CHAPTER ONE - MYSTIC FALLS STILL SUCKS

"You're pathetic, you know that right?" Adriana scoffed and turned to her brother in the drivers seat before continuing, "So…what? You think that you and this Elena chick are going to fall in love, have cute little vamp babies and live in a house with a white picket fence?"

Stefan laughed; knowing she wasn't saying this to be spiteful, she cared and this was her way of showing it. "Don't forget the dog," He added, laughing as he turned to see his sister's reaction.

"Cute" she replied, her voiced loaded with sarcasm as she quickly wiped the shocked look off of her face and replaced it with a smirk.

She didn't pretend to understand her brother. Stefan was different from any other vampire she had met; he didn't see humans as playthings or even as food sources. Rather, he actually wanted to be one of them and live a normal (and in her opinion, boring) life amongst them. In her eyes humans were fragile and weak, far too easy to break. She didn't usually bother wasting her time with them.

She turned her head to look out of the window of the light blue pick up truck they had managed to 'acquire'. Adriana smirked as she remembered Stefan's judging looks as she compelled the owner to hand over the keys. Obviously Stefan, with his moral compass constantly pointing north, was not happy about the deal. However she had made it very clear that she was not going by foot whilst wearing her new heels.

As they rounded a corner, Mystic Falls Town Square came into view. Adriana took a sharp intake of breath, surprised at how little everything had changed even after such a long time. Seeing it again brought back so many painful memories and she shut her eyes as a tidal wave of feelings washed over her. She was really starting to regret her decision to join her brother on his stupid quest.

Stefan turned to look at her, "Is this the first time you've been back in Mystic Falls since 1864?" he asked, genuinely surprised.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she took a deep breath and opened her eyes to look at him, "I believe that life only moves forward Stef" She replied, using her pet name for him, even though she knew he disliked it. "I don't waste time looking at what's behind me"

He nodded, understanding that this was tough for her. "Look, Ade you know I'm here if you need to talk to someone, about anything…"

"Shh" she snapped, as her hand went to turn up the volume on the radio. "Ugh I love this song!"

I guess you're just what I needed

I needed someone to feed

I guess you're just what I needed

I needed someone to bleed

They drove the rest of the journey to the Salvatore boarding house without conversation, the only noise being Adriana's very out of pitch voice as she sung along to the radio.

"Thanks Zack", Stefan called to their so-called 'uncle' as he walked away from them and further into the Salvatore Boarding House whilst looking very uncomfortable. It had been an awkward introduction between Adriana and Zack to say the least. She really couldn't give a shit what judgements Zack had made about who they were, or rather what they were and she had decided that their first meeting was a good time to tell him this. Adriana really wasn't one for leaving things unspoken.

There was a pause as Stefan watched her looking around the place; Adriana clearly hated the slightly aged décor. "Let me show you your room Ade, I have to say it's pretty awesome." He told her, beginning to usher her towards the house.

"I have a room?" she asked, looking up at him with a confused expression.

Stefan stopped and laughed, as if surprised by her question. "Of course you do, this is basically home for us." He turned to her expectantly.

She smirked, not having had a place to call home for a very long time, before she remembered where she was, "This is the last place I ever want to call home Stefan" She stated, both her voice and face devoid of any feeling. With that she turned away from her brother and walked further into the house.

She turned back, looking at her brother still standing in the entranceway, "Well are you going to show me around or what?"

He smiled sadly, walking up to her and putting both his hands on the back of her shoulders. "Yes of course dear sister of mine, where shall we begin?"

She laughed and squealed, as he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder and began to run through the house at vamp speed. She had to admit, it was good to be with family again.

After Stefan had finally put her down and she had given him a swift kick to the shin for making her feel so dizzy, he had properly shown her around the house. It had taken a while, and she was surprised at the size of the boarding house. It of course however did not come close to the size of their childhood home she thought as she gazed around the property. In front of her, Stefan suddenly stopped, smiling weirdly at his younger sister and basically giving her the creeps. Before she could say something to get him to stop looking so werid or…punch him, he turned the handle to the door behind him whilst bowing, "and this m'lady is your room" he said, acting like a servant from their youth.

She gasped as she walked into the room before her, gazing around it, entranced. She was not a fan of the whole medieval, dark, ugly theme the house had going on but this room was perfection. It had dark hardwood floors and deep purple walls. In the middle of the room was a four-poster bed with dark purple velvet blankets and black pillows. In the corner of the room there was a floor to ceiling bookcase that, as she scanned the shelves, she noticed contained all of her favourite books. Her eyes finally settled on a window seat covered in cushions and she sat down contentedly. She loved it.

She turned to her brother, blinking back tears in her eyes "you did this for me?" she asked, not hiding the surprise in her voice.

Stefan smiled; clearly glad she appreciated his work "Well, yeah I thought you would visit more than once every 145 years!"

She laughed; he didn't know how much this meant to her, it had been a while since she had believed anyone cared about her anymore. However, not being one to dwell on feelings or any of that crap she decided to swiftly change the subject.

"So tell me, Stef, what's the plan for Elena?" She asked, wiggling her eyebrows up and down and laughing.

"I'm going back to school." He simply stated not looking at her in the eyes.

Adriana couldn't help but burst out laughing, trying to imagine her brother back in high school. This was not going to be something she would miss.

"Oh man, I'm totally there." She managed to say through her laughter.

"You shouldn't come" Stefan told her as he walked towards her door, looking all serious and ominous. God he was always so worried.

"Hell yeah I'm coming" she called after her brother as he left her room.

A/N: Sorry if this sucks, it's my first try at writing anything on here! If you did or didn't like it (really hoping you did though) send me a review and i'll try to improve! I have loads of ideas for where this is going so hopefully I manage to get off my arse enough to actually write it down! Anyways i hope you like it!