CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE . . . !
↳ ❛𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖉 ❜

             IN THE MORNING Violet was the first to wake up and she immediately went to brush her teeth in Damon's bathroom.

"Violet-", Damon's husky voice called out for her from the bedroom.

Violet quickly entered the room, only his shirt covering her body, "Morning -"

She gave him a small smile while she threw herself onto the bed besides Damon, "I thought you might have left-"

"No- Elena left twenty minutes ago-", Violet stated while Damon leaned his face closer to her and the two kissed.

Violet pulled back from him, a small smile playing on her lips while she eyed Damon's face. He also had a small smile on his face while he played with a few strands of her hair.

Violet's smirk widened, "What's with the face?" And so did Damon's, "What's face?" He looked up at her, his eyes meeting hers and Violet raised her eyebrows, "That face."

"I'm happy." Damon quickly connected their lips in another kiss and Violet climbed on top of him, straddling the man while they continued to kiss.

The familiar tingling made it's way through her body while she kissed down his chest to his abdomen and let her fingers travel over his skin after her kisses.

Damon couldn't stop a smirk from forming on his face before he flipped them over and let his finger pull down Violet's bottom lip before he kissed her neck.

He placed kissed down her cleavage down to the beginning of her underwater and his hands traveled over her body.

Violet felt an explosion going off inside of her when the man connected their lips once more and the two spent the rest of their morning having sex that absolutely blew her mind.

But eventually it had to end and she decided to go to school before she missed the whole day.

The two made their way downstairs and as they had nearly reached the front door Damon questioned her, "Bag?"

Violet quickly grabbed it from the desk while she walked by and they quickly hurried over to the door. "I got it."

"You're scarf", Damon then called out to her and the woman spun around while Damon placed the scarf around her neck and pulled her in for a long kiss.

Violet hummed when their lips connected and she smiled at him when she pulled back. But she knew that she had to tell Ethan about her and Damon. She couldn't look him in his eyes and not tell him about what has happened.
"Listen Damon, we-"

"No, no, no, Don't ruin it!", the man immediately interrupted her while he placed a finger over her lips. Violet then gave him a pointed look while she grabbed his finger and pulled it away from her mouth. "You don't even know what I was going to say."

"Well, I'm assuming it starts with what do we and ends with going to tell Ethan." Damon stated while he looked at her. Violet nodded her head, "He should know."

The man sighed deeply, "I know he should know. I just don't know when he should know it."

Violet gave him a pointed look, "Well he definitely knows that something's going on between us. I mean it's the reason he and I broke up."

Damon let his hands run down her arms while he gave her a seductive smile, "Yeah, but can we just let ourselves enjoy one secret, selfish day before we destroy his?"

"Maybe we shouldn't -", Violet said, a worried expression on her face while she thought about the consequences when Ethan found out from someone else than her.

"No, Violet, this is our time! It's never been right before and it is right now - just one day- one day!" Damon smirked widely at her and after a moment Violet nodded her head also smiling. The worries were suddenly gone, "Okay, one day."

Damon made a fist with his hand, the smirk still on his face, "Yes!"

The dark haired woman chuckled before she turned and opened the door, revealing no other than Stefan.

The woman exhaled, hoping that she wasn't giving anything away while she smiled at the man infront of her, "Stefan, hey-"

The man waved awkwardly at her, "Hey." Violet then raised her eyebrows at him, "See you in history?"

He nodded at her while she passed him by, "Yeah."

The dark haired girl felt the guilt nagging on her for not telling Ethan, but Violet recalled that it was what Damon whished for and that she wanted to see him happy.

She made her way down the corridor when a voice suddenly called out to her,

"Violet", Elena looked at her with expecting eyes while she approached the brunette. "Where were you in first period?", the brunette questioned her.

Violet didn't want to revea too much so she just kept her answer short, "I overslept."

The two made their way over to the other's while Elena gave her a suspicious look.

"Is everything okay?", Bonnie questioned the brunette curiously and Elena frowned at them, "Yeah, why wouldn't it be?"

"Caroline told me you had to move out to stay away from Jeremy", Bonnie explained to her and Elena nodded. "Matt's at the house staying with him right now- to make sure he keeps all of his hunter stuff in control. He's okay."

"But are you?", Caroline questioned the brunette and Elena nodded at her. "Yeah, I'm fine. Look, do you girls have any plans tonight? I'm in desperate need of some girl talk."

Bonnie immediately nodded at her, a big smile on her face, "Yeah, I'm in. Shane taught me some small spells I've been wanting to try.

Caroline's eyebrows immediately shot up while she nudge Bonnie's shoulder with her own, "Uh- creepy professor guy is just Shane now?" Bonnie gave her a pointed look, "He's- he's not creepy."

"We're not judging.", Violet immediately reassured the girl and Caroline shrugged. "I am."

"Don't listen to her", Elena chuckled amused. "So girl's night? We can raid the Salvatore wine cellar."

"Are you sure that Stefan and Damon are cool with us crashing at their place?", Caroline questioned her and while she spoke Violet suddenly spotted Damon behind the blond, walking into an empty classroom.

"I can't go home because my brother is trying to kill me, so their place is mine now too", Elena explained to them, but Violet didn't really listen anymore.

"I'll be right back", Violet excused herself from them while she quickly followed after Damon into the classroom.

"You being here makes your selfish secret day a little difficult, don't you think?", Violet questioned him amused while she smirked at him.

The man held up a blood bag, "You forgot your lunch." Violet immediately shook her head at him, "I can't - you know I can't."

Damon raised his eyebrows at her, "Well, last time we tried it, circumstances were less than optimal. And I think maybe you should just give it another try, see if it works. I really think it will."

Violet was sure that she really didn't want to try the blood bag once more. She felt sick to her stomach while she thought about that taste.

He gave her a pleading look, "Please?- for me." Violet sighed deeply before she slowly grabbed the blood bag from his hands and carefully started sipping on the opening.

For a moment nothing happened and Violet exchanged a surprised look with Damon before she continued sipping on the bag. The blood tasted good for the first time since she had turned.

"Are you okay?", Damon questioned her carefully. "I'm- I'm fine. It tastes like blood, last time it was like hot garbage", Violet stated while she immediately took another sip from the blood bag.

Damon frowned deeply at her, "You're sure you're okay?"

The dark haired girl nodded at him, she felt like a heavy burden was lifted off of her shoulders, "I'm better than okay! I mean, maybe last time it was a bad batch or something. I can't believe this, Damon. I don't have to hurt people anymore!"

She had a large smile on her face while she jumped into Damon's arms. The man immediately hugged her back but then her eyes fell onto the clock in the wall.

Violet immediately pulled back from him, "I have to go to class. But thank you!" She quickly kissed him and Damon hummed while she grabbed her bag and left the classroom to join her class.

The schoolday went by quickly and in the evening they met at the Salvatore Mansion while Damon and Stefan were away on a night out.

Elena smiled while she handed everyone a bottle of champagne, "One for you, one for you, one for you."

"I'm assuming this is for Elena and Caroline -", Bonnie eyed the blood bag and Caroline wanted to grab it when Violet snatched it away. "Actually - it's for me."

They all frowned at her in surprise, "I thought-" Caroline gave her a happy smile, "Are you saying that-"

Violet smiled proudly, "Thanks to Damon I'm now a functional disfunctional vampire."

Bonnie gave her a wide smile, "That's amazing." But Caroline only frowned at her, "What do you mean, thanks to Damon?"

"Well he suggested I try it again, so I did, and it worked. No more snatch, eat, erase." Violet flopped down on the couch and Caroline nodded her face expression giving her scepticism away, "So where is my least-favourite Salvatore?"

"Out with Stefan for the night. Don't wait up. Brother bonding", Violet read Damon's last question aloud. Caroline seemed sceptical when she spoke, a frown on her face, "Mh- so you guys check-in text now? What else do you do?"

Violet sighed deeply, "I know that you're not the biggest fan, but he kind of just changed my life. Would you mind laying off on all the hate?"

"Okay- new girl's night rule. No boy talk, yeah? Plus, why talk when we have this?", Bonnie engaged into the conversation before she held up a bag that seemed to be filled with weed.

Caroline's eyes immediately widened in horror and her voice was a lot of octaves higher than usual, "Is that stoner tea?"

Bonnie shrugged at her, "It's spirit tea. It opens up your chi or whatever." Caroline scoffed and Bonnie gave her a pointed look, "Come on, it's not drugs! Shane is helping me do natural magic without having access the spirits."

Caroline raised her eyebrows at the witch, "Mhm."

"Don't judge!", Bonnie immediately exclaimed at her and Caroline scoffed once more. "Okay, fine! I hereby vow not to be judgemental for the rest of the eveningm. Even if you three are potentially ruining your lives as I stand idly by it's your choice."

"I'll drink to that!", Elena exclaimed loudly and then they all leaned forward and let their bottles collide.

In the course of the evening they landed in Damon's bathroom. Elena was in the large bathtub while Bonnie and Violet were sitting on the ground besides her, leaning on the edge of the bathtub and Caroline was leaning against the shower.

Elena chuckled while she turned her phone to show them a video that they had taken a while before, "Check this out- vamp-speed Video."

"I look like Superman. Watch this, this years Christmas card", she showed them the video that was frozen.

They all chuckled before Elena spoke once more, "Being a vampire is so weird! Oh my God, I love this bathtub."

She was clearing drunk, but so was everyone else. Bonnie frowned while she eyed the bathtub, "Yeah, why don't we come in here and hang out more often?"

Caroline leg out a sarcastic chuckle while she gave them a disgusted look, "I tell you why. Cooties. Think of all the germ-ridden skanks that Damon has lured into his den of iniquity."

Violet sighed deeply while she sat up straight and rolled with her eyes. Caroline immediately raised her hand and apologized, "Okay, I'm sorry, I've been good all night. I am stopping now."

But Violet had enough of her piercing comments, "Don't, please don't stop on my account. Rip away. I mean, it's only Damon, right?" The dark haired girl rolled with her eyes.

Caroline immediately took her up on that, "Well, say what you want about Ripper Stefan but at least he wasn't a man-slut."

Elena sighed deeply while she shot Caroline a warning look, "Come on."

Violet felt the rage bubble up inside of her, she narrowed her eyes at her friend, "So what exactly is it about him that made you jump right in bed with him as soon as you met him?"

Caroline scoffed loudly, "I didn't know what a sociopathic narcissist he was."

Violet shook her head and sighed deeply, "He's always been there for me when I needed him." Caroline let out a huff, "Yeah, cause he's hoping you'll sleep with him."

Violet's eyes shot towards her, "Well, the he doesn't need to hope anymore."

The blonds eyes immediately widened and her mouth dropped open, "You did what."

Bonnie gave her a hesitated gaze, "You didn't." Her voice sounded disbelieving.

Violet got onto her feet, her voice loud while she shouted, "Yeah, I did! Look I know you two have issues with him, but I am happy. And I wanted to spend tonight with my best friends so that I could tell them about it."

Elena wanted to calm her down and got out of the bathtub, "Violet, come on."

The dark haired girl shook her head while she walked downstairs, away from them, "Party is over. You guys need to leave."

The other's immediately hurried after her. "Don't be mad, okay? We're just looking out of you", Caroline tried to apologize to her for judging but Violet had enough for the night.

They came to stand and the girl had tear in her eyes while she spoke, "Do you think it makes me happy that you guys hate him? I get it, his track record has been kind of spotty, but I don't hate him! I can't! He's- I think I'm falling in love with him."

Caroline let out a loud grunt before she exclaimed something that shocked Violet completely, "You're not falling in love with him, Violet, you're sired to him!"

They all frowned at her, "What?"

Violet gave the blond and annoyed look, "What are you talking about?"

Caroline seemed like she regretted that she has said anything at all, but she walked towards Violet, "I- look I'm sorry that it came out like that, but it's true. Damon's blood turned you. You couldn't feed from animals or blood bags because he told you so. Then he suggested that you try again with the blood bag and suddenly-"

"No- there's no way. I-", Violet stuttered while she exchanged looks with Elena and Bonnie.

"Are you sure?", the witch asked her blond vampire friend. Caroline nodded, "Yeah, ask Stefan and Ethan about it they can explain it better than I can.

Violet's eyebrows snapped up and her voice was raised, "I'm sorry you talked to Ethan about this?" Caroline sighed quietly, "It's not your fault, Violet, okay? Damon took advantage of you."

The dark haired girl felt the rage return, "Okay, you need to leave- now!"

Bonnie wanted to calm her down, "Violet -" Caroline rolled with her eyes, "Come on."

Violet opened the door for them, her head turned towards her friends, "I said leave!"

"Hello, girls", a female voice she didn't recognize greeted them and Violet's head snapped towards it.

The woman immediately pushed Violet against the wall before she speeded over to Caroline and put her into a head lock.

The man immediately broke Elena's neck and then grabbed ahold of Violet, who struggled against him.

Bonnie immediately raised her hands and the lights around them started flickering.

"Stop- one bite from me and she's dead, remember?", the woman immediately reminded Bonnie while she showed her her yellow hybrid eyes.

Bonnie slowly let her hands fall down and the man immediately pushed her infront of Bonnie's feet.

And when Violet got onto her feet they were already gone and they had taken Caroline with them.

                 VIOLET, ELENA AND TYLER were wandering through the woods of Mystic falls while Bonnie was at the Salvatore mansion, trying to perform a location spell to find Caroline.

Tyler was walking at the front of the trio while talking to Hayleh on his phone. "I get it, Hayley. I'll find them and get them in line."

Meanwhile Elena was also on the phone, but with Bonnie, the brunette sighed deeply before she hung up, "Bonnie says no luck with the locator spell."

"They've gotta be here. They're not dumb enough to risk getting caught by Klaus in town", Tyler stated while he tried to see in the darkness.

"Why do they want Caroline?", Violet questioned him when she came to a stand next to Tyler.

The boy gave her a small glance and spoke, "Kim's trying to prove she's the alpha. If I can make her submit, the pack will fall in line and we can finally get them free of Klaus. You'd think they'd play along with how much they hate him!"

Violet frowned, "But Adrian doesn't, does he? I mean he's still sired to Klaus."

Tyler shook his head immediately while turning towards her, d"Being sired doesn't mean your feelings differently about someone. I hated Klaus, but I still did everything he said. The bond affects how you act, not how you feel."

In that moment there was a scream in the distance and they immediately exchanged worried glanced, "Caroline."

The three hurried through the woods towards the shed where Tyler knew that the pack held Caroline hostage.

They pushed the doors open and spotted Caroline, who was chained to the fence. Kim was kneeling in front of her, breaking the bones in her hand over and over again.

Tyler stepped forward, "Stop it, Kim! Caroline's with us! Alright? We're all on the same team!"

Kim got onto her feet, a confident look on her face, "She's on your team, not mine." And behind them the pack entered, surrounding them slowly.

They immediately grabbed ahold of them while Kim continued torturing Caroline, who screamed in pain.

"Ease up, Kim. Klaus won't like this", Adrian stated while he watched the brunette. "That's a very good point -" Kim stated before she grabbed a wooden stake and held it up for them to see, a confident smile on her face.

Tyler immediately surged forward, still being held back by the hybrids, "Kim! Don't do it, I swear to God-"

Kim just smiled and was ready to plunge the stake into Caroline's heart.
"No, wait, wait, wait, wait-", Elena suddenly caught her attention. "You really want to hit Klaus where it hurts, them torture me instead. He's fixated on keeping me alive. You want real revenge or not?"

Kim stood up and approached Elena when Tyler suddenly succeeded to rip away from the hybrids. He immediately plunged his hand into her chest and the woman inhaled deeply her eyes wide and filled with fear.

The hybrids immediately approached them but Tyler gave them a warning look, "Stay back! Or I'll rip her heart out right now!"

The brunette and Tyler held eye contact while he spoke, "Kim put you all at risk today, but I'm not gonna hurt her. I'm not Klaus. I don't kill and torture my own friends to get what I want. Now, we broke the sire bond. But I'd you wanna be free, we have to work together. No one can step out of line. Now, you're either with me, or you're against me."

There was a small moment of silence before he spoke once more, "Submit - submit or you die."

The brunette woman slowly fell onto her feet, her breath shaking while she spoke, "I'm sorry."

Tyler then finally let go of her heart and the woman exhaled immediately while she started to catch her breath. Tyler stood up and after that the rest of the pack bowed down to him as well, submitting.

Violet didn't waste any time and quickly ripped the chains off of Caroline, freeing her.

The blond was pretty shaken up and didn't speak much, which was probably caused by the shock she was still in.
Caroline went home with Tyler after that and Elena and Violet went back to Bonnie.

The witch was relived to hear that their friends was okay and at home. But the fun evening was definitely over so everyone of them went to sleep.

Waking up the next morning Violet still felt a little down because of Caroline's behavior the night before.

She knew that the blond only wanted the best for her, but it still hurt.

The dark haired girl made her way downstairs to the kitchen when the front door opened, revealing no other than Caroline. The blond seemed to be okay considering what happened yesterday.

She sighed deeply before she stepped forward and immediately wrapped her arms around the dark haired girl, pressing her against her body.
"I'm sorry!"

Violet smiled to herself before Caroline spoke again, sounding slightly awkward, "Hey, if you don't start hugging back, this is gonna get really awkward really fast."

Violet chuckled, the smile still on her face, "You've got my hands pinned down."

"Oh." Caroline leaned back and let go of her. The two gave each other a smile, standing on each other's opposite before they started hugging again. "I'm a jerk. I promise to never again judge, ever."

When they pulled away again Violet sighed deeply, "Just please don't tell Ethan about me and Damon. I promise that I'll tell him. I just- I need to figure out some stuff first."

Caroline had a sceptical face expression but she nodded, "Of course."

Suddenly Bonnie and Elena rounded the corners and the witch gave them a questioning look, "Are you guys friends again?"

Violet nodded, "Yeah." Bonnie and Elena exchanged grateful look, "Thank God!"

"Well, she saved my life, in spite of me being the nasty bad witch", Caroline stated while she looked over at Violet.

Elena was happy that they were friends again and smiled at Bonnie, "Thankfully, we had our good witch. You know, your hottie-creepy professor really knows his stuff, Bonnie."

Bonnie nodded her head and they could see that she was happy that she had regained some kind of magic again, "It's been baby steps, but he's helping with a whole new kind of magic. He calls it Expression."

Violet gave Bonnie a side hug, "I'm happy for you, Bonnie."

There was a moment of silence between them, "But I'll have to kick you out now. Damon's gonna be back any minute now."

The girls grabbed the rest of their stuff and a few moments later they were gone, leaving Violet alone in the mansion.

The woman started packing away the bottles and she could hear Damon's footsteps until he leaned against the wall by the door, watching her in silence.

Violet sighed deeply, scared of the conversation that was about to happen now. "Hey-"

There was this giant elephant in the room now, and she knew that they had to talk about it. But she really didn't want to.

"Hey, back."

Violet wanted to make a little small talk before they discussed the heavy stuff, "How was your night?"

Damon shook his head while he still watched her, "Awful- Yours?"

"Same."

He sighed deeply, like it was a difficult for him as it was for her. "Violet, we need to talk." He took a couple of steps towards her and Violet wanted to spare him the part where he had to tell her about their sire bond. "I know that I'm sired to you, Damon."

The man's mouth dropped slightly open and he stopped walking towards her.

Violet felt her heart drop when she saw his face expression, "Caroline told me- that's what you and Stefan were doing, isn't it?"

There was no answer from Damon when Violet frowned at him, "Is there a way to break it?" He slowly shook his head, "Not exactly-" there was silence between them. "Which is why we need to talk."

Violet walked towards him, "Tyler told me that the bond doesn't affect how I feel, just the way I act. My feelings for you haven't changed. Nothing has changed!"

Damon seemed sceptical while he still shook his head, "Everything's changed, Violet." The tone of his voice was showing his annoyance.

"Okay, fine, yeah. I mean, I have changed- so have you, Damon", Violet admitted. "But I'm happy! Just like you were yesterday morning before we knew about any of this", she stated while she watched him.

His eyes immediately snapped towards her, this expression of agony on his face. "You know what would make me happy? To know that this entire time- that I've been completely inlove with you that what you actually felt for me was real."

"It is real- I know that it is! Damon, I know what you're about to do. Please, don't do this to me", Violet immediately begged him while she approached Damon, trying to reach him but he pulled back quickly. "I don't wanna do this, Violet. I'm not the good guy, remember? I'm the selfish one. I take what I want, I do what I want. I lie to my brother, I fall in love with a friends girl. I don't do the right thing! But I have to do the right thing by you."

Violet quickly grabbed his hand and placed his palm on her chest, so that he could feel her heart beating beneath her flesh.

"Does this feel wrong to you?", she questioned him and his gaze softened while he looked into her eyes. Violet softly placed her palm on his jaw and stroked his cheek with her thumb. "Does this feel wrong?"

The woman gazed up into his ocean blue eyes and she could see how a spark was ignited in them. His eyes flickered down to her lips, his mouth slightly open and Violet stoked her finger's over the back of his hand while his hand was still resting on her cleavage.

She gave him an innocent look and Damon groaned loudly while he shook his head. The man then grabbed her legs, wrapping them around his waist and lifted her up before vamp speeding up towards his bedroom.