I Know You [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 6

“No,” I gasped, standing up and stumbling backwards with my hands covering my mouth.

“Vicki!” I heard Matt and Jeremy calling out her name as her body fell down on the floor with blood oozing out of her neck.

I could feel the air going out of my lungs when I realised what had happened. I had gotten Vicki killed. Everything had been going just fine until I had decided to open my big mouth and told Damon not to hurt Vicki. Then he had taken it as a personal challenge to do the complete opposite of it.

“What did you do to her?” Matt asked as he turned to Damon. He was clearly still in shock, while Jeremy had his hand on her cheek, tears falling down his own cheeks.

“You killed her you bastard!” Tyler exclaimed ready for a fight as always. It was pretty clear to me that things could get ugly really quickly right now so I decided to intervene.

Matt and Jeremy also looked ready for a fight, but before they had a chance to, I stepped in between all of them and Damon, “Stop it! It’s not his fault, it’s mine.”

I could feel Damon’s eyes on me as I broke down and confessed.

“Alright, game’s over,” Damon muttered as he suddenly stood in front of Tyler, Jeremey and Matt who looked like they were ready to kill him.

“Don’t….” I started to say but Damon stopped me.

“I’m not gonna kill them,” he huffed, rolling his eyes. He settled for compelling them all instead-every person in the Grill. He made them all think that Vicki had left town and told them to go back home and not come back to the Grill for at least an hour.

“So how is this your fault again?” Damon asked when we were the only two people left in the Grill.

“I made you do it,” I murmured, looking at the ground as I cleaned the blood off the floor.

“I thought this was exactly what you told me not to do,” Damon said, looking at me confused.

“Yeah, but I should’ve known that it was exactly what you would do,” I wiped the sweat off of my forehead with my arm as I stood up and felt slightly dizzy when I looked at the scene.

This was another thing that really surprised me. I had always thought that people over reacted a little bit, especially Elena and the other girls, when they saw a dead body with blood pooled around it or saw someone getting killed but I hadn’t been able to stop shivering ever since I had seen Damon kill Vicki.

It was a good thing, I tried to tell myself. Not the fact that Vicki was dead, but that she was a human when she had died. So this meant that unlike the show, where she dies a vampire and goes to the other side, she could finally find peace over here and go to heaven as a human.

That thought made me feel slightly better, but of course this feeling wasn’t going to last for long. Not with a dead body in our midst.

“Someone’s coming,” Damon suddenly said looking at the entrance of the Grill.

“Who is it?” I whispered but when I turned around to face him, “Damon?” He was gone and so was Vicki’s dead body. “Oh crap,” I muttered as I suddenly realised something. I ran out of the back door and called out to Damon but he was nowhere in sight.

I had wanted to tell Damon not to dump the body near the lake, where Caroline would happen to find it later on. He should either throw it inside the lake or burn it. Never mind though, I would tell Damon that when I would find him.

Sighing I came back to the front door, figuring out that I was going to have to clean up his mess for him. As I entered the Grill yet again, it was Caroline and Sherriff Forbes who had come at such a bad time.

“Hey,” I greeted them both, not believing that I was actually seeing them in real life.

“Hey where is everybody?” Caroline asked curiously.

“Wait you don’t know?” I asked looking quizzically from Caroline to her mom.

“Umm…no,” Caroline said, “About what?”

“About Vicki,” I said my eyes scanning the Grill and searching for any more signs of blood, or anything else for that matter.

“Yes what about her,” it was Sherriff Forbes who responded this time.

“She left town,” I told them in a matter-of-factly tone. After all that was exactly what everybody else in the Grill believed that they had seen.

“When did this happen?” the Sherriff asked, immediately alert.

“Just now, a few minutes ago,” I told her confidently.

“Did you see it happening?” she asked.

“No but a bunch of other people, Jeremy, Matt and Tyler, did,” I told her and I knew that this was wrong. I was supposed to be helping the police to find the killer and not the other way around but I was doing this for Stefan and Damon.

I knew that if anybody in the Founder’s Council got even the slightest hint of what they were dealing with, they would go out with a search party and that wouldn’t end well for both sides. Besides, Damon and Stefan were the good guys and I knew that eventually even Damon would do everything that he could to save this town from the bad guys.