Chapter 21: Isobel
A week as pass as everything went back to normal, or what is now considered normal, Samathea and Elena got ready for school. Samathea pulls on her jacket as she was on the phone. "Elena and I are suppose to help with Founders day float Parade and we don't, we get the wrath of Caroline, but I wanted to check in first." Samathea tells Damon, "Oh, I'm doing great, thanks for asking." Damon gloats, Samathea smiles at him, knowing he was smirking to himself, "Hahaha, you're hilarious, I was calling to check in on Stefan, Elena needs an update." Samathea tells him.
"Oh him, ohh… he's terrible." he whines, Samathea smirks to herself and grips the phone, "Oh really?" she asks him, holding back at giggle. "He's back to boring old Stefan, straight lace, off the junk. Elena has successfully cured him of anything that was interesting about his personality." Damon tells her, as Samathea smiles, "Don't forget, you help as well." she sang a little, "I hate myself." he states as he was enjoying his newly found friendship with Samathea, "Hey did Uncle John mentioned anything about my field trip with the history teacher?" Damon asks her, "I'm still not speaking with the man, I would sooner burn him to a crisp and then I would thrown in jail for murder and I can't have that on my record, now can I?" she tells him, making Damon chuckles.
"Oh, hearing you talking about killing someone, kinda turns me on." Damon chuckles as Samathea rolls her eyes, "Yeah-no. if I killed him, you would be next on my list." she tells him, walking into her bathroom, "Aww… I thought we were on a friendly bases." he whines, she just smiles at that. "Oh we are, you were just moved to number three om my list of people I want to kill the most." she tells him in a cheerful tone, "Whose two and one?" Damon asks her, "Two is uncle John and one is Taylor Lockwood." she answers, Damon shrugs. "I can respect that." he states, making her giggle. "Anyway, like I said, I'm not talking to the man, still avoiding him, but you think he's up to something." she states, "You know me so well." he states as he saw Stefan walk out of the bathroom.
"Well I got to go I'm late." she tells him, pulling on her bag and jacket over her arm, "Have fun with the Miss Queen, I know I did." he states, making Samathea gasp then frown. "TMI Damon, TMI." she tells him and hung up the phone, as Elena walks in, "Stefan?" she asks him, "Back to his original self again." Samathea answers, "Damon?" she dares to ask, "Still a dogue, but thinks Uncle John is up to something and wants us to find out." she tells her. Elena nods at her, "Shall we?" Elena asks her, Samathea, "We shall." Samathea states and they walk off to school.
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Stefan meets up with Elena and Samathea was they walk into the school, the headed into the cafeteria and Alaric walks up to them. "Hey, Mister Saltzmen." Elena greets him, "Come with me, we need to talk." he tells the three. They look at each other and followed him to his classroom.
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Later on Damon arrive at the school and walks into the history classroom, The Gilbert twins sat in the desks, Stefan leans against another desk and Alaric was leaning against his front desk. "Damon. Thanks for coming." Alaric states as Damon walks into the class, "Sorry I'm late, the dog ate my…" Damon cracks a joke, but spots himself. "Never mind." he states and looks over at Stefan, who cast his eyes down and then looks over at Elena and Samathea who were in shock, then he looks back at Alaric. "What's with all the farrow brows?" Damon asks.
"I saw Isobel last night." Alaric answers, making Damon look at him in shock, "Isobel is here?" Damon asks, Alaric nods his head. "In town?" he asks again, then Damon looks over and locks eyes with Samathea who was still in shock.
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"Did you ask about Uncle John are they working together?" Damon asks Alaric. "No." Alaric answers. "No they're not?" Damon asks him, "No I didn't ask." Alaric answers, "What about the invention?" Damon asks walking up to him, "I didn't ask." Alaric answers. "Does she know about Tomb vampires?" Damon asks him, "I don't know." Alaric answers. "Did words completely escape you?" Damon questions. "I was a little too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask any question." Alaric answers him, making Damon shift in his spot. "What does she want?" Damon asks, Alaric looks at him then looks over at Elena and Samathea, "She was to see us, Damon. Me and Sammy." Elena answers him.
Damon looks over at her then looks at Samathea, "Alaric is suppose to arrange a meeting, we don't know why or what she wants." Stefan informs him. "You don't have to see her if you don't want to." Damon tells Samathea, making her smile a little. "Thank you Damon, but we really don't have a choice in the matter." Samathea tells him, "She's threatening to go on a killing spree." Alaric inform him, "Oh." Damon mumbles, "I take it, that's not okay with you guys." Damon smirks, trying to lighten the mood a bit.
"We want to do it." Elena states, making the three look at her and Samathea. "We want to meet her and if we don't, I know we'll regret it." she states. Damon looks at her then at Samathea, who nods in agreement.
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Elena and Samathea sat at a table in the Mystic Grill, Samathea twitches her heel as her heart was pounding, Elena looks around, seeing if Isobel was going to show. She flinches a little as a waitress set down their drinks. Elena nods at her in thanks and they were left alone that the table, gripping her hands around her drink as Samathea grips hers as well. "Can you hear me?" Elena asks Stefan who was standing at the at the pool table. Stefan nods his head at her.
"Thanks for coming. I'm nervous." Elena states, Stefan shrugs his shoulders. "You're not the only one." Samathea mumbles as she takes a sip of her drink. Elena smiles at that, "But I'm happy you are here. Love you." she tells Stefan, who mouth 'Love you too.' back to her, Samathea smiles, happy for the both of them. But then both the smiles fall as Isobel stood in front of Elena and Samathea, Isobel place the her jacket and purse on Samathea's seat and sat down in front of them, placing her hands on her lap and sighs and then smiles at them. "Hello Elena, Samathea." she tells them, making them just look at her. "You look just like her, and her sister. It's eery." Isobel states. "You've meet Katherine?" Elena asks her, "She found me, right after I turned, she even told me a few stories about her sister. The First Ripper. Genetic curiosity, I suppose. She would be fascinated by you, the both of you." she tells them.
Elena eyes her necklace, "Is that how you can walk in the day?" Elena asks her as Isobel grips a hold of it, "Katherine help me obtain it." she answers, "Who was our father?" Samathea asks her, "Not important, he was a teenage waste of space." Isobel informs her, "A name would be nice." Samathea snaps back at her, "It would wouldn't it. You two ask a lot of questions." she states, Samathea sighs. "Why did you compel that man to kill himself, right after he told us to stop looking for you." Samathea questions her. "Dramatic impact, wish it would of been more effective." she answers. "Human life means that little to you?" Elena questions her. Isobel just smirks at her, "It means nothing to me, it's just part of being what I am." she answers, Samathea shook her head. "No, it doesn't it only brings out what you really are and in your case, a heartless bitch." Samathea tells her, Isobel looks at her, "And we known other vampires… and that's not true." she also adds. "You mean your sister's boyfriend over there by the pool table?" Isobel asks her.
Both the Gilberts shot a look over at Stefan, "Stefan Salvatore." she states then looks at Elena, "Why Stefan? Why didn't you go for Damon?" she asks her, making Elena shift in her spot. "Wait that's right, he's going for you, Sammy. Because you have that fire in you that all men like in a woman." she states, looking over at Samathea, who glares at her, "But then against, Katherine did like toying with them, but thanks to her sister, she couldn't have her fun with Damon and so Mary fell in love with him, in a result she was captured and killed." she states with a smile, they look at her in disgust as Stefan hung his head.
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Outside across from the Grill Damon and Alaric. Alaric leans against a stand as Damon paces back and froth, "We should be in there." Damon tells him. "No, Isobel make it clear we're not to step foot inside." Alaric informs him. "I'm going to kill her in a crowded restaurant." Damon tells him, "You're not going to kill her period." Alaric reminds him. "She ruined your life and you still want to protect her?" Damon questions him. "She's my wife." Alaric states, Damon shot him a look. "Was my wife. But I look for the woman I married, but she wasn't there. Whoever that is… cold and detach." Alaric states.
"Yeah, she's given up her humanity." Damon states, "See I don't get that. Stefan has his humanity, he's a good guy. Hell you're a dick and you kill people, but I still see something human in you, but with her… there was nothing." Alaric states, Damon looks at him. "You can turn it off." Damon tells him, making Alaric look at him, "Like a button you can press, I man Stefan is different, he wants the whole human experience, he wants to feel every episode of how I meet your mother. So he shuts his feelings out, but the problem with a vampire is your instinct is not to feel." Damon informs him of the vampire emotion. Making Alaric look away.
Damon leans next to him. "Isobel choice that easier road. No guilt, no shame, no regret. I mean come on, if you could turn it off, wouldn't you?" Damon tells him, "You haven't." Alaric states, "Of course I have Rick. That's why I'm so fun to be around." Damon tells him, moves away from him and looks back that the Grill.
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"So why did you want meet us, it can't to be just to… catch up." Elena states, "Because I'm curiosity about the both of you." she answers them, making the twins glare at her. "But the real reason is, I want what your uncle wants, Johnathan Gilbert's invention." she answers making Samathea scoff. "How do you know our uncle?" Elena questions. "We use to spent a lot of time here when I was younger. John had a crush on me for years. He was the first one that told me about vampires." she answers them. "And what, prey tell made you want to be a vampire?" Samathea asks her. "It's a very long list of reasons Samathea, all of which I'm sure you thought about." Isobel tells her making shivers run up Samathea's spine.
But they both shook their heads, "That was your first lie." she tells them, then look at Elena. "It's inevitable, you're going t get old, Stefan won't." she tells her, making Elena look over at Stefan, who cast his eyes to the ground. "Forever won't last very long, when you're human." she states, pissing Samathea off. "I'm sorry to inform, but we don't have what you're looking for." Samathea states, the two of them stood up to leave, but Isobel grips Samathea's wrist, making her stop. Elena stops as well and look at her. Stefan went to intervene as Samathea looks at her, "Sit down and Elena, tell your boyfriend to walk away." Isobel orders her, the two slowly sat down and Elena nods at Stefan, making him back off.
Isobel looks at them and returns to her smile, then looks at Samathea, "I want the invention." she tells her, "I don't have it." Samathea tells her, taking back her wrist. "I know that, but Damon does and you're going to get it for me." Isobel tells her, Samathea shook her head, "He won't give it to me." she tells her. "And the blood will be on your hands." she tells her, making Samathea's heart skip with fear. Isobel then stood up grabs her things and left. "It was nice meeting you Elena, Samathea." she tells them and left. Elena watches her leave as Samathea tries to breath. Stefan notices their look of distress and walks over to them. Samathea felt the tears well up in her eyes, she sniffles and quickly wipes them away. Then the two stood up and saw Bonnie walk to them. She looks at them, seeing their look of distress, she wanted to comfort them, but them she saw Stefan standing a few feet behind them, Elena and Samathea look back at him and then back at Bonnie.
Her look turn hostile and she left the Grill, Samathea sighs, grabs her purse and left the Grill, she walks outside, continuously wiping away her tears, she cross the road and walks off, but then bumps into someone, making her drop her purse, "Sorry." she mumbles, then kneels down and gathers her things, the person she bump into kneels down in front of her and place his hand on her shoulder, "Hey." they call out, she looks at them and saw it was Alaric. They both stood up and she pulls her purse back onto her shoulder, "Are you alright?" he asks her, she looks at him, tears form and stream down her cheek, her lower lip quivers and she shook her head, she then covers her eyes and hung her head in shame.
Alaric pulls her in his arms and comforts her, she cried silently, can't believe she wanted to meet Isobel, the cold, heartless vampire bitch, Damon watches from the distance as Alaric comforts Samathea. He looks away, feeling anger in his blood, he needed a word with Isobel.
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At the Manson that Isobel was staying at and Damon was playing a game of Strip poker with the french complied girl, Damon was shirtless as the girl place the cards down, "Uh-oh Cheir-he. You won." he smirks at her and pulls his hands to his pants. "Lets hope I'm wearing my good underwear." he states as Isobel walks into the house and into the living room as Damon stood up and unbutton his pants and zips them open. "It's just one blast from the past after another." she states, getting Damon's attention.
"No, no, no." she states as Damon zips ups his pain and pulls the belt back on. The french girl left them alone, Damon waves bye to her. "It's good to see you again, Isobel, I was just having fun with your naughty little minion." he tells her, pulling his shirt back on. "Hmm." Isobel mumbled at him. "How did you find me?" Isobel asks him, Damon then vamps over to her, closing the distance between them. "Search all the neighborhood banks for foreclosures and the most expensive one." he informs her. "Oh, I should of known, you were the one that taught me that." she tells him. He hum at her, "What are you really doing here?" she questions him. "You cause quite a stir, blew into town, saw everyone expect man you make a little hurt." he tells her, moving closer to him. "Oh, I'm so sorry." she mumbles wrapping her arms around his neck, but then grips his hair and jerks his head to the side. "Did you bring the device?" she demands of him, Damon chuckles and vamps around, making her move in front of him as he turned her around and she lets go of his hair.
"Ow." Damon mumbles, rubbing his head, Isobel giggles, walks over and turns back to him, "What are you doing with John Gilbert?" Damon questions her, "We dated a few times when we were young. He was a little bit in love with me." she answers, brushing back a strain of her hair, "I'm sure one of the many." Damon states as he walks over to her, Isobel mumbles little 'Yeah'. "And this little invention, what do you want with it?" Damon questions as Isobel reaches down and gave Damon a glass of blood. "Oh, me personally, I don't want anything with it." she tells him as he sets the glass back down on the table. "I'm just doing what I'm told." she tells him, backing up a little.
Damon stood chest to chest with her, and lifts up her chin, locking eyes with her. "You know Damon, we're on the same side." she tells him, placing her hands on his chest, he scoffs at that. "Katherine's." she answers as Damon looks at her, she then cups the sides of his head. "She wants John Gilbert to have the device and I think you know that she's not happy when she doesn't get what she wants." she tells him, gripping that back of his neck. But then Damon shoves her hands away from him, making her stumble back. "Why are you doing her dirty work?" Damon demands of her.
"Don't kill the messenger, we both know you can't control Katherine, she does what she wants." she tells him, "So do I." Damon scoffs at that, "Oh really Damon, you do?" Isobel questions strutting up to him, she vamps up to him, but he grips her wrist as she was close to him, she pants. "So what should we do now?" she asks him, they just look at each other, laugh a little, inching their lips closer. "Oh yeah… memory serves." she mumbles and they press their lips together, Isobel, ran her fingers through his hair, Damon pulls her closer to him, she then vamps them onto the couch. Isobel saddles Damon, kissing him deeply. But then he vamps them onto the ground, he looms over Isobel and grips her throat tightly.
"Now that I have your attention, listen up." he orders her, as he breaths and gently grips his hand. "You do not come into my town, threaten people I care about, going after Samathea and hurting her after, bad move. You leave her alone or I will rip you to bit, because I do believe and killing the messenger, you know why." he states, leaving close to her, "Because it sends a message." he tells her, then slams her head against the carpet, making her moan in pain. "If Katherine wants something from me, you tell the little bitch to come and get it herself." he tells her then lets go and left. Isobel grips her head in pain.
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The next day came, Elena walks down stairs as Samathea came out of the shower, dress in cleaner clothing, her hair was clean and in a ponytail, she walks in front of her mirror and looked her necklace, "Where is it?" she mumbles to herself, then she heard a sudden gush of wind, and the pickled on the back of her neck. She then suddenly turns and their stood Damon right in front of her, she gasp as she jumps a little. "Oh god, Damon…" she states, as she exhaled in relief, "Don't sneak up on me like that." she tells him as he smirks, "Noted." he states and held out her necklace, she looks at it then back him. But sighs, "Can I have it back, please?" she asks him, he saw how depress she was. "She put you in a bad mood?" Damon asks her, Samathea looks at him and sighs, "Yeah I mean, I was dying to meet my birth mother, I did and all I saw was a cold heart bitch that didn't give a rats ass about life at all." she states.
Damon sighs then fastens the necklace on her neck. "Thanks." she mumbles, then he pulls her into his arms, hugging her tight, Samathea was shock at first by then slowly moves her arms around him and returns the hug. "We're friends Sammy, and I look out for my friends." Damon tells her as he pulls out of the hug, making Samathea smirk, "Oh, I feel saver already." she jokes, making Damon chuckle, "Anyway, I got to go, or you know, the wrath of Caroline." she informs him, pulls on her jacket and walks for the door, "Well have fun…" he starts, but Samathea quickly turns around and held out her finger. "AH! No, don't you dare go there Salvatore, I'll give you a headache to late a month." she warns him, Damon smirks and held his hands up in defense. "Alright, Alright." he tells her.
Samathea giggles then left her room. Damon watches her go, happy that he got her to smile again.
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Samathea walk around the people, seeing them work on the floats for the parade, "Sam, Sam!" Jeremy calls out, she looks over and stops as he walks up to her, "Hey have you seen Anna anywhere?" he asks her, she shook her head at him. "No, I haven't seen her in a while, why?" Samathea answers, Jeremy just looks at her. "Are you lying to me right now?" he questions her, "Why would you say something like that?" Samathea asks him in confusion.
"Because that's what you and Elena do. Lie, lie, and lie. I know what Anna is and I know that you know, so tell me." he states, making Samathea looks at him in shock. "Do you know something?" he asks her again, she looks at him, gripping his arm, but then gasp as she was now pulled into a vision.
Anna was talking with Jeremy as a horrible sound with off, making Anna grip her head in pain. Jeremy held onto her, asking her what was wrong as she was begging for the sound to stop, then men walk in and inject Anna with vervein and some held Jeremy back as he was calling out, begging them to leave her alone, but it was too late, the men took Anna out of the room, leaving Jeremy alone.
Samathea pulls her hand back and looks at Jeremy in shock, "Sam, what is it?" Jeremy asks her in concern. She sighs and looks at him, "Listen to me Jeremy, I know I lied to you, I thought I was doing the right thing, I wanted to protect you from the pain, but I can't protect you from everything. So listen. When you find Anna, promise me you protect her, hold onto her tightly." she tells him, Jeremy looks at her, "Why, is she in trouble?" Jeremy asks her, "No, it's what is going to happen." she tells him, Jeremy looks at her and nods, "Okay, but still do you know where she is?" Jeremy asks again, Samathea shook her head, "No, I haven't seen her at all and that is the truth." she answers him. He nods and walks off.
Samathea sighs then grips her head in frustration as this vision she kept seeing over and over was plaguing her mind, she then buries her face into her hands, groans in them and sighs in anger then drops her hands from her face as Elena walks up to her, "Are you alright?" Elena asks her, Samathea looks at her and shook her head. Elena place her hand on her shoulder and comforts her, "Come on." Elena tells her, Samathea sighs at her and nods then they both turn around and jump back as their whor-*Cough* I mean their birth mother appears in front of them. "Isobel." they both state. "Hello Elena and Samathea." she states as her perky self. "What are you doing here?" Samathea questions her, "I'm your mother Samathea, I want to be more involved in your lives." she tells them, Samathea scoffs dryly and cross her arms.
"Aww, sorry, that train left the station a long time ago." Samathea informs her, "Besides, we don't want you in our lives." Elena tells her, crossing her arms as well. "I understand that, you already have a lot of people you both care about, but I've been studying. Lets see if I got this right…" she starts and looks over at Bonnie as Bonnie walks along. "There is the witchy best friend, Bonnie. Got to stay away from that one." she states, then frowns, "The sad little brother, Jeremy." she states, the two look over and saw Jeremy standing by the bleachers on his phone, trying to get a hold of Annabeth. And looks over at the float, "And there's Caroline, obnoxious Caroline." she states as the twins look up at her, "I got all my info from her by the way." Isobel states as Caroline waves at them. "She had no idea who I was and she would not stop yapping." she states as the two look back at her.
"Oh and there's Matt." she states as Matt helps, the two look at him, "Friend, Ex, First crush. Yappy's future Ex, lot of connections there." she tells them, then Samathea turns to her, "Matt's not involved with us." she tells her, "No, but he's involved with the both of you, isn't he?" she questions them, "Look, you shouldn't be here, you need to leave." Elena tells her as she knew Isobel was up to something, "On, I have some friends here too, look." she tells them as the two look around, "See that man standing next to the float over their next to Matt, he's very handsome and he's also quite handy and he notices that the axeheads kinda rusted which is very dangerous." she tells them as they watch the man standing next to Matt.
Isobel looks back at Samathea, seeing that she was getting through to the both of them. "So, all you have to do is apply a little be of pressure and…" she states, "No!" Samathea calls out and the man jumps in the trailer and it pins Matt's arm down. Elena gasp as she and Samathea went to help, but Isobel held them both back. "Hey, pick this trailer up!" Matt calls out. Taylor and a few of the other ran to him and tries to pull it up, but it wouldn't budge then Stefan helps and it was lifted up with ease and Matt quickly pulls out his arm and the trailer was drop, Caroline quickly ran over to him, "Caroline, call an ambulance." Stefan tells her, she does so as Stefan kneels down next to him. "Why are you doing this?" Samathea demands of her.
"Showing you how easy it is to hurt the people you care about." she tells her, then Samathea jerks her arm out of her grip and looks at her, "So what, you're doing this because of Johnathan Gilbert's invention?" Samathea questions her, "Hand it over and the fun will stop." Isobel tells her, letting go of Elena's arm. "I already told you, Damon won't give it to me." Samathea tells her, "And I think you underestimate just how much Damon cares about you." she tells her, Samathea looks at her, "He'll kill you before he even has the thought of giving it up." Samathea tells her, "Is that before or after I kill your brother Jeremy?" Isobel asks her. They look were taken back and looks back over at the Bleachers, Jeremy was gone.
"Jeremy?" Elena calls out, getting Stefan's attention, Samathea turns back and saw Isobel was gone, "Jeremy!" Elena calls out, as the two kept turning their heads, looking for their brother.
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Stefan, Elena, Bonnie and Samathea stood in a classroom, "Where's the device?" Bonnie informs her as Elena and Samathea pace back and forth. "Damon has it." Stefan answers her, then turns to the panicking twins "He's going to be difficult to reason with." Stefan tells them.
"Then, then, we'll go to him, I'll talk to him." Samathea tells them as she and Elena stop pacing. "He's not going to just hand it over if it's harmful to vampires." Stefan tells her, the twins sighs as Samathea rubs her hands tightly together and Elena was hit with an idea. "What if it wasn't?" Elena asks them, they all look at her and she looks at Bonnie.
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"Absolutely not." Damon tells them as they were all at the boarding house and filled Damon in on the plan. "Just hear us out Damon." Samathea tells him, "I'm not going to give the device to Isobel so she can give to John, who's going to turn around and kill me. I like being a living dead person." Damon informs her. "But it will be useless, Bonnie can take it's power away." Elena tells him.
"I don't trust her." Damon tells Elena, making Samathea sighs, "I can remove the original spell." Bonnie tells them, then Samathea raise her arms a bit, "John and Isobel will never know." she tells him, but Damon shakes his head. "No, No. I'll get Jeremy my own way." Damon tells them, "Good, how are you going to do that?" Stefan questions him. "Because Isobel is a vampire and Jeremy can be dead the second you walk into the door." Stefan tells him and Damon glares at Bonnie, "Are you in on this. I mean no offense, I know you're a Bennett and I know she don 't know what she's doing." he states, crossing his arms, "I've been practicing." Bonnie tells him. "It's not piano lessons honey." Damon snaps back and Bonnie jumps off the top of the couch and walks up to him.
"What's your favorite book?" she asks him crossing her arms, "What?" he asks, but Bonnie was being serious. "Name a book, any book." Bonnie tells him. "Name a book, alright…" Damon mumbles to himself as Elena, Samathea and Stefan watch him. "How about… "Gone with the Wild" Jack London." Damon answers her, Bonnie then walks over to a bookshelf and glares at it, a book started to wiggle out and then it shoots out into Damon hand and he looks at it then at the three, "Jack London." he states, then tosses it to the other couch, "Great parlor trick." he compliments her, "We're doing this Damon and we're going to do it mine and Elena's way." Samathea tells him and he looks at her. And she held out her hand, "Now give me the device." she orders, he just looks in her eyes, seeing that she was very serious about this. "We're wasting time." Samathea adds.
"I don't trust you, I tried to kill you." Damon tells Bonnie, she just mumbles at him, "You're right, you can't trust me." she tells him. "But you can trust me." Samathea states, taking a step to him, he looks at her, then at Elena and then to Stefan. She then sighs, rolling his eyes. Reaches into his pocket and pulls out the compass and places it in her hand, his fingers brushes against hers and she gently grips his wrist with her other hand.
They both lock eyes, "Thank you." she mumbles to him, Damon just looks at her and walks off, Samathea allows his wrist to slip through her hand.
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Bonnie stood at a desk the grimore open to the page and the compass in front of her and open to the gears, she pulls out the enchanted peace and places it on the desk, Damon hums to himself and both of the Gilbert twins and so he shuts up, then Bonnie started to cast her spell, the lights flickered off and on and the fire from the candles and fire place flared up, making Elena jump closer to Stefan, who comforted her and finally Bonnie opens her eyes and the peace was now in her hands.
"Done." she tells them, Samathea walks up to her and Bonnie offers her the peace, which Samathea takes. "Great now what?" Damon asks them, "Now we give it to Isobel." Samathea tells them and she looks over at Bonnie as Damon walks off.
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Night had fallen as Samathea and Elena walk to the park, waiting for Isobel to show her face to them, then a sudden gush of window passes them and they both turn and saw Isobel standing before them, "Where's the device?" she asks them, as they both turn to her. "Where's our brother?" Elena questions her, "This isn't a negotiation, where's the device?" she asks again, but both of them cross their arms, "Where is our brother?" Elena asks again.
"Did you really think I came alone?" she asks them, Samathea and Elena look over seeing her minions walking up, standing ready, then they look at her, "And you really think we would come alone as well?" Samathea questions her and they look over her shoulder, Isobel turns around and saw both the Salvatore brothers walking out and stood ready. Then she turns back to them, "For God sakes call home." she tells them, "What?" Elena states as they both were confused. "Call home and ask to speak to your brother, Jeremy." she tells them, Samathea uncross pulls her arms and pulls put her cell. She then calls her home, "Hello?" Jeremy answers, "Jeremy… care you alright?" she asks him, "Um… yeah, yeah. Uncle John hit his head, it was an accident." he informs her as she exhaled with relief "And we're all laughing." Jenna throws out in the back ground, making Jeremy laugh a little and Samathea to smile.
"Yeah, but um I'm okay." he answers her, "Elena and I will be home soon, alright?" she tells him. "Yeah." he answers and hung up. Samathea pulls her phone from her ear and hung up as well, placing her phone away. She then turns back to Isobel, "You were never going to hurt him." Samathea states, "No… I was going to kill him." she tells her, making Samathea stiffen in anger, she clutches her fist. "Don't look for any redeeming qualities in me, I don't have any." she tells them, Samathea scoffs a little shaking her head, "But you take the risk with Damon, how did you know he was going to give it to me, at all." she asks of her, "Because he's in love with you." she tells her, making Samathea look at her taken back. Elena looks over at Damon as he looks a bit at Stefan who cast his eyes down.
Then Isobel held out her hand to Samathea, she looks at her sighs. Dug into her pocket, walks up to her slams the device into her hand. "Thank you so much, Isobel." she tells her, Damon and Elena look at Samathea. "For what?" Isobel asks her, "For being the most huge disappointment, you may of gave birth to Elena and I, but you'll never be my mother. I had a mother, and her name is Miranda Gilbert." she tells her then steps up close to her. "And the next time I see you, I will kill you, turn you into nothing but a pile of ash, the next time you kidnap my family or hurt one of my friends." she tells her, but Isobel smiles at her.
"Good-bye Samathea." Isobel tells her, unfazed by her threat. "As long as you and Elena have a Salvatore on your arms, you're doomed." she tells her, "Katherine was smart, she got out, but we all know Elena is nothing like Katherine." she states, Samathea rolls her eyes at her, "But you… you're just like Mary Ann, doomed to die, because you'll fall in love." she tells her, Samathea just turns back and glares at her, "Burn in hell." she snaps at her. Isobel smiles and walks off with her two minions, Elena exhaled and Stefan walks up to her and pulled Elena and Samathea into his arms. They hug him in comfort and Samathea locks her yes with Damon as he looks at her. She sighs and looks away from him, then Stefan looks at Damon, who just sighs and walks off.
Stefan understood what he was going through; Stefan fell in love with Mary Ann, be he back off, because she was in love with Damon and the reason he was in love with Mary was because he never played with Damon's feelings, never forced him to do anything he didn't want to do nor force him to drink from her blood, she would warn Damon of the dangers of becoming a vampire, even give him reason to turn away from her, that what made her so loveable, because even though she was a vampire, she still had a heart and she still cared about people.
~8~8~8~
Elena and Samathea open Jeremy's door, seeing him get right off the phone. "Jeremy we have to talk about this." Elena tells him, "No we really don't." Jeremy shot back at her, and tosses his phone onto the bed, "I don't know what Anna told you, but there are things that you need to know." Elena states as they both walk into his room.
Jeremy turns to them, "Yeah, because I'm pretty sure your journals covered it." he tells them, standing up and crosses his arms, they look at him in shock. "You read our journals?" Samathea asks him. "Save the speech about invasion of privacy, because I read a few sections about Damon erasing my memories and Samathea being the one who killed Vicki and what happened to her." he tells them, Samathea walks up to him "Jeremy please you don't understand, the night that Vicki died, the night that I…" Samathea pauses for a moment. "The night I killed her, you were in so much pain, it was like Mum and Dad died all over again, it was all over your face and I didn't know what else to do, I didn't want you be in so much pain again, I just want to take that pain away from you, I am so sorry." she tells him.
"Just get out, both of you." he tells her, tears welled up in her eyes and stream down her face. "Jeremy please…" she asks him, "Samathea…" he raises his voice, making her stop, Jeremy just glares into her eyes. "Just get out… please." he said in a softer tone, they both sigh and walk out of Jeremy's room as he walks up to the door. "Jeremy…" Samathea starts, but Jeremy closed the door, Samathea looks at the door, then buries her face into her hands, Elena looks at her and pulls her into her arms, comforting her.
~8~8~8~
Damon was in the living room pouring himself a glass as Stefan walks into the room, "You want one?" Damon asks him, but he notices their was something on his mind. "Say it, whatever it is, plague, get it out." Damon tells him as Stefan leans against the arch-well. "It's about what Isobel said." Stefan tells him as Damon turns to him, "What about?" Damon asks him. "Well I know you and Samathea have bonded and I know she cares about you and uh… I know you care about her." Stefan starts.
Damon just smirks at him, "Well this is going into an interesting direction." Damon states as Stefan smirks a little. "I'm just concern friend about Samathea being hurt." Stefan tells him and walks to the step, "She considers you a friend." Stefan tells him, "Same here, Samathea is a very good friend." Damon states as Stefan leans against the beam, "Actually she might be my only friend… is that a problem?" Damon asks him, "At the risk of sounding like one, yeah. Like a very concerned and protective friend." Stefan tells him.
"Yeah will there is no worry, you do… sound like one." Damon tells him and Stefan sighs, "History will not be repeating itself or Samathea's concern." Stefan tells him, Damon looks at him like an idiot, "Do you understand what I'm saying?" Stefan asks him. "Sure, sure." Damon states and turns away, then the sudden gush of window and Stefan was in front of him, a serious look on his face. "Do you understand?" Stefan asks again, Damon nods with a smile. "I get it, yeah. I mean we're good friends, that's all we are and as her friend I wasn't looking forward to tell her the truth anyway. So I'll let you do it." Damon tells him and down his drink. Stefan crosses his arms, "What truth?" Stefan asks him, as Damon pours himself another drink. "About John, but I know you guys don't like to keep secret from each other." Damon states, "What are you talking about?" Stefan asks him, "Am I the only one here who can put two and two together, well besides Samathea who is just as smart as me. Isobel, hello." Damon tells him, Stefan shrugs his shoulders, "She dated John when she was 15, she gets pregnant and ends up at the doctors office of John's brother. Now what do you think John's roll in all this is, Hm?" Damon summarizes "I mean go ahead think about it, I'll wait." he tells him, getting Stefan to do the math.
Stefan thinks about it, "Did you get it?" Damon asks him, "So you think John is…" Stefan states, as Damon waits for the words. "Elena and Samathea's father?" Stefan asks him as he leans against the table. "Ding, ding, ding, ding!" Damon states as Stefan get it right. Stefan just scoffs at that, "What proof do you have?" Stefan asks him, "I don't need any prove, It's a D.N.A test for John, Samathea and Elena and more posts to deal with. But I know how well you deal with these big bombshells, so sleep tight." Damon tells him and walks off, but he stops at the stairs. "Oh when you do tell Elena and Samathea and if Sammy need a friend to talk to about anything…" Damon states, getting Stefan to look at him. "I'm here for her." Damon tells him and walks off, Stefan sighs and looks back to the ground.
~8~8~8~
John lays against the couch as his phone rings, he pulls it out and answers it. "Hello?" he answers. "On your door step. You'll find what you've been looking for." Isobel tells him, "And my ring?" John asks her pulling himself to his feet.
"Don't screw this up." she tells him as John walk to the door, opens it and saw the packet, "You know what you have to do, John." she tells him as he reaches down and picks it up and closes the door. "I got it I won't fail." he tells her, holding the phone with his shoulder and empties the packet into the table with the contents inside; the compass and his ring. "You better not, Katherine wants all of those tomb vampires dead and I want to add two more to that list." Isobel tells him as he pulls on his ring.
"Let me guess." John mumbles, "Stefan and Damon. I don't want this life for the girls." Isobel tells him, "Well that was always part of the plan, consider the Salvatores gone." John tells her. "They're our daughters John, we owe that to them." Isobel tells him as he sighs. "I know." he answers her and she hung up, John also hung up the phone as well. He then walks up the stairs and peeks into Samathea's room, seeing that she left her door crack open a little and saw her sound asleep.
He smiles to himself, walks into her room, around her bed and sat down next to her, seeing her sound asleep made him smile a little, she snuggles into her pillow a little more, making the cover slide off her shoulder a little and her hair to fall over her face a little, but John pulls the cover up and over her shoulder and gently brushes her hair out of her face. He then leans over her a bit, "Sweet dreams, sweetheart." John mumbles to her and gently press is lips to her forehead and left her alone in her room.