When the clock strikes 12 [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 5

Jeremy nudged Tyler as they came across a huge house right in the middle of nowhere.

“Hey man look at this,” Jeremy said pointing to the house and chuckled, “Is this creepy or what?”

Tyler shrugged as his eyes fell on the legs popping out from underneath the house, “Hey check that out.” He had an amused smile on his face as he went closer to the house.

“Dude what are you doing?” Jeremy asked him, quickly looking around.

“Hey do you think this dead woman will mind much if I take her shoes?” Tyler asked as he slipped the ruby red high heels off of her feet.

“What the-” Jeremy started to say just as a bunch of dwarves gathered around them and lifted them both up, carrying them on their shoulders.

“Hey, get off me,” Tyler said as he struggled, angrily.

“Why the hell do you want those heels?” Jeremy asked him, confused, “Last I checked, you still loved football over beauty pageants.”

“I thought that these would be a nice gift for Caroline,” Tyler shrugged, “I know that she likes these kind of things.”

Just then, the dwarves set them down in front of a dangerously strong fire. Jeremy and Tyler exchanged a look, both thinking that they were going be barbequed nice and crispy in this fire.

“So, you wanna run before they roast us like marshmallows?” Tyler whispered to Jeremy, who nodded his head slightly and as they both turned around to go run.

“Not so fast!” A voice said from deep inside the woods and out came the creature, who had spoken to the Queen just a few minutes earlier.

“Look man, we’re sorry for taking your heels,” Jeremy said, putting his hands up in a peaceful gesture.

“Yeah, here you go,” Tyler quickly dropped the heels in front of the creature, “We don’t want any trouble, man.”

The creature’s lips stretched out to show its teeth in a wide smile that made the vampire hunter and the hybrid shudder. The creature tilted its head, curiously, taking genuine interest in these peculiar humans.

“I do not want these,” it said pointing to the shoes, “I want you.”

As it pointed at them both, Jeremy and Tyler swallowed the lump in their throats.

“The Queen wishes to sacrifice you,” the creature grinned satisfactorily at their horrified expressions. Yes, the Queen would be very happy indeed.

What the creature hadn’t expected though was for both these humans to fight back. They were both strong enough to wipe out the army of seven-well trained dwarves in under 60 seconds and the creature felt slightly nervous when it was the only one left standing against them.

 It quickly escaped, disappearing through the dense forest behind it, leaving both Tyler and Jeremy with a smug smile on their faces. Quickly retrieving the shoes he planned to give Caroline, Tyler caught up with Jeremy as they both headed towards the yellow coloured path some distance away from them.

“Hey Caroline,” Caroline heard a familiar voice call out to her and felt her heart flutter, “I got you something.”

“Tyler!” Caroline exclaimed as she ran towards him and even with her running towards him in super speed, Tyler caught her pretty easily and wrapped her into a tight hug. “Oh my gosh! Are these cute red heels for me?”

“Yeah, I got them for you,” Tyler said proudly just as Caroline kissed him.

“Oh sure,” Jeremy shrugged, teasingly, “He stole them off of a dead witch.”

“Ew,” Caroline said, whacking Tyler with one of the heels, “But they are really cute.”

“Ow,” Tyler rubbed the back of his head and glared at Jeremy, “Thanks for telling her that,” he muttered sarcastically.

“Anytime bro,” Jeremy replied with a grin.

“Well I’m sorry for interrupting your lovely romantic little get together or whatever, but I’m not letting Blondie here wear those heels just so that she can break them. In fact I’m not letting her go anywhere near our ticket back home,” Damon said, snatching the heels and holding them tightly against his chest.

“First off all, Damon, I’m not going to break those damn heels and second of all, what do you mean by ‘our ticket back home’?” Caroline asked, not taking her eyes off of her heels. Those gorgeous heels were hers and she was going to get them back from him one way or another so distraction seemed to be the best way to go for now.

But Damon seemed to know exactly what she was thinking which was why he put a lot of distance between himself and Caroline and not so much of it between himself and those red heels before he replied.

“Didn’t you hear a word of what Judge-y over here said just now? She’s Dorothy, you’re a brainless and scary looking scarecrow, Stefan’s a scaredy-cat and I’m a heartless but good-looking machine,” Damon explained. He looked over his shoulder at a tired looking Stefan and Bonnie for approval and they nodded their heads weakly.

Just then, Jeremy walked over to Bonnie and hugged her, asking her if she was alright-yes she was fine, thanks for asking and she had missed him too-before launching into the story of what had happened to him and Tyler after the storm and listening quietly as Bonnie did the same. But they didn’t notice the creature following them and keeping a very careful eye on the lot.