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The Hybrid Bite

Summary: Remember when Tyler bit Caroline? What if Tyler had never left Caroline, no matter how much she yelled and pleaded for him to? What if he had gone to Damon's to get Klaus' blood for the cure, knowing that there was still blood left over from when Damon had nearly died by Tyler's bite, when he had been phased a werewolf and had bitten Damon? Will Tyler get her the blood in time to save her life, or will she die? Read to find out.



        It was a dark night, as Tyler Lockwood and Caroline Forbes stood in the deepest of the woods, kissing. 

        Suddenly, without even wanting to, he accidentally bit Caroline. He stopped and stepped back, hand over his mouth. 

        "Oh, no," he said.

        "What happened? Did you just...bite me?" she said, raising her voice. 

        "Caroline, I'm sorry," he apologized. 

        She stumbled back, the bite taking effect. Because of the bite, and without Klaus' blood, she would die. 

        "Get away from me!" she yelled. 

        "Caroline..." he tried. 

        "Tyler, please, just get away from me. Don't come near me," she said, trying to be nicer, knowing yelling wouldn't work, and that she wouldn't be able to yell much longer. 

        He stood there, not leaving. He just stood there and watched as it took effect, being in his own horror state. Klaus had now put Caroline into the mess, and that just didn't fly with him. He didn't want to hurt anyone. Especially, not Caroline. She was his love, and he was hers. They were in love, and he didn't want to lose her. 

        She suddenly felt really weak and fell, but Tyler, at hybrid speed, was beside her and caught her from hitting the ground. Then he picked her up in his arms, heading for the Salvatore mansion. As he did, she rested her head on his shoulder, arms around his neck weakly.

        "Tyler..." she said weakly and softly. 

        "I'm so sorry, Caroline. Hang in there. Please, just hang in there for me," he told her. 

        She closed her eyes, feeling sleepy.

        A few minutes later, he came in and layed her down on the  couch. 

        "What happened?" Damon asked, standing by his drinking table.

        "I bit her. It was an accident. Klaus. He told me to and I told him no, but it happened anyway. Please. Damon, I need the rest of whatever you have of Klaus' blood from last time."

        "It's in the freezer where the rest of the blood is. It's in a vial bottle," he replied. 

        Tyler got it from the freezer and then gently lifted her head and uncapped the tube, putting it to her lips. 

        "Come on, Caroline. Drink."

        And she did. 





        An hour later, she was fine.

Turmoil

Summary: Based off from a dream I had. Katherine finds out that Klaus is going to come kill her. She says her goodbyes to her family and gives Elena the one and only thing she has left. Will Damon care that Kat will probably end up dying? Will Elena try to stop it from happening? Will Klaus win, or will Rebekah stop her brother in time? Will Tyler and Caroline care enough to try and stop Klaus? Will anyone get hurt? Will anyone die?



Katherine Pierce



        It's a dark night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as I sit on the arm of Damon's couch, as he reads Jonathan Gilbert's journal. We're in the Salvatore boarding house.
        "Why are you still here, Katherine?" he asks me.
        "I'm helping for possibly the last time," I answer him, and then stand up and go to stand not far from the entrance way.
        "What do you mean?" he asks me, putting the journal down and looking at me.
        "Klaus will come after me. I'm saying my good-byes to my family. I want you to know that I loved both of you, but after what Stefan did, I love only you now. But I'm not stupid. Not going to force myself on you. You're lucky, Damon. You have family that loves you. My family was slaughtered by Klaus five hundred years ago. And I know it's been centuries, but I can't like forever like this. I act tough, but it's only an act. I'm like you, Damon. I act the opposite of what I really am. Sometimes I can barely hold it together. For my sake, I hope you'll forgive me. If I'm going to die, it'll be from Klaus. Don't get any ideas. I know how you feel; really feel. And because you think I lie, here," I tell him. Then I toss him my Petrova journal I have from the time I was human all the way to the present.
        I turn to face the entryway to leave, when I see the other Salvatore brother.
        "Stefan. I was just going to find you. I need to say good-bye."
        "Why? This sounds like a dying good-bye. What's going to happen?" he asks me with concern in his eyes.
        I look up at him, standing close enough in front of him, we can touch.
        I explain with barely a steady voice, "Klaus is coming after me tonight. In case I die, I'm giving my last good-byes to my family."
        He sadly looks at me.
        "Good riddance. At least you'll be out of our hair," Damon comments.
        "Damon, I know you care. It's just an act," I say, looking over my shoulder at him.
        I look between my two Salvatore brothers; one that didn't love me enough; Stefan; and one that loved me too much. Obviously, that's Damon.
        "When I'm gone, please don't fight. Stay together and watch each other's backs," I plead with them.
        "We'll do what we can," Stefan promises me.
        I slowly leave the house afterward, to visit the last of my Petrova bloodline. Elena Gilbert.

        I enter Elena's kitchen and stand at the entrance, knowing she's there. She closes the refrigerator door with a bottle of water in her right hand.
        "Elena," I greet, getting her attention.

        She turns around and sets the water on the counter.
        "Katherine. What are you doing here?"
        She looks at me with fear. Fear radiates off her, but I'm not here to harm her. She needs to know that. She is my family. I do what is best for my family.
        "Don't be afraid, Elena. I won't hurt you. I'm only here to talk."
        "What is it?"
        "Klaus; he's going to come after me; he obviously wants me dead. And if he kills me, I'll welcome it after I run a little bit. He killed my entire village and family five hundred years ago. I don't know how to go on forever with this grief. I'm here to say good-bye, Elena. I want to give you the only thing I have that I can give."
        I take out a key and toss it to her, which she catches.
        "I want you to have the Petrova journals. They might be useful. Someone had a ring like Alaric's. If he dies too many times, there'll be consequences. He'll start killing people and won't remember doing it. Take care of him. Don't let him die too many times. And obviously, I want you to take care of Jeremy, your friends, and Damon and Stefan. And if all possible, I want you to have kids and be happy. I love you, Elena."
        I'm instantly in front of her.
        With sadness in my expression and tears streaming down my face, I gently put hands on either side of her head and lightly kiss her forehead.
        "Take care."
        I let go and look at her.
        "This may be the night that I finally give up."
        At vamp speed, before she can say anything, I'm out of the house and heading towards the forest. It's a full moon, but I don't care.

Caroline Forbes



        Tyler and I are walking through the forest, when I hear crying a distance or so away.

        "Tyler, do you hear that?" I ask him.
        "What?" he asks.
        We both stop, as I answer him, standing in front of him, looking at him.
        "It's Katherine."
        "So?" is all he says.
        "Tyler, we should go see what's wrong."
        "You can go without me. I don't want anything to do with her. Not after everything she has done."
        "Fine; I'll be back," I say in an irritated voice.

        A few minutes later, I slowly approach her. She's sitting with her back against the bark of a tree, a picture in hand, head down, as she cries. She's upset about something and I know from experience, that it takes a lot to upset Katherine Pierce. I want to know what has upset her this much. It can't be Damon or Stefan. I would feel an eternal whole inside if either of them was dead. After all, I'm in their vampire family now.
        "Katherine?"
        I kneel down slowly to eyes level with her.
        "You should go. Before he comes," she warns.
        "Who?"
        "Klaus is coming for me. I won't fight for long. He killed my family five hundred years ago. Killing me would be a gift. And that's his intention."
        "So 'he' is Klaus."
        "Please go, Caroline. I don't want you hurt."
        I stand up.
        "Then I'll go. I'll get Tyler. He might help. It's Klaus, after all."
        She looks up at me and I run off at vampire speed back to Tyler.

        Once I'm in front of him, I tell him, "Klaus is going to kill her. We have to do something."
        "Why should we?"

        "Because as much as I hate to admit it she's Damon, Stefan, Elena, and my vampire family; we have to do something."
        "We don't have to do anything. I won't let you help. You should go home, Caroline. I don't want to bite you."
        I realize what he's implying. He's going to phase. That means he must know the form Klaus will take to kill her.
        "Be careful," I advise, as he starts to phase, the noise of cracking bones splitting the air. At the same time, I smell the scents of Damon, Elena, and Klaus. And as I run off at vampire speed for home, I can hear Katherine's screams of agony as he attacks her.



Tyler Lockwood



        Pain surges through me as I willingly phase into a black werewolf, bones cracking, body changing to form my werewolf self. I gasp in pain, as it continues, holding back my screams. I can't believe I'm doing this; changing to help a vampire I care nothing for. But I'm doing this so Caroline won't get involved. And I can't stand to hear the screams, as I finish the last of the transformation.
        As soon as I'm a full pure black werewolf, I race towards her scent as her screams start to fade.
        I don't know what has come over me, but I suddenly don't want her to die. Where did that thought come from? I don't know, but I can't help my feelings telling me to risk my life to save her.

        When I arrive at the scene, I see Damon and Elena running towards them. As they get closer, I jump onto Klaus, who in this form is a russet, hug werewolf. We roll a few times away from her, and then a distance away, we start fighting viciously. We bite and claw at each other, teeth bared in snarls and growls. To anyone, it would look like a couple wolves fighting over a piece of prey. But this is a life or death situation.



Elena Gilbert



        As I kneel down beside Katherine, Tyler fighting Klaus, Damon stands over us. He watches the fight for a few minutes. Then he kneels down, and takes two vials of blood out from his jacket. He holds them out to me and I take them each.
        "Klaus' blood; help her. Your friend needs help," he says.
        "Damon, what are you going to do?" I ask, afraid of his intentions and the outcome. He almost died from a werewolf bite a few years ago. I don't want him bitten again.
        "I'm going to help Tyler."
        "Be careful, Damon," I warn him.
        He looks at me before rushing towards the fight.
        I gently lift her head and put a vial to her lips, making the blood go down her throat. She's unconscious and dying, if not worst. He bit her more than a few times. Just one bite slowly kills a vampire. I'm afraid for her life. I don't want her to die. She's the last of my family; next to Jeremy, of course.
        When the vial is empty, I gently lay her head back down. Then I set the empty vial down. When I hear Damon say, "Come on, Klaus. We both know it's me and Katherine you want. Come on. I'm right here. Give it your best shot," I look up.
        I see Damon looking at Klaus. Klaus stops with Tyler, letting him land on his side, hurt temporarily. After all, werewolves heal; but not as quickly as vampires. Klaus looks back at him before racing full speed towards Damon. I want to put myself between them, but that would get me either hurt or killed. So all I can do is watch, as they disappear through the trees. And in the next moment, I hear fighting. It's vampire against hybrid. I hope he'll be okay.
        I look down at my Petrova bloodline. I rest a gentle hand on her forehead, my free hand holding her right hand. All I can do now is wait until she regains consciousness.
        I look up to see a pure white werewolf. The werewolf snarls once at me, before looking towards the trees.
        "Rebekah?" I question.
        She looks back at me and wags her tail once, letting me know that it's her. And as she races towards where, from the distant sounds, Damon is being attacked, she lets out a few howls and barks. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that she still cares about Damon.
        I look down at Katherine, when I feel movement. I take my hand away from her forehead, but keep my hand in hers.
        "Katherine, can you hear me?" I call.
        "Elena?"
        She slowly comes to and I help her slowly to her feet, letting her hand go.
        "How are you feeling?"
        "Better. Thanks," she replies.
        She looks towards the trees, so I give her a summary of what she missed.



Damon Salvatore



        My screams of pain start to die down from the attack, as everything starts to go black. I blurrily see a she-wolf ram into Klaus saving me. Then I see Elena and Katherine walking towards me; probably to help me. I realize who the werewolf is. Rebekah. And that's the last thought that runs through my mind, before blackness closes in and I see nothing, hear nothing, smell nothing, and feel nothing as my head rolls to the left.

Rebekah



        I see Damon Salvatore lost consciousness as I fight my brother. Then I see Elena and Katherine kneel beside him. Katherine gives him a vial of my brother's blood, making the blood go down his throat.
        What do you think you're doing, little sister? he thinks to me.
        Saving Damon.
        He growls and bites my right ear. I whine in pain and then we fight ferociously.

        Half an hour later, as I start to stumble back, Tyler rams into Klaus and they fight. I'm hurt and so exhausted that I feel feint.
        I hear Elena, as she races towards me.
        "Rebekah!"
        With my last remaining strength, I phase into my human-looking form and stumble back, ending up sitting with my back against a tree.
        I see Elena at my side.
        "Rebekah," she says.
        "Elena," I breathe.
        I fight to stay awake, as my visions starts to go black and my head rolls to the left.



Niklaus Mikaelson



        As Tyler and I fight with teeth and claws, I see Damon getting to his feet with Katrina's help. I also see that I hurt my sister. Elena is at her side.
        Instantly, once he sees her and Elena, Damon is there too, Katrina at his side.
        A few minutes later, I see him gently pick her up in his arms and carry her, Katrina and Elena at either of his sides.



Stefan Salvatore



        I'm having a drink of liquor, leaning against the fireplace mantle, as Damon lays Rebekah carefully down on the couch.
        I raise an eyebrow, but before I can speak, he explains to me in summary, as he force feeds her his blood, of what exactly happened.

        An hour later, Rebekah heads home alone, feeling much better.

Predicament

Summary: Katherine comes back home bitten. It was four hours ago that she was bitten. Can she drive the rest of the way to the Salvatore boarding house? Will Damon care enough to get her the cure, or will he let her die?



            It was a dark night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as Katherine Pierce drove her SUV down the road, the Whickery bridge not far behind her. She was on her way to Damon to the Salvatore boarding house, hoping he would be there. But she wasn’t sure if she would make it there alone. Her vision was so blurry that she felt herself making the car swerve from one lane to another.

            “Come on, Katherine. You can do this. All you need is Klaus’ blood, if not Damon. Come on. You’ve had less than worst compared to this. And you’re still alive. So come on,” she told herself, until she had to pull over to the shoulder, car turned off, feeling sick. She then opened her door and got out, dropping to her knees and coughing up blood.

            Caroline Forbes had been walking, heading for the Mystic Grille for her date with Tyler Lockwood, her hybrid boyfriend, when she stopped a distance away, seeing the scene and swerving car, recognizing it and the vampiress.

            “Katherine?” she said softly, before using vamp speed to stand by her.

            She then knelt at her side.

            Katherine, now done, looked at her and went to start to her feet. When she did, the blond put a hand on her right upper arm, helping her.

            “What happened?” the blond asked.

            “I killed Klaus’ hybrids he sent after me. You know the rest.”

            “How long ago, Katherine?”

            “Four hours ago. I guess the older you are, the more time it takes to affect you. It didn’t start until two hours ago.”

            And you drove all the way back? Caroline thought to herself.

            “I’ll get you to Damon.”

            As she said that, Katherine weakened and could hardly stand. So Caroline put Katherine’s arm around her shoulders, before slowly heading in the direction of the Mystic Bar and Grille.





            Once they were outside, Caroline opened the door enough so everyone could only see her. She saw Damon finish a shot glass of liquor, seated on a stool at the bar.

            “Damon, get out here. You’re needed. Now.”

            “Can it wait?” he asked, looking at her.

            “No. Hurry.”

            There was urgency in her voice so he headed for the door.

            “Fine. I’m coming.”

            She closed the door and went to stand a distance away from the Mystic Grill, an arm on Katherine’s left upper arm. She was so weak that Caroline thought she would collapse any second.

            Damon walked up to them.

            “Take care of her,” Caroline told him, letting go of her and lightly pushing her towards him.

            He put a hand on Kat’s upper right arm and looked at the blond.

            “What happened to her?”

            “She told me she came back to get your help to get her the cure. She was bitten four hours ago by Klaus’ hybrids she was running from. I only brought her here to help her on Elena’s behalf. We both know she worries too much. Now I have to get in there, or I’m going to be late for my date with Tyler.”

            He watched her walk in and then looked at his sire. He saw she was in worse condition than he had been a few years ago, after Tyler Lockwood had accidentally bitten him.

            He put gentle but firm hands on each of her arms. He looked into her eyes, trying to get her to focus on him. She was very pale, color drained from her face and all of her skin, eyes dull, lips chapped. And he could hear her breathing. She could barely breathe.

            “Katherine. Kat, hang in there. You’ll be okay. I’ll get you the cure,” he promised, using his old nickname for her.

            He could only watch, as she lost consciousness and collapsed, just barely alive. And as she collapsed, he moved his left hand between her shoulder blades, holding her up, keeping her from hitting the ground. He then let go with his right hand, using his right arm to scoop her up gently in his arms.





            Once he had her in his bed, he headed down the stairs towards the basement, where all the blood was neatly kept in a cooler. That was where he also kept Klaus’ blood. What was left of it, anyway. He hadn’t drunk the whole vial when it had been him in that bed, Elena taking such good care of him, and listening to what he had to say, for once in her life. And then Katherine had come with Klaus’ blood and had saved his life. But one thing he hadn’t, and probably would never know, was what she had meant by I owed you one. She didn’t care about him. Over and over, she had chosen Stefan over him. It always infuriated him that his brother got everything he could ever wish for, while he was there on the sidelines watching, waiting to get the girl. Something Stefan always got. And that was how he had become who he was these days.

            He grabbed the vial of Klaus’ blood and vanished to stand at her bedside. He then sat on her bedside and gently lifted her head, putting the vial to her lips, making the blood go down her throat.

            Once it was finished, he set the vial on the end table and layed her head gently back down. And then he took her hand in hers. He trailed his free hand gently down the side of her face. And he waited for her to wake. He knew she would awaken soon, due to her color and breathing turning to normal.

Do Not Go Gentle

Summary: Set somewhere around "Do Not Go Gentle." What if Kat ran into a newly turned Ric? What will happen? 



        It was a beautiful night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as Katherine Pierce sat at the bar next to Alaric.
        "Hello, Alaric," she greeted.
        "Katherine."
        "Do you know where I might find Elijah?" she questioned.
        "Go away."
        "Why? I thought we left on good terms."
        "I don't want you here. Take a hint, will you?"
        Then the familiar scent hit her. Vampire.
        "What happened to you?" she asked him.
        "Esther turned me. Now I'm going to kill every vampire, starting with Klaus."
        She clenched her teeth and gasped in pain, as he stabbed her with a dagger. And then she felt the familiar sensation of having a hard time breathing. And that's when she knew the dagger had vervain on it. Now she couldn't go anywhere without help and she was too shaky to move on her own, much less get her phone out to call for help. All she could do was clutch the bar with both hands to keep from falling.
        "We should help her," she heard Caroline Forbes say, a moment after she smelled Tyler and Caroline when they walked in.
        "Why?" she heard Tyler ask.
        "She had to have come back for a reason. And that reason wasn't to get vervained by Alaric. She needs help. We have to help her."
        "Fine. You stay here. I'll get her away from him. He can't hurt me like he can you."
        A few minutes later, she smelled his scent. He was behind her. She felt a gentle hand on her right upper arm and knew it was Tyler's.
        I'm saved, she thought to herself.
        "Let's get out of here," she heard Tyler say.
        She slowly got off the stool and onto her feet, as he put a hand on her arm to help her keep her balance.
        Before she knew it, they were outside the Mystic Grille. Tyler still had his hand on her arm and Caroline had a hand on her other arm.
        "What happened?" Caroline asked her as gently as she could. All she knew was that she smelled vervain with something else she couldn't place.
        "I asked him where Elijah was and he told me what happened to him. Then he stabbed me," Kat summarized.
        "And before that?" Tyler asked.
        "I killed the hybrids Klaus sent after me. They attacked, though. That's why I was looking for Elijah. He's the only one I can trust to get me the cure without having to sacrifice anything. And Elijah still cares about me. We had something when I was human and before I came to live in America."
        Tyler and Caroline looked at one another. They knew they had to do something, but they didn't know where they would find Elijah.
        As she started to feel weak, Kat saw Damon.

        Damon had been walking up to the Mystic Grille, when he had seen Tyler and Caroline outside holding Katherine up. Then he was instantly in front of them.
        "What happened to her?" Damon asked them, though he looked at Katherine.
        "She was vervained by Alaric. Before that, she was attacked by Klaus' hybrids. She killed them," Tyler answered.
        "I'll take care of her."
        "She said she wanted to ask Elijah to get the cure for her."
        "Then I'll find him and take care of her."
        She felt the vampiress and hybrid leave to go inside. Then she was alone with Damon.
        He kept his eyes on her, as he assessed her condition.
        "Katherine."
        "Damon?" was all she got out, as everything went black.
        The elder Salvatore brother caught her from hitting the ground. Then he picked her up in his arms and walked the route to Elena's. He couldn't use his super speed. There were too many people around.

        She groaned as she came to, and realized that she was in Damon's arms. Then she felt an urge. It was a side effect of the vervain.
        Damon set her on her feet and watched her, as she knelt down by a bush by Elena's walkway and coughed up blood. He knew it would come. This wasn't the first time he had seen her in a vervained state. As she coughed up blood, he knelt by her. Before he could pull the dagger out of her lower stomach, he smelled Elena's scent. That's what made him look up.
        Elena was heading out the door, when she saw Damon and Katherine. She knew from the scene that something was wrong. She left the house and didn't stop until she stood by them.
        "Damon, what's going on?"
        He looked up at her.
        "Elena, you should go back inside; but if you must know, Ric vervained her. To top if off, she was bitten by hybrids before she killed them."
        He pulled the dagger out and handed it to the doppelganger.
        "Take it."

        Kat finished and used the sleeve of her jacket to clean her face, before she looked up at Elena.
        "Elena," she greeted.
        Damon got to his feet, as he helped his sire to her feet. He could tell she was weak, as he did so.
        "She can stay in my room and I'll watch her," Elena announced.
        "Thanks," Kat told her descendant.
        "We should get her inside," Damon said.
        Before she knew it, everything went dark again.

        When she woke up for the second time tonight, she was on her back on Elena's bed. Her jacket was off and her wounds had been tended to. Her journal was on top of the end table and Elena was seated on her bedside with a washcloth in hand. She stared at the wall as she saw her pa' pa and ma' ma, too weak to cry. And then they disappeared and she saw Rose. She thought it odd to see her sire that hadn't liked her in the beginning. But she didn't care. She just wanted to know if she would live or die. Then she finally looked at Elena, as Elena continued to damp the cloth on her face to cool her down.
        "I'm sorry, Elena. I'm sorry for what I did. Forgive me. Tell Damon that I have always cared and loved them both. I never chose either of them. I love you too, Elena. You are the last of my Petrova family. I hope you will all forgive me," she whispered.
        "I forgave you a long time ago. And I think Damon will forgive you after a while. Just hand on," Elena replied.
        "I don't know how much longer I can, Elena."
        "Try, Katherine."

        Damon stood by the stairs, as he spoke to Rebekah.
        "Please, Rebekah. Do this for me, at least."
        "Fine."
        "Good. Meet me at Elena's."
        He hung up.
        "I'm going to find Elijah!" he yelled up the stairs at Elena and Kat. Then he left.

        When Katherine woke up, she felt better. She saw that Elijah and Elena were both at her side.
        "You should go help Damon. My sister has stepped out of line," he told Elena.
        She obeyed.
        Katherine sat up in bed.
        He gave her a shot glass of blood and she drank it, before she gave it back to him. He then set it back on the end table and she got to her feet.

        She put her jacket back on and he bit his wrist.
        "It'll heal you faster," he said, as he held it out to her.
        She drank from him for a few minutes, before she let go.
        She watched him vanish, and then she headed down the stairs.

        Once down the stairs, she saw the scene. There was a dagger in Damon's chest. He was slumped against the threshold. Elena was knelt in front of him with fear. Elijah and Rebekah were gone.
        Kat knelt by them.
        "He'll be okay," she assured her.
        Katherine gently drug him into the hallway and Elena closed the door. The vampiress then knelt down with his back against her, and bit her wrist. She put it to his lips and made her blood go down his throat, as she used her free hand to pull the dagger out. She tossed it to the floor and Elena knelt at his right side.
        A few minutes later, he came to. Then, once he felt better, he stopped drinking and she took her wrist away. It obviously healed.
        He looked up at her.
        "Katherine."
        "Welcome back, Damon."
        "I could say the same thing," he answered.
        The three of them smiled at one another.

Memory Lane

Summary: Now that we're in S4, I thought I would put down Elena's memories. Stuff she did and didn't remember when she was human. So here it is. Enjoy!



        My name is Elena Gilbert and I am a new vampire. I'm eighteen years old with a younger brother who is still human. Jeremy. My friends are a vampire, witch, hybrid, and human. Caroline Forbes is a vampire and Bonnie Bennett is a human and witch. Tyler Lockwood, on the other hand, is a half vampire half werewolf hybrid. I have an ex whom is human and named Matt. I also am in love with two vampire brothers. Stefan and Damon Salvatore. I loved Stefan first. I don't know where we stand after everything, though. And Damon…Damon's been there for me every step. Something I didn't know as a human.

        I remember growing up here in Mystic Falls. I had a mom and dad. And then I remember when my parents died. That was the worse day of my life. Stefan saved me when our car went off the bridge. And then I met him again at school the next year.

        Not long after we fell in love, I met Damon. When I met him, he told me as much as he could without telling me their secret of what they are, about 'Stefan's ex'. Katherine. Not long afterward, I found out what Stefan and his brother are. And that's when I got pulled into this life. The life of always being in danger of something or someone. Or worse, my friends and/or family being in danger. Not long after that, Damon finally told me their story. How he and his brother were turned into vampires. They had Katherine's blood in their system when they died. Stefan was the eager one to turn, so he fed. But Damon wanted to stay human, so Stefan forced him to feed from a girl. They were killed when their father shot them in the street back in 1864 here in Mystic Falls, Virginia.

        That year, Aunt Jenna and Alaric met and then started dating. It was a little weird, considering Alaric Saltzman was my history teacher. But not too weird. By that time, I was used to weird things happening and stuff.

        A year later, Aunt Jenna who was our caregiver died. Klaus killed her. He's a hybrid. The hybrid that turned Tyler. He killed her and me. But because Damon cares about me so much, he gave me some of his blood so that he would know that I would be coming back. Klaus was trying to break the curse. His curse. And then Elijah believed him when he told him that his family was safe and got him out of the woods. Stefan couldn't stop them and Damon and I were at my house. But that's not when I turned into a vampire. Because when I woke up, I felt fine. Nothing was heightened or anything. I was still human. Still myself.

        A day or two after she died, Stefan was the one to tell me that Damon had been bitten by Tyler. He had been standing too close to him when he started to phase. So I was there for him when he was slowly dying. Katherine, their Sire and my Petrova bloodline, got the cure to him just in time. Klaus' blood.

        A year later, we spent all our time trying to save Stefan from himself and Klaus. Klaus had turned him back into the Ripper. Stefan had given himself up to Klaus to save his brother. To Save Damon's life. But Stefan didn't want to be saved. And he said the worst thing you could ever say to someone. It hurt me so much, that it made me burst into tears before I even got into my SUV. The hurtful words that he said to me were, 'I don't want to see you. I don't want to be with you.' But even after that, we were so determined to get him back. We even tried to kill Klaus, but Stefan got in the way because, once again, he did it to save his brother. He knew that after Klaus was dead, that his hybrids would come after Damon to kill him.

        Also, I remember when Damon turned Vickie and Stefan had to kill her to save me. She was going to kill me. Vickie, if you don't know, was Matt's sister and Jeremy's ex-girlfriend, as well as Tyler's ex-girlfriend. See the love triangle? I also remember when Damon used Caroline as his distraction for whatever he needed a distraction from. And then sometime after Katherine came into town and started playing games with us all, centering it onto me, she killed Caroline. So technically, both Damon and Katherine are her Sires. She was killed by Katherine and she had Damon's blood in her system.

        I'll never forget Alaric. He had taken upon himself to look after me and Jeremy after Aunt Jenna died. Oh, and did I forget to mention that he was a Vampire Hunter? He was. And then Klaus' mom turned him into a vampire about a year ago. And because she used a spell to turn him into a vampire without any humanity, she had to bind him to a human life. So Alaric and I were bound. If I got hurt, he would the same way. So when Rebekah, thinking that she had seen Ric kill her brother Klaus, stood in the middle of the bridge and I died after Matt went off the bridge in his truck, which I was also in, Ric died as well. Ric was Damon and pretty much half the population of this town's best friend.

        I remember waking up in my room after I had died the next morning. Damon and Stefan were both there. They both knew I was in transition to becoming a vampire and Damon wasn't taking it that well. I guess he always wanted to keep me human. And he was acting out in words and drinking. I didn't think much of it then. After all, I was in transition. Everything was heightened and the sun would hurt my eyes a little. I wasn't used to it in my transformation.

        After I turned into a vampire, Stefan tried to teach me his way to hunt, but it wasn't working. I couldn't keep his blood down and I couldn't keep Damon's blood down. I needed human blood and Matt was willing, so I would take a little at a time.

        Now that I'm a vampire, I remember some things I didn't remember when I was human. The first thing is that Damon was the first one that I met. Not Stefan. Secondly, Damon told me almost three years ago the very first time, when he returned my vervain necklace from Katherine, that he loves me. And I remember his exact words. And this is what he said. "I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you, that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does. God, I wish you didn't have to forget this."

        Now that I look back on everything, I have a choice to make. If I choose one brother, where will that leave? Who will I choose? And what will happen if I don't choose either? For once in my life, I'm afraid to choose between them. I don't know where Stefan and I stand, but Damon has always been there for me in just one small way, one at a time, day by day. And I can never stop thinking about everything that Damon and I have been through together. It's like we were met to be. Just him and me. Not me and Stefan. Maybe I was met for Damon, instead. I wish someone could make this choice for me. But nobody can make this choice, except me. I have to choose. But who do I choose, if I choose one of them? I don't want to choose, but every time I'm with Stefan, I see the hurt on Damon. And I can't stand to see him get hurt. I care about him too much. But I don't know if I love him like he loves me.

Plight

        It was a dark night, as Katherine Pierce staggered into the Mikaelson house and upstairs.
        When she got to the room, she leaned against the threshold to stay on her feet.
        "Rebekah, where's Klaus?" she asked.
        Rebekah set a bag of blood on the table, still angry after the fight with her brother. She then turned around.
        "Why? And what are you doing here?" she asked in a not so nice voice.
        "I was bitten by the hybrids he sent after me. I need your help. I need his blood; the cure. Please, Rebekah," she said, almost begging the Original sister.
        "He's not the only one that'll cure that. So can I," Rebekah revealed to her.
        "Then help me," Katherine said, half walking half staggering into the room.
        Rebekah was instantly in front of her. She bit her wrist and held it out to her.
        "Drink."
        She watched the doppelganger vampiress drink.
        Once she had had enough, the vampiress stopped and looked at her.
        "Thank you."
        "Don't make me regret it," Rebekah responded.
        "You won't. I promise."
        "Good."
        "So, what have I missed since I've been gone?"
        "A lot. Alaric was turned by mother and alerted the council. They want us all dead I guess. But Alaric is dead now, Stefan is trying to get back to his old habits, and I killed Elena and almost Matt. I wanted Alaric dead and Elena was tied to him. I thought Alaric killed my brother. Now Elena's a vampire. Apparently, she had Damon's blood in her system. And I didn't know that."
        "Wow. I missed a lot," is all she could say to that. Since Rebekah hadn't known, she couldn't be mad at her for Elena turning into a vampire.
        Suddenly, arrows started flying.
        "Get the blood and vervain! Just in case! Then we have to go!" Katherine yelled and grabbed the blood, putt it in a bag.
Rebekah obeyed and did the same with the vervain, putting it in the same bag.

        They made it outside the Mystic Grille, before everything started to unfocus for Katherine, and Rebekah grew pale and weak. Rebekah had taken an arrow in the middle of her chest, while Katherine had taken an arrow in the leg.

        Rebekah slid down the wall to sit down, while Katherine set the bag down and knelt beside her.
        "Rebekah, hang in there," she encouraged the Original.
        She took out Rebekah's cell phone and called one of the Salvatore brothers.
        "Rebekah?" Damon questioned in surprise.
        "It's us," Kat answered him.
        "What are you doing with Rebekah?"
        "She saved my life. Then we had to leave. We got shot with arrows; me in the leg and Rebekah in the chest. But we're both still alive. We're right outside the Mystic Grille. We need help, Damon. Something was on them. You should try and keep her awake, while I go see if anyone's in there."
        "Will do," he replied to his sire.
        She got to her feet and used the wall to hold herself up, as she staggered towards the door and opened it enough so they only saw one hand, her upper body, and unhurt leg. Then she leaned on the door and scanned the crowd within, stopping when she saw Tyler Lockwood and Caroline Forbes.
        Caroline saw Katherine.
        "Tyler," she informed him. "Katherine's back. Something's wrong."
        He looked over his shoulder to see her. Caroline was right. The vampiress didn't look good. It looked like she could barely walk.
        They got to their feet and briskly walked towards her, stopping once they stood in front of her.
        "We need help. Rebekah and I were at Klaus' place. She cured me before arrows got us. Damon's on his way."
        "Let's go," Tyler said.
        All three walked in, Caroline closing the door behind herself.
        They stopped by Rebekah.
        "Damon, Tyler and Caroline are here," Kat told her childe.
        Kat started to get blurry vision and swayed.
        "Caroline, see what you can do for Rebekah," Tyler said. He then added, "You better hurry, Damon. Katherine's not looking that great."
        Tyler stood in front of Kat, while Caroline knelt beside Klaus' only sister.
        "Katherine, hang in there. Damon's coming," Tyler instructed the Petrova vampiress, unsure of what to do or what else to say.

        Damon hung up soon after.

        Not long afterward, Damon arrived. He instantly went to stand in front of Katherine.
        "Tyler, get Rebekah to Elena's. I'll meet you there. Caroline, get that arrow out of Rebekah."
        Both obeyed, leaving him with Kat.
        He pulled the arrow out of her leg and she gasped in pain, as her vision got worse.
        "Kat, look at me. Focus. Kat," he tried with no avail.
        He caught her, as she lost her balance, unable to stand. And as he picked her up, he realized how weak she was. He felt her rest her head on his shoulder and wrap her arms around his neck.
        "Stay awake, Kat," he instructed, as he sped towards Elena's at vamp speed.

        Once inside, Damon gently sat her in Elena's recliner, while Tyler carried Rebekah upstairs to the guest room, which was formerly Ric's room, and before that, Elena's Aunt Jenna's room. Tyler and Caroline stayed with Rebekah, while Damon stayed in the living room with his sire. Elena stood by and watched.
        Damon knelt in front of his sire.
        "Kat, stay with me."
        "What happened?" Elena questioned her sire.
        "The Council shot them with arrows. Something's on them. We need Meredith over here. She might know what's on them and how to cure them. And you need to call Klaus. He'll want to know about his sister."
        Elena left the room to get her phone and call Meredith Fell and Niklaus.
        Damon kept trying to keep Kat awake.
        When Elena came back, she had Klaus on the phone on speaker. She set the phone down on the end table.
        "How's Katerina?" Klaus asked, having been filled in.
        "Not good," Elena replied.
        "Let me try then," Klaus said. "Katerina, you have to stay awake. Think of your family. If you die now, you would've been fighting for nothing. You would've survived this long for nothing. You've been fighting for 500 years, Katerina. Don't give up now. You can't. We won't let you die," he told his former doppelganger, meaning it all. He had trust and faith in her now. And he cared about her. He then added to Elena, "I'm coming over to help. You'll have to invite me in. After this is all over though, you can uninvite me." He then hung up.


        Half an hour later, he arrived and Elena invited him in. He walked into the living room and Damon stepped away, watching as he knelt in front of her.
        "Katerina," Klaus said, looking at her.
        She looked back at him, not knowing why he suddenly cared if she lived or died.
        "Klaus," she said back.
        Meredith soon arrived and started looking at the arrows.
        Damon and Elena left the room to leave them be.
        Elena and Damon entered the kitchen where Meredith stood by the bar.
        "The tips are laced with a high volume of vervain," she told the vampires.
        "Then we feed them blood and they'll get better soon," Damon announced.
        "We can try that," Meredith agreed.
        So they did and both got better.
        Afterward, Klaus and Rebekah went home, as well as Tyler and Caroline.


        Later, when Damon was at home and Kat had stayed behind, Kat sat on Elena's bed while Elena wrote in her diary.
        "How are you feeling? Rebekah told me what happened. Are you adjusting?" Kat asked, concerned for her descendant.
        Elena closed her diary and set her pen down, before turning around in her chair to look at her.
        "Why do you ask?"
        "Because I know how it feels. It's different for everyone, but I want to help you. You're my family, Elena. I may not show it, but I care. I really do care."
        "Then you should've been here to stop all this mayhem. I didn't want this. Where were you, anyway?"
        "I'm sorry, Elena. I would've been here if I didn't have hybrids on my tail. But I'm here to stay now. I'll help you in any way I can."
        "You want the truth, Katherine? I'm tired. All I try to do is fight and do the right thing. But Damon said I have to drink from the vein. I don't want to and it's killing me, trying to not drink from the vein. He told me I can't drink animal blood and I can't. He said I could only drink from the vein and that's all I can do. I can't even keep Damon's blood down. What am I going to do?"
        "Elena, did you say that when Damon says you can't do something, you can't do it?" Kat questioned.
        "Yeah. Why?"
        Kat was silent, but Elena saw Kat knew something.
        "It can't be," Kat whispered.
        "What?"
        "Elena, I don't know how to say this, but…"
        "But what?"
        "You're sired to Damon."
        "How?" Elena questioned with horror and shock.
        "I don't know, but it happens once in a while. It can be broken. We just have to convince him to free you from the sire bond."
        So they did just that and she was released. But that didn't change the connection Elena had and felt for Damon.

Growing Pains

        It was a beautiful day, as Elena opened her eyes to see that she was in her room at home. Stefan and Damon were in the room with her, Damon seated on a chair by the door, Stefan seated on a chair in front of her bed.
        She sat up.
        "You've been in and out for hours," Stefan said.
        "What happened? How did you save me?" she asked.
        "He didn't," Damon told her.
        "Wait. What?"
        Stefan explained to her what Meredith had done.
        "So what? Am I dead?"
        "You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."
        "No. I can't be."
        "I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."
        "No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," Damon said before getting up and leaving the room.



        He went downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.
        Stefan came down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.
        He watched his elder brother.
        "You know, you can't do anything about it," Damon told his brother. "If she doesn't feed by this afternoon, she'll die tonight."
        "Damon, you weren't there when Elena looked me in the eye and told me she didn't want to become a vampire. We still have a day before she has to turn."
        "Whatever. Always the hero," Damon commented, grabbing his glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.
        Stefan left the room, as Damon finished his drink.


        Back at Elena's room, Elena was looking in her mirror, as her hearing intensified. It was so intense; she could hear the electricity running through a light bulb and she looking down at it, once she had entered the hallway outside her room.
        Her younger brother, Jeremy, walked over to her from down the other end of the hallway.
        "Jer," she greeted.
        They hugged.
        "Are you okay? I watched Vicki go through this, she was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place. All these old memories came flooding back."
        Elena glanced over at the light bulb again, but turned back to face Jeremy again.
        "I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."
        "No, you're not. You're act like everything's okay so no one worries about you but you need help."
        Elena kept glancing at the light bulb.
        "I said I'm fine, okay?" she said all snappy. "I-I'm sorry. I…Have you talked to Bonnie?" she then said more herself.
        "Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened.
        "Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."
        "And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."

        "We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay."
        "I hope so."
        Elena watched her only brother leave. She then turned around at the light bulb in the lamp and strode over to it. Then she pulled off the lampshade and crushed the light bulb in her hand.



        Bonnie was in the Lockwood cellar, staring at Klaus' desiccated body which was lying in a coffin.
        "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Klaus said.
        Bonnie turned around and saw Klaus in Tyler's body entering the cellar.
        "What is that doing here, Klaus? The deal we made with Tyler was that you'd leave his body and jump into someone else's the first chance you got."
        "Yes, when I assumed I'd be a pile of ash. But apparently, fate and oxygen intervened and there I am."
        Klaus walked towards the coffin.
        "Put me back."
        "I can't right now."
        "Your history teacher outed Tyler and Caroline to the Council. They're on a war path and this body's vulnerable."
        "I have to help Elena before she has to feed."
        "Elena's dead and no longer my concern."
        "You're forgetting who just saved your life."
        Klaus grabbed Bonnie by the throat.
        "And you're forgetting that I could rip your tongue out. Now put me back."
        "If I can keep Elena human, you'll still have an endless blood supply to make your hybrids. Isn't that what you really want?"
        Klaus released Bonnie.
        Bonnie started to leave, but Klaus was instantly in front of her and blocked her way out.
        "Same rules apply. No one knows. No one. Do you understand me, Bonnie?"



        Meredith was walking down the hallway of the hospital, when Pastor Young and some deputies approached her.
        She stopped.
        "Pastor Young. To what do we owe the honor? And don't tell me it's your blood pressure again."
        "Honestly, I wish it were."
        He turned to the deputies behind them.
        "Blood bank's in the basement. One of you sweep the rooms."
        "Who gave you that authority?" Meredith questioned.
        "The Council. They're entrusted me to secure the town and unlike some of our Founding Families, I don't have conflicting interests."
        "What is that supposed to mean?"
        "Alaric Saltzman told us everything, Meredith. Probably time to start looking for a new job."
        Pastor Young left Meredith there.
        Caroline was talking to Matt before there were interrupted by a deputy opening the door. But Caroline was quick and was instantly out of sight before the door even opened.
        "Can I help you?" Matt asked the officer.
        "Sorry."
        He got on his dispatch and said, "All good here."
        He exited the room and closed the door.

        An officer handcuffed Carol Lockwood at the Lockwood Mansion. Pastor Young stood nearby.
        "What's going on?" she asked.
        The officer started to lead Carol out of her house.
        "We just need to ask you a few questions about your son."
        "You can't arrest me! I'm the Mayor of this town!"
        "Not anymore you're not."

        Sheriff Forbes was walking to the police department when Pastor Young stopped her.
        "Sorry, Liz. You're not going to work today."
        "What are you talking about?"
        The deputies surrounded the two of them.
        "They're taking your badge. You're not fit to protect us anymore."
        "You have no idea what you're up against."
        "On the contrary Liz, I've already taken your deputies. We've got the entire town's supply of vervain, including the stash we found in the Salvatore house. We're making our move."

        Caroline was heading out of the Forbes' residence, when her mother called her.
        "Where are you? And please tell me it's somewhere faraway," Liz told her daughter.
        "Where am I? Uh…good question. Uh…there's just a whole lot of boring highways. Why, is everything okay?"
        Suddenly, an officer snuck up behind her and stabbed her in the side of her neck with a syringe.
        "Caroline, what's going on?" Liz asked.
        The phone hit the porch.

        Elena and Stefan were in the kitchen.
        Elena took a bite of a sandwich.
        "It's disgusting," Stefan commented, watching her.
        "No it's, um…"
        "It's disgusting," he repeated.
        She spit it out onto a napkin.
        "I never thought I would say this, but I can't stop thinking about blood."
        "I should have saved you first. You shouldn't be going through this now."

        "No, if you have saved me, then Matt would be dead. What do you think I'd be going through then?"
        Stefan poured himself a drink and took a sip.
        Elena got up and walked over to him.
        "Stefan, listen to me. You did the right thing. You did what you always do. You respected my choice."
        "And what am I supposed to do if Bonnie can't figure out a way to help you? Because then you have another choice to make. Either let yourself die or be a vampire."
        "Well, then we'll cross that bridge when we get there."
        Suddenly, Elena started laughing.
        "Oh my God, did-did I just say "cross that bridge"?"
        Elena started laughing maniacally.
        "You're laughing. I'm pretty sure you don't actually think that's funny."
        "I can't stop though," she said, continuing to laugh.
        "Your emotions are a bit heightened today. A lot heightened."
        She continued laughing but then started to cry.
        He hugged her.
        "Hey, shh, shh. It's okay. It's okay."
        "I'm sorry. I…"
        He pulled away and caressed her face.
        "Listen to me. No matter what happens, I'm here for you. I can help you."
        Elena looked out the window and squinted her eyes due to the brightness of the sunlight.
        "Why don't you go back upstairs where it's dark? I'll clean up."
        Elena started to walk away and shielded her eyes from the sun.
        She walked up the stairs into her room where she started to remember something that a while back, Damon had compelled her to forget.



*Flashback*



        "Cute PJ's," Damon commented, sitting on her windowsill.
        "I'm tired, Damon."
        Damon got up and walked over to Elena, holding up her vervain necklace.
        "I brought you this."
        "I thought it was gone. Thank you."
        Elena tried to take it from Damon, but he pulled it back.
        "Please give it back."
        "I just have to say something."
        "Why do you have to say it with my necklace?"
        "Because what I'm about to say is probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life."
        "Damon, don't go there."
        "No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you, that I can't be selfish with you. Why you can't know this? I don't deserve you, but my brother does."
        Damon kissed Elena on the forehead.
        "God, I wish you didn't have to forget this. But you do."
        Damon compelled Elena to forget.



*End of flashback*



        Elena touched her neck and looked down.



        Rebekah looked at pictures Klaus had drawn at the Original house. She picked one up and began to choke up, almost crying. She threw the pictures down and knocked the rest of them off the table in a fit of rage.
        Damon entered the room behind her.
        "You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."
        "Good advice. Have you seen one?"
        Rebekah turned around to face him.

        "Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"
Rebekah turned back around.
        Damon rushed at her with the indestructible white oak stake. She grabbed his wrist and prevented him from killing her. She pushed him against a dresser and he dropped the stake.
        Suddenly, someone started firing wooden bullets through the window. Damon managed to escape, but Rebekah was shot in the heart with an arrow and fell to the ground.



        Elena picked up a photo of her with her parents and looked at it a bit.
        Suddenly, she heard a commotion downstairs and walked down the stairs.
        "Stefan?"
        "Elena, don't move."
        Elena stopped on the stair case. Stefan was surrounded by officers and the Pastor. The officers all had their guns pointed towards him. Elena looked at the Pastor and back at Stefan.



        Later, Rebekah started to wake up.
        When she came to, she saw that her and Caroline were in a van being transported somewhere. Caroline was sitting beside her and watching her. Rebekah struggled to get out of the ropes that held her.
        "Vervain ropes. Looks like Alaric outed us all to the Council," she told the Original sister.
        "The Council? What exactly do they think they can do to me?"
        Suddenly, the wheels of the van started to screech. The van flipped over. Caroline and Rebekah went flying. The van landed on its side.
        "What the hell happened?" Rebekah questioned.
        Just then, someone opened the door. Someone unexpected.
        "Katherine?" Caroline said in shock.

She knelt down at her side and ripped the ropes off her, ignoring the pain from touching them. She then did the same for Rebekah.
"No time. Come on. Let's go," Katherine said, helping them both to their feet one by one.
Then the three girls left the scene.

Damon was picking things up that had been knocked down during the commotion, when Liz walked into the Gilbert House and Meredith came into the living room where they were at from the kitchen.
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," Damon said.
"I can't. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything," Liz answered him.
"So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?"
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away; did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith said.
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answered her.
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," Damon implied.
Someone knocked on the front door and then Matt entered the house.
"Hey, is Elena here?"
Damon turned around and rushed towards Matt. He grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to the wall, choking him.
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"
Meredith tried to pull Damon off of him.
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith said.
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz said.
Matt tried to pry Damon's arm off his throat.
Damon finally released him.

Just then, someone unexpected arrived along with Rebekah and Caroline.
"Katherine," Damon said, looking at her.
"Damon," she said back. "I heard what Alaric cooked up. I'm here to help. In fact, I saved Caroline and Rebekah. So here we are."
Liz and Caroline hugged.
Rebekah stood against a faraway wall.
"Why would you go to such a length to help?" Damon inquired of his Sire.
"Because it means my family is in danger. I also heard from somewhere what's happening with Elena. I want to help her. But first thing first is finding where they took them."
"Yes. And how are do you suppose we do that? We don't know where the hell to look."
"I don't know. There might be a place somewhere where they could've taken them. It's out in the country where nobody would look."
She gave him a smile.
"Let's check it out."



Elena woke up in a barn on the floor. She looked around her. Vampires were coughing due to the vervain being ventilated through their cages. Elena sat up while holding her head.
"Where am I?" she questioned.
"They thought you were a vampire, so they brought you in here. Elena, are you okay?" Stefan answered from the cage adjacent to Elena's cage.
"Stefan."
Elena tried to pull herself up but was too weak to do so.
"I didn't feed."
Stefan looked worried.
Elena began to get paler.

It was a dark night as Katherine, Damon, Caroline, Rebekah, Matt, Liz, and Meredith headed for the old ranch where the Pastor lived at.


Back in the barn, things were turning to worst for Elena and Stefan felt helpless to help her at all this time.
"Elena? You still with me?" he called to her from where he sat against the wall that divided him from Elena.
Elena sat on the other side of the wall. She was even paler and was breathing heavily.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. I'm okay."
"No, you're not. I can hear you breathing. Damon was right. You should have fed earlier. I'm so sorry."
"Don't be. You had hope. That's all I ever wanted you to have and you had it."
"I love you so much."
Stefan started to cry silent tears.
"I love you. No matter what happens, it's the best choice I ever made," Elena said.
She placed her hand against the wall dividing them.
"God. It sucks that I can't see you right now."
"I'm smiling."
"Me too."
Elena took her hand from the wall and closed her eyes.



While the others did the distraction to lure some of them out of the house, Katherine went to the rescue, following their scent, which soon led her to the barn where all the vampires and Elena were being held.
She walked in and scanned the place.
Normally, she would've gotten Stefan out first, but seeing Elena, she knew she was the worst off.
She rushed over to her cage and immediately broke the lock and opened the door. Then she knelt by her.
"Elena?" she called softly.
She didn't answer.

Kat gently picked her up in her arms. She knew she was still alive, but was running out of precious time.
She looked back at Stefan, once outside of Elena's cage.
"I'll be back for you."
Stefan watched, as Kat disappeared at vamp speed with Elena in her arms, so she could save Elena for once. At least, he hoped that's what she was going to do. He didn't want to lose Elena. He loved her too much.



Once outside in the front yard, she gently layed Elena down on the ground.
Kat looked up.
"Matt!" she called to him.
He went over to them.
"You need to let her feed on you."
A few minutes later, Elena woke up as a vampire.
Kat helped her sit up.
"How do you feel?" she questioned her descendant, as everyone went over to them.
"Better. Thanks," Elena said, even though she wasn't sure what she felt about being a vampire now.
"Good. I'll be back."
And with that, she vanished into the barn to go rescue Stefan and the other vampires that had been captured.



An hour later, the Pastor and the Council were in the Pastor's house. Pastor Young released the gas hose from the back of his stove.
"Folks, by now, you know that the vampires have escaped. And it won't be long before they retaliate against us. But fear not. For I have been chosen to lead us in a movement," he told them, as he locked the door.
"What are you talking about?" one of the Council Members asked.

"Hear me, loved ones. Soon you'll be free to pass through the gates."
He pulled a lighter out of his pocket.
"And we'll all reunite in eternity."
"Seriously, Pastor, what's going on here?" the council member tried again.
"Friends. We are the beginning," Pastor Young finished.
The Pastor lit the light and the Council members screamed with fear as the kitchen was set ablaze.



Damon and Elena sat on the porch at the Salvatore boarding house.
They were silent, as they looked out into the darkness.
Finally, Elena spoke.
"Damon."
She looked at him.
He looked at her as he said, "Yeah?"
"I remember. Everything. Why didn't you tell me that it was you I meant first?"
"Well, it wouldn't had mattered anyway."
"It would've been nice to know, though."
"I guess you remember that I love you then, huh?"
"Yes."
"Now that you remember everything, do you finally know what you feel for me?"
He wished she would say that she loved him.

"I care about you, Damon. That's all I feel."
"Then you're lying to yourself and to everybody else. You can't see it yet, but I know you love me, too."
He got up and headed inside.
Stefan and Kat watched them from one of the windows in one of the upstairs rooms.

New Vampire Hunter

        It was a beautiful day, as Conner set the stuff up so anything supernatural would get vervained, hurt, or possibly dead if they walked through that door.
        Jeremy stood by a table that had chairs on it, watching him, Matt and April behind him.
        "What are you doing?" Jeremy asked.
        "If anything walks through that door, it'll get a spurt of the werewolf poison."
        "Those are our friends out there," Jeremy protested.
        "No they're not."
        "Yes they are. I don't care what they've done. They don't deserve this," he said, all the while thinking of Elena, Damon, Caroline, Tyler, and others he knew.
        "If you want to learn how to kill vampires, you have to do it my way."
        "I never said I wanted to kill my friends. They're like family. They're all I have. I won't let you do this."
        The front door opened, but nobody appeared until after the stuff had sprayed. Since no one was there, it landed on the floor. When it was done spraying, Jeremy and the others watched as Alaric Saltzman walked in.
        Ric walked over and broke the set up with a dagger he had in hand.
        "You know, if you wanted to kill a vampire or two, I know some I could send your way. Ones not includes as friends and family," Ric said, looking at Conner. "Come in. It's done," he added.

        Caroline, Tyler, Damon, and Elena walked in.
        "You should get out of here," Ric advised Matt, April, and Jeremy.
        "There's an escape route in the back room," Damon told them.
        They started to go.
        Conner grabbed Jeremy, knife to his throat.
        "Don't come any closer," he warned. He then added in warning, "And you two aren't going anywhere."
        April and Matt stopped a distance away from them.
        Suddenly, at vamp speed, Katherine Pierce was inside and pushed Conner away, from behind. Conner staggered back and Jeremy was thrown, landing by a table. The table fell on its side.
        Elena went to and knelt by her brother, whom lay on his back. The knife had made a little wound on his neck. She bit her wrist and held it out to him.
        "Jeremy, drink. You need to heal."
        He looked at her for a few minutes, before he drank, knowing he could trust his sister, no matter what she was.
        As Elena looked up, she saw Ric and Conner fighting. Ric was soon pinned to a wall and Conner had stabbed him in the stomach with a knife. And even as he did, Damon and Katherine both ran to help Ric at the same time.
        Damon through Conner off, as Alaric slid down the wall. At the same time, Katherine knelt by the dying Vampire Hunter. She bit her wrist and held it out to him.
        "No," he protested.
        "You're dying, Alaric. You have to."
        "I don't have to do anything."
        "I don't want you to die," she told him.
        He looked at her and she did likewise with him.
        "Fine. Your choice. You want to die and get even more down the dark side? It's your choice. But I won't watch you die. I can't. I've lost enough, Alaric."
        Katherine's eyes shone with sadness, giving away her feelings. Then she got to her feet and turned her back to help out.
        The elder vampiress saw Damon crash into a table, which broke with his weight. She then saw Tyler and Caroline go for Conner, but he through them one at a time, and they each hit a wall. But even as she saw this, she ran towards him at vamp speed.
        Conner turned around and saw her coming towards him. Then, as she arrived just inches from him, he stabbed her with a dagger in her right side.
        As the pain came, she vaguely heard a few voices shout out her name. And the moment when the pain started, she knew there was something on it. She knew it wasn't vervain, because she couldn't smell vervain. That's when she knew she was in danger.
        Elena saw Conner stab her and her stagger back and grab an edge of the bar. That's when she knew that something was wrong.
        At vamp speed, Elena through him, but he came after her. Then they were rolling over and over on the floor, him with a stake in hand, trying to stake her, her with a hand on his hand, trying to stop him.
        Damon painfully got to his feet. Then he through Conner off Elena and twisted his arm behind his back, making him drop the stake.
        As Matt watched everything, he wished that he had his rifle about now, to shoot the bastard who had hurt Alaric and almost staked Elena.
        Matt looked at April.
        "Go out the back and get home. I'll explain everything later. We all will," he said, wanting her out of the mix.
        Without question, April ran towards and inside the big room. She had a million questions, but knew Matt well enough that he would keep his promise. Then she looked for a way out.
        Elena got to her feet and raced towards her Petrova bloodline, but was too late, as Katherine fell and landed on her back, the dagger still in her side.
        When Alaric awoke and saw the shape Katherine was in, he knelt at her side before Elena could arrive. He didn't care about her, but Elena did. He was doing this for Elena. Alaric saw the dagger and pulled it out, tossing it to the floor.
        When he pulled it out, the vampiress gasped in pain. And then she saw Elena at her side.

        "Katherine, can you hear me?" she vaguely heard her ask in a worried tone. Everything was so dim to her and her vision was blurry.
        She felt Ric lay a hand on her forehead and hear him say, "She's warm." And that's when she knew what was wrong with her. She was slowly dying.
        Damon soon killed Conner and then was kneeling by Kat's head, feeling through the Sire bond that she was dying. Because she had sired him, he felt everything she was going through. After Conner was dead, Matt left.
        "She's dying. And she can just barely hear us. I can feel it," he told them.
        Elena understood, as he told them. She realized he felt it because she had sired him. That made her wonder if it was the same with Stefan, since she had sired them both. She also knew what he met by her dying. She had werewolf poison in her system.
        As if to prove that Elena was right, Katherine screamed in pain as pain sliced through her.


        Tyler awoke to see the scene after he heard Katherine scream in pain. But he figured they didn't need him. He then crawled over to where Caroline lay on her back, and knelt by her, pulling her gently into his arms. He needed to make sure she was okay.


        Caroline awoke to see Tyler holding her in his arms and hear Katherine screaming in the distance.
        "Are you okay?" he asked her.
        "I'm fine," she said, sitting up. "Tyler, what's going on?"
        "I didn't ask."
        They got to their feet and walked over.
        "What happened?" Caroline questioned.
        Ric looked up at her.
        "She was stabbed with Conner's knife. Now she's dying. Somehow he got a hold of some werewolf poison."
        "Then we need Klaus," Caroline answered.
        "It's Katherine. He won't do it," Damon implied. "I might have some leftover at home, though."
        "I'll take her there while you clean up," Ric volunteered.
        "And I'll go with him," Elena told Damon.
        Ric gently picked Katerina up in his arms and got to his feet, heading for the door.
        Damon watched as Elena followed Ric out the door.
        "We should go home. It's late," Caroline said.
        He watched silently, as Tyler and Caroline left hand in hand.



        As Ric headed towards the boarding house, Katherine blacked out.
        Elena was worried, as they walked. She didn't look well and she was blacked out. She looked worse than Damon had been when he had been bitten by Tyler. She guessed the knife had been in her long enough to work faster than a werewolf bite.



        Katherine didn't know how long she had been out, but when she came to, she felt better. She also saw that her Petrova bloodline was seated on her bedside.
        "Thanks," the vampiress said to Elena.
        "You're welcome."
        "I guess I get to say welcome to this side of life," Katherine replied to Elena.
        "Yeah. I guess Damon's blood made me a vampire. I had it in my system when Rebekah ran me and Matt off the road. Now I'm sired to him," Elena explained.
        Kat sat up.
        "Rebekah. I should probably kill her one of these days for that."
        Kat got to her feet and Elena helped her. They then came down the stairs.

        The next day at the boarding house, everyone explained everything to April, whom took it very well.

Home

Summary: Set in S5E22 “Home.” What if Damon had actually been able to make it out of the Other Side and so was Lexi? What if Kol was there too and went to being alive again like the others?



        It was a dark night in Mystic Falls, Virginia as the spirits of the dead gathered towards Bonnie to go back to being alive again. Enzo was the first one, before Ric went and then Damon and Elena and Stefan and Tyler. Then, a few minutes later, Marcos came, determined to be alive again instead of being swept away. Lexi grabbed him though and when he was on top of Lexi, he got swept away. Then it was Lexi. And lastly came Kol.

        “I’ll see you later, Blondie,” Enzo said to Caroline as he passed by her.

        “Tyler? Is that really you?” Caroline asked, seeing him.

        “It’s really me,” Tyler confirmed, before they ran into each other’s arms.

        When they let go, Tyler said, “That felt different.”

        “What do you mean different?” Caroline asked him.

        Tyler grabbed a rock from the ground and scraped it across his hand, which made him bleed. He then saw that he wasn’t healing.

        He looked at her.

        “I’m not a hybrid anymore.”

        When Stefan and Lexi were united, they hugged.

        When Damon and Elena were united, they hugged and then immediately started to kiss. They were so happy that they had both been able to come back, including their long lost friends that they had been missing for a long time.

        There wasn’t a reunion for Kol or anything, so he went home. Nobody had ever liked him, since he was always such an ass. He was just best to head home and not have to deal with any of them.

        Soon, everyone heading home, but then they heard Jeremy yelling out Bonnie’s name and they realized that Bonnie was dying. The Other Side was disintegrating, so Bonnie was about to die, because she was the anchor to the Other Side.

Devil Inside/Farewell To Storyville

        Caroline and Elena were downstairs by a table talking about the fact that Caroline had had sex with Klaus in the woods, when Tyler came down the stairs and overheard.

        “Oh, my God,” Elena said, seeing Tyler.

        Caroline turned to see Tyler.

        He gave her a look, before walking away through a crowd of people.

        Caroline watched him go until she couldn’t see him anymore. She then left Elena to take care of the mess she had just made.

        When she found him, he was in a room drinking, clearly drunk and emotionally hurt. He had his back turned to her, standing in front of a table.

        “Get out.”

        She took a step towards him.

        “Just let me explain,” she pleaded.

        “No. Let me. Klaus killed thousands of people. Elena’s aunt, an entire pack of hybrids; my friends! Caroline, he killed my mom!”

        She took another step.

        “I know. I know. I am so sorry.”

        He through the empty shot glass at the wall and turned around to face her.

        “Just stop. I walked out last time. Now it’s your turn.”

        She was standing less than a foot away from him now and took another step.

        “No.”

        “Don’t take another step, Caroline!” he yelled.

        “If you would just—,"she started, but he cut her off.

        “I said leave!” he yelled with a growl, going all hybrid face on her.

        A moment later, both realized that he had accidentally bitten her.

        She looked at him in fear.

        His face was back to normal now.

        “Care…”

        “Don’t,” she said, as she felt the venom.

        Katherine walked in, having overheard, and so wanted to slap him, but refrained from doing so.

        “Nice going. Now she really needs Klaus,” she said to him, before putting a hand on her upper left arm, guiding her out. “Let’s get you to Klaus,” she said, as she guided her out.





        Three hours later, she entered New Orleans, Caroline out cold with a cool wet washcloth on her forehead, dying, Katherine driving her SUV as fast as she could. Luckily, she had already been ready to visit New Orleans, before Caroline had been bitten by her ex.





        As soon as she parked in front of the cemetery where Hayley had told her he was, she took the cloth off and set it on the dashboard. She hated leaving her, but she had to.

        “I’ll be right back. Don’t die on me.”

        She rushed into the cemetery and searched for Klaus.

        “Rebekah!” she heard him call out.

        She followed his and Elijah’s voices.

        When she caught sight of them, she walked briskly towards them.

        “You’re gonna wanna postpone your sibling rivalry. She needs you,” she said to Klaus.

        Both brothers looked at her.

        “Katerina?” Elijah questioned.

        “Who?” Klaus asked, though he had a good guess who it was.

        “Caroline. She’s in my car.”

        He followed her to the entrance and Kat, knowing he couldn’t leave the cemetery, went to Caroline’s side. She opened the door and put an arm around her, getting her to her feet, using her body weight to hold her up.

        Once he could get to her, he took her from Katerina. He layed her down on the ground and knelt by her, pulling her gently into his arms and biting his wrist, putting his wrist to her lips, making his blood go down her throat.

        Kat walked over to Elijah.

        “Whatever’s going on in Klaus’ head, you should probably get Rebekah out of here as far as possible, while he’s wrapped up in saving her life,” she said, before going into the place that the witches hung out at, because of the cemetery being filled with their dead ancestors.

        “Sophie?” she called, as she walked inside.

        The witch came in from a room.

        “Katherine.”

        “I need you to do a favor for me,” she told her.

        “That depends on what it is.”

        “I need you to find a spell that will stop me from dying faster than a normal human. My doppelganger shoved the cure down my throat when I tried to kill her. I was mad, and I took it out on her. There has to be a way that you can help me. I’m dying due to turning 500 years ago.”

        “I’ll see what I can find out.”

        “Thank you,” she replied to the witch.

        A few minutes after finding a spell to stop what the cure had and was doing to the former vampiress, the spell was completed, and Katherine wasn’t dying anymore.

        Afterward, Kat left the cemetery, but stayed in New Orleans.

        When it was dark, the Originals and Caroline were gone, so she went for a drive around the city to see if it had changed or not since less than 100 years ago when she had last visited.