Charlotte smirked at her eldest brother.
Damon laughed at the veggie comment, and moved closer towards her.
"It's good to see you again, piccola sorella."
"Mmmm."
Damon moved closer towards her, until finally he was standing right in her face.
"How old were you when you were Changed?"
"Sixteen."
Damon looked at her strangely.
"That's young," he said.
"Oh well done," she said.
Damon narrowed his eyes at her, the corners of his mouth twitching.
They stood there, looking at each other, then she said:
"Well, I was just about to leave when I heard you lot so rudely talking about me. That wasn't nice." She stuck out her lower lip in a mocking pout.
Damon smiled a wolf-like grin.
"You're not like Stefan are you?" Charlotte asked. "Veggie's are no fun." She grimaced in distaste.
"No, I'm not. And I take it you're not either judging from Bonnie's description."
"Ah. Ginger-Freckle."
Damon laughed.
"She's thick," she said.
"And how did you come to that conclusion? You've only just met her," Damon grinned.
"She let me in," Charlotte smirked to her eldest brother.
"Anyway, goodbye Damon," she said, moving past him and heading for the door.
"No goodbye kiss for your favorite brother?" he asked, smirking.
"Nope."
His smile dropped.
She darted out the door. And crashed straight into Stefan.
His face had changed quite a bit. He'd lost the baby fat he had still carried when he was fifteen- when she had seen him last- and his cheekbones were more sharply defined. His dark, wavy hair was the same though. As were his shockingly-green eyes.
"Oops, sor-," he started to say after the collision, catching her by the side of her arms, obviously thinking he had crashed into a human.
Then he noticed Charlotte's face and gasped.
She heard Damon laugh behind her.
Stefan stared at her; his eyes looking hurt and stunned.
"How...what...you can't be....you're my sister...you can't..." he babbled.
"That's her!" screeched the ginger haired girl,who was now standing behind him along with the two other girls. She must have went out through a back door of some sort.
Charlotte glared at her.
"I think he's noticed that, ginger."
Bonnie blushed, embarrassed, and kept silent.
"Stefan...who is this?" a girl- Elena, Charlotte thought- said.
"She's...she's my younger sister," Stefan said, gazing at Charlotte.
Elena's mouth went into the shape of an 'O'.
"Stefan- you...I thought it was just you and Damon!" She looked at her face, obviously looking for some sort of resemblance between Charlotte, Damon and Stefan.
She would find plenty, Charlotte thought grimly. She had the same eyes as Stefan, with the same cheekbones and face structure as Damon, but a more female version.
"But how did you...how did you get here?" Stefan managed to get out.
"How did I get here? Well, I came out of my house, and then I walked to the front door of this house. Then somebody opened the door"- she put a hand up to her mock-shocked face- "And I walked in!" She clapped excitedly.
Damon laughed. Stefan glared at him, then her.
"You know what I mean. How did you become a- a..."
"Vampire?" she supplied.
Stefan cringed. "Yes, that."
Charlotte lost her smile and narrowed her eyes at him.
"Your stupid bitch of a girlfriend."
Stefan's eyes widened. And Damon hissed.
"Katherine?" Stefan asked, shocked.
"No, the Queen of England. Of course, Katherine!
"She Changed you? But, how could she! She was sweet back then, she wouldn't have hurt anyone!"
Charlotte slapped him across the face furiously.
"Now, you listen to me. Katherine. Was. Not. Sweet. No, she didn't change me. She asked someone else to. But she was horrible. Horrible to me, and you never even fucking noticed! She was a cruel, heartless bitch and she never loved either you or Damon."
Elena gasped, and Charlotte heard Damon's deathly scary breath intake behind her.
But Stefan just looked at her as if he were trying to see into her soul. There were tears in his eyes.
"She never loved us? At all?"
Charlotte smirked grimly.
"No, she didn't. She loved herself. If she had loved you then she would have really killed herself that day to make you and Damon get along. She was selfish, and you were both too blind to see it. I suspected you wouldn't notice Stefan- you see what you want to see. But Damon,"- Charlotte turned around to look at him."-I thought you would notice. You were the smart one who was meant to know better. But I was fucking fourteen and noticed."
The silence was so loud a pin dropping would make all the humans jump. Until Ginger broke it, obviously scared by everyone's reaction.
"It's getting cold."
"It is night," Elena muttered.
"Maybe we should all go inside," the dark-haired girl- Meredith?- said.
"But...but..." Elena said, her eyes darting towards Charlotte.
Charlotte smirked to her.
"You don't have many good-looking people at your party. I don't feed on the darn right ugly."
"That's nice," Damon said coldly. He was obviously furious by Charlotte's words about Katherine, but had left it at the back of his mind to ponder over later.
A long pause.
"Well, this is a birthday to remember," Elena said, smirking slightly.
"Let me guess, I'm the best present you've ever had," Charlotte said coldly.
Elena blushed.
"When did you become so rude?" Stefan asked. It was the first time he'd spoken since Charlotte had told him what Katherine was really like, and his voice was a little hoarse.
"When your a vamp, politeness isn't needed anymore."
Stefan shuddered slightly.
Another long pause while everyone contemplated what to do next.
"Well, as touching as this reunion is, I'm getting bored," Charlotte sighed.
Stefan finally stepped back from her, but then Ginger said quietly:
"I got a lot of bad feeling from her when she came in, Stefan."
Charlotte looked at Bonnie and snarled:
"Look, kid, I have a lot better stuff to be doing than listening to you babble about how many nightmares you're gonna have 'bout me tonight. So, lovely as this has been, I'm gonna hit the road."
Charlotte moved away from the group of people, but Elena said something that shocked her.
"But...wait! We need to speak to you!"
Charlotte turned, furious.
"You think I give a damn about what you have to say to me? No. And by the way, princess, your party sucked."
And with that, she turned into a black buzzard- causing all the girls to scream in alarm- and flew away into the woods.
In the trees, she heard Damon's mental voice speak to her.
"See you soon, little sister."
Charlotte spitefully told him to shove it up his ass, and flew faster out of his mental reach.
