The holidays were over and Scarlett had barely survived them due to the inconspicuous amount of alcohol that she had consumed and now she was back at work not to mention school which kind of okay as she really couldn't spend another entire day cooped up in the house with Stefan and Damon, she loved them but they really needed some space away from each other. As Scarlett was becoming cranky, Damon was still acting weird and Stefan was walking around like he was on eggshells as not to set either of them off. So when her boss and offered her a shift Scarlett practically bolted out of the house but it was now a new year and things were calming down slightly until the next crisis came up.
"Scarlett can we talk?"
Damn. Spoke too soon. Taking a deep breath Scarlett looked up from where she was refilling the cutlery draw to see Stefan standing there. "Sure but it's got to be quick, if my boss catches me slacking off he'll make me stay to help out with this stupid founders bachelor auction shindig and I'd rather not given that my shift ends in ten minutes and I'd like to be straight out of the door when it is."
"It's about Damon… Have you seen or spoken to him today?" Stefan questioned.
"Oh yeah I saw him briefly but he was kind of in the middle of something with these three college girls, a foursome or something and I rolled my eyes made a comment about how he better not be turning my house into a brothel and left for work why?"
"And you're not bothered by this?"
"No… Although I'd prefer my house not to be turned into a whore house." Scarlett said narrowing her eyes at Stefan. "But why are you? This is a good thing, look your brother is the poster boy for hedonism and essential the playboy vampire and if he's going back to his drinking and womanizing ways that means he's starting to become himself again and that is a good thing because I am very close to kicking him in the face because this whole bright, shiny and pretending to be happy when he's not is starting to really piss me off and I haven't done anything yet because I'm trying to be supportive."
"Did he say anything to you? Or ever mention someone called Isobel in passing?"
"What's with asking me the ten million questions? If you need something from Damon then go ask him Stefan? Scarlett replied with a shake of her head.
"I know the two of you are close and you talk, not to mention you have this code of silence but this is really important Scarlett I need to know if he's ever mentioned a woman called Isobel from North Carolina to you." Stefan stressed.
"I'm not hiding anything, Damon has never mentioned anything about someone called me Isobel but why is this so important to you? Other than myself, Katherine and Elena when have you cared about the women in Damon's life?" Scarlett questioned.
"Because this woman Isobel was not only Elena's birth mother she was Alaric Saltzman's wife and Damon killed her." Stefan revealed.
"Oh…" Scarlett replied, she vaguely remembered hearing about how Elena was adopted and she figured she must have discarded the information as being irrelevant to her life as she had her own family problems to deal with let alone the Gilberts. But now she was hearing that Damon had killed Elena's birth mother who had been married to their history who was secretly a vampire hunter and had attacked Stefan a couple of weeks back. This was one small little world and get even smaller Scarlett thought to herself. "Let me guess? He wants to kill my favourite egocentric and homicidal uncle…"
"Pretty much, he wants answers but I asked Damon and he claims not to remember a thing but I don't think that's true."
Scarlett snorted. "Like Damon is ever going to give that up, there's a better chance of me kissing Mrs. Lockwood's ass but maybe he doesn't remember. Damon wouldn't remember where half his crap is half the time if it wasn't for me. But do you want me to ask him?"
"No. I'm taking care of it just please don't ask Damon or Alaric about any of this Isobel thing I just thought I'd give you a heads up because I know you like to be kept in the loop and of course if this eventually comes out and explodes."
That was most likely going to happen given that this was Mystic Falls that they all lived in but choosing to ignore the obvious moment for a sarcastic moment Scarlett just nodded her head and walked off. After her shift was over Scarlett went back home fed Lucrezia and Violetta and took a shower because she somehow smelt of kitchen grease and after she got changed into her pyjamas Scarlett left her room in order to make herself some tea to drink before she went upstairs to read a book until she fell asleep. As she made way downstairs Scarlett heard a loud crash and running down the stairs following the noise into the library she saw Mr. Saltzman laying on the floor struggling to breath whilst Damon was had just chucked a stake onto a couch. "What did you do?" Scarlett yelled at Damon as she ran over to Mr. Saltzman and dropped to her knees and placed her hands over the wound in Mr. Saltzman's chest in an effort to stop the bleeding.
"Don't bother Red, he's dying…"
"Shut up!" Scarlett shrieked as she turned her attention over to her teacher who was struggling to breath and was making all these gasping sounds like a fish out of water. "D-Don't worry Mr. Saltzman, everything's going to be fine…"
"No it's not and I doubt he appreciates you lying to him in his final moments." Damon snorted in bemusement and as he did that Scarlett felt Mr. Saltzman's chest stop rising and eventually his heart beating slower and slower until it finally stopped and she just fell back in shock and looked at her hands covered in Mr. Saltzman's blood and being able to feel him dying with her own hands.
"You son of a bitch…" Scarlett said but it was loud enough for Damon to hear.
"For god's sake Red don't be so over dramatic, they'll find another history teacher somewhere so calm your little self down before that heart of yours gets too excited." Damon cheerily warned.
"Unlike you he was a good man and he didn't deserve this and it's not some kind of joke, you've just killed yet another person Damon. Someone who had a life, a job and probably a family and friends but you just don't care…" Scarlett said with a shake of her head.
"What happened?" Scarlett looked up to see Stefan standing in the doorway and moments later he did the same thing that she did earlier, rushed in and dropped to his knees, kneeling over Mr. Saltzman. "What did you do Damon?"
"Do what? He attacked me." Damon replied.
It was clear that neither Scarlett or Stefan were buying this weak defence "Damon…"
"All I did was tell him the truth. His wife didn't want him anymore, it's not my fault he couldn't handle the truth." Damon said with a shrug off his shoulders, which caused Scarlett to scoff in disbelief. "What's so funny Red?"
"You say he couldn't handle the truth about his wife is it like you've been handling Katherine? Because your not dealing with it and your not handling with it your doing that everything is fine bullshit which is a lie because all you've been doing is living in some little whole screwing countless women and drinking alcohol like it's bloody water!" Scarlett retorted.
"I'm handling it fine, you know what? Isobel came to me, she found me and begged me to turn her into a vampire. And if she's related to Elena that means she's related to Katherine. Maybe Katherine sent her to me…" Damon stated.
"Stop it… You don't have to keep looking." Stefan said.
"Can't be a coincidence Isobel sought me out, can't I'm assuming you'll take care of this." Damon said putting his drink down, pointing to Mr. Saltzman's body before proceeding to walk out of the room.
Scarlett looked at Stefan and sighed as he moved off his knees to sit on the floor and the two of them just stared at the dead body of Alaric Saltzman as he laid on the library floor. She had no idea what they were going to do about this one and Scarlett frowned at the prospect of having to cover up another death until she saw Mr. Saltzman's chest suddenly lift up and he took a deep intake of breath, which caused Scarlett to leap back in a mixture of shock, surprise, fear and generally being scared shitless. "Holy shit!" Scarlett cried clutching her heart in shock.
"You okay?" Stefan questioned and Scarlett wearily nodded, apart from the little shock she had received and that she was certain that her heart had just reset itself but apart from that she was fine. Since they establish that she was fine Stefan helped Mr. Saltzman sit up.
"What happened? What's going on?" Mr. Saltzman questioned.
"Y-You were just…" Scarlett stammered in shock, this was a new one.
"Did Damon turn you?" Stefan asked him.
Mr. Saltzman shook his head. "No. I went for him and then he stabbed me, then the last thing I saw was Scarlett and then I can't remember anything…"
"No, no, no. You must have vampire blood in your system. Somebody must have slipped it to you." Stefan reasoned and Scarlett just nodded in agreement because that was the only thing that would explain any of this.
"No. It's… It's something else." Mr. Saltzman stated, flexing his hand.
"Then how? You were dead Sir, I literally have your blood on my hands." Scarlett wearily said holding up her hands for proof. There was no other way to explain how he died and then came back from the dead. He had to be a vampire, there was no other explanation.
Mr. Saltzman lifted up his right ring to reveal and black and bulky ring that reminded Scarlett of Damon and Stefan's rings. "I…Isobel, this ring protected me…"
"That's impossible…" Stefan added.
"I know." Mr. Saltzman added sharing looks of confusion with Scarlett and Stefan, the three of them looked at each other before after a few moment Mr. Saltzman began to stand up and both Stefan and Scarlett both helped him. "So Scarlett… Are you…?"
Scarlett knew where her teacher was getting at but shook her head. "Stefan and Damon's cousin? Nope I'm actually their niece give or take five or six generations and I'm not a vampire but Damon has made me the last living Salvatore."
"But you know about vampire?" Mr. Saltzman slowly said.
"Since the day I was born."
"Wow…"
"Doesn't even begin to cover it…"