Hey everyone!

This is my first story on TVD. Hope you enjoy it!

As I`m coming from Germany I`m sorry about any grammar or spelling mistakes. But I just love the series and I thought that I`d try to write a story of my own.

Disclaimer: I don`t own anything. Sadly! ;)

The story starts about two weeks after the the final episode of season 2. Might be a little AU.

Please read and review!

Lose yourself

Prologue

It was Friday night and Elena, Bonnie, Jeremy and Tyler were lounging at the boarding house. They were waiting for Caroline as they all decided that a DVD marathon could be a welcomed distraction after all that happened. They were all gathered around lying on the couches, eating popcorn and drinking beer.

Klaus and Stefan had been gone for about two weeks now and nobody had a clue as to where to find them. Elena still being mad with his decision to leave wasn`t even close to considering why he left and why she had to find out about it from none other than Katherine. She felt betrayed and therefore pushed those thoughts concerning him as far away as possible. She needed a distraction, badly. Another reason why this night was called on.

„Where the hell is Caroline? She should have been here for at least half an hour!", Tyler started, concern clearly evident in his voice.

„We all know Caroline. Maybe she got held up because she noticed her shoes didn`t match her belt or something like that. I`m sure she will be here any minute.", Bonnie assured him. "I called her but she didn`t pick up. I left her a massage telling her to hurry up. I`m sure she`s busy searching for the perfect outfit."

„As sad as it is, that`s probably true.", Tyler supported her. „But aside from Caroline, has anybody seen Damon? We are meeting at his place, actually. So, is he gonna be here, too?"

„Actually, it`s my place.", Elena stated as a matter of fact. „But still, no. I haven`t heard or seen from him for almost two weeks. Since Stefan...", she trailed off.

"Did somebody actually tell him about tonight?", Jeremy asked.

Silence came up. Truth is that none of them kept in touch with Damon much as he seemed to retreat himself more and more since Stefan agreed to go with Klaus to save his life. Elena didn`t even knew where he was at the moment as he hadn`t been at the house for a long time. She knew that he had a hard time to deal with the past events himself but she just couldn`t deal with that at the moment. Damon was a constant reminder of Stefan leaving her behind so she was glad that she hadn`t been seen or heard from the older Salvatore brother for a while. But still she was a little bit worried about him. But he was Damon after all so therefore he would be back to his normal self in a short matter of time, she was sure of it.

"Come on, Care! Where are you?", Tyler exclaimed impatiently.

Same time at the other end of Mystic Falls:

She didn`t know why she came back here of all places. Maybe because she knew that Klaus was gone. Maybe because she liked the place. But maybe because she didn`t know where else to go. After hundreds of years of running and hiding she was sick of it. And here in Mystic Falls was at least a place where she could start a different approach on things. But in order to do that she needed to find Damon although she wasn`t really sure that he`d be extremely happy to see her again. But she was on a mission. She needed to get Stefan back. Even though finding Stefan meant finding Klaus, a fact that she absolutely wasn`t keen on but she just couldn`t let him be one of Klaus minions.

`What he`d be doing at the moment?´, she pondered. Well, that she would find out early enough. First of all, she was hungry. And the Grill would be exactly the right place where she could find something to eat or better say to drink.

Just at this moment the back door opened and someone walked out.

`Hey, isn`t that the little friend of Caroline? What was his name again? Matt? Poor dear, that`s what I call `Being at the wrong place in the wrong time´.´she thought to herself as she began taking a step in his direction.

But she didn`t get far as she sensed something near her. Blood. She turned around and saw a figure lying on the street, shaking and trying to get away from something.

Normally Katherine wouldn`t have waited any longer to get to such an easy target and end it, but something was different this time. Something just wasn`t right. Something just didn`t smell right. She knew that she knew the smell from somewhere. Knew that the scent of the blood was familiar to her but she just couldn`t place it. Slowly she took a few steps closer to the figure lying on the ground.

Back at the boarding house:

Still they were waiting for Caroline as suddenly the front door opened and slammed shut.

"There she is at last!", Tyler exclaimed.

"Why are you so sure it`s her?", Jeremy wanted to know.

"Well, I can smell her. Werwolf and all, you know.", he explained, grinning a little.

"You can smell her?", Bonnie asked.

"I can smell you all!", Tyler responded, smiling wickedly.

"Eww.", Bonnie shrieked slightly disgusted.

"Oh yeah. You should ask me just how disgusting it can be smelling every scent there is! Especially at school and the Grill. People just don`t behave as much as one would have thought!", Tyler shot, grinning even more. Earning a laugh from Jeremy encouraged him to go deeper into detail.

"Tyler, you are disgusting!", Elena said while standing up and walking over to welcome Caroline and seeing what took her so long to get from the door over to them.

But standing there leaning back on the front door wasn`t Caroline. Although still being covered by the shadows she could clearly make out Damon lurking there.

"Damon? What are you doing here? Did Caroline bring you along? By the way, where is she?", she asked him. Damon didn`t answer her and just stood still on his spot, not moving one tiny bit. Elena felt something was off. Something was very off!

"Damon? Are you okay?", she asked, her voice a little bit shaken.

Damon then pushed himself off from the door and took a few steps towards her, coming slowly into the light that came from the inside of the house.

Back to Katherine:

Taking a few more steps towards the person lying on the ground Katherine could slowly make out some details in the shadowed corner behind the Grill. Lying there was a girl. Blond hair. Bleeding. The smell of fresh blood grew more intense with every step closer and suddenly she knew exactly where she knew that scent from. She couldn`t believe it! Of every person there could be lying there on the street she wouldn`t have expected it to be her!

Back at the boarding house:

Stepping into the light Damon caused Elena to shrank back, a scream leaving her as she did so. The others being alert came over to her quickly, wanting to know what caused this.

"Elena? Are you okay? Damon? What`s going on? Why...", Bonnie trailed off as she got a closer look on Damon. There standing in front of them stood Damon, a look in his eyes that seemed kind of distant. But what caused them all to be shocked by his appearance was the fact that he was standing there covered in blood from head to toe. And by the looks of it not his own blood...

"Car... Caroli...", Damon began but couldn`t finish as he tumbled over and with one loud thud landed face first on the wooden floor, completely passed out.

Back to Katherine:

"Caroline?", she yelped "What the hell?" Lying in front of her was none other than Caroline Forbes, covered in her own blood and still bleeding...