Twisted Love
Season Two
Know Thy Enemy
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Back at the Gilbert house Isobel continued to stand in the door way waiting for either Jenna or Elena to invite her in "Hello, Elena. It's nice to see you again." Isobel purred, Jenna glanced across at Elena surprised to know that the doppelgänger had seen her before.
"Again?" Jenna hissed and Elena was struck dumb.
"So you're the woman who's dating my husband. I need to speak to Elena and Grace. May I come I?" Isobel asked.
"No. Don't... don't invite her in." Elena pleaded.
"I need to talk to you and your sister, Elena." Isobel told her.
"No!" Elena slammed the door in her estranged biological mother's face and looked over at Jenna who was crying, a stunned looked was still on her pretty face.
"You knew she was still alive? Ric? John? Grace?" Jenna's voice got darker as she mentioned names and Elena didn't prove her wrong "Did they know?" She demanded wanting to know the truth.
"I can explain everything, Jenna." Elena promised.
"No." Jenna told her firmly, she didn't want to hear anymore of Elena's lies.
"No. Jenna, please." Elena begged but Jenna bolted up the stairs into her room shutting the door behind her locking it, Elena was standing on the other side of the door knocking it, pleading the woman to let her in "Jenna, you have to talk to me. I... I need to explain what's going on. Jenna, please." Elena whimpered
Grace's head popped up from under the thin white covers and she smiled up at Damon, her hair was a messy disarray around her pale features, he had hooded eyes looking down at her, she pecked his pecks softly before nipping at the toned skin with her blunt pearly white teeth.
"Hey there." Damon smirked.
"Hey." She giggled sitting up to straddle his waist looking down at him pressing her palms into his lean chest smiling, the bright morning sunlight was hitting the two perfectly, making their skin glow, making their eyes sparkle, making their hair shine "So last night was interesting... That whole blood thing."
"Did you not like it?" Damon asked softly.
"No, I loved it." Grace admitted feeling a heavy blush bruising her cheeks "It was so intimate... I felt so close to you. Does that sound weird?"
"Not at all." Damon smiled "It's how I wanted it to feel."
She kissed him gently as he rolled her over so that she was pinned under him, he got to work on her neck, kissing the exposed supple skin "I'm scared." She suddenly admitted and Damon stopped his kissing.
"About what?" Damon creased his eye brows at her leaning up onto his elbows "Elijah is dead, Jonas and Luka are gone, we only have Klaus to deal with..."
"For Elena. For Stefan. For everyone..." Grace whispered and Damon pushed her hair out of her face "For you... I don't want you to get hurt, I can't even imagine to think what my eternity would be like without you..."
"He won't hurt me. I promise." Damon nodded at her before ducking his head down to press his lips to her, whilst slowly moving her panties from her curvy hips, she let out a breathy moans as she looked up into his bright blue orbs.
"We have a problem." Stefan burst into the room and Damon stopped.
Grace, Damon and Stefan were walking down the stairs, the couple of now fully dressed after they had been told about Isobel coming back to town "Isobel just showed up at their doorstep." Stefan explained.
"What's she doing here?" She pulled her leather jacket on pulling her hair over one shoulder.
"I don't know. That's what I'm going to find out." Stefan nodded "Are you heading over there now?"
"Yeah, I should go be with Elena." Grace replied.
"Alright, I'll be over soon." Stefan hugged her gently, a brotherly hug that Damon accepted and was ok with.
"Cool. I'll see you later." She told Damon cupping his cheek gently standing on her tip toes to be inches from his lips.
"Bye." Damon pressed his lips against hers and Grace zipped from the house.
"I don't think that you should tell her we're here." Fayth walked into the room referring to Isobel.
"What? Why?" Stefan asked eyeing them both suspiciously.
"It's better if she and John not know that we stayed in town after we got out of the tomb." Katherine added.
"You're the ones in cahoots with them... You both made a deal with John that almost got me killed." Damon spat.
"I did what I had to get out of the tomb. Now I'm reconsidering my alliance." Both turned but Stefan stopped them.
"What do you know?" The younger brother asked.
"I know that we want Klaus dead, which puts me squarely on team you. Besides, if you two ever need us to swap places with Elena or Grace again, the less people know that I'm here, the better. Think about it, Stefan. C'mon, be smart." Katherine purred.
"Tell you what. Why don't you, uh... Call Alaric and let him know that his wife just showed up on his girlfriend's doorstep." Stefan told the three.
Elena opens the door to see Grace standing there and Alaric walking up the drive way, he jumped up the porch "hey. Is she up yet?" Alaric asked.
"She won't come out of her room." Elena answered.
"What'd you tell her?" Grace asked stepping in the house running her hands through her thick chocolate brown hair.
"Nothing." Elena whispered "She won't talk to me."
"We're gonna have to fix this, girls." Alaric told them firmly before hearing footsteps coming down the stairs, Grace looked over her shoulder to see Jenna.
"Hey." The vampire smiled.
"Hey, Jenna." Elena smiled too.
"Jenna." Alaric whispered.
"I don't want you here, Ric." Jenna hissed at him "You need to go."
Alaric sighed "Ok, listen. I can't begin to imagine what you must be feeling right now-"
"Rage and betrayal would pretty much cover it." Jenna spat as she grabbed her coat and bag full of college work.
"Where are you going?" Elena asked concerned.
"I'm going to stay on campus." She replied "I have a thesis to write, and I don't want to be in this house..."
Grace sighed heavily "Jenna, please just stop. Let us explain to you exactly what is going on-"
"Elena, I need you to go to the Lockwood's today and accept the historical society's check for your mom's foundation." Jenna told her.
Elena nodded "Ok, but Jenna, please just-"
"I don't have it in me to hear any more lies from you... from all of you." Jenna shuddered as she walked from the house slamming the door behind her.
"Jenna." Elena called.
"Let her go." John stepped out of the kitchen "It's better that she's not here, what with everything that's going on but maybe had you ben a little more honest with her from the beginning, this-" Grace cut him off as she lunged for him, Alaric grabbed her arm and suddenly punched the twins father square in the face.
"Sorry, girls." Alaric sighed as he walked from the house.
Grace smirked "Can't say you didn't deserve that."
"You know this is your fault, right?" Elena glared at John.
"Right." John nodded rubbing his cheek.
Caroline walks from her house pulling her beige leather jacket on whilst talking on the phone with Stefan about Matt "I can't find him anywhere. He's not at home. He's not answering his phone." She whispered.
"How could you let him go?" Stefan growled.
"My mom walked in. He took off. I didn't know what to do." The blonde ran her hands through her thick locks.
"Did your mom hear anything?" Stefan asked.
"No. She just thinks we're fighting, but he knows about me, and he's freaking out about Vicki." Caroline informed him.
"Alright." Stefan nodded "Listen. You have to find him. You have to calm him down. Compel him if you have to. Is he still on vervain?" Stefan quizzed.
"I slip it into his soda when he's at work, but I didn't get to last night, so it's out of his system. He has a catering shift at the Lockwood's today. I'm gonna try there." Caroline hangs up and begins to call Matt, but he ignored her.
A little while later Stefan was in Elena's room with Grace and Elena explaining to them what had happened between Matt and Caroline "Ah, this is bad." Elena vented "Between Isobel and Jenna and now Matt, this is disaster bad."
"Yeah." Stefan nodded as John walked in the room.
"Can you both come downstairs, please? I need to talk to you." John walked in the room looking at both Grace and Elena.
"I, for one, have nothing to say to you..." Grace spat scowling at him.
"Me neither." Elena narrowed her eyes at him.
"Please. It's important. You, too, Stefan." John gave him a look, the two vampires and the doppelgänger sighed as they rose from their places and walk downstairs to be comforted by Isobel.
"Well I was right about you becoming a vampire, Grace, wasn't I?" Isobel joked and Grace's eyes turned black "I asked John for a do-over."
"You invited her in?" Elena growled at John.
"She has information about Klaus. Please, just listen to her, ok?" John begged.
"Alright, what do you know?" Stefan crossed his arms over his chest.
"Since I was last here, I've been doing everything possible to find Klaus. We knew out best chance was to find him before he could find you both." Isobel informed them as they all walked into the kitchen.
"Best chance at what?" Grace asked.
"Keeping you out of his hands and keeping Elena alive." John told him.
"You don't get to talk, ok, not after everything you've done." Elena told John firmly.
"Were you able to find Klaus?" Stefan asked.
"No. Nobody knows where he is but there are these rumours that are flying around. That a doppelgänger exists..." Isobel informed her.
"Which means any vampire that wants to get in favour with Klaus will be lining up to capture you." John told her "And if what people are saying is right then Klaus will come after you." He looked at Grace.
"I'm not buying any of this." Elena spat looking at Isobel "The last time you were here, you made it clear that you didn't give a damn about us. Now all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that you want to help?"
"Isobel's been helping all along. Klaus has been obsessed with finding Fayth and Katherine for centuries. All it would take was any of those 1864 vampires to spread the word that Katherine and Fayth were still alive and it would bring him straight here to Mystic Falls, where you were bound to be discovered, so we killed them." John told them.
"And almost killed Stefan and Damon in the process." Grace spoke up before Isobel got up walking over to Elena.
"I have a safe house that I can take you to. The deed is in your name. No vampires can get in without your permission, not even me. Let me help you." Isobel begged.
"You wanna help?" Grace spat dragging her away from Elena "Get the hell out of this house."
Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy approach Jonas and Luka's old apartment, with the two warlocks being dead now the vampire should be able to enter, opening the door wide open Damon sticks his hand through proving his theory was right.
"Yep. Everybody's dead." He entered followed by Bonnie and Jeremy.
"We should pack up the grimoires. They spent years collecting them. I wanna make sure they're safe." Bonnie informed the two as Damon inspect Luka's burnt corpse.
"You know, we could just get another match and cremate him. Damon suggested.
"Don't be disrespectful." Bonnie scolded "Not to him."
"Fine. I'll bury him." Damon rolled his eyes.
"What exactly are we looking for?" Jeremy asked scooping the room.
"According to Luka's dad, one of these contains a spell that'll help let me harness the energy that's left behind when a witch dies violently." Bonnie explained.
"I didn't know you and father witch were so close." Damon mused.
"We weren't but when he gave me my powers back, he gave me a message. If I can find the spot in town, where the old Salem witches were burned, I can harness the energy to use when I need it." Bonnie replied.
"Great." Damon murmured "We'll have to put that on our list of things to do today. Harness ancient dead-witch power."
"You know where the witches were burned?" Bonnie asked.
"Did I forget to mention that?" Damon smirked.
Jeremy was reading one of the many grimoires "Are we gonna have to read through every one of these books until we find the right spell?"
"Not exactly..." Bonnie smiled as she looked at the shelf of grimoires, she closed her eyes and raised her hand, one of the book burst open in front of her and she looked at it "It's this one."
"Great. Grab the rest. Let's go." Damon smiled.
Across town in a house Isobel walks in followed by Frank her compelled minion. She turns around and reaches into a bag he was carrying to reveal an aged bottle of wine.
"Merci, Mon Chérie." Isobel purred as Frank left the room, the vampire suddenly felt a presence behind her, slowly placing the bottle of wine on the welcome table she turned and smashed into another vampire holding her back against the wall, it was Katherine, she suddenly grasped the younger vampires throat and threw her back against the wall.
"Nice house." Fayth stood in the doorway "Tasty man servant."
"Nicest foreclosure in town." Isobel rasped before Katherine let up and Isobel laughed embracing her and then Fayth too "It's good to see you both." Isobel told them.
"I hear you've been busy." Katherine smirked.
"Yes, I have. I've been busy making a deal with Klaus to save you lives." The younger vampire smiled as she passed the bottle of wine to Fayth "Here. A vintner I knew in Avignon." she grabbed three large wine glasses as they walked into the living room.
Fayth de-corked it with her bare hands and dipped her pinky finger inside then putting it in her mouth to taste the fantastic flavours dance across her tongue "Tasty."
"So what was with the surprise visit to the Gilbert house?" Katherine asked as Isobel poured them all some all some wine, handing the glasses to the girls.
"John told me Ric was dating auntie vanilla. I got jealous." Isobel pouted.
"You have obviously got John wrapped around your finger if he invited you in the house." Fayth cocked an eye brow.
"He thinks I'm helping him protect Elena and Grace, so he's been very useful in keeping me informed on everything that's been going on." Isobel smirked
"So tell me, what you know." Katherine pried.
"You were right. I couldn't get anywhere near Klaus, but I found my way to someone in his trusted circle. One of his witches." Isobel smiled.
"Klaus and his witches." Fayth sipped her wine shaking her head gently.
"He said that Klaus is willing to grant you your freedom if we deliver the moonstone and the doppelgänger." Isobel added
"What about little Gracie vampire? He doesn't want her? He was obsessed with me..." Fayth shrugged shivering at the memory.
"Oh he wants her too." Isobel nodded "He'd happily just take Grace with him when he comes for Elena..."
"Well, we can get the moonstone." Katherine noted.
"You know girls, you'd be betraying your Salvatore boys again." Isobel smirked.
"We was more than willing to play it their way if we had to, but they're floundering. Their witch has lost her powers, and they've used their only weapon to kill Elijah. If we stick with them, we're dead. You showing up changes everything." Fayth smiled smugly as the three clink their glasses together.
Over at the Salvatore Boarding House, Grace, Elena, Damon and Stefan were all sat in the library filling Damon in on Isobel being there "Do you really think Isobel's telling the truth that word's gotten out about the doppelgänger?" Elena whispered.
"Look, I don't truth a word that she says, but I think we'd be stupid to ignore the warning." Stefan replied.
"You know, you should just stay here." Damon told Elena "Grace is already living here and we could all keep an eye on you..."
"What, in a house that any vampire can enter?" Grace looked at him "Elena's house seems safer."
"Well, then we'll stay there." Damon gripped Grace's waist.
"So is that the plan? None of you will let me out of your sight again?" Elena asked.
"If it keeps you alive..." Grace shrugged.
"Let me know when you come up with a better one." Damon told her.
"Fine. Then I want you to take me to the Lockwood luncheon." Elena told Stefan who nodded.
"I have witch stuff to attend to with Bonnie, you're coming with me." Damon smiled at Grace "It'll be safer that way."
Grace shrugged "But, wait, does that mean that you're taking her to the-"
"Shh." Damon covered her mouth as Fayth and Katherine walked in the room.
"Don't get quiet on our account. If you have a plan to combat the impending vampire doom, please do tell." Fayth smiled maliciously but when no one answered she let out a huge sigh "Seriously, what is the plan to get us out of this mess, hmm? We delivered you a moonstone, a werewolf, and the dagger to lure and kill Klaus, and right now all you have is a moonstone. Or so you tell us."
"No, we have it." Damon confirmed.
"Where is it?" Katherine asked.
"It's in a very safe place." Damon answered running his hand down Grace's arm.
"We've been honest with you. Time to return the favour." Fayth hissed.
"Let me be honest with you. Don't mistake the fact that we haven't set you on fire in your sleep for trust." Damon growled, a smug smile appeared on Grace's face as she eyes flashed with the fact that she had really won Damon, it hadn't been a fight for him, but it was clear that he didn't want Fayth anymore.
"Fine. Be that way." Fayth pouted as she walked from the room with her sister.
At the Lockwood mansion, it was all prepared for the luncheon, Carol was talking with Sheriff Forbes about the recent fire at the Grill "The marshal hasn't been able to figure out what caused the fire at the scene, but he didn't find blood... no body, just blood." Liz informed her.
"You think vampires were involved?" Carol asked.
"I'm starting to assume the answer to that is always a yes." Liz replied as Caroline walked over.
"Mrs. Lockwood, uh, have you seen Matt? I thought he was working a catering shift at today's luncheon." The blonde asked nervously.
"No, I haven't, honey. Sorry. But if you seen him, could you ask if he's heard from Tyler?" the pain was clear in the loving mother's voice.
"Yeah, of course. Um, still no word from him?" Caroline asked creasing her eye brows with worry.
"No. The note he left said he needed time to figure things out, but I wish I knew where he was." Carol sighed.
Caroline spotted Stefan and Elena from across the hall "Um, excuse me." She excused herself as she walked across the room to meet with them.
"Hey. Any luck finding Matt?" Stefan asked the distort blonde.
"None. What if he tells somebody? What if he tells tells somebody?" Caroline panicked.
"No, we just gotta find him and make sure that doesn't happen." the older vampire mused calming the blonde, he looked down at his girlfriend "Do you have any idea where he would be?"
"I wish I did, but he wasn't really one to run." Elena shook her head.
"You know, this wasn't how it was supposed to happen. You know, I was supposed to tell him at the right moment in the right way, and he was supposed to be ok with it because he loves me." Caroline's bottom lip trembled.
"We'll help you find him. I just have to accept this thing for Jenna." Elena told her assuringly.
"Alright." Caroline nodded "Well, call me when you're done, and I'll be out looking for him." She walked form the room.
"Maybe he'll come around. You did." Stefan looked down at his doppelgänger girlfriend.
Damon, Grace, Bonnie and Jeremy arrive at a abandoned house in the middle of a large filled, it was old but still standing "Is this the spot Emily Bennett was killed, too?" Grace asked wincing at the house in the intense sunlight.
"Founders thought it was poetic burning her where the other witches burned." Damon rolled his eyes.
"How do you know where the witches were burned?" Bonnie eyed him suspiciously.
"cause I tried to save her." Damon replied and Grace smiled up at him thinking how heroic he was "Emily was just my key to getting Fayth back." He added and Grace narrowed her eyes, he gently took her hand "Before I knew what a nasty little bitch Fayth was..." Both Jeremy and Grace laugh at the final statement.
"You sure it's the right place?" Jeremy asked.
Damon nodded as they all walk into the house, his hand slips from Grace's as she continues to walk but he was unable to move "Whatever witchy prank you're playing, don't. It's not funny." Damon told Bonnie firmly.
"I'm not doing anything." Bonnie shook her head confused.
"I can't move." Damon stated before the sun shone directly on his skin burning him "Oh, my ring's not working... Do something." He growled and Bonnie began to concentrate closing her eyes and suddenly Damon could move.
"I don't think the witches like you being here." Bonnie told Damon.
"I guess this is the right place." Grace mused looking around, she hadn't been stuck, they must have had some personal vendetta against Damon.
"We'll go wait outside." Damon took Grace's hand pulling her outside.
"I think I'm going to head on over to the luncheon." Grace told Damon "It's not exactly safe being here either, so I'm just gonna head over there, is that ok?"
"Yeah, sure, I'll be along later." Damon leaned down and kissed her before Grace turned and zipped off into the surrounding forest.
Fayth walks into Damon's room and checked to make sure, Grace or Damon wasn't in there. Running to the closest she began to check all of his clothes pockets, and then hers. She ran to the dresser and checked in the draws, but still no moonstone. Falling to her knees at the fireplace she began rummaging around the ash still not finding it.
She let out a breathy sigh as she walked into the bathroom washing her hands clean of the ash drying her hands, she was about to leave when she turned again and dug around in a bowl of soap pulling out a bar to reveal that it was the moonstone, she smiled as she walked from the room.
"Katherine. Done." She called.
Alaric walks out to his parked car and puts his bag in the back seat, when he shut the door he revealed that Isobel was standing there waiting for him.
"Hi, Ric." She greeted him.
"Isobel. What do you want?" Alaric spat.
"Just cleaning up some loose ends." She shrugged carelessly.
"Yeah, we don't have any loose ends." Alaric replied to her not wanting to hear another word that came from her mouth.
"You may not. I do. I need to apologise to you." Isobel made it clear.
"It's a little late for that..." Alaric scoffed.
"No, not for what I've done in the past. We're beyond that. Although I am sorry for outing you to your girlfriend. That was petty of me..." She admitted.
"Look, whatever jacked-up vampire amends that you're trying to make with me right now, I'm not interested." Alaric told her firmly.
"Of course not, because I compelled you to let me go. I realised that I don't wanna do what I have to do without you knowing how much I loved you and I did. I loved you so much..." She sighed "He's all yours."
A warlock came up behind Alaric and put his hands on his head, the teacher fell to the floor unconscious and Isobel turned and left the feeling of regret washing over her.
Damon continued to stand outside of the abandoned witch house waiting for word from Bonnie or Jeremy, he was growing impatient
"Wanna hurry it up in there?" The vampire called him when suddenly the door slammed shut "Screw you too, Emily. You know, you're all on your own in there." He walked away from the door.
Jeremy and Bonnie heard Damon leaving and both smirked a little, they were sitting in a empty room with the grimoire in front of them "Can you hand me the grimoire?" She asked.
"Are you sure about this?" Jeremy asked concerned.
"Are you worried about me?" Bonnie asked.
"Yeah, of course I am." Jeremy nodded.
Bonnie leaned over and took the grimoire from his hands before placing a loving kiss on his lips "I'm sure." she opens to the grimoire to see a little, she begins to read the letter when whispers began to echo around them.
"What is that?" Jeremy asked looking around.
"Spirits of the witches who died here, I can feel them." Bonnie nodded.
"Alright. What are they saying?" Jeremy asked.
"I can't tell." She replied walking from the room down into the basement, Jeremy followed her confused at her move of rooms.
"Where are you going?" Jeremy asked.
"Here. This is it. Help me set the candles." Bonnie asked him as the whispers grew louder.
"What the hell are they saying?" Jeremy asked as Bonnie closed her eyes and concentrated on the sound, she reopened her eyes "What is it?"
"Nothing." Bonnie muttered as all the candles were finally lit, all at the same time "They're ready."
Grace walked into a room where everyone was already seated, she jogged over to where Elena and Stefan were standing, she squeezed her hand giving her a nice smile.
"You came?" Elena whispered.
"Wouldn't miss this for the world, 'Lena." Grace replied.
"And here to accept the donation to the Miranda Sommers-Gilbert scholarship fund is Elena Gilbert." Every applauded as Elena went up on the stage to join Carol Lockwood.
Just outside the room Isobel was standing at the top of the stairs looking over the banister at Stefan and Grace who were joking around and Elena who was accepting the donation, John was suddenly standing next to her.
"What are you doing here?" John demanded.
"I'm creating a distraction." Isobel smiled as he face changed and she bit into John.
Elena was holding the check in her hand looking down at it before smiling thankfully at the audience "This historical society was my mom's baby. She considered all of you family and would be honoured and touched by this gift-" There was a loud thud behind them, everyone rushes over including Stefan to see John dead on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.
Grace waited for Elena and when she joined her they both turned to see Fayth and Katherine, they both silence them smiling evilly looking at their outfits.
"Nice dress. Mind if I borrow it?" Katherine smirked at Elena as Fayth snapped Grace's neck killing her, knowing she would wake back up.
Stefan was looking at John's body on the floor, the first thing he noticed was the savage bite mark on his neck, glancing around the room he saw Carol Lockwood approach him.
"Please, let the Sheriff do her job." Carol told the gathering crowd as the Sheriff walked over.
"Uh, he's-he's bleeding. Is he ok?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, I got it. I got it." She assured him.
"You know what? Let's all back off. He just needs some air. Everything's fine." The Sheriff assured them.
The vampire walked into the other room to see Elena and Grace, only it wasn't them, it was Fayth and Katherine impersonating them again.
"You ok?" Stefan asked.
"I'm calling Damon." Fayth told him.
"Let's got out of here. Come on." Stefan placed his hands on both of the girls backs leading them from the mansion towards Elena's car.
"It's Isobel, Damon. It's gotta be." Fayth told Damon over the phone.
"Tell him he needs to get over here and deal with John's body." Stefan added.
"You've got some serious explaining to do to the council about John being not so dead." Fayth hissed as she hung up, Stefan suddenly shoved Katherine against the car.
"Where the hell are they? Huh?" Stefan growled when Fayth plunged a vervain syringe into his back.
"I'm sorry, Stef, but I can't have you following us." Katherine whispered as both the girls push him into the bushes.
Bonnie's eyes were closed as she sat on the floor in the basement, the voices and whispers around the two were growing louder and louder, she began to cry.
"Bonnie? You're scaring me." Jeremy moved towards her when suddenly she burst out into agonising screams "Bonnie!" He went to move towards her but he was pushed away by a great force her screams only grew louder until she fell to the floor, tears streaming down her face "Are you ok?"
"I did it." Her voice was meek, he wrapped his arms around her trembling body and kissed her head.
Carol Lockwood was escorting everyone out of her house leading them all away from John's dead body that would reanimate soon, whilst Liz continued to crouch down next to his body.
"I'm sorry for the scare. It was just a bad fall. Paramedics are on their way." Carol assured everyone as Damon walked into the house.
"Hey. How is he?" Damon asked.
"He's dead." Liz replied as Damon took a spot next to her looking at the bite mark then looking at the ring.
"He'll be fine in a couple hours." Damon told them standing up.
"What are you talking about? Damon, he's dead." Carol told him.
"Well... here's the thing. John's ring, it's an old Gilbert family heirloom that protects its owner form death by a supernatural entity." The vampire explained.
"But he's not breathing. He has no pulse." Carol's eyes were wide.
"He will be. Trust me. We're gonna need a cover story..." Damon picked up John's body dragging it away "Epileptic fit, alcohol binge, banana peel, whatever words. But right now I just have to get him out of here."
Sheriff Forbes walks outside and she was on the phone to one of her deputies telling him that he didn't need to send an ambulance or back-up "Yeah. It's a false alarm at the Lockwood's. Ok. Good. Thanks." She hung up and walked over to her cruiser to see Matt waiting for her.
"Sheriff Forbes." He greeted her, but there was a pain stricken look on his face.
"Matt, what's wrong?" Liz asked carefully.
"I wanna see Vicki's file." He demanded.
"What?" Liz creased her eye brows.
"my sister, I want to see her file. I want to see how you covered up that she was killed by a vampire." Matt lowered his voice.
"Matt, you need to calm down. You're upset. You don't know-"
"Don't lie to me!" He grabbed her, but she catches his arm and turns him smashing his body down against the hood of the police cruiser.
"Matt, you need to calm down now." Liz told him firmly.
Damon walks into the Salvatore House listening out to see if Elena, Stefan or Grace were home yet, he dropped John to the floor hard and saw the blood on his hands. Sighing he walked into his bathroom confused as to where everyone had got to, he began to wash his hands, taking off his shirt seeing that there was blood on that too.
His phone began to ring in his pocket, he answered "Stefan? How'd I beat you and Elena home? Oh, have you seen Grace? She isn't here either... What?" Damon narrowed his eyes looking in the soap bowl to see that the moonstone was no longer in there, he growled as he threw the bowl to the floor smashing it.
Isobel was driving her car with Elena and Grace both unconscious in the back seat, her phone began to ring and the mother picked up, it was Fayth.
"Are we good to go?" Isobel asked.
"We're at your house, but we have to hurry. Damon knows your lodging tricks. It will take him all of 20 minutes to find out where you're staying..."
"We'll be long gone before that." Isobel answered.
"Good. How far are you?" Fayth asked.
"I'm sorry, Fayth." Isobel sighed as Elena woke up in the back seat.
Fayth turned around to see her sister unconscious on the floor of Isobel's house, she quickly dove to her side and shook the girl "What did you do?" Fayth growled.
"I had to do what I was told. He wanted the moonstone and he wanted you both." with that Isobel hung up.
"He? He who?" Fayth demanded when suddenly a pain ran through her body causing her a huge amount of pain, she screamed as she fell to the floor unconscious, the same warlock that had taken Alaric stepped out.
Caroline walks up onto the porch brushing her long golden locks from her eyes, she was talking on the phone to Matt's voicemail "Hey, Matt, if you're listening to this that means you've listened tot he last 25 messages I've left you, which all say the same thing, so... call me." She sighed as she walked to the door of her house, looking through the glass panel she saw a honeycomb haired boy standing there, opening the door she let out a sigh of relief "You're here."
"Your mom brought me here." Matt explained.
"My mom?" Caroline questioned.
"I accused her of covering up Vicki's death and she threatened to arrest me." Matt replied.
"Did you tell her anything else?" Caroline's voice was weak.
"Nothing about you." He assured her "I got the feeling she wasn't gonna believe anything I said, so I shut up." He shrugged "Then she brought me here to cool down, and then she got called away."
"Matt..." She walked towards him but he took a step back, her heart broke into a million pieces seeing how fearful Matt was of her "Why'd you stick around if you're still scared of me?" her bottom lip quivered.
"Because I need to know more about Vicki, about you." He whispered.
"I'll tell you anything you wanna know." The blonde promised.
Back at the abandoned witch house Jeremy and Bonnie were just leaving, the witch appeared to be better now, and felt refreshed and full of light "Alright, well, there has to be something in the grimoire to help us translate the chant." Jeremy asked.
"It was just a warning." Bonnie explained.
"Huh. What kind of warning?" Jeremy asked.
"It's not important." The witch shrugged.
"Uh, look, it is important to me, ok?" Jeremy told her firmly.
"It's a lot of power to have access to. They're just telling me to be careful with it." Bonnie explained.
"Well, exactly how much power can you draw from a hundred dead witches?" Jeremy asked.
Bonnie smiled as she closed her eyes beginning to concentrate on the task in hand, the autumn leaves began to pick up around them, swirling around their bodies and the skies turned black thunder beginning to crack and clap, but when she opened her bright brown orbs everything returned to normal.
"The answer to your question is a lot." Bonnie smiled.
Stefan and Damon arrive at the house Isobel had procured so that she could live in whilst she visited Mystic Falls "Think this is the house?" the younger brother asked looking around.
"Better be. It's the nicest foreclosure in town." Damon looked around.
"Swear to God if they're not here-"
"Don't be such a pessimist." Damon smirked.
"I got upstairs." the younger brother leaped up the stairs.
Damon walked around the rest of the house checking in random bedrooms, he looked at the suitcases on the floor and recognised them, they were Isobel, they were in the right house just at the wrong time. Walking from the room he met up with his waiting brother back in the welcome area.
"This is Isobel's stuff. It's definitely the right place." Damon noted holding one of her suitcases.
"Where are they?" Stefan asked.
"I don't know, Stefan." Damon growled as they turned and left.
Isobel parks the car she was driving and steps out, she opened the door for Elena and Grace to get out "Just because you can't be compelled doesn't mean I can't force you to come with me." Isobel smirked.
"So is that what happened? You were compelled to betray Katherine and Fayth?" Elena asked.
"If I was, I couldn't tell either of you." Isobel replied.
"So you lied. You did find Klaus." Grace's heart stopped "Didn't you?" She demanded "He knows where we are now. Are you taking us to him?" She asked as her mother stopped in front of a headstone.
"What is this?" Elena's voice was a lot softer than Grace's when suddenly both twins noticed he name Isobel Flemming written on it.
"My parents... your grandparents, they put it here when it became clear that the police weren't gonna find my body. They visit every week, and they bring flowers, even though there's no one buried here. The Isobel they knew is dead. So maybe there's a part of me buried here, the... the human part, the part that I abandoned when I... when I choose to become a vampire, the part that used to dream about the day that she'd know her daughters."
"What?" Elena whispered.
Isobel shrugged gently "And instead you got to meet the other part... The part that would betray her own flesh and blood... I don't know how you do it." She looks at Grace.
"Do what?" Grace asked her voice was still full of anger.
"Still care... when I first became a vampire the first thing I did was turn it off, it was so much easier, I didn't want to remember my human life, I just wanted to start my new one." Isobel sighed "The love, the pain was all gone, all I new was hunger, all I still know is hunger."
"I don't want to forget what it was like to be human, I miss it, you chose to be what you are, I lost what I was." Grace answered "it isn't hard to care when that's all you want to do. The pain is still there and it hurts so bad there are times that I want to turn it off and forget, but the love is so intense that it's all I want to remember..."
Isobel's phone rang in her pocket, she reached in and answered it "I have Katherine, Fayth and the moonstone. Do you have the girls?"
"Yes." Isobel confirmed.
"Then let them go." A deep voice ordered on the other end.
"Let them go?" Isobel questioned.
"Klaus has everything he needs for now. Your part is finished. You did what he compelled you to do..."
"I'm done?" Isobel asked, her voice robotic and bare of any emotion.
"You done." He confirmed as she hung up.
"Who was that?" Elena asked.
"I'm so sorry." Isobel told them both "That I was such a disappointment to you." she tore her necklace from her neck and began to scream as the sun set fire to her body, Grace hid Elena from the vision of their mother's death.
Matt and Caroline were sat in the living room of the Forbes house, she had just finished explaining to him about Vicki's death, having to compel him, and other things.
"So after I hurt you in the woods, I made you forget and I promised myself I would stay away from you, but I-I couldn't... 'cause I love you." She told him lovingly "I do. I love you, Matt, so much. God, I'm so sorry about what happened to Vicki. And I really wish you'd say something..."
"I'm all alone." He whispered.
"No, you're not." Caroline assured him.
"My mom doesn't care, my sister's dead, and all of my friends are liars, and you're a-"
"I'm still me." she told him "I'm still me. I'm just... I'm just a little bit-" She took a seat next to him but he immediately rose from his seat.
"Don't. No. This is too much. All of this is just too much. I don't want to know this." Matt told her.
"Tell me what I can do." she begged "Tell me what I can do. I... I want to help you."
"You can make me forget. You've done it to me before." He reminded her.
"I don't... I don't think that that's-"
"Please make me forget, Caroline. I don't wanna look at you and see what I'm seeing right now." he told her fear was obvious in his trembling voice.
"But maybe after-"
"Just make me forget, Caroline!" Matt ordered and she began to cry.
"Ok. Ok, Matt." Caroline nodded as she took his face between her hands.
Elena and Grace walk into the Salvatore house and Grace stops her, Elena was close to tears looking at her sister "Here." Grace whispered putting Isobel's necklace into her hand closing her fingers around it "You keep it."
"Was that Isobel's?" Stefan asked as he approached the two.
"I never thought I would feel bad about her being dead, and yet..." Grace's voice was cracking and weak.
"She was your mother." Stefan rubbed her back.
"Why did they let us go?" Elena asked.
"Well, anything John told Isobel, we have to assume that Klaus knows, right? So he knows that you're not gonna turn yourself into a vampire, and he knows for sure that you already area a vampire. He knows that you have us to keep you both safe." Stefan told both girls as Damon walked in the room.
"He knows we're not gonna run." Elena whispered and Graced nodded as Damon walked over to her.
"Which is why we need to take some precautions, 'cause we got played, all of us." Damon stated as he paced Elena a single piece of folded up paper.
"What's this?" Elena asked opening it.
"It's the deed to our house. It's in Zach's name. As soon as you sign it, it'll be in your name." Stefan told his girlfriend.
"You're giving me your house?" Elena asked surprised.
"Isobel had the right idea with the safe house. You'll just stay here till it's all over. That way, you can control who gets invited and who doesn't." Stefan shrugged.
"Although I'll be super pissed if you lock me out." Damon joked.
"Damn, there's go's my plan." Grace smirked up at him.
There was a coughing and spluttering noise to be heard from across the room, Damon rushed over to him and grabbed him by his shirt holding him above the floor.
"I swear I had no idea what she was gonna do." John promised "I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." He looked over at his daughters.
"Damon, let him go." Grace walked over to where Damon was standing "We all need to talk."
At the Gilbert house Jeremy was reading through the grimoire trying to find out more about the warning Bonnie had spoke about, she walked in the room looking at him
"I told you to not worry about that." Bonnie scoffed.
"A warning. That's all you felt like telling me? This is some kind of warning, Bonnie. It says if you use too much of your powers at one, it'll kill you. How much would it take to kill an Original?" Jeremy asked.
"All of it." Bonnie admitted.
"No. I'm not gonna let you do that." Jeremy told her firmly.
"Jeremy, do you think I was born with these powers so I could float feathers and blow out candles? There's a reason I was called to do this." The witch replied.
"No one's called to get themselves killed. Plus Elena's not gonna let you die for her..." Jeremy replied.
"That's why you're not gonna tell her." Bonnie patted his hand.
"Do you even understand what you're saying right now?" Jeremy looked at her dumbstruck.
"It's not just for Elena, or Grace, Jeremy. It's for you. It's for everyone. If I am the only one who can put an end to this, then it'll be my decision, no one else's. Mine." Bonnie replied to him before leaving the room.
Sheriff Forbes was sitting in her cruiser when the door opened and a honeycomb boy climbed in looking at the older woman "I did it." He confirmed "I drank that vervain stuff. I went over there, and I got her to tell me everything. Then I asked her to take it away."
"Thank you, Matt. I know this isn't easy, but... I'm glad you told me what happened last night. I want you to tell me everything she said."
"I feel like she died." Matt whispered.
"She did." Liz whimpered as tears fell down her face.
Back at the Salvatore Boarding House John was sitting with Elena and Grace in the parlour room talking to them about him and Isobel.
"I always knew that she, Katherine and Fayth were close, but I never realised that Isobel and the girls were working against me. Three of the world's most uncaring and selfish vampires, and yet they were genuinely friends." John mused.
"If that's what you thought of her, why did you ever put your trust in her at all?" Grace asked her voice small.
"Because I was there when she gave birth to both of you. I saw how heartbroken she was to let you go, but to most of all split you up. And because she was the first girl I ever loved, and when she said she'd help keep you safe... I believed her. At this point, I will do whatever you want me to do. If you feel safer with me not around, then I will do." he assured them and when both girls didn't answer he looked even sadder than before.
"You screw up everything, John." Elena shook her head "Everything you touch just falls apart. But you're the only parent we have left so maybe we can learn not to hate you."
"Ok." John nodded, he liked that, maybe one day he might have his daughters back.
Damon walked over to Stefan who was pouring himself a glass of scotch, the older brother joined him giving him a smile "Hey, Bonnie said the spell worked. She's locked and loaded." Damon explained.
"At least something went right today. Katherine and Fayth have no idea that Bonnie got her powers back and Isobel had no idea what you, Grace and Jeremy took Bonnie to today. We're the only ones who know." Stefan mused.
"That literally makes Bonnie our secret weapon." Damon smirked as both brother raise their glasses and clink them together.
At Alaric's apartment Fayth wakes up to see Katherine is still unconscious, she shakes her gently and her twin opened her eyes, they noticed a black shadow sitting on a chair, there were two vases next to him, one was full of blood and the other was empty knocked over onto its side. Both of the girls move closer to the chair when they noticed it was Alaric, the warlock that had captured them bent down on his knee to bow.
"Alaric?" Fayth asked quickly grabbing her sisters hand they rush for the door when they realise that they were trapped and Alaric was walking towards them.
"Zdravei, Fay. Zdravei, Katerina." Alaric purred at them in a Bulgarian accent as he lent down to touch Fayth's face gently "I have missed you."
"Klaus!" Fayth breathed her eyes widening.
A/N
Hey!
Klaus has finally arrived! Ah! Isobel is dead :( I may not have liked her that much but it was a painful, depressing way to die, although as least she was put out of her compelled misery. Not really loads of Drace, but some Elena/Grace bonding with their parents kind of... I'm not sure.
So I'm thinking of posting another chapter tonight because I really like it! I can't wait to write Klaus into the story properly and we're also very close to having everyone's favourite Elijah back ;)
Please review, alert and fave if you enjoyed! Tell me what you liked :) tell me what you like about Drace :) Tell me what you hope for! Thank you for reading :)
Graciiee xx