Twisted Love
Season Two
Bad Moon Rising
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Early the next morning Alaric walked into the Salvatore boarding house, Grace and Damon were already waiting sitting opposite Elena and Stefan.
"Thanks for coming, Rick." Stefan smiled over at him.
"Can I get you something to drink? Coffee? Bourbon? Bourbon in your coffee?" Damon smirked.
"Elena mentioned you needed my help." Alaric looked over at Stefan ignoring the older brother.
"Yeah, we were hoping you could help shed some light on the Lockwood family..." Stefan replied.
"Now, why would I know anything about the Lockwood's?" Alaric creased his eye brows.
"Well, you wouldn't. But your dead not dead vampire wife might." Damon referred to Isobel.
"Isobel's research from when you guys were at Duke together." Grace made it more clear for the teacher to understand.
"You said that she had spent years researching this town..." Stefan added.
"Isobel's research here in Mystic Falls rooted in folklores and legends but at the time I thought much of which was fiction." Alaric shrugged looking at the two vampires in front of him sitting there in the flesh.
"Like that amazing vampire story." Damon smirked and Grace hit his arm scowling at him.
"Aside from vampire, what else?" Grace then asked.
"The lycanthrope." Alaric nodded.
"Wait, lycan? As in werewolves?" Grace looked at him surprised.
"No way, impossible, way too Lon Chaney." Damon shook his head.
"Said the Vampire." Grace muttered and Damon glared at her.
"I've been on this planet 160 some years, never came across one. If werewolves exist, where the hell are they?" Damon demanded.
"Why do you suspect the Lockwoods?" Alaric shook his head.
"Because Vervain didn't affect the Mayor at Founder's day, but the Gilbert device did and it affected his son Tyler." Damon replied.
"And at the school carnival his uncle Mason exhibited inhuman behaviour when he fought with one of the carnival workers." Stefan added "It suggest it's some sort of supernatural entity."
"We were hoping that Isobel's research could help us figure out what it is." Elena looked up at Alaric hopeful.
"Well, all her things are still at Duke. I mean her office is still there, she's technically still missing." Alaric replied knowing the real truth about his wife now.
"So we can get access to it?" Damon looked at the teacher and he hesitated "Ric, we need to know what we are dealing with. If this wolf man thing is true." He glanced at Grace "I've seen enough movies to know it's not good. It means Mason Lockwood is a real life Lon Chaney and that little Tyler punk may just very well be Lon Chaney jnr. Which means Bella Lugosi, meaning me, is totally screwed." Damon told him.
Mason was running alone in the woods, he hadn't realised that his nephew had followed him out and was following. Stopping at some ruins Mason jogged down into it and Tyler hesitated before following him down there too. Peaking around the corner he saw his uncle in a stone cell taking pictures of everything in the room.
Matt was at the front door to Caroline's house knocking the door over and over again. The blonde was sat behind a wall unable to go out and see her boyfriend because she would be burnt by the sunlight.
"Caroline." Matt called "Caroline!" Matt rolled his eyes as he dug his phone out of his pocket and called her, quickly she ignored his call and he began to leave a message "Hey, I thought you said you were at home. Tyler is going this whole thing at the swimming hole and I want us to spend the day together. Where are you? Call me." Matt hung up before leaving the house.
"Elena, are you sure you want to do this?" Grace asked as Elena was packing for her trip to Duke with Damon, they were standing in the Gilbert house.
"Which part? Digging through my birth mother's life work or going to Duke with Damon?" Elena looked at her.
"Either. Both. I can go if you want-" Grace was cut off.
"No, it's ok, you shouldn't have to spend the day with him." Elena told her.
"Maybe we could wait a couple of days." Stefan spoke up from where he leant against the wall casually "Wait until Caroline is less of a danger and then Grace and I could go with you..."
"It's ok that I'm going, right? And be honest if it's not then I can stay here and we can take care of Caroline, all of us." Elena looked at them both.
"Listen, I want you to go ok? I do. You have questions about you lineage and about Katherine and Fayth and... look I'm not going to let the fact that Damon is going keep you from an opportunity to get some answers." Stefan smiled at his girlfriend.
"You hate it though." Elena nodded.
"I hate it, but I love you." Stefan moved towards her.
"I love you, too." Elena smiled as she kissed him.
"Ugh." Grace turned away from them both.
Outside Alaric and Jenna are talking on the porch waiting for Elena to get ready, it was a little awkward between them as they haven't spoke in a while.
"It's been a while." Jenna nodded awkwardly.
"Well, the school has been keeping me busy." Alaric lied.
"I want you to know it means a lot to me that Elena has a connection to her mother. I appreciate you brining her along today, and offering Grace to come too, she's just stubborn."
"I know she is." Alaric chuckled "Yeah, I figured it was time to take care of my wife's things you know. Look Jenna, I know things between you and I have been a little start and stop and I'm sorry for that, but once I can-"
"Uh … no, don't do that." Jenna stopped him "Not the half maybe apology hope for the future thing." Jenna shook her head there was a honk from a car behind her "Elena? Are you coming?" Jenna called into the house when she saw Damon sat in the car as she turned back tot he history teacher "Do what you need to OK?"
"Are you OK?" Grace asked Jenna as they watched Alaric talk to Damon.
"Yeah, just men and their baggage." Jenna replied with a small sigh
"Tell me about it." Grace nodded as she saw Damon looking at her from where he stood outside of his car "I'll be right back."
Catching up with Elena she hugged her tightly and Elena laughed hugging her back, Stefan watched the two with a smile.
"Everything is going to be OK, Grace." Elena told her as Grace pulled back.
"Just … just be careful, OK?" Grace whispered before standing next to Stefan to see Damon holding his arms open.
"Do I not get a hug?" Damon grinned and Grace rolled her eyes shaking her head "Sorry you can't come."
"Doesn't really bother me." Grace lied.
"Call me if you need anything." Stefan leaned down and pressed his lips to Elena's.
"Just come here." Damon pulled Grace into a hug "Be careful today, my blood is still in your system, don't go and get yourself killed..."
"I'll try." Grace whispered nuzzling into his neck not wanting to, but not being able to resist his manly smelling skin and clothes.
"We'd better get going." Alaric announced awkwardly as he watched the four of them.
"Look after her." Damon told Stefan sternly.
"Like wise." Stefan retorted.
Pulling back from Grace Damon gave her a small smile before climbing in his car, Stefan opened the door for Elena to climb in and Alaric went and got in the passenger seat.
Tyler was in the Lockwood mansion when he saw his mother walk in the room, walking over he smiled at her reaching for a apple from the bowl.
"Morning." Carol smiled.
"Morning, have you ever been down to those old ruins?" Tyler asked coyly.
"The old Lockwood estate?" Carol questioned.
"Yeah. What do you know about it?" Tyler asked again.
"It was the original plantation house. Beautiful antebellum architecture and if it hadn't burn to the ground we'd probably be living in it." Carol noted with a dreamy smile.
"What's the deal with the freaky underground cellar?" Tyler quizzed.
"We don't talk about those kind of rooms." Carol shook her head.
"Why not?" Tyler leaned forward intrigued.
"Well, this is the South, honey, but no one lies to reminisce about the old slave days." Carol replied as Mason walked in the room.
"Hey. What you guys talking about?" Mason questioned reaching in the fridge grabbing some food.
"We were just talking about the old Lockwood property. Taking some friends over to the swim hole." Tyler replied.
"Well, be careful. If anything happens on the property the family is liable." Carol replied.
"Of course." Tyler smiled.
Stefan, Grace and Bonnie were sitting at the table inside the Mystic Grill talking about Bonnie preforming a spell for Caroline's daylight ring.
"I don't know how to make a day-walking ring." Bonnie shook her head.
"Emily made mine, she made Damon's too, instructions must be in the grimoire." Stefan explained.
"That doesn't mean I can cast the spell." Bonnie shook her head.
"Bonnie, you know how to drop a vampire with a single look, you sent me flying across a school yard yesterday, I think you can figure it out." Grace told her and Bonnie was struck with guilt.
"Caroline killed someone. I can't make it easier for her to do it again." Bonnie replied.
"No, we're not making it easier for her; we're just giving her a chance to survive. Listen, everyday that she's cut off from her old life: from you, from Grace, from Elena, from Matt, it'll make it that much harder for her to hold on to her humanity." Stefan tried to reason with the witch.
"And how do you know she won't hurt anyone else?" Bonnie questioned.
"I don't but if we don't do everything we can to help her or at least trust the fact that she can keep it together, we might as well just stake her right now." Stefan replied.
"I don't know if I can trust her, not with this." Bonnie shook her head.
"Then trust me, you owe me that." Grace told her.
On the way to Duke in the car it was completely silent, Damon took his chance to ask about Grace from the point of view of someone closest to her, her twin.
"So how is Grace doing? Is she over this pretending to hate me thing yet? I'm a little bored of this whole chase thing..." Damon looked back at Elena.
"I don't think Grace is pretending..." Alaric muttered and Damon shot him a look.
"You tried to kill Jeremy right in front of her." Elena hissed.
"There a huge asterisk next to the statement: he came back to life." Damon told her.
"Yeah, thanks to a ring you didn't know he was wearing?" Elena replied her voice was dangerously low.
"Why are you both so sure I didn't know." Damon smirked.
"Did you?" Elena asked.
"Yes." Damon shrugged clearly he was lying.
"You're lying." Elena accused rightly.
"Elena, I saw the ring! It's a big tacky thing, it's hard to miss." Damon rolled his eyes snapping at the young the girl.
Bonnie, Grace, Caroline and Stefan were sat un in Caroline's room with the curtains closed, Bonnie had Emily's grimoire in her hands looking through it whilst Grace inspected the ring on the bed.
"So, I don't get to choose the ring I have to wear the rest of my life?" Caroline asked rudely.
"Hey, if you don't want it-" Bonnie held her hands up
"no, no she wants it." Grace spoke up "Care, be nice."
"Now what?" Caroline asked.
"Now is the part where I explain the rules. The witch who spells the ring has the power to dispel it so if you ever do anything to hurt anyone..."
"I'm not going to hurt anyone." Caroline shook her head.
"You are a vampire that means the urge to kill is a part of who you are. The minute you let it take over, I will stop you." Bonnie growled.
"Bonnie." Grace warned.
"Bonnie, you're supposed to be my friend." Caroline looked at her hurt.
"I can't ignore what happened OK? If you want to be my friend, you have prove that the Caroline I remember isn't gone. Now, Grace, put the ring on the bed." The witch ordered and Grace put the ring down.
"Do you really thin I meant to kill that guy at the carnival?" Caroline asked.
"He's still dead." Bonnie replied "Now, do you want me to cast the spell or not?" Walking over to the curtain Bonnie opened it a little piece of the curtain so that a little bit of sun light could slither through to hit the ring, Caroline flinched away from the light shaking her head gently.
Closing her eyes for a second Bonnie chanted the spell she had just learnt in her head before opening her eyes and nodded.
"All done." The witch informed them all.
"So that's it? I mean nothing witchy happened. You know, no flickering lights no gust of wind. Have you even done this before?" Caroline asked rudely as she put the ring on her finger.
"Caroline." Stefan scolded.
"I just want to make sure that it worked." Caroline replied as Bonnie opened her curtains quickly, sun light filtered the room and the blonde flinched, but nothing happened.
"It worked." Bonnie replied.
"What if it hadn't Bonnie!" Caroline asked her heart pumping 10 to the dozen.
Bonnie glanced over at the telepath and the older vampire "She's all yours." she replied as she gathered all her witchy items and left room.
Back at Duke University Alaric, Elena and Damon all arrive climbing out of the car walking towards a large office that Alaric knew well.
"So Isobel was officially employed by the anthropology department given that most paranormal phenomenon is rooted in folklore." Alaric explained to the two as they walked into the office to see a young woman sitting at the desk "Excuse me, hi. I'm Alaric Saltzman, I called earlier."
"Yes, of course." The human jumped up "I'm Vanessa Monroe, research assistant comparative folklore." Vanessa stated her full job title proudly, but Elena couldn't help but notice the strange look she was giving her "Uh, let me just grab Isobel's keys."
"These are my friends Elena and Damon. I this isn't too much of an imposition." Alaric followed the woman.
"Oh, please." Vanessa shook her head "Isobel's office is right through there. Isobel was one of my first professors. I'm a grad student." She explained "She was brilliant and one of the reason I went into folklore. Uh I have to ask has there been any news?" She asked awkwardly.
"No, I'm afraid not." Alaric shook his head.
"It's this way." Vanessa opened the door to Isobel's cluttered office walking in the three followed "I'll grab the light, feel free to look around. It's fascinating isn't it?"
The others began to look around as Vanessa left the office after a while Alaric and Damon exchanged suspicious looks.
"Where did she go?" Damon asked in a hushed voice.
Vanessa creeped back in the room with a cross bow in her hand and shoots a arrow at Elena who had her back to her as she inspected the spine of a book that had Petrova written on it.
The arrow was about to hit her, but Damon stood in the way taking the arrow to the back, Alaric caught hold of the girl and shoved her back against the wall...
Damon was bracing a table in pain with the arrow planted firmly in his shoulder muscle, Elena was squeamishly trying to pull it out.
"Pull it out." Damon growled "I can't reach it Elena. Just pull the damn thing out. It hurts." He added as she dislodged the wood from his back "That bitch is dead."
"You're not going to kill her." Elena stood in his way.
"You're starting to sound like your sister." Damon muttered "Move, Elena."
"You touch her and I swear to God I will get Grace to never speak to you again." Elena hissed.
"What makes you think you have that kind of power over her, she can't resist me... You're severely overestimating yourself." Damon growled.
"Right. I forgot I'm speaking to a psychotic mind who is undoubtable overestimating his hold over my sister... Fine, go ahead, do whatever you want." Elena shrugged.
"You're trying to manipulate me." Damon narrowed his eyes.
"If by 'manipulating' you mean 'tell the truth' OK, guilty." She held her hands up rolling her eyes before leaving him standing there.
"Please! I freaked out okay? All right, you would have done the same thing, it's not possible! Katherine Pierce can't be alive and Damon Salvatore died in 1864. Ok, I read Isobel's research." Vanessa tried to reason with Alaric.
"Well, then you should know just how possible this is." Alaric replied as Damon and Elena walked into the room.
"I'm Elena Gilbert, Isobel's daughter and a descendant of Katherine Pierce. And this is Damon Salvatore who you just shot."
"I'd be extra nice to me right now." Damon warned.
"Look, we need your help, OK? We need to see all of Isobel's research, anything related to Mystic Falls." Elena begged
Caroline and Stefan were out hunting for rabbits in the woods just behind the Salvatore Boarding house.
"So what do I do when I see the rabbit?" Caroline asked.
"Chase it, catch it, feed on it." Stefan replied.
"Isn't killing cute defenceless animals the first step to becoming a serial killer?" Caroline smirked.
"Well, you sort of skipped the serial killer and went straight to vampire." He rolled his eyes "Caroline, if you're not serious about all of this all I think you should tell me."
"No I am. Look, I swear that I'm okay. But it's just … I haven't been in the sun for days and everyone is at the swimming hole having fun and Matt is there! And he finally told me that he loved but I have been blowing him off and now you want me to eat bunnies and I'm kinda freaking out okay?" She looked around as Stefan chuckled "And now you're laughing at me."
"No, no, I'm not laughing. None of this is funny, trust me it's just that..."
"What?" Caroline asked impatiently.
"When someone becomes a vampire, all of their natural behaviours get sort of amplified." Stefan replied.
"What do you mean?" Caroline creased her eye brows.
"I mean … as a human I cared deeply for people, how they felt. If they were hurting I felt their pain and I felt guilty if I was the one who caused it and as I became a vampire all that got … magnified." He replied.
"So you're saying that now I'm basically a insecure, neurotic control freak … on crack?" Caroline smirked.
"Well, I wasn't going to say it like that but … hey, listen, let's hunt okay? And then after that we'll go to the swimming hole …" He smiled.
"Really?" Caroline's eye lit up.
"Yeah. Matt is the closest connection that you have to your humanity and I think that being around him is a good thing." Stefan nodded thinking back to him and Elena "Plus, I think that Grace really wants to go too."
"Awesome." Caroline giggled.
Back at the University Vanessa brought a box over to Elena and they opened it started checking through the papers.
"This box checks Katherine and Fayth arrival to Mystic Falls in April of 1864." Vanessa replied.
"Is that all there is about them?" Elena asked.
"All that I'm aware of." Vanessa replied "So Katherine had Fayth, do you have a twin?"
"Pretty little telepath named Grace." Damon smirked as he across the room.
"Yeah, I have a sister named Grace." Elena nodded.
"Does she look like Fayth?" Vanessa asked intrigued.
"Yep. Only she's not a bitch." Damon called "well not all the time..."
"Here, take this." Elena saw the vervain in the box and gave it to the girl, she was now whispering.
"Nope, not at all." Damon called, he could hear them.
"Can he hear us?" Vanessa asked in a hushed voice.
"No, that would be creepy." Damon smirked.
"Can he read minds too?" Vanessa's eyes were wide.
"You know, if you want to see me naked, all you have to do is ask." Damon grinned.
"No, that he can't do. He is very capable of being a first rate jackass." Elena replied as Vanessa slipped the Vervain in her pocket.
Everyone was down at the swimming hole, Grace was already there dressed in a white bikini top with black short shorts
"Damn, Gilbert." Tyler walked over "When did your ass get hot?"
"Tyler." Grace gawped at him.
"So classy, Ty." Matt smirked as he stood with them both.
"Where is Forbes?" Tyler asked Matt casually.
"I wish I knew." Matt sighed and Grace felt guilty.
"You guys are on the outs already?" Tyler smirked.
"No. We're fine. I'm fine. I'm just not sure where she is." Matt shrugged as Mason's 4x4 pulled up "What's your uncle doing here?"
Tyler shrugged he walked over to his Uncle's car "You busting us or joining us?"
"Neither. Hoping you can make sure everyone is out of here by dark." Mason replied.
"What happens after dark?" Tyler creased his eye brows.
"Someone ends up wasted and dead at the bottom of the lake." Mason replied and Tyler laughed "You heard your mom. The family is liable is anything happens."
"Don't be a party killer." Tyler shook his head.
"Hey, I didn't say you had to stop partying, I just said you had to take it elsewhere." Mason held his hands up.
"Alright, we'll be out of here." Tyler replied.
Grace saw Caroline and Stefan arrive skipping over she hugged them both "What's with the serious vampire look at Tyler's uncle?" Caroline asked as she saw Stefan glaring.
"my what?" Stefan laughed "my 'serious vampire look'?"
"Grace explain." Caroline laughed.
"I mean it's different from your worried vampire look, neither of which stray too far from you 'hey-it's Tuesday' look." Grace and Caroline laughed.
"You think I'm too serious too?" Stefan looked at Grace.
"Well, I wasn't going to say anything." Grace laughed.
Matt was standing alone waiting for Tyler or Grace to return when Aimee Bradley spots him, she walked over to him smiling.
"Hey Aimee." He smiled.
"You know, you're missing all the fun in the water." Aimee noted but Matt help up his arm cast.
"Not waterproof." He shrugged.
"Too bad. So, there's a full moon tonight. We're going to light a fire later and tell ghost stories." She gave him an open invitation.
"Uh, I don't know." Matt rubbed the back of his neck.
"Matt." Caroline's upbeat voice came behind him.
"What the hell? I've been calling you." Matt announced as he saw the blonde smiling at him.
"I know, I got held up, but I'm here now." She smiled when she saw Aimee standing behind him.
"Hi Caroline." Aimee looked awkward.
"Go find someone single to stalk, Aimee." Caroline had compelled the girl to leave.
"Seriously?" Matt looked at Caroline.
"She was flirting with you." Caroline replied, Grace and Stefan were getting ready to step in at any point.
"She's harmless; you don't have to be rude." Matt shook his head.
"You're mad?" Caroline asked the hurt was evident in her voice.
"You've been dodging my calls all day and you get to show up here and be the jealous girlfriend? It's kind of lame, Care." Matt walked away from her.
"Hey, you ok?" Grace walked over.
"You compelled her." Stefan noted.
"Yeah, she deserved it." Caroline replied.
"Caroline, nobody deserves to have their mind messed with for shallow reasons." Stefan shook his head.
"You know, why is everyone sticking up for Aimee freaking Bradley?" Caroline hissed.
"You're letting your jealousy get the better of you." Stefan replied.
"Oh, so now I have magnified jealousy issue too. It's great." Caroline hissed.
"I told you this wasn't going to be easy." Stefan shook his head.
"Yeah, well, I might as well stay dead. My entire personality is killing me." Caroline told them and both of them laughed a little "Shut up." She smirked.
Damon, Elena and Alaric were still in Isobel's office at Duke university looking for more information on the doppelgängers.
"Any luck?" Damon asked.
"There's nothing here about Fayth and Katherine we don't already know." Elena sighed closing a book.
"Ah, you know, it's a bummer you said all those nasty things to be earlier and threatened Grace against me … I could tell you what I know." Damon smirked.
"Now who's manipulating who?" Elena glared.
"Hey guys, check this out."Alaric looked at a book that Vanessa was holding.
"There's no record of werewolf mythology in Mystic Falls, but here are some records of lesser known legends. Everything from Scandinavian skin walkers to Aztec legends." Vanessa replied as she held out some drawings "It's translates into the 'curse of the sun and the moon'." she added.
"It's native american." Alaric told the two.
"Aztec. It explains one origin of the werewolf traced through Virginia. The short story: 600 years ago, the Aztecs were plagued by werewolves and vampire. They terrorized the countryside, made farming and hunting impossible until an Aztec shaman cursed them, making vampires slaves to the sun and werewolves servants of the moon. As a result, vampires could only prowl at night and werewolves could only turn on a full moon. When the full moon crests in the sky, who's ever unlucky enough to fall under the werewolf curse turns into a wolf." She explained skimming through the book.
"Can they control the transformation?" Damon questioned.
"If it were a choice, it wouldn't be called a curse." Vanessa countered "Werewolves will attack humans but instinct and centuries of rivalry have hardwire them to hunt their prey of choice: vampires." she added.
"Well, if werewolves were hunting vampires, I would know about it." Damon replied.
"Not if there aren't that many werewolves left alive. Hundreds of years ago vampires hunted them almost to extinction." Vanessa replied turing another page.
"Why would they do that?" Elena creased her eye brows.
"To protect themselves. Legend has it, a werewolf bite is fatal to the vampires." Vanessa gave Damon a look.
It was now night back at Mystic Falls, everyone was leaving the swimming hole because Tyler was respecting his mothers and Mason's wishes and getting everyone to leave. Matt was standing alone and he was being watched by Caroline, Grace and Stefan.
"he's mad at me." Caroline sighed.
"Go talk to him, we'll wait." Grace smiled as he phone began to ring "Hey Elena, what's up?"
"Guess again, sweetie." Damon purred down the phone.
"What do you want?" Grace's voice was low.
"Checking you're doing ok and I wanted to fill you in on what's happening." Damon replied.
"Fine. What's going on?" Grace growled and Stefan chuckled lightly at her
Caroline walked over to Matt as he leant back against his truck, she smiled sweetly as she approached him but he didn't respond to her.
"Still mad?" Caroline asked.
"I thought we were passed all this insecurity stuff, Caroline. I told you how I felt about you, what more do you need?" Matt asked.
"Nothing. Nothing." Caroline shook her head "I don't need anything else. I'm sorry Matt, I'm so sorry. I'm so, so, so, so, sorry." She repeated.
"I'm not kidding. I'm not going to put up with the drama." Matt shook his head.
"No, no more drama. Just … I promise." Caroline leaned in and kissed him "come on." they leave Stefan is packing the things in the back of his car and Grace was still talking to Damon.
"I don't know what that means or if we should even believe it but it's a full moon, Grace. After what Stefan saw Mason Lockwood do..."
"I'll be careful." Grace smiled she felt the heat radiating from her cheeks.
"There's one more thing." Damon added.
"What is it?" Grace perched on the bonnet of Stefan's car.
"According to legend a werewolf bite can kill." Damon replied "Tell Stefan and you be careful."
"Kill a vampire." Grace repeated.
"What can?" Stefan looked at her.
"A werewolf bite can kill a vampire, it's a full moon we have to be careful." Grace told him "you have to be carefully she corrected herself."
"I need to find Caroline." Stefan walked off "I'll be right back, stay here."
"Where is he going?" Damon asked.
"He's going to look for Caroline and I left my car in the forest." Grace noted.
"Grace, what did I just say?" Damon growled.
"Damon, I'll be in there like five seconds." Grace rolled her eyes "My clothes are there."
"No, Grace. I'm serious. It's like you don't even listen to me anymore." Damon told her firmly.
"Damon." Grace hissed "I need to get my stuff and my car is out there, I can't leave it unlocked with all my stuff in it."
"I'll get it for you tomorrow when it is safer to be out there." Damon replied.
"You said they can only kill vampires, I'm fine." Grace hung up walking into the forest casually skipping through the trees.
Mason was chaining himself up into the Lockwood's old estate ruins, but he heard voices coming from the outside, it was Aimee and Tyler.
"Not much farther, Aimee." Tyler told him.
Mason growled as he was forced to leave the ruins through the back passage so they the teens wouldn't see him.
"Really? Tyler? You dragged me all the way out here?" Aimee laughed.
"I had to move the party so I'm moving the party." Tyler shrugged.
"Where are we going?" Aimee asked.
"It's right around this tree." He helped her through the uneven forest floor.
"Are you sure?" Aimee hesitated.
"Oh, yeah." Tyler nodded "C'mon." they enter the ruins.
"What is this place?" Aimee asked.
"It's a ruin buried underneath my old family estate. No one will know we're down here." He smirked.
"Is everyone else coming?" Aimee questioned.
"Yeah, unless you rather I tell them not to." Tyler smirked.
"You're single, right?" Aimee had to ask as she was compelled by Caroline to make sure someone was single.
"Oh yeah." Tyler nodded.
"Let's go." Aimee grinned.
Mason was running through the woods and he attempted to chair himself to a tree next to his car, but the moon began to glare down at him he yelled in pain, opening the car door he climbed it and it began to shake violently screams could be heard before loud growling sounds emitted from it.
Elena opened another box to see a picture of Fayth and Katherine standing, linking arms smiling at the camera.
"Hey, have you done any research on doppelgänger's?" Elena asked Vanessa.
"Well, the word means a lot of different things to different cultures but typically is a living, breathing double of oneself." Vanessa replied.
"Did Isobel have anything that explained the link between me, Grace, Katherine and Fayth?" Elena wondered.
"That's all she had on Katherine and Fayth, but I can tell you that the doppelgänger usually torment the people they look like, trying to undue their lives. It's not exactly uplifting..." Vanessa shrugged.
"And more things we already know." Elena sighed as Vanessa walked away "Just … I want to know why we look alike."
"Your sister is infuriating." Damon growled.
"What has she done now?" Elena sighed.
"She's alone in the woods looking for her car." Damon growled "And now she's not answering her phone, can you call her?" Damon asked and Elena got her phone out.
"Nope, she's ignoring me too." Elena shook her head.
"Ugh." Damon growled.
"Wait, wait. No, I'm sorry." Aimee pulled herself away from the steamy kiss they were sharing inside of the dark ruins of the old Lockwood estate.
"What's the deal? Come on." Tyler smirked leaning in again.
"No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, I can't. I'm not into it." Aimee shook her head.
"Then why did you come with me?" Tyler asked confused and hurt.
"I don't know but I'm not even sure why I was flirting with you. I like Matt." Aimee shrugged gently.
"Ouch. Um… okay." Tyler sulked away from her.
"I'm gonna go" Aimee looked at the door awkwardly.
"Yeah." Tyler agreed with her.
"Sorry." Aimee sighed as she left the old ruins leaving Tyler in there alone.
Grace walks towards a car as she hears a loud growling coming from inside it, stepping closer towards it she jolted when a loud crash came from inside it.
"Grace? What are you doing in here?" Stefan growled as he stood behind her "What is that sound?"
"I don't know, but now I'm scared because if it is what I think it is..." Grace nodded.
Suddenly a loud smash echoed the forest followed by a ear deafening scream and loud crack, Stefan watched in horror as Grace hit the ground, her mangled body not moving.
"Grace!" Stefan screamed "No!"
The wolf growled at him, Stefan moved at supernatural speed to pick Grace up, there was no life left in her.
Alaric and Vanessa were standing outside of the Duke university, Damon and Elena were just in front of them talking amongst themselves.
"I trust you're not gonna say anything about this to anyone." Alaric asked.
"Or else Damon will kill me in my sleep? He gave me the 411, but if you need anything, you can call." Vanessa smiled sweetly.
"Hopefully I won't have to." Alaric replied.
"But if you do…" She gave him an open invitation.
"Listen, you don't want to get caught up in this. Really, it'll take over and will keep from being able to live your life." Alaric informed her from experience.
"Isobel's disappearance… is it related to her research?" Vanessa asked almost scared of the answer.
"Isobel became her research. She wanted to become a vampire and she got her wish." Alaric replied with a small sigh.
"I guess that would put a strain on a marriage." Vanessa nodded awkwardly.
"Anyway, I was wondering what it would be like to come back here. It's… it's okay, it's really okay. It feels good to have her in my past. You know, it's time to move beyond this." Alaric told her.
"Is she going to hate me forever." Damon asked as Elena was about to get in the car.
"Can we just go?" Elena tried to walk past him but he handed her a big book, it was leather bound and incredibly old.
"You didn't dig deep enough." He explained randomly.
"Petrova." She read the spine aloud fingering the indented italics of the writing "I saw this on a shelf." She remembered seeing the book.
"Katherine and Fayth originally came from Europe. Petrova was Their real name. Katarina Petrova and Fay Petrova to be exact." Damon told her.
"How did you know that?" Elena creased her eye brows.
"Back then, I saw it engraved on an old heirloom. Men snoop too, you know. Let me know what you find, I'm very curious myself." Damon nodded She tries to go in the car but he stops her "She has every right to hate me, I understand but she hated me before and we became friends. It would suck if that was gone forever. So, is it? Have I lost her forever? I can't lose her..." Damon shook his head waiting for an answer.
"Thank you for the book, Damon." Elena nodded as she climbed in the car, she wasn't about to answer for Grace.
"This looks like the spot." Matt smiled as he walked with Caroline into a dark part of the woods.
"For what?" Caroline ask and as an answer Matt leaned down and pressed his lips against hers passionately, a growl is heard from behind them.
"Did you hear that?" Matt asked and Caroline shrugged kissing him again, she moved him back against a tree but Matt hurts himself on a sharp branch "Ah, damn." Matt growled.
"What happened?" Caroline asked.
"I'm a klutz. What's the matter?" Matt questioned as he showed Caroline his bleeding wrist, Caroline couldn't help and she began to suck the blood from the open would.
"Caroline? What are you doing?" Matt asked horrified "Ah! Caroline!"
Her face had changed to it's demonic state, she stops and looks up at him.
"Caroline! Your face!" Matt gasped she quickly snapped her jaw down on his neck and began to drink her blood, Stefan arrives placing Grace gently down on the floor before pulling the vampire off the human who fading fast and fell to the floor.
"Oh my God." Caroline whispered when she realised what she had done.
"Listen to me." Stefan whispered "We need to get out of these woods now. We need to leave. Grace needs help." his voice shook.
"Is that?" Caroline covered her mouth when she saw Grace's body laying on the forest floor dead "No!"
"Matt, stay down." Stefan ordered before turning back to the blonde "Caroline, we need to run, we need to draw him away from Grace and Matt so you need to run as fast as you can, do you understand me?"
Beginning to flash through the forest as fast as they could, Caroline suddenly stopped making Stefan have to stop too.
"Wait. What is it?" The blonde asked.
"It's a werewolf." Stefan growled "it killed Grace. It will try to kill us and I can't lose any more people." Stefan's voice shook.
"Hey!" Tyler called from where he stood above them on high ground "What are you two doing?"
"What are you doing?" Stefan countered trying to act normal.
Suddenly Caroline was taken out beside him, the werewolf was trying to get at her neck but Caroline was managing to fight him off.
"Stefan. Help." Caroline cried as the wolf got closer to her neck, quickly Stefan shoved Mason away and he fell onto his feet bearing his teeth at the vampire.
"No!" Tyler yelled his voice full of authority towards the wolf, turning the werewolf began to snarl at the teen, but it soon ran off into the woods leaving the three standing there in shock.
Stefan moved Grace into his car as Caroline was compelling Matt to forget what had happened tonight, she felt so guilty doing so.
"What are you going to do about her?" Caroline asked from where she stood behind him "Is there no way you can save her? Give her your blood, let her turn?"
"It's too late, she's gone … She would have had to have blood in her system before she died … I have to face Elena and Damon." Stefan nodded.
"I can come if you-" Caroline was cut off when Stefan shook his head.
"Elena needs to be alone and Damon isn't going to be … stable when I tell him, I don't want to risk you getting hurt because he lashes out." Stefan shook his head "And he will lash out..."
"Does he love her?" Caroline asked.
"I think so … but you know Damon, so complex and emotional he can't face his true feelings." Stefan replied.
"What about Tyler?" Caroline changed subject.
"I took care of it and I will get Matt on vervain, it'll keep you from being able to compel him and also to keep you from drinking his blood." Stefan explained.
"I can't believe I hurt him." Caroline shook her head.
"I know." Stefan nodded.
"He is the one person on this entire planet that I never wanted to hurt." Caroline admitted.
"It's not going to get any easier." He told her truthfully not beating around the bush "You're just gonna have to work that much harder.".
"I shouldn't be with him, should I? Because if there is any danger…" Caroline whispered.
"I'm the last person to make that kind of decision for you. If I had follow my own advice, I would walked away from Elena a long time ago." Stefan replied.
"You ever think you should have?" Caroline asked curiously.
"I know I should have, I just can't." Stefan replied and Caroline understood what he was saying.
Tyler was still in the woods after everything was over, he was searching a destroyed 4x4, reaching in the back he pulled back a pair of torn jeans.
"wanna toss me those?" Mason asked standing behind him naked and dirty.
"It was you?" Tyler creased his eye brows as he threw the jeans at him and Mason just simply nodded.
Stefan laid Grace down on the rug in front of the fireplace in the parlour of the Salvatore Boarding house, he checked her pulse, but it was gone and she was cold and pale. This girl that he considered to be a sister, a really good friends was taken from him so quickly, it was like Lexi all over again.
"Why did you have to go out there?" Stefan whispered "You could just stay put for 5 seconds? And then he kills you..." he nodded "Damon isn't going to be happy with me, you know that?" he spoke to her as if she was alive still, making sure she looked presentable for when Elena got home he continued to sit there taking to her.
Later that night Caroline walked into the Mystic Grill to see Matt sitting with Aimee, stalking over to them.
"Seriously Aimee?" Caroline growled.
"We were just talking." Aimee replied innocently.
"Oh, that's what you call it?" The blonde sneered.
"Yeah." Aimee nodded.
"Are you kidding me?" Matt hissed to himself.
:No, I'm not Matt. She's into you and anyone can see it." Caroline pointed out and Aimee blushed heavily.
"Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to… I'm just gonna go." the girl gulped as she got up and left the two.
"Knock it off. What are you doing?" Matt shook his head at her.
"This isn't my fault Matt, okay? She's after you and I shouldn't have to put up with that." The blonde replied.
"I thought you said no more drama?" Matt replied.
" Well, I lied." Caroline admitted.
"Just forget it, just forget all of it." Matt rose from his seat.
"So what, are you like breaking up with me?" Caroline looked at him confused and hurt.
"Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's what I'm doing." Matt spat as he left her sitting there.
Jenna was standing in the kitchen making herself a cup of coffee when she saw Alaric walked in, he smiled gently at her.
"Ric, I wasn't expecting you and Elena until later." Jenna noted.
"Elena is with Stefan, I came here on my own." Alaric told her.
"What are you doing here then?" Jenna creased her eye brows.
"Finishing what I should have done this morning." Alaric pulled the blonde into a passionate kiss.
Elena walks towards the door when she saw Damon on his phone, he was speaking to Grace's voicemail annoyed that she was avoiding him, but really she wasn't.
"Grace, will you please just call me or text me..." Damon growled "I'm worried, alright? There I said it... Stop playing games." he hung up.
"You really do care about her." Elena whispered as he walked past her into his house.
"Where is she-" Damon was cut off when he saw the telepath on the floor "Stefan." His voice was low.
"I couldn't save her... I tried." Stefan whispered.
"Oh God." Elena whispered as she dove to Grace's side on the floor, she looked peaceful, she was bruised, but her face wasn't pain ridden, her features were relaxed. Damon's eyes grew wide as he saw her laying there dead "Please, Grace. Wake up. Please don't leave me."
"S-she drank my blood." Damon announced "She has to wake up... she has to."
"Damon." Stefan held him back as Elena was having a moment with her recently deceased sister "She would have woke up by now, you know that... I'm sorry, she's gone-"
"Who did it?" the raven haired vampire growled "Why didn't you protect her?" He shoved him back and Stefan just took it "Why didn't she listen to me." Damon panted angrily "I told her no to go into the woods, it wasn't safe... she didn't listen to me and now she's dead and I've lost her forever."
"Damon-"
"Don't try and sympathise with me Stefan." Damon growled "You have no idea what it's like to lose someone you care about... you got Katherine, you have Elena... Fayth never loved me and now Grace is gone." Damon turned away from Stefan
After hours of Elena squeezing Grace's hand waiting for something to happen Stefan walked over to her kneeling down next to her.
"I remember this one time Grace and I went to this huge party down town, she got so wasted Tyler had to carry Grace half way home and Matt carried her the rest. It was so funny..." Elena laughed tears still rolling down her cheeks "Grace had that ability, she could make anyone laugh, she could get away with murder... After that night Grace vowed never to drink so much. Didn't stick to it for long..."
"Grace was a great girl." Stefan mused.
"And this other time it was my birthday – our birthday and Grace … she – she didn't even care that it was her birthday too … she just … she threw me the most amazing surprise party … and I … I got so trashed that night I didn't even wish her a happy birthday." Elena sobbed into her hands.
"C'mon, it's late." Stefan whispered holding her gently "I need to get you home."
"I can't leave her." Elena sobbed "I don't want her to be on her own."
Damon walked forward "I'll stay with her."
"Damon-" Stefan looked over at him.
"I'll be fine, take Elena home and... and I'll get rid of the body."
"Don't make me leave, don't take her away from me." Elena begged as Stefan picked her up carrying her from the house.
Damon walked over to the dead girl and sat next to her we wished that one last time he could see her, speak to her, see her smile.
"I'm going to miss you, Gilbert. I wish I could have been there to protect you. If I hadn't gone away on that stupid trip." Damon growled before calming himself "I don't want to lose you. You should be here, alive, with me … I should have you to myself … I'm not sure what I'm going to do now, without you, it's hard to believe that you're gone, but you're one because you're so damn stubborn and proud." he brushed her hair back off her face "I miss you." he leant down and pressed gave her a chaste kiss, one final kiss.
After a while of Damon talking to the dead girl he got up and began to search for a shovel around his house,t here was no use putting it off, he heard a clutter from the living room, peering around the corner he nothing had changed and Grace was still laying there, as he walked back it he went over and took her hand about to pull her over his shoulder, but he was surprised when her eyes opened wide and looked up at him in shock...
A/N
Wow, so Grace is alive... kind of. Looks like Damon and Stefan have yet another new born to deal with :/ Damon was pretty upset when he thought he lost Grace, I wonder if Grace heard ;) What do you think of Grace becoming a vampire? I will try and get the next chapter up maybe tonight :)
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