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Chapter ThreeMeet And Greet

"Are you really going to do this in a bar full of people?"

Kai looked down at the three vampires from his seat on the bar, feigning offence."Why must people always assume that i'm up to no good? A guy kills a bunch of people and that's all he's remembered for. Look all I want is Jo...maybe Olivia. She's really pissed me off but I can negotiate on her."

"Does it look like we have your sisters and even if we did, do you really think we'd just hand them over?"

Kai narrowed his eyes at Damon, irritated that he wasn't getting what he wanted. The eldest vampire was still standing a few inches in front of Amelia. But his plan in keeping her somewhat hidden from Kai's view fell around him when Amelia spoke up with a sharp tone, not liking Damon's earlier words."I would hand them over. They really don't mean anything to me."

At Amelia's words, Damon let out a long sigh while Kai let his gaze drift to the redhead who he hadn't seen before. Enzo just grinned at Amelia's words. She didn't see why Damon was so adamant in protecting people he didn't know. Kai let out a loud laugh, kicking his feet back and forth childishly, as if asking them to hand over his sister so that he could kill her in the merge was something that somebody did every day. Damon turned his head towards the redhead, eyes telling Enzo to keep an eye on her because Damon knew that she could act quite quickly if Amelia thought she or he was being threatened. Enzo did, fingers locking around Amelia's wrist as he ignored her glare. Her sire scolded her with the look he only gave to her whenever she was being told off, but his eyes held amusement. She wrenched her wrist from Enzo and she easily won due to being older than him. She crossed her arms over her chest, rolling her eyes at Damon's scolding look.

"This isn't the time, Mia. We ain't bargaining with the psycho, that's it."

"He's not a psychopath, Damon. He's a sociopath. Psychopaths are believed to be born, while people believe that sociopaths aren't, that they are made."Ameila replied with a scolding tone in her voice. Kai smirked, amused as if he thought that she was defending him in a way, taking her words as a compliment.

"So don't give psychopaths a bad name by calling him one. Apart from the sociopath bit he's just a dick with severe mommy or daddy issues."

Kai's smirk dropped from his face at Amelia's harsh words while Damon cursed, wishing that Amelia had an off button at times. He jumped down from the bar and stormed up to her, eyes darkening. He didn't get near her because Damon side stepped in front of the redhead, blocking her from Kai's eyes while Enzo pulled her back with a chuckle. Still, she showed no sign of being intimidated by him, she just smiled to herself, eyes daring him to come closer. She had gone to collage once in her life and that had been at the start of the new century. She had, again, gotten bored and had compelled herself into the local collage and had taken psychology. That was why she was going out of her way to test Kai. Sociopaths were impulsive and didn't plan ahead. They were prone to have emotional outbursts, and fits of rage but were pathological liars and could spot weaknesses from a mile away. From what she had seen of Kai in the small amount of time she had heard and seen from him, he fit the criteria. The witch marked off each symptom of the checklist.

"Hel-lo."Kai drawled, letting his eyes trail of the girl he hadn't seen before."You're new and very brave."

Damon pressed his hand on Kai's shoulder, shoving him back."That's too close for comfort, buddy."

"You need to learn when to keep that pretty mouth of yours shut, sweetheart." Enzo whispered into her ear.

"That's something I can't promise, soldier." She replied still not looking away from Kai. Damon stared down Kai as he glared at Amelia over his shoulder. She tapped Damon's arm with a laugh, trying to see how far she could push Kai."Ohhh, I think i've made him angry. He's got this crazy look in his eyes."

Kai stared at Amelia over Damon's shoulder for a few seconds before his dark look suddenly changed to one of amusement."This is the moment where you're supposed to run and hide, little red and i'll show you just how crazy I am."

Enzo released a growl, stepping forward."Now that's no way to talk to a woman, mate."

"...and this is the moment where you shut your mouth. We don't have them so why don't you go and torture some kittens or something?" Damon sneered to Kai, a wild grin on his lips."I'll make sure not to call you if we see them. Now, run along back to the hole you escaped from.''

Damon suddenly fell to the floor, clutching his head in his hands as he screamed in agony. Customers around him turned and looked at the elder Salvatore in the ground, watching in confusion. Kai smirked down at Damon, clearly enjoying the vampire's pain. Enzo lunged for the witch but he stumbled back, landing on the ground next to Damon, his hands flying to his temples. Kai winked over at Amelia who was looking at the two male vampires in concern. The customers, clearly not liking what they were seeing rushed towards the door, pushing others out of the way in order to get through first. The bartender disappeared too, using the fire exit door to save himself. Amelia flashed towards Kai, fingers locking around his neck, lifting him in the air. But this only succeeded in making the two other vampires yell out in pain louder as soon as Kai clenched his fist.

"Let. Them. Go."

"Oh, feisty! I like you."He laughed, unfazed by the fact that she was crushing his windpipe."Are you Damon's new girl? Has he finally gotten rid of E-len-a?"

"Let them go, you fu-" Amelia cut herself off, her eyes rolling back as blood appeared underneath her nose, causing her to let go of Kai as she wiped it away.

"Now, now. Language." Kai grinned at her, easily avoiding her hits by using the pain infliction spell on her that he had used on Olivia."Phesmatos superous em animi."

Though, because of her words earlier, Kai made hers the worst.

Amelia flew back towards the bar, knocking down the glasses and bottles on her way as she reached out to hold on to something. This caused some of the smashed glass to embed into her arms, slashing her skin in the process. Kai moved his hand to the left, pushing her back against the bar, and, like he did with the other two, he clenched his fist as tight as he could, chanting underneath his breath. She felt her throat tighten up and her windpipe being crushed, as if someone was physically strangling her. Blood appeared underneath her nose again and she let out a heart wrenching scream. Her eyes widened and glassed over, the pain making her stomach become knotted as she found it harder to breathe. Amelia felt herself being pushed back again, and as she tried to gain her balance, her feet came out from under her and she fell back right onto a broken off leg of the round wooden bar stool that Damon had pushed her off of. She cried out in pain as one of the legs went right through her stomach.

Kai pumped his fist in the air, smiling widely."Bingo!"

"Let them go...or i'll kill Jo the next time I see her."Amelia chuckled, pulling out the wooden bar stool leg. She could see their eyes screwing shut, their bodies beginning to shut down from the pain. She knew that she had to get Kai away from them, to distract them and she was more than sure that Jo was the way to stop him from killing the two male vampires.

"Wouldn't it be funny that all your temper tantrums had been about nothing?"

Kai's smile fell again as Amelia's words set off another rage inside of him. He flicked his wrist again, this time, snapping Damon and Enzo's necks. Amelia let out a sigh of relief, they would be knocked out for a while but at least they weren't dead. Kicking the two out of his way, he sauntered over to Amelia, pulling her up from the floor. He pushed her back against the bar again, using a bar towel to wipe the blood underneath her nose. Again, his mood changed as quick as it did before. He chuckled, leaning close, eyes narrowing as if he were trying to read her mind.

"...and if I kill you?"

"Simple. Damon will kill her. If you kill him, Enzo will kill her for him. There's a long list and we both know that the spell you sucked up won't last that long. I don't care about anyone apart from Damon….and maybe Enzo. He grows on you. If you kill Damon i'll use you as my own personal juice box and I promise you, it'll be painful."

"That sounds...quite appealing actually. Though, I must tell you that I like to bite...hard." Kai grinned charmingly."You know as well as I do that you weren't serious. You kill Jo, I kill Damon. It's clear how much you love him. The threat works both ways. But, don't worry, little red. It was a good distraction to keep me from exploding their heads. You get props for that. Though, for hurting my feelings, I think I punishment is in order, don't you?"

"I think having you touch me is punishment enough and I know how to deal with creeps that don't respect personal space."

Amelia shoved his arms off of her shoulders and with all the strength she could muster, she kneed him between the legs. Kai's eyes bulged and he doubled over, releasing a string of coughs and curses. It didn't matter how powerful a man was, that move always worked. She then grabbed him by the wrist and with all her power, threw him into the collection of bottles behind the bar. His back hit them first, causing them all to smash, glass slicing his skin like he did to her earlier. Amelia chuckled when he swore loudly before falling to the ground. But, knowing that he wouldn't be down for long, she knew that she had to act fast. Amelia flashed over to Enzo and Damon, who were in the process of waking up but still a little hazy, so she pulled them up by their arms. She wrapped her arms around them and began to stumble towards the exit, swaying back and forth.

"You both totally owe me." She mumbled.

Hearing Kai kicking the bottles away and trying to get up, Amelia used her vampire speed to get them all out of the Grill before Kai could act. She stopped at her Camaro and leaned them against it so that she could fish out her keys. She heard them mumble as she unlocked her car. She could hear Kai's angry stomps in the bar and knew that they didn't have long.

"Enzo! Damon!"

She growled when they didn't respond so with anger, she slapped Enzo harsh across the 's eyes snapped open instantly but before he could speak, she ordered him."Get him into the damn car before he does that invisible thingy."

Amelia opened the car quickly and Enzo, still stumbling, tried his best to push Damon into the backseat. In fact, all he did was manage to shove the Salvatore across the seat before getting in himself. Amelia flashed over to the drivers side before getting in. She caught sight of the bar door opening and out walked Kai. His face was slashed and his clothes were torn but his eyes were almost black. They were pinned to her as she stopped at the drivers door. Amelia swallowed thickly when a grin crawled onto his face. and she saw him step forward, hand reaching out to chant something. But before he could mutter the first word, she had started the car and pulled out onto the street, speeding down the road, turning to the first corner she came to just in case he blew up her favorite car.

"If he as much as grazes my car with a spell..."She muttered to herself, rounding into another corner.

As she sped down the road, Amelia pulled out the shards of glass that was in her skin before she grabbed Damon's phone out of Enzo's chest pocket while the British vampire slowly recovered.

"If you want to get handsy, love, just give me a sec to get my act together." Enzo winked though when he laughed, he instantly regretted it because his mind was spinning.

"There goes that British charm again." She fired back with a smile.

Amelia quickly found Stefan's number, bringing the phone to her ear.

'We're almost there. Luke took his time on the damn sp-

"Stefan, don't go to the Grill. Take your little herd of sheep and find some place safe."

'I'll take them to Ric's. What happened?'

Amelia rolled her eyes, wondering why Stefan even had to ask."Kai just kicked our asses and ruined my favorite shirt. He's pissed off and we just managed to escape. Tell Jo that if I don't see progress in the next few days i'll hand her over to him myself. Or maybe i'll kill the twins to give her encouragement. I don't care."

'How is that g-'

Amelia hung up and tossed the mobile back at Enzo. She looked in the rear view mirror to see Damon across the back-seat, white as a sheet. He had fallen back into unconsciousness, the spell had done a number on him, she thought. Enzo reached into the back seat and quickly slipped the mobile back into Damon's jacket pocket. If Elena called and started raging at the person on the end of the line, neither of them wanted to deal with her. Enzo had woke up fully due to the harsh slap she had given him earlier and was now looking at her with an amused expression on his handsome face. She arched an eyebrow, sending him a confused expression as she kept her eyes on the road.

"You're quite batty, aren't you, love?"

"I prefer passionate. I would have happily sent them to the Grill but Damon loves his brother. If I allowed Stefan to die, he would've given me the silent treatment for the next century."

Enzo nodded slowly, he understood perfectly. Stefan wasn't his favorite person by a long shot, the younger Salvatore had handed him over to be killed and had given up on Damon so Enzo wouldn't blink an eye if he died. But Damon loved Stefan despite their problems so if Enzo had a choice to save Stefan from a possible death, he would. Not because he liked him, but because Damon loved him.

"Don't worry, you're in my good books. At least someone else is speaking sense. I offered to skip town with him when he came back but he said no. He's trying to be a good bloke these days. It's a burden."

"Then i'll be your partner in crime then. I'm gonna need someone on my side when Elena gives me those judgmental puppy dog eyes."


Present—Salvatore Boarding House

"See? Puppy dog eyes. Told you!"

Amelia ignored Damon's pointed look as he and Elena cleaned up the mess in the living room while she leaned against the archway. She bit her lip, looking down at the ground to hide from Damon's gaze, fighting a grin. Enzo chuckled next to her, stuffing his hands into his pockets, following Amelia to the recently pulled up couch, slumping down next to her. Elena sighed, crossing her arms over her chest, shaking her head back and forth. At this, Amelia stuck out her hand, wiggling her fingers at Enzo. The younger vampire rolled his eyes, digging into his pocket before handing Amelia a $20 dollar. On the ride home, the two had made a bet whether Elena would yell at him or give Damon the silent treatment. She had won. Again, Damon noticed and with his eyes, scolded the two, acting as if they were petulant children.

Which they were in his eyes.

"So Stefan has gone to Ric's with the twins and Jo?"

Amelia nodded at Elena's question, crossing her legs as she watched her sire sitting down across from her."Yep. But I doubt that'll keep them safe for long. Kai's got magic radiating off of him."

"I officially hate witches. I haven't had this much of a pounding in my head since Christmas Eve, 1918." Enzo butted in, thinking back to the year with a grimace."That is a hangover I don't ever want again."

"Why do the evil ones have to be so hot?"Amelia said to herself a moment later."Is it just me or does the fact that he's evil make him more attractive? If he weren't our enemy or trying to kill you, I-"

"Amelia, what have I told you about speaking like that in front of me?"Damon narrowed his eyes at her, a look of disgust on his face."...and yes, it's just you."

"I don't think so, mate. I mean, look at Elena's track record."Enzo added in with a grin, winking at the redhead next to him.

Damon went to defend his almost-girlfriend, but stopped himself when he realized that his words were true. Amelia smirked at the look on Elena's face. Elena's eyes widened, her mouth opening and closing for a second before she collected herself, quickly changing the subject."Stefan said that the twins managed to put a cloaking spell on Jo. But, like Mia, said, Kai is going to find them. It's only a matter of when."

Amelia narrowed her eyes and she leaned forward, looking over at Damon and Elena."Right. Number one, Elena, only Damon calls me Mia. Got that? Good. Number two, why don't we just hand them all over, create a truce, and go to Vegas? The hotel is still booked until the end of the week."

"I agree with beauty here. It's not right us all dying for a bunch of kids who can't take care of themselves, mate."

Elena let out a disgusted gasp, looking at Amelia and Enzo as if they were heartless monsters with no compassion. Damon, though, looked to be considering the deal but he quickly stopped that train of thought when Bonnie came into mind. He shook his head, refusing their words, making Amelia growl in anger. Not at Damon, but at the whole situation. The casual atmosphere suddenly turned thick with tension.

"No. Not until Bonnie gets out." Damon answered a moment later.

"I don't give a damn about Bonnie, Damon. I don't know her, I don't care about her."Amelia screamed at him, jumping up."You feel guilty, I get that. But she let you go and she has to live with it, it was her choice. She sacrificed herself for you, so you have to accept that. Her or anyone else's life is not worth dying over. Kai is not your problem, he's theirs. Elena, Alaric and everyone else is collateral damage. They are choosing to fight. You don't have to. I'm not letting you or even Enzo be apart of that."

Damon's face fell and he went silent. Not a Damon reaction at all. The Damon they knew would have fought back, but this time, he just looked away from her. Elena's eyes filled with tears and she stood up, storming over to Amelia. The older vampire showed no sign of backing away, instead she just stepped forward. She truly didn't care about anyone else apart those few who she did. Bonnie had let Damon go, she tossed him the ascendant, she had sacrificed herself for him and though grateful, Amelia didn't believe that he should be doing the same thing. Bonnie had a choice, she could have kept Damon with her, but she hadn't. Amelia wasn't going to allow him to give his life for that. It was just not worth it. She didn't care how heartless it made her sound, but that was what she believed in.

"Bonnie is my friend. I am not abandoning her."

"I don't care. She's human, she'll die some day. She is collateral damage. Just like the twins and just like Jo. Damon's life is worth more than that, Enzo's life is worth more than that and so is mine. It's kill or be killed."Amelia hissed back at the younger vampire."Look, I get it. She's your friend but she isn't mine. If you ask me, she's better off in the prison world because out here there's going to be a lot of deaths. You could easily fix the problem, you know. Give Jo to Kai."

"So what if we do? Hand her over? Is he going to just move?"

"That's then, Elena. Not now. Right now, Kai is full of magic and prowling the streets for his twin. He will find her sooner or later. Just give her to him and hope for the best. That is all you have. You've got nothing else!"

Elena backed away at Amelia's raised voice. The redhead turned and looked at her sire, who was just staring at the fire place."You know full well that I won't leave you to fight this alone but just ask yourself one question. Is this fight really worth you dying over? Is it really worth Stefan, Enzo and me losing you if you don't win? Again?"

Damon lifted his head and looked over at Amelia, who was staring at him. He was her only family and if he died, she would be left alone. She had nothing. That was why she was so protective of him. It was also the same reason Damon had kept her from everyone else, because he didn't want her apart of the havoc life in Mystic Falls. She refused to let him die for something that wasn't worth dying for. Elena looked between the two, wondering what Damon was thinking. She knew that he cared for Bonnie, but everyone could already tell how much Amelia meant to him. Amelia suddenly turned from her sire, looking at the ground instead. Her red hair framed her face, not allowing them to see the emotional look she was wearing. Elena watched as Damon's face fell, his mask dropping as Amelia looked away. His jaw tightened and his eyes darkened, obviously feeling guilty, as if he knew that he were the cause of Amelia feeling emotional.

She would stay. For him. But she didn't want to lose the only family she had.

"Amelia, are you-"

"Elena, don't."Damon cut the doppelgänger off. His voice softened and he leaned closer from his seat, staring at the redhead across from him."Mia? Talk to me. I'm a stubborn dick, I know. Just talk to me."

Amelia didn't respond to her sire, something that never happened. Damon was the only person that she ever opened up to and she was one of the few he let inside. Amelia, like Damon, had a lot of walls that were almost impossible to break through. Enzo, who had gotten up to pour himself and Amelia a drink, sat back down next to her, closer than before. He didn't like seeing her this way, and understood what it felt like to have Damon push back against you, to not be able to see what was best.

"Here you go, beauty. This'll make you forget for a while." Enzo drawled, holding out her glass.

Amelia raised her head, her light eyes meeting Damon's. He smiled at her gently, but Amelia didn't respond, she just grabbed the drink from Enzo with a small smile. She downed it on one gulp, handing it back to the younger vampire. She smiled at Enzo, the vampire who she had easily warmed to, before getting up. She didn't acknowledged Elena because she knew that she would probably kill her if she did and that wouldn't go down well with Damon.

"I'm gonna turn in early. Getting my ass kicked took a lot out of me."She said with a sigh, looking down at her torn top. She smirked at Enzo, rubbing his shoulder."Night, soldier."

"G'night, love. Try not to dream about me."

"Right back at you."

Enzo smirked with a wink."I can't promise anything. You managed to creep in there last night, beauty."

Amelia walked towards the staircase, body begging for the large king sized bed she had slept on the previous night. Damon quickly got up, flashing over to her, stepping in front of her. He completely forgot about the other two in the room, too focused on his best friend.

"You're not talking to me now? Seriously?" He asked with a smirk, though his eyes were worried.

"How many times? I'm not like that, Damon. I don't play you like that. I'm not one of your doppelgangers." Amelia stepped over to her sire, placing her hands on his shoulders."You're a stubborn dick, you said so yourself. I'm a stubborn bitch. We'll do what we always do whenever we don't agree with eachother. We'll sleep on it and forget it happened, okay?"

Amelia smiled at her sire, who let out a sigh of relief. She truly hated Elena and Katherine for what they had done to him. He was this way whenever they bickered. He would think that she wouldn't talk to him or leave him if she didn't get what she want. So they had agreed on one thing. If they didn't agree on something, they left the situation and never spoke about it again. It had worked for the entire time they had been friends. So that was what she was doing. She wasn't happy about it, but she still wasn't going to leave him to fight alone. Damon's eyes lit up when she smiled at him and he pulled her close. He kissed her temple and hugged her protectively, eyes shutting, assured that she wasn't mad at him. She embraced him back tightly, telling him that she wasn't going to leave him just because he didn't agree with her ways of doing things.

She would never do such a thing. Not to Damon. Never to Damon.

"We'll find another way. Just promise me one thing?"

Damon nodded, listening."Anything."

"Don't die again."

"Cross my heart and not hope to die."He promised, making her laugh. But then his voice turned serious when he added."As long as you don't die either."

Amelia smiled against him and he hugged her once more before pulling away. That was that. No anger, no bitterness. It was forgotten. Damon watched as she climbed up the staircase, disappearing into the hallway that led to her bedroom a second later. She was heard walking into her room, shutting the door behind her as she got ready for her long and well deserved nights sleep. Damon turned back towards the front room, where Elena was looking at him as if he were a different person while Enzo was sipping on his drink, amused. The elder Salvatore slumped back onto the couch, only this time, next to Enzo.

"She is something, isn't she, mate?"

He smiled at his best friend, before, all of a sudden, smacking him on the back of his head. "You deserved that."

Enzo growled, and when he went to rub the sore spot, Damon grabbed his drink.

"What the bloody hell wa-"

"You know what that was for! Stop hitting on Mia. If you have to do it, just don't around me. Got it?"


Here is chapter three. I really hope that I did some good on Kai. He is really tricky to write because his mood can change so quickly. As you can see, most of the group is willing to fight Kai and wants to keep Jo from him. This is going go eventually cause Amelia to get vamp-napped. That is the main plot, as you can see in the summary of the story.

Anyway, if you liked it and would like to see more, please leave a review.

Sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes.