Twisted Love
Season Five
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the vampire diaries characters or story lines, I only own Grace.
Damon watched from where he was laying on the bed under the silk covers as his little brunette sat on her laptop across the room, the warm Italian air blowing in through the door in the corner of the room and the sun beaming in through the bay windows. The older vampire crawled across the bed and picked up the bottle of champagne from within the ice bucket and watched her type quickly.
"Will you hurry up with your email to Bonnie the Teenage Witch?" He quizzed in a gruff voice pouring the icy champagne into a flute and sipping it tenderly. "This is our last day before we have to catch a flight back to Vampire Central and you run off to college." He reminded her as she sighed stopping her typing for moment. "And I intend to spend every moment between your lovely thighs if you'll come back over here and join me." He purred making her shiver.
She giggled a little. "Alright, alright, but can't we go for one last walk in the sunset? Please." She turned around in her chair with that doe-eyed look on her face which he couldn't resist. "I'm really gonna miss our little get-away when we get back to Vampire Central." She joked waiting for him to decide.
"Fine." He replied standing up from the bed completely stark naked placing the champagne flute down on the bed side table. "But I'm eating you for dinner tonight in that case." He warned her pointing his finger at her as she giggled biting her bottom lip, wandering over to her he leaned down and pressed a lovingly, soft kiss to her lips. "I love you." He purred romantically.
"I love you, too." She answered before standing up from where she was sat, already dressed in a black bikini she threw a thin button-down white linen shirt over herself and waited for him to throw on a pair of shorts. "Tick, tock." She called teasingly as he zipped around the corner, pressing her against the wall before kissing her deeply. "Mmm." She moaned as he pulled away. "That champagne tastes delicious."
They walked from their villa out onto the white sandy beach, it was basically empty apart from couples who had gone out to enjoy the sun setting beneath the waterline, she took his hand and looked up at him as he watched the sun, his icy-blue eyes were sparkling beautifully before they darted down to look at her. "You're gonna miss it." He informed her.
"I don't care." She replied before leaning up and pressing a soft kiss on his lips. "I really don't care." She added cupping his cheek and then kissing him again, he smiled wrapping his arms around her waist deepening the kiss as the heat from the sun beat down on them slowly faded into the distance.
Parting from her lips slowly he took her hand and then began to stroll down the beach, the waves gently lapping at their feet as they spoke about going back to Mystic Falls, seeing their family and friends again, having a long distance relationship, what college would be like for her, where Fayth had got off to after they had force-fed her the cure.
"Well, she's a human now, pathetic and weak, I don't think she's gonna be coming back to Mystic Falls anytime soon, she won't if she knows what's good for her." The brunette growled out threateningly, she had tried to steal her life once again and this time she wasn't going to let it slip like it was nothing.
Damon chuckled from where he was walking beside her. "God, when you say threats like that I get shivers." He joked as she looked up at him telling him that she was serious. "Oh, sweetheart, I never doubted that you weren't, I just love it when you get all territorial and protective." He smirked as she giggled shrugging her shoulders.
"I wish we could stay here forever." She whispered stopping and looking out over the sea the water rising to her ankles now as she looked out there, only the tip of the sun could be seen and the sky was a blood red colour. Feeling a pair of arms wrap around her his lips touched lightly at her throat, this time she knew he was looking at her instead of it being the other way around. "I mean, I know we have an eternity and we can live wherever we want, but look at our life..." She mused. "It's a series of events that just keep throwing crap at us to see how much it will take for us to break."
The older vampire sighed as he replied. "I know." He nodded resting his stubbled chin on her shoulder, she noticed how he had let his beard grow out a little since they had been away and she loved the gruff feel of it against her skin. "But there is something about Mystic Falls that always drags us back, every time." He added as she nodded her head this time, he was right it was their hometown, they were programmed to head there in case of emergencies. "Nothing is too hard as long as I'm with you." He told her kissing just below her earlobe.
Suddenly they burst through the door to their villa attached at the mouth, moaning and ripping at each others clothes in sheer need. She pulled away denying every kiss he tried to take, slamming her back against the wall leaving a body shaped dent in the plaster she giggled looking up into his smouldering orbs.
Growling Damon flashed her his fangs leaning down to whisper in her ear. "You better run." With that she bit her bottom lip, escaped from his grip and flashed through the villa with intent, finding a place to hide. "Oh, Gracie." He purred as she moved further into the closest hiding amongst the clothes trying to stop her heavy panting. "When I find you I am going to tie you to the bed." She wasn't sure if it was a threat or a promise, but she liked it.
The older vampire listened closely when he heard small intakes of breath coming from the closet, stalking over there light on his feet he opened the door and heard a soft gasp, searching through the clothes he found her standing there looking up at him with bright chocolate-brown orbs. Grabbing her waist he through her over his shoulder heading for the bedroom with a smirk on his lips.
It was way past midnight as the younger vampire was awake staring up at the ceiling, looking over at Damon he was sleep on his chest with his face buried into a pillow, smiling to herself she pressed a small kiss on his temple before wandering over to her laptop which was ajar on the desk opposite the bed.
Sitting down on the cold wooden chair she pulled her legs up into her legs and opened her mail, she had a couple of messages from people back at home Bonnie, Caroline, Elena, Jeremy and even Matt, some crappy junk mail with offers for things she could buy, college emails but none from what she was expecting.
Sighing she tapped on the new email icon and typed in the email address she wanted before taking a second thinking what she could say to him.
Hi Nik,
It's been a while since you've got back to me and I know you're probably just busy laying down the law in New Orleans but I do worry about you and I want to know that we're still gonna remain close. The last time I emailed you I was Spain, Madrid to be exact and I had a great time but now Damon and I are visiting Italy and it's stunning. I'm having such a great time exploring all the different cultures I feel like I could just live out here under the sun forever, but I know I'm going to have to come back to reality at some point.
Everything seems quiet back in MF which I'm actually surprised about, haha. It almost seems like we can't go one day without someone being killed or having their heart ripped out, maybe now you've finally moved on we can give the town some of the rest they so dearly deserve. I'm joking, of course, although you did make the town a little nervous.
Do you know what I'm really nervous about? Starting college! Having to live in dorms and use communal showers. Whitmore College is two hours away from MF so it's going to be a little strange living there full time. I don't know how I'm going to be able to deal with being away from my home but I'm sure I'll learn to cope, after all I'll have Caroline, Bonnie and Elena with me. The four of us managed to get double rooms next to each other (with the help of our handy compulsion, of course). Bonnie emailed me and told me that she would be bunking me with, so I'm am totally excited about that.
I'll let you go now because I'm probably pulling you away from something major going on in you Kingdom, but I just wanted to give you an update on what's happening back here. This almost feels like a diary of my life that I'm sending you, but I just want us to keep in touch even after everything that had happened. Is that weird? I'm not sure, haha. If you want me to stop these messages, just say. I don't want things to be awkward between us.
Love, Grace
She hesitated before hitting the send button, watching as the icon fully loaded to tell her the message had been sent, sighing she sat down the laptop on the side pulling her ear phones into the side and listening to some music whilst she responded to some other emails, she was surprised when she felt a light tap on her shoulder, yanking her earbuds out and looking.
"It's late." He informed her with a soft smile on his lips a deep grog to his voice. "I don't like waking up and finding that you're not there." He took her hand and carefully shut her laptop. "You can talk to your friends tomorrow. Tonight you're going to be snuggled up with me because we have to catch a flight tomorrow." He informed her leading her back to their warm bed. "A nine hour flight." The older Salvatore collapsed on the bed.
The flight was just as long as he had promised and both were very happy when they finally reached American soil again. They went to reclaim their baggage and then began their car ride home. She had fallen asleep in the passenger seat with her head resting on his lap as he stroked her hair romantically continuing the drive for them.
When they finally arrived back at the Salvatore Boarding house it seemed amazing to be there once again. He grabbed their bags and they walked into the house to feel an empty feeling. Looking around they called out for anyone but no one seemed to appear from anywhere, Damon soon found a hand written note attached to the fireplace.
His girlfriend wandered in the room asking what it said. "Says that they have gone out for burgers, they'll be back soon..." He read before nodding his head. "I keep forgetting the Jeremy the friendly ghost has returned to the land of the living, now they have to feed him again." He scrunched up the note and threw it into the fire. "Guess we have the whole house to ourselves." He teased zipping towards her.
"You are insatiable." She giggled as he attacked her neck with butterfly kisses moving her back to their master bedroom bouncing her on the bed making her giggle with delight as he pounced on her body showering her with all the love and attention that she wanted.
The next morning the couple got up, it was their last full day together before she would be heading off to college. They stayed up in their room until about midday and then the went downstairs to see what was going on. Elena was packing away somethings for when they went to college whilst Jeremy sat there with her both of them talking quietly.
"Grace!" Jeremy announced when he saw her, rising from his seat he crossed the room and hugged her as she laughed. "Wow, you sure got tanned since you've been away." He informed her as she laughed twirling around to show off her full tan. "How was Europe?" Then she went into details about their adventures throughout Europe and both of the other Gilbert's were all to happy to listen, both of them hadn't exactly had the easiest of summers.
After she finished Damon finally wandered over with a glass of blood in his hand asking. "So, tell me, where is my baby brother?" He quizzed as Elena looked up at him with an almost hurt look on her face, standing up she sighed heavily. "What's wrong?" He asked with a concerned tone to her voice.
"I'm... I'm not too sure how to say this, but..." She paused for a moment before saying. "I, uh, I haven't heard from Stefan the entire summer." The couple looked over at her confused and concerned by this news. "When he went to get rid of Silas' body he never returned, I got this voicemail saying that he needed some time and I haven't heard from him since." Grace glanced up at her boyfriend who had a deep look of thought on his face. "I went to Sheriff Forbes and she couldn't track him, it was like he didn't want to be found."
Damon was just listening, that didn't sound like his brother one bit to not want to be found, or to even leave Elena. "I haven't really even been staying here, I've been with Caroline most of the time just in case we hear something from her mom or really anything." She informed them before looking over at Jeremy who gave her a sad smile.
"Stefan's like a homing pigeon, he'll always make his way back here." The older Salvatore offered as his girlfriend continued to watch her sister, was confused about where Stefan could have got to as well, but maybe a little more concerned about why they hadn't been told until now.
"Elena, why didn't you tell us? We were talking back and forth all summer long and you didn't think to mention that Stefan had took off without so much as a goodbye?" Grace asked with soft eyes, she was angry but maybe just disappointed.
The taller Gilbert replied. "I didn't want to ruin your holiday. I knew you were out there having a great time with Stefan and there was nothing that you could have done back here to help us, Caroline, Sheriff Forbes and I were on the case and we didn't find anything, there was no point bothering you with the news and making you worry." She explained as her sister sighed heavily. "Can we just not talk about this?" She asked getting a cold shiver down her spine when she spoke about her lover.
As Elena went into detail about their dorms the smaller brunette looked over at her boyfriend who had a rather confused look on his face, but she let it slide as she looked back at her sister getting engrossed in the conversation, they only had one more day before they were heading to college and she needed be caught up on all the gossip she had missed out on.
A little later on that day the brunette was bathing herself in the extra bubbly and incredibly warm bath as her boyfriend stood at the sink making sure he was clean shaven. The younger vampire was sending a message to her witch friend, she hadn't heard from her in a while and felt that she should be getting in contact with her before they went off to college without her.
Hey Bon,
It's crazy that the summer is already over and I feel like I have accomplished absolutely nothing. I guess that's what you get when you go on holiday for three months none-stop! It sounds like you're having a load of fun too with your mom, I'm really happy for you, Bon. Elena told me today that you're not gonna be coming to college with us, I don't know what to say, why did you tell me? Phone me? Anything.
I don't know how I'm gonna be able to cope without having you as my roommate now, but if that's what you need to do then I'll support you. We better keep in contact though, you should call me, I feel like I haven't heard your voice in ages, well except your voicemail that seems to work just fine.
Oh, did I tell you? We ran into Matt and Rebekah in Paris, can you say awkward! Haha, but actually it was really sweet to see them both, they were really happy, which I was surprised about and Matt was still very much human you'll be glad to know. They invited us to come with them to Amsterdam, but we were heading to Prague so we declined that offer.
Anyway, I can't wait to see you. When do you get back? Hope to speak to you soon.
Love, Grace.
Over the other side of town in the youngest Gilbert was sat on a park bench texting on a cell phone, suddenly he felt a cold brush from behind him. "Dear Grace." He began to type but a scoff came from behind him, Bonnie's voice telling him not to start with dear, it was too outdated for her obviously. "It's bad enough you're dead – not you're a control freak?"
The witch laughed gently before replying. "I'm just saying, people don't say 'dear' anymore." He glanced up to see the easy smile on her lips as she leaned casually against the park bench.
"Alright, fine." The hunter answered thinking for a moment before adding. "How about, 'Hey, Grace, what's up?" He suggested as she smiled again thanking him, she hated that she had to get Jeremy to do all of her dirty work, but she just wanted ready to tell them all yet, she wasn't even ready to face it herself.
The brunette was surprised when her phone vibrated again, Damon glanced over as she picked it up holding it safely as she nestled herself into the bathtub, she wasn't sure who she wanted to hear from more Klaus or Bonnie, but was more than happy to see that Bonnie was already responding to her.
Hey Grace, what's up?
You guys have no idea how much I miss you. I've been emailing with Jeremy... He saids it's been surreal to be alive. I'm really sorry I didn't tell you that I wouldn't be making it to college, but I've been planning to but never got around to it, I know what you mean by the summer going quickly, it feels like it's gone by in a flash.
If Fayth ingesting the only cure on this earth and having to live as a human isn't justice, I don't know what is. I heard that Katherine has been keeping away, too. I'm not sure if she just doesn't know or she doesn't want to know, but not at least the Petrova's have no one to turn to, isn't that great.
I miss you guys. I'm have a great summer.
Love, Bonnie.
P.S Did Elena tell you about Stefan not being in Mystic Falls all summer? Does seem a little strange to you? Maybe it's just me...
Placing her phone back down on the plat surface she slid down beneath the waterline closing her eyes and just let the water engulf her entire body. Opening her eyes under water she saw a body looming over her, resurfacing she blinked a couple of times before rubbing the water from her eyes. "I'm worried about Stefan. It's not like him to just leave like that." He informed her.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, but it's been a tough year for him. I mean, it took it's tole on everyone seeing all the ghosts from the other side again, maybe this is just his way with coping losing his best friend." She offered as he sat down at the side of the tub, his towel was wrapped around his hips as he pondered over that. "You know how we felt we had to get away, too? Well, Stefan's probably just doing that except he wanted to be on his own for once..."
Damon nodded his head slowly. "Maybe you're right." He muttered. "I just have a bad feeling about all of this. I shouldn't have let him go to deal with Silas on his own, I should have gone with him and spoke to him about everything." He shook his head standing up about to walk away when a wet hand grabbed his, turning back he saw the sweet face of his girlfriend standing in front of him, her body very exposed and dripping with water.
"Stefan is fine." Grace tried to tell him as she cupped his smooth face looking deeply into his eyes. "Stefan is always fine because he's Stefan." She offered with a small smile. "I know you think that he might have gone off the wagon, but he wouldn't have done that, he loves Elena and doesn't want to go down that road again... Alright? Now stop worrying, what you said about him earlier was right, I'm sure he'll be back in town in no time."
Damon scoffed gently. "Yeah and in the meantime I've lost my baby brother and my girlfriend is leaving me, too." He looked over at her as she rolled her eyes wrapping a fluffy white towel around her petite form. "You're trading all of this..." He motioned to the room around him, heated floors, warm crawl foot bathtub (big enough for two), huge king sized bed that they had shared many memories in. "For communal showers and a meal plan." He crinkled his nose as she giggled.
"Can't you just be a normal boyfriend and support me as I attempt to have a normal college experience?" The chocolate-brown haired vampire looked over at him with smoulder rich-brown orbs, he sauntered over to her placing his hands on her hips and leaning down pressing a soft kiss to her lips.
Pulling inches away from her face he growled playfully. "I'd rather ply with champagne and spent the night convincing you to stay..." He replied as she watched his eyes turn demonic and black before his fangs pushed through his gums. "And as you know, sweetheart, I can be very convincing when I want to be." He informed her as she screamed in delight as he grabbed her and bit passionately into her slender throat.
Over at the Forbes house Elena had finally finished helping her blonde friend packing all their things for college, it was the only time she got real peace and time to herself was when she took a shower. Running her fingers through her hair she sniffled as she began to think about her lost lover, she loved Stefan more than life itself and without him she felt so empty and aching.
She let her tears slip into the spray of the water until she felt a cold shiver rush down her spin, looking around suddenly she could have sworn she heard the whisper of her name echoing the bathroom. Opening the shower door she looked around but didn't see anyone and she could actually hear Liz and Caroline muffled voices below her.
Creasing her eye brows she moved back into the shower, the water was so cold against her skin but the tap was on full hot. Switching off the shower she stood there for a couple of seconds before she grabbed her towel. There was a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach telling her something was happening, or had happened. She couldn't quite put her finger on it but it was making her bones wrack with fear.
The next morning in the Salvatore boarding house Elena had come early to make sure that Grace was getting ready and that her brother was going to be okay before she ran off to college, the blonde would be by soon so that they could all ride to Whitmore College together. The taller Gilbert was asking her brother to recite his cover story for when he would return to school whilst their sister stood across the room with a glass on blood in her hands why she was listening.
"There were issues at home." Jeremy began with almost a solemn look on his face. "Ever since I lost my parents, my aunt, I've been acting out... drugs, drinking." He listed off the things that had been true at one point in his life, but not for a long time. "I was looking for attention, so I lit my house on fire and faked my own death." He finished looking at the twins for feedback.
Elena nodded her head before informing him. "Really stress the drug thing." She glanced over her shoulder at the petite girl who stood there sipping her glass of blood tenderly.
Licking her lips Grace added. "Yeah, I'd definitely say that the fire was an accident, because there's crazy, and then there's deal with death by burning down your house and all of your memories inside..." She threw her sister a lopsided smile as Elena gave her a warning look. "And then there's just plain crazy." She pointed to herself shrugging carelessly.
"Or I could just not go back, considering my school already had a memorial for me." The youngest Gilbert suggested as both the girls looked over to him as if they were about to explode but were cut off by a car horn outside of the house.
The older Salvatore wandered into the room nursing a glass of bourbon in his hand as he informed them both. "Caroline just pulled up." Elena then began to freak out slightly, she wasn't sure she was ready to be leaving Mystic Falls by now, especially with Jeremy just going back to school and Stefan not being around.
"I-I can't leave." Elena quickly announced running her fingers through her thick locks as her brother looked over to her. "I should stay here at least until Jeremy settles into school-"
Jeremy stood up and wandered over to his sister placing his hands on her shoulders and telling her firmly. "I will see you on laundry day, alright? Until then I want you to go to Whitmore and have a great time and learn loads." He joked before pulling back and picking up her suitcase for her. "Let's give the lovebirds a minute to say goodbye." He informed Elena before leading her outside. "And if I hear from Stefan, I'll let you know." He nodded at her with a soft smile as she thanked him under her breath.
The petite brunette finished off her glass of blood leisurely before placing it down on the side, she ran her finger over the rim before looking up to see Damon waiting by the shut door with a soft smile on his lips. "So, uh, most of the long distance relationships I've seen have sorta... Well, they ended in disaster-"
"Shut up." Damon laughed wholeheartedly before zipping across the room and planting a loving, welcome kiss on her lips before pulling away and telling her. "All the long distance relationships you've seen have been in those stupid movies you watch." He chuckled as a small smile crept onto her lips. "You're going to college. You're gonna drink cheap beer, refuse to have sex with dumb college guys and protest things you don't care about." He teased as she giggled. "And we will talk everyday and I will make sure everything runs smooth back here at the home fort." He smiled tucking a long lock of her brown hair behind her ear. "I mean, if an immortal hybrid can't split us up then a little distance is going to be a piece of cake!"
She laughed shortly as she cupped his cheeks and told him. "I love you, too, Damon." She raised up onto her tip-toes and pressed a soft kiss to his waiting lips before he picked up her suitcase and carried it outside for her as she picked up box and followed him outside.
It was a long warm two hour drive to Whitmore College, but when they got there for moving in day the campus grounds were crawling with new students and parents all getting their dorms set up for the next couple of years they would be there. The three vampires were winding through the crowd making their way through.
Elena was speaking about the bad feeling and strange voice that she had heard in the shower the night before. "What do you mean you had a bad feeling? Like what?" Caroline quizzed from where she stood beside her.
"I don't know, but it wasn't the first time I'd heard it..." The taller Gilbert shook her head. "I just felt something like a cold shiver and then this voice... It was like saying my name but there was no one there when I checked." She shook her head. "I sound totally crazy, don't I?" She sighed gently. "I shouldn't be here." She could feel her anxiety beginning to crawl up her throat clouding her mind. "I should be back in Mystic Falls waiting for-"
"No." Grace stood in front of her as the blonde stood behind her blocking that way too. "If you finish that sentence with waiting for Stefan then we're going to need to have a serious talk, Elena." She warned her as her sister put her head down. "I know you miss him and I know what he did was a total dick-move, but you haven't heard from him so maybe you should just relax for a little while and enjoy college life until he finally comes to you and gets down on his knees and grovels."
Elena sighed heavily she gripped the washing basket in her hands carefully before looking back up at her sister and replying. "You're right. You're right." She repeated before she turned back to her blonde friend whom continued to lead them through the courtyard towards their building where their dorms were.
"So, Grace..." She blonde began changing the subject to get Elena's mind off of her lover who had vanished. "How's it been spending an entire summer with your epic love without word from the crazy hybrid who almost destroyed your life?" She questioned, it was clear how the blonde felt about Klaus and she had every right, Grace glanced down at her shoes for a moment she hadn't told the others that she had kept in contact with Klaus and she wasn't about to tell them either, it was her business not theirs.
Clearing her throat the girl standing in the middle of them replied. "It's been really good to send some time with Damon, it really feels as if we've reconnected after all this time. Plus, I think we've earned some time to really enjoying each others company, especially after I was such a colossal bitch last year." She laughed gently.
The blonde glanced over at her friend as she responded crudely. "I hope by 'enjoying each others company' you mean spending as much time as you can have wild, passionate, animal-like sex in each room of every villa that you stayed in whilst travelling Europe!" They all laughed making the smaller brunette blush heavily.
They hadn't notice Sheriff Forbes walking past as they were talking. "Hello – mom ears, still here." She informed them with a less than pleased look on her face as she overheard Damon Salvatore's sex adventures with the Gilbert girl.
After a moment of getting over their brief embarrassment they looked around them taking in the beautiful surroundings. They were really there and they were going to give this a real go because they owed it to themselves to want this. "We're in college, guys." Elena announced as they watched over the campus.
"We actually made it." Caroline added with a large grin on her face. "We're here!" She added as glanced down at the smaller Gilbert who had a deep look of thought on her face as she watched the college students. "Jeez, don't think too hard, Grace, you might hurt yourself." She teased as her friend smile.
"Shut up." She laughed jokingly. "I'm just think about what Bonnie is doing whilst we're here. I wish she was with us." The three of them leaned on each other, if they were able to see into the ghost world they would have seen their witch friend looking over them with a sad smile on her lips, she wanted to be be there with them too.
Bonnie watch the three of them embracing and told them. "I am here with you, I always will be." She added with a soft smile as the girls turned around and continued their walk towards the large dorm building.
The girls had decided to get adjoining rooms, Elena and Caroline were sharing one room whilst Grace and Bonnie were supposed to be sharing the other, but now that the witch wasn't supposed to make it the vampire was in a room on her own. The door opened whilst the blonde was unpacking all of her things and in walked Grace holding a small kitchen appliance in her hand and a begrudging look on her face.
Placing the appliance on the chair in the corner of the room the younger vampire told her friend firmly. "Just because you don't have enough room on your crowded kitchen counter doesn't mean your panini press can sneak into my room, Care." She told her as the girl sighed heavily taking the press and placing it on the side moving things over to make room.
Shoes entered the room again and Liz walked into the room this time holding one final box she had got from the car, keeping herself busy had been the only way to stop herself from crying at the thought of her baby leaving the nest. "Okay, that's the last one." She informed them all placing the box on the table. Taking a moment to gather herself she looked back at the three girls who were looking at her, to the Sheriff she still saw them as the little girls who used to come around the house and play Barbie's.
"Alright, give me a goodbye hug before I change my mind and drag you all home with me." The older woman wandered over to her daughter engulfing her in a hug first, holding her so tight and stroking her back trying to hold back the tears that were brewing. "You can call me as much as you want, you know?" She informed her as her voice broke.
Caroline sighed breathlessly. "Mom, we'll be fine." She implored in a tight voice as tears began to brew in her eyes too before pulling away and letting her mother go over to the twins, it was Elena's turn to have a goodbye hug first.
"This is where your dad fell in love with medicine, you know?" Liz informed her as if the Gilbert didn't already know that, but still the taller twin nodded her head. "He would really be proud to see you here." She added as the girl told her a sincere thank you and then the mother caught the smaller Gilbert in a hug also. "You've been through a tough year, but everything that happened has been forgotten, alright?" She pulled back looking at the kind smile on the brunette's face. "Clean slate." Grace thanked her for that, she had already done her share of apologising in the car and was glad that all had been forgotten and they could move on with their lives.
The blonde crossed the room tearfully and took her mother by her shoulders before telling her . "Okay, go! Before I change my mind and make you stay." She joked leading her mother to the door opening it for her as the Sheriff took one more look at the girls with the proudest smile on her face, for her they were getting away from the chaos of Mystic Falls and that was enough for her.
"I love you. Bye, girls." She waved slightly before turning and walking from the room, the girls stood there for a moment before looking at each other, Grace grabbed one final box from them before heading back to finish setting up her room.
Everything was just so perfect. All her books were lined up on the bookshelf neatly and in alphabetical order, next to them were trashy TV box-sets she had gotten for holidays from her friends and family that she watched when she felt like crap and wanted a good sit-com to pick her up. Just across the room opposite her bed there was a desk set up with unused notebooks, fresh pens and her single bed was made just to her liking.
She was having a conversation with Damon on her laptop which was sitting in front of her, he was complaining about the single bed how it would be difficult for them to have a little fun when he came to visit her, but she only laughed. The door knocked and she shut the laptop screen before crossing the room, she expected to see Elena standing there with a box for her but instead she saw someone she didn't know.
A small girl, around her height stood in the doorway holding a box and tugging along a suitcase, she was wearing some fashionable hipster glasses and her hair was to around her shoulders in a strawberry blonde colour. Tucking a lock of hair behind her ear the human told her. "I'm Megan." She held her free hand out for her. "Your roommate." She added with a welcoming grin on her face.
The vampire stood there in shock for the moment, just because Bonnie couldn't make it she didn't imagine they were gonna share out the other bed in her dorm. Recovering from her brief surprise a smile crossed her face as she reached forward and shook the girls hand kindly and replied. "I'm... I'm Grace, do you need any help with that?" She asked moving from the doorway to let the girl passed.
Megan was clumsy, almost dropping the box of what was labelled books and tripping over her ankle boots, steading herself she laughed as she pushed her glasses back up onto the bridge of her nose and dumped her stuff on the bed, Grace carried in another box for her before her eyes darted over to the fridge, it was stocked up with her blood-supply, one look of that would send the human running.
The brunette wandered around the room cracking her knuckles every so often as she watched the girl unpacking her clothes and placing them in the draws next to the bed, clearing her throat she asked casually. "So, uh, you have any friends that go to Whitmore?" The girl looked over her shoulder pushing her glasses up her nose again before replying that she didn't. "Oh, that really sucks... I know it can be hard to get to know people." She felt an awful lot like a mom, Megan smiled before returning to her unpacking asking if she had any friends. "Yeah, actually... My twin is next door with my best friend."
Turning suddenly the human asked. "Twin?"
"Yeah, erm, fraternal twins, uh, means we don't look the same." She explained before laughing nervously, she was never one to spill much information about herself, but if it meant getting Megan out of the room for a moment so she could dispose of her dirty little secrets then she would tell her about them. "Her name is Elena, you'd really like her." She smiled. "You wanna meet her? It can't hurt to have some more friends, right?" She laughed again as Megan stood up nodding her head.
"Sure, I mean, you're right..." She agreed following her new friend from the room, casually Grace knocked the door to her sisters room and Caroline opened up with a wide grin on her face but almost surprised to see her friend standing there with a lost-looking girl in tow. "Gee, I see what you mean by being fraternal, you look nothing alike!" She gushed as the brunette laughed.
Looking over her shoulder Grace explained. "No, no, this is my best friend Caroline." She nodded at the blonde who opened the door a little further to reveal Elena who stood there at her suitcase sorting her clothing out. "That's my twin." She announced as they both walked into the room. "I would like both of you to meet my new roommate Megan." She introduced them. "This is Caroline." She gestured to her blonde friend. "And this is Elena." She gave them both a look telling them to act normal.
"It's nice to meet you both." Megan smiled kindly at them pushing her glasses back up onto the bridge of her nose again, the brunette hadn't worked out if the glasses were something she had to wear because her vision was 100% or if they were a fashion choice, but she didn't have time to dwell on it. After a couple of awkward conversations the human finally said. "You know, I still have a lot of unpacking to do-"
"Actually..." Grace stood up suddenly clearing her throat once again as she tried to think of an excuse to keep the girl from her room. "Erm, actually... I feel really bad that I took up so much room in the fridge." She looked over at Elena and Caroline who immediately detected what was going on. "Why don't you stay here and talk a little more and I'll go clear it out for you-"
Megan laughed gently as she replied. "Oh, you really don't have to do that-"
"No, seriously, I do." Grace responded quickly before nodding at Caroline who was quick to prep herself up in order to get some conversation flowing. "It's no trouble and it'll take me, like, five seconds." She grinned before taking off from the room catching onto the door frame to basically throw herself into the room.
Grabbing her now empty suitcase she began to pack all of her new blood bags away into it making sure they were neat and hoping that they wouldn't go bad now that she didn't have some kind of cooling system on them. Shoving her case under the bed she sat there for a second before blowing her hair from her face and just trying to recover from the terror of the what ifs.
"Is, uh, is everything okay?" A voice came from the doorway as the brunette looked up suddenly to see the new girl standing there with an easy smile on her lips. "Don't feel like you have to rearrange everything just because I'm moving in. This is our room, so we'll split it, right?" She announced as the brunette nodded before standing up, Megan wandered over to the fridge and opened it surprised to see only bottles of water in there. "Don't you eat anything?" She laughed glancing over to the vampire who sat there on the bed. "Please don't tell me you're all America's Next Top Model..."
Grace laughed nervously before replying. "No, trust me I'll eat whatever is given to me. I just haven't had a time to get some food yet." She lied shrugging her shoulders with a soft smile on her lips as the human began to load the fridge with her stuff explaining how the top shelf would be hers and the lower one would belong to Grace that way they could evenly divide their stuff.
The human twirled her thumbs for a couple of seconds before asking innocently. "The housing people did tell you that you were getting a roommate, right? I don't wanna be stepping on anyones toes, or anything." She creased her eye brows as the vampires shook her head rubbing her hands together slowly.
"No, I, uh, I knew I was getting a roommate, but we had arranged it to be my other friend Bonnie." She looked up at her feeling an ache in her chest for the witch. "She couldn't make it this year, which really sucks, but you seem cool so I'm glad you got the room instead of someone else." She smiled over at the light haired girl who smiled back going through her suitcase. "I'm sorry, if I'm acting a little strange." Grace announced. "I'm not usually this weird, I think it's just nerves, or something. I'm not that person, trust me." She laughed gently.
Megan nodded her head before her eyes caught something across the room, a bottle of bourbon, she immediately concluded in her head that she was a pretty hardcore drinker by the way she was acting and speaking. "We all have our problems, right?" She nodded her head slowly. "If you ever need to speak to anyone about it, I'm here." She offered as the brunette creased her eye brows asking what she was talking about. "I noticed, erm, the bottle over there." She nodded in the direction.
The vampire followed her eye line before she saw the bottle of bourbon that was sitting there on her desk, growling under her breath she stood up cursing Damon in her head, it had been a moving-in present from her boyfriend which she had planned on drinking but now with Megan there it looked like that wasn't going to happen. "Oh, that's just my boyfriend playing a joke on me..." She laughed nervously before the human began to ask about him, smiling Grace answered. "His name is Damon, here..." She picked up a photo-frame and handed it to her. "That's me and him in Rome. It was amazing." She gushed in a delicate nostalgic voice.
The new girl looked at the picture, it was beautiful and it really showed off their love for each other, they were at some place she didn't recognise, but the genuine smiles on their face as they smiled at the camera was what made her smile. His shirt was unbuttoned and she was wearing a thin linen shirt informing her they were in a hot place.
"Wow." Megan finally said as she handed the picture back over to her, lovingly Grace placed it on her bedside table again next to her alarm clock. "He looks a little older than you are... Like he's finished college already..." She mushed as the brunette nodded her head, he was a lot older than Grace actually was. "But, still, a total hottie." She laughed along with the vampire who nodded clearly proud of her boyfriend wanting to show him off. "So, it's serious between the two of you?" Grace creased her eye brows. "I don't mean to pry, but I noticed the ring on your finger-"
"Oh, no." The vampire laughed shaking her head. "I'm only 18 and he's... he's 24." She lied once more to the girl who nodded her head. "We're not ready to settle down for real yet, but we do love each other a lot..." She glanced down at the beautiful band on her finger. "This was – this was just a Christmas present from him to me." She explained. "Plus it keeps college Freshman away." She laughed along with the girl.
After a moment of silence between the two the girls got back to what they were doing, Grace opened her laptop and continued to surf the web whilst Megan continued to unpack all of her stuff, it all looked like clutter next to Grace's neat things. Her books were just thrown around, her clothes were folded half-assed, boxes were everywhere, but the vampire let it slide looking down at her screen engrossed in that.
"Aren't you worried?" Megan finally said as she looked up wondering what she was asking about. "I mean, aren't you worried about the whole distance thing?" Grace shrugged her shoulders gently not sure of what to say, of course she was worried. "You're gonna be here for a while and he's gonna be wherever you're from. It's a long time to be away from someone, even if you do love them as much as you seem to love him."
The brunette looked down for a moment, a small frown crossed over her lips. "Dammit." The human hissed. "Jeez, look, I'm sorry. I just... I have a big mouth and I really don't know when to shut it sometimes." She tried to apologise for her queries. "Just... Just forget about it, I'm sure you and Damon are gonna be fine, alright?" She nodded at her but the brunette couldn't get the thought out of her head, for the sake of the humans sanity she smiled up at her nodding her head. "Stupid." She muttered under her breath turning around and beginning to sort through her stuff. "You got a good collection of books here... You're a big reader?"
"Totally..."
Back over in Mystic Falls classes were back in session too, all the high school kids had finally returned to school and were a little surprised to see that Jeremy Gilbert was back and actually alive considering they had all mourned his death. He had decided to keep himself to himself and he wasn't exactly alone, he had Bonnie with him and spent a lot of time with her.
Sitting in an empty class room speaking with the ghost he felt her phone began to vibrate, picking it up off the table he saw he had a message through from Grace, frowning he opened it and read it to his friend. "Grace said, 'SOS, get your ass to Whitmore, Bon. We need you.'" He finished reading making the witch sigh shaking her head.
"Tell her I'm... at the Grand Canyon." The witch created an excuse as the youngest Gilbert began to type back on the phone, he really wasn't happy about all the sneaking around they were doing, but he respected what Bonnie wanted to do.
"You realise you're just postponing the inevitable, right?" He quizzed glancing up at her as she refused to look over at him. "What happens when your dad finds out you've been dead all summer?" He questioned but she didn't want to think about that, she didn't want to have to hurt anyone that's why she wasn't letting people know that she was dead, plus she was so far into the lie it was just getting harder and harder to get out.
The witch sighed as she answered. "How many postcards have I sent him? How many times has he called? I've done enough, he's clearly not missing me." She shrugged her shoulders almost carelessly, Jeremy raised his eye brows quickly before asking about her friends. "I just saw them at Whitmore. They all seemed genuinely happy. I am not taking that away from them." She paused for a moment before reaching over and rested her icy hand on his, but he couldn't feel her soft skin at all, he only saw her hand there. "We're lucky, Jer. How many people die and still get to talk to their best friends?"
His eyes darted down to her hand before back up into her light brown orbs and replying. "How many best friends can't feel each other?" She looked down at his hand this time, she could see the contact being made, but was unable to touch him. Suddenly they were both broke from their moment of silence by the warning bell. Standing up the hunter informed her. "I should get going." He grabbed his bag throwing it over his shoulder. "The freak who faked his own death can't also be late for math."
Over at Whitmore, Grace had finally decided it was time to get in contact with her boyfriend to let him know what was going on with the roommate situation. She was sitting on her bed with her legs pulled into her chest whilst Megan sat at her desk across the room with her headphones in working on something. "What?" The older vampire questioned. "Wait a minute, how'd that happen?"
The only answer she could give him was that there must have been some kind of mix up at the housing office, she heard a soft sigh the other side of the line. "Compulsion – it's the unwanted roommate repellant." He suggested hearing her short laugh on the other end.
"That's exactly what Caroline said." Grace answered shaking her head as the older Salvatore was quick to tell her that she should just compel her to leave. "Damon, what's the point in going to college if we're just gonna recreate what happened in Mystic Falls?" She sighed glancing over at Megan who was so engrossed in her new-looking tablet before her, leaning her head back on the headboard closing her eyes.
Damon smirked a little before answering. "Look at you, giving it the old college try." He teased as she giggled shaking her head and changing the subject to the youngest Gilbert, she asked how he was doing and if he got to school okay, obviously concerned for her family members and wanting to make sure for Elena's sake. "Showered, groomed, even cut the crusts off his PB&J myself." He informed her sarcastically.
"So, what you're saying is that me being here and you being back there... This could actually work?" She mused before hearing the line go silent, creasing her eye brows she pulled the phone away to see that they were still connected in a conversation. "Damon?" She asked as she heard the sound of him clearing his throat.
"Exactly." He replied but to her it didn't sound as if she had his full attention and that made her nervous. "Listen, I got to, uh... go." With that the line went dead, creasing her eye brows she frowned down at her phone before throwing it on the bed softly. Scooting down on the bed she looked up at the ceiling for a couple of minutes listening to the sound of Megan's music playing through her headphones.
At the Salvatore boarding house Damon was staring blankly at a person he never thought he would have the displeasure to see again. Fayth stood there before him looking tattered and torn. Her usual pristine thick and lush hair was now dull and knotted underneath a black hood she was wearing. Her sparkling brown orbs were bloodshot and broken as she stared back at him with a grim look on her face. Her plump glorious lips were dried and chapped. She just looked so human.
"It's been a long summer, Damon." Even her voice was different, it was still it's usual bitchy tone but now it was more reserved and hoarse, like she hadn't had a drink in weeks.
In the town square the Donovan boy had finally returned back from his adventures with the Original girl. He was settling back into town by returning to his job and they had him helping out with the end-of-summer celebration. Pouring another drink for a town member he heard a voice behind him which he recognised all too well. "Five-star restaurants in Paris to tapping kegs in a park." She announced looking around with a teasing look on her face. "Tragic."
Rebekah stood there looking all too glorious in a flowing knee-length white dress, her hair perfectly pinned back off her beautiful face and with that he couldn't resist anymore. Backing her against a large tree they were connected passionately at the lips whilst his hands explored her body. Pulling away for a moment he breathed out. "I thought we said no strings." He announced as she retorted surely that there wasn't. "Weren't you leaving town?" He asked suddenly.
"I thought I'd give you one last chance to come with me." She answered looking into his refreshing light blue eyes with an easy smile on her lips but knowing deep down where he really needed to be. This was his town and this was his life, not with her and her psychotic brothers in New Orleans.
The human chuckled darkly before reminding her. "I have to work. I'm back in the real world now, I need a paycheck." Then he leaned down and pressed another precious kiss to her pouted lips as she tugged her fingers through his spiky blonde locks.
The blonde laughed breathlessly before answering him. "Great, maybe you could replace those earrings that street-rat Nadia stole in Prague." She suggested reminding him of the intimate night they had spent with an extra partner only to wake up to find that some of their jewellery had been stolen for right under their noses.
"Those earrings don't bring you back to life." He deadpanned as she placed another loving kiss on his lips before he continued. "How am I gonna explain to Jeremy she stole his Gilbert ring?" He mushed raising his eye brows and looking down at her as she leant casually against the tree.
"Tell him you had a threesome." She answered easily with a soft smirk on her lips. "He'll understand." She winked jokingly before planting another strong kiss on his lips feeling him smile as she pulled away again. "Don't call." She commanded followed by another short kiss. "Don't write. And whatever you do." One more firm kiss. "Don't you dare miss me." She grinned before slipping from his grip.
She glanced over her shoulder at him as she skipped away swiftly to her new life in New Orleans and he returned to his keg in the tedious town of Mystic Falls, watching her hips sway as she wandered away from him he bit his bottom lip and he returned his attention to the patrons waiting for a drink.
Just across the party Silas had finally arrived to the party looking around, everyone of course saw him as his doppelgänger Stefan, his shadow-self. Moving swiftly through the crowd of towns people he finally saw a face he recognised, Sheriff Forbes. She was sitting at a table by herself eating a plate of food. "Oh my... Stefan?!" She looked up at him surprised before jumping up. "We've been looking for you all summer-"
"Yeah, I needed some time to myself, to, uh, to think things through. I'm sure Elena will understand." He replied shrugging his shoulders as the woman creased her eye brows. "But I'm back now, just don't tell Elena yet, I wanna surprise her." He smiled taking a seat opposite her as she nodded her head slowly, she could sense that something was wrong with him. "So, uh, eating your feelings?" He gestured down to the plate.
Liz laughed gently as she answered. "Yeah... I just dropped the girls off at Whitmore." She informed him shrugging her shoulders and he nodded his head slowly. "Join me as I drown my sorrows in comfort food." She smiled sliding her plate towards him but he reached out and grabbed her empty styrofoam cup flipping the lid off and then taking a small pocket knife from his shirt pocket.
Reaching across casually he took her wrist in the least threatening way possible before placing it over the cup and slicing slowly into the skin there, she was alarmed by what he was doing but couldn't move her hand away. Her eyes were wide as she asked him what he was doing, this wasn't something that Stefan would do. "I'm outing myself as Not-Stefan, obviously." He scoffed before glancing up at her. "Don't be afraid, don't move." Silas' words seemed to have the same affect on her as a vampires compulsion would and like that she was stuck looking at him with terrified eyes. "We've met before, actually. When I was appearing as your daughter, and I bashed your head in? Does that ring any bells?" He asked with a smirk on his lips.
"Silas." She put two and two together.
The handsome man grinned delicately. "Indeed." he nodded his head confirming her guess to be right. "I am a thousand year old immortal that Caroline and her friends thought they got rid of." He announced smirking about the ridiculousness of that in his mind, a bunch of vampire teens thinking he was that easy to be rid of.
The Sheriff narrowed her light-blue eyes as she asked. "Are you... appearing to me as Stefan?"
"Well... yes and no." Silas replied nodding his head carefully watching the blood begin to build up in the cup. "This is my true form and Stefan is my doppelgänger." This surprised the woman. "You're confused." He mused listening to the millions of thoughts racing around her head. "I know that because I can read your thoughts." He told her invasively. "It's understandable, I mean, I've been a little cryptic lately." He shrugged his shoulders.
"What's with the knife?" Her eyes darted down to the weapon in his hand. "Most vampires go straight for the neck." She announced through grit teeth watching as the easy look on his face began to phase into frustration at that thought.
Tucking the weapon away into his pocket away from the public eye he replied. "Ugh, please, Liz. I came first." He informed her cockily. "I'm unkillable, I'm immortal and I'm psychic, and to function I need human blood, but don't ever call me a vampire." He warned her a low tone before picking up the cup in front of him and bringing it up to their eye level. "Cheers." He announced before sipping tenderly from the cup.
Liz was trying to get her head straight and Silas could see this, he could see how she was trying to process everything from when Stefan went 'missing' to the new information she had gained just now. He began to scan further into her thoughts trying to look for anything to do with Petrova girl who had been force-fed the cure out of spite. "Unfortunately, I can see that you can't help me find what I'm looking for. So, all you need to remember, Liz, is that Stefan just got home from being away and stopped by to say 'hello'." He told her firmly before placing the white lid back on the cup.
Shaking her head gently she regained her usual thoughts smiling across to the man who she thought was Stefan Salvatore and telling him. "Call your friends, Stefan. Let 'em know you're okay?" She implored as a sweet smile crossed his lips. "Elena has been going out of her mind with worry, I'm sure she'll be really relieved to see that you're alive..." She added kindly.
"Will do, Sheriff." He nodded his head before standing up and looking around at the humans that were just waiting to be placed into submission. Taking over this town was going to be almost too easy.
Back over at the college the girls were getting a feel for the large campus, everything felt so new and scary and they hoped that they would begin to get to know the place soon. Grace had convinced her blonde friend to let Megan tag along with them hoping as they began to look around and it hadn't taken long for her to begin to pry into their love lives. "So, your current boyfriend Damian-"
"Damon." Grace corrected the human who nodded her head pushing the glasses back up onto the bridge of her nose.
Megan nodded trying to remember. "Right, uh, is your boyfriends brother." She glanced over to Elena who announced that his name was Stefan. "Yeah and you two are twins, but you didn't actually find out until a couple of years ago?" She quizzed as the brunettes nodded their heads laughing a little. "Wow. It's like a Soap Opera, or something." She mused making the girls laugh again. "Okay, so... the last time you spoke to Stefan was about three months ago and he hasn't been around your hometown since?" Grace gave her twin a comforting look.
"Erm, yeah, it was at the start of summer, I got this email from him telling me that he was going on the road for a little while and I shouldn't call him. I mean, we've been through a rough time the past couple of years..." She announced which only intrigued the human more as she looked over at her. "It's just... strange, he usually wouldn't do things like that, you know?" She frowned a little. "But I'm sure he'll turn up sooner or later, he said he would."
The human nodded understandingly but saw the torn look on the girls face and decided it was time to change the subject once again. "Do you have a boyfriend, Caroline?" She pried looking over at the blonde who seemed lost in a world of her own, snapping out of it she looked down at the smaller girl who was walking there with a waiting look on her face.
"I do." The blonde answered with a soft smile on her lips thinking back to her lovely hybrid boyfriend, she had been told by Grace that Klaus was letting him return to Mystic Falls so he was going to be starting college with them pretty soon. "His name's Tyler. He had to miss move-in day, but he'll be here for the first day of classes." She announced optimistically.
Grace nodded her head slowly before adding. "Assuming he registers." Which he hadn't. "And picks a dorm." Which he hadn't. "And buys books." Which he hadn't. Caroline glared over to her with a hard look on her face, the brunette was only trying to protect her friend from any misery that the hoping might cause.
"Maybe we should talk about Klaus..." Caroline announced as the brunette gave her a look, Megan was quick to ask who this person was and the blonde was all too happy to spill secrets from her life too. "Well, he was this complete psycho that was unfortunately in love with Grace, like obsessed with her." The humans thin eye brows rose. "He would treat her really bad, but to make up for it he would shower her in presents and take her on dates, whilst she was still with Damon, might I add-"
Grace burst. "That's enough, Caroline." She told her firmly her cheeks becoming red from frustration before taking a deep breath trying to regain composer. "We should talk about roommate ground rules." She glanced over at the human changing the subject once again away from her past. "Privacy is really important to me, that's half of the reason I was so surprised to see you turn up outside of my door this morning..."
"Sure, I get that."
"I have a low blood sugar." Grace lied smoothly with a shrug on her shoulders. "My diets a little strange, so I'm gonna have to ask you to keep away from my things." She announced and Megan nodded kindly before replying that they would split the shelves, the brunette was beginning to feel really bad about the way she was talking to her, but the rules had to be there. "And, you know, if I suddenly get up to leave or disappear for a while, don't follow me or look for me, or you know, anything like that." She shrugged her shoulders again.
Megan creased her eye brows this time looking at the girl suspiciously before replying. "Okay... sounds good." She mused
They were all interrupted by a very cute looking African-American guy holding a flyer in his hand. "Excuse me, ladies. Party at Whitmore House tonight." He passed one to Elena and another to Megan who both took them, Caroline was quick to snatch the flyer from her hand and inspect it.
"We'll be there." Elena announced with a sly smile on her lips.
The man was looking the blonde vampire up and down checking her out before replying. "I hope so." With that it took off to the next group of people handing them one too. Elena and Grace both giggled giddily at the blonde who had a small blush on her cheeks but chose to ignore the flirtatious looks she was getting from the handsome guy.
"I love college." Elena mused.
Back at the High school the youngest Gilbert was walking towards his next class when he felt the witche's phone vibrating in his pocket, pulling it out he saw that Elena's picture was flashing up on the screen indicating that she was trying to call her friend, hitting the ignore button he didn't expect it when a jock from his year barged violently into his shoulder knocking him.
"Look who rose from the dead." The guy hazed when one of his friends walked over and slapped the phone from his hand making it hit the floor hard but luckily not breaking it. Jeremy restrained himself from getting angry and beating the crap out of them with his hunter skills, so he bent down to the floor to grab the phone but the first student kicked it across the room. "Nice phone." He teased venomously. "Does it ever ring?" He shoved his shoulder making him slide a little.
It was then that the hunter lost it, pushing up off the ground he shoved one of the boys against the locker before turning and laying a good couple of punches into the other. His fighting skills were really coming into play when it came to this high school fight. Leaving both of them on the floor clearly injured he picked his phone up off the floor and walked through the crowd of students that had gathered to watch, if they weren't talking about him before they certainly were now.
Fayth stood there at the drinks table in the Salvatore boarding house pouring herself drink after drink downing them with ease but feeling a heavy haze beginning to cloud her brain as she began to get more intoxicated. "You're gonna have to cut me off soon." She almost slurred pointing over at him. "My tolerance is a joke now. It's just so... glorious." She deadpanned expertly.
"You're miserable." Damon mused looking her up as down as she stood there at almost a slant downing another shot of the rough tasting liquid.
Scoffing she replied surely. "Please. I'm Fayth Pierce – I'm a survivor." She boasted with a cocky look on her face pouring herself yet another shot, but Damon knew her all too well, being a human was murder for her, being a vampire was the only thing she had going for her, it was protection and it was security and now she didn't have that, she was weak and exposed and she hated it more than ever.
"You're a liar." The older Salvatore saw right through her with a serious look on his face. "Your hair's messed up, your nails are chipped." He spotted as she looked at the mess on the ends of her fingers, groaning inwardly. "You're a sad and miserable human being and you want me to turn you." He crossed the room as he bit into his wrist for her to take. "So, here." He muttered holding it out to her. "Go ahead, drink up." She was tempted as she edged closer to his wrist. "I'll kill you, you bite the mailman, you'll be a vampire again." He mused. "Go ahead, c'mon."
She gritted her bottom lips as she dragged herself away from the tempting offer. "I can't okay?" She growled as he creased his eye brows. "No one's ever taken the cure before. If I die, there's a good chance I may never wake up." Damon muttered something sarcastic about it being tragic which she only glared at. "And deep down, in that mushy-gushy Grace-loving heart, there's a part of you that doesn't want me to die."
Damon watched her for a couple of seconds before replying. "What do you want, Fayth?" He was cut off by the house phone beginning to ring, he reached over to get it, but the doppelgänger was closer and was able to get to it first, he growled as he tried to snatch it off of her but she turned away from him.
Putting on her sweetest Grace sounding voice she began. "Salvatore residence. Hello, Principal Weber, Elena isn't actually here right now, but this is Grace speaking, I'm the other Gilbert." She announced. "Oh, dear." She faked being surprised with a smirk on her face. "We'll find him." She informed him before hanging up and turning back to the older Salvatore who had a waiting look on his face. "So Jeremy's been expelled. The girls will be cool with that, right?"
The vampire growled under his breath, he knew he was going to have to deal with this and when both Grace and Elena found out they weren't going to be happy with him at all. "When I get back, you're gone." He warned in a dark tone before turning about to walk away but she called out and told him that someone was chasing her. "Then run. Run far away." He answered simply as long as she was away from them he didn't care.
"Damon, you don't understand." Swiftly she moved towards him with a pleading look on her face. "I have enemies everywhere. Katherine won't speak to me because your girlfriend sent her some voicemail telling her I never wanted to speak to her again." Smart move on Grace's account. "What happens when word gets out that I'm a human? I can't protect myself! I'm weak and I'm slow – do you have any idea what it's like to run in heels? I have blisters, Damon! Please, just... help me." She begged, looking up into his smouldering blue orbs.
Deep in the depths of the quarry Stefan was still locked in the safe underwater, he would die but being a vampire his body would heal himself and he had to relieve the torture of dying over and over again. Feeling the water begin to full up in his lungs once more he slammed his fists uselessly against the door under water, he was unconscious once more.
Stefan's Hallucination
Standing at the large bay window in the Salvatore boarding house this was where Stefan imagined he was, it was better than him being trapped there under water with his lungs slowly repairing themselves over to have to repeat what had happened before. Light was streaming through beaming down onto him and he basked it what felt like warmth but really he was so cold he wasn't sure what it felt like anymore.
Hearing footsteps walk towards him he turned to see his brother walking towards him with a glass of bourbon in hand, he took it from him wishing he could really taste it, but he only tasted the bitter, salty lake water filling his mouth. "Wish I could say it gets better." Damon mused shaking his head and Stefan was quick to answer him that the answer was no to a question he hadn't asked yet. "Why?" He growled. "So you can keep dying and coming back to life? You've felt nothing but sheer agony for three months. You hallucinate conversations with me just to have something to do. Just turn off that pesky humanity switch." He told him.
"Won't take the pain away." Stefan replied looking down at his bourbon memorably.
His older brother sighed heavily, his hallucination of his brother hated seeing him in that much pain and torture, but he was a proud man and he didn't want to lose himself, not after how long it took him to return last him, what he did to the people he loved. "Yeah, but it'll take away your misery. Your fear, your hopelessness."
"And then what, huh?" The younger brother turned to face him with a waiting look on his face as Damon just stared back. "Let's just say that you actually notice that I'm gone, let's say I get out of this. What good is it if I'm a monster again? How is that better than any of this?" He asked shaking his head before feeling the hallucination beginning to fade away.
Back on the college campus the smaller brunette was in her dorm room getting ready for the party they were going to be attending whilst Megan was in the shower getting ready also. The door suddenly opened across the room and her blonde friend was standing there with a hard look on her face before she began to snoop around.
Kneeling down at the dresser she searched the draws as Grace watched her with a confused look on her face. "Did you notice how Megan has an entire drawer dedicated to organic linen?" She quizzed scrunching her nose before glancing up at the younger vampire who told her to give the girl some privacy. "Maybe if she didn't take such long showers, I wouldn't have time to go through her stuff." She mused before creasing her eye brows. "How are you okay with this? Having a new roommate."
"Because we're trying to be functional, and being functional means we need friends outside of us three." She explained with a small smirk.
"We also need personal space." The blonde answered. "Do I need to remind you about your little problem?" Grace gave her a hard look. "What if you suddenly get a craving in the middle of the night and the next thing you know you're fang deep in her carotid artery?" She asked making the girl roll her eyes. "Or what if your friend Megan comes to mine and Elena's room looking for some bottles of water and instead finds the blood bags we have stored in the mini-fridge?" She pressed.
Walking across the room she stopped by the mini-fridge opening the door and looking at the strange food that was placed on the inside. "Ugh, what the hell is protein water?" She asked but Grace shrugged her shoulders indifferently. "You know what, maybe if you drink it all, she'll wanna move out..." She handed it over to her.
"No, Caroline. I'm not doing that-" Suddenly the blonde snatch it back form her hand twisting the cap off and taking a long swig. "Care, don't-" It surprised the brunette when her friend began to cough spitting up the water which sizzled down her chin, she dropped to the floor mouthing vervain which only made Grace more nervous.
As the door across the room opened swiftly Megan stood there wrapped in a towel and a concern look on her face as she asked. "What's going on? Are you okay?" She crossed the room handing a towel to the vampire as the brunette told her that she was fine. "What happened?" The auburn haired girl pressed.
The blonde cautiously stood back up as she cleared her burning throat and replied. "Water just went down the wrong pipe. I'm okay, really. I grabbed a bottle of water from the mini-fridge without asking first, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have touched your stuff, I'm really sorry." She kept apologising but a relieved smile pulled across the human's face.
"It's fine, really." Megan answered surely. "It just sounded like someone was dying out here." She exaggerated with a breathless smile. "Well, I'm glad you're okay!" With that she turned back around and wandered back into the misty sweet smelling shower room.
Caroline took a couple of seconds before looking up at her friend and saying ."She knows who we are – she drinks vervain water!" She announced as the brunette answered that she might not know who they were. "Seriously? You have to share a bathroom with this girl! What if she's a hunter and she stakes you when you're in the shower. In a room on your own where no one can hear you scream!" She was breathing hard now as Grace held back laughter. "This isn't funny! What if she steals your necklace, or she comes after Elena and I too and when we wake up in the morning for classes we all burst into flames!"
"Calm down." Grace told her placing her hands on her shoulders, looking into the girl's wild silvery orbs. "Don't you think that, if she was a hunter, we'd be dead by now." She quizzed looking at her friend.
The blonde scoffed as she answered simply. "I think we should lock her up." That was her solution to this situation, act first and ask questions later, if she didn't rip out her throat first of course. "You know, let the vervain get out of her system, and then we compel her to forget about us."
"Caroline, I'm not kidnapping my roommate!" Grace lowered her tone in an acid voice giving her a hard look. "The best way to convince her that we're normal, it's to act normal. And do normal, human, freshman-y stuff." She explained as the girl asked what she was thinking of and only a sly smirk pulled across her lips.
By the time the three vampires finally got to Whitmore house, the party was already in full swing, the new students were dancing whilst the older students were meeting up with their friends. As the girls approached the door they heard a voice from behind them. "Hey, I remember you." It was deep and husky and belonged to the very handsome guy that had handed them the flyer for the party.
"Hey, Flyer Guy." Elena joked pointing at him jokingly as he laughed nodding his head.
"Jesse, technically." He corrected her with a smirk on his face as his eyes ran up and down the blonde's body, she clearly wasn't that interested in him, but he was obviously very interested in her. "But 'Flyer Guy' works, too." He added.
The taller Gilbert laughed before answering. "I'm Elena, this is Grace..." She gestured to her twin that gave him a small wave whilst looking around. "And this is Caroline." She added pointing over to the blonde at the other side of her.
"Nice to meet you." He smiled gladly at her but she only smiled then turned away curtly, Grace gave her friend a look before giving Jesse an apologetic smile and then leading the two of them away from the guy giving her blonde friend a hard look.
"You can't be nice to the guy?" Elena asked suddenly when they were far enough away from the guy, the older vampire was quick to tell her that she was with Tyler. "Are you?" She tilted her head stopping and looking at her. "Because he hasn't called." She stated.
Grace sighed trying to break up the soon to be argument trying to stand between both of her friends and telling them. "Stop."
"From the mountains of Appalachia?" Caroline retorted quickly, in her mind Tyler was busy doing what he needed to do and obviously that must have been clouding her judgement slightly. "What about Stefan? Should we talk about what a fantastic boyfriend he's been to you this summer?" She deadpanned as the brunette's eyes darkened.
"Seriously?" The smaller Gilbert asked placing her hands on her hips as both of the girls squared up to each other threateningly. "Can both of you just stop, please. We're trying to blend in, remember?" She begged but both just continued to ignore her.
Elena growled low as she replied. "Don't bring Stefan into this." She warned, the wound was still obviously fresh from where he had walked out and asked her not to call him, that wasn't his fault of course but they didn't know that. "I'm just saying, I don't want you to get your hopes up thinking that he's coming, when he hasn't really shown much interest."
"Jesus, stop!" Grace demanded in a rough voice as they both looked over at her surprised by her sudden outburst. "Both of you need to cool it, alright? Because right now we're meant to be acting like..." She looked around them suspiciously. "Humans and we're not acting very human with all this growling and snarling, alright?" Both of the girls didn't respond. "Now, c'mon, let's just get in there and drink until we can't feel." The brunette turned around.
Stalking up the stairs towards the giant house they went to walk through the large double door but were stopped by an invisible wall, Grace looked it up and down with a crease in her eyes brows as the blonde beside her asked what was happening. "Someone must own this place." Elena provided them with a reason. "We have to be invited in." She added in a hushed tone as the other two growled low.
They were caught dumbstruck when they saw their new auburn haired human friend standing on the other side of the door with a red cup in her hand. "Hey! I was wondering if you guys were gonna make it." That only drew more attention to them and the new boy Jesse walked up behind them with a curious look on his face wondering why they were just standing in the doorway.
"You guys going in, or...?"
Grace grit her teeth moving to let him pass and answering. "Go ahead." She told him as he squeezed past them brushing against Caroline intentionally as she rolled her eyes, Megan asked if they were going to come in and awkwardly her brunette roommate answered. "We were just... Uh, waiting for someone..." She lied shrugging her shoulders.
"Right." The light haired girl laughed gently. "Well, I'm gonna go hang." She jerked her thumb behind her before turning and walking further into the house leaving the three standing there in the doorway finally able to drop the fake-smiles on their faces as they looked around suspiciously.
Caroline leaned down close to the smaller Gilbert and hissed. "Like I said, she knows."
Back in Mystic Falls the Grill was filling up with patrons who had been attending the block party just outside, the older Salvatore was scanning the room until he saw the teen hunter sitting at a table on his own. Moving across the room, weaving in and out of people he stopped there with a hard look on his face. "One day. One day where you don't screw it up."
"Leave me alone, Damon." Jeremy answered shaking his head, obviously he wasn't in the mood for having to deal with the vampire after the whole ordeal from school.
The raven-black haired vampire growled lowly as he replied. "You're lucky you didn't put one of those idiots in ICU." He growled as the hunter looked up at him telling him that once Damon killed him and that was very true. "Yes – in the privacy of your home! Away from prying eyes." That wasn't an excuse, what he did was wrong. "Unlike you who went all hunter in the middle of a hallway. You got expelled, genius." He informed him but Jeremy didn't look that upset.
"Does that mean I don't have to go back to school?" He looked up at him with a slight look of excitement in his eyes, but Damon was already one step ahead with the trusty help of his compulsion.
Scoffing he replied. "I compelled Principal Weber into a very generous three-day suspension." He replied. "Your sisters don't need to know about this." He looked down at the half finished plate in front of the human and decided he was going to need to eat more than dragging him home. "Finish eating, meet me outside." He stood back up and then turned around surprised to see a face he hadn't seen in over three months. "Stefan, what are you doing here?"
"Hello, Damon." He only nodded and with that the thought of his younger brother being missing and not calling was washed away and they were involved in a brotherly hug within seconds, patting each others backs and then pulling away to look at each other, something about him just seemed wrong, but he couldn't work out what it was.
Over at the college the three vampires were hovering awkwardly at the edge of the party, they couldn't get into the house and behave normal and their run in with Megan at the entrance didn't exactly help matters. The brunette had pulled out her phone and was talking to her voicemail trying to make up an excuse for them leaving so early. "Hey, Megan, it's Grace. Just calling to let you know why we left, so call me when you get this. Bye." She hung up pushing her phone back in her pocket.
"Okay, it's settled. When she leaves, we grab her." Caroline decided nodding her head as they walked slowly towards their dorms. Elena made up the excuse saying that it could have just been because they weren't feeling well so they returned to their dorm. "Elena, she saw us stuck at the threshold, we might as well have flashed her our fangs – which we almost did at each other, by the way." She added.
Grace scoffed shaking her head. "C'mon, are you serious?" She looked between them both with a small smile on her face. "There is no way that out of the thousands of freshman, we were randomly paired with someone who knows about vampires. It doesn't happen." She shook her head as the blonde answered that maybe it wasn't random. "You think she choosed to be in a room with a vampire? So, what? So she could kill me or something..." Her phone began to vibrate loudly.
Slipping it out of her pocket she looked down at the caller ID and informed them both. "Megan's calling." She held her phone to her ear. "Hey, Megan."
"Grace!" Her voice was panicked and breathless. "You have to help me! He's chasing me!" She implored and that made the brunette put the phone on loudspeaker so her friends could hear the panic in her voice.
Elena creased her eye brows as she asked. "Megan, who's chasing you?" She quizzed as the light haired girl screamed for more help. "We can't come inside – the line's too long." She lied badly. "If you come out – where are you?" They began to look up to the large windows of the house trying to spot where she might be.
The human began to scream for their help even more when suddenly the blonde snatched the phone from her friend and told Megan firmly. "Megan, can you hear me? Get outside and we can help you." She informed her when all of a sudden a loud thud erupted from behind them, they all turned around slowly surprised to see a body laying there, twisted and bloody. "Oh, my God." They ran over to push the hair out of her face to see the brushed and scratched face of Megan, her glasses were cracked and broken now and her face was swelling but she was very much dead.
Pushing her over onto her back they saw a large gash had been taken from her neck, but a knife hadn't been used, this time it looked like teeth marks, like the kind of teeth marks a vampire would leave after feeding from someone, or killing them to shut them up. "This was a vampire." Grace mused her eyes wide, apparently they weren't the only vampires on campus, which made them all very nervous.
At the Grill both Damon and Silas were sitting up at the bar, he didn't know that the 2 000 year old immortal wasn't his brother yet, but surely it would only be a matter of time until he found out it wasn't him. "Why didn't you stay with Elena all summer? She was going out of her mind with worry, man. You could have called me, you know that, right? If you were struggling-"
"Please, you were too busy between your girlfriend's thighs to even care." Silas answered not very Stefan like which only made the older Salvatore wonder more what had happened to his brother over the summer break, sifting through the vampire's thoughts he found exactly what he was looking for. "Fayth's living at Château Salvatore." He began as the brother looked up at him asking how he knew that. "Because I can read your mind." He paused as Damon's eyes widened. "I'm kidding, buddy." He laughed it off easily. "Katherine called me asking if I'd seen her sister. I figured the first place she'd run if she wasn't running to her is to you." He smirked.
"Right."
Jeremy crossed the room to the two brothers as Silas announced. "Hey, Jeremy. Looking good, man." Slapping him on the arm as a way of greeting and the hunter felt something off about the touch, it was icy and just overall wrong.
"Hey, Stefan. Glad you're back." The Gilbert answered with a crease in his eye brows. "Have you spoken to Elena? Because she's been going crazy about when you just left without saying goodbye, or where you were going, or really anything." He informed him as Silas resisted rolling his eyes, obviously everyone knew how important Elena was to Stefan.
Silas sighed gently as he replied. "Uh, I'm planning on that. I'm not sure she'll want to talk to me over the phone, so I'm planning on making a trip down there." He lied nodding his head. "But I did just get back and I do want to go get some blood and have a sleep." He informed them both as he stood up nodding at them. "I'll see you both at home." He added before turning around and walking away.
"Something's wrong." Jeremy told the older Salvatore as he looked up at him confused. "When he touched me, I felt a chill where my tattoo was." He informed him as the icy-blue eyes vampire asked what he was talking about. "Right before I died, Silas grabbed me and I felt the same thing."
Damon scoffed as he answered. "Silas is gone." He announced obviously not knowing that the spell had been broken when the Bennett witch died due to bringing her best friend back. "Bonnie turned him into a big piece of rock, remember?"
"I died." Bonnie's ghostly voice informed the hunter, the vampire couldn't see her but Jeremy sure could and she was giving him some good reasons to believe that Silas was posing as the younger Salvatore. "Jeremy, I bound the magic that took down Silas. When I died, the spell must've broken. He's free."
"That was Silas." His voice was filled with determination as the vampire told him that was impossible, it was hard for him to explain that Silas wasn't dead without mentioning that the witch was also dead. "I'm a hunter." He began nodding his head. "Our whole reason for existing is to kill him. I know what I'm feeling, Damon. That – that was Silas."
Damon looked up at him with a crease in his eye brows as he replied. "I just watched him walk through a crowd of people that saw Stefan. There's no way he could fool that many people at once. I mean, he's psychic, but no one's that psychic." He answered surely before the teen quizzed what the man had wanted which left the vampire thinking.
Across town at the Salvatore mansion Fayth was bathing herself in the giant bathtub in Damon's bathroom. After washing the dirt off of her skin she had decided now would be a great time to get rid of the excess hair on her legs with a straight razor. Looking up she heard footsteps approaching the room, she half expected to see Damon standing there lecturing her about still being there, but instead she saw the younger Salvatore. "Why are you in my brother's bathtub?" Silas questioned.
"Why aren't you?" Fayth flirted back placing the razor on the side, she had to admit even thought back in the 1800s she had a thing for Damon she also saw how truly handsome that Stefan was and understood why Katherine had a thing for him.
Silas glanced her up and down in the tub before smirking and replying in a lie. "I will say that's a tempting offer." She wasn't exactly his type, although he did have a thing for brunettes, this was made obvious with his previous choice of women.
The new human smirked a little as she looked up at him, he was taking a seat at the side of the bath looking down at her soapy wet body. "I have to say, Stefan. I'm a little surprised. I always thought of you as the good, faithful brother, but here you are watching me bathe whilst your Elena is at college pining over you." She muttered.
"What can I say, human does look rather good on you, Fayth." He informed her as she laughed gently telling him that he just gave her a compliment. "No, I mean it. You, sitting here all weak and vulnerable. It works." He brushed his hand softly over her face as she looked up at him beginning to get suspicious, her smile faded.
Silas was growing tired of the games they were playing and decided now it was a good time to strike, she was clearly unaware of the danger she was about to face. Suddenly he grabbed her throat and pinned her against the back of the tub as she gasped for air. "Time for a field trip." He growled down at her as she fumbled for an escape.
If there was one thing that Fayth Pierce was good at life it was getting herself out of a deathly situation and her being a human changed that it no way. Grabbing the straight razor she had been using before she struck the man across the cheek making him lose his balance and move away from her giving her the chance to clamber from the tub and grab a robe before exiting the room swiftly.
As she hurried down the stairs she heard the front door open, she had never been so relieved to see the older Salvatore but her heart was thudding so loud in her chest she could only just hear the sound of Silas following her. Gripping her arm the raven-black haired vampire passed her over to Jeremy who was waiting and he told him firmly. "Get her out of here. Don't tell me where you're going." He turned back to see Silas approaching slowly. "God, you're slow. Guess vamp-speed came with the upgrade." He announced.
"Get out of my way and give me Fayth." Silas demanded in a low tone but the Salvatore wasn't moving out of his way, unfortunately it seemed like the only thing that the immortal had going for him was the fact he couldn't die, apart from that he was much more like a human than the rest of the vampires
Damon growled. "First, drop the Stefan look." He demanded but the man in front of him only smirked, this was going to certainly be a surprise for him. "What?"
Back on the campus of the college the girls were standing a short distance away from where the police were inspecting the newly found body of the girl. Observing the coroner covered the body over, Elena asked quietly. "What is happening? Your roommate is dead, there was a vampire at the party..."
"We don't know what she knew or who she told." The blonde mused shaking her head looking around suspiciously to see if anyone was looking on. "We should get out of here."
Suddenly the brunette's eyes widened as she announced. "Caroline, I left that message in her voicemail!" Grace told them both as they looked at her, but the blonde replied that she had took her phone from her corpse. "What?" She looked up at her before they heard footsteps approaching them.
"Hey, girls?" Her voice was tender and sincere as she approached them both, obviously she didn't know that these girls had seen a lot more death than they should have at their young age. "I'm Diane Freeman, I'm head of Campus Security." She informed them as they all nodded slowly. "Are you okay?" Now it was time for them to act.
"I mean, I think so." Elena rubbed her head softly.
The woman nodded before looking down at the brunette who had a deep look of confusion her face. "I understand Megan was your roommate. I'm so sorry you have to find her like this." She announced giving her an empathetic look. The blonde was quick to as what happened happened. "We found a note. Apparently she was struggling with severe depression."
Grace looked up suddenly and replied. "Wait, what do you mean you found a note?" She asked and the woman explained that she had taken her own life. "You think that this is suicide?" She looked over at the body that was still laying on the floor.
The officer looked over at her as she replied. "We're convinced it was suicide, but we can't seem to find her cell phone." She informed them as they tried their best to not look at all guilty. "Have you seen it?" She quizzed looking at all three of them but they were quick to respond with no's. "Okay. If it turns up, let us know?" She smiled one more time before turning around and walking away.
"What is going on?" Elena growled.
The older Salvatore listened as the immortal explained how that Stefan was his doppelgänger and this only seemed to annoy the man. "If I have to hear the word 'doppelgänger' one more time, I think I'm gonna actually have to learn how to spell it." He deadpanned as he paced slowly around the parlour room.
"You say you don't believe me, and yet your mind is spinning at the possibility." He announced digging through his thoughts to reveal the truth, but this only irritated him more, that was why Grace had control over her mind reading to let people have their privacy unlike Silas who would invade their privacy without a care.
Clearing his throat the older brother replied sharply. "A) Get out of my head. B) I think I'd know if my little brother had an evil twin." He informed him knowingly.
"Oh, we're not twins." Silas answered with a short laugh before standing up for a moment. "See, when I became truly immortal, Nature retaliated by creating a version of my that was killable. It's called a 'shadow-self'." He explained perfectly as the icy-blue eyed vampire glared over to him.
"Well, whatever you are, your plan didn't work." He replied with a soft smirk on his lips, masking his fear behind humour once again. "The cure's gone. Now, what do you want with Fayth?"
It was Silas' time to smirk as he answered him. "I could tell you, but wouldn't it be so much more fun if it were a surprise?" He joked as the dark haired vampire told him he wasn't going to get her. "Damon, how well do you know your brother? Do you really think he would leave town for three months without so much as a phone call, just leave Elena on her own like that? Or were you just too busy with your doppelgänger?"
"Where's Stefan?"
Silas glanced over at him. "He's suffering, like I suffered." That made the older Salvatore even more nervous. "So, call the hunter, bring me Fayth, and then I will tell you where your little brother is." He promised before sitting back down on the couch leaving him no other option than to hand over Fayth.
Driving down a long lonely road Jeremy glanced over to see the newly turned human slumped against the door with a scornful look on her face as she asked. "Where are we going?" She asked but he only continued to ignore her, she had been the reason for his death and then in turn Bonnie's death. "Are you deaf?" She spat out. "I said where are we going?"
His phone began to ring on the dash, reaching over he picked it up and answered the call putting it on speaker to be safe. "Hey." He announced just as Damon asked him how far he had gotten since leaving. "You said not to tell you." He replied logically hearing a threatening growl coming through the phone.
"You pick now to listen to me?" Any other time and the younger Gilbert would defy whatever he wanted but now he was choosing to listen to him and it really wasn't helping the situation.
Sighing Jeremy answered. "We just passed Old Miller Road." He replied glancing out of the window onto the dark road only lit by several street lamps placed oddly down the road.
"Good." Damon answered before adding. "Turn around, bring her back." He was more than willing to sacrifice the self-severing bitch if that meant he was going to get his little brother back and safe again, whatever Silas had done to him must have been bad.
"What?" Fayth's eyes went wide as she looked over at the phone. "No!" She tried to beg but the Gilbert hung up before she got a chance to plead for her life, turning the wheel he pulled the car to make a neat U-turn before beginning to drive back. "What are you doing? Jeremy, stop!" She commanded. "You can't take me back here, Jeremy. Damon wouldn't just hand me over. Silas clearly got in his head-"
"Shut up, Fayth!" He growled back at her continuing the drive as she began to search through all of her options, she couldn't just jump from the car, the tumble would injure her and she would easily get caught by him and because he was a hunter he was much stronger than her now she was just a human.
Without thinking she jammed her hand into his seat belt buckle slot undoing it as he looked down and asked. "Hey, what the hell?!" He hissed almost swerving the car when suddenly her hand reached over and jerked the wheel to the right making it begin to head towards a utility pole, their car smashed straight into it severely damaging the car and knocking the pole clean over.
Back at the Salvatore boarding house the older brother was looking down at his phone texting to see where the boy was but his mind was rushing with fear and desperation as he thought of his little brother being trapped somewhere due to Silas. "Oh, your thoughts are churning. It's like a... spool of pink taffy." He explained as Damon glanced over to him. "It's very messy, but very fun to watch."
"Anyone ever tell you that's creepy?" The vampire replied scornfully.
Silas smirked a little before beginning. "You're worried." He was sifting skilfully through his thoughts as the Salvatore growled over to him. "Jeremy's not answering the phone. He should be back by now. You think something's very wrong." He announced making the icy-blue orbed vampire narrow his eyes.
The celebration in the town square was still going on now into the night and the human was still at the keg pouring beers for the townspeople. Mayor Hopkins wandered over with an easy smile on his face as he saw the young lad pouring yet another beer into a red cup. "Here you go, Mayor. This one's on the house." He promised handing it over to him as Rudy thanked him. "So, ah, when's Bonnie coming back?" He asked concerned for his friend.
Rudy laughed gently rubbing the back of his neck and replying. "You know, I'm not sure, but if you talk to her, tell her I said hi." He smiled as the blond boy nodded his head replying that he would. "Thanks for the beer." He nodded his head before walking back across the block to the others.
The human continued to pour beers for people when he saw a beautiful brunette woman standing across the way wandering aimlessly through the crowd, it was the same woman who had participated in his and Rebekah's threesome and the proceed to steal their jewellery. "No way." He whispered before dropping everything he was doing and following the mysterious woman to the back alley behind the Grill. "Nadia?" He called ass he turned slowly.
"You remember me." She announced in her delicate Italian accent.
Matt smirked as he took a couple of slow steps towards and replied. "Yeah, I remember you." He nodded his head before adding. "You got Rebekah and me drunk and robbed us." He reminded her as she answered back that it was fun until that moment. "How did you know how to find me?" He questioned.
"Let's skip the 'how' and get to the 'why'." She answered before holding out her hand to reveal the Gilbert ring sitting in the middle of her palm. "This wasn't mind to take." She announced as he questioned that she had come all this way to give him back his ring. "Hey, if you don't want it..." She went to close her palm.
The human quickly reached out and snatched it from his palm. "No, I want it." He placed it back on his finger inspecting it for a long couple of seconds before he suddenly felt a pair of hairs either side of his head, he went to move but he almost frozen to the ground.
Nadia watched as her shaggy haired friend began his spell. "Jaryakat a zem. Daryeet acza." The humans eyes went a solid black before blinked to reveal his warm blue eyes once more and then collapsed to the cold hard floor.
Walking back towards their dorm rooms the blonde was listening to the voicemail on the deceased girls phone before announcing. "Delete." She clicked the bottom before they arrived at their doors surprised to see that Grace's door was slight ajar, cautiously the smaller girl wandered over and pushed the door open as her two friends followed her.
"Someone's been in here." Grace announced as she walked quickly into the room checking all of her stuff, nothing of hers was missing but the humans tablet was gone. "She left her tablet on that table..." She pointed over to the desk as Elena walked over and searched it but it was long gone by now.
Elena growled. "Along with her so-called suicide note." She added slamming her fist against the desktop lightly before turning back to the blonde and asking. "Can I see the phone for a second?" She handed it over to her as she began to look through it.
"It just doesn't make sense." Grace mused running her fingers through her hair. "First, the roommate I'm not supposed to have might know something about vampires, and then happens to be killed by a vampire, and now the school's covering it up? This is just like Mystic Falls only we're not in the inner circle and being protected." She growled shaking her head.
"Whatever's going on, it's not just about our roommate." Elena began in an almost lost voice as both the girls looked over to her. "It's about me." She turned the screen around to reveal a picture of Megan sitting and smiling at the camera with a handsome older man sitting beside her. "That's Megan – with my dad." Her adopted dad but this left the girls wondering even more who this girl was, they had a lot of questions that needed answering but it was going to be harder now, she was dead and buried.
In the middle of the pitch black road, Fayth clambered weakly out of the completely totalled car to see Jeremy's body lying on the ground several yards away from the wreck but looking pretty beat up. "Hey..." He rasped out holding his hand out to her. "Please..." He begged but she knew she had to just be looking out for herself now.
Stumbling away she began to wander aimlessly through the forest leaving the young Gilbert to die in the middle of the road, Bonnie's body was huddled over him tears prickling her eyes. "Jeremy, hold on. Hey, I know you can hear me. Jeremy." She begged pounding her hands uselessly against his chest.
She heard the sound of breaks squeaking looking over her shoulder she saw the light blue Camaro pull up and out climbed Damon with a very concerned look on his face. Zipping over to him he bit into his wrist and then held it to the hunter's mouth feeding him his blood so that he could heal. "Open your eyes, Jer." He implored desperately. "You do not get to die on me, you hear me? I'm supposed to be taking care of you, you little punk!" He rasped out. "Wake up, or I'll kill you myself!" He panicked.
After a long pause the Gilbert finally opened his eyes looking around confused for a couple of seconds before he locked eyes with the Salvatore above him, he saw the concern and fear deep in his icy blue orbs. "Fayth – is gone." He whispered out weakly.
Sighing the Salvatore pulled the boy into his chest holding him close for a couple of seconds before answering simply. "I don't care."
The two girls sharing a dorm room had retired to their room for the evening, Elena was tucked up in bed staring up at the ceiling blankly whilst the blonde was listening to a voicemail from her boyfriend who seemed a million miles away. "Hey, Caroline. I've put a lot of thought into this, and decided to defer school for now. This wolf pack I'm helping... They need me. I know it's lame to do this over the phone, but I figured this way it's harder for you to kill me. I'm really, really sorry, Care... But this is important."
Her shoulders began to shake as she began to sob silently into her pillow, she heard a small voice ask. "You okay?" She looked over her shoulder to see Elena facing her in bed with a sad look on her face. "I'm sorry, Caroline." She told her sincerely as the girl nodded her head, both of them were laying there for a moment before Elena sighed. "We're missing something."
With that both the girls grabbed their pillows and walked one room down and knocked the door, it opened slowly to reveal the smaller brunette stood there in her Pjs and toothbrush sticking out of her mouth. "What's wrong?" She asked concerned when the two girls bundled into her. "I think we need some trashy tv." She announced as they both laughed slowly.
So with that they all got comfy on Grace's small single bed, squishing together as the girl stuck on some old Saved By The Bell episodes. "This always makes me feel better when I'm feeling sad." She announced pressing play and then laying back to be between them both as they snuggled into her.
"I'm really glad you're both here with me." Caroline's feeble voice announced as they both looked down at her with soft smiles on their lips, the smaller brunette leaned down and pressed a soft kiss to her forehead wishing she could stop the girl from shedding small tears.
"Me, too." Elena whispered as they all snuggled together even more, legs intwined, arms thrown over in an attempt to keep them all there on the bed as they all began to drift off with soft laughs.
Stefan's Hallucinations
Standing in front of the large bay window in the Salvatore boarding house the youngest brother was staring pensively out it when he heard footsteps from behind him. "You're thinking about it. Flip the switch, brother. Put yourself out of this misery. Please." He pleaded with him as Stefan turned slowly.
"Did you forget how long it took me to come back last time?" Stefan quizzed in a rough voice as he faced his brother fully. "Everything I lost in the process?" He was obviously talking about how he had lost Elena and the respect of his friends and also himself.
Damon sighed heavily as he replied in a broken voice. "You don't deserve this, Stefan. You're the good brother. You deserve to be happy with the woman you love in any place that you want to be." He mused looking up at him. "Just turn it off. Turn it off." He implored in a whisper.
Stefan closed his eyes trying to shut his brother out, he knew he was only trying to help but he was trying to remain himself, as he opened his eyes again he saw his beautiful brunette standing there with a soft smile on her lips. "Wait. Stay with me, Stefan." She begged as she reached up and stroked his cheek softly. "I know this is torture, but stay with me. Your humanity is the one thing that makes you who you are. Don't let go. Please, Stefan. For me."
Waking up from her uncomfortable slumber the small Gilbert heard her phone vibrating on the side, she manoeuvred herself around the two sleeping girls and climbed from the bed before answering her phone. "Hey, sorry it took so long to call you back. Car trouble." Damon lied, he hated lying to her, but she wasn't ready to know everything yet.
Concerned the girl asked what happened as she took a seat up on one of the windowsills looking out onto the pitch black campus. "Oh, some idiot broke the window." He paused before continuing. "Based on your voicemail, sounds like your day sucked worse than mine. You alright? You wanna come home?" That would be too easy at the moment, she couldn't give up yet.
"I can't." She sighed heavily leaning her head against the cold wall pulling her knees up into her chest. "And especially if Elena's dad's connected to this somehow... I need to be here for her whilst she tries to figure out why." She explained and he replied that it seemed like a good idea. "I love you, Damon."
Damon smiled to himself as he answered. "I love you, too, Gracie. Goodnight." With that he hung up looking over his shoulder to see the youngest Gilbert giving him a hard look as he told him he didn't tell her about Silas. "Nor did I tell her Stefan's missing, Fayth's in town, and you got expelled." He replied.
"So you lied."
The vampire rolled his eyes as he told him firmly. "No, I withheld a bit of the truth, so that Grace wouldn't drop everything and come running home to help. She's like that, she wants to always be there to help. I'll figure all this out." He announced nodding his head.
Back in the town square Mayor Hopkins was up on the stage giving a speech to his townspeople whilst his daughter stood on watching, she was unable to be seen by him due to her being trapped on the Other Side, but she could still enjoy his speech. "It is – it is truly great to have an end-of-summer tradition. My daughter has her own end-of-summer tradition of overindulging in the cotton candy." They all laughed including Bonnie who had sparkling pride filled eyes as she watched on. "Now she's off traveling the world and sending her old man postcards from all her great adventures. Family is one of our core values in Mystic Falls. It's what the block party celebrates. Family as community..." He noticed the younger Salvatore walking into the stage, of course it wasn't who he thought it was. "Stefan?"
"Do you mind if I say a few words?" Silas questioned as Rudy replied when he was finished he might be able to. "I'll take it from here, Mayor." He replied firmly using his mind control to make the Mayor step down from the microphone, Bonnie saw who it truly was immediately and could feel her heart thudding wildly in her chest. "You're probably wondering how I did that. Well, it's pretty basic mind control. But, until now, it's been fairly limited to one person at a time. But this summer, I have consumed an immeasurable amount of blood, and I've felt myself getting stronger and stronger every day." Everyone began to get nervous starting to mutter under their breaths.
"And I started to wonder: what are the limits to my power?" He mused shrugging his shoulders carefully. "How many people can I influence? Two? Ten? An entire town square." The muttering was getting louder now and their thoughts were running to wild it was hard for him to think straight. "Everyone stop talking." He demanded in a rough voice and an ushered silence fell over them all, obviously it was working. "Well, that worked. Now let's try this: no one make a sound, or move a muscle."
The entire square went deadly silent they could hear a pin drop, Silas smirked as he pulled his pocket knife out and then wandered over to Rudy slicing the knife slowly across his throat. Bonnie watched as an agony filled scream passed her lips as she launched herself through the crowd to her dying father, watching as the life slowly faded from his eyes. There was nothing she could do to stop it, utterly powerless just like she was with Jeremy and this time there was no vampire blood around to save him. She had to watch as her father died before her very eyes.
To the audience ahead of him "Well, now that I have your attention, I need a favour." He began looking at the completely still townspeople. "I need you to find someone. You all know Grace Gilbert. Well, the girl I'm looking for looks exactly like her." He finished as a sly smirked over his lips. Fayth had better watch out, because something bad was coming her way and his name was Silas.
A/N
Hey, I'm sorry this took so long to get out, I just wanted to see where this season would be going before I jumped right in and got ahead of myself, so you'll have to forgive me for the lateness in updating, I just want this season to be good so I don't wanna rush things, I hope you'll understand.
Anyway this was a nice little starting chapter, Twisted Love season five is finally here! Damon and Grace have had a lovely holiday away totally oblivious to what was happening in their home town, Elena has been without Stefan for three months, Silas has come to town, Fayth turned up out of the blue and is very much human, Jeremy's alive and Bonnie's head, oh and of course Klaus and his family are gone from Mystic Falls, but as you saw from this chapter Grace is writing to him, it's sort of like a diary for her, so look out for more of those scenes.
I hope you liked the Italy scenes at the beginning, it was actually nice to do a Drace scene where they actually are happy and enjoying each others company, it's been a long time coming. If I do decided to show what Grace and Damon got up to on their adventures abroad then it will be in another story in a series of one-shots around Europe and other tropical places, so look out for that.
A lot of you were quite happy to see a Klace story, so I did write one, it's called "A Twisted Always and Forever" it follows the Originals on their adventures down in New Orleans, it's not gonna be smooth sailing for them, but I think it should be good to follow, so please look out for that, go read and review it, I'd love to hear what you think of it. (But please don't forget about Twisted Love!)
There will be a few twists and turns in this coming season, but once again you're gonna have to bear with me because it's not easy writing a story when you're not too sure what's going to happen yourself, I'm sure other writers can vouch for me here, everyone is just gonna have to be patient whilst I sort everything out, thank you in advance.
Tell me what you think is in store for this chapter, would you like to see anything in particular? Let me know and I'll see what I can do. I hope you'll like where this story is going. Please review, I love hearing from you and hearing what you think, so thank you.
If you want to ask the real Grace Gilbert any questions about this chapter or her life in Mystic Falls with her Salvatore then head on over to ask-grace-gilbert . tumblr ask (just take out the spaces and ask away!)
If you want to follow me on my other blog for story updates, previews and anything else I like to post then go over to proud-salvatore . tumblr . com (once again just take out the spaces, I'm sure you know by now, but just incase)
If you want to see the outfits (or what Grace's dorm room looks like) then check out my polyvore page, my name is graciiieee
Finally thank you very much to my lovely beta missss supernatural, thanks for getting this back to me super quick, I appreciate it.
Answers and responses below:
malindakj: I really like your idea, it's really well thought out, but I do have a storyline already planned for Amara and her twin sister (you'll find out her name in later chapters, don't worry) Silas is gonna play a big part it in but I don't want too many doppelgänger's running around otherwise it begins to confuse this. The tag line for this season for Twisted Love is 'It's Time To Fight... Destiny' So that might give you a little incite into what's going to happen in the future.
RelleRose100: aww, you're so sweet, with the fan club thing, haha :') I'm am posting the Klace New Orleans story, so I hope you enjoy it.
snmuenst: I hope you enjoy this chapter, it's season five, baby! Woo!
rosa: Glad to know that you're excited for the new story, check it out, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you. Oh and I read your other reviews, I know you want quicker updating and I'm working on that, but the more words thing seems harder for me considering most of my chapters are about 20,000 words long, that's a lot for me, but I'll try I guess.
: Thank you.
pooky: Glad you enjoyed it, yes, Grace and Damon will be using those tickets for their summer vacation before college begins.
Guest: Then please do go check the story out.
Vm Salvatore: I'm very glad that you're Drace shipper, they are finally going strong with not a lot of problems (compared to what they've had thrown at them in the past, haha) I understand that you wouldn't like the Klace story, so don't feel obliged to read it, I won't be offended.
A. Alice-LaCasse: The strange thing is a lot of people were rooting for Klaus even though I kinda stated where this story was going to end, that's why I wanted to write this new story because I want to be able to please everyone.
MatthewGrayGublerNutxx: Hey, Eloise, I'm actually amazed you read the entire thing, that's a lot of chapters, I guess I never really expect new readers, but I am always happy to see and hear from them. So well don't you, definitely got an achievement for that one.
Padfoot Heir: Yeah, it was one hell of an ending for sure, Damn right Grace kicked that evil vamp-sluts butt with the help of her sister of course, thank God she was there otherwise she would have been toast. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and it lived up to your standards.
I3Elijah: That's so cool that you write tvd fanfiction because of this story, that really warms my heart so thank you very much. I'd love to hear from you to hear what they are actually about. I'm always interested hearing from everyone, so please don't hesitate if you wanna get in contact.
Mia Salvatore: Yeah, it really was a tear-jerker of an episode, Klaus has sadly come to an end, but we all knew it was going to, because a love like Drace's can never die. I'm glad to hear that you would like the new story, too. Please go check it out if you wanna read it.
Nymartian: Yeah, I get where you're coming from, after all that they've been through they can't say it was all for nothing. Klaus and Grace are always going to be special to each other, that's why I wanted this AU to happen, because I don't just wanna forget about it, but I don't wanna forget about Drace, too. I'm greedy, I want both!
Guest: Glad that you think so, please go check it out, it would mean the world to me.
SomebodyWhoCares: You were right on the nose with Italy, that was their final destination on their trip before they headed home.
ddluzelle: Ah, I'm so sorry I keep on making you cry, but I am glad you were crying because you liked it, haha. Here's the sequel you were asking for, hope you enjoy it.
Kel1017: Yes, I have written an AU where Grace chooses Klaus and leaves with him for New Orleans, I hope that you enjoy it.
PattyFleur87: I'm really glad that you liked it, Patty. Yep, Gracie chose her Damon, the love of her life. Swoon.
katherinemikaelson: I know you're sad, but I have written an AU where Grace chooses Klaus instead if you want to see how that turns out.
NV1864: Great, glad you agree, please go check out the story!
xxxRena: Exactly, this is a Damon/OC story after all, we all knew where this story was going to end up, doesn't mean that we can't dream, but there we go, the love triangle ended and here we are, in Drace land!
winxgirl1997: hope you enjoy
Nicole: Wow, that's really sweet of you to say, thank you. I hope maybe the amazing Qetsiyah will be able to bring the veil down once more, I do want Bon-Bon to come back to us. Exactly I want Klace to be friends, they mean so much to each other they at least owe them that. I'm with you there, I'm a Mabekah shipper, too. Katherine will be back soon, but we're gonna have to watch Fayth squirm for a little while first, which should be fine. Always and Forever Gramoaus (the love triangle that never seemed to end, and honestly I didn't want it to). I'm right there with you, darling!
Chloe: Me, too. I hope you're enjoying season five so far.
Guest: I'm very glad that you said that, it's what I wanted to Klace, for there to be some kind of closure for them, especially after everything they had been through. There should be some one-shots coming out to do with the Drace summer vacation, so look out for that.
runawaycherry93: I'm right there with you about not being able to see the season end any other way, but I'm glad that you are open to the idea of a new story, thank you.
UncreditedWriter: Will do, friend. Thanks for you opinion.
Whitttyyy76: I totally agree with you, I wouldn't know which one to choose either, luckily Grace was able to make her final decision. I'm really glad you like the idea of New Orleans story, I hope you continue to read TL as well.
Sabine Christensen: No problem, glad you liked it.
grapejuice101: I will be doing a New Orleans story following Klace, so look out for that. I was glad that she chose to be with Damon, too. Hope you enjoy this season.
Ghostwriter: I know, poor baby, I hated what they did to him in the show, it was totally not fair. I think as soon as Damon heard that Stefan was AWOL for an entire summer he knew something was up and I think that deep down Elena knew something was wrong, too, but she was unable to do anything about it sadly. I can't wait to Katherine to see her sister weak and vulnerable, that should be fun. Hope you enjoy the season.
Graciiee