Just a quick message before I start chapter 2, I picture Montana as being China Anne McClain!

"Charlie, have you met the new guy?" Elena asked at dinner that night.

"Yea," she scoffed. "I heard he's a vampire who feeds on animals." Nobody ever took Charlie serious. Jeremy, who smelled like pot, laughed loudly at this comment while Elena frowned.

"So, new guy?" Jenna asked, turning to Elena.

"Stefan Salvatore, he's Zach Salvatore's nephew. I met him twice today actually. He's very nice." Elena blushed.

"Oooh, and he must be attractive too." Jenna nudged Elena suggestively. Just then, Charlie's phone rang.

"Hullo?" she answered, her mouth still full of food.

"Charlotte? It's Zach. Can you come over? We've got a situation." Charlie's eyes widened and she moved faster than she should've been able to out of her seat.

"Charlie? What's going on?" Jenna cried.

"Uh…Montana is having a crisis. I'll be back later!" Charlie was out the door and on her bike before she knew it. The ride to the Salvatore Boarding House was short and easy to make, but Charlie couldn't help but wonder why Zach was so upset. She had a bad feeling walking into the house and stopped in her tracks when three Salvatores stared back at her.

"Oh shit." She breathed.

"Damon Salvatore, and you are?" the new man said to her. He had dark, straight hair and ice blue eyes, but what made Charlie laugh was his boots.

"Charlotte Gilbert, though I assume you already knew that. By the way, if you're going to wear boots for riding, you probably shouldn't be seen driving that car." Charlie smirked.

"Well what do you drive, little Miss Smirky Pants?" he had turned his body towards Charlie now, his full attention on the girl.

"Suzuki GSX-250R. Just bought her a few months ago, brand new." Damon's smirk faltered.

"Zach, why did you call her?" Stefan said quietly.

"Brother, if you're going to speak about her, you should at least say it at a tone her silly little human ears can hear. Hmm. I wonder how she tastes." Damon pondered. Stefan opened his mouth but Damon was in front of Charlie before words could come out. He bore his fangs with a smile as he tried to bite her but Charlie just snarled at the older brother and let her own fangs come out, the veins on her face tingling as she did so.

"Woah, you didn't tell me she was a vamp." Damon's eyes looked at Stefan from the corner of his eyes.

"And a very powerful one at that." Zach started. "Turned and taught by Klaus himself."

"Klaus the Original?" Stefan wondered.

"The very one." Charlie answered. "He met me as a human, saw my…charm, and decided I'd be better off as one." That wasn't entirely true. Klaus had decided to save Charlie from a stab wound that his brother Elijah inflicted and then when the car accident happened, Klaus showed up at the hospital and taught Charlie to control her new bloodlust.

"Charm? What does that even mean?" Stefan asked. Charlie looked at Zach a moment before speaking.

"If you get the whiskey, I'll spill what I know, but you must do the same in return for any of my questions. Deal?" Stefan responded to her with a swift nod. "Good. Let me call Aunt Jenna quick."

"A vampire still living with humans?" Damon murmured.

"Save that question." Charlie gave him a look that caught Damon off guard, one that compelled him to put away his snarky exterior for a moment.

"Hey Aunt Jenna. I'm going to be spending the night at Montana's. Yes, everything is fine, just some boy drama. Okay, see you tomorrow." Charlie finished her call with Jenna before texting Montana to let her know about the cover story and promised to explain the next day.

"All done?" Zach was waiting for Charlie in the foyer when she finished on her phone.

"Yep. Let's get this vampire questioning over with." Charlie rolled her eyes.

"Bourbon?" Stefan held out glasses for both Zach and Charlie. Charlie took hers and finished it in one swift motion before holding her hand out for a refill.

"Okay so I have a question." Damon said. He was standing in front of the fireplace in the Boarding House's expansive library.

"And it is…?" Charlie felt that she needed to be rude to Damon or else he'd try and take advantage of her.

"How long ago were you turned?" Stefan interrupted.

"About six months. Next?"

"And Klaus turned you?" Stefan spoke again.

"Yes. He needed blood for some ceremony but by the time he found the talisman for it, I'd already died with his blood in my system so it's Elena's job now."

"I thought you said he knew you'd be a perfect vampire?" Damon caught the slip.

"Well, that's not entirely false either. Klaus had mentioned how everything becomes more intense when you're a vampire and saw that I have a particular…effect on people. He wanted to see what the blood of an Original vampire could do mixed with that effect. Basically, I was his experiment. Then he left."

"Did his experiment work?" Damon asked. Zach was quiet when Charlie looked at him.

"Yes. It did."

"Do we get to know more than that or…"Stefan wondered out loud.

"You know my sister is fascinated by you." Charlie spoke to him.

"Your sister?" Damon scoffed.

"Charlotte has an identical twin."

"Katherine has TWO doppelgangers?!" Damon's eyes bulged out of his head for a moment.

"Yes. Elena and Charlotte Gilbert." Zach spoke now.

"Anyway, just don't hurt Elena. And she's smart. She won't stop until she figures out what we are once she gets a drift that something about you is different." Charlie advised.

"So what was the experiment?" Damon asked, bored.

"Well, Klaus' theory is that I have a genetic predisposition to having the same powers as the Originals. He saw it in the way I could manipulate people, anyone whether they were a vampire or not. When he turned me, I could compel anyone. Vampires, humans, werewolves, all of them. And I could walk in the sun without it hurting me. Klaus thought it to be fantastic. He basically taught me how to feed and then left to find others like me in hopes of making more. He wants an army."

"So if you're this all powerful vampire, why do you still live at home with your aunt and siblings?" Damon asked.

"Well for one, I don't have anywhere else to go."

"Stay here, with us." Stefan said suddenly. Charlie looked shocked at the teen. "We have plenty of rooms and we can compel whoever we need to for it to work."

"Yea, it'll be fun." Damon flashed a dangerous smile at Charlie but for some reason all it did was ignite a spark from within her.

"It's Zach's home, I couldn't just barge in." she told them. The truth was, living at home was hell. All she could ever think about was the blood running through her family members' necks.

"Charlie, it might actually do you some good to live with your own kind. And you know I always love having you here."

"C'mon Charlie, we can have sleepovers and watch movies and do each other's hair!" Damon squealed.

"More like drink until were hammered and then tell weird vampire stories." Stefan rolled his eyes. "Plus it'll be good to have someone here who isn't on either of our sides." Stefan, Charlie decided, was the moral one.

"Fine. I'm in."

And that, ladies and gentleman, is how Charlotte Katerina Gilbert, came to live with the Salvatore brothers.