Cassie's POV

We headed to his house after we got home and put some clothes on. I was about to knock on the door when it opened and we saw Stefan was holding a stake and had these weird veins showing under his eyes. It looked like it was true. He really was a vampire. We looked at him in shock.

"You're a vampire." Diana declared. Even though that was the case, I wasn't sure if he was a threat.

"Everything you know is about to change." Stefan replied. That wasn't really true. Well maybe, we didn't actually know much about vampires.

"We should go." Diana stated as she began to run out to the car. He ran over to her and grabbed her.

"You two don't need to be afraid of me." He declared. Diana threw him back. "You're witches."

"You need to leave us alone because unlike Bonnie, we know how to use our powers." Diana threatened. She was not taking this well. As far as I could tell Stefan had been a pretty good boyfriend to her, barring neglecting her for four days. Anyway, we got in the car and drove home. We went to check on Jeremy and Jenna to see if they were okay.

We then went into our room.

"Diana, Cassie." Stefan remarked. He had come in through the window. I couldn't remember why we left that open. Diana prepared to scream, but he managed to cover her mouth. "You don't need to be afraid of me."

"What about those animal attacks?" I asked. "Did you kill those people?"

"No, those were Damon." He explained. "I don't drink human blood. That's not how I choose to survive. You can't tell anyone about this."

"Why not?" Diana asked. I would guess for the same reason that we couldn't tell people that we were witches.

"Because knowing this is dangerous." He explained. Knowing probably wasn't, but telling was.

"Just go." Diana ordered. "If you're not gonna hurt us then you'll leave us alone."

"I didn't want you to find out like this." He replied before he went out the window and Diana slammed it shut.

"I think you were a little hard on him." I remarked.

"He is a vampire." She pointed out.

"We don't even know what that means." I explained. "Maybe we should go to bed and we can talk to him in the morning."

Diana's POV

In the morning I changed into a white long-sleeved dress while Cassie wore a grey blouse with a red hooded cotton jacket and jeans.

"Have you thought about what I said last night?" She questioned.

"Yeah, I'm gonna text him saying to meet us at the Grill." I answered. "Are you sure that is a good idea?"

"I think we can trust Stefan." I remarked. "We need to watch out for Damon, but Stefan should be okay. Besides, he's the only one that can really tell anything about vampires and we need to know what we're up against."

We headed to Grill and got a table outside.

"Thanks for meeting us." I told him.

"So there are a lot of different versions of vampires in fiction." Cassie remarked. "We want to know what's real."

"I'll tell both of you whatever you wanna know." He promised.

"Well you can eat garlic and somehow you're unaffected by sunlight." I declared.

"We have rings to protect us." Stefan answered.

"What about mirrors, holy water and crosses?" Cassie questioned.

"Wooden crosses can hurt if we're stabbed with them." Stefan replied.

"Well let's get to the part where you said that you didn't drink human blood." I suggested. I wanted to know what he did eat.

"Animal blood keeps me fed, but not as strong as Damon." He stated.

"Well why did you let Damon get involved with Caroline?" I asked accusingly.

"I did everything that I could to stop it." He responded. "If he was going to kill her, he would have."

"He was hitting her." I pointed out.

"No, he was feeding on her and erasing her memories with a form of mind control." Stefan corrected. "It's over now. Anyway, give me today. If you two still want to tell anyone after today, you can."

"Okay." Cassie answered for both of us.

"Now I want to take you two somewhere." He remarked.

We headed out to this place in the middle of the woods. I saw some old ruins, but I was nevertheless confused

"Is there any reason that we're out in the middle of nowhere?" I asked.

"It didn't use to be nowhere." He explained. "This used to be my home."

"How old are you?" Cassie asked. I couldn't help but wonder that myself.

"I've been 17 since 1864." He answered. That had to be how he and Damon knew so much about this place. They'd to have been here when it was founded.

"That's pretty old." She commented.

"It's really not compared to most vampires." He stated.

From there Stefan explained how and Damon used to be really close before Katherine showed up. I hoped that no guy ever came between Cassie and I like that. I also couldn't help but wonder what kind of person would willingly date two brothers. She didn't seem to care about either of their feelings.

"You knew Katherine in 1864?" Cassie asked. "Damon made it sound like it was a year ago or something."

"Damon wanted you to think that I'm not over her." He stated.

He then told us about how Damon had returned from battle, pretty much deserted the Confederate Army. I might not have liked him, but at least he didn't fight for slavery. Apparently both of them had asked Katherine to the Founder's Party. I couldn't help but wonder if something was off about her.

"She chose me." He added. "I didn't know it at the time, but after I took her home, he went into her bedroom and was with her."

"So that means that Damon stole her from you." Cassie declared.

"She was neither of ours to steal." He replied.

So the thing that was off about her was that she was a vampire. I should have known that she was the one who had turned them. More than that, she was using the same mind control that Damon used on Caroline. I guess that would explain why they stayed with her. She seemed like a bitch.

"I still can't believe that this was a house at some point." Cassie replied. "What happened to it because I've seen some old houses from the Civil War that are still standing."

"I'm not entirely sure." He replied. "I came back after a few years and it was destroyed. There was a brushfire that destroyed a lot of the old houses. The boarding house wasn't built for another 50 years."

"Have you lived in it the whole time?" I inquired.

"My family has." He replied as he went to the ground and picked up a ring.

"Is that Damon's?" Cassie asked.

"I have to give it back." He replied.

"No you don't." I argued.

"If I don't give it back, he'll respond in the only way that he knows how to hurt me." He told us.

"What's that?" I asked.

"By hurting the two of you." He declared as he put the ring in his pocket.

"We can take care of ourselves." Cassie pointed out.

"I'd still rather not take the chance." He remarked as we headed back out to the car. I still didn't know how to actually kill a vampire. Apparently stakes could do it and I wasn't sure if fire could. He opened my door up for me. I then realized that there was something that I needed to know. I knew the answer would increase or greatly decrease how much I trusted him.

"Wait. That mind control thing. Did you ever do it to either of us?" I questioned.

"I can't." He stated. What did he mean? "I thought I was protecting you with that necklace that contains an herb called vervain that prevents compulsion, but Damon told me that he tried to compel Cassie and I couldn't figure out why it didn't work until last night. Witches are immune to compulsion."

"That's good to know." Cassie stated. We then headed back into town. I still wasn't sure how I felt about him or what I wanted to do.

Cassie's POV

We went home to find that there was already a truck there. I couldn't help but think if we knew anyone who owned a truck. Of course we were in the South, so trucks were about as common as cattle. We walked into the kitchen to find that Matt, Elena, Jeremy, and Vicki were there and the place was a mess. It looked like someone had tried to create their own buffet with the foods that were in the refrigerator. I looked at saw that the slice of pizza I saved had a bite taken out of it.

"What's going on?" Diana asked.

"She's really messed up." Matt replied. I assumed that he meant Vicki. Was she the one that tore apart the fridge and ate my pizza? I had to resist the urge to light her hair on fire. I couldn't help but wonder what kind of drug she was on.

"Everybody back up." Stefan instructed before he looked her in the eye. He said something to her that I couldn't hear. He seemed to know something that we didn't. "Take her upstairs and get her away from the light. She's gonna be fine."

Everyone else left the kitchen and I looked at Stefan.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Diana questioned.

"She's in transition." He replied. I had no idea what that was, but I knew that I didn't like the sound of it.

"What does that mean?" She questioned.

"It means that she's becoming a vampire." He stated. "In order to be turned, you have to drink blood and then die with it in your system. Damon must have gotten to her and killed her."

"So how does she become a vampire?" I asked. I had a feeling that I wouldn't like the answer.

"She has to drink human blood." He explained. Yeah, I did not like that.

"What happens if she doesn't?" Diana questioned. Something told me that wouldn't have a good answer either.

"She'll die." He replied. I definitely didn't like that either. "She's not long into the transition. Pretty every memory that's been erased will come back and she'll know that she'll have to make the choice."

"Who could really choose to die over living even if it did mean becoming a vampire?" I asked. Before he could say anything in response, Vicki ran down the stairs and out of the house. We went outside where Jeremy looked like he was confused.

"She was fine but then she just took off." He stated. I couldn't help but wonder why.

"I'm gonna go look for her." Matt declared as he and Elena went out to his truck. "Let me know if you hear from her."

"I can track her." Stefan remarked.

"I'm coming with you." Diana replied.

I then took Jeremy inside the house and started to clean up the mess in the kitchen because apparently no one else was going. I could tell he was very distraught and anxious.

"I don't know what's wrong with her?" He declared.

"Do you have any idea what she could be on?" I asked.

"I heard that meth can cause really crazy behavior, but I don't know where she would get any." He stated. I then heard the doorbell and went to get it. As soon as I did, I noticed it was Damon and tried to close it, but he forced his way in.

"Jeremy, you should go upstairs." I suggested. He didn't bother to ask why.

"Can I come in? Oh wait, of course I can. I've been invited." He stated. That must have been why Stefan didn't want us to invite him in. "That look in your eyes. You know what I am but you're not afraid of me."

"I have no reason to be." I declared as I lit his jacket on fire. He quickly threw it to the ground and stomped it out.

"I knew that there was something different about you." He commented. "You're lucky I'm not planning on killing you now. I need to know where my brother is."

"He and Diana are out looking for Vicki." I told him with a spiteful glare.

"Don't look at me with those judgy eyes. That girl will thank me." He said.

"Did you thank Katherine?" I inquired.

"I guess Stefan told you the whole story." He declared.

"He told us enough." I stated.

"Oh I doubt that." He stated as he grabbed his coat and headed for the door. "Tell Stefan I'm looking for him."

Diana's POV

Stefan and I went through the woods searching for her.

"So when did you find out that you were a witch?" He asked.

"It was a few years ago." I replied. "Our powers started getting stronger and Cassie burned our foster family's house down. They thought we started the fire and we got sent to a mental institution and we ran."

We then found Vicki crying against a tree.

"I'm starting to remember things." She stated. "You were in the hospital and on the rooftop. Why did your brother do this to me?"

"I don't know but I'll get you home." He replied. Suddenly, I heard a gunshot and Stefan fell to the ground. I noticed the attacker was Logan Fell. He then took out a stake and I knew that I had to act quickly. I flicked my wrist and lifted it out of his hand. No sooner than I finished did Damon show up and bite his neck.

"Don't just stand there. Get the bullet out." He told me.

I reached into Stefan's chest and tried to find it. I was really disgusting. Eventually, I found a wooden pellet.

"Now where's my ring?" Damon demanded. Stefan reached into his pocket and gave it to him. I then heard a slurping sound and saw Vicki drinking from Logan's corpse.

"I'm sorry.' She stated before she ran off.

"I'm taking you home." He stated as he got up and grabbed my hand.

I looked at my blood-covered hand and realized something.

"Stefan, I'll go home by myself." I remarked. "You're a great guy, but I don't think that I can do this."

So Diana dumped Stefan and the boys found out that the girls are witches. Will they be able to get back together? Please don't forget to review.