Chapter One: Growing Pain

Mystic Falls. I was born here, this is my home.

And mine.

And mine.

And my home as well.

For centuries, supernatural creatures have lived among us.

There are vampires,

Werewolves,

Doppelgangers,

Sorceresses,

Witches,

and even hybrids.

And there Samathea... and she is now one of us.

Samathea laid still in the morgue as silence ran through the room, but then suddenly she shot open her eyes and took in a breath and exhales heavily.

As she had awakened from the dead

Samathea tosses and turns as she can hear everything now. The lawn mower, the wind, the birds. Cars, heel clinking against the ground, the sirens, dogs barks, chainsaw, even the heartbeats. It all attack her at once. She gasp awake then she panics as she looks around, pulling herself up and against the wall and pulls her knees close to her chest, then she felt hands grip her shoulders. "Hey, hey Sam. Sammy. It's alright, it's alright." Elena tells her, Samathea looks at her, then started to calm down and she drops her head to her knees. "Hey, hey." another voice calls out and she looks over at Stefan.

"You've been in and out for hours." he tells her, she pants as she tries to collect herself. "Stefan… wha… what happened?" she asks him, Elena sits next to her and rubs her arm. "You were in an accident." Stefan informs her. Then the memory of the truck and the bridge come back to her, "Oh God Matt… is he…" she asks him. "Alive?" Damon asks her and the three look at each other, "Why don't you ask Stefan, the hero." Damon starkly snaps and Samathea looks at Stefan as he and Elena look back at her. "He's fine." Stefan answers her.

Making her exhale in relief, "Oh thank god." she states then leans back against the frame, but then everything else plays back in her head. Making her stiffens "Wait… but you only had time to save one of us, how… how did I survive?" Samathea asks them and the two look away from her. "You didn't." Damon answers and she looks at him. "What?" she asks. "You drown Samathea." he informs her again. Samathea looks at Stefan. "Wh-wha… but… when… no…" she stutters at them, panicking again. "When Jeremy and Elena brought you to the hospital earlier last night, your injures were worse then anyone knew." Stefan informs her, she looks at him as shaking her head slowly. "So Meredith Fell made a choice, she use Damon's blood to heal you." he adds in and horror was etch into Samathea's face. "And when Rebekah ran Matt's truck off the bridge, you died with vampire blood in your system, Samathea." Damon tells her and tears form in her eyes. "So does that mean… I'm dead?!" she questions them and they didn't look at her.

Then shook her head faster, "No, no no no no no. that didn't… it wasn't suppose to…" she mutters more and Elena grips her shoulders. "And it doesn't have to be. I talk to Bonnie, she says she stronger then ever, there might be something she can do to help you." Stefan informs her, "No, the only thing that's going to help is for you to feed and complete the transition." Damon informs then Samathea lets out a shudder pant as Stefan turns to his brother. "We have all day before she has to feed, Damon. That's a date exhaust, there's ever possible away out of this." Stefan informs him. "There is no way out of it. We all know the drill. You feed or you die, there is no door number three." Damon informs him as he was very bitter.

But Samathea bites her lip. "I was ready to die." she cries, then the Salvatores look at her, "I was suppose to die, I don't… I don't want to…" she cries more. But then Elena moves her into her arms and Samathea cries on her shoulder. "Shh, shh, shh." Elena shush her, petting the back of her head. Then she looks at Stefan. "If there is something Bonnie can do, we have to try." Elena tells them. Stefan nods at her, "We will. We'll try everything." Stefan promises her and Damon smirks bitterly to himself. "Your choice, as always." he tells them then stood up and walks out of the room. Stefan exchanges looks with Elena as Samathea just pants heavily.

~8~8~8~

Damon pulls out a bottle of bourdon that was in the cupboards and pours himself a glass. Then Stefan and Elena walks into the kitchen. "Way to get her hopes up for something that's never happened in the history of vamperism." Damon applause Stefan as he turns to the two. "Well, you weren't there the day Samathea look me in the eye and said she never wanted this." Stefan throws back at him. "You shouldn't of let her die." Damon informs him, "I never meant for her to die. She force me to help Matt and I did." Stefan tells him.

Then Damon walks up to him. "And now the world has one more quarter back, bravo brother." Damon tells him and pours more Bourdon. "Okay. Okay." Elena said and pushes the both of them apart. "This isn't helping Sam." Elena tells them, but Damon kept his eyes on his brother. "I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life. Now let me try to fix it." Stefan tells him, then took Elena's hand and the left Damon by himself.

~8~8~8~

Samathea stood in her darken room as she was in front of her mirror then hisses in pain as her head started to ache. She rubs her fingers to her temples, but still heard that ringing in her ears. But then she cringes again as her mouth was now aching. She opens her mouth and lift her lips out of the way and looks at her teeth and gums seeing that her teeth were still normal.

But then she finches as she could hear the humming of the light blob as if it was her right in her ear. But when she looks at the lamp shielding her eyes from the blinding light, she saw a shade of red and looks at her door, seeing Jeremy leaning against her doorway. "Jeremy." she said and then walks up to him. He walks up to her and crashes her in his arms. She exhales as she found comfort in his arms and relaxes. Then she pulls back and looks at him. "Are you okay?" he asks her, she shrugs. "I watch Vicki go through the same thing and she was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place and old memories came flooding back." he tells her as she heard the hum again, making her look over at it.

Samathea bites her lip and then looks at him, "I'm fine, really and I'm not Vicki." Samathea tells him, "No you're not. You're you." he states and she looks back at the lamp as the hum was louder. "You hide how you really feel so you don't worry everyone, even when you need help." he tells her and she turns back to him. "I said I'm fine and I can handle it, alright?" she snaps at him, Jeremy looks at her as she then raises her sudden addicted change. "Oh God, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to…" she states, but then brushes back her hair, "Have you talk to Bonnie?" she asks in a softer tone. He nods at her, "Yeah. Bonnie said when I was shot, she pleaded to the witch spirits to bring me back and they listen." Jeremy informs her.

"Yeah, but you and I both remember how horrible the consequences were." Samathea reminds him as she knew it was a bad idea. "And what can be more horrible then you turning into a vampire?" he questions, she looks at him and sighs. "Alright you win." she mutters then looks down. Then Jeremy grips her shoulders and she looks up at him, "I need both of my sisters. Not another one of them." he tells her and she nods at him then places her hands on his arms. "We're going to find a way out of this, I promise." she tells him, "I hope so." he states and walks out of her room, "Jeremy." she calls out, he stops and looks at her. "Can you take Elena with you? I don't want her to see me like this." she asks him. He nods at her and headed downstairs.

Samathea exhales, but then she grits her teeth as she covers her ear turns to her lamp. She growls to herself then walks to the room lamp. Jerks off the head and smash the blob in her hand. She realizes what she's done and pulls her hand away and watches the glass fall from her hand and saw that not one of the glass pierce her skin.

~8~8~8~

In the slaver quarter, the coffin was open with the burnt body of Klaus chain inside. Bonnie and Serena looks down at the chain body. "I was honestly expecting worse." Bonnie states and Serena scratches her temple. "Well that's the beauty of a coffin, Alaric didn't realize that he cut of the oxygen, thus killing the fire." she states and Bonnie looks at her, "And how do you know that?" she asks and Serena looks at her. "I was stuck in a coffin for thousand years, Nik would visit me each day, letting in air." she answers her and Bonnie nods at her.

Then they look back at the burnt body, "You're right though, was excepting worse." she agrees. "It's beautiful, isn't it." Taylor asks them and the two turn back around and looking at him. "What is this doing here, Klaus?" Bonnie questions him, the deal that we made with Taylor was you uses his body until you jump into someone else the first chance you got." Bonnie reminds him. "Yes. When I assumed I'd be a pile of ash, but apparently fate in oxygen intervened and there I am." Klaus states as he walks over and looks down at his burnt body. Then he turns to Bonnie, "Put me back." he orders her. "I can't right now." she tells him as Serena looks over from her. "You're history teacher outed Caroline and Taylor to the council. They're on a war path and this body is valuable." Klaus reminds her.

"I have to help Sam before her has to feed." Bonnie informs him and Serena crosses her arms, "Samathea is dead and no longer my concern." Klaus states and Serena glares at him. "You're forgetting who just saved your life." Bonnie tells him and his hand snaps up and grips a hold of Bonnie's throat. "And you're forgetting I can rip your tongue out." Klaus reminds her. "And how will she put you back into your body, Nik?" Serena questions him, he looks at her and she steps behind him, "Think about this Nik, if Bonnie turn Samathea back into a sorceress, you'll have an endless supply of doppelganger blood and you can make more hybrids." she whispers into his ear, getting his attention. Then she moves away from, "But if you kill her, you'll be stuck in that body and the council will come after you, locking you up who knows where." she states and sat on the edge of the coffin and gently stroke Klaus's body burnt face.

He looks down at her, as she looks up at him, smirking. "The choice is yours." she tells him. He looks back at Bonnie then release her. Serena smirks then stood up, "Good choice." she said and then her and Bonnie headed for the door. But Klaus vamps in front of them. "Same rules apply." he informs them, "No one is to know about this, no one is to know that you're in Taylor's body and no one is to know that you're still alive." Serena tells him and Bonnie looks at her. "Yeah we know, we get it and we understand, now move so we can get to work." she tells him, shoving him to the side and then her and Bonnie walks out of the old slave quarters.

~8~8~8~

Matt was shaking his head as he was getting dress in the hospital room, "Sam doesn't want to be a vampire." he states pulling on his coat. "She doesn't want to be dead and now she's not." Caroline informs her and he turns to her. "This isn't your fault Matt." she tells him. "This is all my fault. I was one driving, I was the one that put that stupid bracelet on her wrist. She's a vampire because of me." Matt reminds her and Caroline shot forward a little. "Shh, cool it on the V word, I'm still a fugitive, remember. I'm suppose to be half way to Florida right now." she whispers to him.

"If the council's after you when why are you here?" Matt questions her, "Because I have nowhere else to go. Taylor's dead and everything's different now." she cries then Matt wraps his arms around her, but then their moment was interrupted as a walkie talkie went off. And the both turn to the door and an officer opens it. Matt looks at him as he was the only one in the room. "Can I help you?" Matt asks him, the man looks around in the room, then back at him, "Sorry." he states and walks out of the room.

~8~8~8~

Samathea sat in the kitchen with Stefan and she took a bit out of the sandwich he mad for her. She munches for a few moment and tries to stomach it, "It's disgusting." he states, but she shook her head, "No, no it's…" she tries not to offend him, "It's disgusting." he said again and she nods at him, "Yeah, I think I'm going to puke." she agrees, placing the sandwich on the plate and then took a napkin and spits out the chewed up food from her mouth.

She crumbles it up and places it next to the sandwich, "I'd never thought I'd be saying this, but I can't stop thinking about blood, that's all I can ever think about." she informs him, he nods and then moves off the counter. "I should of saved you first, you shouldn't have to go through this." he states and then turns and pours himself some bourbon, "If you did saved me, Matt would be dead and how would I be then." she asks him, but he turns and sips his bourbon. "Stefan listen, you did what you always do, you respected my choice." she tells him getting up from the chair and stood in front of him. "And what am I suppose to do if Bonnie can't help you, huh. Because then you have another choice to make. You either let yourself die or be a vampire." Stefan informs her.

She sighs, "When we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." she answers him, Stefan looks at her as she then scoffs with a smile. "Oh my God did I just say cross the bridge?" she asks, Stefan arch his eyebrows at her for a moment as she then started to laugh. "You're laughing, but I'm pretty sure you don't think that's funny." he states and she nods at him as she continued to laugh. "I… can't stop… though." she said between laughs. Stefan then pushes himself off the counter. "Your emotions are a bit heighten." he informs her and she laughs louder, covering her mouth a bit. "A lot heighten." he concludes, but then her laugh slowly started to die down into whimpers as her smile was turn upside down and tears were in her eyes, gripping some of her hair. "Hey." he said then steps to her and wraps her arms around her. "Shh." he shushes her as she wraps her arms around him in need of comfort. Her whimpers then turn into pants as she was calming down. "It's okay, it's okay." he whispers to her. "I'm sorry, I…" she mutters as tears stream down her cheeks.

"Listen to me." he said then pulls back and then grips the sides of her neck and she looks up at him. "No matter what happens, I'm here for you. I can help you." he informs her, she looks at him and nods then she pulls back and wipes away her tears. Then but as she pulls her head up, the sun shines in her eyes and she finches, closes her eyes and then moves out of the ray. Stefan then looks at the window and back at her. "Why don't you go back upstairs where it's dark, I'll clean up here." he tells her, she nods at him then shields her eyes and left the kitchen.

She walks up the steps and into her room, where she found Damon, "I'd thought you left." she tells him, staying in front of her door. "Cute pjs." Damon states. Samathea looks at him, confused and then down at her clothes. "I'm tied Damon." Past Samathea informs him, then Samathea looks over and saw herself in her pjs. Then it hits her, it was in a memory. She looks back at him, he stood up and walks up to her and held out her necklace. "I brought you this." he tells her, Past Samathea looks at it in surprise then she sighs with relief, "I thought it was gone forever." she states, he shook his head with a smirk. as Samathea walks over and watches herself and Damon. "Thank you." she tells him and went to take it back, but he moves it out of her reach and his smirk was gone as it became a frown. Samathea blinks her eyes and found that she was standing alone in her bedroom. She looks around seeing that her room barley had any light shining into it. "I just have to say something." he tells her and Samathea was pulled back into the memory. "Why do you have to say it with my necklace?" past Samathea questions him as she was tense.

"Well… what I'm about to say is… probably the most selfish thing I ever said in my life." he tells her, she sucks in a breath and realization hits past Samathea. "Damon, please don't go there." she asks of him, "I just have to say it once, you just need to hear it." he tells her and was right in front of her, Samathea saw that she was a bit afraid as what he was going to say. "I love you, Samathea." he confess to her, and she was now loss for words, Samathea just watches as she shifts in her spot. "And it's because I love you… I can't be selfish with you." he went on, past Samathea was breathtaken at his words, "And why you can't do this. I don't deserve you and somewhere out there in the world, someone else does." he tells her, Samathea saw that her past self wanted to say something but the words didn't form in her mouth as it opened and closed.

This makes her bite her lip as she wanted to say something to him, but she knew her words can't reach him. Then she watches as he then moves forwards and gently kisses her forehead, then moves his lips back, she saw how gentle he was when he was with her and then started to miss Damon. Then she saw him gently grips the side of her head, "God, I wish you didn't have to forget this." he tells her and Samathea saw herself look at him in confusion, then he locks eyes with her. "But you do." he states, a tear streams down his eye as he compels her to forget, she looks at his eyes with a blank look, then closes them. Samathea gasp softly as she remembered and was back in her room again, then pulls her hand up to her forehead where Damon had kiss her. Then brushes back her hair, then she realizes why he made her forget, he didn't want to confuse her on her emotions or lose her, this act alone made her question herself even more.

~8~8~8~

Rebekah stood in the manor that Klaus had build, she was in his art room looking over the drawing that Klaus had drew. Anger rose within her and she cries out as she throws it to the ground, then shoves everything else off the table and she pants as she couldn't feel the anger within her.

She brushes back her hair and sense someone walking you behind her, "You should know better than to sneak up on a lady." she informs him and Damon looks around, "Good advice, have you seen one?" he asks her as he too wasn't in a good mood. She then turns to him "You're here about Samathea." she states and Damon tilts his head at her as his blood boils "And not to wake up the gray cloud or anything, but Matt have auto mobile insurance?" she questions him then turns away. Damon then vamps at her, but she stops him as she turns back and vamps over and smashes him crates, gripping his throat and the wrist that held the white oak stake.

She glares at him as she gags on her grip and he drops the white oak stake, but then she gasp as she was fired at with bullets, she lets go of Damon as he took the stake and vamps out of the manor, Rebekah turns and an arrow was lunch into her heart, making her gasp, then pant heavily as her skin turns gray and she collapse.

~8~8~8~

Samathea paces in her room, then looks down at the frame picture on the stand, she took it and looks at it. It was her, Elena, Jeremy, Miranda, Grayson and herself as she took a picture of them and they were all smiling. Samathea smiles a little as she remembered the day she took the picture, she rubs her thumb against the frame as she misses the old times, but then she heard an owl hoot.

She turns and found herself in the middle of the road as it was night. "Are you okay?" she heard herself speak then she turns and saw that she was looking at Damon as he was looking up at her in shock. Past Samathea moves away from Damon as he stood up and was in front of her. "Mary Ann." he states, past Samathea looks around as she was confused. "Um… no. I'm Samathea. Samathea Gilbert." she answers him. Samathea walks up to them as she was in another memory. "Oh. You… you just look…" he states and she tilts her head a little as she was confused. "I'm sorry, you just really remind me of someone." he informs her, she then nods as she sort of gets it. "I'm Damon." he tells her as he steps closer to her.

Samathea gasp as she realized that she did meet Damon before before she even knew him. "You're one to talk, you're out here by yourself." he tells her, she giggles a little and nods. "That's true, but this is Mystic Falls, nothing bad ever happens here." she tells him and he nods at little. Samathea felt her eyes tear up as she remembers everything that has happened after the death of her parents. "And what about you?" he asks her. She smirks and shrugs her shoulders. "What about me, it's always going to be Elena in the end, I'll just be that girl on the sidelines, no matter what." she tells him, he smirks for a moment, "Well, that's not true. You're wanted too." he tells her and she place her hands on her hips, "Oh really?" she playfully questions him, "Really." he answers her. Samathea realizes how much she has changed of the past year from who she was then.

"Let's just say I've been around for a long time and I've learned a few things." he answers her and past Samathea smirks at him, "So Mr. Damon, tell me. Who in their right mind would want to fall for a girl who's on the sidelines?" she asks him. Samathea looks at herself as she was that she was smirking at him in a playful way, He smirks at her, "Someone who understand how you feel." he states and steps to her. "Someone who looks into your beautiful eyes and they see your bright soul, someone that makes you feel so weak at the knees you need to grip on tightly for support." he said in a low tone, Samathea felt her heart beating fast for him. "Someone who is willing to go to hell and back in knowing that they will do anything to make sure you don't shed anymore tears and someone that will consume you in love." he tells her, Past Samathea took a step back from him as she was taken back by such words, then clears her throat.

Samathea then realizes that she was in love with him, then looks back at them as he was right in front of past Samathea. "I want you to get everything you're looking for, but right now I want you to forget that this ever happened. I can't have people knowing I'm in town yet." he tells her as she gave him a blank look. She then watches him brushes his hand over her shoulder braided hair, "And consider having your hair out instead of in a braid, it will make you look more beautiful. Good night Samathea." he tells her and as soon as she blinks.

Samathea then opens her eyes and found herself in her room again and she looks back at the frame in her hands and she sets it back down, -What else did Damon make me forget?- she questions herself, but then she heard a sound coming from downstairs. She then headed out of her room. "Stefan?" she calls out as she stops and saw men aiming their guns at Stefan. "Sam, don't move." he orders her, she just looks at the men and at Pastier as he was looking at her.

~8~8~8~

Rebekah started to come to as her vision was blurred with a black and a little bit of sunlight, then her vision clear itself as she found herself in a van, she looks down as saw she was tied into the seat then started to tug at them, but they burn her as she tugs. "Vervein ropes." Caroline informs her and Rebekah looks at her.

"Looks like Alaric outed us all to the council." Caroline informs her, "The council? What exactly do they think that can do to me?" Rebekah questions her, but then there was a swerve of the car and then the two grunt in surprise as the van was then flip and the two were now laying on their back groaning in pain. "What the hell happened?" Rebekah questions and then one of the back doors were pulled off and the other opens as Taylor jumps into and the two look at him, "Taylor?" Caroline said in surprise. "I'm harder to kill then you think." he states as he pulls the belt off her and then works at the ropes, "You're alive? How are you alive?" she asks as she was overjoyed to see him. "No time. Come on we gotta go." he tells her and then pulls her out of the van, "What about me?" Rebekah asks him.

Taylor stops and looks back at her a Caroline vamps away, "Keep then busy, little sister." he answers her and she looks at him in shock then he vamps away. "That's not possible." she mutters as Serena then enters the van, "Shut the hell up and hold still." she orders her and Rebekah looks at her as she pulls the belt off. "You knew?" she questions her as Serena then works at the ropes. "Don't act so surprise." she orders her and unties her, "Why, why are you helping me?" she questions her again. "Because, I'm the only one allow to cause you pain." she answers her then pulls her out of the van and picks her up in her arms.

She then started to walk away, but then she heard the sound of a rifle being cock "Hey! Put that vampire down!" the officer orders her. Serena stops and she looks over her shoulder at him, then at Rebekah then flash away. But then officer pulls the trigger, getting hits square into the chest, making her stop and gasp in pain. "Serena." Rebekah mutters then Serena falls to her knees and the both hit the ground, the officer came over to them and Serena was dead as Rebekah laid her head back.

~8~8~8~

Damon picks up the lamp off the ground as Liz walks into the house, "They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, got them too." Damon informs her and places the lamp on the stand and then walks up to her, "Please tell me you have something, anything." he begs her as Meredith walks into the room. "I can't. The council lock Carol and me out of our offices, files, computers, everything." Liz informs her as Damon exchange looks with Meredith and they look at her.

"So the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a back-up plan, Liz?" he questions her and she glares at him, "Damon, relax." Meredith tells him and walks up to the two. "When Caroline called to say she got away, do she mention where they were taking her?" Meredith asks her. Liz shook her head. "No, just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she manage to escape." Liz answers her, making Damon roll his eyes "Perfect we narrow it down to nowhere." he states then turns away from her.

Then a knock came to the door, Liz turns and saw that it was Matt, "Hey, is Sam here?" Matt asks them, Damon glares at the boy, then vamps at him, griping his throat in both of his hands and then slams him up against the wall. Meredith and Liz ran to them, "In what world are you the one that gets to live?" Damon questions him as he was griping his throat tightly, making Matt choke. "Damon stop! It wasn't his fault." Meredith reminds him, "Let him go Damon, now." Liz orders him. Damon glares at Matt even more as the boy was gripping his wrist tightly and then Damon lets go and drops him onto the ground. Matt pants as air rush back into his lungs and Damon continues to glare.

~8~8~8~

At a house in the middle of nowhere, Samathea sat at the kitchen table as she was biting her thumb nervously as all the sounds around her were humming at her. "You you still do reading?" Pasteur asks her as he started up the stove to heat the tea, "I remember how you would read Elena's short stories to my daughter when you both would babysit." he states and then pulls a bowl out of the fridge "She still love writing because of you." he states turning to her and sets the bowl on the table. "Why am I here?" Samathea questions him, "My deputies can watch out for us here, no vampire has been invited in." he answers her and she looks up at the clock as she can hear the ticking every loud and clearly.

"Look, Samathea I know it sounds crazy, but years ago it was your parents who evicted in having an emergency plan." Pasteur states as his words were hallowed and far and she presses her fingers to her temple "I never thought we have to use it, but-" he states, but as Samathea went to move, she flinches back as she felt the sun string her eyes making them close them. "Samathea?" he asks her, she shields her eyes from the sunlight, "Honey, you okay?" he asks her, she looks at him pulling her hand away. "Where's Stefan?" she asks him, trying to play cool. "Where he can't hurt you." he answers her, but she just smirks and shook her head, "He won't never hurt me, you have no idea what you're talking about." she shot at him. "Well, I know where ever you and Elena go, Salvatore vampires seem to follow." he informs her, she scoffs at him. "You hungry?" he asks her turning back to the fridge, "No, I'm not." she answers, but he opens it and pulls out a tray.

Samathea folds her arms on the table as he took out a knife, "So we'll hold Stefan until Damon come searching for you two and use Rebekah to lure her siblings back into town." he informs her as she takes the plates and place some beef on it, she then pulls both of her hands and press her fingers into her temples as he turns back to her, "He'll give you the white oak stake and then we'll extremist the entire vampire race for good." he informs her as he places the plate on the table in front of her. Samathea leans back into her chair as she inhales sharply and stares at the plate with the stake on it. She started to pant as she was fighting her urge for blood. "Something wrong?" Pasteur asks her and she looks up at him, her vision started to blur, "Samathea, you okay?" he asks her again and she nods at him, "Yeah, I'm fine." she answers him, hearing the clock again as she then eyes his neck.

Then gulps loudly then leans against the table as she looks at the clock then started to press her fingers to her temple then turns to the kettle as it started to hiss, all sounds started to attack her again, making her panic. Then she looks back at Pasteur and shook her head. "No, I have to get out of here." she states, then pushes the chair out, making it collide with the ground. He watches as she then opens the door and ran outside. Samathea quickly moves down the steps and then makes a run for it as Pasteur leans out of his door, "Get her!" he orders, Samathea felt her eyes sting with pain as her vision was blurred the sun blinds her, all the sounds attack her, making her slow down until she saw a man in front of her then knocks her out.

~8~8~8~

Damon paces back and forth as they have no idea where Samathea and Stefan were taken. "With your vervein and Alaric's weapons they can be anywhere." Liz informs him "Come on guys, it takes a lot to hold a vampire, re-enforce steel, iron doors." Damon states. "The pastiest owns a cattle ranch." Matt and states the three look at him.

Matt then looks at them, "Those pens can be easily modified." he states and Liz looks at Meredith and Damon, "It's remote, it's secluded." Meredith states and Damon looks at Matt. "Well guess what. Looks like you get to prove how sorry really are." Damon throws at him, "Let go." he orders and they both walk out of the house.

~8~8~8~

In the barn on the ranch, Samathea slowly groans as she started to wake up, but she then heard the sound of coughing as she presses her hand to her forehead from where she got hit with the butt of the rifle. She then rolls onto her back and saw vervein plants being hung upside down and the vents were blowing out the pollen into the air. "Look who decided to finally join us." Serena calls out as Samathea pulls herself up. "I thought I'd killed you." Rebekah states and Serena scoffs, "Congratulations Rebekah you gave me another reason to make you suffer." she states as Samathea looks around, "Where am I?" she asks them. "They thought you were a vampire, so they stuck you in here with us." Rebekah answers as she then coughs.

Serena just leans back against the wall of her cell that was close to the bars as she was breathing normally, "Where's Stefan?" Samathea asks again. "Sam, I'm right here." he answers her as he was in the cell next to hers, "Are you okay?" he asks her. Samathea sits up on her knees but then falls against the bars. "Stefan…" she moans as he coughs. "I didn't feed." she informs her as she pants. "Ah… I see what's going on here." Rebekah states and Samathea looks at her, "You died with Vampire blood in your system and you didn't feed and now you're lock up in here without a drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem." Rebekah states as Samathea glares at her. "Just ignore her." Stefan tells her as he pulls himself onto his hands and knees. "Has anyone done the math or shall I?" Rebekah answers and Serena crushes her fist making Rebekah gag, "Keep it up Rebekah, I will break every bone in your body if you dare say one more word." Serena threatens her, Rebekah gag then Serena releases her hand, allowing Rebekah to breath.

Then she looks at Samathea, "I hate to say it, but you have three hours left to feed and if you don't you'll die surely." Serena informs her, Samathea then grips at the lock and then started to tug at it.

~8~8~8~

Bonnie chanted her spell, but then she opens her eyes and found herself in the cell of where the Rebekah, Stefan, Serena and Samathea were being kept. She turns and saw Samathea leaning against the bars as her face was pale and she was resting. "Sammy." she whispers then walks to her and kneels down as Samathea exhales. Then Bonnie gently grips her hands "Come back. Come back." Bonnie whispers to her.

Then Bonnie stood up, pulling Samathea along with her, Samathea opens her eyes as she saw her arms were floating in front of her and felt warm hands grip her wrists. "Stefan. Stefan something happening." Samathea mutters, getting his attention.

"We're going home." Bonnie promises her, Samathea looks around in front of her as she was panting softly, "No." Shiera reports, Bonnie gasp as she looks at her, getting Samathea go. Samathea stagger in her spot as she felt the warm vanish from her, then she slowly fell back against the bars and slides down onto the ground as she pants then closes her eyes again. "Grams? What are you doing?" Bonnie asks her. "You can't be in here, you stay away from this sort of darkness." Shiera informs her, "Samathea needs me." Bonnie informs her as she took a step forward. Then Shiera appears inside the cell, "She is not your problem to solves, now go, before the try to keep you here." she tells her.

"Grams please." Bonnie begs her, "This magic is dark, Bonnie. It is not Nature's plan. Touch it again and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer." Shiera warns her, Bonnie looks at her, "Stay away." he warns her, Bonnie took a step back. "GO!" Shiera shouts and both her and Bonnie vanishes from the cell, leaving Samathea

~8~8~8~

Night drew near and Samathea gasp awake as she felt even weaken then before, "Stefan." she croaks out "What happened?" he asks her, she just blinks. "I can't explain, I don't have time. I need blood." she said and felt the cold sweat on her forehead, "I'm dying." she states then inhales a ragged breath.

Serena looks over at them, "Hey! Anyone!" Stefan calls out as he pulls himself to his feet. "Can you just shut up?" Rebekah whines. "I can always snap your neck to put you out of your misery, God knows it will make the peace more better." Serena offers her. "Hey! Think we're afraid of you?" Stefan calls out and a guard walks into the barn and looks at him. "You want more vervein? Keep it down." he orders him. Samathea looks out the corner of her cell, "Listen to me, Samathea is going to die if up don't let her out of here." Stefan informs him.

The guard looks over at Samathea, who looks weakly up at him, then he looks back at Stefan. "Sorry, not my problem." he answers, making him shake the bars a little. "She's innocent, let her out." Stefan orders him, but the guard turns to leave. But Stefan vamps over to the side, "Let her out!" he orders again, but the guard pulls out his gun and fires at him. It hits Stefan in the gut making him fall onto the gun, "Stop, leave him alone." Samathea croaks, but Stefan glares at him and vamps at the bars again, "I said let her out!" he snaps, but then was fired into the knee, making him groan and fall back onto the ground.

The guard then left them to their selves and Stefan tries to stand again, but collapse and grips his knee. This action catches Rebekah's attention "You okay there Salvatore?" Serena calls out, he just groans at her.

~8~8~8~

Stefan then pulls himself to the wall, as he was panting, then reaches into his leg and pulls out the wooden bullet and she tosses it to the side. She then turns his head to the side. "Sam, you still with me?" he calls out to her, she leans against the wall at the right behind Stefan. Her skin was pasty pale as she held her eyes opens with her strength as she was letting out ragged breathing, "Yeah, I'm still here. I'm okay." she answers him in a husk voice. "No you're not. I can hear your breathing." he tells her.

She opens her eyes as Serena looks at her from across her cell. Rebekah watches the both of them from across her cell as well. "Damon was right, you should of fed this morning, I'm sorry." he tells her, she just smiles a little. "You gave me hope, Stefan. Even if that hope was empty. You had hope for me and I thank you for that." Samathea tells him in her husk voice. Tears well up in Stefan eyes "I wish you never got involve in this world of mine." he tells her, but she closes her eyes, kept smiling and shook her head slowly. "I'm glad I did though, I got to meet you again, meet Damon, Rose and had this unbelievable adventure, sure there were moments I wanted to give up, but you guys were always there to snap me back out of it. You all made a girl like me step off the sidelines and enjoy life with my friends." she mutters making Stefan smirk a little.

"Do you know why I was on the bridge last night, Stefan?" she asks him and he looks over her shoulder at him. "I was on my way to see Damon because I love him." she answers him and he said nothing. "You were right, I shouldn't keep what I feel from him and from myself forever, so I gave in. I wanted what you and Elena have, but I was too afraid to give in and now I regret that I didn't give in sooner." she tells him as she opens her eyes and leans her shoulder into the wall. "God, it suck I won't see him again and that I can't see you right now." she states pressing her hand into the wall, tears stream down Stefan's face. "I'm smiling." he informs her, but she laughs a little as tears stream down her face. "Liar." she mumbles, but then stops smiling and then her head drops as her hand falls onto the ground and she lets out ragged breathing. Serena looks away from her as tears were in her eyes, Rebekah blinks hers out as she took in every word.

~8~8~8~

Damon and Matt arrive at the ranch, seeing that the lights were on, they step out of the car and walk onto the lawn. "So what, we storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt questions him. Damon shot a look at him. "Nah, we don't need weapons, just bait." Damon answers him, then vamps at Matt, took a hold of him and bites into his neck, Matt gasp in shock and then Damon lets him go, Matt drops onto the ground as blood stream out of the side of Damon's mouth and his eyes were pulsing crimson.

Matt groans as he pulls himself onto his knees and press his hand to his neck, "Yoo-hoo. Anybody home? Big bad vampire out here." Damn calls out as his fangs were showing and the crimson around his eyes were gone. Pasteur opens the door and leans out, then looks down at Matt. "Let him go, the boy's innocent." he tells him, Damon looks back at Matt and back at Pasteur. "Well that's the point, give me Stefan and Samathea, he's all yours." Damon offers him, then Damon grips a hold of Matt and pulls him to his feet. "Come on bastard." Damon orders and kept his eyes on him. "I'll kill him and I wanna kill him." Damon said as he smirks at him. "Go away, you're not invited in and I'm not coming out." Pasteur tells him.

Then Damon was fired in the shoulder, making him grunt as he lets go of Matt and they both fall to the ground.

~8~8~8~

Stefan and Rebekah cough from the vervein as Samathea's breathing slowed down, then guards walk into the barn with more vervein Stefan, Rebekah and Serena watches them walks pass them, then Stefan and Rebekah eye each other, then form a plan between their eye contact. "I got this. Bring the other one in." the guard orders the second one left the barn.

Serena eyes the guard through her bars, then grabs then and stood up, leaning again then with her hands hanging out. The guard started working on setting the second "Excuse me. Hello, sir!" Rebekah calls out as she then coughs. The man reloads is gun and walks over to her cell. "I thought I told you to shut up?" he orders her and she looks up at him. "Here's the thing, my family… we have money, castles, apartments, jewelry. Name your price and let me out." she offers him then coughs again. The man steps closer to her cell "I much rather watch you die." he answers her.

Then Rebekah vamps at her bars, hissing at him, her eyes pulsing crimson and her fangs showed. This scares the man to back up and point his gun at her, but then Stefan grips a hold of the man by the neck and smashes his head into the bars six times and he then lets go and the man drop down onto the ground, dead. Serena sighs "Well, that was subtle." she mutters. Blood started to form this wakes Samathea up from her dreamless dream as she can smell blood. "Sam." Stefan calls out. She pants softly and looks at the blood from the man.

Serena kneels down and watches Samathea weakly move her hand out from the cell, then her body slides over against the bars, making her gasp a little. But she stares at the blood as it was all she wanted. Then she started to reach for the blood, making her head lean out as well. "Come on, come on." Serena mutters as she grips the bars tightly. Samathea struggles as she uses whatever strength was left in her body for the blood. Her body was screaming every much muscle, every nerve, every cell in her body was pushing her, telling her took reach for the blood. But as it was out of her reach. She exhales and drops her hand. "Sam." Serena mutters, but then Samathea hand twitches and she opens her eyes staring at the blood again. -Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!- she screams at herself then started to reach for the blood again.

Her chin press to the cold metal bar, she gags, and gasp as she reaches out for the blood, then exhales taking in a breath then started to reach again refusing to give up or given in defeat. Then finally her fingertips dip into the blood, She then exhales and pulls her hand away and to her lips. A tear falls out of the corner of her eye as she closes them and licks her blood covered fingertips.

~8~8~8~

Damon laid on the ground, unmoving as Matt pulls his hand to his neck, then two men came out with their guns ready and they stood over Damon, one press his foot at him and as he started to push at him to see if he was alive. They look at each other than Damon vamps onto his feet, gripping their guns then shoves one back, vamps at the other, taking a hold of him. Then he snaps his neck and tosses him to the ground.

Came at the other one, took his gun and thrust right into his chest, then lets go and drops him to the ground as both were dead. He then turns to Matt as the boys coughs and pulls himself onto his hand and kneels then looks at Damon as the vampire kicks him across the face, rolling him onto his back. Damon stood above him "Go ahead and kill me, you can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself." Matt croaks at him. "Oh yes I can." Damon answers him and then presses his foot at Matt's neck making him gasp from the pressure.

Then he grips a hold of Damon's foot as he gasps, "It should have been you." Damon growls at him, but then suddenly something vamps right at Damon from the barn. Jumps at him, making him let Matt go and sends the two onto the ground. Samathea snarls at him as she was gripping him by the coat and saddled him and Damon looks up at her in shock. "Leave him alone!" she threatens him as her eyes was pulsing crimson and her fangs were showing.

~8~8~8~

Matt stumbles into the barn were four cell doors were open and he falls onto the ground, gripping his neck and panting. Stefan ran to him, kneels down, bites his wrist and fed Matt his blood, healing his wounds. Then Matt came to and pulls away from Stefan's wrist. "Ah!" he snaps as he scoots back and away from Stefan and then leans back against the cell door. "Just stop. Stop saving me, man." Matt argues with him.

Stefan stood up, "What the hell's your problem?" Stefan questions him, "What do you want me to say, thank you?" Matt questions him and then stood up. "Cuz, honestly I wish you would of let me drown." Matt said to him. "What, you think you were my first choice?" Stefan questions, "Samathea is a vampire because of me, I have to live with that for the rest of my life." Matt reminds him and Stefan steps closer to him. "No, no. You don't have to live with that, you get to live with that because Sam put your life before her own." Stefan reminds him.

Matt just looks at him, "So every morning you get out of bed, you sure as well better earn it." Stefan tells him and walks out of the barn, leaving Matt to himself.

~8~8~8~

Damon was fuming with anger as Samathea, who is now a vampire walks with him. "You were going to kill him." she states as her skin was full of color again. "Yep. That guy just won't die." Damon answers her, "It was my choice Damon, why are you so hostilely against it?" she questions him, then Damon stops and he turns to her. "It's a little hard to keep track of all your choices lately, Samathea." he answers her again and she glares at him, hatting his attitude.

He then turns to enter the car, "I remember everything." she calls out and then he stops and she looks at him, "One of the beauties of transition." she states and then he turns to her and steps back to her, "I'm remembering everything you compel me to forget." she states and he stood back in front of her. "Like how you and I did meet first. We were strangers and you wanted me to get everything from life and to let me know that somewhere out there someone does love me how you suggested I should consider having my hair down instead of in the braid." she states, he said nothing, "Why didn't you just tell me?" she asks him as she takes a step closer to him. "Would it of made a difference?" he asks her, then finally looks at her, she said nothing and looks at him, "Didn't think so." he states. "You ask me to make a choice Damon and I did, so instead of taking it out Stefan or Matt or anyone else. Take it out on me, no one else, just me." she tells him. "Are we done here?" he asks her, keeping his eyes on the car.

Samathea exhales, then straightens herself out. "Alright then answer me this." he states and he looks at her, "If it was you on that bridge instead of Stefan, and I beg you to save Matt, would you?" she asks him, "I would have saved you in a heartbeat, no questions asked." he answers her. She nods at him "That's what I thought." she throws his words back at him. "And Matt would be dead and I would hate myself knowing he was out there because he wanted to keep me safe, Matt would be dead because of me." she throws at him. "But you wouldn't be." he states and she looks at him "And you would have gotten to grow up and have the live the life you deserve and I didn't use to get that, but I do now. And I wanted that for you, Samathea and I would of gladly of given that to you and let Matt die because I am that selfish." he states and then steps closer to her, "But you knew that already." he states and she looks down at the ground. "First night we meet is not all that you remember." Damon said and she pulls her head back up and looks at him as a tear slides down her cheek. He glares at her then turns away from her walks back to the car, Samathea sniffles to herself then wipe away her tear and she looks away.

~8~8~8~

Serena leans against the wall as she listens to Rebekah and Klaus fighting then she heard it went farther than usual. "You know what Rebekah you're right. I don't care because as of this moment you're not my family, you're not my sister. You're nothing." he snarls at her and then she heard him snap Rebekah's neck. Serena closes her eyes.

She then opens then as she saw Klaus walks pass her, "You went too far." she tells him, he stops and looks at her. "She had it coming, without Samathea human blood I can't create my hybrids." he tells her and she looks at him in dis-belief. "Is that all you care about? Hybrids, so you don't have feel alone anymore?" she questions him, pushing herself off the wall. "I am the only female Sorceress of my kind, I have been alone for these past thousand years with no one to teach me how to control my gifts, my curse." she snaps at him, making him step back.

"You have done horrible thing Nik, things I dare not say ever in my life, things that still disturb me at night and I made myself forgive you for everything that you've done and how you toss Rebekah aside for what, so you can suck lip with Caroline?" she questions him, he then grips her throat, growling at her, she gags a little but kept her, "Watch what you say Serena." he threatens her, "Or what? You'll snap my neck, like Rebekah? Tell me I'm nothing that you no longer love me?" she snaps back at him, "New flash Klaus. I have been nothing for the past thousand years, no matter you say to me, I already know." she growls at him then grips his arms pulling them off her neck, then flashes over and throws him out the door. Then she slams the door and locks it.

She exhales as she then presses her back against the door, tears form in her eyes, then she quickly wipes them away and then she flashes into the room where Rebekah lay, then picks her up in hers arms and flashes into a bedroom and laid her on the bed and sat down next to her, watching over her as she was dead.

~8~8~8~

At the boarding house. Elena, Samathea and Stefan sat on the roof as they look out at the horizon. "The whole council knows who we are now. Everything's about to change." Elena states then Stefan and Samathea looks at her. "Yeah, I'm sure Damon has a revenge plan cook up." Stefan jokes, but Samathea hung her head as she didn't want to think about Damon at the moment.

"But we'll figure out a way to deal with that." he promises them and Samathea looks at him, "You don't need to convince me and tell me everything going to be alright." she tells him and he nods at her, "I know. Wish I could though, I wish I could tell you, you'll never feel pain, that you'll never crave blood, but you will." he tells her, she nods and looks away from him and Elena grips her hand, Samathea looks down at it and then grips her hand in response. "It will be the worse thing you'll ever live through." he states and Samathea lifts up her head.

"But I'll live none the less, I'll be a sister and a friend and I got you and Elena to help me along the way." she tells him and wraps her arms around their shoulders. Then smile at her. "We will get through this, just like how we got through everything else. Tomb vampires, originals, Ghost, witches spell, sacrifices, death, council." she states and the two laugh. "Because I know, we always come out through that long tunnel and we're victorious." she said and they smile at her.

Samathea smiles and pulls her arms back looking at the rising sun, "I should get back inside before I become ash." Samathea states and went to leave, "I have something for you." Stefan states and she looks at him. "Bonnie redid the spell, just in case it was out of juice." he states and pulls out something from his pocket, the two look down and she looks at him. "Mary Ann's daylight ring?" she asks him, Stefan shrugs. "She would of wanted you to have it." he tells her, she smiles at him, then took the ring her offered her and then slips it onto her middle finger. She held it out and looks at it. "This can really work." she states, Elena giggles at her as Stefan smiles. "One thing at a time." he mutters at her. She smiles at him then slowly slides down the roof and lays on it. Elena rolls her eyes and she scoots over and leans next to Stefan, placing her hand in his.

They all watch as the sun then started to rise, Samathea closes her eyes and she welcomes the new day.