Chapter 10

The bell rang to sound the start of school; Elena showed Damon the way to his first class. They were in most of the same classes, thanks to a very persuasive secretary. Elena was receiving looks of jealousy from nearly every girl she past. At the doorway to first lesson, physics, Caroline was leaning back on the door, blocking there way.

Please just move, Caroline I've had enough of fights for one day, Elena tried to plead to her with her eyes, but Caroline didn't even acknowledge her presence, she was focusing all her attention towards Damon.

"Hi there, I'm Caroline you must be new", she said in a forced sweet voice.

"Yes" was all that Damon replied his voice was hollow, his expression was bored.

Caroline was surprised by his lack of interest; most boys were all over her when she acted like a flirt, "I'd be happy to show you around" she said touching his arm.

"No thanks, I'm going to be following Elena", he smiled over to her causing Caroline to notice Elena was standing next to him. Her eyes narrowed and her face was set in a scowl. "Is she now? Well, that's just like Elena, so nice" her voice was full of sarcasm, "and by the way, don't expect her to remember your name, she'll have moved on in less than a week" she said fiercely.

"Caroline, just shut up and move out of the way" Elena said just as fiercely, just then Damon loved Elena even more.

"Oh, look wittle ewena acting tough" Caroline said as if she was talking to a child, she looked down her nose at her and walked away. Elena rolled her eyes and proceeded into the classroom, with Damon shadowing her, fascinated. Bonnie and Meredith stared at her bewildered; they must have seen Matt and Damon's argument, Elena decided. Damon sat beside Elena for most of the day as they sat in alphabetical order according to there first names, but this also meant Caroline was always nearby. At lunchtime Damon went, like the rest of the students to eat, but instead of going to the cafeteria he went to the forest.

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"Tell us every single detail" Bonnie said, trying to calm down, so no one in the cafeteria would hear.

"There's not much to tell", Elena laughed, feeling better than usual, as she was talking to Damon all morning.

"Matt nearly hit him; you think that was 'not much'?" Meredith asked a lot calmer than Bonnie was.

"Matt was just overreacting, he was angry at me not Damon." Elena didn't want to talk about that part of the morning, she was hardly ever happy anymore and she didn't want anything about fights ruining her mood.

"Did you see how fast Damon's reflexes were? He must be like a black belt in karate!" Bonnie said her eyes growing huge.

"I heard Tyler Smallwood drove Matt to hospital because he was complaining about the pain in his hand." Meredith said looking at Elena closely.

Elena tried to keep her expression composed, "Why would Tyler drive him, when did they become friends?"

"He probably just wanted an excuse to get out of school, knowing Tyler", Bonnie said quickly trying to skip this issue and get back to talking about Damon.

"Maybe, but I'm sure Damon will have another fight coming up if Tyler finds out how much Caroline wants to sink her claws into Damon", Meredith pondered.

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"Do you want a lift home? I'm going that way anyway." Damon asked Elena as she packed her books into her bag.

"Sure, that'd be great", while Damon was speeding down the road she then wished she wouldn't have agreed to the ride home, she never felt comfortable in a car ever since her parents accident. Damon sensed her uneasiness and slowed down.

"So, how was your fist day? She turned her attention from the road to him, smiling.

"It was interesting, not the educational bit though"

"Not the Matt part either"

"Not the Marv part either" Damon agreed with her

"You mean Matt?"

"Who's Matt?"

"Never mind", Elena laughed then her face drained of colour, "Stop the car!"

Damon, who had been looking at Elena, listened to her warning, with vampire-quick reactions he slammed down on the breaks making the car swerve abruptly until it was facing the opposite direction. His arm was reached out to hold Elena to her seat, to reduce the impact of the sudden stop. Damon turned to look out the back window to see what or who he nearly ran down. As he looked at the ground a small bird flew upwards and soared into the air, so quickly he couldn't get a good look at it.

Elena's colour was slowly returning to her cheeks.

"Are you ok?" Damon asked looking concerned.

"Fine, but is that person ok?" she said trying to turn her head to see out the window.

"What person?"

"There was someone standing there, just before you braked" Elena said looking out all the windows, looking for any sign of life. Then he finally understood why Elena was running to school this morning and why she had that dream last night.

Whoever you are, I will find you, and when I do, I will kill you Damon sent out in a blast of forceful power, to whatever it was that was attempting to either scare or kill Elena…