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A/N: Hello my dear readers! No…I'm not dead. Here I am with….(drums please) Chapter 10, after what seemed like a century. I won't brag you, a lot. But, don't forget to look at the last A/N at the end of the chapter. Enjoy and see you at the bottom!

Chapter 10

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Disclaimer: I don't own the rights of Twilight; they belong to great author Stephanie Meyer. I also don't own TVD series; they are developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and are based on the book series by L. J. Smith.

"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world.

Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.

Let your soul take you where you want to be.

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you will live

as you have never lived before.

-Erich Fromm

Previously… (BPOV)

When we reached my house, Elena got out with me.

"Let's go get dressed. We don't want to miss the party." She said and smiled. I rolled my eyes.

"You need a bikini Elena and I don't see you wearing one. And I don't think I own one too." I said as I opened the front door and got in. Elena shook her hand dismissively.

"I know you have one. I will go take my clothes and come here to help you if you want anything." She said.

"Ok." I said, and she walked out. I went upstairs and started looking at the back of my wardrobe, where I knew I had a box with some of the 'lighter' clothes I used to wear in Phoenix. I found my black bikini and went to the bathroom to put it on. In the box I also found a light peach colored top that was strapped in the back. I pulled on a pair of blue jean shorts and my converse. I went downstairs and someone knocked the door and I went to open it.

"Are you ready?" Elena asked me and I nodded. "Then let's go." She said and we took her car.

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"I will go to see if Stefan or Caroline is here. Do you mind?" Elena asked me. We were at the lake that was close to the Lockwood's residence. I shook my head.

"No, it's fine. I will go look if there is something to drink." I said and she nodded. Even if it is cheap beer. Even though I have never drunk, I wanted to drink something now. I walked to where there were cups of beer and took one in my hands and took a sip.

"Oh. That will change the taste. Too bad, because you have such sweet blood." The cold voice I knew oh too well, said from behind me.

"Victoria." I whispered.

Now… (BPOV)

"Yes, that would be me." Victoria said sweetly, before slowly walking towards me. I took a tentative step back, but stumbled in the way, when I hit a hogshead with the beer, but I caught myself before I fell.

"Did you miss me?" Victoria asked me and smiled a devious smile at me, showing me her sharp teeth, making a shiver run through my body.

"It didn't take me long enough to come back, did it? And this time I am going to get what I want." She said hissing every word. She suddenly launched at me, catching me by the throat. She was putting pressure on my neck and I couldn't breathe. I tried to take oxygen in my lungs, but it was impossible with her strong arm around my neck. Through my blurred from the tears eyes, I saw her reaching down, with her other hand to my leg and pulling at it. A struggled scream filled the air. I was silently begging to God, that someone showed up and saved me. Because I didn't want to die. Not now that I had found Damon.

"This time no one is coming to save you, Isabella." She hissed my name and I flinched back. I felt the tears run down my face, making my vision blurred.

"Your little human friend left you here to go find her boyfriend. And your new boyfriend, Damon is his name? He is somewhere else, probably with someone else, more worthy than you." She said a struggled sob escaped my lips. Black spots appeared in front of my eyes, from the lack of oxygen and I was now convinced I was going to die.

"Let her go." I faintly heard a firm voice in the background saying, before my eyes slowly started closing. I felt the cold hand around my neck loosening its hold and I took a deep breath, just before I completely lost my vision.

Damon POV (missed it?)

I saw the redhead loosening her grip on Bella's neck and I prayed to God Bella wouldn't die. Because I didn't want her to regret turning into a vampire. If that happened, I wanted it to happen because she wanted it.

I crouched down a little, ready to launch at the sparkly vampire a few feet in front of me. Her ruby eyes turned to me and I smirked. She is so going down. And I would be the one to kick her ass. Win win!

"Why do you have to show up every time I am ready to kill her sorry ass?" She asked me hissing and showing me her teeth. Yeah right. Like that could scare me away. You have to upgrade your skills, sweetheart.

"Because, her 'sorry' ass is mine and I will always show up, whether it's you or someone else." I told her smirking. What a danger magnet Bella was! Why all the enemies in the world had to come after her?

"Yours huh? Does she know that?" The bitch asked and smirked back. "That is none of your business bitch. And it's the last time you see this world. Say goodbye!" I said and launched at her without another word. I saw her eyes growing wide with panic, as I placed my hands tightly around her neck and pulled at it with all my strength. I heard a metallic sound, before I saw her head falling to the ground, next to her headless now body. I dashed off my hands smirking down at her. That was really easy. I didn't even enjoy it. I shrugged and took my phone out, dialing Stefan's number. I had to call him and have him come here. I would take Bella home and he would set redheads body on fire. And it would be final. It was time that bitch died.

After a few rings, Stefan answered.

"What is it Damon?" He asked.

"Victoria was here, that's what happened." I said sarcastically.

"Victoria was there? What happened?" He asked.

"The key word here is was, little brother." I said.

"Is Bella ok? Do you need me to come?" He asked and I rolled my eyes.

"Yes, that would actually be great. Bring your car." I said, ending the call. I went to Bella and kneeled down, reaching out to touch her pale cheek. It was like the first time Victoria the bitch came. And Bella was injured again. I bit down on my wrist and placed my wrist against her lips. I brushed her cold cheek with my other hand, as I looked down at her.

"Come on Bella. Please. Please drink. For me." I begged her, but got no response from her. I searched for the beating of her heart with my super hearing, but only heard a faint beating, that was ever so slowly, slowing down. I panicked, as I looked at her face again.

"Don't give up Bella. Please drink and everything will be fine." I murmured as I got closer to her ear, at the side of her neck and breathed her sweet sent in.

"Please." I whispered. I felt a pull at my wrist and I looked up to see her slowly drinking from my wrist. I sighed in relief.

"Well done Bella. Keep going." I said. I heard a car coming and I looked up to see my brother's car coming closer. Blondie was with him too. They both got out of the car and came closer to Bella and me.

"Is she ok?" Stefan quickly, frantically looking around for any threat. Too late, little brother. I rolled my eyes at him as I pulled Bella closer to my body.

"I took care of it already. But why was Bella alone in the first place?" I asked and glared at him.

"They took the party elsewhere." He said looking guilty. He should be.

"And you left Bella alone knowing that a crazy bitch is on her tail?" I asked him, but didn't want to hear his answer anyway. I stood up, taking Bella in my arms and walked to the car.

"Go and set on fire her body. In the woods." I will go home with Bella." I said without looking at them. I got inside the car, after carefully placing Bella in the back seat of the car and started driving home.

Bella POV (in the next morning)

I woke up, feeling warm all over, with a terrible headache and an ache in my bones in all my body. I stood up slowly, testing my muscles by stretching my arm and back. I rubbed my eyes, trying to get the sleep off me. I looked around the room and discovered that I was in Damon's room. What am I doing here again? I thought, just as the door of the bedroom opened and inside got Damon, holding something in his hands. He came over slowly and placed a glass of water with a pill beside it, on the bedside table.

"Why am I here?" I asked, but before Damon could answer, flashbacks from last night came to my mind.

"Oh." I said. He nodded slowly.

"I get it you remembered." He said and I nodded slowly.

"You are not going to have a…problem or start crying or something?" He asked smirking and I shook my head at him as I got up.

"I am not going into shock Damon. Don't worry about me." I said in a monotone voice, as I took the Tylenol with the water, in want of the throbbing in my head to stop.

"The only thing I am worried about right now is Victoria and the fact that she is still somewhere out there." I murmured under my breath and Damon looked up at me with a smirk on his face, like a cat that ate the canary and I looked at him curiously.

"What?" I asked him and his grin got wider, if that was even possible.

"You won't have to worry about that anymore, tiger. It's all taken care of." He said cockily. I was a little confused here. I looked at him in question and then, as if light bulb lit inside my head, I stared shocked at Damon.

"You mean…that…" I couldn't complete my sentence. I sat down at the bed and Damon sat beside me with a cocky grin and looked at me.

"Did you forget how to speak, sweetheart?" He asked sarcastically and for some weird reason, I started to laugh. Hysterically, I might add. Tears ran down my face, and I didn't know if it was from laughing or I was actually crying. A sob escaped my lips and I decided that I was actually crying. Damon took me in his arms, ribbing my arms and back, trying to sooth me. I looked up at him, brushing the tears from my face.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"What about?" He asked.

"You know…for crying." I said and added under my breath "I seem to do that a lot lately." He laughed at that.

"Don't worry, princess. You know it's mostly the blood that makes you emotional. And last time's blood was still in your system when I gave you more yesterday. That's why you healed more quickly." He explained and I nodded. I looked up at him suddenly; as I remembered something I have been planning to ask him.

"Yes?" He prompted me and I started hesitantly.

"I…wanted to…um…ask you…Well, I…actually…um saw a dream…and…um…there were you" there was no way I would tell him exactly what I dreamed about "and you…had a…different face." I said and I looked up at his face, remembering the purple veins, the fangs and the bloodshot eyes.

"Different how?" Damon asked.

"Well…um…you had…veins under your eyes, fangs popping out and red eyes. I don't know why I dreamed this..." I finished lamely looking up at him waiting for his reaction. He actually seemed calm.

"Did this scare you?" He murmured and I was taken back from his question.

"Um…maybe a little…but it was ok." I said looking into his blue eyes. His face suddenly changed, the same way I dreamed it, only this time, it seemed more real and Damon had a calm expression. It was combined like a storm with a day with sun. Completely different, but somehow they could be together.

I reached up to his cheek and with my fingertips; I traced the purple veins under his eyes. His eyes searched mine and my expression. I got closer to his face and his eyes dropped to my lips. The veins slowly faded and finally disappeared and his eyes turned back to normal, as he traced my lower lip with his thumb. My breath hitched as he got even closer, his face only a few inches away. He opened his mouth slightly and his sweet breath was blowing on my face, his lips lightly brushing mine. His lips touched mine softly. Initially, it was a sweet and tender kiss, but then, after I grabbed a fistful of his hair in the back of his neck, the kiss became even more passionate, like fire, with heavy breaths.

I was breathless, when he suddenly pulled back and I looked up at him in question. He had moved at the further end of the bed, when the door opened and Stefan got in. I quickly stood up and nervously tugged at the hem of my shirt. Now I got it. That's why Damon pulled away. I walked hurriedly at the door, to Stefan.

"I'm sorry, what time is it?" I asked him as if he was a complete stranger. He looked at me curiously, seriously doubting my sanity, before looking down at his cell phone.

"It's exactly 7 o'clock. Why? Are you in a hurry?" He asked.

"I have to go to school. I have to get ready. I suppose I have enough time." I muttered under my breath, as I slowly walked out of the bedroom and down the hall without another word. I looked down at my clothes and noticed that they had dirt on them. I have to change clothes too.

Just as I was ready to get out of the main door, a strong arm caught me by my elbow and I stopped walking. I turned around, to find Damon's perfect face with the piercing blue eyes looking at me.

"Where do you think you are going princess?" He asked me with a smirk.

"I have to go to school. But before that, I have to change clothes too." I said. He smirk grew wider.

"You know I prefer you naked." He said and I shook my head at his antics. Like you've seen it. Yeah right. I couldn't hide the small smile that appeared on my face.

"I don't have time for this Damon." I said and moved for the door, but again he caught me.

"I will give you a ride home and then at school. That's how you won't be late for school." He said. He took a set of car keys from somewhere and then returned back to me.

"Let's go tiger." He said smirking on the way. He never stops doing that thing.

We went to the garage, which I didn't even knew it existed, and Damon opened the door to reveal his car, that was light blue. I turned to look at him.

"What…um…is it?" I asked him lamely. I didn't know many car brands or generally car stuff. But I think he got what I meant.

"It's a Camaro." He said, looking quite pride about it too.

"Nice." I said and Damon smirked cockily.

"I know. Now let's go. We don't have all the time in the world." He said and we got in the car. The car roared to life and we headed to my house. Damon had opened the radio sometime in the way and music was flowing in the car, breaking the silence. I was looking outside the window, when Damon started singing, in a slightly girly voice, along with the lyrics of a Taylor Swift's song.

"We are never, ever, ever…getting back together…We…"

I groaned. "Not again Damon." I said with a laugh. I recalled the last time he had sang Taylor Swift and I remembered it was the night we kissed. "How can girls like you singing like that? It's a crime!" I said laughing. He shook his head at me with a wide grin.

"They don't like my singing sweetheart. They like the fact that I sing Taylor Swift's songs and I can listen to them." He said with a cocky smirk.

"Whatever." I said and turned back to looking out of the window, with a small smile on my face.

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We reached my house and Damon and I got out of the car and I walked to the door. I looked behind to see Damon standing by his car.

"You are not coming in?" I asked him.

"Nah. Go get dressed and come back to leave for school." He said and I nodded, before going inside. I didn't expect to find Charlie here, so I tiptoed quietly upstairs when I heard Charlie in the kitchen. When I reached the door of my bedroom, I sighed in relief and I got in, closing the door behind me. I didn't know if Elena told Charlie I was out all night and I didn't want to risk it. I looked in my closet and decided to wear something comfortable like a simple t-shirt, in nude color, with a pair of black jeans and my converse.

When I was ready, I took my book bag and headed downstairs. I waked to the kitchen to greet Charlie, for a minute.

"Hey Dad. I'm going to school." I said quickly. Maybe too quickly. He turned to me.

"I came and knocked at your door, but you didn't answer." He said. I averted my eyes off of him, choosing to look at the kitchen counter.

"I didn't hear you. I slept really heavy last night because I was tired. Sorry." I said.

"It's ok." He said after a moment. "But don't be late to go to sleep again." Charlie said and I nodded.

"I'm going to go now. Bye." I said and walked out of the main door, to Damon's car.

"We have some new information." Damon suddenly said and I turned to look at him in curiosity.

"About what?" I asked him.

"We might know what Katherine is doing here in Mystic Falls." He said and my brows furrowed in confusion.

"You know that I don't know a lot about Katherine, right?" I asked him. I vaguely remember Elena mentioning something about her.

"Well…yes. Remember the curse of the sun and the moon that we found in Isobel's research?" He asked and at my nod, he continued. "We found that it is connected to a moonstone." He said.

"And a moonstone is?" I asked him.

"It's something witches use to…gain more power from. Or something witchy like that." He said and he shook his hand dismissively in the air.

"And what does that have to do with Katherine?" I asked. He shook his head in thought.

"We don't know yet, but since she uses Mason, as we have heard, we guess it all connects with the curse of the sun and the moon. And…we might learn where the moonstone is. But we don't know yet. I might have an idea." He said.

"And how would you do that?" I asked him. He looked at me as if it was totally obvious.

"I can't read minds Damon. Just say it." I said, rolling my eyes at him.

"Bonnie the Witch, is going to do her witchy stuff on Mason to get the information, if there is one, out of him." He explained and I nodded slowly.

"And you think it's going to work?" I asked him, but I didn't get an answer and I turned back to looking out of the window in thought.

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When we reached the school, Damon parked in the school's parking lot. Before I could open the door, Damon had opened it for me and was waiting beside the open door.

"I didn't know you were a gentleman." I said to him, as I got out and he closed the door behind me.

"I can be one when I want to." He said smirking. He came closer and bent down to kiss me, but I moved my head to the side and he kissed my cheek instead. I looked at my feet blushing deeply, as I felt the stares of all the kids that were in the parking lot, making holes in my back.

"Everyone is watching." I murmured, still looking down.

"Well, let them watch." Damon said, lifting my head with a single finger, to look at him. He bent down and kissed me one time in the lips, and this time I didn't pull back. He pulled back.

"Have a good day princess." He said and got in the car with a final grin.

"I sure hope I do." I murmured in the air and walked to the entrance of the school.

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School was both boring and tiring and I couldn't wait to finally go home and relax. But, of course, there was no chance that would ever happen. Elena told me today, that there was an event, the 'Historical Society Volunteer Picnic', in which we could go for fun and also help. I also noticed today how weird Elena and Stefan reacted to each other and I decided to ask her about it.

"What's up with you and Stefan?" I asked her and she looked away from me, averting her eyes and looking down at the floor, as we walked to her car.

"Whatever it is, you can say it Elena." I said and she looked at me.

"I will tell you, but not here." She said, as we reached her car. We got inside and Elena started the car. I turned to look at her as soon as we were out of the school parking lot.

"So? What is it with you and Stefan? You've been acting weird all day." I said and she sighed before answering.

"We pretend to fight." She said and I was taken aback by her answer.

"And…why is that? I thought you and Stefan were great together." I said and a small smile appeared on her lips.

"Yeah, I know. It's just that Stefan and I think that…Caroline is talking to Katherine and…reporting whatever happens between us." She said and shrugged her shoulders. Katherine again. It's the second time I hear about her today, and she is staring to really get on my nerves.

"So…you pretend to fight and Caroline tells it to Katherine." I said and she nodded.

"That's not weird at all." I said with a laugh and Elena grinned at me.

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We were currently at Elena's room and I was getting dressed for this event we were going to. I had earlier told Charlie that we were going at this, so he knew where I was going to be. From now on, I will try to lie less to him about where I'm going, except for emergencies of course.

I wore a pair of black skinny jeans and black ballerinas I owned and a V-neck stripped blouse in grey and black, that Elena had given me to match the rest. I put on some lip balm too. Elena was wearing a white tank top, that had and elephant print on it and blue jean shorts with her navy blue converse. She had put on a pink lipstick and some black mascara.

"Ready to go?" She asked me.

"I think so?" I said and it came out as a question, making us both laugh as we walked out of her house and headed to the park.

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