Deja Vu | Stefan Salvatore

NINETY EIGHT

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// welcome to paradise
— ninety eight

DURING THE LAST FOUR months, Kate Gilbert was a vampire, and during those four months she hadn't had a single drop of blood in her system except for the one time Damon hunted down a bunny and made her drink out of it. He called it the Stefan Way.
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Kate remembered the night when she told Damon and Bonnie how she became a vampire, it was the night when they fully expected that they were alone together and got completely wasted on the eighth night.

Kate sat across from Damon and Bonnie, the fireplace gave the room a warm welcome, a couple of drinks laid out on the coffee table. The other side was boring, it's been eight days since they got there and already did they miss the chaos on the other side.

"Wait, so you and you snuck out in the middle of the night to prank Caroline which completely fail when you tripped on it."

Damon squints, looking sternly between the two woman. Kate chucked leaning against the couch. "Yeah, yeah, what do you think this scar is from." She tilted her head up to show the scar beneath her chin.

Bonnie clapped her hands, drunk already from the fourth shot. "That's when we had to ask Mrs. Gilbert to take Kate to the hospital, everyone in the house eventually woke up."

"Crazy, crazy." Damon mumbled shaking his head. "Anyways, it's been a week, we finally got adjusted to our new life because we're dead and we can't do anything about it." Kate hummed. "Beastie, care to explain your vampire transformation, which no one really knows how you turned."

Kate nodded, stroking the necklace around her neck. "Well, it all kind of started after Jeremy died in the tomb when Katherine forced him on Silas. Elena wasn't herself because she turned it off."

"My bad." Damon cocked his head.

"Yeah, uh, Stefan had the idea that I should start drinking his blood with my drinks, and I agreed." Kate spoke, reading the expression of their faces.

Bonnie furrowed. "Why? Was he scared of something? That's something could happen?"

"Yes to both. I knew the risk I was taking when I decided to drink his blood, I knew that one day if I died I would come back again but as a vampire and I was okay with that. We just never thought it would come to use until later in life."

Kate twirled the necklace between her fingers. "This necklace and I think you remember it, Bonnie."

"I do, actually. Stefan approached me years ago about wanting the necklace to be turned into a daylight ring— well, necklace, though when he suggested the necklace I thought he was crazy." Bonnie says chuckling lightly.

"So he had everything prepared from the start." Damon spoke softly, his damn brother was always one step ahead. Kate nodded.

"Yeah, I wore it since then, no one really suspected that it was a daylight necklace."Kate explained further on. "I lost the ring during the explosion and thank him everyday for making a backup."