A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! PARTS OF THIS EPISODE ARE TAKEN FROM SEASON 3 EPISODE 6 I DO NOT OWN IT! Thanks to my beta Elena Rain who also helped me write parts of this chapter.
When Elena woke up the next morning she was alone in her own bed. She could faintly remember Stefan taking her home and telling Jeremy to watch her because he had something very important to take care of, she still had no idea what it was but she didn't really care. Today was a big day. It was hers and Stefan's one year anniversary. They had met on the first day of school last year. So much had happened to try and break them up and they were stronger than ever. That was a reason to celebrate.
Smiling she quickly jumped out of bed and got in the shower... She couldn't wait to get to school to see, Stefan. She was so excited about it that she didn't even think about last night or the horrible things Klaus has done to her. She was purely happy.
She arrived at school to see Caroline putting up a flyer for the bonfire.
"The bonfire is tonight?"
Caroline turned to look at her and nodded.
"I forgot all about it."
"You can't miss it, you have to go!" she whined. It's our first spirit squad event and it sets the bar for the whole year
"Relax, Caroline. I'll be there." Elena chuckled.
Caroline let out a huge sigh of relief. "Thank you. It's just that..."
She was cut off my Tyler walking over and pressing his lips to hers. Elena felt a little awkward in that moment but then noticed something red on his shirt. It couldn't be…could it? "Is that blood?"
"Oh my Gosh!" Caroline gasped.
Both girls pushed him into the bathroom. Elena checked all the stalls to be sure they were empty as Caroline lectured Tyler. Once she was sure it was safe to leave she handed Tyler a paper towel to clean off with and walked out. Just as she did she bumped into none other than Stefan Salvatore.
"Well, well, well" he teased. "This seems familiar. Let me guess Jeremy is inside and you just lectured him on drugs?"
Elena giggled. "Actually, Tyler and the lecture is about not wearing blood to school."
"What? Elena, I was kidding."
"I know…I wasn't."
Stefan looked confused. "You've lost me."
"Tyler got blood on his shirt and forgot to change before he came to school."
"Oh, gotcha….well I guess it doesn't matter what the reason you, you're still going to boy's room." He teased.
She blushed and giggled. "If I hadn't we never would have ran into each other."
"That's a good point. Happy Anniversary." He smiled.
"Happy Anniversary, I love you so much."
"I love you so much too."
They shared a kiss on the lips.
"So where is my present?" she asked sweetly.
"Who says you get a present?" he teased.
"I got you something."
"Oh really? What did you get me?"
"Nope, if you don't tell I don't tell."
"Oh yeah? I know how to get the answers out of you."
Elena just smiled. "You won't get anything out of me."
"Maybe I can't, but my good friend Mr. Tickle Monster sure can."
"Stefan no!" she squealed.
She took off running down the halls as Stefan chased after her at a human pace. He could easily catch her and tickle her till she told him, but this was more fun. They both laughed as they ran.
Elena made a quick turn into their history class room and sat in her seat. Alaric was there and giving her strange looks. She giggled. "Stefan is chasing me. If he catches me he'll tickle me."
Alaric chuckled. "Young love, I miss it."
Elena smiled as Stefan reached the classroom. Elena squealed. Just then the bell rang and the other students started to pile in. "Saved by the bell." She whispered so only Stefan would hear her.
He chuckled. He went over to her and whispered in her ear "This isn't over, just wait till we're alone."
He winked at her and sat in his seat. She smiled at his playful threat. He'd never hurt her and she knew that. Whatever he did to her she would secretly enjoy anyway.
Alaric started the class throwing her from her thoughts.
"Welcome back, seniors. Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders... Native Americans."
Before he could say more, Rebekah walked into the classroom. "What about the Vikings?"
She takes a seat in the front, causing Elena, Stefan, Tyler, Caroline, and Bonnie to look at her in shock.
"There's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States. Who are you?" Alaric asked nicely.
Rebekah smiled nicely and answered "My name's Rebekah. I'm new here and history's my favorite subject."
Everyone was in shock. They had all assumed she was with Klaus. What did this mean for Elena and Stefan?"
Elena turned white and tensed. All the memories from the past night returned. Stefan grabbed her hand under the desk and gave it a squeeze. Rebekah being here now was going to make school much more complicated.
After class Stefan and Elena waited for everyone else to clear out before they could safely leave without running into Rebekah.
As they went into the hall Stefan took out his phone. "Ten missed calls from Damon, how much you want to bet it's about Rebekah."
"Call him." Was all Elena said.
Stefan rubbed her back as he dialed his brother.
"Damon, you're never going to guess who just showed up here…Yes it's her…What? Damon why on earth would you do that…" Stefan sighed. "…Ok, all right, I'll be home tonight. Just promise me, Damon that you won't do anything stupid that will get you killed or that will anger Rebekah…Just remember anything you do to anger Rebekah can put Elena in danger, so just be smart for once…goodbye."
Stefan sighed once more and hung up. "Well, this day just keeps getting worse, not only is Rebekah starting school here she's also living at the boarding house because Klaus left her here."
Elena sighed and looked to the floor. She mumbled something Stefan didn't understand. He gently lifted her chin to look at him. "It's going to be ok."
"You don't know that."
"No, I don't. But today is meant to be a happy fun day and I won't let Rebekah ruin it. Now I want to see a smile."
Elena shook her head. "I kissed Damon."
"What?"
"At prank night." She mumbled.
"Oh, Baby, that was compulsion, that wasn't you."
"I still did it."
"I don't care, as long as you don't have any feelings toward, Damon. I don't care. The only reason I'd care is because you're beating yourself up over it. Elena, Baby, you didn't willingly kiss Damon. You were under compulsion."
She dropped her gaze to the floor and mumbled again, "I'm just as bad as Katherine."
"No, Elena, look at me."
"I am Katherine…."
"Elena, look at me."
"No."
"Baby, please, look at me, please."
Elena lifted her eyes to meet his.
"You are NOT Katherine, you are Elena Gilbert and you're a much better person than she ever was. You care more about others than she does, she has no guilt over what she did, you have more guilt then you can handle. Do you understand me, you are not Katherine, and nobody compelled her to date me and Damon at the same time. She did that on her own; you kissed Damon because you were compelled. Honestly, Baby, I don't think you understand how powerful compulsion is, especially when you're human."
Elena's eyes just dropped back to the floor.
"No, no, no, hey, look at me." Stefan said. When she looked back up at him he continued. "You have no control when you're being compelled. Most of the time you have no idea it's even happening. The second Klaus stole your mother's bracelet you were out of control. You kissing Damon was out of your control. It's going to take time for you to realizes that but I promise you, you are not Katherine, you are nothing like her and I love you 100% more than I ever loved her."
Elena smiled softly and nodded. "I love you too, Stefan."
They kissed passionately and headed to their next class.
After school Stefan and Elena walked outside. Stefan smirked and handed her a blindfold. Elena sighed.
"Stefan…"
"Elena, it's our anniversary. I am going to make sure you have fun, now either you take this or I'll throw you over my shoulder and take you that way."
Elena smiled softly. "Ok, put it on."
Stefan smiled and put it over her eyes.
After a few minutes they arrived and Stefan removed the blindfold. Elena gasped. They were back at the cemetery where they had met after school the first day. Only there was a picnic blanket on the floor set up with food and drinks and electronically lit candles.
"Stefan this is beautiful."
"Remember coming here after we met at school?"
Elena nodded and giggled. "I said all the wrong things and made a fool of myself. "
"I think you were very cute."
Elena blushed, making Stefan chuckle.
"So that was Damon that was making the fog and the birds?"
Stefan chuckled again. "Yeah, he was trying to scare you; thankfully she scared you right into my arms."
Elena smiled.
They sat down on the blanket and ate, talked, and laughed.
"So, are you going to the bonfire tonight?" Stefan asked.
Elena nodded. "I promised, Caroline I'd be there."
"Well then, I guess I have to go too."
"No, I can go by myself and all the cute boys will hit on me and maybe even want to kiss me and since I don't have a handsome boyfriend on my side to protect me, they'll believe they have a change with me."
Stefan smirked and gently pushed her onto her back and got on top of her. "You better take that back."
"And what will you do if I don't? Bite me?' she teased.
"Oh no, I'll do much, much worse." He growled playfully.
"What's worse?"
He moved his hands to her sides and slowly dragged his fingers down her sides. She squealed knowing what he was talking about.
"I take it back." She squealed.
Stefan chuckled and moved his hands. "Good girl." He leaned down and kissed her passionately, she kissed back and soon they were making out.
Elena pulled away panting. "Stefan, we have to stop, if someone comes to visit a loved one they'll get an eye full and be scarred for life."
Stefan chuckled. "You're right. That was getting a bit…"
"Yeah."
They sat up.
"Thank you, Stefan."
"For what?"
"This, forcing me to have fun even though I was ready to go home a mope around my room."
Stefan chuckled. "You're welcome. I'm glad you did have fun. Look, having Rebekah at school with us and even at my house is going to be difficult but it won't change anything. That is a promise. I also promise that she won't hurt you."
Elena nodded. "I know, I believe you. I love you, Stefan."
"I love you too, Elena."
They kissed on the lips and spent the rest of the afternoon laughing and having a good time.
Later that night they arrived together at the Bonfire. Everyone from school was there, Rebekah and Damon included.
Both Elena and Stefan got a cup filled with…well whatever was being served. Elena took a sip and scrunched her face up in disgust. Stefan chuckled. "Not good huh?"
She shook her head. "Not at all."
He chuckled again. "Wait here, I'll try to find you some water."
Once Stefan was gone she quickly took a bottle of water from her pure, and poured the cup of beer into the grass and refilled it with water and hid it back in her purse. Stefan came back a few seconds later.
"Sorry, no water, we can go if you want."
"No, that's ok, I'm starting to get used to it."
"Really?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, it's really good."
"Hmmm, all right, well if you love it so much let's see who can finish their drink first and I promise I'll go human speed."
"You're on." She smirked.
They both started to drink and Elena finished first. She just smirked at him.
"Well, I'm impressed." Stefan said. "Too bad it wasn't beer."
"What, that was beer."
Stefan laughed. "Elena, I'm a vampire. I can smell water in the cup and your purse and the beer in the bush behind you."
She whined. "It's not fair, I never get to trick to."
Stefan laughed. "Elena you should know, trying to trick a vampire does have some very….ticklish consequences."
Elena's eyes went wide. She squealed and took off in a run. Stefan chuckled and took off human spend after her.
She laughed as he chased after her.
"Help!" she screamed in giggles, "Some old man is trying to get me."
"Old man? You're just asking to be tickled aren't you?" he growled and picked up the pace a bit.
She continued to giggle. Damon heard her screaming for help but also heard the giggles and knew she was in no real danger.
"Help! Someone help! The old guy is getting closer."
"That's it!" Stefan sped up and grabbed her around the waist spinning her around. She squealed and giggled hysterically. He chuckled and set her back on her feet. One hand tightened around her while the other went to her stomach. "Now, who were you calling old?"
"You." She giggled.
"Ok, but you asked for this." Stefan said.
Elena screamed and laughed squirming as Stefan started to tickle her stomach, but it didn't last long because suddenly Stefan was pulled away and Elena was knocked into a nearby tree.
"Leave her alone!" Tyler growled.
"Wait, Tyler? What are you doing?" Elena asked.
"Protecting Klaus's human blood bag. He told me to keep an eye on you when he left and I obeyed him because I owe him my entire life, he gave me such a gift." Tyler answered as he shoved Stefan against the tree keeping his arm against Stefan's neck, pinning him.
Elena looked at him confused. Before she could stop him Tyler stuck a giant piece of wood into Stefan's stomach.
"No! Stefan!" she screamed.
She instantly had a flashback of Klaus staking his during the sacrifice. "NO! STEFAN! NO!" she screamed.
"Don't touch the blood bag." Tyler ordered Stefan. He looked to Elena and said "Stay away from him."
In a flash Tyler was gone. Elena quickly ran to Stefan and pulled the stake out as she groaned in pain.
"Shhh, its out, it's ok now, shhh." Elena cooed. She waited for the wound to heal but it wasn't happening.
"Elena, blood." Stefan gasped out weakly.
Elena gasped. Because he was still on animal blood he wasn't healing as fast as he should. Tears filled her eyes when she realized another scary fact. "There was vervain in my breakfast and lunch today, Stefan; I can't give you my blood."
"Damon…get…Damon."
Elena nodded and kissed his head. "I promise, hang on."
She stood up and took off in a run. "DAMON!" she screamed on top of her lungs. "DAMON, HELP ME! DAMON!" She was literally shrieking as loud as her lungs would allow.
Finally she crashed into a body but before she could reach the ground the other person caught her. She looked and saw it was Damon. She started to cry. She spoke a mile a minute and Damon didn't hear one word she just said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Elena, Elena, calm down. Calm down." He said. "Tell me what happen, calmly."
Elena did her best to tell him what happen, hoping he'd have a way to help her and Stefan.
(A/N This part was written by Elena Rain)
"Stefan… Staked…. Tyler… Help!" She took off running back to Stefan hoping Damon was behind her.
Damon was confused. Why would Stefan stake Tyler? Tyler was on their side. Of course Damon caught on to Stefan's scent and knew that in her panic she said it wrong. He used his speed and beat her there. He saw his brother lying on the floor with blood pooling from his chest.
"Stefan…" he groaned. "Gotta have them bunnies don't you?"
Stefan coughed and looked up at his brother. "Always coming to save me huh?"
"Forever and Always… " Damon sighed. "You need blood. A lot of it… Looks like he hit an artery." Damon pulled off his jacket and pressed it into Stefan's chest causing him to scream. "You owe me a new jacket."
Stefan laughed and then coughed. "Elena…?"
"She should be here any second…" Damon kept his jacket pressed against Stefan's chest to stop the bleeding.
"What are you doing to him?" Elena asked as she arrived.
"Stopping the bleeding Elena. If we move him while he is bleeding it will be a lot worse."
Elena just looked at Stefan but spoke to Damon. "Tell me what to do."
"Get out of my way... and meet me at the house." With that Damon had picked Stefan up and sped out of the woods and back home.
Damon and Stefan were in the basement and Damon trying to help Stefan but he wasn't helping.
"No human…"
"Seriously Stef. If you don't drink this you're going to die. The bunnies aren't strong enough to help you. You're losing too much blood."
"No..."
"Look. Not even if all the bunnies in the forest came in and grouped together to help you, it still wouldn't be enough and not nearly as powerful. Don't be an idiot and drink."
Stefan shook his head.
Damon shrugged. "Fine. Die. I don't care. I'll have Elena all to myself."
"Damon!" Stefan growled as he grabbed a bag of blood.
"Atta boy Stef." Damon watched him carefully and only gave him enough to heal. He didn't want to be the one responsible for turning him crazy. "That's enough…" Damon growled as Stefan bit into another bag. "No. You're done."
Stefan was about to growl something back to Damon but he spoke first.
"Elena is here. Clean yourself up."
Stefan sighed and walked from the room. "Thank you." He spoke without turning back. He knew Damon heard him.
"Why would Tyler hurt Stefan?"
"That's what I would like to know." Damon sighed. They had gone upstairs to meet Elena and after a few minutes of hugging and cuddling they were now on the couch.
"I don't get it…" Stefan sighed. "I had always been nice to Tyler."
Damon sighed. "Look. He didn't do it on his free will obviously…" Damon snapped his fingers. "The bond. His bond with Klaus."
"What?" Elena and Stefan asked at the same time.
Damon looked at Stefan. "Since Klaus made him, he feels loyal and the need to obey, protect and serve every command Klaus gives… sometimes even if it's something Tyler doesn't want to do, he would still do because Klaus told him to and Klaus is always right."
"That's crazy."
"Yes Elena… but its true and right now Tyler is still bonded to Klaus and it won't stop until Klaus dies… and that isn't happening anytime soon."
Elena looked at Stefan and then back to Damon. "What do we do?"
"Well, we can vervain him and lock him in the basement…"
"Klaus or Tyler?" Stefan asked with a smirk.
"Tyler."
"Not funny Damon." Elena glared.
"Who says I was trying to be funny?"
"Damon."
He sighed. "I know Elena. I know. We can teach him the ways of Stefan here and they can go kill bambi together."
Elena sighed and looked at Stefan who wrapped his arms around her. She was honestly scared and his joking never helped these serious situations.
"We can't do anything Elena." Damon growled. He took a deep breath and sighed. "That's the problem. We can't do anything, the only thing we can do is kill Klaus and we can't do that because he is an original and will kick our butts."
Elena giggled as she pictured Klaus, literally kicking Damon in the butt.
"What on earth is so funny?" Damon asked annoyed.
"I don't know about you but when I imagine Klaus actually kicking your butt…with his foot… just made me laugh."
Stefan laughed too.
Damon sighed. "I'm outta here."
"Wait!" Elena called.
Damon turned.
"Thank you…"
"Whatever…" Damon walked away but spoke back. "I'll figure out a plan."
(A/N the ending is mine)
As he left Elena sighed "Rebekah and a sired Tyler all at school…so far this senior year is turning out to be a total nightmare."
Stefan sighed with her not knowing how to answer. He just pulled her into his arms and held her. She was right, with Rebekah and now Tyler being sired everything just got a whole lot more complicated. How would they survive this?
A/N what's going to happy now? Will Tyler try again and kill Stefan? Will Rebekah become a problems for Elena and Stefan? Leave me your thoughts in a review.
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