Chapter 9 - They've been WHAT? and Logan vs Alaric
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Gilbert Residence
After Stefan left while carting out Logan we have been planning ways to keep Vamps away.
"We need to Vervain proof things." I say seriously
Aunt Jenna starts hesitantly as if unsure "We could use Vervain when washing clothes."
I nod "Thats a good idea, however unfortunately I need my clothes Vervain free."
Jeremy speaks up then "I want mine Vervain free too, I want to get to know that Anna girl you mentioned."
"Alright, we'll mix liquid Vervain into Auntys detergent" I say "we should also put it in the cleaning products, the Salvatore's might not like getting the sting of Vervain whenever you touch something that was cleaned but maybe they'll grow somewhat of an immunity to it."
Aunt Jenna and Jeremy nod then Jeremy says "and maybe that'll stop sneaking over at night when we're sleeping."
My head snaps up "They've been what?" I snap out.
"They've been stopping by late at night, I wouldn't have noticed but I went in to check on you because of the Noah thing and I noticed Damon, he was sitting away from you but. . I've come in to check on you during night time when I wake now and usually one of them is in there with you." Jeremy says
"I know about halloween, that was more out of paranoia from us both though. Are you sure one of them have been in my room at night ever sense?" I ask him seriously.
"Yeah, they aren't laying on bed with you or anything but. . It doesn't . . . It makes me worry about you, after everything that happened in your previous lifetime, I don't like them in your room with you unaware." He says, I can tell he's nervous and worried.
Me and Aunt Jenna nod solemnly and say at the same time "I don't like it either."
"I'll talk to them, but I can guess that they'll see it as me not taking my 'safety' seriously or something." I say feeling incredibly annoyed and I can't help but feel really uncomfortable.
"Lena, you can stay and room with me." Jeremy suggests.
I take a deep breath "okay, I'll stay in with you and we can set up an air mattress for me."
Jenna nods in agreement and say "I think that'd be best, they seem to be starting to think that they can do whatever they want in our house."
"Remember, unless they can step past the threshold without an invitation do not let them through the door." I tell them sternly. "If you want to invite a Vamp in then we will have a family meeting to discuss doing so."
They both nod and then we head upstairs to get some sleep, since the air mattress isn't set up yet we just snuggle for bedtime, makes him sure I'm not being creeped on and I don't feel paranoid enough to sleep with a stake in my hand.
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3rd POV
Stefan is running through the woods with Logan over his shoulder, he has to get him to the boarding house so that he can lock him in the basement and help or so that they can stake him.
On his way through he's hit from the side, fast and hard. Logan flies off his shoulder and slams into a tree.
Stefan looks around and he hears something behind him, he starts to turn and his neck is then snapped.
Noah is standing behind Stefan's falling body looking quite pissed, that Logan Fell is a right asshole. They didn't have to move him to safety, sure they didn't help him with learning to feed or teach him anything really but he can't be a distraction if those damn Salvatore's kill him first.
Noah heaves Logan's body onto his shoulder and speeds him off to the warehouse where Logan's been keeping his piling body's and drops him off inside and leaves quickly to head back to Anna and 'Ben' okay so he kind of hates Ben too, the boy that Anna turned.
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Salvatore boarding house
3rd POV
Stefan arrives home and he's pissed. There's more then just them and Logan that he's certain. How can either of them protect her unless they get the upper hand here?
"DAMON" Stefan yells after he steps through the door, his brother doesn't seem to be in the living room.
Seconds later Damon is beside him looking really annoyed "What is it Stefan?"
Stefan glares at him. "Logan Fell went after Jenna Sommers at the Gilbert's tonight. I snapped his neck and I was going to bring him here and lock him in the basement but I got attacked bringing him here." Stefan snaps out.
"How many vampires do you think are in town right now? Not including us?" Damon asks. "There can't be to many, but we already knew that someone had turned Logan and it wasn't us."
"There has to be one or two more" Stefan says.
"I'm guessing you know where to find them then?" Damon mocks, he isn't in the mood for this. He is planning on visiting Bree and the older Bennett soon. He's gotta release Katherine, he's just not entirely sure he wants her anymore, but letting them loose on the town could be fun.
"No" Stefan admits dejected.
Zach walks into the room looking hesitantly between his greet whatever uncles and says "Sheriff Forbes is coming over in the morning. She's saying how there's a vampire on the loose and she needs me and anyone who can help, I suggested you to help Damon, it'll give you an in with the council too."
Damon and Zach just stare at each other and then Damon nods "Thanks Zach" Damon says and then Zach leaves to go back to bed.
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Salvatore boarding house
3rd POV
It's early the next morning about 6am when the occupants of the boarding house hear the doorbell ring.
Zach answers the door to see Liz, the sheriff , he knew she was coming over of course he just expected her a bit later. Maybe 8am?
"Hello Liz" Zach says.
Sheriff Forbes looks seriously at him and says "I'm here to see you and Damon."
Zach looks around to see if Damon is near and says "Alright, DAMON" he yells out as he leads Liz to the living room
A short while later Damon is in the room with them.
Damon greets Liz politely "Sheriff. What a surprise." He's being almost sarcastic, he did know she was coming today after all.
Sheriff Forbes nods at him and Zach and says apologetically, "Sorry to bother you, but we need to talk."
Damon and Zach nod, "Sit down please." Zach says, while motioning to the seats, he's supposed to be the 'uncle' after all.
Zach speaks up and says "Um, I hope you understand but Stefan doesn't know about this yet and I'd like to keep it that way." Of course he's lying, obviously Stefan knows, he's in his room pretending to 'sleep' right now.
Sheriff Forbes nods her head in agreement "Of course, kids are too young to be brought into this."
Damon says agreeably " So, what do you need?"
Sheriff Forbes looks between Zach and Damon and says seriously "There's been another attack. A female victim, her throat torn out, completely drained of blood. It fits the pattern."
Damon asks "What's the story?"
Sheriff Forbes says "The story for the town is another animal attack but I'm not sure how long we can keep lying to them. The council is in an uproar. We thought we were past this."
Zach asks curiously and anxiously "So, uh, what do we do?"
Sheriff Forbes turns to Damon and says hesitantly "Zach told us that you've take out a vampire before and if that's true we're really going to need you."
Damon nods and turns to Zach who also nods.
Damon then says "Thanks for stopping by."
Zach walks Liz to the door "it was great seeing you Liz" Zach shakes her hand then she turns and walks out the door.
Both Stefan and Damon are now looking at him amused as Damon teases him saying "Someone has a cru-ush" in a sing-song voice.
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Gilbert Residence
Jeremy has been reading the Gilbert Journal since we got up today and it seems he is inspired to draw some more, since everything has started he said he just doesn't feel very up to it. I'm glad he finally found something to feel inspired about again.
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Mystic Falls High School
3rd POV
Matt and Caroline are holding hands while walking down the halls together.
Of course Elena can't help but be excited about it and she thinks that it's absolutely adorable.
Matt turns to Caroline and says "And then the ballet dancer and the Krumper did the salsa."
Caroline looks thoughtful then says "Well, I was awake for that part."
Matt laughs a bit and says "Well, I don't know when you fell asleep. Umm, did you see the Celine Dion waltz about cancer?" He asks curiously.
Caroline says a bit sadly, "Those always make me cry!"
Matt smiles at her softly, "Yeah, and then the loud judge kept screaming and I couldn't take it, so I turned it off."
Matt stops walking and then so does Caroline, now their standing face to face holding hands.
Caroline says teasingly while poking him in the chest, "I sat through Family Guy. So, you owe me."
Matt laughs and gives her a quick kiss on the lips and pulls her into their classroom.
Elena watches them and smiles softly. She soo ships them. She runs into class shortly after.
It's the end of the day and Tyler is talking to Matt, he was watching their exchanges through the hallway and he can't help but be curious.
Tyler throws the footballs to Matt who chatcbes it then Tyler asks "So, what's up with you and Forbes?"
Matt pauses for a bit before throwing it back and then says "Nothing's up."
Tyler looks at him in disbelief and says "I saw you two in the hall today. Don't even try to deny it, bro. You're tapping that."
Matt shakes his head venomously "No, it's not like that."
Tyler says with conviction, "Never is. Until you become "we" people."
Tyler shoots the ball and scores a goal then Matt grabs the ball and throws it to him.
Matt looks at Tyler curiously and asks "We" people?"
"Yeah, "we can't make it to the party"; "we'll never miss a game"; "we don't like the color red" Tyler says matter of factly.
Matt sighs in exasperation "We hung out, like, twice."
Then Matt shoots a basket and scores. Then Tyler catches the ball.
Tyler nods his head and says "Like I said, "we."
Matt feeling annoyed then says "and how about you following Elena around then? Are you two going to become 'we' people then?"
Tyler can't hold back his snort "I hope so, but she's been so damn oblivious with me though. Stefan has been basically stalking her too you know and she either doesn't have a clue he likes her too or she doesn't care that he does."
Matt looks thoughtful for a bit then says "She said that she's just friends with him."
Tyler nods "I know, that's what she's told me too."
"She's a lot different then she used to be." Matt says.
"Yeah, she is." Tyler agrees as they continue playing.
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Gilbert Residence
3rd POV
At the Gilbert house Jeremy is sitting on the couch, sketching in his notebook. Jenna walks in and Jeremy shows her the sketch just to see what she thinks about it.
Jeremy hesitantly asks her "Hey, what do you think?"
Jenna checks it over and can't help saying, "Creepy. Nicely made, but creepy."
Jeremy looks at his Aunt Amused, vampires running around and it's his drawing that are creepy? Ha, "I found this old journal in dad's stuff, Johnathan Gilbert from the 1800s. He's kind of a freak show. He wrote about demons and all of these people getting slaughtered and...
Aunt Jenna sits on the couch by him and says "Yeah, he was a writer...short stories, horror stuff."
Jeremy nods, "Oh, he wrote fiction? Figured he was just a lunatic or a drunk. I mean we know the vampire stuff is real, but some of what he writes about is fucked up."
Aunt Jenna gets up and grabs a book from a nearby shelf to read and then she turns back to him and says jokingly, "Well, he was a Gilbert, probably a little bit of both."
Jeremy laughs a little and smiles at his Aunt Jenna as she walks off with her book.
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Warehouse
I'm on the phone with Damon, holding the vampire compass, god did he have to send her?
"So what do you want me to do now Damon" I ask him curiously.
"Just wait. I'll be there in minute Okay? I'm not going to let you get hurt" he tells me over the phone, god I'm tempted to trip myself just to call him out on his bullshit.
"Day, just hurry yeah? I have a stupid school fair thing today that I and quote 'Can't Miss'." I probably shouldn't be so annoyed but when you find out said vampire and his brother have been watching you sleep continuously it makes you a bit short tempered.
Next thing I know Damon is holding me up since he almost knocked me over. I scowl at him "What the fuck Day? Don't remember what personal space is or something?"
Damon rolls his eyes at me and grabs the compass from my hands quickly "You can give me that now. Go on Lena, besides you know I don't want to give you any space" he says as he gets really close to me again. I grit my teeth, god he can be an ass.
Damon looks at me seriously " Thanks for doing this Lena, I wouldn't of had you do it but you went all 'you do that I'll stake you myself' and well, thanks."
I turn around and leave quickly. He's not wrong though I did threaten him with that haha.
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Warehouse
3rd POV
Damon turns to face the entrance of the warehouse. He walks up the steps and opens the door, entering the warehouse. Damon looks around as he walks deeper into the warehouse. Suddenly, Logan Fell shoots Damon multiple times. Damon groans in pain and falls on his knees to the floor. Logan approaches him.
Logan says threateningly "I have tons of these wood bullets, so nothing funky."
Logan circles around Damon, holding out the gun.
Damon says to him, "You don't wanna do this, trust me."
Logan shoots Damon again but in the shoulder this time. Damon screams in pain, hopefully Elena doesn't come back because of that.
Logan says meanly "That's what you get."
"For what?" Damon can't help asking confused.
Logan crouches down in front of Damon threateningly "You made me like this."
Damon shakes his head "I did not." Cause really he didn't. Damon pries a bullet out from his chest.
Logan picks up the wooden bullet and examines it. Then says, "See I know what you and your brother are. I've been watching the two of you. I knew you'd show up here and I'm glad you did, because I have some questions."
Damon ignores him while he prys out another bullet then says "Me first. Who turned you?"
Logan crouching down, putting his face close to Damon's trying to be intimidating "How should I know? Last thing I remember is, I'm looking through the woods for a vampire and then some guy with a hood comes out and attacked me. Then next thing I know I'm eating one of Liz's Officers.
Damon nods his head in understanding then says "It happens. Ow." Damon complains while taking out another bullet.
Logan looks at him then says, "I thought it was you who bit me."
Damon is again ignoring him while examining the wooden bullet he just extracted from his leg. "Damn it." He says starting to feel really pissed off.
Logan shakes his head saying "It had to be you."
Damon groans "You have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. I wasn't even there so some other vampire bite you and gave you their blood." Damon feeling fed up groans and falls back onto the floor. Logan's a fucking prick he's thinking.
Logan then asked "Who? Who bite me? Who turned me then?"
Damon shrugs annoyed "That's what I wanna know."
Logan says exasperated and very very annoyed "Dude, it's not like the welcome wagon was waiting with a bundt cake and a handbook. It's been a learn as you go process. You know, one minute, I'm a small town on the rise news guy and next thing I know, I can't get into my house, because my foot won't go through the door."
Damon sits back up and pries another bullet out and holds in a laugh then says "You have to be invited in."
Logan says with frustration, "I know. I live alone."
Damon holds down another full blown laugh, maybe Elena is rubbing off on him "Ah, [chuckles softly] that sucks." Because it really wouldn't suck.
Logan then continues feeling down but also glad to have someone to talk about this with "So now, I am at the Ramada, watching pay per view all day, eating everything in sight, including housekeeping."
Damon actually does laugh a little bit then says "It could be worse."
Logan shakes his head disagreeing, "All I can think about is blood and killing people. I can't stop killing people. I keep killing" he laughs maniacally because he Loves it. "and I like it. I'm conflicted." He finishes feeling confused with himself.
Damon nods his head in understanding and says "Welcome to the club."
Logan lets out a sigh then stands up.
Damon pauses then says "Wait a minute. Cops only found one body."
Logan shrugs his shoulders not caring "I left one. I was tired. But I've been hiding the rest of bodies. They're right back there." Logan points to the bodies in the warehouse with his gun.
Damon blinks in disbelief at the large number of dead bodies "You're kidding."
Logan shrugs again, feeling crazy then says, "They're just piling up!"
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Mystic Falls High School
3rd POV
Today is the career fair at the school, Liz walks into the main room in full uniform. The mayor Richard walks up next to her. To discuss things.
Mayor Lockwood looks at liz and asks "So what do we know?"
Sheriff Forbes says honestly, "Nothing new to report yet. My highly reliable deputies are all on alert, but if you feel the need to be more proactive, by all means, grab a stake and have at it."
Mayor Lockwood grabs a coffee cup and asks her "What extra precautions can we take?"
Sheriff Forbes let's put a breath and says, "For right now, there is nowhere safer than a crowded public place, and for once, Mayor, we actually know where our kids are."
Right now Tyler is flipping through some sketches in a giant notebook. Jeremy a short while later walks in and looks over at Tyler as he does Tyler looks up at him.
Tyler asks him hesitantly "What do you want?"
Jeremy replies with snark as he walks around him, Tyler seems to have a thing for his sister and he certainly remembers how Tyler was with Vicki "Hey. Uh, I'm just surprised to see you here.Art usually implies culture and culture implies, well, not you."
Tyler snaps at him, what a little shit, "Go to hell."
Jeremy feeling amused smirks at him and then he looks down at the drawing Tyler stopped on. Tyler is the one who drew it.
Elena approaches Matt, very happy about him and Caroline.
"So I heard that you're with Caroline! I'm so excited! I can imagine you two with blonde haired blue eyed babies! It'd be sooo adorable!" Elena says feeling very excited. Maybe they'll work out this time?
Matt lets out an annoyed sigh "Aw, man, not you too."
"But you two are so cute!" Elena say again.
Matt shakes his head and says "We're friends. It's not a big deal."
Elena lets out a disappointed sigh "Why?"
Matt just shakes his head and says "No."
Elena releases a sigh. Elena sees Matt looking towards the door, Elena turns her head and sees Stefan standing in the doorway. Both boys look at each other and Matt and Stefan, look at each other with an emotion she doesn't care to understand right now.
Stupid boys.
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Warehouse
3rd POV
Logan asks Damon feeling very confused "Why am I so overly emotional? All I can think about is my ex-girlfriend. I wanna be with her and bite her and stuff."
Damon lets out an annoyed sigh, "Well, you probably love her. Anything you felt before will be magnified now. You're gonna have to learn how to control that."
Logan nods then asks "What about walking in the sun? I'm a morning person. You can walk in the sun which, by the way, is pretty cool. The council will never suspect you. That's not in the journals."
Damon thinks, hmm, Elena mentioned those once in passing "The journals?"
Logan says eagerly "Yeah, the founding fathers, they passed down journals to their kids. Come on man, you gotta tell me. How can you walk around in the sun?"
Damon looks at Logan and demands "Who turned you?"
Logan asks back "How do you walk in the sun?"
Damon shakes his head and asks again "Who turned you?"
"You know, I've been really nice so far but I will kill you." Logan says in disappointment.
Logan stands up again and points the gun at Damon.
Damon shrugs his shoulders pretending not to care but he's worried, "Then you'll never know. You're not answering my question." He stands up quickly.
Logan demand "You first!"
"It seems we're at a bit of an impasse then, doesn't it?" Damon says negligently.
Logan feeling scared says, "I have things to do, people to kill. Guess I'll be needing a little head start."
Logan cowardly shoots Damon a couple of times. Damon groans and falls to the floor while Logan quickly exits the warehouse.
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Mystic Falls High School
Jenna runs over to me saying "Hide me."
I look at her thinking fuck "Is he here Jenna?" I ask her worriedly
Jenna nods her head looking scared, "The scum Fell has landed."
I look around and grab her hand and pull her with me until we find Stefan by the door, "Logan's here." I tell him.
Stefan blinks at me surprised "Wait, Logan Fell?"
Jenna nods. Stefan goes out into the hall.
I drag Jenna out of the building to her car.
"Go home and hide in your room, don't leave until me or Jeremy get home."
She nods scared and gets in the car and drives home. I walk back into the school and look around.
I see Logan approaches me now, Logan looks around me, trying to find Jenna, but he won't. Not here.
Logan looks at me and asks "Where's Jenna at Elena?"
I look at him and shrug then say "I think she got lost on the road of life actually, you know right after she saw a black cat crossing the road."
Ohh now he looks upset, fun! Logan goes to walk right up to me, but before he can say or do anything Stefan is in between us and pushing him away from me. I let out an annoyed sigh.
"Stefan" I say.
"Get away from here Elena." He says sharply.
My eyes narrow "I'm not going to let this bastard hurt my Aunty" I snap at him.
Stefan turns his head slightly and glares at me "GO" he barks at me.
I grind my teeth and look at Logan who is watching me closely and I let out a sigh, "Fine, but if my Aunt gets hurt, I'll kill him myself" I say as I go look for my brother-mine.
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3rd POV
Logan watches her leave and turns to face Stefan.
Stefan snaps out angrily "What are you doing here?"
Logan holds back a laugh, "You know, your brother asked me the same thing. In fact, why don't we just skip past all that who turned me stuff and get the answer that I want? How can I turn into a day walker?"
Stefan shakes his head, "Damon and I are the only two that I know of."
Logan nods then says "But you're both very cagey on the how, which tells me that there is a way. You know, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm quite the celebrity in this town. It would be very, very easy for me to expose you."
Stefan asks him "You wanna know how you can walk around in the sun?"
Logan nods eagerly "I do."
Stefan shakes his head then says, "You can't. Don't ever threaten me again." Stefan then walks right past him.
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I'm looking around for my brother when I basically run into Mr. Saltzman.
"Sorry" I say sheepishly as he catches me.
"It's alright, hey, where's Jenna?" He asks as he releases me while looking around.
"She had to go, something is going on." I say to him.
Alaric looks disappointed "Oh, everything alright?" He asks looking a bit worried.
I shrug, "Sure, Can you help me find my brother though please?"
Alaric nods and says "Sure"
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3rd POV
Stefan is outside of the school, talking to Damon on the phone, who is back at the Salvatore Boarding House now.
"Logan Fell is a vampire and when I find him again, I'm gonna destroy him limb by limb." Damon says feeling really pissed off.
Stefan feeling curious about the story there asks "What happened? Are you ok?"
Damon snaps at him "No, I'm not ok. I was ambushed. I was shot. Now, I'm vengeful. Just got to find him." He says feeling even more pissed as he checks himself out in the mirror for the damage.
Stefan says nervously "Well, there's no need. He's here at the school."
Damon blinks, feeling a bit worried for Elena but ignores it, then says, "You're kidding me. Why the hell is he there?"
"He's working the crowd." Stefan says simply.
Damon releases a sigh "Well, I'll be right there."
Inside the building Caroline is leading Liz her mom to a booth at the Career Fair.
Sheriff Forbes her mom asks "What are you doing?"
Caroline looks at her mom annoyed "Following my future. There it is." She says pointing.
Her mom looks then says skeptically "Broadcast journalism?"
Caroline nods happily "Yes. Broadcast journalism. Why are you looking at me like that?" Caroling seeing her mothers face feels disappointed.
Sheriff Forbes looks at her daughter confused, "You don't even read the paper."
Caroline can't help but feel anger and disappointment with her mom walks out angrily and without a word. Liz sighs and then pursues her, but Logan comes up from behind her surprising her.
Logan looks at her and says "Liz."
Sheriff Forbes blinks at Logan in shock and says "Logan."
Liz starts to pull out her gun. To defend herself and others.
Logan shakes his head and almost laughs "What are you gonna do stake me? What would the email say this time?"
Sheriff Forbes shakes her head venomously "I didn't have a choice."
Logan moves towards her threateningly and snaps at her "You bitch! I died for you, for this town. You've known me since I was six and you swept me under the rug like dirt."
Sheriff Forbes glares at him and says "You knew what you were getting into."
Logan shakes his head and says, "I was one of you."
Sheriff Forbes nods in agreement then says "And now you're one of them."
Logan starts to leave, but then turns around and whispers threateningly into Liz's ear."Watch your back, Sheriff."
Logan smiles at her and finally leaves. Liz phones her deputies in worry "Get a backup team to the school immediately. Keep it within the circle. It's a V5."She hangs up quickly.
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3rd POV
In the school hall, Jeremy approaches Tyler curiously saying "I didn't know you drew."
Tyler nods "It's an elective."
"Because it's good stuff. You like graphics? Cause that's, uh, that's kind of my thing. Lena likes to draw too, but she prefers painting or crocheting." Jeremy says.
Tyler freezes and looks at Jeremy funny "Woah, whoa, what are you doing?"
Jeremy looks at Tyler and says "Well, it's just something else we have in common."
Tyler snorts, not getting what Jeremy is saying "What's the other thing? Vicki? Or You're sister? Let's hang out because we did the same chick? Or because I have a thing for your sister? Go be friends with one of the many other guys that she screwed, or that want your sister there is no shortage of them." He snaps. He's not even sure why he's so mad, he just is.
Jeremy and Tyler start fighting, neither can remember who did the first strike, but they stop instantly when Elena ends up between them again looking pissed and with her arms crossed but then Alaric and Mayor Lockwood come into the room.
Alaric looks to Jeremy with disappointment "Alright, work it out, tough guy."
Mayor Lockwood glares at both boys and says "You two, follow me."
Jeremy and Tyler follow the Mayor. Elena is following right beside Jeremy holding his sleeve, like hell shes going to let the mayor order him around.
Tyler keeps glancing at her face, but her face remains impassive, it's her eyes that show how pissed she is.
Alaric speaks up "Excuse me, Mayor. Where are you taking them?" The question makes them all stop.
Mayor Lockwood turns to the boys, ignoring the girl and says "I'm gonna talk to them. All fights should end in handshakes, don't you think? Come on."
Elena keeps her hold on her brother following him, she refuses to let him be hurt.
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3rd POV
Stefan is wandering the hallway. Matt walks in going the opposite direction.
"Hey." Matt calls out to Stefan in greeting.
Stefan taking the chance asks "Hey, have you seen Logan Fell, the news guy?"
Matt nods his head and says "Yeah. He just gave Caroline a ride home."
That's not good Stefan thinks as Matt walks away. Stefan heads out of the building.
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3rd POV
Outside the school, Mayor Lockwood escorts Jeremy and Tyler to a secluded area, with Elena following beside her brother.
Mayor Lockwood looks between the boys, he's expecting her to just move out of the way and says, "Okay, let's get this out of your system. Go ahead. Fight."
Elena snorts quietly, the Mayor looks at her annoyed.
Jeremy asks in surprise "You want us to what?"
Tyler shakes his head in denial "I'm not gonna fight him, dad."
Jeremy nods in agreement "I don't think so, sir." Jeremy attempts to leave, his sister holding his sleeve is following him, but the Mayor blocks his way.
Mayor Lockwood shakes his head and says "You don't fight in there like pansies. You take it outside, fight your battles like men, and move on. Best lesson my dad taught me. So let's settle it. Fight."
Elena sees Alaric walks out the back entrance and walk towards them. She'll be quiet until she needs to step in.
Tyler says pleadingly "Come on, dad."
Jeremy shakes his head again, "That's not gonna happen."
Mayor Lockwood getting pissed snaps "I said fight!"
Elena snaps at the Mayor "They said no you stubborn Jack-Ass."
The mayor looks at her, but before he can say anything Tyler tries to leave, his dad pushes him into Jeremy.
Elena snaps at the mayor again "You don't touch them Lockwood"
Jeremy places a hand on her shoulder to keep her from attacking the Mayor, and Tyler is looking at her with wide eyed. But it's the Mayor who's looking at her like he'd love to push her too.
Alaric arrives by then though and says "Whoa. What's going on out here?"
Mayor Lockwood snaps "Just letting these two kids work it out.We're good here. Go back inside and take her in with you." He says pointing at Elena.
Alaric shakes his head and says "I don't wanna go back inside and it looks like she wants to kick your ass. What I want is an answer to my question. What's going on out here?"
"Lockwood is trying to get my brother and Tyler to beat each other up. They said no, but if he keeps it up then I'll kick his ass." Elena says with venom in her voice. The only thing keeping her from trying to hurt the mayor is her brothers hand on her shoulder and how for whatever reason Tyler's is on her shoulder as well.
Mayor Lockwood turns to her and glares hard, god he wants to hurt her for interfering like this. She feels Jeremy and Tyler stiffen behind her but then the Mayor turns back to Alaric and snaps "Who do you think you're talking to? Do I look like a student?"
"No. You look like a full grown alpha male douchebag." Alaric says feeling pissed off by the Mayor.
Jeremy smirks at Elena when she bursts into laughter and Tyler looks shocked that Alaric had the guts to say such a thing.
"You don't talk to me like that. I can have your job like this." Mayor Lockwood says while he Snaps his fingers.
Alaric nods his head and says mockingly "Ah, you do that. Then it will be you and me in this parking lot and maybe Elena too by the looks of it, working things out. You cool with that?"
Mayor Lockwood glares hard at him and says "You just marked yourself."
Alaric shrugs his shoulders "Ok."
The mayor looks back at Tyler who has started walking away, he follows his son.
Jeremy is trying to contain a smile as his sister looks at him relieved. But she's worried for Tyler. His dad was never pleasant. Alaric looks over at him and Elena.
Alaric asks Jeremy and Elena. "You all right?"
Jeremy nods still trying to suppress a smirk, he definitely likes Alaric. I just nod.
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Mystic Falls
3rd POV
Sheriff Forbes is driving in her car when her phone rings and she answers it."Where are you?"
She hears Logan on the other end saying "Your daughter has expressed an interest in journalism. I think it's important to foster young minds."
Sheriff Forbes snaps "What do you want?"
Logan just says, "The satisfaction of turning your daughter into a vampire."
Logan has just stopped at an intersection when Stefan vamp speeds at the car and pulls Logan out, throwing him to the pavement. Logan gets up quickly and then Damon comes out of the woods, shooting a gun at Logan, who falls to the pavement.
Damon snarls, "Payback's a bitch, isn't it?" Then he turns to his brother and snaps "Get her out of here."
Stefan nods and goes around to the passenger's side to retrieve Caroline.
Sheriff Forbes is still on the other line and is feeling very worried for her daughter is frantically saying "Logan, what happened?! Logan?"
Damon hearing her voice jogs over to the car and picks up Logan's phone and says "Sheriff, yeah, it's Damon."
Sheriff Forbes breaths out a sigh of relief and asks "Where is Caroline?"
Stefan having just grabbed Caroline vamp speeds out of the area.
Damon replies "She's ok. I'm on Elm Street."
Damon hangs up the phone quickly and opens Logan's trunk. He grabs a tire iron and looks down at Logan.
Damon walks around Logan and says "Gonna try this one more time." Damon swings the tire iron, indicating that he will harm Logan. "Who turned you?" He almost snarls it out.
Logan frantically says "I told you I don't know."
Damon stands there examining the tire iron and says "This tire iron here could take your head clean off." He holds the tire iron in a swinging position and then looks down at Logan again "Is that your final answer?"
Logan asks feeling desperate "How can you side with them?"
Damon shakes his head in denial "I don't side with anyone. You pissed me off. I want you dead. Who turned you?"
Logan shouts out feeling afraid "I don't know!"
Damon shrugs his shoulders, besides he has to protect Elena. "Oh, well. You're screwed."
Damon starts to swing the tire iron towards Logan's head.
Logan screams out "Wait, wait! I do know." Making Damon pause.
Damon says flatly "You're lying."
Logan says hopeful "You think you're the only one who wants to get in that tomb underneath the old church?"
Damon looks at him long and hard, so there are more vampires around then? He'll have to tell Elena about this but figuring out who Logan is talking about wouldn't be a bad idea "If you're lying to me, I will end you." Then again he'll kill Logan regardless.
Logan shakes his head "I am not lying. There is another way to break the spell. We can help you. Meet me at the old church."
Not long later sirens are heard in the distance.
Damon looks at Logan and says "Take me down. Make it look real. Make it look real!"
Logan throws Damon against his car and vamp speeds off. Sheriff Forbes gets out of her car.
Sheriff Forbes looks around frantically and asks "Where is she?"
Damon soothes her by saying "She's ok. My brother's taken her home. I'm sorry, Sheriff. I just wasn't strong enough."
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Mystic Falls High School
3rd POV
Outside. Jeremy approaches Tyler, who is sitting alone. Elena already went home, she wanted to be by Aunt Jenna.
"Hey." Jeremy greets Tyler from a short distance away.
"What do you want?" Tyler snaps at him aggressively.
Tyler gets up and walks towards Jeremy.
Jeremy lets out a sigh and says "I don't know. I, uh, I thought that was weird with your dad, what he did. Is he like that all the time? Is that...Is that what you gotta go through? Man, I...I get it. I get it." Then Tyler hits him and he snaps at him irritated, "What's your problem?"
Tyler shakes his head feeling really angry again "Look, I don't need your pity, or hers"
"Seriously, you're not getting any from us" Jeremy says seriously, he just wanted to make sure he was ok.
"Just go." Tyler snaps at him.
Jeremy starts to back away a bit then says "You're not the only one who has had someone hurt you Tyler, my sister, she refuses to talk about it much. But there's a reason she doesn't trust easy and there's a reason why she doesn't like being touched."
Jeremy sees Tyler's body freeze up in shock but he turns to walk away, then he stops again and looks at him and asks "What's your problem anyway man?"
Jeremy knows of course, his sister has told him that Tyler carries the Wolf gene but it feels wrong not to ask him anyways.
Tyler can't help but feel worried for the girl, in frustration he runs his fingers through his hair.
He becomes filled with anger and frustration again and he can't explain snaps "I don't know, ok? I don't know."
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Warehouse
3rd POV
Logan exits the warehouse. He walks to his car but hears a loud clang from behind him. He turns around quickly to investigate and when he turns back towards his car, Alaric is blocking his way. Logan backs up, looking Alaric over.
Logan asks pompously "Who are you?"
"A friend of Jenna's." Alaric states.
Logan looks at him confused "Jenna sent you?"
Alaric snorts "No, I came on my own."
Logan nods his head "Ah, I get it. Well, buddy, I know you think this makes you brave. But actually it makes you pretty stupid."
Alaric shrugs his shoulders "Either way, here I am."
"What do you want?" Logan asks curiously.
"Jenna is a good person. She deserves the best. I'm here to make sure she gets it." Alaric says passionately.
Logan feeling amused asks "Was that supposed to be a threat? Couldn't you throw a punch? Maybe provoke me a little?"
Alaric shakes his head and says "I'm not a violent guy by design."
Logan nods and reply's "Well, you're not a very smart one, either."
Alaric asks "How's that?"
Logan turns his back to Alaric. Alaric slowly takes the hidden stake out from inside the sleeve of his jacket thinking Logan is being dramatic.
"'Cause you have no idea who you're talking to." Logan says as he starts to vamp out. He turns around and goes to attack Alaric. Alaric, who knew Logan was a vampire and was expecting to be attacked, stakes Logan.
Logan falls to the ground dead. Alaric looks shocked at what he was capable of and quickly gets out of there.
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Mystic Falls High School
3rd POV
Tyler is leaning against Matt's truck, waiting for him to arrive. He sees Matt approach him and stands up straighter.
"I need a ride" Tyler says when Matt sends him a questioning look.
Matt nods his head "Sure."
Tyler goes towards the passenger's door and almost opens it when Matt says "Look, I like Caroline."
Tyler stops and just looks at him.
Matt continues "She's got this thing...this way about her...and I like her ok? And I'm not gonna defend it or apologize about."
Tyler nods his head "Ok." Besides it's the same with how he feels about the Gilbert girl.
Matt says strongly "So stop your little bromance bitch act."
Tyler replies calmly. "Ok."
Matt walks over to the driver's side and gets in. Tyler gets in the other side shortly after and they leave the school.
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Forbes Residence
3rd POV
Caroline is asleep in her bed and her mom Liz strokes her hair as she watches her sleep.
Liz's phone goes off and she lets out a sigh as she reluctantly leaves the room to answer it.
"Yeah, I'll be right there."She hangs up and quietly closes Caroline's door. She really wishes she didn't have to leave her here.
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Old Church
3rd POV
Damon is pacing around, waiting for Logan and who ever to show up but he hears his phone ring and he answers it saying "Hello."
Liz is on the other end. She is outside of the warehouse at the time. "I just wanted to say thank you. I don't know how you did it." She says gratefully.
Damon feeling confused says "Um, not following."
Sheriff Forbes sighs and says "We found Logan's body up by the old Fell warehouse. He has been disposed of. He was hoarding victims, innocent victims."
Damon asks shocked "What?"
Sheriff Forbes continues grateful "This town owes you so much. So do I."
Liz quickly hangs up and Damon cant help but feel completely and utterly shocked.
Fuck. . . So his only lead to getting the other vampires is gone, at least his answer to getting Katherine out of the tomb is fine. Does he even still want to open the tomb?
Uggghhh... but that's what he told everybody so fuck it, he'll open the fucking tomb, What he does after will be anybody's guess though.
He calls up Bree "Hey Bree, come to Mystic Falls in two days. We're going to be meeting up with the Bennett's alright."
He hears Bree let out a sigh "Okay hunny" she replies and then hangs up.
He'll have everything ready for when they get here then they'll open the tomb.
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Alright, not much happened differently here and yes the tomb will be open soon.
NR Elena didn't have much to do during this part of the story except that she'd like to hit the Mayor a few times for being an asshole and is probably lazing around with her Aunt waiting for Jeremy to get home.
No she didn't have a chance to talk with them about being invasive jerks hiding out in her room at night either.
