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Ch.5 – Demons

Demons, come on!
You got a vision, you're on a mission
Demons, live on!
Demons – Sleigh Bells

"Soon? Really?" Bonnie asks disbelievingly.

I glare at her and straighten my spine so I can sit straighter. "Yes, really. I just didn't do it earlier because one, I didn't want to tell you over the phone and two because I didn't want to have our first night out together and my first night in town talking about vampires."

"Well that's honest," Caroline says, shocked.

Rolling my eyes, I say, "Of course, have you ever known me to be less than blunt?"

Elena, Caroline and Bonnie all look at each other before saying in unison, "Nope."

Stefan takes a step forward now, "Now, let's get back to the topic at hand. How do you know about vampires?"

I look between Stefan and my friends to Damon a couple of times in the silence before leaning towards Damon. Not taking my eyes off of Stefan's I ask in a whisper, "Do they know about Cold Ones?"

"Nope," Damon says at the same volume.

I nod my head and purse my lips in thought. I don't really want to go into too much detail but then again, I don't want to leave out too much information that they ask for more.

"About half way through my stay here I went for a walk and met up with Damon. We were talking when a girl came bounding over to him and I was about to walk away to give them privacy when I saw the bite mark on her neck. I didn't know why she had bite marks until she asked Damon if he wanted another bite. Then I tried to run but he caught up with me and then told me all about your type of vampires. I promised that I wouldn't tell anyone and then I left town." I say with a shrug.

"Okay, then-" Bonnie starts but I cut her off.

"No, I'm not finished but thanks for asking." I send her a tight smile. "Well, after that summer I spent with you guys, I moved in with Charlie in the January after. When I started school I noticed some weird things about a group of other students. They never ate, were always freezing cold, had odd gold eyes, and never came to school when it was sunny out, which was rare.

"I decided to research these characteristics after listening to an old folk legend at the Native reserve and the same thing kept coming up again and again: Cold Ones. Cold Ones are another type of vampire but they don't have fangs, don't compel and they don't need to be invited in to houses. Instead they are ice cold and hard as a rock, have either red eyes if they drink from humans or gold if they have a vegetarian lifestyle, and are venomous. They have to drain their victims or else the venom will change the person into a vampire which takes three days of excruciating pain." I pause to see if they are following and everyone nods for me to continue.

"So I confronted the only single guy about what they were and he didn't deny it. Then we started dating and he 'dazzled' me into loving him all the while him and his family manipulated me into being a weak version of myself and controlled everything about me."

Bonnie snorts at my choice of words, "Dazzled? Really? What is that? And since you already knew about vampires you should have been able to resist what they were doing."

My eyes narrow at her and one side of my upper lip curls up in a sneer. "Dazzling is what I call them being able to change my will without compelling me because even if they tried to compel me, it wouldn't have worked, I have vervain."

Elena turns to Bonnie and admonishes her, "Bonnie, Bella is our friend and we shouldn't criticize her."

I see Jeremy go to say something out of the corner of my eye but he stops himself before he can speak. I'm starting to think that Jeremy has some feelings for Bonnie and doesn't want Elena to know just yet.

"Anyway, one night I went out to watch them play baseball only for some rogue vampires to stop in and decide that I was going to be their snack. The Cullen's over reacted and took me down to Phoenix to get away from them but they didn't expect one of the rogue vampires to call my cell and threaten my mother. I snuck out and went to stupidly save her but she wasn't there and the rogue vampire ended up breaking my leg, ribs, gave me a concussion and almost turned me into a vampire before the Cullen's showed up and sucked the venom out." I lean forward in my seat and stretch my right arm out so that they can see the scar. Elena grabs up near my elbow and pulls my arms closer to her face since she can't see the scar all that well.

As I have been talking about the Cullen's waves of despair and anger have been washing over me at different intervals. It is true am slightly heartbroken over Edward but then the anger takes over and reminds me that I fell for him even while knowing that there was a chance that I could get hurt.

I zone out for the next couple minutes as I think of the differences between Damon and his friends and the Cullen's. For one is that there are humans in Damon's group of friends so they can relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed by the supernatural. Another plus is the fact that I have been genuine friends with most of them for the last two years and they don't seem to be tricking me. The Cullen's always were ragging on me and protecting me, making me feel like rare China but eve only being in this group of friends for less than a day I have noticed that they don't always try to protect everyone. But Elena does that sometimes but then again she has always done that in the time that I've known her.

I tell them about my birthday party disaster and Damon's arrival and then Edward's break up with me. But I only vaguely tell them what Edward told me because I know that they aren't who I really am. Damon's idea to move down to Mystic Falls comes next and I can't help but feel thankful to him for giving me the idea.

"And that's how I ended up moving here," I finish with a shrug.

"Well," Caroline says. "That's one heck of a story and now it's our turn to tell ours." Then she launches into a huge story full of drama, secrets, betrayal, death, powers, and fear.

Truthfully, I only expected to hear a small story of when Stefan finally told Elena that he was a vampire and then she told her friends. Or at the most, Damon got mad at Bonnie and showed his vampire face and they had to tell them. Then maybe Elena got mad and sulked for a few days but got over it.

I never expected to learn that Katherine came back, that Bonnie is a witch, or Katherine turned Caroline into a vampire. Tyler is now a werewolf and his uncle was killed by Damon because Mason was working with Katherine. I already knew that Elena was adopted because she told me during one of her phone calls but I didn't realize that John is her biological father. That John is back in town to protect Elena and a werewolf is personally after Damon. Caroline also went into depth about Elijah and this curse that is on the oldest vampire in history and how he needs Elena to break the sun and the moon curse.

I sit there stunned into silence as I try to make order of all of the things that have happened here. And I thought that my story was long and confusing.

I shake my head to clear my thoughts and with a smirk, I turn to Damon. "And you said that I was in more danger than you, liar."

He gives me his most innocent look, "I didn't lie and I wasn't in danger because I'm a vampire."

I scoff at him and mutter, "Yeah, as safe as you can be with a werewolf personally after you."

Alaric butts in, "Especially after you pissed her off multiple times."

I point to Alaric, "See, he agrees with me."

Damon gives me a big fake smile as Caroline, Elena and even Bonnie giggle over our banter.

Stefan leans forward in his seat, "You know Bella, you look pretty similar to Elena if I look close enough."

I furrow my eyebrows at him and tilt my head in confusion. Where did this come from anyway? Now that Stefan pointed it out to everyone they are all looking back and forth between Elena and I. At the same time, almost as if choreographed, we blush and look down, letting our hair fall to cover our faces.

Caroline giggles, "Hey, it's true."

Alaric, stuck in thought, nods and says, "Yeah and look," he points to my face and then to Elena's, "they both have the same button nose and oval shaped eyes."

Damon kicks his feet up onto my coffee table and hums, "I didn't notice it before."

Even though I should get mad at him for putting his boots on the coffee table, I don't. But I blame my stupid growing feelings for Damon and the fact that they can sneak up on me at any given time.

Bonnie says, "And they both have the ability to attract supernatural creatures."

I shrug off their words and at the same time my stomach grumbles, notifying me that I haven't eaten all morning and it is approaching noon. "How about we make some lunch?" I ask and get up and go to the kitchen.

I hear everyone else follow after me and they all help me make some cheese sandwiches and soup for a quick dinner. As I'm taking a sip of soup I notice that the air around Bonnie is moving more than usual and seems to be cooling down her soup. I watch, fascinated, for a few moments before I get up the guts to ask her a question.

"So, Bonnie, how did you first come into your powers?" I ask hesitantly, not wanting her to snap at me for no reason.

She raises her eyebrows at me before flipping her hair over one shoulder, "I first started lighting candles just by staring at them and then when I started a fire at the local car wash I went and asked my grandmother what was going on and she told me that I am a witch."

I nod and ask my next question, "So what all can you do?"

"Um…" Bonnie pauses to think for a moment. "I can cause brain aneurisms, levitate objects, change the weather, and I can control the elements."

Caroline speaks up, "Don't forget that you can see the future."

Elena also interjects, "And you can do spells from your grimoire."

"And you can channel from other objects," Stefan inputs and then gets up to put his dishes in the dishwasher.

"Hey," Bonnie says with a smile, "are any of you Bonnie?"

We all start laughing and when we finish eating, we all put our dishes in the dishwasher. Bonnie then clears her throat as she starts to head for the door, "Well I gotta get home and work on some homework."

Elena sighs, "I should go to but it was nice hanging out with you Bella." She pulls me in for a hug and when she pulls away says, "We should get together some time, just the two of us."

I nod enthusiastically, "Sure, you still have my cell phone number, right?"

"Yup," she says and then leaves too.

I turn back to Damon, Stefan, Caroline, Jeremy and Alaric and put my hands on my hips. "Well, I'm gonna have to ask you all to leave after eating my food and waking me up at that ungodly hour." I tease them.

"Of course, we'll see you later Bella. Hey are you enrolled in school yet?" Caroline asks as she pushes Damon and Stefan towards the door.

"Yeah, I'll start on Monday." I say, watching Caroline push both Damon and Stefan with a smile.

"Then I'll have to show you around."

I nod, "Sounds like a plan."

I can't help but want to usher them out the door faster. This morning has been so hectic and full of stories that I just really need some alone time to think about everything. It really does seem like Mystic Falls attracts just as more or even more danger than Forks ever did.

Maybe I shouldn't have moved here if it is so dangerous. But where would I go? And if I did leave then I would always be wondering about what happened here and if the curse was ever broken. I also can't help but want to help my new friends anyway I can, even if I am only human. I could always start exercising more to gain muscles to be able to stake vampires easier and I could make a stake to always have with me.

Since I look similar to Elena, I could help out by pretending to be her some days while the others make sure that she is safe. That could work but I'll have to tell them that the next time I see them.

That's another thought that I have been pondering: why do I look similar to Elena? Maybe it's just a coincidence but from what I've learned over the last two years is that there are no coincidences. The only person that I can think would know anything about me looking similar to someone else would be Charlie. I guess I'll have to call and ask him later.


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