Hybrid Camouflage

Chapter 2 – School Life

A quick chapter that I felt I had time for, The Vampire Diaries does NOT belong to me! Even if I wish it did, because Ian Somerhalder is just amazing, god he's gorgeous. Heheh. :3

Italics – Thoughts

Normal – Normal

Bold – Compel

"Zack, how far is the school?" the dark haired human-looking man bounced down the stairs, a leather jacket hung over his broad shoulders, the same attire he wore yesterday.

"No way Uncle Damon, I'm a founder of the council, I can't just let you go to school as if your normal, I know what you are remember.." Zach refused to look Damon In the face, but when he did, he quickly averted them back to floor, fear of his powers.

"You see.. That's were you don't. You think I'm a vampire?" He laughed at how cowardly he was acting. He rapidly used his vampire movement, and drilled Zach into the the wall beside a bookshelf. "I'm so much more." Damon smirked, and dropped Zach to the floor as if he were nothing. He walked back, holding up his arms. "We're good."

Zach nodded slowly, watching his ancestor turning on his heels, grabbing his car keys and walking to the door. "Where'd you get a car? You don't have any money.." his eyes widened as he understood. "Don't tell me you stole a car?"

"Just go with the flow Zach. Go with the flow." Damon chirped, and slammed the door shut behind him. He grinned as he observed his new Ferrari 458 Italia and it's new navy paintjob. He clicked a button on the key ring, and climbed in.

"School, here I come." He hummed to himself, and revved the car away from the boarding house.

"Elena! Hey, Elena, over here!" the brunette glanced around the crowds, finding Caroline waving at her near the benches were Tyler and Bonnie sat with her. She walked over to them, holding her books tight to her chest, this was her first day back at school for a long while.

"Hey guys." She lifted a smile, Tyler nodded with a smile and turned back down to what looked like forgotten homework, still looking stressed. She was sincerely happy to see them, she'd missed her friends, but she was here now, and she had things to catch up on.

"Hey Elena, how are you?" Bonnie asked, her face softened as Elena turned toward her. Elena gave her an approving nod, she felt even happier that her best friend was there.

"I'm good," she sighed, twisting and turning. "Have any of my teachers arrived yet?"

"Their probably in the staffroom, we have about half an hour until registration.. Do you need one of them?" Tyler questioned, looking up to her with his pen hanging out of his mouth.

Elena shook her head, "It doesn't matter, I think I'm gonna go the library, I need to catch up on a lot. I'll see you guys later?"

"Registration, we need to talk! I heard there's a new guy, somebody said Zach from one of the founding families rang up, apparently his nephew just moved back here. How exciting is this term turning out to be? Your back, a new guys soon to be here.. I can't wait!" Caroline ranted in one breath. Elena wasn't much interested really, but grinned along, she had a bit of a reputation to keep at school.

"Can't wait." Elena lifted her eyebrows, and quickly walked off, letting out a sigh that she felt she was holding. She could already tell it was going to be a long day.

Damon parked up his car, climbed out and locked it up. He was already being stared at, and he was feeling good about it. He walked toward the school, his black attire made him pop out compared to everyone else. A few girls swooned, so he stopped and lifted his black designer sunglasses up slightly, taking a sly peak. "Morning." He greeted with a husky voice, the girls were almost melting from the look he shot at them, nobody could resist the technique of his eyes. He was about to return the sunglasses to the bridge of his nose when he found his target. "Bingo." He said to himself, slipping the sunglasses off his face completely and surged forward. He got closer with his long strides, and began walking backwards right behind her. A girl gave him a small wave who was leaning against the wall near the entrance of the school.

"Hey honey." He shouted, and finally collided into the girl behind him.

Great. Just about to enter the school and some jerk crashes into me! Elena whips her head around quickly, luckily she didn't drop her books for herself to stand on or something. "Hey, what's your problem?" she started. Damon looked a bit taken-back. Elena didn't care, she hadn't seen him before. The new guy I'm guessing?

He held his hands up in defence, "Whoa, sorry tiger." Elena huffed, and collected the things that were starting to slide from her books. "Let me help you."

"It doesn't matter," she shook my head, and looked up at him. 'I must have some guts for shouting at him'. This guy was literally breath-taking. His eyes stared into hers, and she quickly looked down. "I'm just.." she narrowed my eyes in thought, and pointed her thumb over her shoulder. "Gonna go.." Elena nodded, I am going, right? She quickly turned, took a breath and started walking.

"Oi, were you going?" She felt a hand on her shoulder, She didn't even hear him behind her, I think I'm starting to go a bit deaf.. she thought and turned her head slightly.

"..Is something wrong?" He shook his head, and gave her a lob-sided smile, Elena felt like she was melting already. She observed him thoroughly, he was a bit pale, but his dark brown, almost black hair made him just that more gorgeous. It reached the end of his ears. Not forgetting to mention his bright blue eyes, seriously, they were piercing. She swallowed what felt like a huge lump when he said something that she wasn't listening to.

"Sorry, what was that?"

"I'm new, could you give me a hand on the curriculum around here?" he lifted his eyebrows at her, yes, she heard that time, she was a bit startled that he'd ask her.

"Um, sure? D-do you have your planner?" she stuttered, he shook his head, and placed an arm on the lockers in front of her.

"Nope." He popped the 'p' and smiled."Wanna show me the way?" Is he hitting on me? Elena mentally asked herself, but just as quickly pushed it out of her thoughts, 'No way, I've known him like 2 minutes.'

"Well, first, I'm Elena Gilbert. And it's nice to meet you, uh.."

"Damon Salvatore, and it's my pleasure."Elena stopped herself from smiling, she finally got his name. Elena tilted her head to the way the office was and pointed.

"Should we go then, Damon?" Elena started to walk, and he caught up to her and walked the same pace, starting to ask some of the basic questions about the school. Elena wandered, 'Who am I to resist someone as good looking as him?'

"Mr Salvatore, here's your planner, oh and a spare timetable, I'm assuming Elena will be helping you around the school or would you need my help?" Damon rolled his eyes. A flirt from the receptionist, just what he need in his everyday undead life.

"The planner and Elena are fine." Damon grabbed Elena's arm carefully and walked off. He'd be feeding on that damn receptionist later for that. Elena kept up with his speed walking, and finally got out from the reception. "So," he turned to her, "Were first?" He lifted an eyebrow as soon as she held out her hand. Damon eyed it, slipped her hand into his and planted a soft kiss on top of it. "I didn't know you was so honoured to meet me, you should come to my house sometime." He joked.

She slapped his arm, and pulled her hand back, and offered her other one. "Jesus, all I want is to see your planner.." he shrugged, and handed it over, she snatched it, and flipped through some pages. "Never, EVER try that stunt again Salvatore, or we'll be having words." he grinned smugly, and stood a bit closer to her. She smelt sweet like jasmine, it made me stifle a laugh describing her like that.

"You have all my lessons?" she glanced up at him with those big brown doe eyes.

"Oh, what a coincidence, lets go!" his face lit up, wrapping an arm around her waist sneakily, she smacked it off and attempted to push him away, but he was like a bulldozer.

The day went faster than she thought. Elena was currently in Media, she's always wanted to be a writer of some type, mainly a journalist or someone who wrote books. She felt something hit her hand and looked down to find a crumpled ball of paper. She unwrapped it and read the sentence: I don't get anything in this class –Damon

Elena grinned, and scribbled something quickly, and tossed it back when the teacher wasn't looking. He opened it up quietly, not to attract peoples attention. –You should pay attention then, its your first day and you look as if you couldn't give a crap –Elena

Damon rolled his eyes, and found her looking over at him. She nodded her head to the board, he shrugged, and took in a breath of air. "Sir? I think Elena's hurt. Should I take her to student services?" Elena turned to look at him in question and the teacher turned away too look at the time on the computer, in that time, Damon hastily chucked his pen, which barely hit her eye.

"Ow!" she yelped, clutching her forehead, he hand pressed over her eyelid.

"Alright, the bell will be going in about ten minutes. If your there after school hours, come pick up your homework." Damon nodded, and walked over to Elena, grabbing her by the shoulders and pulling her up from her seat, also grabbing her bag.

Once they were out the classroom, Damon took her outside the dinner hall way, and forced her to sit down on a bench. "Why the hell did you chuck a pen at me?"

"Let me see." He simply replied, prying her hands away from her face. He felt he needed to say sorry, but bit it back. He was only in this to retrieve her and make sure nobody else got the doppelganger. He didn't need to apologize. She fought against him, but eventually gave in as he observed her slightly bloodshot eye.

"It'll be fine, just get a cold cloth on it." He nodded, and heaved her up onto her feet. He turned to look over his shoulder, she kept her hand held over her eye, the tears were the first thing he noticed though.

He stopped and turned, "Elena?" she glared up at him with her visible eye, "I'm sorry. I was bored shitless, heck, I'm not suppose to be in a school, never mind a classroom." She narrowed her eyes. 'Oh shit.'

"I mean.. you know.. My school back in, um. Forks, my school ended at dinner.." Damon grumbled, the only town that popped in his head.

"Forks? You do know that's not a real place? In fact, that's off Twilight.." she laughed out, finally dragging her hand down from her face, blinking out a few strained tears that welled up. Was he actually hiding where he came from?

"And it's a complete joke. I haven't seen Twilight by the way." He walked forward, and she walked behind, following him to wherever she had dragged her out of class for.

"That means you've read them-"

"The first one. The first 102 pages and I got bored." He nodded, folding his arms, noticing her getting her confidence back. The school bell suddenly went off, and people were already streaming out from the building.

"Elena! Bonnie, hurry up!" Both Elena and Damon turned toward the calling voice. Caroline and Bonnie, Elena waved back.

"Hey, come and meet my friends." He was about to turn away, uninterested when she grabbed his wrist, "They don't bite! Come on." She turned him round as her friends finally stood in front of them.

"Bonnie, Caroline, this is Damon Salvatore. The new guy." She nodded to him, and he nodded to the two girls. "And these are Bonnie Bennet and Caroline Forbes."

"Great." He drawled out, they shook hands, and Bonnie reached back as if she'd been burned.

Damon frowned, and turned back to Elena who had already waved her friends goodbye and started making her way to her car. "Hey, Elena." She turned before opening the door. He was going to have to be quick, he'd have to get to her house before she did. "Here's my number, call or text if you need me." He flicked it toward her, but just not far enough so it fell to the floor.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" he asked with a shout.

"Sure." She stood back up straight, dialling the number into her blackberry.

He nodded, and walked toward the neighbourhood nearby. He'd have to leave his car. Finding nobody in sight, he took off in a blur.

His first destination was somebody in Elena's neighbourhood. Perfect timing, a man fixing his car in his garage, with the door wide open. He blurred in, and closed the garage door. The man jumped up, and the lights were quickly turned on.

Before he knew it, Damon had him on the car bonnet. His eyes were red, and the veins beneath his eyes were visibly showing. "It's just not your day." His fangs drew out, and his hands were clutching onto the mans head, With a flick to the side, his neck snapped, and his body fell lifeless.

He urgently bit into the mans neck and began drinking the mans blood as if he were dehydrated. Dropping the shell of a body to the floor, he poured some petrol onto the floor, grabbed the mans lighter and lit the garage on fire, escaping without a sweat.

He heard a car, and wiped his mouth from the blood. Looking down the street, he recognized the car from before. Elena.

Elena couldn't rid her thoughts of the new guy. She had to admit, he was smoking hot. He could of chose any girl to ask for help, but he picked her, She felt like the luckiest girl ever right now Wait, he fell into me didn't he? She groaned aloud. Her luck didn't last long, as she arrived at her house, she found a fire across the road, already up in flames. She climbed out of her Beatle and ran back to the house, the neighbours were out already calling the police.

Jenna opened the door behind her. "I'm watching from the window, the place just went up in flames!"

"What? How?" Elena watched, horrified, Jenna just grabbed her arm and pulled her into the safety of their own house.

"I don't know, but the police are on their way. Just, go upstairs or something! I don't believe this.." Jenna shook her head with disbelief. Elena nodded, and realized her Aunt said upstairs. She let out a small gasp, did she know? She stormed up the stairs quickly, and flung her bedroom door open.

Crow lifted his head up quickly from how he was laid down. Elena let out a sigh of relief, and knocked the door closed behind her. "God, I thought my aunt had figured you out for a minute there." She sat down beside the 'dog', and stroked his head gently.

Damon kept his head lowered, allowing her to stroke his head. His head suddenly perked up though, when a howl rung through the background of the town. Elena climbed up and strutted over to her window, lifting it up open. She noticed the way he reacted, and he trotted over.

"Gonna howl back?" Elena mocked, letting out a small laugh.

Elena remembered the fire across the street, and was about to reach out for Crow, but he was already gone. She turned quickly, and found him rushing out of her room. She sprinted after him, worry that her Aunt would find him out. Unfortunately, the front door was wide open. And Aunt Jenna was standing right in the middle of it. But it didn't stop Damon, he let out a violent bark, and charged right into her, knocking her over.

Elena reached the bottom of the stairs after almost recklessly trying to take three or four steps down the stairs at a time, she found Jenna on the floor and helped her back onto her feet, "Jenna, I'm so sorry!"

"Elena, what the heck is a dog doing in this house?" Elena looked up, and noticed the dog sprinting from the front garden.

"Hey!" She yelled, Damon stopped, and looked back. He couldn't stop now though, his brother called.

(I was gonna end it here until the next chapter, but I had some spare time :3)

He quickly took off down the street, the woods wasn't far. He heard another howl, and adjusted his hearing, listening to find out exactly were his brother is.

Elena grabbed her car keys from near the phone, "I'll explain later!" She shouted back to her Aunt, who simply stood in the doorway, heaving out a sigh, but continued to watch the firemen do their job. She'd go over afterward and ask what happened.

Elena slammed her car door shut, turning the engine off and reversing her car around. Where the hell was he going? He'd never taken off like that. In the week she'd had him anyway.. She floored it, and drove down the street over the speed limit. She slammed her foot down as soon as she reached the edge of the street, were the woods began to form. He was darting through the trees already. She took a long breath, climbed out of her car and locked it.

"Should I really be going after a dog in the woods, when the early nights are here?" she frowned in thought, he'd been keeping her company for a while. You know, someone to talk to without having to hear a proper response, just somebody to listen. She took in one more breath, and climbed up the muddy, leaf-covered ground of the woods. The trees hung over in every direction, it was much darker in the woods. She trembled at a feeling that she was being watched, but who'd go out into the woods at this time anyways.. "Crow?" Elena called, holding onto a nearby tree trunk, it was silent. The only sounds were a few hoots, proof that daylight was saying bye until the next day.

What the hell is she doing? Damon heard her shout for him, couldn't she just take the hint that he'd ran off? He'd probably return anyway, his brother just arrived in town, and they needed to talk. He couldn't go back to human form right now either. He'd be naked for one. And he weren't going back for clothes now, she'd find his brother before himself, and that wouldn't go well.

So, he carried on going. The leaves clung to his fur, but he found an open in the woods. He noticed his brother, in all his glory standing there, in his own wolf form too.

'Hello, brother.' Damon stopped instantly. He glared up at the opposite wolf, whose brown brownish white fur looked darker than usual.

'What's taking you so long? Katherine's already with Klaus. He's waiting on you now. Stop messing about and get her to him.' Stefan growled, snarling as she said so.

'Your in no position to order me about, so back off brother. You don't get a say in how long I take. And if Klaus is so strong, why doesn't he come here himself.' Damon walked forward, snarling, only loudening it when Stefan didn't back off.

'You know Klaus is looking for him. Don't start making excuses to drag this mission out. Have you even found her?'

Damon breathed slow, should he tell him? He heard a few snaps of twigs behind him, and found his brother glancing behind him himself.

'Brought someone with you, Damon? Smells like another wolf to me.'

I got it. I'd been around her for almost two weeks now, my scent must be on her, he hadn't noticed she was human, yet. 'As if. Whom I to bring out here at this time? A snack for you to feast on? C'mon. I'm not that nice.'

Stefan's curiosity got the best of him, and he walked forward, Damon growled, threatening him to walk away. Stefan snarled back, but continued. Damon had enough of him. He wasn't finding out now. He didn't want him to find out..

He snarled, he couldn't reveal anything in front of Elena, so he sprinted instead at his brother instead. Stefan noticed him, and turned toward his brother, although still proceeding. They snarled at each other, their vampire fangs increasing the size of their fangs. Damon didn't hesitate, his brother weren't stopping. He'd have to stop him himself.

And that's it for this chapter! Sorry I didn't update sooner, I felt I had to add a little more to this chapter. :P
The next chapter should be next week, I'll try my very best to get it updated asap! I hope this chapter fulfilled it's purpose of Damon meeting Elena in person. Thank you for the great reviews by the way! Any questions, I'll answer them happily.
As for the next chapter, you can expect a hybrid fight. And Damon's going to be trying to learn more about Elena, as the person she is. But she's starting to get a bit suspicious about some things herself, more stuff will happen but I'll be keeping that a secret. :3
Also, i'm not sure if thats how hybrids actually communicate. I'm just going to use it, so they can communicate through hearving eachothers voice in their thoughts or something..

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