Based on: The Vampire Diaries
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters that appear in the show. Also, the main plot and some dialogs and descriptions are based on the series, which script I did not write.
Notification: In this story I wanted to embed some songs that were just begging to be used in certain scenes. I always give the title and the performer, and then I tell you what happens in certain moments of the songs, so you can play it in your head like a music video or a TV clip ;)
Enjoy!
Chapter 1
Everybody has a story.
Birth, childhood, first love, college, a long life full of laughter, love, tears and pain. A sudden death and an empty chair by the dinner table.
But my story is different.
Because after my death I was reborn.
In blood.
***
"Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse
00:01 She was walking confidently through the crowd, cutting it in a perfect straight line. She was in no hurry to see her maker, so she made sure she moved as seductively as she could, while heading towards him. Stefan was as good looking as she remembered him, tall, well build and dark blond with blue eyes; her father, her maker.
"Is that your child?" a tall and elegant woman standing by his side asked him, looking at her.
He didn't answer but smiled faintly.
"Good choice" the woman applauded him and kept her pale face expressionless.
00:48 She felt somebody's hatred and hostility towards her and when she looked to her right, a blonde girl was looking at her jealously but she suddenly took a step back and her face was not so secure any more. Valerie chuckled; she knew that her darkening and changing eyes of a vampire were intimidating.
1:20 She could feel everybody's gazes burning all over her body and a smile of satisfaction appeared on her petty face.
1:36 A young man to her left looked at her nastily and in a split of a second his eyes were covered with a dark web and his sharp teeth were sinking into the neck of the mortal woman he was holding.
2:24 She looked away with disgust. Stefan needed her and the only way he could summon her was through the council, which nest was in this repulsive place filled with bloodthirsty vampires that chose not to fight their addiction, as she called it. She was wondering, what was so important that made him come to this revolting place?
***
They were back in Mystic Falls.
Again.
She never thought she would be back here and yet, there she was, lying in her old room, in her old bed. She always thought that she could make herself forget where she came from and how she came to this life but apparently her past was catching up with her.
"We're back" she pointed out when Stefan appeared in her doorway "and something's telling me I'm here not just to revive some memories from old times" she put emphasis on the word old.
"No, you're here for a specific reason but I can't tell you anything tonight. I'm gonna know more tomorrow. Meanwhile, we can stay here, I've already talked to Zack" Zack was his great great great great great great nephew, a mortal and the face of the Salvatore family for the world, taking care of all of its assets.
"Well, that's familiar" she thought "Stefan being mysterious and hiding behind countless secrets of his"
Surely, she could wait another 24 hours.
***
She couldn't. She followed him early in the morning and was extremely surprised when she saw him entering the town high school.
What was a 150-year-old vampire doing at school for 7 hours straight?
Did Stefan decide that he needed to educate himself after such a long break? And if yes, why did he need her?
And that's when she saw them from the distance. A petite brunette with long hair was walking across the yard, without seeing Stefan following her. Valerie couldn't see her face but she could feel the powerful sadness radiating from her.
Stefan stopped by the entrance to the cemetery as if he didn't want to interrupt the girl during her meditation, and it was only when he spotted her running down the slope he decided to reveal his presence.
Valerie felt the familiar chill running down her spine. Something scared the girl to make her run like this and Valerie was sure she could feel somebody looming in the fog but she couldn't pin point who it was.
Now she was standing far away from them talking but close enough to take a look of the girl's face.
And she froze.
It was Katherine.
***
She had been battling with her thoughts for a couple of hours already.
This was not possible.
Katherine was dead and there was no way that the girl at the cemetery was her.
But the resemblance was striking.
What was Stefan getting both of them into?
She heard the heavy front door closing and Stefan walked into the living room.
They looked at each other expectantly.
"I've met a girl" he started and hesitated to see her reaction.
"I know" she looked up at him "I saw you two at the cemetery"
She knew he would never get mad at her for that.
"So that's why we're here? You summoned me from across the world for a girl?"
"She's not just a girl. Her name is Elena. Besides, I don't need your help as your maker but as your friend, you know this"
She nodded, she did know this. Some masters were ruthless with their children but with her, Stefan was always trying to be her best friend, just as they used to be before their lives were taken away from them.
"She looks like Katherine" she stated sourly.
"That's why I need your help" he said calmly "I need to find out what it is about her that makes her special. And I need you to protect her"
"I can do that" she looked at him "You're aiming high, Stefan. But after all you're a Salvatore. You always get what you want. Just don't fall in love with her. Again"
"I know I shouldn't have come home" he whispered this time and leaned his muscular back on the doorframe "I know the risk. But I had no choice" he took a deep breath "I have to know her. But I lost control today. I saw her blood and I could feel my eyes changing. Everything I kept buried inside came rushing to the surface. I'm simply not able to resist her"
"Stefan, whoever or whatever she is, she's not Katherine. Just keep that in mind"
He smiled faintly.
"I will"