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Chapter 6: The Attack

"Hello Elena."

"What are you doing here Damon?" Elena asked, annoyance in her tone.

"Ouch, what's got you all fired up? Fight with Stefan perhaps?" Elena scoffed, shaking her head.

"Damon, you need to go." Elena snapped, pushing past him, shutting the door behind her. Damon grabbed her arm, forcing her to look at him.

"Um, I was invited here for dinner."

"Well dinner has been cancelled." Elena replied, ripping her arm loose.

"Why?" He asked, wondering why she was so angry, apparently, with him.

"Because your hostess isn't here." Elena replied, opening her car door.

"Where is she?"

"No idea. I got in a fight with her and she left." "What did you fight about?" He asked, curious. Elena turned to face him.

"You, actually." She snapped. Damon looked at her, confused.

"Me?"

"Yep." Elena glared at him. "You're not going to use her like you did Caroline, she's one of my best friends, and I won't let you. I won't let what happened to Caroline and Vicki happen to Lexi."

"Who said anything about me using her?" Damon asked, overly confused now.

"What do you want with her then?" Elena asked, fire in her voice. Damon stepped back, feeling himself getting angry.

"Did you ever stop to think that maybe I actually liked her?" He asked, knowing that it wasn't a total lie, he liked her, about as much as he liked any good looking woman. Elena looked at him, at first she believed him, but then shook her head.

"No, you just use people to help you with your little schemes." She replied and shut the door. She started the car and took off, leaving Damon staring after her.

Alexis sat down, staring off into the water. She used to come here a lot, to sit and think. She sighed, knowing that she shouldn't have left like that. Elena was just trying to look out for her. She sighed once again, closing her eyes, taking in the sounds of the evening.

"Mind if I sit?" Stefan asked, causing her to jump. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's okay, and yeah go ahead." She replied, looking back into the water. "Elena send you to look for me?" She glanced at Stefan as he nodded, and sat down. "She knows me too well." She said, causing Stefan to smile.

"She's worried about you."

"I know. And before you start defending her, and all that, I know that she was just trying to protect me." Stefan looked at her, confused.

"How'd you know that I knew?"

"I know Elena, well enough to know that if she told you where to find me, then she told you why I left." Stefan nodded, and glanced down at his pocket feeling it vibrate. He pulled his cell out, seeing that Damon was calling.

"Excuse me." He said to Alexis, and got up, walking a little ways behind her. "What do you want Damon?" He asked, answering the call.

"Is that any way to talk to your brother?" Damon asked, and Stefan could just see the smug look on his face as he said it.

"Damon-" He began.

"Relax, I know that you're out looking for Alexis. I ran into your girlfriend, and she wasn't very happy."

"What. Do. You. Want. Damon?" He asked, emphasizing each word.

"I just wanted to know if you found her yet? Mystic falls is a very dangerous place to be."

"Why do you care?"

"Stefan, I'm hurt. I do care." Damon replied, feigning feeling hurt.

"Look, I've got to go, I'll talk to you later." He said and before Damon could protest, he hung up. He quickly dialed Elena. She answered after two rings.

"Did you find her?"

"Yeah, she's safe." He could hear Elena let out a breath of relief.

"Okay, think you can convince her to come back home?"

"Yeah. We'll be there in a little bit."

"Okay, and Stefan… Thank you."

"You're welcome." He replied and hung up. He walked back over to where Alexis was sitting, and sat down. "Sorry about that."

"It's okay." She said, smiling at him. "Tell me about yourself, Stefan."

"Well, my family was one of the Founding Families. I uh, recently moved back to Mystic Falls-" He cut off, as Alexis interrupted him.

"What made you come back?" She asked.

"I don't know, really. It just felt as if something was telling me that I needed to come home." He replied. Alexis nodded.

"Yeah, I felt the same way." She looked at him. "Lena really loves you, ya know?" Stefan smiled.

"Yeah, I do. I love her too."

"I can tell, especially since you came all the way out here to find me, someone you don't even know."

"Well, I hope that will change." He replied, causing her to grin.

"I'm sure it will." She looked at the sky, seeing that the sun was setting. "Well, I'm sure Elena is worried, and I really should go apologize…""She's not mad."

"Let me guess, she's feeling guilty right?" She asked, turning to face Stefan. He nodded. "Yeah, I thought so. Let's go, I need to go fix it." They stood up and started heading towards the woods. Stefan's phone vibrated once more, and he answers it, not looking at the caller ID.

"Hello?""It's not nice to hang up on people, Brother." Came Damon's voice.

"Damon, not now." He replied, watching as Alexis turned around at hearing Damon's name.

"Look Stefan, I just want to help." Damon replied. "Where are you? With more of us looking, the faster we can find her.""I already did." He replied. "I don-" He cut off, something hard ramming into him. He went flying, slamming into a tree. He got stuck, crying out as a limb pierced his side.

"STEFAN!" Alexis screamed, horrified. "Oh my God!" She cried, running towards him. She saw his phone on the ground and picked it up, hearing Damon yelling. "Stefan! Stefan! What's going on!"

"Damon! Help! Stefan has a limb sticking out of his body! Something attacked him!" She cried, panicking. "He needs help now!"

"Where are you?" Damon asked, she could hear him moving around.

"B-by the watering hole on the old Lockwood property. Damon, please hurry!" She cried, glancing up at Stefan, who's face was contorted in pain. "He's not-" She cut off, something knocking the phone out of her hand. She looks around terrified, not seeing anything. She glances up at Stefan, her heart pounding a mile a minute. She could hear Damon yelling into the phone once more.

"Stefan? Damon's coming, h-how are you doing?" She yelled, her voice shaking. She saw Stefan's eyes widen as he looked behind her.

"Run Alexis, run!" He yelled, and she turned around, seeing a man standing behind her. Her eyes widened as the man's eyes turned blood red, and veins popped out around them.

Alexis took off, running as fast as she could, back towards the lake. She stopped, the man, cutting her off. She turned around, running back towards where Stefan was stuck. She tripped on a tree root that she didn't see sticking out of the ground. She glanced upward, seeing Stefan in the tree, and then the man standing over her. She pushed the man back, jumping up. She turned to run when she felt the man grab her arm. She tried to pull away, but felt the man grip her harder. She glanced down at the ground, seeing a long, hard, pointed stick, and grabbed it. She cried out as she felt a pop in her shoulder as he pulled her roughly back to him.

With tears in her eyes, Alexis swung the stick at him, only to have him grab it. Her eyes widened as she saw the man stab the stick at her. She could hear Stefan yelling as she felt it pierce her stomach, and she cried out. She looked at the man, as her eyes blurred and she felt herself falling, and then felt herself being held up. She felt something pierce her neck as her vision dimmed even more. Her stomach was on fire and she felt as if her life was draining out of her. The last thing she saw was someone running up behind the man who stabbed her, and she fell into oblivion.