Damon and Stefan were in the lounge of the boarding house having a 'heated discussion' about the fact that Damon had rung up their sister whom neither of them had seen in years for help when all she had done so far was slap Elena, tell Stefan she still hated him and disappeared again.

"What were you thinking Damon? She hates me why would she want to help us?" Stefan asked

"What was I thinking? I was thinking we are screwed beyond belief and that it's about time you and her got over your differences and cooperate" Damon replied

"She said she was friends with Rebekah and that she knew Klaus, How do we know she can be trusted?" Stefan said scrunching his eyebrows together. Damon sighed and got up and poured himself a glass of bourbon.

"You can hardly talk didn't you use to date Barbie Klaus?" Damon shot back "Anyway I didn't think she would even come because she hated me and hates you. But hey I guess family overalls everything" Damon said

"She doesn't give two craps about family and you know it Damon." Stefan said and Damon didn't want to admit it but Stefan was right. Luce made it very clear that she did not want to be associated with them when she left them, but that didn't mean she didn't care about family.

"Okay, you can say Luce doesn't care about us but I know that family is more important to her then anything, she just got stuck with a shit one which is falling apart at the seams." Damon defended "Our family was never going to work out, even when we were humans we were breaking. Mother was dead and we had a bastard of a man we had to call our father, there was you the 'golden child' the one who could do no wrong in father's eyes but what about me and Luce huh? We try hard and what do we get nothing just insulted and put down." Damon ranted

"Our father may have had his cruel moments but he was not a bastard." Stefan said his voice rising in volume. A mixture of anger, sadness and disappointment spread across Damon's face

"You have no idea do you?" he said softly "You have no idea what he did."

"What? What did he do?" Stefan asked

"Our father was a monster who did something that no one should have to go through. Did you ever question why Luce had all those bruises and cuts? Were you really so caught up in being the golden child you failed to notice Luce when she looked tired or spent days in bed because she was 'ill'?" Damon asked disappointment and anger seeping into his words. He was disappointed because he thought his brother would have at least thought something was up but just chose not to believe it and angry that he defended their monster of a man they had to call their father.

"She was clumsy and had a bad immune system" Stefan said "That's what she always told us"

"And you believed her?" Damon asked "Do you want to know the truth Stefan? Why she really spent days walking with a limp or just wasn't around?" Damon said his voice loud enough to be considered shouting by some people. "She was beaten, abused whatever you want to call it by our monstrosity of a father!" he shouted "And do you want to know the worst part Stefan? He enjoyed it! He enjoyed making his own daughter bleed and cry!" Damon was shaking now with anger of the memory.

Stefan gulped "No, no it isn't true. It can't be true!" He shouted "You're lying!"

"I wish I was lying Stefan, I truly wish I was but I was there sometimes he would make me watch and it tore me up inside watching this happen to her and being completely helpless not being able to stop it" Damon's voice had lowered and he sunk down on the sofa and put his head in his hands. "Do you know how much it broke me seeing her like that and all I could do was hold her when it was over and try to reassure her that everything was going to be okay even though I knew it wouldn't be, that I knew the same thing would happen again tomorrow and the next day and the next"

Stefan swallowed the lump in his throat, fighting back the tears in his eyes. The man he had loved and looked up to as a child was nothing more than a disgusting man who found enjoyment in beating his children. "How long?" he asked his voice breaking "how long did it go on for?"

"He first hit me when I was 8 years old and carried on till the day you turned me" a voice came from the entrance of the room. Both of the Salvatore brothers too caught up in the past to notice her entrance early on when they started.

"Luce-" Stefan started but Luce cut him off

"Don't Stef it wasn't your fault. There wasn't anything you could have done to stop it" Luce said the childhood nickname slipping from her lips before she could stop them. At the sound of his nickname Stefan looked up from staring at the ground and noticed tears in his sister's eyes and cautiously approached her. When he got in front of his sister he slowly lifted his arms and wrapped them round her loosely which was all Luce needed to breakdown in her brothers arms for the first time in 146 years. Damon feeling left out came over to the duo and wrapped his arms round them and for the first time ever, it felt like they were a proper ordinary family.

A while later Luce gained composure and up out of her brothers arms, she won't lie it felt good to just be held by them because sometimes when words fail a simple hug is all you need as it means It's going to get better, I don't know when but one day it will be better. She looked both her brothers in the eyes and realised how sappy that scene just then was.

"Okay, what happened here never leaves out of us three if either of you tell anyone I'm cutting of you balls. I have a reputation to uphold and I can't have either of you going around ruining it" She said with a smile on face showing that she was joking. Her brothers just laughed at her.

"And she's back" Damon said smiling because even though he will never admit it he liked the idea of being a whole family again.