The carnival was underway when Elena heard a squealed "Elena!" before she was pulled into a hug by Caroline.

"Oh my God, Caroline!" Elena laughed as she hugged Caroline back. "I'm so happy you're back. I have missed you so, so much."

"I have missed you too!" Caroline pulled back with a bright smile.

"Thank you so much Damon." Elena walked over to Damon who was standing a few paces behind Caroline and hugged him.

"Don't mention it." Damon hugged back, subtly breathing in her scent.

"I never get any love." Stefan pouted with laughter in his eyes.

"Poor, poor Steffy." Elena walked over and patted him on the head, then she linked her arm with Carolines. "Come on, let's go and find Jeremy."

Together the four of them wandered around looking for one Mr. Jeremy Gilbert, all the while laughing and having fun.

"Bonnie is off with this guy, Carter I think, and fixing the karaoke speaker." Elena told Caroline. "And he was definitely flirting with her."

"Go Bonnie!" Caroline giggled.

"Caroline!" Jeremy walked up to them holding a bag of popcorn.

"Hey Jeremy." Caroline smiled.

"Hold this." Jeremy shoved the popcorn bag into Stefans hands so he could pull Caroline into a hug. "I'm so glad that you are okay."

"Thank you." Caroline looked a little shocked at the hug but happily hugged back.

"I've missed my blond sister." Jeremy murmured.

"I've missed you to, little brother." Caroline smiled brightly enough to light up the evening with tears of happiness in her eyes.

After a while the group arrived at the arm-wrestling booth to see Tyler being challenged by several times and winning them all.

"He's got strength." Damon hummed as they kept watching.

"He's a triple letter varsity athlete, of course he has strength." Stefan chuckled.

"I bet I can beat you." Mason arrived with a smirk.

"You go Tyler!" Elena called out as Tyler and Mason arm-wrestled.

"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked with a chuckle.

"Cheering on a class mate." Elena smiled.

"You do know he wants to get into your pants, right?" Caroline hummed as she looked between Elena and Tyler.

"What?!" Jeremy started to glare at Tyler.

"No, he doesn't." Elena laughed.

"I heard him talking to Matt about it once." Caroline informed them. "He told Matt that he'd like to, and I'm quoting here, 'Make Elena scream in pleasure as I pound her against a wall'."

"I'm going to break his face." Jeremy growled darkly with Damon and Stefan nodding along.

"It could just be some male macho bullshit though." Caroline shrugged.

"Okay, he's the champ." Tyler stepped back from the table. "Who wants to go next?"

"Stefan wants to try." Damon called out with a smirk aimed at Stefan.

"I'll get you back for this." Stefan hissed at Damon as he walked towards Mason and the table.

"Get him Stef!" Damon encouraged.

"You can do it Stefan!" Elena and Caroline cheered.

"Ten on my uncle." Tyler smirked as he came over to them.

"Stefan's going to win." Caroline smirked and took the bet.

Elena wanted to stop her but what was she supposed to say, 'Don't take the bet, Mason is a werewolf'? That would go over well.

As Mason beat Stefan Caroline huffed and gave Tyler the money. Tyler smirked as he accepted.

"Nice doing busines with you." Tyler chuckled and walked back over to his uncle.

"Did you put in any effort at all?" Damon asked Stefan as he came over.

"I did, actually." Stefan looked a little weirded out.

"Is he...?" Damon asked as they walked away.

"No, it wasn't that sort of strength but it was definitely not human." Stefan told them.

"That family is not completely human but what are they?" Damon murmured in thought.

"Maybe they're ninja turtles." Stefan chuckled.

"Zombies." Jeremy piped up.

"Wendigos." Elena giggled.

"Elves." Caroline joined in.

"Werewolves." Elena, Caroline, Jeremy and Stefan chorused.

"Seriously you four?" Damon asked with a laugh. Then he got a thoughtful smirk on his face and walked over to one of the workers of the carnival. "Hey you!"

"I have a name, it's Mark." The man sneered. If Elena remembered correctly it was supposed to be Carter but he seemed to still be somewhere with Bonnie.

"Yeah, I don't care." Damon grabbed him by the shoulders and compelled him. "You're going to pick a fight with a kid named Tyler Lockwood."

"Well, that's one way to do it." Jeremy chuckled.

"I knew I liked you for a reason, baby Gilbert." Damon smirked, then he turned back to the man. "Get him mad, don't back down no matter what he does, okay?"

"I won't back down." The man repeated.

"Good man, off you go." Damon patted him on the back as the man left.

"You three have fun with that." Caroline smiled at the guys. "But me and Elena need to gossip for a while."

"See ya later, ma dudes." Elena called out as Caroline led her away by the arm.

"I'm going to break up with Matt." Caroline blurted out when they had walked for a while.

"Okay." Elena squeezed Carolines arm in comfort.

"And I think I might decide not to date for a while, you know?" Caroline mumbled.

"Caroline, as long as you're happy I'll support you and be happy for you." Elena informed her seriously.

"And if I decided to go on a killing spree?" Caroline asked.

"Then I would ask if you wanted company or help getting rid of the bodies." Elena vowed to her best friend.

"I adore you." Caroline beamed at Elena.

The walked around the carnival, looking at everything but not participating in the games.

Caroline froze suddenly and started sniffing the air, her eyes turning dark blood red with veins under them. She finally focused on the man Damon had compelled earlier who is whipping his bloody nose.

"I'm sorry." Caroline told him after she sped over to him.

"What?" The man asked confused then he gasped in pain as Caroline rushed behind him and tore into his neck.

"Caroline?" Elena walked up to her as she called her name gently.

"Oh shit!" Caroline exclaimed as she came back to herself and started to cry. "I was supposed to have more control than this! But I forgot to eat before we left for the carnival, I was just so excited."

"It will be okay, Care." Elena walked closer to pull Caroline into a hug but Caroline quickly backed away.

"I don't want to hurt you!" Caroline said horrified.

"You won't." Elena declared with absolute certainty and managed to pull a sniffling Caroline into a hug, just as Damon, Stefan and Jeremy arrived.

"Are you alright, Caroline." Stefan asked gently.

"I didn't mean to kill him." Caroline wept softly.

"Hey, it's okay, we are not mad or judging you." Stefan murmured as he looked Caroline in the eyes. "We all slip up. And some of us, like Damon, kill just because they can, and we still don't judge or get mad at him, okay?"

"Okay." Caroline nodded, feeling a bit better.

"You look pretty bad ass right now." Jeremy smirked as he looked at the blood around Carolines face and on her clothes.

"You are so weird." Caroline gave a wet laugh.

"But I made you laugh." Jeremy smiled proudly.

"Stefan, why don't you and Jeremy take Caroline home and I'll help Damon deal with the body." Elena offered.

"Sounds like a plan." Stefan smiled and left with Caroline and Jeremy.

"So... Where are we dumping the body?" Elena asked Damon after a few minutes.

"We'll just bury it in the woods, I guess." Damon shrugged.

"Okay, so we'll dig a deep hole and put the body in and then cover the body with around two feet of soil and dirt and then you'll just have to kill a deer or something and we'll put that in the hole and cover the grave completely." Elena thought out loud. "That way if someone is looking around with cadaver dogs they'll just think the dog marked the grave for the deer and ignore it."

"You are an evil and diabolical young woman." Damon laughed.

"Oh my god." Both Damon and Elena turned to see Bonnie standing there, looking horrified at the dead body.

"Bonnie..." Elena started but was ignored as Bonnie turned towards Damon.

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt." Bonnie glared at Damon hatefully.

"I didn't do this." Damon told her while glaring back.

"Bonnie, it wasn't him." Elena said loudly.

"Everything that has happened is his fault, Elena." Bonnie declared and started a fire that was making its way towards Damon.

"Bonnie, stop it!" Elena cried out as Damon caught fire. "Just stop it!"

Bonnie didn't react at all, just kept glaring at Damon. Elena jumped over the fire and grabbed Bonnie by the shoulders, making her concentration break.

"Why did you stop me?" Bonnie half glared at Elena.

"Because you have no right, what so ever, to decide who should be punished and for what crime." Elena glared right back.

"He kills people!" Bonnie shouted as she gestured towards Damon.

"You can't keep judging him as if he was human!" Elena shouted back. "There are different rules when it comes to the supernatural world!"

"But..." Bonnie started to argue.

"No, you know what, I'm done." Elena sighed tiredly. "You need to get your head out of your ass and realize you don't know everything and you are definitely not always right!"

Bonnie glared and stormed off while Elena sighed with a shake of her head.

"You okay?" Elena turned and helped Damon up from the ground.

"Yeah, I'm already healed." Damon said quietly. "Thank you for defending me."

"Anytime." Elena smiled softly. "That's what friends are for."

A few hours later Elena was finally done with everything and was about to crawl into her bed when she saw the dark ancient being standing by her bed.

"Who are you?" Elena asked softly.

The being smiled at her and said in a quiet voice that was so old and powerful that Elena could feel it in her bones. "All in dude time, my dear."

Then he was gone in the blink of an eye and Elena was left alone in her room with her thoughts.