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"Johanna! Johanna Marie Gilbert get up now!" My head flew up shocked by the screaming by my door.
"I am up! I am up!" I looked at my alarm clock, 4:30. "What that crap Jenna? Why did you wake me up?" I yelled while I jumped out of bed and opened my bed room door. I did a double take when I saw Abriana and Chelsy standing at my door.
"Because it's the Thursday before the big game and as a Mystic Falls High cheerleader to come to the school early, practice, and decorate the school." Chelsy said smirking.
"Now get ready! You need to be in my car in ten!" Abriana said closing my door. I heard them quietly giggle going down the stairs. I hustled to the bathroom and washed my face and brushed my teeth. I put my hair in a high pony tail. I got some skinny jeans, my combat boots, and a deep blue V-neck and put it in my cheer bag for after practice. I put on some nike pro's and a work out tank-top and then slipped my cheer shoes on. I grabbed my bags and I was out the door.
I got in Abriana's car, "Time!" I yelled and Chelsy looked at her phone impressed.
"Dang it you beat us! 8 minutes and 35 seconds." I did a little victory dance then buckled up.
We get in the school after our hour long practice and shower up and change clothes. We met in the gym and all the girls were looking for our Captain… Caroline.
"I'm sorry but don't you think our captain should be at the start off of football season?" Abriana asked Chelsy and I.
"Coach wanted Caroline to be captain because she is dedicated and will always be prepared for anything. I don't see a dedicated and prepared Caroline anywhere." Chelsy stated with the utmost anger. "She is my back spot how was I supposed to fly today if she wasn't even here!" Bonnie walked up to us fiddling with her phone.
She looked up at us, "I am sorry guys I have tried reaching Caroline but she won't answer. We should just start without her." We smiled at Bonnie.
"Thanks Bonnie." Abriana said and Bonnie walked away to rally the girls and start working.
"Where is she? What could be more important than this, right now?" I asked the girls while we started working.
The sun was barely peeking into Caroline's satin cream colored curtains when Caroline's eyelids fluttered open softly. Everything was peaceful for a moment until Caroline felt the pain enter her neck and then all the memories of the past night flew into her mind. She rose up in her bed breathing heavily. She tried to slow down her breath as she saw Damon's half naked body still asleep next to her. She knew she had to get out of there and slowly made her way out of bed. She made sure with every dainty, delicate step she took she still would look to Damon out of the corner of her eyes. Caroline took one step that creaked her wood flooring ever so slightly. She looked to Damon who still appeared to be asleep. This was it she looked at the door and headed to it quickly. Caroline was at the door knob then she looked back. Damon was not lying down, without hesitation Caroline quickly turned around only to be taken back by Damon smirking right at her. "Good morning." He said cocking his head to the right.
"Please... Don't!" Caroline begged being backed up to a wall. Her hand brushed against her night stand and she grabbed her lamp for protection.
"Don't do that. Ah, ah, ah, ah." Damon had one finger in the air wagging it back and forth. That did not stop Caroline from smacking him across the face as powerfully as she could.
She jumped on her bed inching her way to the other side of the room. "No! No! No! Get away from me! No!" She threw her pillow at Damon.
"This could have gone a completely different way." Damon smelled the blood on Caroline's pillow and his face changed before Caroline knew it she was once again Damon's meal.
I was walking through the quad when I saw Stefan and Elena talking then out of nowhere Bonnie came and pushed me out of the way. She gasped, "Johanna?" she muttered.
"Bonnie are you okay?"
"I just saw blue eyes wild power… so mush untamed energy." She whispered like in a trance. My eyes widened, "Oh.. I am sorry Johanna. I didn't mean to say anything. I am just super tired from the early morning practice." She quickly ran away. I brushed it off as best as I could and went over to my sister.
She smiled at me, "Johanna are you free tonight?"
"Yes'm." I replied.
"Perfect. Dinner, our house. 8:00. You, me, Johanna and Bonnie. You two will spend some quality time and she'll get to see what a great guy you are. Mission accomplished."
I looked at Elena and then back at Stefan then back at Elena, "Wait, what?" I said confused.
"Bonnie is a little on edge, so I need her to see what a great guy Stefan is."
"Oh. Okay. Well I think Bonnie is just really tired today. She bumped into a little while ago and then went all serious on me and was like, blue eyes…" I laughed leaving out the part about my so called untamed energy because that still freaked me out a little.
"Did you say blue eyes?" Stefan said somewhat serious.
"Yeah, why did she give you the same fortune?" I laughed. All of the sudden Stefan turned around quickly and catch a football. My mouth dropped while Stefan threw it to Tyler. We walked into school. I was still thinking back to Stefan catching the football.
"That throw was insane. I didn't know you played football." Elena said excitedly.
"I used to. It was a long time ago."
"So… why don't you try out for the team?" I asked.
"Yeah, I don't think so." He scoffed teasingly
"So you don't like football?" Elena questioned.
'No, I love football. I think it's a great sport. But in this case, I don't think football likes me. You saw Tyler over there, and we both know how Matt feels."
"They don't know you. To them, you're mysterious loner guy. Wouldn't hurt to be part of. Make some friends." Elena encouraged him.
"And take it from someone who has dealt with it. Tyler may act like your nothing but after you caught that ball he has hidden respect for you." I chipped in.
"Says the two girls who have spent their alone time in a cemetery."
"That was one time!" I debated.
"Hey, come on. There's more to me than just gloomy graveyard girl. There's a whole other Elena that you have yet to meet. She was into everything, very busy."
"This is true. I got to go see you two love birds around." I teased going to my locker.
3rd person POV
"World war II ended in... Anyone got anything? Miss Juan?... 1945." Mr. Tanner was grumbling through his lesson again. Elena whispered to Stefan, "FYI... Our team sucks. They could use you."
"Can't." Stefan retorted back
"Pearl Harbor." Mr. Tanner asked looking for a hand to be raised.
"I'm a loner." Stefan shrugged his shoulders and Elena giggled.
"Miss Gilbert?" Mr. Tanner pointed to Elena. Johanna looked up from her phone.
"Which one?" Johanna shouted.
Mr. Tanner stared annoyed at Johanna, "The one I am pointing to Johanna."
"I got you Mr. Tanner." Johanna retorted and he rolled his eyes.
"Hmm?" Elena thought to herself.
"Pearl Harbor?" Mr. Tanner asked again.
"Um..." Elena was drawing a blank
"December 7, 1941." Stefan chimed in to the awkward silence.
"Thank you, Miss Gilbert." Mr. Tanner mocked.
"Anytime." Stefan commented.
"Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall."
"1989. I'm good with dates, sir."
"Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act."
"1964."
"John F. Kennedy assassination."
"1963."
"Martin Luther King."
"'68."
"Lincoln."
"1865."
"Roe vs. Wade."
"1973."
"Brown vs. Board."
"1954."
"The battle of Gettysburg."
"1863."
"Korean war."
"1950 to 1953".
"Ha! It ended in '52." Mr. Tanner victoriously opposed Stefan.
"Uh, actually, sir, it was '53." Stefan calmly disagreed.
"Look it up, somebody. Quickly."
"I got your back Mr. Tanner!" Johanna yelled putting her phone in the air, "It was 19... " She typed quickly then smiled, "53." The whole class clapped for Stefan.
Johanna's POV
"Squeeze Chelsy." Abriana yelled as she pulled her bow-n- arrow in an extension with me and Meredith basing. "Good! Full down. One. Two." We popped her into the air she did a 360 and then landed in a cradle. We set her down.
"Thanks Abs for standing in for Caroline." Chelsy said we all laughed. "Johanna you didn't tell us Elena was joining." I looked around and saw Elena sitting down stretching with Bonnie.
"I didn't know she was but I am glad she is here." I smiled.
"Seriously, where is Caroline?" I heard Bonnie ask as Abriana, Chelsy and I walked up and started stretching with them.
"I don't know. It's not like her." Elena stressed.
"I'll try her again." Bonnie said grabbing her phone. Caroline pulled up in a blue old car and then kissed the guy sitting at the driver's seat.
"No way." I looked back at Chelsy and Abriana.
"Uh..." Elena tapped Bonnie on the shoulder and pointed to the blue car.
"She seriously missed this morning for him… that's the guy I was telling you guys about. He was the creepy guy who saw me fall off my board."
"Oh, my God. That must be the mystery guy from the grill." Bonnie acknowledged.
"That's not a mystery, creepy guy. That's Damon Salvatore." Elena muttered.
"Salvatore, as in Stefan?!" Bonnie questioned. Caroline was already near us. Abriana was basically holding Chelsy back.
"Johanna please tell Abriana to let me go so I can go beat Caroline." Chelsy muttered. "Caroline what the heck! You cannot be captain if you don't come to practices you asked for. Your ten minutes late like every day, yell at us like we've done something wrong. Now you expect us to be okay with the fact that you skipped cheer to be with that loser!" Caroline turned and looked at Chelsy.
"Sorry blame him sweetie." She quickly chimed in. Chelsy looked at Damon and then back at Caroline.
I knew what she was thinking, "Oh no. You are not going over there to talk to him." I said but Abriana had let go because she loved seeing Chelsy yell at douche bags. Chelsy was already storming over to Damon's old vintage car.
"Okay listen buddy! You really put a damper on me stunting today! Who do you think you are coming around and…" I picked her up by her waist and shoved Chelsy behind me, "Jo let me go!"
I kept blocking her, "Hi what my friend is trying to say is Caroline is our Captain… sadly and we need her to be at practice." I turned around to Chelsy and grabbed her shoulders, "Please go back to practice you are no help, when it comes to this." She rolled her eyes and huffed her way back to practice. I turned back around and Damon was standing right in front of me, "Oh this is uncomfortable." I mumbled to myself on accident. " How did yo-"
He interrupted me, "I am truly sorry from taking Caroline away from you all today."
"Hey it's no big deal, at least not to me. I mean you do you when it comes to dating that girl. You were just about to be attacked by an angry mob of cheerleaders.. which now I feel like you would be completely okay with that.."
"You know me so well." He cocked his head to the right leaning towards me. I slide from my position and started walking to practice again.
I turned around and smiled to him, "Catch ya later Damon." He got in his car and drove away.
Stefan entered his bedroom, Damon is there, reading Stefan's journal. "How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many... Adjectives." Stefan ripped the journal out of his hands.
"What are you doing here?"
"I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and... I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us." Damon tried to keep a straight face but couldn't do it.
"You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon."
"Of course it doesn't. I saw this girl today, BTW. That means "by the way." She was at cheerleading practice. She looked so perky in her little short shorts. Apparently Elena has a twin… who knew. Johanna was her name, she was very much perfect.. but keeping her from me wasn't wise, brother" Stefan was raging with anger, "Just... simmer down, I didn't even touch her… But I've got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me... I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty palms. Wish me luck."
Elena, Bonnie and I were in the Kitchen. I was making my famous sugar cookies. While Bonnie and Elena were pouring take out from the grill into bowls. "You explain it. Last night, I'm watching Nine-o, a commercial breaks come on and I'm like, I bet it's that phone commercial. And sure enough, it's that guy and the girl with the bench, he flies to Paris and he flies back. They take a picture." Bonnie said while Elena giggled.
"Oh, come on. That commercial's on a constant loop."
"Fine. Well, how about this? Today I'm obsessed with numbers. 3 numbers. I keep seeing 8, 14, and 22. How weird is that?" I put the cookies and the gasped over dramatically then the girls looked at me.
I stood up straight with my hands on my hips, "Maybe we should play the lottery." I put my hand over my mouth, then chuckled. Bonnie shoved me lightly.
"Have you talked to your Grams?" Elena enquired.
"She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch. Do you want to be a witch?"
"I don't want to be a witch." Elena snapped raising her eye brows. They started to pour some pasta into a bowl.
I took a fork and took some pasta, "I wanna be a witch." I smiled stuffing my face with food.
"No one asked you Jo!" Elena teased me, "and that is for dinner.. you vulture." I went back to the stove to check the cookies.
"Putting it in a nice bowl isn't fooling anybody." Bonnie jokingly said.
Elena just rolled her eyes, "Ok, serving spoons. Where are the serving spoons?"
"Middle drawer on your left." Bonnie shrugged and I pulled that drawer open. Elena grabbed the spoons.
"Ok, so you've been in this kitchen like a thousand times."
"Yeah, that's it." Bonnie claimed nervously.
The doorbell rang, "Ok, he's here. Don't be nervous. Just be your normal loving self." then Elena went to go get Stefan. I sat down at the bar and looked at Bonnie.
I shrugged my shoulders and asked, "Birthday candles?" She opened the drawer in front of her and grabbed the candles and looked at me bug eyed. "Far out." I said before getting up and taking some plates to the dinner table.
I sat at the table half way through the most awkward dinner I have ever been at. Stefan sat across from Elena and Bonnie was the head of the table. I sat by Elena.
Elena sighed, "Did Tanner give you a hard time today?"
"Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right." Stefan smiled at Elena and I.
"Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and..."
Bonnie interrupted Elena, "Yeah, I heard."
Elena struggled to find something to talk about, "Why don't you tell Stefan about your family?"
"Um, divorced. No mom. Live with my dad."
"No, about the witches. Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool."
"Cool isn't the word I'd use." Bonnie snapped. Elena gave her a death glare.
"Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s." Stefan said.
"My family came by way of Salem."
"Really? Salem witches?"
"Yeah." Bonnie replied
Stefan looked at me and Elena, "I would say that's pretty cool."
Bonnie was now intrigued, "Really? Why?"
"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity."
"Yeah, they are." Bonnie said sitting up straight. The doorbell rang. I jumped at the sound like it was an alarm.
"I will get that!" I exclaimed happily. "Wonder who it could be?" I smiled opening the door.
"Surprise! Bonnie said you were doing dinner, so we brought dessert." I jumped a little when I saw Caroline hold up some pie. Damon was behind her and he winked at me. I rolled my eyes.
I took a deep breath in, "Could one night get worse!" I moaned.
"What?" Caroline questioned.
"Oh nothing Kathy. I mean Caroline.. nothing!" I felt Elena behind me sigh.
"Hope you don't mind." Damon said staring at me. I then turned to see Stefan come up and stand in front of Elena and I.
"What are you doing here?"
Damon's eyes darted to Stefan's, "Waiting for Elena or Johanna to invite me in." Damon looked back at me.
"Oh, yeah, you can..."
Stefan interrupted Elena, "No, no, no. He can't, uh... he can't stay. Can you, Damon?"
"Get in here." Caroline said from in the house.
Stefan turned to her, "We're just... finishing up."
"It's fine. Just come on in." Elena said kindly. Damon stepped in looking at Stefan devilishly.
"Why did I sign up for this?" I said to myself shaking my head in my hands.
"You two have a beautiful home." Damon looked back at Elena and me. I smiled and Elena nodded taking a deep breath in.
"Thanks." Elena replied.
Caroline busted out laughing I rolled my eyes sitting on the floor, "I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team. Tyler must be seething. But good for you. Go for it".
"That's what I always tell him. You have to engage. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it." Damon told Stefan like a coach.
"Yeah, Elena wasn't so lucky today. It's only because you missed summer camp. God, I don't know how you're ever going to learn the routines."
"Johanna and I will work with her. She'll get it." Bonnie comforted Elena.
"Yeah she will… no worries." I forced a smile.
Caroline sighed to herself, "I guess we can put her in the back."
"Who do you think you are?" I blurted out staring at Caroline. Damon looked at me then back at Elena.
"You know, you don't seem like the cheerleader type, Elena." Damon said trying to get the pressure off Caroline.
"Oh, it's just 'cause her parents died. Yeah, I mean, she's just totally going through a blah phase. She used to be way more fun." Everyone was staring at her disappointedly but I was just pissed. "And I say that with complete sensitivity." That made me snap.
I stood up, "I can't. nope. Not tonight…" I barely got out before I took a deep breath and clinched my teeth, "I will be cleaning the kitchen if anyone wants to join me, minus Caroline." I walked away.
I grabbed my phone and called Chelsy to get my anger out.
Chelsy: Hey girl! Abriana is here too, you're on speaker. What's up?
Abriana: How's your double date with Stefan and Bonnie?"
Johanna: It was going good till Caroline showed up with her creepy bf.
Chelsy: No way did you snap.
Abriana: Kathy is so frustrating.
Johanna: I may have called her Kathy to her face…
Abriana: What!? That is our secret pet name for her she can't know!
Chelsy: Anything else…
I laughed, turned from the kitchen sink and stumbled back seeing Damon right there. "Uhh yeah but I will tell you guys later. I have company" They said bye and I hung up the phone not taking my eyes off of Damon's. I felt like I should be worried he might do something.
"Can I help you?" I asked leaning on the counter with my arms crossed.
"I just wanted to come and apologize for Caroline. She isn't the brightest crayon in the bunch." He laughed but I kept a straight face, "you should quit cheer with your sister."
"And why should I do that?"
"Because I can tell you aren't really the cheerleading type."
"I wasn't at first but now it's one of the only thing that doesn't keep me from bouncing of the walls constantly."
"What do you mean?"
"I have ADD and like fifty other things wrong with me but that is beside the point." I looked down embarrassed by all my issues, "No tell me I want to know." He said with an almost genuine concern.
"ADD, asthma, extreme anxiety, dyslexia, It doesn't bother me anymore though." I said nervously tapping my fingers on the counter at a hundred mile per hour. Damon looked at my hand and I stopped moving it quickly embarrassed that in reality I still was extremely nervous and ADD still controlled me. He came closer to me and I did not move. He pointed to me, "I know you."
"Oh." I raised my eye brows.
"I know your kind. You act tougher than you are, braver, you are a non-conformist but that is just the hard outer shell. You break that and there is a completely different person. The awkward innocent person you really are." I did not realize how close we were. His eyes were hypnotic and his body was hard and strong.
I cleared my throat, "Well Damon. I hate to tell you this but you have it all wrong." I slide from under him and got a rag and cleaned a counter.
"Then tell me Johanna… what's really going on in the pretty head of yours." He grabbed a bowl or two and put them into the sink.
"I do not try to be tough after my parent's death I guess I grew up. There was no one to lean on so I became independent. In the end it will always just be me. No one else." I lied I did not want him to see me as someone who is weak or awkward. He kept on gathering plates and I started to wash them off.
He handed me another plate, "That's a little doom and gloom-ish don't you think?" I chuckled to myself. "You act as if everything is just doomed to end." He sounded as if he was mocking someone underneath his words like he had heard this before.
I clinched my jaw and sighed through my nose, "I'm a fatalist... I guess" I lied. He then stared more intently at me shocked that I said those exact words.
"What about true love. Like your sister and Stefan please tell me you want something like that." He scoffed trying to find something that gave me humanity.
"Love is for children." I softly retorted. That was the biggest lie of the night, of course I wanted love.
"It's that simple?" Damon cocked his head to the right a little.
"That simple." We were left staring. He was just looking at me and I liked looking back at him. There was some form of peace I got. I heard one person come in but did not want to leave his eyes. But I did just before he turned and looked at Elena.
"I came to help." She said smiling. I sighed and saw a ticket out of the house.
My eyes lit up, "Perfect I have to go." I reached for my phone in my back pocket. "Grant and I are singing at the Founders Party in a couple of weeks and I want everything to be perfect so we need to practice… right now." I slowly walked out then grabbed my keys and left
"Please tell me you have better songs then a bunch of old country duets!" I said looking at all of Grant's sheet music. He sighed and smiled, "No but do you have anything better?" I looked down then thought of a song then smiled, "I have a couple of songs in mind let's get to work." He grabbed his guitar and we started working.
"They are people, Damon. She's not a puppet. She doesn't exist for your amusement, for you to feed on whenever you want to." Stefan complained to Damon after he compelled Caroline to leave the living room in the Gilberts house.
Damon scoffed, "Sure she does. They all do. They're whatever I want them to be. They're mine for the taking."
"All right, you've had your fun. You used Caroline, you got to meet Elena and Johanna, good for you. Now it's time for you to go." Stefan got serious.
"I realized something tonight. I don't want Elena. I want Johanna. She is my twin. She is mine. Because... I've been invited in, and I'll come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with Johanna… whatever I want to do. Because that is what is normal to me." Stefan stared at Damon with anger but stayed composed not to make a scene.
"That was a nice jam session Grant. Okay so I will see you after the game tomorrow right?" Johanna asked he nodded his head and closed the door. Johanna started to walk to her car when she heard movement around her. She looked around and didn't notice anything so she kept on walking. She dropped her keys right by her car, "Crap." She mumbled to herself. She stood up and was shocked to see Damon's cocky face right there in front of her, "Hello." He said smugly.
"Damon… what are you doing here?" He just stared at her. "Damon?" She asked now with fear. He wrapped his arm around her waist and brought her in close. He could feel her heart beat fast. She could feel his cold body suck her warmth in. She stared in his eyes… those blue eyes. He gently cradled her check with one hand and went in for a kiss. He stopped and started to gingerly kiss her neck sending shivers down her spine. She could feel his breath hit her neck as he whispered, "Your mine." Then she heard a growl come from him and suddenly there was a sharp pain in her neck. She screamed.
Johanna jumped up from her bed. Her heart was pounding she looked around her room and her window was open she closed it and sat down. It was just a dream..
Johanna stood with Chelsy, Abriana, Bonnie and Elena. All of them were in their tight maroon cheer uniforms except for Elena who was in jeans and a tee shirt. Stefan walked up to Elena. "Ooh. Look at you. You look hot in your jersey." Elena giggled and Stefan lightly pecked her on the check.
"What happened? No more cheerleader?" Stefan asked
"She quit." Johanna chimed in looking sad. Elena sighed, "I'm a quitter."
Chelsy touched Elena's shoulder, "No, hey, you're not a quitter. You suffered a great loss." Abriana also looked at Elena and softly added, "You're not the same person. You should be looking ahead. You should be starting over. Ok?" Elena shook her head yes.
Johanna smiled at my friends proud that they were helping my sister, "I will catch up with y'all later!" They walked off.
"Hey Johanna Coach gave me this weird tea drink said it was supposed to give me energy. I hate it wanna try it?" Stefan held up a plastic water bottle with a yellow greenish tea in it. He knew it was vervain tea but that was the only way he could think to protect Johanna.
Johanna shrugged my shoulders, "Why not." She took to big gulps of it. The sweet liquid hit her throat and instantly burned it. She started coughing and fell to the ground dropping the drink. "What was that?" Johanna muttered still coughing. Stefan was shocked; it burnt her the way vampires get burned… but how?
"It was tea you must have had an allergic reaction, did you swallow some?" Stefan asked helping her up.
"Yeah, do you think I will be okay?"
"You should be fine… but your uniform looks ummm…" He pointed to her cheer uniform. She looked down at the wet stained uniform, "Crap! Tell Caroline I will be right back I am going to go get a jacket from my car." Stefan knew as long as there was some vervain in her system she would at least be good for tonight. Johanna walked to her car and opened the trunk and pulled out her big leather letter man jacket. When she turned she saw Damon and screamed.
Damon cover her mouth with his hand, "Shh. It is just me." He said with a devilish smirk. But after Johanna's dream last night 'it's just me" wasn't going to settle it. He kept his hand over her mouth muffling her angered speech. He waited till she was calmed down. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "I am going to let go but, if you start screaming I will cover your mouth again." He told her like she was a child.
"What are you doing here?" Johanna asked suspiciously.
He looked around and then whispered to Johanna, "I'm hiding from Caroline."
"And why is that?" Johanna whispered back playfully.
"I needed a break. She talks more than I can listen."
"That's Caroline for ya." She said crossing her arms leaning on her car. She tapped her arm out of habit. Damon saw and smirked he knew he got to her.
"I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture. I think she'd drive me crazy."
"Okay. Thanks for letting me know?" Johanna said confused and uncomfortable.
Damon picked up on her lingering awkward attitude, "I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. That's not my intention."
"Yes, it is. Otherwise you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say." She was shocked by what came out of her mouth but she was proud she said it.
Damon clinched his jaw and his eye's widened. Johanna then remembered how icy and hypnotic his eyes were she couldn't stop staring, "You're right. I do have other intentions, but so do you."
"Really?" She barely got out still locked in his eyes.
"Mm-hmm. I see 'em. You want me." She jumped at those words and then realized how close he had gotten. She was pressed up against the car. "Come again?"
He smirked, "I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me. And right now... You want to kiss me." His eyes dilated and he started to lean in for a kiss. Johanna was stuck for a second until her instincts flew in and she slapped Damon across the face.
"What the hell? You have a girlfriend! I am getting pretty sick and tired of your douchey ass moves. So please stay away from me because I am sure as hell not Caroline." Johanna said walking away putting her jacket on and running to the game.
"You gonna be able to play?" Matt asked Stefan walking to the locker room. "Oh, yeah, I'm good." Stefan said looking at his hand that was completely healed up.
"Uh, what you did back there... you had Jeremy's back."
Stefan humbly sighed, "Ah, he's a messed-up kid. Somebody's gotta look out for him."
"I know. This week at practice I was a dick." Matt said in an apologetic tone. "Had your reasons."
Matt extended his hand, "No excuse." Stefan shook it. "Good luck tonight. We're lucky to have you." Matt ran quickly to the locker room. In a dark corner Damon claps for Stefan. "Isn't that nice? Stefan joins a team, makes a friend. It's all so, 'rah, rah, go team, yeah!'" Damon heckles.
Stefan inhaled in anger, "Not tonight. I'm done with you."
"Nice trick with Johanna." Damon yelled Stefan turned around towards Damon. "Let me guess... vervain in the drink? I admit, I was a bit surprised. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion. Where'd you get it?"
"Does it matter?"
"Guess I could just seduce her the old-fashioned way. Or I could just... eat her." Damon smirked cocking one of his eyebrows.
"No." Stefan retorted strongly, "You're not gonna hurt her, Damon."
Damon's face went blank, "No?"
"Because deep down inside, there is a part of you that feels for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you, that you may have actually become the monster that you pretend to be."
"Who's pretending?" Damon went on smirking. "Then kill me." Stefan challenged.
Damon sighed and then chuckled to himself, "Well, I'm... I'm tempted."
"No, you're not. You've had lifetimes to do it, and yet, here I am. I'm still alive. And there you are. You're still haunting me. After 145 years. Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her, and you torture me because you still do. And that, my brother, is your humanity."
Mr. Tanner came out of the Locker room and saw Stefan in the shadows, "Salvatore! What the hell? We've got a game to play!"
Stefan looked at Tanner then back to Damon, "If that's my humanity... then what's this?" Damon flew with vampire speed over to Tanner and bit into his neck, "No!" Stefan yelled watching Tanner's lifeless body fall to the ground.
Damon's eyes were still burning with anger while blood dripped down his jaw, "Anyone, anytime, any place.
The police arrived shortly after Matt found Tanner's body. Bonnie looked at the scene. She saw at the license plate "BLDG 8", there is a building with "FHT 14" painted on it. On the ground, the number 22 next to the puddle of Mr. Tanners blood. Bonnie gasped in fear.
Chelsy, Abriana get into Johanna's car, "So you're telling me Damon the guy Caroline is dating tried to kiss you?" Chelsy asked buckling up. "And you slapped him." Abriana chimed in.
"Yes okay guys. Just drop it he gives me the creeps. I dunno this whole animal attack thing has got me freaked out. I keep on having these dreams too… I just have this strange feeling… never mind." Johanna sighed.
"No girl tell us we won't judge." Abriana said. Johanna inhaled and then let the breath out turning to face Abriana and Chelsy. "I just have this strange feeling Damon has something to do with these attacks. I know it's weird but I have been having dreams and whenever he is around my ADD and anxiety starts to act up. That only happens when I have a bad feeling about someone."
Johanna climbed into her bed and drifted off to sleep quickly after she got home.
Stefan: I thought there was hope that somewhere deep inside, something in Damon was still human, normal.
Damon appeared in Johanna's room. He looked down at the sleeping beauty curiously like he was a kid amazed by candy. He stared at her pure soft skin and round dainty face. Her lips were relaxed and plump with a rose colored tint. He tilted his head shocked to say he had found someone who could finally compete with Kathrine. Who was winning against his lost love.
But I was wrong. There's nothing human left in Damon. No good, no kindness. No love. Only a monster Who must be stopped.
Damon stood over Johanna and gently brushed her cheek with the back side of his hand. She tussled waking up but he was gone.
So a gypsy will not be a traveler but I have no idea what specific power I would want to have Johanna have. So hit me up with your ideas so this story can be yours too. Also Johanna could either see Caroline glitch out at the studs and suds and try to help her and get caught by Damon or something else could happen? Let me hear your ideas! Thanks for reading