Daisy

Chapter two

Surrounded by woods, I stumbled around, the whispers I had been hearing were getting increasingly louder, they repeated the same thing over and over.

"One born of the blood of a doppelgänger
Will be the one to quell his anger
Generations will be saved
Power found that once was craved"

I tripped, causing me to scramble with my back to a tree. My breathing was hard, my lungs scrambling to fill with air, I needed to get out of the forest.

The voices grew so loud I clamped my hands over my ears, falling to my knees, I let out an ear piercing shriek.

My eyes fluttered open, I took in a deep breath, Stefan and Damon were hovering over me, worried expressions on their faces.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Stefan asked while Damon laid down next to me.

My eyebrows furrowed, trying to remember what I had been having a nightmare about. "I don't remember" I moved to tuck some hair behind my ear, but I caught sight of something on my wrist.

The letters NM looked as though they were tattooed on my left wrist in bold black letters. "What the.." I trailed off, tracing the two letters with my fingers.

"What does NM stand for?" Damon asked, taking my wrist in his hands. As soon as my skin touched his, it was like I was being burned.

I drew my hand away from his grasp, the burning sensation easing somewhat. I held my wrist to my chest, what happened?

"Did you feel that?" I asked Damon who was looking concerned.

"Feel what?" He asked, I turned to Stefan.

"Give me your hand" I held my hand out, Stefan hesitantly gave it to me. Yet again it felt like my skin was on fire.

"You didn't feel anything?" I asked, pulling my hand away from his.

"No" Stefan and Damon looked confused.

"It feels like my skin is on fire anytime I touch either of you, but when I let go, it cools down" I explained.

"I've got to go make a call" Stefan left the room hastily.

...

I was confused on why Elena, Bonnie, Jeremy, Caroline, Tyler, Matt, and my history teacher were doing in my living room at midnight.

Apparently they had something to talk about. "So wait let me get this straight, anytime you touch her hand, she feels like she's burning?" A tired Tyler questioned.

"Yes, we thought this was more supernatural, so we thought we'd bring her into the fold" Damon replied.

"What I think Damon is trying to say, is there's something odd about this whole thing, a tattoo appeared out of nowhere, and now anyone touches her and she feels like she's on fire" Stefan stepped forward, his arms crossed on his chest.

"Daisy" Damon started, walking towards me. "What you're about to learn will shock you" he warned.

Why were they being so sketchy?

"Vampires, werewolves, witches, they're all real" Stefan started carefully.

furrowing my eyebrows I glanced around the room, thinking maybe this was just a joke, our conversation from the grill was just supposed to be hypothetical and now they're telling me it's all freaking real?

"Damon, Stefan, Caroline, and I are all vampires" Elena continued.

"I'm a witch" Bonnie volunteered.

"I'm a werewolf, well at least I was until I got turned into a hybrid, so now I'm a vampire werewolf combo" Tyler explained.

"Jeremy, Matt, and I are still human, but we're hunters, we go after the supernatural who would harm humans" Mr Saltzman said.

They waited for a reaction, but all I gave them was furrowed brows. "So if they're all real, how come no one has heard of you, why aren't you on the news?" I asked

"There are people who are willing to help keep us a secret, like the Sheriff and the Mayor, we help protect the town, and people like you don't know we exist other than in stories" Stefan replied.

"How are you so calm?" Matt looked at me curiously

"I don't know, but I believe you" I looked at Stefan "you warned me about that Klaus guy, you said he wasn't a good person. is he..." I trailed off.

"Yes, Klaus Mikaelson is a vampire" Caroline started before anyone else could "well he is a hybrid, but him and his family, the Mikaelsons. They're the first vampires to ever exist, they are a thousand years old"

"So how old are you guys?" I raised an eyebrow at my best friends.

"We are about 170 years old, I was seventeen when I was turned" Stefan looked at the floor.

"I was twenty-five when I was turned, baby bro didn't even make it to adulthood" Damon pouted at Stefan, he was a century old and yet he still acted like a child.

"I was turned when I was seventeen" Caroline scowled at Damon. "Was totally someone's fault"

"Hey! My blood healed you, it's not like I purposefully killed you, that was Kathrine" Damon retorted.

"Who's Kathrine" I asked

"She is what's called a doppelgänger, Elena is one too, they look exactly alike,  but Kathrine is evil" Mr Saltzman told.

"And the doppelgänger line ends with me because I didn't have any kids before I turned" Elena looked down, sad.

"Okay so the topic at hand" Damon stepped in "Bon Bon, you ever see anything like this?" He pointed to my wrist.

"I haven't but I could try tracing it back to its origins, but I'd have to touch your wrist to do it" she looked at me, I nodded, trusting Bonnie.

"No! We don't know what happens if we touch your skin for too long, what if you burst into flame?" Damon objected.

"Damon it's worth a shot" I nodded again at Bonnie as she approached me, she gently touched my wrist, looking at me after a second.

"Does it hurt?" She asked

"No, maybe it's a vampire thing?" I suggested

"Elena, come here, I want to test her theory" Bonnie beckoned her over, and she hesitantly put a hand on my shoulder.

"I'm not feeling anything, maybe it's just when a guy does it" I theorized, we had Matt come over too. He grabbed my hand, and I yanked back in surprise, a burning sensation starting, and slightly startling me "yep definitely only when guys do it" I massaged my wrist. "Bonnie can you trace it?"

She nodded, grabbing my wrist again, she muttered some words under her breath, before the entire room dropped ten degrees and Bonnie's eyes turned pure white.