'Say You Love Me' A Damon Salvatore Love Story. Part Of The 'Epic Love Saga'

The Ghost Of You.....

Three Years Later....

It is three years from the present timeline, and Damon has just been awakened by Stefan, who fed him blood while he was desiccated in his coffin. This was Stefan only option, he knew in wakening his brother before Siena awoke wouldn't please him, but what was happening was a matter of urgency. The lives of his children were in grave danger, along with Stefan's, their only hope for survival wasn't impressed. When Damon realizes what Stefan's done, he becomes angry

"I told you not to bother me until Siena was awake!" Damon clearly annoyed that he had been woken, he had asked to be left alone, as he wasn't coping with life without the love of his existence. "If the kids having another fight-" Stefan didn't have the time to listen to Damon sarcastic comments, he needed his brothers help.

"Well, that's too bad. We got to go." Stefan spoke as he kept looking over his shoulder in fear, Damon was confused with his brother's behaviour.

"Why?" Damon demands. Stefan hears a noise nearby and spins the coffin around so the lid is facing the entrance, ducking behind it to seek cover. Just as he ducks, two arrows are shot through the lid of the coffin, just barely missing Damon "She's back!" Damon clearly terrified look to his brother with fear in his eyes of knowing that she had returned. Just then, two more arrows are shot through the lid, scaring Damon enough to immediately hop out of the coffin and take cover behind a stack of wooden crates as the woman shoots at them, hitting Damon in the knee and causing him to groan in pain. Stefan is clutching his stomach, as though something has been done to him. "I guess she upped her game." The doors of the storage container, where a woman is standing concealed in shadow, causing her identity to remain unknown. Meanwhile, Stefan has pulled down the neck of his t-shirt, revealing an open wound in the shape of a cross on his left pectoral muscle.

"My scar... opened up this morning. I figured she was back. I didn't realize she was this close." Stefan didn't know this day would come again, that after everything all of this was all behind them.

"You better get used to it, brother. She's not gonna stop until you're dead." Damon smiles grimly as Stefan, still groaning in pain, grabs Damon by the arm, and prepares to stand up.

"Come on. Ugh!" He pulls Damon to his feet and pushes him in front of him so they can run away.

Present Day

Elena P.O.V

Its official, things are getting from bad to worse in this town and it's all curtsey of the new supernatural family in town. Yep they have kept quiet for a long time and now they are making their voices heard, and in doing so innocent human lives were taken. This didn't sit well with the Salvatore boys, they were ready to take these heretic down once and for all. When they spoke like this it worried me, Nico was my nephew I didn't want anything happening to him, then there was Stefan who... I think it's clear what he means to me. So the only option was to call Damon, which didn't go down to well, but the purpose of the call was to speak to Ric. I thought this was a bad idea as his head hadn't been in the game since Jo was brutally taken from him. I tried being there for him but he kept pushing everyone away, and the one person he couldn't do that to was Damon. I guess that was down to on that night they both lost the women they love.

So Ric explained to Stefan what was needed to make this bomb that will kill these heretic once and for all, he followed all the instructions also added a timer. He was ready to leave to somehow seek it into their home and I had to stop him, they knew who he was, they lived in his home in that 1903 prison world, they see him coming from a mile off. So I offered to go, of course he wasn't happy about but luckily for me Nico had my back, I guess he wanted this all to go down without a hitch. Stefan was more concerned about my safety more than anything else, but I wasn't going to be going alone Nico was going to come, as I distracted the heretics he would place the bomb in the house. We had only a minute for this to work, so I had to give my best performance ever for only a minute. I'm sure I could do that, whereas the look up on Stefan face said otherwise. Like I told him we are both on the same page, that this was the only option.

After putting Stefan mind at ease, Nico and I drove to the house that Caroline had been watching over the last few days, of course as soon as Care knew Nico was coming she disappeared. I guess she wasn't ready to be facing him yet, Nico knowing this kind of upset him. I didn't know what I could really say to him to make him feel better, because the situation between him and Caroline was just as complicated as my situation. We arrived at the house I was about to get out of the car when Nico stopped me.

"Are you sure you can do this? I can go instead." I knew he was worried but my part was just to keep them distracted, his part was a little harder, I was more likely to screw that up than this.

"Nico I will be fine, I can play human pretty well." I gave him a reassuring smile, I had played the role of human for 18 years I knew exactly what to say, and do, I couldn't mess this up.

"Just Stefan-" Nico began to say and I had to stop him right there.

"Stefan pissed that his not playing a part of this." I got out of the car and looked over at Nico as he stood looking at the house with uncertainly. "You need to set the timer, and get the hell out of there. Okay." He nodded and before using his vamp-sped to go to the back of the house. I took in a deep breath before walking up to the house. I approached the front of the house and rang the doorbell, after a few moments the door opened, there stood a young girl around about my age. I stood there with huge smile trying to be extremely perky, while holding a vase of purple orchids in my hands. "Welcome to Mystic Falls! I'm Elena." The girl looked at me blankly as if I was the freak, well she be wrong there, her and her little family were the freaks around here.

"We're not interested." She goes to shut the door, but I stopped her, while still smiling widely, I might end up getting myself killed here but it worth it to see them all dead.

"Oh. Oh, no! Don't worry, I'm not selling anything. I'm your neighbour from down the block!" This was a typical friendly neighbour kind of thing to do, but she didn't seem impressed with my intrusion.

"So?" She was going to be tough to crack, it's time for me to really push my acting skills right now, I need to give Nico time to stet everything up. I slipped passed her going into the house before she could block me.

"Wow! Great place." I looked around the foyer, and could see she wasn't happy with my intrusion. "Love what you've done with the floors. Is this the original hardwood?" I could see three others in the living room, a guy and two girls, so that made four of them, the fifth had to be upstairs. The blond girl was playing solitaire on the coffee table, while the other two were reading books.

"It's a gargantuan hell-hole. No one gives a damn about the floors." The girl reading the book snapped, she had a real attitude problem, and doesn't seem too happy with the living arrangements Natalia had them in.

"Well, I brought you guys a housewarming gift. Mystic Falls tradition." I continued to smile, as the four of them were unimpressed, Mystic Falls tradition? Something told me they weren't really buying into my act right now.

"Valerie's allergic to nature." The girl who opened the door responded, the one with the attitude glared, smoothing told me that was Valerie. I gestures toward the nearby end table and walks over to it with her flowers. "I'm just gonna put this right over here. Then..." There was a loud squeaking noise, I knew it was from the back where Nico was, I needed to cause a distraction. So I purposely knocks a deer figure off the table so the shattering ceramic will cover up the sound of the gas hissing as it is released from the pipe. "I am so sorry!" I crouched down to pick up the broken pieces of the knick-knack. "Clumsy." I could feel that I was being glared at, I was right the blonde and the guy were doing just that, I gave them both an apologetic look. "So, where are you guys from?" The girl who answered the door began to look me up and down, as she did the blonde comes into the foyer.

"I do love that jacket." She spoke as she continue to look at me in a certain way, she was freaking me out only because I knew what she was capable of. I needed to remain clam, remember being human friendly neighbour.

"Thanks! My sister got it for me for my birth-" I couldn't even finish off my sentence before she interrupted me.

"Don't you just love what she's wearing?" She spoke while looking over at the blonde, guesting toward me, I didn't like where this was going but I had to keep up with the act.

"It's fine, though it would look entirely better on you." She spoke a little flirtatiously, but soon stopped as we heard footsteps approaching. She turn to find Nico standing in the threshold of the front door, who looks anxious.

"Hey, Elena-- we should really get going to that barbeque." Nico tried to play it cool now as he knew right now we needed to get the hell out of here, we had a matter of seconds before this place blew up.

"And you would be...?" The blonde asked suspiciously, if he told her his name that would be our cover blown, Natalia would of spoken of him and her victory of turning him evil.

"Her ride." He smiles at her before giving me a significant look. "Elena, we should really go." He was right we needed to get the hell out of here, am kind of glad he took the risk of coming to get me, because these were getting suspicious of me already.

"Elena isn't leaving yet." The one who compliment on my jacket sneered my name, did she know who I was? I felt panic mode trying to kick in but I kept my composure as best as I could. She walked over to me and stares into my eyes, not realizing that I'm a vampire, and tries to compel me. "Give me your jacket." I knew I had to play along, so I smiled brightly before stripping off the leather jacket that was a gift from Siena, handing it to her.

"Here! Take my jacket." Believe me I was pissed that I had to hand that over, it was one of the few things I still had that reminded me of my sister, and now it was going to get blown up.

"Thank you. How sweet you are!" She seems really smug, as she put on my jacket, I turned back to blonde, smiling fakely knowing that I needed to make my exit.

"See you!" I turned to leave, see that Nico a look of relief on his face, but the blonde grabs me by the arm and stops me going anything further.

"Wait." She demanded, all I could hear was the hissing from the gas, the timer was going to go in any second I didn't want to be a part of this barbeque. She spins me around to face her so she can stare into my eyes, obviously to compel me.

"You forgot to tell her how good she looks." This was getting tiresome, but I knew I had follower her orders like any human would under compulsion, this was torture on it's on. I turn to the girl who was getting a little too cosy in my jack.

"It looks totally amazing on you!" I spoke in my over the top attitude, a lesson from Caroline 101, always used high pitch tones and use totally... a lot. Then I see the grumpy girl get up from the couch with a very concerning look on her face.

"Does anyone else smell that?" The fake smile wipes off mine and Nico's face as we look at each other, clearly panicking. Knowing we need to get out of there immediately. The next thing I knew Nico grabbed me vamp-speeded us both out of the house only a second before the bomb goes off, igniting the gas that had permeated the house and causing a huge explosion. Looks like out work is done, ding dong heretics are dead.

Julian P.O.V

I slowly started to wake up, opening my eyes to a dark room. I tried to move, but chains rattled and I stopped at once. I realized that I was lying face-down on my stomach, breathing in the rancid residue that coated the floor; it smelled like death. A steady dripping noise was coming from my left, and underneath that was the sound of distant footsteps. The footfalls became steadily louder; I scrambled to stand, straining against the blackness to see what, or who was coming.

"You took your time in waking up." A voice from the distance spoke as I tried to free myself from the chains, but I felt weak, I didn't have enough strength to break free from them. I looked up to see the face of the man who took me from my home, Malcolm, he was one heretic, recollections of what happened in the last moments I was conscious began to piece together. He knew that Siena wasn't in her casket, he wanted her... I couldn't allow him to find her location, there was no way the heretic are going to have her.

"Where am I? What have you done to me?" I tried to yell but my throat was dry, it felt like it was rubbing against sandpaper, that when I knew he had drained me to weaken me.

"Weaken you, it will be very difficult for you to regain all that strength without turning back to old habits." He spoke mockingly, there was no way I was going to return to be that person, no matter how much the bloodlust becomes me there no way I will ever return to being that person. "You've had your bloodlust under control for some many centuries." He spoke as he walked over to the other side of the room, turning the light on, the brightness of the light hurt my eyes I tried to shield them. I heard the footsteps come closer to me once again, he grabs hold of my throat forcing me to my feet. "That can still be the way, if you tell me where your daughter is." There was no way I was going to tell him where Siena is, I would rather die. I gathered up whatever salver I could and spat in his face, with his free hand he takes out handkerchief and wipes the spit from his face, he kept his composure for a moment before he started to use his magic to inflict pain upon me.

"My daughter is under a sleeping spell, she's in the Sal-" I chose to play the stupid man part , the part that I had no Idea what he was talking about. I couldn't even finish my sentence as a loud snap was heard as he broke my right arm, I tried so hard to keep my screams in, I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of my pain.

"Something tells me you have place an extremely powerful cloaking spell on her." He finally let go of me, causing me to crumble down to the ground, I could feel that my arm wasn't healing, the pain throbbing up and down my arm. "Now that takes a very powerful witch, maybe it would be easier to find her. Breaking down the both of you, one by one..." He kicks me in the stomach, which causes me to fly across the room hitting the wall making the plaster crumble around me.

"Are the five of you going to take turns in inflicting pain on me until I tell you want you want to hear?" He couldn't be working alone on this, with the way that my body responding I didn't know if it could handle 5 heretic torturing me.

"No you have to deal with me, lucky for you I am the nice one. Tell me where she is!" He raised his voice as he flick his hand, a burning sensation overcame me, my mind felt as it was on fire, the screams couldn't be contained no longer I had to let them out. "This will only get far worse." He continue to inflict further pain, he was doing this so I would break and the love I held for my daughter I would never break, not for no one, not for any pain.

"I WILL NEVER TELL YOU WHERE SHE IS." The pain stopped as laughter filled the room, I had realized what I had just said, that I had acknowledgement of where Siena was.

"The truth is finally out, you know exactly where the dimidium sanguine is, you even fooled me for a moment thinking you didn't." He walks over to a nearby table and picks up a syringe filled with yellowish fluid, I knew it wasn't vervain because of the colouring. "Well I know just the way to get it out of you. Werewolves venom highly dangerous to vampires." He super-speeds over and injects it into my neck. "I was told that for Originals it wouldn't kill, but the disease still takes toll." My eyes felt heavy I tried to fight it but it was far too compelling.

Julian's Hallucination

"After a millennia we finally meet." I heard a voice from behind me, as I turned a man stood a few feet away from me, I hadn't seen him before, I didn't understand why he was here. "You look at me as if we are unfamiliar, but I see you have my eyes, that you have you mother's kind heart." In that moment as he spoke I knew who he was, this was my father Angelis, the man I had never laid my eyes on in a thousand years.

"Angelis?" I wasn't certain if this was real right now, Angelis wasn't from this world, he could only came to earth every 500 years, here he was, did that mean he was here to save Siena?

"Julian... Father would have been more fitting." He spoke as he came a little closer to examine me from head to toe, I felt every part of me aching, chills as if I had some kind of influenza. "What a mess you have gotten yourself into." I looked down to see my hands and arms covered in dark veins, blisters with red sores, what was happening to me?

"How is this possible, how can you be here?" I needed to know how he was here, I was told he couldn't return for another few years, how could he of come sooner than I was told?

"Son, you're in so much pain, you can end your suffering." He spoke with compassion in his voice, with a look of sorrow in his eyes as he looked at me being in pain. "You need to tell them where your child is, then this will all be over." I couldn't believe what I was hearing from him, with whatever strength I had in me I got myself to my feet so I could say what I needed to say to his face.

"Never!" I raised my voice, in doing so I began to cough, chest was rattling while I tried to gasp for air to take another breath. Once I gained my composure I looked to him again, there was a look in his eyes not one of a father who loves his son, but of a man with an agenda. "You still have not told me how are you here." He couldn't even answer a simple question, it wasn't a difficult one to answer.

"When my only child life is endanger I'm going to do everything in my power to protect him, even move heaven and earth to save him." Something told me that wasn't the truth, I have been endanger many of times, I have been through harder times, never in my thousand years had he made an appearance.

"Such kind and touching words from a father who never made himself visible." I snapped at him, a sharp pain hit me in side, causing me to drop down to my knees. I had no idea what was going on with me, I don't even understand how I got here, had I escaped from Malcolm clutches?

"Son, if you do not compile to the heretic demands it will lead to your death." Angelis broke me out of my thoughts, he was siding with the heretic? Was this some sick game for me to reveal where Siena was? This man before me, who asks me to call him father, wants me to give up my first born also the heretic get what they want.

"Siena is my child, I vowed to protect her, if that leads to my death, I know I died for a worthy cause." I was not going to let them have my daughter, I meant every word I spoke, I would rather die, have a white oak stake driven through my heart before I would tell them where Siena is .

"My baby boy." A voice that I had heard in over a thousand years spoke, I looked up to see my mother, looking as beautiful as ever, with that welcoming smile upon her face, I felt tears building up my vision becoming a blur. "My beautiful boy." She cooed as she touched my cheek, she was here, after all these centuries wanting to see her, she was here, the tears began to pour from my eyes from the joy of seeing her face once again.

"M-m-mother..." I spoke the word in fear, the fear that it may not be her, but the touch was familiar, how I long to feel that touch, especially in my darkest hours.

"Julian, I know you love your daughter, that you want to protector her from all those who which to harm her." As she spoke she stroked my hair like she used to when I was a child to comfort me when I was upset. So many emotions were running through me right now, because I had craved for this moment to see her again, I couldn't believe that she was here beside me. "My child, she was a burned I placed upon you." I moved away from her, I couldn't believe that she spoke of Siena being a burned, this wasn't something I expected to hear from my mother.

"Mother she was never a burned. I loved her from the very moment I place eyes on her, you gave me something so special." She looked at me with sorrowful eyes, as if I was the mad one in the room, when it was my mother and the man who claimed to be my father, who have turned on their granddaughter.

"She was never truly yours Julian, it's time for you to let her go. Siena wasn't meant for this life." She spoke with sorrow and regret in her voice before turning to Angelis, who stood a few feet away with an evil glint in this eyes. "Do what you have to do." Before I could even open my mouth to speak Angelis was beside me with his fist in my chest, his hand held my heart tightly in his grasp. The scream tore through me like a great shard of glass. I felt my eyes widen and pulse quicken, my heart thudding like a rock rattling in box. The scream came again, desperate, terrified... The blood drained from my face, before I was even aware of making a conscious decision my legs were pounding furiously on the wooden floor boards. The pain was overwhelming, but if this was my time to die I will die knowing that my daughter is safe from the evils that wish to harm her.

Isabella P.O.V

They say that time is a great healer. With time everything passes, love, beauty, pain and hurts. With time the intensity and sharpness of your pain, your sadness, your disappointments and despair, slowly fades. Whoever said that was clearly deluded because no matter how much time passes, no matter how much your heart is meant to heal over time. The truth is if someone impacted your life that much that they were loved so deeply, those feeling could never fade in time....

That was the case with my mom with leaving the lives of all those that loved and adored her. Each and everyone one of them falling apart around me, but not those who were in that room on the night the biggest secret ever was conjured up. I knew I would do anything for her to be breathing and walking again, I didn't care of what the consequences were, to the point that even if I had to kill myself for her to live. That was basically the case, I died with my grandfather Julian's blood in my system to come back as immortal vampire, in those moments when I woke up to see my mom's eyes looking down at me, made this crazy and possibly irrational decision the best one I'd ever made. To think I was never going to see her again, that the only memory I would ever have of her is her telling me to live my life, to never look back, to have all I desire, this all followed with final goodbye. I wasn't ready to let her go, I could never let her go, so when Klaus explained the possibility of this working to wake her and I could still be a part of her life, nothing or no one could change my mind.

I stood there watching Julian compel away everything my mom knew, every little detail wiped away from her mind, she was no longer Siena Salvatore, wife to Damon Salvatore, mom to Nico and I. She was going to be Siena Russo once again, she was going to be that girl that she once was before she dived into the world of craziness. The plan was she wasn't going to be in her new life without any form of protection, because I would be by her side, making sure no harm came to her until the moment that she will return to who she once was. She may have a protection spell placed upon that no one can find her magically, but there were people out there who knew what my mom looked like. The infamous dimidium sanguine in a weakened state unable to defend herself in her human form, I had to fill in the shoes of Julian, who had watched and protected her from the very moment she was born. Was I up for the task? Well some people think I couldn't, meaning my brother Nico. I didn't know if it was because he thought I couldn't fool my dad with the fact that I was part of the undead, or the fact that he was the oldest, and felt it was his duty to protect her. Nico had to suck it up because it wasn't just about protecting our mom, but protecting myself and those that were there that night from our dad's waft. If he was to learn what we did to wake up our mom, after what happened with Nico when he was turn... just thinking about it cared the crap out of me.

So with me being a newbie vampire I expected to have this urge to go and kill every human in sight, no that wasn't the case, my tolerance level for the craving human blood was impressive. With Klaus helping me giving vampire 101, of what I was capable of, and what I shouldn't do, I mastered it all in a short time. Once again my brother feared I wasn't up for the task, I knew it was because of what happened to him, I wasn't Nico, I didn't have some ancient curse place upon me. I knew my focus that was to go back to New York protect our mom, while playing a very convincing role as human. The only way I could shut him up once and for all was to test my acting ablates on those who knew me well, my family and friends right here in Mystic Falls.

It totally worked, none of them even battered an eyelid, was that because of my amazing acting skills or the fact that they were all still mourning to even notice. Well I didn't want to stick around to find out, I didn't leave it long until I announced that I was leaving town. I knew Julian had brought my mom back to New York that he told my grandparents the truth of what happen and the reason why we had done this to her. Grandpa Tony was not impressed in the slightest, but in the end but he and Julian were on the same page, that it was in both of their interest to keep mom safe. So as I was saying I broke the new about leaving, I gave them all the I need to live my life story, that I would feel closer to my mom if I went to New York and tried to live the life that she couldn't. To deceive my family and friend was one of the hardest things I ever had to do, even more so to my dad, who stood there not saying a word. That scared me more than anything, because I knew he was about to blow. When he asked everyone to leave I knew that he was going to convince me not to leave without interference, Nico and Julian both tried to stick up for me, but dad didn't care for their opinion. I was terrified for this moment, thinking that I was going to screw up somehow, but when he asked me why I was making this rash decision, I told him my reason which were the truth to an extent. I could see that with my announcement of leaving was breaking his heart, but I wasn't just doing this for mom but for dad too. One day when he would learn of this he I hope he will understand my deceit that he would find somehow in his heart to forgive me.

My move to New York went pretty well, of course everything that was going to happen from now on was going to be fabricated, that I would come face to face with my mom. That I couldn't call her that, I had to act like she was a total stranger.

Flashback-6 Months Ago- New York City

The plan was that my mom would wanna stand on her own two feet, she was going to start up school after her attempts in finding her birth mom failed. That her journey in discovering where she came from, opened her eyes to another world. Not the world of supernatural, but the world of not everyone has a silver spoon in their mouths that not everything is just given. She wanted to stop living under her parent's shadow, she wanted to reinvent herself. Of course grandpa helped her in requiring a place to live while she was in school as she didn't want to live on the upper east side, and that's where I fell into the all this.

Here I stood in a loft apartment barely keeping it all together waiting for my new roomie to make her grand appearance, and I was nervous as hell. Not only did I have to play a constant lie to my own mother, but I had to hide the fact that I was a vampire. Two secrets I had to keep for god knows how long, my only drive was that all of this was in protect her until the moment she didn't need my protection no longer. I heard the elevator followed by footstep, in a matter of moments there was a knock on the door. I felt my heart stop for a second knowing behind that door stood the woman who brought me into this world, the woman that protected me from the evil fate Kai was going to place upon me. Now I had to give an Oscar performance, I had to do this not matter how frightened I was to screw up, no matter how much I want to hug her and call her mom. This was my time to do everything in my power to keep her safe. I took in a deep breath before opening the door with a huge smile on my face.

"Hi I'm your new roommate, Siena." She looked as beautiful as I remembered, she had this glow about her, and she still had that warm and inviting smile like I remembered. Now I had to act like a complete stranger, to the woman who had brought me into this world.

"Hey Siena. I'm Isabella." I gestured for her to come, she walked in with her case stumbling on the floorboard that were uneven. I watched as she looked around unimpressed "Not what you expected?" I could see her looking horrified by the conditions of the apartment, it smelt damp, water marks on the ceiling from the burst water pipe from the apartment above. This is what my mom consider to be her hell, but I had to sell this to her that I knew.

"It's cute..." She clearly lied as she placed her bags down, maybe the artwork Klaus painted made her say that he did say she had an eye for art. I walked over to the kitchen counter and opened a bottle of wine, to ease the tension in the room. "Just a little different to what I'm used to." She spoke as I finished pouring the wine in this the glasses, and walked over to her.

"Maybe after a few of these, you might get used to your surroundings." I handed her glass and she giggled, it seems that wine did the trick.

For hours we spoke about our lives, I told her half-truths, meaning I still had an older brother called Nico that my dad was this great person who was over protective. That I had an amazing uncle and aunt who looked out for me, but I wasn't from Mystic Falls, Isabella Salvatore was girl from New Orleans. She spoke of how her life had been in New York, she spoke of her friend Blair who she consider as a sister. That she passed away while she was in search of finding her biological mom, she admitted it was hard for her to still come to term with the fact it all happened. That if she was here Blair wouldn't have been alone that night when she got attacked, she was doing a lot of beating herself up, and I didn't know if this was part of the fabrication. I knew I had to get her off the path of beating herself up.

"You look really familiar-" I spoke as I got up from the couch going back into the kitchen area to grab another bottle of wine. "Aren't you the daughter of Chrizina Russo? Cause you if you're not, you could totally be her doppelgänger." I looked up to see her smiling, her cheeks rosy from the wine I had been plying her with, while this stuff wasn't do anything to me I was still stone cold sober.

"Yeah that's my mom." She sat there with empty glass in hand still glancing around the room unsure, she really wasn't like this place, I'm going to kill Klaus for sticking us here, but it was within the budgets that mom was willing to pay for out of her own money. Only if she knew of the fortune that she had in her old life from dad's family and all the wealth Julian had. She was really stubborn by not allowing her parents to help, then again I think I would done the same if I was normal functioning young adult going into the world.

"Wow! Your mom totally awesome." I could see she wasn't feeling this, I walked back over with the bottle and placed it on the unstable coffee table. "I know the place don't look like much---" I grabbed hold of her hand, taking her over to the French doors that lead out to the balcony. "-the view is to die for." This was the only appealing part of this place the view of New York skyline as the sun set over the city, this is what sold me the place more than anything. I just hope that this vision of sheer beauty would make my mom see the benefits.

"I know I was all about standing on my own two feet while I went to school, without my parents helping---" She stopped talking as her eyes looked over the city looking stunning as the sun poured out its brilliant hot oranges and reds into the clouds like a pot of molten lava. Never before had I realised how tenuous and thin the tranquil clouds are. Wispy and frail, like they only just exist. "OMG this is-" I stopped in mid-sentence because I knew what she was going to say.

"Amazing!" A huge smile grew on her face as she admired the view. "Think of this place is our blank canvas." She turned to me arching her brow not looking convince, okay it wasn't a blank canvas this place needed to be knocked down, but this would give us a project between school to bond and gain some kind of friendship. "Okay it's damp and a few squeaky floorboard, and the plaster on the ceiling barely hold up. I know between the both of us we can turn it around." She looked back into the apartment looking a little overwhelmed with what I was asking from her. "Are you up for the challenge?" I questioned her in hopes that she hadn't changed too much, I knew she was always up for a challenge but that was the person I knew before, but this was a different version of my mom.

"I think this might be the start to a beautiful friendship." She smiled widely before cling her glass to mine in sign of celebration.

Present

We really did change the place around from the dump it was in the last 6 months, it was liveable and very much so a place that two young girls could be proud of. Even though I was having fun becoming my mom BFF, my worries were on my dad who was falling apart. So many times he wanted to come to New York to see my new place and I kept giving him excuse after excuse why he couldn't come, he would just accept. Well that's what I thought until I had a phone call from Elena telling me the truth of what he had been doing, it seems that even Nico was keeping me in the dark about it all which annoyed me. I guess he saw it as I was looking out for mom and he would look out for dad, well he was failing at it miserably. I know that he had his own problems with Caroline not wanting to move on in their relationship, that he had to constantly be lying to dad day in day out, but that didn't excuse keeping me in the dark. I kept him well informed with mom, I even got him to come over so I could introduce him to her, because I knew he missed her so much. When they did meet I knew it was one of the hardest things he ever had to do, not to hug her, and call her mom, to talk to her like she was a stranger. Welcome to my world Nico.

So I took matters into my own hands, I found out that dad was taking Ric to Europe because he wasn't dealing with Jo and the twins death well at all. So two grieving guys going on some trip to drink away their feelings that was a typical thing for them to do but not on my watch. I missed my dad like crazy, I miss the way he would be protective over me, I missed the way he would tease one another. I missed waking up in the morning and going downstairs seeing him sitting there with glass of bourbon to hand, while his eyes sparkled as I entered the room. There was no doubt I was a daddy's girl as much as I loved being with my mom, helping her while I was here, my dad needed me too. So I asked Klaus to look over mom while I was away, to keep his distance of course because if she was to see him she would freak, as far as she knew he dumped her to leave town and she found him with some other girl. So he had people watching over her while I went on this trip.

Ric was fine with me being there whereas my dad wasn't best pleased as I was acting like the mother figure in his eyes. He was constantly drinking and half of the time he didn't even know what city we were in, and this was going on for weeks. The one thing he didn't like the fact that I was writing in my journal to explain my life and my reason to my mom when she finally come around. There was friendly banter between us where my dad would remind me that I was fragile and could die, sometimes it felt like he resented me but that only when I would take what he was telling me to heart. Today was one of those days where he keep throwing in my face that I was here and mom wasn't, before I did or said anything stupid I walked away giving an excuse of sightseeing.

When I came back after our little spat I learnt that the heretic were in Mystic Falls, that they have been attacking innocent humans. All I kept thinking was that this was all my fault, with all my efforts Natalia had won she had got a creepy vampire dolls back into the living world. What annoyed me is that my dad didn't care, he was all about that Uncle Stefan had this in hand, it was like nothing mattered, that he was literally counting the days to my death. The thing about my dad he has foot in mouth syndrome, but I couldn't stay mad at him because in the end I was deceiving him. Whatever he was throwing at me I deserved even if it did hurt. So after his apology he suggested that we go and follow Ric as he didn't seem in fit mind or state, with him faking that he has been getting drunk all this time when in fact he's been drinking tea. We walked the streets of Amsterdam in search for him, I didn't mind because this meant I would be having some father and daughter time, which is all I wanted since being on this trip with him.

"Ric was right here! How did we lose him?" I had literally just seen him, where would he have gone? I felt as if I was tripping out or something.

"You're wearing terrible shoes for trailing someone, your eyes suck, and you're slow." Dad spoke a little annoyed, his mood swings were giving me whiplash. I had to walk at slow human pace in these heels so he didn't suspect anything, I stopped abruptly in the middle of the street, I think my dad needs a little reality check.

"Oh, I'm slow? You just spent the last few weeks in Europe with a guy pretending to be drunk, and you didn't even notice!" He shrugged his shoulder as I made a great point, how could he not notice that?

"True." He admitted in defeat, I wasn't going to argue with him, we needed to figure out where Ric had went and why he has been playing us the way he has.

"So, where do you wanna go?" I asked him as he looked distracted looking at something over my shoulder. "Should we turn around, or should we go straight? Or make a left here...?" As I stood there I could hear the sounds of a vehicle coming from behind me, every part of me wanted to use my speed to get the hell out of the road. Then I looked at my dad who could clearly see what was happening behind me. The van honks, and my dad vamp-speeds the both of out of the way, pinning me against a nearby car so I won't be hurt. I stood there stunned for a moment before I could processes what happened and recovers from the shock that he had contemplated my life. "You saw that truck coming? Didn't you?" I could see in my dad's eyes that he knew he had been caught, I heard that van second before, and he stood there looking directly at it while it was going to plough into me.

"What?" He was clearly playing dumb, I pushed his hands off me freeing myself from his grip while trying to keep my anger under control.

"Did you just hesitate to save my life?" A part of me in that moment felt her world being shattered, knowing that in that moment I meant nothing to him, his own daughter, he was willing to have a car hit me. Then the other part of me like he's not dealing with not having my mom around that it was some kind relapse, he did love me, and care for me. My mind was battling with these two theory while he stood there and scoffed.

"Relax, it was three seconds." He was trying to justify that this was okay, that within those three seconds he was willing to see me dead? Well he would have had a shock of his life that I wouldn't have, and everything everyone had done to protect mom would have been for nothing.

"Three seconds? I could have died!" I yelled at him because I was so hurt by his actions, it had to end because I wasn't going to live like this no longer. "I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life thinking that you resent me." I tried to walk away from him but he incepted me, with anger in his eyes probably because he didn't like the fact I yelled at him.

"How else am I supposed to feel, Isabella? Every time I look at you, all I see is not your mom." Hearing him say this broke my heart as mom was on the other side of the world living this life without him doing pretty well in her fake life, while my dad stood here a broken man, unable to move on without her.

"I'm so sorry this happened, but I lost mom too. And you're one of the few reminders I have to hold onto, so you can resent me or love me... but you're stuck with me." I didn't wait around for him to say anything I walked away from him to think about his actions. Some might think I deserve everything that's been thrown at me, but I didn't ask for any of this. I might be lying to my father face every time I see him knowing that I see my mom every day when I am in New York, but I know if the shoes was on the other foot he would have done the same.

Flashback- 3 Weeks Ago

Klaus and I spent the day together before I went on my trip to Europe, we spent most of the afternoon shopping, then went to a restaurant for dinner. I knew I was going to miss him, and with our relationship being secretive even here in New York, time was precious between us. After dinner I went back home to pack, I didn't know how much of this stuff I was actually going to bring with me, but I'll attempt to bring most of it. When I walked in I saw my mom curled up on the couch with a blanket over her legs, glass of bourbon in her hand, and hold something else in her other hand, as I looked closer I saw that it was a photograph.

"Hey, you look shopped out." She smiled but I could see there was something on her mind, and something told me it had something to do with that photo.

"Yeah I won't be shopping for a while." I put the bags down and walked over and sat next to her, like always she lay her legs over mine. "What's with the photo?" She placed her glass down on the coffee table and sighed.

"I received a letter from my biological grandparents, and they sent me this." She hands me the photo which was of a woman with long dark hair, pale skin, she looked a little familiar. "That's Isobel Fleming, my birth mom." She spoke with sorrow in her voice, I couldn't believe I was looking at my grandmother, I had wondered many of times what she looked like and now I knew.

"Wow she's really pretty, I can see some similarities. What did the letter say?" I smiled at her but she wasn't smiling back, what did they write in this letter to upset her?

"That I need to come to terms with the fact that she is dead. That they need to move on, and not being reminded of her." I was left a little speechless as all of that was a little harsh considering all my mom was trying to do was reach out to them, and they literally slammed the door in her face.

"That's a little harsh." I handed the photo back to her, I could see that all of this was hurting her more than she was letting on, I wanted to go and see this so called family and give them a piece of my mind for making her feel like this.

"It doesn't matter, I have a family that loves and adores me. Who needs them?" She spoke carelessly, but I could see from the look in her eyes that this rejection had gotten to her. "What about your parents? You don't talk about them much." I kept off the subject for good reason because I didn't want to spin more web of lies, but how much longer could I really avoid the subject.

"I guess that's because I missed them." Which I did, I know that I spend time here with my mom without her even realizing it that was the thing I was getting to know her but didn't feel right. While I was doing all that I was missing my dad like crazy, I know spending time with him soon but I had missed out on six months being with him, if I was around maybe he wouldn't of crumble like he had. "My dad totally amazing, his loving, real caring, and witty as hell." I couldn't help but smile as I thought about him, and I knew in less than 24 hours I'll be seeing him, that alone made me feel better. "I love him more than anything in this world." I may not show it sometimes, and with my actions by keeping this from him, but he meant so much to me, reason being when I made my grand appearance at my mom New Year Eve party he was the only one who I felt believed in me. For that I felt I had an instant connection with him, a different connection compared to my mom.

"We have something in common." My mom broke me out of my thoughts with her comment, what did she mean by that? Had she remembered my dad? Was the compulsion wearing off? I felt like panic mode was about to kick in. "Why you looking at me like that?" She giggled and right now I was a little bewildered with where all this was going. "I mean we both love our dad's so deeply, not that I'm in love with your dad." She busted into Laughter, not knowing that my dad is the love of her existence. "I don't even known him, and I think he would be a little old for me." The irony in that comment, it didn't bother her before all this the 150 year age gap.

Valerie P.O.V

So after having our little fun with the humans I knew there was going to consequence to our actions, I thought that maybe Natalia will give us some long speech about not being barbaric, that we have to live with the people in this town. No that didn't happen, would you like know what happened instead? A girl named Elena came into our home portrayed herself to be human by bringing some hideous welcoming present, while her friend planted some kind of bomb in our home. Of course we all survived the blast, but this what they had attempted was regards to myself and the other as an act of war, if they wanted war they better be prepared.

We found out that there was going to be a special ceremony in the town square, where the cooperates along with the humans would be attending. Of course Nora and Mary-Louise were on the warpath and couldn't wait to let our little show beginning. We arrived and the citizens of Mystic Falls have gathered in the town square to attend a ceremony for the police academy's recent graduates, who have now officially become deputies. I looked over at the guest seated the first person who caught my eye was that Elena, sitting smiling as she admired those waiting to receive their award.

"Please join me in recognizing our graduating class of new deputies as I read their names and they receive their badges." The Sheriff announce, the soon-to-be-deputies all stand and walk up to the stage in a single file line. Mary Louise and Nora are standing behind the back row of seats as they take in the crowd. Of course they were bickering like always I still to this very day didn't understand how their relationship has lasted. The two reach over and hold hands, lacing their fingers together as they smile at each other. "Deputy Cornell Willis..." My focus was still on the girls rather than anything else, they needed to be focus with what we were about to do. After a moment, Mary Louise gets uncomfortable and lets go of Nora's hand, and Nora seems hurt by her embarrassed expression.

"Mar... It's the 21st century. We can hold hands now." Nora takes her hand once again, but Mary Louise still seems a little uncomfortable.

"Oh my God! Is this your first date in public? That's adorable." I mocked the both of them, I didn't understand Mary-Louise problem, if she loved Nora she should show it there no need to hide there so called love anymore.

"We should double sometime. There's bound to be a man out there desperate enough to buy you dinner." Mary Louise smirks at her joke, which makes Nora giggle, but I wasn't amused by the comment whatsoever, right now wasn't the time for us to get into huge argument.

"Can we focus on revenge, please?" The both of them rolled their eyes, but now wasn't the time for childish games, it was time to show those who oppose a threat to us that we do not take them likely.

"Deputy Taylor Hall..." we closes our eyes and begin to cast a spell, I couldn't help but smirk in anticipation for the imminent chaos as we repeat the incantation together.

"Confuso fatina..." Of course they were all unaware of what's to come, the graduation ceremony continues on.

"Deputy Matthew Donovan..." The names continued to be called as we continued with the spell, waiting for the moment when the screams would be heard.

"Ignos et ignos mortifina." I could feel the spell working, the connection between the three of us seeping into the earth ready to strike.

"Deputy Tim Johnson..." Another named called, another person who is going to die, I'm looking forward to seeing the look upon that Elena face as she and her friend cause all this.

"Confuso fatina, ignos et ignos mortifina." The words were spoken and I could feel the power growing around us, getting stronger, it will leave the people of Mystic Falls terrified "Confuso fatina, ignos et ignos mortifina." Beau had joined us now making the spell a lot stronger, a mute he maybe but he was still very powerful.

"Deputy Don Morris..." I opened my eyes for a moment to a person that I didn't expect to see here today, Stefan Salvatore, he appeared behind that Elena girl and the boy that was with her.

"Hey, I think we have a problem." He whispered to the both of them, the three of them turned around to see us standing at the back of the crowd chanting our spell.

"Confuso fatina, ignos et ignos mortifina." Out of nowhere, all of the lawn sprinklers around the town square's park go off, spraying the veteran deputies and the sheriff onstage with water and forcing many of them to rush away as the audience chuckles in amusement. Mary Louise, Nora and Valerie giggle as well, satisfied by their first step in their revenge plot. The sheriff, who is still on stage, addresses the crowd.

"Sorry for the malfunction, folks." The sheriff then flees the stage, along with the audience members in the front row who are now soaked with water. I wasn't satisfied by any of this and narrowed my eyes on my target in my rage after seeing Stefan being protecting that Elena.

"Incendia!" The water from the sprinklers ignites in flames, causing the laughing audience to begin to scream in fear. Elena, the boy and Stefan begin to panic as the rest of the deputies try to usher everyone to safety. One of the new graduates who had been soaked with the water is set ablaze, and he screams in pain as he burns.

The stage and the podium is quickly consumed by flames as well as the ceremony descends into chaos. Mary Louise grabs a fleeing audience member and begins to feed on her, and Malcolm, who has just appeared, does the same. I gave into my urges and joined in on the fun, I had just finished feeding on another deputy, and once he's dead, I threw his body onto the ground, my face and the front of her shirt soaked in blood. I looked around to see dozens of bodies lying sprawled on the ground, some of them drained of blood, others burned to death, this is what happened when you demonstrate an act of war.

Elena P.O.V

Coming to Matt ceremony I never expected for any of this to happen, it looked like Mystic Falls was a war zone, as I looked around with disbelief. The fire continues to grow as it consumes everything in the vicinity, and several more deputies are engulfed by it, the flames searing their skin and killing them in seconds. As I got up from the floor I saw the heretic who didn't speak grab a female graduate and viciously bites on her neck, feeding on her until she dies. When Stefan sees him, he tackles the male Heretic, pinning him on the ground and picking up a broken piece of wood to use as a makeshift stake. Nico was looking around frantically at the chaos around him, overwhelmed by all the death and destruction. I rushed over to a woman I found bleeding out on the ground and kneels next to her. Before I could do anything to save her, a mind blowing headache hit me all at one, the pain was excruciating, I kept clutching to my head hoping that that pain would stop.

I wasn't alone in my pain as Nico was screaming from the same torture from the two girls, the look upon their faces they were having fun in our torment. I could see Stefan still fighting with the male heretic, Stefan was trying to stake him, but flips them over so he is pinning Stefan to the ground and attempting to push the stake toward his heart instead. Stefan groans in frustration and fear as he tries to keep from getting killed. Then out of nowhere, Natalia appears in the middle of the wreckage, looking furious as she glares at her family. The Heretics, shocked to see their "mother," immediately stop what they're doing. The male stands, saving Stefan from death, and the two girls release Nico and I from their pain infliction spell. She wasn't happy with what had happen here, that all this carnage wasn't necessary, she only spoke a few words, but all were with disappointment.

Natalia not only looks at the Heretics, who are covered in blood and who have all moved to stand near her, but also at us, clearly furious at all involved parties for what we've done. Nico glared directly back at her showing no fear, which right now was a silly move, I placed my hand on his shoulder and gave him a look. It was like he was in a mission to get himself killed, Nico was strong, he had capabilities like no other, but the problem was no one was teaching him how to use them. If Siena was here she would've shown him, he had his dad, who would rather go on a drinking bend, with Nico becoming a little more recluse each day, it was harder for Stefan and I to try and help him. Natalia walks away, and the Heretics follow behind her, looking slightly ashamed.

We all returned back to the boarding house, none of speaking a word about what just happened, Stefan looks exhausted, while I sat there confused and horrified by what they just witnessed. Was all this our doing? If we didn't attack them would this of happened? Right now we only had one choice to save the people in this town.

'Dear Siena... When you wake up, Mystic Falls will look nothing like you remember it.' It won't be, that saddens me because this place as much as we had so many horrors it was our home, all the battle we have faced we all survived it. Me putting all this pen to paper was a way to come to terms with what we had just done, it was a way for Siena to know the truth of what been happening in her absence.

'We made up a story-- a mining fire erupted in the tunnels under the town. Out of control fires, lethal carbon monoxide levels, the works.' In the short amount of time we had it was the only thing that seems reasonable to used, believe me this was difficult for all of us, but we couldn't have any more blood on our hands.

'Natalia's Heretic family is back. Their magic keeps them protected. They're faster and stronger than any of us, and they're willing to tear our town apart for their own entertainment. Without you being here we don't stand a chance, so we had to protect it.' I knew if Siena was here full blown Dimidium Sanguine those heretic wouldn't stand a chance. Nico was trying to fill in her shoes but he didn't have the control she did, with Nico using what powers he had were hit and miss, if he faced the heretic like he wants to it could lead to something really terrible happening to him. That something neither I nor Stefan could allow him to do.

'Natalia thought her family was ready to live among humans. She was wrong. The truth is, their impulsive nature put every citizen in this town in danger, so Stefan negotiated a deal.' When Stefan told us about the extreme he was going to go, Nico and I were left lost with words. It was like our hands were tied, but it was the only option.

'We had time to clear out the residents, and in return, anyone who trespassed was fair game for the Heretics. Stefan and Nico went door-to-door, evacuating residents. Drove out business, boarded up homes, closed off the town to traffic...' For the first time ever Mystic Falls was a ghost town, just seeing the look of despair on everyone's faces as they drove away was heart-breaking, I needed to remind myself that this was done to keep them safe.

'We all gave up a lot to get Natalia to agree. You not going to like this but remember Siena why this was done, Stefan sacrificed the boarding house, the place where all the memories we shared. The only place where we would all feel close to you, even after all these month we can still smell your perfume lingering down the hallways.' That alone upset me more than anything, it wasn't that Natalia wanted everyone gone from the town.

'We hate them, they hate us. But now, at the very least, we have a truce. Whether we like it or not, we'll share our town. We'll live side-by-side with our enemies for as long as it takes.' I stopped writing looking up to see Elijah and Natalia talking across the street, before I could listen in I watched the both of them kiss. I felt my jaw hang as I was witnessing this, Elijah had switched side or something? I was angry, no I was raging, I got my phone out of my bag and tried to call Julian to tell him that his BFF is fraternizing with the enemy, but he didn't answer. He wasn't even at the house when we had to leave, he better not done a disappearing act on us, not today. I went to call Stefan to tell him about what I witness, I don't know how he going to take to the news, but what been shown is people we thought we could trust have switched side.

Damon P.O.V

Today I have a serious problem with upsetting Isabella with stupid things I say without thinking, and not forgetting doing. I don't know what was running through my mind when I could see that van heading towards her... Yes I did I thought that I would have Siena back in my arms, how messed up is that for a father to wish his own child dead also that he could have back the women he loves. The look of hurt in her eyes after she walked away just proved that I wasn't fit to be a father, I wasn't ready to do all this alone. No matter how much I loved both of my kids I kept messing the both of them up, Nico who I wanted to kill for hurting Isabella, Isabella for breathing while Siena sleeping, what dad does that? What the hell was wrong with me? I can't continue like this because if I do I will lose the both of them and that something I didn't want. Even though Nico and I are on good terms, real good, especially since what happened, who to say I don't turn on him over something stupid. I needed a serious attitude adjustment, it was neither of their faults that this has happened, and I need to start showing them that I'm strong enough to pull through this. That they both can turn to me and no fear of whatever mood swing I maybe in.

So the first thing I tried to do was fix things with Isabella, but by the time I got back to the hotel, reception had told me she checked out and caught a cab to the airport. I found Ric back at the hotel and told him half of what happened, of course he gave me the lecture that I'm inconsiderate, selfish, and how I didn't deserve a kid like Isabella. Any other time I would have flipped out at him, but this time Ric was right I screwed up big time, and I needed to get back to the states to correct my mistakes. I compelled us the first flight back, I didn't speak much on the plane because all Ric would say is that I'm a douche, I was trying to think of a way to make this up to Isabella. Maybe I would go to New York and go and see her and try to gain her forgiveness. When we landed I called Isabella a few times and she kept sending me to voicemail, she obviously didn't want to speak to me, but I wasn't going to leave it like this, she was going to hear me out. So I called Tony to find out Isabella address, as she been keeping it from all these months for some unknown reason. Tony had spoken to Isabella who told him she was going to be in Mystic Falls until the weekend, this was a huge relief to me.

So I had positive vibe about trying to make amends with her that I would do whatever it took for her to forgive me for my stupidity. My positive vibe went as soon as I arrived back in Mystic Falls to find the town empty and my home give up to my mother and her crazies. Of course I wanted to go charging into that house and throw each and every one of them out, once again my buddy made me see sense and told me to talk to Stefan before I did anything rash. Ric went home while I went in search of my stupid brother who allowed this to happen, everywhere in town was boarded up, it literally looked like a ghost town. I could see a light on in the grill I approached the window and looked through the crack to see that Stefan was in there packing things up. He cracks open a beer before chugging it down. I pulled out my phone and called him, I watched as he looks at his phone with hesitation, if he didn't answer it I'm going in there and kicking his ass all over the grill.

"How's Europe?" Stefan was trying to keep his voice casual, probably avoiding to tell me about him handing everything over to our mother and her family of freaks.

"Ric was kind of "meh" on the Mona Lisa..." I stopped outside the grill where I knew Stefan was, I wanted to give him the opportunity to come clear. "Anything I should know about?" Now was his time to spill all to me, let's see if he can be big enough to tell me that he gave our home away. The one place I could still feel Siena presence, that I could sit in and recall all the memories we made, taken from me, not only me but my kids too, our family home given to those freaks.

"Eh, it can wait 'til you get back." He really wasn't going to tell me. Oh boy he's in for a surprise, I opened the front door to the grill walked in. "Well, I'm back! Want to tell me who the hell's living in our house?" Stefan stood there looking speechless, he didn't expect me to come back, but my trip was cut short due to the mess that was going on here, plus fact Isabella left without saying a word.

So Stefan gave me the rundown of what had been happening while I was trying to wish my problems away, it turns out our mother, and her freaks wanna stand high in the food chain. They caused a totally massacre in the town killing innocent humans, as a warning of their lame attempt of bombing the Heretic home. I couldn't wrap all of this in my mind, first of all why the hell did Elena go as the distraction? That was the first screw up, Elena can't act her way out of a paper bag. To have the town evacuated was a little extreme in my eyes, the people had lived through a lot worse bad guys with the expectation of one or two dead bodies. These guys were a bunch of idiot for handing everything over, my brother the biggest idiot of them all, if I was here none of this would've happened, no way in hell would I had allowed them to win. I shared those thoughts with Stefan but for some reason he wasn't listening, he wasn't playing the role that I thought he would, meaning fighting to protect what was ours, not give up in defeat.

"The whole town would have been slaughtered." Once again Stefan was trying to justify his stupid actions, while I'm trying so hard to keep my temper under control.

"So we kill them and call it a day!" It was all as simple as that, why the hell hadn't these idiot even thought of that? Kill these Heretic and problem solved, was that such a hard conclusion to come to?

"We already tried that." Every single part me wanted to give my brother the beat down that he deserved right now for giving up everything we had, it was hard for me to show restrain right now. "Look, the deal has been made. We don't mess with them, they don't mess with us." I took a step back from him, I couldn't believe this was the guy who like to play hero, who always did what's best, but this right now, this stupid plan wasn't something he would of conjured up, no the Stefan I knew.

"That's very benevolent of you, brother. You should run for Mayor. Not that anyone would be here to vote for you." Stefan walks over to where I was standing and stares into my eyes, he was clearly unimpressed by me, but I didn't give a damn, I was here none of this would of even of happened.

"Look, what's done is done. Do not mess this up." It was like he had given up, that this was it, no it wasn't because I wasn't going to let it end like this. The Stefan I knew would have never gave everything up for this town, he may have his hero hairdo, but this wasn't down to him.

"Who convinced you to save a town full of people you don't give a crap about? Because it's not your idea, I know my son wouldn't gave up so easily, so it must be Elena's." Of course it was Elena, she always got into his head, and the worse thing for my brother was to fall in love with her. I tolerated her for his sake and Siena's, but after everything she put them both through I could never forgive her even if they did, this had her written all over it, playing martyr.

"Do me a favour-- box that bottle up on your way out." Stefan turns to walk away, he just ignored what I just said, and it just proved that Elena knew what buttons to still push.

"Stefan hangs up his hero-hair for the girl. And here I thought my future was bleak." Stefan stops and turns to me before walking back over, seems that I touched a nerve.

"You know, Siena wanted you to be happy. To live. Even encouraged you to date. But, if she wakes up and everyone she loves is dead, do you think she's going to be able to forgive that?" His words hit me hard, he was right id Siena was to wake up, and the worse had happened, and knew I didn't do anything to stop it she wouldn't forgive me. "I'm not doing this for Elena, Damon. I'm doing this for you." Stefan leaves the Grill, while I reflected on what he had just told me.

Isabella P.O.V

I was furious, no I was raging after what happened with my dad, I never imagine myself being so angry at him, I so badly wanted to kick his ass for wanting me dead even if it was for three seconds. I couldn't stay around no more, I wasn't going to listen to crappy apology or excuse him for it, I was sick and tired. I keep allowing him to do this because of the guilt I have with hiding the fact that mom was fine and not sleeping in some casket, but I'm not going to live god knows how many years with him resent me for being here and she wasn't. No he wasn't going to get away with, not anymore, nope it's not going to happen. For the first time in three weeks I used my vamp-sped to get back to the hotel and packed all my stuff like a lunatic. I wanted to cry but I kept stopping myself because my father didn't deserve my tears. I left the hotel and made my way to the airport and compelled myself a seat on the next flight out of here, time wouldn't come soon enough. I kept looking around in the airport thinking that my selfish asshole of a father might turn up begging for forgiveness, well to no avail he didn't.

During the flight I did a lot of reflecting, I was mad as hell about my dad, about Natalia and her freaks attacking innocent in Mystic Falls, and the more I thought about the angrier I got. The seven hour flight felt like a lifetime, but when we finally landed I got my luggage, ready to go back to New York but I couldn't go there not knowing what going on back home. So I called grandpa and updated him with what happened, I missed the part that my dad was a jerk, but just told him I'll be back in New York at the weekend. From the airport I made my way to Mystic Falls, when I arrived I couldn't believe what I walked in on, the place was ghost town, no one in site. The first thing I did was call my brother to find out what had happened, he asked me to come to Whitmore so he could explain it all face to face. So I did as he asked and went there, I felt exhausted with all this travelling, but right now I need to know what the hell was going on.

So when I arrived Nico began to explain about what happened after their attempt of bombing the house where the Heretic were staying in failed. I just stood there stunned by this story that was being told to me, that they went that far to turn celebration into a bloodbath. Of course Nico notice from the get go that there was something up with me, that when I let it spill, but as soon as I began to tell him about it all I ranted like there was no tomorrow, not giving Nico the opportunity to talk. I think it was all the anger I was hold back just flood to the surface, I don't want to say I hate my dad because that would be a lie, but I hate that he made me feel like this. That all I was trying to get across to Nico, to make him understand how can I forgive dad for doing that to me. You know get some brotherly advice from him, maybe he knew a better way of dealing with this.

"I think you're exaggerating like always Bella." Nico spoke from across the room as he sat at the desk with stack of books and his laptop opened, I was taken back by what he just said. Me exaggerating? Didn't he hear about the part that our father could see the van coming and considered to have it hit me?

"Excuse me! I just told you that dad nearly had me as road kill and you-" I began to say but was quickly cut off by Nico as he got up from his chair.

"I think the vital word is nearly." He sneered the nearly part, what was up his ass right now, I came to him for help and his acting like I'm a freaking burden. "It didn't happen. He didn't let you get hit by that van, just get over it." He snapped before walking over to grab another witchy book, I got up from the bed, I had enough of Salvatore men and the stinky attitude.

"What the hell is the problem?" I lost my temper at him, I had really had it with all of them using me like a personal punch bag. I didn't ask for all this! Times like this I wish I was the one who was under that sleeping spell.

"I have more important thing to worry about Isabella, not hearing about your daddy drama." Nico was pissing me off, he clearly had a problem with me, saying what going on between dad, and me was pointless drama hurt my feelings. "I have real life drama to deal with here, so go back to New York live you little perfect life." That when I knew why he was being a jackass, it was all down to the fact I was in New York living this fake life with mom, while he was here having to deal with all this. Nico was jealous, that the only conclusion I could come up with.

"Is this why you're being an ass, because I'm in New York with mom." Nico shot a look at me but says nothing, as he continues to look through the stack of books. I need for him to understand that I didn't ask for this, and yeah maybe he would have been the better person to look out for mom, but that's not what happened and he needed to accept it. "Nico it wasn't out of choice that I did it, I did because it was the only way to keep her safe and my secret safe." I didn't want Nico resenting me too, I couldn't handle having him and dad doing that to me, all of this was hard enough on me, even though Nico reckons I have this perfect life there, I missed the both of them like crazy.

"Bella, come to whatever conclusion you want. I need to focus on how to get these Heretic out of our lives." He walks pass me with couple of book in his hands and I grabbed them and threw them across the room. He was being such a jerk right now, no matter how I explained this to him, he saw my problem as nothing, that he feels I deserved to be treated like that, if that was true he was no better than dad. "Real mature Isabella." He goes and picks up the book.

"Don't dismiss me Nico." I yelled at him as I did he turned to me with this look in his eyes which was kind of scary, but I didn't care he had pushed me now, and I wasn't leaving until he told me why the hell his seeing me as inconvenience.

"I think it's time for you to leave." Nico spoke a little dangerously, the old me, the pre-vampire me would left in an instant, but Nico and I were the same now, I wasn't scared of him or his fangs. I was going to speak my mind about what I thought about this whole situation and I don't give a damn if he doesn't like what he hears.

"No. I'm not going nowhere." I protested as Nico stood a foot away from me glaring. "You're not pushing to get these Heretic out of town, not after given them our home. How freaking stupid are you and Uncle Stefan!" Like seriously what the hell were they thinking? Here have everything you want make yourself comfortable in our home. Would they like our blood with that too?

"What the hell do you know about anything that's been going on here? You know nothing Isabella, so don't walk in here judging!" He yelled as he got into my face, he had this crazy look in his eyes, it reminded me of the first time I met him actually it wasn't him it was Nickar. "Why don't you do all of us a favour and stop being a spoiled brat who thinks she knows everything, you know nothing. Go back to what you're good at and-" I slapped him across the face, the rage filled his eyes as soon as he realised what I did. Did I regret what I did? Hell no! Nico was about to go for me when we were broken apart by the father figure.

"Whoa...." He was still trying to push us apart as we were both going for one another, believe it was hard for me to hold back the fact I was a hell of alot stronger than the both of them. "What the hell is wrong with the both of you?" We both stopped fighting against our dad, he stood there looking between the both of us thinking what the hell had happened for us to break into a fight. "Nico?" Nico eyes don't leave mine, that rage and anger was still there and it wasn't going to go out any time soon, I didn't back down either, I wasn't frightened of him. "Isabella?" I heard my dad say but I didn't break the eye contact neither, we continued to glare at one another. "Someone going to tell me what the hell going on here." Dad raised his voice in frustration, right now I wasn't going to be speaking I wanted to kick my brother's ass all around this room for being an utter jerk.

"Isabella pissed about giving up to Natalia and her Heretics." Nico finally breaks eye contact and looks at dad, who stood there looking between the both of us speechless by our little spat. "I guess that's why you're here too." Nico about to walk out of the room but dad intercepts him before he could get to the door. Oh and he calls me a drama queen, dramatic exit out of the room doesn't scream that.

"None of this isn't on you Nico." Dad spoke to him calmly, there was sincerity in his voice, he really didn't blame Nico for none of this, so if he didn't blame Nico who did he blame? I bet he will find a way to say that somehow it's my fault so he can throw more crap in my face and reasons why I shouldn't be here and mom should.

"Yeah, well tell your daughter that." Nico spoke bitter before passing dad leaving the room. Just wonderful I'm the villain now, well that's no surprise. I walked over to the bed and grabbed my stuff to leave but as I turn dad was standing behind me with that look of disappointment in his eyes.

"I think it's healthy that siblings fight at times...." He spoke calmly as he took my bag from my hand and placed it on the bed, I wasn't in the mood to be speaking to him right now. "What the hell are you thinking Isabella!" He yelled at me and right now I was taken back, then again I did say I would be portrayed as the villain. "Your human and Nico-" He began to say but I wasn't going to have him standing in front of me like a hypocrite.

"Don't you start lecturing me, about how I could have got myself killed. Wasn't it you that thought about letting a van run me over?" I tried to walk out of the room but he stopped me, it was so easy for me to just bypass him, but doing that I would destroy everything we have done to keep mom safe. So I had to keep all my anger under control so he wouldn't find out what I did, how I deceived him, something tells me when the truth comes out he is going to hate me, his actions from today proved it.

"Come on, Isabella! It was three seconds." He thought that three seconds was really acceptable? I am his goddamn daughter, his flesh and blood, a creation from him and mom and he would rather see me dead so he could be with her? Just knowing that hurt like hell.

"Do you know how long three seconds are in a life-or-death situation?" Does he even realize what he did? I looked to him and saw that he was overwhelmed, that he regretted what he did, but those baby blues may work 90% of the time but right now they weren't.

"The first second, I thought of how amazing it would feel to have your mom in my arms again. By second number two, I was kissing her..." I stood there hurt hearing that this was actually running through his mind as he considered my life. "And by the third, I remember you're my daughter, and that if anything ever happened to you, I would lose my mind." He placed his hand on my cheek, I could see that look in his eyes the look when he regrets what he's done. "So, yes, Isabella, I do know how long three seconds are." I backed away from him, as I did his hand dropped to his side, leaving him a little surprised by my action.

"You say all that and I'm meant to just accept it?" I tried to keep my voice down, but it was hard, he tells me in the third second that he realized I'm his kid. He should know that from the moment he saw that van, he should be protecting me, keeping me safe, and making sure that I have this great life. "Like you said, when you look at me you don't see mom that also means I'm not as forgiving either." Once again I grabbed my things and tried to leave, but dad wasn't going to let me leave, there was nothing more to be said, I didn't want to hear anything more from him, because all he was doing is making the situation a lot worse.

"Isabella that was one of the stupidest things I've ever said, because every time I look at you all I do see is her." This is the part I'm meant to melt, that my dad see my mom in me, well hell gonna freeze over before I back down from all this. "What's happened sucks, and if the situation was reversed and your mom was standing here, I would be just as distorted." I could hear that sincerity in his voice breaking down the walls I built up to not let him in, my dad was my world he was everything to me, that's why all this hurts so damn much. "I don't deal with emotions well, when I'm hurting I lash out on the wrong people, one of those people being you." I stood there taking in everything he told me, was I just going to be like yeah it fine we can be cool?

"The problem here dad is what you did in your moment of selfishness changed everything." I left all my things behind and left the room to leave him to think about what I just told him. I know that I'm not perfect, that each and every time I see him I'm lying to him, but I'm not putting him life endanger in the process. What we did that night was to protect mom and him, to assure that they would be together sooner rather than 60 years down the line. Right now the way I'm feeling was it really all worth it...

I got the hell away from there before dad could attempt to stop me, I had all this pent up anger and rage inside me right now and I needed to let it out. I'm going to do something that my so called family can't and that is deal with these goddamn Heretic once and for all. I used my vampire speed to get myself to Mystic Falls. When I arrived there was a eerie feel in the air, a place that I once knew was filled with life was literally lacking it. I heard a noise, like trash cans being knocked over, I rushed over to see where it came from. When I arrived I saw one of those vampirefreaks draining some poor homeless guy his blood, he drops the man's body onto the ground, he slowly turns around to see me standing behind him.

"And you are...?" He had this smirk on his face as he thought I was going to be his next meal. I guess my evil grandmother didn't show her freaks a family photo of us.

"Isabella Salvatore, I think you know my totally amazing grandmother." My voice was dripping in sarcasm, this was a suicide mission in doing this, but I need to take matters into my own hands. Right now I wasn't in the mood to be pushed around.

"The daughter of dimidium sanguine-" His eyes widen with excitement, before he could say another words I stopped him mid-sentence.

"I think she prefers to go by Siena, but yeah that's totally my mom, but let me guess you're one of Natalia freak vampire dolls I saw back in prison world." He slowly stalks toward me, and I just smiled at him because he had no idea of what was about to hit him, I extended my arms and casting a pain infliction spell on him. He groans in pain for a moment or two before lunging at me grabbing hold of my arm, which begins to glow as he siphons magic from me. I had to wait for the right moment to attack, and he was going to be in for a surprise.

"To be fair, I would rather have the dimidium sanguine powers." I groaned in pain as he continues to consume my magic, it was painful but bearable, I needed to fool him to think I was still the defenceless human. "Now why don't you tell me where Siena is, I know she's no longer in her-" I looked up at him with widened eyes, he knew my mom wasn't in that casket that she was living and breathing. Before I could counter attack him to find out what he knew, he yelps in pain before crumpling to the ground. I looked up to see my dad, holding Heretic's heart in his hand, having ripped it out through his back. We both looked at the dead body, but as I looked up my dad had this strange expression on his face.

"So are you gonna to tell me what the creepy Heretic guy was talking about?"

Hi guys,

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'm looking forward to reading your comments on what you thought on it all. This is just a little note to let you know that the next update will be on Saturday. Reason being that was the day this book was meant to be launched, but not only that it's going to be a Halloween special. As you guys know Siena birthday on that day, including my own, and I have something very special planned for you guys. Those of you that have missed reading about her, well she finally coming into play into the story.

Verus Amor Vincit Omnia.... (True Love Conquers All)