ItsukoAkatsuki: Hey, everybody! I've always been a fan of The Vampire Diaries; I read the book series before the TV show and just on my personal opinion I think the TV series is much better than the book series has gotten to so far. If you have Facebook then you might know of the Vampire Diaries game: Get Sucked In, if not I recommend it because it's actually a good game. While playing it I started to get an idea for a story; even though I had one already. But that's enough from me, here's the first chapter and I hope you enjoy it, any reviews are helpful. Oh, before I forget, the time setting in the series is before Klaus but just after Elena and Stefan started dating, Bonnie knows she's a witch, and Matt is starting to like Caroline, yadda yadda…

Tameryn Copperfield: Fifteen year old Tameryn may be the youngest out of the Vampire Diaries cast but she makes it up for making smart decisions and being more mature than her age. She is short and thin but she's very agile and fast on her feet. She's more of the loner than the average princess and would rather listen to music and draw pictures than partake in a beauty pageant. Her father, Leon, is a co. owner of a construction company and her mother, Debra, is a secretary for a modeling company which makes them almost never at home. She has long wavy jet-black hair and deep green eyes; her skin is almost the color of porcelain even though she gets plenty of sun.

Sorry if the description was long; with that, let's begin the story of Tameryn Copperfield.

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Chapter 1: A New Entry…

Haunted by Evanescence

Where am I…?

Am I dreaming? Or did something happen?

There was a strange hum to the air and it was rather chilly but I hesitated to open my eyes; just a second ago I had been warm, wrapped up in my wool sweater with the heater in the car turned on, but now I was shivering and I wouldn't be surprised if I saw my own breath but none of this was right.

Maybe I am dreaming, it was so warm and content in the car that it wouldn't have surprised me if I did but how can I be so awake in a dream?

…

Should I open my eyes?

Before I could think about anything else I heard a sound. Like a branch or a twig snapping; was someone here?

"Is someone there?" I heard from somewhere, it sounded like a girl's voice. After waiting for another brief moment, I started to peek from under my eyelids and the area around me was a dark forest, not one that was recognizable by any means. The only sign of life was a crow high above me in the tree, for some strange reason I found myself staring at this bird instead of looking for the voice but this crow had the strangest eyes. They were a dark brown and almost looked human; if that was possible.

"Hello…?" the female voice said again and I heard the sound of someone stepping on leaves and twigs, it was getting closer. The bird flew away suddenly and I wretched my eyes away from the spot and looked behind me, I was lying on my back, on the ground, but I didn't move an inch. As if I didn't notice it there was a heavy fog descending along the forest; giving it a creepy glow; almost like it was borrowed from the set of a scary movie. I was still watching the area behind me when I heard the caw and the crow landed on my stomach, I looked at it instantly and it cawed at me. It landing on me started to bring my body back to my control and I began to move but it didn't fly away; instead it just looked at me with its strange brown eyes.

"Hello…someone please answer me!" the girl yelled and I decided to get up but the crow refused to move and he didn't seem happy that I was. It cawed in defense but I swatted at it but as my hand touched him he pecked me and I brought my hand back and noticed that it had pecked me right on the side of my hand and a small drop of blood was oozing out. I didn't want to be violent; especially with a bird but that was over the line and I roughly pushed the bird away and moved out from under him. He jumped down on the ground and cawed at me before flying off; I had to duck my head because he came right at me. I turned and watched it disappear in the trees. What was that about?

"…Oh, thank goodness" I heard someone sigh behind me and when I turned I saw a skinny but tall girl emerge from the fog. She had long brown hair and beautiful brown eyes, she was a lot taller than I was and she was definitely older than me. She signed again and looked relieved.

"I was starting to worry that I wouldn't find anyone…" she explained and took a step closer but for some reason she seemed like she wanted to keep her distance, not that I could blame her. If I was lost in the woods and I suddenly found someone else I wouldn't be so trusting at first either.

"Are you lost?" I found my voice but I ended up mumbling but she quickly answered "no, I just…uh, I lost my ring and I haven't been able to find it. It's very important to me, can you help me?" I stared at her, bewildered, I couldn't guess why someone would travel in the middle of the woods to look for a ring but how I got here was still a unanswered question so for the sake of this possibly being a dream I just decided to roll with it. "What does it look like?" I asked and she smiled brightly; like she was fearing I would say no.

"It's blue and silver, it's kind of…gaudy so it's not hard to miss" she explained and gestured to her left, "I'm going to look over here so if you could…" she didn't finish and I just simply nodded and stepped to the closet pile of leaves. As I looked around realization was starting to sink into my brain. What was I doing in this forest? What was with that bird earlier, attacking me and such? And why was I helping some girl, one that I just met, look for a ring? But I couldn't come up with anything so I just did what most people did when they thought they were dreaming and I pinched myself but to my surprise I felt pain, this couldn't be a dream then, could it? You don't feel pain in a dream…unless Freddy Krueger was after you in which case I hoped it wasn't but nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be happening so I just continued to look for the girl's ring. I didn't see it anywhere so I stood up and I suddenly felt dizzy and tired but the most I felt was warm air like from a heater, I closed my eyes and tried to hang on to the feeling but it quickly disappeared.

"Hey, any luck?" the girl turned to me and asked but all I could do was shake my head. Her face fell and she frowned and started to look worried, "oh, god, if I can't find it…!" she went back to looking in bushes and around trees. I glanced around in the nearby bushes and around the trees, kicked a few leaves and dirt around but I had no such luck so I turned to the foggy area.

The fog had, by some unknown means, gotten thicker and I couldn't see past it. The fog was like a blanket, a wall, of solid color, a single surface that if I stuck my hand in it I wouldn't be able to even see my hand but it was the last place I looked and generally that was where most lost items were so with a deep breath I stepped into the fog.

The fog made the air much colder and it was so hard to see, the foggy air was so bright that for a moment you could forget that it was the darkest of night and it was hard to see anything, even the outline of the trees was blurry but I focused hard and stepped forward but as clumsy as I was my foot stuck on something and I went falling on my face. I tasted dirt and sticks and I lifted my head and wiped my mouth, "yuck" I slowly moved my legs to make sure nothing was broken and looking at my foot I saw the culprit of my tripping; a tree root that was off the ground and my foot had gotten stuck underneath it. I shook my head and looked forward as I started to get up but something shined in my view and I stopped. Right in front of me; lying lazily on the ground was a thick silver banded ring with a big sapphire diamond that looked real and not just some costume jewelry. I reached forward but as soon as I did, out of nowhere, a leather boot stepped on my hand; stopping me from grabbing it. I immediately looked up but the fog was too thick for me to see who it was but I didn't have to say anything because the boot disappeared and I saw a hand pick up the ring, I scrambled to my feet.

"Hey, that's…uh, mine" I shouted at the person and stepped closer so I could see who it was but when I saw who it was I froze in place.

It was a boy, he had to be, easily, the most handsome boy I had ever seen and he looked no older than nineteen. His beauty just stroke me silent even when he held the ring up. I was most fascinated by his eyes, they were a light blue, almost like mine but when I looked at them I shivered. He just looked at me and smiled a white teeth smile, a velvet smile, I couldn't hide my blush but I was hoping the fog would hide that.

"Uh…" I couldn't get much of a word out but thankfully he seemed to know what I was going to say and held the ring to me "I'm guessing this belongs to you…" I reached forward but he hesitated to drop it in my hand, seemly I began to find my voice but I was still mumbling; but this time it was out of nervousness, I had always been nervous around good-looking guys even though this guy was…like a god. "Well, actually it's…" I stopped, thinking that if I told him it didn't belong to me he might pocket it and walk away so I quickly replied "yeah, I guess you say that". His smile turned almost a little coy but he dropped the ring into my hand and I closed it quickly and moved it out of sight. I mumbled a "thank you" and started to turn away before I might say or do something stupid but I froze again when I felt his hand on my jacket collar. I turned around to face him; I didn't move as his hand drifted higher. Stopping for only a second at my cheek as his fingers brushed alongside it giving me a warm shiver along my spine and finally stopping at my forehead like he was checking my temperature but he moved it again and it went into my hair but before I could move or speak his hand moved away and there was a damp leaf in his hand, he flicked it away and continued to smile at my blushing face.

"You're welcome" he finally said and stepped back, disappearing in the fog, away from my sight. I dumbly stared at the spot where he just was until I heard someone come up to me from behind.

"Hey" the girl said and I turned to her, coming out of my daze. She studied my face and asked "what's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing" I turned back and looked at the fog where he had disappeared but it was only for a second, I turned and held out the ring for her. She immediately smiled and took it from me, "thank you, I thought I would never find it" she stared at it like it was the most important thing in the world to her. I smiled back her and nodded in response. She put the ring back on and moved her hair out of her face before saying "I'm Elena by the way, sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier but I really thought I wasn't going to find it".

"Oh, well, you're welcome. I'm Tameryn" I held my hand out and she took it and lightly shook it. "Tameryn, that's an odd name"

"Yeah, that's what they all say" I replied in agreement. Neither of us said anything more and she looked away for a distraction, I could guess.

"Uh…thanks for helping me but I got to…" I held my hand up, "it's okay…I need to too. I think…" I looked around the fog and without my notice it didn't seem as heavy as it was before, in fact, it was almost gone. I couldn't give it to reason but when I looked back the girl was gone.

"…bye" I waved to the air and turned to leave, if that was possible, but an oddly familiar voice stopped me.

"You're still here…" I turned around and my heart fluttered, the boy was back and his smile was unchanged. "I thought you had left but this place seems to be your digs" his voice was joking but for some reason I had a feeling like he was mocking me.

"It's not, I just…I really don't know where I am actually" I answered back sharply but I ended up sounding helpless. The boy seemed unfazed and he just shrugged, "I can help you with that but first I need your help with something" I hesitated and he closed the distance between us but he didn't touch me. "What do you need?" What I wanted to say was 'what the hell do I look like? The lost and found box?' But I reframed. As good-looking as this guy was I had an odd feeling that if he wanted to hurt me he certainly would have and not think twice about it, I shivered at the thought.

"I looking for the pieces of a broken mirror" he answered. A broken mirror? That's bad luck…

"But before you say anything, I found all the pieces except the handle. It's sterling silver and there's a carved rose on it. You can't miss it…"

I sighed and shoved my hands in my pocket, first a ring now this, even if the guy was super-hot I was starting to not like this dream but nonetheless I bent down and started to look on the ground and yet again the fog was heavy and thick. After a brisk moment I was really feeling tired; so much that I was actually breathing hard. I wasn't out of shape so why was I so tired? I was looking through a pile of leaves when something popped into my view and I shrieked but when my eyes made it out it appeared to be just a plastic bottle with what looked like water in it.

"Here, you look…parched" the boy simply said and I slowly took it. I have to admit that I was hesitate about the clear liquid but he nodded his head and I took a swig and like I thought it was water. As if I was dying of thirst as soon as I drank the water I didn't feel tired anymore, normally that would be something I wouldn't notice but it was a big change; so many things I couldn't explain but at that point I didn't want to think about it. I handed him the empty bottle, almost bashfully, and he took it without a word. I looked away from him and lazily stuck my hand in a bush and felt around until something sharp touched my fingers but it wasn't rough like a stick but smooth and drifting my hand further I felt something stick out of it like a embroidering. I gripped it and pulled out and much to my relief it was a broken mirror handle although it looked more older than I had imagined, almost like it was an antique instead of a real mirror.

"Ah, that's it" the boy said, redrawing my attention and I stood up and he took it with his velvet smile on his face. He looked at it for a second before putting it inside his leather jacket. "Thank you" he simply said and there was a moment of silence between us in which I spoke first, "you said you would help me get out of here" I bit my lip.

"Sure, why not?" he replied, his tone cocky. But instead of leading me out of the forest, out the fog, he just walked up to me and cupped my face with his hands, instinctively I gripped his wrists but I couldn't get him to move away. I stopped breathing when his face got real close but just before our faces would've touched he looked me in the eyes and said…

"Wake up"

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I jolted and I sat forward but all I saw was the back of Dad's seat. He was at the wheel driving while Mom was fast asleep in her seat. The heater was going and I was wearing my gray, wool, sweater and a blanket had been thrown over me. I was no longer in the forest but in my car. I was sweating and shaking but there was no one around me except my parents and Charlie, our Husky. The boy wasn't there and neither was that girl, Elena, or whatever her name was. I fell back against the seat and sighed, I had been dreaming, even though it had felt so real. I laid my head back and stayed like that until I heard my Dad say "We're finally here…" I opened my eyes and looked out the window and there was a sign coming up into my view.

In big brass letters it said: Welcome to Mystic Falls.

I blew out some air and tightened my seatbelt, Charlie sat up and barked.

TBC…