Twisted Love
Season Four
Into The Wild
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
One Year Ago
Shane was running breathlessly through the dangerous forest of the unknown island as he heard the footsteps of a terrifying looking tribesman chased him. The Professor came to a sudden halt when he saw the entrance to a mysterious looking cave. It was the one he had searched for ever since he got on the island.
Excitement filled him as he launched himself towards the cave, looking behind him as he did so to see the man who had been in pursuit of him was nowhere to be seen which made him feel slightly safer. As he entered the eerie cave he pulled his flashlight out and aimed it around to see strange signs and writings on the walls.
He was almost so caught up in the amazement of this forgotten tribal drawings that he almost fell down a large hole in the middle of the cave, he shined the light towards it gulping gently.
Grace's Dream
A glowing set of icy blue orbs were staring down at her intensely as she lay there on the comfortable bed of Damon Salvatore, he brushed his lips over her pale neck, lapping his tongue lovingly over the collar-bone to taste her, sweet perfume mixed with a light sheen of sweat. She let out a soft moan as he held his arms under her and pulled her up so that she was sitting on his lap looking down into his eyes.
Suddenly he zipped her across the room to be holding her firmly against the wall, she jolted as it pushed all the air out of her lungs but in that moment she didn't give a damn. He stared into her chocolate-brown orbs for another half a second before ducking his head down to press soft kisses down her neck.
"Why would you not want to be a vampire, love?" A calming British voice came from across the room, the youngest vampire jolted and tried to squirm out of the arms of her lover but he continued to holding tightly, suckling on her collar bone almost as if he didn't know that the hybrid was standing across the room. "Being a human is far too overrated. This is who you are now, Grace." He zipped across the room to be standing right there staring into her eyes. "Why would you want to change that?"
Suddenly her raven-black haired boyfriend bit into her throat making her blood spill into his mouth, she called out as she squeezed her legs around his waist before the hybrid caught the back of her head, knotting his fingers uncomfortably tight in her long tresses and pulled her into a steamy, possessive open-mouthed kiss.
The Island
Taking a loud intake of air as she shot upright she found her bones and muscles aching, boy she was hurting. She looked around to see that she had been passed out in a boat using a lumpy duffle bag as a pillow, no wonder she was aching. Rubbing her neck softly she was calmed by the overwhelming smell of the salty sea that lapped the shore behind her, the boat she was in had already been docked.
As she stretched out she found that the barely-there sun was being blocked by a shadow, opening her eyes she glanced up to see the blonde Original standing at the top of the boat, gazing down at her with a heavy smirk on her lips. "Are you just going to lay there all day or are you actually going to help us do something?" She quizzed with a sharp, snide edge to her voice.
Growling, the brunette pushed herself off the floor dusting off her knit shirt she looked around rubbing her eyes trying to focus on everyone around her. Elena was speaking with Stefan, Shane was looking deeply into the forest, Damon was sharpening a knife, Bonnie and Jeremy were talking, that left Grace alone with the Original.
"So, did you have a nice dream?" There was a knowing tone to the blonde's voice which made Grace snap her head across to look over at her with a hard look in her eyes. It had been her. She had been the reason behind the dream.
A threatening snarl fell from the Gilbert's lips. "You bitch." She muttered but the Original just turned around and returned to her rightful place with Stefan who was currently busy tying a knot in some rope. Shaking her head gently she climbed from the boat, looking around amazed by this island, forgotten and overgrown. It was simply breathtaking.
Stomping past everyone she joined her boyfriend who glanced up at her with a calming smile as he continued to sharpen his knife, she took a seat next to him as close as she could, resting her head lovingly on his shoulder watching him work, he really knew what he was doing.
"I didn't wanna wake you before, you looked too peaceful and it'd had been a while since I'd seen you like that." Damon informed her as he reached out and squeezed her knee lovingly and she smiled thankfully at him. He moved his hand away and continued sharpening his knife which seemed to intrigue her.
"Thanks, Damon, but it seemed as if Rebekah had other plans than me having a peaceful snooze." She sighed a little as she leaned further against him, a deep growl rumbled in his throat and she was close enough to actually hear the alluring sound, the protectiveness behind it made a heat rise in her chest as she rubbed her hand over his thigh to calm him. "It's alright."
"Mmm." He muttered but he didn't take his eyes off the knife in front of him before they snaked up her body to be looking into her waiting chocolate-brown orbs. "Gracie, I'm gonna ask you something and I don't want you to get mad, ok?" She nodded her head answering his question, a bewildered look on her face. "Just whilst we're on the island try not to fight with Elena." Her eyes widened about to argue back. "For me, please."
She couldn't argue with that. The pleading look in his eyes made a sickly swirl of guilt clench her stomach uncomfortably. Sighing putting her head down she nodded softly agreeing to his terms. Honestly, she didn't want to fight with Elena anymore, it was exhausting hating someone you're supposed to love and protect, she just wished in all her heart that her twin felt the same way.
They continued talking quietly about what was going to happen trying to figure out a game plan, she could feel the soft brush of his lips against her shoulder every now and then and the cool brush of his finger tips against her thigh when suddenly they were interrupted by the presence of Shane.
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii?" Damon quizzed in a rough voice, he heard a small giggle from his girlfriend beside him, it had been such a long time since they had been able to smile and laugh, so it was nice to hear it again. "Where the hell did you take us?"
"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland." The Professor answered simply, looking down at the two vampires in front of him. "If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island." He shrugged his shoulders as he down at the beautiful stretch of beach.
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak int the world." Damon answered sarcastically, this made the younger vampire nervous, she remembered how truly fearful Kol had been of this guy, so weren't they supposed to be scared of him too.
"Yeah, that too." Shane answered as he reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of sunscreen holding it up to both Damon and Grace. "Sunscreen?" He offered and both of them threw him a look.
Grace scoffed. "Is that a joke?"
"Right." The Professor nodded his head slowly, a smirk creeping over his lips as he stared back into the forest with a nostalgic look on his face, calmingly Damon rubbed his hand over her thigh holding back a growl himself.
Grace's interest flared as she looked up at the Professor standing in front of her. "So, tell me Professor, how is it that you were set free from police custody on a multiple homicide charge? I am interested." She tilted her head to the side making Shane look down at her surprise. "Oh, I have the ability to read minds, I try to not use it and let people have their privacy, but when I feel I have to..."
"A telepathic vampire. That is interesting..." He mused, looking down at her with a smirk earning a deep growl from her boyfriend sitting beside her. "I was released because the police had no solid evidence and no confession, so they could only hold me for 72 hours."
Stefan was hard at work a little way down the beach as his girlfriend stood next to him, trying to avoid eye contact with the blonde Original who was sitting across from her on an old piece of drift wood. Tightening the knot in the piece of rope the older vampire handed it to his girlfriend to hold for a moment.
"You know, you're really not helping." Stefan informed the blonde in a tough voice as he squatted down searching through his bag for something, Rebekah threw him a hard look as she looked away from the brunette for a moment to look at the hazel green-eyed vampire.
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot." She answered in a sure voice as she went back to staring down the newborn who had moved away by now, looking through her bag just trying to fill her time before they set off.
Stefan sighed, he was just trying to keep peace between everything. That hadn't proven to be very easy since Elena killing Kol thus turning the blonde into an enemy and Grace and Elena's confrontation. All these women were at each others throats constantly and it was an exhausting job stopping them from arguing and fighting all the time.
"You're giving Elena the evil eye, it's not really helping." He explained more into his previous statement which just earned a loud scoff from the Brit.
"She killed my brother, tried to get you to put a dagger in my back." Rebekah listed just a few of the reasons that she was in utter disgust and hatred over the young vampire. "She's lucky all she's getting is the evil eye." She growled loud enough for the brunette to hear. "Perhaps I should follow Grace's lead in resulting to physical violence..." She glanced over at the other twin who just rolled her eyes looking away.
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena hissed as she stood up glaring down at the blonde in across from her.
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah mocked, this only angered Elena more, making her emotions take over and zip towards her white oak stake in hand, clasping her hand around her throat with the tip of the stake at her chest, as some sort of threat.
Obviously Elena had forgotten that she was dealing with an emotional, frustrated 1000 year old vampire who held all of her revenges against her. The icy blue-eyed vampire just simply flipped her, sending her crashing to the ground with a soft thud on the sand as the blonde stood over her, a dark look in her usually bright eyes.
"Go ahead, try to kill me. But then you'd have to face your real problems. Like the fact that Stefan invited me here himself and it might not be Nik's emotions making your own sister hate you." She reminded her in a snide voice before walking away back to the piece of drift wood, looking down at her manicured nails.
Stefan quickly rushed over to his girlfriend who was laying on her back, looking up at the cloudy sky before she saw a hand offered out to her, to her surprise it wasn't her boyfriend but her sister standing there offering to help her back on her feet, the brunette sighed placing her hand within hers and was pulled back her up to her feet.
Mumbling a quick thank you Elena didn't make eye contact, it wasn't that she didn't want to but rather that it felt awkward between the two of them since everything that had happened. So much guilt and self-loathing on both of their parts. With a curt nod the smaller brunette slipped the white oak stake from her hands earning a confused look from Elena.
"I think I should look after this." She announced looking between her sister and the Original. "I'll put it somewhere safe where no one can use it if an emotion gets suddenly heightened." She shot a look at her sister, it wasn't a dig just a fact which made the brunette frown crossing her arms over her chest stubbornly.
Stefan arrived over to where Elena had laid to see the two girls facing one another, with a soft smile directed at the smaller brunette she returned the favour before turning on her heels and walking back over to her boyfriend who had waited for her.
"I'm not apologising for not wanting her here." Elena informed him as she looked up into his hazel green eyes with a stubborn look on her face, he knew that she had changed the subject off of her sister and onto the blonde. "I can't believe you actually brought her here with us and that you actually feel sympathy for her, I mean, you do remember that she tried to kill me, right?"
"I know, but... Don't you think that everyone deserves a second chance. I mean, she's just lost her brother, another of her brothers... All she wants is to be human now, Elena. I'm not asking you to get along with her, I'm just asking for you to not get into anymore fights, alright?" He quizzed as he walked over to her planting his hands on her narrow hips smiling down at her.
The smaller brunette wandered back over to Damon slipping the white oak stake in her bag, her boyfriend stood there proudly watching her as she zipped her bag closed and slung it over carelessly over her shoulder. "You know, you make a really good leader of this group." He informed her as she glanced over to him with a slightly confused look on her face. "I mean, anyone can say what they want about you, Gracie, but at the end of the day they respect you and your decisions."
Scoffing gently the vampire answered. "That's only because if they didn't they'd have you on their backs." She giggled as she glided over to him, brushing her hand against his slightly stubbled cheek standing on her tip-toes to press a chaste kiss against his lips, he cupped her face gazing into her eyes.
"Joke around all you want, but you know I'm right." He told her in a firm yet fair voice, she smiled up at him with a lovingly look in her smouldering chocolate-brown orbs. "I can't wait until all of this is over. We can do whatever we want. You'll be all mine again and we'll never have to deal with family drama or Rebekah again." He whispered as he pecked her lips passionately.
"Human Rebekah." Grace mused as she laughed gently, her shoulders shaking with the sound which only made her boyfriend smile. "I honestly can't imagine her without fangs or being able to hold some kind of power over me..." She shook her head gently as she glanced across at the blonde who was keeping to herself, not without throwing a few murderous glances out there at nearly every member of the group.
"So, are you ready to take this cure when we get it?" Damon questioned her out of the blue, she licked her lips slowly and looked up at him with a fake smile on her face, she wanted to take it for him of course, but she enjoyed being a vampire, finally she was happy in the skin she was in becoming more confident even after everything.
"I... I don't think we should be getting ahead of ourselves." She announced in a soft voice and he glanced down at her confused. "I mean, we don't even know if it exists yet and I never really like to speculate." She nodded her head as she looked away from him feeling her stomach squeeze uncomfortably.
Just a little way over from them the hunter had his flimsy shirt in his hand as he let the witch take picture of his toned chest and arms that was holding the entire map for them to view. She was only doing it so that he wouldn't have to keep removing his shirt so they could see where they were they were going next, she was sure that would get tedious after a while.
The witch couldn't help but marvel at his body, he had most certainly grown up from little Jeremy Gilbert into a full-grown man. "Sorry, if there was a less awkward way to do this, I would." She informed him apologetically but a small part of her liked having the strong teen dressed down in front of her.
"Doesn't bother me." Jeremy flirted back with a smirk playing on his lips, the witch could feel her cheek heating up as she smiled widely.
"These symbols must have been left for the hunters, so they can find the cure. And this must be the story of Qetsiyah and Silas." She mused as she looked at the ink tattoo's plastered up his arm. "According to Shane, Silas asked Qetsiyah for helping making a spell for immortality. She helped make him immortal, only to learn that he planned to use the same spell on another woman, not her. When she found out, she freaked."
Jeremy creased his eye brows looking down at the girl in front of him. "So, Qetsiyah killed the other woman?"
"Yeah, Silas was immortal. She couldn't kill him. So she trapped him in a cave, and buried him alive instead." Bonnie nodded her head as she continued to admire the tattoo's spiralling up his arm, telling all the stories, it really did intrigue her.
Jeremy frowned gently. "Does it say anything about the hunter's purpose in all this?"
"I was wondering when you'd ask." Shane announced as he came up behind them, both teens looked over at him interested as the hunter slipped his shirt back on his lean body. "Qetsiyah created a cure for immortality, and then she buried it with Silas, hoping that he'd take it and die, and end up on the other side with her for all eternity. But he wouldn't give her the satisfaction. So, many centuries later, her descendants created the hunters to find him, cure him and kill him." He glanced around to see the vampires getting impatient "You know what? I'll explain on the hike. Come on. We gotta get going."
Mystic Falls
In the Gilbert house Klaus was still locked in the confined Gilbert's living room slowly going mad. His brother was dead, soon enough Grace would take the cure and everything they ever shared, every memory, ever feeling will have vanished, he could feel a painful ache in his heart which he didn't like and to top it all off he had the Lockwood boy taunting him every few hours.
"Morning, sunshine." Tyler's snide voice entered the room as he walked in to smirk at the Original who was looking worse than usual. "You look pathetic." He told him in a firm voice which only angered the hybrid more.
"Only until Bonnie's spell locking me in here wears off. Then I'll look different. Angrier, perhaps. Or I won't look like anything because I'll have gouged your eyeballs from their sockets." He threatened darkly but this didn't seem to affect the younger hybrid who only stood there opposite smirking with his arms crossed over his chest.
"My friends will be back with the cure by then. So, I could shove it down your throat and make you mortal..."
"I'm an Original." He hissed in response. "What makes you think my entire vampire bloodline won't be cured along with me? I.e., you." He reminded him, this cure seemed to be a mystery to all of them at that moment, none of them knew what it would do at all.
"You know what I think? I think that's impossible. I think the moment you stop being a vampire, our whole blood connection to you is broken, your sick hold over Grace will vanish and your sire-ling ceases to exist. So, whatever happens to you, happens only to you, which means I can kill your ass and no one else has to die. Although I am still debating just how to do it." He announced in a thick, voice another smirk pulling across his lips.
Zipping across the room the Original stood there opposite the teen with a snarl on his lips unable to get past the barrier which held him in place. "I recommend drowning." He informed him reminding the younger hybrid of how he had killed his mother. "There's nothing quite like the feeling of someone fighting for something as basic as human breath. And let me tell you, your mother was a fighter."
The Island
The small group continued to hike through what seemed to be the endless forest before they heard a small beeping coming from Professor Shane's phone who was leading the group behind him. "Satellite phone lost its signal." He announced simply as he hit it against his hand in trying to make it work.
"Well, that's a good sign." Damon deadpanned as he placed his large hand on his girlfriend's narrow hip, holding her close to him as they stood behind the Professor who stepped back to be standing next to them still looking at the forest in front of him.
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena's voice wavered as she questioned from where she was walking with Stefan, he reached out and took her hand in an assuring fashion which made her heart swell with love as she looked across at him, she still hadn't forgiven him for inviting Rebekah but it didn't mean she wasn't still in love with him.
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary." Rebekah's spiteful voice came from behind them making the brunette frown gently. Being completely and utterly useless, that was definitely something Elena hated.
Sighing heavily Stefan sighed. "Please don't start." He didn't want them to fight. He could understand where both of them were coming from. Why both of them wanted the cure. Rebekah wanted a family, which was admirable and compassionate and Elena didn't want to become a monster and kill people.
"I'm merely stating facts." The blonde shrugged her shoulders carelessly. "Jeremy has the spell on his body. Bonnie is the witch that unseals the cure. Shane is the human compass. You and I have the tombstone, which does God knows what. And Elena has no point."
Hesitantly Grace looked over her shoulder and questioned. "Hey, what about me?" She couldn't believe how she was trying to draw the Originals line of fire away from her sister who had hurt her so much.
"Hmm, well I do enjoy our banter." Rebekah stated shrugging her shoulders and the small brunette nodded her head in acceptance before turning back to look at the path in front of her.
Damon was then hit with curiosity, everyone had been labelled expect for himself so he questioned. "And me?"
"You have a nice behind." Rebekah informed him making him smirk and nod his head, Grace giggled from beside him and he wrapped his arm around her waist pulling her tight against his body as they continued.
Day soon passed and night came calling, yet the group was still hiking through what seemed to be the endless forests. They were listening to Shane's continued story of Qetsiyah and Silas with great interest whilst carefully following him.
"Centuries after Qetsiyah died, there were these miners who were excavating a well on the island. Suddenly went mad." Shane informed them all knowingly, they all looked over at him surprised. "They bled themselves dry. No apparent reason. So, the legend spread that these miners, in exchange for a drop of their blood, saw visions of their lost loved ones in the well they were digging. The world traveled and explorers sought out the well to see if the legend was true."
Bonnie creased her thin eye brows. "So, the well was magic?"
"Well, you know, some people believe the voices of lost souls were just a wind vortex whipping through the caves, and visions were caused by inhaling the island's poisonous plant life." He explained shrugging his shoulders.
"And what do you believe?" Elena quizzed from where she was walking next to her boyfriend.
"I believe in magic." Shane answered her in a small nod. "My wife and my son died within months of each other." He told them all and they all seemed to go quiet at that moment, as a sign of respect. "And so... I decided to try out the well for myself. I offered up my blood and I waited." He seemed to fall back into a trance a soft smile pulling over his lips.
One Year Ago
Standing in a cold cave, Atticus placed a lantern on the rocky floor as he stood in front of a seemingly bottomless pit, he was really going to do this. So he could see his wife again he was going to offer up his blood. Letting out a shaky breath he slid a pocket knife out and held it out front of him.
Holding his hand out he ran the sharp-edged blade of the knife down along the palm of his hand wincing as the blood seeped out over the wound trickling down dripping into the well, he watched carefully before something brushed past him making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
"Hello?" He called out into the nothingness. "Hello?" He spoke again hearing his own voice echo around him until it stopped.
"Atticus?" A voice whispered, one that he recognised all too well, it made goosebumps raise the whole way up his arm as he looked around frantically trying to see where the voice had come from.
"Caitlin." He whispered, it was his wife, that was his wife's voice calling out to him in this dingy cabin. "Caitlin? Caitlin?" Without thinking he knotted a long piece of rope around a safe looking rock and began to repel down the side of the well.
As he was descending downwards into the pitch black he could hear indistinct whispers echoing around him, the feeling of breathing against his skin made his heart raise and hands become clammy which in turn made him lose his grip on the rope and hurdle to the floor at the bottom of the well.
Landing directly on his back he let out a loud call out pain as he sat there looking up at the well, he had made it, he was at the bottom of the mysterious well. He was trying desperately to catch his breath back obviously winded from the blow to the ground when suddenly he saw a shadow standing over him.
He was about to panic but a voice calmed him. "Hello, Atty." His nickname, the nickname his wife had for him. He could feel his heart swelling with love with as he looked up into her loving, calming eyes. His Caitlin was standing there before him as beautiful as ever.
"Caitlin."
Present Day
"I saw my wife." He mused, smiling in reminiscence "I saw her eyes, her smile. My blood left me see her again."
"Yeah, got it." Damon scoffed rolling his eyes as he continued walking. "Don't eat the poisonous flowers." Grace wanted to smack him for being so insensitive to the professor's story but before she could act Shane spoke out again.
"Wait." He called. "Stop. Stop. Stop!" He ordered and everyone stopped right where they were standing, all looking around rather confused to what the professor was freaking out about. "Is everybody paying attention?" He picked up a large rock. "Our first lesson in survival." He threw it so that it crashed down onto the ground triggering an unseen trap.
The net was launched up into the air, successfully trapping the rock. They all gulped as they looked up, perhaps this island wasn't as desolate as they had originally thought. "Stay together. Keep your eyes open." The Professor told them all before continuing.
Jeremy was lagging behind, the last one of their small group. He grabbed his water bottle from his backpack bringing it up to his lips to take a swig only to find that there was no in there. He groaned before announcing. "Ugh, I'm out of water."
Elena was quick to drop back and come to her younger brothers rescue, letting go of Stefan's hand and offering him her water bottle. "Here. Take mine." He didn't really want to steal her water but his throat was so dry, perhaps it was because he was nervous for what was to come.
When he brought his lips away from the bottle he gave her an almost skeptical look. "A magic well? Seriously?" It wasn't like he was skeptical of magic just of the professor himself, there was something about him that the hunter didn't like, Shane could be a rather shady character.
"I don't know." Elena sighed heavily as she shook her head from side to side looking at the group that were walking ahead of them. "I mean... We've all lost someone." She reminded him, some had lost more than others, but all of them had been robbed of a loved one in one way or the other. "The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."
Smiling sadly Jeremy finally understood, the Gilbert's had lost too many people and he hated how their small family was being torn apart by petty bickering. It just didn't seem right. The teen didn't have much time to dwell on his family though when he heard a twig snap behind him, turning suddenly he saw a deadly looking arrow flying towards him.
Within seconds he had been removed from danger, Elena was standing there pinning him to a tree as the arrow flew straight past them all at breakneck speed hitting a tree, impaling it with brutal force. The small brunette was quick to react about to go after the attacker, she looked over to see a tribal man crouching in the brush, he grunted and suddenly fell forward onto the ground a hatchet sticking out of his back.
"What the hell just happened?" Elena whispered from where she was looking between Grace and Jeremy, both of them seemed pretty shocked, perhaps this island wasn't as forgotten and desolate as they had originally thought.
"Someone just saved my life." Jeremy answered, the rest of the group had caught up with them now, all of them seemed more on guard than before looking around for any intimidate danger, when they knew they were in the clear they continued their journey.
It wasn't long until the group found themselves coming into a small dirty clearing with a single small-sized shed at the end of it, all looking around for any traps or tribal men with bows. "What is this place?" Stefan quizzed from where he and Elena were setting, their bags down on the floor by their feet.
"According to island lore, a group of college kids came here for spring back. A few weeks later they were all found dead, completely drained of blood." Shane explained to them all as they began to set up camp, some of them looked around nervously, but most weren't that affected by the story more trying to keep their head clear for any attackers.
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us." Rebekah shone a bright smile as she threw her bag carelessly to the ground by her feet. "Who sleeps where?" She questioned and with that they all got to work setting up their tents, this gave Damon a good opportunity to actually talk to Atticus.
"Well, that's lovely. There's a mystery man with a hatchet lurking in the woods and we're just gonna camp?" Damon deadpanned giving the professor a hard look, he wanted to continue and get off of this island as soon as they could but it wasn't safe and deep in his gut he knew that.
Shane scoffed a little. "We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?" He questioned there was a dark shadow to his smouldering eyes which made the professor standing in front of him roll his eyes.
"How stupid do you think I am?"
"Stupid enough to raise an immortal witch, so I'd say... Incredibly." Damon answered with a cocky smirk pulling over his lips. If Kol had been so fearful of Silas maybe all of them should too. His eyes glanced over to Grace who was setting up a tent, looking down at the instructions confused.
"You know, Damon, I actually get why you want this cure. I get why you're so insecure about your and Grace's relationship. It must be extremely hard to compete with an Original hybrid." A growl erupted from the vampire standing in front of him. "I'm just saying, giving Grace the cure will make her forget everything about Klaus, right?" He smirked as he turned around and walked away.
The older vampire was fuming, he could feel the anger rumbling around in his chest squeezing at his heart uncomfortably, what if everyone had been right and everything that Grace felt for Klaus wasn't being manipulated by the sire-bond. Looking up at the night sky he saw the stars sparkling above, praying that everything was going to be fine. That him and Grace were going to pull through.
As he lowered his head he tried desperately to not let a tear slip out and was successful as he licked his dry lips and turned around surprised to see his small girlfriend standing there. She had that innocent, doe-like look in her eyes as she watched him. It was obviously in the way she was gnawing on her bottom lip that she had heard the entire conversation between Damon and Shane.
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about." Grace informed him in a small voice as she walked towards him, reaching out for his hands, happy that he didn't pull away and accepted her touch.
Damon sighed heavily as he answered. "Yeah, well I guess we'll find out tomorrow." Nothing in his gut wanted to get his hopes up from now on. He had a lifetime of bad luck when it came to women. Fayth had been the first, he never seemed to get the girl completely.
She took another step towards him. "Whatever happens nothing is ever going to change how I feel about you, Damon, because I'll love you unconditionally for eternity." She whispered lovingly as he raised his hand to rest on her cheek, rubbing his thumb over her satin like skin.
"I'm not saying you won't, I'm saying that it might not change how you feel about him." The Salvatore couldn't even bring himself to say his name, he saw the concerned look brush over her face.
She let out a stuttered sigh. "This cure is gonna change so many things. Jeremy's not gonna wanna kill any of us anymore. Bonnie's mom isn't gonna be a vampire and anyone who takes this cure is gonna have an option. Caroline, Stefan, Elena, you." She whispered looking up into his smouldering icy blue orbs. "If you want it."
"No, I get it." He nodded his head slowly. "Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows." His voice was filled with slick sarcasm which made her scoff and move towards him.
"No, not everything." She answered as she looked up into his eyes once more, taking a final step towards him to close the gap between them once and for all. "That's what I'm saying. Damon, my feelings for you are still going to be there." She wanted to tell him she didn't want the cure, but hadn't the nerve.
Instead the younger vampire stood up on her tip-toes and just brushed her full lips against his, brushing her hand across his stubbled cheek as he knotted his long fingers in her chocolate-brown tresses. They connected for a long couple of seconds in a searing hot, passionate kiss before she pulled away and looked into his eyes, marvelling at his masculine beauty.
No more words had to be said and he knew that all too well, so he wrapped his arms around her small form holding her against him as he looked out into the forest trying not to think of how things were going at home, Klaus trapped away in the Gilbert house. He was going down as soon as they got the cure, this is how he had to end it.
Mystic Falls
Back in the Gilbert house, Tyler was still watching over the Original throwing out comments every now and then. The hybrid had just chosen to ignore him instead watching his brother that was still laying on the floor, he could feel tears in his eyes but continued to blink them away each time not wanting to give Tyler the satisfaction.
Klaus had come to assume that the reason that his brother was still laying there on the floor in his view was to rub in the fact that he was dead which only made Original more vengeful. The pain of him being dead was already enough he didn't need to be reminded of it at every moment. With the visual remembrance and the ghastly smell of burnt and rotting flesh.
Even through all the arguing, fighting and betrayal that the Mikealson's had been through in their long lives they were still family, a dysfunctional one, but still a family and he was still going to mourn his loss and it didn't seem to help how his unsired hybrid was standing over him every moment.
The back door opened and in walked the pretty blonde looking over at her boyfriend surprised to see that he was still here. "You're still here? What are you doing?" She questioned not one part of her wanted to look over at the hybrid that was stood in the living room behind her, she didn't even want to acknowledge he was there.
"Gloating." He answered simply as he poured himself a glass of bourbon bringing it up to his lips and sipping it tentatively.
Klaus emerged into view. "Hello, Caroline." He greeted and she glared at him for a long moment before looking back at her boyfriend, she wasn't even going to greet him not after everything, killing Tyler's mother was going too far.
"Come home." She urged with a kind smile on her lips moving towards him but he didn't take his eyes off of his ex-sire master. "Don't stoop to his level." She begged him but the hybrid wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.
"He destroyed my life." Tyler reminded her in a strong voice, she knew why he wanted to still be here, she understood he was in a lot of pain and Klaus had to pay. "I plan on being present for every second of his misery until I can kill him myself."
Sighing a little the blonde answered. "Fine. You can gloat and multitask." She informed him as she looked around the house, obviously she was feeling bad for the Gilbert family, the mess that their home was in after everything. "This place is a disaster. Starting with a horrific burnt corpse." She added.
Squatting down she looked in the cabinet under the sink and pulled out a large table-cloth, Tyler took one end of it and she took the other and together they used it to successfully cover Kol's body from the hybrid's view, the look on his face was torn and tortured.
"Tyler's mother is dead. So is my brother. We're even." Klaus told them from where he stood in the arch way to the living room, they both looked over at him surprised the argument was invalid. "Call Bonnie. Get her to let me out of here."
Scoffing loudly the blonde answered. "I will never, ever, help you." She told him.
This made Klaus even more angry, obviously he could never see the bad in himself. "How quickly you forget the part where I saved Tyler from the misery of being a werewolf. Or how I saved Grace from a burning building thus saving her life. Or the night your mother invited me into her home to save the life of her precious daughter."
"How delusional are you?" Caroline questioned her voice high and angered. "You killed his mother. And let's not forget why you had to save my life, because you were the one who sired him to bite me in the first place! Also, we're standing in a house where Elena's aunt used to live. Or did you think that your charm would make us forget how you killed her, too? Oh and to top it all off that your disgusting hybrid blood made Grace sired to you!" Caroline hollered angrily which only fuelled her hatred for him more.
"No!" The blonde quickly announced as she held up her hands standing only feet from him behind the protection of the barrier the Original couldn't get past. "I am not going to engage in this. You are not even worth the calories I burn talking to you."
He was overtaken with an overwhelming amount of anger as he zipped across the room grabbing a long floor stabbing it through the barrier and directly into her younger vampire's abdomen, she called out, a surprised look on her face. "No!" Tyler called but before he could react he had already pulled her over to his side of the magical barrier.
Without a moment of hesitation he buried his fangs into her throat gulping down her blood greedily and at the same time infecting her with his werewolf venom, Tyler was paralysed with fear as he watched the Original release her from his hold and she felt to the floor with a light thud.
Klaus smirked as he licked his bloody mouth. "Now, that was definitely worth the calories."
The Island
Stefan was sitting by the roaring campfire looking down at the tombstone which seemed so important. He was just thinking of how life would be if him and Elena were human again. Every thing would be simple, they would actually get a real life. He was startled when he felt a presence suddenly sitting beside him.
Glancing up he saw the blonde sitting there with a sweet smile on her lips. "Well, seven of us and no one thought to bring s'mores." She joked with a light chuckle before looking down at the tombstone in his hands. "What are you doing with that?"
"We're a day away from finding the cure. I'm not letting it out of my sight." He answered simply, he didn't want anything to mess this up so he was trying to keep everything from going wrong.
As they continued to sit there under the bright moon they heard a soft echoed howl out in the forest behind them, this made the Original jolt and move closer to the younger Salvatore clutching his arm tightly. "Did you hear that?" She whispered breathlessly. "I swear this place is haunted."
Stefan softly placed his hand on top of hers which was gradually tightening ever so slightly, he frowned a little as he informed her. "Um... You're crushing my arm."
"Ok." She laughed a little as she released him from her iron like grip. "You got me. I'm a scaredy cat." She admitted shamelessly, even if she was one of the strongest vampires in the worlds it didn't mean she didn't still have her fears.
"You do realise you're an Original vampire, right?" He remarked a playful smirk on his perfect lips and she just laughed a little, her shoulders shaking with the melodic sound.
"Which is precisely why you should stop teasing me. I'm very powerful." She answered as she slid away from him again, licking her lips slowly she continued. "What are you gonna do when Elena becomes human? You said that you'd take the cure to be with her. You'd have children and grow old. Is that still true?" She quizzed.
He nodded shortly. "Well, why do you want to take it? Aren't you the perfect vampire." He teased once more.
"Isn't it obvious?" The blonde creased her eye brows as she looked over at him, her eyes were glowing in the light of the roaring fire. "It's all an act, Stefan." She admitted finally and he frowned a little as he watched her spill her guts out for him. "Being a vampire is miserable. I would give anything to be human. Normal."
Slowly Stefan nodded. "I want to take the cure to be happy with her, but I want to be happy for me, too." He informed her and the blonde actually understood, Stefan and Rebekah were more alike than each of them cared to admit.
Over the edge of the camp Shane was standing in a small looking shed picking up a lamp and looking around before he heard a pair of boots enter. "I've been staring at pictures of Jeremy's tattoo and there's no spell." She informed him as she clutched her phone tight in her hands.
"Expression doesn't require a written spell. Just think of it as a way of accessing magic that already exists inside of you. You just have to want it bad enough." Shane answered her as if it was that simple, but to Bonnie it wasn't, after everything he had done to them and her, how was she supposed to put her faith in him.
Bonnie creased her thin eye brows. "And I'm just supposed to trust you?"
"Bonnie, listen, I taught you Expression so that you could access the cure. I'll be right there with you the whole time, I promise." Atticus answered in a sly voice, not actually answering her original question.
"You didn't answer the trust part." Damon entered the shed from behind Bonnie with a set look on his face, not one part of him trusted this shady Professor and he hated that he was one of the most important members of their group and he couldn't just get rid of him.
"Alright. Let me put it this way." He rolled his eyes as he stepped towards the young witch. "You need me to help you through it, Bonnie. Because as you've demonstrated, Expression can get messy. Believe me when I say I've seen it get a lot worse."
He had now peaked the vampire's interest. "How much worse?"
"When we lost our son in the car accident, my wife kind of lost it." Shane answered, it was evident that he was still mourning the loss of his family with the tortured look on his face. "She tried to resurrect his body using magic."
This was news to Bonnie, she hadn't realised that his wife had been a witch. "Your wife was a witch?" She creased her eye brows glancing over her shoulder at Damon who still standing there almost like a bodyguard.
"She was a powerful witch." Shane nodded his head, curly hair bouncing with every movement. "And incredibly undisciplined." He added sighing.
"And you never thought to tell me?"
"I just didn't want to scare you." Atticus answered with a sorrow filled look on his face, he was right if she had known about the magic that had killed his wife she would never had agreed to the training. "The truth is, she tried to bring our son back using Expression, and it overwhelmed her, and she died."
Bonnie was dumbfounded for a long moment, her light brown eyes wide on the Professor in front of her before she was overcome with anger, she knew all magic was risky, she had lost her Grams to ordinary magic but Expression was something she had no control over which scared her even more.
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?"
"Yeah, but look, the upside is that I've learned the warning signs, alright?" He tried to reason with her as he took another careful step towards the teen but Damon was waiting not far behind ready to attack. "I can keep Expression from consuming you."
Scoffing a little the older Salvatore added. "Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle."
"Don't you think I know how this ends?" Shane growled over at him, a hard look on his face. "I came here to raise Silas so that he could bring back the dead, but you're never gonna let that happen. The second I point to a cure, you're gonna kill me. Now Bonnie has to keep me alive so I can keep her alive." He had been crafty this whole time which made the vampire very angry.
The older Salvatore brother was absolutely fuming with Shane, it wasn't that he cared that much for the witch but he knew that Grace did and now he couldn't even get rid of the Professor before he could raise Silas. He didn't want to worry his girlfriend so he just tried to hide the anger as he climbed in their shared tent.
She was sitting on the ground on top of her sleeping bag reading from her book with a flashlight, shining it up at him as he walked through the door flap. He grinned a little as he dropped to his knees at the foot of the sleeping bag watching as she illuminated the page once more and continued to read. "Well, Salvatore, I guess we finally got out of Mystic Falls. Even if it is to the middle of no where." She added absent-mindedly.
Even in the dark he could see the smirk on her lips as he crawled towards her throwing the book to one side so she only had to focus on him. Leaning his head down he brought them together in a sweet kiss intertwining his fingers with her own as he pulled her hips to slide under him. She was curling her other hand around the back of his neck, massaging it gently but also keeping them connected.
He pulled back for a short moment gazing deeply into her tranquil chocolate-brown eyes before trailing his own down her tight little from underneath him, all he could think was that she was wearing far too many items of clothes. Timidly he pulled her knitted shirt over her head and leaned his head down again to press soft, butterfly kisses to her throat feeling the hitch in her breath.
The only sounds that were filling the tent was the bone-chilling howling of the wind and their passionate pants, feral groans and hot wet kisses. Until suddenly she heard a rustle in the bushes outside, she stopped, pushing up off his chest and looked up through hooded eyes, he brushed his hand over her cheek trying to pull her back down into a kiss. "Gracie."
"D-Did you hear that?" She questioned breathlessly, he didn't respond only spun her back over onto her back and crushed his lips to her with all he had which easily distracted her.
Over in his tent Jeremy was laying on top of his sleeping bag awake, he tried to ignore the sounds coming from the tent next to him, he was really starting to wish he hadn't set up his tent so close to theirs, sickly it reminded him of the time in Denver, shuddering at the thought.
Turning over onto his side he tried to block out the noises as he closed his eyes surprised when he felt a shadow go past the side of his tent, sitting up he grabbed his flashlight from beside him turning it on quickly shining it through the front flap before suddenly a hand covered his mouth.
Mystic Falls
"Oh my God, oh my God." Were the only sounds coming from the blonde's mouth as her boyfriend tried to calm her on the couch but the distort look in her eyes told him how much she was truly freaking out.
"Hey, hey. Look at me." He urged her as he placed down on her hands on her cheeks, he could already feel the rise in her temperature, the way the heat radiated against his hand and her face was a light pink. "Look at me. I can fix this." He assured her in a soft voice but the look on her face proved she didn't believe him.
"How?" She growled back, the wound had finally healed over but the problem was far from fixed, she needed Klaus' hybrid blood to heal the infection in her veins. "The only thing that can heal me is his blood!" She shrieked looking over at the Original who was standing behind the barrier watching them both. "Oh my God..."
"I know." Tyler whispered as he cupped her face looking deep into her scared silvery orbs. "I'll fix it." He assured her as he stood up and turned to face the hybrid who was still watching them both with dark orbs. "She'll die if you don't heal her."
"Ok." Klaus nodded his head absent-mindedly as he brought his wrist up to his mouth and bit into his own flesh holding it out in front of him watching as the blood dropped to the floor. "Beg me to save her life." He urged in a soft voice, a sickening smile pulling across his bloody lips.
"Is this what you want?" Tyler growled as he took another step towards him ,the blonde behind him was weary of him getting too close but the Original had done all the damage he wanted to do, hurting Caroline was easier than hurting Tyler and it delivered a more painful emotional blow. "To remind me that I'm powerless against you? Fine. You win. I'm nothing. Now save her. Please." He begged.
"I'm sorry, mate. I didn't quite catch that." Klaus teased another smirk pulling across his lips as he tilted his head to the side watching him.
Tyler whispered desperately. "Please."
"Please..."
"Please save her life!" He finished frantically looking at the Original with wide rich brown eyes.
"See, now I think you're just telling me what I want to hear." Klaus mused as he paced slowly back and forth against the barrier, arms crossed over his chest. "I mean, you did call me pathetic earlier." He reminded him and instantly the hybrid regretted all the teasing and gloating from earlier. "And wouldn't it be more pathetic of me to help now, knowing that hours ago, you announced your plan to kill me in a manner in which you're debating because you want it to have a certain amount of flair?" He looked over at the Lockwood boy. "I'm just asking."
"I'll be your slave again." Tyler promised nodding his head fast, the blonde wanted to beg him not to, nothing was worth letting him getting into that mess again, even her life. "I'll do whatever you want. Just help her."
Klaus looked over at him, one final word on his lips. "No."
Caroline was disgusted, once upon a time she had began to think that maybe he might be a little good for Grace, or perhaps it would have been the other way around that all of Grace's light, humbleness and goodness might have rubbed off on him, but he was still the same poisonous hybrid that had invaded their town years ago and never left causing them nothing but pain and torturing their souls.
"Get me out of here. I can't even look at him." Caroline spat out like it was acid on her tongue, finally giving up the never end stare down between himself and the Original, Tyler turned around and picked her up walking her from the house away from the hybrid who actually didn't look so pleased with himself.
The Island
It was early morning and it didn't take long for the group to realise that their hunter had vanished into the night. Everyone had split up into separate groups, searching close places nearby he might have gotten off to without anyone them noticing. Elena had decided to stay in the camp just in case her brother came back.
"Jeremy!" Elena called from the centre of the camp just as Bonnie and Grace came walking back into view with torn looks on their faces. "Did you find anything?" She asked frantically.
"He's not on the trail." Bonnie answered shaking her head as she ran her fingers through her hair, she hated the thought of him out there in danger all because they wanted to use him for the cure.
"His gear's still here." Shane informed them all holding up the hunters bag so they could all see and rack that onto their worry, he hadn't taken off on his own or at his own will. This only made them even more nervous.
Stefan and Rebekah came into view at the opposite end of the camp with only bad news. "He's not at the quarry, either." The younger Salvatore informed her with a heavy frown on his face as he walked towards the Gilbert, placing his hand on her shoulder in a comforting manner.
"Let's split up." Grace suggested logically taking her boyfriends advice and trying to be the leader of their small group, they would have more luck trying to find him if they were in smaller groups than one large one. All of them seemed to agree with this, respecting her decision and earning a cocky, knowing smile from Damon in the process which she tried to brush off.
"I'm gonna stay and try a locator spell." Bonnie informed her as she began to search through the bag for a map of some kind, Shane seemed to like this idea as he nodded and stepped forward.
"Ok. I'll stay here." He added quickly. "I'll make sure she's safe."
Damon growled a little as he stepped forward. "I'll stay here and make sure you're not lying." He informed him with a hard look in his icy blue orbs. Grace seemed to be ok with this idea as she nodded her head looking around the rest of them.
"Alright." Grace agreed as she stepped forward to look at who she had remaining to help with the search party. Rebekah, Stefan and Elena. "Ok, Stefan go one way with Elena and I'll head the other way with Rebekah." She informed them and they all nodded as they turned and began to walk their separate directions.
After watching Bonnie begin to get the spell ready for a little while the Professor decided it was time to check if he had any signal on his phone again. Standing up he walked into the shed picking up his phone but it only beeped at him telling him he was still out of range to have any kind of service.
"Thought it didn't work." Damon's snide voice came from behind him, the vampire had been so quiet he hadn't even noticed him enter the shed, turning abruptly he shrugged a little placing his phone back down.
Atticus signed a little. "Yeah. I'm just – I'm just checking the signal."
"So you can call someone?" Damon hissed narrowing his icy blue orbs. "Like whoever took Jeremy?" He added in a stoney voice and honestly Shane was sick and tired of having to prove himself to the vampire, he had already told him his plan he had nothing else to hide, whoever had taken their hunter wasn't under his command.
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?" Shane remarked nodding his head, he knew that everyone's worse habits were going to start flaring through, the cure of the island obviously had them in its grip and it seemed that Damon's was paranoia. Passing his phone over, Shane was going to prove he had nothing to hide. "See for yourself."
"I'm done trusting you." Damon hissed, not like he ever really did trust the professor. Suddenly he was shoved down into a chair with the older Salvatore brother glaring down at him, his eyes glowing with anger. "Where's the cure?"
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it." Shane informed him.
"So, you've seen it?" Damon asked skeptically as he glared down at the man in front of him, but the professor licked his lips slowly.
"No." At least Shane was being honest. "But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."
One Year Ago
Shane was laying on the cold, hard ground staring up at his wife in disbelief, he had been told only a drop of blood would cause him to hear her voice and here she was in front of him, full bodies and looking as beautiful as the first time he had ever seen her. "Caitlin." He whispered breathlessly. "How is this happening?"
"You're bleeding." She informed him as she knelt down beside him, he looked down to see the large blood stain in his arm, obviously he had cut himself in some other way and lost a hell of a lot of blood in the process.
"Oh my God. Oh my God." He sat up freaking out, he was now starting to feel the numbing pain in his arm.
"No. It's good. It's ok." She breathed giving him an assuring smile. "It's what's keeping me here." Caitlin added.
Present Day
"If a single drop of blood can give you a vision, could you imagine what two litres could do?" He stated, a slight amount of amazement in his voice.
Damon growled a little. "What does your dead wife have to do with the cure?" He questioned obviously growing tired of Shane and his stories, he just wanted to know where the cure was so he could get it and get off this island.
"She's got nothing to do with the cure, but she has everything to do with Silas."
One Year Ago
"I'm so sorry I let things get out of control. I should've stopped you." He breathed out, he was resisting the urge to reach out and brush his hand across her face, almost wanting to make sure she was really there in front of him.
"Sweetheart, it's ok." She answered in a soft voice, kind smile on her lips, the one that he loved so much. "You wanted Sam back as much as I did. What if you had a second chance to bring both of us back?" She knew that was something he would never pass up on. Atticus missed them more than anything.
Shane shook his head regretfully. "I can't, baby. I'm not a witch."
"We have a witch." She replied and he looked up at her confused but wanting her to continue. "His name is Silas. If you set him free, he'll help those who have helped him."
"Set him free from... from what?" Shane creased his eye brows clearly not following where his wife was coming from, it was obvious that he hadn't heard the story of Silas and she was more than willing to explain it to him.
Caitlin smiled down at him. "He's entombed in the caves below us, but it's impossible to get him out without a spell." She added as she ran her hand over the stoney floor. "You need to get the spell."
Present Day
"And that's when she explained everything that I had to do." Atticus answered the vampire who was now standing away from him, still feeling anger pounding through his chest but not being aggressive towards him. Shane stood up dusting off his hands on his pants before adding. "Complete the hunter's mark to access the spell and empower a descendant of Qetsiyah to perform it."
It only took Damon a second to put all the pieces together as he zipped across the room and shoved him violently back into the wooden chair. "Bonnie Bennett's related to this crazy-ass witch?"
Outside the tent the young witch was too involved in trying to use her Expression to try to search for Jeremy in the vast area of the forest. Clutching his shirt tightly as she narrowed her eyes looking down at the campfire, slowly the flames began to roar higher and higher, a cloud of black smoke spiralling into the clear morning sky.
Throwing the shirt into the fire it was engulfed in flames within seconds, she watched as the fire began to crawl out of the pit and began to spread towards the emerald forest before her, making a path for her to follow. She got up from her knees and began to follow the trail, wind blowing carelessly through her hair like whispering voices.
A little further out Grace and Rebekah were walking together, looking out carefully for any traps in front of them, even from where they were standing they could hear the other Gilbert twin hollering Jeremy's name. "Can you sister be any louder? I mean, it's not like she isn't putting her and Stefan's life in danger right now..." Rebekah mused sarcastically earning a look from Grace.
"Why are you even fighting with her? I figured after you tore me from the picture you and her were best friends for life!" She feigned excitement earning a loud scoff from the blonde walking next to her.
"Hmm, I figured it was going to be the start of a beautiful friendship when the three of us began to work together against your sire-master in an effort to find the cure before any of you, but as soon as I found the tombstone for them she was more than willing to cut me out of her group." She began. "With the use of a dagger of course, now isn't that so very Elena." She mocked
"Well, you did try to kill her, granted after she daggered you repeatedly." Grace saw the story from both sides and they continued walking until they met up with both Stefan and Elena in a small clearing, the taller brunette was still calling up in a hopeless attempt that her brother might hear her and come running.
The blonde scoffed lightly. "Are you honestly still sticking up for her after everything she said to you? Tell you that you're not part of her family and exposing your deepest fears-"
"I don't need a recap of everything that went down, Rebekah. I remember it quite clearly thanks." Grace's tone was bored and sarcastic, she barely wanted to talk about everything with Damon let alone the woman who was the cause of their family troubles. "Hey, but, uh, I am genuinely sorry about what happened to Kol." She timidly brought up the situation and the blonde nodded in acceptance, she had been the only one to apologise for her loss and she hadn't even been involved in it.
They continued to search the forest until finally they came across a small clearing where they bumped into both Stefan and Elena. He was comforting her with his arms wrapped tightly around her as she hugged into him seeking warmth in his embrace. He was tenderly stroking her hair as he looked across the clearing, obviously hearing the crunch of leaves under heavy boots.
Grace stepped forward awkwardly rubbing the back of her head. "Maybe, I don't know, maybe we should stick together and continue looking for him, I mean, it would be safer right?" She questioned and once again everyone seemed to agree as the four of them took off into the forest, Elena seemed to be in front with Stefan not far behind and Grace and Rebekah at the back keeping an eye out.
"Jeremy! Jeremy!"
"Why don't you yell louder?" Rebekah quizzed in a deeply deadpan tone which made the taller brunette glare at her over her shoulder. "Maybe we haven't drawn enough attention to ourselves already." She had a good point, this was a dangerous forest infested with people who obviously didn't like vampires.
"I'm sorry, and how are you helping?" Elena shot back a darker side to her voice which rarely ever came out. The blonde smirked a little as she looked down at the small brunette beside her who was jut doing her best to keep her head on the mission of finding Jeremy and not petty fighting.
"I'm stronger than you and faster than you and I'm quite certain I can charm the islanders a lot easier than you..." Rebekah answered earning a loud laugh from the leading Gilbert.
Elena replied quickly in almost a murmured voice. "Not disagreeing on the easy part."
Sighing Grace glanced over at Stefan, he was on good terms with both of them and she figured perhaps he could get them both to calm down. "Alright, we get it. You two hate each other. Can we just keep going please?" He questioned trying to level with both of them, to try to remind them of the quest they had but it didn't seem to be working.
"I tried to be her friend, but somehow, I ended up with a dagger in my back because I'm the evil one." The blonde answered as she narrowed her eyes over at the newborn who just growled back at her stopping to turn around.
"Technically, you didn't achieve evil status until you killed me." Elena answered with a cocky smile turning around, the blonde ready to pounce on her but the other twin standing beside her held her arm out to stop her.
Not looking where she was going the taller brunette continued walking not noticing a trip wire on the floor which she snapped, a long branch with spikes impaled onto it came swinging towards her, she held her arms up to shield herself from the imminent doom but when nothing struck her she looked up to see Rebekah standing there holding the trap so it couldn't impale and kill her.
"Nice catch." Grace announced with a grateful nod as Stefan quickly made his way over to Elena capturing her waist holding her close to him in a loving embrace, Elena was breathing hard as she looked over at the blonde.
"Thank you." Rebekah pushed the trap back to where it had been originally set up, dusting off her hands as she grinned walking back over to the small brunette who nodded.
"No, actually, thank you." Elena whispered as she moved away from the younger Salvatore brother. "This thing would've killed me." She announced but the blonde didn't look moved or affected by this.
"I don't care what happens to you either way, but if you're gonna die, it might as well be epic." She answered shrugging her shoulders as she crossed her arms over her chest, she really didn't care less about the girl who had killed her brother, but Stefan she did hold a soft spot for Stefan and knew he could only be happy with the newborn.
Clearing her throat awkwardly the small brunette stepped forward. "I'm gonna go back and check on Bon, see if she found anything. Be careful." She told the three of them before brushing past the three of them back towards the camp on her own.
Back at the small shed by the camp the older Salvatore brother was still glaring down at the professor sitting in the chair. "So you have the rock, hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in sacrifice? Where do they fit into this?" He questioned in a rough voice.
"As you can imagine, that was no an easy pill to swallow."
One Year Ago
Shane had listened to his wife explain how he had to kill dozens of people in order to help Silas, he was almost disgusted by this, he wasn't a violent man, he couldn't do that. "Caitlin, it's me, the guy who refused to server meat course at our wedding. I can't - I can't orchestrate three massacres."
"It isn't like that." She answered as she smiled at him. "You're merely leading these people so Silas can bring them back from the dead." His wife tried to find reason with him but he was still confused as to what Silas truly wanted or why he had to be the one to kill all these people just so they could be brought back.
"Why... Why should they die just to be resurrected? That doesn't make sense." He voiced his concerns.
"The spell that brings me back requires a witch to channel an extreme amount of mystical energy." She started with a soft look on her face, so warm and welcoming, one he remembered so well. He wanted his wife back with him so much. "Energy that doesn't occur in nature."
"Yeah, because it isn't natural." Bringing people back from the dead wasn't natural, he wasn't even a witch and he knew that. He could feel his heartbreaking all over again, he couldn't go around massacring dozens of people just so he could have the possibility of having his wife back and unleashing the unknown force of Silas. "I'm sorry, Cate. I just - I can't do that to innocent people."
Timidly Caitlin reached out and brushed her hand across her husbands face, he could feel it, he could feel the soft touch of her palm against his stubbled cheek, she was right there in front of him, his former lover. "Can you feel my touch?"
"How is this possible?" He was completely mesmerised, he never thought he would see his wife again, let alone speak with her and feel her touch against his own skin. It was too good to be true.
"Because you believe it is possible." She answered with a longing look in her eyes. "You believe that you can see me again. You don't have to take a single human life yourself, Atticus. All you have to do is convince someone to believe that it is possible that you can see a lost loved one again. And they'll do it for you."
That was it for Shane, all these emotions swirling inside of him became too much. So much grieving and loss mixed with surprise and excitement from seeing her standing there, touching his cheek, actually being able to feel her. Tears began to trickle down his cheeks as he broke out into a sob, she just held him.
Present Day
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people." Damon began to put all of the pieces together, the pastor wanted to see his wife, just like Shane and that must have been what he had promised him, that in death he would be reunited with his loved one, even if that meant leaving his daughter behind.
Nodding slowly Shane answered simply. "He just wanted to see his wife again."
"We need three massacres." Damon added as he began to think back to the Mystic Falls murders. "Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?" He quizzed creasing his eye brows.
"You're not."
"You're not finished." Damon growled down at him, all he was thinking was how he had to stop him before the crazed professor turned on them and they all became massacre number three, he was protecting his loved ones in his eyes. "Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number three?"
"It doesn't work that way, Damon." He tried to explain but the vampire was done listening, he needed to know where the well was that would lead them to the cure, he needed it, he need it for Grace and that was the end of it.
"I think you need to tell me where the magical well is." He tried to act nice with him but he knew that the professor wasn't going to break that easily he was Bonnie's only hope and he was here to raise Silas.
Shane sighed. "You know I can't do that."
The vampire scanned the room until he found something interesting, ropes laying on the ground, this made a grin pull across his face. "Oh, I know. I know." He answered as he patted him on the shoulder walking past him leaving the professor looking unfazed by his threatening behaviour.
Mystic Falls
Laying on her bed in her room Caroline could feel the poison pumping through her body painful spreading through her veins, she didn't want to die like this but she knew that she was going to. Klaus was never going to give them his blood now, not after everything she had said for him, she really had dug her own grave.
"It's getting worse." She coughed out weakly as she looked up at him through sore, dull looking silvery orbs, sweat trickling endlessly down her pale face. "I'm sorry." She apologised for something that wasn't even her fault.
"No. It's my fault." He whispered as he held her closer to him, all he kept thinking was if he had never taunted Klaus with killing him, had just kept the plan of using the cure on him to himself then Klaus would never had refused to heal Caroline, or would never had even bit her in the first place. "I'm sorry."
"No. You didn't do any of this-" She tried to argue but he wasn't going to let any of the blame go away from him.
Tyler sighed heavily as he replied back. "I unsired the hybrids and turned them on Klaus. I should've just left it alone." It was easy to look back in hindsight at where he went wrong, but at the time the hybrids, which were now dead, were his friends and he was just trying to help them.
"You freed them, Tyler." Caroline reminded him as she weakly squeezed his hands, she understood why he did everything he did and she was so proud of him for doing so. He was an amazing Alpha to them for doing what he did. "People put their faith in you because you're a leader. Don't forget that."
An idea flickered in his head. "Then you trust me?" He questioned looking down into her eyes as she looked back up at him, of course she trusted him she loved him more than anything in the world.
The door to the Gilbert house opened and in walked the unsired hybrid holding his loving girlfriend in his arm, she looked weaker than before they could both smell the venom running through her body, it almost smelt like death which didn't comfort Tyler at all.
Carefully the Lockwood boy laid her gently on the ground close to him. "You want to be in control, Klaus? Here." He motioned down to her and the Original looked down at her feeling a swirl of guilt in his stomach, his vendetta wasn't again her it was pointed towards Tyler. "Now you get to be in control of her life. If you want her to die, fine." Tyler felt his heart jump up into his throat at the thought of losing Caroline. "But then you can sit here and watch her die yourself."
Turning around Tyler walked from the house closing the door leaning against it for a long second, he didn't want to leave her in there with him, not after everything. He wanted to beg the Original to heal her, he'd do anything just to know that she was alive and well but this was going to work. He knew it.
Just inside Klaus was looking down at the blonde as he approached her. "Nothing personal, Blondie. If I cure you, that means victory for him. Don't worry. It won't be long now." He assured her knowing that the pain was end soon and she'd be in peace, that would be another point racked up against him with Grace, but if it meant getting back at Tyler he didn't care.
The Island
"Where's the cure?" Damon had turned to interrogation now with the professor tied to a chair being tortured by the vampire, it was really helping getting his aggression out by beating up the human.
"Does it matter?" Shane coughed looking up at him. "I think we both know you'd rather just torture me. Torture gives you a sense of control, especially with your relevance slipping away." He watched as the older Salvatore broke a metal pole in half inspecting it for a long couple of seconds. "And look at you. Here you are, hours away from Grace breaking her sire-bond to Klaus. You're starting to freak out a little bit. Listen, you want my advice? Leave. Go. Don't put yourself through this."
Damon could feel rage burning up inside of him as he smacked the professor with the pole he had held. He was so sick of everyone telling him what he should do with his and Grace's relationship; Klaus kept telling him he was destined to end in failure, Shane kept hinting that her feelings for the Original wasn't fake or forced by the bond, it hurt and he hated it.
"Agh!" Shane yelled as the pole slapped across his face painfully. "Fine. Ok. Let's say her feelings for Klaus aren't real. How does that end? Him killing her because she broke his heart? It would be a lot easier now that she's human and even if he doesn't you're a vampire." Damon hit him again making the professor groan in pain a red mark down the side of his face. "It's doomed, Damon. See, you're not torturing me, man. You're torturing yourself by helping them find the cure. By wanting to give it to Grace."
Psycho-analysing Damon was something that he hated the absolute most. He didn't give a damn about the cure, Bonnie's 'link' to Shane or Silas now he just wanted the professor dead and out of their lives. "I could kill you. Then no one would find it."
"We've established that you can't kill me without sending Bonnie off the deep end." He argued in a reminding tone. "You can leave the island. Have a modicum of self-respect. Maybe take Grace with you and get her as far away from Mystic Falls and Klaus as possible, a little head start before Bonnie's spell wears off."
"Right. Because if I'm not here, then I can't get in between you and whatever you're planning with Silas." He growled down at him with a dark look in his eyes. "Well, I'm not that easily manipulated, professor. And there is one flaw in your logic." He bent down so that he was whispering in the professors ear in an intimidating fashion. "I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."
Grabbing his head between his hands the older vampire was about to snap his neck when suddenly a whoosh entered the room, he glanced over to the door to see his girlfriend standing there in the moonlight glaring over at him, anger burning in her chest as she watched him, she wasn't sure who she was more angry with her boyfriend or Shane.
"What is wrong with you?" She spat at Damon as she walked further into the room but quickly he just walked past her without a care in the world leaving her looking down turning her anger on the professor now. "What did you say to him?" She ordered in a rough tone, she wanted to know what had upset him so much that he was going to kill him and Bonnie's only hope.
"Your boyfriend is a maniac, Grace." He tried to argue with her, but that was something she already knew from knowing from for four years, growling a little she tore the ropes off throwing them to the floor by his feet.
"Stop messing with the people I love." She threatened darkly her eyes turning dark and fangs extending, he gulped as he moved backwards in the wooden chair to get away from her, but she just pulled back returning her face to normal and walking swiftly from the room after her lover.
She couldn't believe that her boyfriend would be that heartless and extreme as to kill Shane, who Bonnie needed desperately so she didn't lose herself to Expression, she thought that she had got him out of that stage and got him as a part of their team. "Shane is the only thing that's keeping Bonnie safe, and you try to kill him?" She scoffed loudly taking another step towards him. "And you wonder why Bonnie hates you?"
"I don't wonder, Grace, because I don't care." He hissed back at her turning around growling down at her, this made her stop in her tracks suddenly she hadn't seen him act this way for a long time and it reminded her of how much she feared him. "I don't care about her. I don't care about some lame-ass cure for vampires, either."
Her jaw dropped open as she looked up at him. "Do you remember when I told you that I didn't give a damn about the cure either, because I wanted to be a vampire and I wanted to be with you? You didn't listen to me, Damon. You just continued to tell me that I needed to be human to stop this stupid sire-bond! Well we're here now so we're finishing this."
"Well, I honestly don't care anymore so let's just go, let's go home, Gracie. You and me. We can run, from Mystic Falls, from Klaus-"
"Did you really think that some sire-bond would actually make me fall in love with Klaus?" She questioned looking up at him. "Or did you just think that it would change whatever I feel for you?" She asked and he was silent for a full moment as he avoided eye contact with her.
"Fine. Say they're real. Say you've become human and you still love me and have no possible feelings for Klaus expect hate. Then what? You grow old. You die. I stay a vampire. Face reality, Grace. We don't work like that." He tried to argue with her, but tears brimmed around her eyes as she took a step away from him.
"Why are you saying this?" She whispered as she looked up at him. "This is what you do, Damon. Things get a little hard and you start pushing me away, like you always do! Like back when I wore that dress Klaus gave to me as a gift and you threw a tantrum and ended up almost sleeping with Rebekah. You push me away and do something stupid!"
"I thought we were past this-"
"We are!" Grace hissed turning around drying that tear that fell down her cheek, she didn't want to cry, she wanted to be strong. "We are past this and I want to prove it to you." She took his hands looking him in the eye. "I want you to take the cure with me. If I'm going to have to take it to prove to you that what I feel for Niklaus isn't real then... Then you have to take the jump with me." She whispered looking up into his eyes but only pain crossed his face as he closed his eyes not wanting to look at her.
"That's how much I love you, Damon. I don't want to take the cure, but... But I'm scared and if you do it with me." She reached her hand up to stroke slowly across his cheek tenderly. "Take the cure. Be human with me. We can be together. Grow old together. This doesn't have to be hard anymore. We can be anyone we want to be. Do anything we want to do. We don't have to be tied to Supernatural craziness or Mystic Falls chaos anymore."
She could feel her heart tearing in two as he pulled his hands from her own, closing her eyes she only felt the cold rejection of his lips touch her forehead. "That's not me, Grace. You know that. I used to miss being human, but now... Now I can't think of anything more miserable on Earth."
When she reopened her eyes he was gone, she let out a shaky breath as she let several tears slip down her face, she didn't want to chase him she just wanted to be on her own now and she knew that the three others would be back soon trying to figure out what was happening. Drying her tears she zipped off into the forest on her own, she knew it was a risk but she didn't give a damn at that moment.
Elena, Rebekah and Stefan continued walking through the forest, they were beginning to feel a strong sense of déjà vu as the carried on walking, once again Elena was in front as both the older vampire trailed along behind her, she was so adamant on finding her little brother she was willing to search the forest all night.
"Haven't we been through here before?" Stefan questioned as he looked at the back of his girlfriend's head as she just continued to march on, she had led them in circles, or so it seemed in the darkness.
"It all looks the same to me." A heavy boot came down on another trap and spears came firing out of no where towards them, Stefan quickly grabbed both of the women and moved them quickly from the spiky weapons sighing in relief that both of them were safe.
Rebekah nodded looking up at the forest green-eyed vampire. "Our hero." She announced and proudly he grinned as he took a step back just looking at both of them for a long moment, Elena's face still filled with determination yet loving eyes looking up at him and Rebekah's filled with gratitude and humour like usual.
"So, now that I've saved your lives I want to ask a favour of you two." Stefan began and they both looked up at him waiting for him to continue. "I want you both to cease-fire for the little time left we have on this island. I mean, it's exhausting trying to find the cure and Jer too now without having to deal with the both of you, too."
"Why do you assume I hate her so much?" The Original shrugged her shoulders as she walked past them leaving them both confused.
"Well, I mean, you did run me off a bridge with my best friend in the passenger seat whilst I was on the way back to say goodbye to the love of my life." Elena announced as if it was that simple, but neither of them were looking at the big picture of the situation.
"You all seem to forget that Elena's death was the only way to save my family. I did the same thing that every one of you would've done to protect the people that you love." She reminded them, Alaric dying meant her families were safe and in turn all of them. "And before you cast me as the bad guy, maybe you should remember that Elena's helped to kill not one, but two of my brothers. Maybe we're not as different as everyone's making us out to be." She added leaving the couple in complete silence as they looked at each other with guilty looks. "Jeremy's not here. I'm going home."
As they arrived back at the camp it was completely silent, the camp-fire was dead and no one was around to be at least seen. Opening the flap to Grace's and Damon's tent the younger Salvatore brother stuck his head inside to see that it was completely empty, the sleeping-bags hadn't been touched and their bags were still there.
Picking up Grace's bag he threw it over his shoulder, the white oak stake was in there and he didn't want that falling into the wrong hands on this island. Paranoia seemed to be deep in everyone's veins at the moment. As he came back out he saw Elena the other side of the camp just walking out of Bonnie's tent with a confused look on her face.
"Where the hell is everyone?" Stefan questioned as he began to look around, the blood ran cold in his veins when he noticed that all Shane's stuff was missing also, he looked over at Elena who had noticed this too. "Bonnie isn't here and all of Shane's stuff is gone."
Rebekah began to freak out as she whispered. "Oh my God." She zipped over to her bag and began to search through it to see that it was gone. The tombstone was gone. That was their only leverage for being here and getting the cure and now it was gone and everyone had turned on the three of them and gone after it on their own. "The tombstone's gone." She announced in a panicked voice.
Mystic Falls
Weakly Caroline was laying on the couch, she had moved herself there almost falling over on the way to make herself more potent to Klaus, he could smell the death seeping through her pores as she coughed weakly. "If you don't feed me your blood, I'll die" She reminded him and honestly he was having a hard time at looking at her.
"Then you'll die, and Tyler will have learnt his lesson the hard way." He answered in a soft voice.
"How could you do this to him?" She whispered once Tyler had been so loyal to him all because he was sired but still he had been loyal. "To his mom? To Grace? To me?" She coughed once more and he winced thinking how Grace would react to this.
He rolled his eyes looking over at her. "I'm a thousand years old. Call it boredom." He answered almost shrugging his shoulders, she hated the careless look in his eye.
"I don't believe you."
Scoffing a little he replied quickly. "Fine. Then maybe it's because I'm pure evil, and I can't help myself." He told the blonde in a tough voice and she shook her head slowly, the motion of it almost made her dizzy but she fought through all of her sickness to try to convince him.
"It's because you were hurt. Which means that there is a part of you that is human." She whimpered up at him, he growled as he turned around and approached her sitting down on the coffee table just next to the couch she was laying sickly across.
He was confused by her presumptions, no one had been able to see that side of him, no one expect Grace and even then he hid everything he truly felt. "How could you possibly think that?"
"Because Grace has told me about it... She's mesmerised by it and I'm not sure..." She coughed gently, a painful stabbing in her chest. "I'm not sure if that's because of the sire-bond or now, but I've known Grace all my life and I know that she wishes she could forget all the horrible things that you've done to her and her family."
"But she'll take this cure and she'll remember and she will hate me. Just like everyone else. Right?"
"I know that you're in love with her." Caroline whispered back looking up at him through glassy silvery orbs. "And... And anybody capable of love is capable of being saved." She added leaving him sitting there in a spiral of guilt and hope and love.
He brushed off all of his emotions, he pushed away thoughts of him and Grace having some kind of future together, he diminished any hopes of Grace ever choosing him over Damon because of the ring, he questioned everything because of one piece of jewellery and answered back simply. "You're hallucinating."
"I guess I'll never know." Her breathing caught in her throat as her eyes fell closed leaning her head back on the cushion, he could feel his heart thudding uncomfortably against his rip cage as he watched her breathing come out in laboured puffs.
He couldn't take it any more, he bit into his wrist and lifted her head to she could accept his blood quickly. He really had left it to the last possible moment. When he finally felt he begin to take down his blood on her own he let out a breath looking across to see the appreciative look in her eyes even if he had been the cause of this at least he had finally put something right.
The Island
Rebekah was searching through all the bags with a panicked look in her eyes as she threw everything to the floor, Elena walked in nervously, biting the nails on her left hand, obviously a bad habit she had picked up from her twin, surprised to see the Original kneeling by their bags search through everything. "What the hell are you doing in our tent?" The newborn demanded in a rough tone.
Suddenly the Original was in her face holding her tightly by her neck choking her so no air could affectively get into her lungs. "Where's the tombstone?!" She demanded her voice was showing her fear and weakness. "What have you done with it?!" She growled at her.
"What are you talking about?" Elena rasped out as she looked down fearfully into the Originals eyes that were brooding with panicked feelings.
"Like it's not bloody obvious?! All you people do is betray me and here you go again!" She growled at her when suddenly the door flapped open again and in walked Stefan looking between them with a surprised looked on his face.
"Let her go." He commanded in a tough tone as she glared over at him. "She didn't take it." He informed her and suddenly Elena was dropped to her feet, she was quick to join her boyfriends side, clutching to the back of his shirt.
"Was any of this real?" The blonde spat back at them trying desperately to hide the hurt in her voice. "Or was it just a ploy to distract me while Shane ran off with the tombstone?"
"You think I would do that?" Stefan answered as he narrowed his eyes taking an intimidating step towards her. "You think I would let some psychopath run off with the cure? Every single moment of my last 146 years have been ruled by the pain of being a vampire." The brunette behind him looked at him with a sad look on her face. "And this cure ends that. It ends the guilt and it ends the suffering. And you really think I would jeopardise that?" He hissed back at her making her finally see sense.
"Fine." She hissed shaking her head a little, her deepest insecurities of being left behind or forgotten shining through. "You didn't take it, but that doesn't mean I trust her." She scowled over at newborn.
Sighing heavily Elena racked her brain for ways she could make the Original trust her, making a promise wasn't going to cut it any more she had ruined that after the first time she had daggered her. Quickly walking over to her sisters bag that was laying on the ground she opened it and pulled out the white oak stake for the Original to take. A peace-offering.
"I didn't take it, but here." She extended it before her. "Consider this a peace-offering." But the look in the Originals eyes she wasn't buying it.
"Don't you get it, Elena? There is no peace. We're all screwed!" She announced dramatically and the newborn sighed heavily as she continued to hold the stake out to her.
"Exactly, Rebekah. We're screwed. Bonnie's gone. Shane's got the tombstone. Jeremy's missing. Damon and Grace are nowhere to be found. So, us three, right here, this is all we've got. So we're either in this together... Or it's over. For all of us." She held the stake out towards the Original again and this time the blonde took it from her hand.
Shane was quickly running through the forest towards a set destination before he suddenly saw Jeremy being dragged by a dreadlocks man who had him bound and gagged. "Jeremy." He breathed out as he held the tombstone tightly in his hands. "That was a bit of a scare yesterday." He turned to the man who had been dragging the hunter along. "Thanks for fending off his attackers."
"His attackers?" The man questioned obviously confused.
Shane creased his eye brows as he looked back at the man. "Jeremy was attacked by an islander. I assumed you were his hatchet-flinging guardian angel."
"No, that wasn't me." He answered shaking his head looking equally as confused.
Shane shrugged his shoulders a little as he replied. "Well, then I guess there's somebody else on this island who's desperate to keep our hunter alive." He glanced down at Jeremy who just glared back at him when suddenly a presence came stumbling into their view.
"How did I get here?" She whispered as she looked around shocked to see Jeremy died up with a gag over his mouth. "What the hell's going on?" she demanded in a rough voice, she didn't even remember how she got here but she was scared for herself and Jeremy, kicking herself for ever re-trusting Shane.
"I see your locator spell worked."
Bonnie shook her head. " The path behind me-"
"Magically disappeared?" He finished her sentence and slowly she nodded her head answering his question. "You can thank the talents of Massak. He's a witch. Should you try to escape, he'll ensure you never find your way back. So, the gang's all here. Silas awaits." He announced darkly.
Rubbing her arms up and down the small brunette vampire tried unsuccessfully to warm herself up in the freezing cold, the tips of her fingers were numb as she continued to try to find her way back to the camp. Running off into the seemingly endless forest on her own was a mistake, now she was lost and scared.
She tried to spot something that she recognised but everything seemed to look the same anyway and she was beginning to panic, what if Damon never found her and she was left on this island to rot forever. He wouldn't do that, but they were fighting. She felt like a small child that was lost in a grocery store looking for her parent scared she would be forgotten.
Suddenly she was flung up into the air, a net trapped around her, she must have trodden on one of those damn traps. Her breathing became erratic as she looked around, it would take moments for an islander to get here, what if they killed her, Damon would never know, what if Damon was in the same situation she was.
"H-Help!" She screamed as she knotted her fingers in the net trying desperately to pull it apart or get out. "H-Help me! Please! Help! I'm trapped!" She screamed futilely, this was it, she was going to die and she didn't even get to tell Damon how much she loved him and how sorry she was for saying all those things.
When footsteps came walking towards her she closed her eyes as she backed in the net not wanting to see the unknown force coming towards her. Suddenly she was dropped to the floor with a small thud, her eyes remained closed as the net was pulled off of her before she heard a small sigh.
"You." That voice she knew it anywhere, looking up suddenly Grace was looking into the eyes of her sister, but it wasn't her, the curled chocolate-brown hair, the cocky smirk, the hand on hip pose, the four-inch heels even in the middle of a forest.
Letting out a shaky breathing Grace whispered. "Katherine."
Angrily Damon stomped through the woods not caring about anything around him, not listening out for any danger just going through the conversation he had with Grace over and over again in his head. Suddenly a spiking pain shot through his arm and he looked down to see an arrow sticking out of his arm, growling he pulled it out and threw it to the floor.
"You've got to be kidding me." He hissed when suddenly an unknown body jumped out from the brush and slammed him to the floor along with himself. The blond pulled himself to his feet and so did the older Salvatore brother growling over at him as he pounced pining him to the ground.
The vampire was surprised to see a black inked tattoo spiralling up his arm, he knew that mark, it was the same one that had been on Jeremy's arm which meant. "You're one of the Five." He whispered so shocked by everything that suddenly he got free of Damon's choke-hold and flipped him over onto his back managing to snap his neck successfully.
A/N
So here's another chapter, Grace has been captured by our dear Katherine so we'll get to see what she got up to on the island, I figured it would be fun to see what she did instead of just putting Grace into a group she had already been in :) Plus I like the Grace/Katherine dynamic, I'm sure they'll have plenty to discuss.
Grace and Damon had a fight but it's the island, it does crazy things to people and by the way when he say 'We don't work' He didn't mean them as a vampire/vampire couple, he meant them as vampire/human. They didn't work before she was a vampire so he's think about to that time.
This chapter was pretty confusing for Drace fans, I get that, so if you have any questions feel free to PM me :)
I want to thank my BETA missss supernatural for going over this so thank you :)
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Answers and responses below :)
Damon's girl: Thanks, girl :) And yeah Kol was one of my favourite originals too :( I wish I didn't have to kill him but it adds a little tension to the Grace/Elena drama, so I hope people understand.
Guest: Grace going with Klaus would be very, very cute but something major would have to happen in Drace's relationship for her to have to want to not be in Mystic Falls and for her to leave Damon. As for which one of the girls will turning it off, I guess you'll have to wait and see, little hint: I didn't like no humanity!Elena :)
melissa2005: I really like you're review, you've made so many good points about Grace and Elena. I really agree with you, too about even though she's a ripper she's never hurt any of her friends (except nearly drinking April, but that was a moment of weakness and she never actually hurt her) I think it's gonna be a little while before Elena apologises to Grace but she is gonna miss her sister sooner or later and if gonna need to face what she did.
Annaelle: Haha, I'm glad you liked Grace telling Elena off, I mean it's been a long time coming and it felt so good to her that out, Gracie is finally becoming more confident. As for the Damon/Klaus argument, I agree, Klaus did need to be told and Damon was the best person to tell him because Klaus is always picking around Drace's relationship so he had it coming :) But don't worry I like long reviews, they give me a lot to think about :)
Jordan Lynn 7: Haha, I get you, that slap has been a long time coming, I mean it really takes a lot to wind Grace up so Elena really did have it coming.
Mia Salvatore: You're right :) As usual, there wasn't any other way that Klaus could have possibly take the promise ring or anything else that happened in that chapter, Grace isn't his girlfriend, he doesn't own her, they may share a sire-bond but that is about it. He did stick to his word, he didn't make cause any trouble whilst he was there but he was very upset about the promise ring.
xxxRena: I'm glad you loved it, girl :) Elena definitely got what was coming to her and I'm pretty sure everyone felt as good as Grace did when she finally slapped her ;) I was also really sad writing Kol's death, I mean, I didn't want him to die but I didn't see another way around it, he was kind of psycho, but a lovable one :)
Guest 5: I would really love for Grace to try to have a relationship with Klaus but it would be difficult and I'm not sure that Drace would work after it happened. Like would he just allow her to come running back to him when it didn't work it. It would be interesting and it would change them a little, but I think it would damage so many other of Grace's relationships :( But I really like your ideas of how he'd turn her into a little rebel and he'd soften to her :) That would be adorable.
Chloe: That's really sweet, thank you :)
Guest: Thank you, I'm not too sure what you mean by 'Kol be the Klace' But I'm sure it was just a typo.
Nymartian: Thank you, honey :) And yeah they were trying really hard not to rip each others heads off, even if some strong words were said. Yeah, when Klaus found out about the ring I was even heartbroken, but he had to find out, he had to know the seriousness of Drace's relationship, but it was still a bad situation. I did mention before how much Klaus would affect everything in Grace's life, especially after everything with Caroline and Tyler now, she would probably be shunned from Mystic Falls, haha :)
Sabine Christensen: Ok, fair enough, don't worry you didn't sound harsh, I understand what you're saying so let me just set a couple of things straight. From what I get from your review, you don't really like Klaus, I get that he can be hard to like sometimes, but here we go: 1) This is a Damon and Grace story, this is their story and it's meant to be dealing with the hard times they have during their relationship, but what you said about Klaus being a mass murderer isn't a good enough reason for Grace to hate him because so is Damon and Grace is one too and now so is Elena and Stefan has killed his fair share of people, they're all vampire and they all kill 2) Klaus did kill her aunt but Damon killed her brother, even though you can argue he came back to life, so again not really a good enough reason for Grace to hate Klaus. 3) I totally agree with you Damon and Grace did have a rough start and he has been there to support her and he there for her, except when him and Rebekah almost became a thing, but that was a moment of weakness, she does love in 100% nothing has ever not be real for Damon and Grace. 4) The story of Fayth and Damon is a lot different from what is happening with Klaus/Grace/Damon. Fayth didn't love Damon at all but Grace loves him with her whole heart, she has never not loved him. The love triangle is coming to an end, so you don't have to worry about hating my story, but I hope this didn't sound harsh I just wanted to clear things up for you.
Whitttyyy76: I think quite a few people were waiting for that slap and Grace really can see Elena for what she truly is, a meanie ;) (Don't worry I totally got what you mean, there are a lot worse words out there to use for Elena) You're right Damon and Grace have worked so hard to get to where they are, they just need to grin and bear it a little longer :)
Kayla: Yep, Grace finally let Elena have it ;) And yeah I was sad that Kol had to die so that she could be a selfish little vampire and get her cure. But I'm glad the Drace part made it up for you :)
PattyFleur87: I know, I was sad about Klaus finding out about the promise ring and yeah Elena and Grace are still fighting, they probably will be for a little while now, but their family and deep down family love each other. Thanks, girl :)
ddluzelle: Haha, I'm glad that you liked it :) And I'm glad you liked my twist
David Fishwick: I'm glad you liked the chapter, I think I had to do a conversation between Jeremy and Elena, especially before what unfortunately happens to him, Elena does need her sister and sooner or later she is going to find this out, Rebekah and Stefan is a fun relationship for me so I really enjoy their scenes, poor Klaus even after everything their family has been through their still family and they need each other despite what everyone in Mystic Falls thinks of them. Yes, the Bennett's were only trying to protect their daughter, Professor Shane is bad for Bonnie and Expression is worse, well this chapter was full of Drace scenes, some good, some bad but all fun to write. Well, you got your wish, Ms. Katherine is already here and where there is Katherine, Fayth isn't far behind :) Thank you so much, I'm glad that you like my season four more than the real one :')
Guest: I know, I know, I'm so proud of little Grace and yes that is very hard to get your emotions right on because of Kol's death and Grace sticking up for herself and Klaus finding out about the ring. It's a serious mixture of emotions.
Phoenix321: Hi, Shayla! I remember speaking with you on polyvore, yes I really like those Ian/OC stories they are very cute and I've been looking into them for a little while now, so maybe I will make one :)
grapejuice101: I'm glad you liked it :) Here's an update
Thenchick: Team Grace! I like that, girl :) If Elena had been part of Kol's bloodline after all that it would have been hilarious, I mean, yeah she does deserves it, you can't just go around killing Originals and thousands of other people so you can get a cure, that isn't right, Elena! And yeah exactly, she really did risk all of their lives by going after Kol, I mean, Originals lie, a lot!
SomebodyWhoCares: That slap in the face had been a long time coming, and you're little evil laugh proves how much you liked it, girl :) Damon did put himself at risk by holding his woman back, but he knows she would have regretted doing anything worse to Elena, no matter how funny it was :) There was some Drace moments this chapter, some good, some bad, but still some scenes.
susl: I know you're a big Klace fan, I think you may be my biggest Klace fan but there are a lot of things to take into consideration about this story, I mean I can definitely see the appeal of Klace, they are very mysterious, taboo, passionate, but there are so many other things that could be ruined if Klaus and Grace got together. Like her relationships with friends, family and so many other things. But I figured you might be interested to know that I'm creating a Klaus/OC story pretty soon, so I figured you might like that
winxgirl1997: Here's an update :)
TvshowsManiac: You are very welcome :)
Tvdlover87654: I know how you feel, I really love Klaus too, poor boy he really got told. I have a couple of things planned out for the next couple of chapters, but most of it is undecided as of yet. Anyway, here is an update I hope you enjoy.
Graciiee