Hi everyone! Thank you for considering to pursue my story. It (partially) follows the episodes and storyline of the vampire diaries and kicks off with episode 1 season 2. I'm open to suggestions and questions towards and about the story. (I do not own anything but my OC and my storyline bla bla bla)

-This first chapter is mostly an introduction of my OC, if you'd like to jump right into the action skip to chapter 2. I however highly recommend to read this chapter because it will help you understand the story better.

SPOILER ahead! If you decide to be lazy and skip this chapter know that:

-My OC, Katelyn (Katalyna Guarigione Lockwood) is the 'illegitimate' daughter of Richard Lockwood and half-sister of Tyler, she was best friends with Caroline, Bonnie and Elena and lived in mysitc falls up to the age of 12 (she is unaware of the supernatural but that won't last long and she sort of discovers that she has supernatural abilities herself)

Mystic falls. It had been a little less than 4 years ago that Katelyn had left this town. She had to spend that last summer with her father and his 'other family' because her mother had died in a car accident. She was 12 when her mother's parents got legal custody and took her back to Italy, where they originally came from. Now she was back in town for her father's wake. She had never exactly liked the guy but you can't be absent at your father's wake. When she turned onto the Lockwood drive way and saw the curious looks of the townsfolk, she smiled. Even though she was too young to own, let alone ride a motorcycle she had managed to persuade her grandfather, who spoiled her rotten, to buy her one. She parked the black motorcycle and took of her helmet. As she walked up the stairs to the door she shook her head a little to bounce her long, golden brown wavy hair back into shape.

"Tyler, Carol, it has been a long time. My deepest condolences for your loss." She said standing a bit awkwardly and Carol pulled her into an exaggerated hug.

"Katelyn it has been too long. Look at you, you have grown into a beautiful young woman. Please come inside, you are welcome to stay as long as you want to" Kat rolled her eyes. Carol was clearly putting up a show for all the visitors.

"Heey Kat, you look good." Her one year older half-brother smiled a bit looking at her. She was still no taller than 5'4 and very petite but he knew she was very strong for her height and weight.

"Hi Ty, I see you also did some workouts over the years" She smirked "Have you seen Elena, Caroline or Bonnie?" Katelyn couldn't wait to see her childhood best friends. She saw Elena's aunt Jenna and Jeremy enter, this could only mean that Elena had to be close. Before Tyler could answer her, she ran outside and found Elena talking to a very attractive guy with raven black hair.

"LENA…" she yelled and jumped around her best friends neck.

"OMG KATIE" Elena pulled her friend into a hug "I wasn't sure you were going to come, sorry about your dad." Katelyn smiled at the sound of the childish nickname.

The attractive guy raised his eyebrows and looked at her "I didn't know the mayor and Carol had a daughter and a very beautiful one."

"God no, Carol is not my mother. You see, I'm the biggest scandal of the Lockwood family. Your mayor wasn't exactly the most faithful man that walked the earth." Katelyn whispered and got a mischievous smirk on her face.

"Don't say that Kat, mayor Lockwood loved you." Elena interrupted her friend and Katelyn rolled her eyes. Before she got the chance to continue her conversation the man interrupted them again.

"I'm Damon Salvatore by the way."

"Salvatore so you're from Italian origin, me too" She winked at Damon "I'm Katalyna Guarigione… Lockwood but everyone back here calls me Katelyn or Kate or Kat, whichever name you like best."

Damon grabbed her hand and pressed a kiss to the back of it. Katelyn then jumped because of the jolt that she felt when they touched. She grabbed Damon's arm and couldn't let go afraid the intense feeling would make her tip over.

Elena grabbed Katelyn's elbow and shook it a little "Katie….. Katelyn! Hey are you okay?" Elena looked at her best friend who seemed to be absent and in some kind of trance.

The shaking helped because Katelyn snapped out of it and let go of Damon's arm. She looked up, her eyes wide and her expression startled and Elena and Damon both looked back at Katelyn and then at each other, spooked because of what they had seen.

"Kat what happened, your eyes… they started glowing they were like this bright blue like a sapphire glow."

"I don't know Elena, I…." Katelyn quickly grabbed the little mirror from her bag and sighed in relief when she looked into it and saw that her eyes were their normal baby blue.

Damon suddenly grabbed Katelyn's arm and rudely dragged her to the side of the house and out of sight of the crowd where he trapped her against the wall.

"Damon! Damon…" Elena jogged after them and then pulled Damon's arm. "Damon let go of her!"

Damon weakened the grip on the girl and Katelyn angrily pushed him away from her. "What the hell!"

Damon loomed over her and looked into her eyes. "What are you…"

Katelyn straightened her jacket and looked at Damon with an irritated glare. "What do you mean what am I? Are you out of your mind?" She looked passed Damon and at Elena. "Is he insane?"

Damon used his vampire speed and strength to grab Katelyn by her throat. "Don't play games with me little girl!"

Kate had no control of what happened but her eyes started to glow that same sapphire blue and she felt a surge of power build up within her.

"Damon!" Elena angrily looked at the Salvatore brother but was perplexed when Damon was launched of off Katelyn and flew a mile backwards.

Katelyn fell to the ground and Elena helped her up. Damon had also gotten up and was ready to attack again but Elena threw him a warning glare. Elena looked into her friend's eyes and saw fear and confusion. "What's happening to me?"

Elena shook her head…Damon had walked back to them and Katelyn looked up to him. Her fear was quickly replaced with courage. "I swear if you touch me again I will punch you…"

Before she could finish her threat Damon looked deep into her eyes and started to compel her. "You're not going to remember that I attacked you…we met, had a friendly conversation and then I left to go and grab another drink at the bar." Damon then turned and left the two girls on their own.

Kate got out of the compulsion and looked at Damon's back walking away from them. "Heey is that Damon guy alright?" Katelyn looked puzzled at Elena, trying to figure out what she had felt when she touched him.

Elena was quiet for a moment trying to wrap her head around what had just happened and grabbed Katelyn's arm walking back to the garden, where all the people were. "Why Kat? What did you feel?" Elena recognized the confused look on her friends face, she had seen it on Bonnie so many times when she had not yet figured out that she was a witch. Kat looked up at Elena and bit her lower lip as she was hesitating to tell her.

"He…. I… When I touched him it felt cold and dark and it scared me it felt like…."

"Like what you'd imagine death to feel like." Elena finished her sentence and she nodded. Their conversation was interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Kitty kat?! Is that you?" Katelyn's worried expression turned into a smile in mere seconds. Elena walked away to find Damon or Stefan and talk about her concerns for her best friend.

"Uncle Mason!" Kate jumped into his arms. Mason was her father's younger brother and had always been Katelyn's best friend. He had been more of a father to her than her own dad had ever been. They had built treehouses together, he had taught her how to surf, he had been there for every dance recital. But one day he just ran off and never returned, they had kept contact over skype but when she touched him she felt another jolt.

This time it felt different. It wasn't something to be afraid of, it felt safe, recognisable like family. "Katie are you okay? I mean your eyes…" Mason looked at her surprised but he didn't seem afraid either.

"Shit are they glowing blue again?" She didn't understand what was wrong with her today. Mason shook his head.

"No they are like amber gold" Mason knew those sort of eyes all too well. "Did something happen to you Katelyn?" Mason's voice had grown very serious.

"Why?" She could see in Mason's eyes that he knew more about the situation. "You know something don't you. Uncle Mason what is happening to me? I've never felt this. I need your help, tell me what's happening." Katelyn wasn't aware that two sets of ears were eavesdropping on their conversation, neither did she notice a pair of brown eyes watching her.

"Kat this is not the place nor the time, I will tell you and help you. I promise we'll discuss this later, I have to go find Carol." Mason walked back into the house.

Katelyn was walking around in the crowds and then spotted Elena walking near the pond in the backyard, she was together with a strawberry-blonde haired guy. From what Elena had told her over skype she knew that had to be Stefan. She couldn't help but run over to them. She had to talk to Elena about what had just happened with her uncle. On her way there Katelyn noticed that Elena had changed her clothes.

"Heey you are Stefan right? I've heard a lot about you, sorry to intrude, Mind if I borrow 'Lena' for a second?" She smiled kindly to Stefan.

"Hi you must be Katalyna, I have heard a lot about you too." He knew he couldn't tell Katelyn about the fact that this was not Elena but Elena's doppelgänger Katherine. "and sure, if you need to talk to her that is no problem." He smiled back but Kat thought she saw an alarming look flicker across his face.

"Call me Katelyn or Kat, and we'll only be seconds." Katelyn grabbed Elena's arm and felt another jolt go through her body, the same as she had felt with Damon. What the hell…She tried and failed to hide her eyes and saw the two look at her in dismay. She however let go of the girl's arm very fast.

"You know what never mind. I'll catch you later Elena, I'm not feeling so good now anyways." She turned around and walked off. Katelyn bit her lip, something was wrong with her, she looked over her shoulder at Elena and Stefan. Or was something wrong with Elena?

Katherine grimaced at Katelyn's back. "What an interesting girl, quite curious about the eye thing. too bad that she's a distraction, guess we'll never find out what she is."

Stefan frowned at the girl next to him: "Whatever you plan on doing Katherine, don't hurt her. She doesn't know about us, about any of this. Don't do something that isn't necessary"

Katherine got a devilish smirk on her face "You know I can't promise that Stefan."

The evening fell, all the guests had left and the house was silent. Katelyn tiptoed over to the front door. When she slowly tried opening the door, it creaked. Just as it was half way open she jumped when she heard Mason clear his throat behind her.

She turned around and Mason tried to keep a straight, stern face when he saw the sheepish smile that his niece gave him.

"Where do you think you are going young lady? It is way past curfew."

"tsss… since when are you so parental?" she rolled her eyes. "If you have to know I'm going over to Elena's. I need to talk to her"

Mason chuckled "Well I know that I won't be able to stop you from going. I'll cover for you but at least let me drive you there." Katlyn jumped around Mason's neck and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

"You're the best, uncle Mason! Don't worry about me getting there I'll be perfectly fine on my motorcycle." She grabbed her helmet and ran outside before Mason could change his mind or say anything else.

"Damnit, she has no idea what the dangers in this town are." Mason muttered to himself and waved when she drove off.

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It was a 15 minute drive from the Lockwood property to the Gilbert's house but Katelyn was determined to make it there in 8. There were no cars on the road so she accelerated. Her phone rang and she turned on the Bluetooth headset. She smiled when she saw the caller-ID and answered: "Buona Sera nonna"

"Well at least you didn't forget how to speak Italian, how are you child?" Katelyn smiled, she was only gone one day and her grandmother was already concerned.

Her grandmother had been strongly against her trip to mystic falls, jabbing something crazy about evil roaming around that town. Kat truly didn't want to worry her grandmother but she had to talk to someone about what happened. She bit her lip.

"Katalyna? Are you still there? something happened, tell me child?" Her grandma's warm voice spoke soothingly into her ear.

"Grandma, I… something is wrong with me, I feel things when I touch people. M..my eyes are changing colour or glowing. I feel this power inside me but I just don't understand it. What is wrong with me?" She didn't notice that out of frustration she accelerated even more and was now at full speed.

"I was afraid that this was going to happen, this is exactly why I didn't want you to go. There are things in this world that you don't know about, we wanted to protect you from them. You don't know everything about our family history, we are special. You are the last of our entire family bloodline. Our family, we have a gift but we are also cursed. Katalyna please be careful, you won't believe me if I tell you everything. I can't do this over the phone, I'll tell you everything when you are back home. Safe with us."

"Grandma no! I want to know now! I have to know what…." Katelyn was diving towards wickery bridge and her eye fell on someone standing in the middle of the bridge. In a split second she saw that it was a brunette girl that looked like Elena but it couldn't be her because Elena was waiting for her at the Gilbert place.

"Katie are you alright?!" The voice that came from the earpiece sounded alarmed and panicked.

"HEY! Get off the road!" Katelyn screamed towards the figure and tried to hit the brakes but they weren't working. She was still at full speed and was only seconds away from crashing into the person on the bridge.

Katalyna?! What is going on?!" Her grandmother was yelling into her ear but Katelyn was to focussed on the situation in front of her.

The girl turned around to face her and Katelyn saw that she looked exactly like Elena but deep down she knew that it wasn't her best friend standing there. Elena never dressed like that. Kat knew she was going to crash into her and called out one last time to the girl on the bridge to warn her.

"WATCH OUT!"

Thank you so much for reading! As I mentioned before, this chapter mainly served as an introduction to Katelyn. I'll try to publish a new chapter every week.

Love,

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