Hey guys! I decided to write a story! Please be gentle! It's my first story! All pictures on my profile.

I don't own TVD, all rights go to their owners, I just own Raegan.

Chapter 1: Pilot

The sun seeped through my window as I opened up the curtains. I soaked up the sun for a few moments before sighing and leaving to go into my bathroom. I shared a bathroom with my Aunt Jenna, who has a room on the other side of the bathroom, just like Elena and Jeremy. It was a conjoined bathroom, but I didn't mind. This use to be my parents room before they died, but after they died, I took it. Elena felt too weird being in here and Aunt Jenna wanted her room, we didn't bother asking Jeremy because we all know his answer would be no.

I looked up into the mirror above the sink and sighed as my blue eyes stared back at me. I don't exactly know where I got my blue eyes from, I definitely didn't get them from my mom or dad. My uncle John had blue eyes too, so I think I got them from my dad's side of the family. My eyes used to shine whenever anyone looked at them, but ever since the accident, they were dull and didn't shine like they were suppose to.

I turned on the shower and waited till it was boiling hot. There was nothing more relaxing than a hot shower to calm your nerves. Why am I nervous, must you ask? Well, today is the first day of my last year in Mystic Falls high school. It was definitely going to be different this year. Everyone's changed because of the accident. Aunt Jenna has become more responsible for us and trying to grow up. I appreciate the thought of trying to help us get through everything but it wasn't helping as much as she would like it to be. Elena's turned to be quiet and being by herself. She use to be so into life and everything, now it's just nothing. It's like an empty shell of what she use to be. She doesn't go to parties any more, not that I really blame her. She thinks that if she didn't go to the party that night, nothing would have happened. But she did the right thing, she called when she needed a ride home, drunk. Jeremy's turned to drugs and being by himself. He was another one that use to be so into life before everything happened. Now it's like you can't even talk to him without him snapping at you. Now me? I've been more to myself, I blocked out all my friends and focused on my family. I would like to say I didn't change too much, but I did. I'm trying to bring everything back to normal, we need a little normalcy around this house.

I finished washing my hair with my blueberry shampoo and conditioner. I shut off the shower and quickly brushed my teeth and brushed out my hair before putting it back into a towel, wrapped around my head. I got out of the bathroom to see Elena sitting on my window seat and writing in her journal. Another thing that's changed, Elena's been writing everything down, not wanting to forget anything. She looked over at me and gave me a small smile. I smiled back and went to grab some underwear out of my dresser.

"It's going to be really different this year, isn't it?" Elena whispered when I went into my walk in closet to get changed. Me and Elena are close but not that close.

"Yeah." I sighed and grabbed my long sleeve, black turtle neck and slipped it over m head. "It is. But we're Gilbert's, we're strong enough to make it through."

I grabbed my ripped plaid leggings and slipped those on as well (Outfit on profile). "Yeah. I guess so." I heard from the other side of the door. I opened the door to see her looking out the window.

"This year's going to be great. You'll see!" I smiled at her. "Now, you probably want to go help Jenna because my bet is that she's running around with her head cut off."

"You're probably right." She sighed and left my room, closing the door behind her.

I sighed and ran my fingers through my drying hair. I decided to leave it in it's usual messy curls and put a bowler hat over it. It went with my outfit so I didn't mind. I slipped on my black combat boots and my silver rings before escaping back into the bathroom to do my make up. I didn't do anything special, just the regular black liner with mascara. When I considered myself presentable, I grabbed my bag and left my room the same time Jeremy left his. We didn't say anything, neither being a morning person. I needed my coffee before I can actually talk to someone other than my sister.

We both got into the room right when Jenna was freaking out about being late and something about toast. I saw Jeremy grabbing Elena's coffee and rolled my eyes. I walked over and grabbed the coffee back from him.

"Hey!" He glared up at him, since he was sitting down at the table.

"Sorry baby bro, you snooze, you lose." I took a sip of the coffee and almost spit it back out. This needed a lot more sugar and cream.

"It's your first day of school and I am completely unprepared!" Aunt Jenna fused while running back and forth from the kitchen to the dinning room and back. "Money for lunch?" She pulled out some money from her purse and handed it out to us. I shook my head, I don't need her money, I got my own. Elena shook her head also, knowing that I pay for her all the time any ways. Jeremy hesitated but in the end, he took the money. We all knew that it wasn't for his lunch though. I shook my head when he wasn't looking.

"Anything else? A number 2 pencil? What am I missing?" Jenna started looking through her bag again. I sighed and walked over to her to stop her.

"We're fine." I shook her for good measure and she laughed a little. "Any ways, don't you have a big presentation today?"

"I have a meeting with my these advisor..." She quickly glanced at her watch on her wrist. "Now. Crap!"

I quickly took her thick hair out of the bun she had it in and shook it out for her so she can look presentable.

"So go. We'll be fine." Elena spoke up from where she was leaning against the counter.

Jenna looks at all of us before, what I'm guessing, thinking that we actually will be fine and left with her bag on her arm. I looked down to see that she left her purse and quickly caught up to her to give it to her.

"Aunt Jenna, you almost forget this." I handed her, her purse and she sighed and thanked me before climbing in her car and setting off, waving to me as she went. I waved back just as Bonnie's car rolled into the driveway. I waved at her too and she smiled back.

I went back into the house and called out to Elena before Jeremy came rushing out of the kitchen and pushed my shoulder. I sighed and shook my head again. He will never change back to his old self if this is the direction he's going in.

"Elena! Bonnie's here!" I grabbed my keys off the hook next to the door and waited for Elena to get out of the house before locking up. She came around the corner with both me and her bag. She handed me my bag and I quietly thanked her.

"You wanna ride to school? You know Bonnie won't mind." Elena said as I locked the door.

"I know." I said turning back to her. "But I wanna drive. My baby looks so lonely." I pointed to my 69' Chevy Camaro. Elena laughed and nodded her head before setting off into Bonnie's car as I went into my own. I bought this car from one of our neighbors. Her dad just died and she needed to get rid of it for a good price. I had saved up my money since I was 15 years old and I was finally able to buy it last December. It runs great and I've always had a thing for old cars.

Bonnie's car was blocking me in so when they finally left, I followed suit. I was following them all the way to school when their car swerved and went off to the side of the rode.

"Shit." I slowed down next to them and rolled down the passenger side window. "Are you okay?" I asked when Bonnie rolled down her window. Elena looked a little shaken up but when she heard my voice she snapped out of it.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I can't be scared of cars all my life." She said, trying to be convincing. I nodded my head and rolled my window back up.

I took off in front of them this time and looked back at them every once and a while to make sure they didn't pull over or turn back to my house.

We got to the school 10 minutes before the first bell went off and we all went in our different directions. I went to my locker to put away things that I wouldn't need till after lunch and shut it. I was just passing by the girls bathroom when Elena went into the boys bathroom. Uh oh.

I followed her into the boys bathroom to see her pestering Jeremy about being high. I sighed and went up the them. Elena had Jeremy pinned against the sink. I took her arms off him and set him up straight. I looked over at the both of them, waiting an explanation.

"Jeremy's stoned." Elena waved her hand over towards Jeremy. I looked at Jeremy for confirmation. He didn't say anything, he just looked down at the ground. I took that as a yes.

I reached in my bag and took out a water bottle and some eye drops. I handed them over to him and he understood what I wanted him to do. Elena looked at me like I had two heads. I didn't pay attention to her, pestering him about this isn't going to make him stop.

"Really? You're letting him off the hook? It's the first day of school and he's already stoned." Elena looked at me with wide eyes.

"I'll talk to you later." I whispered to her when Jeremy wasn't looking or paying attention.

"Seriously Elena, you need to chill." Jeremy said passing me the eye drops back. I shook my head at him, just when I got her to shut up.

"Chill? What is that stoner talk?" Elena snapped. I was a little offended because I was in the same boat as Jeremy once. She looked over at me with an apologetic look in her eyes, knowing I would be a little offended. I shook her off, telling her not to worry about it.

"I don't have anything on me. Are you crazy?" Jeremy shouted when Elena went to go search him.

"Elena, stop." I tried but she didn't listen to me.

"You haven't seen me crazy yet, Jeremy. I gave you a summer pass, but I'm done watching you destroy yourself." Elena tried to get through to him once again, but I knew that it wasn't going to work.

Jeremy tried to get passed Elena but she pushed him back. He turned to me and gave me a pleading look to help him. "No, you know what? Keep doing what you're doing, but just know that I will be there every time to kill your buzz."

"Elena, let him go." I said sternly and this time she listened to me. He looked at me, silently thanking me before escaping out of the bathroom.

"What was that?" Elena turned her judging eyes to me. "You, of all people, should be trying to get him to stop."

I looked at her surprised. "Me, of all people, huh? Well, me, of all people, understands that pressuring him into stopping isn't going to get you any where. He'll stop when he's ready. You can't keep pushing him." I turned away from her and exited the bathroom with her calling my name behind me. I didn't listen and kept going until I heard a gasp.

I looked behind me to see a tall guy, that looked about 17 years of age, and his hands were on Elena's upper arms. I turned around fully and walked back over to help her out, considering she looked like a fish out of water with her mouth opening and closing constantly.

"Sorry, is this the men's bathroom?" He asked looking over to the door we just exited. I looked up to his face to see him looking at my sister with curious eyes. I internally laughed because I could see why my sister was gaping at him. His bright green eyes were what caught my attention.

"Yes, I was just..." Elena looked over her shoulder to see if Jeremy was still around. The first bell already rang, he wouldn't be in the hallways.

"It's a long story." I finished for Elena and the mystery guys finally looked over at me and nodded, but smiled at Elena. He's smooth.

"Elena, we should probably get to class." I said breaking up the staring contest. She looked at me and nodded. They both tried to get around each other but kept going the same way, I snorted over the amusing couple. He finally let her pass and she whispered a quiet 'thank you' before following me down the hallway. I snorted at her and she rolled her eyes and hit me on the arm, but I could see the small smile forming on her face.

School was a bore. I had most of the same teachers as I did last year, due to this being a small town and not really needing more than a couple of teachers for each subject. I looked around the parking lot to see Elena walking in the opposite direction of our house, then I remember that it was her monthly visit to our parents graves. She's done it since we've had to bury them in the ground. I sighed.

"Hey, Elena!" She turned to look at who was calling her over. I waved at her to let her know it was me that was calling her name. "Get it, I'll give you a lift."

It was quiet for the most part on our way to the graveyard. Not much to talk about, besides the usual, 'How was school?' 'Good, and you?'. It didn't really count as a conversation, only small talk to get through the car ride. Which didn't really help any ways.

We reached the graveyard and we both got out. It was engraved into our minds the location of where they were buried. During the first month of them being dead, I would visit them as much as possible, telling them as much as I could. I stopped doing that once I realized I needed to take care of my family.

Elena immediately sat down across from their grave and pulled out her journal. This is what she does when she comes to their grave. She'll write down in her journal and talk about how much we're trying to be strong. I could tell it's been hard on Elena, more so than the rest of us. She was the one that survived the crash, even though it was near impossible for her to make it out the way she did. But she somehow was able to. She lets that get to her every day, that she should have died along side of them. I'm glad she didn't. I lost my parents, I don't need to lose my best friend too.

The graveyard started to get a little bit foggy and I saw Elena sit up straighter and look ahead of us. I looked to see what she was looking at, to see a crow sitting on mom's grave. She got up and shooed it away but it just circled around and landed on a different headstone. The fog started to get more dense. It wasn't really bothering me much, but I could tell that Elena was starting to get a little sketched out by the whole thing. It was a little too horror movie for my liking.

"Let's go." I said backing away from the crow, which was looking directly at me. It was a little too out of the normal for me today.

"Yeah" Elena picked up her bag and we both took off in the direction of my car. I looked back to see that the fog got a little more dense, but I saw a silhouette of a man standing across the field from us. I turned my head to look at Elena and looked back at the man, but he was gone.

"Ah!" I heard to my left where Elena was but before I could look to see what happened, I tripped over something and fell down the hill. I groaned as I sat up to see Elena on the ground a little to my right.

I laughed and leaned on the ground again. "Damn it Elena." I joked. I heard her laugh nervously before we both got up and dusted each other off.

Just as we were going to set off towards my car again, the new student, whose name I found out was Stefan Salvatore, standing in front of us. "Are you alright?" He asked us with his green eyes shining with concern, but my guess was that most of that concern was for Elena.

"Were you following us?" I asked, thinking back on that man in the fog. It couldn't have been him, right?

"No, I saw you guys fall down the hill. And I thought I'd help you." Stefan explained as I laughed at the embarrassment that just happened.

"To be fair, it was her fault. She tripped first." I said with my hands out in front of me. He chuckled lightly at my exclamation.

"I'm fine, and thanks Rae." Elena glared in my direction but I just shrugged. "And you were just hanging out in a cemetery?" She turned her accusing eyes to the green eyed man in front of us.

"Do you really think we have any room to judge him, Elena?" Thinking we were just doing the same thing not only 5 minutes ago.

"I was visiting. I have family here." He shrugged looking around the graveyard before setting his eyes back to Elena.

"Wow. What my luck of tack." Elena muttered under her breathe. I laughed at her discomfort.

"You know what they say about assuming Elena?" I joked while going to sit down on a rock near by.

"Shut up, peanut gallery." Elena joked back. I just laughed at her. Elena looked back at Stefan before going off about some movie and the fog how it's messing with her head. I just shook my head while looking around us. I came back into the conversation when Stefan mentioned something about Elena bleeding.

She looked confused for a second before she came over to where I was still sitting and rolled up her pant leg. I looked at the gash on her leg and almost fainted at the sight of it. I quickly jumped up and Elena gave me an apologetic look, remembering how I get around blood. I shook her off before walking away. Stefan was looking away from us, breathing slowly.

"Don't worry, I get queasy around blood too." I turned back to Elena. "I'm going to get and wait in the car. I'll see you there." I didn't give her a chance to answer before I turned away from her and went to my car, which was closer than I thought it was going to be. I unlocked the door and got inside the car. I sat down with my head against the steering wheel, breathing in and out slowly. It wasn't long before Elena got into the passenger side and we both left for our house.

Once again there wasn't much talking going on in the car, just the music on the radio. I left her to her thoughts, as I was to my own. I was still curious about the man standing in the cemetery, he didn't look like he was just visiting, but you know what they say about assuming.

Right before we reached the house, Elena looked over at me. "I'm going to hang out with Bonnie and Caroline later at the grill, are you coming?"

"Of course. Why wouldn't I?" I asked, glancing at her in the corner of my eye. Caroline was technically my best friend. I was older than her by a couple of months, but that didn't change our relationship. I saw her shrug, before looking back out the window. "What is it?"

She sighed and looked back at me. "Caroline wanted to know if you would sing tonight at the Grill? I told her she should ask you, but she insisted that you would listen to me more than her." She shrugged again.

I laughed and shook my head. "I'm not going to sing."

"You haven't sang since..." Elena stopped and looked down.

I sighed loudly. "Here's a deal, when Jeremy starts drawing again, I'll start singing." I knew that Jeremy would start drawing again, but I also knew that it wasn't going to be any time soon.

"Promise?" She turned to look at me.

I stopped the car in front of our house and held out my pinkie finger to her. "Pinkie promise." We connected out pinkies before smiling at each other and going to go in the house.

We entered the house to see Aunt Jenna coming out of the kitchen and into the living room. Elena left to go get ready to leave and I shook my head at her. Jenna gave me a confused look, looking from me to where Elena just escaped to.

"We're going to meet Bonnie and Caroline at the Grill in a few." I told her and she nodded at me, understanding.

"Have fun." She said as Elena came down the stairs. She didn't look any different, she just changed her backpack to a regular bag. "Wait, I got this.." She said looking at us both. "Don't stay out too late, it's a school night." She looked at her with a look of triumph.

I laughed as Elena was telling Aunt Jenna that she did a good job.

I opened the door and was shocked to see who was behind it.

"Stefan?" Elena asked from behind us.

"You know, we gotta stop meeting like this." I joked a little.

"Sorry, I was about to knock." He smiled slightly over at me. I laughed and waved him off.

"No problem." I stepped outside and waved at Elena. "I'll meet you at the Grill." I started walking away when I remembered that I had her car keys. I turned back around and threw the key that was on my key chain that was for her SUV. "Here, don't go crazy." I winked and left for my car.

I peeled out watching Elena shake her head at me and Stefan trying to hide his smile.

I ended up at the Grill around 5 o'clock. It was perfect dinner time. A lot of people around the school hang around at the Grill around dinner time. I stepped out of my car and looked ahead of me, when I saw a man leaning against the Grill's wall. He didn't look familiar, which was weird considering it was a small town and I basically knew everyone. He definitely wasn't bad looking, from what I could see. He had a strong build and a bad boy aura. I turned away from him and kept going into the Grill. As much as I love bad boys, I really shouldn't be trying to get with any guys at the moment. I'm not in my right mind, it wouldn't be right for me to get involved. Doesn't mean I can't look and appreciate.

I walked into the Grill to see that it was halfway packed. Not at all as bad as it could be at this time. I saw Matt going over to a table before I realized they were who I was looking for. I could see Bonnie shaking her head at Matt and he looked disappointed. I walked over before anything could get more tense.

"Hey guys!" I said, excited, trying to get all the tension to disappear. It seemed to work for the mean time.

Caroline turned around a little to see who it was, but perked right up when she saw that it was me. "Hey!"

I leaned down and kissed her on her cheek and did the same to Bonnie and Matt. Just because Matt was Elena's recent ex boyfriend, didn't mean that I didn't care for him.

"How's Elena?" He turned to me and from what I could tell on Bonnie's and Caroline's face, he asked them the same question.

"She's fine, Matt. We all are. We're getting through it like anyone would. Nothing out of the ordinary." I took my seat next to Caroline and she nodded, agreeing with me. "I'm not going to interfere with you two though. If you wanna know a real answer, pick up a phone and call her."

He sighed and looked away from me. "I feel weird calling her. She broke up with me."

"Give it more time, Matt." Bonnie came into the conversation and I nodded agreeing with her.

Before he could say anything else, the front door of the Grill opened up to reveal Elena and Stefan walking up, talking. I sighed and looked at Matt again. He looked over at me and Bonnie.

"More time, huh?" He asked but didn't let us answer before he got up and walked over to Elena and Stefan. Elena looked extremely awkward and Stefan sensing her discomfort tried to be friendly with Matt. Just then, Matt walked away, out of the Grill, and Elena and Stefan joined us on our table. I didn't mind really, Stefan was a good kid. But one look into Caroline's eyes, you could tell she was jealous.

"Hey kid." I said, greeting him to our table. "Finally made it, huh?"

"Well, Elena likes to drive slower than my grandma, and she's dead." I laughed along with everyone else.

"That's because of the.." I kicked Caroline under the table before she could go any further with that sentence. She looked sheepishly at both me and Elena and whispered a quietly sorry. Elena nodded, forgiving her. I love Caroline, but she speaks out of her ass. She doesn't think before she actually says something.

I coughed and turned back to Stefan. "So, were you born here in Mystic Falls?" I asked trying to get the subject to change.

He cleared his throat before answering me. "Yes, and then I moved away."

"Parents?" Bonnie asked, continuing on our questioning for Elena.

"My parents passed away." He looked a little depressed when he finished. I looked over at him, sadly.

Elena reached across the table to grab his hand, I smirked when I saw this, she is so crushing on him hard. "I'm sorry." She said quietly. He nodded his thanks.

"We know how you feel, Stefan. We lost our parents too." I said with understanding lacing in each word. He nodded that he understood. He wasn't very sociable.

"Do you have any siblings?" Elena asked looking over at me before looking at Stefan again. I was interested in the answer too. If his whole family looked like he did, I would love to meet any brothers.

"None that I talk to." He explained.

"Damn." I said under my breath but I guess he heard me because he laughed a little. I shook my head and leaned back into my chair, now bored with the whole questioning.

"So, Stefan, if you're new than you don't know about the party tomorrow." Caroline said, also getting bored of the conversation. I perked right up when I heard about the bonfire tomorrow night. It was the one day of the year that I actually allow myself to let go and just have fun. Hopefully, this year will be just as fun.

"It's a back to school thing." Bonnie explained further after seeing Stefan's confused face and noticing Caroline wasn't going to explain further.

"Are you going?" Stefan turned to Elena and asked her. She blushed a little but before she could refuse, I answered for her.

"Of course she's going. Right Elena?" She gave me a questioning stare but I just smiled at her. She sighed and nodded her head in confirmation.

Victory!

It was almost time for the party and I was just finishing getting ready. Caroline threatened me that if I didn't wear a dress, or a skirt, that she was going to kill me. So, by Caroline's request, I was wearing my pink summer dress with my bright yellow pumps. She told me that she didn't want to wear the same thing as each other, because it's happened before. I agreed because it was pretty awkward, considering it was last year's Miss Mystic Falls. She was pretty pissed when I won but I didn't even want to be Miss Mystic Falls, my mom wanted me to do it because she was Miss Mystic Falls. This year's Elena's turn to try and win for my mom.

I already had my makeup and hair done, with my hair straightened and my eyes lined with black liner and mascara. I grabbed my jewelry and slipped it on before grabbing my purse and leaving my room. Elena was already waiting in the car, so when I got down stairs I yelled a quick goodbye to Jenna before going to my car.

I got in and glanced over at Elena, she was looking out the window. "We don't have to do this, ya know?" I reached over and grabbed her hand. "We can skip the party and just go back inside and watch re-runs with Aunt Jenna."

She laughed and shook her head. "It's now or never."

I nodded and smiled at her. She was being so strong. I squeezed her hand and backed out of the driveway.

When we got to the party, it was already in full swing, everyone was already drinking and chatting up. We both got out of the car and I made sure to keep the doors locked and my purse under my seat. I didn't need anything in the party, so it could stay in the car for now.

We walked over to where the fire was being held to see Bonnie and Caroline talking. Bonnie waved us over and Caroline turned around to see who Bonnie was waving to, but when she saw that Elena actually came, she turned around and walked the other way. I shook my head at my best friend, she'll never learn.

"Hey!" Bonnie shouted over the music and the people talking, we both smiled at her in return.

"Where's Stefan?" Bonnie said wiggling her eyebrows at Elena while I just laughed.

Elena shook her head at both of us. "You're both relentless."

"Just admit it Elena." Bonnie said shaking her head at said girl.

She shrugged. "Okay, he is a little pretty." I laughed at her choice of words.

"He has that romance novel stare." Bonnie said dramatically.

"Stefan looked into her eyes, staring into her soul." I acted out while grabbing Bonnie's hand and putting it to my chest. We both sighed dramatically before bursting into giggles. Elena joined us and pushed us both.

I looked around after getting over the whole laughing fit to see that he was nowhere to be seen. "So where is he?" Bonnie asked looking around.

I shrugged and looked back at the two girls. "I don't know, you tell me, you're the psychic." Elena said and laughed at her own joke.

Bonnie giggled and nodded her head. "Okay. Give me a sec, Grams said I need to concentrate." She closed her eyes and concentrated.

"Wait, you need something!" Elena said and looked around. I got what she was saying and nodded. I passed Bonnie the beer bottle I had in my hand from when I entered the party, they were at the front door.

"A crystal ball." I giggled and Bonnie grabbed it from me but before she took it, her hand grabbed mine and she gasped before dropping the bottle. "Damn it, now I have to get another one." I sighed and turned around to get another beer.

On my way there, I saw Caroline chugging her own drink. I walked up to her and grabbed the liqueur from her hand. She gasped and turned to see who took away her bottle before she realized it was me. She shook her hand and grabbed the bottle back, angry.

"What?" She said harshly.

"What do you mean, what?" I asked, getting a little irritated. "What's your problem?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.

"You're my problem." She snapped. "You and your damn sister."

I shook my head at her. "What the hell are you talking about?" I asked again.

"You're all so perfect and nice and likable and people enjoy your company and you're always first pick. What about me, huh?" She said with a glare on her face. She wasn't making any sense.

I opened my mouth to reply but she shook her head. "Save it, I don't wanna hear it." She threw her bottle against a tree and stomped away. I sighed and turned the other way too.

A scream was heard from deep in the forest and I thought about ignoring it but my urge to help people took over and I started following the now muffled screams. The further I walked into the forest, the more fog started showing up. It was getting colder too, but that could be because of the fog all over the forest floor. I came across a clearing in the forest and saw a man standing over a limp body. I covered my mouth to stop myself from gasping or screaming, which ever came out of my mouth first. I grabbed a large branch from the ground and was about to hit the man but he turned around and he had what looked like blood coming out of his mouth. He looked shocked for a moment before he came over to me in a lightning flash. He grabbed my shoulders and I did my best to not scream, it would only make matters worse. His once, red like blood, eyes turned back to white and a really pretty blue. It was too dark out to see who this man was, but his blue eyes seemed familiar.

He shook his head, as if to try to get a thought out and looked me straight in the eyes. His icy eyes dilated. "What's your name?" He asked quietly as if not to scare me away.

I answered automatically. "Raegan Gilbert." I said in a stiff tone.

He sighed my name quietly before turning to look me in the eyes again. "Well Raegan, you will not remember what happened here. All you remember was an animal came and attacked her, you came to try and help but the animal got away, do you understand?"

I nodded numbly. "I understand." I said in a monotone. He nodded to see that whatever he done worked and sped away.

I opened my eyes and looked around, not really remembering why I was out in the forest. Last thing I remember was coming out here for a scream, I think? I looked around to see a limp body of the ground and I gasped and ran over to it. I knew her, this was Vicki Donovan, Matt's older sister. I use to hang out with her when I still did drugs and Elena was dating Matt.

"Vicki?" I heard someone calling from somewhere in the forest.

"Over here!" I shouted back to them and picked Vicki's head and put it on my lap. I saw the injury on her neck and remembered that an animal was attacking her. Why doesn't that feel right to think of?

"Oh my god!" I heard a familiar voice say and I turned to see Elena and Jeremy standing by the tree I was just at.

"An animal came and attacked her. I tried to help but it ran away before I could do anything. She's still alive but barely, we need to get her to safety." I said and they both jumped to help. Elena grabbed one side of her and Jeremy grabbed the other while I kept applying pressure to her wound.

We reached the fire and started yelling for help, and everyone rushed to help us. I got most to back up and cleared a spot where beer was for her to be laid down. I kept my hand on her wound and Matt came running over yelling her name while everyone called 911.

It didn't take long for them to come over, they asked me, Elena and Jeremy questions since we were the ones that found her. I told them as much as I could remember but when I was telling them the story, I kept thinking that something just wasn't right about my memories.

The ambulance came and gone and everyone was starting to clear up. I saw Elena talking to Jeremy and he didn't look too pleased, then again I wouldn't be either if I just found someone that I had a crush on in the woods, half dead because of an animal attack. I sighed and shook my head, I still didn't believe that an animal could have drained that much blood out of her body unless it was a really big leech.

I saw Bonnie half carrying Caroline to her car, while she was piss drunk. I didn't even want to deal with her tonight, even though I should ave expected that she would get drunk tonight. I know how she is when she doesn't get her way in things. She starts talking out of her ass and saying shit she's going to regret later on.

I broke out of my thoughts when I saw Elena and Jeremy coming towards my car. I nodded and Elena when she gave me a look saying not to say anything to Jeremy. I unlocked my doors and got into the car. I pulled my bag out of it's hiding spot and took out some ibuprofen. I think we all have a big headache coming on. I gave everyone some and we all chugged it down before setting off to home.

I sighed and chugging down my hot coffee before making it up stairs. Before I reached it, a light knock was heard on the door. I sighed and turned around and opened the door to see Stefan standing at the door. I was surprised for a second before smiling at him. He smiled at me for a second and I turned around and called Elena's name, she came out of her room and looked to see that Stefan was at the door, she came down the stairs and I left the door open but went upstairs, not far enough to not hear what they were talking about though.

"I know it's late, but I needed to know that you were okay." Stefan said and I smiled, he really cared about her. She has him wrapped around her little finger like everyone else that meets Elena. I shook my head and tried to hear what Elena was saying.

"For months, that's all anyone's wondered about me, if I'll be okay." She sighed and shuffled her feet over the squeaky floorboard.

"What did you tell them?" He asked curious.

"That I'll be fine." She sighed again.

"Do you mean it?" He asked quietly.

"Ask me tomorrow." She said and I laughed. Good job Elena, now he has an excuse to talk to you tomorrow. Smooth Elena, real smooth.

I heard Elena shuffle her feet again before she began to talk again. "It's more warmer in the house. We can talk inside. Would you like to come in?" Elena invited.

I heard him quietly say a quick yes and I ran back into my room to grab something. I smirked evilly and ran into Elena's room quickly when I heard her ask if he wanted anything to drink. I dropped the condom on her table and left a note.

'Be safe ;)
-R'

I laughed and went into my room. This day turned from bad to comical in 2.5 seconds.

I went to bed that night with a smile on my face when I heard Elena's gasp.

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