𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭

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❝Oh baby, I'm cool by the way
Ain't sure I loved you anyway❞

Shout Out To My Ex
~ Little Mix
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Kat's POV

Of all the rotten people on Earth, the new vamp had to be the very news reporter my aunt dated in high school. The very person who baysat Jeremy. 

I turn, ready to rush towards him to try kill him. 

He tuts "Kat Gilbert. Never saw that coming. Are you one of them?" 

I sneer "You knew me from childhood. I'm not a vampire. But I will not hesitate to pull that damned heart out of your body" He raises his eyebrows and mock-pouts before he waves his gun towards Damon.

I help Damon sit up and dig into his torso to remove the bullets. He groans "You don't wanna do this, trust m-".

Scum shoots him in the leg this time, narrowly missing me. Damon doubles over and I get up, "Why are you doing this!" Logan ignores me and points the gun to the other vampire "You made me like this..."

I look to Damon. I last saw Logan the night Damon tortured me. Vicki fed on Logan and ran. I don't think Stefan killed him.

"You killed Logan?" I ask Damon, he nods "He knew about us. He was a liability" The new vampire did not like to be ignored so he crouches in front of the ever 24-year old "See I know what you and your brother are. I've been watching the two of you. I knew you'd show up here and I'm glad you did, because I have some questions..."

Damon surprisingly shoots "Me first, who turned you?" Wait, Damon didn't turn Logan? Then who did?

"How should I know? Last thing I remember is, I'm about to stake your brother and then I was out of it. That's it! Until I wake up in the ground behind a used car dealership on highway 4. Somebody buried me!" 

Oh. Okay. Woah. I yank the new vampire up and away from Damon and he removes the last bullet from his body "It happens..."

Apparently, Logan was having none of the reassurance "You bit me!" Damon looks to me "Explain while I'm busy healing... please" I roll my eyes.

Somehow, I don't feel scared of Logan despite him being a vampire. Don't know if that's the powers in me speaking or the human in me.

I point out "You have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. Apparently, Damon here, didn't do that. Some other vampire found you, gave you their blood..." Logan holds me by my neck "So you don't know who did this to me. I can't even enter my house!"

I pull off his fingers roughly from my neck "You have to be invited in. But you live alone. Sucks" I chuckle and so does Damon. Gosh I'm demented.

"All I can think about is blood and killing people. I can't stop killing people. I keep killing" he scoffs and laughs "and I like it. I'm conflicted..." He looks to me with a predatory gaze and I raise a brow at him.

Been there, done that.

Didn't work out well for the guy in your place.

"Wait a minute, the cops only found one body..." Damon states and my eyes widen as Logan exclaims "They're just piling up!"

He points behind me and there is a very big heap of bodies. Women, men and children alike. Logan's been a very busy man. I growl and hold the new vampire by the neck, lifting him a few feet from the ground.

My strength takes him by surprise but a second later he starts fighting, but I don't let him down as I grit out "Those people did nothing to yo-" a gunshot sounds and I lose my grip and fall down, blood spreading through my stomach.

I shout in pain and a second later, I feel fingers digging through the wound "Ow!" I howl and a click sounds. I feel a burning sensation and Damon and I see the skin heal underneath the shirt. He taps it "There. As good as new" I glare at the new vampire who shot me "I'm gonna kill you-" but he looks behind him and smirks "Well, it's dark, so you can't. Because I may not be able to walk in the sun, but I can run when it's dark" and then he vamps out.

I get up and groan and Damon helps me stay stable on my feet "The Career Night Fair" I state to Damon.

Logan is right. He can come out during night and right now, half the town is in the school halls, all human and healthy.

Logan has to go there to make an appearance because people are starting to doubt whether he's alive or not. And it's not like the Sheriff can shoot down the star of the town. Damon agrees and looks down at the wound, "Will you be okay?"

"Yea. The wound's all fine and I need to get going to the school. Logan has to go there. He will..." Damon starts protesting but I cut it off with a glare "You. Go home and change. Too much blood..." I point to the bloody patches on his shirt. 

Snatching off his leather jacket that he discarded after being shot, I check for more blood. Finding none, I slip it on and zip it up to conceal the red patch and hole in my shirt. I rush out of there before he can say anything else.

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I barge into the bustling school halls and search for anyone I might wanna alert. Stefan. Elena. I enter the career display room where all residents of Mystic Falls, despite their age, walk along the counters. I spot them and rush towards Stefan and Elena.

"-if you're gonna leave, then just go-"

"Not yet..." I hug Elena "O you're alright. Good..." I look to Stefan and am about to tell him when my aunt comes rushing in on tiptoes, her panicked gaze finding mine.

She slips between me and my sister, looks straight ahead and grits out "Hide me" My back stiffens "Logan's here isn't he?" Elena is clueless and Stefan furrows his brows. Jenna confirms my earlier suspicion "The Scum Fell has landed-"

Stefan looks to us all "I'm sorry? Logan Fell?" 

Jenna and Elena nod but I send a look to him confirming what we knew now. Stefan and I saw Logan injured that night and after that, Damon killed him. But somebody turned the news reporter and we're still stuck with one mystery. Albeit not the same one we had in the morning.

And it is then that the very devil shows himself. 

Smiling and charming.

Taunting. 

He comes forward with agility "Jenna, are you dodging me?", he smirks. He looks to my unknowing aunt. Her expression doesn't change as she tilts her jaw in annoyance "It's a form of self-preservation..."

She couldn't be more right.

Stefan has on his serious I'm-ticked-off look and he glances to us three girls "Um, why don't you all go, uh somewhere else?" Elena doesn't understand but she catches my look.

After a moment, she nods and we yank our aunt quickly into the cafeteria. Elena interrogates Jenna and it is then that I get to know that Logan begged to be invited in yesterday night when we were at Bonnie's. I hold my aunt by the shoulders in a lose grip, trying not to show how scared and angry I am at the fact that a new vampire was within inches of my relative 

"Okay, Jennie listen to me very carefully. Do not, under any circumstances, talk to him again. Like, ever. I'm damn serious. Okay?" She hesitates but nods. Elena and I give out a breath.

"Hey Elena. Jenna. Violet." I hear a male voice behind me and turn to see Alaric Saltzman. 

I'm assuming they got close. "Hello Mr. Saltzman" 

Jenna blushes. "Hey."

"Yeah, I was hoping to see you tonight..." He says to my aunt. O he's whipped. Though I might not be right to encourage this pairing, Ric doesn't give me homicidal-vampire vibes. At least I hope not.

"Um, excuse us..." I smile at both the adults and drag Elena away, in search of Stefan.

We find him outside near the stoner pit, he's on the phone with Damon and I can hear what he's saying and I can also hear Stefan's heart beat. It's low and irregular, because he's a vampire.

"-gonna destroy him limb by limb-" 

I scoff "Not if I do it first Damon" Stefan looks to me with raised brows and goes back to the call and informs the old vampire that I was, indeed right before, Damon stays quiet for a moment and then snarls "I'm coming there".

Stefan cuts the call and looks to me and my sister. Elena is confused and scared "So. Anything you'd like to share?"

I sheepishly pout "I... Ehm... Helped Damon find the new vampire who happens to be Logan. We don't know who turned him but Damon killed him"

"You helped Damon?" Stefan and Elena ask at the same time, I shrug. This is gonna be difficult to explain.

Later, we walk out of the school to see Matt and a few others standing by the parking lot, "Hey Matt, have you seen Logan Fell, the news guy?"

His face turns into a grimace as he answers "Sure. He just gave Caroline a ride home...."

Stefan and Elena look to each other and then to me, I sigh and wave Matt bye as we all run to wonder what happened to Caroline, what the new vampire has done to her.

"Stay here" I whisper to my sister, leaving her with Bonnie, who's approaching her for company. Stefan and I rush as fast as we can in front of humans. A few minutes later, we are at one of the isolated intersections of the town. That's when I see Damon, and Logan.

"Payback's a bitch isn't it?" the older Salvatore looks towards his brother

"Get her out of here" Both of us oblige. I wanna rip the Fell's head off, but that doesn't mean that I'll leave my friend injured. I pull her out and look to Stefan "Vamp out fast, please".

A moment later, there's nothing but air in his place. I turn back and go to the boot, looking for something to aid in my fantasy of decapitating the Scum Fell. Grabbing a new tire iron, I smirk as I place myself in front the duo, blocking Loagn's escape.

I swing the tire iron very near to his face as Damon asks "Who turned you?" He shakes his head, indicating he still doesn't know. Damon snatches the potential weapon from me and adjusts it into a suitable position "This tire iron here could take your head clean off. Is that your final answer?"

He's about to swing it but a desperate Logan shouts "Wait, wait! I do know-" I smirk and kneel down "You're lying " 

The fallen man ignores my statement and averts his panicked gaze to the vampire in control.

"You think you're the only one who wants to get in that tomb underneath the old church?" Well. I'd be darned. He got the weakest point of Damon.

The desperate part.

"I am not lying. There is another way to break the spell. We can help you. Meet me at the old churc-" his words are cut off by the distant sirens and we all look at each other. Damon has a very big decision to make and so do I.

He needs to choose between letting Logan help him get Katherine out of the tomb, and eliminating Logan as a threat.

I have to choose between letting an old vampire unleash the wrath of rotting vampires on Mystic Falls but get his love back, or save my town but force Damon to go on an upset killing spree.

Before I can decide, Damon throws the tire iron to Logan "Take me down. Make it look real. Make it look real!" and just as Logan hits the 24-year old, he falls on me, taking me down with him, I hit my head on the road and blood seeps out. After a moment, I'm pulled by a stoic Damon, breathing deeply as if he was a human who just fought a vampire. Sheriff Forbes runs up to us,frantic for her daughter "Where is she?".

Gritting my teeth and praying that the wound doesn't heal in front of the police, I hear Damon say "She's ok. My brother's taken her home. I'm sorry, Sheriff. I just wasn't strong enough..." 

Ladies and gentlemen.... I call bull.

She looks to me with wide eyes and back to Damon, inquiring the unspoken.

She waits for her team while Damon and I walk slowly, out of range. "You're really doing this aren't you?" I ask the obvious.

He nods without doubt so I punch him hard in the face "If anyone gets hurt when you let your vampire lover out, I swear I will hunt her down and kill you both", I walk away towards the school.

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I don't find our car anywhere so it seems Elena drove it. Sighing, I find myself walking towards the Boarding House. Stefan has some majoring answering to do. He can't leave just like that. Though he was thinking that he was protecting us, Elena and me, it doesn't give him any brownie points to leave without telling me.

In a while, I'm in front of the house and the front lights are dimmed. My car stands in the ornated driveway of the Salvatore residence and the door is left open. Furrowing my brows, I close the door silently, eyes furtively roaming around to determine any threat. The only sound is the cicadas chirping and the sounds of the forest at night. I go in, "Stefan? Elena?" I get no reply so I rush upwards, half-expecting them to be hurt.

I enter Stefan's room to see ruffled bed sheets and strewn clothes all over the dark wood. I hold back a gag and turn to the messy table to my right.

Sighing, I snatch off a paper and start leaving him a note

Dear Stefan Salvatore,

I understand why you wanted to leave. But I don't understood how you could bring yourself to do it. Since you seem pretty busy right now, downstairs somewhere, I'm spewing all that I wanted to say to you earlier.

If you think you can walk away from your only best friend in the world, then it's gonna be hoot to try see you take a step out of town. 

I'm still angry. But I can't promise that I can't be pacified. 

Your best friend,

Vivi

But something catches my attention, just beside the watch I gave my best friend, an old spine-cracked journal lies on the table.

And peeking out of that is an old piece of hard paper, an edge revealing the digits 64 in old cursive.

It's as if I was purposely drawn to the taunting secret, that I pull out the paper... Only to see that it is fact a picture. Before even giving the portrait a half-eye, I read the words below the black and white - Katherine 1864 . 

Seeing that, I was even more intrigued, my eyes quickly move to the portrait and dread seeps up my spine.