Twisted Love
Season Two
The Descent
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Deep in the woods, Jules awoke from her deep sleep, she was naked on the floor, her body glowing with a fantastic mourning after glow from where she had transformed the night before with dark crimson blood covering her lip and chin. Getting up she looks around her to see the piled up bodies of a couple mutilated people, taking the clothes of one of them she begin to put the limbs back together.
Suddenly a car door closed behind her, turning quickly she saw a police officer walk towards her eying her suspiciously. Rubbing her eyes she began to cry, putting up a front for the man.
"Good morning. Is everything alright here?" He asked.
"it was an animal." She sobbed "A wolf. It came at us in the night." She lied, the wolf had really been her, she hadn't been able to control herself.
"Are you ok?" The police officer comforted her.
"Yes. But my friends..." She stifled her fake tears "They're all dead."
"I'm calling it in." He informed her walking back towards his car, Jules picked up a large wooden stick from the floor and bashed him over the head twice, effectively killing him.
At the Salvatore Boarding House, Elena walked into Stefan's room glancing around to see that he wasn't in there, she began to panic, was the night before all a dream, had she really not got Stefan back from the tomb?
"Stefan?" She called walking further into the room searching for him "Stefan? You're standing right behind me, aren't you?" She rolled her eyes not turning around already knowing he was standing there.
"Yep." Stefan smirked, turning around Elena smiled at her boyfriend and kissed him passionately "Good morning."
"I don't want us to be apart anymore. Ever." She told him firmly.
"Me neither, but-"
"Don't ruin the moment." Elena kissed him again, but the vampire pulled away "You're about to ruin the moment, aren't you?"
"I'm totally ruining the moment. Look, I can't just pretend like everything is ok." Stefan told her.
"Katherine and Fayth are locked away in the tomb." Elena reminded him.
"I know but we still have this pressing little issue of you being Klaus' human sacrifice." Stefan looked as she walked across the room opening a draw to his dresser and grabbing a vial of vervain.
"Yes but Elijah promised me to keep me and everyone else safe as long as we play by his rules." She told him.
"Right. As long as we play by his rules." He eyed her as she put the vervain into a glass.
"Please don't go after Isobel." She begged.
"Katherine said Isobel could have some answers and I just have a couple questions, that's all." He shrugged casually.
Pouring water into the glass she mixed it with a spoon, downing a little bit of it she looked across at him "Stefan. Grace and I made a deal with Elijah."
"Right, you made a deal with him. I didn't make one. You should keep your deal." He smiled at her.
"Stefan, I don't want anyone else to get hurt." Elena told him she showed him the glass "Vervain. I made it light but are you sure? Just because Katherine and Fayth built up a tolerance-"
"Yes, bottoms up." He finished the glass letting out a large cough as it burnt his throat.
"Are you ok?" Elena asked concerned.
"Yeah." Stefan nodded.
"How can Elijah compel another vampire?" Elena questioned.
"He's an original. I don't really know what that means. I don't think anybody really knows what that means. Well, except maybe Isobel. Maybe we should ask her." He kissed her gently before leaving.
Rose was sitting in the library of the Salvatore Boarding House whilst Grace sat opposite her, Damon walked in the room and kissed the top of his girlfriends head.
"I was born in 1450, that makes me 560 years old." Rose told Grace.
"Well, if you were a bottle of wine..." Damon joked and Grace threw him a look.
"So I can die. I've lived long enough." Rose assured them.
"You know, if you're gonna be martyr then I'm gonna kill you, just to put you out of my misery." Damon smirked at her before handing both females a glass of blood "C'mon, it's just a little werewolf bite."
"Just a little, fatal to a vampire werewolf bite." Sh laughed looking across at Grace smiling a little rolling her eyes.
"Well, according to a legend which is notoriously unreliable source. Drink up." He told her "Blood heals."
"Yeah." She brought the blood away from her lips "It does feel like it's working."
"Let's have a look." Damon pulled her blanket down to reveal the terrible looking wolf bite.
"How is it?" Rose asked.
"Definitely better." he lied "Right, Grace?"
"Uh, it's not bad." Grace nodded wincing at the sight of it, Rose gave a fed up sigh.
"Where's Stefan?" Damon looked over his shoulder as Elena walked in the room.
"He left. I need you to talk to him. He's convinced that he has to find Isobel but I think that's gonna upset Elijah." Elena informed them
"No can do." He told her "I'm with Stefan on this one but if you two can place nurse for a little while." he winked at Grace.
"It's not necessary." Rose told them.
"It is necessary." Damon growled at her "Grace and Elena are do-gooders. It's in their nature, they just can't resist." He smirked as he walked from the room.
"I'll be one minute." Grace told the two walking after her boyfriend "Damon." He turned around "Is she gonna die?" She lowered her voice so that Rose couldn't hear.
"Probably. The wolf bite caused some kind of infection and it's getting worse." He informed her.
"Like poison?" The younger girl asked.
"I don't know, Grace. I'm not an expert in the field." He told her bluntly.
"I'm sorry." Grace touched his smooth face gently.
"Death happens." He moved away from her "We come, we go. Sooner she dies the better. It's gloomy as hell in here." Damon spat walking away.
"Damon." Grace called but he was already gone.
At Mystic Falls High, everyone was setting up the school for the Booster Club Barbecue, Caroline saw Tyler walking towards her, she gives him a kind smile.
"How are you feeling?" She asked.
"I'm ok. I'm sore, every muscle aches." He informed her rubbing is shoulder gently to emphasise how much his muscles were aching, it was like he has done a super hard work out and he was aching the dark after, except it was more.
"You did it." She beamed her eyes sparkling with excitement "You know, you...your first full moon and you didn't hurt anyone." She hushed her voice so that no one around her could hear their conversation "It'll get easier. You'll get better at it, you'll learn to control it and it won't hurt so much."
"Well, we don't know any of that for sure." He replied pessimistically.
"No but small victories, Tyler. Last night was a victory. You know, let's take it." She grinned at him.
"Look, I really want to thank you. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't been there." He blushed and she just nodded simply accepting his gratitude.
"Yeah, anyway, uh... Next month we should probably reinforce the wall because you almost got me that one time and it just would have been, um..." She was at loss for words, how could she tell him that the one thing he can't control at all, could most probably kill her.
"What?" Tyler pried looking deep into her worried silver orbs.
Caroline let out a shaky breath as she shrugged "Never mind, it's-"
"wait, no, wait. What is it?" Tyler asked taking her wrist lightly.
"well, it's no big deal, it's just that one bite and it's... you know, curtains for me." She explained simply scared to say the reals words, it would make the situation a lot more real than it already was.
"What are you talking about?" The wolf creased his eye brows confused.
"The legend says that a bite from a werewolf can kill a vampire." Caroline told him finally admitting it to him and herself.
"How do you know that?" Tyler asked.
"I..." She paused, she had to keep her other vampire friends secret from him "I think I read it somewhere-"
"Caroline, you got a second?" Matt walked over, he looked adorable in his varsity jacket, hands stuffed in the pocket nervously as he approached his best friend and the girl he adored.
"Hey, Matt." Tyler smiled at him and Matt nodded at him.
"Yeah, sure." The blonde nodded.
"I'll see you guys later." Tyler smiled at them both before leaving so the two could be alone and talk in private.
Caroline quickly realised what that must have looked like to him, her and Tyler standing together, talking quietly, intimately "That was nothing, ok? There is nothing going on between Tyler and I, we were just talking-"
"I believe you." He told her with a small smile "Look, Caroline, you're a lot of things but you're not a liar. You've always been straight with me, I believe you."
"Well, good." Caroline smiled triumphantly.
"And that's why I want to be straight with you because I... I think we got some wires crossed here." Matt told her creasing his eye brows a little.
"Oh, Ok." Caroline nodded waiting for him to continue.
"And you know how tongue tied I get and I don't like this. Whatever this is that's going on between us and I... I just want to..." He kissed her passionate, she raked her fingers through his honeycomb hair before pulling away from him.
"You can't." Caroline pulled back touching her swollen lips gently.
"Why?" Matt asked.
"That's just..."
"But Care..."
"No Matt, ok?" Caroline turned and left him standing there confused.
At the Grill, Jules joined Sheriff Forbes up at the bar, she was going to ask if they had heard anything on Mason yet.
"Sheriff Forbes, hi." She smiled "I'm Mason Lockwood's friend for Florida." She introduced herself.
"Jules, right?" Liz looked at her.
"Is there any news?" Jules questioned hopeful.
"No one's heard from him. I've opened an investigation. As soon as I hear anything I'll let you know." She assured her with a kind smile.
Just across the bar Alaric was listening in on Jules and the Sheriff's conversation, he reached in his pocket and pulled out his phone dialling Damon's number.
"Hey, Damon. The wolf is at the grill." Alaric told his voicemail.
Jules went and sat down at a table across the bar from them, Stefan crossed the room and took a seat next to the history teacher cocking his eye brow.
"Is that the...?" Stefan didn't want to say the word in public.
"Yeah, yeah. I just left Damon as message." Alaric nodded sliding his phone back in his pocket.
"So you're doing his dirty work for him now." Stefan shook his head.
"She could have a cure for Rose. I couldn't find anything in Isobel's research except that it's fatal." Alaric shrugged.
"Do you still know of a way to get in touch with Isobel?" Stefan asked casually.
"Even if I did, she isn't gonna help." Alaric shook his head at him.
"Katherine said that Isobel knew of Klaus-" Stefan looked at him.
"So this isn't about Rose, it's about Elena and Grace. I have an old number, probably out of service." Alaric guessed.
"No harm in giving it to me then?" Stefan told him.
"You know you can't trust Isobel, even when it comes to the girls." Alaric replied.
"I know that." Stefan nodded.
"Alright. I'm gonna see if I can find the number. If I do, I'll text it to you." The teacher rose from his seat and left the Grill.
Rose, Elena and Grace were all in Damon's bedroom. Rose was under the sheets and Grace was sitting legs crossed at the end of the bed, Elena stood by the side.
"I hate this. I'm a vampire, I haven't had a cold in five centuries." Rose sniffled.
"Just try and relax." Elena smiled.
"We don't get sick. When we die, it's fast and sudden and it's certainly not drawn out in illness." The older vampire told the twins.
"You're not gonna die." Elena told her, full of certainty.
"Such a human thing to say." Rose scoffed before looking at Grace "Damon has a lot of love for you, he is only trying to protect you, everything he does."
"I know." Grace nodded.
"I've never had a man love me with such a passion as I've seen Damon love you, just the way he looks at you, he adores you." Rose smiled at her "You've very lucky. Don't lose him." She sighed heavily "Trevor was my best friend. Nothing more. I spent all those years on the run from Elijah. I just never thought it was a good idea to set up roots. The whole idea of family is not exactly compatible with being a vampire. Why are you so eager to give up?" Rose looked at Elena.
"I'm not giving up on anything. Here." Elena passed Rose a glass of blood.
"What do you both call this whole deal with Elijah?" Rose asked.
"I call it my best option." Elena replied.
"It's your easiest option." Rose countered.
"That's not fair." Elena narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Do you really think that your witch friend destroyed the moonstone?" Rose asked.
"I spoke with Bonnie. I know that she had help from another witch; unless you mean it's Elijah's witch. So no, I don't."
"You really are determined to die, aren't you?" Rose shook her head "At least I ran, you're not even trying." she closed her eyes "I'm so tired."
Grace got up and her and Elena went for the door when suddenly Rose started talking in her sleep from behind them.
"No, stop, wait. Tell them to prepare the horses." Rose told them, Grace creased her eye brows.
"It's ok Rose. Just get some sleep. You'll feel better when you wake up." Elena told her.
"Trevor, don't be so stupid. You're never going to make it there before the sun." Rose shot up and began to call out in pain "I... I need more blood."
"Yeah, of course, here." Elena passed her a glass, Rose sipped at it, but spat it up straight away.
"It's ok everything's gonna be alright." Elena assured, both girls ran to the bathroom to gather supplies but as they came back she wasn't there anymore.
"Where did she go?" Grace listened out for her.
"It's all your fault, Fay. You both did this." Rose spat flinging Grace back against the wall before grabbing Elena shoving her hard against it.
"It's Elena, Rose." Elena rasped "I'm Elena."
"Rose." Grace growled pulling her away fighting with her.
"Grace?" Rose asked stopping "Grace? Elena? I'm so sorry. I don't know what's happening to me. I'm sorry."
"You're gonna be alright." Elena assured her.
"My mind, I'm-"
"It was just for a second." Elena told her and Grace reluctantly released her.
"I'm sorry, don't be scared on me." Rose whispered.
"I'm not." Grace told her firmly "you need to rest." They both lay Rose on the bed.
"I'm scared." Rose whispered.
"You're not alone. We're right here." Elena sat next to her a assuring smile plastered onto her pale face.
"Here, where's here?" Rose looked around the room confused to where she was.
"Damon's bedroom, you're in Damon's bedroom." Grace told her creasing her thin eye brows.
"I want to go home." Rose told them.
"Tell us about it." Grace smiled.
"St. Austell, 30 kilometres south of London. With fields and trees and horses." Rose remembered.
"Sounds beautiful." Elena mused.
"When you live long enough, everything disappears. So much time wasted, I just wish I wouldn't have been so afraid." Rose whispered mournfully.
Jules was sitting in the Grill on her own eating some lunch, Stefan was sat just across from her looking at his phone, he had just got a text from Alaric with Isobel's last known number. He called it but it went straight to voicemail.
"Isobel, it's Stefan Salvatore. I need to speak with you, it's about Elena and Grace. Please know that it's important." He hung up and saw Damon across the Grill going towards Jules, the younger brother acted quickly and stepped out in front of him.
"What are you doing here?" Damon asked narrowing his icy blue eyes.
"I'm waiting for you. Listen, there's a lot of people here." Stefan warned him.
"Oh, damn. There goes my plan to rip her spleen through her back." Damon spat.
"Hey, listen, I know you're upset about Rose-"
"Why does everyone think I'm upset about Rose? I'm fine. I don't know if you know this but sometimes, vampires die. I'm gonna have a friendly chat with lady wolf, brother. Ease up." Damon patted his chest before walking towards Jules.
Stefan felt his phone vibrating in his pocket, pulling it out he saw the the number he had called before was calling him back, stepping outside he took the call.
"Well, if it isn't the one I meant to kill... I'll have to get that right next time." Jules smirked at Damon as he joined her.
"You won't live to see another full moon unless... unless you tell me how to cure a wolf bite and then I won't kill you." Damon smiled evilly.
"Promise?" Jules asked.
"Yes." Damon nodded.
"Bite me." Jules purred as she got up about to walk away, Damon caught her arm pulling her close "I'm not afraid of you."
"Then you are very, very stupid." Damon growled at her.
"How's your friend? Rose, is that he name? Have the chills started? The unbearable pain?" Jules eyes flashed with taunt.
"if there's a cure, tell me or start watching your back." Damon ordered.
"Did I mention the dementia? It'll eat at her brain. Soon she'll be rabid. You want a cure? I'll tell you the only cure that exists: take a stake and drive it through her heart." Jules hissed as she walked away.
"I've got some more towels, you get fresh sheets?" Grace asked Elena as they walked in Damon's room to see that Rose wasn't there anymore "oh crap." Grace whispered putting the stuff down zipping through the house grabbing her phone calling Damon "It's Grace, I'm really worried about Rose, she's acting weird. I think you should come home." She hung up as she heard a noise, Elena stepped towards it "wait here."
Walking down the stairs into the basement Grace hears a noise come from deep within, picking up an empty blood bag she looks around the corner to see Rose draining another blood pouch.
"Oh my God." Grace whispered.
"Fay." Rose spat.
"No." Grace shook her head as Rose pounced down her, running back up the stairs Grace grabbed Elena's arm dragging her through the house "You're hallucinating." Grace called pulling Elena around a corner "I'm not Fay, Rose. I'm Grace. Remember."
Rose caught Grace's arm and they began to fight on the floor, claws ripping at each other, fangs snapping. Elena acted quickly and opened a curtain letting the sunlight break through, Rose called out and Grace climbed from under her. The twins run up to Stefan's room shutting the door behind them and stacking furniture in front of it.
The doppelgänger opens the curtains to let the sunlight in and Grace makes a stake out of a wooden chair, the door handle began to jiggle, Rose was trying to get in.
"Girls? I know that it's you and not Fayth and Katherine. Please, I need your help." Rose's weak voice came from the other side of the door.
At Mystic Falls High Caroline was standing at her locker when Matt walked over to her running his hands through his short blond hair trying to find the words to say.
"Caroline. Why?" He suddenly asked.
"Why what?" The blonde turned to him giving him a confused look.
"I kissed you." Matt reminded her.
"I know, I was there." She nodded.
"So why did you run away?" hurt was clear in Matt's voice.
"You caught me off guard." She lied.
"Yeah?" Matt pried.
"What did you expect me to to?" Caroline asked.
"Not that." Matt admitted.
"Well, I'm sorry." Caroline whispered.
"And...?"
"And what? What do you want me to say, Matt?" The blonde looked at him confused.
"Something, anything. How did you feel? Anything in the realm of truth now would be nice." Matt nodded.
"Ok, I feel... like I... I love you." Caroline admitted.
"I love you, then what's the problem? What are you keeping form me, Care? Look, if you love me you'll tell me, so what is it?" Matt asked looking for an answer, when a preppy brunette cheerleader came around the corner.
"Hey, Matt, we need more burgers." She told him.
"Yeah, not now Dana." Matt turned to her, the cheerleader ran away, as Matt turned back around Caroline wasn't standing there anymore.
It soon turned to night in Mystic Falls an Damon walks into his home, the door was already open, as Elena and Grace skulked down the stairs they saw him standing there, Damon ran to Grace and hugged her tightly whilst Elena continued to hold the stake that had been made.
"Are you ok? Where's Rose?" Damon asked.
"I don't know." Grace answered.
Back at the High School Rose was standing in the parking lot, a garbage man saw her and walked over seeing she was slightly distressed.
"Excuse me, are you ok?" He took another step towards her which sealed his fate, Rose pounced and tore into his neck draining him dry.
Later that night Damon arrives at the school parking lot to see the crime scene, the Sheriff motions him over as they surround the dead body of the drained garbage man.
"Hey." Damon nodded.
"Thanks for coming so quickly." Sheriff thanked him.
"No, I was close by Liz, what happened?" Damon already knew the answer.
"A vampire. Luckily one of my deputies discovered the body before anyone else saw him." She informed him.
"We have to secure the area." Damon glanced around.
"Don't cause a panic, but let's take this party into the cafeteria." Liz told her deputies before turning back to Damon "I take the east side of the school, you go west?" She offered.
"Sure, ok." Damon nodded.
"Hey, Stefan, it's me." Elena told Stefan's voicemail "I don't know where you are but please call me. It's important." She looked at Damon as she hung up "Hey. Have you heard from him? Do you know what he's up to?"
"My baby brother is not exactly my priority right now." He told Elena rolling his eyes "Here. Take this." He passed them both stakes "Let's go."
Two students were just leaving the school going to their car about to head home, the boy looks over his shoulder and see's the police cars and crime tape.
"Hey, what's going on back there with the police?" The boy questioned.
"Some maintenance man had a heart attack. He just dropped dead." she explained as she got into his car, after a couple of minutes waiting her boyfriend didn't get in the car next to her "Eddie?"
A dead body crashed down onto the bonnet of the car and she stared into the cold dead eyes of her beloved boyfriend, removing herself from the car she screamed but Rose caught her and tore into her neck.
"Rose, Stop!" Damon yelled, Rose zipped towards him, but he caught her before he could reach her and pinned her to the floor under him "Rose, Rose! It's me, it's Damon." Her face went form demonic to completely calm and normal, turning her head to the side she saw the two dead bodies.
"Did I do this?" Rose whimpered "I never meant to hurt anyone. I never wanted to hurt anyone."
"I know." Damon hushed her helping her stand up.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." She sobbed towards Grace.
"C'mon, let's get you home." Damon placed his arm around the hysterical woman.
"No, I don't have a home, I haven't had a home in a long time." She called out when the pain tore through her body from the painful werewolf bite "Oh make it stop, please make it stop! I hate it, make it stop!" she begged.
Damon got Rose back to his room laying her on the bed, Grace leant against the wall whilst Elena stood in the door way. The eldest vampires eyes fluttered open and saw Damon sitting next to her.
"Hi there." He smiled.
"I'm sorry." She breathed.
"You went on a murderous rampage. It happens." He shrugged and Grace laughed gently.
"I'm sorry." She looked at Grace and Elena "I don't like taking human life, I never have."
"You shouldn't be here." Damon told them both.
"It's the worst part about it: the hunt, the need to kill, the thirst, the pleasure it brings you afterwards. I wasn't meant to be evil. It hurts." Rose whimpered coughing a little.
"Stop talking about it." Damon ordered.
Rose ignored him "Damon's a lot like me. He wants to care but when he does he runs away from it." Grace and Damon exchanged looks "I'm sorry for what I've done today."
"I know." Elena nodded.
"And you need to fight. I know that you're scared but you have to do it anyway." Rose whispered breaking out into a fit of coughs.
Elena walks towards her and wrapped her arms around her neck hugging her tightly, Rose was confused by the affection that the human was giving her after everything she had done.
"Why are you so nice to me?" Rose asked.
"Us humans." Elena dried the small tears in her eyes.
"You can never forget it, what it's like to be human. It haunts me. It's the only thing that kept me going." Rose reminisced "It doesn't hurt as much anymore." but suddenly the pain got a lot worse and she called out, everyone in the room flinched.
"What do we do?" Grace asked.
"Go." Damon told them.
"Damon..." Grace whispered.
"Just go, Grace. I got this." He told her firmly.
Grace took Elena's hand, Rose threw her the smallest of smiles telling her that everything was going to be ok before the twins left the room.
Damon gathered the older vampire up in his arms as she continued to scream and thrash on the bed in absolute pain.
"Oh God! Make it stop, make it stop! I can't take it anymore, make it stop!" Rose rasped.
Caroline walked towards her house when she saw a black haired male sitting on the porch steps, walking towards him and saw that it was Tyler.
"Hey. Where have you been?" Tyler asked.
"At school." She replied simply "What's up? What's going on?"
"We need to talk." Tyler announced.
"Why? What's wrong with you?" Caroline sighed heavily.
"I just don't understand one thing." Tyler informed her.
"What?" Caroline crossed her arms over her chest.
"Why would you risk it? If a werewolf bite kills a vampire... why would you risk it?" Tyler asked again.
"Because you needed help." Caroline shrugged.
"I could have killed you." He reminded her.
"But you didn't." The blonde smiled gently.
"I don't understand you, Caroline." He creased his eye brows.
"Why is it so hard for you to let someone else help you?" The blonde vented.
"That's not it." Tyler shook his head stepping towards her.
"Yeah it is, Tyler. It's like you don't want anyone to care about you and I'm sorry I care. I care, Tyler, so forgive me if I overstepped my boundaries by actually giving in-" Caroline was so deep into her rant Tyler quickly pressed his lips against her to shut her up, as soon as their lips met Caroline pulled away "You can't do that."
"I'm sorry, it's-"
"Everyone just needs to stop kissing me!" Caroline hissed as she walked inside her house slamming her door behind her.
Damon was still sitting was Rose in his bed, she had calmed down a little bit from earlier, the pain wasn't so great as it had been, but it was still painful.
"Who would have thought you'd be a nice guy?" Rose smirked.
"I'm not nice. I'm mean. I like it." Damon replied.
"You're lying." She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Shh, just sleep." He told her, as Rose closed her eyes falling into dream land, Damon took it upon himself to slip into her dreams.
Rose was in a beautiful long flowing navy blue dress with her hair a lot longer in loose curled ringlets falling down her back and pinned back off her face. She was running around a large field filled with glorious horses, surrounded by amazingly tall trees and the sun was sparkling in the sky above her, not burning her like it usually would. She quickly took a seat next to Damon on the grass smiling at him, Damon began to think this is how Stefan thought of Grace, he wanted to protect Rose, but there was nothing he could do anymore.
"This was my favourite place to come as a girl. How did you know?" Rose asked her eyes sparkling with laughter and excitement.
"Word gets around. You told Grace..." He shrugged fingering a shard of emerald green grass between his fingers before flicking it away.
"Am I dreaming?" She asked looking up at the cloudless baby-blue sky above her feeling the sun kiss her skin kindly "The sun is so warm. I miss this. I miss being human." She noted.
"Humanity is not all it's cracked up to be." Damon shrugged, it was a lie, he missed it just as much as the next vampire.
"I had friends, I had a family, I mattered." Rose whispered reminiscing in her life, remember her mother and father, she had loved them so much.
"You still do." He told her squeezing her hand gently.
"No but you do. You built a life whether you want to admit it or not. You have Grace, you're lucky to have a girl that loves you as much as she does. I spent 500 years just existing." She shrugged eyeing a small, wild flower in her hand. It was a deep purple colour with bright pink tips, she pulled it away, petal by petal.
"You didn't have a choice, you were running from Klaus." He replied biting his bottom lip softly.
"There's always a choice." She muttered giving him a look.
"You know, you're ruining a perfect day with your strange philosophical babbling." He scoffed and she snuggled in beside him, Damon leaned his chin on the top of her head loving the feel of the sun on his skin too.
"I'd like to enjoy the fresh air. Would you enjoy it with me?" Rose giggled as she stood up from where she was sitting holding her hand out to him helping him stand up.
"For a while." He replied wrapping his arm around her shoulders as they walked across the field basking in the beauty of the world around them.
"Thank you." Rose whispered, for the first time in a while a small red glow appeared across her cheeks.
"For what?" Damon looked down at her.
"The pain's gone." She informed him.
"I'm glad." Damon nodded.
"Will I see them again? My family?" Rose asked looking to him for an answer.
"I think you'll see whoever you want to see." Damon replied smiling kindly.
"That would be nice. Maybe I'll see Trevor too. I'm not afraid anymore." Rose smiled almost triumphantly.
Damon looked down at Rose who continued sleeping in his arms, pulling a stake out from beside him, he made sure not to break away from her dream as he pointed the stake directly at her heart.
"I'll race you to the trees." Rose dared her eyes flaring with competition.
"Well, you'll lose." Damon smirked.
"I'm older and faster." She reminded him.
"Oh, you think?" Damon braced himself "Well, I'm controlling this dream. Maybe I'll cheat." He wiggled his eye brows.
"On the count of three. One, two..."
As Rose reached three inside the dream Damon pushed the stake into her heart letting tears fall from his bright blue eyes, Rose was dead laying in his arms, but it was for the best.
A little while later that night Damon pulls up into the middle of nowhere to see the Sheriff waiting for him, he stepped out of his car and she walked towards him.
"Here's your vampire." Damon popped his truck and revealed Rose's body.
"How did you find her?" The Sheriff gawped.
"It doesn't matter." Damon replied "What matters is that it's over."
"Thank you, Damon. Once again, you've helped keep this town safe." She patted his shoulder.
"I'll take care of the body." He slammed his trunk down.
At the Grill Tyler walked in to see the mysterious blonde woman that he was meant to be meeting, walking towards a booth he saw Jules sitting there smiling at him as she nursed her coffee.
"Thank you for coming." Jules nodded at him.
"So what do you want from me?" Tyler asked taking a seat.
"Just to be your friend. Mason would have wanted that. I know about Mason and you." She lowered her voice.
"You know what?" Tyler acted coy.
"I know you're a werewolf and I know your little friend Caroline is a vampire." She smirked.
"How do you know about Caroline?" Tyler's eyes widened slightly.
"You can't sniff them out?" Jules questioned but Tyler didn't answer "Oh my god. You're brand new. How many times have you turned?" She asked and again Tyler didn't answer "Hey, I can help you." She assured him.
"Do you know where Mason is?" Tyler asked.
"He's dead, Tyler. He was murdered." Jules replied.
"No." He whispered.
"You want to know who murdered him?" She asked.
"Just stop." The younger wolf demanded.
"Your little blond vampire did." She hissed.
"No, Caroline would never do this." He shook his head wildly.
"She and her little vampires friends were behind it, Tyler." Jules replied hurting him even more.
"Caroline is the only vampire in town." Tyler replied naïvely.
"Is that what she told you? She lied, this town is crawling with vampires but don't worry, we'll get them." Jules smirked.
"Who are you?" Tyler shook his head.
"I'm your friend. There are others like us and they're on their way." She smiled.
"Why aren't you asleep?" Damon walked in the house to see Grace waiting for him on one of the couches, she rubbed her eyes from exhaustion but still walked towards him.
"I was, but then I woke back up to make sure you got in ok." Grace whispered passing him a glass of scotch.
"I appreciate the gesture. I'm just glad it's over." Damon sips at his drink.
"You know I don't believe that." Grace pulled her knees up into her chest as she sat back down on the couch looking over at him.
"Go to bed, Grace. Get some rest. It's a whole new day tomorrow." He told her firmly.
"Damon, I love you." Grace stood up.
"I'm well aware of that." Damon growled low in his chest.
"And it's because I love you I know when you're hurting." Grace whispered.
"What do you want to hear? That I cared about Rose? That I thought about her the way Stefan thinks about you? That I'm upset? Well I didn't, I don't and I'm not." He spat.
"There you go, pretending to turn it off, pretending not to feel. Damon, you're so close, don't give up." Grace begged.
"I feel Grace, ok? And it sucks! What sucks even more is that it was supposed to be me. Jules was coming after me." He told her tears welling in his eyes.
"You feel guilty." Grace nodded.
"That would be human of me, would it Grace? And I'm not human. You want to talk about giving up? That's all you've done is give up! You gave up on Elena! You gave up on your human life! Go to bed. There's been enough doom, gloom and personal growth for one night." Damon spat at her.
"Ok, I will." Grace turned to him and hugged him, he hugged her back too, not really meaning what he had said, but so anger with himself that he had taken it out on her, when she pulled back he instantly missed his embrace "Night, Damon."
Elena walks into her house to see Stefan was sitting there on her bed, he stood up as soon as she walked into the room.
"Stefan, you're home." Elena looked at him.
"Rose?" He asked and Elena just managed to shake her head mournfully "I... I called Isobel." He admitted to her.
"I know." Elena nodded.
"I'm sorry, I had to-"
"It's ok, did you find her?" Elena asked.
"Not exactly. Hello Elena." John Gilbert walked into the room smiling at her.
"Uncle John." Elena whispered.
A fiery red haired girl named Jessica was driving when she saw a man laying in the middle of the road, pulling her car over she quickly ran towards him.
"Sir, are you ok? What happened?" Jessica asked kneeling next to his body.
"I'm... lost." Damon slurred.
"And you're laying in the middle of the road?" She smirked.
"Not that kind of lost." He sat up "Metaphorically, existentially."
"Do you need help?" she asked.
"Well, yes I do. Can you help me?" Damon looked at her as he took a swig from a bottle of scotch.
"You're drunk." She accused.
"No. Well, yes a little maybe." Damon laughed to himself.
Jessica rolled her eyes and got up about to walk back to her car when Damon was standing in front of her looking down at her with death written in his icy blue orbs.
"No please don't leave. I really do need your help." He grabbed her shoulders beginning to compel her "Don't move."
"I don't want any trouble." Jessica's voice wavered.
"Neither do I but all I got is trouble." Damon told her.
"Why can't I move?" She asked her whole body paralysed into a standing position.
"What's your name?" Damon asked her.
"Jessica." She replied.
"Hi Jessica. I have a secret, I have a big secret and I never said it out loud. I mean, what's the point?" He scoffed angrily "It's not gonna change me, it's not gonna make me good, make me adopt a puppy. I can't be what other people want me to be, what she wants me to be. This is who I am, Jessica." He told her tears stinging his eyes "She thinks she can change me, that she can make be good, but I'm not good, I never have been."
"Are you going to hurt me?" Jessica asked.
"I'm not sure because you are my existential crisis. Do I kill you or do I not kill you." He muttered.
"Please don't." Jessica begged.
"But I have to, Jessica." Damon told her "Because I'm not human and I miss it. I miss it more than anything in the world! I want to still be human with her! This is my secret, but there is only so much hurt a man can take." Tears fell from his eyes "Ok, you're free to go."
Being free from Damon's compulsion Jessica ran to her car as quick as her human legs could take her, just as she opened her door Damon rushed towards her and tore into her neck killing her.
So here it John is back in town, uh-oh, that's not good. Damon is feeling guilty, that is never good either, and Rose is gone :'( oh no.
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