THE TRIBRID [Daroline Baby]

8. FOUR LONG MONTHS LATER

THE TRIBRID

A/N: HELLO! I'M BACK TO UPDATING THIS STORY. I DON'T OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS EXCEPT MY OCS

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8. FOUR LONG MONTHS LATER

~FOUR MONTHS LATER~

It has been four months now. Four months since the other side disappeared. Four months since Damon and Bonnie have been gone. She was nearly one month pregnant when it happened. Now she is five months pregnant. Five long months. She is all alone. Of course she has her mom, when she's not working. Elena, not so much. Stefan left town with Katherine and Nadia hours after the incident. That day was the last time she saw them. She talked to Katherine most days but she didn't say much about Stefan.

They were supposed to have their loved ones back. That was the plan. She should have known by now that whatever they do, nothing goes according to plan. But she had hope. She had hope that this wasn't like the other times their plan went sideways. She felt stupid for having hope. Don't get me wrong, she's glad she has Tyler back, but something doesn't feel right.

Anyway summer is over and the blonde don't plan on going back go school. So she basically dropped out of Whitmore. She spends most of her summer going through books to figure out a way to bring back her best friend and baby daddy. She is not giving up. There is no way Damon and Bonnie are gone. She can feel that they are not gone, they are not completely gone, yet.

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~OUTSIDE THE BORDER OF MYSTIC FALLS~

"I dropped out of Whitmore. Why would I support their stupid football team?" Caroline walks past the sign into Mystic Falls, where her mom's patrol car is parked.
"It's the opening game of the season, Caroline. Time to come home." The brunette told her friend.
"I am home! I just signed the lease to my new apartment." The blonde told her.
"On the border of a town that doesn't want you. That's not home... That's sad." Elena remarked.
"You don't even like football." Caroline justified.
"No, but I like drinking in the parking lot beforehand." Elena told her friend.
"Caroline, you're coming." Tyler comes up behind Elena and starts talking into the phone.m
"Tyler, don't act like you have any ground to stand on. You skipped an entire year..." Caroline told him.
"And you hounded me for an entire year! So here I am... Now get your ass back here." Tyler told the blonde.

Luke is standing behind Tyler and he catches Elena's eye, pulling out the small pouch in his bag. Elena nonchalantly waves him off.

"Caroline, I'm picking you up at 6 p. m. sharp tomorrow. Okay? Bring your school spirit. Bye!" Elena hangs up the phone.

"Anyway...as I was saying, I haven't exactly found a spell that can undo an anti-magic border per se, but this book mentions travelers. Which isn't all that helpful, but at least it puts us a step in the right direction..." The blonde said to her mother.
"Sweetheart.." Liz called her daughter.
"Yeah?" Caroline responded.
"You should go with them tomorrow." Liz tells her daughter.
"No, we're going to go see a movie!" Caroline told her.
"We have spent the entire summer together." Liz tells her.
"Ahhh. You're sick of me..." Caroline sighed.
"Caroline, you just lost one of your best friends and the father of your child. It makes sense that you want to hold on to what's familiar, but Elena lost them too. She clearly misses you." Liz told her daughter.
"No... Elena has clearly taken up residency on planet denial; where football is more important than her boyfriend being swept away into oblivion. Do you know she has barely cried for him? I mean, she was a full-on wreck over Bonnie for months, but when you mention Damon, it's like nothing ever happened." Caroline told her.
"Caroline, Elena has experienced more grief than anyone I've ever met. You should cut her some slack." Liz's phone starts buzzing, interrupting their conversation.
"What? Did someone trample over Ms. Davis' flower bed again?" Caroline asked.
"Two kids were admitted to the hospital with suspicious wounds on their necks..." Liz replied.
"Vampire attacks? How? Vampires can't get into Mystic Falls." Caroline said.
"No, but they can lurk around the borders. I gotta cut lunch short... That's it. I gotta take care of this." Liz gets up to leave, forgetting to pack up her basket. "Listen, consider Elena's offer, okay? Mystic Falls isn't going anywhere."