So guys, im so so SO sorry! i swear i tried to update but i could :( i don't have enough time to write lately. i need to study for tests, and then bunch of homework, and ughh, im really sorry! i'll try to update faster! and for the other story (the lurks of the wizard) i almost finish the chapter! lol, it takes a loooooong time for me to write and i apologize :/ but please R&R :)

Chapter 2 – Wake-y, Wake-y Sleepy-Head!

Jeremy walked up to another hospital room; he leaned against the doorframe, staring at a girl who was lying on the bed, with her eyes closed. Jeremy's face was filled with pain of seeing her like that.

A nurse came from behind him and walked into the room. "You can't be here hun," She said. "Visiting hours don't starts 'till 9." She walked up to check on the girl.

"I just… how is she?" Jeremy asked.

The nursed sigh "She's lost a lot of blood."

"Yeah but, she's gonna be okay, right?" he was concerned, and the nurse could tell. It was his Vicky, his love; he couldn't do anything else but worry.

The nurse turned and walked up to him. "She needs to rest, come back later okay?" She slightly moved Jeremy outside.

Elena and Matt walked on the school's patio, she had her books on her hand and Matt had his backpack on his shoulder. "They're keeping her over night to make sure there's no infection but I'm sure she's gonna be able to come back home tomorrow." Matt told Elena.

"That's good news." She smiled.

"Yeah," Matt bit his lower lip.

"Did you get in touch with your mom?" Elena asked, trying to make conversation.

"Called and left a message… she's in Virginia Beach for the boyfriend so, I'll see how long it takes for her to come rushing home." Elena pursed her lips; there was an awkward silent for a while.

"Well I'm glad she's okay." She finally said.

"I know, but now there's the talk of some missing campers…"

"Did she say what kind of animal was that attacked her?" Elena asked.

"She said it was a vampire." Matt chuckled, and Elena turned to face him with a frown.

"What?" She slightly laughed at how absurd that sounded.

"Yeah, she wakes up last night and mutters 'vampire' then she passes out." Matt explained.

"Okay that's… weird."

"I think she was drunk." Matt turned his head to see a build-up guy sitting alone on a table. "So what's up with you and the new guy?"

Elena turned to see him and then turned back to Matt, "Matt the last thing I want to do is hurt you." She looked into his eyes.

Matt slightly shook his head, "You know, I'm actually going back to the hospital, I wanna be there when Vicky wakes up, get the real story about last night."

"Okay," Elena said softly, lowering her gaze. Matt looked at her one more time and then he turned on his heels and walked away. Elena turned to see the guy that was sitting but he had already left.

A guy started to walk through the hospital's hallway, he was looking for someone. He spotted another guy with blonde messy hair coming from a room that was a few meters away and hid behind a wall. The blonde haired guy came out of a room and started walking through the hallway, looking for the room where his sister, Vicky, was. He turned his head and not watching where he was walking he stumbled with another person who was coming out of a room.

"Ow," Justin said caressing his shoulder.

"Oh, I'm sorry, man." Matt said.

"No, no, it's okay, I wasn't watching." He said looking at the poodle of black coffee he had dropped on the floor; he then looked up at Matt. "Hey, I've seen you before." He said carefully.

"Really?" Matt asked puzzled.

"Yeah, weren't you the guy who was here yesterday… you were talking to a doctor, me and my brother brought my sister here last night." Justin said as a quick flashback came into view.

"Ah, yeah. How is she? She seemed pretty bad." Matt tried to make conversation.

"Better I guess." He shrugged.

"Hope she gets better. I'm really sorry about the coffee. I gotta run, need to check on my sister." Matt said walking away, Justin nod and went into the room where Alex was.

Matt walked silently into Vicky's hospital room, he stepped in expecting to see his sister sleeping peacefully on the bed, but no one was there. Where the hell is she? He thought as he turned to leave, but he had to stop because someone stood in front of him. "Vicky?" He asked his sister. She didn't respond. Matt took hold of her shoulders gently, but as soon as he touched her she let out screamed of agony.

"NO!" she yelled. "NO!" Screams filled the room, she yelled, again and again.

Justin stood up from where he was sitting when he heard the screams, he rushed out of the room and started walking towards where he thought the screams came from, wand in hand.

"Vicky, it's me! Matt!" He heard someone inside the next room say. Justin sprinted inside just to find Matt holding tight a girl, Vicky, who was screaming at the top of her lungs. Matt spotted Justin and he let go of Vicky, he looked shocked.

"NO!" Vicky yelled once again and she backed away from Matt. Her wavy hair covering her face, every inch of her body alerted, but even like this Justin could sense fear.

Matt shared glances with Justin, "Nurse!" he finally said, and sprinted out of the room to get to a nurse, Justin followed behind, but he dropped his wand and when he knelt to pick it up, he felt someone behind him, he turned to see no one, and frowned. He turned his face to look at Matt who was talking desperately to a nurse, but Justin instead of going to Matt he slowly walked to where Vicky was. The door was open and Vicky was no longer screaming. Justin peaked his head in enough to see a guy, not older than he was, talking to Vicky. He was telling her something that made her calm down. Justin turned away just in time and made his way back to Matt, who was half way to Vicky's room, a nurse by his side. Justin ran along with them, but when they arrived to where Vicky was, instead of screaming, and instead of the boy talking to her, they saw her sleeping deeply on the bed. Matt looked confused.

Justin frowned. What the hell? He thought.

"She seems fine." The nurse said out of breath from all the running. Justin looked behind him, at the hallway; he saw a guy walking trying to get out of the hospital. Matt looked at Justin and saw the strange expression on his face and looked the same way, just fast enough to catch a glimpse of a guy making his way out. He started walking towards him, and Justin followed. Matt looked back at him with a warning expression indicating him to stop. Justin stopped on his tracks and after a moment of hesitation he walked back into Alex's room.

Matt walked hysterically, trying to keep up with the guy's pace. The guy looked behind a couple of times, making sure if Matt was still following him or if he was already gone. Matt saw the guy enter a room swiftly and he rushed to get inside too, when he was inside, he saw people donating blood, and heard the sound of a window opening next to where some curtains were hiding some beds. He walked up there and moved the curtain away, expecting to catch the guy, but no one was there, he got closer to the window, it was opened, and he looked outside, just spotting trees and the parking lot, but no sight of the guy.

Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were talking sitting outside a restaurant; Bonnie was telling them about what her grandma said about the comet, "she said that the last time the comet passed over Mystic Falls there were lots of deaths." But then Caroline, being Caroline interrupted her with her snotty comments.

"Hm, yeah, and then you poured grans another shot and she told you about the aliens." Bonnie rolled her eyes. "Then what happened?" Caroline asked Elena, waiting to hear all the details about Elena's night with Stephan, the new guy.

"Nothing…" Elena said under her breath.

"So you and Stephan talked all night… there was no sloppy first kiss, or touchy felling of any kind…?" Caroline stated what she remembered Elena saying, resting her face on her hand.

"Nope, we didn't go there." Elena said honestly.

"Not even a hand shake? Come one Elena, we are your friends! You've got to tell us about this stuff!" Caroline grew more desperate by second. She wanted to know. She needed to know.

"We just talked for hours." She just wanted Caroline to drop the subject and talk about something else; she always got into someone else's love life.

"What's up with the blockage? Just… jump his bones already." Bonnie turned to look at Caroline frowning. "Okay, it's easy: Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex." She motioned moving her hands to the side and then back together.

Elena rolled her eyes at Caroline. She wasn't going to have sex with Stephan, at least not yet. Elena looked blankly at the table, thinking. Then she looked at Caroline and straightened in her seat, she started to gather her purse. "Where are you going?" Bonnie asked.

"Caroline is right. It is easy." Caroline looked at Bonnie proud of herself. "I need to keep up what I told myself I was going to do instead of trying to talk myself out of it." She raised an eyebrow and smiled, then turned on her heels and started to walk away, leaving her two friends behind.

Matt was sleeping, sitting on a chair next to the hospital bed where his sister was. Vicky was sitting on the bed, staring at the food that was in front of her, she just stared at it blankly, not hungry; she then took the apple and toss it gently across the room, hitting his brother on the chest, Matt jolted from his seat, opening his eyes, he looked at the apple confused, then his eyes fixed on his sister. "Hey, you're awake" he said.

"Good morning to you too," She giggled, "what were you doing here, did you spend all night here?

"I-no, I was worried after all that screaming earlier…"

Vicky frowned, "what screaming?"

"You don't remember? You were screaming your eyes out earlier." He straightened in his seat.

Vicky looked back to her food, thinking. "No… I mean, I feel fine."

There was a moment of silence between them for a while, but Matt decided to break it, "Vicky…" he waited for her to face him. "What attacked you in the woods?" he asked.

Vicky turned again, her eyes fixed on the food. She couldn't tell what attacked her, everything seemed blurry. A part of her believed that a supernatural thing attacked her that night, but she knew that was impossible. Then it came to her an animal. It was the most logical explanation. She turned to face Matt, "an animal." She said, but still part of her wasn't sure. "What else could have attacked me?" She asked not really expecting an answer. Matt just nodded his head and turned his head to the door at the sound of footsteps. Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's little brother stood by the door looking at Vicky.

"Hey, how you feel?" Jeremy asked; his arms folded up to his chest, his voice full of concern.

"I'm fine." Vicky managed to say not believing that Jeremy was actually there. Matt smiled at him and turned to look at Vicky with a smirk.

"I'm gonna go grab a coffee." He stood up and walked out the room, leaving his sister and Jeremy alone. Just as he was walking down the corridor, passing the few rooms that were next to Vicky's, he heard someone cough. He stopped on his tracks and listened, coughs filled the room he had in front, again and again. It sounded like the person was chocking. Matt's eyes widened and he entered the room, in front of him, laying on the bed was a beautiful brunet girl, her eyes closed because of the coughing, he got closer to her and she turned to see him, her chocolate-brown-almond orbs alarmed.

"Water," she managed to say in between coughs. Matt swiftly filled a glass with water and slowly lifted the girl's head and made her drink. She took the glass with her right hand, her fingers touching his gently. Her eyes remained closed as she gulped the water eagerly. When she was done she pushed the glass away softly, and started panting, she looked up, staring deeply into his blue eyes, and he felt a shiver down his spine.

"Are you alright there?" He broke the silence.

The girl gulped, "I guess. Thank you," She managed to say, and a faint smile appeared on her lips. Matt smiled back. "Ouch," The girl said silently placing her right hand on top of her left side of her ribs; she closed her eyes as another wince of pain escaped her lips.

"Hey, hey," Matt gently helped her lie her head down again, trying to make the pain disappear.

"Where's my brother?" She asked in between winces, her eyes remain shut.

"Who-who's your brother?" Matt asked her, and then it hit him. "Justin?"

"Yeah," She said opening her eyes and trying to hide the little bit of pain left. "You know him?"

"Well I-he helped me with my sister but-" He got cut off by someone talking

"Alex?" Justin said entering the room with another boy smaller than him.

"Justin," A big smiled formed on Alex's face.

"You're awake!" He placed the coffee he was holding on the nearest table and rushed to her side, hugging her tightly.

"Ouch, Justin, my ribs…" She said. And Justin unwillingly pulled away. "Where's Max?"

"Here," She heard a boy say with a smile plastered on his face.

"Oh, Maxie!" She cried, and Max went to her side and hugged her.

"Thanks Matt," Justin said to Matt and tapped him on the shoulder.

"No problem," He said staring at Alex, lost in her. He then blink his thoughts away and starting to make his way out.

Alex looked up to Matt with a big smile plastered on her face. "Thanks again, Matt" She said as he stepped out of the room, he looked back and nod. Alex's eyes were still fixed on his silhouette as we walked away.

"Alex, it's such a relief that you finally awoke!" Justin said.

"I know him…" Alex thought out loud

"What?" Max said confused.

"I mean, I don't know him physically until now, but his voice… you talked to him didn't you? When I was unconscious?" She turned to face her brothers.

"Well, yeah but… how..?" Justin trailed away.

"And the other guy, what was his name? Je-Jer..?"

"Jeremy," Max said.

"Yeah, I remember him too." She smiled.

"How?" Justin insisted.

"When I was unconscious, well I wasn't really unconscious, I was awake, I could hear and feel but I couldn't see, move or speak. It was kinda like a body-blind spell."

Justin smiled, "C'mon Alex, don't go all Harry Potter on us." Alex smiled and a soft giggled escaped her lips.

"Well, I just hope Voldemort isn't the one chasing after us, that dude has power… and serious anger issues," Max joked, and everyone laughed. A few moments later Alex winced in pain again.

"Hey, you okay?" Justin said taking hold of her shoulder.

"Yeah just… my ribs," She said taking hold of the left side of her abdomen.

"Should I call a nurse?" Max said alarmed almost out of the room.

"Please." She said quietly but loud enough so Max could hear.

Max rushed out of the room in search for a nurse, when he found one they both rushed into Alex's hospital room. "You woke up," the nurse said checking on the small screen next to her bed which showed her heartbeat. "Boys can you leave the room for a while? I need to check on her ribs." Max and Justin nodded and leave the room. The nurse gently lifted Alex's hospital robes to see the bandages that were covering Alex's abdomen; she slowly put the bandages away revealing weak bruises on the left side of her abdomen. "Wow, you're healing way faster than we thought." Alex smiled. "Did your head hurt after you woke up?" The nurse asked while putting a soft yellowish creamy liquid on the bruises, the liquid felt warm at the touch with Alex's skin, when she finished she wrapped the bandages around her abdomen again.

"Um no. My ribs only hurt a few times though." She responded.

"Good, your concussion is completely healed." She wrote on a notepad. "I think if your ribs keep healing this fast, you'll be out by tomorrow." She smiled and Alex smiled back.

"Thank you." Alex said politely. The nurse nod and exited the room.

Justin was pacing back and forth in the hallway, and Max was sitting on a chair moving his leg up and down making his foot tap on the floor; when the nurse came out, both of them stopped what they were doing and stared at the nurse, she gave then a nod of approval and walked away, both boys rushed into the room. "What happened?" Justin asked.

"Are you going to be okay?" Max said right after.

A small giggle escaped Alex's lips; she was amused by her brothers' concern, but happy that they were worried about her. "I'm fine. In fact I think I will be out tomorrow." She sighed.

"That's great!" A sparkle flashed in Justin's eyes. Both of them went and hugged Alex. They laughed and talked for hours. They talked about how their lives were going to change, the new friendships, and how were they going to survive without their parents.

so i hope you liked it! haha, oh and btw chapter 3 was suppose to be part of chapter 2 but it got to long(8 pages), so im gonna make the rest chapter 3 :) i get lost every time i write and i always write more than i have to lol. well have a good day :)