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AMY'S POV

Shit.

"Um…I can explain this," I said in one breath while Rachel let out a squeak and run towards me.

"Amy, he really loves you!"

I motioned her to be silent and put the flowers on the couch, and then turned to look at my uncle. Will let out a nervous laugh.

"Damon?"

"Who is Damon?"

"Absolutely nobody-"

"Her ex," Mike muttered. "Looks like will also be her next."

"Mike!" I snapped at him and turned to my uncle. "It's not what it looks like."

"It's not?"

"Yeah I'm-" I shifted my weight, rubbing the back of my neck. "It's-um…"

"How did this-" my uncle tried to find the right word. "Damian-"

"Damon," Mike said helpfully and I glared at him.

"Know where you are?"

"Can you do this after dinner?" Randall said gruffly and I ignored him.

"Well, it's a-ehm, it's a funny story actually…" I paused and shot auntie a begging look. She seemed like she understood it and cleared her throat.

"Food is getting cold, sweetie," she reminded him. "Amy, did you wash your hands yet?"

I shook my head, still avoiding any eye contact with my uncle.

"Good, you go and do that. This conversation can wait," she said and I walked to bathroom pensively, trying to decide whether I should kill him or kiss him when I got back to Mystic Falls. When I got back to the living room, everyone was around the table, serving themselves food and-

Oh no…

My auntie, being the elegant woman she was, had decided to decorate the table with a vase which was filled with vervain, placed in the middle of the table. I stopped dead on my tracks and gawked at it, then walked upstairs and got myself a cardigan which would cover my arms, just in case.

"It's a little chilly," I rubbed my arms when I walked back into living room and took my seat. Auntie placed a hand over my arm.

"I thought you'd want to dry your flowers, so I didn't put them into water," she whispered and I tried to smile, eyeing the vervain in front of me.

"Yeah, thanks."

I drummed my fingernails on the table and Will mouthed 'Relax'. I tried to smile and picked the food that was closest to me, and further to the vase.

After the dinner, I helped auntie with the dishes and Rachel pulled at my sleeve.

"Will you help me with my homework?"

I wrinkled up my nose. "Depends…Is it math?"

She giggled and shook her head.

"Okay then, I can," I smiled. "Go upstairs, I'll be right there."

"Thank you," she said politely and ran upstairs. I, on the other hand, chuckled softly.

"So, is there anything I should know?" Auntie asked smiling and I bit the inside of my cheek, swaying back and forth on my heels.

"About Damon?"

She nodded. "I didn't know you had a boyfriend."

"I don't," I shook my head fervently.

"Yet he sends you flowers."

"Yeah he- um…. He has a tendency of doing unexpected stuff and take me by surprise, even if I'm miles away, apparently," I muttered slowly and she laughed, shaking her head.

"And you complain about it?"

I tried to suppress the smile making its way to my lips. "Of course I do! All the time! It doesn't seem to stop him though, hence the flowers."

"Does he bother you?" she frowned slightly and I realized how it must've sounded.

I raised my head. "Oh no…No, it's um-it's nothing like that," I tried to laugh. "We're… Damon and I- we've a long story," I decided to say in the end. "I-I'd better go check on the hunters."

"We're going to talk about it later on," she warned me and I nodded, smiling, then I strode towards the studying room.

When I walked into the room, all the hunters were divided as pairs, arguing something. I looked around and Mike and Dan nodded at something uncle said, then walked towards me.

"Where are you going?"

"Spying," Mike placed a kiss to the top of my head. "Be careful okay?"

"Wait, what-?" I stammered but they had already left the room. Will was talking to uncle now, and Caden came closer to me.

"Hi."

"Hey, what's going on?"

"We'll watch some houses to see where the vampires reside until we find them," Caden said to me slowly. "Your uncle sends everyone in pairs."

Will and one of the hunters that I recalled as Steven got their stakes and left the room as well. Will shot me a smile before he did, and closed the door behind him. I moved closer to my uncle.

"I can do it too."

He stopped talking to another hunter and turned to me.

"What?"

"I can do it too. If we're gonna watch the houses," I shrugged. "What's the worse thing that can happen? Me falling asleep?"

"Vampires noticing you are watching them and killing you," he commented dryly and I tried not to groan.

"Well, that danger is also valid in fight too."

"Amy-" he sighed. "I'm not sure if you should do this-"

I raised my brows. "I thought you said I could do it."

"It's too dangerous for a girl your age."

I rubbed my face. "Uncle, you're sending everyone in pairs, isn't it true? It's not like I'll be alone."

"I already sent Will, Dan and Mike, there's no one I can send you with."

I gave a sideways look to the around and hmmed. "There's Caden?"

"What?" Caden whirled his head around when he heard his name and my uncle pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Amy-"

"I'm not gonna stop nagging," I said stubbornly. "Uncle, please. I want to help."

He ran a hand over his face and motioned Caden to come closer.

"Keep your safe distance, and come back here as soon as you suspect of something, okay?"

"Yes sir," he said and got couple of stakes. I kissed my uncle on the cheek, thanked him and followed Caden. I paused when I reached the stairs.

"Rachel?" I called out.

"Yes?"

"I'm going out for a while, you start doing your homework, we can work on it when I get back, okay?"

I heard her running downstairs and Caden quickly hid the stakes into his bag.

"Where are you going?"

"Somewhere very boring," I grimaced, trying to sound convincing. "But I'll be back," I kissed her on the cheek, trying to ignore her pouting. "See you in a bit!"

We left the house and got into the car.

"So." I said "How does this thing work?"

"Well…" he said. "We have the map of the most recent attacks, and each car goes to a different neighborhood and see if there's anything extraordinary."

"Then we attack?"

"Then we go back to house, gather, and plan the attack."

"Huh. What if-" my question was cut off when Caden's phone started ringing. He took it out of his pocket, glanced at it then pushed it back into his pocket. I frowned slightly.

"You were saying?"

"Um- what if they attack someone in front of us?"

"Well-" he started, but his phone started ringing again. He shut his eyes for a second, letting out a long breath, and turned it to silent mode.

My eyebrows went up, but I didn't comment on it, I just let him pull over the car and hand me binoculars.

"Here you go. Tell me if you see anything weird."

"Okay then…" I muttered and made myself comfortable.

"Aren't you gonna answer that?" I asked when his phone started vibrating for the hundredth time, but Caden only shrugged in response. I heaved a sigh and lowered my binoculars, fully aware that I didn't need them.

"Would you want me to walk outside so that you can talk with…" I nodded at the phone. "Them?"

"No," he answered too quickly and I tilted my head to the right.

"Are you okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

I eyed him up and down, and then turned my glances to the dark street.

"Um-would you want to talk about it?"

He shot me a weird look. "I barely know you, flower girl."

"Ha ha," I mimicked. "You're hilarious. And I know that, but it's sometimes easier to talk to strangers about your problems. They have an objective approach to things."

"There's nothing to be objective about."

"Okay," I muttered and kept watching the street. Minutes passed in silence, then he cleared his throat, shifting in his seat.

"I'm going through a break up."

"They're hard," I commented dryly. "And she keeps calling you?"

"Yeah."

"And she wants to…get back together but you don't want to?"

He paused. "She wants to apologize," he let out a long breath. "For cheating on me."

My head snapped up but I managed to keep my emotions from reflecting on my face.

"Then it's understandable why you are avoiding her calls," I said slowly. "I'm sorry."

He shrugged. "She says she's sorry."

"Do you believe her?"

"Honestly?" he said. "I guess so…"

"Do you want to forgive her?"

He let out a laugh. "Yeah," he said hoarsely. "Yeah I do. Pathetic, right?"

"I don't think so," I said. "I mean… I'm not saying it's the right thing to feel… But it's not pathetic."

"So it's wrong then."

"I'm not in the position to decide that, Caden."

"You know, you're not being helpful."

"And you don't want me to be helpful, you just wanna get it out of your chest."

He chuckled. "True…" he said. "It's just… I keep thinking, why? Why would she do this to me? To us?"

"Any luck with getting an answer?"

"Lots of anger and self guilt."

"As I guessed," I smiled at him, the questions were so familiar to me that it was almost funny.

"Do you think I should forgive her?"

I shrugged. "Do you think you can?"

"I don't know…" he bit his nail and I leant back in my seat.

"I just… I don't know how I can still feel like this. I mean she went and did the one unforgivable thing, and I still love her," he breathed out, shaking his head. "I do love her. Jesus Christ…."

"Well…" I heaved a sigh. "I think we have a tendency to fall for whoever will fuck up us the most."

"True that," he mocked. "May it be my cheating girlfriend, or your sending flowers ex."

I rolled my eyes. "Will you ever let that go?!"

"No," he said. "So what happened to you?"

I shifted my attention. "To me?"

"I told you my story, so it's your turn to tell me why you keep checking your phone in every five seconds."

"I don't-" I stopped when I realized my phone was in my hand. "Do I do that?!"

"Yeah. And you jump whenever your phone beeps."

"Great," I grumbled, sliding a little in my seat.

"So?"

"So what?"

"What made your ex your ex?"

I let out a laugh. "Oh, that's a long story. Very long story."

"Well, we have time."

"You sure about that?" I asked. "You'd get bored."

"Amy, I'm sitting in a car waiting for a vampire to show up. I don't think I'd get bored."

I let a smile play on my lips. "It's kinda complicated."

He clicked his tongue. "I could tell that much. Girls like you always have complicated stories."

I furrowed my brows. "Girls like me?" I repeated and he nodded slowly.

"You just have that air around you," he said. "Like…you know, you-" he paused to find the right word, and I could feel the nervousness filling my system. Had he actually realized something about me being a vampire?

"It's like you pull people to yourself," he said and grimaced. "Whoa, wait up, I sounded like a creep. It's just that- you just have that air around you. I can't explain it."

Well I can. Predator.

"Huh," I muttered. "Well, um- I- we were together, then he pushed me away, then we were okay again, then I pushed him away, and I don't know what's happening right now."

He stared at me. "Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you push him away?"

A sad smile pulled at my lips. "I don't think you would understand," I muttered. "People usually don't understand how much self loathing it takes to leave the person you love."

"No really, try me," he said. "I want to know why a person would-"

"Caden, it wouldn't help you to understand why your girlfriend cheated on you, it's a completely different thing."

"Doesn't matter, try me."

I heaved a deep sigh. "Well you start thinking-" I paused. "I don't know, I guess you start thinking that you're…corrupted, somehow. Like, the moment you let yourself touch that person, that thing inside you would spread to them, like a plague. It's like… they love a completely different person, and no matter how much you try to-" I was cut off when a growl reached my ears, making my body clench in panic.

"What?" Caden asked, completely oblivious. Apparently it was too low for a human to hear, but not for a vampire.

Uh oh.

"A-are we gonna stay here all night?" I stammered, while focusing on other voices coming from outside. "I think we should be doing this like a patrol, right?"

"Do you wanna check other sides of the street?" he asked, surprised.

"Caden-" I started, panic rising in me, but before I could say anything else, someone let out a loud scream. I pushed open my car door, cussing at myself for having to slow down to human speed, as Caden started running. When we got there, there was a bloody body lying on the street, but aside from that, the attacker was nowhere to be found.

Caden immediately went for her pulse, while the irresistible scent of blood filled my nostrils.

Oh God no…

I took a sharp breath and stepped back, trying to control myself and keep my face from changing.

"She's still alive-" Caden lifted her up. "Amy?"

I made sure I wasn't under a street lamp, but in the darker side of the street, covering my nose and mouth just in case.

"I have blood phobia."

"What?!"

I tried not to breathe through my nose. "I-I'm fine," I stammered, trying to ignore the faint heart beat pumping blood into her system. Caden groaned.

"You've got to be joking," he said and rushed to the car, placed her to the back seat.

"Get in, we gotta get her to the hospital." he demanded and I ran to the car with human speed, and got into the car, still careful not to inhale the scent.

"You have a blood phobia? Really?" he asked disbelievingly as we drove from the hospital to the house. According to the doctors, the girl we had taken to the hospital was going to be alright, which was a relief.

"Shut up," I muttered.

"I thought you said you hunted before."

"I have."

"Bullshit! You can't hunt vampires when you have a blood phobia."

"It's not that bad, it just happens when I see big wounds." I lied quickly. "Seriously, it's fine."

"Unbelievable…" he shook his head as he pulled over and we left the car. I tried not to look at his blood stained clothes.

When we got into the house, the hunters had already started returning. Mike walked towards me and pulled me into a hug.

"Don't you ever do that again, you hear me?" he muttered through his teeth and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm fine," I said, as he pulled back and Dan nodded at me. I tried to flash a smile, as my uncle came closer.

"Where?" he asked to Caden, who gave him the locations and started telling what happened that night. When he was done with the story, he turned to me.

"And Amy has a blood phobia," he said, smiling and I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Blood phobia?" my uncle repeated and I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Open wounds," I muttered. Mike gave me a sideways glare as Dan shifted his weight.

"Seriously, she looked like she would get sick."

"I didn't look like I would get sick!" I protested as Randall gave me a sneering look. "Shut up!"

He just chuckled. "I gotta tell you though, you have quite the timing."

"What?"

"Just before that girl was attacked, Amy was telling me how we should drive in other parts of the street," he shrugged. I could feel everyone's glances on me and I tried not to show my nervousness.

"Well that's what they do in the movies…" I muttered, and Randall narrowed his eyes, a distrustful light appearing in his them.

"What made you say it?" he demanded and I shrugged.

"I was bored from looking at the same side of the street," I said, praying he wouldn't put the pieces together. He huhed, and turned back to what he was doing.

"We must make a plan," my uncle spoke. "Good work, guys."

"Thank you," I smiled as Dan, Mike and my uncle walked towards the door, two other hunters, Amanda and Steven following them. Caden bumped his shoulder to mine.

"Good one, partner."

"Thank you, partner," I giggled and high fived him. "And no more mocking me."

"A vampire hunter with blood phobia," he taunted and I made a face.

"I'm not that bad."

"No, you're not," he smiled and walked towards the door as well. I heard Randall standing up from where he was sitting, and before I could turn around, I felt the tip of a wooden stake on my back. My smile was wiped off my face and I gasped, making all the hunters in the room turn to me.

"Hey!" Mike took a step towards us, but Randal tut tutted, pressing it harder. I gulped, trying to control myself from ripping him to pieces, and not to blow my cover.

"Randall!" My uncle's voice was like a whip "What are you doing?!"

"Am I the only one who can see this?!" he growled as Caden looked frozen on his spot.

"Let her go and I'll let you live," Mike said through his teeth as I dug my nails into my palms; fight or flight response trying to take over my body.

"Why are you so scared, little girl?" he whispered to my ear and I gritted my teeth to keep my face from changing. Stupid douche, he thought I was shaking from fear?

My uncle was there. There were also other hunters there, and if I made one wrong move-

"What the hell?!" Caden exclaimed. "Dude, she's not a vampire!"

"I'm not so sure about that…"

"Randall, she's just a girl!" Amanda said. "Let her go, you're scaring her."

"She flinched when she saw vervain!" he shouted. "She can't bear to see blood, and somehow, her timing so good that she knows when someone will get attacked! Just tell me, isn't anything wrong with this picture?"

"We've seen her in sunlight!"

"I'm sure she has an explanation for that, don't you, little girl?"

"Aside from the fact that I'm not a vampire?" I tried to imitate the sarcastic, mocking tone of Damon. "No, not really."

Dan clenched his fists. "Let her go, now."

"Oh, I will…" I felt him shift behind me and a scent reached my nostrils.

Vervain.

That was it. I prepared myself for the fight that would break out anytime now, and just before I let the animal inside of me took over, I felt a liquid splashed to my face.

I thought I would pass out from fear and fury, and shut my eyes for the incoming pain.

The following seconds felt like years, but the pain never came. I opened my eyes slowly, looking around, my brain still not comprehending what was happening. I took my shaking hands to my face, and wiped the liquid.

"What the…"

Through the haze of my shock, I felt someone pull me towards the door, and Dan lunged at Randall, punching him square in the face.

"She's not a monster, you hear me?!" he shouted and Mike left my side to attack Randall as well. Suddenly, there was uproar as the other hunters ran there to break the fight. Caden, on the other hand, checked me for injuries.

"Are you okay?"

I nodded slowly as I saw the people in the room pull them off each other. Mike was cussing loudly and Dan looked like he was ready to kill Randall, who tried to struggle and attack them back.

"I can't believe he would think that…"

My uncle had walked in there, and I saw that he was shaking from the anger, but when he talked, his voice didn't tremble at all.

"You're not welcomed in my house anymore, Randall," he said. "The only reason you can walk away from here alive, is that you were my guest. You can join the other hunters in this town if you want to, but make sure you don't cross any paths with me anymore."

They let him go, and he glared at them, then me.

"It's not over yet," he said, and slammed the door behind him. Mike ran to me.

"Are you okay?" he asked frantically, checking me for injuries as well. "Did he hurt you?"

I shook my head. "No I'm-" I was cut off when Dan attempted to follow Randall outside, but uncle stopped him.

"Let me go, uncle!" he said through his teeth. "He tried to hurt her!"

As if on cue, Will and his hunter partner walked inside.

"Hey, what-" Will paused when he saw us. "Happened?"

Dan gritted his teeth and left the room, and Mike hugged me tight.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be fine?" I asked shakily, wiping the remains off my face as uncle came closer.

"Amy-"

"I'm fine, and thank you," I tried to smile, then hugged him and Will took Randall's vervain bottle off the ground. Mike nodded at us to follow him, and we went upstairs.

"What the hell?!" Mike exploded as soon as Will closed the door.

"Guys, what's happening?"

"Randall threw vervain to Amy's face-"

"What?!"

"And nothing happened."

"What do you mean nothing happened?" Will gawked at us and dropped his glances to the bottle. I shook my head slightly.

"I don't understand-" I stammered. "Mike, do you have vervain with you?"

He took his little bottle out of his pocket and I motioned him to hand it over. I let a drop fall to the back of my hand and hissed in pain, as the liquid burned my hand.

"Okay, so…" I rubbed my hand, feeling it heal quickly. "Vervain does hurt me."

Will frowned slightly and smelled it, then spilled some to his finger and tasted it.

"And it's not vervain," he said. "I don't know what it is, but it's not vervain."

"What do you mean it's not vervain?"

"I know how it tastes like, and it's not vervain," he repeated. "Wait a second, so Randall wasn't carrying vervain with him?"

"He's a pro hunter dude, there's no way he could've made a mistake about this."

"Then…" I said slowly. "What was he trying to do?"

"He was serious about that one, he was trying to prove that you were a vampire," Mike said. "The question is, how did it happen?"

I crossed my arms, my brain working nonstop.

"No," I shook my head. "The question is, who would want to protect me from him, and the other hunters?" I paused as the thought hit me and my eyes widened.

"Oh hell, no!"

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