Stefan was getting really mad at his brother. Did he really have to come to town and bother him when he was having fun with his new friends? He tried convincing himself that Damon was just jealous of him for having Elena when he was still hung up on Katherine but he got a feeling that it was something else…something more…

It had to be something about Rachel… Damon appeared after Rachel left for the bathroom at the Grill and she did look upset if he considered the glares she kept throwing his way…

On the next Monday, after the history class where they got introduced to Alaric Salzmann, the new history teacher, Stefan decided to corner Rachel and get some answers from her. He told Elena not to wait for him and he grabbed Rachel by the arm, leading her to a nearby closet.

"This is kidnapping Stefan! Let me go right now! My father won't be please to know about this!" She snapped angrily.

He hadn't been very nice when he grabbed her and she knew she would have bruises the next day.

"What is going on between you and my brother?" Stefan snarled, taking the girl by surprise.

"What? How is this any of your business? First you spy on me and listen to conversations you had no right to listen to, then you repeat everything to your girlfriend and now you do this? You better watch out if you don't want me to rat you out to the council!" She was seriously getting scared, especially since he hadn't relieved her arm and that she was hurting.

"You won't do that simply because if I get caught, I'll tell them about my brother and he'll get caught too! I know that somehow you care about him and he cares about you and your father… I want to know why!" Stefan asked angrily shaking her.

"You have no right to demand anything now let me go you're hurting me!" Rachel yelled before she hit him where it always hurts and opened the door.

She ran out and was soon face to face with Tyler.

"Rachel, what's going on? Where were you? The teacher sent me to look for you since you didn't come and we all knew you were here!" Tyler asked, clearly worried about her.

"Please just take me home to my daddy… I just… I don't want to be here right now…" She asked in a small voice.

"Of course… what happened? Who did this to you?"

Of course he didn't know what 'this' was but he could tell that someone had hurt her.

"I… I just…I don't want to talk about it yet…" She whispered as she wrapped her arms around herself.

Tyler quickly drove her home. The drive was silent and when he arrived, he helped her out of her car and stayed by her side until she was inside. He watched her run into her father's arms.

"What's going on? Why aren't you at school? What happened to you?" Damon asked her daughter, not knowing what was going on was pure torture to him.

"She was late to second period so I told the teacher I would go look for her and I found her running in a corridor looking like this… She didn't say anything except that she wanted to go home…" Tyler said.

"Thank you Tyler… You can go now… I'll call the school and let them know why you're late!" Damon said.

"Thanks… Get better Rach… I'll call you later!" Tyler said before he walked away.

"Now are you going to tell me what happened princess?" Damon asked his daughter.

Between her sobs, Rachel proceeded in telling her father what had happened.

Of course he was really mad but before he could do anything, Liz Forbes came over.

"Is Rachel okay?" She asked Damon.

Rachel was still in his arms.

"She will be… how did you know anything happened?" He asked her.

"The school called Richard when Tyler didn't go back to class and he called his son on his cell. Tyler told him what happened… Of course afterwards the school called, saying you explained why Tyler was late." Liz explained.

"I'll just go up in my room daddy." Rachel mumbled.

They both watched her going up to her room.

"So what happened? Did she tell you?" Liz asked Damon.

"Yes... She's pretty confused but a vampire grabbed her and tried to bite her…"

"Wow… I guess it's a good thing that she knows and that she can defend herself…" Liz mused.

"Yes, turns out even vampires can get hurt when you hit them in the privates!" Damon chuckled.

"Well, that's good to know! I'll let you get back to her then… Call if you need anything okay? I'll tell the council to be on the look out for a vampire!" Liz said softly before she left the house.

Was Liz hitting on him? It was soft but it was there…he could see it… She was into Zack but now Zack was dead… She couldn't be into him yet could she?

Shaking his head, Damon decided not to think about it for now. Liz and he were friends, nothing more and right now his daughter needed him… he would have to pay his brother a visit later…

He knew he was staying at Misses Flowers' Boarding house, he even knew which room it was... There was no keeping secret from a founding family member that was highly considered in the Founder's council… He smirked when he thought of all the things he was going to do after he checked on Rachel… He had a lot of vervain and he intended on planting it everywhere… Vervain shampoo anyone? Vervain milk in your coffee? Vervain sprayed in the sheets, on the clothes… and a little message that would warn him to stay out of the Salvatore's business if he didn't want to be in serious trouble…

.

Rachel went up to her room and after a few minutes, was joined by her father.

"Are you okay?" He asked her softly.

"I was just really scared… he looked crazy and he grabbed me so hard… I just didn't know what to do… I panicked… My arms weren't free to grab my vervain dart in my bag and there was so little room to move… I just panicked daddy." She explained.

"Okay then… You stay here and rest… I have a few payback to prepare… I'll be back in a couple of hours and we'll grab lunch!" Damon said, kissing her forehead before he left her room, fully decided on making his brother's life hell until either he left or changed.

So, I know I'm not being very nice with Stefan but things will change...eventually.

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Lorelei Candice Black