I AM BACK! I am so so sorry guys. I started to slack off in my school work and because of that went M.I.A for months. However summer is here and I am ready to write! I spent a lot of time on this chapter there is a lot of good pieces of information in this one! I hope you guys enjoy! Love Sav
Elena lies in her bed and is wide awake. It is still dark outside but she hasn't gotten much sleep since the night Stefan turned his humanity off. Her alarm goes off and she lazily turns off the alarm. It is five am. Elena takes a deep breath. She gets up and walks to her vanity. She turns a lamp on and pulls her hair into a pony tail. She slowly looks at the side of her neck where there were too small punctures scabbing over. Elena covers it with make-up.
[Flashback]
Elena was nine and had just fallen off her bike for the sixth time today. While Johanna had only fallen off of her bike three times. Elena was always more delicate than Johanna. She wore her scabs with pride. Elena, on the other hand, did not have a high pain tolerance so, she always went to her mom for help.
Miranda puts a Band-Aid on Elena's fresh scab and kisses it, "There. See I told you. Out of sight out of mind." Her mom smiles sweetly.
Elena hugs her mom, "I love you mommy."
"I love you too dear."
"Hey Leanie' come on! Ready to go ride our bikes?" Johanna asks eagerly.
Elena looks to her mom and Miranda smiles and nods 'yes'. Elena smiles and turns to her sister, "Yeah, Jo." The two sisters run outside.
[End Flashback]
Elena leaves her room in some cropped leggings and a workout tank top. Alaric starts to walk down stairs.
"Good morning." Elena said quietly.
Alaric puts his hand up and continues to walk down stairs rubbing his eyes.
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Alaric and Elena are in the woods training and He punches a mannequin releasing stakes into its chest.
Alaric looks at Elena, "So the pressure of your punch ejects the stakes."
Elena nods, "Easy enough." She tries to do the same thing Alaric but the stakes stay in the sleeve. "That's weird." She tries again but it doesn't work. Elena looks at the sleeve and jiggles and hits it, "Must be jammed or something."
Alaric scoffs, "You're not strong enough. Better start lifting some weights, put some meat on your bones."
"Thanks for not sugar-coating it." Elena remarks.
Alaric pulls a bottle out of his bag, "You know what this is?"
Elena rolls her eyes and crosses her arms, "A vervain grenade. I've used one before."
"Then you know the element of surprise is your only advantage when it comes to a vampire." He pulls the pin out of a grenade and throws it in Elena's hand, "Surprise."
Elena holds the grenade in her hand, "Oh my god," She throws it in the air and the grenade explodes. Elena looks at Alaric, "This isn't a joke to me, Ric."
"You think I'm joking? Vampires will take whatever they want. They will hurt whoever they want. And they'll do it without remorse. It's their nature."
Elena looks Alaric in the eyes, "You don't have to use pronouns. You can say Stefan."
"Look, I get why you're here. Stefan hurt you. You don't want it to happen again." Alaric states with sympathy.
Elena interrupts him, "But you think that I'm crazy. To believe that I can protect myself from a vampire who's flipped the switch on his humanity."
Alaric sighs. He places a hand on Elena's shoulder, "I think you found a way to get out of bed this morning. And that makes you the strongest person I know. I think that you can do pretty much anything." He gives her the sleeve with the stakes and walks away. Elena thinks for a second before she puts the sleeve back on with a determined look on her face.
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The covers around Johanna sallow her whole as she lies in her bed. Her alarm beings to chime for the fifth time. She growls lightly hitting her alarm clock hard and this time she hears a crack. Johanna peers up from under her covers. The alarm clock is broken. Johanna just smirks sinking back down into her cocoon. However, she only gets about a minute of peace before Andrea and Chelsy burst into her room. The two girls look at each other before going to work. Chelsy opens Johanna's curtains while Andrea rips Johanna's sheets off. Johanna growls, and bares her teeth at Andrea. Johanna cocks her head to the right slightly. She looks at Andrea with confusion written all over her face.
Andrea rolls her eyes, "As a founding family member there were some tomb vampires that wanted to get back at my family so they turned me."
"Tomb vampire?" Johanna asks looking between the two girls who were in her room.
Chelsy turns around to Johanna and jumps on her bed, "No time to explain now. Johanna Gilbert! Get out of bed right now!"
Johanna stretches out one of her legs quickly tripping Chelsy who then fell to the ground. Johanna pouted, "No I don't want to go to school!"
"Yes you do! We are seniors it's the biggest day of high school! We have been the original three since freshmen year and today we are going to school together! It is tradition!" Andrea says picking through Johanna's luggage that still wasn't unpacked.
"You left at the end of sophomore year for a year and a halk…" Johanna says scrunching her nose.
"But I came back!" Andrea said before jumping onto Johanna's bed.
"Yeah and I kinda promised Abriana I would send her a picture of all of use. She misses us up at Whitmore. So why don't you get up fake it till yeah make it Jo." Chelsy says and Johanna just sits up and stretches.
"Fine… fine I am up." Andrea and Chelsy squeal and start to help Johanna get ready.
Suddenly Johanna gets a phone call from an unknown number, "Hello, love."
"Klaus…" Johanna almost mumbled in shock.
"So sorry I had to run out on you but not to worry you are still one of my assets."
"What do you want?" Johanna asked bluntly.
"Now now no need to be cross I would hate to have to bleed your dear sister dry," Johanna gasps a little but stays quiet, "Anywho. If I ever need you I will call you from this number. Have a great first day Johanna say hello to Elena for me."
He hangs up and Johanna puts her phone down. She feels Chelsy and Andrea start to hug her, "Its fine. I knew what I was doing when I told Klaus I would give him my power. I can't let that hold me back right?" Johanna puts on a smile, "We are seniors."
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Elena, Caroline and Bonnie are in front of the school. "Here we are. Senior year." Caroline smiles.
Bonnie sighs, "Anyone else think it should feel slightly more empowering?"
Caroline rolls her eyes, "Okay. So prank night was a bust. But we are accepting it, and we are moving on." The girls start to walk.
"You're right. I mean, why should I let the fact that my boyfriend is seeing the ghost of his dead girlfriends hinder this experience?"
"Yes! And why should I let the fact that my boyfriend was turned into a hybrid put a damper on an otherwise fabulous day."
Elena stops and looks towards the school, "Today's our anniversary. Technically, Stefan and I met on the first day of school last year. And my sister has given herself to Klaus for me."
Caroline looks down guilty, "Yeah. You win."
"Are you sure you want to be here?" Bonnie asks.
Elena takes in a deep breath, "I have to be here. I have to put it behind me. New year. New life." Elena starts walking again. Bonnie and Caroline look at each other nod and follow after Elena.
On the other side of the campus Chelsy, Andrea, and Johanna stood by Johanna's car. Chelsy is in jean shorts and a tribal print crop top and her favorite tan cowboy boots her brown hair is straight and long. Andrea is wearing a white dress and a jean jacket with cream colored sandals her dark short brown hair is straight too. Johanna is wearing a loose white lace tank top and some ripped light wash blue jean shorts and her chestnut brown combat boots loosely tied. She has a gold neckless with a blue pendant her dirty blonde hair is curled into loose waves. She has a cross body small purse and Grant's sweatshirt in one of her hands. "This. This is weird." Johanna said looking at Chelsy.
"What do you mean?"
"I never thought senior year I would have a vampire and werewolf as my best friends or that I would be a gypsy." Johanna said laughing.
"Yeah that is kinda crazy isn't it?" Andrea said looking past Johanna. Johanna looks behind her and watches Matt walk up to them. Andrea goes to kiss Matt lightly, "Hey." She giggles.
Johanna looks at Chelsy surprised, "I know right I never thought it would happen either." Chelsy whispered to Jo.
"I can hear you." Andrea said sassily grabbing Matt's hand. The three girls laugh and suddenly someone threw Johanna over their shoulder and spun her around. She cannot control her surprised squeal as she is spun around
"Ty?" Chelsy asked surprised. Johanna is still hanging from his shoulder, "What's got you in such a good mood?" Chelsy asks crossing her arms.
"We are seniors, Dude. Life is good." He says setting down Johanna.
She smiles looking down at her schedule, "Who has first period with Dr. Barnette?" Everyone looks at they're schedules'.
"I got Ric." Andrea says.
"Yeah me too." Tyler said looking up.
"I have Gore." Matt said rolling his eyes.
"I am a teacher aid." Chelsy said smiling.
"Great so I am all alone." Johanna huffed.
"Actually," Johanna heard from behind her a familiar voice. She smiles and turns around, "I think I have Dr. Barnette." Grant says with a huge smile on his face.
Jo runs up to Grant and gives him a big hug. He is wearing a greyish purple v-neck and some tan colored pants with dirty white vans. His light brown hair was styled defining gravity like always. His bright brown eyes were filled with joy. It contrasted Johanna's hurt hazel eyes that had tears building up.
"I think we have to get to class." Chelsy said smirking.
Tyler scoffs, "The bell hasn't even-" Chelsy hits her cousin upside the head, "Ouch!" Tyler said rubbing his head.
"Let's go." Chelsy said and Andrea and Matt followed behind them.
"You left me for only like ten days and your world falls apart." Grant said with a sad smile. Johanna laughs and some of her tears slip. "Hey no tears." Grant whispers wiping her tears away.
"These are happy tears. I thought you were going to have your senior year in California?"
"I could've done that but this is my last year in high school. I kinda want it to be with my best friend." Grant wraps his arm around Johanna's small frame, "Come on I heard Dr. B hates late kids."
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Damon comes down the stairs annoyed with the loud music that had been playing since late last night. There are two dead girls sprawled out on the stairs and a rug on the floor. He enters the living room and Stefan is on the coach and there are girls' bloody and drunk playing twister.
Stefan lazily spins the wheel and then looks to the girls, "Uh-oh. Alexandra, left hand, please."
"Hey, the two brunettes on the staircase owe me a Persian rug." Damon says like the girls were not dead.
Stefan finishes drinking from the girl, "You mean, they owe us a Persian rug? It's my house, too, brother. Ooh! Would you like a spin?" He asks.
"So this is what Klaus had in mind when he compelled you to protect Elena?"
Stefan points to the drunk girls, "These ladies are helping me be all that I can be." Damon raises his eyebrow when someone knocks on the door. Damon opens and Rebekah rushing in with a bunch of shopping bags.
Rebekah looks at Damon frantically, "Where's Stefan?"
"Who the hell are you?" Damon inquires.
Rebekah finds Stefan and pushes past Damon and looks at Stefan, "He left me here. My brother actually left me here."
Stefan looks up from his game, "Oh, I'm sorry. Your tone implies that I'm actually supposed to care." He said sarcastically.
Damon closes the door, "You're Klaus's sister?"
Rebekah turns to Damon, "Rebekah. Pleasure, I'm sure." She turns back to Stefan and sighs, "Which one's my room?"
Stefan shakes his head no, "You're not staying here." He looked to Damon and so does Rebekah. He just shakes his head no as well.
"Rude. Both of you. I'll see to it myself." She walks upstairs.
"So I guess she's staying here." Stefan shrugged.
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Matt walks back out to his truck. He was still overwhelmed by everything was going on and just needed a breather. He sat alone taking a deep breath then Vicki appears next to him. "You were always so much better at being a part of this than I was." Matt jumped a little, "Sorry."
Matt smiled, "You can't just keep appearing like this. Freaks me out."
"I'm a ghost. It's all I got. And I couldn't appear if you weren't thinking about me."
"Well, I was just thinking about our first day last year. I was worried about running into Elena and you said..."
Vicki interrupted smiling big, "Suck it up, be a man, and show her what she's missing."
"Yeah. Instead, she met a vampire." Matt said sadly.
Vicki turned to him, "You okay, Matty? You seem unhappy."
"Yeah, I just, life stuff. You know, with you gone and mom not around, it's... A lot to deal with alone. I mean I have Andrea but she is a vampire. Sometimes I feel like I am the only human left. But, I'm glad I get to talk to you, though. I miss you."
"I miss you, too. What if I told you there was a way that you could help me come back?"
Matt eyebrows crinkled, "What do you mean come back?" Suddenly Tyler knocks on the window and Vicki is gone.
Tyler looks at Matt, "Donovan! What are you doing? You said all you had to get was a book. Come on, man. Let's go!" Matt grabs the book he originally went to get from his car and his backpack.
He gets out of his car and meets up with Tyler, "You talking to yourself?" Ty laughs.
Matt laughs, "Ha ha funny dude. Let's just go to first period man."
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Elena leaves a restroom and bumps into someone hard, looking up slowly Stefan is smirking, "Hello, Elena."
"What are you doing here?" Elena asks putting her guard up.
"What do you mean? I'm going back to school. Go Timberwolves!" Stefan quips.
Elena rolls her eyes, "What? Why?"
"Klaus wants me to keep an eye on you. I'm just doing what I'm told."
"I'm going to be late for class." Elena tries to move past Stefan but he stops her grabbing her arm tightly.
Stefan points the way he was going, "Oh, class is this way."
Elena tries to shake him off without drawing attention, "Let go of me, Stefan." She whispers.
Stefan sighs, "Elena, do you think I want to be a senior for the 100th time? No. But if I don't have a choice in the matter, then neither do you."
"I said let go of me." Elena grumbles
Johanna Chelsy Andrea and Grant are walking. Johanna over hears Elena and quickly walks over to Stefan.
"Let her go." Johanna states firmly pushing on Stefan's shoulder. Stefan grabs Johanna's arm and pushes her against the locker.
Elena quickly moves to try and stop Stefan, "Stefan, stop it!" She whispers but before she can get closer Andrea pulls her back. Chelsy and Grant walk past Andrea prepared for Stefan's next move.
Stefan gets close to Johanna's ear, "Johanna you may be strong but you are nothing compared to me. You don't want to get in my way. I would hate to tell Klaus you are not on your best behavior."
Johanna looks at Grant and nods slightly. Grant whispers under his breath an incantation. She looks back at Stefan as he starts to feel multiple aneurisms. "No Stefan you do not want to get in my way," She grabs his arm and twist it, "I dare you to tell Klaus." She kicks him in the nuts then walks away with Elena and her group.
Chelsy turns to Elena, "What the hell is he doing here?"
"Klaus compelled him to watch over me. Apparently I'm one of Klaus's assets now that my blood is the only way to create a hybrid" Elena looks at the ground nervously.
Andrea shakes her head in disbelief, "Now he's a bodyguard?" Grant asks.
"I don't know what he is. But he's definitely not Stefan." Elena's eyes water enough for Johanna to notice.
"Hey…hey" Johanna hugs Elena, "You are going to be okay. We are going to be okay." The bell rings. "Come on, let's get to class." She takes Elena's hand.
"I have Mrs. Smith" Andrea says, "Yeah me too." Grant says quickly, "Text me if you need me Jo-bug."
"Kay, I will. See you guys later." Johanna says walking away with Chelsy and Elena.
The girls enter Alaric's classroom. Johanna and Chelsy go to the back just like last year. Elena goes to her chair. Caroline is already sitting next to her and a guy sits on the other side but Stefan enters and stalks toward him.
Stefan looks at the kid, "You're in my seat."
Johanna growls quietly and Chelsy nudges Jo shaking her head.
Alaric walks up to the board, "Welcome back, seniors. Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders... the Native Americans."
A blonde girl walks in and the whole class looks up, "What about the Vikings?" Tyler, Caroline and Elena gawk at her. Johanna notices the sudden change and mood and looks to Chelsy who seems scared out of her mind. Johanna looks at Elena and then back at Rebekah her eyes flicker gold.
Alaric clears his throat, "There's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States. Who are you?"
Rebekah smirks sitting down in the front of the class, "My name's Rebekah. I'm new. And history's my favorite subject."
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Johanna is walking through the halls on her free period. She stops and looks down each side of the long corridor to make sure no one was coming. Then she leans on a locker and slides down. Johanna hears someone walk up but doesn't move, "So you are the gypsy?"
"So you're Klaus's sister?" Johanna remarked.
Rebekah scoffs, "What are you doing here?" Rebekah asks leaning on the lockers.
"I could ask you the same question." Johanna said quickly looking up at Rebekah. She shakes her head and sighs, "It is just very hard… the cravings suck." Johanna laughs a little.
"So you're a dead gypsy." Rebekah responds with a hint of compassion
"You know about the different kinds of gypsies?"
"Indeed, one of my brothers was very interested in your kind back around 1300's." Rebekah says with pain in her voice. "However Niklaus did not like the power gypsies had so he killed them all or so he thought…"
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On the football field fall sports are in full spring. The football team is practicing plays, while the cheer team is choreographing their half time routine.
Coach Brass is pushing the boys harder than ever with the first game of the season right around the corner, "It's not the ballet, ladies. Let's move! Let's move!"
Tyler stops finally over all the conditioning, "I think we're done here, coach." He shouts to his coach.
Coach Brass scoffs, "Did you have a mental breakdown, Lockwood? Get back in line."
Tyler walks hastily to Coach Brass compels him, "I have a better idea. Shut the hell up so we can go get drunk at the bonfire."
Coach has no choice but to obey, "Hit the showers, gentlemen."
"Come on Chelsy! Push! Push! Push! Pull!" Andrea yelled from the stands as Chelsy did three back hand springs to a back tuck. Andrea sits back down next to Grant. "Sorry as I was saying, from what I heard Weston was a total douche bag."
Grant sighs, "That is so weird he was always kind of protective but never crazy controlling. Anything else I should know?" Grant asks.
"After Johanna came back from Chicago… she has been different. I think she is losing control." Andrea said quietly.
"What do you mean? She seemed fine to me."
"I saw her today sitting in the hall. She was talking to Klaus's sister about cravings."
"Hey Andrea lets go volleyball practice is starting in five!" A girl yelled from the bottom of the bleachers.
Andrea looked at her phone, "Crap I still have to change. Today is tryouts and I want to make a good impression on the coach." She grabs her back pack and starts to walk down the stairs. Andrea stops and turns to Grant, "She is strong, Grant. But we both know there are forces stronger than her working against her." She then continues down the bleachers. Grant looks at his watch and quickly left going to try out for the swim team.
Elena is jogging on the track and Stefan rejoins her running next to her, "Look at you being all fit. Hey, you going to the bonfire tonight? Sounds like fun, right?"
Elena scoffs out of breath, "Seriously, Stefan, leave me alone." She turns around to get away from Stefan yet, he still follows her.
"You think I'm annoying now? Wait till homecoming. Hey, who you bringing, by the way? I don't want to be weird." Stefan jokes. Suddenly, a guy accidently runs into Elena and mumbles an apologies. Stefan pushes the kid to the ground, "Watch it, dick!"
Elena gasped, "Who are you?!" she stares at Stefan in disbelief.
"I'm the guy who's been assigned to protect a human blood bag. I mean, no offense or anything." Elena shakes her head and begins to walk away, "What?!" Stefan yells then turns back around to see Johanna. She was in large sweat pants and a dark blue sweat jacket. "What do you want Johanna?"
"I want you to leave Elena alone." She said taking her ear phones out. Johanna looked like a mess but anyone would after the week she has had. The cravings were getting worse and the only way she pushed through it was working out. She had just been swimming in the aquatic center and was about to run sprints. Her cravings were subsiding but, right when she saw Stefan messing with her sister. The blood thirst was back.
Stefan laughs, "Sorry I can't. Klaus's orders,"
It hit Johanna abruptly. The scent of blood was wafting towards the two from behind Stefan. Johanna locked her eyes on the injured kid. It was a small scrape but both Stefan and Johanna smelt the irresistible smell.
Stefan noticed Johanna stiffened body and increased heart rate. He smirked, "You don't look so good," she could barely hear Stefan as he walked behind her, "Let me guess you are not good with portion control." He whispered in her ear. Her eyes started to gain its golden tint. Stefan could tell Johanna was about to launch herself at the boy. So, he wrapped his arm around her waist. "Easy Johanna." He said with no emotion.
Stefan walked away with Johanna in tow. Once they were out of sight and Johanna was in a more normal state of mind she pulled away from Stefan, "Why did you stop me?" Johanna asked with anger lacing her voice.
Stefan laughed, "Even though I would love to watch you make a mess of your life, I can't. Klaus doesn't want attention drawn to his secret weapon," Johanna furrowed her brow while Stefan continued to explain, "Everyone will know he is making hybrids. It does not take a rocket scientist to find Elena. But your kind has been extinct for a long time. Nobody would even let it cross their mind to think you were a gypsy. So the less attention the better."
Johanna nodded her head and crossed her arms nervously. Stefan noticed her still ridged body, "Have you ever fed on anyone?" Stefan asked curiously. Johanna's silence and guilt ridden face answered Stefan's question.
"You just keep getting more and more interesting." Stefan smirked.
[Flash Back]
"So I am a gypsy with problems?" Johanna asked Weston once they entered her dorm room.
"No all gypsies have blood lust if they are killed and then return. It takes time but you can learn to have control over the cravings."
"So I need blood to live?"
"No that is vampirism. Gypsies were not created from a pathetic spell." Weston's eyes burned with passion, "Our kind was formed by an alliance of four great supernatural beings. There was a great war over two thousand years ago. There were two sides. On one you had werewolves, witches and travelers and on the other was druids, sirens, mages, and imps."
"Imps?" Johanna laughed, "So basically the winning side and the side no one has heard of?" Johanna remarked sarcastically.
"No." Weston quickly responded, "You see the four were nomadic small clans of supernaturals unlike the big three. At first the five were to be easily defeated but their leaders had another plan. They had a harvest."
"Which is?" Johanna asked curiously
"It was a big production that took months of deliberation. Each clan had to find their strongest male and female member under the age of eighteen. When the fourth blood moon of that year was at its apex the eight minors bond together opening each clan to all the power that on another had. At this moment the gypsies were born."
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Grant walked through the crowd of drunk teenagers and started to walk to his car. Bonnie ran over to Grant calling his name. He turned around to see the small girl, "Hey Bonnie." Grant said with a charismatic smile.
"Hey," she smiled sweetly, "So you're a witch." Bonnie declared.
Grant looked at her shocked but he quickly recovered laughing, "Yeah, so are you."
"Listen, I just need help. I upset the spirits when I saved Jer. Now he sees his dead ex-girlfriends. Matt almost died last night-"
Grant interrupted Bonnie's rant, "Woah… woah… woah. Slow down." He put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Look my point is I have been doing this witch thing by myself for a long time now…" Her phone interrupted her. Bonnie saw that it was Matt and quickly answered.
Grant watched as Bonnie's face became very distraught, "Matt! Matt, slow down. What happened?" She said in a hushed tone.
Grant could hear Matt tell Bonnie that he messed up. Bonnie looked to Grant and nodded her head the direction she began walking.
"What? How? Where is she?" She kept asking questions
Chelsy and Andrea were walking towards the fire pit when they saw Rebekah stab Damon with a wooden stick. She walks away with her head held high.
"Smooth Damon." Chelsy says laughing.
He groans, sits down and removes the stick, "Not the time little Lockwood." Andrea checked her phone. She gasped at the amount of text she had gotten since the last time she looked at it.
"I need to go. Vikki has somehow gotten to Matt." She turned around and went to the school.
Damon rubbed his eyes and groaned in annoyance, "How can there be so many problems in such a small town?"
Chelsy scoffed taking a sip of her beer, "Dude its Mystic Falls. The name implies supernatural things should happen here."
Damon laughed, "So where is Johanna?" just then Stefan ran through the trees.
"Where the hell is Johanna?" Stefan asks with urgency.
"Brother Telepathy" Damon smirked. He noticed that Stefan was still standing, "Where is Elena?"
"I do not know-"
"Why do you care about Johanna? Shouldn't you be protecting Klaus's asset." Chelsy remarked.
"The last time I saw Johanna she was a little too close to feeding on a high school kid with a paper cut. Klaus won't be happy if she draws attention to Mystic Falls." Stefan said.
"I am going to go find Elena. Chelsy go with Stefan find Johanna," Damon handed Chelsy a vervain dart, "Plan B." Damon smirked and walked pass Stefan.
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Elena closed Alaric's car door disappointedly. Suddenly flames started to trail to the car.
"Elena!" Alaric hit at the window, "Elena open your door!" He yelled.
Elena started to struggle with the door, " I can't it won't budge!"
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Johanna repeatedly hit her head on the counter top. The small diner was empty. She had lost track of the drinks. "Okay I am cutting you off. I want to close up." The bartender starts to grab for her drink and she quickly grabs his wrist.
"You do not want to do that." She says looking up. The bartender grew a shocked look at her strength. Johanna sighed and with her other hand downed the rest of her drink.
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Matt and Bonnie light candles while Grant is skimming the grimoire."Here. I got it. It's this one." Grant pointed at the page with incantations on it.
Bonnie reads it and smiles slightly, "This will be able to block whatever magic is helping Vicki."
Matt looks up and his face is red with tear stains, "What do I do?"
"Give me your hand" Bonnie slices his hand open with a knife.
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Elena coughs and gasps for air. She turns her head slowly to see Alaric still struggling to break through the window. Elena coughs and then yells, "Alaric… Get out of here!"
Damon appeared next to Alaric, "What the hell?"
Alaric turned to Damon, "Elena is in there. Her door won't budge."
Damon sped to Elena's side and ripped the door open. "Damon?" She coughed.
"I gotcha… Come on." He said picking her up. "Alaric it is about to blow let's get out of here!" He yelled.
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Grant and Bonnie are holding hands whispering the incantation under their breath.
Vicki appeared to Matt, "What is she doing?"
Matt looked at his sister with disappointment, "Fixing my mistake."
Vicki looked at Grant and Bonnie, "Make them stop." She whined.
"Guys..."
Grant broke from the spell, "The spell is working, Matt. She's still here because of you." He then quickly started to chant again.
Vicki had tears in her eyes, "Matt, please."
Matt sighed and walked up to her, "I can't let you hurt anyone, Vicki."
"I won't. I'll stop. Just, please, don't make me go." She begged
"I have to. This is wrong. You shouldn't be here."
Vicki started to cry, "I'm sorry. I just didn't want to be alone anymore."
Matt looked at Grant and Bonnie one more time then back to his sister, "I know but, I have to let you go…"Goodbye, Vick." He closed his eyes and cleared his mind, "She's gone."
"Matt…" Andrea ran up to him and comforted him. "Hey it's okay," He leaned into her hug.
"I just wanted to see her one last time." Matt whispered quietly
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The car finally exploded. Elena was looking back at the car she stood out of breath, "We did not get Stefan. He did not even show up." She pouted still semi tipsy.
"I know, he is looking for Johanna." Elena wrinkled her brow, "Apparently Jo has not been completely honest about her cravings."
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Stefan and Chelsy were about to enter The Grill when Stefan stopped her, "Give me the vervain and go home." Stefan said roughly.
"What? Hell no Stefan this is my best friend we are talking about." Chelsy said attempting to pass him. Stefan blocked her quickly
"She is also extremely hungry and cannot control it. You are a temptation that she will not be able to resist. Trust me Chelsy if she kills you it will ruin her." Stefan stuck his hand out and reluctantly gave him the syringe.
"Just help her." Chelsy said quickly before walking away. Stefan quietly entered the restaurant.
Johanna broke away from the bloody neck of the bartender. She gasped in euphoric pleasure, "I am really sorry. Just know I am not in my right state of mind." She tried to bite his neck again when she heard someone walk in. Stefan appeared and Johanna growled, "Not you again. She held onto the man, "Tell me is this drawing attention to my abilities. I bet Klaus is going to be mad at you." She wiggled her finger at Stefan.
"Johanna drop the guy this is not you." Stefan said quickly. She laughed and barred her fangs. Stefan sped over to her and pushed her into the wall. Johanna hit her head. Stefan fed the man his blood and picked him up, "Go home forget that Johanna was ever here. It was a quiet night and you closed early." He compelled the man.
Johanna snapped out of her bloodlust. Everything hit her like a train she looked at the blood on her hands and touched her chin. Stefan went up to her and picked her up by her shoulders.
"You are a mess." Stefan scoffed. Johanna's big teary eyes suddenly glowed gold and she pushed him away from her body.
"You do not even care!" She screamed and the lights flickered, "Do not understand… I… I just cannot do this," Johanna tugged at her hair. She was being pushed and tugged at by her power. Stefan took this opportunity, as she was distracted, to stick the syringe in her neck. She gasped and began to mumble incoherently as she fell into Stefan's side. He picked her up, easily and sped from the restaurant.
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Elena was in Damon's restroom putting cream on her burn. She heard Damon walk in, "You played your part of the plan really well tonight."
Damon smirked, "Oh, yeah?"
Elena pierced her lips, "You had Rebekah drooling all over you and your marshmallows."
Damon laughed, "Yeah, before she skewered me. I thought you were too drunk to notice."
Elena sighed, "I was faking most of it."
Damon nodded, "So was I." They both walked down stairs and saw Stefan walk in with Johanna in his arms. Elena ran quickly to Stefan and looked at Johanna nervously.
"What the hell, Stefan! What did you do to my sister?" She asked. Damon walked up behind Elena with concern on his face.
"Oh this… this was all her. I walked in on her in drunken blood lusting state. She almost killed but. I guess you could say I saved her." He smiled. Damon walked over to Stefan, "Now I am hungry. Here you go brother," He handed the small girl to Damon, "She is yours to deal with now."
Damon looks down at Johanna. She is blood stained and much frailer then he remembered. He looked up at Elena who was now hovering over Johanna.
Alaric came in "Ready to get going, Elena?" Damon turned around and Alaric noticed the girl, "What happen?"
"Stefan vervained her. We should take her home-"
Damon interrupted Elena, "No she should stay here. She is blood thirsty and will be hungry when she wakes up. I will watch over her tonight."
"But..." Elena tried to interject.
"No Elena. Don't worry I got this." He conformed.
Elena looked to Alaric and he nodded 'yes', "Fine just have her call me. When she wakes up."
"I will. Oh and hey great work tonight, Ric. Sorry about the car, man. Bummer." Damon smirked. Elena looked at Damon and left with Alaric.
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"Thank you, Grant." Bonnie looked up at Grant as he was helping clean up Alaric's room.
"Don't mention it." Grant said smiling. Bonnie's phone started to ring for the third time, "Someone is really trying to get a hold of you." He said laughing
"Yeah well that someone has been lying to me. So, I am not in the mood to talk to him." Bonnie said finally standing up with the grimiore in her hands.
"Boyfriend drama?" Grant asked and Bonnie just nodded. They stood staring at each other in silence.
Until Bonnie sighed, "Well I should probably get home."
"Yeah me too," Grant rubbed the back of his head and smiled, "Can I walk you to your car?" He asked, "You never know what may go bump in the night."
"I'd like that." She said smiling.
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Matt kissed Andrea and walked into his house, "I will see you tomorrow, babe." Andrea smiled sadly walking away.
"Andrea," Matt said and Andrea turned around, "Would you like to come in?" Matt asked with a sweet smile on his face.
Andrea nodded and vamp sped right to the threshold of the house. She looked down and then to Matt, "Are you sure? I mean you already invited me in but-"before she could finish her sentence Matt pulled Andrea in to his house and kissed her.
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A couple hours later Johanna woke up with a gasp. Damon was by her side in a second, "Hey Johanna you're okay."
She looked up at Damon. Her hazel eyes glistened with tears. She was trying to form her words but she was too shock to speak. Damon hugged her tightly and let her cry. He just continually whispered comforting words in her ear.
Once she was calm Damon grabbed her cheek gently, "Why don't you get cleaned up. I will finish cleaning up down stairs and then you can rest some more." Johanna nodded. Damon showed her to his restroom and went down stairs.
Johanna could not stand to be in her own skin. She hated the thing she had become. Johanna could see the blood of the bartender go down the drain in the shower and started to cry.
She was a mess and it was killing her. Every bone in her body told her to just become cold. Vampires could turn their humanity off. Gypsies could too. Weston called it a stone heart. Johanna craved to turn her heart to stone. Despite that lust to have no feeling she stayed in the pain because of Elena and Jeremy.
Johanna got out of the shower and changed into the large black t-shirt and grey sweats Damon laid out for her. She looked at herself in the mirror and her eyes sparked amber. She gasped and turned around not wanting to face her monsters.
Damon was still down stairs. He was removing a rug soiled by blood. Suddenly a vase is smacked off of a table. Johanna came down the stairs.
Damon sighs, "Keep it up, Stefan." He begins to pick up the scattered pieces of the broken vase.
"Damon?" Johanna asks walking into the living room. Her neck snapped and she fell to the ground. Damon looked up worried. No one was there.
Mason on the other side laughed slightly after snapping Johanna's neck, "This is going to be fun."
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