Twisted Love
Season Four
Bring It On
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries characters or story line, I only own Grace :)
The Salvatore brothers were quietly talking about what was happening to their girlfriends, with Elena it was easier just be there for her, help her when she needed it, Stefan knew he was going to be able to deal with that when it came to it. With a newly emotionless vampire, like Grace, things were a tad different. They were unpredictable and reckless, not caring who they hurt and how they hurt them.
"That's it. I'm gonna lose her, Stefan." Damon announced as he sat down on the side of the couch a soft sigh leaving his lips, running his fingers through his hair. "She's not going to want to stay here anymore, she's gonna want to go wherever she wants and she sure as hell isn't going to need me."
Stefan frowned a little as he sat opposite his brother sipping his bourbon. "She needs time. It's only been a couple of days." He reasoned looking over at him, he couldn't imagine what he was going through losing someone he loved in that kind of way, it's like having the one he loved most die in the worst way possible.
"Her humanity is off. She's basically numb to everything that makes her who she is. The only reason that she continued to stay with me was because she loved me and now she has no emotions and doesn't care." He sighed leaning back trying to find a perk to her being in this situation. "How is Elena?"
Stefan sighed heavily. "She just burned down her family home with her brother's dead body inside and she just lost her sister because of a humanity switch. I'd say she's been better."
After a while of sitting there trying to work out a plan on how to handle a deeply depressed vampire and her twin who couldn't care less about anything Stefan sat up and said. "Worst case scenario: We get Klaus to invoke the sire bond and tell her to turn it back on..." He shrugged gently.
"Do you really think for a second Klaus is going to want her to turn it back on?" He questioned looking over at his younger brother. "No." He quickly answered for him. "This is what he wants. Now he can have completely unadulterated, no strings attached, wild sex with her and she won't care because she has no humanity!"
"Fine, then you show her a good time. Keep her on your team, Damon." Stefan told him as his brother creased his eye brows. "Grace has no humanity, she just wants to have fun. So give her what she wants. If Klaus is gonna try and spend time with her then hell you spend more time with her. I know it sounds like you're spoiling her, but if you don't wanna lose her then do that for her."
An old, dusty road just outside of Mystic Falls in the dead of night. Without her emotions on Grace had been able to strategies her feeding much more professionally and she had fed from humans a whole lot more since saying goodbye to any feelings she once had. It seemed like a life time ago all the crying and sadness. Now it was just empty and numb, the shell of the woman that she used to be.
Sauntering into the middle of the road she looked around taking in all of her surroundings, without the added weight of everything on her mind she was able to plan her next meal much more sufficiently. Licking her lips gently she saw headlights in the distance, show time. Sitting down on the hard ground she laid back looking up at the clear night sky, the stars sparkling down onto her before she closed her eyes cutting out of the world for a few seconds before she head the screeching brakes of the car.
The slam of a door and stomping of running feet what was made the brunette aware to her presence. The short brown-haired woman looking down at her with a fearful look in her eyes as she questioned. "Are you alright? Was there an accident? Where are you hurt? Are you in pain?" As Grace's eyes opened it startled the woman, she placed her hand on her heart looking down at her with relief.
"I don't feel anything." Obviously Grace meant emotionally she didn't feel anything, she was just numb and hungry, that was all that she felt, but the human watching her with concern in her eyes thought that she meant physically she couldn't feel anything which only made her worry more.
The woman nodded. "I have a blanket in my car. Try not to move. I'll call for help." She promised in a sure voice before running back to her little car, opening the trunk and sorting through the mess. Grace counted down from five slowly in her head before she got up and zipped around the woman before she noticed. "What are you doing?"
The small brunette stared at her for a moment longer before her eyes went deathly black and her fangs extended slightly past her lower lip, the woman was about to scream when suddenly the vampire pounced forward sinking her jaws into her soft neck taking her fill of blood hungrily. "That's enough." A voice came from behind her, a small growl fell from her lips as she just continued to feed. "I said that's enough." She was pulled from the woman turning to face Damon who stood there a stony look on his face. "We agreed no killing."
She licked her lips tasting the delicious blood on her tongue. "This is the first person I've seen in days who isn't laced with vervain and I'm hungry." She reasoned as he reached across and used his thumb to dry away the smeared blood allowing her to lick it off, he explained that she was going to start leaving and trail of bodies making people ask questions. "I don't care." Was her simple answer, Grace turned and continued drinking from the woman.
"I can't believe you're making me say this. Hey." The raven-black haired vampire grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the woman for a second time, she had a deeply annoyed look on her face as she licked her lips again. "Show a little restraint." He ordered in a low tone.
"I thought this was supposed to be fun. Hell, I thought you were supposed to be fun." She hissed venomously before she threw the woman carelessly to the pavement shoving him out of her way as she began to walk down the road blood dribbling from her mouth.
Hayley checked around before she exited the small store into a truck stop parking lot. She was walking between 18 wheelers being cautious to check around corners when suddenly she heard a metallic slam. Turning around the brunette frowned as she searched for anything, the noise erupted again and this time she turned to see a handsome man standing opposite her.
The wolf let out a shaky breath before she stepped back, his face changed immediately, his fangs extending as he pounced at her, grabbing her by her throat and slamming her back against one of the trucks, she was choking and gasping for air, clawing desperately at his hand before he threw her carelessly to the ground, his lips pulling up over his teeth to snarl about to finish her off when suddenly he was grabbed and spun to face Klaus.
Without a second thought the hybrid gnawed down into his neck viciously ensuring that the vampire was infected with his venom. After having a long taste of his disgusting blood he launched him across the small gap into another truck, he slid down to the floor clutching his throat feeling the venom beginning to spread already.
"You came." The wolf muttered looking up at him surprised, he held his hand out to her and gratefully she took it standing up off of the ground dusting herself off, the hybrid was watching the man withering in pain on the ground, the wound was slowly healing but the damage was a lot deeper than he had imagined.
"Well, you said it was urgent." He watched her out of the corner of his eye, taking a step away from the vampire she didn't want to get too close to him incase he regain enough strength to go after her again but to her relief the vampire picked himself up and zipped off into the night. "Oh, don't worry about him, love. He'll never make it through tomorrow night." He informed her.
Letting out a breathy sigh of relief she questioned. "What if there are more?"
"You were foolish to make a deal with Fay Petrova." He started a dark look in his eyes, if there was anyone on earth he hated more than anyone it was Fayth, she got away from him once and he wasn't going to let it happen again, not with the cure and his life at stake. "She used you to find the cure and now you're nothing but a loose end. You'll be lucky if she lets you live." He informed her in a dark voice which made chills run down her spine.
Narrowing her eyes she hissed out. "You said you would protect me." Shoving past him she began to walk away.
"And I will." He announced making her look over her shoulder at him, he felt his phone buzzing in his pocket, pulling it out he saw that Damon Salvatore was trying to reach him once more, probably to lecture him on the evil nature of setting Grace free of her emotions. "I'm just dealing with vampire humanity problems at the moment, but when I'm finished with that you're going to tell me everything you know about Fay and Katerina." It wasn't an option.
The next morning back in Mystic Falls, Damon was relieved to find that his small brunette had made her way back home, he tried mercilessly to get through to Klaus and when he finally answered to him he demanded the hybrid come over, he was the one that had told Grace to turn it off and hadn't spent a moment of time with her since to see the type of person she had turned into.
Leaning against the cold tiled wall Grace was just letting the vervain free water wash down her body, cleaning the blood and dirt from her pores. Raising the bottle of bourbon to her lips to took another long swig before realising that the bottle was already empty, she dropped it to the floor with a loud clang but was still able to hear a familiar British voice spill through the house approaching the master bedroom.
"You're actually that idiotic that you would be willing to send her back to school?"
"Well, I'm sorry, what else do you suggest?" He growled back at him giving him a hard look, he hated him even more, if that was even possible, for taking his Grace way from him. "I can't keep an eye on her 24/7, alright? Her friends are at school, they can't, she'd be too much to handle." He hissed at the Original a dark look filling his icy blue orbs. "If I need to remind you, that you, Klaus, haven't spent a minute of your precious time with her since you made her flip her humanity switch, because if you had you'd know that she isn't the same Grace and she isn't who you wanted her to be either, you dick. So we have to keep an eye on her some way."
A growl erupted from the hybrids throat as he answered back. "No, we just have to let her be. Let her find herself. You may want to march her around and treat her like a doll, but I don't intend to do anything until I see there is actually a problem." He spat back at him, the two were basically nose-to-noes about to break into a fight.
"Alright, give it a rest, both of you." Stefan's voice came from the doorway where he sat there arms crossed over his chest. "Listen, I agree with Damon." A loud scoff came from the hybrids mouth as he glared over at the younger brother. "Look, I'm having Caroline look after Elena at school today whilst I go talk to the mayor about this water problem, maybe sending Grace there might remind her of her old life... Who knows it might jolt back some humanity into her." He shrugged his shoulders gently. "I'll give Caroline a call." He announced turning on his heels and walking from the room.
Klaus and Damon continued to stand there arguing lightly amongst themselves trying to figure out what was best for Grace. Both of them had very different opinions on what was good for her, but when they heard a soft clearing of a throat coming from beside them they both turned to see the petite brunette standing there, naked.
Water was dripping down her smooth body, streaking elegantly over her curves as both men watched her with dry mouths. Both were getting a good eye full of her wonderful body, searing it into their memories, she obviously wasn't body-conscious, or ashamed when she was emotionless. "You know, I think I've had a dream like this once." She looked between them, a sly smirk pulling across her lips. "We all had a lot of fun..." She nodded her head gnawing on her bottom lip.
She carelessly walked over to the draw opening it and reaching inside to pull out a lacy pair of panties slipping them up her legs, both the men had to refrain themselves as she turned around, still very naked but smirking also knowing what she was doing to them. "As for the, uh, 'going to school'... I've got nothing better to do." She shrugged her voice was lacking so much emotion.
"If that's what you want, love." Klaus muttered nodding his head, his eyes would drop now and then to gaze at her exposed cleavage before returning to her eyes, the clearing of Damon's throat told him that he needed to lay down some rules for her, stepping towards her looking down into her eyes, no compulsion was needed it was the sire-bond that would stop her from doing anything stupid. "Grace, love, it would make me very happy if you went to school today and studied hard – you know, get involved in whatever activities, and please, for me, no matter what, don't eat anyone. Ok?" He looked at her as she nodded understanding his rules.
After Grace had got herself some real clothes on she made her way to school, when she spotted her twin standing with Caroline she wiggled her fingers at them before walking over to the bulletin board looking at everything on there, nothing clicked in her when she pulled off the memorial flyer for Jeremy before moving on to the next ones. Her eye was caught by another advertising for the 'Mystic Falls Cheerleading Invitation.'
A smirk crossed her lips, a bunch of sporty, preppy cheerleaders, male and female, from across the district coming to their little school to compete to see whom was the best. Pathetic. Was the first word that came her mind, but also a lot of free meals, she gnawed on her bottom lip before looking over her shoulder to see Caroline speaking on her phone, Elena at her locker putting things away.
"Hey, Tyler. It's me checking in. Things are just getting back to normal here, sort of. Elena's getting there and Grace is... I guess she is dealing with it another way, but we're working on it." She spotted the smaller brunette across the hall scrunching up a flyer and throwing it carelessly to the ground. "Look, I know that you can't call me back, but I keep thinking if I just leave these messages that when you do come home, it'll be like you never left... or that's the hope." She sighed heavily. "Well, I'd better go. I love you, Tyler." She hung up.
She was slightly surprised when a voice asked her. "Hey, have you seen Bonnie?" It was Matt, obviously he was concerned for his witchy friend whom he hadn't spoken to in a couple of days.
"Yeah, I called her last night." Caroline confirmed as Elena came over and joined them, she gave her a meaningful smile as she joined their conversation. "She's fine. She's just a little drained from, you know, everything."
Elena sighed. "Can't really blame her."
"Yeah." Caroline replied looking forward to see that the smaller Gilbert was standing there with a cheerleading flyer in her hand. "What you got there?" She questioned looking directly at Grace as she extended the flyer out for her to read. "Oh, yeah. We're cheering in this today, right Elena?" She looked at her friend who just nodded, obviously she was trying to get Elena back to normal again and this was one of her attempts.
"Well, I would love to be there to cheer you on, no pun intended." She smirked a little and the blonde nodded her head as she folded the flyer in half and began to write all the details down onto it. "Great. Thanks, Care. Good luck and everything. I mean, it's not like the routines are that hard, but still good luck." She shrugged a little before turning around and walking away leaving the blonde sighing heavily.
Sitting down at his desk Klaus delicately ran his pencil across the page, working on Grace's soft jaw line smiling to himself as he took another sip of his icy bourbon. He was interrupted by a loud knock at the door, letting out a frustrated sound he stood up and made his way to the door opening it to see Damon. "What has she done now?" He questioned shaking his head.
"I'm not here to speak about Grace, for once. I'm here to see you." He walked through to the living room area, without being politely invited in. Klaus scoffed gently, but did notice the rather large wad of paper in his hand. "So I just came up with a list." After the hybrid shut the door he followed the vampire into the parlour room. "It's called 'Things You Suck At'." He announced making Klaus growl again. "Number one: finding Fayth or Katherine. Ever. Number two: covering up your secret phone conversations with that little backstabber Hayley." He waved the transcripts from the phone calls around before slamming them down on the coffee table. "Yeah, so, where is she? What does she know about Fayth?"
The hybrids eye brows rose. "I should help you?" Why would he ever help Damon unless it was something that was going to help with Grace, but even then those favours were slowly running out, he couldn't keep being bent and twisted because of his love and obsession with the vampire.
Crossing his arms over his chest Damon replied. "Mm-hmm."
Klaus was getting angrier as he growled out. "After you killed my brother and impression me in the Gilbert living room?" He reminded him in a low tone taking a threatening step towards him.
"Considering you made Grace turn off her humanity I think we're about even." Damon hissed back out, he would never forgive Klaus for doing that, ever, but what he did need was to speak with Hayley she was his best lead. "You might want to prioritise, Klaus. This is your one chance to do something right." The hybrid stared at him blankly, crossing his arms over his chest allowing him to continue. "Fayth has the cure." Klaus frowned. "My guess is she's gonna want to cram it down your throat. You help me find those two little bitches, I'll get the cure, I'll give it to Grace, everybody wins. Just let me question Hayley about Fayth."
Klaus was willing to take his chances with the cure. "Can't help you, mate. Hayley's off-limits." He wandered off sitting back down on the couch, placing his feet up carelessly on the coffee table. "Although, I did have a run in with a vampire who might know where Fay is." Damon glanced over at him suspiciously. "Too bad for you, I bit halfway through his bloody neck. He probably won't have much time for chit-chat."
Over at the local police station in the sheriff's office Stefan was flipping through a large file whilst Liz was speaking to him. "The entire supply of blood from the hospital, all the reserves, gone, just vanished." She explained in a concerned tone, with no bags for vampires it meant they were going to have to find their meals another way, a more dangerous way.
Frowning a little the younger Salvatore closed the file, glancing up at her. "I don't understand. Are you accusing us?" He questioned, he wasn't threatening or causing a scene he was genuinely confused to why she was telling him this.
"No, I'm not accusing you, but this town is at a tipping point. Any more unexplained house fires, and things are gonna boil over." The sheriff explained in a small voice as the vampire looked down unsure of what to say. "I'm sorry, I know it's not your fault. It's been a rough week." She summarised as she moved around the front of her desk. "Miranda Gilbert was one of my closest friends in high school and Stephanie Johnson lived down the street from me when we were just kids." She shook her head. "To see what's happening to their families – I just..." She was at a loss for words.
"Look, Liz... If there's anything I can do to help, I promise I will." He nodded his head surely.
"Good. You need to." Liz looked at him regaining her professional persona once again trying to put her friend's life behind her. "Whoever stole that blood put a lot of lives in danger and risks exposing all of you, my daughter included." The vampire across from her nodded understandingly. "So, who can you think of who wants blood that bad, who would be so careless?" Many thoughts ran through his mind but stopped on one in particular. She had already been called a Ripper and now she had no humanity she was more that willing to be reckless. Grace.
Back at the high school all the cheerleading teams had turned up for the invitational, Grace smiled looking around at all the new, vervain free, people in town. Taking in all of her surroundings she heard a conversation from beside her. "The uniform still fits." A chipper voice announced, it was Caroline. Glancing over she saw her talking to Elena. "You look fantastic. We are totally gonna kick Grove Hills' ass."
Elena nodded her head spotting her sister walking towards her, hands tucked into the back pockets of her jeans. "Yeah. Should be fun." She cleared her throat before greeting her kindly, it still hurt for the twins to be around each other, but Elena was taking a leaf out of her boyfriends book and making an effort. "You made it." She announced.
"Wouldn't miss it." Grace answered a small smirk on her lips as her ear caught a conversation just going on behind them, a girl from another high school was freaking out because she had left her make-up bag on the bus and obviously needed it desperately, tilting her head to the side she pretended to be listening to Elena and Caroline's conversation about how big the competition had got since it had begun years ago but in reality she was more indulged in where the dirty-blonde haired girl was going as she made her way past her.
"I'm just gonna go freshen up." The small brunette announced before turning around walking from the gym, she watched as the cheerleader rounded a corner heading to the parking lot stepping into the bus that was completely empty. Zipping up behind her the blonde turned back around surprised to see Grace standing there with a sly smirk on her lips. "I like your ribbon."
The girl seemed weirded out by the way Grace was looking at her, almost as if she was a meal and to the vampire she was, a nice juicy vervain free meal. "Um, thanks." She creased her shaped eye brows as she twirled the end of her ponytail around her finger about to step around her.
Grace was sick of all this playing around, she wanted to girls light-blue ribbon as a form of trophy and she wanted it now. "I want it."
An uneasy smile came across the girls lips as she looked back at the vampire before telling her firmly. "Yeah, but I'm using it, so go get your own." She ordered in a bitchy tone before turning around, she didn't expect it when the brunette was suddenly standing there in front of her again and snarled before burying her jaws into her throat.
The dirty blonde was so scared that she was paralysed as she felt her essence being drained from her throat. She whimpered and groaned in pain as the brunette continued, reaching around her head to pull at the end of the ribbon untying it a smirk crossing her lips as she continued to drink until she was satisfied.
Not long later Grace returned to the gym with the ribbon tied around her wrist walking towards the bleachers to sit down but she was sidetracked by her blonde friend who gave her a concerned look. "Hey, where were you? The competition is about to start." She informed her as the brunette just smiled back at her pointing over to her seat about to go to it, but that didn't stop the cheerleader from noticing the blue ribbon that wasn't there before. "What's with the ribbon? That's not even our colours." She told her.
A cute smirk crossed the brunettes blood-red lips as she tightened the ribbon, it was slightly crimsoned coloured at the tip, Caroline cocked an eye brow as she watched one of Grove Hills cheerleaders enter the room again with a scarf around her throat, adjusting it uncomfortably. Her eyes went wide, she remembered the time when Damon had fed on her and to hide the marks he would give her a scarfs to use.
The brunette was already making her way up to her seat at the very top when her wrist was caught by the head cheerleader. "Are you out of your mind?" She hissed at her making a dark look cross her face. "Feeding on the competition." She lowered her voice to a hiss moving closer to her. "Hello. Did you not hear what Klaus told you?" Caroline ordered.
Nodding her head the emotionless vampire answered. "I did, but who cares? I'll do whatever I want, whenever I want because that is what I want." She told her with a smirk when they heard a pair of footsteps approaching them, it was Stefan obviously here to keep an extra eye on her. He crossed his arms over his chest watching them both with a stoic look on his face.
"Everything alright?" He questioned looking between both of the women, both were almost nose-to-nose before the brunette backed off giving him a calm smile to show that nothing was getting to her.
"Everything is perfect." Grace answered with a cheeky smile. "And as soon as everyone backs off and starts letting me have a little fun, everything will be better." She replied sharply before turning around jogging down the bleachers straight out of the gym leaving both Caroline and Stefan looking at each other in shock.
"Remember how you told me that Klaus sired her to behave?" The blonde questioned looking up at him. "It didn't really work."
Damon had followed the lead that the hybrid had informed him about, the vampire that had gone after Hayley and Klaus had taken a chunk out of his throat. He was leaning against an 18 wheeler whilst speaking with his brother on the phone. "What do you mean, she fed? I was there, I heard him tell her not to. Their sire-bond should have made her listen." He growled, he really hated speaking about the bond that was shared by Niklaus and Grace.
"Right. That's what I'm saying." Stefan replied in a soft voice trying to keep his brother calm whilst he searched. "Their sire-bond isn't working."
After everything they had done to try to stop that bond all it took was her turning off her humanity for her to be over it. It couldn't be that easy, he hissed back. "That's not possible." Shaking his head from side-to-side.
Stefan pushed through another set of doors. "Think about it. Grace drunk his blood to gain power and strength but it also increased their bond, well there had to be some kind of feelings there to begin with, to stem that bond further. With her humanity off, she has no feelings. For anyone."
Growling Damon spoke. "All I wanted was to break that damn bond. You're telling me now this whole time all she had to do was turn it off? What happens if she turns it back on?" He questioned looking around the parking lot.
"I don't know, but more importantly, where are you right now?"
"I'm at a truck stop in the boonies looking for a dead vampire that might lead me to Fayth, Katherine and the cure." He turned suddenly when he heard an engine revving creasing his eye brows he added. "Look, just get Klaus to grab her and get her home. I'll be there when I can." He told him before hanging up shoving his phone in his pocket.
He began looking around trying to search for the noise before turning back around surprised to see the blonde Original standing there, hands on her hips looking at him. Damon was shocked he hadn't seen her since the Island where he had left her to deal with Vaughn whilst he was out rescuing Grace and Bonnie.
His eyes went slightly wider. "You." The raven-black haired vampire growled out crossing his arms over his chest. "I thought you were still vacationing on Numbskull Island." He smirked at her.
"Well, I was looking for answers, and all I found was your Professor Shane, dead, and with him, anything anyone knows about the cure." She informed him in a hard voice, his eye brows rose, Shane was dead perhaps that was a plus, but that also meant that Bonnie was in danger of herself.
Smirking he replied. "Guess you won't turn into a real girl after all." He began walking around her to leave her alone and continue his search.
"Oh, I'll get the cure." Her voice was filled with determination as her eyes followed him walking away. "I just need Fayth, and I'm betting you can help me find her." She told him as he slowly turned back to be looking at her asking why he should help her after everything when he saw her reach into her jacket pocket and pull out a vial of blood he was curious. "Because I was smart enough to bring a pinch of my brothers blood. How else would you interrogate a vampire who's practically dead from a wolf bite."
He looked at it for a long couple of seconds before swiping his hand out to snatch it from her but she was much too quick, moving it from his greedy little hands. "Fine." He told her begrudgingly. "Follow me. I might know where to look." The older Salvatore informed her vaguely.
Over at Klaus' mansion the young wolf had finally awoken from her long slumber and he was treating her to a lovely meal, she sat across from him, feet pull up underneath her on the elegant chair, hardly touching her food but she was sipping her wine every now and then. Klaus' voice was completely calm as he announced. "So, you're rested, you're fed. Tell me about Fay or Katerina." He ordered.
Smirking the wolf answered. "Most men get their power kicks from torture and intimidation. With you, it's drinks and fine dining." She shook her head taking another long sip from her delicious deep red wine.
"Well, in your case, I favour hospitality over unpleasantness, but I have been known to change my mind on a whim." The hybrid replied her to her as he moved forward in his chair giving her another look still keeping his voice calm as anything. "Where are Fay and Katerina?"
"You seriously think I know?"
"You tipped them off to what we were up to and set her on a course to find the cure. In return, she sent her lackey to snuff you out. Tell me, what did Fay promise you?" He questioned as she looked at him for a long couple of seconds setting down her glass on the table and leaning forward to talk to him more intimately.
"I was in New Orleans trying to find information about my real parents. Katherine found me and took me to her sister. They both told me that they needed help." She shrugged her shoulders gently.
His eye brow cocked up. "An orphan?" He questioned. "Well, that does explain your charming bravado." A smirk crossed his lips. "Abandonment issues will do it every time." He expected her to shut up from that but she was much quicker witted than he had expected.
"Sounds like you would know."
Klaus smiled widely before leaning forward telling her. "I'm the only one that can protect you. I'm happy to do so, provided you cooperate." She shut up after that, knowing that she needed his help more than anything if she wanted to survive the night, his phone began to buzz on the table, picking it up he glanced down at her. "Excuse me. Like I told you before, I'm facing a slight humanity problem." He answered his phone walking from the room. "What is it you want, Stefan?"
Leaning casually against the wall in the corridor the small brunette watched intensely as people walked past her, trying to get a good whiff of a nice tasting one. When she heard footsteps approaching her she glanced over to see Stefan watching her. "Hey, we need to talk." He informed her.
"So talk." The younger vampire answered as she crossed her arms over her chest.
He moved so that he was leaning with her on the lockers watching as the people walked past her. "Ok. Did you feed on that cheerleader?" He questioned glancing down at her as a sickening smile crept over her lips giving him a vague answer. "I see. You wouldn't happen to know anything about the hospitals missing blood supply, would you?" He quizzed.
A scoff left her throat as she glanced up at him. "Trust me. I'm sick of blood bags. I'd prefer something a little warmer." She informed him with a sly smile her eyes fell back to the mounds of people entering the gym obviously the competition was underway.
"Look, Grace, I know what you're going through." The younger Salvatore informed her as he turned to her. "I was having the time of my life when I first turned, too. I didn't start ripping people's heads off until 1912. The next thing I know, I was killing an entire village." He warned her as the corner of her lip turned up into a knowing smirk.
"Am I supposed to be scared of becoming you?"
"Yeah, you are, because I know how deep down you can fall, and I know how difficult it is to climb back out. C'mon. You're better than this. I know it hurt hear that from Elena, but you can work on this. As much as you fight you're sisters-" She rolled her eyes and turned around beginning to walk back towards the gym, running into Elena on the way.
Sighing the younger vampire told her. "Listen, I don't think that it's a good idea you being in here right now. You should probably head home."
"You should probably stop telling me what to do." The younger twin answered her in a cold voice before trotting up onto the bleachers and taking a seat between a bunch of humans all there to cheer on their family members and friends. The brunette gave them all a cruel smirk as they watched her nervously.
She had made it back to the gym just in time to see the Mystic Falls Lady Timberwolves preform their cheer. Caroline clapped her hands together and bounced on the spot as they all began to cheer in unison, all so happy and preppy, it almost made the brunette sitting in the stands want to barf.
"L-O-L, O-M-G, you're looking at Mystic Falls Varsity! B-E-A-T, beat those Cats." They congregated into a circle about to lift Elena over their heads and spin her but the head cheerleader, Caroline, caught Grace extending her fangs about to take a chunk out of the girls throat sitting beside her. "No!" She screamed making everyone jolt and drop the other Gilbert twin to the floor with a loud thud.
A wide grin spread across her face as she stood up and jogged down to the floor, Elena was laying dazed on the floor trying to find herself, everyone crowding around her to make sure she was alright. Whilst Caroline and Stefan watched the other twin, a daring look was on her face before she exited the room.
Not to long after that the brunette decided it was about time she left, school wasn't very stimulating for her and she figured she would be best spending her time someplace else that would be more enjoyable for her. Pushing through the double doors she existed into the parking lot so engrossed in her texting on her phone she hadn't noticed a lean body standing in front of her blocking her path. "Hey. Watch it." She barked.
As she looked up she saw that it was her Original blocking her path, Niklaus stood there arms crossed over his chest watching her with intense eyes. "Hello, love." He told her as she gave him a firm smile. "I hear that you've been misbehaving quite badly even when I told you quite clearly not to." He added in a hard voice.
"Oh and what you are going to do about it, Niklaus?" She challenged him tilting her head to the side looking up at him. "Bend me over your knee? Punish me?" She quizzed and he cocked an eye brow in amusement as she gave him a coy smile before walking around him about to leave, but he caught up to her with no effort at all.
"As much as we'd both love that. I'm actually here to tell you that I'm impressed." The hybrid informed her and she stopped turning to look at him with a skeptical look in her eyes. "You had us all fooled, myself included. Acting nice to your friends so that you can go 'cheer them on' then fill your boots with vervain-free victims from the competition." He smirked nodding his head. "You played us all very well."
"It wasn't that hard." She answered as she crossed her arms over her chest watching as he pulled his keys out of his pocket leading her towards his jet-black jeep which was obviously there waiting for them. "You want me to be ok so badly that you hear whatever I want you to." She smiled at him.
"Right. Well, you know, the problem with the school and the gymnasium is, too many witnesses." He informed her and she nodded her head. "You gotta go somewhere a little more private for some real fun." He moved towards her looking down at her as she glanced back up at him suspiciously.
"Oh yeah? Where?"
"There are plenty of places that we can go for fun, love." He placed his finger under her chin making her look up into his eyes. "But I suggest this little dive bar off the beaten path." He motioned over to his car for her to get in. "C'mon. Where's your sense of adventure, love?" He smiled at her but she stood there completely still arms crossed over her chest.
"You're bluffing."
"You're forgetting that I was the one that wanted you to be like this, darling." He reminded her and she nodded her head slightly believing him a little more. "And you're forgetting that I know you, Grace, I know what you like, what it takes to show you a good time." He announced and she smirked as she turned back to get into his waiting car, but she felt a sharp stab in her side looking down to see a syringe sticking out of her side. "But first, a bit of vervain, just to take the edge off." He whispered in her ear as she slumped into unconsciousness.
Over at Grove Hill Hospital both the blonde Original and Damon were looking down the hallway suspiciously trying to search for this vampire whom was dying slowly of a werewolf bite, he was working for Fayth and Katherine, he was their only lead to the cure, obviously both had their views on where it should go, Rebekah wanted it for herself and Damon wanted it for Grace, but they could deal with that when they got the cure.
"Why exactly do you think a sick vampire would check into a hospital?" Rebekah questioned looking over at him as they continued to stalk down the hall.
Damon pointed his long finger up. "You see that bright thing in the sky? It's called the sun. He needs to avoid that." She sneered over at him, she hated people patronising her and the older Salvatore seemed to be very good at it. "Plus, the hospitals are open 24/7. Not to mention he's hungry and delusional."
Damon looked over at door that had been left slightly ajar, pushing it open softly he walked in and the blonde followed close behind, it was a dark storage room with a few cabinets placed around and several big coolers pushed to the back wall. Both vampires walked over to it opening the lid and looking inside to see it was completely empty, moving on to the next one he saw that it was the same thing, it was empty.
"Impressive." Rebekah nodded her head as he continued checking the coolers. "You're like Sherlock Holmes with brain damage." She gave him a backhanded compliment, he growled as he finished searching the coolers to see that they were empty.
Groaning loud in frustration. "Stefan said the Mystic Falls Hospital had its entire blood bank raided, too." He sighed as he leaned back against the cooler trying to piece together what was happening, he couldn't keep doing this all day, he had an emotionless vampire girlfriend to deal with back at home.
"It looks like our vampire gets around." Rebekah muttered as she looked inside one of the coolers before letting it drop close, she glanced over to him to see that he was shaking his head.
"No." He replied quickly. "The guy's dying of a werewolf bite. He wouldn't have time to steal from both hospitals. This is someone else." He informed her, the Original glanced over to him asking who. "That's another problem. But on the plus side, if our guy did by chance come here, he's got nothing, which means he's nearby and he's hungry."
He turned on his heel and began walk away but the blonde was in front of him in seconds blocking his path with a hard look other face. "This better not be a wild goose chase." She hissed out at him.
"I want to find those bitches as much as you do." He informed her, they had did him wrong too and he needed that cure that they had stolen along with Jeremy's life.
"Really? Why? I heard your little chat with Stefan. I know Grace has broken the sire-bond. So why would you wanna find the cure? Now you have her for yourself and you know she doesn't want to be human anyway, I know that she doesn't want to be human." She hissed at him. "I think you're best off leaving it for me."
Gasping awake the young brunette looked around completely taken back by what had happened, she growled as she saw Niklaus standing at the foot of the bed sipping tenderly at a glass of bourbon, holding her head she sat upright giving him a hard look. "What'd you do to me?" She hissed.
"I brought you home before you can cause anymore trouble." He answered as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Frowning she replied sharply. "So you're grounding me? For doing something that you've probably done a thousand times over?" She questioned as he explained about the feeding in public, a loud scoff fell from her lips. "So? I was hungry." Standing up she pulled her shirt over her head letting it fall to the floor.
Watching her intently the Original shook his head a small amount of amusement in his voice as he questioned. "You're really gonna keep stripping in front of me? That's real mature." He told her as she smirked dropping her jeans to the floor carelessly, standing in front of him silent, in just her bra and panties. "If you think for a second you can manipulate me with sex-" She trailed her finger tips down his chest. "Grace."
"I'm not trying to manipulate you." She whispered looking up at him with an innocent look on her face. "I'm trying to get dressed." She informed him before brushing past him walking into her closet. "I offered you unlimited, no-strings attached fun, but you vervained me, so now I'm looking to get my kicks from somewhere else.
"You know, I think you're only using your body and sex to try to get me because you're actually scared-"
"I am not scared of anything." She pulled on a short black mini-dress looking at herself in the mirror with a coy smile on her lips. "I've shut it all off - all of it, including my feelings for you and Damon." She picked up her phone off the bed looking down at it to show how uninterested in the conversation she was. "And don't get me wrong. I mean, I see you standing there and you look good. I remember our sex, and it was good sex." She nodded her head making the Original smirk. "I just don't feel anything about it anymore."
The Original watched her as she continued to look down at her phone. "But clearly you do." She continued in a spiteful voice. "Why do you care who I kill?" She hissed looking over at him with a hard look on his face as he took a couple of footsteps towards her but she seemed much more interested in whatever was going on with her phone.
Sighing heavily Klaus replied. "Because it's my fault that you're like this. I should never had set foot into your life to begin with." He tried to get her attention once much, she was beginning to play on his last nerve with the ignoring and texting, she was acting like a real teenager and he couldn't stand it. "Love, I've killed thousands of people and I can deal with that because I have had a thousand years to process everything, but I know that when you flip this switch – which you undoubtably will – that you're going to be devastated."
Smirking she continued looking down at her phone clearly more interested in the conversation she was having on there. "Who are you texting?" He snatched the phone from her hand looking down at her, she watched him with a hard look on her phone before he launched the phone across the room breathing hard he glared down at her.
"Look at you." Her voice was a whisper, even with no humanity she knew that she was treading on very thin ice. "All hot and bothered because of little ol' me." She raked her finger tips down his chest once more, he licked his lips watching her as she leaned up and pressed the most soft kiss to the corner of his mouth. "Now if you'll excuse me." She added before noises began to emit from below them. "I have a party to attend."
Skipping down the stairs lightheartedly she saw all the cheerleaders from the other schools began to flood into the house, carrying large kegs of beer and cranking up the tunes, she glanced over to see her friends standing there with looks of completely shocks on their face as they moved around the party-goers to be standing in front of her.
"What the hell is all this?" Stefan questioned as he pointed around the room. "Did you invite all of these people over here?" He looked down at her intently, Elena watched as the Brit approached her with a frustrated look on his face also.
"You were trying to keep me from joining the party, so... I brought the party here." She announced a wide grin pulling over her face, they all looked at her before she shrugged impishly and walked around them to join the party, grabbing a bottle of booze on the way as she danced with almost everyone.
Caroline watched her crossing her arms over her chest as they continued to watch her. "She's smart. She's basically Dexter, but with razor-sharp fangs and super-strength!" She announced referring to the TV show character whom was a serial killer.
Stefan couldn't help but notice the Original turning around heading for the door that had been left open. "Where are you going?" He called as the Brit turned back to him a stoney look covering his face. "You did this, you fix it."
"I can't fix it and I can't look after her 24/7. I'm not her keeper." Klaus answered with a gravel like voice as they all looked over at him. "You can handle her until Damon gets back from his bloody mission, can't you?" They all looked at each other nervously before nodding gently. "Good. If anything comes up that is life or death then you can call me, but if she is going to keep acting out like a spoilt brat then you can deal with it." He zipped from the room without a second thought leaving them all there looking at each other.
As Klaus walked back into his house he saw that Hayley was standing in the room where he would create and leave his art, surfing through the pictures and paintings with a frown on her face as she continued to sip at her luscious red wine. "Hate that." She threw a picture of Grace to the side. "Too much." She picked up an intricate panting before laying it down and picking up another. "I don't get that."
The hybrid walked further into the room, he had dealt with quite enough of brooding teenagers but Hayley seemed to have a comical side to her. "Hmm..." She picked up another smaller painting. "I don't care." She tossed it away and he just let her smack talk his paintings as if they were nothing. "Hmm. This one." She picked up a very special looking one.
Black and grey trees in the back ground meshed together to reveal two figures standing in the distance one in a cold, coal-black and the other in a pure white, almost like an Angel lighting the way. "It doesn't make me wanna puke." She nodded her head as she ran her fingers over the two people. "Why'd you paint it?"
Looking down at his bourbon down a moment, it swirled it in his glass before replying. "Painting is a metaphor for control. Every choice is mine – the canvas, the colour." He took a couple of slow steps towards her. "As a child, I had neither a sense of the world nor my place in it, but art taught me that one's vision can be achieved with sheer force of will. The same is true of life, provided one refuses to let anything stand in one's way."
As he finished his lovely speech the wolf let out a soft snort making him look at her through hooded eyes, leaning up to whisper in his ear she said. "So this is your thing – show a girl a few mediocre paintings, whine about your childhood, and I swoon and spill all my dirty secrets?" She quizzed.
Smirking he crossed his arms over his chest, not many girls reacted to him this way, Grace resisted for a long time, but in the end the always seemed to swoon at his charms and stories, he was slightly taken back. "I felt I had many charms, but, uh, regardless, I'm enjoying myself."
Running her eyes up and down his body she added. "And you do whatever you enjoy..." She smirked before changing her tone, whenever she thought back to the Tyler and Klaus fight she felt a spark of hate in her stomach. "Up to and including hunting my friend Tyler for the next century."
He gave her a soft look as he answered. "Oh, surely not the next century." He fed her an inkling of hope before dashing it and adding. "Only until I kill him." He walked back over to the small drinks table and began to pour himself another drink.
"You talk a good game, but the truth is you let him go." Hayley announced giving him a challenging look a she continued looking down at his glass. "You know that it will all come back to Grace hating you forever. Caroline and Tyler love each other, you kill him you forfeit Grace choosing your side when Caroline goes crying to her friends about how the heartless hybrid killed her one true love."
Klaus turned to be facing her. "If I simply killed Tyler, my revenge would be over in a moment. Sentencing him to a lifetime of paranoia and fear – that's Tyler's true punishment. But come now." He took another couple of steps towards her. "You never really thought there was a future for you two, did you?"
"I could say the same thing about you and that Grace chick." Hayley shrugged her shoulders earning a dark noise from the hybrid in front of her. "He might have left Caroline for me if I'd used the cure to kill you." She added but this seemed to lighten the Originals mood actually making him laugh genuinely.
"You know, if Tyler has even half your resolve, he may actually make it through the year." He nodded his head.
Sipping her drink she was shaking her head before she corrected him. "It doesn't take resolve. It takes allies, a network of people willing to do anything for you, including chase down loose ends to their death. That's how Fayth and Katherine escaped you all this time." He glanced over at her suspiciously before taking another step.
"Perhaps you know the names of Fay and Katerina's special little helpers." Klaus speculated knowingly as a grin pulled across her face.
"Maybe I know one or two. Maybe I'll even tell you." She knocked back the rest of her crimson red wine earning a soft smile from the hybrid who was standing awfully close.
The sun soon set in the sky but the party at the Salvatore boarding house was still going on, Grace had found her way to be standing on top of a table and dancing with a group of girls whilst swigging down a bottle of Gin. The three other vampires stood in the middle of the room keeping a close eye on her.
"So what do we do?" Elena questioned as she pushed another drunk party-goer out of their way, all of them beginning to get frustrated with the constant thumping of the loud bass and the stench of booze floating around the room.
Shaking his head the older vampire replied. "I don't know. Enjoy the party, keep Grace from butchering Grove Hills' cheerleading squad." He picked up a bottle from the table, taking a long gulp before offering it to his girlfriend and blonde friend, they all continued to watch the brunette laughing and having actual fun with a group of unknown girls.
A soft smile pulled over the older Gilbert's face. "I almost forgot what that looked like." She announced as they both looked down feeling the same as what she was feeling. "This is my fault. I shouldn't have pushed her away. I was just... I was so blinded with anger and... and loss." Her voice broken as her boyfriend rubbed her back lovingly. "I ruined everything."
"No, hey, c'mon." Stefan turned her to be facing him looking directly into her eyes. "Things are bad at the moment, but she will find a reason to turn it back on in the end. Everyone does." He informed her before stroking her cheek gazing deeply into her eyes. "I did. Everyone finds their way back and when they do they're gonna need someone there to attach their emotions to." He paused for a moment. "You're gonna need each other."
She let out a breathy sigh before turning to look back at her sister crossing her arms over her chest. "Doesn't she just make you wanna let go?" Caroline questioned from behind her before grabbing a bottle of liquor. "C'mon!" She grabbed her friends hands and began to dance with her, both of them laughing. "You too mopy!" She grabbed Stefan arm but he just remained still.
"Well, unfortunately I have this little problem... When I, uh, party too hard, I end up killing people." He informed them both as they glanced at each other before smiling wide.
"Well, I'm here to make sure that you keep it under control." Elena answered as she wrapped her arms around his neck placing a tender kiss on his lips to assure him everything was gonna be ok. "Let's take your advice. Have fun, you know? We deserve a little bit of fun." She announced with a cocky grin.
Suddenly Stefan scooped up both Caroline and Elena throwing them over his shoulders making them scream and giggle in delight as he walked them through the party, Grace was still stood atop of the table watching them all with a look which on her face which perplexed most. Shaking her head she shook away the feeling that was creeping up her spine and continued to dance and have fun.
Outside of Grove Hills Hospital the raven black-haired vampire was feeding on one of the nurses whom had just got off of her shift, it was the dead of night so he assumed that no one would see them in this almost empty parking lot, Rebekah stood beside him her arms crossed over her chest as she announced. "Well, nobody could ever mistake you for subtle."
"You have to take pride in your work." He replied a smirk crossing his face before looking down at the caramel-skinned woman. "It's ok." He cooed. "Come here, come here. Now." He began to compel her gazing deeply into her eyes. "I want you to walk very slowly to your car. Off you go." He ushered her to walk across the parking lot.
She began to walk, trying to regain her composer, but tears of fear were welling up in her eyes. Rebekah tilted her head as she watched her. "You know, I just don't see how this increases our odds any."
"I've been on the other side of a wolf bite." Damon replied with a harsh tone to his voice, it brought back awful memories. "First you get really sick. Then you get really hungry. Since the sun's gone down, I'm imagining he's gonna be looking for his last supper. I just laid out a 3-course, 115-pound meal for him." He concluded.
The nurse finally made her way to her car trembling to put her keys in the slot when suddenly she heard a whoosh of air from behind her, turning to see a very sick man standing there, at first she was gonna ask if he was ok, but when he went to attack her she screamed, Damon zipped over in a matter of second and pinned him to a tree away from her about to punch him but saw a face he recognised.
"Damon?" The dark-haired vampire coughed looking at his friend with a fond look on his face.
"Will?" He questioned surprised to see his old friend standing there in front of him, this couldn't be the one suffering from a hybrid bite, he looked at his friend before taking a small step back, giving him a little room to breath, he reeked of death.
His breathing was laboured as he smiled gently. "Hey, buddy." He pulled at the collar of his dress-shirt to show the large, infected bite on his neck. "I think there's something wrong with me. I need help." He whispered and the raven-black haired vampire nodded in understanding, he knew what he had to do.
Sympathetically Damon nodded, he knew what it was like to suffer from a werewolf bite, but he also knew what it was like to lose someone to a werewolf bite, Rose. "Yeah, it's ok. I know what to do." He plunged his hand into his friend chest yanking his heart out, he took note that it was slightly blackened, it must have been from the poison.
"What the bloody hell are you doing?" Rebekah barked as she zipped over to him with a horrified look on her face, that vampire had been the only lead that they had to the Petrova's now he was dead and they were at a dead-end.
"He was too far gone. I put him out of his misery." Damon replied as he dropped the vampires heart to the floor before turning and walking away.
Klaus smirked as he hung up his phone looking over at the young wolf who was gazing into the fireplace whilst sipping down another glass of wine. "My sister informs me that your vampire assailant is dead, so you're safe to go." He informed her before another smirk came across his face. "Or stay."
Hayley took a moment to explore her options. "I could be persuaded to stay, enjoy some of the good life. And maybe I could drum up a few more of the Petrova's secrets and you could do something for me." She concluded with a soft smile.
Smirking Klaus replied. "Oh, I'm sorry, love, but you'll never convince me to let Tyler go free." He informed her.
"Well, then, I guess I'll never get my chance with Tyler anymore than you'll get a shot with Grace." She shrugged her shoulder as he looked down at her for a long couple of seconds before turning about to leave the room when she spoke again. "Do you wanna know why I like that painting?" She motioned over to the canvas of the two people, one dark and one light both surrounded by the deep dark forest.
Turning back to her he answered. "Well, perhaps it was because it allowed you to see into my deep, wounded soul." He shrugged his shoulders glancing over at it.
Hayley took a couple of steps towards him gazing up into his light eyes. "I saw how twisted it really is. How exposed and how you truly feel." The wolf bite her bottom lip gently before adding. "And maybe I can relate."
The Original continued to look at her before giving her an ultimatum. "So what's it gonna be? Going? Or staying?" He questioned looking deeply into her eyes moving so close to her face he could feel her breathing increase.
Licking her lips she replied. "You like to be in control. You tell me." That was it for Klaus, he was in dire need of some comfort and companionship since losing the loving smile of the woman he had been chasing for two years and Hayley seemed to remind him of his brunette all too much, without the wolf teeth and the heart beat.
Softly he brushed his hand over her cheek feeling the heat of her skin against his hand before suddenly grabbing her and pulling her towards him with a great deal of strength making a grin spread across her face. They began to kiss heatedly removing clothes with the flick of a wrist before he shoved her against the coffee table looking down at her.
Back at the boarding house Grace was still up on the high table dancing running her fingers through her thick tresses as she poured alcohol into a human girls mouth giggling as she glanced across to see Elena and Stefan dancing together whilst Caroline was pouring them all drinks.
Cocking an eye brow she jumped down off the table and walked through the heavy crowd with no trouble to be standing there in front of them watching them. "Look who finally joined the party." She announced in a comical voice.
"Yeah." Stefan nodded his head wrapping his arms around his girlfriends waist. "Why? You wanna join our little party over here? Bored of your new friends already?" He teased as she scoffed grabbing a bottle of vodka from the table that had been abandoned. "I wonder what Damon is gonna think about all of this..." He wondered ambiguously.
"My guess is that he wouldn't mind all that much." She shrugged her shoulders gently earning a look from the vampires in front of her. "You all have a good time, alright?" She told them before turning around walking back into the crowd spotting the door opening to reveal the Sheriff walking in looking surprised. "Sheriff." She announced wandering over.
"Grace. What's going on in here?" The Sheriff looked appalled as she looked around at all the cheerleaders drinking and dancing clumsily.
The small brunette gave her a lopsided smile as she shrugged her shoulders carelessly. "Just some underage drinking and drug use." She answered as if it was nothing, Liz's eyes widened at her words as she scanned the room for one of the Salvatore. "If you're looking for Damon, he isn't here and Stefan is too busy grinding up and down against my sister to even care about anything. Is there anything I can help with?" She offered her with a sly, cocky smile.
"I'm shutting this down right now." The Sheriff informed the younger vampire pushing past her, this certainly wasn't the Grace that she remembered from when she was only small, this was a heartless monster. Rolling her eyes the vampire zipped to be standing in front of her trying to stay level-headed. "Grace, move now." She told her.
Before Liz knew it the young girl had snatched her trusty revolver from her hip holster firing into the air three times turning the room around them into sheer chaos, teenagers screaming and running around them in panic, it was a good distraction for Grace to finally get away, dropping the gun to the ground she zipped out the back door.
"Mom!" Caroline ran over to her holding her. "Are you ok? Did she hurt you?" She questioned fear in her eyes, if Grace wanted to kill someone she'd do it straight out and not mess around with guns.
"I'm fine. I'm fine. I just need to get everyone under control." Liz replied as she looked around at all the fearful teenagers who were looking around the room for the gunman. "You need to find Grace." She told the three who just nodded looking at each other nervously.
The three vampires immediately started searching for the reckless young vampire that was running around the forest somewhere. "Grace!" Caroline called a large amount of anger in her voice. "Grace!? Where the hell is she?" She spat looking around trying to use her supernatural-senses to hear where she could be.
"Right where she wants us to be." Stefan trailed behind her holding his girlfriends hand. "This is completely calculated. She drew all those people to the house, waited for an opportunity to distract us, and now she's free." He announced with a frown on his face.
"I can't believe she's doing this. I mean, she could have hurt my mom." Caroline whispered shaking her head, the Grace she knew would never hurt anyone, especially a parent because she even deep down in her emotionless soul knew what it was like to lose someone of such importance.
"Let's just be thankful that she didn't." Elena replied as she followed trying to listen for her sister but she knew how sneaky her sister could be. "We should split up, we might have more chance of finding her if we're looking in separate areas, you know?" They both nodded. "We just have to make sure she doesn't hurt anyone else."
"Alright. That's a good idea." Stefan nodded his head as they all stopped waiting for orders. "Caroline you head back to the house incase she goes there, Elena keep searching the woods and I'll check the road." He told them both as they nodded. "If you see her, don't hesitate. Just snap her neck, got it?"
Back over at the party everything was just beginning to calm down, Sheriff Forbes was doing her rounds whilst speaking with her deputies. Damon and Rebekah walked in through the back door looking around slightly confused before shaking it off. The younger vampire grabbed a bottle of bourbon from a scared teens hand. "Thank you." He continued to walk before looking back at the blonde who was following him. "Will you please just take a hint and leave me alone?"
Rebekah crossed her arms over her chest resisting the need to pout before she replied sharply to him. "What are you hiding?" She questioned. "I know you knew that vampire." She added trying to catch up with him but he turned suddenly.
"I know a lot of dead people."
"You killed him to prevent me from finding Fayth to keep me from getting the cure." She accused a hard look coming over her face, she hated that this cure was in such high demand, all she wanted was to be human, but everyone else had a use for it.
"Do you really want the cure?" Damon quizzed looking at her confused, he didn't understand why anyone would want to be human especially someone as powerful as the blonde Original. "I mean really?" She didn't respond. "Look. Let me give you a little advice." He continued to lead her through the party that had died down he pointed towards a small group of teenage girls that were sitting together drinking and smiling trying to get over what had happened. "See these girls? They look happy, now. In five years, they're gonna settle for a mediocre start-husband and a mind-numbing career, and about that time, they're gonna realise something you're never gonna have to learn."
Crossing her arms over her chest Rebekah replied. "And what would that be?"
"Life sucks when you're ordinary." Damon replied quickly narrowing his icy-blue orbs as she continued to listen to him. "And what makes you exactly not like them? You're a vampire." He lowered his voice. "You take that cure, become human, well, you're no one, nothing. Trust me. Losing this cure is the best damn thing that ever happened to you."
He turned around leaving the blonde looking there troubled and torn by what the younger vampire had told her, he continued walking until he was sidetracked by Sheriff Forbes. "Damon, you have to get Grace under control. She can't keep doing things like this." She motioned to around the room, he creased his eye brows. "Get her to calm down or I'll be forced to take action."
"Take action?" Damon looked at her and the Sheriff nodded once more. "C'mon, she's a teenage girl, I can look after her." His phone buzzed in his pocket, reaching inside and dragging it out he saw he had a message from Stefan, it read: 'Grace's AWOL. Need help.' His eyes widened. "I'll deal with this Liz. She won't cause anymore trouble."
Over at the Mikaelson mansion in the master bedroom Hayley was sitting on the edge of the comfortable king sized bed fastening her bra making sure it was on right. "Running away, little wolf?" His deep grumble came from behind her on the bed, she only smiled continuing to leave until she felt his warm hand on her shoulder to see the odd-shaped birthmark there. "What?"
"That mark." Klaus muttered inspecting it closer. "I've seen it before." He informed her a heavy frown on his face,s he nodded her head explaining it was just a birthmark before rolling her eyes. "In my considerable lifetime, I've only seen that mark on a handful of others, all from the same bloodline – a werewolf clan that once thrived throughout much of what we now call Louisiana." He told her.
Hayley felt her stomach clench as she stood up to face him an overly serious look on her face. "Don't lie to me – not about this."
"I wouldn't dare." Klaus replied shaking his head as he sat up straight. "Matters of family are sacred." He added as she leaned forward wanting to know more, but they were interrupted by voice from the doorway.
"Well, isn't this a surprised." Her emotionless voice was right there, Klaus glanced over to see the small brunette standing there, arms crossed over her chest. "I came over to see if you wanted to seek my forgiveness for what you did and said earlier but I see that you found comfort with someone else." She smirked looking over to Hayley.
"Grace, love-" He tried as he stood up a thin white sheet draped around his waist as he took a step towards her.
Scoffing loud she shrugged. "You know, Niklaus, it's interesting that you picked the she-wolf." She nodded over towards the other brunette. "I mean, it's eery the resemblance she holds to me, don't you think?" He remained quiet. "Does she feel like me too?" She looked up at him. "Does she smell like me? All sweet and cinnamon?" Still he never said a word. "Does she taste like me?"
Klaus stuttered to speak. "D-Darling..."
"Well I hope that you had fun, he is rather good in the sack, isn't he." Grace turned looking over at Hayley who remained quiet with a hard look on her face. "But if you think that he chose you for any other reason than that you're brunette and petite, then you're just fooling yourself." She told her before turning around about to leave the room, but Hayley spoke up which made her stop.
"You can't have everything." She told her firmly a dark look in her eyes, Niklaus took a step towards Grace whom growled and turned around. "You shouldn't be allowed to have everything and play two people against one another." Hayley hissed at her before suddenly the other brunette went hurdling towards her slamming her back against the wall looking darkly into her eyes as she clenched her hand around the wolf's throat.
"You really picked the worst time to insult me, wolf." Grace hissed as she tightened her grip making her choke. "And if you're dense enough to think that I chose this life then you're wrong." She launched her across the room stalking towards her when suddenly the Original moved to be blocking her path. "You've got to be kidding me." She hissed before rolling her eyes he was just staring down at her. "She isn't worth it anyway." She hissed before turning and walking towards the door a smile creeping across her face. "Have fun with your, wolf." She announced before zipping from the room.
Elena continued to search the woods calling out for her sister again and again. "Grace? Grace!?" She hollered. "Listen, we're not mad, we want to help you! Please let us help you!" There was a rustling behind her, she turned quickly her eyes turning wide. "Grace? Is that you?" She questioned when a figured walked through the brush an emotionless look on her face. "Thank God. We've been looking for you everywhere."
"Well, you found me." She replied in a soft voice as she looked at her sister. "You know this is the first time we've spoken and haven't been trying to kill each other?" She nodded her head as she leaned back against the thick tree. "I mean, it's not like you don't deserve it, you are the main reason I'm like this." She motioned to herself. "But I'm not going to fight with you Elena, that's too easy."
"Don't be like this?"
"Like what? Brutally honest?" She tilted her head to the side. "No, hurting you physically would be too easy, seeing the pain in your eyes when you know that I'm actually right is all that I need, sister." She informed her licking her lips slowly as she watched her taller sister take a step back. "Why are you even here? To come find me? Save me from myself? Get rid of the guilt inside of you?"
"Stop."
"Or what? What are you going to do, Elena?" She questioned a hard tone to her voice when suddenly her sister launched herself at her slamming her back against a tree, Grace growled and spun her around throwing her to the floor carelessly growling at her. "Oh, so this is how it's gonna be?" She questioned as Elena launched herself at her again engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
They were both standing facing each other growling deeply in their chests, raising hard as they breathed out. "Alaric didn't train you. You're not gonna win this, Grace." Elena threatened trying to keep her voice tough.
"True. Alaric didn't train me, but Klaus didn't train you." She zipped her across the small clearing hitting a tree hard, Elena was dazed for a second and when she looked up she saw Grace standing there with a stake, she raised it above her head when suddenly someone tackled her to the ground into the wet leaves and a loud thud. "Hey! Let go!" She ordered looking up surprised to see Damon straddling her waist pinning her to the ground.
"I admit, under any other circumstances, this would be a major turn-on." He growled down at her continuing to keep her still. "Stefan, take Elena and go. I'll take care of Grace." He told him as she struggled under him, snarling and snapping her jaws threateningly.
A little while later at the Salvatore boarding house Stefan was leading his girlfriend back into the house as they saw that Caroline was sitting in front of the fire speaking on her phone to Tyler, they both frowned as they listened. "Hey, Tyler. It's me. You'll never believe the crazy day I've had. Look, I know that you said you wouldn't, but I really wish that you would answer. It'd be great to talk to you." She finished before hanging up, her phone suddenly started vibrated.
Excitedly she looked down at her phone to see that she had a message from her only remaining human friend, Matt, frowning she clicked it open and it read: 'Meet me at Tyler's house'. Disappointment hit her as she stood up surprised to see Elena and Stefan standing there behind her. "Oh, I was just heading out... Did you find-"
"Yeah, we did." Stefan answered as he rubbed Elena's arm gently, the blonde took the hint that they needed some privacy, giving them a curt nod she skirted around them walking through the front door shutting it behind her. "How about you?" The younger Salvatore glanced over to his girlfriend who had taken a seat in front of the fire. "Elena? Are you alright?"
"You mean besides the fact that my sister tried to kill me?" Elena whispered as she felt her boyfriend join her placing his arm around her as she felt tears trickle down her cheek. "I'm not sure what hurt more. Her words, or her actions." She whispered as he pulled her closer to him, making her sit on his lap as she sobbed.
"Look, it's not her. You have to remember that. With her emotions off, she's the worst version of herself. She doesn't have a that little voice which tells her something is wrong. I know it's hard to understand and I'm not saying what she did was right, but-"
"I get it. I deserve it after everything I've done. I mean, this is my fault." She let more tears pour down her cheeks, Stefan went to give her more comforting words, but she shook her head to stop him. "So how do we get her back? Or what if we can't? Why would she chose to turn her emotions back on? To come back to a life like this?" She whispered shaking her head.
"Grace always had this unique ability to see the good in anyone, now I'm not sure whether that had something to do with her mind-reading or it was just who she was as a person, but she was good at it." Stefan informed her and Elena laughed gently in remembrance. "So now, I think that means that we can't give up on her either. No mater how hard it gets." He whispered and she kissed his lips sealing the deal.
Upstairs Damon was rifling through a small wooden chest filled with sentimental pieces of papers and photographs as his girlfriend sat there on the bed behind him letting out a heavy sigh she questioned. "How much longer am I supposed to sit here?" She crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well, I'm not big on goal-setting, but let's just imagine a time when you don't wanna kill your sister." He replied sharply as he continued to search for something in his box as he heard a loud scoff from behind him, glancing over his shoulder quickly he just continued to explore his old chest.
"Are you judging me? Please. How many times have you tried to kill Stefan? Isn't that like Sunday brunch for you two?" She narrowed her eyes as he glanced at her over his shoulder a soft smirk on his lips. "What is that?" She took a couple of steps towards him looking down into the box.
"One of life's many mysteries." He smirked as he looked down at a picture of him and the dying vampire he had put out of his misery only a couple of hours ago. "Grace, look-"
"Don't." She hissed as she turned back around sitting on the bed resisting to pout. "Every time someone starts with 'Grace,' I get some stupid lecture. Everyone just needs to stop telling me that I need to feel. I do feel, Damon. I feel amazing." She told him looking up at him with those same sparkling eyes he fell in love with long ago.
"You don't want to be like this."
"Then how should I be?" She questioned shaking her head. "Should I go back to being the scared little girl who hid behind you and cried? Or should I stay this new, strong woman?" She questioned standing up looking at him licking her lips once more. "For the longest time we've struggled with just begin us because something was always in the way. But it doesn't matter anymore, because I don't care." She ran her hand down his firm chest grabbing his v-neck shirt and pulling her closer to him. "This is what we've always wanted. You like me better like this. Admit it."
Pulling up outside of the Lockwood mansion, the blonde vampire climbed out and walked up the porch opening the large front door, she went to walk inside, but was stopped by a barrier, frowning she called out. "Matt?"
"Care?" He replied as he walked down the hall holding a single piece of paper in his hand before looking up at his friend, she asked him why she couldn't enter and he replied simply. "Come in." She walked in slowly surprised to see that the Donovan had control on whom could come in and out of the Lockwood mansion. "Tyler sent me this package in the mail." He extended the piece of paper in his hand towards her. "This is for you."
Timidly the blonde reached out taking the sheet of paper looking down to see her boyfriends messy handwriting scribbled on it. It read: 'Dear Care, I miss you more than I can put into words, but I know as long as Klaus is alive, I can't come home. He won't stop trying to kill me, and you won't stop trying to protect me. Which means the only way to make sure you're safe is for me to go and never come back. I left Matt the deed to the house. It will protect you in ways I can't anymore. I will always love you.' She felt her heart stuttered as she finished reading, turning it over to see if anything else was written, there wasn't.
"He's not coming back." She whispered as tears began to fall down her cheeks, Matt was quick to embrace her kindly holding her whilst she poured her heart out.
Back at the boarding house Stefan tucked his girlfriend into bed stroking her hair softly as his phone began to vibrate on the desk, zipping over he glanced at the caller ID before answering. "Sheriff Forbes. Everything ok?" He questioned.
"No. we have a bigger problem."
The older Salvatore was driving whilst his girlfriend was powdering his neck with butterfly kisses, he smirked as he stroked her hair loving. "If you're not careful I'm going to crash." He muttered not really caring it was just nice to have her back with him again, his phone was vibrating on the dash, she leaned over and handed it to him. "Hey."
"Where the hell are you?" His younger brother hissed out at him.
"Out for a drive. I needed some space. It's not me, it's you." He listened some reasons as he girlfriend smirked from across the car crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, we got a little problem. You said blood was stolen from Grove Hills Hospital? The sheriff said there's been reports of six other blood bank thefts within 30 miles of Mystic Falls. Somebody's stockpiling blood. It wasn't Grace, and it's not us." Stefan announced as the raven-black haired vampire looked over at his girlfriend who shrugged.
"Ok, so..."
"I think Silas followed us back from that Island. He hasn't fed in 2,000 years, so he would need to gorge on blood. It explains the thefts." He concluded as he leaned against the door frame.
"You know, I'm really not in the mood to Scooby-Doo our way through the case of the stolen blood supply, so why don't you hold the fort down until I get back, and I'll be in touch, brother." He hung up throwing his phone into his girlfriends lap who just smiled back at him.
"He's gonna hate you for that." She muttered as she scrolled through his phone not really caring about his privacy and it wasn't as if he was hiding something anyway. He only shrugged his shoulders telling her that emotions were useless which she couldn't help but agree. "So where are we going?" She questioned.
Reaching up into the sun visor he pulled out the picture of himself and the vampire that had been killed by a werewolf bite. "A little while ago I promise to show you the world, Gilbert. I'm gonna start with the city that never sleeps." He informed her as her eyes lit up in excitement and surprise. "New York."
A/N
So here we go, I'm so sorry it took so long, I really don't like making you wake, but you know how life can be sometimes, it can take over, but I am beginning to get back on track with writing.
I hope you liked this chapter and I hope you don't hate Grace with no humanity, I tried to make her as fun and likeable as possible but she has to have a sense of carelessness and threat to her to make her different from original Grace. So Drace are going to New York, it's nice to see them going on a road trip again, oh and let's not forget the Hayley and Grace fight as well
How do you think everything is dealing with this new Grace? How do you like this new Grace? I know a few of you were looking forward to it and looking forward to a Grelena fight, so what did you think of that? Tell me in a review, I'm always eager to read what you think.
If you wanna check out my tumblr for updates, sneak previews, pictures of Klace/Drace, other things I put up there, or to ask me any questions that you have then go to proud-salvatore . tumblr . com
Oh another note, I have uploaded a new story named A Light in the Dark, feel free to check it out, it's a Klaus/OC which I know a lot of you have been asking for, so I finally uploaded the first chapter and I'm going to update again soon hopefully :)
Answers and responses below :)
ChristianAguileraFan – Thank you so much, that is a really lovely thing for you to say, here's an update, I hope you enjoy :)
Nicole – I agree with you, I think it's the same for everyone, Drace are pure and light but there is always that dark little bit of love for Klace too :') I'm working on the Brace, Koace, Grayler and Gilbovan pictures of polyvore. Also there was a Grelena fight, so I hope that you enjoyed this chapter #Drace road trip!
Selinacoral – I hope this was epic enough for you :)
mfmxxx – I think the fight was Grace putting Elena in her place, it really showed them who was boss and what they were willing to do and there will most probably be a Grebekah friendship growling soon
Ghostwriter – Wow, had to read it in three chunks? That's amazing :') This is a long story I'm pleasantly surprised :)
melissa2005 – Trust me, I don't want her to hurt her friends anymore than you do, if I can find a way around it I will, it doesn't seem far for the girl to have anymore guilt on her conscience
kitskat – Bitch did some real damage to Elena :) I hope you did like her without her emotions, she had some good one liners which I was quite proud of :') I'm going to try to keep her from hurting Klaus and Damon as little as possible, but she has no humanity so she doesn't really care for anyone else's feelings :)
Guest 5 – I have an idea what I am going to do with Grace turning her humanity back on, so I guess you'll just have to wait and see ;)
Jane R. Doe – Thank you ;)
i3elijah – I think having everyone shouting at Elena for Grace turning her emotions off would just push her to turn her emotions off and no one wants that, but we did get to see Grace let her hair down and have some fun finally, it's been much needed
PattyFleur87 – I'm glad you liked it :) And by the end of this season we will have Grace's final decision on Damon and Klaus, finally ;)
Mia Salvatore – Aww thank you :') I'm glad that you liked it and the Drace and Klace scenes, it was a little different this time for Klaus being there for her just because he was a little busy with Hayley and there was a small Grelena fight where Elena got her ass kicked :') xx
Vampirefan10 – Thank you so much, that's really sweet of you to say :) Elena did get her ass kicked :')
ddluzelle – I'm really glad that you liked this chapter, that's very sweet of you :)
Thenchick – Team Grace! Woo! :') I don't blame Bonnie for what happened to Jeremy, he wanted to help get the cure for his sister and anyone else who wanted it, what happened to him was just really unfortunate
DevilInWhite – No, no only one of them turned it off, only Grace :) Elena is choosing to deal with it with the help of Stefan but Grace's turning it off was invoked by the sire-bond :) I hope that clears things up for you
Emily3 – Glad you liked the chapter :)
winxgirl1997 – Here's an update :)
xxxRena – I feel bad for Gracie too, but she looks like she's dealing with it just fine and don't worry she punched Elena for you ;) I think she beginning to see the error of her ways now that she's beginning to deal with everything, I would loved to have found another way or leave out the Hayley/Klaus part but it was kinda part of the Grace thing.
Nicole – Those are some really good ideas, to have Klace having the baby and maybe I'll make another story around that because I like the idea of a pregnancy being developed around these two people who aren't meant to work, but could easily be a fairytale couple, but for this story it's a Damon/OC, so it's not gonna happen this time :) xxx
Nymartian – She did indeed turn her emotions off, I think she's gonna be more witty and probably more bitchy than Elena was, sure :) I hope you enjoyed this chapter :)
Tvdlover87654 – Really? You were crying? That's really sweet :') I'm kinda glad that my story had turn peoples emotions like that and I'm glad that my descriptions are getting better
susl – There was a little of Klace in this chapter, so I hope that you enjoyed that :)
Guest – I hope you enjoyed this chapter :)
Whitttyyy76 – That is a thought and she kinda almost did kill Elena, but Damon stepped in being the knight in shining armour :) I'm glad that you found her reasons for turning it off to be justifiable, you seem to be very understanding when it comes to Grace :') Drace is life, I like that, it's really sweet :)
SomebodyWhoCares – Well here it is :)
grapejuice101 – I hope this was intense enough :)
David Fishwick – I don't think Grace is that dangerous, I mean she can be handled because she's young so that's good, he did tell her to turn it off as a way of helping her despite what other people think he just didn't want her to suffer :) Elena does she have her humanity, she just knows she can't be that kind of girl anymore, her life has changed and she has to change with it and Elena blamed Grace because she had to find some to blame to make herself feel better, it was the way she dealt with it.
jmllei – Haha, well there was a Grace and Elena fight so I hope you enjoyed that :)
Graciiee