Chapter 3
It is the night of the comet and I couldn't help but think about the events that took place the last time the comet appeared, 145 years back. What would have happened if Damon and Stefan were not shot that night? What if they lived and died as humans and were never turned into vampires? Well, from what I know, i think only few of the things from first 2 seasons would take place and the rest of the seasons might never take place because even though Katherine would still come to town for the moonstone and Klaus would kill Elena in the ritual, she would probably stay dead this time. Or it would still be the same with a very human Salvatore brothers, Damon and Stefan's descendants, who would interfere with Elena's story and almost everything would happen, but in a different way. Who knows? And who cares?
Unfortunately I do. I can't stop thinking about the things that have already started. Just 2 days back Vicky Donovan was rushed to the hospital with a severe blood loss due to an animal attack in the woods. But I knew what had happened and what it means. It has started and I'm so not ready for it.
It's been 3 months and a half since I entered this tvd universe which apparently is my real universe or it's a really vivid dream i'm having because i'm in a coma or something. But I know this is real, considering this has been going on for months now. I lived in denial for the first one month I was here, especially after that weird dream I had of my mother. I was miserable and in denial making me always in an irritable mood and soon I started to lose my sleep, my appetite and eventually my health. Adam thought it was because I was still in the hospital and because the memory loss think was making it more difficult, which the doctors agreed and discharged me. Big mistake, because coming and living in Adam's house just made everything a lot more worse. It was not the fact that I had to live in a house with Adam as my dad, to be truthful I loved the house, it was the type of house I always wanted, but out of all the places in Mystic Falls it had to be situated just opposite of the Gilbert's house making Elena Gilbert and I, neighbours. I mean, come on, was it not enough that I am in this universe with a werewolf gene and possible siphoner witch powers, that now I need a constant reminder of all of that each time I look out of my bedroom window.
It had been just a week since I got discharged from the hospital and I had woken up from another stupid nightmare. Unable to go back to sleep, I had went down to the kitchen to have water but found it already occupied by Adam. He didn't see me at first but later when he felt my presence, he looked up at me.
I will never forget that night, the way he looked, so tired, exhausted even. Looking at him I realised how selfish I had been, only thinking about myself, how unfair everything was to me and how much I was suffering. Never once did I thought about Adam, who now looks half a man from the one who I first met when I opened my eyes in the hospital. He was the one who was suffering more than me, because at least I knew what was wrong, all he knows is that his daughter has lost her memories and is acting strangely and pushing him away, he doesn't know that I'm not the daughter he had raised, he doesn't know that the daughter he raised was probably dead.
I remember staring at him for a while and then walking back to my bedroom, trying to put as much distance between him and I, because of the overwhelming emotion of guilt, I was feeling as I kept watching him.
That was the night which pushed me to find some kind of acceptance regarding the situation. Though we have not yet reached to the point where I'm able to either accept or call Adam my father, we were able to form an understanding and a bond of friendship, even though sometimes it is painful for both of us, him especially.
I have not yet been able to find the courage to talk about the supernatural aspect of our lives, about how he disappears every month for 3 days during the full moon saying it is an business trip, or about myself and the dream I had. But now it feels like it's going to be soon.
"Hello, earth to Leah", Alice said as she waved her hand over my face.
"Sorry, I spaced out", I said and gave a small smile as I saw her frown a bit with a hint of worry in her eyes.
"So what were you saying?", I asked in a attempt to escape any prying questions from her. Thankfully she didn't call me out on it and simply replied,
"I was saying that I just saw the devil just walk in"
"What?"
"Look behind me over the bar"
I did just that and almost wished that I hadn't as I felt a chill go down my spine as I clashed my eyes with the ocean blue eyes of none other than Damon Salvatore. There he was wearing his signature all black outfit staring right at me clearly amused with a smirk as i'm pretty sure he heard what Alice was saying just right now.
"Hot, right?" "It should be illegal to ooze this much sex appeal"
As she was saying that, it was getting harder for me to keep myself together and not freak out. I think I'm doing a very poor job at that, cause I saw his smirk in his face getting replaced by curiosity mixed with a bit of suspicion.
"Hey, Leah", Alice said as she placed her hands over my now trembling ones, which finally made me shift my eyes from the ocean blue eyes to the warm brown eyes of my now very worried friend of mine.
"What's wrong Lee, you look like you have seen a ghost"
"What...no, no, I'm okay, I...uh...oh, I just remembered that Adam will be back today...and, I need to make dinner for him, so I need leave", I said as I started to stand up to leave.
"Don't you dare get up from that seat before you tell me what's is wrong and don't bother to tell me that that it is just you want to make dinner for Adam and even if it is the reason, just call him to the Grill, we can watch the comet together and then have dinner too."
"Nothing is wrong, Alice, I'm okay, I really jus.."
"Really, you want me to believe that you are ok and nothing is wrong. Let me tell you something,it's true that since the accident you have changed a lot but not that much that I can't tell when you are lying. I have known you since we were 5, Lee, so please talk to me" "Tell me, what's wrong, you should know by now that you can tell me anything", she said giving me a pleading look which almost made me want to tell her but, how could I? I mean, even if I wanted to, how can I tell her anything with a vampire who is obviously tuned into our conversation.
"Leah, please I'm worried about you, for the past few days it seems like you are regressing to the state you were in after the accident."
"Alice, hey I'm alright, I promise"
"You sure?"
"Yeah,but I really gotta go", I said as I stood up.
"Ok, Good night, see you tomorrow"
"Yeah, bye"
"Bye"
Thank god, she let me go, now let's get the hell out of here and away from the vampire. As soon as I got out of the grill, I let out a loud sigh and started to walk towards my car. Such a simple plan, get out of the grill take my car and drive straight to home, but you know how plans have a stubborn principle of never going how someone plans it. I looked back while walking making sure whether Damon decided to follow me or not, naturally there was no one behind me because as soon as I turned around,
"Uh... I'm sorry, I wasn't.. "
Whatever I was going to say died on my throat as I saw who I crashed into, none other than Damon Freaking Salvatore.
"Hello, beautiful", he said with that weird but endearing eye thing of his.
"Uh.. Sorry", I said as I side stepped and stared walking, more like running towards my car. I could hear him shouting behind my back but couldn't understand what because my stupid heart was trying relentlessly to beat out of my chest.
"Hey", I heard him say as he grabbed my arm.
I don't know what came over me but out of pure instinct I turned around and placed my other hand over his and an reddish gold glow came below my hand and I saw greyish colour start spreading on Damon's hand as he let out a scream and shoved me away.
I stumbled back feeling something I have never felt before. It kinda felt like I have had a strong drink but instead of making me drunk it made me energized.
I have always felt like I'm not whole, like a part of me is missing, but now for the very first time in my life I felt whole, like a missing puzzle piece has been found and made the puzzle complete. I could feel my whole body buzzing with energy and it felt really good.
It took a while for me to understand that I just siphoned magic from Damon, who by the way clearly looked vampire pissed as I could see his eyes were now red with red veins surrounding it and his fangs has descended, with a snarl he came and grabbed my throat in vampire speed and slammed me to my car. Feeling my throat being crushed and about to burst, I did the only thing I could do, I grabbed his hand over my throat and put all my will to suck the bastard dry from his juice.
It worked and he released me immediately and backed off with a scream and glared at me holding his half dessicated hand, which soon started to revert back to normal.
"What are you?", he literally snarled at me.
Rubbing my now bruised neck, I pulled myself together and away from my car, I said, " I'm Leah, Leah Lewis, uh.. I'm a witch, a siphoner witch to be exact, really not nice to meet you, scary vampire. "
" Yeah, well the feeling is completely mutual, witch", he said gritting his teeth. The way he said witch felt as if he was calling me a bitch, which just turned my fear to anger.
"Well excuse me for defending myself instead of just letting you suck my blood and kill me"
He stood up right and opened his mouth in protest, but stopped and shrugged saying,
"Fair enough", and I couldn't help but give out a laugh.
" Well, I'm Damon, your scary neighborhood vampire, and for the record, I was just trying to give this back", he said holding a pair of keys
"My car keys, Oh my.. "
"Yeah, you are welcome by the way", he said as I took the keys
"Oh please as if that was your only intention, to give me back my keys", I said.
" Of course not, the keys were just an excuse to get close to you so that I could bite you ", he said with special emphasis on 'bite you' part.
" You are deplorable "
" What, you think I'm adorable? ", he said in an innocent voice but with a devilish smirk.
" Forget it ", I breathed and turned around with full intention to get in the car, drive away and forget that this ever happened.
" You just gonna leave like that?, no warning or threats for the big bad vampire!, are you sure you are a witch and not.. "
" Look, I don't want any trouble, ok, just leave me alone ", I said and added,
" And also, I would really appreciate if you would stop using kids as blood bags ", without giving him any chance to say anything to me, I got inside my car fast and drove away, with only one thought in my head,
'Oh my God, what the hell just happened?'