「 . 𖦹˙-⋆ 𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 」
⤿ 𝘕𝘐𝘕𝘑𝘈 𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘛𝘓𝘌𝘚🪦 ˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ┆𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰
❪ ﹆ ━ 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 ⋆⭒˚.⋆ ❫

❝KATHERINE LOOKED JUST like you. It was freakish.❞ Bonnie tells Elena as the three girls prepared for the school carnival.

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

"Your vampire ancestor and she didn't just resemble you like a family member would. She was you." Bonnie said.

"I don't know. I can't explain it. It's creepy, that's all I got."

"How do you know she's not still out there pretending to be you?"

"I don't but I could sit here and be tortured by not knowing or I could get these prizes to the ring toss."

"Have either of you talked to Damon since he killed Jeremy or tired to kill Jeremy?" Bonnie asked.

"I've been staying at Elena's." Anastasia mumbled but wasn't heard by the two.

"No, Bonnie, I haven't and I won't. And I don't want to talk about Damon or anything else that's vampire related?" Elena asked, handing Bonnie the bag full of stuffed animals. "I'm human. And I have to do human stuff. Otherwise, I'm going to go crazy."

"Okay, I'm sorry, I'll focus. We have to make Caroline proud or she will kill us. I don't know how he does all of this." Bonnie tells the two.

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

"Obviously."

The three laughed.

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"IT'S THE SAME thing as the bracelet Anastasia gave you." Stefan told Jeremy as the two of them stood at Jeremy's locker as Stefan handed him some vervain he had left over.

"It protects me from compulsion." Jeremy says as he lifts it up to his nose and takes a whiff.

"Vervain is toxic to vampires." Stefan says.

"Like poison?" Jeremy questioned.

"Yeah, it's very poisonous. It keeps them out of your head." Stefan said.

"But why vervain?"

"Don't know, certain natural herbs and roots and other elements are just harmful to vampires."

"Like a stake to the heart?" Jeremy asked.

"Right, but it has to be wood."

"You're pretty confident in yourself telling me all the ways I could kill you." Jeremy tells his girlfriend's uncle.

"Jeremy, if I thought you wanted to kill me we would be having a much different conversation." Stefan says as Anastasia bounced up to them and wrapped her arms around Jeremy's waist, "Besides, I don't think you'd kill Ana's favorite uncle."

Anastasia raised an eyebrow, "You are my only uncle."

"And don't you forget it." Stefan playfully winked at her.

"Yeah, Damon is the one that deserves it." Jeremy says, looking down at the girl wrapped around him as she frowns at the mention of her father's name.

"I want you to forget about Damon, alright?" Stefan says, "He's a hundred times stronger than you and right now he's not stable. You got to try to move forward."

"I was killed by a vampire, who is my girlfriend's father, and brought back to life by a magic ring." Says Jeremy, "How do you move forward from that?"

"Right. Well, today we have a nice little distraction courtesy of the slave drive Elena." Stefan says as Elena walks over to them.

"Hello, Elena."

"Hey, did you.." Elena looked at her brother.

"Yeah, yeah, I set up the goldfish toss, all three hundred goldfish. It's gonna be epic." Jeremy said the last part sarcastically before he and Anastasia walked off.

"You are gonna win me a goldfish, right?" Anastasia looked up at him.

"Do vampire's even keep pets?" Jeremy asked, "Wouldn't you just eat him?"

"Hey! I don't eat poor, harmless animals to control my hunger." Anastasia tells him, "I'm not Uncle Stefan."

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"CARE FOR ONE?" Damon asked his brother and daughter as they walked into the boarding house as he poured blood into a cup.

"I don't want anything from you." Anastasia says as she bounces up the stairs to change.

"No, thank you. I'm not hungry, just ate." Stefan tells him.

"Are you worried that one day, all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk." Damon says to his brother.

"I'm just happy that's a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner." Stefan said.

"I like this. You walk on eggshells around me because you think I'm gonna explode. Very suspenseful. Is Elena worried too? I bet I'm your every conversation." Damon smirked.

"Have you heard from Katherine?" Stefan asked.

"I think the Lockwood's have a family secret because the Gilbert device affected them but vervain didn't so they're not vampires, they're something else." Damon ignored the question about Katherine.

"Is this your new obsession?" Anastasia asked, coming down the stairs.

"The two of you would rather have some unknown supernatural element running rampant upon our town. Fine, I'll drop it."

"We haven't seen the last of Katherine, you do know that right?" Stefan asked his brother, "We have no idea what she's up to."

"Sure we do. She came back to profess her undying eternal love for you so I'm gonna let you deal with her because I have more important things to do like explode. Cheer!" Damon held his glass up as he walked out of the room.

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"THE RING TOSS is out of Bart and Homer dolls and Team Jacob T's." Bonnie says as she, Bonnie and Anastasia walked around the carnival, making sure that everything was working right.

"Okay, I can grab some from the science club." Elena said.

"Also, we lost a speaker in the karaoke booth." Anastasia tells them. "Everything is going great, Elena."

"Yeah, all good, Elena, take a beat, look around." Bonnie tells her, "This is a huge success."

"You mean, I can do more than just wreak vampire havoc?" Elena asked them in fake surprise.

"Go figure." Both Bonnie and Anastasia laughed.

"Hey, Carter, right?" Elena asked one of the guys who was repairing one of the stands, "You're with the carnival."

"That'd be me." He says, walking over to the two of them.

"Okay, great."

Carter looked over at Bonnie, "Wow, what do you need, beautiful?"

"What do you know about karaoke speakers?" Bonnie asked him, causing Anastasia and Elena to look at each other, the former with a growing smirk on her face.

"Why don't you show me the problem?" Carter asked her.

"Yeah, Bonnie." Anastasia's smirk grew, "Show him the problem."

"Okay, come on." Bonnie walked away with him.

"Alright, I'm going to find your brother." Anastasia tells Elena before she walks away, going to find her boyfriend.

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"I REALLY HOPE you're sharing." Anastasia walked behind Jeremy as he was buying popcorn at one of the concession stands.

Jeremy grinned, wrapping an arm around her shoulders, "Anything for you, your highness."

"Jeremy, it's so good to see you alive." Damon walked up to the Gilbert boy and his daughter.

"Here we go." Anastasia rolled her eyes.

"Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?" Jeremy asked him.

"A hundred and fifty years to old." Damon took some of the popcorn in Jeremy's hand and ate it. "But your girlfriend is also a hundred and thirty-three years told on. Or did she not tell you how old she actually is?"

"You're pretty funny. Cracking jokes when I could - I don't know - blow this whole lid off this thing by telling someone what you really are." Jeremy hooked his arm around Anastasia's waist as he went to walk the two of them away.

Damon pulled Jeremy away from his daughter, moving him away from the crowd of people, "So please tell me that is not a threat."

"Dad, let him go!" Anastasia walked behind them.

"We're just bonding, honey."

"Maybe it is." Jeremy tells him, showing Damon his ring.

"Dad!" Anastasia exclaims as he wraps his arm around Jeremy's neck, choking him. "Dad, let him go!"

Damon ignored his daughter, "This is what we're not gonna do: we're not gonna walk around like we are invincible when it's this easy for me to end you." He let him go, watching Anastasia pull Jeremy into her to check on him. "If you want to tell people what I am, go ahead and try." He held Jeremy's ring up, "I will shove this ring so far up your ass, you'll really have something to choke on."

"Are you okay?" Anastasia asked as her dad walked away.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Jeremy picked up his ring from the ground. "Come on, let's go play some of the games."

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"WOW. YOU'RE LURKING." Stefan walked up to Damon as he watched Tyler arm wrestling, Anastasia cheering him on after getting a call from Tyler that he was bringing Mason to the carnival.

It took some convincing but after a while, Anastasia got Jeremy to go home to try to get him to forget that her father had taken his ring off his finger and threatened him.

"I'm observing."

"More like obsessing." Stefan says as Tyler wins.

"He's got strength."

"He's a triple-letter varsity athlete, of course he has strength. You're reaching." Stefan tells him.

"I bet I can take you." Mason smirked, walking up to his nephew as he talked to Anastasia.

"Ten on the Uncle." Anastasia spoke, causing Tyler to turn to her in disbelief, "What? I'm sure he can take you."

"Enter the uncle." Damon eyed the man as he and Tyler started to arm wrestle.

"That's ridiculous."

"Okay, he's the champ." Tyler says as Mason beats him, "Who wants to go next?"

"Stefan wants to go." Damon says, loud enough for them to hear.

"Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot." Stefan says walking over to where Tyler had just been standing.

"Yes, Uncle Stefan!" Anastasia cheered her uncle on, causing him to playfully smirk her way.

"Get him, Stef!" Damon crossed his arms over his chest.

"My brother over there thinks I can beat you." Stefan says as the two men get into position.

"Your brother's wrong." Mason tells him before the bell rings, indicating for them to go.

Anastasia watched, thumb between her teeth as she watched her Uncle and Mason, both of them using every ounce of strength they could before Mason quickly pinned Stefan's hand down.

Her green eyes grew wide as she told Tyler she would meet up with him later, following after her uncle.

"You didn't put in any effort at all." Damon tells his brother angrily.

"Yeah, actually I did.

Damon looked over at his daughter, who nodded her head as he looked surprised, "Both of you, come with me."

Anastasia glanced back at Mason and Tyler before she disappeared into the hallway with her uncle and father.

"Is he-,"

"No, no, it wasn't that kind of strength but it was more than human, if that makes any sense." Stefan tells the two of them.

"What is up with that family? They're not vampires, what the hell are they?" Questioned Damon.

Anastasia and Stefan glanced at each other with amused looks on their faces.

"Ooh, ah, maybe they're, um, ninja turtles!" Stefan says.

"You're not funny." Damon tells him.

"Or no, zombies." Anastasia smirked.

"Werewolves." Stefan shrugged, not noticing the way his niece tensed up at the mention of the supernatural creature.

"No comedic timing at all." Damon said, turning his head where Carter, the guy that was openly flirting with Bonnie, was repairing something.

"What?" Anastasia looked at her father, "What are you up to?"

"This is reality and there's no such thing as werewolves or....combat turtles."

"He said ninja turtles, actually." Anastasia shrugged. "And werewolves are real."

"Hey you!" Damon walked towards Carter.

"I have a name."

"Yeah, I don't care." Damon caught him by the shoulder and started to compel him, "I need you to pick a fight with someone, a kid named Tyler Lockwood."

"Dad, don't do this. Tyler's my friend." Anastasia said. "I'm already still pissed that you temporarily killed Jeremy last night."

Damon brushed his daughter off with a wave of his hand, "It's just an experiment. Get him mad, don't back down no matter what he does, okay?"

"I won't back down." Carter repeated.

"I know you won't." Damon says, patting Carter on the back as he walks away.

"Do you realize someone is going to get hurt, right?" Stefan asked him.

"No, someone is going to get mad, as in rage." Damon says.

"And what's that going to accomplish, Dad?" Anastasia put her hands on her hips.

"That Tyler kid is incapable of walking away from a fight. Let's see who intervenes; maybe it's the ambiguous, supernatural mystery uncle."

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DAMON WALKED DOWN the hallway after talking to his daughter and brother, stopping as he sensed someone behind him. Turning around, he found Caroline standing behind him, "Oh, hey, Blondie, they let you out?"

"I remember." Caroline tells him.

"What do you remember?"

"I remember how you manipulated me, you pushed me around, abused me, erased my memories, fed on me." Caroline got closer to Damon with each sentence.

"You're crazy."

"Memories have been coming back, in pieces."

"You can't remember. It's impossible, I mean unless you're becoming a...." Damon trialed off as he walked closer to Caroline, watching an amused smile spread across her lips.

"I have a message from Katherine." Caroline smiled, tilting her head slightly to the side. "She said, "Game on"."

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"ELENA." DAMON WALKED over to where the Gilbert girl was standing.

"What do you want, Damon?" She asked.

"I know I'm the last person you want to see right now but I need you to come with me." Damon tells her.

"Whatever it is, I'm not interested." Elena tells him, not even bothering to move from where she stood.

"Yeah, I need you to come with me right now, Elena." Damon tilted his head before walking off.

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ANASTASIA AND STEFAN silently followed behind Tyler as he texted on his phone. She could see Carter walking straight towards Tyler, watching him intentionally bumping his shoulder into Tyler's.

"Watch where you're going." Tyler tells him.

"Oh, this isn't going to end well." Anastasia sighed quietly.

"You got a problem?" Asked Carter.

"Yeah, you walked right into me." Tyler said.

"What are you gonna do about it?" Carter asked, the compulsion from Damon working.

"You're kidding right?" Tyler asked before Carter pushed him, "You better back off." And Carter pushed him again, "You him me again, I swear to god..."

Anastasia let out a quiet gasp as Carter punches Tyler in the face, and quickly goes to help Tyler as the two break out in a fight. But Stefan is quick to stop his niece as they notice Mason rushed up the two of them.

"Hey Tyler! Tyler! What the hell man?" Mason stands between the two that were fighting.

Mason struggled to stop Carter but the dark skinned male punched him in the face twice, and pushed him against a car. Anastasia gasped as she watched Mason look up, taking notice of his glowing yellow eyes.

"Your eyes!" Tyler tells his uncle, noticing the color change.

Mason ignores him and stands up, turning around to his Carter one last time before helping Tyler up from the ground and the two run off.

"You alright man?" Stefan asked, rushing over with Anastasia close on his trail.

"Why did I just do that?" Carter asked, looking at them confused.

"You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time." Anastasia tells him with worry.

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"HOW DID THIS happen?" Stefan paced around the empty classroom where he stood with Damon, Elena and Anastasia.

"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her and A plus B equals.." Damon trailed off, everyone already knowing.

"But why?" Elena asked.

"Because Katherine is a manipulative, nasty, little slut." Damon says.

"And she said "game on"? I mean, what does that even mean?" Anastasia asks.

"It means she's playing dirty. She wants us to know." Damon said.

"But why Caroline?" Elena asked.

"I don't know."

"Caroline must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her." Stefan says.

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

"We have to find her." Anastasia said.

"Yep, and kill her."

"Hell no." Anastasia looked at her father, "We aren't killing anyone."

"You're not gonna kill Caroline." Elena tells Damon.

"She knows who we are. She's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her." Damon tells everyone in the classroom with him.

"Damon, absolutely not."

"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan?" Damon asked them, "Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story's gonna end, just flip to the last chapter and..."

"It's not an option, Damon." Elena tells him.

"No? Your silence is deafening, Stefan. Wait, wasn't there a school carnival the night you staked Vicki? I never had a town where history repeats itself." Damon said, "You know I'm right."

"We're not gonna kill her." Anastasia said before walking out of the classroom, Stefan following after her.

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"YOU AGREE WITH Damon, don't you?" Elena asked Stefan as they searched around for Caroline. Stefan punched the trailer as he walked by one. "Stefan. Hey."

"Damon's right, not about what we should do about what's gonna happen." Stefan said, "Katherine already signed Caroline's death sentence."

"Well we can't let it end that way. She's doing this to me, isn't she?" Elena asked.

"Actually, she's doing it to me."

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AS ANASTASIA LOOKED around for Caroline, she could smell the faint scent of blood, but she could also hear Caroline pleading to live.

Running away from the crowd of people, she then used her super speed to speed in between her father and Caroline, earning the stake that was meant for Caroline to her stomach.

"Damon!" Stefan yelled as he noticed the wooden stake stabbed through his niece's abdomen.

"Why would you do that?!" Damon looked down at his daughter in shock as she brought her shaking hands up to her stomach, pulling the wooden stake out of her body, throwing it on the ground as she felt herself start to heal.

"Get away from me! You killed me!" Caroline cried, trying to push Elena away from her.

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

"No! Then why did she look like you?! And why, why did she do this to me?!" Caroline cried.

"Stefan, we've got to get her inside." Elena says, looking over to where Stefan was making sure Anastasia was okay.

"I'm fine. I'm fine." Anastasia swatted his hands away from her. "Go make sure Caroline is okay. She should be the main focus."

"Eloise."

"Uncle Stefan, I'm fine. I promise." Anastasia tells him.

"Okay." He whispered, kissing her forehead and walking over to where Caroline and Elena stood, "It's alright, Caroline, come with me."

"She will die. It's only a matter of time." Damon tells them.

"Yeah, maybe so, but it's not gonna happen tonight."

"Oh, yeah, it is." Damon picked up the stake from earlier and rushed at Caroline, but once again Anastasia stepped in front of her, only this time Damon stopped before he could do anything to harm his daughter again. "Get out of the way, Anastasia Eloise."

"No. Go ahead, kill her. You already killed Lexi and Zach. You got some random guy to beat up Tyler not even an hour ago. You killed Jeremy and you stabbed me once. So go ahead, kill Caroline, but you only have so many chances with trying to harm someone I care about before I completely cut you out." Anastasia tells her father, watching his eyes grow soft as he lowers his arm.

"Whatever happens, it's on you."

"Caroline?" Bonnie asked as he walked over.

"It's okay, come on." Stefan tells Caroline.

"No." Bonnie shakes her head as she notices the blood around Caroline's mouth. "You're not. You can't be." The Bennett witch brought her hand up to touch Caroline.

"Bonnie?"

Bonnie looked at Carter's body, laying on the truck, "Oh, god."

"Bonnie..."

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"I CAN'T BELIEVE this is happening." Bonnie says as Damon comes over with a shovel.

"Come on, don't pout about it. I got a body to bury." Damon tells her before looking over at his daughter and Elena. "I thought you were calling the shot. No? Hm, it sucks to be you, buddy."

As he went to walk away, he stopped in his tracks and grabbed a hold of his head, groaning in agony as she gave him an aneurysm. Damon falls to the ground clutching his head and curling up into a ball.

The water hose that laid on the ground cut on as the water started to come out of it, leaving a trail that led over towards Damon.

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt." Bonnie tells him.

"I didn't do this!"

"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault." Elena tried to stop her friend.

"Everything that happens is his fault, Elena."

"Bonnie, what are you doing?"

"No!" Anastasia yelled as the water caught on fire, trailing over to him. "

"Bonnie, stop it! Bonnie! Bonnie, stop it! You're going to kill him! Bonnie!" Elena jumps over the line of fire and shakes Bonnie by her shoulders, causing her to lose concentration and the fire to go out.

"Dad!" Anastasia rushed over to her dad, "Dad, are you okay?"

"Why...why did you stop me?!" Bonnie asked Elena.

"Because this isn't us, Bonnie, this can't be us."

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"WHAT THE HELL are you doing here?" Damon asked as he took notice of Jeremy sitting on a chair by a lamp in the Salvatore home.

"You don't lock your front door." Jeremy says.

"Yeah." Damon went to take a drink of the whiskey he had poured.

"No, I wouldn't.....I laced it with vervain." Jeremy tells him as Anastasia comes down the stairs, having heard her boyfriend's voice.

"Why would you do that?" Damon asked him.

"So I could stake you....with this." Jeremy showed the stake that he had his hand before throwing it to the floor.

"You came here to kill me?" Damon asked him.

"It's only fair. You killed me." Jeremy said as his girlfriend made her way towards him.

"What made you wisen up?" Questioned Damon.

"My father hated vampires, my uncle too. They were absolute. They knew exactly what they stood for and I figure maybe I should too." Jeremy said, "I mean, stand for something. But killing you, what's that gonna do?"

"Look, I don't do the big brother thing very well. Or the father thing." Damon tells him, "But I don't have any milk and cookies."

"Dick." Jeremy laced his fingers with Anastasia's as he pulled her towards the door.

"Wait." Damon stopped him. "My father hated vampires too."

"He did?"

"For the same reason you dad did. Only it was 1864. People knew how to whittle." Damon showed him the stake he had picked up making Jeremy chuckle. "Did you do this?"

"Yeah I tried. It's a lot harder than it looks." Jeremy tells him.

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"SO, HOW WAS the rest of the carnival?" Jeremy asked as he laid on his bed, Anastasia coming out of the bathroom that he shared with Elena, using a towel to dry her hair.

"Well, um after you left we discovered that there might be something supernatural about the Lockwood's, because hot Uncle Mason beat Uncle Stefan at arm wrestling. And then we found out that a vampire that him and Dad knew killed Caroline and turned her into a vampire." Anastasia tells him as she moved to straddle his waist, "And then we had to find vampire Caroline because Dad wanted to kill her, he tried but I stopped him, which hurt like a bitch by the way, and then Bonnie tried to kill dad, because she thought that it was his doing."

"Sounds like your night was more fun." Jeremy laughed as she leaned down to kiss him.

"More like stressful." She mumbled against his lips.

"Yeah? Well..." Jeremy flipped them over on his bed so that he was laying on top of her, but brought his hands down to keep her legs wrapped around his waist, "I bet I can make it unstressful." He smirked.

"Hmm, and how could you possibly do that?"

"Guess I'll just have to show you." He whispered, closing the small gap between the two of them.