Chapter 12: 𝟏.𝟕

Arielle walked to Damon's room and saw him and Elena kissing, she quickly took a picture on her phone before walking in.

"Thought you had a boyfriend!?" the voice made Elena quickly pull away from the man and turn to face her friend.

"What are you doing here?" she asked standing infront of Damon protectively.

Elena knew that Arielle hated Damon, she never tried to hide it ever since she came into town. So she was worried about what she would do. Not that she could much about it, considering she was a human and the girl was a were-witch.

"Relax. I told Stefan I'd help, so here." she handed the girl the vial with Klaus' blood. Elena eyed it curiously.

"Feed it to him or he dies." Arielle informed her noticing her hesitance.

Arielle would've let him die, but she did promise Stefan she would get his brother the cure, and she certainly didn't snap Klaus' neck for nothing.

She took the cure from Elena and fed it to Damon. The vampire seemed surprised that she saved him, he knew she definitely didn't do it for herself, "Thank you." he muttered out, still drenched in sweat.

"Now you owe me a favor, and I didn't do it for you."

"For who then?"

"Stefan." she answered him simply, "I owed him something."

"Where is he?" Elena asked.

The older girl turned to her and a small frown appeared on her face, "Paying for this." she informed vaguely, "It must suck for him...he gave everything to make sure you stay safe and alive and you still cheat on him..with his 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳."

"And you." she turned to Damon, "You need to stop chasing your brothers girl, it's embarrassing." she left the room leaving the pair alone to sink in her words.

Both of them knew she was telling the truth, they knew she was right, both of them felt a guilt, Elena more than Damon.

Elena knew the girl was right and she had a point, Stefan had risked everything and everyone just to make sure she was safe, and she went and kissed his brother. At the moment she didn't feel the guilt, but when Arielle spoke, she felt it immensely.

Damon, on the other hand, didn't feel as much guilt, he felt something for Elena, and he knew she felt it too, he just wanted Elena to admit what she felt and not hide it from herself. He knew it was wrong to kiss her, but he couldn't hide his feelings.

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Arielle walked into her home exhausted by her days events. When she walked in she saw Caroline, sitting on the couch watching '𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭', the girl walked closer and Caroline paused the tv hearing her walk in.

"Where have you been all day?" the blonde asked.

"Helping Stefan cure Damon's bite." she answered sitting down next to her.

"You helped Damon?" she questioned, finding it very hard to believe.

"Shocking right? Me helping him."

"Very." Caroline said with a small laugh.

"I did for Stefan, not fot him." she informed.

Caroline furrowed her brows in confusion, "You and Stefan?"

"No, no, no." she quickly denied, "I just owed him something."

This made her more confused, "I'm sorry, what?!?"

The girl let out a small laugh before explaining, "He helped you when you turned, he helped you when I couldn't, so I just felt like I should've said thank you." she informed, "Sadly, that required saving Damon." she frowned.

"You didn't need to pay him back for...that." she said, trying to ignore her last comment.

The older girl shrugged, "I did, you needed the help and I couldn't give it to you. He could 𝘢𝘯𝘥 did." she said, "To him it may be normal to just help everyone, but for me it's kind of a big deal for him to help you like he did."

"I guess you have a point." she sighed, "I don't think I could've done it without him."

Arielle watched as her face slightly lit up at the mention of Stefan, she studied it, she could tell she was hiding feelings towards him. She also noticed a similar look on Stefan's face earlier.

Maybe both of them had feelings towards eachother that they were hiding, maybe out of respect for Elena, maybe out of fear it wouldn't work out, or maybe Arielle was crazy and she was just seeing things that weren't there.

"Right." she mumbled quietly, "I'm gonna go shower." she got up going to her room leaving Caroline watching the show.

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Arielle was eating ramen with Caroline, watching '𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭', when a knock interrupted their relaxing evening.

"You get it.", "Go get it."

They both said at the same time. They looked at eachother with challenging eyes and started playing rock, paper, scissors.

Caroline played paper and Arielle played rock. The older-girl groaned in annoyance, as the blonde cheered, "I win." she announced in her perky voice.

Arielle rolled her eyes and got up to answer the door. When she got to her front door, she saw Stefan's figure standing there.

She could see something was off about him but she couldn't figure out what, "Can I help you?" she asked, once she opened the door.

"Can I come in?" Arielle thought it was weird, but she opened the door enough so he could come in.

Caroline stood up as her sister and friend walked into the living room, "What are you doing here?"

"Hello, to you too." he said sarcastically.

"Sorry, I just mean it's late and Arielle told me what happened." Caroline stood as Arielle went back to eating her food.

"I made a deal with Klaus." he informed them.

The were-witch spit out the water she was drinking, "WHAT!?" she yelled standing.

"Are you crazy!?" Caroline yelled at the same time.

"Yeah, and I'm sorry." before they could question what he meant, the man snapped her neck.

"What the fuck?!" Arielle screeched.

Stefan took out a syringe and stabbed her with it. Arielle recognized it immediately. It was herbs that would prevent her from doing magic.

"Why?" she asked, pulling her and Caroline back from him.

"Klaus wants you to come along." he informed her.

"No, no." she denied, "I promised her I wouldn't leave, I can't leave her. Please, don't make me leave her." she sobbed.

"Klaus wants you to come along, if you don't he'll kill everyone in this town."

At this point Arielle was getting flashbacks of being tortured, "No, don't do this to me, please, don't do this." she sobbed.

"If I don't do this-" the man shut up once Arielle fell faint on the floor.

Stefan sighed loudly before calling Klaus, "I got her."

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Klaus arrieved to the Forbes house in a black SUV, he saw Stefan waiting for him on the porch.

"Get her so we can leave." Klaus urged walking closer to him.

"Them." Stefan corrected. Klaus made a confused face and Stefan sighed before explaining, "They're either going together or they're not going." he informed the hybrid.

"I'm only taking Arielle."

"If you take Arielle, then you have to take Caroline."

"I don't 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to take Caroline." Klaus quickly denied against the idea.

"Well then, Arielle will be a living nightmare, and I've seen her use her powers, Elijah has also told us a little bit about it, she 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 become a pain in the ass, and she 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 slow you down." he explained, "Taking Caroline with us will ensure she plays along."

Klaus clenched his jaw. Stefan did make valid points, he definitely needed a witch, and he did tolerate Arielle, "Fine." he reluctantly agreed, "Get them both, we need to leave now."

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𝐀𝐇𝐇𝐇

𝐒𝐨 𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫.

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢-𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰.

𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐬' 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐤𝐞𝐲.

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