A/N: Happy April Fools! Enjoy the bonus chapter! ;)

Chapter 3

We Rock!

Christina had woken up early in a morning before her alarm clock, that her dad bought her since she was in kindergarten that was louder than the screams of people on the freaking Titanic!, had went off. She unplugged it just to be safe, before heading for the shower. Once she got out with her towel wrapped out, she heard a knock on a door.

Huh? That's weird... normally we don't have 'visitors'? Christina thought. She walked down the stairs to the kitchen and automatically opened the door, not aware she was still soaked from her shower and only had a towel wrapped around her body and hair. She opened it to face Jeremy.

"Jeremy!?" She nearly shrieked and had a heart attack. Jeremy did NOT expect to see her wet and pretty much partly naked, early in the morning. "Hey!" He said, trying to hide the fact how uncomfortable he felt at the moment. "Wh...wha...what are you doing here!?" She spluttered in shock. How did he know where I lived?! I NEVER told him! Christina screamed in her head. "I came to surprise you. so...surprise!" He said sheepishly. He quickly made his way inside the house.

"Wow... it's a nice place you got here." He complimented, once he glanced around the kitchen. Christina didn't know what to do. She so badly wanted to scream. One of her dad's rules to NEVER break, was to NEVER tell people where they lived, or else they would come visit whenever they want and might end up finding out the existence of vampires. 'Now my dad's gonna kill me!' Christina told herself.

"Umm...were you just in the shower?" Jeremy didn't ask, but stated. Christina looked at him confused for a moment, until she realized how drafty she felt. She was still wet and naked! 'Now I just want to crawl inside a hole and die!' She groaned to herself. "I uh...I..." She sighed in frustration, "I gotta go...don't touch anything!" She soon left. Jeremy chuckled slightly under his breath.

He never realized it, but he kinda found it cute whenever she found the time to get mad or pissed, for no apparent reason.

After the little 'encounter' that morning, Jeremy and Christina walked off to school. Christina was wearing her usual, blue floral top, with a jean jacket on top, with black skinny jeans and white sneakers. Eventually they were behind the school hours later.

"I rock. I scored 3 tickets to the Posers Saturday night. They're playing at the Rat." Vicki said as she approached both Jeremy and Christina. Christina couldn't help but smile. "You, Christina and Tyler have fun." Jeremy told her. Christina's smile faltered.

There was no way in hell she was going to that concert with Tyler freaking Lockwood! "Don't be like that. Come on. I want you to go." Vicki told him. "You're not worried that everyone's gonna know you're screwing the stoner geek?" Christina asked her, while scowling her. "Oh wait... everyone already knows." Jeremy added. "Yeah. But it's not like that anymore we can be friends and hang out." Vicki added.

"Tell me something, was it the drugs? Were you sleeping with me for the drugs?" Jeremy asked her. Christina was shocked by this. Vicki wasn't THAT much of a slut!

"Screw you." Both Christina and Vicki said to Jeremy.

"No, if there's another reason, I'm all ears." Jeremy informed them. Christina rolled her eyes slightly and walked off with Vicki. As they were walking near the front yard, she noticed a football heading towards her dad. Obviously he caught it and threw it back at Lockwood, who threw it first, trying not to hurt him too much in the process. Christina smiled at that.

It's days like this that she's proud to have a vampire for a dad...I mean who wouldn't? You didn't have to worry about them too much, you wouldn't have any fear for them dying and other than that...they love you unconditionally...Which I guess is a vampire thing?

After awhile...Vicki left for some class and Christina was by herself. Soon a blue cameo car drove up to her. It was her 'uncle'.

"Hello, Christina! Need a lift?" He asked her politely after pulling up to her. "No thanks." She muttered, knowing he'll hear it anyway. "It's so cute that you think you have free will. Get in the car, Christina." He told her. "I'm not getting in the car with you. You can't tell me what to do!" She stated. "Actually I can. It's part of our deal." He smirked. "What deal?!" She asked him frustrated.

She's been thinking it over last night, but she couldn't figure out what the deal was. "I said:...Get in the car, now." He commanded her. Christina rolled her eyes and walked off. Suddenly she stopped halfway. She didn't know why, but she pretty much lost control of her body. She started running towards her 'uncle's' car and hopped in, while placing her seat belt on.

Damon smirked at this. 'Nice to know, ol Steffy hasn't put her on vervain yet.' Christina had no ability left in her to stop whatever she was doing. This was wrong, she wasn't suppose to do this. And she wouldn't! Whatever he was doing to her, she swore to god she'll make him pay for it!

They eventually drove off, leaving Stefan unaware that his daughter had pretty much been 'kidnapped'.

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Stefan was on his way home, pretty much freaking out. He didn't know why but he felt panic the entire time he was in school. It was a parental panic. It was something he developed after 15 years of raising Christina. Every time something bad happened to her, or was about to happen to her, he'd have that tingling feeling that foreshadowed the outcome for his daughter. To make matters worse, she wasn't answering her phone every time her dialed her.

Once he got home he went straight to Christina's room, only to find her not there. He soon went to his room. He noticed Damon was reading out of one of his journals.

"How were the tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many...adjectives." Damon started out. Stefan snatched the journal out of his hand while saying, "What are you doing here and where's Christina?" "I gave her a ride home, made sure she was okay and she went to go play with her little stoner friends." Damon told him. He was half telling the truth...he did let her go and he did pick her up, but he did something else too.

Stefan didn't want to believe him, but half the things he said did sound believable, except the first part. "Why would she agree to go for a ride home with you. She usually walks home, it isn't that far." He asked him suspiciously. "So many questions. Anyway to answer your question from earlier...I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul-searching, and... I want us to start over again. 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. I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for us both." Damon said sincerely.

For just a brief second there, Stefan almost believed him. But Damon tried to keep a straight face but failed. He started laughing.

'I cannot believe I feel for it...again!' Stefan yelled to himself in disbelief. "You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon." He told him. "Of course it doesn't. I saw Elena today, BTW. That means 'by the way'. She was at cheerleading practice. She looked so perky in her little shorts. Christina's not bad-looking either. I saw her with the little stoner boy, probably gonna shag him in the future or just think about it. Just...simmer down. I didn't even go near her. Elena, I mean. I got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me... I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty plums. Wish me luck. Oh and also... make sure Christina doesn't go to the game tonight...she probably won't control herself. Bye!" Damon said, before leaving. Stefan stood there stunned and in anger.

'What the hell did he do to my daughter?!'

It was night-time and Christina was at the Grill with Jeremy. Vicki was working. After a while, Tyler ran into Jeremy.

"All right, I get it. Hit me to impress her. That's...that's nice." Jeremy started out. "I don't need to impress her. I already won. Now you're dead." Tyler started. "Am I? Cause it seems like I'm still standing here waiting for you to man up." Jeremy challenged him. Once again, sensing a spiral to happen, Christina had wedged herself between them. "Jeremy don't!" She shouted. "Ty, don't!" Matt yelled the same time she yelled at Jeremy. "The next time I see you, Gilbert..." Tyler started to threaten. "No, the next time I see you." Jeremy corrected him. With that both Jeremy and Christina left the Grill.

Jeremy started to walk Christina home, even though she rejected his gesture numerous times.

"You okay?" Christina finally asked him, once they reached her house. They had been pretty much quiet the whole way, aside from their bickering on 'if Jeremy could walk her home or not', which lasted a good 3 minutes. "Yeah, I guess." Jeremy shrugged. Christina sighed slightly. She never liked it when Tyler and Jeremy would fight, but it's not like she could have done anything about it right?

"Night, Jer." She told him. "Night, Chrissy." He said casually, before walking off. Christina walked inside the house and automatically went straight to her room getting ready for bed, not aware that her dad was still home having the battle of his life, wondering who should have the vervain necklace.

Elena or Christina?

The next day, Christina went down to the kitchen. Uncle Zach was making breakfast.

"Ooh, blueberry pancakes, my favorite!" She smiled, once she inhaled the familiar fragrance of the pancakes. Uncle Zach smiled. He enjoyed having Christina as a niece. She was pretty much the only relative that was human in the family. Granted, she wasn't a true Salvatore, but in Stefan and Zach's eyes she had been a Salvatore, the minute Stefan took her into his home and decided to raise her as if she was his own biological daughter.

"Hey you're up!" Stefan stated the obvious once he came down the stairs. "Oh course I am...I wouldn't miss Uncle Zach's famous blueberry pancakes now would I?" She smirked slightly. "I thought you said I made the best pancakes in the world?!" Stefan said dramatically in shock, while placing a hand on his undead heart as if the thought of her not liking his pancakes had stung. Christina rolled her eyes at her father's sudden reaction.

"I said that when I was 5. That was BEFORE I had one of Uncle Zach's pancakes. He's the king! No offense dad." She told him. "None taken...maybe." He stated. Zach couldn't help but smile at the fact they were bickering nearly over pancakes.

You could have sworn this was a NORMAL family that had NO vampires in it for a moment.

After a while, they all sat down and ate, besides Stefan, who went out hunting for some deer. He came back by the time breakfast was almost over. Christina must have had at least 5 stacks of pancakes, yet devoured it all one by one. This didn't surprise Zach or Stefan, given the fact that when she was 8 she was given 7 stacks and had knocked them out one by one, none stop. This at first freaked Stefan and Zach out, fearing she might over eat. But apparently she had a stretched stomach. Whose side of the family she got it from? They didn't know, nor did they care.

"Christina there's something I need to ask you." Stefan informed her, once she placed her now empty plate in the sink. "Yeah?" Christina wondered casually. "Are you going to the Timberwolf game tonight?" He asked her. "Um...I don't know...I guess." Christina shrugged, clearly not aware of where the conversation was heading. "I don't want you to go to the game tonight." He told her. Christina and Zach both turned to look at him in confusion. "Why not?" Christina asked suspiciously. "It'll be around night-time and I'm pretty sure Damon might attack again. I just don't want to see you get hurt." Stefan half lied.

It was true he didn't want to see his Chrissy get hurt, but that wasn't the reason why he wouldn't allow her to go to the game. He believed Damon must have compelled her to do something at the game. The only way to protect her, was to forbid her from going. As much as he hated lying to her, and being unfair with her, he had to do it. In order to protect her.

Christina didn't understand why, but a part of her didn't believe what her dad just said. He was hiding something, she just didn't know what? She chose to ignore that thought and agreed with her dad. "Alright." She told him. As much as she wanted to go to the game and find out what he was hiding from her, she knew better than to disobey. "Don't worry...we'll be playing in tonight." Zach encouraged her. It worked a bit and she smiled at the thought of beating Uncle Zach at cards again. "Okay." She muttered to herself, knowing her dad would hear it. Stefan nodded in relief.

All he had to do now was give Elena the vervain necklace and both his girls would be safe from Damon.

Hopefully.

It was night-time. Time for the game. Christina and Uncle Zach had already played all the broad games they could. Uncle Zach then went up to the attic to find a new broad game they never played before that had trivia and brainteasers about life and celebrities. It took a while, since he didn't know where he placed it. As he searched for it, Christina went up to her room in boredom. She soon got a text from Jeremy.

'Yo Chrissy, I think I've strucked gold!' - Jerbear

Christina couldn't help but laugh at his username. She always found it funny and what killed her the most was that he wasn't ashamed to have it, when most teen guys might think of it as a little kids name. She soon replied back.

'Oh yea? What is it?'- #ChristinaAguilera

'There's this dude I met at the game who wants to buy some pot from me. He wants to pay up 50 bucks each for it. I'm kinda low on it, so I'm wondering if you could help me out, Dealer?'- Jerbear

Christina sighed slightly at the response. She only gave drugs to Jeremy and Vicki, because they were into those stuff and She wanted to make her friends happy and have them like her the way she liked them. She never liked the thought of Jeremy or Vicki using the drugs she gave them, to other people. Yet they did it anyway, and there was nothing she could do to stop them. Once she gives them drugs, it's their property now. They can either deal it to other people, or keep it for themselves. That's just how the system worked.

'Where are you?'- #ChristinaAguilera

She replied. He soon replied back seconds later.

'I'm at the Timberwolf game.'- Jerbear

Christina thought it over and glanced behind her back towards her opened bedroom door. 'At this rate it'll take Uncle Zach all night to find that broad game. Maybe he won't notice...' Christina thought. She soon looked at her bedroom window. She quickly walked up to it, picked up her purse filled with her stash and lifted up the window with ease. She soon texted Jeremy...

'I'll be there in 5 mins... ;)'- #ChristinaAguilera

With that she quickly closed her eyes and jumped out the window into some near by bushes to break her fall. After a while, she recollected herself and her balance before she ran off to the game, not aware that Zach had found the broad game and was looking all over the house for her.

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Oh no, no, no, no, NO! This can not be happening. Zach started to panic. He nearly had a heart attack once he noticed that Christina's bedroom window was open and the bushes below it were slightly less bushy than usual.

She sneaked out.

Oh this isn't good! After breakfast earlier when Christina left to go take a shower for school, Uncle Stefan had told him the REAL reason why Christina couldn't go to the game. It was his job to stall her and entertain her. That and prevent her from going to the game. That's why they played nearly all the games he owned. Now she was gone. Probably to the game. Zach soon knew there was only one thing to do.

He called Stefan.

Stefan was at the game enjoying himself. He had smiled and waved at Elena as she cheered at him excitedly. He was happy that she was wearing the vervain necklace and wasn't questioning why he gave it to her so early in their relationship. Suddenly, he heard a ring tone from afar. It was his phone. After his coach, Mr. Tanner had introduced him to the audience and they cheered for him, Stefan left to go pick up his phone. It was Zach.

"Zach?" Stefan wondered why he was calling him.

"Uncle Stefan...she's gone...Christina's gone." He told him slightly in panic.

"What do you mean she's 'gone'?!" Stefan asked him in alarm.

"I don't know. Everything was going so well. We played a few broad games and while I was going to get a new one we haven't played before, I found her missing...and to make matters worse her bedroom window was open; meaning she snuck out when I wasn't looking." Zach explained to him what happened. Stefan mentally cursed in his head. 'Oh she is SO grounded when I find her!' Stefan told himself.

"Don't worry, Zach I'll find her and I'll bring her home." He told his panicked nephew, before hanging up.

This was just great! Just what he needed for today! All he wanted to do was to relax for today and forget he was a vampire, forget about Damon and forget about all his troubles and be with Elena. But apparently it wouldn't happen tonight. Stefan sighed softly.

Sometimes it takes sacrifices to be a parent, and to him, it was all the time.

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Christina, as promised, made it to the field court in 5 minutes. She went where all the crowd WEREN'T at. She soon met up with Jeremy and gave him all the stash of weed she had. She had grown them freshly from deep in the forest, in every town she temporarily lived in. And her father never suspected a thing.

After Jeremy got the 50 bucks, he and Christina started chatting about unimportant school gossip and debated whether it was true of false...the outcome was...60% false & 40% true. Jeremy then started to briefly smoke from a pot that some guy had given him from the stoner pit a while back during summer. As usual, Christina rejected his offer. Jeremy didn't exactly want Christina on drugs, but he figured since she was pretty much a drug dealer, she should know WHAT she was dealing with. Either way, he respected her decision and didn't ask her again.

Suddenly, Tyler walked up to them. "Oh, what do you care? Don't look so down. You can have her when I'm done." Tyler told Jeremy. Christina looked at him in disgust. Tyler just wanted Vicki for her ass, which she never understood why Vicki even thought about dating him in the first place! Before she even knew it, it happened. It happened so fast it took her a moment to process what was happening in front of her.

Jeremy had thrown a punch and was fighting with Tyler.

Christina soon snapped on her feet and ran towards them. "Jeremy don't! Please! That's enough!" She warned him. "Tyler stop it!" Vicki started out. She continued saying it, but at that point Christina wasn't listening anymore. It took only three words for her to realize it.

"Damon let go of me!" Christina commanded him as he had a strong grip on her upper forearms. "Listen to me Chrissy, and listen good. I want you to do something for me. The next time you see Jeremy and somebody says 'stop' you kill him. Okay? I repeat: the NEXT TIME you see Jeremy Gilbert and somebody, that could be anybody, says the word 'stop' you kill him. I don't care how you kill him, just do it. Not only well it destroy Elena which would destroy Stefan, but it would also destroy you, which would actually kill Stefan." Damon told her in a compelling voice, "You're also going to forget about this conversation..." Christina nodded and left the house, thinking she had walked home from school, then decided to see Jeremy, forgetting the fact her 'uncle' was at home.

Christina soon charged towards Jeremy and started to throw punches. But instead of punching Jeremy, she was actually fighting both Jeremy and Tyler. Stefan seeing this fight starts to panic, but swoops in immediately.

"Hey, he's down! Enough!" Stefan told Tyler, while grabbing him by the wrist. Tyler soon punched Stefan. This obviously had no effect on him. Soon Jeremy picked up a glass and ran in towards Tyler, but Christina blocked his way. She jumped him and pinned him to the floor. "Ahh!" She screamed as she felt the glass in her plum. It started to bleed out. Yet she still kept on trying to kill Jeremy.

She pulled out a pocket knife that Uncle Zach had shown her as a kid, but she secretly stole and was about to stab Jeremy, until Stefan quickly pulled her off him and restrained her. It happened so fast that nobody was aware of what was about to happen. Even Jeremy, himself, was not aware that Christina was about to stab him. All he knew was that she jumped him, he assumed maybe to stop him from stabbing Tyler with a broken glass bottle, and that was pretty much it the rest was blurry.

"Stop it! Christina! I said stop it!" Stefan yelled into her ear. But she didn't stop. She was still fighting him, even though Stefan had a good grip on her and had her hands tied behind her back. She was trying to break free.

"I can't! I can't stop it! When someone says 'stop', I have to kill Jeremy. When someone says 'stop', I have to kill Jeremy. When someone says 'stop', I have to kill Jeremy. When someone..." Christina mumbled to herself. Hearing this, Stefan quickly turned her around and shook her violently, trying to get her to snap out of it. She soon got out of her trance.

"Dad?" She whispered quietly to herself. "Shh, it's okay...it's okay...go home now and don't leave till I get there." Stefan told her. She quickly nodded and ran off, not being able to shake off the feeling of what just happened.

Elena was just consoling her brother, before he took off. She noticed how Stefan was trying to comfort some random girl from the fight. Elena nearly froze on her spot when she saw him shook her wildly. What was he doing to her?! Her first instinct was to confront him, but after he let the girl run off she resisted, thinking of asking him about that later. Something was oddly familiar about that girl. Elena knew for sure she had seen her somewhere before. The question was who was she? And why did she feel like she needed protection?

After Zach had bandaged up Christina's hand she was sent off to bed. Christina had no idea what came over her. She almost had killed Jeremy that night. But that wasn't what scared her the most. What scared her the most was that even though she DIDN'T want to kill Jeremy, she was unable to stop herself from doing so. She had just lost control over her body. She knew that from what happened tonight was going to happen again.

The thought frightened her so much she ended up crying herself to sleep. Stefan and Zach were downstairs trying to figure out on what to do, knowing Damon had compelled her. Zach soon showed Stefan the collection of vervain he was secretly growing. It was at that point, that they agreed to put Christina on vervain secretly the next morning.