A/N: Thank you to mrsdansmith and saddenshi, for the lovely review and follows. And thank you to everyone else that has favorited or followed this story. When I saw them, I was so giddy- for lack of a better term. Thank you again, and I do not own TVD or it's characters. I only own my own events and characters, and even then they seem to do whatever the hell they want.


Lux was awoken by the shuddering of her bed beneath her. She opened her eyes a slit, having actually been awake since five in the morning. She was an early bird and a night owl, which did nothing good to her on a school night. Looking through the cracks in her eyelids, she could see a happy Elena sitting next to her on her blue patterned bed covers. She lifted her head groggily and probed around her bed for her book.

"So how long have you been up?" Elena asked, trying to sound casual. Lux rolled her eyes playfully, she knew Elena was worried she was having a hard time with her panic attacks.

"Only five," she replied sweetly. Elena smiled, seeming to have been reassured. "But to be fair, I also stayed up until one in the morning." Elena's smile was replaced by a pensive look. "And yes, before you ask, I'm okay." The smaller girl rolled her eyes again, something she'd been doing a lot of around Elena when she was being protective or motherly.

"So what are you reading now?" Elena murmured as she lay on the bed next to Lux. She started fiddling with the ends of the girl's curls. The two had become each other's sisters and best friends over summer, so close that usually where you found Lux, Elena would be right next to her.

"Umm," Lux said, running over her list of recently read books. "Right now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice for the third time. But after this I think I'm going to read Sabriel." She sauntered to her dresser, pulling out a pair of cable knit navy socks and a daisy skirt. Lux pulled them on, then rummaged around until she found her white strapless top. She fidgeted around with her shirt, trying to tuck it in before she grew too impatient and told herself she'd do it later. Turning to Elena, she raised her eyebrows, (mainly because she couldn't raise just one) silently asking her if she looked okay. Today was her first day at Mystic Falls High after all. Elena smiled genuinely and applauded the girl on her choices. Elena had noticed how much care Lux had been showing in her clothes recently, and had been subject to her questions of how things looked on her. She didn't mind helping Lux. Far from it, she was happy to help, and she was even more ecstatic that Lux seemed to be slowly showing more feelings.

"I know just the shoes to go with this," muttered Lux as she rummaged through her closet. "Ah, here you are," she said triumphantly, holding up her pair of Jeffrey Campbell Zomg Caps. Slipping them on and tightening the laces extra because of her slender and small feet, Lux strode out of her room, beaconing for Elena to follow with her usual 'go big or go home' attitude.

As both girls swept down the stairs, they heard Jenna scrambling about the kitchen. They smiled at each other before descending the last steps and heading around to face their guardian. Walking in, Lux grabbed her cardigan off the table. looking at Elena's outfit, she nodded. They both looked ready, undaunted, for another year. One of fake answers of okay and bogus smiles. But hey, the world wasn't perfect and the people within it definitely weren't.

"Toast!" Jenna frantically said, her brain somewhere else. "I can make toast!" Elena laughed and Lux just smiled, amused.

"It's all about the coffee, Aunt Jenna," Elena playfully mumbled. Lux made a disgruntled noise in the back of her throat, and shook her head vigorously. "Nope, tea for me. And also the crepes I made for everyone last night!" Lux called out, hoping Jeremy would hear her. Sure enough, he came down right after and as Lux pulled out the plate of berry crepes, Jeremy took two and sat down to eat.

"A simple thank you would be nice," she reprimanded him. She was met with a rueful smile and mumbled thank you from Jer. Glad she had gotten a positive reaction out of Jeremy, she tried to whistle but only came up with air and spit. "Oops." She apologetically smiled. The other three in the room laughed at her, making her cheeks turn pink.

"Is there any coffee?" Jeremy asked, and then seeing there was, took Elena's. She paused mid bite of crepe and jokingly glared at him. Jeremy just shot her an unamused glare and sat down sipping his coffee. It had been this way ever since he had started to use drugs. Lux had told him how she felt about drugs and such. She wouldn't stand to have smoke or the other substances around her and didn't want him to ruin his life, but she also respected that he was in charge of his own choices and had rights.

"Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared," Jenna sighed. "Lunch money?" She offered. Lux said a polite no thank you, Elena shook her head, but Jeremy roughly grabbed it. "What else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?" She was speaking mainly to herself by the end.

"Don't you have a big presentation today?" Elena asked. Jenna's face was first confused then horrified.

"I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at... now." She said, checking on her watch. "Crap!" She yelled, bustling around, grabbing books and her coat. Her hair was down today, and she had put on minimal make up.

"Then go," Elena said with a smile. "We'll be fine." Jenna smiled gratefully at Elena before looking at Lux expectantly. The girl knew she was asking if she would be okay but she brushed it off and replied, " Don't worry ma'am. I'll take care of her, it is my duty after all. Being Batman and all that," she said while tossing her hair over her shoulder dramatically.

"Oh shut up," Jeremy lovingly chided. "What can I say, Robin? I'm just the most responsible," Lux play-whispered to Jeremy. That made him shut up long enough for Elena and Lux to walk almost out the door.

He yelled out to her, "WAIT! Why am I the side kick?!" As she poked her tongue out at him and waved good bye. She closed the door behind her as she sprang to Bonnie's awaiting carriage for Cinderella, or Lux I guess.


"So Grams is telling me I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem, witches and all that, I know, crazy," Bonnie said rolling her eyes as she drove to Mystic Falls High. "But she's going on and on about it, and I'm like, put this woman in a home already!" Lux laughed at this before realizing Elena wasn't quite with them at the moment. "But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands. . .Elena! Back in the car." Bonnie chided.

"I did it again, didn't I? I-I'm sorry, Bonnie. You were telling me that-" Elena prompted, trying to pay more attention. She ruffled her hair, looking back at Lux quickly to find her sitting rigidly in the back seat of the car. That wasn't her normal sitting position, what was she afraid of? Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. How could she forget? The car crash.

"That I'm psychic now," finished Bonnie lamely. Lux tried to shake out her tense shoulders and replied to Bonnie. "You know, it would be pretty freaking fantabulous to have a psychic friend. If you are, you promise to tell me if a really hot guy is coming along, right? Cuz every time one seems to come by I'm in the weirdest position or next to you losers." Elena mock slapped Lux on the arm while Bonnie laughed.

"Right then," Elena started. "Predict something. About me." She winked at Lux, and the girl on the backseat simply smiled at her.

Bonnie smiled at the two and answered, "I see..." In a joking tone before a crow slapped against the car. Then another. Elena tensed as the car slid to the side of the road and Lux let out a muffled scream.

"What was that?! Oh, my god! Elena, are you ok?" Bonnie asked frantically, retracting the arm that she had flung against Elena as if it would keep her safe. Bonnie turned to Lux, "Are you okay Lux? Oh gosh..."

"It's okay." Elena said shakily, breathing out a breath that she hadn't realized she had been holding. "I'm fine." She repeated in response to Bonnie's disbelieving face.

"It was like a bird or something. It came out of nowhere," Bonnie said, sounding as if she was trying to reassure them that it wasn't her fault. Elena soothed Bonnie and turned back to Lux who was breathing hard. Her heartbeat raced and her hands began to shake ever so slightly. There was a sudden pain, a pressure on her heart. Everything seemed too close.

She was choking.

"Everything's too close!" Lux screamed. She rolled down the window and tugged at her shirt's collar and leaned out the window to ease the sense of clausterphobia. Dimly, she was aware of someone opening their car door and the sound of them calling her name. They opened Lux's door and Lux flung herself from the car to the side walk. "Lily," she whimpered. "I-I can't breathe. Elena?" she was met with the pair of concerned, warm brown eyes that belonged to Elena Gilbert. "Elena!" Lux strangled out. "H-help my b-breathe. Please!" Lux put her hands on either side of head, hoping it would draw out the pressure from her ribs and the pounding in her head. It was applying pressure to her heart. And it was crushing her. The air around her started to swirl, whipping Elena and Lux's hair.

Elena coaxed the gasping girl into the car and held her in the back seat, rocking her quietly to try and calm her. After a few minutes, Lux calmed down while Bonnie profusely apologized to her. She said it was okay, that she was okay now. A lie.

"You know what?" Bonnie said, optimism now in her voice. "I predict this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict all the sad and dark times are over and you are going to be beyond happy." Bonnie said to Elena. She smiled sadly at Lux and said, "You'll meet someone special and have the best year ever."

"The one question is," Lux began, mischief in her voice. "Will he be sexy?" The tension flew out the window and they laughed. It felt good to laugh. As they passed the road with little shops, Bonnie couldn't help but get a weird vibe from the crow they passed. It felt like- well, death. Lux could feel it too.


"Major lack of male real estate. Look at the shower curtain on Kelly Beech. She looks like a hot — can I still say 'tranny mess'?" Bonnie asked with a sigh as all the boys walking around her in Mystic Falls halls didn't catch her eye. Her and Elena were walking to their lockers, and then they were going to go to the office to wait for Lux while she was getting her schedules and locker combinations. Elena looked at her and replied with a, "No, that's over."

Bonnie sighed with a shrug. "Ahh, find a man, coin a phrase. It's a busy year." She smiled at Elena as they put away their books and jackets. Bonnie pauses and looks over at Elena who is waving at Matt from across the hallway. Matt ignored her even though he knew they had seen him, shut his locker and walked away.

"He hates me." Elena complained. Ever since they'd decided to be just friends and nothing more, Matt had been very distant and moody. Elena shut her locker and turned to Bonnie.

"That's not hate. That's 'you dumped me, but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits.'" Bonnie replied soothingly. Matt was pining after Elena, did she not see that? Their conversation was interrupted when a certain skinny and blonde Caroline Forbes walked up in a preppy way, sashaying back and forth. She smiled sadly at Elena before speaking.

"Elena. Oh, my God." Caroline breathed as she drew Elena in for a short hug. "How are you? Oh, it's so good to see you." Caroline withdrew and then turned to Bonnie before waiting for Elena to actually reply. "How is she? Is she good?" She asked Bonnie, as if the other girl wasn't even there.

Elena sucked in a deep breath and breathed out. "Caroline, I'm right here. And I'm fine. Thank you." She said with an artificial smile on her face. She needed to get through the day, but they way things were going right now, it'd be hard.

"Really?" Asked a disbelieving Caroline. She was met with a hard, "Yes. I'm much better." From Elena. There was a pause before Caroline hugged Elena again and said, "Oh, you poor thing." Caroline broke away from the parent less girl when she heard poorly stifled laughter coming from behind her. Caroline whirled around to face nobody her own height. Lux was smaller and so Caroline mistook her for a freshmen. "I know you're a new freshmen, and don't know what's going on- but this girl just lost her parents. Please show some respect," Caroline rudely scolded Lux.

"I know. And I'm a sophomore. Same age as you." Lux replied crossly, slinging her camo backpack further over her right arm and twirling her curls a bit. "My parents were the other people in the car crash. They died," Lux told the blondie while keeping a serious face. "Show some respect," she imitated Miss Forbes acidly. Caroline paled before turning to Elena. "So this is Lux. Well nice to meet you," Caroline said awkwardly, her arms slung around herself insecurely.

"I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're Forbes," Lux said coldly. "It was very nice meeting you too." Lux kindly smiled before turning back to Bonnie and her sister of a sort, leaving Caroline to briskly walk away from the tension in the atmosphere. Also from Lux's chip on the shoulder.

"No comment," Lux said with a titter. Her laugh was infectious, almost musical and Bonnie let out a peel of giggles too. Elena snickered at the two and at the look of surprise on Care's face still fresh in her mind.

"I wasn't going to say anything," Bonnie lied, still laughing. She was met with a raised eyebrow from Elena. That annoyed Lux. Why couldn't she also raise one eyebrow, how come she could only raise both or none? Ugh. The world was unfair.

"Hey, guys I'm going to go check on Jeremy. See ya later!" Lux called over her shoulder as she skipped off into the crowd. Bonnie and Elena cast a worried glance at the other. She was going to the crackheads' area. And they knew how Lux freaked when pressured to smoke or do any drugs. And paired with her chip in the shoulder? Oh no.


As Lux pushed through the doors at the back of the school, she was met with an earthy smell, and smoke. Lots of smoke. She coughed and tried to find Jeremy. There he was, sitting with a girl she had only heard of. Vicki. Walking towards them, she tried to tap into her old, sweet and bubbly personality. That was until she heard what Jeremy was saying to Vicki.

"Don't take more than two in a six-hour window." Jeremy said, handing Vicki a bottle of pills. Lux's pills for her panic attacks, to be exact. She rushed behind them, checking the label to be sure. Yep, they were hers.

"What the hell Jer?!" Lux shouted. She startled both Vicki and her adopted brother. Vicki looked confused and Jeremy had the decency to look guilty. "What are you doing, using my pills for my panic attacks?" She said, harshly whispering the last to him. He was saved from answering when a guy, taller than Lux, but hey who wasn't, and tan skin sauntered forward. His hair was gelled into a quiff. The sight of him seemed to anger Jer, and he ran his long fingers through his shaggy copper hair.

"Hey, Vicki. I knew I'd find you here with the crackheads." He said, looking at Jeremy with a poorly veiled sarcastic and displeased smile. This must be Tyler then. The one dating Vicki, that treated her like crap. Lux didn't like him that much.

"Hey, Pete Wentz called. He wants his nail polish back." Tyler said snidely to Jeremy. Lux was already mad, but she was close to blazing now. Anyways, how was that an insult? Fall Out Boy was one of her favorite bands.

"Pete Wentz, huh? How old school T.R.L. of you. Carson Daly fan?" Lux silently cheered on Jeremy with her eyes. Tyler was a dick.

"Oh, Ty, be nice. That's Elena's little brother," Vicki said softly. She didn't mention that their parents had been recently killed in a car crash. But then again, she didn't have to. Vicki turned to Lux and tried to smile at her before being met with an icy gaze. Lux seemed to be giving a lot of those lately. "So you're the famous Ginnavia Lux James."

"Famous?" Lux's icy gaze transformed into an inquisitive one. She furrowed her thick and dark eyebrows together. How did anybody here even know about her? This must be the down side to living in an exceptionally small town. Everyone knew everything about the other.

"Yeah," Vickie said hazily. She must have just taken a drag. "Jeremy talks about you all the time. The way you let him make his own choices. And the way you're strong, and a total bad ass." This time, when Vicki smiled at Lux she was returned with one.

"Welcome to Mystic Falls High," Tyler said to Lux. What was that note in his voice? Was he seriously flirting with her? "Also known as living hell. Well, I guess you live with Jeremy Gilbert, so this will seem like a walk in a park." he said rudely, smirking at Jeremy.

"Excuse me," Lux shot back. She got up and stalked over to Tyler. Her throat felt hot. "Jeremy is the best brother I could ever ask for. He's more of a gentleman than you'll ever be, that's for sure. Don't you ever talk to him or about him that away again, jerk." Suddenly her clenched hands felt warm and she brought them to her face.

There was fire in her fiery palms.

She heard Jeremy call after her as she sprinted away from them. She couldn't handle this smoke. She felt like she was choking and the feeling that everything seemed too close crawled into her mind again. She left and by the time she was with Bonnie and Elena, she had convinced herself that it had been that blasted smoke causing hallucinations.

As Lux approached the two other girls she caught Bonnie's last words, "It's a hot back." Lux shrugged off her foreboding feeling that something was wrong and laughed. The two other girls turned to her and made room for her at the office door.

"So who has a hot back?" She asked. Elena and Bonnie jerked their heads in the direction of the secretary and Lux found herself looking at a possible new student. "Oh, well you two can goggle all you want but he's a new student like me and since I don't like him like you guys obviously do, he's my new friend. BA-BAM!" She said, making a few kids around her look at her weird. "What, boy?" She asked them while trying to act gangster like, making them scurry by. She laughed again. Bonnie snorted, and Elena smacked Lux on the arm jokingly. The boy at the secretary's place was just leaning over and talking to Mrs. Roberts, but the secretary seemed dazed. Lux walked over to Mrs. Robinson, concerned, and stopped behind Stefan.

"Please look again. I'm sure everything you need is there," the new boy asked, looking deeply into the secretary's eyes. The secretary looked again to her papers where Lux could plainly see papers that were completely blank. Something about the boy seemed familiar. The shiny copper hair and warm green eyes. The Roman nose and strong jaw.

"Well, you're right. So it is," Mrs. Robinson said in monotone. What was wrong with her? Then she realized where she'd seen the boy. At the crash. He was the one that had saved Elena. She needed to say something to him.

"I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar." Lux heard Bonnie say. Wait, Bonnie was probably too far away for her to hear that. How could she hear Bonnie?

"You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" Elena said. Lux shook her head. Something was off with her today. She looked again at the boy beside her. He was strange, today she could feel the vibes rubbing off from people. Everyone had their own vibration and feeling, even smell, but what was odd was that she didn't feel anything around the boy. She smelt a strong scent of roses from him and sweet mint, but no feeling.

She said to herself that she'd bring it up to him if they became friends. She didn't want to seem like a creep and drive him away from having a chance with Bonnie or Elena. Sidling up to him, she gave him a smile and began to introduce herself. "Hey, I'm Lux."

The boy looked down at her with a calm expression but the sudden widening of his eyes gave him away. Lux smiled victoriously and lightly punched him on the arm. "I'm Stefan Salvatore," he managed. She smiled up at his impressive height, well to her anyways, and looked him up and down. She hummed mischievously. "Well, to let you know, that girl over there? Yeah her. She is awfully single, pretty, and thinks you're cute. Why don't you go talk to her?"

That caused Stefan's cheeks to turn pink, and he ducked his head shyly. Lux waited a little before continuing. "You know, the one you saved from drowning?" That caught Stefan's attention. "And what did you do to Mrs. Roberts?" Stefan looked at her, and sighed. He admit his secret was getting heavy. Maybe he could tell her about- No, that'd just put her in more danger. "Do you know about anything that's happening to me?" Lux whispered, her hands grasping his arm lightly.

"What's happening to you?" He asked, concerned. He barely knew this girl and yet he felt protective of her. Lux sighed, and held on to that moment when she had been so angry. She tried to recreate the feeling and soon enough, her hands got hot. She pulled Stefan to the side and opened her palm. Inside was a small fire, the flames licking her hands and yet it felt cool. Stefan touched her hand and pulled back quickly as it burned. Quicker than any human could. "I'm going to go on a limb and say you're not exactly human."

"We'll talk tomorrow after school." Stefan replied. Lux nodded her head and they traded numbers before walking away from the other. As Lux looked back, she saw Elena walk away from scolding Jeremy in the men's bathroom and happily smiled when Stefan bumped into her and they talked. Ahh, OTP! Lux's fangirl was showing, oops.

As Lux walked into class, she got ready for Mr. Tanner's history class. Apparently he was a jerk too. Nothing eventful happened in class besides Elena and Stefan making googly eyes at each other. Lux rolled her eyes and doodled lyrics on the back of her writing notebook. Her phone vibrated and Lux ignored the vibration. She was still not used to texting during school. She was successful in ignoring it until she got another vibration and another. Finally she opened up her phone and saw they were from Elena and Bonnie. A group message.

BONNIE: HAWT-E STARING U.

ELENA: IK HEHE XO

LUX: SHUT UP AND TALK OUTSIDE OF CLASS. AND LEARN TO USE FULL SENTENCES WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.

ELENA: PARTY POOPER ;)

BONNIE: IDEK Y LUX DSNT LIKE ME TXTNG LIKE DIS.

LUX: UGHHHHHHHHHHH. WHY DO I PUT UP WITH THIS?

ELENA: BC U LUV US!

LUX: SURE, WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT HONEY.


Lux slung her camp back pack higher and readjusted her daisy skirt. She walked beside Elena to Grove Hill Cemetery where- where they were. Once inside the gates, the two girls walked down the isles of stones and headed to four graves, side by side that were fairly new. Elena sat at her mother's grave, and took out her diary and began to write. It was Miranda Gilbert who had wanted Elena to be a writer after all. In the pale sunlight through the tree branches, Lux ran her fingers on the rough letters entitling her parents name and rummaged through her back pack before drawing out two letters and a rosary. Placing the rosary on her mother's grave she prayed and left a letter for her respective parents.

Lux whispered, knowing Elena couldn't hear her, "Lord, can you give me a sign that Lily will be okay? If she dies, can you give her the best experience in Heaven that you can?" Turning away, she silently cried. She didn't want Elena to comfort her or try and help her stop crying. Sometimes people just needed to cry, and the coping came later. Lux finished and wiped away at her eyes, glad that she never wore make up. Lux guessed she was pretty goody-two-shoes seeing that she never wore make up, never dated, and such. Her throat constricted. Her mom was going to let her date boys when she turned sixteen, and now Delilah and Walter weren't even going to be here for her sixteenth birthday. Especially with their planned trip to Ireland, the place Lux was dying to see.

"Ok. Hi, bird. That's not creepy or anything. Shoo!" Lux heard Elena call out. Lux laughed and walked carefully up to the bird, shrugging on her back pack.

"You don't mean any harm now do you, Edgar Allan Poe? Go Eddie go! Be free!" Lux laughed again and then half shrugged at Elena when the crow didn't budge. Something felt wrong. "We should probably get going, Miss Lana Del Rey." Elena shot her a confused glance and Lux elaborated, "You know? Elena? Lena? L-a-n-a! The singer Lana Del Rey?" She trailed off, figuring that Elena just didn't understand. "Never mind." They started to pack up their things when fog came and started tumbling down the gravestones. "AHHH!" Lux said whilst comically running away from the fog. "The poisonous fog from the Quarter Quell has reappeared!" She started laughing hysterically. "Save me Elena! Oh, wait. Go away Elena, I want Finnick to save me!"

Elena started to run after Lux, scared and not wanting to be alone when she tripped on a vine and made both fall down the hill. It was easy for Elena to catch up with Lux, seeing as Lux had shorter legs and had been born pigeon toed, which she was trying to fix now. "Ow," Elena complained, pushing Lux off her legs and rubbing her head. Lux merely laughed and inspected her cut, shrugging it off.

"You okay?" Someone asked. Elena looked up and quickly brushed herself off seeing that it was none other than Stefan. She smiled hastily. Lux stifled her giggles at the sight of them. She shipped them so hard.

"Were you following me?" Elena teased. Lux scoffed, and Stefan replied with a, "No, I-a, uh, I-a just — I saw you fall." Laaammmee, Lux thought though didn't say out loud, wanting to watch her pairing.

"Uh-huh, and you just happened to be hanging out in a cemetery." Elena said disbelieving ly.

"I'm visiting. I have family here." Stefan said quietly. Lux slapped her forehead. Oh no.

"Oh. Wow. Tactless. I'm sorry. It's the fog, it's making me foggy. And then back there, there was this - this bird, and it was all very Hitchcock for a second." Elena shrugged, ashamed. "That is the bird movie, right, the Hitchcock? . . . I'm Elena." She held out her hand, and they shook. Awwwwww, Lux thought.

"I'm Stefan." He said, smiling. His face was trustworthy and kind. Elena beamed back, "I know. We have History together." The duo stared longingly at each other. "And English. And French," Stefan reminded Elena. Lux hated to interrupt, but she had homework to get done and a book to devour, fall in love with, and cry over; I mean, read. Lux cleared her throat and the conversation moved along.

"Right," she said, fiddling with the hem of her shirt. Stefan reached forward and took a twig out of her hair. Elena smiled gratefully at him. "Thanks... Nice ring."

Stefan drew back, surprised and then looked down at his ring as if just realizing it was there. "Oh," he touched the blue lapiz stone and smiled shyly at her, "Um, It's a family ring, yeah. I'm kinda stuck with it. It's weird, huh?"

"No, no. It's just, I mean, there are rings and then there's that," she hurriedly replied. Luck couldn't help but chime in. "Is that, by any chance, the Horcrux Dumbeldore found?" Stefan looked confused while Elena shot her an amused glance over her shoulder.

"Did you hurt yourself?" Stefan directed at Lux. She nodded her head happily and showed him her arm. It had a deep gash that ran the length of about three inches.

"Maybe I can actually get a scar from this cut," she mused. "Make me look tough. And, if I ever go to Australia, I can say it's from 'wrestling with the crocodiles and dingos,'" she said in a tacky Australian accent.

Stefan turned around, grey veins coming to life on his face and his eyes darkening. He needed to get out of here before he did something stupid. He was on his way to hunt animals when he saw the girls fall. He needed to replenish completely before being anywhere near human blood. But something was different about Lux's blood. It was harder for him to resist, which meant that he needed to move now.

"Are you okay?" Elena asked Stefan. Did he not like the sight of blood? She was met with an ominous sounding, "You should go. Take care of that."

"Really, I feel just dandy," Lux said, totally unaware of how much she was torturing Stefan by being so close. Her blood smelled better than most people's, it smelt divine. Elena heard a branch snap close by and she looked back, walking a little bit to see a tell tale flash of gold eyes. What was that?

While Elena was turned away and distracted, Lux grabbed Stefan's arm and twirled herself around to face him. She didn't gasp when she saw his face. She merely told him to go, and that she'd text him later. "Take care of yourself." She didn't need to say it twice and Stefan was gone before the other girl came back.


"We're meeting Bonnie at the grill!" Elena called out to Jenna as she grabbed her jacket from the kitchen. Jenna smiled and waved good bye to Elena as Lux came down the stairs jumping them two at a time. "Yay!" Lux hollered, landing with a thud.

"Ok, have fun," Jenna smiled then snapped back around the corner to the hallway where the girls were just about leaving. "Wait, I got this. Don't stay out late, it's a school night." Lux applauded Jenna and picked a flower out of the vase nearby and threw it at Jenna's feet. "Brava!"

"Well done, Aunt Jenna," Elena smiled. She opened the door, and Lux squeezed by her and barreled right into something solid causing her to fall backwards. "Oof."

"Sorry, I was about to knock." Stefan apologized, pulling Luna up from the porch. "I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was . . . strange." Lux sighed and grabbed the keys from Elena, walking on. She wanted to leave the two lovebirds to themselves.

As Lux waited by the car, she saw something move in the corner of her eye. Turning, she came face to chest with someone and banged her head. She toppled backwards for the second time. "Again? Really Stefan?" She heard a snide laugh and looked up. She scrambled to her feet again, this wasn't Stefan. She looked up to the door, where Stefan was handing Elena back her diary. She heard Stefan say, "Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine." So he had a diary too? She was confused. Stefan was way too far for her to be able to hear him. The wind picked up around her and she could here a car coming down the street. She looked around and saw no car but sure enough, after a while she saw it. It was two streets away. Sucking in her breath nervously, she looked up at the person before her. The first feature that caught her eye when she looked at him was his bright blue eyes. They were the bluest eyes she'd ever seen. Then came the arrogant and narcissist smirk stretched over his face. Yet something about him seemed familiar.

"Have I met you before?" Lux asked shrewdly. She didn't like his over the top cocky smile. The man laughed, he looked in his early twenties. Lux immediately could tell it was a sarcastic laugh. She took a step back as it dawned on her that she felt no vibration from him. Like Stefan. "Are you related to Stefan Salvatore?" That wiped the smug smirk off of the man's face. He took a few menacing steps forward and Lux was hit with a wave of the strange combination of bitter mint and honey.

"I'm Damon," he replied. "And who are you? More importantly, what are you?" Lux took a step back and suddenly there was fire on her hands. Not in her hands like it had been last time when she had gotten angry. Now it was covering her fists. Damon's eyes widened and he rushed away. He was gone from view within seconds.

"Lux?" Stefan asked, wrapping his arms protectively around the small girl when she started to shake. The fire was out now but she felt like Damon would be back any minute. "Come on, I'm coming with you guys to the Grill." Lux smiled at him and sat in the back seat. Elena came down and unlocked her door, ready to drive off. Stefan climbed in but as he did he saw a flash of gold eyes from across the street before it was gone.

"A man named Damon came by," Lux whispered from the back seat to Stefan. He went rigid. When he got home he needed to look for that vervain he had. He wasn't going to let Elena nor Lux get hurt.


As they walked into the Grill, Elena saw Matt and Bonnie talking together. Matt came over, ready to introduce himself to Stefan who was looking at Elena so tenderly. "Hey, I'm Matt. Nice to meet you." He said, shaking hands gruffly with Stefan.

"Hi," Stefan said smiling. "Stefan." He introduced himself. Lux was talking to Bonnie and going to sit down at a booth with Caroline.

"Hey," Elena said hopefully. Maybe Matt would be happy to see her. More open, comfortably talking with each other like it used to be. But she was met with a bitter, "Hey." Matt walked over to the booth. Elena sighed and Stefan lead her over to the place where they were going to sit.

"So you were born in Mystic Falls?" Caroline questioned. Lux sighed, Caroline seemed like she could be a good friend but not a secret keeper. Also, she seemed to be throwing herself at Stefan. She wasn't going to have her OTP broken up.

"Mm-Hmm. And moved when I was still young," Stefan replied, taking a sip of his soda. He smiled at Caroline, hiding his weariness of her constant questioning.

"Parents?" Caroline asked. Lux mentally slapped her in the face for not leaving any pause between questions. Stefan paused, and looked down.

"My parents passed away," he said. Lux felt her empathy reach out and she found herself patting his hand in the best comforting way she could. "I'm sorry," Elena said sympathetically.

"Any siblings?" Lux asked, mind drifting to beeping and blinking machines, drawn curtains, and an unconscious sister. "No," Stefan said slowly, his eyes saying the opposite to Lux. "None that I talk to. I live with my uncle." Lux nodded very slightly, so Stefan could see. Damon was his brother. And a narcissist one at that.

"So Stefan," butted in Caroline. "If you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow."

"It's a back to school thing at the falls," Bonnie contributed. She smiled and Lux high fived her under the table. Apparently Bonnie shipped them too.

"Are you going?" Stefan asked Elena. Lux started to talk to Matt, he seemed like a really nice boy. Plus, if she was going to have a thriving social life here Matt was one of those guys she could use. He seemed trustworthy enough.

"Of course she is," Bonnie replied for Elena. Elena smiled at Stefan and he nodded. He was definitely going.


A/N: Okay, so this was longish and part one of episode one "Pilot." I hope you enjoyed it! So excited to see the response to this because I worked hard! Please review and favorite/follow. I will be updating as soon as I can. Thanks for everything and you'll be able to see a lot more of Damon soon, though they will not be rushed into the lovey-dovey stage.

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