It's been two weeks since I had the cure, I feel better. I start to run, shifting into a lion, my hackles lift, legs move, claws dig into the muddy grass, I run so fast I just a blur. My fur falls into my eyes, I stop... Damon. "Hi Damon..." I try to say, he flinches, "Merda!" I realise all he hears roaring, all he sees is a tall, slim lioness, he don't see Charlotte. 'Merda' is Italian for shit.

"Why the hell is a lion in Mystic Falls?" he says.

I start to run, run away from Damon, away from people, away from town. My feet hit the ground fast and hard. Faster and faster. Hitting the floor harder and harder. Through the woods, past the lake...

I stop. Where am I? Why am I in a city? Why did I run? Why didn't I shift back? Why didn't I show him what I am? Where am I? Where am I? Why did I run away? I ran north, I didn't think... If I run south I could get home, or just end up somewhere else. So, stupidly I run further north. Out to where I don't know...


Damon's P.O.V

"Kay, you're not gonna believe it but there was a lioness in the woods!" I told Kay.

"I believe it," He swallows, "It was Charlotte, you fool, didn't she ever tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

"We are lions."

"What?"

"We are lions." he repeats.

"That's just wrong! I kissed a lion! I felt for a lion!" How can she think she could not tell me that? I mean, they're lions!

I run, at vampire speed, home.

I kissed a lion. I felt for a lion!

Stupid Charlotte!

As if I want a lion!

"Damon?" I turn, Elena. "Damon, get out of here! We thought you had left town, you ain't been home in weeks!" She looks angry, "Get out!"

"Charlotte's a lion! Just a lion!" I cry.

"What?" She says.

"She didn't even tell me! Kay had to!"

"Who are you on about?"

"Charlotte Parade!"

"She's a lion!" Elena gasps.

"Yes!"