Twisted Love
Season Three
The Hybrid
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Damon was standing in his room looking at all the things Grace had left in his closet, her clothes, items of importance. He had a picture him and Grace placed up on the inside of the door so if he ever got too lonely and things got too much for him he would look at it and remember all the good times they shared.
As the heartbroken vampire closed the door Elena was standing in the doorway to his room holding her phone in both hands looking at him with a sad smile.
"What do you want?" Damon asked "I'm really not in the mood."
"You've been dodging my calls." Elena replied to him.
"Yeah, well, I've been busy... trying to get rid of a dead news reporter." Damon answered remembering Andie, how Grace had been part of the killing, it didn't seeming willingly of course, but she was there when Stefan was compelling the poor woman.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Elena asked tucking a piece of her chocolate brown hair behind her ear.
"Happy birthday, Elena. Stefan and Grace killed Andie... Cake?" His voice was thick with sarcasm.
"He called me, Damon. They both did."
"What?" Damon hissed looking over at her.
"She left me a voice mail." Elena smiled happily "And he called me."
"Let me hear it." Damon snatched the phone from her hand entering the code so that Grace's voice came through.
"Hi. Elena. It's... It's Grace. Happy birthday, I'm sorry I couldn't be there to celebrate our 18th birthday... I hope you had a good time..." Damon heard Grace take a deep breath and his heart ached "You need to stop looking for us. I'm sorry. I love you. End of messages-" Damon quickly hung up and handed her phone back.
"Are you ok?" Elena whispered.
"Fine." Damon answered "What did Stefan say?"
"He didn't say anything, but it was him. I asked Sheriff Forbes if she could trace the call's origin. It came from Tennessee." Elena's voice lit up with hope.
"Where he's binge drinking on country folk." Damon answered, there was no doubt that he was bitter that he couldn't see the woman he loved "We went through this, Elena. Stefan's gone. I don't mean geographically."
"If he was gone, he wouldn't have called." Elena countered.
Alaric was laying on his back, the sun was creeping through the blinds trying to wake him up, but he didn't want to, he knew he had to when the door was knocked loudly "Go away, Damon!" He yelled, it was too early to be dealing with Damon, the door was knocked again and he got up opening it.
"Hi." Elena smiled.
"You're, uh... Not who I expected." Alaric gulped looking down at his naked chest.
"I need you to tell me what you know about Stefan, Grace and Tennessee." Elena replied.
"Did you miss the part where I checked out all of this?" Alaric smirked.
"Come on, Ric. Whatever Damon knows, you know." Elena shrugged.
"Ask Damon." Alaric replied, he didn't want to be the one to tell her Stefan was a crazy killer that tore his victims apart.
"Yeah, but Damon's not exactly in the mood to help right now." Elena told him.
"For a good reason." Alaric countered "Because it's not safe for you. Stefan's off the rails."
"Yeah, but he's still holding on to his humanity, which means he can still be saved." Elena smiled, the hunter could hear the hope that layered her voice.
"And why do you have to be the one to save him?" Alaric asked.
"Because I'm not the kind of person who checks out. Look, he would never give up on me. I'm not gonna give up on him, or my sister. Tell me what you know, Ric, please." Elena begged.
"They've been tracking werewolves, he, Grace and Klaus. All over the eastern seaboard. We thought we had 'em outside Memphis..."
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Klaus, Grace and Stefan were trekking up the mountains, Grace was holding a map checking it out every so often and Stefan was holding Ray, the werewolf's, unconscious body slung over his shoulder.
"You ok? Is Ray getting heavy?" Klaus questioned.
"I'm fine." Stefan replied sharply.
"What about you, sweetheart?" Klaus asked snaking his arm around Grace's waist "If you need a sit down, or a sip of water... Or you need to take you shirt off-"
"You know, I get that we're stuck together, but if you could stop with the flirty comments and we all could just stop the chitchat all together, that would be great." Grace shrugged his arm off.
"So much brooding." Klaus scoffed "Your self-loathing is suffocating you, love."
"Maybe it's because we're a little tired of hunting werewolves." Stefan countered "We've been at it all summer."
"Thanks to our pal Ray, we found ourselves pack. There." He pointed as the approached a camp full of people seeing up a camp, Stefan quickly throws Ray to the ground.
"Ray! Oh my God!" A brunette with short cropped hair ran over "What's going on? What are you?" She hissed at Stefan.
"The important question is who am I." Klaus smirked "Please forgive the intrusion. My name is Klaus." He told the pack of wolves.
"You're the hybrid." The woman hissed.
A huge smile spread across Klaus' face "You're heard of me. Fantastic."
Mystic Falls
Carol poured herself a glass of scotch before putting some vervain in a coffee for her son, she smiled as he walked down the stairs "Hey, mom." Tyler smiled as he placed a sweet kiss on her cheek.
"Morning, sweetheart. Coffee's hot." She slid a coffee over to him, the one filled with vervain.
"Rough night?" He asked as he saw her scotch.
"uh, rough week. I'm a little stressed. You?" Carol questioned.
"Feeling pretty good." Tyler shrugged.
"You know, if you're going to bring a girl home, I wish she'd have the tact to not sneak out like a prostitute." Carol informed her son of his run it with Caroline Forbes in the early hours of the morning.
"I'm sorry." Tyler muttered "She snuck out?"
"hmm." Carol mused.
Tyler gave her a funny look before taking a sip of his coffee, there was something off about it "Whoa. I think this cream's bad." He put his cut on the side "don't wait up tonight." he pecked her cheek again "Oh, and Caroline, she's not a prostitute..." He told her before turning and walking from the house.
Carol quickly grabs her phone dialling a number she rarely used "Bill, it's, um, Carol Lockwood. I've gotten myself into a bit of a vampire situation..."
Jeremy walked into the stockroom on one of his days off when he was suddenly joined by Matt who was busy actually working so he could pay the bills to his house.
"Please tell me you're not turning into one of those losers that hands out at work on his day off." Matt scoffed.
"You remember what we talked about last night, how I've been seeing things?" Jeremy questioned, he was so desperate to talk to someone about this he would settle for Matt.
"Honestly, Jer, last night is kind of a blur." Matt admitted.
"Well, I saw her again. I saw Vicki." Jeremy told him.
"Why are you... why are you telling me this? You're dating a witch. Why don't you tell her?" Matt looked at him confused.
"Tell Bonnie that she brought me back to life and now I'm seeing my dead girlfriend? We don't need a witch, ok? There's examples all over the Internet. We need..." he pulled a load of papers from his bag "Personal items, and it words best when a family member tries to make contact."
"No, no, no, no, no." Matt told the young boy firmly "We're... we're not contacting my sister."
"She said, 'help me'." Jeremy told the older brother of his dead girlfriend.
"If you're messing with me, man-"
"I saw her, Matt. She's asking for help. You were the one she loved the most. If anyone's gonna be able to help me connect to her, it's you." Jeremy's voice was low and desperate.
Inside the bar Elena was talking to Tyler about packs of werewolves, if anyone knew about it then it was him, being a werewolf and was once in a pack, he would know... Alaric was sat up at the bar watching the conversation take place.
"A lot of us like to keep to ourselves for the full moon, chain ourselves up. But there are some werewolf that like to gather in places were they don't have to do that, where they can enjoy it." Tyler explained.
"What kind of places?" Elena tilted her head to the side.
"Mountains, state parks, deserts, that kind of stuff..." The werewolf shrugged.
"Anywhere in Tennessee?" Elena asked.
"Yeah. Here. Give me your phone. I'll try to pull up a map." Tyler asked.
"Thanks for this. I know it's asking a lot." Elena nodded gratefully, werewolves were normally very secretive about their hiding spots and where they ran off to on full moons, so asking a werewolf where he's own were hiding was like asking me to commit treason.
"Hey. This is for Grace, right? I'd do anything for her." Tyler mused as he looked down at the phone in his hands "Plus, as Caroline likes to forever remind me, it's my fault that both of them are out there... I bit Damon..." He sighed regretfully "Have you talked to her today?" he asked about the blonde that had snuck out on him the night before.
"No. Why?" Elena asked.
"Just curious. Here." Tyler passed her back her phone "That's your best bet."
Elena smiled kindly before joining Alaric, sliding her phone across the bar to him so that he could have a good look at the possible location "How do you feel like about a little hike through the Smoky Mountains?"
"You wanna hunt down a pack of werewolves on a full moon?" Alaric scoffed.
"We'll be out of there before the moon is full. If you don't come with me, I'm going by myself." She told him firmly "What? You're the one who told me that I could handle things on my own now."
"Yeah, I meant like frozen dinners and SATs. A-alright fine. Let's just... Let's just go. But, uh, you're driving." Alaric told her.
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Klaus, Grace and Stefan were sitting on a large rock whilst all of the werewolves stared them down intensely, some were scared for their lives, others were ready to fight, they were the foolish ones.
"It's fascinating, actually... A werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun. A true hybrid." Klaus mused when suddenly Ray woke up with a painful gasp, arching his back off the ground "Excellent timing, Ray. Very dramatic."
"What's happening to me?" Ray whispered holding his throat as he ached for a burning he had never felt before, he made his stomach churn with a sickly feeling and his eyes were burning in the sunlight.
"Grace." Klaus looked over at the female who stood up looking at everyone regretfully.
"Are any of you human? Your friend here needs human blood to complete his transition to vampire. If he doesn't get it, he will die." Grace told them all.
"Doesn't take much, just a sip. Anyone? A boyfriend, a girlfriend, along for the ride?" He scanned the group before stopping on one man who was visibly nervous "You." Quickly he rushed towards him crunching down into his forearm, Stefan caught him and threw him to the ground beside Ray.
"If you don't drink it, Ray, I will. Problem is I don't know how to stop." Stefan smirked.
A woman went to pounce for Stefan but Grace quickly caught her neck shaking her head at her, it was a warning, but she wasn't going to let up and Klaus took over "It's a new order, sweetheart. You join us, or you die."
"I'd rather die that be a vampire." The woman spat.
"Wrong choice." Klaus replied feeding her his blood then snapping her neck "She'll thank me for that later..." He looked down to see that Ray was feeding from the human "Ok, who's next?" His eyes were flowing a fantastic amber yellow and his fangs were extended.
Mystic Falls
Tyler was playing pool waiting for the full moon to come around, plus waiting for Caroline to come by so they could get set up in the Lockwood Estate ruins when Matt walked over to him with a coffee "You moving in or something? You've been here forever." Matt smirked.
"I thought I was meeting Caroline. You haven't seen her, have you?" Tyler look at the blond boy curious.
"Not keeping up on her comings and goings anymore." Matt shrugged carelessly.
"Look, man, I never meant for me and her being friends to be a problem for you." Tyler shook his head gently.
"It is what is it. Tonight's a full moon. She usually helps you?" Matt asked curiously.
"Yeah. Whatever." The wolf shrugged.
"Do you, uh... is this the kind of thing that you need another person for?" Matt questioned.
"I can handle it. But thanks." Tyler smiled as he took a gulp of the coffee, he winced, it was the same as the morning, a horrible taste left in his mouth "Ah. What is up with my taste buds today?"
"Heh. It's the vervain. The sheriff has me slip it into coffee here every now and then." He shrugged.
"That's what vervain tastes like?" Tyler gave a disgusted look.
"Yeah. I'm surprised you can taste it, the coffee usually hides the flavour. For humans, anyway." Matt replied.
Over at the Lockwood Mansion the door bell rang, immediately Carol opened the door to reveal a older, larger man "Thank you so much for something. Does anyone else know you're here?" The mayor asked.
"No. I din't drive through own. I came straight here." The man shrugged.
"Can I offer you a drink?" Carol asked courteously.
"I think you should just tell me what you expect me to do." The man replied crossing his arms over his chest impatiently.
"I was hoping you could tell me. It's Caroline, Bill. I remember the day she was born." She mourned a girl who wasn't dead, not technically.
"What does the rest of the council know?" Bill asked.
"I haven't said a word. I've been putting this together on my own for months now. Any ideas how to handle this? I can't get my hands dirty here for a lot of reasons." Carol informed him.
"She's a vampire, Carol. We do what we have to do..." Bill replied.
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Alaric and Elena were walking through the forest at the bottom of the mountain, they stopped for a moment to inspect their surrounds "In a couple of hours, the full moon's gonna rise just about that Ridge." Alaric pointed "If Tyler's right, that's where the pack'll be..."
"You were a boy scout, weren't you?" She teased and he grinned over at her "a boy scout slash vampire slayer?"
"slash whisky-drinking all-around lost cause." Alaric added as he opened his bag to reveal a load of weapons that were ready for action.
"Wow. You came stocked." Elena noted.
"Well, we aren't exactly bird-watching. Here. Put that in your bag." he handed her a grenade that was full of wolfsbane.
"Vervain grenade?" Elena questioned looking at the contraption.
"Wolfsbane." Alaric corrected her.
"Well, since we're exchanging gifts..." She reached into her short pocket to pull out the magic Gilbert ring John had given her.
"That's John Gilbert's ring..." Alaric noted.
"It was yours once. Go ahead. Take it. It'll protect you from whatever supernatural danger we're about to get ourselves into." She smiled holding it out for him in the palm of her hand.
"He gave it to you." Alaric shook his head.
"Yeah, but I'm a doppelgänger. It's not gonna work on me. He left it for if I ever have kids." Elena shrugged.
"Yeah, well, then why don't you save it for the future generations of stubborn, relentless baby Gilbert's?" Alaric chuckled.
"Ok, and how about you borrow it until after we survive this? I'd feel bad if I got you killed before happy hour." She grinned and he took the ring slipping it on his finger, she turned and faced the water "I don't know why you think that you're a lost cause-" Suddenly Damon arrived and launched her into the water of the flowing stream, Alaric reacted quickly and aimed his crossbow at him, but lowered it when he law the messy raven black hair.
"Damon! How are you even here?" Elena screamed from the water.
"Thanks for the tip, brother." Damon grinned at Alaric.
"You sold me out!" Elena growled at the hunter.
"You think I'd take you to a mountain range of werewolves on a full moon without backup?" The teacher scoffed.
Klaus finished giving his blood to the human smiling kindly at him, there was a pile of dead werewolf bodies around him, awaiting for them all to awaken "There. Good as new." Klaus smiled at the human that had been supplying the werewolves with blood "Now you relax, ok, mate? We're gonna need you when the rest of them wake up."
"They're dead." Ray whispered looking at the pack he belonged to "They're all dead."
"Ah, he's through his transition. He should be feeling better soon." Klaus smiled.
"So is this your master plan?" Grace spat looking at the bodies "Build an army of hybrid slaves?"
"No, not slaves. Soldiers, comrades." Klaus replied smiling at her.
"For what war?" Grace asked shortly.
"Oh, you don't arm yourself after war has been declared, Grace. You build your army so big that no one ever dares pick a fight." Klaus countered.
"What makes you so sure that they'll be loyal?" Grace spat.
"Well, it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team. That's something you'll learn once you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder." Klaus smirked.
"So that's why you're keeping us around? To witness our attitude adjustments?" Stefan hissed.
"Grace is an asset." Klaus rolled his eyes "A beautiful one at that." He ran his fingers down her spine "But you, Stefan, You'll know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know." He looked over at Ray to see there was blood pouring from his eyes "Something's wrong."
"That shouldn't be happening, should it?" Stefan smirked.
"Well, obviously." Klaus hissed.
Elena was still in the water trying to make her way out whilst Damon stood up on the shore talking with Alaric "Get out of the water, Elena." Damon ordered.
"I'm trying." She hissed as she crawled out onto the lad "You're not making me go home."
"Yes, I am. Don't be an idiot." Damon spat.
"Right now, you're both acting like idiots." Alaric quipped earning a deadly look from the vampire.
"You gave up on him, Damon. How could you? He's you're brother..." Elena whispered.
"I didn't give up on him, Elena. I faced reality. Now we need to get you out of here." Damon told her firmly.
"No!" Elena replied.
"What's your big plan, Elena? Huh? You gonna walk though a campsite full of werewolves, roast a marshmallow, and wait for Stefan and Grace to stop by?" Damon scoffed.
"My plan is to find them and help him. Damon, this is the closest that we've been to him since he left. I'm not going home." Elena replied.
"Klaus thinks you died when he broke the curse. That makes you safe. This, this is not safe." Damon told her.
"I'm leaving before we find them." Elena crossed her arms over her chest stubbornly.
"It's a full moon tonight, Elena. If you forgot, that's how your sister got turned into a vampire because a werewolf killed her..." Damon hissed "But, wait, let's backtrack, to become a vampire you need... wait, what is it? Or right, yeah Vampire blood. Have you been drinking vampire blood lately?" he questioned and she remained silent "no? Well then you'll just die!"
"We'll find them before that. Damon, please." Elena begged "You'll find Grace, she'll be safe in your arms again."
Damon growled, that was his one weakness, Grace, he's do anything to find her, he'd give up anything, go anywhere, even if that was through a werewolf infested forest on a full moon.
"Ok." Damon growled "But we are out of here before the moon if full and I'm werewolf bait."
"I promise." Elena nodded.
Ray was shaking violently whilst Stefan, Klaus and Grace observed the blood dropping down from his eyes, the youngest vampire felt a growl of guilt in her stomach, he must had been going threw her a awful pain, it must had truly been terrifying for him.
"You said I was gonna feel better." Ray whispered "Why doesn't it feel better?"
"Some mater race." Grace scoffed.
"Lose the attitude." Klaus growled as the brunette werewolf woman woke up, he looked over at the waiting human "Derek, come feed your girlfriend." Suddenly as Derek made his way to the brunette with the bob cut, Ray made a growling nose and jumped away from them "Go get him." Klaus told Grace and she got to work.
Jumping on the wolf Ray easily pushed her tot he ground tearing into her arm with his razor sharp teeth, she stared down at her arm for a few seconds letting the reality of the moment set in before Stefan approached.
"Where did he go?" Stefan asked seeing the tears in her eyes "Are you ok? Did he hurt you?" She revealed her arm to him, it had healed and already turned a hideous black "No."
"H-he bit me." Grace hiccuped before hearing voices in the distance.
"How are you doing?" Damon's voice made Grace's stomach to scared flips, her muscles visibly tensed as her voice vibrated through her body.
"Fine." Elena replied and Stefan's eyes grew wide his heart throbbing at her words.
"Just one little whoosh-"
"Yeah, with my luck, you'd drop me." Elena replied.
"That would be a goo thing wouldn't it?" Damon countered jokingly.
"What are you guys, 12?" Alaric smirked.
Klaus approached then and Grace could see them walking towards the camp, Grace quickly took his hands leading him away from the ledge so that he wouldn't see Elena, Damon or Alaric "m-my arm..."
"Aww, sweetie, did the big bad wolf bite you?" Klaus pouted kissing the skin gently, his tongue flicking out to taste the sweet blood that had dried on her wrist, the blood sizzled on his tongue and he hummed swallowing down the magical tasting crimson blood.
"can you heal me?" Grace asked her eyes wide and innocent as she looked at the hybrid full of hope.
"I'll make you a little deal..." Klaus smiled "You find Ray, and then I'll heal you... Stefan, you're more than welcome to help her."
"You can't be serious." Stefan's eyes flared with worry "That's crazy, she can't go running around the forest with a bite like that..."
"You better hurry, 'cause that bite looks nasty." Klaus smirked returning to the campsite to see that all of their eyes were a bloody mess.
Grace dropped to her knees sobbing whilst looking at her wrist, she was a goner, she wouldn't never be able to find Ray in time and then never be able to see Damon again, Stefan to a seat next to her wrapping his arms around her hugging her.
"Don't worry, we'll find him." Stefan whispered softly "You're going to be fine."
"I want to go home, Stefan." Grace sobbed looking up at him with her wide chocolate brown eyes "I want to be with Damon and I want to see Elena, I want to see my friends..."
"I know. I know. Shh." He pecked the top of her head in the brotherly way "I'm going to get you out of here if it's the last thing I do. I promise, when the time is right you're gonna get out of here."
"But what about you?" She whispered.
"Don't worry about me." Stefan nodded "We need to find Ray first and we need you healed, but until I can find a way I need you to just play it cool, ok?"
"Yeah." Grace nodded and Stefan dried her tears with his thumbs.
"No tears, ok?" Stefan asked and she nodded trying to act tough, but on the insider she was screaming and crying, but for Stefan, a man she thought of as a brother, she would stay strong.
Mystic Falls
Tyler walks into his father's office to see his mother in there, he wanted to question her about the vervain in his coffee "You put vervain in my coffee this morning. Why?" Tyler asked.
"Vervain? What are you talking about?" Carol played dumb.
"Let's skip the part where we pretend we don't know about the vampires in this town. You were testing me to see if I was a vampire. I want to know why." Tyler looked at her seriously.
"You've been spending so much time with Caroline. I had to know for sure." Carol replied.
"What does Caroline have to do with it?" Tyler then played dumb to protect his lover.
"Let's skip the part where we pretend she's not one of them." Carol rolled her eyes.
"Did you do something with her?" Tyler growled.
"Tyler, I don't want you to be with her." Carol told him.
"Where is she, mom?" Tyler asked firmly.
"I can't let you be together." She dismissed her son.
"What did you do to her? Where is she?" Tyler asked.
"You can't be with her. She's a monster." She continued not to answer his question, but today was the wrong day to be playing with Tyler's emotions, it was a full moon and they were more heightened than usual.
"You don't know about me, do you?" Tyler smirked.
"Know what?" Carol looked up to see the smile on his face "Know what, Tyler?"
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
The sun was beginning to set on the lovely state of Tennessee and Damon, Alaric and Elena were still walking through the Smoky Mountains "We got about a mile left." Alaric noted.
"The sun's about to set." Damon told them.
"I can see that, Damon." Elena hissed.
"I'm just saying." Damon held his hands up innocently.
"The moon doesn't reach its apex for a while. We have time." Elena replied as they hear twigs snapping, someone was approaching, Ray stepped out looking weak and still bleeding.
"Stay where you are!" Alaric told him pointing his crossbow at the sick werewolf.
"Vampire." Ray growled at Damon before lunging for him, they begin to fight and Damon got he upper handing shoving him against a tree as Ray attempted to bite him, Alaric quickly shot a arrow at Ray, but he continued to go for his friend, Elena rummaged through her bag and grabbed the wolfsbane grenade.
"Damon!" Elena yelled as he threw the grenade at him, Damon held it so it exploded in the wolfs face, Ray screamed as he face began to burn and Damon delivered the final blow knocking him unconscious.
"Let me guess. Hybrid." Alaric whispered.
Mystic Falls
Jeremy and Matt walked into the Donovan house, it was silent as Matt was the only one that lived there seen as his sister Vicki was dead and his mother Kelly was never around. As they walked into Vicki's old room Jeremy saw a load of cardboard that were full of the dead girls stuff, her brother hadn't had the heart to give it away or get rid of it.
"So this is all her stuff." Matt explained "We were supposed to donate it, but, uh, you know..."
"Well, everything I read said a personal item helps build a stronger connection." Jeremy shrugged as he reached into a box and pulled out of her shirts
"Does her pipe count?" Matt asked jokingly as he reached in grabbing her pipe before going and grabbing a picture of both of them from when they were kids "I don't know why I let you talk me into this, man."
"It's because it's your sister and you have a chance to help her." Jeremy retorted taking the picture and putting on the table whilst sitting down on a chair
"I can't do this." Matt backed out "I gotta go."
"Matt, please." Jeremy begged, he had to know what Vicki wanted, why she was so troubled that she was haunting him but Matt wasn't having none of it
"Nah, man." Matt shook his head "I can't, alright? You gotta go." He demanded, Jeremy nodded as he rose from his seat and walked from the house, as he closed the door Matt turned to look at the table, the picture had moved.
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Ray was still unconscious as Damon and Alaric tied him to a tree using rope covered in wolfsbane to make sure he was weak and tied down, Elena was making some ropes in vervain to stop Ray's werewolf side from breaking free.
"These ropes aren't gonna hold him much longer... What else do we have?" Damon asked.
"Ric, here. Take these." Elena held out the vervain ropes.
Damon reached back about to take them but as he gripped them he called out his skin sizzling on contact with the vervain "Ow!" He quickly pulled his hand back.
"I said Ric." Elena replied.
Alaric took the ropes and tied them around Ray too "Alright, that's the last of the vervain. We don't have enough stuff to hold him. I don't think we're gonna make it to the Ridge before the full moon."
"If we can talk to him we don't have to." Elena countered as Ray began to scream, his transformation was beginning.
"Is he turning?" Damon asked watching the wolf carefully.
"It's impossible, it's still daylight." Elena noted.
"Tell him that." Alaric countered.
Damon got close to Ray and caught his shoulder to hold him down firmly against the tree "There aren't supposed to be any werewolfs out here until the moon is full."
"you know, the ropes aren't gonna hold that wolf." Alaric noted as Ray began to snap and snarl at Damon.
"Damon, we've got to get out of here. We gotta get out of these mountains, now! Damon, now!" Elena screamed and they all began to run.
It was the dead of night as Klaus approached Derek. Grace and Stefan still hadn't returned with Ray and there was no sign of them anywhere, but Grace was in a life or death situation so she would return.
"Bad news, my friend. End of the line for you." Klaus replied as he killed him by draining him of his last drops of blood, there was a woman standing in front of him, a low snarl erupted from her throat "Careful, love. There's only one Alpha here." He smirked as more of the wolves surrounded him, they looked dead of any emotion or life "Blood hell." He muttered.
Damon, Alaric and Elena were all sprinting through the forest when Elena tripped on a root, when Damon turned to face her he saw a sight that shook him to his core "Don't move." He whispered.
Elena raised her head moving her thick, brunette locks from her eyes to see a wolf staring down at her, he growled loudly about to attack when Damon stepped forward "Here, doggie, doggie." He taunted as he ran off into the forest at supernatural speed the wolf followed close on his tail.
"Come on. Let's keep moving." Alaric grabbed Elena's arm.
"We can't leave Damon." Elena replied scared for him.
"He can handle himself. Let's move." He tried to drag her but she stood firmly in the ground.
"No. If he gets bit, he'll be dead. I'm the reason he's out here." Guilt washed over her.
"I am the reason he's out here." Alaric countered "I told him where we were, and I'm telling you to keep moving. Let's go. Now!" Alaric ordered his voice full of authority as he accepted the guilt for bringing Damon out into the forest on one of the most dangerous nights for vampire to be out on.
Mystic Falls
Tyler and Carol Lockwood enter the old Lockwood estate ruins, she was confused as to why she was down there with her son, it hadn't been used for years, so she thought "Tyler, what is it? Just... just tell me." She begged.
"You need to see for yourself." Tyler replied as he took out the chains to tie himself down.
"What are you doing?" Carol asked.
"You think Caroline's a monster? I'm the monster, mom." Tyler replied to her, protecting the woman that he loved as he began to chain himself up.
"What?" Carol asked he grunted loudly "Tyler, what's happening?" She was suddenly pushed into a cell and he closed the door behind her, it was for her own safety of course "Tyler, what are you doing?"
"Me, uncle Mason, it's in our blood. It's our family curse." Tyler informed her.
"What curse?" Carol creased her eye brows confused.
"Tyler, what's happening? What's happening?" She asked scared as he began to scream and bones began to crunch, snap and bend in order or his true form to come out the dim light of the room allowed her to see his amber glowing eyes and extended fangs "Oh my God! Oh! No!" She screamed.
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Damon was trying to walk silently through the forest as he got to a clear looking around him when suddenly Ray's human form rushed towards him, Grace quickly stepped out and forced her hand through his back ripping his heart out, Stefan stepped out of the brush to see.
"Fancy meeting you here." Damon breathed looking down at the brunette.
"What part of 'don't follow me anymore' got lost in translation, Damon?" Grace hissed dropping the werewolf heart to the floor.
"Might want to take that up with your sister." Damon replied shortly "You don't want her chasing you, I'd stop with the voice mails."
"I was saying goodbye." Grace whispered rubbing her arm.
"What happened?" Damon took her arm to see the bite "You got bit." He whispered "Gracie, no." he moaned shaking his head.
"Damon." She whimpered and began to cry.
"I know. It's scary. I know." Damon hugged her tightly "But you're with the one person who can save you."
"I don't want to go back." Grace whispered "I want to stay with you."
"You'd die." Damon reminded her "I'm not going to give up on you... I will find you and get you... both of you." He looked at his brother who was avoiding eye contact.
"Please. Don't leave." Grace begged.
"It's alright, Gracie. I'll find you. I promise." Damon smiled "Tonight. Dream of me." He winked.
"But, don't make me go back to him." Grace whispered "I want to be with you forever."
"And you will... but right now we need to make sure you'll live." Damon told her stroking her hair "Stefan, come and take her back."
"Please, Damon." Grace begged.
"I'll find a way to get you both out of here. I promise." Damon patted his brother's shoulder "Everything will be fine." with that he zipped off into the forest.
"Stefan and Grace are out there somewhere and now Damon, and we're just sitting in this car?" Elena looked across at Alaric in disbelief.
"Let the vampires fight the hybrid zombie mountain man. I'll take care of keeping the humans safe." Alaric chuckled.
"I thought you were checked out of taking care of people." Elena retorted almost bitterly.
"I know what you're doing. Don't. There doesn't need to be a lesson here." Alaric shook his head.
"You're better at it than you think, you know?" Elena told him.
"Oh, boy, are you a sucker for a lost cause or what?" Alaric chuckled.
"You're not a lost cause, Ric. You're just lost. But so is Jeremy, and so am I. Our family is gone. We don't have anybody. I'm sorry, but you don't have anybody either, so... We're kind of good for each other." Elena whispered.
"I'm keeping the ring, then." He joked as Damon approached them both looking for his car.
"Damon?" She jumped out of the car and ran towards him "Are you ok? Did you...?"
"Fine, bite-free. Get back in the car, please." He turned her sitting her in the passenger seat "You need to stop worrying."
Elena nodded as she suddenly jolted, for a second she thought she had seen a pair of forest green eyes staring down at her from the forest edge, she shook her head thinking it was just her imagination, but it wasn't Stefan had really been there.
Mystic Falls
Back at the Gilbert house someone rung the bell. Jeremy opens the door to reveal Matt standing there with a apologetic look on his face and a bag in his hand "I'm sorry about earlier."
"Hey, don't worry about it, man. You know, it's, uh... It's a lot to ask." Jeremy nodded understandingly as Matt help beers up in his hand "Heh. Come on in." Matt enters.
"I spent the day going through her stuff. It was weird, you know, all the memories. I realize that most people didn't really get Vic. You know, they saw her as trouble and let it go at that. But you really got her. You know, you... you got her better than I did most of the time so... I don't know what we're gonna do with all this, but... here." He gives Jeremy a bag. Jeremy opens it and takes Vicki's shirt from it.
"You know, I don't remember her dying. I don't know if Caroline told you that when she told you everything." Jeremy mused.
"Nah, she didn't." The blond shook his head.
"Elena made them take that memory away from me, thought I couldn't handle it. So whatever my last moment was with her, I don't have it." Jeremy whispered.
"I don't either. I don't remember the last moment I had with Vicki before she was a vampire... When she was still my sister." Matt replied mournfully Jeremy turned around are saw that Vicki was there.
"Matty?" She whimpered.
Matt doesn't sees her though "Do you see something? Is she here?"
Jeremy was still looking at Vicki "You said you needed help. Tell me how I can help you please." The teen begged.
"I can come back. Help me come back." She whispered.
"What is she saying? Tell me." Matt demanded as a window broke and Anna appeared next to Jeremy.
"Jeremy." She whispered "Don't trust Vicki"
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Stefan and Grace returned from hunting down Ray and saving Damon's life to see Klaus waiting, blood layering up his arms, bodies scattered all over the floor, all dead.
"They went rabid." Klaus informed them his voice low "Some of them, I killed. The other's just... bled out. In the end... they're all dead." He grew angrier and angrier by the second "I did everything I was told!" he yelled making Grace and Stefan flinch at his words "I should be able to turn them. I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger." He noted and didn't seem to notice when Stefan and Grace became visible uncomfortable "You look like hell." He told Grace.
"Gee. Thanks." She sniffed "Last I checked I'm dying... and you don't want to heal me. We had to take him out. We didn't have a choice. I failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you have to do." She whimpered waiting for him to rip her heart out or rip her head off.
"Stefan begin to clean this up, will you?" Klaus called and Stefan got to work, keeping close distance "It should have worked. Don't beat yourself up." He told her stroking her face gently "There's one thing I want from you." She nodded "Kiss me."
"What?" Grace looked up into his waiting eyes.
"Kiss me. You can't deny the chemistry that we have. You say that you love Damon, but he is your first love, I doubt you know what true love is... and this... this could be it." Klaus noted "I only ask that you try."
"Klaus... I... I love Damon." Grace whispered.
"One kiss." Klaus replied leaning down and pecking her lips, when Grace moved back into the kiss it caught him by surprise, she wasn't even sure why she did it, maybe she was so desperate to live that she would do anything.
As Klaus ran his tongue over her juicy bottom lip, she allowed him instant access and he slid his tongue in rubbing against her tongue making her moan in his mouth, but quickly the guilt set in over her lover and she pulled back.
"Well, that was certainly interesting." Klaus muttering smiling at her "Here." He tore into his wrist and fed her his blood "It is passion and impulse that drives true love... remember that." He muttered in her ear as he pulled away from her.
It was the dead of the night and Damon lay down in his bed shutting his eyes, as soon as they were closed he drifted off into a peacefully sleep, excite to see her without the interrupts of Klaus or the troubles that surrounded them.
Damon opened his eyes and looked around for a second, he caught her bouncing chocolate brown hair blowing elegantly in the wind as she stood watching the waves crash against the shore, turning as she saw him approach a grin spread across his face.
"Hi." She whispered.
"Hi." Damon replied as he zipped towards her pecking at her necking capturing every sensitive piece of skin between his lips she moaned out as he lay her down on the sand "Why did you choose the seaside?"
"It's romantic." Grace giggled pecking his lips "Why not?"
"I just wanted to know." Damon replied "It feels so good to have you in my arms again, but I know it's going to hurt twice as much waking up to find you not there."
"Then we'll treasure every seconds." Grace replied, her head was beginning to hurt from the secret she was keeping from him, she had kissed Klaus at her own will and she enjoyed it.
"Are you ok?" Damon asked sensing something was wrong.
"It just... it feels good to be with you again." Grace smiled, it wasn't a lie, being in his arms felt amazing, just being around him felt great to her.
"Where is Klaus taking you next?" Damon asked.
"If I knew I'd tell you." Grace replied as she stroked his cheek gently "He doesn't tell me anything, just what to do..."
"Let's not talk about him." Damon changed the topic "Let's cherish every moment." He smiled capturing her lips into a intense, fiery kiss removing her clothes from her body "It has been too long since I've seen you." He pecked at her exposed skin "Still so beautiful."
"Damon. Don't tease me." There was no doubt that kiss with Klaus early had got her riled up, but she wanted Damon. Now.
Down in the Lockwood cellar Tyler woke up and he was stark naked from his transformation, Carol was looking at him, she had witnessed everything that had happened, unable to erase the images from her head.
"I'll take care of it." Carol whispered "I'll make sure nothing happens to her."
"Thank you." Tyler rasped sleepily as he fell back asleep, she quickly pulled out her phone dialing the same number that she had the day before "I think we made a mistake."
"Carol, you called me in to take care of the problem. Why the sudden change of heart?" Bill asked.
"Maybe a guilty conscience." Carol lied.
"Don't feel guilty. They're not human. They're monsters." Bill replied.
"What if we're wrong?" Carol asked scared that people might feel that way about her son, he couldn't help what he way.
"my family has been committed to this fight for almost 150 years, Carol. You married into it, so maybe you don't understand, but I do. I know what my obligations are." Bill replied.
"Wait-" It was too late he hung up.
In a dark cellar Caroline woke up looking around trying to find where she was she couldn't see anything barely and couldn't move she was lied to a chair, she was confused as to why she there, the last thing she remembered was Carol Lockwood vervaining her.
"Hello!" Caroline screamed "Mrs. Lockwood! Somebody!" she heard a door close "Who's that? Mrs. Lockwood! Please." She begged when suddenly the door opened the bright light blinded her momentarily before she saw a face she new all too well.
"Hello, Caroline." Bill gave her a look.
"Daddy?" She whimpered.
A/N
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Grace kissed Klaus at her own will, kind of, she didn't want to die, but still she liked it? Then Klaus' line about love, uh-oh, don't have me for a Klace kiss! Haha! But there was more cute, romantic Drace scenes, so... Tell me what you think!
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