Trouble (Vampire Diaries fan fic, Book Two!!!!!!!),

Chapter 1__The Return

Okay, after all of the freaking tomb vampires had died, the people of Mystic Falls and things were supposed to get better, not worse.

That same freaking night John had tried kill Damon and Stefan, and had killed the tomb vampires and I had nearly got killed by a tomb vampire--again--and Mayor Lockwood, a non-vampire that got took down by a vampire torture device, and Caroline, Matt and Tyler got into a car wreck, and Bonnie helped me and Elena save Stefan and Damon--again--and Jeremy lost his vampire girlfriend Anna . . .

We found out another bomb, the bomb about to explode our entire lives.

Vampire bitch Katherine freaking Pierce was back in Mystic Falls.

Who looked exactly like Elena.

Stefan had called to tell me, to warn me, and to ask me to meet them at Elena's house, so I did, waiting in the kitchen with them while Elena was upstairs talking to Jeremy.

"Did she say what she wanted?" I asked.

"No," Stefan answered.

"Well, she certainly knows how to make an entrance," Damon said.

"She said, 'I fooled one of you, at least'," Stefan said. "What does that mean?"

"She pretended to be Elena, too, when I showed up earlier tonight," Damon answered.

My eyebrows furrowed when Elena walked in, and Stefan walked toward her as she said, "I told Jeremy. I can't lie to him anymore."

"Are you all right?" Stefan asked.

"No, I'm not all right."

I raised my hands in the air absentmindedly as if to tell them that I didn't know what to tell them, which was absolutely true. "I thought that with all the tomb vampires gone, things would get better."

"I know," Stefan said. "We all did."

"Hey, Nikki, at least you won't be a vampire's chew toy for revenge anymore," Damon said.

I looked toward him with a sarcastic look. "Thanks so very much, Damon, being you're half the reason they came after me in the first place."

"You're welcome."

Stefan looked at Damon with a disapproving look, shaking his head. "No. Not now."

"Katherine was in this house," Elena said. "That means she's been invited in. What are we gonna do?"

"Move," Damon said.

"Very helpful, thank you," Elena said sarcastically as she sat down.

"Katherine wants you dead, there's zero you can do about it," Damon said. "You will be dead. But you're not. So clearly, she has other plans."

"Right, and we need to find out what those other plans are and not provoke her in the process," Stefan said. "What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena?"

"To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead," Damon said. "We . . .kissed."

Whoa.

"And you thought it was Elena?" I asked.

"What do you mean, you kissed?" Stefan asked dangerously.

"Well, you know, when two lips pucker and they go:" Damon kissed the air twice.

Stefan rushed toward him, and Damon saw that coming, using his own vampire speed to stand where Stefan had been standing and Stefan was standing where Damon.had been standing.