A/N I just realised I haven't been putting disclaimers on these... So I'll start with that...
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Chapter 4
Glee club members Rachel, Finn, Puck, Kurt, Blaine Quinn and Santana were stood by the lockers, obviously gossiping about the new members.
"I think they're ok." Rachel was saying. "Although, I don't know what any of their voices sound like- if we're gonna get past sectionals, they'd better be good... Elena seems to be a great cheerleader, as well."
Finn nodded, agreeing, and Puck grinned," She's great in bed, too."
"What?" Finn looked genuinely shocked at this
Puck laughed," Just kidding, but we are going to Breadsticks tonight, ya never know what could happen."
Most of them just ignored him and carried on talking.
"Hey, have any of you guys seen Brittany?" Santana asked, realising that she wasn't with them. As she said this, though, Brittany came running over, a copy of the Muckraker clutched in her hand.
"Guys! I told you there were vampires!"
"Vampires?" Kurt exclaimed, hiding a squeal as he tried to inconspicuously hide behind Blaine. Blaine slipped his hand into Kurt's reassuringly as they watched Brittany.
"What? Let me see that." Puck snatched the paper from Brittany's grasp and started to read aloud the front page story, written by none other than Jacob Ben Israel:
"Vampire attacks at McKinley?
It seems as though some certain new students are keeping some dangerous secrets from the rest of the student body. Inside sources inform the Muckraker that a certain supernatural entity has entered the school at the same time as these mysterious, hot and attractive new students. So, are there important truths to be told at McKinley? Do vampires roam the hallways? The Muckraker's verdict- yes they do. Now is the time to sell the stores out of garlic and wooden crosses..."
Puck rolled his eyes as he stopped reading down the middle of the page," Suuuure. This is so completely true." He muttered sarcastically." I am going to kill that guy Jacob, he is such a dick. They've only been here a few days and he's already spreading fake rumours about them! That was just the biggest pile of crap anyone has ever published."
Kurt took the paper from Puck and read it as well, rolling his eyes at its complete unbelievability.
"I am so going all lima heights on his lil Jew ass." Santana muttered darkly.
At that moment, Jacob Ben Israel started walking down the corridor, being stared at by all the people who had read his article and thought he was a fucking nutcase. He looked confident in his theory, though, but looked shocked as his path was suddenly blocked by an extremely pissed-looking Puck.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Puck glared at him, and Jacob even looked intimidated. "That newspaper article only alienates the new students, pisses off me, and makes you look dumb.
Jacob Ben Israel looked taken aback by the outburst, but maybe that was only because Puck had managed to use the term 'alienate'.
"It may be hard to believe, but it is 100% true." Jacob insisted," Do you want to make a statement for my blog?" he asked hopefully.
"In your dreams, Jew-fro." Puck shoved Jacob out of the way and carried on walking off down the corridor.
The rest of the Glee Club members by the lockers looked at him with a collective intimidating glare.
Jacob hurriedly walked past them down the hall.
Kurt held the newspaper up," This is terrible. I have to go find Elena to talk to her about this weekend and tell her to ignore the newspaper!" he addressed his boyfriend," And I'll see you later, baby." He murmured, reluctantly releasing Blaine's hand. He started to walk/run down the corridor to look for Elena.
Elena had just arrived at school, and was sorting out the books she needed for the first lesson when Caroline came running down the hall, looking completely panicked.
"Elena! Have you seen this? How can they know? Elena, what do we do?"
"Caroline!" Elena said loudly, as soon as she could get a word in," Calm down. What happened?"
Caroline wordlessly passed Elena a copy of the student newspaper, the Muckraker, and Elena read the whole article with a growing sense of dread. "I have no idea how they could know, Caroline." She finally admitted," Jacob must have heard us talking about it..." a resigned look passed over her face," I don't know how we can stay here anymore, we can hardly have the whole school compelled..." Elena was in total freak-out mode.
They stopped talking as Kurt rushed over, seeing that he was holding the same newspaper as Caroline," Oh... Hi, Kurt. I guess you read the article." Oh God, Kurt knows! What do I do, what do I do? Elena's brain was in hyper drive trying to think of something to say, anything to say to convince him about vampires not existing.
Kurt nodded, but Elena could see he was smiling "Yeah, the 'vampires'. Don't worry, guys, Jacob doesn't know what he's talking about. No one believes it." Wait... What?
Elena didn't know what she had been expecting. Surely, she had thought, people would now know their secret. But, thinking about it, the pupils at McKinley high had no reason to trust Jacob Ben Israel and his rumours, even if they were sometimes true.
So Elena forced a smile," I know, right? What was that guy even thinking?"
The three of them laughed, and then Kurt asked," So, you guys are still coming shopping this weekend?"
Caroline nodded enthusiastically, no longer panicked as the vampire 'theory' had been written off as a rumour," Yes! I am in, like, serious need of some cute new shoes..."
Kurt and Caroline carried on babbling on about the shopping trip all the way to first lesson, but Elena trailed behind them, still thinking about the newspaper article. If Jacob Ben Israel could find out about it, then who else could?
She spent the rest of the school day on hyper-alert, she was not going to let anyone she knew get hurt buy something an idiot published in the school paper.
Damon had just been for a walk around town, to see what was there- evidently not much. But he had found a couple pretty good nightclubs, and at least hadn't seen any creepy guys glaring at him on this particular trip out.
It looked as though the others had returned from school by the time he got back, and as he climbed out his car, he saw a guy coming out of the house. He was professionally dressed, but looked about 25 at the most. Maybe it was just paranoia, but he looked really suspicious. Damon walked past the guy, who ignored him, before Elena opened the door, "Oh, hey, Damon."
"Who was that guy just then?" Damon questioned her.
Elena looked confused for a second as to who he meant, then finally," Oh, that was just some guy coming to sort out the rest of the papers for the house." She explained with a shrug of her shoulders. It was at that moment when Damon realised Elena looked good- really hot, in fact, as though she was going out.
"And where are you going?"
"Oh, it's just a date with a guy from school." Elena shrugged flippantly.
Oh," Oh." Damon's nonchalant tone faded for a second, he really didn't know what to say.
An awkward silence passed between them." I'd better go now or I'll be late." Elena suddenly said, before hurriedly walking past Damon.
Damon finally found his voice, calling back," Well, have fun. And always use a condom!"
Elena blushed and carried on walking, climbing into the waiting car.
Damon refused to let himself be jealous. He would not be jealous, he would not be jealous, he would not. But as much as he tried to talk himself out of the fact, he was. Well, whatever. The relationship wouldn't last, the guy she had been asked out by surely only wanted her for her attractiveness. He felt somehow betrayed- he had told Elena he loved her, and now what did she do? She goes on a date with the first guy who asks. Damon had been arguing with himself about the matter for at least an hour.
He sighed and opened the door to the basement. It wasn't nearly as big as the basement at the Salvatore boarding house, but it did have enough space to fit a large refrigerator. He picked up a blood bag and walked back up the stairs. Leaving the bag on a table in the middle of the living room, he wandered into the kitchen to fetch a glass.
Matt and Caroline were upstairs, and as Damon heard the noise of someone moving things around coming from the room he had just left, he assumed it was one of them.
"Matt? Caroline?" Damon called quietly as he slowly walked back towards the room, glass in hand. No answer came, and he had to force himself not to be completely paranoid.
He opened the door from the kitchen, and found that it had definitely not been one of Matt or Caroline.
The blood bag lay discarded in the middle of the room, ripped open and half empty, with the rest of its contents spilling out onto the carpet. The expensive curtains had been ripped to shreds that hung pathetically from the pole. Most of the moveable furniture had been knocked over, but that wasn't what shocked Damon the most.
Red letters dripped from the walls, written in the blood from the bag Damon had left on the table.
'Get Out Of Ohio. There will be a death next.'
The blood was still wet, and the furniture beneath the walls were getting covered in it.
Damon didn't know how long he stared at these words in horror. It appeared that he had been completely correct in his belief there were more vampires in Ohio, but this confirmation held absolutely no comfort.
"Hey, Damon. Have you seen the..."
Matt had been walking down the stairs, and his words left him completely as he entered the room and gazed at the destruction. "Oh. Uh, what? What happened?"
Damon turned to Matt," I have no idea." He admitted," Although I'm pretty sure someone wants us out of Ohio badly."
An hour before the break-in, Elena was sat at a table opposite Puck, on her date. A date. The last time she had gone out with an ordinary human was with Matt, and he had been totally, completely different from the guy she was sitting across now.
"So..." Puck was saying, "How come you guys moved to Lima?"
Elena didn't have to think too much before answering this, as she and Caroline had painstakingly spent ages going through possible questions that could have been asked.
"Well, my... uh... stepdad needed to get out of Virginia because of his work, ya know? He's a teacher."
Puck nodded, and although she had been told he wasn't the brightest, put two and two together," Wait; Mr Saltzman is your stepdad?"
"He's more of a guardian." Elena explained hurriedly," so... what about your family?" she was desperate to change the subject.
Puck suddenly looked uncomfortable," That's not really a good subject to be talking about on a first date..."
"You can tell me." Elena urged.
A waiter walked over to the table, and placed some food in the middle. Puck picked up a breadstick and started moving it around in his hands.
"Well, did you know that Quinn got pregnant a couple years ago?"
Elena had heard it briefly come up in conversation, though didn't know the detail," Yes... Wait, you're a father?"
Puck nodded again, looking slightly sheepish," Yeah, her name is Beth..." For lack of anything better to say, he suddenly asked," wanna see a picture?"
"Sure." Elena then watched as he pulled out his wallet so she could see the little girl on the inside, "Noah, she's adorable." Elena smiled.
Puck slowly turned back to Elena as he slid his wallet back into his pocket," You're not running off?" he looked as though he expected that by telling Elena about his child she would no longer be interested.
Elena shrugged," Wasn't planning on it. We've all made mistakes in the past, Noah, you just have to learn from them..."
"Oh, that's cool of you. 'Cause I've probably made a whole load of 'em."
The conversation flowed smoothly after that, and to both of their relief they stuck to the more general topics, Elena heard all about Puck's football games, and she found herself telling him more about her life than she expected- although nothing about the vampires.
Elena had been worried that she would have to lie too much during the meal, and that maybe an evil vampire would corner them or something, but the evening passed without incident. For all she had been told about Noah Puckerman, he was a mostly good guy.
She rode home in Puck's car, and he walked her to the front porch.
"Goodnight, Elena." Puck smiled, although he didn't seem in a hurry to leave.
Elena suddenly realised what Puck was expecting her to do. Well... ok...
"Night." She stepped forward and leaned in, and both of them moved in to close the distance between their lips. Elena didn't have any time to think about what she was doing, or about Damon or Stefan.
"Elena! You need to come inside right now!"
The moment suddenly disappeared as the front door was flung open and the two of them sprang apart. Damon stood just inside, processed for a second what had just been about to happen, then said," Why haven't you been answering your phone?"
Elena looked confused, and pulled out her phone from her bag. Ah. There were ten missed calls and five text messages," Oh, I guess I didn't hear it..."
"You'd better say goodnight to your boyfriend, Elena, something serious has happened." He waved at Puck, who was standing there and looking confused, and Elena sighed, annoyed, as she walked in. Damon closed the door behind them.
"There's something you need to see..."
Ric had had to stay behind after school to mark some papers, and so by the time he was ready to leave it was already dark outside. The place was completely creepy after school time, and he instinctively listened out for any sounds to alert him of someone else's presence.
As he walked past Principal Figgins' office, a voice stopped him.
"Ah, so you must be the famous Alaric. We haven't officially met- I'm Sue Sylvester."
After realising that this woman wasn't here to kill him-probably- and she was just the cheerleading coach he had seen a couple times around the school, Ric relaxed, reaching out his hand for Sue to shake. "Pleasure to meet you."
Sue ignored the hand, and instead walked into the office," Principal Figgins and I need to speak with you."
After a moment, Ric followed. The Principal was sat behind his desk, and when he walked in, he stood up, his expression the picture of seriousness.
"Mr Saltzman." Principal Figgins greeted him with a nod, before immediately launching into speech," As you are probably aware, a teacher of ours was attacked by an animal." The principal shook his head," but no, Alaric, no. It was no animal attack. It was a vampire."
Ric was shocked beyond speech, even more so when Principal Figgins pulled out a crossbow from behind his desk. "Me and Sue are sworn to protect Lima against these vampires."
Ric tried to keep a nonchalant tone," You guys actually believe in vampires? Seriously?"
Sue glanced at him," Alaric, as much as I admire your attempts at ignorance, we don't believe in coincidence, and I don't think you do either. You'd be perfect to help us save this town, you just need some weapons.""
This surely wasn't happening. If Ric had been told this by someone else, that a cheerleading coach and an old Indian man hunted vampires in secret, he would have laughed. But, of course, Ric could see the crossbow in Figgins' hands, and there didn't seem to be much he could do to make them un-believe in vampires.
Ric held up his hands in mock defeat," Ok, I officially have no idea what you guys are talking about."
"The vampire problem here is getting worse, Alaric. We need your help. The two of us alone cannot keep control anymore. The school newspaper is already printing theories about vampires." Figgins was looking at him, pleading.
"Look, if you expect me to believe in this, you'd better get me some proof." Alaric stalled.
The principal nodded," Very well, Mr Saltzman, come to my office tomorrow before school starts and we will show you your proof."
"Fine." Alaric probably needed to keep an eye on the two of them anyway, to make sure they weren't a danger to his friends.
Ric pulled out his phone as soon as he left the office, and looked at it as he crossed the parking lot toward his car. He had a load of missed calls from Damon, and so called him back. The phone rang in his ear.
"Ric? Finally." Damon's voice was finally heard from the receiver," You need to come home right now; we have a serious issue here."
"Me too, Damon. I'm on my way, we can talk when I get back.
"Ok Ric, but you'd better hurry..."
A/N Did you like it? It was slightly longer than the others, almost 3000 words! And I'm also sorry I didn't update sooner- my dad was in london and took his laptop with him, and ya know, pen and paper is far too mainstream...
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