The Vampire Diaries - Echoes
After a long day at college, Tyler finally got home, though to him this wasn't really a good thing considering that he was the only one left. He hadn't cared much when his father died, he never really had any sort of relationship with him anyway. But then Damon Salvatore killed Mason. He figured that was the beginning of their downfall. Then after his idiotic plan to free the hybrids from mind control, Klaus had killed the last person he had left. His mother. That was what sent him over the edge and he set off on another revenge plan that also...failed. Sitting down in the dusty old family room that he rarely ever set foot in these days, he poured a glass of whiskey and settled down on the sofa, eventually falling asleep.
He was woken by a loud creaking of the floorboards upstairs, trouble was his wolf hearing never really turned off, so he could hear something, even if he was in the middle of a dream. Not sure how long he'd been out, or if he'd been dreaming or not, he decided to check it out, lazily rolling off the sofa, he wandered out into the halls and headed up the stairs, following the creaking sound that was still being made. He thought it sounded like footsteps. Familar, angry footsteps. Like the kind his dad made whenever he came upstairs just to yell at or fight with him. Reaching the top of the stairs he looked around, when he first heard the footsteps he had thought there was an intruder but now...looking around...he saw nothing. He was about to head into his room, when there was knock at the door. Being so caught up in investigating, hearing the door made him jump, he guessed that was just down to how on guard he was...how on guard he had to be, and quickly made his way down the stairs to the door. Wearily, he slowly opened the door and sighed in relief when it wasn't a family enemy or no one there, but rather the girl he'd invited over earlier. Elena.
"Hey...right on time." He said, trying to sound the slightest bit relaxed.
"Hey." she responded as he guestered for her to enter.
"How about a movie to kick start our fun?" he suggested.
"Whatever you wanna do." She replied.
Leading her upstairs, he heard the same footsteps again, stopping halfway up the stairs he turned to Elena,
" Did you hear that?" He asked, hoping that he wasn't the only one and didn't sound crazy.
"Hear what?" She asked confused, clearly, she hadn't heard what he had.
Not wanting to scare her off, he brushed it off,
"Never mind." he said, and continued up the stairs.
Reaching his room, they both noticed the major temperature drop just stepping through the doorway.
"You feel that?" He asked, once again feeling stupid.
"Okay...Tyler, what is this about?" She quizzed.
He frowned slightly, "What?" He said sounding half arrogant.
"All this do you hear that, do you feel that stuff?" She added.
"Look...I'm sorry, this evening has just been really creepy, forget it okay." He responded, she said nothing, responding with a slight nod.
After spending what was probably at least twenty minutes picking out a movie and setting things up, they were finally getting settled...that is until a large crash came from the one room that had truly been abandoned for years.
"Tell me I'm not the only one who heard that right?" He asked once again,
"Nope. I heard that too. Definitely not the only one." she replied in an almost whisper.
"I'm gonna go check it out." he said, and headed for the door,
"Wait! Do you want me to go with you?" she asked,
"No that's okay. You stay here." he replied then took off down the hall.
Not knowing what to do, she patiently sat on the bed, it was hot summer's night, no breeze in the air and in a house like the Lockwood house, it was stuffy. A few minutes passed and still no sign of Tyler, so getting up she went to exit the room, as she reached the doorway, she felt a breeze behind her, it was quick, gone in seconds but it was also as cold as ice. Weird. She thought, shrugging it off as her senses trying to creep her out. Wandering down the hall, in the same direction that the crash had came from, she felt weirder still. "Tyler?" She called out. No reply. Venturing further down the hall, she came to the room that he had gone to check out. Hesitantly, she turned the handle, opening the door and slowly entering the room. With no sign of him, she was about to turn around and go back when she felt a tap on her shoulder that instinctively made her turn around and swing her hand as though she was swatting a fly. It was only afterwards that she realised, it was Tyler who had tapped her shoulder, and she'd just struck him in the face.
"Damn that's some swing you have." He joked sarcastically,
"Oh my god!...I'm sorry. I just...it was an impulsive move...always happens when people sneak up on me." She rambled.
"No worries...just remind me not to sneak up on you in future." He joked, once again.
"Where did you come from?" She asked confused,
"After checking out this room and finding nothing, I just went to uh...spruce up a little. That's all." He explained.
"Spruce up a little? That doesn't sound very Tyler like to me.." She joked.
"There's more to me than meets the eye Elena." He cheekily responded, then pulled her closer to him.
"So what was the crash?" She asked curiously, playing with his hands.
"Oh uh...I have no idea. I couldn't see anything that fell or something." He explained.
"Hm...strange." She concluded.
"Let's just forget about it okay...have some fun." He said, kissing her,
"We never did get round to watching that movie" He added, brushing off the strange atmosphere that was filling the house.
She said nothing in return, responding with a nod. With that being said, they went back to his room to finally settle down and watch the movie.
"Are you sure it's not Matt pulling another one of his sick pranks on us?" He commented randomly.
"Well...I can never be too sure about that but...I haven't heard anything from him in a few days. Not since...well, approaching me in the cemetary." She replied, giving it some serious thought.
Though she couldn't put it past Matt, this didn't feel like one of his torturous jokes to her, if it was then they'd know it, she thought. Even just the thought that it was Matt messing with them, made her feel uneasy. Not wanting to ruin the fun, or...what was supposed to be fun, she pushed the thought to the back of her mind, Tyler, sensing the change in her mood, qucikly changed the subject,
"Maybe we should do the whole college dance thing this Saturday. You never know, it could be fun?" He lightly suggested.
"Uh...okay. I guess that could be fun." She replied, sounding uncertain. Not because of him or because she had any hesitation of going anywhere but because deep in her mind she was still focused on his last comment, which brought back some rather unpleasent memories that she would rather forget.
"I'm sorry for bringing up Matt." He said, almost as if he was able to hear her thoughts. She lifted her stare from the floor and looked at him,
"It's okay." She said, still trying to push the thought out of her head.
Neither able to concentrate on what was on the TV, the room fell silent, the only sound being the low volume of the movie that was playing, which was nothing more than muffled voices. Not being able to help feeling like he'd put them on a sour note, he decided he should do something...anything to change it. Then he was struck with an idea. Getting up from where he was sat, he turned the TV off and pressed a button on the stereo, suddenly, the silence was replaced with music filling the room, then he grinned. Walking over and standing in front of her, he offered out a hand. She tilted her head to one side, with a half suspicious expression before smiling back at him, taking his hand.