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After the whole Damon thing, I went back to the front steps of the boarding house. I was debating with myself whether or not to go in. I was still a little shaken up over what happened between Damon and I. well I was more confused than shaken. Ignoring the unease feeling in my stomach, I pushed the front door open and stepped inside.

I didn't know where anyone was so I wandered around, looking at the various items that decorated the walls. The boarding house was quite beautiful when I thought about it. Everything was so old and delicate. So much history was written within these walls.

I was interrupted from my thoughts when I felt breathing down my neck. I whirled around and came face to face with Vicki.

I clutched my chest and tried to control my heart. She looked like the same Vicki, but I knew what she really was. It's scary to think that she's a vampire now. I mean, this was a girl I've known for half my life.

"Hey Vicki, I didn't know you were there," I answered as calmly as I could.

"So what else is new, a person don't notice me all the time. Why would you of all people notice me?" she replied rather nastily.

"No, that's not what I mean-"

"I know what you meant Liz, but I just don't care what you have to say," she walked off just like that, leaving me standing in the middle of the living room with my mouth agape.

Well, that was rather rude. Here I try being nice and look where it got me. I felt awkward just standing in the middle of the hallway. I roamed around for a bit, continuing to look at the highly decorated walls. On the wall to the far left stood a grandfather clock. I didn't have time to relish in its beauty because of the time.

"Oh crap," I muttered to myself. I didn't know what part Elena was in this maze of a house, but if I don't find her then we'll be late for school.

"Hey, Elena!" I shouted out to no one in particular. "If you don't hurry up we're going to be late!" I shouted/reminded her.

It was a few seconds before I heard a faint response, "Okay! Give me a couple of more minutes." She answered beck.

I sighed and walked back out to the car. When I got to the car, I leaned up against the back and closed my eyes, trying to relax. All this stress was really starting to worry me. What would happen to Jeremy now that Vicki is a vampire? What about all the people Elena and I care about? Will Vicki hurt them?

All these questions made my anxiety rise. Breathing in and out, I got out my sketchpad from my bag and a pencil. Very smoothly I began to draw. It's times like these that I'm thankful for this stress reliever. I began to sketch a silhouette in what looked like a back lot of some type. The figure was holding something; I couldn't tell what it was.

When I finished, I looked at the drawing in utter confusion. What the hell was this? It completely mind boggled me to no end.

"Hey, sorry for keeping you waiting," Elena's voice snapped me out of my trance.

"Huh? Oh it's fine, don't worry about it," I closed my sketchpad and put it back in my bag before she could look at the picture.

"You okay? You seem kind of out there, if you know what I mean," she observed. Oh no, I didn't want her to notice my somewhat disturbed features at the moment. The last thing I need is for my sister, who worries about everyone but herself, to worry about me.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," I reassured her. Although, I was lying straight through my teeth.

"Come on, we don't want to be late,"

We got in the car and were off to school within minutes. The entire car ride was silent. I admit, I was somewhat curious as to what happened on Elena's part, but I knew better then to ask. When we got to school, everything was decorated. I had almost forgotten that it was Halloween. Inside was just as decorated, fake arms sticking out of lockers, cobwebs hanging everything. This year, everyone went all out.

"I'll meet you by your locker," I said to Elena.

"Okay, see you soon,"

I nodded off as she walked away. I began to get my books when my mind drifted to the picture again. I knew that it was going to bother me for the rest of the day.

"Okay, I have your costume right here," a bubbly, cheerful voice said breaking my train of thought. I turned to see Caroline holding three bags.

"Seriously? Caroline you know I probably won't even show up tonight, right?" I exasperated to her.

"Which is why I am making you go. You need to learn how to have fun again and not be trapped in your room and draw all day. And don't even try to deny it because I know that is what you do," she warned me with a pointed finger.

The girl knew me too well and it kind of scared me a bit.

I smiled though, despite that I wanted to protest. "Alright, alright, I'll go tonight,"

"Yay!" she cheered.

"But I consider this kidnapping,"

"Oh will you relax and here, I know your size and took the liberty of picking out your costume for you," she handed me the bag and I cautiously took it from her.

"Okay, how did you know that I'd end up saying yes to this?"

"Like I said I know you and with a little begging and all I figured you'd say yes in the end," she smirked proudly of her work.

I peered inside the bag and brought out the garments hung on the hanger. It was a short dress with different shades of green everywhere. A corset like drawing was the front and back middle. The sleeves were made of thin material and a light forest green color. The dress itself went above my knees and looked as if it was going to hang loosely.

"Okay, what is this suppose to be?" I asked.

"Well I figured since you have the earthy vibe, that you could go with this. I mean look at all the shades of green here, I mean it's not completely hideous puke green or anything like that but it will look great on you" she beamed.

"Yeah, what exactly is this?"

"Well it could either be a forest fairy or a forest nymph; either way it's all woodsy and forest."

"Caroline this doesn't seem like me," I began o protest but she shushed me by putting her hand over my mouth.

"That is exactly what Halloween is about; not being you. Come on, you and I both know that this will look absolutely sexy on you and maybe you can finally catch the eyes of some of the guys here," she smirked.

"Oh please tell me we are not back on that subject," I whined as we began to walk down the hall.

"Of course we are! Liz, I love you but you need to get some,"

My entire face began to heat and up and I'm pretty sure it turned a blood red color.

"Caroline, can we please not talk about my nonexistent sex life,"

"Exactly Liz! You don't have a sex life and you seriously need to get one. And in that outfit you are sure to grab the attention of some hot guy tonight," she smirked proudly as I groaned loudly.

"There's no way of me getting out of this is there?"

"Nope," she popped the 'p'.

I groaned so loud that some bystanders turned in our direction. Caroline and I continued to walk down the hall.

"So what're you being then?" I questioned.

"That is a surprise for tonight," she had a twinkle in her eye and it made me worry a little. "Do you know what Elena is wearing tonight? I don't want to clash costumes,"

"I don't think she's going tonight, she'll probably be hanging out with Stefan,"

"Yeah, riding on his white to his castle," she sighed dramatically.

"Don't be bitter, it promotes wrinkles," I smirked as she glared. While we were walking she rubbed her forehead which made me laugh.

Throughout the day, my mind drifted just about everywhere. I couldn't think straight. I was either worrying about Vicki or pondering over that stupid drawing of mine. When history came, I noticed Stefan wasn't in class and neither was Elena. I wanted to yell at someone. She probably ditched the moment I went to my locker. And Stefan probably never even showed up. Great, just great. Elena was my ride home and now I'm probably going to have to hitch a ride or just walk.

At the end of the period I went to my locker to grab my books for my next class when I saw Elena leaning up against my locker.

"Hey,"

"Hey, where were you?' I questioned as I put in my combination.

"I went back to the boarding house," she stated obviously.

"Wait, what? Why would you go back there?"

"I'm worried about Vicki, she wants to see Jeremy," that made me stop. If she came anywhere near him she might not be able to control herself. And then who know what'll happen.

"Well she can't see him," I stated.

"I know, that's what I told her right before she threatened me,"

"Wait, she threatened you?' I asked in disbelief.

"It's nothing, I'm fine now," she waved it off as we began walking.

"Nothing? Elena she threatened you, did you at least tell Stefan?"

"Yeah, he said she was on edge because of her personality when she was alive," she whispered the last part so no one would hear.

"He's probably right, but sill, are you sure you're okay?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, don't worry about me. Anyway, what's with the shopping bag?" she looked down and noticed the bag Caroline had given me early today.

"Caroline," was all I said. A look of realization crossed over her face and she made an o shape with her mouth. "Yeah, I'm not too happy about it either,"

"So you're going to the Halloween part tonight?"

"More like being forced to go, she's convinced that I need to find a boyfriend or something,"

"Well, she is right in some way,"

"Oh please don't tell me you're siding with her,"

"I'm not siding with anyone Liz, I just want you to do what makes you happy,"

We walked the rest of the way to my class and by the time I got there, the bell had rung. The rest of the day flew by like that. Now I was in my room looking at the costume that Caroline picked out for me. I was debating on what to do with my hair and makeup. I decided to go with the fairy look instead of the nymph. So here I was, thinking on what to do. Caroline was picking up so I didn't have any time to waste.

I curled my hair loosely and pinned it back with some pearl bobby-pins; it was a half up half down look. As for makeup, I went with a very light forest green eye shadow for my lid, a darker green for my crease and I accented it with another green under my eyebrows. Very lightly, I put some of the eye shadow under my waterline to give a more dramatic affect but still keeping it simple. I put mascara and eyeliner on and painted lips in a very light pink lip-gloss. I put the costume on and I had to admit, Caroline did know my size and know what would look good on me. The dress' corset fit perfectly around my body. I had to tighten it a lot for it to fit my small figure. The sleeves were nice and loose but still fitted nicely. The dress itself did actually come about two inches above my knees.

When I looked in the mirror, it was like looking into a different world. I looked so different it was somewhat scary.

"Hey Liz!" Jeremy called from downstairs. "Caroline's here,"

"Okay, I'll be right down," I shouted back. I looked at myself one more time in the mirror and at last minute sprayed some body glitter all over my arms and legs.

I made my way downstairs and stopped at the last step to get a good look at Caroline's costume. She was a witch, or more like a slutty witch. But other than the strapless top, the shortness of the outfit, she looked really pretty.

"Oh, my god! I told you that you would look hot," she smirked as I came down the last step.

"Oh don't start, I'm probably going to be freezing all night,"

"Well then we'll just have to get a nice guy to warm you up," she smirked and grabbed my hand, pulling me out the front door.

"Wait, I got to get my phone," I protested but it was no use we were already out the door.

We got to the school and everything was so festive, it made me kind of queasy. Looking at all the fake blood and dismembered body parts was not something I'd like to be doing with my night.

"Aren't you glad I made you come?' Caroline squealed with excitement.

"Ecstatic," I said sarcastically.

We walked around for a while, doing nothing really until we met with Bonnie; she too was dressed as a witch.

"Okay, why do you two get to be the big bad witches while I'm stuck being the cute fairy," I fake pouted. We were by the punch table now, just drinking and Bonnie pretended to be stirring a cauldron.

"Do you really have to ask that question?" Bonnie asked.

"It's cause you are the innocent one of the group," Caroline put in, "and besides, you're innocent now but after I'm done with you, you'll be bad enough that every guy in school will want you,"

Tyler came up to us with two cups. He was shirtless but wore a cape; I wondered what the hell he was suppose to be?

"Cider, for the ladies? It's a Lockwood special,"

Bonnie groaned and quickly declined, "No way, last year I was hungover till Thanksgiving,"

Caroline took one of the cups from Tyler's hands and said, "Well I am going to drink until someone is hot enough to make out with," she declared.

"And I will join you," I said as I took the other cup from his hands. All three of them gave me disbelieving looks. "What?"

"Elizabeth Gilbert, since when do you drink? Or go anywhere near alcohol?" Tyler questioned.

"Ever since I decided to stop being the innocent one," I smirked as I brought the cup to my lips and drank. It intensely burned my throat but I managed to keep it down.

"Sounds like a plan," Tyler, Caroline and I all clinked glasses and drank together.

We drank together for a while and I was starting to feel the effects. My head started to pound immensely. I somehow managed to wander off on my own and ended up in the school. Suddenly, I was grabbed from behind and spun around. I came face to face with Elena.

"Oh gosh, you scared the crap out of me," I laughed.

"Hey, I've been calling you for a while now," she sounded concerned, what else is new.

"Yeah I left my phone in my room, bad me," I laughed drunkenly.

"Have you been drinking?" she asked incredulously.

"Let me think about that one," I paused and put a thinking look on my face, "yes I have," I smirked and she groaned.

"Okay Liz, you need to listen to me, I need you to go home now," she grabbed my shoulders and made me look at her directly. It was then that I noticed she was dressed as a nurse.

"I thought you said you weren't coming," I accused her.

"I didn't know I was coming here either until an hour ago but that is beside the point, Vicki is here,"

My blood ran cold; I felt like I was trapped in a closet and began to hyperventilate.

"She's here, now?"

"Yes, and I want you to go home now so that you're safe; I'm gonna find Jeremy and hopefully convince him too,"

"Wait Jeremy is here too? You know he only came here to find her and if he finds her there is not telling what she'll do to him,"

"I know Liz, but listen to me and leave now,"

"I'm not going to leave now that I know she's here and so is Jeremy, I don't want to be to one that always has to hide,"

Elena sighed and shook her head before grabbing my arm and dragging me away with her. "Stay close," she instructed.

However, the exact opposite happened. Somewhere through the crowd of people, Elena lost her grip on me. So now here I was in the middle of the hallway with a bunch of people. I somewhat stood there awkwardly for some time before I decided to move away. I went outside and breathed in the fresh air. Being inside the school with so many people made it hard to breathe.

"Well, don't you look innocent," a voice said, more like whispered in my ear. I rolled my eyes and came face to face with Damon's smirk.

"What are you doing here?"

"Just came to enjoy the show," his eyes raked all over my body. "You're doing a good job of keeping everyone entertained."

"I charge per minute," I rolled my eyes and walked away.

"Oh, so little miss goody has jokes," he blocked my way, "I like that in a woman," he smirked and took my hand in his.

I pulled my hand away from his and gave him a repulsive look. "I'm not one of your play things Damon,"

"Well here is where you're wrong, you slept in my bed, I fed on your blood, I say that pretty much makes you mine,"

"I'm not property to be bought,"

He began to rub my shoulders in a very seductive way, "That's where you're wrong," he whispered in my ear.

I closed my eyes and wanted to sigh out loud, but I didn't want to give him that pleasure.

"No, this is where I'm right," I broke from his grasp and began to walk away.

I began to speed walk through the crowd of people but it was pointless because as soon as I got away, Damon appeared right in front of me.

"I could expose you right now," I threatened.

"Do it, I dare you,"

I was tempted, but I kept my mouth close. That brought a smirk to his face.

"Sweet, little innocent Liz," he began. "Love you in that costume, a fairy right?"

"Ugh, get a life Damon," I groaned and moved away from him, but he just followed me like a little puppy.

"I had a life over a hundred years and look at me now, living the dream,"

"And what dream is that? Make everyone around you suffer and push them away so you end up alone for the rest of eternity," I challenged him and crossed my arms over my chest.

"You catch on very quickly," he commented.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out how you act," I turned to leave and this time he didn't follow me.

I walked around for a while until I ended up near the back of the school where the buses were kept. I heard noises coming from behind one of the buses.

"Ow," I heard Jeremy's voice.

I began to panic and rushed over to see Vicki and Jeremy, she was licking blood off of her fingers.

"Vicki," I called to get her attention. She turned to me and I could see the vampire in her take over. "You have to leave him alone, if you want what's good for him you will leave him alone now,"

She only smirked and captured Jeremy's lips in a kiss, but as soon as she did she began to feed off of him. I rushed over and tried to pry her off of him, but as soon as I did she snarled at me. I didn't back down though and I continued to get her away. She finally snapped though and shoved me up against one of the buses.

"Vicki, stop!" I heard Jeremy yell.

Vicki had me by my neck, my feet were off the ground and I was gasping for air. She then showed her vampire face again as she leaned down towards my neck. I began to panic in fear but all my emotions became numb as she sank her teeth into my neck. I screamed in pain as I felt the blood leaving my body.

"Vicki, no!" I heard Elena shout.

She stopped her feeding and glared at her. Elena had a huge piece of wood and charged at Vicki, but Vicki was faster and stronger. She threw Elena into a pile of trash. Vicki was about to lunge at Elena but Stefan intervened just in time to push her away. I held my bleeding neck as I made my way over to Jeremy.

"Come on, we have to get inside," I said.

"But Vicki," he protested.

"No Jeremy, now," I said in a raspy voice. I was losing a lot of blood I could tell. I felt so weak.

Vicki pushed Stefan away and hid under one of the buses. We all looked at each other in fear. I looked at Elena and could see se was hurt.

"Go, get inside now," Stefan instructed all of us.

Elena and I grabbed Jeremy and pulled him towards the door, but we weren't fast enough. Before we could do anything though, Vicki seized Jeremy and threw him to the ground. She then grabbed me and twisted my arm and I heard a sickening pop that made me cry out if pain. After she was done with me though, she grabbed Elena and bit into her neck. Elena screamed so loud as Vicki drank from her neck. Suddenly it stopped though; I looked up to see Vicki with a wooden board through her chest.

I cradled my arm to my chest as I watched Vicki fall to the floor dead. I began to cry as I watched the entire thing. I don't know if I was crying for Jeremy or Matt, but I was crying. The peculiar thing though, was that this all seemed familiar.

Jeremy went into hysterics as Stefan pulled him away from the scene. I heard him call Damon asking for his help. I only stared at Vicki's body, not moving. Elena knelt next to her body as I continued to not move.

"You should go," a voice said. I looked up to see Damon. "I got this,"

"How can you say it like that?" I questioned through my tears.

"You confuse me with someone who has sympathy," he said while looking down at the body.

Elena and I stood up and began to yell at him, "This is all your fault," she said.

"None of this matters to me,"

"How could it not matter? People die around you, it matters and you know it," I said as I went to punch him with my good arm but he caught it right before I could get him.

"You need to leave, your wounds are bad," he looked at me with somewhat concern as he gazed at my neck. "You need to leave now," he said more forcefully.

I glared at him as Elena steered me away. We walked back around the school until we were stopped my Matt. I couldn't look at him, knowing that his sister is now dead. I let Elena do the talking.

"I'm going to the hospital," I announced as we got to the car.

"That's probably a good idea, your arm doesn't look good." She said honestly.

"Would you mind dropping me off first," she nodded and we got into the car and drove to the hospital.

When we pulled into the parking lot I got out and said, "go home and make sure Jeremy is okay; after tonight…. I'm really worried," I said.

"I know me too, are you sure you're going to be alright?" she questioned, concerned.

"I'll be fine, don't worry about me just make sure Jeremy is fine,"

I went through the emergency entrance and admitted myself. I sat for a good ten minutes before I was able to see a doctor. Thankfully I was given a pair of clothes to change into considering my costume was covered in blood. My neck was stitched and my arm was dislocated. When they put it back in, it hurt like hell. They said I was lucky it wasn't broken. I simply smiled and nodded.

"We want you to stay overnight for observation," one of the nurses said.

"Oh, um"

"That won't be necessary," a voice interrupted.

The nurse and I turned to see Damon leaning against the door frame looking at me.

"And who are you?" the nurse asked.

"Family friend," he said simply. I wanted to roll my eyes and groan so badly but I refrained from doing so.

"Well she's lost a lot of blood and it's a protocol that we-"

"She's fine, she can go home anytime she wants and that will tonight, and she will be going home with me," I thought at first he was threatening her but then I realized he was compelling her.

The nurse turned to me with a smile and said, "you're all fine and you can go home tonight," she left the room, leaving me alone with Damon.

"How're you feeling?" he asked as he came over to me.

"Like you care," I scoffed.

"Well then miss attitude, excuse me for trying to be nice," he faked being hurt.

"Damon, you are the last person I want to see tonight and you and I both know that nice isn't a word you're familiar with," I grabbed my stuff and continued to think about what happened tonight. Something was so familiar, like it had already happened before.

"Here let me take that for you," he took the bag my costume was in and held it for me.

"Thanks," it was an awkward silence for about a few seconds before I had to break it. "Do you know how Jeremy is doing?"

"He should be fine, your sister asked me to make him forget,"

"She what?" I turned to him, surprised and shocked.

"She didn't want him to go through the pain of losing someone all over again," he stated as we walked through the hospital.

"But those are his memories, what right does she have to take them away from him?"

"You got me," unfortunate I do.

We were quite the rest of the way until we got to the parking lot.

"You're awfully quite," he commented.

"Can you blame me?" I asked skeptically.

"No not really," he answered honesty. "But seriously, you look like you're thinking hard about something,"

"It's just this whole situation, it seems so familiar,"

He looked at me puzzled, "What'd you mean," he put his hand on my good arm and I didn't even bother to remove it.

"I think I knew Vicki was going to die tonight,"

Hey guys, I made this chapter extra long just for you guys and I hope you like it. I know this is a cliffhanger and it's going to leave you wondering what's going to happen next, and I promise that it's going to get epic soon. I hope you all enjoyed it and let me know what you think; I really want to know so please review :)