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1864…

Stefan Salvatore stood outside of his family estate with his arms behind his back as he waited for the Pierce sisters. They were going to be staying with him, his Father, and his older brother Damon for a while. They had lost their parents in a horrible fire. He hadn't met the women yet, that's why he told his father that he would greet them when they came. Finally, a carriage started to drive down the pathway that led to the estate. After it had stopped in front of him, the driver got out of the carriage and went to open the side door. An elegant hand was placed in the driver's hand and slowly but surely, Stefan was able to see the woman who had a came out of it.

She was pretty to say the least. She had long brown hair and beautiful tan skin. Her lips turned up into a smile as she observed the man before her. Stefan smiled back as he met her half-way and she curtsied with her smile widening at him.

"You must be Miss Pierce." He assumed, greeting her as he took her hand and kissed the back of it.

"Please call me Katherine." Katherine smirked at him, and he released her hand.

His eyes went back to the carriage as another woman exited the carriage and Stefan's heart skipped a beat. If Katherine was pretty, this one was gorgeous with long curly black hair that was pulled up in an elegant bun with strands of hair falling into her face. She had pretty green eyes, a lighter color than his were, but they were even prettier than his and she had white creamy skin and pretty pink lips.

The woman's eyes met his as she went to stand next to Katherine and she curtsied. "Hello, Mr. Salvatore." She greeted with a small smile, causing his heart to skip another beat. She had such a pretty smile. "I'm Demetria, Miss Pierce's best friend. Hope it's okay if I stay here as well, if it's not any trouble."

Stefan smiled back at her. "No trouble at all." Her smile widened at that as they gazed at each other.

The moment was broken by Katherine cleared her throat and Stefan turned his gaze back to her.

"My sister, Abigail, should be along soon. She had to take care of a few things." The brunette explained.

Stefan nodded in response before looking back at Demetria. "Well, shall we go inside?"

Katherine and Demetria shared a look, giggling to themselves as they nodded and started to follow Stefan inside the boarding house.

Present…

Megan breathed heavily as she stared at Stefan, waiting for him to response. It looked like he hadn't expected her to be here if the look on his face was anything to go by. She waited for a few minutes to give him a chance to answer before she asked him again, her voice raising a couple notches.

"What are you?!"

"You know." Stefan said calmly.

Of course she did, but Megan just couldn't just wrap her mind around it. He couldn't be what she thought he was. There was just no way.

Megan shook her head slowly. "No, I don't." She lied, not wanting to believe it. That her boyfriend was…that.

He didn't have any sort of reaction as he stared at her. "Yes, you do, or you wouldn't here."

She shook her head again. "But…it can't be! It's just not possible…there's no way!"

"Everything you know…" Stefan started off, seriously. "And every belief that you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?"

Megan didn't have a solid answer for his question. How could anyone be ready for something like that? So, she didn't say anything for a moment.

She licked her lips nervously. "What are you?"

"I'm a vampire."

Megan stepped back immediately as she slowly shook her head. "Oh God, what was I thinking? I shouldn't have come here…" She ran her fingers through her hair frantically while moving away even further.

Stefan tried to stop her, trying to reach for her. "No. Please." He pleaded.

As soon as he moved forward, Megan attempted to run away since it was her first instinct to do so. She wanted out of there! Megan barely had a chance to reach her car because Stefan appeared in front of her, out of nowhere. She let out a cry of surprise as her heart jumped in fright.

"No, stay away from me!" Megan yelled at him, fear in her words.

"Please, don't be afraid of me!" Stefan begged her.

Too late for that. Megan tried to run away again towards her car. As if she sensed him coming up behind her, she whirled around and did something that she never felt the need to do. She used her powers.

Stefan cried out in pain and shock, grasping his head as Megan gave him a hard hitting brain aneurysm. She never used her powers, not like this…to hurt someone, but she was scared and it was an automatic reaction.

"M-M-Megan…s-s-stop…" Stefan gritted out through the pain.

Those words made her stop and he fell to his knees. This gave Megan a chance to get in her car, driving off as fast as she could, not even caring if she got pulled over by the cops for speeding. She got back home, skidding to a stop before she quickly went inside her house. Luckily, Bonne was nowhere in sight, so she didn't have to worry about any questions from her sister. Megan rushed to her room and slammed the door shut. She breathed heavily as she rested forehead on the closed door, trying to wrap her mind around what was happening.

Stefan was a vampire.

The more she thought about it, the more it made sense. It explained everything. It explained her feelings about Stefan. That there was something off about him, but she was sure as hell didn't expect it to be this. Taking a deep breath, Megan let it out before she turned around, only to scream when she found Stefan right in front of her. Before she could try to run again, Stefan blocked her from doing so, putting his hands against the door. Fear striked her again.

"Leave me alone, Stefan!" Megan exclaimed, trying and failing to keep the fear out of her voice. She wanted him away from her, far away!

"Megan…Megan…please just listen to me!" he said desperately as he tried to touch her face but she just jerked her head away. "I never wanted to hurt you. You're safe with me."

"But those animal attacks, those people who died…" Megan's eyes widened in horror. "Did you do that?! Do you attack those people?!"

He shook his head frantically. "No. That was Damon!"

Her eyes went wide even more. "Damon?! He's a…a…" Her voice lowered into a whisper. "A vampire too…?"

"Yes. I don't drink human blood. That's not how I chose to survive, but Damon does! I'll tell you everything, but I beg you, Megan, do not tell anything."

"What?! How can you ask me to do that?!" Yes, she could keep her witch side a secret, but this one! She couldn't let other people get hurt.

"Because you knowing this is dangerous for so many reasons. You can hate me, but I need you to trust me." His green eyes pleaded with her, but she couldn't. She couldn't trust him. Not anymore, because what other secrets was he keeping from her?

"I can't…" He opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off, her eyes welling with tears. "Just go Stefan…if what you say is true…and you're not going to hurt me…then go…just go…"

Stefan slowly backed away and shook his head as his eyes stayed locked on her tear filled ones. "I never wanted this…" he whispered emotionally.

Megan closed her eyes, a few tears dripping down her cheeks. When she opened them, Stefan was gone. In response, she slid down the door and tucked her knees up against her chest before burying her face in her knees. She couldn't believe this was happening right now.

Head pounding, Charlene finally regained consciousness and found herself in the woods. Breathing heavily, she managed to sit up. Her head started to spin but somehow, she was able to keep upright. Not wanting to risk herself by standing up, she stayed on the ground, trying to remember what exactly happened. Charlene groaned as she tried to think.

As her eyes got used to the dark, she took notice to a smell in the air. It smelt like burning bodies. Charlene turned her head only to let out a scream at the sight of a dead body lying beside right where she was sitting. She jumped to her feet and nearly stumbled as she took off running. She wasn't able to run that far when she hit a solid body and she looked up. Charlene screamed again at the sight of Damon Salvatore, causing all the memories to come flooding back. HE BIT HER!

Charlene tried shoving him away but his grip on her was too strong.

"Calm down, Charlene." Damon soothed, holding onto her arms tightly only releasing one to brush her hair out of her face. She shuddered unpleasantly at the feeling. "Everything's alright."

"You bit me!" Charlene exclaimed, fear and disgust in her eyes.

A smirk crossed his face. "I know…but I didn't mean to…you were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time…"

"What are you?!" she demanded.

Damon's smirk widened as he leaned in close to her face and Charlene's fear spiked even more as she struggled a bit but he regained his strong hold on her.

"I'm a vampire…" he whispered as if he was telling a secret. As he leaned away, she stared at him, wide-eyed. "Now…you're going to stay right here while I make a phone call to Stefan."

Hearing Stefan's name shocked Charlene to her core. He was a vampire too?!

"And don't you dare scream." Damon put a finger to his lips, leaning towards her once more as his blue eyes met hers. "Can't let Stefan know you're here, it's a secret." He smirked again.

Charlene gulped and quickly nodded. She would too afraid to scream anyway, nervous that Stefan was here to hurt her and Megan. Oh God, Megan…she hoped her best friend was okay.

Tugging her over to another dead body, Damon burned it and Charlene nearly threw up at the smell of burning flush. She crossed her arms over her chest, hugging herself as she turned her head away. While the body burned, Damon made a phone call to Stefan and it wasn't long until he answered.

Charlene heard every word as she stayed silent. She wanted to scream but her mouth stayed shut as if she couldn't. So, she just listened.

"I want my ring." Damon demanded.

"Where are you?"

"I'm at the sizzler. I had the buffet. Where's my ring?"

"I don't have it. Where are you? What have you done?"

"No, what have you done? You're the one that locked me in the basement, whatever I've done, whoever I've sucked dry is on you, buddy."

"You're being careless. How many animal attacks is this town going to believe?"

Hearing those words, Charlene's heart stopped. That was Damon who killed all those people. She wanted to run. She could have died but she couldn't run. It was like her feet were glued to the ground.

"I know how to cover my tracks, Stefan. Where's my ring?"

"I gave it to Zach to hide. Probably shouldn't have killed him."

Damon paused for a moment before he smirked and spoke again. "Ah, you almost got me. Where is it?"

"I'll get it back. I just need time."

"What did you FedEx it to Rome?! Where is it?! I want my ring, Stefan, or my next stop's Megan's."

The mention of her best friend made Charlene almost scream. No! He wasn't going to hurt her! As if he knew what she was about to do, Damon grabbed her around the chest and pushed his hand on her mouth, stopping her from doing so.

Charlene's eyes welled with tears.

"I already want you dead. Don't give me another reason to make it happen." His words were practically a grown and it gave Charlene the sense that he wasn't going to let his brother hurt her best friend.

"Don't give another reason to rip you apart." Damon growled back.

"Yeah? Is that going to be before or after you get your ring back?"

"Just get it." Damon hung up the phone, slipping inside his leather jacket. He released Charlene but kept her close to him, keeping a tight hold of one of her arms.

Charlene winced. "What…what are you going to do to me?" she whispered fearfully.

"Haven't decided yet." The threatening words caused her to gulp. Damon went over to another dead body and it was someone Charlene recognized…

"Vicki!" the blonde cried out, managing to get out of Damon's grip. She ran over to Matt's sister's body and fell to her knees beside her. "No…no…no…you can't be dead…" she chanted tearfully. She turned her head towards Damon, full on tears filling her eyes, making her vision blurry. "You're a monster!"

Damon didn't have a reaction, as if he was used to it. "I know…" he said darkly. He grabbed a bottle of alcohol, probably to pour on Vicki's body, and burn her dead body along with the others.

"No, don't!" Charlene pleaded. "Please Damon!"

Before he could do anything, a cough sounded and she looked towards Vicki again, finding her eyes starting to flutter open. Then Damon yanked Charlene to her feet.

"Don't move!" he ordered her and Charlene went still again. Seeing that she wasn't going to be moving, he kneeled beside Vicki's body, titling his head to the side. "You just don't want to die, do you?" After a few moments, he stood up and scooped Vicki up into his arms. "Follow me." He told Charlene, who listened but glared at him as she did so.

TBC...

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Lost Girls, Part 2