I decided it would be a good idea to get dressed and put on a sleeveless white blouse tied at the ends and black shorts. I noticed Stefan had a stake in his hand. I grew my fangs out as the anger flowed through my body. That was when the door opened and there was Elena.
1965
Rachel and I made our way to the shore. I knew that we needed to find somewhere for her to get some blood.
"So how do you feel?" I asked.
"My teeth hurt." She admitted. "I feel so hungry and I have a lot of energy."
"Well, we'll get you some blood and things will be all better." I explained. "You're going to be okay."
Present
"What are you?" She asked. I froze there and my mouth wouldn't work. "What are you?"
"You know." Stefan declared. "If you didn't, you wouldn't be here."
"No, it's not possible." Elena denied.
"Everything you know, everything that you've been taught is about to change." Stefan explained.
"What are you?" Elena repeated.
"We're vampires." I said after finally finding my voice.
"I shouldn't have come." She replied as she headed out the door.
Both of us then ran outside and I stopped her at her car.
"How did you do that?" She asked in surprise.
"Elena, you can't be afraid of us. We're not going to hurt you." I explained as I held onto her tightly. She elbowed me in the stomach and I lost my grip, at which point she got in her car and drove off. We needed to fix it immediately.
"What's going on? I heard screaming." Rachel declared as she came down in a bathrobe.
"Well for one Damon's on the loose and also Elena knows Stefan and I are vampires." I explained. "You go look for him and we'll go deal with Elena."
Stefan and began to ran and headed in through Elena's open window. We got there before her which wasn't that much a shock. I hadn't actually been in her room before. It looked nice. She had a teddy bear on her bed. It looked a lot like you would expect a teenage girl's room to look like. It was very her. We didn't have a lot of time to take everything in because Elena was soon in her room. She looked at us in surprise before she tried to leave, but I stood in the way of her door.
"Elena, please just let us talk to you." I begged. "We're not going to hurt you. You're safe with us."
"What about those animal attacks?" She questioned. I had a feeling that she would bring that part up. "Did you two kill those people?"
"No, those were Damon." Stefan explained. "I don't drink human blood and Brandy and Rachel don't kill people."
"Damon, and Rachel's a vampire too?" She asked in surprise. I could tell that she was definitely in shock at the moment. I didn't blame her. I didn't take too well to finding out about vampires either.
"You can't tell anyone about this." I declared.
"Why not?" She responded.
"Because knowing this is dangerous!" Stefan remarked. "You can hate us, but I need you to trust us."
"Just go away." Elena begged through her tears. "If you mean me no harm, you'll both leave me alone."
"I never wanted it to be this way." Stefan replied before he kissed her forehead and both of us went out the window, which was promptly followed by her closing it.
As soon as we were on the ground, my phone started to ring. It was from an unknown number, but I answered it anyway.
"Who is this?" I asked.
"It's not Ghostface." Damon replied. "Where is my ring?"
"Where are you?" I replied.
"I'm at the sizzler. I just had the all-you-can-eat druggie buffet." He stated. I had no idea where that was because I didn't know anything about anywhere druggies hung out.
"What have you done?" Stefan asked.
"No what you done?" He replied. "You two starved me and now whatever I do, whoever I kill is on you."
"Do you really think that anyone will believe another animal attack?" I questioned.
"I know how to cover my tracks." He replied as I heard a fire cracking. "Now where is my ring?"
"I gave it to Zach to hide." I lied. I hoped he would buy it.
"Where is it?" He repeated.
"We can get it." I declared.
"Well hurry up or my next stop is Elena." He remarked.
"We already want you dead, don't make us angrier." I warned him.
"I can take both of you." He boasted.
"Then how will you get your ring back?" I asked.
"Just get it." He demanded before hanging up. I was at least glad I had messed him up a little. I then texted Rachel to come over to the house.
She came over wearing a white full-length dress and blue silk cardigan.
"So we need to stay all night and guard the house in case Damon decides to show up." I stated. I then realized that it might have been a good idea for her to bring some weapons with.
In the morning, we were still awake. I wasn't extremely tired.
"Got any threes?" I asked.
I then noticed that my phone was ringing again and this time it was Elena. The three of us scattered down the street before I answered.
"Hey." I greeted her.
"I need you and Stefan to meet me at the Grill in half an hour." She replied before hanging up.
In half an hour, the four of us were all at a table. She seemed to be a little surprised that we brought Rachel, but also not surprised.
"Thanks for meeting me." She stated.
"We'll tell you anything that you want to know." I promised.
"Well when you google vampire, you get thousands of results. I want to know what's real and what's not." She remarked.
"Okay." Rachel agreed.
"Well I know that you can eat garlic and somehow you're out in the sunlight without any issues." Elena stated.
"We have rings." I replied as I showed off the stones.
"What about holy water, crosses and mirrors?" She inquired.
"Warm, two pieces of wood and how I maintain my appearance." I answered.
"You said that you don't drink human blood." Elena declared.
"No, I don't drink human blood. Brandy and Rachel prefer blood bags." Stefan corrected. I was pretty sure I couldn't drink animal blood. "Animal blood keeps me fed, but not as strong as Damon."
"Why did you let him get involved with Caroline?" She asked angrily.
"We didn't let him do anything." Rachel argued. "He was already with her before we knew about it."
"He was hurting her!" Elena pointed out.
"No, he was feeding on her." Stefan corrected. "He was drinking her blood and erasing her memory through a form of mind compulsion. If he wanted to kill her, he would have."
"That doesn't make it okay." Elena stated.
"We know that it's not okay." I replied.
"How about you give us today and then after that if you still want to tell people, you can." Stefan bargained. It hoped it meant Rachel and I wouldn't have to move.
"Okay." Elena agreed.
We then all got in Elena's car and Stefan instructed her to drive somewhere. I wasn't quite sure where we were going.
"Stop here." He instructed as I noticed some old ruins.
"Where are we?" Elena asked after we got out of the car.
"This is where I grew up." Stefan replied. I had heard there was an old Salvatore house, but I'd never seen it.
"It looks so…" Elena responded as she looked around.
"Old? That's because it is." Stefan replied.
"How old are you?" Elena asked him.
"I've been 17 since 1864." Stefan answered. That would make him 161 or 162.
"What about you two?" Elena questioned.
"I was turned in 1964 and she was in 65." I explained. "Damon turned me and I turned her."
"50 years before the boarding house was built, this was my home." Stefan continued. "Damon and I were both born here. You may not think it now, but he used to be my best friend."
He then told us a story of how he and Damon were playing football before Katherine showed up.
1965
The two of us arrived at the hospital. I was able to compel my way past security and looked for someone who seemed healthy.
"Don't scream." I compelled before I bit into his neck. "Now it's your turn."
She began to drink before I noticed that she was taking too much and pulled her away.
"Ah, ah, it hurts." She cried as her fangs began to grow. I then realized that the sun appeared to be coming up.
"So it looks you have to stay here." I remarked. I thought about going to the apartment and getting the ring, but I decided that it would be a bad idea to leave her alone with so many bleeding people.
Present
"You knew Katherine in 1864?" Elena asked in surprise. "Damon made it sound so recent."
"That's because Damon wanted you to think that he wasn't over her." I pointed out.
"And he did this all because you loved the same woman 145 years ago?" She questioned.
"She wasn't just any woman." Stefan countered.
He then told how she was a vampire and how she had compelled him not to tell anyone about it. She was basically forcing him to date her.
At that point, Stefan bent down and grabbed the ring off of the ground. I wondered where he had hidden it.
"So it looks like Damon and I are stuck with each other." He commented. Did that mean that we weren't going to kill him anymore?
"Is that Damon's ring?" Elena asked before he nodded.
"I took it from him and now I have to give it back." Stefan replied as he cleaned it off.
"No you don't." Elena argued.
"Elena, if we don't give it back, he said that he will hurt and/or kill you." I explained.
1965
Rachel and I waited in the hospital. I managed to get her checked into a room and told everyone that I was her sister. She was currently in a gown as we watched some TV. There was a soap opera on. I wasn't even sure which one it was. I was pretty sure that no one expected that the same shows would be on 45 years later.
"I'm so hungry." She remarked.
"Well you can't give into the thirst." I pointed out. "Remember what you told me. We need to make sure that people don't find out about us."
"I can't use my powers anymore." She stated as a tear came to her eye.
"I know but it's going to be okay." I promised her. "I'll be here for you. I've been through what you're going through now."
"I wonder if we'll be able to keep the shop open." She mused.
"We'll figure that out later." I declared. "So I'm really starting to like the Beatles now."
"Well the music's getting better and you would probably like them even if you weren't a woman." She remarked.
"Is it weird that I'm turned on by British accents?" I asked her.
"If you want to try to have sex, you should." She replied.
Present
We then headed back to Elena's car. However, she stopped before she got inside.
"I have to know something." She stated. "That mind control thing, did any of you ever do that to me?"
"No." Stefan replied. "In fact that necklace of yours contains an herb called vervain. I wanted to protect you from Damon, but I also wanted to protect you from myself. This way whatever you decide, whether you want to tell or not, you'll know that it was your choice and not anyone else's."
We then got into her car and headed back to her house. I couldn't help but notice that there was a truck in front of the house. Had Jeremy invited someone over?
We walked inside and that was where we saw Jeremy, Matt, and Vicki in the kitchen. The kitchen was…well it looked like a tornado had been through it. There was several plates out that had been partially touched. I noticed that Vicki didn't seem to look quite right either I had seen that face before. It was the same face that Rachel made when she woke up in the water. Her heart also wasn't beating.
"What's going on?" Stefan asked.
"She's really messed up." Matt answered.
"Everybody back up." Stefan instructed as he examined Vicki. "You're going to be fine."
I could see that everyone else looked confused by the situation.
"Guys take her upstairs and get her away from the light." He told them. Matt and Jeremy decided to listen and headed up the stairs.
"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Elena asked.
"She's in transition." I answered.
"What does that mean?" The teenager asked.
"It means that she's in the process of becoming a vampire." I answered. "Damon must have found her and gave her some blood. You drink vampire blood and then die with it in your system and then you drink human blood. I know that she hasn't done that yet because she wouldn't be able to walk in the sun if she had."
"What will happen if she doesn't drink human blood?" Elena questioned.
"She'll die." Stefan replied. "She doesn't seem to know what's going yet, but once she does, she will know that she has to make the choice."
"Is that the same choice that you made?" She asked him spitefully.
"Elena, not a lot of people can choose death over life." I pointed out. "Of course I didn't even know that I would become a vampire. I just knew that I would have to drink blood or I would die."
"She's up there with my brother right now." Elena stated. "I don't want her up there right now."
Suddenly, Vicki ran down the stairs and out the door.
"She was fine and then she just freaked out." Jeremy said once we were all outside.
"I'm gonna go look for her." Matt declared as he headed to his truck. "Let me know if you find her."
"We can track her." Stefan told Elena. I didn't like how he just volunteered us.
"Go then." She instructed.
We decided to split up. I put Damon's ring on my finger for safe keeping. I began to go through the woods. I wasn't sure if she would be there. I didn't know how to track her. I walked deeper into the woods and I heard crying and that was when I figured out that I had found her. I ran over to her and found her sitting against a tree with tears in her eyes.
"I'm starting to remember things." She replied. "You were on the rooftop with me. "He attacked me and then he killed my friends and kidnapped me and killed me. He said that I had to feed on human blood. What will happen if I don't?"
I wasn't exactly sure how to tell her. Just knew that I would have to find some way to get her some blood.
"I wanna go home." She added. "Can you take me home?"
"Yes, I can take you home." I promised as I walked closer to her. Suddenly, I heard a gunshot and noticed that I was in a lot of pain. It was like was a wooden bullet inside of my chest. I fell to the ground and that was when I noticed the local reporter was walking my way with a stake. I needed to move. I had to get up. I had just made it to my feet when Damon suddenly appeared and bit his neck, feeding until he was dead. He then reached into my breast and pulled a wooden pellet out. I wished at that I had had a jacket.
"It's wood. They know." He declared. I didn't know who they were. "Now give me my ring."
"Give me your jacket." I bargained as I took it off my hand. We made the exchange and then I heard a slurping sound and realized that Vicki was drinking his blood.
"I'm sorry." She declared before she ran off. Damon decided to do the same thing. I heard footsteps and headed to the edge of the woods.
"Where did you get that jacket?" Rachel asked me.
"Damon gave it to me after someone shot me with a wooden bullet." I explained. "So I found Vicki, but not only has she transitioned, but I also lost her again."
"Well we should go tell Elena." Stefan suggested. "Rachel, you keep looking for her."
1965
The two of us finally made it out of the hospital after dark. We headed back to the apartment. It was a good thing that no one living owned the place because other she wouldn't be able to get in.
"So now we start the rest of our lives." I told her as I gave her the ring.
Present
Stefan and headed back to the Gilbert house where Elena was waiting outside. She saw the jacket and looked at me in concern.
"Did something happen?" She asked.
"I'm fine. It's healed." I explained. "But we have bad news. Vicki's a vampire now."
"We can find her and teach her not to be a monster." Stefan suggested.
"What am I going to tell Jeremy or Matt?" Elena questioned.
"We'll come with something." I stated.
"You mean we'll come up with a lie." She corrected. "Look I gave you today and I won't tell anyone your secret, but I can't be with you, Stefan."
"What about me?" I asked.
"I'm not going to stop being friends with you, Brandy." She stated. "But you do need to get Vicki under control."
"Okay." I replied before the two of us headed off into the night.
So no Tyler in this chapter. We also got to see some flashbacks involving Brandy and Rachel. At least she's still friends with Elena. Please don't forget to review.