I groaned as someone pounded on the door. I pulled the duvet over my head and snuggled down in to the pillow. "Tyler! You're going to be late!" Carol shouted. Tyler moaned as he pulled me closer to his chest. I smiled as I cuddled closer to him. Then the door swung open and Carol barged in. "Tyl – Dani?" She stuttered in confusion.

"Hey, Carol." I mumbled as I pulled the sheet down a bit.

"Would one of you like to explain what're you're doing?" She questioned. Tyler and I looked at each other before turning back to Carol but neither of us made a move to speak. "You're dating Caroline" She stated as she pointed to Ty then she pointed over to me. "and you're dating Damon. I can't believe you'd cheat on them like this." She exclaimed.

"Actually, we're not dating… them anymore." I clarified.

"Yep." Tyler agreed as he popped the 'p'. "We got dumped."

"So how did this happen?" She inquired as she gesturing from one of us to the other.

"Well, there was talking, drinking and a little crying on my side; then one thing just led to another." I answered.

Something changed in her then and she smiled. "Well at least you have the audacity to not sneak out in the middle of the night like a prostitute."

I laughed and Tyler smirked. "Caroline used to sneak out?" I asked in disbelief.

Tyler nodded. "Apparently I had to earn the over nighter."

"She missed out." I stated.

"Well, I hate to break this up but you're both late for school." Carol replied. "It was lovely seeing you again Dani, and please don't be a stranger." She said smiling warmly at me.

"It was nice seeing you too Carol and I'm sure I won't be." I responded politely.

"Now, get up and hurry. You don't want to miss any lessons." Then she shut the door behind her as she walked out.

I looked over at Tyler and laughed. "Shut up." He scolded playfully. "As soon as you leave she's going to be interrogating me."

"Then I better get moving." I smirked as I slid out of the bed and pulled one of his shirts over my head.

"You're leaving like that?" Tyler questioned.

I nodded. "It's better than leaving in that." I said pointing to my dress that was covered in ripped and covered in blood.

"If you give me twenty minutes I can give you a ride home."

"Nah, its fine. My cars only just outside." I shrugged.

"Do you want me to pick you up and drive you to school?" He asked.

"No, but you can meet me at my house and I'll drive us to school." I suggested. "It's only fair seems as you got to drive last night."

He sighed. "Fine. I'll be there in twenty minutes."

"Bye Ty." I said as I grabbed my phone and keys off the side before leaving the house. As I started the car I quickly checked my phone because the light kept flashing. I rolled my eyes once I saw I had 32 missed calls from Jeremy, 18 from Rick and 5 from Caroline. I placed it on the passenger seat before speeding off and reaching my house in record time. Luckily the house was empty, so they all must have left for the school. Which is good because I could not be arsed to have to deal with everything right now. I had a quick shower, getting rid of any traces of blood that might have been left on my body.

I pulled my wet hair back in to a high pony tail as I admired myself in the floor length mirror. I was wearing black skinny jeans with a purple blouse that had a black belt around it. I was also wearing 5 inch black heels and had my make-up lightly done. Right on the dot the doorbell rang so I quickly slung my bag over my shoulder and descended the stairs. I opened the door to see Tyler standing there with a smile on his face. "What's with that smile?" I inquired curiously as I unlocked the door to my car and slid in.

"My mom thinks we're back together." He answered as he got in to the passenger side. I laughed as I started the engine and took off down the road. "I swear she was more upset then I was when we broke up."

"I love your mom." I said between giggles.

"Yeah, she loves you too, sometimes more than me." He joked. "She always thought that you'd be the girl I'd marry and settle down with, the future Mrs Lockwood." He laughed.

"I always thought that too." I admitted honestly. "But it wasn't meant to be." He nodded sadly.

"Oh and could we keep us" He gestured between us. "to ourselves?" I raised my eyebrow in confusion so he elaborated. "I'm not bothered about Caroline finding out, you can tell her whatever you want." He clarified. "It's Klaus. He'll kill me if he finds out."

"Why?" I asked as the car rolled to a stop in the parking lot of the school.

"Come on!" He exclaimed. "It's no secret he loves you. If he finds out that I slept with you, when I'm supposed to be loyal to him, he'll rip me to shreds."

I rolled my eyes in amusement. "Well I'm not going to tell him and if anyone from the Scooby gang finds out, it's not as if they're going to run straight to Klaus and spill all, is it?"

He sighed. "True."

I cut off the engine and got out the car as Tyler followed. "We have history first, don't we?" I asked as we entered the school.

"Yep." He smirked popping the 'p'. "This is gonna be an awesome day!" He cheered sarcastically.

I giggled as we came to the history room. "Sorry we're late Rick." I smiled as I opened the door and walked in.

Rick sighed as he turned around from the board. "No problem, just come on in and take your seats."

I walked in first and saw there were only two seats left, one in the back and one at the front. I walked straight to the back as Tyler followed. "Tyler there's a seat at the front." Rick called out. "There's no room at the back."

I bent down eye level to the person next to the empty seat and my eyes dilated as I locked on to theirs. "Move." I compelled. The girl jumped up from the seat and scuttled down to the front as Tyler and I took our seats.

Alaric stared at me in disbelief before gulping and turning back to the board. "Nicely done." Ty complimented.

"Thank you." I said as I turned to smile him but at the same time catching 3 pairs of eyes staring intently at us. Caroline looked conflicted as she looked from Tyler to me whereas Bonnie and Elena just narrowed their eyes at us. I smirked at them and raised my arm as I waved. Bonnie scoffed and all 3 of them turned around.

Tyler and I and missed forty minutes of the lesson so luckily we only had twenty minutes left. A few minutes passed as I listened to what Rick was saying, something about world war II and Hitler, before my phone rang. Everyone swivelled round in their seats to stare at me and I fished it out of my pocket. I frowned at the caller ID before pressing ignore and switching it to vibrate. "Sorry." I apologised to Rick who was trying to regain everyone's attention.

"Who was it?" Tyler whispered.

I clicked ignore again as it started to vibrate and turned to Tyler. "No one." My phone vibrated once again to show I had a text so I pulled it out of my pocket discreetly and rolled my eyes at the message.

Pick up the phone

I clicked reply and quickly typed.

In the middle of class

The reply was pretty much instant.

Ring me when you get out its really important

I didn't bother replying to that and just placed it back in my pocket. Feeling eyes on me I looked up and glared at Elena who quickly turned around again. Thankfully the bell rang shortly after that. As I gathered all my stuff and slung my bag over my shoulder Rick called my name. "Yeah." I answered.

"Can I speak to you for a minute?" He questioned.

"Sure." I responded as everyone left leaving just me and him.

He shut the door behind the last student and turned to me. "Where were you last night?"

"I slept at Tyler's, I was too drunk to drive." I shrugged.

"That kid they found on the highway, Chase. I remember him. He came here a few months ago to see you. He loved you and yet you killed him, why?"

"I was hungry. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I told him to leave but he didn't; so he brought it on himself."

"There was a bar not too far away from where they found the body. It was burnt to the ground, 4 people inside all dead. Please tell me that wasn't you."

I shrugged nonchalantly. "Well it wasn't entirely me; Tyler helped."

"Oh God! Please tell me you haven't." He breathed out as he ran a hand through his hair. I raised my eyebrow and tilted me head to the side in confusion. "You've turned the switch haven't you?"

I nodded. "It's easier this way."

"Don't do this." He pleaded. "It's not worth it; they're not worth, Damon's not worth it. You're better than that."

"That's the thing Rick. I'm not."

Before he could reply the door swung open and a boy with blonde spikey hair frowned. "Sorry to interrupt but I think we have a lesson now." Taking that as my cue to leave I walked straight out the door and pushed past the herd of people waiting for their history lesson.

I walked outside and pulled out my phone before dialling his number. "Finally." He cheered. "What took you so long?"

"Getting a lecture from Rick." I replied. "What's so important?" I asked.

Before he could reply an annoyingly familiar voice beat him to it. "Who is that? Is that Stefan?" She questioned as she stalked over to me with Bonnie following closely behind.

"No its Santa, I've been a bad girl this year apparently so I'm getting a lump of coal for Christmas." I spat sarcastically. I could hear laughing from the other end of the phone and that brought a smile to my lips.

"It is Stefan isn't it?" She hissed angrily. "Klaus not enough for you, you have to have Stefan as well."

I raised my eyebrows in amusement. "Unlike you I don't go after brothers. It's sick and twisted."

"I'm not going after Damon." She growled.

"You keep telling yourself that, maybe you'll start to believe it." I smirked. When she just stood there flustered I continued. "So lying to me, betraying my trust and trying to steal my boyfriend wasn't enough you've resulted to stalking me now."

"We're not stalking you." Bonnie clarified finally speaking up. "We just want to know what's happening."

"Nothing's happening." I stated as I pressed the end call on my phone and showed them. "See? Now piss off! Because I am not in the best of minds right now and you two are irritating me!"

"We're not scared off you!" Bonnie stated.

In a blur of movement I had Bonnie held against the wall with her feet dangling off the ground. Her hands clawed at mine as she wriggled in my grip, her face reddening as she struggled desperately to breathe. "Then you're a bigger idiot then I thought." I hissed. Elena jumped in to action then as she screamed repeatedly and tried to pull me off her but I merely shrugged her away and she fell to the ground.

"Dani stop!" Caroline commanded as she grabbed my arm and pushed me a few feet away. Bonnie started coughing then and rubbing her throat as Elena comforted her. I glanced at my right to see Tyler had seemed to materialised out of nowhere. "I'm sorry okay." Caroline blurted after a few tense moments. "I was a complete and utter idiot. I sided with them when I now you're not a cheat. I was mad at Tyler and at myself and I took it out on you because it was easier. I'm sorry I just want my best friend back. I know you haven't slept with Tyler."

I stayed silent but taking me completely by surprise Tyler spoke up. "Actually we did." He admitted. "But not when she was with anyone else. Last night."

"What!" Caroline cried.

"Yeah." I shrugged. "I was being accused of a lot of things; I thought I might as well have actually done one."

Caroline looked back and forth between us before turning on her heel and heading back in to the school. "How could you?" Elena screeched as she stormed up to me. Her hand swung back but before she had a chance to slap me I grabbed it in a bone crushing grip.

"How stupid are you?" I hissed in annoyance.

I added a little more pressure and she cried out in pain. But I quickly released her as I felt Bonnie's witchy migraine. "This isn't over." Bonnie stated as she helped Elena to her feet and started to lead her back to the school.

"Oh goody!" I smirked.

"Are you okay?" Tyler asked.

I nodded. "How did you know we were out here?"

"You never showed up to English and then I heard Elena screaming at you." He explained. We were silent then until he broke it again. "You coming to class?"

"I'll meet you there, I just have to do one little thing." He nodded and headed back to the school.

As soon as I was sure he was out of hearing range I rang his number again. "Having fun?"He asked.

"Immensely." I responded sarcastically. "Now come on Stef, spill. I've been having a bad day and I'm not in the mood to mess around."

"Is anyone in hearing distance right now?"He asked.

"Nope." I replied popping the 'p'.

"I thought I'd just warn you to watch out for Klaus. He's going to be on the war path."

"I know." I stated. "I doubt he'd let us off for trying to kill him."

"I'm not on about that, he's angry about something else, this is more important to him. So he'll probably let that slide for now."

"What did you do?" I inquired curiously.

"You know how he had all his family stored in coffins?"

"Yeah." I answered.

"I… stole them."He admitted.

I laughed. "I like this new you. You're full of surprises."

"He screwed with the both of us and made everyone turn against us. He ruined our lives, so I'm going to ruin his. Can I count on you to help me?"Stefan asked.

I nodded though he couldn't see it. "Of course you can."

"He's going to be more dangerous than we could ever imagine, there's no telling what he'll do or who he'll hurt."Stefan added.

"I know." I replied. "But like you said he ruined our lives."

"Good."

"Where are you keeping them?" I questioned curiously.

The morning passed pretty quickly after the phone call with Stefan and before I knew it, it was lunch. I walked to the cafeteria and sat down at a vacant table while everyone else cued up to get food. I saw Bonnie and Elena sit down at the table furthest from mine and couldn't help but smirk as they glared. "What's up with you?" Matt asked as he sat down opposite me. "Shouldn't you be sitting over there with them?"

I smiled up at him. "They hate me right now and vice versa."

"Why?" He inquired curiously.

"For lying to me about killing Rebekah and bringing in Katherine which you helped with by the way."

He grimaced. "I'm sorry about that. I went to the boarding house to pick Rebekah up and Elena answered. She started saying how Klaus was dangerous and that he'd hurt everyone we cared about unless we stopped him. But then she started saying how you couldn't be trusted because you love him so you wouldn't let him die."

I rolled my eyes, half in amusement and half in annoyance. "I don't love him." I stated. "But I did try and save him but not because of that." He waited patiently for me to continue so reluctantly I did. "He told me that if he died then his hybrids would kill Damon. I couldn't let that happen but Stefan beat me to it." I explained. "And that's also one of the reasons they hate me."

"Why would they hate you for saving Damon's life?" He questioned in disbelief as he glanced over his shoulder to look at them.

"Because they don't believe I did it to save Damon." I admitted.

"MATT!" Elena called catching most people's attention in the cafeteria as they turned to stare. Elena beckoned him with her hand as Bonnie pointed to an empty seat at their table.

"You better go, Queen Elena calls." I said sarcastically. Matt looked from Elena to me with furrowed brows before turning back to Elena and shaking his head. "What are you doing?" I asked in confusion as I watched Elena and Bonnie stare at each other in shock.

"They're the ones in the wrong. They can't keep things from you and then hate youfor it. And I hope you can forgive me for my part in the Rebekah and Katherine incident. I really didn't know what to believe."

I shook my head. "I was never mad at you so there's nothing to forgive."

"What are you guys talking about?" Tyler smirked as he sat down next to Matt with a tray full of food.

"Nothing." Matt answered.

"How much food did you buy?" I blurted as I stared at the mountain pile stuffed on his tray.

"Hey!" He exclaimed. "I am part wolf you know, I still need to eat."

"Yeah but moderation helps." I smirked as Matt laughed.

"Says the girl that sat and ate an extra-large meat feast pizza all to herself."

"I remember that!" Matt laughed.

I scowled playfully at the both of them. "I was hungry." I defended. "And you two had one as well."

We were all still laughing when Jeremy approached. "Hey, can I speak to you?" He asked.

"Yeah sure." I replied as I gestured to the seat next to me.

"Errm… not here."

"Yeah sure, I'll see you guys later." I said as I stood up from the table and waved to them before following Jeremy outside.

"Did you drive here?" He asked.

"Yes, my cars this way."

We went to the mystic grill. Jeremy walked in first and frowned before he turned around to me. "We can go somewhere else if you want?" I glanced behind him and saw Damon sitting at the bar so I rolled my eyes.

"I'm good." I stated. Jeremy frowned before reluctantly continuing inside and seating himself inside a booth. "I'll get the drinks." I stated. I was gone before he could protest and sauntered up to the bar. "A bottle of single malt whisky and two shot glasses please, on the house." I compelled.

The man smirked at me. "Coming right up and it's on the house of course." I smirked in triumph. I was getting quite good at being a vampire.

"That's called stealing." Damon stated as he nursed a glass of bourbon.

"Hypocrite." I replied then smirked as I said. "Is this what you do all day when you don't have lives to ruin? Sit and drink all day?"

He didn't bother replying and I didn't wait for an answer I just grabbed he drink and watched back over to Jeremy. "It's half twelve." He stated as his eyes bugged out of his head at seeing the whisky.

"It's five o'clock somewhere." I mumbled as I poured it in to the two glasses.

"You're a bad influence on me." He laughed as he downed the shot.

"Me?" I scoffed. "You're the one dragging me out of school and ruining my education." He laughed. "So why exactly did you drag me here?" I asked.

"I spoke to Rick." He answered hesitantly. I raised my eyebrows so he sighed. "And Elena." He added. "You attacked Bonnie and nearly broke Elena's arm."

"They pissed me off."

"So that excuses it?" He exclaimed. I stayed silent. "Why have you turned it off?"

"Because it's easier." I answered as I ignored the shot glass and started drinking straight from the bottle.

"But this isn't you!"

I laughed. "Oh, it's exactly me; just without the added baggage."

"Rick and I don't hate you, okay? We just want you to turn it back on." He said sincerely.

"Yeah, well, what about what I want?" I questioned. I leant forward over the table trying to control the demon that wanted to surface. "I don't want to feel like my heart is being ripped out off my chest and set on fire! I don't want to feel like I could break at any moment! I've had enough crap to deal with in my life, I can't take anymore!"

He looked at me with sadness and pity in his eyes and I had to stop myself from cringing. "You won't break." He said confidently. "I won't let you. You're too strong to break."

I sighed in annoyance. "I'm not Jer! Are you seriously saying that if you had the choice to feel no guilt, no remorse, no sadness, you wouldn't?" He stayed silent so I nodded. "Exactly."

"I can't tell you what to do but… just do the right thing." He got up then and left me sitting there. I still had the car keys so I guess he'd be walking back to school.

"So you've flicked the switch, much say I'm impressed." Klaus said as she sat in the seat Jeremy just vacated. He took the bottle from me and smirked as he took a gulp. "Single malt, my favourite."

"Today has been a very bad day." I said pronouncing each word carefully. "So whatever you want, get to the point."

"Your brother's right you know? You won't break. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. You can't give that dick the satisfaction of breaking; he doesn't deserve your tears."

"Let's not forget who caused him to hate me."

He smirked. "You didn't have to try and save me."

"Then he would have died." I stated.

"And the world would be a much better place."

I glanced over my shoulder to see Damon was watching us intently with an unreadable expression plastered on his face. "So where's the rest of your family?" I asked as I looked around curiously playing dumb. "Shouldn't you have raised them from the dead yet?"

He gritted his teeth. "That's actually the reason why I'm here. Do you know where Stefan is?"

"Nope." I said popping the 'p'.

"Have you spoken to Stefan at all?"

"Nope." I lied.

His eyes darkened in anger as he drank more of the whisky. "So what's Stefan done?"

"Stole my family."

I smirked. "Karmas a bitch."

"Well until I find out where he's keeping them and I get them back I am going to rip this town apart."

"Oooh I'm shaking." I mocked.

"If you thought I was evil you haven't seen nothing yet!" He threatened. "I'll kill everyone you've ever cared about, starting with Jeremy!"

I leant across the table top again so we were only an inch apart. "You do that." I said. "But if you do I can promise you that you will never see your family again; in fact they will never see the light of day again. I will rip them limb from limb and toss their remains in to the sea and they'll be eaten by sharks. Don't underestimate me! You'll regret it!"

After my chat with Klaus I stormed out of the grill much to his anger and annoyance. I didn't bother going back to school I just text Tyler to get my bag and went home. Once I was sure there was no one listening I dialled his number. "I'm guessing he spoke to you then."Stefan said as he answered the phone.

"Yeah, made a nice little show of threatening my family."

"What did you do?"He asked.

"I returned the favour and threatened his family."

"Good but you do realise he'll live up to his promises. There's no stopping him."

"I know."

"You didn't tell him where I am did you?"He inquired.

"No of course I didn't. I'm not an idiot. But you do realise he's probably got all his hybrids tracking you down."

"Yeah but I'll be alright, it's up to you to protect everyone in mystic falls."

"Yeah sure. Jeremy, Rick and Matt will be fine don't worry." I replied.

"Not just them." He sighed. "Elena, Bonnie and Caroline too."

I growled. "Not going to happen."

"You might hate them right this instant but you'll regret it later and you owe me for saving Damon."

I huffed. "Fine." We silent for a few moments before I finally said. "Good luck."

"You too." And then I hung up.

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