Caroline shook her head.
Being hypnotized into becoming a plaything is not something to be proud of. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, it looked like she was the one who willingly approached Damon.
"But are they friends with this rapist?"
"What, no no no, no one wants to be friends with Damon, not even Elena and Bonnie want to be friends with him."
"Really?"
Gwen's tightly knitted brows relaxed.
Just then.
Hawk walked to his fiancée's side, leaning close to Gwen's ear, and began gossiping softly about the entanglement between Elena and the Salvatore brothers.
Gwen listened to Hawk's gossip with a calm expression, glanced again at her cousin, and then said to Hawk, "Is she really unaware of my cousin's ordeal?"
Hawk never lied: "His brother Stefan probably figured it out, but as for Elena, she truly doesn't know about it."
At least at this point in time, she doesn't know.
After all, he could understand Caroline's mindset; being hypnotized into a plaything was already a tragic thing, so how could she possibly talk about it everywhere?
But understanding is one thing.
Hawk still stood by Gwen's side.
Everyone knows.
He's always been the one to side with his own over being rational.
Gwen turned her head, glanced at Stefan who was also frozen in place, and then looked at Elena, who was pacing anxiously beside Stefan, furrowing her brows: "He knew about it, but he didn't stop it?"
Hawk shrugged: "He wanted to, but Damon Salvatore is a predatory vampire, while Stefan is the brother, and moreover, a vegetarian vampire. Even if he knew, he couldn't stop it, and after your cousin became a vampire, Damon still wanted to kill her. It was Stefan and Elena who stopped Damon."
As for why Damon suggested killing Caroline after knowing she became a vampire.
The reason was simple.
To prevent the incident of him hypnotizing Caroline to get her body from being exposed.
After all, his brother Stefan relied on personal charm, while he could only rely on such underhanded means as hypnosis.
Gwen's expression was enlightened.
She had read in the S.H.I.E.L.D files.
Among humans, there are good people and bad people, and it's no different among vampires. Some vampires act on instinct to drink human blood, while others resist their instincts, suppressing their desires to be a vampire who doesn't drink blood.
Gwen's understanding at that time was that the former's animal nature outweighed human nature, while the latter's human nature suppressed animal nature.
Now—
It's indeed the case.
Gwen listened to Hawk's words and looked at Caroline: "Is what Hawk said true?"
At this moment, Caroline's mind was in complete chaos. To be precise, when the thing she wanted to hide and forget was suddenly exposed without warning, she felt a sense of resignation, and she nodded at Gwen's words.
Seeing this, Gwen said to Hawk, "Let him go."
Hawk made a sound of acknowledgment.
Thud!
Once freed from his restraints, Stefan sat heavily on the ground, gasping for air.
Elena, seeing this, hurriedly helped Stefan up, then looked at Damon still bound there, and then at Caroline, who dared not look up under the scolding of their cousin.
"What happened?"
"..."
Stefan said nothing.
However...
He looked at his brother Damon, who was desperately seeking help from him, and then at Caroline not far away, he had already guessed most of it in his heart.
Indeed.
From the back, Black Witch Bonnie, who was trying to blend into the surrounding darkness, looked at the bound Damon with disgust and said to Elena, "Back then, Caroline didn't actually like Damon. It was Damon who hypnotized Caroline into liking him."
Upon hearing this, Elena's eyes widened, glancing at Bonnie who spoke up, and then looking at Damon who was restrained.
At the same time.
Gwen, looking at Caroline with her head lowered in front of her, didn't really want to speak anymore.
"Hawk, kill this rapist..."
"No!"
Caroline's eyes contracted; upon hearing this, she looked up at Gwen.
Gwen smiled.
"What, have you fallen for this rapist?"
"No, Klaus is coming. While Damon may be a scumbag, his combat prowess is the highest among us. We need him."
"We don't need him now."
"What?"
Caroline looked at her cousin Gwen, who interrupted her with an emotionless face.
Gwen turned to her fiancé: "For vampires, what's the most brutal way to die?"
Hawk smiled slightly: "Exposure to sunlight."
Once a vampire is unprotected under the sun, for vampires, the omnipresent UV light is like a human covered with wounds being thrown into a bottomless salt pool.
The ever-present pain and the aching all over the body will make a vampire despairingly and screamingly turn to ashes.
Gwen took out her phone, glanced at the time: "There is one hour till sunrise, just enough time for me to make him burn to death in the sunlight!"
She was very angry.
And she had every right to be this angry.
Gwen was of a similar age to Caroline, and whenever she came over here, she would sleep in the same bed as Caroline. Plus, in the house back in New York City, she only had a younger brother, no sister, so even though Caroline was her cousin, Gwen felt like she was her real sister.