The Boogeyman

By: XRoseX13

Summary: Jeremy finds Elena's journal and confronts and they end up reminiscing on old memories

Pairing: None

Characters: Elena and Jeremy

Status: In progress

Genre: None

Rating: T

A/N Can anyone help me with help me with my ratings and genres, for all of my stories? I really don't know what they should be so. . . Also, I am kinda struggling with the next chapter of 'exhausted' because I don't know what she should do while getting ready to go to Mrs. Newton's. I know the whole situation that makes Damon worry about her, but it's the in between stuff that is hard for me. But I really am trying and will probably have that up in the next couple of weeks. I'm also going to shut down my favorite episode poll so vote now!

This was originally going to be a one-shot, but I could continue it so I'll try. It will only have a few chapters though, because I don't want to forget about exhausted and then get the plots mixed up. I'm sorry, but my other one-shots are probably going to stay that way. Maybe I will write a sequel. If I have writers block for a new story, that will probably be what I do.

But like I said in exhausted school is really swamping me, so I'm barely on the computer anymore. And when I am, I don't wanna waste time typing.

Enjoy!

I lay my head an my pillow and sighed. One more day is over. I'm getting through this, I tell myself.

'Knock, knock'

"Come in!" I yelled through toward my door. Jeremy slipped into my room and shut the door behind him.

"When you were six and I was four, we watched a Halloween movie about the boogeyman." Jeremy said, standing with his hands behind his back, before I could even get out a 'hey.'

"Yes I remember. When it was over, we were both so scared." I said a small smile spreading across my face.

"But our babysitter didn't even realize we watched it. She was asleep in the kitchen." He said also smiling.

"Carrie. Well she was a high school student babysitting on a Friday night. I feel kinda' bad for her now. We were horrible."

Carrie was our babysitter when we were kids. She was really nice and hard working. She ended up going to Harvard. She was working on an essay that night. Funny, the things you remember.

"You took me up to your room," Jeremy continued "We sat on your bed and you told me it was all going to be okay. Do you remember what you promised that night, Elena?"

It was all slowly, very slowly, coming back to me.

"I told you that I would find the boogeyman. I said that when I did, I would tell you and introduce you so you would be safe. I would ask him why he did what he did. Why he frightened all those children and terrorized all of their homes." Of course my vocabulary wasn't quite as developed back then.

"You said you would change him. Make him a better person and let him know he had a friend in the cold hard world. And then he would live with us. We would accept him into our family."

"And then together we would find other monsters and do the same for them. We would make the world a better place." I said

"Yep" he replied

"And you finally stopped shaking. You looked up at me and smiled and said 'you can do it, Elena. I know you can. I love you' I'm surprised you remember all of that."

"I believed in you. So do you want to tell me why when you found the boogeyman, you didn't tell me?" he said with tears in his eyes.

But my eyes weren't on him. They were focused on the rectangle that he drew from behind his back. My eyes widened, probably to the point of looking like saucers.

"Is that my diary?" I asked with a hint of fear in my voice.

"Yeah" he said holding it up and flipping through the pages. "There's some pretty interesting stuff in here if you ask me"

"I didn't" I said my voice as cold as ice. "You had absolutely no right to take that! What's the matter with you!" my voice was rising to a dangerous level so I tried taking deep breaths.

"I had no right? You lied, you had Damon erase my memories, and you're telling me that I had no right?" he shouted back

"Calm down right now!" I snapped "You don't understand the whole of it"

"Oh so your telling me you left something out in your tell all. Please enlighten me."

"You were in so much pain. I couldn't see you like that"

"It doesn't matter! You never should have done it."

"I'm sorry, but you would have been miserable."

"That wasn't your choice to make. It was mine!"

"Well there is no point in arguing with me. It's over and done with."

"Yeah, over." He said throwing my diary on the bed behind me.

"Wait Jeremy, you don't understand!"

"And never will" he said before walking out and slamming the door.

"Goodnight!" I yelled cheerfully after him

Great. Just great. I laid back in my bed and stared at the ceiling until I fell asleep.

To be continued... If you want me to continue it that is

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