I love Samantha but I wanted to see someone slowly learning their powers and place in this world... which is what was so compelling about VD. At first anyway.

I hope I did the intro well, there is a lot of cliche with the Vampire Diaries fanfics that I want to avoid.


With intense focus, Liam looked at the marbles on his desk. Without moving a muscle, he watched as they slowly, but surely, rose into the air. Sweat dripped down his face as he focused harder then then hard, his hands shaking with the strain. A wave of exhaustion threatened to overtake him as he challenge the natural order with his burgeoning powers. The marbles reached about six inches above the desk before slowly twirling around, bit by bit.

"LIAM, YOUR GOING TO BE LATE!" Jenna's voice shattered his control, the marbles dropping with a clink against the desk.

"Damn...sigh, that was progress though. I've gotten better though, can't deny that." Happy, Liam put the marbles into his pocket. "Can Elena do stuff like this... I mean it took our parents dying for me to be able to do stuff like this... what the hell is going on with me. I wish I could tell people, anyone, but my family is filled with blabber mouths and worst of all Caroline is Elena's friend. If she hears about it, I'll be burned at the stake in half an hour... fuck." Annoyed with that feeling of isolation, Liam put on his hoodie. Hurrying out of his room and down the stairs. " I'm ready Jenna, been ready for like twenty minutes." Throwing himself down the stairs, he pulled Jenna close and kissed her cheek, making her giggle a little. "I love you, Jenna."

His favorite aunt rolled her eyes before pecking his cheek softly. "Love you too, handsome."

Elena, his twin and most annoying sibling, walked down next to him without so much as a how do you do. He rolled his eyes at her a little, taking in her beautiful form. Thinner then then with perfect olive skin and straight brown hair, Elena was the kind of beautiful that just made people like and trust her. Everyone did, literally everyone. It was kind of annoying but he dealt with it with as much grace as possible.

Mainly by swearing he was adopted, which was fair since he looked nothing like his sister coming out with black hair, whiter then white skin and green eyes. He was also short, like 5'5'' unlike Elena who stood at 5'7'' without heels and Jeremy who was easily six feet tall and thicker then both of them. Liam was skinny like his sister, but wiry and athletic versus Elena's model thinness.

Jenna, not sensing his random thoughts, called out. "Toast. I can make toast."

Elena sighed. "It's all about the coffee, Aunt Jenna."

Then his pain in the ass little brother walked in. "Is there coffee?"

"Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared." Jenna pulled out money, holding it out for them all. "Lunch money?"

Elena shook her head, where as Jeremy took the money. "I'm good."

"Still got money from working at the Grill this summer, Aunt Jenna, but thanks." Liam said, smiling at the beautiful women.

"Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?"

Elena shared a look with Liam, both of them rolling their eyes at her exasperation. " Don't you have a big presentation today?"

"I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at...now. Crap!"

Liam softly shoved her. "We got this Aunt Jenna, go." She nodded and hurried out of the house, leaving the three siblings together.

Elena, with her typical lack of ability to read people, turned to Jeremy, who was sipping on Coffee. " You okay?"

"Don't start." He said, making Liam sigh.

"Enough both of you. Jer, if hear your with Vicki or doing drugs at School I am putting a foot up your ass. Elena, leave him be and let him grieve on his own. Stop harassing him, let him breathe a little." He raised his hands when they started to protest. "Jer, you are privilged as hell and have an attitude, you wouldn't do well in Juvie. Knock it with the drugs. Pots fine, some booze is fine but nothing more or you deal with me. Elena, your not his mother and frankly you aren't any better with your grief then he is... let him be and let him deal as he needs to.

I am not dealing with your guy's crap this early in the school year. Grow up both of you." Tired of dealing with them already, he hurried out of the house. "Elena, Bonnie's probably already here, hurry up."

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Bonnie's beautiful face always brought out the worst in Liam, he was never fond of the girl. She was too... annoying for him, and really unappreciative towards her Grams who literally raised her. Losing his parents made him resent that part of her all the more. He had met Grams before, many times, and he liked her well enough. Her stories were interesting, and she really seemed to care about her Granddaughter.

Trying to be silent so he would not hit or insult the girl, Liam just put in music in one ear and listened with the other just in case Elena freaked out from the car.

"So Grams is telling me I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem, witches and all that, I know, crazy, but she's going on and on about it, and I'm like, put this woman in a home already! But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands...Elena! Back in the car."

Elena, having fazed out, didn't seem to notice Liam's worried eyes. " I did it again, didn't I? I-I'm sorry, Bonnie. You were telling me that..."

"That's she's psychic, like everyone says her Grams is... well they call her a witch but that is besides that point."

"Right. Okay, then predict something. About me."

Bonnie, being sweet, smiled at her friend. " I see..." A bird slammed into the car then, shocking the tree of them and forcing Bonnie to pull over swiftly. "What was that?! Oh, my god! Elena, are you okay?"

'Yeah, I'm fine too, it's not like I wasn't in the car with her when our parents died... of course no one remembers that...sigh.'

Still worried about his sister, he turned to her as she sat up and said. "It's okay. I'm fine."

Bonnie didn't buy it clearly. "It was like a bird or something. It came out of nowhere."

"Really, I can't be freaked out by cars for the rest of my life."

"I predict this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict all the sad and dark times are over and you are going to be beyond happy."

A shiver washed over Liam at that, like someone walking over his grave. 'Why ... why do I feel like that is... wrong.' He tried to ignore it, but something felt wrong about how she said those words. He had felt that before, before his parents died... when they walked into the car to pick up Elena from the party. That same feeling of dread as the rain began to fall, that pit in his stomach that left him feeling raw and exposed as if he was being watched.

He hoped it was just his imagination... this time at least.

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Making to school, he moved away from his annoying sister and her friend and hurried over to where he saw Matt Donovan mooning over his sister. Annoyed, he yanked out a headphone. " Seriously, you broke up months ago, move on Matty." He rolled his eyes a the puppy pain in Matt's eyes. "Life is more then my sister, stop mooning over her and get a life."

He was being cold, he knew that Matty hadn't had a lot in life thanks to his shitty parents, so he really held onto Elena as a symbol for how life could be good. Still it was unhealthy for his sort of friend, and Liam hated to see that weird effect Elena had on everyone, where they were so dependent on her for approval. Even their parents had been like that for some reason... it was annoying.

Matt sighed. "I know your right, but... sigh, I don't know, I guess it's the way it happened, you know. I always saw her as my wife, eventually."

"Life happens Matty, move on and let her go. Find someone better, trust me she isn't all you made her up to be in your head. She has faults." Sighing a little, realizing how jealous he sounded, Liam realized it was time for class. "I have AP Math today, see you later. Stop mooning."

Happy that he scolded his sort of friend, he moved on and hurried to class, grateful that unlike his sibling he excelled enough in school to not take the same classes as them. He loved his family and all but they were annoying and he never really attached the same way they all had. Jenna being the natural exception...

Thankfully class wasn't that hard, so he was allowed to brood a little about his lack of real friends and connection to his family... and the new powers he, for some reason, alone had after the death of his parents.

"""

The Grill was the only place to hang out in Mystic Falls that lacked a drug problem and for that reason alone Liam allowed himself to go with Elena to the Grill. He may not be close to his sister or her friends, but he knew that Matt would be there and the boy would need serious back up if Elena was going there as well. The boy rarely had it easy, so someone had to care for him and Liam figured it might as well be him.

Elena called out to their Aunt as they made their way to leave. " We're meeting Bonnie at the grill."

Jenna nodded. "Okay, have fun. Wait, I got this. Don't stay out late, it's a school night."

"Well done, Aunt Jenna." Then she opened the door, seeing and stopping as an unfamiliar face stood there. Oh."

The boy, who Liam didn't recognize, offered a smile. " Sorry, I was about to knock. I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was...strange."

'Oh, so they know each other... wait, I heard about a new guy at School, didn't give it much thought. He has nice hair and pretty eyes but his face is too square so... meh, I give him a seven.' Deciding to be quiet, curious to see where this was going and if he was reading the sexual tension correctly, he just listened to their conversation.

"No worries." His sister said. " I get it, blood makes you squeamish."

"Um, something like that. How's your leg?" He gestured to his sister's leg.

Elena lifted her pant legs, showing a covered up cut. " Oh, it's fine. Just a scratch, barely. How did you know where I lived?"

And it was that question that set Liam on edge, Elena made a rare good point there. "It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw. Um, I thought you might want this back." The tall boy handed Elena a familiar book, her diary.

"Oh, I must have dropped it. I-thank you."

"Don't worry, I didn't...read it."

"No? Why not? Most people would have." She sounded impressed, as if basic decency was sexy... ugh.

"Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine.

That seemed to shock his sister. You keep a journal?

With some hesitancy, the boy nodded. ""Yeah, if I don't write it down, I forget it. Memories are too important."

"Yeah. I'm just gonna...umm, you don't have to stay out there."

"I'm fine. Sorry, were you going somewhere?"

"Yeah, I'm meeting a friend. Do you want to come?"

Sighing, Liam turned and focused a tiny glare at his sister. "Thanks for asking, always sweet of you... " He ignored her cringe. " Hello, names Liam, who are you?" He held out his hand.

"Stefan, Stefan Salvatore."

Stefan grabbed his hand, shaking it as a horrible feeling of sheer death overtook Liam, making his already fair skin lose any color it had. He wanted to scream and shout in fear as cold, dry, horror crawled up his skin and settled into his soul. Without letting his fear show, Liam pulled away, masking his shaking hands behind his back.

"Nice to meet you, Stefan... shall we go then, or are we just waiting out here with our thumbs up our butts?"

Stefan laughed a little at that, and they finally started to move. Liam took the chance to check out Stefan's backside, smirking a little at his sister, who blushed. Whispering low, he said. "He's got a nice ass at least."

He enjoyed her utter embarrassment and it did well to mask his utter terror. 'What was that I felt... why... what the hell is going on. I need help, I guess I can't figure this out on my own. Maybe Sheila Bennet can help me, she is into all that witchy stuff... sigh... this sucks, no matter how cool moving things with my mind is. I just wish these weird feelings came with an instruction manual, they are too vague to be helpful.'

And with that, he had a new goal... protect his sister and hope he was wrong with what he was feeling with Stefan... his family needed no more tragedies...

None of them did.

;;

Stefan smirked a little, hearing Liam's word. But more satisfying then that was Elena's huff of embarrassment, it was fun to him to get that kind of response from her. Made him feel human, as if he wasn't a monster. Still, he was worried. What the hell happened to make Liam so afraid of him all of a sudden. It was a familiar reaction, but one that made no sense. Katherine wasn't a witch and neither was the Gilbert line...

So why did Liam act like a witch did when they touched a vampire?

He needed more information...

He would keep an eye on Liam, until he could figure things out. Who knew, the kid might be a witch from whomever Elena and his Biological family was.

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Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.

This was fun to write and I enjoyed it a lot.

Love, your Ninja Overlord,

Mika.