AN: Here's chapter 1, up until it says Elena's POV it is just the opening scene from vampire diaries pilot you can skip it if you like, then there's a lot throughout this chapter that's the same from the pilot but that's going to change one she gets more memories back. This chapter is very long, almost 9k, the other chapter with not be this long the will be like 4k.
Start of Something Old
Chapter 1: Start of Something New, or Old?
Stefan's POV
For over a century, I lived in secret, hiding in the shadows, alone in the world… until now. I am a vampire. And this is my story.
Third Person's POV
A girl and a guy probably in their twenties were driving in a car on an empty highway.
"An hour's drive just to hear that crap. You know, it wasn't even a band. A guy with a guitar." The guy said with a teasing smile. "An hour each way." He mumbled.
"He wasn't that bad." The girl said with a smile.
"He sounded like James Blunt."
"What's wrong with that?" The girl said slightly laughing.
"We already have a James Blunt. One's all we need." He said smiling.
"So why did you come?" The girl asked smiling.
"Because I love you." He said simply.
"Nicely done." She said happy. After a few minutes fog started to roll in. "What's with all the fog?" She asked.
"It'll clear in a sec." He guessed looking at her.
"Watch out!" She screamed seeing a dark shadow of a man in the middle of the road.
He swerved but didn't make it in time and hit the man. The car slid a few yards down the road and the man laid behind them. Both the guy and the girl were panting, both horrified.
"Are you okay?" The guy asked the girl.
"We just hit someone. Oh, my god!" The girl freaked.
"Call for help." The guy said unbuckling his seat belt. Then leaving the car the see if the man was alive.
He slowing walked towards the man. When he got to him he kneeled down, "Please be alive." He said. He grabbed his hand that had a huge old looking ring on it; he checked his pulse the man's wristed and realized he wasn't breathing. "Oh, my god." He said. The man on the ground jumped up and grabbed the guy who hit him and sunked his sharp fangs into his neck.
The girl got out of the car. "There's no signal." She called out. "Darren." She shouted her boyfriend's name when she couldn't see him or the body. "Darren!" She heard a loud thump and turned back towards the car to see her boyfriend's dead body of the hood of it with a bite mark in his neck. She screamed and started running down the road, before she was grabbed from above by something.
Stefan's POV
I shouldn't have come home. I know the risk but I had no choice. I have to know her.
Elena's POV
Dear Diary, today will be different. It already feels different; I don't know what it is, but I feel like a different person. Today is a start of something new. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile will say: "I'm fine, thank you. Yes I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents. I will start fresh be someone new; it's the only way I'll make it through.
I walked into the kitchen and saw Aunt Jenna rushing around. "Toast, I can make toast." Jenna offered.
"It's all about the coffee Aunt Jenna." I say with a smile while pouring myself a cup of coffee.
"Is there coffee?" My little brother Jeremy walked in and asked. He walked over to me and grabbed my cup right out of my hand so I started pouring myself another cup.
"Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared." Aunt Jenna said upset. She shouldn't worry so much about us. "Lunch money?" She asked with money in her hand looking at both of us.
"I'm okay." I said. But Jeremy grabbed the money.
"Anything else? A number 2 pencil?" She asked. "What am I missing?"
"Don't you have a big presentation today?" I asked. For some reason this all feels so déjà vu.
"I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at…" She paused looking at her watch. "Now. Crap." She says taking her hair out of its messy bun.
"Then go. We'll be fine." I say trying to assure her. Jenna left and I turned towards Jeremy. "You okay?" I asked.
"Don't start." He said grabbing his coffee and leaving the room.
Why does this all feel so déjà vu?
Bonnie, my best friend is driving us to school and I still can't get this déjà vu feeling to go away. It's really weird.
"So Grams is telling me I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem, witches and all that." I smile at and looking at her like she crazy. "I know, crazy, but she's going on and on about it. And I'm like, "Put this woman in a home already." She says and I turn my head to look at the cemetery we are passing and I start to zone out. "But then I start thinking, I predicted Obama, and I predicted Heath Ledger. And I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands." She says but I really wasn't paying attention. "Elena back it the car." She says louder, I turn my head to look at her.
"I did it again, didn't I? I'm sorry, Bonnie." I realized. "You were telling me that…"
"That I'm psychic now." She finished.
"Right okay, then predict something about me." I told her with a laugh.
She sighs. "I see…" She gets cut off by a something hitting the windshield, and puts on the brakes and swerves the car off the road. My heart was beating really fast and all the memories of the night my parents died flash before my eyes.
"What was that?" Bonnie asks. "Oh, my god. Elena are you okay?" She asks.
"It's okay, I'm fine." I said nodding my head.
"It was a bird or something. It came out of nowhere."
"Really, I can't be freaked out by cars for the rest of my life." I say.
Bonnie sighed. "I predict this year is going be kick ass, and I predict all the sad and dark times are over. And you are going to be beyond happy." She finishes. We both smile before heading towards school again.
We are now walking down the hall to our new lockers. "Major lack of male real estate." Bonnie said looking at all the non-attracted guys at our school. "Look at the shower curtain on Kelly Beech. She looks a hot… Can I still say trannie mess?" She asked.
"No that's over." I tell her once we get to her locker.
"Ugh. Find a man and coin a phrase, it's a busy year." She laughs.
I see Bonnie looking at someone from behind me and I turn around to see Matt standing at his locker looking sad, I wave but he doesn't wave back and turns back to his locker.
I sigh and turn back to Bonnie. "He hates me."
"That's not hate. That's 'You dumped me, but I'm too cool to show it but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits."
"Elena. Oh, my god." I see Caroline rushing over. She hugs me tightly. "How are you? Oh, it's so good to see you!" She says letting go of me. "How is she? Is she good?" She asked Bonnie like I'm not even there.
"Uh, Caroline. I'm right here. And I'm fine, thank you." I say with the best fake smile I could come up with.
"Really?" Caroline asks.
"Yes, much better."
"Oh, you poor thing." Caroline says pulling me into a hug.
"Okay Caroline." I say since she's hugging me really hard.
She sighed and let me go. "Okay, see you guys later?" She said with a big smile.
"Okay yeah." Both Bonnie and I say.
She leaves and Bonnie looks at me. "No comment." I say with and smile and we start walking away.
Third Person's POV
Jeremy and Vicki were out in the upside of the school where all the druggies and smokers hang out.
"Don't take more than two in a six hour window." Jeremy told Vicki while giving her drugs. Vicki took the pill and swallowed it.
"Hey, Vicki. I knew I'd find you here with the crackheads." Tyler said coming over to them and putting his arm around her. Jeremy gave him a dirty look.
"Hey." Vikki smiled at him.
"Hey, Pete Wentz called; he wants his nail polish back." Tyler said to Jeremy who is smoking pot.
"Pete Wentz huh? How old school TRL of you. Carson Daly fan?" Jeremy retorted.
Tyler went to hit him but Vicki stopped him. "Whoa Ty, be nice. Be nice. That's Elena's little brother." Vicki said.
"I know who he is; I can still kick his ass." Tyler said before kissing Vicki. Jeremy looked away before walking away.
Elena's POV
Bonnie and I are walking down the hall when she stops us in front of the school's front office. "Hole up, who's this?"
All I see is the back of a guy talking to the secretary wearing a leather jacket and blue jeans. "All I see is back."
"It's a hot back." She says and I laugh. I see him taking his sunglasses off and the secretary looking at him intensely.
"I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar." Bonnie says using her "psychic powers".
"You're really gonna run this psychic thing into the ground, huh?" I say with a chuckle.
"Pretty much." She says. I see Jeremy going into the boy's washroom and I have a feeling I know why.
"I'll be right back." I tell Bonnie and walk towards the boy's washroom. I walk right into it.
When I walk in and see Jeremy putting eye drops into his eyes so he doesn't look high. "Whoa, next down chick." A guy says walking out of the room.
I push Jeremy and look him straight in the eye. "Great, it's the first day of school and you're stoned." I say.
"No, I'm not." He tries to make me believe him.
"Where is it, is it on you?" I start grabbing his pockets.
"Stop it. You need to chill yourself, alright." He tells me.
"Chill myself? What is that stoner talk? Dude you are so cool."
"Look stop, I don't have anything. Are you crazy?" He asks.
"You haven't seen crazy, Jeremy. I gave you a summer pass. But I am done watching you destroy yourself." He tries walk away from me but I pull him back. "No, you know what? Go ahead, keep it up. But just know that I am going to be there to ruin your buzz every time, you got it?"
A guy walks old of a stall and looks at us weirdly then leaves without washing his hands. I sigh. "Jeremy, I know who you are, and it's not this person. So don't be this person." I say shaking my head.
"I don't need this." He says before walking out.
I leave and bump into the guy from the office right outside of the bathroom. Just looking at him, gives me this weird feeling like I know him. He has these green eyes and light brown hair that is both so familiar. "Uh. Pardon me." He says. His voice, it's like I have heard all this before, seen it all before. "Um… Is this the men's room?" He asked looking at the door.
(AN: This is when it truly starts to change from the pilot.)
"Uh... yes. Long story. Do I know you? You look so familiar?" I asked studying his face.
"Uh… I don't think so." He says nervous.
"I got to go." I nervously walk away. I'm so confused. When I look at him I feel like I can trust him but I also feel slightly scared. Who is he?
I'm in history which I have with Bonnie, Matt and mystery guy. Mr. Tanner our teacher is talking about the civil war and when Virginia joined the Confederacy but I really wasn't paying attention, I kept looking back at mystery guy and catching him looking at me, something in my gut said I should be nervous but another thing said I should be happy this hot guy is showing interest in you, I just don't understand. Than something flashes in my head, a picture of memory? Of myself at the cemetery, than I fall down hill and when I stand up I see mystery guy standing there. What the hell was that?!
Bonnie sends me a text saying… 'Hawt-e staring u.' I smile at her trying to push whatever was going in my head out of my head.
I decide to go to the cemetery after school to visit my parents; I'm sitting up against the statue beside my parent's grave and bring up my diary to write in.
Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said 'I'm fine, thanks' at least 37 times and I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks, 'How are you' they really don't want an answer. Have you ever had that déjà vu feeling? Well I had it, all day. It was like I've heard and seen this all before.
A crow lands on my parents head stone. It starts cawing. "Okay. Hi bird." I say to it and shake my head. It keeps cawing. "That's not creepy or anything." I mumble and then out of nowhere fog starts rolling in. The crow keeps cawing. I get up and start waving my arm at the crow. "Shoo!" I say and it flies away. "That's what I thought." I turn around and see the crow on the statue cawing. I slowly picked up her bag and starts walking away fast, when I look back I see a figure of a man, and start running. Could somebody be following me? Is it mystery guy? My heart beat is getting fast and I'm panting and scared.
I trip and fall down a hill. I get up quickly scared that whoever was there is following me. When I'm standing I turn around and see mystery guy standing there, okay this makes me even more freaked out. What the hell has been going on today?
"You okay?" He asks genuinely.
I sigh. I nod. "Were you following me?" I asked bravely.
"No I just saw you fall." He says simply.
"Uh-huh, and you just happened to be hanging around in a cemetery?" I ask sarcastically, but it sounded a little bitchy. What can you expect; this guy is starting to creep me out!
"I was visiting. I have family here." He says sadly and then I really feel bad.
"Oh, wow. I'm a bitch. I'm sorry, it's the fog it's making me foggy and then back there, there was this bird. And it was all very Hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie right? The Hitchcock?" I ramble than sigh. "I'm Elena." I put my hand out.
"I'm Stefan." He says.
Yeah, we have history together." I say
"And English and French." He finishes.
"Right." I say in almost a trance, there's that déjà vu feeling again. I look down and see this huge ass ring on his finger that looks very old. "Nice ring."
"Uh… yeah. It's a family ring. Kind of stuck with it." He says. "It's weird huh?"
"Well there's rings and then there's that." I say.
He smiles but then it turns into a frown. "Did you hurt yourself?" He asks.
"Oh uh. I don't know." I say putting my leg up on a big rock and rolling up my pant leg to see and big cut bleeding on my shin. "Oh, would you look at that?" I say disgusted. "That is not pretty." I say looking up at him to see his head is turned. "Are you okay?"
He nods his head. "You should go and take care of that." He says not looking at me.
"Really it's nothing." I say rolling down my pant leg and stand back up but when I turn around he's gone. How could he get away that fast?
I decide to just go home and talk to him about it later. When I'm walking home I stop, I remember that memory I had in history class of me falling down a hill and then seeing Stefan, it just happened, for real. Did I see the future? What the hell is happening to me!
Stefan's POV
I lost control today. Everything I've kept buried inside came rushing to the surface. I am simply not able to resist her, but why does she seem so nervous around me? Does she know something?
Third Person's POV
Vicki was at the Grill working grabbing an order for one of her tables when Jeremy walked up. "Hey." He smiled at her.
"Working." She said basically ignoring him.
She walks up to her brothers Matt's and Tyler's table. "Thanks Vick." Matt said to his sister.
"Do you need another refill?" Vicki asked Tyler flirting.
"I'd love one." Tyler flirts back.
Vicki grabs his glass and walks away, Tyler watches her. "Please tell me you're not hooking up with my sister." Matt says.
"I'm not hooking up with your sister." Tyler lies with a smirk.
"You're such a dick."
Vicki goes up to the counter to refill Tyler's drink, and Jeremy approaches her again. "Hey, what's your deal? I mean, summer you act one way, and then school starts and you can't be bothered." He asks her.
"Look Jeremy, I really appreciate the pharmaceuticals but you can't keep following me around like a lost puppy." She tells him.
"When was the last time you had sex with a puppy?" Jeremy asks
"Shh! Keep it down. I don't wanna tell the world I deflowered Elena's kid brother." She said ashamed.
"Yeah, and deflowered and deflowered." He says.
"We hooked up a few times in a drug haze, it's over." Vicki says harshly. "You gotta back off before you ruin things between me and Tyler."
"Come on, the guys a total douche. He only wants you for your ass." Jeremy says heartbroken.
"Yeah? What do you want me for?" She asks. Before leaving to give Tyler his refill she hit Jeremy's shoulder with her own walking by. Jeremy sighed.
"His name is Stefan Salvatore. He lives with his uncle in the old Salvatore boarding house. He hasn't lived here since he was a kid; Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a Gemini and his favourite colour is blue." Caroline says to Bonnie walking into the Grill.
"You got all that in one day?" Bonnie asked surprised.
"Oh please, I got all that between fourth and fifth period. We're planning a June wedding." Caroline explains.
Caroline walks away leaving Bonnie shocked, shaking her head.
Elena's POV
Bonnie told me everyone was meeting at the Grill and although I'm a little freaked out by what's been happening today I decided a little normal fun time with friends could be good.
"I'm meeting Bonnie at the Grill." I tell Aunt Jenna.
"Have fun." She says on instinct. "Oh wait. I got this. Don't stay out to late it's a school night.
I chuckle. "Well done, Aunt Jenna."
I go and open the door and see Mystery Guy aka Stefan outside. I gasp frightened. "Oh."
"Sorry, I was about to knock." He says. "I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was strange."
"Oh yeah no worries. Blood makes you squeamish?" I guessed.
"Something like that. How's your leg?"
"Oh it's fine, just a scratch, barely." I answer. "How did you know where I lived?" I questioned nervously. He is really starting to creep me out. But I want answer about what's going on maybe he'll have them since he's always been there whenever I feel weird.
"It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw." He answers without hesitation. "I thought you might want this back." He says pulling out my diary.
"Uh… I must have dropped it, thank you." I say.
"Don't worry I didn't read it." He says.
"Really? Most people would."
"I wouldn't want anyone to read mine."
"You keep a journal." I say shocked.
"Yeah if I didn't write it down I would forget about it. Memories are too important."
"Yeah I'm just gonna put this in here. You don't have to stay out there." I say before heading into the house, I put my diary on the end table in my living room.
"I'm fine." Stefan shouts from the door.
I go back to the door. "I'm sorry were you going someplace?" He asks.
"Yeah I'm meeting a friend, would you like to come?" I ask because I need to know more about him, so maybe I can figure out what's going on with me.
"He agrees and we take his car there. While I'm sitting in the car with him I have one of those flashes again but this time I'm sitting in a car with another guy, he has raven black hair and the most gorgeous blue guys, we are laughing and smiling and I say cockily 'I saved your life.' And he says 'I know' and I say 'And don't you forget it.' What it going on? Am I the psychic one not Bonnie. I laugh just at the thought.
Third Person's POV
Matt and Bonnie are sitting at a table in the Grill. "How's Elena." He asks.
"Her mom and dad died. How do you think?" Bonnie answers sadly. "She's putting on a good face. It's only been four months."
"Has she said anything about me?" He asks.
"Oh, no. So not getting in the middle, you pick up the phone and call her."
"I feel weird calling her. She broke up with me." He says upset.
"Give it more time Matt."
Just then the Grills door opens and Stefan and Elena walk in together smiling at each other.
"More time, huh?" He asks standing up and walking towards them.
Elena's POV
The second we walked into the Grill together everyone was looking at us, uh-oh. Matt got up from where he was sitting with Bonnie and started walking towards us.
"Hey, I'm Matt. Nice to meet you." He says introducing himself to Stefan.
"Hi. Stefan" Stefan says.
"Hey." I smile at Matt.
"Hey." He says back but it's lacking the smile.
"So you were born in Mystic Falls?" Caroline asked Stefan, we are now sitting at a table with Caroline and Bonnie and we are all asking Stefan lots of questions.
"Mm-hm. And moved when I was still young." Stefan answered.
"Parents?" Bonnie asks.
"My parents passed away." He answered.
"I'm sorry." I tell him, knowing what it is like to lose your parents. He nods. "Any siblings?" I asked.
"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle."
"So Stefan if you're new you don't know about the party tomorrow night." Caroline says.
"It's a back-to-school thing at the falls." Bonnie explains.
"Are you going?" He asks me.
"Of course she is." Bonnie replies for me, I send her a glare and she sends me a confused look.
"Yeah I am." I answer.
Stefan's POV
I was changing my shirt after getting home that night when I heard my door open, Zach came walking in holding up a newspaper. "You promise." He said to me. I grab the newspaper and see you people found died headline reads 'Bodies found mutilated by animal' I didn't do this it's probably just an animal attack.
"This was an animal attack" I say.
"Don't give me that. I know the game. You tear them up enough; they always suspect an animal attack. You said you had it under control!" Zach says.
"And I do." I give him back the newspaper not caring what he thinks.
"Please, Uncle Stefan, Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet for years. But there are people who still remember. And you being here, it's just gonna stir things up."
"That's not my intention."
"Then what is? Why did you come back after all this time, why now?" He asked.
"I don't have to explain myself."
"I know that you can't change what you are. But you don't belong here anymore."
"Where do I belong?" I ask.
"I can't tell you what to do. But coming back here was a mistake." Zach says. Before leaving he dropped the newspaper on my table.
I go up to my cabinet where I keep all my journals and open it. I grab the one from 1864 and open it and see the picture of Katherine, looking as beautiful as always. I don't know where I kept this picture but I think I use it as a reminder of the worst times in my life and to not let those happen again.
Elena POV
I'm lying with Damon on his bed he is dying from Tyler biting him, but I won't believe. Damon can't die, I won't let him.
"This is even more pitiful than I thought." He says.
"There's still hope." I say with a tear in my eye.
"I've made a lot of choices that have gotten me here. I deserve this. I deserve to die." He says his voice hoarse and shaky.
"No you don't Damon." I say sliding down so I can look at him.
"I do Elena. But it's okay, because if I had chosen differently I wouldn't have met you." I look at him and I feel like I love him. "I'm so sorry, I've done so many things to hurt you."
"It's okay, I forgive you." I smile.
I lie down so my head is on his chest. "I know you love Stefan and it will always be Stefan but I love you." I'm full on crying now, my tears staining his shirt. "You should know that." Holding his hands all I want to do is tell him I love him back but that would be fair for Stefan and for him since I am not sure so I just nod my head.
"I do."
"You should have met me in 1864, you would have liked me." He tells me.
"I like you now." I assure him with a smile and he smiles back at me. "Just the way you are." I continue you.
Our faces are so close and his eyes begin to close, I know he doesn't have much time and out of the spring of the moment, not even thinking of Stefan; I kiss him. It's not open or with tug, he's too weak but it but it is passionate and I can feel the fireworks and love coming from him even on his deathbed. I know with that kiss I love him, but I don't think I could ever admit that out loud.
I sit up in my bed and realize it was a dream or was it one of those flashes again. It was nothing like a dream I've ever had. I felt so real like a memory. And so far one of the flashes came true so maybe they are flashes of the future I don't know. I do know is all the love I felt for the guy I knew as Damon in my dream.
In the dream, I knew Damon and all the memories we had to together, I knew where I was and why Damon was dying but now all I know is what he or I said in the dream. I decide that I won't remember the dream unless I write it down.
Dear Diary, it's the middle of the night and I just had this dream that was so real that it was like a memory but I don't remember it so I'm going to write everything down and analyze it. I was with this man I knew as Damon and he was dying. I was holding him tight and trying not to cry but tears were still finding their way out my eyes. I had some much hope that he wouldn't die, but he said he had made so many mistakes that he deserve this, that he deserve to die. What kind of mistakes are so bad that you deserve to die? I told him he didn't deserve to die. He said 'But it's okay because if I had chosen differently I wouldn't have met you.' He is amazing, I don't even know who he is but I feel something for him. I told him I forgive him and he said 'I know you love Stefan and it's always going to be Stefan but I love you.' WHAT! I LOVE STEFAN, seriously what is going on with me is this a memory and me seeing the future? He told me he loved me and I started crying. Then he told me that I should have met him in 1864 that I would have like him. Does that mean he was around in 1864? Does that mean he never grows old? This gets more confusing by the minute. But then I told him I liked him now just the way he was and he smiled at me, a really cute smile. And I kissed him but it was barely a kiss since he was on his death bed. And that was it. Did he die? I guess I'll never know.
The next day I was in history class and Mr. Tanner was talking about The Battle of Willow Creek, which happened here in Mystic Falls in 1864 which just happened to be the year that Damon guy was talking about.
"How many casualties resulted in this battle Ms. Bennet?" He asked Bonnie.
"Um… A lot?" She acted dumb and the class laughs. "I'm not sure like a whole like."
"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms. Bennet. Mr. Donovan would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?" He asked Matt.
"It's okay Mr. Tanner, I'm cool with it." The class chuckles.
"Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most historical events." He asks me.
"I'm sorry I don't know." I say politely.
"I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." He says to me.
"There were 346 casualties, unless you're counting the local civilians." I hear Stefan say from behind me.
"That's correct Mr…?" Mr. Tanner questions.
"Salvatore." Stefan answers.
"Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here in Mystic Falls?" Mr. Tanner asks.
"Distant." He answers.
"Well very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle."
"Actually, there were 27, sir. Confederate soldiers fired on the church, believing it to be hosting weapons. And they were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founder's archives are in Civil Hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts." Stefan said arrogantly.
That night we were at the party by the falls and Bonnie was hounding me about Stefan, I told her that there was just something about him that made not know if I should trust him or not.
"Just admit it Elena, he's hot." She said.
"Okay, so he's a little pretty." I say with a chuckle.
"He has that romance novel stare. Stefan looked deep into her eyes piercing her very soul." Bonnie says.
I chuckle. "That also makes him mysterious."
"Mysterious is hot Elena."
"I know, but I just really don't know about trusting him." I say.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. So where is he?" Bonnie asks.
"I don't know." I say looking around. "You tell me you're the psychic one." I say even though I'm secretly thinking I'm the psychic one.
"Right, I forgot." She smiles. "Okay so give me a sec. Grams says I have to concentrate."
"Wait you need a crystal ball." I say jokingly. "Uh" I pick up an empty beer bottle. "Ta-da" I say showing off the bottle.
Bonnie laughs. She goes to grab the bottle but the second she touches my hand her eyes go wide. Her face is still and distant for a second before she lets go of me quickly. "What?" I ask.
"That was weird. When I touched you I saw a crow." The crow from the cemetery yesterday?
"What?"
"A crow. There was fog, a man." What is going on? "I'm drunk, it's the drinking. There's nothing psychic about it." She looks at me and sees my worried face. "Yeah I'm gonna get a refill." And she leaves me, and I'm freaked out.
"Okay." I mumble and turn around to see Stefan standing there.
"Hi."
"Hi." I say nervous.
"I did it again didn't I?" He asks.
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry." He says. "You're upset about something?" He asked but it came out more like a statement.
"Oh, uh… It's Bonnie she's acting a little weird." I say and shake my head. "Never mind. So you're here." I say trying to be nice to him even though I know something's off.
"I'm here." He says. "Wanna go for a walk?"
"Sure." I smile.
We go on this walk bridge. "You know you kind of the talk of the town?" I say.
"Am I?"
"Mm-hm. Mysterious new guy, oh yeah."
"Well you have the mysterious thing going to, twinged in sadness." He says.
"What makes you think that I'm sad?" I slightly snap.
"Well we did meet in a graveyard." He points out.
"Right. No technically we met in the men's room." I say. "You don't want to know. It's not exactly party chitchat."
"Well I've never been really good at chitchat." He says.
"Last spring… my parent's car drove off of a bridge into a lake. I was in the backseat and I survived but they didn't." I sigh. "So that's my story."
"You won't be sad forever Elena." I just nod.
Third Person's POV
Vicki and Tyler were making out up against a tree and he was trying to take her clothes off. "No, Ty, I'm not having sex against a tree." Vicki said smiling but trying to push him off.
"Oh come on, it will be hot." Tyler tries to pursue her.
"For who? No it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen." She insisted but he kept pushing. "Not here. Not like this." Tyler pushing her against the tree. "I said no. Ow. That hurts." She shouted.
Jeremy came walking up and seen what was happening. "Hey leave her alone." He shouted. Vicki pushed Tyler away from her.
"You know, you're starting to get on my nerves Gilbert." Tyler says approaching Jeremy.
"Don't! Go, Tyler. Get the hell away from me." Vicki demanded.
"Wow. Vicki Donovan says no. That's a first." Tyler says shocked before walking away.
"I didn't need your help." Vicki says to Jeremy.
"Seems like you did."
"He was just drunk." Vicki says defending Tyler.
"I'm drunk. Am I throwing myself at you?" Jeremy asks.
"No your worse. You wanna talk to me, get to know me, see into my soul and screw and screw and screw and screw until you're done with me." She accuses.
"Is that what you think?" Jeremy asks.
"That's what I know." She says before walking away into the woods.
Elena's POV
We are standing in the middle of the bridge looking at the falls when I have one of those flashes this time; I'm standing on a cliff beside a river when the Damon guy uses some kind of power to fly me into the water. It's not just the normal push, I go flying. And then I'm mad at him and mad at another guy there who must have called Damon and told him where I was. Damon walks into the water insisting on bringing me home but I'm not leaving, I'm very stubborn.
Stefan breaks my trance. "I like Bonnie; she seems like a good friend."
"Yeah, best friend in the world." I say distant.
"And Matt can't seem to take his eyes off of us." He says looking over towards land, I follow his
"Matt's that friend since childhood that you start dating because you owe it to yourselves to see if you can be more." I explain.
"And?"
"And then my parents died. And everything changes. Anyway Matt and I together just wasn't passionate." I explain.
"I see." He smiles and then I see his eyes turning red under them and veins becoming clearer.
"Hey you okay, I mean your eyes?"
"Oh um." He puts his head in his hand and rubs his eyes. "Yeah it's nothing. Are you thirsty? I'm gonna get us a drink." He says leaving quickly.
Third Person's POV
Vicki's walking through the woods drunk when fog starts to roll in. "Jeremy is that you?" She shouts out. More and more fog is rolling in and a man appears behind her a few yards away. She turns around but sees nothing. "Jeremy?" She has a feeling she is being watched and turns around again to see and man then he attacks her and she screams.
Elena's POV
I go back towards the fire, where most people are; dancing and drinking. I'm looking around for Stefan since he disappeared and never came back. "Looking for someone?" I turn my head and see Matt standing beside me.
"Hey." I say.
"When you broke up with me, you said you needed some time alone. You don't look so alone to me?" He wonders.
"Matt you don't understand, it's.."
"It's okay, Elena." He cuts me off. "You do what you have to do. I just wanna let you know that I still believe in us. And I'm not giving up on that." He says before leaving.
"Matt." I call out.
I go and sit on a bench, I see Caroline trying to talk to Stefan and he looks nervous. Everything that is going on has happened before, I'm almost sure of it. The déjà vu, the flashes/memories/dreams, the eyes thing that happened to Stefan's eye, and how Damon said he was alive in 1864, none of it makes sense but I'm pretty sure this all already happened; I just don't know how.
Stefan walks up to me and I smile politely. "You were abducted by Miss Caroline Forbes." I say with a smirk.
"Is she like that with all the guys?" He asks.
"No. You're fresh meat. She'll back off eventually."
I see Jeremy walking drunkenly and smashing a beer bottle. "Oh, god. You gotta be kidding me."
"What is it?" Stefan asks.
"My brother." I say grumpy.
"The drunk one?"
"That would be the one. Excuse me." I say getting up from the bench.
"Need some help?" Stefan asks.
"Trust me, you're not gonna want to witness this." I say following Jeremy into the woods. "Jeremy." I shout. "Jeremy." I say catching up with him. "Jeremy, where the hell are you going?"
"I don't wanna hear it! Uhnn." He says tripping and falling straight on his face. "Vicki, no?" I see his lying on top of a body, I think it's Vicki. "Oh, my god it's Vicki!"
"Oh, my god." I say.
"No." Jeremy cries and checks her pulse on her neck when I hear her gasp for air.
Jeremy lifts her into his arms and we rush back to the party. "Somebody help!" I scream when we get there.
Matt sees us and rushes over. "Vicki? Vicki, what the hell?" We put her on a picnic table and Bonnie and Tyler rush over. "Bonnie call an ambulance!" Matt demanded.
"Everyone back off. Give her some space." Tyler told everyone.
"It's her neck, something bite her." I explain. "She's losing a lot of blood. It's bad."
"Vicki come on open your eyes." Matt tells her. "Look at me."
I look up and see Stefan standing in the crowd looking horrified and then rushes away.
Third Person's POV
Stefan rushes into the house and tells Zach that someone attack tonight but it wasn't him. Then he went up into him room.
He's standing in the middle of his bedroom when a crow flies in through the open balcony door and starts cawing. Stefan stares at the crow for a second before turning around and sees a man standing on the balcony.
"Damon." Stefan says.
"Hello, brother." Damon says with a smirk.
Damon walks into the room and stands in front of Stefan. "The crow's a bit much, don't you think?" Stefan asks him.
"Wait till you see what I can do with the fog." Damon says with a smirk.
"When did you get here?" Stefan questions.
"Well I couldn't miss your first day of school." Damon says walking around looking at all the stuff in the room. "Your hairs different, I like it."
"It's been 15 years Damon."
"Thank god, I couldn't stand another day in of the 90's. That horrible grunge look, did not suit you. Remember Stefan it's important to stay away from fads."
"Why are you here?" Stefan demanded.
"I missed my baby brother." Damon says.
"You hate small towns. It's boring; there's nothing for you to do."
"I've managed to keep myself busy." Damon says.
"You know you left that girl alive tonight. That's very clumsy of you."
"And that could be a problem, for you."
"Why are you here now?" Stefan asks again.
"I could ask you that very same question. However, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up all into one little word: Elena." Damon says with a smirk. "She took my breath away; Elena. She's a dead ringer for Katherine. Is it working Stefan? Being around her? Being in her world? Does it make you feel alive?"
"She's not Katherine."
"Well let's hope not, we both know how that ended. Tell me something, when was the last time you had something stronger that a squirrel?" Damon asked.
"Huh, I know what you're doing Damon. It's not going to work." Stefan says.
"Common. Don't you crave a little?" Damon says slightly shoving his shoulder.
"Stop it."
Damon pushes him. "Let's do it together. I saw a couple girls out there or just… let's just cut to the chase. Let's go straight for Elena." He says pushing Stefan even more.
Stefan pushes back. "Stop it!"
"Imagine what her blood tastes like. I can." Damon says calmly.
Stefan's face starts to turn. "I said stop!" Stefan screams before flying across the room and pushing himself and Damon out of the window, smashing the glass.
A second later Stefan started getting up off the ground weakly. With no Damon in slight he looks up at the window and doesn't see anything. "I was impressed." Stefan hears Damon from behind and turns around to see him standing with a scratch against the hedge. "I give it a six. You missed on style but I was pleasantly surprised." He says with a smirk. "Very good with the whole face, rawr thing." He says while pretending to be a rawring monster. "It was good."
Stefan gets up. "Yeah it's all fun and games, Damon huh? But wherever you go people die."
"That's given."
"Not here. I won't allow it."
"I take that as an invitation." Damon smirks.
"Damon, please. After all these years, can't we just give it a rest?" Stefan asks.
"I promised you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word." Damon shrugs.
"Just stay away from Elena!"
Damon looked down at Stefan's hand. "Where's your ring." Stefan looked down and noticed his ring was gone. "Oh, yeah, the suns coming up in a couple hours and proof, ashes to ashes." Damon chuckles. "Relax, brother. It's right here." Damon says holding out Stefan's ring in his hand.
Stefan grabs the ring and puts it on, but a second later Damon grabs him by the neck and throws him against a tall fence.
Damon appears next to Stefan who's still lying on the ground injured. "You should know better than to think you're stronger than me, you lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people. I wouldn't try it again" Damon says to Stefan with anger. They hear a thump coming from the house. "I think we woke Zach up." Damon says with a smirk and walks the house. "Sorry, Zach." Damon whistles.
Elena's POV
I see Matt and Vicki leaving in an ambulance. How did this happen? What bite Vicki? Then I get another flash I see an ambulance taking away a dead body and her a few girls whispering about an animal attacking Mr. Tanner and killing him, we were in my school's parking lot at night.
Me being confused on what's going on is an understatement.
I see Bonnie walking over to me and I turn towards her. "Hey, we're gonna go mainline coffee and wait for news." She says to me.
"I gotta take Jeremy home." I smile sadly.
"Elena, there is no way I'm psychic; I know that. But whatever I saw or think I saw, I have this feeling…"She pauses.
"Bonnie, what?"
"That it's just the beginning." She finishes and leaves. What the hell is happening? I shake my head, there's that deja vu feeling again, that won't go away!
After calling Jenna and asking for her to pick us up and went looking for Jeremy. I see him standing watching the police do their investigation drinking a beer. I walk over to him and sigh.
"You okay?" He turns his head. He's always had a thing for Vicki and they been hanging out a lot since my parents died, I don't like it. "I called Jenna. She's on her way." He continues to drink his beer. "Those people in uniforms, last time I checked they're the police." I say jokingly and he chugs his beer and throws it away. "People are going to stop giving you breaks Jer. They just don't care anymore. They don't remember that our parents are dead. They've got their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on. You should try too." I say.
"I've seen you at the cemetery, writing in your diary; is that supposed to be you moving on?" He asks harshly.
I shake my head. "I'm messed up. Emotionally and mentally messed. I seriously think going crazy and I don't have anyone to talk about it because I don't trust anyone. Mom and dad, wouldn't have wanted this."
Third Person's POV
Bonnie and Caroline are both at the Grill drinking coffee, and Caroline is way drunk.
"Are you sober yet?" Bonnie asks Caroline who has her head in her hands.
Caroline lifts her head and sighs. "Nope."
"Keep drinking. I gotta get you home, I gotta get me home."
"Why didn't he go for me?" Caroline asks sadly. "How come all the guys that I want never want me?"
"I'm not touching that." Bonnie says shaking her head.
"I'm inappropriate; I always say the wrong thing. And Elena always says the right thing. Ugh she doesn't even try." She says depressed. "He just picks her. And she's always the one that everyone picks; for everything." Bonnie smiles sadly. "And I try so hard and I'm never the one that…"
"It's not a competition, Caroline." Bonnie cuts her off.
Caroline looks at her seriously. "Yeah it is."
Bonnie gets up to pay the bill and Caroline sees Damon at another table staring at her. Her smiles and she smiles back.
Vicki is lying in a hospital bed unconscious and Matt is sitting beside her looking very sad.
Matt looks up and sees Vicki's eyes flitter open. "Vick, hey. You're going to be okay. Shh."
"Ma…" She tries to say his name.
"Hey don't try to talk, okay? You fine."
"Vampire." Vicki is able to get out.
Elena's POV
Dear Diary, I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it. Pretend like it would all be okay.
Stefan's POV
I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was. Create a life of someone new. Someone without the past.
Elena's POV
Without the pain.
Stefan's and Elena's POV
Someone alive.
Third Person's POV
Jenna walked into the living room to see Jeremy sitting on the couch looking at a picture of his parents.
Elena's POV
But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you.
Stefan's POV
They follow you. You can't escape them as much as you want to.
Elena's POV
All you can do is be ready for the good so when it comes you invite it in because you need it. But how do you know what's good and what's bad. How do I know what's good and what's bad since I don't even know what world I'm living in? I saw Stefan practically run from the party after Vicki was attack. What could that mean?
I look of the window I'm sitting at and see Stefan's outside. I get up and go to the door.
I open it and he's standing there. "I know it's late but I needed to know if you were okay."
"You know for months now that's all anyone wondered about me, 'if I'll be okay'." I say.
"What do you tell them?"
"That'll I'll be fine."
"Do you ever mean it?" He asks.
"No." I say sadly.
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asks.
"No sorry. I just want to go to bed." I say still not knowing if I can trust him or not.
"Okay, goodnight. I'll see you at school, in a couple hours." He jokes.
"Yeah okay." And I close the door. Closing myself off from him until I know what's really going on.
AN: PLEASE review. :)
