Twisted Love
Season Two
Rose
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
A large black SUV pulls up to meet another car in the middle of nowhere, a barren field with a small parking lot at the side.
A Medium sized man climbed from the car that just pulled up and tapped on the window of the blacked out SUV. The window wound down slowly to reveal a man in a baseball cap and sunglasses on the other side.
"Where is she?" The man inside he SUV asked.
The other man nodded and walked around to the trunk of his car opening it to reveal an unconscious Grace laying down, he picked her up carefully and places her in the back of the SUV before walking around and rejoining the man in the baseball cap.
"Thank you for you help." The sunglasses man purred.
"Is there anything else?" The other man questioned.
"One more thing. Come closer, please." The baseball capped man asked motioning him forward towards the window of his car "Closer." Even further.
The other's mans head was basically inside the SUV when the baseball capped man leant in and ripped into his neck with his vicious fangs, draining him off blood before letting him go and falling to the floor.
Elena wakes up looking around her room to see the sunlight pouring through her open shades, getting up she walked to the guest room Grace had been stay in knocking the door gently.
"Grace. Time to wake up." She walked in to see her bed had been untouched, she steps in the room and looks around to see that Grace was nowhere to be seen.
"Everything ok?" Jeremy stood in the door way rubbing his eyes from where he had just woken up.
"Grace didn't come home last night." Elena stated.
"Oh. Maybe she should have let us know first if she was sleeping over with Damon." Jeremy noted.
"Yeah." Elena mused looking around almost sensing something wasn't right "I'll speak to Stefan about it today."
Caroline was in her room preparing her bag for the school day whilst Damon sat casually on her bed talking to her about what happened to Tyler.
"So Sarah attacks Tyler and he pushes her away and she tripped and she fell and she hit her head." Caroline explained quickly checking her hair in the mirror.
"Does Matt remember anything?" Damon quizzed.
"Hmm, he thinks he blacked out but I think they were both compelled by Katherine and Fayth. That's why I covered for Tyler and said it was an accident." The blonde explained.
"Yeah, I don't understand that. The guy is a tool." Damon spat fiddling around with one of her throw pillows.
"You're only saying that because he's a close friend of Grace's." Caroline teased and Damon narrowed his bright blue orbs at her "Tyler getting blamed for Sarah's death just opens up questions that he can't answer and do you really think that it's a good idea for him to tell him mom he's a werewolf?" Caroline cocked an eye brow.
"Well, no." Damon mumbled.
"And that werewolf road leads straight to Vampire Boulevard! I thought I was thinking fast on my feet." She stated proudly.
"Where is your mom?" Damon asked, he couldn't hear anybody shuffling around downstairs.
"Leading a search party for Aimee Bradley. They haven't found her body yet." The blonde explained.
"Oh, teens today and their underage drinking. Tragic." He joked "Wait, did you see Tyler's eyes turn yellow?"
"They were more gold with amber highlights." She corrected him.
"Oh." Damon gave her a funny look.
"Can he turn into a wolf now?" The younger vampire questioned.
"Only on a full moon, but now he had increased strength and who knows what else. I wonder how much Mason told him …" The raven haired vampire mused before looking at the blonde "Does he know about us." She didn't answer him, too busy texting on her phone "Hey! What did you tell him?"
"Nothing, really." Caroline rolled her "I don't think he knows much of anything. He seemed really freaked out and honestly, I felt kind of bad for him." She walked towards the door.
"He's got to know something." Damon shook his head.
"Alright, I'll ask him." Caroline rolled her eyes but suddenly he caught her by the collar of her shirt.
"No, you won't Caroline." He spat "He cannot know about us. A bite from a werewolf can kill a vampire so don't be his friend! Do you understand?" he growled.
"I understand." She nodded "I'm late for school."
"Right." Damon released her smoothing out her shirt "If you want to drop a hint to your mom, that Aimee's body is at the bottom of ravine with a cracked spine. Might save you mom some time." Damon smirked as he opened the door for her to leave, she walked through and he followed.
Tyler walked into school to see pictures of Aimee Bradley plastered all over the walls, as he walked to his locker he noticed a memorial outside of Sarah's locker with pictures, messages from friends, lit candles. Turning back to his locker he tried to open it, but his hand was shaking so violently he couldn't grab a hold of the dial and managed to break it.
Elena saw Stefan at his locker, she walked over with Jeremy by her side. The vampire smiled kindly at both of them.
"Hey Elena." Stefan gave her a loving look "Hey Jeremy."
"Look, Grace has got to let us if that she is going to spend the night at your place with Damon." Elena started "We're cool with it, but I was worried."
"What?" Stefan looked at her.
"Damon and Grace." Elena made it clear "Their back on? She slept over at his place last night, didn't she?"
"We thought she stayed at your place. She didn't text Damon back, he figured she was mad at him for not telling her about the Katherine and Fayth plan or something so he gave her a night to cool off." Stefan replied.
"Her bed hasn't been slept in and Mrs. Lockwood said that her car was still in their drive way. Where is she?" Jeremy asked.
The SUV from earlier pulled up outside a large, old mansion. The vampire with sunglasses climbed out and grabbed Grace from the trunk carrying her inside the house laying her on the couch. She was now awake and tied up with ropes. Due to the lack of blood, she couldn't break the ropes off of her as she was too weak.
"What do you want?" Grace asked weakly.
"Shh." He whispered as he pulled the ropes from off of her.
Grace let out a breath "Please, I-I'm hurt. I need-"
"I know." He cooed "Just a taste." He moved towards her neck but something wasn't right, she didn't smell like usual human blood.
Suddenly a woman with short spiky brown hair falling just around her neck in a bob walked in the room with a angry look on her face, she perfect posture and wore smart clothes.
"Trevor!" Her British accent rang out "Control yourself."
"Buzz kill." Trevor muttered eyeing Grace up and down before leaving the room.
"What do you want with me?" Grace rasped out holding her throat.
"Oh my God." The woman whispered "You look just like her."
"But I'm not." Grace made it clear that she was not her doppelgänger Fayth "Please, whatever you-"
"Be quiet!" The British woman snapped.
"But I'm not Fayth!" Grace announced "My name is Grace Gilbert; you don't have to do this."
"I know who you are, I said be quiet." The woman growled.
"What do you want?" Grace asked standing up to meet the back of the woman's hand knocking her clean out on the couch.
"I want you to be quiet." The woman replied snidely.
Back at Mystic Falls High Stefan was standing outside waiting for his brother to turn up, he had just text him to inform him of Grace's disappearance and Damon had replied he would be there as soon as he could which was almost instantly.
"This has Fayth written all over it." Stefan mused.
"Katherine and Fayth are in the tomb, hopefully killing each other." Damon replied "I knew I should had gone to meet her, I was so stupid!"
"Don't blame yourself. No one could had seen this coming." Stefan replied "What do you think Fayth meant by Elena was in danger?"
"I didn't really want to waste anymore time with her to be honest, brother." Damon replied
Stefan sighed "We have to talk to her."
"no, no." Damon growled "Let me tell you how that's gonna go: we're gonna ask her for help, she's gonna negotiate her release which we're gonna be dumb enough to give her and she's gonna get out and kill us! This is exactly what she wants."
"This is Grace we're talking about Damon." Stefan hissed.
"I know." Damon hissed "And Fayth said that Elena was in danger." He added "Elena the doppelgänger, Grace the vampire. Do you see the difference?" he asked as if he was stupid.
"What if whoever kidnapped Grace didn't know she was a vampire? Grace was once a doppelgänger too. We need to talk to them. You remember what Fayth said, she didn't mean for Grace to die, it was an accident. That had to mean something." Stefan told him.
"It's a bad idea, Stefan." Damon growled.
"It's Grace." Stefan spat as he walked away.
"You don't think I don't know that." the raven haired vampire growled at him grabbing his brothers jacket "You don't think I'm not going out of my mind with worry thinking about what someone might be doing to her right now, she doesn't have blood Stefan, she's weak-"
"Which is exactly why we need all the help we can get." Stefan told him "we'll find her, Damon."
Caroline walks into the hallway of the school stopping by Sarah's locker to look at all the bright coloured flowers and intense scents of the burning candles, a small sigh fell from her lips.
"Caroline." Tyler came up behind her.
"Hey!" Caroline smiled at him "How are you doing?"
"Not good." Tyler breathed honestly.
"How's your mom? My mom said that she was pretty freaked out about everything that happened with Sarah." Caroline nodded.
"How did you know?" Tyler changed the subject.
"What do you mean?" Caroline eyed him suspiciously.
"About me." Tyler made it more clear "How did you know?"
"Know what? That you were upset? I thought I was doing a good thing by covering for you." The blonde replied.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Tyler lowered his voice.
"Look, it was an accident? Ok? And I've got to run just … please don't blame yourself." She begged as she left him standing there.
Grace's eyes fluttered open to look around the bare room, this wasn't a permanent residence for the two she could tell. She could hear a conversation going on upstairs, it was the British girl and Trevor.
"How's the girl?" The woman asked from the room above where Grace was sitting.
"Still passed out." Trevor replied.
"you didn't touch her, did you?" Her British accent was strict and harsh.
"give me some credit. Don't you think there is something off about her, Rose?" Trevor questioned.
"I think we should just focus on the task in hand." Rose replied.
"You called him?" Trevor questioned.
"No, I called one of his contacts. You know how this works." She scolded.
"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" Trevor's voice was full of impatience.
"They say he got it." Rose replied.
"wonderful and what?" Trevor reached for more information.
Grace got up from where she was sitting and tiptoed towards the stairs, listening in deeper on their conversation, who was Elijah and why was he coming here today?
"So that's it Trevor. He either for it or he didn't. We just have to wait." Rose vented.
"Look, it's not too late. We can leave it here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor told her comfortingly.
"I'm sick of running!" Rose's voice was thick with sadness.
"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying." Trevor told her firmly.
"Elijah is old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." Rose replied.
Grace heard movement from upstairs, getting up quickly from where she was sat at the base of the stairs she walked for the door placing her hand on the handle.
"There is nothing for miles around." The Brit Rose was standing behind her, hands placed firmly on her hips.
"I'm sure I can run it." Grace breathed.
"I wouldn't test us." Trevor stepped forward.
"Who's Elijah?" Grace asked.
"He's your worst nightmare." Rose taunted.
"I can't undo the tomb spell, Stefan." Bonnie informed Stefan as they stood outside the school "Even if I wanted to. It took me and my Grams to undo it the first time."
"But I can open the door, right? I can talk to her?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, but Damon's right. She's not gonna tell you anything, not without something in return." Bonnie nodded and Damon gave him a 'I-told-you-so' look
"I know, but Bonnie we have to do something. We have no idea who has Grace; I have no idea where she is." Damon suddenly spoke up.
"What if there was another way to find her?" Bonnie asked.
Jeremy, Elena and Bonnie all sat in Alaric's history room. The young witch was flicking through Emily's grimoire trying to find the right spell whilst Jeremy and Elena were setting everything up.
"How does this work?" Elena asked.
"I'll use your blood to draw energy for the tracking spell. You're blood related, twins to be exact; it'll make the connection a lot stronger." Bonnie explained as Stefan and Damon walked in the room.
"Alright, Alaric said we've got to clear out of here within 10 minutes. I've got weapons, he stocked me up." Stefan explained.
"Are you ready?" Bonnie looked at Elena who nodded.
Bonnie took Elena's hand softly and dug a knife in the palm letting her blood run out onto the waiting map of the area around Mystic Falls, as she let go Bonnie began to chant her spell and Elena's blood began to move towards the location of Grace.
"There." Bonnie breathed "She's there."
"That's 300 miles away." Jeremy noted.
"No, Bonnie." Damon stepped forward to see "We need a more exact location than that."
"That's as close as I can get." Bonnie replied weakened she quickly turned away when she felt blood trickle from her nose.
"We can map it." Elena suggested "a Ariel view will show us what's around there, help us narrow down the area."
"Perfect." Damon smiled "Call me with whatever you find."
"I'm going with you both." Elena stepped forward.
"No." Stefan shook his head "You could get hurt, we don't need both of you in danger."
"I'm coming." Elena told him firmly.
"No, you're not." Stefan growled.
"We're waisting valuable finding Grace time here people." Damon spat "Just let her come, you can wait in the car, we'll make sure to put the window down for you." Elena and Stefan through him a deathly look.
Outside on the school courts, Tyler was playing basketball with the guys and Caroline was with a small group of friends when she diverted from them to go check on the edgy wolf.
"Hey." Caroline ran over "Uh … are you ok?"
"You lied to me earlier." He adjusted his red bandana "Why?"
"Look, Tyler … I think that you misunderstood me at the party. I get it, it was very traumatic." Caroline explained.
"You're lying." Tyler growled.
"Nope, but I'm late." She went to leave but he caught her arm, reacting quickly she turned him twisting his arm and throwing him to the floor.
"How did you … You're stronger than me?" Tyler whispered as he got back up holding his arm.
"Please, that was nothing." Caroline smirked.
"Listen, if you know something you've got to tell me because I can't handle this." He told her, she could see the fear deep in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Tyler but I think that you're still in shock over Sarah dying and it's understandable." She nodded sympathetically before walking away.
Tyler growled as he turned around kicking a trash can, it flew across the parking lot and into a parked car, everyone looks at him.
"Who do you think has her?" Elena asked from the back seat of Damon's car.
"We don't know." Stefan told her "But I'm sure she's fine, Grace is strong, she's survived werewolf attacks and Damon attacks." he glanced across at his brother who was driving.
"Damon attacks were her favourite." He joked "Alaric sure likes his weapons."
Stefan reached in the bag and pulled out what looked like a grenade but it was filled with vervain and water, it burned Stefan's nostrils as he sniffed it.
"What the hell is that?" Damon glanced across at him.
"I don't know, it's a vervain bomb or a grenade launcher or something like that." Stefan inspected it.
"Weird." Damon mused.
"Hey, how much further is it?" Elena asked.
"about 80 miles, please don't tell me you need to use the little girls room, we're on a bit of a tight schedule right here." Damon smirked.
"Damon." Stefan warned.
"Will you stop belittling me." Elena growled "I want to save Grace just as much as you do. At least I've been there for her for the last couple of months, you've been on and off with her, made her cry on countless occasions-" She saw the hurt look in Damon's eyes "Damon, I'm-"
"No, you're right, I haven't treated Grace right, but I want to." Damon nodded "Thank you for coming with us, Elena." Damon shivered "Ok, can we not do the whole road trip bonding thing? The cliché of it all make me itch." He joked.
"Oh, come on Damon. We all know how you feel about Grace. That's the only reason you're here right now." Stefan smiled at him.
"Yeah, I do know how I feel." Damon nodded.
"So when are you going to admit it?" Elena asked "I'm sick of seeing you and Grace tip toe around each other trying to protect each others feelings …"
"Express yourself to us, Damon." Stefan smirked form where he sat beside his brother "I happen to like road trip bonding."
"Keep it up, Stefan. I can step out of helping as easily as I stepped in." Damon growled tightening his grip on the steering wheel, knowing he was lying.
"No, you see that's the beauty of it. You can't." Stefan grinned at him.
At the Gilbert house Jeremy was sitting in his bedroom looking through Emily's grimoire and searching the GPS on his phone whilst Bonnie paced around the room.
"Alaric just left with Jenna." Bonnie informed him.
"He's getting her out of the house for a while so she doesn't ask any questions about Grace and Elena. Look. I pulled this up based on the spot on the map." Jeremy showed her his phone of a large house "There's nothing for miles except for this old house."
"Did you send it to Elena?" Bonnie questioned.
"Yeah. I hate sitting here, waiting like this." Jeremy sighed.
"Hey, she's gonna be fine." Bonnie rubbed his hand gently.
"You don't know that." Jeremy looked at her.
"No, I don't." Bonnie nodded "But I know Grace. I know that she's sensible and she can talk herself out of any situation. I also know she's a Vampire and she won't go down easily." Bonnie smiled before creating an idea in her head quickly flicking through Emily's grimoire.
"What are you doing?" Jeremy quizzed.
"There's something else I want to try." She stopped on a page.
"I don't get it." Jeremy creased his eye brows.
"I need a candle." She read from the page "And grab Grace's hairbrush."
"Ok." Jeremy jumped up and ran from the room to find what Bonnie needed.
Grabbing her note book from her bag she began to write on the paper with a sharpie 'Damon, Stefan and Elena are on their way! - Bonnie' before scrunching it up in her hand and seeing Jeremy come back with what she needed.
"What's all this stuff for?" Jeremy asked.
"I know it's crazy but I might be able to get her a message." Bonnie told him.
Putting her hand above the candle she placed the paper inside of it and closes her eyes beginning to chant the spell that she needed, Jeremy was taken by surprise when her nose began to bleed.
"Bonnie?" Jeremy shook her "Bonnie! Bonnie!"
The paper burst into flames in her hand and Bonnie chanted the spell harder as Jeremy tried to get her to stop, all of a sudden the paper vanished.
"Bonnie." Jeremy asked as she reopened her eyes slowly a small smile appearing on her lips.
He let out a breath of relief, but she fell back passing out onto the bed, she was so weak and drained from all the spells she had been casting.
"Bonnie!" Jeremy shook her attempting to wake her up "Bonnie!"
Back to where Grace sat in a room alone Rose walked in and looked at her for a second before growling lightly under her breath.
"Why am I here?" Grace asked.
"You keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." Rose spat.
"I can just get the answers another way." Grace growled.
"Don't you think we know what you are, Little telepath?" Rose smirked "As if we don't already know, we've done our research."
"It's not like I can go anywhere without you catching me first. The least you can do it tell me what you want with me." Grace argued.
"I personally want nothing; I'm just a delivery service." She smirked.
"Delivery to who? Elijah?" Grace asked.
"Two points to the eavesdropper." Rose clapped her hands together.
"Who is he?" Grace asked "Is he a vampire?"
"He's one of the vampires, the originals." Rose replied.
"What do you mean the originals?" Grace questioned absolutely confused.
"Again with the questions." Rose sighed "Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?"
"So you know Stefan and Damon?" Grace looked at her.
"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys though but I digress." She rolled her eyes.
"Who are the originals?" Grace asked.
"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tried, we want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess." Rose explained nonchalantly.
"But why me!" Grace looked at her scared.
"Because you're a Petrova doppelgänger. You're the key to breaking the curse." Rose smiled.
"The curse?" Grace creased her eye brows remembering what Elena had told her "The sun and the moon curse?"
"Oh, you do know your history!" Rose grinned sarcastically.
"What do you mean I'm the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse." Grace stated.
"Well, it could have either been you or your twin Elena. It was easier to get you." She shrugged "The moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it."
"The sacrifice?" Grace's eyes were wide.
"The blood of the doppelgänger. You're the doppelgänger. Which means, in order to break the curse you're the one who has to die." Rose informed her
"I'm already dead." Grace growled flashing her fangs Rose's jaw fell open.
Caroline was just arriving home from school as she walked up onto her porch putting her key in the door to find that it was already unlocked. She walked in the house calling for her mom, but there was no answer, turning around she saw Tyler.
"What are you doing here?" She jolted.
"I know." Tyler told her.
"Breaking and entering the Sheriff's house? That move will win you an award." Caroline told him turning away.
"Go ahead. Keep dodging, keep changing the subject but I know. You're just like me, aren't you?" Tyler pressed.
"No." Caroline shook her head.
"Keep it up but I'm not buying it. I saw how strong you were. I'm not leaving here until you tell me the truth." Tyler growled.
"Tyler-"
"You're a werewolf." Tyler growled "Say it!"
Out of no where Caroline began to laugh, falling into hysterics Tyler inspected her confused with her sudden outburst.
"What?" Caroline giggled when he shoved her back against a wall.
"Stop lying!" Tyler ordered.
"I'm not lying!" She denied.
"Say it!" He punched the wall behind her making a picture smash to the ground, she hissed as she shoved him away against the wall opposite them showing her fangs and deep veins beneath her eyes, the shock was evident on his face when he saw her vampire look.
"I'm not a werewolf, ok?" Caroline ordered.
"You've got to be kidding me." Rose paced the room.
"Rose, it has to work the same. She was still once a doppelgänger, right? She still has blood!" Trevor tried to reason.
"Blood that has been tainted by death! The doppelgänger has to die!" Rose growled at him "She's already dead!"
"Quick question." Grace held her hand up inappropriately "Who are the originals?"
"The first family." Trevor told her fed up "the one world. Rose and I pissed them off." Rose cleared her throat "Correction, I pissed them off, Rose had my back for over half a millennium, they wanted us dead."
"What did you do?" Grace asked.
"He made the same mistake countless others did: he trusted Katerina Petrova." Rose hissed at him.
"Katherine." Grace whispered.
"And Fay." Trevor sneered.
"Fayth." Grace looked down.
"The one and only. The first Petrova doppelgänger's." Rose informed her and Grace looked at him for the reason why.
"I helped them escape their fate and now I've, sorry, we've been marked ever since." Trevor told her.
"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistake again." Rose hissed "Yet, we've made a stupid one by getting the wrong girl. Elijah is on his way, he will not stop."
At the Gilbert house Bonnie was awake on Jeremy's bed when he walked in holding a glass of icy cold water for her.
"Here, drink this." He handed her the drink.
"Thanks." Bonnie rasped as she drank from it.
"What happened? You scared the hell out of me." Jeremy informed her.
Bonnie shook her head "It's nothing."
"It wasn't nothing, Bonnie." Jeremy made himself clear.
"I've been doing a lot of magic lately. It wears me down." She explained.
"When I'm worn down, I take a nap. You were… you were unconscious." He stated.
"Witchcraft has its limits. If I push too hard, it pushes back." She informed him.
"How do you know all this?" Jeremy questioned.
She patted Emily's grimoire "It's all in here; it's like a reminder that I'm not invincible. Please don't… don't tell anyone." Bonnie stuttered.
"Why not?" Jeremy creased his eye brows.
"Because it's a weakness and I don't want certain people to know that." She explained.
"By certain people, you mean Damon." Jeremy guessed.
"I mean anyone that can hurt me." Bonnie replied.
"I won't tell anyone, okay? I promise." He smiled softly.
"It's hard, you know? My grams is gone and my dad, he doesn't want to know about what I am. He hasn't since my mom left. I'm all alone in this." She looked down upset.
"It's how I feel a lot of the time, alone." Jeremy told her and they stared at each other for a long time before snapping out of it "Do you think it worked?"
"I have no idea." Bonnie admitted.
Grace was lounging on the couch contemplating a way to get out of the house when suddenly she felt something in her pocket, reaching in she found a slightly burnt, crumpled piece of paper, opening it she read it 'Damon, Stefan and Elena are on their way! - Bonnie' a smile creeped onto Grace's lips as she hid the paper again.
Stefan looked over his shoulder to see that Elena had fallen asleep in the back of the car, he smiled and patted her knee gently.
"we're getting close. Jeremy said there's an access road just past mile marker 6." Stefan informed him.
Damon reached over into a bag at Stefan's feet and grabbed a blood bag from within it, he had another one spare in there for Grace when he saved her. But right now he needed a drink so that he could be strong enough to save Grace he began to drink he when he saw Stefan looking.
"if you want some, just ask." He smirked.
"I was some." Stefan announced.
"Ah, that's so sweet. You're wanna be all big and strong to impress your girl, but don't worry, I've got your back. It'll be fine." Damon smiled.
"I'm not joking." Stefan replied "I've been drinking a little everyday. I'm slowly increasing my intake and building up my strength." Stefan nodded as Damon passed him the bag.
"Does Elena know you're drink blood?" Damon looked in the rear view mirror at the sleeping girl.
"I've been drinking hers." Stefan replied.
"Hmm, how romantic." Damon drank some more blood "Since we're road trip bonding, remember the days when all you lived for was blood? You were the guy who ripped someone apart just for the fun of it."
"You mean when I was more like you?" Stefan countered.
"Yes, Stefan, exactly. Back when you put blood into me so I could be a big bad vampire. I wonder if Elena would be so quick to open her veins for that guy. By the way, what happened to that guy? He was a hoot." Damon's eyes flashed with humour.
"I guess he found something else to live for." Stefan looked at Elena lovingly.
Back at the house Grace was sitting on the couch gnawing at her nails when Trevor runs in the room eyes wide.
"he's here!" Trevor announced and Grace's heart skipped a beat "This was a mistake."
"no, I told you I would get us out of this. You have to trust me." Rose stepped towards him.
"No! He wants me dead, Rose!" Trevor growled "We don't even have when he wants." He glanced over at Grace who flashed him a grin "I can't do this! You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you, but I need to get out of here."
"Coward." Grace hissed.
"Hey! What are we?" Rose looked him him ignoring the younger vampires comment.
"We're family, forever." Trevor breathed when there was a knock at the door.
"You're scared." Grace noted.
"Stay here with her and don't make a sound." Rose walked through the house to open the door, a handsome man in a suit stood there brushing his longish brown locks from his dazzling eyes.
"Rosemary. Is there somewhere we can talk?" Elijah asked.
"Yes, in here. You have to forgive the house." Rose gulped.
"Oh no, what's a little dirt? I completely understand. So tell me, what is it that gives you the courage to call me?" Elijah questioned stepped into the house.
"I wanted my freedom. I'm tried of running. You in a position to grant me that?" Rose asked.
"I have complete authority to grant pardon to you and your little pet. What is his name these days? Trevor. If I so see fit." Elijah nodded.
"Fay Petrova." Rose informed him.
"I'm listening." Elijah looked at her.
"She didn't burn in the church in 1864." Rose informed him.
"Continue." Elijah narrowed his eyes.
"She survived."
"Where is she?"
"You don't seem surprised by this." Rose looked at him a little scared.
"Oh, when you called and invited me into this armpit of civilisations, which is a mere 3 hours from the town know as Mystic Falls, I surmise it had everything to do with Katerina and Fay. Do you have her in your position." Elijah questioned.
"No, but I have better. I-I have her doppelgänger." Rose cursed herself for lying to him, it would all come back on her.
"That's impossible, her family line ended with the twins. I know that for a fact." Elijah smiled.
"The facts are wrong." Rose replied.
"Well, show her to me." Elijah smiled about to walk away.
"Elijah, you are a man of honour, you should be trusted but I want to hear you say it again."
"You have my word that I will pardon you." Elijah nodded.
"Follow me." Rose lead him into the room to show him Grace.
"Impossible." Elijah whispered as he saw her rushing towards her tipping her head back to smell that she was no longer human "What is this mockery."
Stefan and Damon stopped the car to be onlooking the house, Damon was about to get out, but his younger brother stopped him quickly.
"You have a lot more experience than you do with those sorts of things." Stefan announced.
"What is your point?" Damon growled.
"My point is, whoever has Grace is probably who was after Fayth and Katherine in 1864 and before that." Stefan nodded.
"And?" Damon hissed.
"And it puts them at 500 years old and strong. Are you sure you want to do this?" Stefan looked at him.
"You're joking right? Yeah, I'm certain I want to do it." Damon growled.
"Because if we go in that house, we may not come back out." Stefan tried to reason.
"Alright, then I won't come out." Damon nodded.
"So noble, Damon." Stefan shook his head.
"I can't think of a better reason to die, but if you want to stay here, I'll totally understand." Damon growled as he walked from the car, Stefan quickly jumped out following him.
"I wasn't saying that. I … I don't want to lose either of you. Grace is like my little sister and are my older brother-" Stefan tried to explain "You both mean a lot to me."
"Just stop talking." Damon ordered "The longer we stand out here having heart to heart, the longer with put risk of Grace's life."
"Wait." Elena ran after them rubbing her eyes "I'm coming in too!"
"no." Stefan told her "This is dangerous."
"Did you really expect me to take her?" Elijah growled at the two.
"We didn't know." Trevor spoke up "We were not the ones to procure her."
"Did you not think to check if she was still a living human?" Elijah grabbed Grace's face between two fingers squeezing her cheeks together.
"Please, just leave me go." Grace begged.
"You are not going anywhere." Elijah growled "I can use you to get to your twin, we must make haste."
"Elijah, I'm truly very sorry." Trevor begged "You trusted me with Katerina and Fay and I failed you, now I have done again."
"You will be." Elijah growled as he ran towards him at supernatural speed smacking his head clean off his shoulder, both women look on in shock.
"you...!" Rose cried breaking down as she saw her closest, oldest friend dead on the floor.
"Don't, Rose. Now that you are free." Elijah smirked before looking over his shoulder at Grace "Come."
"No, what about the moonstone." Grace cried backing away from him.
"What do you know about the moonstone?" Elijah looked at her curiously.
"I know that you need it and I know where it is." Grace nodded at him.
"Yes?" Elijah cocked an eye brow.
"I can help you get it." Grace promised.
"Tell me where it is." Elijah demanded in a subtle voice.
"It doesn't work that way." Grace growled.
"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah chuckled and turned to look at Rose.
"It's the first I've heard of it." Rose whispered as she dried her tears.
"There is something very special about us Originals … We can compel Vampires." He smirked, Grace went to run but he caught her arm firmly "Tell me where the moonstone is." Elijah began to compel Grace.
"In the tomb, underneath the church ruins." Grace whispered.
Elijah creased his eye brows "What is it doing there?"
"It's with Katherine and Fayth." Grace whispered.
"Interesting." He broke the compulsion before hearing glass break upstairs "What is that?"
"I don't know." Rose replied.
"Who else is in this house." Elijah demanded.
"I don't know." Rose growled.
Elijah caught Grace's arm firmly and pulled her from the room with Rose following, He pulled her into the welcome area of the abandoned house.
Suddenly Stefan ran past them at super speed, they turned to look, then Damon did, Stefan ran back up the stairs and Elijah threw Grace towards Rose who caught her.
"Rose." Elijah gave her a testing look.
"I don't know who it is." Rose admitted.
"Up here." Stefan called Elijah ran half way up the stairs, Grace could hear a faint heart beat echoing around the room.
"Down here." Damon called and Grace's heart fluttered when Damon caught her and Rose's arm pulling her into an empty hall wall standing directly in front of the small younger vampire looking deeply into her eyes, whilst securing Rose in place by clasping his hand around her neck.
"Shh." He whispered softly against her cheek.
"Excuse me." Elijah called as he thumped down the stairs "To whom it may concern. You're making a great mistake if you think you can beat me. You can't." He made clear and Grace looked at Damon eyes wide. "I repeat." Elijah grabbed a wooden coat rack making it into a stake "You cannot beat me. So I want the girl, I'm gonna count to 3 or heads will roll. Do we understand each other."
"I'll come with you." Elena stood at the top of the stairs, Grace struggled against Damon who gave her a look "Just please don't hurt my friends, they just wanted to help me out."
"The real doppelgänger." Elijah mused his eyes widened as he walked up the stairs "What game are you playing with me?"
Elena removed a vervain grenade from her pocket, pulling the pin out and throwing it at Elijah, he growled as his skin began to burn but he healed very quickly, stepping forward towards her. Stefan jumped out and began to shoot him with wooden bullets from a compressed air weapon when the younger vampire realised it was doing nothing he pounced on him knocking them both down the stairs.
As they hit he bottom Damon looked around the corner to see Elijah standing over Stefan, jumping out he grabbed the stake coat rack Elijah had made and stake him straight in the heart moving him back against the door, impaling him there, watching whilst his skin paled and he fell limp. Dead.
Rose gave Grace a look before stepping to out from around the door to catch Damon's deathly glance, sprinting away quickly. The raven haired vampire went to chase her, but Grace stepped out looking directly at him.
"Just let her go." Grace told him.
He smiled gently at her and Grace smiled before leaping into his arms, he held her tight breathing in her scent and Elena and Stefan smiled as they watched giving each other a hug.
"It was stupid for you to come in here." Stefan breathed against her neck "But thank you."
"Are you hurt? Are you ok?" Damon asked playing with the tips of Grace's hair.
Later when the two girls arrived back in Mystic Falls it was late. The Gilbert house was silent as Bonnie was asleep on Jeremy's bed resting, whilst Jeremy watched over her, the front door opened downstairs.
"Grace? Elena?" Jeremy ran downstairs as Bonnie woke up and rushed for the door too "Are you ok?" He asked as he pulled the smaller vampire into a tight hug.
"I'm ok." Grace breathed "Thank you, for today. You all saved my life." She looked at the three "I love you all so much."
"we love you too." Elena pulled them all into a hug, sobbing so glad her twin was ok.
Damon was standing in the library of the Salvatore Boarding house relived that today was over, he poured himself a glass of scotch taking a large gulp of it to unwind from that hectic day.
"Where's Grace?" Stefan asked as he walked in the room.
"She went home with Elena." Damon replied.
"So, why are you here?" Stefan gave him a look.
"She wanted to have some time with Jeremy and Bonnie." Damon swigged at his drink "Here." He poured one for Stefan handing it to him.
"Thanks." He nodded "Listen, what Rose told Grace about the curse-"
"I know, we'll keep them both safe. Elena will be safe." Damon assured him.
"You know, the only way we're gonna be able to do that is if we're not fighting each other. We let Katherine and Fayth come between us. If we let that happen with Grace and Elena, we're not going to be able to protect them." Stefan told him.
"Yes Stefan, I heard it all before." Damon muttered as he walked away from him.
"Hey." Stefan called.
"What?" Damon turned.
"I'm sorry." Stefan whispered.
Damon creased his eye brows "About what?"
"For being the guy who made you turn 145 years ago." Stefan sighed.
"Enough, Stef." Damon stopped him "Don't need to rehash that."
"You know what?" Stefan asked "I've never said it out lout. I guess I just need to say it and you need to hear it. I'm sorry. What I did was selfish. I didn't want to be alone. I guess I just needed my brother." Stefan told him with a small smile.
Tyler was sitting in Caroline's house when the blonde walked in holding two glasses and a bottle of alcohol.
"You know, this sounds crazy but alcohol helps me. You know, with all that inside jittery stuff." Caroline informed him.
"I'm hot. It's like my skin is on fire." Tyler told the blonde fanning himself gently.
"Really? I never had any of that. I guess wolves are different. At the beginning, I was very, very emotional. Everything was heightened." She laughed at the distant memory.
"I have that. How can you be a vampire?" Tyler asked confused.
"How can you be a werwolf." She countered.
"Who else is like you?" Tyler questioned.
"Just me. It's a really long story we can share another time. How many other werewolves are there?" Caroline asked changing the subject.
"Just me and my uncle Mason, but he left town." The wolf shrugged.
"Look, Tyler … you can't tell anyone, ok? Not about you, not about me. No one will understand." The blonde tried to reason.
"I know." Tyler nodded.
"I want to tell you about my mom and yours and the founding families and the council, but I need you to promise me no one will find out about us. This is life and death, Tyler." Caroline gave him her best serious look.
"I have no one else to tell. I'm sorry about earlier. It's just, I'm alone with this. It's gonna happen to me. On the next full me, I'm gonna turn and I won't be able to stop it. I'm scared." He admitted his voice breaking.
"Tyler … No … It's." She had no words to comfort him, so she pulled him into a tight embrace.
Stefan stood in the library of his house flicking through a thick book trying to pass the time whilst he nursed a glass of scotch. Suddenly a vampire flashed past him, he grabbed a stake.
"Who's there?" Stefan called out.
"I'm not here to hurt you." Rose stepped out from where she was hiding.
"Why are you here?" He growled.
"Lexi once told me that you're one of the good ones." Rose smiled at him.
"You know Lexi?" Stefan smiled when he through back to the blonde that had helped him become who he was, she had been like a sister to him.
"Trevor was my best friend. For 500 years I have lived with one person and he's gone and I don't want to run anymore because I don't have anywhere else to run to." Rose told him.
"Well, I'm sorry but I can't help you." The younger vampire shook his head.
"I don't need your help, but I think you need mine. Elijah may be dead but this isn't over." Rose informed him.
"What do you mean 'it isn't over'?" Stefan looked at her.
"It isn't over. The originals, they'll come for her. Elena. They have to. They're doing it for him." Rose's voice shook.
"For who?" Stefan questioned.
Rose sighed "Klaus."
Grace walked from the shower dressed in a pair of black fabric short shorts and white tank top walking past Elena's room to see her in a deep sleep, walking in Grace pulled the duvet over her twin smiling as she left the room closing the door behind her.
As she walked into her room she ran her hands through her damp hair pulling a brush through it when suddenly she saw Damon sitting on her bed watching her.
"Cute Pjs." He smiled.
"I'm tired, Damon." She tried to brush him off.
"I need to talk to you." Damon stood up
"Damon, please not now, can it not wait until morning?" Grace asked.
"No." Damon whispered "if I hold this in any longer ... I feel as if I will explode." He admitted "what I'm about to say is probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life." He walked over to her.
"Damon, don't go there." Grace breathed knowing where the conversation was going.
"No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. And if you feel the same way, great, but if you don't I'm just glad you know how I feel." He took a deep breath "I love you, Grace. And it's because I love you that … I can't be selfish with you." He whispered and saw tears welling in Grace's eyes "I don't deserve you. I've treated you horrible since the moment I met you, so obsessed with finding Fayth I didn't realise that I had the most amazing girl right in front of me." Damon paused "I'm done now, you can either forget this … or admit what you really feel."
Grace's throat ran dry as she reached out catching a tear that fell from his beautiful bright blue eyes, nothing had ever been more clear to her, she nodded.
"I love you too, more than I've ever loved anyone. You being there to save me today made it clear to me how I feel." She whispered "You're all that I want. Ever."
"Forever." Damon whispered leaning his head down and pressing his lips to her softly, Grace felt more of a burning need and deepened the kiss.
"Take me to your place." She whispered huskily against his lips "Elena would kill me if she knew I had you in here." She giggled.
"Yes." Damon whispered as he picked her up into his arms not wanting to pull back from the kiss that they were sharing "Close your eyes."
The closed her eyes and felt the wind brushing through her hair, the next second she felt the soft sheets of Damon's bed beneath her back, she looked up into his amazing eyes.
"Are you sure you want this?" Damon asked as he ducked down and nibbled her slender neck "we can wait if you-"
"I want you more than anything." Grace told him "Just be careful with me."
"Of course." Damon suckled the soft skin at the base of her throat.
"I love you, Damon." Grace raked her fingers through his raven black hair.
Damon looked up deep into her chocolate brown eyes sparkling with tears "I love you too, Grace."
Back at the abandoned house Elijah reopened his eyes to reveal that he wasn't really dead, and their troubles were only just beginning as he pulled the stake from his heart zipping from the house before it could even hit the ground.
A/N
Aww Damon and Grace scene They finally admitted that they loved each other, took their time! Uh, oh! Elijah is alive and Klaus has been mentions! I also love the song that they put the 'I love you' scene too in the actual episode, it's called I Was Wrong by Sleeperstar, always makes cry
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, I will try and get another chapter up tonight if I can :)
Graciiee