Hello, my lovely readers. This is the baby of our "Tour's," Davina Claire's, little story. Plus I wanted to mention since if you're not watching TO and are confused about something just send me a review and I will try my utmost to explain. I hope that you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Warning: Contains lots of teenage angsty, unrequited love :,( and friendship. On with the show.

Chapter 4: On Being Fresh

Sucking in a deep breath, Davina Claire summoned her courage before she pushed the door open to Cami O'Donnell's room in the hospital. There was a young man, still a teen, not yet a man, hovering over the patient's bed with the girl's hand held in his own. Walking toward the pair, Davina sucked in a deep breath as she looked at Cami, her head wrapped in a thick layer of bandages.

"Hey," Josh greeted Davina who felt tears trailing down her cheeks. Wiping them away with the hand that did not hold the bouquet of wild flowers, she forced a smile.

"Hey," Davina replied, coming to stand beside her best friend, who was also her boyfriend. Or at least that is what the entire school thought. It was better that way for Josh. Small town, limited ability to recognize and respect people's differences. She took Josh's hand and stood beside him.

Blinking her eyes open, Cami looked up at the two and smiled. "Hi, what are you two doing here?" she asked and Davina felt tears spring to her eyes again. Cami had been in a coma for a week after some idiot hit her and took off. The doctors weren't sure that she would make it. "I'm not dead yet so you can cry at the funeral," the blonde informed Davina who let out a nervous laugh.

"There better not be a funeral," Josh replied smoothly as he tightened his hand on Cami's.

"No promises," Cami told him as she closed her eyes.

"Cami?" a voice called from the doorway and everyone's eyes flicked to the young man who looked wary as he looked at the blonde in the bed.

"Tom," Cami whispered. "Did you find the car yet?" Tom shook his head as he came to take a seat beside Cami and cupped her cheek with his palm.

"No, I tried, baby. I really, really tried to find the son of a bitch," Tom whispered. "I swear that I'm not going to let whoever did this to you get away with it."

"Tom, this is'nt your job. Let the police find him," Josh protested. "You're in enough trouble already."

Tom's eyes moved to Josh and they were glittering with rage. "You think I don't know that? You think I'm going to jump up and down with freakin' joy that the cops think that I tried to kill my own girlfriend? The cops in this town are a joke."

"Tom, this is not helping," Cami said, placing a hand to the side of her head.

Leaning forward, Tom, placed his mouth to Cami's hand. "I promise you that I won't be stupid."

"I think that we should give you two some privacy," Davina said quietly, tapping Josh on the shoulder. Getting up, the football player followed his best friend to the door. Opening it, Davina felt the air in the room compress when she came face to face with Deputy John Gilbert.

"Hello, Miss," John greeted her with a nod of his head. "I need to speak with Miss O' Connell. So, if you will excuse me." He started to walk around Davina when she sidestepped him with a wide smile.

"Actually, Deputy," Davina replied, loudly. "Cami hasn't been sleeping well. She was about to take a nap. Can you come back later?"

John started to shake his head when Josh jumped in. "You know I always wondered what I would do after high school. Law enforcement is sounding like a good option. Can you tell me what's it like?"

John frowned at the two. "I'll be coming to the school this year for your career day. You can ask me all the questions you want then."

Thinking quickly, Davina forced another wide smile. "Isn't career day in March? Josh is graduating in June so he really needs to weigh his options now. Before it's too late."

"I do," Josh added with a nod and a serious look.

Sighing heavily, John gave the pair a hard look. "I'm going to ask you two to move, unless you want to end up in the back of my cruiser?"

Stepping aside, Davina watched the deputy push the curtain back to reveal a sleeping Cami and no one else. Davina wondered how Tom had gotten out of the room or if he was out of the room. Then she saw him slipping out from under the bed beside Cami's. Hurrying out the door, Davina was followed by Tom and Josh. "Good luck," she muttered before the Salvatore triplet took off down the hall.

Walking out of the hospital, Davina followed Josh to his car. "You need a ride anywhere, D?" he questioned her.

"Yes, thanks," Davina replied since she was not old enough to drive, she had taken a bus to the hospital. "I'm going to the Mikaelsons'."

"Okay," Josh said, pulling his seat belt on and then pulling out of the parking lot. "How long do you think that Tom will be able to stay away from the police?"

"I don't know," Davina told him earnestly. She was worried that he would go to jail for hitting Cami when she was sure he hadn't done it. One thing she was sure of was that Tom Salvatore would give his life to protect Cami.

Pulling up in front of the Mikaelson's, Josh waited for Davina to get out. "Are you coming with me?" she called as he sat in the driver's seat.

"Nah, I've got a date," Josh told her and Davina's eyebrows rose as she smiled. "Be careful," she warned him before leaning down and giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"Always," Josh called as he waved good-bye.

Walking up to the front door, Davina sucked in a deep breath. Knocking on the door she was greeted by Kol. "Hello, Davina. You look lovely, darling," he greeted her as he stepped aside to allow her entrance.

"Thank you," Davina replied with a grin. "Is Klaus home?"

"Yes, his majesty is in his room, holding court," Kol replied with a laugh. "Beware the nuns are here and they tried to convert me. But you can't keep a good guy down for long. Got to go. Have a lovely triplet to take to dinner." Waving, Kol left the house, leaving Davina to find Klaus' room. She had never been to the Mikaelsons' house and felt intimidated by the sheer size of the place.

Heading up the staircase, she noticed that there was a group who seemed to be praying in one room. She recognized Sage who was the ringleader, with whom she was pretty sure was Finn Mikaelson who was sitting by her side. But she honestly had never seen him before so she had no idea. Hurrying past that room, she saw Rebekah Mikaelson standing in a bathroom with the door open. She was glaring at the mirror and snarling. Looking up at Davina, Rebekah whirled around. "Fuck off," she bellowed before slamming the door. Behind door number three was Elijah Mikaelson strumming a guitar and staring into space. He didn't have a shirt on and Davina felt the air catch in her throat.

Taking a step forward, Davina heard the sound of Damon Salvatore's voice. "What the hell do you mean you don't know? Well, find out. God, Ric. You're supposed to be my left hand man. You know that I can't depend on Nik for anything. He sleeps through half my lectures anyway."

"Do not," Klaus called back and Davina came to stand by the door. There were a room full of boys who were discussing who knew what, but all Davina could see was Damon. He had his arms folded over his chest and his hair was in perfect disarray. His jeans fit snuggly to all the right places and his button down shirt just made her want to help him out of it. Feeling her cheeks beginning to turn pink, Davina did not notice the boy approaching her from behind.

"Excuse me," a voice called to Davina and she jumped and turned to see a very tall, very nice looking man or teen smiling down at her. "Hi, I didn't mean to scare you. I'm Marcel Gerard."

"Hi, Davina Claire," Davina replied, taking the hand that he offered her and shaking it.

"Gerard, get your ass in here," Damon shouted and Davina looked up to see Damon looking at Marcel. And then he was looking at her. He was actually looking at her for the first time since she had started at Mystic Falls High. She had been crushing on him ever since she laid eyes on him. Oh, my God. She stopped herself from squealing.

"Can I help you?" Damon inquired, still staring at Davina with an unsure look.

Klaus sat up from his bed and noticed Davina. "That's mine. I'll be done in about an hour, sweetheart. You can go down to the Great room and make yourself comfortable. I think Caroline's down there, somewhere. Probably killing my record score."

"You want to score with that," Aaron said and then laughed when Klaus threw a pillow at him.

"Ignore him. He's mentally deficient," Klaus called to Davina who nodded.

"I think I'm going to take a break," Marcel called to the group.

"Have fun with the freshman," Stefan Salvatore called as he winked at Davina in a way that made her feel violated for some reason.

Davina walked with Marcel back down the stairs in relative silence. "So, you're a freshman?" Marcel inquired and Davina looked up at him.

"Yup," she said, feeling her cheeks turn crimson.

"And you're here to hang with who?" Marcel asked and Davina felt embarrassed even though she had a good excuse.

"Oh, I'm not here to hang out with anyone. I'm in an art class with Klaus and he said he would be happy to work with me outside of class. We're both trying to win spots in this art program for the summer," she informed Marcel.

"And she is much better than I am," Klaus called, appearing behind them. "The Great room is that way," he pointed toward the room and the three entered to find a girl who was sitting on the couch. She had her hair pulled back into ponytail and her baggy pants barely stayed up when she jumped to her feet.

"Yes!" the girl cheered as she turned and held up two hands with her index fingered extended toward Klaus. "In your face, Mikaelson. I beat your record by fifty points. Take that sucker," she said, pumping her fists and then falling on her knees on top of the couch. "Hey, who are you?" she asked Davina.

"She's my new protégé," Klaus replied as he narrowed his eyes. "You've only been down here for thirty minutes. There is no way that you could have defeated me, Caroline."

"The kingdom in mine, Nik. Don't be a sore loser," Caroline replied as she jumped to her feet and laughed while Klaus grabbed a remote control and then began to curse.

"Bloody hell," Klaus muttered and Caroline slapped him on the shoulder.

"Got you good, buddy," she said triumphantly.

"You two play games?" Marcel interrupted them.

"Sure," Caroline said, tightening her ponytail. "Why? Are you a gamer, too?"

"You bet I am," Marcel replied with a glow to his eye.

Caroline grinned. "Good. Now while Klaus goes to play with his paints you can help me drive his score into the ground. You'll never recover from this, Klaus."

Rolling his eyes, Klaus sneered at Caroline before he placed a hand to Davina's back. "Come with me," he said, leading her out of the house and away from her future husband. "We will have to do this outside. It seems that my parents are entering their second honeymoon phase and I would hate for you to be traumatized by their antics."

"Didn't you have a meeting with Damon?" Davina questioned Klaus as he led her toward a pair of easels that had already been set up.

"Ric can give me the Cliff notes version," Klaus assured her. "Now, where shall we start?"

"I don't know," Davina replied. She had come here in the hopes that she would be able to find an excuse to spend time with Damon since Klaus was one of his closest friends. Maybe she could get Damon to sit for her as a subject. But now it looked like her plan had gone up in smoke.

"How about we start with our dreams for the future?" Klaus suggested and Davina nodded although there was no way in hell she would paint that in front of him. How would he react to her painting herself in a wedding dress with his best friend as the groom, with a pack of babies in the background? She figured that he would find it hilarious and go upstairs to tell all of his pals. No, she was not inviting public humiliation today. Thank you very much.

Taking up a paint brush, Davina began to paint a private arts school in Italy. She was really becoming engrossed in her subject when Damon came to the doorway. "Yo, Klaus, did you actually ditch me to paint?" he asked with a laugh close to incredulity.

"Yes, I did," Klaus replied. Setting his brush down, he went over to the doorway.

"What do you want?" Klaus asked in a hushed tone.

"Wanted to know if you were going to pick up your weight with this project? You know it will help you get all the scholarship money you want to go study in Europe with one of those artsy farsty people," Damon replied. "Unless you finally decided to continue telling people that this is just a hobby."

"Whatever," Klaus snapped.

"Hey, don't get pissed at me, man," Damon said with a chuckle. "What's with you and the kid? Planning on dating a baby?"

"Davina? No, I'm helping her," Klaus replied with a laugh.

"Good. I mean, seriously, man. What would want with a child? The only thing she probably knows about is kissing with tongue," Damon said with a snicker and Davina felt hot tears pool in her eyes. "Besides I hear she's dating Josh. I wonder if she's figured out she's not going to be learning anything from him either? Seriously, I would not be caught with a freshman if my life depended on it."

When Damon's and Klaus' conversation ended Davina could feel the tears still running down her cheeks but she continued to paint. "Hey, Davina. I'm going to go inside and see if Caroline has obliterated what I spent years working for," Klaus called and Davina nodded.

Davina refused to turn her head to show her tears to the older boys as she began to paint dark storm clouds over the school in Italy. It began to rain in the painting as thunder crashed and in the corner of the painting, if you looked hard enough, was a girl sitting on a bench watching the storm with satisfaction.

Oh, new pairing. Any thoughts on Cami's and Tom's relationship. I know Cami is not a popular girl and I was not her biggest fan in the first season on TO but I wanted to give a chance in this fic to have a different life and I hope you will to. No pressure, just a thought…

Oh, and, Davina is so crushing on Damon. Poor baby. But she's not alone. (I have a crush on him, too. ;))

Any thoughts on who Josh's mystery man could be?

Answers to review questions:

Alexis2106: Define soon. ;) He'll find out but he has a major secret of his own that I think will be coming out in chapter 13 will be Katherine's chapter.

Bellax0xchristina: I always thought Ty was a geek. ;)

Ninaandianforver: Thank you, darling.

ObsessWithElijah: I love that quote and I love Elijah more and more with each new episode of TO. He is hilarious and oh, so cute. I swear I do not know where casting finds so many hot guys to put on TVD/TO shows but they need more thank you notes.

Redbudrose: Thank you.

Guest: No, they're just friends right now because Caroline doesn't know that Klaus has feelings for her. He hasn't confessed yet. But they definitely dare. When is the big question since I'm twelve chapters into the story and they still haven't gotten there yet but you will see banter and the spark of flirtation a little bit here, some hurt/comfort in Liv's chapter which is chapter 10 and some more flirting in Enzo's chapter which is number 12. But I'm kind of saving them for closer to the end. But don't worry we'll see through other characters' PoV's the progression of Klaus and Caroline's relationship.

Starlight000: Thank you for reviewing.

Jairem: Thank you.

Peace,

Jessica