Twisted Love
Season Four
My Brothers Keeper
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Looking in the mirror at herself, she didn't know she if she liked what she saw but there was something about it that made it right. Her vampire face, eyes raven black and thick with mystery, razor-sharp fangs pushed through her gums just showing below her pouted lips, skin as pale as a sheet of paper. Creasing her eye dark brows she reverted her face back to normal before reaching over for her liquid foundation applying the ivory toned goo.
"Morning." Damon's voice came from behind her as he stood in the door way to the shower-room a tight smile on his lips and wearing nothing but a towel draped low on his hips showing off the lovely V-shape and chiselled chest, glistening with water from his recent shower, she couldn't help but be in awe of him. "I have a suggestion to you..." He informed her and she looked up at him a little surprised. "We get leave Mystic Falls for a while, just a couple of days to get away from here... I think we've earned it."
"I'd love to." She smiled at him turning in the chair she used when she was putting on make-up at the mirror. "Just not today, I have to help Caroline with the prep for the Miss Mystic Falls pageant. It's stupid, I know, but I said I'd help her." She informed him as she stood up, he sighed a little but it sounded more like a growl. "Are you still mad?"
"Yes." He replied shortly as he looked down at her with intense icy-blue orbs. "Yes, I am still mad at her, she had no right to give you as a prize to Klaus if he helped us." He placed his hands on her clothed hips giving her a kind look. "Let leave. Tomorrow. We can go anywhere, I promise. I just want to miss the whole beauty pageant thing."
"But you're on the council-" Before she could even try to argue with him he had placed a fiery kiss on her lips stopping her from talking when he pulled back she looked lustfully up into his eyes with a tiny smile on her lips. "Yes, I would love to get out of this town with you." She smiled and he grinned a little before mashing their lips together again.
With little strength he picked her up and threw her on the bed smiling down at her before joining her down there on the soft duvet and bouncy mattress, he attacked her neck with tiny butterfly kisses making her squirm and giggle as she raked her nails down his chest leaving thick red lines in their wake almost splitting skin.
He smirked a little as he moved to rip her shirt off, she gasped about to complain but he just kissed her on the mouth passionately making her ever worry and fear wash away in a single moment as he wrapped her arms around his neck fiddling with the ends of his hair as she rolled him over so she was straddling his hips.
"Oh, you're taking charge?" He questioned cocking an eye brow, she smirked and nodded down at him before leaning her head down and pressing soft kisses to the red lines she had made on his chest, Damon began to get frustrated that he couldn't be in charge of her and zipped them over to a wall but she was too fast, moving from under his arms and then shoving him back against the wall, the 5'2" 18-year-old smiling up at him with an overly innocent look on her pale face. "You're good..." He commented.
"I know..." She smirked her eyes flashing with such self-confidence, he loved this side of her confident, a little cocky, smiling and happy. He loved that he could make her feel that way in a single comment. She gnawed on her bottom lip as her tiny hand trailed down his toned body, she tilted her head to the side as she pulled at the towel making it fall to their feet. "Oops."
Stefan was packing a bag as he stood in Elena's room, she sat there on the bed watching him her knees pulled up into her chest with a vague, controlled look on her face. "So, you really can't make it?" She questioned and slowly the light brown-haired vampire shook his head. "But you missed the first Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, too." She reminded him and he turned to her giving her a regretful frown.
"I know, and I'll never be able to forgive myself." He crossed her room and sat down next to her reaching over and taking her delicate hands softly within his own. "But right now, I just... I don't think I'm going to be able to do this. After everything, I think I just need a day to clear my head."
"Is this to do with the cure? Is this something Klaus is making you do? Please tell me he has dragged you into another crazy scheme." She begged and he looked across at her shaking his head from side to side. "Alright. Ok. Fine. Well, Caroline and Tyler are 'fighting' at the moment to fool Klaus so I guess I'll have her to hang around with her..."
"Or... I don't know, this is just a suggestion, you could, maybe, talk to your sister." Stefan's voice was innocent as he tried not to get in to their family business but as he looked up and saw the mixture of frustrated and angered look on her face he backed down. "I get it, you're angry and you have a right to be, but you can't be angry forever, especially not with family, Elena. Just think about it, please." He placed a small kiss on her forehead before heading for the door, he needed to head over to the boarding house before he headed out for real.
As Stefan was walking from the Gilbert house he had decided to take a walk through the forest to get some air and clear his head. Jeremy was their only hope for the cure now, so he was going to have to get him to kill more vampires, even if that meant going behind Elena's back, he was doing this to help her become what she needed to be again.
He was so lost in his own mind he didn't even realise that loud whoosh sound of a supernatural moving through he forest, no time to protect himself before he was caught in a choke-hold by none other than Niklaus.
"In what world do the words: tell no one, mean tell your brother and every teenage sycophant in town?" His voice was a deep rumble as he held him in a tight hold which the younger vampire was trying to escape from desperately.
"The secret's safe. No one who knows about the cure will endanger us. Trust me, you know I want to find it more than anyone else." Stefan reminded the Original who just took a moment to think about what the vampire in his arms was saying, it was true Stefan would do anything to get that cure for Elena, he would be a good asset to keep alive.
"Well then, I suggest you find some more vampires for Jeremy to kill before I'm tempted to offer you up as a victim." The hybrid growled before letting go of the younger vampire who turned immediately stepping away from Klaus as soon as he could restore his breathing back to normal. "And try to keep this one to yourself, would you?"
It didn't take too long for Stefan to return to the boarding house, it seemed to be empty so he was easily able to collect a bag of supplies that he would need for his mission supplied to him by Klaus., As he stomped down the stairs about to leave again he was surprised when he saw Grace and Damon standing there kissing heavily, the raven haired vampire was shirtless and groping her affectionately. She on the other hand stood there fully dressed cupping his face sweetly.
They both pulled away from each other as soon as they heard the footsteps on the stairs, turning to face the intruder seeing that it was only Stefan. The brunette smile before picking up her bag giving the younger Salvatore a beyond sweet smile tapping him on the cheek lightly before skipping out the door shutting behind her. The green-eyed vampire looked over at his brother with a famous Stefan smirk before walking past him about to leave too.
"Where are you going?" Damon called making his brother tense up for a moment, he couldn't tell him that he was going to do a quest for Klaus, he would end up telling Grace and then she would end up telling Elena, it's how it all worked. No one could know about this. Klaus' loyalty depended on it.
"Out." Was the simple, shady reply from the younger brother, he tried to leave again but with a whoosh of air Damon was standing there in front of him blocking his path. He had taken note of the duffel bag and knew when his brother was being shady and distant by now. He knew when he was up to something, especially if it had something to do with the Original he hated the most.
Damon nodded a little. "Ok, I see shady Stefan is back." Damon muttered taking note letting his brother walk past him so he was standing in front of the door ready to leave, he just wanted him to answer one simple question. "Please don't tell me you're working with Klaus." He almost begged, the only thing Damon wanted to see was the back of that Original son-of-a-bitch.
"I heard about what happened between Klaus and Grace... Caroline told me about her arranging this date for the both of them, but Damon, I heard them talking, when you went out the other day he came over and visited her after everything..." Damon looked over at him a little shocked and the younger brother suspected that Grace hadn't told him about it. "Oh, you didn't know... It was nothing really, he just wanted to check on her-"
"He shouldn't have to be anywhere near her, he should have to be checking up on her, Stefan. She's mine." Damon growled over at his younger brother who nodded accepting the fact that he was always going to be possessive over her. "What did he say to her?" Stefan didn't answer. "Stefan, tell me."
"They just... They spoke about the blood lust and Ripper feelings that she's going through. It was nothing big, Damon." He lied, he had been there, heard the entire conversation it was endearing and intense. "I was right there... I heard the entire thing; I saw everything, there was nothing more, nothing less." He explained but there was still a tempered look on his face. "He's just trying to help her, Damon. That's all he wants."
"I can't believe this, you're my brother. You're meant to be on my team, not team crazy-ass-hybrid! How am I the only person who sees that he doesn't just want to help her, Klaus has never wanted to help someone in his whole existence! He's a killer, he's a murderer and he's bad for Grace. She's my responsibility. If she's having trouble with blood then I'm the only one who is going to deal with it, not him!" He made himself very clear a deeply brooding look on his face. "Why are you supporting him? Why doesn't she hate him just as much as I do!?"
Stefan took a deep breath as his shoulders tensed again. "Because Grace might be with you, she might be in love with you, Damon and she might sleep with you every night but she's a grown-up now, she has the right to her opinion on someone, and guess what? Sometimes you're just going to have to deal with that. Her and Klaus, they have a past, he's done things for her that she'll never forget..." Stefan was now leaning back against the door he looked up to see the angered look on his brothers face. "You asked me a question, Damon. I'm answering it."
"Ok, whatever." Damon grumbled as he squeezed his eyes shut for a long moment, he needed to change the subject away from Grace and Klaus onto something different that would keep his mind away from it. "You apparently want to get out of here, so I'll be quick then... If we want to find the cure, we have to find a vampire hunter who can kill enough vampires to reveal the map on the hunter's mark. Now, unless we want Jeremy to go all Connor 2.0; I suggest we find a different hunter."
"Ok. And?"
"and I was gonna ask Professor Shane, but turns out he's shadier than you are." Damon responded quickly earning a low growl from his younger brother. "Matt Donovan connected him and the Pastor through phone records. Apparently, the two were very chatty the day that the Pastor blew up the Council." He added and this was news to Stefan.
"Ah, so you're gonna confront Shane, threaten him, possibly kill him, that sort of thing." Stefan nodded his head looking across at his brother whom jus stood there with his arms crossed over his shoulders.
"Yeah, unless he tells me what he's up to." Damon replied as if it was obvious, he patted his brother on the shoulder throwing him a cocky smile. "What do you say? Should we tag team this?" He suggested but the younger brother just shook his head from side to side.
"Nah, I'd say you're on your own." He began to leave again but the raven haired vampire stepped out in front of him blocking his exit.
"Or we could just blow it off and go get drunk. Brotherly bonding and everything. If you, you know, want some quality time." He offered.
"Sorry, brother. I've got things to do and places to be..."
Still smiling from her intimate morning with Damon, Grace was skipping into the Lockwood mansion a mischievous grin on her face as she turned around the corner about to head out into the back of the mansion where the dancing part of the pageant would be held when she was intercepted by a blonde.
"Grace, you're here." Caroline announced as she stood there with a clipboard in hand looking down surprised at the brunette who just smiled up at her with wide doe eyes. "What are... What are you doing here?" She questioned nervously biting the inside of her cheek the doe eyed creased her eye brows a little confused at her attitude.
"I thought you asked us all to help out with the Miss Mystic prep, tomorrow is the actual pageant, isn't it?" She questioned and quickly the blonde nodded her head, it was at that point Grace saw the problem, Elena was out there arranging flowers happily with another girl, Caroline was trying to prevent a scene. "Oh... Elena's here."
"Yeah. Why didn't you tell me this was all going on? Stefan was the one that had to fill me in..." There was a slight amount of disappointment about being left out of their family problems but knew that she had no right to be demanding to know things after everything she had done to Grace. "Sorry. Sorry."
"Don't be, Care." Grace replied with an easy smile on her face, the blonde looked down at her slightly confused, wondering how she could be so cool and level-headed around her. "I figured Elena would fill you in, but I should have told you at least my side of things, sorry, I've just been a little... busy." She informed her tucking a lock of her long chocolate-brown tresses behind her ear. "So, is there anything I can do that doesn't conflict with Elena's restraining order?" She questioned in a light voice making Caroline smile for a moment.
The blonde took a long minute to think, her heart was squeezing tightly in her chest as she looked down at the small girl. "Well, you can start by please forgiving me." She blurted out regretting it, Grace looked up at her tilting her head to the side with a questionable look on her face. "Or at least pretending to when you're around me. Because I can't live with the guilt of this..."
The younger vampire laughing nervously scratching the side of her face gently. "Guilt of what, Care?" She questioned still confused as from where she was coming from, the preppy girl gave her a look of disbelief.
"Of knowing I set you up with Klaus; the psychotic hybrid who almost ripped your heart out, killed your aunt, slept with you, nearly beat you half to death and have you stand there looking at my like everything is great and ok, because it isn't I know you must hate it-" The insecurities in Caroline started showing and Grace hated seeing that, after all the growing and self-confidence she had got since becoming a vampire and now breaking down.
"Hey. Care." She stopped her placing both of her hands on the blondes cheeks making her look down into her tranquil chocolate-brown orbs. "Cool down." She ordered in a soft voice smirking a little. "I am not angry at you, ok? I know why you did what you did. I know it was to save my life, if you hadn't I'd be dead right now, so I'm grateful to you. And I'm looking at you like everything is ok, because everything is ok." She assured her before letting go of her face.
"Why?" Caroline questioned as they walked down the steps into the yard of the Lockwood mansion where a truck load of people were busy working. "Why are you ok with this? I mean, if I were you I'd want to be as far from Mystic Falls and him as I could..." She looked down baffled at the brunette who just avoided eye contact shrugging her shoulders. "Grace?"
"I don't know..." She whispered as they stopped at a table, she put her head into her hands for a long moment before looking back up at her concerned friend. "I don't know why I'm ok with this and him. I just feel like I owe him this. This one simple thing because of everything he's done for me... Saved my life on more than one occasion. After I tried to... kill myself." Her voice was incredibly low. "He came and visited me and it was sweet and it felt good to talk to him, like he understood everything that I was feeling..." She explained and the blonde creased her eye brows. "He cares for me." They stopped talking when Professor Shane approached them with a kind smile.
"Excuse me, I'm a little lost. I'm here to interview contestants..." He informed them both and Grace creased her eye brows surprised to see him in Mystic Falls to judge a beauty contest, it all seemed a little off.
"You're Professor Shane..." Grace announced and he nodded his head smiling a little, both the vampires look at each other a little lost to see him here but decided to speak out against it.
"Yeah, that's right." He nodded still smiling. "Professor by day; pageant judge by other day. In spit of being absurdly unqualified, I'm apparently awarding a scholarship." He informed them both and they nodded smiling back at him acting as normal as they could in his presence.
"Uh, inside by the parlour." Caroline replied to him informing him of where to go and he pointed towards the stairs leading up to the magnificent house which she nodded at again.
"Alright, I'll just follow the scent of hairspray and world domination." Shane joked making the blonde laugh gently as he bounded up the stairs into the house leaving the two girls alone again, little had the known Elena had been listening from across the yard creasing her eye brows.
"He's the one who told Damon how to break the hunter's curse." Grace announced as she thought back to that dreaded night, if it hadn't been for that Professor then she was pretty sure she'd be still trying to end her existence, or worse ashes.
"He's also the one that has Bonnie so obsessed with practicing magic that she bailed on pageant prep." Caroline replied giving her friend a look. "And now he's judging Miss Mystic Falls?" She added making Grace cock an eye brow.
"That's just kinda creepy." Grace muttered as she looked into the Lockwood house tilting her head to the side.
Towards the front of the Lockwood mansion Matt had parked his pick-up truck there and both himself and Jeremy were helping out Caroline with the prep for the pageant like they had both agreed. Picking up large, heavy boxes and other objects they were leaving them out front for others to handle.
"So, your sister is making me be her date." Matt announced and the younger teen looked over a little confused. "Think I'll have to do that weird dance thing?" He questioned feeling a little insecure about having to dance in front of people.
Jeremy couldn't help but chuckle as he looked over at his blonde friend. "I'm pretty sure that's just for the contestants." He informed him making the blond human breathe easy.
"I heard that you're April's escort... How'd that happen?" Matt creased his eye brows looking over at the brown hair boy curiously.
"Well, she needed a date and apparently you were taken." Jeremy shrugged his shoulders looking across at the friend who chuckled a little as he grabbed a keg out the back of the truck, trying to lift it but it was too heavy for him. "Ok, let's just take these in and we'll come back for the kegs." He jumped out of the bed of the truck.
"No, wait." Jeremy jumped up onto the bed of the truck smiling down at his blonde friend. "You want to see something cool?" He smirked as he picked up two kegs in both of his hands, like they were light as a feather, jumping down and placing them on the floor.
Matt was watching him with a look that was mixed of impressed and worried. "How did you do that?"
"Ever since I was awoken as a hunter, I've had all this energy. Like all the time." Jeremy informed him happily.
"Jer, I think you need to talk to someone about this. I mean, look what happened to Connor, ok. A byproduct of this energy is that you're gonna want to kill vampires and you happen to live with one." He informed him reminding him that his big sister was a vampire herself.
"Hey, I would never hurt my sister..." he began to walk away. "I'll be fine." He called beginning to walk through the mansion.
Over at Mystic Falls hospital, Stefan was starting up his little quest given to him by Klaus to grow Jeremy's hunters mark, he was going to need vampires and honestly he didn't have the conscience to just carelessly kill a person, even if he was doing this to make Elena happy again.
So he had decided to choose a person that was already dying, someone whose life would have been ended anyway. Walking down the hall he approached one of the doors grabbing the clipboard reading that the patient was going to have an appendectomy, not exactly fatal. Zipping across to hall to see another patients room picking up the clipboard and reading this man was having quadruple bypass complications, he glanced down the hall to see a police officer standing outside of a room.
As he approached the room the officer looked towards him with a curious look. "Can I help you?" He asked.
"Time for a little break." Stefan began to compel him. "He'll be safe with me." He assured him and the officer walked away down the hall leaving Stefan enough time to walk into the room to see the man was handcuffed to the bed.
"Who are you?"
"Why is there a cop outside?" Stefan skirted his question and just began to compel him, this man had done something wrong and now he was in hospital because there was something wrong with him, this had to be fate.
"I'm a convicted murderer..." He replied honestly and Stefan took a moment to think about it, he was a murderer, too. So was half the people he knew, his family, his friends. Some of them not so much as others but still killers in their own rights.
Stefan tilted his head to the side as he compelled the man again. "You guilty?" He questioned seriously, he wanted to know if this man had any redemption, if he was wrongly accused, if he did this out of self-defence.
"Of course I am."
"Any regrets?"
"Only that I got caught." The man replied with a smirk and that was it for Stefan, it sealed the deal, biting into his own wrist he forced his blood down the mans throat before snapping his neck ending his human life.
Standing on her own in the large yard Caroline had put in charge of the floral section of the pageant which was a big responsibility when it came from Ms. Forbes, she would need everything to be perfect so Grace put on her stern face and began firing orders, to her fortune the blonde had put her twin in charge of something inside to get the two away from each other and avoiding unnecessary fighting.
The brunette saw three girls walking towards the house and she ran in front of them with an appalled look on her face holding the floral chart out in front of her. "Those flowers go in the back, do you want Caroline to come over here and bite your head off? No. Then I suggest you read the floral chart like you were supposed to..." The girls turn and walk the other way timidly. "Yeah, thanks." She muttered as she turned around surprised to see the Original hybrid standing there smirking.
"Hmm, very bossy. Confident. I like this you, it suits you very much so." He informed her and a heavy blush pulled over her cheeks as she tucked a piece of her chocolate-brown tresses behind her ear. "Did you decide to take my advice and embrace the new you? Do you like it as much as I do?"
"I'm thinking about it..." She replied as she gave him a look, he'd give her all the time he needed she looked back down at the chart and began to check of certain flower bouquets as being done by her witnessing. "If there anything you need, Klaus? I'm kinda busy." She told him timidly and he just smiled at her.
"I was wondering what time I should pick you up tomorrow." Klaus replied with a simple smile on his face, looks like her plans to go away with Damon were ruined, especially when she found out about this.
Gnawing on her bottom lip she questioned. "Tomorrow?"
"I was promised a date in return for one of my hybrids, I assumed Caroline told you about our deal that we made." Klaus gave her a look and she looked down for a minute fiddling with the piece of paper in her hand. "You were informed?"
"I was... I was..." She muttered nodding her head before looking back up into his waiting eyes. "I just didn't expect you to be taking me up on the offer this quickly... I figured you want to take me to like a movie, or a dinner at your place..." She looked up at him to see the smirk pulling across his perfect lips.
"Well, I would have thought that Damon wouldn't want us to be on our own for too long, so I decided upon a more public venue for our date, love." He explained and she nodded her head, it was true Damon wouldn't want the two of them on their own. "Unless of course you want us to be on our own?"
"Oh... No, the pageant is fine." She stumbled over her words holding the side of her head for a moment before looking up into his sparkling eyes, she knew she was going to have to explain everything to Damon now. "You should... You should meet me here at 2pm." She quickly informed him. "Black tie optional... And I don't exactly have a dress picked out yet, so I wouldn't bother with a corsage." She told him and just nodded agreeing to her terms.
"Well then, I'll see you tomorrow, Grace." He took her hand gently and pressed a small kiss to the back of it before leaving her standing there alone slightly flustered as she turned around she was surprised to see Caroline standing there. "What?" The blonde didn't say anything just stood there with a look on her face. "Caroline, what?"
"Nothing. Just the way that he smiled when you agreed to go on this date with him, it was, I don't know, it was like it was just for you? Reserved for you..." She shrugged her shoulders and Grace threw her a look. "I know you're with Damon and you love him but it doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself tomorrow, have a few drinks, hang around with us..."
"Care, I wasn't even meant to be here tomorrow." Grace whispered looking around to make sure Klaus was there to hear, the blonde creased her eye brows. "Damon asked me if I wanted to go away with me and I said I would, but now Klaus has asked me to this and I can't let him down he helped save my life..." She informed her and the blonde glanced over a little confused but just nodded her head.
"I'm sure Damon will understand..." She saw the look on Grace's face and gnawed on her bottom lip. "Oh, this is all my fault, I'm so sorry." The older vampire gave her a deeply apologetic look making Grace give her a soft smile before just nodding her head assuring her that everything was going to be ok.
At an abandoned barn out in the middle of no where shrieks could be heard coming from within, it sounded as if someone was being tortured, really it was torture for the poor female hybrid named Kimberly that was trying to break Klaus' sire-bond.
"Scream." Hayley shrugged her shoulders from where she stood observing the hybrid whom had been chained up to the wall. "Let it out. We're at an abandoned farm. No one can hear you for miles." She informed her with a small smirk.
"Easy for you to say, wolf girl." Kim spat out aggressively as sweat streamed down her face and she felt another of her bones twist and snap in a gut wrenching way. "You never turned twenty times in a row." She growled out.
"No, but I have watched a bunch of your hybrid friends go through it." Hayley shrugged her shoulders crossing her arms over her chest as she watched the hybrid throw herself to the floor instinctively as her back arched like a cat but she howled painfully.
"Why's it have to be like this?" She breathed out scratching her nails into the wooden floor of the barn. "Why break every bone over and over!?" She demanded, it was painful and it was frustrating that it just never ended, she wanted this to be over more than anything.
"That's what the sire-bond is. You're grateful to Klaus because he released you from the pain of having to turn every full moon. So, you're gonna keep turning until it doesn't hurt and you'll have nothing to be grateful for." Hayley replied to her leading against one of the thick wooden planks that were talking the roof of the barn up.
"What's in all this for you?" Kimberly ordered as she looked up at the wolf who didn't respond for a long time only avoiding eye contact with her as she took a couple of steps away staring at her heavy boots.
"I don't hear bones cracking." Was Hayley's simple response as Tyler walked into the barn looking down at Kim feeling bad for her, he knew what it was like having to break every bone in his body over and over, the agony, the fear, the horror of it all, and he hated having to see them go through it, but there was no other way to beat the sire-bond to Klaus, this was the only way for the hybrids.
"Caroline just told me that Grace brought us another day." Tyler announced with a slight smile on his lips which faded when he heard another of Kim's bones snap. "Klaus wants to go with her to Miss Mystic Falls tomorrow."
"So, does that mean we're going?" She questioned and Tyler looked over slightly confused, if he was going to go to any event it was going to be with his girlfriend. "Well, all I was thinking was that Klaus thinks that you and Caroline aren't together so we should go to keep up the façade a little longer, right?" She questioned like it was that simple. "Plus, isn't it at your house?" He just rolled his eyes as Kimberly began screaming in agony again.
"Guys, like this isn't torture enough!?" She demanded in a feral growl as another of her bones twisted and snapped brutally. "Can you take it outside?!" She demanded she didn't want to hear their teen-bop pathetic plans whilst she was breaking her bones over and over, it was already agony enough.
Hayley batted her eyes lashes pleading with Tyler without the need for words, he let out a gruff sign running his fingers through his hair. "Fine, we'll go." The brunette smiled brightly at the hybrid. "Wear a dress." He informed her before turning around and walking from the barn slipping his phone out of his pocket, Hayley had a wide grin on her face as she turned back to Kimberly.
Not realising it but as Grace walked into the Salvatore boarding house she noticed that her hands were clammy as she wandered towards the room she shared with Damon, licking her dry lips she knocked the door gently as she walked in, he was in there sitting on the bed with a book in his hands, he looked up and smiled at her.
"Didn't think you'd be back so soon." He informed her as he pushed off the bed leaving the book face down on the page he had been reading, moving across the room he caught her in his arms and hugged her tightly, he noticed the tension in her shoulders and the stiffness of her muscles, he glanced down at her a little concerned. "Are you ok? You seem a little... on edge." He informed her, he would be lying if he said his mind didn't go to her draining a human straight away. "What's happened?"
"Nothing... Nothing major." She answered in a soft voice as she walked around him running her hands through her hair before rubbing her hands on her jeans quickly trying to calm herself. "Were you serious about tomorrow? Getting out-of-town?" She questioned looking over at him leaning against a wall trying to act casual, he chuckled a little before taking a seat on the edge of the bed.
"I was fairly serious, I usually am." He answered reaching over for his whiskey glass taking it and drinking a large gulp. "Why?" He asked looking up at her as she avoided eye contact with him. "You don't want to go anymore?"
"I want to go... I really do, I promise." She announced suddenly before crossing the room to sit next to him on the bed taking his hands within two of her own. "But... I-I have to go to the pageant tomorrow, I've been asked..." Her voice was so small at this point, Damon was pretty sure he already knew the answer to the question but he had to ask anyway.
"By who?"
"Klaus." She replied and she felt his entire body tense and then relax next to her, just by the mere mention of his name he was angered but he still kept his cool as he downed the rest of his drink placing it gently on the floor next to them licking his lips before looking up at her, she had a deeply guilty look on her face. "Damon?"
"Ok." He nodded his head as he pushed up off the bed biting the inside of his cheek looking around the room for a long moment before placing a small kiss on her forehead. "That's fine. We'll stay in town so you can go to the pageant with Klaus, great." He nodded his head again before walking from the room slamming the door shut behind him making her flinch at the sound.
Jeremy's Dream
He looked through the door to his sister's room to see she was struggling to put her necklace on for the days Miss Mystic's event. Walking through to the room she smiled at him through the mirror with a kind look in her eyes. "Need a hand?" He questioned politely and she nodded letting out a soft laugh.
"Yeah, please, this clasp is tricky." She replied as her brother walked up behind her and began to fix the back of the necklace for her. "Hey, I, uh, picked up your clothes from the dry cleaners. They should be hanging on your door." She smiled at him with her usual tranquil eyes but Jeremy felt angry burning inside of him.
"I really wish you'd stop acting like you were my sister." Jeremy hissed at her, the look on her face changed to a confused one as suddenly her younger brother pulled on the necklace hard beginning to choke her.
She was fighting futility against him and the strength of his pull was beginning to cut into the skin on her neck making her bleed over the beautiful necklace, he just wanted her gone, dead and buried like she should already be. The first of many vampires in this town.
With a loud gasp Jeremy woke up on his bed, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead his breathing erratic. He felt something in both of his hands, bringing up his right hand he saw that he was wielding a deadly looking knife and in the other one was a wooden stake with the hunter's mark engraved onto it.
Running her hands through her hair she looked in the mirror at herself before drying the tears in her eyes trying not to smudge her freshly put on make-up. Stiffening her upper lip Grace let out a shallow sigh and smoothed down her dress as she stood up slipping her feet into her giant heels and looking down the room for her necklace.
"Looking for something?" Damon questioned as he stood there in the door way, she smiled as she walked over to him and turned around moving her hair out of his way so that he could put it on for her, she didn't expect when she felt his lips pressed against her neck, along with the cold silver of the chain. "Do you know where my good suit is?"
"You're... You're going to the pageant?" She questioned looking up at him suddenly turning around, slowly he nodded his head, she had figured he was going to skip out on the whole event, do some day drinking which would turn into night drinking, never did she expect that he was going to want to go to the pageant. "Why?"
"Because I'm one of the founding families and there is nothing stopping me from being there. Why do you not want me there?" He quizzed cocking an eye brow as he walked over to their closest reaching into side and pulling out one of his suits laying it carefully on the bed, she took a deep breath before shaking her head from side to side.
"No. It's not that, I just... I don't want any fighting. I don't want this to be ruined for anyone else, Caroline has worked really hard on this and Klaus is going to be there..." She looked at him through pleading eyes which he just smirked at pulling his v-neck shirt over his head throwing it on the bed carelessly. "Damon, please. I'm begging you, no fighting." She begged and he wandered over to her cupping her face with both of his hands.
"As long as Klaus keeps himself in check around you I'll have no reason to be fighting, right?" He smiled at her placing a hard kiss on her lips making her smile and run her nails over his bare chest as he pulled back she nuzzled into his body taking in his scent and he wrapped his strong arms around her lovingly. "I won't cause a scene, I promise. I just hate knowing he's going to be with you all day... I guess there's nothing I can do about it now."
"I love you, Damon." She whispered staying plastered to his body and he stroked her soft hair nodding his head resting his chin on top of her head just being there with her in that moment holding her close to his body, knowing she was there with him for now.
Matt was sitting up in Jeremy's room in the Gilbert house whilst the younger boy got ready for the pageant in the bathroom just behind him, he had a folder in hand reading through it carefully still slightly concerned about the stuff his hunter friend had told him about the dream, and waking up in possession of a knife and a hunter's marked wooden stake.
"How do you wake up with a knife in you hand and not remember how it got there?" Matt questioned putting his feet up on the bed leaning back in the chair he was sitting in. "It's that hunter's mark, Jer. It's messing with you." He looked at him through the door where the slightly scared new hunter stood trying to tie his tie.
"What if I'm turning into Alaric?" He questioned quickly turning around to face his older blond friend. "I've probably died too many times with this ring on my finger and I'm developing an alter ego like he did..." He added whilst his friend looked through the folder containing information about hunters.
Matt nodded as he began to read a section out-loud. "Newly awakened hunters may not be fully conscious of their actions. Their sub-conscious pushes through until the urge becomes a basic instincts." He pushed up off the bed and walked over to the younger boy. "You're not having a psychotic break, Jer. You either tell Elena or I will... Or at least tell Grace, she might be able to help or something."
"I'll tell Elena when I see her." Jeremy replied to the blond, if anyone was going to tell his sister he might turn on her and try to kill her it should be him in his own words, he turned around as he phone began to beep, he pulled it out of his pocket and saw that he had a message from Stefan.
Meet in Lockwood Cellar. Don't tell anyone.
Matt looked in the mirror at himself brushing down his suit before looking over at the brunette who stood there looking down at his phone. "Alright, we should probably get going. Need a ride?" He questioned kindly.
"Uh, no. Go head, I'll meet you there." Jeremy replied and his friend nodded patting him on the shoulder again before walking from the room leaving for the pageant leaving the hunter alone to look at the message again, what did Stefan have planned.
Up in one of the many spare bedrooms of the Lockwood mansion April was trying to decided between two dresses a safe, satin blue beautiful dress which would look absolutely delightful on the young girl, or a slightly racier slick little red number which wasn't so safe, especially for a pageant with dancing.
"Blue." Grace and Caroline both decided together, the blonde laughed and reached over taking her hand squeezing it hard, it had been a long time since they had been able to be girls and have a good time, this seemed like the perfect place to do it.
"Really?" The raven haired crinkled her nose a little looking at the safer, longer dress. "The blue seems a little safe."
"Safe is good... When it comes to the judges." Grace replied surely with a kind smile on her face, so many things about April were reminding her of Damon, the eyes, the hair. "Remember Gracie Lockwood?" She looked over at her blonde friend who scoffed loudly and April looked over at them expecting a story.
"Totally. Gracie Lockwood had a three-foot slit her year and practically got laughed off the court." Caroline explained and April frowned at the red dress, she didn't want to be embarrassed in front of everyone, she wanted to make her father proud, the door was pushed open to reveal Klaus standing there arms crossed behind his back.
"Get out, lurker!" Caroline ordered throwing a soft object across the room hitting him in the chest, he frowned before smirking back up at the brunette who stood behind the angered blonde. "We don't want you in here, get out."
"Actually, I'm in a bit of a predicament, you see, I'm looking for my date..." He looked directly at Grace who had a small smile on her lips as she tilted her head to the side, Caroline nudged her knee against hers. "She's small, I'd say around 5'2". I heard she was wearing this little beige dress which is said to look absolutely divine on her-"
"Alright, no more obnoxious flirting. She's here and we're trying to make a crucial decision on a dress for April here, ok? So if you'd get out and Grace will come and see you when you can." Caroline ordered him and he held his arms up in defence looking over at April for a moment taking in both dresses.
"I think the red one..." Klaus informed her, the raven haired girl smiled a little holding up the red one for her to get a better look at, Caroline held back at growl before giving Grace a look telling her to get him out of there before she ended up getting hurt.
"Well, actually we already decided on the blue ones. We figured the red one was too showy." Grace crossed the room standing next to him before turning to him. "Can you wait downstairs, I'll be down in a little while, I just have to help April with this and I'll be down. How about you get us some drinks..." She suggested before they both heard a clearing of throats, turning they saw Damon standing there.
"Excuse me." Damon ordered before hitting his shoulder against Klaus' smiling down at Grace placing a soft kiss on her lips before looking over at Caroline. "Have you seen Professor Shane anywhere?" He quizzed and the blonde looked between the three slightly stunned how they were able to stand in the same room as each other and not want to rip each others throats out. "Blondie?"
"You should probably check the judges' table." Caroline replied to him as Grace looked between the two before retreating back over to her blonde friend who gave her a look as both men stood there staring each other down for a long second seeing which one would leave the room first, the brunette pressed her face into her friend's shoulder.
"April, I think you should go with the blue, it'll match you eyes." Damon spoke up, he didn't really care about the dress but Klaus had mentioned something about how she should go with the red so really he was going to go against him about anything, he glanced over at his girlfriend with a smirk on his face. "What do you think, Gracie?"
"Yes, Grace. Which one do you think April should wear?" Klaus questioned his eyes burning into her, she could feel her breathing becoming erratic as she looked between the two men gnawing on her bottom lip. "Answer honestly now, love."
"Both of them are really beautiful..." Grace coped out looking at Damon with a regretful look as they looked for an honest answer. "I mean, the red one is really pretty-" The blue-eyed vampire had already taken off from the room. "But... But... Dammit. Damon." She called as she ran after him leaving Klaus smirking happily.
"And my work here is done. There, Ms. April. Do you have you answer?" Klaus bowed at her before exiting the room closing the door firmly shut behind him leaving Caroline and April standing there looking at each other with bright, amazed eyes.
"What just happened?" Caroline blanked.
"Damon..." Grace called as she jogged down the stairs, losing balance in her high heels, but he was there to stabilise her looking deeply into her eyes before standing her up straight and turning around about to walk away again but she caught his arm giving him a look. "Damon, please talk to me." She begged taking his hand but he slid it out of hers. "It was a dress, I made a decision. What did you want me to agree with you? Is that it?"
"It isn't about the dress." Damon replied as he turned to her fully, they were around the same height as she stood a couple of stairs up from him, he looked deep into her eyes before shaking his head. "It isn't about the dress and you know it, alright? This is about choosing Klaus over me-"
"Choosing Klaus over you?" Her eyes went wide for a minute as she stepped down a stairs and placed her hand on his forearm giving him a look. "I love you, isn't that enough?" She questioned but he didn't answer he just walked away from her leaving her there alone, she sat on the stair staring straight forward before she heard footsteps walking down the stairs. "Don't, Caroline." She warned but a dark chuckled informed her it wasn't her blonde friend and as a body sat next to her is confirmed that. "Oh, hi."
"Interesting conversation..." He mused tilting his head to the side as he smiled at her. "But, love, let's be honest with ourselves. With us being close now after our little conversation in the Salvatore garden. I think we can both agree that you sided with me..." He announced and she glared over at him before the hard look on her face dropped. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be on the winning side, love. Don't forget that." He informed her before standing up and holding his hand out to her. "Now, come along, we have a party to attend." She placed her hand in his and he pulled her up to be standing close to him.
As Damon walked outside his cheeks slightly flushed from his confrontation with Grace, he smoothed down his suit as he walked over to a table taking a drink and knocking it back quickly, his mind was still blown by her siding with Klaus over him.
"Damon Salvatore." A voice came from behind him, he turned around to see Professor Shane standing there with his hands in his pockets smiling at the vampire. "Looks like we travel in the same circuit." He announced and Damon took a moment to recover from the moment with Grace to just smile at the Professor.
"Professor Shane. Just the guy I wanted to see." Damon smiled as he looked out to see Klaus and Grace walking towards the small gathering in the middle of the field, he grit his teeth both remained cool around the Professor. "So, I'm in search of another Hunter."
"Hunter?"
"Mm-hmm..." Damon replied nodding his head as he grabbed a drink from behind him downing it quickly before slamming the glass down on the table again making the guy refill it before taking it again and downing it in one, it seemed to help the initial anger that he had built up.
"With a capital H?" Shane questioned creasing his dark eye brows looking over at the vampire with a curious look. "Why?"
"Same reason anyone needs a Hunter. Loneliness, drinking buddy, or for golf." Damon deadpanned with a frown on his face earning a small smirk from the Professor. Talking about hunters seemed to bring him back to Alaric, when he used to hunt, he missed his friend.
Shane blanked for a moment looking up at the raven black-haired vampire. "I thought you said you already had a Potential." He questioned crossing his arms over his chest.
"I did, but he ended up being a potential problem." Damon replied firmly as he turned around and grabbed yet another drink, he knew that they shouldn't contain Jeremy in the cure problems, Grace wouldn't like it, she'd be against it which meant he should be against it, even if the two were having a lovers quarrel.
"There's nothing I can do to help you." Shane informed him shaking his head, he saw Damon's shoulders tense under the blazer he was wearing.
"Hmm, why don't you help me with this..." He turned back around to face the Professor with a stern look on his face. "Why are you here? What's in your little lesson plan, there, Professor?" He scowled at the man.
"You think too highly of my, Damon. I'm gonna go find the other judges." Shane began to walk away but stopped when the vampire was standing there in front of him blocking his path.
"Hey, no pity votes for April Young, ok? I mean, just because her dad blew up a house with a dozen people in it doesn't mean she should get a tiara. But you knew him, didn't you? Because I hear you two racked up a pretty impressive phone bill." Damon's eyes were glowing as he looked down at the smaller man who tensed slightly before relaxing.
"If you want to know something about me, Damon. Just ask."
"Ok. How did you convince the Pastor to kill all those people?" Damon pressed looking over at the Professor whose eye brows rose at the vampire accusations.
"Did you just accuse me of mass murder in the middle of a hight school pageant?" Shane questioned shaking his head and the vampire only smirked before they heard a microphone turn on, Carol Lockwood was beginning to pageant.
"Welcome to this season's Miss Mystic Falls." Carol announced cheerily and everyone applauded as they listened to her, Damon and Shane still staring each other down until the Professor finally decided to walk away knocking back some champagne. "we are so excited to showcase our most outstanding community leaders in the making." She smiled brightly at everyone.
Reluctantly Jeremy walked down into the old Lockwood cellar, standing in the metal doorway to see Stefan was standing across the cave like room with his arms crossed behind his back as he walked towards the human with a stoic look on his face.
"What am I doing here?" Jeremy questioned as he looked around the darkened room to get any kind of clue as to what he was doing here with his sister's boyfriend.
"You have the chance to make your sister human again. You interested?" Stefan questioned raising his eye brows at the human who was quick to nod his head, him wanting his sister human again was like asking a kid if he wanted candy, he would do anything to get it. As a matter of fact, he wanted all of his friends returned to their human ways and not fighting with each other, like Grace and Elena were.
Jeremy breathed out a little as he said. "You have no idea..."
"Actually, I do." Stefan led Jeremy further into the cell where he was holding the murderer from the hospital chained up, he was now in transition ready to be turned and then he was going to be lead like the lamb to the slaughter. Except it was a vampire and he was being lead to Jeremy, the Hunter, to grow the map-tattoo on his arm.
"Who is that?" He questioned as he saw the man struggling against the chains, he could smell Jeremy's blood in the air, little did he know if he actually did manage to kill the boy he would be a vampire and cursed with the hunters curse, which he would probably then kill himself from.
"Oh, it doesn't really matter." Stefan replied nonchalantly as he walked further towards the man who was baring his teeth and growling at them whilst pulling at the chains he would never break. "All that matters is that you're a vampire hunter and he's a vampire." The vampire slipped a knife out of his back pocket. "Well, almost." He shrugged his shoulders before grabbing the boys arms and slicing into it, making the Hunter yell out in pain.
The oldest vampire dragged the boy over to the murderer feeding him his delicious blood which would end his transition and start his new life as a vampire, which would soon be ended by Jeremy. After a few seconds of the new-born drinking his blood Stefan released Jeremy letting him go, he backed away clutching his arm tightly watching as the transitioning human changed into a hungry full vampire know.
Reaching into a duffel bag Stefan pulled out a wooden stake holding it out for the vampire to wield in his hand. "What is all this?" Jeremy spat looking up at the forest green-eyed vampire. "All so I can stake him?"
"You think I want to do this, Jeremy?" Stefan's eyes grew soft as he looked down at his girlfriends brother. "Look at me, I hate this, I don't want to do this. But your sister isn't supposed to be a vampire and we need to help her. Now, he's a murderer and he will gladly kill again, so do it, Jeremy. Kill him." He ordered in a gruff voice forcing the stake into his hand.
Walking over to the murderer himself, he broke the chains from the ground holding them in his hands like reins on the vampire as he slowly walked him towards the Hunter who stood there for a moment with fear in his eyes, he didn't want to kill, he didn't want to grow his tattoo, but he did want to help his sister.
"Stefan, what are you doing!? What the hell is wrong with you!?" He protested taking small steps away but still holding the stake tightly in his hand, as Stefan continued to wave the new-born vampire in front of his face.
"Do it, Jeremy." Stefan pressured with an angered look glowing in his eyes. "Or I will rip the chains off for real!" He threatened in a tougher voice, he was doing this for Elena, was all he was saying to remind himself of why he was torturing the poor boy. "Do it!"
Jeremy thrusted forward staking the murderer in the heart successfully ending his life and Stefan let the chains slack in his hands before dropping them to the floor completely with an audible clang, the murderer keeled over but the Hunter didn't stop staking him repeatedly in that back, over and over making sure he was dead.
"Alright, enough. He's dead." Stefan informed him in a sure voice but as Jeremy looked back up at him there was a dark look in his eyes that the vampire didn't like.
Soft music floated through the air as Grace brought the champagne flute up to her lips and took a long sip, she was slightly startled when she felt a hand on her waist, someone standing behind her was swaying them both elegantly to the music, running his hand down her arm he linked their fingers before softly sipping to her, before evening seeing his face she knew that scent, she'd know it anywhere. Niklaus.
There was a smile on his face that she rarely saw, so soft and inviting. He actually looked like he wouldn't kill anyone who got in his way, when of course he would. Carefully he slipped the glass from her hand and rested it on the table before like a true gentleman placing his hand on her waist and holding the other one and they stood a suitable distance from each other and swayed to the music.
"You're good at this." Grace muttered looking down at their feet only to hear Klaus chuckled as he spun her slowly again, she looked up into his bright eyes, smiling so much there were small crinkles at the edge of his eyes, she liked this side of him.
"Well, love, I've had 1000 years to practice, I should I hope so." He replied with a slight sarcastic edge to his tone as he looked around him at the other couples dancing, he didn't fail to notice Hayley and Tyler, Grace looked over her shoulder at them a dark look crossing her face. "Easy now, love. It's their life, not yours..." She went to say something else but he turned her away so she didn't have to look at them anymore, Caroline obviously hadn't explained to her about her and the unsired hybrids fake break-up. "Did I mention how truly astonishing you look?"
"You don't look so bad yourself, hybrid." She replied with a smirk on her face, he grinned a little looking down at the simple, yet casual suit he had on. A simple silver tie hung loosely around his neck with his shirt not even buttoned up the whole way, he did look truly amazing. "I have to say the smart-casual look suits you very well."
"Thank you, my dear." He smiled as he spun her again making sure each time to take in a full look at her entire outfit and tiny body.
Just further down the lawn Hayley approached the table which was holding the winning tiara, picking it up delicately in her hands she placed it on her head with a smile. "I can't believe that I won." She announced pretending to tear up, waving her hand in front of her face. "I just want to thank the judges for seeing past the fact that I'm a raging bitch..."
"You don't want to do that." Tyler warned from where he stood next to her with a smirk on his face, leaning back against the table. "Those girls will cut you. They have nails." He reminded her and she looked over at him with playful look in her eyes.
"I have claws." She reminded her lifting her eye brows as she took the tiara and dropped it back on the cushion shrugging her shoulders at him seeing that Caroline was standing by a mic about to introduce the contestants down into the pageant. "So, Caroline was ok about you coming with me?"
"Yeah, she seemed ok about it, I mean, if I had the choice I'd be here with her, but I can't at the moment." He admitted before moving closer to the growing crowd, Hayley frowned a little before following him over to listen to the reigning Miss Mystic to do her job.
"Hi, everyone, I'm Caroline Forbes." She announced smiling at her she looked out at all of her friends, Damon was standing down the end with a glass of bourbon in hand whilst he looked longingly at Grace who was standing with Niklaus both listening with pleasant looks on their faces and she didn't fail to notice Matt and Elena in the crowd talking quietly. "As the reigning Miss Mystic Falls, it is my honour to introduce this years Miss Mystic Court." She informed them and everyone applauded.
Klaus wrapped his arm around Grace's waist holding her closer to him, she looked down at her feet for a moment before looking back up and clapping along with everyone else, she glanced down the row of people to see Elena standing there, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape, it must have looked quite a picture her and Klaus standing there, as her dark eyes travelled further down the group of people she noticed Damon, his eyes were also dark but not looking at her, locked on Klaus.
"We begin the procession for Valerie Fell accompanied by Dylan Clark." Caroline announced in a sweet voice as a pretty dirty blonde girl in a slightly puffed out purple dress walked down the steps towards her escort for the dance, they hooked arms and smiled as they walked towards the edge waiting for the other contestants. "Next, we have Amber Wolvertine accompanied by Hector Lindsay." A stunning girl in a crystal blue dress walked down the stairs, hooking arms with her handsome escort then continuing to the other contestants, smiling at her friends and family in the crowd.
"Have you seen Jeremy?" Matt quizzed as he stood next to Elena, he was searching the entire crowd for the young boy but he couldn't be seen anywhere, not even with the escorts, which is where he was supposed to be. He was going to let April down.
"He's probably up there up there with the escorts." The newborn replied as she clapped her hands together smiling brightly at the contestants but Matt made a sound behind her which she didn't like.
"Yeah, Caroline told me to wrangle the escorts, he's not there." Matt replied to her and she started to become quite worried looking up at the blond. "Did he tell you about his nightmares?" He asked leaving Elena clueless.
"What nightmares?"
"The ones where he kills you..." The human replied as if it was a simple, normal thing to be talking about, she cocked an eye brow looking up at him.
"... Katherine Wilson accompanied by Eric Hanson." Caroline announced and there was another big round of applause for the beautiful girl in the darker blue dress as she carefully walked down the stone stairs in her heels and linked arms with her escort.
"I'll find him, but..." Elena looked up at poor, innocent April who was about to be completely humiliated because her brother decided to skip out on this. "April's about to get abandoned." She informed him and he frowned before nodding his head straightening his shoulders.
"I got this." He informed her as he wandered through the crowd about to do a good deed for a kind girl who had just been caught up in the wrong group of people.
"And finally, we have a last-minute entry, April Young accompanied by Jeremy Gilbert." Caroline informed them all and everyone applauded as the raven haired girl began to descend down the stairs looking for Jeremy, her eyes wide and smiling brightly keeping on a brave face but she was preparing herself for the worst, she could feel it in the pit of her stomach.
Caroline was now getting nervous too as she threw a look over to Grace who shrugged her shoulders, she didn't know where he was either, they were all surprised when Matt stepped out looking dapper, straightening his tie to look presentable with his arm held out for her. The blue-eyed human let out a subtle breath of relief as she descended down the rest of the stairs and linked arms with him.
"Jeremy's running late." Matt lied to her smoothly, he didn't want to tell her that he had skipped out on the event that would just break her heart, but she was looking up at him with eyes filled with such wonderment.
"I guess you'll do." She teased playfully adding in a giggle as they approached the dance floor standing opposite each other for a moment waiting for the music to start, Matt had to admit he was nervous he didn't know the dance to this at all.
Elena was walking around the crowd with her phone in her hand trying to get a hold of Jeremy as she heard footsteps walk towards her she looked up to see Grace pushing her way delicately through the crowd without Klaus following but Caroline was making her way over with her.
"Hey, what's with the last-minute escort change?" Grace questioned looking between the blonde and her sister who she hadn't spoken with in quite a while. "Where is Jeremy?"
"I'm calling him right now." Elena gruffed as Damon walked over to them not noticing the look on Caroline's face as she was giving him a deeply apologetic look, she couldn't shake thinking that this was her fault, she had arranged all of this, but she hadn't counted on Klaus wanting a public date, like the pageant. "He's not picking up."
"Do the math." Damon informed them all giving them a look. "Emo teen, open bar, it's fine."
"Matt said Jeremy's been having nightmares about killing vampires and he's been hiding it from me." Elena informed them surprising them all, except for Damon who seemed to take it all quite well.
"Oh, I see..." Grace muttered as she looked up at her sister. "When it comes to dreams about you being killed and you in trouble everyone is just supposed to drop whatever they're doing to help you but when I try to kill myself because once again I saved your life, you don't give a damn!" Grace hissed at her sister who looked at her with wide eyes a little shocked at her outburst.
"Grace, cool down." Damon warned her giving her a look. "Just take a break, go get a drink."
"No, Damon, I'm sick of it." The brunette shook her head not caring if everyone was listening as she brushed down her dress. "I'm sick of her, she got to say what she wanted to say the other day to me, kicking me out of the only family I have left so I'm saying what I want now..."
"Easy, love." A calming voice came from behind her as a cool hand touched her elbow pulling her backward gently. "You don't want to say something you'll regret, it isn't worth it." Klaus warned her and she let out a breathy sigh calming down.
"And what are you doing here with him?" Elena questioned the anger building up in her as she looked up at the hybrid. "Was this your idea or his?"
"I don't think it's any of your business, Elena. You don't care about me anymore and guess what? I don't care about you either..." She turned around and looked up into Niklaus' eyes he saw that she was holding back tears in a quick moment he moved her away from the confrontation. "Why am I always the bad guy?" She questioned drying her eyes restoring her make-up.
"I know all about being the bad guy, love. Trust me." Klaus smirked as he led her away from the three that were still there staring at each other.
Damon looked between the two girls giving Elena a sour look before taking off back inside the Lockwood mansion digging his phone out of his pocket calling his brother knowing that he would pick it up after a moment.
"Please don't tell me that you've roped Jeremy into a world of crazy." Damon begged as he walked into a corner to speak in private, no one else able to hear. Grace was just being emotional now but if Jeremy was included in this she'd be pissed too.
"I had no choice. Elena needs the cure." Stefan answered him as he stood in the Lockwood cellar with Jeremy standing opposite him looking down at the sketch he had done of Connor's Hunters mark comparing it to his own.
"Listen, I have more troubles than having to deal with getting your girlfriend a cure, I think if we're thinking about curing anyone we should maybe look towards someone who's struggling a little more than your girlfriend, Stefan... I don't have time to deal with this, Elena is one wrong word from Grace ripping out her throat and I've got Klaus all over her. Just leave it alone, Stefan." He ordered hanging up on his brother.
"How far did the mark grow?" Stefan questioned but the Hunter opposite him didn't answer he just stood there, he snatched Connor's drawing from his hand and looked at it before holding it out for him. "Show me on this drawing." He ordered but Jeremy turned around crossing his arms over his chest.
"Sorry, Stefan, but I can't trust you." Jeremy replied firmly shaking his head as he looked at the vampire over his shoulder.
"How far is it, Jeremy?" Stefan pushed further taking another step towards the Hunter who wasn't listening to him now, he wasn't about to give over the map for the cure to a vampire himself.
"I said I can't."
Stefan growled loudly before threatening. "Answer me or I will make you answer me."
"I am not telling you anything." Jeremy informed him firmly before the vampire lashed out and grabbed him by his shoulders beginning to compel him, he didn't want to have to resort to doing that but he saw no other option to get the answer from him.
"What does the mark look like?" Stefan compelled him, not realising that he couldn't compel the Hunter anymore, he was taken by surprised when a sharp object was forced into his stomach making him let go of the brunette looking down to see a stake in his abdomen.
"I guess I can't be compelled anymore." Jeremy taunted before loosening his grip on the stake and moving away to grab the duffel bag before he took off out of the stomach leaving Stefan to tend to his own wound.
Looking down into the pond Grace stood there on her own letting out breathy sighs as she continued to dry away her tears with the back of her hand knowing that her make-up was smudged by now, she heard someone approach and saw that Niklaus was ready with supplies. Carrying a bottle of champagne in one hand, with two crystal champagne glass flutes whilst holding tissues for her to use.
"I've come equip with everything you'll need." He informed her as he lead her over to a bench delicately sitting her down and handing her a champagne flute before popping open the bottle, she smiled a little as he poured it into her glass. "And..." He kneeled in front of her placing a single finger under her chin before using the tissues to dry away her smudged make-up and tears. "Beautiful." He commented.
He took a seat next to her forgetting all about the glass and just drinking straight from the bottle she snorted at the sight which made him smile a little. "There is something I don't understand, you and your sister never used to fight like this before she became a vampire... Is there any reason behind the sudden tension?" He glanced over at Grace who just shook her head not able to think of anything.
"She thinks... She thinks that I've changed. She seems to think I'm a Ripper." She announced and Klaus glared into the distance tightening his grip on the neck of the bottle. "Stop. I know that look, Klaus. This is just something Elena and I are going to have to work through. Families fight. It happens. Let's just hurry and get that cure."
"I'm working on it." He replied to her with a sure smile as he brought the glass up to his lips again, she smiled again hiding it behind her long hair which he found amusing almost laughing as he pulled the bottle away.
"Can I ask you a question?" She asked timidly and he looked over at her nodding resting the champagne glass between his knees as he sat there next to her. "Would you ever take it?" Her curiosity got the best of her and she even saw the surprised look on his face.
"Now, why would I want to cure myself of being the most powerful creature on the planet? Hm?" He smirks a little and she smiled back at him thinking it was a little sad how he didn't want to be human again at all.
"So there's not one single moment in your whole life that you wanted to be human?" She questioned and he stares at her for a long moment, directly into her eyes, it was like she was staring into the sun with his intense gaze on her, before they dropped to her lips and then back down to the bottle running his thumb around the rim over and over.
"How about you? I find it hard to believe that you and Damon have had a civilised conversation about whether taking the cure is in your best interests." He looked up from his bottle again to see her drinking from her glass savouring the rough liquid in her mouth before swallowing it down licking her lips. "Life used to be a lot easier..." A playful look crossed his face as he placed the bottle down on the floor and pulled a single piece of paper out of his pocket. "Don't you miss the days of being... 'Member of the Mystic Falls High School Cheerleading Squad' or... 'Healthy participant in helping all school dances...'." He announced her eyes grew wide as he continued to read.
"Is that... Is that my Miss Mystic application? I thought I burned all copies of that!" She announced with a look of horror over her face as she tried to snatch it out of her hand but he held it just out of her reach. "Where did you get that!?" She ordered as he just continued to read.
"'When I am chosen I intend to redefine what it means to be Miss Mystic...' Now, I'm really enjoying your use of when here. It's very confident. I like that side of you." He informed her with a cheeky smile as he looked back down at the paper, she tried desperately to try to grab it from his hands but he was too fast. "'And above all, I promise to aspire, inspire and perspire'." Grace had given up by now looking up at him trying to hide her smile as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Obviously, we found a shortage of words ending in spire."
"Yeah, it's very funny." She saw an opening tried to fight the paper from his hands but he worked too fast, moving away from her grinning down at her. "It's hilarious, Nik. Just-" She stopped when she realised when she called him, he glanced down at her in surprise his hand slack around the piece of paper.
"What did you call me?" He questioned in a light voice and she looked away shrugging her shoulders a little. "Grace." He pushed and she turned back around looking up into his eyes with a small smile on her lips. "No one calls me 'Nik'. Except or my family... Sometimes." He gulped a little and she gnawed on her bottom lip.
"Well, I like it." She replied a bigger smile pulling over her lips which he returned as they took their seats back on the stone bench.
Just across the party Damon was watching them both with dark eyes as they laughed and had fun, he took a deep breath before he turned around and saw Professor Shane sitting down at a table with Hayley pouring her some champagne into a glass which she smiled at. He noticed Tyler making his way through the tables and stood up to be standing next to him.
"Oh, hey." Damon announced acting as casual as possible making Tyler look over to him a little confused. "How do those two know each other?" He questioned looking in the direction of Shane and Hayley.
"They don't." Tyler replied firmly rolling his eyes. "Paranoid much?"
"The Council just got burnt to a crisp. Some mysterious Hunter just blew into town and this guy just happens to know everything about everything. Yes, paranoid." Damon replied sharply narrowing his eyes as he looked at the unsired hybrid.
Just inside of the house Jeremy had found himself an empty to room to prepare for what he had in store for the party. Reaching into the duffel bag on the floor he pulled out a black arm cuff, rolling up his sleeve he slipped it on his wrist before attaching stakes to it, making it a deadly weapon for a vampire Hunter. He grabbed two other stakes slipping them into his pockets before pushing his sleeve back down and walking from the room shutting it behind him.
Stalking down the stairs he stepped out into the large party looking at the many people there, most of them mingling with vampires and not even noticing it. Manoeuvring through the maze of tables he was surprised when he was intercepted by April standing there looking up at him with a bright smile and wide eyes.
"Hey, where have you been?" She questioned pushing a strand of her raven black hair behind her ear gnawing nervously on her bottom lip, she had really wanted to do the pageant with him but being with Matt was nice.
"Hey, sorry, I um, I got stuck at work." He lied, really he had murdered a vampire and was planning to murder others because that was what he was a vampire Hunter.
"Jeremy, if you were too chicken to do the dance thingie then you should have just told me." She told him in a soft voice letting out a small giggle, he glanced down at her a little confused, it wasn't like he didn't want to do that pageant with her, he liked her, but he was a Hunter, too. He needed to take care of the vampires.
"No, no. I knew the dance." He assured her with a soft smile which she smiled back at. "I watched some lessons online like a hundred times." He admitted and she looked up at him a little surprised, she didn't know show that he was into the pageant thing that much.
"You did?" She whispered and he looked passed her to see Professor Shane getting up from a table and walking around the party, greeting people kindly, shaking hands and introducing himself.
"Hey, what's that Shane guy doing here?" Jeremy questioned as April turned to look at the Professor, he caught her looking from across the party and waved over to her, she grinned and waved back to him.
"He's a judge." April replied to the Hunter who cocked an eye brow. "I talked to him about my dad. I mean, he sad that he had never seemed depressed or suicidal or anything, so..." She noticed that his eyes weren't on her, they were fixed on Elena across the party.
"Your dad?"
"Yeah, um, you know, I figured I'd explore every possibility, even the bleak ones." She noticed that her friend still hadn't taken his eyes off the crowd behind her, she looked over her shoulder and noticed nothing suspicious. "What are you looking at?" She questioned as she looked back at the Hunter.
"Your dad was doing the right thing for this town." Jeremy informed her almost robotically and she felt like she had been stabbed in the heart, him staying that her dad was supposed to kill himself was just awful. "The whole Council was. They died heroes." He informed her before taking off into the crowd again leaving her alone and shocked.
Professor Shane was on his own in a study look room as the door opened behind him and the raven haired vampire walked in looking at him. "Oh, you again." The Professor laughed a little brushing down his suit. "I must be the least intimidating mass murderer ever." He informed him in a joking voice but Damon wasn't having any of it.
Damon scoffed a little before reminding him. "Well, you still never gave me a name. And it's kind of urgent."
"Listen, there is no other name. Look, at any given moment there are five Hunters in existence, alright. Most o them have no idea who they are or what their purpose is. It means finding more than one in a lifetime next to impossible." He informed him, so that meant finding Connor and Jeremy was absolutely rare. The Professor went to walk past him but Damon zipped in front of him before he could reach the door. "Subtle." He deadpanned.
"Like you didn't already know." Damon remarked narrowing his eyes at Shane who just shrugged his shoulders holding back a low chuckle.
"Well..."
"You have five seconds to give me another name or you die." The vampire threatened darkly looking down at the Professor narrowing his eyes.
"You know, since it's generally unwise for a vampire to seek out a Hunter, it means you're interested in the mark." Shane informed him brightly looking up at the raven haired vampire. "It's probably because of where it leads, but here's the thing, even if you complete the mark and you get the map, the thing that you're looking for is sealed with a spell only a certain kind of witch can perform." He informed him.
"What kind of witch?"
"C'mon, Damon." Shane shook his head as he went to walk past the vampire again, but he grabbed his wrist and applied a certain amount of pressure making the Professor wince and call out.
"I love pressure points." Damon spoke his thoughts with a sickening grin. "What kind of witch?"
"Come on, you're a big boy, you can figure this one out." Shane give him a look and Damon had a long think, for every other spell that they had needed for something in this town they had needed Bonnie, she was a Bennett witch. That was who they needed.
"A Bennett witch."
"Aren't too many of those lying around as I'm sure you know." Shane looked up at him with playfulness in his eyes. "So, none of this matters until Bonnie's back in touch with her magic and between the two of us, who do you think she trusts to help her get there?" Damon released him from his grip knowing he was right. "Five seconds are up, unless you just realised you need me alive. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a scholarship to award." He informed him as he walked through him.
Just outside Carol Lockwood and Caroline were standing on the stage about to announce the new Miss Mystic, the vampire was holding a single gold envelope which would contain the winners name as the contestants lined up eager to find out.
"And now, the moment you've been waiting for." Carol started smiling down at her towns people, knowing them all so well, still slightly nervous to see Niklaus in the audience but decided to look past it. "Caroline, would you do the honours?" She questioned and the pretty blonde stepped towards the mic.
"This years Miss Mystic Falls is..." She began opening the envelope smiling as she saw April Young written in a beautiful black script, she was happy she won, she deserved something nice to happen to her. "April Young." She announced and the entire crowd began to cheer as the raven haired human looked as if she was about to cry from happiness.
Walking up onto the stage she looked down at all her friends with tears glistening in her eyes as she allowed Caroline to place the beautiful tiara on her head and a sash around her body. Elena was clapping her hands happily when she suddenly felt a presence behind her, looking around she saw Jeremy making his way through the crowd.
"Jeremy." She muttered as she pushed her way through the crowd, Grace was watching her with a confused look on her face as she stood with Klaus applauding April but when she saw Jeremy she understood why she was leaving so soon.
Just inside one of the empty rooms of the house Jeremy was sitting alone, he took one of his stakes and pushed it into his palm so that he drew blood, it dribbled down his palm and he smiled at it, just in time Elena walked in the room and he stood up facing her.
"Hey, where have you been?" She questioned looking down to see the stake in his hand her entire body froze up. "What are you doing with that?" She asked and he didn't put it down at all. "Put it down." She ordered in a low tone.
"Connor was right. All I can think about is killing vampires..."
"You're nothing like Connor."
"I want to believe that. And I know I don't want to hurt you, but everything inside of me is telling me to drive this stake through your heart." He informed her in a low voice and she could feel sickness in her stomach pulling at her emotions, that was her little brother saying that.
"Why would you say that? It's me, Jeremy."
"And you're a vampire." The words were like venom on his tongue and he felt the flare to kill her grown stronger, he honestly didn't want to but she was a vampire and even though she hadn't killed yet she was going to, he knew that she was, every vampire did.
"Yeah, but I'm also your sister." Elena informed him trying to desperately remind him as she took his wrist delicately in her own hand looking deep into his eyes. "Jer, I would never do anything to hurt you." Something suddenly filled her nostrils, it was a smell that made her mouth water she could feel her breathing begin to shallow as she turned his hand down to see the blood dribbling down, she could stop the veins from approaching around her face.
Jeremy's eyes darkened. "No."
Clearing her head she looked up at him as the veins began to disappear from around her eyes, but she still backed away from him. "Get... Get away from me." She went to turn around but heard his heavy footsteps gaining on her, she turned and grabbed his wrist, forgetting her new strength throwing him to the floor, gasping she ran across the room kneeling beside him.
"Jer, Jer, hey, Jer, wake up. Jer, please wake up." She begged as she began to panic not expecting it when her brother opened his eyes and fired a miniature stake into her neck making her choke and fall back clutching her neck, he knelt by her side raising a stake about to finish her off when suddenly the sound of clicking heels entered the room.
"Jeremy!" Grace called as she stood in the door way to the room with Matt standing next to her, she was clutching the door frame so hard it crumbled under her fingertips, her eyes darkened as she saw Jeremy about to stake her sister.
"I'd leave now, because you're next." He threatened in a low tone, Grace glanced down at her sister there was a protective look in her eyes she just couldn't shake.
"Jeremy... You don't want to do this, ok? That's your sister. That's my sister. I don't know what this is doing to you, but don't do this." Grace begged as she stood a timid step towards them holding her hands up but he leapt for her but she was too fast, flipping him so he landed hard on his back, her foot on his chest, holding his wrist in her hand giving him a look. "Don't test me." She ordered.
"Grace..." Elena whispered from where she sat on the floor with a stake in her neck, she looked over at her sister before letting Jeremy's arm go grabbing him by his shirt and shoving him over to Matt who grabbed him.
"Get him out of here." Grace ordered as she knelt next to her sister who was still clutching her neck. "Let me look. Let me look." She breathed as her sister moved her hand away and carefully Grace pried the stake from her neck making her sister call out she threw the wooden object to the floor as they heard someone rush into the room, they both looked over to see Stefan standing there looking breathless.
"Grace-"
"I'll let you two talk." Swiftly Grace stood up and walked from the room with a brush of air left the room without another word, Stefan was quick to be by Elena's side clutch her hand in his own with a worried look on his face.
Just outside Grace rushed passed both Hayley and Tyler where stood on the steps, the hybrid creased his eye brows but just let her continue to walk away. "Your mom parties harder than you do." The wolf announced laughing a little looking at Carol Lockwood from where she stood. "Does she gave the gene?" She questioned looking at her friend asking if his mother carried the werewolf gene.
"Dad." Tyler answered mournfully, he still missed his father after all this time after his untimely demise. "What about your parents?" He was quick to change the subject, he noticed that he had known this wolf for a while know and still didn't know anything about her barely.
"Never met them." Hayley replied honestly nodding her head. "My adopted parents found out about my wolf gene when I did. The night that I turned and tore apart their living room, they promptly kicked me out." She laughed a little remembering as she swigged more of her champagne.
"You never told me how it triggered..."
"Boating accident." Hayley replied softly as she ran her fingers up and down the shaft of the champagne flute before looking back up at her friend. "We were drunk, I thought I wasn't." She informed him as she sipped her champagne looking away.
Tyler took this as a signal to change the subject, talking about a first kill was never fun to talk about, especially with wolves. "So, what's with you chatting up all these old-timers, huh? My mom. That professor guy..." He chuckled and Hayley hit him in the arm playfully.
"That professor guy is like, thirty, and he's hot and smart..." Hayley answered but she noticed that he wasn't listening only looking at Caroline across the party speaking with people, giving him occasional glances at her boyfriend.
Walking over to Klaus the brunette had a stoic look on her face, he gave her a concerned look but decided that she wouldn't want to talk about it instead he holds his arm out for her and she smiles weakly before taking it and he leads her back over to the pond which they look out other, he slips his arm around her waist delicately and she couldn't help the soft smile that appeared on her lips.
"I never answered your questions; if I ever thought about being human." He informed her and she looked up at him slightly surprised, she had never expected an answer. "Twice. Only twice." He added and her eyes widened a little as she looked up at him. "The first, I was on a trek in the Andes, and a hummingbird flew up to me. It just hovered there, staring at me, its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun. And I thought, what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive. To be constantly on the verge of death and how satisfying everyday must be that it survived." He informed her and she looked up at him to see the compassionate look on his face as he stared across the pond.
She took a little breath in as she smiled sweetly. "And the other time?" She questioned her voice was so delicate and light she was surprised that he even heard it.
"I had been invited into a house in England. It was a small, simple house and I saw a picture on a wall. It was obvious the parents of this girl was very proud, there were pictures hung everywhere... I knew what she would look like when she got older and suddenly I was filled with this overwhelming feeling. I wanted to grow old with this girl, I wanted to have children with this girl, I wanted our children to have her eyes..." He looked down at her and she glanced up at him gulping a little. "Then I remembered why spent a set amount of years when I could spend an eternity with her..."
"Oh..." Grace whispered as she looked up into his mixed coloured orbs and gulps. "That's lovely... Nik..." Her breathing was erratic as he smiled and took a thoughtful step away from her kicking a pebble into the pond making it ripple.
Back with Stefan and Elena they were still where Jeremy had attacked her, she went to walk across the yard to see her brother but her boyfriend was there to stop her giving her a look. "Elena, wait." He begged taking her wrists.
"I have to find Jeremy." Elena informed him as she tried to step around him. "This shouldn't be happening to him..." She stepped around him about to take off again but stopped when her boyfriend started talking again.
"Elena, wait. It's my fault." Stefan quickly informed her and she turned slowly to look at him with a worried look on her face.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm starting to think that when a Hunter kills a vampire, the urge to keep killing gets stronger." Stefan informed her allowed, it was more his own speculation on the matter of Jeremy turning on both his sisters.
"Tell me that Jeremy hasn't been with you this entire time." Elena gave him a look and he just looked away unable to look her in the eye. "Tell me that you haven't been making him kill vampires, Stefan." She begged looking up at his face that was still not looking back at her.
"We need the map to get the cure-"
"If getting my humanity back means stripping Jeremy of his, then I don't want the cure." She quickly informed him shaking her head from side to side.
Night was drawing on faster and faster and a cold draft was filling the air making her shivering lightly; Grace ran her hands up and down her arms trying to warm herself up before she felt a large piece of clothing put over her shoulders, a blazer, turning around she saw Niklaus standing there smiling down at her.
"You look a little cold..." Klaus informed her and she smiled up at him gratefully but pouted again.
"Aren't you cold?"
"No." He chuckled as he held his arm out for her to hook onto, she placed her small hand in the crook of his elbow. "We better be getting you home before your curfew." He smirks a little and she giggles rolling her eyes.
After a long walk to the boarding house Klaus and Grace stood outside she was playing with her hair before she looked up into his eyes. "Thank you for today. I had a wonderful time, Nik." She informed him biting on her bottom lip.
"I believe there is only a single way to end this date." Klaus informed her as he tucked his hands into his pockets. "But... I won't pressure you." He informed her as he leaned down and pecked her on the peck, she cupped his cheek lovingly before turning his head and pressing her lips to his for a single second.
Looks up at him with doe eyes and smiles innocently. "That's for showing me a fantastic time. Thank you. You've really helped me forget all my troubles. I really appreciate it." She informed him in a soft voice and he smiled down at her, brushing his hand over her cheek before taking off into the night on his own.
Placing her hand on the handle to the door she walked through the door and grinned to herself as she walked through, she was slightly surprised to see some suitcases on the floor, creasing her eye brows she walked through further to see Damon sat on his own in the parlour room nursing two drinks of whiskey.
Immediately she jumped to the worse conclusion in her head, her insecure side flaring up as she looked at the suitcases. Was he kicking her own? She began to start thinking it through and carefully she removed the blazer folding it over her arm as she walked into the parlour. Glancing up at her he offered the seat opposite from him and she quickly took it.
"I'm willing to forget this day happened completely if you are." Damon offered as he slid a drink across to her, she took it before it could slide off the coffee table and fall onto the floor, she just held it in her hands for a couple of seconds before quickly knocking it back.
"I can't..." She muttered as she looked up at him, he winced at the sound before nodding his head slowly. "I'm sorry, Damon. I can't. I can't just forget about it, I did that with the blood lust and it doesn't go away... It builds and builds and gets worse. You can't make me do that again, Damon." She whispered and he shut his eyes blocking her out for a moment before opening them again.
"Fine." He pushed up off the couch and stood there for a moment, holding the glass tightly in his hand. "Fine." He placed it down on the table and stood next to the fire. "I won't make you forget about this... I don't want to make you do anything, I want you to come to your own conclusions on your own... But right now..." He turned around and looked at her before holding out his hand. "I want to dance with my girlfriend..." She was slightly surprised she figured he was tell her to leave but he was being ok. "I can't change what happened today and you're right, I can't forget either. So, what I want is to be with my girlfriend."
Smiling as she stood up she placed her hands in his, kicking off her heels so she was standing on bare feet looking up at him with an innocent smile, he twirled her romantically as they danced sweetly next to the roaring fire.
Just in the library of the boarding house, Caroline, Stefan and Elena sat in they're talking about Grace and what was going on with her being so accepting of Klaus and now agreeing with Damon. They just found it weird.
"Oh my God." Caroline whispered as she looked up at her friends who were talking quietly about the cure and about their lives, Stefan and Elena look over surprised be her sudden outburst. "Oh. My. God." She stated her eyes glowing wide.
Damon chuckled as he spun her around gently then pulled her back towards him, she stood on his toes but neither of them cared to apologise or grumble as they were joined at the mouth within seconds, one of his hands in her hair, the other on her tiny waist. Both of her hands clutching at his shirt with such want, ripping it with her fingers so each button popped and flew onto the floor with a small sound.
"Did you ever wonder why Klaus always knows where Grace is?" Caroline questioned as she stood up putting the book down on the chair where she had been sitting, the couple of glance at each other before nodding slowly. "When Grace goes missing and no one knows where she is, who knew how to find her."
Stefan creased his eye brows. "Klaus."
Clutching her waist Damon backs her into a wall kissing her even harder than before, things had become more heated than they had originally imagined it would, the heat from the fire was flicking at their legs but neither were bothered, it was nice. He lifted her with ease and tied her legs around his waist holding her there in his arms.
"God, I love you." He growled in her ear before pulling away and kissing her hard on the mouth again making her wince but just close her eyes instead digging her nails into his shoulders fairly certain she was drawing blood.
He slid his tongue in her mouth and twirled it around hers as he hiked her dress around her small hips so they could be even closer, when both of their hips clashed together they called out. Grace leaned her forehead against his for a quick moment before whispering. "I love you, too." She growled before crashing her lips down against his again, his hands were roaming her entire body.
"Klaus likes the red dress. Grace likes the red dress... I mean... What if... Is it possible? She said to me she felt like she owed him." Caroline whispered and Elena leaned forward unsure of where they were going with this.
"She did?" Stefan blanked, he began to feel guilty, he hadn't seen this coming, no one could have imagine something like this could have happened. "It would be rare. He is the originator of her bloodline, it would have been his blood at one point, diluted yeah... but his blood." He confirmed and the younger vampires eyes grew wide.
"I'm pretty sure the Grace I knew would never owe anything to him... After everything he's done to her and her family, why would she even give him the time of day. And now she owes him something, it isn't right. She isn't right." Caroline quickly stated as she narrowed her eyes straight forward.
"Can one of you tell me what is going on?" Elena demanded from where she sat looking at her blonde friend and boyfriend.
It didn't take long for them to strip to their underwear and get into the comfortable bed, he pressed her tiny body to the bed looking down at her with hungry eyes as he pinned her wrists with his hands. She looked back up at him with innocent ones licking her lips. "What are you waiting for?" She purred showing her fangs to him he groaned trailing kisses down her neck without a second through he crunched down into her neck making her call out.
"Grace is... Grace is sired to Klaus." Stefan stuttered looking straight forward at the row of books, Elena's jaw dropped open and Caroline's legs gave way as she sat back down on the couch her mind going completely blank.
A/N
So, I figured it would be a little late to bring a Damon/Grace sire bond into it and we all know Grace and Klaus shared a lot of blood and technically it is his blood that turned her (his bloodline of vampires) Wow, I'm nervous to post this but I don't see any other way around it, so I hope you like it, please do...
By the way, a vampire-hybrid sire bond is different from a hybrid-hybrid sire bond and vampire-vampire sire bond, but we will explore that into more depth :)
Couple of questions:
1) Do you want Ripper Grace to happen? Do you want her to turn it off, at least for a little while? Because I have a few things planned if that is the case, but if y'all don't think it is a very good idea then I won't do it. I don't want to put people off the story.
2) Who are you liking more? Drace? Klace? Tell me why in a review, I'm always keen to see what people like from their point of view, because I can only seen it from my side, the writers side of things and I know what I want to happen but what do YOU want to happen?
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Guest – Indeed, Grace is going on a date with Klaus ;)
MissJess13 – Yeah, Elena's annoying me, but I'm trying not to let my personal feelings for the girl get in the way of the story, no matter how annoying she's being, haha :D
DevilInWhite – Well, there have been no Klaroline scenes what so ever in any of my chapters and Klaus is very clear on who he loves
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