seventeen
17. A Bird In A Gilded Cage
"Don't walk there" Caroline snapped, as Aria entered the Red Skull bar, "I just washed that".
"Geez, someone's got her grumpy pants on" Aria commented, jumping over the bar and grabbing her self a bottle of bourbon, "Why are you cleaning this bar again?".
"The blood of the guys we ate was everywhere, so now I'm returning Skull Bar to the way we found it" Caroline replied.
Aria lifted her glass of bourbon in the air, "Here's to the idiotic Caroline Forbes, who cares about the way we leave a bar even after turning her humanity off".
"We go to school here, Aria" Caroline reminded, as Aria downed her drink, "I don't know about you but I want to keep going to school here, the second that we draw any suspicions, break ins, broken property, dead bodies, people will try to interrupt our routine, and then you and I will end up rotting in a cell somewhere instead of what we should be doing, which for you is getting drunk, and for me is preparing for my audition tomorrow".
Aria chuckled, "Don't tell me you're auditioning for the school play" she said.
"Musical" Caroline corrected, "And obviously, duh, I'm a drama major".
"Question" Aria said, "What will you do if I got the role instead of you?".
Caroline glared at Aria, "Do you want me to murder you?".
Aria smirked, "I'll like to see you try" she replied.
"Aria, don't come between me and my audition" Caroline warned.
Aria grabbed her bottle of bourbon and walked out the bar, "I think that's exactly what I'm going to do" she said, "May the best vampire win".
Caroline glared at her sister, who in turn just gave her a mock smile and walked out the bar.
***
Caroline stood in the middle of the auditorium, auditioning for the musical.
"But that wouldn't change the fact, that wouldn't speed the time, once the foundation's cracked, and I'm still hurting" Caroline sang, after she finished she turned to the director, who didn't say anything, "Hello? Pretty sure I crushed that".
"Yeah, he's not going to say anything" Aria said, letting her presence known to Caroline, "I used my magic to crush his heart, I always wanted to use the spell but never got a chance until now".
"What the hell are you doing? That was the director" Caroline snapped.
"I just didn't like the fact that he got to sit and judge us on our singing" Aria said shrugging, "And also, why are you singing about heartbreak? You have no emotions, remember?".
"It's a performance, Aria" Caroline replied.
"Just like your, I'm a vampire who has everything in control, performance, right?" Aria asked.
"I do have everything in control" Caroline snapped.
"And why is that?" Aria asked, "I just don't get it, why are you so hell bent on not making any mistakes? Isn't the whole point of turning your humanity off, to make mistakes?".
"Well Aria, unlike you, I'm not an idiot" Caroline replied, "When you turn it back on, you're going to be rushed with the guilt of killing people like the director over there, while I won't feel any guilt because I won't do anything wrong".
Aria chuckled, "God Care, you making turning your humanity off so boring" she said, "Hell your boring me with your talk of guilt, so excuse me, I'm going to go see how many more people I can annoy".
***
"What the hell?!" A shocked Aria asked.
Aria entered the her dorm building, only to see Noah and Caroline hovering over unconscious Alaric and Enzo.
"Looks like both of your boyfriends are busy, that's why the sent these two to babysit you two" Noah said, having rendered Alaric and Enzo unconscious.
"At least they're still breathing" Caroline said.
"How about sending Damon a message to stop babysitting you?" Noah asked Aria, grabbing the gun Alaric had dropped.
Aria and Caroline exchanged a look, before Noah could register anything, Aria had used her magic to take the gun away from Noah's hand and into her hand, and Caroline stood infront of Alaric and Enzo's bodies.
"What are you two doing?" Noah asked confused.
"We might have our humanity off but we're not idiots" Aria said, "Killing strangers is one thing, but if I kill my adoptive father and my best friend's crush, then that guilt is going to end up killing me when I turn it back on, and I don't want the extra baggage, so, step away Noah".
"Plus we don't want to get locked up and tortured to get our humanity back on" Caroline said.
"That also" Aria said.
Noah chuckled, "Why must you both overthink everything?" he asked, "You two are just denying the urge to kill, come on, just get it over and done with".
Aria chuckled, "Honey, I already dropped one person dead, I'm not denying anything, I'm just not an idiot like you".
Before Noah could say anything, Aria rapidly shot him with the wooden bullets in the gun and Caroline snapped his neck.
"Why do you always find the annoying ones?" Caroline asked her sister.
"I honestly have no idea" Aria admitted, throwing the gun on to her floor, "God, all of this has made me hungry".
"Wait, so are you just going to leave these three here?" Caroline asked, pointing towards the unconscious bodies.
Aria shrugged, "They will eventually wake up" she replied, walking out of the room.
Caroline glanced at the bodies and realised Aria was right, "Hey, wait up!" Caroline called out, rushing after her sister, "I'm starving as well!".
***
After drinking some blood, Aria came back to the boarding house, entering the living room she was confused seeing an unknown women standing there.
"Who the bloody hell are you?" a confused Aria asked.
The unknown women looked at Aria and gave her a small smile, "You must be Aria" she said, "My son has told me about you, you're the mother of his kids".
"Your what now?" Aria asked, not sure if she heard the women infront of her correctly.
"Oh, hey Ri" Kol greeted, entering the room, "I see you've met Lily".
"Do I have kids with someone I don't remember?" Aria asked Kol.
"What?" Kol asked shocked, "Of course not".
"Then why is that women saying I'm the mother of her son's kids?" Aria asked.
"Because she's my mother" Damon informed, entering the room, with Mia in his arms.
Aria's eyes landed on her daughter, who all of a sudden seemed much older then the last time she saw her, but before anything could resurface, Aria quickly looked away not wanting to experience any emotion, so instead she focused on Damon.
"Congrats, the women who abandoned you is back" Aria said sarcastically, "Must feel nice".
"I would feel even better if my soulmate also came back to me" Damon said.
Aria rolled her eyes at his words, "How did you get your mother back anyways?".
"Me, Damon and Kai went to the 1903 prison world" Kol informed.
"Speaking of the prison world" Lily said, turning to Damon, "As much as I am looking forward to us getting to know each other again, I fear that I can't truly be myself until we've retrieved the ones that I left behind".
Aria chuckled, "Would you look at that, the crazy mother has her own crazy family".
"Ri" Kol warned.
"Kol" Aria mocked.
"When will we be going back?" Lily asked her son, ignoring Aria.
"Soon, but don't worry, your prison world is not going anywhere" Damon assured.
Lily nodded and after sparing Aria another look, she went upstairs to her allocated room.
"Hmm" Aria said, "You know, for a women who just saw her first and only granddaughter, her reaction was surely underwhelming, oh wait, she had no reaction because she didn't spare your daughter even a small glance, what a great grandmother".
Damon and Kol watched Aria leave the living room, her words causing a stir in their minds.
"She's not wrong" Kol said, "Ri didn't look at Mia because she knows looking at her daughter will stir up her emotions, but why didn't your mother care about her only granddaughter?".
Damon sighed, he looked down at his daughter, who was smiling at her father, "I have no idea" he said.
"Damon, I know she's your mother and all, but be careful when it comes to her" Kol warned.
Damon nodded, "I will" he assured.
***
"What are you doing?" Damon asked, entering the kitchen and seeing Aria sitting on the counter, eating cake.
"Eating cake" Aria replied simply, "Hey so, Kai told me your mother is a ripper, you might want to take inventory of the blood cooler before she wakes up".
"Will do" Damon said.
"And, do you think it's smart to keep a ripper in the same house as three and sometimes five kids?" Aria asked.
Damon looked at Aria, "Is that worry I sense in your voice, Ria?".
"Don't be an idiot" Aria said, "It's not worry, it's being logical, something you clearly have forgotten to be since you've gotten your mother back".
"Don't worry Ria, our kids will be completely safe" Damon assured, "They've got a serial killer vampire as a father and a tribrid as a mother, no one is harming those kids".
Aria looked at Damon and without saying anything jumped off the seat, she went to leave the kitchen when Damon suddenly blocked her way.
"Can I help you?" Aria asked.
"I miss you" Damon suddenly said, putting his hands on Aria's waist and pulling her closer to him, "I miss your touch, I miss your kisses, I miss waking up next to you, I miss us being a family, Ria".
Aria looked at Damon and for a second Damon swore he saw something in her eyes, but as fast as that emotion came, the more quickly it left and Aria shoved Damon away from him.
"Stop" Aria said, "Your words have no effect on me Damon, not anymore so stop trying to get under my skin, it's not going to work".
Aria tried to leave again, but Damon grabbed her wrist and pulled her back into his chest, and before Aria could push him away, Damon had smashed his lips on to hers.
Damon separated from Aria and both of them stared at each other for a moment, and suddenly Aria pulled Damon back into another kiss.
"This means nothing" Aria whispered against Damon's lips.
Damon lifted Aria up and sat her on top of the counter, "For now" he whispered, before reattaching his lips back on to Aria's.
***
Presenting 6x17 of The Vampire Diaries . . .
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IMPORTANT! So I asked on my message board if you guys would approve of me keeping Kai and instead making his father evil and a lot of people agreed, so don't expect Kai to die but do expect Joshua Parker to cause carnage 🙈
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