A loud bang from the kitchen brings me out of my thoughts. What the hell? That's not creepy or anything. In this town you never know what can happen...
I look around and take a deep breath before slowly heading into the kitchen...
I take a few steps into the kitchen before I see him. I gasp in horror at all the blood around him. I run over to him and let out a strangled cry when I see three of his fingers cut off, plus a stab wound in the chest. Oh God...
I grab a towel of the counter and place it over his hands which are above the stab wound. I may not like the guy but I can tell he is in a lot of pain, and he's my Uncle. I pull out my cellphone and dial 911.
"911, what's your emergency?" the lady answers on the first ring.
"Hi, uh...I need an ambulance to 2104 Maple Street-" I stop when I hear John trying to whisper something to me. "What?"
"Behind you." he whispers causing me to gasp and spin around. Nothing there...but there was someone, unless he was hallucinating. I look down and see a kitchen knife laying next to me with John's blood on it. I pick up the knife and stand up. Don't think about the blood on it, Aria.
I walk out of the kitchen slowly and into the hallway holding the knife in front of me. I hear a whoosh behind me and spin around at the sound. Nothing there again... I scream when I hear the door slam open and shut. There gone...who ever it was is gone now. Wait...
"Jeremy." I whisper dropping the knife and taking off up the stairs. "Jeremy!" I yell running into his room. He's asleep on the bed, but why didn't he wake up when I called him? "Jeremy, please wake up." I cry, trying to shake him awake. Oh God, he's not waking up. What is wrong with him?
Jeremy gasps awake causing me to breathe a sigh of relief. He's not hurt but John is downstairs...
There was a vampire in here that means they got invited in somehow, whoever stabbed John can come back anytime they like. That could be a problem, a very, very, bad problem.
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I stand on the steps and watch in horror as they wheel John out, he's alive but barely. I may have hated him but I don't want him to die, especially not like this.
Stefan and Elena walk up as they wheel John out the door, Elena gasps, putting her hand over her mouth. They try to walk in but the cop stops them, who is standing guarding the door.
"They're okay." I tell him and Elena comes running up the stairs, hugging me so tight I can't breathe. I guess she forgot about earlier, seeing Damon and I kiss. She was so mad...
When she pulls away Stefan gives me a small smile. Then I remember why I called Stefan here. "Come on." I say grabbing Elena's arm and leading her up the stairs.
"What's going on?" Elena asks worried as we head to Jeremy's room.
"He said that Anna gave him her blood, and then he took these pills and now... I mean he looks fine but then so do you so...I just don't know." I sigh handing Stefan the pill bottle. Elena gives Jeremy a worried yet disproving look.
Stefan gets down on his knees and forces Jeremy to look him in the eyes. "I'm fine, okay? I feel exactly the same." Jeremy glares at him but Stefan still forces him to look at him.
"Should I call a paramedic up here? What should we do?" Elena questions, oh that's not the stupidest idea ever. Why didn't I think of that?
"No...he's fine." Stefan states standing up.
"You mean I'm not a vampire...damn it!" Jeremy whispers causing Elena to look at him in horror.
"Shut up, Jeremy. You don't know what you're saying." I glare at him.
"Jeremy why would you want that?" Elena asks horrified.
"Did you two here about Anna, what happened to her tonight? She's dead." Jeremy says causing my heart to break for him. First he lost Vicki now he lost Anna, poor kid.
"Come here Jeremy, sit down." Stefan commands grabbing the back of his neck and pushing him back on the bed. It's ruff for Stefan but it's not hurting Jer so I guess I won't intervene. "Look I'm very sorry about Anna, but it's very important that you listen to me now. With every passing moment Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you tired to kill yourself right now, you could really die! Hey! Do you understand me?" Stefan yells slapping Jeremy on the cheek, not a full on slap but not a light one either.
"Stefan." Elena says alarmed.
"Yes, I understand." Jeremy nods and it looks like he wants to punch Stefan in the face. I would too, if I was him.
"Good." Stefan gets up off the ground, having gotten his point across. Harshly, but hopefully Jeremy understood it. All I need is for my little brother to kill himself thinking he will come back as a vampire...
"What about the pills he took?" I ask.
"He didn't take enough to die so actually Anna's blood healed him of that." Stefan explains.
"Oh, that's good..." I say slowly not knowing how to respond. Jeremy tried to kill himself and failed, I thank God he failed, he doesn't need to be a vampire any time soon. Or any time for that matter.
"Miss.Gilbert's." the cop calls standing in front of our doorway. Ugh, I don't want the cops to be involved in any of this. This was most likely a vampire, I don't want them to know that.
"We will be there in a minute." Elena tells him and he nods, walking away.
"You two need to be at the hospital." Stefan says.
"But..." Elena states looking over at Jeremy.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of him. I'll stay here with Jeremy." Stefan smiles always trying to be the good boyfriend.
"No, no, I don't need a baby-sitter." Jeremy argues causing me to glare at him.
"Yes, you do." Elena and I say at the same time. Twin powers!
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I sprint into the hospital having just been told about Caroline. She was in a car wreck with Matt and Tyler. The boys are fine but she got hurt pretty bad. She's in surgery.
I see Bonnie and run up to her, having forgot my anger towards her for now. "How's Caroline?"
"She's weak, they don't know if she's going to make it." Bonnie states causing tears to come to my eyes.
"What?" I choke out not knowing how to react. Bonnie reaches up and hugs me but I don't hug her back. "Is there anything you can do, like a spell or something?"
"She doesn't know how. Do you?" Damon questions, walking towards us. I don't look at him, embarrassed about the kiss. I was so stupid!
"No, I don't." Bonnie states sadly, I feel an arm go around me and look up at Elena. Guess she parked the car...
"It took Emily years to learn a spell like that." Damon points out to Bonnie.
"Yeah, well I can take down a vampire, that spell was easy to learn." Bonnie smiles coldly at Damon. Can they cut it out right now? I seriously don't need to hear there bickering at the moment.
Damon turns towards Elena and I, "I can give Caroline some blood..." Damon starts to say but I cut him off.
"No, no way." I shake my head. Too many things can go wrong with him giving her blood.
"No, just enough to heal her. She will be safe in the hospital, and she will be better in a day Aria." Damon argues.
"No, it's too risky. I can't agree to that Damon." I sigh, I sound like Elena right now but she's my best friend. I can't risk anything.
"Do it." Elena says causing me to spin around and face her. "This is your best friend Aria, we can't let her die."
"Do it." Bonnie nods agreeing with Elena. Wow, I am being ganged up on. So un-cool guys.
"If I do this, you and I, truce?" Damon smirks pointing between Bonnie and him.
"No, but you'll do it anyway. For Aria." Bonnie smirks causing his to fade. I look over at Bonnie shocked but she just shrugs and walks away. What is wrong with her? She treats Damon like dirt and it pisses me off.
"Look, I know this is probably the last thing you two want to do right now but we should talk about what happened tonight." Damon says causing me to look at the ground. Elena may have forgotten her anger but she will remember it now.
"Yeah, one of the tomb vampires got in the house and almost killed John." Elena explains causing my head to snap up.
"What? When? After I left?" Damon frowns looking at Elena.
"You were there?" Elena asks dumbfounded.
"Come on Lena, you know he was." I sigh.
"When was he at the house?" Elena questions glaring at us.
"Really? Damon and I were on the porch, you caught us. I mean you were furious." Elena still looks at me confused. "Damn it Elena, you caught Damon and I kissing!"
Elena looks at me shocked and slightly angry. "You and Damon were kissing?!"
"Yeah, you caught us. You were so furious that you had to leave. Elena, stop pretending you didn't see it." I glare at her, she's so mad that she can't even talk about it. Unbelievable.
"I don't know what you're talking about Aria! I was at the Grill with Stefan, I told you I would be there. I couldn't have gotten home that quick." Elena explains causing me to frown. She does have a very good point...
"Oh...oh...you have got to be kidding me." Damon says annoyed. Elena and I look at him weirdly but he stares at me for a moment before walking away. What is going on?
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Elena, Damon and I walk in the door to see Stefan on the ground, groaning in pain. Uh... that's normal...
"Stefan?" Elena asks alarmed.
"Elena." Stefan states cautiously.
"What happened?" I question looking at him weirdly. You have to admit it's kind of weird to walk in your house and see your sisters boyfriend on the ground, groaning.
"Katherine, Katherine happened." Damon states.
Elena and I look over at him in horror. "Did you just say Katherine? As in your vampire girlfriend Katherine?" I look at him like he's gone mental.
"Unfortunately." Damon grimaces.
"How-how-how is that even possible?" Elena stutters.
"Let's talk in the kitchen." Stefan says and leads us into the living room, gesturing for us to sit. Elena shakes her head and says she's going to talk to Jeremy.
I can't believe Katherine is back and in Mystic Falls, pretending to be Elena! Who knows, maybe even me!
"Did she say what she wanted?" Damon asks Stefan.
"No." Stefan sighs, starting to pace.
"The women sure knows how to make an entrance." Damon mumbles under his breath.
"She said she fooled one of us, what does that mean?" Stefan questions glaring at Damon. Ha, he thinks she fooled him, she fooled me though. Damon gives me a mischievous look.
"She pretend to be Elena also when I showed up here earlier tonight." Damon says slowly as if he is hiding a secret.
"I told Jeremy everything, I can't lie to him anymore." Elena sighs walking into the room. Stefan gives her a sad smile and heads over to her. They start to talk but I block out there conversation. I move my hand over my arm to play with my bracelet but it's gone.
Weird, I never took it off and I put it on this morning. Oh shit, I think Katherine compelled me earlier.
"Oh God." I whisper looking down at my wrist. Damon is the only one who hears me and he moves over to me, worried.
"What's wrong?" he frowns.
"I think Katherine compelled me earlier, to make me think she was Elena. I can't remember the exact details of our conversation and my bracelet is gone." I explain to him. "Can you like override her compulsion or something?"
Damon laughs, "No, I'm not that good."
"Katherine has been invited in, what are we going to do?" Elena asks loud enough for Damon and I to hear her.
"Move." Damon smirks.
"Very helpful Damon, thank you." I smile as innocently as I can at him. He smirks back at me and shrugs a little. I guess he's not really that worried Katherine compelled me earlier.
"If Katherine wants to kill you there's zero you can do about it, you will be dead. But you two aren't so clearly she as other plans." Damon explains perfectly calm.
"And we need to find out what those other plans are and not provoke her in the process." Stefan scolds Damon, while Elena comes and sits down next to me. "What happened tonight? Katherine said she fooled you also." Stefan states narrowing his eyes at Damon. Elena starts to talk but I shut her up, knowing Damon wants to provoke him.
"To risk another frown line appearing on a very crowded forehead...we kissed." Damon states slowly like it's some dirty little secret.
"And you thought it was Elena?" I question harshly trying my best to act jealous. You can't blame me, it's fun to bother Stefan.
"What do you mean you kissed?" Stefan glares totally buying into our act.
"You know when two lips pucker and they go-" Damon makes kissing noises and I laugh quietly. Before Elena and I can blink Stefan and Damon have switched sides in the kitchen. By the way Stefan is glaring at Damon, I guess Stefan wants to punch him.
"Oh come on Stefan." Damon smirks, causing Stefan to stalk towards him. I stand up, having decided I had enough of this charade.
"Stefan wait! He kissed me, not Elena. Katherine fooled me and Damon earlier, pretending to be Elena. Damon and I were messing with you." I sigh holding my hand out to stop him. "Elena wouldn't kiss him you know that." I say and Stefan backs away.
"Speaking of that, why were you and Damon making out on the porch? I thought you were going to stay away from him?!" Elena asks, glaring at me.
I shake my head not wanting to talk about this now, "We don't have time for this."
"Later." Elena frowns at me still super pissed. Great...
"John must know something, there has to be a reason why she tried to kill him." I state looking between Stefan and Damon.
"She's Katherine! She loves to play games and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's up to. Unless she wants you to know." Damon sighs leaning against the wall looking sexy. Stop that Aria.
"Actually Aria is right, John could know something through Isobel. Your mother was in touch with Katherine so maybe we can go to the hospital and talk to him." Stefan suggests to Elena and I.
"I've got a better idea." Damon interrupts causing Elena to turn around and glare at him.
"What's that?" she asks, not happy.
"I'm just going to ignore the bitch." Damon smirks.
"Oh and that's brilliant." I say sarcastically. Nobody likes to be ignored and I'm guessing especially not Katherine.
"If she thinks she's being ignored it will lure her out. She will make a move." Damon does that stupid ET thing. Haven't seen that in a while.
"Yeah? And then what?" Stefan questions.
"Stake her? Rip her head off? Something poetic, we'll see." Damon shrugs and heads towards the front door. Normally I would go with him but I think he should be alone. Katherine being here could really screw him up. I just hope it doesn't bring back any lost feelings...
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Have you ever gone some place with two people who are really pissed with you? Well...I hope you haven't because it sucks. Stefan and Elena forced me to go with them to the hospital to interrogate John. I don't know why though since they just ignore me and send me the occasional glare.
"You ready for this?" Stefan asks Elena as we arrive in front of John's room. Elena doesn't respond to him and just walks in the room, guess she's just mad at the world right now. Yay, it's not just me.
I walk into the room and see John sleeping in the hospital bed. He looks alright I guess, I automatically notice his three missing fingers. "John?" Elena asks hesitantly. He opens his eyes slowly but when he sees me he gasps and tries to call the nurse.
"Calm down, I'm not Katherine." I roll my eyes.
"We know she did this to you." Stefan says as John's eyes snap to his.
"But we need to know why." Elena presses in no mood to play games with him.
"Were is she?" he mumbles.
"You tell us." I smirk.
"I don't know." he starts to sit up but Stefan pushes him back down.
"You're a little too weak to play tuff guy, why don't you just sit back and answer a few questions." Stefan looks pretty intimidating right now. I'm impressed.
Elena opens John's hand and places the ring that brings him back to life in it. "Please, can you tell us why she's here. What does she want?" Elena is taking the good cop side, of course.
Stefan sighs when John doesn't answer. "She'll try again, and we can't help you if you don't confine in us."
"In you?" John glares at him.
Stefan pauses for a moment, "In your daughters then."
"My daughters should have driven a stake through both yours and Damon's heart by now." John sneers at Stefan then his eyes flicker to Elena's. "I never spoke with Katherine directly, she never trusted me. So either kill me or get out because I can't stand to see you with my daughters."
I laugh coldly, "You're so dumb John. Without us helping to protect you, you are going to die. But I don't think you really care, do you?" I glare at him then leave the room. I can't stand the sight of him, it just makes me sick.
Why, O, why did he turn out to be my Father? I wish we were right about Alaric... I would have like that better. Oh well, I guess nobody can pick who there Father is, can we?
Since I'm already at the hospital I decided to go visit Caroline. I've been a horrible friend not visiting her and just getting my updates from Matt.
I knock on her door, grinning when I walk in. She looks perfectly healthy I guess Damon's blood did the trick. "You feeling alright?" I ask.
"I feel perfectly fine, the doctors say it's like a miracle." Caroline grins back at me.
"A miracle? I don't believe in those." I shrug taking a seat on the edge of her bed.
"Of course you don't, you don't believe in anything." Caroline rolls her eyes.
"Oh, you would be surprised with what I believe in these days." I smirk and she laughs. I start laughing with her, happy Damon's blood worked. I don't know what I would have done if it didn't. "I'm really happy you're okay Care."
"Come here." Caroline smiles and pulls me in for a hug. I hug her back tightly so thankful she's alive. She's my best friend. I pull away from her and give her a teary smile.
"I don't know what I would have done if I lost you. I've lost so many people and...and you're so important to me." I state and she smiles at me.
"Aww, I love you to bestie." she blows me a kiss.
I laugh and shake my head, "Did I say I loved you?" I tease.
"I know you meant it." she smirks, flipping her hair back. I roll my eyes, guess Caroline is totally back to normal.
"I have something to confess." I state slowly.
Caroline gives me a knowing smile, "Let me guess it involves a certain Salvatore brother with dark hair and blue eyes."
"I kissed him." I blurt out and see her shocked expression. It slowly changes into one of... proudness?
"Finally! I knew it would happen some time!" she squeals. "Did you kiss him or did he kiss you? Are you two like an item now?"
"I don't know, to both of those." I answer with a small shrug.
"Oh my God, Arianna Gilbert and Damon Salvatore. I like it." she smirks wiggling her eyebrows. I laugh, shaking my head. I kind of like the sound of that also.
But I can't let it happen.
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"I think the whole town has turned up." Jenna states as we head towards the Lockwood manor.
"Yeah, well he is...was the Mayor." I correct myself looking down at the ground. Damon said the Device affected the Mayor so he was thrown in the building to burn. A vampire snapped his neck though before he got burned alive. The interesting thing is the vervain didn't affect him so he's not a vampire. If he's not a vampire, what the hell is he?
"Why can't they just save it for the funeral?" Jeremy groans. I know, the whole town is here to mourn and it's not even his funeral yet.
"That's what they do. The Lockwood's were here for us when we went through this. It'll be quick, we'll drop off the food and pay respects then go." Jenna tells us. I spot Damon standing alone on the porch drinking a glass of scotch.
"In and out, sounds like a plan." Jeremy smirks.
"You guys head inside, I'll catch up to you later." I smile at Jenna before heading over to Damon. "Hey, how are you doing?" I ask not knowing what Katherine being here is doing to him.
"Great Ari, walking on sunshine. Thanks for asking." Damon answers sarcastically not looking at me.
"Damon." I say disapprovingly.
"Aria." he smirks back, mocking me.
"We should be able to talk about this, I want to know how you're doing. I thought we we're close enough by now." I sigh.
"I kissed you, you kissed me back. I thought your sister interrupted us, turns out it was my ex. Then you walk away and never bring up the kiss again so I'm assuming it meant nothing to you. So, how do you think I'm doing?" he glares at me.
He did not just say that. "Are you kidding me Damon? You know it meant something to me! I told you how I felt about you and you just...forgot about it! You have no right to say anything Damon!" I yell/whisper not wanting people to hear us.
"Aria..." he starts to say but I cut him off.
"No need Damon, no need. It's fine Katherine is back now so you probably don't need me as her replacement anymore." I smile at him coldly before snatching the drink out of his hands and heading inside. I can't believe he said that. Guys, can be so stupid at times.
"Aria!" Bonnie yells running towards me looking terrified. I look at her with dread. What happened this time?
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I grimace as I watch Elena clean Stefan's stab wound. It closed up but she's wiping all the blood away and he is still pretty weak. Apparently he went on a lovely stroll with Katherine and she ended up stabbing him. Lovely, isn't it?
"You going to be okay?" Elena sighs dabbing the cloth on his wound.
"Yeah, it'll heal." Stefan smile reassuringly at her.
"No shit, he's a vampire." I roll my eyes at my sister. Of course he will heal, all vampires do.
She shoots me a glare before turning back to Stefan. "That's not what I meant." she says.
"I was trying to figure her out, I was playing along. I let her get to me." Stefan sighs.
"Tried to track her but she's gone." Damon announces walking up to us but turns away when he see's Elena cleaning Stefan's wound. "Cover up Fabio, we got a crazy ex on the loose." Damon smirks turning back towards us when Stefan puts his shirt back down.
"Better watch out, looks like Katherine is trying to steal your guy." Damon smiles bitterly at Elena.
"That's not what's happening." Stefan argues not wanting to upset Elena. I personally think he should roll with it, spike some jealously in Elena.
"Isn't it?" Damon glares at Stefan. I don't know why it bothers me that Damon is upset that Katherine doesn't want him back. Oh actually I do know why, because I'm friken in love with him!
"I'm going to go check on Ty, have fun arguing." I smirk and jump off the top of the bench. Elena gives me a weird look as I walk past her but I choose to ignore it.
I seem to be ignoring a lot of things lately. Like the obvious fact that Damon is still in love with Katherine and he will never love anybody else. Even if he did fall for someone else that person certainly wouldn't be me. I fell in love with the wrong person.
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I take my hair out of the towel and ruffle it up a little not likening how straight it is. When it's like this, I look identical to Elena. It's a little freaky and I really hate it. No offense to Elena's hairstyle or anything though.
Ugh, I have had a very shitty few days. I want to sleep and try to forget about them but I know that can't happen.
I walk out of the bathroom and jump in surprise when I see Damon sitting on my bed. "Oh God, you scared the shit out of me creeper." I gasp, glaring at him.
"Just doing my part in the neighborhood watch." Damon answers not looking at me. He's just staring straight ahead with a lost look on his face.
"What's wrong Damon?" I ask cautiously not likening how he is acting.
"I made a mistake." he sighs, still looking straight ahead.
"What did you do?" I press, can't he just get to the point all ready. I want to go to sleep, I'm tired.
"I kissed Katherine." he whispers looking up into my eyes for the first time. My heart shatters in a million pieces when I hear him say that but I hope it doesn't show.
I force myself to keep looking him in the eye and hope my voice comes out strong. "That's great, isn't it? You've been missing her for like a hundred years. Literally." I smile pained.
"No...it wasn't great Aria. I was a fool. I thought that I still loved her, I thought that I wanted for us to be together again. Oh, I was so wrong." Damon argues standing up, and coming closer to me.
"What- what do you mean?" I question my voice coming out shaky.
"I didn't want to be kissing her Aria, I wanted to be kissing you. When Katherine and I kissed I didn't feel anything like when I kissed you. With you I felt passion and love, with her...nothing." Damon says now right in front of me. We look at each other for a moment before he starts to lean in. I wince and push him back, keeping my hands on his chest.
"I can't do this Damon. I was wrong to kiss you and lead you on. I- I can't keep getting close to you. Everyone I get close to, I loose." I take a few steps away from him, tears building up in my eyes.
"Aria, you can't keep denying your feelings for me." Damon glares, stepping closer to me again.
"I'm not denying them! I'm ignoring them!" I scream, can't believe I'm saying this. I can't get close to anybody else, I'm already too close to him. If something ever happened to him I would be destroyed.
"You're not going to lose me, Ari." Damon whispers, wiping a piece of hair off my forehead.
"You don't know that." I cry, swiping his hand away from my forehead.
"Yes, I do. I would never let anything take me away from you." Damon smiles, wrapping his hands around my waist. I look at him pained, not knowing what to say. I'm so conflicted right now. "I love you Arianna Gilbert." that's what breaks me. I crash my lips to his, wrapping my arms around his neck. I feel him smile against my lips and he returns the kiss eagerly.
How could I ever have said no to this? I run my hands through his hair and we continue to kiss each other passionately. After a few moments we pull away from each other breathless. He smirks at me and I can't help but smirk back.
"I love you too Damon Salvatore."
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Yay they finally admitted there feelings for each other!!!!!
I know other than that part this chapter was kind of sucky but I will try to improve on the next ones. Also I know I did it very different from the TV show, Damon didn't snap Jeremy's neck. I hope you guys are alright with the change :)
Anyways keep commenting and voting, hope you guys are enjoying it XD