Dear Diary
I'm through with second chances. I have to end all of this. I am going to find Damon and drive a stake through his heart. I don't care if I'm acting out of revenge. Zach was a good man and he certainly didn't deserve to die. I finally realize that Damon isn't even my brother anymore. I need to end this tonight

I got dressed in a black sweater with a red pleated skirt and black boots then grabbed a stake and downstairs. I opened the door and saw Elena and Maria.

1864

I was with Stefan as the carriage arrived. The first person to exit was a black girl, Katherine's servant Emily Bennett. I wore a Victorian pink dress. Then she walked out. She was the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen.

"You must be Miss Pierce." Stefan replied as he kissed her hand.

"Please, call me Katherine." She stated. She then looked at me. "And who might you be?"

"Mikaela." I declared as I curtsied to her. She held her hand out and I awkwardly kissed it.

Present

"What are you?" Elena asked. She had a look of fear on her face. "WHAT ARE YOU?"

"I think she's a vampire." Maria stated. She didn't seem to be as freaked out. "I mean, are you, because it would be so cool if you were?"

"It can't be true. You can't be." Elena remarked as I put the stake down and walked closer, but she backed up. It was why I wasn't ready to tell her.

"Yes, I'm a vampire." I stated.

"We shouldn't have come." Elena replied as she grabbed Elena's hand and ran out the door. Unfortunately, I couldn't just let them leave. I ran outside and got to the car before she did. "How did you do that?"

"Elena, I need you not to be afraid of me." I declared as I grabbed her.

"Let me go!" She shouted. At that point, Maria got in the car.

"I just need to talk to you." I replied. She then elbowed me and got in her car and quickly drove off. I began to run, hoping that she was heading to her house. Her window was open and I entered through it. I ended up beating her there. I stood behind them as they entered. She needed to get past the fear so I could talk to her. "Elena…"

She ran for the door, but I rushed over to keep it shut.

"That is so cool." Maria commented.

"Elena, I'm not going to hurt you." I reiterated. "I wouldn't do that. You're safe with me."

"What about the animal attacks? Did you kill those people?" She questioned.

"No, those were Damon." I remarked.

"Does that mean Stefan's a vampire too?" Maria questioned.

"Yes. I don't kill people. I can explain everything, but neither of you can tell anyone." I replied.

"Why not?" Elena asked.

"Because knowing this is dangerous." I stated. "You can hate me, but just don't tell anyone. Just trust me. I need you to trust me."

"Just go away." Elena cried. "If you mean me no harm, you'll leave me alone."

"I'm sorry." I told her before I exited through the window. I then heard her close it. At that point, I texted Stefan. However, before I could send, I got a call from some random number.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Where's my ring?" Damon asked.

"Where are you?" I questioned. I had a bad feeling about it.

"I'm at the sizzler. I just had the all-you-can-eat druggie buffet." He explained. I tried to think if I knew any notorious drug places in town. I didn't. "Where is my ring?"

"I don't have it right now." I answered. "What have you done?"

"No, what have you done?" He challenged. "You and Stefan starved me so whatever I do, whoever I kill is on your hands."

"No one is going to believe another animal attack." I pointed out.

"I know how to cover my tracks, sis." He remarked as I heard the sound of fire crackling. "Where's my ring?"

"I gave it to Zach to hide." I lied. "Maybe you shouldn't have killed him."

"Yeah, so where is it?" He questioned, not believing me.

"I can get it." I replied. "Just give me time."

"What did you ship it to lost city of Atlantis?" He asked. "Give me my ring or I'm going straight to Elena's."

"I already want to you. It would be best not to threaten me." I stated.

"I can take you, Bitch." He boasted.

"Is that before or after you get your ring back?" I asked him.

"Just get it." He replied. He was clearly flabbergasted. He then hung up.

After that, I resumed texting Stefan, now telling him to come over and help me watch over them. I hoped that Elena would find some way to speak with me. We had to remain unseen and needed to be gone by dawn. It looked like I wouldn't be getting any sleep. I wished I knew how they had found out because at the carwash, Elena seemed fine.

In the morning, I received a text from Elena saying that she wanted to meet at the Grill. I supposed that we could get some breakfast or brunch or whatever. Stefan and I headed there and got a table outside with her and Maria.

"Thanks for meeting us." Elena declared.

"We'll tell you anything that you want to know." I promised.

"Well everything related to vampires is different." Maria declared. "So which ones are you?"

"What do you want to know?" Stefan questioned.

"Well you eat garlic and somehow sunlight isn't an issue." Elena pointed out as the waitress came to give us our drinks.

"We have rings to protect us." I explained as Stefan and I showed off our bling. Did people still say that? It was kind of hard to keep track of current slang. It probably wasn't something still cool.

"What about crosses, holy water and mirrors? Elena asked.

"Two pieces of perpendicular wood, warm water, and how I maintain my appearance." I answered with a smile.

"Okay, let's get to the big one." Maria replied. "Let's talk about blood. Mikaela said that Damon killed those people, but what do you do?"

"Animal blood keeps me fed but not as strong as Damon." Stefan replied. "Mikaela drinks human blood but doesn't drink it from humans."

"What?" Elena asked.

"I drink from blood bags." I explained. "I have a fridge full of them inside of my room. It's an old Coke one."

"So why did you let Damon get involved with Caroline?" Elena asked angrily.

"We didn't let him do anything." I argued. "If I could have stopped it, I would have. I'm also the one who ended it."

"Was he feeding on her then? Is that what those marks were?" Maria questioned.

"Yes." Stefan answered. "He was drinking her blood and controlling her with a form of mind compulsion. Hopefully he'll stay from her at this point. How about we make a deal? You give us today and we'll tell you whatever you want to know. If you still want to tell, you can."

I hoped that neither of them would tell anyone because Stefan and I would have to move.

"Before I say yes, are there any others here besides you and Damon?" Elena asked.

"Not that we know of." I declared.

"You have today then." She replied.

After we finished our brunch, we headed to Elena's car. I got in the front seat beside her and Stefan and Maria got in the back.

"So where are we going?" Elena asked.

"Just follow the directions I give you." I instructed. We began to drive before heading to the ruins of our old house. "Now stop here."

The car came to a stop and we got out. It looked nice. Okay, it looked like crap, but I still looked back on it fondly. The house had collapsed and the bricks were falling apart.

"Is there any reason why we're in the middle of nowhere?" Maria asked me.

"This hasn't always been nowhere." Stefan replied. "It used to be our home."

"But it looks so…" Elena trailed off.

"Old? That's because it is." I explained.

"How old're you?" Maria asked.

"I've been 16 and Stefan's been 17 since 1864." I replied. "50 years before the boarding house was even built, this was our home. Stefan and Damon were both born here. I was born somewhere else because I have a different mom."

1864

I chased Damon out of the house while Stefan watched. He had a football in his hand and I was really excited to learn to play a new game.

"Where did you learn this game?" I asked.

"In camp just outside of Atlanta. One of the officers picked it up at Harvard." Damon replied as he leaned back to the throw the ball. The early shape wasn't as easy to throw. "Catch."

I caught it and he ran at me.

"Wait, I don't know the rules." I declared as I dodged.

"Who needs rules?" Katherine asked as she stepped out. "Can I play?"

"My brother likes to play rough." I told her. "I still have bruises."

"I bet you play rougher." She told me before stole the ball from me and ran away giggling.

"Don't just stand there. You need to get the ball back." Damon said. "Go after her. If you won't, I will."

Damon ran off and I followed behind him. It was much for him than it was for me.

"You knew Katherine in 1864?" Elena asked. "Damon made it sound like it was so recent."

"That's because Damon didn't want you to think that I was over her." I declared. "You are the first girl that I've been with since her."

"And he did this all because you both loved the same woman 145 years ago?" Maria questioned.

"Well she wasn't just any woman." I explained.

1864

I chased Katherine through the bushes as Stefan judged. I couldn't understand how she had kept beating. I thought it was because she just better at running in dresses than me.

I chased Katherine through the bushes. I couldn't understand how she kept beating me. Maybe she was just better at running in dresses than I was. She made it to the statue before I could catch her.

"I win. What's my prize?" The vampire asked.

"How about me?" Damon interrupted. There he was sitting in his Confederate uniform.

"They extended your leave?" Stefan asked as he gave our brother a hug.

"I was having too much fun to return to battle." He stated.

"Thank the Lord that all of our soldiers are not like you." I replied with a laugh before also giving him a hug.

"Well this works out great for me." Katherine replied.

"How so, Miss Katherine?" Damon questioned.

"Now I have all three of you to play with." She stated. "For starters, I need someone to go to the Founder's Party with."

"I'd love to." Damon remarked.

"Mikaela, will you accompany me?" She asked. I just nodded.

Present

"So that was at the first Founder's Party." Maria declared. I nodded.

"Once I realized that I had feelings for Katherine, I didn't care that Damon wanted her or that I couldn't be seen in public with her, she was mine and I wanted her to myself." I responded.

"What did Damon do?" Elena asked.

"Damon doesn't get mad, he gets even." Stefan explained. "That night, he snuck into her bed chamber and slept with her."

"So he stole her from you then?" Elena responded.

"She was neither of ours to steal." I declared.

1864

Katherine and I were in bed together. I was on top of her while kissing her. She rolled us over so she was on top. I started to kiss her neck and all over her body, including places I didn't want to tell my brother or girlfriend about.

"I love you." I told her. "I want to be with you forever."

"I plan for it." Katherine declared before she showed me the veins under her eyes and fangs to me before she bit my neck and I blacked out.

I woke up in the morning as her handmaiden was lacing up her corset. I was naked in the bed as I had been earlier and I noticed the wound on my neck and the blood on my pillow. I shot up and looked at her in fear of what had happened. Okay, so I didn't exactly take it well either, but I had better reason.

"Good morning." She greeted me as she ushered her servant out.

"Your face looked like that of a demon." I stated.

"You shouldn't be afraid." Katherine told me.

"Get back, monster." I replied. "Get back or I'll scream."

"No, you won't." She declared as she covered my mouth and looked me in the eye. "You won't tell anyone. Do you understand?"

"Yes." I stated as I nodded my head in fear. I never understood why she hadn't compelled me. She hadn't ever compelled me for some reason.

"So you still love me, don't you?" She asked.

"Yes." I lied. I didn't want to anger her because then she might kill me.

"You know idea of the future I have planned for us." She stated.

Present

"She controlled our minds." Stefan replied. I had always told them that. "Now it looks like the three of us are stuck together."

I bent over and picked up a ring from underneath a stone.

"Is that Damon's ring?" Elena asked. I nodded.

"We took it from him, but I have to give it back to him now." I replied.

"No you don't." Maria asked.

"Maria, if we don't give it back, Damon will retaliate in the only way that he knows how to hurt us." I explained.

"How's that?" Maria questioned.

"By hurting the two of you." Stefan answered.

"How did Katherine die anyway?" Elena asked.

"It was in the fire at Fell's Church. The 27 people were all vampires." I responded. "Actually, the Battle of Willow Creek was a cover for the vampire hunt because both the Union and Confederates wanted to get rid of the vampires."

"So did you ever do that mind control thing to either of us?" Maria inquired.

"No, your necklace covers contains a herb called vervain, as does the necklace that I gave Elena." I explained. "We don't want to compel you. We want you to make your own choices."

From there we went back to Elena's house. Elena invited Stefan in and we saw that Jeremy, Matt, and Vicki were in the kitchen and the refrigerator looked like it had been torn apart.

"What's going on?" Elena asked.

"She's really messed up." Matt declared. At that moment, I couldn't help but notice that her heart wasn't beating. I hoped it didn't mean what I thought it did.

"Everybody back up." I instructed. I got closer to Vicki's and looked her in the eye. It was just as I feared. "You're going to be fine. Take her upstairs and get her away from the light."

Matt and Jeremy did as I said, leaving us alone.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Elena questioned.

"She's in transition." Stefan told them.

"Does that mean transition into a vampire?" Maria asked. I nodded. "How does she become one?"

"She has to drink human blood." I answered. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to go about doing that. "Damon must have found her."

"What happens if she doesn't drink human blood?" Elena questioned.

"She'll die." Stefan remarked. "She may only have a few hours."

"She's up there with my brother right now." Elena remarked. At that point, Vicki came running down the stairs and out the door.

"She was fine and then she just took off." Jeremy stated.

"I'm gonna go look for her." Matt declared as he went to his truck. "Let me know if you find her."

"I can track her." I whispered.

"Go then." Elena told me. It looked Stefan was going to take Maria home before joining me.

I ran out into the woods as the sun went down. I supposed in the off-chance she did feed, I would still have the chance to get her inside. I found her crying against a tree.

"I'm starting to remember things." She wept. "I remember you from the hospital and the rooftop. Your brother attacked me. He fed on me and then he told me that I have to drink blood. What will happen if I don't?"

I didn't want to answer that. I didn't know why Damon did this. I assumed she somehow once again survived his attack and used his blood to heal her before he killed her. Was he doing it because I wouldn't give him his ring?

"It'll all be over soon." I promised.

"Just take me home. I wanna go home." Vicki replied.

I prepared to take her home, when I suddenly heard a gunshot and felt an immense pain in my chest. I was bleeding. I think it was a wooden bullet. I fell to the ground and saw newsman Logan Fell, Maria's uncle, was holding the gun, which he then put down and took out a stake. I slowly got up. It was very painful, but I could do it. Before I had to attack, Damon came and bit his neck and I fell to my knees. He reached into my chest and pulled the bullet out.

"It's wood. They know." He declared. "No one gets to kill you but me. Now where's my ring?"

"On my finger." I declared. It was on my thumb. I then heard slurping sounds and noticed Vicki drinking from her.

"I'm sorry." She stated before she ran off.

I then headed to Elena's house where she was on the doorstep.

"You're bleeding." She remarked.

"I'm fine. It's healed." I declared. I would have to see if I could get the blood out and probably sew it.

"Where's Vicki?" She asked.

"I couldn't stop her. She fed." I explained. "Elena, we can find and teach her that she doesn't have to kill people. We'll even come up with a story as to why she disappeared."

"You mean we'll come up with a lie." She corrected. "Mikaela, I tried, but I don't think I can be with you. I won't tell anyone your secret, but I think it'd be better if we broke up."

"Okay." I agreed before I went off to look for Vicki.

So since Mikaela was a witch, she was immune to compulsion, which means she was with Katherine out of fear. Also Maria has a different outlook non vampires. Please don't forget to review.