Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries and never will, but I do own Charlene Davis and Megan Swann and any other characters I come up with.

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Bonnie sat in her math classroom, listening to the teacher go on and on about some math problem. She wasn't really paying attention. Bonnie yawned before looking around to make sure no one saw her, especially the teacher. Last thing she needed was to get in trouble. Her eyes started to flutter close and she rested her head on her desk. From the corner of her eye, she could have sworn she saw someone in the hallway and she lifted her head up, staring for a moment. Unable to stop her curiosity, she quietly made her way out of the classroom and into the hallway.

Bonnie looked around, seeing nothing but then from the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow and started to walk down the hallway. She didn't walk for too long as she stopped walking.

"Hello?" Bonnie called out.

No one responded. She started walking again only to stop again when she made it to the double doors that headed outside. Standing beside the doors, there was a woman, who glanced up at her for a moment before heading out the double doors. Confused but somehow feeling that she could trust this woman, Bonnie followed the woman through the double doors only to find herself in an old grave yard. She looked around as she walked, hearing the leaves crunching beneath her feet.

Her gaze landed on the woman who was little ways from her. The woman stared at her for a moment before turning and walking away. Bonnie quickly followed the woman and found her staring at an old crumbled building. She stood back as far as she could but Bonnie was still able to see the woman. The woman looked at her with a pleading expression.

"Please, help me!" the woman pleaded.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Emily. You know that. We're family."

"Where am I?" Bonnie questioned.

Emily looked away from her, glancing back at the old crimpled building. "This is where it all started." She looked back at Bonnie and she continued, her voice harsh, "And this is where it has to end."

Bonnie shook her head, "No…no this isn't real!"

She tried running away one way but was blocked by Emily. Bonnie then tried running the way but found herself being blocked again.

"Help me," Emily said in misty voice.

Bonnie awoke with a loud gasp. She looked around and saw that she was back in the classroom. Everyone was staring. Glancing at the girl, who sat on the left side and was staring at her weird, Bonnie looked at her, annoyed.

"What are you looking at? Turn around."

The girl did as she said and looked back at teacher. Bonnie sighed before looking on the right side of her and let out a frightened scream when she saw Emily sitting in the seat beside her. She awoke again with a start, this time finding herself back in the grave yard.

After what had happened with Lexi, Megan hadn't wanted to go back to school. There was more important things that was going on besides school, but she ended up going with the annoyance persistence of Bonnie, Elena, and Charlene, who was returning back to school after getting the okay from Stefan.

Speaking of Stefan, Megan hadn't heard from him in days. She was completely worried about him and wondered if he was okay. Though she figured he wasn't, his best friend got killed. If it had been Charlene, Megan would have reacted the same way as Stefan did. Even the thought of it made her shudder. Megan knew he hadn't killed Damon like he had wanted to as Charlene had told her about it, so she relieved that hadn't happened. Not for Damon's sake but for Stefan's.

Deciding to push her worry for Stefan away for the time being, Megan went back to paying attention to Caroline as the blonde ranted to her, Elena, and Charlene about Bonnie. She couldn't really say anything about it because that was her sister and she could see where her sister was coming from.

"Have you talked to Bonnie?" Elena asked her.

Caroline rolled her eyes in response. "No, I'm mad at her." She crossed her arms as she stared forward, a stubborn look on her face. "She needs to make the first movie."

"Be the bigger person." Elena advised.

The blonde scoffed. "Impossible in her presence."

"Sorry to ask, but why are you mad at her anyway?" Charlene questioned, confused.

"She's a thief…that's why. I gave her my necklace, and she refuses to give it back." Caroline explained.

Megan decided to speak up for the first since this conversation began. "She's not giving it to you because you're just going to give back to Damon. Wasn't the necklace his to begin with anyway?"

"Well yeah…but…" she started, but Megan interrupted.

"Exactly. You can't trust Damon Salvatore. Haven't you learned from what happened last time you trusted him?"

Caroline said nothing for a moment, but when she did, she changed the subject. "Still. I'm not talking to her until she apologizes. It's a matter of principle."

Elena sighed at her stubbornness while Megan rolled her eyes and Charlene shook her head. There was no point of arguing with her about it. Once Caroline Forbes made her mind up, there was no way to change it.

"Alright." Elena relented. "Well, I tried. I'm officially out of it."

"Me too." Megan hadn't wanted to be part of it anyway. Yeah, Caroline was her friend, but Bonnie was her sister so last thing she needed was to get in the middle of that.

"Same." Charlene agreed. Her phone suddenly went off and she pulled it from her pocket, glancing down at the screen. "I'll see you guys later!" She announced. Before either of them could ask where she was going, Charlene had already disappeared down the sidewalk.

"What was that?" Caroline asked, startled by Charlene's sudden disappearance.

Megan frowned at the spot where her best friend had been. "I have no idea." Her best friend had been acting a little weird ever since what happened with Lexi, but Charlene hadn't mentioned anything to her if there was something wrong, so it was probably nothing.

Caroline shook her head and changed the subject. "Where's Stefan? Have you talked to him?"

"No. I haven't." Megan said with a sigh. "He's been avoiding me." She shook her head. "Can we not talk about Stefan? Please. I just want to go to school and not have to think or talk about him. Elena and Caroline shared concerned looks, but they nodded. Megan sighed in relief. "Thank you. I'll see you later."

Fixing her bag over her shoulder, she left them alone. She didn't mean to be so mean about it, but she just didn't want to talk about him. It was too painful to talk about.

Megan wasn't paying attention and she ended up bumping into someone. She apologized immediately, looking up to see who she ran into. She didn't recognize him at all. He looked around Jenna's age, extremely handsome too.

"I'm so sorry!" Megan apologized again when he didn't say anything. She smiled sheepishly. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going.'

The man smiled kindly. "It's alright, no harm done. Are you alright?"

Megan was surprised by how concerned he sounded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a lot on my mind, that's all." She smiled back. "That's for asking." She stood there for a moment. "Well, again sorry. See ya." She gave him one last smile before she walked past him to head inside the school, wondering if she was going to see him again. He seemed really nice.

She entered her history classroom and sat down in her seat. She was the only person in the room at the moment. Megan glanced at the seat where Stefan usually sat at, hoping he showed up today. Of course she cursed herself for it. She wasn't supposed to be thinking about him today. It was obviously easier said than done especially when everything reminded her of him. Megan sighed as she pulled out her history book, her notebook, and a pencil, waiting for the class to start. Soon, more students filled the classroom. Elena showed up and so did Bonnie, but Stefan nor Charlene was in sight.

Where was her best friend? Charlene was usually never late to class. Megan was worried. Not just for her best friend, but for Bonnie as well, who looked upset about something. Before she could ask her what was wrong, the man who she bumped into entered the room and went up to the board. Megan stared at his back, surprised. He must be the new History teacher.

"Good morning, everyone." He greeted the class. "Alright."

He wrote his name on the board. Alaric. Megan never heard of that name before. It was an interesting one to say the least. Megan looked over at her sister and seeing her chance, she mouthed.

'Are you okay?'

Bonnie just shrugged and Megan frowned as Alaric started speaking again.

"Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful, I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue." He turned around, facing the students and catching Megan's gaze. She gave him a brief smile in response. "Saltzman is of German origins. My family immigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough. You'll probably want to pronounce 'Alaric' but it's 'Alaric', okay? So, you can call me Rick. I'm your new history teacher."

Megan had a feeling that she was going to really like this new teacher, but there was something about him that was odd. However, she didn't know what it was. Megan was still worried about Charlene as she never even showed up for class. Where could she be at?

Charlene was in the nearby woods where she first learned to hunt for animals, waiting for Damon to come. She had been training with him for at least a week. It hadn't been too bad actually and so far she didn't regret asking him to help her, but it was still early. Damon had texted her at school, which was why she left so quickly without explaining where she was going.

Charlene knew Megan figured something was going with her. Normally, she would tell her best friend about something this important, but she couldn't tell her. Not because she didn't want to, but because Megan just wouldn't understand why she asked for Damon's help in the first place. If Stefan was on the human diet, she would be working with him but he wasn't, so here she was, getting taught how to feed on humans by Damon Salvatore.

"What took you so long?" Charlene questioned the oldest Salvatore as he finally walked up to her.

"Had to get Saint Stefan off to school." He explained, but said nothing more on the subject. "Come on, let's get started." He said nothing as he turned around and walked off.

Charlene stared after him for a moment before quickly following behind him. He didn't go that far and there was a girl with him now. Immediately, Charlene could smell the blood on her as she already had a bloody wound on her neck, probably from where Damon bit her at.

He smirked. "Got her all ready for ya, Charlie."

Damon shoved the girl in her direction. The blonde's face started to change since the blood was closer to her now. The girl looked frightened and just about ready to scream. Charlene moved quickly, grabbing onto her shoulders in a vice grip and stared into her eyes, compelling the girl quickly before the girl could scream. Without hesitating, the blonde bit into her neck and drank from her. Charlene barely heard Damon from behind her, getting lost in the pleasure of the blood going down her throat.

"I want you to stop." He breathed hotly into her ear. "Bring yourself back to reality."

Charlene tried, thinking about something other than blood. She thought about Megan, and about what if this girl was her best friend that she was trying to drain dry. It instantly brought her back and Charlene shoved the girl away from her. Just in the nick of time too. If she had waited any longer, the young girl would have been dead.

Damon caught her and he bit into his wrist, blood flowing from it. Charlene watched with half lidded eyes as he fed the girl his blood so it would heal her. Not for the first time, she wondered what it would feel like to drink another vampire's blood. She knew she had before when Damon had turned her, but she couldn't help but wonder if it would taste any different now that she was a vampire herself. She never asked Damon about because she thought it would be too weird to ask.

"Now, I want you to make her forget." Damon told her, pulling his wrist away from the girl. "Do it just like you do when you compel your victim not to be afraid of you, got it?"

Charlene gave a nod and grabbed the girl, bringing her up to her. Her eyes met the girl's, causing her pupils to dilate.

"I want you to forget everything you've seen today. Now, go."

The girl nodded with a blank look on her face before she disappeared. Once she was gone, Charlene turned to Damon.

"How was that?" she asked hopefully.

"Much better, but you still have a lot to learn."

"What did I do wrong?" Charlene inquired, wanting to know so she could fix it.

"It wasn't much. The only thing was that you weren't able to stop yourself. I won't always be there to stop you from killing someone. I can barely even stop myself half the time." Damon smirked, thinking he was being funny. He wasn't funny at all, in Charlene's opinion. It was wrong to even joke about killing someone. "Other than that, you did a pretty good job."

Charlene thought she did much better than that. The fact she didn't kill that girl was a success in her book.

"Thanks." Charlene said, deciding to just take the compliment. "I should go back to school. I've already missed one of my classes so I should go back before Megan and Elena get worried, well more worried than they already are." She went to leave but Damon stopped her.

"Have you told Megan about this?" he asked, gesturing to them.

"About you training me? No, I haven't told her. Have you told Stefan?" Charlene hoped he didn't because this was definitely something he would tell his brother just to get on his nerves.

"No."

"Good." Charlene said in relief. "I want him to hear it from me. I'll tell him eventually and same goes for Megan." She changed the subject. "I'll see you later." That was the last thing she said to him before using her vampire speed to get back to school.

Charlene got there easily and she went inside, heading over to her locker to grab her lunch since it was lunch time now. Megan was already there. Immediately, her best friend cried out in relief.

"There you are! What happened to you?"

"It's nothing. I just lost track of time." Charlene lied through her teeth.

Megan crossed her arms, the look on her face obviously giving off the fact that she didn't believe her. At all.

"Seriously, Char. What's going on? You've been acting strange ever since the thing with Lexi. Whatever it is, you can tell me."

Charlene sighed. She knew Megan was right, but she was worried about her reaction. But it looked like her telling her best friend about her and Damon eventually was happening sooner than she wanted it too. Charlene could never keep a secret from Megan for long and this one was no exception.

"Alright fine, I'll tell you, but please don't be mad."

"I won't." Megan promised, crossing her heart.

Charlene sighed again. "Okay…Damon…has been teaching me how to feed on humans."

"WHAT?!" she exclaimed in shock.

Charlene slapped her hand over her best friend's mouth, shushing her as everyone looked in their direction. "Not so loud…" she whispered. "Yes, Damon's been teaching me how to feed on humans. But it's only so I can control myself on human blood."

"What about doing the animal diet?" Megan demanded. "I thought Stefan was teaching you that."

"He was…but I can't do animal blood…Megan…" Charlene said quietly. "I've tried and it's just not working out. But every time I feed on humans…I've lost control…and I've killed them…"

"Char…" Megan looked at her wide eyed, but there was sadness in them, knowing how she was when she killed someone before.

Only difference was, Charlene liked it this time. "I know…Damon's been helping me with it. I've been doing well, and after I'm done learning how to control myself around human blood, I'm going to go straight to blood bags. Then I won't have to kill anyone."

"I can't believe your trusting Damon with this." Megan shook her head. "But…it's your decision, Charlene. Even if I'm not happy about it, I'll always respect your decisions. I love you."

"I love you too." Charlene said softly, bringing her best friend into a hug. "And thank you, I really appreciate it."

Megan pulled back from the hug and smiled. "Of course." She said nothing for a moment. "Have you told Stefan?"

"God no, can you imagine how he'd react if I told him that? He'd be pissed. You know how he feels about Damon."

"And how do you feel about him? Has it changed?" Megan questioned.

Charlene went silent but it didn't last long. "No. I still think he's an evil psychopath, and I can't trust him.'

"But you can trust him teaching you how to feed on humans?"

"I know it doesn't make sense, but yeah…" Charlene answered, looking down at her feet for a moment. Then she looked back up and changed the subject. "Let's go to lunch."

Megan slowly nodded and she followed Charlene as they headed outside to have lunch.

TBC...

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History Repeating, Part 2