~The Vampire Diaries~

A/N: Can we have a round of applause for my new BFF HayatoxAkemi! She made this wonderful Chapter! *Everybody cheers*I'm telling you she ROCKS! Well let's get on with this Awesome Chapter!.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries (but I wish I did)

Skye's POV

"Really, He didn't tell me he had a brother." I said a little hurt that he hadn't told me Damon must have seen something in my eyes because he said almost comfortingly "Well, Stefan's not one to brag. Please, come. I'm sure Stefan will be along any second''. He led us into the most exquisite room we had ever seen it was gigantic.

"Wow. This is your living room?" Elena asked her eyes widening,

"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste'' a small smirk placed on his face.

''I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him." Damon smirked like he was secretly pleased his brother was hurt, I didn't like that, Damon he unnerved me, and to be honest having only met him 5 minutes ago I was slightly scared of him. I don't know why I just got the feeling that he was dangerous.

"The last one?" Elena's question startled me out of my musing. Although Elena was the one who asked Damon's eyes stayed fixated on me, unconsciously I shifted my body away from him. Unfortunately Damon caught it and his smirk deepened.

"Yeah, Scarlett, his girlfriend?" he then glanced at Elena looking at her expression and then turning his gaze to me again, he must of seen my confused face as he continued "Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet."

"Nope." I said tucking an annoying piece of hair behind my ear; Damon's icy blue eyes followed the movement almost like he had seen me do it a million times before. My eyes shifted to Elena's brown eyes noticing she looked uncomfortable. "I'm just going to wait in the car" she said watching for my acceptance, I nodded and watched her hurry out of the house. Damon made no move as to acknowledge her and kept talking like she was never there.

"Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now. Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end." Damon stated in what he thought was comforting but it made me feel more uneasy about Stefan not telling me about Scarlett.

"You say it like every relationship is doomed to end." I shot back at him.

Damon smirked "I'm a fatalist." He countered staring at me in an almost predatory way. The stiffening silence was broken when suddenly Damon spoke

"Hello, Stefan." I turned around to see Stefan standing there with a dangerous look in his eyes.

"Skye, I didn't know you were coming over." Stefan commented his velvet voice surprisingly hard.

"I know. I should have called, I just..." I tried explaining myself but Damon cut across me.

"Oh, don't be silly. You're welcome any time. Isn't she, Stefan? You know, I should break out the family photo albums or some home movies. But... I have to warn you. He wasn't always such a looker." He smirked at me, completely in his element. I looked at him giving him a small polite smile hopefully covering how uncomfortable I felt.

"Thank you for stopping by, Skye. Nice to see you." I sent Stefan a small glare for his rudeness.

I didn't understand why Stefan was acting like this. The tension was clear in the air as Stefan continued his cold glare to his Brother Damon.

"Yeah, I should probably go. It was nice to meet you, Damon." I said giving him a single glance.

"Great meeting you, too, Skye." He said while lifting my hand and placing a gentle kiss on it.

I went to leave but Stefan was in the way. "Stefan? Stefan?" I questioned when he didn't move. I looked at his face and saw that his stare was still fixated on his brother.

When I got no answer I went around him and headed to the car where Elena was waiting "what happened in there?" she questioned me her brown eyes inquisitive

"I don't know, it was really strange, when you left he just stood there staring at me. And then Stefan showed up, not even greeting me by the way. Ugh I don't know it was just all really strange." I replied shrugging, Elena nodded as we got into the car and drove off, my mind feeling more puzzled than ever.

Stefan's POV

I stood quietly as Skye left, after a minute I turned on Damon to see him standing there his signature smirk on his face. "Great gal. Whoo. She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped. Did you over-exert yourself today?"

''Let me guess... hospital." He said snidely.

"Someone had to clean up your mess." I shot back aggravated at his disregard for human life. I would say something about that to him but I knew it would be no use. Damon would never change.

"Well, were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember, if you don't feed properly, none of those little tricks work right." He taunted me his eyes showing his enjoyment.

"How long was Skye here?" I asked him.

"Were you worried, Stefan? Did I forget to mention Elena was also here? What's the matter Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game, "I'm a high school human"?

"I'm not playing any game." I replied glaring at him.

"Of course you are. We both know the closest you'll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it." He replied his eyes flashing manically.

"What kind of game are you playing...? Damon?" I asked slightly scared to know the answer.

"Guess you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?" he turned to leave but turned back around suddenly with a grin on his face. "Oh BTW. That's By The Way incase you don't know. I've chosen Skye, doesn't she look so…Yummy." He said leaving the room before I could speak. I watched him leave silently promising to myself that I would protect Skye from him no matter what the cost.

Skye's POV

"Tonight, night of the comet." Bonnie said from next to me where she Elena and I were handing out programs to people walking past.

"Would you like a program?" Elena said passing one to a nearby person.

"He didn't call, huh?" Bonnie said to me as I handed a program to someone.

"Or text. But I realized we never even exchanged that stuff. We've never gotten to the texting part." I replied thinking about Stefan's strange behavior this afternoon.

"That's an important milestone in any relationship." Bonnie shot back.

"I know!'' a smile breaking my distressed face but it soon fell.

''The timing is wrong, anyway. And to be honest I'm not really sure I'm ready for another relationship just yet, you know?" I said not really believing myself and I could tell by Bonnie's furrowed eyebrows that she didn't either.

"When is it ever right?" even her words told me she didn't believe me.

"I'm not ready, Bonnie, really''. I replied. She just looked at me like she was searching my face for something.

"Who is?" Elena said joining the conversation; great I was being double teamed.

"At least I put myself out there." I replied half heartedly.

"Is that what you're calling it?" Bonnie spoke up coming back into the conversation.

"What do you mean?" I snapped slightly hurt.

"All I'm hearing is reasons why you can't." she countered turning to Elena to start a conversation leaving me to my thoughts. Bonnie was right, I was just using excuses; it was time for me to move on. To be happy. My parents wouldn't want me to be sad forever, they would want me to get on with my life. And that's what I was going to do.

Later that night I put on my favorite pair of grey skinny jeans and a blouse like top with a flower print. I also had on my trusty black leather jacket. Grabbing my keys I headed to the door yelling at Jason as I went "I'm going to the comet tonight ill be back by twelve" I called to him.

"Ok, be good" he yelled back. I rolled my eyes. "Don't roll your eyes at me young lady" he called mock sternly from his position in the living room like are father used to do. I let out a laugh, didn't he knew me so well?.

(At the comet)

"Hey, I got some candles." Came, Caroline's voice from behind me I turned to face her to see that she was holding a candle out for me. Matt stood beside her.

"Hi." I waved at him.

"Hey." He smiled back at me, lighting my candle with his.

"Thanks Matt". I smiled.

"You're welcome." He replied kindly moving on to the next person leaving me standing there watching the stars.

"Thank you." Came Stefan's voice from behind me a gentle smile adorning his handsome face.

"Hey, Stefan". I greeted him softly.

"You know, that comet... it's been traveling across space for thousands of years. All alone." He explained to staring at the stars, his expression unreadable.

"Yeah, Bonnie says it's a harbinger of evil." I said staring at the stars with him.

He was silent for a while before replying "I think it's just a ball of... snow and ice, trapped on a path that it can't escape. And once every 145 years, it gets to come home.''

From the corner of my eye I saw his emerald eyes focus on me ''I'm sorry about yesterday. I wasn't myself."

"You seem to spend a lot of time apologizing." I said staring at him trying to read his expression.

"Well, I have a lot to apologize for. Yesterday, that wasn't about you, ok?" he said looking back at me his eyes apologetic like he was silently baring his soul to me.

"You didn't tell me that you had a brother." I told him still a bit annoyed about that. I know I shouldn't really be annoyed with him after all he had only just met me, and it wasn't like he had to tell me everything.

"We're not close. It's, uh... it's complicated." He explained.

"He told me about your ex, Scarlett." I said watching his expression for any change, there was, but it was only a flicker and it was gone before I could name it.

"What did he say?" his voice held a hint of resignation like he was expecting the worst. I wondered why, there was obviously a lot of problems between him and his brother and I didn't want a part of it.

"That she broke your heart." I told him, looking away. I didn't want him to see my face. I felt him move to stand at my side.

"That was a long time ago." his face was solemn as he spoke.

I stared a the stars marveling at the beauty, the way they twinkled in the dark night sky as if they had no care in the world and everything was going to turn out all right. I could feel his stare on my back. Turning around our eyes met. Grey met Green. Green conveyed love and adoration and Grey showed fear of letting someone in.

"When you lose someone, it stays with you, always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt." I told him not breaking the connection as our eyes stayed locked on each other.

"Skye..." he tried comforting me but I turned away breaking the connection.

"It's OK, Stefan. I get it. You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated ex? Check. Too complicated to even contemplate dating, double check. I knew complicated. Life is complicated, but we have to keep moving on. It's OK. We met, and we talked, and it was epic, but... then the sun came up and reality set in..." and with that I left him standing there.

3rd Person's POV

"I know you." Vicki said to Damon as she ran walked into him.

"Well, that's unfortunate." Damon replied smirking.

"Um... I don't... I don't know how, but... your face. Um Excuse me. Sorry''. She rushed out fear inside her." Vicki said hurriedly her pulse racing for a reason she couldn't understand.

She ran to the toilets. When she got inside she looked in the mirror trying to calm her self down but when she looked she didn't see her reflection but Damon's face into a monster she subconsciously knew about. She let out an ear piercing scream before darkness surrounded her.

''Hey has anyone seen Vicky?'' asked Jeremy as he walked to the group.

"You're her stalker. You tell us." Tyler replied sneering at him.

"I can't find her." He said worried for her, he couldn't lose her as well.

"She probably found somebody else to party with. Sorry, pill pusher, I guess you've been replaced." Tyler replied again.

"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena asked as she walked up. She hoped she had heard Tyler wrong.

"Ask him." Tyler said pointing to Jeremy.

"You wanna do this right now?" Jeremy said impatiently, he didn't care what his sister had to say he just wanted to find Vicki.

"Are you dealing?" Elena questioned him. Jeremy rolled his eyes at his sister.

"She's never gonna go for you." Tyler sneered interrupting the conversation.

"She already did. Over and over and over again." Jeremy said smiling smugly that she had actually gone for him, he still cared deeply for Skye but since the breakup Vicki had become his lifeline and distraction.

"Yeah, right." Tyler said disbelievingly.

"You slept with Vickie Donovan? I mean, Vickie Donovan slept with you?" Carolina entered the conversation like Tyler her tone held surprise.

"There's no way." Tyler said still not believing him.

"And I didn't even have to force her into it." Jeremy replied still angry at Tyler for trying to force Vicki into having sex with him.

"What the hell is he talking about, Ty?" Matt asked looking at Tyler.

"Nothing, man, just ignore him, he's a punk." Tyler said dismissively.

"You know what, how about all of you shut up and help me find my sister?" Matt snapped reminding everyone about Vicki.

"We'll check the back." Bonnie suggested pointing to herself and Elena.

Matt nodded "I'll check the square" he said. They nodded and all left to find her.

"I'll come with you." Jeremy tried but Elena was having nothing of it.

"Oh, no, no, no. You are coming with me. So that's your game now, dealing?"

"I'm not dealing." He lied not having the patience to listen to the speech that his sister would probably sprout.

"Look, I'm sick of the tough love speech, Jer. It's really having no impact." Elena countered worried that her brother was going to throw his life away.

"You and Jenna, between the two of you..." Jeremy sighed annoyed.

"We can stop if you want. Send you to a therapist where you'll be forced to deal with it or to rehab where you'll sit in group and tell some stranger how you let your life fall apart. Or you could talk to me. And if that bothers you, you can talk about it with Skye, I know you still have feelings for her, maybe she can get through to you." Elena suggested thinking of her best friend.

"I vote for none of the above." He said pained at his sister for bringing up his feelings for Skye. He stalked off.

Stefan's POV

(In the street)

I was standing there still thinking about Skye had said to me. Her words had pained me, at first when I saw her, my first thought was Scarlett. But as I got to know her I found that she was the exact opposite of Scarlett, for one she was kind, funny put others before her, and was everything Scarlett wasn't. I really cared for Skye and it pained me to see her so sad. Shaking my head to get rid off my thoughts of her, I saw Matt walk up to me.

"Hey." Matt said.

"Hey." I replied wondering what he wanted.

"Have you seen my sister?" he asked his worry for his sister clearly etched on his face.

"No, sorry." I said in response to his question. But you were too lost in your thoughts of Skye to have seen her. A voice in the back of my mind sounding suspiciously of Damon's voice said to me.

"I can't find her. She's missing." Matt was clearly worried about his sister.

"I'll keep an eye out for her." I told him honestly.

Matt nodded. "Hey. I saw you at the hospital yesterday."

"Did you?" I asked worried that he had seen me near Vicki, but his next question helped ease the worry.

"What were you doing there?" he asked.

"Visiting." I said hoping he would believe the lie.

"Visiting? You know, Skye and I, we've known each other for a long time. I look out for her. And I'll always look out for her." He told me like he thought I was going to hurt her, but I knew I wouldn't, I could never hurt Skye, not in the rest of my existence. And with that he walked off leaving me to my musings.

As I went to leave I picked up the sound of a commotion.

"You really have to stop screaming." Damon's voice was recognizable. I sighed I should of have known it was him, when wasn't he terrorizing someone.

" No, please, stop. Don't..." That sounded like Vicki.

"Shh. I got you." Damon's words were comforting but his tone was not.

I looked around frantically trying to find where they were, finally I spotted them they were on a roof. Looking around for someone watching, there was no one. I jumped up on the rooftop.

" No! No!" Vicki pleaded clearly terrified.

"I gotta do it. I'm not gonna drop you." Damon said holding Vicki over he edge of the building. "Not bad. Have you been eating bunnies?" he joked looking at me, referring to my jump.

"Let her go." I ordered him trying to get him to leave

"Shh. Really? OK." He then jerked his arm as if to let her go but he didn't instead he placed her back on the ground where she sat there trying to get away.

"No! No, no, no!" she begged.

"Ugh! Relax." Damon said disgusted, and then suddenly he leaned forward making her scream. He whispered something into her ear.

"What's happening?" Vicki asked a dazed expression on her face. I tensed as Damon spoke.

"I don't need her to be dead, but... you might." He said looking at me his normal smirk on his face. "What attacked you the other night?" he than asked Vicki.

"I don't know. An animal." She answered confused, probably wondering why he was asking her this.

"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you? He asked her again.

"A Vampire." She said sounding surer of herself.

"Who did this to you?" Damon pressed on.

"You did!" she yelled taking a terrified step back.

"Wrong!" Damon smirked, his blue eyes victorious, and then it hit me I knew what he was going to do, and I couldn't let that happen it would ruin all I had worked for to live a normal life again.

"Don't." I pleaded to him but he just smirked and turned back to Vicki.

"It was Stefan." He told her, I Guess he really didn't care about me. We use to be so close.

"Don't." I tried again but he just smirked.

"Come here. Stefan Salvatore did this to you." He said beckoning to her to come closer.

"Stefan Salvatore did this to me." She repeated her voice monotone.

"He's a vampire. A vicious, murderous monster." He told her.

"Please, Damon. Please don't do this." I pleaded knowing it would be useless with Damon.

"If you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now." He said to me, I could tell he was really enjoying this.

"Aah!" Vicki screamed bringing Damon's attention back to her.

"Ugh! Your choice of lifestyle has made you weak. A couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power that you could have, that you now need. But you can change that. Human blood gives you that." Damon said. Now he was just taunting me.

"No!" Vicki screamed again catching onto what Damon was wanting me to do, but I wasn't going to do it I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.

"You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run, screaming "vampire" through the town square." Damon continued

"That's what this is about? You want to expose me?" I yelled at him. I couldn't believe him. We were brothers.

"No! I want you to remember who you are!" he yelled back, taking a threatening step towards me.

" Why? So what, so I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up, and let them drive a stake through my heart, because at least I'll be free of you." I screamed at him, and that was truly what I thought, they could kill me but at least I wouldn't have to see him again, but then Skye's face popped into mind and I knew I didn't want to die, I wanted to be with her, I wanted to be near her because she made me happier than I had been for ages.

"Huh. Huh. Wow. Come here, sweetheart." He said beckoning to Vicki.

"No!" she cried shaking her head.

"It's OK." Damon said almost comforting as he took a step towards her and stared into her eyes obviously compelling her.

"What happened? Where am I? Oh, I ripped my stitches open. Ah..." she said confused on why she was here. I don't know why but Damon had compelled her to forget.

"You OK?" I asked her concerned, I would think about his reasoning later.

"I took some pills, man. I'm good." She said leaving the rooftop.

"It's good to be home. Think I might stay a while. This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?" he said smiling sarcastically. Probably coming up with his next plan.

"What are you up to, Damon?" I asked him suspicious of his reasons of coming back to Mystic Falls.

" That's for me to know and for you to... dot, dot, dot. Give Skye my best." He said calmly before walking off.

(At The Grill)

"She said you found her wandering around." Matt said to me talking about Vicki.

"Yeah." I smiled, but on the inside I was worried for Skye, who knew what Damon wanted for her.

" So, um, thanks." Matt thanked me awkwardly.

"Ugh, it's just so much drama. Ever notice how the druggies are the biggest attention whores?" Caroline spoke catching my attention.

"Yeah." Bonnie said as she walked up to the group. Annoyed at Caroline for her insensitiveness.

"Excuse me. Hi" I Greeted her wondering if she knew where Skye was, I wanted to speak to her.

"Hi." She smiled at me

"Um, have you guys seen Skye?"

"I think she went home. I'm gonna give you Skye's cell number and her email. She is big on texting, and you can tell her... I said so". She said reaching hand out for my phone.

"Thank you." Taking it out I went to give it to her but our hands connected and she suddenly stiffened a blank expression crossing her face, then suddenly her face cleared into a slightly scared expression like she had seen a ghost.

"You OK?" I asked worried and she just nodded distractedly before speaking her voice breathless like she had just ran a marathon.

"What happened to you? Uh That is so rude. I'm sorry. Excuse me." She gave me my phone back and rushed off. I stared after her confused by her strange behavior. Caroline must have seen my confused expression for she answered.

" Yeah, she kind of wigs out. It's like her thing." Before she too walked off.

3rd Person's POV

"Jer?" Elena asked hesitantly as she heard a sound from Jeremy's room.

"No, it's me, the hypocrite patrol." Jenna's voice came from her brother's bedroom.

"What are you doing?" Elena asked as she walked towards her voice.

"I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure that has to violate a 15-year-old's privacy." She said as she searched every ware finally ending in his shoes. "Jackpot. I see the hiding places vent gotten any more creative." She continues pulling out a packet of pills from the shoe.

"What brought this on?" Elena asked confused on why Jenna was searching Jeremy's room for drugs.

"Your ass-hat of a history teacher shamed me good yesterday." She explained as if that explained everything, and it did because everyone knew that Mr. Tanner was a bastard.

"You got tannered. Been there." Elena winced in sympathy knowing Mr. Tanner was harsh.

""Discover the impossible, Ms. Summers." Got it. Thanks. Like I didn't know I was screwing up." Jenna mocked upset.

''You're not screwing up, Aunt Jenna." Elena asked confused on why she thought she was screwing up.

"Yes, I am. You know why? Because I'm not her. She made everything look so easy. You know, high school, marriage, having you. I can't do it. I'm gonna say or do the wrong thing, and he's gonna get worse, and it's gonna be my fault. It's impossible." She said referring about her sister, Elena's mother.

"This is just the fear talking. You're a little scared, that's all. We all are. I have to go do something. But are you going to be ok?" Elena said softly hugging her.

Caroline walked towards her car when suddenly she heard a noise behind her, twirling around quickly she saw that it was just Damon.

" Oh... whoo." She said Bringing her hand up to her racing heart

"Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." He smirked his thoughts far from sorry.

"No, it's fine. Um, I was hoping I'd see you again." At that Damon smirked. "I know."

"Cocky much?" Caroline joked wondering why he was even talking to her at all.

"Very much." He said smirking lightly. She will do, he thought to himself after all I need someone to play with before I can go after my real prize. Skye. He smiled inwardly thinking of the black haired girl, you are so mine.

Skye's POV

Taking a deep breath I knocked on Stefan's door, I hoped he was here; I had spent the whole time since walking away from him about how I should try and move on, and how I should just see where the relationship took me. Hearing the door knob turn I straightedge my clothes as Stefan appeared as smile on his face once he saw who it was.

"Hi."

"Hey." I smiled at him, shifting awkwardly.

"Would you like to come in?" he asked me gesturing inside. I shook my head.

"The comet's actually this way. Sorry for barging in. Especially after earlier." I said silently asking him to forgive me, but he just shook his head.

"No, no. I'm glad you're here. The way we left things... I didn't like it." He stated his face serious.

"See, the thing is, I got home tonight planning on doing what I always do, write in my diary, like I have been since my mom gave me one when I was 10. It's where I get everything out, everything I'm feeling. It all goes in this little book that I hide on the second shelf behind this really hideous ceramic vase. But then I realized that I'd just be writing things that I should probably be telling you." I told him knowing that I couldn't live my life scared of losing everyone, I had to take risks because if I didn't I would spend the rest of my life thinking what if.

"What would you write?" Stefan asked me.

" I would write... "Dear diary, today I convinced myself it was ok to give up. Don't take risks. Stick with the status quo. No drama. Now is just not the time. But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth, and the truth is that..." I'm scared, Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment that... the world's just going to come crashing down, and I... I don't know if I can survive that." There I had finally admitted it to someone and it felt like a weight was lifted of my shoulders.

"Do you want to know what I would write?"I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality. Right here."" As he spoke he had leant closer to me so that our faces were an inch apart, I could smell his breath as it washed over me. I stared into his eyes and silently gasped, his eyes were smoldering. I could feel my pulse quicken as he closed the distance. Our lips collided and my senses went into overdrive. His lips were soft and inviting, the kiss was passionate, but sweet and I got tingles all over my body, you know when they say that it was like fireworks erupted, well here they were.

3rd Person's POV

Caroline and Damon's lips moved in sync, lust was clearly in the air. Caroline's pleasure radiating off of her and Damon's blood lust was getting harder and harder to control.

Damon began to trail sloppy kisses down Caroline's neck making her clutch to the blankets in pleasure; Damon smiled inwardly knowing Miss Caroline Forbes was under his control, at his command.

He looked at her innocent face that was anything but that, she looked at him back panting a dazed expression on her face, he smirked as he felt his canines extend and his beast within take over as he plunged his teeth into her delicate neck making her scream for help, not realizing no one would come to her aid.

A/N: The credit belongs to HayatoxAkemi for doing this chapter for me! The only thing I did was add a few things and take out, but other than that this awesome chapter is thanks to her(so if some parts are crappy that was probably me lol)! So Review! Tell us what you thought. So anyways who saw the season premiere for TVDS3? It was awesome wasn't it! Im seriously having a crush on Stefan, but Damon still owns my heart :P(yeah I'm weird like that). Anyways ill probably work on the next chapter this weekend pinky promise. So once again REVIEW! You know you want too. O_O

(P.S. HayatoxAkemi also is my beta hehe)