The Reaper

Chapter 11: Everybody Lies

Caroline POV 

"Hey" I Said to Peter and Ned as I sat down as lunch. I heard some whispers and mentions of Jeremy's name so I started looking around saw people looking over and pointing. "Whats going on? Where's Jeremy he not back yet?" I asked the 2 bit they didn't answer just looking as confused as I was. But then I got the phone call. Frowning I answered the phone wondering if this and whatever people were whispering about were connected. 

"Hey Alaric everything okay?" I asked and saw Peter and Ned sit up a bit, they knew that mine and Jeremy's guardians were in our, well my, hometown and we told them what they were called. 

"No everything is not okay Caroline what the hell happened?" He shouted down the phone but like I was on speaker and I heard rustling like he was packing some clothes. 

"What do you mean?" I asked more confused and I just heard Alaric sweat under his breath, turns out he wasn't alone. 

"Well Barbie Jeremy has been arrested for the murder of 5 people and possible acts of terrorism" said Damon down the phone sounding pissed. "Not to mention that Elena has been turned into a vampire so all fine and dandy not like this day wasn't stressful enough" said Damon and I groaned. I heard more noise down the phone and motioned for Peter and Ned to follow me out the canteen. 

"Look Caroline I mentioned he was living with you and that you were close to the Parkers next door so they might ask you guys to testify on Jeremy's behalf like a character statement or whatever, just be aware Okay?" He said and I nodded my head before hanging up. Students lingered in the halls instead of going into the canteen and I turned to face Peter and Ned in shock. 

"What's going on Caroline?" Asked Ned nervously and just as I was about to answer a voice cut me off. 

"Miss. Forbes, Mr. Parker and Mr. Leeds we're going to have to ask you to come with us" Said a man in a suit holding an FBI badge. 

"What for?" Asked Ned in shock, cause as far as they know nothing has happened. 

"We need your statements on the recent behaviour of Jeremy Gilbert to use in court after his arrest this afternoon for the murder of 5 people" Said the agent and I looked at the boys and motioned for them to follow. "Thank you for agreeing to help our case against him" said the agent and I stopped in my tracks. 

"Woah woah woah hold up I'm not going to help you I'm going for Jeremy, I'm on Jeremy's side in this case, in any case" I Said before heading outside. 

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Jeremy POV 

"Natalia Romanova, it's been a while" I Said letting my thick Russian accent deep into my voice. "I think the last time I saw you was in Budapest, right?" I asked and the she just looked up and glared putting a thick file on the table. 

"This is a file of every crime you've committed that I know about, it has what training you have and I also added the missions you helped HYDRA with" she said and I looked at the thick folder. 

"What's most recent except this?" I asked and she lifted the cover and took out a piece of paper. 

"The assassination of a Polish scientist who was looking into the super solider serum" she read off and I just snorted. "You know I have a lot in here so even if you don't go down for this there is lot more you can go down for, your potentially facing the death penalty" she said and I nodded my head, not at her words but the look in her eye. Pure and utter hate. 

"Why do you hate me?" I asked and she furrowed her brows in shock and confusion. 

"You want to know why I hate you?" She asked and I just nodded my head leaning back, ready to hear her excuses. "Because you are a monster and that is coming from me and I've seen monsters, Reaper" she said in a low dangerous voice. 

"You think I wanted to be like this?" I asked in a near whisper. "I never had a taste of freedom I was born and raised in Red Room and you think I had any other choice?" I Said in a disbelieving tone. She had a childhood with parents where she was taught morals before she was taken by the HYDRA soldiers to be trained. I had beatings and days without food, I never had a childhood not really. "It was kill or be killed you know that and I didn't know anything else not until I failed a mission because I couldn't do it, take away what I never had from another child and that nearly cost me my life and when you left the sanity I had Romanoff it went out the window never to be found again" I spat out and she looked down at the table guiltily as I remembered the last conversation I had with her before she left. 

"You promised Natalia but you lied" I whispered and she fled the room. 

-FLASHBACK- 

I was put back into my cell as I was staring at the wall like I usually did waiting and listening. And then the door freaked open and my little 7 year old self flung myself at the red haired young women who visited nightly. 

"Hey I have a surprise, you wanna know what it is?" She asked bending down to reach my level. I nodded my head a happy smile lighting my face for the first time since her last visit. "I can get us out of here and we can go find a nice cottage in the countryside where no one will ever find us again, do you want that?" She asked and I nodded hugging the women who was practically my mother. "Tomorrow night I'll come get you and we'll go okay?" She asked and I nodded holding out my pinkie to her. 

"Promise?" I asked her and she smiled and connected her pinkie to mine. 

"Promise" She said and kissed my head before leaving saying she had to get somethings before we could leave. 

The next night I was sat waiting, awake all night until the guards came to get me to go for my daily beating. And when I was training I heard the teacher whispering angrily about how she left, she left without me. 

-PRESENT- 

"Jeremy?" Heard a voice ask and I looked up. "What have you gotten yourself into?" 

"I'm sorry Aunt May"