A/N: OK, I skipped Family Ties and I will skip episodes where not much happens and Leya can't really be incorporated in them, it's going to be a bit fast paced but I'll slow things down later on so bear with me. During that time Stefan has told Leya about himself and Damon, including Katherine but left out the fact that she looks exactly like Elena.

You're Undead To Me.

It's been a couple of weeks since Tanner's death and three days since Stefan drugged Damon with vervain and locked him in a cell situated in the basement of the Salvatore boarding house. Leya had been helping Stefan watch over Damon in case he broke out, in her spare time.

Leya paced the living room of the boarding house as she waited for Stefan to come upstairs. She hadn't once stepped foot that led down to the basement of the Salvatore boarding house, it reminded her too much of the dungeon at Malfoy manor and that was a memory she didn't particularly want to remember at the moment, or ever if possible.

"Well?" Leya asked expectantly as she saw Stefan.

"He's weak, once his circulation stops I'll move him to the family crypt." Stefan explained walking closer.

She knew what happened to vampires when they didn't get blood, there was actually three pages dedicated to vampire desiccation in her DADA book that was explained thoroughly in great detail. She suspected the person who wrote the book liked to experiment, which was quite disturbing now that she thought about it.

"Do you think he could break out?" Leya asked tense. "I'm worried. Keeping him locked in there. The moment he gets out he's going to go on a murderous rampage."

"No, it's not going to happen. He's growing weaker every day, he's always been strong but he's not stronger than the vervain." Stefan guaranteed walking closer to Leya and comforting her by putting his hands on her shoulders. "Don't worry, Leya. Soon this will all be over and Damon won't be able to hurt anyone. Ever."

"Right." She breathed.

"I should get to school." Leya said after a moment picking up her backpack from the floor.

"I'll see you there."

"You're coming?" A small smile played on her lips.

Stefan smiled and nodded his head. "I need to see Elena, explain some things to her."

"When are you going to tell her?" Leya asked referring to his not so little secret.

"Soon, maybe. With Damon out of the way maybe I won't have to." Stefan replied.

"The lies will catch up, Stefan. Nothing can stay a secret for long, trust me I would know." Leya said quietly, giving Stefan a small encouraging smile before leaving to go to school.

When she arrived at school she quickly found Bonnie and Elena, as they were talking Leya's eyes drifted down the hall as a familiar perky voice assaulted her ears.

"The Sexy Suds Car Wash is tomorrow the football team and the bands have committed, well, not all the band, just the ones who can pull off a bikini. I want in-your-face-sexy. I mean it's a fundraiser for god's sake." Caroline said walking down the hall putting up posters for the event, the other cheerleaders looking at her in awe.

"Unbelievable, it's like nothing happened." Elena said.

"She's in denial." Bonnie said.

"Hey." Stefan said behind them, they turned around and his attention was focused solely on Elena.

"Hey, uh, you know, Bonnie and I have got to go… uh be somewhere right now." Leya stumbles, quickly dragging Bonnie in another direction.

"Leya!" Caroline yelled trying to get to the green eyed girl before she lost her in the chaos.

"Caroline." Leya greeted amusingly as the blonde haired girl elbowed another student to catch up to her.

"I just wanted to tell you, you're coming to the Sexy Suds Car Wash tomorrow."

"I've actually-" Leya started ready to make an excuse when Caroline cut her off.

"No buts missy. You are going to be there, or suffer the consequences." She said pleasantly, skipping off to her next class.

"Looks like you have to go; no one wants to suffer Caroline's consequences. Trust me." Bonnie said pity lacing her voice.

Leya watched Caroline walk away dread filling her up. Leya was somewhat insecure after spending so many years with the Dursley's telling her she was ugly and a freak. She didn't think she could stand washing cars in a bikini but she had to admit, she feared Caroline more than her insecurity so she'll just have to suck it up and use her Gryffindor courage to get her through the fundraiser.

Hopefully it wouldn't turn out to be a disaster.

Leya hummed quietly to the radio while she was cutting up vegetables to add to her stir-fry; probably the only good thing she learned from living with the Dursley's was how to cook. And although she prided herself in being a good cook, the best meal she ever had was at the Weasley's. Mrs. Weasley was an amazing cook; she could remember stuffing herself until she couldn't breathe.

Daisy, however good an aunt she was – or at least better than Aunt Petunia – preferred to spend most of her time out of the house which left the domain to Leya to look after. Some people might think it was senseless for her aunt to do this, but it didn't matter to Leya; she was used to it.

Leya had turned around to get something out of the fridge when she spotted a shadow standing near the island in the kitchen.

"Merlin!" She screamed in shock, before turning around to grab the closest object (a knife) and threw it at the shadow with speed cursing herself for leaving her wand upstairs.

The figure easily dodged the knife making it impale into the wall before walking into the light. It was Stefan.

"Oh, Stefan. I didn't know it was you, sorry." She apologized breathless, tugging the ends of her hair in embarrassment.

"It's okay." He replied, walking over to knife and pulling it out of the wall. "Nice throw." He commented with grin handing it over.

Leya smiled in embarrassment but paled at Stefan's next question.

"Did you just say 'Merlin'?" Stefan asked eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"It just a thing we said at my old school whenever we were surprised. Inside joke." Leya improvised off of the top of her head laughing nervously and mentally cringed. She sighed in relief as Stefan bought her explanation.

"What's wrong? You look upset."

"It's Elena." Stefan replied sitting down.

"Let me guess. It's getting harder and harder to keep it secret, especially when she's asking questions." Leya said as she turned back around to finish cutting the vegetables.

"Yeah. I met her at the Grill, she said she wanted to know more about me, but how can I do that without telling her what I am." Stefan said frustrated and Leya walked over and stood opposite him, the island between them. "I don't want to lose her, Leya. I care about her too much."

"So do something about it." Leya said simply.

"It's not that simple. You don't understand." Stefan replied looking away.

"Yes it is, Stefan. And if I don't understand then why did you come here." Leya said making Stefan look at her. "She wants to know you, Stefan. You probably know almost everything about her, but she doesn't know anything about you. Your favorite book, TV show, food… She just wants to know you, you can cross the vampire bridge when you get to it."

After a lengthy pause Leya broke it. "So what are you going to do, Stefan?"

He looked at her intensely, then stood up determination written in his eyes. "Thank you." He whispered, a plan already forming in his mind as he sped off at vampire speed.

"Brilliant. Don't have to tell me or anything." Leya whispered to herself as she returned to continue to make dinner.

Leya frowned hands on her hips as she looked at herself in the mirror. Today was the Sexy Suds Car Wash fundraiser and she had no choice but to attend or face the wrath of Caroline. She was wearing a simple plain white bikini, it was cute, Leya liked it which was a plus, she was aiming for cute not sexy and she thought she achieved it.

She slipped on a pair of denim shorts, and a plain white t-shirt over her bikini and started to loosely braid her hair, and moved her fringe to cover her scar. Taking one last look at herself she puts on pair of new shoes her aunt bought her, Keds Leya thinks their called and opted to leave her wand at home since she couldn't actually put it anywhere on her without someone noticing.

Besides, what could go wrong at a car wash? Today was supposed to be fun; she doubted anything bad could happen, though with her luck the town might accidentally burn to the ground.

"You're here." Caroline squealed as Leya stepped out of her car. She had on a pink and white ruffled bikini but her shorts were zipped open showing her bikini bottoms. Only Caroline, Leya thought with an amused smile.

"I am. And it looks to be a success." Leya replied looking around. The area was filled with cars that needed washing, music was blaring out of speakers placed strategically around the area and it looked like everyone was having fun.

"Yep. Can you go help Bonnie and Matt, I think I just saw Elena arrive and I need her to man the money while I sort everything else out."

"Okay." Leya replied happy to help out.

"Oh, and before I forget." Caroline said with a kind smile that faded as she said the last word sternly. "Strip."

Leya opened her mouth ready to protest, but the glare Caroline sent her way made her snap her mouth close with an audible click and smile awkwardly. She could be really mean when she wanted to, Leya thought as she grumbled stripping herself of her top, resisting the urge to wrap her arms around her attempting to cover up her exposed skin up.

She nervously fiddled with the end of her braid as Caroline observed her, and was startled as Caroline's eyes found hers a blindingly large grin spreading across her face.

"You look hot!" Caroline exclaimed loudly, making a faint blush appear on Leya's face. "Now get to work. It's a busy day."

Caroline walked away satisfied they would get more money now that they had an extremely hot British girl. And Leya stood there in shock, face as red as the Weasley's at Caroline's compliment. She shook her head trying to cool down her face as she put her top back on when she went looking for Matt and Bonnie.

She found them by an SUV and soon enough they were joking around while washing the cars. Leya went to ask Matt to pass her the bucket of water when she noticed him staring off into the distance with an extremely sad look on his face. She looked over to see what had gotten him so sad, and there was Stefan and Elena kissing.

"Uh-uh no. None of this tortured pinning stuff." Bonnie said breaking the silence. Leya hadn't noticed Bonnie look to see what she and Matt were staring at.

"I'm just observing." He said back defensively.

"Uh-huh." Bonnie replied doubtful, just as a car pulled in. "Oh, Tiki, this one's yours." Bonnie said pointing to the rusty red car.

"Why do I always get the homely ones? Just to be clear, your car's a P.O.S I mean, we can wash it but it's still a P.O.S."

Leya frowned at this Tiki girl, she didn't have to be rude and apparently Bonnie thought the same, voicing exactly what Leya was thinking.

"You don't have to be rude."

"No, rude is uglying up the road with that junkie." Tiki snapped back. Leya glared turning back around to continue to wash the car; she most unfortunately wasn't able to do anything. No one was allowed to use magic against muggles, it was forbidden, however one could use the materials around them to influence the muggle.

And just as she thought that there was a loud boom, Leya turned around tense ready to bolt, scolding herself silently know she should brought her wand. Only to realized that the bucket of water Tiki was filling up burst in her face as she lost control of the hose.

Leya let out a laugh of relief and humor as she watched Tiki struggle with the hose until Matt helped her out. Magic did that, she was sure of it, but it wasn't her. Leya looked over to see Bonnie who looked conflicted, she still hasn't accepted the fact that she's a Witch, she will in time. Leya knew she would.

It was sometime later when they had run out of a couple of things when Leya went to find Caroline who was sitting with Elena handling the money.

"Hey, we're out of towels and those shimmy things." Leya said as she walked closer.

"I will get some more, both of you mind the money." Caroline said as she stood up to leave.

"So how are things with you and Stefan?"

"They're going amazingly." Elena replied happily, but her slowly smile faded and she decided to confide in her new friend. "But I kinda feel like he's hiding something from me, you know?"

Leya rubbed her neck awkwardly and replied. "Everybody has a past, Elena. Something's are harder to talk about than others. You should understand that."

Elena's eyebrows came together and she shook her head. "I never said anything about Stefan's past. Wait, do you know something about Stefan that I don't?"

"No, of course not." She lied unconvincingly. "It's just people usually hide things that have happed in the past, you know? They want the past to stay in the past."

"Oh my God, you know. You know whatever Stefan's keeping from me." Elena insisted.

"I'm sorry, Elena." Leya apologized. "But it's not my secret to tell." And she walked away, Elena watching her angrily.

Leya felt guilty; she didn't like keeping this secret from Elena, especially since she was dating Stefan. But Stefan was her friend, and she promised not to tell Elena and Leya thought it really should be Stefan who tells her.

"Hey, where are you going?" Leya questioned Caroline who was walking out of the car wash area in a daze.

She didn't answer though, she just kept walking. Leya tried several times to snap her out of this zombie state she was in but nothing seemed to work, it was as if she was under the Imperius Curse.

Leya followed Caroline hoping she wasn't leading them into trouble, and after walking for a mile or two they came across a house. The Salvatore boarding house, to be exact.

"Shit." Leya cursed quietly and tried unsuccessfully once more to snap Caroline out of her zombie state.

She turned around to call Stefan, and paced impatiently as the phone continued to ring.

"Oh, come on!" Leya yelled to the sky as his voice mail came through and left a quick message. "Stefan, I'm at your house with Caroline please come quickly she in this type of trance and I…"

Leya trailed off as she turned around to see Caroline gone. "Caroline?!" She yelled in hope she would hear something back and jogged around the house to see one of the many glass doors open.

Leya heard screaming and didn't give it a second thought before running in. "Caroline!" She yelled fearful. What if something happened to her?

There was no one there, she left. Leya couldn't believe she would scare her like that then leave her there. She turned to leave but heard heavy footsteps rushing towards her, as she turned around something knocked her back and ripped into her neck. She screamed in pain, panic rising as black dots started to appear in her vision. She tried to push him away before she lost consciousness and miraculously Damon (since he was the only other vampire that was in the house) screamed pushing her away as he clutched his head. Leya fell back onto the floor, limbs heavy and eyes fluttering close seeing only icy blue eyes before she was lost to the world.