Previously on The Bad Twin:
I wish I didn't have to return home. But I had no choice. I had to save her and I had to find out more about her.
"Chloe. She's a dead ringer for Anna"
"Is that Damon Salvatore?"
"And, Stefan Salvatore?" Elena asked and we turned to Stefan for an answer.
"The original Salvatore brothers."
I sat in my room on my personal computer, looking things over. Something was wrong here, but I couldn't pin it. The broken bottle with fresh blood on it, but no fresh wound. Stefan and Damon's name's on the registry for the first Founder's Party. I'd gone back to look at it and saw two other names that disturbed me once I'd found them. Sadly Damon was the only Salvatore willing to talk about who I wanted to know about. Their names would forever be etched into my memory.
Katherine Pierce
Anna Pierce
"1864. You and Katherine were the perfect couple next to George and Anna."
"They've come back." Logan agreed.
"Did you get the Gilbert watch?" Sheriff Forbes asked.
"I can get it." Logan said next to her.
Logan snuck up to Jeremy's room and began digging around for the watch.
When Logan found the watch, he quickly left the room.
"You were right, you're no one's second choice." He kissed my cheek before smiling down at me. I smiled up at him lightly.
I heard him scream in pain and turned and watched him burn as Caroline ran away.
"What are you?" I asked him and he just stared at me in the shadows of his house.
I heard him scream in pain and turned and watched him burn as Caroline ran away.
"What are you?" I asked him and he just stared at me in the shadows of his house.
"I better take my leave then." I said turning and walking away from him.
"You won't get far enough in time." He told me and I turned back to him with a smile.
"You won't kill me." I stated.
"And why's that?" he asked me and I walked back up to him, making sure to stay just out of, what I thought, would be his reach.
"Why aren't I dead already?" I asked.
"Maybe I want something else from you." He suggested.
"Like what?" I asked him.
"Blood." He grabbed my arm and slammed me against his body before biting my neck, making me scream.
"Hey, man, you ok?" she asked him.
"Come here."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got you," He quickly put his hand over her mouth and bit her neck.
"I know you."
"I think you have the wrong person, sir." Stefan insisted.
"You haven't aged a day." The man said to him.
"Look, there are things that you don't know, okay? Things that I want to tell you, but I can't." Stefan told Elena.
"Are you sure that the man that you saw, that you knew, his name was Stefan Salvatore?" Elena asked him.
"Yes." he confirmed.
"When was this?" she asked him.
"1953."
Dear diary, I'm not a believer. People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That's the world we live in. But how can I deny what's right in front of me? Someone who never grows old...
"1953."
Never gets hurt...
"Oh, my god, your hand! Is it deep? How bad is it?"
Someone who changes in ways that can't be explained...
"Hey, um, are you ok? Your eye. Your face."
Girls bitten...
"What is that? Oh, my god, what happened to you?"
"It's nothing!"
Bodies drained of blood...
" Did she say what kind of animal it was?"
"She said it was a vampire."
Elena quickly grabbed the car keys and rushed over to the Salvatore Boarding House.
Stefan grabbed a stake he'd hidden and ran to the door. He quickly opened the door.
Mystic Falls, Virginia, 1864
Stefan stepped out of the front door of his father's house and watched as a carriage pulled up. The driver put a step on the ground for the people inside and opened the door before helping a black woman out. The black woman stepped out and helped two women, who were dressed elegantly, out of the carriage. He approached both women and grabbed both their hands and bowed slightly to them.
"You must be Miss Anna Pierce and Miss Katherine Pierce." He said with a smile.
"Please, call me Katherine." Katherine said, curtsying to him.
"And I insist you call me Anna." Anna told him.
Stefan quickly opened the door of the boarding house and Elena turned to look at him.
"What are you?" she asked him. He just stared at her shocked she was there. "What are you?"
"You know." He said after a moment of silence between the two of them.
"No, I don't." she insisted.
"Yes, you do, or you wouldn't be here." He corrected her.
"It's not possible. It can't be." She said shaking her head at him, not wanting to believe her. Stefan set down the stake he was holding and walked off the porch. She backed away from him with every step he took.
"Everything you know... And every belief that you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?" he asked her.
"What are you?" she asked him.
"I'm a vampire." He said after a moment. She stared at him, not wanting to believe what he said, hoping he'd laugh and tell her he was joking. But he didn't.
"I shouldn't have come." She said backing away from him.
"No. Please." Stefan begged her as he walked towards her.
"No. No." she ran to the car only for him to appear in front of him. "How did you do that?" she asked looking from where he had been to where he was in front of her.
"Please don't be afraid of me." He begged her.
"Let me go." She said side stepping him.
"No. Elena, there's things that you have to know and understand." He said grabbing her arms trying to make her listen.
"Let me go!" she yelled.
"Elena, please." He begged her but she managed to get out of his arms and ran to her car. She got into her car and quickly drove away back to her house. She ran into her house and up to the bathroom the joined both her and Jeremy's room. She opened the door to look in Jeremy's room and saw him sitting in a chair listening to music. She quietly closed the door and walked to Chloe's room and opened the door, but she didn't see her. She closed the door and walked to her room and sat on her bed and kicked her shoes off before lying back on her bed. She instantly sat up and walked to the window then to her closet so she could take off her jacket and hang it up.
"Elena." She gasped and quickly turned to the window to see Stefan, throwing her jacket on the bed. She ran to the door and opened it but he was suddenly behind her and pushed the door closed. "I would never hurt you. You're safe with me."
"All those animal attacks, those people who died—"she said, turning to him.
"No. That was Damon!" he told her.
"Damon?" she asked him.
"Yes. I don't drink human blood. That's not how I choose to survive, but Damon does! I'll explain everything to you, but I beg you, Elena, do not tell anybody." He begged.
"How can you ask me that?" she asked him.
"Because you knowing this is dangerous for so many reasons. You can hate me, but I need you to trust me." He begged.
"Just go. Just go, please. Go. If you mean me no harm, then you'll go!" she told him.
"I never wanted this." He told her. She turned to the door and opened it and turned back to her room. He was gone. She quickly went to her window and slammed it shut and locked it.
At the cemetery, Damon was drinking from one of the druggies necks, draining them. He picked up the wrist of the boy he drained and wiped his mouth on his sleeve before standing up and dragging his body on top of the fire. He grabbed the bottle of liquor and went to the first boy. He searched his body for something but when he didn't find it he doused him in the liquor and searched the next body. When he found the boys cell phone he doused the boy in the liquor and dialed a number.
"Hello?" Stefan answered.
"I want my ring." Damon told him, taking a drink from the bottle.
"Where are you?" Stefan asked him.
"I'm at the sizzler. I had the buffet. Where's my ring?" Damon asked him lighting a torch from the fire and lighting the bodies on fire.
"I don't have it. Where are you? What have you done?" Stefan asked passing in front of the Gilbert House.
"No, what have you done? You're the one that locked me in the basement and starved me, so whatever I've done, whoever I've sucked dry is on you, buddy." Damon told him.
"You're being careless. How many more animal attacks is this town gonna believe, huh?" Stefan asked him.
"I know how to cover my tracks, Stefan. Where's my ring?" Damon asked again.
"I gave it to Zach to hide." Stefan said making Damon look up from his work. "Probably shouldn't have killed him." Damon thought about it for a moment.
"Ah, you almost got me. Where is it?" Damon asked him.
"I'll get it back, but I need time." Stefan told him.
"What, did you FedEx it to Rome?! Where is it? I want my ring, Stefan, or my next stop's Elena's. I already have Chloe with me so all I'd need is your little girlfriend."
"I already want you dead. Don't give me another reason to make it happen." Stefan warned him.
"Don't give me another reason to rip you apart." Damon told him.
"Yeah? Is that gonna be before or after you get your ring back?" Stefan asked him.
"Just get it." Damon told him before hanging up. Damon walked to Vicki and poured alcohol on her to burn her body, but she coughed. He bent over her as she moved her head from one side to another. "You just don't wanna die, do you?"
Stefan was at the Gilbert home as they slept, protecting the remaining family from Damon and worrying about the other twin.
I tried to leave the house quickly but stopped when Damon appeared out of nowhere in front of me.
"What do you want from me?" I asked him.
"Nothing, for now." Damon told me before grabbing my arm and dragging me to the parlor. He pushed me onto one of the couches and put a gave a woman a white rag. I looked at the woman and my eyes widened.
"Vicki?" I asked worriedly. She and Jeremy had been joined at the hip recently. If she was here and bitten by Damon then… "What did you do to my brother?" I demanded.
"Nothing, your brother wasn't with her." Damon said sitting next to me, holding me in one place.
"Why am I here? Why not just kill me and get it over with?" I asked him.
"Now why would I do that?" he asked me and I gave him a look. "You hate not knowing, don't you?"
"I know what is necessary to me. And since you're keeping me alive I should know why." I told him.
"You'll know when I want you to know." Damon told me, standing and dragging me with him back to the room I woke up in. He threw me onto the bed and laid down next to me.
"What are you doing?!" I demanded, pushing him away from me.
"Oh, calm down. It's going to be a long night if you keep trying to fight me." He said pulling me close to him, my back pressing against his chest.
"What do you think you're doing?!" I yelled at him again.
"Shut up and go to sleep. Stop trying to kick me out of my bed." He ordered me and I froze. His bed? Why would he put me in his bed?
The next day, Elena was sitting in her room, thinking about what to write in her diary. When nothing came to her mind she tossed it on her bed and went to the bathroom and pulled hair back and brushing her teeth. She then got dressed and went to meet Stefan at a coffee place.
"You said you would explain everything. That's why I asked you to meet me here." She explained to him. "When you Google "vampire," you get a world of fiction. What's the reality?"
"I can tell you whatever you wanna know." He told her.
"I know you eat garlic." She said.
"Yes." He confirmed.
"And somehow, sunlight's not an issue." She said. He looked behind her and saw their waitress behind Elena.
"Hi, here are your drinks." She told them putting Stefan's drink in front of him and handing Elena hers.
"Thank you." Elena said before the waitress left.
"We have rings that protect us." Stefan told her, showing her his ring.
"Crucifixes?" she asked.
"Decorative." He said.
"Holy water?" she asked.
"Drinkable." He said.
"Mirrors?" she asked
"Myth." He said.
"You said you don't kill to survive." She repeated.
"Animal blood keeps me alive, but not as strong as Damon. He can be very powerful." Stefan explained to her.
"And yet you let him get involved with Caroline?" she asked him.
"Forcing Damon not to do something is much more dangerous, believe me." He told her.
"He was hurting her!" Elena almost shouted at him.
"He was feeding on her. He was able to take away her memories of being bitten using a form of mind compulsion. She never knew what was happening to her. If he wanted to kill her, he would have." Stefan explained.
"Is that supposed to make it ok?" She asked him.
"No. No, none of this is ok, Elena. I know that." Stefan explained to her.
"Are there any others, aside from you and Damon?" she asked him.
"Not in Mystic Falls; not anymore." He told her.
"Not anymore?" she asked.
"There was a time when this town was... very much aware of vampires, and it didn't end well for anybody. That's why it's important that you don't tell anyone." He explained.
"I can't promise that." She told him.
"Elena... Give me today. I will answer any questions that you have, and when it's over, you can decide for yourself what you wanna do with what you know. It'll be your choice." He told her and she nodded.
At the cemetery Logan and Sheriff Forbes were bent over one of the bodies covered in a yellow tarp.
"Never smelled one this bad before." Logan said to her.
"It tried to cover its tracks." Sheriff Forbes told him.
"Are you sure?" he asked her as they stood up.
"I'm positive. You only burn a corpse to try to hide cause of death, and there are no shell casings." She explained to him.
"We know who they are?" he asked indicating to the bodies.
"Doc'll have to check their dental records." She said.
"What story should I run?" Logan asked her.
"Drug deal gone bad?" she asked him and he gave a look. "It's not too big a stretch."
"I got the Gilbert watch." He told her quietly.
"Good." She told him as one of her deputies walked to them.
"Found this in the brush about 10 yards away." He told them. Sheriff Forbes took the clutch and began digging through it for an ID.
"Vicki Donovan." She read.
"You know her?" Logan asked her.
"I went to high school with her mother." She said.
"Think she's one of these?" Logan asked.
"I hope not." She told him.
"Where are you, Stefan?" Damon asked as he dragged me with him through the house avoiding the sunlight. "I'm trapped at the house, and I'm getting really bored and really impatient, and I don't do bored and impatient. Bring me my ring." He hung up the phone. "Damn it. Aw, don't get blood on the couch! Please?" he called to Vicki.
"Like she has a choice in the matter idiot." I said. He grabbed my wrist and my bracelet then dropped my hand quickly.
"Vervain. Really?" he asked me.
"What's vervain?" I asked him.
"The only herb that can hurt a vampire and stop compulsion." He told me.
"Compulsion?" I asked.
"Mind control." He said turning from me and walking to Vicki. "I got you good, didn't I?" he asked lifting the rag off her wound. "Well, you're not gonna be any fun today. I'm so gonna regret this." He bit his wrist and put it to her mouth.
"What are you doing to her?" I demanded to know as she struggled against him.
"Vampire blood heals humans." He explained as she gave in to him. "Drink up. Drink it up. Don't drip. There you go. Good girl. That's it."
Elena and Stefan drove through the woods at Stefan's request.
"Stop here." He told her.
"What are we doing here?" she asked him as they got out of the car.
"I want to show you something." He said.
"In the middle of nowhere?" she asked him looking around.
"This... Didn't used to be nowhere. It used to be my home." He explained to her.
"It looks so..." she broke off, not wanting to say the word she thought.
"Old?" he offered her. "It's because they are."
"Wait. How long have you..." she started asking him, not sure if she really wanted the answer.
"I've been 17 years old since 1864." He told her and she looked at him shocked.
"Oh, my god." She said shocked.
"You said you wanted to know. I'm not gonna hold anything back." He reminded her. "Half a century before the boarding house was even built, this was my family's home. Damon and I... We were both born here. The Salvatore brothers, best friends."
Mystic Falls, Virginia, 1864
Stefan and Damon ran out of the house, playing football.
"Wait. Where did you learn this game?" Stefan asked his brother.
"Camp outside Atlanta. One of the officers picked it up at Harvard. Catch." Damon through the ball and Stefan caught it.
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What are the rules? What are the rules?" Stefan asked as he and Damon playfully struggled for the ball with smiles on their faces.
"Who needs rules?" Katherine asked as she and her sister Anna walked off the porch and to the brothers.
"Mind if and I join you?" Anna asked them.
"Uh, well, you could, uh- you two could get hurt. My brother likes to play rough." Stefan told them and Anna smiled at the elder brother at his words.
"Somehow, I think that you play rougher." Katherine told him, getting close to him. Anna walked away a little bit before her sister snatched the ball from Stefan and they both ran off, throwing the ball to one another as they went, laughing.
"Why are you just standing there? Those are girls who clearly want to be chased." Damon said as they watched the two girls disappear in the garden area. "If you don't do it, I will." Damon ran after them with Stefan close behind.
"You knew Katherine in 1864? Damon made it seem like..." Elena started saying.
"Damon was trying to make you think that... I was still heartbroken. He saw that I was happy with you, and he wanted to ruin it." Stefan explained to her.
"All because you loved the same sisters 145 years ago?"
"They weren't just any sisters." Stefan told her.
Mystic Falls, Virginia, 1864
Anna watched as Stefan chased Katherine in through a garden maze, both laughing. She started walking towards their destination, a statue at the other end. Katherine reached the statue and they both stopped running.
"Katherine." They both turned to see Anna behind them. "Your stings became loose. Have Emily fix them." She ordered and the younger twin left with a smile on her face.
"Do you have to be so hard on her?" Stefan asked, watching the woman he'd grown close to walk away.
"If I'm not then who will be?" Anna asked him.
"A strong man perhaps?" they both turned their heads to see Damon leaning on a post not far from them with a smirk on his face.
"They extended your leave?" Stefan asked him with a smile.
"I was simply having too much fun to return to battle." Damon said simply.
"Your commitment to the confederacy is inspiring." Stefan laughed as they walked to each other and hugged.
"Well, this works out wonderfully for my sister and me." Anna said with a smirk on her face.
"How's that, Miss Anna?" Damon asked her.
"Now we'll have both of you here to keep us entertained. First and foremost, we'll need someone to escort us to the founder's ball." She said as she started to walk away.
"With pleasure."
"I would be honored." Both boys said. They looked at each other with a look on their faces as she looked up with a smirk on her face while her back was to them.
"The smart and kind Salvatore brothers both coming to our rescue." She said turning to them with a smile before it fell to confusion. "How will we ever choose?" she asked walking away.
"Katherine chose me and Anna chose George Lockwood. We escorted them to the ball at the original Lockwood mansion." Stefan told Elena.
"The first founder's party; where you signed the registry." Elena said, putting the pieces together.
"I didn't care that I had gotten something I wanted while my brother didn't. I didn't even care if it hurt him. I only knew that I wanted her." Stefan told her.
"So he was upset." Elena concluded.
"That's the thing about Damon. He doesn't get mad. He just gets even." Stefan told her.
At the Salvatore House, Damon had turned on some music as Vicki took a shower. Damon had ripped my bracelet off and tossed it somewhere and compelled me to stay with him until he said otherwise.
"This is all we're going to do today?" I asked him, bored.
"No, we are going to have a party." He told me and I raised my eyebrow at him as Vicki came back downstairs in her panties and gray tank with a towel.
"Oh, man. That shower was so great." She said looking at her neck in the mirror. Damon's blood had down what he told me it would do, heal her completely. "What did you give me?" she asked him.
"Some blood. You loved it." He told her.
"I did? Wait. I'm confused. How did we get here?" she asked him looking between us.
"I was here before you were, so don't ask me." I said walking away from them slightly. I raised my hand to my neck and felt nothing. No blood, no bite mark, nothing. When did he heal me? Last night when I was sleeping?
"We met in the woods. You were drunk. I attacked you. Then I killed all of your friends and brought you here, gave you same blood. You loved it. And now we're gonna party till the sun goes down." I turned and saw him compelling her.
"Ok. Um, but first, can I have another hit? That blood was so good." She said with a smile on her face.
"Only if I can." He told her and she nodded giving him her wrist. Damon smirked and bit his wrist and gave it to her before biting her wrist and drinking. She smiled and turned to his wrist and drank making me look away in disgust.
"What Damon wants, Damon usually gets." Stefan told Elena at the old Salvatore field. "I didn't know it at the time, but... Turns out that night... Anna was with him, too."
"So he stole her from your friend?" she asked him.
"Turns out they wasn't ours to steal." Stefan told her.
Mystic Falls, Virginia, 1864.
Stefan was with Katherine in her room on their first night together.
"I will love you forever." Stefan told Katherine before kissing down her neck.
"Forever is a very long time, you know." Katherine told him.
"Not long enough." He said before kissing her deeply. Once he moved back to her neck she elongated her fangs and bit him.
Anna and Damon were in Anna's room lying side by side after spending many hours together.
"Do you love me Damon?" she asked him, rolling onto her stomach and looking up at him.
"Of course I do. You know that I love you more anything." He told her and she smiled at him, allowing him to see her face change before she bit him and took her fill of blood.
The next morning, Katherine stood at the mirror as Emily, her and her sister's handmaiden, helped her with her corset. Stefan woke up and rolled onto his back, revealing blood all over his pillow. He quickly sat up, remembering the night before with Katherine.
"Good morning." She said with a smile on her face looking at him in the mirror. She stood straight and turned to him. "Clear the room, please." Emily bowed her head and left to attend to Anna who had been with Damon the previous night. "You're upset."
"Your face, it was like a demon." Stefan said, staring at her in fear.
"But you're not afraid." She told him walking to the side of the bed.
"Get away from me. Get away." He said backing from her as far as he could on the bed.
"It doesn't change the way you feel about me. You will not tell anyone." She compelled.
"I—" she put a finger to his lips to stop him talking.
"Shh. We will go on exactly as we have." She compelled.
"Yes. We will go on." He said with a smile.
"You have no idea of the future Anna and I have planned for us, Stefan—You and me with Anna and Damon. No rules." She told him.
In Anna's room, Damon woke to Emily helping Anna with her final layer of the dress she was to wear for the day.
"Good morning." She said with a smile to him. He sat up and felt his neck. Felling the liquid on his neck he looked at his hand to see blood that was still drying. He looked behind him to her sheets to see blood on them. Once she was done dressing, she moved to the side of the bed and looked at Damon.
"Your face…" he said.
"I'm glad you woke up. For a moment I was afraid I'd killed you." She told him with a worried look on her face.
"You could never kill me." He told her moving towards her and kissing her deeply.
"You're not afraid?" she asked once they pulled apart.
"How could I be afraid of one so beautiful?" he asked her and she smiled at him before moving away from him.
"They could control my mind; and Damon's. They compelled each of us to keep the secret from the other. They wanted all of us to be together. Forever. Didn't work out that way, but... Damon and I, looks like we're stuck with each other... Like it or not." Stefan said pulling out Damon's ring from the ruins.
"Is that Damon's ring?" Elena asked him.
"I took it from him and he took Chloe. I have to give it back." Stefan told her.
"No, don't, Stefan. Keep it hidden." Elena insisted.
"You'd risk your sister's life to keep him in one place during the day?" he asked her.
"No, but…" she started saying.
"Elena, if I don't give it to him, he'll retaliate in the only way that he knows he can hurt me." He told her.
"And how is that?" she asked him.
"By hurting you." He told her.
"We're working on it, Mayor Lockwood." The Sheriff insisted while Mayor Lockwood opened up a secret area in the floor at the Lockwood Mansion.
"Doc ID the bodies?" he asked her.
"A few townies. Notorious druggies." She told him.
"I suppose that'll make it easy for people to buy the story. And Vicki Donovan?" he asked.
"She's not one of the deceased." She said.
"Where the hell is she?" he demanded angrily.
"I wish I knew." She said shrugging as Logan walked in.
"Sorry I'm late." He said.
"You have the watch?" the Mayor asked him. Logan handed him the watch and Mayor Lockwood removed the watch covering and pulled out a box from the hideaway under the floor. He opened it to reveal a compass face and inserted it into the base of the watch until it clicked into place before handing t back to Logan. "It's ready."
"That's it?" Logan asked him.
"Yes. That's it." He said before Logan took the compass from him.
At the Salvatore house Vicki was dancing in the sun from the windows as Damon was drinking.
"I am so over Tyler, so over him. I knew from the beginning that I was only a piece of ass to him, but I thought maybe if he got to know me better, he might see something more, but no. He kept going on and on about you, Chloe. Now, Jeremy, on the other hand, that's all he's ever seen in me is something more, and I like that." She said.
"Jeremy, huh? Your brother?" Damon asked turning to me.
"Yep." I said, taking the bottle he was drinking out of and taking a large drink. If I had to be here I was going to get crazy drunk.
"Yeah. yeah. So, Elena used to date my brother, and they were always together, so Jeremy would always be hanging around and crushing on me and- Hey, why don't you have a girlfriend? You're, like, totally cool and so hot." Vicki said.
"I know." He told her and I rolled my eyes.
"Don't you wanna be in love?" she asked him.
"I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated." Damon said as he avoided the sunlight streaming in through the windows as he moved through the parlor.
"Except when it isn't." she countered.
"No more talking. Let's dance." He said, picking her up and spinning her making her laugh. He used his vampire speed and came to me. He grabbed me by my waist and moved me to the beat of the music, making me smile for some reason. I joined him and Vicki in dancing around the parlor as though nothing bad in the world could ever hurt me. Every so often I'd see Damon staring at me before he flashed up to the banister and danced up there before motioning for Vicki and I to join him. She flicked him off before she and I made our way up the stairs. He flashed behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist and spun me around as the three of us made our way to one of the bedrooms. Vicki instantly went to the bed and started jumping on it as Damon knocked things over and destroyed the room. I watched as Damon picked something up and looked at it with sorrow in his eyes. I looked at him confused before he moved the party back downstairs.
"My mom spends most of her time in Virginia beach with Pete. He drives trucks. I don't remember my dad, but from what I gather, he's not worth remembering." Vicki cried as she and Damon slow danced.
"Your life is so pathetic." Damon told her spinning her away from him and grabbing my hand and pulling me to him so we were able to dance.
"Yeah. I mean, I'm the screwed-up one. Matt's got it so easy. He's the golden boy. I mean, he's gonna get a football scholarship and marry Elena and have a lawn mower and some babies, and when i think of my future, I just come up blank." She told us.
"You are so damaged." He told her.
"Yep." She agreed.
"I mean, you don't have one hint of self-esteem." He said.
"Nope, none." She said.
"I think I know what can help you." He told her.
"So what's that?" she asked. He flashed over to her and put his hands on her face.
"Death." And with that he snapped her neck.
"Vicki!" I screamed and ran to her broken body. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Don't worry, she'll wake up soon." Damon said walking away from us.
"You killed her! How can you say she'll wake up soon if you snapped her neck?" I asked him. He just ignored me and continued on his way.
After a few minutes, she woke up gasping and holding her neck.
"What happened? We were dancing, and then—" she said.
"Then I killed you." He told her.
"What?" she asked him.
"You're dead." I told her.
"I'm dead?" she asked.
"Yeah, well, let's not make a big deal out of it. You drank my blood, I killed you, and now you have to feed in order to complete the process." Damon explained to her.
"You're wasted." She told him.
"He's not lying Vicki. He snapped your neck." I told her.
"You're both wasted." She said standing up and moving to walk out the door.
"You don't wanna be out there all alone. You're about to get really freaky." Damon told her.
"Ok, I had a really good time. I just wanna go home." She said.
"You're gonna start craving blood, and until you get it, you're gonna feel very out of it. You have to be careful." Damon warned her.
"Come on, move." She said.
"See? you're already starting to fall apart." He said with a smirk on his face.
"And I'm going home now." She told him.
"Ok, fine. I'm just warning you." He said as she started walking away. "Actually, you know what? You should go. In fact, if I were you, I would stop by your boyfriend Jeremy's house."
"What? No! Vicki stay away from him!" I said and he held me back from reaching her.
"Yeah, whatever." She said.
"Bye. If you see Stefan, tell him to call me." Damon called to her.
"I got Stanley on the Moore street entrance. The rest of us will cover other access points. Call him or call me if that thing goes off. Don't use the radio. Cellphones only." Sheriff Forbes instructed to Logan as they prepared.
"Got it." Logan said.
"You've got 8 rounds. Remember, wood bullets won't kill him, but it'll wound him enough for you to get close and stake him. You sure you can handle this?" she asked him.
"Of course I can." He said as a deputy gave him a stake.
"You ever staked a vampire before?" she asked him.
"Have you?" he asked her.
At the Gilbert house, Jeremy walked to the door as the doorbell kept ringing.
"I'm Coming!" Jeremy called before opening the door and seeing Vicki.
"Hey. The sun is killing me. My eyes are on fire." She told him.
"Where have you been?" he asked her.
"It's good. Everything's good." She told him before they started to kiss.
"Did something happen?" he asked her, breaking away from the kiss.
"I'm hungry. What do you got to eat?" she asked him moving to the kitchen.
"You're high? Vicki, it's the middle of the day." He reminded her.
"Could you just not talk so loud? My head, it hurts. I need quiet." She complained before pulling food from the fridge.
At the old Salvatore field, Elena and Stefan were preparing to leave when the one question that had been bugging her for a while now had to be asked.
"The mind control... You said Katherine and Anna used. Do you ever do that to me?" she asked him.
"No. That necklace, it contains an herb called vervain. It protects you from being compelled. I wanted to protect you from Damon's influence. But I also wanted to... Protect you from me. Elena, you should never take that necklace off... Because no matter what happens after today, no matter how you feel about me... You'll know that you were free to make your own choice." He told her.
At the Gilbert house, Jeremy had called Matt over to help calm his sister.
"Where is she?"
"Come this way." Jeremy led Matt to the kitchen where Vicki was sitting boxes and tuber ware around her.
"What's she on?" Matt asked him quietly.
"I-I don't know." Jeremy confided. Matt sighed and bent down to Vicki and took of the sunglasses she hadn't removed.
"Hey, Vic. How you doin'?" he asked his baby sister.
"Not good, Mattie. I hurt." She told him.
"Ok, where's it hurt?" Matt asked her.
"My gums. My jaw hurts. My gum-there's something in my gums, and it hurts." She cried.
"Ok, well—" he was about to try and help but she pushed him away lightly.
"No. Just leave me alone." She ordered.
"Come on, Vic. Don't be like that. Let's get you home." He said.
"Just turn it off!" she shouted.
"Turn what off?" Jeremy asked her.
"The talking, the chatter, just turn it off." She said pushing past them and walking away from them. She only stopped when she saw Logan Fell on the TV at the cemetery with the audio down.
"...horribly. 3 bodies were found dead in what is believed to be a drug deal gone awry. The bodies have yet to be identified. They were discovered earlier today over at the old Mystic Falls cemetery." Logan said.
"That's where we were last night." Jeremy said looking to Vicki.
"What happened, Vic?" Matt asked her as she watched the TV.
"..homicide, and are fast under way looking for suspects. They're asking anyone with information..."
"I'm calling the cops." Matt said going for the phone.
"No. Don't." Vicki said, pulling him back to her.
"What happened after I left last night, Vick?" Jeremy asked her. She didn't answer just pushed him away from her and towards the couch forcing it forwards.
"Jer, are you ok ?" Matt asked him.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." He said angrily.
"Damn, Vick." Matt said as Elena and Stefan walked in the house then towards the trio.
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"She's really messed up." Matt said. Stefan looked at Vicki for a moment before noticing something in her eyes he hoped he hadn't seen.
"Elena, back up. Vicki, look at me. Focus." He looked deep into her eyes and found what he'd hoped he hadn't seen. "You're gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. Guys, take her up to bed. Shut the blinds. She's gonna be ok. Come on. Come on." Matt and Jeremy do as he said and took Vicki upstairs to help her rest.
"You know what's wrong with her?" Elena asked him.
"Yeah." He answered.
"What is it?" she asked him.
"She's transitioning." Stefan explained.
"Transitioning to what?" Elena asked, afraid of the answer.
"A vampire." He told her.
"What?" she asked.
"Damon must have gotten to her. She's new. She hasn't completed her transformation yet." Stefan assured her.
"H-how does she do that?" Elena asked him.
"She has to feed on human blood." he said.
"And what if she doesn't?" Elena asked.
"She'll die. She may only have a few hours." Stefan told her.
"She's upstairs with him right now." She said, scared for her brother.
"It's ok. She doesn't know what's happening to her yet." He assured her.
"So when is she gonna know?" Elena asked him.
"Right now, she doesn't remember anything. A part of her is still human, but slowly, the deeper she gets into the transition, the memories will start to come back, and then she'll know she has to make the choice." Stefan explained.
"The same choice you made?" she asked him before something dawned on her. "Oh god, he still has Chloe. What if he kills her or forces her to turn?"
"I don't think he will." Stefan told her.
"Why's that?" she asked him worriedly.
"She's been with him since at least last night. If he was going to kill her or turn her he would have done so already." He explained and she nodded before pacing.
"I'm sorry I'm so much trouble." Vicki told Jeremy. She was sitting up in his bed with him sitting next to her.
"Aw, you just-you need to sleep it off, ok?" he told her. Matt watched them hug each other and walked away. As Vicki hugged him she was tempted to bite him and she was about to. When she realized what she was doing, she stopped.
"No." she said before getting up and running away grabbing her shoes in the process.
"Vick. Vicki!" Matt called after her.
"She was fine, and then she just- she just freaked out." Jeremy told them.
"I'm gonna go look for her. Call me if you hear anything." Matt said running away from the house to find his sister.
"I can track her." Stefan told Elena once they were alone.
"Go." She told him and he rushed after Vicki using his vampire speed.
In the woods, Logan was using the compass to try and find the vampire who killed the teens at the cemetery, when the compass started to freak out and turn where he needed to go. He picked up his cell and called Sheriff Forbes immediately.
"Yeah." She answered her phone.
"I think I got something. It's pointing towards the old cemetery." Logan told her.
"Headed your way." She told him as she and her deputies all went off in that direction.
"Maybe we should check in with Matt." Jeremy suggested as he and Elena cleaned up the kitchen.
"He'll call when he finds her." Elena told him for the umpteenth time. He'd suggested calling Matt a small number of times and everytime she said the same thing.
"Well, what are we supposed to do?" he asked her.
"We wait. We're supposed to wait." She told him.
"I don't know what's wrong with her." Jeremy said feeling even more depressed.
"She'll be fine. It'll all be fine." She said, but the way she said it made it sound like she wanted to convince herself more than her worried brother. Her train of thought was broken when the doorbell rang and she opened the door to find Damon and me standing on the other side. She quickly tried to close the door on Damon but he pushed back to open it fully. "Jeremy, go upstairs." She told him.
"What's going on?" he asked looking between all of us.
"Jer just go upstairs. I'll explain later." I told him with a smile on my face and he went upstairs.
"You're afraid of me." Damon said to Elena once Jeremy was out of earshot. "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess. Stefan finally fessed up."
"Stay away from my family." Elena told him.
"Hey, there's no need to be rude. I'm just looking for Stefan. May I come in? Oh, wait. Of course I can. I've been invited." Damon told her walking into the house as I followed him. "We can cut to the chase if you want. I'm not gonna kill you right now. That wouldn't serve my greater agenda. So... Where's Stefan?"
"He's out looking for Vicki." She told him with hatred lining every word.
"Don't look at me with those judgey little eyes. Girl's gonna thank me for what I did to her." Damon told her and I rolled my eyes.
"Did you thank Anna?" she asked him.
"Mmm. Got the whole life story, huh?" he asked her with a smirk.
"I got enough." She answered.
"Oh, I doubt that. Tell my brother I'm looking for him. Oh, tip for later, be careful who you invite in the house. Chloe, stay here." He told me and I knew the compulsion was broken and I sighed.
"Really?" I asked turning to Elena. "You know what they are and you still talk to him like that?" I asked her.
"You know?" she asked shocked.
"I put the pieces together a while ago." I said before going upstairs and looking out my window into the darkness.
At the cemetery, Vicki was crying in the place where she was supposed to have died with her friends the previous night.
"Vicki." She turned to see Stefan next to her.
"I'm starting to remember things, what he is, what he said. I remember you. The hospital, the-the rooftop, it's all coming back." She told him.
"I'm so sorry. Damon had no right to do this to you." He said kneeling next to her.
"He said that I need to feed. What will happen if I don't?" she asked him.
"You'll fade quickly... And then it'll all just be over." He explained
"I'll be dead." She cried.
"Hey." Stefan said, trying to comfort her.
"I don't want this." She told him.
"I know. It'll be ok. You're gonna be ok. I can help you." He told her.
"Is it better? Is it better? Will I be better?" she asked him but he didn't answer her. "I wanna go home. Will you take me home?"
"Ok." He stood and offered her a hand to help her up when gunshots went off. Stefan looked down and both he and Vicki saw blood pouring from him. Vicki turned to see Logan holding the smoking gun. He walked to Stefan and pointed the gun down at him before tossing it aside and preparing to stake him.
"No!" Vicki called out before Logan screamed in pain. Damon had appeared and was killing Logan. When he was done Logan dropped and Damon went to his brother's side taking the bullet from Stefan's chest.
"It's wood. They know. If anyone's gonna kill you, it's gonna be me. My ring." Damon demanded making a come hither motion. Stefan slowly pulled out Damon's ring and Damon snatched it before placing it on his finger. They both heard something and turned to see Vicki drinking Logan's blood.
"No! No! Vicki!" Stefan called to her.
"I'm sorry." She told him before she ran away.
"Oops." Damon said with a smirk. He saw the compass and grabbed it before he and his brother disappeared from the sight. It wasn't long after that Sheriff Forbes and her deputies came running up and found Logan's dead body.
"Oh god... The watch. Find the watch." She ordered and they spread out.
Elena and I sat on the front porch waiting for Stefan to come back either with Vicki or with news.
"What if she turned? What will we do?" Elena asked me.
"We do what we can to help and keep Jeremy away from her for as long as possible." I told her.
"That won't be easy." She reminded me.
"No, but it could save his life. She'd be like a newborn. She wouldn't be able to control her actions." I explained my thought process to her. Suddenly she stood and ran off the porch and I turned to see Stefan walking towards us.
"You're bleeding." She said looking down at his shirt.
"No, it's ok. It's ok. I'm ok." He told her.
"Well? Did you find her?" I asked him standing next to my sister and he nodded.
"I couldn't stop her. I tried." He told us and I looked down in realization what this meant.
"What does that mean?" Elena asked him.
"She fed, and then I lost her." Stefan told her.
"Oh, my god." Elena sighed.
"I'll take care of it. I'll find her, and I will show her that she can live like I do. I will make sure that she does not hurt anybody, Elena. I promise you." He told her.
"What do I tell my brother and- and Matt?" she asked him.
"We'll come up with a story." He told her.
"You mean we'll come up with a lie." She said.
"I'm so sorry." He told her.
"This is now out life, Elena. We have to protect their secret." I said and she gave me a curious look before I walked away from them.
"I gave you today just like you asked." Elena told Stefan. "And I understand that you would never do anything to hurt me, and I promise I will keep your secret, but... I can't be with you, Stefan. I'm sorry. I- I just can't..." she walked away from him into the house and closed the door quietly before she fell to the floor and cried as I watched her.