Twisted Love
Season Two
The Last Day
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Damon was fast asleep in his bed when he awoke to the sound of voices, rubbing his bright blue orbs staring blankly at the ceiling. He longed for the days when Grace would be asleep next to him and he would awaken her by kissing her, or snuggling up against her.
He could make out that Grace was downstairs talking with Elena, Elijah and Stefan. Groaning as he turned over trying to bury away his problems in the soft pillow but they just kept replaying in his head, he hated the thought of fighting with his woman let alone losing Grace, but equally he didn't want to do anything rash that would make her hate him.
"Tonight is the full moon. We should assume that Klaus is prepared to break the curse." Elijah informed the two vampires and the doppelgänger as they all sat in the parlour room.
"Grace said that the Sun and the Moon curse is fake?" Stefan asked "That it's actually just a curse placed on Klaus."
"Klaus is a vampire born of a werewolf bloodline. The curse has kept his werewolf aspect from manifesting. But if he breaks it... He'll be a true hybrid." Elijah replied as Damon walked in the room looking directly at Grace first who had her knees pulled up into her chest as she sat on the couch.
"Then why are we letting him break the curse?" Damon narrowed his eyes "We can kill him today. With Bonnie."
"Damon..." Stefan warned.
"No. Bonnie can't use that much power without dying." Grace replied her voice was low.
"I'll write her a great eulogy." Damon shrugged carelessly.
"It's not an option, Damon." Grace spat sitting up.
"Alright, how do we break this curse?" Stefan asked changing the subject before a fight could break out.
"Well, the ritual itself is relatively straight forward. The ingredients, so to speak, you already know..." Elijah nodded.
"The moonstone." Grace spoke up.
"A witch will channel the power of the full moon to release the spell that's bound within the stone. After that, Klaus, being both werewolf and vampire, will sacrifices one of each."
"And where do I fit into it?" Elena asked.
"The final part of the ritual." Elijah replied as he picked up a small wooden box that was on the coffee table "Klaus must drink the blood of the doppelgänger... To the point of your death."
Damon looks across at Grace who looked anxious, she was gnawing her on her thumb nail as Elena reached over and took Stefan's hand "And that's where you come in." Elena added.
"This is an elixir that I acquired some 500 years ago for Fay. It possesses mystical properties of resuscitation." He informed her.
"So I'll be dead?" Elena asked and Grace looked over at her.
"And then you won't." Elijah answered.
"That's your plan? A magical witch potion with no expiration date?" Damon scoffed "What about you? What are you doing whilst all this is happening?" He looked at his girlfriend.
"Klaus will want her as insurance on Elena, making sure she won't do anything stupid, it's not as if my brother would kill Grace, but he would hurt her just to make Elena suffer."
"No." Damon growled "I won't let you go. I refuse to let you leave this house."
"Damon, Klaus needs to be dead... I need to do this." Grace stood up.
"You're putting your own sisters life at risk! You're putting your own life at risk." Damon growled "What if it doesn't work? Then what?"
"I guess I'll be dead." Elena answered.
"And I'll be gone." Grace added her voice was smaller than her sisters, Damon let out a frustrated growl as he walked from the room "Do we know if Klaus has everything he needs to do this? Does he have a werewolf?" She asked.
"Klaus has been waiting to break this curse for over a thousand years. If he doesn't already have a werewolf, my guess is by tonight, he will." Elijah nodded.
Over at the Lockwood mansion Carol Lockwood was standing at the top of the stairs dressed in her smart clothes, as per usual, whilst leaving her son Tyler a voicemail.
"Tyler, honey. It's your mother. I don't know where you are, but I need you. I've had an accident and I'm in the hospital." She informed him whilst Maddox was watching her, arms crossed over his chest "Please, Tyler, come home." She hung up and looked across at the warlock.
"Why did I do that?" Carol whispered.
"Because you had a terrible fall." He forced a gust of wind at her with his powers and she fell backwards down the stairs landing at the bottom unconscious.
Damon was stood out looking over the grounds that they owned, a well placed scotch in his hands thinking about Grace and Elena's plan. Stefan saw his brothers standing outside and walked out to join him noticing the alcohol usage so early in the morning "Breakfast of champions, huh?" Stefan noted chuckling gently.
"I'm surrounded by idiots. I need all the help I can get." Damon retorted.
"You know, you're not helping." Stefan told him.
"Elijah is an Original vampire, Stefan. One we tried to kill. You're going to believe this guy?" He hissed.
"What do you want me to do, Damon? Grace and Elena have made their decision. They're choosing to trust Elijah. I'm going to put my faith in them." Stefan answered.
"Why? They're going to end up dead." Damon growled.
"Because they put their faith in me. They chose to trust me in spite of what I am. I'm going to bet on somebody's instincts, it's going to be theirs." Stefan explained.
"Well, then, that makes you the biggest idiot of them all." Damon glared across at him.
"You know, Grace chose to trust you, too." Stefan added.
"Then maybe you shouldn't be so sure about her instincts." The older brother replied sharply before turning and walking back into the house.
Grace walked into the library with her sister in tow to see Elijah perched on the arm of the couch fingering through a book "You'd think he'd understand why I'm willing to do this." Grace vented.
"Why are you?" Elijah asked.
"Klaus isn't only here for using Elena to break the curse. He wants me. He's here because of me. If I don't stop him, then he's going to hurt people. It's that simple." Grace's voice lowered.
"You know, there's a possibility the elixir won't work. I don't want to mislead you, Elena." Elijah told the girl honestly.
"I know the chance I'm taking." Elena replied.
"Get out!" Jenna's voice boomed through the corridors.
"Jenna, Jenna!" Alaric's voice came next.
As Grace, Elijah and Elena approached the scared human woman they see she has a crossbow trained on Alaric. Damon and Stefan approach to just to keep an eye on things incase they got out of hand "Jenna, put the crossbow down, ok? It's me." Alaric assured them.
"Stay away from me." Jenna spat.
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"It's me, Elena, I swear, ok? He let me go. Klaus let me go." Alaric told her.
"Prove it." Damon spat.
Alaric tried to think of something an individual in that room would know, only them, his gaze stopped on Jenna, his lover "Ok, uh, the first night you and I spent together, Jeremy walked in right when I was about to-"
"Ok, it's him." Jenna cut him off a blush creeping over her cheeks as she lowered the crossbow.
"Why did he let you go?" Stefan asked.
"He wanted me to deliver a message." He looked over at Elena and Grace "The sacrifice happens tonight."
At Mystic Falls Hospital Carol's eyes flutter open to see her son sitting across the room from her, as soon as he noticed that the injured woman was awake he bolted upright in his seat.
"Tyler?" Carol's voice was weak.
"Mom." Tyler whispered kissing her forehead.
"You're back." Carol moaned.
"I'm back." He assured her.
Matt was busy working, lost in his own world when he turned around he caught a silvery gaze staring at him, he jumped slightly surprised to see the vampire "Oh. Jeez!" He jolted almost dropping a cup, but catching it just in time.
"Sorry!" Caroline apologised quickly "I didn't mean to scare you."
"It's ok, I just, I didn't know you were here." Matt informed her.
"Yeah, I wanted to try and catch you on your break so we could hang out." The blonde flipped her golden locks over her shoulder.
"I have lunch in an hour." Matt answered.
"Perfect." Caroline beamed "I will go run some errands and I will be right back." She pecked his lips "I'll see you in a bit."
"Ok." Matt nodded as she turned on her heels and left the Grill, as soon as the door closed Matt made his way over to Sheriff Forbes who was sitting at a table.
"Does she suspect anything?" Liz's was low.
"No, but... I can't do this anymore. I've been with her the past few days, and I'm putting on the best show of my life. But either she is too, or she's still the same Caroline." Matt answered.
"She's not the same. She's a vampire." Liz replied bluntly.
"At this point, I don't even know what that means." Matt shook his head.
"Look, I know this is hard to understand, but my family, we were raised with this. They're monsters, Matt. They have no soul, no humanity." Liz told him.
"There's nothing about her that makes me believe that." Matt replied, his voice was soft when he thought about the blonde.
"It's an act. I believed Damon Salvatore was my closest ally in this town. Instead, he's a killer. They killed your sister. What other proof do you need?" Liz's voice raised.
"I could as the same questioned, Sheriff. Why haven't you done anything? Why are you hesitating?" Matt growled.
"Because I need more information. And because, in spite of everything I just said, I still look at her and I... I see my daughter." Liz breathed.
"Damon is the problem, not Caroline. You should focus on him." Matt answered.
"I should have involved you, Matt. Thank you for all your help, but I'll take it from here." And with that the Sheriff left the bar.
Alaric, Jenna, Grace, Stefan, Elena and Elijah were all in the parlour room, whilst Damon was sulking in his room "So you don't remember anything that happened?" Stefan looked over at Alaric.
"No. It's like I blacked out and woke up 3 days later." Alaric answered "Katherine and Fayth were there." He informed them as if they didn't already know.
"They're under compulsion." Stefan answered "Damon snuck them some vervain, but they can't leave until Klaus tells them they can."
"Where is Damon?" Grace asked.
"I saw him go upstairs." Jenna answered, Grace looked towards the stairs sighing gently before walking up, she heard a pair of feet following her, turning she saw Elena.
"You disappeared." Grace announced as she arrived in their room.
"I don't want to hear anymore." Damon told her pacing the room.
"I need you to understand why I'm doing this. Why we're doing this." Grace looked at her sister.
"Why? It clearly doesn't matter what I think." Damon spat "It obviously doesn't matter to you that Klaus will just take you from me and I'll never see you again."
"I'll be fine, Damon. Elena will drink the elixir, Bonnie will kill Klaus and then all of this will be over."
"If it works." Damon's bright blue orbs were intense.
"It will work." Grace confirmed.
"You think it will work. You want it to work. Why am I the only one who's convinced it won't? There has to be another way." Damon growled.
"There's isn't." Elena spoke up.
"And you're going to die, Elena." Damon told her bluntly.
"And then I'll come back to life." Elena answered.
"And if it doesn't work? And I have to lose Grace because you were both stupid enough to believe an elixir from a Original we tried to kill doesn't work, or what if you do die? But we kill Klaus, too? Then Grace spends the rest of her supernatural life depressed because your her sister and she lost you? That is not a risk I'm willing to take." Damon told her.
"But I am." Elena growled.
"Damon, this is our decision." Grace took his hands "Our choices."
"I can't lose you." Damon whispered.
"You won't." Grace smiled pecking his lips, Elena turned about to leave the room when Damon suddenly intercepted her.
"There is another way."
"Damon-"
"What are you-" Elena asked as he crunched into his wrist and fed her his blood, she accepted it, but when Grace pulled him away launching it across the room she began to sob.
"What were you thinking?" Grace spat.
"What did you do?" Stefan ran in the room "Huh? What did you do!" He knelt down beside his girlfriend.
"I saved her life. I saved my girlfriends life." Damon spat looking at Grace "She's so bent on dying, at least this way I know she'll come back and you won't have to lose her."
Grace was shaking, her hands were trembling she was so mad "As a vampire! She'll come back a vampire."
"It's better than nothing else." Damon took a step towards her, but Grace flinched away.
"How could you, of all people, take that choice away from her?" Stefan growled.
"Go ahead; wish me an eternity of misery. Believe me, you'll get over it." Damon told Grace.
Stefan pounced from where he was knelt with his crying girlfriend to push Damon violently, the older brother turned and shove Stefan against the wall, stake in hand.
"Admit it. You just wish you had the balls to do it yourself." Damon growled when a fist landed in his face making him fall back, Stefan swung repetitively until the older vampire fell down, blood covering his face. He shoved the wooden stake into Stefan's abdomen and he fell to his knees weak, Elena ran over protective of Stefan shielding him.
"Get out of here!" Elena screamed.
Damon stood up brushing himself off looking down at his hurt brother before turning to see the shocked yet hurt expression of his girlfriend, he took a step towards her, about to calm her and cease the tears but she backed right up against the wall her eyes closed with her.
"Grace." His voice was small.
"Oh my God." Jenna's voice appeared at the door.
"Grace, please look at me." Damon begged.
"Get him out of here!" Elena screamed.
Alaric took a step towards Damon, but he turned and shoved him away taking another step towards Grace, she peaked her eyes open to see him staring down at her "Damon, just go." Grace whispered "I'll talk to you in a bit." A growl could be heard from Damon's throat as he walked from his own room.
"Ok, Jenna, downstairs are some blood bags. Go get them. Go!" Alaric ordered and she ran from the room, Elena quickly pulled the stake from Stefan and he fell limp.
"It's ok. It's ok. You're going to be ok." Elena assured him.
"I'm so sorry." Stefan rasped.
"Shh. It's ok."
"Elena, I... I'm... I'm sorry." Grace whispered taking a step towards her but Elena stopped her "I didn't think... I didn't... I-"
"Just go make sure Elijah doesn't kill him." Elena told her twin firmly.
Damon walked down into the library the anger pouring off him, but the scared look of Grace was burned in his mind. Elijah was standing there putting the elixir into the wooden box sealing it again.
"Well, it sounds like you won't be needing this anymore. Feeding her vampire blood rendered it useless. Tell Elena and Grace I'll be back before nightfall. We'll proceed as planned." Elijah informed the younger vampire.
"We both know the elixir wouldn't have worked anyway." Damon spat pouring himself a glass of bourbon easing the pain.
"The problem, Damon, you talk a good game, but you don't actually know anything. She'll never forgive you. And never for a vampire... it's a very long time." Elijah nodded before looking at Grace who stood in the door way.
"Excuse me, Elijah. Can I have a moment with Damon?" Grace asked, her face was calm but Damon could see the anger bubbling just beneath the surface.
"Of course." Elijah nodded respectfully leaving the room closing the door behind him to give them some privacy.
"I'm not sure whether I should cry or hit you." Grace started taking slow steps towards him running her hands through her thick chocolate brown hair, a habit she got into when she was infuriated or anxious.
"I saved her life, at least now she can come back, Bonnie can kill Klaus and then you can come home with me." Damon's voice was softer than hers.
"How dare you." Grace's voice was low "How dare you even think to take away the life of someone I care about, it's wrong and whatever reasons you did it for was wrong, now she doesn't have a choice at all! That was all she wanted, that was all she asked for and you've taken that away from me."
"The elixir wasn't going to work and I would have lost you." Damon reminded her.
"At least then she wouldn't have to be 17 forever!" Grace spat without thinking "stuck like this! Frozen in time!" She couldn't stop herself from saying what she was truly feeling.
"What are you trying to say?" Damon asked.
"Nothing." Grace shrugged "It's nothing, Damon."
"Grace." Damon gave her a look before stepping towards her "Grace, tell me."
"it isn't fair." Grace whispered "I don't know how I'm meant to feel, I'm so confused all the time. I love you and I know that and I know that and you know that... but my future? Our time together? Those were things was supposed to deal with as they came along. I was supposed to grown up..." Tears appeared in her eyes "I'm never going to have an 18th birthday, not properly, I'll never be officially 18 or 21... or decide if I want to have kids and start a family, grow old. I was supposed to have a life time of these choices and now...? Now I don't even have a choice, it's gone."
"Why are you only just saying this now?" Damon asked, the hurt was evident in his voice.
"Because I didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling that I miss being human and..." She stopped shaking her head "No, it's selfish of me to make you feel this way."
"Please, just say it." Damon begged.
"I didn't want to be a vampire, Damon. I never wanted to be this way." She began to sob falling down.
"I know. I'm sorry." Damon held her but she pushed away from him.
"I don't want to see you right now." She told him "I need to be on my own."
Stefan, Elena, Jenna and Alaric had all moved to Stefan's bedroom, the vampire was drinking from a blood bag he looked at Jenna thankfully "Thank you. Both of you." He nodded.
"Yeah, well, we'll be downstairs." Alaric nodded escorting Jenna from the room they were both stood in the corridor just outside of the room "I know it's, uh, it's a lot to take in..."
"Yeah." Jenna nodded.
"I tried to protect you from all this, but I should have known you could handle it." He smiled at her.
"Can I?" Jenna asked.
"Well, you just did. Look, Jenna... I know we have a lot to talk about." Alaric mused when Jenna reached up and touched his face softly.
"Hey. I'm glad you're ok. I should have said that already." She pressed her lips against his.
Stefan and Elena were sitting on Stefan's bed in his room, Elena was still shaking at what Damon did to her and Stefan was still a little tender "How could he do that to me? Why?" Elena whispered.
"Hey. We've never talked about this. What this all means." Stefan told her.
"It doesn't matter." Elena whispered.
"Of course it matters. Hey. It matters. I want you to go somewhere with me." He took her hand.
Elena shook her head "Stefan, I can't. Grace... she's really upset, I can't leave her-"
"No, no, it's not far, ok? It's jut for the day. I promise." He pecked her lips softly.
Carol was asleep on the hospital bed still getting over her injury when Tyler rose from his seat by her side walking from the room to meet up with Jules "What are you doing here?" Tyler asked.
"I should be asking you that. I told you not to come." Jules hissed.
"She's my mother. I had to." Tyler replied sharply.
"Now we have to get out of here; lock ourselves up before tonight." Jules informed him as they walked from the hospital into the parking lot to see Caroline.
"Tyler? Jules." Caroline whispered, the surprise was evident in her voice.
"I'll give you a few minutes." Jules stepped away from the two.
"Thank you." Tyler nodded.
"Just a few. Tyler." Her voice was stern, almost like a mothers.
"I got it." Tyler shrugged as Jules walked away "She's just making sure I'm safe."
"So what, are you two, like, friends now?" Caroline asked, hoping that the two werewolves were only friends.
"She's been helping me." Tyler replied "How are you?"
"I heard about your mom. I just came to check in on her." The blonde replied kindly.
"She's banged up, but she'll be ok." Tyler replied.
"And you? Um... Hows everything with you?" Caroline asked.
"I'm hanging in there." Tyler replied.
"Good." Caroline replied trying to find a conversation to have, but it was so awkward between the two.
"Yeah. I should get going. Jules and I need to get on the road." Tyler jerked his thumb behind him.
"You're leaving again?" Caroline asked upset.
"I left for a reason, Caroline." Tyler reminded her.
"Your explanation must have got lost in the mail, along with your goodbye." Caroline whispered.
"Well... take care of yourself." Tyler replied giving her a longing look.
"Tyler..." She took his hand and they looked into each others eyes for a long couple of seconds before suddenly they both fell to the floor screaming.
Maddox and Greta stepped out, it was the warlock that was making them weak with pain, and Greta injected the blonde with vervain to make sure she stayed down.
"Let's go." The witch ordered grabbing Caroline whilst Maddox took Tyler.
Matt was still at work at the Grill whilst leaving Caroline a voicemail, she was meant to come back but she hadn't returned and he was getting worried "Hey, Caroline, it's me. I thought you were coming back to meet me. Look, I need to talk to you. It's important." He told her voicemail before hanging up and seeing Damon walking into the Grill with a depressed look on his face as he took a seat at the bar.
Damon signalled the bartender for a drink and he got it for him immediately as Alaric took a seat next to him asking for the same "I screwed up." Damon moaned.
"Yeah. Yeah, you did." Alaric agreed.
"Gentlemen? Why so glum?" A thick British accent came from next to them, they both looked up to meet his sea green mixed with sky blue eyes.
"Ugh. Klaus, I presume." Damon growled.
"In the fleshed." He glanced over Damon at Alaric "Thanks for the loaner, mate."
The younger vampire rose from his seat "Any reason you stopped by to say hi?" Damon spat growing impatient.
"I'm told you fancy what is mine... and that your brother fancies my doppelgänger." Klaus hissed giving Damon a hard look "Just thought I'd remind you to not do anything you'll regret, that includes running with her. I will find you and take her."
It took everything in Damon to refrain from trying to knock the Original's smirk of his face, he was so angry at Klaus trying to claim Grace as his own "Thanks for the advice." Damon mused "I don't suppose I could talk you into a postponement, by any chance, huh?"
The smirk dropped from Klaus face "You are kidding?" He looked at Alaric "He is kidding, right?"
"No, not really." Alaric whined.
"I mean, come on, what's one month in the whole grand scheme of things?" Damon shrugged.
"Let me be clear... I have my vampire. I have my werewolf. I have everything I need. The ritual will happen tonight. So if you want to live to see tomorrow, don't screw it up." Klaus threatened before turning and leaving.
"That was fun." Damon's voice was thick with sarcasm as the glass cracked under his grasp.
"You're going to screw it up, aren't you?" Alaric asked.
"You think if I took his werewolf out of the equation, she might... get over the fact that I tried to turn her sister into a vampire?" Damon asked hopeful.
"I think it won't matter, because you'll be dead." Alaric replied bluntly.
"But without the werewolf, he can't preform the ritual tonight, which means I would have brought Elena one month before the next full moon and Grace will be thankful, right?" Damon's eyes lit up with hope.
"And you'll still be dead." Alaric's voice was flat "Which does no one any favours..."
"Are you gonna help me or what?" Damon sighed.
"What do you want me to do?" Alaric asked.
On a mountain Stefan and Elena were at the bottom looking up at the grassy structure, the human creased her eye brows before asking "Where are we?"
"It's a surprise. Just a little bit longer." Stefan smiled.
"I'm not a vampire yet, you know. My legs still get tired." Elena informed him.
"Ready to talk about how you're feeling about all this?" Stefan asked.
"Uh... this morning I was wondering if I would live or die, and now... I'm going to be a vampire. I... I don't really know how I'm feeling." Elena mused as they arrived at a beautiful waterfall "God, this is beautiful."
"I think you do know how you feel. I just want you to know that it's ok to tell me." He reminded her.
"I can't. Stefan, I just... I can't talk about it." She whispered.
"Well, if you don't want to, that's your choice. Today's about you. But... It's a long way to the top. Let's go. You never know what might come up." He shrugged.
"we're climbing all the way to the top?" Elena asked.
"Oh, yeah." Stefan chuckled.
"well, can't you do one of your super power vampire jumpy things?" Elena begged.
"No, it's your last day as a human. Why cheat now?" He winked as he held is hand out and she gladly accepted it.
Fayth was laying on the floor staring up at the ceiling completely bored whilst Katherine was snooping around in the fridge trying to find blood bag to drain when they suddenly hear the door unlock, they both bolt upright when the door clicked open to reveal Alaric.
"Look who's dumb enough to come back." Fayth teased.
"Well, somebody had to invite him in. Damon. Would you like to, uh, come in?" Alaric called and instantly Damon ran in knocking Katherine down and pinning Fayth against the wall.
"Are you trying to get us killed?" Katherine asked.
"I gave you vervain, now I'm here to collect. I got it from here, Ric." Damon told his friend.
"You sure?" Alaric asked.
"Yeah, only one of us needs to get blamed for this. Get back in the house. Keep Grace and Elena from handing themselves over." Damon replied.
"Ok." Alaric shut the door leaving.
"Get blamed for what?" Fayth asked looking up into his bright blue eyes that were red with anger.
"I need to know where Klaus is keeping his werewolf." Damon replied.
"Why? What are you going to do?" Fayth asked.
"Dead werewolf equal no ritual which means I keep Grace." Damon replied.
"God. You can't interfere, Damon. Klaus will kill you and everyone you've ever met." Fayth spat.
"I just need to delay this thing." Damon replied.
"No. No way." Katherine told her sister.
"You should like this. It's going to buy your sister another month of her pathetic life." Damon rolled his eyes.
"Right. Except that I'm not he vampire he's planning on sacrificing. Neither is Katherine..." Fayth pushed him away.
"What?" Damon looked at them both.
"Yeah. He's got Caroline Forbes and Tyler Lockwood. Therefore, we're in the clear." Fayth smiled smiled evilly.
"And where'd he get the idea from?" Damon demanded.
"I'm just trying to stay alive long enough to get my sister and I out of here." Fayth replied.
"What if I told you Elena had vampire blood in her system?" Damon informed them.
"What?" Katherine hissed.
"Imagine how fun that will be competing with Elena for Stefan's love for, I don't know, forever." A evil smirk appeared on his perfect features.
"The tomb." Katherine quickly told him "He's got them in the tomb."
"Thank you." He cooed leaving the apartment.
Down in the tomb Caroline and Tyler were chained against the wall sitting across from each other, Caroline wakes up from her vervain tranquilliser to see that Tyler was already awake looking at her "Tyler?" She whined.
"You alright?" Tyler asked concerned.
"Yeah. I think so." She tried to break the chains but could seem to do it.
"I already tried." The werewolf informed her.
"Those witches vervained me." Caroline moaned.
"Who were they?" Tyler asked.
"I think they're with Klaus." Caroline replied.
"Who the hell is Klaus?" Tyler asked and got a little bit more anxious when she didn't answer.
"Tyler... You shouldn't have come back here." Caroline whispered shaking her head a little.
Grace let out a small sigh as she sat in the parlour room of the Salvatore Boarding House looking down at some picture of her and Elena, a small shiver trembled down her spine as she felt a presence watching her.
"Grace?" She jolted as Alaric walked in the house.
"Oh, hey. You scared me." She calmed down a little.
"Sorry." He apologised "What are you doing?" He took a seat next to her
"Just remembering." She replied small tears appearing in her eyes "I don't want Elena to be a vampire, does that sound bad? It's not that I don't want her with me... it's just... I don't know."
"No." Alaric rubbed her back sitting next to her "You want your sister to be human and Damon took that choice away from her."
"I love him so much, but he makes the most stupid decisions." Grace hissed standing up "I need to go get some air."
"Do you want me to come with you?" Alaric asked looking up at her concerned.
"No, I just... I just need some time to think." Grace replied "Thank you." She whispered as she walked from the house to sit down on the round patch of grass outside of the house, she laid back and looking directly up into the sky.
She began to think about her life, what if she hadn't met Damon and Stefan, she would never had know what it feels like to have a brother, she would never had made love to someone she loves with such a passion. She would never know what it feels like to have two people in the world that would do anything for you, that's why they were doing this. She would never have known Elena was her real sister and that Isobel and John were her real parents.
Then the bad side kicked in, if she hadn't ever met them she would have never met Katherine or Fayth. Her heart wouldn't feel as if had been broken a thousand times over, Elena would have a normal human life, Caroline would still be a normal human. Heidi would still be living with her in Mystic Falls and she would have her own house with her own stuff.
If Damon hadn't come along Grace would probably had ended up dating a random boy in her year, possibly even Tyler. It was then she began to think about poor Tyler cursed to be a werewolf for the rest of his days, the two had been so close, then torn apart by being in two different worlds, she didn't want to lie to herself, she did miss her friend, but she began to hope he was happy where ever he was...
There was the big issue too, she would never had been a vampire, never had been able to give up her normal life and decide if she wanted to have kids or if she would get married, her heart started to ache when she thought of what she had said to Damon, he must think he was to blame for her becoming what she was, but that wasn't what she had intended, she just wanted to be human and that he did understand.
Small tears ran down her face as she closed her eyes thinking to her life before all this, when she still had a Gran and she wasn't a telepath or a vampire and the only thing she had to worry about was going to college or getting a job or getting homework done on time. She was Grace Johnson and now she was Grace Gilbert, vampire, telepath, lover of Damon Salvatore...
"No need to cry love, I'm here now." A heart stopping British accent told her she froze where she was "Now, my little Grace, you can come with me now or I can go kill Damon so you have to come with me... your choice."
"What do you want with me?" Grace whispered as she stood up.
Klaus took a step towards her picking a stray piece of grass from her chocolate brown locks, flicking it casually to the ground "It's quite simple actually, love. I want you... Just you."
"Why?" Grace whispered.
Klaus looked at her intensely "At one point Fayth was all I wanted, but she betrayed me-"
"I betrayed you, I'm a vampire!" Grace hissed taking a step away from him.
"No, no you didn't... You didn't mean to become what you were, but even if you was a human, I would have turned you anyway." Klaus shrugged "Now... what is your decision." He held out his hand.
Her bottom lip trembled as she looked at the house behind her, she began to breath deep as she placed her hand inside of his and he pulled her close into his body.
"Smart decision." Klaus smiled down at her.
"Just please stop talking." She rasped.
Stefan and Elena were continuing to trek to the top of the mountain Stefan had brought the couple to, Elena was pondering about becoming a vampire she had no idea what was going on with Grace back at the Salvatore House.
"I guess Bonnie will have to make me a daylight ring." She announced.
"Yeah, piece of cake." Stefan shrugged.
"And I'll never be able to watch 'Bambi' again." Elena added.
"I definitely wouldn't recommend doing that." The vampire chuckled.
"What the best part about being a vampire?" Elena asked curiously.
"Ah. You feel like you could do anything. Be anyone. Beautiful things are more beautiful. Everything's heightened, you just live more intensely, love more powerfully." He added smiling at her.
"And the worst?" She asked.
"Ah, you know the worst." He stiffened slightly.
"Aside from the blood." Elena replied and he stopped turning around to face her.
"Anger becomes rage. When you're sad, you're in despair. Grief. Loss. It can cripple you... That's what Grace was going through when she thought Bonnie was dead... That's why she wanted to turn it off, it became overwhelming, then imagine her telepathic powers being on full being able to feel your upset then on top of her crippling pain, I can't even begin to want to think... that's why so many of us turn off out emotions. It's too much for us... You know, for a while, for me, the good just wasn't worth the bad." He explained.
"How long before you learned to handle both?" She tilted her head to the side.
"Well, I'm still trying. Everyday. What else?" Stefan asked hopeful that she was speak her mind.
"Let's just keep going. We're not even halfway to the top." Elena informed him as she continued to walk.
At Alaric's apartment Klaus opened the door for Grace and she walked in, it was a good thing that the history teacher had invited her in a few weeks ago to discuss what she would tell the school about her weeks off.
"Grace?" Fayth asked seeing the sobbing girl.
"Mmm, she decided to join me, but she will not stop crying." Klaus complained "love." He turned her making her look at him "Stop crying."
Grace obviously hadn't been taking vervain for a while and instantly stopped crying, she sniffled as she stopped but no more tears ran "What have you been doing?"
"Making coffee." Katherine replied "Do you want some?"
"Tell me what you've been doing." Klaus zipped towards her gripping her face.
"Making coffee." Katherine replied.
Klaus growled as he released her and moved towards Fayth smiling down at the girl "Take off your bracelet." He ordered and she unclipped it handing it to him "Now, I want you... to walk over to the window and stand in the sunlight."
"But she'll burn." Grace whispered.
"She doesn't have a choice." Klaus replied as Fayth crept towards the window standing in front of it letting the sunlight devour her pretty skin, she yelped in pain as Klaus smiled at the act.
"Stop!" Katherine screamed.
"That's enough." Klaus ordered and Fayth zipped to the corner of the room into the shadows "Guess I was wrong. Alright, then." He zipped towards Grace snapping her necking making her fall to the ground dead again, she would of course wake up in a few hours time alive again.
"Why did you do that?" Fayth asked.
"I don't need her to hear this and I don't need to hear her pining over her lost lover..." Klaus scoffed "I need you to do something for me..."
Damon arrives outside of the tomb, he was standing up the top about to down down the stairs towards the entrance when he stopped seeing Maddox walking towards him.
"Which one are you trying to save? The blonde, or the wolf? Did you really think Klaus would leave them unprotected?" The warlock scoffed.
"Wishful thinking." Damon shrugged as he rushed towards Maddox pinning to the ground about to begin strangling him but excruciating pain ran through his body making him yell out and fall off, the warlock rose from where he had been on the ground when a gun shot rang out and he fell to the floor in pain.
Looking up from where Damon was laying on the cold floor the vampire saw Matt approaching with a rifle, the older Salvatore brother rose from his seat and snapped Maddox's neck finishing him off looking at Matt.
"What are you doing here?" Damon growled.
"Where's Caroline?" He demanded.
"Listen, man. Not a good time to play the hero." Damon scoffed.
"Where is she? And what did he do to her."
"I'm just here to rescue her." Damon replied holding his hands up before rushing over using his rifle against him smacking him with the butt of the gun effectively knocking him unconscious "You're lucky I already screwed up once today or you'd be dead..." He mused unloading the gun to see Matt had wooden bullets.
Down in the tomb Tyler and Caroline were still chained up, sitting down looking across at each other, she had missed him so much, but it hurt her to think about him... he had left without a word to her, the one person who had done so much for him.
"The whole Sun and Moon curse is fake?" Tyler gawped.
"That's what Grace learned. Klaus still needs to do the sacrifice, but it's just not for that." Caroline explained.
"And you think that's why they grabbed us? For the sacrifice." Tyler questioned.
"Yes." Caroline nodded.
"he's going to kill us?" Tyler whispered.
"I think so. Yes." Caroline confirmed scared for her life.
"This whole time I've been gone, Jules has been helping me come to term with what I am. How to deal with it. I guess none of it matters anymore." Tyler mused.
"Why didn't you say goodbye? You just left." She looked across at him, her bright silvery orbs filled with hurt.
"You want to talk about this now?" Tyler asked in disbelief.
"Well, if we're going to die, I might as well know the truth. Why did you leave me?" Caroline asked.
"I knew you hated me. I thought you deserved better than having someone like me in your life." Tyler explained.
"I was hurt. You know, you turned your back on me when I needed you. But... I could never hate you, Tyler." She whimpered and he smiled across at her as the tomb door opened and Damon entered "Damon?"
"Your boyfriend's outside with a rifle loaded with wooden bullets. You have some explaining to do." Damon informed her.
"What, Matt?" The blonde asked.
"Matt knows about you?" Tyler asked.
"No, I-"
"Shh. Tomorrow's problem." He replied breaking the chains and helping her up "Let me just get you out of here."
"wait, Damon no! I'm not leaving without him." Caroline told him firmly.
"Oh. It's getting dark soon." Damon complained "How fast can you get the hell away from here?"
"I need to get to my families. I can lock myself up." He explained.
"I'll help." Caroline offered as Damon walked towards him crouching in front of the boy "Don't make me regret this." He growled as he snapped the chains freeing Tyler.
Elena and Stefan reached the top of the mountain and looked out over the beautiful landscape in front of them basking in the glory, they sky was almost a violet haze colour, mixing with the snow white clouds. She could see for miles around looking over the two smiling at it, she took in a deep breath of air, it was so fresh, it made her feel renewed, like she could do anything... "We made it." She gushed.
"That's nothing, if you've climbed Mt. Everest." Stefan smirked.
"Nobody likes a bragger, Stefan." Elena teased looking across the glorious land in front of her "Oh, wow."
"Yeah. Hey, you can say it." Stefan informed her.
"Say what?" Elena asked tucking a fly away piece of brown hair behind her ears.
"The things you've been wanting to say, but... been afraid of how it'll make me feel." Stefan replied knowingly.
"There's nothing I can say, Stefan. It's not going to change anything." Elena shook her head.
"Might make you feel better. Look, I know this ins't the first time you've thought about it. Drinking vampire blood to survive. I mean, I know I've thought about it a hundred times." Stefan informed her comfortingly.
"And before all this with Klaus, did you think about it then?" Elena asked curiously.
"Of course I did. Elena... If it were my choice, I'd want to be with you forever." Stefan told her romantically.
"Why have you never brought it up?" Elena creased her eye brows.
"Cause I know if it was an option, you would have. It would be selfish of me to ask you." He told her knowing how selfless she was.
"Didn't stop Damon." She grumbled.
"He shouldn't have done what he did." Stefan agreed "He did it because he loves Grace and he doesn't want Grace to lose anyone that she loves."
"But he did this to me, Stefan, which means he doesn't really know what loves is. And to be honest, I don't know if I do. I'm 17 years old. How am I supposed to know any of this yet?" She questioned taking his hands "I know that I love you, Stefan. I know that. But my future? Our lives together? Those were things I was supposed to deal with as they came along. I was supposed to grow up." tears fall from her deep brown eyes "Decided if I want to have kids and start a family. Grow old. I was supposed to have a lifetime of those choices, and... now? That's all gone." Elena whimpered.
"hey, say it." Stefan begged.
"I don't want to be a vampire, Stefan. I never wanted to be one." She began to sob.
"I know. It's ok." Stefan promised embracing her tightly as she continued to cry in his loving arms.
It was beginning to get dark as Damon, Caroline and Tyler run out of the tomb, the blonde vampire rushed over to Matt who was still unconscious on the floor "Hey, Matt!" She looks at Damon "Hey. Did you hit him!"
"Did you already forget about the part with the gun and the wooden bullets?" Damon asked.
Tyler let out a loud growl from low in his chest and he suddenly clenched his shirt looking up at the full moon pounding down on him "Tyler? Tyler?" the blonde asked concerned.
"It's starting." he rasped.
"Grab boy wonder and let's go." Damon ordered.
Caroline gathered Matt up so that he could stand and they all ran off deep into the forest heading towards the Lockwood ruins so that Tyler could get himself locked down for the night.
Stefan and Elena both arrive outside of the house, the vampire was the first to get out and wander around to her side of the car opening it and letting her out "Thanks for today." Elena smiled.
Stefan suddenly something, a feeling of protectiveness as he put himself in front of Elena to see Klaus standing there waiting patiently "You got me all nervous. I thought maybe you'd done something stupid. You ready, my dear?" Klaus asked.
"I'm ready." Elena nodded as she walked towards him but Stefan stopped her.
"no." Stefan growled.
"I wouldn't. No reason for you to die, too." Klaus shrugged as he watched on.
"No. Stefan, hey, hey, it's fine." She assured him "I'll go. No one needs to get hurt. There's not reason for you to get hurt..." Elena whispered "I love you."
"I love you." Stefan kissed her passionately, it felt as if his heart was being torn from his chest as her lips disconnected.
"Close your eyes. Close you eyes." She cooed.
As he closed his eyes he could hear her footsteps walking away from him and with a whoosh of air they were gone, quickly Stefan entered the house looking around.
"Where did Grace go?" Alaric asked as he walked in the house "have you seen her?"
"He must have her, too." Stefan growled "Where's Damon?"
Damon, Caroline, Matt and Tyler were jogging through the forest as Tyler's transformation grew nearer, it was clear that the werewolf was no ok the way they could hear his bone cracking as they ran.
"What's happening? Is he ok?" Matt asked concerned for his best friend.
"He better not wolf out on us." Damon growled as his phone began to ring, he answered it "Bad time, little bro."
"What the hell are you doing?" Stefan asked.
"Saving the day. I figured you'd understand. Just tell Elena and Grace to stay put." The older brother ordered.
"They're already gone." Stefan whispered.
"What?" Damon growled.
"Klaus came. He took Elena just now and Grace... he took her earlier on." Stefan told him.
"I'll take care of it." Damon hissed as he hung up.
Tyler let out a painful moan as he fell to the floor his transformation beginning, the two vampires and humans looked on shocked.
"Tyler!" Matt yelled.
"Tyler, it'll be ok." Caroline's soothing voice assured him.
"Go!" Tyler ordered.
"You've got time. We're almost there, just-"
"It's happening faster." Tyler yelled.
"Tyler, it's ok." The blonde tried to sooth him like the first time he had transformed, but he had already been taken over by the wolf inside as he ran for her, but Damon intercepted him Tyler ending up on top. They fought for a while but when a pair of deadly teeth bit down into the vampires wrist Damon knew it was all over, yet still managing to over Tyler off some of his humantity tumbling back.
Caroline gasped "Damon-"
"I'm fine." Damon hissed cutting her off.
"Get out of here!" Tyler demanded.
"Get to the Lockwood cellar. If it held him in, it'll keep him out. If it doesn't... Use these." Damon handed Matt the wooden bullets he had stolen from his "it'll buy you a couple of seconds. Go. Go!" He order and both took off, Damon took a glance at Tyler before turning and leaving too.
"Where's Maddox? He should be back by now." Klaus mused as he entered Alaric's apartment.
"I don't know." Katherine mused.
Klaus took a stop on the couch and opened his laptop to see that a webcam was already open and Jules was on the screen transitioning painfully "What are you doing? Where's Grace? Where's Elena?" Fayth asked.
"I sent them off with Greta." Klaus shrugged "it's almost time." the door burst open to reveal Damon "I wasn't aware you'd been invited in."
"I've come here to tell you that you have to postpone the ritual." Damon told him firmly "And give what is mine back."
"Didn't we already have this conversation?" Klaus smirked.
"Yeah, but that was before I rescued your werewolf and vampire and killed your witch." Damon shrugged arrogantly.
"Excuse me?" Klaus asked as he rose from his seat.
"And you can kill me for it. I don't care. It was all me." Damon told him, if he was going to go out it wasn't going to be due to a werewolf bite, not like Rose, this was his choice, he was dying for a cause, he always figured he'd be able to tell Grace how much he loved her.
"Katerina, Fay, give us a moment." Klaus told the girls and they vanished from the room "I heard about you. The crazy, impulsive vampire in love with a woman that should be mine." Klaus mused and Damon growled "If I wagered which one of you that was going to trying and stop me, I'd put my money on you... you're incredibly protective of her... Grace that is..." Klaus informed him as if he didn't know "I suppose in a way that is good."
"How so?" Damon asked.
"At least she stayed alive until I could take over." Klaus nodded "And in turn Grace would keep Elena alive, so it worked out in everyone's favour really."
"You can't do anything with them." Damon growled "Just give them back. Give Grace back."
"You know, the nice thing about werewolves is they travel in packs." He mused as he showed his laptop.
"Jules." Damon growled.
"When you spend a thousand years trying to break a curse... you learn a thing or two. First rule... always have a back-up. Back-up werewolf. Back-up witch." He shrugged as if it was nothing.
"Back-up vampire." Damon growled.
"I've got that covered, too." Klaus nodded.
Caroline and Matt rush down into the Lockwood ruins closing the door firmly shut behind them, they rest for only seconds before running in closing the iron gates taking both of them to close it before a black wolf broke through the wooden doors, it's amber orbs glowing.
"Tyler?" Caroline recognised the black beast "It's me. It's Caroline. Tyler?" She asked as he zipped towards the gate his was gnashing to get her.
Damon was unconscious on the floor of Alaric's apartment, Fayth was feeding him blood before slapping him waking him up in a haze "Hey. Damon. Hey!" She slapped him again and he woke up fully.
"Ah. What the hell happened?" He whined.
"He's gone. He went to do the ritual. I'm sorry. I had to. He would have known that I was on vervain if I didn't do it." Fayth explained.
"Ah. Do what?" Damon creased his eye brows at the older vampire.
"Klaus. He made me call her to lure her out. He needed another vampire." Fayth whispered.
"Who did you call?" Damon demanded grabbing her arm firmly "Who did you call, Fayth!"
Grace had been mildly vervain, so that she was weak but she could still walk as Greta lead her and Elena through the forest "Where are we going?" Elena asked holding her twin as she coughed and spluttered everywhere.
"This way." Greta lead them.
"You're Luka's sister, aren't you?" Grace rasped "I heard about you. He and your father were looking for you."
"Well, they were wasting their time. I wasn't lost." Greta told them firmly as Grace fell to her knees tears falling down her cheeks as she vervain pumped through her muscles making them twitch and tighten in an unwanted way.
"She needs blood." Elena begged "You've vervained her-"
"For a reason, so she doesn't try and kill me." Greta replied sharply.
"She won't." Elena promised "She'll behave."
"Come. We must continue." Greta lead them forward into a big open space, this time Elena tripped on a rock taking Grace down with her, but Greta gripped her arm pulling her away from the doppelgänger.
"I can't see anything." Elena complained when suddenly a fire was set ablaze around them and everything was as clear as day. There was a sight seen that made her blood run cold, she let out a shaky breath as she saw Jenna on the floor not breathing.
"Jenna!" Grace screamed.
"Jenna!" Elena ran towards her "Grace, she has no pulse! What happened? Why did he kill her? I did everything he asked! We're both here!" Elena screamed as she looked down at a very much dead Jenna.
"She's not dead." Greta replied and as if on cue Jenna awoke gasping "She's in transition."
Damon rose from the floor where he had just heard about Fayth and Katherine luring Jenna out so that she could become a vampire for the sacrifice "Should have used me. Why didn't he use me?" Damon asked.
"He couldn't. Damon, he said you were as good as dead." Katherine replied.
"What does that even mean?" Damon asked.
"What does that mean?" Fayth asked as she saw the bit of his forearm "What is this, Damon?"
The younger vampire took a long pause before sighing "It's a werewolf bite." He finally admitted it.
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Alright, so that's this chapter finished ;) some Drace fighting scenes, beautiful Stelena scenes, also Klace scenes, ah! Finally they meet for real and he's taken her already making Damon jealous and angry for saying that she was his
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