Stefan's POV

He was ready to take the full transition, to leave his human life behind him. But he couldn't do that without saying goodbye to his father. He owed the man who made him who he was one last goodbye. So when he stood outside his office's door and he saw the look of fear and hate in his father's eyes, Stefan knew that Damon's words were true. Father had betrayed us. Betrayed me. His heart clenched in pain. He could not fathom why he would feel the way he did so he came deeper into the office.

"Even in our death you only feel shame?" he asked him his vulnerability in his voice palpable.

"I watched you die," his father said and the realization that his father was there when they died and there was no remorse in his face, made the blood in his veins begin to boil.

"You were there when we were shot?" he asked astonished.

"I pulled the trigger myself," the man who he thought was his father told him. The anger inside him was uncontrollable. He was beyond himself with grief.

"You killed your own sons?"

"You were both dead to me the moment you sided with the vampires. I only thank God your mother isn't alive to see the disgrace you've bestowed upon our name."

"I haven't turned yet. I don't want to. I'm going to let myself die father," he lied to the man he would have done anything for to please.

"I will kill you myself," his father said as he grabbed his sword and charged at him. Only when he did Stefan didn't know his own strength because when he pushed him away his father flew across the room and hit the wall. The sword stabbed into his chest and worry filled him.

"Oh god father! I am so sorry! Please… let me help," he told him remorsefully as he went and took out the sword and the smell of blood hit him. The need to have the blood hit him and he brought his blood stained fingers to his lips and he felt the thirst. He tore open his father's shirt and sunk his intruding fangs into his father's flesh and drank greedily. Satisfaction filled him with every drop and he knew he had to share this with Damon. With or without Katherine they would live on. The sounds of footsteps downstairs seemed so close, he pulled away from his now dead father's body and he felt guilty ridden. He killed his own father for what? To be a monster? He dug his fingers in his hair and tears streamed down his face.

"I'm so sorry father," he whispered as he knelt down at his side. The guilt was tearing him apart and he didn't want to feel it. He desperately wanted it to go away and like the snap of his fingers it did. He no longer felt it. It was like a switch!

"Mr. Salvatore?" the maids voice called as she stepped inside the room and he was in front of her so fast that it felt like magic. He now recalled what Katherine did to him to compel him so he stared into the woman's eyes and said "You will go grab me my clothing, and remain calm."

She simply nodded and went down the hall to his bedroom and the power surging through him from the power the blood gave him to compelling the young woman was unlike anything he had ever felt. He bathed quickly for he had to take a gift to his brother. He had to share this with him. After he bathed and changed Stefan walked over to the girl and caressed her face.

"You will be a gift," he whispered and she only nodded and smiled making him smile back.

Damon's POV

He felt so weak, but he knew in order to make sure Stefan didn't finish the transition he had to kill him himself. He would kill his own brother in order to get Katherine for eternity. Lost in his thoughts he didn't hear Stefan making his way towards him until he heard the heart beat of someone next to Stefan.

"Who is this?" Damon asked as he turned around and faced his brother and then raked his eyes up and down the young woman.

"I brought her for you. She's a gift," his idiotic brother said. When Damon didn't respond he saw Stefan compel the young girl to have a seat, her back to him.

"What have you done Stefan?" he asked dreading the worst.

"I've went to see father. He came at me. I didn't know my own strength," he explained. "There was blood everywhere. He was dying and the blood was too strong. I needed it. I had to have it," and with Stefan's words realization hit him like a ton of bricks.

"You fed," he stated in disbelief.

"Yes!" Stefan exclaimed with a grin Damon had never seen on Stefan's face before. "And it's incredible," Stefan's words disappointed him. He was supposed to die! he thought to himself as he looked away from Stefan's triumphant look. "My body is exploding with power. I can hear things from far away. I can see through the darkness. I can move like it's magic! The guilt! The pain? Damon, I can turn it off like a switch!" his young brother told him with a snap of his fingers. "Katherine was right, there's a whole 'nother world out there Damon," and like the snap of his fingers with the mention of Katherine the anger of having to share eternity and Katherine with his brother made him pull away from the stranger before him.

"Katherine's dead Stefan," he told him as he stumbled away from him. "There's no world without her."

Stefan grabbed him shaking him and wrapping his hand around his neck, "you can turn that off too. You don't have to feel that pain anymore!"

"I don't want it," he told him

"You're weak. You'll be dead soon. You need this!" Stefan told him coldly making Damon wonder what changed in his brother with a little blood. Stefan called the girl over to him and then he saw his brother's face change. The veins pop out, his fangs extend and his eyes turn red then black. He bit into the girls' neck and the smell of blood entered his system. He needed it so when Stefan pulled away from her neck and the drops of blood that trailed down her neck beckoned him.

"I won't let you die," Stefan told him.

"No, I can't" Damon fought.

"Don't fight it! We can do this. Together!" Stefan told him. When he pulled away and Damon was faced with the blood that was calling him and before he could stop himself he had his mouth on her neck and her blood in his mouth. The blood. It was powerful. He felt stronger. Invincible.

He dragged the young lady into the shed and drained her. He dusted off his slacks and came out to where Stefan waited for him. Anger began to sizzle in his being as he walked over to him.

"How do you feel?" the imbecile of his brother asked him.

"You were right. It's a whole new world" he replied snidely.

"We can explore it together," Stefan told him naively.

"You got what you wanted. You have Emily. You and me for all eternity," he told him as he saw the witch in his peripheral vision. "But hear this brother. I will make it an eternity of misery for you." With those last words he walked away. Hoping that the switch to the pain he buried would remain turned off.

Emily's POV

As she was leaving the farm house where she was hiding her kids and brother she was startled with Miss Katherine's appearance.

"What has taken you so long Emily? I miss you," Katherine purred as she came up to stand in front of her and leaned in "Maybe Stefan is the reason you've taken so long." Katherine's words were angry and fear seeped to her bones.

"No- No… I was going to wait until they died or transitioned just to make sure we knew what they decided," Emily stammered.

"Good. Go check, I will wait for you and we can leave right after," Katherine told her coldly. Emily picked up the train of her dress and ran over to the field where the brothers would be when she saw Damon walking away from Stefan who stood there indifferently. They transitioned. She made her way over to where Stefan stood and the memory of his lips on hers wouldn't leave her mind. He was so gentle with her but the vampire that stood before her; so arrogant and self assured made her feel disgusted.

"You've transitioned" she stated trying to not let his new state matter to her. After all he was still Stefan.

"You've rather have found me dead?" he asked her and her heart screamed no but her mind whispered yes.

"Of course not Stefan. Katherine saved my life once. I owed her. That doesn't mean I'd wish her curse on anyone," she whispered hoping said vampire didn't hear her.

"It feels more like a gift," Stefan told her with that arrogance she was growing to despise.

His words pained her, bringing tears to her eyes. "That will change," she whispered as she approached him.

"Why is that," he asked her and he had the decency to sound worried.

"Because even in death your heart is pure Stefan," she stated once she stood in front of him. "I sensed that about you. That will be your curse," and she tried to walk away but his pleading cries made her turn around and be forced in his arms.

"I want to be with you forever Emily. I need you by my side. We can have a happy ending apart from all the death that surrounds us!" he begged and she let out the sob she had been holding in.

"I don't want you Stefan," she whispered as she tried to pull away in fear that Miss Katherine would hear and come in a rampage.

"I love you Emily and I know you love me! Don't lie to me!" he screamed at her as he took her by her arms and slammed her against a tree.

"Stefan! You're hurting me," she grunted trying to not hurt him with her magic.

"Tell me you love me!" he told her manically.

"Stop it!" she whispered and suddenly Stefan was pulled away from her and Katherine's flowing brunette mane of hair was seen.

Stefan's POV

"But how- you were…" he said as he stumbled away staring at the vampire who lied to him and compelled him for so long in disbelief. Katherine pulled Emily forward unexpectedly and stuck her hand into the love of his life's chest and Emily's eyes bulged as she stumbled forward. He could no longer hear the beautiful beating of her heart that laid in Katherine's hand now.

"Here's your happy ending lover," Katherine growled as she shoved Emily's body to his arms and a sob left his lips. "You're mine… no one else's."

"I thought you loved me as well Katherine," Damon spoke from somewhere to his right only he didn't really care, the only thing he cared about was the dying woman in his arms.

"You were far too desperate Damon. I never loved you," he heard Katherine's voice tell his brother as he caressed Emily's face and closed her eyes. "You were just my toy while Stefan came around, but when he did… I chose to keep you both. When your father gave you both vervain I was surprised but Emily made sure to save me. Having a witch indebted to you comes in handy. But she had to go and fall in love with Stefan. I don't share Stefan… you should have remembered that," she told him as if scolding a child. "But I am bored with you two now… I hope you both have a magnificent eternity," she finished with her unique laugh that Stefan had once loved. She ran away so fast leaving a grieving Stefan and a heartbroken Damon behind. Little did the brothers know that history had a way of repeating itself and like Emily once predicted, she would return, only not to free Katherine, but to help Katherine's and her doppelgangers get out of the curse of the moonstone.


A/N:

Here's the end of the prequel to my next story.

What did you think? I hope you all enjoyed this.

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