*NOTES FROM AUTHOR:
The story takes place somewhere in the season 6. Between some episodes, I guess. I did not follow the story-line of the episodes, I went for my own thing.*
Prologue
Night was dawning on the small city of Lynchburg, Virginia. While everybody was getting ready to eat, a shadow was rapidly moving around outside, avoiding the last strings of daylight. The shadow got to the outside ring of the city, near the forest separating the town from their neighboring village. The shadow ran into the woods, listening to any noise out of the ordinary. It went straight to an old log cabin where one could smell the skin of a grilled animal.
A young woman opened the door and went inside. The shadow closed on to the porch, slowly put its hand on the knob and turned it. When it wanted to come inside, the shadow was instantly stopped.
"MILLICENT! You're hilarious! screamed the shadow.
- You deserved it! yelled said Millicent, from the kitchen.
- Common, let me in.
- Alright, you can come in. But stop leaving your meals laying around, it's disgusting!
- That's why my room is off limits!"
Millicent was in front of the stove, cooking what seemed to be chili. She turned around to salute her cousin who just came into the room.
"Do you have everything we need? Asked Millicent.
- Everything is here. And I think Grandma is compelled efficiently, answered the cousin
- I really hate doing that to her, poor Nanny.
- Sorry, it's all my fault.
- Esmee, no. It was the fault of this guy who had nothing else to do with his life than ruin someone else's."
Esmee sighed. Millicent was right, but she still felt guilty about their situation. For the last three months, they had been hiding in this lodge in the middle of the woods. The young women sat at the table, looking at her cousin cooking. She needed to do something, she was really bored.
"Do you have the ring? asked Esmee.
- The witch said we will get it in three days at our new address, answered Millicent.
- You're kidding, right?! I'm so tired of running in the shadows all the time!
- Esmee, I did what I could. Did you at least do your part?
- Yes, I did. The Salvatore brothers are back in Mystic Falls, said Esmee, pouting.
- Good."
Esmee snickered, unamused. She really hated being in her current state, a vampire. She just wanted to go back to normal and live her life like before. But it was impossible. And now they had to leave their hometown for good, to avoid raising suspicion. The girl got up and went in her room to get something to eat. A small freezer had the lid open. Esmee saw it had been filled up. She smiled, but refused to thank her cousin who, working at the hospital, had been her supplier for the past months.
They were now moving to Mystic Falls, hoping to start fresh, but mostly, hoping the Salvatore brothers would accept to help Esmee become a good vampire, not one of those they saw in the movies, killing people. Maybe they were foolish to think the guys would accept to help them, but they had to try. Esmee also wanted to get revenge on the one who made her this way and she was hoping they could help her.
"Esmee? We have to go or we won't be able to get there before the sun rises, said Millicent, across the house.
- Coming, I'm just getting my supplies."
Esmee packed her things and met with her cousin in the yard. The old seventies truck was filled with their most cherished things, but strictly the minimum. They could always come back to get more, the most important right now was to get out of Lynchburg. Millicent took the wheel and started driving away from the cabin. As it got smaller in the distance, the young women looked in the rear mirror, saying goodbye to her past.