Twisted Love
Season One
You're Undead to Me
Waking up early that next morning, it was three days since it had happened, and Stefan still hadn't got hold of her to talk about what had happened, her mind had been plagued with visions of Damon biting Caroline all night. How had she been kept in the dark about this, she read her ancestors diary and it even told her about Vampires, but she was too naive and stupid to believe it was really true.
Of course things like this had to be true, she was a Telepath, that much had been proven, and from the sounds of it Bonnie was some kind of witch, her Gran used to be a Telepath, yet she still didn't believe in Vampires until now, seeing is believing...
But now there were things that she could believe were certain, Damon and Stefan Salvatore were Vampires and she would do anything she could to keep Elena safe and keep Damon away from everyone she loved, protect them the best she could, so it was time to grow up and embrace her newly found powers.
She looked in the mirror at herself, she had to change everything she ever though about life, everything wasn't sun shine and rainbows. The world was a dark place, death was around every corner in this little town. God knows how many other Vampires there were lurking in this town, Damon and Stefan seemed to hide their secret pretty well.
Covering up the dark circles under her eyes, from the lack of sleep. She took a deep breath as she pulled on her floral mini sun dress and walked downstairs to grab her white flat shoes
"Morning." Her gran called
Grace jolted, she had been a little on edge since the incident "morning." Grace's voice cracked
"Are you ok?" Heidi asked tilting her head to the side
"Fine." Grace nodded "Just had a bad dream last night... nothing special." She replied
She was nibbling at the pancakes on her plate, she wasn't at all hungry. All this supernatural induced stress had really put her off her food and even made her feel physically sick when she thought back to what had happened.
"Are you feeling alright?" Heidi asked "you look a little pale."
Everything around her seemed to revolve back to Vampires. Her gran calling her pale, Vampires were pale. No appetite, Vampires didn't need to eat real human food.
"Totally." Grace took a mouthful of pancakes into her mouth, chewing it slowly as soon as her Gran left the room to get the newspaper she spat it into the bin "Gross." She complained throwing her breakfast in there too
After sitting by herself in the kitchen for a while her phone started vibrating, she looked at the text ID name, it was unknown
Unknown – Grace, I got your number from Elena's phone, meet me at Mystic Grill in 20 minutes, I'll be waiting to answer any questions you have. Stefan.
Grace took a deep breath before brushing her teeth grabbing her bag and car keys and heading out the door into her car and driving to the Grill.
They sat in the secluded section of the Grill, where no one would see this conversation they were having, it was silent between the two as Grace tried to pick one of the many questions spinning around her head
"What do you feed on?" Grace asked suddenly
"I feed on animals, being around humans is tempting, but I can handle it." He ensured her "I prefer to know I'm living a close to human life other than taking a humans life away."
"Will Caroline become a Vampire?" Grace asked "Now that she's been bit, I mean."
"No, she'd have to die with a vampire's blood in her system, then she'd have to feed off a human, and I don't think Damon has been stupid enough to actually feed her his blood." Stefan answered
"What will happen with Damon?" Grace asked looking at him through her lashes.
"I'll wait until he is weak enough and I'll put him in the family tomb, for another 50 years."
"What where he can think about what he's done?" Grace scoffed
"He'll also be starving, which is good." Stefan almost smiled
"So what powers do you have?" Grace asked
Stefan chuckled "Well, I'm not strong enough, but when we drink human blood we have this power called compulsion."
"as in your force someone to do something?" Grace asked
"Right." Stefan nodded "Damon found it incredibly easy, so I gave you that bracelet." he pointed to the golden charm sitting beautiful on her narrow wrist
"My gran gave me this bracelet." She replied pulling her wrist back "It was my mothers."
"No." Stefan shook his head "it was my mothers, I placed Vervain in the heart."
"Vervain?" Grace looked up at him confused
"Vervain, it's a herb." He explained "a vampires most common weakness, it protects you from being compelled, that's why I gave it to you and Elena." He told her smiling "When Damon drank it through it weakened him enough for me to be able to get him home."
"So what about if Vervain touches you." Grace tilted her head
"It burns us." He replied simply
"What other powers?" Grace asked
"we can run really fast, hear things from a long distance, strong, we live forever and we can heal really fast." he explained
"So what about all the myths?" Grace asked
"Sun burns us, we can look in mirrors, eat garlic, be in photos." Stefan explained "holy water doesn't affect us-"
"Wait, how do you walk in the sun?" Grace looked at him confused "so does Damon."
"Rings." he wiggled his fingers
"That's pretty, what's the stone in it?" She asked looking at the large ring with S carved into it
"lapis lazuli." He replied "it's a mystical stone, and mine and Damon's was spelled by witches that allows us to walk in the sun."
"wow, you knew a witch?" Grace asked
"Emily Bennett." he answered smiling
"Bennett." Grace looked up suddenly
"Bonnie's ancestor."
"So Bonnie is a..." She trailed off gasping
"Yes." Stefan nodded "She just doesn't know it yet."
"Stefan, how old are you?" Grace asked resting her elbows on the table
"I'm 162." He replied "But I look 17."
"And Damon?" Grace asked
"Well human age around 22 and Vampire 167." He informed her
"So how do you kill a Vampire." Grace asked and Stefan cocked an eye brows "If I ever need to."
"staking." he nodded "I'm sure enough Vervain could do the trick, taking off a ring." he slid Damon's ring across the table "I need to ask you a favour." she just stared at him "Don't tell Elena."
"Now we're onto the Elena subject." She smiled "So I woke up early this morning after a few nightmares." she shrugged like it didn't matter "and had a whole new view on the world, it was time for me to grow up a face reality, see what's right there in front of me and protect the ones that I love." she stated
"What's your point." Stefan asked placing Damon's ring in his pocket
"If you ever hurt Elena, or even upset her, I will end you." She stood up darkening her voice "Because now I know how." she strutted from the room
Stefan gulped before getting up and leaving the Grill too, Grace was across the road walking towards school so Stefan went for the car option
Elena was just getting up, she couldn't think of what to write in her diary, the words didn't come to her like they usually did, this time whens he went to write she felt crazy, what had happened with Stefan the other night? Was Caroline ok?
Sighing she placed her diary on the side and swung her legs of the side of the bed and stumbled into the bathroom to see Vicki in there brushing her teeth casually
"Oh." She looked at her surprised
"I-I'm sorry." Vicki announced "I'm almost done."
"it's ok, take you time." Elena replied confused before leaving the room shutting the door
Vicki smirked putting the tooth brush down and going back into Jeremy's room jumping in the bed straddling his waist
"I think you might be in trouble." She informed him
"Why what did you do?" He asked
"Elena saw me." She explained
Jeremy chuckled "I'm a drug using delinquent." He replied "a girl in my bedroom doesn't really rank, sorry." he scoffed before kissing her again
Now fully dressed Elena walked downstairs to see Jenna sitting at the kitchen breakfast bar with her back to her
"Jenna." She whispered "are you aware of what's going on upstairs?" she asked
"Uh-huh." She took another mouth full of cereal into her mouth
"and you have no objection?" Elena asked flustered
"He could have been craftier about it." Jenna smirked "At least make an effort to sneak her in and out." She shrugged "Oh, just so you know, I wont be home for dinner."
"Oh, so you're actually going to do it." Elena giggled "you're going out with Logan."
"I'm going to show up and torture him, yes." She nodded "and have you heard from Stefan?"
"Not since that very vague message three days ago 'Hi, um, Elena, I, um, having something I have to do. I'll, uh, explain in a few days'." Elena mocked Stefan's voice
"Haven't you called him?" Jenna asked
"Nope." Elena popped the 'p' "Not going to, either."
"And you're ok with everything?" Jenna creased her eye brows
"No, I'm not ok with any of it." Elena replied sitting down "But I'm not gonna cry about with, either. You know, I was going to write in my diary this morning and then I thought, what am I going to write? Honestly, I'm not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy." she shook her head
"Ok then." Jenna's eyes were wide with shock
"I'll be fine." Elena replied "I'm more worried about Grace."
"why?" Jenna asked concerned
"I didn't see her the night after the party, and she's been dodging my calls and when I go to her house she is never there." Elena looked down "I'm worried something is wrong."
"Grace will be back in school today her usual chirpy self, I'm gonna guess she's gonna be singing too." Jenna smiled
"I hope so." Elena sighed "Grace doesn't even avoid phones calls or avoid me." Elena shook her head
Stefan grabbed his bag from his voice when suddenly Zach was standing in front of him wanting to hear the news on Damon, he'd been avoiding that whole area of the house
"He's awake, but it's probably best to stay out of the basement. He's Damon. I'm not sure ow dangerous he still might be." Stefan gave his nephew a look as he placed his homework in his bag
"You're going to school?" Zach voice almost cracked with fear
"I came here to live a life." he explained "it's about time I get back to that. And Elena, if she's still speaking to me." He looked down at his feet
"Why haven't you called her?" Zach asked confused
"What am I suppose to do, feed her another lie? I hate lying to get, Zach. I'm not good at it. She already thinks I'm hiding something." Stefan told him
"What choice do you have? You cam here because you wanted to live as normal a life as you could. You knew this was going to be part of it." Zach replied "That Grace girl already knows and that is far too many people as it is."
"I have something over her too." Stefan referred to the fact she was a telepath
"But being a telepath isn't like being a Vampire, people think she's a telepath they do test, people think you're a vampire they stake you. End of story." Zach crossed his arms
Stefan wasn't silent for a minute, he had no come back to that, Zach was completely right. Stefan grabbed his keys off the side and left the building.
"I remember the party." Caroline told Bonnie as she looked in the mirror applying a thin layer of cover up to the near faded bite marks "Damon came up behind me, and he was kissing my neck, or biting my neck." She creased her eye brows "I passed out. It's like there's holes in my memory lately. It's just weird. Maybe I let him bite me." she creased her eye brows
"Why would you do that?" Bonnie asked staring intently at a candle in her hand
"can we just not talk about it, ok? I don't want to talk about Damon. I don't want to talk about any of it." Caroline admitted "Just want to go back to my normal life." She turned to her "What are you doing with that candle."
"Um..." Bonnie jolted throwing it on the bed beside her "Nothing. What's this?" She picked up the topaz pendant from the night before
"Damon gave it to me... or he was going to give it to me." She walked over to the bed where Bonnie was lounging "all I know is it's mine now." she announced
"it's ugly." Bonnie twirled the chair
"Then get your grubby hands off it." she snatched it playing on one of the hooks of her hat stand
As soon as Caroline got back to school that day she was back to her usual bossy self organising a car wash
"The sexy suds car wash is tomorrow." she announced to the two girls following her "The football team and the band have committed. Well, not all the bad. Just the ones who could pull off a bikini." she smirked "I want, in your face, sexy. I mean, it's a fund raiser, for God's sakes." she rolled her eyes
"Hey where have you been?" Elena walked up to Grace with Bonnie close behind
"Me?" Grace asked
"Is anyone else standing at your locker?" Elena smirked
"Sorry, I'm a little bit off." She admitted "I was busy, doing stuff."
"Now you're keeping secrets too." Elena asked her best friend
"It was helping my Gran with this dumb project, no biggie." She lied
"Have you seen Caroline?" Bonnie asked
"I know she's in complete denial." Grace shook her head
"Hey." Stefan walked up to them "Can I talk to you by your locker?" He looked at Elena
Grace almost glared at Stefan as he walked away with Elena to her locker, she so wished so could hear what he was saying, hear what lies he was feeding her this time
"I'm so sorry I haven't called."
"No worries, I'll live." She shrugged "my best friend and you don't call me for three days, but it's all good." She lied
"I was dealing with Damon." He told her
"and did you... deal with Damon?" Elena asked
"Yes. Yeah." he wasn't exactly lying
"For three days?" Elena gave him a look
"You have every right to be upset with me. But can I explain it all to you? Please?" He asked
"Sure." She sighed "When?"
"I gotta be home after school, but The Grill, four o'clock?" He asked hopeful
"ok." Elena nodded
"Thanks." Stefan nodded
Both teens walked back over to Grace and Bonnie at her locker when suddenly Caroline came over her usual bubbly self
"Stefan, where's Damon he has some serious apologising to do." Caroline asked
"He's gone, Caroline." Stefan replied simply
"When's he coming back?" Caroline asked again
"He's not coming back." Stefan answered "I'm sorry." he added before walking away
"This is a good thing, Caroline." Grace tried to keep cool throughout all the lies
"I know that." She nodded staring into space
After school that day Elena walked into the grill on her own, she looked around the room for Stefan he was no where to be seen, then she saw Matt and walked over to him
"Hey, Matt, um, have you seen Stefan?" She asked
"Nope." He replied simply "If you want to kill some time, um, you can rack. Come one. We haven't plated in forever." She still wasn't into it "It'll let you break." He offered and Elena was sold
Zach had tried to avoid the cellar all day, but he wanted to see Damon suffer, after all the put this family through and now it was finally over
"I'm full of Vervain." Zach announced before he even got to the door "I've been putting it in my coffee for sixteen years." He added "My blood will only make you worse." There was no response "Damon?" he asked looking through the bars of the door
"So it was your Vervain." Damon put two and two together "Good for you." if he could add a sarcastic clap to that he would have "Family only runs so deep, Huh?" He breathed
"We're not family, Damon." Zach glared at the weak vampire "Only in the most dysfunctional sense. In face, I avoided having a living, breathing, loving family because if you."
"I don't guess could talk you into bringing me a rabbit or something? I'd settle for Stefan's diet at this point." He informed him
"you know I can't do that." Zach answered
Damon managed to sit up to face him "You succeeded, Zach. I'm shutting down." he announced "You're like your grandfather. He didn't like it when I came to visit either."
"But you don't visit, Damon." Zach snapped "you appear, unannounced, reminding me that this isn't my house; that you're just permitting me to live here. Hell, the you're permitting me to live."
"Someone has to mow the lawn." Damon joked
"I came to say goodbye, Damon." Zach replied bluntly about to walk
"Unlock it." Damon yelled clasping Zach's neck before he could leave "Unlock the door, Zach." He ordered
"Keep it up, Damon." Stefan appeared the bars in the door where Zach had just been standing removing him from Damon's weak grip and pushing him back "The more energy you expend, the faster you'll go."
Elena lined up her shot "And there's Vicki, all nonchalant in the bathroom like it's no big deal that they're hooking up." She shot missing
"Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Your brother and my sister, that's weird." He nodded
"Yeah." Elena agreed checking her phone
"How late is he?" Matt asked
"Hitting the hour mark." Elena replied "Nothing's wrong thought." She added "Which means I'm not talking boy problems with you." She looked up at her ex-boyfriend
"good, I mean it's not like we're best friends or anything." Matt shrugged sarcastically
"Ok." Elena laughed holding up her hands "here goes – what do you think of Stefan? Is he a good guy?" she asked
"Why? What's he done?" Matt asked
"Not any one thing. He's just so secretive." She informed him "all the time." She added "I thin there's something he doesn't what me to know, which makes me want to know all the more."
"Like what?" Matt smirked "Like that he's a serial killer and he keeps a clown suit in his trunk?" He joked
"No, of course not." Elena scoffed "But what do we know about him, really?" she asked
"He's a great footballer. A little bit of a loner. And as much as I hate saying it, he might be a nice guy." Matt half smiled
"So you think I'm being paranoid?" Elena asked
"I think you should talk to him." Matt didn't give her a straight answer
"Talk to who?" Stefan appeared next to them "I'm so sorry I'm late."
"What happened?" Elena asked
"I got held up." Stefan admitted
"Is everything ok?" Elena questioned concerned
"There was this think with my uncle." He shrugged
"And you couldn't call and tell me you were going to be an hour late?" She scolded him
"Ok." Matt held his hands up "you two have fun." he walked away from the awkward conversation between his ex and her new boyfriend
"I'm really sorry, it was unavoidable." He told her
"What was unavoidable?" Elena asked "Ok." She went to walk away
"No, Elena please." he took her arm
"No, Stefan, don't you get it?" Elena asked flustered "Every question gets a vague non-answer. What is so awful that you're afraid to tell me?" She asked
An older olive toned gentleman walked up to Stefan staring avidly at him, Elena looked between them
"I know you." The older man announced "my God."
"I'm sorry?" Stefan looked at the man confused
"I know you. How can it be?" He asked even more confused
"I think you must have the wrong person, sir." Stefan recognised this man too, but wasn't about to admit it in front of Elena, the lies had to keep piling on
"You haven't aged a day." the older man added
"I'm sorry. Excuse me." Stefan turned to Elena "Hey, can I take you home." he lead her away from the older gentleman "we can talk about it? Is that ok?" he asked
"wait, what was that?" she pointed in the direction of the confused man
"I-I don't know, uh, nothing." he shook his head
"Right, nothing." She nodded annoyed "Ok, um... I gotta go, Stefan. Excuse me." She walked past him
Later that night Sheriff Forbes was sitting up at the bar in Mystic Grill, Logan walked over to her taking a seat too
"Evening, Sheriff." he nodded at her "Anything?" he asked
"We went over the entire west side of the lake." She started "All the caverns by the falls were clean, no signs of habitat."
"Well, they're staying in town." Logan announced
"We canvassed all abandoned buildings and warehouses." Sheriff replied
"There had to be a private residence." Logan state what Sheriff Forbes already knew
"And that much harder to locate." She answered him "If not impossible. These creatures are smart. They know how to go undetected."
"Well, someone who only comes out at night should eventually become obvious." Logan replied
"What about the watch?" She asked
"I'm working on it." Logan replied
"I knew the Gilbert's. That watch is passed down to the men in the family. I'd start with Jeremy." She informed him
"Hey, Logan." Jenna was standing behind them looking extremely pretty
"I can't believe you came." he sounded so surprised
"You have an hour." She replied sternly "make it count."
"You ok?" Jeremy stood as his sisters bedroom door
"Is Vicki in there?" Elena responded
"Don't answer a question with another question." Jeremy chuckled "Maybe." He answered vaguely "what's wrong with you?" he asked concerned
"I'm miserable." She answered hugging her teddy bear
"well you should go get something to eat." Jeremy smirked
Walking down her stands lazily she suddenly her plates and cutlery clashing in the kitchen, her eye brows creased, wasn't Jenna out tonight?
"Jenna?" She asked as she got to the bottom of the stairs "Jenna?" She asked again sliding open the doors leading into the kitchen to reveal Stefan standing there cutting mozzarella "What are you doing here?" Elena asked walking in the room
"Cooking." Stefan replied simply "Grace told me that Chicken Parmesan is one of your favourites, and I happen to be a good cook." He smiled smugly "The Italian roots demand it. I can even make my own homemade mozzarella." He showed of his brilliant Italian accent as the word rolled right off his tongue "Only tonight, it is unfortunately store brought." He showed her the box "Sorry."
"I don't know what you're trying to accomplish." She crossed her arms over her chest
"You want to know me, right?" he asked "Well, I figure if you're going to hump me, you should at least, um, know who you're dumping." he smiled "So lets start with Katherine."
"Stefan..." She looked at him
"She was... the most beautiful girl I had ever met." He continued regardless "She had this perfect olive skin. And she had this laugh." he chuckled at the memories "It was ridiculous, her laugh made you laugh. And she was fun. She knew how to have a good time. But Katherine was also very impatient and entitled and selfish, and, um, and impulsive." He chose the words carefully "Enter Fayth and Damon. It was always a competition, who had the better twin. And I did some things that I'm not proud of, said something things... and my biggest regret was not being able to make it right before they died. I miss her, but... I'm no longer crippled by her loss." Stefan explained
Meanwhile Vicki and Jeremy was upstairs chilling, making out, listening to music and just casually talking
"It was very nice what do you did for Stefan." She informed him "very romantic." She cooed
"well, I was feeling romantic." He replied smiling
"Look what I found." She shook a bottle of pills "'Elena Gilbert, take one tablet every four to six hours, as needed for pain'." she read the label
"Those are left over form the car accident." Jeremy stood up
"So she wont miss them." Vicki opened the bottle taking two out laying them on the table reaching for the old Gilbert pocket watch
"No, not with that." he took it from her hand "it's an antique." he informed her she sighed heavily and grabbed another heavy object crushing the tablets "I feel like we're always getting high."
"That's the beauty of choice." She grinned
"Well, then lets choose not to. I mean, we don't have to be high all the time, right?" He looked to get for support
"I really hope you're not one of those guys who, now that we're together." She reminded him like it's a privilege for them to be together; like she was some Goddess "tries to change everything about me."
"No." Jeremy shook his head
"Good." She grinned continuing to crush
"I'm an avid reader." Stefan continued listening random facts about himself "a huge Fitzgerald fan, "The Great Gatsby", his masterpiece. But I'm no snob. I love some Grisham. I think Seinfeld is the best American television show for the past fifty years, but I love Lucy is all-time "The Loving Cup" episode was the best, I think." he informed her whilst him and Elena chopped together "Huge Scorsese fan. I can watch Text Driver over and over again."
"Here let me." She took over shopping the garlic for him
"As far as music, it's pretty much across the board." he informed her "Um, Dylan, Hendrix, Pasty, Willie. Oh, Kanye." he named some modern ones "you know what I even like that one Miley song." She laughed "easy."
"I didn't say anything." She held up her hands laughing "Hey, this is for the garlic bread, right? Because I'm not eating garlic unless you agree to, too."
"Are you kidding? I love garlic." he grinned at the other meaning of not eating garlic
Elena continued to cut when she suddenly sliced her finger making it ooze with crimson blood, she cursed and pulled her hand back
"Ow!" She announced "Ahh."
"are you ok?" he walked over
"Yeah, I uh, I think so." She walked over to the sink washing the cut
As Stefan stood there he picked his hand up off the side to see her blood laying on his little finger, he felt his veins under his eyes become prominent, along with feeling the blood rush to his iris making them the evil, blood shot colour they become, suddenly he felt his fangs trying to push through his normal teeth
She looked up and saw his face in the reflection of the window "Your face." She turned around and he turned around too
"Yeah, I think I got something in my eye." He lied to her
"Stefan." She tried to make him turn and face her
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, remembering what Grace had said to him and how awful he'd feel if he'd bit Elena, properly killing her, it would kill him. Soon his face returned to it's usual human ways and he turned to her smiling gently
"Erm. I think my paranoia has turned into full blown hallucinations." Elena sighed laughing gently
"part of your charm." He flirted
Stefan looked deep into her dark chocolate brown eyes and leaned close, she quickly went for it and pressed her lips against his with such a romantic passion
Grace sat there casually in her room strumming a guitar lazily whilst Bonnie was in the bathroom, she shivered slightly
"Grace." A voice whispered "Grace."
"Bonnie, is that you?" She asked
"Is that me what?" Bonnie called
"Calling my name?" Grace replied
"Nope." Bonnie replied "Maybe your Gran is home." Bonnie suggested
"Maybe." Grace walked into the hallway to see the window wide open "Jeez, it's freezing in the house."
"Grace." The voice appeared right next to her
"Hello?" Grace called
A black crow appeared on the window ledge at the end of the hall she quickly shooed it away quickly closing the window quickly
"Bonnie, the creepiest thing just happened." Grace walked back into her room closing the door leaning back again it
"What?" Bonnie walked out worried
"There was this crow." Grace pointed "And this creepy voice."
Caroline was on the phone to Tiki casually looking at the topaz pendant, it truly was a terribly ugly piece of jewellery
"Caroline." Damon's voice whispered
"No, Tiki, do not do the one-piece, ok?" She shook her head "I've seen it on you. Trust me." She informed the girl rudely "Yeah, but you're going for stripper pole vibe this year."
"Caroline." Damon's voice got more persistent
"Yeah." Caroline laughed down the phone "maybe we should was the cars in slow motion." She giggled
"Caroline." Damon tried calling her a final time
"What?" Caroline asked annoyed "Oh, em, no, sorry." She apologised to Tiki "So I'll just see you tomorrow. Two-piece." She reminded with a laugh "ok, bye." She hung up
A crow suddenly appeared at her window and she threw a pillow at it telling it to go away as it fell from the window ledge she quickly closed her window too along with the curtains feeling a sudden fear run through her body
The next morning Stefan watched his brothers through the bars in silence, he was getting worse and worse everything day, which was a good thing. He was about to walk away when Damon managed to finally speak
"I bet you're feeling pretty good about yourself, aren't you?" Damon coughed
"Not particularly." Stefan admitted
"You won." Damon announced sitting up a little "You got the bad guy, now nothing can come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies will catch up to you, Stefan." He promised "As long as you keep lying to yourself about what you are."
"The beauty of you in there and me out here... Is that I can walk away." Stefan grinned before doing so
Grace and Bonnie were standing their casually in their two pieces, Grace's was golden and shiny and Bonnie's was a deep purple colour. Both girls had short shorts just to colour their bottom layers, although Grace's was unbuttoned revealing the button of her two piece.
"No friend discounts. No freebies. No pay ya laters. We are not running a charity here. No, we are not." Caroline smirked
"Stefan." Grace walked over to him grabbing his arm pulling him to one side "I need to ask you a question."
"Does it have to be here?" Stefan asked "There are a lot of people here." he looked around
"Please, I'm not scared, I need an answer." Tears were almost in Grace's eyes
"Ok, calm down." he rubbed her arms "What's wrong?" he asked concerned
"Is there anyway Damon could... contact me?" She asked "It's like I keep hearing this voice, it sounds a lot like his."
"Yes, he can." Stefan nodded "What ever you do you have to fight it, fight him." Stefan assured her "God knows how many other people he's tried to call."
"Oh, God." Grace covered her face
Stefan rubbed her back "it's ok." He assured her "He'll be gone soon."
"I just have this feeling... a really bad feeling." She shook her head not crying but close
Stefan nodded, he knew the feeling, not everything could run this smoothly, Damon was giving up to easily, she was right something didn't feel right.
"are you going to be ok?' Stefan asked
be strong, be badass Grace told her as she straightened up "I'm going to be fine." She replied thickening her voice "How has Elena been?"
"She's worried about you." Stefan looked at her
"I can't face her, not with all these lies." Grace shook her head
"I know it's hard, but you pulling away from her is just going to make her even more suspicious." He informed her
"I know." Grace nodded
"I've got to go see her." Stefan nodded at Grace before walking over to Elena "Hi." he smiled
"hey!" She looked surprised
"The event is called sexy suds, you know." She gave them a look before walking away
"Did we just get scolded?" Stefan laughed
"And judged, yeah." Elena joined in the laugh
"Wow." He nodded
"I'm sorry, but I guess you're going to have to take that off." She looked at him
"I think you have to go first." He looked her up and down
"Ok." She giggled trying to pull the shirt over her head "Ok. Ok, um—sorry, so not sexy. Ugh." She growled trying to pulling the shirt over her head
"I disagree." He helped her moving her hair out of her face
Grace walked over to Matt and Bonnie and helped then wash a car when they both caught Matt looking over longingly at Stefan and Elena.
"uh-uh." Bonnie shook her head "no, none of that tortured pining stuff."
"I'm just observing." He replied with a glare
Another car pulled up and Bonnie looked around for another girl to wash the car, she saw Tiki doing nothing
"Tiki, this one is yours." Bonnie told her
"Why do I always get the homely os?" She asked rudely "Just to be clear, your car's a p.o.s. I mean, we can wash it but it's still a p.o.s." She shrugged
"You don't have to be rude." Bonnie glared
"Rude is uglying up the road with that junk." She grabbed a hose playing it in a bucket to fill it up
Bonnie glared a Tiki thinking funny thoughts if the water was to overflow and splash right in her face, and suddenly it did. Grace fell to the floor laugh and Bonnie just looked surprised
"Grace, you did this!" Tiki yelled at her
Grace laughed harder "No, I didn't, but I wish I did!" She pulled herself up looking at Bonnie "Bon, you alright?" She asked drying her happy tears
"Fine." Bonnie replied before walking away
Grace creased her eye brows watching Matt stop the water from squirting out of the hose, Elena walked over to Grace looked at her best friend
"If it isn't my broody English best friend." Elena crossed her arms over her chest
"Broody?" Grace asked "me?"
"Yes, you." Elena shook her head "You've been brooding and avoiding me the last four days."
"Not true, I saw you yesterday." She grinned
"Not funny." Elena looked at her seriously "Are you ok?" She asked
"I'm fine, how are you?" Grace asked casually turning and seeing a weak Damon standing there
A scream erupted from her lips as she jumped back tripping on Elena and a badly placed bucket fall straight on her ass groaning and looked up
"Grace!" Elena helped her up "What's wrong?" She asked concerned
"Grace." Damon whispered
"Oh my God." Grace whispered
"Stop it, Grace, you're freaking me out." Elena told her "I'll go get you some water you look flustered." Elena ran off
"It's happening isn't it?" Stefan asked
"I want to finish this." Grace announced "Now."
"Alright." Stefan nodded
They ran through the parking lot to Stefan's car, a thick wave of guilt ran over Grace for Elena, she just took off with her boyfriend with no word.
Stefan drove dangerously to his house, running stop signs and red lights, then he pulled outside of his house and as soon as he did Grace jumped out running into the house already know where he was
"I knew you would come." Damon purred standing up "and quickly too." he grinned
"Stop calling me." Grace ordered "I'm not going to let you out, and you can't compel me, Damon."
"You're a smart girl." he purred "Smart and beautiful." he looked into her eyes
"I'm not Caroline, you can't manipulate me." She glared
"Feisty." He grinned reaching through the bars to touch her face gently "What I love in a woman."
"And most of all." She added ignoring his comments "I'm not Fayth."
"You're right, you're not Fayth." He nodded stroking her hair "Fayth would have let me out, fed me blood, then given herself to me and we would have made passionate love."
"Well I guess that's were we differ, I'm not stupid enough to let you out." Grace growled walking away "bye, Damon." she called
"No!" Damon punched the wall next to him weakly before sliding down it
Grace walked through the Salvatore house to see Stefan waiting by his car, she looked at him sadly, she wanted to collapse, as much as her instincts told her to stay away from Damon, something always told her to go back.
"you ready?" Stefan asked
"Yes." She whispered "Can you take me home? I can't head back there, just tell Elena I collapsed or something..."
"Alright." Stefan nodded helping her in the car
Stefan was driving slower this time on the way to her house, there was a long silence that only the music could fill before Grace said something
"As much as I'm scared of what you are and scared for Elena, you're a really good guy, Stefan." She smiled "I hope it works out for you two."
"Thanks, Grace." He smiled at her
"'Lena always gets the good one." Grace smirked
"You'll find someone good one day." he promised
"Right who wants a telepath with a complicated past?" Grace looked at him he didn't reply "exactly."
"Damon did." He told her "Damon wasn't always a bad guy."
"But he is now, and it's so like me to attract the bad boys." Grace pouted "Never the keepers."
"Don't be so hard on yourself." Stefan smiled pulling up outside her house
"Thank you for today, Stefan, even though I threatened to kill you the other day you still helped me." She smiled
"You're just protecting Elena, I get that." He informed her
Grace got out of his car and stumbled her way into the house, locking the door and putting the dead lock on so no one could get in
Elena saw the same old dark skinned man from the bar as he wandered over to the check out to pay for his car being washed
"That'll be $20." She informed him "Did I see you the other night? You were talking to a friend of mine, at the grill?" She asked him
"well, I thought it was someone I knew." He shrugged
"Stefan Salvatore." Elena replied
"Nah, it can't be." He shook his head "It's just my mind playing tricks on me."
"Where do you think you've seen him before?" Elena pried
"When I first moved here, I stayed at the Salvatore boarding house." He informed her
"Oh." Elena nodded
"Stefan was just passing through to visit his uncle. I mean, none of knew he was even here until the attack." The older gentleman added
"The attack?" Elena's eyes widened
"His uncle got killed." He replied "mauled by an animal in the woods."
"His uncle, Zach?" Elena was confused
"No, Joseph." He corrected her
"I'm sorry, sir. I don't think I'm familiar with this story." Elena looked up at him
"Oh, how could you? I mean, this happened years ago." he answered
"Grandpa." Tiki walked over placing her arms on the older mans shoulders "You gotta go, mom wants you home, ok?" She steered him off "He wasn't bugging alzy-heimer." she laughed taking another guys money
"erm, no, he was sweet." Elena chased after him "Hey, Sir, I'm sorry. Um, are you sure that the man that you saw, that you knew, his name was Stefan Salvatore?" She asked
"Yes. I remember his ring and his brother-" he spaced on the name
"Damon." she reminded him
"yeah, Stefan and Damon Salvatore." he nodded
"When was his?" Elena asked
"It was early June, 1953." he thought about "Yeah. June, 1953."
Elena watched as he walked away turning around to see Stefan getting out of his car and walking over to the cars continuing to wash, she ran her hands through her hair trying to figure out what was happening
"Caroline finally freed you, huh?" Stefan smirked
"Yeah, she abandoned me, then you did." She gave him a look "Then Grace did."
"Grace collapsed, I have to take her home."
"Collapsed?" Elena sounded worried
"She's fine, her Gran is looking after her." Stefan told yet another lie
"Alright, I'll call her later." Elena nodded "So earlier, I just realised, I had no idea your family was from Italy." she announced
"No?" He chuckled "Last name Salvatore didn't do it for you?"
"Right. Duh." she mentally slapped her forehead "Are there any other Salvatore's in Mystic Falls?" She asked
"My uncle Zach." He replied
"Where did everyone go?" She pried
"Kinda just spread out." He shrugged "Why?"
"I'm just trying to learn more about you." She replied with a sweet smile
"Where are you taking me?" Jeremy asked as Vicki lead her through the forest
"We can't hide out in your room all the time." Vicki rolled her eyes "Welcome to my other favourite party place." she appeared in the old Mystic Falls graveyard
"What a cemetery?" Jeremy asked looking around at the few stoners sitting there
"Yeah, it's cool, huh?" She asked pulling him forward
"Yo, Vicki!" A older man called
"What's up, Jared." She took a seat on the floor with Jeremy
"You baby-sitting, Donovan?" A woman smirked at Jeremy's baby face
"This is Jeremy. He's cool." She smiled at him taking his hand
"Smoke up." Jared passed them a joint
"You're car was done an hour ago." Elena told Jenna
"You're saying that out loud why?" Jenna asked fixing her hair
"Oh." She looked grossed out as Logan walked over to them
"Hi. Elena, right? I think I met you once when you were nine." he informed her
"Your emotional maturity level when we were together." Jenna shoot him a flirty look
"Ouch." He placed his hand over his heart "Here I though we were making progress."
"Is he enough in your good graces that I can ask him a favour?" She looked at Jenna hopeful
"If I do her a favour, will I get back in your good graces?" Logan looked at Jenna hopeful
"Uh, a very reluctant maybe to both." She laughed
"Done. Wait. One condition. Dinner, tonight, your house." Logan grinned at her
"Fine. But you're eating leftovers." She smirked
"Ohh." Logan rubbed his stomach "What do you need?" he looked at Elena
"Do you have access to old news stories, say, fifties?" She asked
"Yeah, at the station. Between the archives and the internet, we have pretty much everything." he smiled
"I have this report way past due. It'd be a life saver." She looked at him hopeful
"I'm heading their now. Let's go." Logan got in the van
Elena turned to Jenna "If anyone asks, you don't know where I went. I don't want Caroline to know that I left." She lied
Damon's next victim would be Caroline, she'd be easy, scare her enough she'd come running to him to help him and soon enough he heard the pitter patter of her little feet walking down the stairs towards the basement
"Damon?" She ran to the door "Oh, my God! What is this?" She exclaimed looking at him "How did I know where you were?" She asked
"Because I wanted you to." Damon heaved himself to the door coughing loudly "Let me out of here. Please." he begged
"You bit me." Caroline told him
"You like it." he told her "Remember." he looked deep into her eyes
"Why do I keep remembering the same things, but in different ways?" her voice cracked
"You remember what I want you to remember. And now that the Vervain has passed out of your system, you won't remember what you're about to do." He grinned
"What am I about to do?" Caroline asked
"You're gonna open the door." He told her she looked down at the handle "You're gonna open the door."
Slowly she slid the lock off the door before being grabbed and thrown to the stairs by Zach whom quickly attempted to close to the door it was no use and Damon grabbed him, bitting into his neck draining him completely.
Being chased through the house by Damon as he kept tripping weakly over items of furniture was terrifying, she saw hope when she opened the door and ran out of the house, he wasn't chasing her anymore.
"Sweeper duty." Tiki passed a broom to Bonnie
"What?" Bonnie looked confused taking the broom
"We have to clean the pavement." Tiki replied
"It's a car wash. By definition, the pavement's clean." Bonnie looked at him
"But not dry." She replied smugly
"and I'm doing this why?" She looked at the taller darker skinned girl
"Caroline bailed, so that leaves me in charge." She grinned walking away
Bonnie glared at the wet pavement as the water started to boil, she surprised herself as it set on fire a trail leading towards Tiki's car, as it set on fire
"Bonnie, Bonnie." Stefan shook her pulling her out of her trace like state as the fire stopped
"What just happened?" She asked
"You were in some kind of trance." he replied confused himself
"Did I do this?" She whispered looking at the burnt car
"I think so, yes." Stefan nodded
"Nobody else saw, did that?" Bonnie asked and Stefan shook his head "Don't tell anybody. Please." She begged
Elena sat in front of the news archives with Logan next to her explaining what she had to do, she just had to know the truth, once and for all.
"We digitized all out archives last year." He informed her "You can pull all the remote footage right up on screen. What is it exactly you're looking for?" He asked
"An incident from 1953, if it ever happened – at the old Salvatore boarding house." She replied
Suddenly Logan's phone ran and he excused himself having to leave due to some story downtown, he gave her a quick brief on what she had to do before leaving the room closing the door behind him.
Jeremy sat there laughing gently with Vicki laying between his legs, both were so stoned it was unbelievable
"What?" Vicki asked
"I'm stoned in a cemetery." He replied
"They don't mind, they're dead." She smirked reaching into her pocket grabbing Elena's pain pills "Let me takes this up a notch." she through them to a guy "Hey, Tony."
"Oh!" He looked at them "Nice. Vickies from Vicki. Ha!" he laughed at his own stupid joke passing the bottle to a girl
"well, thank you, Elena Gilbert, whoever you are." The girl smirked
"You took those from the house?" Jeremy asked
"She wasn't using it." Vicki shrugged
Jeremy got up walking over grabbing the pills back "She's gonna notice if they're gone." He replied "That's not cool."
"It's no big deal, Jer." Vicki shrugged again
"Yeah, it kinda is, Vick." He snapped walking away from the group
"Damn, dude." Jared looked at him
"Vicki brought the party police." Tony laughed
Shut up, Tony." Vicki replied shortly "I'm sorry." She took his hands "I didn't mean to make you mad."
"Well, what are we doing, partying in a cemetery with a bunch of losers." Jeremy replied glaring
"Those are my friends." Vicki was offended
"They're wast of space small-town lifers." Jeremy replied simply
"Yeah?" Vicki nodded "What am I?" she asked
"You're different, Vick." he tried it save himself
"No, you are. You're the kid with the big house who's acting out because his parents died. Guess what – You'll get over it. You will pull yourself together, move on, and one day tell your kids stories about your dark period growing up. And I'll still be here, waiting tables at the grill, partying at the cemetery with a bunch of waste of space small-town lifers." she went to walk away
He grabbed her "Look—."
"Go home, Jeremy." She scolded him "If I want to feel like crap about myself, I'll just go back to Tyler." she walked away
Stefan was looking for Elena, he couldn't find her anywhere, he doubt she would have gone to Grace's, not until Grace called her first to apologise for the past couple of days, he saw Matt finishing up the clean up
"Hey, have you seen Elena?" Stefan asked
"no, not for a while." Matt answered
"You think she went home?" Stefan asked again
"Not sure." Matt shrugged
"Thanks." Stefan went to walk away
"Hey. I'm not saying this for you. I'm saying it for her. But she's big on trust. So whatever you're holding back from her, the more you try to hide it, the more she won't stop till she figures it out." Matt informed him
Elena sat searching for the video when she suddenly saw it, June, 1953. She clicked on it quickly and watched the grainy black and white news report
"This is Franklin Fell reporting to you from the Salvatore Boarding House, where a brutal animal attack has ended in tragedy. Ok, they're bringing out the bodies. See if you can get closer. Is that the nephew?" He asked the camera man
The camera zoomed it on what looked like Stefan, but in older clothes, with longer hair, she gasped and paused the news report looking at the boy hiding in the shadows
When Elena got home that night her head was filled with all sorts of what she figured to be crazy thoughts, she picked up her diary, it was time to vent an write.
Dear diary, I'm not a believer. People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That's the world we live in. There's no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There's nothing that defies rational thought.
"Logan?" Jenna called
Quickly tucking the pocket watch from Jeremy's room he walked out to see Jeremy standing there arms crossed over his chest
People are supposed to be who they say they are. And not lie or hide their true selves.
"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked annoyed
"I was just looking for the bathroom." He lied
It's not possible. I'm not a believer, i can't be. But how can i deny what's right in front of me? Someone who never grows old...
The old man repeating June, 1953 replayed in Elena's head making her shiver as she continued to write her inner most secretive thoughts in her diary
Never gets hurt...
She wrote again thinking back to the night of the football game where Jeremy had sliced Stefan's hand open with a glass bottle, but when she went to look it was completely fine
Someone who changes in ways that can't be explained...
The next flashback was when the had first met at the party an his eyes had darkened and deep veins appeared around them
Girls bitten...
Next was when Grace, Elena and Caroline had been in the bathroom at the party and Damon's it marks were revealed to the two
Bodies drained of blood...
The final flashback was when Grace and Elena were talk to Matt about Vicki being attacked and he said that she said she thought it was a Vampire. Suddenly everything connect for Elena, but she had to hear it for herself, running out to her car starting it quickly.
Vicki sat depressed in the dark night cemetery whilst everyone else was getting really stoned and really drunk for the fun of it, Vicki was doing it for the numbing of pain
"Donovan?" Tony offered her a beer
"No, I'm good." She replied
Suddenly music stopped from their pick up truck just a little way into the forest by the road, all the small-town lifers did 'not it' and Vicki was last to even attempt to say it
Vicki rolled her eyes and got up walking to the car leaning in flicking the music back on, she was about to leave when she saw a black figure standing at the back of the car, he was groaning and coughing in what looked like agony
"Hey, man, you ok?" Vicki asked
"Come here." Damon coughed "Come here."
"You don't look good." Vicki noted
"Come closer." he tried to move to her "I have something – that I have to tell you." he groaned falling into her arms
"Whoa, whoa. I got you. It's ok. It's ok." She soothed him
Damon suddenly bit her neck, she was in too much shock and pain to even make noise, still Damon covered her mouth so she didn't alert anyone else.
Stefan heard a car pull up outside of his house, he ran out there to see Elena jumping out of her car looking like a woman on a mission, it was only a matter of time.
"What are you?" She demanded
A/N Sorry in advance for any mistakes I've made, I hope you like it and please review, favourite, alert, whatever you want to do :) Thank you, now I'm going to bed ;)
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