Chapter 3
"Half-sister?" Stefan answered back. He held a look of disbelief as he had just heard the news. He took a long look at me during the few minutes of silence since I had spoken. "But...I...I remember you... from 1864...You...You were my maid. How is that possible?" It had all come back to him and you could tell it in his face. He remembered me! I never thought it would be this hard to admit all of this to him, but then again I never expected him to just accept me either. It had been 145 years since we had last seen each other. It was bound to be unsettling. My head still pounding from being slammed against the wall, I sat down and started talking with Stefan who sat down opposite me.
"I did not believe it either. But just after Katherine turned up, it started to come out. My mother wanted to be nowhere near Katherine for the fear of what she was. She knew all about the vampires and knew that they would one day return. I was told to just keep to my duties and nothing else. One day I had returned from making the beds and I found Katherine talking to my mother. My mother had a look of fear on her face and Katherine just walked straight out without saying a word with a smirk on her face. I asked her what was wrong and my mother told me everything."
"Katherine had been following the people of Mystic Falls for years before deciding to settle there. She knew all of the people that lived there, their relationship statuses and who was human in the town. Apparently Katherine knew the town a little too well and threatened my mother to tell me the secret she had kept from me for years if she did not tell Katherine who was on vervain. She finally said to me the story telling me that she did not want me to find out for fearing of shaming your family and your status.
"Apparently when my mother had moved into your house to work for you, your mother had just died. It was about a year after she had passed and your father was lonely. Your father and my mother started to have an affair. She was the House maid, how was anyone going to know since she was with him most of the day for her duties? But after a few months, my mother realised that she was pregnant with me. Of course back then there was no such thing as abortion, so I was born and I was moved to live with my grandmother and grandfather until I was old enough to work. They had never told me and they had made sure that the truth was never told to anyone. As far as anyone was concerned, I was my mother's child already from a husband that had died. No one really knew who she was so everything was kept quiet." I said staring up at Stefan with tears in my eyes, just hoping that he would believe me.
I carried on "When I found out, I wanted to tell you so much. Both you and Damon. I thought of you as the family I never had when in fact you were my family. But while Katherine was around, you two were wrapped around her finger. I never had an excuse to be around either of you to talk to you properly. My mother had forced me to keep it quiet to keep the status quo and not cause a fuss within the house, so I kept my distance. You only knew me as the maid and that was all I ever was to you, even though you had treated me so nicely through out the years."
"One day, I had finally decided that I would tell you. I took an evening stroll through the woods and found a carriage with men shouting and guns firing. I was frightened so I hid in a bush not far from there. I know that as a servant I was not meant to be out this late at night but I snuck out thinking I would never be caught. I had no idea how I was going to get back without being seen. Then I saw you and Damon. I thought that it was my chance but then I realised you two were panicking. I saw you run towards the carriage holding Katherine and I saw you both attempt to save her..." I could feel tears coming to my eyes reliving the moment in my head as I said it and I took a breath and said "...and then I saw you shot." Stefan looked at me shocked. "I saw our father shoot you and I realised that I could never reveal to you who I really was."
Stefan sat there in shock. I don't think he believed me but I part of him may have realised that he had other family members he did not know about. What he asked me next was a surprise. "So how did you find out we had turned?"
"You would be surprised how much knowledge a maid knows just by not being noticed in a room. I knew all about the vampires and that your father wanted to get rid of them. The night you were killed, I ran back as fast as I could when everything was clear. I walked back past Katherine's room and I overheard Emily speak about you to someone else, I believe it was her brother. Without being noticed, I stopped outside the room and overheard the whole conversation of you two being killed but that Katherine's blood was in both of your systems. You both would be in transition soon and she was going there to make sure you both made the right choice..."
"I ran into Emily as she walked out and she had worked out that I had overheard. She touched me and worked out my relationship to you two. She promised me that I would find you both one day and I could reveal my secret to you...But you both had disappeared after you transitioned. After a year of searching I found Emily and asked her help...a locator spell or something. She refused to help me and that was when I made the decision to find you on my own one way or another. But I did not want to search for you my whole life to find out that you had flipped the switch who would just kill me at the first sight. So I asked her to turn me. She of course refused but she pointed me in the direction of a vampire that could help me if I truly wanted this. She was called Lexi. I told her my story and she said that she knew of you and was willing to help. The next day, I ran away from home with her compelling my mother to believe that I had died while out for a walk in the woods and that she was going to be okay about it. From then on I had tried to find you but you never showed up. I gave up looking for you both about 1930. But finally a year ago your name had shown up from someone in the bar and I just had to find you. They said you were in Mystic Falls and I decided to come and find you...and now here I am" I finished.
I had finally told Stefan the story I wanted to tell him for years. But what was he going to say about this, I could not tell...
