Blondie girl- Charlotte decided to call her that instead of her name, she wasn't interested enough in the girl to try and remember her actual name- led the way along the streets toward the insane girl's house with everyone else following. A fourth human, a tall, dark-headed girl, had joined them in the search for the insane girl. Charlotte, of course, didn't bother to catch her name, and decided to just call her 'Tall girl'. Stefan introduced her to Charlotte, and, to Charlotte's surprise, the girl hadn't been scared of her. She'd just looked her up and down, said 'hello' and walked with Blondie girl and Ginger girl.

Charlotte got the impression that Blondie girl had warned Tall girl that Charlotte was not to mess with.

She walked slowly at the end of the group, extremely bored. She had no idea why she was even helping her brothers; the killings had nothing to do with her. But after all, she had been telling the truth earlier. She did have nothing to do for the rest of the day.

The sky had started to turn dark since the last time she had been outside, so the sunlight wasn't hurting the vampires eyes too badly. Stefan's face was set in determination. Somehow, Charlotte found this extremely funny. Ever since her brothers had come back into her life; she had begun to notice how pathetic Stefan really was. It wasn't just his aura, it was just...his facial expressions? Charlotte couldn't explain it, not even to herself.

She laughed, and Stefan glared at her. He did a lot of glaring, she noticed. No violence at all? That was strange. He clearly tried his best to be a Saint. Was he still a virgin?! Charlotte laughed even harder at the thought.

"What's so funny?!" Stefan snarled. Blondie girl, Ginger girl, and Tall girl turned round to see what was causing Stefan to have a hissy fit. Blondie boy just watched Stefan as he glared.

Charlotte, through her giggles, managed to blurt out: "You."

Stefan frowned, and stopped walking. As he did the rest of the humans did too: although Ginger girl- who was still staring at Charlotte- didn't notice that Blondie girl had stopped walking and she crashed into her back. Charlotte laughed at that too.

"What about me?" Stefan snarled.

"I dunno, you just have that sort of...look about you that makes me laugh," Charlotte answered, still laughing.

He glared at her more fiercely, and continued walking. Blondie girl looked at him and took his hand, then they walked together. But Ginger girl didn't move: she continued to stare at Charlotte.

Charlotte hissed and displayed her fangs to the girl.

She squeaked and ran after Blondie girl and Stefan.

Scaring the girl was fun to Charlotte, but she was also getting pissed off at the continuous staring the girl was doing. Ginger girl had seen vampires before- and possibly even fancied one, from what Charlotte saw of the girl's glances towards Damon earlier- so why was she staring all the time?

"We're here," Charlotte heard Blondie say.

They had stopped beside a house. Even standing outside it, Charlotte could actually sense the paranoid mind of a teenage girl coming from within.

"That's Vickie's room. The bay window at the back," Ginger said.

"Damon, how many other people are in the house?" Stefan demanded.

"Two. Man and a woman. The woman's drunk."

Poor Mrs Bennett, Charlotte heard the ginger girl say in her mind.

"Bless," Charlotte said to the ginger girl coldly, causing her to jump.

Stefan sighed, annoyed at Charlotte's behavior.

Oh dear, have I upset the precious Stefan?- she said to him in his mind, putting on a sarcastic sad face.

Stefan glared at her coldly, then spoke to Damon again.

"We need them both asleep so we can talk to Vicky alone."

Charlotte felt the Power rise of of Damon and enter the house, where she also felt it connect with the man and drunk woman, causing them to fall into unconsciousness.

"They're asleep."

Stefan gave a short nod. Charlotte laughed in her head- military Stefan.

Speaking of the little princess- he was now approaching the window carefully.

"You're gonna creep her out, you know. Imagine her fright when she sees your ugly face pop up outside the window?" Charlotte said, smiling widely.

Damon laughed.

"Oh, shut up, Charlotte!" Stefan

"Oooh, that's bad language, Stefan," Charlotte said.

He ignored her, and tapped the glass window.

"Vicky? It's me, Stefan Salvatore, I'm here to help you. Come let me in," he said to the window.

There was a pause in which Charlotte could hear the girl inside hesitantly open the curtains.

The girl- Vickie, was it?- looked hideous, like something out of a horror movie. Her lips were chapped, her hair disheveled, and it was obvious she was getting no sleep whatsoever.

Well, this is fun- Charlotte said in her mind sarcastically. Damon heard and chuckled silently to himself.

"Invite me in, Vickie," Stefan was saying.

"But...I..." the girl said. Stefan was obviously doing his voodoo on her.

"Come in."

Stefan stepped inside, followed by Blondie girl and Tall girl. Blondie boy and Ginger girl remained outside with the two vampires, and when Charlotte looked at him, the Blondie boy spoke.

"I'm Matt," he said, staring.

"She's Charlotte. Now get in the room, Mutt. We can't remain out here all night now, can we," Damon's voice cut in.

Matt- Charlotte decided to at least try and remember his name, mostly because he was a good-looking boy- glared at Damon. The two clearly didn't get on.

The human boy jumped inside the room.

"Ladies first," Damon said to Charlotte, gesturing to the window as if he was introducing the Queen.

"I'd rather remain out here, thank you. You go in."

He just looked at her.

"Fine, I'll stay out here too. We can't have you doing a runner now can we?" he smirked. Then he seemed to realize there was still Ginger girl to enter the room, and he turned to her, giving her a charming smile. Charlotte heard the girl's heart quicken.

Ah, young luuuurve- Charlotte smirked to herself.

"Aren't you going in?" the luuurve machine asked.

"Err...no, I- I think I'll stay out here," the Ginger girl stuttered out.

Charlotte smiled fake-sweetness at the Ginger girl. Her eyes widened and she gulped. Charlotte gave her a big smile- which scared the girl even more- then turned back round to the window.

Stefan was doing some form of mind thing on the insane girl- who had her eyes closed and was sitting on the bed with him while she talked. But she was screaming and thrashing around. Everyone in the room was on edge.

Then the thunder came.

Damon and Charlotte both looked up, frowning. Neither of them had caused it, and Stefan was too weak to do something like that. And he was too busy with Vickie on the bed- thought not in a sexual sense, Charlotte smirked in her mind. But what had caused the thunder?

Instead of dwelling on it, she turned back to the whimpering human girl on the bed and focused on what she was saying.

"He's tall. And he's laughing. He's reaching for me, laughing. But Sue screams 'No, no' and tries to pull me away. So he takes her instead. The window's broken, and the balcony is right there. And then I watch him- I watch him throw her..."

The girl was in absolute hysterics by now, and her voice was becoming so high-pitched that it began to resemble a dog's squeaky toy.

Stefan was desperately trying to bring the girl back from her trance by telling her that she was safe and that this crazy man couldn't harm her, but the girl was passed listening to him. She kept screaming 'I'm next! I'm next!'

Then Charlotte noticed the picture rattling on the wall. And then suddenly, all the loose objects like perfume bottles, lipsticks, CD's, and even hats- were all in the air and doing some sort of dance. What on God's earth?!- Charlotte thought, confused. What's doing this?!

Everyone was on their feet, scared and confused by what was happening. Ginger girl had grabbed hold of Damon's arm. Thunder crackled once again in the sky, and one of the posters in the room was slashed diagonally.

Then everything stopped as quickly as it had begun.

Every human was shaky: all vampires were on edge.

"Look at the mirror," Damon suddenly said, causing all the humans to jump in alarm. But instead of finding this funny, Damon was focused on the room.

Charlotte's eyes darted to the mirror in the corner of the room, and jumped when she saw the words.

Goodnight, sweetheart.

"Oh, god," Ginger girl whispered.

Stefan turned away from the mirror and began speaking to the crazy girl again.

But Charlotte wasn't interested.

She was remembering Klaus. The beautiful man who had Changed her and taken her virginity. She was remembering his last words to her.

Goodnight, sweetheart.

And that's when she realized.

The message wasn't for the crazy girl...

It was for her.