Twisted Love
Season One
Haunter
DISCLAIMER – I don't own any of the Vampire Diaries, or any of it's characters except for Grace
That same night Tyler Lockwood walked out of the school gym, freshly washed after a hard work out into the cold Virginian air. The wind bit at his exposed skin he hurried to his car. Unlocking it with pace, jumping in and slamming it as soon as he could.
"Hi, Ty." A female voice came from behind him making him jump out of his skin
"Whoa, Vicki!" He announced looking towards the distressed girl "Everyone's looking for you." He reminded her
"I know." Her voice broke
"What's wrong, Vic?" He asked affectionately
"I'm so cold." She stated looking up at him with wide dark eyes
"Are you on drugs?" He asked "Everyone thinks you're off on a bender."
"I wish." Vicki mumbled
Tyler paused for a minute "What happened in those woods, Vicki?" He asked studying her nervous attitude "Those kids that were killed, what did you see?"
"I'm so scared." She whispered breaking into sobs
"Come here." He hugged her warmly "I'll take you home." he promised pulling back to start the car
"I can't control it." Her voice darkened as she held onto him
"What are you on?" He tried to pull back from her but she was strong "What drugs did you take?"
"I want it." She kissed his neck meaning something completely different "I am so hungry, Ty." She told him through clenched teeth
"Ok, look, I'll get you something to eat." He pried himself from her vice like grip "Just sit back." he added "Look, lets just get you home, Vicki. What the hell is wrong with you!" He exclaimed as she started to hiss and growl
He fell backwards out of his car onto the cold hard concrete, when suddenly Vicki launched herself from the car and was on top of Tyler angling his neck so she'd be able to bite it, but she was suddenly removed kicking and screaming
"Ah! Let go of me!" She ordered
Tyler stood up quickly and went to run in the opposite direction but was blocked by a blue eyed monster "What's going on here Stefan? What's wrong with her?"
"You don't talk." Damon told him sternly
"Screw you, dude." Tyler glared at the older Salvatore brother
This earned a smirk from the raven haired man "'dude' really? 'dude'."
"Damon, don't." Stefan ordered still holding Vicki off
"Oh come on. Who's gonna miss this idiot?" Damon asked
The older brother was surprised when a fist pounded into his jaw, nothing happened it didn't particularly hurt, but it was the fact that Tyler had the nerve to actually hit the intimidating man
"Oh! Don't you hurt him." Vicki ordered Damon
Damon was actually angry at this point and placed his hand around Tyler's neck making sure to crush his wide-pipe, but not completely block of air supply
"Forget what you saw here tonight." Damon started to compel him "None of us were here." He finished
Damon threw Tyler over his car like he was nothing, a piece of trash, and the next second the three Vampires were gone. The teenager lay there in pain where he'd just smacked against the concrete, standing up and looking around he wondered how he got down here, what was here doing standing this side of his car?
Elena woke up that next morning feeling almost rested, which was a gift she hadn't been granted in a while, the first thing she did was reach for her cell phone and phone Grace
"Hello?" Grace's voice was groggy
"Where are you? You didn't call me last night." Elena demanded
"I'll come over to yours." Grace told her "I'm ready now anyway."
"Alright see you in 5." Elena replied
Both girls hung up and Elena walked into the bathroom to see Jeremy just finishing brushing his teeth, she apologised or barging in and was about to leave when he told her he'd just finished
"You're up early where are you going?" Elena asked
"Police station are organising a search party for Vicki so..." He trailed off about to leave the bathroom
Elena place tooth paste on her tooth brush and looked at her younger brother through the mirror "Wait, shouldn't you be going to school?"
"You're kidding me right?" Jeremy smirked
"You shouldn't skip school." Elena tried to be responsible "That's what cell phones are for."
"Your lips keep moving, I don't know why." He rolled his eyes before walking back into his room shutting the door
Grace walked down stairs smoothing her hair down before she saw her Gran sitting in the kitchen, she placed delicate footsteps into the room and sat down, she didn't want to read her Grans mind, it was an invasion of privacy and was not going to use that power unless it was an emergency
"Morning, dear." Her Gran smiled
"Morning." Grace nodded "Can I ask you a question?"
"Of course." Her Gran smiled
"What do you know of Damon Salvatore?" Grace asked cautiously
"Damon Salvator." Her Gran almost hissed the name "He knew what I was when I was much younger."
"So what do you know about him?" Grace asked
"What do you know about him?" Her Gran was curious
"I asked you first." Grace crossed her arms stubbornly
Her Gran shrugged "It's too early for that..."
"Fine." Grace scoffed "does being telepathic only run in families?"
"No." Her Gran replied "Anyone can be a telepath, it's whether they choose to welcome their powers or not?"
"So it's purely coincidental that we're both telepaths." Grace creased her eye brows
"Yes, dear." Her Gran patted her hand
A good half an hour later after Elena was ready she was downstairs stirring her morning coffee when the front door open and a familiar pair of boots walked in
"Hey." Grace's voice was low
"Are you ok?" Elena jumped up to inspect her best friend "Come here." She hugged her quickly "I was so worried didn't you get my calls?"
"There was some pretty close calls last night... and I was absolutely exhaustedly from using my power like on full volume so I could hear Vicki's emotions too." Grace took Elena's coffee and drunk some
"So what happened?" Elena pried
"Well... Stefan got shot by Logan Fell." Grace creased her eye brows "He had wooden bullet's so... so he must know, and if he knows who else knows?" The small brunette wondered aloud
"Back up." Elena ordered "From a part where I can understand, please."
"Ok... So we found Vicki in the old cemetery and as we walked towards her Logan Fell – the guy off the TV – jumped out with a gun full of wooden bullets, he knew Stefan was a Vampire so he shot him, then he turned to me and was about to shoot me, but Damon saved me." Grace put her head down
"Damon saved you?" Elena's eyes were wide
"Yeah, he snapped Logan's neck." Grace shook her head "It was all incredibly disturbing, but kinda sweet at the same time."
"We should head over to Stefan's, check on Vicki and him." Elena stood up grabbing her bag
"Yeah, you're right." Grace nodded "I suppose I should thank Damon too, you know for saving my life."
"Yeah, I guess you should." Elena giggled
Matt was standing at his locker, he was scared for his sister, she'd never been this bad before, he knew that she did drugs, but she was never this... crazy. He broke out of his train of thought when his cell started to ring
"Yeah?" Matt asked quickly holding it to his ear
"Matty?" Vicki used the affectionate brotherly nick-name
"Vicki, where are you?" He asked surprised and happy "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm ok." She assured him
"Tell me where you are, I'll come and get you." He promised
"No." Vicki replied softly "Matty, I just need some time to figure things out. Just know that I'm ok, ok? Please don't worry about me." Vicki hung up
Stefan reached and took his phone back off Vicki and placed it on the desk in front of him, Damon sat across the room from him in front of the window that was covered to protect a Vampire Vicki from the sun.
"I don't understand why I have to stay copped up here." Vicki complained sitting on Stefan's bed "Why can't I just go home?" She asked in a whiny voice
"Because you're changing, Vicki, and it's not something you wanna do alone." Stefan argued smoothly
"There nothing about that Logan guy I killed in here." Damon threw the newspaper at Stefan whilst playing around with the compass "Not a word. Someone's covering it up."
"What is that?" Vicki asked curiously
"This is a very special, very old compass." He explained "What was Logan Fell doing with it?" He directed the question at Stefan "aren't you curious?"
"Well, if you're so worried that somebodies onto you, why don't you just leave town, Damon?" The younger brother replied hopeful
"We should all be worried." Damon countered cleverly
Vicki sat up "Hey, um, I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat?" She asked holding her stomach
"Here." Stefan got up walking over and handing her a mug full of metallic smelling liquid
Vicki smelt it before looking up surprised "What is it?" She asked
"It's what you're craving." Stefan replied casually
"Huh, don't lie to the girl." Damon pipped up inappropriately "but it will do in a pinch, right, Stef?"
"What is it?" Vicki took another sniff
"Yeah, what is it?" Damon tilted his head jokingly "Is it skunk? Saint Bernard? Bambi?" He joked
"Give it a try." Stefan encouraged and she did
"She's new." Damon shook his head "She needs people blood. She can't sustain on that stuff."
"Yeah, why can't I have people blood?" Vicki asked pulling away from the mug
"Yeah?" Damon wasn't helping the situation
"Because it's wrong to pray on the innocent, Vicki." Stefan explained glaring at Damon
"You don't have to kill to feed. Just find someone really tasty and then erase their memory afterwards." Damon shrugged "It's so easy." he looked at Vicki and she looked convinced
"No, no, no." Stefan looked frustrated "There's no guarantee that you can control yourself, ok?" He looked at Vicki "It takes years to learn that. You could easily kill somebody, and then you have to carry that with you for the rest of your life, which, if I haven't made clear, is eternity." Stefan explained
"Don't listen to him." Damon rolled his eyes "He walks on a moral plane way out of our eye line. I say snatch, eat, erase." Damon made it sound so tempting
"Hey, look at me." Stefan order a naïve Vicki "we choose out own path, our values and out actions, they define who we are."
"Ok, Count Deepak." Damon got up rolling his eyes "I am out of here." He left the room
"Can I have some more?" Vicki asked Stefan licking her lips
Damon got to the bottom of the stairs and could hear their footsteps before both people had even rang the doorbell. He wandered over and opened the door to see the two young girls standing there
"Well if it isn't my favourite Telepath." Damon smiled sweetly at Grace "Elena." he nodded once at her
"Is Stefan here?" Elena asked
"Yep." Damon nodded
"Where is he?" She barged past him walking upstairs to find Stefan on the landing outside his room
"good morning to you too, Little Miss. 'I'm on a Mission'." Damon called to her crossing his arms like a stubborn child "Morning." He turned to Grace flashing a perfect grin
"Hi." Grace nodded once "I'm thankful for you saving me last night but I don't understand how you can be so arrogant and glib after everything you've done." she looked at him
"And how can you be so brave and stupid to call a Vampire glib and arrogant?" He looked at her the same curiosity, but with darker eyes
"If you wanted me dead, I'd be dead." She argued
"Yes, you would." Damon walked past her onto the stone porch
"But I'm not." Grace looked up at him
"Yet." He replied over his shoulder "You know I'm hungry I've have eaten..."
"You would touch me." Grace warned
"Wouldn't I? He turned and ran his finger tips up her arm getting to her shoulder "I'm touching you now, aren't I?" He asked taking a step towards her leaning down moving his finger tips so they rested on her heavy beating pulse "You're nervous..."
"Quit it." Grace took a step back hitting the door frame
Damon smirked quietly to himself and turned looking out on to the front garden, before turned back to her looking at her suspiciously
"How bad do you think I am?" He asked
"You're bad." She agreed "but not all the way down to the core, there has to be some kind of love inside you..." The small brunette shrugged
"How can you say that?" He asked "you barely know me."
"That's true." Grace nodded "and I know a lot of people think your bad, but there is good in everyone... somewhere, you saved me life last night, I'd probably be dead now if you hadn't broken his neck."
"I think I deserve that kiss now." Damon took a step towards her
Grace smirked "You know I would... but I like to make a guy wait."
"A tease." Damon looked her up and down
"I suppose so." Grace bit her bottom lip before walking into the house
Damon suddenly grabbed her spinning her round so she was facing him "I don't particularly take well to teasing." He pressed her back against a wall
"Damon, get off me." Grace ordered looking up into his bright blue orbs
"Damon." Stefan called "Back off."
The older brother took a step away from the young telepath smirking, he stepped back outside disappearing in a flash within seconds
"That is why I hate coming here." Grace turned towards the other two "How is Vicki?"
"I'm working with her, but it's gonna take time. She's a very volatile and impulsive personality. She's a drug user. I mean, all that's gonna play a part in how she respond to this." He explained just like he did to Elena "I'm going to keep her with me until I know she's safe."
"How long will that be?" Vicki stood at the top of the stairs still holding the animal blood from earlier
"Hey, Vicki." Elena smiled "How are you?"
"How am I?" Vicki smirked "You're kidding, right?"
"I'm gonna head to school, I can't deal with Damon coming back..." Grace shook her head
"Alright." Stefan nodded at her
"See ya soon." Elena hugged her best friend tightly
Bonnie was sitting in her Grams house, she had decided if Grace was embracing what she truly was then it was time for her to follow, she was going to embrace the true witch inside of her.
"Was out family burned in the witch trials?" Bonnie asked
"No, the girls that were persecuted in Salem were entirely innocent." The older witch explained "You have to have more than ignorance to trap a real witch."
"How did we end up in Mystic Falls?" Bonnie asked curiously
"Our family fled Salem in 1692 and relocated here. Our ancestors lived in secrecy for over a hundred years. It's important that we still do..." She explained
"Well, Grams, everybody knows you're a witch." Bonnie smirked holding her tea
"They also know it's absurd, can't be true. I'm just a kooky old lady that teaches occult at the university. No one really believes. They just poke fun and I let 'em." She shrugged "Just don't let 'em know the truth."
"But what about Grace and her Gran... they are-"
"Yes, they are Telepaths... but no one knows that..." She explained "Heidi knows my secret and I knows hers."
"So you trust her?" Bonnie asked
"not at all." Her Grams laughed "but she's kept my secret long enough..."
"Where's the witchcraft?" Bonnie asked impatiently "I mean, you've been talking history for two days. I wanna get to the fun part."
"It's not meant to be fun." Her Grams scolded her "It's real and it's serious, and you must understand it before you practice. Aren't you late for school?"
Mr and Mrs Lockwood sat in the Mystic Grill talking about the incident that had occurred, it was shaken them both, now everything had become very real, very fast.
"We should never have trusted that Logan... Weasel with the watch." Mayor Lockwood announced
"How many are we dealing with?" Mrs Lockwood asked nervously playing with her hair
"Well, the Coroner thinks one. Something about the wound radius and the jaw pattern..." He replied what he had been told
"Are we in danger?" Mrs Lockwood asked "I mean, if it found the watch, then it knows we know and it could come after us? A-and should I even be saying 'it'? Or... or is it a he or a she?" she asked frustrated
"If it has any historical knowledge of the town, then it'll know where the watch came from, so yes, we could very much be in danger." Mayor Lockwood explained to his wife
"So what do you we do?" She asked
"Just keep it quiet. We can't have the entire town aware of this. We need to find him before he finds us." He replied
Damon smirked as he sat up at the bar, drinking some whisky, ease dropping on the entire conversation the worried town Mayor was having... after all, the compass was in his pocket.
Matt walked through the crowd of people getting the school reading for it's annual school halloween party, he walked over to his locker opening it and placing his things inside when Tyler came over
"Hey, Man." Tyler smiled at him
"Hey." Matt replied continuing to put things in his locker
"I heard they're putting together a search party for Vicki." Tyler stated when Matt already knew
"She just called." Matt explained "She's ok."
"Oh Good. That's great." Tyler nodded thankfully "I figured you must be going out of your mind."
"A little bit, yeah." Matt nodded
"I was just gonna offer, you know, if there's anything I could do..." Tyler shrugged
"I appreciate it..." Matt nodded
Caroline skipped through the crowd over to her olive toned best friend holding a bag out in front of the newly found witch, the small brunette that had just arrived to smirked as she watch on at this situation whilst leaning back against the row of lockers.
"I have got your costume." Caroline grinned happily as Bonnie took the bag "It's all here."
Bonnie reached into the bag pulling out a pointed witch hat "Seriously?" she asked
"Come on." The blonde complained "Can someone please be excited that it's Halloween? I just wanna have fun, you know, just some silly, fluffy, Damon free fun."
"Damon free sounds good." Grace nodded looking at her nails
Bonnie reached into the bag again and pulled out a familiar topaz pendant "Hey, isn't this the one you got from Damon?"
"Yep." Caroline nodded "wear it. Toss it. I don't care. I just want it gone." She explained carelessly "Hey, have you seen Elena?" She looked towards Grace and Bonnie "Do we know what she is wearing?"
"I was with Grams all weekend." Bonnie replied shrugged "I haven't spoken to her... maybe she's with Stefan."
"Riding to his castle on his white horse." Caroline rolled her eyes
"Don't be bitter, it provokes wrinkles..." Grace smirked
Stefan slid another drink across the dining table towards Vicki, Elena watched as she sat there too
"Coffee is our friend." Stefan explained "it's the caffeine, it circulate through our viens and it warms our body so we're not so cold to the touch."
"well, what is I wanna drink human blood?" Vicki asked mauling over the coffee mug
"You're gonna have to learn to live with that urge and fight it on a daily basis one day at a time." Stefan replied
"Oh God." Vicki held her head "Don't start with the whole twelve step thing... School counsellor has been down that road, and it doesn't work for me." She explained fed up
"It can work." Stefan nodded "It's your choice, Vicki."
"So you've never tasted human blood?" Vicki asked skeptical
"Not in a long time." he looked at Elena at the corner of his eye
"How long?" She pried
"Year and years." Stefan replied "I'm not proud of my past behaviour." he admitted
"Does this sketchy feeling ever go away?" She asked "it's like a have a massive handover. This daylight thing is a bitch. I need more blood. Where's your bathroom? I have to pee. Why do I have to pee? I though I was dead..." and like that Vicki was skipping off to the bathroom
I'm going to... uh... I'm gonna get get some more blood." Stefan told Elena looked confused at where Vicki had just walked off to "I'll be quick." And like that Stefan was gone
"False alarm." Vicki walked back in the room "my bodies feeling really funky." She explained "it's a good funk, but it's weird." Vicki was about to call someone on her phone at the same time
"Hmm, who are you calling?" Elena asked standing up
"Jeremy." Vicki replied casually
"Vicki, you can't see Jeremy anymore." Elena shook her head
"Oh come on, don't you start." Vicki rolled her eyes "I'm gonna see whoever I wanna see." She shrugged
"Even though you could hurt him?" Elena asked
"I would never hurt Jeremy." Vicki growled hanging up
"I know you think that but I can't take the risk." Elena explained "you're gonna have to let Jeremy go now."
"Oh, oh really?" Vicki asked smirking "And how long have you been preparing a 'you're not good enough' speech? I'm presuming it predates the whole vampire thing..." her anger flared
"All I am saying is Jeremy is not getting involved in any of this. I mean it." Elena's protectiveness washed over her
"Or what?" Vicki grabbed Elena by her throat holding her back against a door frame, inches off the ground "Let's get one thing straight, you perky little bitch." She was right in Elena's face "You had my brother whipped for fifteen years..." Vicki started "fifteen years." she repeated "and then you dumped him. When I look at you that is all I see... just so you know." she growled "And I'm gonna see Jeremy whenever I want to see Jeremy, because I have some fun new toys to plat with, and I wont think twice about ripping you little head off. You go it?" Vicki threatened before letting Elena go and she dropped to the floor
Elena was left there on the floor spluttering and trying to catch her breath after Vicki had left her there
Grace was looking through Bonnie's bag that contained her halloween costume, she smirked as she pulled out a short little dress and a pointed witches hat.
"Is this a joke?" Grace asked
"She just wants to have a little fun." Bonnie replied sipping her water "It's humiliating and..."
"Just about spot on." Grace joked "I should start calling you Sabrina the Teenage Witch, you know get you a cat, call it Salem..."
"Shut up." Bonnie hit her arm laughing "or I will walk out of here an get you a Sookie Stackhouse costume." Bonnie warned changing her tone to deadly serious
"Alright alright." Grace held her hands up laughing
"Are you planning on coming to the party?" Bonnie asked
"I'm not sure, I have a lot on my mind at the moment, I'm behind on a lot of work." Grace gnawed on her bottom lip "plus, I don't have a costume."
"We could go out and get you one now." Bonnie's eye lit up
"I'm not sure..." Grace shrugged her shoulders
"C'mon, don't be a spoil sport." Bonnie grabbed her wrist "Please, please, please."
"Bon." Grace laughed pulling her wrist back across the table "Fine, let's go now."
"Yes." Bonnie jumped up
Elena and Stefan were standing outside a little while after the incident with Vicki had happened, she was not happy, but Stefan could understand what Vicki was going through.
"She threatened me." Elena stated appalled
"She's on edge." Stefan defended the young Vampire "Imagine every sense in your body operating at super speed. I mean, she's uncomfortable in her own skin. And then you throw in her other issues..." He shook his head
"How long before it settles? Hours? Days? Weeks?" Elena searched for an answer
"There's no rule book." Stefan shrugged
"Well, how long before you learned to control it?" Elena asked him a personal question
"a while... but I didn't have anybody to help me." He tried to find a bright side "I had to do it on my ow. The thing is it's had to resist certain people especially when you're new, it's difficult to separate your feelings." he explained "love, lust, anger, desire... it can all blur into one urge... hunger."
"What does that mean?" Elena asked frustrated
"It means that Jeremy can't see her, not now." Stefan shook his head "She might not be able to resist him and she could hurt him."
"Or worse." Her voice broke
"I'm not going to let anybody get hurt." Stefan promised
"I need to get going." Elena grabbed her bag from where it had been by her feet
"Elena..." He called
"Please, Stefan. There's only so much I can take." Elena pulled away
Damon wandered through the house, he was bored again, it seemed as if he was always bored, suddenly he heard music playing from Stefan room, so he walked up to see the young drug user he killed laying on the bed
"What are you doing?" Damon asked leaning against the door
"just contemplating the next hundred years." Vicki sat up "Why did you do it? She looked straight at him
"I was... bored." He admitted
"you did this to me out of boredom?" Vicki asked
"It's one of the pitfalls of eternity." Damon shrugged
"Now I'm bored." She complained "and all I can think about is blood, I just want some blood. I can't think about anything else."
"That'll ease up." He informed her from experience "You've been cooped up all day. Let's go." he jerked his thumb behind him
"Where?" Vicki asked standing up walking through the door
"Your life was pathetic. Your afterlife doesn't have to be." Damon smirked walking her down the stairs towards the door
"What are you doing?" Stefan walked over
"She's been cooper up in your room all day, she's not Anne Frank." Damon smirked at his younger brother reaching for the door
"No, no, no." Stefan blocked it "Hey, hey, this is not the time for this." he warned
"If you're gonna teach her. Teach her." Damon levelled "Show her what it's all about." he moved Stefan and attempted to open the door again
"She could hurt someone." Stefan looked at his older brother trying to reason
"I'm not taking her to Disneyland." Damon rolled his eyes opening the door "we're going to the front yard. Come on."
As they were walking out there Stefan felt something bad in the pit of his stomach, something bad was going to happen and he knew it and then Elena would find out and she was going to blame him too, he just knew it.
"This is a bad idea, Damon." Stefan told his brother
"She's a Vampire, Stefan." He looked at the young Salvatore "She should know the perks."
"Like what?" Vicki asked excited from the side lines
"like..." Damon moved at Supernatural speed to be standing behind Vicki
"Whoa." She grinned turning and looking at him he did it again and she turned even more excited to see him standing behind her "how did you do that?"
"Come on, Vicki, live a little, no pun intended." Damon moved to stand next to his brother
Vicki grinned and nodded taking a run up before starting to move at impossible fast speeds and like that she was running through the forest outside of the Salvatore house, free.
"uh." Stefan looked around listen for her
"my bad." Damon admitted trying to listen to where she was going too
Vicki appeared outside of her home, she walked up to the door pushing the door open as she tried to walk inside she was stopped by what felt like a brick wall, why couldn't she get into her own house? She wondered
"Matt." She called standing outside the door hoping he was in
"Vicki." Matt walked to the door hoping it was his younger sister back from where ever she had been "Is that you?" He hugged her
"Hey." She smiled accepting the warm family hug
"Get in here." he laughed taking her hand
"in a minute." Vicki was scared to try again incase she was stopped
"Please come inside." he invited her in "I've been worried, thank God you're ok." He pulled her inside sitting her down at the dinning table "Where were you, Vic?"
"It's not a big deal." Vicki replied with a shrug "Drop it already."
"three people were murdered in the woods. The cops were looking for you. They wanna question you." Matt stated laying a plate of food in front of his hungry sister
"They know where I live." Vicki shrugged carelessly picking at the human food
"Everyone was worried about you." He looked at his younger sister
"I'm back now." She replied "just let it go." she smashed the plate to their surprise
"Are you kidding?" Matt hollered "I had a freaking search party out looking for you while you were off on your crazy drug trip! And you want me to just let it go!" Matt looked at her in disbelief
"My head hurts." She held her pounding head
Matt shock his head and was happy that the door was knocking, he could stop talking to his ungrateful drug abuser of a sister, he opened the door to see Stefan standing there looking worried
"Stefan, what are you doing here?" Matt asked
"Is Vicki home?" Stefan asked
"Yeah." Matt nodded
"Can I see her, please?" Stefan asked politely
"Don't let him in." Vicki knew how to play her brother "I don't want him in here." She called
"Did he do something to you?" Matt asked angrily looking at Stefan but talking to Vicki
"No, I just don't want him in here." Vicki covered her face
"Just let me come in so I can explain myself." Stefan tried to look past Matt
"Look, I don't know what's going on but I think you should leave now." Matt warned
"Matt." He tried to ask but he closed it on him
Jeremy was talking on the phone in the living room whilst Elena and Grace sat in the kitchen, they were talking about what had happened today
"Are you sure you don't want to come to the party?" Grace asked playing with the hem of her fire red Little Red Riding Hood cape, with short black mini dress underneath, it was fairly sexy
"I'd better not." Elena shook her head "But I like the look you got going on." She laughed
"Bonnie picked it out." Grace rolled her eyes "I really wish you would come, it will by good to get you out of the house, even for a couple of hours, all this Stefan drama over the past couple of days has been... it's been a nightmare to be honest."
"I've got to keep him away from you know who..." Elena gave her best friend a look "I really can't face anything tonight..."
"Alright." Grace sighed "is he calling her now?"
"Yep." Elena nodded watching
"Hey, maybe you could come bring Jer too, get his mind off her." Grace looked hopeful
"I'll try." Elena shrugged "I'm making no promises."
"You gotta give me a call, Vic." Jeremy spoke to the answer phone message "I don't get it. What's going on with you?" He hung up
"Hey." Elena called "I was wondering if you wanted to hang with me and Little Red over here?" Elena asked her younger brother "we could go to the Halloween thing at school. Could be fun." She shrugged
"Sure. Sounds... uh... sounds fun." Jeremy replied sarcastically
"I know you're upset about Vicki." Elena nodded
"I heard she called Matt or something." Grace stirred her drink
"But you can't be with her." Elena's eyes darkened as she looked at Grace "You're meant to back me up here." She hissed
"Sorry." Grace apologised "The best thing you can do is let her go." The smaller brunette shrugged
"What does that even mean 'let her go'?" Jeremy asked looking at Grace "oh, because we're all such experts on letting people go, right?"
"I know you may not see it now, Jer, but it's not the best." Elena replied unfazed
"Look, for months after Mom and Dad died, I felt like crap, like 'nothing really even mattered' crap. Now all of a sudden, I get these moments and things started to feel just a little bit better, and Vicki was in every single one of 'em." he explained "So you may not see it but keeping me away from Vicki is the best." He glanced down at his phone as he got a text
"You know I think you'd better go." Elena turned to Grace "not that I don't want you being here, cause I do, it's just maybe me and Jer need some sibling time together, you know? Family time."
"Oh yeah, sure I get it." Grace smiled acceptingly "I'll head to the party, find Bon and everyone."
"Alright." Elena hugged her "have a good time."
"You too." Grace replied
Caroline and Bonnie were all dressed up in their costumes, Tyler walked over holding two drinks he grinned at both of them
"Cider for the ladies." He held them out "it's a Lockwood special."
"No way. Last year I was hung over until thanksgiving." Bonnie shook her head refusing the drink
"Light weight." Caroline mumbled taking a drink "I am going to drink until someone is hot enough to make out with."
"Sounds like a plan." He tapped his drink against her in a cheers kind of fashion
Mayor Lockwood and his wife were once again sitting in Mystic Grill, this time they had alcoholic beverages and were about to head to the Halloween Party
"How many martinis have you had?" Mayor Lockwood questioned his wife
"Oh don't start with me." She moaned chewing on an olive
"Can we go now?" He looked at his watch finishing off his scotch "We're lat for the Halloween party. Let's go."
"So go ahead." She shook her head "I would like to finish my drink."
Mayor Lockwood rolled his eyes at his tipsy wife, he rose from his seat and exited the bar, Mrs Lockwood was surprised when she was joined by a young handsome blue eyed gentleman with a whisky in hand
"Let me guess." He started looking at her Halloween costume "Daisy Buchanan." he guessed correctly "I love a good 'Gatsby' look."
"I've met you before." She remembered the handsome face from the founders party "aren't you Caroline Forbes' boyfriend?"
"Ah, she had a school girl crush on me..." Damon shrugged "but it was cute, but I had to let her down easy."
"is Damon, right?" She asked
"Oh you remember." He wiggled his eye brows
"well you have a face that's hard to forget." She was flirting "What's your last name, Damon?" She asked curiously
"Salvatore." He replied
"Salvatore." She repeated
"Mm hmm." He nodded
"Are you any relation to Zach?" She asked
"Zach's my uncle." He clarified "How do you know Zach?" He attempted to find the truth by compelling her
"Are you ok?" She asked suspiciously
"Yeah, I think there's something in my eye." The blue eyed daemon rubbed his glossy orb lying
"Well, I know Zach from the founders council." Mrs. Lockwood started without being compelled "You know the Salvatore's were one of this towns original settlers."
"Yes, they were." Damon knew that all too well "I wasn't aware that Zach was a member, I just recently moved back home and haven't really had a chance to meet many of his friends."
"Well, will you tell him to return my calls?" She asked "I've left several messages."
"Zach went out of town for a bit." Damon lied "But if it's about the Vervain..." He trailed off lowering his voice
"you know about the Vervain?" Mrs. Lockwood asked surprised
"Well I'm a Salvatore, of course I do." He chuckled
"Of course." She nodded
"Cheers." Damon held his whisky glass up
Grace spotted Elena and Jeremy walked into the party running over with a Lockwood Cider in her hand she hugged her best friend deeply
"You made it!" She practically shouted over the heavy beat of the music
"Jeremy wanted to come." She shrugged
"I like your outfit." Grace giggled "Oh, Ex alert."
"Shut up." Elena pushed her tipsy friend
"You went with last years costume too." Matt pointed to the matching Doctor's outfit that fitted with Elena's nurse one
"I didn't know I was coming till a little while ago." She defended her choice
"me neither." Matt nodded "Are you're going as... Little Red Riding Hood." He looked at Grace
"sexy little red riding hood." Grace corrected tipping more of her drink down her throat
"And you're going as... you." He looked at Jeremy which pissed him off causing him to leave
"He's not talking to me right now." Elena informed Matt "We got into a fight."
"Yeah, I got into it with Vic, when she got home. I'm trying not to smother her tonight, but part of me didn't want to let her out of my sight." He informed her
"She's here?" Grace paled
"Yeah, you can't miss her." Matt smirked "She's a vampire."
Grace chocked on her drink "What?"
"Costume." Elena hissed "Where did Jeremy go?" She looked around
"Elena, what's the matter?" Matt asked worried
"We're got to go." Elena squeezed Matt's hand "we'll catch up later." she promised
"I'll go look for him this way." Grace turned walking out the door into the front of the party seeing Bonnie
Vicki stumbled through the school looking for Jeremy, the lights were flickering due to the haunted school theme, everyone was jumping out and attempting to scare her. She rubbed her jaw as it started to ache again.
Suddenly she was caught by someone shoved into a empty school room, being forced to looking up into a bright hazel set of eyes, he was angry
"What you're following me now?" She asked angry
"you didn't really give me much of a choice." Stefan countered
She tried to walk past him "You let me out of here." She demanded
"You shouldn't be here, Vicki." He told her "Crowds like this, it makes it even harder for you to keep yourself under control."
"I'm fine." She informed him
"Really?" He looked at her with complete disbelief
"Mm hmm." She nodded stubbornly
"No headache? Your stomach's not screaming at you? You're not feeling lightheaded or anxious or cranky like if someone looks at you the wrong way you could just rip their head off?" He repeated what Vicki had threatened Elena with earlier "Do you wanna know what that's called? It's called hunger and it's only going to get worse and worse every minute that you pretend like it's not controlling you."
Damon continued to sit there with Mrs. Lockwood at the Grill, they were flirting and drinking more and more
"So you need Vervain?" He announced
"Yes, my husband and I only have what's his parents left him, and Zach had promised that he could supply us with more." Mrs Lockwood informed him
"Well, I talk to him all the time." He lied "So why don't I just ask him?"
"Hmm." She was unconvinced
"How much do you need?" Damon asked stirring his whisky and melting ice "I mean, how many people do you think?"
"Well, there's our children of course." She nodded
"Of course." Damon agreed
"and friends, family, and everyone on the council." She informed him
"The council?" Damon questioned
"Zach knows how many." She'd already given away too much information to an outsider "But I'm so late." She looked at her watch "My husband is not gong to be happy with me."
"well, are you happy with your husband?" Damon gave her a suggestive look
"You're flirting with me." She blushed
"You flirted with me first." He chuckled
"True." She nodded accepting the blame
"Let me escort you to the school." Damon finished his strong whisky "It's not safe out there, I mean, I've seen ten vampires tonight."
She laughed "well, if only the real ones were as easy to find."
"How is the search going?" Damon knew the true answer
"Oh, we had the founders party and anyone who arrived during the day was eliminated as a suspect." She explained
"Oh." Damon nodded thankful he'd gone
"And all the rest were just dead ends..." She trailed off "I gotta go." She nodded
"Ok." Damon stood up to escort her to the party
Elena had been rushing around the school corridors trying to find Jeremy or even Vicki so she could keep her away from him. She turned around and spotted Vicki with Stefan he walked over to her
"Oh thank God." Elena sighed happily
"What's wrong?" Stefan asked concerned
"I lost track of Jeremy, I was worried." Elena informed him
"What's going on?" Matt walked over confused
"Hey, uh, everything's fine." Stefan assured her
"I told you to quit bothering me." Vicki was playing her brother to think that she was innocent in all of this, playing Matt against Stefan to give her time
"No." Elena shook her head "Vicki, don't do this."
"Matt, he wont leave me alone." Vicki complained pulling away from Stefan smiling evilly
"You need to back off, man." Matt warned him protective of his younger sister
"Matt, it's... it's ok." Elena assured him
"No, it's not ok." Matt growled "What the hell is your problem?" he shoved him
"Stefan." Elena called "She's gone."
Stefan looked evilly at Matt before grabbing his shirt pulling him close "I'm trying to help her."
Vicki grabbed Jeremy shoving him into a room, kissing him with such passion and such desire, this was the lust for blood taking over her... she couldn't control it.
"Vic." Jeremy pulled back "you scared the hell out of me."
"Sorry." She placed small kisses on his neck "I'm sorry." She repeated
Bonnie and Grace were standing outside at the punch bowl, which had quite obviously been spiked, Grace was surprised when Damon appeared in front of them
"Damon." She spoke his name "What are you doing here?"
"I love a good party." he smiled at her "What are you suppose to be?" he eyed her
"Sexy little red riding hood." Grace stated what seemed to be the fiftieth time that night
"Sexy is right." Damon wiggled his eye brows
"If I wasn't so tipsy I would have hit you." She informed him stumbling into the table "ow."
"Damon, do yourself a favour and get out of here." Bonnie warned protecting a drunk Grace "Go look for Elena." The darker skinned witch told the Telepath whom skipped off like little red riding hood should
"Bonnie, so loyal." Damon cooed
"Just stay away from here." Bonnie warned
"Where'd you get that?" Damon asked noticing his amber crystal
"It's pretty." Grace admired "Kind of."
"I got it from a friend." Bonnie kept her answer discrete
"Caroline." Damon knew the answer "You know that's mine, don't you?"
"Not anymore." Bonnie glared
"Funny." He smirked "I'd like it back, please." He tried to be nice
"I'm not giving it to you." Bonnie announced "I'll give it to Caroline and she can give it to you when she feels like it."
"Or I could just take it now." Damon grabbed the pendant and when he did a scolding heat burnt his hand and he released it immediately
Bonnie was scared what Damon would do, and was also scared of what the pendant had just done, so she ran away from him praying to God he wouldn't follow or find her again.
Vicki pulled Jeremy through the school building out the back away from the older siblings and Vampires that were trying to find then, she pulled him out to where the bus' were stored over night.
Stefan was walking through the crowded school trying to listen out for Jeremy or Vicki but couldn't hear either of them over the loud speakers or talking students, suddenly he saw Grace she waved, he walked over quickly and grabbed her arm
"Listen for Vicki or Jeremy." He told her
"Alright." She shrugged his colder hand off closing her eyes "I can't hear anything just this loud people around me... Elena is worrying a lot." she informed him
"where the hell is he? What will she do to him?" She could hear Elena's worried voice
"How did you single out Elena?" Stefan asked
"I don't know." Grace creased her eye brows "Maybe it's because I'm worrying about her..."
"I was so worried about you." Jeremy told Vicki as his back was against a school bus and Vicki was placed in front of him
"I'm fine now." She assured him with a lie "but I have to leave."
"W-what?" Jeremy stuttered "Where?"
"I've just got to get out of here." Vicki shook her head "I can't live at home with Matt, he just doesn't get it."
"No, you can't." Jeremy told her "you can't just leave."
"Come with me." Her eye lit up "If you come with me, we can be together forever."
"Ok." Jeremy nodded earning a kiss
Vicki started to kiss him more passionately, she wasn't sure if it was the lust for him, or the hunger for his blood that pushed her to bit his lip making it bleed
"Ow." Jeremy complained innocently with wince and a laugh
She took the spec of blood on her finger and dabbed it gently on her tongue, she moaned as the hunger roar up her throat with a burning sensation, human blood was so much better than that animal rubbish Stefan was giving her
"human blood taste great." Vicki thought
"Oh my God." Grace whispered heading for the school yard
"Aren't you taking that costume a little too far?" Jeremy asked Vicki as she was taken over by the blood, she started to suck on his bottom lip "Vicki! Vicki, what the hell!" He shoved the Vampire woman away "Oh my God, Stop no, Vicki!"
Walking out into the yard Grace heard Jeremy's desperate screams for held seeing a 2x4 laying in a pile she grabbed it and ran around the corner
"Vicki, no!" She screamed
Vicki turned with anger as Jeremy tumbled to the ground, stalking towards the older telepath. Grace quickly hit the newborn Vampire with brute force only to break the 2x4 in half leaving Grace standing there unarmed and Vicki was completely unharmed but incredibly angry
Grabbing Grace's petite shoulders she shoved her back making her land painfully on the ground, something painfully stabbed into Grace's side making her bleed, she moaned out in pain, as the brunette stumbled to her feet she saw Stefan grab Vicki against one of the bus'.
The younger vampire used her new found strength to shove Stefan away and disappear under the bus, none of them new where she was hiding
"Go!" Stefan ordered both teens "Get inside!"
Grace quickly ran past Stefan and grabbed hold of Jeremy's arm pulling him towards the school building as she got to the door she saw it was close, Jeremy was taken from her grip and she was grabbed, a pair of razor sharp teeth was torn into her slender neck and she let out a blood curdling scream
She new something was wrong when Vicki stopped, the small telepath stumbled backwards to see Vicki had been impaled of one half of the 2x4 she'd broken earlier, Stefan stood behind looking shocked that he'd just killed a vampire
The worse thing for Grace was not the face that she had a chunk of skin missing from her neck, or that she had been stabbed, but the fact she could hear Vicki's last thoughts, the fearful thought that ran through her head, the emotions she could feel running deep into Grace's thoughts
Vicki fell to the floor dead and a cold wave ran over Grace as she watched, she could no longer hear or feel the emotions, it was gone and so was Vicki.
"Vicki, no!" Jeremy had been yelling as Stefan was holding him back
"Grace." Elena ran out closing the door behind her "Are you ok?"
"I don't know." Grace whispered unable to rase her voice or shout or scream or cry
"get him out of here." Grace told Elena and Stefan in a weak voice
"I'm not leaving you." Elena whispered
"I need time alone, time to think." Grace held her bleeding side
"Elena, she's been through a lot." Stefan took her arm holding his phone to his ear as he lead both of the Gilbert's away "I need your help." was the last words Grace heard as the door closed
Falling to her knees she thought of all the questions she'd be asked, all the people that would miss her, Vicki was basically all Matt had left in the worlds and now she was gone
Grams sat there reading a book when suddenly her door opened, taking off her reading glass she saw a blonde Bonnie was through the door
"What happened to you?" Grams demanded
"I don't know." She pulled the blonde wig off "I did something, it came from my necklace."
Looking down at the amber pendant laying on her chest she creased her eye brows "Where did you get that?"
"It's part of my costume, it's a piece of junk." Bonnie explained
"that piece of junk belonged to one of the most powerful witches of our family, let me show you." Grams lead the younger witch through the house to show her a picture "There she is. Emily Bennett, your great-great-great-great Grandmother." she explained from the black and white photograph "and there's your necklace." she pointed to the amber pendant that lay elegantly around Emily's throat
Grace continued to sit there crying when she heard footsteps approaching her, how on earth would she explain this dead girl sitting in front of her, she looked up to see a brilliant pair of bright blue eyes focusing mostly on her tears as she stood up
"You should go." He told her "I got this."
"You did this." Grace hissed finding her voice needing to find someone to blame for the death of Vicki, she needed closure "This is your fault."
"you confuse me for something with remorse." Damon smirked "None of that matters to me, none of it."
"People die around you." Grace's voice broke "How could it not matter? It matters and you know it." She demanded with a shaking voice
"You need to leave." He warned her "your wounds are bleeding and you need to leave." He licked his lips being able to smell the blood
As Grace walked towards the front of school Elena was standing there waiting, she grabbed her arm but was stopped by Matt who was standing there worried
"Have you seen..." The question died out when he saw Grace covered it blood "Whoa, what happened?"
"Some idiot got her with fake blood." Elena lied for her "I'm gonna take her back to my place, it's closer."
"I'm looking for Vicki." Matt explained "she totally bailed on me." He looked around hopeful but it was soon killed when he didn't see her
"I don't know here she is." Elena lied for them
"Is this what I'm in for?" Matt asked "a lifetime of worrying about her?"
"You're a good brother, Matt." Grace patted his arm tears filling her eyes again
"Maybe she went home." Matt tried to think positively
"Maybe." Grace whispered feeling horrid
Elena pulled Grace to her car and sat in the seat, they both didn't speak, Grace was in shock still and Elena didn't know what to say
"We just lied about the death of a sibling." Grace whispered
"I know." Elena nodded "Are you ok? Stefan told me..." She couldn't find the words
"I felt the emotions of dying, yeah." Grace looked straight forward her eyes glazed over
"What did it feel like?" Elena asked starting the car
"I didn't feel good, she was scared and confused and..." Grace shuddered "It was just too much."
"Sorry." Elena needlessly apologised
As Elena pulled up outside her home she was up to the porch to see Stefan standing outside waiting for them
"Where is he?" Elena asked
"Inside." Stefan replied
"Stay here." Elena told Grace as she launched herself into the house, up the stairs and into Jeremy's room to see him laying on the bed "Do you understand what happened tonight?" She asked in a soft voice as she sat beside him
"No I don't understand." Jeremy admitted "I know what I saw, but I don't understand it."
"She was going to kill Grace." Elena suddenly became protective of her best friend
"Now she's dead." Jeremy mumbled "Vicki's dead."
"I'm so sorry, Jer." Elena brushed his hair gently
"Make it stop." He sobbed "It hurts."
"Shh." She stroked his hair again, her heart dropped for her little brother
"Why does everybody have to die on me?" He sobbed out
"Oh my God, come here." She hugged him tightly
"are you ok?" Stefan asked Grace
"Hmm?" She looked up suddenly, she'd been lost in her own world "Yeah, I'll be ok."
"That was a lot you had to go through tonight, being able to feel that... it can't be... I mean..." Stefan was at loss for words
"Stefan." She looked at him "Words can't even begin to describe what that felt like, I never want to feel it again... it was a painful, morbid memory and the worst thing is, that's what Vicki felt when she died, but she can just forget it now, she can be at peace, I can't." She whispered the words looking at her feet
Elena walked out of the house looking torn "are you ok?" She asked Stefan
"I wanted to help her." Stefan whispered "But instead..." he shook his head "How is he going?"
"He's a mess, I don't want him going through this again. He's just a kid." Elena covered her mouth
"Elena, what can I do? What can I do to help? I'll do anything." He promised
"Can you make him forget?" She asked making Grace look directly up to hear the answer
"Elena." He whispered looking at both sets of brown eyes that were fixed on him "Grace."
"Stefan, please, I don't know how he'll ever get past this." Elena shook her head
"She's got a point." Grace stood up
"If I did this, there's no guarantee that it would word... because of who I am, because of how I live, I don't have the ability to do it right." He explained to both the girls
"I can do it." Damon walked onto the porch "if this is what you want... I'll do it." Damon looked at Grace
"Elena?" Grace asked
"It's what I am." Elena confirmed
"What do you want him to know?" Damon asked
"want you to tell him that Vicky left town And she's not coming back,That he shouldn't look for her or worry about her. He's gonna miss her, but he knows it's for the best." Elena told him before turning to Grace "Go with him."
Damon walked inside with Grace trailing behind him, they walked slowly up the stairs into Jeremy's room, Damon sat on the bed and Grace leant against the door frame
"Part of me wishes that I could forget, too...Forget meeting you,Finding out what you are and everything that's happened since." Elena whispered looking out into the pitch black front lawn
"If that's what you want." Stefan looked at his feet
"Yes, it is. Because I don't want it to be like this. I don't wanna feel like this. But I can't. With everything that's happened...I can't lose the way I feel about you." She whispered looking up at him
As Damon finished up he walked out of the room and shut the door behind him, Grace was now standing on the landing, he looked at her for a second
"I'm sorry." He told her
"what?" She looked up
"I'm sorry for what you've been through, it can't be easy to be able to feel that." He took a step towards her
"You couldn't imagine." Grace whispered
"Considering I'm usually the one ending the lives you're probably right..." He smirked she glared "Too soon?" He asked
"Too soon." She confirmed her mouth a thin line
"Hey, I already said I'm sorry." He brushed her hair out of her face "You look like a panda." He chuckled
"Huh?" She asked confused
"Well you have this black circles around your eyes." He whipped the make up away with his thumb "you'd better get to bed, it's late." He looked at his watch "Night Grace."
"Night, Damon." She told him before grabbing his collar and crushing her lips against his "and thank you."
Damon smirked as he walked out of the house "It's done." he confirmed touching his lips gently
Hey Little-Vamps,
Wow, it's been a long time since I've updated, but any way better late than never. I do have a really good reason why this is so late up, it's because I've been overloaded with loads of College assignments and stuff... so... but anyway, if you'll leave me a review or alert or Fav... There should be a lot more chapters up now, because I'm off for Christmas Holidays! Yay!
Graciiee xx