Anastasia walks to the hospital after school is over. It's not that she likes Vicki or anything, it's simply that Matt is her best friend and he needs someone right now. So she walks into the hospital room, a bouquet of pink and yellow striped lilies, a fixed smile on her lips, and a cup of warm coffee. "Hey, Matt."

Matt looks up from the chair that is sitting across from Vicki's bed, he had his head in his hands when Anastasia walked in and now he is looking up at her with sad eyes. "Hey." His voice is deep, painful. "What are you doing here?"

"You're my best friend." She says, as if it is the most simplest thing in the world. "Now, I got lilies for your sister and a coffee for you, unless you want the flowers and she wants the coffee." Matt chuckles before standing up, taking the coffee from her hand.

"I think I'll the coffee, but thanks for the flowers." Anastasia smiles and puts the lilies in a vase.

"When my dad and I got hurt people used to visit the hospital all the time with roses. Telling me how much they're sorry for what happened. How much they wished that things could have been different. They used to tell me that I just had to keep hoping because one day my dad will get better and wake up. I grew up with that hope, but every day a bit of that hope crumbles away." She turns and looks at Matt. "Having someone you care about get hurt is the worst feeling in the world and in that moment in the hospital I didn't care about flowers or get well cards from people who I never even met before that day. All I cared about was having a friend."

"Didn't you have one?" Matt asks as she shakes her head.

"No. My best friend... he did something that I can never forgive him for now."

"Must be bad if you can't forgive him." Anastasia frowns.

"Yeah it was." She stares at Vicki for a moment before turning to Matt. "How's she doing?"

"Better, she's still very weak. The doctors say she needs time to heal." She nods and glances back at Vicki for a moment.

"I'm sure she'll be okay. She just needs the time to heal." She walks over to Matt and squeezes his shoulder. "You should go home, get some sleep."

"Vicki-

"Matt, Vicki is in the hospital, she's safe and you need to rest. This chair is going to give you a bad ache."

"Thanks, Anya, but really, I'm fine." She sighs and kisses his cheek.

"Fine, be stubborn, don't tell me I didn't warn you." Matt smiles up at her.

"I'll see you later."

"Bye, Mattie." She smiles at him once more before she heads out the door and down the hall.

Anastasia woke to her phone blaring. It's around three in the morning, way to late for someone to be calling, which means it's too early for her to play nice. "What?!" Anastasia snaps angrily as she answers her phone.

"It's me, Derek." Anastasia head falls back into her pillow, groaning into it with annoyance.

"Go away." She mumbles into the pillow, but Derek still hears her.

"I know you don't want anything to do with me, but..." Anastasia frowns, hearing the pain in her cousin's voice. "I found Laura." Anastasia sits up at Derek's words.

"And?"

"Someone killed her." Her eyes widen in shock at her cousin's words, her hand flying up to cover her mouth. "She... She was ripped into two pieces." Tears run down Anastasia's face as she hears this.

"Do... Do you know who is responsible? The Argents?"

"The Argents couldn't have done this. This was done by a werewolf." Anastasia pulls back her covers, quickly getting out of bed as tears stream down her face.

"I'll be in Beacon Hills in a day."

"No!" Derek says it so fast and so sharp that causes Anastasia to freeze.

"The other night you told me you wanted me to come there with you."

"That was before Laura died. Look, I know what I did was horrible, I know you'll probably never forgive me, but that does not mean I want you to die or be put into harms way. The Argents are back and... and they aren't friendly. Being here is dangerous. Where ever you are stay there. It's much safer than here and I do not want you in any situation that is unsafe." She wipes her eyes and sits down on her bed.

"Okay."

"Good." Derek pauses for a moment, Anastasia thinking during that pause. "I am sorry, Anya, more than anything. If I could... I would take back what I did."

"It's late Derek, go to bed." She tells him in a voice void of any emotion and then she hangs up.

"Night of the Comet." Somehow Anastasia got wrapped into helping with the festival for the comet. She is now handing out fliers with Bonnie and Elena, defiantly not the highlight of today, especially when she got about zero sleep last night. "Would you like a program?" Bonnie asks one person, holding out a flier to them. "He didn't call, huh?"

"Who?" Anastasia asks.

"Stefan. Elena went to see him and found his brother." Bonnie says.

"Bonnie-

"She's your cousin, Elena, she's trustworthy." Bonnie smiles at Anastasia, who smiles back. "Anyways his brother went on about how Elena is like Stefan's ex and gave some pretty bad information about how Stefan really was like."

"Oh, jeez I'm sorry, Ela."

"He said he'd call her later." Bonnie says.

"Or text, he did neither." Elena sighs. "Then I realized we never even exchanged that stuff. We never got to the texting part."

"That's an important milestone." Bonnie agrees.

"Isn't it?"

"If he didn't go out of his way to get your number..." Elena looks at Anastasia, causing her to frown. "I just mean-

"I know what you meant and you're right. If he liked me enough he would have done anything to get my number." Elena shakes her head as she passes fliers around. "The timing was wrong anyways."

"When is it ever right?" Bonnie asks.

"I'm not ready, Bonnie."

"No one is ever ready, Elena. It's apart of being human." Anastasia tells her cousin.

"At least I put myself out there."

"Is that really your response?" Anastasia asks.

"What's that supposed to mean."

"Anya is right, Elena. Are you really calling it that?" Bonnie asks.

"What do either of you mean?" Elena asks, trying to sound as if she doesn't know.

"All we're hearing is reason why you can't." Elena frowns, but Bonnie and Anastasia decides that they'll leave it as that and they continue handing the fliers out to everyone.

Anastasia sighs as she walks around the festival celebration thing with Bonnie and Elena. Matt is somewhere and so is Tyler, so Anastasia had to go and celebrate with her cousin and her friends. They walk through the crowd of people to where Caroline stands. "Hey, I got you a candle."

"Hi, thanks." Elena says as she takes it from her. Caroline walks arm in arm with Bonnie, Elena leading the way and Anastasia trailing in the back as they walk up to Matt. "Hey." Elena says.

"Hey." Matt greeted. "Hey, Anya." Anastasia smiles.

"Hey, Matt."

"I got you a candle." She smiles and takes it from him.

"Thanks, Mattie." Matt already lit hers for her and now he goes and lights Elena's.

"Thank you." Elena smiles.

"Your welcome." Elena gives him an awkward smile before she walks off and starts lighting another candle, that someone being Stefan.

"I'm sorry, Mattie." Anastasia says as she wraps an arm around him. "Maybe it's just not meant to be." Matt sighs and looks down at her.

"Maybe."

"I really am sorry. If I could..."

"You what? Would get her to go back out with me. We both know Elena doesn't do anything she doesn't truly want." Anastasia looks up at Matt and frown.

"Like I said, Matt, I'm sorry."

"Hey, has anyone seen Vicki?" The group; Caroline, Matt, Elena, Bonnie, Tyler, Anastasia, they were all gathered around a table when Jeremy walked over.

"You're her stalker. You tell us." Tyler says, causing Anastasia to shoot him a look.

"I can't find her." Jeremy snaps back.

"Probably found someone else to party with."

"Guys, stop fighting." Anastasia says.

"How are you even friends with this douchebag?" Jeremy asks Anastasia.

"Sorry, pill pusher, you've been replaced." Tyler tells Jeremy, ignoring Jeremy's comment.

"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena asks, causing Anastasia to look up at Jeremy.

"Ask him."

"You wanna do this right now?" Jeremy asks.

"Are you dealing?" Elena asks.

"She's never gonna go for you." Tyler tells him.

"Jeremy answer the question." Anastasia orders, but Jeremy ignores her and answers Tyler.

"She already did. Over and over and over again." Anastasia's eyes widen in shock at Jeremy's words.

"Yeah right." Tyler says.

"Okay, you slept with Vicki Donovan?" Caroline asks in surprise. "I mean, Vicki Donovan slept with you?"

"There's no way." Tyler says.

"And I didn't even have to force her into it." Anastasia freezes and turns to Tyler.

"Tell me you didn't."

"What the hell is he talking about, Ty?" Matt asks.

"Nothing, man. Ignore him. He's a punk."

"You know what, how about all you shut up and help me find my sister." Matt snaps.

"We'll check the bathroom." Bonnie says.

"I'll check the square." Matt says.

"I'll come with you." Jeremy offers.

Anastasia ignores them all as she walks out of the Mystic Grill. "Time to let loose." Anastasia sighs and takes the moonstone off, placing inside her pocket and letting her eyes glow. She takes a deep breath in and smells, trying to smell Vicki out and she focuses on letting her hearing take over with her smell, trying to hear Vicki.

"No! No, please!" That's defiantly Vicki.

"You really have to stop screaming." Anastasia's eyes widen when she hears the sound of a man with Vicki and he doesn't sound friendly. She hurries through the crowd, following the voices.

"Stop. Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me."

"Shh. I've got you." Anastasia hurries up, determine to get there before something very bad happens. She may not like Vicki, but she's still Matt's baby sister.

"No! Please don't!" Anastasia sees Vicki on the building with some guy as Stefan sees them and Anastasia.

"Anastasia?" Her head snaps over to Stefan, her eyes still glowing. "Your eyes." Her eyes fade to their blue color and she frowns.

"I got you. I'm not gonna drop you." The man says.

"We don't have time, Stefan." She hurries to the building, climbing up in a very fast speed, a bit too fast for any human, but when she gets up there Stefan's already there.

"Not bad." The man comments as he looks over at Stefan before noticing Anastasia. He smirks and looks at Stefan. "Have you been eating bunnies?"

"Let her go." Stefan orders.

"Really? Okay." The man says as he looks behind him, ready to let her go.

"No! No!" Vicki cries.

"No, no, no." Stefan cries out at the same time, which causes the man to keep her from falling again.

"Relax." The man throws Vicki to Stefan, while Anastasia tries to understand who this man is.

"What's happening?" The girl cries.

"I don't need her to be dead, but you might."

"Damon-" Stefan starts.

"Oh let the girl hear." Damon says, shrugging Anastasia's presence off. He looks down at Vicki. "What attacked you the other night?" Damon asks.

"I don't know. An animal." She cries.

"Are you sure about that?" Damon asks. "Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?"

"Vampire." Anastasia freezes, just now realizing what she walked into.

"Who did this to you?" Damon yells.

"You did!"

"Wrong."

"Don't." Stefan buts in.

"Stefan." Damon says, causing Anastasia to have her eyes widen.

"Don't." Stefan repeats.

Damon pulls Vicki up and looks her in the eyes. "Stefan Salvatore did this to you."

"Stefan Salvatore did this to me." She whispers back.

"He's a vampire. A vicious. murderous monster."

"Please, Damon. Please don't do this." Stefan begs as Anastasia stands helpless.

"You couldn't fix it before. I don't know what you're gonna do now." He rips the bandage off her neck and throws her to Stefan. "Your choice of lifestyle... has made you weak." Damon smiles at Anastasia. "Figure it out yet?"

"You're both vampires." She says. "You attacked Vicki the other night." Damon smiles.

"Ah she is a smart girl." He says as he smiles at her.

"What did you do to her?" Anastasia asks as she looks at Vicki.

"Compulsion. I compel her to believe Stefan was the one who attacked her that he is the vampire." He smiles before turning to Stefan. "Couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power you could have." Damon tells him. "That you now need. But you can change that." Anastasia sees Stefan's eyes become dark, veins showing under his eyes. "Human blood gives you that."

'Have you been eating bunnies?' "He only feeds off of animal's blood. That's why he's not as strong as you." Anastasia says, understanding it all now. Damon smirks in answer.

"No." Vicki cries, while Stefan just tosses her away from him.

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

"That's what this is about? You wanna expose me?"

"No, I want you to remember who you are."

"Why? So, what? So I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again?" Stefan shakes his head. "You know what? Let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up. Let them drive a stake through my heart. Because at least I'll be free of you." Anastasia winces at the harshness of Stefan's words and the effect they have on Damon.

He laughs and walks over to Vicki. "Wow. Come here, sweetheart."

"No!" Vicki cries as Damon pulls her up.

"It's okay." He looks at Stefan before whispering in her ear and soothing her. He stands up, walking over to Stefan, and motions to her.

"What happened? Where am I?" Vicki asks.

"I ripped my stitches open, ugh."

"You okay?" Stefan asks.

"I took some pills, man." She laughs and stands up. "I'm good." She walks away from the three of them and heads for the exit.

"It's good to be home. Think I might stay awhile. This town could use a bit of a wake up call, don't you think?"

"What are you up to, Damon?" Stefan asks.

"That's for me to know and for you to dot, dot, dot." He scoffs and looks at Stefan once more. "Give Elena my best."

Anastasia turns to Stefan once Damon's gone. "You're telling me what the hell is going on and I swear if you leave anything out and I find out I will rip your throat out with my teeth." Anastasia growls.

"That's a bit bold to say to a vampire isn't it?" Stefan asks. Her eyes flash gold.

"Try me."

"What are you?"

"Doesn't matter. Tell me everything now."

"Why should I tell you when you tell me nothing."

"Because I'm Elena's cousin and because one word from me and she'll hate and never trust you." Stefan glares at Anastasia, but gives in. He tells everything, minus the Katherine parts.