05. The Killer

Dear Journal, 

It's been a while hasn't it? The last time I wrote to you, I was a simple witch banshee hybrid, but now I'm writing as a witch banshee vampire tribrid, didn't think that was possible, but here I am, a proof of the impossible.

In the past few days, there's been a lot of times I wanted to write to you, but when I opened you, all I remembered was my old self, a girl that I miss because she's no longer with me, I'm still not sure if that is a good or bad thing.

Wanna know a secret? Something I never told anyone, not even Caroline and Damon. When I first turned into a vampire, I thought I would hate it, I thought I could never be a good vampire, I could never be in control, but with the help of Damon, Caroline, Rebekah and Kol, I'm not doing to bad, I think I may have gotten the hang of this, but let's not jinx it.

Elena feels hopeless, depressed, angry. But for some reason, I don't, I feel hopeful, happy, in control, being a vampire doesn't scare me, it excites me, it makes me wonder what the future holds for me.

Part of me wants to leave Mystic Falls behind, and run away with Damon. Explore the world, with the love of my life right by my side, maybe one day my dream will become reality. Till that happens, I'm going to keep fighting, cause like Mom once said, she gave birth to a fighter, I'm going to fight till I have no fight left in me, and I'm hoping I can be enough to protect the people I love, no matter what it takes.

"You're up early" A sleepy Damon said, slowly opening his eyes and smiling at the Connor witch, who was leaning against the headboard, writing in her diary.

"I felt like writing in my diary this morning, so I woke up early" Aria replied.

"Hmm" Damon said, placing his head on Aria's stomach, "I don't want to get up yet".

"Then don't" Aria replied, putting her diary on the bedside table, and running her fingers through Damon's hair.

"We both know that's not possible" Damon mumbled, placing a kiss on Aria's stomach.

As soon as Damon said that, both his and Aria's phone started buzzing.

Damon groaned, "Told you".

Aria chuckled at her boyfriend, she grabbed her phone and frowned seeing Klaus's text.

"It's Nik" Aria informed.

Damon lifted his head and looked at Aria in confusion, "What does it say?".

"We have a problem" Aria read.

"Of course we do" Damon mumbled.

***

Aria, Damon, Caroline, Kol and Rebekah arrived at Klaus's room of torture, where he had kept Connor, while at the same time on the call with Klaus, who was currently in Italy, looking for the hunter's sword. Arriving in the room, the group frowned seeing no sign of Connor, instead they saw a headless hybrid laying on the floor, dead.

"How the hell did the hunter escape?" Kol snapped.

"I blame my numbing incompetence" Klaus replied, "But pointing fingers isn't gonna help me, you guys are gonna help me".

After Damon, Kol and Aria had come back from Whitmore, Caroline and Klaus had filled them in on what they missed, about the cure for vampirism, something none of them except Rebekah really wanted, but they knew they still had to find it before team Elena decides to use it against them.

"Nik, you realise this hunter could be anywhere right now, maybe even out of town" Aria said.

"Think, Ari" Klaus said, "He took the hybrid's head, which means he wants werewolf toxin".

"So that can only mean that his not leaving Mystic Falls, right?" Caroline asked.

"Right, love" Klaus said, "And it's a pity, as I'm half the world away digging up a dead hunter, you guys have no access to my blood and therefore the antidote, so for the love of god, be careful".

"Look who cares" Damon teased, making the rest of them chuckle.

Klaus rolled his eyes, "Nevertheless, his tattoo is our only map to the cure so your task is quiet simple, find him, catch him, and above all, keep him alive, he's no good to us dead".

"Easier said then done Nik" Rebekah snapped, "Stefan and Elena are going around town looking for the bloody hunter".

"Damon you need to keep your brother in check" Klaus said.

"No can do" Damon said, "His no longer my responsibility".

"Forgot Stefan and Elena, we need to find Connor before he comes after one of us, specially you, Caroline and Jeremy" Aria told her boyfriend, "He knows you three are working with Klaus, his going to come after you guys".

"Well, we better find him before that happens then" Kol said.

***

Caroline, Rebekah and Aria sat on Rebekah's bed, while the boys went to go find Jeremy, and warn him about Connor.

"What's with the thinking face?" Rebekah asked Aria, who was lost in thought.

"It's nothing" Aria replied.

"It's not nothing Aria, there's clearly something that's bothering you, so spill" Caroline said.

Aria sighed, "Okay, last night at Whitmore, me and Damon blood shared".

"What?!" Caroline and Rebekah asked.

"Did you have hot vampire sex after?" Rebekah asked.

"Tell me you guys used protection" Caroline said.

"Okay first of all, I am not discussing my sex life with you both" Aria said, embarrassed.

"Why not?" Rebekah asked.

"We are your friends, we need to know the dirty little secrets" Caroline said.

"Guys, can you both just listen to me for a second, without interrupting" Aria said, Rebekah and Caroline exchanged a look, but nonetheless nodded, "Okay, so since we blood shared, everytime I drink from a blood bag, or even from a human, their blood doesn't taste right, I know this makes no sense, but the blood seems off and it's hard for me to drink".

"Well can you at least keep it down?" Caroline asked, afraid Aria was having the same problem as Elena.

"I can" Aria replied, "But it's weird you guys, blood bags and other people's blood disgusts me, all I think about is Damon's blood, I feel like somethings wrong with me, name one vampire who finds blood bags disgusting".

Rebekah smirked, "I know what's happening here".

"Please do share" Aria said.

"It's rare, and it happens only once every few centuries, but when nature sees two people, who are madly in love with each other, who just so happen to be vampires, nature makes sure that nothing can separate the two, so over time, without realising it, the two vampires form a special bond, a soulmate bond" Rebekah explained.

"What's the difference between being connected and having a soulmate bond?" Aria asked confused.

"Well, being connected means you can sense a bit of each other's emotions, and staying away from each other would give you pain, but being a soulmate, first of all, is very rare, and it means whenever you taste blood that isn't your soulmates, it won't taste right, if the two soulmates separate, nature will make it their business to reunite them" Rebekah replied.

Aria groaned, and fell down on Rebekah's bed, "How am I meant to tell Damon that? Oh hey Damon, since I've turned into a vampire, mother nature decided that she wanted to make us into soulmates and now I'm craving your blood, happy friday!".

"Yeah, that's exactly what you're supposed to say to him" Caroline said, laying next to Aria.

"His going to think I'm a freak" Aria mumbled.

Rebekah laid down on the other side of Aria, "Oh please, Damon basically worships the ground you walk on, he would never think your a freak".

"If anything, he would be excited" Caroline assured.

Aria sighed, "I hope so".

"We know so" Rebekah and Caroline said simultaneously.

***

After the girls had their little moment, Kol called them to meet at Lockwood manor, apparently Connor had taken Jeremy hostage, and now Stefan and Elena were going to kill Connor.

"Us three take a different entrance each, we ambush him at the same time, he won't be able to take all of us together" Stefan told Elena and Tyler.

"Not happening brother" Damon said, making the trio frown.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Stefan asked the group.

"Making sure you don't get Jeremy killed" Aria snapped.

"We have a plan to save my brother" Elena said, emphasizing on my, "That's to kill Connor".

"So much for being the compassionate one Elena" Caroline taunted.

"You idiots, Connor has Jeremy and maybe even other hostages, we can't go in blind" Kol snapped.

"Therefore, no one's killing Connor" Damon said.

Elena sighed, "Maybe Damon's right".

Aria and Stefan frowned hearing Elena take Damon's side, "Excuse me?" Aria asked.

"I mean, we don't know how strong he is" Elena replied, ignoring Aria's hateful gaze, "It will be stupid of us to go in there without any knowledge".

"How the hell did she flip so easily?" Rebekah whispered to Caroline, who was equally confused.

"Nik's hybrids are going to help us, so do us all a favor, don't mess our plan up" Kol warned.

"My Mom put squad cars blocking the streets, they're saying it's a faulty gas main" Caroline revealed, reading the text she just got from Liz.

"Damon, there's no cops, no witnesses, we have no reason to wait" Stefan said.

"None of you are going in there Stefan" Damon said.

"And whose going to stop us?" Tyler challenged.

Damon smirked, he then looked towards Aria, "She is".

Before the trio could react, Aria had used her hand to snap all their necks.

"Well that was easy" Rebekah commented.

"Now that they are out of our way, we need to go save Jeremy" Aria said.

"On it captain" Kol said, giving Aria a mock salute.

***

Damon, Aria and Caroline were now at Alaric's apartment, while Kol and Rebekah tried to find out how many hostages did Connor have.

"What's that?" Caroline asked, as Damon laid down a map on the table.

"It's our way in" Damon replied, "Courtesy of Alaric Saltzman's interest in the Mystic Falls Underground Railroad".

"The tunnels" Caroline realised, "Like the one in the Lockwood cellar".

Aria sighed, "His not here, yet he somehow manages to help us".

Both Damon and Caroline gave Aria a sad smile, they all missed the history teacher immensely.

Suddenly, Aria's phone started ringing, taking it out of her pocket, Aria realised it was Kol calling her.

"So what information have you two gathered?" Aria asked, placing the phone on speaker and putting in the middle of the table.

"Honestly, not much" Rebekah admitted.

"We can only make out voices" Kol informed.

"How many hostages?" Damon asked.

"Including Jeremy, three" Rebekah replied, "And you won't believe who the other two are".

"Who?" Caroline asked curiously.

"April Young and Matt Donovan" Kol replied.

"April?" Aria asked shocked.

"Those two idiots are like danger magnets" Damon snapped.

"Guys come up, we need to figure out a plan and get all of them out of there, somehow without killing Connor" Aria said.

"I say we let the busboy die, no one will miss him" Kol said.

"Agreed" Damon said.

"Just come up, quickly" Aria said, shaking her head at the Original and Salvatore.

***

"Okay, what's the plan?" Kol asked, as he and Rebekah entered the apartment.

"Simple, you and Damon take the front, your guys job is to distract Connor" Aria explained, "Me, Rebekah and Caroline will take the tunnels and try to sneak up on Connor, once I get there I can try doing a invisibility spell and take the three of them out of there as quickly as I can, while Rebekah and Caroline help you guys capture Connor".

"We're actually saving the busboy?" Kol asked, an annoyed expression on his face.

"If I can" Aria replied, "I will go out of my way to save Jeremy and April, I'm not going to let anything happen to them, Matt on the other hand, if I can save him, I'll try, if I can't, I'll know that I tried my best".

"Look at you being diabolic, I love it" Damon teased, making everyone chuckle.

"Shut up Damon" Aria said, "Now, you guys ready?"

"We're ready" Everyone said.

"Great" Aria said, determination shown clearly in her eyes, "Let's go save some people".

***

The phone at the Grill started ringing, making Jeremy look at it, a hopeful expression on his face, he knew Aria would save him, she always did, but he was worried about April, who had found out about vampires and was now freaking out.

Jeremy went to answer the phone, when suddenly Connor held his hand, preventing him from answering the phone, instead he answered it himself.

"We're closed" Connor said.

"We want you to free the people your keep hostage dickhead" Damon said, as he and Kol stood outside the Grill, they were trying to keep Connor occupied so the girls could make their way to the hostages without him realising.

"I'll free them as soon as you give me what I want, you and everyone like you dead" Connor informed.

"Slight problem with that mate, I can't be killed" Kol mocked, "How about we offer you a deal, you get to keep the busboy, Matt Donovan, just give us Jeremy and April".

"Sounds like a fair deal, I'll take it if I was you" Damon said.

"Not happening" Connor snapped.

"Tell me something" Damon said, "Do you want all of us dead so your little mark can grow, right?".

"Yeah thats right buddy" Kol said, "We know everything about that little mark of yours, we know what it leads to you, and what you are".

"Free the hostages Connor, and me and my buddy Kol here, will gladly share that information with you" Damon offered.

"We'll even tell you about the brotherhood of the five" Kol continued.

Damon and Kol knew they were reaching, there was little to no chance that Connor would actually take their bait, but they tried nonetheless.

Connor scoffed, "That's a weak move, you both must be desperate".

Kol rolled his eyes, "Let's not talk about whose desperate, out of all of us, whose the one taken innocent people hostage because they have no idea what they are".

"Not us" Damon said, "Think about it Connor, be smart, why would the big bad hybrid want a useless human like you alive, aren't you even a little bit curious?".

Having heard enough of the two vampires, Connor hanged up on them and smashed the phone on to the wall, making Jeremy flinch.

"Come quick Aria" Jeremy whispered, worry rising in his chest as he realised Connor was starting to get really impatient.

"Well, that went well" Kol commented.

"Let's hope the girls are having better luck then us" Damon said, "God, all I want to do is kill that little bastard".

"Have some patience, you will get your time, now hurry, we need to go help the girls" Kol said.

Unknown to the two vampires, Stefan and Elena, who had finally woken up from getting their necks snapped by Aria, heard everything Kol and Damon told Connor, making them realise that there was something that Damon and Kol knew, something they didn't want them to find out, whatever it was, they knew he had to find out about it before it's too late.

Hearing Damon say that he wants to kill Connor, suddenly filled Elena with a rage she has never filled, suddenly Elena Gilbert was determined to kill Connor.

***

Aria, Caroline and Rebekah walked in the tunnels.

"Stop" Caroline told the girls, as she looked at the map, "This is it".

Rebekah looked at the brick wall infront of her, "Caroline, this is a brick wall, not the entrance to the Grill".

"Don't look at me like that, this is where the map leads" Caroline defended.

"Show me" Rebekah said, wanting to know herself, "Well, she's not wrong".

"Told you" Caroline said.

"Guess someone blocked the entrance" Aria said.

"How are we supposed to break the wall, we didn't even bring pickaxes" Caroline said.

Aria smirked, "We don't need pickaxes Care Bear".

"What do you mean?" Rebekah asked confused.

"I was reading this website, about banshee's, it said that if a banshee screams loud enough, she break through a wall" Aria replied.

"But if you scream, Connor will hear you" Rebekah reminded.

"Not if I first do a spell that will make it so my scream will stay in the tunnels, only you both will hear it, no one else" Aria said.

Rebekah and Caroline both smiled, "Well go on then" Rebekah urged.

"Show that stupid hunter, that he messed with the wrong girl" Caroline said.

Aria smiled at her two best, she then closed her eyes and started chanting.

"Cover your ears" Aria ordered, after she finished the spell.

"Gladly" Rebekah said, as her and Caroline covered their ears.

Aria put her hands infront of her, and let out a loud scream, a scream that caused Rebekah and Caroline to fall to the floor, and the wall infront of them to break.

Matt and April, looked at the broken wall in shock, they couldn't believe that Aria's one scream had manged to break the wall Matt has been trying so long to break.

"I forgot how painful your screams are" Caroline complained, as the trio moved the bricks and entered the employees only section of the Grill.

"How?" April whispered confused.

Before any of the girls could reply, they all heard a loud explosion coming from the inside.

"Shit!" Aria said, really hoping Jeremy was okay.

"No time for questions, you both need to leave now" Rebekah said, shoving Matt and April towards the entrance they used.

"Wait, what about you?" April asked Aria.

"I need to save Jeremy" Aria replied, "Go April, I'll be fine, you need to get to safety".

Caroline looked at Matt, and handed him her phone, "Follow this map and take April to safety, and don't damage my phone, I want it back".

Matt nodded, and with that both April and Matt left, while the girls prepared for their next move.

***

Jeremy watched in fascination as Connor killed one of Klaus's hybrids and his tattoo grew even more.

Aria, Rebekah and Caroline tried to sneak behind Connor, but he saw them, he grabbed Jeremy and used him as a cover and fired at the three girls, but he failed to hit any of them, as they rushed and took cover behind the bar.

"Really wished we let Kol and Damon do this part" Caroline whispered, as glass shattered around her.

"If you even touch a hair on my best friend Connor, I will boil your organs!" Aria threatened, as Connor pushed Jeremy, causing his foot to land on the pressure plate that was connected to the bomb Connor had made, as soon as Jeremy lifted his foot, he would blow up into pieces.

"Aria?" Jeremy called out, his voice shaky.

Aria looked through the gap and froze seeing Jeremy standing on the pressure plate.

"Jeremy, don't panic!" Aria called out, "Just stay still!".

"We are so going to die" Rebekah whispered.

"You can't die" Caroline retorted.

"No one's dying" Aria snapped, glancing back at Jeremy, "No one".

***

"Come on Connor, are you really going to kill an innocent teenager?!" Aria asked.

"Put down the damn gun!" Rebekah yelled.

"Sure, you three come out, I'll hand the gun over" Connor said.

"We know things you don't Connor!" Caroline said, "We can tell you everything you need to know, just let us save Jeremy".

"I don't make deals with vampires!" Connor yelled.

"Well these vampires are your best bet!" Aria yelled, as the lights on the Grill started flicking, indicating that Aria was close to losing control over her magic.

"Think rationally Connor" Rebekah said, "If you die right now, everything you've done your whole life, will go to waste, it will be for nothing, we can give you the truth, just drop your gun and let us take Jeremy away from here".

Suddenly, a panicked Elena entered the Grill.

"Please" She begged, as Connor pointed his gun at her, "Don't hurt him".

"Dammit" Caroline whispered, "She's going to get Jeremy killed".

"Aria, what are you doing?" Rebekah asked, seeing the tribrid chanting something.

"A protection spell" Aria replied, "In one of Grams's grimoires, I found a spell that can make a person fire resistance for a few hours".

"If the bomb goes off, the explosion would burn Jeremy" Caroline started.

"But with Aria's spell, he would be okay" Rebekah finished.

"It's for extra precaution, cause like I said, no one's dying, specially not Jeremy" Aria said, impressing the two vampires.

"What are we supposed to do about Elena?" Caroline asked.

"Let her die" Rebekah replied, as the trio looked back at Elena.

"You come any closer, he's dead" Connor threatened.

"Guys, Connor is distracted with Elena, I'm going to cloak myself and speed Jeremy out of here" Aria whispered.

Caroline and Rebekah nodded, "We will try to capture him" Caroline said.

"Remember, Kol and Damon are waiting for him in the tunnels, so its okay if you both don't capture him, okay?" Aria asked, the two girls nodded.

"Invisiblia" Aria muttered, making herself invisible for a short period of time.

"He's the only family that I have left" Elena cried, even in his situation, Jeremy couldn't help but roll his eyes at his sister, even when she was trying to help him, she managed to annoy him"Just--just let him go".

"Come out you three!" Connor yelled, ignoring Elena, "Or I will shoot the boy right in front of all of you! On the count of three! One, two, thr--".

Just as Connor was about to say three, both him and Elena got shocked seeing Jeremy suddenly disappear, and the bomb go off.

Both Connor and Elena fell backwards because of the impact, and using this to their advantage, Rebekah and Caroline speeded over to Connor, they grabbed him and speeded away, leaving behind a confused Elena.

***

After making sure they were a good distance away from the Grill, Aria stopped running and uncloaked herself and Jeremy.

"Aria, careful" Jeremy said, grabbing the Connor witch as she stumbled backwards, "What's happening to you?".

"Relax Jer, I'm fine" Aria said.

"Aria, your nose is bleeding" Jeremy said, "That only happens when a witch has used too much magic, or did a hard spell".

"Jer, it's okay" Aria assured the worried Gilbert, wiping her nose, "I've never cloaked one person before, let alone two, the spell took a bit too much from me but I'm fine, are you?".

"Of course I'm fine, my guardian angel saved me" Jeremy replied, smiling at the tired witch.

Aria smiled and hugged the younger Gilbert, "Please don't leave me, I'll lose it if you do".

"As long as I have you Aria, I'm pretty sure even death is scared of coming near me, they don't want to deal with you" Jeremy teased, making Aria laugh.

"Jer, go to Ric's apartment, I need to go back into the tunnels" Aria said, breaking the hug.

"Aria, you don't look too good, you've never used such a heavy spell before, come with me, you need rest" Jeremy said.

"I can't Jer" Aria said, "Kol, Damon, Rebekah and Care are in the tunnels with Connor, and I'm pretty sure your sister is following them, I need to go help them before Elena ruins everything".

Jeremy sighed, "Just promise me, no more heavy magic".

Aria smiled, "I promise Jer Bear, now go, I'll see you at home".

Jeremy smiled at Aria, both him and Aria considered Ric's apartment their home, after returning from Denver, Jeremy officially moved into the apartment, not wanting to share a house with Elena.

Aria would alternate her nights, one night at the Forbes, one night at the apartment, one night at the boarding house, even Kol would spend most nights at the apartment, that apartment had become the groups safe haven.

 "I'll see you at home" Jeremy said, kissing the top of Aria's head, and walking over to Ric's apartment.

***

"Take him" Rebekah said, throwing Connor towards Kol and Damon.

"Where's Ria?" Damon asked worried.

"And why the hell did we hear two explosions?" Kol asked.

"Relax guys, no one got hurt" Caroline replied, "Except one of Klaus's hybrid, his dead".

"Aria took Jeremy away" Rebekah informed, "She said she will come back after making sure Jeremy is safe".

"You both deal with him now" Caroline replied, pointing at a furious Connor, "Me and Rebekah have had our fair share of action for one day, we are going back to the apartment, I need a long hot shower".

"I feel you on that" Rebekah said.

"Yeah, yeah, go on, we will drop this one at Klaus's torture room and meet you guys there" Damon said.

"Bye" Caroline and Rebekah said, speeding away.

"Well Damon, looks like it's just me, you and the hunter" Kol said.

"I wouldn't be so sure Kol" Stefan said, walking over to the duo, making both of them groan.

"It's over Stefan, we have him, we saved everyone, meaning you are not needed" Damon said, glaring at his brother.

"Aka, leave" Kol snapped.

"Yeah, I don't think so" Stefan said, "I'm not letting any of you go through until I know what Klaus wants with a hunter".

"You think you can fight us?" Kol asked.

Stefan smirked, "No, but she can".

Before Damon or Kol can react, Bonnie came up behind them, and gave them an aneurysm, causing Damon to let go of Connor, who used this opportunity to run away.

"Come on Damon, tell me what Klaus wants and Bonnie will stop" Stefan said.

But both Kol and Damon didn't say anything, just glared at Stefan while holding their head in pain.

Suddenly, someone speeded over to Bonnie and held her by her neck and slammed her to the wall, causing her to stop her magic on the two vampires.

"Tsk tsk Bon, still playing for the wrong side I see" Aria said, tightening her grip on Bonnie's neck, while Kol and Damon stood up, ready to fight Stefan.

"I was told you no longer have your magic, looks like they were wrong" Aria said, having being informed by Caroline, who knew all the gossip about everyone, that Bonnie played with dark magic which caused Grams to get punished by the ancestors and her magic no longer working, but what Aria or Caroline didn't know was the Professor who Kol, Damon and Aria had met at Whitmore, was teaching Bonnie a new kind of magic.

"Aria" Bonnie breathed out, feeling hard to breath.

"Hurts doesn't it, getting attacked by someone you once trusted" Aria said, glaring at the Bennett witch, "I was hurt to when you back stabbed me", Aria slammed Bonnie's head on to the wall, knocking her out, and letting her body fall to the floor, "Sorry Bon, but turns vampire Aria, likes to hold grudges, she isn't as forgiving as the old Aria".

Kol speeded over to Stefan and punched him, he then pushed him towards Damon, who kicked him, and like that the boys took turns in hitting Stefan who thought he had a chance against them, after taking care of Bonnie, Aria turned around and snapped Stefan's neck with her magic.

"Oh come on Ri" Kol complained, "I was having fun".

"You can have your fun later Kol, right now we need to find Connor" Aria said.

"What do you mean we need to find Connor?" Kol asked, not having realised Connor has ran away, "His right--", Kol looked around wide eyed when he realised Connor was no where near them.

"Were you saying something Kol?" Aria teased, "Now hurry up, if Bonnie and Stefan are in these tunnels, I'm going to take a guess so is Elena, we need to find Connor before she does".

Kol and Damon nodded, and with that, the three vampires ran to find Connor before he somehow ended up dead.

***

After walking around the tunnels for some time and finding no sign of Connor, the trio came to the conclusion that Connor had managed to run away, so they decided to call it a day and go back home and deal with the hunter problem tomorrow.

The trio existed the tunnels through the Lockwood cellars, as soon as they came out they were shocked seeing the scene infront of them, Elena was digging a grave while a dead Connor laid on the floor beside her.

"What the hell did you do Elena!?" Aria yelled, startling a panicked Elena.

"I need to bury him, I killed him" Elena sobbed, "I should--I should bury him".

"Why the bloody hell did you kill him?" Kol asked, glaring the doppelganger, feeling absolutely no sympathy for her.

"You told me" Elena cried, looking towards Damon, confusing the trio.

"What?" Damon asked confused.

"I heard you and Kol talking outside the Grill, you said you want to kill Connor, so I killed Connor" Elena replied, tears falling from her eyes.

"Are you freaking kidding me?!" Aria yelled, about to lunge towards Elena but both Kol and Damon held her back, "No! Let me go! I'm going to end this bitch! Every time she screws up, but blames it on someone else, how dare you blame Damon for you mistake!".

"I--I killed someone" Elena panicked, completely ignoring Aria's outburst.

"Elena" Stefan said, running over to the doppelganger.

"Stefan" Elena sobbed, "I killed someone".

"Let's go" Kol whispered.

"No" Aria said, struggling in the two vampires grip "Just let me have one hit".

Damon shook his head at his girlfriend, ignoring Aria's protest, he picked her up in his arms and speeded them away, followed closely by Kol.

***

"Hey" Damon said, entering Ric's room, where Aria was, looking down at framed picture of her, Ric and Jeremy, that Ric always kept by his bedside table, the photo was taken before Jeremy left for Denver, they all looked so happy in the photo, completely unaware that this will be their last picture with the history teacher.

"Hey" Aria whispered, putting down the photo, as Damon sat next to her.

"You okay?" Damon asked, noticing that Aria's been quiet since coming back.

Aria nodded, "Yeah I'm okay, I just miss him".

Damon looked at the photo, with a sad expression on his face, "Yeah, me to".

"I need to tell you something" Aria said suddenly, "This is probably not the right time, but I can't hide it from you".

"You're pregnant?" Damon asked, an hopeful expression on his face.

Aria chuckled, "No, I wish, but not right now".

"Then what is it?" Damon asked curiously.

"Did you know every few centuries two vampires find each other, and realise they were meant to be, cause nature made them for each other?" Aria asked.

"What?" Damon asked confused.

"Recently, ever since that night at Whitmore, when we you know--".

"Blood shared?" Damon teased, looking at a flustered Aria in amusement.

"Yeah, that" Aria mumbled, "Since that night, blood that isn't your blood, tastes like absolute shit, like it's so hard for me to swallow, which means I don't drink much blood, which in turn means--".

"You get weak" Damon realised, "Is that why you were so drained after cloaking yourself and Jeremy?".

"That and the fact it's a hard spell, I need practice" Aria replied, "Anyways, I thought something was wrong with me, so I talked to Caroline and Rebekah, and Rebekah said that nothing is wrong with me, instead--".

"Instead what Ria?" Damon urged.

"Instead, I've found my soulmate" Aria said, finally looking up at Damon, "Turns out, not only are we connected, but that we are the once every century rare case of being soulmates, which means--".

"We need each other to survive" Damon finished, smiling at Aria.

"Yeah" Aria whispered.

"You know, I already knew that" Damon said, putting his arm around Aria's shoulders, while she put her head on Damon's chest.

"You did?" Aria asked, closing her eyes.

"Mhmm" Damon replied, placing a kiss on Aria's head, "I can't survive without you, not physically, not emotionally, without Aria Connor, Damon Salvatore is nothing".

"And without Damon Salvatore, Aria Connor is nothing" Aria whispered, kissing Damon chest, where his heart is supposed to be.

"Forever?" Damon asked.

"And ever" Aria replied.

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Presenting 4x05 of The Vampire Diaries . . .

How was the chapter?

Thoughts on Aria's feelings regarding being a vampire?

Thoughts on Aria finally using her banshee abilities? I realised I made Aria a banshee but I never explored her powers, so be ready for more badass banshee Aria moments.

Thoughts on Aria, Caroline and Rebekah being badass and saving Jeremy, April and Matt? I just really wanted a moment where the the girls took charge, I've always wanted to write an independent OC who doesn't always need saving, I wanted you guys to see that our three golden girls don't always need Kol and Damon, they are perfectly capable of being bad without them, yay girl power! 😂

Thoughts on Aria and Damon realising the actual reason as to why they find each other's blood so addicting? I'm not going to lie, this information has nothing to do with this season, I'm just setting up for season five, I have so many ideas for that season, it's going to be epic!

ALSO, I have a question, I don't want Kol to die, so would anyone mind if I change his belief regarding Silas? I really want him and Damon to have a eight season bromance 🙈

p.s 100K READS! When I started writing this book I never excepted anyone would read it, and now in less then a year this book has 100K reads, thank you so much to each and every one of you for supporting me and loving Damon and Aria and their kind of original story, I love all of you! Forever, and ever 🤗