The Gilbert Secret

Chapter 15

Damon is on the phone to Caroline while she is following the compass seeing where this mystery vampire is when she suddenly finds an abandoned Warehouse. Damons tilts his head as to say come on and I'm chasing after him. Suddenly we both appear behind Caroline and she jumps slightly startled. "You can give me that." Caroline hands the compass over to damon and I smile to her thanking her "So, why did you need me to do this?" "Because we interfere with the signal." "Can I go now? This has blown, like, half of my day." "You do that" Damon turns to her and compels her "Get in your car. Go home. Forget I asked you to do this." Caroline smiles at both of us "Ok. Bye now." "Bye, thank you Care" I smile at her as she walks away "Bye."

Damon turns to face the entrance of the warehouse. He walks up the steps and opens the door, entering the warehouse. Damon looks around as he walks deeper into the warehouse. Suddenly, Logan Fell shoots Damon multiple times. Damon groans in pain and falls on his knees to the floor. I rush over just to be shot in the back and pinned down by a foot. "I have tons of these wood bullets, so nothing funky." Logan, who I'm guessing is the new vampire since I killed him, walks around us observing both of us.

Damon groans in pain trying to fish out the bullet "You don't wanna do this, trust me." Logan shoots Damon in the leg causing him to scream out in pain "That's what you get." "For what?" Logan bends down in front of both of us and looks into Damons eyes "You made me like this." "I killed you. I didn't turn you." I Snap at him causing him to let off another built into my shoulder blade, hissing out in pain as Damon Pries out a bullet from his chest before creeping over to check me out.

Looking up Logan has a bullet between his fingers rolling it around focusing on it. "See I know what you and your brother are. I've been watching the two of you. I knew you'd show up here and I'm glad you did, because I have some questions." Damon rips out another bullet and digs into me finding the onein my shoudler "Me first. Who turned you?" Logan Crouches down putting his face right infront of mine "How should I know? Last thing I remember is, I'm about to stake your brother and then you grabbed me. That's it! Until I wake up in the ground behind a used car dealership on highway 4. Somebody buried me." "It Happens" Damons rips a bullet out of his leg "Ow" Logan points his gun at me "You bit me." Damon looks down at the bullet he just pulled out "Damn it." "It had to be you." Logan growls in my face.

"You have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. I didn't do that. Some other vampire found you, gave you, their blood." Damons groans and falls back onto the floor beside me "Who?" "That's what I wanna know." "Dude, it's not like the welcome wagon was waiting with a bundt cake and a handbook. It's been a learn as you go process. You know, one minute, I'm a small town on the rise news guy and next thing I know, I can't get into my house, because my foot won't go through the door." I sit up and pry out my last Bullet before turning to Damon "You have to be invited in" "I know. I live alone." Letting a laugh leave my lips "Ah" Damon Chuckles" "that sucks" "So now, I am at the Ramada, watching pay per view all day, eating everything in sight, including housekeeping." "It could be worse." "All I can think about is blood and killing people. I can't stop killing people. I keep killing" Logan Starts laughing like a maniac "and I like it. I'm conflicted." "Welcome to the club."

Logan stands up continuing to look down at us "Wait a minute. Cops only found one body." Logan shrugs "I left one. I was tired. But I've been hiding the rest of bodies. They're right back there." He points behind him with his gun to a pile of bodies "You're kidding." "They're just piling up!" "Why am I so overly emotional? All I can think about is my ex-girlfriend. I wanna be with her and bite her and stuff." "Well, you probably love her. Anything you felt before will be magnified now. You're gonna have to learn how to control that." "What about walking in the sun? I'm a morning person. You can walk in the sun which, by the way, is pretty cool." We both look at each other and down at our hands before I raise my hand and show my ring. "The council will never suspect you. That's not in the journals." "The journals?"

Damon looks up curious now. "Yeah, the founding fathers, they passed down journals to their kids. Come on man, you gotta tell me. How can you walk around in the sun?" "Who turned you?" "How do you walk in the sun?" "Who turned you" "You know, I've been really nice so far, but I will kill you both." Logan stands up again and points the gun at Damon "Then you'll never know" We both stand up I move behind him trapping him "You're not answering my question." "You First!" Logan Screams "It seems we're at a bit of an impasse then, doesn't it?" "I have things to do, people to kill. Guess I'll be needing a little head start." Logan shoots us a couple of times before rushing off into the night.

Back at the boarding house Damon calls Stefan to give him a heads up, turns out Logan is at the school with him. Changing my clothes so I don't look like I've been shot I make my way to the school to stop Logan. Damon rediverts me to go find Caroline. Turns our Logan has kidnapped her to get back at the Sherif. Jogging over to a car Damon grabs the phone hearing the Sheriffs voice calling for an answer. "Sheriff, yeah, it's Damon." "Where is Caroline?" She pleads through the phone. Stefan grabs Caroline and Sprints away from the area taking her home likely. "She's ok. I'm on Elm Street." Damon hangs up the phone and I make my way to the boot of the car handing him a tire iron

"Gonna try this one more time." Damon lifts the tire iron above his head threatening to swing "Who turned you?" "I told you I don't know." Damon looks up at the tire iron examining it and I speak up "That tire iron there could take your head clean off." Damon smirks at me as he leans it up like hes getting ready to hit a baseball "Is that your final answer" I quiz him. "How can you side with them?" He turns to me and look sback up at Damon "I don't side with anyone. You pissed me off. I want you dead. Who turned you?" "I don't know!" he scream at Damon. I Let a little laugh out of my mouth "Oh, well. You're screwed." I say smiling at him and looking up to Damon ready to watch it happen. Damon starts to wind up and right before he makes contact Logan breaks "Wait, wait! I do know." "You're lying." Damon squints his eyes at him trying to judge if he is "You think you're the only one who wants to get in that tomb underneath the old church?" Damon looks up at me and lowers the tire iron as sirens are heard in the background.

"If you're lying to us, I will end you all over again." I growl at Logan, after seeing how heartbroken Damon was at losing his chance to get Katerine back id do anything to help him... Almost. "I am not lying. There is another way to break the spell. We can help you. Meet me at the old church." The Sirens are getting closer, and I look to Damon "Take us down. Make it look real. Make it look real!" He demands at Logan. As the police cars are close enough to view us Logan Throws Damon into a car and I get thrown at one of the police cars as they stop. Sheriff Forbes jump's out of her car rushing over to me and then turns to Damon "Where is she?" "She's ok. My brother's taken her home. I'm sorry, Sheriff. I just wasn't strong enough." "Why is Aurora here?" "She figured it out, wanted to come help she came to me asking for help training to protect herself, she's been reading the Journals" she looks to me giving me a small smile whilst helping me stand up "Thank you" I smile back accepting the help up.

Making my way with Damon to the old church grounds we go and take a seat and wait for Logan "Thank you Aurora, it means a lot with you not judging with this and even just being here for me" I smile at him nodding "It's what friends do" "Friends hmm, I like that" I lean my head on him while we continue to wait. Damons phone rings answering it without looking he speaks into it "Hello" "I just wanted to say thank you. I don't know how you did it." Did what? What did he do I look at his face and it seems Damon isn't sure what Sheriff Forbes is talking about too. "Um, not following." he looks down making eye contact with a puzzled look on his face. "We found Logan's body up by the old Fell warehouse. He has been disposed of. He was hoarding victims, innocent victims." my face drops, not again. "What?" "This town owes you so much. So, do I." She hangs up and Damon just drops his phone looking down broken all over again.