switch and snap!" He snapped Jeremy's neck making Grace screamed, Elena quickly ran into the room to see Jeremy laying on the floor, dead.
Both girls dropped to the floor either side of Jeremy, Grace shook her head tears streaming from her eyes, Damon looked at her in horror before leaving the room in a flash.
"Wait." Elena whispered looking down at her younger brother "His hand. The ring."
Mason walked back into the room Tyler was sitting in on the couch, he had just put Carol to bed after the incident.
"Your mom's out... I think she popped a couple of pharmaceuticals." Mason smirked gently.
"I didn't mean to freak her out. I don't know why I get like this." Tyler shook his head clearly confused.
"It's the curse of being a Lockwood." Mason shrugged.
"So how'd you get the chill gene?" Tyler questioned.
"I didn't. I just learned how to manage it." Mason replied.
"I don't want to be like this anymore." Tyler shook his head, he never wanted to be that angry again, never wanted to scare someone that much, scare himself that much.
"none of us do. That's why it's a curse, Tyler." Mason patted his back gently.
Elena is sat on the floor holding Jeremy in her arms he was still out whilst Grace sat opposite them tears still streaming, gnawing on her thumb nail this time, Stefan was standing at the door watching the three.
"He saw the ring that's why he did it, he knew." Stefan nodded trying to protect his brother.
"He didn't see the ring." Grace chocked back her tears.
"It's Fayth. She's got under his skin, she undid everything that was good about him." Stefan replied.
"There's nothing good about him." Grace hiccuped shaking her head "Not anymore. I thought that maybe he had changed. Grown up. He just decided what he wants. He doesn't want to feel, he just wants to be hated, it's just easier that way. He got his wish." Grace whispered.
"Grace." Elena whispered looking over at her twin hurt for her.
"I think I hate him." Grace used the back of her hand to smear her tears away.
"It's ok." Stefan sat next to her patting her knee "it's going to be ok."
Within the next couple of seconds Jeremy gasped loudly as he woke back up, Grace and Stefan jumped to his side quickly to check on him.
"Is he ok?" Grace asked.
"He's ok." Stefan looked into his eyes.
"He killed me! Damon killed me!" Jeremy announced clearly shocked by his reanimation.
"it's ok. Oh God." Elena whispered as she embraced the younger boy.
At Mystic Falls hospital, it was late, way past visiting hours as Caroline wakes up with a jolt to see Grace and Elena standing there, or so she thought.
"Grace?" Caroline voice was thick with grog "Elena?"
"Hey, Caroline." Fayth's voice was sickly sweet.
"What are you doing here?" The blonde rubbed her eyes.
"My name is Fayth, this is my sister Katherine. I was hoping that you could give the Salvatore brothers a message for me." Fayth tilted her head to the side in a questionable fashion, as Katherine smiled sweetly.
"What are you talking about? What message?" Caroline creased her eye brows.
"Game on." Fayth's voice became dark as she grabbed a pillow and began to smother the human, her screams were muffled and Katherine watched as the blonde stopped struggling. Carefully Fayth placed the pillow beside her casually looking as if the dead human was just sleeping, she turned to her sister "Job done." She announced walking from the room with Katherine following.
A/N
Woo, Season 2 has begun, Fayth and Katherine are already causing trouble, Damon is clearly unsure of what to do with Grace and so on!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and if you did review, fav and alert... Thank you for reading! Maybe I will get another chapter up today :D
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