Back at the Boarding House

Damon, Krystal, Stefan, and Elena all sat in the parlor, and all had a drink in their hands. Krystal began her story.

"Everything I said to Damon is true, but before, it was when I entered 9th grade me and my family witnessed a mob boss paying people off to keep their mouths shut, we didn't know what was going on until my older brother was killed by them, I was with my brother the night it happened, we faught to protect ourselves, our father had taught us well, but we didn't know who we were fighting.

My brother realized who it was, my brother made me leave him behind, he, in his own way told me who these people were, the last thing that he told me was I needed to run, to hide, and to tell the story to the police and he must have known that they would protect us because after we told them what we saw and what I went through that night the police put us all in protective service, we changed our identities, our profiles of what we looked like, we in a sense all died and left out true identities dead and buried," Krystal started off.

"Any questions… so far?" Krystal asked,

"Yeah, what's your real name, where are you from?" Damon half smiled,

"I cannot tell anyone that," Krystal seriously.

"I guess that would explain all the aerobatic moves in the barn," Stefan nodding.

"So, we all moved, to Colorado, from there I had friends, and then for a few months it was okay, I had a normal life I had friends, shopping never a boyfriend because I couldn't be truly honest with anyone I dated, and then I had a dream, one of my friends and her boyfriend having a car accident, leaving her dead and him in the hospital," Krystal taking a break reliving her past human life and drinking her bourbon.

"So I did what any concerned friend would do, I told her, I was trying to warn her, she laughed me off, told me it was just a nightmare, I didn't know when the wreck would happen, and I had no real evidence of this wreck happening, but a week later she and him were in a car accident, leaving her dead and him in the hospital. I lost all my friends after that, they were calling me a freak, a witch, some even thought I had some supernatural power and made them wreck, up until then I was a normal girl and ran track, wore bright and colorful clothes, I used to work out, and I still trained with my dad," Krystal's eyes watered. Damon saw her shaking a little as she drank her bourbon, Damon brought her into his arms and held her closer to him.

"So I gave them something to fear, someone to fear, I turned gothic, I even dyed my hair black and wore black nail polish, my dad had a doctor check me out when I started telling him about my dreams coming true, he put me on medicine, my mother knew what it was, she told me that her mother could do it, I don't know why she didn't have the visions or dreams, but she wanted me to hang out with my grandmother on the weekends, and I did for a while, my grandmother wanted me to embrace my 'gift,' she wanted me to do things to make the visions become clearer, to come to me while I was awake, I didn't want the visions to turn me into a freak, to rule and take over my life. My grandmother was disappointed in me, and I stopped seeing my grandmother," Krystal finding her glass half filled with blood. She drank a little and savored the feeling it gave her, it gave her strength and courage to finish her story.

"From then on I was alone, a Goth and a loner, no friends, just me, some people gave me pity stares, some would call me names, and then I met David, he was three years older than me and another Goth just like me, I met him when I was walking home from school, at first we started hanging out, doing friend things, going to malls, shopping and then it turned into a relationship, by that time he had me drinking, getting high, stealing things, boosting cars, and I suddenly had a dream one night about my brother.

He was telling me that my parents loved me, they didn't think I was a freak, that my older sister thinks the world of me and I needed to go visit her, that they would help me, that this guy I was hanging out with didn't care about me, that he would have beat the shit out of David if he could, he had hated that I fell in with the wrong crowd, that those other people who called me names and stopped being my friend didn't want to understand me and my gift," Krystal explained. She took a deep breathe and drank the rest of the blood,

"So, I told my mother that I needed to go see my sister, and I left for a week and came here and stayed with her, but David called, he knew I had left, he knew where I was, and even knew what house I was staying in, he told me if I didn't come back to him by the end of the week that he would kill everyone I loved in the worst ways and force me to watch and then he would torture me till every drop of blood was drained from my body," Krystal crying. Damon held her tighter, Stefan looked at Elena, she had tears in her eyes, it was similar to what she had gone through with Klaus.

"But when I returned, he tortured me anyway, cut me, raped me, kicked me around, that's how I lost the child I was carrying, and told me if I ever told my parents or anyone else he would kill me and no one else he would kill me and no one would ever find my body, and he would continue to make my parent's lives and my sister's life a living hell.

I knew my dad would protect me and so I finally told him. So we went on the run again, and a day before we were killed I saw it all play out in a dream, his men were driving the truck that killed me and my parents," Krystal fully trembling now, Damon could smell the fear pouring out of her. Stefan reached out to her,

"We will protect you and your sister," Stefan seriously.

"I need you to give me a description of these guys, so I know who I am looking for," Stefan strongly,

"Um, do you have paper and a pencil?" Krystal asked as she stuttered.

"Yeah," Stefan taking her to a table and getting some old paper he had, he gave her a pencil, he sat down with her. After a few minutes she had popped out three different men very detailed, down to the last scar, mole, and eye color.

"That's him, that's David," Krystal explained softly,

"We have resources, we will get these bastards, I need you to call your sister, tell her that a girl named Caroline and her boyfriend Tyler will be picking her up, also tell her that she is going to stay at Caroline's mother's house under their protection," Stefan explained. Krystal got up,

"I don't have a phone," Krystal still jittery,

"Here, you can use mine," Elena giving her the phone,

"Thanks," Krystal softly, Damon was calling Caroline and explaining what was needed on her part. By the end of the night Krystal was being reunited with her sister Cadence.