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Chapter Ten: The Turning Point

I groaned at the bright light coming through the kitchen window. I got little to no sleep last night, but I guess crying all night can do that to you. At the moment, I was drinking my third cup of coffee, watching Jenna run around getting ready for the day.

"You owe me 10 bucks." Elena stated with a smirk over my shoulder. I gave her a curious glance. "Jeremy's got his sketch pad out. You know what that means, right?" She smiled thinking about our bet that we made a while ago. When Jeremy starts to draw again, I start to sing again.

"You're kidding." Jenna commented looking over at the both of us.

I groaned and leaned my head against the cooling granet top. "You promised Raegan." Elena said above me. I nodded against the island and handed her 10 bucks that I owed her. She turned to Jenna and started talking to her. "Don't say a word. The minute we encourage him, he'll put it away."

"Psychology major. Check that." Jenna laughed. "You and Stefan? Update?" Jenna switched the conversation. "And you and, uh, Damon?" She paused thinking about if she should ask.

Elena sighed, looking away from her phone that she had out. "He knows how I feel and where I stand, and I know where he stands. But it doesn't matter. He's leaving, moving away." Elena explained and then took the seat next to me on the island.

"Where is he going?" Jenna asked confused.

"I've stopped asking questions. The answers get scary." Elena shook her head. I nodded along with her.

"And you, Rae?" Jenna turned to me. "What about you and Damon?"

"Damon and I... were never really a thing." I shrugged. "Not that it would matter, he's moving with his brother. He's leaving, and said goodbye, that's it. It's done."

"Both yours leave, mine returns." Jenna sighed, shaking her head.

"Logan?" Elena asked with a raised brow.

"He's back." Jenna confirmed. "I didn't let him pass the front door."

"I hope you slammed it in his face." I laughed at Jenna.

She shrugged. "Eh, medium slam." I laughed at the strawberry blonde before putting the empty coffee cup in the sink.

"Three strike rule, Jenna." Elena reminded her.

"Yeah." I turned away from the sink. "You're not even allowed to watch the news." I joked and bumped into her shoulder.

"Exactly." She smiled. "No more Logan 'Scum' Fell."

Our conversation got interrupted when my phone started ringing. I looked at the number to see that Liz Forbes was calling me. I shared a questioning stare with Elena, who was over my shoulder reading the caller I.D., before I excused myself and left the room to pick up the call.

"Hello?" I answered stepping into the living room.

"Raegan, I'm glad I got a hold of you!" She exclaimed. "Listen, I know you have school today, but I was wondering- and this is the last time that I will call you to escape school- if you could come over to the boarding house. I have to speak with you and Damon about something that the council is worried about."

I sighed mentally. I didn't really want to see Damon, but I couldn't tell Liz that I couldn't because of that reason.

"What time?"

I looked up at the big house and sighed. It's now or never.

I waited until Sheriff Forbes arrived to actually go and knock on the door. It didn't take long for her to show up. She nodded at me, in greeting, before making her way to the door and knocking lightly.

It wasn't long before the door opened to reveal Stefan. He looked from Liz to me and back to the blonde. I mouthed, 'the council', and he nodded slightly, letting me know he understood.

"We're here to see Damon." Liz said with a sullen look upon her face. That was exactly how she was talking and about how I imagined her face to look when we were talking on the phone.

"Uh, sure. Okay." Stefan said and stepped away from the door. Damon popped out from behind the door and looked 'innocently' surprised to see us at the door, like he hadn't heard the following conversation.

"Sheriff, Raegan, what a surprise." He exclaimed.

"Sorry to bother you, but we all need to talk." Liz got right to the point, not hiding anything now that Stefan was 'out of ears reach'.

Damon stepped aside, opening the door wider. "Come in." He said. Liz went in before me and I followed after her, slowly, trying not to make eye contact with the blue eyed man next to me.

Damon lead us through the living room and out to the backyard. I never really thought about it, but I've never been in their backyard until now.

When we were all settled in the backyard, standing and overlooking the woods, Damon turned to Liz. "Um, I hope you understand the screcy. Stefan doesn't know about this yet and I'd like to keep it that way." Even though I wasn't pleased with how Damon does things, he is able to keep everything on the down-low. He knew just what to say to make it seem like that they were perfectly human and alive, even though they are not.

"Of course." Liz nodded with understanding. She had to keep things from her daughter everyday, I was sure that she would understand the most. "Kids are too young to be brought into this."

I kept in my laughter when she called Stefan a kid. He was 162 years old, kid was not a word to describe him.

"So, what do you need?" Damon asked finally getting to the point of where we were here.

"There's been another attack. A female victim, her throat torn out, completely drained of blood. It fits the pattern." Liz explained with the same sullen look she had on earlier.

I looked at Damon confused. "I'm sorry. I don't understand." I shook my head and looked back at Liz. "I thought we solved that problem when Damon..." I stopped my sentence thinking about Lexi.

"The blonde one." Damon finished.

"I'm thinking she must have turned someone, or multiple someone's. I just don't know anymore." Liz shook her head disappointed.

I looked at Damon with questioning eyes. He looked back at me and I understood in that moment that this wasn't something Damon did.

"The story for the town is another animal attack, but I'm not sure how long we can keep lying to them." Liz continued. "The council is in an uproar. We thought we were past this."

"So, uh, what do we do?" Damon asked. I could see that Liz was looking at him with a hopeful expression and all I could think about right now was, 'karma'.

"You're the only one who's ever taken on a vampire. We were hoping you could tell us, with the help of Raegan, of course. Her brains and you're cunningness. We're sure that you two can take the vampire down." She explained.

"We're figure it out and let you know, Liz." He nodded. I looked at Damon with wide eyes. There was no way that I was getting into helping him take down another vampire. I didn't want to even be here right now, listening to this conversation. I want to go back to my normal life where I didn't need to worry about things that go bump in the night.

With one look from Damon, I was sure that I was going to be stuck doing things with him. There was no way I was getting out of this one, anymore.

"Okay, good." Liz nodded. "Let me know ASAP, so we can talk to the other members. I came to you guys because I know you guys work good as a team. I hope to be hearing from you soon."

We both nodded before leading her to the door. Stefan looked at us from the corner of his eye before continuing on his reading the morning paper.

"Thank you for stopping by." Damon said when we reached the door. She nodded and turned to look at us one last time.

"Let me know what you come up with." She said.

"Absolutely." Damon agreed. Liz nodded and then walked to her car before driving off.

Right when Damon closed the door, Stefan took his chance to attack him. Stefan pinned Damon to the door. I gasped out of surprise and ran over to the two. "Stefan!" I squeezed in between the two brothers with my small frame and looked up at Stefan's angry green eyes. "Step back, Stefan."

"What is wrong with you?" Stefan asked as he let go of Damon's shoulders. "You killed somebody?"

"A. Don't touch me." Damon started, shaking off his shirt. "B. If I had, I wouldn't have been so obvious about it." Damon reached for my petite hand and pulled me away from his younger brother. "And C. There's another vampire in town."

"That's impossible." Stefan whispered, disagreeing with the information we had.

"Clearly not." I said to the younger Salvatore. He didn't look like he believed us. "It's not like it's completely impossible, Stefan. There were probably many vampires before you guys, and there will be plenty after."

"Then, who could it be?" Stefan asked. We were all curious as to who the new vampire was, since no one had seen it, we're all walking around blind.

"Ah, what do we care?" Damon asked with his famous smirk. "We're leaving anyway, right?" He shrugged. Everyone in this room knew that there was no way Stefan was leaving with a new vampire in town and everyone in trouble.

"No," Stefan shook his head. "I can't leave now and you know that. How are we supposed to find this person?"

"Let the adults handle this, Stefan." Damon poked to me and him before dragging me upstairs.

He brought me right into his room that I've been getting too used to seeing. It seems like everytime I come over to the boarding house, I come into his room.

Damon laid on his bed with a sigh. He closed his blue eyes and relaxed. I didn't bother joining him on the bed. I didn't feel like it was right to do this.

When he realized I didn't join him like usual, he looked up at me with a confused gaze. I shook my head at him. He leaned up on his elbows and looked at me more clearly. "You can't keep playing games with me, Damon. One minute you kiss me, the next you're telling me you're leaving." I stepped away from the bed. "And here you are."

"And here I am." He agreed, fulling sitting up.

I sighed before turning away from the dark haired male. "Where are you going?" He asked when I got to his door.

I didn't bother turning around to talk to him. If I turned around and looked into his blue eyes, I would stay. "Call me when you have your head straight." I left the room and closed the door with a slight slam. I didn't bother telling Stefan 'bye', I just left.

I walked into the living room to see Jeremy on the couch with a journal near his feet and his sketch pad on his lap. I passed by him the same time Jenna came into the room. I rubbed Jeremy's hair in greeting and he slapped my hand away before going back to his work.

"Hey, what do you think?" Jeremy asked holding up his note pad for us to see.

"Creepy." Jenna commented.

"Dark." I looked at the monster on the page with curious eyes.

"I found this old journal in dad's stuff, Jonathon Gilbert from the 1800's. He's kind of a freak show." Jeremy grabbed the journal from his feet and showed us. "He wrote about demons and all these people getting slaughtered."

"Yeah, he was a writer." I commented, grabbed the book from Jeremy's hands and looking through the fragial pages.

"Short stories, horror stuff." Jenna nodded, looking into the book with me.

"Oh, he wrote fiction?" Jeremy asked. "Figured he was just a lunatic or a drunk."

"Well, he was a Gilbert." Jenna pointed out.

"So, probably a little bit of both." I laughed before returning the book to Jeremy. I slipped into the kitchen and grabbed a water bottle from the fridge.

"Where were you this morning?" Jenna asked following me into the kitchen. "I got a call from school saying that you skipped."

"I had to talk to Liz Forbes about something. That's the call that I got this morning." I explained, not bothering to lie to Jenna. There was no point. "It wasn't anything important. She was just worried about Caroline for some reason, and I told her there was nothing to worry about."

"Good, because for a second there, I thought you were going to see Damon." She smirked.

I shook my head because of the irony of the situation. "You're ridiculous." I commented. "I'm not seeing Damon. As far as I know, he's still leaving."

She nodded. "Okay..." She said slowly.

I laughed at her expression. "What about Logan?" I asked with a smirk of my own.

She groaned and slumped into the chair next to her. "I don't even want to hear his name."

A ringing sound blasted through my ears. I groaned when I heard the ringtone, Animal I've Become play through my phone. I looked at the caller I.D. to see Damon calling me. When did he get my phone to change my ringtone?

I answered. "When did you get my phone to change my ringtone?" I asked munching on some chips.

"Why hello to you too little Miss. Sunshine." He said sarcasically over the phone. I rolled my eyes even though he could see me. "I was going to tell you that I think I have a lead on where this new vampire is hiding. I'm getting Caroline to check it out for me."

"Damon..." I said in a warning tone. "Stay away from Caroline." A beep rang through his side of the phone.

"That's my girl now, hopefully with good news. I'll give you a call later, let you know how it went. Tootles." He hung up the phone before I could comment further. I rolled my eyes before deciding it was time to get up and get ready for the 'Plan fo Your Future' career fair happening at the school. I had promised Elena that I was going to go to it. My mistake.

I looked through my closet and picked out my blue button down shirt with a scarf around my neck. I slipped on my favorite blue jeans with my tan ankle boots and some jewelry, including my vervain necklace that I wear everywhere.

I looked at the time to see that it was just after five o'clock and the fair should be starting soon. I texted Elena saying that I was on my way to the school and left, not waiting for an answer.

I arrived at the school about 15 minutes later, taking my time to get there. I mean, who rushes to get to school?

I looked around the building. I saw Elena and Matt talking in a corner of the room. I smiled. I'm glad that they still had a solid friendship, even after the awkward break up. I looked around the room more and saw Stefan standing off to the side, watching the two ex's. I sighed and walked over to him.

"Watching people is a big sign of being a stalker." I mentioned coming closer to the green eyed boy. He didn't bother turning around when he answered.

"I'm not watching, I'm simply observing." He shrugged like it was the most normal thing in the world to do, but when I looked up at his face, I saw the small smirk in the corner of his mouth. I snorted attractively and then turned towards Matt and Elena.

"They have history, ya know?" I asked turning to him. He nodded sullenly. "But you two," I started. "You two have something that I haven't seen since my parents died. You two have chemisty. You made Elena feel alive when she much rather be dead. And that's a lot more than couple history." I shrugged. "You don't have to worry about her."

He didn't answer, but when Matt left. He took his chance to go and talk to Elena. I smiled at the couple. I hoped everything was going to work out for them. I couldn't see them not together.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and I looked to see Damon standing there with an angry expression. I looked down at his clothes and noticed that he had blood and holes all over his blue shirt that was perfectly fine this morning.

"What the hell happened to you?" I asked with a surprised expression. I reached out and touched one of the holes in his shirts. His skin underneath was all healed up, but his shirt looked like he was getting it on with a gun master.

"I found out who the new vampire is." He growled.

"Who is it?" I asked. He shook his head.

"Not here." He said and dragged me away from the school.

"Where are we going?" I asked with a tired voice. "You can't keep dragging me around places."

"My house." He didn't say anything further. I sighed but let him lead me away from the scene.

We had to leave my car at the school, so I texted Elena saying that my keys were in my glovebox and to drive my car home. I told her that I would tell her everything later. I got an 'ok' back and I slipped my phone back into my pocket.

Damon drove to his house as fast as he could. I saw no reason why he was rushing, it's not like he couldn't fight off the vampire. Unless the vampire was like 500 years old, he could take him.

We reached the house and I barely had time to get my seatbelt off before he opened my door. I looked up at him. He had his hand out for me to take instead of him grabbing my hand and pulling me into the house. I sighed but grabbed his cool hand into my own. He slipped his phone out of his pocket when we got into the house.

"Who's the new vampire?" I asked since we were in the safety of his house now.

"Logan Fell." He said simply before taking off into his room.

I paused on my way to the stairs but then followed him up before he came back down and dragged me up himself. I walked into his room as he dialed a number and waited while the other person picked up.

I went into his closet and grabbed him a black shirt to change into. It was his usual black button up shirt so I knew that he wouldn't care much. He slipped his old shirt off and slipped the new one on. He tried to button them up but he was failing miserably. I shook my head before swatting his hands away and buttoning up the shirt myself.

"Logan Fell is a vampire and when I find hime again, I'm gonna destory him limb by limb." Damon growled over the phone. I didn't pay much attention to him. I knew that he wasn't mad at me, but at Logan. It still surprised me that Logan was a vampire. I didn't even know he was dead.

With how he was talking, I was guessing that he was talking to Stefan. I wasn't able to hear the other line- human hearing and all- so I just guessed with what Damon was replying with.

"No, I'm not okay." Damon shook his head. I was now finished buttoning up his shirt. I slipped under his arm and went to move to his bed. I sat against the headboard and sat indian-style. "I was ambushed. I was shot." I rolled my eyes at him. He was being dramatic. "Now, I'm vengeful. Just got to find him."

"You're kidding me." Damon stated looking at me. I gave him a confused gaze. "Why the hell is he there?"

"Where is he?" I asked but Damon ignored me.

"Well, I'll be right there." He said before hanging up the phone. He looked over at me. I still was confused on the whole thing and I was sure that you could clearly see it on my face.

"Looks like we're going back to the school." He said before throwing his old shirt in the fireplace and lighting it up. I didn't question his motives.

"Logan's at the school?" I asked. I was just there. I didn't see him once.

"Guess he's 'working the crowd' as my lovely younger brother puts." Damon shook his head before leaving the room. I climbed off the bed and quickly followed after him., knowing that if I didn't he would leave me here.

"So, what's the plan?" I asked when we got into his mustang. He didn't answer for a while. "Damon?"

"I don't know." He said.

"You don't know?" I asked with a wide expression. "So, let's just wing it?"

"Sounds good to me." He pulled up to the school. I don't remember ever getting to the school that fast.

"Damon, that's ridiculous." I shook my head but he didn't listen to me. He just jumped out of the car. I tried to follow after him but I lost him in the first 5 minutes.

I did find Stefan, Elena and Matt talking. I ran over to them at the end of the conversation, I'm guessing. Stefan ran off, leaving Elena behind.

"Elena!" I called when I got closer.

She sighed relieved when she saw me coming closer. She pulled me into a hug and pulled away. "Where were you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Damon." I shrugged. She nodded her head in understanding.

"Logan has Caroline." She stated with a sad expression. "But Stefan just went after him to get her back."

I sighed tiredly and ran my hand through my thick hair. Today was much too dramatic for my taste. "Let's go wait inside for Stefan to get back."

Elena saw Stefan way before I did. She tapped my shoulder before saying goodbye to the girl we were just talking to. She was in charge of the art booth and I was curious to who submitted drawings.

We reached Stefan and I noticed that neither Damon nor Caroline were with him. "Caroline?" I asked with a nervous tone. I was a wreck waiting for news about my best friend.

"She's okay. I took her home. She was shaken up. But all she knows is Logan attacked her. Nothing else." Stefan explained, calming my nerves.

I sighed and relaxed my stance. "Thank God."

"Where's Logan?" Elena asked. She had a good point. Stefan never mentioned anything about Logan being gone.

"Damon's dealing with him." Stefan stated.

"As in...?" Elena asked, even though we both knew the answer. Stefan nodded his head with confirmation.

"You saw what happened tonight, right?" Stefan asked Elena more than he asked me. I was with Damon most of the night. "I mean, you understand why we can't be together? You see it?"

I sighed. Just when I thought he was going to get over his whole 'Edward-Twilight' thing.

"Yeah, I'm starting to see a lot of things, Stefan." Elena said.

"Come on." I said breaking up the two. "I'll give you a ride." I nodded my head out the doorway. Stefan looked from me to the door and back.

"Uh, I can get home." He tried getting out of it.

"I know." I said. "I'm not asking you, Stefan."

He sighed before nodding. "That'd be nice."

I pulled up to the boarding house. I looked over at Elena in the passenger side and we both shared a knowing look. She wanted to stay here for the night. Stefan got out of the car before Elena did. Before she was able to escape, I grabbed her arm.

"Call me if anything happens. I'll come pick you up. I don't want you walking home." I gave her a serious look and she nodded her head. I didn't want to remind her about the accident but she needs to understand it was a freak accident. There's nothing that she could have done to stop mom and dad dying that night.

She got out of the car and followed Stefan into the house. I pulled away knowing that Stefan would never harm my sister physically and left for home.

I woke up to Elena's ringtone ringing in my eye. I immediately reached over my bed and grabbed the tiny device and clicked the green button.

"Elena?" I asked sitting up in my bed.

"Rae?" She asked with a sniff-ly voice. "Can you come pick me up?"

I didn't even question why she needed to be picked up. "Be there in 5." I hung up the phone and quickly slipped on my black Toms and a PINK sweat shirt. I didn't have time to change out of my boy-shorts. I just left without realizing that I probably should have.

I ran into my car and started on the way to the boarding house. It didn't take long for me to get there, knowing all the back roads to take to get to places quicker. I pulled up and Elena ran for my car.

"Drive." She said with a rushed voice and I sped away from the house, not bothering to look back.

"You want to talk about it?" I looked at her from the corner of my eye.

"I look like her." She whispered. I almost didn't hear it over the roar of my engine.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Katherine." She said looking over at me. "I look like her."

"What do you mean?" I asked looking at her fully now.

"Raegan!" Elena shouted looking out the windshield. I turned back to the road to see a dark silhouette standing in the middle of the road. I didn't bother trying to swerve out of the way, not with how fast I was going.

I did however try and stop the car all together. The car wasn't able to stop in time. My car hit the person head on and the person rolled off my windshield.

The next thing I knew was the world being upside down. I gasped and turned to look around. The roof of my car was all dented in and Elena was knocked out from hitting her head off the window. I could feel the blood on my head, having hit my head off the steering wheel. I looked out to the person that we hit to see him getting up. All his bones popped back into place, like he didn't just get hit with a car going over 65 MPH on a 30 speed limit.

The black silhouette started walking closer to my car, and it was this time that I realized he wasn't human. He was a vampire, and I was going to die.

I always felt so bad for Elena because she always gets into car accidents and it's what she's scared of most. That must suuuuuck.

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