DAMON'S POV

I couldn't believe it was happening this way. I wanted to tell her but there is no easy way to say hey I'm a vampire and I have been for over a hundred years. I held out my hand towards her showing that there was nothing wrong.

Stefan stood beside me frozen, not knowing what to do.

Her face was sad and hurt like she knew that I was hiding something from her. She clutched the photo of Katherine in her hand so hard the photo started to tear. Tears were filling her eyes.

"Elena." I said. "It's not like that."

"Really?" her voice cracked. "Because it sure looks like it."

I rolled my eyes.

This made her even angrier.

"What are you?" She spat.

"Okay fine you want to know the truth." I said.

"NO." Stefan roared.

I ignored him.

"We are vampires." I said as clear as day. "We have been since 1864."

Her mouth opened in shock and the photo slipped from her hands. She started to run.

"Oh no you don't." I mumbled.

I grabbed her on the arm and looked deeply into her eyes.

"You will fall asleep for a while and when you wake up you will be pleasant." I said.

She nodded her head.

"Pleasant." She repeated.

STEFAN'S POV

"Are you out of your mind?" I said.

He rolled his eyes while he laid Elena's sleeping body onto the side of his bed.

"Relax." He said. "It's not that big of a deal."

"Not that big of a deal?" I spat. "You just compelled her and told her we are vampires."

"Your point." He challenged.

I felt myself filling with anger.

"Just calm down Stefan, I just compelled her to sleep so I can find a secure place where she won't be able to run and will listen to everything." He told me.

"Everything?" I asked. "You're going to tell her everything?"

He nodded. "I want her to know and she should know who Katherine is."

"Why? We don't even know what relation she has to Katherine?" I said.

He shrugged. "We will have to find out, but for now I want her to know what is going on."

I crossed my arms as he lifted her body over his shoulder.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"You'll see." He hollered as he climbed down the stairs.

DAMON'S POV

I grabbed the computer chair from the den and wheeled it out into the living room. I placed Elena on it.

"Is this your plan?" Stefan said. "To capture her?"

I rolled my eyes.

I grabbed the rope and tied her to the seat. Not hard but enough so she could not leave or fall over.

"Look, it may seem sick to you, but this is the only way." I said.

Stefan huffed.

"Damon this is not good. Everywhere you go something bad happens and people die." He said.

"Stefan relax, I'm not going to hurt her." I informed him.

He rubbed his forehead and paced.

"God stop pacing." I said annoyed. "You act like you just found out you were pregnant."

He rolled his eyes and growled.

After a few more minutes of pacing he finally stopped.

"What now?" he asked.

"We wait." I replied.

ELENA'S POV

I was with Damon; we were smiling and walking through the woods up to the open field, our field. I held his hand and we both lay like before. He kissed me passionately. I tilted my head up towards him so I could reach his lips better. I ran my hands through his mop of black hair. It was soft and his lips were too. I was eager and wanted him more. I wanted him close to me.

He clearly understood and pulled my body towards his. I was crushed up against his stone body. He grabbed my face softly but eagerly and my heart started to beat faster. He pulled the elastic band from my hair and let my ponytail flow loosely. He ran his hands through my hair and was somewhat growling.

I smiled. He pulled away and looked me in the eyes. His crystal blue eyes were staring deeply into mine.

He started to kiss down my neck and my heart started to race. Suddenly he looked back up at me. His eyes were replaced with rims of black around them. Red veins around his eyes were permanent and he opened his mouth. A set of white fangs was all I saw. Quickly he brought his mouth to my neck and bit down. He was drinking my blood and I was slipping away.

"Vampire." I screamed.

I realized I was awake.

I let my eyes adjust. I looked down; I was tied up against a chair. I wiggled but it was no use I was stuck there.

I heard a chuckle and I looked up to see Stefan and Damon.

Damon was relaxed on the couch, laughing like a teenage girl and Stefan was standing behind the couch uncomfortably. He looked like he was going through pain.

Then it hit me.

Just a while ago Damon had told me they were vampires! I had found that I looked exactly like Katherine.

My eyes widened.

"Why are you doing this?" I said trying to sound mean, but it only came out making me sound scared.

"So you will listen." Damon said.

"Tying me up is not letting me listen it's holding me hostage." I spat.

"Look this way you won't run." He said.

I rolled my eyes.

"So you're a vampire?" I said my voice shaking. "Like in the movies?"

He rolled his eyes again.

Stefan huffed and walked away clearly not having anything to do with the current situation.

"Why does everyone have to think it is like the movies?" he mumbled.

I grunted.

"Look can we get to the point?" I said.

He sat in front of me.

"It is nothing like the movies." He started.

"Do you feed on blood?" I interrupted.

He sighed.

"I will get to that. Without any interruptions." He said.

I then sighed.

"Fine." I mumbled feeling helpless.

"I am a vampire. I have been since 1864 when Katherine changed me. You see Katherine had met me and Stefan when we were both human. She was what we both wanted because of the fact that she was a vampire. We did not know at the time but that is how she got both of us."

I sat trying to take in everything he was telling me.

"Vampires have a special power to compel humans. All they have to do is look into a human's eyes and have them do whatever they want. Katherine used compelling as a way to hide the fact that she was dating both of us. She would make it so I didn't know about her and Stefan and Stefan wouldn't know about me and her. She was very sneaky."

My hand started to shake. What he was telling me was true, this wasn't a dream I couldn't escape it was life, and life definitely had its secrets.

"Anyways she wanted all three of us to be together. It was her sick thought." He raised his brows. "She had told me first about her immortality, and she said she had wanted her and I to be together forever so the only way we could was for me to become what she already was."

"A vampire?" I said.

He nodded.

"So I decided to start drinking her blood."

I cringed.

"That is how a human becomes a vampire. The human must drink the vampire's blood and then die, and then drink a human's blood."

I was still in shock but understood fully.

"So I decided I wanted to be with her forever and I started to drink hers but little did I know she was also compelling Stefan to drink hers too."

I gasped.

He raised his brows.

"Yeah. Like I said it was her thought that all three of us would be together forever. The town didn't really know about vampires but some did and they wanted them dead. Your ancestor Jonathan Gilbert was the head of the committee. He wanted vampires dead more than anything. So one night they went and rounded all of them up. They injected them with a powerful substance called vervain. It would put any vampire to sleep and they would lose their energy and powers fast. They had got Katherine, and Stefan and I went looking for her. We tried to let her out of the carriage they were keeping them in. We got her halfway out and then we were both shot. We both fell to the ground and were dying as Katherine lye there."

He paused and I could tell this was hard for him to talk about.

"We of coarse would have died but under the circumstances."

"You had her blood in your system." I interrupted.

"Exactly." He said. "We both awoke somewhere and one of Katherine's servants told us what to do, what we had to do, which was to feed on a human. We had both chosen to let ourselves die. We were in transition, and when you are in transition you either drink and turn into a vampire or you don't and you let yourself die."

"And you chose to drink?" I asked.

He shook his head.

"I'll get to that." He said.

I nodded.

Stefan then walked into the room, and Damon nodded.

He started to talk.

"So I decided to go see our father only to find it was our father who had shot us both, he knew about us and Katherine and wanted to protect the town more than his own sons. My father turned on me and tried to kill me with a dagger. I tried to stop my father but my father ended up getting the stake in his heart. He was bleeding badly and I bent down to help him. I got his blood on my hand and had the urge to drink it; against my better judgment I brought it to my mouth and then couldn't stop drinking it. I was then a vampire. So I went back and told Damon about how the guilt could be gone like a switch you could just shut it off."

The words sounded familiar. Damon had told me about his guilt and how he could get rid of it that night we talked. He was talking about being a vampire!

"I brought him a girl that I had compelled on the street. I told him that everything would be alright and we could be together if he drank her blood. I bit her neck a little so he could smell the blood. He drank and then he was a vampire too."

Stefan paused and looked down.

"I'm not proud of what I did, but I know what I'm doing know. I don't feed on humans I feed on the blood of animals."

I exhaled hearing this and looked towards Damon.

He looked down.

"I wish I could say the same but I can't." he said. "Animals don't stop the burn in my throat."

My eyes fell in sadness he wasn't like Stefan, he was what someone would consider the bad brother he fed on humans and Stefan didn't.

"So what happened to Katherine?" I asked.

"We thought she had been killed in the fire that night. The fire was what killed many of the vampires but the ones that escaped got trapped in the tomb. She had gotten away and now I think she is in the tomb, or at least I did." Damon said.

I looked at him questioningly.

"I spent forever looking for Katherine. I thought if I found her she would be with me forever. But then after years of looking I was approached by someone she knew. They said she was still alive. She was free. She had been free for all of those years I had been looking for her. I looked for years and she didn't bother to look for me. I decided that day that I was done." He said. "So I came home."

Stefan huffed.

I started to feel angry again.

"When I was walking past your house I saw you. At first I thought you were her but then I realized that you were human. The resemblance between you and Katherine was crazy." He said.

"Is that why you want to be with me?" I asked disgusted. "Am I like your one token of her?"

I shook his head.

"No, Elena you're not, in fact you are the complete opposite of her and I like that." He said. "But I had to talk to you, I had to and when I did I just I couldn't stop seeing you. I had to. I have to."

I gulped.

"You knew I looked like her but you did nothing?" I said to Stefan.

He looked down.

"I couldn't talk to you because I didn't want to become attached." He said.

Damon's jaw tightened.

I persed my lips.

"Attached?"

He nodded.

"Look I just want to know why the hell I look like her?" I said.

They both stood in silence.

"We don't know." Stefan said. "That is what we have been trying to figure out."

I looked down at my hands. I was in love with a vampire.

"Um can you untie me now?"

Damon stood up and undid the rope.

"Sorry about that."

I nodded and stood up.

"So what about garlic?"I asked.

"Myth." Damon said. "I could eat garlic bread all the time."

I smiled.

"Burning in the sun?"

"True." Stefan said.

"But we have rings that protect us." Damon said.

"Aww." I said.


I had spent the whole night listening to their history, places they had been, things that they had seen. I was fascinated. I still couldn't believe that it was real but deep down inside I knew that there was something about him.

"Thank you for listening." He said to me as I walked to the door.

"Thank you for telling me." I replied. "It's not something you hear every day."

He laughed.

"I'll see you tomorrow." He said.

I nodded.

He leaned down and kissed me on the lips.

I had fallen for a vampire. A sexy, mature, and genuine vampire.

I sighed.


So what do you think. I wanted to get to the whole "Im a vampire" talk soon so i figured it would be good here. Anyways i hoped you like and let me know what you think :D