"CHASING PERFECTION"
The Vampire Diaries Fanfiction

Chasing Perfection is a Vampire Diaries fanfiction which takes place on season one and will follow through each episodes while including an original character Alexandra Gilbert, Jeremy's twin sister. But don't worry, there will be slight differences and add-ins from the show. However, despite focusing on Alex and her slowly building relationship with Damon Salvatore, there will be a lot of characters to show up as story starts progressing, I'm planning to write this until season five, depends on how people like the story and want me to continue to the fifth season later!

P.S, I envision my original characters (Both Alexandra and Serena/Serene) as Crystal Reed. I think she perfectly suits the role. Anyway, this story was originally posted on 2013 but I've decided to rewrite and repost it under a different title!

Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries nor all the characters involved, only my original characters and anything you don't recognize!

Chasing Perfection
Season 1
Chapter 1: Pilot

It was an early morning on monday when summer has sadly and officially ended. Alex slowly woke up because of a bright light that went in through the windows. There was a familiar figure standing next to her bed, it was no other than her older sister. Still sleepy, she decided to go back to sleep and let out a quiet yawn. "Hey, Alex, wake up. Time for school." Elena whispered while shaking her shoulders to distract her from going back to sleep.

Alex mumbled quietly while trying to stop her sister from keep waking her up because her body was very desperate for more rest. She groaned and burried her head underneath the cover avoiding her sister from shaking her shoulders again. It was as if she had a sleepless night, and this was way too early to wake up with such conditions. Elena sighed while once again shaking her shoulders to wake her up, "Alex, come on, we are going back to school. You know you don't wanna be late for school, aren't you?"

Seemed like her sister won this time. Alex finally gave in and stiffly sat up on the bed, squeezing her eyes as she saw her sister smiling. She couldn't help but to mirror the smile while slowly moving on from the bed to tie her hair in front of the mirror where she saw herself. "Summer ended so fast," she let out a deep frustrated sigh while looking for her outfits in her wardrobe.

"Yep, but... Let's move on," Elena paused herself for a few seconds, "You know. Bad things happened during our summer but I think we should really get over it, 'Lex. It's a new day."

"Yeah, I know." Alex said, starting to fade all the worry and all the pain she felt because as what her sister said, they had to move on, though she knew it was going to be difficult. Not a simply difficult, but quite difficult, especially when it came to her parents. Knowing her sister has left, she made a way to the bathroom quickly before time ran faster and she will be late.

A few minutes later, Alex walked downstairs heading to the kitchen accompanied by her sister, seeing Jenna was busy in the kitchen. After their parents' death, she has been the only one person they could count on, she was always the person who was willing to be busy just for them three. "Oh, hey there girls. Enjoy your coffees," their aunt, Jenna, automatically turned around as soon as she noticed their nieces were all there in the kitchen. Somewhat she was looking for someone else to be there. "Where is your brother?"

Both sisters exchanged glances before noticing Jeremy was walking past them reluctantly, as if he'd lose his energy for the whole night, worse than his twin whenever she was waking up. "Well, the boy is here," Alex tilted her head giving gesture at her twin brother who was rolling his eyes more in a sarcastic way, but then she replied with same gestures. Her feet moved toward the table while her hand started grabbing one of the served mugs on it. "Nice manner you have, twinnie, is that walking past your sisters like nobody was standing here becomes the best way for you to start the day?"

"Good morning too, kiddo," Jeremy greeted with a weird and creepy grin which was enough making her quite irritated. He hugged her for only two seconds and grabbed her mug and drank the whole contents. "This coffee tastes nice."

"Well, excuse you, Jeremy Gilbert!" Alex glared at her brother but what she received was only a light shrug and bitter smile from her brother and it totally got her on her nerves. "This is how you treat your twin sister?"

Jeremy rolled his eyes again, taking his bag and put it over his shoulder, ready to leave for school before he received more flames from his twin sister. "I'm going to school right now," he said defending himself from the topic, his feet begun walking over Alex carefully. As soon as he was there, he gave her a tight hug and ruffled her hair, finally spoke halfassly and walked away to the door. "See you."

"Hey, you gonna be okay, aren't you?" Elena whispered and grabbed his arm knowing that he has been avoiding her the most all these time. No, actually only after their parents' death. Jeremy stopped for a few seconds and turned around only to spoke "don't start," and left the house quickly.

"He'll be alright, 'Lena. Don't worry," Alex convinced her sister while looking at her, feeling sorry for her and tried to think of something, a way, to make her sister feel better. She knew this family was no longer functional after their parents' death but she always tried to make it better, she always did. Elena and their aunt knew that.

"I don't know, he hates me." Elena looked back slightly with a quiet frustrated sigh, grabbing her mug and drank the content while waiting for an answer from her sister.

Jenna turned to her nieces, wondering if they will be alright with all these new life without their parents. She noticed that her nephew was kinda troubled lately, unlike his twin sister who was still sitting here and tried to comfort her older sister to fix everything. "No, it didn't seem like he hate you though I'm kinda sure he was annoyed that you don't like Matt's sister. You know, all that stuff."

"Hello, Alex! Isn't it you who don't like her?" Elena glared at her sister, her face twisted between anger and irritation of hearing Alex not defending her in the case. She was kinda feeling hurt, disillusioned, disappointed.

"At least I respect his decision. My brother's decision. And what about you? You used to date her brother and he didn't mind. Now you don't let him close to your ex's sister?" Alex was definitely defending her brother right now, her voice was stern, her gaze looked different. She took a deep breathe and felt a twinge of guilt inside her heart a few second later after realizing she was being mad at her sister. And now she had her head on her palm as she grabbed a fistful of her hair, frustratedly. "I'm sorry, I'm becoming emotional again, I'm really sorry, Elena."

Elena let out a deep breathe, understanding that her sister was still a little bit troubled about whatever happened, just like her twin, but she was showing it in a different way. Not long after their little debate, they heard car's horn outside their house which they recognize. "I think that's Bonnie, come on." Elena said while finishing her coffee together with Alex before they hugged their aunts.

"Gotta go, bye Aunt Jenna." Alex said slinging her bag on her shoulder and grabbed two bottles of freshwater and gave one to her sister.

In the car, the sisters once again waved at Jenna before leaving together with their bestfriend before she drove down the road—heading to their school immediately. Elena was sitting on the front seat next to her friend while Alex sat on the back, leaning on the window glass and looked at the road through it. "Elena," she called out softly. "Sorry,"

"Don't bring this again." Elena turned back and smiled to her sister as if she had forgot the whole conversations they had this morning.
Alex smiled respoding to her sister. "Alright,"

"Something happen again between you two?" Bonnie slightly glanced at both sisters, half-smiling, but still busy driving her car.

"Nope," the youngest sister answered awkwardly, giving the best fake smile she could give. "Just a little debate. Family matters, you know."

Suddenly, their conversations were cut off when a black crow hit the car and caused Bonnie to hit the brakes as the tires screeched loudly, and she stopped the car at the edge of the street. The three of them were breathing heavily due to being shocked. "Are you okay?" Bonnie asked, a little bit panic as well about what just happened.

"Yeah, how about you?" Elena swap the question back to her bestfriend and looked at Alex. "And you, Alex, you alright?"

"Totally." "Yeah." Both younger sister and the bestfriend said together at the same time, somewhat it amused Elena quite enough to hear them, they were cute eventhough Bonnie was a year older than Alex.

"Well... What the hell was that?" Alex gulped and almost freaked out for the moment—it was like her heart was no longer beating regularly anymore. Her eyes completely filled with shock.

"I think that's a bird. It came out of nowhere, didn't see that coming." Bonnie informed, trying to calm them down most especially the little Gilbert who was troubled with her shocked feeling most of time. She breathed out once again, leaning her head onto the small pillow on the seat and restarted the engine to immediately drove them all to school. "We should really go back to the road before it's late."

Alex got out of the car, grabbing her bag while sliding it on her shoulder as she linked her arms with her older sister before walking into the school building together with their bestfriend who drove them here. They smiled, it was actually good to be back to school after a long summer break because there will be loads of gossips, parties and events that were waiting and that was the part that Alex actually loved about school.

When the two were walking down the hall, an athletic guy came behind them and covered both of Alex's eyes with his hands. Elena turned around and was about to inform her sister about the guy, but he mouthed her not to tell Alex since he wanted to give her a surprise. "Who is this?" Alex asked while rubbing his hands, and she could only hear her sister's playful giggle. "Tyler?" She guessed.

He finally let his hands away from her face, laughing softly at his girlfriend before cupping her face while rubbing it and led his lips onto hers. "I've missed you," he spoke softly after the kiss. Elena only smiled and backed off with Bonnie. "I will be with Bonnie. See you guys,"

"Okay, see you, 'Lena!" Alex literally half-shouting as she saw them waving their hands at her. She managed to wave back and continue walking with her boyfriend Tyler along the hallway and went somewhere.

Bonnie was still smiling. "They are like the cuties I usually see in movies," she commented, accompanied with a light chuckle. "They look cute together."

"They are," Elena giggled while still walking along the hallway until they reached their lockers where she saw someone she knew for a long time, her ex-boyfriend—Matt—and she waved at him. Too bad he ignored her, showing his hurt feeling in his eyes before shutting the locker and walked away. "He hates me." She groaned, turning back around, avoiding finding him anymore after he left a while ago.

"That's not hate. That's 'you dumped me, but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits.'" Bonnie contradicted her, saving her from feeling guilty and everything else. Behind them, they heard their familiar bestfriend's voice. Caroline. She looked beautiful with a wide grin, blonde straight short hair, natural but pretty make up and modern blue blouse that completed her perfect appearance.

"Elena! Oh my god." She literally exclaimed while coming closer to pull her bestfriend, Elena, into a hug. "How are you? Oh, it's good to see you." She let go of her and then turned to Bonnie. "How is she? Is she good?"

Elena looked at her bestfriend, and said. "Caroline. I'm right here. And I'm fine. Thank you."

"Really?" Caroline frowned slightly, "How about Alex?"

"Yes. Much better," Elena replied, "And she is fine too. Thank you again, Caroline."

"Oh, you poor thing." Caroline pulled her in for another hug to give some supports for her, between knowing and didn't know that she was acting about being fine. "Well gotta go, see you guys later?"

Both Elena and Bonnie nodded with a bitter smile plastered on their faces. "Yeah. See you."

The two bestfriends eventually continued walking together pass by the administration office only to see someone was signing up. "Whoa, who's this guy..." Bonnie wondered as her eyebrows rose, watching him from the back. Elena followed the gaze into the room, seeing the back of a tall, dashing and masculine guy standing near the administration table. "He is hot, isn't he?" She added without looking at her bestfriend yet while Elena's attention suddenly turned to her brother who was sneaking into the bathroom like he was hiding something.

"I'll be right back."She said, between aghast and anger, while walking into the male bathroom to get to her brother. That was extreme, but she couldn't just let him be.

"Please be hot," Bonnie chanted, still looking at the back of the guy in the office.

Several guys were surprised to see Elena entering the male bathroom instead of the female one, but she ignored them all and immediately caught Jeremy using eye drops. She held his face—pinching his cheeks together in one hand—and looked directly into his eyes. "What have you done?" She asked protectively while still scanning his eyes to see if he was high. "Great. It's the first day of school and you're already stoned!"

"No, I'm not. I have done nothing!" Jeremy denied, staring at his sister weirdly, trying to push her from him but no intention of harm.

"Where is it? Jer, tell me! Is it on you?" She kept keep asking questions, looking at him in a way he didn't like, patting him down.

"Stop, all right?! You need to chill yourself, all right?" Jeremy yelled sarcastically, this was the reason they didn't get along like he and his twin sister. She was protective and it was over the line. And he didn't like it.

"Chill myself? What is that, stoner talk? Dude, you are so cool." With full disgust, she hissed while patting him down once again, making him more upset. "Stop it! I don't have anything on me, okay? I'm good! Are you crazy?"

"Good what? I gave you summer pass, but I'm done watching you destroy yourself. No, no, no, you know what? Go ahead, keep it up. But just know that I'm going to be there to ruin your buzz everytime, you got it?"

Jeremy was still watching how his sister talked, it was kinda annoying but he knew she was doing something she thought was right. He rolled his eyes, trying to escape but she was still blocking his way. She was still worried about him doing something bad or even worse. "Jeremy, I know who you are. And it's not this person, so don't be that person. And listen... if I know you're doing something real bad, I will make sure to give your twin a chance to watch over you and that's it."

With that, she released her hands off his cheeks and glared at her brother like he was going to die within seconds in her arms. That didn't bother him yet, he growled angrily while making his way leaving the bathroom. "I don't need these, I'm okay, I told you."

She sighed, rubbing her arms, and began to leave the male bathroom as well but unfortunately was bumping onto this guy she saw inside the administrator office. "Whoa," she said in aghast before he could talk anything. She was literally having red blushes on her cheeks.

"Uh, pardon me. Is this the men's room?" The guy asked with a charming friendly smile while staring into her eyes and he thought she looked exactly like someone he knew in the past but somehow different at the same time, yet he didn't regret coming here.

"Yeah, uh, I was just, um, it's a long story." She nervously replied, hanging on every words while smiling back toward the guy—unfortunately she had to go. When she was going to shove past him, she failed as he went that way, undirectly blocking her way. Understanding she needed to leave, he made a way for her before she left with one last glance for him. "Thanks,"

"Let's see who is moving on," Alex suddenly came out of nowhere with a smirk plastering her lips, teasing her older sister. "So, a new guy, huh? Nice."

"Shut up Alex," Elena hushed. "We only bumped on each other and apologize."

"Just kidding!" She replied with an amused grin, holding a few books in her arms while heading to their classes together before stopping in front of a door. "I gotta go, class here. Bye El, love you."

"Love you too, Al,"

Local Cemetery

Elena walked to see her parents graves while holding four pieces of flowers. Her gaze turned to their grave stones where her parents' name were written on it, and suddenly, she felt the hole inside her heart again. Feeling the great loss of her parents. She smiled, but it wasn't happy, it was a sad and bitter one knowing that they were gone from her, her sister's, and her brother's life forever. She placed two flowers on each graves of their parents before sitting nearby and wrote on her diary.

After writting on her diary book, she saw a crow was hanging on her grandparents grave stones and fog started to ascend around the cemetery. She stood up, looking around and suddenly saw a figure was standing behind a tomb when she started to ran until she tripped and fell, her leg was injured and when she got up, she saw the new guy was standing in front of her.

"You okay?" He asked while tilting his head slightly. Her face turned into a happy expression or blush; when she saw the new guy. "Were you following me?" She asked, breathless.

"No. I, uh, I just... I saw you fall." He stuttered, still looking at Elena. "Uh-huh, and you just happened to be hanging out in a cemetery." Elena stated suspiciously about his statement.

"Well, I'm visiting, I have a family here." He informed her with a gentle voice tone.

"Woah. Uh... I'm sorry." She gulped before she continued talking again, "It's the fog, it was creepy and there was this... this bird, and it was all very Hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie, right, the Hitchcock?"

There was a long pause, the moment where her eyes locked with his, but she broke the silence with an introduction of herself, being slightly nervous when her eyes met his. "I'm Elena." She introduced with a shy smile.

"I'm Stefan." He countered with a small chuckle, his hand was lifted up to her hair, pulling out a leaf out of Elena's hair. Her eyes flickered to his fingers where a big silver and blue ring with an S in the middle was wore on his finger. "Thanks... Uh, nice ring." She said smiling.

"Oh. Um, it's a family ring. I'm kinda stuck with it. It's weird, huh?" Stefan chuckled while rubbing his ring.

"No, no. It's just, I mean, there are rings and then there's that." She explained tersely as he decided to ask something to change the subjects.

"Did you hurt yourself?"

"Hmm?" She asked confusedly.

"Did you hurt yourself?"

"Oh. I don't know. Uh," she rolled up her jeans and found a wound with blood pouring out when Stefan turned around as his face started to change. No, he can't be like this in front of her—it's a secret he needed to keep from everyone including this girl though she may looked like someone in the past. "Oh god. That is not pretty." She said but was confused looking at Stefan turning around in a sudden. "Um, are you okay?" She asked. His eyes started to change, he was still trying to calm himself down and resist his blood craving at the moment and breathed. "You should go, and take care of that."

She looked at her leg again and then she looked up only to notice Stefan wasn't there any longer. "Really, it's noth—"
"Stefan?" She called out but no answer. Knowing that he left, she sighed and decided to go home and healed her wound.

Arriving home, she was welcomed by her aunt with questions about her leg that was wounded. She immediately grabbed a bowl of hot water and a piece of cloth. "What happened with your leg, Elena?"

"I tripped and fell. Where is Alex?"

"I thought you're going to the grill with her," Jenna looked at her niece and down to her leg, seeing the wound on it, and immediately dipping the cloth into the bowl of water, rubbing it onto her wounded leg.

"She is at the grill?" Elena winced when the cloth touched her leg. "And no, I wasn't with anybody... only at the cemetery. I think I should see Alex."

"You're wounded." Jenna reminded gesturing to her wounded leg.

"It's okay, Aunt Jenna. I just want to check on her. Please?"

"Alright, does it feel better?" Jenna asked calmly while tidying the stuffs. Her eyes wasn't looking at her niece yet when she replied. "Yes, it's—"

Elena was cut off when she heard the door was knocked a couple of times. Hearing this, Jenna immediately drop the bowl on the table and checked who was coming. "I'll go check on it, you stay here." She declared, opening the door only to see a young male was standing in front of her, with the charming smile. It was Stefan. "Excuse me, is Elena Gilbert here?"

Jenna made no reply but smirking and immediately called out her niece to come over. "Elena," with that she stood up on her own, slowly but sure, approaching her aunt and stood right next to her side. "What─?

"Sorry, I wanted to apologise for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was... strange." He explained calmly, receiving a shy smile again from her as soon as Jenna left the two alone in their own world. "No worries. I get it, blood makes you squeamish."

"Um, something like that. How's your leg?" He gestured to her leg that was injured a while ago.

"It's fine. Just a scratch, barely. How did you know where I lived?" She asked suspicious, narrowing her eyes at him.

"It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw. Um, I thought you might want this back." He said, handing Elena her diary.

"Oh, I must have dropped it. Thank you." She smiled shyly while brushing a piece of her hair behind her ear. He could read that she was also worried if he read the contents of her diary, although she didn't really show the expression toward him.

"Don't worry, I didn't...read it." Stefan assured with a smile back.

"No? Why not? Most people would have." Elena asked with a teasing grin, trying to broke the awkward thing between them two. Stefan looked down to his toe, "Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine."

"You keep a journal?" She asked another question with a flat expression waiting for him to respond. "Yeah, if I don't write it down, I forget it. Memories are too important."

"Yeah. I'm just gonna...umm, you don't have to stay out there." Elena told him while running upstairs to her room sharply as Stefan was scanning the door, somewhat he couldn't enter the house. "I'm fine. Sorry, were you going somewhere?"

"Yeah, I'm going to check on my sister and probably meeting some friends. Do you wanna come?"

Both of their eyes met and locked again, her brown eyes were staring at his very carefully and unknowingly, a smile rose on both of their lips. It was almost too perfect. "Sure." Stefan let out a chuckle as she smiled. "Okay."

Mystic Grill

Alex leaned back on a chair at the grill, beside her there was her boyfriend and around her were her friends, they were all discussing random topics that came out from ther minds that time. At the same time, she captured someone suspicious wearing black shirt entered the grill and walked to the bar table making her curious. "Alex?" Tyler called, making sure that she was actually fine because he was aware that she didn't pay attention to the conversation anymore. "Uh, yeah, sorry." Alex gulped looking at him, aghast, worried.

"How's Elena doing?" Matt questioned, his face was twisted in hope but his voice sounded like he was worried, but at the same time she understood how her sister needed time to move on.

"Her mom and dad died. How do you think? She's putting on a good face, but it's only been four months." Bonnie replied and this time turned her face to see Alex who was frozen for a few seconds.

"Oh, guys, come on. Not this conversation again." Tyler rolled his eyes while comforting his girlfriend, rubbing her back gently, eventually gave a kiss on her head. Alex responded smiling shyly and looked up at him.

"Okay, I'm sorry, but has she said anything about me?" This time Matt asked the sister with a hopeful look.

"Oh, no. I'm so not getting in the middle. You pick up the phone and call her." Alex replied simply holding her hands up while shaking her head, trying to convince him to call her sister instead of keep asking about her to any of her friends but ignored her whenever she was around.

"I feel weird calling her. She broke up with me."

"Well, then. You should give her more time." With that Alex let out a deep sigh and grabbed a glass of tequilla, drinking the content down, before she noticed Elena came with the new guy, looking around like lost puppies.

Matt stood up, they could feel he was tensed. "More time huh?" He hissed walking over his ex girlfriend and new friend or boyfriend, perhaps.

Alex raised her brows, looking around again and searched for the guy she saw earlier but he was gone without she could even notice. Where the hell is he?

"Hey, I'm Matt, nice to meet you." Matt came to them while introducing himself, awkward, but he had to face this.

"Hey. Stefan." Stefan replied calmly, introducing himself back in return.

"Hey," Elena greeted as soon as they were done introducing themselves.

Matt looked over his ex, replying her greet, before leaving them. "Hey."

"Well, that was awkward." Alex commented, her eyes were watching Matt in worry, wondering if he would be fine with all these stuffs. Then her eyes met with the new guy's eyes that were watching her the whole time, she leaned back as he came closer to sit. He thought she reminded him of someone he knew again. Isn't she S—

"So, you were born in Mystic Falls?" Caroline questioned and it distracted his thoughts. Stefan immediately turned to her and gave an answer. "Mm-hmm. And moved when I was still young."

"Parents?" Bonnie questioned tersely, being extremely curious about this new guy. Stefan replied. "My parents passed away."

"I'm sorry. Any siblings?" Elena wondered.

"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle." Stefan replied still with his charming smile he usually show in front of the girls.

"So, Stefan Salvatore, if you're new then you don't know about the party tomorrow, right?" Caroline asked after glaring at Elena whom Stefan was smiling at, she was just insecure about Elena and hour popularity amongst the guys.

"It's a back to school thing at the falls." Bonnie explained to Stefan with a smile but he didn't move his gaze from Elena yet. "Are you going, Elena?" Stefan asked, ignoring everyone around him, smiling again and over again.

"Can't miss it." Elena faked a pout and giggled.

Alex watched how her sister interacted with Stefan, it was so different. There was this feeling she had about them being together and she thought they were romantically being involved into eachother's life. She couldn't help but to smile at their cuteness, resting her head onto Tyler's chest as he was still accompanying her though he wanted to go.

After an hour of getting her make up and hair done, Alex was trying to decide what to wear for the party. There was her older sister in her room, drying her hair while looking at Alex who was holding a dress out while looking in the full length mirror. "Did you look into his eyes?" Alex said unbelieveably while rolling her eyes and started getting changed into the mini dress. "Who? Matt?" Elena answered.

"Yeah." Alex said, adjusting her mini dress.

"Not really, why?"

"He was like hoping for you to get back to him,"

"No, he don't." Elena held her hands up before walking to the door and headed to her own room, but saw someone athletic was standing in front of the door. "Oh, Tyler. You're creepy for being there like that..."

"Sorry," Tyler smiled. His jaw suddenly broke open when he saw his girlfriend in that dress, that wasn't too long before he rushed toward her and hugged her. "Look at you, babe."

"I'll be in my room." Elena smiled seeing them together.

"Wait, who are you going to the party with?" Her sister stopped her, her hands were still on Tyler's shoulder.

"Bonnie." Elena answered, "You can go."

Nodding, both Tyler and Alex quickly walked down the stairs and left the house to his car, heading to the party venue that wasn't far from the area. When the car was away from the house, she could see another car stopped in front. "I think that's Bonnie." Alex said tersely while looking back to the road.

"Yeah, she sounded like hoping Stefan would pick her up or maybe her ex would come." Tyler scoffed driving ahead to the venue and she rolled her eyes, hitting him on the arm. "Tyler!"

"Hey! Alright, sorry. I was just kidding, you know me." Tyler said, giving a flat nonchalant expression but still pleading for her to forgive what he said.

"You are not cool, Ty. Stop making jokes about her, she is my sister."

Tyler nodded and chuckled softly, begun to pinch her cheeks with his left hand while his other one was driving the car's wheel. "Tyler! Stop pinching me! Ty!" Alex laughed softly but then her happy expression faded when she saw a man in black was standing in front of the car. "Ty, watch out!"

He stopped the car immediately by hitting the brakes, lucky that they didn't hit on something or crashed on anything, so they didn't get hurt after all. "Are you okay?" Tyler questioned in concern. "Who's that? Where is he? Did we actually crash him?"

"I have no idea... And yeah I'm okay. Are you?" Alex breathed out uncomfortably, rubbing his shoulder. "Yeah, let's get back to the road." Tyler stated while driving away onto the road.

When the two were arrived at the venue, they got out of the car, seeing a few teenagers were already crowding the area which was already decorated with bright lights and several drinks served on the tables. "I'm gonna go get the drinks there. Wait here," Tyler smiled while walking away, grabbing two glasses of drinks far from where she stood.

"Hey." Someone came beside her with a simple masculine look as always, and the charming friendly and kind smile most women would fall in love of. Alex let out a heavy breath where he had scared her with his silent and quick approach toward her. "Next time, don't do that, ever again." She warned.

He looked down to his shoes and then immediately looked up with another charming smile. "Yeah, sorry." He chuckled and narrowed his eyes. "Have you seen Elena?"

"She's on the way. I came way too earlier," she shrugged her shoulders lightly and smiled at Stefan. "You know, she was in a rough shape."

"Yeah, I know. She seems like feeling down, I think I can help her with that." He said nodding lightly. "I'm going to get myself a drink. Have fun."

"Okay." Alex smiled watching him walking away from her as Tyler approached. She was really amused at the fact that Stefan was all the good guy, and he'd never been the bad guy like what she thought at first impression. "You're talking to the guy who was the reason of why Matt upset?" Tyler protested.

"Don't start." She sighed looking deeply into his eyes.

"Let's just get out of the crowd. I'm bored here," he told her while handing her the cup of drink and pulled her hand into the woods and both stopped near the big tree. "You know what, I felt worried about you. Are you fine with everything? I mean all the dealing with your parents stuff, you okay?"

Alex gulped down the drink—looking up to the sky as soon as she was about to finish her drink within seconds. She only nodded answering his question since she didn't like talking about it. "Woah, you finished them real quick," he smirked and both started kissing, slowly and softly, but soon turned into a passionate and deep kiss. But they stopped when they heard a voice of a crow nearby, including seeing all the fogs around them. "What the hell?" Tyler backed off, looking around.

"Someone help!" Both heard a familiar voice hollered and the crowded were very noisy talking about something out there until Alex realized it was her sister's voice. "That's my sister, come on, Ty!" She said, holding his hand and made their way leaving the woods, back to the crowded venue. They saw Jeremy and Elena were carrying Vicki. Matt, as the brother, came over and helped the two carrying his little sister. Tyler was panicked, "Wait, babe. I think I should help them right now."

"What happened?" Matt questioned, and a second later he yelled as if being extremely panic about his sister. "What the- somebody please call an ambulance!"

Alex shoved past everyone to see Vicki, she gasped in shock. "Oh my god.. It's her neck! Something bit her. She is losing a lot of blood."

"Dammit, Vicki, come on. Open your eyes, look at me." Matt was alarmed and upset seeing his sister like this, being weak and hurt especially bleeding severely.

Stefan could feel the blood of her neck pouring from the open wound when he saw the bite mark. He took note of the mark as his mouth fell open, running away from the party, heading to the boarding house where he saw Zach was sitting at his desk.

"What's going on?" Zach asked casually looking at his uncle who was really in panic. "Someone else was attacked tonight, Zach, and it wasn't by me." He clarified frustratedly and running upstairs to his room quickly, slamming the door shut behind him. There was obviously another vampire in town, but he hadn't encounter the vampire yet, his mind was all about the bite mark on the girls neck. Suddenly he was cut off when a crow appeared, landed on one of the beams on his ceiling and when he turned around, he was shocked to see a figure standing there on the other side of the doorway, a playful smirk was playing on his lips. "Damon." He announced.

"Hello, brother." Damon purred with the smirk signature on, walking into the room as the crow disappeared when Stefan and Damon stared at each other. "Crow's a bit much, don't you think?" Stefan asked.

"Wait until you see what I can do with the fog." He wiggled his eye brows but ended up glaring at his little brother in front of him.

"When did you get here?" Stefan asked bluntly.

"Well, I couldn't miss your first day of school." Damon joked while started to explore the room and stopped near a shelf, running a hand on each contents. "Your hair's different, I like it."

"It's been 15 years, Damon." Stefan replied tilting his head when Damon rolled his eyes as in sarcasm.

"Thank God, I couldn't take another day of the 90s." Damon smirked playfully and raised his brows before continued talking to his brother. "That horrible grunge look, did not suit you." He scoffed while walking around the room. "Remember, Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads."

"Why are you here?" Stefan made the question more clear by raising his voice like he was retorting. Damon looked at him with a playful look and replied Stefan's question like it was so simple. "I missed my little brother."

"You hate small towns, it's boring, there is nothing for you to do." Stefan announced calmly watching his brother walked near to the shelf again.
"I've kept myself busy." Damon smirked.

Stefan nodded, slipping his hands into his pocket. "You know you left that girl alive tonight, very clumsy."

"That could be a problem... For you." Damon said lowering his voice and glared darkly at his brother before he could even answer.

Stefan shook his head, irritated at how his brother was calm with all the troubles he made for the past weeks. "Why are you here now?"

"I could ask you the same question, however, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up into one little word," Damon paused walking closer to his brother with a dangerous smirk started to appear, "Elena."

Alex and Elena both sat there watching the paramedics came carrying Vicki into the back of an ambulance van as Matt was there inside the van before it left and blare the sirens. Tonight was terrifying—the party was forcefully closed because of the indicent. Everyone left as they were told do except for them who were all basically Vicki's friends. They were still sitting on the wooden cottage, Caroline was sitting across theirs seat, not wanting to join them in particular but can still see and hear them clearly.

"Hey, we're gonna go to Mainline Coffee and wait for news." Bonnie informed the rest of her friends. They were shaking about what just happened to one of their friend—although Vicki was actually a friend with bad habit, they couldn't forget how she had been their friends for years. "Well, I'm gonna take Jeremy home." Elena replied, standing up, looking at everyone.

"Guys, there is no way I'm psychic." Bonnie announced carefully. "But whatever I saw, or I think I saw, I have this feeling..."

"Bonnie, what?" Alex looked at her, Tyler beside her started to look at Bonnie as well while still rubbing his girlfriend's shoulder gently. There was a long pause, the group were curious about what Bonnie will answer.

"That it's just the beginning." Bonnie finally replied, but with a scared look on her face, causing Alex and Elena to exchange looks at each other, terrified. Beginning of what?

Back to the Salvatores residence, the argument was still up as Damon paced the room slowly while his brother was busy watching him around. "Elena?" Damon creased his brows. "She's a dead ringer for Katherine."

Stefan walked a little bit closer, still watching his brother's moves. "Is it working, Stefan? Being around her, being in her world, does it make you feel alive?" Damon mocked with an evil grin.

"She's not Katherine." Stefan clarified carefully, hanging on each words.

"Well, let's hope not, we all know how that ended. You, me, Katherine and Serene. You gonna need tissues, brother." Damon looked at the ceilings but then turned to Stefan in an instant. There's no reply.

"Tell me, when is the last time you had something stronger than a squirrel." Damon changed the subject, wiggling his eyebrows at him. Stefan responded rolling his eyes, scoffing at his brother was about to leave. "I know what you're doing, Damon, it's not gonna work."
Damon grabbed him immediately turning Stefan to face him. He knew exactly how to provoke the short-haired little guy, or annoy him to be exact. "Yeah? Come on! Don't you crave a little?"

"Stop." Stefan warned, raising an eye brow.

"Let's do it, together." Damon hit him again on the shoulder. "I saw a couple of girls out there."

Stefan gasped as his brother smacked him over again. "Or lets, lets just cut to the chase. Lets go straight for Elena and Alex!"

Impatient and angry, Stefan suddenly shoved him back, exclaiming in anger. "Stop it!"

"Imagine what their blood taste like!" Damon said, half-shouting, watching his brother turned. It was almost there, Damon was almost successful provoking him, and this time he purred playfully. "I can."

"I said stop!" Stefan yelled as his eyes turning a deep crimson, black veins popping around them and his fangs clicking down—he growled while launching himself at his older brother, pushing Damon and both were thrown through a closed window—landing hard on the concrete ground but only Stefan was seemed laying there, as then he pulled himself up with a loud groan escaped his lips.

"I was impressed." Damon said standing near a bush across where Stefan was at. "I give it a six, miss on style, but I was pleasantly surprised." He joked sarcastically. "Very good with the face." He made a goofy growling noise to mock him with a chuckle. "It was good."

"You know, it's all fun and games, Damon, huh? But wherever you go people die." Stefan walked over to him taking his time when Damon shrugged slowly. "That's a given."

"Not here," Stefan shook his head, showing his authority. "I won't allow it."

"I'll take that as an invitation." Damon muttered, wiggling his eye brows and ended with him pressing his lower lips.

Stefan sighed loudly, sounded like he was tired of all these. "Damon, please, after all these years can't we just give it a rest?"

"I promise you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word." He smiled evilly, walking closer and gave out a very playful look over his brother. Now he won, he knew he was. "Just stay away from Elena."

Damon flickered down scanning his brother and suddenly bursted out of laughing. "Elena? Oh baby brother. She isn't the one that I want. I want the cute younger Gilbert. Who's that? Oh, not Jeremy of course. His twin."

"What do you want from her? Stop with all the troubles you made." Stefan's eyes narrowed, pleading his brother to not touch any of the Gilberts, and the uncomfortable feelings started to haunt him.

"Why don't you tell Alex you had a brother? Or shall I tell her myself? Because I would." Damon laughed. "By the way, where is your ring, Stefan?"

Stefan's eyes flickered down to his finger as he rubbed it with another hand; the ring was no longer on his finger, it was missing but he got the feeling that Damon was playing around with him. "Oh," Damon shook his head, acting as if he was concerned, the fake worried face was shown. "Suns coming up in a couple of hours and, poof! Ashes to ashes."

Stefan gulped, and was about to say something but he heard his brother laughed over him. "Relax." He walked over to his younger brother and held his ring out for him to take. "I got your right here."

As soon as Stefan took the ring, he immediately put the ring back on his finger properly before Damon grabbed him by his neck as his face turned into his vampire face like Stefan's earlier before. Growling, Damon threw Stefan accross the yard causing him to land on the ground, and then he stood next to him quickly in seconds.

"You should know better than to think you're stronger than me," Damon warned his younger, weaker brother on the ground. "You lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people, I wouldn't try it again." He threatened before he smirked listening to a door opened. "I think we woke Zach up," He scoffed, started to walk away. "Sorry, Zach." He stated whistling an up-beat tune and left.

Back to the party venue, Elena spotted her brother was sitting on the other beam of the small cottage's fence as her sister was still talking with her boyfriend Tyler. "You okay?" Elena asked. "I called Jenna and she's on her way. Alex will go home with Tyler, they might gonna be late, well, you know them. Those people in uniforms, last time I checked, they're the police. People are going to stop giving you breaks, Jer."

"They just don't care anymore. They don't remember that our parents are dead, because they've got their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on. You should try, too." She suggested with her voice was lowered down as she crossed her arms looking at her messed up brother.

"I've seen you in the cemetery writing in your diary. Is that─ is that supposed to be you moving on?" He asked sarcastically and turned his dark glare to her. He had lose his parents, and now he didn't want to lose the girl he loved, he could tell. "Mom and dad wouldn't have wanted this. They obviously don't want to see you like this.. Jeremy."

"Just leave me alone, can't you?" Jeremy said walking away as he saw Bonnie and Caroline was no longer there while Tyler was probably driving his sister home.

Mystic Grill

"Are you sober yet?" Bonnie asked Caroline whom sat across her table—she looked like an incredible mess. "Nope." Caroline moaned.

"Keep drinking, I've got to get you home, I've got to get Elena home and I've got to get me home." Bonnie joked.

"Why didn't he go for me?" Caroline snapped looking at Bonnie. "I mean, how come the guys that I want never want me?"

"I'm not touching that." Bonnie whispered.

"I'm inappropriate, I always say the wrong things and.. And Elena always says the right things!" Caroline spoke sarcastically, blaming the friend that was actually popular than she is. "She doesn't even try and he just picks her and she's always the one that everyone picks for everything, and I try so hard and I'm never the one!"

Bonnie shook her head in respond. "It's not a competition, Caroline."

"Yeah it is. Bonnie!" She snapped. "She got picked on everything. Everything!"

"Care." Bonnie shook her head again and looked at the blonde in concern, the insecurity she had about her own self had been driving some of the people crazy. "Maybe if you'd calm yourself, there will be someone to pick you." She commented over her, trying not to sound defending anyone in the case. Caroline widened her eyes, but a minute later, she already had her head on her hand.

Meanwhile at the hospital, Matt was sitting on the couch in Vicki's room where she had been resting after the incident—a minute later he was aware that she woke up, gasping stutteredly. "Vicki, Hey, hey, it's okay. You're gonna be okay." Matt assured her while caressing her hair gently.

"Matt-"

"Hey, don't try to talk, okay? You're fine." He tried to comfort her—and himself, of course. It was irritating to know that his sister was still gasping, terrified about the incident. It's like she wanted to say something about the incident, and so he let her talk.

"Vampire."

Alex threw herself onto her bed, dropping her bag beside her and thought about whatever happened today. It was strange yet terrifying. She couldn't help but to keep remembering it all. She glanced up when she heard her sister making noises outside. Following Elena, she went downstairs and saw her opening the door for Stefan. "I'm sorry it's late and distracting but I need to know that you are okay?" Stefan looked at her and then at Alex back there. "Hey, Alex."

"You know, for months, that's all anyone's ever wondered about me," Elena shrugged her shoulders as Alex looked at both of them. "If I'll be okay."

"And what do you tell them?" Stefan asked when she paused to think about it. "I tell them that I'll be fine." She shrugged again.

Alex started to spoke, helping what Elena was trying to explain after all. "Well, she don't want too much people being worried about her."

"Okay... Do you ever really mean it?"

"Ask me tomorrow." Elena replied tersely with a half-smile. "I was going to take a rest... So is my sister. And my aunt, I don't wanna bother them, Stefan. My brother too."

"Yeah, okay, I understand that." Stefan smiled.

"Okay.. Good night." She said while slowly closing the door when he greeted. "Night, Elena and Alex."

A/N: Let me know what you think of this first chapter. What would Damon do next? I would love to read your reviews since it encourage me a lot on continuing this story.

Carla x