Hey everybody! So do you like the idea of another timeout? I hope so, because I had no clue how to write about it...so I didn't. sorry :/ but if you guys really wanna see them the timeout, I'll write it as a "deleted scene" the end :) do you want me to? if not, I won't-but if you do, I will :) just message me or write it in a review! so enough about that! just because they're on a timeout doesn't mean everybody else is :P so you just KNOW that someone's gonna screw it up. this IS the Vampire Diaries, people :) it's kind of a given that something bad always screws up something good :( but that's what makes the show so freaking good, and so frustrating! so here it is, one of the few happy moments screwed up by one of the many "not-so-happy" moments! chapter 16 :D

They walked into the bar, and immediately Elena was reminded of her and Damon's trip to Atlanta. Sure, it wasn't Bree's Bar, but it had the same vibe. Brick walls, bar in the back, and a few pool tables littered around the room. She leaned over towards Stefan and whispered, "Do you remember when I told you that you'd see more of the old me when we first met? Well I'm finally going to take you up on that promise—you're going to see the old-Elena, not the girl that lost her parents last spring", Elena promised.

Stefan smiled at her, but still looked a bit anxious. "Stefan, I promise that everything's going to be fine. Just relax and go get a drink", she told him, bopping he would be able to spend the night just having fun. But soon she realized that neither boy was going to make the first move of the timeout, so Elena decided to.

She walked over to the bar and sat down. The bartender walked over and looked suspiciously at her. "You sure you're old enough to be gettin' a drink?" he asked, his country accent so thick Elena could barely understand a word of it. But she got the jist, and pushed further.

Looking up through her thick lashes, she tried to sound as Katherine-esc as possible. "Oh, I'm sure you could make an exception…for me?" the man blinked a few times and stared at her, star-struck, and Elena knew that she'd gotten through to him.

"Uh, um, sure, I guess… What'll it be?"

"Three beers, please", she smiled sweetly as the man went back to grab them out of the fridge. He handed them to her, and walked back to the brothers who were staring at her like she was, well, Katherine. She grinned and raised her eyebrows as she handed the beers to Stefan and Damon.

"Well that was a bitch-move if I've ever seen one", Damon exclaimed, "Didn't think you had it in you—unless you're Katherine, because that's definitely something she would have done!"

"Come on, Damon. You know that Katherine would've just compelled the guy to walk out back for a bite, not seduced him into giving her three free beers."

"Well, are we gonna go have fun, or just sit here for the rest of the night comparing Elena to Katherine?" Stefan joked. Damon and Elena looked at him, surprised that he actually seemed to accept and embrace what was going to happen tonight.

"Sure, so who is going to let me kick their ass at pool first?" Elena joked, knowing that they would both jump to accept—and sure enough, they did. They grabbed a few pool cues and set the balls up. Elena broke, and got three balls in after one shot. The game went on from there.

Sure enough, Elena did end up winning the game, and after two more beers, three drinking games (which she won, to Stefan's surprise), and three pool wins later, it was eleven o'clock. When Elena realized this, she decided it was time to call it a night.

"Hey, I think it's time to go, I'm going to go start the car", Elena told Stefan, who had enjoyed the night as much as she and Damon after that first drink.

"Oh come on, Elena! It's only eleven; we can stay so much longer!" Damon pleaded, having over heard the young couple's conversation.

"No matter how drunk I am, I know that we've got to get back home. A timeout only lasts for a night, anyways, right? Well, the night's old and it's time to go. I'm going to go start the car", Elena argued. She had called Jenna to tell her she was over at Bonnie's after telling Bonnie and Caroline the truth about where she was. But she knew that they had to get back to the real world eventually, so she put her foot down about leaving.

"I'll walk out with you—"Stefan began to offer, but Elena cut him off.

"I'll be fine, Stefan. Just come to the car after you're done with your drink, and we'll go." With that, Elena grabbed her bag and walked out the door into the parking lot.

Her car had been parked all the way in the back of the lot earlier that afternoon, so she had to walk through the nearly empty parking lot to get to it. She passed by an old Toyota with a dented side and horrible paint job, and a Mercedes that looked brand new. Finally she saw her red mini-cooper in the back by the woods. There were no lights, and Elena suddenly had a horrible feeling wash through her.

Looking over her shoulder, she grabbed her cell phone out of her bag and her keys in her other hand. That's when she heard it, a light footstep behind her. But when she turned around to look, there was nobody there. Suddenly sobered up, she tried to convince herself that she was overreacting: 'Elena, it was nothing. You're drunk, and you've been freaked out by Peter—nothing more', hoping she wasn't lying to herself, but having the feeling that she wasn't.

She picked up her pace, and got a tighter grip on her keys as she started to dial Stefan's number on her phone. She felt the light breeze behind her, and hoped to god that it was just the wind. Any normal person would've assumed that it was the wind, but Elena was as far from normal as she could get. She spun around on her heel and realized with terror that she had been right. Peter was right behind her; he had followed her all the way from Mystic Falls, and no one had ever known.

She opened her mouth to scream, but Peter clasped his hand over her mouth before any sound could come out. Her keys and phone dropped to the ground, and the vampire ripped her purse away from her as he moved behind her again, one arm constricted around her waist and the other still clamped over her mouth. She screamed for Stefan into his hand as he talked, "You know, you really pissed me off when you stabbed me yesterday. I may have been nice then, but I will not do the same now. So stop struggling and come, that way nobody gets hurt."

But Elena was a stubborn one, and she struggled even harder when he said this, even as his arms restricted her even more. She was kicking and screaming harder than she had ever struggled, and when he released his arm from her it barely registered. Suddenly, she felt a sharp sting in her arm, and her vision began to blur.

As the drug began to pull her under, her struggles began to cease. Her vision grew blurrier and blurrier as she felt herself being picked up by her attacker. He carried her to the new Mercedes and shoved her into the back. The last thing she saw before she blacked out was Peter slamming the door to the car, before getting in the front seat and driving off into the darkness.

so, did you all like it? I told you their happy times wouldn't last long! sucks for them, but it makes for a really interesting story [I hope!] :) anyways, please give me some feedback, people :) I could really use some comments! I've already got the next few chapters written, and the "Peter" chapter is almost over...for now :} muahaha! anyways, remember! feedback is love, so read&review!

-kiki :)

btw: only 20 days left! urg, this break is so much worse than the hiatus from hell this time last year!