1. Pilot

Dear Diary,

This is a total new thing for me but Elena told me to give it a try. So, to get her off my back, I'll give it a go. Even though it's pretty much lame. Ever since mom and dad died, I've been acting out and so has my little brother, Jeremy. Oh, wait! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Malia Gilbert! Elena is my younger sister although by just few minutes as we are twins and then there's my little brother, Jeremy Gilbert with my cool aunt, Jenna. She's been living with us since our parents died. Car crash. I was not in the car, Elena was. And I think that's why she's taking it harder than any of us. Survivor guilt. Actually, none of us are coping well. Jeremy has turned into this emo goth druggie phase. Twin has become this loomy, sad, graveyard girl and me, I don't talk about my feelings anymore. More like, if I don't think about it then it never happened. But it did. And I don't know what to do about it. Jenna is trying so hard. Poor aunt Jenna. We don't make it easy for her but I think with time everything is going to be fine. Before this happened, Elena was the perfect golden child. Good grades, cheerleader, popular with an amazing boyfriend. But after mom and dad died, she shut out everyone. I know she sneaks out to graveyard where our parents are, just like she knows, I sneak out to sit and roam in the woods. I was more like a balancing act. Jeremy was the mischievous kid, Elena was the golden child and I was the bit of both. My grades were fine. I had the perfect life too. But that night. Everything changed. Although me and Elena are twins, there are some differences from which people can tell us apart. At least, the people we are close to. Elena has this perfect straight hair and I have natural curls. She has brown doe eyes like our mom and I have greenish blue like dad. I used to be the fun twin. I still put up the charade of being fun but I know from inside it's just a mask. If I show my pain then who's going to handle my twin and brother. They need me. So, I'm still fun and I would love to keep it this way.

Now I got to go, tomorrow is the first day of school and I just hope everything changes for the better.

-Lia!

"Lia… Lia!" I felt someone grab my comforter and I groaned at the sudden sunlight beaming through my window. "Get up, Lia. Time for school." I heard my annoying twin whining.

"What the hell, Lena? What got you so chirpy? And why don't you ever knock?" I yelled at her pulling pillows on me to hide from the sunlight. But as soon as I covered my face my evil twin threw it over me. I jerked up and scowled at her. "I don't know why people think that I'm the evil twin."

"That's because you are. Come on, Lia. I don't wanna be late at school. It's our first day." At that I got a proper look at my twin. She was dressed and ready but there was this sadness on her face and I realised that before our parents died, it was always mom who got me up and dad always went for Elena. I squeezed her and smiled at her pulling her to sit on bed.

"I miss them too, Lena. It's gonna be fine." She looked at me surprised that I said that, as I never talked about them. Whenever she tried to talk about the accident, I always shut her down and chalked it up to some sarcastic lame joke. But I knew, I had to change this. She smiled at me and nodded and left me to do the routine.

I got dressed in my black skinny jeans and maroon simple strappy top and I brushed my hair leaving it to my natural curls open. I made my way downstairs and saw Jenna rambling about coffee and everything that was needed for the first day. I could see how flustered she was. Getting roped in to look after three teenagers was taking a toll on her.

"We'll be fine, Aunt Jenna." I assured her and she gave me a smile and left for her meeting. That left Elena, Jeremy and I alone in the kitchen.

I got coffee for myself which my twin was about to have. I gave her a cheeky smile in return for her glare.

"You okay?" I heard my twin ask Jeremy, with concern in her voice.

"Don't start." Was all he said as he tried to walk out of the room. She was trying so hard but I know our brother. He was hurting too and just like me he was shutting everybody out but in a bad way. I pretended to be okay and he just lashed out. I saw Elena and I grabbed his hand to talk.

"Wait, Jer. Just…" he shook off my hold and stormed off the room. I was stunned at his behaviour. Before everything Jeremy and I were very close and that bugged my twin a lot. I was so consumed in my own misery that I never took care of my little brother and sister. But from today nothing like that anymore.

I followed him out of the kitchen, and grabbed his arm, causing his coffee to almost spill.

"Hey," He said trying to steady the cup.

"What is wrong with you? Why are you being such an asshole to her, Jer? Give her a break, okay? She's also dealing with all of this like us so try and not be a dick to her." I gave him a stern look but he just gave me this cold stare and stormed out on porch.

Moments later Elena followed giving me a thankful look. I guess she overheard what I said to Jeremy. I know I've been checked out all summer but no more. I've always looked out for my family, especially my twin, she has enough on her plate, she doesn't need to worry about on our own brother.

"Bonnie is picking us up and please try and socialise." Elena gave me her puppy look. That's another thing that was different. She was always the one socialising and I always tried to keep it to myself and only few people after our parents were gone. Bonnie was mine and twin's best friend but I shut her out too. I didn't know how to behave so I just kept it to the minimum. As if on cue, she pulled in the drive way.

"Relax twin! No more gloom-doom!" I said this and ran to the passenger seat shoving my twin out of the way and laughing. She just giggled and rolled her eyes at me.

"Hey Bon-bon," I greeted bonnie and she gaped at me. I just rolled my eyes.

"Don't be surprised Bon. I think Lia is just happy to go back to school." I scoffed as my twin said this giggling.

I sat listening to Bonnie as she started babbling about being psychic with an amused smile on my face.

"So, grams were telling me I'm a psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem. Witched and all that! And don't give me that look! It's crazy, I know! And I'm like put this woman in a home already! But then I started thinking I predicted Obama, AND I predicted Heath Ledger and I still think Florida will break off and turned into a resort island."

"You finished?" I asked with a chuckle.

Bonnie laughed and I glanced back at my sister where she was currently sitting with a sad look as we passed graveyard. I felt a pang in my heart as I saw it too but covered it up with a smile.

"Twin! Back in the car!" I exclaimed.

Her head snapped in our direction. She took a deep breath. "Sorry guys. I did it again… Didn't I? Sorry. So, you were telling us that…"

"That I'm psychic now," Bonnie said smiling.

"Sure… Then predict something about us, Sabrina" I teased.

Bonnie just chuckled, "I see- "as she was saying I saw a huge crow smashed into the wind shield and the car went in another lane.

I let out a shaky breath and faced my twin. She was just as rattled as I was. Considering that she was in the car when they died, I can't even imagine what she must be feeling right now. The car jolted to a stop and Bonnie whirled to my twin and me.

"What was that?!" She cried, her voice frantic.

"A crow, I think," I replied shakily as I tried to compose myself.

"Oh my god! Are you guys okay?" Bonnie asked with concern laced in her voice.

"Yeah," Elena said nodding her head. "We can't be afraid of cars for the rest of our lives, right Lia?"

I smiled and nodded at her. Bonnie gave a warm smile and turned towards us, "I predict this year is going to be kick ass and I predict that all the sad and dark times are over." With that we took off for the school.

"Major lack of male real estate" Bonnie pouted as we walked the halls of Mystic Falls High. "Look at the shower curtain on Kelly Beach." Bonnie giggled as I rolled my eyes at her.

We reached Elena's and I's locker as my I met my eyes with a certain someone. Matt Donovan. My bestie and Elena's now ex. I waved at him and he gave me a smile but that smile turned into a 'puppy who got kicked' frown and he slammed his locker shut and glared at my twin. I sighed realizing that my twin saw him too. Poor Matt. Elena and he were the hottest couple and I was rooting for them. I even picked their baby names.

Matt turned to walk away but stopped at us and gave me a hug before storming away. Even though my twin broke his heart, Matt and I never felt awkward around each other. Elena even claimed that I was more loyal to him then I was to my twin. What can I say? He was my BFF. And she was my evil twin.

"He hates me," Elena sighed.

"That's not hate, twin." I said shaking my head and defending my bud.

"That's 'you dumped me but I'm too cool to show it but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits'." Bonnie chimed in.

I giggled at that and faced away to put my books in the locker when I saw another person. Tyler Lockwood. He just looked at me longingly and I turned away feeling like shit. "At least be grateful twin that it's not an awkward stare off." I said to her shaking my head.

"I don't understand why you never dated Tyler, Lia. I mean he still likes you and you always gave him cold shoulder." Bonnie said as Elena nodded with her.

It's true. Everyone thought that with Elena and Matthew being a couple, me and Tyler would give it a go too. Especially our parents, but I don't why I just never felt that spark. And because of that, I got the title of being arrogant and bitchy. I just didn't want to string him along even though when I didn't clearly feel about him that way. So, I just avoided him and that topic like a plague. And it didn't help that Tyler thought I was just being a bitch and he turned to be a bully. I should have been mature enough to clear the air but I never got that guts to do it. Whenever I went to talk to him, he always gave me that longing look and I felt horrible for that. But I guess I have to do it now anyways.

"Lia, Elena!" Before I turned to even answer a blonde tornado knocked me in a bear hug, a very tight hug. I giggled at my best friend and hugged her and I saw my twin making a face at me at that.

"Hi Care," I smiled at her as she left me to hug my twin in the same hug. Caroline and I were always close. Everybody saw her as a preppy mean girl bitch but I knew that she's very kind underneath. Just like me she had this outer shell for other people. I understood her but my twin never did. She was always close to Bonnie as I was always close to Caroline. They never understood our friendship but I didn't care. She could be a little blunt and tactless but she had a good heart. Her father left her mother and turned out to be gay making her feel like she got abandoned. Her mom, Liz, is the sheriff of the town who's always busy with the work leaving Caroline all alone. She had only me who actually understood that why was she over achiever and control freak.

"How are you?" She asked both of us before turning to Bonnie, "How are they? Are they good? Don't lie to me Bonnie, okay? I need to know how my bestie is doing!"

"Care, I'm fine. And I'm standing right here. And so is my twin." I rolled my eyes at her. She then nodded and took off for her some committee stuff mumbling about cheer practise.

"No comment," Elena said with a chuckle and we walked to our class. We were passing towards the office when bonnie stopped us.

"Hold up. Who's this?" She said smirking. I just shook my head and went to the class leaving my twin and Bonnie to their boy's drama. It's not like I didn't want to date. I wanted it like every other girl wanted, it's just that why and how but I was waiting for something epic. As I was about to enter my class I saw a flash of black clothes going in men's room which looked similar to my baby brother's.

I was about to go but then I saw my twin rush in the same direction so I didn't go. She can handle this. Besides I don't think Jer will listen if both of his sister will hound on him. I think he needs to make his own mistakes before learning with a little bit of our support and guidance. But I know my twin. She'll smother him and he will rebel more. What she doesn't understand is that teens are like springs, the more we try to suppress them the more they will try to spring back.

As I walked in history I saw my twin already seated and I saw that she was blushing. And I turned to see the reason for that and I smirked. Good for her. She needs a normalcy in her life and by judging his looks I think he will be good for her. I smirked in her direction and wiggled my eyebrows to which she rolled her eyes and pointed behind her seat which was empty for me and exactly beside the new guy.

He looked between us and smiled, "you're twins!"

I smirked at him, "Good observation, Mr. obvious." My twin kicked me from underneath for the sarcastic reply, "Ouch." I then pointed at her and said, "She's the evil twin and I'm Malia. Malia Gilbert."

"I'm Stefan. Stefan Salvatore." He just laughed at us and nodded. He was about to say something when Mr. Tanner came in and I groaned loudly. Tanner was an ass and I hated him. And the feelings were mutual. At this Stefan just smirked at me. History was boring as usual. Tanner was an ass as usual too. But Stefan gave Mr. Tanner a hard time which made my day a little better and it seemed like he had a crush on my sister.

As soon as the class was over, I ran out before my twin could stop me. I just needed a breather. I walked out of school. After clearing the school property, I made my way to the woods nearby where I made a little peace spot for myself, it's in the middle of the wood near a very old tree stomp, no one knows about it. Not even my twin. After walking through the woods for about 20 minutes I finally made it to my spot. I sat down in my old spot and took out the family photo that I keep hidden into the hole of the tree stump on other side.

"Hi mom dad," I said, pulling out the old photo of when we were young with my parents. Jeremy was 7 and me and my twin were 8. It's a photo we took during our Christmas break when Jenna visited us. It was my favourite Christmas because dad was finally taking a job in Mystic Falls and leaving Whitmore for good. I looked at our smiling faces and me and Elena in our matching beanies. I hugged that photo and sat there for few minutes remembering them and finally letting myself feel all the sadness inside me until I heard a faint rustling of branches in the distance.

Opening my eyes slowly, I got up and started to make my way where I thought I heard the noise came from. I didn't see anything unusual so I kept moving forward to see if it was some animal or just wind. Considering the local news that I heard earlier on about animal attacks, I should me more careful but I chalked it up to me being paranoid and kept moving. Not realizing how far I went until I saw that the trees were becoming more and more thick, I decided it was time for me to go back and stop playing detective. As soon as I turned, the fog started to surround me causing Goosebumps on my skin. I picked up my pace as the fear of something or someone watching me creeped in me. I don't understand. It was a shiny day when I came, how the hell fog came was beyond me. As I started to run I realized that I had lost my way from where I came. I heard some noise from behind and I was sure I saw a huge crow fly over but then before I could comprehend what was going on, I twisted my leg and I fell into my side.

"What the f…" I whispered as I grabbed my now bleeding ankle.

"Are you okay?" I gasped startled as I heard the voice, slowly as I looked up and met with the striking hypnotic icy blue eyes. The guy was older and handsome but smug. I had never lost my speech, at least never in front of opposite gender but I just gaped at him. He had raven hair and chiselled jaw with almost pale skin. At first, I thought he was not real. No one looks that good. And no one can take Malia Gilbert's breath away. He literally looked like he walked out of a freaking magazine.

Realizing that I was still gaping at him like a monkey, I closed my mouth and just nodded at him trying to get up. But the pain was too much as I winced and again fell. I felt his arms around me and he helped me get up.

As I stoop up with his support I realized we were too close so I just cleared my throat and took a wobbly step back to support myself with a tree.

"I'm fine. Thank… Thank you. But not to sound rude, why are you in the middle of woods? It's creepy to roam alone here!" I told him composing myself with a cheeky smile.

"I could ask you the same. The middle of woods isn't safe and from what I saw, you looked pretty much freaked out." He replied smugly. It looked like that damn smirk was tattooed on his face.

After hearing his reply, some of my nervousness was gone and somehow, I didn't feel creeped out in the company of this stranger. Mainly because the fog was gone and so was that huge creepy crow. I turned to face him and just shrugged, "I'm used to it. I come here always. It my safe haven. But I don't know I heard some noise…"

I realized I was rambling so I just chuckled and shook my head. "Sorry. Rough day." He just nodded at me like he understood what I meant and kept staring at me with those assessing eyes. I was rather feeling odd so I cleared my throat again and he snapped out of it as if he was in some trance and he smirked at me again.

"I was looking for something like that too. Maybe you can show me some other time?" He said with a lopsided smile. I just raised my eyebrow. I turned saw my stuff at a distance so I started to walk that way chuckling. That's when I felt something on my left side and I saw that the guy was walking with me in sync.

We made it back to my stuff and I turned to him smiling, "Here it is. My place." I picked up my family photo and I tried to force it in my bad quickly, feeling his eyes on me I turned to look at him and I saw that his gaze was fixed on my family photo. I finally pushed it in my bag, "Well, thank you. It was nice to meet you in the creepy woods." I said as I looked up and saw he was watching me intensely, I grabbed my bag and turned to walk away. But then I smirked and turned to face him and I don't know what came over me but, "You're welcome to walk with me till my school."

He laughed at me and gestured for me to take the lead. I shook my head and wondered what the hell was wrong with me. I was never like this in front of others. I felt exhilarating with this older mysterious guy but at the same time, safe.

"I'm Damon. Damon Salvatore." He held out his hand giving me his, I'm sure very charming smile, and I rolled my eyes but took it anyway.

"Malia Gilbert." Giving him a small smile, I turned making my way back to the main road where I saw my school. I stopped thinking he might go the other way but then I realised something and I turned to him abruptly and bumping into him. I closed my eyes expecting a horrible fall again but when nothing came I opened my eyes and saw his blue eyes staring at me with a mischievous glint with his arms around me.

"Are you usually this clumsy or today is something special?" He breathed near me and I felt my cheeks turning red at his closeness and the way he was making fun at me. I pushed him away and stumbled away from his arms. My heart beat was going crazy and as if he could clearly hear it, his smug smile grew wider. I squinted my eyes at him and ignored his comment.

"Damon Salvatore? As in Stefan Salvatore?" I asked him remembering my reason to stop abruptly.

As soon as I said it, his gaze become distant and I turned around to see Stefan watching us from distance. When I looked back, he was gone.

"Weird," I mumbled to myself and walked towards my twin where she was giving me a stink eye for bunking the school.

"Lia!" She marched towards me for giving me the lecture but then I noticed she was coming from the other side of the school, well that's a surprise. I stopped walking so that she could catch up to me.

"Where did you go today? You were supposed to be in French too!" I just looked at her with a questioning look and she sighed. "Yeah. I went to the cemetery but after the class, Lia. Please don't do this from now on, okay? Jer is falling apart, I don't want you to fall apart too. We need to stick together." Rolling my eyes, I directed her to our house and didn't say anything. I know what she said was right. We needed to stick together but I couldn't help but zone out of her rambling thinking about Damon. Why am I even thinking about him? He just disappeared.

As soon as we reached, I ran upstairs and kept the photo that I was hiding near my bed. I plopped down my bed and wrapped my blanket around me and stared at the ceiling. Today was not so bad. I think it will be different from tomorrow. I can feel the change and with that thought I dozed off to sleep.

LATER THAT NIGHT

"I got this. Wait. Don't stay out late, It's a school night." I heard Jenna say to my twin as I made my way to the kitchen. I woke up from my nap to Elena banging my door yelling something about going to the grill to meet up with Bonnie. So, I decided to change and eat something first.

"Well done Aunt Jenna." I heard my twin say laughing. She turned to me, "Come on, we're late."

"Coming," I hopped off the kitchen counter finishing my coffee as I hugged Jenna bye and walked towards the door, opening it, clashing with a chest.

"Sorry I was about to knock." Stefan said as I chuckled at him, "Uh, is your sister home?"

Turning my head smirking, I gestured to Elena who was staring at Stefan with googly eyes. She saw me smirking and rolled her eyes coming to the door smiling. Oh, so he gets a smile and I always get a glare or rolling eyes! Nice, sissy!

"I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier, I know it was… uh Strange." He gave my sister a small smile.

"No worries. I get it. Blood makes you squeamish." They both shared a laugh as I snapped my head at my twin. Why was she bleeding? Was she hurt? Is that why I saw both of them together? Stefan cut me off before I could bombard my twin with all the question,

"Something like that. How's uh your leg?" He asked gesturing to her leg meeting our gaze.

"It's fine, just a scratch, barely." She said with an awkward laugh.

"How did you know where we lived, Stefan?" I asked him with a questioning look to which I got elbowed in my side. Ow. Really, Lena?

"It's a small town, I asked the first person I saw." He said smiling to me while reaching into his back pocket to take out my twin's journal.

"Twin, Is that your journal?" I asked puzzled. Why did he have it?

"Yea… I must have dropped it. Thank you."

"Don't worry, I didn't read it." I scoffed at that and they both turned to look at me.

"What? I would have." I snorted at my twin and she just glared at me, may be to shut the hell up.

"Well I wouldn't want anyone to read mine." He said turning his attention to me. I was about to snort at that but the way my twin was giving me a stink eye made me shut up and I took it as my cue to leave the new sizzling romance alone.

"Uh twin, I'll just wait outside." I said to her but she didn't pay any attention to me, "It was nice meeting you, Stefan." I said smiling and ran towards the car to wait for my twin. As I was about to open the door, I felt like someone was watching me, I looked everywhere but there was no one in the drive way or road so I just shook off. I'm just being paranoid.

I looked up to see that my twin and Stefan was coming this way. Turns out he's joining us. I made kissy face to Elena when we reached to the grill as Stefan was walking ahead of us and she just giggled at that.

As we entered the grill, I saw all our friends there. I didn't feel like going honestly but I had too. I decided it was time to be me again and socialise. This used to be our old hang out spot, we would all go here and just hang out and play pool and stuff our faces with all the junk food they could provide us. Especially, when Elena and Matt started to date me, Bonnie, Caroline used to hang out together too. It was kind of our place.

Stefan and twin went to the table directly where Bonnie and Caroline were sitting. I'm sure Caroline would totally grill Stefan. I smirked at that and made my way towards the bar.

"Hey," I knew that voice. I sighed and turned towards Tyler and I could see Vicky behind him who was glaring at me so hard that I'm sure if it was her way, I'd be dead under six feet.

"Hi Ty," I smiled at him awkwardly gesturing at him to take a seat.

"How are you doing? You look amazing by the way." He smiled at me taking a seat beside and I saw Matt rolling his eyes. Tyler was a dick to everyone except me. I squinted my eyes at Matt before turning to Tyler.

"I'm fine, Ty. Um, were you and Matt playing pool?" I tried to deflect him and I saw his smile drop as I brought my buffer in the conversation.

"Yeah, Lia. Remember Ty what a sore loser she was when we beat her at pool last summer." Matt snickered at me and Tyler just smirked. So last summer I dared both of them that I would win the game and cockily challenged but on the first shot itself I shot the black ball in the hole accompanying the white one. I threw a major tantrum which they never let me forget. This was before my parents died.

"Oh really?" I smacked Matt on the back of his head making him glare at me. "Matt you do not want to mess with Malia Gilbert now." I told him poking a finger at his chest.

"So, what's Elena doing with the new guy?" Matt asked me subtly and Tyler groaned at that.

"Dude let it go. She dumped your ass man. Take a hint." He scoffed turning to Matt.

"Really, Ty? You of all people shouldn't say that to me." Matt snorted at Tyler. Awkward. Tyler's eyes snapped at me as he said that. Great, Matt! Way to turn the heat on me. I swiftly kicked him under the table.

"She's a different person, Matt and so am I now! Just give some time okay? Until then, you have your buddy, Lia here." He scoffed at this and turned to me to argue but I cut him off before he said anything, "Uh, uh, uh none of that longing looks and crap. You know I would love to see you back with her but it's her choice buddy. You know my loyalty lies with you."

Tyler laughed at this, "Sure, Lia. Some might think your loyalty would be with your twin but you always support Matt."

"Duh. She's evil. And my Matt deserves so much better. I was so mad at her for breaking up with him." I said this while pinching Matt's face which I know he hates it.

"you're so weird, Lia. I don't even know how you both are related." He scoffed getting up and prying me away from him. Before Tyler could say anything, I saw Jeremy give some pills to Vicky and I groaned at that and excused myself.

"Hey, hey, hey, Jer. Wait! What are you doing, huh? Are you dealing now? I said to him sternly as I grabbed his arm.

"Just let me go, okay! I'm not dealing or anything. Between you, Elena and Jenna…. Just leave me alone." He walked out mumbling something. Yep, my brother needs an intervention. That's it.

I went home early not feeling like going to the party as I was walking home I felt like someone was following me. So, I picked up my pace and ran home as fast as I can. As soon as I reached home, I closed the door and plopped on the couch switching on Tv. I must have dozed off when I heard my twin and Jeremy come in. Jer seemed pretty much shaken. Wonder what happened!

"What's wrong?" I asked my twin who was trying to calm Jeremy.

"Vicky got attacked by an animal. Where did you go? I was looking for you."

"Sorry I bailed on you. I didn't feel like going to the party. Is she okay?" Vicky might not like me but I knew Matt loved his sister. She hated that we had a great bond but I still cared for her and looks like my brother got a crush on her too.

"Yeah Jer found her. Matt took her to the hospital." I nodded and then made space so that twin and I could get comfy on the couch. It was our tradition if anyone was feeling low or upset we would just sit together and cuddle and binge watch. She told me about her talk with Stefan and how he disappeared later when Vicky was found. She told me that Bonnie was also feeling weird as she touched twin, she was a man and fog and crow. As soon ass she said that I remembered those blue hypnotic eyes. I haven't told her about Stefan's brother yet. But then I didn't think any of it as she began telling me how she opened up with Stefan. I was happy for my twin. She needed to be happy finally.

We both dozed off on the couch talking.

SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE

A crow flew over Stefan's head and he knew before he even heard that he was here. He saw him today with Elena's sister. This was what he was scared of. Finding about twins!

"Damon."

"Hello Brother," Damon smirked at his little brother as he stood in the door watching his baby brother squirm under his gaze.

"The crow's a bit too much, don't you think?" Stefan asked his brother.

"Just wait till you see what I can do with the fog." Damon replied enjoying the anxiety in his brother.

"When did you get here?" Stefan asked his brother but he already knew it had to do with the Gilbert twins. That was why he was here too but Stefan's motives were opposite from his unpredictable brother and that's what scared him the most.

"Well, I couldn't miss the first day of your school." Damon said being vague as he walked over to Stefan's bookshelf not caring that he was putting his baby brother on edge. He looked over smirking at Stefan, "Your hair is different, I like it."

"It's been fifteen years, Damon." Stefan said ignoring his brother's pointless remarks.

"Thank god," Damon chuckled, "I couldn't take another day in the 90's. The horrible grunge look did not suit you." Damon sing-songed to Stefan.

Stefan knew that his brother has ulterior motives to the visit and he did not want to play any games with anymore. He was tired of all the rivalry and games. Stefan wanted the normal life which he didn't had for 145 years.

"Why are you here, Damon?" Stefan asked him impatiently.

"I missed my little brother." Damon said cocking an eyebrow at Stefan.

"You hate small towns," Stefan stated, "They are boring. There's nothing for you to do here."

"I've managed to keep myself busy, brother." Damon scoffed.

"You know you left the girl earlier tonight! Very clumsy of you brother." Stefan mocked him.

"That could be a problem." Damon smirked walking over to Stefan the turned around to face him, "For you."

"Why are you here, now?" Stefan knew his brother was trying to push him but he still kept questioning not giving in to him.

"I could ask the same question. Although I'm certain your answer can be summed up in two words." Damon smirked. "Elena and Malia."

"They took my breath away…" Damon egged him, "Although I must say Malia is more my type. They're dead ringers for Katherine. Especially, Malia." Damon circled his brother mocking him. He knew Stefan saw him earlier interacting with naïve little Malia and he was enjoying the way he was on edge because of it. At first, he was shocked to see his brother stalking plain little Elena, replica of Katherine, but then he saw Malia and he knew he was going to have fun.

"Is it working, Stefan? Being around them. Being in their world, does it make you feel alive?" Damon kept mocking him, pushing all his buttons to snap.

"They are not Katherine." Stefan gritted his teeth.

"Well, let's hope not." Damon smirked as he stood in front of Stefan. "We both know how that ended. Tell me, when's the last time you've had something stronger than a squirrel or thumper?"

"I know what you're doing, Damon. It's not going to happen." Stefan said turning away from his brother trying to reign his temper only to have Damon hit his chest making him face Damon again.

"Come on! Don't you crave a little?" Damon mocked him causing Stefan to breathe heavier in hunger.

"Stop it." Stefan snarled trying to control his nature.

"Let's do it. Together. I saw a couple of girls out there…" Damon pushed Stefan enjoying his brother's misery hitting him once again. A smirk spread across Damon's face with an evil glint in his eyes knowing exactly what to say next to make his brother snap, "Or let's cut to the chase. Let's go straight to the Gilbert sisters. You take your plain old Elena and I'll enjoy my precious Lia." Damon said pushing Stefan.

"Stop it." Stefan yelled finally snapping and rushed towards Damon sending them flying them off the balcony only to find that Damon wasn't with him.

"I'm impressed." Stefan heard him as he got up and turned to face him. There Damon was leaning arrogantly against a couple of bushes as if nothing happened. Stefan stared at him with anger and disbelief as he composed himself.

"I'll give it a six, missing style." Damon smirked. "But surprised. Very good with the face and the… rawrrr…" He mocked Stefan making growling sounds. "It was good."

"You think this is all fun and games, Damon? Where ever you go, people die." Stefan snarled at him.

"That's a given." Damon shrugged at him as if it was no big deal.

"Not here. Not to them. I won't allow it. Stay away from Elena and Malia."

"That sounds like an invitation, brother. You can keep your Elena but Malia…" He drawled causing Stefan to shake his head in disbelief. Stefan knew that why his brother was going after Malia. She was more like Katherine. Her natural curls made her more like Katherine. But he knew, neither Malia nor Elena were like her. They were good. Pure. He didn't want Damon to hurt either of them.

"Please, Damon. After all these years, can't you give it a rest?" Stefan pleaded his brother.

"I promised you an eternity of misery, brother. I'm just keeping my promise." Damon gritted his teeth at his little brother feeling all the pain and betrayal for just one moment. With that he threw Stefan feet away causing Stefan to groan in pain. "Remember who's stronger, brother. You shouldn't have stopped feeding on humans." And with that Damon walked away in shadows leaving his brother in pain.

A/N: Give it a try please and R/R.