Chapter 20

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*Mystic Falls 1864*

I watched as Damon and Stefan fought to get Katherine out of the carriage.

Damon knocked one of guards out.

They opened the carriage door and let Katherine out. They took the muzzle off of her and untied her.

I watched Damon be shot. "No!" I yelled.

Stefan scrambled for a gun, but was shot too.

I ran over to them and said, "No!"

One of the men from the town grabbed me and picked me up.

"No!" I yelled, struggling to get back to my brothers' dead bodies.

The man took me back to my house.

I stormed into my father's study, bloody clothes and all.

"What happened?" he asked.

"It's your fault!" I yelled, "You're the reason they're dead! Stefan and Damon are dead!"

He reached for me, but I jerked back.

I ran up to my room and threw myself on my bed and cried.

The next morning, I set out for the river with a knife in hand. I couldn't live without my brothers. I sat by the river and took the knife in both hands. I quickly brought the knife down into my stomach. I gasped and threw the knife aside. I layed down and prepared to die.

"Emilia!" I heard someone yell.

Suddenly, I saw the blue eyes of my brother Damon.

"Damon, are you here to lead me to heaven?" I asked.

"Why would you do this?" he asked.

"To be with you", I told him. I could feel myself becoming weak. I suddenly felt something wet at my mouth.

"Drink", he said.

I couldn't make my lips move.

"Open your mouth", he said tilting my head back.

I did and felt something drop into my mouth.

"Goodnight little sister", he said.

I felt hands on my temples and then, black.

*Mystic Falls Present day*

I awoke with a start. I went downstairs and grabbed a knife. I ran up to Damon and stabbed him in the stomach.

"What do you think you're doing?" he asked.

"Thought I'd repay the favor, sire", I said as I spat out the last word, "You fed me blood and snapped my neck!"

"Yeah, because you were going to kill yourself", he said.

"Better than what I am now!" I yelled.

"You'd rather be dead and rotting in a grave like father?" he asked.

"Don't bring him into this", I said.

"He did this Emilia!" Damon yelled.

"You think I don't know that? I told him the very same thing the night you were killed", I said, "You just left me. Took off and left me to fend for myself. Do you know why I'm so loyal to him? Because he taught me everything. Everything my sire should have taught me!"

"What did you do before you found him?" Damon asked.

I sighed and began telling my story.

*Baton Rouge 1864*

I woke up with a start. I wasn't dead. Or was I?

It all came back to me.

I didn't know what to do, so I started running.

Before I knew it, I was in Louisiana. My throat burned.

A prostitute walked by and I could hear the blood pumping thru her veins.

I pulled her into an alley and sank my teeth into her neck. I slowly drank her blood.

"You may want to stop", a voice said.

I dropped the dead woman in shock. I turned and saw a boy around my age.

"You're new", he said.

"What am I?" I asked him.

"You have no idea?" he asked, "You're a creature of the night, also known as a vampire".

"What?" I asked him.

"You have much to learn, little one", he said, "But first". He placed a ring in my hand.

It was tear drop in shape and had a band of diamonds going across it.

"It's a Lapis Lazuli ring spelled by a witch. It will keep you from burning in the sun", he said.

I put it on my finger. "Why are you helping me?" I asked him.

"No one was there to teach me these things", he said, "I am Lord Liam Saradon".

"Emilia Salvatore", I told him.

*Mystic Falls present day*

Halfway thru the story, Damon left the room.

"So what happened to him? Liam?" Elena asked.

"He's dead", I told her, "After passing on all his knowledge, he met the sun".

"Why would he do that?" Elena asked.

"He's was lonely. He had a fiancé and she was staked. The ring belonged to her. Sure, I was a nice companion, but I could never replace her", I said, "He taught me to feed, but not from donors. Just normal people. Of course, I preferred to feed on prostitutes and murderers. They were always plenty of those in New Orleans".

Damon entered the room again. He picked up something on the desk. He tossed it at me and said, "What is it?"

"What do you want me to do with this?" I asked him.

"Well, since you're so snoopy, I thought you could tell me", he said.

"I may have eavesdropped on Johnathan and Papa, but that doesn't mean I know what it is", I told him.

"Now who's the idiot?" he quipped.

I rolled my eyes and threw the small object back to Damon. I went to my room and pulled out my journal.

Dear journal,

I don't understand why I keep getting flashbacks. Sometimes they're some ways and sometimes they're others. I was under the impression that you regain all memory after you're turned. Also, I'm thinking it may be time to get a new day-light ring. I love Liam's ring, but it was never mine to begin with.

Damon came into my room and said, "If you don't want to be late, I'd leave now". I quickly got dressed and snuck the keys to the Porsche. I got in and sighed. Oh how I loved this car.

The day passed quickly. I went home and went up to my room. Not even caring that my brother was wasting away in the cellar. I closed my eyes and fell into another flashback.

*Ireland 1880*

I found Liam standing in the graveyard. "What are you doing?" I asked him.

"It's time", he said turning to me, "Time for me to go".

"Why?" I asked him, "Where are you going?"

"No Emilia. I'm going away. Forever. I'm ready to meet the sun", he said.

"But you'll die", I told him.

"I know that", he said.

"Please don't do this! I need you!" I pleaded.

"You've never needed me. You just didn't want to be alone", he said. He kissed me on the forehead and stepped back.

"Will it hurt?" I asked him.

"After living as long as I have, it should be quick", he said.

"Which is how long?" I asked him.

"Nowhere near as long as the Originals", he said. He took off his day-light ring.

I watched his body become engulfed in flames.

He only left me with one question, who were the Originals?

*Mystic Falls Present day*

I went downstairs and found Elena in the study. I grabbed a Sinatra record and put it on the record player. I grabbed Damon's bottle of scotch and poured it into a small glass.

"Since when do you drink?" Elena asked.

"Since I'm having trouble with letting go of the past", I told her.

We both just sat there in silence.

Elena went down to the cellar.

I listened to him tell the story about how he killed our father.

Tears filled my eyes.

Elena came back upstairs. "You okay?" she asked.

"Oh, you mean besides finding out my brother killed our father?" I asked her.

"I'm sorry", she said.

When Damon got home, he told us the story of how Stefan made him feed. "I never told him you know, that I turned you", Damon said, "He didn't know until I contacted you".

Elena went down to the cellar and found Stefan gone. She rushed out the front door.

When they returned, Stefan walked up to me.

"Just don't", I told him, "I heard everything. You killed Papa. I'm not ready to forgive you for that", I told him. I went up to my room and cried myself to sleep.

We're going to play another little game, whoever can spot the Doctor Who reference in this chapter, I'll tell them who Emilia's love is.