Breif A/N: Okay so this one was a little hard to write, I couldn't find much to put Elizabeth in so I just started a little later in the episode. (A little Beth/Jeremy in this chap.) You'll see why. I hope you're not disappointed! Happy May-Day! (Also, happy Beltane!)
ELIZABETH'S POV.
Well, as far as I knew, while I had spent the past two days or so drinking away my troubles and self-loathing about how selfish my father was, my Uncle had been nice enough to let me know there was a bon-fire at the school tonight, and that he had made the football team the day he had gone to dinner at Elena's with Bonnie. I had been invited by text message from Elena, but I had promptly denied the invitation with a lie that I wasn't feeling well. Humans, so easy to lie to. I guess I got my coping skills from my dad. So, here I was, standing in a crowd of teenagers, a few whispering rumors that had been spread around about me and why I hadn't been to school the last two days.
I walked around until I found someone I knew, that someone happened to be Jeremy Gilbert, sitting on top of one of his friend's trucks drinking from a bottle. Go figures.
"Gilbert!" I shout, catching his attention as he puts the glass bottle on his lap, I join him on the top of the truck.
Jeremy looks at me in surprise, offers me the bottle and I take a swig from it. "Thanks, but you're being risky, with Tanner and all these teachers."
"They're too busy listening to the victory speech anyways." Jeremy shrugged, his friends were rolling up joints or some other drug on the other side of the truck. It was an old, rusted thing.
"Good thinking, still risky. 'Specially with my cousin and your sister there." I reminded him with a smile and for a moment, I thought I actually got the kid to smile. Then in the very very close distance, I see Tyler and Vicki coming towards us. Maybe I should have stayed home and not have came at all. Though, why did it seem like every time I hung out with Jeremy that Tyler tried to start drama?
Tyler walked over to us, Vicki behind him, trying to pull him back to stop the fight in the near future, Jeremy's friends went to the side, clearly they knew as well as I did that some shit was about to go down. Honestly, Jeremy's smile went away when they arrived, I knew it had to do with Vicki.
"Oh, what do you care? Don't look so down. You can have her when I'm done." Tyler said, crossing his arms over his chest with a devious look in his eye.
"Lockwood what the-" I start to say, but before I can finish chewing him out, Jeremy jumps down from the truck and swings his fist at Tyler, hitting him the nose. It was a good hit, the kid knew how to fight I can tell you that.
"Jeremy!" I said, worried, and then Elena ran over, seeing what had happened, and my Uncle was behind her almost instantly.
"Jeremy no!" Elena exclaimed, seeing him grab the bottle out of my hand and breaking it, to go to swing it at Tyler.
Jeremy and Tyler at the moment were just about to get into a brawl, I looked at my Uncle before he nodded, I dropped the other half of the bottle before I went to go separate the fight. It wasn't hard for me to at least separate the two boys for a few seconds, enough for them to death glare at each other. I had my hands in the middle of their chests, and I had to pretend to look worn out. "You two rock heads, enough of this bullshit." I said, making it known that I was not tolerating it. Elena stared at me in shock, so did a lot of the others. I backed away, but then Tyler switched his attention towards me and threw a punch, I threw one back and he dodged it, but it wasn't with his hand, it was with the bottle.
Stefan saw this, and immediately got involved. "Beth,Tyler!"
I went to throw another punch at him, but he dodged it again and I cracked my neck, to them I might have just been the new girl, I could easily make up a lie for my strength. Soon, we were about to get into a brawl before my Uncle had pulled Tyler away, and Vicki and Jeremy pulled me away from Tyler. The little bastard had gotten me in my jaw, I spit out the blood in my mouth to the side.
"Oh my god, your hand! Beth!" Elena said, pointing out the blood on my hand.
I put my hand in my jacket pocket and shrugged. "What about it?"
"It's bleeding.." Elena said, and then went to grab my hand as I pulled it out of my jacket. Hm, a Katherine with a heart.
"It's not, not my blood, see? I'm fine, Elena. Honest." I say, a small smile on my face as I hold my hand up.
Elena rose an eyebrow at me in confusion. "I saw the bottle get your hand when you stepped in and..."
"I'm fine," I reassured her. "I'm going to head home, go watch my cousin kick ass and kick your brothers ass too." I told her and then left the scene, going out to the parking lot.
I went to go sit in my car for a while before I would drive off and go home for the night, I had to keep up the lie that Stefan and my father were my cousins until Stefan decided to reveal himself and us to Elena or until she found out. Though, I saw my dad walk into the parking lot after I had turned my phone off for the night. I hopped out of my car and sped up to him, looking around before my hand went to his throat.
"What the hell do you think you're doing," I hissed, I could feel my face begin to change.
My dad chuckled from the choke hold I had him in. "Let me go and I'll tell you,"
I growled and dropped him onto the ground. "Well, tell me, because I'm not staying for long."
"I just came here for Stefan." He said, holding his hands up in defeat. "I'm being honest."
"Uh-huh. Well here's Uncle Stefan now. I'll stay around to see if you hold your honesty." I said, and he rolled his eyes at me before seeing Stefan walk into the parking lot.
My dad started clapping, a smirk on his face, and I shrugged when Stefan looked at me. My dad started talking. "Isn't that nice? Stefan joins a team, makes a friend. It's all so, "rah, rah, go team, yeah!" " he said, and I sighed. Here we go again.
"Not tonight. I'm done with you." Stefan replied quickly, probably as annoyed as I was with my father at this point. Would my dad ever stop?
"Nice trick with Elena. Let me guess...vervain in the necklace? I admit, I was a bit surprised. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion. Where'd you get it?" Dad said, wait, where did Uncle Stefan get vervain from? Did Zach still have some? My uncle was smart to give it to Elena.
I then look between both my dad and uncle, then back at my father. "You tried to compel Elena? Oh hell." I sighed, running a hand through my long, dark hair.
"We'll talk about that later," Stefan said, looking at me, and then at my dad.
"Actually, I'm sure Beth and I have some time to kill." Dad said, and I crossed my arms over my chest.
Dad then got a smirk on his face as he looked at Stefan. Couldn't he just let my uncle be happy for once, eh, might as well as just go with it. "Guess I could just seduce her the old-fashioned way."
I sighed, then turned to look at him. "Okay, no hitting on my friends. I'll just kill her to keep her away from you both. Kaboom, problem solved." I said, I was really annoyed at this point and was about ready to go suck the life out of Elena, even if I did see her as a friend.
"No. You're not gonna hurt her, Beth." Stefan said, giving me a stern, brooding look. Oddly, my dad and him were sharing the same stare.
"How come?" I ask, a small smile on my face.
Stefan sighed, shaking his head. "Because deep down inside, there is a part of you that sees her as a friend, you care for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you, that you may have actually become the monster that wants to make your father proud. You care about Jeremy too. I saw that tonight, you care about both of them." He said, and I shrugged.
"I'm not pretending." I argued, even though he was right, I just didn't want to admit it in front of my dad at the moment.
My Uncle looked between my father and I. "Then kill me."
"Right now, I could kill both of you." I stated, my expression showed annoyance, I'm sure and my arms were still crossed above my chest as I looked between the men.
"You wouldn't." Dad said, looking at me in surprise.
"I would." I replied, glaring at him.
"You've had lifetimes to do it, and yet, here I am. I'm still alive. And there you are. You're still haunting me. After 137 years. Your mother and Katherine are dead. And you hate me and your father because you never got to know Helena, because of us, and you torture him and I because you still do. And that, my niece, is your humanity." Stefan said, looking at me, if only they knew what Katherine did.
Mr. Tanner ran over to us, he was shocked seeing me there. "Salvatore! ...Salvatore's! What the hell? We've got a game to play!"
"Uncle, if that's my humanity, then humor me on what this is." I said, before I reached for Tanner and sank my fangs into his neck, after a few seconds, I had drained him completely, it was refreshing. I dropped his body on the ground and kicked it away from me.
I looked at both men, then stared at my father. "Like father, like daughter." I spat, then sped away towards my car and drove away to the boarding house.
Once I was home and laying comfortably in my bed, I turned my phone on again and plugged it into its charger.
I had a text from Jeremy.
Jeremy: Im sorry u had to see that..and thank u.
Me: No prob. Want to go to the grill tomorrow?
Jeremy: Yeah. Ill see you tomorrow.
Me: Goodnight.
Jeremy: Nite.
I turned the screen off and turned onto my side, hoping I'd fall asleep as easily as I did with alcohol in my system. Today was shit. Tonight was shit.
I proved my point.
A/N:
I know I know! It's been so so so long since I updated, but here's chapter four! I'm sorry if this was a short chapter, but I do promise that the next few chapters will be interesting. Next up we've got Elena discovering that Stefan, Damon and Elizabeth are vampires and that Elizabeth isn't actually Damon and Stefan's cousin! I know, it's slow. Though, Elizabeth and Jeremy? Possibility. Stay tuned!