HELLO MY LOVELY READERS! This is an idea I've had for a little while now, and with the 5th season of "The Vampire Diaries" and the great feedback I've had from my other story "She's Back" I've decided to go ahead and start writing it. Especially since the introduction of Enzo. I don't know about you guys, but I absolutely LOVE this character. So why not combine the idea I've had with my new favorite character? I hope you guys like this story. It will start at the beginning of season 5, but won't follow every single episode. Just a few at the beginning and then obviously the ones Enzo is in, maybe a chapter or two that aren't episodes. I wanted to wait to find out if Enzo was coming back from the other side and now that we know he is, I can finally post this.

Disclaimer: I do not own TVD, unfortunately. The Vampire Diaries and its' characters belong to the rightful owners.

Please review and let me know what you think. J

BACKGROUND

Charlotte (Charlie) Salvatore is Stefan Salvatore's twin sister. Although she looks like Stefan, she and Damon were more alike. While she does have Stefan's caring traits for family and friends, she also embraces who she is as a vampire like Damon. She's done things she's not proud of, but then again what vampire hasn't?

Since she is Stefan's younger twin, she looks like Stefan: dirty blonde/brown hair that falls in natural waves to her waist, strong facial features, a slim figure, but her eyes are a mixture of both of her brothers – Icy blue with hints of gold and green flecks throughout. She was always complimented on how unique her eyes were. How when she looked at someone it felt like she was seeing into their soul and they could get lost in them.

Family is everything to Charlie. She would do anything for brothers, and it broke her heart that they were torn apart by that vampire bitch Katherine. She kept in touch with both brothers throughout their lifetime, but once she turned she felt she had to go out on her own. Discover who she was in this new and scary world.

Then the day came where she went to visit Stefan, in Mystic Falls of all places, and got the joy of seeing not only one of her brothers, but two. Words couldn't explain the elation she felt at the idea of her family being back together… then walked in the carbon copy of the person who destroyed it.

She was hostile towards Elena at first, naturally, but she came to terms with the fact that Elena wasn't going anywhere. Her family was together, in their hometown, and relatively happy so she was going to make the best of it.

So much had happened in the few years they spent in Mystic Falls together: Stefan and Elena were together, Katherine showed back up, Klaus trying to kill… well everyone and taking Stefan, Elena turning and being SIRED to Damon, Silas. It was all so hard to keep up with, but somehow she managed.

Not only was Elena sired to Damon, she was IN LOVE with him. She had such conflicting emotions: on one hand she was so happy that Damon finally found happiness after being strung along by Katherine for so long, but on the other hand, seeing Stefan's heartbreak brought tears to her eyes. She wasn't happy that Elena had, in lieu of a better term, switched brothers, but you can't help who you fall in love with.

In all her years though, Charlie never found love, well none that she was willing to talk about. Damon knew, but he kept his word all this time and has never told a soul. Stefan didn't know, he didn't need to. It's not like it would make a difference anyway.

So now here she was, at the boarding house… alone, with a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. Stefan left as determined by the agreement of who Elena chose. Damon and Elena were caught up in their own little world. Bonnie was nowhere to be found. Caroline was with her mom already getting started on college preparations. So that left her to occupy her time alone.

She wanted to go with Stefan. As much as she hated to say it, the veil was going to be back up soon and Lexi would be stuck back on the other side, so he would be alone. However, for the first time in all of her existence, she was attempting to live a semi normal life. That included college.

She was registered for Whitmore. All ready to live in a dorm with her friends Caroline, Elena, and Bonnie. Stefan knew how much this meant to her and insisted she stayed. He said a little time alone would do him good and assured her that he would be okay. But she couldn't fight the feeling she had started to get some time after Stefan had left. Like something was seriously wrong but she just couldn't figure out what…

I Know What You Did Last Summer

"There were issues at home. Ever since I lost my parents, my aunt, I've been acting out… drugs, drinking. I was looking for attention, so I lit my house of fire and faked my own death." Jeremy said going over his cover story with Elena and Charlie.

"Really stress the drug thing. And I'd definitely say that the fire was an accident, because there's crazy, and then there's… well me." Elena winced remembering the time she turned off her humanity.

"Yeah, if you just say you lit your house on fire you'll be labeled arsonist of the town and you'll become the scary story that parents use to get their teenager's on the straight and narrow." Charlie mentioned.

"Or I could just not go back, considering my school already had a memorial for me." Jeremy suggested.

A car honking outside disrupts the groups' conversation while Damon shows up carrying a suitcase.

"Caroline just pulled up."

"I-I can't leave. I should stay and at least wait until Jeremy settles in to school-" Elena was cut off by Damon.

"You're leaving. You're going to college. You're gonna drink cheap beer, protest things you don't care about, and keep the frat boys away from my sister." He tells her earning a glare and a scoff from Charlie which he ignores. "And I am gonna take care of your little brother. Trust me, you have nothing to worry about."

"Okay, well at least Whitmore is only a few hours away, so if there's anything you need, Jer, just call me-" She was interrupted again, this time by Jeremy.

"Hey, I'll see you on laundry day." The Gilbert siblings embraced while Damon turns his attention to Charlie.

"You dear sister, are going to stay away from all college guys, get a good education, and act like the respectable young vampire we all know you're not." He explained.

Damon had always been a little over protective of his younger sister but it was his job. He had to protect her from the dangers the world had to offer and keep her from the heartbreak that came with it. He had to scare off the monsters and calm her racing thoughts from the bad dreams. But there were some nightmares she held that he could never protect her from no matter how hard he tried, but he was going to give it his all to protect her from future struggles.

With Charlie's prospects of going to Whitmore, he knew she would be having more nightmares than usual. He insisted that she just stay with him and then go to a different college in the future if she still wanted to. But she told him that she wasn't going to miss out on college with her friends. The place may bring back awful memories, but things were different now. Those people were gone and they weren't coming back. The place that once caused fear and pain was now a simple, normal college, right? She insisted she could do this. He still worried though, because not only did the place bring back daunting memories, but heartbreaking ones. It was times like those that he realized how strong his little sister truly was.

"Yes sir. I will be the ideal vampire. The vampire all other vampires look to for guidance in times of struggle, the one who never does wrong and jumps in to save the day. I will be the epitome of good and controlled vampire." She told him.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds before breaking out into a fit of laughter. They both knew that everything that Charlie just said was basically a lie. Charlie had good control over her bloodlust, about as much as a 'normal' vampire (whatever that is,) but she was known to let loose every now and then and she wasn't a ripper. She knew when to stop and how much blood loss would kill a person, but that doesn't mean she always chose to. It's not like she was a psychotic vampire bent on extinguishing the human race, but she had the temper of her non-look-a-like brother and acted out occasionally. She also had the tendency to snap a neck or two when pushed enough.

While she had a touch of Stefan's sympathetic attitude, when it came to random humans she had the thought process Damon did: Snatch-Eat-Erase. She doesn't just kill for the fun of it, usually, but put her loved ones in danger and she'll make you think dealing with Klaus was a walk in the park. She'd do anything for those she loved. So basically, don't piss her off and you should be fine.

"Alright, alright, just try and behave yourself." Damon said.

"Don't worry. I'll even stick to blood bags as much as possible." She smiled at Damon. The two hugged each other and Damon kissed her on the top her head before letting her go, but not before whispering "if you want to come home call me and I'll be there." wanting to make sure his sister felt safe.

Charlie talked to Jeremy for a few minutes while Damon and Elena said their goodbyes.

"So how do you think this whole long-distance thing is gonna work?" She asked him.

"Well, I personally plan on forgetting about you the second you walk out the door."

Elena gave him a look before taking his face between her hands and kissing him. Charlie and Jeremy looked at each other and shared an eye-role.

"I love you." Elena said after pulling away with Damon returning the sentiment.

"Alright love birds, we have a college campus to destroy… I mean embrace." Charlie winked over to Elena ushering her to the door.

"Alright, off you go. Elena, try to keep her in line." Damon said opening the door for the two college students.

"Hey, I'm older than her." Charlie complained.

"Which means you have more experience in causing trouble." Damon scolded her. "Just don't let her out of your sight." He said to Elena and getting a kick in the shin from Charlie.

"Don't worry. She'll be good." Elena said.

The two finally made their way out of the house but before Damon could close the door Elena pushed it back open kissing him one more time while the two could here Charlie pretend to gag in the background.

The three best friends were making their way around campus and discussing the weird dreams Elena had been having.

"You're dreaming about Stefan?" Caroline asked her childhood friend confused as to what's going on.

"They're not dreams, it's more of a… feeling." Elena explained to her.

"I know what you mean." Charlie spoke up. "I don't know if it's just a twin thing or what, but something just doesn't feel right. It also doesn't help that I haven't heard from him all summer. I mean I know he needed time for himself but I figured he would at least call."

"Maybe you should call him." Elena suggested to Charlie.

"So he can hear how happy Elena is with Damon?" Caroline asked. "I think he just needs to get his head together. He'll call you when he's ready."

"So we should just ignore this feeling?" Elena asked the blonde. "I have this nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach and it's gotten stronger the past few weeks."

"Okay, Elena, that pit is called guilt. You feel terrible because you broke Stefan's heart, and that nagging feeling is your brain waking up to tell you that you've made a horrible, yet completely reversible mistake." Caroline told her.

"Nice try. Besides, Stefan and I left things in a good place." Elena mentioned.

"No offense Elena, but it doesn't mean it hurts him any less since you chose Damon. I mean maybe Caroline's right and he's just off having the summer of his life and is too busy to call." Charlie said.

The other two girls could see the look of hurt cross Charlie's face at the thought of Stefan not calling her.

"Don't worry. I'm sure he's fine." Liz Forbes spoke up slightly startling the girls as they forgot she was there.

Elena decided to change the subject. "We're in college."

"I finally get my college experience." Charlie said happy with the new topic

"We actually made it. We're here!" Caroline exclaimed happily.

None of them knew that Bonnie was stood right next to them. "We're all here together."

(Whitmore College- The Girls' Door Room)

They all began to unpack their things. There were four single beds in the room: Elena and Charlie on one side with Caroline and the empty bed for Bonnie on the other.

"You brought a Panini press?" Charlie asked Caroline.

"Small appliances, by the fridge." Caroline stated already having a place for everything.

"Okay, that's the last one. All right, give me a goodbye hug before I change my mind and drag you home with me." Liz said hugging her daughter not wanting to let go. "You can call as much as you want, you know?"

"Mom, we'll be fine." Caroline said returning the hug with equal feeling.

Liz then looked to Elena. "Come here." She said before embracing her daughter's best friend. "This is where your dad fell in love with medicine, you know? He would be really proud to see you here."

Elena smiled remembering her dad. "Thank you."

Liz then looked to Charlie to give her a hug but noticed she was staring out the window at seemingly nothing. The other two girls noticed the silence at looked over at Charlie, beginning to worry at her glazed over look.

"Charlie, sweetie, are you alright?" Liz asked getting her attention.

"What?" Charlie said breaking away from her thoughts. "Oh yeah, just thinking about how Damon will be able to work the coffee maker without me."

The other three laughed, although they knew that something else was on her mind. They left it alone though knowing she would talk if she wanted to.

"Don't worry. I'll check on him now and then." Liz said hugging the older vampire.

"Okay, go! Before I change my mind and make you stay." Caroline said, shooing her mom away.

"I'm going, I'm going! I love you. Bye, girls." Liz said walking out the door.

The three girls looked at each other excitedly.

"So? Roomies, I think we should drink to something." Elena said.

"Well, I couldn't agree more…" Caroline said opening her suitcase and pulling out three blood bags and distributing them to her friends.

"To us, and college, and being functional vampires." Elena said starting a toast.

"To human experiences." Charlie added.

"To the next chapter in our lives." Caroline finished the toast.

They all 'clinked' the blood bags together when they heard a knock at the door. With vampire speed, they hid the blood bags then turned to face whoever was at the door. An unfamiliar girl walked in carrying a bunch of stuff… as if she was moving in.

"Hey." The unknown girl said.

"Uh, who are you?" Caroline asked.

"Oh, I'm Megan. Your roommate." The girl answered.

The three vampires looked at each other, confused as to what was going on.

The four girls were walking awkwardly together on campus. Charlie had stayed behind for a minute to get her temper under control over not compelling the girl away.

"So your current boyfriend, Damian-"

"Damon." Elena corrected Megan.

"-is your ex's brother and Charlie's twin?"

"Right." Elena answered her.

"You and Stefan are friends, but three months ago he left without saying goodbye."

"Do you think that I should call him?" Elena asked her.

Megan commented "No way," at the same time that Caroline said "Absolutely not."

"Hey guys." Charlie said catching up with them.

"Hey. We were just telling Megan about the Stefan situation." Caroline said filling her in.

"Yeah. Why don't you call him Charlie? I'm sure he would answer you." Megan asked her.

"He needs some time on his own. He'll call me when he can." Charlie said not really wanting to talk about it further.

Megan, catching the hint to drop the subject asked both Charlie and Caroline. "Do you guys have boyfriends?"

"Nope." Charlie said, not too keen on this topic either.

"I do. His name's Tyler." Caroline said seeing Charlie's further frustration. "He had to miss move-in day, but he'll be here for the first day of classes."

"Assuming he registers. And picks a dorm. And buys books." Elena listed off the many things Tyler had still to do before starting school.

"Speaking of minding one's own business, let's talk roommate ground rules. Privacy is very important." Caroline said to Megan.

"Same here."

"I have low blood sugar. My diet's finicky, so keep your paws off my stuff." Caroline said intending to be mean strictly to keep her away from the vampire food pantry.

"We'll split up the shelves." Megan said unfazed by her tone.

"And if I suddenly get up to leave or disappear for a while, don't follow me or look for me." Caroline stated lastly.

"Okay… sounds good." Megan agreed.

"Great, then we agree on everything." Elena said breaking the weird atmosphere.

Someone carrying a flyer approached the roommates. "Excuse me, ladies. Party at Whitmore House tonight." He said handing a flyer to Caroline.

"We'll be there." Elena answered for the group.

The cute boy looked at Caroline and said, "I hope so," before walking away.

Elena wrapped her arm around Caroline with a giddy smile on her face and said. "I love college."

The two friends noticed Charlie staring off again at nothing. Something had been different with her since they got here. Based on the conversation from earlier they figured she was thinking about Stefan and decided to leave the topic alone. They were totally unaware of the different thoughts plaguing Charlie's mind.

Back at the dorm room the three vampires were enjoying the human free room while Megan was out showering. Elena and Charlie seemed lost in their own worlds until Caroline loudly shut a drawer snapping the two back to reality.

"Did you notice how Megan's juicer takes up all the small appliance space? She has an entire drawer dedicated to organic linen." Caroline complained.

"What happened to privacy?" Elena asked.

"Maybe if she didn't take such long showers, I wouldn't have time to go through her stuff." Caroline sassed.

"How are you okay with a fourth roommate?" Charlie spoke up from her spot lounging on Elena's bed.

"Because we're trying to be functional, and being functional means we need friends." Elena explained.

"We also need personal space. I mean, what if I suddenly get a craving, and I want to eat her?" Charlie said.

"Or our blood bags go bad because we can't store them in the mini-fridge? Ugh, and what the hell is protein water?" Caroline pulled out said water from the fridge and opening it. "Maybe if I drink it all, she'll wanna move out."

"Caroline, no-" Elena tried to stop her before Caroline started coughing up the water.

Charlie shot up from her spot and joined Elena and Caroline who was muttering "vervain."

Megan opened the bathroom door, "What's going on? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, she's, uh, she's fine." Elena said while Megan gave a towel to Caroline.

"What happened?" She asked.

"Water just went down the wrong pipe." Caroline lied. "I'm okay, really. I shouldn't have touched your stuff. I'm really sorry."

"It's fine. It just sounded like someone was dying out here. Well, I'm glad you're okay!" She said before leaving again.

"She knows who we are – she drinks vervain water!" Caroline exclaims angrily.

"It doesn't mean she knows about us." Elena argued.

"Seriously? We share a bathroom with this girl! What is she's a hunter and she stakes us when we're in the shower? Or she steals our daylight rings while we're asleep and then we burst into flames when the sun comes up?!"

"Don't you think that, if she was a hunter, we'd be dead by now?" Elena asked.

"She obviously knows about vampires because of vervain. I think we should lock her up. Let the vervain get out of her system, then compel her to forget about us." Charlie gave her idea.

"Charlie, I'm not kidnapping our roommate! The best way to convince her that we're normal, is to act normal, and do normal, human, freshman-y stuff." Elena explained.

"Such as?" Caroline asked.

A sly grin spread across Elena's face and she started moving her shoulders as if she was dancing.

(WHITEMORE HOUSE PARTY)

The girls made their way to the party, excited to do something a normal college student would do when they ran into the young attractive man who handed out flyers earlier.

"Hey, I remember you." The guy said approaching them.

"Hey. Flyer guy." Elena greeted.

"Jesse, technically, but 'Flyer Guy' works, too." Jesse said.

"I'm Elena, this is Caroline and Charlie." Elena pointed to her two friends.

"Nice to meet you two." His said, his gaze lingering on Caroline.

"Hi." Caroline said whereas Charlie simply nodded her head in greeting. The two girls then walk away, ready to start partying.

Elena sends Jesse an apologetic look before following them.

"You can't be nice to the guy?" Elena asked Caroline. The guy was obviously giving her attention and Caroline was blowing him off.

"I'm with Tyler." Caroline said, as if that was explanation enough.

"Are you? Because he hasn't called." Elena debated.

"From the mountains of Appalachia?" Caroline rebutted.

"I'm just saying, I don't want you to get your hopes up thinking that he's coming, when he hasn't really shown much interest." Elena tried to reason.

"Did you tell Damon you were having dreams about Stefan?" Caroline said.

Elena couldn't say anything at that. Caroline felt bad however at the look that crossed Charlie's face at the reminder of her un-communicative twin brother.

Elena and Caroline came to a sudden stop whereas Charlie walked right in.

"What the hell?" Caroline asked.

"Someone must own this place. We have to bit invited in." Elena said but then noticed Charlie could enter the house. "Wait, how can you get in?"

Charlie froze trying to come up with an excuse. "Um, well, uh, when I came to register they gave me a tour. I was invited then." She lied. Luckily they bought it.

Their new roommate showed up, "Hey! I was wondering if you guys were gonna make it."

The younger vampires stood their awkwardly in the doorway when Jesse caught up with them.

"You guys going in, or…?" Jesse asked confused.

"Go ahead." Elena said.

"Why are you guys just standing there?" Megan asked them.

"We were just… Caroline?" Elena asked her friend not knowing what to say.

"Waiting for someone." Caroline offered.

"She's late." Charlie added for the duo.

"So," Caroline muttered.

"Right. Well, I'm gonna go hang." Megan said. "Charlie, you coming?"

"Um, nah. I'll wait here with them. You go, we'll catch up." Charlie said and Megan walked away.

The three of them dropped their very unconvincing smiles.

"Like I said, she knows." Caroline said.

The three vampires were on the edge of the party outside while Elena leaves a voicemail for Megan.

"Hey, Megan, it's Elena. Just calling to let you know why we left, so call me when you get this. Bye."

"Okay, it's settled. When she leaves, we grab her." Caroline said.

"Or we could just let her know you weren't feeling well." Elena explained.

"Elena, she saw you stuck at the threshold, you might as well have flashed your fangs!" Charlie argued, getting more and more frustrated by the second.

"There's no way that out of thousands of freshmen, we were randomly paired with someone who knows about vampires." Elena said. "Besides, she saw Charlie enter the house. I think that had to have thrown her off a little bit."

Caroline added, "Maybe it wasn't random."

Elena's phone rang. "Megan's calling. Hey, Megan." She answered.

"Elena! You have to help me! He's chasing me!" Megan panicked.

"Megan, who's chasing you?" Elena asked her.

"Help me! Oh, my god!" Megan yelled.

They look up towards the house to see nothing out of the ordinary.

"We can't come inside – the line's too long." Elena said trying to figure out what was happening.

"Find out where she is. I can get inside." Charlie said to Elena.

"Elena, please help me!"

Caroline took the phone from Elena when Megan started screaming. "Megan, can you hear me? Where are you? We can help if you tell us where you are."

Something suddenly fell to the ground beside them, and they whirl around towards the object. That object being Megan's dead body.

"Oh, my god!" They all made their way towards her.

Charlie crouched down beside the body, noticing her neck ripped open.

"Who did this to her?" Caroline asked.

"This was a vampire" Charlie said.

Officials had shown up and were covering Megan's body while Elena, Caroline, and Charlie watched on from a short distance away.

"What is happening? Our roommate is dead, there was a vampire at the party…" Elena trailed off.

"We don't know what she knew or who she told. We should get out of here." Caroline said.

Realization crossed Elena's face. "Caroline, I left that message in her voicemail!"

"Don't worry, I took her phone." Charlie said.

"What?" Elena freaked.

Before Charlie could answer a policewoman approached them.

"Hey, girls? I'm Dianne Freeman, I'm head of Campus Security. Are you okay?" She asked carefully.

"I mean, I think so." Elena acted the part of scared roommate. Although she was freaked out, it was just for different reasons.

"I understand Megan was your roommate. I'm so sorry you had to find her like this." Dianne offered condolences.

"Do they know what happened?" Caroline asked her.

"We found a note. Apparently she was struggling with severe depression." The woman explained.

"Wait, what you do you mean you found a note?" Elena asked.

"Your roommate took her own life."

"You think this was a suicide?" Charlie asked incredulously.

"We're convinced it was a suicide, but we can't seem to find her cell phone. Have you seen it?" She asked.

"No." Charlie shook her head.

"Okay. If it turns up, let us know?" The officer asked.

The three girls nodded their heads and the office walked away.

"What is going on?" Elena asked extremely confused.

The girls were making their way back to their room and Charlie listened to the voicemail from Elena on Megan's phone.

"Delete." Charlie said hitting the necessary button to actually delete the message.

They had arrived to their room, but the door was slightly open. Elena cautiously pushed the door the rest of the way. "Someone's been in here."

"Megan's tablet's gone." Caroline noticed.

"Along with her so-called suicide note." Charlie sneered.

"Can I see her phone for a second?" Elena asked Charlie who gave her the phone.

"It just doesn't make any sense. First, the roommate we're not supposed to have might know about vampires, and then happens to be killed by a vampire, and now the school's covering it up? Seriously, who is this girl?" Caroline asked.

"Whatever's going on, it's not just about our roommate. It's about me." Elena said to her friends and held up Megan's phone. "That's Megan – with my dad."

Caroline sat in her bed crying as she listened to a voicemail from Tyler saying he wasn't coming back for school.

"I'm really glad that you're here." Caroline said to her friend.

"I'm really glad you're here too." Elena said back.

They both looked towards Charlie's bed to notice it empty.

Elena asks Caroline, "Did you see her leave?"

"No I didn't. But I know something's been on her mind lately. She probably just went to get some air." Caroline reasoned.

"Yeah, you're right." Elena said back and Caroline went back to sleep.

Elena was kept awake however. She had noticed that Charlie's behavior had been different since they got here, like she was always lost in her thoughts. She narrowed it down to Stefan not being here and not calling her all summer. That's all it could be… right?

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