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48 - Yellow Ledbetter

"Are you sure she is going to be here?"

Caroline let out a sigh "Yes. If Klaus is telling me the truth, and she has turned off her humanity, then the animal attacks around here have to be her"

Caroline and Enzo walked through the crowded club, scanning the room for one person in particular, since Klaus let word to Caroline what Amelia had done during her stay in New Orleans. Since then, the blonde tracked a series of animal attacks to some random club a few miles away from Mystic Falls, and had dragged Enzo along to check it out.

Once they had found her, they were going to find Stefan. Well, Caroline was yet to know this, but it was their next destination.

"I don't see her anywhere" The blonde vampire groaned, as they stopped beside the bar away from the crowds "I don't get it, I was positive these attacks were her"

She consoled herself with a shot, gulping it down and slamming the glass onto the bar, and Enzo watched her with a smirk. She simply ignored him, then went back to searching the crowds once more, not wanting to give up hope just yet.

Enzo did the same, his eyes finally landing on one girl "I think I've fond her, love"

Turning, she looked in the same direction as the ex Augustine, to spot Amelia like he had. She was in the center of a group of girls, dancing back to back with a random stranger, a wicked grin plastered on her lips. Her arms above her head, her hips swaying back and forth to the music, her hair whipping from side to side with each move. There was a red stain down her chin, but no one seemed to take notice of it, nor how her face transformed as she licked the blood on her lips.

Taking a deep breath, Caroline walked toward her with Enzo following behind, trying to contain her anger. To get her attention, she grabbed the Evans girl wrist, giving her a small tug to look their direction.

Spotting the pair, Amelia's face dropped "Oh Jesus. It's the fun police"

Enzo bit back a laugh "Hello to you too, gorgeous"

"Have you completely lost your mind?" Caroline hissed lowly, quickly wiping the last of the blood of Amelia's chin "Your going to get yourself exposed. What the hell are you thinking?"

"I was thirsty" She shrugs in defense, no hint of guilt in her eyes "I had a drink, so what? I dumped the body well this time. It should take them a couple of days to find it, compared to the last few. I was just being lazy before"

Quickly, they pulled her out of the crowds and dragged her outside, out of the way of human hearing. When they got out there, Caroline stood in front of the girl with a scolding look, her arms folding firmly across her chest.

"Turn it back on" She told her bluntly "Turn it back on, Amelia, or -"

"Or? Or what, Caroline?" She laughed bemused "You going to torture me? You going to get Ric to compel me? I don't care! It's great, not caring, you should try it sometime" She then glanced at Enzo "I get why you did it now. This feels great"

"You know, I get your grieving. You lost Damon, and it hit you hard. We all lost him and Bonnie, Amy, and we are all coping" Caroline begins, making Amelia snort.

"Coping? Searching for dead end leads to bring them back is coping? Living on the outskirts of town, that we can no longer enter is coping? It's not coping, it's sad. It's sad, lonely and pathetic. Reality is, they are never coming back, nor are we gonna get back inside Mystic Falls. You just need to accept it and move on" She sneers, being blunt with the bitter truth.

Growing bored of the bickering, Enzo puts his hands either side of her head, snapping her neck to the side in one swift movement. Her body falls back into his chest, and he keeps hold so she doesn't fall to the ground, making it look like she just passed out to any humans nearby. Caroline looks at him in shock, but he simply shrugs.

"As entertaining as that was, we have other things to be getting on with" He stated "Now, let's get her into the trunk and be on our way, shall we?"

****

With a groan, Amelia blinked open her eyes, to see she was locked in tight space. It was easy to realize she was in the boot of a car, having been trapped in one before thanks to Elena and Rebekah. Anger growing, she began to kick and punch everything she could, making as much noise as possible.

"ENZO! CAROLINE!" She yelled "COME LET ME OUT HERE NOW, AND I PROMISE NOT HURT YOU TOO BADLY"

After a few minutes, and no one appearing to free her, she turns to drastic measures. One, in her opinion, is justified in this situation. Using all her gathered strength, she kicks forcefully at the top of the trunk, until it finally pops open from the force. Making sure they left her with her daylight ring, she jumped out of the compact space, taking in her new surroundings.

"Impatient much?" Enzo asked in a teasing tone, leaned casually against the side of the car.

She let out a low growl, speeding over and grabbing him by the neck, pining him up against the car "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you?"

"You kill me, you won't get to meet who Caroline talking to over there" He chokes out, nodding over to the blonde stood with a unfamiliar girl "She's invited us to join her and her boyfriend for dinner. Play nice, or you can't come"

She scoffed, dropping her hold on him "What makes you think I want to come? Unless we can eat her and her boyfriend for dinner, I'm not interested" She stated dully, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Trust me, love. You are going to want to be apart of this" He said in a knowing tone, making her cock her head at him curious.

Before she can speak again, Caroline and the strange girl walk over, Caroline with a sad look in her eye. It didn't phase Amelia at all, and instead looked at the new girl curiously, who had arms full of grocery bags.

"You must be Amelia" She grinned at me, trying to be friendly "I'm Ivy"

"Is that meant to mean something to me?" She replied dryly, tilting her head to the side at her.

She shook her head, keeping the friendly look, that was slightly forced at this point "Sorry. Your Stefan's friends right? I'm his girlfriend"

Seeing the look appear on her face, Enzo leans closer to her ear "Told you so" He muttered with a smirk.

*******

When they saw Stefan, it wasn't the most pleasant of reunions, tension filling the space between them all immediately. Like Caroline, he had expected Amelia to be mad at him, yet she didn't even bat a eye. She simply strolled in, and looked for booze with Enzo, not seeming fazed he had stopped searching for ways to bring Damon and Bonnie back.

"So, how do you guys know Stefan?" Ivy asks, as they all sat around the round table for dinner.

Stefan, who had been sneaking glances at Amelia since they arrived, spoke first "Me and Amelia grew up together"

The Evans girl nodded, as she pushed the food around her plate "Yeah. Trust me, he wasn't always this good looking" She smirked, making Ivy let out a small laugh.

Caroline took a sip of her wine, clearly feeling most awkward of everyone there "Me and Stefan went to high school together.He used to date my best friend" Saying that, she, Stefan and Ivy exchanged awkward look at her tone "Not that he's not allowed to date, I mean they broke up. I just didn't realize he had met someone. So how did you meet exactly?"

"Uh, Ivy's car was in the shop, where I work" He answered quietly.

The blonde raised a brow "You work at an Auto-Repair shop?"

He nods, his lips pursed, not meeting Caroline's eye "It's relaxing"

Confusion filled Ivy''s face, her eyes flickering over to Stefan "Why? What did you use to do?"

"Ah, man of all seasons, jack of all trades" Enzo cut in with a chuckle "You have a lovely clavicle"

Self-conscious, her hand found it's way to her neck "Oh. Thank you. I think"

"From him, that's a compliment" Amelia informed her, the pulsing veins in Ivy's neck becoming more appealing by the second "Plus, he speaks the truth"

Enzo shot her a grin of appreciation "Forgive me, I... always notice a women's neck. I'm a neck person. So is Stefan, right Stefan?"

The Salvatore swifts uncomfortably, giving a small shake of his head "Not anymore"

"Ah, well that's silly" Enzo tuts disapprovingly "You can't just stop being a neck person"

Confusion on her face, Ivy leans over to Caroline and Amelia, glancing between the pair "Is Enzo one of your boyfriends?" She asks curiously

Amelia rolls her eyes "I'm grieving my dead fiance. So, no, he's not my boyfriend" She states in a bored tone, no flicker of emotion coming from saying the word fiance. Stefan and Caroline's fall on her, surprised to have heard the word fiance leave her mouth.

Quickly, not knowing what no humanity Amelia would do, Caroline changes the subject in a joking manner "Ugh, God no. Would you date that?"

"Uh, hello. I'm right here" The Augustine vampire interrupts "I have super sensitive hearing. Practically supernatural. Do you believe in the supernatural, Ivy?"

"I've never really thought about it" She shrugs, at the thick tension takes over once again.

"I myself, am a believer. Had to get a witch to do a locator spell on my buddy here" He carries on, patting Stefan on the shoulder with a smirk.

Luckily, they take it as joke, Ivy not catching into any of the hints being dropped. But, the dinner wasn't over yet.

*****

As the night carried on, a lot of things got brought into the open, about Stefan's whereabouts the past four months. Thanks to Ivy, they knew he'd been living in this house for over two months, not following the leads Ric had sent him. It angered Caroline and Enzo the most, whereas Amelia couldn't care less, she just found the entire situation amusing to watch.

"There, darling" Enzo interrupts Caroline's bickering with Stefan "No need to make a scene. Really it's all just some big misunderstanding, perhaps this will clear it all up" Suddenly, he stabs his fork into Stefan's hand, making him his in pain and Ivy scream.

"Finally" The Evans girl smirked "Time for some fun"

"ENZO!" Caroline shouted, a angry and scolding tone in her voice.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Stefan asked, wincing slightly in pain.

"So many secrets, what are you running from, Stefan?" The ex Augustine questioned, yanking the fork out of his hand, Ivy going wide eyed as the wound healed before her eyes.

Quickly, Caroline gets up and pulls Ivy to her face, looking her dead int he eye "Calm down, come with me. Let's go upstairs" She compels, before shooting Enzo a glare "No need to make a scene?!?" She whispers harshly, before she and Ivy leave.

"What kind of coward gives up on his own brother?" Enzo asks bluntly, ignoring the emotionless vampire still sat with them.

The youngest Salvatore gives him a blank look "I don't know what you are talking about"

Suddenly, he rushes at Enzo and goes to pin him up against a wall, only for Enzo to hold him back by the throat. Quickly, Enzo grabs another fork and stabs it into Stefan's neck, pinning him back against the fridge "Why don't you enlighten me?" He spits.

As their fight continued, Amelia stayed sat in their seat, watching them with a blank expression. When Enzo goes crashing into the table, she jumps up and backs out of the way, a smirk of amusement plastering across her face. When Enzo's neck gets snaps, Stefan lets his body drop to the ground, catching his breath as his eyes finally meets Amelia's.

"Fiance?" Is all he says, a questioning tone to his voice.

"What do you care?" She retorts, her voice cold "You gave up on him"

He scoffs "Says the one with their switch flipped"

She simply rolls her eyes, grabbing a piece of the broken table and throwing it at him, watching as it stakes him in the stomach. Walking over, she grabs hold of the makeshift stake, and twists it so he winces in pain.

"I didn't give up, Stefan" She began, looking at him blankly "I faced reality. Unlike you, I didn't set myself up a fake life, acting like I could ignore my problems. I faced them and found a solution. A solution that makes me a hell of lot happier, then pretending things could ever get better"

"This isn't you" He gasps out, ripping the stake out when she finally lets go.

"On the contrary, Stefan" She says, walking toward the front door to leave "This is me. This is exactly who i should of been for a long time. I just let some meaningless feelings get in the way, but not anymore"

With that, she walked out and slammed the door behind her. Quickly, Caroline rushed out behind her, and jammed a vervain syringe into her neck. Almost instantly, the girl passed out into the blonde's arms, out cold from the vervain.

******

 "Caroline?" Amelia coughed out, as she woke up groggily a while later, taking in her neck surroundings.

She was in a dorm room, she recognized it from her many visits to Whitmore. Getting up, she walked toward the door and opened it, only to get stuck as she tried to walk out of it. Growling, she hit her fists against the invisible barrier, but fails to get out of the room.

"You are just going to waste your strength" A voice says, and she rolls her eyes as she spots Alaric coming into view.

"Let me guess" She says, leaning in the door frame "This where you compel my humanity back on, because Caroline how much of a monster I am without it?"

To her surprise, he shook his head "No. You are going to turn your humanity back on, but I'm not going to compel you. You did it because you are grieving, and I know from experience how much that can suck. But, turning it off wasn't the answer"

"Oh, you spend too much time around Elena" She drawled bored.

"I'm going to make you realize, how much having no humanity sucks" He told her "Until you finally turn it back on because you want to, not because I compelled you to. I know you miss him, Amelia, we all do"

She looked him dead in the eye "You don't know anything" She spat, before walking over to the bed in the room, and sitting down on it "Try all you want, Ric. I'm not going back to how I was before"

Sighing, he closes the door and walks away, leaving Amelia staring blankly at the ceiling. If they wanted her emotions back on, they were going to have to work hard, cause she wasn't putting them back without a fight.


Sorry about the delay! No humanity Amelia is fun to write, but I wanted to make her perfect. Next chapter is going to be completely AU, as I have a lot planned for it. Prepare for some Damelia memories, that may make you cry, even if they don't make Amelia bat an eye. I know I'm gonna cry writing them.

Not long til Damon is back, and I can begin to restore the ship. Until then, I hope you all enjoyed, and I'll update again real soon.

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