Love, Cry, Repeat

7

Tyler and Bella made their way back to the party at the lake.

"You must be Isabella Swan," an unfamiliar man said holding out his hand to shake hers.

"Just Bella," she replied with a smile.

"Stefan Salvatore," he replied winking at her.

"Nice to meet you," she replied politely.

"Ty here didn't mention he was seeing anyone. You're very beautiful Isabella," Stefan said.

"Oh... um... thank you," Bella was beginning to feel uncomfortable.

"There you are," Caroline said wrapping her arms around Stefan. "I see you've met Bella," she smiled before kissing Stefan deeply.

Bella looked away with a blush. Tyler gently squeezed her by the waist.

"C'mon there's more people you should meet," he whispered in her ear.

Bella followed Tyler as he made his way towards a young woman sitting with a tall dark and handsome man.

"Isabella, this Bonnie Bennett and Enzo," he said gesturing to the couple before him.

"Nice to meet you beautiful," Enzo smiled.

"Nice to meet you as well," Bella blushed.

"I was beginning to think Tyler here was making you up," Bonnie said with a warm smile reaching her arm out to shake her hand.

Once Bella and Bonnie's hands came into contact, they both gasped at the sudden surge of power that ran between them. Each recieving a vision of them holding hands in a ring of fire surrounded by cloaked figures with red eyes. They pulled their hands away quickly both standing still not looking away from the other.

"What was it beautiful?" Enzo said grabbing Bonnie by the shoulder.

"I'm not sure," she said looking very serious.

"Those people... I've seen them before," Bella whispered.

"Who," Tyler asked, worried.

"The people in the cloaks with red eyes," Bonnie said.

"What are you talking about Bonnie," Stefan said, appearing out of nowhere.

"Don't tell me that we have to deal with this," Damon complained walking up behind Stefan.

"Where have you seen them before," Bonnie asked Bella.

"There was a painting in Carlisle's office above the door. After I got hurt at my birthday party he stitched me up in his office and that's when I saw the picture," she replied.

"Did you ask about it," Elena asked.

"No. I was afraid to pry into personal matters," Bella said in a small voice.

"I don't think they are good people. Yet I don't think they are human at all," Bonnie said turning to look at Enzo.

"What do you mean," he asked.

"I could feel it, the way they were looking at us," she said, her mouth set in a grim expression.

"Us?" The surrounding group asked.

Bonnie looked from face to face before she answered.

"Bella and I were chanting in the center of a ring of fire," she whispered.

"Chanting?" Bella asked.

"Bonnie is a witch," Caroline said. Everyone turned to look at her sudden outburst. "What? She was going to find out eventually. You can't tell me she doesn't smell different to you guys?"

"You're right," Damon said leaning in slightly to smell Bella.

Tyler clenched his fist and pulled Bella closer to him. Damon smirked at that and Tyler growled in response. The noise caused Damon to get serious and hiss, showing his fangs. Bella didn't move, seeing his face change.

"You're face," Bella said, looking afraid.

"You should be afraid, but don't worry I won't bite," Damon smirked.

"Don't worry Isabella, he's more afraid of me than I am of him," Tyler whispered to her.

"Pfft," Damon glared at Tyler. "Just your bite and I'm not afraid of anything. It's not even a full moon so you better watch it."

"You better watch it," Tyler replied with a low feral growl.

"Okay you two," Stefan said, stepping between the two. "Isabella, there's nothing to worry about. Damon and I are what you would call vampires. Bonnie is a witch, one of the strongest of her kind. Elena is a doppelganger. Caroline is also a vampire from my maker, and you are something we can't explain just yet but we need to. That's the short version," Stefan explained.

"So the supernatural... it's real? All the ghost stories? How?" Bella asked.

"Not everything you've read is true of course. We've spread a few rumors to save our lives. But we'll get into that later. Right now, we need to get as much information as we can on these black cloaks as possible," Stefan said.

"I don't know anything about them, other than the photo in Carlisle's office," Bella replied.

"Road trip," Damon asked Elena.

"We can head to the Cullens house and explore and find out what we can on these people," Elena said.

"I don't know the address," Bella said.

"We'll find it if you just point us in the right direction," Damon replied.

"Forks, Washington," Bella whispered.

"We'll follow your scent and find out anything we can," Elena said before taking Damon's hand and disappearing together in the darkness.

"I'm going with them beautiful. Someone's got to keep their heads together," Enzo said hugging Bonnie. "It was nice to meet you Isabella," Enzo said before following in the direction of Damon and Elena.

"Now what," Bella asked.

"You aren't going anywhere. You are safe here with me," Tyler said rubbing Bella's shoulders.

Bella wrapped her arms around Tyler and rested her head on his chest. His scent was surrounding her and seeping into her senses, soothing her being. This feeling was something that she had only read about. She was falling in love with one Tyler Lockwood and she had only known him in person for a day. She could definitely tell this was much different than what she felt for Edward Cullen. "Much different", being an understatement.

"Right, so we need to devise a plan and quickly. Caroline, do you think you can get a hold of Klaus and tell him everything. I'm sure he'll be happy to fight a good fight and assist in anything you ask of him," an older man Bella hadn't met yet, said as he walked up to the group, a crossbow in hand.

"How many times do I have to say it, there's nothing going on with him. He's with that witch lady now and I seriously doubt he'd do anything for me," Caroline said looking smug.

"What my brother failed to mention was that he has an undying heart that beats for you dear Caroline," a new voice said.

She walked as if she owned every one of them and the way she spoke was definitely not an American accent. Her silky blonde hair shined in the fire light. She was very beautiful.

"Hello Isabella, I'm Rebekah Mikealson. You don't have to be afraid of me. Niklaus is my older brother. I'm sure he'll be fond of you," she smiled in a sinister manner but Bella could tell she meant every word.

"Who's Niklaus?" Bella asked.

"That would be me," a voice said in the dark.