"On a highway to hell."

Caroline's P.O.V

Caroline had thought that maybe things would have changed after that night with Dean at the ball, but for some reason they were even worse.

Ever since that night Dean had been ignoring Caroline as much as he could. He didn't pickup her calls or reply to her texts, and he left the room every time she walked in.

Caroline was pissed off, she didn't deserve to be treated this way, she had really let her guard down that day, so maybe this was her fault for letting Dean again. After all a person can't hurt you unless you allow them too.

Now Caroline was sitting at a cafe and In front of her was another challenge she had to win. Her daughter.

Alison sat quietly reading her menu, they hadn't really talked or bonded much since the night care found out who she really was and she wanted to change that.

She knew that there was chance Alison would hate her forever, heck Caroline had hated herself for as long as she could remember so how could she expect different from other people.

Caroline: "so Ali, tell me about Beacon hills, what was it like?"

Alison: "it's Alison, not Ali."

Caroline: "right sorry, I just thought since dea:-"

Alison: "well you're not Dean."

Caroline: "right I'm sorry, Alison."

Caroline could feel herself choke up a little bit, second hand embarrassment was a different level of sad.

She tried to continue the conversation she could see Alison had no interest in....

Caroline: "so? Tell me."

Alison: "it was alright, scot my boyfriend was a
werewolf, my best friend Lydia was a banshee and then there was stiles, who was....well just human but a hell of a human."

Caroline: "wow that's....wow."

Alison: "ya, turns out I landed right in the middle of the kind of life you tried to keep me away from."

Caroline again almost choked on the water, usually when someone said something snarky like this she would reply with an even snakier comeback, but this was different. This was her daughter, she was the kid she thought she would never see again.

She couldn't do it, for the first time in her life Caroline didn't know what to do, she didn't have a bitchy reply, she didn't have a sappy apology. All she had was crushing guilt inside of her which she wish she could bundle up in a sack and throw at the bottom of the ocean and never feel again. Because after all who likes being able to feels things.

All of a sudden Caroline felt this shiver go down her spine...she froze in motion, she knew exactly what this was and she didn't like it.

Alison: "are you okay?"

Caroline: "I'm fine, I just need to use the bathroom."

Caroline got up and ran inside, she looked around before entering the bathroom and saw a guy nearby with a bleeding arm.

All Caroline could think about in that moment was that guy, she could hear his heart beating and blood pumping, she could smell his fear and his fresh blood, and she could see the blood dripping onto the floor.

Caroline felt herself changing, she felt the veins in her eyes pop up and she ran inside the bathroom.

She couldn't control it, Caroline wasn't in the right state of mind right now and it was all because of dean. Usually Caroline could control her urges, she could keep herself in check.

But after everything that had happened in the last couple of weeks, Caroline's mental state was absolute shit to say the least, so she didn't know if she could actually control it.

She was trying but all she could think about was how hungry she was, she could only picture herself ripping into that guys neck and drinking every last drop of his blood and how amazing it would feel.

Caroline needed to feel amazing right now, maybe she should do it...after all playing by the rules and being a good little girl hadn't gotten her anywhere till now, so why not fuck it and just do it.

As thoughts raised through her head, Alison walked in through the door.

Alison: "Caroline are you okay?"

Caroline: "no, you need to go, get away from me."

She didn't want to hurt Alison, but right at this moment she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't.

Alison: "what?! No. I'm not leaving you okay." "You're gonna be fine, just fight through it."

Caroline had her head hung down and both her hands on top of the sink, without looking at Alison, in a low voice Caroline said to her;

Caroline: "pls, you need to go."

Alison: "caro:-"

Caroline turned around in full fledged anger, her eyes blood shot red and her veins popping out and her fangs in full vamp mode.

Caroline: "I SAID GO!!!"

This scared Alison and she ran out as fast as she could.

While Caroline fell to the floor sobbing.

This was all his fault.

This was all Dean's fault

and he was gonna pay.

Alison's P.O.V

Alison ran out of the cafe as fast as she could, as much as she hated to admit it she was scared.

She had been in contact with vampires before but this felt different, probably because it was a little more personal to her.

She didn't want to think about it right now, she didn't want to think about Caroline right now, maybe it was a mistake giving her a second chance.

Maybe it was a mistake coming to mystic falls.

Alison walked into the mystic grill and upto the bar

Alison: "hey, can I get a glass of bourbon."

Bartender: "you got some ID kid?"

Alison: "I forgot it at home."

Bartender: "right sure, sorry but no
ID, no drink."

Alison: "look man I've had a really long day so if you could just:-"

Bartender: "look kid go get yourself a caprison okay."

Before Alison could protest a voice spoke up from behind her.

Stefan: "why don't you just give the lady what she wants."

Stefan looked into the eyes of the bartender, compelling him and Ofcourse the bartender obliged and handed Alison her drink.

Alison: "thanks."

Stefan: "don't mention it."

Stefan sat down besides Alison.

Stefan: "so wanna tell me about your long day?"

Alison: "you don't really care so why should I."

Stefan: "because even though I don't care, it will help you."

Alison: "I'm good thanks, besides why aren't you hanging out with your own friends"

Stefan: "they're all too annoying, hellbent on saving me and getting me to turn my humanity back on."

Alison: "they're trying to help, you should be glad you have a family and friends who give a crap about what happens to you."

Stefan: "no they don't care about me, they care about that fact that I might hurt other people."

Alison: "that is caring about you Stefan, because eventually the old you will come back, it might not be today or tomorrow or even for a hundred years, but you will come back and when you do the guilt of the things you did, they will kill you and your friends don't wanna see you go through that."

Stefan: "see that's where you're wrong, I'm not coming back, not today, not tomorrow and not even a century from now."

Alison: "how can you be so sure?"

Stefan: "because it's like I told you the other night, I like not caring, not being burdened with emotions and apart from that I have no reason to turn my humanity back on, because if I do all I feel is pain and there's no way I'm doing that to myself."

Alison took a gulp of her drink and thought to herself, maybe Stefan was right.

Having empathy and humanity hadn't gotten her anywhere, all it had gotten her was pain and suffering so maybe it wasn't so bad to have the ability to just turn it all off .

Maybe becoming a vampire wasn't so bad after all.

Dean's P.O.V

Dean sat in a corner drinking like he usually did, while Sam spoke to him, trying to convince him to be selfish like always.

Sam: "Dean we don't have much time left, we need to figure out a way out of this, we should get out of here."

Dean: "and what Sammy just leave everyone in this town to die? Leave Alison and Caroline?"

Sam: "this town is already doomed Dean and let's take Alison and Caroline with us...let's tell them the truth."

Dean: "what?! No are you out of your mind we're doing none of that."

Sam: "dean-:"

Dean: " that's enough Sammy, we already tried to find a way remember and all we did was hit dead ends...now we have a real job to do and we're gonna do it. End of discussion."

Dean used his big brother voice and could see clearly on Sam's face he didn't like it, he could see his little brother pleading with only his expressions for Dean to try and put himself first for once.

But Dean couldn't do that, not with Alison and Caroline back in the picture.

Sam stormed out of the building to cool off and Dean let him go because he needed some alone time himself.

He felt pretty guilty because he had been doing his best to ignore Caroline since the ball. It was taking every ounce of strength dean had in him to do this.

He didn't want to, infact all he wanted right now was Caroline, but he couldn't do that to her, not again specially knowing what was in his future he couldn't let her get close to him again.

He couldn't bear the thought of destroying her again.

As Dean got up to get another beer from the fridge, he heard rustling coming from outside his window. He immediately pulled out his gun and pointed it at the window.

As he made his way closer to the window, his door flew open behind him and he spun around, at he door he saw Caroline in full vamp mode.

Before he had a chance to react she vamp sped towards him and threw him into the wall.

Caroline: "you did this, this is all your fault."

Dean: "Caroline you need to calm down."

Caroline: "I'm done being calm."

Caroline once again sped towards dean but this time he managed to dodge her and punched her face.

Dean: "care pls, I don't wanna hurt you."

Caroline: "fuck you Dean."

She threw her own punch and it made Dean bleed, Dean grabbed a chair and broke of the wooden leg to defend himself.

Caroline charged at him in full force and he proceeded to stab Caroline in the leg with the stake, she screamed in pain, before she had a chance to fight back, Dean got Caroline in a headlock. She tried to fight it and started kicking and hitting him.

Dean: "hey calm down! Calm down." "You're done. You're done."

After some struggle Caroline eventually just dropped to the floor still in Dean's arms and started sobbing.

Caroline: "why, why would you do this to me?"

Dean: "I'm sorry Caroline."

Caroline: "I almost hurt Alison because of you."

After this statement Caroline's anger came back and she jumped out of Deans arms.

Dean: "care I'm sorry, I just didn't want you to get close to me again, I'm sorry but I can't love you."

Caroline: "why the hell not?"

Dean: "because I'm gonna be dead soon."

The whole room went silent and after a minute a small voice spoke up again.

Caroline: "what?"

Dean: "about a year ago Sam died and I mean died died. To bring him back I made a deal with a demon, my life for his, the demon gave me a year to live after which I'm gonna go to hell, and my year is almost up."

Caroline: "there's gotta be a way to reverse it, break the deal."

Dean: "there isn't, we have been searching for the past year."

Caroline: "no dean, no."

Dean: "I'm sorry Caroline."

Caroline just walked up to Dean and hugged him.

She was gonna lose him again.

And this time he wouldn't come back.

No one's P.O.V

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it's wrong, no matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has already gotten there first and is waiting for it."