[Paris' outfit for this chapter is at the very top.]

꧁ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ᴛᴡᴏ ꧂
ᴍᴀᴛᴄʜ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ɪɴ ʜᴇʟʟ

❝Damon's right. They really are a match made in hell.❞

♠

     TOMORROW ARRIVED and they are now all gathered in the living room of the Salvatore Boarding House once again. Tyler, Matt, and Jeremy still being the lookout while the other concoct a plan to get rid of Aurora and Camila.

"According to Jeremy, Aurora and Camila are nowhere to be found." Elena told them after she just conversed with her brother/cousin over the phone outside.

"Of course, they are. They'll be found when they want to be found. Simple Aurora logic." Lucien said.

"And Camila logic. They're perfect for each other. A match made in hell." Damon added as he offered Lucien a drink which Lucien gladly accepted.

The two have bonded and have accepted each other's companies. None of them expected it but they didn't complain.

"They left a dead body in the front step, covered with rose petals. What does that even mean?" Stefan asked as he sat beside Elena.

"The rose petals concept is all Aurora. She enjoys decorating the bodies of her victims. She's always been that way for centuries." Lucien informed them.

"How crazy can she be?" Ric asked with furrowed eyebrows and a disgusted look.

"You'd be surprised." Lucien simply answered.

"What do they want exactly?" Caroline asked.

All eyes turned to Paris when her phone suddenly rang. Paris pulls out her phone and furrows her eyebrows at the unknown caller ID. She looks between all of them before she answered.

"Hello?" She said.

"Hello, Paris." Camila said over the phone.

Paris' gaze snapped up to everyone and she saw all the vampires' attentions have been piqued since they have vampire hearing and heard Camila's voice.

"How are you and the Bennett witch?" Camila asked.

"Like you care." Paris snapped.

Camila laughs at the attitude Paris is giving her, fascinated.

"You've got spunk. Just how I remembered. Anyway, I'd like for you to meet me." Camila said.

"Why would I do that?"

"So, I could tell you what we want." Camila said.

Paris glances at her friends, searching for answers on whether or not she should say yes. Damon nodded for her to go on.

"Fine. Where are you?" Paris asked.

The front door suddenly opened and it revealed none other than the resurrected witch herself.

"I'm right here." Camila said over the phone before she hung up and stepped inside. She kicks the door close and walks towards the group of friends all on edge.

"You're all here. Perfect." Camila said as she looks between all of the faces in the room, her gaze stopping at Damon.

"Damon." Camila said.

"Demon-spawn." Damon casually said. 

Camila smiled at Damon's arrogance, finding everything intriguing, which is slowly pissing Damon off.

"I must say, the clothes have improved. Fashion from the 60s and 70s were not my style." Camila said as she looks down at her outfit.

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

Camila looks up at Damon and smiles. "Well, the serum, of course." She answered.

Everyone furrowed their eyebrows at the answer Camila has given them. Why would she want the serum when she's a witch?

"Why do you want it? It's not like you can use it. You'll lose your magic." Stefan said.

Camila said nothing and just casually smirked at him.

"Unless it's not for you. It's for Aurora." Lucien said.

"I'm here to tell all of you what I want and not why I want it. So, hand over the serum." Camila said.

Damon rushes over to her and pinned her against the wall with his hand wrapped around her throat.

"Why do you want it?" Damon said with gritted teeth.

Paris stands up as well as the others as they watched Damon and Camila fight.

Camila's entire aura changed. She got angry. She pushed Damon off her and he flew against the opposite wall using magic.

"I was willing to strike a deal. But now, I'm pissed. You have forty-eight hours to hand over the serum. And if any of you attempt to use the serum against me, just remember that I made Lucien drop to his knees without so much as lifting a finger." Camila threatened.

She turns her gaze towards Paris before she spoke again. "Tick tock." She said before she exits the Salvatore Boarding House, leaving everyone with terrified expressions on their faces

♠

"Now's not the time to be stubborn, Paris." Damon said as she followed her to the door.

"I'm not gonna stop my life just for them, Damon. I've already missed school a couple of times. Some of us actually have to graduate." Paris said before she opens the door.

"I can convince your teachers to give you a passing grade." Damon tells her.

"And how will you do that?"

"By using my charms?" Damon said, hoping that Paris would believe it. But it was the opposite.

Paris crosses her arms against her chest and raises one eyebrow at Damon, waiting for him to change his answer with an honest one.

"Fine. By using compulsion. But you have to exercise the perks of having a vampire as a friend." Damon said.

"The answer's no, Damon. Besides, Ric, Bonnie, and Caroline will be there. Plus, you made sure that I'll be protected." Paris said, her last sentence referring to the necklace he gave her.

"Fine. Just, go back here immediately after school or else I'll throw you over my shoulder and drag you home myself." Damon said with a smug smile on his face.

"I knew you're gonna say something like that. Bye." Paris said and gave Damon a kiss on the cheek before she quickly left.

Damon is once again left dumbfounded. Recalling what just happened. He looks behind him to see if anyone saw that but no one did.

"What the hell just happened?" Damon whispered before he closes the front door.

♠

Paris shuts her locker and turns to Caroline, Bonnie, and Elena, who haven't left her side since first period, and now it's the last.

"I don't think I'm ever gonna get used to this." Paris said.

"Well, you should. 'Cause we're not leaving your side. Except when we have separate classes, of course." Bonnie said as she linked her arm around Paris', which made her giggle.

"She's right. We're not leaving you, not when the bitch witch and her crazy sidekick is in town." Caroline said.

"But I'm sure Damon wouldn't let anything happen to you again." Elena said in a teasing way, making Caroline and Bonnie smile at Paris.

"What?" Paris asked them because of their sudden change of behavior.

"Come on, we're not dumb. It's obvious that Damon likes you!" Caroline said with an excited smile that immediately faded. "But that doesn't mean I approve. I just think it's cute." She added.

"He even asked me to make that necklace." Bonnie said while nodding towards the necklace around Paris' neck.

"What is it exactly?" Elena asked as she looks at the pendant resting on her collar bone.

"He said it's a protection charm and a vervain necklace. It's supposed to protect me from dangerous people, a.k.a. Camila and Aurora." Paris explained.

"That's so sweet." Elena told her with a smile on her face, happy that Damon finally found someone that could make him feel that way.

The bell rang and it signals the students to go to their classes. Caroline and Paris have the same class, so, they walked together towards their assigned room while Bonnie and Elena separate from them.

♠

It's been half an hour since class started and Paris felt the urge to pee. She asked their teacher for a hall pass and she thankfully gave her one.

She quickly makes her way towards the girls' restroom and quickly did her business.

After that, she goes to the sink and washed her hands. She heard one cubicle's door open but she didn't bother to look until she spoke.

"Good to see you again, Paris." Aurora said.

Paris gasped at the sight of Aurora from the mirror. She didn't bother to close the faucet as she tried to make a run for it but before she could even reach for the door, Aurora grabbed her hair and slammed her against the wall.

Aurora giggled at Paris' action before she spoke.

"That was good. However, I can't just let you escape now, can I?" Aurora said while laughing.

"Camila already talked to us. What do you want?" Paris asked.

"I'm just here to make sure you make the right decision. A little... motivation." Aurora said.

Veins start to bulge out around her eyes that have darkened. Her mouth opened, showing her fangs growing as she leaned over Paris quickly. But then her necklace glowed a bright purple and before any of them knew it, Aurora felt a strong force push her to the wall opposite of where Paris was pinned.

Both Paris and Aurora looked stunned at what just happened. Aurora looks at her neck and sees the necklace's glow subsides.

"What the bloody hell?" Aurora muttered as she frowned at Paris and her necklace.

A random girl suddenly enters the bathroom and furrowed her eyebrows as she looks between Aurora and Paris.

"What's happening?" Said the girl.

Aurora looks at the girl before a smile appears on her lips. "Well, if I can't hurt you, I'll just hurt somebody else." Aurora stated.

Before Paris could even mutter a single word to warn the girl, Aurora grabbed the innocent girl and smashed her head hard against the mirror, making it shatter and fall around her.

Paris gasped loudly at the scene before her as everything went down. There was blood all over and she felt sick at what she's seeing right now.

"The serum, Paris. We'll be waiting." Aurora said before she left.

Paris remained against the wall with her hand over her mouth. Her hand shook as she reached for her phone in her pocket to ring Caroline's phone. But before she could, Caroline already got there. She figured out that something was wrong the immediate moment she smelled blood.

As soon as Caroline entered the restroom, Caroline huffed and pushed herself against the wall with her eyes squeezed shut, trying to contain herself from all the blood.

"Caroline, get Ric. Now!" Paris said.

Caroline nodded and used her vampire speed to get to Alaric as Paris stayed with the dead girl.

Caroline reached Alaric's classroom and sees that he's preparing to head out since he has no class at this time today, so, he was going to meet with Damon.

"Ric! Come on, we need you." Caroline said.

Ric looked at the blonde vampire with a frown instantly plastered across his face. "What's wrong?"

"Just, come on!" Caroline said before she left and Ric followed.

Caroline led Ric to the girls' restroom and there he saw the girl's bloody dead body and his face scrunched up in disgust.

"What the hell? Who did this?" Ric asked Paris.

"Aurora." Paris said, her voice shaking.

Ric sighed then turned to Caroline. "Take Paris. I'll handle this." Ric told her.

Caroline nodded before she makes her way towards Paris and gets her away from the scene.

"Are you okay?" Caroline asked her.

"Damon's right. They really are a match made in hell." Paris only said.

♠

Aurora just got back to her car before she dialed Camila's phone.

"How'd it go?" Camila asked.

"I was bloody attacked." Aurora said, pissed off about what just happened earlier.

"What? Are you alright?" Camila asked her lover.

"Yes. But there's this necklace Paris is wearing and it just glowed and sent me flying." Said Aurora as she removes her jacket.

"She has a protection charm."

"Now, what?"

Camila thought for a moment. A smirk slowly grew on her lips before she answered Aurora's question.

"I think it's about time we switch it up."

♠

Damon waited at the Grill for half an hour since Ric was supposed to meet with him. Before he go completely annoyed, he receives a phone call from Ric and quickly answers.

"You're supposed to be here half an hour ago, Ric." Damon said.

"Yeah, and we're supposed to take care of Paris. So, you better get your ass down at the school." Ric said.

Damon's annoyed expression dropped and turned into a concerned one before he replied.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Aurora was in the school and attacked a student. I'm guessing Aurora found out about Paris' necklace and killed the girl instead." Ric explained.

Damon grabs his jacket that was placed on the stool beside him to reserve it for Ric. "Call Stefan and Lucien. I'm on my way." He said before he hung up.

Damon exits the grill and goes to his convertible. Before he could get in, he couldn't shake the feeling like somebody's watching him. And he's right considering that Aurora is just a couple of feet away with a vervain needle wrapped in her right hand.

Damon feels somebody's presence near him and he immediately attacked Aurora, but since Aurora is much older and stronger than her, she effortlessly caught his neck and threw him against the wall.

Damon groaned in pain as he slumped to the ground at the impact. Aurora vampire speeds towards him and injects the vervain in his neck, earning another groan from Damon.

"Sleep tight, Damon." was the last thing Damon heard from her before he passed out.

♠

A match made in hell indeed. That is it for this chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it.

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