Chapter 2: The Hybrid

Damon was in his room, pulling off the notes from the thumb tacks as the news went off, sat Andy, Damon's fact girlfriend was killed at her work place, "You just can't stay away, can you?" Damon questions, and Samathea walks up next to him, "You haven't been returning any of my calls." she tells him, he looks over at her. "Yeah, well it's been a busy day, dead fake girlfriend and all." he said to her, she looks at him, "Why didn't you just tell me?" she asks in a soft tone.

"Happy birthday, Sam. Stefan killed Andy, Cake?" he statistically tells her and brushes past her, "Stefan texted me, Damon." she tells him and he turn back to her, "What?" he asks her, she turns to him, "He texted me last night." she tells him, he stood in his spot, "Well, what did he say?" Damon asks her, she shook her head. "Just happy birthday Sammy and that was it." she tells him, he turns fully to her, "I ask Sheriff Forbes to trace the text, they came from Tennessee." she tells him.

"Where's he's been drinking on the countryside blood." Damon states and walks to the fireplace, "We went through this, Sam. Stefan's gone." he tells her and tosses the papers in the fireplace and then takes a hold of the matches. "And I don't mean Geographically." he tells her with a smirk. "If Stefan was gone, he wouldn't of texted me." she tells him, Damon said nothing and lights the match, Samathea sighs and left the room as Damon set fire to the papers.

~8~8~8~

Alaric laid in his apartment, shirtless. But then a loud knocking was sound on his door, he rolls off his back and sat up, shielding his eyes from the sun. the knock sounded again, "Go away Damon!" Alaric shouts, but the knocking didn't stop, Alaric sigh, gets up and walks over to the door, he then opens it and he saw both Elena and Samathea standing in front of his door and Samathea lowers her arm. "Hi." she tells him. Alaric then zips and buttons his pants. "Um… you're not who I excepting." he tells them both. "I need you to tell us what you know about Stefan and Serena in Tennessee." Elena tells him. He looks at them both, "Do you miss the part where I check out of all of this?" he questions them, then walks away from the door.

The twins walk into the apartment, "Come on Ric, whatever Damon knows you know." Samathea tells him as she flicks her and the door closes quietly, "Well , ask Damon." Alaric tells them and pulls on a shirt. "Yeah well, Damon's really not in a helping mood right now." Elena tells him, he then turns to them and pull something out of his fridge. "For good reason. Because it's not safe for you, either of you." he tells them. They both look at him, "Stefan is off the rails and no one knows what Serena is doing." Alaric answers them, "Yeah but, Serena is making sure that Stefan is close to his humanity, which means he can still be saved." Samathea tells him.

"Then why do you have to be the ones to save him?" Alaric answers them as they clean the counter. "Because we're not the kind of people to just check out." Elena tells him, Alaric sighs, "Look Stefan would never give up on Elena and we are hell not going to give up on him." Samathea informs him. He sighs, "Tells what you know Ric." Elena asks him, he lowers his head, "Please." Samathea asks of him and he looks at them. "They've been tracking werewolves. Him, Serena and Klaus, all up the eastern sea board." Ric informs them and walks off. Elena and Samathea locks eyes with each other.

~8~8~8~

Smokey Mountains, Tennessee

Klaus, Serena and Stefan walk through the woods. Stefan was carrying Ray on his shoulders as Serena was limping. "Are you okay, is Ray getting heavy?" Klaus asks Stefan. "I'm fine." Stefan answers him. "Are you sure about that, we've been walking for quite some time now." Klaus states, Serena huffs and looks down at her ankle and just kept on limping, "If you need some water or a little sit down…" Klaus states, Serena rolls her eyes, "You know, I get that we're stuck together. But if we can maybe skip the chit chat, that would be great." Stefan tells him.

Klaus sighs, "So much brooding, you're self-loathing is suffocating, my friend." Klaus states, "Maybe it's because we're tired of hunting werewolves. We've at this all Summer." Serena states, Klaus looks back at her and she glares at him. Klaus smirks at her and looks ahead. "And thanks to our pup Ray, we've found a pack." Klaus states as the three saw a group of people un-packing and ready to settle for a while. The three walk over to them and they all look over and notice them. Stefan then throws Ray off his shoulders and places him on the ground. "Ray!" a girl shouts out, ran to him and kneels down, "Oh my God." she mumbles as the pack leader walks over to Ray.

Then the two look at the three, "Who are you?" she questions Stefan and Serena. "The important question is: Who am I." Klaus states as he steps forward. And the two werewolves look at him, "Please forgive the intrudion. My name is Klaus." Klaus introduce himself to them and the woman slowly stood up and the twp slowly back up. "You're the Hybrid." she states, Serena sighs, leans against the tree and crosses her arms. Klaus just smirks, "You heard of me, Fantastic."

~8~8~8~

Elena and Samathea sat at a booth in the Grill, waiting for Tyler to show up, he soon then arrive and sat at the booth in front of Elena and Samathea. They told him everything and ask him to tell him what he knows about the werewolves, Alaric looks over and notices them, "A lot of us like to keep to ourselves before the full moon. Chain ourselves up." he informs them. He then looks around and then leans in closer. "But there are some werewolves that like to gather in places where they don't have to do that, where they can enjoy it." he adds.

"What kind of places?" the twins ask him, "Mountains. State parks. Deserts, that kind of stuff." he answers, "Anywhere in Tennessee?" Samathea asks him. "Yeah, here, give me your phone, I'll try to pull up the map." Taylor tells her, Samathea pulls out her cell and handed it to Taylor. "Thank you, Taylor." Samathea tells him and he looks at her, "I know this is asking a lot." Samathea tells him and he smiles, "It's nice hearing you thank me, but as Caroline like to remind me, Stefan and Serena are in this mess because I bit Damon." he tells them and they look at him, showing no grudge. "I figure I owe you both one." he states, Samathea sighs and brushes back a strain of her wavy hair.

"Have you talk to her, by the way?" he asks them and they both look at him, "No, why?" Elena asks him. He shook his head. "Just curious." he answers and then handed Samathea back her phone, "Here that's your best bet." he tells them, Samathea takes her phone back and looks at the map, she then look at Taylor and smiles, "Now we're even." she tells him and they both left the booth.

Then walk up to the bar, and sat down next to Alaric as he down coffee. He set his glass down and looks at them both, "Did you get anything?" he asks them. They both look at each other and then at him. "How did you feel about a little hike to the Smokey Mountains?" Elena asks him. "You want to hunt down a pack of werewolves on the night of a full moon?" he questions them. "We'll be out of there, before the moon is full." Elena tells him, Alaric sighs and face palms. "If you don't want to come with us, we'll go by ourselves." Samathea states as they both start to leave. As they stood Alaric glares at them and they look at him, "What, you were the one that said we can do things on our own now." Elena reminds him.

"Yeah, I meant like frozen Dinner and SATs." he tells them and they just look at him. He sighs again in defeat, "fine, lets just go." he agrees as he fishes out his wallet and pulls out the cash. "But um… one of you is driving." he tells them, "I'll do it." Samathea answers, Elena looks at her, smiles and handed Samathea the keys and the three headed out.

~8~8~8~

Serena lean against the tree and watches as Klaus and Stefan were forcing a human to feed Ray some blood to complete the transition, but she knew that is wasn't going to work and was it wouldn't work. She sighs in annoyance and looks down at her ankle that she sprain three miles back, then kneels down and rubs her two fingers against her ankle and lightly rubs it to sooth the pain.

"Are you alright, love?" Klaus asks as he looms over her, Serena sighs and stood up, "I'm fine, beside don't you have werewolves to turn?" Serena questions him. Then went to walk off, but Klaus notices her limp and grips her arm. Making her look at him, "What?" she snaps, in no mood for Klaus games, "You're limping." he states casually. She huffs and took her arm back, "So what, it's my problem to deal with, not yours." she snaps at him with eyes as cold as ice. Then limps off my herself, Klaus sighs and watches her leave.

Serena good to a good distance where she was alone, but stay in hearing range of the pack, Klaus and Stefan. She sat on a rock and looks up at the opening, remembering her home, before she came to Klaus's village. She closes her eyes, pulls her head down, took a deep breath in:

"Hon'maren ken uva kala

Nor'anoe sera mi lorien

im'eri rato naya."

Serena sang with an angelic voice, then hums to herself, from the distance the werewolves, Klaus and Stefan heard a song in the wind and were curious on where it was coming form; Serena remember her homeland that was long gone and far away.

"Larya nin melisse

Le sinte ima sinome,

ana sama lemi oloore

la ar'uuner ana kaure.

Uur'anor wannea

isilme va'arya

telume siila tere

na'are utumno wanya.

Eruma.

Helkada.

Raane resse.

Lorna a'kuila

varna mi'olor.

Turma ei raumo.

Sinome…"

Serena finishes her song, as a tears falls down her cheek and, she sniffles and quickly wipes it away, then notices the sturdy woven bracelet, it was made out of a woven sturdy leather, with seashells and carve out white rocks that was woven in the bracelet, she smiles at little and presses her wrist with the bracelet on, to her forehead. Remember the ones that were long gone, but never forgotten.

~8~8~8~

Elena, Samathea and Alaric walk through the woods, Elena was carrying her bag on her back, and so was Alaric. "In a couple hours, the full moon is going to raise, just above the ridge. Taylor's right, that's where the pack will be." Alaric informs to two. As they walk next to a flowing river. "You were a boy scout, weren't you?" Elena asks him, as Samathea smirks and takes a sip from her water bottle.

"Shut up." he tells her, "A boy scout slash vampire slayer." Samathea states after she gulps down the cool water, "Slash whiskey drinking all around lost cause." Alaric adds as they continued on. They both chuckled as they stop and Alaric places his bag down as Samathea places her water bottle away in Elena's bag. Then Alaric opens his bag, showing his weapons. "Wow, you came stock." Samathea states. "Yeah well… we aren't exactly bird watching." he informs them, Samathea nods. "Here, put that in Elena's bag." he informs Samathea and handed her a grenade, "Vervein grenade?" she asks him.

Alaric stood up and look at her, "Wolfsbane." he answers, Samathea nods and places it in Elena's side pouch. She then reaches into her pocket, "Well since we're exchanging gifts." she states and held out the Gilbert ring, Alaric looks at it and then at her, "That's John Gilbert's ring." he tells them, "It was yours once. Go ahead, take it. It will protect you from whatever supernatural danger we're about to get ourselves into." Elena tells him. Alaric looks at her then at Samathea. "He gave it to you." he tells her, Samathea nods at him. "And now I'm giving it to you, besides, I'm a doppelganger, it won't work for me. John left it for me if I ever have kids." she tells him.

"Yeah well, why don't you save it for future generation of stubborn relentless baby Gilberts?" he tells her, "Ok, how about you barrow the ring, after we survive this. I won't feel pretty bad if I had you kill before happy hour." she tells him, Elena smirks and Alaric just looks at her. Samathea smiles at her and Alaric returns the smile and took the ring. Elena then walks over next to Alaric pulls her bag off her shoulders and squats down, Alaric did the same with his bag as well. Samathea sighs and turns to the river, pulling off her over shirt. "I don't know why, you think that we're a lost cause." Samathea starts, but then suddenly she lets out a yelp as she was flying forward and slashes into the river.

Alaric and Elena quickly stood up and turn around, Alaric held his crossbow in his hand as Damon was standing where Samathea once stood. He lowers his arms as Samathea breaks the surface of the water, soaking wet. She then look up at Damon as he was leaning against the tree. "Damon!" Samathea and Elena exclaims. "How the hell are you even here?!" Samathea questions him. Damon looks over his shoulder at Alaric, "Thanks for the tip brother." he tells him as Alaric lowers his crossbow and stood next to Damon. Elena looks at him in surprise as Samathea just scuffs.

"Of course you told him." she snaps, then splashes water at them. Elena sigh and face palms. "You think I'd take you to a mountain range full of werewolves on a full moon without back-up?" he tells her, Elena nods, knowing that she couldn't argue with that.

Samathea looks away as she just groans, then crosses her arms. "Get out of the water, Sam." Damon tells her as Alaric walks back to his bag, making Elena do the same as well. She glares up at him, "If I come out of this water, you're going to make me go home." she snaps back at him. "Yes. Because I'm not an idiot, like you." Damon answers her, Alaric sighs. "Right now you both are acting like idiots." he informs them as he and Elena pull on their bags.

"You gave up on him Damon and he's your brother." Samathea snaps and turns to the side. Damon pulls himself off the tree, "I didn't give up on him, Sammy. I face reality, now get out of the water." he tells her again and she turns back to him, "No!" she reports. "What's your big plan Sammy, Huh?" Damon questions her as he walks down to her. "You're going to walk through a camp site full of werewolves, roasting marshmallows and wait for Stefan to stop by?" he questions more as he walk into the water, not caring that he was getting wet. "The plan is to find him and help him. Damon this is the closest we've been to him since he left, I am not going home." Samathea reminds him.

"Klaus thinks you died when he broke the curse, that makes you and your dear sister safe. This, this is not safe." he reminds her, she narrows her eyes. "I am not leaving until we find him." she snaps. "It's a full moon tonight, Sam." he reminds her again. "Then we'll find him before then." she tells him, Damon just looks at her in her wet appearance. Alaric and Elena just watches them, "Damon, please." she asks him, uncrossing her arms. Damon looks to the side and sighs as Samathea looks at him, "Okay, ok, fine. But we are out of here, before the moon is full and I'm werewolf bait." he tells her, she nods. "I promise." she tells him.

"Unless you want to relive that whole dead bit, hissy thing." he reminds her, "I said I promise." she said again, "Fine." he states and walks out of the river, Samathea sighs and walks out of the river as well.

~8~8~8~

Serena was sitting next to Ray as he was trembling and blood leaks out of his eyes. She rubs his shoulder and looks at Klaus. "You said it was going to feel better, why isn't it feeling better?" Ray questions, looking up at him, Klaus crosses his arms. "Some master race." Stefan states, Serena nods at him. "Lose the attitude." Klaus tells him, then the woman gasp awake, taking in her surroundings.

Serena moves away from Ray and kneels down next to her. Klaus and Stefan looks at her and Klaus sighs, "Derek, come feed your girlfriend." Klaus orders and the compelled man stood up and offers his arm to Klaus, he took a hold of it and as he goes to bite it, Ray growls and takes off, the three watch him go and disappeared into the forest and Stefan and Serena look back at Klaus, "Go fetch him." Klaus orders and Stefan takes off, leaving Serena with Klaus.

Stefan catches up with him and shoves him to ground, but then Ray grabs a hold of Stefan's arm and bites down hold on his arm, Stefan groans in pains and Ray flashes away. Stefan grips his arm, looking at the bite then he stood up on his feet and went to give chase, but familiar voices catches his attention. "How you doing?" Damon asks, Samathea sighs, "Fine." she answers, "You know I can carry you." Damon tells her, "No thanks, knowing you, you'd probably drop me." Samathea states and Elena sighs. "What are you, twelve?" Alaric asks them. "I think they are." Elena answers.

Stefan walks to the edge of the trees and saw the four walking up the mountain, right for the werewolf campsite where Klaus and Serena were at. Then Stefan turns as he heard a twig snap. Serena walks up to him, "Where's Ray?" she asks him, "He got away." he tells her, passing her, but Serena grips his arm and low down at the werewolf bite and then at him, "Ray bite you?" she asks him, Stefan looks down at bite then at her. "Yeah, I'm going to need Klaus's blood to heal me." he tells her, Serena sighs, then lets go of his arm and pulls out knife, Stefan watch in confusion as she pulls the knife to her palm and cuts a thin line along her hand, she twitches her eye a little at the pain and she hold it out to him, Stefan looks at her. "Just trust me on this." she tells him, he takes her word for it and gently took her hand and press her hand to his lips and drinks her blood, sweet and a portent taste ran over his taste puds.

But he stops himself from loosing control, he pulls back and looks down at the bite and saw that it was already heal and good as new. He looks at her and she smiles at him, she that her her hand was already heal. He looks at her in shock, but she pulls her finger to her lips, "It will be our little secret." she whispers to him, then pulls her hand away. "I'll tell Klaus that you went to catch Ray." she tells him and went to walk off, "What about you?" he asks her, she looks at him, "I'll do what I do best, stall Klaus." she tells him and walks off and Stefan takes off after Ray.

~8~8~8~

The sun was starting to set as the four drew closer to to the camp, "We got about a mile left." Alaric informs them, "The sun's about to set." Damon states, "we know, Damon." Samathea mutters, "I'm just saying." Damon states as he shrugs, "The moon doesn't reach the apex for a while, we have enough time." Elena throws in.

The four bush past the branches and, then Samathea grips her arm as a feeling washes over her, Elena notices her griping her arm and places her hand on her shoulder, "You okay?" Elena asks her, the other two look at them as well, "Something's wrong." she states and then they heard a twig snap, they all look forward and saw Ray stumbles through the woods and saw then, Alaric aims his crossbow at him, "Stay where you are." he orders and Ray looks at Damon.

"Vampire." he states and Damon shrugs. Then suddenly Ray flashes over at him, grips his arms and pulls him back and shoves him up against a tree, Damon kept his hand on on Ray's throat, Samathea gasp then her and Elena kneel down. Elena pulls off her bag as Samathea quickly reaches into Elena's side bag for the grenade. Alaric fires at him with the crossbow that does no effect, Samathea grabs a hold of the grenade and pulls the pin with her teeth, "Damon!" she shouts out, he looks at her and she tosses him the grenade.

Damon catches it with one hand, he then places it close to Ray's face and it's explodes in his face, making Ray cry out in pain, letting go of Damon and fall to his hands and kneels, Samathea and Elena stood up as Damon pushes himself off the tree and then kicks Ray in the gut, making him flip and get knock out. "Let me guess… Hybrid." Alaric states, Samathea nods at him in confirmation, Damon just looks at him.

Later on Damon and Alaric had chain and tied Ray tightly to a tree, "Those ropes aren't going to hold him much longer." Damon states as Samathea and Elena were covering the last ropes with water, "Here Ric, take these." Elena states, then Damon reaches out to take the ropes, but yelps as his skin burnt at the lightest touch. He then turn to both of them, "She said Ric." Samathea tells him, he just glares at her for a moment and Alaric takes the ropes from them, "Alright, that's the last of the vervein, and we don't have enough stuff to hold him." Alaric tells him as Elena and Samathea set down their bottles.

"I don't think we're going to make it to that ridge before the full moon." Alaric tells them, then Samathea takes a step forward closer to Ray. "If can get him to take, we don't have to." she tells them, they look at each other and Samathea slowly moves her hand to Ray's face. But then he takes a breath in, he then looks her in the eyes and his neck started to snap and he screams in pain, making her step back. "Is he turning?" Damon asks, both Elena and Samathea looks up at the sky as there was still light out, "How is this possible, its still light out." Elena states, "Tell him that." Alaric states and Damon grips Ray's shoulders, "There's not suppose to be werewolves out until the moon is full!" Elena snaps, but then Ray lunges forward and tries to bite Damon, "You know those ropes aren't going to hold him." Alaric reminds him as Ray continues to scream. "Damon we've got to get out of here!" Samathea calls out over Ray's screaming. "We've got to get out of these mountains now!" she said again, "Damon, now!" Samathea said against, lightly pushing at Damon's back. Damon lets go and the four take off leaving Ray tied to the tree, screaming in pain.

~8~8~8~

Night has fallen and the four were running for their lives, but then suddenly Samathea trips over a root and falls to the ground, the three stop and look at her. "Don't move!" Damon orders her as she was on her hands and knees. Samathea froze in her place, but she slowly moves her head up and meet with the eyes of a werewolf, he was growling at her, eyes glowing yellow, then looks over at Damon and turns his gaze back to Samathea.

He was surprise that she wasn't shaking in fear, but she slowly moves her hand up and out to the wolf, he growls softly at her. "Here, doggy, doggy." Damon calls out, the wolf looks at him and Damon vamps away, then the wolf flashes after him. Samathea quickly scrambles to her feet and Elena stood next to her. "Come on, let keep moving." Alaric tells her, "Wait, we can't leave Damon." Samathea tells him, "He can handle himself, lets move." he argues with her as Elena tries to get her to moves. "No, if he gets bit, he'll be dead and I'm the reason he's out here." Samathea states. "I am the reason he's out here, I told him where we were and i'm telling you to keep moving, lets go." Alaric tells her.

Samathea looks at him, then Elena then back where Damon took off, "Samathea, now!" Alaric said to her, she bites in a groan and took Elena's hand and they both take off with Alaric.

~8~8~8~

Damon walks through the woods, pushing the thin branches out of this way, then suddenly head a twig snap, making him turns around. But then he turns back around as Ray charging at him and knocks Damon off his feet, he then vamps back up onto his feet, then jumps at Ray and right hooks him. Then Ray swings his claws at him, but Damon manages to dodge every one, then shoves Ray to the ground.

Then Ray kicks him off and pulls himself back onto his feet, so does Damon and then Ray jumps over Damon and he turns to Ray, then they both held reach other in a head locks as Ray tries and bites him. And just as Ray was about to touch his fangs to Damon, Stefan came up behind him, thrust his hand into Ray's chest from behind and pulls out his heart and Ray falls to the ground, dead.

Damon just pants as he looks at his younger brother, "Fancy meeting you here." Damon states and looks down at Ray, "What part of, don't follow me anymore, got lost in translation, Damon?" Stefan asks him as he tosses Ray's heart next to him, Damon just looks at him, "Might want to take it up with your girlfriend and Sammy." he tells him and Stefan just looks at him. "If you want them to stop chasing you, I won't stop with the last night phone calls and texts." Damon adds on. "I didn't call or texted them." Stefan tries to play it off, but Damon wasn't falling for the lie. "Sure you did." Damon states as he pants. "They're never going to give up on you." he adds and Stefan just pants.

"Well they have to, because I'm never coming back." Stefan tells him and Damon was sad deep down, hearing Stefan saw those words. "I want you to get them home and see if you can keep them there, this time." Stefan asks of him, Damon sighs and nods and Stefan nods a little at him.

~8~8~8~

Alaric, Elena and Samathea sat in the car, Elena was up front as Samathea was in the back. "Stefan is out there somewhere." Elena starts, "And so is Damon and now we're just sitting here in this car?!" Samathea questions, "Let the vampires fight the hybrid zombie mountain man. I'll take care of keeping the humans safe." Alaric tells him and the twins turn and look at him, "I thought you were check of taking care of people?" Samathea asks him, and he turns and looks at her. "I know what you're doing, what the both of you are doing. Don't. There doesn't need to be a lesson here." he tells them.

"You're better at it then you think, you know." Elena tells him, Alaric groans, "Why are you a sucker for a lost cause or what?" he mumbles. "Because, you're not a lost cause Ric. You're just… lost." Samathea tells him and Alaric lowers his head. "So is Jeremy, so is Elena and so am I. Our family is gone. We don't have anybody, I'm sorry, but you don't have anybody either… so we kind of have each other." Samathea tells him, he sighs and held up his hand that hand the ring on his ring finger. He looks at it then looks at Samathea. "I'm keeping the ring then." he tells them.

Elena and Samathea smiles at him and he smiles a little at them, they then heard someone walking up to their car, Samathea looks at her window and saw Damon, "Damon?" she asks as she was the first one to step out of the car. "Are you okay?" Samathea asks him as Alaric and Elena step out, "Are you, did you…?" she asks him, "I'm fine, bite-free. Get back in the car, please." he tells her as Samathea collides with him, making her grunt a little. He rolls his eyes and looks down at her, "Can you just give me a minute to appreciate that you're not dead?" she asks him, "I'll give you ten seconds. 9, 8…" he starts, grips her shoulder and turns her around.

"Hey Ric, did you happen to see where I park my car?" Damon asks, Elena shook her head and gets back into the car, "Damon, stop being such a caveman." Samathea reports as Damon pushes her back to the car and Alaric gets back in.

Stefan step out of the shadows and watches Damon place Samathea back into the back seat of the car, he then looks at Elena and vamps away seconds before she was able to see him.

~8~8~8~

Samathea walks out of her bathroom, in her Pj's and a towel over her shoulder, she then looks up and saw someone she wasn't excepting but at the same time was. "Seriously?" she questions, Damon looks over his shoulder. "I was wrong." he admits and then she takes a step forward. "Are you drunk?" she asks him, he turns and looks at her. "No." he answers.

She nods at him and then pulls the towel off her shoulders and places it on her bed. He then fully turns to her and took a step forward, "I thought Stefan was gone, but I was wrong." he tells her as she looks at him in surprise. "You saw him out there?" she asks him. Damon said nothing, "Is he okay?" she ask him, "No, Sam. He's not okay, he an insufferable marauder and need is ass kick." Damon answer and Samathea frowns at him, in no mood for games. "But it can be saved." he tells her, she shifts in her spot and crosses her arm.

"What happened out there, that made you change your mind?" she asks him, "I change my mind when he; even in his darkest place, my brother still can't let me die." he answers her as she took in his answer. "So I figured I want to see him return." he tells her and she locks her eyes with him, "I'll help you and Elena bring him back, she nods her head. "Thank you." she said to him. Then he steps to her, "But before I do that, I need you to answer one question." he tells her. She nods and turns her attention to the towel.

"What made you change your mind?" he asks her, "What do you mean?" she asks as she folds the towel. "You were so hell-bent on staying on that mountain, you just gave up, what change your mind?" he asks her again, "We were under attack Damon." she answers. "You had a bag full of weapons, a teacher with an entirety ring and you have magic powers, you could of kept going." he states the obvious, after she was done she tosses the towel onto her bed. "It was too dangerous." she answers again. "It was too dangerous to go out there to begin with. What was it?" he asks again. "Why are you being like this?" she asks him. He then steps closer to her, "What change your mind Sam?" he asks again, "I didn't want to see you get hurt, okay, I was…" she finally answers him and he looks into her eyes.

"I was worry about you." she adds on. He just smirks, "Thanks." he states and walks to her door, she sighs. "Yes, I worry about you." she tells him, turning to him and he turns to her, "Why do you have to hear me say it?" she asks him, "Because, when I drag my brother from the end to deliver him back to Elena…" he starts and then gently grips the sides of her head. "I want you to remember the things you felt while he was gone." he tells her. Samathea just stood there, confused on what she was feeling or even felt while Stefan was gone.

Damon saw the confusion in her eyes, then ran his fingers through Samathea's wavy black hair and presses his forehead against hers. "Good night, Sammy." he whispers to her and left her in her room alone, he then passes Alaric. Then Alaric looks at Samathea, "Do you know what you're doing there?" he asks her, she looks at him sighs and shock her head. "No, I honestly don't." she answers him.

~8~8~8~

Later that night Samathea woke up and found her herself in strap in a chair, she jerks at her restrains and calls out for someone, but then realizes that she didn't sound like herself, she sound like Caroline. "Mrs. Lockwood?" Caroline calls out, Samathea turns and saw Caroline cuff to the chair.

Then turns back and saw Caroline's father open the door, "Hello Caroline." he said to her, Samathea gasp and went to say something but her voice was gone. "Daddy?"