Ripping off his tie in anger, Damon threw it to the side of his room. Stupid council. Stupid Founder's Day Party. Stupid Stefan. Stupid Stefan cravings. Stupid John Gilbert. Stupid ring on John Gilbert's hand that keeps him alive. Stupid. Stupid.

Damon took a deep breath, drinking his blood. Everything around here lately has been a complete nuisance to Damon. First Katherine: having Damon pine over her for 145 years, getting the tomb open only to realize that she was never even in there. Then Stefan and his ridiculous cravings, Damon foresaw this coming. Stefan had been on the animal blood for far too long, Damon knew that Stefan was going to go off the deep end. Now, there was this girl. This random woman who saved him for seemingly no reason and out of nowhere - which completely perplexed the older vampire.

Bang!

Damon jumped, losing his train of thought at the sudden noise. Damon stared at the object, a stake that was currently sticking out of the wall just barley missing his heart. He grabbed the stake and yanked it out, staring at it. There were initials written on the side of the stake, delicately.

LMP

"Damn." Damon whipped around hearing a voice behind him. He stared into the shadows where the voice came from, "Barley missed." The figure in the shadows stepped out of the shadows revealing the blonde haired, blue eyed woman who had saved him.

"You."

The woman's smirk grew wider, a playful gleam in her bright sky eyes, "Me." She said confidently, "Hello, Damon Salvatore." She took a few steps toward Damon coming face to face with him and pulled the stake out of his hand, putting it into the waist band of her black leggings she outstretched her hand to the vampire, "I'm Legacy."

Legacy sat on the couch, looking around at the very large mansion that is the Salvatore Estate. She looked forward as the raven haired vampire sat down in front of her with his glass of bourbon, his eyes squinted as he studied her. Legacy smirked playfully realizing he was analyzing her.

How cute.

Damon realizing that Legacy wasn't going to start talking and obviously wasn't afraid of him, "Who are you?"

Legacy hummed, her playful smirk turning almost evil, "Wouldn't you like to know."

Damon glared at the blonde not liking her sarcastic tone, "Why are you here?"

She shrugged, "Because I can be."

No, she couldn't. This was Damon's town. Damon rolled his eyes, growing very annoyed with the woman in front of him, "Why did you save me?" Damon leaned toward the woman, trying to intimidate her. Or maybe seduce her. Either one would work.

The woman's smirk turned sultry as she leaned forward as well, coming nose to nose with Damon. It was Damon's turn to smirk as he realized his plan was working, "Because I can." The blond murmured.

Damon could feel Legacy's hot minty breath against his lips, taking a glance down at her full lips he had to admit. He wouldn't mind stealing a kiss, or maybe a little more. He needed a night to forget anyway, but he needed answers first, "Why?" He asked huskily.

The woman tilted her head as she stared into his eyes, an innocent aura surrounding her, "Why not?" She responded easily. Damon took that as an answer, further questioning could wait until later. He leaned in, as did Legacy. Just as they were mere centimeters apart, Legacy started to laugh. Damon pulled away quickly watching as the blonde laughed, "Oh, darling. You're just so adorable." Damon stared at the woman in shock almost insulted that she would use the term adorable to describe him. Damon Salvatore. Adorable. Legacy sat back and rolled her eyes at Damon's shocked stare, "Did you really think I was just going to sleep with you?" She asked crossing her legs.

Damon recovered from his shock and smirked, "You wouldn't be the first."

"I'm sure I wouldn't have been. Being a hundred and what? Seventy? Year old vampire. It would come as a surprise if you would be a virgin." She looked Damon up and down suggestively, "Actually, now that I think about it." Legacy looked back up into Damon's eyes the sultry look coming back momentarily before it faded and a bored look was replaced, "It wouldn't surprise me."

Damon growled, officially annoyed with the woman in front of him and launched himself at her. Wrapping a hand around her throat, he felt her calm heartbeat against his fingertips revealing that she wasn't afraid, "Why aren't you afraid of me?" He snarled at her.

Legacy smirked, pleased with the annoyed reaction from Damon, "Because I don't have to be, love." She responded, finding it harder to talk with the cold hand wrapped around her throat. She shifted a little to lessen the pressure, "Right, Stefan?"

Damon narrowed his eyes at her, then looked up to see his brother standing behind them. His arms crossed and a very unamused look gracing his features, "Let her go Damon." Stefan commanded. Damon snarled at his brother before looking back down at the smirking blonde and letting her go.

Legacy glared at Damon as Stefan sat down across from her, next to his still very irritated older brother, "What have you told her?" Stefan asked Damon never taking his eyes off of Legacy.

Damon rolled his eyes, "Nothing." Stefan looked at his brother, shocked at the admission, "Absolutely nothing."

"Then how did she..?"

"Know your name?" Legacy finished Stefan's thought for him, "She can hear you, y'know?" The brothers looked at her expecting answers from her, she rolled her eyes, "Stefan and Damon Salvatore, turned September 25th, 1864 both by the same woman - Katherine Pierce. How poetic." She spat sarcastically at the brothers who stared at her waiting for her to go on, "Damon after turning went on to travel, pining after the woman who had turned him. A woman thought to be dead, until he figured out she wasn't dead and was instead 'trapped' in a tomb underneath the church that she was killed in. Damon returned to Mystic Falls to save his lost love, when he opened the tomb however," Legacy gasped loudly for dramatic effect, "Katherine wasn't in there. And she never was to begin with." Legacy shrugged, then looked Stefan smiling, "Stefan has a different story. Stefan after turning went on a rampage, killing people left and right becoming what did they call him? The Ripper." Stefan bowed his head in shame at his former self, "That was until he met his best friend, Lexi," Stefan lifted his head to meet Legacy's gaze. She gave Stefan a sad smile, knowing that he had lost his friend not to long ago, "who helped him and taught him. Of course he went off the deep end a few times in the process, but he went on to figure out that he was never truly in love with Katherine and that she compelled him the entire time." The brothers stared at her in surprise, "I know quite a bit."

"How?" Stefan asked leaning forward in a nonthreatening but curious manner. The woman didn't seem like a threat to him or Elena so there was no need to intimidate her, until she proved otherwise - of course, "Why?"

Legacy sighed, "Listen, I know what I know for my own reasons. I do what I do for my own reasons." She said looking between the two brothers, "Reasons I'm not going to disclose."

Damon scoffed loudly, "Doesn't explain why you're here or why you know everything about us."

Legacy smiled at the vampire, understanding his annoyance with her, "I came here with a purpose, to begin with. My sources sent me here on a lead. Proved to be not who I was looking for - but also not a dead end." The brothers looked at her in confusion, Legacy rolled her eyes in annoyance. She literally had to spell it out for them, "I came here looking for Katherine," Damon's head perked hearing Katherine's name, "my source told me that there was a lead, a woman who matched the exact description of Katherine. So, I came to Mystic Falls. The address led me to a very normal, cookie cutter house. I almost gave up and left, that was until I saw the woman. Matched Katherine exactly, I walked up to the house and much to my surprise, figured out that the woman wasn't Katherine but a human named Elena Gilbert."

Damon narrowed his eyes, "Why are you searching for Katherine?"

Legacy stared at Damon, her expression completely devoid of emotion, "I told you why I came to Mystic Falls. Not why I'm searching for Katherine. If I wanted you to know why, I would have told you already."

"Then, why are you still here?" Stefan asked her. She turned her light blue eyes toward Stefan, "I mean, you figured out Katherine's not here. So, why stay?"

Legacy shrugged, "Curiosity." She answered truthfully, "I've been searching for Katherine for almost 11 years. I've came close before, but I've never come across something quite like this. Nor did I think I ever would." The woman's eyes filled with excitement as she smiled, "Beside, this just brings me closer to finding Katherine."

Stefan's eyes widened in understanding, "Because you know Katherine will be just as curious about Elena as you."

Legacy pointed at Stefan, smiling, "Bingo."

"So, you're here for your own personal gain?" Damon asked.

Legacy looked at Damon, tilting her head at his accusing stare, "Aren't you?" She shot back at him.

Damon hummed in agreement and sat back, "So, you're what? Going to sit and wait until Katherine decides to show up?"

Legacy smirked, "No. I'm going to sit, wait and help you protect Elena until Katherine shows up."

"Why help us protect Elena?" Stefan asked

Legacy looked back toward Stefan and shrugged, "She's innocent in all of this, but now the tomb vampires are out and shit is about to go down. It always does in Mystic Falls. There has to be a reason why Elena looks like Katherine and whatever the reason, it's going to be big and she's going to need protecting. I'm going to help. And also because-"

Legacy was cut off by the door opening, she turned her eyes to the brunette walking in, "Hello Elena."