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Part 3 - It's all about the kinds

After talking on the phone with my associate in Los Angeles I decided to keep the human facade and stayed in Forks to finish the school year. I have to admit, I kind of missed high school. Charlie would usually take his leave on August to spend two weeks with Izzie in California. This year was no different so we both packed and flew to Los Angeles where Charlie met Izzie at the airport and the two left for their usual summer vacation in Newport Beach. I took my car and returned to one of my favorite home in L.A.

I spent the summer working with and getting to know Mick's new (and only in the past fifty years) girlfriend. I worked for Mick since his kind has issues with the sunlight while I had found a witch a few years after I changed and gotten myself a ring that was spelled just right to protect me. The sun wasn't the only difference between our kinds.

His kind had to sleep in a freezer, could only consume human blood and would frail to dust under the sun. My kind suffers the same under the sun (unless they have the same kind of jewelry I have), we can consume animal blood but it makes us weak and thankfully we can also digest human food. The last kind of vampires - that I know about - is the 'cold ones'. Their skin sparkles under the sun; they're cold as ice and hard as a diamond. their eyes change color depending on their diet, they can't sleep and last but not least cannot consume human food. From all three kinds I prefer my own.

It was mid September when I got a phone call from a friend. Alexis Branson or Lexi as she went by nowadays, my oldest and best friend.

"hello"

"hello Isabella"

"Hello Alexis, how's it going?"

"Good, great. I'm planning a visit"

"you're coming to LA? You do realize the sun never goes down, right?"

"Not to LA dumdum. Mystic Falls"

I felt the wind getting knocked out of me.

"Mystic Falls, why?"

"Stefan's Bday is tomorrow Bells. Wanna come along?"

Visit my hometown that I've avoided like Lestat the sun or grow up and visit my hometown. I really don't wanna go home.

"I'm in"

"Great. I'll meet you at the airport when you land, call me babe"

I laughed and put on my big girl panties, packed and got on a plane. A few hours later I landed on a small airport. Lexi was nowhere to be found. I called her cell a few times and then rented a car. The sun looked to be about to set, the perfect time for vamps to come out and play. I drove to an Inn, got a room and then took a shower. I changed clothes and headed out again. This time Lexi did pick up her phone

"Where have you been?"

"Sorry babe. Got a little hung up on something. I'm heading to a place called Mystic Grill. Meet me there?"

"Yes mistress"

I said in a mocking tone and asked her for directions. I cruised through town marveling how little it had changed in the past 144 years. It was basically the same, only newer. Soon I was pulling into the parking lot of a busy little establishment and hopped out.

A figure with long blond hair appeared in the entrance and I made to move towards her but stopped dead in my tracks. Yes it was Lexi. Only she saw supported by cops. About every cop in town seemed to be here. She made a run for it only to be staked in the stomach by a raven haired man dressed in all black.

When did the vamp hunters come back?

I ducked behind my car watching the scene unfold. The man lifted Lexi and handed her to a cop who in turn threw her in the backseat of a cruiser. The man turned to a woman, dressed in the same police uniform that Charlie wore in Forks and she thanked him. I saw his face then. Damon Salvatore. Wow, I guess Katherine changed them both. A cry was heard from the entrance. Stefan was there, tears flowing down his cheeks. A teenage girl had him in her arms whispering soothing words while smirking in an evil way I remembered too well.

Well, well, well. Looks like I'm not the only vampire coming home after all. I slipped back into my Maserati GranTurismo and waited till the happy couple left. Stefan dropped Katherine to her house and then left. I didn't bother following him and parked outside her house.

Revenge is a dish best served cold I mused as I stroked the bite I had gotten from James. I waited till all the lights went out in the small house and the three heartbeats slowed in slumber. I scaled the side of the house and found a window that was open on the second floor. I slipped inside quietly. A neat little gift the venom inside me. I no longer needed to be invited inside a house. I could come and go as I pleased.

I opened the doors of all the rooms quietly. A woman in one, a teenage boy groaning deep in slumber in the second and the third one struck gold. I got in and walked up to the brunette vampire. I took a deep breath (I really don't like the idea of killing innocents) and a mixed scent reached my nostrils. A vampire one mixed by a human. What the...

Right, the cure.

Mick's ex wife had gotten hold of a compound that allowed vampires to turn back into humans. Seems like little Kitty-kat has gotten some. I jumped on her bed and straddled her waist. She jumped up ready to scream. I covered her mouth with my hand and let her see me. Her eyes widened in recognition

"hello Katherine"

she whimpered. I smirked. I leaned in and compelled her

"shut up"

Another little trick the Cold One venom gave me. Ability to compel vampires. Any vampires. You should see Mick and Josef when I compelled them to dance and sing the Swan Song for me and Beth. Hilarious!

"You may speak but you are not allowed to scream or shout. You are to tell me the truth and only the truth"

I compelled her again just for the fun of it

"Why are you here?"

"I missed my boys"

"Why are you human?"

"it's the only way Stefan would take me back, If I'm human and everything Katherine isn't"

she said in a sing song voice that made me wonder about her mental health

"Why did Damon stake Lexi"

"I told him to"

"Why!"

"the compound lasts for 48 hours. I'm very hungry after and bodies have been found. Someone needed to take the blame and it would as hell not gonna be me"

she snarled

"that little twerp was taking him away from me. she was in his shower today and I wasn't. No one plays with my boys but me"

SLAP

I slapped her hard and she shuttled up. That felt nice!

"Where is Lexi now?"

she shrugged non caring.

"Does this human you're posing as even exist?"

"of course not"

I smirked

"Don't move"

I compelled her and got up. On the desk was a legal pad, I took it and grabbed a pen

"Write down. Stefan, Damon I can't do this anymore. You two are no fun at all. Oh by the way, Elena doesn't exist, she never did. I love you boys, NOT. Katherine"

in her handwriting it was obvious she didn't want to write it but my hold on her was strong. I had her put the letter in question under her pillow and then move to the bathroom. No need to leave a mess behind. I told her to lay in the tub and slit her wrists. She was human now and she would die like one.

I sat with her the whole time. Once I was sure she was dead and not gonna come back back to life in any form. Gently I took off all her jewelry, One of it would be her daylight one, and went to her room. Rummaging through her closet and drawers. I picked any file, folder (including her diary) anything that proved she really is Katherine and put in her schoolbag along with her jewelry case. Then I wrote a suicide letter saying she did all the murders in town and couldn't let an innocent girl take the fall for it in her handwriting and left the house whistling a happy tune I had learned in elementary school.