The Vampire Diaries – Every End Has A Start von Asu91 ================================================================================ Kapitel 12: Welcome to the Masquerade ------------------------------------- Neue Woche neues Kapi^^ Ich entschuldige mich schon mal im Voraus, wenn ihr gleich nen Information Overload habt^^° Trotz des Risikos wünsche ich euch viel Spaß! _________________________________________________________________________________ Flashback Elena was running down the stairs. She was late. Damon was already waiting thirty minutes for her. Not to mention that he had already called thrice to ask where the hell she was. Now finally she had all her things together for a sleepover at the Salvatore manor and was on her way there. At the door she met Jeremy. "I'm out. Tell Jenna I'll be back tomorrow by dinner, will you?" Elena said and grabbed her keys. "Are you going to Damon?" Jeremy inquired. "Yeah. Why?" "Maybe you shouldn't spend so much time with him." "What?" Elena was confused. "Why not?" "I don't know. I think there's something off about him." "You played video games together," Elena reminded him. "Yeah but still. Just be careful, okay?" "Always am. Don't worry. See you tomorrow," Elena said smiling and left. End of Flashback Elena didn't think she would see Damon soon. Not before the weekend and she was even a little glad about it. Now she had finally some time for herself which she absolutely needed now and then. To write in her diary or to do other things like studying for school. However everything wasn't as great as it seemed. First Elena got loads of homework for her biology class and then when she came home and turned on her computer, the system stopped first and then didn't work at all anymore. Elena buried her face in her hands. So much bad luck on one day was impossible. Frustrated she walked into the hallway where she met Jeremy who was zipping up his jacket. "Hey, where are you going?" she asked him. "Just to the video store. I'll be back in an hour," he answered. "Okay. Hey, um, can I borrow your computer to do some research for school? My system just broke down." "Sure. I can take a look at it later if you want," he offered. "Yes, that would be great," she said gratefully. "Okay, see you later." "Bye." Jeremy left and Elena entered his room. She sat down in front of his computer and launched Firefox. Then she searched for Wikipedia in Jeremy's bookmarks. She didn't find it but lots of articles on vampires and their possible existence instead. "What the…? Oh, no!" She grabbed the cordless on Jeremy's desk and dialed. Damon was just walking into the parlor, wondering what to do with his evening. He had narrowed down his options to feed, party or watch TV. He was just about to make a final decision when his cell phone rang. He glanced at the display to find Elena was calling. "Damon Salvatore, may I help you?" he asked cockily. "You know after this morning I shouldn't be talking to you at all." "I know. I wouldn't call if it wasn't important," Elena said. "Fine. Spill." "We have a problem. Please come over." "Why? What happened?" Damon demanded. "I think Jeremy knows vampires really exist," Elena explained. "What?! I'll be over soon." He hung up and rushed away. Meanwhile Jeremy had reached the video store and tried to decide which movie he should rent when he saw someone he knew enter the store. It was Tyler Lockwood. Jeremy walked over to him. "What do you want, Gilbert?" Tyler asked irritated. "You have to explain something to me," Jeremy answered. "I don't get you, man. First you tell me to back off and then you want to party with me." He was hinting at the party at Fell's church. Tyler sighed. "Look, I was drunk the other day, okay? Everything I said then is total BS. So, forget it, okay? I don't know why you're keeping your hopes up and for what. We'll never be friends, Gilbert. So, just back off." And with that he left the video store. Outside on the street he sighed deeply. He walked to his car, recalling a recent conversation with his father. Flashback "Stay away from that Gilbert kid," said Mayor Lockwood. "His ancestor hunted vampires and I don't know if he knew of us and how he'd think of us. He'd probably see us as a threat, too. So, don't let Gilbert get to you. We don't know how much they told him." End of Flashback Tyler reached his car, got in and started the engine. He gave the video a last look and then he drove away. Five minutes after Elena had called Damon rang the doorbell of the Gilbert residence. Elena was there at once to let him in. "So, why do you think he knows?" he came straight to the point. "Come, I'll show you," Elena said. They went upstairs into Jeremy's bedroom and Elena showed him the websites Jeremy had bookmarked. "'Vampires in the real world?' That's bad," Damon commented. 'I don't understand," Elena said. "I thought you'd erased his memories of Vicky." "I did," Damon confirmed. "He must have witnessed something after that." They looked at each other for a moment and then it hit them. "Anna." "But how?" "Ahhh, I know. How could I've been so stupid?" Elena groaned. "Back then when we opened the tomb. He told me he was okay. I should have let you erase his memories." "But what exactly did he see?" "I don't know. He was unconscious during the ritual. There must have happened something with Anna before. Maybe she lost control in front of him." "Maybe," Damon said. "She didn't feed on him or the other guy?" "No, I checked. There were no bite marks." "Mmh," Damon mused. "Well, you have to talk to him about it." "Yeah, I was going to, anyway." "Not because he simply knows but because of what he might do when he finds out more. About the Salvatore brothers for instance," Damon specified. "What do you mean?" Elena asked confused. "Well, unlike you he's a direct descendent from Jonathan Gilbert and read his journal and–" "You think–?" "Well, I don't know. I don't Jeremy the way you do," Damon said. "You tell me. Would he feel obligated to do something about it if he found out more?" Elena stared at him for a second, trying to comprehend what Damon was driving at. "I – I don't know," she said hesitantly. "I honestly can't tell. I never really took it into consideration that the journal might influence or aggravate him. God, that mustn't happen. We – we have to stop him." "Well, first you talk to him. He's already on his way home," Damon told her. "How–? Oh, right, super far hearing ability," she remembered. "He's early. He said he'd be gone for an hour." Just in that moment they heard the front door open and close. Elena stepped into the hallway. "Jeremy, is that you?" "Yeah, it's me," he called back. "Can you come upstairs for a minute, please," Elena asked. "Sure." Elena walked back into the room and waiting for her brother to come. "Is it about your computer?" they could hear him ask. Then he entered and saw them standing there, arms crossed. "Whoa, what's this? What did I do?" "You've got some serious explaining to do," Elena said. She pointed at the computer screen. The sites about vampires were still open. "What's this? Are you spying on me now? Ever heard of private sphere?" Jeremy inquired angrily. "I wasn't spying on you," Elena clarified. "I checked your bookmarks for Wikipedia and then I saw these weird sites you've been on. And I wonder why." Jeremy sighed in defeat. "Sit," Damon said and pointed at the bed. "This may take a while." "What have you got to do with it?" Jeremy demanded and slumped on his bed. 'We'll tell you, Jeremy," Elena promised and sat down beside him. "But you first." Jeremy glanced at Damon who looked sternly back then he sighed again and started telling them what got him so interested in vampires. "You, um, remember Anna?" Elena nodded. "She helped me with my history essay back then. Made me focus the town's fear of monsters like vampires in the 17th century. She was always insisting on the possibility that the stories could be real. Of course I didn't believe her. I thought she was just fascinated by them. Then at the party at the old Fell's church something weird happened. I kissed her and…" He paused a second. "And her eyes started to change. They were getting darker and her face changed, too." Elena exchanged at look with Damon. They knew they were thinking the same thing. Jeremy looked at both of them confused. "You don't seem surprised. You don't think I'm nuts." That was a statement, not a question. "Well, I'm not," Elena said. "Because… that's what happens everytime Stefan and I get close to each other." Out of the corner of her eye she saw Damon squirm. She looked at him questioningly but he ignored her, watching Jeremy closely. "You're not going to ask her about that?" he asked him. "Of course I am!" Jeremy said. "Will somebody please tell me what's going on?" Damon looked at Elena. "I hope you prepared a good speech. Mind what I said to you earlier." "Yeah, I'm not dumb, you know?" Elena replied slightly irritated. She looked at her brother. "Before I start we have to set some rules. You're gonna listen till I'm finished without interrupting and you won't tell anyone about it, got it?" Jeremy nodded. "Okay. Well, your instincts don't play a trick on you. It's true. Vampires exist. They did back then and they still do today." She let that sink in for a second before she continued. 'But it's not that easy. As crazy as it sounds, not all vampires are bad. In this regard they are similar to humans. There are good and evil vampires like there are good and evil humans. The good vampires are so-called vegetarians–" Elena was interrupted by Damon who burst out laughing. "What? It's like that, isn't it?" she said. "Because they feed on animal blood whereas the bad vampires feed on human blood. You understand? A vampire can make the choice whether he wants to be good or bad. They can control their thirst." "Vampires can feed on animal blood?" Jeremy repeated. "Yeah." Now Damon spoke because it was his field of expertise. "They can. It keeps them alive, too, just doesn't make them as strong as human blood does." "How do you know about all that stuff?' Jeremy inquired now. "It was big news to me when I found out that vampires might actually be real but you're so calm." Damon and Elena exchanged another look. "I've known about this for a couple of months now," Elena admitted. "At first I was terrified after a while I didn't feel that way around some of them anymore because I learned about their personal choice. I'm sorry, I didn't tell you. I didn't want to scare you." "I'm not scared," Jeremy said and Damon scoffed. "I'm really not. What about him by the way?" Jeremy demanded. "Is he a vampire?" He asked a direct question so he deserved a direct answer but Elena hesitated. She glanced at Damon, sort of looking for his permission to tell Jeremy. "It's your decision," Damon said as if he knew what she was thinking. "I can take care of myself. If you want him to know then go ahead." Elena turned to Jeremy, partly afraid of his reaction to what she would tell him now. "Yes, he is. Damon is a vampire and Stefan is one, too." "I knew there was something off about you," Jeremy said to Damon. "I sensed it somehow." Damon wasn't impressed. "You're a Gilbert. It's in your genes." "Good or evil?" "Depends." "Damon!" Elena rebuked him sternly. "Don't listen to him. He likes to play the bad guy but he's actually good," Elena explained. Damon scoffed again. "Now you know. So, what are you gonna do? Are you planning to kill me?" he mocked. Jeremy thought about that. "No, I'm not. As long as you don't kill or bite anyone, I won't kill you." "Thank you so much." Again Damon was mocking. "Like you could do anything to me at all." "Damon!" "What? He's like what? 15? What can he do?" "Be careful. You might think differently about it if I ever find a reason to kill you," Jeremy threatened. "Alright, that's it, you two," Elena intervened. "Damon, don't even start and Jeremy, I assure you he won't do anything." "How can you be sure?" It couldn't be more obvious that Jeremy didn't trust Damon which was probably pretty healthy. "Because it is in his interest to stay here in Mystic Falls. Alive," she added. She met Damon's gaze who held it for a second before he averted his. "So…" Jeremy kept asking. "What about Anna?" "I don't know," Elena said. "I don't know her enough to judge her but she lured you away from everyone and she was going to make a midnight snack out of you so…" "No, Anna's not evil," Damon contradicted. "She is good, too, if you really want to call a vampire good. She was only different because he wanted to get her mother back. That made her go over dead bodies. Well, it never came to that. But aside from that incident Anna and her mother Pearl are… I lack the words to describe them." "Peaceful maybe?" Elena suggested. "Yeah. Sounds strange, though." Elena chuckled. "And what about Vicky?" Jeremy asked now, his voice barely above a whisper. Elena's eyes widened in horror. "Vicky?" She turned to Damon. "I thought you'd made him forget." "If he sees something familiar it triggers the memories to come back," Damon explained. "It's okay," Jeremy said. "I remember everything again. She tried to bite me and Stefan staked her. Has she always been a vampire?" "No. She was turned," Elena told him, careful not to mention who had turned her. "And I'm sorry about you losing her. She made the wrong choice. She was driven by insatiable bloodlust. Stefan had no other choice." "I understand." Jeremy sighed. "So, who bit her?" "Oh, will you please not believe every crap about vampires?" Damon groaned. "You don't turn into a vampire after you're bitten by one. You have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. Then and only then you'll turn into a vampire. Well, and now?" Damon asked Elena. "What are you gonna do? Do you want me to erase his memories of everything?" "No!" Jeremy refused. "Jeremy, believe me, it's better this way. I'd rather forget everything, too." "No." Jeremy shook his head. "I don't want to forget." "Do you want to worry about this all the time? Be scared all the time?" "I told you I'm not scared. I can take this. I can deal with it, really. And I wanna prepared if anything ever happens," "Fair enough," Damon commented. "Okay but you mustn't tell anyone," she reminded him. 'I'm not stupid," Jeremy said. "I can keep a secret. Who else knows about this?" "Bonnie and Caroline," Elena answered. "And Alaric Saltzman." "Saltzman?" Jeremy repeated surprised. "Yeah, he's having a pretty good hunch," Damon said. "Just like the Council and the sheriff. But they don't suspect me because as you might have noticed I don't burn in the sun." "Yeah. How do you pull that off, anyway?" "I have a ring that protects me," Damon explained, sounding bored. This never-ending interrogation was irritating him. "You know, Saltzman has such a ring, too," Jeremy told them. "Yeah, but Saltzman isn't a vampire, Jeremy," Elena said. "He's human. But he has some grudge against vampires." "Why?" "I don't know." "So is that it, now?" Damon asked. "If so, I'm gonna leave now." "Where are you going?" Elena asked back. "I'm hungry," he said plainly. "I'm going into the woods, rip a Bambi." "Yeah, thanks for the image," Elena said disgusted. "You can go." "See you then. Bye," Damon said and left. Elena turned to Jeremy. "You okay?" "Yeah, it's just pretty much, you know? I can hardly believe it." "Well, you have to. It's real and we can't run away from it. We can just accept it as a part of our lives and make the best out of it." "And you're not afraid of him?" Jeremy asked. "No." "Why not?" "Because I trust him that he won't hurt me." Jenna was just leaving from work. This day hadn't been very productive. Again and again her thoughts had drifted away to Alaric. She was waiting for his call. As agreed they'd left some DNA if Alaric and Elena at an institute to be compared for similarities. And now they were waiting for the results. Jenna walked to her car and got in. she was just about to start the engine when her cell phone went off. The display told her Alaric was calling. She took a deep breath and answered. "Hello?" "Hi, Jenna. I've got the results. Can we meet somewhere?" "Yes, of course." They agreed to meet in front of the café they'd gone to the last time they'd met. They sat down at table but didn't order anything yet. Thinking they might not be thirsty after they knew the results. "I didn't want to open it without you," Alaric explained. "Somehow I didn't dare." "It's okay. I'm here for you now. Whatever it may be, okay?" Jenna said encouragingly. Slowly and carefully Alaric opened the envelope and unfolded the sheet of paper inside it. His face was absolutely blank when he looked at it. Without a word he passed the results to Jenna. Her eyes widened. "Negative!" "Negative," Alaric confirmed. "But that means–!" Either it meant that Isabol had been pregnant before she had met Alaric or she'd cheated on him. "How old is Elena?" Alaric asked quietly. "She'll turn 18 soon," Jenna told him. "Isabol died last year and we've been together for 16 years." Now the case was clear. _________________________________________________________________________________ Und? Wars zu viel? Ich hoffe nicht^^° Endlich gehts mal ein wenig voran hier XD Jeremy weiß jetzt Bescheid, was für Elena bestimmt zum Teil eine Erleichterung ist, auch wenn Damon sicher nicht unrecht hat. Immerhin ist Jeremy ein waschechter Gilbert. Das Vampire jagen liegt ihm sozusagen im Blut. Und natürlich das Geheimnis um Isabol. Das wird später auch noch lustig werden ;) Das Einzige, was ich rausgelassen hab ist die Konfrontation zwischen Damon und Saltzman, aber wo stehen wir grade? Kapitel 12? Da ist also noch genug Raum für diese besondere Szene ;) Bis dahin, eure Asu P.S Hab das Coverbild geändert. Konnte nicht anders als ich das Promo Pic für 1x18 gesehen hab *___________* Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)