A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! Sorry for the delay in updates. I hope this chapters makes up for it.
"We may have a problem." Stefan said.
"What, why?" Lexi asked.
Lexi went over to the bed and looked at Elena. She gasped. She looked at Elena's eyes.
"Lexi, Elena's in transition…"
"What but…but how?"
"I don't know."
Stefan never once took his eyes off Elena.
"It's going to be ok. I promise Everything will be ok." Stefan said to her.
"Are you back for good?" Elena asked.
"Yes, Lexi and I killed Klaus, I'm back on animal blood and I'm never leaving you again. I promise"
"I don't want to be a vampire Stefan, I never wanted to be one."
"I know baby. I know."
"I'm going to help you ok. I'm going to make sure everything is ok."
"I don't want to feed on human blood Stefan. I don't want to hurt anyone."
"I know. I'm going to make sure you don't. You've got to trust me Elena, you've got to trust me for this to work ok. Trust me."
"I do trust you Stefan I'm just…I'm scared."
"Don't be, everything will be all right. I'll make sure of it."
Elena nodded. "Wait here, I've got to talk to Lexi for a second."
Elena just nodded again. Stefan got up and went over to Lexi.
"I need your help."
"Anything, just name it."
"I need you to go home and get some animal blood from the bottles."
"Ok but what are you going to do? She needs to feed on human blood to complete the change. It's has to be from a human."
"I know, I don't know."
"I'll see if I can't find someone on my way back?"
"No, Elena will never do it."
"She won't drink from any human, wouldn't it be better if it was a stranger so we could compel them later?"
Stefan sighed. "I have no idea. Just go get the animal blood. I'll handle the human blood."
"Ok, call me if you need anything."
Lexi left. Stefan turned to face Elena.
"What's going to happen to me Stefan?" she whimpered.
"You're going to become like me and we're going to be together forever."
Elena just shrugged. That was the positive side of being a vampire. Stefan walked back over to her and sat in front of her. He took her hands in his.
"Talk to me Elena, how did this happen? Who did this to you?"
"I died with vampire blood in my system."
Stefan chuckled. "Really, I had no idea that's how people got turned, thank you very much for telling me that." He teased tickling her stomach lightly making her giggle. "Seriously sweetie who did this to you? Who fed you their blood?"
"I don't want to be a vampire Stefan."
"I know but I'm sorry I can't let you wait around till this kills you. I promise I'm going to help you. I'll make sure you only drink animal blood but can also control your thirst for human blood as well so no one has to get hurt."
"I have to hurt someone to make the change."
"You only need a small amount of blood. Then I'll compel them and they won't remember anything."
"I don't know Stefan."
"I do, trust me baby girl, I promise everything will be ok."
Just then there was a knock on the door. Elena buried her face in her pillow and whimpered. Stefan knew why. Jeremy was still human was his blood was torturing Elena.
"It's Jeremy can I come in?" he asked from outside the door.
"Just a second Jeremy."
"I'll be right back." He whispered to Elena. He kissed her head and got up.
He walked out into the hall.
"Jeremy, we've got a big problem on our hands."
"What's wrong is Elena ok?"
"She's in transition…"
"Into a…a vampire?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"I don't know, I was hoping you could tell me."
"No, I have no idea."
Stefan sighed.
"Has she completed the change yet?" Jeremy asked.
"No, she has to feed on human blood and that's what worries me because Elena is refusing to drink any type of blood."
"I'll do it."
"What? Do what?"
"Let her drink my blood. She is my sister and we're in this together. I want to help and if the only thing I can do to help is let her drink my blood then fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Ok, wait for Lexi to come back with the animal blood. Until then, I'm going to see if I can find out what happen."
Jeremy nodded. Stefan went back inside.
Elena was now on the floor in between her bed and her dresser.
"Hey, what are you doing down there?" Stefan asked.
Elena just looked up at him, tears pooling her eyes. Stefan sighed. He got down next to her and pulled her into his arms. He held her close and rubbed her back. What was he doing? He was forcing the change on her, just like he did Damon. He sighed.
"Look, I'm not going to force you to drink any blood. As much as it kills me I won't make the same mistake with you as I did Damon. I forced him to change for my own selfish reasons. I won't do that with you. If you want to change I'll help you but if not…" Stefan sighed not wanting to continue.
"I want to be here for Jeremy. He needs me and I need him. If being a vampire is the only way for me to get that then I guess I have no real choice. I'll make the change but I deathly scared."
"It's ok to be. I was too, why do you think I changed Damon, I was too scared to do this alone. Lexi didn't make me go through it alone and I'm not going to let you."
"That's right, we vampires need to stick together." Lexi said walking into the room. A bottle of blood in one hand and Jeremy following close behind.
Elena whimpered at Jeremy's smell. She buried her face in Stefan's shoulder and clung tighter to him.
Stefan looked at Jeremy. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"I'll do anything for Elena, anything I can do to help her."
Stefan nodded and looked to Lexi," that's the animal blood right?"
"Yep."
"Ok, let's do this. Jeremy come here."
"No!" Elena whimpered squirming in his arms trying to get away.
"Shhhh, Love everything's going to be ok. I promise. I will not let you hurt Jeremy. Once you get enough human blood in your system Lexi will feed him her blood to heal him. Then you'll get the animal blood. I promise it will be ok."
Elena whimpered but nodded. She slowly turned her head to look at Jeremy. He smiled at her. "Don't worry I'm doing this because I want to. Plus I still have this." He held up his ring. "So even if you do kill me I'll come back."
Elena whimpered and looked away again.
"Not helping." Stefan said.
"Right sorry."
"Are you ready?"
Jeremy nodded.
"Give me your wrist."
Stefan bit into Jeremy's wrist drawing blood. He moved it closer to Elena.
"Come on you've got to do this. I promise it won't end badly. Pleas baby girl. Drink the blood."
She whimpered, squirming trying to avoid it. She held her breath hoping to avoid the smell of her brother's blood. She saw flashbacks of Jenna's change. The look in her eyes as she saw the blood on Greta wrist, the desperate need to drink it. Of course thinking about that brought back Jenna's death which upset her more, then she realized something else. Jeremy, she was all he had left. He trusted her enough to drink his blood. She had to trust him and do it. She had to make the change, if not for herself but for her brother. She couldn't leave him. She slowly turned her head. She took Jeremy's wrist and bit into it. It felt so good, the blood cooled the burning in her throat.
Suddenly a sharp pain shot through her gums. It was enough for her to drop Jeremy's wrist and yelp in pain. Her hands flew to her mouth but Stefan grabbed her hands. "Don't, just let your body do the rest. I know it hurts but it will be over soon."
Now Elena could understand why baby screamed so loud when they had teeth growing in. This was painful and these teeth were sharp and pointy. Stefan looked to Lexi, "Get him out of here and give him your blood. "
Lexi nodded. She dropped the bottle of blood and pulled Jeremy out of the room. Stefan grabbed the bottle of blood. Elena's eyes were now blood red, her veins her popping out and her fangs has grown in fully.
"Ok, you want more blood?" he asked.
"Not off Jeremy."
"Here" He said handing her the animal blood.
Elena took it and opened it. She drank it hungrily; every last drop went down her throat. The bottle was empty by the time she finished.
"How do you feel?" he asked.
She shrugged. "Different, I see what you mean about the emotions. I fell way more love for you than I did as a human."
Stefan chuckled. "That's good. Do you want more blood?"
"No, I'm stuffed. So…what happens now?"
"Well…we can race, see who is faster?"
"I can't go outside…can I?"
"Yes you can, it's dark outside."
"Oh…what if I get lost?"
Stefan chuckled. "You've lived here your whole life, you won't get lost, plus your sight is even better now that you're a vampire so you'll be fine."
"I don't know Stefan."
"That's ok, because we all know who would win." Stefan teased. "I will always be faster than you."
"No you won't! I can beat you!"
"Oh yeah? Prove it, let's race, from here to your parents lake house?"
"Why so far?"
"Trust me when you're running it won't seem very far."
"Ok you're on."
"Great, ready, set…GO!"
They both took off running in a flash Elena was out of sight. Stefan chuckled. He knew she'd win. He knew she'd be faster and what better way to get her excited about being a vampire than to beat him at a race? He picked up speed and followed her scent.
Finally he arrived at the lake house. Elena was already there.
"It's about time slow poke. I was beginning to think you'd never show." She teased.
"I couldn't even keep up with you. It's amazing how well you run."
She just giggled. "You're right, this didn't seem very far at all. It was fun."
"Fun huh? So does that mean you're starting to become ok with being a vampire?"
"I'll never be ok with it Stefan, but I am learning some ways to enjoy it."
"That's all I can ask. SO…"
"So…what?"
"Anything you want to talk about? The weather, your day at school, how you got turned into a vampire…what you had for dinner last night."
Elena giggled. Did he really think she couldn't catch that?
"Stefan, I know what you're trying to do and it's not going to work. I don't want to talk about my change."
"I know but baby I'm just so confused, who turned you? Was it Damon is that why you're so scared to tell me? Did Damon turn you?"
Elena sighed and nodded. There was more to it than that but he didn't need to know that…at least not yet. "He changed me because he wanted me to be like Katherine. Since she left Damon's been obsessing over me and trying to make me become like Katherine. He said the only difference was that she was a vampire and I'm human so he turned me…."
Stefan sighed, "Why do I get the feeling there is more you aren't tell me?"
"Because there is….I'm just not ready to talk about it."
"Well I'm not going to force you to talk but, if you ever want to tell me, I'll be here to listen."
Elena gave a small smile. "Thank you Stefan."
They leaned in and shared a kiss. Stefan pulled away and smiled.
"What happens now Stefan?"
"Let's get back home."
"I don't want to race."
"We don't have too. Take my hand. Let's run together."
Elena did as he said and they took off running.
They got back into the house and went to Elena's room.
"That was fun. I like running."
"I agree. So what do you want to do now?"
Elena shrugged.
"I can teach you to fight?"
"Won't I hurt you?"
"No, not at all come on it's easy."
Elena looked real unsure.
(A/N this scene is written by TwilightElena)
"I can help." Lexi said walking into the room making Elena jump.
Stefan smiled and nodded. If anyone could help Elena fight it would be Lexi. He knew Elena was in good hands so he left.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Lexi said.
"No, it's okay. I guess I'm still a little jumpy." Elena answered.
"It's understandable. You had quite an ordeal."
"I just feel so stupid. It's not like I was even hurt."
"You were hurt Elena, he came into your personal space and invaded your privacy and he DID hurt you…"
"Ho-How do you know what happen?" Elena asked looking at the floor.
"One because I'm a girl, I know that look anywhere and two I can tell by your behavior, Stefan thinks is just because of your change but I can see it in your eyes. Damon did more than just change you am I right?"
Elena nodded. "I can't do anything about it."
"You can fight back next time."
"I don't know how to fight."
"I can teach you. Practice on me."
"I don't want to hurt you."
Lexi cocked a brow but sighed softly. "Come on Elena, we can use a punching bag instead."
"Where did you get a punching bag?"
Lexi laughed and led Elena into the other room.
"I could never hurt anybody Lexi, I am just not like that." Elena tried to convince her.
"It's not about hurting people. It's about reclaiming your sense of control over your life. Isn't that what you want?"
Lexi smiled and stood behind the huge red punching bag. She tossed Elena a pair of gloves and nodded towards the bag. "Show me what ya got girl." She moved out from behind the bag and let Elena have her space.
Elena giggled at her friend's happiness and hit the bag. She frowned when nothing happened. She hit the bag again and frowned once more. It wasn't moving. She was a vampire and she couldn't hurt a punching bag, something wasn't right.
"Having some trouble Elena?" Lexi teased.
"Seriously Lexi, this isn't funny. I can't even get the bag to move. I don't see how I'm supposed to take on a guy who's twice my size."
"Elena, getting the upper hand isn't about size. It's about decisiveness and speed. You have to commit. Look, right now you're only putting part of yourself into it. If you want to be effective, you have to put your whole body into it. Okay?"
"Okay." Elena sighed and hit the bag again and it moved slightly.
"There you go. You're a fierce tiger Elena, stop being afraid and unleash your power."
"I don't have any power."
"Well you're not mad enough."
"Some of us aren't as angry as you are, Lexi."
"Of course not. And what's to be angry about?" She moved and stood behind the bag holding it in place. She took a breath and the continued. "Hmm? It's not like Damon broke into your house and harassed you."
Lexi grinned as Elena punched the bag harder and it moved a tiny bit. She knew her motivation was working and she had to continue. "It's not like you felt helpless when he bit you."
Elena let out a small scream and punched the bag hard. Lexi was actually pushed back a few steps. She was impressed. So she knew she had to continue. "And I know it doesn't make you mad that you needed Stefan to save you….again."
Elena screamed loudly punching the bag three times and then kicking it fiercely. Lexi was actually pushed four steps backwards from the force of her punches.
"Better…" she grinned.
Elena wiped some sweat off her forehead and then punched the bag some more.
Soon enough Elena and Lexi were fighting quickly and weren't going easy on each other. They were sparing, training. Elena wasn't a kitten anymore. The tiger had been unleashed.
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"Alright Stefan… its time to prepare for the fight of your life."
"What?"
Suddenly Elena walked inside the room and she shoved Stefan against the wall as she tried to hug him and giggled. "Oops…Lexi is a good teacher Stefan. I am ready to fight you now."
"Why did you shove me?"
"I am still trying to control my strength…"
Stefan smiled and nodded. "Well then hit me… if you can."
Lexi stepped back and watched the lovers fight. They fought for a good few minutes when she heard Stefan speak again.
"Lexi was going easy on you. Stop trying to hit me and hit me."
Elena growled and they fought some more, her full intention trying to hit him, but he was too fast.
A few minutes later they pulled away from each other and she was panting. "You're too fast."
"Actually you being a newborn, your stronger and faster than I am… you just need to unlock your power."
"Yea yea… Lexi told me that to. Both of you tell me HOW to unlock this so called power."
"Don't worry Elena. It will come. Now fight me. Again."
Elena sighed and screamed as she started fighting him again. An hour later she had managed to hit Stefan twice. They were taking a break and she was watching Stefan and Lexi talking…. Well more like giggling. She remembered when they first meant and how jealous she was of Lexi.
She growled loudly. "Again." She wanted to fight.
"Easy Elena… okay we can fight again."
Elena fought him and Stefan had to actually work at not being hit by her. She was hitting harder and fast. She hit Stefan multiple times. Soon enough they had stopped again, this time Stefan was out of breath.
He wrapped his arm around Elena and smiled. "You did good Elena."
She smiled and leaned against him. She was exhausted and really ready for bed. Maybe being a vampire wouldn't be so bad after all…but whatever happen to Damon?
A/N I just want to say a quick Thank you to TwilightElena for helping me write the ending scene. Anyone wondering or even care to find out where Damon is? Well you'll find out in the next chapter :)