The last thing Araya expect was a text from Elena telling her the Jenna knew about vampires.

"Who is it?" Elijah asked.

"Elena said that Jenna knows everything." She sat the phone back on the night table and turned to face the naked Original in her bed.

"Mhmmm. Well she can't know everything."

"Why's that?"

"Because no one can know everything. Especially while you live on the planet."

"Is that your way of telling me to talk about myself?"

"Yes. I know the basics and I know I love you, but I don't know any of the dirt."

"Dirt? As in?"

"You're exes, parents."

"My past? You really want to know about my past?" Fear struck her. Her past would entail how she became what she was. None of it was something she enjoyed talking about. She straddled Elijah's hips and kissed him, trying to deter him from this subject.

"Ah, Araya, you wouldn't be trying to seduce me to avoid talking about your past, would you?"

That was exactly what she was doing. Those days were far behind her and they would not be making a reappearance ever again, not even in a conversation. It was bad enough they haunted her sleep nightly. Did they have to haunt her days now too? He would find out everything eventually, she knew that, but she would postpone it as long as possible.

"I need to go take a shower and get ready. I have a few more people to let know about my hairy little secret."

She climbed off of Elijah and out of bed. Trotting to the bathroom she felt a black hole in her stomach.

She found herself at the old house before anyone else. She wanted to talk to Bonnie because they hadn't talked since before the decade dance. Raya needed to catch her up on everything before she sprang the whole, 'I'm a werewolf' thing on her. She hoped that Elena or Damon had told Bonnie everything because she really didn't want to have to tell it.

It wasn't the first time she got lucky that day.

"Hey, Raya. How's it goin'?" Jeremy asked when he saw her.

"I'm great, Jer. Where's Bonnie?"

"Downstairs. Do you know what this whole meeting is about?"

"Klaus told Damon about me last night."

"How did this happen? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you're telling us, because it saves you hating me for betraying your trust."

"You wouldn't have."

"I so would have. You're a good friend and I'm not going to let you go without a fight." He wore his serious look, which he'd had to wear too many times to count.

"Jeremy, promise me, that when he comes for me, you will back down. He'll kill you."

"When he comes for you? What makes you so sure that he won't use Tyler—if he comes back by then—or maybe he has another werewolf her can use."

"Jer, he came to my apartment last night and he told me. He told me that he was going to use me for the sacrifice." Of course, she left out the part that she had asked him to use her. She heard footsteps and turned to see Damon, Stefan.

"Elena and Ric are with Jenna. Caroline is god knows where."

"Will you explain what we're doing here, Damon?"

Araya knew when she heard the light footsteps on the staircase that her secret was really out. Part of her hoped it would be a weight off her shoulders, but another wished that it wouldn't be adding to her friends. She could handle dying, if she had too, so they could kill Klaus. She knew she certainly wanted Klaus dead, as did a lot of other people. Araya looked from face to face. Stefan's eyebrows were scrunched together, trying to figure out what was going on. Jeremy's expression hadn't changed either.

Damon walked up to her slowly. Bonnie watched as her best friend looked around at everyone in the room. She wanted to pull her in a hug just because she could see how hard this was.

"You guys can't tell anyone, not Elena, or Jenna, or Caroline. No one."

"We won't tell anyone," Stefan promised.

"I'm a werewolf and Klaus wants to use me for the sacrifice."

The room turned silent enough to hear the crickets chirping away outside. Araya had feared something like this. She would tell them what she really was and they would hate her for it. Only a sliver of her really believed that they would turn on her so easily, but after her stunt with Elijah . . . Who knew what they were thinking? She could only hope that they were worried about her dying, not hating her with their whole beings or maybe they were just wandering about why she didn't want to tell them. Possibly the silence was because they were going through a list of reasons why she wanted to tell them now. Honestly, she just didn't want to be hated.

"Please don't hate me. I don't want to make things more difficult for any of you . . ." She looked at Damon who was only a foot to her right and his expression was soft. He was sure she would break. Damon could see in her face how close she was to tears. He had admitted several times that she was the toughest girl he knew and here she was scared of her friends turning against her.

"It doesn't matter. I'm going to take you away from here."

Her eyes widened. "Damon, I can't—I mean, no. I'm not letting someone else get killed. We can bring Elena back with an elixir. Elijah doesn't think it will work on me, and Bonnie already has a lot to do."

"I'm not letting two of my friends die," Bonnie said. "I won't let him kill you."

Stefan was brooding of course. "Why didn't you tell us before?"

She merely shrugged and walked out onto the porch of the old, creaky house. Damon had followed her out.

"Do you have a death wish?"

"What?"

She understood him perfectly, but where on earth would he get that idea? She just didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

"You drive a motorcycle and you don't want me to try to try to save you from Klaus."

"Do you have a death wish? You kill Elijah twice and you want to save me from Klaus. Both of them are very capable of killing you before you even know that they moved."

"Good point."

"I thought so."

The pair sat on the steps and listened to what was going on inside of the house.

"How long did you know, Jeremy?"

"Since we first found out about the Lockwoods. I remember Araya ran off once she heard we knew about them. She was scared that we'd find out about her."

"Is this why Damon's acting so different lately?" Bonnie asked Stefan.

"Yeah. I think the whole thing with her liking Elijah and now finding out that she's a werewolf and Klaus wanting to kill her . . . It's made him realize how he feels for her."

Damon was tense, as was Araya.

". . . I think he's in love with her."

Araya bolted for her motorcycle.

Two chapters in one day! They're a bit lacking, but they were rushed.

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