Chapter 2

Elena was woken up by the sun shining in her face and her alarm clock going off. With a sleepy move, she shut of her clock and turned in her bed before she tried to go back to sleep. While propping one of the pillows in her bed under her head, she suddenly remembered what happened the night before, and in a quick movement, she sat up in the bed. Her eyes opened in disbelief as she put her hand on where the wound was supposed to be, but to Elena's great surprise, she couldn't feel anything. She pulled away the covers and found out she was still in the clothes from the night before, jeans and her dark red singlet. After getting out of the bed, feeling completely fine, she wondered if it was all a dream until she walked over to the mirror above her dresser. She examined her neck, looking for any marks, but it was just her bare skin like nothing had happened. Everything looked fine until she looked at the strap of her singlet. Blood, she thought and looked in the mirror again. Suddenly, someone knocked on her open bedroom door.

"Hey. I don't know if you remember, but I'm…" He couldn't finish before Elena tilted her head and pulled a hand through her hair.

"Sam, right?" She said and put her hands in her back pocket of her jeans. Sam nodded and smiled before he stepped in to her room, holding a cup out for her.

"Here." He said as Elena took it and looked in to the cup. "It's just coffee. We thought maybe you'd like some since…what happened yesterday. Coffee usually helps." Elena sipped it and sat down on the bench beside her window before she looked up on Sam.

"So it wasn't a dream?" Elena asked and tapped nervously on her cup as she put her leg over the other. Sam shook his head before he sat down on her bed in front of her. "It all happened?"

"All the animal attacks are actually vampire attacks. My brother Dean and I are hunters. We hunt these things, and more." Sam said and leaned on his legs. Elena sipped her coffee before she put it down beside her.

"You're hunters?" Elena asked as her eyes widened in fascination. Sam nodded with a surprised look. "My brother's a hunter, like most of my family before him."

"You're hunters too?" Sam asked, but Elena shook her head and looked down in her coffee.

"Well, I'm not. You can say I was in too deep to start, but Jeremy is. I doubt you're the same kind of hunter as him though. He's a vampire hunter with this mark and stuff. It's difficult to explain, he can tell you about it." Elena said and smiled sheepishly when she started to blab. "So I actually threw up in your car?" Elena asked and buried her face in her hands for a moment before she looked up at Sam who smiled to her and chuckled.

"Yeah, Dean's outside, cleaning." Sam said and sat up straight. Elena gave him an idiotic smile and tilted her head a little.

"Do you mind if I take a shower?" She asked and stood up. Sam jolted up from the bed as well, looking a little awkward and nodded.

"Yeah, sure, we'll be downstairs." He said and walked out her bedroom door before he closed it behind his back. Elena smiled to herself before she went to her wardrobe and pulled out a fresh pair of towels and her soft blue robe. She walked through the bathroom door from her room and placed her things on the counter beside the sink before she looked in the mirror as she brushed her straight brown hair. That's when she suddenly remembered her brother and put the brush down before she unlocked the door from the bathroom that led to his room. To her great relief, he was sound asleep in his bed, snoring lightly. She locked the door again and undressed herself before getting in to the shower. The hot water felt refreshing on Elena's skin and she really needed something to clear her mind. The sun shined through the little window beside her head, but she could see dark clouds roll in over town. After getting out of the shower, drying herself, getting a new pair of clothes and setting her hair up in a very messy bun, she finally went downstairs. She tugged down her blue sweater that almost stuck to her skin over her jeans as she walked down the stairs in her Converse shoes before she walked into the kitchen, but no one was there.

"Sam?" Elena called out, but no answer. "Dean?" She walked through the living room, but there was no one there either. She walked to the other part of the living room that faced the street and that's when she saw them. Elena walked out the front door and on to the porch. The air was chillier than the night before and the wind was a little stronger, but not so much that it bothered her. She tucked some of her hair behind her ear before she walked down the steps down from the porch and walked to the guys. Dean wore a black t-shirt and jeans and Sam wore exactly the same only that he had a flannel shirt over and his t-shirt was grey. They both had sponges in their hands and were in full start of soaping in their car.

"Hey." Elena said and put her arms around herself as she eyed the boys while they worked. They stopped and looked at her as she came closer.

"Hey, you feel okay?" Dean asked and put the sponge down on the hood of the car as Sam walked from the opposite side towards her. Elena smiled apologizing to Dean and looked down at the ground.

"Yeah, sorry about the car." She said and glanced up at him. He shrugged and looked over his shoulder at the black car as Sam came up beside him with his dripping wet sponge in hand.

"It's okay." Dean said and smiled to her. "I should have cleaned her long ago anyways." He picked up the sponge and handed it to Elena who slowly took it. It was completely wet and the water ran down her hand as she held it.

"Her?" Elena asked as Dean went to the bucket that stood beside the trunk of the car and stuck his hand in it before he pulled another sponge out. Sam smiled to Elena before he started to clean the car again with Dean. Slowly, Elena walked to the trunk of the car and started to scrub the surface.

"This is Dean's baby. It's his most precious thing in the world." Sam said as he scrubbed one of the windows beside Elena. Dean stood on the opposite side of the Elena and washed the trunk as well. "It's crazy."

"Don't listen to him, Baby." Dean said and patted the car with his free hand. "He doesn't understand us." Elena looked surprised and confused, but continued to scrub with the soapy sponge. "So, you're hunters?" Elena nodded carefully before she shrugged, not quite sure.

"Our father was a scientist who studied vampires along with many crazy people, but my brother is a hunter. He's a part of something called The Brotherhood of the Five. They were originally set to kill the first immortal in the world, Silas, by following a map that was tattooed on their arm. To kill Silas, they had to find the cure for immortality, or the vampire cure. Unfortunately, one of the first original vampires, Klaus, killed The Brotherhood before they could kill Silas, but the Hunter's Curse remained for future hunters. But anyway, Jeremy's a hunter and Silas was killed." Elena said, the whole time focused on the sponge, but when she looked up, the guys just looked at her.

"How do you know all this?" Sam asked and stared at her. Elena bit her lip and put down the sponge.

"I…we sort of…lived it, I guess." Elena said and cleared her throat. "I'll tell you everything later, but if you're going to wash your car before it starts to rain, I think you should begin now." She glanced at Dean before she put the sponge down in the bucket and walked to the porch again. When she came inside, the heat embraced her like a hug and she walked upstairs to her brother's room. "Jeremy? You awake?" She knocked on her brother's door before she opened it.

"Yeah, I guess." Jeremy mumbled from his bed. He sat up half-way and pinched the bridge of his nose as he closed his eyes. Elena sat down in the bed beside him and pulled his head in to her lap. "What the hell happened last night?"

"You were drunk, again, so I took you home, but there were…complications on the way." Elena said while stroking Jeremy's hair. He yawned and stretched his legs.

"What complications?" He asked and sat up slowly from her lap. Elena didn't really want to tell him what happened because she knew he would want to go out hunting them, but she couldn't lie to him either.

"Vampires are back in town." Elena said and looked at her brother as his face suddenly became more awake and aware. "One attacked me last night, but I'm fine. There are other hunters here to help us get rid of them."

"Other hunters? Like me?" Jeremy looked confused as he got out of the bed and walked over to his desk with heavy steps. He grabbed a glass of water that stood on it and downed everything in one chug.

"Not exactly. I don't know." Elena said and got out of the bed as well before she followed her brother down the stairs and into the kitchen. She leaned on the kitchen island as Jeremy opened one of the cabinets. "They are some kind of hunters, but I don't think they're in The Five though.

"Elena, if vampires have come back to Mystic Falls, we have to move again." Jeremy said and looked worried over at his sister who bit her lip.

"That won't be necessary." Dean said as he and Sam entered the kitchen. Jeremy put his hands over his ears after he put the mug he just took from one of the cabinets down on the counter beside the coffee maker.

"Do you have to talk so loud?" He said and sighed as he poured some coffee into the mug. Dean sat down on one of the two stools by the kitchen island and made a megaphone with his hands in front of his mouth.

"I'm sorry! Am I too loud?" Dean yelled out loud and Jeremy squeezed his eyes shut as he put his free hand over his ear while he looked at Elena.

"Who the hell are you even?" Jeremy yelled back and slammed the mug down at the counter so coffee spilled. Elena put a hand on his shoulder and told him to calm down, but he shrugged it off. "No, Elena! If they are here to help than that's what they should be doing. Not hang around our house." He stumped out of the room and out in the hallway. "Where's the Advil?"

"Top left drawer in the bathroom!" Elena called back as he walked up the stairs and slammed a door closed. She sighed and drew a hand over her face before she hurried to grab some paper towels and started to dry the spilt coffee. "I'm sorry. It's been a hard year for us both."

"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have teased him." Dean said as Sam suddenly walked out in the hallway. Both Elena and Dean looked after him as he walked out, but Elena continued to dry away the coffee. When Sam came in again, Elena was about to throw the paper towels as he handed her something.

"You forgot it at the diner." Sam said and Elena quickly grabbed it. It was her phone.

"Thank you." Elena said and gave Sam a grateful smile as she put it in her back pocket. "I thought I'd lost." Sam nodded and sat down beside his brother as Elena took the cup and emptied the coffee into the sink. "You guys remind me of someone I knew a long time ago."

"Really? Where they brothers, incredibly handsome and has saved the world a couple of times?" Dean asked with a smug smirk on his face, but Elena moved her head in –something like that-move.

"They were brothers, incredibly handsome and have saved me and my friends more times than I can count." Elena said and leaned against her back against the counter while looking at the brothers. "They were vampires."

"You had vampires as friends?" Sam asked in disbelief. Elena nodded and looked down on her hands.

"Boyfriends actually, both of them." Elena said and suddenly got a painful look on her face. "First Stefan, the youngest. Kind, warm-hearted and romantic, but then it was his older brother Damon. He was a sarcastic jerk, but he was so sweet and funny towards me."

"Where are they now?" Sam asked, but Elena shrugged and suddenly Jeremy appeared in the kitchen again. He walked straight to Elena and kissed her temple before turning to the guys.

"Okay, so who the hell are you?" Jeremy asked and crossed his arms while eyeing them, especially Dean. The brothers exchanged a look before they talked and Dean tilted his head back and forth before he leaned a little closer.

"We're Sam and Dean Winchester. We hunt everything from ghosts to demons and everything in-between. We stopped the apocalypse, died a couple of times each, hung out with the King of Hell, we have an angel sidekick named Cas, short for Castiel, and we've literally been to hell and back. Questions?" Dean said with a very satisfied look on his face. Sam nodded and leaned on his arms as Elena and Jeremy shared a look.

"Yes, but we'll take that later." Jeremy said and looked back at Dean. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Now it's your turn." Sam said and Elena sighed. "We need to know if we can trust you."

"We grew up in this town, people we love have died because of vampires, we've dealt with the original vampires, both of us have technically died, me especially, one of our friends was turned in to a vampire, one in to a werewolf, one was witch, Elena dated vampires, I'm Brotherhood of the Five hunter, saved the town a couple of times, our kind of adoptive father's almost wife was killed by a crazy witch while carrying his twins right before they said yes to each other, we dealt with the first immortals and we have to move whenever vampires are near us. Questions?" Jeremy said in a rush and Elena turned away from them before she leaned over the sink, taking deep breaths.

"Elena?" Sam asked, but she just waved a dismissive hand while she took deep breaths. Jeremy placed a hand on her back to calm her down.

"Why do you have to move around?" Dean asked as he leaned back in the stool, crossing his arms. Jeremy glanced over at him for a second before he looked at Elena who nodded.

"I get dangerous each time I kill. I lose control, it's happened before." Jeremy admitted and Elena turned around to hug him.

"It's going to be okay. We will get through it." Elena said and leaned her head against his shoulder. "We always do."

"We'll take the vampires down. Any idea where they might be?" Dean asked and stood up along with Sam. Jeremy shook his head, but Elena wrinkled her forehead and let go of her brother.

"You're taking on vampires by your own?" Elena asked and took a couple of steps towards them.

"We always have." Dean said and winked at Sam before he pushed him in the arm as he walked past him. Sam looked after him as he walked in to the hallway and out the front door.

"We'll be fine." Sam said and gave Elena a comforting smile before he followed his brother. Elena glanced back at Jeremy before she followed Sam and grabbed his shoulder.

"I'm coming with you." She said and looked up at Sam who immediately shook his head. "Sam…"

"Elena, we have hunted these things for ages. We know what we're doing." Sam said and turned around again, but Elena got in his way again and put her hands on his chest to stop.

"Sam, please." She begged and looked intensely into his eyes. "I know this town. Please, just let me do this for my brother, or else I'm going to go out there myself." Sam thought about it for a while before he closed his eyes, just for a second, before he sighed.

"Fine, but you do as we say." He said and Elena nodded before she removed her hands from his chest, but didn't lose eye contact. They just looked at each other for a couple of second until Jeremy came towards them.

"No, if you're going, I'm going." He said and broke the moment between them. Elena put a hand on her brother's shoulder to keep him back.

"No, Jeremy, you're not!" Elena protested, but he grabbed her hands carefully and held them. "You know you can't."

"So I'm just going to sit here and wait for maybe that you'll make it home?" He said with a pained look on his face. "I'm not going to kill anyone, okay? I promise, but I'm not going to let you go out there with them without me." Elena nodded and put a hand on his cheek before they walked out the door together with Sam behind them. Dean was already seated inside the car, but he rolled his eyes as he saw Elena and Jeremy come towards the car as well. Sam got in the passenger seat while Elena scooted in the backseat with Jeremy.

"Please tell me we're dropping them off somewhere?" Dean asked Sam who wiggled his eyebrows one time which made Dean sigh with frustration. "Okay, this is the rules. You do exactly like we say and when we say it, understood?" Both Jeremy and Elena nodded as he started the car.


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