🎵: "Animals" by Neon Trees

"I mean, Katherine looked just like you. It was freakish." Bonnie tells Elena as we all are setting up for the carnival later tonight.

"She is my ancestor. Hey, I moved the student booth into the cafeteria." Elena mentions.

"Lena, she is your copy and paste vampire ancestor. It wasn't like she resembled you. She was you. Except her hair was curled, but there is no way you can tell the difference." I explain to Elena.

"I don't— I don't know. I can't explain it. Ok? It's creepy. It's all I got." Elena replies.

"Well, how do you know she's not still out there pretending to be you?" Bonnie asks Elena.

"I don't, but I could sit here and be tortured by the not knowing, or I could get these prizes to the ring toss.

"Ash you got lucky, well luckier than us. I'm a witch and Elena's a doppelgänger." Bonnie says.

"Have you watched the matrix?" Bonnie asks.

"Yeah, why?" I ask.

"You could be some hot shot girl-boss who's the one." Bonnie says, more jokingly than being serious.

"I hope not. I like being human, it's nice. If anything I would want to be a huntress that's hot." I say and we all laugh.

"So have you guys talked to Damon since he killed Jeremy or— or tried to kill Jeremy?" Bonnie asks, changing the conversation.

"No Damon talk. I hate him. I'll take these toys and put them but the basketball game." I say, walking away and Bonnie and Elena keep talking.

"How is Ash dealing with what happened last night?" Bonnie asks. Bonnie always worries about you like you're her little sister.

"She really hates him. So do I, but she like is full of hatred. I feel bad for her, she's only 15 years old and dealing with all of this crap. I wish there was something to do to make this easier." Elena says, than sighs.

—

"Want some popcorn Jer?" I ask my cousin Jeremy, and he shakes his head.

"Is this your first high-school ran carnival, well here at least?" Jeremy asks. I moved back into town when Elena and Jeremy needed a guardian.

"Yeah. This popcorn is delicious though." I say. "I don't know how you aren't stealing any of this."

"Jeremy. So good to see you alive." Damon says, walking up to us. Which makes me roll my eyes.

"Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?" Jeremy asks.

"About 150 years too old." Damon takes the popcorn out of my hand and starts eating it.

"You know you can get popcorn from the machine, right? Or will you kill the person there since it's not free." I cross my arms.

"Ok I'll give you that one little Sommers. But don't be so dramatic, I'm not that bad."

"Did you even see the ring on his finger? Or did you want to just act out because your ex-lover doesn't love you back?" I say then walk away pissed.

—

I go to watch people arm wrestle, and I see Damon walking towards me.

"Can you just not talk to me right now?" I scoff hit Damon doesn't care. "Why did you do it?" I ask.

"I wasn't thinking!" Damon slightly shouts.

"Wow. Such a good excuse. You lashed out and took it out on Jeremy. Real mature if you." I say and Stefan walks over us.

"He's got strength." Damon says about Tyler. Damon thinks there's something supernatural about the Lockwood family.

"He's a triple-letter varsity athlete. Of course he has strength. You're reaching." Stefan says then an older man goes to arm wrestle Tyler.

"You know the Lockwoods well, who is that?" Damon asks, crossing his arms.

"Oh my god, I haven't seen him since I was 6. That's his uncle, best friends with my mom. He watched me for 2 years when my mom had to get clean." I say and we watch the uncle win.

"Who's next?!" Tyler asks.

"Stefan wants to go!" Damon says, knowing Stefan does not want to go. Stefan goes against Mason and loses. "You didn't put in any effort at all." Damon says to Stefan.

"Yeah, actually, I did." Stefan says very seriously.

"Are you saying that he's right?" I ask, not saying Damon.

"You know I have a name right?" Damon scoffs and I roll my eyes.

"Not right now you don't" I say and Damon walks away and Stefan follows.

"Ashley Sommers?" Mason says, looking over in my direction. He barely noticed me since it's been 9 years.

"Mason." I say walking up to him and hugging him.

"You were 6 the last time I saw you! How's your mom doing?" Mason asks.

"Way better. Still clean from 9 years ago and takes care of me and my cousins." I reply. We keep talking but I could tell he didn't come here to see my mom, he wasn't he to do anything good either.

—

"So Caroline's a vampire?" I ask Elena, Stefan and Damon.

"How did this happen?" Stefan asks, as me, him and Elena were still shocked.

"Well, I fed her blood, and Katherine obviously killed her, and A plus B equals..." Damon explains.

"Why did she do it?" I ask.

"Because Katherine is a manipulative, nasty little slut." Damon says and i roll my eyes.

"And she said, game on?" Stefan asks. "I mean, what does that even mean?"

"It means she's playing dirty. She wants us to know." Damon says.

"But why Caroline?"

"Caroline must be completely out of her mind. She has no idea what's happening to her." Stefan says, freaking out a little.

"Oh, I think she does. All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition. We have to find and kill her."

"You aren't killing Caroline, Damon. Are you out of your mind?!" i shout, pissed he even said that.

"I'm not out of my mind because do I need to remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Yeah. Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother's a vampire hunter. Guys, come on. We all know how this story ends."

"No, Damon. Absolutely not. Everyone else agrees with the plan of finding her and helping her work it out. Which is what I'm going to do." I say, walking out of the classroom to find Caroline.

—

"Damon!" I shout seeing him getting ready to kill Caroline, who has blood all over her face.

"Stefan!" Damon shouts as Stefan runs up and knocks the stake out of Damon's hand.

"Get away from me! You killed me." Caroline shouts at Elena.

"No, no, no, no, Caroline. That wasn't me. You know that. That was Katherine." Elena tells Caroline.

"No!" Caroline shouts. "Then why does she look like you? Why— why did she do this to me?"

"Stefan we need to get her inside." Elena says as Caroline starts to break down even more. Stefan goes brings her inside the bathroom to help clean her up, but Damon grabs the stake going to kill Caroline, but i block her.

"Damon, she's my friend." I say and Elena agrees.

"Fine. Whatever happens, it's on you." Damon tells me, glaring at me. Bonnie walks in and sees Caroline like this.

"Caroline? Oh. You're not. You can't— you can't be." Bonnie walks up to Caroline and touches her arms to do her witchy thing. Bonnie wouldn't even talk to Caroline.

"I can't believe this is happening." Bonnie says after Stefan takes Caroline into the bathroom.

"Come on. Don't pout about it. We got a body to bury. Sucks to be you, buddy." Damon talks to the guy Caroline killed, then shouts in pain from Bonnie giving him multiple aneurysms. Then a hose leaks water everywhere which turns into fire.

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt." Bonnie says.

"I didn't do this!" Damon shouts.

"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault." Elena says.

"Everything that happens is his fault, Elena." Bonnie says, making the fire more intense, and quickly reaching to Damon.

I hated Damon at this moment, but I couldn't let him die when I could do something. So, I jumped over the fire and nudged Bonnie's arm, making the fire disappear.

"What— why— why did you stop me?!" Bonnie shouts.

"Lena." I say. Bonnie and Elena are best friends. Bonnie won't listen to anything I would have to say at this moment. I walk over to Damon and help him out.

"I knew you couldn't hate me forever." Damon smirks and i roll my eyes.

"Oh, I still hate you for what you did. But, I'm not going to let you die because I'm holding a grudge right now." I say.

"It was dangerous jumping over the fire."

"I don't care. It kind of just happened I would usually never do that. But it saved your life. And I need a ride home." I say laughing.