Author's Note!
Okay, it's been a while since I updated this. I guess off we go.
DISCLAIMER: All Vampire Diaries characters and plot belong to Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson. I just own Kayden and whatever she does.
Kayden's P.O.V.
Jeremy and I walked out of the hospital and into the parking lot towards my bike.
"I think we're going to be late." Jeremy says lightly, tugging on my hand.
"Oh I know, I wanted to give you enough time with Vicky before you had to deal with Elena." I spat out her name.
"I'm surprised a nurse didn't try to stop me, visiting hours aren't until 9." Jeremy looked over to me.
"I compelled a nice woman to walk away." I grinned. "And I got a snack, too."
Jeremy chuckled at me and swung his legs over the back of the bike. "Thanks for this."
My smile and eyes softened. "No problem, Jer. You don't deserve the things you have to go through."
I swung my leg over the front of the bike and started the engine, tearing out of the parking lot before Jeremy had time to ask what I meant by what I said.
I pulled into school and Jeremy and I went our separate ways, him to the stoner pit and me to Tanner's class.
I walked through the halls humming to myself as I looked in through the windows of the classroom doors. Finally I stopped in front of Tanner's room and shoved open the door.
"...it hasn't been over Mystic Falls in over-" He stopped speaking and looked at me.
"145 years." I smiled impishly. "Right Mr.T?"
Tanner's eye twitched, "Why are you late to my class ?"
"I was visiting a friend in the hospital with my little brother." I said, my smile faltering slightly.
"Oh." his face softened, "Well, try not to do it again before school. Please take your seat."
"Thanks Mr.T" I smiled, walking over to my seat and plopping down.
"Anyways, yes, 145 years is correct." he walked in front of his desk, "Now, the comet will be it's brightest right after dusk during tomorrow's celebration."
Stefan and Elena were just sitting there smiling at each other.
"Are we bothering you, ?" asked, causing both Elena and Stefan's eyes to flick up to him. " ?"
Elena shakes her head and the bell rings as she smiles, looking over to Stefan.
3RD P.O.V.
Stefan and Elena walk down the hall, right in front of Kayden who has her hands shoved in her front pockets.
"I brought it." Stefan says, pulling out a book. "Told you."
Elena grabs the book, "Wuthering Heights By Ellis Bell. You know, I can't believe she didn't use her real name."
"All the Bronte sisters used pseudonyms. It was the time. Female writers weren't very accepted then." Stefan explained.
"Where did you get it?" Elena questions, handing the book back.
"Uh, it was passed down." Stefan says as they both stop and turn to face each other. "Through the family."
Lightly, Kayden snickers under her breath before walking around the two lovebirds and into her next class.
"Ah." Elena nods.
"I have lots of books, go ahead. Keep it." Stefan says, handing the book back to Elena.
"Oh, no. I-" Elena begins to protest."But I would like to read it again." She smiles looking up at Stefan. "I promise. I'll give it back."
"Ok." Stefan smiles and laughs lightly.
"I'm confused. Are you psychic or clairvoyant?" Caroline asks Bonnie as they walk down the hall.
"Technically, Grams says I'm a witch." Bonnie says. "My ancestors were these really cool Salem witch chicks or something. Grams tried to explain it all, but she was looped on the liquor so I kinda tuned it out. Crazy family, yes. Witches? I don't think so."
"Yeah, well, feel free to conjure up the name and number of that guy from last night." Caroline smiles.
"I didn't see him, you did." Bonnie grins. "Why didn't you talk to him?"
"I don't know. I was drunk." Caroline laughs.
Jeremy pushes open the school doors and walks over to Tyler and his friends.
"Hey Tyer. Hey, I'm sorry to interrupt. I was just wondering how Vicky's doing." Jeremy stops in front of Tyler. "Since you guys are so close. Is she okay?"
"She's fine. Now get out of here." Tyler nods.
"How bad is she? Do they know what attacked her?" Jeremy asks. 'Because I do.' He thinks. "Is she gonna make a full recovery? Was she happy to see you? What room number was she in?"
"I'm going to kick your ass." Tyler says, looking at Jeremy.
"Yeah, you keep saying that, but when are you going to actually do it?" Jeremy asks, getting in Tyler's face. "Huh? Cause I vote for right here and right now." He shoves Tyler backwards.
"Walk away Gilbert." Tyler warns. "It's your final warning."
"No this is your final warning, dick. I'm sick of watching you play with Vicky." Jeremy says. "If you hurt her one more time, I swear to God, I will kill you."
Jeremy glares at him before turning around and walking away.
"Damn, that was like a death threat." Tyler turns to look at his friends. "Did you hear that?"
"They're keeping her overnight to make sure there's no infection, but she should be able to come home tomorrow." Matt says to Elena, as they walk outside.
"That's good news." Elena says, looking at Matt.
"Yeah." Matt says lightly.
"Did you get in touch with your mom?"
"Called and left a message." Matt replies. "She's in Virginia Beach with her boyfriend, so... we'll see how long it takes her to come rushing home."
Elena sighs. "Vicky's lucky that she's ok."
Stefan is sitting on a bench nearby, listening in.
"I know, and now there's talk of some missing campers." Matt says.
"Did she say what kind of animal it was that attacked her?" Elena asks.
"She said it was a vampire." Matt says.
Stefan head snaps up.
"What?" Elena asks.
"Yeah, she wakes up last night and mutters "Vampire" then passes out." Matt explains.
"Ok, that is weird." Elena says.
"I think she was drunk." Matt says, turning to look at Stefan's back. "So what's up with you and the new guy?"
"Matt, the last thing I want to do is hurt you." Elena looks up at Matt.
"You know I'm- I'm actually gonna go back to the hospital." Matt says, backing up. "I want to be there when Vicky wakes up, get the real story about last night."
"Ok." Elena says, looking at Matt's chest and gripping her books tighter.
Matt turns around and walks away as Elena turns and looks to where Stefan was, only to see that he's gone. She looks around in confusion.
Kayden's P.O.V.
"God, Mr.T can be such a dick sometimes." I groan to Jeremy while laying upside down on his bed.
"What'd he do?" Jeremy asks from his bean bag.
"Oh nothing to me. He's a dick to Jenna." I explain, scrunching up my face.
Jeremy sits up straighter. "Why?"
"He basically told her that she wasn't good enough at raising you and Elena." I make a face at him.
"She's doing fine." He huffs, sitting back. "He needs to chill."
I chuckle. "That's what I thought." I hear a car door close. "Hey, Jenna just got home, wanna go somewhere?"
"Yeah, let me get my jacket from downstairs." He nods, getting up and walking to the door.
"I'll come with." I stand up and skip over to him.
We walk down the stairs, Jeremy enters the dining room in front of me.
"I picked up dinner. Tacos. I had an urge for guacamole." Jenna says to him as he walks towards his jacket.
"No, I'm good, thanks." He walks towards the back door.
"Eat anyway. It's a ruse." Jenna says. " I want to talk."
I walk over to the entry of the dining room/kitchen.
"Hey, you! Come." Jenna says, pointing. "Sit."
Jeremy turns around and flicks his eyes over to me. I smile slightly and lean against the door way. He walks over to Jenna and sits at the counter in front of her.
"Back in school, Freshman year, I could eat my weight in nachos, with extra cheese." Jenna says, leaning towards Jeremy. "It was my munchie food whenever I got stoned."
"You get high?" Jeremy grins.
"Did." Jenna says. "Past tense. But, yeah. Loved It. Anything to get a little distraction from life..." Jenna opens up the guacamole. "Reality. And it worked." She eats some guacamole off of her finger. "For a while. Never lasts, though." She walks over to the fridge as I vampire speed over to Jeremy.
"Hey, I'm not saying I wouldn't love to rail back and kick it," She says as Jeremy stands up and walks over to the door with me. "but with a thesis looming, and a waistline expanding..." She looks over just as Jeremy walks out the door behind me and she sighs.
"Hey, Jer?" I say, walking with him towards my bike.
"Yeah?" He sighs.
"I was thinking I could drop you off at the hospital, let you visit Vicky while I go run a few errands."
Jeremy smiles at me, "That would be great."
"I knew you'd think so." I smile back at him, hopping on my bike.
He flings his leg over the back and grabs on to my waist as I start the engine.
"Thanks, Kay." He says.
"No problem, Jer." I start the bike and speed off down the street towards the hospital for the second time that day.
I drop Jeremy off at the hospital and speed over to my house, dropping off my bike and vamp speeding over to the boarding house.
When I get there, I can hear Elena ring the bell. I speed over behind her and jog human speed until I'm next to her.
"Hey Elle, what're you doing here?" I ask, looking at her.
She gasps and puts and hand to her heart. "Kayden. You scared me! I'm here to see Stefan, why are you here?"
"I'm just visiting a friend." I grin, hearing Damon in the house.
"Oh." She turns to the door and knocks the knocker against the door, it cracks open.
She pushes the door open and looks in before stepping into the house. "Stefan?" She walks into the house.
I glide in behind her, following her quietly.
"Stefan?" She calls out, seeing a bag on a chair in the hall. She turns around when she hears a creak and walks towards the open door, past me. When she gets close, a crow squawks and flies in, scaring her and causing her to turn around. Standing behind her, is Damon.
Damon just stands there, looking at her as she talks.
"I-I'm sorry for barging in. The door was... open." She looks at the now closed door as I chuckle under my breath, standing behind Damon.
"You must be Elena." Damon says, looking in her eyes. "I'm Damon, Stefan's brother."
"He didn't tell me he had a brother." Elena says, confused.
"Well, Stefan's not one to brag. Please, come." He turns and leads her to the living room, where I am now laying on the couch...not that they can see me. "I'm sure Stefan will be along any minute."
They walk into the living room and Elena looks around, astonished. "Wow, this is your living room?"
"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little Kitschy for my taste." He looks over and sees me laying on his couch.
"Oh, I don't know Crow. I quite like it. It has an...old feel to it, don't you think?" I smile at him.
"Hello, Blue." He grins at me, trying to hide his confusion.
I stand up and twirl over to him, "Can't you see why your brother is so smitten with Elle?"
He looks over at Elena, "Yes, I can. It's about time, too. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him."
"The last one?" Elena questions.
I smack Damon on the arm, "Oh don't ruin their love yet, Crow! It's only just begun and I don't think Steffy wants to have the awkward ex's talk yet."
Damon looks down at me and grins. "But I can't believe he hasn't told her about Katherine yet!"
I shake my head and smile, "Great job Crow, you just made this awkward."
"Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now." He looks around the room as Elena awkwardly looks down.
"Or maybe he didn't want to tell her?" I say looking at Damon with a 'duh' face.
"Oh, he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound." Damon fake gasps. "We all know how those relationships end."
"You say it like every relationship is doomed to end." Elena says, looking up at him.
"Aren't they?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm a fatalist." Damon responds after looking down at me with a raised eyebrow of his own.
"Hello Stefan/Steffy." Damon and I say together without turning away from looking at Elena.
Elena spins around to see Stefan standing in the archway to the living room.
"Elena. I didn't know you were coming over." I look around Damon at him. "You either Kayden."
Damon smirks at me as Elena walks over to Stefan, explaining why she is here.
"Kayden, huh?" He says.
"Damon, huh?" I mock, looking up at him and crossing my arms.
Damon turns around and cuts Elena off, "Don't be silly, you're welcome anytime. Isn't she Stefan."
Stefan stands there and does his 'I'm-angry-at-you-so-back-off' stare.
"You should break out some family photos Crow, wouldn't that be amazing Steffy?" I grin, sliding up next to Damon.
"Or some home movies." Damon smirks down at me again before looking at Elena "I have to warn you though, Stefan wasn't always such a looker."
Elena and Damon smile at each other.
"Thank you for stopping by, Elena, Kayden." Stefan says, flicking his eyes to Elena. "Nice to see you."
"Yeah, I should probably go." Elena says awkwardly. "It was nice to meet you, Damon."
"Great meeting you too Elena." Damon says, grabbing Elena's hand and kissing the back of it.
Elena smiles and walks towards Stefan. "Stefan?" Elena says when Stefan doesn't move. "Stefan?"
Stefan looks down for a second and moves to the left, still giving Damon the look.
Elena blinks and walks past Stefan to the door. She pulls open the door and walks out.
"Mmm." I hum. "I think I'll stay here. I've got something to tell you boys."
The brothers don't pay me any attention as Damon whistles.
"Great gal. Whoo, she's got spunk." Damon smiles at Stefan. "You on the other hand, look pooped."
Stefan walks down the steps and into the living room while I calmly vamp speed to the couch and sit down.
"Did you over exert yourself today?" Damon asks.
'Mikania?'
'Yes?'
'Why are these two so rude?'
Mikania chuckled. 'I'm not sure Kayden.'
'They're just ignoring me.'
'Not anymore they aren't'
'What?'
I look up and see both brothers have stopped their taunting argument to look at me.
"Oh, hello boys. Are we paying attention to me now?" I ask, standing up.
"You should leave Kayden." Stefan says, looking over at Damon.
"Nonsense! I need to tell you something." I look at Damon, "Both of you."
I smile at them impishly and imagine my shield going down. Both of the brothers stiffen and their eyes widen.
"Ah! There we go, I'm guessing you can tell now?" I tilt my head to the side.
"How?" Damon asks, speeding up to my face and grabbing my neck.
I scoff and grab his wrist, snapping it backwards. "I'm stronger than you. Don't even try."
Damon growls and his face vamps out. "Who are you?" Stefan is behind him, in a defensive position.
I chuckle. "I'm Kayden, silly!" My face vamps out as I get serious. "I'm going to let your wrist go now Damon. Next time you attack me, I won't be so nice." I grin and let go of Damon's wrist as he speeds backwards to stand next to his brother.
"Why are you here?" Stefan asks, calmly.
I look down at my nails and hum. "I'm bored, this town seems like fun."
Damon growls and takes a step forward but Stefan holds an arm out in front of him.
"What are you going to do?" Stefan once again calmly asks.
I look up. "Now? Nothing." I walk over to the brothers. "Honestly, I just want to help Jeremy deal with everything he's going through."
The brothers look at me skeptically.
"I swear!" I put my hand on my heart. "I won't physically hurt Elena while I'm helping Jeremy."
Stefan nods and lets go of his brother. Damon scoffs and tries to run at me again but I speed over to their fireplace and grab a poker.
"Damon." I say lowly. "I told you that the next time you attack me I wouldn't be so nice."
'Be careful Kayden. Remember your rules.'
'I will.'
Damon turns towards me but before he can run again I'm in front of him, shoving the poker into his windpipe.
I growl at him as he coughs up blood and reaches for the poker. "This is your fault." I twist the poker before yanking it out.
Damon wheezes and falls to the floor as Stefan runs to him.
I throw the poker towards the fireplace and hear in clank on the ground. "I'm guessing I don't have to give you the same warning, Stefan?"
Stefan looks up at me with a glare and shakes his head.
I nod, putting my hand behind me and imagining a blood bag. I hold it out in front of me towards Damon.
"It's O positive, and warm. Sorry, I don't know your favorite so I picked mine."
Damon looks up at the smell of blood and seems confused.
"Do...you not want it?" I ask, neatly ripping off the top. "Because I'll drink it, I just thought it'd help you heal."
Damon stands up and sticks out his hand, reaching towards the bag. There's still a hole in his neck but it's slowly healing.
I grin and hand him the bag, watching as he drinks quickly. "Oh! Sorry Steffy, did you want some animal blood?" I look Stefan in the eyes and watch as shock flies through him.
When he opens his mouth to speak I hold up a hand. "Please, don't ask how I know that." I stick my hand behind me once again and visualize a dead rabbit. I hold my hand in front of me, the rabbit's neck is snapped and blood is lightly dripping onto my hand.
Stefan speechlessly reaches out and takes the rabbit from me as Damon finishes drinking.
"Where did you get this from?" Damon asks, looking behind me.
I wink, putting a finger over my lips. "It's a secret."
I close my eyes and look at the Universe Clock I have in my mind, it's 10:30.
My eyes open and Damon and Stefan are both looking at me oddly. "Well, it's 10:30 so I'm going to call it a night. See you at the festival?"
Stefan nods, still holding the rabbit. Damon just looks at me.
"Right, okay well, bye!" I speed out of the house and back to my home.
I skip through the night and most of the day, stopping the time at around 6 p.m.
'Mikania?'
'Kayden.'
'You're not mad...right?'
'About what?'
'The whole..stabbing Damon in the windpipe thing...'
'You were defending yourself.'
'Right...'
She sighs. 'I'm not angry.'
'Okay, I just... wanted to be sure.'
'Go on darling, you have a festival to get to.'
'Bye Mikania.'
I walk down to my kitchen and imagine a glass of warm O positive blood. I sit down on my counter and kick my feet as I drink, think of what I'm going to wear today.
After I finish my drink, I imagine the glass disappearing and decide on my outfit. I put on a black crop top with a white pentagram on it, red skinny jeans, black converse, and give myself winged eyeliner.
I look down and make sure my outfit is exactly the way I wanted before I walk out of my house, imagining the door locking. I look across the street and see that Elena and Jeremy have already left for the festival.
I vamp speed towards the town square, slowing down when I see people begin to appear. I walk over to a table and grab a candle before looking around for someone I know. In the distance, I can see Stefan and Elena. I walk in their direction smirking when I see Stefan lean closer to tell her about the comet.
I look slightly to the left and see Matt, Caroline, Bonnie, and Tyler all standing around talking to each other. I jog over to them and smile at Bonnie.
"Hey Bon, light me up?" I ask, holding out my candle.
"Sure." Bonnie smiles, light my candle with hers.
I grin at her and say thank you before walking over to The Grill where I know Jeremy will be, giving my candle to a little girl who I overheard crying to her mother about how she wanted a candle.
I stop outside The Grill when I hear Damon and Vicky talking inside.
'Should I stop this scene from happening? Nah, I'll join in on the rooftop fun later on.'
I smile to myself and lean against the wall outside, waiting for Damon to attack her in the bathroom. When I hear the scream, I silently snicker to myself before walking inside.
I jog over to the table where everyone is sitting, Jeremy walking quickly behind me.
"Hey guys! Have any of you seen Vicky?" I ask, eyes darting around The Grill.
"She probably found someone else to party with," Tyler looks at Jeremy, "Sorry pill pusher, you've been replaced."
Elena looks over at Tyler. "What's with the pill pusher?"
"Ask him." Tyler says, nodding at Jeremy.
"Tyler." I snap, causing everyone at the table to look up at me in surprise. "Vicky is missing, now isn't the time for you to be a dick."
Elena stands up. "Jeremy. Are you dealing?"
"I swear to God." I mumble.
"She's never gonna go for you." Tyler snaps at Jeremy.
"She already did, over and over and over." Jeremy snaps back, stepping up next to me.
"You slept with Vicky Donovan? I mean, Vicky Donovan slept with you?" Caroline says.
"There's no way." Tyler adds.
"And I didn't even have to force her into it." Jeremy says, looking at Tyler.
"What the hell is he talking about, Ty?" Matt asks, looking at Tyler.
"Nothing man, just ignore him. He's a punk." Tyler responds.
I slam my hand down on the table, garnering everyone's attention. "How about you all stop being children and help Matt find his sister?"
"We'll check the back." Bonnie says.
"I'll check the square." Matt agrees.
"I'll come with you." Jeremy states, backing away from the table.
"Oh, no, no, no." Elena says, reaching for Jeremy's arm. "You are coming with me."
"Elena." I say, grabbing her arm. "Don't do this right now. We need to find Vicky."
"No," she shakes me off. "This is family business, stay out of it."
Jeremy pulls his arm out of Elena's grip. "She is family Elena, and she's right. We can do this later, ok?"
Elena scoffs looking in between us. "She's not family Jer. I'm your family."
"Right now, you aren't acting like it." I snap, standing in front of Jeremy.
"Come on Kay, you can help Matt and I in the square." Jeremy says, putting a hand on my arm.
I gently push Jeremy towards the door. "No Jer, you go check out there, I'll check the roof."
Jeremy gives me a thankful look before running out the doors.
I turn to Elena, "Elena, the tough love thing isn't working. You need to give him space and let him calm down."
I jog out the doors and towards the back of The Grill where the ladder for the roof is. I jump to the top from the ground and see Vicky being held by Damon on the edge of the roof.
I chuckle, "Damon, you know your brother's going to be quite angry about this."
He looks over at me and narrows his eyes, "Aren't you going to help her, she's Jeremy's little love interest."
"Nah, this conversation is going to be way more fun."
He looks at me in confusion before Stefan appears on the roof a few feet away from me.
I tune out their conversation, waiting for the moment that Damon throws Vicky towards Stefan.
I watch as he compels her into thinking that Stefan was the one who attacked her and before Stefan can catch her when Damon shoves her at him I speed in front of him and catch her, bringing her away from the brothers.
"Now, now. That wasn't very nice, Crow." I tsk at Damon.
I look Vicky in the eyes, "Stefan Salvatore didn't attack you."
"Stefan Salvatore didn't attack me."
"You were attacked by an animal in the woods."
"I was attacked by an animal in the woods."
"Also, Tyler is an asshole and you hate him." I smirk.
"Also, Tyler is an asshole and I hate him."
"Good girl." I smile, letting her go gently.
"What happened?" Vicky asked a few seconds later, looking up at us.
"I found you up here, you looked like you were hallucinating." I said, kneeling down and putting a worried look on my face as the brothers gaped at me.
"Ah, I ripped my stitches open." She moaned, reaching for her neck.
I gasped and moved her hair away. "Oh no, come on, I'll get you back to your brother." I easily helped her up and turned her towards the ladder.
"Thanks." She smiled at me.
"No problem, you should be thanking Jeremy, he's the one who noticed you were missing." I turned my head and winked at the stunned brothers.
Matt was putting a bandage back on Vicky's neck when I walked towards them.
"Hey Vicky, you okay?" I asked, handing her a glass of water.
"Yeah, thanks." She said, taking a sip.
"Thank you, Kayden." Matt said, making me look up at him. "Vicky said you found her wandering around."
"No problem, Matty." I grinned at him.
He shook his head in amusement before kneeling back down next to Vicky.
I looked behind me and saw Stefan talking to Bonnie and Caroline about Elena.
I started to walk over when I saw Bonnie touch Stefan's hand and get a vision. I snickered quietly to myself and ducked my head down to hide my smile.
I turned in a different direction when I saw Jeremy walk into The Grill and look over at Vicky who was currently saying something along the lines of, "You're an asshole Tyler, and I hate you.".
I jogged over to Jeremy when he turned to leave and jumped on his back, causing him to stumble.
"Hey, Jer." I cheered.
"Hey, Kay." He said back, gloomily.
"I think Jenna found your stash, by the way." I snickered, jumping off his back when we got outside.
"What? Ah, man." He moaned.
"I can give you a lift home if you want." I smiled.
"Nah, I'll walk, delay the punishment a bit." He groaned. "Thanks though."
"Of course, good luck little brother." I spun around and vamp speed back to my house. As I'm running, I pass Caroline and Damon. It seems like they're talking and Damon is going to start biting her and begin his revenge on Steffy.
When I get home, I notice Elena isn't home, which means she's with Stefan.
'And thus the story begins.' I grin to myself, walking into my house and jogging to my "guest room of magic" to try out some new tricks.
Author's Note!
Annnd Episode two is complete! This took me about 5 hours and a lot of wrist pain to write so I'll update the next chapter when I get 3 reviews. Ciao!