Forbes Residence
Damon has been stopping by a lot lately, not saying much though so we mostly sit in silence next to each other on my bed. Mostly reading or something like that. It's been about a week since Vicki died now but I know that the council is looking for the vampire responsible and it's making Damon antsy.
Of course my body's mommy is currently questioning the people around here about Vicki's disappearance, which means that Damon's going to try to kill Lexi, which is really sad because I like Lexi. She's goofy, I wonder if she'd be my friend?
Damon comes straight into my room all happy like and I raise an amused eyebrow "Something you need to get off your chest Hyper Hippo"
Damon scoffs "I wouldn't be a hippo. Besides, I found a way to get rid of the whole 'vampire' hunting trouble the town council is going through."
I snort and whine "You're not killing Lexi Damon."
He turns to me and sneers before camping to me and grabbing my upper arms harshly as he snarls out "I need to get the council off our backs."
I grit my teeth and snap "get your fucking hands off my person Damon" he drops my arms quickly and backs away from me quickly as he starts pacing.
"Sorry" he grits out looking absolutely irritated "but I can't let them suspect us and I need an in."
"So turn a rapist and kill said rapist, then boom all done." I say happily as I sit down on the bed.
He blinks at me " you get excited about the strangest things sometimes." He tells me with a huff.
I pout "I liked Lexi in the TV show, do you think she'd like me?" I ask him with a frown.
Damon chuckles as he looks at me "Maybe, but who said I wanted to share you hm?"
I scoff "I'm not yours to share, I am my own thank you very much." I say as I cross my arms over my chest frustrated. "I can make friends if I want to."
He chuckles again as he sits beside me on the bed and begins patting my head. I pout more "I'm not a puppy you caveman." I say to him as I swat at his hand.
His face becomes serious and he nods "no you are not." Then he sighs "you're so different from everyone you know." Then he vamps out again.
I tilit my head and raise an eyebrow at him "what are you doing?" I ask him curiously, what a weird weird vampire.
He groans and gestures to me "see, you're not even going to pretend to be scared of me."
I chuckle and coo at him "Awww. . Is my whittle Damon waymon's ego gotta boo boo!" I ask as I pull him into my lap and start playing with his hair absentmindedly.
"Will you kiss it better Care?" He asks me with a pout and I burst out laughing.
He huffs and sits up, crossing his arms like an angry child, of course that only makes me laugh harder.
He snarls at me with his vamp face out and all then. Unfortunately that set me laughing so hard my tummy hurt until I stifled it down to just small giggles.
I run my hands over his veins again with a small smile and say cheerfully"I like them."
"Gotta go now!" He says a smirks at me and bops me on the nose, which makes my nose scrunch up and twitch. "You should probably stay home tonight."
After he leaves I chuckle to myself. Yeah, that never works for me, 'don't do that' always seems to becomes 'DO IT!' in my case anyways. Hehehe.
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Mystic Grill
By the time I arrived the little party type thing that Damon planned/had planned was underway.
I see Damon and walk over to him, he is my only friend after all right? I tap on his shoulder and his head turns towards me "Caroline?" He says while trying to hide his anger. "Why are you here?" He asks angrily in my ear after putting an arm around my shoulder as he moves us away from everyone.
I shrug and whisper "cause, you made me curious so I had to come. Oh and I can't just let you just kill Lexi, she's nice."
"It's not up to you. Everything is in place, there's nothing you can do about it." He tells me sternly, his bright blue eyes staring straight into mine.
"Then I'll make sure I'm in the way." I tell him bluntly, I go to walk away when he speaks up.
"You won't be." He tells sternly me as he grabs my arm before I can go far enough. "I won't let you, don't think I'll stand for you stepping in my way." His voice is hard as steal, he's not happy with me right now.
I pivot so that I'm directly in front of him again "then kill me and be done with it." I quietly snap at him.
He almost snaps at me but clenches his teeth looking behind me, I turn and I see Lexi looking between us curiously.
Lexi walks towards us then and puts a hand on my shoulder and backs me away from Damon making his nostrils flare angrily, if it's me or her he's angry at I don't quite know. "What's going on here? Is Damon bothering you?" She asks gently.
"No" I say flatly as I glare at Damon, I could really be friends with this girl I think. "But I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking me home." I ask her as I turn around.
"Caroline" Damon says sternly "you're not going out there."
I raise a challenging eyebrow "I'm sorry, but last I checked you don't decide anything for me, I do it myself." I head for the door, but I see mom and her deputies coming in.
I grab Lexi who was going to follow me out and I tug out "this way, this way please!" I say pleadingly, but she just looks confused "they'll hurt you, come!" I say pleadingly as she starts to follow me, we're almost to the back entrance when Damon steps in front of us, his eyes are hard.
When they shoot her and drag her out I run after them, Damon behind me to kill her.
"Keep her back!" I hear my mom say sharply to a few of the officers pointing at me as the rain pours down from above soaking us.
The deputies corner me then, one grabs me around the middle and I slam my head back breaking his nose, as I go to run to Lexi two grab me, holding me from the sides, their arms around my middle as I try to fight past them
"NO, MOM DONT!" I shout out in distress, why can't I stop this? I think as I kick a leg out, hitting the guy on my left in the knee.
Damon's in front of Lexi now, I won't be fast enough.
"fuck" I hear the other one mutter as I stomp hard on his foot and knee him in the stomach. Rushing forwards, I'm almost there, but then Lexi is graying and Damon just killed her.
She was a decent one, I liked her character. She was funny and I just liked her personality.
I stay there frozen as I stare at her corpse I vaguely hear "get her home." But it's a daze, I should've went to the boarding house and made her leave, but no one would have listened to me. "I'll take her" I hear a voice mutter and grab ahold of my shoulders.
I know, I'm in the body of the fiery blonde that everyone thinks is an idiot when she wasn't, who was used and no one ever truly cared. Fuck fuck fuck.
These people don't care about her, they wouldn't care about me either. I'm going to have to leave or do something.
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Forbes Residence
3rd POV
Damon knew that she wasn't coherent, he knew that. She looked lost in thought but also as if she just realized something tragic and that was worrying. He didn't want her there today, she didn't need to see that.
When she got to her room she didn't even notice that he was still in the room watching baffled as she started packing a bag full of clothes and some weapons.
Her eyes oddly glossed over as if she remembered something painful to her.
He grabs hold of her hands before she starts trying to pile more things into her bag "stop, stop Caroline." Damon mutters to her worriedly as she glances at him wide eyed and starts trying to fight him off.
"Let go" Caroline says harshly as she tries trying to get him to let go of her hands "stop it, stop, stop it." She says as he Pulls her body against his tightly.
She starts swinging her legs and trying to hit him, some successful and some a complete miss, "shhhhh, shhhh, shhh Care, shhhh" Damon says as she continues trying to get him off. "Nononononononono, get off get off get off" she says angrily, her head to tight against his chest for her to head butt him at least.
He runs his hands down her hair soothingly as she tries to break away from him. "Shhhhh, you're okay, you're okay. Shhhhhh" he mutters and then she bursts into tears, tears of pain and he doesn't understand why, why she's breaking down and crying over someone she only supposedly knew on screen?
She knows they don't care for her, her one friend is the only one to have ever cared for her, she needs to get away, she has to.
She likes Damon, he's a nice friend, sometimes. But he doesn't know how she is. He doesn't know that people normally on principle don't like her because she was always perky and happy, or that she did it because her parents hated her.
People don't know that she's only shy on the outside because no one likes her when they really know her, her personality is too loud, too wild, she's too defiant, she just doesn't listen. She gets hurt but she bounces back happily always.
But it's still her, she's still perky, she's still a bit crazy, but how can you react around people when everyone disliked you because you say weird things at random times or because you touch the random persons shinny head of hair or when you honestly don't notice the difference between inhaling or exhaling?
She'd rather be alone then be surrounded by people who pretended to care but only want to hurt her somehow.
Real Caroline always got hurt and hardly anyone ever really cared in the show unless it made them feel self righteous or better then others.
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"I have to leave" I whisper to him as I start to calm.
"No, no you don't okay?" Damon whispers back sharply "you can't just leave, you can't."
I shake my head and back up, he let me as I look up at him wide eyed and whisper painfully "I have to Damon, I have to, you killed her like she was nothing. Everyone dies around here Damon. Everyone and I was useless to stop her death ." I say bitterly, I was often called useless.
"NO." He says sharply as he pulls me back towards him, then he takes a deep breath and says "you're my. . I just need you here. You have to be here, you're not useless, you don't listen though. Just don't leave." He says pleadingly as he puts his fingers around my chin and pulls my face towards his, looking me in the eyes with his Deep Blue ones, holding me in place so I can't just look away from him.
"I'll try to listen better next time but I didn't have time, they were so suspicious and I just, I had to do something quickly. I won't let anyone hurt you okay? And if they do I'll kill them." He says seriously as he tucks me into his arms again tightly.
Though regardless I'll have to finish school here. This has to be hell right?
"Katherine." I whisper to him and he stiffens. "You may kill me when you see she's not in the tomb anymore, or maybe she will kill me like she did the original Caroline"
Maybe if I stay I'll be able to slip into the background more, will people forget about me?
I feel him take a deep breath and sigh as he runs his fingers through my hair again making me frown "this is so draining, the talking about feelings and all that but. . . I won't Kill you and I won't let anyone else kill you." He says softly before he adds what I'm assuming is a joke "unless you ask me to kill you, as in me turning you into a vampire of course?"
I snort and pout "no, but I liked her and maybe she would've wanted to be my friend you know? People don't normally like me, I'm to weird of something." I saw dejected.
"I'm a good friend though right? You trust me most still?" He asks me carefully.
I sigh and hug him back then and give a small sad smile "Yeah, you are, and you're funny."
"Do you still trust me?" He asks again almost worriedly.
"Yeah, you're still the only one I trust at all." I say with a sigh as I hug him tighter, maybe it's selfish that this is what's making her break down? Or maybe it's the fact that the only person she can properly connect to here is the vampire right in front of her and Maybe her body's mom on some level.
"Are you okay now?" Damon asks me with concerned eyes.
I give him a small nod as he pulls me into his side, just letting me snuggle with him, feeling oddly safe, what the fuck is wrong with me?
But he's my friend so that's normal right? To feel safe?
Even if this is hell at least there's somewhere I feel a bit of safety at.
I might not be able to save everyone but I'll have to make sure to save Mason though, no matter what and burn down that Fucking bridge too.
Screw Elena and anyone else.
Maybe Damon will end up permanently killing me? Or he'll abandon like everyone else always did.
I just have to change whatever I can.
I'm pretty sure Damon is not just going to let me go, if the ways he's holding me now is anything to go by, I'll unpack my bag in the morning I guess.
I'm to fuck up the plot some more I guess, I'll have to get more creative too, maybe this will be fun?
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Of course Si-Care wanted Lexi safe, I wanted Lexi safe but this is kind of just how it turned out when I wrote it.
As you know she doesn't want to be mixed into the whole Elena mess but Damon is (ironically) the only person she trusts or feels like she can be herself around.
As you can see she won't just sit back when someone she thinks deserves to live gets attacked, which I'm pretty sure Stefan and Elena saw and will have questions to ask her at school (which she will obviously try to avoid or ignore them) but we'll see how everything continues to come together!