Chapter-3

Here goes the third chapter as promised. As for those who are wondering who am I casting as Meredith Sulez in this story since Torrey DeVitto surely isn't gonna play the part here, I'm thinking of Megan Fox. But don't worry, Meredith "Fell" will play a part here. I know I'm going overboard here but ever since I have started writing the story, the only person I could think of as Meredith was Megan. Because in the novel Meredith was one of the most calm and composed and definitely the smartest among all the other. She definitely was the most strongest person in the book personality wise. She has a very wry personality, often making keen observations and also known for being rather dry and witty in her conversations with others. She is sarcastic when she has to be in situations where the mood calls for it. She does things with minimal fuss, displaying grace, skill, and dignity. So watching Megan's role specially in Jennifer's Body, I had decided she was perfect for my Meredith. That's my point of view. It's up to you readers to take it or leave it. It's even up to you guys to imagine Meredith as any other actress you want. You can even imagine yourself in her shoes ;). So that answers the question to it. One more important thing though. I know Megan's eye color is blue but here her eye color will be dark brown. Eye color will matter later in the stories. I can't spill the spoilers now. I hope you enjoy the story.


Meredith walks up to Bonnie and Elena at school the next day.

"Hey guys what's up?"

"Good." Elena replies.

Seeing Elena and Bonnie bit off, Meredith seems worried.

"What happened guys? Did something happen?"

Before Bonnie could reply Elena says, "Bonnie thinks that I'm going too fast with Stefan and that I shouldn't be dating the guy."

"I'm not saying don't date the guy. I'm just saying take it slow." Bonnie says holding her hands up in defence.

"You were the one who said to go for it."

"Now I'm saying take it slow."

"Why the about-face?"

"Whoa whoa whoa guys stop. Chill out. What's wrong Bonnie? Just yesterday you were getting all worked up about Stefan and Elena getting together. Now why the about-face? Why don't you spill out everything that is going on in your mind?" Meredith says.

"It's stupid."

"Oh come on Bonnie. We are your friends. Elena deserves to know what you feel."

"Bonnie... Please?" Elena pleads to Bonnie. Seeing no other choice but to speak up the truth, Bonnie starts talking.

"I accidentally touched Stefan yesterday at the Grill and I got a really bad feeling." Bonnie says shrugging her shoulders as if a cold wind brushed past her.

Meredith wasn't surprised at the fact that Bonnie got a bad feeling from touching Stefan. But still it was weird for Meredith to think that Bonnie got a bad feeling from touching Stefan. Keeping her voice calm she speaks up.

"Is that it? Is it the witchy mojo thing again?"

"It was bad bad!"

"Bonnie I know you are concerned about me and all but I'm happy. I promise." Elena says to Bonnie.

"This is me expressing concern about my best friend's new boyfriend."

"And I love you for it, I do. But I feel good. It's been a hard year, and I'm starting to kind of feel like things are getting back to normal again. And you know what? Stefan is a big part of that."

"And that's why I love you too Bonnie for being concerned for our friend." Meredith says as she brings in the girls closer for a group hug.

They break off from their as Stefan comes over to them.

"Good morning, Elena. Good morning, Bonnie and Meredith."

"Hey, um, I gotta find Caroline. She's not answering her phone. So I'll see you guys later." as Bonnie says it, she leaves to find Caroline.

"Bonnie, wait..."

Elena goes to call after Bonnie but Bonnie was out of range by then.

"She doesn't like me very much." Stefan says sounding bit hurt at Bonnie's attitude.

"You know what guys; I'll catch up with you all later. I'm getting late for class. Bye." Meredith bid farewell to Elena and Stefan to attend her classes.

During classes, Meredith had been thinking about what Stefan told her last night.

*FLASHBACK*

"Meredith, wait up."

"What?"

"You better be careful from Damon."

"Why?"

"I don't know why but there is something about you. It's really intimidating and intriguing at the same time."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. But there sure is something unusual about you. Sometimes you seem like you are human, but other times it seems like you are something else."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

Meredith was really confused at what Stefan told her last night. Why wouldn't she? She is a normal human being. Isn't she? She moves around like human, behaves like human, eats like human, etc etc. She is just a normal girl as anyone else is.

There's no way she could be any other thing than an ordinary human being. Or... is she truly human?


Practice Field

After classes, the football team was at the field for the upcoming game and looking for fresh meat for tryouts. On the other hand, the cheerleaders were on the other side of the field waiting for their captain Caroline to start the practice. Bonnie, Elena and Meredith were all at the practice waiting for Caroline to arrive who has been missing school since morning.

"So guys I have been thinking... no! Actually planning to have dinner and both of you are invited at my home tonight." Elena says to both Bonnie and Meredith.

"We are?" Bonnie and Meredith ask surprised.

"Mm-hmm. Both of you, me and Stefan."

Meredith seemed excited about the dinner while Bonnie seemed bit off about it.

"That sounds great! Count me in!" Meredith says excitedly.

"Tonight's no good. Have you seen Caroline? I texted her like a hundred times." Bonnie says who was trying to change the subject.

"Don't change the subject, Bonnie Bennett! You're going to be there. You have to give him a chance." Elena pleads to Bonnie.

"Fine. I'll come. But... Only for you Elena."

"That's like my Bonnie." Elena says cheerfully.

"Ok now seriously, where is Caroline?"

"I don't know."

"Me neither. She hasn't been like this before." Meredith says shaking her head thoughtfully.

"I'll try her again."

As Bonnie was about to dial Caroline's number, a car arrives at the parking lot which was near the practice area. As the car stops, the trio could clearly see that the owner of the car was none other than Damon Salvatore. Beside him was Caroline. Caroline reaches up to Damon and kisses him on the lips. Surprised and shocked at the same time, Elena looks up to Meredith and Bonnie. Meredith's jaws dropped in shock hanging her mouth open wide. Seeing Caroline with the most vicious and murderous monster known as Damon Salvatore, Meredith could swear that her nightmare was becoming real even during day time.

"Oh, my God. That must be the mystery guy from the grill." Bonnie says while looking towards Damon.

"That's not a mystery guy." Elena says.

"That's Damon Salvatore." Elena and Meredith speak up together. Elena was surely surprised about Meredith knowing Damon. Before she could ask, Bonnie interrupts asking questions.

"Salvatore, as in Stefan?!" Bonnie asks surprised.

While they kept looking at Damon, Caroline comes up to Elena and says, "I got the other brother. Hope you don't mind." Then looking towards Meredith and Bonnie she says, "Sorry I'm late, girls. I, uh, was busy. All right, let's start with the double pike her key hurdler, what do you say?" Caroline then starts assembling the team for the practice.

Meredith then turns towards Damon who pulled out his sunglasses a bit and winks at Meredith and drives away in his car. Meredith was suspicious of the entire situation but she was pulled out of her thoughts by Bonnie.

"What are you waiting for? Don't tell me you are falling for the other brother."

"Shut up Bonnie." Meredith says with a hateful voice.

"Come on then. We gotta follow the Queen Bee or she's gonna sting us with her poisonous mouth."

"Fine I'm coming."

Meredith then follows Bonnie to practice area. But she made sure to remember to ask Caroline the next time she gets a chance to talk to her about Damon.

Caroline was leading the girls for practice in a rhythm.

"And 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8."

All the girls start to move under the instructions of Caroline. All were moving with rhythm except for one. Elena. Seeing Elena off the grid, Caroline comes over to her.

"Elena, sweetie, why don't you just observe today? Ok?" Then she turns towards others, "Keep going! Ok. Do it again from the top. And 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8."

Elena then walks away from the others to watch the practice. Seeing Elena Meredith was worried too. So she went to her.

"What's wrong Elena?"

"I don't know... It's just... I don't seem like doing any of these stuffs. After the accident, everything changed. Even I changed. I feel so miserable right now."

"Hey... Come on. Nothing's changed at all. Everything's just the way it was. I know how you are feeling right now. You lost your parents recently. You feel like doing nothing right now. But trust me. Things are only gonna get better. You have me, Bonnie, Stefan, your brother Jeremy, Aunt Jenna and many others. You have got nothing to worry right now. But if you feel like doing all these things make no sense. Then don't do it. No one's gonna force you. You just gotta do what you feel. No one's going to stop you from doing what you want. It's your life after all. You get to make the choice."

"Thanks Mere. It made me feel lot better."

"Don't thank me. What are friends for then? Let's go practice, shall we?"

"Hold up!"

"What's wrong?"

"I think Stefan is trying out for football."

"What? Are you serious?"

"Do you know what happened today?"

"If you don't tell me how do you expect me to know?" Meredith says sarcastically while Elena rolls her eyes at her.

"Today when you left me and Stefan alone we were discussing things. Right then, Tyler threw football towards Stefan out of nowhere and he caught hold of it without even noticing it coming towards him. I was really surprised. In fact, everyone present around there at that time was totally shocked. Tyler's face was worth the watch. Then Stefan threw back the football at Tyler with a full force. Tyler caught it but fell down right on his ass."

"That dick deserved it."

"So I asked Stefan to try out for football and there he is."

"Way to go Elena. Let's see what he does in the tryouts."

Elena and Meredith then go over to the football field and stands at a safe distance to watch Stefan play. Tanner keeps motivating the boys while Matt gives out instructions to set the team at a right pace. Stefan keeps doing a great job on the football field impressing everyone as Elena and Meredith watches him. Elena was bit surprised at Stefan's gaming skill. But Meredith wasn't surprised at all as she knew that his vampire abilities were helping him progress better in the game. Everything was going at a fair play that's when Tyler hits Stefan intentionally. Stefan falls over badly.

"What a dick!" Meredith says as she gets annoyed seeing Tyler's actions. Sometimes she wonders why she even dated that guy in the first place!

"I think he's hurt." Elena says worried.

"Don't worry. I think he'll be fine." Meredith replies knowing only what she knew.


Salvatore Boarding House

After a long practice, Stefan comes to his home. As he enters his bedroom, he sees Damon relaxing in his bed reading his diary. Sensing Stefan in the room Damon speaks up.

"How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many...adjectives." He says with a smirk on his face.

Annoyed, Stefan rips the diary out of Damon's hands.

"What are you doing here?"

Damon gets up from the bed with a straightforward expression in his face and comes towards Stefan.

"I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and...I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us."

Damon tries his best to keep the serious expression on his face but breaks out laughing.

"You know, it doesn't have to be this way." Stefan says.

"Of course it doesn't. I saw Elena and Meredith today, BTW. That means 'by the way'. They were at cheerleading practice. Elena looked so perky in her little short shorts while Meredith was looking just as sexy as ever."

Stefan starts to get angry and stands right before Damon in guard so Damon puts up both his hands in defense and says, "Just...simmer down, I didn't even go near them. I've got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me...I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty palms. Wish me luck." Damon runs out of the room while Stefan sits down on the chair feeling exhausted. He was really confused and angry at the same time with Damon. But he couldn't do a thing about it. He had to stop Damon but he can't until he takes human blood.


Gilbert Residence

Elena, Meredith and Bonnie were preparing dinner in the kitchen after practice. Bonnie was reluctant at first coming but she agreed anyways. While preparing dinner, Bonnie has been talking about all being psyched up.

"You explain it. Last night, I'm watching Nine-o, a commercial break come on and I'm like, I bet it's that phone commercial. And sure enough, it's that guy and the girl with the bench, he flies to Paris and he flies back. They take a picture."

"Oh, come on. That commercial's on a constant loop." Elena says to Bonnie.

"Fine. Well, how about this? Today I'm obsessed with numbers. 3 numbers. I keep seeing 8, 14, and 22. How weird is that?"

"Maybe we should play the lottery." Meredith says with a playful smirk on her face while Elena and Bonnie roll their eyes. "What? We should try out. Who knows... we might even get lucky you know."

"Have you talked to your Grams?" Elena asks.

"She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch. Do you want to be a witch?"

"Maybe. I don't know." Meredith answers.

"Definitely not." Elena answers while pouring food into a bowl.

While preparing and serving the food the door bell rings.

"Ok, he's here. Don't be nervous. Just be your normal loving self." then Elena leaves to answer the door while Meredith and Bonnie together bring out the food to the table.


The Dining Room

Elena, Stefan, Meredith and Bonnie are eating together. Everyone was silent and an awkward silence was lingering. In order to break the tension in the air, Elena speaks up first.

"Did Tanner give you a hard time today, Stefan?"

"Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right."

"Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and..." Bonnie doesn't let Elena finish and speaks up, "Yeah, I heard."

"Why don't you tell Stefan about your family?"

"Um, divorced. No mom. Live with my dad."

"No, about the witches. Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool." Meredith says with a little smirk on her face while Bonnie rolls her eyes at her.

"Cool isn't the word I'd use." Bonnie says.

"Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s." Stefan says interested at the topic.

"My family came by way of Salem."

"Really? Salem witches?"

"Yeah."

"I would say that's pretty cool."

"Really? Why?"

"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity."

"Yeah, they are."

Seeing Bonnie opening up to Stefan, Elena and Meredith look up at each other smiling indicating that their plan worked perfectly to make Bonnie comfortable around Stefan.

While finishing up dinner, the doorbell rings. So Meredith gets up to get the door. When she opens the door, she finds Damon and Caroline standing at the door.

"Surprise! Bonnie said you guys were doing dinner, so we brought dessert." Caroline says excitedly.

"Oh..."

"Hope you don't mind." Damon says smirking.

Then Stefan, Elena and Bonnie come towards the hallway to see the uninvited guest. Seeing Damon, Stefan puts up his guard and walks towards Damon.

"What are you doing here?"

"Waiting for Elena to invite me in."

"Oh, yeah, you can..." Elena was about to invite in Damon but Stefan stops her.

"No, no, no. He can't, uh...he can't stay. Can you, Damon?"

"Get in here." Caroline says while she was already inside the house.

"We're just...finishing up." Stefan says not wanting Damon to get inside.

"It's fine. Just come on in." Elena says inviting in Damon.

"You have a beautiful home, Elena." Damon says while entering the house.

While all of them were walking towards the dining room, Meredith pulls Stefan aside.

"What the hell Stefan! What is Damon doing here? And why is he with Caroline?"

"Even I don't know why. As far as I can tell he just wanted to be invited in here just to cause more trouble."

"What do you mean by wanted to be invited in here?"

"Vampires can't get inside a house unless the owner of the house invites them in."

"Shit! Is he going to hurt Elena?"

"I don't think so."

"What about Caroline then? I saw them just this morning together making out. And now they are together or something?"

"Damon had promised me that he won't kill anyone else."

"So? That doesn't explain the fact why the hell is he with Caroline?"

"I think he's using Caroline as a blood bag."

"Wha-"

Before Meredith could finish her sentence Elena calls Stefan and Meredith, so they join the others in dinner.

After finishing their dinner, they all sit down at the living room to chat.

"I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team. Tyler must be seething. But good for you. Go for it." Caroline says to Stefan as she heard about Stefan joining the football team.

"That's what I always tell him. You have to engage. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it." Damon says.

"Yeah, Elena wasn't so lucky today. It's only because you missed summer camp. God, I don't know how you're ever going to learn the routines." Caroline says with a fake smile on her face.

"I'll work with her. She'll get it." Bonnie says in Elena's defense.

"I guess we can put her in the back." Caroline replies.

"You know, you don't seem like the cheerleader type, Elena." Damon speaks up.

Then Meredith, in order to make Damon taste his own medicine speaks up, "Damon, don't you seem bit older to date a teenager like Caroline who's only 16 and all. I mean, don't mind me but you know, it's sort of like a pedofilia thing going after young girls and all."

Hearing this, Elena and Bonnie try to stifle their laughter at Meredith's so called insult. Getting insulted like this Damon glares towards Meredith and wanted to rip off her head right then and there. But Caroline intervenes and speaks up changing the topic, "Oh, it's just 'cause Elena's parents died recently. Yeah, I mean, she's just totally going through a blah phase. She used to be way more fun. And I say that with complete sensitivity."

Damon then looks towards Elena and says, "I'm sorry, Elena. I know what it's like to lose both your parents. In fact, Stefan and I have watched almost every single person we've ever cared about die."

"We don't need to get into that right now, Damon." Stefan says getting angry but was trying to keep calm as much as he could.

"Oh, you know what, you're right, Stef. I'm sorry. The last thing I wanted to do was bring her up. Mmm." Damon says while smirking.

While they were passing their time chatting away, Bonnie leaves as she was getting late. Then Elena gets up to wash the dishes. Damon then follows Elena towards kitchen. Stefan, Meredith and Caroline were sitting at the living room chatting. While chatting, Stefan's attention moves towards Caroline's neck which was wrapped with a scarf. Suspicious, he asks Caroline about the scarf.

"That's a really nice scarf."

"Mm. Thank you, it's new."

"Can I see it? I mean, would you mind taking it off?"

"Oh, I can't."

"Why not? You ok?"

"Um...All I know is that I can't take it off."

Meredith was about to say something that's when Damon walks in.

"What are you kids talking about?"

"I was just commenting on her scarf." Stefan replies.

Damon then looks towards Caroline, "Hmm. Hey, you know, um, Elena is finishing up the dishes. Why don't you go see if you can help?"

"Does it look like I do dishes?"

"For me?"

"Hmm...I don't think so."

Damon then looks into Caroline's eyes and compels her.

"Go see if Elena needs help in the kitchen."

"You know what? I'm gonna go see if Elena needs some help in the kitchen."

Caroline then gets up and goes to the kitchen to help out Elena. Meredith also gets up to go and help Elena. But Damon stops her.

"Where do you think you are going?"

"To help Elena."

"Well… you can't. We got lots to discuss."

"Damon Salvatore got things to discuss without ripping someone's neck! Isn't that a breaking news Stefan?"

"They are people, Damon. Caroline is not a puppet. She doesn't exist for your amusement, for you to feed on whenever you want to." Stefan speaks up.

"Sure she does. They all do. They're whatever I want them to be. They're mine for the taking."

"No they aren't Damon." Meredith speaks up. "You can't just kill people and drink their blood without their will whenever you wish! Caroline might be a bitch sometimes but she's not your amusement or a toy to be played with."

"All right, you've had your fun. You used Caroline; you got to meet Elena, good for you. Now it's time for you to go." Stefan says.

"That's not a problem. Because...I've been invited in, and I'll come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with your little cheerleader whatever I want to do. Because that is what is normal to me." Damon says smirking.

"You are a fucking heartless bastard. That's all you are." Meredith then leaves Elena's house seething with anger.


Meredith was so angry. She couldn't understand how someone could be so heartless. One can't keep on killing people just for fun. There must be something to it. No one does anything without a reason. But whatever the reason was, she swore to stop Damon no matter what even if it cost her life.


The next day was the day of the homecoming game. Everyone was preparing themselves for the game. Even Meredith woke up early that morning and changed herself into her cheerleader outfit. After changing and preparing herself for the day, she took off for school.

At School

While entering the school building, Meredith bumps right into someone and falls down on the floor.

"What the heck! Watch where you walk!"

Meredith then looks up to see the person to whom she bumped into. When she looks up, her eyes meet up with a pair of grayish blue eyes. It belonged to none other than the infamous Damon Salvatore.

"Sorry, my bad." Damon apologizes to Meredith while he held out his hand to help her to get back at her feet. But Meredith doesn't take his hand; instead she gets up on her own and starts to walk away from Damon. But Damon stops her in her tracks with his vampiric speed standing right in front of her.

"Where do you think you are going gorgeous? Don't you think you look rather ravishing today in your outfit?"

"Get out of my way!"

"I suppose we didn't have a proper introduction. My name is D—"

"I know your name. It is Damon Cocky Salvatore. Now move!"

"Oh come on. Don't be so mean. I know you want me. You just don't want to confess it."

"Not. In. A. Thousand. Years. Now MOVE!"

Meredith tries to shove Damon out of the way. But Damon was stronger. He catches hold of her two hands and pushes her to the wall pinning her hands above her head. Then he leans into Meredith's face and looks directly into her eyes.

"You want me more than anything. You don't want to confess it but now you are going to confess it right here and right now." With that Damon starts to lean into Meredith more and more, his lips almost touching her. She could feel his breathing. But she understood one thing that Damon was trying to compel her to do what he asked her to. But he wasn't successful compelling her. So, catching Damon off guard, she pushes him away and punches him right in the face with all her force. Damon almost falls on the floor but he gets a grip on himself. Damon's jaw was also broken from the sudden blow from Meredith's punch.

"Don't you ever dare to come near me or my friends ever again!" saying that Meredith stomps away from him.

Damon was surprised and shocked at the same time. The first thing was that she could resist his compulsion even without vervain. The second thing was the punch that she threw on his face broke his jaw immediately. It was impossible for a girl like Meredith to do that considering her age and size let alone even the strongest person.

Damon did suspect that there was something off about her. The way she smelled. He felt like ripping into her neck right there and taste her blood. There was something different about her too. It was mysterious, intriguing and yet, intimidating as well at the same time. It was as if she was human, but yet not human. She was something more.


Meredith was very angry. Damon tried to compel her and tried to make her his puppet just like Caroline. She felt like killing him right and there. But after throwing in a punch like that at Damon, She felt relieved and relaxed.

"He deserved it." she says to herself making herself calm down.

"Who deserved what?" Stefan suddenly comes up to Meredith from behind.

"Oh! Hey Stefan. I didn't see you coming."

"So what were you talking about?"

"It's nothing. Forget it. You look great in your football gear BTW."

"Thanks and you too look great in your uniform."

As they were chatting, Elena comes over and joins in to their conversation.

"Hey guys. Ooh. Look at you Stefan. You look hot in your jersey." Elena says winking at Stefan.

"Elena, where's your outfit?" Meredith asks not seeing Elena in her uniform.

"What happened? No more cheerleader?" even Stefan asks surprised not seeing Elena in her uniform.

"I quit. I'm a quitter."

"No, hey, you're not a quitter. You suffered a great loss. You're not the same person. You should be looking ahead. You should be starting over. Ok?"

"Stefan is right Elena." Meredith says hugging Elena.

"Okay guys I gotta go and find Bonnie. See you at the game Stef."


Meredith practices with the team along with Bonnie led by the captain, Caroline. After practicing, Tanner gathers around the players and starts giving motivational speech.

"Wait, wait, wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Let's be honest here. In the past, we used to let other teams come into our town and roll right over us! But that is about to change. We've got some great new talent tonight starting on the offense, and I'm gonna tell you right now, it has been a long time since I have seen a kid like this with hands like these. Let's give it up for Stefan Salvatore!"

Hearing Stefan's name everyone starts to cheer for him and the rest of the team except for Tyler of course.

While Tanner was giving the speech, Elena walks up to Meredith. Seeing Elena, Meredith speaks up.

"So, you heed my advice I suppose."

"Yeah, I thought it was the right thing to do. I shouldn't force myself to be someone I'm not."

Noticing a necklace around Elena's neck, Meredith asks, "Who gave you that necklace?"

"Stefan gave it to me."

"Wow. It's pretty." Meredith was about to tell something more that's when she heard a commotion. Both Elena and Meredith look up to see Tyler and Jeremy fighting with each other. Tyler starts to throw in punches towards Jeremy whilst Vicki tries to intervene to stop the fight. Stefan and Meredith goes towards the commotion and try to stop the fight. Stefan grabs hold of Tyler's wrist when he was about to punch Jeremy right into the face.

"Hey, he's down! Enough!"

Getting angrier, Tyler punches Stefan, but it has no effect on Stefan. Tyler starts to look a bit scared. On the other hand, Meredith tries to hold off Jeremy. But Jeremy pushes Meredith aside and grabs a broken glass bottle and strikes at Tyler. But Tyler moves out of the way in the nick of time and the bottle would have cut through Stefan's hand but Meredith intervenes and gets stabbed in the stomach. Meredith was about to fall on the ground but Stefan catches her in the meantime. Meredith was bleeding profoundly from the wound. Stefan's hunger was about to give in to the smell of Meredith's blood but Elena comes in the nick of time to tend to Meredith's wound.

"Let me see."

Elena slowly pulls up the cardigan Meredith was wearing. When she pulls up the cardigan trying to tend the wound, she found only traces of blood but not a single cut or any sort of scratch marks.

"What the..."

Elena couldn't believe her eyes. She had seen Jeremy stabbing Meredith deep inside her stomach. She was bleeding a lot too. How is it possible that the wound was healed instantly? Even Stefan couldn't believe it. As Meredith's pain lessened, she looks up to Elena's face to see a shocking expression. When she looks towards where she was staring, she also couldn't believe her eyes. Stefan picks up Meredith and helps her to her feet.

"Let's get you cleaned up."

Stefan then takes Meredith towards the washroom to help her clean off the blood marks stained on her cardigan and also to move Meredith away from there before anyone could realize what was happening.

"What's happening to me?" Meredith asks Stefan freaking out.

"I don't know."

"I got stabbed with a glass deep inside my stomach! I felt it piercing right through my skin. I am supposed to bleed like shit! It's not like I wouldn't be healed but how could this happen I mean how..."

"Calm down Meredith! Even I'm surprised. There are couples of conclusions that I can draw."

"What is it?"

"You might be something supernatural. Are you a vampire by any chance?"

"I'm not a fucking vampire Stefan! Even if I were, wouldn't I be chasing people around the town screaming 'I need blood!'" Meredith yells.

"Calm down Meredith I just said I drew a couple of conclusions. Of course you are human. But, maybe… your father might know something."

"You are right. I should get home."

"Do you want me to drop you off?"

"No thanks. I'll go by myself. You'll be missing your game."

"Okay. But let me atleast walk you."

Stefan helps Meredith clean herself up and they go out. Stefan walks beside Meredith when they were interrupted by Matt.

"Where are you guys going?"

"Oh well... I... uh... got cut a bit. So I wanna go home and Stefan decided to walk with me a bit." Meredith answers quickly.

"Okay Mere take care and uh, Stefan. What you did back there...you had Jeremy's back."

"Ah, he's a messed-up kid. Somebody's gotta look out for him."

"I know. This week at practice I was a dick."

"Had your reasons."

"No excuse. Good luck tonight. We're lucky to have you." Matt extends his hands towards Stefan and they shake hands. Matt then leaves.

"Isn't that nice? Stefan joins a team, makes a friend. It's all so, 'rah, rah, go team, yeah!'" Damon speaks up as soon as Matt was out of sight.

"Not tonight. I'm done with you." Stefan says and starts to walk out with Meredith but Damon comes in front of them and stands in their way.

"Nice trick with Elena. Let me guess...vervain in the necklace?"

"Vervain? Necklace?" Meredith thinks to herself remembering that she saw Elena wearing a necklace around her neck. She even told her that Stefan gave her that necklace.

On the other hand, Damon kept on talking.

"And by the way Meredith even you were able to refrain from my compulsion. That too without vervain. Anyways, it's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion with and without vervain. Where'd you get the vervain Stefan?"

"Does it matter?"

"Guess I could just seduce Elena the old-fashioned way. Or I could just...eat her."

"Don't you dare hurt her Damon! Didn't you learn your lesson yet?" Meredith says glaring at Damon.

"Or what huh?" Damon says with a smirk.

"You're not gonna hurt her, Damon." Stefan says confidently.

"No?"

"Because deep down inside, there is a part of you that feels for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you that you may have actually become the monster that you pretend to be."

"Who's pretending?"

"Then kill me." Stefan says challenging Damon.

"Well, I'm...I'm tempted."

"No, you're not. You've had lifetimes to do it, and yet, here I am. I'm still alive. And there you are. You're still haunting me. After 145 years. Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her, and you torture me because you still do. And that, my brother, is your humanity." Stefan says with a nervousness in his voice.

"Is this why Damon's this way?" Meredith asks.

"Yes Meredith." Stefan replies.

At the exact moment, Tanner comes looking for Stefan.

"Salvatore! What the hell? We've got a game to play!"

"If that's my humanity...then what's this?" as soon as Damon says this, he zooms in towards Tanner and bites in his neck draining out all the blood from his body killing him.

"No!" Stefan yells.

"Anyone, anytime, anyplace." Damon then vanishes in the dark.

Stefan tries to go after Damon but he was long gone. So he comes back for Meredith thinking that she might be in shock. When he comes back to where he left Meredith, what he sees, he never expected it. There was someone looming over Tanner's body. When he gets closer, he sees that the person was holding up Tanner's wound as if trying to stop the blood from flowing. As he gets closer he sees that the person is no other than Meredith. A white aura was emitting from Meredith. The aura was very pure and relaxing. It felt as if heaven had come down on this very earth. As the aura expands, Meredith opens up her eyes revealing bright white color emitting from her eyes. Then suddenly, stormy wind starts to blow. It happened suddenly and it stopped in the same manner. As the wind stopped blowing, Meredith also fell down unconscious. Stefan went up to Meredith to check if she was okay. Before he could check, he hears someone coming. Without any further delay, he picks up Meredith and vanishes into the dark night.


Ooh. A cliffhanger. I hate cliffhangers myself but that's what makes the story interesting. Isn't it? I'll update the 4th chapter next week. If you like the story please review. Even one review is motivational for me to keep the story going. If you got any question, ask away. I'll try my best to answer. And once again, I'm really sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes as English is not my native language. If there are any mistakes please feel free to point it out. Thanks for reading. I'll update the story next week.