Lily groaned as she fell out of bed with a thud, picking herself up off the floor, she groaned once again as she looked at the clock on her bedside table. Rushing to get ready, tripping over her own feet and stumbling down the stairs, she finally made it to the kitchen where she saw Zach sipping on a cup of coffee and leaning on the counter. "Have you spoke to our other relative yet? Introduced yourself? Like human beings do?"

"No" She replied as she made her way to the fridge to take out the bottle of orange juice "because I'm not a human being"

Zach rolled his eyes "why are you so scared of seeing him? Are you two closely related? Is that why you're avoiding him?" He winced as she slammed a glass down on the counter and started pouring orange juice into it "I mean, it's just that you more or less came from the same time period so.." he trailed off as Lily sent him a glare from across the room, then turning to put the remaining orange juice back in the fridge. "I have changed drastically since the last time he saw me, so I highly doubt he would recognise me but when I want to face my uncle again" she slowly turned back around to face Zach again, as she did Lily could hear footsteps walking down the stairs. "I will"

Zach stood frozen, not expecting a confession from the vampire so casually, his right hand holding his mug in the air as he stared at Lily dumbfounded. The gravity of his complicated undead family situation sinking in. Stefan walked into the kitchen while shrugging on his leather jacket. "Morning" he greeted while glancing back and forth between Zach and Lily.

The vampire walked towards Lily as she drank her orange juice "Hi, I'm Stefan Salvatore, Zach's nephew" his hand was stretched out towards her and for a second she froze like a deer in headlights; thinking he was going to attack her like he did last time she saw him. She blinked, gained her composure, smiled and grasped his hand in a firm handshake along with a nod.

"Nice to meet you" she replied "I'm Lily Everett, Zach's tenant" She smiled wider as Stefan didn't recognise her or her name and smiled back at her.

She glanced at her watch and cursed "Shoot, sorry, I've got to go, I'm running late for school" She left her glass on the counter as she jogged to go grab her backpack from the hallway. Stefan turned and called after her "Do you need a lift?"

Lily picked up her backpack and spun around to face him as he continued "I've got to go fill in some forms before school starts anyway, I'm going to be the new kid and all" he sent her a half smile and opened his arm out to the side.

Lily had to remind herself to breathe as he spoke "Yeah, that'd be great, thanks"

"Great" Stefan repeated and grabbed his backpack which was opposite Lily, the two walked to the front door. Stefan opened it and while Lily thanked him and walked through, the older vampire closed the door behind them while Zach snapped out of his frozen state and frantically looked around the room for any sign of his bizarre ancestors. He noticed the half-full glass that Lily left on the counter and muttered to himself "why is it so hard for vampires to do chores?"

When Lilly stepped outside she instantly regretted accepting her uncles offer to drive her to school even more than she was before she left the house as standing proudly in front of her was a motorcycle with one helmet hanging off the handle closest to her.

Lilly's legs shook as she walked up the steps to the school "are you alright?" Stefan asked from beside her.

"Yeah" she breathed while taking another step and clutching the straps of her backpack tighter "Just my first time on a motorcycle, that's all" Stefan turned to look at her with an apologetic expression and said something she thought she would never hear him say "I'm sorry, I should've asked before we left but I thought.."

Lilly raised an eyebrow at him "What? That because I wear black jeans and a leather jacket, I'm a biker girl?"

Stefan looked down and rubbed the back of his neck as they made their way down the corridor "Well, yeah something like that"

Lilly laughed "I just like their style" she looked straight down the corridor and noticed that every student was looking at her and Stefan as she led him to the reception. She left him there to go to her locker which was right next to the reception.

Lilly opened her locker, glancing at Stefan who was now facing the woman at the desk, in the very brief time that she had spent with Stefan in this century, he seemed to be extremely different than he had in 1866. Lilly shook her head and grabbed what she needed from her locker before closing it when she could hear Bonnie and Elena walking towards her. The female vampire smiled and hugged Elena when the pair stopped by her "Hey, how are you?" Lilly asked before pulling back from Elena who smiled back at her "I'm fine, thank you"

Lilly didn't quite believe that but let it slide "Well if you ever need to talk I'm here, okay?" Elena smiled as Lilly greeted Bonnie and the three girls didn't even move more than a step before Bonnie noticed Stefan. "Hold up, who is this?" Elena shrugged as Lilly rolled her eyes, of course, they're intrigued by the new guy.

"All I see is back."

"Yeah, but a hot back"

"how do you know if a back is hot?"

Bonnie answered Lilly with "Girl, you can just tell he has muscles under that jacket, I mean look at him" as she gestured her hand towards Stefan "let me focus... I'm sensing Seattle, maybe plays the guitar"

Lilly frowned and turned towards her friend shaking her head with a "what?" while Elena scoffed "you're really gonna run this whole psychic thing into the ground now."

Bonnie smiled as Lilly raised her eyebrows "psychic?" she questioned as Bonnie grinned at her "yeah, Grams said that we are descendants from the witched of Salem"

Lilly didn't know what to say, yes she vaguely remembered Emily lighting a few candles with magic but to hear Bonnie say it was something she didn't really expect. "Oh, cool, does this mean you can tell me my future?" the vampire joked.

Bonnie closed her eyes and pretended to concentrate with her hand stretched out in Lilly's direction now "Hm, yes. Lilly, I see you with a millionaire in his mansion, you also live with his siblings and his art collection." Bonnie opens her eyes as the girls all let out a giggle, Elena looked past Bonnie to spot Jeremy heading into the boys' bathroom, she follows after him muttering an "I'll be back".

Bonnie and Lilly were left staring at her uncles back while Bonnie whispered "please be hot" as Lilly stepped back over to her locker and leaned her shoulder against it, when it dawned on her that her 'fortune' that the which had just predicted was part of her past, not her future. Lilly glanced at Bonnie as she stared at Stefan when he walked past. Lilly then pinched the bridge of her nose, every girl in school was going to be after her uncle.

Lilly was struggling to keep her eyes open in history like all other students in his class, she was sat at the back with Matt as they were going to walk to the Grille together after school for Lilly's shift and Matt was meeting Tyler. During the lesson, Lilly couldn't help but take notice of both Matt and Stefan who seemed to be staring at Elena. As everyone was rushing to get out of school, Lilly and Matt took a slow walk down the hall.

"So.." Lilly started "How are you coping?" Matt sent her a confused look so she elaborated "You know, with the whole Elena thing." Matt looked away for a second before replying "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, yeah"

"You know I don't believe that for a second"

Matt sighed.

"But I'm not going to force you to talk about it"

Matt smiled at her.

Bonnie and Caroline sat down at a table in the Grille as Lilly walked over to collect the empty glasses that had been left by the customers before her friends when she was stopped by Bonnie "Hey, how come you never said you were living with the Mystic Falls Hottie?"

Lilly expected this question, honestly, she did, but she expected it from Caroline.

"Oh I only found out this morning, he's like really private and a bit of a hermit crab."It was safe to say that Lilly walked away briskly.

When Lilly glanced over at her friends again a while later she noticed that Stefan was there, being interrogated by Bonnie, Caroline and Elena, the vampire tried to walk past them to collect some glasses off the table nearby when Caroline shouted her "Lilly!" she turned around "You're going to the party tomorrow right? C'mon I'll dress you up and everything"

Lilly chuckled "Of course I'm going Care, it gets me outta this place" Caroline clapped her hands together "Good, it wouldn't be the same without you" Lilly smiled at the girl before carrying on with her job.

As Lilly opened the front door to the boarding house she was immediatly met with an angry Zach who passed her a newspaper. "Would you care to explain?" he spat as Lilly raised an eyebrow while looking down at the headlined article, a quote caught her eye

we are investigating the incident, it appears to be an animal attack.

Lilly looked at Zach, her eyes pleading, "Zach, I swear this was not me, I use bloodbags, I'm trying to live a normal human life, I wouldn't bring this kind of attention t myself" Zach thought out her words and let out a sigh.

"You're right but that means there is only one other person who it could've been"

"Stefan" she breathed, Memories flickered in her mind, so much blood and chaos. The vampire suppressed a shudder. Lilly took a deep breath and walked up to her room while saying goodnight to Zach while he waited to confront the second vampire.

As Lilly got changed into her pyjamas she could hear her uncle enter the house and walk to his room, another set of footsteps followed, Zach, she assumed he still had the newspaper. It was clear from the interaction that neither of the men trusted one another.

The next night when Stefan and Lilly arrived at the party in the woods, everything was in full swing, stumbling teenagers and loud music. Stefan had given Lilly a lift on his motorcycle again, she was pleased her legs were not a shaky as the day before, Stefan joked saying that she was a biker girl after all. Before they arrived at the party, however, Lilly asked Stefan a couple of background questions as she didn't et the chance to yesterday. Questions such as why do you live with your uncle now? Do you have siblings? why did you move around a lot when you were younger?

To say that Stefan had his fake background done to a T was an understatement though Lilly couldn't imagine how many times Stefan had played the New Kid Role. But he was very evasive on the sibling question, she guessed that there had to have been at least some arguments between her dad and her uncle, it's not like you can live in harmony with family for over a century.

Stefan had asked her a few questions as well, or as Lilly wanted to call it, a subtle interrogation. For the most part, she told the truth, her father left when she was 4, her mother died in childbirth, she had no siblings, she recently moved from Portland and Zach is a family friend, trying to teach her to become independent.

Lilly approached Bonnie as she walked away from Elena the vampire noticed the look on the witch's face "Hey, Bonnie are you okay?" Bonnie shook her head "I just had this weird vision when I touched Elena's hand" Bonnie filled up her cup from the keg and Lilly followed suit "what did you see?"

Bonnie shook her head again " I saw a crow, I mean am I, am I going crazy" Lilly looked at the girl with sympathy. "No, Bon, you're not crazy, maybe you could talk to your Grams about it, I bet she'd know what to do" It was hard for Lilly not to use a comforting gesture but if Bonnie's powers were just beginning, then she couldn't risk it, so Lilly did the next best thing "C'mon, drink up, we are gonna have a good night, I'm going to make sure of it" The girls smiled at each other while trying to see who could finish their cup the fastest.

There was a scream by the dense forest trees "Somebody help!" as Jeremy Gilbert carried an unconscious Vikki Donovan. Bonnie and Lilly raced to help with Lilly shouting "I know First Aid" as Vikki was placed on a table, the first thing Lilly saw was a bite mark on the girl's neck, she took her jacket off and pushed it down on Vikki's wound while frantically looking around for Stefan who was staying near the shadows with not a drop of blood on him. Matt yelled at Bonnie to call 911 and when Lilly looked back to Stefan, he was gone.

As the ambulance took Vikki and Matt to the hospital, Lilly walked over to Elena "Hey, I gotta go otherwise Zach will give me a lecture that's worse than Tanners" Elena nodded, still shook from the experience.

Stefan turned to his older brother "Why are you here Damon?" Damon didn't seem to pay his brother any attention as he stroked the wood of the table "The only people I loved are gone thanks to you"

Stefan put his head down " I don't know where she went Damon"

The elder one snapped his head towards his brother " Oh I think you do, you see, I've had a lot of time to think about this and I think, No, I know that she's in a shallow unmarked grave because you didn't even have the decency to put her in the tomb. Now you're just ashamed that you killed her"

"I don't know what happened to her Damon"

"Liar"

As Lilly walked back to the Boarding house, she heard two people talking, she recognised Stefan's voice but she couldn't quite place the other one. she looked up and saw that Stefan's window was missing "Very good with the whole rararaaah face thing"

"Yeah it's all fun and games isn't it Damon, but wherever you go people die"

"Right back at you brother"

Lilly stopped walking and breathing.

Her father was here.

She ran into the forest and hid behind a tree, she kept repeating "no" over and over again. tears pooled in her eyes and flowed down her cheeks, she had to put a hand on her mouth to quieten the sobs as she slid down the tree. Her body jolting as she crouched down in the dirt.