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To Riana Salvatore: Thanks for the question! I guess she is a mixture of Emma Stone and my own imagination.
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Elena: Dear diary, this morning is. . .different. There is change. I can sense it, feel it.
Stefan: I'm awake. For the first time in a long time, I feel completely and undeniably wide awake.
Elena: For once, I don't regret the day before it begins.
Stefan: I welcome the day. . .
Stefan/ Elena: Because I know. . .
Stefan: I will see her again.
Elena: I will see him again. For the first time in a long time, I feel good.
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Johanna's POV
I woke up in a haze. What kind of dream was that? It was simple, compelling mysterious… I wanted to learn more I needed to know more. All I saw was two blue eyes… they were crystalizing with sorrow and anger. The light blue was enlaced in a deeper turquoise that burnt with passion. It was like those eyes were hungry… hungry for me.
I went to the bathroom and washed my face trying to shake this weird feeling of being prey. It didn't work really but at least my face felt fresh. I straightened my hair and got my outfit for the day. I went to my mirror and saw a strange sight. A happy girl. Right before she was going to go out the door Aunt Jenna popped her head in, "Hey kiddo, you look cute."
"Thanks you look…"
She interrupted me, "Do I look adult? As in respectfully parental?"
I look at her then put my finger in the air and spin it around, "turn." She spins around then I smiled, "Yes you look very classy, Where are you going?"
"Jeremy's parent-teacher conference," She goes over to my mirror and fiddles with her hair, "Hair up or down?" Elena walks through my door and surprisingly wraps one of her arms around my shoulder.
" Sexy stewardess." I say, complementing Jenna.
Jenna lets it fall down and then mockingly Elena chimes in, "Boozy housewife." Then she giggles.
Jenna sighs, "Up it is."
"You're feisty today." I say sharply still laughing at what she said.
"I feel good, which is rare. So I've decided to go with it. Fly free, walk on the sunshine, and all that stuff. Where is Jeremy?"
"He left early. Something about getting to wood shop early to finish a birdhouse." Jenna said finally finishing her hair. I let out a laugh.
"…There is no wood shop, is there?"
"No." Elena and me both say at the same time.
"….Yeah…." Jenna said wondering where Jeremy was.
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Chelsy jumps in my car, "Hey sissy, Where's Jer?" She asked throwing her stuff in the back.
"M.I.A. I think he went to go see Vicki Donavan in the hospital."
"Oh yeah… what happen to her?"
"Umm. Jer' found her in the woods covered in blood something bit her next… drained her of blood. You clearly were too drunk to notice."
"You know the back to school bash is my last party before I get serious, So like a vampire?"
"No way! Vampires are a myth." I bluntly stated.
"Come on anything could happen. Jackson said you ripped his Jacket literally in half… maybe your one of them."
"Jackson was drunk off his ass last night… I didn't rip it in half." I lied. "I like garlic butter and garlic bread and I tanned this weekend. Yep, definitely a vampire Chelsy" I stated sarcastically, "I would put money on that."
She giggled, "Whatever.. I just haven't heard of an animal biting a human in the neck and sucking its blood…"
"True, true… text ab's we are in front of her house and tell her to hustle."
"K."
A couple minutes later Abriana ran out of her house and got in the back of my car.
"Ayee my mains, So Chelsy why can't your boo drive you?"
"Because Cort has early morning practices now, Coach Tanner changed their schedule."
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"Originally discovered nearly 5 centuries ago, it hasn't been over Mystic Falls in over 145 years. Now, the comet will be its brightest right after dusk during tomorrow's celebration. Are we bothering you, Mr. Salvatore? Ms. Gilbert?" Mr. Tanner questioned.
I looked up and saw Elena and Stefan guilty as charged the two were staring at each other from across the room. I rolled my eyes but couldn't help but smile because they looked so innocent. The bell rang and the class hopped up from their seats to leave. I fumbled with my things being the last one to leave right behind Stefan and Elena.
"I brought it." He hands an old book to her, "Told you."
"Wuthering Heights" by Ellis Bell. You know, I can't believe she didn't use her real name." Elena said admitting defeat.
"All the Bronte sisters used pseudonyms. It was the time. Female writers weren't very accepted then."
"Where did you get it?" Elena asked.
"Uh, it was passed down. Through the family."
"Ah." Elena sighed
"I have lots of books. Go ahead. Keep it."
"Oh, no. I. . .but I would like to read it again. I promise I'll give it back. "
"Ok." Stefan stated. Elena saw me in the corner of her eye and smiled at me.
"Hey Jo'"
"Sup girl." Chesly ran up to me.
"Hey Elena" She said fake like.
"Hello Chelsy." Elena said annoyed. "I don't know if you guys have met Stefan but this is Stefan." She laughed at her awkward way of introducing him.
"Hey Johanna and Chelsy." He shook my hand then Chelsy's.
There was a moment of awkward silence, "Ok so the night of the back to school bash, this one over here ripped a jacket in half. She lied to me and Abriana but everyone saw it even Tyler. You are the talk of the school right now." Chelsy smiled.
"Chelsy…" I laugh trying not be pissed at my best friend, "What! No I… I mean I didn't… well I did but like it was already tore up."
"Jo you ripped a guy's jacket?" Elena asked.
"No, Elena… don't worry about it." I turn the opposite way and leave Chelsy, Elena, and Stefan behind.
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3rd person POV
"I'm confused. Are you psychic or clairvoyant?" Caroline asked Bonnie walking up to the school.
"Technically, Grams says I'm a witch. My ancestors were these really cool Salem witch chicks or something. Grams tried to explain it all, but she was looped on the liquor so I kinda tuned out. Crazy family, yes. Witches? I don't think so."
"Yeah, well, feel free to conjure up the name and number of that guy from last night." Carline said with a dreamy undertone to her voice.
"I didn't see him, you did. Why didn't you just talk to him?" Bonnie inquired.
"I don't know. I was drunk." Caroline said laughing, just as they were walking through the door of the school Johanna came barging through pushing the girls slightly out of her way. It didn't feel right to Bonnie. Johanna had this untamed energy around her and she could feel it slowly start to engulf Johanna. She shook of the feeling. "Hey watch out!" Caroline said.
"Drop it Care." Bonnie said simultaneously. Caroline was shocked by Bonnie's outburst but at the same time she did drop it letting Johanna leave.
Outside the school Johanna was trying to go somewhere, anywhere.. just not at the school. Even though this rumor wasn't a big deal it somehow made her nervous. She knew that she ripped that sleeve clean off and she shouldn't have been able to but she did. Things started to spin, she felt a panic attack begin.
"Johanna… Johanna Stop!" Johanna heard a familiar voice say. She turned to see Abriana's Mom, her second mother basically. Tear in her eyes she turned around and ran to comfort. "What's wrong with you girl." Mrs. Johnson looked to Johanna and saw the tears. Johanna trusted Mrs. Johnson more than anyone since her mom died. She took her guard down, Mrs. Johnson still looking at her, then Johanna felt her eyes burn. She fell to the ground it was like her eyes were turning inside out.
"Mamma Johnson what's happening to me?" Johanna managed to mutter before she continued to whelp in pain.
"I think I know… come with me, hurry." Mrs. Johnson led Johanna to her car.
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Johanna POV
We stepped out of the car. My eyes stopped hurting but my vision was blurry. I was catching my breath trying to control my hyperventilating. Mamma Johnson led me inside and sat me down on the couch. "Mamma Johnson do you have eye drops? My eyes are literally so blurry."
"I have one better…" She took my hand and slipped a ring on my finger and almost instantly my eye sight was back to normal like nothing had happen. I looked down and saw a thin ring with small anchors vertically engraved and within the engravings there were small deep blue stones.
"What is this? Why did this help my eyes? Why did my eyes begin to hurt in the first place?" All these questions fell out of my mouth. Mamma Johnson looked at me with a concerned look. I could tell she didn't want to tell, "Please Mamma J. If there is something important you know… please… just please tell me."
"Are you sure you are ready for this?" She grabbed my hand and I nodded yes.
"I met your mother two or three months after she had Elena. Randy and I wanted to find a small town to settle in with Abriana. Your mom was a very giving person and I think everyone in the neighborhood knew that because a couple weeks after we arrived you were found on their front porch. They took you in and decided to have you grow up with Elena as her twin till you were old enough for them to tell you. The parents didn't give a birth certificate but they left two notes one for you and one the parents. They said you were special. Things would start to change around your teenage years. Sudden rage, loss of feelings, power you can't explain… They told them then to let you wear the ring and to not take it off. Then to give you the letter to read." Johanna already had tears coming out of her eyes but at this point she was so shocked she was calm.
"So I am adopted, Does Jenna know?"
"Yes. No one was supposed to tell you till you had your first sign of needing this ring. Your mom gave me this ring to protect I was her closest friend at the time and of course I said yes. Last year your parents thought maybe you would never show symptoms but I guess with the death and everything else whatever makes you this way has shown through. This is the letter they wanted you to have." She handed me a letter in an old envelope. I looked at it and ran out of Mrs. Johnson's house. She let me go. I let go.
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Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie set outside The Grill after school. "Well, I was talking to Grams, and she said the comet is a sign of impending doom. The last time it passed over Mystic Falls, there was lots of death. So much blood and carnage, it created a bed of paranormal activity." Bonnie stated like it was an interesting fact.
"Yeah, and then you poured Grams another shot and she told you about the aliens. So then what?" Caroline redirected their conversation back to Elena's juicy story.
"So then nothing." Elena said almost disappointed but she hid it well with a smile.
"You and Stefan talked all night? There was no sloppy first kiss or touchy feely of any kind?" Caroline wasn't buying nothing hapepened.
"Nope. We didn't go there."
"Not even a handshake? I mean, Elena, we are your friends. Ok? You are supposed to share the smut."
"We just talked for hours." Elena said monotone like.
"OK, what is with the blockage? Just jump his bones already! Ok, it's easy. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex!" she said smirking like she wasn't a virgin.
"Profound." Elena said sarcastically getting up and then putting her jacket on.
Bonnie looks at her kind of surprised she got up, "Where are you going?"
"Caroline's right. It is easy. If I sit here long enough, I'll end up talking myself out of it instead of doing what I started the day saying what I was going to do." Elena said getting her wallet and left. Bonnie looked at Caroline with her mouth half way open shocked. Caroline shrugged a little excited she was right and, teasingly stuck her tongue out at Bonnie who then started to laugh.
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Jenna was preparing her first parental talk of her whole life. She never thought she would be Jeremy's parent or that she would be this young and being a parent. But after her talk with Mr. Tanner she was determined to prove him wrong. She set down her bag of food. She heard hard footsteps come from upstairs and went through her speech one more time. "I picked up dinner. Tacos. I had an urge for guacamole." Jenna said grabbing some tacos out of a bag as Jeremy walked into the kitchen.
Jeremy smiled somewhat then said, "No, I'm good, thanks."
"Eat anyway. It's a ruse. I want to talk." Jeremy shakes his head and starts to leave.
Jenna rolls her eyes then point to Jermey, "Hey, you! Come. Sit." She points down to the chair and he fumbles his way back to the bar stool across from her," Back in school, freshman year, I could eat my weight in nachos, with extra cheese. It was my munchie food whenever I got stoned."
Jeremy smiled, "You get high?"
"Did. Past tense. But, yeah. Loved it. Anything to get a little distraction from life. . .reality. And it worked. For a while. Never lasts, though." She went to the fridge to get some water, "Hey, I'm not saying I wouldn't love to rail back and kick it, but with a thesis looming and a waistline expanding. . ." when she turned around Jeremy was long gone.
However she heard the front door slam and she ran to see Johanna in tears, confused and angry, "Johanna… Johanna where are you going… Johanna!" Jenna screamed at Johanna who slammed her door after she ran upstairs. She went to her bulletin board and started to grab every picture, every memory, everything that made her hurt. She threw them to the ground. Jenna ran in and started to grab at Johanna who's anger was burning through the air, "Johanna please stop!" Jenna was thrown back but she was relentless. Jenna wrapped her arms around Johanna falling with her to the ground. "Johanna it'll be okay.. it'll be okay." Jenna said naturally like a mother petting Johanna's soft silky blonde hair.
Johanna picked her head up, "I know I am adopted…" she got up grabbed her penny board and headphones and ran out of the house leaving Jenna dumfounded on the floor.
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Why me? I can't even think.. I am speechless. I am angry. I am about to fall apart.
Johanna thought while she was penny boarding down the street. She was pushing herself faster… faster… faster. When she quickly fell shooting the board quickly across the street, She felt pain from different parts of her body. "Great just great…" She mumbled to herself. She started to get up and felt strong hands start to help her up. Johanna shoved away from the strange hands, "Hey watch it." She looked up and her mouth almost immediately dropped… those eyes. The man put his hands up and in one hand he had her penny board.
"I'm sorry.. I just saw you fall.. are you ok?" He looked at Johanna with concern. She became lost in his eyes… those blue eyes. The exact eyes that she saw in her dream only better. Something in her snapped her out of the trance. She grabbed her board forcefully.
"Thanks, I'm fine." He stared at her clinching his chiseled sculpted jaw, his noes flared a little and his eyes widened. He seemed as though he was fighting something within him.
"Hmmm. You have a cut on your hand." He said slowly enunciating each word perfectly. She looked at her hands.
"I'll be fine." She smiled lightly looking back up… but he was gone. She got back on her board and went to the town square and found a bench to sit on and think…
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Elena drove up to the Salvatore boarding house and parked thinking if she should actually go to see him but then heard Caroline's perky voice, "Ok, it's easy. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex" She jumped out of the car and went to the door. She pulled a cord making the doorbell ring. Elena waited a couple seconds then she knocked on the door and it slid open with a creepy old creek within the door hinge.
"Stefan? Stefan?" Elena quietly as if not to wake anyone up said. She stood there gawking at the huge over the top house. She looked back outside intently. A big black crow, like the one she saw at her parents graveyard flew in the house spinning her around back into the house. She looked up and was taken aback by the mysterious man who stood in front of her. He had eerie blue eyes and a cheesier smirk painted on his lips. "I. . .I'm sorry for barging in. The door was. . .open." She pointed to the now closed door. He kept his eyes locked on hers staying quite for a little bit more time.
"You must be Elena. I'm Damon, Stefan's brother." He smiled cocking his head to the left
Elena heard the news shocked, "He didn't tell me he had a brother."
"Well, Stefan's not one to brag. Please, come. I'm sure Stefan will be along any second." He led her in with one of his large hands on her upper back.
"Wow. This is your living room?" She said looking up at the large ceilings.
"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste. I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him."
"The last one?" Elena questioned
"Yeah. Katherine, his girlfriend? Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet."
"Nope." She said quickly.
"Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now. Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end." Damon said hopelessly.
"You say it like every relationship is doomed to end." Elena said almost asking him why.
"I'm a fatalist…" everything was quiet for a second then Damon spoke, "Hello, Stefan." Elena looked up and saw Stefan with his eyes locked on Damon while Damon's were locked on Elena's.
"Elena. I didn't know you were coming over." He said still staring down Damon.
"I know. I should have called, I just. . ."
"Oh, don't be silly. You're welcome any time. Isn't she, Stefan? You know, I should break out the family photo albums or some home movies. But. . .I have to warn you. He wasn't always such a looker." Damon joked.
"Thank you for stopping by, Elena. Nice to see you." Stefan awkwardly said.
"Yeah, I should probably go. It was nice to meet you, Damon." She shook Damon's hand.
"Great meeting you, too, Elena." He slowly kissed Elena's hand. Elena starts to walk out but is blocked by Stefan who is still staring at Damon.
"Stefan. . . .Stefan?" Stefan just steps to the side while he watched Damon like he were prey. She leaves.
"Great gal. Whoo. But I have to admit Johanna is very mysterious. She has secrets… She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped. Did you over-exert yourself today? Let me guess. . hospital.
"Someone had to clean up your mess." Stefan said annoyed.
"Well, were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember, if you don't feed properly, none of those little tricks work right."
"How long was Elena here?
"Were you worried, Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game, 'I'm a high school human'?" Damon continued to banter sarcastically.
"I'm not playing any game." Stefan snapped
"Of course you are. We both know the closest you'll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it." Damon said smiling evilly.
"What kind of game are you playing, Damon?" Stefan said trying to cut to the chase again.
"Guess you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?" Damon said poring himself a drink.
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She looked down at the envelope in her hand that was shaking profusely. Then she stared at the ring that wrapped around her left pointer finger rubbing her thumb over it. She slowly opened the envelope. Then started to read it
Dear Child,
However old you maybe You must understand we gave you up so you can live. The only thing we know that can help you is what you are a gypsy. Your blood can bind and break any curse. As one of the last remaining gypsies you must hide. There are things in this world that will want you for your power. Be safe sorry we are not the parents or help you have wanted us to be.
Good luck
Johanna took the note in like she did the talk with Mrs. Johnson in complete and under shock. She could not move, she could not cry. She just sat there so deeply bemused. Out of anger she crumbled the note up and shoved it in her jean pocket. She got up and started back to her house she just wanted to be alone forever.
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"He's on the rebound and has raging family issues." Elena utters while sitting on the coach with Aunt Jenna.
"Well, at least it's an ex-girlfriend. Wait till you date a guy with mommy issues or cheating issues. Or amphetamine issues." Jenna said remembering past relationships that were bad with a disgusted look on her face. She heard the door open and see's Jeremy come through the front door and then Johanna pushed him out the way and ran to her room. The whole family felt the vibration of her slamming her door.
Elena sighed, "I have to go pass out pamphlets with Bonnie, Good Luck Jenna."
Jenna stood up and went to Jeremy who was half way up the stairs, "Jeremy? Jeremy, where were you?"
"More stoner stories? Look, Jenna, I get it, you were cool. And so that's. . .that's cool." He said clearly high.
"Oh, no, no, no!" Jenna threw an apple at the back of his head.
"Ow! Why? Why. . .why did you do that?" He said turning back to face Jenna.
"Listen up! Quit ditching class or you're grounded. No discussion." She said crossing her arms.
"Parental authority, I like it. Sleep tight." She sighed and let him go. Jenna went up to check on Johanna who was pitifully in her bed. Jenna knew just who to call.
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Three minutes later Jenna heard a knock at the door when she opened it a tall skinny yet muscular boy stood smiling at their door frame, "Grant, thank god she is upstairs. You're the only one I thought to call for." Grant had light brown shaggy hair and brown eyes. They knew each other since they were babies. They only became closer and closer over the years. But last year he went to boarding school in California. Grant's mom told Jenna he had just gotten back the night before. He went up to Johanna's room and knocked before he quietly came in and sat on her bed, "Hey Jo-bug…" He said softly.
Johanna's head popped up and she smiled and wrapped her arms around him, "Grant your back."
"Got in last night, what's wrong?" She ducked her bed back under her covers. "Jo-bug you have to tell me…" he pulled her covers from her and watched her sigh and burry her head in her pillow. "Ok. Nope we aren't doing this.." He said picking her up throwing her over his shoulder. She just hung there honestly depressed and somewhat still shocked. He took and went out the back door, "We will be back in a minute Jenna." He shouted back into the house. He sat her on the swing outside in her back yard.
"Why did you bring me here?" She asked curiously.
"Because you would always tell me secrets on the swing so what's up?"
"I'm adopted Grant. I am also a freak of nature…"
"Wait what… how are you a freak of nature?" Grant asked. She pulled the note from her birth parents out and handed it to Grant. He looked back up at her surprised, "Do you really believe this?"
"Mrs. Johnson put the ring on my finger and I automatically was normal again.. My eyes burned like they were changing I don't know it was scary."
"This is crazy… who else knows about you?"
"Just you." She looked away with tears swelling up in her eyes.
"Hey. Hey I won't tell anyone Johanna… I promise. Trust me.. I know. I know I have been gone for a year but I am here for you." She smiled and got up and they hugged.
"Come on lets go to the comet thing tonight." Johanna happily said finally better.
"Okay but we are going in my truck… not your little girl car." They laughed
"Please I do not have a little girl car! It's the bat mobile."
"Just cause it's black doesn't mean it is the bat mobile." He retorted back at Johanna.
She shoved him a little, "shut that down.. real quick." They went to Grant truck and drove to the town square.
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Zach walked into his uncle's room and saw him writing in his Journal, "What is Damon doing here? Why did he come home?"
Stefan looked up at him and sighed like a father would, "Cause I came home. He wants to make my life miserable. That's how he enjoys his."
"Well, he's putting us all at risk. This girl in the hospital could talk."
"She won't. I took care of her." Stefan said implying he compelled Vicki.
"You're sure?" Zach asked.
"I'm not sure, Zach. I don't know how well it worked. I'm not as strong as Damon."
"So what happens if it doesn't work?"
"I don't know. I'll deal with it." Stefan said snapping at the man.
"Is she worth it? Uncle Stefan, this girl you came back for." Zach finally asked then he left. Stefan was left to think to himself, was she?
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"Are you going to tell Elena and Jeremy?" Grant asked me looking at his small candle he was about to light for the ceremony.
"No, Elena is already barely okay with me. Why give her another reason to think poorly of me."
"I know you Jo-bug you act worse than you are, tougher, meaner, bad ass-ier. But deep down you are just a nerd like me." He smiled and just stared at Johanna.
"You know me too well. Wanna hear a secret. I told Jeremy to tell me if he smokes on the weekend so I can join him but I don't really want him to cause I have never gotten high." He laughed at her.
"Don't worry Jo- bug it isn't that fun. You aren't missing out. At least that is what I have been told seeing as though I haven't gotten high either. Heard you are a singer now."
"No not really. I just sang a couple songs at the back to school bash."
"Oh well I may have told Mrs. Lockwood we would sing together at the founder's day party. Grant and Jo unplugged kind of a thing." He smiled and Johanna's mouth dropped.
"Grant! I can't not for a real event." Johanna said punching Grant slightly.
"You will get paid." Grant said bribing Johanna.
"Fine. You won me over." Johanna said with a silly accent like she was from the fifty's
"Ahh well little missy. If you look up yonder you see, you'll see a big ball of fire…" He said in a country accent but then he got serious, "stuck on the same course forever. As people we can chose to make up our on paths or stay on the same one forever." He didn't realize how close he was to Johanna.
"Staying on the same path is safe." She whispered looking into his eyes.
"But you will never know anything different if you stay on that path." He quietly responded. She pulled back and looked back to the sky. To Johanna the same path was one day marring Grant living in Mystic Falls and being safe never knowing anything different. She couldn't let herself fall for her best friend because she was not going to be like the bright comet above her.
On the other side of the town square Elena sighed about to say the hardest thing to someone since speaking at her parents funeral. "It's OK, Stefan. I get it. You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated brother? Check. Complicated ex? Check. Too complicated to even contemplate dating, double check. It's OK. We met, and we talked, and it was epic, but. . .then the sun came up and reality set in. So. . . " She quietly finished talked to him blowing out her candle. She walked away but Stefan let her go
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"You really have to stop screaming." Damon told Vicki irritated.
"No, please, stop. Don't. . ."Vicki barely got out.
"Shh. I got you. . ." Damon said mockingly.
They were at the edge of the roof and Damon was pulling her around, "No! No!"
"Shh, I'm not gonna drop you." Damon spoke again. "Not bad. Have you been eating bunnies?" Damon said to Stefan who swiftly jumped onto the roof.
"Let her go." Stefan heroically ordered Damon.
"Shh. really? Ok." Damon pulls Vicki to the edge of the roof.
"No!" No Vicki screamed again.
"No, no, no!" Stefan pleaded with Damon. Damon throws Vicki to Stefan. Stefan caught her staring at her neck. The stiches she had were ripped open by Damon.
"Ugh! Relax." Damon said calmly.
"What's happening?" Vicki mumbled weakly.
"I don't need her to be dead, but. . .you might. What attacked you the other night?" Damon asked Vicki.
"I don't know. An animal." Vicki said confused almost as if her answer was forced although it was incorrect.
"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?"
"A vampire." Vicki uttered.
"Who did this to you?" Damon asked.
"You did!" Vicki cried.
"Wrong!" Damon quickly retorted.
"Don't." Stefan begged.
"It was Stefan." Damon pointed to Stefan.
"Don't."
"Come here." Damon grabs Vicki on both sides of her head. "Stefan Salvatore did this to you." His eyes dilated and she was in a trance.
"Stefan Salvatore did this to me."
"He's a vampire. A vicious, murderous monster."
"Please, Damon. Please don't do this."
"If you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now." Damon pulls off Vicki's bandage fully and throws her to Stefan. She screams loudly yet weakly. "Ugh! Your choice of lifestyle has made you weak. A couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power that you could have, that you now need. But you can change that. Human blood gives you that. You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run, screaming "vampire" through the town square."
"That's what this is about? You want to expose me?"
"No! I want you to remember who you are!"
"Why? So what, so I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up, and let them drive a stake through my heart, because at least I'll be free of you." Stefan confidently stated.
"Huh. Huh. Wow. Come here, sweetheart." He grabbed Vicki, "It's OK." Damon whispers something into Vicki's ear and she becomes fine.
"What happened? Where am I? Oh, I ripped my stitches open. Ugh. . ." Vicki said in pain but normally like nothing ever happened.
"You Okay?" Stefan asked.
"I took some pills, man. I'm good." Vicki said leaving.
"It's good to be home. Think I might stay a while. This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?" Damon said devilishly.
"What are you up to, Damon?" Stefan asked.
"That's for me to know and for you to. . .dot dot dot. Give Elena my best." Damon smirked his trade make devil like smirk and then was gone within a blink of an eye.
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Grant and I met up with Chelsy, Cort, Abriana, and a bunch of other people at the now abandoned Town Square. The guys, as usual, got the Frisbee out and played some ultimate.
"So Grant's back in town, Jo. Are you planning to pick everything back up where you two left it off?" Merideth asked like a kid listing to a story. All eyes were on me.
"Umm. No we are just going to be friends." I smiled back at her.
Her mouth dropped, "What why?"
"I want passion, I want to not be on the ordinary path like everyone else. I dunno… I just I am certainly not ordinary." I thought about being adopted, and being the gem when I told the girls that.
"Well if you aren't going for him… I sure will." Katie said laughing. I looked at Grant playing ultimate and then looked back at Katie who was waiting for my reply.
"Go for it." I smiled back to Katie.