John Gilbert oozed nerves, so much so that Victor could feel him from his seat. Turning in his booth, he saw the man approaching him with a sad sort of face. The man sat in front of him. "Thank you for meeting me."

"No problem." Victor replied. "So, what do you need?"

"As you know, my brother was treating you for migraines... what may not know is that he was using vampire blood to do it."

Recoiling, Victor grabbed the man's arm, letting the thoughts flood his mind, until he knew for certain that the man was being honest... but what he heard was far worse than what could have guessed. "He was experimenting on me, messing with my body with vampire blood for this Augustine Society... you are just trying to make amends for what he did to me." The man tried to pull away, but Victor's anger was so intense that it turned into a blaze into the man's mind, paralyzing him in agony. "I need to know more, about vampires, about it all... tell me everything." And so a flood filled his mind, all of the knowledge he sought, in flashbacks, forwards and more.

He saw the man as a boy, learning from his brother of vampires, he saw him as a teen telling a woman named Isobel about vampires sparking obsession, he felt his despair after he that same woman was turned into a horribly ruthless vampire, he saw hundreds of vampires killed by this man's very hands.

Letting go as the came to fast, he was horrified to see John's nose was bleeding, terror in his eyes. " What are you?"

"A Psychic... the reason for my headaches, and unless you want me to show your family what I just saw,... your student in fighting vampires. I saw in your head what Isobel became, I cannot tolerate that, I will fight back for myself and others." A lie, he was more worried about himself at that point. If people found out, like Sheila said...

He would be boned, on a slab or burned at the stake.

John nodded, wiping his nose with a napkin. "With power like that, you could be quite dangerous... can you tell if people aren't human?"

"Sometimes, I met a vamp recently, I knew immediately something was off."

"Stefan Salvatore, I figured... fine, you want to learn, I'll teach you. I'll set it up with Jenna, she said you were all but graduated anyway... I know there was an attack, I guess that is what you riled up?"

"I saw her memories, her pain, it was a lot... I need to be better, to do better."

John sighed. "I can imagine, you get to see the evil of vampires from a far closer perspective than I do..." He smiled, only it was as sad as the pain in his heart. "I'll help you, you deserve a better future... oh and since you did not get that knowledge from me, I think my brother is why you have your power. He was injecting your mother with blood while she was pregnant, I think that is what gave them to you."

He sighed. "Explains why he adopted me, he felt responsible... anyway, since we have an accord, we might as well get things started."

"Yes, but if I am going to teach you, you must protect Elena and Jeremy, they deserve better."

"I can agree to that." And he meant it, they really did deserve better.

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Mika.