Twisted Love
Season one
The Night of the Comet
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries Characters, except for Grace, her family and her home :)
"Grace." Heidi called "can I speak to you before you leave?"
"Erm." Grace looked at the time on her phone before sighing "Sure." she nodded
"I heard from Sheila that Bonnie said you're getting head aches." Heidi looked at her
"Yeah, but it's nothing." Grace shrugged "I mean it's just head aches."
"Have you been hearing... voices?" Heidi asked coyly
"Would I sound crazy if I said yes?" Grace laughed
"Honey, you're a telepath." Heidi gushed "Just like me!"
"Whoa, ok hold up a sec." Grace laughed "I am not Sookie Stackhouse, I do not read peoples minds."
"I don't know who Snookie is." Heidi shook her head cluelessly
"Sookie, Gran." Grace laughed correcting the older woman "she's a telepath too." she shook her head "never mind, and besides It's only sometimes anyway." she shrugged
"You have to concentrate, the more you practice the more easy it will be for you." Heidi smiled "it used to be real easy for me."
"Have you been drinking?" Grace asked with seriousness filling her voice
"of course not." Heidi gave her a questionable look "Honey, you have to believe me, I was a telepath and you are too."
"you know, I'm gonna be late I have to go." Grace quickly left
Strutting into school Grace spotted Elena talking with Bonnie and Caroline, she quickly skipped over standing next to them
"What's going on?" Grace asked
"Like you, I'm in a great mood." Elena grinned at her best friend
"Meet too, I met this guy last night." Caroline gushed "Totally hottie."
Grace cocked an eye brow "Did you speak to him?"
"No, I was too drunk." Caroline pouted "Bonnie, come with my to my locker." she begged
The olive toned girl rolled her dark brown orbs "Fine."
Both Caroline and Bonnie left the two brunettes who were silent before Grace gave Elena a look and she laughed
"I got your text." Grace wiggled her eye brows "So you and Stefan, huh?"
"We talked for hours." Elena replied a grin spreading across her perfect features
"Only talked." Grace purred
"Yes, we only talked." Elena smirked rolling her eyes "We've got history first." She sighed
"Don't let that ruining your good mood." Grace jumped on the spot "Let's keep the positivity, I liked it!"
Elena smirked "So Bonnie tells me you ran into some mysterious guy outside the coffee shop last night." she looked towards her as they walked down the crowded hall way "who is it?"
"Well, his name is Damon." Grace stopped on his last name, maybe Stefan wasn't telling Elena for a reason "my Gran knows him, I keep bumping into him."
"Bumping as in?" Elena looked at her confused
"Actually slamming right into him." Grace slapped her forehead "I must look like such a joke to him."
"No, I bet it's cute, endearing almost." Elena bumped her best friend slightly "I bet he goes out of his way to make you bump into him."
Grace blushed a little "no, I don't think... well... no." she shook her head, her long chocolate brown hair falling over her bony shoulder
Walking casually into their history lesson they took their usual seats in front of Caroline and Bonnie in the second row. As the lesson dragged on Grace noticed Stefan and Elena making goggly eyes at each other, unfortunately so did Mr. Tanner
"Now the comet will be it's brightest after dusk during tomorrow's celebration." Mr. Tanner walked towards Grace's and Elena's desk "Are we bothering you, Mr. Salvatore, Ms. Gilbert." he interrupted their eye contact.
Silently Elena shook her head and Grace giggled at the girl, Mr. Tanner continued to lecture and Elena tried to catch quick glance of Stefan.
As soon as the bell rang to end the lesson Elena and Stefan quickly exited the room, so Grace decided to give them their time, so she joined up with Bonnie and Caroline
"I'm confused, are you psychic or clairvoyant." Caroline asked after Bonnie had finished speaking about her latest escapade with her Grandmother
"Technically, Grams says I'm a witch, my ancestors were these really cool salem witch chicks or something." Bonnie shrugged "Grams tried to explain it all, but she was looped on the liqueur so I tuned out." She rolled her big brow eyes "crazy family, yes. Witches, I don't think so."
"well feel free to conjure up the name and number of that guy from last night." Caroline almost moaned
"I didn't see him." Bonnie laughed "Did you Grace?"
"Huh?" Grace looked up "Oh no, I uh didn't see anything."
"Why didn't you just talk to him?" Bonnie asked
"I don't know, I was drunk." Caroline shrugged
Looked off the to the side lines Grace saw Jeremy walking outside towards Tyler, she sighed and ran out the door as fast as her vans could take her
"Jeremy." Grace called
"Not now." Jeremy hissed stalking over to him "Hey, Tyler." He called reaching him, Grace close behind "I'm sorry to interrupt, I was just uh, wondering how Vicki was doing since you two are so close, is she ok?" "She's fine." Tyler replied simply "Now get out of here."
"How bad is she?" Tyler questioned "Do they know what attacked her? Is she going to make a full recovery? I mean, was she happy to see you? What room was she in?"
"I'm gonna kick your ass." Tyler threatened
"That's really not necessary." Grace tried to pull Jeremy back "Give it a rest, Jere."
"yeah, you keep saying that, but when are you actually going to do it?" Jeremy squared up to him "cause I vote for right here and right now." He shoved him
"Jere!" Grace grabbed him stepping between the two "It's your final warning
"Just walk away, Gilbert." Tyler warned
"I think that's a brilliant idea." Grace attempted to push him
"No this is your final warning, dick." Jeremy pushed in front of Grace getting in Tyler's grill "I'm sick of watching you play Vicki, if you hurt her one more time, I will kill you." He threatened
"That's enough." Grace pulled him away
"Damn." Tyler turned to the girls "That was like a death threat, did you hear that?" he asked them
Grace's nails teared into Jeremy's skin as he quickly yanked his arm back from her grip, she turned to him glaring him down
"What the hell were you thinking?" Grace asked "That you can just go up to him, a boy two years older than you, and fight him!" Grace asked
"I'm getting real sick of everyone around her treating me like a kid!" Jeremy yelled at her "you must of all, Grace, just get out of my life!" he walked away
Grace toughened herself up and kept on walking when she saw Matt and Elena, they waved her over and she trotted over to them smiling
"We're just talking about Vicki." Elena informed her
"Funny, I just split up a fight about Vicki." Grace replied
"What?" Matt asked
"Tyler and Jeremy." Grace rolled her eyes "they really hate each other."
"Jeremy." Elena growled leaving quickly "I'll have to speak to him later."
"So how is Vicki?" Grace asked casually
"Their keeping her in over night to make sure there is no infection, but she should be able to come home tomorrow." Matt smiled slightly
"That's good news." Elena smiled "Have you got in touch with you mom?"
"Called and left a Message, but she's at Virginia Beach with her new boyfriend, so..." Matt shrugged "we'll see how long it takes for her to come rushing home."
"you should just be lucky that she's ok." Grace smiled at him
"I know, and now theres talk of some missing campers..." he trailed off
"Did she say what kind of animal it was that attacked her?" Grace asked curiously
"She said it was a vampire." Matt replied
Grace laughed "That's a good one, Matt."
"I'm not joking, she woke up last night, mutters Vampire, then passes out." Matt told her
"Ok that's weird." Elena laughed
"I think she was drunk." Matt shrugged "So what's with you and the new guy." he referred to Stefan
Grace and Elena turned to see Stefan sitting on a picnic table all on his own, looking out into the crowd of people
"Matt, the last thing I want to do is hurt you." Elena looked at her feet
"you know what? I'm actually gonna go back to the hospital, I wanna be there when Vicki wakes up." Matt made an excuse to leave "get the real story about last night."
"ok." Elena basically whispered
Matt turned and left without even saying goodbye, Grace bit her bottom lip waiting for Elena to speak and when she didn't Grace did
"Well that was painful to watch." Grace started
"Grace, just... not now please." Elena looked at her
"Sorry." Grace whispered like a puppy dog
Elena felt guilty "I know you're just trying to make me laugh, but hurting Matt like that..." she sighed "God, I feel terrible."
"Don't." Grace shook her head "it isn't you're fault you like the new smokin' hottie and he likes you too." she turned to see Stefan gone
"Where did he go?" Elena suddenly asked
"He was just there." Grace replied
As soon as school finished both teens went to the grill to get some coffee and talk about randoms things, the girls were soon joined by Caroline and Bonnie
"Well I talked to Grams and she told me the comet was a sign of impending doom." Bonnie announced "the last time it past over Mystic Falls there was lots of death, so much blood and carnage it created a bed of paranormal activity."
"yeah and then you poured Grams another shot and she told you about the aliens." Caroline rolled her eyes "so then what?" she asked Elena
"So then nothing." Elena replied
"So you and Stefan talked all night?" The blonde asked not buying it "There was no sloppy first kiss? Or touchy-feely of any kind?"
"nope we didn't go there." Elena shrugged
"Not even a handshake?" Caroline asked "I mean, Elena we are your friends, you are suppose to share the smut."
"we just talked for hours." Elena replied
"What is with the blockage?" Caroline questioned "jump his bones already"
Bonnie and Grace exchanged a look before smirking
"Is that what the kids are calling it now days?" Grace smirked to Elena
"Shut up." Caroline scolded "It's easy, Elena, boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex."
"it's that easy." Grace looked at Bonnie "You don't want to talk with them first or anything? You just run over to a guy and jump on him." Grace shrugged sarcastically
"Oh yeah, I see that everyday." Bonnie replied sarcastically
"Profound." Elena rolled her eyes
"Wanna here something crazy?" Grace asked her eyes lighting up changing the subject
"Sure, I'm all up for crazy." Bonnie nodded
"I can read peoples minds." Grace wiggled her fingers in a witchy way
"That is crazy." Caroline smirked
"Yep, I'm an everyday Sookie Stackhouse according to my Gran." Grace informed them
"What is up with Grans and their crazy stories?" Bonnie asked
"Don't get me started and it's all because you told you're Gran about my head aches." Bonnie asked
"I want to test this out." Elena finally spoke "What am I thinking?" Elena smiled "I'm going to Stefan's house to talk to him."
Grace concentrated on Elena's voice "You're going to Stefan's house to speak to him."
"How did you get that?" Elena's smile dropped
"That was right?" Bonnie asked seriously
"Bonnie, their playing us." Caroline rolled her eyes "This is a classic Grace and Elena trick." she rolled her eyes picking at her salad "saw right through it, guys."
"You got us." Elena laughed nervously still looking at her best friend
"I'll come with you to Stefan's I need to speak to him." Grace replied standing placing money down "later." she called grabbing her coat before leaving
Elena quickly caught up with her jumping in Grace's car they both looked at each other worried as they pulled up at the old Salvatore boarding voice
"This place is spooky." Grace voiced
"Totally." Elena replied "lets go." she got out of the car
Elena practically ran up to the door ringing the doorbell twice, Grace quickly joined her trying to plan out the conversation in her head, the other day he acted as if he knew she knew what he was thinking? What was she crazy? Was she really doing this!
"I'm not telepathic." Grace stated randomly "It's all logic, you were obviously worrying about Stefan so you obviously wanted to speak with him, it was purely coincidental that I picked up that you wanted to go see him." she tried to find logic in all this mystery "Right?"
When no one came to the door Grace hit the knocker, the door swung open slowly and Grace and Elena looked into the hallway of the boarding house. Elena walked in first, she was fearless to walking into the unknown
"Stefan?" She called
"Elena, we can't just go in there." Grace tried to reason "This isn't our house."
The taller brunette ignored her walking further in, the timid girl followed her friend closely leaving the door open for a quick escape
Hearing the doors hinges sweak she turned to see, walking towards it she jumped out of her skin when a crow came squawking through the door she turned quickly to be staring into a bright icy blue pair of orbs.
"We're sorry for barging in." Grace apologized quickly moving back
"The door was..." When Elena looked back the door was close "open." the words died off
Damon looked towards Elena and smiled at her "you must be Elena." he announced "I'm Damon." he informed her "Stefan's older brother."
"This is Damon?" Elena whispered to Grace
"I am Damon." He replied
"Grace didn't mention that she knew Stefan's brother." Elena looked towards Grace narrowing her eyes "Then again, Stefan didn't mention he had a brother."
"Stefan isn't on to brag." Damon looked towards Grace "please come in." he moved to the side "I'm sure Stefan will be along any second." he lead them into the living room
"Wow." Elena stated "This is your living room."
"Living room, parlor, 70s auction." Damon joked "it's a little kitschy for my taste." he paused "you know I see why my brothers so smitten, it's about time for a while there I never thought he'd get over the last one." Damon explained "nearly destroyed him." he added
"The last one?" Elena questioned
"yeah, Katherine?" Damon replied "his girlfriend?" Elena shook her head unaware "Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exs talk."
"nope." Elena replied
"opps, well I'm sure it will come up now." Damon shrugged "or maybe he didn't tell because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound." Elena nodded silently "We all know how those relationships end."
"you say that like every relationship is doomed to end." Grace gave her best friend hope
"I'm a fatalist." He smirked at her "and you're a telepath."
"What?" Grace looked at him suddenly
He wiggled his eye brows in response before she turned around about to leave and saw Stefan standing there looking angry
"Elena, Grace, I didn't know you were coming over." Stefan didn't take his dark brown eyes off Stefan
"we should have called." Grace nodded
"oh no, don't be silly, you're welcome anytime." Damon smiled "Isn't she Stefan, you know I should break open the family photo albums, or some home movies." he looked at Elena "but I have to warn you he wasn't always such a looker."
"Thank you for stopping by, girls." Stefan was speaking to them whilst glaring evilly at Damon "it was nice to see you."
"Yeah, we should go." Grace nodded "we have to go."
"It was nice to meet you, Damon." Elena looked towards the older brother
"you too, Elena." he smiled "and see you soon, Grace." he touched her shoulder gently "real soon."
Grace shivered madly before leaving the house quickly waiting impatiently for Elena tapping her foot on the floor as soon as Elena came out they got in Grace's car
"Great gals." Damon smiled "Grace is feisty and Elena she's got... spunk." Damon smirked "did you overwork yourself today? Let me guess... hospital." he guessed
"Someone had to clean up your mess." Stefan replied walking towards the fireplace
"Well were you successful?" Damon asked "Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember if you don't feed properly none of those little tricks work right."
"how long were they here?" Stefan asked fiddling with his ring
"are you worried, Stefan?" Damon asked "scared I might rip that telepaths throat out? Or are you scared to rip out the humans throat? Isn't that why you play your game on a high school girl."
"I'm not playing a game." Stefan replied
"Sure your not." Damon rolled his eyes "we all know the closest you'll get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it." He purred
"What game are you playing, Damon?" Stefan asked
Damon shrugged "guess you'll have to wait and see wont you?" he walked away
Elena, Grace and Jenna all stood in the kitchen making food, Elena was pouring chocolate sauce onto her sundae Grace smirked taking it pouring it in her mouth
"he's on the rebound and he has major family issues." Elena explained grabbing the sauce back
"at least its a girlfriend." Jenna explained
"you know what's the worst? Mommy issues." Grace stated licking her lips
"tell me about it!" Jenna exclaimed laughing gently "or cheating issues."
"Never had a cheater." Grace replied
"not the best." Jenna replied sarcastically chomping into an apple "I wish I was still young and could eat all this great, fattening stuff without gaining a pound." she pouted looking at the girls
"It's great." Grace grabbed some nachos
The door closed behind them Elena and Jenna looked on Grace turned in her seat to see Jeremy walked in with his hood up and quickly ran for the stairs
"Jeremy!" Jenna called running after him standing at the bottom on the stairs "Where were you?" she asked
"more stoner stories? Look, Jenna, I get it, you were cool once too and that's cool." His voice was flat and he looked high off his ass
"oh no." Jenna growled launching her apple at Jeremy's back as he tried to walk up the stairs
"ow! Why, why did you do that?" Jeremy turned
"Listen to me quit ditching class or you're grounded, end of discussion." Jenna warned
"Parental authority, I liked it." Jeremy gave her another thumbs up "Sleep tight." he walked upstairs shutting the door to his room
It wasn't long after that fight that Grace returned home to see her Gran sitting in the kitchen nursing a hot cup of coffee
"Hey." Grace called
"Evening, dear." Her gran called
Grace stepped into the room and leaned against the door frame watching her Gran get up and wandering over to the sink washing up her mug
"I just stayed up to make sure you got in safe." Heidi smiled
"I'm fine." Grace replied kindly "Thank you."
Heidi nodded absentmindedly "What's on your mind, Grace?" she asked
"You're the telepath, you tell me." Grace teased
"I'm not a telepath anymore, I made a decision to have a family, once you give up your powers to procreate you can never get them back." She stated mournfully
"Really?" Grace asked
"I know it's scary for you now, but in a few years time this is just going to be another everyday activity for you." Her gran informed her lovingly "As soon as you accept that you're this powerful telepath things will become a lot easier."
"In what way?" Grace plonked down on one of the hard wood chairs
"Well..." Her gran turned sitting opposite her "People will never be able to lie to you again." she joked
"If I'm going to be serious about this, so are you." Grace warned like an adult
"Fine." Heidi replied "You wont get head aches, you'll be a lot safer, you'll be able to turn it on and off at your own will."
"are you deadly serious about this?" Grace asked
"I swear on my life I used to be a telepath, Grace, but then I wanted to have a child, and I did." She smiled "you're mother was the best thing to come from my life."
"So, how old are you really? If you stopped the aging?" Grace asked
"I am 117." she replied "I stopped when I'd just turned thirty, that's when my mother told me I was a telepath and Sheila helped me to stop the aging." She remember "at seventy I met your Grandfather whom had just turned twenty-two at the time, he was a baby." she cooed "twelve years later we married, the same year we had a kid, your mother, Stephaine." She smiled mournfully "thirty years later a little ten year old girl appears on my doorstep alone and scared, I take her in and seven years she turns into the beautiful young lady." she patted Grace's hand
"so was you with my mom when I was born." Grace asked smiling
Heidi fidgeted "no, honey, I wasn't."
"So we get to choose what age?" Grace asked changing the subject "just one day go alright this is it?"
"Not exactly." Heidi chuckled "you do need a witch to help you bind and unbind the spell, but that isn't too difficult from what I've heard." "Can you die?" Grace asked "I mean, whilst you're in a non-aging stage?"
"Absolutely." Heidi nodded
The next day Stefan was getting ready to go out and Zach was giving him a lecture, it felt very peculiar for this younger man to be giving the ancient vampire a lesson "What is Damon doing here?" Zach asked
"He wants to make my life miserable, that's how he enjoys his." Stefan replied buttoning his shirt
"well he's putting us all at risk, this girl in the hospital could talk." Zach informed him
"She wont." Stefan promised "I took care of her."
"You're sure?" Zach asked cautiously
Stefan sighed "I'm not sure, Zach." he admitted "I don't know how well it worked, I'm not as strong as Damon."
"So what happens if it doesn't work?" Zach questioned
"I don't know, I'll deal with it." Stefan shrugged about to leave the room
"Is she worth it?" Zach called to Stefan who stopped at the door "Uncle Stefan, this girl you came back for?"
Stefan gave his nephew a look before leaving the room in silence, was the even a question? If it was it wasn't a fair one.
"Vicki, what are you doing here?" Jeremy asked Vicki as was about to leave the Grill
"Fighting Robert about my schedule, you'd though getting ripped up by an animal would get me another sick day." She joked
"well are you feeling ok?" Jeremy asked
"I hurt." Vicki complained
"What the Doctor gave you something, right?" Jeremy asked
"The kid stuff." The druggie teen replied "nothing with an 'O' in it, I think they're onto me."
Jeremy laughed before grabbing a bottle of pills from his hoody pocket "Here." he placed the whole bottle in her hand
"Thanks, Jer." Vicki smiled at him almost sincerely taking two instantly
"are you gonna watch the comet later?" Jeremy asked hopeful
"I hadn't really thought about it." she admitted coyly "But I could be talked into it." she smiled "I'll meet you out there in a few."
"Hey, Vic." A pissed Tyler walked over "how you feeling?"
"Like you care." She spat walking away from him
Grace and Bonnie sat on a picnic bench talking about their grandmothers when Elena came over passing them both a candle
"No witches, no Telepaths, just normal humans." She smiled lighting her candles "At least for tonight." she winked
Elena smiled positively at the two before she and walked over to a guy who's candle wasn't lit and did it for him
"Thank you." his voice was husky
She looked up surprised into his dark hazel eyes, she hadn't seen him since the awkward moment in the Salvatore boarding house with his brother Damon and Grace when they talked about his ex, Katherine
"Hi." he smiled
"Hi." she replied walking away a little looking up into the starry night sky
"you know that comet has been traveling across the space for thousands of years." Stefan gave her some random information
They looked up as the bright white comet traveled across the deep jet black and navy blue sky through the trees, following the comet was a trail of bright emerald green and turquoise blue aftermath
"All alone." Stefan added after a second
"yeah, Bonnie sats it's a harbinger of evil." Elena joked
Stefan smirked to himself "I think it's just a ball of snow and ice, trapped on a path it can't escape." he argued "and once every 145 years it gets to come home." Stefan sighed again "I'm sorry about yesterday, I wasn't myself."
"you seem to spend a lot of time apologizing." Elena smirked
"well I have a lot to apologize for." Stefan countered "Yesterday it wasn't about you, or Grace for that matter." he looked back at the small telepath
"you didn't tell me that you had a brother." Elena looked at him
"We're not close... it's uh... it's complicated." Stefan chose his words carefully
"Always." Elena nodded "he told me and Grace about your ex... Katherine."
"What did he say?" Stefan asked
"That she broke your heart." Elena replied
"That was a long time ago." Stefan understated
"When you lose someone it stays with you." Elena countered "Always to remind you how easy it is to get hurt." she didn't make eye contact with him
Stefan stepped in front of her trying to make her look at him, she just looked down at their shoes as he spoke
"Elena." he started softly
"It's ok, Stefan, I get it." Elena nodded empathetically "you have no idea how much I get it." she nodded "Complicated brother, check, complicated ex, check, to complicated to even contemplate dating, double check." she looked hurt but tried to smile through it "It's ok, we met and we talked and it was epic but then the sun came up and reality set in." they made eye contact for a long five second "so." she shrugged walking away blowing out her candle
Damon sat there in the almost empty grill missing the amazing comet from outside nursing a bottle of beer when Grace walked in
"I'll be one minute, Bon." Grace laughed "I need the toilet
"Hurry up!" Bonnie laughed
"Miss. Johnson." Damon smiled at her
"Hi, Damon." Grace tucked a piece of hair behind her ear
Damon strolled over to her untucking the piece of hair so it fell elegantly over her neck, any excuse to touch her. Grace's breathing hitched and she took a step back
"It looks prettier like that." he purred
"Thank you." Grace almost whispered
"are you having fun watching the comet?" Damon asked casually
"Yes." Grace nodded "do you not want to watch it?"
"I can think of others things I'd rather watch." he eyed her a grin playing on his lips
"Oh." Grace blushed putting her head down
Damon found himself genuinely smiling before he stopped it turning it back into a arrogant smirk and going back over to the bar taking another swig from the bottle
Completely forgetting she needed the toilet she walked from the bar quickly closing the door and walking back over to Bonnie her cheeks flushed and bright pink
"I know you." A voice came from Damon right side he looked up to see that girl he'd bitten at that party
"Well that's unfortunate." Damon smirked turning to look at her
"I don't know how but you're face." She walked towards him staring intently at his perfect face "excuse me, sorry." she apologized leaving walking into the bathroom
Standing at the sink looking at her pale, tried face in the mirror she popped another two pills from Jeremy's pill bottle he'd given her, washing them down with sink water. As she rose back up to looking the mirror she saw him standing there, he flew forward and attacked her, ripping into her neck
Soon everyone met up again, Bonnie, Tyler, Grace, Elena they were all sitting at a table inside the grill talking about the comet
"Hey." Jeremy walked over with Matt and Caroline close behind "has anyone seen Vicki." "you're her stalker, you tell us." Tyler spat
"I can't find her." Jeremy replied glaring at Tyler "damn, I wish I never gave her them pills."
Grace looked up at him shocked and waited for everyone to react to it as well, but her guard was obviously down, and it was him talking in his mind
"She properly found someone else to party with." The tall bronzed ball smirked "Sorry, pill pusher, guess you've been replaced."
"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena asked creasing her eye brows
"Ask him." Tyler nodded towards Jeremy
"you wanna do this right now?" Jeremy was beside himself
"are you dealing?" Elena stood up
"she's never gonna go for you." Tyler's eyes darkened
"She already did." Jeremy growled "over and over and over again."
"Yeah right." Tyler rolled his eyes
"you slept with Vicki Donovan?" Grace asked
"She means Vicki Donovan slept with you." Caroline laughed
"There's no way." Tyler shook his head looking at the blue eyed blonde and hazel eyed brunette
"and I didn't have to force her into it." Jeremy looked evilly at Tyler
"What the hell is he talking about, Ty." Matt asked Tyler protective of his little sister
"It's nothing, man, just ignore him, he's a punk." Tyler growled at Jeremy
"Alright, how about we all shut up." Grace stood up "She's missing, and apparently drugged." she looked towards Jeremy
"how?" Jeremy shook his head
"We'll check the bathroom." Bonnie pulled on Caroline's arm
"I'll check the square." Matt turned to leave
"I'll come with you." Jeremy attempted to leave
"Oh, no." Elena grabbed him and Grace "you are coming with me." she pulled them into a corner
"So you're dealing now?" Grace asked casually
"I'm not dealing." Jeremy stated
"I'm sick of the tough love speech, Jer, it's clearly having no impact." Elena shook her head
"you, Jenna and Grace, between the three of you it's enough already-" he was cut off
"We can stop if you want?" Grace shrugged leaning back against the wall looking at her nails "send you to a therapist where you'll be forced to deal with it, or better yet, just ship you off to rehab where you'll sit in a group and tell some stranger how you let your life fall apart." her voice was flat and uninterested
"or you could talk to us." Elena glance over to Grace before looking back up at her baby brother
"I vote for none of the above." he glared at Grace and Elena before leaving out to the square
Stefan was walking around outside waiting for Damon to finally make his appearance, he knew he would at one point
"hey." Matt's voice came from behind him "have you seen my sister?"
Stefan looked clueless for a second "no, sorry." he replied
"I can't find her, she's missing." he sounded worried
"I'll keep an eye out for her." Stefan nodded once before turning back around to leave
"Hey." Matt caught his attention again making him turn "I saw you at the hospital yesterday."
"Did you?" Stefan asked
"What were you doing there?" Matt asked suspiciously
"Visiting." Stefan kept his answer vague
"Visiting." Matt repeated "You know Elena and I have known each other a long time, and we might not be now, but I look out for her." he stated "and I'll always look out for her."
Stefan nodded once before he heard Damon's voice with her supernatural hearing, it was almost like a static interference, like a untuned radio
"you really have to top struggling." Damon's voice ordered a mystery person
"get away!" a terrified girl cried
"excuse me." Stefan replied graciously before walking away towards the voice
Jumping up onto the roof of one the shops in Mystic Falls he looked directly at Damon who was holding Vicki basically on the edge of the building
"Not bad." Damon covered Vicki's mouth "have you been eating bunnies?" he joked
"Let her go." Stefan ordered
"Really?" Damon asked surprised taking his hand away from her mouth "ok." he almost dropped her back she screamed quietly
"No!" Stefan stepped forward
"relax." Damon through her forward into Stefan's arms stepping down from the ledge
"What's happening?" Vicki sobbed at Stefan's feet
"I don't need her to be dead, but you might." Damon smirked before looking down at the terrified teenager "What attacked you the other night?" he asked
"I don't know, an animal." she didn't sound convincing
"are you sure about that? Think about it, think really hard." he moved to be face to face with her "what attacked you?" Damon repeated
she paused before moving back "Vampire." she whispered
"Who did this to you?" Damon asked annoyed
"You did!" She exclaimed
"Wrong!" Damon interrupted her in a humorous voice "it was Stefan." he whispered he grabbed her moving he so she was standing up and looking directly into his bright blue orbs "Stefan Salvatore did this to you."
"Stefan Salvatore did this to me." she repeated in a whispered
"He's a vampire." Damon continued to look deep into the hazel brown eyes of the young girl "a vicious murderous monster."
"Please, Damon, please don't." Stefan begged from the sidelines
Damon stopped compelling her to look at him "if you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you're gonna do now." he smirked before ripping of Vicki's bandage where the stitches had before on her bit wound from before then throwing the defenseless girl at Stefan with the bandage soon to follow "your choice of lifestyle has made you weak." Damon scolded his younger, vegetarian brother "a couple of vampire parlor tricks? It's nothing compared to the powers you could have, that you now need." Damon watched as his brothers were became darker with blood lust "but you can change that, human blood gives you that." he smiled smugly
Stefan shook his head trying to resist the temptation of the screaming, struggling girl in front of him as he threw her to the floor, fighting the urges
"you have two choices." Damon informed him "you can feed and make her forget, or you can let her run screaming vampire through the town square." Damon shrugged looking down into the town square looking for the 5'2" telepath that would be looking for the drugged teenager
"That's what this is about?" Stefan finally spoke, making Damon turn "you want to expose me?"
"No, I want you to remember who you are!" Damon told him fed up
"Why?" Stefan asked looking at his older brother "So I'll feed, so I'll kill, so I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again." he used the word loosely earning a glare from Damon "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." Stefan glared "at least then I'll be free of you."
Damon chuckled before wandering over to the teenager whom lay perfectly still on the cold ground of the roof trying to be as quiet as possible
"Come here, sweetheart." he pulled her to her feet "it's ok." he cooed before whispering in her ear rubbing her arm comfortingly and sure enough she calmed down, stopped crying and struggling just relaxing
"What happened?" Vicki asked, her voice was hoarse from the crying "Where am I?" she looked around "Ah, I think my stitch has opened." she rubbed her neck gently to feel blood layering her hand
"you ok?" Stefan asked worried
"I took some pills, man." She laughed looking out of it "I'm good." she stood up and walked back down the stairs that had lead her up to the roof in the first place "it's good to be home." Damon announced inappropriately "think I might stay a while, this town could use a bit of a wake up call don't you think? Half of them don't even know what they're capable off, like my little telepath." he smirked
"You leave Grace out of this."
"I'll leave Grace alone when you leave Elena." Damon smiled knowingly
"What are you up to, Damon?" Stefan narrowed his eyes
"That's for me to know and for you to dot, dot, dot." He grinned
Grace sat with Bonnie and Caroline in the grill drinking coffee, they'd finally found Vicki, Stefan had found her wandering around with her stitches open
"Ugh." Caroline shook her head her tight curly ringlets bouncing gently "So much drama." she announced as they saw Matt talking to the hero Stefan "Did you ever notice how the druggies are the biggest attention whores." Caroline asked deadly serious
"Totally." Grace widened her eyes at Bonnie
"Absolutely, Care." Bonnie shook her head gently
"Hey." Stefan walked over "Have you seen Elena?" he looked towards Grace
"if think she went home, it's been a long day for them." Grace informed him he went to walk away "hey, I'm going to give you Elena's cell number and e-mail address." Bonnie wrote it down on a napkin before handing it to him "she is big on texting and you can tell her I said so." she giggled before handing it to him
When their hands met Bonnie brought her hand back quickly, Stefan looked down at her even more surprised than she was.
"you ok?" Stefan asked concerned
"What happened to you?" Bonnie whispered before shaking her head almost breaking out of a trance "that's so rude, I'm sorry excuse me." she got up and left
Grace creased her eye brows at Stefan before she got up quickly chasing after her grabbing her hand trying to stop her
"not now, Grace." Bonnie warned
"Bon, what is with you?"
Bonnie sighed "I don't know, I'm scared."
"Why?" Grace asked
"You're the telepath." she spat "see for yourself."
Elena walked in her house closing her door texting Grace that she got home safe, skipping up her stairs she saw someone going through Jeremy's stuff in his room she stood by the door way
"Jer?" she asked
"Nope, it's me." Jenna popped up "On hypocrite patrol."
"What are you doing?" Elena tilted her head to the side confused
Jenna stood up straight facing her niece "i've become my worse nightmare." she announced "the authority figure." she looked around for another hiding place "who has to violate." she stalked over looking through a shoe "a 15 year olds privacy, jackpot!" she held up a bong "I see the hiding places haven't gotten any more imaginative."
"What brought this on?" Elena asked walking in the room towards her aunt
"you ass hat of a history teacher shamed me good yesterday." Jenna replied shivering at the memory
"you got Tanner'd." Elena referred to what the kids called getting schooled by Mr. Tanner "been there, you know who's good to talk to about getting schooled by a teacher, Grace." she laughed sitting down looking at the bong "She gets told everyday."
"discover the impossible, Ms. Sommers." Jenna quoted Mr. Tanner "got it, thanks, like I didn't know I was screwing up."
"you're not screwing up, Aunt Jenna." Elena assured her
"Yes I am." Jenna sounded fed up "And you know why? Because I'm not her." she referred back to Elena's mom "she made everything look so easy, high school, marriage, having you." there was a long pause "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." Jenna grew more and more paranoid about Jeremy's drug problem "it's impossible." she plonked down on the bed
Elena grabbed her hands supportively "This is just the fear talking." she informed her wisely "you're a little scared that's all." she paused "we all are." Elena looked down thinking for a second before looking back up pulling back "I have to go do something." she looked at Jenna kindly "are you gonna be ok?"
After being left in that bar on her own she decided it was time to leave, she was getting no more juicy information from this story, so Caroline gather all her belongings up and left the bar walking towards her car
Fear struck through her heart as she walked across the parking lot of the grill, she heard a loud crash behind her and fumbled her keys accidentally dropping them in a jerk movement, bending down to get them she grabbed them, when she stood back up a black haired God was standing in front of her she jumped, startled by his sudden presence
"Sorry." he apologized with that arrogant smirk playing on his perfect lips "didn't mean to scare you." he lied
"No it was fine." she giggled tucking a piece of hair behind her ear "I was hoping I'd see you again." she flirted with him
"I know." he wiggled his eyes brows
"Cocky much?" she replied
"very much." he smirked
Stefan stood up when he heard the bell to his front door ring opening the door he revealed the woman of his dreams standing there looking more gorgeous than ever, she was a woman on a mission by the looks of it
"Hey." Elena greeted him
"Would you like to come in?" he moved to the side
She paused "Comet's actually this way." she jerked her thumb behind her turning around
Smiling to himself he followed her to the brick wall outside his house, she leaned against it looking up into the jet black skies, the stars shinning amazingly
"sorry for barging in." she apologized playing with her hair gently "especially after earlier."
"no, I'm glad you're here." Stefan replied kindly "the way we left things I didn't like it." he admitted truthfully
"so here's the thing, 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 ten." she gave him a little of her back story "So I get everything out, every feeling and it all goes in this little book I hide on the second shelf behind this really hideous ceramic mermaid, but then I realized I'd be writing things I should probably tell you." she admitted
"What would you write?" Stefan questioned
"I would write "Dear Diary. Today I convinced myself it was okay to give up. Don't take risks. 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." she paused trying to find the right words "I'm scared, Stefan. I'm that if I let myself be happy for even one moment the world's just gonna come crashing down and I don't know if I can survive that." she shook her head
"Do you wanna know what I would write?" he asked and she nodded "I would right "I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. Then the sun came up and reality set in," well this is reality, right here."
They both moved further towards each other, finally closing the gap between them, their lips meeting for the first time and fireworks flew in their heads. This was really it, the beginning of something extraordinary.
Hey, Little-Vamps, sorry it took so long to get this out, but it does take a long time to sit through the episode pick out where I want Grace to come in, what I want her to say, who I want her to interact with.
I've been trying to work out what I want to happen, I mean I have another copy of the story, but that one is basically a rough version of what I want to happy, witty lines I want to add into it at one point, how I was characters to react to one another.
Also I got really confused to Grace's Grans age, it took me ages to try and work out dates of when she was born, when she stopped ageing, when she met her late husband and had her daughter.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who is readying at the moment. And for the actress who is playing Grace question, I'm not too sure, I kinda planned her on me, I find it easier to write a story that way if I plan it on my kind of personality with what I look like. If you want I can give you a full description of what she looks like and so on
Thank for reading and for those who reviewed it means a lot to me :D
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