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I'm gona be a bitch today.

It's not like I want to but I didn't sleep well last night. You know what doesn't mix well together? Storms, lightning, thunder, nightmares about Eileen and a pair of freaking glowing eyes in your front yard.

Those stuff don't mix well together so did I sleep? Nope. And then this morning when the storm died down I finally fell asleep. There were multiple calls from Damon. Yep Damon. I didn't answer any of them but every single time my phone would just buzz.

Buzz buzz buzz.

There it is again. Yay how nice. "What the hell do you want?" I ask harshly as I press the answer button. "Morning to you too princess." He shoots back ans I roll my eyes. "Why have you been calling me."

"PTA meeting at the house. Bring your sister." He says and before I could ask anymore questions the line goes dead.

I throw my phone somewhere on the bed and haul my ass up. Hmm what to wear what to wear.

I'm tired but I can't be sleep deprived, possibly acting like a bitch and not look hot cause  then that's just not it. You know what I mean.

Okay screw that it's just the boarding house.

I put on black leggings with beat up converse a white crop top and A leather jacket.

I knock on Elena's door after I exit my room and I hear her groan. "Get your ass up." I scold and she doesn't answer so I open her door and walk inside before ripping her covers off of her. "Get up. We gotta go to the boarding house." I sing song and she narrows her eyes at me. "Your mean this morning." She mutters and I flash her a wide smile. "Really? Cause that's kind of the look I was going for today." I shrug and then sigh. "Get up before you have to drive yourself and you know your drive record is not very good."

She lets out a loud breathy groan and get out of the bed rubbing her eyes. "Great let's go." I urge. "I have to change." She answers back not very nicely and I leave the room to let her change.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

"I'm leaving with or without you." I shout from downstairs and I hear her door open. "I'm ready." She deadpans pouting as she walks downstairs and I flash her a smile just to irritate her.

"How do you even know we have to go to the boarding house?" She questions as we get in the car. "Damon called." I reply and she widens her eyes at me. Not in an impressed or amused way but in a saught of concerned way.

"Is that why you're all dressed up." She shoots and I take my eyes off the road for a quick second to raise my eyebrows at her. "What is that supposed to mean. And I'm not even dressed up."

"Are you all dressed up because Damon called?" She asks.

Oh yeah she never did lecture me when she saw Damon and I kiss.

"How do you even come up with this stuff?" I ask. "I saw both of you kiss Emmy." She answers and I roll my eyes. "He was lecturing me and I wanted him to shut up so I kissed him." I shrug plainly. "You can't just kiss people to get them to shut up." She argues. "You can't just drain blood from animals or people but your boyfriend does." I shoot back and I smirk in triumph as that shuts her up.

"Woah. What the hell happened here." I question looking at the whole scene with a disbelief scoff. "Tomb vamps attacked us last night." Stefan answers and Elena breathes out this kind of worried breath.

"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night." Damon chimes in as he boards up the broken window and Stefan rolls his eyes looking at his brother. "Yeah. And then what? We turn to the rest of that house of vampires and say, "Oops. Sorry?" He says sarcastically and I laugh a little at that.

Sassy Stefan is fun. Hm.

"I can't believe you made a deal with her." Elena scoff and I look between all of them furrowing my eyebrows. "What deal?" I question.

"It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice." Damon pauses. "She's..... scary."

Reall Damon really. I mean she kind of is considering she ripped into my wrist but whatever. He's a vampire.

"Besides, she's gonna help me get Katherine back." He shrugs and my eyes widen in surprise.

So that's why he's so.... Damon today.

Elena throws her hands up in disbelief. "Of course she is." She scoffs. "Damon gets what he wants, as usual. No matter who he hurts in the process." She snaps and I roll my eyes.

"I'm just gona say it because we're all thinking it so news flash.... Katherine doesn't want you." I say boldly which seems to surprise everyone since everything goes silent for a while.

"Don't look at me like that. We were all thinking it." I defend.

And Eileen basically said that but I can't tell them that.

I don't lie. Okay that's a lie but he needed to hear that.

"You don't have to be snarky about it." He answers still playing with the hammer in his hand.

I am so close to sending that hammer through his head. God his eyes are nice. Emmy shut the frick up.

Elena raises her eyebrows at him with her arms folded. "We woke up this morning to learn that all the vampires have been released from the tomb. We've earned snarky." She shoots and Damon sits down on the sofa with a loud sigh. "How long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?" He says swaying his head boredly.

I prop myself up on a nearby bookshelf. "No one's blaming you. I think we've all accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities." I chime with a fake smile and he gives a fake hurt look. "Ouch." He mutters sarcastically. "I thought we were friends."

I roll my eyes at Damon's comment but my mind circles back to something from earlier. I make a small wince sound and everyone looks at me expectantly and I flash a small smile. "So..... Did y'all really not know that the spell... um... didn't work?" I question and Stefan loosens his stance leaning over at me shaking his head. "No." He furrows his eyebrows. "Did you?" Elena buts in and I shrug awkwardly. "Maybe..." i drag out and Damon stands up again.

"And you didn't think this would be valuable information?" He shoots back sarcastically and I raise my hands innocently. "I thought you knew." I defend with my voice going up in pitch.

Elena and Damon look at me the same exact expression that says "really Emily."

"This isn't being very productive." Stefan interrupts. "We're gonna figure out a way to deal with Pearl and the vampires. Yeah? Hmm." He says and  gets up and leaves.

"I'm sorry. He just makes me so cranky." Elena apologizes gritting her teeth while Stefan embraces her.

This house is so dark it still creeps me out.

I walk to the other side of the room and collapse on the couch where Damon was sitting before. "I know. He makes everybody cranky." Stefan answers back caressing her head.

Okay this is just weird. Way to make a girl feel like a third wheel.

"Okay as much as this right here would probably be very cute if it was in a movie or if I wasn't here right now." I start gesturing to them embracing eachother and Elena glares at me which I brush off. "What are we going to do about the tomb vamps?" I ask.

Stefan turns to face me now with only one hand around Elena. "Damon and I are gonna handle everything, I promise." He answers questions.

There is no way that I am not getting involved in this.

"Well, what about me?" Elena asks. " I can't just sit here and do nothing."

"That's exactly what you're gonna do. Both of you." He adds. "because that's what going to keep you both safe."

I liked sassy Stefan better than hero Stefan. Alot better.

"That whole I want you safe thing might work with Elena because she's your girlfriend but it doesn't work with me, so what can I do?"

"My safety, Which means nothing if you're not safe, too." Elena answers Stefan's previous statement. "Oh great it's Romeo and Juliet come to life." I add sarcastically which they ignore. "What do you mean? I'm perfectly safe. I have Damon." He says. "the self-serving psychopath on my side." He adds that part looking at me.

People are so rude these days my gosh.

"Well, that's comforting." Elena answers and I make a huh sound. "I still don't think I'm gona be able to stay out of this." I fake shrug and walk upstairs to the room that was basically my bedroom in this house.

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I walk back downstairs in the boarding house after a while of watching One tree hill on my phone.

Yep I already finished gilmore girls. Jess is still hot. Rory is kind of annoying.

"Lena. Can you take my car back I think I'm gona run for a little bit." I tell her. "You're gona run in this whether?" She questions furrowing her eyebrows and I nod. "Yeah if I don't do it now then I never might." I shrug and she nods.
" Just be careful." She says and I nod rolling my eyes. "Yeah yeah." I drag out.

"Stefan. I'll see you later." She dismisses. He appears downstairs startling me and giving Elena a kiss. Ew.

"Be careful drive safe." He tells her still gazing into her eyes and she nods. "I'll be safe." She assures and I huff. "You better be. That's my car." I say. "Yeah love you too sis." She rolls her eyes.

She better not crash my car.

"Where are you going?" I ask Stefan who had on his coat. I don't even know when he put that on. Seriously I swear he didn't have that on before.

"Hunting party?" I hear Damon's voice and I look back and see him descending the stairs. Lucky thing I'm leaving now.

"That guy did a number on me last night when he stabbed me. I gotta get my strength back up." He answers more to me than Damon.
Damon reaches the flat part after the steps and nudges his head towards the kitchen. "I've got two liters of soccer mom in the fridge." He informs. "No?" He shrugs when he sees Stefan's expression.

Ew. The fact that they just keep blood in the fridge like it's yogurt or something.

"We'll talk when I get back?" Stefan answers and Damon shrugs. " All right. Give my regards to the squirrels." He dismisses walking off and I chuckle at his comment making Stefan narrow his eyes at me.

"Just don't follow the rabbit down the rabbit hole alice." I smirk before exiting the door and beginning my run.

Gosh I'm amazing. I'm so funny.

Okay let's not get frost bite okay Emily. Okay.

I plug my airpods into my ears and blast my music.

That's my best friend she a real bad bitch. Got her money she don't need no man

In the strip club she got two three drinks now she twirkin she throw it out and come back in.

Beep beep. Is that my besty in a tessy.

I'm running on the pavement when I decide to cut through the woods for a shortcut to my house. I'm tired and it's cold plus I ran for about an hour.

I feel a rush of wind next to me but I don't study it since it's cold. Take out your headphones Emily. Pay attention.

A voice in my head tells me but I ignore it and keep running until I see someone in front of me. I come to a slow stop and take my headphones out of my ears. "Can I help you?" I question. Shit. Tomb vamp.

He bares his fangs at me. "Ad somnum." I say holding my hand up in line with his face and he falls to the floor unconscious. I hear more snarls and turn around seeing I'm surrounded by tomb vamps.

You have got to be kidding me.

My eyes widen in panic as Vampires speed towards me.

"Icaeus." I mutter stretching both hands and they all fly backwards but that doesn't really stop anyone. They all get up unphased. "Invisique." I say making myself invisible and start running.

That's ought to buy me some time.

Trees scratch my face as I run and I'm surprised my spell is still holding up.

My face and hands burn from the scratches and the cold breeze doesn't help.

I finally trip over my feet and fall to the ground interrupting my spell. I just lay there in pain and I'm pretty sure I'm bleeding more than before. My elbow stings and I hear some loud noises echoing around the forest.

I look up and for some reason my vision was blurry but I could make out a figure. A man and he was clapping. "That was impressive but it wasn't enough." He says. His voice was weird and old timey. Tomb vamp I am really hating these tomb vamps.

I pelt up to a sitting position panting and I scramble to my feet. "Don't even think about doing a spell before I kill your friend."  Another voice says from behind me and I turn around.

"Stefan." I gasp. He stands there looking pale and in shock and I notice the stake in his stomach and the guy looks at me. Straight at me and my vision clears up a little.

That's the guy from the grill the other night.

"One movement and I'll rip his heart out." He threatens and only as he moves his hand I notice it coated in blood.

Oh god. Stefan

I breathe a silent relief when I notice he doesn't have Stefan's heart in his hand but Stefan falls to the ground with the stake still in his stomach and I feel something hit my head.

Sharp pain radiates through my head until there's just a pulsing numbness and spots cloud my vision but apparently I was taking too long to black out because the next thing I feel is my head slam into the nearby tree and my eyes flutter trying to stay open as my head pulses with pain until.

I'm going to die.

Everything goes black.

I hear a loud noise but I don't see anything. It's like someone banging on something.

Where am I?

"Mom I don't want to get up." I groan. My head nods a little and pain shoots through my neck all the way to my head. Suddenly I hear yelling.

"swear to God I'll bust through and rip your head off." Damon. That's Damon.

My eyes flutter open but I don't see him. "Damon!" I try to shout but my voice is weak and gravily. "Damon!" I call again.

"Where's my brother?" I hear him demand. "Damon!" I say again and it happens to be a little louder this time. "Emily! Where is she!" I hear him. Thank god for vamp hearing.

My lungs feel like there's raiser blades scraping against them everytime i talk or breathe. What did they do to me.

I glance around at the unfamiliar room that I'm in and I'm in the center of what looks like an empty bedroom tied to a wooden chair. My wrist are tied.

"Fucking untie me assholes." I shout ignoring the pain in my throat. A man walks into the room. "Your finally awake. This should be fun." He smirks and I roll my eyes. "Dick." I croak.

He speeds over to me bursting the ropes off of my hand and grabs my hair. I grunt in pain as the hair pulling against my scalp hurts my previous wounds. "Calm down I'm fragile." I groan hurdling towards the doorway as the guy pushes me foward.

I slam into one of the walls of the narrow corridor with a grunt. I look towards the doorway and make eye contact with Damon who looks worried. "Leave Emily out of this she has nothing to do with this and where's my brother." Damon says to the guy at the door.

"Billy." The guy calls and I hear struggled grunts and then Stefan was opposite me in the corridor. He flashes me an apologetic look.

"You're dead." Damon threatens and I really hope he means that.

"Whoa. I'm sorry. You haven't been invited in." The guy at the door taunts and I take that time to stupidly try and run but Billy blocks my path shoving me back into the wall where I hit my head again. This time I feel blood start to roll down my neck.

Oh fuck my life.

"Miss Gibbons?" The guy calls and a woman with bite marks all over her body walks into sight. God she owns the house.

If only I could kill her. Wait did i just.... no.

"Yes, Frederick, honey?" She greets with a small smile. So that's this bumbass name. Hm.

"Never let this bad man in." Frederick compells her. "I'll never let him in." She monotones.

I slowly loose the will to stand up and I slide down the wall onto the floor and I'm sure if you look back you'll see a smeer of blood.

"145 years left starving in a tomb, thanks to Katherine's infatuation with you and your brother." Frederick tells Damon. "First few weeks, every single nerve in your body screams with fire. The kind of pain that can drive a person mad."

"No one cares about your life story." I mutter. "Billy." Frederick calls and Billy leaves Stefan and walks over to me. I try to scoot back but the wall behind me stops me. "Billy." I smile lazily. "Come on man, we can be friends... we can-" i start but I'm interrupted by my own screams when he stabs a knife into my leg.

"You asshole." I grunt out trying to stifle the burning in my leg.

"Well...I thought your brother and girlfriend might want to get a taste of that before I killed them." Frederick tell Damon. "Billy." He smirks.

"Really, you're just gona be is lil bitch." I chuckle. Emily stop fucking talking. He twists the knife that's still in my leg and I grunt in pain. He walks over to Stefan, I don't know what he does but I flinch as Stefan screams loudly.

I open my eyes seeing the stake hanging out of him and I wince at it. "You have a nice day." Frederick dismisses sarcastically and I hear the door close.

For some reason the words left my mouth. "Damon." I mutter before my vision goes blurry. I feel around panicked about why I couldn't see anything. "Aah." Stefan's scream echoes in my ears and I feel a small prickle on my arm before for the second time today everything goes black.

My eyes flutter open and it's like de ja vu just this time Stefan is tied up in front of me. My head is hanging down letting me see the blood dripping on my black leggings while a ringing noise pierces my head. My head pulses with pain and my hands are tied again in a wooden chair but the room is different.

I look up slowly waiting for my vision to clear but I see Billy put something in Stefan's eyes and he bawls in pain beating around against his restraints.

Oh my god. Vervain. Now that's just straight up wicked.

"This isn't right!" A guy's voice exclaims and I look up through my eyelashes. I don't have enough energy to properly lift my head and it hurts.

Great like the second time this month I'm kidnapped just this one is worse that the first.

I see a brown skinned guy who looks about late twenties standing opposite fred the dick. "He killed Beth-Anne. One of us, Harper." He scolds walking up to him.

"And don't you think for a second he wouldn't kill you if he had the chance. Pearl says we're not here for revenge, right? I say that's exactly what we're here for. Starting with this."

Fred the dick picks