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A/N This is a story idea I've been thinking about for a while so I hope you like it!

Chapter 1 – Pilot

Mornings were never my thing; they spoke of a new day. Which in itself wasn't a bad thing, except it reminded me how much time was going past without me achieving anything. Mum likes to tell me I'm too young to worry about time going by and I know she's right but I just want to achieve something before I die, morbid I know. I groan rolling away from the morning light, shifting cautiously to avoid my laptop still open from my failed attempts at trying to finish a chapter in my novel. Another reminder of how far away I am of having the achievement of a finished novel. Which sucked since writing was about the only talent I had and I wasn't even sure I was good enough for it to register as a talent. Pulling myself up from my bed I take a second to register my appearance in the mirror. I looked like a mess, my dyed violent hair was in tangles, my brown eyes were covered in black smudges an obvious reminder that I didn't wash off my mascara. Hastily I wrap my hair into a bun, smacking my hand on the alarm to turn off the constant beeping.

"Morning honey," mum calls as I walk into the dining room.

"Morning," I mutter taking the steaming cup of coffee she offers me. I almost groan when I take the seat across from Caroline, why did the girl have to be perfectly dressed and made-up before even hitting breakfast.

Caroline smirks over at me taking a dainty bite out of her toast, "Nice sis, you look even worse than most mornings you can tell you missed out on the Forbes gene," she comments.

"Bite me," I snap across the table, tired of her almost identical comments.

"Girls," mum warns, picking up her keys that jangle in the quiet.

"You're leaving for work already?" I ask worry tainting my voice as I draw one leg up.

"Yeah, sorry, I need to be there," she apologizes kissing me on the top of the head.

"Don't worry, I'm totally use to the neglected mum act, and Elouise mum ditched her at birth its like you think we care," Caroline says in a voice that could reveal to anyone that she really did care.

I sigh heavily, "You know its getting pretty old this whole reminding me at every turn that I'm adopted," I say to her annoyed.

"Girls can we not start this again," Mum begs exasperated.

Caroline snorts pushing the seat from behind her as she gets up, "Actually you started this when you brought her home," she snaps before storming out the door.

"Don't," mum starts, before I interrupt, "its okay I know let's not take it personally it's a stage and all that," I repeat the words she was so fond of telling me.

Mum looks uncertain as if she wants to say something more but doesn't know how, "I'll be back later," she promises, "love you." With those parting words she follows Caroline out of the house. I lean back take a sip of my coffee ignoring the scorch on my throat. Caroline and I hadn't exactly always been like this but we hadn't be close since we were really little either. Besides the second she found out I was adopted it was like she had been lied to all these years, she took it worse than I did.

School wasn't a place I liked being it, to be me it was more like the halls of torture than actually fun place to be as Caroline saw it. Besides the start of a new year at school, made it about five hundred times worse. Lucky for me I had basically perfected the art of blending into the crowds, apart from my violent hair nothing about me particularly stood out. I dressed in baggy clothes, I kept my head down, there was nothing to notice.

"Elouise," a voice calls out proving my theory almost wrong.

"Hey Elena," I murmur walking over to where she stood with Bonnie. Elena was Caroline's friend and what one would term popular, why she went out of her way to talk to me baffled me.

"I'm glad to see you, even if you're probably not okay," I comment. I was a horrible comforter and I had no idea how to speak to someone whos parents had just died.

Elena smiles, "You know what I'm dealing, but thanks," she tells me.

I nod unsure whether or not to be convinced, "Okay well I have to go," I tell her awkwardly.

As I take a few steps back she calls out to me, "Are you alright?" I raise an eyebrow, unsure whether the question came from, "Course I'm fine, I'm always fine," I reply shaking my head. Elena always did this acted like we were friends or that she needed to take care of me it was weird.

"Why does she always talk to you?" my best friend Daniel questions me coming to walk beside me.

I shrug, "I don't know she's unnaturally nice, I'm her friend's sister, take a pick," I tell him, annoyed that I didn't know the reason.

"So did you finish your book this summer?" he asks me jokingly because he already knows the answer.

I run up a few steps to push him, "No, you jerk it's a work in progress."

Daniel laughs, "But aren't you worried you'll die and your entire life will be washed away with the passing of years," he says to me mocking my own words.

I roll my eyes, "That's not even funny okay, there are no guarantees in life," I say to him matter of factly after all people died every day.

Daniel shakes his head solemnly as if he had actually taken it in, "Of course not," he says to me. I just roll my eyes knowing he's joking me and Daniel had very different outlooks on life.

I listen half-heartedly to Daniel to go on about some new game he had discovered, barely paying attention to the path ahead of me. A hard smack on my shoulder sends me skipping across a few paces, a hand reaches out to steady me. "I'm so sorry," a foreign male voice says to me.

I shake my head, "My fault I never watch where I'm going," I argue, after all it probably was.

I look up to face the guy, who was disturbingly hot, like not even on my level hot, "I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then," he tells me, "my name's Stefan," he introduces himself.

"Umm Elouise," I reply, still not sure why he was talking to me.

As the bell rings through the school I smile in relief, "Nice to meet you kind of," I say before dragging Daniel and I off to class. When I turn back I see Stefan his eyes set intensely on Elena, it would have been creepy if he wasn't so good-looking.

The day passed quickly and before I knew it the hell was actually over, the first day hadn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Walking home from school was normally my favourite part of the day because I got to think about different stories to write but today was somehow off. Call it some sort of intuition but I was sure I was being watched. I take a few steps forward before swinging around quickly to see no one, when I turn back around a black crow caws from on top of a sign.

"That's not creepy at all," I mutter to myself. The crow caws again a harsh sound in the serene landscape produced by Mystic Falls.

"What is your problem?" I question it, crossing my arms in fake annoyance, "you get to fly away that is nothing to complain over." I look around nervously realizing what I had just done, "Great, I'm talking to a crow," I mutter to myself, pulling my bag closer to myself. The gentle ring tone of my phone drew my attention away from the crow, "Hello," I say slightly annoyed at whoever had decided to ring me.

"Elouise I need a favour," Caroline's annoying voice says through the phone.

"It's a no," I reply before she can even ask me.

"Come on don't be like that its not even hard," Caroline claims if it was even possible making me feel like the bad person.

"What is it?" I finally ask, my ability to say no to someone was basically non-existent.

"The annual party in the woods tomorrow night, can you make sure mum doesn't know about it," Caroline begs me; I wrinkle my nose wondering why she was even asking.

"Can't you tell her a lie?" I question, bored of this conversation already.

"Yes and I will but back me up she believes you," Caroline adds and the way she says it makes it sound almost like an insult.

I roll my eyes, it was a thousand times better than getting upset about it, "Fine whatever, but what if I wanted to come to the party," I argue. Sure it was my idea of pure terror, but I hated the fact that Caroline just assumed I wouldn't go.

Caroline bursts into laughter through the phone, "Yeah no offense Elouise but you're a hermit and I think we'd all prefer it if you stayed that way."

The comment wasn't one that I didn't normally get but still it angered me, "Whatever Caroline," I snap hanging up on her.

"Hermit, my ass," I say to the crow that had stayed on the sign the whole time. I was going to go to that party just to prove Caroline wrong; even if I knew it was a bad idea. I hardly noticed the fog build itself up around me but the more my mind swayed from my determination it did. Turning my eyes to the sign post I saw the crow had disappeared, I don't know why but this unnerved me, like it was something I needed to keep my eyes on at all times. Without thinking I ran and it wasn't until I was safely behind our door breathing heavily that I realized how irrational my reaction had been. "A little fog and a bird shouldn't scare you, Elouise," I remind myself gently trying to shake the fear.

"Why are we here again?" Daniel asks me for about the fourth time, surveying our surroundings at the party in the woods.

"I told you to annoy Caroline," I inform him, watching my perfect sister work the crowd, what I wouldn't give.

"She doesn't look annoyed," Daniel tells me, watching my sister as well. I bite my lip realizing that he was right, there was no way I was going to endure this for nothing.

Forcing myself up, my feet land on the ground, "Where are you going?" Daniel calls to me as I begin my trek.

I spin around laughing, "To annoy Caroline." My walk over there lead me in a path directly past Elena and Bonnie and unintentionally I caught snippets of their conversation, specifically the parts about a crow and fog. I turn my gaze sharply to Bonnie as she walks away and my quest is all but forgotten.

"Hey Bonnie wait up," I call to running up to catch her.

Bonnie looks flustered as she turns to me and to be honest a little drunk, "Hey Elouise what's up?" she asks me, confused as to why I was talking to her. I take a few seconds wondering if this was really a good idea, but then figure if she's drunk she won't remember it anyway.

"When you were talking to Elena just then you said you saw a crow and fog when you touched her, I just what was it about?" I ask, about as confused as Bonnie looked seeing as I didn't know what I wanted to hear from her.

Bonnie shakes her head, "Nothing it was just the drinking," she assures me.

"Oh," I murmur, "it's just," I begin about to tell her my experience before she interrupts, "don't worry about it was a joke," she promises me before walking her way. I stare at her back more confused than before, if it had been a joke why did she seem so upset about it? How come it matched so perfectly to my earlier experience? I shake my head just as she had; I was being stupid worrying over nothing.

"Earth to Elouise," Daniel calls putting a cup in front of my eyes, reminding where I was still at this dreadful party.

"What did you say something," I ask unsure of he had or not.

"I was saying that they only redeemable thing about this party is the drink," he repeats for my benefit.

I nod taking in the information before taking the cup out of his hands and sniffing it, "Daniel are you drinking seriously, this stuff is so bad for you," I tell him, offended he would even go there.

"Loosen up Forbes," it wasn't until the words had come out of his mouth that I realized we had been overheard by a drunk Tyler Lockwood and some of his buddies.

"Go away, just cause I don't want to kill myself doesn't make me a tight-ass," I snap at him, my annoyance building up. Tyler Lockwood was just such an annoying jerk all the time, and mostly he didn't notice me.

Tyler laughs, "Really well that's fine considering I don't think loosening up would make your social plight any easy." This is rewarded with laughs from his buddies making me seethe more.

Before I can get a word in someone else says something, "Why don't you just leave her alone you've obviously had too much to drink," the guy I recognize as Stefan says to Tyler putting one hand on his shoulder.

Tyler looks from me to Stefan before shrugging it off, "Whatever."

"Wow you got Tyler Lockwood to stand down," I mutter, genuinely impressed.

Stefan shrugs modestly, "Guys like that are all talk."

I smile in agreement, "Don't I know it." It isn't until then that I question why Stefan came along to my rescue, nobody else would have not even Daniel who was still quiet. "Thanks for that anyway," I hastily say realizing I hadn't actually thanked him.

"Its fine, but I'm meant to be getting a drink for Elena you don't mind," Stefan says pointing over to the drinks.

"No of course sorry for keeping you," I mutter instantly embarrassed.

"Its fine, it was nice to see you again Elouise," Stefan says before parting.

The party quickly disintegrated after Vicki was attacked, I couldn't quite believe it when I heard it. Mystic Falls was so safe, nothing ever happened here and yet it had.

"Elouise what are you doing out here?" mum says finally catching sight of me. Honestly I could have got out of here like Caroline had but the day had been tiring and I just wanted to get home.

"I just wanted to see what all the commotion was about, I'm not drunk I promise I haven't touched a drink," I promise her walking over.

Mum looks me over carefully placing her hands on my shoulders, "I believe you but you still shouldn't be out here."

I nod making my way over to the car, "Sure ground me if you want to but please just take me home," I beg her, leaning against the police car.

Mum's face has no trace of amusement in fact she looks almost afraid, a face I had never seen on her, "I'm serious, I don't want you on your own after dark. Where's Caroline?" I stare at her confusion taking over my senses, mum may be the sheriff but that was a little bit of an extreme rule even for her.

"Somewhere," I finally say answering the question she posed me.

Mum shoulders droop at this like she isn't sure how to take the news, "Fine let me just finish up here and I'll take you home," she promises me, "and you'll listen to me about the after dark thing," she adds uncertainly.

I shrug, "When do I not?"

So what do you readers (if there are any lol) think of Elouise any theories?