Chapter 2: Game on

(In the living room, there's a man lying on the floor, groaning with his face down)

Damon: What the…..Hey, are you all right?! Can you get up?

Stefan: Let's get him up and see who this is.

Damon & Stefan get the man up from the floor, and discover his face is badly injured; besides, there is a bite on the man's neck. Damon and Stefan exchange their eye-contact with each other and they all know the man was attacked by a vampire. But still, they have no idea who did this. Damon steps a bit closer to the man and asks, "Who did this to you?" while the man doesn't answer. On the contrary, the man pants heavily, trembling with fear, struggling to get rid of Damon's arm.

Stefan: Hey, hey, listen. You're safe now, so you don't have to be afraid. Now, tell us, what happened?

The man: Safe, huh? This is really ridiculous! You monsters! Let me out of here! Or I promise I will stake through your hearts once I'm rescued.

Suddenly, he takes out a syringe, which is full of vervain, and injects it into Damon's left arm. Although the man's face is so badly injured that the Salvatores could barely recognize who he is, however, at the moment the man speaks, the Salvatores recognize the man is Atticus Shane immediately.

Damon: Wow~that sounds….. "appealing", Professor Shane. Now, you have two options. One, tell us what happened and let us help you, or….humm, well, I don't know…maybe you'd prefer the second option, which is….let me rip your head of your neck.

Stefan: Damon.

Damon: Just kidding. But this jerk just injects me with vervain!

Stefan: We've been taking vervain in the past few months, and it can't hurt as now.

Damon: OK, OK. You're always the HERO, Stefan. Go ahead. Ask him what happened and why he is here.

Stefan: Shane, I know you know what we really are, but we won't hurt you, OK? I need to know what happened.

Shane: What game are you playing with me? Don't try to fool me! How dare you keep asking me what happened after you've done all these to me?

Stefan: What? What do you mean?

Shane: Oh, don't act like you have no idea about what happened to me. You brothers did this with HER!

Damon: Her? Speaking of which, who is "her" exactly?

Shane: (shouts out) Elena! I never knew she is one of you! I know you don't trust me and wanted me dead but I never knew how evil you are! You used Elena today, didn't you? You asked Elena to call me and take me to Gilbert's old house. After I entered the house, Elena suddenly knocked me to the ground and then started to drain every single drop of blood out of my body. Now, you know what happened. Don't pretend as if you never did this to me!

Damon: Wait. Are you sure it's Elena? That's impossible!

Shane: You think I made this up?

Stefan: No, no, no. What my brother tries to say is, Elena is out of town. She goes to the anniversary parade with Caroline and Bonnie in Coronado.

Shane: What?! That's…absurd! Then who is the girl I saw tonight? You can't get me fooled. She looks exactly alike with Elena! As far as I know, Elena only has one sibling which is her brother Jeremy.

Damon and Stefan exchange their eye contacts again.

Damon: Katherine.

Stefan: She's back.

Suddenly, the door is opened, and someone's standing at the porch, Katherine.

Katherine: Hello, my beloved…Salvatore brothers!

(To be cont'd)


A/N: In this chapter, I added another popular character, Katherine. Her show-up would bring more tension to the following story development . Please stay tuned. :)