Bonnie's P.O.V.

I ran as fast as I could trying to escape Damon. I spared a quick glance behind me, but Damon was nowhere in sight. I continued running until I was knocked back by something. I looked up to see Damon standing there, looking down on me with a peculiar expression covering his face. I struggled as I got back on my feet. Before I could run again, Damon's arm was around mine in a tight grip.

"Let me go!" I yelled

"I'm not going to hurt you." He said, almost amused.

"Yeah right," I scoffed before trying to pull out of his grip. "Tell that to Tyler."

"I didn't attack him." He denied

I barely heard him as I continued to pull away, my attempts proving futile. They were vampires! How could I be so stupid? And now I was being held tightly by one who probably was about to kill me. My thoughts were interrupted as he suddenly stiffened in front of me, his grip becoming even more firm. He pulled me closer to him and looked around us. Turning to me, he put his finger to his lips, gesturing for me to be quiet. "Wh-" I tried to say before his hand shot to cover my mouth. The sounds of rustling filled the area, catching both of out attention.

Leaning down slightly, his lips came to my ear. "There's someone else here. It's probably the thing that got Smallwood. " I stopped struggling at his words. "If you would stop being so stubborn I can get you out of here."

My instincts were telling me that maybe Damon was telling the truth. But the paralyzing fear I was feeling made me want to breakaway and run as fast as I could. Reluctantly, I nodded and gasped as he swept me off my feet and started moving. My breath hitched as realized how fast we were moving. A few moments later, he stopped in front of a big house. I expected him to place me on my feet after we stopped.

No such luck.

He started toward the door and began opening it. He finally did put me down when we entered the place. Before I could move again, Damon once again had me in a tight grip. He started moving further into the place, dragging me along. He stopped once we got to the living room. The first thing I noticed was the two other people: Elena and Meredith.

They both turned to us as we entered. "What is she doing here, Damon?" Elena asked in a shocked tone. "Where's Stefan?"

"Smallwood was attacked in the woods while we were feeding. He took him to the hospital." He paused, "It was a vampire." Meredith and Elena both stared at him with wide eyes. He glanced at me before turning back to them. "Our little secret is out." His head inclined towards me. "She knows."

They both turned to me in curiosity. I must have been showing a great amount of fear in my expression because Elena's face softened as she approached us. She laid a hand on my other arm. "You're safe here, Bonnie." She said softly.

"Please, let me go." I pleaded

"We're not going to hurt you." She tried to assure me.

"Then let me leave." I insisted

"We can't," She sighed

"Why?"

"We have to be sure you won't tell anyone about us." Meredith added

"I'm not, I promise."

"It's only one way to be sure." Damon said before turning me around to face him. Our eyes met before I noticed his eyes shifting and he began to speak. "You and Tyler were out tonight, he was attacked by an animal but something scared it off. You never saw me or Stefan tonight."

Confusion crossed my features. "What are you talking about?" I asked, snapping him back to reality.

Elena and Meredith both started to look shocked while Damon only looked disappointed. "It won't work."

"You said she wouldn't get her powers until she was 18." Meredith said

My head snapped in her direction. "How did you know what I am?"

My question was ignored as they continued talking. "Apparently, she's a full fledged witch now."

"How?"

Damon turned to stare at me with curious eyes. I looked between the three with a fearful expression before he shrugged carelessly. "Ask her."

They turned to look at me with expectant expressions. Before I could speak, I felt Elena pry Damon's hand off my arm. "Enough you guys, can't you see she's scared." She wrapped her arm around me, leading me away from Damon and onto a soft sofa in the corner. She gave me a gentle smile before speaking. "You're safe with us, trust me."

"How am I suppose to trust you?" I responded, "You're vampires."

"I knew it was only a matter of time before you found out." A new, amused voice joined in. We all turned to face Sage as he stepped into the room. He didn't seem at all concerned that their biggest secret had been found out. He just merely smiled at me before joining Meredith's side. "Hello Bonnie,"

I stared back at him with a confused expression. Elena nudged him with her elbow. She knelt beside me, looking onto my eyes. "I promise you can trust us, Bonnie. You can ask us anything you want to know."

Seeing that I didn't really have a choice, I slowly nodded. "Okay,"

"And will you answer a few things for us too?" Meredith asked

"Okay," I jumped slightly as the front door closed. A few seconds later, Stefan walked into the room. "Tyler?"

He nodded, and gave me a reassuring smile. "He's going to be fine." I let out a sigh of relief.

From the corner of my eye I saw Damon roll his eyes. "So…" He drawled out. "Did he see who attacked him?"

Stefan shook his head, glancing at me. "He didn't see the person."

"Did you compel him?"

Stefan slowly nodded. "He doesn't remember us there."

I stood up, looking between them. "You hypnotized him?"

Damon scoffed, "Compelled." He corrected

"He just doesn't remember much about tonight."

I nodded numbly, taking in all this. "And he won't become a vampire, right?"

Sage chuckled beside Meredith. "It's a bit more complicated than that."

Feeling a bit more bold, I asked, "How did you become vampires then?"

"How did you become a witch?" Damon tossed back, almost challenging.

I sighed, figuring that they wouldn't answer my questions until theirs were answered. "I found this book a while ago. It was full of weird things like spells and stuff. There was this one spell in there to call for my powers."

"You figured this all out by yourself?"

I paused, unsure if I should tell them who really pushed me into this. "I had some help."

Meredith tilted her head to the side as she stared back at me. "What kind of help? Ghost help?"

My head shot up at her words. "H-how did you know that?"

"So it's really true," Damon mused, "Emily has come back to play."

"We all knew Emily back when she was alive." Elena supplied

"And back when I was human." Meredith added, looking to the floor.

This new information almost had my head spinning. "How long ago was this?" I asked, meekly.

"Over 100 years ago." Stefan answered

"So, you're all over 100 years old."

Elena smiled before pointing to Stefan and Damon. "Stefan and Damon are over 600. Sage is 750. I am 240." She spared a glance at Meredith. "Meredith is 135."

For a long while I was speechless. I could never image living for that long. I now understood why they all seemed so close. They were all each other had.

I looked back up at the group, more curious. "How?" Was all that I could get to come out.

Sage leaned down on the arm of the sofa beside me. He had a distant look on his face. I could tell he was thinking of the past. "I was made by the oldest vampire in history. His name was Klaus. He took me under his wing when I had just reached my adult years." He chuckled, looking over to me. "He'd kill anyone that looked at him funny. No one ever sought to challenge him. He had many minions at his side. Witches mostly."

A thought came to me. "Is it possible that he's the one after me?"

"It's not possible."

"Why not?"

"Because," He said, slowly. "I killed him."

It was a silence in the room before I worked up the courage to say, "Why?"

"Klaus was almost too evil to even exist. He spent centuries killing mercilessly. I refused to join him." Before I could ask for further information, he continued. "I know I'm a vampire and it's our main instinct to kill, but it's not an excuse to act that way." I heard the sincerity in his voice and I had no choice but to believe him.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Damon staring at me intently. I turned to him in question. "How were you turned?" I asked curiously.

His features took on a blank look after he took in my question. I then realized he had the attention of everyone in the room. He then smirked at me. "Little Bird, that story is for another time." He said in a tone that meant he wasn't saying anything else about the topic.

I didn't get a chance to reply as Stefan spoke up. "He doesn't really like to talk about it, but we were turned at the same time. We were turned by a vampire named Katherine." I noticed that Damon's eyes flickered at the vampire's name. Stefan spared a glance toward his brother. "That's all I can really say at the moment, sorry." He gave me an apologetic look. I nodded slowly, looking between the two.

Elena's voice caught my attention. "I met Stefan when I was around your age, Bonnie. It was love at first sight for me." She looked lovingly to Stefan, who smiled in response. "I had fallen ill after a month I met him. I was dying and Stefan told me what he was." Her eyes twinkled in remembrance. "It didn't really matter what he was. It only mattered that I found love before my death."

"I was reluctant to turn her at first."

"Why?" I asked Stefan, not completely understanding.

"I didn't want it for her. I didn't want to see her regret her decision." He replied

"But it was still my decision so he gave me his blood and after I died, I awoken vampire." She finished

I took in Elena's story. Her and Stefan had always seemed like the perfect couple. I now understood why that was. They had centuries of love between them. They had all been staring at me, awaiting my reply. "Wow," I said in a monotonous voice.

"Are you okay?" Stefan asked, looking at me curiously.

"Sure," I said briefly. I would definitely be lying if I said all this didn't unnerve me. Yet, at the same time I didn't find myself near an anxiety attack like any normal human. But you're not normal, I thought immediately after. A silence fell over the room. I looked up at Meredith, who had been watching with a stoic expression. "Then you were made, right?" Her eyes lingered on me for a minute before she nodded. "And you said you were human when you knew Emily."

"I was," She said in an icy tone. "Until she killed me."

My eyes widened at her words. "What? Why would she do that?"

"Cause she was a vindictive little bitch." I flinched at Meredith's tone. The hatred in her voice was instantaneously detected.

"Second that," Damon said, impassively.

"In 1876 we all moved here to start over." Sage stated, smiling. "But this time was different then all the other times we had moved."

"Why?"

"We had to work harder to blend in with normal people. We heard there were vampire slayers around." His gaze shifted from me to Meredith.

It didn't take me long to catch on. "You were once a…vampire slayer?" I said, my voice heavy with surprise and confusion.

She gave a short nod before leaning closer to Sage. "I came from a line of vampire slayers. When it finally became my time I took my job seriously."

"A little too seriously." Sage replied

"It didn't take me long to get the hang of it." She shrugged, remaining modest. "I even took out a few vampires. Then, one night I got ambushed by a vampire and he almost drained me."

Sage picked up the story. "I was out hunting when I saw her. It was something about her that made me save her. I gave her my blood with the intention of just saving her…but I couldn't just leave her. I found out that she was a slayer not long after that."

I shook my head in confusion. "So where does Emily fit in to all of this?"

"She was a friend of the family. She helped me understand what I was destined for. She was like family to me." This was one of the few times where Meredith's impassive façade dropped and was replaced with raw emotion. She looked as if she were still reliving the memory all over again. I felt regret for asking her to revisit this memory. "I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't stop the attraction I felt for Sage. I knew it went against all of the laws of my family. We kept our relationship secret for as long as we could. Eventually, Emily sensed that something was up and started following me. She was the one who found out about us. She gave me an ultimatum," She paused, "Kill Sage and remain a slayer, or die a traitor."

"What did you tell her?"

"I told her I chose to live. But I could never think about killing him so I met him one night and told him to leave town. I didn't know Emily had followed me. She and other vampire hunters, including my parents." I inwardly gasped, her family had also been responsible for her death. "They poisoned Sage and before I could do anything Emily…she stabbed me." Meredith's voice dropped as she said the last part, striking up another silence. After a few moments, her head rose again. "But they didn't know I had exchanged blood with Sage only hours before that." She tried to sound impassive but I could see the betrayal and sadness that was in her eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Meredith. I had no idea."

"It wasn't you who did it." Meredith said, her tone was becoming more cool. "You're not her."

"I'm not,"

"Don't forget the part of the story when we have to come save you from the slayers." Damon spoke up to Sage.

"How could I forget." Sage replied, dryly. "Yes, them three came to save me. And after I was released I instantly found Meredith…dead. I knew she would come back to life, but I wanted revenge." I remembered something Emily told me when in my dreams.

"Do you want to know how I died?" She snapped, "Vampires killed me."

"You were the vampires that killed her."

Sage gave a nod in my direction. "Yes, but I will never be sorry for it."

I stared back at him. This was the first time I had seen Sage look serious. His easygoing, carefree attitude had been replaced with a tense stance. I bit my lip nervously. "I-I need to get home. My parents are probably worried sick."

"Of course," Elena said, looking back at Damon. "Will you make sure she gets back? Safely?"

His lips curved into a smirk. "Yes, Queen Elena."

She frowned, but said nothing in response. She turned back to stare at me. "Have a goodnight Bonnie. Stefan and I will look into who could've attacked Tyler in the woods."

I numbly nodded as I got up and left out the door behind Damon. I climbed in and silently put on my seatbelt as he started the car. I looked at him before speaking, "Why do you want to help me?"

He shrugged, "We like being the only vampires around here, Redbird."

I absently wondered what was with his nicknames tonight. "Is that it?" I asked, sort of dejected.

"And you definitely make living here more interesting." I smiled at his words.

The rest of the ride was silent after that. When we finally pulled up to my house. I was reluctant to go inside. I knew I would be grounded for staying out past curfew. I waved at Damon before making my way to the front door. I made move to unlock it when I noticed the door was unlocked. I quickly looked back at Damon, who was staring back. I opened the door and took a few steps inside. The house was dark and eerily silent. Just as I reached for the light switch, Damon was in front of me. His face was hard and emotionless. "Wha-?"

"You need to get out of here." He said gravely, and grabbed my arm.

I was confused by his actions. Then, I looked behind him and almost fainted at the sight. The room was almost covered in blood. I looked to the floor and screamed as I spotted my parents on the floor. I worked by way out of his grip as I ran over to them as my eyes began to fill with tears. "Mom? Dad?" I received no answer from them. I turned to Damon, my vision now blurred from all the crying. "You have to do something," I screamed, "Your blood can heal them. Help them!"

His face didn't change as he spoke. "I can't," His eyes met mine. "It won't work on the dead."

A choked sob escaped my lips. "They can't be," I repeated a few times. I was now beyond desperate. I turned my head up and yelled, "Emily! You have to help. Please! Emily, please." I received no response. "Emily, please! Help!" I broke down in tears as I realized that there was nothing I could do.

"Bonnie," Damon said softly. He was staring at something on the wall written in blood. I tiredly rose my head up to the wall and read:

You're next Bonnie

My breath became heavy as something in me snapped. The anger I was feeling forced its way out in one loud scream.

A/N: Holy Crap! It's been sooo long! Hopefully I can get the next one up soon. So what did you guys think? Have I lost my touch in my absence?

A/N 2: Anyone read Midnight yet? I really liked it but I won't post any spoilers…now.