Bloodlines
Chapter 3: True Lies (TVD)
Beta: PrincessOfSilence
Disclaimer: I own nothing of TVD or TO. I only own my characters and my story.
"I can try to swim down there." Cassandra offered, her eyes never leaving the rushing water. "It doesn't look too deep."
"You're not going anywhere," Damon said from beside her.
Normally, she would have fought him on the issue, but for a moment, she didn't say anything. They both stared down at the water in the quarry in absolute silence. This could have been the last place Stefan was standing before Silas decided to do away with him. It was a haunting fact that they were uneasy about. How could it be that Stefan's suffering had gone unnoticed for the entire summer? Had they both that selfish to not check in or even wonder about his whereabouts? "He could be down there. He could be down there screaming for help and we can't even hear him."
"Now you sense my urgency to find him." Her husband said tensely as Liz Forbes walked up to the two of them.
"I know I said I'd help you both find Stefan, but I can't dredge this entire quarry. It's enormous." She informed them.
"I'm aware of that. I mean, clearly that's why we wanted to dump Silas' body, here because it's big and deep and no one would find him. Now, say I'm Silas, and I wanna take over my doppelganger's life. Why wouldn't I dump him in a place that's big and deep, where no one would find him?" Damon posed.
"Damon, I already agreed to hold off on telling anyone about the Mayor's death until you figured this all out, but I can't devote those kinds of resources to finding one person who may or may not be down there." The Sheriff countered.
"Where else would Stefan be?" Cassandra chimed in. "The quarry would be the only place where he would be so that no one would find him."
"We can't make any promises." Liz looked between the two of them.
"But it's a place to start. And if Stefan's down there, that means he's been drowning over and over again all summer while Cassandra and I have been away." The vampire explained guiltily. Ever since Silas told Damon that his baby brother was suffering, guilt hardened his heart.
"Please, Liz," Cassandra implored the sheriff on her husband's behalf. "This is Stefan we're talking about."
After a minute or so of thinking it over, Sheriff Forbes looked down at the water before answering. "I'll get some deputies on it."
"Thank you, Liz." Damon smiled genuinely at her and she returned it. Walking off, she made a call back to the station just as the vampire's phone rang in his pocket.
"Please tell me you found her." He asked the party on the other end.
"I didn't, but Matt did." Jeremy replied.
"Huh. How shockingly...useful." Damon deadpanned.
"Give the kid some more credit, will you?" Cassandra chided, smacking her husband's shoulder.
"She was mid-cat-fight with some lady who maced her. We think Silas might have mind-controlled himself some new friends." The teen explained as Matt tied Katherine's hands together with rope and ushered her into the back of his pickup truck.
"How exactly did the Gilbert-Donovan brain trust put all that together?" Damon asked and Cassandra glared at him. "Never mind, it doesn't matter. Just hide her. If Silas wants her bad enough to sic the whole town on her, that means we want her more. Stay out of sight—you were the last person who Silas saw her with."
"Well, that's one of our problems solved." Cassandra sighed and sat on a large rock that overlooked the quarry. "What the hell would Silas want Katherine for? I mean, she's human so she's pretty much useless except for her annoying ability to get herself into trouble." When Damon didn't answer her, she looked up at him and sighed heavily at the sight. His blue eyes were fixated on the water below them as if trying to peer into the dark depths for the answers he needed. Cassandra hesitantly stood and put her hand on his shoulder which was tense, wound up so tight that he might just snap.
"Damon," she called, but he still wouldn't look at her. She turned him to face her and cupped his cheeks, tilting his hurt blue hues to meet her own. "Damon, I am so sorry that this happened, but we will find Stefan." She caught his eyes watering or perhaps it was the sharp reflection of light bouncing off the water, but she knew that he was in pain. "I promise." The vampire turned his head away from her and walked back to the edge of the quarry. One step and he would plummet into the cold water. His wife frowned as her phone rang and she was going to ignore the call, but it was Elena.
"It's Elena. Let me just take this." She muttered and walked past some of Liz's men whom she had called to help look for Stefan.
"It was mortifying. We just sat there in silence." Elena blabbed embarrassedly as she finished telling Cassandra the story about how she and Caroline got kicked out of class on their first day.
"College professors are douches. They don't care about the individual students." Cassandra consoled. "Whatever, I'm sure that the guy is a real dick bag. And this is the professor that might have some answers for you?"
"Yeah, that's him." The vampire sighed as she weaved through the smiling faces on campus.
"Did you try compelling him?" Cassandra asked.
"No, because chances are, if he knows about vampires, then he also knows about vervain." She said quietly into her phone so the other students wouldn't hear.
"You could always beat it out of him. It's a very popular method and one of my personal favorites." She smirked. The Sheriff's men were surveying the area around the quarry, calculating and speculating how to get into the ravine.
"I'll get answers out of him. Right now I'm just trying to blend in." Elena said.
"Good. And how is that going for you?" The hybrid questioned.
"It's going okay. I'm actually kind of worried." She frowned.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"I keep...god this sounds so weird, but I keep having dreams about Stefan." Cassandra let that swirl around in her head for a few moments before replying.
"What kind of dreams?" She asked carefully.
"It's not really a dream. It's kind of like a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach." Elena clarified. "I'm just worried about him."
"Of course you are. He's your boyfriend." She agreed.
"But doesn't it seem weird to you that he hasn't called all summer?" Elena worried her cuticles.
"Elena, have you met Stefan? He cares more about hair products than he does checking in with us." Cassandra rolled her eyes.
"I don't know. I kind of just...Stefan?"
The hybrid wrinkled her nose. "What?"
"Stefan, he's here." Elena said happily and Cassandra's stomach dropped.
"Listen to me, Elena. Turn around and run. Run for your life. Whatever you do, don't-" Her warning had gone ignored as Elena hung up the phone.
The pair barged into the girl's dorm room, practically knocking the door off its hinges and inside was a very indecent Caroline. She was fresh out of the shower and wrapped in a towel.
"Damon! Towel, knock!" She hissed, her hands clutching the fabric.
"Caroline. No one cares, no." Damon countered.
"Where's Elena?" Cassandra asked.
"I don't know. She probably went to the bonfire to get more intel on our weirdo professor." Caroline replied.
"Well get dressed. Silas is here," she said and passed her some clothes that were lying on her bed. "He's pretending to be Stefan."
The blonde's bottom lip quivered. "I thought that Stefan dropped his body in the quarry."
"Join the club. Get dressed." Damon ordered and threw more clothes at her which she barely managed to catch since she was trying to keep the towel around her body.
A look of shocking realization found its way onto Caroline's face. "Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Elena was right. All summer, she's had this pit in her stomach about Stefan."
"I know. Elena told me before she hung up with me to talk to Silas." The hybrid shooed the blonde vampire into the bathroom. "Hurry up, put some clothes on, and meet us downstairs."
Caroline had gotten dressed surprisingly quick and the trio was searching the grounds of the main campus. The bonfire was underway and students were ready to unwind and have some fun after their classes. Damon held Cassandra's hand tightly, sensing her uneasiness that they hadn't seen Elena, but he did see Silas. He had threatened both husband and wife, warning them to not get in his way.
"Hey, relax." His voice was soothing, calming her nerves.
"I can't help it. We can't find Elena and Silas ran into you." She squeezed his hand.
"Why would Silas want to mess with Elena?" Caroline asked.
"He wants to get to us." Cassandra replied. "And he's doing one hell of a job." A hard shoulder smashed into the hybrid's body and she looked up to see a tall, stocky student.
"Hey, watch where you're going." He hissed.
Damon was quick to defend his wife, standing in between her and the jock. "Woah, let's take it easy, buddy."
Cassandra's eyes shifted, little flicks of amber separating the normally dark hues. "How about you watch where you're going." Damon cast a sideways glance at Caroline; Cassandra was never the kind of person to cause confrontation, so it was very odd to see her picking a fight with a guy who was almost three times her size.
The boy scoffed. "Are you kidding? You walked into me."
"Tough shit, punk," she growled and she could vaguely feel Damon tugging on her upper arm.
"Come on, Cass. Let's go." He cooed softly and her hard stare broke, turning on her heel and walking away.
"Yeah, that's right. Put a leash on her the next time you take her out in public." The boy shouted after them. In seconds, Cassandra broke from Damon's grip and sped over to the kid, her hand curling tightly around his throat.
"You wanna say that to my face this time?" Cassandra's eyes were glowing now with a mix of blood red and bright amber.
"Cass!" Damon hushed. "Put him down." Her nails were sharpening, tearing into the boy's throat as he struggled to breathe. Strangled gasps left his lips and he was desperately trying to pull Cassandra off him.
"What was that? I didn't hear you." She taunted him, a menacing grin painting her features. Her grip tightened and his eyes were beginning to fall closed, but Caroline whisked him away and compelled him to forget what had happened and leave.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Caroline screeched. "You could have killed him!"
Cassandra felt a cold chill run up the length of her spine and her body shivered. She blinked a couple of times and looked around oddly, as if unaware of where she was. Her eyes had slowly reverted to normal and all she could do was tilt her head at Caroline.
"I don't..." She put a hand to her forehead, trying to understand what Caroline was yelling at her for. "What...what happened?"
"What happened?! Are you seriously asking that right now?" The blonde clenched her fists.
"Easy, blondie." Damon huffed and put his hands on Cassandra's shoulders. "Do you remember what happened, Cass?"
Cassandra shook her head slowly. "I...no, I don't."
"Damon..." Caroline trailed off and they turned to see Silas standing off in the distance. "Is that?"
"Silas." The vampire finished. "Get out of here, Caroline. Go look for Elena." The blonde was ready to argue, but she flashed away and didn't look back.
"Cassandra!" Elena's panicked voice reached their ears and she ran up to them. "You have to come quick. Something's happened and I need help."
"It's okay, Elena. Just calm down." Cassandra hushed.
"Well, I don't know if I'd say that." Silas was standing with them now and Damon glared at him.
"What do you want Silas?" He growled.
"Can't a guy enjoy a drink and a bonfire?" He smirked.
Damon looked over his shoulder at the two girls. "Run. The both of you."
"No," Cassandra fought. "I'm not leaving you here with him."
"Cassandra, take Elena and go." He repeated.
"I would listen to him if I were you, Cassandra." Silas snickered evilly and the hybrid could feel Elena tugging at her arm.
"Please, Cassandra. I need you to help me." Elena begged. "I made a big mistake."
Cassandra's glance shifted between her husband, her enemy, and one of her best friends, conflicted on which path to take. The look in Damon's eyes pleaded with her to leave and so did Elena's. Silas' however were hiding some kind of malicious intent that was masked with a dark glee that was haunting.
"Damon..." She trailed off.
"I'll be fine." He promised, not wanting her anywhere near Silas especially with their unborn child. Silas said that he didn't want their child, but it didn't mean that he'd try to kill it. "Just go."
It was the final tug from Elena that made Cassandra walk away from her husband. Her fearful brown eyes were locked on Silas' form as they both disappeared from the bonfire.
Elena unlocked her dorm room door and locked it behind the both of them. Cassandra walked further into the room, looking for the 'mistake' that Elena was so upset about. She figured that she'd see a body or two that she had accidentally drained but the room was completely clean.
"What-" Before Cassandra could ask what the problem was, Elena smashed her in the back of the skull with a lamp from the bedside table. She crumpled to her knees and while she was down, Elena dragged her to a chair. The vampire then took one of Megan's vervain water bottles and doused the hybrid with it. Cassandra screamed and writhed at her skin burned and Elena took the chance to start tying her to the chair with extra clothes and appliance cords that she found in the room.
"Comfy?" Elena asked and she threw more of the poisonous liquid on Cassandra's skin.
"Silas got in your head." She gritted, feeling her skin heal over. "What did he tell you to do?" Cassandra asked as she watched her move about the room, clearly looking for something to match her evil intentions.
"He told me to get you alone." She took up her weapon of choice, a field hockey stick and wielded it in her hands. "To weaken you." The stick smacked the hybrid across the cheek, a slash breaking the skin. The hybrid growled low in her throat, glaring at Elena while her face healed.
"Did Silas have anything else on his diabolical agenda?" She hissed.
Elena smirked evilly and broke the stick over her knee, making it into a sharp point and she discarded the other side. "And then he wanted me to kill that thing that's growing inside you."
The vampire roughly took Cassandra's chin in her hand and forced her mouth open with a crushing grip. Her lips parted the slightest distance and Elena shoved the opening of the vervain water bottle in the space. The burning sensation was horrid, the insides of her mouth sizzled and rotted away, but she refused to swallow. She had stopped ingesting vervain ever since she found out that she was pregnant because she was scared of the harmful effects that it could have on the baby. Damon had bought her a vervain necklace to compensate for her inability to drink the toxic fluid and replaced all liquids in the house that had any traces of vervain in them.
"Swallow!" Elena hissed and squeezed Cassandra's jaw so hard that it snapped loudly, adding more pain to her already crumbling tolerance level. "Swallow it!"
With her arms and legs limited from stopping Elena, Cassandra improvised and spat the water onto the vampire. She jumped back and screamed, swatting off her face. The vampire looked back at Cassandra, clearly bewildered and confused as to why she was tied to a chair.
"Cassandra, I'm so sorry, I— What the hell is happening?" She asked.
"Silas put you in some kind of trance, but I guess you snapped out of it." The hybrid said.
"Silas? But I—"
"Yes, the guy you talked to today is Silas. It's not Stefan." Cassandra explained.
Elena was shaking her head, unable to understand that the man she was talking to earlier was not her boyfriend, but it was the person who had been the cause of all of their problems last year. "How is that possible? I was in a crowd full of people. I hugged him; I was talking to him about my life, and about—"
"Damon and I?" She finished. "Yeah, I bet he had some choice things to say.
"Wait, if that was Silas...where's Stefan? What happened to Stefan? Where is he?" Elena's rage was quickly rising once again.
"Woah, woah! Okay! Can we talk about this when you don't look like you're going to kill me?" Cassandra backed up against the chair, seeing that her friend was losing control again.
"You're right. Every time I look at you, all I wanna do is kill you." Elena hissed and picked up the sharpened end of the hockey stick.
"Elena, put the stick down. You don't want to do this." She told her.
"No, I do. Because Silas told me that I have to do it." The vampire took the bottle of vervain and splashed some on her body, making Cassandra wriggle around her chair and cry out. "And that abomination inside you has to die."
Cassandra's teeth clenched in her mouth and her hands balled into tight fists, her sharp nails splintering the wood. "Shut up."
"In fact, maybe I could rip that thing out of you." Elena added. "And you can watch it squirm around and die."
"I said, shut up." She repeated, her anger growing with each passing second. Something inside her was stirring, a rage that was quickly spreading through her veins like wildfire. It was much like what happened at the bonfire with that boy and Cassandra couldn't control it.
"Better yet, I'll have Damon watch." Elena snickered and rose up the stick to stab Cassandra in the stomach. In an instant, Cassandra's eyes flashed amber and her rage exploded. The shift inside her body could simply be explained like a switch that had been flicked on. Her legs thrust forward, breaking the ties that bound her and it sent the vampire back a few feet. Cassandra's double fangs were just itching to rip into Elena' throat. With a rough yank of each arm, she was freed from their chair and she tackled the young vampire. The two struggled, beating, kicking, and punching one another without holding back. Cassandra finally got Elena on her back and she wailed on her. Her fists pummeled her face in, recreating new cuts and bruises where the old ones healed. The hybrid wasn't stopping for anyone, her eyes were gleaming amber and her fists beat Elena to a pulp. The baby vampire seemed to cower now, trying to shield herself from the harmful blows, she even called to Cassandra, asking her to stop, but she didn't. Instead, she only hit Elena harder in her black rage.
"Cassandra! No! Stop it!" Elena begged desperately and when Cassandra didn't listen, the vampire reached for an extra vervain bottle that had rolled near them and splashed her face with it. The hybrid immediately backed off, wiping her face down and groaning in pain.
The dark haze in Elena's eyes seemed to vanish and she was looking around the room curiously. What was she doing here? She couldn't remember how she got here or why there were puddles of vervain water on the floor. Cassandra hissed, staring back at the vampire as her face healed over. Her eyes were still deadly and Elena scooted away from her. She'd never seen her this crazy, it was like she was a rabid animal that couldn't be controlled.
Before Cassandra could think about going after Elena again, the door burst wide open and Damon vamp sped inside. He looped his arms around his wife's and he yanked her back to him. She fought his hold, eager to get to Elena and tear her head off of her shoulders, but Damon wouldn't let go.
"Let me go, Damon!" She yelled.
"You need to calm down." He demanded and looked to Elena. "What happened here?" The baby vampire couldn't answer; her gaze was stuck on Cassandra's thrashing form in Damon's arms. Becoming fed up with her fighting, Damon tossed Cassandra back into the chair and cupped her face in his hands. For the first time, he was actually afraid of her. She looked so different, a distorted and bent image of her normal self. He peered into her eyes, seeing something dark burrowing there and he gently stroked her cheeks.
"Just take it easy, Cass. Calm down." Like at the bonfire, she heard his voice and she immediately fell slack against the back of the chair. She blinked away the rage and hate, her demonic soul disappearing within the depths of her body. She panted wildly, coming back to herself and she looked at Damon who was at a loss for words.
Her eyes darted around the room, taking in the vervain and pieces of a hockey stick littering floor. Elena was huddled in the corner, holding her healing face.
"Did someone break in here?" Cassandra asked Damon who shook his head.
"Cassandra, you and Elena did this. You two got into a fight and that's why the room is like this." He explained to her very slowly, drawing out every detail for her in hopes of having her memory come back.
"But why did we fight?" She wondered.
Damon peered over at Elena who was making her way towards Cassandra. "Wanna take this one?"
Elena nodded and swallowed thickly. "I...uhm, Silas put some kind of trance on me and he told me to focus all of my anger on you. I was upset that you both lied to me about Jeremy getting expelled. We fought and you beat me to a pulp. That's when the trance ended."
"Ringing any bells?" Damon questioned.
"I remember..." Her wandering gaze landed on the broken hockey stick and it all came rushing back to her. "You...you wanted to kill me and my baby." Damon placed his hand on the back of the chair, gripping tightly so it wouldn't be Elena's head that he wanted to squeeze.
"Baby? What baby?" Elena asked incredulously and she saw Damon and Cassandra's eyes meet for just a second. "Silas said to kill what was inside of you and then he-" Elena suddenly stopped, her train of thought coming to an abrupt halt. Her mouth opened and closed countless times and she ran a hand through her hair. Cassandra could see the gears in the young vampire's head turning and whirling rapidly, as if trying to fit together the pieces of the puzzle. "You...you're pregnant?"
Cassandra nodded and passed a hand over her stomach. Inside her womb, her child's heartbeat drummed against her fingers. "I'm sorry that we didn't tell you, Elena."
The baby vampire rubbed her eyes and grabbed an extra chair that was tucked neatly under Caroline's desk. She sat in it and hunched over, astonishment washing over her. She gave herself a moment to compose her thoughts and she met the nervous gazes of the married couple.
"Tell me everything."
"So, Jeremy got expelled, Katherine is living at the boarding house, Silas is here and Stefan is..." Elena's voice trembled; her entire body shook just thinking about her boyfriend who had been suffering all summer.
"And Cassandra's pregnant." Damon added. "Can't forget that one."
"I can't believe that none of you told me. Especially you, Cassandra." The vampire glared at the hybrid.
"We didn't tell you because you have to move forward with your life. You can't run home every time something bad happens, Elena." She explained.
"You both lied to me." The female vampire glowered. "How can I even begin to forgive you both? When it concerns my family and my boyfriend, I have every damn right to know." Her haze of rage was quickly descending over her again and she grabbed a book of matches.
"Elena, what are you doing?" Damon tried to wrestle the book from her hands but she fought him.
"Get off me!" She hissed as she continued to strike the match against the book, but it wouldn't take. With one hard smack, the book flew out of her hands and Damon scooped it up. "You wouldn't tell me about Stefan!"
It suddenly dawned on Cassandra that a trigger to Elena's rage was Stefan. Silas was one tricky son-of-a-bitch, but if Elena could think about Stefan, perhaps her trance would break. "Think about Stefan."
At the sound of his name, the female vampire seemed to calm. "What?"
"The feelings you told me earlier today, think about them. Tell me exactly what you feel." Cassandra spurred on.
Elena slumped back down in her chair again as the feelings took over her at an alarming rate. It hurt to think about them, but it took the focus away from her rage. "It's...it's like a chill, but I can't explain it. It's like I can feel him. He's trying to reach out to me, but I don't know where he is, and I can't understand what he's trying to say. All I know is that he's scared, and he's lonely, and he's in a lot of pain. He's in a lot of pain. We have to find him." She was nearly in tears by the time she finished and the thoughts of Stefan extinguished her rage like how water crashes over a raging fire.
Cassandra nodded, her own eyes watering with tears. "We will. I swear." She rose from her chair and hugged the vampire tightly as she cried into her shoulder. "I promise that we'll find him."
After Elena had cried her eyes out, she wiped her tears and looked to Cassandra who had been pulled into a strong embrace by her husband. He was whispering softly in her ear how thankful he was that she was okay and about how sorry he was for asking her to leave him with Silas.
"It's okay, Damon." She told him assuredly and placed her hand on her stomach, smiling when she felt her child still there. "We're okay." She was terrified that Elena would kill them both, but she told herself that she would fight for both her life and her unborn child. She remembered when Silas taunted her at prom and toyed with her emotions. She promised herself after she had crawled back from the depths of hell that she would never let anyone take advantage of her again. Maybe that was why her rage was so sudden. Her child's life had been threatened and she went completely rogue.
It was Elena's turn to stand now and she walked over to the couple. The female vampire's eyes were glued on Cassandra's stomach and to her completely surprise, she could hear the pitter patter of a tiny heartbeat resting inside her womb. "Can I...can I feel it?"
Smiling at the young vampire's excitement, Cassandra took Elena's wrists and placed her hands on her stomach. The vampire could actually feel the baby and her eyes widened.
"Oh my god!" Her hands moved on the hybrid's stomach, passing back and forth and the baby's heartbeat increased, as if sensing her excitement.
"Crazy, right?" Cassandra giggled as she watched Elena touch her belly.
"This is impossible, but I feel it." She said. The doorknob turned and Caroline peered inside. Her nose wrinkled at the sight before her.
"What the hell is going on in here?" She asked. Both girls looked at each other, giggling and smiling. Elena's glance shifted slightly as if questioning Cassandra with a simple look. Cassandra nodded and Elena darted over to Caroline, taking her wrist and leading her back to the hybrid.
"Why isn't anyone saying anything? Here I am worried sick about what happened and-" Caroline's ramblings were stopped as soon as Elena put her hands on Cassandra's stomach. Blue eyes were wide as dinner plates and she could hardly bring herself to speak. Damon stood behind his wife, putting his hands on her shoulders and kissing her ear lovingly. It had been hard keeping the pregnancy a secret from everyone, but as each new person found out, it was taking a large weight off their shoulders.
Caroline's hands went to her mouth to cover the gasp that left her lips. She was in awe, this was something that had never happened in the history of vampirism and yet, here it was.
Elena huffed as she stuffed her last duffle bag into the back of Cassandra's car. After a long night of explanations, she decided that for now it would be best to return to Mystic Falls until things were sorted out. Last night she had dreams of Stefan again and they only fueled her desires to find him and make sure that he was safe. Silas was not seen on campus since the fiasco that occurred yesterday, but it was very possible that he could have gone back to Mystic Falls to cause even more trouble.
"Got everything?" Cassandra asked from behind her and she turned and nodded.
"I think so," Elena replied. "I am just really nervous about Stefan. I mean, what if my feelings are right? What if he really is in a lot of danger? And what if Silas hid him some place where we can't find him?"
"Hey, hey, hey." The hybrid placed a pair of comforting hands on the vampire's shoulders. "You can't think like that because if you do, Stefan will think like that too. We'll find him."
Elena wrapped her arms around Cassandra's form, hugging her tightly before pulling down and looking down at her stomach. "Cassandra, last night...I'm so sorry. Silas just got in my head and-"
"Elena-"
"No, what if I went through with it? What if..."
Sighing deeply, Cassandra ran a hand through her hair. "But you didn't. We're okay." She told her firmly. All last night Elena was apologizing for nearly killing Cassandra's child and it was making her a little sick to keep constantly hearing it. "Look, I almost beat you up so hard that I could have punched your head right off your shoulders. I almost killed you last night if Damon didn't stop me."
"Do you have any idea why that happened?" Elena asked.
"No, but I wish I knew. Maybe it's a defense mechanism. All I know is, my anger was out of control. It was like I was black with rage." She sighed. "I couldn't stop myself."
"You two ready?" Damon asked as he approached Cassandra's car with a tray of coffees. Elena nodded, took one from him and hopped in the car. "Good morning." He handed Cassandra her coffee and a kiss.
"Morning and thank you." She took a few long sips and hummed in delight.
"So, can we agree it's weird that Elena is having odd dreams about Stefan?" He posed.
"Okay, so maybe it's weird, but they love each other, Damon. She can't help it if she gets a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach." She said. "Call it women's intuition. I'm glad that she'll be home."
Damon's mouth wrinkled, making a face. "But it was so nice having the house to ourselves."
"It's not like we did anything." She giggled, sipping more of her coffee. "I was either really sick or too tired." Cassandra wouldn't lie, but she and Damon had a very healthy sex life and they were not ashamed of it. When Jeremy went back to school, they had the house to themselves for a few days and Damon was looking to rekindle their passionate romance, but Cassandra was often struck with morning sickness or she was so tired from the night before because of the morning sickness.
"I know, but in my head, we were animals." Damon smirked and took up her coffee, placing it on the roof of the car.
"Oh really?" She challenged. "Well, I'd love to hear what ran through that twisted little head of yours." Her husband stepped closer to her and bent down, so his lips were at her ear. Hushed whispers and naughty thoughts were spoken, making Cassandra shiver and tremble at the thought.
"Hmm, very interesting." Her bottom lip was trapped between her teeth as he continued. "Oh my, well, I do miss when you do that." Damon was ready to keep speaking when Elena honked the horn, signaling for them to hurry up.
Damon growled as he pulled away. "Are you sure you don't want to retract that statement about you being happy that Elena is coming home."
"I heard that!" The young vampire shouted.
"Don't be mean. She has every right to come home and help look for her boyfriend who has been missing all summer." She tsked.
"Oh, that reminds me." Damon fished a chunky ring from his pocket and showed it to Cassandra.
"That's Stefan's daylight ring."
"Snagged it from Silas yesterday." He bragged.
Cassandra took the ring and held it between her fingers. "Didn't know I married a kleptomaniac."
"Surprise." Her husband smirked, but it faltered knowing the Stefan was just about powerless without his daylight ring. It was one thing to make a vampire suffer all summer, but to take their daylight ring was low. Cassandra opened Damon's hand and placed the ring in his palm.
"We'll find Stefan." She told him assuredly and closed his fingers around the ring. "And the two of us will be okay."
Damon pocketed the ring and put his right hand on her stomach, a smile touching his lips. "The three of us."
Cassandra's smile only grew brighter and she went up on her tip toes to kiss him soundly, her arms winding around his neck. Damon held her hips, squeezing them firmly and deepening the kiss. Their lips moved smoothly over one another's, enjoying the loving caresses and tender touches they shared. Damon walked them backwards, pressing his wife against her truck and she giggled innocently as he took control. He slipped his tongue inside her mouth, brushing it over hers and Cassandra took the chance to nip at his bottom lip. She whimpered wantonly, begging him for more and her stomach flipped when she felt Damon's hand cup her behind. They may have been in the middle of the campus parking lot that was busy with students who were eyeballing the eager couple, but they didn't care. Being parents would be a difficult challenge, but it was a relief to know that they were both on board with the idea to not give up on one another.
"Excuse me! Do you mind?" Caroline shouted from across the parking lot and the couple begrudgingly broke apart. "Do that when you get home!"
Cassandra bit her bottom lip and pressed her lips to Damon's again. She kissed him fully and gave Caroline the middle-finger over her husband's shoulder. Caroline just shook her head and went back to her room, leaving the married couple to their...business. Damon's arousal only heightened feeling his wife cuddling against him, but his phone ringing in his pocket meant that other pressing matters were calling. He grumbled some choice words under his breath and answered it. Not one to be ignored so easily, Cassandra placed her hands on his strong chest and pouted adorably. Damon's gaze was fixated on her pouting lips, wishing that he could kiss them. She ducked her head in the crook of his neck, gently loving and nipping at the skin there.
"Yeah?" He drawled into the phone.
"We found something."
The trio practically flew back to Mystic Falls and they met Liz in the woods where she led them to a large safe that was on the ground. Was this safe Stefan's prison the entire summer?
"We didn't find anything in the quarry, but a deputy found this a few miles away." Liz told them as Damon stepped closer to it, examining the safe.
"So, do you think that Stefan was trapped in this for the entire summer?" Cassandra asked. "I know that he's kinda on the animal blood diet, but he would have been strong enough to get his way out of this safe."
"Not unless Silas weakened him." Damon said.
"But we've met Silas, he's far from the quintessential vampire we know today." She added.
"That doesn't mean that he's not crafty. Over the past few days, we've seen how crafty he actually is." The vampire kicked the side of the safe with his boot. "Did your deputies touch it?"
Liz shook her head. "Didn't open it. If Stefan's been in there for three months, chances are, he's hungry." Damon turned the heavy dial on the safe, hearing the lock click out of place. Cassandra stood on the other side and helped him to lift the door open. Peering inside, Elena recoiled seeing a bloody corpse resting inside the safe.
"Oh, my God. That's not Stefan." She whimpered.
Damon turned to Liz before looking down at the body again. The neck was ripped out and blood stained its clothes. "Well, you were right. He was hungry. I bet he still is."
Well, it looks like Cassandra's hormones and anger are getting a little out of control. She will kill anyone who goes near her and Damon's unborn child. Elena knows about Stefan and Silas. The girls know about the baby and STEFAN IS OUT OF THE SAFE! Brace yourselves for this Thursday because the Ripper is back! Please review :D
Writers Block 420: Thank you for reviewing! I do like Elijah and Giuliana together! They have a nice chemistry which is very sweet and endearing.
grapejuice101: Thanks for reviewing! I am torn between both Elijah/Giuliana and Klaus/Giuliana. Their relationships are both so different. Hmm, that would be a very interesting dynamic if Klaus found out that Cassandra was also pregnant. Right now, Elijah is the only one who knows that she is pregnant and he is...in a box :(
Silently Tearful: Thank you for reviewing! I like Giuliana with Klaus and Elijah too! Both relationships are very different and so are both men. They are very delicious men ;) I liked the insert with Damon and Cassandra too. I would love to have a crossover, but right now, Elijah is the only person who knows that Cassandra is pregnant. Maybe during a hiatus, Damon and Cassandra could vacation in New Orleans.
sarahmichellegellarfan1: Thanks girl! I hope you saw the episode and liked my twist on it :)
Nymartian: Thank you for your review! I do like both relationships because they have different dynamics! There will be some Marcel/Giuliana in the upcoming chapters and especially after tonight's TO episode. So stay tuned!
Seira asami: Thank you for reviewing! Katherine is Silas' long lost doppelganger? Hmm, that is an interesting theory. Paul Wesely is an amazing actor and I enjoy watching him. I like writing Elijah with Giuliana because he is very kind and sweet. Plus, he looks great in a suit ;) I do hope that he will be undaggered soon!
xoxobianca13: Thanks for reviewing! I like the Klaus/Giuliana/Elijah/Hayley dynamic too! And I think the little insert with Damon and Cassandra was nice to add in. I'd like to do more in the future. I like Elijah's protectiveness over Giuliana and that is part of his nature.
rosa: Thank you for your review! I think it would be nice for Cassandra and Damon to go to New Orleans, but we'll have to see how that goes.
nickiR0x: You do not suck because I am kinda stuck on which one to pick too! Elijah is a good guy and I think that he should get the girl. We'll have to see how the next few chapters play out since Elijah is in a box :( Thanks so much for reviewing, girl!
DreamCatcher1920: Thank you for reviewing!
smkbaby123: Hehe, I'm rooting for Elijah too. But I love Klaus too! Gah! So hard to decide!
SomebodyWhoCares: I hope that the morning sickness goes away too! I am stuck between Klaus/Giuliana and Elijah/Giuliana too! Thank you for reviewing!
flazzy cullen: I think Klaus deserves a real love too, but so does Elijah! Thanks so much for reviewing! I love the Originals! I think it is a really great show and I've heard that the CW ordered more episodes for the show :)
shippolove844: Thank you for reviewing! Cassandra's pregnancy will get interesting, although it will not be like the movie Twilight. I was liking Elijah and Giuliana too and then Klaus has to do...that! Gah!
Guest: Thanks for your review! I like E and G too!
Rose1324: Thank you so much, girl! Here is your update :)
rosa: Thanks for reviewing! I am sorry that this chapter took a little longer to update, but I am very busy with classes. Please be patient with me and I will update as soon as I can :) I might have a crossover with Damon and Cassandra going to New Orleans, but I will have to see how the season goes.