Hi, my name is Samantha Gilbert, and this is my story. I'm the oldest of three siblings, and I have chocolate brown eyes and long dark brown hair, like my siblings. My parents died when I was 17 and in my junior year of high school and left my Aunt Jenna to take care of me, my 16 year old sister Elena, and my 15 year old brother Jeremy. 3 years later, and things have definitely changed. Elena fell in love with a vampire, well two vampires, brothers actually. Elena and Damon are together, I'm secretly in love with his brother Stefan. Jeremy became a hunter and we went to an island to find a cure for Elena, but an evil vampire Katherine, Elena's doppelganger, killed Jeremy. Elena's a vampire, I'm not. Okay, that was the cliff notes, now, let's get on with it.
"Elena what are you doing?" I ask, shocked, as she pours lighter fluid all over the kitchen.
"We need a cover story right? And an animal attack or a fall isn't going to work. We burn the house down with his body in it." She says as she walks into the living room.
"Hell no. You aren't burning down our childhood home, Elena. I'm the oldest and I was supposed to take care of you, of you and Jer. I failed, and I'm so sorry. I'll never forgive myself for this, but you will not do this to him! To me! We lost mom, dad, Ric, Jenna, John, and now Jer. I'll be damned if I lose you too!" I yell as Damon grabs the match before it hits the ground. Elena has her head in her hands crying.
"I can't, I can't." She sobs dropping to her knees. "It hurts, it hurts it hurts. Make it stop!" She cries.
I turn into Stefan's chest and cry, he wraps his arms around me and turns to look at Damon.
"Damon, help her." Stefan says and Damon goes to his knees and hugs Elena.
"Elena, let me help you. Turn it off." Damon tells her and I let go of Stefan.
"No! Damon what the hell are you doing! She can't turn her humanity off!" I shout and Elena looks up at me emotionless. I step forward and feel Stefan's hand on my wrist keeping me far enough away from her.
"Do you ever stop telling me what to do, Sam? I'm 18, and a vampire. I don't need my big sis telling me to feel. I don't want to. I have nothing left."
"So I'm nothing? And Damon? We don't matter? Well guess what Elena, this might be a shock to you, but it isn't always about you! You weren't the only one that lost Jeremy! Bonnie lost her boyfriend. Matt lost his best friend. You and I lost our baby brother. I can't lose my little sister too. We're all we have left now, El. Please don't give up. If you do, all we've been through the last 3 years will be for nothing."
"Wow Sammi, so beautiful. Moving really. If I had my emotions, I think I might be crying, but now, I don't care." She tells me and drops the match.
"No!" I yell, and I feel Stefan grab me and vamp speed me out of the house, the house I grew up in, that Jer.. no. I'm standing in the street and I hear a whoosh and turn to see Elena.
"Lena, come on. This isn't you." I tell her and she vamp speeds in front of me.
"Stop telling me what to do." She tells me and I feel her hands on both sides of my head. I hear Damon yelling for Elena to stop, but then Elena twists my neck and everything goes black.
Elena snaps Sam's neck and looks up to see Damon standing there in horror watching his best friend's body fall to the ground in the middle of the street.
"What did you do, Elena?" He asks her and she shrugs.
"She pissed me off. Telling me who to be and how to act." She says to him.
"That was your sister Elena. Your only family. When you flip your switch back, you'll hate yourself for killing her." He tells her.
"Yeah, but she won't be there to boss me around and lecture me about my mistakes." She says and speeds off. Stefan speeds to Damon and his eyes land on Sam, who Stefan is secretly in love with, and he chokes out a sob.
"Why aren't you healing her?!" He shouts at his brother. Damon sighs and looks at him, with glassy eyes.
"Elena snapped her neck, Stefan. We can't heal the dead. I'm sorry, but she's gone." He tells him and goes to find Elena. Stefan breaks down and lets the tears fall. He runs to her and cradles her head in his hands. He can feel that her neck is clearly broken.
"No.. No! Sammi, I'm so sorry. I never got to tell you. You never knew.." He reaches over and picks her up, speeding to his house and lays her on the couch. He calls Caroline, Matt, Tyler, Bonnie, Damon, and even Rebekah, who seemed to like Sam. They all walked in, not been told why, until they saw her laying on the couch with her right hand on her stomach and he left arm draped over the side of the couch and he she was pale and not moving. Stefan was sitting in a chair across the couch, and he looked like he had been crying, and he was drinking a bottle of whiskey. Sam was the only one who drank whiskey, which Stefan hated, he like bourbon. Something was off.
"She's dead." Stefan told them, his eyes not leaving Sam's body.
"What?" Caroline asks shocked that her best friend is dead. "No, it's not true. It can't be!" She shouts.
"Elena killed her. Damon told her to flip the switch. She turned her humanity off, and she killed her sister." Stefan told them and they all looked at their friend's body.
"How?" Bonnie asked, thinking that she could bring her back, depending on how she died.
"Elena snapped her neck." Damon said, walking in the room, and standing at the foot of the couch, staring at his best friend. He lets his tears fall and kneels next to her, moving hair out of her face. They all notice her eyes were open, and Caroline and Bonnie start crying. Stefan sniffles and takes a swig of the whiskey before passing it to Caroline.
"She was my best friend." Damon said suddenly. Everyone turned to him and nodded.
"She was always there for me, and she pulled me back from my ripper days." He told them.
"Me too. She was such a good friend, with a good heart." Stefan said, joining in.
"She was so blunt and sarcastic and had a witty response for everything. I thought I hated the nicknames she gave me, but I'm going to miss them. I'm going to miss her." Damon tells them.
"I remember when she gave me hell for sleeping with Tyler the first time, when she was helping me sneak out and Mrs. Lockwood knocked her out and kidnapped me. She said, 'Oh come on, Care-bear, you just had, what did you say, amazing vamp-wolf sex, and I'm helping you sneak out of his house as opposed to you being up there for round two because it was too good?' And then when Tyler rescued me she gave me the whole lecture on how he was the knight to my damsel. She was so supportive, and she put everybody above herself, especially Elena and Jeremy." Caroline finished and sniffled leaning into Tyler.
"She spent the weekend with me after my Grams died. She brought over all my favorite junk food, ice cream, soda, and said that I shouldn't be alone. This was after her sister almost lost her boyfriend in a tomb and she almost lost one of her best friends to the 'dark side', but she still made time for me. She always made time in whatever crazy shit she was dealing with to be there for her friends." Bonnie said, smiling sadly.
"Sam was the only person here who was kind to me when I didn't deserve it and she became a friend to me when I needed one, but you all don't need to mourn her." Rebekah says from the doorway.
Damon shot up and stands in front of Sam's body, protecting her. Rebekah holds a hand up.
"I'm trying to say that she isn't dead." She says and Stefan chuckles bitterly. Rebekah knows that Stefan loves her, he told her so on the island.
"Stefan. After we got back, Sam had a breakdown, and she got wasted. She was my friend, so I took her home to my house and she slept it off. A hunter followed us from the island and tried to kill me, but Sam stepped in front of me and took the bullet for me, so to speak. I pulled the stake out of her stomach and healed her. If you don't believe me unzip her sweatshirt and look." She told him.
Stefan got up, walked over to Sam's body and unzipped her black hoodie revealing a bloody gray tank top with a hole in the stomach. He looked up at her face and saw that her color was returning and he took her in. Her cheeks covered with freckles, her beautiful pink lips. He stood up and walked to Rebekah.
"So, she's transitioning." He says and she nods. Caroline laughs and hugs Tyler. Bonnie looks conflicted and Damon is smiling, sitting beside her, holding her hand. Just then she shoots up and gasps for air, greedily breathing it in. She sees Damon and smiles. He hugs her immediately.
It went from nothing to everything at once. I sit up quickly and suddenly gasp, trying to breathe. Damon hugs me and I smile, until I see Stefan. I get up and walk over to him. I throw my arms around him and cry. He hugs me tighter and I fell him exhale shakily.
"I thought I'd lost you, Sam." He tells me and I laugh, really laugh, causing everyone to look at me.
"Good to see you would've missed me. Were you drinking whiskey? I'm touched that you'd suffer through that for me." I tell him and he laughs kissing the top of my head. It felt good to be in Stefan's arms. He made me feel safe. I almost completely forgot how this was possible. I was alive. Almost. I felt a burning pain, and looked to see that my hand was in the sunlight, and it hurt. I yelped and jumped to the corner of the room, where it was safe from the sunlight. I stared at me hand as it healed.
"Oh my god. Oh... I'm- I'm a vampire..." I say and Stefan looks at me grimly before nodding.
Damon went to every window and shut them so I could come out of my corner. Once I did I was ambushed with hugs from everyone, except Rebekah. I went over to her and hugged her. She hugged me, but not fully.
"I'm sorry. I never meant for this to happen. I normally don't mind turning someone, but I hate the idea that I turned you, Sam." Rebekah said with tears in her eyes. I smiled at her and shook my head.
"You saved my life, Beka. I'd be dead. Besides all my friends are vampires and I can keep up. Plus I'll be here to piss you all off for eternity. So there's that." I said sarcastically, trying to up the mood.
"I need to talk to you and Bonnie, it's an emergency." Caroline says dragging me to the kitchen and turning on the garbage disposal, and closing the windows with vamp speed.
"Bon, any chance of getting a cute daylight ring? This 'sun is bad' shit is killing me." I tell her and she laughs.
"Sure. I'll go get started on that. But you should know that Stefan was taking your death pretty hard, like more than us and Damon. You two should talk." She says to me before leaving the kitchen.
"She's right. He and I talked about you on the island." Rebekah said coming into the kitchen and turning the disposal off.
"They left. I offered to stay and watch over you guys while you deal with showing her the ropes."
"Thanks." Caroline said, smiling slightly. Rebekah smiled too and nodded.
"Okay, so blood. Try to vamp speed downstairs." Caroline tells me and then she's gone.
"Shit. Um, okay." I run and it turns into Vamp speed and I end up next to Caroline holding a blood bag.
"Hey blondie." I tell her as I take a small sip of the blood. Not as bad as I thought.
"Nice work, grasshopper." She said giggling, closing the fridge.
"Oh! Stefan and Damon are home." I tell her and vamp speed upstairs and in front of Stefan and Damon, who were walking into the living room.
"Hey! Any luck?" I ask taking another sip of my blood bag. Stefan raises a brow.
"You can stomach that stuff?" He asks and I nod.
"It's not as awful as I thought. I mean the thought that I'm drinking a person is kinda ew, but it tastes okay. I think I might try the animal diet too, just to see what kind of vampire I am, you know?" I say and he laughs, walking to me and hugging me again. I hug him back, careful of my blood bag.
"Bonnie picked you up some new clothes and Damon footed the bill, so it's all expensive brand names." He says and I grin, and finish off my blood bag and speed to the kitchen, throwing it out, and speeding back and running into Stefan who catches me, and steadies me. I shrug and back away.
"I only just taught her that. She's pretty much a natural though." Caroline said and I grin.
I take the bag holding my new wardrobe and grab Caroline and hurry to pick the room next to Stefan's. Caroline and I unpack my new clothes, and I'm so happy they had Bonnie but it because all of it is so me. I settle on a pair of skinny jeans, and find a black crop top with a pair of lips with the word 'Bite me' under them and I laugh. I peel myself out of my bloody and dirty clothes and walk into the en suite bathroom. I shower and wash my hair, and get out and blow dry it, which Bonnie also bought along with my favorite makeup and hair products. I get dressed in my crop top, low riding skinny jeans, and black high tops. I check myself in the mirror, and put some eyeliner on around my brown eyes. My hair, naturally curly, is wild, but I like it. I head downstairs and walk into the living room to see Caroline smile and nod at my outfit and Stefan looks at me for a minute and then looks at Damon and Caroline.
"When did she get her belly button pierced?" He wonders and I giggle, causing him to look at me.
"Um, like 2 months ago. Do you like it?" I ask him and he looks at the small star charm hanging from the diamond piercing, and nods, clearing his throat.
"Anyway, Caroline and I have to run out, so Stefan is going to stay with you since Rebekah left. We'll be late so, you'll have the house for the day. Bonnie will be by later with your ring." Damon tells me.
"Okay. Bye!" I tell them, and when we hear the car drive away, I look at Stefan.
"So, wanna have a dance party?" I ask as I speed to the speaker and put on Pandora. I turn and Stefan smiles at me. 'Hot Blooded' by Foreigner comes on and I start to dance, singing along with the music. Stefan laughs and comes over and starts dancing too, suddenly I look up and we're inches apart, we both look at each other and I lean up and capture his mouth with mine. He kisses me back and I wrap my arms around his neck pulling him closer to me, kissing me hungrily and then I vamp speed to the wall, hitting it loudly. Stefan is still standing by the speakers, the music playing loudly.
"Sam?" He asks me panting. I touch my lips and look up at him.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" I tell him gesturing between us. He shakes his head and sighs.
"I won't do that again." I tell him, and he speeds in front of me. He tucks my bangs behind my ear.
"It's fine, Sam. Did I seem as though that kiss was one sided? Because it wasn't." Stefan told me.
"I-I just am confused. We're friends, Stefan. Best friends, actually. You love my sister and it's weird that I kissed you." I told him and he looked confused.
"What makes you think I'm still in love with Elena?" He asks me and I gape for a second.
"You're looking for the cure for her." I blurt out and groan. He chuckles.
"I was doing that for you, Sam. I knew that Elena wasn't the same with you after she became a vampire. She stayed away from you because she didn't want to hurt you and you thought you did something wrong. I wanted you to have your sister back." Stefan told me and it was such a Stefan thing to say. I feel a tear fall and he comes up to me and wipes it away. He leaves his hand on my cheek and I lean into it, closing my eyes just enjoying his touch until I hear the door.
"Well well. Little brother, just what to do think you're doing?" Damon asks and my eyes snap open.
"Hey D. Find Elena yet?" I ask, walking towards him trying to hide my blush.
"No. Did I interrupt something, Sammi?" He asked me curiously.
"No" I said a little too quickly to be true and Stefan sighed.
"We we just having a dance party. Wanna join us D?" I asked him and he laughed.
"No. I'm going to go look for Elena again. I won't tell her you're alive." He said when he saw my worry. I nodded, relieved. He sped away leaving me and Stefan alone. I turned the music up, and 'Sleeping with a Friend' by Neon Trees came on and we were laughing about how ironic the song was compared to with our kiss. We did even hear Bonnie when she came in. She laughed at us and I froze.
"Having fun?" Bonnie asked us and I blushed. Stefan laughed and I glared at him.
"Bonnie..." I said to her and she giggled. She pulled a ring out of her pocket and handed it to me.
"Thank you." I said pulling the ring on my right middle finger and speeding out to the driveway and sighing. I hear Stefan and Bonnie come outside. I turn around and hug Bonnie.
"I know you hate being cooped up, but I'm glad that you did something productive." She said and I laughed.
"There's nothing more productive than a dance party." I tell her grinning.
"Well, I was also wondering if you guys wanted to go to the Grill?" She asked us.
"Yeah, let me get my jacket." I told her and vamp sped upstairs and grabbed my new black leather jacket. I sped back downstairs and hugged her again.
"Thanks for volunteering and insisting to pick my wardrobe. This is why you're my best friend." I tell her and she admires my outfit, and smiles at me.
"I know you'd do it for me! And I get to share these with you now." She tells me pointing to my high tops. I nod and loop one arm through hers and one through Stefan's and we speed to the grill and Bonnie looks dizzy.
"It'll be easier on the way home. You might be drunk and it won't matter." I tell her and we order shots and compel the bartender to let Bonnie drink too. We all stumble into the Salvatore living room and are laughing as I grab my bottle of whiskey.
"Sam?" I hear and turn around to see Jeremy standing in front of the fireplace.
"You guys see him too? I'm not crazy?" I ask and they shake their heads. I run and throw my arms around him. He hugs me back but pulls away and walks to Bonnie who looks... relieved.
"You did a spell didn't you? I told you not to, Bonnie." He tells her and she shakes her head.
"And I told you I didn't care and I love you." She says kissing him. I smile and feel tears fall. I feel a hand slip into mine to see Stefan there. I lean my head on his shoulder and then get an idea.
"I'm gonna go call Damon. If Elena knows Jer's alive it might help her turn it back on." I say walking towards the door. I don't get there because Damon appears and snaps my neck.
Damon snaps Sam's neck, scaring Jeremy who starts shouting at him.
"Damon! Why would you just kill her?" He shouts, tears streaming down his face as he stares at his big sister's body.
"Sam's a vampire, Jeremy." Stefan says as he picks her up and puts her on the couch.
"And she's going to be beyond pissed I did that, but Elena's right behind me. She thinks Sam's dead."
"Makes sense." Stefan agrees.
"None of this makes sense." Jeremy says, still not believing his big sister wasn't dead.
"Elena snapped Sam's neck last night. She didn't know, and neither did we, that Sam had saved Rebekah yesterday, and Rebekah healed her, so when Sam died she turned. Elena thinks she's dead and we aren't telling her because if you're alive and she thinks she killed your sister it might guilt her into turning it on." Damon tells him and he nods. A few minutes later Elena speeds into the living room and sees Jeremy crying and holding Sam's hand. Bonnie is next to him, her hand on his shoulder. Stefan and Damon are arguing on what to do with her body, Damon adamant on the Gilbert family plot, but Stefan thinks they should try to bring her back.
"Aw touching Gilbert family reunion." Elena says and they all turn towards her.
"Elena! Bonnie did a spell to bring me back and when I got here they said that Sam's dead. I didn't believe them, but she is! What do we do?" Jeremy asks his sister and she laughs.
"You didn't tell him? I turned it off Jeremy. No more messy emotions. It made snapping her neck so easy. Like snapping yours is going to be." She says completely unaware of Sam who had woken up and crept behind her. Sam snapped Elena's neck and looked at her sister's body drop.
"Karma's a bitch, baby sis. Man that felt good!" I say happily. I hug Jeremy who laughs.
"Jer, you should've been an actor! She totally bought it." I told him as I injected Elena with vervain for when she woke up. We put her in the 'dungeon' in the cellar so we could dry her out and help her flip her switch back. This was not going to be easy.