A/N: Thanks for the review and the favorites guys! That's something I was hoping to see. I decided this isn't going to be a big story, so there's only going to be a few more chapters after this one…sorry.

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Cailee felt people move around her and tried her best to make her small enough to be ignored. It seemed to work because no one seemed to notice her in their haste to get out of the building. She waited until the rushing tides of people ended and she found herself alone, but she was never alone…

She walked out into the sunlight and made her way across the front lawn, tripping over the gnarled root of a tree. Her books went flying out of her hands when she attempted to catch herself on the ground.

"Stupid…stupid Cailee," she whispered, pushing herself onto her knees. "Not looking where you were going…that root always gets you."

She turned to look at the root that had tripped her, but it was nowhere to be seen. Cailee's green eyes welled up with tears and she quickly closed them to hold back the rushing rivers.

"I won't cry… not over another hallucination…I'm not a crybaby…"

She turned her gaze once more to her books and reached to pick them up. Someone stooped down and picked up her last book, turning it over in his hands.

"The Diary of Cailee…" he read off the cover. "I bet it's full of so many tales of preps and jocks who looked at you the wrong way and pains of the heart that yearns for the most popular boy in school."

Cailee couldn't help but smile at him. "You know better than that."

"I do, but it still hasn't been proven," Damon replied, holding out a hand to help her up. "You haven't let me read this yet."

"That's because there are things in it that would scare you away from me," Cailee explained as she had once before, allowing him to pull her to her feet. "Things that I have seen or have dreamed about…things that aren't real but could always become real…Damon, I don't want to lose you because of what I see in my head…"

Damon smiled and pulled her close, his hand pressing gently into the small of her back. "Nothing you can do will scare me away."

"But what if it was something so horrible that you would never look at me the same way again," Cailee whispered as her hallucinated memory vanished before her as she walked past the school. "What if it was something that was so violent and grotesque that everyone hated me and you could never look at me again without feeling fear, feeling disgusted?"

Damon didn't respond. He hadn't responded then either.

"Hey Crazy Cailee!" someone called, getting out of their car while their friends watched. "Where have you been?"

Cailee turned and saw that it was the original most popular boy in school coming towards her while his football friends sat in the car with moronic smiles on their faces. The sickness closed in over her and she saw the skin peeling off the boy's face and saw the fire lighting up the car as the demons in it called out to the popular boy.

"Get away from me," Cailee ordered, backing away from him. "Get away from me!"

"Cailee, what is wrong with you?" he asked, reaching for her.

Cailee screamed and punched him in the stomach. When he doubled over, she had already found a broken branch and she brought it down on his head. He collapsed on the ground and his friends called out and started getting out of the car.

Cailee screamed again and threw the branch at them, running off in fear.

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Bonnie had been walking past the school, looking for a certain flower she'd seen growing on the grounds when she heard the scream. Her eyes snapped up and she saw Cailee running off with a group a football players chasing after her. From where she stood, she could see the fear in Cailee's eyes as the girl approached her and knew that something was wrong.

With a thought, Bonnie put a barrier between Cailee and the boys that stopped the boys in their tracks. Cailee didn't stop running.

"Cailee, are you okay?" she asked, reaching for her.

Cailee's eyes widened and tears fell from her eyes when she saw that it was Bonnie that was reaching for her. "Bonnie…help me…" she begged, trembling with effort. "I killed him…I killed him!"

Bonnie looked past Cailee and saw a few football players standing next to a collapsed form on the ground. She saw that he was moving, but barely.

"Honey, you didn't kill him," Bonnie assured her.

"I did…" Cailee whispered, closing her eyes. "I need Damon…"

"I'll call Elena and she'll take you to him," Bonnie said, turning her gaze away from Cailee for a second to pull her phone out of her bag. When she looked up, Cailee was gone. "Cailee? Cailee!"

There was no sign of her. Bonnie quickly punched in a number and pressed her phone against her ear.

"Elena, we've got a problem," Bonnie said, letting her barrier against the football players' drop. "It's about Cailee…"

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Elena opened the door when someone knocked on it. She wasn't surprised when she saw that it was Damon. He gave her a look and she stepped aside, letting him slip inside.

"How could you let her run away?" Elena demanded, crossing her arms as she walked away from the door.

"Whatever happened to 'hi, it's nice to see you'?" Damon shot back, glaring at her.

"There's no time for formalities and you know it. Cailee's out there because you didn't keep an eye on her," Elena snapped, glaring right back at him.

"So this is my fault?"

"Yes. You were the one who was supposed to be watching her."

"I was watching her."

"Then how did she get away?"

"I left her upstairs – asleep, for your information – and went downstairs for two minutes to get her medicine from the mailman," Damon explained. "The windows were boarded up and the window locked. I didn't hear her move at all."

"But she got away," Elena pointed out.

"Yes."

"The medicine came in?" Stefan asked, appearing in the doorway to the kitchen.

"Yes."

"Did you give her the medicine before she ran away?"

"No. Now get your scrawny girlfriend off my back," Damon ordered, gesturing at Elena. "I'm having a bad enough day without her berating me for something I already feel like shit about."

Elena made a face and sat down on the arm of a sofa. "I'm just…I'm worried about her. She's out there by herself, without her medicine and is probably thinking that the world is against her. Bad things could happen to her and unless we do something to get her back, she could end up hurting someone else or…herself."

"Hurting someone else?" Damon looked down at her.

"She attacked someone near the school," Stefan explained, crossing his arms. "It was no one really important and I don't think his family is going to press charges…"

"Maybe we need to call the -"

"We are not going to call the police," Damon snapped, cutting across Elena. "That's the last thing we need to do." His eyes gleamed. "No what we need to do is get your little witch friend to come up with a locator spell and get our vampire selves out there on the trail."

"We better do it soon," Stefan said, reaching for his jacket. "A storm is supposed to hit within the next couple of hours and the temperatures are going to dip below zero with an even lower wind chill and icy rain."

Damon turned and marched over to the door once more, opening it. A gust of wind ruffled his hair and stirred his clothes. "You can come or you can stay. I just thought you were the ones that always played the hero."

Elena watched him walk out of the house, leaving the door wide open. She shivered when the wind swept through the house, casting a chill over her shoulders. "Stefan, you have to go with him. Find Cailee and bring her home safely," she whispered, looking at her boyfriend. "Damon won't be the same without her…"

Stefan nodded, pressing a kiss to her temple. "I'll be back when we find her."

Elena watched Stefan walk to the door and slip outside into the dim light of the fading sun. The door swung shut behind him and Elena reached for her phone.

"Cailee, please be found safely…"

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Cailee tripped and fell over her own feet. She shivered and watched her breath show in a small fog. A small smile appeared on her lips as she saw Damon standing next to the woods. "Damon!"

She pushed herself to her feet and ran after him. He was walking away now, leading her into the woods. Cailee could barely make him out against the dark trees in the darkening sky, but she kept her eyes trained for the slightest movement. On and on she traveled, following her boyfriend, but he would never stop for her when she called out to him. He was constantly growing farther and farther away, making no sound and leaving no footprints behind in the soft mud.

"Damon!" Cailee called again, losing sight of him. "Damon where are you?"

She saw a deep pit in the ground in front of her and took a step back before catching sight of Damon across it. He motioned for her to come after him and Cailee smiled. She took a few steps back and took a running leap over the pit. Unfortunately, she misjudged the distance and fell back into the pit, hitting her head against a rock at the bottom of it.

"Damon…" she whispered before darkness closed in over her.

A/N: So, are you still interested? Stay tuned for more updates in the near future. Reviews are wanted! ~ Scarlet