Declaimer I don't owe The Vampire Dairies or Twilight. I like to say thank you to blueguju who Beta this for me.
When Bella was eight her mom died, when she was fifteen, she met the Cullen's. They left her a year later just after her sixteenth birthday. Now a year later Charlie has dead leave her and her older adopted brother Sam. Sam knows the need a new start so moves her close to her pen pal, which was also their mom's home town. What will Mystic Fall make of the Swan's?
Everything Happens For a Reason
Chapter One
Jeremy POV
"Hey Jeremy, you got another letter from you friend. That's what, the third one this month?" I roll my eyes at Elena; she thinks that Bella and I are dating! She doesn't seem to mind that: A. I've sort of just broke up with my girlfriend, Vicky. Well she left town without telling me why and where she was going but I'm still hung up on her; B. There are about three or four day's worth of a car ride between Bella and I; and C. Most importantly, we are just really good friends and don't see each other in a romantic way.
"She's my friend. She's more like a little sister to me." I say as I snatch the letter from her, a little pissed off that she's started this again. Elena looks a little hurt but then hides it when a few seconds have passed.
"Sorry sis." I say a little ashamed, not of what I said but the way I said it. "I've known her for years. She's so much more than a friend and we love each other, just like you and Bonnie do." I know for a fact that Bonnie is like the sister she never had and that those two will always be friends. I don't think anything will tear them apart.
"She was there for me, for everything, even mom and dad's death, and I've been there for her." Elena sighs and nods her head.
"Okay, okay." Elena says and holds up her hands. "Stefan's coming to get me. We're going to the Grill, do you want to come?" I shake my head at her. I mean I really don't want to sit there a watch her and Stefan make out.
Stefan and Elena have been dating for four months. Stefan seems like a nice guy and keeps Elena happy but there's something weird about him. Then there's Stefan's brother, Damon, he's real strange and has the whole 'I'm dangerous' act and look about him.
Bonnie and Caroline, Elena's friends, really dislike him to the point of hating him.
I've seen him a few times around Elena, he hits on her but it's more to piss off Stefan than if he actually liked her that way.
I walk out, head to my room and open the letter.
Hi Jeremy,
I have a surprise for you and you are going to love it! I'm so excited about it. You have to wait and see what it is, not too long, only week. Well January 8th, I can't wait.
Love you,
Bella.
I shake my head at the letter and pick up my cell to call her.It only takes a few rings for her to answer.
"What's my surprise?" I say before she can say anything to me. I hear Bella chuckling.
"You got six days to wait." I pout at my cell.
"Oh come on, for someone that doesn't like surprises, you sure are being mean!"
"Jeremy, stop with the pouting, and suck it up and wait because I'm not telling you. And I love surprises; I just hate being kept in the dark." I roll my eyes at her.
"Yet here you are keeping me in the dark?" Again she chuckles down the phone.
"Yeah but this is a good thing and besides this is the most fun I've had in weeks." I let out a sigh at hearing just how happy she seems to be. Six weeks ago her father and his friend were out hunting an animal that had killed a few hikers. It attacked him and he died in the woods.
Bella was left an orphan just like Elena and I had been six months ago when our parents died in a car accident. Only instead of a big sister, she has a big brother, Sam. It's just them two now. Elena and I were lucky that we had Aunt Jenna to take us in. Thankfully Sam had just turned twenty-three and with Bella been seventeen, he became her legal guardian.
"Fine, I'll just sit here and twiddle my thumbs till it arrives." I say in a mockingly hurt voice.
"What, don't sit there. Go out. Enjoy yourself before school starts again. Now, go play with your friends and we'll talk soon."
I walk over to my bed and pick up my jacket. "Love you, Bells."
"Love you too, Jeremy."
I hang up my cell, placing it in my pocket and make my way to Vicky's.
I can still remember my first day in first grade. My teacher told our class that we all will be given a friend from another school that had also started first grade and we were to write to them as often as we liked, it was supposed to help us with our writing and vocabulary. Bella and I got paired up, and when everyone in my class stopped writing to their pen pals when they left first grade, Bella and I decided to keep it up. We had found true friends in each other, and we couldn't let go.
I reach Vicky's house and just look at it. I wish I knew where she was or why she had left. I missed her. She was my first everything.
I let out a sigh and walk to the Grill. I walk in and see that Elena is sitting at a table nearby talking to Stefan, Bonnie, Caroline, Matt and that jerk, Tyler.
I move to the counter only to see that Damon is sitting there next to Mystic High's new History teacher Mr. Saltzman.
"What can I get for you?" I look up at the waitress and give her a little smile.
"Burger and a coke, please." She nods her head and walks away.
"You should try a real drink. It'll help loosen you up a little." I turn and look to Damon.
"Elena would freak out and when that happens, her voice get all high." Damon chuckles and smiles at me.
"But there in lays the fun." He says looking from me to the table she's sitting at.
Everything falls quiet and the waitress brings over my meal. I begin eating and can feel Damon's eyes on me.
"You're not going over to the Scooby gang's table?" I look at him and to their table, and shake my head at him.
"Nope, I'd rather not watch my sister make out with your brother, and then there's Tyler." I let out a sigh try to calm myself. "He and I don't get along."
Damon nods his head at me "Yeah, the whole Vicky thing." I don't look at him but feel the pain in my chest.
I go back to eating my meal and can faintly hear Damon and Mr. Saltzman talking. I can also feel them look at me every now and then.
"Jeremy, aren't you going to come and join us?" I turn to see Elena looking at me, worried, and then she goes to glare at Damon.
"No, I just wanted a quick bite to eat. I'm almost done." She pulls on my arm.
"Come on Jeremy, everyone wants to say hey." I look to the table and shake my head.
"I can't be that close to Tyler." Elena's face softens as she keeps looking at me. As she opens her mouth to talk, my cell rings and I take it out of my pocket to see that it's Bella.
"It's Bella." I say and she nods her head. I turn away to pick it up.
"Are you calling to tell me what my surprise is?" I say try to keep my voice light.
"Nope, I just called to talk. Sam had to go and check on something, so I'm home alone." I chuckle. Over the last six or so months Bella's been calling me, sounding all afraid.
"What movie did he make you watch this time?"
"We watched 'The Rise of the Lycans'." I shake my head.
"What's with you and all the wolf films?"
"There all was Sam's picks. I support the vampires." I smile, picking at the burger that's still half eaten on my plate.
"So you're not a fan of changing into werewolf then?"
"God no, I'm a big enough bitch when I'm PMSing, never mind changing into a hairy oversized dog. Nope, I'll be a vampire. That way it's not just once a month, it's all the time."
"Yeah but you pass out at the sight of blood." A chuckle to my side makes me look to see Damon laughing a little.
"It's the smell that makes me pass out." I look away from Damon and back down to my plate.
"The smell? Blood doesn't smell Bella. Oh wait, maybe you're already a vampire."
"Too bad, you already invited me into your home. I may come over one night to suck your blood." I chuckle shaking my head.
"Yeah more like bite, smell the blood and pass out."
"Ha ha, very funny, Jeremy."
"But really, if you were a vampire, how would you cope with blood if it makes you pass out? Then there's the whole killing thing. I mean vampires kill people."
"It their natural food source, they need it to survive, and besides I'm sure I could find a way."
"Well what if I was a werewolf, we couldn't be friends then."
"Why not?" I roll my eyes.
"Because werewolves and vampires are all time enemies, everyone knows that." I frown a little, as I can still feel Damon staring. He seems to be listening to what I'm saying.
"We won't be confined by what our nature tells us about each other. Just because our society tells us to be enemies doesn't mean we have to be. We are who we are, and just because you are werewolf and I'm a vampire doesn't change the fact that I love you and you are my best friend. The most important thing is that it seems to be a big rule and what better rule to break than a big one?" I smile at what she's saying. "Will you still be my friend if I ever did change into a vampire?"
"Only if you'll still be mine if I were werewolf."
"As long as you bathe and make sure you don't bring fleas with you, then yeah."
"What?" I chuckle out.
"Well if you were werewolf, you'll more than likely smell like a wet dog. Who wants that in their house?" A booming laugh makes me look at Damon who looks as if he about to fall on the floor laughing.
"Who's doing all the laughing?" Bella's voice brings me back to her call.
"That's Damon." I say lowly still looking at Damon.
"Oh, the sexy new bad boy of Mystic Falls." Damon looks at me with a smirk and I feel a little embarrassed. Thank god I'm not like Bella; if I were I would be seven shades of red right now.
"I never said that." I choke out.
"What, the sexy thing? No but his laugh sounds sexy and well by the way you described him..." I roll my eyes.
"I said he was tall, dark hair and had blue eyes." I grit out. I hear Bella chuckle.
"He's sitting right next to you?" I sigh and nod my head.
"Yeah, he is," I don't know how she does it or knows. She always seems to call if I 'm feeling down and within seconds she has me smiling."I miss you. You have to ask Sam about coming for Spring Break." I say a little sad that she's so far away.
"I will. I better go and do the boring home work that was assigned. Good night, Jeremy."
I smile, "good night, Bells."
"Jeremy?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't go chasing any cats or cars, now." Bella says laughingly before hanging up. Of course she'd have some final comment on the werewolf thing.
As I put my cell away, I feel Damon's eyes are still on me, so I turn to him.
"That sounded like an interesting talk." I roll my eyes.
"We're just making small talk. Last week she got me into a debate over who would win in a fight, bigfoot or an alien." He look at me a little shocked before his eyes widened.
"Who won that?" I shake my head.
"No one, Sam took her cell away because it was two in the morning and he was trying to sleep." Damon chuckles.
"Now that friend, you should be hanging out with more." I nod my head at him.
"I would, but she lives in Washington." Damon frowns and nods his head.
"Is that who you went to see a few months back?"
I nod my head again "yeah, her father died. She came here when my parents died, so I wanted to be there for her." Damon nods his head. "She took it hard. Her mom died when she was eight, it's just her and her big brother Sam now." Damon nods his head again.
"Well this will be something. Later, Gilbert." Damon gets up and walks out of the grill, letting me get back to eating my burger.
The days pass and no matter how much I try, Bella didn't give me any clue to what my surprise was. My hands and eyes have been glued to my cell, waiting for her to call. It was so bad that Mr. Saltzman took it from me during class.
After school was done with, I was planning on going home and just chill till Bella called but Elena pulled me along with her and into the grill.
"Jeremy, I'm sure she'll call soon. Wow, you'd think you've never had a surprise before." I glare at her.
"Aw, what's wrong Jeremy, she still hasn't called?" I look up at Bonnie and shake my head.
It only takes a few minutes for the rest of Elena's friends and Damon to arrive.
"Guess what guys?" Caroline say in an upbeat tone. "Mom says there's a new deputy starting next week." I roll my eyes at how excited she seems to be over it. I look at my cell and let out a sigh.
"You know Gilbert, a watched pot never boils." I look at Damon and frown as I go to speak but my cell rings and I smile seeing that it's Bella.
"What took you so long?" I say as Elena frowns at me. I roll my eyes at Elena and listen to Bella laughing.
"I was busy. I'm sorry" Bella say after she settles.
"Alright I forgive you, now what is my surprise?" I say as play with a loose thread on my shirt.
"I'm not sure I should tell you. I mean you don't sound like you really want it. And you're going to rip the thread out of the shirt I bought you if you keep pulling at it." I stop pulling at the thread and tap the table with my fingers.
"Bella I have been bugging you every day for past six days, tell me!" I look up at the others at the table who seem to be watching and listening to me.
"Well if you do something to prove that you really want to know then I'll tell you." I nod my head.
"Glad you agreed, stand up and turn around three times." I sit where I am and just give it a few moments.
"Okay done." I say trying not to show any guilt for lying to her in my voice.
"Jeremy, you didn't do it. You're just stayed in your seat next to Elena" I sigh.
"Come on, Bella." I frown when I see Damon look around the grill.
"Well you must not want to know." I jump out and turn around three times.
"There, happy?" I can hear Bella laugh.
"Nope not yet, you need to say a few things out loud with your eyes closed."
"Fine." I say close my eyes.
"First is: Vampires are the best, so much better than wet dog smelling werewolves." I groan but say it anyway, I groan even more as I hear the others laugh.
"One last thing, I take it the guy who is sitting across from you is Damon?"
I frown. "Yeah?"
"You should tell him thank you for his advice but a watched pot does boil, it just feels like it takes longer as you're waiting for it."
I look to Damon and he's shaking his head at me.
"You should turn around," is all he says and I give him a 'what the hell' look and feel someone tap my shoulder which makes me turn around
"SURPRISE!" Bella yells as I look down.
"You're here." I say in to the cell only for Bella to nod her head.
"I'm going to hang up now." Bella says softy as I look at her still in shock but she takes my cell off me and closes it.
"So, no hug?" Bella says holding out her arms and pouts. I smile and hug her to me.
"What are you doing here? Tell me you haven't run away again." Bella shakes her head at me.
"No, Sam's working here now. There was a job opening at the police station." I hug her again know that she will be staying.
"You're not joking are you?" Bella shakes her head at me.
"Nope, with everything that went down with Charlie, Sam wanted a new start for us. He saw the job offer and not only were you here but Renee and his birth mom had a house here that they left to us. He took it as fate told us this was where we were supposed to be."
I look around for Sam but don't see him. Bella must have read my mind because she answers my unspoken question.
"He's meeting Sheriff-eh- Elizabeth Forbes." I nod my head at her.
"So you all moved in?" Bella nods her head at me.
"Yeah, the place had a lot of furniture so it was just our personal stuff we had to bring. I've been cleaning all day and was about to die from hunger so I came here, saw you arrive and thought I would have some fun." I shake my head at her as she looks away from me.
"Hey Elena," Bella gives Elena a light hug.
"Hello Bella," Bella smiles at her and look to the table.
"You're Caroline, the Sheriff's daughter right?" Caroline nods her head at her.
"And you're Bonnie; you're Matt and Tyler, if I remember right?" They all nod their heads at her. "So that mean you're Stefan and you're the bad boy of Mystic Falls, Damon." I smack Bella arm and glare at her but she just smirks back at me. "What?" I give her the look that moms give their kids when the said something weren't meant to.
"I'm sure he know he knows he's a very bad boy!" Bella blushes and I tilt my head try to work out why. She waves her hand at me to say 'not now'.
"I mean it takes skill and dedication to make that kind of rep. I'm sure he'll be pleased that it now speaks for itself and people know who he is without a word having been spoken." I roll my eyes and look at Damon, to see that he's just looking between Bella and me with a smirk.
"Okay later guys, we'll be over there talking." I say gripping Bella's arm and pulling her away as the rest chuckle and say a bye.
"I have to tell you, Damon doesn't look that much like a bad boy, he just needs a kitten or something." Bella says as I pull her down on a seat.
"Don't tell him that, he'll more than likely rip your head off just to prove he doesn't come with those kinds of feelings." Bella rolls her eyes at me. "So what was with the blush?" I ask her, only for her to blush again.
"I just had a passing thought that had the word spanking in it." I look at her and laugh. As we hear another faint chuckle, we both look over to see Damon chuckling and Stefan give him a 'don't you dare look'.
"That's a bit weird," Bella says as she looks at them.
I nod my head and start to make plans with Bella for that night and for school. I love that I have my best friend here with me. Looks like my life may be on the up and up.
Damon POV
I left the grill about an hour ago, and it was fun to sit there and chat up Elena just to see St. Stefan getting pissed off and jealous. It also helps that Elena did the whole 'stop it but I really enjoy the attention you're giving me' thing.
Truth be told at first she did hold my interest for a whole week, but that's just because she reminded me of Katherine. Then, as I got to know her, I knew that even if she looked like Katherine, Elena had almost the opposite kind personality as her. She's boring, a pure miss goody two shoes; basically no fun at all. I do care for the girl but as a friend. If Stefan wants her, he can have her, but it's fun to see him think that he could lose her to me. But really, I would never take her from him and it's also another reason why I care about her. As much as I hate Stefan for what he'd done before and after our deaths, he's still my little brother and I will always love him.
The only fun part of the day was meeting Jeremy's little friend, Isabella, or as she calls herself, Bella. Now that girl looks as if she knows what fun is. She must be five two, with long curly brown hair that sit in the middle of her back and her eyes are a deep chocolate brown. She has more curves than what Elena has which gives her more of a woman's body than a young girl's. She's pretty in her own way, I would even say beautiful but you really have to look at her to see it.
Elena and Katherine had the type of beauty that you see straight away and have every guy drop to their knees just to spend time with them.
When Jeremy dragged Isabella off to another table to sit at, Stefan and Elena were on my ass like white on rice. They told me that I had to stay away from her. They brought the whole 'you put Jeremy through enough with what you had done to Vicky' thing up.
They both gave me the look to say 'we know you don't care but for once in your life don't be selfish and think of others.' Then, my most favourite one was from Stefan, 'I thought you cared about Elena, how can you put her through seeing her brother hurt like that again'. I mean really, he's on my ass about the fact 'I like her' but then uses it to get me to do something when it helps him? And I'm meant to be the bad brother.
When I left the grill, I changed into my crow form and have just been flying around since then. It doesn't take me long to find both Jeremy and Isabella sitting outside of what must be her house. I fly down and sit on the tree near them.
"I wish she told me she was going, I could have gone with her." Jeremy says, the pain in his voice tells me that he's talking about Vicky. He was head over heels for her; shame she didn't feel that way about him. She did feel something for him but it wasn't completely love.
I do feel bad sometimes for what I've done. Looking at him, makes me remember my younger self, trying to work out who I was then. He shows his love for Vicky the same way I did for Katherine. It's also the reason I try not to spend any amount of time with him, as he also shows me that maybe like Vicky's feelings for him, Katherine feelings for me were slimmer than that.
"Jeremy, she would've known that you would've missed Elena, and you still have school. I'm really sorry she hurt you but just maybe she wanted to sort herself out. You know, stop the drugs and stuff." Jeremy lets out a sigh and places his head on Bella's shoulder.
"I could've helped her, been there for her. She doesn't need to do this by herself." I see Bella frown and think for a few seconds.
"Sometimes we need to do things by ourselves and for ourselves. With you being there, she may not have been able to do everything she had to do. The road to recovery is hard; sometimes people are waiting for you to fail while others expect more from you than what you can give. Her being on her own means that she only has to do want she needs to do for her to be happy with herself." I tilt my head a little. "Because when you're truly happy with whom you are and what you are, then the people that are meant to be in your life will be happy with it too." This girl seems to be far older in her head that what she appears to be physically, I would even say she had a more adult look then a lot of adults do.
"We should do something fun, maybe get back at that teacher who took your cell from you." Jeremy sits up looking at her.
"You haven't even been in school yet and you already want to prank the teachers?" I smirk, knowing that I'm right; this girl's going to bring a little fun here.
"Hell yeah, I also think that I should arrive late, you know so they don't expect me to be there on time, all the time." I chuckle but sound more like a caw. Isabella and Jeremy both look my way.
"Wow that is one loud crow." Jeremy says.
"Bella, it's getting late." I look to the new person that has popped out of the house. This guy is big, very big, at least six four or six five, and he was well built.
"Hey Sam." Jeremy says give him a wave.
"Hey Jeremy, and Bella you will be on time on your first day even if I have to drag you to class." Isabella chuckles and Jeremy looks between them.
"Oh my god, he got your mom's ears." Isabella nods her head at him.
"Yup and the eyes too, but don't worry he still knows the meaning of the word fun."
Jeremy shakes his head. "I better go and let you get to bed. Night Bells, Sam." Jeremy jumps down the porch and waves.
"Love you, Jeremy!" Isabella yell after him and looks to me.
"Good night, Mr. Noisy Crow."
I sit outside for a little while longer, then head home once the house went quiet.
"Where have you been Damon?" I sigh as I walk in and pour myself a drink.
"I was out, dad." I sit on my leather chair and look at Stefan. "Where is Elena, aren't you two normally banging each other by now?" Stefan gives me his disgusted look.
"Not that it's any of your business but Elena and I make love, we do not 'bang' each other. Where were you?"
I roll my eyes at him, "as I said dad, I was out." Stefan closes his eyes and pinches the bridge of his noise.
"Leave the new girl alone, she's been a friend of Jeremy's for years. He's been through enough and so has she. According to Elena she just lost her dad and his old friends blame Bella for his death." I tilt my head looking at him.
"It was an animal attack, how could it have been her fault?" Stefan shakes his head.
"I don't know, she only heard a little of her Aunt's and Bella's brother's, talk." I nod my head at him.
"Goodnight, Stefan." I say walk out.
"Damon, I want you to promise me-" I slam my door shut as Stefan keeps going on.
The next morning I get up early and head over to the school, as soon as I arrive Elena spots me, rolls her eyes, lets out a huff and walks to me.
"What are you doing here?" I give her my smile but she just keeps looking at me.
"I was passing by, so I thought I would drop in and see what the kids are learning these days."
"Not much, same boring stuff that we'll never need to use once we leave. But I can say I'm glad I only have to do this once. I would hate to repeat high school over and over, for years." Elena and I both turn, and see Isabella smile at us. I'm a little surprised as I never heard her approach.
"Yes, well I'm glad my high school years are over." Bella nods her head at me.
"Elena do you know were Jeremy is? I thought I could talk him in to coming to the office with me. Sam made me promise that I wouldn't get lost, and if I go by myself I know I will." Elena chuckles a little.
"He's at practice, I'll take you." I watch Isabella's face fall a little. She doesn't seem overly happy to go with Elena.
"Elena, can you come here for a second." Elena turns and looks to Bonnie and Caroline who are glaring at me.
"Give me one second to deal with this and I'll go with you." Isabella nods her head at her and Elena walks off.
"So, first day?" Bella turn and looks at me.
"Yup." I watch her as she looks around herself.
"You don't seem happy to be here." She turns to look back at me, shaking her head.
"It's the whole new kid thing that I'm not looking forward to. Then there's every class where the teachers want you to tell everyone about yourself." Isabella sounds like she about to take herself to be scarified.
"It won't be that bad." I say in a bored tone.
"It will be even worse in the classes that Jeremy's not in." I give her a 'hmm' this time, and she look at her watch.
"Well I better get going to find the office; Elena more than likely got caught up with school gossip and stuff." She doesn't wait for me to say anything to her as she walks away, heading into the school. I shake my head and move quickly to catch up to her. I manage to reach her and open the school door for her.
"After you." I say and Isabella just laughs at me.
"What?" I ask as I walk in after her.
"The whole gentleman thing doesn't suit you, stick to the bad boy stuff unless you really mean to be good." I look at her from the side of my eye.
"You've only known me for a few minutes, how do you know what I'm like.?" I say a little pissed. She's trying to sound as if she knows me. Isabella stops and looks at me.
"I'm sorry, that was a little rude, just-" She frowns a little and looks as if she is searching for the right word to use. "Someone sort of told me about you, but I really shouldn't talk like I know you." I frown and look at her.
"Jeremy, told you about me." She shakes her head no.
"No, not Jeremy, someone else. But don't worry, it wasn't all bad, and well it sort made me want to meet you." Isabella winks at me and then walks into the office.
I watch her from outside the office and try to think of who she could have spoken to that would've told her about me. I shake my head and chuckle, walking away. The list is endless; any number of people more than likely told a new young thing like her to stay away from the big bad Salvatore brother.
I head home feeling a little strange. I feel more relaxed and excited for the first time in over a century.
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