Elijah came to a stop outside the Salavatores home. April slid off his back. She looked terrified.

"How were you going so fast?! That kind of speed is impossible!"

Elijah didn't feel like explaining everything to the girl. So he did the only thing he knew to do: compel her to forget.

"You forgot everything about us coming over here."

"I forgot everything about us coming over here," she repeated back slowly.

"Good." He walked up to the porch and rang the bell.

"Why am I not surprised that you would be the last one to show up?" Damon asked Elijah when he opened the door for him.

"I need to speak with my siblings. Pardon me." Elijah entered with April following behind.

"Elijah, what is going on?" Klaus asked his older brother.

"Those creatures were gathering around our home. They were trying to enter. I woke April and ran over here as fast as I could. I will not take my chances with these things."

"Well we have a new theory now about this outbreak," Stefan told him. "Kol believes this is the work of Silas."

Elijah turned towards his little brother. Kol was laid back on the couch drinking a glass of Bourbon. "Kol, what makes you believe this could be the work of Silas?"

"Well, brother," Kol said standing up, "like I was telling all our acquaintances here that the end of times would come upon us when Silas was risen. And with the humans turning into these rotten corpses this can only mean the work of Silas. I told you all not to mess with trying to bring him back. You've killed us all now."

"But we think if we give Silas the cure in exchange for him turning the humans back to normal then everything can go right back to normal," Stefan told Elijah.

"Umm sorry for interrupting," said April, "but who is this Silas?"

"Ugh. Did you really have to bring her?" Klaus groaned.

"Niklaus, hush," Elijah told him. "I will handle this."

"By what? Compelling her to forget?" Kol asked. "She deserves to know the whole truth about this." Kol walked towards the girl and grabbed her shoudlers. "Silas was a powerful witch back 2,000 years ago. He was left to dessicate for all eternity until these idiot people here brought him back to life. Now thanks to them we have a dangerous immortal being on our hands."

April had a mix of emotions on her face. So many thoughts were going through her head she didn't know what to think. "What is wrong with you people? Elena, Matt, do you believe them?" Elena and Matt weren't going to lie. Everything Kol said was true. "Oh my God. You're all crazy."

"No. We know what the truth is," Kol told her.

"Yeah that you're all crazy! Get away from me!" She loosened herself from Kol and took out the door running.

"April, come back!" Elena hollered at her.

But April wasn't listening. She ran as fast as she could to get away from everybody. All she wanted was to find normal people and be with them instead. But she didn't get far when she ran right into a walker. It grabbed her and bit down into her shoudler.

"Oh no! Help somebody!" she screamed. Kol ran up to the walker and jammed a stick into its eye. April fell down to the ground. She was crying out in pain and terror. "Help me! Please!" Kol scooped her up in his arms and ran back into the house.

"What happened to her?" Matt asked.

"She was bit," Kol told him. Everybody saw the bloody gash in her shoulder. Elena started crying. Stefan grabbed her and held onto her. Caroline looked like she wanted to faint. Tyler was going to grab onto her but Klaus made it to her instead.

"Bonnie, is there anything you can do?" Matt asked her.

She shook her head. "I don't know anything to do," she said sadly.

Kol laid April down on the couch. He knew she was dying and was prepared for it.

Her eyes looked glassy. "I shouldn't have tried to run," she said weakly. Her head fell to the side as she died.

The whole room was silent, except for the muffled cries from Elena. Tears started rolling down Bonnie's cheeks. Jeremy grabbed onto her. Rebekah grabbed onto Elijah. Klaus continued to hold onto Caroline. Tyler and Matt just stared in silence. Alaric and Damon shared a sad look. And Kol just sat there staring at the dead girl.

Stefan cleared his throat. "We need to bury her. Damon, go upstairs and grab a blanket." Damon nodded and went to go search for a blanket. "Whoever wants to help dig her a grave grab a shovel."

Stefan, Damon, Elijah, Matt, Tyler and Alaric all helped each other dig April a grave. Klaus helped Kol wrap her body up in the blanket.

"Do you think we should say a few words?" Elena asked.

"Yeah. She was a really nice girl," said Caroline.

"Sure," Stefan told them. He started off by saying how good of a person April was.

There was a growling sound.

"Wait. Did you guys hear that?" Alaric asked everybody.

There was more growling.

"Oh no it's another walker," Caroline cried.

"But where is it? I don't see any," said Tyler.

"Wait," said Klaus.

Everybody noticed that the growling sound was coming from the wrapped up sheet.

"No way."

"Impossible."

"It can't be."

Kol stood from behind and started to unwrap the sheet. It revealed to be that April had turned into a walker. Her face was an ashy gray and her eyes were a pale yellow. She looked terrifying. All the girls screamed in terror.

"How is that possible? We watched her die!" Elena shrieked. Damon took his shovel and bashed April's head in. "Oh my God! Damon, no!"

"What, Elena?!" he yelled at her. "She turned into a walker! She had to be killed. You can't have humanity for these things. Because they're not human. Not anymore." He threw his shovel down to the ground and walked inside the house.

Everybody stared at the permanently dead April Young. Elena wiped her tears away and grabbed onto Stefan's arm.

"So if a human dies from a walker's bite then they come back as a walker," Alaric said quietly. "The only way for them not to come back is if you kill the brain."

"You need to get figuring out how to put a stop to this, witch," Kol told her in an almost threatening tone. But Bonnie didn't know the answer to it. Nobody probably knew the answer to it.

X

Days, weeks, months and even a year had passed since the outbreak happened. Mystic Falls looked like a ghost town only occupied by walkers. Elena, Jeremy, Alaric, her friends, the Salvatores and the Mikaelsons all continued to live together in the Salvatore home. Everybody wondered how they all survived putting up with each other for this long.

Mystic Falls looked like a ghost town, only occupied by walkers. Elena, Stefan, Damon and everybody else were the only remaining alive people of the town. The gang would go into town only when they were running low on supplies. They got all the blood bags from the hospital. Sometimes the vampires would feed on the humans to save on blood bags. They never knew when they could run out. They all had become quite skillful at killing walkers.

Caroline never found her mother. She just assumed she had died during the outbreak. Klaus had been by her side assuring her that her mother was safe somewhere. Caroline wanted to believe it but knew deep down in her heart that her mom was gone. During the time also her and Klaus grew closer to the point where they became a couple. Tyler hated seeing them together so he packed up and left. Nobody ever heard or seen from him again.

It was Klaus and Damon's turns to keep watch on top of the fort everybody helped build around the boarding house to keep walkers out. The Mikaelsons home had been ambushed by walkers.

"How long do you suppose this has been going on now?" Damon asked Klaus. He had a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

"A year, I believe. All four seasons have done passed." Klaus reached for the whiskey bottle and took a swig of it.

"So how are you and Miss Barbie vampire doing? Everything still smooth in that department?"

"Everything has been going great ever since Tyler Lockwood left. He couldn't stand the site of me and Caroline together. I hope he got ate by a walker."

Damon took a swig of his whiskey. "You know I hear you two going at it every night."

Klaus turned toward him and smirked. "Well can you blame her? She can't keep her hands off me. I know how to make her feel good." Damon chuckled.

Stefan walked up to the fort. "Elijah and I are going on a run. Anything you guys need?" Both Klaus and Damon shook their heads. Stefan turned starting to leave.

"Oh wait, there is something you can get me," Damon told him. "Go jack some more liquor."

Stefan rolled his eyes."Okay." Him and Elijah went out the large wooden door. Matt shut it behind them. They loaded up in a Jeep Wrangler they had found and fixed up and took off towards town.

X

"I think we've about booted the whole town," Stefan told Elijah as they walked through the grocery store. All the shelves were bare of everything.

"We'll just have to start going to other towns," Elijah told them.

"And what about blood? We're running low on our blood supply. And I don't want to keep having to feed on Elena and her family and friends. It's hard enough for me having to feed on her anyway."

"We'll just have to start making out of town trips. It will be dangerous though. Us and our siblings will have to be the ones to do it though. I don't want Elena and her friends and family to get."

"Good luck trying to convince Jeremy that. That boy's aching to get out and kill walkers."

"Well do you remember the last incident with him and Kol. He almost got himself bit if it hadn't been for Kol. The boy needs to learn safety." Stefan nodded in agreement.

They continued roaming through the store in search of items until both their ears picked up on a sound.

"Do you hear that?" Stefan asked.

"I do," said Elijah. "It sounds like a..a motorcycle." Both the vampires dashed outside and ran through the town until they found where the noise was coming from.

A man with a crossbow had the motorcycle parked. He shot a crossbow through a walker's head. Another man with a scraggly beard along with a young boy wearing a sheriff's hat was stabbing walkers in the head. There was two young girls and an Asian man with their backs together fighting walkers off. And a black woman with a katana was decapitating walkers heads off.

There was a walker sneaking up behind the man with the crossbow. It was about to take a bite out of his shoulder. "Look out behind you!" Stefan shouted at him. The man whipped around and shot a bow between the walker's eyes.

Stefan and Elijah joined along to help the group take all these walkers down. They fought just using human strength, not wanting to scare these humans off. They were all gasping for air, except for Elijah and Stefan, when all the walkers were slain.

"Thanks for the heads up," the man with the crossbow told Stefan. He had a thick southern accent.

"No problem," Stefan told them. "I'm Stefan Salvatore. And this is Elijah Mikaelson."

"I'm Rick Grimes. This is my son Carl.

"Daryl Dixon," the man with the crossbow said.

"Glenn Rhee," said the Asian.

"I'm Maggie Greene. This is my sister Beth."

"Michonne," said the woman with the katana.

Stefan noticed how filthy they all looked. Dark circles were under all their eyes, even Carl's. These people have truly been through hell. They were the first group of people to come through Mystic Falls since the outbreak.

"So where are you guys from?" Stefan asked them.

"Georgia," Rick told them. He wiped the sweat off his brow. "It's a very long story."

"Why don't you all follow us back to our home. We have plenty of space, food, hot water. You'll be safe there."

"We would love that," said the little blonde named Beth.

Rick though for a moment thinking about his past experiences. But he eventually gave in. Rick and his group got back into their Hyundai Senata and Daryl hopped back onto his motorcycle and followed Stefan and Elijah.

X

Damon and Klaus continued sitting up on top of the fort. Caroline had joined them. She was laying on Klaus' lap. Damon didn't really care to watch their make out session and was about to leave until he saw the jeep coming through the woods. But behind the jeep was a motorcycle and a green Hyundai.

"Who the hell is that?" Damon asked to himself. The three vampires dashed down to the big wooden door and opened it up for the other two vampires to enter. The motorcycle and Hyundai entered right behind them.

Everybody else from inside the house came out when they heard the sound of a motorcycle. Daryl came to a stop. Rick, Carl and the others parked the vehicle and stepped out.

"Stefan, who are these people?" Damon asked them. "Are they dinner," he whispered with a smirk.

"Shut up, Damon," Stefan whispered back.

"Well if they aren't food then who are they?" Klaus asked curiously.

"Guys, this is Rick Grimes, his son Carl, Daryl Dixon, Maggie and Beth Greene, Glenn Rhee and Michonne. We found them in town fighting off walkers. We helped them and I invited them back here."

Elena looked happy to see more survivors. "Hi, I'm Elena Gilbert," she smiled at them. "This is my brother Jeremy and our guardian Alaric Saltzman."

"I'm Caroline Forbes," Caroline said hugging them all, except for Michonne. She didn't look like the hugging type.

"I'm Bonnie Bennett."

"Hey, I'm Matt Donovan."

"This is my brother Damon," said Stefan.

"And these are my siblings Niklaus, Rebekah and Kol," said Elijah.

"Call me Klaus," he told the group.

"It's nice to meet y'all," Rick told them. "You have no idea how much this means to me, my son, all my friends here. We've been through hell and back."

"Well, Rick, you all are safe here now," Alaric told him. "No walkers can get in here."

"Come on. I'll show you guys around the place," Stefan told them. Everybody else but Damon and Kol went back into the house.

"That Beth is quite a pretty thing," said Kol with a smirk.

"Yeah. Her sister's real fine too," Damon said with a smirk as well.

Well I hope you all are liking it so far. keeping fingers crossed* Looks like Kol and Damon are gonna be fascinated with Maggie and Beth. Damon's really gonna take a liking to Maggie. And the reason why I'm saying this now is because if anybody remembers during season 2 the vampire that played Rose, the one trying to escape from Elijah, was played by Lauren Cohan, the girl that plays Maggie on TWD. And Rose and Damon had a little thing for each other. So Damon's gonna think about Rose when he sees Maggie. So there's a little spoiler for y'all ;) But what does this mean for Glenn? You'll just have to tune in and keep reading to find out. Don't forget to R&R! And give me opinions on what y'all would like to see happen in the story :)