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Exposed

It had been a week since the Founder's Party. Damon came around now and then, but he wasn't pestering Jade like he had been before. She wondered if it was just because she was happier he was around these days, not seeing it as being annoying. They hadn't gone out since the party, but he did stop by to see her every so often, even bringing flowers to her at work. Matt was still wary of Damon, worried about his sister while Vicki was thrilled Jade was seeming to give Damon a shot. That night, with both Matt and Vicki working, Jade thought that it might have been Damon at the door.

"Oh, hey Elena," Jade smiled politely. She found herself almost wishing it was Damon, like when he used to come surprise her at school. It was amazing how quickly he started having this effect on her again after she started letting him back into her life. "Matty's at work," Jade said, assuming Elena was here for him since they were still friends after their break up.

"I didn't want to see Matt," Elena started off.

"Oh, well Vicki's working too," Jade laughed now. "So, Jeremy's probably waiting around the grille for her." She didn't think it was a secret that Vicki and Jeremy were sneaking back and forth between each other's houses. It was just like how it wasn't a secret to Jade and Matt that, even after Vicki's incident, she was still using.

"What?" Elena asked in confusion, not knowing about Vicki and Jeremy. "No, I um, wanted to talk to you. If that's ok?"

"Oh," Jade nodded, letting her in now. "Sure, what's up?"

"How well do you know Damon?" Elena asked curiously, following Jade to sit on the couch. She had suspicions about the Salvatore brothers for days, but it was hard to believe that any of them were true; she thought she might actually be losing it.

"Um," Jade laughed a little. "We dated on and off for about two years while I was in school, down in Florida." She looked at Elena curiously. "Why?"

"What do you know about his relationship with Stefan?" Elena asked now, not sure why Damon was always trying to stir things up between them.

"Not much," Jade shrugged. "Just that they have issues." She motioned around. "Given my own issues, I never really asked." Elena nodded.

"Do you remember those stories you used to tell me and Matt?" Elena asked. Being five years older, Jade was left to babysit Elena, Matt, and Vicki a lot. It was never really her choosing, it was more that it was supposed to be Kelly's job but she either bailed or passed out.

"Kinda," Jade nodded. Kelly and Miranda had told the stories to Jenna, who then told them to Jade, who told Matt and Elena. They were stories about vampires, monsters hiding in the dark. She had used the stories mostly to scare the kids into going to bed, saying she'd let the vampires get them if they misbehaved.

"It's just...with what's been happening, I didn't know..."

"What, the mountain lion attacks?" Jade asked curiously. Did Elena actually think there were vampires? Vicki had said something about a vampire when she was attacked. "Are you smoking something with my sister?"

"Can I show you something?" Elena asked back, taking a few print out pictures from her bag that she got from the town's news archives.

"This is going to be hard to explain," Damon grumbled to himself as Vicki was laying on his couch the next morning.

He had a fight with Stefan earlier in the night, about Jade and Elena, how him keeping the secret from Jade was completely different when in the grand scheme of things it wasn't. He went out intending to prove a point, that he loved being a vampire, that he wasn't ashamed of what he was. In the way that he normally proved points to Stefan, it was through terror and he set out to the cemetery, killing a few local people that had been hanging out and getting high. In his frenzy, he didn't notice that he had attacked Vicki.

She was laying there on the ground, near death from losing so much blood. He did the only thing he could think to do and that was feed her his blood to heal her. Unfortunately, she died anyway. With vampire blood in her system, she was going to come back. She was going to be in transition and would need to feed on human blood to survive. For his purposes, it probably would have just been easier to let Vicki die; it would have helped in keeping the secret. She was Jade's little sister though, it would devastate her, and he wasn't going to let that happen.

"What's happening to me?" Vicki asked, sitting up slowly, her memory hazy.

"Well-"

"I wanna go home," Vicki stopped him, getting upset now. "I want Jade." She felt sick, like she had taken the wrong combination of drugs last night at the cemetery. Jade might be mad at her, but she was always good at making it better when Vicki took things too far.

"Yeah," Damon sighed, helping her to her feet now. "All right."

"Jay," Matt was trying to shake her awake the next morning.

She had fallen asleep on the couch, the tv still on after her weird conversation with Elena. She brushed it off as being a coincidence. Elena was convinced the Salvatore brothers were vampires, showing Jade a picture of the registry from the first Founder's party with their names on it, as well as a picture of Stefan in the 1950s. Jade wrote it off as them being named after the original founding family members and the fact that family members looked a lot alike. Elena brought up the attacks, how Vicki was only bitten on her neck, how the victims of the alleged animal attacks died from being drained of their blood. Jade wouldn't believe it though and told Elena she was turning into Caroline by reading too much Twilight.

"Hey, wake up," Matt said to her now.

"Hm?" Jade grumbled, rubbing her eyes.

"Vicki's not in her room," Matt told her.

"So?" Jade complained, falling back onto the couch. "She probably stayed with Jeremy last night."

"Yeah?" Matt asked sarcastically, turning up the volume on the tv. Logan Fell was on there reporting about an incident last night in the cemetery, that there was a drug deal that had gone wrong.

"Oh my God," Jade jumped up, hearing a knock at the door now as she got off the couch. Going over to answer the door, she saw Damon and Vicki there. "What happened to you?" she asked her sister.

"I don't know," she whimpered, coming into the house now. Things were starting to come back to her, but they were too crazy to be true; she had to be high, otherwise that meant that Damon, the guy she had been pushing her sister to take back, was the one that had attacked her and everyone else that had died recently.

"What did you take?" Jade asked, trying to look at her sister's eyes.

"I don't know!" Vicki started yelling now, freaking out. "Just stop yelling at me! Ok?!" She took off upstairs to go to her room, leaving Jade and Matt looking at Damon.

"I found her wandering in the woods by my house," Damon lied. "She seemed really out of it again." He was waiting outside the door respectfully, but Jade had already let him in once when he came to see her during the week after the Founder's party.

"Can you go talk to Jeremy?" Jade turned to Matt now.

"Why?" Matt asked in confusion.

"Because whatever pills she's been taking, she's gotten them from him before," Jade reminded him. "Just go see what she's on, so I know if I have to take her to the hospital."

"Ok," Matt agreed, going and leaving his sister alone with Damon. Damon didn't like how Jade was looking at him, like she knew something. Had she figured it out?

"Can I come in?" Damon asked her and she shook her head.

"Not right now Damon," Jade said softly. "I need to check on my sister." She went to close the door, but stopped. "The last two times she's gotten in trouble, you've been around to find her," she commented. She didn't wait for an answer as she shut the door on him. Going upstairs now, she went down the hall to see her sister sitting on her bed and holding her head.

"I screwed up," Vicki was murmuring as Jade sat down. "I screwed up, I always screw up!"

"It's ok Vic," Jade promised her.

"I shouldn't have gone to the cemetery last night," Vicki was continuing. "I shouldn't..." The more she thought about last night, it all came back. It wasn't just last night she was remembering, but she remembered the first attack at the falls party, she remember Damon and Stefan telling her to forget.

"Vicki, seriously it's fine," Jade assured her. "Just tell me what you took."

"I don't want you to go out with Damon anymore," Vicki told her quickly.

"What does he have to do with..." Jade let herself trail off. "Did he give you something?"

"No!" Vicki was freaking out now. "No, he's the one that attacked me!"

"That was a mountain lion," Jade said, not sure what was going on.

"Do I look like I got mauled by a mountain lion Jade?!" Vicki snapped at her, getting up from her bed now. "It was a vampire, I told you!" Her eyes were tearing up. "You didn't believe me, you just thought I was strung out."

"Vic-"

"Then him and his brother made me forget," Vicki continued, pacing her room. "Last night, Damon attacked my friends! He killed my friends!"

"They said that was a drug deal," Jade shook her head in disbelief.

"Why don't you believe me?!" Vicki screamed. "Why don't you ever believe me?"

"Vicki, sit," Jade forced her to sit next to her on the bed again, taking Vicki by her shoulders. "We can talk about it, ok? Just relax and-"

"Stop yelling so much," Vicki seemed to panic, knocking Jade's hands away so she could cover her ears. "There's so much noise, I-"

"Ok," Jade nodded sympathetically, taking Vicki's hands. "Ok, I won't be as loud." Whatever was going on with her sister, she knew she had to go along with it. "What else hurts?"

"My gums," Vicki told her. "There's something wrong with my teeth. And..." She trailed off, looking at her sister. "What's that noise?"

"What noise?" Jade asked curiously.

"I..." Vicki shook her head. "I can hear your heart." The more she heard, the more she craved blood.

"Vicki," Jade said, seeing her eyes becoming bloodshot, the veins near her eyes turning black. Jade got up to run, planning to get help. Vicki ran up behind her though, knocking her to the ground. Vicki and Jade were always the same size, so Jade wondered how Vicki got so freakishly strong out of now where, pinning her to the floor.

"I can't help it," she heard Vicki saying as they were fighting against each other. "I can't...I..." Giving in, Vicki leaned over and bit into her sister's neck.

"AHHH!" Jade screamed, trying to push her sister off but it wasn't working.

"Vicki, no!" she heard Damon yelling, him and Stefan running in to pull her off of Jade. Jade scrambled to sit up right, moving back into a corner. Elena was there, kneeling next to Jade and asking if she was ok. Everything sounded far off, nothing seemed real to her right now.

"I'm so sorry Jade!" Vicki was crying now, her emotions uncontrollable as Stefan kept holding her back. Elena moved for Damon, who reached for Jade now.

"Don't touch me," Jade told him, placing a hand over her neck, wincing as she touched it.

"The stuff we talked about last night," Elena was saying gently. "It's-"

"Please stop talking," Jade shook her head.

None of this was real, it couldn't be. Vampires weren't real, they were a made up scary story people told around campfires and told to kids they were babysitting. She didn't spend two years dating a vampire, falling in love with one. Her sister wasn't turning into one now, she hadn't just bit Jade and drank her blood. This was all some kind of sick and twisted dream that she hoped she woke up from soon.

"Get out," Jade was saying now. "Everyone, just get out."

"Jade," Damon said as she was getting up now. "You have to let me explain."

"I don't have to do any-"

"Jay! Vic!" Matt was calling from downstairs. "I'm home!"

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