Twisted Love
Season Three
Heart of Darkness
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Elena walked into spare room in her house to see her lovely twin asleep on the bed, her bruises had finally faded back to her regular pale skin and her scars were completely healed but she still felt so bad for her. All Klaus had ever said was he 'loved' her and he turned around and hurt her so bad, luckily she still had Damon to comfort her and love her once again.
"Morning." Elena's voice was subtle as she took careful steps towards her twin, she remembered the night before when Damon had brought Grace home late at night, he had such a caring look on his face as he held her tired body bridal style in his arms and when he had put her to bed he had placed one chaste kiss on her forehead wishing her goodnight.
"Uh, morning." Grace groaned as her eyes fluttered open, she looked at her twin who held out a mug of coffee for her she blinked a couple of times rubbing her tired chocolate brown orbs with her balled up fists "Thanks, 'Lena." She muttered as she took the scolding cup, cradling it in both of her hands bringing it slowly to her plump pink lips and sipping it.
"How are you feeling?" Elena questioned as she took a seat on the end of her bed, Grace just shrugged her shoulders "Are you hurt? Damon gave me some blood to give you, I left it downstairs in the fridge for when you're ready-"
"Elena, just chill out." Grace laughed a little bit holding her head rubbing it with the palm of her hand "I just feel like I have a super bad hang-over." She answered "Plus, I need a shower..." she climbed from her bed, placing the coffee on her bedside cabinet leaving it to cool as she went and grabbed a towel, slinging it carelessly over her shoulder.
"I was going to ask you a favour." Elena announced before Grace could walk into the bathroom, the vampire glanced over her shoulder waiting for her twin to continue "I kind of figured after everything had happened you'd wanna stretch your legs and get out of Mystic Falls for a while... so, how about going to Denver to pick up Jeremy and bring him home."
"You're planning to bring Jeremy home?" Grace questioned, she had compelled the young boy to leave so that he could have a good life a safe life without supernaturals "Oh... because of everything... I guess it will be safer to have him with us. Surrounded by family." She nodded "Uh, sure, yeah I'll go."
"Thanks, just with everything that has happened with Alaric so far, I think I need to be here with him, help him through this, like he has done for me." Elena added and Grace could see the guilt in her eyes "I'll pack for you and you go shower, ok?"
"Elena." Grace walked over to her and hugged her warmly "Hey, everything is going to be ok, alright? I promise."
"I know." Elena nodded "I just feel as if everything has gotten so out of hand, you were really hurt the other day I was so scared that you... that you..."
"Trust me, 'Lena, it's gonna take a lot more than a beating from a crazy ass hybrid to finish me off." Grace smirked as she pulled away "I'll be right back."
When Grace walked out of the bathroom she was dressed and ready to do, her lips with full with a shiny pink lip gloss and her eyes with covered in a shadow effect eye shadow golden moving back to a fierce black.
She was dressed in a strapless natural coloured dress that fell to the middle of her thigh, she looked adorable like a little dress up doll as she finished doing up the laces on her beige high heels shaking her long chocolate brown locks so they sprawled down her back.
"Here." Elena passed her a bag full of clothes enough for however long she was going to be in Denver picking up Jeremy.
"So, I'll take my car-"
"Actually, your ride is waiting outside." Elena answered with almost a cheeky smile, taking the bag both the twins made their way outside, immediately Grace recognize the car 1969 Chevy Camaro ZL-1, the door swung opened and the beautiful raven haired vampire appeared.
"Morning, sleeping-beauty." Damon called "Are you ready to hit the road?" He questioned teasingly as he walked towards her taking her bag "Your carriage awaits."
"Call me as soon as you get there, alright?" Elena hugged Grace a final time before Damon lead her over to the car, opening the door for her to step inside giving her a smile before closing the door after her.
"We're not driving the whole way, are we?" Grace questioned in a small voice and Damon smirked a little passing her two boarding ticket for a first class flights to Denver she looked at it shocked, she had never flown first class before, this would be a treat "First class?"
"Nothing's too good for you, sweetheart." He smirked as he started his car, it came to life with a load roar of the powerful engine, he began to drive as she tucked the tickets away safely.
As soon as Grace had set off with Damon Elena went straight over to the Salvatore Boarding house to check on Alaric who had been locked in the basement, it was safer to keep him in there until his alter ego came out and could tell them where he had put the final white oak stake Rebekah was commanding.
"I, uh, I brought you the basics. Toothbrush, clothes, some boring books to help you sleep." Elena informed him as she dropped a duffle bag to the floor for him to search through, he picked up one of the books and laughed a little.
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?" He questioned cocking an eye brow, a deep blush crept over the doppelgängers face, she hadn't put that book in there.
"What? No, I grabbed..." She gritted her teeth, that damned raven haired vampire must had been playing a prank on her again "Damon. Thinks he's hilarious."
"At least one of us still has a sense of humour. Where is he anyway? How is Grace?" Alaric questioned, he hadn't seen her since she had been beaten up pretty bad and Damon was taking care of her.
"Actually Grace and Damon have gone to Denver to pick up, Jer. Take him home it will be safer that way, have him here with us so we can all keep an eye on each other." Elena answered "And Grace... I think she's a lot more than she is actually letting on. Klaus really hurt her and I don't think she will ever forgive him."
"He doesn't deserve her forgiveness. That ass beat the crap out of her when he supposedly loves her, he doesn't know what love is, and he for sure doesn't deserve her love, there is only one man that deserves her love..." Alaric threw her a knowing look and she nodded a little too.
"Damon." Elena nodded with a small smile "Well, hopefully his plan works and she will fall for him all over again, nothing is stopping her this time and she needs to talk to someone, and honestly I think that will be Damon."
"I hope so." Alaric nodded as he started to glance through the book, Elena was looking around the dark damp looking room with a small grimace on her face, she hated the thought of keeping her guardian locked away like this, caged like an animal.
"Are you sure that you..." She paused for a moment looking over at the history teacher "I mean, you don't have to be kept in here." The doppelgänger glanced around a little disgusted at the place they were keeping him in.
"Ah, no, this is... this is the right place for me to be. At least until you guys can convince my high uncooperative alter ego to fess up to where I... or he hid the white oak stake." Alaric answered in a sure voice, he knew how dangerous his alter ego could be with two deaths on his hands and two assaults he was lucky he wasn't locked away in a cell permanently.
"We looked everywhere." Elena announced it was true, once Elena and Stefan knew Grace was in a stable condition and Damon confirmed to leave her side for five minutes they search everywhere they thought the psychopathic murdering alter ego of their closet friend would put it, but they had no luck "You... the other you hid it well."
"What's Klaus gonna do if you can't find it?" Alaric questioned he was almost scared to find the answered he saw what he had done to Grace when she had betrayed him for a moment but if he knew they had a weapon that could end him, they were all toast.
"It's the only thing that can kill him, so wage war, murder people, you know Klaus stuff." Elena answered shivering thinking that his wrath would be endless and his rage would be through the roof "Listen, Stefan and I are going to watch over you today, we'll be here no matter what."
"Elena, I don't need a babysitter." He smirked a little bit but nodded thankfully anyway "But I will appreciate some company... And maybe a glass of water."
Elena nodded and walked from the room, closing the door behind her before jogging up the stairs, Stefan was standing in front of the fireplace with a concerned look on his face as he stared down into the roaring fire.
"Hey, how is he doing?" Stefan questioned as he placed his glass back down on the table, Elena nodded once to confirm he was doing fine "And Grace and Damon got off alright?"
"Seemed ok." Elena answered vaguely "Listen, what happened to Grace yesterday-"
"I froze Elena." Stefan cut her off in a firm voice, he had just watched in shock as Klaus beat the living daylights out of poor Grace "I just froze and when I tried to help... I was useless." He muttered "And she got hurt. Really hurt-"
"But she's ok now." Elena assured him "She's gone away with Damon and they are going to come back fine with Jeremy, you did all you could Stefan, I don't doubt that." She paused walking over to him slowly "When Klaus took you before you did all you could to get Grace to go home and I don't doubt that you tried to beat Klaus, but he's an Original hybrid, he's strong and he has a temper."
"I just... I felt so useless and Damon was just watching, if Rebekah hadn't stepped in then... Then he'd have killed her, Elena. Her blood would have been on my hands!"
"No!" Elena assured him taking his hands quickly looking into his eyes "She's alive, Stefan. Don't think about that. You'll drive yourself insane. Alright? Right now we just need to worry about Alaric, ok?"
"Ok." Stefan whispered nodding his head.
A little later on that day Stefan walked down into the basement to see Elena flicking through a magazine carelessly and Alaric with his nose stuck in a book, but he didn't really seem to be reading it. The vampire walked into the room with a bottle of Damon's best whiskey in hand.
"Do you know how hard it is to fall asleep when that is what you're supposed to do?" Alaric questioned as he threw his book down onto the bed, rubbing his eyes, but nothing seemed to be working.
"Well, look, I know it's not easy so..." He held up the bottle in his hands "Damon suggested that I bring something to help speed up the process." He held out two glasses knowing that the doppelgänger wouldn't want to participate in their drink experiment.
"What the hell." Alaric muttered as he took the bottle from Stefan "You know, I'll feel decidedly less pathetic if I don't drink alone." He shrugged a little bit but Stefan smirked as he showed him the two shot glasses with a cheeky smirk, one that made Elena's heart flutter intensely.
"Oh, I am one step ahead of you." The vampire answered and Alaric poured them both a drink, they clinked glasses together, nodding once before pouring it down their throats "So, a road-trip, huh? You think Damon's master plan will work?"
"God, I hope so." Elena answered running her hands through her long deadly straight chocolate brown "I can't imagine them with anyone else, you know? And they both need a breather away from Mystic Falls, even if its for a little while."
"Elena right." Stefan nodded as he poured himself another whiskey trying not to think about how he failed to help Grace "They've both have had a rough couple of days, they deserve this. They deserve each other."
Alaric nodded a little bit agreeing with the younger Salvatore brother "Well, let's just hope that they can work it out. Klaus doesn't even stand a fighting chance, it's weather they can look past their own self loathing to see that they truly love each other and, yes, they may have hurt each other badly, but they are what each other need, they balance themselves out. Damon is a good man when he is with her and Grace is happy and playful."
Grace and Damon had arrived at some batting cages Jeremy's new family had said he would be at, they saw him missing the balls inside the cage, a helmet on for safety she smiled a little when she saw him.
"Next time you compel him, I'll remind you to make him better at baseball." Damon smirked giving her a playful nudge, she giggled as she walked over to the cage, linking her fingers in the metal grid.
"Hey, Jer." Grace called and the young boy turned around surprised to see the two vampires here visiting him, they hadn't told him that they were coming down and he was even more surprised that Elena wasn't with them.
"Grace? What's wrong?" Jeremy questioned as he placed his bat down, he saw the slightly worried look on their faces and exited the cage asking what had happened, Damon filled him in on everything that had happened, with Finn dying and they everyone he turned from his bloodline dying.
"I sired Grace, Fayth sired me, Rose sired Fayth, all we need to do is find out who sired Rose..." Damon explained as if it was that simple for Jeremy to see a dead vampire ghost of someone he had never met before.
"So, you traveled across the country to get me to talk to a dead vampire?" Jeremy questioned creasing his eye brows pulling his helmet off placing it back on the rack with the others.
"Dead vampire is redundant." Damon shrugged a little bit "But yes."
"Well, I can't." Jeremy answered giving them both a look "I could talk to Anna and Vicki because I knew them. I never even met Rose..." He held a good argument.
"What good is dying and coming back to life if you can't talk to a ghost when I need you to?" Damon growled a little bit but he stopped when he felt a soft touch against his chest, he looked down to see Grace's hand pressed there telling him to stop.
"Rose spent a long time running from Klaus as well. She and Damon were close, so maybe we can use him as a connection." Grace shrugged her shoulders giving Jeremy a pleading look, he sighed hanging his head for a moment.
"Fine, fine, but can we do this later? My friend just got here and yes, Damon, I actually have some." Jeremy barged passed the older vampires towards a beautiful young man with spiky blonde hair and good taste in clothes "I'll call you when I'm done." He placed a small kiss on Grace's cheek as he wandered over to they boy.
"So, Gracie, what are we going to do until them?" Damon questioned as he looked down at Grace, she had a shocked look on her face as she saw Kol Mikaelson standing across from them.
"Shit, Damon, it's Kol!" Grace whispered as the older Salvatore brother instantly moved her to be standing behind him but a wooden baseball bat smacked him across the face as he fell to the floor.
"What are you doing!" Jeremy hollered at his friend who had only been pretending to be his friend, Kol walked past him over to the aluminium bats.
"Jeremy, get back! He's an Original!" Grace ordered as she went to jump to Damon's defence pouncing on Kol, he grabbed her and forced her back against the wall holding her above the floor by her neck.
"No hard feelings, mate. But we're not buds." Kol informed Jeremy looking over his shoulder with a smirk before looking up into Grace's hard eyes "You know, I'm not really sure what my idiot brother sees in you... You just seem like a cheap tramp to me-"
Grace rasped clawing her nails into his hands, drawing blood when suddenly a wooden went through his chest and he loosened his grip falling to the floor, Damon caught Grace before she hit the ground and held her up.
"Did you kill him?" Jeremy asked in a concerned voice when he saw that Kol wasn't moving on the floor.
"No, but it'll give us a head start. Ok, come one." Damon helped Grace to walk away from the gory scene with Jeremy in tow.
Grace, Jeremy and Damon were getting the luggage from the boot of the car and they walk towards their motel room, it was on the second floor of the trashy looking motel.
"For the record, she's the one who wanted to stay in the motel, not me." Damon explained and Grace shot him a look, he knew it was just a playful look because she started laughing a little bit just afterwards.
"So, where are we?" Jeremy questioned as he walked towards the room, Grace was digging around in her coat pocket and she pulled out the room key.
"Corner of somewhere and nowhere where Kol can't find us." Damon answered seeing Grace shivered when he mentioned crazy Kol's name.
"I can't believe Kol was a vampire." Jeremy shook his head a little as Grace unlocked the door to reveal the ok sized room, there was a small living room/ kitchen space with three doors leading, one of leading to a single bedroom another was leading to a double bedroom and the final was one was leading to a bathroom.
"Well, didn't you find it weird that you made a friend so fast? Have you met you?" Damon smirked at him and Grace turned giving him a look as Jeremy opened the door to the single room, throwing his stuff inside.
"This should work, right Jer?" Grace questioned as she looked over at the boy who was getting a feel for the room, he nodded a little bit.
"Yeah, doesn't really matter." What matted most was that he could be able to make the connection to Rose, which seemed as it would be very hard, at least with Vicki and Anna he had made a connection, he had loved them both in one way or another.
"Alright Whoopi, what do you need?" Damon questioned as he pulled the dirty curtains shut making sure to give them both privacy "Candles? Incense? Pottery wheel?"
"That's not how it works." Jeremy narrowed his eyes at him as he took a seat on one of the wood chairs placed next to a small round table getting comfortable.
"I know, I know. They push from the other side and you pull from this one." Damon rolled his eyes, he wasn't a completely idiot and he had been around quite a while now, he knew how most supernatural things worked.
"Alright, you, uh, you got a picture of her?" Jeremy quesitoned if he knew who he was looking for or who to call out for it might make it easier for him, but Damon just scoffed loudly.
"Picture? What, a trip to Disneyland? Come on Rose, you're not gonna actually make us wait, are you?" Damon called into thin air shrugging his coat off, taking Grace's coat kindly "I know you're obsessed with me." This made Grace scoff and take a seat on the back of the couch facing the two.
"Alright, uh – tell me something about her." Jeremy suggested and Grace looked over at Damon waiting for an answer "Something that matters... Something close to her that only you would know."
"She spent her last day in paradise. Soaking in the sun and reminiscing about what it means to be a human." Damon smiled a little leaning back against the wall remembering that he was the one that had ended Rose's suffering, but made sure she was completely happy first "And when death came, she didn't fear it."
"I was with her on her last day and she definitely was't in paradise." Grace spoke up from where she was sat, she remembered that Rose was in a really bad way, the wolf bite she had received had got the best of her and at the time they didn't know the cure was Klaus' blood.
"It was in a dream he gave her." Jeremy spoke up as he looked blankly around the room "She's here." This made Damon looked around cautiously, little did he know the ghost was stood next to him, leaning there with him.
"Is she lonely on the other side?" Grace questioned she remembered that he gran hadn't been that lonely she had been trying to reach her since Klaus killed her, but her parents had spoken to her many times.
"No." Rose spoke up looking over at Grace knowing that the younger vampire couldn't hear her "I enjoy it. I was running so much when I was alive, now I have the freedom to do whatever I want."
"She says not to worry, she's happy." Jeremy answered in short terms and Grace nodded a little, it was nice to know that she was happy, despite the fact that Rose had kidnapped her once upon a time she was still an ok vampire and didn't deserve the death she was given.
"Is she still hot?" Damon questioned and Grace gave him a jealous look which made he grin a little bit, knowing he could make her emotions turn at a single word felt great, she still loved him, his plan was working.
"Tell him he's still dripping with sex too." Rose announced with a wide grin but Jeremy gave her a look and she rolled her eyes "Fine, tell him I miss him."
"She misses you."
"And tell him I'm rooting for him with Grace, everyone is on the other side... Lexi, Heidi, Trevor, Grace's parents..." Rose smirked a little bit and Jeremy's jaw went slack.
"What is it?" Grace questioned in a small voice looking over at Jeremy.
"Erm. She just... She says she misses you both." Jeremy lied to her and Grace nodded a little a small smile forming over her lips.
"Unfortunately, I don't have any news on the siring front. Klaus didn't sure me. No Original did. It was Mary Porter." Rose informed him and he nodded a little bit looking over at the waiting raven haired vampire.
"She was sired by someone named Mary Porter." Jeremy announced Damon sighed a little and Grace looked over to him confused.
"Uh – Scary Mary. Well, where is she, Rose?" Damon questioned.
"I didn't keep track of her when I was alive, much less now. Tell them to sit tight, relax, I'll see what I can find out." Rose assured them in a kind tone.
Stefan and Alaric were sitting together in the cellar when Elena walked into the room sliding her phone into her pocket.
"I just got a message from Grace, she said they made it their fine and they are on their way to see Jeremy." Elena informed her, obviously Grace had been lying to Elena so that she wouldn't worry.
"I know you're worry about him; knowing that you can't count on his ring anymore." Stefan informed her and she hung her heard sadly, she wanted him to be safe but she didn't want him to have a murdering alter ego like Alaric.
"Who knows? Maybe his alter ego is a pot smoking, hippie pacifist." Alaric shrugged his shoulders jokingly and they other two laughed a little.
"I can't say, I thought mine would be so hostile and militant." Alaric answered, he was usually such a nice calm person but his alter ego was a complete psychopath.
"That actually makes perfect sense. Your wife left you to become a vampire and your girlfriend was killed by one." He referred to Isobel, Grace and Elena's birth mother who had left him a long time ago and was turned into a vampire by Damon and
"You must really hate me. Here I am, the failed hunter slash drinking buddy of vampires." Alaric sighed a little as he sipped at Damon's bourbon but Stefan just shrugged a little.
"Ah, he's too judgemental."
"The thing is, he's me. I'm not compelled, I'm not possessed, there's no humanity switch." He gave all of the possible effects that could be making him like this "What drives him is me."
"No." Elena spoke up shaking her head a little "Nom he's not you. He's the darkest parts of you. The parts we all have." She nodded her head, she had seen it in so many people, they let their dark side slip and end up hurting people.
The door next to Elena swung up and slammed against the wall violently and a blonde hybrid walked into the room with a knowing smirk on his face as he looked around at the disgusting cell they were locking Alaric in.
"Well, this is depressing, isn't it?" Klaus looked around and Stefan immediately stood up, pulling Elena over to him hiding her protectively "Oh, and I found this..." He pulled out the white oak stake "Upstairs. Now, by my count, there should be one more."
"Yeah, well it's gonna take a little more time." Stefan answered he could feel Elena clutching the back of his shirt fearfully and he loved the feeling of her needing him, but his confidence was washed away when he thought back to Grace being beat by him and him not being able to help.
"Why? Because were waiting for that one to pass out?" Klaus smirked a little bit pointing over to the vampire hunter "No thanks. I think I'll just kill him."
"Well, then you won't know the location of the other stake." Stefan countered in a sure voice, this was what they were all waiting on to find out when dark Alaric would come out and telling them where the stake was, killing him wouldn't help their cause.
"I can live with that-"
"Well, I can't. When we staked Finn, we discovered that killing an Original vampire killed its entire bloodline. Now, I don't know which one of you I'm descended from, but I'd really rather not find out by dying, so why don't we just find the stake, destroy it, so we can all be safe?" Stefan answered and Klaus grit his teeth.
"So, the fate of the entire vampire race depends on you finding a stake? And to get it we need you to pass out." He glanced over at Alaric "Which means that I feel totally justified doing this." He zipped towards Alaric snapping his neck he fell to the floor dead "There. Sleeping like a baby. So, where is little Grace?"
"No, don't even say her name." Elena finally stepped forward a stern look on her face, fire in her eyes "Never say her name again, you don't deserve her."
"Listen, Elena, admittedly I did let my temper get the best of me and I hit Grace a couple of times-"
"You beat her within an inch of her life!" Elena countered before reaching out and slapping him as hard as she could, it sounded like she had hit a piece of stone and felt the same.
"She fooled me!" Klaus growled looking over at Stefan "And where you whilst I was beating her, huh? I mean, you say that she's like a sister to you, but you didn't come to rescue her, did you, Stefan?"
"I tried-"
"Trying isn't good enough, my friend-"
"You don't love her." Elena spat and Klaus turned to her "You never love her, you don't know what love is! And Grace will never love you like she loves Damon, she regretted having sex with you, she told me."
"That's a lie!" Klaus roared and Stefan caught Elena's shoulders placing her behind him protectively.
Grace and Jeremy were inside of the motel watching TV whilst Damon was outside speaking to his brother on the phone, Jeremy was curious as to what went on with Grace, Klaus and Damon.
"So, what's up with you and Damon? You two aren't together?" Jeremy questioned casually and Grace glanced over to him
"We're, uh, we're going through a rough patch." Grace answered pushing her long chocolate brown locks from her eyes "You missed quite a bit back in Mystic Falls."
"So that's what Rose meant." Jeremy nodded a little bit and the vampire glanced over at him a little confused.
"What did she say?" Grace questioned in a small voice but the door opened and Damon walked back into the room closing the door shut behind him he gave them both a small smile.
"Everything ok in here?" He could feel the tension in the air as Grace looked away from Jeremy for a moment to give him a single nod.
"Yep. Everything is fine." She answered vaguely.
"Ok, well, I'm gonna go freshen up." Damon informed her as he headed towards the bathroom "You both might want to get some rest. I'm sure Rose will make herself known when she gets back."
Grace was laying in the uncomfortable motel room bed staring up at the ceiling she was struggling to sleep, she missed being with someone, their arms wrapped around her, holding her close, never letting go. She missed Damon.
Sitting upright she grabbed her phone off the table and began to search through her music, she needed something elegant and beautiful to help her fall asleep. She saw the perfect one Never Say Never – The Fray.
Some things we don't talk about, better do without, just hold a smile, we're falling in and out of love, the same damn problem, together all the while.
She closed her eyes and tried to sleep but when the door was pried open she had to glance over and see who was intruding her room. Her and Damon had decided it would be decidedly less awkward if he was to sleep on the couch.
Honestly, she wasn't even surprised when he saw Damon snuck into the small room shirtless with a bottle of whiskey in his hands, he didn't want to wake her, but when he heard the music play he realised that she wasn't sleep anyway.
"Are you ok?" Damon questioned in a worried voice, Grace normally fell sleep very easily so knowing she was wide awake was a bit of a concern for him.
"I-I think I'm ok." Grace answered in a small voice, she didn't really know what she was feeling, all she knew was that she had a burning desire to be with him, forever and completely, she stifled the tears that threatened to fall.
"Alright, I'll leave you to sleep-"
"No." Grace sat straight upright in the bed and looked at him pleading, the only thing lighting the room was the dim street light from outside, the room was almost a romantic red colour she gulped a little as he looked over his shoulder, hand on the handle of the door waiting for her to say the words "C-Can you stay with me tonight?"
He just smiled a little as he turned and pulled his shirt off, leaving his jeans off and laying down in the space beside her, she let out a breath and leaned back staring up at the stained ceiling once again listening to the song playing.
She felt a warm hand engulf her small hand, linking their fingers she missed his touch so much, it felt so right being in bed next to him again, but a huge part of her was telling her it was wrong, they had both betrayed each other. A breathy sigh fell from her lips as she pulled herself from the bed and bolted outside in just panties and a bra, crossing her arms around herself to keep herself warm.
Leaning against the wall she heard his footsteps approaching, looking over at him he was just watching her "Don't." She whispered shaking her head "I don't deserve you, Damon. What I've done is wrong-"
"Don't say that." He ordered before zipping towards her wrapping his arms around her protecting her from the crisp cold weather "You deserve the world, Grace Gilbert."
He leaned his head down and brushed his lips over hers he loved being this close to her again and could hear her heart thudding loudly in her chest, he pushed away from her and was about to walk away but she took his hand.
"I love you." She moaned as she brought her lips up to his, a passionate kiss which he was slightly taken back by the forceful kiss, but didn't hesitate zipping them back into their motel room laying her carefully on the bed.
Kneeling in-between her little legs he took her face between his hands and crushed his lips against hers once again, his tongue darted out and ran across her lower lip and she didn't hesitate to open and grant him access. Their tongues tangled elegant in each others mouths, their hands clinging to anything they could grip onto.
Don't let me go, don't let me go, don't let me go, don't let me go
Pulling away for only a moment she looked into his hooded icy blue orbs, they were warmer than before, she felt safe with him, secure in everything she wanted to do, ghosting her hand over his chest he relished in her touch closing his eyes a pleasant look on his beautiful face.
When he opened his eyes he saw that she had a daemonic look on her face, her fangs were showing just below her pouted lips and she had deep black veins under her blood red eyes. He went straight for her slender neck, biting it with his blunt teeth and sucking it, she moaned and knotted her fingers in his long raven black hair.
"I love you, too, Gracie." He breathed as he snapped her bra off and threw it carelessly to the floor cupping her beautiful breasts in his hands, kneading them romantically she gasped and gripped his hair harder "Never leave me again."
"Only if you promise the same." She countered wrapping her thin legs around his waist pulling him closer, he placed his arms under her armpits and pulled her onto his lap so they were bare chest to chest, she let out a breathy moan "I'm sorry, Damon. For everything."
"So am I." He answered knotting his fingers in her curled chocolate brown hair, tilting her head back and going for her neck again, he could hold her like this all night, but their bodies had other ideas as she gave him a loving lust filled look.
"Take me." She ordered in a husky voice cupping his face giving him one chaste kiss, his fingers glided over her bony rib cage down to her white lacy panties, yanking them off her tiny body laying her down leaving her exposed and naked in front of him "Make me yours again, Damon." She looked so vulnerable and he loved it all the more.
Unbuckling his belt he pulled it through the loops and launched it at the floor, she was leaning her head back waiting for him and he just couldn't resist anymore, he sunk his razor sharp teeth into her pale neck letting her blood squirt into his mouth, he continued to drink before offering his wrist to her which she took gladly.
After a moment of drinking her blood he pulled away from her throat and started to kiss down her body, he down down to her trimmed stomach and played with the skin before open her thighs looking up into her waiting chocolate brown eyes "Are you ready, Gracie?"
"When will he come back?" Elena asked as she watched Alaric's lifeless body, she was beginning to get worried and that was just adding to the worry of not hearing from Grace and Damon for a while.
"It shouldn't be long now." Stefan answered as he bit his nails nervously, once again he had let Klaus hurt someone he cared about. Elena sauntered over to him and took his hand away from his mouth.
"You're as bad as Grace." Elena muttered in a small laugh "I always have to tell her off for doing that too, so you're no exception." She didn't noticed that she was holding his hand still, he looked down into her eyes lovingly before cupping her cheeks pulling her into a passionate kiss.
They both pulled back rather quick when they heard a loud gasp from behind them, Alaric had awoken and was holding his chest as he saw up right "What happened! Did I, uh...?" He couldn't find the words to ask if he had turned into his murderous alter ego.
"No, you pretty much laid there dead for half the night." Stefan answered truthfully as he glanced down at Elena who was smiling to herself touching her lips carefully.
"This is stupid." Alaric growled "Evil me or whatever you want to call him, he's not gonna make an appearance. Why would he? I mean, the best hiding place is the one where you can't find the person who hid it." He hissed, he was so pissed off with his alter ego, he was such a pain to himself and everyone who he affective.
"I know." Stefan muttered holding the back of his head trying to think of a plan.
"So, how do you want to do this?" Alaric questioned and Elena glanced between them both unsure as to what they meant.
"I don't want to do any of this." Stefan answered shaking his head turning away for a moment, Elena creased her eye brows stepping forward.
"Wait. What are you doing?"
"We're going to make my alter ego come out and pray." Alaric answered looking over at her before taking off his ring and passing it over to the doppelgänger.
"Wait, wait, what are you doing? You need that ring." Stefan told him in a firm voice, he didn't want to hurt Alaric so much that he killed him, beating it up was one thing, but if he ended the history teachers life all together he wouldn't be able to forgive him and Damon would probably end up killing him.
"No, what I need is hope that my alter ego doesn't have a death wish. So, I'm taking bets that my dark side has a sense of self-preservation. So, let's see if he defends himself against death." He replied before bracing himself for what was about to happen.
"Look, Alaric, I'm not going to kill you, ok?-"
"If we have any chance at this, Stefan, you're gonna have to try." Alaric told him before giving Elena a sure nod when suddenly the vampire zipped over to him and punched him as hard as he could, the doppelgänger gasped and turned away closing her eyes trying to drown out the teachers groans of pain.
Damon pulled away from his intense make-out session with young Grace looking down at her for a moment, she was drenched in a light shine was sweat just like he was and the young vampire was breathing heavily, only now unclenching her hands from the sheets beneath her a overly satisfied smile pulled across her soft swollen bruised pink lips.
"God, you're beautiful." He muttered before leaning his head down again giving her a lustful open mouth kiss, she moaned wrapping her tired legs around his naked waist once again "Say it." He urged knotting his fingers in her chocolate brown locks "Say it again."
"Damon Salvatore, I'm yours forever." She giggled a little and he kissed her cheek lightly nuzzling into her neck licking the blood from her closed wound "I love you."
"I love you." He answered her pecking the tip of her nose romantically she giggled adorably before biting her bottom lip seductively "Oh, you're ready to go again aren't you, gorgeous?" Before she could answer they were took by surprised when the door opened behind them, Damon moved at supernatural speed to close the door firmly shutting the intruder out.
"What the hell!" Jeremy yelled kicking the door form the other side "If you two are gonna screw can you give me a heads up so I can get out or something!" He growled
"What do you want, kid." Damon hissed and Grace walked over placing her hands on his chest calming him, kissing his lips that were in a firm line, she zipped around the room gathering their clothes.
"Rose found Mary." Jeremy answered he sounded further away from the door before "She lives in Kansas."
"Alright then, let's go." Damon took his clothes gratefully from Grace as she packed their stuff up once again.
Damon, Grace and Jeremy all pull up outside of an abandoned looking house, it was white wood that hadn't been repainted in what looked like years and the front yard was overgrown and untended to.
All three of them walked out of the car and Damon glanced around carefully taking in the whole surrounding area, looking out for an Originals or any threats.
"This is the address." Jeremy remembered from what Rose had told him after she had found out for herself.
"Looks about right." Damon answered as he started walking towards the house, he turned and Grace and Jeremy were following, stopping he held up both of his hands "Both of you stay out here, it could be dangerous."
"No, I'm coming with you." Grace cross her arms stubbornly over her chest, he was going to tell her no, but he couldn't resist her and nodded a little "Jer, stay here, alright?"
"Why? So you can go in there and borrow one of Mary's bedrooms?" He's voice was sinful and his comment was crude, Grace gritted her teeth a little and shook her head.
"Don't be a dick." Damon ordered in a low voice "Listen to her, she's right, you need to stay out here, ok?" He placed his hand on the small of Grace's back and lead towards the house "Thank you."
Damon cracked open the door and the place was pitch black, pulling out a flash light the younger vampire switch it on and moved it slowly around the room to see piles of paper and trash covering the floor almost blocking the way completely.
"Oh." Damon shook his head "It's like vampire hordes." He joked taking her hand, linking her fingers with his own pulling her close, but giving her enough space to let the torch light the way as he lead her slowly through the house, the floors creaked eerily below them.
"Who is this Mary person?" Grace questioned in a small voice as she followed the raven haired vampire through the hallowed halls of the deadly quiet house.
"Scary Mary." Damon answered using the cruel nick-name for the older vampire "She's really old, super creepy."
"And how do you know her?" Grace asked and he shrugged a little a smirk pulling over his perfect lips.
"You know..."
"Of course." There was a edge of jealousy to Grace's voice so the older vampire turned rolling his crystal blue orbs playfully and gave her a chaste kiss which made her shiver in delight a small blush raising in her cheeks.
"I said she was creepy, not ugly." Damon joked leaning his forehead against her when suddenly a noise came from behind them, the beautiful raven haired vampire went into full protective mode and growled in response stepping in front of Grace.
As he lead her up a pair of stairs they saw her bedroom, Grace shines the torch around when suddenly the light fell on a woman who was held against the wall with a wooden stake, the older vampire ran his hands through his hair exasperated.
"Mary." Damon muttered shaking his head when suddenly a British voice came from behind them and the light switch on making them both flinch.
"Quite contrary." Kol finished the nursery rhyme as Damon moved Grace behind him once again, she peaked over his shoulder scared to see the Original but even more worried to think that Klaus might be lurking.
Stefan punched Alaric once again but the vampire hunter just kept getting up, he was bruised and was pretty sure he had some internal bleeding but nothing was making his dark side come out.
"You're not putting enough into this." Alaric leaned back against the wall drying the blood away that trickled from his split lip, Stefan was doing his best to try and resist the blood that fell and Elena could see this.
"If I put anymore into it, I'm going to break your spine!" Stefan countered as he hit him again and the teacher fell to the floor blood spurting from his mouth and his tooth scattered to the floor, the veins under Stefan's eyes protruded showing that his vampire side was coming out, his eyes were a cold blood red and he turned away quickly.
"Don't back down now." Alaric ordered as he stood back up holding onto the wall, he had lost a lot of blood he was weak and in a lot of pain, they had gone too far to back down "Come on, you're past that."
"Alaric, give him a break." Elena ordered knowing how hard it was for poor Stefan to come to terms with blood and how addicting it was for him.
"No, I'm not." Stefan rasped in answered to Alaric's statement, he was far from past being addicted to blood, it would take him years to be able to concur his addiction once and for all.
"Then use it!" Alaric ordered "Give into it! Try and kill me, Stefan. Come on!" Alaric reeved him on and Stefan shook his head turning away, he would end up killing him and if Elena tried to help he might turn around and hurt her.
"Are you crazy? No!" Elena told him in a firm voice walking over to Stefan placing her hands on his chest looking up into his intense forest green eyes "Walk away, Stefan. Please. Walk away."
"You're gonna have to want to kill me for me to believe that you will." Alaric countered and Stefan glanced over to him narrowing his eyes.
"Stefan, I'm begging you." Elena whispered and he nodded once, she smiled up at him she had gotten through to him, she had got him to walk away from what surely would have been Alaric's death.
"I won't do it." He growled turning walking to the door, Elena followed a happy look on her face when suddenly a laugh erupted from behind them.
"You're so weak." Alaric muttered and they both turned to see that he looked a lot darker and more sinister than he usually did "I mean, look at you, one of natures most hideous creatures and you can't even get that right!"
"You." Elena whispered backing into Stefan's strong chest.
"Me." Alaric's eyes with psychotic as he tilted his head to the side, Stefan moved Elena protectively behind him baring his fangs at the murdering alter ego.
"Shame about Mary, she used to be a blast." Kol muttered as he stalked around Mary's stake body that was still attached to the wall, she looked like she had put up quite a fight but overall Kol had been victorious, he had an aluminium bat in his hands holding it casually over his shoulder "Don't quite now what happened. I fear all the time she spent with my family might have ruined her. She was a bit of a Original groupie." He joked.
"And were you her favourite?" Grace questioned trying to fool him into saying if he had turned her or if it was one of his other siblings.
"You mean, did I turn her?" Kol saw right through her plan "I think I did." He nodded his head but then a thoughtful look can over his face "But no, wait, maybe it was Rebekah. There was also a Klaus period. Like you, love." He mocked and Damon growled protectively "And let's not forget the Elijah affair. I spoke to my brother, I know you're trying to find out who your descended from. Now you never will. So, where'd we leave off?" He questioned swinging the bat with a playful smirk.
Suddenly Kol smacked Damon's leg and he fell to the floor catching himself with his hands, the Original swung at his arm, breaking it and then hitting him again repetitively.
"Grace, go." Damon ordered in a hurt voice, Grace hesitated when suddenly Kol was standing in the doorway a dare in his eyes as she went for him, but he stopped her.
"You know, according to my brother, you're off limits. Please don't test me." He ordered before shoving her across the room she screamed as she smashed through a window hitting the ground hard.
"Where's the stake?" Stefan questioned in a threatening voice but nothing seemed to be working on this new Alaric, he wasn't threatened or scared, he was so casual and sinister looking.
"You're worse than I ever was." Dark Alaric spat evilly "Spineless, pathetic."
"Tell me where the stake is before I kill you." Stefan threatened narrowing his forest green orbs, Elena clutched onto his sleeve with a worried look in her eyes, he may have been a psychotic freak at the moment, but it was still Alaric under all of that.
"You know you're all gonna burn. Ashes to dust. You, Damon, Grace, Caroline. Everyone." Alaric spat scornfully as Stefan zipped over and punched him over and over again.
"Where's the stake?" Stefan ordered and when Dark Alaric didn't answer he hit him once again holding him against the wall by his throat "Im gonna kill you in three... two... one-"
"It's in the caves!" Alaric answered clutching onto Stefan's hand struggling for breath, it seemed 'nice' Alaric was right about Dark Alaric, he didn't have a death wish "Where no vampire can get it." Stefan let him go and he fell to the floor with a thud, Stefan lead Elena from the room when suddenly they were confronted by Rebekah and Klaus.
"That wasn't too hard, was it?" Klaus pouted.
"Grace!" Damon ran outside to see her still laying on the cold hard concrete floor, he helped her to stand and held her close to him "Gracie, are you ok?"
"Y-Yeah, I think so." She answered hanging onto him lovingly, he pecked her cheek before moving away from her for a moment "What's wrong?"
"I need to know." His voice was small as he cupped her face "Are you completely over Klaus? Because I can't go back into our relationship knowing you love him. It was hard enough the first time I can't go through that pain again. Please tell me the truth."
"I don't. I love you, Damon. I promise." She nodded at him but he turned away "Hey. Look at me." She ordered and timidly he did "Ever thinking that Klaus had changed or that he loved me was a mistake and... and I'm ashamed at what I did with him, sleeping with him, but he needs to go out and find someone else, find his own love, he doesn't love me. I know it. He was willing to beat me half to death and I know you'd never do that."
"Never." Damon promised kissing her passionately "I love you."
"I love you, too, Damon. I'm sorry everything that happened." She whispered as she kissed him sweetly.
Klaus was wandering around the parlour room as both Stefan and Elena watched him spitefully, he glanced over at them both smirking a little when suddenly Rebekah walked into the room pulling Alaric with her.
"I'm gonna take him to the caves. You're gonna go inside and fetch me the stake and if you think you're gonna hide, you're wrong." She threatened as she pushed the history teacher out of the door.
"So, any word from Grace or Damon? I know about their little trip to Denver. They failed. Not that that's news anymore." He shrugged a little as the ex-lovers exchanged looks.
"So, what are you gonna do now, Klaus? You gonna kill me?" Stefan questioned and Elena stiffened fearfully looking over at him.
"I haven't actually decided yet-"
"Aww, sure you have." Stefan retorted "See you've had every chance and every excuse imaginable to do it, but yet you haven't which means you don't want to." he countered and Elena looked over a little surprised that he was talking to the crazy hybrid like that.
"You know something, you're right." Klaus nodded a little as he sipped his drink timidly "You see, I'm still waiting for my old friend to come back. By the looks of it, he's just beneath the surface. Waiting to come out and play. Isn't that right, Ripper?" Klaus growled and Stefan smirked a little.
"I've been fighting that party of myself, thinking that if I repressed it then it would go away. But it won't." Stefan nodded a little facing the facts "And now that I've accepted it, it can't control me. And neither can you. So, unless you're gonna stake me, why don't you get the hell out of my house?" He growled as he turned to Elena "C'mon, I'll take you home, Elena." He took her hand and lead her from the room.
Damon was driving in the pitch black of the night, Jeremy sat in the back of the car by himself and Grace was asleep in the passenger seat legs pulling up as she leant her head against the window. The vampire smiled as she slept soundly, he reached over took her hand whilst driving with his other.
"Are we there yet?" Rose suddenly appeared next to Jeremy, he was shocked to see her, but didn't let on that she was there "Don't tell them I'm here..." She watched them for a moment "Aren't they adorable?" Jeremy didn't answer "They are the best thing for each other, she makes him a better person and he would do anything for her..." Rose paused for a moment "Klaus is everything that Grace doesn't need in her life, when you're a new vampire you need security and to be able to feel safe with a love, he scares her, she may not let on, but he does, I can see it..." With that she disappeared into the night.
A/N
Hello, so here is another chapter
Yay! Drace are back together for good! Stefan and Elena are getting closer, and the season is almost over! Uh-Oh.
Thank you so much to everyone who reviews, faves, alerts, reads, follows me on tumblr, I love you all and appreciate all the support you give me!
As I promised before I am going to answer the reviews, I'm not sure there was any questions or anything, but I'll reply anyway :D So if you reviewed on the last chapter check below because I will have probably have answered it.
Oh, by the way there is a poll on my profile, or whatever you want to call it :) Considering this story is almost over I figured I'd better start a new one up until the next season begins, so please go and vote it will help me come to a final decision :D
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Graciiee xx
Review Replies:
OBSESSEDwithPOWERS – I can see where you're coming from, Klaus and Grace can be very tempting, but he does scare her and she doesn't need that at the moment as much fun it would be to have them together I think her true love is Damon. But I still really appreciate the fact that you like Klace :) Thanks.
Mia Salvatore – Yeah, Klaus went crazy and he thinks sorry is gonna cut it, well it isn't this time, he's gone way too far. Drace forever! I love that, awesome! I think has some kind of soft spot for Grace, as much as they've done really bad things to each other, they are a bit like Damon and Alaric, with the love/hate relationship :D Thanks.
TheElegantFaerie – Well, I'm glad you're ready for Drace to get back together and I really hope you enjoyed this chapter in that case. If you want a Klaus/OC story feel free to vote on my poll :) Thanks.
xxxRena – Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it :D I think you'll be very glad with this chapter in that case, they are most definitely each others Epic loves ;D Thanks.
ash88 – Yes, Klaus was a little bit angry with poor Grace, she seemed to find out how angry he can truly get and that scared her even more :/ shame really. If you want a Klaus/OC please feel free to vote on my poll :D Thanks.
jmllei – I think Drace is a little more popular that Klace, so if you want a Klace/OC please feel free to vote on my poll :) Thanks.
Destined2RunWithTheWolves – Thank you so much, hun 3
pieperson9708 – Drace for the win! They are each others epic loves :) Thanks x
storylover3 – Seems Klaus has quite a temper, but you should hate him, poor Klaus is just... misunderstood and needs love, unfortunately Grace isn't that love and he's having a hard time coping with that :( Thanks :)
elly – Aww, I'm sorry, I really hope you don't stop reading, I know it can be hard to read about a ship that isn't what you like, but I hope this chapter has changed your mind because it's pretty Drace centred :)
ADORATIO – I think Klaus knows he went too far and sorry just isn't going to cut it this time for poor Grace, thank you so much :)
TinyDancer365 – I know Klaus was all kinds of crazy in that chapter, showed his true colours to Grace I think, unfortunately he went way too far. Thank you much for your support! And I hope you enjoyed :D
EidenLo – I think maybe Klaus has pushed Grace a bit too far this time, it's a shame but I think it's true, sorry :(
Jane R. Doe – Wow, I really made you feel that way, that's great? I think aha, thank you so much for reading :)
SomebodyWhoCares – Yeah, he was totally crazy, huh?
Guest – Thank you so much, aha!
SharkGurl – Yeah, Klaus is totally crazy and I think it took Grace a good beating to actually realise that he is all kinds of crazy that she doesn't need in her life at the moment, Damon is crazy, but at least he has never hit her, or in Klaus case beaten her half to death.
susl – Yeah, it was a shame to write, but I think Grace needed to know the truth about how mad Klaus' temper could be (well, at least in this story) If you want, feel free to vote for Klaus/OC in my poll :)
KimmyWSmith – Yeah, Fayth is kinda sinister, I know how you feel and Damon is a total sweetie (When he wants to be) I don't think Grace or Damon are going to hurt each other again.
David Fishwick – I'm glad you enjoyed :)
grapejuice101 – Thank you so much! :D