Hello Readers. I am happy to see that you like the story. I'm going to lower that rating because right now it's probably unnecessarily high. Warning: mild profanity and violence. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: The Reptile in the Room

The fifth grade girls were in the bathroom exchanging lip glosses and discussing Jenna's new crush, Alaric Saltzman. "He asked me to go to the skate park today after school. He is so good on his board." Jenna was squealing to her friends, Andie, Rose and Katherine.

Katherine raised an eyebrow looking in the mirror as she applied an extra layer of a gloss labeled Sassy. "Has he kissed you yet?"

Jenna blushed. "Once on the mouth?"

Turing around Katherine leaned against the sink. "Yes. On the mouth. Where else is there to be kissed that's cool?" Katherine shook her head, sighing. "Seriously, Jenna. If you like him, kiss him. It's easy."

"But he's my friend, Kat." Jenna's shoulders slumped as she leaned against one of the other sinks.

Andie was examining her chest. "How much tissue paper is too much?"

Looking away from the window Rose looked at her friend's chest. It looked as if Andie had shoved most of a roll of toilet paper inside her training bra. "Oh, Andie, love, too much." Rose came over and stuck her hand down Andie's top and pulled the paper out. "If a boy is going to like you, he should like you for your personality not for your boobs."

Sighing, Andie looked in the mirror. "That's easy for you to say. You've always got a boy who likes you."

Rose smirked. "Are you talking about the fact that Elijah Mikaelson sat with me during lunch? He's British. I'm British. He feels weird about being away from home."

"He's really cute." Andie said with a shy smile.

At that moment Sage walked into the bathroom. "There is my favorite third grader." Katherine announced with a grin. "Come here, dear."

Sage eagerly approached the fifth grader. Katherine took her hand and maneuvered her in front of the mirror. The younger girl was Katherine's protégé. "Here, try this lip gloss and tell me about the cute boy that you were eyeing up today."

Blushing Sage began to apply the lip gloss. "He's Finn Mikaelson and he's ten."

"Oh. Another Mikaelson." Katherine cooed at her friends. "I wonder how many cute boys that family can make."

Andie, Rose and Jenna giggled. "I heard there are more." Andie said with a big grin. "But sadly the others are ages six and three. I don't think you're going to climb in the sand box with the babies. Are you, Kat? That would kill your rep."

Katherine put a hand on her hip. "I'm planning on dating only boys in middle school this year. Older men are cool." She pursed her lips at her reflection. Sage looked up at Katherine and mimicked her. "A little more gloss, Sage." Katherine instructed.

"Come on, Kat." Jenna pleaded with her friend. "She's just a girl."

Katherine rolled her eyes. "Really, Jenna. Live a little." Shaking her head, she turned Sage around and applied the extra gloss to her lips. "You want to look pretty for Finn." Sage nodded emphatically.

It is too bad they didn't hear the door to the bathroom open, quietly and then shut. The girls were too busy giggling and teasing each other until the lizard edged up to Katherine and wacked her on the back of her left ankle. "Ow." Katherine cried out. She looked down and screamed.

Jenna looked down at the lizard which was beginning to panic and in an attempt to flee whacking Jenna and Rose. Both of the girls yelped in pain, jumping around. Sage screamed when the lizard ran between her feet and then all of the girls ran out of the bathroom.

Outside in the hall Katherine calmed down enough to search for the culprit. The only person she saw was a familiar little, blonde girl. The girl looked scared and confused. She was holding a stick to prove that she had a right to be in the hall. "Caroline." Katherine yelled. She marched down the hall and stood in front of the little girl.

Caroline stared up at the older girl with huge eyes. It was her first day of school and she was unsure of everything. She knew Katherine because she was Elena's big sister. With her was Elena's and Katherine's aunt, Jenna. This always confused Caroline because she thought aunts were supposed to be adults but, then again, Elena and Katherine looked a lot alike.

"Caroline, tell me who put the lizard in the bathroom?" Katherine told the girl.

Caroline fidgeted and looked to her left for a moment. "I need to pee." She replied blowing out her cheeks.

There were two older boys hiding behind the corner and Caroline had just been walking down the hall when the boy with the curly hair had opened the door to the girl's bathroom. He had dropped the green thing on the floor. He had seen her but when he had begun to approach her the older girls came running out of the bathroom.

Now, the two boys were hiding behind the corner. The boy with dark hair. He was her classmate, Stefan's older brother. He was mean sometimes. He pushed her into a puddle once and pulled her pigtails. Damon was a bad boy. Caroline was afraid of him and he was giving her a mean look. "Who did it, Caroline?" Katherine asked again.

"I really need to go." Caroline whined.

"Let the poor girl go to the bathroom, Kat." Rose said, her accent deepening. Rose took Caroline by the hand and began to walk her to the bathroom. Caroline looked at Katherine and then looked in the corner at Damon.

Katherine's lips curved up in a smirk. She leaned down. "Good girl." Reaching into her pocket she pulled out an unopened lip balm. "Here, Caroline. You're never too young to try make up."

Caroline took the little metal circle and looked at it curiously. It said strawberry and Caroline loved strawberries. "Thank you, Kat." Caroline held out her arms. She loved to be hugged. Katherine leaned down and hugged the girl briefly. She needed to deal with her prey.

Letting go of Caroline, Katherine turned toward her friends. "We need to get back to class, ladies," she announced to her friends lazily. She began to walk down the hall and then raced toward the corner. Damon tried to run away from her but Katherine grabbed him by the back of the shirt.

"Not so fast, you little brat." Katherine yelled. She pinned him to a wall. "You do not mess with Katherine Gilbert. Do you know that? I am the most popular girl in this entire school. But you know that, Salvatore. So, what do you think you were doing?"

Damon was twisting around in Katherine's grasp. He looked to his left. Klaus was standing between Andie and Rose. Damon turned back to Katherine. "You suck." He spat at her. "You're mean and you suck."

Katherine was so angry at the little boy she lost her temper and slapped him. "Katherine." Jenna yelled. Katherine's friends could only stand there in shock as Damon's head snapped to the right. The area where Katherine had hit him began to turn red.

Damon turned his head back around slowly. His expression was blank but his eyes burned with rage. "You are a bitch." Damon enunciated every last word making Katherine's face turn bright red.

"What is going on here?" Carol Lockwood asked. She looked from Damon to Katherine. Then she looked at the other girls and Klaus. None of the children said a word. Damon and Katherine continued to glare at each other. The other children were staring at the floor. Rose came out of the bathroom with Caroline and then a lizard streaked down the hall past the astonished principal. Damon watched the lizard sullenly.

"You are all coming to the office, right now. Single file." Carol ordered the children. "I don't know why none of you were in class." She was muttering as she followed the group.

"I needed to pee." Caroline told Carol, holding up the stick.

Carol smiled at the girl. "Oh, Caroline. This is your first day of school, isn't it? I don't know how you got in the middle of this mess but I see you have your pass. You may go back to your class."

Before Caroline could move Katherine stepped forward and placed a possessive hand upon Caroline's shoulder. "No. She can't, Principal Lockwood. She saw what those two did." Katherine pointed at Damon and Klaus. "She has to come to tell you what they did."

Carol frowned. "Well, yes, I suppose you're right, Katherine."

After Carol turned her back, Katherine smirked at Damon. "You're going down, Salvatore." She mouthed at Damon.

Damon rubbed at his face and then leaned forward to whisper in Klaus' ear. "One of the rules of dare club is that you don't talk about it to anyone who isn't part of it. Okay? Well, maybe someone who wants to join."

Klaus nodded walking behind the principal. He was going to be in trouble for this. He always got in trouble for breathing back at his old school. Nothing had changed. His shoulders slumped. So, he had a friend now but maybe that wasn't a good thing. It was the first day and he was going to the Headmistress' office. This was not a good sign. Not at all.

All of the children walked into the office and stood before the desk as Carol took her seat. "Alright. I want to know what happened. Caroline, Katherine said you witnessed the incident. Tell me what happened?"

Caroline had her thumb her in mouth and now pulled it out with a popping sound. She had to step between Damon and Klaus, who were standing directly in front of the desk. Katherine was standing behind her. Caroline knew that if she still had to go she would have peed on the floor.

"I saw one of the boys drop a green thing on the floor to the girl's room, Mrs. Lockwood." Caroline's voice was a whisper and her lips were puckered out. Tears were running down her cheeks because she knew Damon would be angry.

"Which boy did you see, Caroline?" Carol asked, gently.

Caroline opened her mouth but a loud sob was the only thing that came out. "It was me." Klaus said stepping forward. Caroline's couldn't see but she thought it was the boy with the funny voice who had spoken.

Damon placed a hand on Caroline's shoulder and turned her around to hold her as she cried. "No one likes a tattle tale, Caroline. Remember that." Damon whispered in her ear as he stroked her hair.

Carol looked at Damon surprised that he seemed to be concerned for the younger student. She always heard that the elder Salvatore was a bit of a brat. "Well, is there anything else that happened?" All of the children shook their heads. Carol didn't seem to notice the red mark on Damon's cheek. "Then go to back to class. Klaus, you will stay here and we will discuss your punishment."

Everyone left the principal's office single file. The last two to leave were Damon and Caroline. Carol was going through the student files and Damon winked at his friend. Caroline had dried her eyes and stared at Klaus so long that it made him feel weird so he turned around.

When they were in the hall Damon turned Caroline around. "You owe me one, Blondie. So, you're now part of the dare club and your first dare is to dye Queen Kat's hair a pretty green color." Caroline gulped. This was worse than being shoved in a puddle.

14 favs and 45 follows and 12 reviews. That is pretty cool for a first chapter. I hope you enjoyed this chapter too. It is going to develop slowly because there is a lot of ground to cover. That is why I really want to know what you think. Feel free to submit dare requests, ideas of who should be friends with who, who should like who, etc. I have not been a kid for a long time so tell about any experiences you think are important to kids today. Just don't scream Bieber, Twilight and Miley. I will be having nightmares of the VMA performance for years to come. Give me some new material. Please!

Thank you for favoriting, following and reviewing. I want more. Please thank you. Thank you Irishshipperholic. I hope you liked this version of Sage. She's very young and impressionable at this point. However, she's still strong willed and that will become evident later on in the story. She is definitely developing a friendship with some of the boys although Katherine will make that hard on her with a growing war of the sexes. Haha. Klaroline – teenwolf, thank you for the love. myloveforklaus it is always great to hear from a new reviewer. I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well. Thank you ferrylis. I do write a lot of stories with Delena as a ship because they're one of my favorites. However, I do believe since they're all growing up that people tend to have different relationships before they settle down. So, I will not rule out having Rebekah and Damon dating or having a relationship in this story or one of the sequels. (Yes, I said it people sequels. I want to keep these stories from going too quickly so you don't go they were age four in chapter then and now they're age eighteen in chapter eleven. Therefore, this will probably become three or four stories before it's over. It's all about what you guys want.) Thanks to my guest and I think they would be cute, too. ;) Thank you WeasleysGroupie, I will strive to make that statement true. Thank you guest, I bet they were cute. Thank you jessinicole and Jwakeel. Thank you Onceuponatimeships, I think that sometimes it easier to write evil characters than to show how very complicated people are like Mikael. Thank you cupcakesweetheart5, redbudrose and PsychVamp.