Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, only Lacey

Chapter 1

The bus began to slow as it passed by the official town sign.
"Welcom to Mistick Falls" I read out under my breath.
It had been a long time since I had been here…almost a lifetime ago.
We pulled into the little concreted bustop and began the disembark, I had finally arrived at my destination.
I grabbed my small bag and drew my trenchcoast around me as I could see it was fairly overcast and windy here.

I climbed down the small steps and took my first step onto mystic falls soil, breathing in the crisp clean air, it smelled of fresh rain.

From what I could see it wasn't as small as I remembered, a couple of small shops and boutiques here and there but nothing flash.

In front of me stood the mystic grill, the spot where my uncle had said to meet me on the phone yesterday, I grabbed my large suitcase off the bus driver and thanked him quickly, looking around anxious to find my relative.
I turned towards the grill and was just about to walk in when I heard my name called out, even if it had been 10 or more years ago I would recognise that voice anywhere.

"Lacey?" I turned to see my Uncle Zac standing a couple of feet away, i took him in ripped jeans and old band tshirt and sighed a small sigh of relief.

"Uncle Zac!" I abandoned my suitcase and ran into his open, waiting arms
"I missed you Uncle Zac," I said smiling up at his aged face, he had been a 18 years old the last time I had seen him, he was in his early 30's now and man he had changed.

"I missed you to Lu," He said smiling cause small wrinkles around his eyes, "wow you've sure grown up a lot since the last time I saw you though! I mean I saw pictures but you've grown in to a beautiful young lady if I do say so myself," he chuckled, standing back to observe my transformation, I gave a small laugh.

"I haven't changed that much Uncle," I said laughing and lightly play punching him on the shoulder.

"Well its been a while since I last saw you, you know," he frowned, I knew that question why Id been away so long was coming up but I quickly avoided it.

"I know, schools been hectic and friends, soccer, kick boxing…plus mum and dad stuff. I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to visit as much as id have liked to," I smiled.

"Oh I understand, your old Uncle just isn't hip enough anymore, yeah I see how it is," he chuckled again.

"I didn't mean it like that," I said breaking out in a full laughing fit, id almost forgot what thatd felt like.

"Okay, okay, I bet you must be hungry after that long bus ride? Because you were always hungry as a kid and I doubt your appetite has changed one little bit," he said raising an eyebrow.

"Not one bit," I grinned.

"Okay well you go in and find a table and figure out what you want to order and I'll go and put your suitcase in the car," he said lifting it and walking towards the car park.

I walked into the mystic grill and looked around for a free table, the place wasn't packed but it was exactly empty either, mostly a younger crowd but some varied.
I swept the room once more and found a table towards the back next to a pool table where two guys were playing pool.

I started for the table not paying attention to anyone around me, when I crashed straight into a tall blonde boy and girl.

"Oh crap, I am so sorry," I apologized immediately.

"Ah watch where your going," snarled the blonde girl.

"I'm sorry," I apologized again holding up my hands in defence.

"Oh hey no need to apologize that's cool, I think we were the ones that bumped into you" The blonde boy said smiling kindly at me. "sorry about her" he said looking at the slightly pissed off blonde attached to his arm.

"Its fine, totally my fault," I smiled.

"Your new in town I take it?," he smiled warmly back.

"Yep, just got here about 10 minutes ago," I laughed nervously, pulling at a stray piece of cotton on my shirt hem.

"Well what a way to start your first minutes off in town," he said still beaming that 100 smile.

"I'm Matt by the way, Matt Donovan, and this," he said indicating to the blonde "is Caroline Forbs," she gave me a sarcastic smile.

"Lacey Alexandra, pleased to meet you," I looked at the blonde adding a quick "both of you" her way.
I tried my best to be as nice as possible to the blonde girl Caroline but I think she was just naturally a bitch.

Uncle Zac walked up just as I was about to open my mouth again to make small talk.

"Ahh I see you've met my niece," he said smiling at Matt and Caroline.

"Hey Mister Salvatore, this is your niece?," Matt said extending his hand towards uncle Zac.

"Yep sure is and hello matt, how've you been," he said shaking the hand firmly back, before Matt could open his mouth however Caroline pipped up.

"Wait, you're a Salvatore? I thought you said your name was Alexandra or something?," she said strangely a lot more interested in me now.

"She's not a Salvatore by blood, but she's as close as it gets," my uncle said smiling warmly down at me.

A boy over near the door called Matt's name and he turned his head and nodded.

"Well we've got to be going, it was good seeing you mister Salvatore and nice meeting you Lacey," he smiled at me before they turned to leave.

"Come on, I'm starved," Zac said Steering me by my shoulders to the table I had been making my way to.

We sat down and just as I was about to open my mouth the two boys I had observed from the pool table walked over.

Now that I got a better look at the both of them, something was slowly clicking in my head, but there was a foggy daze blocking something as to why they were familiar.

They were damn gorgeous though, the shorter of the two had brown hair, green/blue eyes, and a gorgeous smile but he had a pained look to his face, like it was a normal feature on it.
My attention however landed on the taller one and stayed there.

He was, I had to admit pretty much god like.
He was tall, black hair, piercing icy blue eyes, chiselled jaw line and a smirk that told you he was defiantly the bad boy of this town, and the leather jacket helped indicate that he was probably a bad ass to.

Weird thing was I swear they looked familiar, my brain working at double speed to really figure it out though, I sat there frowning at them for a moment or two.

"Zac," the shorter of the two nodded toward Zac.

"Stefan, Damon," he nodded back smiling towards me.

Then something in my memory clicked as they both smiled at me and Damon said,

"My we've grown up haven't we little one," he smirked and my jaw dropped.
It was them, after probably the same amount of time as id last seen uncle zac, that would come close to how long id seen the two brothers, the two brothers that had helped raise me for a while and protected me for so long.

"Holy crap!, Damon? Stefan?" I hesitated before throwing my arms first around Damon and then Stefan giving them both a massive long tight hug, they laughed and hugged back just as eagerly.

"I haven't seen you guys in forever! How come your in mystic falls? Does that mean your staying?" I said rapidly talking a million miles a minute with wide eyes and slight excitement.

"I didn't think she be this excited to see us again," Damon smirked.

"You haven't changed one bit," Stefan smiled "yes its been far to long, and we're in mystic falls because we live here now, that means we're staying," he smiled at my even more excited expression.

"Well that makes three of us then," I laughed nervously, I could have sworn I saw a look cross both of their faces but it was gone in seconds so I decided to shrug it off.

"Can the boys have lunch with us?" I asked turning to uncle zac, he faultered for a second, just like the boys, odd.

"I don't see why not," He said smiling at me and turning to the two boys.

I turned to Stephan and Damon with a pleading look on my face.

"Pretty please with a cherry on top," Damon smiled but Stefan had a frowned.

"Sorry kiddo cant, I have to go meet Elena," he said smiling eccentrically when he said her name.

"Who's Elena?" I sulked crossing my arms across my chest.

"Elena's the new Katherine," Damon said rolling his eyes, using his fingers as quotations when he said Katherine.

"But….You said I was your girl," I said pulling a face.
Damon, Stefan and Zac all chuckled at this.

"You are my girl, and you always will be kiddo, there's just another special in my life now to," he said smiling at me.

"Damon?," he turned to me with a questioning face.

"Am I still Your girl?," I questioned.

"Of course you are little one, Always, and no one can ever take me away from you, I promise," he said quickly kissing my forehead, I poked my tongue out at Stefan.

"Hey that doesn't mean that Damon loves you more than I do," Stefan said chucking his arms up in defence.

"Wow Damon showing his soft side, you don't see that…well ever," Zac laughed.

"Only for her," he smirked, I grinned up at him.

"Okay, well I have to go meet Elena now, don't teach her any bad habits, and for the love of god be careful around here Lacey," he said looking at Damon and then giving me a quick hug

"See you at home," he said to Zac and quickly left.

"Well what are we having for Lunch?" Damon said eyeing the menu.
After a quick look at the menu we'd all decided what we wanted and I went up to the bar to order and grab a couple of drinks.

Damon's POV-

I watched her walk away, she definitely had grown up and…well, filled out.
I laughed to myself, she wasn't the same 6 year old that Stefan and I had taught to ride a bike and put bandaids on scratches when she got hurt, she hadn't changed much, more so just grew up.

She had gotten taller though, she was still a couple of heads shorter then me, she still had her creamy smooth skin, still had the same small splatter of freckles across her face.
She still had the same gorgeous smile that made you give into her every demand, still had her waist length head of raven curls and her stunning Icy pale blue eyes just like my own, the one and pretty much only thing that had change was she had curves to her now where her gangly skinny little limbs used to be.

I was beginning to like the new all grown up version. Like it all to much.
I shook my head quickly making those thoughts disappear….what are you thinking, pull yourself together, I thought to myself.

"Damon? earth to Damon?," Zac snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"Yes," I said sarcastically back, slowly turning my attention to zac.

"Listen hear, I'll say this once and once only, she is like a daughter to me, you touch her you die, you put her in danger you die, you bite her you die, you do anything at all to put her in harm or teach her or tell her something she shouldn't be getting told….then I will stake you and mount your dead body on the wall at the boarding house, got it?," he growled shortly.

My mood went in a flash, I was annoyed that he'd even say that to me, as if I would ever put her in harms way, she was the one thing besides Stefan that I actually cared about, and he new that.

"Are you threatening me Zac," I growled back "because no good ever came out of threatening a vampire like me, with a very, very short temper. got it. so I may take what you said into consideration but remember, you know I care for her to so don't think I would ever do anything like that," I spat back, venom dripping from my voice.

I could see the slight fear in his eyes but after a second it was gone.

"I'm glad we have a mutual understanding," he said just as Lacey came back to the table, we quickly put on fake smiles and continued as if the small disruption hadn't occurred.

We made small talk for a while about what lacey had been doing and the ins and outs of the human side of mistick falls, our food over shortly after.
Lacey being Lacey, even with food in her mouth she still tried to keep talking.

Two hours later we walked out of the grill happy and satisfied.

"Ready to go home Lu?," I asked wrapping an arm around her and using the old nickname I used to call her.

"Absolutely," she grinned back, although it didn't quite reach her eyes and something unnerved me about that.

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