PART 1

CHAPTER 8

When Rose opened her eyes Damon was gone. She felt a pang of loneliness hit her but she ignored it. He probably didn't want to disturb her as she slept. Sighing she sat up, pushing the covers off of her. She made her way to her bathroom hidden behind a door, stripped bare, and entered the shower. Since she became a vampire Rose set the water temperature to scalding. Her skin turned red under the water as she essentially burned healing moments after.

When she stepped out of the bathroom Elena was seated on her bed, her arms crossed over her body. "I came in here last night to talk to you, and Damon was in your bed." Rose rolled her eyes dropping her towel and picking out her clothes. She wore a simple black tube top and low-rise jeans that barely sat on her hips exposing a good bit of her flesh. She threw on her combat boots and leather jacket ignoring Elena as she did her makeup.

Elena felt her brow twitch at her sister's silence. "What the hell is going on with you and Damon?! He's with Caroline!" She was practically screeching at that point with her usual judgemental tone in her voice. Rose sighed, finishing off her makeup with black lipstick. "Elena, watch your tone and the way you speak to me. My personal life is none of your business and what I do and don't do is not for you to question." Rose turned around, a deadly glare on her face making Elena freeze up. "If you ever come at me like this again, the two of us are gonna have major problems. Understand." Rose watched in satisfaction as Elena visibly flinched. "Now get out." Elena stood her ground for a moment before she left the room.

"Harsh."

Rose grabbed something from her desk and threw it towards the intruder. Damon caught the makeup brush smirking at his friend. "What was that for?" He asked approaching her. Rose pouted in Damon's direction, "For leaving." Damon smiled softly at her, before moving towards her intent on hugging her. However Rose planned to sulk, which she did by dodging his extended arms, making her way to the side table of her bed. Rose gathered her phone and wallet as Damon puffed out a sigh behind her.

Damon stared at the back of Rose's wild curls his eyes crinkling with affection for the girl he sired. Using his vampire speed he wrapped his arms around her using his superior strength to hold her as she tried to struggle. Damon smirked when he felt Rose go slack in his arms. "We have time to kill before the game tonight, do you have plans?" The words were muffled by Rose's neck but she heard him all the same. Rose glared at him again, but her face smoothed out a small smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. "I could go for a bite."

The pair separated and smirked, excited for their next unsuspecting meal.

"Look at them. All in love. It makes me sick, you know?"

Damon muttered his face pinched in disgust. He looked over at Rose, "If I ever get like that please kill me." Rose shook her head, absentmindedly shoving popcorn in her mouth as they sat on the hood of Damon's car, watching Elena and Stefan from a distance. "I'll never hurt you, but I'd kill the girl." She responded. Damon laughed softly, stealing her snack. She made a sound of protest but Damon quieted her by stuffing her mouth full of the popcorn before feeding himself. "They won't last," Rose spoke again. Damon raised an eyebrow, a silent question. "Stefan might not be dating her because she looks like Katherine, and he might love her… but his loyalty is not as sure as they both believe it is." The accusation was not lost on Damon. The older vampire paused, looking at his brother with Elena before turning to his partner again. "How would you know that… exactly?" Rose leaned against Damon her a deadpan expression on her face. "I teased him a little. Things got a bit 'hot and heavy."

The new information made Damon's eyebrows shoot to his hairline. "Are you saying that hero complex Stefan has the hots for you?!" Rose bristled, punching Damon in his arm. "I am very attractive for your information. But yeah, he has a thing for me. His denial is stronger though." Rose laughed at the shocked expression on Damon's face, clutching her bare stomach. "Is it that shocking? People cheat all the time." Rose spoke. Damon shook his head, looking back to the field watching as Stefan walked away from Elena. "Not Stefan, at least not this version of him."

They sat in silence a while longer before Rose became bored and left Damon alone to hunt for another snack.

Damon frowned as Rose walked away. He had been alert ever since she had chewed through her first neck. She hadn't done it since then, at least not with him around, but Damon hadn't failed to notice a large number of people Rose needed to eat before she was 'full' and the rather short periods she could go without before she needed to feed again. Rose might not be attacking every human within sight, and as far as he knew she wasn't leaving her meals in body parts- but her eating habits were not normal, Damon shuddered as a thought crossed his mind. Rose's appetite was closer to that of rippers than a normal vampire. While Damon was overjoyed at the thought of having someone with just as much bloodlust as himself, right now they needed to lay low. Rose's slow descent into ripper land wasn't what anyone needed right now.

His thoughts were interrupted by the blonde teenager he had claimed as a puppet.

Rose purposefully made Stefan aware of her movements as she walked through the crowds gathering for the game that night. The sun still hung high too early for anything to begin but despite the time the teenagers of Mystic Falls never needed a reason to party and get drunk. Rose hid her smirk as she felt Stefan following her. She found a drunk teenager and discreetly compelled him to follow her. The teen obeyed easily, following her to a more secluded area.

She pushed the boy against the walls of the school, compelling him again to be quiet. Once the compulsion took Rose extended her fangs, eyes becoming red while her veins turned black. She moaned in pleasure as the blood exploded on her tongue.

Rose loved being a vampire. Drinking blood, hunting, and killing humans… being a predator… feeling emotions. Her mind run rampant with her thoughts, the pleasure of blood and feeding alongside that made her forget everything around her.

"ROSE! STOP!"

The yell barely registered in her mind, but then she was being pulled away from her meal. Again. By Stefan. Rose glared at Stefan wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. "What the hell is wrong with you?" She growled out. Stefan's harsh glare made her stop any more words from escaping. Stefan had been angry about the entire situation he had found himself in with his older brother and her, but this was the first time the younger Salvatore had directed his anger at her.

"You told me, snatch-eat-erase!? You're more like Damon than I thought!" He raised his voice, shoving Rose away from him. Rose righted herself, a frown on her face. "Which is what I've been doing. What both Damon and I have been doing." She ground out her voice laced with irritation. Stefan who had turned around in his rage whipped back in her direction the anger even worse now. "Then what the hell is that?!" He shouted pointing to the boy on the ground.

Rose approached the boy, her eyes wide, listening for a heartbeat, and found none. "He's dead?" She asked, to who she didn't know. Leaning down Rose lifted the boy's head, her face icing over as it separated from the body, hanging on by a small piece of flesh.

Stefan's body froze over as he stood behind Rose, watching in terror as she lifted the head, separating it from the neck with a small tug. "You're… You're a ripper." He breathed out. Rose sighed dropping her head. "I was being so careful too." She muttered, shoulders slumping. She dropped the head, before grabbing the dead boy's arms and tearing them off. Rose heard Stefan gasp behind her but she continued with her cover-up, pulling off a leg this time. She stood up and dusted her hands off in a casual manner. "It looks like an animal mauled him right?" She asked tilting her head as she stared at the stage she set.

Stefan glared at the girl, rushing her into the nearby forest.

Rose allowed Stefan to slam her against the trees, huffing at the impact.

Stefan's breath was hot as he breathed above her, his jaw opening to speak before he closed it again. "What?" Rose spoke, her tone goading. "Want to tell me how much of a monster I am? That I should be put down? That Damon should be put down?" Rose watched as the anger in Stefan's eyes melted away replaced by empathy. Stefan was a ripper too. Rose didn't speak again, and Stefan still hadn't. They stood silent breath mingling into one.

Rose didn't have time to react. Empathy changed to something else in a quick moment and then Stefan's mouth was on her own. Her hands moved of their own accord, grabbing Stefan at his waist bringing their lower bodies together. He was rough with her. Rose felt his previous anger in his kiss as Stefan bruised her mouth. Rose bit down hard on Stefan's bottom lip, drawing blood. He jerked his head away, breaking the kiss but still standing flush against her. Stefan and Rose held eye contact for what felt like hours but was only a few seconds before Rose brought one of her hands up from Stefan's waist to wrap around the back of his neck. Stefan didn't fight Rose as she led him back down to her lips, sucking his open wound into her mouth before it could heal. The kiss that followed was slow and sensual, sparking with something unknown to both of the vampires.

Rose sighed into the kiss as Stefan reached down and lifted one of her thighs hooking her leg around his waist, grinding into her lower half. The moan that Rose let out shocked Stefan to his core, causing the base of his spine to tingle but it also served as a wake-up from whatever haze had overcome them.

Rose could feel all of him against her and then the weight was gone. Leg dropping roughly as its support disappeared, Rose leaned against the tree for a moment longer before she shook off the… incident and made her way back to the crowds, taking a different route.

Skirting around the body she mauled.