Author's Note: This is my first ever FanFic and I'm hoping you'll like it! Please R&R, constructive criticism is welcomed too.
This is set after Caroline becomes a vampire and Stefan is helping her get to grips with it.
Disclaimer: In my head I own The Vampire Diaries. In reality I don't.
Veins were pulsating under her skin as the steady flow of blood rushed around her body at every booming heartbeat. Caroline could hear it as loud as she could hear the cars outside, maybe even louder, and the blood smelled nicer then the Mystic Falls Bakery did on a Sunday morning. One bite to the neck and it would all be hers… one bite and her mother's feeble, human body would shut down and the prize would be hers…
"Caroline?" Liz asked anxiously. Caroline reluctantly pulled her hunger-filled eyes away from her mother's carotid artery. "Are you okay? What's going on with you lately?"
"Nothing, mom." She lied, raising her voice above the heartbeat, trying to drown it out. "I'm fine."
"Honey, you can tell me. Is it Matt? Elena and Bonnie? Your father?"
"No! Mom, seriously, everything's fine." She couldn't tell Liz the truth, she knew that. Stefan had filled her in on the Founder's Council that she would one day be expected to become a part of. The Council that her mom led and would drive a stake through her dead heart without wasting half a second to think about it.
"Oh really, because you were screaming in your sleep last night." Liz shot back, as good with her words as she was her gun. Caroline flinched and turned away, memories of last night rushing through her head like a wild, uncontrollable, fast-flowing river. Her murder by Katherine and the memories of Damon using her as his human blood bag had been too much to handle and the more she shut them out, the more revenge they got as they plagued her in the form of nightmares. She opened her mouth to give a reply she was still frantically racking her brains for but was luckily saved as the doorbell's cheerful chiming echoed through the house. She hurried to the front door, willing to pay her rescuer a hundred dollars if it meant getting away from her mother's suspicious, penetrating eyes.
Of course, her saviour was Stefan. It always was these days. Not that she was complaining.
"Hello Miss Forbes, Caroline." He greeted, eternally polite and well mannered. With his famous hero hair shining in the sunlight, he even looked like Caroline's guardian angel.
"Call me Liz. It's nice to see you, Stefan." Liz said, coming to stand directly behind Caroline. Too close. As the powerful smell of blood overwhelmed her once more, Stefan heard her take a gasping breath.
"I was wondering if we could get something to eat?" he asked her quickly. The faster they got out of this house and away from human hearts the better. Sadly, his code for hunting only worsened the situation, the word 'eat' tempting out the veins beneath her eyes and her fangs erupted out of her gums. She tilted her head down, blonde curls covering her face from Liz. Stefan raised a hand to his lips and pretended to stifle a cough before whispering "Deep breaths, Care," so low only she could hear him with her vampire skills. She did so, closing her eyes and focusing her energy on resisting. Crisis averted, she raised her head.
"Sure let's go." She grabbed her bag and left without looking back, leaving a hurt and bewildered Liz standing at the doorway.
"Chase, catch, feed." Caroline recited in a whisper, the perfect student, as she watched the grey fluffy rabbit in front nibble at the pea green grass under its nose, completely oblivious to the two predators behind about to pounce. It still felt wrong, though. Maybe the rabbit had a family of baby bunnies, snuggled up together underground waiting for it to come back home to them.
"You'll stop me before I kill it?" She asked him softly.
"Of course I will." He promised her, placing and encouraging hand on her back and nudging her forward towards her pray. Assured that Stefan wouldn't let anything happen, she leapt out at it, burying her aching fangs into its side. She momentarily gagged on the taste of its fur but was soon gulping down its blood as if it were chocolate sauce.
"Caroline. That's enough." She vaguely heard Stefan's voice behind her but couldn't tear herself away, she was so hungry. Suddenly a pair of strong hands grabbed her shoulders and pushed her behind him. She fought against his grip for a second or two before calming down, her teeth receding back into her gums.
"Thank you." She said gratefully once she trusted herself to open her mouth.
"It's okay. It will take a while to learn complete control. I still can't control it." Stefan admitted, looking down.
"Yeah, and you're like, a hundred." Caroline joked.
"One hundred and sixty-six actually." He corrected her, a rare smile crossing over his face.
"And you're still pretty good looking." She acknowledged.
"It's definitely one of the perks of vampirism." He laughed, the skin around his eyes crinkled and his green eyes shining. "It's going to get easier." Caroline nodded.
"I know. It's going to be a fun couple of centuries."
Thank you so much for reading this. Tell me what you think in the reviews. Alternatively, you could fangirl/boy over Steroline. I'm completely okay with that too.