Summary: Jessica had no idea that the supernatural existed until it came knocking on her door - in the form of two sexy Salvatore brothers. Little did she know how involved her family really was in this new and dangerous world. Three siblings - cursed by the moon and with severe abandonment issues. Starts in Season Two.

The Family Curse

I walked down the alleyway, hearing my footsteps echo through the wind.

The Mystic Grill was mine and my friends' favourite hang-out. Matt, my second closest male friend, worked there. My best friends were Caroline Forbes, Tyler Lockwood, Bonnie Bennett, Elena Gilbert and Matt Donovan. I found out from Bonnie that there were such things as witches, and later vampires. Bonnie could never keep anything from me.

I heard someone behind me and whipped around.

"Hello?" I called, but immediately began chastising myself in a low whisper. "Stupid, stupid, stupid! That's what people say in horror movies before they get murdered!"

I spun around and began to tremble. Someone was there.

"You're Jessica Hynes." A man with black hair observed.

"Yeah." My voice was weak and shaking. "What's it to you?"I tried to sound brave, but failed miserably.

His face was stony and that scared me the most. "I cannot fail."

He swaggered towards me, now looking determined. When he pressed me against the wall, I began to shriek.

"Get off me, lunatic!" I yelled, struggling beneath him.

He bashed my head against the wall repeatedly, and I was sure my head was bleeding. My heartbeat quickened, but no matter how much I struggled, I couldn't fight him.

I noticed a bottle in the trash bag. It was either him or me...

I gripped the bottle and smashed it on his head. He smiled eerily as blood oozed from a wound on his head and he fell to the floor.

All of a sudden, pain overcame me and I bent over, clutching my stomach. I had never felt pain like this. It felt... strangely feral.

I felt like a wolf.

That full moon, I turned into something I never thought existed. And I was pretty open-minded.

I turned into a beast.

I was in the living room with Dad when all of a sudden, every bone in my body started to break. It was excruciating. Dad had picked me up bridal style, carried me to a cellar and tied me up. My clothes ripped as I turned into a wolf, and then I blacked out. The next morning, I woke up in the cellar in the foetal position with no clothes on, my ripped clothes in the corner.

Breakfast was awkward. It was strange... Dad was acting guilty.

"What's up, Dad?" I asked him. "You're too calm for someone who just watched their daughter turned into a wolf."

"I expected as much."

"How-why am I like this?" I questioned, tears in my eyes.

"You killed someone." My eyes widened. How the hell did he know? Was I acting different. "That's how you trigger the curse; You have to kill someone."

"The curse?"

"The werewolf curse," he told me. "It's a gene, most people don't trigger it, but you did and you have to turn into a wolf every full moon." He gave me a look full with unwanted, sickening pity. "I'm sorry."

I clenched my fist, trying to control my anger and not lash out on him. "Are you a werewolf?"

He shook his head. "But your mother was-is one."

Mom walked out on us when I was nine. Her abandonment was what caused my sister, Danielle, to leave home at seventeen.

"Is Danielle? Or Fred?"

Fred was my older brother. I was the youngest in this family, Danielle - who was twenty-one - was the eldest. I was seventeen.

His real name was Frederick, but like Danielle - who favoured the name Dani - he went by Fred or Freddie. He was the fun, cool, surfer brother. Fred left town a year ago - at eighteen - to live the free-life.

"I don't know," he said. "I haven't talked to Danielle since she left and Fred hasn't mentioned it."

"Not that he would," I murmured. Who would tell their dad that they were a beast? Not this girl, anyway.

"I don't hold it against you. I loved your mother despite her... furry little problem."

I laughed. "Did you get that from Harry Potter?"

He smiled warmly. "Of course."

The mood sobered. "How can you not hate me? You hate vampires! I'm just one step away from one."

"You know about vampires," he realised, surprised.

"I come from a town full of them," I said, shrugging. "It'd be more shocking if I didn't."

He sighed heavily and rested his head on his closed fists. "Vampires and werewolves are completely different. Vampires kill because they're monsters, werewolves kill because they have no control."

"Vampires get hungry, they drain the human of blood," I said. "They have as much control as I do."

"You know a vampire?"

"Yes," I spat, remembering Stefan. "And he... he's a good guy. He feeds on animal blood instead of human blood. He doesn't kill anyone." Unless he goes on his bloodaholic ripper bend.

"But he's still a vampire - a monster," he said. "Make sure you don't let any vampires find out what you are."

I raised an eyebrow. "Um... Why?"

"Because a werewolf bite can kill a vampire," he stated. "Vampires have hunted werewolves for over a thousand years to near-extinction."

Great. So, I couldn't tell anyone about my 'furry little problem.' God I wished Mom was there to help me. I blamed her a little for giving me this God-awful gene. Most Mom's give their daughter hair, or eyes, or a killer figure. I got the beast-gene.

"Have you any idea where Mom is?" I asked.

He shook his head sadly. "Believe me, I've looked. There's not many Luna Cartwrights in the country, but somehow she's impossible to find. My guess is that she picked up an alias."

I nodded slightly. It was depressing that I couldn't remember my mom's face. I just remembered she had blonde hair, tanned skin and blue eyes.

Dani burnt all the photos will Mom in them the day after she left. All that was left of her was a note that said she left because she was a bad Mom. Dani used to laugh at the note, saying that the real reason she left was because she wanted to screw a teenage surfer-boy in LA. My once kind older sister was never the same after Mom left. She became hostile, mean and just plain cruel.

But I still wanted her and Fred back. Dad and I were the only people in this gigantic house, second to the Lockwood's - another founding family - in size.

Dad used to serve in the military, but now he was a lawyer and a member of the Founder's Council, an anti-vampire society. He was a proud, intelligent and stubborn man who rarely smiled, unless it was around his family. Even Stefan - a vampire - admitted to being scared of him.

Mayor Lockwood had died in a fire. Apparently, it was an accident, but Elena told me that in the building, there were only vampires, and the mayor was mistaken as one since he was affected by some device.

Tyler and I were best friends since we were children. I just always felt close to him, even more than I did Elena, Caroline and Bonnie. We hung out a lot, well, we used to. Before he became a dick.

We never dated, but we had sex once or twice on a drunken whim.

Half the town was at the wake. Dad and I walked up the steps towards the huge Lockwood Mansion.

I wrapped my arms around Tyler and he repriocated. Even though he was an idiot, his dad just died and he needed someone.

"You alright?" I asked, pulling away from him. "Wait... no, don't answer that. Stupid question... you're not okay. Your dad just died."

He laughed. "I'm okay. Talk to you later? Mom's put me on guest-greeting duty."

I nodded. "Yeah, sure."

"Sorry about your loss, Tyler," my dad said.

He looked past my shoulder to my dad. "Thank you, Mr. Hynes."

Dad placed a hand on his shoulder, which was about as much affection someone out of his family would recieve.

"I grew up with your dad. He had a temper and could be a cruel, hostile man, but underneath that, he was a good lad. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise," he said to Tyler.

"Thanks," Tyler replied.

Dad nodded to him and led us inside. Carol Lockwood rushed up to us. "Jack, we need to talk about the- oh, hello, Jessica." She smiled sheepishly upon noticing me. "I need to talk with your father upstairs for a moment, if you'll let me."

"Of course."

That was about the vampire situation, I guessed. She smiled at me and gripped my father's arm gently, leading him away. I poured myself some wine, looked around me to make sure no one noticed.

"Are you sure you're of age?" I turned my head to see Stefan's vampire brother.

"Damon Salvatore."

He smirked. "In the flesh."

"What do you want?" I growled.

I didn't like this guy. He abused Caroline and was trying to get Elena to fall for him and leave Stefan.

"Now, now, why so hostile?" I looked behind him and at Sheriff Forbes, Carol Lockwood and my dad, who were gathered in a small circle, whispering. "I was only wondering how much you know."

"About what?" I asked, knowing perfectly about what he was about to say.

"Vampires," he whispered.

"Oh, you mean the Twilight ones?" I smiled innocently. "They seem hot."

He wiggled their eyebrows. "Oh, do they?"

I rolled my eyes. "No. They're creeps." Damon's smirk widened. "Who want something from me."

He held his hands up defensively. "That's all. I promise. Okay, that's a lie." He approached me. "I'm also here to warn you that if you tell a soul about what we are, I promise you, I will end you."

I stepped closer to him, feeling his hot breath on my cheek. "Or maybe I'll end you," I whispered. It came out more seductive-like than I intended.

Smirking, I walked away from him. Being a werewolf meant that I didn't have to be afraid anymore. Not of vampires anyway.

"I told you about Elena's doppelganger, right?" Bonnie said as we walked through the Lockwood gardens, her voice a whisper. I nodded. "She's here. And she's pretending to be Elena."

"How alike are they?" I asked.

"Like duplicates," she answered. "They're the exact same; even more identical that twins. But Katherine has curly hair, while Elena's is still straight."

I nodded. "But why is this Katherine girl pretending to be Elena?"

"She wants to stir up trouble, I guess," she said, shrugging.

"Nice girl." I sighed. "How's Caroline?"

"She's getting better. Damon slipped her some of his blood. She was asking for you."

I smiled. "I'll visit her tomorrow. I've just been... busy."

"Yeah..." Bonnie's face twisted in confusion. "What's that been about?"

I so badly wanted to tell her, but it would get back to the vampire brothers and I couldn't let that happen.

"Dad's wanted help with his work," I lied.

She raised an eyebrow. Stupid, stupid, stupid! My dad never asked for help. He was good at his job, why would he need me to help him?

Thankfully, Bonnie went along with it. "Okay..." she drawled. "I hope you solved it- or made a good argument on whatever." She paused for a moment, it seemed like she wanted me to admit to lying. "Come on! Your dad's like the greatest lawyer in town, why would he ask you for help?"

I sighed. "I'm sorry, Bon, but it's... something's happened and I can't tell you."

"I tell you everything, maybe it's time you return the favour."

Tyler was drinking from a flask when I entered the Mayor's office. I sat down beside him and laid my head on his shoulder.

"I've missed this," Tyler said.

"What?"

"This. Us. You know... how we used to be before..."

I smirked. "Before what?" I pressed.

He groaned. "Before I became a huge jerk. Happy?"

"Elated."

It amazed me how well decorated the Lockwood Mansion was. It was so... white. Our house was dull and old-fashioned, the only bright rooms in the house was the living room, the sun room, my bathroom and my bedroom. Dad said too much light gave the Hynes men a headache.

Apparently he didn't class Fred as a man.

Tyler wound an arm around my shoulder and I snuggled into his chest. For a moment, I forgot about the curse and the next full moon.

"I guess we have another thing in common now," Tyler said.

"Oh?"

He sighed sadly. "We both only have one parent."

The corner of my mouth twitched. "One lacking parent."

"Mr. Hynes doesn't seem too bad."

"Are you kidding?" I scoffed. "He cares about me and I love him - I really do - it's just... he's always working or doing God-knows-what in the study. He keeps on pretending like nothing is wrong. I don't think he's accepted that our family is a broken one."

"Danielle and Fred could come back."

"Fred... maybe, but Dani? No chance in hell."

"Why?"

"Because she's not very into family. When our mom left, it's like she just stopped caring. It was scary, actually. She burnt everything that reminded her of Mom. Mom leaving scarred her more than she'd care to admit," I said.

"And you? Did it scar you?"

"A tiny bit." My index finger was almost touching my thumb as I showed (lied to) Tyler how much I didn't care.

Tyler scoffed. "Uh-huh."

I rolled my eyes. "How are you feeling? About your dad?"

"Today, everyone was saying how much of a great guy he was," Tyler started. "And I... I didn't believe them. My dad was a dick. But he was my dad... and I miss him, sorta."

I nodded understandingly. "Of course you would." My eyes met his when I looked up. There was this connection (wow, that sounds cliché) between me and him. I leaned in and he did too. My lips pressed on his gently, but became more passionate as our tongues battled for dominance in our mouths. He threw me back on the couch and got on top of me. I wrapped my legs around his waist.

He pulled back from the kiss and smiled. "Now - I really missed this."

Tyler kissed my neck and I moaned. "The no-strings attached hook-ups?"

"You."

I heard the door open and we straightened up. It was Jeremy Gilbert - Elena's baby brother. His eyes widened as he saw me, my hair disheveled. I tried to put it back into place.

I gave Jeremy a small smile before dashing out of the room, straightening the creases on my skirt on the way out.

Got caught almost sleeping with my best friend by my other best friend's kid brother. Elena knew Tyler and I had slept together. It used to be an occasional thing - a mutually satisfying hook-up. But then he became a dick, and I wanted nothing to do with him. Now, he was nicer. It looked like I was getting the old Tyler back. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts, that I bumped into someone.

"Oh, sorry." My eyes met the stranger's. I didn't feel so sorry anymore. "Damon."

"Have you seen Katherine - or curly haired Elena?" he asked.

"Neither," I said. "Sorry."

I attempted to brush passed him, but he gripped my arm and I looked over my shoulder. "I don't know what you are, but I assure you. I will find out."

I put on a small smile. "Good luck with that." I pulled my arm out of his grasp, which shocked him.

"Jessica, you called."

"Why is that so surprising?"

"You've been stuck in a shell for the last couple of days."

I've only been dealing with a freakin' werewolf curse.

"Yeah... well... I've been busy."

"Busy how?"

"Busy, I can't tell you," I said quickly in a knock-knock joke fashion.

"Let's play a guessing game then. I try to guess what's up with you."

I laughed. "Go on, then."

"You... slept with Tyler?"

"What? No!"

"Kissed him?"

I gaped. "How did you know?"

"Because I know you like the back of my hand."

That wasn't the reason. The real reason was the curse, but that was the reason why I was so distracted. I felt kind of... uh... horny. Maybe it was the curse? But I couldn't ask anyone because the only person who knew about the curse was my dad. And there was no way in hell I was going to talk to him about my sex life.

"I'm going to visit you tomorrow," I stated, changing the subject.

"Please do. It's so boring in here. And hospital food is yuck."

I chuckled. "I know. That's why I'm going to bring you a take-away."

"And that is why I love you."

I rolled my eyes. "The way to Caroline Forbes' heart is by buying her take-aways. I'll be sure to tell Matt that."

She giggled. "I have to go. Elena's here."

"Oh, okay, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Love you!"

The phone beeped as she hung up. I put my phone on the table beside me and changed for bed.

Little did I know, that was the last night I'd talk to Caroline Forbes as a human.

Author's Note: That's the first chapter! This story will mostly follow canon but with some Hynes family drama. What do you think?

I can promise you, there will be no Mary-Sue's in this fanfiction. If, at all, you think that anyone is being too perfect, then please let me know.

I think I'm going to introduce the rest of the family in the next few chapters. Maybe an aunt or an uncle too - most likely an aunt.

There are no decided pairings yet. These are the ones I have in mind:

Tyler/Jessica (this one is pretty certain, but I'm not sure which way to go about it or if it should be permanant or temporary)
Damon/Jessica
Klaus/Jessica

Damon/Danielle
Klaus/Danielle

Fred/Caroline
Fred/Bonnie

Any suggestions? Your favourite pairings, even if they're not listed up there? Please review!