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Chapter 29: The High School Carnival

Leilani could feel someone large holding onto her arms. "Leave them alone!" she heard Sakura's voice screech. Leilani slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She saw a slightly younger Sakura being held back by a couple of men. She looked around the room more and saw a familiar dirty blonde haired teenager, being held back and looking more frightened than even Sakura.

"If you would do what you were commanded too, it wouldn't have come to this,"a big, bulkly, grey haired man said with a thick accent. "We will let them go once you complete your mission," he scoffed.

Leilani was completely confused, a mission? What mission would Sakura have?

"I can't do that!" Sakura cried out. "You want me to kill children, that's just too much for me," Sakura struggled, trying to free herself.

"You've killed before, why are children so much different from the rest?" he asked.

"How can you ask that? I've only been killing monsters!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Mostly," the man laughed and Sakura's face went pale. "So, who will it be?" he turned to the boy and Leilani. "Allen the boy that is in love with you, or your best friend Leilani, who's been with you through thick and thin?" he looked down at them.

"Leave them alone," Sakura growled.

"Guess it's both of them," he pulled out a pistol. "I'll put the boy out of his misery first," he aimed at him. The gun roared as he shot Allen in the chest.

"NO!" Sakura's eyes started to glow. "ALLEN!" Sakura growled. Sakura's energy went everywhere and then there was only darkness.

Leilani gasped as she woke up. She was covered in sweat and her heart was pounding fast. "Another nightmare," Leilani said to herself, "Just a nightmare," she tried to convince herself. She told Sakura about the dreams, she told her to ignore it, but it was really getting to her.

It was time for the Mystic Falls High School Annual Carnival. Leilani dragged Sakura with her and met up with Bonnie and Elena.

"Katherine looked just like you. It was freakish," Bonnie said as Elena was writing on the clipboard, she was working on things for the carnival.

"She is my ancestor," Elena sighed, "Hey I moved the student booth into the cafeteria."

"Your vampire ancestor," Leilani pointed out.

"And she didn't just resemble you like a family member would, she was you," Bonnie explained following Elena along as she moved some bags of stuffed animals around.

"I don't know, I can't explain it okay?" Elena obviously didn't want to talk about it, "It's creepy, that's all I got."

"Well how do you know she's not still out there pretending to be you?" Bonnie asked.

"She doesn't," Sakura sighed, tired of all the Katherine talk.

"I could sit here and be tortured by the not knowing or I could get these prizes to the ring toss," Elena moved from booth to booth giving them prizes.

"Well have you talked to Damon since he killed Jeremy or tried to kill Jeremy?" Bonnie persisted.

"No Bonnie, I haven't and I won't and I don't want to talk about Damon or anything else that's vampire related, okay?" Elena handed Bonnie some of the prizes to continue.

"Copy that," Bonnie took them and smiled at her.

"I'm human, and I have to do human stuff otherwise I'll go crazy," Elena handed Leilani some of the prizes.

"Okay, I'm sorry. I'll focus," Bonnie smiled apologetically.

"We have to make Caroline proud," Leilani cheered.

"She'll kill us if we don't!" Bonnie laughed, "I don't know how she does this."

"Well because she's not human, obviously," Elena laughed.

"Obviously," Leilani and Bonnie agreed.

Elena turned to hand Sakura some of the prizes but she had disappeared. "How does she do that?" Elena asked.

"She's over there," Bonnie pointed to just outside the carnival area, "With the hot new guy from the party."

They headed off to continue, and Elena headed inside. Leilani finished setting up with what Elena wanted her to do and she set off to talk with Sakura.

"Hey, Leilani!" she turned to see Stefan coming out of the school.

"Hey!" Leilani walked up to him.

"Um, how's Sakura doing?" he asked her.

"She seems fine, maybe a little distant," Leilani pondered.

"Well, I know she's heartbroken. I also know she took out a lot of rage on Damon already," Stefan wasn't sure how to look at things.

"Well, looks like she's moved on already…" Leilani pointed at Sakura and Allen.

"Who's that?" Stefan asked eyeing him suspiciously.

"Allen…" Leilani's headache started to come back. She cringed as she held onto her head.

"Hey, are you okay?" Stefan led her to a bench to sit on.

"I'm fine, just a headache," Leilani tried to smiled.

Stefan glanced over to Sakura and Allen then back to Leilani. Something weird was going on and he didn't like it one bit. "Just relax okay, maybe you're overworking yourself," Stefan suggested. He got up off the bench, "I'm going to see how Sakura is doing," Leilani nodded and he headed over.

"Hey, Sakura!" Stefan came up beside her.

"Hey Stef, how's it going?" she smiled at him.

"Okay," he nodded and looked at her friend, "Allen, right?"

"Yup," he said plainly.

"Stefan," he held his hand out. Allen took it a smiled at him slyly as he shook it.

"We'll talk more later," Allen headed off leaving her alone with Stefan.

"I don't recognize him," Stefan stated.

"Well, he's an old friend that just got back into town," she explained.

"Right," Stefan bit his lip a little as he glanced over at Allen who was still in sight walking along. Stefan put his hand on Sakura's shoulder, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Sakura rolled her eyes. Stefan glared down at her a little. "What? Don't give me that look. It's not like I was really with your brother right, you should be happy I moved on," Sakura spat.

"Be careful, he may be an old friend, but I don't trust him. Since you and Damon 'broke up' he's been a little more than off. With everything that happened, he's a little off the deep end," Stefan explained. "Allen might want to be careful too, Damon won't like seeing you two together," Stefan sighed, "Moving on so fast is like egging him on."

"There is no winning with you," Sakura sighed. "Look Stef, I'm fine, things are fine and Damon, is no longer my problem. He made sure of that. We were never really together so it's not like he has a right to be a jealous ex," Sakura explained as she took his hand off her shoulder.

"You do remember who we're talking about right, Damon?" Stefan laughed a little. "We'll I'm going to check on that jealous not ex of yours, take care," Stefan headed off.

It was nighttime and the carnival was lively, it was a huge success. "Running out of some of the prizes," Leilani said as she rushed up to Elena and Bonnie who were talking with one of the people with the carnival about karaoke speakers. Bonnie was flirting with him and they headed off to go see if they could fix the speakers. "Well, well, looks like she caught herself a hottie," Leilani said and Elena laughed.

Elena saw Sakura walk by, "You got her to show?"

"Yeah, didn't take much at least," Leilani smiled.

Sakura waved to them as she walked by. She was going to get some popcorn from the cart, when she saw Damon with Jeremy in a headlock. "Wasn't killing him enough?" Sakura asked surprising them.

Damon looked at her and let Jeremy go. She grabbed Jeremy's wrist and pulled him towards her. She grabbed hold of his face, "Are you okay?" She looked at him for signs or injury or anything.

"I'm fine," Jeremy mumbled, confused as to why Damon listened. Sakura sighed and released him. He looked down at her, "Thanks." He quickly glanced at Damon and noticed that he was staring at Sakura, with a serious yet worried expression.

"Just leave me to deal with him, okay Jer?" Sakura smiled up at him.

"I'm not sure I should leave you alone with him," Jeremy seemed uncertain.

"Oh, don't worry about me, I can handle him myself," Sakura smirked.

"How?" Jeremy obviously didn't know about her powers.

Sakura's eyes glowed for a split second, "Go."

"Okay…" Jeremy went to walk past her, "Thanks again and be careful," he put his hand on her shoulder and whispered to her.

"I can hear you," Damon said in a sing-song voice as Jeremy left. "So," Damon approached Sakura, "I thought you said Allen was dead."

"I thought he was," Sakura sighed.

"Well is he a…" Damon trailed off.

"Well if he was turned then, he would have looked younger," Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Hey, I really am sorry," Damon got closer.

"Sure you are," Sakura said not convinced.

"Seriously," Damon picked up her hands in his, "I wasn't thinking."

"What do you want?" Sakura asked starting to get annoyed.

Damon looked away in thought then at her, "To change what happened. You've always seemed to help me and I guess I took you for granted." Sakura tried to take a step but Damon had a tight grip on her. "No apology is going to make a difference is it?" he asked her. She sighed and shook her head no. "I'll have to change your mind another way," he smirked and quickly pinned her to the wall. He looked into her eyes, unable to read her reaction so far, he moved his head in close. "You need someone strong," Damon kissed her on the cheek. "You need an all consuming love that is unpredictable," he kissed her other cheek. Suddenly he was tackled to the floor, Sakura looked down in surprise to see Allen on top of Damon, punching him in the face. Allen threw a right punch, which Damon caught, he went to use his left and Damon caught him again. Damon kicked Allen in the gut sending him flying. "Vampire it is," Damon coughed as he got up. He looked up to see that Allen had already recovered. They went to charge at each other when suddenly they couldn't move.

"Seriously," Sakura sighed and sent them flying into the wall. "A vampire fight in the middle of a carnival, might drawn a lot of attention don't you think?" Sakura looked around. "I'll leave you guys here to think about what you've done," Sakura smirked as she left.

"Sakura, wait!" Damon kept trying to move.

Sakura waved her hand back at them, without turning around. She saw Stefan wandering around and approached him. "I left Allen and your brother attached to a wall, you might want to calm them down before my magic runs out," Sakura quickly walked away into the crowd leaving no space for questions.

Sakura wandered around for a while before deciding to help Elena out with the carnival and take her mind off things. "Elena, Sakura," Damon came up to them as they were setting up prizes to trade for tickets.

"I see you were set loose," Sakura smirked.

"Yeah, thanks for sending Stefan to investigate things by the way. Anyways, we have a problem, you guys need to come with me," Damon stated as he fidgeted nervously.

"Whatever it is, I'm not interested," Elena sighed.

"You guys have to come right now," Damon said urgently, he nodded his head to the side, signaling to head this way.

Sakura and Elena looked at each other and followed him. They found Stefan and met up in Alaric's classroom.

"How did this happen?" Stefan asked as he paced back and forth.

"Well, I fed her blood. Katherine obviously killed her. And A plus B equals," Damon explained as he lent on Alaric's desk.

"But why?" Elena asked.

"Because Katherine is a manipulative bitch," Sakura said as she looked out the window.

"She said 'game on' I mean, what does that even mean?" Stefan tried to figure things out.

"It means she's playing dirty and she wants us to know," Damon stated.

"But why Caroline?" Elena couldn't understand.

"Easy prey, someone close to you, there are a number of reasons really. I mean come on she already had Damon's blood in her system, the work was half done already," Sakura explained glancing back at them.

"Caroline must being going out of her mind, she has no idea what's happening to her," Stefan put his hands on his the back of his head as he paced.

"Oh I think she does," Damon said, "All of my compulsion from the past, started wearing off the minute she was in transition."

"We have to find her," Stefan said.

"Yup and kill her," Damon sighed.

"You're not going to kill Caroline," Elena stood up.

"She knows who we are, she's officially a liability. I'm gonna get rid of her," he said it as if it was obvious.

"Damon, absolutely not," Stefan forbid him.

"Need I remind you of a tragic little story about Vicki Donovan. Yeah, Caroline of all people will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story ends so just flip to the last chapter and…" Damon was interrupted by Elena.

"It's not an option Damon," Elena shook her head.

"No?" Damon challenged her, "You're silence is deafening Stefan. Wait wasn't there a school carnival the night Sakura killed Vicki?"

"Stop it Damon, we can't kill Caroline. We just have to fix the problem another way," Sakura turned to them.

"Fix it how? Quite frankly I thought you of all people would want to get rid of her," Damon scoffed.

"There has been enough death already, we just need to help her. Make sure she doesn't mess up," Sakura stated.

"Sounds like you just want to control her," Damon stated.

"Better than letting her loose," Sakura sighed.

Stefan and Elena got up to leave, "The only way is to kill her," Damon stated as they walked by him.

"Just call me if you find her Damon, please don't kill her," Sakura said before walking through the wall back into the carnival.

Sakura wandered around for a while when she got a called. "Hello," Sakura answered

"Sakura," Leilani sounded upset, "Caroline is covered in blood and…"

"Leilani?" Sakura asked.

"Damon here, found you're little friend, don't worry I'll fix things," he hung up.

"Damn it," Sakura cursed and used her powers to try and sense where Damon and Leilani were, since she had a connection with them. Once she found them she ran off quickly and saw Damon hugging Caroline, but he had a stake in his hand. "Stop!" Sakura growled, she used he powers to fling the stake out of his and Stefan pushed Damon away from her.

Elena went up to Caroline, "Get away from me," she pushed her away, "You killed me!"

"No, no, no Caroline that wasn't me. You know that, that was Katherine," Elena explained.

"No, then why did she look like you," Caroline was freaking out.

"Caroline, calm down," Leilani walked up to her, "Elena's telling the truth."

"Then why, why did she do this to me," Caroline started to cry.

"Get her inside," Sakura walked up to them.

"Come with me Caroline," Stefan grabbed her hand.

"She will die, it's only a matter of time," Damon crossed his arms and stared at them.

"Maybe someday, but not today," Stefan stated.

Damon rushed and picked up the stake and tried to stake Caroline. Elena put herself in front of Caroline, blocking him. Sakura tackled Damon to the ground. She sat on him and sent the stake flying out of his hand.

Bonnie showed up and freaked out about Caroline and the dead body she left behind. Stefan took the crying Caroline inside along with Leilani.

"Are you going to get off me or are you too comfortable?" Damon winked at her.

"What am I going to do with you?" Sakura sighed as she stared down at him.

"That is really up to you," he stated.

Sakura got up, "Come on we got a body to bury," Sakura said referring to the guy Caroline killed. Damon got up and went to pick up a shovel. Suddenly Damon yelled out in pain, he dropped to his knees.

"Bonnie stop," Sakura commanded.

Bonnie continued, the hose turned on and sprayed towards where Damon was, now on the ground. "I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt," Bonnie looked down at him.

"I didn't do this," he cringed.

"Stop!" Elena pleaded.

"Everything that happens is his fault," Bonnie cried.

The water that was heading for him lit on fire. "Bonnie stop it," Sakura rushed up to her, the fire already reached Damon's legs.

"Bonnie stop you're going to kill him," Elena cried out.

Sakura pulled Bonnie off to the side, breaking her concentration. "Why did you stop me?" Bonnie pushed her away.

"This isn't you," Sakura stated, implying that Bonnie was different from her.

Elena pulled her into a hug, "She's right, it's not us."

"Take her inside," Sakura said and turned to Damon still lying on the ground. She walked up to him and knelt down. She looked at his burnt legs, "Are you going to be okay?"

"Thank you for stopping her. I knew you still cared," Damon coughed.

"Whatever, have some blood and finish what you started," Sakura said referring to the body.

Damon accepted her offer, biting down into her wrist. "Delicious as always," Damon lauged.

"Well you're back to normal, so I have to go find Leliani and head off," Sakura explained, as she helped him stand up.

"Hey I meant it, thank you, and um… Keep an eye on the Lockwood's," Damon suggested, confusing Sakura. He shook his head, meaning to ignore it. He picked up her hand and kissed it. "Goodnight," he smiled and let go of her hand.

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