Twisted Love
Season Three
The Ties That Bind
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Damon rolled over off of Grace's petite, exhausted frame to check his phone, seeing that he had several miss calls from the Sheriff, the younger vampire flipped him over so that he was underneath her little body and pressed her lips to his passionately.
"Baby." Damon pulled away and she pouted a little, her innocent eyes were wide as she stared down at him "Wait. Wait. Just let me do this."
"No." She moaned as she attacked his neck, nipping and sucking at the skin, he groaned and looked at the messages on his phone "Gracie, there's been a murder."
"What?" Grace looked up at him surprised pushing herself against his chest to sit upright, dragging her nails down his chest waiting for his explanation, her fangs retreated back up into her gums as he sat on his hips looking down at him.
"Sheriff Forbes." He placed his phone on the side, sat up pecking her lips once "I need to go." He pried himself away from her "Stay here, don't move..." He grinned as he grabbed his clothes, keys and phone and walked from the room.
As Damon approached the crime scene deep in the forest of Mystic Falls Sheriff Forbes walked over to him with a solemn look on her face "A hiker called it in. My guys got here first."
"Another hybrid?" The vampire questioned looking down at the man with a stake sticking through his chest, he recognised the man from somewhere, but just couldn't place him.
"That's what I thought at first." She replied as she handed Damon the mans wallet, he opened it and saw his drivers licence "Brian Walters, the medical examiner."
"What's with the stake?" he questioned creasing his eye brows "He's not a vampire."
"I know." Liz mused nodding her head gently as people buzzed around her, looking for evidence and DNA "This was a murder."
Bonnie's Dream
Bonnie was walking through the cemetery, the wind was blowing wildly around her as she approached the coffin sitting on her own on the ground, she knelt down beside it and ran her hand over the soft wood.
"I figured out how to open it." A British voice came from behind her, Bonnie quickly turned and looked at him surprised "Can you?" He gave her his famous smirk as he zipped towards her and ripped into her neck brutally. Everything went dark.
When Bonnie opened her eyes she saw darkness around her she lay in a confined space, slamming her fist against he roof of the coffin screaming for help, but no one could hear her.
"Let me out!" Bonnie screamed tears stinging her eyes "Please! Oh my God, oh my God!" She panicked before trying to think of a spell "Fes matos tribum, melan veras, et vasa quisa, exu quise!' She screamed but nothing happened.
Falling silent she could hear the crunching of leaves under someones feet, someone was approaching the coffin she was trapped in "Hey! I'm in here! I'm in here! I'm in here!" She repeated screaming until her voice was hoarse.
The coffin slowly creaked open, she could see the black silhouette of a woman standing over her as a bright light enter the coffins confined space.
A little later on that morning Bonnie, Elena and Grace were standing looking over the coffins in silence after they had just heard about the witches dream "I've been having these dreams for days now." She informed them both "It's like the witches around trying to send me a message."
"I can't believe you guys kept this from me this whole time." Elena glared at them both as she walked over to the coffins.
"Stefan thought, if you knew where the coffins were, Klaus could threaten people to get information out of you." Grace's voice was small as she answered her twin.
"So, these are the rest of his family?" Elena questioned.
"Yeah, Elijah and two other brothers, Rebekah never told me their names." Grace informed her as she walked over to the locked one knocking on it twice with the back of her fingers "This one... is the one we can't open. We don't know who is in it, or whats in it."
"Only that I think my dream's telling me it'll kill Klaus." Bonnie added with a tiny shrug.
"What the hell are you doing?" Stefan walked in the room surprised to see Elena standing there with the two girls.
"I needed her to know about the coffins." Bonnie told him firmly.
"And I needed you to keep her out of it, Bonnie. Grace, you promised not to tell her." Stefan stalked towards her, Bonnie and Elena stood back scared of the confrontation.
"And I don't like the way you're calling the shots, Stefan." Grace hissed narrowing her eyes, he gritted his teeth and turned away from her.
"So what are you going to do, Stefan?" Elena spoke up finally "Are you going to kidnap me, so that I won't tell anyone?"
"Don't tempt me, Elena." Stefan narrowed his forest green orbs at her, Grace took a step in front of her sister protectively, a protective growl falling from her throat.
"I think I know, who can open the coffin, Stefan. And I need Elena to help me find her." Bonnie spoke up innocently from beside them all.
"Find who?" Stefan creased his eye brows "What are you talking about?"
"I couldn't place her face at first. Then I realised..." Bonnie took out a picture and showed it to Grace and Elena who's jaws dropped open.
"Oh my God, Bonnie." Elena breathed out in shock.
"Who is this?" Stefan took this picture looking at the beautiful woman smiling at the camera.
"It's my mom." Bonnie answered.
Grace, Elena and Bonnie all returned to the Gilbert house in order to look for the whereabouts of Bonnie's mother, they were searching through paperwork and files.
"Los Alamitos?" Elena questioned looking over at the witch.
"Too old." Bonnie shook her head.
"Honolulu?" Grace asked.
"I wish." The witch scoffed "How many of these are there?"
"A lot." Grace sifted through all the papers "I asked the Sheriff's office to pull up every single Abby Bennett in the country."
"Grace..." Bonnie looked over at her "I know I'm kinda mad at the fact Jeremy had to leave and you were the one that compelled him, but I'm not angry with you... or you Elena. And I'm really grateful for to both for helping me." She paused "I know you both have a lot to deal with."
"Don't mention it." Grace grinned.
Elena gave her a kind smile "There's nothing more important, Bonnie."
Bonnie smiled at them both before standing up and grabbing some more coffee "It's surreal. Having to track down a woman who bailed on her own kid."
"You know you don't have to, right?" Elena looked over at her "Let Stefan obsess over opening up the coffin. It doesn't have to fall on you."
"The coffin is spell shut." Bonnie argued "That makes it a witch problem. So it does fall on me. I was bound to see my mother again sooner or later." As she finished Damon walked into the house holding a single piece of paper.
"Sooner." He informed her "Abby Bennett Wilson, Monroe, North Caroline. Born in Mystic Falls Hospital, graduated at Mystic Falls High... blah blah blah." He smirked as he handed the piece of paper over before looking over at Grace "If you had stopped to think then a little bit of compulsion really sped up the research process." He smirked.
"I'm done with compulsion. It makes me feel way too guilty." Grace informed him.
"You are the most boring vampire ever." He shook his head and she pushed him playfully.
"This is her." Bonnie whispered as she looked at the picture of her mother.
"Yep... Road trip. I call shotgun!" Damon announced with a grin.
Grace rolled her eyes "Nice try, buddy-"
"Want me to hang out in back with you?" Damon smirked down at her reaching around to squeeze her butt.
"You're not going, Damon. And neither am I." Grace nodded at Bonnie "You need your best friend for this..."
Bonnie gave her a concerned look "Grace-"
"Bonnie, listen I get it, I'm a friend, but I'm not Elena... You two go." She smiled "You haven't seen your mom in over 15 years the last thing you need is Damon's snarky commentary narrating the experience."
"Thanks." Bonnie's voice was low as she looked down at her mothers case file.
"Don't sweat it." She shrugged "C'mon, we're going to the Grill... Get our drink on." She grinned as she pulled him from the house.
Caroline walked into her home, she had a set look on her face when she saw Tyler sitting on her couch, waiting in the living room for her.
"What are you doing her?" Her voice was low as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"I came to apologise." Tyler informed her.
"Apologise!" Caroline shrieked "You bit me! I could've died! I think we're way past apologies, Tyler!"
"That's the problem. Klaus told me to do it and I said no." Tyler's voice was small as he stood up "And then... then it just happened anyway. Like, it was completely out of my control. That's why I had your mom call him." Bill Forbes walked into the room at the point.
"Daddy?" Caroline squeaked.
"Hi, Caroline." Bill nodded once.
"I thought, since he can resist compulsion, maybe he could teach me to resist the sire bond." Tyler shrugged a little.
"Can you help him?" Caroline looked over at her father, there was a glimmer of hope in her silvery orbs.
"I'm going to try." Bill promised.
"Why?" Caroline placed her hands on her hips.
"Because he made a mistake and now he wants to make good." Bill replied "And I understand that."
Over at the Grill Alaric and Meredith were sitting up at the bar, talking and drinking, actually enjoying each others company "Do you want anything else?" He referred to the lunch placed in front of her "A beer?"
"I'd love one but I've got rounds in 15 minutes." She looked at her wrist watch "And a drunk doctor is a bad doctor." She joked.
"Well, depends on what kind of drunk you are." Alaric sipped tentatively at his whiskey.
"Angry." She replied with a slight smile "Thanks for lunch."
"Yeah, sure." Alaric paused a little, a small voice in his head was screaming Jenna, but his eyes were set on the living woman in front of him, sure he missed the woman he loved, but he was ready to move on now "So... Next time. Dinner?" He asked sheepishly.
"Yeah, that would be great." Meredith grinned as she stood up from her seat.
"Cool. Take care." Alaric nodded at her watching her walk away, when he looked back he saw Grace and Damon sitting with him.
"Well, she's cute." Grace announced stealing Alaric's whiskey sipping at it.
"Who is that?" Damon questioned.
"My doctor." Alaric replied looking at the door shut after the doctor had left the establishment.
"She's a doctor?" Damon scoffed.
"Mm-hmm." Alaric nodded.
"Nice." Grace approved nodding her head a little giving Alaric a playful, cheeky smile.
"What's the damage?" Damon questioned with a curious look, Grace slapped his arm giving him a look.
"No damage." Alaric replied shaking his head.
"Come on, Ric, fact of life." The raven haired vampire smiled cheekily "A girl that hot, that smart... damaged... I mean, look at Grace." He glanced down at the 5'2" girl next to him giving him a deathly look, he patted her knee seductively, slowly raising higher up her leg.
"Ow." Her voice was flat as she shook his hand off her leg.
"Well, I'm looking for red flags. Her ex called her a psycho case the other day." Alaric gave them both a look.
"When it comes from an ex, it doesn't count." Damon spoke up and Grace looked over at him cocking a questionable eye brow.
"How many of your ex's have called you a psycho?" Grace questioned, he opened her mouth to speak, but she raised her small hand to stop him from speaking "Actually, don't answer that."
"Psycho is one word they use... There are others..." He gave her a cheeky look.
Grace rolled her eyes "I'm sure I could guess them..."
"What would your ex's say about you? Wait, you don't have any." He gasped a little and she punched him in the arm.
"You're a dick." She hissed gritting her teeth.
"I wonder what many of my ex's would call me?" Alaric questioned aloud.
"Nothing. They are all dead." Damon replied in a snide voice.
"Damon." Grace hissed in a low tone.
"Hmm. Well, her ex is the medical examiner so he is dead adjacent." Alaric shrugged taking his drink back from Grace.
"She dated the medical examiner?" Damon looked over at his friend.
"Mm-hmm." Alaric nodded again.
"Well, I don't think he's dead adjacent, I think he's just dead." Damon informed him and the younger vampire and vampire hunter looked over at him surprised.
"What?" Grace choked out.
"Murdered. That's why I left early this morning... Sheriff is trying to keep a lid on it because he was staked in the chest like a vampire." Damon told them both.
"Well, Meredith didn't say anything about that." Alaric shook his head.
Grace's voice was small "Who do you think killed him?"
Damon shrugged a little "I don't know, but if I was a cop, then Ric's sexy doctor lady friend would definitely be a suspect."
Stefan entered his home and his eyes narrowed as he saw Klaus casually lounging across the couch, Damon's best scotch in hand waiting for the younger brother to return patiently.
"What are you doing here, Klaus?" He questioned.
"Enjoying our stalemate." The Original answered as he sat up straight.
"What do you want?" Stefan asked again.
"The question is: what you want? My hybrids left town as you demanded, so please tell me what I need to do to get my family back." The hybrid rose from his seat.
"Well, see... Klaus... I'm not negotiating." The younger vampire crossed his arms over his chest, a flicker of confidence filled his forest green orbs.
"And you understand, that holding them indefinitely is the same thing as dropping them in the ocean?" Klaus' voice was low as he narrowed his mixed coloured eyes at him.
"No, no." Stefan smirked as he shook his head "You leave Mystic Falls and then give me a call in a few years and we'll talk."
"I can give you another chance. Just one more." Klaus' British voice was low "Let's make a reasonable deal." He was getting fed up of Stefan's game, his patients wearing incredibly thin.
"Or what?" Stefan cocked an challenging eye brow "You make one move and I will drop-"
Klaus laughed loudly cutting it off, the magnificent sound echoed around the hallow halls of the Salvatore Boarding House "Yes, right. Crazy Stefan. How is that working out for you? Any friends left?"
Both Elena and Bonnie were sat in Bonnie's car driving to see her estranged mother whom she hadn't seen for 15 years ever since she walked out on her and her dad.
"I just can't believe that I'm actually going to see her." Bonnie's voice was thick with fear "Or meet her. Sort of. Since I don't really remember her." She admitted, she was very young when she had left, only small.
"You don't really talk about her." Elena noted.
"What's to say? She left, never wrote, never called. Not even when my Grams died." Bonnie shook her head "What about you and Stefan?"
Elena let out a frustrated sigh "I don't really want to talk about him."
"But, how do you feel about him?" Bonnie looked over at the torn girl.
"I feel things for him I know I shouldn't." She admitted "After everything he's done, but it's still there..." She paused "I wish my life was as simple as Grace and Damon's."
"What having sex all the time? Drinking blood and alcohol none stop? Not a care in the world?" Bonnie scoffed.
"Sounds more fun than my current life." Elena shrugged a little as Bonnie's phone began to ring.
"Oh... It's Stefan." Bonnie informed her "I told him I'd call him as soon as I got the address."
Elena rolled her eyes "Ignore him." She growled "Bonnie, you're about to see your mom for the first time in 15 years. I'm not letting anyone ruin that moment."
"Yeah, but he's gonna keep at it until I pick up." The witch argued.
"Fine." She hissed as she hit answer "What?"
"Where are you?" Stefan demanded.
"Bonnie and I are gonna spend the night at the lake house." Elena lied earning a look from surprised the young witch, she held her infer up to her lips telling her to keep quiet "While we wait for Sheriff Forbes to give us new addresses." She added.
"You're kidding me, right?" Stefan growled.
"No, Stefan, I'm not." Elena told him firmly "We need a night off from your insanity."
"Klaus is getting antsy." Stefan's voice was low "He knows that I'm stalling. We need to move faster."
"We're doing everything we can." Elena replied looking out of the window "So, could you maybe not call every five minutes?"
"Sure, Elena. Whatever you say."
Stefan hung up talking to Elena sliding his phone back in his jean pocket as he was standing in the kitchen of the Gilbert house, he saw the paperwork for Abby Bennett's house on the table, he picked it up and shoved it in his pocket.
Grace and Damon walk into the Salvatore Boarding House, he was planning something and she knew it, she knew him too well "I know what you're thinking."
"I know." Damon smirked looking across as she passed him walking into the parlour room "You're telepathic. Remember?"
"Even if I wasn't, I'd still know. Leave Dr. Fell alone, you don't know anything about her..." Grace told him firmly "You don't know if she did kill her ex, and she might have had a good reason..."
"She's a stake wielding, murdering psychopath." Damon growled "You're still trying to protect her... Your too nice for you own good." His voice was low as she gave him a sad look "I don't want her going around killing more people... Including you."
"Damon, just let me speak to her... I have more of a subtle approach than you." She poured him a whiskey "Just sit back, relax and leave Dr. Fell to me." She leaned in and pecked his lips "ok, baby?"
"No." Damon growled "What if she has more stakes..."
"I'm move really quick and go running to my knight in shinning armour." She grinned before he leaned down and crushed his lips against her passionately, longingly
"You'd better, Gilbert." He warned in a low growl.
"Love you, Salvatore." She sang, pecking his lips once more and zipping from the room.
Klaus was in the Grill talking to one of his Hybrid's minion on the phone, he had been forced to leave the town, but he still wanted to keep up to date with him.
"How's life on the road?" Klaus questioned casually.
"Scenic." The hybrid replied "How's like in Mystic Falls without any hybrids?"
"Boring." Klaus answered "For now."
"If you want any of us back, you just have to say the word." The hybrid informed him, showing his complete and utter loyalty.
"There's no need. I've been making friends with the town civil servants. There's a deputy, obnoxiously chatty, but useful nonetheless." He chuckled darkly "You're clear, what you need to do?"
"I got it covered." The hybrid answered confidently.
With the hybrid, he pulled up outside of a quant little house in the middle of no where, climbing from the car he walked straight to the door and knocked it swiftly, he smiled warmly when a beautiful caramel coloured woman opened the door.
"Can I help you?" The woman questioned.
"Abby Bennett Wilson?" The hybrid asked.
"That's me." She nodded.
Not long later both Bonnie and Elena pulled out outside of Abby's quiet little house, they both climbed from the car looking at the beautiful little cottage.
"Cute house." Elena stated.
"Yeah, in the middle of nowhere." Bonnie added looking around as the vast land of nothing.
"You ready?" The doppelgänger looked over at her friend who replied with a confident knock, they walk up the stairs to the porch and ring the door bell.
"Hey, there." A olive toned boy's voice came from behind them as he advanced up the stairs towards them.
"Hey, we're looking for Abby Wilson." Elena informed him.
"She's not home. Something I can do for you?" The boy of around there age asked with a flirtatious smile on his face as he looked at Bonnie.
"It's ok, we can come back." Bonnie shrugged a little.
"I'm sorry, but you looked so familiar." The boy got a good look at her beautiful face, he could place her but he had seen her light brown eyes before somewhere.
"Erm, Abby is my mom." Bonnie's voice was nervous as she told the stranger something personal about her.
"Oh..." The boy blanked for a moment "I'm Jamie... You guys want to come inside?" He questioned and the boy nodded hesitantly "Right this way."
They all walked into the large kitchen, it was so lived in and personal, Bonnie hand her hand over the wall stopping to look out art piece laying on the walls.
"You guys sure you don't want anything?" Jamie questioned as he looked over at Bonnie and Elena who were scanning the kitchen "We got fresh OJ, coconut water, some mango guava something..." He forgot the real name for the exotic drink.
"Water is fine." Bonnie looked over her shoulder giving him a kind smile.
"Cool." Jamie smiled.
"So, are we... like related?" Bonnie creased her eye brows looking at the olive skinned boy curiously, could she have a brother that she didn't know about.
"Oh, no." Jamie chuckled "Abby is not my mom."
"Good." Elena muttered.
"Yeah, she dated my old man back in the day. He's kind of a deadbeat, so when they broke up she took me in." Jamie informed her and Bonnie felt a stabbing pain in her heart, Abby hadn't wanted anything to do with her, but she wanted something to do with a boy she hadn't even given birth to "Put me through school. Didn't freak out when I totally her car." He laughed at the memory "Twice."
Bonnie nodded, disguising the hurt look on her face with a fake smile "She sounds... great." She added as the door opened and her mother walked into the room.
"Jamie? Who's car is out front?" She questioned not seeing her daughter in the corner of the room.
"That's mine." The young witch spoke up nervously "I'm Bonnie. Your daughter."
Abby's jaw dropped open "Hello, Bonnie."
Down in the cellar of Bill's house Caroline's father was chaining up Tyler whilst the blonde stood beside them watching "How do you know this gonna work?" Her voice had an acceptable amount of scepticism in it.
"That's a process." Bill told her "It took decades to train myself to resist compulsion. Brain's like a muscle." He simplified it "The more you use it, the more you can do. A sire bond, at its core, is about one thing... gratitude. If you believe you owe Klaus your life, ask yourself why." He looked dow at the hybrid.
"I was cursed." Tyler's voice was small "Every full moon I had to change into a wolf. It was torture. Klaus took it away."
"He freed you from your pain and now you feel indebted to him." Bill nodded, the boy did have a good reason, the turning was agony for him "To break the sire bond you got to make yourself turn. Own your pain then you'll owe Klaus nothing and you will be free."
"But how can he turn?" Caroline questioned "It's not a fill moon."
"He doesn't need one. You're a hybrid now, right? I mean, you can turn at will now, am I right?" Bill looked down at Tyler.
"Yeah, but I don't know how to just start." Tyler shrugged a little, confusion filling his glossy dark brown orbs.
"You're making excuses." Bill growled.
"You don't understand!" Tyler hissed "When I turn, I break every bone in my body!"
"You asked for my help. This is the only way." Bill squared up to him "How badly do you want your freedom?" He questioned.
Tyler looked over at Caroline, she had a small pleading look in her silver orbs as she watched him nod slowly "Ok." He agreed.
"Ok." Bill stood back as Tyler fell to his knees, a loud snap echoed the room.
In Abby's house Bonnie was looking down at a picture of the mysterious boy Jamie, Elena walked over to her sensing her distress "How are you holding up?" The doppelgänger questioned lightly.
"I'll be fine." The witch sighed placing the picture on the table "I'm not here to get my mom back, I'm just here to get her help."
"So, I hope you guys are hungry." Abby walked from the kitchen towards the two, she had an apron on now with a casual smile "Cause... food has always been my go to ice-breaker." She admitted shamelessly.
"You have a really beautiful home." Elena looked around the room.
"You're so sweet. Just like your mom." Abby smiled at her.
"You knew my mom?" Elena questioned in a small voice.
"Miranda was my best friend." Abby gush reminiscing in her head "Yep. Me, Stephanie, Liz and Miranda..." Bonnie and Elena looked up, that was the four friends mothers, Caroline, Grace, Elena and herself, their mothers all hung out like friends like that did now, only they had drifted apart, but that wasn't much different from what had happened to the older generation of friends.
"So, you had a daughter and all these friends but you still left?" Bonnie looked over at her.
Abby hesitated for a second "My friends are why I left. 15 years ago a vampire came to town. Looking for you, Elena. Looking for Grace... Looking for the doppelgängers. No one could manage to kill him. So I lured him out of town and cast a spell to desiccate him in a crypt in Charlotte."
"Mikael." Elena whispered "He was an Original vampire."
"It took every ounce of power I had. Almost killed me." Abby remembered with a small shiver "I recovered. But my magic didn't. My powers never came back."
"And neither did you." Bonnie's voice was broken.
"It wasn't that simple-"
"It wasn't?" Bonnie burst "You cast a spell, put Mikael down and then... what? You had to teach Jamie how to drive?" She growled.
Elena looked over at her friend "Bonnie-"
"This was a mistake." The witch told her doppelgänger friend firmly "She has no magic. She can't help us." She turned about to walk from the house but Abby followed stopping her.
"Bonnie, wait, please. Don't go." Abby begged "Talk to me... please?"
"I'll wait outside." Elena smiled at them respectfully as she walked from the house, closing the door after her.
Elena glanced around the dead garden and saw a small barn next to the house, walking inside she was surprised when a brush of air swiftly swam past her.
"Hi, Elena." Stefan's snide voice erupted making her jolt and turn to face the beautiful man "Nice lake house..."
At Mystic Falls Hospital Grace was waiting, leaning casually against a wall just outside of Dr. Fell's office waiting for her to return.
When the glorious doctor did walk down the hall she was surprised to see the young vampire waiting for her, Grace pushed away from the wall and gave her a kind smile which Meredith returned.
"We never got the change to officially meet, Dr..." She looked at the doctors name tag "Fell." She flashed the doctor her amazing smile.
"You're Alaric's friends girlfriend, right? Grace Gilbert..." Meredith stated and Grace nodded "I saw you at the council meeting with Damon Salvatore. Cute couple. What are you doing here?"
"Just checking in." Grace replied with a small shrug "I'm sorry about your ex-boyfriend... Damon was telling me Animal attack. Brutal, was the word he used actually."
"Thanks." Meredith nodded carefully "I'm still kind of processing it."
"Yeah... I just thought I might come by to discuss the cause of death with you..." Grace looked over at the doctor as she visible tensed "There is no need to be coy with me, Dr. Fell... It wasn't an animal attack, but then you would know that, you signed the death certificate." Meredith turned and walked into her office, Grace followed.
"Would you rather, I say, he was staked like a vampire?" Meredith questioned as she closed the door.
"Wasn't he the guy that coined the phrase animal attack?" Grace raised her eye brows.
"Tell me, Grace, why do you even care?" Meredith looked over at her.
Grace paused a little "Because Ric likes you and I don't want him to get hurt again, so if you really are a stake wielding psychopath, like my boyfriend says, then I would like to know, because if you are that would really suck for Ric..."
"You think that I killed my ex-boyfriend?" Meredith scoffed.
"I think psychopaths are incredible high-maintenance." Grace growled as she took a step towards her, Meredith narrowed her eyes at the young vampire.
"If you care about Ric, go figure out how he came into the ICU on his death-bed and walked out an hour later without a scratch." Meredith countered and Grace giggled a little.
"Fair enough. I shall leave you to your work." Grace turned on her heels and was about to leave, but Meredith grabbed a syringe and punctured it into her neck knocking her out with a high dose of vervain.
Gently Meredith lay Grace on the floor rolling the leather sleeve on her jacket up, she quickly pressed the needle in and started to take her blood, filling up a vial before Grace began to show signs of waking up.
Meredith panicked and jacked the needle from her arm violently leaving Grace asleep in her office as she walked away, blood in her pocket.
Tyler continued to try and turn, but he couldn't he could feel his bones bending and breaking, but not enough to go full werewolf "I can't." He rasped "I can't."
"Try harder." Bill growled at him.
Caroline looked at her lover worried "Can't he just rest for one second?" She begged.
"We're doing this my way, Caroline." Bill told her firmly "If you can't handle it, you should go."
"He's right, Caroline." The wolf looked up at his girl with a sure expression "Just go."
"What! No! Tyler-"
"Go, Caroline!" He ordered.
Caroline gnawed on her juicy bottom lip for a moment before she turned and walked out of the cellar leaving Bill and Tyler alone.
Bill watched as his daughter left the room, he bent down and picked up an axe from the ground, he walked towards Tyler who looked a little shocked.
"What are you doing?" Tyler asked as Bill swung at him, catching him only slightly "What the hell, man!" He growled at the older man.
"Does it bother you?" Bill swung again.
"Knock it off!" Tyler yelled.
"Good. Get angry. It's in you. You know it is!" Bill yelled back as Tyler ran for hum, but before he could get to the man, he was stopped by the chains that held him against a wall.
"I said, knock it off!" Tyler narrowed his deep brown eyes.
"Your bond to Klaus is putting my daughter in danger." Bill took a step away from the feral hybrid "Either you turn or I kill you right here, right now." He held the axe up as a weapon.
Tyler huffed and turned back around his knees buckling as he fell to the floor, he was going to break his bond from Klaus not for himself, not for Bill, but for Caroline.
Abby and Bonnie were both sat in the older woman's house, sat in the living room "You've grown into such a beautiful young woman, Bonnie." Abby smiled at her daughter.
"Please, just stop with the muffins and the compliments. I just want to know the truth... Why you didn't come home?" She looked over at her estranged mother.
"I had no magic." Abby sighed "I was in a new city and I realised I had a chance to be somebody else. To be Abby Wilson, the woman... not Abby Bennett, the witch. I'm not proud of what I did, Bonnie." She admitted shamefully "I ran. I know I ran. But you had your dad and your Grams, and, let's face it, your Grams is way better at this stuff than I am."
"You don't know?" Bonnie creased her eye brows at her mother.
"What?..." Abby caught her daughters drift when she shook her head mournfully "How?" She hiccuped.
"We were doing a rough spell, and we exhausted ourselves. Her more than me." Bonnie began to sob and Abby comforted her accordingly.
"Well she raised you right. I'm sure, she would've been proud of you... Well, now you know my whole story." Abby nodded.
"Yep." Bonnie whispered.
"How's about you tell me yours?" Abby looked over at her young daughter "What brings you to me?"
"It was a dream, actually. I thought, you were supposed to help us. But if you don't have any magic-"
"Not spells, no." Abby shrugged a little "I'm not completely useless. I mean, the earth provides herbs and such. There might be something I can do."
"I don't think so." Bonnie sniffled dismissively.
"Bonnie. Please. Let me help you." Abby begged.
Out in the barn next to Abby's beautiful house Stefan and Elena were both talking about them being here without him knowing.
"So, what did you think, I wouldn't find out?" Stefan growled cocking an eye brow.
"Honestly, I didn't care." Elena hissed narrowing her eyes.
Stefan growled deep in his throat and it made Elena flinch a little "This is exactly why I didn't want you in the loop, Elena."
"Yeah, because now you can't do whatever you want." Elena hissed making Stefan lash out and kick a chair, making it fly across the room smashing against the wall.
"Damn it!" He cursed.
Jamie entered swiftly after hearing the smash of the wooden chair "Hey!" He called "Everything alright over here?"
"Hey, Jamie, go back inside, ok?" Elena didn't want to see anyone get hurt and she knew how destructive and unstable Stefan was at the moment "Please, trust me, it's better off for you there."
"I don't think so." Jamie hissed eye Stefan up.
"I'd listen to her." Stefan growled gritting his teeth "Get back upstairs, man."
"I said, I don't think so." Jamie repeated and Stefan zipped across the room holding his throat between his hand as he began to compel the poor boy.
"Go back upstairs before I tear your damn throat out." Stefan threatened "Do you understand me?" He hissed and Jamie nodded running back into the house.
"I don't think you realise how bad you've gotten!" Elena screamed at Stefan.
"It's the way it has to be, Elena." Stefan voice was low as he turned to look at the girl.
"Oh, yeah, right. Out villain the villain." She narrowed her chocolate brown orbs "I get it."
"You're not supposed to be here." Jamie hissed as he re-entered the room, gun in hand.
"Jamie, what are you doing?" Elena gawped.
"What I was told. He's not supposed to be here." Jamie's eyes were glossy and blank at her stared directly at Stefan.
"Elena, he's compelled-" Before Stefan could finish his sentence Jamie squeezed the trigger sending a bullet straight into Stefan's gut.
Inside the house the gunshot from outside echoed, Bonnie jolted as she heard it, jumping up she placed her mug down on the table "What was that?" She questioned.
Walking towards the door she was surprised when Abby stepped out in front of her throwing herbs in her face stunning her then sending her to the floor.
Grace ran into the Salvatore Boarding House to find Damon reading a book quietly with a bottle of whiskey placed between his legs, she had tears streaming down her horrified face, he quickly got up and ran to her looking down at her, eyes full of concern.
"What happened? Did you see Klaus? Did he touch you?" Damon asked holding her face in his hands "What's wrong?"
"S-She took my blood." Grace whimpered as he looked down at the messy needle hole in her arm, he ran his fingers over the gash and she flinched away "D-Dr. Fell, she vervained me and stole my blood..."
"What? You have got to be kidding me?" Damon growled as he gritted his teeth before seeing the state she was in "Oh, Gracie." He pulled her into a tight hug "That bitch will pay for this." He growled "I will make sure of it."
"I don't want her running around with my blood." Grace sniffled "God knows what she's going to do with it... She could do anything."
"I need to speak with Ric." Damon pulled away from her with a sad smile "You get some blood and just stay here and I'll be back soon."
"Ok." Grace whimpered as she pulled back drying her eyes with her sleeve.
"I'll be back soon, alright?" He kissed her forehead before turning and zipping from the house.
Damon arrived at Alaric's apartment and kicked the door so it opened, he saw the the history teacher bench pressing some weights.
"What do you want?" Alaric questioned as he placed the weight bar he was lifting back in his holder, he had a pool was sweat lining his tank top as he looked over at the anger vampire.
"I just thought I'd drop by to tell you I'm going to kill your little doctor girlfriend before I go and actually do it." He hissed grabbing a bottle of bourbon and drinking it straight from the bottle.
"What? What the hell are you talking about?" Alaric stalked towards him, a deathly look in his eyes.
"She vervained Grace and blood jacked her..." Damon hissed "I've successfully diagnosed her as a psycho case. You're welcome."
"Wait. Slow down." Alaric ordered holding his hands up "When were Grace and Meredith alone together? Is Grace ok? Why was Grace even talking to her?" He questioned quickly.
"Well, Grace stopped by the hospital to accuse her of killing her ex-boyfriend... Seems to be a very sensitive subject." He smirked.
"Damon! What the hell! I said I would handle it!" He growled before calming himself "How is Grace? Is she ok?"
"She's... She's a little shaken up, a bit weak, she just needs some blood and some rest and she'll be fine." Damon nodded before walking towards the door "I'm gonna go have a nice chat with your lady doctor-"
"No. You are not talking to Meredith. I'll handle it, ok?" Alaric hissed "Just back off, Damon."
"Fine. I'll go back to Grace." Damon hissed as he turned around walking out of the door leaving Alaric there to ponder over Dr. Meredith Fell.
Jamie was tying Elena to a post inside of the barn whilst Stefan was lying on the ground, groaning in pain where the wooden bullets had entered his body.
"Why are you doing this?" Elena struggled against the restraints.
"Stop moving." Jamie ordered in a voice that was thick with authority.
Elena sighed heavily "Jamie, let me go." She looked over at Stefan who was in a bad way "Jamie, he needs my help!"
"Jamie!" Abby called as she grabbed a body across the yard towards her car.
"Bonnie?" Elena whispered seeing that it was her best friend that was being pulled towards the car, unconscious "Bonnie!" Jamie quickly ran to the older woman's side helping her with Bonnie.
Tyler screamed as yet another bone in his body broke at the force of his transformation, he tugged at the steel chains that were attached to the wall, they groaned as they began to break.
"Oh my God." Bill muttered watching as the steel chains became looser.
"These chains aren't strong enough." Tyler's eyes were glowing an amber gold "You need to leave!" He ordered "Run!"
Before Bill could even think about running Tyler's feral, animal instincts had taken over and he attacked the older man.
On a dark, eerie road in the middle of no where Abby pulled over to the side by another car, Abby climbed out first walking towards the hybrid from before.
"So?" The hybrid questioned.
"She didn't tell me where the coffins are." Abby informed him "The vampire showed up."
"Did Jamie take care of him?" He asked in a low voice.
"He did." Abby confirmed "But she's not gonna talk now. There's no way. I tried." She informed him as Bonnie began to climb from the car.
"Well, you should try again." His voice was low and threatening before he zipped out of sight.
"What did you do to me?" Bonnie hissed at her own mother.
"You'll be fine. But don't try any spells." Abby warned "Those herbs I used muted your magic?"
"Where's Elena?" Bonnie looked around scared to see that she was on a dark road in the middle of no where.
"She's be fine too." Abby nodded "Bonnie, listen to me. I need your help. I need you to tell me where those coffins are."
"Why?" Bonnie hissed.
"Because if you don't, that man compelled Jamie to kill himself." Abby informed her, she knew that Bonnie had seen the hybrid before he had gone off into the night.
"I can't." Bonnie shook her head "This goes beyond you and me." She was shocked when Abby reached into her pocket and started typing on her phone.
"All you need to do is tell me where they are." She informed her looking down at the screen of her phone "Then we have held up our end of the bargain. Bonnie, please." She begged as she passed her daughter the phone.
Warn your friends
Jamie walked back in the barn to see Elena was still tied to the pole and Stefan was laying on the ground in complete agony, he couldn't see that Elena was wearing the rope thing on a nail on the back of the post that hadn't been hammered in properly.
"Abby hasn't called yet." Jamie informed them both.
"Jamie, please, just let us go." Elena begged him in a low voice.
"No!" Jamie growled "Please don't do anything. Look, I don't know why I shot him, I don't know why I'm holding this gun, but if you move or do anything, I will shoot him again." Jamie threatened.
"Ok, I won't." Elena promised "Who gave you that gun?"
"A man came by earlier today, he gave me a wooden buckshot and told me if anyone got in our way, I'm supposed to shoot him." He looked down at Stefan.
"What else did he say?" Elena questioned.
"If Abby didn't find the location of some coffins, I'm supposed to shoot myself." Jamie added.
"What about me?" Elena asked looking for a loophole in the compulsion "What did he say about me?"
"I'm not supposed to hurt you." Jamie nodded.
"Are you sure? Because these ropes are so tight, that it's hurting me." The rope finally gave way and she grabbed the gun from his hands and smacked it around Jamie's head knocking him unconscious "What can I do to help?" Elena ran over to Stefan kneeling beside him.
"Every time I move, the wood shifts inside of me." Stefan rasped "I can feel it scraping against my heart." A lump appeared in Elena's throat at the thought of losing him "You need to get the pieces out."
The doppelgänger nodded slowly and ravelled his shirt up revealing his toned stomach and chest beginning to dig into his skin to find splintered pieces of wood.
Damon entered the Abandoned witch house to see Grace waiting for him, she had a sly smile on her face as he moved towards her and kissed her passionately "Everything will be ok." He promised in a low voice which made Grave shiver.
"Well, isn't this romantic." Klaus' voice came from behind them "Hiding behind your witchy friends. And in squalor no less." He muttered looking around the empty room before he broke down in pain.
"Insulting a bunch of dead witches... not smart." Damon informed him "I made the exact same mistake first time I came in here."
"Well, you know, the funny thing about witches is, that living or dead, they care about their own." Klaus called out in pain "A hundred dead witches have a thousand living descendants... And I have no problem killing every last one of them, if I don't get my coffins back." He called and the pain began to dull "As we speak, my hybrid friend is prepared to end the Bennett line!" He called and the pain completely stopped "Now... please... show me the coffins." He rose from his knees.
The coffins became visible to them all and Klaus smiled running his fingers over the soft wood of his dead family members "Here we are." He only counted three "Where's the fourth?" He questioned looking around "Show me!"
"Well, here's the thing. They can't. It's not here." Damon shrugged a little.
"What did you do?" He advanced towards the couple.
Damon smirked a little "Well, Bonnie gave us the heads-up. We didn't have enough time to get all four... With Grace being hurt an all, but we did have time to get one."
Grace was a little taken back when Klaus' eye line met her own, she could see the concern for her in them when Damon announced that she was hurt, she looked away from him tucking a piece of hair behind her ear slowly.
It was only after that he turned nasty "I will tear you limb from limb." Klaus growled and Grace stood in front of Damon protectively, the raven haired vampire tried to move her but she stood her ground firmly "And only then, when you're a riving mass of blood and flesh will I rip your heart from your chest!"
"Sorry. The same rules apply." Damon smirked "You know, leverage and all. I know you want your family back. But something tells me, you want what's in that coffin a lot more."
Over at the hospital Alaric was waiting to talk with Meredith, she walked from a patients room and saw him waiting for her casually "Want to tell me what you're up to." Alaric questioned.
"You talked to Grace." The doctor noted.
"Actually I talked with a very pissed off Damon, who was about ready to kill you because you vervained his girlfriend and took her blood." Alaric informed her.
Meredith sighed a little "She wasn't supposed to wake up so soon. I used enough vervain to sedate her for a quite a while."
"Well, Damon sneaks vervain into her drink to build up an immunity, so people like you don't get the jump on them both." He lowered his voice "She's just a girl..."
"She's a vampire girl." Meredith's voice was very quiet as she spoke with him "Her blood is very useful and special." she paused seeing the look Ric was giving her "I'm not crazy, Ric." Meredith told him firmly.
"Really?" He scoffed "Then what are you?"
Suddenly the doors flung open and the paramedics rolled in a man who looked in a very bad way, covered in blood and badly injured.
"You really want to know? Stick around." Meredith ran after them.
"Is that Bill Forbes?" Alaric muttered watching them rolling him away so the doctor could get to work on him.
Stefan continued to scream as Elena pulled the wooden shrapnel from body, she stopped not being able to deal with his screams any longer "I'm just trying to help!" Elena told him firmly.
"Just get it out, Elena, please. Just get it out!" Stefan gritted his teeth leaning his head back.
"Keep screaming, maybe I'll feel sorry for you." She narrowed her eyes as she reached in again and finally got the final, biggest piece out.
"You've changed." He whispered looking up into her dark eyes "Something is different about you. You're stronger. Tougher."
"You're not the only one who changed, Stefan. We all had to." Elena's voice was small as she looked down at her bloody hands.
"It's good though." He edge closer to her, not being able to resist her.
"There is something I have to tell you." Her voice was small as she looked up into her eyes "I miss you and I know you probably don't care and don't want to hear it but I still love you. So much."
Stefan sighed a little reaching out to touch her face, she relished in his touch closing her eyes, this is when he moved it, pressing his lips against hers firmly, passionately, longingly.
"Sorry." Stefan pulled back.
Meredith and Alaric were standing in front of Bill Forbes bed, both had a worried expression on their faces as they stared down at the injured man with bandages covering his body.
"What happened to him?" Alaric questioned.
"He was found in the woods." Meredith replied "An actual animal attack. Bite marks and gashes over half his body. Lost about three litres of blood." She added.
"Is he going to make it?" Alaric asked in a low voice.
"Nope." Meredith replied "At least not on his own." She pulled the vail of Grace's blood from her pocket and drew some into a syringe.
"What is that?" Alaric questioned.
"Exactly what you think it is." Meredith answered "Vampire blood." She administered it to the dying man "You wanna know my secret? I cheat. I'm a doctor and I hate it when people die. So when I have the ability to do something about it. I do."
Stefan was leaning against his car touching his lips softly, he had tried to block out his feelings, but with Elena he wasn't able to contain them "Stefan..." She walked towards him a shy look on her face "Say something. Please."
"I shouldn't have kidnapped you." He admitted in a low tone "The car, the bridge, that was too far."
Elena nodded "Thank you." She whispered.
"But you shouldn't have lied to me today. You can't go off and do things like that, Elena. Not while Klaus is still alive."
"I know." Elena whispered "I just... I wanted to give Bonnie a moment with her mother... without everything else getting in the way."
"Without me getting in the way." Stefan whispered with a sad look "You're better than me, a lot better. You deserve better." He added as he climbed in his car and drove away.
On the dark road Bonnie was waiting with her mother for both Jamie and Elena to arrive, the young witch shoved her phone back in her pocket.
"Elena in on her way. Jamie's safe. He's a little bruised, but he's safe." Bonnie informed her mother.
"You think the hybrid will come back?" Abby questioned looking around nervously.
"You kept your end of the bargain, Klaus usually keeps his." She sighed a little thinking back to Jamie and how her own mother protected him "You're willing to do all this for him... And he's not even your family."
"He is my family, Bonnie." The powerless witch replied firmly "I know, that might be hard for you to heat, but he is. But that doesn't mean that I don't care about you. I want to help you."
"You can't. You have no magic and I don't trust you." Bonnie hissed.
"When I pul Mikael down... my magic didn't just leave me. It drifted away. The longer I stayed away from you the weaker I got. I think, that nature was punishing me for abandoning you. Maybe you can help me get my magic back." Abby looked over at her.
"I thought you said you didn't want it anymore." Bonnie whispered.
"I don't." She admitted "But if it's what you wanted... I would do that for you..."
Tyler entered Bill's hospital room to see that he was away and he was on the mend pretty fast, there was an awkward silence between them both.
"You're better." Tyler noted.
"Yeah. I shouldn't be but I didn't have any say in the matter." The older man was holding a grudge against the use of vampire blood.
"I didn't meant to hurt you." Tyler whispered "I lost control. Again."
"I knew the risks when I decided to help you." Bill admitted in a low voice "So... Was it worth it? How do you feel?"
"Different. A little more myself." Tyler nodded, there was a small triumphant smile playing on his lips.
"Then we'll continue tomorrow." Bill nodded.
"What are you talking about? I turned." Tyler creased his eye brows watching the older man careful.
"Once." Bill replied bluntly "To break the sire bond turning needs to be painless... and from what I saw today we're still a long way off."
Tyler's breathing began to raise in fear as he thought of doing that again "I can't put myself through that again."
"You will." Bill hissed "Because until you're capable of acting at your own free will, I'm not going to let you anywhere near my daughter."
At the Gilbert house Alaric was showing Meredith his wide array of weapons from stakes to grenades and air compressed weapons "You told me your secret. This is mine." He announced.
"You're a vampire hunter." Meredith looked up at him.
"Semi-retired." He replied with a shrug.
She laughed a little "You're trying to get out of taking me to dinner, aren't you?"
"I just want to be honest. No secrets." Alaric answered.
"Ok." Dr. Fell smiled "Then tell me how you survived getting hit by a truck. Your injuries were fatal. Was it vampire blood?"
"That and... this ring protects me from death at the hands of supernatural beings." Alaric answered as he showed her the resurrection ring that lie on her finger.
"A vampire hunter who can't be killed by vampire." She chuckled "Convenient." She began to slid the ring off his finger but he stopped her "Are you worried I'm a supernatural being?"
"One can never be too careful." He answered before closing the gap between them, pressing his lips firmly to hers, fireworks burst around them as they connect, the happiness was short lived when the front door opened and Elena entered.
"Oh. Erm. Hey." She announced awkwardly "Sorry."
"I'm gonna go." Meredith informed him, grabbing her bag and leaving the house.
"Elena, I'm sorry." Alaric told her.
"Please, it's ok." Elena giggled a little.
"It's not ok. I mean, it's not even my place. It's your place. It's Jenna's place. It's your families place-"
"The minute you slept on that couch it became your place too." She cut him off with a kind smile "We needed you and... you stayed. So thank you for that. Hey, look, I know it's hard. But Jenna's gone. And you're allowed to move on." She rubbed his arm a little.
Damon moved Grace back onto the couch in the parlour room of the Salvatore Boarding House, both of them attached at the lips passionately as they removed clothes from each other, it had been a while since they were able to just be themselves and love each other with everything going on.
"Oh, you're both still alive." Stefan noted as he walked in the house seeing them both "I assume, that means Klaus didn't get his coffins."
"Don't look so happy, I was only able to get one of them out in time." Damon rasped pulling away from his girlfriend "The locked one."
"Probably a good choice." Stefan approved.
"Yeah. You know, if you're banking on Bonnie's mom to open it, you're screwed. She doesn't have any powers." Grace informed him standing up and throwing her shirt back on.
"Doesn't surprise me. It's been that kind of night." Stefan muttered touching his lips softly remember Elena.
"How is Elena?" Grace asked before getting a flash from Stefan's mind of the kiss that they had shared, anger flashed through her eyes as she ran towards him and slammed her fist into his face, he moved back away from her and Damon caught his girlfriend.
"What is your problem?" Stefan growled.
"How dare you!" She screamed "You kissed Elena! You have no right after everything you've done to her!"
"She wasn't complaining." Stefan taunted.
"I'll stake you!" She hissed and Damon caught her in his arms.
"Will you quit talking smack!" The raven haired vampire yelled at his younger brother.
"How did you even... You read my mind!" Stefan yelled and Damon placed Grace behind him protectively, Stefan would never hurt her, but this was for his protection.
"Will you calm down?" Damon hissed at Grace.
"He has no right!" She hissed looking at Damon for support.
"You had no right to read my mind!" Stefan countered clicking his jaw back into place "Bitch." He muttered coldly.
"Hey. Hey. No name calling!" Damon turned to his brother "Just go, alright." He stopped him once more "One more thing..." He pulled the dagger that was used to dagger Elijah from his back pocket "Surprise."
Stefan gawped at the dagger for a second "What did you both do?"
One of Klaus' hybrids rolled the three Original coffins into a large blank room in the mansion as the Original hybrid stood in the doorway looking at his family back in their rightful place "You're got your family back. Finally. You gonna open them?" He questioned.
"Not quite yet." Klaus mused "I still have some unfinished business to take care of."
"What business?" The hybrid questioned as he turned to him, suddenly his chest jolted forward, he looked like he was in intense pain before it washed away and he fell to the floor dead.
Elijah was standing there, beautiful as ever with the hybrids heart in his bloody hand, he dropped it to the floor "So, Niklaus..."
"Elijah?" Klaus whispered a little shocked to see his older brother undaggered and extremely angry.
"What did I miss?" Elijah questioned.
Damon followed Grace back into their room, she was so angry, knocking things down and throwing things whilst he just followed cleaning up after her destruction.
"Grace!" He barked grabbing her and forcing her back against the wall "Stop. Just stop being so angry!"
"I can't help it!" She replied small tears running down her cheeks "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry." She began to sob.
"No. No. Don't cry that's even worse." He whispered pulling her into a hug, a tight hug that comforted her more than he knew "Everything will be alright, you can't stop Stefan and Elena from doing what they want. They love each other."
"I know... but after everything he's done-"
"Shh. Shh. Quiet now, ok?" He asked laying her back on the bed "We're gonna have a lot to be dealing with now that Elijah is back in the picture, so... just relax..." He began to kiss down her little frame "I'll take care of you."
"Mmm." She whispered as he kissed her creamy thighs seductively...
A/N
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