Teardrops || Caroline Forbes

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"Daddy. It's dusty down here", Lizzy chatted as she and her sister followed Alaric down the tunnels.

"Well", Alaric began. He turned to face the two and knelt down by them both, "You're not really supposed to be here anyway but we aren't gonna tell mummy that are we?"

The twins looked at eachother and giggled.

"Mummy will find out"

Rick stood up and looked down the dimly lit tunnel. He sighed when he saw the man's figure at the end, just round the corner.

"Damon...", he whispered knowing his friend would hear.

"Hi Rick", Damon said, walking into the light and giving his friend a wave. He looked down to the twins, "Hello girls"

Josie giggled.

Another figured stepped round the corner.

"Hey guys", Stefan said, kneeling down and opening his arms wide.

"Uncle Stefan!", the twins shouted as they ran towards his arms.

Alaric smiled at his daughters, then looked up at Damon who had a serious look on his face. Whenever he would be with the twins at work and the Salvatore brothers would show up it would mean they wanted something. Stefan would always take the girls out somewhere and find Caroline and Rick and Damon would be searching the tunnels and caves of the Armory for hours on end.

"How about", Stefan began as Lizzy and Josie pushed off him, "we go get ice cream and find mummy?"

"Yeah!", the twins squealed in excitement. They both looked at Rick who cast his eyes down towards them.

Rick smiled and watched as Stefan took hold of their hands and walked out towards the door. He stopped next to his older brother.

"Try and find what we need Damon"

The older Salvatore smiled smugly towards his brother and looked down at the twins.

"Bye", he waved, "have fun with Uncle Stefan"

"Whats going on? What are you two up to?", Rick asked as Damon strode past him.

"Looking for something. Need your...", Damon out a finger to his friends chest and pushed gently, "...help clever clogs"

Rick sighed.

"Maybe you could tell me", he replied.

Damon walked over to a load of old crates and started rumaging around.

"Stefan had a dream", he turned to Alaric and pulled as face, "and with Stefan being the hero of every story we apparently need to listen to him"

"Did Elena put those words in your mouth?", Rick asked.

"Elena put those words in my mouth", Damon rolled his eyes, "If it where up to me, I'd ignore the bloody dream"

Rick began rumaging in another set of crates.

"What was this dream about?"

"Stefan woke up, walked over to a table and there was this...gun"

"Gun?", Rick stopped and looked over at Damon.

"Yes, Rick. A gun"

The man placed some papers down on a nearby crate.

"If you want me to help you, fine, but loose the attitude", Rick said in an annoying manner.

Damon smirked.

"So...Stefan saw this gun...then what?"

The vampire leant up against some crates and looked around the room. He then walked over to an old looking drawer and began opening the draws and searching the each and every space.