Twisted Love
Season Two
As I Lay Dying
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Grace stands at the door to Elena's room as she lay there fast asleep, it was the first time in hours that she hadn't woke up crying so Grace took her chance to and walked to Jenna's room staring at her possessions just as she turned around she was surprised to see Damon there.
"That'll get easier. But you know that." Damon told her as he took her hands gently.
"What are you doing here?" Grace asked "I told you I needed to look after Elena and Jeremy."
"I know." Damon nodded as he moved his hands up to capture her in his arms "I just want you to know that I love you."
"Damon." Grace giggled a rosie blush creeping over her pale cheeks.
"Tell me you love me." Damon pressed his lips against hers moving her back against the wall, if this was going to be his last day he wanted to spend it doing the things he loved with the woman he loved "I need you to tell me."
"What's wrong with you?" Grace asked brushing her hand over his cheek, she was flustered and drunk off his presence. Damon had that ability over her, he could give her a look and her knees would become weak and make her become tongue tied.
"It's... It's nothing." Damon shrugged away "I'll see you later on."
"Are you going to that screening of Gone with the Wind?" Grace questioned tilting her head to the side "it's being shown in the town square, I'm going to try and get 'Lena and Jer to go... get them out of the house for a bit..."
"I'd love to, but probably not." Damon replied looking down at his wrist which was covered by his shirt sleeve, he could feel it throbbing painfully under the thin material, he knew by that time in the day the dementia would be in full swing and the pain would be much worse, he knew that from when he looked after Rose before use died and left them.
"Damon, you may think I'm an idiot but I know when there is something wrong." Grace's voice was low as she placed her hand on his shoulder "Please tell me, maybe I could help..." She suggested looking into his pain stricken icy blue eyes.
"It's ok." Damon assured stroking her cheek "Everything will be ok. Soon." And with that he disappeared from the room making Grace crease her eye brows at his words.
Damon walks back into the Salvatore Boarding house and looks down at his day light ring before grabbing a bottle of scotch and walking over to the curtain yanking it open letting daylight pour through.
He winced as he took off his ring letting the sun devour his skin, but before the burning could get too bad Stefan pounced on him knocking him to the ground, pinning his older brother beneath him shielding him from the light waves.
"Get off of me." Damon growled.
"You're not doing this." Stefan told him firmly.
"Just did. You know what happened to Rose, Stefan." He reminded him.
"I don't care. You're not dying today." Stefan manoeuvred them through the house to throw Damon in the cell in the cellar, closing the door and locking it behind him.
"What's the plan, Superman?" Damon couched loudly.
"I'm gonna find a way out of this." Stefan replied determined.
"Oh, right. A miracle cure. Good luck with that one." the older brother's voice was full of disbelief, if Rose had died this horrible fate, then he was too and there was nothing that was going to change that, but he was ready to accept it.
"I got Bonnie looking for something, anything." Stefan replied
"Always the hero, Stefan. Just tell me goodbye, get it over with." Damon moved to sit up and face him when he began to have a coughing fit, blood was covering his hand as he winced as the dryness of his throat, it was like sandpaper rubbing together inside of him.
"Lie still." Stefan replied simply "Conserve your strength."
Somewhere deep in the forest Klaus sits up in shrubbery completely naked smiling up at the sun when suddenly a pair of clothes hit him, he turns to see Elijah approaching.
"You've been busy." Elijah noted.
"That was amazing. How long has it been?" Klaus grinned.
"Almost 2 days. Full moon came and went. You remained a wolf." Elijah replied as Klaus pulled on his pants buckling the belt still not pulling his shirt on.
"I can change at will, then. It's good to know. I remember every single kill." Klaus grinned.
"Yes, I've been cleaning up your mess along the way." Elijah nodded.
"Just like old times, brother." A smirk appeared on the Original hybrids face.
"You've had your fun. I believe we have a bargain." the Original reminded him.
"That's right. Now, what was it again? Oh, yeah. Wait. I remember. That's it. You wish to be reunited with our family." Klaus mused running his hands though his short blonde curls.
"You gave me your work, Niklaus." Elijah stiffened at the thought of his younger brother backing out of their agreement.
"What kind of brother would break his bond? Even though you did try to kill me." Klaus nodded.
"I could have. But I didn't." Elijah replied to him as Klaus pulled is white thin v-neck shirt as Elijah helped him pull on a simple black blazer with the sleeves rolled up around his elbows.
"And now no one can, not ever you. Relax, Elijah. All is forgive." The hybrid assured him as he saw the worry in his older brothers eyes reminding him that he was truly immortal.
"Where are they?" Elijah demanded.
Alaric was sat up at the bar in the Grill drowning his sorrows about losing his beloved girlfriend Jenna Sommers, the waitress poured him yet another drink, but he reached out and grabbed the neck of the bottle snatching it from her, much to her disliking as he got up and walked away from the bar his phone began to ring.
"Sorry, you've reached somebody who's currently not operating." Alaric slurred drunkly.
"I need your help." Stefan's voice came through the speaker it was full of seriousness ignoring the drunk state of Alaric's voice.
"Well, you must have me confused with somebody else. You seen, I'm not allowed to help, just idly sit by while my girlfriend gets sacrificed on an altar of blood." Alaric spat vindictively.
"Damon's dying." Stefan replied simply.
"What?" The history teacher soon sobered up when he heard that his closest friend was dying.
"Tyler Lockwood bit him. We don't have much time?" Stefan answered.
"What do you need?" Alaric asked putting his bottle down on the table.
Grace, Elena and Jeremy arrived at a special screening of Gone with the Wind, some people were dressed up for the event, but not everyone. Elena laid down a checkered white and red picnic blanket for them all to sit down on.
"You brought me to see a girl movie." Jeremy scoffed.
"We had to get out of the house, Jer." Elena answered, she had agreed that Grace's idea for them to come and see the screening was a great idea "This is our 3 hour distraction from reality." She added as her and Grace took a seat staring up at the large blank projector screen that they would be showing the classic film on.
"Is that what we're doing? Pretending like our lives aren't screwed?" Jeremy asked he was still hurt over the loss of his family members.
"We need to do this, ok? We all do. Breathe, eat, sleep, wake up, and do it all over again until one day, it's just not as hard anymore." Grace replied to him as Caroline arrived with a wicker basket full of human food.
"Hey! There you guys are. Who's hungry?" Caroline took a seat next to Elena and Grace giving them both a loving smile.
"Are we really doing this?" Jeremy whined.
"Yes, we are really doing this. We are going to take a page from Scarlett. We made it through the way. I know you guys went through hell, and my mom knows I am a vampire, so basically it's like Atlanta has burned. And yet, in spite of everything, we persevere..." Caroline quoted the film that they were about to watch.
"Alright." Jeremy chuckled as he sat down with them "What are we eating?"
"Something good." Caroline answered as she opened her picnic basket to reveal the food that she had prepared.
At the abandoned witch house Stefan and Bonnie were in the basement talking about how they might be able to find a way to help Damon "I'm not sure this is going to work." Bonnie told him.
"You've done a séance before, right? Contacted Emily Bennett. Maybe one of the witches might know how to help Damon..." Stefan suggested.
"Let's just hope they want to." Bonnie muttered as she began to cast a spell, whispers began to erupt from around her "Emily." Suddenly her body was possessed by Emily Bennett "Why have you come here, Stefan?" Emily asked with her own voice.
"I need your help. I need to know if there's a spell that can heal a werewolf bite." Stefan informed her.
"No." Emily replied "Nature ensures a balance to everything."
"Is that true... or are you just saying no because it's Damon?" Stefan cocked an eye brows.
"Perhaps it is his time to die." Emily mused.
"No. That's not balance. That's punishment." Stefan told her scornfully.
"I will not give you want you want." The ancient witch told Stefan stubbornly.
"So you're saying that there's an answer to give? Please, if you know something, just tell me. Help me save my brother." Stefan begged before Bonnie let out a scream and fell to the floor, the vampire dove down next to her "Bonnie."
"They don't want us here. They think I'm abusing their power." Bonnie rasped.
"They know something. There's an answer. They just don't want to tell me." Stefan informed her.
"I heard them say a name." Bonnie remembered from when she was in her trance state and Emily was speaking through her.
"What was it?" Stefan asked.
"Klaus."
Over at Mystic Falls courthouse Carol enters and immediately goes towards Sheriff Forbes office closing the door as she walked in "Carol. Hi. How you feeling?" Liz asked.
"Better, thank you." Carol answered, the hospital had discharged her about a day ago, but she had been on bed rest.
"That was a terrible fall. Shouldn't you be at home resting?" The sheriff asked concerned for the town mayor.
"I've been resting, and now I'm ready to get back to work." Carol replied firmly "I need you to update me on where we are with the vampire situation."
"Well, there have been some developments, but I'm handling it." Liz replied as she scanned through her paper work.
"Are you? Because I left you in charge of this town's safety, and lately I'm not seeing any results." Carol hissed.
"I said I'm handling it." Liz's voice was low.
"Then see that you do, Sheriff, because if you can't, I'll find someone who will." Carol told her scornfully as she turned and walked from the room.
"Hey!" Elena called as she saw Stefan approaching them "Look who couldn't resist an epic romance."
"Hey, can I have a word with Grace?" Stefan asked carefully and she stood up.
"Sure. I'll be right back." Grace smiled at the three before walking away with Stefan "Movie night was supposed to be a distraction. Tomorrow we can return to our regular scheduled drama."
"I know. I wish it could wait, but it can't. Listen, um, the other night when Damon was helping Tyler, something happened." Stefan started, he saw the distressed look fall over Grace's features "Tyler was started to transform, and Damon was bitten."
"He... he what?" Grace whispered "Bitten... Werewolf... But that means..." She gulped her eyes beginning to way
"Yeah." Stefan nodded, he felt helpless.
"Oh my God." Grace whispered running her fingers through her long locks shocked by the news "He came to the house this morning and told me to tell him I loved him. I didn't answer..." her voice was high and distort "I... He... I."
"He told me not to tell you, but I figured you want to know..." Stefan nodded as he gave her a hug to calm her "I-I need your help... I wouldn't ask this of you unless it was absolutely necessary, but Bonnie thinks she knows someone that might know of a cure."
"Who?" Grace asked "I'll do anything." She promised, and it was true, she would do anything to assure that her lover would live another day, she would make a deal with the devil, little did she know that was what was needed.
"Klaus." Stefan replied and her pouted mouth fell ajar "You're the only one he will listen to, I'm sure if we talk to him..."
"Where is Damon now?" Grace asked "How is he?"
"he's weak, getting worse by the minute... I understand if you want to do say goodbye now." Stefan whispered to her.
"No, I'm not saying goodbye. I can't. I not going to lose him." Grace was determined "I'll go on my own to Klaus, go tell Elena what's happening."
Stefan shook his head firmly "No, it's too dangerous I'm coming with you."
"Stefan, he'll kill you." Grace hissed.
"No, he had the chance to kill me, but he didn't. Whatever Damon's done, whatever led him here, I'm the one that made him become a vampire in the first place, so if there's a chance for a cure, I owe it to him to find it." Stefan told her.
"Alright." Grace whispered "We should tell Elena."
Damon was laying down in the cellar, sweat pouring down his face as he breaths heavily, rasping for breath looking around he began to hallucinate, he was thrown back into 1864 when he was still drawn romantically to Ms. Fayth and he would do anything for her attention.
Fayth was getting ready in her room, the year was 1864 and she was looking in the mirror vainly at her pale complexion when she saw Damon looking through the crack in the door at her.
"Mr. Salvatore, spying on a lady is a sign of very poor manners." Fayth informed him as she pushed her cascade of lose ringlets over her shoulder, exposing her slender back to him with was only covered by her corset.
"My apologise, Ms. Fayth." Damon nodded as he stood in the doorway to her room.
"But since you are here, my corset strings seem to be knotted. I wonder if you can undo them." Fayth smiled at him looking over her shoulder throwing him a smouldering look that only she could accomplish.
"Of course." Damon walked in the room and touched his soft skin making her shiver slightly making sure to capture every exposed piece of her lovely back.
"Will you miss me while off defending the South?" Fayth asked looking at him through the mirror making sure to hold eye contact with his innocent baby blue eyes.
"I shall." Damon nodded his raven black curls bouncing around his perfect human face.
"Then I hope you will hurry back. I fear I will be lonely with you away." She gave him a sad smile her large chocolate brown eyes wide with innocence.
"I would think all your gentleman callers would be company enough." Damon mused, it was no secret that he was jealous of the way that Fayth would treat him, he wished that she would pick only him.
"Is it so wrong for me to want you all?" Fayth pouted.
"Damon." Grace's voice came from behind him.
"Grace?" Damon whispered as he saw her standing there watching the two, he was confused to why she was here, it must had been his guilt play on his mind.
"Don't you see? She was toying with you. All you had to do was say no, walk away. You had a choice." Grace whispered shaking her head.
Fayth leaned over and touched Damon's smooth cheek making him looking at her, capturing his icy gaze as she leaned close to him "Promise me that you will return quickly." Fayth whimpered.
"I promise." Damon nodded.
Back in the present day Damon pulled up the sleeve that was covering the wolf bite so he could have a look at it. He sighed, it was worse than before and he still hadn't told Grace that he was going to die, maybe it was better this way, to just go...
Stefan walked into Alaric's apartment first followed by Grace, they see both Fayth and Katherine lounging on the bed when they saw the two younger vampires the jump straight up confused to see the, but even more confused as to why they hadn't been able to leave Alaric's apartment yet.
"Two days, we've been waiting. We're supposed to be free of Klaus' compulsion by now. He's supposed to be dead!" Fayth hissed staring the two down.
"We ran into complications." Stefan answered.
"Complications?" Katherine questioned her deep brown eyes were also narrowed, too.
"Does it really matter. We just need to find him. Do you have any idea where he might be?" Stefan asked when suddenly Katherine shoved him against the wall telling him to be quiet and Fayth did the same to Grace.
Klaus walked in the room with Elijah following him they looked surprised to see that Stefan and Grace were here "Klaus, you're back. Look who decided to come for a visit." Fayth announced looking at the identical girl.
"I knew you couldn't stay away." Klaus smirked at Grace, he saw her eyes were wide with fear "And you..." He looked across at Stefan "You keep popping up, don't you."
"I need your help... For Damon." Grace whispered.
"Well, whatever it is, it's gonna have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my brother that requires my immediate attention, alright love?" He smiled affectionately at her.
"You both understand how important family is." Elijah mused as he looked at the two youngest vampires "My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own."
"And so I shall." Klaus smiled as he shoved a dagger into Elijah heart, killing him.
Fayth let out of Grace and Klaus zipped over to her looking down into her shocked chocolate brown orbs brushing his thumb over her cheek relishing in the feel of her soft skin "Now, what am I gonna do with you? Well, I know one way to torture you..." He zipped over to Stefan and shoved a stake into him.
"No." Grace screamed.
"Do you feel that, Stefan? It's scraping against your heart. The slightly little movement and you're dead." Klaus smiled evilly at him.
"Please, Klaus, stop!" Grace screamed.
"The witches said you had a cure. Made me a deal." Stefan mused.
"Give me the cure and I'll do whatever you want." Grace promised "Don't hurt Stefan, please."
"Me too, anything." Stefan nodded as Klaus removed the stake from him, he fell to the floor and Grace knelt down with him rubbing his back soothingly whilst looking up at the hybrid scared for them both.
"Trouble is I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now." Klaus mused "At least Grace is on human blood, you, Stefan, are just shy of useless."
"Well, that looks bad." Alaric mused as he looked at Damon through the bars to the door keeping him locked in the cellar that kept him from doing anything stupid.
"It feels worse." Damon replied "my subconscious is haunting me, Ric. Please tell me you have something for that." He begged his friend as he pulled out a bottle of scotch and Damon's daylight ring.
"Double shot." Alaric nodded as he poured them both a large glass of scotch.
"That's good." Damon gets up and takes his ring putting it on "Oh good." He takes the glass "So, my brother sent you for suicide watch?"
"He's just trying to help." Alaric replied.
"He's going what he always does, trying to right the wrongs of the past." Damon replied with a small sigh as he yell fell from his lips "You should want me dead. I'm the reason Jenna got killed."
"I don't blame you for Jenna." Alaric replied as he quickly downed his drink easing the painful ache for his dead girlfriend until it was a dull pain, but still there throbbing beneath the surface, hiding his true emotions from the dying vampire.
"Oh, sure you do. Let's not forget I turned your wife into a vampire. You must really hate me for that one." Damon reminded the already hurt man of his ex wife Isobel Flemming, who was now dead too, due to Klaus.
"Ok, give me your glass. Neither one of us is drunk enough for this conversation." Alaric told him firmly as Damon reached through the bars and strangled him.
"Kill me. Please." Damon begged.
"Screw you." Alaric hissed as he injected Damon with a vervain dart and he fell to the floor coughing and spluttering everywhere.
"No." Damon whispered "Where's Grace."
"She's not here, Damon." Alaric answered.
Elena parked her car outside of the Salvatore Boarding house as she walked towards the house she hears a noise, turning she saw the Sheriff, she quickly moved to cover her mouth.
"Don't make a sound." Liz threatened.
"I need blood. I need Grace." Damon rasped at Alaric "I need blood." He repeated.
Alaric ran up the stairs checking his phone nothing from Stefan yet or Grace, no progress had been made as far as he knew. As the history teacher grabbed a blood bag he turned and saw Sheriff Forbes pointing a gun at him in a protective way.
"Where's Damon?" She demanded.
"You know, now's not a good time, Sheriff. Trust me." Alaric told her holding his hands up innocently.
"Sheriff, over here." A deputy called from down in the basement.
"I wouldn't go in there!" Alaric called.
"I just wanna talk to him." Sheriff Forbes replied.
"I wouldn't go in there!" Alaric warned.
Liz didn't heed his warnings and stepped in to the cellar room where Damon was locked up, when she turned around Damon wasn't there, but when she turned back he was standing right there staring at her intently.
"Liz." Damon whispered before launching her against the wall.
Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy were all sat watching Gone with the Wind on the large projector in the middle of Mystic Falls square, but they were all worried about Damon being really sick.
"all this waiting around for news is ruining Scarlett for me." The blonde pouted crossing her arms over her chest like a small child would.
Jeremy's phone began to ring, he answered it "Alaric. Hey."
"Tell me you're with Elena." Alaric's voice came through the speaker.
"She went to go check on Damon for Grace. I thought that's where you were?" Jeremy questioned.
"No, he just escaped. I think he's looking for Grace, and the cops are after him. Listen, he's in bad shape, Jeremy, so if you find him, get him somewhere safe, where he can't hurt anybody, ok? I'm on my way." Alaric hung up.
"If Damon is off the rails, there is nothing you can do to stop him." Bonnie told Jeremy "Let us take care of it."
"You keep doing this. You left me behind before, and guess what Jenna still died. Now I'm going to find Damon. You go ahead and try to stop me."
Stefan was still on the floor of Alaric's apartment with Grace still on her knees beside him, Klaus walked around with a glass of blood in his hands whilst Katherine and Fayth watched
"I heard about this one vampire, crazy bloke, always on and off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent. 1917, he went to Monterrey and wiped out an entire migrant village... A true ripper. Sound familiar?" Klaus mused looking at Stefan
"Stefan?" Grace whispered looking at him.
"I haven't been that way in a very long time." Stefan replied.
"Well, that's the vampire I can make a deal with. That is the kind of talent that I can use when I leave this town. Along with your little telepathic mind." Klaus smiled down at the special vampire.
"So that's why." Grace hissed as she stood up "I'm just a trinket to you."
"On the contrary, I very much want you for you... but your gift, it's most certainly a bonus to me." Klaus smiled looking down at her placing his hands on her waist making her flinch at his touch "If you want Damon to live all you have to do is join me."
"But I'd never see him again." Grace whispered, her heart ached when she thought of never seeing him again, but she wanted to cry when she even though of him dying.
"Yet he would be alive." Klaus replied "So you would rather he died and you came with me or he lived and you came with me?"
"How do we even know you have the cure?" Stefan asked.
"Katerina, come here." Klaus called and Katherine walked over, he bit into her wrist, now that he was part werewolf he could do a lot of damage to an ordinary vampire.
"No. No. No!" Fayth screamed as he saw the werewolf bite throbbing on her sisters arm.
"Do not worry, my dear." Klaus bit into his wrist and fed it to her proving that he was the cure to a werewolf bite "You want a cure, love." He smiled down at Grace "There it is."
"You blood is the cure." Grace whispered.
"Gotta love Mother Nature." Klaus mused "Now, let's talk, us three." He smiled at Grace and Stefan.
Damon was stumbling around Mystic Falls square looking for Grace, he winced in the dark trying to search for her when he suddenly saw Fayth standing in front of him with a beautiful 1800s lavender dress on.
"Fayth." He whispered looking into her smouldering chocolate brown orbs but she disappeared as Jeremy joined him.
"Damon!" Jeremy called.
"Where's Grace?" He rasped "I need to see Grace now."
"Ok. Let's get you out of here first, alright?" Jeremy helped Damon putting his arm around his waist making Damon's arm sling over his shoulders.
Elena was sat in Sheriff Forbes office in the Mystic Falls courthouse, she didn't want to be in there, she had promised Grace she would look after Damon until she could return to him.
"Where's Damon? What have you done to him?" Elena asked, she knew if Grace found out that Sheriff Forbes had hurt Damon or worse then she would kill her.
"Why do you even care? You know what they are, what they do." Liz spat.
"Look, I understand why you hate them, but you're wrong." Elena hissed.
"They're murderers, Elena. End of story." Liz replied as a deputy walked in the room.
"Damon Salvatore was just spotted outside entering The Grill." He informed her.
"Wait. You've gotta let me come with you. He's sick. He's... he's not himself." Elena explained.
"Keep her here." Liz told her deputy as she ran from the room with her deputy shutting the door behind him leaving Elena trapped inside.
Jeremy and Damon walked in the Grill as he pulled out his phone and called Bonnie telling her that he had Damon, as the Sheriff ran in she went to shoot Damon but he moved and she ended up firing a bullet into Jeremy's chest.
"Oh God! Oh God!" Liz ran over to Jeremy speaking into her radio "I've got a gunshot victim at the the Grill. Get the paramedics here." Liz whispered tears falling down her face as she looks at Jeremy "You're gonna be fine. It's gonna be ok."
"Jeremy!" Bonnie ran in followed by Caroline.
"Mom." Caroline whispered "Mom, what did you do?"
"I was aiming for Damon." Liz replied.
"He still has his ring." Caroline informed Bonnie as they both knelt down beside him.
The witch shook her head close to tears "She's human. The ring won't work on him. Caroline-"
"I got it." Caroline bit into her wrist and put it in Jeremy's mouth, but he wasn't accepting it.
"Come on, Jeremy. Just drink. Go on, Jeremy. Drink." Caroline whispered.
"What are you doing?" Liz asked.
"I'm helping him. Jeremy, drink. Please. Please. Please." Caroline begged but he didn't drink because he was dead, it poured down his cheek showing that he hadn't swallowed the crimson liquid that would normally save him.
"Bonnie, what's going on?" Alaric asked as he walked in the room to see Jeremy on the floor "Oh my God."
"I know what I need to do." Bonnie sobbed as she looked at the history teacher "I need you to grab him. T-take him with us."
"No. You can't move him. This is a crime scene." Liz whimpered.
"Mom, you let them go." Caroline ordered.
"Alright, come here, buddy. I got you. I got you." Alaric whispered as he stood Jeremy's limp body up.
Elena was still trapped in Sheriff Forbes office trying to find a way out, she took a deep breath before she grabbed the she had been sitting on chair and broke the window that lead out to the road.
Klaus was pouring his blood into a vial and left it on the side, Grace and Stefan look at each other whilst Fayth and Katherine look on interested "There it is. You want to save your brother, don't you? And Grace, you love Damon, don't you? How 'bout a decade-long bender? I have big plans for you both when we leave this town." Klaus smiled.
"I'm not like that anymore." Stefan growled.
"Well, that's too bad. Because that was the Stefan that I wanted with me... and without him no cure." Klaus began to tip the vial up to release the blood into the sink making Grace stiffen and gasp at Damon's final hope disappearing before her eyes.
"Wait!" Stefan stopped him.
"Now that's more like it. I want you both to have a drink with me." He passed both Grace and Stefan blood bags Grace drank her with ease, but Stefan only sipped at his "Finish it. You do everything and say and I will save Damon. That's the deal."
Stefan exchange a glance with Grace, her eyes were filled with sorrow, but they were torn with pleading, she wanted Damon to live so much, but didn't want Stefan to lose himself. Quickly the older vampire finished the blood bag as Klaus passed him another.
Bonnie and Alaric were down in the basement of the abandoned witch house, Jeremy was still dead on the floor as the witch finished lighting the candles "Is this even possible?" Alaric asked.
"There's a spell for it if they'll give me the power to use it." Bonnie whispered as Jeremy's head was laying on her lap, the voices of ancestors and witches begin to whisper as she began to cast the spell "No." She whimpered.
"What? What is it?" Alaric asked.
"They're angry at me for coming back here. They don't wanna help." Bonnie sobbed.
"Well, they have to!" Alaric yelled.
"They said there'll be consequences." Bonnie repeated what she could hear.
"Well, he's just a kid. Tell 'em to shut up!" Alaric growled as the witch continued casting her spell, blood tricked from her nose and she sobbed again.
"Emily. Emily! I know you're here." She called out her ancestors name "Please help me. I love him."
The room fell deathly silently and Bonnie screamed hugging Jeremy closely when suddenly his eyes opened and he stared up at her "Oh my God."
"Bonnie?" Jeremy whispered.
"Oh my God, Jeremy. Oh my God!" Bonnie whispered.
"What happened?" Jeremy rasped.
"Doesn't matter. You're ok. You're ok." Bonnie assured him as she raised her head "Thank you." She told the spirits.
In Mystic Falls square Elena kept checking her phone for any sign of Grace and Stefan whilst looking for Damon "Elena." Damon asked "Where's Grace?"
"Damon." She grabbed him "Hey, come one. Come on. We have to get you our of here. We have to hide you."
"Where are we going?" Damon asked looking around.
Damon was running after Fayth back in 1864 as she skipped through the deep, pitch black forest, he would follow her everywhere like a little lost puppy a fiery torch in hand so he could see where he was going.
"everywhere!" Fayth giggled in response to Damon's question.
"Wait for me." Damon called "I want to come with you." He tripped on a root but remained standing.
Back in the present day Damon tripped on the ground unable to keep stand anymore and Elena rushed over to help him back up on his feet.
Damon pinned Fayth against the tree and she looked up at him biting her bottom lip sensually before pecking his masculine lips softly.
"Hey. Hey. Relax. We'll find Grace. We need just need to get you out of here." Elena whispered when suddenly she was shoved back against a post.
"Where is she?" Damon growled "What have you done with her."
"You're faster than I thought." Fayth purred pecking his strong jaw line sensually looking up into his bright blue eyes which were sparkling in the torch light.
"Why must you always run from me?" Damon asked, the hurt was evident in his voice.
"Because I know that you will chase." Fayth smiled knowingly at the poor human boy.
"Then let me chase you forever. Feed me your blood." Damon begged.
"I will not feed you, Damon. If you want it, take it." She pulled a pin from her hair and sliced her neck letting her blood pour out "It is your choice to make."
As Damon looked up he didn't see Elena he saw Fayth she was smiling at him looking deep into his icy blue orbs "I choose you, Fayth." He whispered.
"Damon! Look at me. Hey. It's Elena. It's Elena." She tried.
"Promise me you will not tell me brother, he will not understand." Damon breathed as he leaned towards her addictive blood.
"I promise. It will be our little secret." She cooed, she let out a choked moan as he began to suck at her neck.
"No. Damon. No!" Elena screamed as he leaned into her neck his fangs peeking out below his luscious lips.
"I have to, Fayth... If we are to be together forever." Damon whimpered as he crunched into her neck.
"Damon, stop! It's not Fayth. It's me, Elena! Damon, you don't have to do this. Stop! You're hurting me!" Elena screamed.
"Elena?" Damon creased his eye brows as he fell to the floor.
"Damon... Damon." She held his wound hoping the bleeding would stop soon.
Inside of the Grill Caroline hangs up on the conversation she was having with Bonnie to turn to her mom who was sat a booth looking rather distressed "That was Bonnie. Jeremy's alive." Caroline informed her.
"I thought I killed him." Liz breathed.
"You did." Caroline nodded.
"I don't understand." Liz whispered.
"I explained it to you once. I... I had to make you forget because I was so scared of what you might do. But now... I don't wanna lie. I'm not gonna be afraid of you anymore. I don't want you to be afraid of me anymore. I'm still your little girl." She put her arms around her mom "It's me. It's me, mom." She assured her and the Sheriff began to sob hugging her loving daughter back.
Jeremy was sat upright in his bed talking to Bonnie via webcam, he was just getting some bed rest, dying and coming back to life had really taken it out of him "Hey. What are you doing?" Bonnie asked.
"Trying to figure out what's wrong with me. I feel different, weird." Jeremy noted.
"Yeah, you were dead. It'd be weird if you felt normal." Bonnie replied with a small giggle.
"Bonnie, I, uh... I don't' know how to thank you." Jeremy's voice was low.
"You can thank me tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that." She giggled and he chuckled "Goodnight, Jeremy."
"Goodnight." Jeremy ended the conversation closing his laptop as Alaric walked in the room.
"Hey, bud. I'm gonna take off. Need anything?" The hunter asked him kindly.
"Uh, no, no. I think I'm good." Jeremy replied, as Alaric turned to leave he saw the loneliness in his eyes as he would be the only person in the house, Grace and Elena were busy, Jenna was dead, John was dead... he was all alone in the house that grew up in with his parents that were dead too.
"You know, uh, on second thought, I might just crash here. Is that cool?" Alaric asked.
"Yeah, yeah. Sure whatever." Jeremy smiled.
"Alright." Alaric nodded about to leave again.
"Alaric." Jeremy called stopping him "Um... Thank you for everything."
"Ah, you can thank me tomorrow... And the day after that, and the day after that." He put on a feminine voice mimicking Bonnie.
"Dude, come on! I knew you were listening!" Jeremy laughed as he launched a pillow at Alaric.
"And the day after that." He chuckled as he walked from the room.
Damon was laying in his bed staring up at the ceiling, sweating something fierce and and looking even worse that before. Elena was sat on a chair beside him with a towel in hand "Elena. Where is she?" Damon rasped "I want to see her."
"It's ok, Damon." Elena assured him looking at her phone "I'm sure she'll be back soon."
"Does she know?" Damon asked Elena nodded slowly "If... If I can't hold out I want you to tell her I loved her more than anything."
"Damon, don't say that." Elena whispered "You're going to make it, she's going to be here."
"You know what happened to Rose." Damon coughed spitting up blood "All those years, I've blamed Stefan. No one forced me to love her. It was my own choice." He referred to Fayth.
"Shh." Elena stopped him.
"I made the wrong choice. You tell Stefan I'm sorry. Ok?" Damon looked at her "Promise me you'll tell them."
"I will." Elena nodded as she took his hand comfortingly.
"You're both very cooperative. It's almost as if you're enjoying it." Klaus mused as Stefan finished yet another blood bag.
"No more." Grace jumped up "Not until Damon gets the cure."
"Alright, sweetheart." Klaus passed her the cure "I don't really need to compel you to come back, I know you will."
"What happens if I don't?" Grace whispered.
"I will start a rampage starting with Damon ending with everyone else you care about." Klaus threatened "Fayth Katherine escort her."
"You want us to leave?" Katherine asked.
"Yes." Klaus nodded and the two girls were gone with Grace in tow "She will most certainly come back and then we can leave."
As Grace walked into the Salvatore Boarding house a cascade of shivers tumbled down her spine as she walked towards Damon's room hearing his wheezing for breath and coughing.
"Grace." Elena whispered as she walked into the room.
"Do you mind if I have a few minutes with Damon?" Grace whimpered.
"Where's Stefan." Elena asked scared.
"Please, Elena." Grace looked at her "I need to do this."
Elena let out a shaky breath as she walked from the room closing the door behind her, the younger vampire stared at her lover for a moment seeing that he was in a bad way "Why didn't you tell me?" Grace whispered as she walked towards him "Why did I have to find out from Stefan?"
"I asked him not to tell you." Damon replied as he reached of her hand "I'm sorry for that."
"Don't be, I know you were only trying to protect me." Grace replied as she sat next to him her legs crossed staring at him as he lay still on the bed "Would you have left without saying goodbye?"
"I didn't want you to remember me this way." Damon replied "Too late now."
"You know, Damon, I never put you down for the suffer in silence type." Grace giggled tears tumbling down her cheeks a small sob falling from her lips.
Damon dried them "It would have been easier for you-"
"No, Damon, it would have been easier for you." Grace hissed but she regretted being angry at him.
"Don't be mad at me." Damon stroked her cheek "You know, you should have met me in 1864. You would have liked me a lot more."
"I love you now." Grace smiled "I want you to remember that."
"So what now?" Damon asked slowly.
"Take this." Grace placed the vial of Klaus' blood in his hand "You'll feel better, I promise."
Damon drinks it and starts to immediately feel better "What was that?" He creased his eye brows looking at the blood in the vial.
"The cure." Grace replied "I need to go."
"Where?" Damon whispered "Don't leave. Please."
"I'm sorry. Stefan and I... we have to pay for this." She whimpered "We gave ourselves over to Klaus."
"What?" Elena stood in the doorway.
"Look after her." Grace told Damon leaning in and kissing him.
"Grace." Elena hissed as she walked in the room "What is going on?" She grabbed her sister's shoulder making the vampire face her.
"I had to save Damon... He wanted us in exchange for the cure." Grace whimpered as she hugged her sister "He loves you. Stefan loves you so much. Never forget that, Elena. I love you, too, alright? Look after Jer and Bonnie and Caroline... and Damon."
"I'm not letting you go." Damon sat up still weakly grabbing her hand holding onto it with all of his strength "I'll hide you, we'll run away together."
"I wish I could." Grace whispered "I would love nothing more than to be with you somewhere nice where we don't have to deal with Klaus drama, but I can't leave Stefan where he is in the state he is in."
"Grace. I won't allow you to go." Damon's voice was low and threatening as he pulled her towards him.
"No." Grace whispered "He'll kill you. I have to go." She hugged Damon kissing him passionately "I love you so much, Damon Salvatore. Only you. Forever. I love you." She whispered tears pouring down her cheeks as she struggled to keep her breathing normal.
"You're not leaving." Damon had tears in his eyes "No."
"Damon." She pried herself away from him as her phone vibrated in her pocket.
Klaus – It's time x
That was followed by a text telling her to meet them at a warehouse across town, she pecked Damon's lips once before zipping from the room.
"No, she can't." Elena whispered "He can't..."
Elijah was laid down in a coffin as Klaus looked over him, arms crossed over his chest, two men were waiting "I suppose, brother, you've been reunited with our family." Klaus mused as he sealed the coffin shut and the two men rolled it away "Put him with the other coffins. We're leaving town tonight." As he walked back out he saw Grace standing with Stefan "Ah, love, you're back."
"I said I would return." Grace's voice was low and emotionless as she dried her eyes, her mascara that had ran covering her hands.
"Without Katerina and Fay." He noted looking around.
"You won't be seeing them again, you know." Stefan told him.
"Because they're on vervain? I've been around a long time, Stefan. I rarely get plated for a fool. Besides, they won't get very far. You'll both help me see to that." Klaus added.
"What is it you really want from us?" Stefan asked.
"All will be explained in time. Once we leave this tragic little town." Klaus replied looking down at Grace who was still crying "I have a gift for you both." a small blonde girl stepped out looking scared but not screaming or crying like Grace would have been if she was in the humans situation.
"Come one, sweetheart." Klaus beamed "Now... Let's test out your ability. What is she thinking?"
Grace closed her puffy chocolate brown eyes and listening to the blondes voice "She's scared." The vampire whispered "She wants to go home to her family, her little sister Abigail... And little brother Toby, she was supposed to be babysitting them tonight."
"Is she right?" Klaus looked at the girl who nodded in response, she was spot on.
"I need to make sure you both honour our deal... that you'll be of use to me, but I do want you to see something, love... A ripper, which is what your friend Stefan here is, loves a hunt..." He tore into the girls neck and she ran but Stefan quickly caught up with her ripping into her neck draining her until she died "Now we can go."
Jeremy jolted awake as he heard a noise, he called out to Alaric, but there was no response, walking down the stairs of the house he saw Alaric fast asleep on the couch snoring gently.
"Jer?" A familiar icy cold voice came from behind him, but as he turned he saw no one there.
"Jer?" Another voice called and when he turned he saw Anna standing in his kitchen.
"Anna?" He breathed surprised to see his dead lover when he turned again he saw Vicki standing there with a smile on her beautiful features "Vicki?"
A/N
Season two complete! Whoo! Oh man having Grace leave Damon was so hard to write, but she did it to save his life, so I hope you will forgive me :)
I hope everyone enjoyed and I will be getting started on Season three ASAP because I just love season 3 so much! So many Klace scenes to write yet so many Drace scenes, I can't wait!
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