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"Come on, man. Come on." Matt said, as Anastasia sneaked away from them, she didn't need their concern, she'd done this for herself for years without anyone so she'll be fine, on her way though she was stopped by Tyler.
"Why did you do that?" Tyler asked her needing to know as he looked at the blood pooling down from her hand from where she was pressing it to the obvious wound in concern.
"Just because of what happened before at the bonfire, doesn't mean I want you hurt." Anastasia said as she stopped walking.
"Not wanting me hurt is one thing, putting your life in danger for me is a complete other." Tyler said his voice raising in his confusion.
"I've had my fair share of beer bottles thrown at me so I know how it feels, I don't want anyone else going through the same so I pushed you out the way. There, happy now?" Anastasia said just wanting him to leave so she could treat the wound.
"I… what? Who would…Your…Your father?" Tyler asks her horrified and she shook her head. "Brother? Husband? Boyfriend? Ex-boyfriend?" When she stiffened at that, he got his answer. "I'm so sorry."
"Don't be but if you tell anyone about this then I promise you, you will be." Anastasia threatened before she asked him a question, "Why do you get so angry, so much so that you lose control?" She had seen and heard everything that happened, it was like he couldn't control himself but then she had taught him in class and he's a completely different person.
"I-I…I don't know. I just do. I can't control it no matter how much I want to, and after I beat someone up like I just did, when I calm down, it's like waking up from a hangover and realising what you did when you were drunk, something you wouldn't do normally, I don't even know why, It just happens." Tyler shook his head not knowing how to explain, and not knowing why he was trying to, it might have something to do with the fact that despite what happened at the bonfire, she had helped him, taught him and treated him normally, as if nothing had happened, she hadn't judged or said anything. In fact she went above and beyond to help not only him, but the other kids who were slacking and it worked, he didn't think he'd ever engaged in a lesson as much as he did today, she just made it fun and he didn't want her to think that the boy she had just seen now was the real him because it wasn't, it was the part of him he hates the most.
"Be glad that you're a kid otherwise I'd probably be frightened of you." Anastasia said truthfully.
"What?!" Tyler asked shocked and now feeling sick to the stomach.
"James, my ex, he never had control on his anger either and I suffered for it." Anastasia reminisced before she pulled off her blazer. She was wearing a black vest underneath so she could see her wound.
"Shit, don't you need to go to the hospital?" Tyler asked her concerned as he saw the piece of glass sticking out her arm, it was a gruesome sight.
"Nah I can do it myself." Anastasia said before she leant against the wall and pulled the piece out of her skin as Tyler turned away not wanting to see that.
"Are you sure? I mean a doctor'll be more qualified." Tyler said unsure.
"I am a doctor. I didn't get pHd for nothing." Anastasia said and his eyes widened shocked.
"Oh." Tyler said shocked, she was a doctor as well?
"Who do you think did Miss Donovan's surgery?" Anastasia asked as she tore the arms of her blazer into strips and made a makeshift bandage around her arm as Tyler watched in shock, she was really strong to be able to do that, he didn't think even he would be able to.
"Oh. I-I had no idea." Tyler said to her before he realised how late it was, he really needed to get home and he said as much, she smiled at him as she said, "By the way about what I said before, I want you to know that you're not like my ex, he was way worse than you could imagine and If you ever want to talk even just to cool down you can come to me." Anastasia began, before giving him her dad's address, she was going to go back there today anyway.
Tyler looked at her for a second with a shocked and grateful expression on his face before he said, "Thank you, really, I appreciate it. Are you sure you're going to be okay though?" He said nodding to the wound on her arm that she had wrapped up.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I've had worse." Anastasia assured him and he gave her one last concerned look before he left as she walked to the back entrance to wait for Stefan, she didn't want to go back to the game with Tanner continuously leering at her, it made her feel sick and she'd rather wait here for the entire duration of the game. She would have left but she had no idea how to get to the Salvatore Boarding House so she needed to wait for Stefan. Her stuff was still there and it was also where Ryan was going to drop off Liana. He had told her not to cut off her full time job like she was about to do, and that the half day Liana has off, she could spend with him and Daniel, and for once she trusted someone enough with her daughter so she agreed, reluctantly but it was the only option, what had happened before with her dad, had given her proof that she couldn't trust him at all so she needed to make her own money as she's always done so as not to rely on him. As she made it to the back entrance, she did not notice the silhouette of a person following right behind her.
"Oh my God, your hand." Elena said concerned. Stefan hides the back of his hand and puts it behind his back.
"No, no, no, it's fine." Stefan said trying to reassure her so that she would not suspect anything.
"Is it deep? How bad is it? Come on!" Elena said before grabbing his hand and turning it over to see the back but the scar was completely gone.
"But...I saw it, it was..." Elena said shocked, she could have sworn she had literally seen the glass cut through his hand.
"He missed. See? I'm fine. It's not my blood, it's probably Ana's, speaking of where is she?" Stefan asked looking around concerned.
"No, no, no. I...I saw it. The glass cut your hand. It was..." Elena stuttered slightly, she replayed the memory and she remembered literally seeing the bottle cut his hand but there was no wound so what could have happened?
"It's ok. I'm ok." Stefan began before he saw Tyler walking towards him.
"Hey look I'm sorry about what happened back there but I want to tell you that Miss Williams, who I'm assuming is a friend of yours, is by the back entrance. She had a piece of glass stuck in her arm but she pulled it out and wrapped it up, said she could deal with it cause she's a doctor herself. I just wanted to tell you that." Tyler said before he walked off.
"Shit, I have to go." Stefan said quickly about to walk off not caring about the game but Elena held him back.
"It's almost kick-off time, all right? So I'll go and see if she's fine and then I'll see you after the game." Elena said to him, she knew how much Stefan liked the game and there was no point ruining that when Anastasia could take care of herself. She was a doctor after all, she didn't need coddling.
"But…" Stefan was about to protest.
"Nope, no excuses, come on, this is your moment, go, for me?" Elena asked.
"Fine but you come and get me if anything's wrong. Okay?" Stefan said and she nodded before he walked back to the game. Elena couldn't be bothered to go and look for Anastasia, it wasn't even that much of a horrible cut, it was just a scratch and besides, she would be fine since she was a doctor herself, there was no point on everyone worrying so much about her.
[Out on the Football field]
"Hey, Tiki, it's all wobbly. Can you stand straight, please? Could someone please help Tiki?" Caroline said and Bonnie walked up to Elena.
"Hey! Where you been?" Bonnie asked Elena curiously.
"Can I ask you a question and you give me a really serious no-joke response?" Elena asked her seriously.
"Of course. What is it?" Bonnie asked now looking serious because of the tone of voice Elena was using.
"The bad mojo. When you touched Stefan and you had that reaction..." Elena said wanting answers, there had to be a reason Stefan had literally healed, it just wasn't possible.
"You know what, forget I said that. Your little dinner party plot totally won me over." Bonnie said, she had really had fun especially with Lilliana and Anastasia despite what had happened in the middle with Anastasia and the hot friend of hers. It was such a heart-wrenching moment and to know what she's been through, it just made her so mad at that ex of hers, because what kind of person would even think to harm someone like her and Liana, it just wasn't right.
"No, Bonnie, seriously. What was it? Did you see something, Or..." Elena said not wanting to think about that dinner, it just made her so mad at what happened, the guy had no right to say something like that to her and then Anastasia calling her a bitch, it was just another reason not to go looking for her, she honestly couldn't care less.
"It wasn't clear like a picture. Like today, I keep seeing those same numbers I told you about...8, 14, 22." Bonnie informed her,
"Yeah?" Elena asked slightly impatient, she needed to know.
"When I touched Stefan, it was a feeling. And it vibrated through me, and it was cold, and it..." Bonnie trailed off, there was only one way to explain what she felt but she didn't know how Elena would take that.
"And what?" Elena asked now worried.
"It was death. It's what I imagine death to be like." Bonnie said to her.
Later on, Elena goes to her car and as she is about to open the door, she turns to see Damon right next to her and she jumps slightly before she said, "You scared me. What are you doing here?"
"I'm hiding from Caroline." Damon said to the girl.
"And why is that?" Elena asked curious.
"I needed a break. She talks more than I can listen." Damon said and he was being truthful, she was really annoying.
"That could be a sign." Elena said.
"Well, she's awfully young." Damon said, well, compared to him even the oldest human would be younger.
"Not much younger than you are." Elena said confused about the way he said it, he was only a few year older than Caroline.
"I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture. I think she'd drive me crazy." Damon said as he thought about the girl, if she wasn't the Sheriff's daughter, he would have dumped her long ago.
"Caroline does have some really annoying traits, but we've been friends since the first grade and that means something to me." Elena said a little offended on her friend's behalf but she could understand.
"Duly noted. I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. That's not my intention." Damon said trying to look sincere.
"Yes, it is. Otherwise you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say." Elena contradicted and he had to agree to that.
"You're right. I do have other intentions, but so do you." Damon said as he stepped a little closer to her, she looked exactly like Katherine besides the dull style of her hair.
"Really?" Elena asked with a raised eyebrow, he knew nothing about her and yet he had come to that conclusion.
"Mm-hmm. I see 'em. You want me." Damon said getting more closer to her as she looked at him wearily, he found that he liked toying with the girl, she may look like Katherine but she was different than her but in a way that made him feel more bored than anything. And after the way she had treated Anastasia at the dinner, he had just found her petty and he couldn't really be bothered to deal with it but that didn't mean he didn't like making her feel uncomfortable like he knew she was feeling now.
"Excuse me?" Elena scoffed at him.
"I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me."
Elena looked perturbed at this, she had actually had a dream about him but how had he known she thought just as Damon continued, "And right now...You want to kiss me." He leant forwards and she strikes him across the face causing his face to tilt to the side.
"What the hell? I don't know what game you're trying to play with Stefan here, but I don't want to be part of it. And I don't know what happened in the past, but let's get one thing straight...I am not Katherine." Elena snapped before walking away as he held his jaw shocked. It was then he heard Anastasia's voice coming from somewhere close by, he listened to her attentively when she said, "No! Let me go! Please don't, I can't…I can't breathe, let me go, stop, stop…" She carried on saying things like this, her voice on the verge of tears and her gasping breaths telling him that she was having a panic attack and he immediately vamped towards her only to see her pinned to the wall by the teacher in a ripped vest and he couldn't help but notice the scar on her abdomen, he wondered what had happened before he pushed the thought away for later, now was not the time.
The guy had his mouth everywhere he could reach, he was literally molesting the girl, who was trembling so badly, her breaths becoming shorter as she struggled to breath. There was also a blood soaked cloth wrapped around her arm, he had noticed this all in a second and it only took him another to rip the guy off of her and throw him away, he would have gone and killed him if he hadn't needed to catch Anastasia and prevent her from falling but she flinched away from him into the wall as she slid down trying to cover herself up, gasping and crying, her entire body shaking so badly he immediately pulled of his jacket and wrapped it around her gently. She actually looked up at him then with red rimmed grateful eyes as she wrapped the jacket around her mumbling a quiet but appreciated thank you. In that amount of time, it had been easy for the guy to slip away and Damon looked enraged when he turned to see him gone, only to see her flinch out of the corner of his eye.
"Woah, hey, I'm not angry with you, just at that guy." Damon reassured as he moved a little closer to her but she scooted back slightly and he stopped.
"I…He…He tried to…He was…He just came out of nowhere and…God I knew how to get away from him. I knew how to but then the memories came back and I was so scared, I couldn't breathe and he…he ripped my shirt and it was like James all over again, every night with him, he made it deliberately painful for me, I hated it but I had no choice or he'd hurt Liana. For 6 years, every day, I was raped and I thought it's be different here but he was so close to doing it because I am so weak, I couldn't do anything, I couldn't fight him off, I just…I just want to be strong for once. Ryan says I am but I'm not, I couldn't fight him off because of the memories that plague my mind 24/7 and on top of that, how the hell am I going to protect Liana when I can't even protect myself?" Anastasia asked him with tears leaking out of her eyes and he slowly brought his hands up to show he wouldn't hurt her and though she did flinch ever so slightly, she didn't move away as he wiped the tears from her eyes.
"You know if you could have been compelled I could have made you forget everything that ex of yours did to you." Damon said gently, he hated to see her like this, he would rather compel her to forget about that ex of hers.
"You mean like you tried to do last night." Anastasia snapped at him annoyed and he immediately retracted his hand from her face.
"I…" Damon said not knowing what to say to that.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have snapped, you were just trying to help but I want to ask, why did you try to compel me, why do you want to know my visions so much, what exactly do you want Damon?" Anastasia asked just wanting the plain truth.
"I can't tell you that. You'll tell Stefan and I don't need that right now." Damon said shaking his head, he couldn't let her in on what he wanted.
"I won't tell Stefan Damon, I just want to know why." Anastasia said as she wiped the tears from her eyes keeping the jacket around her.
"Why do you want to know?" Damon asked her curiously.
"Because I want to trust you, you're not as bad as Stefan says you are and sometimes I don't think your humanity is even off." Anastasia said softly.
"Ok let's get one thing straight, don't even think for a second that I'm good or I can be saved because I can't and you're delusional if you think so. I flipped my switch a long time ago and It's going to take a lot more than someone like you believing something like that to ever change that. I am the bad brother and I always will be, don't allow yourself to think otherwise." Damon snapped slightly and she lightly flinched away from him and he sighed calming down, he didn't want her more scared than she already was.
"Then why help me? Now and before? You're the one deluding yourself into thinking that you don't care, when it's so clear that you do." Anastasia said as she picked herself off the floor leaning against the wall as she did keeping the jacket wrapped around her. Damon vamp sped in front of her causing her to flinch back though when he grabbed her arms she winced at the pain from the wound on her arm.
"I don't care Anastasia, I never will, the sooner you believe that the better." Damon snapped before he released her and she stepped back from him holding her arm in pain and it was he noticed the blood on his hand and sighed, he had forgotten about the obvious wound on her arm, that's why she had winced in pain, guess he had screwed up again, she was never going to trust him at this rate.
"I won't believe that Damon." Anastasia said and he turned about to vamp speed away when he realised the state she was in, he refused to let anyone else take advantage of her so he pulled his car keys out his pocket.
"You know how to drive?" Damon asked and she nodded at him confused, so he told her where his precious car was and handed her the keys, he couldn't believe he was doing this but what other choice did he have? He couldn't just leave her here.
"I don't know the way to your house, Ryan's going to be there soon with Liana so I need to go back today, that's why I was waiting for Stefan to finish with the game, I didn't want to stay there because of… because of Tanner, didn't realise he had followed me." Anastasia said as she gave him back the keys.
"Great, just great, why don't you just go and sit in my car at least, you don't want to stand there in the dark looking like that." Damon said not taking the keys from her as he nodded at the way she looked his jacket didn't cover her bottom half from the way she was holding it. "Just put the jacket on. You can keep it for now." Anastasia looked at him gratefully before she quickly put the jacket on not wanting Damon to see more of her than he already had.
"What happened there?" Damon asked concerned nodding to the scar on her abdomen that she had quickly covered up, it was more fresh than old to be honest.
"Nothing." Anastasia said quickly.
"Doesn't seem like nothing, it looks like a knife wound. Who…" Damon was about to ask before his eyes widened as he realised who it could possibly be. "Don't tell me…your ex?" Anastasia's averted eyes gave him his answer and he vamp sped towards her as he grabbed her arms, making sure he didn't hurt her injured one as he demanded where the hell her ex was so that he could go and skin the man alive.
"I have no idea Damon, please let me go." Anastasia said beginning to get panicked again and he immediately retracted his hands as she pushed herself away from him into the wall, trying to calm herself down.
"What do you mean you have no idea?" Damon asked annoyed.
"It means I literally have no idea, he was supposed to be in jail for the next 25 years in NYC but he escaped recently so I don't know where he is." Anastasia explained.
"NYC? You're a city girl? Wait, in NYC that many years of a sentence is attempted murder." Damon said as he realised that the place he had stabbed her, how she survived he didn't know but he was just feeling glad that she had.
"Yeah I know but it should have been longer considering it wasn't just me he tried to kill." Anastasia said remembering the day when she had come home to find her baby held against the wall by her throat, if she hadn't come in time, he could have killed her and then what would have become of her without the reason her life was actually worth living.
"Lilliana? He tried to kill Lilliana?" Damon asked not understanding the rage that erupted within him.
"Your vamping out, you know, are you alright Damon?" Anastasia asked as she touched the veins under his eyes gently, and it all faded away as he calmed himself down.
"I'm fine. You should go." Damon said trying to control himself but the bruises he had seen around Lilliana's neck, now made so much more sense and that had him angry all over again. They guy had nearly choked that 4 year old to death, what kind of monster does that?
"Damon I…" Anastasia began but he spun towards her with enraged eyes.
"I said you should go." Damon growled with his fangs out and she flinched away slightly when she saw the anger in his eyes, but she knew it wasn't directed at her so she sighed as she said, "By the way, you're doing a very bad job of trying to make me think you don't care."
walking away from him towards where she remembered he had told her his car was.
"You gonna be able to play?" Matt asked concerned as he walked up to Stefan.
"Oh, yeah, I'm good." Stefan said to the kid.
"Uh, what you did back there...you had Jeremy's back." Matt said looking at him in a new light, perhaps it was time to let go of this jealousy, it made him do irrational things like what had happened at practice.
"Ah, he's a messed-up kid. Somebody's gotta look out for him." Stefan said, he would do anything for Elena, including protecting her brother.
"I know. This week at practice I was a dick." Matt said apologetically.
"Had your reasons." Stefan said understandingly, it must have hurt to see the girl that you love with someone else so he got why he was acting the way he was.
"No excuse." Matt said as he holds out his hand and Stefan shakes it. "Good luck tonight. We're lucky to have you."
Damon had heard his brother and had vamp sped in the corner as he watched Stefan shake hands with Matt, what the hell was he doing here when Anastasia was hurt, did he know? He had forgotten to even ask her what happened. He internally cursed himself for yet again thinking about her, what was wrong with him? He pushed all of that away as he mockingly clapped for Stefan.
"Isn't that nice? Stefan joins a team, makes a friend. It's all so, "rah, rah, go team, yeah!" Damon taunted his brother just to rile him up.
"Not tonight. I'm done with you." Stefan said turning away, he couldn't be bothered to deal with this now.
"Nice trick with Elena. Let me guess...vervain in the necklace? I admit, I was a bit surprised. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion. Where'd you get it?" Damon asked curiously.
"Does it matter?" Stefan asked refusing to share anything with him.
"Guess I could just seduce her the old-fashioned way. Or I could just...eat her. Or what about Anastasia, you know I just talked to her right now, she was bleeding out for some reason, I could have just had a little taste." Damon said though he knew that for some reason he couldn't explain, that he wouldn't have.
"No. You're not gonna hurt her, Damon." Stefan said, despite what had happened last night, he had seen the way Damon had looked at her when she had made a plate of her food for him and the way he looked at her whilst they were eating and then the concern he had showed about her going back to school because of Tanner, there was no way that was fake.
"No?" Damon asked with a raised eyebrow, how would Stefan of all people know that.
"Because deep down inside, there is a part of you that feels for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you, that you may have actually become the monster that you pretend to be." Stefan said as they both stood right in front of each other.
"Who's pretending?" Damon asked, like he had just told Anastasia, there wasn't any goodness in him and the sooner they both stop trying to find it, the better.
"Then kill me." Stefan said and at this Damon seemed to falter slightly.
"Well, I'm...I'm tempted." Damon tried to sound like he would do it in a heartbeat but the slight stutter in his voice gave him away.
"No, you're not. You've had lifetimes to do it, and yet, here I am. I'm still alive. And there you are. You're still haunting me. After 145 years. Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her, and you torture me because you still do. And that, my brother, is your humanity." Stefan said as Damon got more pissed off.
"Salvatore! What the hell? We've got a game to play!" Tanner came out of nowhere and that was the last straw for Damon.
"If that's my humanity...then what's this?" Damon said as he zooms behind Tanner and rips viciously into his neck making sure to cause him as much pain as possible. He could admit to himself that he had done this partly to make a point to his brother but it was mostly for what the guy had done to Anastasia. Hearing him scream made him feel satisfied that now one man that had hurt Anastasia was gone.
"No!' Stefan shouted out horrified.
"Anyone, anytime, any place." Damon said the white of his eyes blood red as Tanner's blood dripped down his chin before he vamp sped away. He quickly cleaned the blood before going to the car, he didn't want to freak out Anastasia after what had just happened to her. Once he actually made it to his car, he saw her in the passenger seat. He quickly climbed in as she slept on and drove off to his home, on the way she had woken up and tried talking to him but after noticing how tense he was she left it. Once they got home they both got out and walked inside.
"Damon are you alright? What happened?" Anastasia asked concerned.
"Nothing happened Anastasia." Damon snapped but just as he was about to move away she grabbed his arm.
"Yes there is, you can tell me Damon. What is it?" Anastasia asked and just as he was about to snap at her again he saw the worry in her eyes and that calmed him down considerably.
"Nothing you to need to know Anastasia." Damon said before he pulled himself from her grip and filled himself a glass of bourbon. Anastasia sighed before she went upstairs to shower and get changed into something else so she just wore her night clothes from last night and used her magic to get the needed supplies and stitched up the cut on her arm before wrapping in a conjured up bandage. She wore a black vest like short dress with matching black sile trousers before wandering downstairs to see Damon still in the living room so she walked up to him.
"Do you want to eat something?" Anastasia asked.
"You know vampires don't need to eat, right?" Damon asked staring into the fire.
"You don't?" Anastasia asked wondering into the room closer to him.
"No, we can still eat it but we only need blood to survive." Damon informed her.
"Huh. I had no idea, I don't need to drink blood to survive, I actually do need food." Anastasia said and he turned to face her shocked before his eyes widened at what she was wearing, it was actually pretty modest but it made her look really hot before he cleared his thoughts away.
"What? That's not possible." Damon said before he actually noticed the bandage on her arm..
"Well apparently it is for me so…" Anastasia said shrugging her shoulders.
"What happened to your arm?" Damon asked trying not to show how concerned he was.
"It was just a nick, it's nothing." Anastasia said dismissively.
"You know everytime you say nothing, it's always something." Damon said having noticed that she says that whenever she gets hurt and someone asks her how bad it was. Just as she was about to open her mouth, he instead asked, "Just tell me what happened." Anastasia sighed before she recounted what had happened as he internally cursed the kid for hurting her though she assured him it was an accident, it didn't make him feel better though.
"So moving on do you want food anyway or even a dessert, or the leftover breakfast in your fridge?" Anastasia asked him.
"Why are you being so nice to me? I tried to compel you to give me the information I needed, I tried to compel you to forget about me using Caroline, your friend, as my own personal bloodbag and I attacked you numerous times." Damon said frustrated.
"You've also listened to me when I needed to talk to someone, you helped take the glass pieces out my hand, you fed me your blood trying to heal me, you saved me from Tanner and you let me stay in your car just so nothing would happen to me, I can't see what you clearly want me to see when you've given me so many reasons to believe otherwise Damon. And about what you said, I know there's a reason you tried to compel me, you just said the info you needed, not wanted, you need that info for a reason and I'm not going to hate you for that until I understand. As for Caroline I understand that you need to feed, I can't fault you for following your nature especially when I have no idea what's it like, though I do wish it wasn't her, if it wasn't it would be someone else, someone who's someone else' daughter, mother or sister and I don't want that but I hate that you tried to compel me to forget about that, I deserve to know, she's my friend and you should know that I will do whatever possible to get her away from you. And as for the numerous times you attacked me that was in the start when you didn't trust me so I get that. You're not as bad as you make yourself out to be Damon." Anastasia said before she left the room to go to the kitchen, she was pretty hungry herself so she took out the tray from the fridge and again tried to reach for the plates but she winced when the stretch caused the stitches to pull slightly and then he was there a little behind her to help.
"Here let me." Damon said this time waiting for her to move before grabbing the plates, he took out two actually wanting some for himself and placed it on the counter as she cut out two slices for each of them. As she was doing that, he couldn't help but watch her feeling something strange inside of him rise the longer he thought of her, what she had just said to him made him feel things he didn't want to feel but had no control over so instead of dwelling on it, he would rather just ignore it. But as they both ate their shares they continued talking to each other about random stuff, one minute laughing the other serious, it was nice for the both of them to just sit and chat, it was a different experience for Damon to get along well with someone so much and he found he didn't mind it as much. Anastasia was looking at him in a newlight as he helped her pack her stuff, well after, telling her she could stay as long as she wanted but she needed to go home now, she couldn't rely on the brothers forever. It was only a few mintutes after they were finished that Ryan had come with a sleeping Liana, he offered to drop her off so she agreed after waving goodbye to Damon. They both talked in the car until they reached her house and she picked up the still sleeping Liana before making her way inside like she had done with the brothers before, after waving at Ryan who went home with his son. She went inside and walked all the way upstairs back to the bedroom
[The locker room]
"Tanner's M.I.A. I think he had a little bit too much beer." Tyler said after walking away from telling Stefan about Anastasia.
"Don't talk to me right now, all right? I'm pissed at you." Matt said angry at his friend for the stunt he pulled today,
"What's your problem?" Tyler asked confused.
"What's my...You're my problem, all right? You're a bully. A freakin' 12-year-old bully, man. And I'm sick of it. I mean, what was that about tonight? What's beating up the new guy going to prove? Or screwing with my sister or pummeling my girlfriend's kid brother." Matt said before he pursed his lips having realised what he had just said.
"Girlfriend? Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but she dumped your ass. Are you for real?! You want to hit me? I'm on your team." Tyler said annoyed at his friend.
"This was over the line. Even for you." Matt said before he walked off only to stumble into Tanner's body and he shouts out after getting over his shock, "Somebody help!"
The police arrived as many people gather around the scene, Bonnie being one of them, she looks around at the scene. First she noticed the license plate "BLDG 8", then the immatriculation's car is "FHT 14" and on the ground, the number 22. She starts to breath a little more heavily in fear, had she predicted Tanner's death? How was that possible?
At the football field. Jeremy is sitting by the bleachers thinking about what happened just as Vicki comes up to him.
"It wasn't just for the drugs." Vicky informs him truthfully, she felt like he deserved to know that, when he didn't respond she got up and walked off knowing he needed some time alone. After what had happened she couldn't blame him, she knew it was an accident, it's why she wasn't angry at him for what he did to Miss Williams after everything she's done for her.
[In the parking lot]
"What kind of animal could be doing all this? Why would it come out of the woods and attack someone in the middle of town?" Elena said worried.
"I don't know. I don't know." Stefan said just wanting her to calm down so that they could get out of here and he could check on Anastasia.
"I was so sure that you cut your hand. I saw it." Elena said confused and concerned about that, especially after what Bonnie had said.
"I'm fine. I'm fine, ok? We're fine. That's what matters." Stefan says as he hugs her before he pulled away after a moment to ask, "So how was Ana?"
"What?" Elena asked confused.
"Remember you went to check on Ana, how was she?" Stefan asked her concerned.
"Oh, right, yeah, she's fine." Elena said dismissively.
"Are you sure?" Stefan asked and she nodded with a reassuring smile on her face and he sighed in relief before they both went their separate ways. He went home only to find out that Anastasia was gone, there was a note on his desk that reassured him that she was fine so instead he chose to spend the rest of his time writing his diary.
"I thought there was hope that somewhere deep inside, something in Damon was still human, normal. But I was wrong. There's nothing human left in Damon. No good, no kindness. No love. Only a monster Who must be stopped."
[Anastasia's dad's house]
Damon had come to Anastasia's house just to check up on her and see if the father hadn't done anything stupid, he didn't or he would have ripped him to shreds. He got through the window of the room he had smelt her scent in and had heard her soft breathing from. He noticed her whimpering clutching the sheets as she twisted around in her bed so he gently caressed her face to calm her down and it seemed to work for she snuggled back into Lilliana, he had to admit they both looked really adorable together and he looked at them both one more time before vamping away though he left one of his crows to look over them just in case.
