A/N: So I asked in the previous chapter if anyone had any opinions on Sarah doing a video journal. Receiving no response I'm not sure if I should do one for her or not. Please leave a review saying whether or not you'd be interested in reading something like that. There would just be short things where she recaps stuff, and then there'd be the normal writing like it's been in the previous chapters.

Chapter 2

2009

Sarah was sleeping in her room when a loud crash made her jerk awake. As quickly as she could, she ran through the house and to the attic where she sound had come from. The window was missing. The vampire hurried over to the broken window and looked down onto the front yard. Her brothers were talking to each other.

Jumping through the window, Sarah landed in the grass gracefully. "What the hell, guys?" she half-shouted at them. They turned their heads to look at her. "Some of us are trying to sleep, even if vampires only need a few hours."

"He attacked a girl tonight." Stefan accused instantly, glaring at his older brother.

"What do you care? She'll live." Damon returned with an eye roll. "Besides, I could've taken a bite out of your new girlfri—"

Stefan tackled Damon with inhuman-like speed. The two brothers fought for a few more seconds while Sarah stood back, letting them deal with it themselves. Eventually Damon won the upper hand and pulled himself and his brother to their feet before slamming him into the ground. "You're still eating bunnies, little brother. I'm stronger than you are. It'd do you some good to remember that."

"Alright, cut it out. Both of you." Sarah said, annoyed at their 'who is stronger' match. The teen looking girl walked to them so she was in between them before helping Stefan to his feet. "Damon, if we're going to be here we can't go around killing people."

"I didn't kill her."

"Did she get a good look at you?"

Damon shrugged nonchalantly, "Even if she did no one would believe her."

"What about the founding families? You know, the ones who hunt down vampires?" Sarah retorted, clenching her fists. "Look, if you're hungry—"

Stefan cut her off angrily, "It's not because he's hungry, Sarah, he attacked Vicky because he could. She was just out in the woods and he attacked her!"

"Everything all right out here?" Zack's voice pulled the siblings' attention to the front porch where Zack was in a pair of loose pants and a big t-shirt. In his hands were two wooden stakes. "Stefan?"

The younger brother looked to Zack but before he could reply Damon smirked, "Just peachy. I was just leaving, actually. Think I'll go grab some food." He gave Sarah a quick wink, to which she responded with an eye roll, and ran off in the blink of an eye.

Stefan sighed, turning to Sarah, "I'll go to the hospital in the morning, compel Vicky Donovan to think an animal attacked her."

"Let me do it," Sarah ran a hand over her messy long hair, "I'm on the human stuff, it'll work much better if I do it. Got the time, Stefan?" she glanced at his wrist where a watch was strapped around his wrist.

The older sibling looked at the time and said, "Six-thirty."

"God." She muttered, "Sun'll be up soon, I'll hit the hospital and take care of Vicky around eight or eight-thirty so it doesn't look too weird that a teenager is hanging around. I'll have to wait until she's actually awake to compel her." Sarah wrapped a couple fingers around her necklace. It had the Salvatore crest on it and hung on a silver chain. "I'm so going to kick his butt for waking me up so early," she muttered more to herself than to Stefan.

Later that morning, Sarah dressed herself in a pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and a black flannel over shirt. She got directions from Stefan to the hospital, Mystic Falls' only hospital, and was on her merry way.

When she arrived at the hospital's front desk, the secretary pointed her in the right direction and Sarah entered Vicky Donovan's room. Damon's victim had long, curly brown hair with shades of black and blond in it. She was half-asleep, glancing around the room at random times.

"Hey, there." Sarah greeted with a smile. Vicky looked up, surprised.

"Uh, hi?" she replied, confusion spread across her face. "Do I know you?"

Sarah shook her head, "Nope." The vampire walked over to the bed and looked Vicky in the eyes, turning on the compulsion. "An animal attacked you last night. You didn't get a clear look at it, though. You only saw flashes of fur and four legs. An animal attacked you last night." Sarah blinked a couple times and added, "If anyone asks, I wasn't here. Go ahead and erase me from your memory."

Vicky suddenly shook her head, "Oh, hey. Um, do I know you?"

Déjà vu, Sarah thought to herself with a mental eye roll. "No, I've got the wrong room I think. Sorry to bother you."

"No problem."

Sarah left quickly so no one would notice her visiting Vicky Donovan. The vampire teen left the hospital and decided to take a trip around town. For a few hours she spent her time just remembering how the city had been in 1864 and how things had definitely changed big time. It was around noon when she saw Elena and another girl with her. They were handing brochures out to people.

"Elena?" Sarah called out to her, causing the two girls to turn around.

"Oh, hi Sarah." Elena gave a small smile, "Bonnie, this is Stefan's sister Sarah. Sarah, this is my friend Bonnie."

"Nice to meet you, Bonnie." Sarah said politely.

"You too." The girl returned with a genuine smile.

"I thought you guys had school today." Sarah asked as a statement.

Elena explained, "Since a lot of the kids at our school are involved with the comet festival stuff tonight they let us off at eleven-thirty."

"So, have you ever been to Mystic Falls before Sarah?" Bonnie questioned.

Sarah nodded, "It's been a while, but I was born here. Are you going to watch the comet tonight?"

"Yeah. I think Elena mentioned you and your brothers would be here too so I guess I'll see you around."

The girls said quick goodbyes and Sarah made her way back to the Salvatore Boarding House. When she opened the door, she noticed Stefan and Zack. Zack had a set of car keys in his hands and his jacket was pulled over his shoulders.

"We're heading over to the festival," Stefan told her, "If Damon drops by here…tell him if there's another attack—"

"I'll handle it, Stef." Sarah sighed in exasperation, "You worry too much. I doubt he'd pull another kill after Vicky—who, by the way, thinks an animal attacked her."

Stefan gave her a grateful smile, "Thanks, Sarah. You shouldn't be cleaning up after him but I'm glad you did. You were right, my compulsion wouldn't hold up as well as yours."

Zack reluctantly said his own thanks and the two left, leaving Sarah by herself in the home. The vampire went to her room and grabbed a pack of blood out of one of the duffel bags. It wasn't as good as fresh blood, or even refrigerated but she wasn't sure how Zack would respond to blood in his fridge, but it was better than killing someone and drawing attention.

Sarah flopped down on her bed, enjoying the packet of blood until it was all gone. She tossed the empty container into a small trash can in the corner of the room and went into Stefan's room to find something to read. She'd noticed several books lying around when she'd been so rudely awakened early that morning. Eventually she found something good to read and returned to her bedroom.

The next several hours she occupied herself by reading, not stopping until her cell phone rang. Checking the caller I.D. she answered, "Yes Damon?"

"You ready to see the comet yet, Sarie?" her oldest brother asked from the other end of the line. Sarah could hear people talking in the background and figured Damon was in town.

"I'll be there soon, okay? Oh and Damon, please stay out of trouble. Let's not blow our cover to the townspeople who might have pitch forks and torches in their basements."

"Sarah, I'm shocked you'd even think that!" he replied, feigning offense. Sarah hung up with a chuckle. She marked what page she was on by bending the corner of the page and left the book on her bed. Sarah left the house, using her vampire speed, and went to the outskirts of town before slowing her pace to a human fast walk. Sarah decided to go to the center of things since that was probably where Damon would be, either scouting for a walking blood bank or for a girl.

"Fancy meeting you here," Damon said from behind her, causing the vampire teen to spin around. The older vampire handed her an item and Sarah raised an eyebrow. He explained, "If we're going to be here we might as well join in the festivities, little sister." Sarah smiled a genuine smile and allowed Damon to light her candle with his. "So have you seen our wonderful brother around yet?"

Sarah shook her head, "Not yet. Why don't you give the guy a break, Damon?"

When he replied, Damon's voice had taken a hard edge, "I apologize for not giving the guy who ruined our lives a break Sarah Megan Salvatore. He only caused us to turn into rocks—"

"Fine, sorry I brought it up. I just thought you'd be tired of holding this grudge against him." She snapped back.

Damon took a breath and said, "I thought you'd still be angry with him from your guys' last meeting. I'm pretty sure you threatened to rip his head off after what he said."

"I still can't believe he said that to me." Sarah whispered, swallowing the lump in her throat. Without any warning, several people around the two siblings burst into cheers and applause. They looked up to see the comet beginning to cross the dark night sky.

1995

Sarah walked past the people on the sidewalk, trying to catch up with the three people she was following without drawing attention from the bystanders.

"Stefan!" she hollered, making her older brother turn around and look at her. His eyes widened and he smiled. He, Lexy, and Lexy's human boyfriend all met her halfway on the sidewalk.

"Sarah, it's been a while, kid." Lexy laughed loudly, pulling her hand from her boyfriend's and hugging the youngest Salvatore. "Where've you been?" The blond pulled back from the hug.

The vampire in question shrugged nonchalantly, "Around. Wow, it's been years you two. Lexy I haven't seen you since the fifties after that Elvis concert."

Lexy made a face, "Don't remind me. What was I thinking going there?"

"And Stef I haven't seen you since…." Since Mystic Falls right after the Titanic sank. She swallowed and continued, "What are you guys doing in Arizona?"

"Lee doesn't know how to ride a horse," Lexy explained, using her head to point at the man she'd recently been holding hands with. She grabbed his hand, "Lee, this is Stefan's sister Sarah. Sarah, this is my boyfriend Lee."

"He knows about us, Sarah." Stefan said when Sarah's eyes grew wide from the earlier conversation. "What are you doing here? Last I heard you were in Washington state."

Sarah shrugged again, "I got tired of the colder weather. Besides, my friend Hartley is supposed to be meeting me here sometime soon. Soon as in a couple hours, I mean."

"Well, we're heading towards a hotel now," Stefan told his sister, "You can come with us for a little while until he gets here."

I also apologize that it's been a while since an update! Reviews=motivation. The rest of the 1995 flashback will be in the next chapter.