Chapter 1

He made his way through the town centre, he hadn't been here in years.

The place looked much different than he imagined. It was rather built up for a small town. It used to be one main street with small buildings along the sides. He shook his head at all the time that passed.

She was walking through town square, deep in her thoughts. She needed some time to herself, the events of the past few days were laying heavily on her mind.

She thought about what happened lately and she felt the tears sting in her eyes, but she forced them back. She had cried enough for now. She didn't even realise where she was going until she was nearly bumping into a guy who was standing there.

He steadied the girl who had bumped into him and saw she looked quite distraught.

"Im sorry miss, are you okay?", he asked her. She seemed really upset and he wondered what could possibly trouble a beautiful young girl on a nice open sky evening like this.

She looked up as he steadied her. "Sorry, my fault. I wasn't watching where I was heading." she said and forced up a smile.

She held up the smile a little longer before walking past him, the smile faltering in an instant. She didn't know what to do, it had all been too much lately.

He smiled back but before he knew it she had walked right past him.

He looked down as something caught his eye and noticed she must have dropped her keys. He bent down and picked them up and ran after her.

"Excuse me you dropped something", he said and dangled the keys before handing it to her with a soft smile.

"Oh thank you." she said as she turned around to look at him. She looked into his eyes and suddenly the smile came up from it's own accord.

She noticed his smile and would've blushed if she could. "That would've caused some problems when I get home." She took the keys from him.

"Thanks again." she said and smiled at him.

"You're welcome", he said and smiled back again.

"I know this is going to sound weird but do you know most of the people around here I'm actually looking for a friend", he said nervously.

She looked at him. "Well, yes, I know most of the people. I was born here." she said to him. "Are you new around here?" she asked him and cooked her head.

She looked at him and took in his delicate features and handsome body. The smile returned on her face yet again, his friendly face was doing this to her, she didn't even know why.

He thought about how he could reply. "Yes, well I've been here before but I suppose you could say I'm new", he grinned.

There was no mistaking it she was beautiful, he thought as he smiled. He snapped out of it. "Do you by any chance know Damon Salvatore?", he asked.

She looked at him. "Yes, I know him. Are you friends?" then she chuckled at herself. "Sorry, I forgot you were talking about Damon." she shook her head with a smile.

"He's still living at the Boarding House if you plan on paying a visit to him." she informed him and pocketed the keys she was still playing with.

He laughed too. "Yes I know its hard to believe since I don't think Damon has too many friends, but yes I am", he said and smiled.

"Thank you though, I will do that", he said and turned around ready to walk away and then remembered his manners.

"I'm sorry I didn't catch your name", he said with a smile.

She smiled back and extended her hand. "Caroline Forbes, nice to meet you." she said and shook his hand.

"You're practically my saviour tonight. My mom would've killed me if I lost my keys." she said to him.

He smiled back and shook her hand. "Sage", he replied.

"I'm very glad that I found them then, that would be a sin", he grinned.

"Yeah, especially with all the weapons she has at home." she said with a laugh and without thinking. "Oh sorry, my mom is the sheriff." she informed him as she saw his face. "Everyone here knows her, so I didn't think." she said with a smile.

It was nice talking about normal thing for once. He brought her mind away from her thoughts about her dad and she enjoyed laughing carefree again, even if it was for short.

He laughed. "Thats good to know, and of course I'm sure nobody will ever mess around with you since your mom's the Sheriff", he smiled.

"So uhm how do you know Damon?", he asked curiously. She seemed much too nice to ever know someone like Damon Salvatore.

She sighed. "That's really a long story." she said to him. "It wouldn't fit into a town-centre-conversation." she joked and smiled.

"How do you know him? I never thought Damon was capable of having friends over a certain amount of time."

He smiled at her he really wanted to know about her.

"Me and Damon have been friends for a really long time actually. I think we became friends since the time he visited my country, I think it was at a bar of some sort. The memory isn't too clear", he laughed.

"That sounds like Damon." she smiled. "So where are you from?" she asked him. He seemed far too nice wandering around at night in a town like this. There has to be something else to him, his character was too good to be true.

"I'm from France", he explained. He noticed her raised eyebrows. Maybe she was like her mother, very interrogating but it was cute.

"That sounds very interesting. I always wanted to travel to Europe someday." she said and smiled, hoping to hide her inquisitive gaze, which she knew she had. "And you're in the States only because of Damon?" she asked with a crooked smile. "Seems a wide way for visiting an old friend."

he smiled at what she said. "Are you part of the Sheriff's team Miss. Forbes?", he asked her with a smile.

"But no not just for Damon. Im here for Stefan too, and I've heard so much has changed here so I wanted to check it out", he explained.

She smiled when he said that. But when he continued to talk about Stefan, her smile faltered.

"Stefan, huh." she said and looked up into the dark night sky. "I don't think you'll have luck with that." she said earnestly.

He frowned at her words. "Why not? Is there something wrong?", he asked her quickly.

"A lot happened." she sighed. "I'm not sure how to explain that to you but he practically abandoned his friends and is now on his own little revenge mission." she said.

"His girlfriend is devastated and her and Damon try their best to get him back they way he was."

He frowned. Wow everything did really change a lot so far as he could tell.

"Girlfriend? Wow I always thought Stefan wasn't interested in girls but revenge mission? What made all this happen?", he asked her.

"Stefan not interested in girls?" she smiled. "Wow it seems you haven't met him in a long time."

Then she turned serious again. "A very bad man made all of that happen." she said sadly. "And he didn't only screw Stefan over."

"Well yes it has been quite a while", he said back.

When he listened to what she said he could only feel a slight amount of remorse for her. Whoever this man was she was talking about couldn't be sane at all.

"I will have to go see Stefan soon then", he said and thought about Stefan not to mention his troubling past.

He looked down at the thought and the ring on her middle finger caught his eye. "Thats a very pretty ring you're wearing", he told her.

She twisted the ring absent mindly and looked up at him. "Thanks." she said vaguely.

He was suspecting something, she was sure of that. Maybe he, too, knew more about all the supernatural things. She never had seen Damon or Stefan be friends with any humans expect for Elena.

"It's pretty late, I should really get home, you remember, my mom." she said with a smile, trying to keep her carefree joking tone from earlier up. She hoped he wouldn't suspect her of leaving in a rush because he had noticed her ring.

He smiled at her words. "Yes right, I wouldn't want to get in the sheriff's bad books", he said with a wink.

"I'll see you around and nice talking to you Caroline", he smiled.

"Yeah, see you around." she smiled and waved at him before walking off towarda home. She couldn't stop herself think of him. He seemed so nice, could he really be part of the bad supernatural world?

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Sage waved back before walking the opposite direction. It didn't take him that long to find the Boarding House, Mystic Falls was still a small town.

As he pulled up into the driveway he noticed someone with brown hair get into her car and drive off.

"Katherine", he thought out loud. How could that be possible?

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