I Know You [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 13

As I went back to the Salvatore Boarding house, still smiling about the best dinner I'd ever had, I felt something crunching beneath my feet. Raising my eyebrows, I looked down, wondering what it could be. I couldn't really see anything clearly in the dark though so I crouched down to observe what I'd stepped on. It was glass. I had stepped on glass, and that wasn't it. There was glass everywhere and it practically surrounded me.

I felt my heart beating faster because there was only one place that it could've come from. So I looked up to see a broken window and shook my head. "No, no, no. This can't have happened already," I was in denial, "This was my favourite part of the whole first episode. I can't believe that I missed it!"

I ran straight into the house, about to climb up the stairs but apparently I didn't have to because Stefan was sitting right there, on the stairs.

"Hey, what happened with you guys?" I asked, just as Stefan covered his face with his hands. Sitting down next to him, I patiently waited for him to talk.

"I'm sorry," Stefan apologised immediately and I looked over at him. Were those really the first words that he'd chosen to utter? But then I realised why he'd said them.

"Damon. What did he do? What happened?" I asked, not liking the fact that I had no idea what had taken place in my absence.

"It wasn't him," Stefan spoke quietly. "This is my fault. I pushed him to the limit and I knew what I doing, but I just couldn't help it. I was so angry about what he did to Vicki."

"I am too," I agreed. I still couldn't get Jeremy's pain-filled face out of my head. "He probably deserved whatever you said to him."

"No, he didn't," Stefan said and I noticed that Stefan didn't seem angry with Damon anymore. "It turns out that he wasn't the one who turned Vicki."

"Wait, what?" I looked over at him, shocked. "Did he actually tell you that?"

Stefan nodded his head, "I just know that he was telling the truth because he never lies about who he's killed or turned into a vampire."

"Yeah, why let anybody else take credit for his work?" I muttered, nodding in agreement. "But if Damon didn't turn her into a vampire, then who did?"

"That's what I've been trying to figure out ever since Damon stormed out of here," Stefan also seemed to be thinking about the same thing. I knew though that we couldn't just sit around and keep thinking.

While we had been sitting on the stairs, talking to each other, Damon had probably been in search of a prey. So we had to stop him before he killed someone.

He was exactly where I had known he would be, sleeping in the middle of the road near Wickery Bridge. Stefan and I stopped walking as soon as we spotted him and I took the fact that Damon was still lying there as a good sign. It most probably meant that he still hadn't killed anybody off.

"Alright," I said turning to Stefan, "You go ahead and try talking to him."

He gave a dry laugh as he said, "You should already know that that never works. In fact, I just manage to make him even angrier than he already is."

"That's because you never really try. You don't understand the huge impact that you have on his life, Stefan," I told him. "Damon would die for you in a heartbeat."

"No he wouldn't," Stefan managed to scoff, "He'd kill me in a heartbeat maybe."

"Well if he wanted to kill you then why would you still be alive? Don't give me the whole 'he wants to torture me for the rest of my immortal life' excuse when even you don't believe it." I said.

"I'd like to think that he might have a little bit of humanity in him, but I wouldn't go as far as admitting that he has any positive feelings left for me," Stefan said looking over at Damon's sleeping figure.

"Just go ahead and give it a try," I nudged him and added, "He might just surprise you."

Although Stefan agreed, I could still see the hesitation in his eyes and could tell that he thought that this was a very bad idea. As he slowly walked away from me, I whispered, "Don't forget to say sorry," and saw a slight nod of his head.

A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update, guys. Thank you so much for all of the support!