I stopped my car and I got out as I realized that she had hit the man and he was getting up. It wasn't Logan. It was a different vampire. I couldn't see his face. He started to head towards the car before Damon showed up and scared him off. I then ran over to the two of them.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"I'm stuck." She declared. Damon ripped the door off. That was probably unnecessary, even if the car was totaled.
"I need you to put your hands on the roof." He instructed.
"What are you doing?" I asked. Elena did so and he unfastened her seatbelt, which allowed him to extract her from the car.
"Elena, why were you in such a rush to leave the house?" I asked her. I needed to get to the bottom of it. I also hoped that she hadn't heard me but I doubted that she did.
"I look like her." She cried before passing out. Who? Katherine? It was probably Katherine since her necklace was on top of the picture after all.
"Is she okay?" I asked.
"There's no broken bones and it doesn't look like anything hit her." He explained. He then smelled her. "No internal bleeding."
At that point, he began to put her in his car and buckled her up.
"I guess she's coming with me." He added. What was he talking about?
"Damon, you can't kidnap her." I declared. "I won't let you."
I then felt my neck snap before I fell to the ground and faded into blackness. I could not believe that he had done that.
Now you might wonder how I could survive having my neck snapped. While it's true there are many ways to kill a vampire, breaking one's neck is not one of them. The bones would regenerate and go back into place but it did lead to extended periods of black out. I had only had it happen to me personally once before and that was when I first turned into a vampire. I was having a little too much trouble controlling my hunger and Rachel used her magic to break my neck. We managed to focus on learning better control after that and I had even used some of the techniques that she taught me to teach her when she became a vampire. I was still going to be very pissed at Damon.
When I awoke, I was lying down on the back seat of Damon's car. It was morning. I sat up in anger. I was pretty sure it was illegal for me to be there without a seatbelt, but I had also looked like I was dead.
"Damon, I'm going to kill you!" I shouted. I was pretty sure that woke Elena up.
"Good morning." Damon declared. He was so smug about everything too.
"Where are we?" She asked. It didn't look like anywhere I had ever seen.
"Georgia." Damon drawled. That was not good. I couldn't believe that he had kidnapped both of us.
"No, I can't go to Georgia." Elena protested. He said it was where we were, not where we were going.
"I'm pretty sure that we're already in Georgia." I commented.
"We have to go back. We have to turn around." She replied.
"No can do." Damon said.
"You know this is kidnapping, don't you?" I asked. "And that's illegal."
"Stop being so dramatic." He ordered.
"Why can't we turn around?" Elena questioned. "Can you at least stop the car?"
He did that and the two of us got out of the car. I thought about being hit up and stealing his car, but I didn't know the way back. My neck still felt sore, but Elena seemed to be worse. I started to rub it a little.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Nothing's broken." Damon stated. "You're probably just feeling sore."
"So what happened to you?" Elena questioned as she noticed my rubbing.
"He broke my neck." I explained. "It's commonly thought of as the best way to incapacitate a vampire."
"Can we please go back?" She begged Damon.
"We're almost there." He stated.
"Where is there?" I responded. You know it might have been a good idea to figure out why we were going to wherever we going more than where it was. What reason did Damon have to go to this mysterious place.
"It's a little place just outside of Atlanta." He answered. "You'll love it."
At that point, Elena's phone began to go off. I couldn't help but wonder why she had such a generic ringtone. I thought most people had popular songs as their ringtones.
"Why do you have my phone?" She asked. Come to think of it, I couldn't find mine either.
"It's your boyfriend." He remarked as he tried to hand it to her, but she didn't take it. She was obviously mad at Stefan. "Elena's phone."
"Where is she? Why do you have her phone? Is she okay? Where's Brandy?" Stefan asked. That was a lot of questions is such a short amount of time.
"They are both right here with me." Damon answered.
"Let me talk to her." Stefan demanded. I assumed that he meant Elena considering it was her phone. She shook her head. Apparently she didn't even want him to hear her.
"I don't think she wants to talk to you right now." Damon replied.
"Damon, tell me where you right now." The younger brother ordered. Did he really expect that to work?
"You have a nice day." Damon responded before he hung up.
"Do you have my phone too?" I asked him. He would have had to take it out of my waistband and even though I knew he wouldn't touch me inappropriately, I still didn't like the idea.
"It wouldn't stop ringing, so I turned it off." He explained as he gave it to me. I turned it on and noticed that I had 11 missed calls, 27 messages, and a new Facebook friend request. I texted Rachel to let her know that I was alright, but with Damon. I would check to see who the friend request was from later.
"Let's just go to this place already." I declared. I wasn't like we had any other choice because I didn't have any idea how to get back.
We got back into the car and stopped at a bar: Bree's Bar. It was good because I really needed a drink.
"Damon, they're not going to let me in." She argued. Did she forget that we could compel people?
"Just walk." I suggested as we headed inside.
"No it can't be. Damon, my honey-pie?" The bartender asked before she jumped over the bar, walked over and gave him a very wet kiss. It was kind of disgusting. She was middle-aged. I don't care what anyone says, an older woman with a younger guy is just as bad as an older guy with a young woman.
We then all took seats at the bar, whereas the women, Bree, returned to behind it.
"Attention, everyone, I'd like to raise a toast to the man who broke my heart, crushed my soul, and destroyed any future chance I'll ever have at happiness." Bree announced. That was a very strange thing to toast to. All I knew was the liquor tasted good. He ended up taking the shot out of Elena's hands.
"So how would he rope you two in?" Bree asked.
"He kidnapped us." I explained.
"Elena's a friend and this little one is my distant niece." Damon replied. I wasn't sure why, but it probably had to do with Stefan withholding the information about Katherine's appearance, but I decided to tell it. Yeah, Elena already knew but I felt like I should spill the beans to Damon about it.
"That hasn't always been true." I explained. "You know how Rachel used to be a witch? This is a story about how you shouldn't piss off a witch."
"That's definitely true." Bree commented. I glared at her.
"Do you mind?" I asked as she went to somewhere else. I was not going to say it with a random stranger hanging around to listen to what I was about to say. "Now as I was saying, the day that I met Rachel was also the same day that I met Damon. She was running a record shop and I walked in looking for someone that wasn't what I considered to be chick music."
"Why would you have a problem with that?" Damon asked.
"Because I was looking for something more masculine." I explained. "Rachel was not happy about my sexism and wanted to teach me a lesson. What I'm saying is that I used to be a guy/ It was supposed to be temporary, but when Damon turned me into a vampire that night, it became permanent. I've already told Elena this, but I felt that you should know about it since we are family/"
"I still have a hard time believing it." Elena admitted.
"That's because I've been a woman for the last 45 years." I pointed out.
"Well, I'm sorry that you got stuck." Damon apologized. "I'm not sorry for turning you though."
"I didn't expect you to be." I admitted. Damon apologizing for anything was still a pretty big step.
"So how did you meet Bree?" Elena asked.
"College." Bree piped in. I seriously hoped that she hadn't been listening to the rest of that. Even though there was nothing I could if she had, I didn't like people knowing about it.
"You went to college?" I asked in disbelief. I mean he was over 150 years old and he may have gotten bored like Rachel and I had.
"I've been known to go around a college campus every now and then." Damon corrected. So that meant that he hadn't been to college.
"It was 1989. I was a sweet young freshman when I met the most handsome man I had ever seen. Eventually, he told me his little secret, but I wasn't scared because I had a secret of my own." She explained.
"She's a witch." Damon added. I kind of already guessed that based on her comments.
I still hadn't been able to find out why we were there. I seriously doubted that Damon had driven 500 miles just to see an old flame. I looked around the bar after coming back from the bathroom and heard the two of them talking as they sat at a table.
"It's just like I told you then." Bree declared. "You need the comet, the crystal, and the spell to open the tomb."
"There's a slight problem. I don't have the crystal anymore and never will." He explained. He was still trying to open the tomb. He must have really loved Katherine.
"Then that's it." She stated. I didn't believe that was it. There had to be more than one way to open the tomb. We would probably have to find it first, but it could probably be opened as well.
"What about a new spell?" He asked.
"Emily's spell is absolute." Bree argued. She seemed to be lying like she didn't want to tell him. At that point, I got a call from Stefan.
"Where are you?" He asked.
"I can't tell you that right now." I explained. "I don't actually know."
"Brandy, I need to talk to Elena about this, so tell me where you are." He demanded.
"Stefan, Elena needs some time." I told him. "You really hurt her by not telling her the truth about Katherine, but she's fine. I'll make sure nothing happens to her."
I then hung up and got a call from Rachel.
"Where are you?" She questioned. I couldn't help but laugh internally because she started the call the same.
"Rachel, I'm fine." I declared. "Yes, I got brought here against my will, but I don't need you to come to me. There is something else that I wanted to tell you. I told Damon and Elena the truth about me."
"What do you mean?" She asked me. I kind of forgot to tell her about that before she was more focused on the fact that I had sex with Elena.
"I told them about what you did to me." I explained. "Damon's trying to find a new way to open the tomb. I'm not sure if he'll be able to do it, but he is doing it out of love. I gotta go, but we can talk when I get back."
I noticed that Elena had finally accepted a call from Stefan, but she had also hung up on him. Stefan wasn't answering her questions. I was pretty sure that they would be fine, but she would need some time.
"Are you two okay?" Damon asked. I was angry at him, not Stefan or Rachel.
"Don't gloat." Elena warned him. "I'm hungry. I could really use something to eat. I hope you're prepared to buy."
The three of us each ordered a burger and fries. It had been a long time since I had just had simple burger. The only problem was that I didn't know it had lettuce on it. Yes, I could take it off, but I still didn't like lettuce.
"So why do I look like Katherine? Am I part vampire?" She asked. You can't be part vampire.
"Nope, vampires can't procreate. Not that we wouldn't love to try." Damon remarked. Did Damon want children? He didn't seem like the type to be a dad.
"Speak for yourself." I remarked. I knew I didn't want to be pregnant.
"You don't like pickles? What's wrong with you?" He questioned as he took the pickle off of her plate and ate it.
"How can you guys even eat?" She inquired.
"I told that everything works fine as long as we drink blood regularly." I remarked.
"So do you have any trouble adapting?" Elena asked me. "Do you only like girls?"
"No, I like guys too." I explained. "I can't explain how my body works, but I have an attraction to guys. I've had sex before, even though I've never actually had anything serious with a guy or girl before, partly because of what I am, but mostly because I'm scared of what would happen. I don't know if I want to fall in love with someone."
"Hold up did something happen between the two of you?" Damon asked.
I couldn't help but blush about that. I really hoped that this wasn't something that he planned on telling Stefan about.
"You did, didn't you?" He responded with a smile.
"That's none of your business." Elena told him.
I really didn't want a lot of people to know about it. I mean technically she and Stefan were a very short break, but they were still on a break, so it wasn't like it was cheating or anything. He still wouldn't be happy about it.
"So how long are we going to be here?" Elena asked. I didn't understand why we were still there to be honest. He had talked to Bree and she didn't have the answers that he was looking for.
"You don't need to be in such a rush to get back." Damon remarked. "Whatever problems you have will still be there."
At that point, I remembered that Elena wasn't wearing her necklace. I shot Damon a look saying that he would regret it if he compelled her. I did have ways of injuring him and I still needed to get him back for breaking my neck.
"Just think of today as a timeout of sorts." He suggested as Bree came and gave me and him a new beer.
"I want one too." Elena declared. "If I'm doing a time out then I'll need some alcohol."
I realized at that moment that I could use a break from all of the drama of Mystic Falls as well. Like Elena, I would also need some alcohol. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind an excuse just to get drunk. I hadn't been drunk since coming to Mystic Falls at least. I really hoped that Damon would make sure that I didn't do anything stupid while I was drunk. I really hoped that he cared about me like a little sister, especially since a lot of people seemed to think that was what I was.
So later in that night, Bree got everyone in the bar into a drinking contest. The winner would be determined by whoever finished first. It seemed like most contests were determined by how much you drink, not how fast but it was free alcohol so I wasn't complaining. Come to think of it, who was paying for this? Giving away from free drinks is not a good business model. Granted there was probably a spell to make money, but that was probably counterfeiting.
"Ready, set, go!" Bree declared as we all began to drink. I finished mine first with Elena coming up right behind me.
"Yes, I win, I win, I win." I replied giddily. I then looked at Damon. "How does it feel to be a loser?"
"Has anyone ever told you that you're way too happy when you're drunk?" He asked. I was not even drunk yet. I had only had like 10 shots.
"That doesn't mean that you're still not a loser." I pointed out as I put my fingers in an L over my forehead. Technically everyone else had also lost but I didn't feel the need to rub it into them like I did with him.
"You're also a sore winner." He added before looking at Elena. He just didn't like it when someone else gloated around him. "I also don't understand how you're able to unhinge your jaw like a snake."
"Has anyone ever told you that you're really pretty?" Elena asked. She then grabbed him and kissed him. So, maybe things were her and Stefan really were over. I didn't know how to feel about that, it might have been because I was less capable of forming coherent thoughts while intoxicated. I also felt kind of jealous. If she was going to kiss someone, why couldn't it be me? I decided that it would be give them some privacy and walked outside my phone rang.
"Hey, Rach." I greeted her. It was nice to hear from her even I was pretty sure that she was still wondering where I was. If she really wanted to know, Bonnie could probably tell her where we were.
"Where the hell are you? You've been gone away and I'm starting to get worried." She replied. I couldn't help but giggle. "And you're drunk. I've been worried sick and you've been getting drunk."
Before I could say anything else, I was grabbed from behind by someone. As soon as I got the chance, I broke free and growled at him, baring my fangs.
"I'm not going to hurt you." He declared. I wasn't sure if I could hurt him either. He was really blurry. I couldn't understand why he had kidnapped me and also why I had been kidnapped twice in less than 24 hours. Maybe I had had too much to drink after all.
A few minutes later, Damon arrived with Elena. The vampire ran over and began to beat on him with a baseball bat. I rushed over and threw myself in between them. It was a metal bat and it looked like it really hurt. Though a wooden bat would probably be more effective.
"I'm not going to let you hurt him." I declared. I wasn't sure how good I would be at defending him since I was really small and I had no idea how old this vampire was.
"He killed my girlfriend." The man replied.
"I don't know your girlfriend." Damon cried in pain.
"Yes, you do. She went to visit Stefan on his birthday and you killed her." He explained. I then realized exactly what he meant. It was the guy that Lexi was talking about. I could tell that things had just gotten really awkward.
"She said you were human." Elena remarked as he took out some gasoline. You know there were a lot less destructive ways to kill him. That was why a wooden bat would have worked better. He didn't need to cause massive property damage.
"I was." He confirmed. I thought it was implied that she had turned him. "To be with someone forever, you have to live forever."
"You can't do this." I replied. "Revenge isn't going to bring Lexi back. You may feel better at first, but what would really make you feel in the long run would be to move on with your life.
He then pushed me aside and grabbed Damon before throwing him across the construction site. I assumed that meant that I wouldn't have to kill him now.
"Thank you." I told him. At least I hoped that I wouldn't have to kill him.
"It wasn't for you." He declared before he ran away and I went over to Damon. I promptly kicked him in nuts.
"What was that for?" He asked as he winced in pain. Those would heal too.
"For breaking my neck, killing Lexi, and kidnapping me." I explained. I then grabbed my stomach. "Oh, I don't feel so good."
So after I was done hurling, we went back to the bar. Elena and I waited in the car. Damon came back with blood on his hands, but I still feeling queasy and ignored it. I was in the front seat due to my weak stomach.
We got back to Mystic Falls in the morning. I did definitely like the no hangovers part of being a vampire. Elena seemed to be feeling it. I imagined that she wouldn't want to drink my blood to get rid of it.
"So why did you bring me?" Elena asked with a smile. I was a bit surprised that she had a good time. I wondered if she remembered kissing him. She seemed like she did.
"Well I didn't want to turn around and you're not the worst company in the world." Damon explained. It would have been a lot easier to turn around but it was a one-way street and I supposed that turning around was a bit tricky.
"Let's just go back to the boarding house." I declared. I knew that Elena would have to talk to Stefan and something told me that the kiss might come up. It probably wasn't a good idea for her to keeping kissing other people when she was mad at him though. That wasn't a sign of a healthy relationship.
Once I got home, Rachel was dressed in a white sundress with black polka-dots on it. She immediately wrapped me in a tight hug. You know, I was pretty sure that we hadn't ever been that far apart since we had known each other.
"So did anything interesting happen here while I was gone?" I asked.
"We are not changing the subject. You are going to tell me why you left the state to go somewhere with Damon." She demanded.
"Well, first, it wasn't willingly." I pointed out. "Second, Damon's trying to find out other ways to get into the tomb, even though the witch that he asked didn't know anything about it. I didn't mean to make you worry about me, but I'm fine."
I then walked towards my room, but not before hearing Stefan tell Elena she was adopted.
So Brandy finally told Damon about her, but that's not the only thing that he found out. This chapter I actually saved since I didn't feel very much needed to be modified. Next chapter will be the dance. Will Brandy a date? Please don't forget to review.