"911, what is your emergency?" The operator said when the call came through.

"Hi, yes, hello. My name is Elena Gilbert and I am at the Mystic Falls waterfalls. I've just discovered a classmate of mine, Vicki Donovan, in the woods and it looks like she's been attacked buy an animal of some kind, I mean her neck is bleeding pretty badly I am currently trying to hold my sleeve against it to stop the bleeding."

"okay Elena, remained calm and tell me, is Vicki conscious?" The nine-one-one operator asked calmly, rather surprised that the young lady on the other end was being as cool as she was.

"No." Elena responded.

"Okay Elena, just stay on the line well i track your coordinates and send over in ambulance. In the meantime i need more info on your friend's condition, like did you hear or see or hear anything during the attack?" The lady asked.

" I...," Elena entirely didn't know how to answer that. She had seen... something, but what She didn't know.

"I heard her scream and ran to go see if I could help, but aside from that, i saw or heard nothing else."

The operator asked a few more questions about Vicky, how old was she and other such standart stuff. A few minutes later, the ambulance finally arrived and got Vicky Out of the Woods and onto a stretcher, taking her to the hospital.

After that, the back-to-school/ end of summer party had abruptly come to an end, and everyone had scattered, but not before the police had showed up and started questioning the party-goers.


Dear diary.

I don't know what's going on. I don't know what happened out there tonight. What attacked Vicky? In that case what was that thing that tried to attack me? Where did the huge gust of wind come from? Why after the death of my parents...

Why after so many months sometimes I still feel overwhelmed?

I'm getting better. I know I am. I'm taking it one day at a time. One moment at a time. With each breath in and out I remember that I am alive, that for some reason I survived that night. This year. I'm no longer going to be the sad, lost girl I was 6 months ago. No, I'm going to put all of that behind me, and become a new, strong person.

Whatever is going on, I'm going to work at to my advantage.


Elena sat in her room drinking hot cocoa the next morning as she watched the news, waiting to be picked up by Bonnie.

"And the weather's going to be mostly sunny with a Chance of scattered rain..." The weather man said as she looked out of the window, lost in her thoughts of the visions she experienced at the Falls last night.

'come on Stefan, you know you want to, suck the delicious, red blood from her veins.'

Honk! honk!

Elena shook her thoughts out of her head and glanced out the window to see Bonnie's car, she quickly got up, turned off the tv, grabbed her backpack and rinsed out her mug in the kitchen before making her way outside and to Bonnie's car.

"Hi Bonn." Elena said as she entered the car and buckled her seat belt.

"Hi Lena. So any news..." Bonnie started to ask,

but Elena shook her head. " all Matt told me when I asked was that they had Vicki sedated and that she had, as I expected, lost copious amounts of blood. He's trying to get a hold of their mother, but so far no dice." Elena said, making Bonnie roll her eyes, but also sight at the strain that was going on in that family.

Bonnie then pulled out into the street and cranked up the stereo as the drove off.


"So, are you sure you don't want to rejoin the cheerleading squad?" Missy, a girl from set cheerleading squad and someone who Elena used to be somewhat acquainted with, asked at lunch that day.

"Hmm, No I'm sorry, but I'm just not interested in doing that anymore. But I'll still come and watch you guys practice." She said, thinking that she could at least do that, after all some of the girls were somewhat her friends.

Missy nodded and walked off back to her own table.

"What was that about?" Bonnie asked as she sat down with her own lunch tray.

"Just one of the girls that wanted me to rejoin the squad." Elena said as she stuck a fry in her mouth well Bonnie scowled and glared over at the girls, who were about six in total- not counting Caroline, who was in a class by herself- sitting about 5 tables away from them. nearly all of them had dismissed Elena entirely once she had told them that she wasn't going to be part of them anymore, and now they dare come to Elena and ask her to join again, why those little...

To stop herself from saying anything negative, Bonnie popped a piece of carrot from her tray into her mouth and chewed.


After that, the rest of the day went rather smoothly... well all except for history class, but that was a minor annoyance.

now it was after school and Elena and Bonnie we're currently outside, sitting on the bleachers with Elena trying to stay as far away as humanly possible from Stefan, who also decided to come watch the football team practice.

Elena winced as she saw one of the girls fall flat on there butt from a failed handstand.

"Come on girls, you got this, don't give up." the cheerleader Captain called, making the Fallen girl get it up and try again.

"They're not doing so bad." Bonnie said, trying to be optimistic well trying not to laugh at the girl's failures.

Elena snorted as she watched one of the cheer boys nearly drop one of the girls and said girl shooting him a Ultra evil glare.

"Your right... its far worst then that." Elena said before her attention was diverted by something at the end of the field.

a sleek black car pulled up in the parking lot, and a ruggedly handsome Young man climbed out and started making his way over to the bleachers we're Bonnie, Elena and Stefan were sitting.

"hnh...? and who is that fine a..."

"Seriously Bonnie? you don't even know the guy yet" Elena said with a look of exasperation at her friend

"what? A girl can still Watch and appreciate a hot guy" Bonnie shot back well both girls continued to Watch the new guy as he climbed up the bleachers, shooting a devilish grin in their direction before taking a seat next to Stephan and wrapping his arm around his shoulders.

Neither girl couldn't help but notice a pinched look that crossed Stephan's face when he did.

"At least Caroline's doing well." Bonnie said well still giving the handsome stranger a side look.

" yeah, at least the cheerleading squad has one expert gymnast in its ranks." Elena said, watching said blond as she was thrown in the air and landed gracefully on her feet before continuing the routine by doing several flips and handstands.

" I honestly think that if they don't get better, she'll be the only thing making them stay afloat this year." Elena said, but Bonnie just hummed in agreement as her thoughts and eyes were still on the new guy. But then, she smacked Elena rather hard in the stomach, making Elena turn her attention to her and shot her a glare.

"Ow! what was that for?" she said indignantly and a little bit in pain

" Elena.." Bonnie tried to explain herself, when...

"Well hello there ladies, aren't you two looking very stunning today." said a velvet male voice,

When she heard it, Elena stopped galring at Bonnie and shifted her eyes to her right. Standing right next to her was the handsome older gentleman that was with Stephan earlier.

"mhs... hi? mhn How may we help you?" she asked with uncertainty.