Twisted Love
Season Four
Growing Pains
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Grace's Dream
Blinking a couple of times Grace woke up in the middle of a dark mysterious woods with a deep fog around her feet, rubbing her large chocolate-brown orbs she gazed around for a moment trying to process where she was or what was happening, trying to remember her last memory, but nothing came to mind.
"... If I hold this in any longer... I feel as if I will explode." Damon's voice wracked through her brain as she glanced around trying to find him. "What I'm about to say is probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life." He added, Grace remembered this conversation, this was the first time they'd said they love each other, a great memory.
"Love is fuelled by lust." Klaus' British voice ran through her body making her shiver as she turned abruptly trying to find where the voices were coming from, she remember these conversations. They were seared into her brain unable to forget or move on. "You called me today. You got into bed willingly. Just remember you have given yourself to me, just as I have given myself to you."
She launched herself through the tall, leafless trees desperately trying to find an exit to this never-ending hell hole she continued to hear voices of previous memories each around her hopelessly.
"Listen, about what Nik did to you the other night..." Rebekah's soft voice came burning through her as she leaned back against the wall looking around helplessly. "He doesn't mean it. He just has a terrible temper."
"What is happening?" Grace hissed as she slowed down to a walk, when she ran in the same direction it just seemed to continue on and on trying to find an exit or escape hatch to this dream of memories.
"I love you, too, Grace. As a sister..." Stefan began and she slid down a willowy tree defeated just listening to the voices hoping it would end soon. "What I said to you when I was compelled by Klaus and coming off the blood, I didn't mean it... It was the blood talking. I never did say sorry for that."
"I helped her. She needed my help." The last voice was Meredith, she remembered this one vividly, it was recent, very recent. She remembered trying to pin the poor doctor and chew into her flesh and Damon had to... he had to knock her out...
Gasping loudly as she woke up Grace glanced around the Gilbert living room seeing that Damon was sitting at the end of the couch by her feet waiting for her to wake up, as soon as she opened her eyes he was checking her over for any psychical damage, none that he could see.
"Tell me you're ok." He ordered, it wasn't a question, he hated having to take her down in the hospital, but anymore public stunts like that and she was going to have a problem on her hands, which meant he was going to have a problem on his hands and both didn't need that at the moment.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." She assured him and he crushed his lips to her with such a demanding passion, she wasn't sure whether it was an apology or a need. "Damon..." She took a breath as he tried to go back in for another heated kiss. "Just... Just... Let's get a drink." She managed to breath out.
He nodded as he stood up carefully and led her through to the kitchen reaching up in a cupboard seeing one of Alaric's old Bourbon's that had sat in there untouched since he passed, he popped open the bottle and poured them both a glass.
"I'm sorry..." He whispered as he looked across from her, she nodded at him rubbing the back of her neck. "I'm so sorry, but I needed to, people were there and-"
"Damon, you don't need to apologise." She assured him in a soft voice as she walked over and ran her hand over his smooth cheek lovingly looking up into his icy blue orbs. "You did what you did for a reason, and if you hadn't I would have killed Meredith. So, thank you." She smiled before downing her drink in one quick chug. "Not that she didn't deserve it... Feeding my sister vampire blood. Dammit."
"I know you're angry and hurting, but, trust me, running out and killing someone isn't going to help any of us now." Damon answered in a serious tone as she poured herself another drink and quickly downed it, he scoffed as he watched her. "Thirsty?"
"Drink helps." She answered leaning forward on her elbows on the counter as Damon poured her another drink which she didn't hesitate to knock back. "Where is she?" He looked upstairs and she nodded once, she wasn't sure she if she could rack up the nerve to go up there.
"You need to see her, Gracie." Damon ran his hand down her back softly she relished in his touch as he rubbed her lower back sensually. "She can't be alone in this." She knew he was right and couldn't deny her sister the support she needs.
Elena's Dream
Elena could see a little brunette girl sprinting through a meadow laughing happily, she couldn't have been any older than six whilst another little brunette girl chased her with all she could muster, she was around the same age. They both fell down onto the soft grass giggling and laughing before sitting up right and facing each other.
She noticed them both, it was herself and Grace. Her jaw fell open as she walked towards them kneeling down next to them, neither seemed to notice her as she caught wind of their conversation, she remembered this so vividly.
"We'll be best friends forever." Younger Elena smiles at the girl opposite who smiles as she leant over and hugged her friend warmly.
"Yeah, we will be. Forever and ever." Young Grace confirmed as they pulled back and began playing games all over again relishing in their childhood whilst they could.
Elena remembered how quick her and Grace became friends, how quickly they bonded, became sisters and then... then they found out they were sisters and life got a lot more complicated than just being twins.
Suddenly a loud pounding and drilling, church bells chiming, sirens in the distance was pulling Elena from her dream, pulling her away from a much simpler time of her life...
Elena gasped as she sat upright in her bed looking to see Stefan sitting at the foot a concerned look on his face as he reached out and touched her arm trying to sooth her, she looked around the room, Damon stood in the door way and Grace leant against the wall watching her as she adjusted to her surroundings.
"St-Stefan..." Elena breathed out heavily trying to get her breathing to calm down but nothing seemed to be working, her heart was thudding so loud she could hear it in her ears, her head was aching so bad and her gums felt as if they were being torn apart in her mouth.
"Hey, I'm right here..." Stefan assures her in a loving tone as he lowers his hand to engulf her shaking one trying to calm her down before she had a panic attack. "You've been in and out for hours."
"W-What happened?" Elena questions looking around the room searching for an answer on their face before Grace stepped forward, placing her empty glass on the dressing table before glancing down at her sister who was in transition.
"You were in an accident." Grace informs her in a soft voice but her eyes tried to show as little emotion as possible as she kept it together for her sister, Elena could remember the car accident playing over and over in her head, almost hitting Rebekah and then driving off of Wickery Bridge with Matt in the car...
"Oh my God. Matt!" She remembered as she tried to move, Grace couldn't help but feel a wave of anger wash through her body, Matt was her friend he was a good friend and one of their only human friends left but Elena was her sister, if he hadn't have been so stupid to take her out-of-town then Elena wouldn't be in this situation.
"Alive? Yeah." Grace muttered as she crossed her arms over her chest, Damon glanced across at her almost feeling the anger against Matt and wanting to help make it right or at least make Grace feel better, but there was nothing he could do short of killing him.
"He's fine." Stefan answered Elena as she let out a heavy sigh of relief in knowing her ex-boyfriend and one of her best friends was ok. They were a family and she didn't want to lose any of her family members, not anymore, they had already lost so many people as it was.
"Thank you." Elena gave him the smallest smile of appreciation that he wasn't even sure he saw as she continued to rack her brain for more answers, what had happened after that, she just seemed to blank. "But how did you..."
"Save you?" Grace's broken voice came from across the room once more, Elena glanced up at her sister who was still leaning against the room, she could see how glassy her eyes were as she continued to try to hold it together, but slowly her façade was washing away. "He... He didn't." She added in a breathy voice as Damon went and stood next to her, taking her hand lovingly giving it a squeeze.
"When Jeremy brought you to the hospital before this all happened, your injuries were worse than we all knew." Stefan explained and Elena's jaw fell agape as she listened to the story of how she died, and how she was there now. "Meredith Fell made a choice, she used Grace's blood to heal you." Elena glanced over at her sister who had a deeply apologetic look on her face.
"And when Rebekah ran Matt's truck off the road you had vampire blood in your system, Elena." Damon told her letting her put the pieces together in her head, Stefan had been unable to save her from certain death to save Matt's life, but she had vampire blood in her system, her sisters vampire blood.
"Oh my God." Elena whispered as she looked between the three vampires sitting with her horror pulling over her delicate features covering her mouth for a moment before asking. "Does that mean... Am I dead?!" She demanded and each of them glanced at each other. "No. No. No. No! That wasn't supposed to happen..."
"Maybe it doesn't have to." Stefan carefully took both of her violently shaking hands. "I talked to Bonnie, she said she's stronger than ever, she said there might be something she can do to help you." His voice was soft as he almost felt the scepticism rolling off of Grace and Damon from across the room.
"Are we really going to sit her and act like this isn't happening?" Grace hissed as she dried the tears away from her eyes. "I don't think we should ignore that Elena is in transition as we speak, we don't have time to look for an alternative, we should just plan for-"
"We have an entire day before she has to feed, Grace. We can try to work out something, and if-"
"There is no other way out of this. We should know better than anyone." Grace looked between Damon, whom was had a look on his face that agreed with his girlfriend completely, and Stefan whom was giving her a pleading look, he needed her to believe, he needed her to stand by him with this. "We all know the drill, we've all been there, you feed or you die. There is no door number three, Stefan..." She shook her head from side to side before walking from the room at a swift pace swinging the door open making it hit the wall with a loud bang, denting the wall.
After a moment of silence Elena frowned a little looking through the door to hear her sister leaving the house, probably to get some fresh air and calm down. "I was ready to die." She announced in a weak voice. "I was supposed to die... I was... I don't want to be... I can't be a vampire." There was a heavy layer of fear to her shaking voice. "If there is something that Bonnie can do, we have to try. Just make sure Grace understands..."
"We will. I'll talk to her-"
"No, it's ok." Damon spoke up from where he was stood with an almost angry look on his face, although he was more frustrated with the way Stefan was handling Elena's transition, his girlfriend was right, they could ask Bonnie for all they wanted, but when push came to shove they needed to prepare Elena for the biggest change of her life when or if everything fell through. "I'll go see her."
Outside Grace was pacing up and down the porch before taking a seat on the porch swing sighing in defeat, she felt awful about what she had said up there, she knew how scary it was for Elena to be going through a transition, she had gone through it herself. The door opened behind her and she glanced up to see her raven haired boyfriend walking out with a sad smile.
"How are you feeling?"
"Angry. Sad. Stressed." She listed emotions that were buzzing through her body as Damon took a seat next to her and put his arm around her waist pulling her close to him.
"I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better, but I don't think anyone is going to be happy if I run in there with blood and force feed it to Elena." Damon muttered kissing the top of her head making her let out a small giggle.
"I think you're right." Grace muttered as she linked their fingers together letting out a small sigh as she closed her eyes for a moment. "I just feel like we're setting her up for disappointment, no matter how powerful Bonnie is she can't bring someone back from the dead... I want Elena to be ready for this."
"I know. I know." Damon whispered as he stroked her hip bone with his free hand leaning them both back swinging the swing gently as they both began to relax. "But you know Stefan, stubborn and set in his ways. If he thinks that for a second that Bonnie might have some sort of spell, then he's Team Bonnie, all you have to do at the moment is help Elena through this. You know what it's like, you've been through this."
"Yeah, but I didn't wait an entire day to feed. I barely waited a couple of hours." Grace answered in a low voice shutting her eyes feeling so safe against Damon's warm chest. "She's gonna get weaker and weaker until she's barely able to open her eyes." She sighed a little before saying what she was truly feeling. "Out of everyone, this was the last person I wanted this to happen to. I could deal with Caroline being turned, she's strong. And me, I just about dealt with this, but I had you to help me and mentor me-"
"And if Elena has to go through this then she has Stefan, and most importantly she has you, you're young, you know everything that's going through her head better than what Stefan remembers when he was first turned." Damon assured her squeezing her hand making her sigh once more. "What else is going on?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I can see something that you're hiding from me." Damon answered as he pulled back and looked into her shinning chocolate-brown orbs with compassion. "Please tell me."
"It's nothing." She whispered as she tucked a piece of her rich brown tresses behind her ear and stood up from the porch swing giving him a trying smile. "It's just a little stressful taking on all this, you know?" She leaned down and pressed a thoughtful kiss to his lips before entering the house once more, guilt overtaking her as she thought of her sister being a vampire because it was her blood in her system.
As she walked into the kitchen she saw Stefan standing there drinking some of Alaric's bourbon before sliding the bottle over to her. "I know you're angry at me, and you have every right to be, she's your sister and you want to look out for her. But, Grace, I don't want this for her..."
"Dammit, Stefan." Grace's voice was defeated and weak as she looked up at him through tearful eyes. "Do you really think I want Elena to be a vampire? When most of the time it's what we've thought against. I didn't want this for me and I don't want this for her, but we all know the endgame: feed or die." She looked up into his pleading eyes for a moment, she knew that he needed her to back him on this. "But... But Bonnie, you said you think she can do this, then I'm with you."
"Thank you." Stefan smiled in appreciation before crossing the kitchen to hug her in brotherly fashion before pulling away. "Really, Grace. Thank you." He smiled at her for a moment.
"It's no problem." Grace answered before pulling away and looking over her shoulder at Damon, his expression was blank as he watched the two hug for a moment, she walked past him and gave him a loving smile before pecking him on the cheeks and heading up the stairs to check on her sister.
"You don't really believe she's on your side, do you?" Damon questioned as he walked into the kitchen with an exasperated look on his face. "She took one look at the desperate sick puppy dog look on your face and caved, brother." He shook his head from side to side. "She knows her sister has to turn..."
"I made a mess." Stefan admitted as he ran his hands through his long spiked hair. "I made a choice that I'm going to regret for the rest of my life... Just like you did when you weren't here for Grace the night she was killed."
Damon gritted his teeth for a moment, that had been the one thing to haunt his dream, if he had never left for the stupid road trip with Elena and Alaric would Grace still be alive now? He had promised himself from that moment on that he would protect Grace with his life... Not like that had gone very well so far, between crazy infatuated original hybrids and psychotic murderous vampire hunters turned originals she had been really hurt.
"Just like you were there when Grace got killed, too? I gave you one thing to do, Stefan. One thing. You asked me to look after Elena and I told you to look after Grace. Elena came back alive that night, did Grace?" Damon growled as he launched himself at his brother, they tackled each other around the kitchen until Stefan broke away with a sad look on his face.
"I'm sorry I let Grace turn, but I have to do what's right for Elena-"
"And where were you when you had to do what was right for Grace, dammit!" He growled as he slammed his fist into the wall with a great deal of strength, pictures on the walls shook, ordainments tumbled almost falling over. "You know what Grace told me a little while back, she told me she never wanted to be a vampire, she wanted to grow up... she misses being human and you know what? It broke my heart hearing it, knowing there was nothing I could do to stop it."
"Damon, I-"
"And the same thing is going to happen to you, Stefan. Right now with Elena. There is nothing that witch is going to be able to do, so you're just going to have to grit your teeth and deal with her becoming a vampire, like I did with Grace."
Grace bit back a sob as she heard the two speaking downstairs, walking into her sister's room she saw her struggling with the light coming through the window and decided it was time to close the blinds. "How are you feeling, 'Lena?" Her voice was caution, she knew her sister was a ticking time bomb, but part of her wanted her sister to take it out on her, the guilt was so enormous she needed something to take it away.
Elena racked her fingers through her long chocolate-brown hair anxiously letting out a shaky breath as she looked over her shoulder at her twin for a moment. "Horrible. I-I'm on edge and I keep h-hearing things." She muttered as she looked in the mirror at herself, she was pale but sweat was rolling down her forehead. "W-What am I supposed to do?"
Blood. Drink. Human. Blood. "I think you already know the answer to that question." Grace whispered as she bit her bottom lip a bit before sitting down on the end of the bed looking across at her sister with a sad expression on her face. "I promise it gets easier, Elena. I mean, look at me and Care, we've been doing this for a while now, and we're fine-"
"I'm not like you two, Grace. Dammit, I'm not strong." Elena whispered as she pushed her top lip up to look at her gums that appeared to be more red and painful than before. "God! Why do my gums hurt so much?" She breathed out angrily looking at her sister through the mirror so many questions to continue asking her.
"These." She pushed her fangs out letting her vampire side seep through, her sister sighed a little and began to pace around the room massaging her aching temples carefully. "My body is on fire, I can't... This room..." She looked around and Grace wandered over to the window opening it, the transitioning human quickly shielded away from the sunlight before the vampire closed it again. "I'll, uh, I'll go get you a towel, alright?"
Elena closed her eyes for a moment hearing Grace moving majestically around the bathroom barely making any noise that any normal human would hear as she opened her eyes again she saw Jeremy leaning against the doorway with a concerned look on his face, she got up and ran over to him giving him a big hug.
"Are you ok?" His voice was full of concern for his older sister as she slowly shook her head from side to side. "I watched Vicki go through this. She was a mess, her emotions were all over the place, all these old memories came flooding back-"
"I'm fine." Elena assured him with a smile trying to ignore the burning light behind her, hearing it buzz loudly in her ear as she kept her temper down, keeping it together for her baby brother. "I'm not Vicki."
"No, you're not..." Jeremy confirmed with a small head nod. "You're you. You act like everyone's ok so that nobody worries about you, but you need help-"
"I said I'm fine ok." There was a hint of frustration behind Elena's voice and Jeremy had noticed it, Grace stood in the doorway to the bathroom unseen by both the transitioning human and the taller boy. "I-I-I'm sorry. Have you talked to Bonnie?"
"Yeah, she said when I was shot she made some plea to the witch spirits and they listened." Jeremy informs her and Elena creased her eye brows, she wanted to come back humans, she didn't want to see ghost of her family and everyone else like her brother did.
"But the consciences were horrible-"
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire?" Jeremy hissed looking down at his sister as a jaw went slack. "I need my sister, not another one of them..." He added before turning and walking from the room.
Grace let a small tear drop down her face as she walked back in the room and handed Elena an icy wet towel for her to place on her forehead, which Elena took thankfully before pulling her sister into a hug. "I'm s-sorry he said that..." Elena cried hysterically. "I'm so sorry, Grace. He doesn't mean it-"
It was going to be a long day of highly strung emotions...
Bonnie stood in the Lockwood Cellar glancing down at Klaus' desecrating body with a hard look on her face when suddenly she heard a voice from behind her. "Beautiful, isn't it?" Tyler's announced and she turned abruptly knowing that it was truly Klaus inside of there.
"What is it that you're doing here, Klaus?" Bonnie's voice was cold as she narrowed her eyes at the hybrid. "The deal that you made with Tyler was that you jump into someone else's the first chance you got."
"Yes. When I assumed I'd be a pile of ash." Klaus countered as he took a couple of steps towards her looking down at his original body. "But apparently fate and oxygen intervened and there I am." He looked up at the witch who was clearly weary by his presence. "Put me back."
"I can't right now..." Bonnie knew she had to do al she could to help save Elena before she did anything for Klaus, she needed to be there for her best friend and didn't want her to end up a vampire like so many other of her friends and family.
Klaus raised his eye brows in surprise of Bonnie turning him down. "Your history teacher outed Tyler and Caroline to the Council. They're on a war path and this body's vulnerable." He informed her in a deathly low voice.
"I have to help Elena before she has to feed." Bonnie tried to explain to Klaus who couldn't care less about Elena and her transition problems, now she was no longer human her blood was useless to him.
"Elena's dead and no longer my concern..."
"You're forgetting who just saved your life." Bonnie narrowed her light brown orbs at the hybrid who lashed out and grabbed her by her throat choking her, she clawed against his hand trying to get him off.
"And you're forgetting that I could rip your tongue out." Klaus countered tilting his head to the side glaring down at her. "Now put me back."
"If I can keep Elena human, you'll still have an endless blood supply to make your hybrids." Bonnie tried to tempt him with the idea of still being able to make his army of hybrids like he always wanted. "Isn't that what you really want."
With that Klaus released Bonnie from his grip and she began to leave when he suddenly zipped in front of her standing there blocking her only exit. "Same rules apply. No one knows. No one. Do you understand me, Bonnie." He cocked an eye brow and she gulped, she hated the idea of having to keep Klaus still being alive from her friends.
Meredith was looking down the wall way rubbing the bruises on her neck where Grace had attacked her, she hadn't blamed the young girl, she was angry and upset that her sister was becoming like her. Looking up she sees Paster Young and some deputies approaching her.
"Paster Young!" Her voice was kind and high as he looked at her with an emotionless look on her face. "To what do we owe the honour? And don't tell me it's your blood pressure again." She joked before she sat the serious look on his face.
"Honestly, Dr. Fell, I wish it were..." He looked over his shoulder one of the deputies. "Blood banks in the basement. One of you sweep the rooms."
"What are you doing?" Meredith questioned watching one of the deputies walk past her towards the blood bank they kept in the basement.
"Adding a few security measures." He answered as the deputies left began to search around the hospital for anything that was amiss. "The blood in this place has a habit of flying off the shelves."
"What gave you that authority?" Meredith demanded in a low voice watching as they searched her hospital without her say so.
"The Council." Paster Younger answered giving her a deeply apologetic look. "They've entrusted me to secure the town and unlike some of our founding families, I don't have conflicting interests." He referred to the fact that the Mayor of the town was hiding her son who was a hybrid and the Sheriff who was hiding her daughter who was a vampire.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Alaric Saltzman told us everything, Meredith." He answered and her eyes went wide her jaw dropping agape. "Probably time to start looking for a new job." He threatened as he walked past her further into the hospital leaving her standing there shocked and angry.
Matt was standing in his room at the hospital after he had been discharged after his injuries with Caroline stood with him looking distort and lost thinking that Tyler was dead.
"Elena doesn't want to be a vampire." Matt stated as he pulled his chequered over shirt on looking across at the blonde who gave him a sorrow filled look, he knew he must have been so guilt ridden.
"She doesn't want to be dead and now she's not. This isn't your fault, Matt." Caroline tried to assure him but he shook his head from side to side looking across at the vampire who had been comforting him since the accident had occurred.
"It's all my fault. I was driving. I was saved. She's a vampire because of me!" Matt vented loudly and Caroline's silvery orbs went wide as she gave him a look, she wasn't even meant to be in town let alone in the town hospital.
"Shh! Cool it on the 'V' word." She ordered in a whisper. "I'm a fugitive, remember? I'm supposed to be halfway to Florida by now." Caroline reminded him.
"If the Council is after you, then why are you here?" Matt questioned with a solemn look on his face as the blonde sighed shaking her head.
"Because I don't know where to go." She whimpered as tears began to stream down her face. "Tyler's dead and everything's different now and I-" Matt suddenly embraced her in a warm hug, trying to assure her everything was going to be alright, but Tyler had been her world and now...
The door behind them opened and Caroline's sobbing body fled from Matt's arms leaving him standing there alone as a deputy walked in seeing him alone. "Can I help you?"
"Sorry." He began to talk to his dispatch clicking the button. "All good here." He walked out closing the door behind him leaving Matt relived that he didn't catch Caroline.
Not long later over at the Lockwood Mansion Caroline Lockwood was in utter disgust as one of the deputies put a pair of handcuffs in her as Paster Young standing watching with a disappointed look on his face.
"What's going on?" She ordered as the deputy lead her from the house with Paster Young in tow giving her a look.
"We just need to ask you a few questions about your son." The Pastor answered watching her struggling against her cuffs.
"You can't arrest me!" Carol protested in a low voice as the deputy lead her from the house. "I'm the Mayor of this town!"
"Not anymore, you're not."
After Pastor Young was done dealing with Mayor Lockwood he went onto deal with the Sheriff, Liz Forbes. She was walking towards the police department looking down at her phone waiting for word from Caroline when the Pastor stopped her.
"Sorry, Liz, you're not going to work today." He informed her with a disappointed look on his face, he was angry that she had let vampire corrupt this town after everything they had all been through and what their ancestors had been through to rid this town of them.
"What are you talking about?" Two deputies surround them and she looked at her men surprised. "What's going on?"
"They're taking your badge." Pastor Young informed her. "You're not fit to protect us anymore."
"You have no idea what you're up against." Liz tried to warn him, she knew how angry Damon could get alone, and then with the other vampires of this town going against them, and if the Original family were to get involved there would be no mercy.
"On the contrary, Liz, I've already taken your deputies. We've got the entire town's supply of vervain including the stash found in the Salvatore house. We're making our move." He told her in a sure voice as the deputies took her away.
Caroline was gathering all her items together in her house deciding it was time to leave town, as much as she didn't want to and thought of how alone she would be she knew she couldn't stay there anymore.
Her phone began to ring in her jean pocket, sliding it out she answered it holding her phone to her hear whilst juggling with her bags. "Mom, hey!"
"Caroline, where are you? And tell me it's far away."
"Where am I? Uh... Good question." Her mom thought she must have left town by now. "Uh... There's just a bunch of boring highways. Why, is everything ok?" She walked out the front door when suddenly a sharp pain hit her neck as she was stabbed with a shot of vervain, dropping her phone weakly it fell to the ground loud enough for her mother to hear.
"Caroline, what's going on!?"
Stefan and Grace were zipping around the kitchen cleaning it whilst Elena was trying to get some food inside of her, she couldn't seem to stomach anything as she took a bite out of the sandwich her boyfriend had made her a disgusted look pulled over her face.
"It's disgusting." Stefan announced knowing that what she was craving for was human blood and eating human food wasn't going to help her do anything, it wasn't what she needed if she was going to survive this transition.
Elena covered her mouth as she spoke, trying to keep the food inside and vomit to hold the vomit from crawling up her throat. It was making her so nauseous, even the smell of it was making her stomach churn. "No, it's erm..."
"It's disgusting." Stefan finished for her and the transitioning human gave him an apologetic look, she knew he had made it for her and he was only trying to help keep her strength up, but even she couldn't deny what she really wanted, what her changing body craved completely.
"Yeah, I'm gonna puke." Elena muttered as she spat out her half chewed food into a napkin screwing it up and and placing it on the plate with a frown as she looked between her sister and her boyfriend. "I never thought I'd be saying this, but I can't stop thinking about blood."
"I should have saved you first." Stefan's voice was low as Grace glanced up at him, she didn't know what to say, Matt was one of her childhood friends and really important in her life, if he hadn't lived then a hole would be missing and Elena would feel so guilty, but Elena was her sister and she wanted her sister to be alive and human. "You shouldn't be going through this right now." His voice was filled with regret as he took the plate away from her putting it in the sink.
"No, if you had saved me, then Matt would be dead. What do you think I'd be going through then?" Elena assured him giving him a look telling him that everything was going to be ok, but he couldn't help but feel the guilt that was eating away inside of him. He poured himself another bourbon trying to douse the flames of guilt, but nothing seemed to help. Elena rose from her seat and wandered over to him. "Stefan, listen to me. You did the right thing. You did what you always do; you respected my choice."
"And what am I supposed to do if Bonnie can't figure out a way to help you, huh?" Stefan's voice was helpless as Grace shot him a look from across the room, dammit if she was going to believe in him through this then he sure as hell needed to believe in himself. "Because then you have another choice to make. Either you let yourself die, or be a vampire." He added and she frowned a little before looking up into his forest green eyes.
"Well then, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Elena paused for a moment realising what she had just said, about crossing bridges when the car she was in had just done a nose dive off one, but sadness wasn't the emotion she felt, more humour and lightheartedness. "Oh my God." Elena began to laugh. "Did – did I just say 'cross that bridge'?" She laughed harder, happy tears lining her eyes.
"You're laughing." Stefan chuckled a little knowing that it was the fact she was in transition that she was finding everything so darn funny. "I'm pretty sure you don't actually find that funny." He added giving her a confused look.
She continued to laugh as she turned and saw her sister watching her from across the room, she wandered over and took her hands. "Grace, I said, cross that bridge!" She laughed harder as Grace watched her uneasily.
"I-Is that supposed to be funny?" She glanced unsurely towards Stefan who just shrugged his shoulders, Elena's emotions were messed up at the moment so this was something they were going to have to deal with.
Elena's face began to change as her emotions swapped from being hysterically happy to sobbing, just like Grace had dealt with upstairs. Stefan crossed the room to be holding his girlfriend giving her a warm hug as Grace rubbed her sisters back trying to calm her. "Hey. Shh. Shh. It's ok. It's ok."
"I'm sorry. I-" Elena babbled but Stefan pulled away, still holding her hips as he caressed her face tenderly looking lovingly into her dark brown orbs.
"Listen to me. No matter what happens, I'm here for you. I can help you." Stefan assured her linking his hands in her rich brown hair, Grace took a step back giving them both a moment to be lovers and care for each other. Elena winced away from the sunlight that was bursting through the kitchen blinds into the Gilbert house. "Why don't you go upstairs where it's dark? I'll clean up." With that Elena walked from the room leaving Stefan and Grace to speak alone.
Stefan wandered over to the bottle of bourbon which was half way empty and poured another drink for himself and Grace. "Elena told me about what Jeremy said up there, he doesn't mean it, he's just worried about Elena." He assured her as he passed her the drink which she quickly knocked back without hesitation.
"Do you really think Bonnie is going to be able to do this?" Grace whispered as she looked up into Stefan's weary eyes. "I mean, we're not that lucky. We never have luck in anything we do. We have the Originals running all over us, we lost people we love and our lives are going to hell." She added as she felt a tear drop down her face, he leaned up and dried it with his thumb.
"I think you've spent a little too much time with Damon, you're starting to sound a little cynical." Stefan chuckled but the serious look remained on her face as she looked to him for answers. "Honestly, I'm not sure what Bonnie is going to have for us, but I do know we just have to put on a brave face and keep hoping for Elena, can you do that?" She nodded her head biting her bottom lip.
Grace knew he was right but she couldn't find it in her heart to have her hope crushed again, she had been through such pain and anguish in her life, just like all her other friends and her family, even Jeremy hated what she had become.
Rebekah was standing in her brothers mansion looking at all the picture her brother had drawn a grim look on her face, she couldn't deny she missed him as big of an ass he truly was he was still her brother. Tears begin to line her eyes and she throws the picture down before swiping the others off the table in a fit of rage.
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady." Rebekah dried her eyes as she turns and looked into Damon's narrowed icy orbs as he stood behind her.
"Good advice. Have you seen one?" He teased as she looked at him crossing her arms over her chest angrily.
"I take it you're not here about Elena's tragic end, so you're here to do Grace's dirty work I presume? She really does have you on a tight leash, doesn't she?" Rebekah taunted when Damon suddenly rushed for her with the indestructible white oak stake, shoving her against the dresser, but she manages to get him to drop the stake when shots were fired and the windows shattered all the bullets hitting Rebekah as Damon managed to escape but Rebekah falls to the ground with an arrow sticking out of her chest.
Grace and Stefan walked into the living talking about where Bonnie was and wondering if Elena was ok when suddenly the door slammed open and men with bullet proof vests and guns burst in aiming at both vampires. "Hands up!" The ordered and both put their hands up before Pastor Young entered the house looking directly at Grace with a disappointed look on his face.
"I have to say, Grace. I am very disappointed. This isn't what your parents would have wanted for you." The Pastor shook his head as footsteps wandered down the stairs, they all turned to see Elena standing there shocked.
"Elena, don't move." Stefan ordered and she stopped on the middle of the staircase surprised when they tied up Grace's and Stefan's hand with vervain ropes, they called out before syringes were driven into their neck, vervain filling their system.
Klaus was looking down at the coffin that contained his original body that he longed to be in feeling Tyler's phone vibrating in his pocket, pulling it out it read 'Mom' he knew it was Carol Lockwood and growled. "You incessant woman!" He hiss before hitting answer. "Hey, mom. What's up?" He played up Tyler's american accent.
"Tyler, thank God." She had fallen for it. "Are – are you ok?" She questioned concerned, she knew that the Council had already got Caroline and knew they were coming for him.
"Fine. Why? What's going on?"
Carol paused for a moment. "Pastor Young had me arrested this morning. The Council grilled me on your whereabouts. Tyler, don't tell me where you are, the less I know the better." She informed him and Klaus rolled his eyes.
"Mom, I'm ok. Relax-"
"You didn't answer your phone, honey. I was so scared that you were with Caroline." Carol's voice was filled with fear and Klaus cocked an eye brow, he wasn't worried about the blonde, but she could help him get to Bonnie and get him back into his body a little faster.
"What happened to Caroline?"
"The Council took her." Carol answered and Klaus knew that he was going to have to go out of his way to save her from them and then he was going to have to persuade her.
"They took her, huh?"
A large black van was drinking along a road with one police escort in front and another at the back, inside the van Rebekah was just waking up with Caroline sat beside her tied up too. The Original began to struggle against the rope but found it useless.
"Vervain ropes. Looks like Alaric outed us all to the Council." Caroline muttered as Rebekah leaned her head back for a moment.
"The Council? What exactly do they think they can do to me?" Rebekah growled when suddenly the wheels to the van screeched trying to stop but the entire van flipped and everything seemed to slow down for a second before it hit the ground with brute force. "What the hell happened!?"
The door smashed opened to show 'Tyler' standing there, Caroline let in a shaky breath surprised to see him alive and well, little did she know it was truly Klaus on the inside. "Tyler?"
"I'm harder to kill than you think." He chuckled as he ripped the ropes off of her, whilst Caroline couldn't help but let the tears stream down her face unable to contain her feelings for knowing her boyfriend was still alive.
"You're alive? How are you alive?" She whimpered as he finished breaking the ropes and removed her from the van into safety.
"Look, no time to explain. C'mon, we've got to go-"
"Wait, what about me?" Rebekah roared as Klaus popped back into the van giving her a charming grin through his ex-hybrid minion.
"Keep them busy, little sister." Klaus winked at her before leaving with Caroline, Rebekah's jaw fell open in shock knowing that her older brother was still alive and well, but trapped in that other body.
"No. That's not possible!" She roared struggling against the restraints until she figured it was useless and she stopped leaning back uncomfortably against the van wall.
Damon zipped in the house as fast as he could see items had fallen over, looking around the entire house for Grace he growled as he reached downstairs and saw Sheriff Forbes enter the house looking around at the mess.
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too." Damon hissed gritting his teeth together. "Please tell me you have something. Anything." Meredith walked into the living room.
"I can't. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices." Liz shook her head at him. "Files, computers, everything."
"So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?" He growled at the blonde standing in front of him, they were all worried over different people, Liz for her daughter, Damon for Grace and Meredith for getting everyone into this mess.
"Damon, relax." Meredith ordered. "When Caroline called to say she got away; did she know where they were planning to take her?"
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape." Liz shook her head as Damon rolled his eyes pacing around the room.
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere-" The front door was knocked and Matt entered the house with a timid look on his face.
"Hey, is Elena here?"
"No. Now, do you mind we have much more important matters to deal with other than your guilt for living instead of Elena." Damon hissed at him whilst pacing around the room running his hands through his raven black hair whilst Matt looked on with a nervous look.
Grace was thrown into a cell coughing and spluttering as she felt vervain entering her system with every breath. A small groan was heard next to her and she pried her eyes open to see the blonde Original sat there with her back to the wall.
"I could have been locked up with an other vampire." Rebekah muttered coughing, even the vervain was effecting her, making her weak and unable to escape the cell the were both trapped in.
"You're the one complaining? You're not stuck in here with a psychotic Barbie blonde bitch" Grace hissed as she leaned against the wall a weak look on her face where she had just woken up from her vervain dosing. "I-If I wasn't so weak right now, I'd be pinning you to that floor-"
"Oh, kinky." Rebekah taunted earning a growl from Grace who narrowed her eyes at her before looking across to see Stefan in a different cell just across from her coughing and waking up from his vervain drugging. "Ah, the whole families here... My two favourite vampires in the whole of Mystic Falls... Let's pop the champagne shall we?"
"Are you ok, Stefan?" Grace called a side of concern in her voice for the vampire that was like a brother to her, he pulled himself closer to the bars giving her an assured smile.
"Yeah, sure. I'm fine." He coughed a little looking over at her to see the concerned, pain ridden look in her eyes. "Are you ok?"
"Could be better." She sideways glanced at Rebekah who wiggled her fingers over to him weakly at him and he groaned leaning his head against the wooden wall of the cattle pen.
Elena sat anxiously in there little house in the middle of no where chewing on her fingernails as the Pastor heated up a kettle on the stove unknown to him that Elena was currently in transition to becoming a vampire.
"You still want to be a writer?" Pastor Young attempt to make light conversation with the girl who sat at the small dining table. "I remember how you'd read your short stories to my daughter when you'd babysit. She still loves writing because of you." He chuckled.
"Why did you bring me here?"
"My deputies can watch out for us here. No vampires have been invited in." She glanced around nervously before he walked over to the table. "Look, Elena, I know it sounds crazy, but years ago it was your parents who were advocating having an emergency plan like this. I never thought we'd actually have to use it." He could see the anxious look on her face. "Elena? Elena, you ok?"
"Where's Grace? Where's Stefan?" Elena demanded in a low voice as she continued to nibble on her nails until they were red raw and almost bleeding. "Just... Just let them go."
"Both those... vampires are where they can't hurt you." Pastor Young answered with a solemn look on his face as he let out a breath. "I have to admit, I'd never thought I'd see the day that young Grace Johnson was a vampire... Even little Caroline Forbes. Just goes to show, doesn't it? You don't really know anyone..."
"T-They would never hurt me." Elena answered as she looked up at him with an intense look on her face as she blocked out the sun and the annoying ticking noise of the clock behind her. "You have no idea what you're talking about."
"Well, I know wherever you go, that Salvatore vampire seems to follow. You may think you're safe with Grace, she's been your friend for years, but it's different now. She's a blood sucking monster. Those things, well that one dark haired Salvatore, really. Has corrupted her beyond a point of no return." She held back a growl as he spoke about her sister. "You hungry?"
"No."
Pastor Young wandered over to the fridge and pulled out a tray as she watched him uneasily. "So, we'll hold Grace until Damon comes searching for her. We'll use Rebekah to lure her siblings back into town. You'll give us the white oak stake and then we will exterminate the entire vampire race for good." He placed a well cooked steak in front of her and Elena looks down at it breathing heavily. "Is something wrong? Elena, are you ok?"
"Yeah." She could hear his pulse pulsating through the vein in his neck and she gulped trying to refrain herself from attacking the man. "No, I've got to get out of here." Bolting from the table she took off into the front yard shielding her eyes from the intensity of the sun beating down on her.
"Get her!" Pastor Young yelled from way behind her, she stopped dead when one of the deputies showed up from no where and hit her around the face with a blunt heavy object effectively knocking her out.
Caroline zipped into Klaus shoving him against a tree as they stand deep in the woods, she tried to kiss him, but he moved her against the tree looking down into her eyes with such intensity. "Sorry, love. Blondes aren't my type." Klaus purred and she looked up into his eyes blankly for a moment before shoving away from him.
"Love? Love." She muttered before turning to him with such anger in her eyes. "Y-You're not Tyler. You're Klaus!" She roared trying to attack him but he easily pinned her.
"Careful, wouldn't want to hurt yourself now, would you." Klaus teased making Caroline growl at him. "Listen, Barbie, I didn't have to risk exposer to come save you-"
"Oh, so you do one semi-decent thing and now you're my hero?" She hissed and he chuckled before shivering and pushing away from him her skin crawling thinking of poor Tyler carrying Klaus around. "Ugh, I want to burn my hands off for just touching you!"
"Please, love. I was the innocent victim in all of this. Your hands were all over me." He stated in a matter-of-fact tone and she glared at him. "We'll make sure Grace doesn't hear about this though, she can get very jealous if she needs to."
"How many times do you have to hear it, psycho. She's not into you!" Caroline made it very clear that her friend wanted nothing to do with him but he brutally forced her back against the tree making wood chips fly everywhere. "Do what you want to me, but nothing is going to change Grace's mind, she chose Damon. She always chooses Damon."
"Do you want your boyfriend back, or not?" Klaus hissed at her and she narrowed her silvery orbs at the murderous hybrid in front of her gritting her teeth together before nodding her head. "Good. Then I'm going to need your help convincing your witchy friend." With that he wandered off leaving Caroline angry and frustrated.
At the abandoned witch house Bonnie was reciting a spell her eyes closed as she concentrated deeply on helping Elena as Jeremy paced around in front of her trying to calm his nerves as he thought of the poor girl becoming a vampire. He didn't want that for her.
"That spirits aren't listening." Bonnie muttered tiredly as she stopped her chanting as the young boy turned to her looking down into her to see the defeated look on her face.
"Was that it? Is that all we can do?" Jeremy questioned and the witch took a moment to think before glancing down at her hands for a moment.
"There's something else I could try." She announced uneasily as she reached over to her spell book flicking through the pages.
"What? Do it."
She rose from where she was sitting and wandered over to him holding the spell out in front of her glancing over it for a moment. "If the witches won't help me save Elena, then maybe I can go to the Other Side and bring her back myself."
"The Other Side?" Jeremy creased his eye brows for a moment, he had the ability to be able to speak to people from the Other Side and they were always dead. "The Other Side is for dead people."
"She's still in transition. Not fully dead, not fully alive. What if her spirit still exists on both sides?" Bonnie suggested and Jeremy took a minute to think if it could be plausible.
"Even if it does, how can you get there? You're not dead." Jeremy scoffed as Bonnie continued to say nothing just look at him with a look of determination on her face, she was willing to do anything for her human friend, the boy quickly realised what she was going to do. "No, no, Bonnie!"
"I was able to stop your heart to stop Klaus'; I'll do the same thing to myself." She insisted but Jeremy watched her with look of disbelief in his face. "Witches have free reign on the Other Side. I will find Elena and I will bring her back with me."
"Assuming you wake up!"
"I'm stronger now." She assured him rubbing his arm tentatively. I found a new source of power." Which was dark and was going to lead her down a bad road.
"A new source of power!? What kind of power is going to let you kill yourself and bring someone back with you from the dead?" Jeremy questioned in a roar she just watched him with a blank look on her face, she didn't have to explain herself to him.
"Do you want Elena back or not?"
"With your vervain and Alaric's weapons; they could be anywhere." Liz announced looking down at a map in front of her with a puzzled look on her face.
"C'mon, guys, think." Damon provoked with a growl. "It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Reinforced steel, iron doors-"
"The Pastor has a cattle ranch." Matt remembered and they all looked over to him to continue. "Those pens could easily be modified."
"It's remote, it's secluded." Meredith agreed as Damon took a few steps over to Matt who had a timid guilty look on his face.
"Well, guess what? It's you're lucky day and you have get your chance to prove yourself to me before I completely cast you off as useless." Damon growled at the boy who nodded a little. "Let's go." He ordered and the both walked from the room.
In the barn Elena wakes up on the floor and looked around to hear coughing and spluttering and a light chatter from in front of her. Holding her head she looked up at the ventilation system to smell something funny in the air, a herb, vervain.
"I thought I killed her." Rebekah muttered to Grace who was sat next to her dragging herself towards the bars where she hauled herself to be looking at her sister concerned.
"Where am I?
"Elena, they locked you in here with us... They have vervain in the air and we're too weak to get out." Grace explained coughing weakly as Elena glanced as Rebekah who confirmed the story with a nod.
"Where's Stefan?" Elena questioned looking around wearily as her sister glanced to the cell adjacent from the transitioning human too tired to tell her he was in there.
"Elena, I'm right here." He assured her with a cough, she pressed her hand to the wood separating them from seeing each other. "Are you ok?"
"Stefan." She tried to sit upright but she was just too weak, she was in her last hours of the transition and now it was going to be too late for her to be able to feed. "I didn't feed." She glanced across at the mortified look on her sisters face.
"Ah, I see what's going on here." Rebekah spoke up as she glanced across at Grace who didn't look at her. "You died with vampire blood in your system and you didn't feed and now you're locked up in here without a drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem."
Stefan growled before saying. "Just ignore her."
"It's difficult." Grace muttered trying her hardest not to take in as much vervain as she could, it felt like knives stabbing her throat with every breath.
"Has anyone done the math or shall I? I'd say you've got less than three hours to feed before I get to watch you die all over again-" Rebekah went to laugh but Grace growled menacingly. "Oh, scary. I swear that one gave me goosebumps!" Her voice was thick with sarcasm as she looked at the brunette vampire sat next to her.
Bonnie and Jeremy were sitting on the floor with candles lit around them, he was holding her hands whilst she was reciting a spell, the spirits began to whisper around them, warning her to go back, to not use this dark magic, but she ignored it as she continued chanting the spell.
Jeremy peaked open his eyes and saw the blood trickling from the young witches nose. "Oh my God!" She only got louder with her chanting, not stopping. "Bonnie. Bonnie, open your eyes." He ordered but she didn't listen. "Bonnie, I can't let you do this! Bonnie, you're dying!" She just chanting louder more blood pouring from her nose as black veins began to creep up her arms. "What the hell is that?!" Her breathing got erratic before she collapsed on the floor. "Bonnie, no! Bonnie! Bonnie, wake up! Bonnie! Wake up!"
Bonnie watched Elena as she sat on the floor in her cage with her eyes closed, walking towards her she kneeled down next to her friend. "Elena." She placed her cold deathly hands on her arms. "Come back. Come back." She cooed.
Elena opened her eyes and saw no one there but felt a presence pulling her to stand up. "Stefan. Stefan, something's happening." She called in a weak voice.
"We're going home." Bonnie assured Elena but she couldn't hear her and her soothing words she was just being walked away.
"No!" A voice roared, the young witch glanced behind the transitioning human to see her Grams standing there with an angered look on her face.
In pure shock Bonnie dropped Elena's arms and the human fell back down to the floor with a heavy thud too weak to be able to stand up on her own, useless without her friend.
"Grams? What are you doing?" Bonnie questioned fearful surprised to see her Grams standing there in front of her.
"You can't be here." Sheila hissed at her granddaughter with a stern look on her face. "You stay away from this sort of darkness." She warned.
"Elena needs me-"
"She's not your problem to solve. Now, go!" Sheila roared anger rolling off of her. "Before they try to keep you here."
"Grams, please-"
"This magic is dark, Bonnie. It is not nature's plan. Touch it again and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer. Stay away. Go!" Sheila roared once more and Bonnie flinched away from the hysterical woman.
"Bonnie, wake up!" Jeremy pleaded as he knelt over her lifeless body that lay on the floor, not moving, not breathing. "Wake up! Come on! Open your eyes!" Suddenly her light brown eyes fluttered open to his surprise. "You're awake." He sat her upright and held her close to his warm body. "You're alive."
After Bonnie caught her breath she leaned her head into Jeremy's shoulder. "I couldn't do it. It didn't work."
"What happened?" Stefan called and Elena looked across at Grace with an apologetic look, she should have listened to her sister and fed, but she was too set in her ways and now she was going to die completely.
"I'm out of time. I need blood. I'm dying."
With all that he could muster Stefan pulled himself off the ground and held onto the bars to the cell door as he looked around for a moment lost for options. "Hey! Anyone, hey!"
"Will you shut up!?" Rebekah growled as she rubbed her temples trying to drown out the sound of the younger vampire calling for her, Grace hissed over at her as she looked at her sister with a hopeless look, she was too weak to do anything, the vervain was getting to her.
"You think we're afraid of you?!" Stefan taunted the deputies and one of them eventually walked in staring him down.
"You want more vervain? Keep it down."
"Listen to me. Elena's gonna die if you don't let her out of here." Stefan's voice was pleading as he looked at the officer who held a gun in his hand glancing down at Elena's weak frame inside the cell before looking back at Stefan.
"Sorry, not my problem-"
"She's innocent. Let her out." Stefan ordered as the officer began to walk away, he rushed towards the other side of the cage following him before roaring. "Let her out!" The officer turned and shot Stefan directly in the stomach and he stumbled back falling to the floor before getting back up and rushing towards the bars. "I said, let her out!" But he shot him again only this time in the leg aiming him fall to the floor in pain.
Caroline stood next to Klaus as they went to see Bonnie about putting Klaus into his original body and getting Tyler back into his own, but she was so weak from using the dark magic from before Jeremy was sticking up for her.
"She said she's not strong enough." Jeremy protested with a snarl making Klaus glare over at him before looking at the young witch who was drying the blood off herself.
"I upset the spirits trying to save Elena. I can't use that kind of magic again. It's too dangerous." Bonnie shook her head looking across at Klaus whose face turned hard and cold.
"Bonnie, do the bloody spell!"
"She said she can't ok?" Caroline stuck up for her friend pushing Klaus away with a disgusted look on her face before she looked over shoulder at her friend. "We'll just wait a few days until you're strong enough to do it with traditional magic, right Bonnie?"
Klaus grew impatient with having to wait to be back in his stronger, more powerful body and ripped the black v-neck shirt open violently, letting it fall in strips to the floor as he extended the wolves claws on his right hand puncturing it into his chest.
"What are you doing!?" Caroline growled looking at the psychotic hybrid inside her boyfriends body.
"Ripping Tyler's heart out. I'll jump into someone else." He glanced across at Jeremy with a painful look on his face as he punched further into his chest. "Maybe you."
Bonnie's eyed went wide. "Oh my God."
"You're hurting him! Stop! Stop!" Caroline ordered fearfully as she covered her mouth she didn't want to watch her boyfriend die in front of her, not like this, not trapped inside his own body.
Jeremy watched trying to hide his fear as he tried to call Klaus' bluff. "He's bluffing. He needs a witch to do that."
"What makes you think I don't have one? Or ten? Pick, Bonnie! You or Tyler!" He almost successfully rips through the muscle of his chest towards his heart.
"Stop, please!" Caroline pleads her eyes lined with hot tears. "You're killing him!"
"Fine, I'll do it! Just stop." Bonnie quickly stated and Klaus smiled as he pulled his bloody claw away retracting them.
"Good. Let's begin."
Elena was getting weaker and weaker by the second, Grace sat against the wall with Rebekah watching helplessly, it felt so painful, like her heart was being torn from her chest. Stefan dragged himself towards the wooden wall dividing them and dug the wooden bullet from his leg.
"Elena?" Stefan breathed out as he listened to her breathing, it was so shallow he knew she was coming to her end. "You still with me?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. I'm ok."
"No you're not." Stefan frowned as he pulled the bullet from his leg throwing it to the floor drying his hand of the blood. "I can hear you breathing. I guess, Grace was right, you should have fed this morning."
A single tear fell down Grace's face as she shook her head over to Stefan. "I... I actually believed there was hope, that Bonnie might be able to come up with something. I'm so sorry, Elena-"
"No, no. It's ok." Elena breathed out giving her sister an assuring smile from across the room. "We haven't had an easy life and I know it can be hard to look at things from a more hopeful perspective. I'm sorry about what Jeremy said." She coughed once more and Grace shook her head looking at the ceiling.
"He had every right to say that." Grace whimpered and was surprised when Rebekah patted her on the knee almost comforting, but as soon as she did it was removed within seconds feeling a little awkward for comforting her considering she was the one that had caused this whole mess.
"Stefan... Thank you. For not giving up hope." Elena whispered pressing her palm of her hand to the wooden wall behind her, knowing he was sitting there. "That's all I ever wanted you to have and you had it."
"I love you so much."
"Do you know why I was even on that bridge? I was coming back for you, Stefan. I had to choose and I picked you." Elena couldn't see but tears rolled down his cheeks as she spoke. "Because I love you. No matter what happens, it's the best choice I ever made. God. It sucks that I can't see you right now."
"I'm smiling." Stefan muttered pressing his hand to the wall knowing she was there, on her own dying slowly and nothing he could do to stop it or help her.
"Me too."
Damon's car pulled up out the front of the Pastor's house and both Matt and Damon climb out looking around for a moment before advancing towards the house.
"So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt questioned in disbelief as Damon smirked a little.
"Nah, we don't need weapons. Just bait." With that Damon took a chunk out of Matt's neck throwing him to the floor drying his mouth of excess blood. "Yoo-hoo! Anybody home? Big, bad vampire out here."
"Let him go." Pastor Young opened the front door, not stepping outside but standing in the doorway knowing that Damon couldn't get in without an invitation. "The boy's innocent."
"Well, that's the point. Give me Grace, Stefan and Elena, he's all yours." Damon smirked as he grabbed Matt by the scruff of his shirt holding him up. "C'mon, Pastor. You know I'll kill him. I want to kill him. I'm damn angry, you took my girlfriend. I'm pissed and I want to kill!"
"Go away!" Pastor Young ordered. "You are not invited him and I'm not coming out!" Suddenly a shot fired through the air and Damon hit the ground with a wooden bullet in his chest.
Bonnie was performing the spell to get Klaus back into his own body and Tyler into his own, her hands on either side of the hybrid's head as she chanted.
"This is black magic." Jeremy muttered to Caroline who looked on with equal worry. "She shouldn't be doing this."
Tyler's eyes open and he looked up at the blonde who watched with fear in her eyes, looking for whether it was really her boyfriend or not. "Caroline. Hey." He breathed as he got up and tried to walk over to her but fell to the floor.
"Tyler?" Caroline rushed over to his side tending to her sick boyfriend as Bonnie continued to chant her eyes shut tight.
"Bonnie, what are you doing?" Jeremy asked concerned as Bonnie stopped chanting, opening her eyes she saw the anger wrath of her Grams standing in front of her.
"I warned you, child." Grams growled shaking her head. "I warned you to stay away." Bonnie could hear her friends shouting behind her but her attention was fulling on her Grams as she clasped her hand in her own.
"What's happening? Let me go!" Bonnie ordered as she tried to pull away from the older woman whom she seemed to be glued to.
"I can't."
"Let me go!" The same dark veins as before crept down Bonnie's arms towards her arms and then started to crawl up the older woman's body as well. "Ok, let her go!"
"You made your choice." Grams cried as the veins crawled up further, darkness rushing around inside both of the witches. "Now they're taking it out on me!" The crept up her neck towards her face and she began to cry out in pain.
"I'm sorry, Grams!" Bonnie cried looking around the room hopelessly. "They can't do this to you! Please, don't do this to her!" She begged but they didn't see mercy. "No! No! Oh my God!" They both fell to their knees and Grams disappeared leaving Bonnie a crying mess for her friends to clean up.
The same officer as before wandered back into the room carrying vervain with him, Grace glanced over at Stefan then at Rebekah and they all nodded. "I got this." He called to the others. "Bring the other one in." He began to leave.
"Excuse me? Hello, sir?" Rebekah called out gaining the mans attention as he walked over to the cell she was sharing with Grace loading his gun in the process.
"I thought I told you to shut up."
"Here's the thing, my family we – we have money, castles, apartments, jewellery; just name your price and let me out." Rebekah tried to barter with him but he just laughed as he stepped closer to the cage.
"I'd much rather watch you die." The officer spat, with that Rebekah and Grace rushed forwards towards the cage door baring their fangs and growling, startled the officer moves back aiming his gun at them only to be caught by Stefan who slammed his head against the bars repetitively before it split open and he fell to the floor outside Elena's cage dead.
"Elena." Stefan called out towards his girlfriend. "Elena!" He yelled and she opened her eyes seeing the warm blood of the officer slowly spreading across the floor, reaching through the bars she was too short to reach, not being able to get close enough and leaned further through the bars feeling the warm liquid touching her hands she brought them back to her mouth sucking the blood off her fingers.
Damon was lying in the grass when two officers come around the corner with their guns aimed at him nervously, as they approach him one nudges his foot making sure he was down but suddenly he gets up and snaps both of their necks watching them fall to the floor dead.
Matt scrambled to his feet nearby when suddenly Damon zipped over to him and kicked him in the stomach before making him look at him. "You made Grace feel so guilty for what's happened to Elena. In what world are you the one who get's to live?" He spat pushing him to the ground.
"Go ahead. Kill me." Matt rasped looking up at the raged vampire above him. "You can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself." Damon placed his foot on Matt's throat and pushed down beginning to cut off oxygen when suddenly he was thrown across the field and fell to the floor with a thud seeing the 'new' Elena standing there baring her fangs at him.
"No." Grace hissed as she suddenly stood in between Damon and Elena with a dark look on her face as she protected her lover, who didn't need protecting but Damon felt good in knowing that she was willing to stand up to him. "Take Matt inside the barn. I need to speak to Damon" She ordered.
Elena's face changed back to normal as she helped escort Matt into the barn with Stefan waiting for them, they felt a gust of wind pass them as Rebekah ran off into the night.
Damon and Grace stood there for a while unable to find the words to say to each other, she couldn't help but feel so angry that he had tried to kill one of her childhood friends, she had already lost Elena she didn't want to lose anyone else.
"You were going to kill him." Grace muttered as she looked over her shoulder at her boyfriend, a hard look on her face, he just stood there hearing her out for whatever reason she was pissed off with him now. "Dammit, Damon..." She whispered as she turned to him shaking her head. "Matt is one of my childhood friends and you think it's ok for you to just end his life?"
"You do remember that he is the reason that your sister is a vampire, right? I was doing you a favour, I was going to do it because I love you-"
"Going to kill my close friend because you love me?" Grace scoffed as she looked at him, she could feel the veins under her eyes creeping out as she grew angrier and angrier with her boyfriend. "Damon, don't you think I'm angry at Matt, too? But I'm not about to snap his neck because my sister saved his life, Elena is a vampire in order for Matt to be alive, if you kill him, or I kill him then that means Elena died for nothing." She whispered keeping her anger down from her boyfriend but he gave her a bewildered look.
"She's your sister! Be angry! Get pissed!"
"No." Grace hissed as she looked away from him shaking her head. "You're gonna have to be careful, Damon. Because if you carry on like this, and keep killing innocent people for nothing, then you're no worse than Klaus was."
The statement hung in the air for a moment as both vampires realised what she had just said to him, the words continued to echo around each of their heads before Damon was just so overcome with anger that he took off into the night, tears immediately began to pour down her face as she fell to her knees unsure of even why she had said that to him.
She was surprised when she felt a coat wrap around her looking up from her hands she saw Stefan kneeling down beside her, it was his jacket around her shoulders, he was looking out for her.
"We'd better get home. It isn't safe here and the sun will be up soon." Stefan helped her to stand up with her shaky legs as Elena and Matt came out to join them giving her an apologetic look.
Klaus creased his eye brows as he felt a tinge of anguish run through his entire body as he placed Elena's blood into an ice box, suddenly his sister entered the room in tears looking directly at him in his original body.
"How dare you save Caroline over me!" Rebekah hissed as she cried violently, he smirked a little turning to her.
"Hello, brother. Thought you were dead. So pleased you're not." Klaus muttered sarcastically rolling his eyes at her dramatics and the waterworks.
"You left me!"
"I only had time to save one of you and you can't be killed. Rest assured, I had a worse day then you. I think it's time for us to move on; find some more werewolves." Klaus suggested with a smirk on his face.
"So you can create your hybrid family? You don't know anything about family!" She roared drying her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Well, I know how easily they can be silenced with a dagger." He threatened in a low voice not realising how quick his sister could be as she grabbed one of Elena's blood bags from right under his nose and launched it against a wall watching it splatter everywhere. "No!" He turned to Rebekah as she picked up the last two bags. "Drop them!"
"I mourned you!" She spoke through tears as she held the bags threateningly above her head. "My heart broke thinking I'd never see you again!"
"Put the blood down, Rebekah. There's a good girl." Klaus cooed but she didn't move her form was stony as she refused to back down to her older brother this time.
"It's always been me! Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol, me! I loved you through everything and you don't even care!" She screamed hysterically.
"Drop it!"
"You want your family." She squeezed that bags as hard as she could making the blood bust everywhere leaving Klaus no more blood to make his hybrid army. "Here's your family!" Within seconds Klaus grabbed his young sister by her throat choking her.
"You know something, Rebekah, you're right. I don't care. From this moment on; you're not my family, you're not my sister, you are nothing." A loud crack followed as he snapped her neck and walked from the room.
Grace timidly walked through the halls of the Salvatore boarding house fearful to find Damon, she could feel something in the pit of her stomach, it felt like anger bubbling but chose to ignore it as she entered their bedroom to see he wasn't in there at all, sighing she walked in further, remembering the last time they had a fight about Klaus and what had happened after that.
Gulping the younger vampire wandered over to the dressing table picking up a picture of herself and Elena when they were younger, smiling at how simple things used to be, before vampires and hybrids and all the other terrible things that happened in Mystic Falls.
Running her fingers over the picture she looked up into the mirror to see her boyfriend standing in the door way watching her, the look on his face was blank and emotionless as she placed the photo back on the side turning to her boyfriend with a frown on her face.
Before she could speak he raised his head and looked at her through intense smouldering icy blue eyes making her stop dead. "Do you still think about him?" She shook her head in response unable to find her voice. "What's going on with you?"
"I know you're probably not going to understand it, but... I was just so angry and guilty that I had already lost Elena, I couldn't stand to lose anyone else." She whimpered as she ran her hands through her hair.
"Guilty over what?"
"Over what?" Grace gave him a look as horror-struck over her face. "Damon, it was my blood that turned her into a vampire. My blood is the reason that my sister is a vampire." She whispered and he gave her a look from across the room. "About what I said... about you being like..." She couldn't even find the words to say it again. "The words came out without me thinking, but I didn't mean it. I promise, Damon. You could never... You could never be like him, you're too good."
"Am I?" The raven haired vampire questioned as he paced around the room at a slow speed before taking a seat on the edge of the bed with his back to her. "I wanted to kill him, everything in my body told me to kill him, and do you know why? Because I'm a vampire, and I love you more than anything in the world and will do anything to see you happy and feeling ok and most importantly for you to be protected." He whispered shaking his head. "When it comes to you, I... I don't think straight."
"Damon..." Grace whimpered as she crawled across the bed and wrapped her arms around his neck kissing the side of his face before resting her forehead on his back carefully. "I love you, too. And I will do anything to see you happy, but..." She paused for a moment leaning her chin on his shoulder resting her head against his. "I guess we just need to think about what we do before we do it even if it's for each other."
Damon nodded his head before turning and looking into her liquid chocolate-brown eyes for a moment before leaning forward and attacking her lips with a passionate kiss, she fell back onto the bed with a small smile he kissed tenderly up her body, crawling between her legs. She whimpered as he attacked her slender neck with butterfly kisses making her squirm and moan under him as she wrapped her legs around his waist.
"The whole council knows who we are now." Elena whispered as she sat up on the roof of the Salvatore boarding house with Stefan sat by her side. "Everything's about to change."
"Yeah, I'm sure Damon has a revenge plan cooked up." He rubbed Elena's back lovingly before leaning over and pecking her on the cheek. "We'll figure out a way to deal with that."
"You don't have to convince me that everything is gonna be ok..."
"I know. Wish I could though. Wish I could just tell you that you'll never feel pain, that you'll never crave blood. But you will. It'll be the worst thing that you've ever lived through." Stefan didn't sugar coat his words as Elena frowned a little.
"But I'll get to live." She placed her hand on Stefan's forearm with a positive smile on her face. "I'll be a sister and a friend and I'll be with you. Forever, if I want." They both kiss once more smiling at each other. "I'm gonna get through this. Just like we get through everything; one day at a time. We should get inside before sunrise." She looked at the sky fearfully.
"Bonnie made this for you yesterday." Stefan pulled out a gorgeous lapis lazuli daylight ring out of his pocket. "Just in case." He added and she smiled looking down at it with an amazed smile on her face.
"Daylight ring?" She questioned and he nodded as he slipped it on her finger with a smile.
"One day at a time, right?" He suggested and she smiled in agreement with him, it wasn't going to be easy for her, but she was going to get through all of this with the help of her friends and her family and most of all Stefan. She kisses him again and rests her forehead against his for a moment before they look forward laying her forehead on his shoulder watching as the sun began to rise in the distance.
Pastor Young looked at the Council sat in his house with him, reaching back behind the stove he pulled out the gas hose without the rest of them noticing. "Folks, by now, you know that the vampires have escaped." He turned to look at they all sat around the small log cabin clutching vervain in their hands. "And it won't be long before they retaliate against us. But fear not; for I have been chosen to lead us in a movement." He locked the front door blocking their only escape.
"What are you talking about?"
"Hear me, loved ones. Soon you'll be free to pass through the gates." He reaches into his pocket and pulled out his Zippo lighter. "And we'll all reunite in eternity."
"Seriously, Pastor, what's going on here?"
"Friends. We are the beginning." With a spark of the lighter the entire kitchen was engulfed into an enormous flame making the council members scream in pain and anguish...
A/N
Right, so here it is, the first episode of season 4 I hope y'all enjoyed it, I had a bit of trouble writing it, but still it was a lot of fun :D and thank you for being patient and waiting for it :)
Thank you to everyone for the birthday messages that was like 2 months ago now, but still I really do love you all and thank you, you're the best and thank you for reviewing and making my day.
Considering the next episode of TVD is already out I will try to get the chapter out as soon as possible.
What do you think of Grace so far this season? Should she feel guilty, or is it not her fault that Dr. Fell used her blood? And was it right for her to attack Meredith? What about her and Damon's fight, her comparing him to Klaus? What do you think of all that? Plus, is there anything you'd like to see?
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If you left a review on chapter 66 I will answer it or whatever below :)
calalily 123 – Well, I hope there was some Grelena bonding in this chapter for you :) There will be next chapter, I'm sure.
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Guest – (I think that maybe those two reviews are from the same person, if they're not, I'm sorry) Oh my gosh, your review is so lovely, thank you so much :) I would love to see Grace pop up in TVD really, that would be awesome!
Luli Cullen – Thank you so much, honey. I really appreciate it :D xoxo
Tvdlover87654 – Wow, you finished it in two days! That is so amazing :D There are like 66 chapters and they're fairly long, I'm really impressed! I love Drace, too.
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Kayla – You cried!? Wow, that's amazing (not amazing that you cried, but that you know, my story made you feel that way :O) I would love more than anything for Grace to be in the show and doing a story about Ian and the actress would be great, I'll have to look into that
David Fishwick – I'm glad you enjoyed it :) and I hope you like the new chapter
jacquline – Grace turning into the female Damon would be so awesome, but I think she's just gonna have to slowly back into things, you know? Like I don't want to change her character too quick and to fast, but the drinking thing was added :D
– I would love to do a behind the scenes story :) xxx
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