I OWN NOTHING FROM TWILIGHT OR THE VAMPIRE DIARIES .

~ March 26, Thursday ~

- 10:55 PM-

~ Deep in the forest surrounding Forks, Washington ~

- Forks , Washington-

~third person .~

Stefan's eyes widen " Elena! No! " He roared struggling feebly against Serenity's iron grip , he snarled angrily attempting to kick her but failing " No , Not her please, Not Elena ! " he cries desperately Serenity hissed annoyed and swiftly smashes Stefan's skull roughly against the tree leaving his head half buried in it and out cold ,she advances toward Elena and her brother ,slowly her eyes glittering darkly with hunger Rosemary at the sight of her fellow vampire's defeat is gone vanishing like a ghost into the dense forest around them .

Elena gasps and freeze's not noticing Rose's absence ,her focus is solely on Stefan " Stefan! " she whispers " Please , leave my family and friends alone ! Kill me but just leave them alone, please !" she begs tears filling her eyes ,her slim frame shaking violently as she speaks .

Serenity smiles slightly ,suddenly standing in front of Elena cupping her chin lightly between her thumb and forefinger " I don't want your head on a platter Elena ,'your much more useful alive ,especially with Klaus on the way here ,' she thinks " … but I'll gladly drain you of a pint of your blood . It smells so, … sweet. And in exchange because I'm feeling in a delightfully better mood now, I'll let a loved one of yours go . Do we have a deal ? " she asks soothingly her eyes gleaming dangerously knowing Elena's brain won't properly process her words until it's too late .

Elena opens her mouth to agree ,when her younger brother yells from where he's kneeling beside the unconscious Witch-Bonnie Bennett and who clearly understands Serenity's words . " No Elena , don't do it ! She's make you choose between us , forcing you to choose which us you care most about ,don't do it ! "

Elena jerks her head , tears spilling down her cheeks as she stares at her brother and whispers " I have to Jer . None of you deserve to die , not for me or anyone else ."

Serenity sighs disgustedly " How heartfelt and touching that was . But I'm in no mood for a debate … Elena , Please Choose now will you ," she hisses her eyes gazing at necklace on Elena's neck , she could smell it was filled with vervain, tutting she hums 'what is this? .' and touches the necklace with her finger tips smoothly she yanks the necklace off and throws it away, Elena's face fills with fear then Serenity pushes her compulsion on Elena just a little bit snapping Her head back so she's staring straight into Elena 's warm brown eyes " Now lets try this again shall we? Choose yes or no."

" Yes." she responses automatically and extend her bleeding palm to Serenity who's smiling gleefully , she can hear a chorus of voices yelling "No! " as she sinks her fangs into Elena's palm and drinks greedily .

She hear's him coming and unlatches her mouth from Elena's palm and lifts her head straightening her bent body, she whirls around lightening fast and sinking her fangs deep into Damon's shoulder and jerks upwards at the same time ripping a large chucks of muscle , skin and flecks of bone away with her teeth ,tossing them away , as a satisfied smirk graces her sharp features at his growl of pain and shout of " You PSYCHOTIC BITCH! What the hell ! " he mutters as he ungracefully staggers backwards , dropping onto his knees ,clutching at his shoulder moaning in silent pain .

" Awww, poor you, did that hurt ? " she asks grinning at him , Damon looks up , rolling his eyes at her " Why no , I feel fine . Of course it bloody hurt Ren! Are you nuts ! " he answers his eyebrow raised slightly at her .

Elena , frowns growing dizzy at the blood loss , and assumes she's hearing things , but is positive Damon just called the woman who nearly staked him to death by a pet-name…

" Ah , wha-what's going on-on… " she asks looking from one to the other her frown deepening , as her brain tries to simultaneously keep her wake and figure out what's going on ." D-do you two know each…oth.." She mumbles and then does actually start to tilt to the left slightly and lets her eyes start to slide closed ,blinking she tries forcing her eyes and brain to remain working and awake . " Would . Someone answer already , I'm about to pass out from blood loss… here …" she mumbles and just hears Serenity hum " Good," then the world goes dark .

Serenity gently places Elena's body on the grass and crouches beside her biting her wrist and letting her blood drip into Elena's mouth for a minute due to the amount of blood she lost then watches as the wound seals itself , and remains crouched looking over at Damon " Here ,let me heal your flesh wound ." he growls at her " that's not a damm flesh wound , Serenity you torn my whole bloody bone away ! " he hisses she rolls her eyes " only small bits of bone , god you're being overly dramatic , Damon . You're starting to sound like Saint Stefan over there ," she mutters monitoring to his brother who's woken up and in the process of detangling himself from the maple tree " All right ,there Stefan ? " she calls out , he grunts annoyed " I'm fine , Serenity! Thank you . " he snaps .

She whistles , smirking " Whatever you say , Stefan , " she replies merrily , Stefan doesn't answer back and continues trying to pull his body out of the tree . Damon rolls his eyes " Fine heal me , there's no way I'm letting Stefan lick my wound closed ," he shivers making an 'erguh' sound and drags his body over to her .

Serenity moves him so his head's in her lap and his injured shoulder's tilted towards her " This will be unpleasant , " she says softly, he grumbles rolling his eyes " Now , you tell me ! " she then sets about healing his injure" Your enjoying then aren't you ? " He says looking up at the sky ,and avoiding her stare.

Serenity smirks slightly looking down at him as she takes a small vial of something from her pocket which she'd swiped from Elouise's' workbench when she wasn't looking , uncorking the small vial of light blue liquid ,which she then pours on his wound making him writher in pain and growl annoyed at her " What ever gave you that impression Damon?" she asks Damon pretends to think it over then says " Oh , no reason , it's just first you try to stake me , then you bite me and after that you expect me to let you heal me ? " Serenity sniffs delicately " Yes , I'm sorry about that ." she answers watching his wound close up naturally by itself , the potion having no effect on his ability to heal , it instead starts seeping into his bloodstream .

Damon rolls his eyes " You ,sorry . Now that's a first I believe , how amazingly grateful I am you said it to me first ."

Serenity shakes her head tossing the vial into the undergrowth near her feet and stands up fluidly , bring him with her " I would say your welcome ,but I'd rather not boost your already overly inflated ego ." she replies walking over to Tyler and prodded him in the ribs with the toe of her soft knee high brown booted foot , Damon Snorts and walks away from her over to Stefan and in one motion yangs him out of the tree , Stefan flashes over to her snarling lowly .

Damon just shrugs and helps Caroline down from the tree she smashed into calling back not the lease bit upset or actually bothered " Your welcome ,brother, " Stefan keeping his eyes on Serenity hums " Yeah ,thanks ." Damon Snorts again and leans again the maple tree impression of Stefan .

Serenity glances up from Tyler , her expression emotionless and her hands on her hips " Yes Stefan, did you want to be smashed into a tree again? Because we both know that's what'll happen if you try to attack me again ."

Stefan looks down at Tyler then back up at her " No ," he say acidly Serenity makes a soft 'tutting' sound " What's with the sudden attitude change? " she asks looking between Stefan and Damon " Have you two switched bodies?"Stefan shakes his head " No , I just don't like being smashed into trees and seeing my girlfriend nearly drain of all her blood ! " he answers .

Serenity arches an eyebrow at him " May I remind you , it was you who attacked first remember you did bite my hand . So therefore I was only acting in self defense , and since there was four of you against one of me it was hardly a fair fight."

Stefan growls , hissing " Hardly a fair fight ! Serenity , look around you ! " then he motions around them both with his left hand . Tyler is lying on the ground still knocked out , Caroline's bruised, battered and hobbling due to her right leg being bend at an unnaturally angle , Bonnie is being tending to be Jeremy Elena's brother , Elena's meanwhile still passed out , Damon's absently rubbing his still healing shoulder , and Stefan's in-between talking to her massaging his bruised throat with her hand print on it .

" Oops! " she mutters biting her lip gently not sounding remotely sorry , " Sorry everyone ," her only response is a very loud chorus of growls and shouts, she rolls her eyes " I said sorry , what more do you people want ? Besides the strong urge to stake me through the heart right now ," she says her eyebrows raise a fraction ,as she turns around to stare at Elena's younger brother , who doesn't bother to even attempt to hide his furiously enraged expression .

Serenity shrugs "Well as fun as this all was I have things to do . So we can talk another day " she says spinning around she dashes off calling out over her shoulder " I hope you've found a place to stay , because you may be here for a while ." ' They definitely passed the test. Now all I need to do is figure out how Alice Cullen's visions work so I can use them to my advantage . '

First Serenity decides to runs straight to Charlie's house and pick up her car , so she changes course and continues running frowning as she does so a silver Volvo is parked on a shoulder in the winding long dirt lane a few meters away . ' Edward Cullen .' she thinks ' Better say hello , show him I'm alive and well .' she walks quickly over to his car and knocks on the window " Edward , it's Bella." Serenity smirks at his expression of utter shock and bewilderment as he rolls his window down and chokes out " Bel-Bella?" she nods not having to pretend to appear worried and alarmed when the situation involves him " What's wrong , has something happened, Edward ? " He shakes head , that warm crooked smile lighting up his face " No , I thought it did but Alice obviously misinterpreted her vision , she did say they've been fuzzy of late . " Serenity nods frowning " Oh," ' So I was right she is some sort of oracle . I wonder if any other member's of their little family are as gifted as she,besides Edward,' " What are you doing out here at night ? Its pretty late ," he asks , she continues frowning at him using this expression to mask her other one of annoyance , " I'm walking… couldn't sleep ." She answers shrugging sheepishly and bitting her lip for effect .

Edward nods " Well would you like me to drive you home ? " still frowning she is about to say 'no' when her phone rings ,she smiles politely thinking 'Thank you I-phone!' " Excuse me I should take this it might be Charlie." turning slightly so he can't see her slide her I-phone from her pocket she places it to her ear and hears Driscoll's warm irish lit flow out of it " Ren, where are you? " " Hey Char-Dad. " ' thank goodness Driscoll's special talent is lying ' she thinks , Driscoll picks up on her tone and word's immediately changing his voice and tone to perfectly match Charlie Swan's " Hey Bells , I heard the front door open and I thought you'd gone out ,it's still open , but ah . Wherever you are can you come home straight way ." Serenity answers back "Will do , bye Dad ,love you " Driscoll chuckles lowly " You to kid ." And ends the call , quickly she slips her iphone back into her pocket and turns around to face Edward again .

" That was Charlie , I should just walk home isn't too far ." she says smiling slightly at him , He nods slowly frowning " Mm-m, I heard , what was with the irish accent at the start of the phone call "

Serenity mentally glares at him " Oh that , I think he's spending to much time around a few of his irish co-workers and the accent just rubs off on him ," she lies , laughing softly .

He nods " Ah , right . Well, I'll be over tomorrow morning to pick you up and drive you to school okay ." She just nods while thinking ' Doesn't Bella own her own car ! A truck or something , and then why doesn't she drive herself to school . This is the twenty-first century Edward, and while I applaud you being a gentleman this is — not 1927 anymore — woman are actually capable of making their own decisions and choices in life now. You really must not try and control every situation ' then has a mental rant at him in her head in Italian and Spanish .

Serenity smiles still ranting at him in her mind , having already been at it for twenty two minutes , " Okay , but I might ask Charlie to phone in sick for me, I still feel unwell plane trips don't really agree with me ." she answers

Edmund nods and smiles a little " Oh , okay . Well, if you need anything just call , promise you will Bella?" he asks her .

She still smiling tightly, jerkily nods her head " Sure ." then swiftly turns around and starts walking off only to stop when he appears suddenly in front of her "Don't do that seriously ! are you trying to give me a heart attack Edward! " she hisses her expression annoyed ,seeing his perplexed one she quickly masks her own expression with one of fright " Sorry it's just you gave me a bit of a fright suddenly appearing like that . "

He nods again frowning slightly he asks " I'm sorry Love , but did you want me to run you to your house it'll be quicker than walking it looks like it's going to rain ."

She raises an eyebrow at him slightly thinking ' What do I look like twelve too you ,Edward . I don't think so ! ' then says " No , I'm fine walking ."

Edwards frown deepens " But ,Bella you hate wet weather ."

She shrugs thinking ' Well that's unfortunate for I on the other hand love it, especially kissing in it ! ' " Well I shall just have to walk faster than ,won't I ." Edward nods slowly " Indeed."

Serenity smiles slightly " Yes , well I may see you tomorrow , good night Edward . " She says softly and kisses him full on the lips , angling her head slightly so she's in control of this kiss letting her hands snake around his waist ' How I missed this ,these sweet moments with you my love,' she thinks .

Edward of course breaks the kiss seconds later " Bella you know , my rule when we kiss." ' You have rules for kissing your girlfriend? ' she thinks smirking ' Then shall make it my duty to see how fast I can break your restraint my darling, I broke it once I can do it again .' " She pulls back pouting " Remind me?" he chuckles softly muttering in her ear " Perhaps this will jog your memory love." the he cups her face gently and presses his lips to hers and kisses her passionately , slowly and tenderly ' you will come back to me!' We will be together again !' she thinks longingly . And continues kissing him for a few more minutes then pulls back remembering to breath heavily " Sorry, us humans need to breath still , you know . But when I'm like you it won't matter right ?" she says hoping she hit a nerve , he stops smiling and takes a step away from her ' Bingo , I thought Miss Swan might want immortally , I mean who wouldn't ?'you're so hot!' She thinks hiding her evil smirk of triumph at this new puzzle piece of information .

"Yes,… it won't . Ah , you should go get some sleep Bella . I'll be over tomorrow morning , Night love," he say frowning as he kisses her on the head lightly and zooms back to his car and drives off .

Serenity waits until she can no longer hear his car and grins maliciously and speeds off to Charlie's house .

Once there she slows down and tilts her head curiously frowning as she watches the thick ropes of leafy green ivy crawl up the side of his house at an alarming rate ' Ivy?And it's growing so fast , that will be due to the influx of supernatural beings in the area . Once the number goes over ten the magical enchantments on these old hunter's and witches homes immediately switch to self protection mode …' carefully standing statue still she lets her eyes wander looking for any sign the house has activated the hidden traps underneath the earth which usually catch unwary vampires , in thick ropey cages of Vervain which spring from the earth , the second a vampire steps foot near the house , the same happens with Werewolves who wind up getting trapped in nets , made-up of cable-thin cords of deadly wolfsbane .

She spots her car in the woods ,along the right-hand side of the house , the trouble is she on the left side. and the only way through is to go across the front porch , as the back of the house is just as well protected as the front not the mention Charlie's bedroom is at the back of the house , she could hear him snoring ,so this is easier lest she run the risk of actually getting killed properly this time .

'I have one shot at this .' she thinks looking around for anything that she could use , then she eyes land on her necklace and grey cardigan she's wearing ' well they are my possession so it they'll have traces of my scent on them , therefore confusing the house's magical enchantments to assume there is more than one vampire … and the traps get activated by pressure so… '

lightening fast her throws her cardigan off and flings it across the front porch then swiftly pushes and near by tree over and wretches her necklace off tossing it as well and watching as the traps spring from the ground wrapping around her cardigan, necklace and the tree's thick trunk , wasting no time she dashes across the fallen tree trunk nimbly avoiding the ropy vines of vervain scooping up her necklace and cardigan with a branch she snapped off the tree before she pushed it over . and sensing a trap about to snag her she gracefully jumps high into the air and flips then lands daintily feet first on the ground next to her car , breathing normally and completely an ease with not a single snatch .

Serenity quickly sweeps her eyes over the surrounding area checking for hidden traps , finding none she digs her car keys from her jeans pocket and hops into her car and silently zooms away towards home .

Swiftly putting her necklace back on , she tosses her cardigan onto the passenger seat and turns up the radio , singing along perfectly in tune with Alice Copper's ,Poison as she zooms down the highway at two hundred and fifty mph .