Always Getting Over You:
Smells Like Teen Spirit:
3rd Person POV:
Damon Salvatore walked down the stairs of the Salvatore Boarding house earlier in the morning and paused momentarily when he saw two dead brunette young women lying recklessly on the bottom step with scarlet red blood seeping on to the rug underneath them. His handsome face twisted into a grimace as he carefully stepped of the bodies and made his way into the living room where his light haired younger brother was sitting on the couch. His striking blue eyes narrowed at the three young women in the middle of the living room that were playing a game of Twister while Stefan lounged on the couch with the spinner. The scent of delicious blood filled his senses so he shifted his gaze to the open wounds on each of the girls as they dripped crimson red droplets onto the Twister mat underneath them.
"Uh-oh. Alexandra, left hand, please." Stefan called out to one of the girls in a mocking voice and Damon watched with a raised eyebrow as a pretty blonde walked over to his brother to offer him her slim wrist. The younger Salvatore allowed his bloodlust to overtake his face so that his fangs came out before he sunk his teeth into the girl's wrist greedily.
"Hey, the two brunettes on the staircase owe me a Persian rug." Damon announced his presence in an annoyed voice and Stefan unclasped his teeth from the girl's wrist to look over at his brother with a cocky smirk on his lips.
"You mean, they owe us a Persian rug? It's my house, too, brother. Ooh! Would you like a spin?" he asked rhetorically as he held the Twister spinner out towards his brother and the compelled girl on his lap moved back to the game.
"So this is what Klaus had in mind when he compelled you to protect Elena?" the elder Salvatore asked spitefully as he ignored the question and Stefan shrugged his broad shoulders carelessly as he spun the Twister spinner again with his finger.
"These ladies are helping me be all that I can be." He replied with a smirk but Damon could see the flat look in his brother's light green eyes that confirmed his lack of humanity and just as he opened his mouth to retort with a sarcastic comment the front doorbell rang loudly. Stefan and Damon both looked at the door in confusion because everyone they knew would know to just walk into the Boarding House so they shared a look before Damon moved towards the front door to open it. He wasn't sure what he expected when he opened the front door but two beautiful unknown teenage girls was not very high on the list. He eyed them suspiciously through narrowed electric blue eyes as the blonde girl sighed impatiently at been left waiting for him to let them in while the honey haired girl nudged her gently in a silent order. The blonde haired girl had beautiful cerulean blue eyes and a roundish face with full pink lips that made her look like a movie star and practically radiated with the confidence to match. While the honey haired girl with oak coloured eyes that looked slightly like melted rivers of chocolate give off a more mature and worldly vibe but it was easy to see that the girls were related in some fashion.
"Hmm." One of the girls cleared their throat loudly to get Damon's attention and he was immediately snapped out of his thoughts.
"Where's Stefan?" The blonde haired girl asked impatiently in a British accented voice as she pushed passed him with a hard nudge to his shoulder and the honey haired girl rolled her eyes with a heavy sigh like she was used to this kind of behaviour.
"She's means, 'Could you tell me if Stefan's here?' with a 'please' at the beginning and a 'thank you' at the end." The honey haired girl said in a matching British accent as she also walked passed him without waiting for an invite inside and Damon's forehead scrunched together as he tried to place where he knew that accent from.
"Who the hell are you two?" Damon asked them both snappishly as followed their movements with his eyes but they ignored him as they stalked into the lounge room where Stefan was still lounging on the couch listening to the conversation at the door.
"Ooh! I love this game!" the honey haired girl cheered enthusiastically as she paused in the doorway to the living room and Stefan chuckled a little at her exuberance.
"I remember." Stefan said to her with a sly smile as he raised his glass of blood at her in a silent salute and she just laughed softly in a sound that made Stefan think of church bells tinkling.
"This is not how we used to play." She pointed out to him in an amused voice as she wriggled a perfectly manicured finger at the mess of a Twister mat in the middle of the floor and this time it was Stefan's turn to laugh at the memory of the two of them playing naked twister back in the 20's.
"What are you doing here?" Damon asked the two girls harshly before Stefan and the honey haired girl could take a walk down memory lane and the blonde turned her head to look at him quickly before glancing back at his brother.
"He left us here. Our brother actually left us here." The blonde said in an unbelieving tone to the youngest Salvatore and Damon frowned at the two of them intently.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Your tone implies that I'm actually supposed to care." Stefan responded carelessly as he waved a hand in the air dismissively and the honey haired girl leaned on the doorjamb with her arms crossed over her chest as Damon turned to look at the two of them with an unbelieving stare as he studied them intently.
"You're Klaus's sisters?" he asked them incredulously as he looked them up and down in appreciation as he tried to mask the fear that two Originals were in town with Elena. The blonde haired girl turned her head around to look him up and down with a satisfied gleam in her cerulean blue eyes as the honey haired girl offered him a slight smile from her position on the door frame.
"Rebekah. Pleasure, I'm sure. Which one's my room?" she asked Stefan as she turned back around to face him with an expectant look on her face and the honey haired girl chuckled lightly as she ducked her head in amusement.
"You're not staying here." Stefan told her with a laugh as he sipped his drink while subtly glancing at the other amused girl out of the corner of his eye. Rebekah twisted her head around to look at Damon with a pointed look but he just stared at her blankly so she swivelled her head back and forth to include both brother's in her next sentence.
"Rude. Both of you. I'll see to it myself." She said to them before she strolled out of the room towards the large staircase that led upstairs.
"So I guess she's staying here." Stefan declared to his brother in a fake happy tone and the honey haired girl laughed while Damon gave a tight sarcastic smile.
"I'm Rheanna, by the way." The honey haired girl introduced herself to Damon as she pushed herself off of the doorjamb and walked over with her hand outstretched for him to shake. He eyed her sceptically for a second before placing his hand in hers to give it a firm shake and she smiled at him brightly when she pulled her hand away.
"Damon." He introduced himself to her with a flirty smile that made her wink back at him with a small giggle escaping her pretty lips.
"I know. Stefan told me all about his big brother. I must say, you're not as preachy as he made you out to be in the 20's."
"A lot's changed in 90 years." He responded lightly as she flashed him another smile in understanding before turning back to face Stefan who was still on the couch as she hummed in agreement.
Rhea POV:
Rebekah and I walked down the hallway at Mystic Falls high school arm in arm as we smiled slightly at the other students that gaped at us. I knew that Bekah was revelling in the jealous scowls that the girls were sending our way and the sly grins of appreciation that the guys wore as they scanned our body up and down subtle and not so subtly but I was feeling a little self-conscious under their gaze. I tugged a little at the hem of my green shirt as I tried to avoid everyone's gaze and I heard my sister chuckle lightly at my actions so I sent her a withering glare out of the corner of my eye.
"Alright. Come on." Rebekah said quietly with an exasperated sigh as she grabbed my elbow and began to steer me towards a door to the side of the hallway. I frowned in confusion as I allowed her to pull me into an empty bathroom before she stopped to spin around to face me with her arms crossed of her chest and an expectant look on her pretty face. "What is it?"
"What's what?" I asked her in confusion as I mirrored her stance with my own arms crossed over my chest and she sighed impatiently as she moved so that her hands were on her hips.
"Why are you being all depressing?"
"I'm not being depressing!" I tried to deny in an offended tone but she just quirked a perfect pale eyebrow at me and waited for me to give in to her like I always did eventually so I sighed in defeat with a frown on my lips. "Fine. I don't want to be here, okay? Being in a high school gives me a weird feeling and it's probably because we've never gone to school but still… I just don't want to be here."
"That's not it. Try again." She ordered me sternly after looking at me suspiciously for a quietly moment and I groaned in frustration because I should've know that I could never lie to my twin sister.
"Fine." I groaned out through clenched teeth as I narrowed my eyes at the cocky grin she wore now that she had cracked my resolve. "I don't want to be anywhere near the doppelgänger."
"Ding ding ding, we have a winner!" Bekah muttered under her breath sarcastically as she rolled her cerulean blue eyes at me and I gave her a tight mouthed smile in response as I pushed on her shoulder.
"As horrible as it is, I still have feelings for Stefan and it hurts that he loves that horrid slag." I told her honestly as I shrugged my shoulders though it was no big deal and she nodded in understanding as I spoke.
"Well, suck it up, sister." She said to me with a cheerful smile as she patted my arm in a comforting gesture and I shot her an unbelieving look at her lack of sympathy so she shrugged her shoulders delicately. "We've never been to high school before and I really want to."
"I know you do, Bekah." I replied with a soft laugh at the eagerness in her beautiful eyes and she grinned happily in excitement as I grasped her hand in mine. "Let's go."
"Let's." she agreed with me as we headed for the door to the bathroom hand in hand and I saw when we re-entered the hallway that all of the other students had already gone to class.
"Where are we going?" Rebekah and I both asked the other at the same time and then we laughed at each other as I reached into my jean pocket for the schedule that the middle-aged woman in the admissions office had given us earlier when we enrolled at the last minute.
"Hmm. History in room 3B with Mr Saltzman." I told her as I looked back up at her with a half-smile when I recognised the name as one of the few people in town that knew of the existence of vampires.
"History, how boring." Rebekah replied with a quirk of her eyebrow and a soft amused smile on her lips as I hummed in acknowledgement. I linked my arm through hers as we strolled down the empty hallway with our high heels clicking against the tiles.
"Welcome back, seniors. Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders... the Native Americans." I heard Alaric Saltzman say from behind a closed blue door with 3B marked on it in large black digits. I smirked at Rebekah as she pursed her lips together to stop from laughing at the teacher's misinformation and then pushed open the heavy door making everyone in the classroom look at the newcomers.
"What about the Vikings?" Rebekah asked him in a knowing tone as she walked into the classroom in front of me and I followed behind her as she made her way towards an empty seat in the crowded room. I noticed the shocked looks that the doppelgänger, the newly turned hybrid and the pretty blonde that was dating the hybrid gave us as I sat down in one of the vacant seats.
"There's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States. Who are you two?" Mr Saltzman asked us in confusion as I smiled at him serenely as I folded my hand on the desk in front of me.
"My name's Rheanna and this is my twin sister, Rebekah. We're new. And history's my favourite subject."
Later that day after school, I was in one of the bathrooms in the school while Rebekah was at cheerleading practice because she had decided that she wanted a well-rounded and stereotypical high school experience. I dabbed some clear lip gloss onto my lip just as the bathroom door slammed open loudly making me startle slightly and mess up my make-up. I looked over to the door with wide blinking eyes in an effort to appear human and saw a familiar blonde haired vampire come storming into the room angrily.
"Stupid bratty blonde. Trying to take over my cheerleading squad. I worked hard for that position. I am captain!" She muttered under her breath to herself furiously and I watched her with my head tilted to the side in amusement as she ignored my presence or maybe she was just too flustered to even register who the other person was. She stalked over to stand in front of the mirror while maintaining a suitable distance from me and leaned her hands against the counter next to the sink as she huffed in anger.
"Are you okay?" I asked her in concern as I turned back to the mirror to fix my messed up lip and quirked an eyebrow at her in question as her head snapped around to face with a frown on her pretty lips.
"Fine." She replied through clenched teeth as she looked back at the mirror and ran a hand through her messed up wavy blonde hair.
"If you're sure…"
"… You know what? I'm not sure!" she snapped at me as she turned around to face me with her hands on her hips and her blue eyes flashing in anger so I turned around to give her my full attention as she vented her frustration out on me. "Your family is ruining my life. First off, your brother tried to kill my best friend for some creepy ritual and murdered her aunt in front of her. And then, he comes back here to force my boyfriend to turn into a hybrid and now your sister is trying to take over my life. It's like invasion of the Body Snatchers, okay? If I start acting strangely, do me a favour and put a wooden bullet in my heart."
"Hmm. You're right, petite luciole." I told her with a soft smile of understanding and she blinked once in confusion that I wasn't offended by her tantrum. "My family isn't one that is easy to get along with, even for a member of it. I won't defend my family to you because I know that nothing I say will change your opinion of them."
"So you're so different from them." The blonde murmured quietly to herself as she looked at me with wide blue eyes and I laughed a little at her expression before I turned back to the mirror to finish fixing my makeup. She turned back to the mirror as well as she shook head slightly making her curly blonde hair fly wildly around her head and I smiled slightly at her reflection as I closed my makeup case.
"The only way to deal with Rebekah is to stand up to her and not take any of her crap." I advised her honestly as I turned to face her once more with a genuine smile and she nodded in understanding as she looked at me in mirror.
"My name's Caroline, by the way." The blonde called out to me just as I was about to turn the handle on the bathroom door but at her words I turned around to face her with a smile on my lips.
"Nice to meet you, Caroline. I'm Rheanna."
"You called me petite luciole, what does it mean?" she asked me curiously as she titled her head in confusion and I grinned at her as I laughed in amusement.
"You'll figure it out." I told her vaguely as I walked out of the door to the sound of her laughter and I smiled to myself as I headed for back door so that I could meet Rebekah near the car.
3rd Person POV:
Elena, Damon, Alaric and Caroline were all standing in Alaric's history classroom at Mystic Falls High School the night of the back-to-school bonfire. They had decided to come up with a plan to weaken Stefan with vervain so that he wasn't a danger to Elena's safety because she was feeling a little unsafe with him wondering around town without his humanity switched on, especially after he called her a 'human blood bag' earlier that day.
"I'll lure Stefan away from the bonfire. Then when he's distracted..." Elena trailed off as she glanced at the vampire hunter for him to continue with her train of thought and he looked back at her with weary hazel eyes.
"I'll shoot him." He concluded with a firm nod of his head as Elena pursed her lips together tightly as she thought of hurting Stefan because it just seemed too unbelievable for her to even contemplate.
"Can't Bonnie just ju-ju him or something?" Damon asked the doppelgänger in a bored tone as he waved a dismissive hand in the air and Elena turned to face him with stern dark brown eyes as she sighed slightly as she shook her head at his suggestion.
"I'm trying to keep Bonnie out of this. I don't trust that Stefan won't hurt her. Caroline, are you covered?" Elena asked her blonde friend as she turned away from the eldest Salvatore and Caroline's blonde head popped up when she heard her name from where she was leaning against the wall near the blackboard at the front of the classroom.
"Yes! I will make sure that the old Forbes jail cell is prepped and ready." She responded to her friend's question as she smiled brightly and clapped her hands together once in front of her.
"We're forgetting a few key player's here. Rebekah and Rheanna? Wherever Stefan goes, the blond ponytail tends to follow and …. Well, I don't have a nickname for Rheanna yet." Damon commented with a shrug of his shoulders as he smirked at the group and Elena winced slightly at the mention of the honey haired Original because she could still remember the feel of her teeth clamped onto her neck.
"Which is why it's your job to keep them away." Elena told Damon as she turned on her heel to face him with a quirk of her eyebrow and he gave her an incredulous look as everyone in the room silently watched the exchange.
"How?! They're Originals. Last time I checked, we're out of daggers."
"So then preoccupy her with your charm." Elena told him with a slightly spiteful tone in her voice as she spoke to him and Caroline raised an eyebrow at her friend when she caught it.
"Might have better luck finding the dagger." Alaric quipped drily from his spot near his desk at the front of the classroom and Damon's striking blue eyes swivelled to face his ex-best friend.
"Are you ever not going to be mad at me, Ric?" Damon asked him as he pursed his lips together in frustration and regret.
"Doubtful." The hunter responded through narrowed hazel eyes just as Tyler strolled carelessly into the room.
"Sorry I'm late. What's going on?" Tyler asked the room as he stood in the doorway with his arms crossed over his broad chest and Caroline smiled slightly at the sight of her boyfriend.
"We need you to raid your mom's vervain supply. Enough to keep Stefan down for a while." Elena told him as she leaned her hands on Alaric's desk at the front of the room.
"You can't do that to Stefan." The hybrid responded to her request with a shake of his head and everyone in the room in the room turned to face him in confusion.
"Why not?" Caroline asked him with a short laugh as though he was joking with them and Alaric raised an eyebrow at the younger man in question.
"Trust me, Tyler, it's in his best interest." Elena told him as she titled her head to the side as she looked at him but he just shook his head at her as he stepped further into the room.
"Yeah. It's not in Klaus's and Rhea would be pissed." Tyler told them with a humourless laugh at the end as he mentioned the honey haired Original.
"But Klaus is the bad guy, Tyler. You know, why are you acting like some freaky, hybrid, slave minion?" Caroline asked her boyfriend incredulously as she stepped closer to him and he just looked back at her without answering her question.
"Uh-oh." Damon murmured quietly as he got up from where he was sitting near the side of the classroom and Alaric turned to face him with a questioning look on his handsome face.
"What?" he asked his ex-friend as Damon stepped closer to the hybrid without taking his eyes off of him.
"Klaus made me who I am, Caroline. I owe him everything. And Rhea has been nothing but understanding since I became a hybrid." Tyler told her with shrug of his shoulder as his deep brown eyes begged her to understand where he was coming from.
"Oh, boy." The eldest Salvatore uttered to himself as he stepped even closer to the hybrid and Caroline turned around to face him so fast her wavy golden hair whipped around her face.
"Ok, can we cool it on the commentary, please?" she asked him with her blue eyes wide as venom dripped from her voice and Damon held up his hands in surrender as he back away slightly.
"What is going on?" Elena asked him in a slightly nervous tone as she looked between the raven haired vampire and the newly turned hybrid. Damon subtly picked up one of the full vervain darts that was lying on Alaric's desk with the rest of his vampire hunting weapons.
"I'm just going to go." Tyler said hesitantly as he pointed over his shoulder at the door before turning around as though he was about to walk out the door to join the rest of students at the bonfire. Damon rushed at him using his vampire speed and jammed the vervain dart into his neck before injecting the poisonous liquid into his blood stream so that the hybrid collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
"What are you doing?!" Caroline screeched as she flew down to crouch next to her unconscious boyfriend where he laid sprawled on the classroom floor.
"He's been sired." Damon explained calmly as he backed away from the two of them with the empty vervain dart in his hand and everyone turned to look at him with wide uncomprehending eyes.
"What?" Alaric asked him curiously as he looked over at the fallen hybrid as though he might jump up at any moment.
"Sired. He feels loyal to Klaus because Klaus's blood created him."
"Loyal how?" Elena asked him uncertainly as she also peered at her unconscious friend nervously and took a deliberate step away from him.
"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's really rare. But maybe not so much in hybrids." Damon stated as he stepped towards Elena protectively and Caroline looked at him through wide blue eyes.
"So how do I fix him?" she asked him desperately as she rested her hands on her boyfriend's chest and looked at Damon pleadingly from where she was crouched.
"Get a new boyfriend."
"You're so helpful." She said sarcastically as she used her vampire strength to lift Tyler's arm so that it was around her shoulders and then she stood up so he leaned against her. "I'm going to take Tyler back to his house before he wakes up. You guys don't need me, right?"
"Its fine, you go." Elena told her with a smile as she waved a hand dismissively in the air and Caroline nodded once before she hauled the unconscious hybrid out of the classroom.
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