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.

Author's Note: Hope you love the updated version! :D

Charlene was still stuck in the room, all by herself. The last couple hours had been torture, literally. One by one, vampires came into the room to torture her with stakes, knifes, anything they could get their hands on. She had cuts all over her body. There were ones especially on her stomach, her neck, and her thighs. The deep kind too. The blood loss made her starving for blood. Her gums were on fire, and she could feel the life leaving her body. She knew she couldn't die but it sure as hell felt like she was.

She hoped Damon was on his way to save her. She could still see the look on his face when that one vampire pushed down to her knees and pulled her hair. He actually looked…scared. Scared for her. It made her heart flutter. Maybe he did care about her, and not because she looked like Abigail, but she could always be wrong. She hoped that she wasn't.

Charlene chewed her bottom lip, wishing she knew what was going on down in the basement with Stefan. Though he was probably going through the same torture as she was, and she hated that for him.

Everyone had taken a break, so now all she could do was wait to be saved. Like a stupid, damsel in distress.

Megan sat in the car with Elena, shifting in her seat and biting her nails nervously. She fucking hated waiting especially when her friends were in danger, and she wasn't going to do it anymore.

"I hate this." Elena grumbled, getting her attention. "Why did you agree to this?"

"To get Damon to shut up." Megan said as she pulled her hand from her mouth. "He wasn't going to stop until I agreed to stay in the car and be the getaway car, but I think we've waited long enough." She pulled out a vervain dart that she had stolen from Alaric's weapons bag.

Elena suddenly grinned as she pulled out the same dart, and Megan couldn't help but grin back. Looks like they had the same idea.

Out of nowhere, a tree branch dropped on top of the car, making both of the gasp in shock.

"I think that's our clue to leave." Megan said, and Elena nodded slowly in agreement. They climbed out of the car in the pouring rain.

Megan made it to the porch with Elena and she pressed herself against the nearest wall to keep herself hidden. She made sure her best friend's sister stayed behind her. Like she said before, Charlene would kill her if she let anything happen to her sister, so she was gonna protect with all that she had even if it killed her. Megan looked around the area to see if it clear and it was thankfully. She nodded back at Elena to tell her it was okay to go. They were about to, but someone came in her line of sight and Megan quickly made Elena stop from moving.

"Billy, Jacob, get back in here!" the man, or well vampire, shouted before moving on.

"Okay, let's go." Megan whispered, reaching down to grab Elena's hand.

She took off running and dragged Elena along with her. They ran past the door to the staircase that lead to the entrance of something. Megan tried open the door, but it wouldn't budge.

"Damnit." She growled, tugging on the doorknob as hard as she could. Suddenly, she heard a crash and her head jerked over towards the sound, finding that Elena was the source of it. She had busted out one of the windowpanes of the door. Megan met her gaze and she simply smirked as she slid her hand through the windowpane to unlock the door.

Megan shook her head, smiling, before she opened the door and there at the end of the hall, was a vampire guarding the door at the of the hallway. Elena pulled her vervain syringe out while Megan didn't bother with it, deciding to make herself known instead.

"Hey asshat!" she called out.

Even though he was listening to music, he heard her. He took his earbuds out and glared at her as he stalked towards her. Megan lifted her hands, about to use her magic to take him down to prove that she could take a vampire down just as easy as another vampire could. But before she could do just that, Damon came out of nowhere and stabbed him with a vervain dart, taking him down.

Elena stepped out of the hiding spot and Megan pouted at him, putting her hands on her hips, as he turned to look at them in disbelief.

"Hey!" she protested. "I was going to do that!"

Damon ignored her protest. "Are you two insane?!"

"Maybe." Megan said with a shrug, walking over to him before moving past him. "But it's too late to turn around now. So, we're going with you whether you like or not."

Damon let out a groan. "Alright, fine! I give up."

"Good choice." Megan said, sending a smirk over her shoulder at him. "Come on, Elena." She joined her and they walked down together with Damon grumbling under his breath as he followed them.

They made it to the cellar, and Megan could just sense Stefan was in there as she threw open the door. Sure enough, there he was, and she gasped at the sight of him. He looked weak and had blood all over his body.

"Oh my god, Stefan!" Megan cried out, rushing over to him. She grabbed his face and forced him to look at her.

"Megan…" Stefan choked out as he shook his head weakly. "You shouldn't be here…"

"Well, here I am, so deal with it." Megan whispered, and he weakly smiled at her.

Of course, Damon had to say more on the subject. "She was supposed to stay in the car along with Elena."

"Where's Charlene?" Elena demanded.

"I…I don't know…" Stefan managed to reply. "They separated us…"

Elena's face crumbled a bit, and Megan quickly turned to her. "We're going to find her, Lena." She reassured her. "After we get Stefan out."

Her best friend's sister slowly nodded as Damon went over to the other vampire in the room, who had two stakes lodged in his legs.

"No. No. No. Not him." Stefan shook his head.

Damon rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Let's get you down." He headed back over to his brother and was about to get him down, but Stefan immediately stopped him.

"There's vervain on the ropes…"

"Elena, Megan, pull that."

Megan pulled on the ropes along with Elena. They managed to get him down and caught him before he fell to the ground, lifting his weak body up.

Stefan groaned at the pressure.

"Sorry…" Megan mumbled as they walked towards the exit.

"Alright, let's go. Clothes on."

"Wait…" Stefan muttered.

"What?" Damon was getting annoyed, obviously. "Guys come on. We have to get out of here."

Megan rolled her eyes. "Stop being impatient, geez, we're going as fast as we can." She and Elena pulled the stakes out of the other vampire's legs, making him groan.

"Come on, we got to go." Damon pressed, tossing Stefan's shirt over to Megan, who managed to get it on him. "Can you get him to the car?" He asked Elena and Megan.

"Yeah, we got it from here. Just…find Charlene." Megan said, pleadingly.

He nodded at her. "Go." She nodded and smiled as she and Elena got Stefan out of there.

Charlene hated this. She needed out of this. Her prayers were answered when the door opened, revealing Damon on the other side.

"Damon…" Charlene breathed. She never thought she would be this happy to see him.

Seeing her, a flash of anger crossed his face before it settled down as he took a deep breath, then smirked at her.

"Happy to see me?" he asked, in his Damon like way, and Charlene was more than happy to hear.

"Yes." She answered, deciding to be honest.

His smirk fell and he actually gave her a genuine smile, making her decide she liked his smile better than his smirk.

"Where's Stefan? Did you get him out?"

"Megan and Elena got that covered."

Charlene's eyes went wide. "What? You let them come with you! Damon…"

"They came here on their own, they were supposed to ride the getaway car, but you know them and their stubborn selves."

They were going to get it later, but Charlene was going to let it go for now. Damon went over to her to help get her down.

"Wait, there's vervain on the ropes." She told him, stopping him before he could let her go.

"I'll risk it." He said, which surprised her.

He grabbed the ropes, grunting as the vervain burned him, but quickly pulled them off before it could burn him anymore. Charlene was released, and her body was so weak she could barely stand up to her feet. Damon headed her the shirt they had taken off and she put it on before he helped her up to her feet.

"Come on, let's get you out here." He picked her up, carrying her out of the room bridal style.

Her head rested on his chest, feeling completely exhausted. When they stepped outside, Elena suddenly appeared.

"Charlie!" she cried out in relief.

"Elena, you were supposed to get out of here!" Damon growled.

She glared at him. "I wasn't going to leave her behind! Megan has Stefan out, and I'm going to help get Charlene out."

"It's okay." Charlene said, placing a hand on Damon's cheek. He seemed to calm down and she didn't notice Elena staring at her.

He gave a curt nod and let Charlene down to her feet. Elena grabbed a hold of her sister.

"Get her out of here."

Elena nodded, giving one last glare to Damon as she walked down the hallway. Charlene gave one last look at him before they disappeared around the corner.

Finally making it outside, Megan pulled Stefan along, trying to keep him up. It was kind of difficult now since Elena had went back to help Damon find Charlene, but she managed.

"Can you make it?" Megan asked him worriedly.

He gave a weak nod at her, leaning against her without thinking about it. It made them both fall down. Megan tried to catch herself with her hands, but one of them landed on a sharp rock, cutting herself.

"Shit…" she cursed under her breath.

"Oh…you okay?" he asked her.

"Yeah, I'm good." Megan put her injured hand behind her back and tried with one arm to lift Stefan back up. She managed surprisingly. She didn't want Stefan to see her hurt hand, not knowing how he would react to seeing blood as he probably hadn't had blood in a while. "Let's just get out of here." She continued to drag him down through the woods.

Fredrick peered into the dining room only to see a staked vampire on the dining room table.

Damon, out of nowhere, caught Fredrick by surprise. They started to fight with each other throwing punches. Fredrick slammed Damon into the wall as they continued to fight. Damon countered back by throwing the vampire to the ground and he started to punch Fredrick over and over again, driven by anger about him torturing his little brother and Charlene.

But then two other vampires pulled Damon off of Fredrick, who zoomed off as soon as they did this. Damon struggled in the vampire that was holding onto him. Once he got free of them, he started to fight one of the two vampires.

Unknown to Damon, one of the vampires that had been holding him back, approached him from behind with a stake in its hand. A shot got Damon's attention and turned around only to see that the vampire that had been behind him got shot. His gaze immediately went to Alaric, who was holding a vervain dart gun in his hands. Damon stared at him for a moment before remembering Fredrick.

"I'm going after Fredrick!" he cried, running away leaving Alaric there alone by himself.

It felt like they would never make it to the car, but Megan saw the blue of Damon's car. Finally.

"We're almost there." She informed Stefan, panting softly. "Just a few more miles…"

"Megan!" There was a familiar sound of Elena's voice.

She turned around, finding Elena behind her along with Charlene, who was in her tight grip. Her best friend looked just as bad as Stefan and it hurt to see her like that. It made her angry, but she reeled it in because now wasn't the time to focus on that.

Elena managed to get over to them.

"Megan, hey." Charlene greeted weakly.

She gave her best friend a quick greeting back before facing forward. "Come on, let's get to the car." It took what seemed like forever to make it to the car, but they finally did, and Megan put Stefan in the front seat while Elena put Charlene in the back before climbing in herself. "Let's get out of here." She mumbled as she headed to the front seat to start the engine only to find the ignition and her eyes went wide. "Shit…"

"What?" Charlene and Elena asked in unison.

Before she could explain, Stefan was ripped out from the passenger seat and her head whipped around.

"Stefan!" Megan cried out, automatically getting out of the car before her friends could stop her.

She had to watch him get beat up. That was killer enough but when Fredrick stabbed Stefan in the stomach with a branch, her anger burst and she screamed, loud enough that it echoed through the entire forest. Her hands went out automatically as she focused on Fredrick and she gave him the hardest aneurysm that she ever gave.

The vampire screamed in pain, grabbing his head. She just didn't care. She wanted him to feel pain, the same pain he put on Charlene and Stefan. Megan used as much of her power as she could but not where it would drain. Once he was down to his knees, she waved her hand furiously, sending Fredrick flying into a tree.

With him down, Megan opened her eyes and relaxed before rushing over to Stefan and falling down to her knees next to him as she pulled the stake out of his stomach. "Stefan, no Stefan, wake up!" she shouted as his eyes stayed closed, showing no sign of opening back up. "Please, you have to open your eyes and get up! PLEASE!" By now, tears were streaming down her face. "You can't die on me! Stefan!"

Kelly was in the kitchen cooking dinner…wait, what? That's exactly what Matt's thought was when he entered the kitchen.

"Hey mom." He said slowly, getting his mom's attention. "What's going on?"

She grinned. "What's it look like?" she teased as she took out the food she was cooking from the stove and holding it out towards him.

"Honestly, I wouldn't know. I haven't seen it before."

Kelly let out a laugh. "Come on, sit down." She told her son, and he sat down. She placed the food on the table in front of him before sitting down herself, "You might want to order pizza." She smiled sheepishly, "I'm out of practice." Matt hummed in delight at what kind of food it.

Not wanting to make his mom feel bad, he dug into the food with a spoon. "Mystery casserole, yum."

"Yeah." Kelly said with a sigh. "Some people aren't meant for the kitchen.

Matt nodded, but then noticed the way his mom was looking at him. It was a sad, guilty look.

"What?" Matt asked, confused.

"Uh, I know it's been rough." Kelly said softly. "But I'm going to try. Really try this time, but you'll just have to bear with me, okay?"

Matt nodded with a smile. "Okay."

She let out a sigh of relief. "Okay, good." She returned Matt's smile.

The doorbell rang and Matt stood up to go answer it. "I got it."

Kelly winced. "That bad, huh?"

Matt just smiled and she smiled back before he headed over to front door to see who was at the door. He opened the door once he got there, revealing the person to be Caroline.

"What happened to you?" he asked amused with a grin, seeing the look on Caroline's face.

Then Sheriff Forbes appeared next to Caroline, looking serious. The grin fell from Matt's face and his stomach dropped. Something was wrong…very wrong.

"Hey, Matt." Liz greeted softly.

There was something in her tone of voice that rubbed Matt the wrong way. "Hey, what's going on?" he asked confused, looking from Liz to Caroline, then back to Liz.

"Is your mom home?" Liz asked seriously.

Matt didn't say anything, just stared at her, wondering what the hell was going on.

Mr. Lockwood headed over to leave the Grill with his phone against his ear. "Alright, give me ten minutes." He said into the phone intently as he continued to walk. "And keep it out of the news till I get." He went past Tyler, who was flirting with a girl. "Grab your stuff, we gotta go."

Tyler looked away from the girl to look at his father, a look of disbelief on his face. Buzz kill. "Kind got half a burger left."

Mr. Lockwood sighed. He looked at his son right in the eye and said the words that Tyler didn't think he would hear.

"They found Vicki Donavan."

"Are you serious?" Tyler asked, shocked. "Where is she?"

Mr. Lockwood sighed again, knowing his son wasn't going to like this.

"Storm unearthed the grave off court road." He explained. "They just brought her body down to the morgue."

"Wait."

Tyler turned around and saw Jeremy, who obviously heard what his dad said. The heartbroken look in his eyes and face showed it.

"She's dead?" Jeremy said, not believing it, but knew it was true by the look on Mr. Lockwood's face.

Mr. Lockwood just nodded. "Come on, we gotta go." He told Tyler, and he headed out the door.

However, Tyler looked at Jeremy one last time before following his father out.

No, no, no! This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't.

But it was, she was looking at Stefan's unconscious body, not even sure if he was alive or not.

"Stefan, please, you have to wake up!" Megan begged as she shook Stefan's body, hoping to rouse him awake. "If you don't get up, I'm going to kill you myself!" She tried to joke but her face crumbled as more tears streamed down her face.

From behind her, she could hear someone getting up and just knew it was Fredrick. She had to do something before he managed to get up completely. It was then she remembered her cut hand. Looking at it, she knew what she had to do, not bothering to think of the consequences that would become of it.

Taking a deep breath, Megan lifted her hand and pushed it against Stefan's mouth. "Here…take this…it'll make you feel better…" she whispered.

As soon as the blood touched his mouth, Stefan's eyes opened up and he frantically shook his head. "No, Megan, get out of here…"

"No!" She snapped. "I'm not leaving you here!" Her eyes softened. "Please…just take my wrist…drink my blood…"

"Go, Megan. Run…run…" he muttered, trying to move his mouth away from her wrist.

But she pushed it against him again. "Just drink…please…I trust you, Stefan. I trust you."

His eyes closed tightly before he finally gave into temptation. He bit harshly into her wrist, drinking her blood.

Megan winced at the pain.

Fredrick finally regained his strength. Damn witches. He stood up to his feet and spotted Stefan laying down on the ground, still as if he was dead. With a smirk, Fredrick grabbed another branch that was laying down on the ground and walked towards Stefan with the intent to kill, but he wasn't given the time to do so.

Stefan blurred up to his feet and pinned Fredrick up against a tree. He tore the branch from the other vampire's grasp, then without hesitating, he stabbed Fredrick in the chest repeatedly, showing no signs of stopping.

"Stefan!" Megan moved out of her hiding spot behind the car and quickly headed towards him. "Stefan, stop it! That's enough, he's dead! You can stop now!" She reached towards his shoulder. She barely touched him as he whirled his head around, growling at her.

She was shocked but Stefan took that as her being afraid. His face went back to normal and he looked horrified.

After taking Charlene and Elena back home, Megan stayed at the boarding house, not really wanting to be home alone. She stood in Stefan's bedroom while looking out the window. Honestly, she wasn't thinking about much. She was just glad today was finally over and she was just ready to go bed, but she wanted to talk to Stefan first.

Speaking of her vampire boyfriend.

Megan spotted him in the mirror and turned around to face him, greeting him with a weak smile. There was silence between them for a moment before she finally spoke.

"How are you doing? Feeling better?" she asked, concerned as she moved over to him.

He nodded. "I'm okay. The wounds have mostly healed. How…how's Charlene?"

"Doing better…she got some blood…so she's…she's healing nicely…" Megan said softly.

He nodded again. "That's good."

"Yeah."

"Megan…"

"Yeah?" Megan already knew what was coming. The, 'you shouldn't have been there' speech.

Stefan stared at her seriously. "What you did together…coming to help me and Charlene…you could have been killed."

"I know, but I wasn't, Stefan. I'm okay. I'm a witch, I can handle myself…" Megan tried, but then he cut her off.

"You still could have died. Just because you're a witch doesn't mean your invincible."

She was about to protest that fact, but he was right. She crossed her arms and didn't say anything. This caused Stefan to sigh.

"And what I did, I'm sorry that…I'm sorry that you had to see it."

"I know…but I wasn't scared of you." Megan said, surprising Stefan.

"You weren't?"

She shook her head. "No." She got closer to him and touched his face. "You're a vampire…you were angry…and had blood in your system…and I was just in shock. It wasn't your fault. It was my fault. I made you drink my blood…"

"What? No, no, no, no." Stefan shook his head. "You didn't make me do anything. You were saving my life. And I was saving yours." She smiled softly as he caressed her face. "Everything's gonna be okay."

Megan smiled again and let him pull her into a hug. It didn't last long as her cell phone rang, causing her to pull back and she answered it.

"Hey Elena…how's Charlene?" Megan froze at her words. "What? No…okay I'll be right there." She hung up the phone.

"What is it?" Stefan asked.

Megan looked up at him, her eyes teary. "Vicki…they found Vicki…"

They really found Vicki's body. Charlene just couldn't wrap her mind around it. The day had already been shitty and now it was just downright horrible. Charlene just wanted to go to bed, forget everything that happened today, but luckily, they were back home.

Jeremy started heading upstairs, but he only got halfway as Elena stopped him.

"Jer?" she asked quietly as he looked down at her and Charlene. "Are you okay?"

"I'm gonna get some sleep." He said, but didn't answer her question as he disappeared up the stairs.

"What are we going to do?" Elena whispered, looking over at Charlene.

"We leave him alone…" she answered softly. Her sister was about to protest, but she cut her off. "It's been a long day…we can deal with him tomorrow…"

Elena sighed heavily. "Fine…" Charlene could tell her sister didn't like the idea, but she didn't say anything more on the subject as Elena went upstairs to go to bed too.

Charlene stayed downstairs, not really wanting to go to bed. She was still hungry. She waited until Elena and Jeremy were in bed before she sneaked out of the house to get food.

She easily found someone, a jogger who was running in the middle of the night, and another one and another one. Before she knew it, she had drained four people of their blood and was now draining another one.

Charlene dropped the girl to the ground, lifting her head. Her face and mouth covered with blood.

Damon entered Stefan's room. He froze in place when he saw blood bags, all empty. Damon walked more into the room and all over the place were empty blood bags.

Looking around, his gaze landed on Stefan who was just finishing up another blood bag. Stefan looked up, blood over his mouth only to see Damon standing there.

TBC...

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