Bodies were still being found over town, in random places but the Council were saying they were animal attacks. Caroline was putting up posters for Cheerleading tryouts when Bonnie and Elena approached her from behind.
"Try outs? I didn't know we needed some more girls?" Elena said, all confused. Caroline shook her head, looking past them at Tatum, the new girl.
"We don't, I just had a brilliant plan last night while I was hunting with Stefan. We could use this as a way to see if you know who is a you know what"

Elena and Bonnie both turned, looking at the platinum blonde newbie who was wearing a black leather skirt, converse shoes and a navy blue t shirt – Tatum may have looked like any other girl at their school, but Bonnie, Elena and Caroline knew better, something was different.
"I thought we were letting Jeremy do the whole get close to her and find out what happens thing" Elena said, turning back to Caroline who rolled her eyes without a seconds thought.
"Look Jeremy is doing great at the whole earning her trust etc etc but there was another attack on Saturday night, so we need to find out if she's the vampire or not kinda soonish" then something grabbed Carolines attention away from her two friends.

Tyler walked past, glancing at her for a second then looked in the other direction at Tatum. It was only the second week back at school and Tyler hadn't talked to Tatum since last week, when she had thanked him for helping her but he had snubbed her off. He felt bad and decided to go apologise
"Hey" he said standing next to her locker. Tatum looked at him, shutting her locker quickly, folding her arms in front of her chest
"oh hey Mr help me then leave me".
Tyler moved a bit closer, with an apologetic look on his face "Look I'm sorry about bailing last week on you"
Tatum half laughed, rolling her eyes
"You're sorry? I thanked you for helping me with those two jerks and you just left me there... What if I was hurt or something? Geeze and I thought you were a descent guy..." she said and began to walk off but Tyler followed.
"How else can I say it? I'm sorry, I just had somethings on my mind and by the looks of it, you could handle yourself..."
Tatum stopped abruptly, turning around "Then why did you help then?"
Tyler went silent, he didn't really know why he had stopped to help this girl who knew nothing about, but something inside of him had told him to.
"Look, can we just start over?"

Caroline watched on from her locker as Tyler and Tatum continued talking, jealousy was starting to overwhelm her, when Bonnie had gotten her attention back "Earth to Caroline, what are you going to do?"
She smiled mischievously, taking a poster and walking directly over to Tyler and Tatum, interrupting their conversation
"Hi there, I'm Caroline the head cheerleader and I was hoping you would try out for the squad. It's at lunchtime, see you there" she said as perky as ever, walking back over to Bonnie and Elena not having looked at Tyler for a second.
"Whoa, what was that all about?" Tatum said, looking down at the poster Caroline had put in her hands. Tyler laughed, he had completely forgotten how bossy and in your face Caroline could be
"That was Caroline Forbes, she's well... Caroline" Tyler didn't know how to describe her, he was still trying to get her out of his head and Tatum could see something was there but decided not to ask him, it wasn't any of her business.
"So you going to try out?" he asked as she threw the poster in the bin, raising her eyebrow at him "You serious? Do I look like I'm a cheerleader?"
Tyler shrugged just as the bell rang for class "I don't know, you could have fooled me with your blonde hair"
Tatum laughed, playfully hitting his arm as they began to walk when Jeremy called out to her "Hey you ready for History?" he asked once he caught up to them.
Tatum nodded, looking back to Tyler "Well I better go..."
Tyler nodded, securing his bag over his shoulder "Yeah well I might see you at lunch time then? I'll be at football practise, same time as the try outs" he said smiling flirtatiously.
Jeremy watched on as Tyler turned the corner before speaking "What's going on with you and Lockwood?"

At lunchtime the girls were out on the field before the try out started, going over their plan while the boys – Stefan had gone home to tell Damon the plan while Jeremy watched on the bleachers.
"So, Bonnie will try her touching premonition witchy stuff on Tatum while you and I try to see if we can get that bracelet off her" Caroline said.

"So what's the go with you and the new girl?" Matt asked Tyler as they began warming up for football practise. Tyler looked over to where the cheerleading try outs were being held and saw both Caroline and Tatum talking.
"Nothings going on" Tyler said back to Matt who didn't believe him "
"Look Tyler, it's about time you had a normal relationship. For as long as I've known you, you've only had flings, I know this may sound gay but you don't know what you're missing out on". Matt said looking over at his girlfriend Caroline, who turned around and blew him a kiss. Geeze, if only Matt knew... Tyler thought to himself.

"How about you take your bracelet off and put it with the valuables so nothing happens to it?" Caroline asked Tatum as they started their warm ups. Tatum looked down at the bracelet her Grandma had given her just before she had died and shook her head
"It's fine, it won't fall off and I don't want to lose it if I take it off..." she said smiling politely, walking over to join the other girls in the squad. Caroline stood with her arms crossed over her chest, annoyed her plan hadn't had worked when Bonnie came up next to her.
"I see she didn't take it off, so how about we do it my way" Bonnie said with a half smile, heading up to stand next to Tatum.

Half an hour had passed, football practise had just finished so Tyler decided to wait and watch the rest of the cheerleading tryout on the bleachers to talk to the new girl afterwards.
As he watched Tatum twirl around, yelling endlessly he couldn't help but smile. She was fresh and bubbly, someone he needed at the moment. He was so sick of all the drama involving vampires, werewolves and witches – he just wanted to be a normal teenager again.
"Hey Tyler"
Jeremy Gilbert had noticed Tyler watching the girls, in particular Tatum so he decided to talk him

"What do you want Gilbert?" Tyler asked, while not even looking at him as he sat down next to him. "How you doing?" Jeremy asked and Tyler scoffed, laughing a bit then turning serious
"Like you care Gilbert. Let me guess, your vampire friends have got you checking up on me because the full moon is coming up and they wanna know if I'll be running around town?"
Jeremy shook his head, looking down at the ground then back over to the girls "Actually thats not it, we were wondering if you'd noticed anything about Tatum..."

Tyler was confused, Jeremy had been hanging around her too, infact more than himself considering they were in the same grade and had some classes together.
"What are you going on about Gilbert? You've been hanging around her just as much as me..."
Jeremy turned his face towards Tyler, lowering his voice as he began to talk
"Yeah but I don't have any werewolf senses do I..." he said making a suggestive facial expression. Tyler still wasn't getting the gist, so Jeremy gave up "We think Tatum might be a Vampire" he said bluntly.
Tyler let out a loud laugh but when Jeremy didn't laugh back, he then knew he wasn't joking "You serious? Tatum? The blonde barbie over there?" he asked as they both looked over in her direction.
"Hey, you never know. Look at Caroline, you'd never think she was one."
Tyler knew Jeremy had a point but he hadn't noticed any odd behaviour from Tatum "Well I haven't sensed anything and if she were a Vampire, I'd be able to smell it".

Caroline called out to the girls, thanking them for taking time to try out and they'll know soon enough if they made the squad. As they began packing up their gym bags, Elena joined Caroline as they gave Bonnie the 'nod' for her to do her thing. Bonnie went up to Tatum after she had finished talking with a few of the other girls, with a friendly smile
"I don't think we've met, I'm Bonnie" she said while Tatum introduced herself. Bonnie looked down at her wrist, deciding to try her luck...
"Thats a really nice bracelet, where'd you get it from..." she said quickly grabbing it. Flashes of random images came spiralling into her mind

*A vampire was feeding on a female victim*

*someone sharpening wooden Stakes*

*the moon rising for nightime*

and the last image, the words

*'The Chosen One'*

"Are you alright?"
Bonnie had snapped out of her trance, looking into Tatums worried eyes. Bonnie nodded, excusing her and quickly moving to her friends
"Well? Is she a vampire?"
Bonnie shook her head, looking back over at Tatum as she walked towards the bleachers where Jeremy and Tyler were still sitting.
"I don't think so, but there's something... I just don't know what it is but there was some sort of supernatural energy. We need to go see Damon"

"Gilbert, when you know..." Tyler said, stopping mid sentence as Tatum got closer but Jeremy nodded, he would let him know what they found out.
"Hey Jeremy" Tatum greeted him as he began to stand up "I've got an assignment to look into, but I'll see you later on..." Tatum sat down next to Tyler who felt uncomfortable, all of a sudden he had no idea how he should act towards this girl.

Meanwhile after school, Elena, Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline, Ric all met up at Stefan and Damons, to try and figure out what Tatum is.
"So thats what you saw?"
Stefan asked again, after Bonnie had already told them atleast 4 times what her visions had shown her about the new girl. Ric pulled out a book of his which had been from his dead wife's collection and started reading it while the others watched on, wondering what he had thought of.

After a few minutes of silence, Ric looked up from the page he had been reading, getting up from his seat
"Impossible"
He said, handing the book to Stefan as Damon read on from behind. Elena, Jeremy, Caroline and Bonnie were all confused and wanted to know what they had read
"What is it?" Elena demanded, looking at Stefan for answers but he couldn't talk. Damon grabbed the book from his brothers hands, reading it again before Caroline yelled at them to tell them what was going on.
"I heard about this legend which is supposably a prophecy from numerous sources but there had never been a certain person could follow it up..." Ric began and Stefan continued
"The Chosen One..." he began to recite from the book once he had taken it back off Damon who rolled his eyes, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed
"Into every generation she is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number..."

Stefan looked up from reading, at the confused faces of Elena, Jeremy, Bonnie and Caroline who still had no idea what they were talking about.
Caroline began to ask more questions but was interrupted by Damon, who spoke with a little bit of shock and annoyance

"She's a Slayer"

Authors Note - WHO KNEW! how will the gang deal with a slayer in their mist? what does this mean for Tatum and Tylers relationship?
What will happen next?
please comment, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what she is/what will happen!
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