Angela Reese woke up just like she did everyday except today was far more important than any other day. Today was the day she would be moving from Louisiana to Virginia to take care of her 18 and 16 year old niece and nephew Elena and Jeremy Gilbert. Leaving New Orleans wasn't necessarily a bad thing since she was tired of living there anyway, plus the Mystic Falls council was offering her a Graphic Design position to do their advertisements and fund raisers. So she would be an idiot to turn that down, with what little energy she rolled out of bed and grabbed her phone to ring Elena.

She let it ring for a few moments then left Elena a detailed message stating that she would be leaving LA soon for Virginia and reminded Elena that she would be landing around 6:30pm. Angela sighed to herself and looked around her empty downtown apartment reminding herself that change was good, she lived in Louisiana her whole life so saying goodbye was tough. She drank a protein smoothie and slipped into autopilot, swearing and cursing while she ran around like an idiot.

After sometime her phone rang but it wasn't Elena on the other end, it sounded like a grown man "Hey Lena did you get my message?" she asked half knowing Elena never listened to her messages. "Hi, no Elena is busy at the moment but she asked that I take this call for her" replied a voice to masculine to be her Elena. "Uh..okay, wait a minute who is this?" Now becoming concerned and livid thinking the worst "Oh I'm sorry about that my names Alaric, I'm Elena and Jeremy's .. friend I was your sister Jenna's boyfriend." She could tell that he wasn't lying being as the hurt in his voice was very prominent. Angela perked right back up changing the subject since she knew this would be the first time she wouldn't see Jenna. "Okay then, well..Alaric could you please remind to pick me up from the airport. Thanks in advance!" Alaric gave Angela his word and they hung up.

"Well, that was awkward.." She said jumping in the shower making sure to enjoy the silence as she washed up. Wiping the steam off the mirror, Angela towel dried her long honey blonde hair and pulled it up in a messy bun. She got dressed in a pair of boyfriend cut cuffed jeans, a baseball t-shirt with 'NIKE' writing across it in multicolored letters and her gray flats. She grabbed her glasses and protein smoothie as she headed for the door. "Well, Ange lets do this...for Jenna." Solemnly walking to her rental car she got in and drove to the airport watching her old life disappear.

When she got to the airport it wasn't as busy as she thought it would be, but flying on a Wednesday she expected as much. She hooked up her iPod and checked in with the attendant exchanging few words and waited for her flight to be called. "Plane 277 for Mystic Falls Virginia is now boarding all first class flights." Picking up her hot pink messenger bag, she gave a small sigh and walked

in the plane. "Goodbye New Orleans, we had fun together.."

Although she didn't know what this was she knew it was the start of something good. What that something was she had no idea but whatever it was, she would go in head first.

When her plane finally landed, she got off the dreaded air coffin to stretch her limbs swearing that she'd never fly again before hearing her name screamed from across the airport. She looked up to see a very happy Elena and Jeremy running full speed towards her "Hey guys!". Jeremy was the first to reach her picking her up and spinning her around while squeezing the life out of her, followed by a sobbing Elena and a taller gentleman with short dirty blonde hair and a body she swore was built by the roman gods. "Lena, it's okay don't cry.." Angela said wiping her cousins face and hugging her tightly "I'm here now and I'm not leaving anymore so no more tears. Deal?"

Elena smiled and hugged Angela tighter after composing herself Elena turned around to the handsome gentleman and introduced him as Alaric. "Nice to finally meet you Angela but you don't have to call me Alaric. Just Ric is fine with me.." Ric said smiling and holding out his hand. Angela smiled and hugged him, her southern hospitality getting the best of her "You call me Angie everyone does, but it's nice to meet you Ric. I hope these two haven't driven you too crazy." She said stepped back to pick up her messenger bag and baggage claim ticket. "My stuff should be ready for pick up now, the rest of it won't be at the house until Saturday." After they picked everything up and loaded it into Ric's jeep they headed for home.

"So this is it." Ric said pulling up to a very big, glossy white, plantation style home. "Haha this place hasn't changed a bit, it still looks like my mom's place back home." Angie said getting out of the jeep, which oddly smelled like something died in it. She looked up at the house and breathed in deep knowing this was right, she was supposed to be here. It's what Jenna would've wanted and knowing better than to disappoint Jenna she picked up some of her things and waited for everyone by the door. "So Ange, what do you think?" asked a very excited Elena followed by an equally excited Jeremy.

"It looks great guys, you've taken great care of the place. I'm proud of you both and I'm sure Jenna is too." They all plastered fake smiles across their faces in attempt to hide the pain and walked inside. The house was clean which was a shock since Jenna hated to clean and Elena wasn't exactly Martha Stewart. None the less, it looked wonderful and she was very happy everything coordinated even the wall paper. "Just like Jenna, always the coordinator." They all laughed and Ric walked in with the rest of Angela's things "I'll go ahead and show Angie to her room." He said very cheerily and flashed Angela a very sexy smile. Delicious. She thought but she knew way better, because after all that was Jenna's man.

"So they told me you were offered a job by the council for their Visual Communications department that sounds interesting, I myself am a history teacher which isn't as glamorous as it sounds." Ric said laughing and lugging her stuff into a beautiful master bedroom which she guessed used to be Jenna's. "It's weird you know, to be stepping in Jenna's shoes I don't know if I'll be a very good guardian just because I'm still a kid myself. You know?" Angela said kicking off her shoes and grabbing her stuff from Ric. "Ah Jenna said the same thing and they both turned out okay. Besides they said even though Elena's 18 she would still need guidance from an older source. That being you." He said smiling his sexy smile again. "Well lets hope so Ric." Angie said emptying her things and putting them away in their new home. After a minute or so of talking Ric left her to settle in smiling as he walked down the stairs.

Alaric's POV

She was just a beautiful as Elena had described her to be he didn't know if he should thank Elena or not. Angela was a dream girl in every sense from her honey blonde hair to her fair skinned complexion. She looked like Jenna only a more rough version, like a carbon copy of Jenna with an added twist. He watched her unpack taking in the sight of her toned hourglass figure. "Well let's hope so Ric." She said smiling with her full pink lips knocking him back into the present, after some chatting he left her to do her thing.

Seriously regretting his decision to leave her be, even though she just got here her could tell she was going to be a breath of fresh air. One that they all needed and he hoped she wasn't very temperamental as Jeremy had warned. "Wow, Elena she looks just like Jenna but with a twist." He said opening the fridge to grab a bottle of water. "Yeah, she's amazing, Ange has always been the more level headed of the two. Her and Jenna used to fight a lot but they would always help each other out." Ric knew that his fling with his dead girlfriends sister wasn't exactly proper but he missed Jenna and Angela was the closest he could get to her without feeling guilty. Plus knowing Jenna would want nothing more than to see her baby sister happy, he shrugged off his guilt and continued talking to Elena.

"Where's Jeremy?" He asked looking around the living room. "He left with Matt, their going off to hang out I told him to be home by 10pm and for fear of what Angela might do he said he'll be in at 9:45pm." They both laughed at Elena's little joke and turned their heads to see a stunning Angela in her cotton shorts and take top night set. "I'm going Ange I have to help Bonnie with her … project for school I'll be back before ten though. Jeremy said he'll be in by 9:45. Love you"

Elena said walking out the door. Perfect timing thought Ric smiling to himself once again.

Angela POV

"Okay babe, love you too be careful." Angela said pulling her messy blonde hair into a ponytail and walking over to Ric. "Do they always up and leave like that?" She asked her ocean blue eyes looking into his. "Uh yeah, they tend to just do whatever, hopefully that'll change though. Since your here and all. He said walking over to her. "Are you hungry, if so I know this really good place around the block. They have awesome pizza." Ric said leaning against the counter staring at her beautiful form. "No thanks, I'm just going to cook. Besides I'd rather make something healthy than trust a restaurant. Sorry though." She said giving him a embarrassed smile which he waved off.

"I wouldn't mind a homemade southern meal." He replied smirking at her as she walked over to the fridge and took out what she needed. "You know Ric, to be honest if I didn't know any better I'd say this was the beginning of an infatuation with me." Angela said bent over sink reaching for the olive oil. She knew good and well that it was but she would let the cards fall in their proper place. In other words, she didn't want to rush into anything stupid.

Hello everyone! This is my first ever fanfic so I hope you like it also feel free to give me pointers on whatever needs them and yes it's an Alaric fic because...well...I have a fan girl crush on the sexy teacher ;3