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Chapter 10
"It… um…" she paused shifting on her seat, "it happened before you arrived like he knew you were going to be there. He had said that he was a friend and that he needed to speak to Mr. Stefan Salvatore… I ended up telling him that my family and I took care of the house but that no Salvatore had lived in it in years…"
"Wow…" Mer voiced, could it had been…?
"So…?" Ric urged.
"And…?" Elena waited impatiently.
"All he said was that he'd be back and left a letter addressed to you…" she faced Stefan apologetically, "this was weeks before you showed and I just filed it away, but I remembered seeing the envelope addressed from a K.N. Wilson Pierce and when he showed up he'd said his name was Nate… I'm so sorry, I should have…"
"What did he look like…?" Damon quickly jumped in.
"He um…" she was still looking at Stefan as he seemed to be in thought, it scared her that she could not tell what he was thinking or feeling… would he fire her family? They'd kept the home livable for as long as she could remember, "He looked young but with strong defined features… he had a dusty blondish brown hair and clear light green eyes. He came across as youthful though his eyes seemed full of wisdom. I remember thinking I should have feared him and yet… his gaze had been warm and friendly…"
"It sounds like Klaus' son…" Alaric decided, "Who else could it be…?"
"We don't know that…?" Damon said though he'd come to the same assumption, "Do you still have this envelope he left for him…?" he turned to ask Natalia.
"I um… I do…" she said quietly, "I completely forgot if I had known this was so urgent, perhaps I would have…"
"Don't worry…" Stefan finally said a word, "none of us knew of this but we should go home and find out what's inside… it could be what or who we're looking for…"
"I'll call for the check…" Meredith voiced.
Damon nodded smirking at Elena as he knew that she could read him like no one else… he knew that she knew there was something else going on in his head that he wasn't going to be sharing with the table. Which was fine as long as he always confided in her.
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Bonnie had tears in her eyes after reading the teary eyed letter that her grandmother had left for her… she'd told her that she loved her. To always remember that she was special and to not be afraid of her power because that would close her heart to the possibilities of greatness that she had in her. She also told her… that a family member would be giving her a piece of treasure that had been passed down by the Bennett's throughout centuries of time…
Her Grams had been very vague about the information but she'd been able to make out this much… The Bennett witches had been part of two most powerful covens that had ever existed. The name of the other coven was Putnam… which apparently hadn't been heard of after the rift that had come between the Eight House Dynasty Families… many moons ago…
Because such information had been completely lost through the years… Bonnie's family had made it their mission to try and discover what was behind these families fall out and who they were. There had been peace between these families and an understanding as they shared a secret of the supernatural, but something had changed and a war had started. Grams had left her a key to a bank deposit box… in which she had found proof of the two more last names that belonged to the Dynasty Familes… no surprise there it had been the DeLocwode's and the Salvadorezs'.
There was a knock on the door, starling out of her thoughts… she went opening the door to reveal Jeremy, Caroline, and Tyler…
"Did you find what I asked you for…?" Bonnie directed her question at Tyler…
"Yeah, I got it… but how did you know…?" he pulled out a wooden box handing it over to her…
They all went inside the house as Bonnie pulled her Coat of Arms out… she placed it on the floor.
"What's all this Bonnie…?" Jeremy asked…
"What is this suppose to tell us…?" Caroline questioned equally confused.
"Shhh…" Bonnie shushed them, "I'm trying to see if this is right…" she opened the box that Tyler had brought and inside she found a matching squared looking rock that had the Coat of Arms for deLocwode…
The three friends eyed Bonnie speculative… Bonnie grabbed a paper that had a drawing of how Eight of these rocks came together. If completed, it should look like an eight row, two column rock chart.
"There…" Bonnie said putting the chart in the middle of the two rocks…
"There what…?" Caroline looked at the paper…
"Yeah, this doesn't make any sense…" Tyler agreed.
"At all…" Jeremy glanced at Bonnie.
"We… need to find out who the other four Coat of Arms and the stories behind it…" she pointed to the graph, "we have two Coats of Arms, we know Four Family Dynasty Names, we need to figure out the rest…"
She looked through the papers she'd found in the bank deposit box, "According to Grams, the family has a theory of these families… it was made up by the most powerful families of their Kind… there was Two Vampire Families, Two Werewolf Familes, Two Witch Families, and Two Human Familes… in total eight… making them the eight most powerful families of their kind until something tore them apart…"
"What?" Jeremy asked…
"I don't know… but that's what we need to find out…" Bonnie said, "I'll call Elena and tell her what we found. Something tells me that all of this comes hand in hand with Elijah's family's issues…"
"Okay then…" Caroline said, "I guess into more research mode…"
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Dear Mr. Stefan Salvatore… Stefan read…
You don't know me and I know you have never heard of me. You should just know that you should consider me a friend. I am a friend of a friend that has some urgent business to discuss with you. It is imperative that we meet.
I know that you may want to find out who I am but I pray of you to just come find me and I will explain fully. We have more in common than you think. I will be staying at The Elizabethean Castle in Bulgaria. I will wait for a small amount of time before I come to find you again.
Know that I am not an enemy, but merely a messenger.
Sincerely,
K. Nate Wilson Pierce
Natalia eyes them all nervously as the mulled over what Stefan had just read. This was it… he was it. There was no denying it. Klaus and Kate Elizabethea had given birth to a child that was still alive and following through what his mother had promised.
Damon shook his head trying to process this… this was becoming more tangled than he ever thought possible. All they wanted to know was where Elijah's family was buried for heaven's sake… couldn't they just find out where and be done with it. What the hell were they getting themselves into?
"I guess cancelling appointments should be the first thing to take care of…" Ric voiced, "we won't be needing them if we have found what we have been looking for…"
"But even assuming that he is… well who we need… how will we know for sure…?" Stefan questioned.
"We're going to have to ask him that… obviously…" Elena spoke.
"Or we ask someone here…" Meredith put in, "there has to be someone here… or there that will know much more history than any of us could ask for… I do research for a living and you can find information in the least place expected…"
Natalia walked to Stefan's side while gazing at the group, "You mean like some 98 year old woman that has been telling me stories for ages and all I thought of her was that she was senile…?"
"What are you talking about…?" Damon asked…
"Nati…" Stefan glanced at her with searching eyes…
"We should go talk to my grandmother… I'm sure she will have the answers you are looking for…" she sighed looking into Stefan's eyes, "I had never believed anything she'd said until you told me what you were…" she caressed his face lovingly.
Stefan's lips curved into a smile as he pressed his palm over her small one on his cheek, then he closed the distance between them and kissed her lightly massaging her lips with his making her moan unconsciously until Ric cleared his throat loudly…
Natalia and Stefan smiled to each other and then he turned to the group, "Sorry…" he said, "shall we go?" he questioned his brother, "I mean, if it's not too late…" he asked Natalia taking her in a hug.
"No… she says she loves the hour of twilight… and she'll be more than thrilled to have company…" she answered.
Damon shrugged saying, "Why not… what do we have to lose…?"
Elena yawned, "Hmmm… think we'll be long…?" she asked, "I'm starting to feel like a baby… I eat and I want to go to bed, I eat and just want to go to bed, it's tiring believe it or not…"
They all laughed… "We can do it tomorrow…" Damon offered picking her up bridal style in his arms…
She laughed, "No… let's go and get this out of the way. And who knows… maybe we do find out something we don't know…"
They all nodded and made their way back in two cars towards Natalia's home…
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The elder woman that could barely move came to greet them all at the door when she heard them pull up. Stefan and Natalia were the first to walk in, and then Stefan introduced Alaric and Meredith, and then his brother and Elena. Rosario Radoslav, sweet old woman hugged all of them like they were family giving them kisses on the cheek…
They sat in the small but very homey living room of this woman's home… you could tell it lighted up her face to have company. Natalia had just set down some king of peach flavored tea when Elena jumped up…
"I'm sorry, where's the bathroom…?" she said putting her palm to her lips.
"I'll show you…" Natalia said directing her deeper into the house.
The rest of them looked after the two girls shocked and Damon stood to make sure she was okay… but it was when the Rosario stopped him putting a hand on his wrist…
"She'll be fine," she smiled tenderly at him… "Must be your first…"
"My first what…?" Damon looked down at her confused…
"Tuo primo bambino…" the elder woman said…
Damon's eyes got bigger than anything Stefan had ever seen before, in fact, it was an expression that he'd never seen cross his brother's face. He was utterly shocked and speechless…
Stefan understood what she had told him… which was completely impossible.
"What…?" Ric asked.
"What she say…?" Meredith added.
"My… my…" Damon tried to speak, "my first child? That's ridiculous… vampires can't… I can't… she can't…"