Always and forever Logs

Never Tear us Apart - 6

Joel felt the fangs in his throat suck the blood out. The fatigue of losing blood overwehlmed him. He could hear in a distant haze Elena shouting and then suddenly he felt the release of the fangs. He slumped on the floor and he could see Elena in a dim light putting a cloth on his throat.

"You'll be fine"-Elena whispered-"Caroline!!!"

He looked at Elena somewhat helplessly, feeling this was the end-

"Lov..."

Then a blond woman put her wrist on his mouth and vampiric  blood flood into his mouth.  The blood acted like adrenalin shot. He looked at Elena and Caroline still taken aback by the whole experience as the rush of healing took over.

"Don't compel him!"- Elena said to Caroline. 

"Right. Need to get Bonnie. You need to put a Damon repellent spell on the house."- Caroline said and then turned to Joel- "Hi. I am Caroline. We spoke on the phone."

Joel now touched the place where the bite was. It was healed. His blood was everywhere though. He got up now and took the glass of water Caroline brought over  to him.

"What the hell just happened?!"- he then muttered after he took a sip of the water.

"Huh..."- Elena said-"there is no other way of saying this but...Damon is a vampire and so is Caroline. I am sorry that you had to go through this. I... this is one reason why I just left and...yeah... welcome to my very messy life that involves witches, vampires and werewolves!"

Joel was a physician. A practical man. He had seen people being shot, terrible open fractures he operated on. Nevertheless, this was mind-blowing. And he felt something shifted  in him and although what Elena had uttered seemed to be far-fetched for someone else, for him it didn't seem crazy at all for some inexplicable reason.

"Can I...ahm...wash myself?"- he then asked seeing the bllod on him. Elena directed him to the bathroom.

Caroline could see that Elena tried to manage the situation as best as she could. But this was not easy on her no matter how many times she had done it. 

"If you hadn't showes up... he would have...!"-Elena's eyes watered.

"So gonna kill Damon!!"-Caroline said-"Why is he here?" 

"Like you don't know Damon?! Does he have to have a reason for doing what he does?! This is exactly why didn't want to go back"-Elena said looking at the smashed up kitchen.

"Sorry about the kitchen. I 'll clean up. Elena, maybe it is for the best to compel him?!"- Caroline suggested again. 

Bonnie walked into the kitchen from the back door.

"Some Mystic Fall welcome he got!"- Bonnie said to Elena.

Joel now emerged from the bathroom and greeted Bonnie.

Bonnie smiled a little looking at Joel as if she saw someone she knew so well.

"I am Bonnie- hi. Sorry about all this."

"I guess you are the witch friend?!"-Joel said.

"That's me."-Bonnie confirmed.

Joel turned to Elena-"Well,  made a joke about your ex being a werewolf...but I guess, he is actually  a vampire?! But that is not what is twisted here, nor that you healed me by feeding me blood, which I guess has great healing power..the twisted thing is that I don't feel it's twisted!"

They all looked at him amazed that he wasn't freaking out and marching out of the door.

"Why did he call me a doppelganger?!"-Joel wanted to know.