Big Time Vampire Diaries
Chapter 2
~Background~
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James' POV
Gustavo, for once, was speechless. He kept opening his mouth but no words came out. Kelly was shocked and scared. You don't have to be a mind-reader to understand expressions. Her body was slightly shaking...whereas Gustavo's body was usually shaking out of anger.
"What..?" Gustavo finally asked timidly.
"What should we do Kendall?" Carlos asked.
"We could leave..." he started to say.
"No! That is not an option!" I interrupted.
"We could compel them" Logan suggested.
"WHAT?" Gustavo shouted.
"But then it would be quite awkward since we have to see him nearly every single day" I told them.
"Just STOP!" he ordered.
We all turned towards him and he got a scarf from the coat hook next to him and put it around his neck.
"Hey, that's my scarf!" I whined.
"It doesn't matter!" he replied.
"But when I wore it you told me to take it off because it looked weird and now you are wearing it and it doesn't even go with that outfit!" I told him.
"Just forget about the scarf! I want you guys to tell me that this is just another prank that you are pulling" he said.
We shook our heads simultaneously without saying a word.
"I...need to...leave" Kelly announced in a whisper.
"Why?" Carlos asked innocently.
"My sister used to tell me these...stories about vampires...and I never thought they were true...and here you are standing right in front of me" she explained.
"Don't worry we won't hurt you" Kendall explained.
"How can we trust you?" Gustavo asked backing away.
"Because you would be dead by now" Kendall answered.
Gustavo looked at us for a second and then started laughing.
"What's funny?" Logan asked him.
"You aren't vampires! I know that this is a trick" he laughed.
We looked at each other and we were all confused by his sudden reaction.
"Denial?" Carlos suggested.
"Could be..." Logan agreed.
"Ok, I think we should compel him" Kendall told us.
"Agreed" I said.
"Why?" Logan asked.
"In his state...he could go tell people and there are only two outcomes" Kendall replied.
"What are they?" Carlos asked.
"Well they could lock him up in a mental home..." Kendall started to say but then he turned to me.
"Or they could believe him and come kill us" I answered for him.
Carlos gasped and Logan was thinking about the information we had given him.
"What do you mean by...compel?" Kelly asked.
We had completely forgotten that she was in the room and that she wasn't freaking out like Gustavo who was literally on the floor laughing.
"It just means that we can make you forget about what we told you" Carlos answered.
To be honest he was quite smart...he didn't mention that we could also control people. We are lucky that he didn't say that because I'm sure that she would be joining Gustavo on the floor laughing.
"Why would you do that?" she asked.
"Because some people can't handle the information that we give them" Logan replied.
She nodded and told us "Don't compel us"
"Why?" I asked, surely any human would want to forget...this.
"Well I need to know more about you guys" she replied.
"Are you sure that Gustavo will be able to handle it?" Kendall asked.
"Well if he can't...you can compel him but I promise that I will keep your secret" she promised.
"Fine...but how do we get the rolling ball of laughter to stop laughing?" Kendall sighed.
"Compel him" Logan told him.
"Won't that just make him forget?" Kelly asked.
I sighed and answered "Don't freak out but we can also tell people what to do with compulsion"
She nodded and Kendall said "James you do it"
"NO!" I shouted.
"Why not?" Logan asked.
"Because if he finds out that I compelled him then he will come after me with a stake and blood stains!" I screeched.
"Fine, I'll do it!" Kendall said.
He walked over to Gustavo and looked into his eyes while saying "Don't freak out about what we are about to explain and stop laughing"
Gustavo stopped laughing and stood up.
"Wow! Your pupils dilated and he actually listened to you!" Kelly exclaimed.
"Yeah, it does come in handy" I said.
"Right you dogs need to sit down and tell us everything" Gustavo ordered.
"Everything?" Carlos winced.
"Everything" he confirmed.
Kendall's POV
Gustavo and Kelly sat on the opposite side of the desk to us. We were all sitting silently in our chairs waiting for someone to speak.
To James, Carlos and Logan I am the 'leader' of the group but I told myself that I would not be doing all of the explaining!
It is hard enough having to live this life but going through all the past events again is just...too much.
We try to forget the past but every time a friend of ours dies or gets older and we have to move on reminds us of what we are.
This was our chance of being normal...and I can't help but feel that we blew it.
"So...how are going to do this?" Gustavo asked.
"How about you ask the questions and we provide the answers" Logan suggested.
I looked at James next to me and I knew that he didn't want to explain anything either.
"Ok then...how old are you?" Kelly asked.
"162..." we all answered at the same time.
Gustavo really wanted to freak out again but since I compelled him not to...he can't.
"How do you turn...into vampires?" he asked.
James tensed and I answered "Well a vampire gives a human their blood and then if the human dies with the blood in their system they wake up a vampire and then to complete the transformation they have to drink human blood"
"Ok, tell us about your human life and how that led up to you becoming vampires!" Kelly said.
"James you want to take this one?" I asked.
He nodded but before he could say anything Gustavo said "You all will have to explain"
"Well they are all basically the same" James told him.
"Go on" Gustavo pushed.
"Ok, we all grew up in Mystic Falls...and we were all best friends. Everything was going great- we were also friends with the Salvatore brothers..."
"What do they have to do with anything?" Gustavo asked.
"One question at a time and don't worry they play a big part in our lives" he told him.
James' POV
I took a deep breath as I continued the story "My mother and father had arranged for me to get married and I was over the moon. Girls loved me and I had always dreamed about getting married to the perfect girl, having a family and having a good life with my best friends"
"Wow you haven't changed much" Gustavo observed.
"Ok! Please no more interruptions! This was hard enough to go through once and now I am trying to explain!" I said frustrated.
"Ok" Gustavo and Kelly agreed.
"So I met the girl that I was going to marry- her name was Rose and she was beautiful but then Katherine moved into town"
I stopped and gulped. Katherine was a hard subject to talk about for me.
"Katherine...?" Gustavo asked.
I didn't shout at him for interrupting because I had stopped talking for a minute and he brought me back to reality.
"Yeah...Katherine" I sighed.
"James..." Kendall warned.
"Right...so we didn't know that Katherine was a vampire but she fooled all of us. The Salvatore brothers and us. She 'fell' in love with us and she told us her secret. Of course we were in love so we kept it. I thought I was in love but...I wasn't" I sighed.
"What happened next?" Kelly asked.
"I chose to ignore Katherine...I didn't want to be unfaithful to Rose because deep down I knew that she was a great girl and she was perfect for me but..."
I stopped and a stray tear fell down my cheek.
"James are you ok?" they guys asked. I nodded my head even though I wasn't.
"What happened?" Gustavo demanded.
"The night before my wedding...she killed Rose" I answered.
Kelly gasped and Gustavo's face was in shock.
"And it was my fault" I added.
"James we have been through this one hundred times...it wasn't your fault!" Logan told me.
"Yes it was! She told me that she was scared and I should've protected her but I didn't! I told her that everything was going to be fine and we were getting married but instead I let her...be killed!" I defended.
"Come on James I'm sure it wasn't your fault but...what happened next?" Kelly asked.
"Well I refused to leave the house and when I did it was Katherine who convinced me to get some fresh air...l also found out that she done the same to Stefan's fiancée" I said.
"Stefan?" Gustavo asked.
"Stefan and Damon Salvatore" I told him.
He nodded and I continued "She told me, after I became a vampire, that she got jealous"
"Carry on with your life story!" Kelly said excitedly.
"Well I got closer to Katherine and we exchanged blood quite often. She couldn't really go hunting because she was being hunted so she fed off of me but gave me her blood afterwards"
"How does that help?" Gustavo asked.
"Vampire blood heals" Carlos answered.
"How?" Gustavo asked .
"Well if a human is hurt, vampire blood will heal it" I answered.
They nodded and I said "I didn't know that she was also exchanging blood with Kendall, Carlos, Logan, Damon and Stefan though and I think my story ends there"
"How? You haven't told us how you died yet!" Gustavo objected.
"No, that is a group thing to say" I replied.
Kendall's POV
Gustavo turned to me and said "Your turn Kendall"
"What?" I asked.
"Tell us your life story" Kelly said.
"Didn't James just explain that?" I asked.
"No, he explained part of his apparently the ending is a 'group' thing" Gustavo replied.
I laughed and James shrugged.
"Mine isn't much different but here I go"
I took a deep breath and started "Well back in 1864 I wanted to travel the world. It was my life dream and it had to be put off for a few months so I could save up some money. Also I had to wait for the ship that would take me"
"And..." Kelly said.
"And Katherine came to town...as you know. The guys didn't want me to leave so I promised James that I would stay for his wedding and leave after that I would leave. She begged me to stay but I told her I couldn't so she tried everything to make sure I couldn't leave"
"Like what?" Gustavo asked.
"Well she made sure that I was late to work and sometimes I missed it so in the end I got fired, luckily I had just enough money and I offered to work on the ship so I could stay there but of course she made sure that the ship couldn't leave"
Kelly and Gustavo had puzzled looks so I decided to clear it up for them "She sunk the ship"
"Wow, she done all of that to make sure that James couldn't get married and that you couldn't leave!"
We nodded.
"So after that I spent more time with Katherine and as James mentioned we shared blood and the ending...as you know is a group thing" I finished.
"Alright Logan your next" Gustavo ordered.
Logan's POV
I shivered when Gustavo told me that I was next.
"Well, there isn't much to say about me" I told them.
"Come on Logan, Kendall and James shared their stories and I'm sure Carlos will next" Kelly reassured me.
"Fine...well I was traditionally a vampire hunter...I guess" I told them.
"What?" Gustavo asked.
"My father was in a group with Giuseppe Salvatore and they wanted to hunt down all of the vampires and kill them...Stefan and I tried to convince them that vampires weren't real and it was just a beast but they wouldn't listen, I met Katherine when James introduced her and she was...beautiful but I knew that I didn't really love her. I was waiting for somebody special..." I trailed off.
"But what happened?" Gustavo whined.
"I guess that she compelled me so I thought that it was love, and when I tried to get my father to stop hunting vampires he became suspicious of me, I told him to do what he wants and not to involve me but he still didn't exactly trust me and I know that this is short but my life wasn't exactly interesting...well the end of it might have been" I shrugged.
"And Carlos is next!" Gustavo cheered.
Carlos' POV
I sighed when it was my turn to speak. I was hoping that Logan would tell more about his story but my wishes are never granted. I guess being a creature from hell doesn't give you those privileges.
"Well my story is the most boring" I said.
"Really?" Kelly asked surprised.
"Yeah, I didn't know what I wanted to do...I still don't! James, Kendall and Logan basically had their lives planned out for them and handed to them on a silver platter but I was just...there. My father wanted me to be a carpenter like him but I knew that wasn't the life for me so...I joined the army with Damon" I told them.
"Wait from the random bits of information I've been given...you wouldn't have been old enough to join the army" Gustavo said.
"I lied about my age...but everything was fine. I left town with Damon and came back with him." I replied.
"You gave us all a scare though" James said.
I smiled and said "But when I came home...Katherine was there. She was beautiful as everyone has already said and I thought she would never go for a guy like me so when she started talking to me I was surprised. I found out that she was funny and she wasn't sure what to do with her life either and we just...clicked"
"So did you go back to the army?" Kelly asked.
"Well she begged me to stay but I couldn't...I had a duty to my country but I never got the chance to go back to having a normal life" I sighed.
"So how did you all die?" Gustavo asked.
That seemed to be the only part he was really interested in.
Kendall's POV
The guys all looked at me, even though I looked at James wanting him to say what happened...even though I knew he wouldn't.
"Fine...we all found out about Katherine being with us and we argued with each other every time we saw one another but yet we still stayed with Katherine believing that she loved us and one night she was with Stefan and she got captured. Stefan and Damon went to save her but their father shot them before they could save her or anyone else" I started to explain.
"What about you?" Kelly asked.
"Well, Logan's father was still suspicious about him and us and we were arguing on that night, when we saw Stefan and Damon though we stopped arguing and went to try and help them...even though they were dead and we didn't know about them and Katherine but when we turned round we saw the whole 'vampire hunter' group..."
"What happened?" Gustavo asked.
"We got charged with fraternizing with the enemy...so they shot us" I answered.
"And they didn't know that you were going to turn into vampires?" Kelly asked.
"No, they didn't know about vampire blood and the changing process but Emily, who was Katherine's witch maid, got all of our bodies and took us to an unknown place" James replied.
"And that is where we got our rings" Carlos added.
"What do you rings do?" Gustavo asked.
"Stop us from burning in the sunlight" Logan answered.
"How did Katherine get captured? I mean how did they know she was a vampire?" Kelly asked.
"Well there is this herb called vervain and it is like poison to a vampire. Stefan's father slipped it into his drink so when Katherine went to 'feed' off of Stefan she started choking." I told her.
"But how did they know that she was a vampire in the first place so they could poison the drink?" Gustavo asked.
"Well Stefan went to his father and said about vampires not being bad...he got suspicious of Katherine and he was right because she was 'allergic' to the vervain" Carlos replied.
"So what happened after you woke up?" Kelly asked.
"We drank blood for the first time..." James started to say.
"And we watched our funerals" I added.
Hope you liked it! I'll update soon and please review! :D The next chapter will be their funerals and in the next few chapters some people from the past will be coming back :D hehe