[1x10; The Turning Point]

"Hello?! I'm in here!"

Lucy winced as Joel practically screamed at her, shutting the bathroom door almost immediately after she opened it. She was so used to having their bathroom to after Joel started living at Whitmore that she didn't even think about knocking.

"Why didn't you lock the door?" Lucy huffed, shuffling over to her vanity. Usually she would use the bathroom to style her hair so she had more space but it looked like she'd be stuck in her room.

She heard a mumbled reply from Joel but didn't pay attention. She threw her hair into a low side-bun and smeared lip balm on her mouth, popping her lips to distribute the substance evenly. Officially ready for the day, Lucy grabbed her purse and left her room, pausing when she heard music coming from Jeremy's bedroom across the hall.

Jeremy's door was popped open so Lucy sneakily peered in on him. To her surprise, Jeremy had his sketchbook out and was drawing, eyebrows furrowed in concentration. It made Lucy so happy to see her brother drawing again. If only she could follow his example.

Lucy and Jeremy had always shared their love of art; from a young age, they would go to art classes together and would drag their mother to the art store afterwards, begging for supplies. Lucy's expertise was more focused on painting, while Jeremy was into sketching. It was something special they shared with another, just the two of them.

Unfortunately, Lucy hadn't picked up a paintbrush since the car accident that killed her parents. It was just too hard to try to make something when she was so depressed about her loss. Of course, there were times where she wanted to paint—Joel bought her some expensive colors after the Founder's Party that she desperately wanted to get into—but she just couldn't bring herself to do it.

Jeremy was much like Lucy but thankfully, he was starting to draw again.

Smiling, Lucy walked away from Jeremy's room and down the stairs, running into Elena and Jenna who were getting ready to leave.

"Did you see that Jeremy's got his sketchbook out?" she asked them, an easy grin on her lips.

Elena nodded with a smile as Jenna looked at her, shocked. "You're kidding?"

"Nope," Lucy confirmed. "But don't say anything about it. If we make a big deal out of it, he'll put it away."

"Sounds like Jeremy," Elena muttered as she buttoned her jacket.

"Psychology major," Jenna pointed at herself. "Check that," she looked at Elena, who finished with her jacket and had picked up her phone, checking for any missed calls or messages from Stefan. "You and Stefan? Update?"

Lucy turned to Elena curiously as she sighed, "He knows how I feel and where I stand and I know where he stands but it doesn't matter. He's leaving, moving away."

Lucy frowned at the news; Stefan hadn't contacted in the week since Damon attacked Bonnie and she eventually gave up and tried to give him space. If Stefan wanted to leave and not even Elena could convince him to stay, what chance did Lucy have?

"Where is he going?" Jenna asked, shocked.

Elena opened the door and allowed Jenna and Lucy to walk through. "I've stopped asking questions. The answers get scary."

Jenna scoffed, disappointed. "Yours leaves and mine returns."

Lucy perked up at that information; last she heard from Jenna, she got an email from Logan telling her he'd moved to the Bahamas. "Logan?"

Jenna nodded. "He's back," when Lucy and Elena groaned in unison, she added, "I didn't let him past the front door."

"I hope you slammed it in his face," Lucy grumbled; Jenna deserved way better than Logan Fell.

"Ah, medium slam…"

"Three-strike rule, Jenna," Elena interjected, giving their aunt a meaningful look. "You're not even allowed to watch the news."

"Exactly," Jenna agreed. "No more Logan 'Scum' Fell."

Within twenty minutes, Elena was pulling into the school's parking lot. Lucy and Elena chatted quietly about Logan's reappearance as they walked into the school, their conversation coming to a stop when they met up with Bonnie.

"Good morning," Bonnie greeted them with a bright smile.

"Morning, Bon-Bon," Lucy grinned as Elena greeted Bonnie.

The three of them started walking down the hallway to Lucy's locker. Lucy took her lock into her hands and started trying to unlock it, having trouble as usual. For a while, she was used to Stefan helping her out with it. It was sort of silly, but her locker just reminded her that Stefan was leaving Mystic Falls.

"Did I miss something?"

Lucy looked away from her lock at Elena's voice and looked to see what her sister was talking about. She smiled when she saw Caroline and Matt talking at the other end of the hallway; they looked cute together, even if Caroline was adamant that she and Matt were just friends.

"They've been hanging out," Lucy informed her sister nonchalantly, turning back to her lock. She bit her lip triumphantly as she finally succeeded with dialing in her combination.

"It's kind of weird, don't you think?" Elena looked skeptical as she watched Caroline and Matt veer down another hallway.

"She needs someone nice like him," Bonnie shrugged; Lucy nodded in agreement. "As opposed to a homicidal vampire like Damon."

"Yeah, how are you doing with all that?" Elena wondered as she and Lucy looked at Bonnie in concern.

"I'm freaked out," Bonnie stated honestly. "Damon attacked me. I could be dead right now…but I'm also grateful."

"Grateful?" Lucy echoed, taking off her jacket and hanging it up in her locker.

Bonnie nodded. "To Stefan," she clarified. "He saved my life and…have you guys seen him?"

Lucy shook her head and grabbed her needed textbook.

"Not since he told me he was leaving," Elena sighed. "For all I know, he's already gone."

This didn't sit well with Lucy. Stefan definitely wouldn't leave without telling them. He loved Elena and she knew he cared for her too.

"He wouldn't leave without saying goodbye," Lucy said adamantly, closing her locker. She turned to Elena and added, "That's not Stefan."

"Yes, he would," Elena insisted. Lucy rolled her eyes and started walking down the hallway, Bonnie and Elena following her. "He thinks he's protecting me. Clean break and all that."

"So what are you gonna do?" Bonnie asked her.

Elena shrugged. "What am I supposed to do?" she shook her head. "I already begged him not to go. If I ask again, I'm being selfish. It is what it is."

"Well, maybe it's for the best."

Elena turned her head sharply at Bonnie's words and even Lucy gave the witch a confused look. What did she mean by that?

"What? Why?" Elena stopped walking and turned to face Bonnie.

"I mean, what kind of future could you have had with him even if he stayed?" Bonnie explained her reasoning.

Lucy jumped as something brushed against her arm, calming down when she saw that it was a fallen banner and not a creepy spider like she thought. Ironically enough, the banner read, 'The Promise of Your Future' which made Lucy snicker.

Elena didn't find it funny. She grabbed the banner and looked at Bonnie. "Did you just…?"

"No, I swear," Bonnie promised.

Elena sighed angrily and pushed the banner out of the way, stomping down the hall. Lucy and Bonnie exchanged worried looks and quickly rushed after her.

Lucy sighed in relief as she entered her bedroom and kicked off her heeled ankle boots. Another boring day at school was over and she was that much closer to winter break. She loved learning but she hated school; knowing things wasn't as much fun when you're practically bored to death every week day.

"Hey, watch where you kick those things!"

Lucy gasped in fright; she had no idea there was someone in her room. Let alone Damon Salvatore. She turned toward the sound of the voice and was shocked to see Joel and Damon sitting on her window seat, totally relaxed. It surprised her that Joel was in the same room as the oldest Salvatore since he was pretty mad at him for feeding on Caroline.

"What the hell?" she exclaimed, putting her hands on her hips. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Bad news, Twitch," Damon proclaimed. "There's a new vampire in town and we need your help to catch him."

"Excuse me?"

"What Damon means is that Liz spoke with Damon and apparently there's a new vampire in town," Joel explained. "Stefan and Damon didn't change anyone and I certainly didn't, so we're kind of at a loss about who it could be."

Lucy pushed away the fear of the unknown vampire and tried to focus on what her brother and Damon were saying.

"So what do you need me for?"

"Well, we already canvased most of the town, so we narrowed down where a vampire could potentially be. We're almost positive they'll be in the warehouse district," Damon told her as he pulled something out of his jacket pocket. He held it out where Lucy could see it. "That's where you come in. We need you to use this."

Lucy narrowed her eyes, studying the object in his hands. Surprisingly, it was the Gilbert pocket watch that was passed down to the men in the family. Jeremy had the last time she saw it.

What was Damon doing with a Gilbert antique?

"Where did you get that?" Lucy wondered. "And how is that gonna help me find a vampire?"

"I grabbed it in the woods when Vicki was turned," Damon answered. "And this nifty thing is a compass that finds vampires. Your ancestor used it to gather up the vampires in town in 1864."

He passed the compass over to her and she observed it, seeing how the clock face had been changed out to form a compass. It flickered in her hand, its pointer landing on Damon and Joel.

She wasn't surprised that one of her ancestors helped rid the town of vampires all those years ago.

"I'm guessing that you guys interfere with the signal," she summarized, looking up at them.

"Yup," Damon nodded.

Lucy sighed. "Fine, I'll help," she looked at Damon and narrowed her eyes. "but I'm only helping to protect the town. This doesn't mean we're friends or anything."

"You got it, Twitch," Damon smirked and stood from the window seat. "Come on, let's roll."

The car ride with just Lucy and Damon was sufficiently awkward. Joel couldn't come with them because of his booth at the career fair that was starting soon, so there was no buffer between them. Lucy tried to push the memories of Damon hurting both Bonnie and Caroline away from her memory and try to focus on her task, but it was hard.

"Just for the record, I wasn't going to ask you for help," Damon told her as they got closer to the start of the warehouse distract. "I wanted to compel Caroline but then I remembered Stefan telling me about your request."

Lucy thought back to the night that Jeremy was compelled, remembering that she told Stefan to tell Damon not to compel her loved ones. It surprised her that Damon was actually going along with it.

"I'm glad you asked me then," Lucy sighed; she'd rather be in an awkward situation with Damon than Caroline being compelled once again.

"No problem," Damon quipped as he pulled off to the side of the road. "Okay, just walk around and follow the compass. Call me when you get something."

Lucy nodded and got out of Damon's Camaro, shutting the door behind her. As Damon drove off, she pulled the compass out of her coat pocket and held it out in front of her.

The pointer flicked east and Lucy followed it, walking in that direction until the compass pointed in another way. She walked through the warehouse district, splitting her gaze between the compass and the streets so she wouldn't be attacked by an unknown vampire.

It was only a half-hour later when she came to a stop outside of the Fell family's warehouse. She didn't think anything of it as she pulled out her phone to call Damon and tell him her location.

"Hello?"

Lucy rolled her eyes at Damon's sing-song tone. "I'm outside the Fell warehouse."

"Really?" Damon sounded intrigued.

"Yep," Lucy sighed. "So what do I do now?"

"Just wait," Damon advised. "I'll be there in a second."

"Will you hurry?" Lucy asked impatiently. "I have to get to the career fair."

Lucy heard a small gush of wind and turned, seeing that Damon had arrived. They both hung up their respective phones and Damon held his hand out for the compass.

"Why can't I hold onto it?" Lucy complained as she handed the compass over. "It's from my family."

"Because I don't trust you with it," Damon rolled his eyes and looked over at the warehouse.

Lucy pursed her lips, annoyed. "Whatever. You're welcome for my help. I'm sure I'll see you soon."

"You can count on it," Damon started walking toward the warehouse only to stop and look back at Lucy. "And thank you, Lucy. I appreciate it."

Lucy was taken aback by the sincerity of his gratitude. "Be careful," she reluctantly said before turning around and walking away.

She wanted to get out of there before the vampire got to her.

Lucy looked around at the table in front of her, her eyes scoring over the various pamphlets and swag that included colorful pens and highlighters. Joel stood behind the table, looking bored in his bright green company polo. The IT company he worked at wanted one of their workers who graduated from Mystic Falls High School to accompany the booth, so Joel was chosen.

The booth was empty except for Lucy, so that showed how popular IT was.

"Please just stake me now," Joel mumbled under his breath as another group of teenagers passed by the table, not one of them stopping.

"Maybe it's your shirt," Lucy theorized, wrinkling her nose. "Neon green is not a good color on you."

Joel huffed and looked down at his polo. "I guess that's why I never get dates in this shirt."

Lucy scoffed in amusement, shaking her head. "Well, I'm gonna go look at the other tables. I don't think IT interests me."

"You and the whole student body."

Lucy laughed and walked away from her brother, heading away from the crowded commons. She ducked into the STEM room, seeing that Elena and Matt were talking across the room. She waved when they looked over at her and went to the table closest to her.

The table turned out to be STEM education, which actually interested Lucy. From a young age, she had always wanted to be a teacher and make learning fun in a way that none of her teachers had done for her. She wasn't sure which age she'd want to teach but she was leaning toward older students.

"You want to be a teacher?"

Lucy looked at Stefan and smiled slightly, happy to see him. It'd been a week since she had seen him and that was when he told Elena he was leaving. She knew he wouldn't have left Mystic Falls without saying goodbye and he definitely wouldn't leave when there was a rogue vampire on the loose—Stefan wouldn't leave town while Elena was in danger.

"Yeah, I do," she told him. "I've kind of always wanted to be one."

"That's rare," Stefan noted, a hint of a smile on his lips. "I wanted to be a soldier for a while until I was a teenager. I wanted to be a doctor then."

"And now you can't," Lucy assumed with a frown. Stefan nodded. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be," Stefan shrugged.

Lucy nodded and looked back down at the table, grabbing a pamphlet for math education. She moved onto the engineering table, Stefan walking beside her.

"I'm guessing you're not here to plan for your future," she observed. When Stefan shook his head, she continued, "So you must be here to keep an eye out for Elena."

"And you," Stefan corrected her. Lucy looked at him, surprised. "I hope that's okay."

"It's fine," she assured him, secretly touched that he cared enough to look out for her. So Stefan wouldn't see how his words affected her, she added, "But I can take care of myself, you know."

"I know you can," Stefan nudged her gently with his elbow. Lucy laughed and he continued, "Damon told me he was going to ask you to use the Gilbert compass. How'd that go?"

"It was fine. The compass led us to the Fell warehouse."

"Fell?" Stefan's eyebrows furrowed worriedly. There was something fishy about the fact that the vampire was hiding out in a property that the Fell family owned. But Damon killed Logan Fell weeks ago and neither of them, nor Joel had given him blood.

"Yep. Uh-oh," Lucy grimaced as she caught sight of Elena storming over to them. "Elena's coming over and she doesn't look happy."

Stefan stiffened, looking over at Elena with a pained look in his eyes. Lucy didn't understand where all this tension was coming from—Elena was upset Stefan was leaving earlier in the day but now she seemed angry.

"I told you to leave," Elena said as she marched up to Lucy and Stefan.

"Elena!" Lucy gasped, shocked at her sister's behavior. What was happening here?

Before Elena could explain her behavior, Jenna came rushing over to them. She squeezed in between Lucy and Stefan, her head bowed.

"Hide me," she requested, pushing closer to Lucy.

"What's going on?" Elena asked her, forgetting her anger with Stefan.

"The Scum Fell has landed," Jenna stated, giving Lucy and Elena pointed looks.

Lucy groaned in disgust. "Logan's here?"

Stefan stiffened at the mention of Logan—he was supposed to be dead. That meant that Logan was the new vampire…the question that needed to be answered now was who turned him.

"Wait, Logan Fell?"

Jenna sighed and nodded.

Stefan quickly left the classroom and headed into the hallway, a confused Lucy, Elena, and Jenna following after him. He looked around at the people cluttering the space and narrowed his eyes as he spotted Logan Fell, alive and well and talking to a bunch of star-struck teenage girls.

His blood practically boiled as Logan turned and sent him a playful wave.

"Stefan, what's going on?" Elena asked as Lucy looked between Stefan and Logan Fell, who was walking over to them.

"Jenna!" Logan called, coming to a stop in front of them. "Are you dodging me?"

"It's a form of self-preservation," Jenna stated matter-of-factly.

"Uh, Elena," Stefan turned to Elena. "Why don't you, Lucy, and Jenna go somewhere else?"

Lucy looked between Stefan and Logan, her brain whirling. Stefan looked surprised and angry when he heard about Logan and now he wanted them to go away, an urgent look in his eyes. And with the Gilbert compass leading Lucy to a property that the Fell family owned, there was only one conclusion she could make.

Logan Fell was now a vampire.

Elena must have realized that, too, as she grabbed Jenna's arm and said, "Let's go."

Elena lead Lucy and Jenna out of the hallway and straight into the crowded cafeteria where the snacks were laid out onto multiple tables.

Elena whirled around on Jenna. "When Logan came to the house, what did he say?"

Jenna scoffed. "Fake flattery. Stupid, dimpled grin. Puppy-dog eyes—"

Elena cut Jenna off before she could list all of Logan's mannerisms. "I'm serious, Jenna. How did he act? What did he say?"

"He was the usual Logan," Jenna answered seriously. "He was charming. A little more manic than usual. He kept trying to convince me to let him in."

That caught Lucy's attention. Only vampires and old, polite people need to be invited into a house. This was bad but thankfully, Jenna hadn't invited him into the house.

Jenna caught the look on Lucy's face. "What?"

Lucy looked to Elena for guidance; how was supposed to tell Jenna to stay away from Logan for her safety?

Luckily, Elena took charge.

"Okay, listen to me very carefully," she said to Jenna. "Do not, under any circumstances, talk to him again. I'm serious, Jenna, like ever."

Well, Lucy could have done that.

Jenna looked deeply confused and Lucy didn't blame her one bit. She wouldn't know how to act if she had a niece who was telling her to stay away from her ex-boyfriend. Jenna wouldn't understand why Logan was so dangerous.

"Hey, Lucy, Elena," Mr. Saltzman approached them with a smile. "Jenna."

"Hi, Mr. Saltzman," Lucy said politely as Jenna turned to him with a large smile, completely forgetting about Logan for the meantime.

Mr. Saltzman looked equally pleased to see Jenna. "I was hoping to, uh, see you tonight."

"Career night is the new bowling," Jenna joked making Mr. Saltzman laugh.

"Okay," Elena interjected before Jenna and Mr. Saltzman got lost in each other's eyes. "Excuse us."

Lucy followed Elena out of the cafeteria so they could look for Stefan and get a definite answer on whether Logan Fell was the vampire they were looking for.

Once they searched the whole career fair, Lucy suggested they look outside. Thankfully, when they walked out of the school, Stefan was standing by the parking lot, phone in hand. Lucy presumed he was talking to Damon.

"…he's working the crowd," they heard Stefan say into the phone as they walked over to him.

Damon must have hung up the call because Stefan put his phone back into his jean pocket, turning to face Lucy and Elena.

"So, anything you'd like to share?" Elena asked, annoyed.

Stefan sighed heavily. "Logan Fell is a vampire," he told them. "Damon killed him the night that Vicki turned. Someone must have slipped him some blood."

"What do we do?" Lucy asked, concerned.

"You aren't doing anything," Stefan said, making it clear that he didn't want Lucy or Elena involved. "I will go tell Joel about Logan and wait for Damon to show up."

Lucy rolled her eyes, annoyed. Stefan said that he knew she could take care of herself, yet here he was, forbidding her to get involved. She knew she wasn't strong like a vampire, but she could still cause them pain. All she had to do was siphon from Logan and then give him an aneurysm.

Simple but effective.

Stefan caught her gesture but didn't say anything. He did think that Lucy could take care of herself, he'd seen her go up against Vicki, but he didn't want to take any chances. Logan was full of human blood and he seemed pretty hostile—it was better that he, Damon, and Joel took care of him alone.

"Come on," he placed each of his hands on Lucy and Elena's upper backs, gently pushing them toward the school. "Let's go inside. Safety in numbers…"

Lucy didn't want to cause any trouble with Logan on the loose, so she did as Stefan suggested and walked inside the school. The three of them started walking toward Joel's booth, looking around for Logan at the same time.

Unfortunately, he was no where to be found.

"Hey, Matty," Lucy said as she came across Matt. "Have you seen Logan Fell. The news guy?"

"Yeah," Matt looked disappointed. "He just gave Caroline a ride home."

As Matt slumped away, Lucy and Elena turned to Stefan. Lucy was terrified; if Logan did anything to hurt Caroline, she would kill him herself.

"Stay here," he commanded before storming away from them.

Lucy couldn't just sit still and wait for news, so she walked away from Elena to tell Joel about what was going on.

After informing Joel about Logan being the vampire they were looking for and that he had taken Caroline, she had to calm him down. Joel wanted to go help Stefan and Damon but she convinced him that they would be able to take Logan down themselves.

It was selfish of her to take away more manpower to kill Logan, but she wanted Joel to stay with her. Besides, Damon and Stefan were over a century old; Logan had nothing on them.

Forty-five minutes after Stefan left to help Caroline, Damon called her phone. She answered it quickly, hoping to hear good news.

"Is Caroline okay?" she asked, not bothering to greet him.

"She's fine," Damon told her. "Stefan took her home. She was knocked out when we got there, so she probably won't remember anything."

Lucy sighed in relief; she was so glad that her best friend was home and safe.

"And Logan?" she wondered.

"I took care of him," Damon said vaguely. "Bye, now—"

"Wait," Lucy said hurriedly. "Thank you, Damon. Seriously."

It was silent for a second before Damon replied. "No problem, Twitch."

With a beep, Damon hung up the call. Lucy sighed and slipped her phone in her purse.

She wasn't lying when she thanked Damon. She was very grateful that he and Stefan protected Caroline. She didn't know what changed in him, but she knew that the Damon from a couple weeks ago wouldn't have done that.

Lucy could definitely be friends with Damon if he went on like this.