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Chapter 2: The Night Of The Comet

I sighed as I took out my dark brown hair almost black, out of the towel I had put it in this morning after my shower. I was already dressed in my black with a golden collar, crop top and my dark blue destroyed high waisted jeans. I had on my favorite strapped high heels because they worked with these pants and made my legs look great. I had in my blue crystal bellybutton ring that I had gotten done when I was 16. I had done it without my parents consent and let's just say they were not happy about it. I did my makeup like I usually did but with a red lip to add some color to my outfit. I grabbed my black leather jacket and slipped it over my arm before leaving my room and closing my door behind me.

I needed to find Matt when I got to school to see how Vicki was doing. Before I could go downstairs, I saw Jenna and Elena talking in the hallway.

"He left early." Jenna shrugged as she check herself out in the mirror. "Something about having to finish a birdhouse for wood shop..."

"Wood shop?" I questioned as I leaned against the railing. "What wood shop?"

Jenna looked at me and Elena before sighing. "There is no wood shop, right?" She sighed and sunk her shoulders.

I shook my head the same time Elena said no. I laughed and turned to go downstairs.

I already knew where I could find Jeremy. I grabbed my keys off the table and turned to go out the door, Elena had her car, she could drive. I drove down to the hospital and it didn't take long considering it's a small town. I got out and went inside. I asked one of the nurses which way to Vicki Donovan's room and she directed me in the right direction. I looked inside her room to see Jeremy and a nurse talking.

"Visiting hours aren't til 9:00, you can come back later." She pushed him out the room and she didn't even take a second look at me before closing her door and turning to go back down the hallway.

I looked at Jeremy and knew not to say anything with his long face. I nodded my head at him as if to say follow me. We didn't speak at all during the ride to school, but when we got to the parking lot of the building he spoke a quiet thanks and walked into the building. I sighed and ran my hand through my hair, frustrated. Let's get this over with.

School was normal, Mr. Tanner tried to start with me but I put him in his place. Of course, it did land me in the main office, and getting a detention, but it's not like it's my first detention for Mr. Tanner. This is there fault for putting me in his class after last year.

I shook out my hair and slipped in it a bun when I saw Elena, Bonnie and Caroline talking at a table at the Grill, I was here for my shift, I helped out around the bar since I was 18 and I had my bartenders license. I didn't want to see or talk to Caroline after what happened yesterday but Elena waved me over. I rolled my eyes and went to go sit at her side, across from Caroline. I didn't dear look at her, I know I was being childish, but I still feel like it's awkward.

"So then what happened?" Caroline asked Elena, probably about last night. I shook my head as I remembered my little prank and had a smirk on my face. Elena looked at me and knew exactly what I was thinking about. She elbowed me and I just shrugged my shoulders and took a drink out of my coffee I had gotten during my free period. Coffee from the Grill was the way to go when you were tired.

"Nothing." Elena shrugged and took my coffee to take a sip. I sighed and let her, I knew she was pretty tired too.

"So, you and Stefan just talked all night?" She looked from me to Elena, as if to say what the hell. I shrugged my shoulders even though I was pretty proud of my sister, she didn't screw on the first date. "There was no sloppy first kiss or touchy feely of any kind?"

"Nope we didn't go there." Elena shrugged again.

Caroline pointed at me. "Then why is she smirking. Come on Elena, we are your friends. Okay? You're suppose to share the smut." I rolled my eyes, if only Caroline knew how many times I've had sex. She had no clue. She thinks she's the queen of all sex.

"She's smirking because she likes to embarrass me." Elena explained and I nodded, she wasn't wrong. "And we just talked for hours."

"Okay, what is with the bondage? It's easy, boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex." Caroline mushed her hands together to get her point across.

I rolled my eyes. "Profound."

I got up the same time Elena did and gave her a questioning stare. "Where are you going?" I asked as I straightened out.

"Caroline's right. It is easy. And the longer I sit here, the more I talk myself out of doing what I told myself that I was going to do." She grabbed her bag and I rolled my eyes again but laughed a little and decided to get into the Grill so I could actually help out.

I got inside the building to see that it wasn't that busy. I shrugged off my jacket and saw Vicki in the corner. I frowned, she shouldn't be working, she just got out of the hospital. I shook my head and got behind the bar. The one good thing about working at a bar is you get great tips, either people are too drunk to realize what they give you, or you're an attractive girl with a great body and get good tips. I get at least 200 in tips every night. Not to mention my actually pay check, it's not wonder I have a nice car and we got to keep our house when our parents died.

I sighed and looked outside as I saw everyone across the street getting set up for the comet tonight. I should be out there, but I thought better of it and decided to work to get more money for us all.

A couple hours later and there still wasn't really good business, I sighed and yelled to Tom, my manager, that I was going on break and he yelled back okay and to be back by 5 for rush hour. I looked at my phone's clock to see it was 4:12 and nodded my head and yelled back an okay. I grabbed a water from the back and grabbed my jacket before going back outside. I sighed as I got in as much fresh air as I could before I had to go back into the stuffy restaurant. I saw Elena walking to her car and I waved when she saw me standing by the Grill entrance. She waved and quickly walked across the street over to me.

"Hey." I said as she got closer and then took a swig of my water.

"Hey, you busy?" She asked me as she stopped in front of me, I shrugged and shook my head no. "Wanna come with me some place?"

I shook my head when I realized where we were. I didn't say anything as I followed Elena out of the car, I decided that she could drive, even though I was starting to regret it now that I knew where we were.

She knocked on the boarding house's door and waited while I stayed near the door. She wanted to talk to Stefan alone, I was only hear for moral support. While Elena was knocking the door opened slightly and she looked back at me before shrugging and going into the house. I gasped and ran up the stairs. I didn't bother entering because I could still see Elena from the door way.

"Elena get out of there!" I shouted/whispered. She waved me off and started calling out to Stefan. I groaned and followed her into the house when she got more out of my sight. I caught up to her quickly and pulled her to me by her arm. She turned around to yell at me but a gasp found it's way out of her mouth before she could. I turned around and almost jumped when I saw a pretty tall, dark haired, man standing behind me.

His light blue eyes where smirking down at both of us, but more at me. I pulled Elena more behind me and he noticed the movement. He smirked more and I glared at him. My blue eyes meeting his blue eyes that seemed so familiar but I couldn't place where I've seen them before.

"I'm..I'm sorry for barging in. The door was opened." Elena stuttered from her spot behind me. I didn't say anything further, not taking my eyes off the man that was standing barely a foot in front of me. I kept glaring at him while he just smirked down at me. I didn't trust this man to come only closer to my sister.

"You must be Elena. I'm Damon, Stefan's brother." He looked at my sister before looking back down at me. "And you are?" He asked me but I didn't say anything, not giving him the satisfaction of knowing my name. "Well, considering the way you're holding our dear Elena hear, I would say you two are related. So you must be a Gilbert." "

I still didn't say anything. Elena noticing that I wasn't going to say anything, started on a different topic. "Stefan didn't tell me that he had a brother."

"Yeah, well he's not one to brag." Damon shrugged and walked away from the both of us before turning around. "Well, come on, I'm sure Stefan will be here any moment."

Elena followed him into what looked like a living room and I sighed. Her curiosity was going to get me in big trouble one day. I followed after her like the good big sister I was and saw, like I said earlier, a living room. There were many books around the room with a good section of booze in the corner. Everything looked so old, but not moldy and gross, it looked good in the house.

"This is your living room?" I asked as I walked around the couches to looked at the cabinet with some good alcohol. I went to bartenders classes, I knew what good booze was. I looked back at Damon to see him smirking at the fact I was looking at his alcohol. I turned away from the wall and walked back over to Elena.

"Living room, parlor, or seventies auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste." Damon gave his opinion.

I shrugged at his opinion. "I don't know. I think it fit this house." I looked around the room and turned back to look at Damon.

"I'll have to give you a tour around one day." He smirked. It seemed like that smirk never left his face. But the more I see it on him, the more he pulls it off.

"Don't count on it." I said under my breath, but by the growing smirk on his face, I'm guess I didn't say it as softly as I thought.

He turned back to Elena and was going to walk closer, but I glared at him and he stopped. "I can see why my brother's so smitten."

Elena looked at Damon weirdly after having a silent conversation with our eyes. "It's about time. For a while there, I thought he'd never get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him."

Elena looked confused. "The last one?"

Damon looked surprised. "Oh, you guys haven't had the awkward ex's talk." He cringed as if he was really sorry that he said something about Stefan's old girlfriend. But I could see right through his act. He wanted Elena to be awkward about Stefan. I glared at him and he looked at me, faking innocence.

"Nope." Elena popped the 'p' at the end and rocked back and forth on her heels and shoved her hands in her jacket.

"Oh, well I'm sure it's going to come up now." Damon shrugged. "Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. And we all know how those relationships end."

I glared over at him. "You say that like every relationship is bound to end."

"I'm a fatalist." Damon smirked.

I crooked my head to the side a little. "So then who hurt you?" I asked, seeing that somehow, in someway, someone hurt him. That's why he didn't believe in relationships.

He glared over at me. "Hello Stefan." He said not breaking eye contact with me. I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of winning so I glared right back at him.

"Hello Elena, Raegan." Stefan greeted stiffly. I groaned when he said my name and Damon smirked over at me. If looks could kill. "Didn't know you were coming over."

I looked over at Stefan to see him glaring at his brother. I looked at his brother to see him smirking away at only god knows what.

"I know, I should have called, but..." Elena started, going closer to Stefan and more away from Damon.

"Oh, don't be silly. You're welcome anytime, isn't she Stefan?" Damon turned to Stefan after watching me for a little. I was still on the other side of the couch, from when I was looking around the room and protecting Elena. I was basically trapped in this spot, unless I wanted to go hide behind Stefan; I wouldn't shove that idea too far away, it was worth getting away from the awkwardness that entered the house when we did. "You know I should break out the family photo albums, or some home movies, but I have to warn you, he wasn't always such a looker." He winked at both Elena and Stefan.

"And what about you?" I shoot back with a questioning eye and a smirk. He laughed and winked in my direction.

"Thanks for stopping by girls, nice to see you again." Stefan said, implying for us to leave and I nodded getting the idea. He probably didn't want us around his brother, by the way he was still glaring at him. I walked around the couch and passed by Damon with him looking at me the whole time. I stopped when I was right next to Elena.

"Yeah, we should probably get going. I have to get back to work." I looked at the clock on the wall to see I had 10 minutes til I needed to be back.

"It was nice meeting you Damon." Elena said smiling at Damon. He nodded at her and smiled, then he looked at me waiting for me to say the same thing.

"It was..interesting meeting you Damon." I said with a small smile on my face. He laughed and nodded, taking it.

"It was a pleasure meeting you two." He shook Elena's hand but when we shook hands he pulled my hand to his lips and gave it a small kiss. I was shocked to say the least. He smirked when he saw I was surprised.

Me and Elena turned around, but we couldn't get out the door because Stefan was blocking the way to get outside. Elena tried calling to him and around the second time he moved out of the way, not taking his eyes off his older brother. I shook my head at him. We escaped outside and I took a deep breath of air.

"Well, that was awkward." I said as we both got into the car. She just nodded and drove back down to the Grill.

We reached the Grill and she dropped me off, saying that she was going to go home and get ready for tonight. I nodded and went inside to see that the place was filling up with people. I saw Vicki running around serving people and there was almost no one behind the bar. I sighed and ran over, quickly putting on my name tag and getting people their drinks. I was definitely the best person to make and get drinks at the Grill. I was quick but efficient. People always looked at me to make the best drinks, that's why I get so many tips at the end of the night.

After rush hour was over, I sunk against the bar and sighed. It never gets easier doing rush hour. People get cranky and pushy and it's just a big pain in the ass. I grabbed a cup and some bourbon, this was my weakness. People always are surprised when they find out I like bourbon, but I do.

"Make that two." I heard from behind me. I turned around and sighed when I saw who it was. I grabbed another cup from under the bar and pick it in front of Damon and poured him a little more than it's suppose to and put the bottle in front of him.

"You seem like the type of guy that keeps a tab." I laughed.

He nodded his head. "Good eye. Though I would never have excepted you to drink bourbon. You seem more like a-"

"Wine drinker? Yeah I get that a lot. Don't get me wrong I love me some wine, but bourbon and beer is where it's at for me." I shrugged and saw someone coming up to the bar for a drink. I downed my bourbon in one shot and pointed to the guy over in the corner. "He's a regular. He always has the biggest tab of the night. He gets so drunk, but it's only because he's wife is cheating on him. I feel for him, ya know. It sucks being cheated on, especially when you know about but you stay with them because you hope it's going to stop." I shook my head.

I looked over to the guy to see him downing another shot of whiskey. "I would have ended it a while ago." I heard Damon say, also looking at the guy.

I looked over to him, to see the same heartbroken look on his face and the guy, drinking away his pain. "Would you have?" I asked because I didn't believe that he would have ended the relationship if he knew his girl was screwing another man. I walked over to the man drinking and started talking to him, he told me nothing has changed about his life, but he's thinking of ending it, or at least talking to her. I encouraged him and looked over at Damon to see him looking at me. I got the man another shot of whiskey and downed one with him.

Damon's POV:

I watched Raegan give the man another shot and shook my head. I heard their whole conversation and it reminded me of Katherine, the whole reason I was actually in Mystic Falls. I needed to get her out of the tomb so we could finally be together. I couldn't distract myself with someone who should mean so little to me. But when I saw her comforting that man over there, I felt something I haven't felt since 1865. I shook my head clear of the thoughts and downed another shot. I needed to stop thinking these things. But when I saw her in those woods the other day, I couldn't bring myself to drink her dry, there was something stopping me from doing so. Whether it's those big blue doe eyes, or the scared look in her eyes that made me want to protect her. But I took away her fear and made her forget about the whole thing. It was better for the both of us.

"I know you." I heard a voice say behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see the girl that I sucked dry, apparently I didn't kill her. I rolled my eyes and took another drink from my glass.

"That's unfortunate." I said into my drink.

"You look so familiar, like I've seen you around before." She whispered more to herself than she did to me. I rolled my eyes, but then I got a thought into my head. I knew a good way to annoy Stefan.

Raegan's POV:

I looked back to see that Damon was gone, but in it's place was the money he owed and a tip. I laughed when I saw a 20 dollar tip. I shook my head and put the money for the drinks in the cash register and the tip in my back pocket.

My manager came out from the back to see that it was mostly dead. He looked at me and gave me the okay to leave early. I nodded at him and took off my name tag and put it back in the bin with the other name tags for the people who worked in the Grill. It was easier this way for everyone.

I saw Bonnie, Caroline, my sister and my brother, Matt and Tyler sitting at a table talking about something serious. I went to go join them.

"Would you all just shut up and help me find my sister!" Matt yelled at everyone when I got closer.

"What happened to your sister?" I asked when I got closer and put my arm around my sister's shoulders. It was nice being taller than her. She was easily my arm rest. I saw her roll her eyes but she didn't shove me off.

"I don't know. She's not any where in sight." Matt said while looking around the Grill. I knew that she wasn't around the Grill, I would have seen her being at the front of the building the whole night. I thought about how when me and her used to get high at the top of the building at break and sighed.

Everyone split up but I knew exactly where to go to find her, I just hope I was the one to find her, not anyone else, they wouldn't know what to do when Vicki was on her high.

I climbed the stairs leading up to the roof and saw that the door was opened. She was most definitely up here. I reached the top of the building to see that Vicki was on the ground, looking high as ever and Stefan and Damon were standing over her. I rolled my eyes at Vicki, getting everyone in trouble.

Damon looked over at me and smiled. I didn't bother smiling back, too annoyed at the girl laughing on the ground from some pills that she took. I looked to see her cut on her neck opened up and cringed at the sight. I was able to help her the other night with the blood because I wasn't thinking about it much, but when it wasn't as serious as the other night, it was gross to look at and made me a little queasy. I could feel the bile building up in my stomach, but I swallowed it down.

"Hey Rae!" Vicki giggled and I sighed again. I helped pull her to her feet but she almost knocked both of us over, if it wasn't for Stefan's help, holding her up.

"Vicki, you can't keep living this way." I whispered in her ear. I looked over at Damon and Stefan. "Thanks for finding her, she could have really hurt herself up here alone." Little did I know, if I didn't come up the time I did, something else could have happened to her, besides her not remembering how she got up there.

Everyone was grateful to me and Stefan for finding Vicki, but I just shrugged them off saying that Stefan found her first, I just helped get her back down stairs. Even though I think Stefan could have handled that all by himself.

I sighed when I didn't see Elena. I looked at Matt for an explanation. "She left when she heard that we found Vicki, she went home." I nodded and decided to go home myself.

It didn't take long to get home, leaving before the traffic is always nice. I opened the front door to see Elena sitting on the couch eating ice cream. I knew this look very well. It was the look of regret. I sighed and took the seat next to her. I grabbed the spoon out of her hand and took a bite out of the half baked ice cream.

"You should talk to him." I said looking at her. She sighed and nodded. "What did you tell him?" I asked handing her back the spoon. If I knew my sister, like I knew my sister, she said something to break off the relationship before it even happened.

"I told him that I understood where he was coming from. And that this whole thing was epic but it just wasn't the right time." Elena sighed into the tub of ice cream.

I laughed. "It was epic? This isn't a story Elena. This is real life. There isn't no right time for anything, trust me. It definitely wasn't the right time for mom and dad to pass away, but life is life. It doesn't wait around until you're ready to go. If you want something, you have to go out there and take it. You can't just wait for it to come to you. Don't stick to the status que, be something different. You won't regret it, because it makes you, you." I said fully looking at her. She looked at me to the floor and thought about what I just said. "I'll see you in the morning. But I would give him a chance, he might surprise you." I kissed her on her cheek and left her to her thoughts.

I went up stairs and to my room. It was in definite need of a clean up, but tonight was too hectic to even think about cleaning. I walked over to my radio and played the CD that was in it. I turned it down to just a subtle back round noise and get dressed in my normal PJ's. A sports bra and some sweats or leggings. I snuggled into my bed and fell off to a deep slumber, not noticing the blue eyes looking at me through my window late at night.

Sorry it's kind of a short chapter but not much happens in this episode. The next one will be longer. I hope you like the little Raegan/Damon scenes. I love writing them together.

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