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"Lily! We're gonna be late!" the young girl, who was looking for her history book, heard her brother called her from downstairs.

"Coming!" she yelled back at him.

"What are you doing?" he asked his sister who was climbing down the stairs.

"It's our first day of senior year, Adam, I wanted to make sure I had everything I needed"

They drove together at the high school and, as usual, they were in the same class. Every year it was the same, the two twins from the Fell family were inseparable. Their lockers were next to each other, they usually had the same grades, they were both model students and, because they were Fells, everybody knew who they were. Their mother, Jessica Walker, was a journalist and she was married to Thomas Fell, who had his great-grand-father's name, their father, who was a doctor.

"Oh, my God, have you looked at her?"

"Yeah, what is she wearing? That's scarf? It's so ugly!"

Lily looked at her brother with an annoyed look and Adam chuckled.

"Blair, Tina, how are you doing?" Lily asked her cousins.

"Oh, we're good, except we're stuck in the same class with Gilbert and Forbes" Blair complained.

Adam chuckled "You just hate them because Caroline won miss Mystic Falls and you didn't"

Blair and Tina looked offended. "Whatever" they shrugged before they left them. "See you in history."

Lily sighed. "See you in history" she said to his brother before she left him to go to the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror, making sure her hair, her make up were fine. She sighed before she stepped out to join her brother in history class.

"Hey, we're going to the bonfire tonight" Adam told her after she'd just sat down in the chair next to him.

"Do we have to?" she complained.

"Yes, it'll be fun!"

"You're in my seat" the twins heard Stefan Salvatore make a student move from the table next to Elena Gilbert who shared a worried look with Caroline Forbes.

"Welcome back, seniors" Professor Saltzman started the class. "Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders, the native Americans."

"What about the Vikings?" a blonde asked, entering the room.

"There's no evidence that Vikings explorers actually settled in the United-States…" professor Saltzman said "Who are you?" he asked.

"My name's Rebekah, I'm new and history is my favorite subject" she answered.

Adam looked at the new girl with big eyes. She is beautiful, he thought. He spent the rest of the class, and the others, staring at her. His sister, of course, noticed it.

"Hey, you're drooling a little" she told him, laughing and he frowned, wiping off his dry mouth with the back of his hand.

After noon, the cheerleaders were training on the field, next to the football players. Lily wasn't much of a cheerleader but she enjoyed running while her brother was training with his teammates. Rebekah had joined the cheerleaders and it seemed like the Forbes girl wasn't happy about it. After the new blonde showed her talents, Adam was staring at her again which made the coach reprimand him. Lily was running when she saw Stefan Salvatore push a guy so hard he fell on the ground.

"Who are you?" she heard Elena asked her boyfriend. Or was it ex-boyfriend, now? Not like she cared. She went to the boy who had been pushed, worried.

"Hey, Tony, you okay?" she asked him and he nodded.

"Yeah…"

"What's wrong with this guy?" his friend asked and she shook her head, watching Stefan follow Elena.

After the incident, they both took a shower in the school gym before they drove back home where they took another shower.

"Mum, we're leaving!" Adam shouted at his mother as they were about to step out of the house.

"Where are you going?" she asked from the kitchen.

"The bonfire Mum!" Lily replied "I told you earlier!"

"You did?" she asked again and the twins sighed before they left without giving their mother an answer. She was probably too busy working anyway.

When they arrived at the bonfire, Adam looked around for someone.

"You're looking for Rebekah?" his sister asked him.

"No…Shut up!" he replies before he left her on her own and she chuckled.

She joined Tina and Blair who gave her a beer she didn't want. Half an hour after that, she decided she couldn't hear anymore of her cousins' gossip and she looked around for her brother. She saw him leaning his back against a tree, staring at Rebekah who was roasting…trying to roast marshmallows.

"Go talk to her" she told him, making him jump. She laughed "Sorry"

He shook his head "To say what?"

"I don't know…Hey, I'm Adam, it's nice to meet you…I think you're pretty…" she mocked him.

"Shut up!" he told his sister who sighed and took his hand. "Hey, what are you doing?"

Lily lead her brother to the blonde and they sat down next to her.

"Hi, I'm Lily. This is my brother, Adam. We're in history class together."

Rebekah frowned and looked at both her new classmates. "I'm Rebekah" she said, a little cold.

"It's nice to meet you, Rebekah, where are you from?" Lily asked and Rebekah looked at her, curious.

"Why do you ask?"

Lily frowned and shrugged "Well, if you're new, it means you don't know anybody here so I thought…maybe you'd like to make some friends?"

Rebekah furrowed her eyebrows, once again. "Chicago" she said.

"Seriously?" Adam was surprised. "That's a big change" he said and the blonde turned to look at him.

"It is" she said "But I didn't really have a choice"

Lily found that curious. "What do you mean?"

Rebekah didn't answer.

"You'll get use to Mystic Falls, it's no Chicago but it's not that bad…" he said before his eyes laid on the burned marshmallow "Here" he said, taking the stick from Rebekah "Let me help you with that" he got closer to her, and blushed as he grazed her hand. Lily chuckled which made Rebekah looked at her.

"You don't roast to many marshmallows in Chicago?"

"I've never done it before"

"Here" Adam showed her how to do it before she put the marshmallow in her mouth.

"It's good" she said, she sounded surprised. "Thanks" she looked at him with a smile. But then, her smile vanished. "Why are you being nice to me?" she asked the twins. They frowned at that, like it was a stupid question.

"Why wouldn't we be?" Lily asked and Rebekah saw honesty on both their faces.

"You two teenagers, leave" they heard a voice ordering them to move.

"Excuse me?" Adam said, looking up at the rude dark-haired man.

"I said, go home" the man they recognized as Damon Salvatore, told the boy, looking at him weird in the eyes.

"Rude" Lily said "We're having a conversation here"

"Yeah, who do you think you are?"

Both Rebekah and Damon frowned, finding weird they weren't doing as he just said which made Lily wonder what he was expecting them to do, ordering them around.

Rebekah sighed "What do you want, Damon?"

"I just thought we could have a little chat" he replied, looking at Adam and Lily then back at the blonde.

"What? No friends your own age?" Rebekah asked.

"Like you can talk" his answer was confusing to the twins.

"Rude. Again. Leave me alone, I'm busy making new friends here" she said, waving for him to leave them alone. Damon frowned but left anyway.

"How do you know him?" Adam asked, a little jealous.

"Is my roommate" she shrugged.

"You live with the guy?" Adam asked, a little louder than he intended to.

Lily chuckled as Rebekah looked at her brother weird.

"His brother is the only person I know in town. And he lives with him, unfortunately…" she sighed.

Adam was getting jealous which Lily found hilarious.

"You know Stefan Salvatore?" she asked.

"From a while ago…" she shrugged. "Do you have more marshmallows?"

"I'll go get you some more" Adam said before he got up.

"What's up with him?"

"My brother? He's just like that with all the pretty girls" Lily replied.

"You think I'm pretty?" Rebekah asked.

"So does he" she chuckled and Rebekah turned her head to look at Adam. "So… No parents?" Lily asked.

Rebekah looked back at her and stayed silent for a minute. "No" is the only answer she gave.

Adam came back with more marshmallows and they ate them as they talked a bit more. Adam was trying not to be weird and failed, of course.

"I have to go" Rebekah said, getting up.

"Oh, okay…" Adam said, disappointed.

"Do you need a ride?" Lily asked her new friend.

"No, but thank you"

"See you at school…" Adam told the blonde as she was walking away, waving at her awkwardly. Lily laughed at him. "Shut up" he told his sister, before they got back to their car and drove back home.

The morning after that, Adam and Lily were helping to get the park ready for the night of illumination.

"As a long-time member of the historical society, I am especially proud to be kicking off this day of festivities. Thank you, volunteers. Tonight, we turn off our town's lights and flare up our lanterns in honor of the night of illumination started by our founders 150 years ago. Here's founding family member Tobias Fell with a history lesson." Carol Lockwood told the crowd and gave her place to the twins' grandfather.

"Lucky are the people in this town who receive a history lesson from grandpa only once a year" Adam complained from the top of the ladder he was on, hanging a lantern, and Lily laughed, making the ladder she was holding still shake a little.

Adam spent all day talking about Rebekah, which would've annoyed most people, but Lily was amused by it. Night came and Carol Lockwood spoke to the crowd again.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen…"

"Hey, isn't grandpa supposed to be up there?" Adam asked, finding odd to see Mayor Lockwood stand where his grandfather should be standing.

"Mr. Fell seems to have been detained, so the history department's very own Mr. Saltzman has agreed to fill in." Carol Lockwood finished and let her place to their history teacher.

"That's weird, grandpa's never late" Lily said.

"On behalf of Mystic Falls high school historical society, let's light'em up" professor Saltzman says and the lantern lit up.

As the lantern lit up, people started to scream. Adam and Lily turned around to see what was going on and that's where they saw their grandfather hanging up in a tree, dead.

"Oh my God, grandpa!" Lily shouted and started to cry.

Their mother found them almost instantly and made them look away. She took them back home even though they didn't want to and Lily fell on her bed, crying as Adam sat down on his. He could only see one thing, his grandfather, dead, bloody, hanging up on that tree. Their father came back home late.

Blair and Tina couldn't stop crying at Tobias' funerals which annoyed Adam more than anything else. Of course, he was extremely sad about his grandfather's demise, as was Lily, but hearing them sob that loudly just made him even angrier than he already was. His grandfather had been murdered, in front of everybody but nobody saw anything. He was furious and couldn't take much more of the noises his cousins were making.

Lily followed him back to their house, but said nothing, she knew she shouldn't but she couldn't leave him alone.

A week after their lost, the twins decided it was time to go back to school. Adam was still furious, the police had no lead whatsoever on what had happened to his grandfather. Lily was still shocked by the vision of her grandfather up on that tree.

"Blair and Tina aren't here" she sighed to his brother.

"Who cares?" he mumbled before slamming the door of his locker and walk away.

After class, Lily was watching her brother play football with his team. As angry as he was, he had never played better.

Adam was obviously preoccupied as he was driving back home.

"What are you thinking about?" his sister asked him.

He looked at her for a few seconds, then back on the road. He sighed. "Grandpa was murdered"

"…Yeah…"

"And nobody's looking for his killer!" he shouted.

"That's not true, the police are looking" Lily replied.

"No, they're not! Sheriff Forbes has no one investigating it!"

Lily frowned "That…doesn't sound right…"

"I know! I asked Sheriff Forbes and…"

"You talked to the sheriff?"

"Yeah and she told me they were looking but they were no files whatsoever anywhere, even the autopsy results weren't right, it's been changed!"

"How do you know that?" Lily asked her brother.

"I looked around!"

"You searched the files in the police station? Adam! You can't do that! You could've gotten yourself in trouble!"

"I had to do something! Didn't you hear me? Something's not right!"

Lily looked at her brother and thought about what she'd just heard. She sighed.

"You're right. Something's wrong…we should tell dad"

And that's exactly what they do. They sat down with their parents around the dinner table and the twins started to ask questions.

"I'm sure Elizabeth knows what she's doing" their mother told them.

"Didn't you hear what I just said? They're not doing anything!" Adam shouted.

"That's enough, Adam!" their father stopped their questions "I won't hear any more of these nonsense!" he said before he made his children go to their room.

Lily was reading in her bed when someone knocked at her door.

"Come in!"

The door opens and her brother steps in. "Come with me" he told her and she frowned then sighed but followed him anyway.

"Where are we going?"

"The basement"

"What for?"

"You'll see"

Once they arrived in the basement, Adam showed his sister what he had just found.

"What's all that?" she asked, confused.

"The flowers, it's vervain. And the weapons, they're made of woods. There are like tones of stakes, and there's even a crossbow here, look" he said, showing her the weapon.

"Is Buffy living in our basement?" Lily asked.

"It's not funny, Lily! I found something else" he told his sister before he put down the crossbow and took an old diary.

"What's that?" she asked.

"That's one of Jonathan Gilbert's diaries."

"The founder, Jonathan Gilbert?"

"Yeah, and I've read it"

"So? At best you can use it in your history expose on the founders" she shrugged.

"Do you know what Sheriff Forbes erased from the autopsy report?"

Lily shook her head.

"Grandpa's been biting in the neck. He died from blood lost"

"Yeah, he died from blood lost 'cause he was stabbed…what do you mean he's been bitten?"

"No, he wasn't stabbed! He was bitten in the neck! You know what it means, right?"

Lily gave a weird look to his brother.

"It means you need to sleep more, Buffy" she said.

"It's all in the diary, Lily!" he stopped his sister who was walking away.

"What is?"

"Vampires."

Lily sighed. "It's no secret Jonathan Gilbert didn't have all his mind, Adam, besides you're forgetting something"

"What?"

"Vampires don't exist!" she said before she went back to her room, leaving her brother in the basement.

Still, it didn't make sense. Did Sheriff Forbes really changed the autopsy report? What about this bite? Why were all these weapons in their basement? She had trouble falling asleep that night but slept more than her brother who spent the entire night reading Jonathan Gilbert's diary.

The next morning, at breakfast, Adam was whispering to his sister.

"I've been reading all night the old Gilbert's diary"

Lily sighed.

"Vampires are real, Lily!"

She rolled her eyes "Okay, sure…"

"I'm telling you the truth!"

"Then we better call the Winchesters, then, if your theory on grandpa's killer is that a nest of vampires is somewhere in Mystic Falls" she told her brother before she got up and left the kitchen.

When she opened the front door she was face to face with Rebekah. She frowned.

"Rebekah? What are you doing here?"

"Hey, Lily, I asked some girl at school to tell me where you lived I hope it's okay?"

"Uh…sure…"

"Look, I need you to do me a favor" she said.

"Sure, what's up?"

"This is my phone number" she was handing a piece of paper to Lily "I want you to call me tonight if you don't see me at the homecoming tonight" she said.

"Uh…sure…why?"

"If I don't answer, could you come to the Salvatores and see if I'm…there?"

"Rebekah, are you okay?" Lily was confused, this all situation was weird.

"I'm fine, but I need you to help me if that changes later today"

Lily frowned "What are you afraid of?"

Rebekah sighed "Trusting the wrong people" she said "Oh, not you" she quickly told Lily when she saw her frowned. "I trust you or I wouldn't be here…So?"

Lily took a deep breath "Sure, I'll call you and I will come at your rescue if you don't pick up"

Rebekah smiled "Thanks" before she left.

"Was that Rebekah?" Adam asked.

"Yeah…"

"What did she want?"

"I think your crush is slightly paranoid" Lily told her brother.

"What?"

"I mean, you believe vampires exist so, maybe you two would make a great couple" Lily said before she got in her own car and left for school.

She helped organize the homecoming dance for tonight but as she was back in her bedroom and ready to go, she received a text from Blair, telling her that the gym was flooded and that Tyler Lockwood was moving the party to his house. Lily sighed. She didn't want to go to the Lockwoods. She spent lots of time there with her grandfather for numerous event. As that thought was crossing her mind, she thought back to the last time she was there with him.

I was in the Lockwood's house, where there was a tea party.

"Don't you look beautiful?"

"Thanks aunt Andy" I smiled at my mother's best friend.

"Where's you mom?"

"You know her, she's hard at work. So, where's that mysterious boyfriend you can't shut up about? ?" I asked.

"There he is, Damon!" she called his name and he turned around as we approached him. "Hi. You came" she looked like a 16 years old meeting her crush.

"Hi" he smiled at her and kissed her. I saw Jenna Gilbert make a weird face and I tried not to laugh as she looked at me and waved to silently say hello.

"Thanks for introducing us, Jenna" Damon said.

"Damon this is my goddaughter, Lily, she wants to be a journalist, like me."

"Actually I want to be a writer." I corrected her.

"Lily, this is Damon Salvatore"

"It's nice to meet you, Lily" Damon smiled at me.

"Salvatore? You're Stefan's…?"

"Brother. You know my little brother?"

"History class" I told him.

"Uh…Interesting. If you would excuse me" Damon said before he left us.

Andy watched him walk away. "Wow" she said and I laughed.

"So, did I tell you or did I tell you?"

"He's hot, you told me" I laughed. "Oh, oh, my grandpa's coming this way, hide me" I told Jenna and Andy and we left the room.

"Lily!" I heard Carol Lockwood call my name.

"Mrs Lockwood, hello" I smiled at her.

"Don't you look lovely"

"Thank you"

"I don't see your mother anywhere"

"Oh, she's working, you know her"

"Yes, she's always working" she smiled at me.

As a man I didn't know passed by us, Carol Lockwood stopped him.

"Oh, Mr Smith"

He turned around and smiled at the Mayor.

"Let me introduce you to Lily Fell, as you know the Fells are a founder family, Lily this is Elijah Smith"

"It's nice to meet you" I tell the handsome man in front of me.

"The pleasure is all mine" he smiled at me.

"Elijah is interested in Mystic Falls' history, he's a writer, if I remember correctly, you want to be a writer yourself, isn't that right, Lily?"

"It is" I nodded.

"Really, interesting, my passion for history lead me here, I'm writing about small places of the South of Virginia."

"Well, my passion for history was given to me by my grandfather, he can tell you anything about this town, if you ever have a question he will have the answer" I told him. "Have you met him?"

"I haven't had the pleasure I am afraid. But I'm sure you're better company anyway" he said and I blushed, surprised. Carol Lockwood left us to attend to her other guests.

"As a member of a founder family you must attend to these events more often than you'd like?" he asked.

"True." I told him. "If you need any help with your research, my family owns a great deal of the archives from when Mystic Falls was founded. If the archives at the library aren't enough for your book."

"That's very nice of you, Ms Fell, I won't hesitate if I need any help" he smiled at me. I saw Damon passing by us, looking angry at Elijah.

"What did you do to him?" I laughed.

"Uh, Mr Salvatore and I have our differences" he sighed.

"Lily, come on, I told your mother you'd be home in…30 minutes ago" I heard Andy call me.

"I'm sorry, I have to go, it was nice meeting you, Elijah"

"Again, the pleasure's all mine"

Lily sighed, chasing away these memories and took her phone. She dialed Rebekah's number but she didn't pick up. She sighed again, and decided she'd rather keep the promise she made to Rebekah instead of going to Tyler's party.

She was surprised to see Elena opened the door after she knocked at the Salvatores' door.

"Lily?" she was surprised too. "What are you doing here?"

"Uh, it's stupid. I promised Rebekah I would stop by if she didn't pick up her phone. Do you know where she is?"

She didn't answer right away. "Since when are you friends with Rebekah?" she asked and Lily frowned. What do you care?

"I've met her at the bonfire. My brother likes her, we talked for a while…Anyway, do you know where she is?"

"Uh, no, sorry…" she sounded strange.

"Oh…she told me she'd be here…"

"She's not sorry" Elena said before closing the door.

"What are you afraid of?"

"Trusting the wrong people"

"Vampires, Lily, they're real!"

Lily sighed. She shook her head, chasing all those ridiculous thoughts away. She got into her car but stayed there for a few minutes, she couldn't start the vehicle and go home. She tried to call Rebekah again but, again, she didn't answer. Lily sighed, yet again and got out of her car.

She didn't knock, this time, as Rebekah's paranoia was contagious, and she opened and closed the door without making any noise. She walked in but didn't see Elena anywhere. She tried to call Rebekah's cell again and she heard a phone ringing far away. She followed the noise to the basement until she found Rebekah's dead body on the ground. She let her phone fall to the ground and rush to the blonde's body. It was weird. There was no blood, her skin was grey, it was…supernatural. She saw the dagger in her back and hesitated before she removed it. Rebekah wasn't moving. He skin was still grey, there wasn't any blood on the dagger. She waited for a sign, any sign at all of her being alive and she was startled when her phone started to ring. She rushed to cut the noise and hid behind the door when she heard someone approaching.

"Oh, damn it!" she heard Elena say. "Damon, it's me! The dagger's gone!"

…

"No, I don't know who took it, she's still not moving, I…"

…

"Yes, I'm leaving now!" she hung up and left.

Once she was sure she was alone in the house she took her phone and dialed her brother's number.

"Adam, it's me…You won't believe where I am right now!"

…

"No, I don't have time to explain, look I'm in the Salvatores' basement and I need you to help me put Rebekah in my car! Now! Hurry! I don't have time to explain!" she told her brother and hung up.

She tried to carry Rebekah out of the basement. She managed to bring her to the stairs but with great difficulty.

"What are you doing?"

Lily gasped. "My God, Adam, you scared the hell out of me!"

"What happened to her?"

"I don't know, help me carry her out of here, we need to be gone before anyone comes home!"

"But…"

"Adam!"

"Okay, okay…"

With the help of her brother, Lily managed to carry the blonde in her car.

"What's that?" Adam asked, mentioning the dagger.

"I don't know. Look we need to go. See you at home, we need to hurry." Lily said to his brother before they both get into their car and drive away.