Charlotte woke up the next morning- and desperately wished that she hadn't.

It felt as if her throat was on fire, and no amount of water could stop the burning. Her lungs were aflame, and to make matters worse- she was wearing another person's clothes. Oh, ewww, my brothers changed me?!

She hadn't opened her eyes, but she was fully awake and alert to everything going on around her, and she heard Damon and Stefan's voices.

"So he was just...standing there?" Charlotte heard Stefan ask. She was puzzled by Stefan's tone of voice- he sounded panicked and afraid.

"Keep up, little brother," Damon's cold voice said. "Yes, he was."

"What do you think he wanted with her?"

A pause, in which Charlotte was sure Damon was giving Stefan one of his extra-special, ice cold glares.

"We don't even know this guy's name!"

"Hmm." Damon didn't sound at all interested in the conversation anymore.

They said nothing else.

The pain in Charlotte's throat was too much: she needed water.

She opened her eyes.

She was lying on a bed in an old-fashioned room. The light coming through the window hurt her eyes and she moaned. Oh, christ! The vibration in her throat had caused her extreme pain in her insides.

Damon was standing right next to her, staring down. Stefan was over by a window on the far side of the room, concentrating on whatever he could see outside.

Did they take me out of the fire?- she thought. Then she remembered what she had been doing before the smoke had overwhelmed her, who she was trying to find...

"L-" she began croak, but stopped at the pain in her throat.

Damon looked at her coldly, and Stefan turned around to look at her.

"You shouldn't speak, Charlotte, you're going to make the pain worse," said Stefan, eyes glaring at hers.

Charlotte hissed at him. At least that wasn't too harmful to her throat. But she spoke to them in their minds anyway:

Lee.

Stefan frowned, while Damon just raised an eyebrow.

"Whose Lee?" Damon asked.

What happened to the boys?

"Oh. They were all taken to hospital," Stefan said, looking at her strangely. He was obviously wondering why Charlotte even cared about what had happened to the boys.

Charlotte asked herself that same question. Why did she care? Those boys were just pieces of meat to her, even Lee.

"Ah, little sister, you care about someone," Damon said coldly, narrowing his eyes at her.

She hissed again, baring her teeth.

She sat up and looked around the room suspiciously. Stefan's room?

"This is my room," Stefan said, looking outside the window again.

Charlotte looked down at what she was wearing. A baggy, boy's jumper- presumably Stefan's- and gray sweatpants a lot like the ones she had on already when she had been sleeping. She stood up, being careful not to stretch too much.

Just then two girls came in the room. And Charlotte had forgotten their names already.

"How are you feeling?" the blonde girl asked politely.

Charlotte imitated a noose hanging on her neck.

The blonde girl's eyes widened, and Charlotte wanted to laugh, but the pain in her lungs wouldn't allow it, so she settled for a big smile.

"I don't think she means you, Elena," Stefan told the blonde girl comfortingly.

The girl appeared to melt.

Ah, the Salvatore boys always did have a way with the la-dies.

Charlotte smirked at the ginger girl, who was now staring at her in a scared-but yet rude- manner. It was a pity she couldn't talk yet, but Charlotte- because she was such a nice young girl, (ha, as if)- gave ginger-freckle a nice glimpse of her fangs.

The girl's eyes widened, and she stepped back.

Calm down- Charlotte told the ginger girl in her mind, smirking as she did.

The girl lost it and ran down the stairs again.

Laughing seemed worth the pain to Charlotte, and she giggled like crazy.

Stefan glared at her, and the old saying 'If looks could kill' drifted into her mind. He stomped past Charlotte, and disappeared down the stairs to bring the girl back.

Damon just looked at the now vacant doorway where Bonnie had stood before Charlotte had given her a little 'surprise', and then looked at Charlotte.

She stared back.

What?- she asked him in her mind.

His mouth twitched and he shook his head.

Charlotte narrowed her eyes at him, then felt a thirst for blood run through her veins.

I'm hungry. See ya later- she told Damon.

Elena looked alarmed as Charlotte moved towards her, then her face filled with relief when Charlotte passed her straight by and walked through the door. But as she stepped out, she noticed how the stairs looked so familiar.

This Mrs Flowers' old place?- she asked Damon, turning round to face him.

He gave the slightest inch of a nod.

When Charlotte got down the stairs and outside, the first thing she saw was Stefan and Bonnie. They were in conversation together; Bonnie looking petrified, and Stefan obviously doing his best to calm her down. Charlotte heard what they were saying, and smirked when she realized they were talking about her:

"She scares me, Stefan! She's as evil as Damon! And that's a lot of evil to cope with. But that's not just it. There's something about her...it's like something following her around that's evil."

"Look Bonnie, I know she's much more like Damon than she is me, but she's my sister. The last time I saw her human was when she was fourteen, and she's sixteen now. I guess you could say I missed the 'important years' of her childhood. And I knew Damon was still alive and a vampire like me when we were Changed, but she had to go through it all on her own. You understand that don't you?"

Charlotte heard Bonnie snivel.

"Yes, I do. She's just so...like Damon I guess. She's like a female version of Damon!"

"I know." Stefan sounded resentful.

Charlotte got bored of standing there like a lemon, so she walked straight out of the doorway and walked past the two weaklings. Sneaking a quick peek at their faces, she saw that they were both staring at her. Bonnie fearfully, Stefan annoyed.

"And where do you think you're going?" she heard Stefan call after her.

Charlotte didn't even bother to turn round. She stuck her middle-finger up at him over her shoulder, turned into a buzzard and flew away into the trees.

Okay, I know this chapter is really short but I thought it was a good place to end :D Thank you all so much for the reviews, they're really nice!!!