At the Mystic Grill

After the young vampire run away, Mark picked up the dairy from the ground that was fallen while their little scuffle, dusted it again and started moving towards the exit of the cemetery. After getting inside the car, he called 'John' his butler-

"John, start procuring things the council asked you about, I think it'll come in handy for us also, procure as much as you can."

"Yes sir, is there anything more you'll be needing?"

"Yes, dig up anything about a vampire name Stefan Salvatore and a girl name Elena Gilbert."

"Yes sir."

After hanging up the phone, I started the car and turned on the radio it was playing 'something in the way' by Nirvana, it was good weather, the breeze was cool and the clouds was forming giving their intention to rain. I parked my car near a local restaurant named 'Mystic grill' and went inside. It was an above average restaurant with sitting area being right side with a roadside view. I walked up to the counter and ordered a decaf coffee and occupied a corner seat and waited for my coffee.

I noticed two chairs down by the snooker table, Bonnie and Matt having a chat. Bonnie and I had a small eye contact to which I smiled and said 'Hello' while walking up to them.

"I hope I'm not interrupting you two."

Bonnie shakes her head sideways, chuckles and replied "No, no we were just having a chat." She then points towards Matt and introduced him "by the way, this is Matt Donovan."

I turned towards him smiled forwarded my hand for a handshake and said "Hi, I'm mark Anderson, nice to meet you."

He grabbed my hand and replied "Ah, nice to meet you."

As we were done introducing ourselves a certain blonde about 5'8" feet with bluish green eyes walked up to me and said "Hey! You're Mark Anderson, right? I'm Caroline Forbes, nice to meet you."

I turned towards her smiled and replied "Yes, nice to meet you too."

After that we all occupied a big round table in the center of the restaurant, a waitress about 5'7" feet tall with light brown hair and green eyes came to our table with my decaf and Matt introduced her to me as his sister Vicki, while we were talking a guy 5'9" feet tall with black hair and dark brown eyes came up to our table with a slight frown on his face and glared at me for couple of seconds until Vicki said to him " Ty stop, He's new here" and then left to continue her waitressing.

Matt smiled and turned towards me to introduce him "this is Tyler Lockwood" and then turned towards Tyler and said "Please tell me you're not in relationship with my sister?" to which Tyler with a smug look and a smile on his face replied "I'm not in relationship with your sister." Matt stared at him for a couple of a seconds with squinted eyes and baffled look and said "You're a d*ck" to which we all had a hearty laugh.

After that conversation Tyler went back to his game of snooker. As we were all conversing I shifted my attention towards the door, it opened and two people came in, Elena and Stefan. All our eyes shifted towards them. Matt stood up went towards them and Elena introduced Matt to Stefan, they had an awkward handshake with a downhearted look on Matt's face came back to our table. Elena's eyes met mine to which she smiled and said-

"Hey, I didn't know you'll be here, sorry about earlier."

I smiled and said "Hey, well this is the only above average restaurant in town with good decaf and I got to meet all these guys and don't worry about it, after all it was not the best place to meet."

"Yes, it was not." Elena smiled while replying

"You guys have met before, where?" Bonnie interjected

"In the cemetery while I was paying my respect to my family, I stumbled upon her." I said to Bonnie.

Elena then introduced me to Stefan "this is Stefan Salvatore" and then point towards me and said "this is Mark Anderson."

I gave a friendly nod towards him and smiled to which he said "You're from Anderson family hmm, I heard they left town a while back, so what brings you back to the town?"

"Family business and all and it's a quiet place away from the suburbs." I said

"So, you were both born in Mystic Fall?" Caroline asked Stefan and me.

"Mm-hmm and moved when I was still young." Stefan replied.

"No, I was born in Greece as you've noticed from my accent I spent better part of my life there."

"Parents?" asked Caroline.

"My parents passed away" Stefan replied.

"I had never met mine actually" I said while sipping my second decaf.

Well this turned the atmosphere gloomy and everyone looked at us with sympathetic gaze, to lighten up the conversation I smiled and said "Don't worry guys it's been a long time and I've john by my side."

"So Mark, Stefan, if you both are new to town then you don't know about the party tomorrow." Said Caroline

"It's back to school thing at the fall" said Bonnie

I chuckled and said "well, who doesn't like a good party?"

"Right!" replied Caroline.

"Are you going?" Stefan asked Elena with a smile on his face.

"Of course she is." Interjected Bonnie to which Elena blushed while eying Stefan.

As the conversation was going, my phone started ringing. It was John, I excused myself from the table and picked up the phone-

"Sir, there's a little problem with the procurement of the product, the clients are not keeping their end of the deal."

"Hmm, raise our offer and if they don't agree to the new terms then I'll personally deal with them."

"Ok Sir."

After the call was complete I went back to the table and apologized "sorry guys gotta go, business calls, see you guys tomorrow."

After that I went towards the counter, paid my bill and left the restaurant. Dusk was falling rapidly, the day dawned cloudy and cold with a heavy rain drumming widely on the streets. I started my car and drove to my House.

As I parked my car in front of the house, went inside and noticed couple of feet away John was conversing with 3 men sitting at the table at the right side of the ball room, they were all wearing a dark three piece suit and John was bearing the standard butler suit, noticing my presence John with the rest of them stood up. John went up to me and introduced them.

"Sir, they're from the Guerrera family the-"

"Ah, now we have to deal with this brat, listen as we previously said we want $5M for the Vervain or the deal is cancelled" interrupted the tallest guy among them with smug look on his face.

"Now-now, don't be in a haste, I really thought Francesca would taught her little pups some manners," I said to them with a grin on my face.

They were shocked to hear that "How do you know about us, about her?" their eyes glowed yellow and they growled ready to jump at Mark but before they could even blink their eyes Mark was standing right in front of them with still beating hearts in both his hands. They were shocked to say the least, of course this was the last sight before they closed their eyes, their own still beating heart.

Mark then turned towards the last men standing with a calm look on his face wiping his hands with a handkerchief borrowed from John, the last guy was shaking and there was beads of sweats rolling down his neck and forehead. Mark walked up to him, the guy stuttered and said "wha, what do- do you want fro-m me?" Mark smiled towards him, it was a calm smile but to the guy it looked like the Devil himself was standing and smiling before him.

"Of course the original deal, and about your friends, you'll remember that they had a nasty accident and you're the only lucky survivor. You better deliver the products before tomorrow evening because I love to change that" Mark smiled and said while tapping on the guy's cheeks.

"Ye-yes the pro-product will be de-delivered tomorrow as per your or-orders." The guy said stuttering and ran away as fast as he can in the heavy rain.

Mark turned towards John and said "I'll be in my room bring me my usual drink and please clean-up this garbage. They're ruining my precious carpet."

"Yes sir" John replied.

After that he went upstairs opened his room's door, laid down on his bed and closed his eyes.