AN::: Don't forget the bottom AN will have a snippet of my new story "Everyone Has A Secret". I've been working on it for a while.
Until then, here is the last chapter of "The Untold Truth". Enjoy!
Selina's POV
We walked back to the Boarding House in good spirits. The bitch was in Klaus's hands and my son was safe. And I was in love with Damon. Alex was happy again with Rebekah, and he and Damon called a truce. Life was definitely up. The walk was long, but we were all feeling ok with that. Alex had stopped on the way home to hunt. We waited patiently for him as we all talked. I still didn't trust the blonde original. But I had to make something work for the sake of Alex.
When we walked through the door we were all laughing at a joke Damon was telling us. When we walked in we saw all of our friends waiting for us. Bonnie, Ric, Tyler and Caroline had made it back to the Boarding House. Stefan looked worried as always.
"With all the laughs I guess you got her?" Tyler asked from the other side of the room.
"She's gone and out of our lives for good. Klaus has her now. Last we heard was her screaming as we walked away." Damon said.
We replied what happen at my old home. There were gasps and hands over mouths. But there were smiles and the feeling of joy now that it was over.
After the story telling I went into the kitchen to make dinner for everyone. A celebratory dinner. I fished out the IPod I used all those mornings ago and plugged it in. I found a playlist that looked fun. It was all dancing music. I got out some pork chops and started cooking. Nothing could get in the way of my good mood.
Katherine was gone. For good! I was in love with Damon. Head over heels in love with the man I grew up with. I had an amazing son who was falling in love with someone as well. I had the whole word in my hands and I was loving it.
I was dancing around the kitchen as I was cooking. Singing along to Jessica Simpson singing "I think I'm in love". Why Damon had this on his IPod was unknown. And I was happy it was on there anyway.
"Need help?" I heard from behind me. Just as the chorus came on.
It was Damon and I sung "Boy I think I'm in love with you. I've been telling all my friends what I feel for you." He looked at me and smiled.
"All your friends are in the living room listening to you sing" I shrugged my shoulders and sung louder. "If I knew the lyrics I would sing with you, but I don't."
"Then why is it on your IPod?"
"Because it sounds like 'Jake and Diane'." He replied. "So, do you need help?" I shook my head. He came up from behind me as I flipped the meat in the oven and put his hands around my waist. "I can't believe I almost lost you today." He whispered.
"I'm not going anywhere." I said turning around. "I have been waiting for this moment for 150 years. I won't let anything happen to us again." I put my arms around his neck and kissed him. "I'm too much in love with you to let that happen. And now I'm a vampire and will kick anyone's ass who tries to take you from me." he smirked at that.
"Good. Because I feel the same way. Only I think I'm more in love with you now after seeing you stake her in the side. She didn't even see it coming. It was kinda sexy." He purred.
"Oh, yeah? You throwing that stake into her was sexy too Mister Salvatore."
"Anything to save my family." He whispered at my neck giving it kisses.
"As much as I want this to continue, and trust me I do. More than anything. I have my pork chops in the oven." He just hummed. Yeah, he's not gonna listen, I thought. "Want me to ask Elena to watch dinner?"
"No, I want you to stir a little." He smiled. Then kissed me hard. "That's for the road." He said after breaking apart. He left the kitchen leaving me wanting more than I did before. Men.
We all sat down at the dining room table for dinner. There were a few different conversations going on at once. I sat next to Damon who was at the head of the table. Alex on my other side with Rebekah on his opposite. Between bites I would grab Damon's knee or leg just to mess with him. It was working. Payback was a bitch and so was I.
"So, where does this leave you guys?" Caroline asked while me and Damon were laughing at what was going on under the table. I turned to look at her with a 'huh' look. Everyone had stopped their conversation to hear what I had to say. "What happens with you and Damon?" she asked. I looked at Damon and he was still in mid laugh on his face. But he said.
"I plan on spending eternity with my girlfriend and my son."
"That's it?" the blonde asked.
"Caroline, what do you mean?" I asked just as confused as Damon felt.
"You went all this time thinking she's dead. After being so in love with her 150 years ago. And now it's just your girlfriend? Wasn't she your fiancée in 1864? I mean you guys captured Katherine Peirce together. Freaking marry her Damon. She spent 150 years waiting for you." My mouth dropped slightly. I mean yeah, I wanted to marry Damon. I did when I was a girl and I did now. But we were just reconnecting.
"Blondie, I need to have that conversation with Selina and Alex. Not my vampire friend."
"I'm just saying. And I can guarantee that everyone else around here would say the same thing." I looked at all my new friends, Jeremy, Matt, Bonnie, Tyler, Ric, Elena, and my dear friend Stefan. They were all shaking their head. As well as Rebekah. Alex didn't seem to move. I touched his shoulder and he looked over at me and smiled.
"You alright?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He said softly. Then he looked at Damon. "If you want to marry my mom, I think you need to come through me before you go asking her. 150 years ago I didn't have any say. But now I do."
"I wasn't planning on doing anything until I talked to you kid. You have a say in this as much as we do. Nothing is going to happen until we are OK." Well, crap. I was hoping for a proposal in the next few weeks. Alex and Damon weren't always on good graces. Today being the exception.
After dinner we all retreated to the study to have a drink. I was sitting with Elena, Rebekah and Bonnie. Alex was with Stefan, Ric, Matt and Tyler. Caroline was talking to Damon. I looked around while talking to the girls and took a long hard look at what love was. I knew Damon didn't like to host much, but he knew I loved it. He was having them all here for me. When I looked at him, I saw him and Caroline were bickering. I tried to listen in with my supersonic ears, but they weren't picking anything up. Caroline left and got Alex. He looked up and went to Damon as Caroline took his spot with the boys. Damon and Alex left the room and didn't look back.
"Selina?" I heard.
"Huh?"
"For a vampire, you have sucky hearing." The witch joked.
"Sorry girls, I, uh, I blanked out for a sec. Sorry." I apologized.
"I was just saying how great it is that you and Damon got back together even if you guys didn't see eye to eye when you first got here." She said.
"When I first got here, I wanted Damon and Alex to have a relationship more than Damon and I. I had my time with Damon. And as short as it was I knew Alex needed him more than I did."
"You are such a good mom." Elena said.
"The best." I heard from the other side. I looked up and saw my son. He was holding a cake and was walking towards me. "Not every mother turns her son into a vampire. Or runs away from her only family to have a son out of wedlock. Not every mother risks her own safety to go after a 500 year old vampire to bring her to an original one. Of course humans don't always know about us, except the present ones I guess. But my mom risks everything for me. There aren't enough words to describe what my mom is to me. Or how amazing she is. She's better than the best." he sat the cake down on the table for me. It was a strawberry cheese cake and I laughed.
I remembered the first dinner I had with my friends at my apartment back in Saddlebrook. We had talked about my strawberry illness but I was still in love with them anyway. I stood up and held my son. It felt like yesterday I was running away to have him. To make sure that he was away from Mystic Falls and Katherine Pierce. Had she known I was pregnant with Damon's child, I'm sure she would have killed me back then. But I was here with my son. And I would never let go of him. He was mine.
"I love you so much." I said taking his face in my hands. "You know that right?"
"Mom, you tell me that about 50 times a day. Hard to forget." He smiled.
"I don't say it to bug you with it. I say it to remind you that no matter what you might do to piss me off, I will always love you. Nothing can change that."
"I know." He said hugging me again. Then he whispered very softly against my ear for only me to hear. "It's fine by me. He's my father." And a smile came cross my face.
"Let's eat cake!" Ric shouted. Everyone laughed and clapped.
"Who doesn't love cake?" the younger Gilbert said. I barley heard him as I walked over to Damon who was leaning on the doorframe to the study.
"Hey sweetie." I said standing on my tippy toes to kiss him.
"Hey beautiful, great speech."
"It wasn't a speech. It was the truth." I said still smiling from what Alex said in my ear. "Did you talk with him?"
"Yeah, we talked. We're fine. We have differences to work out but doesn't every father and son?"
"I guess. My father had a daughter he didn't get along with."
"And I didn't get along with my father. So I'm gonna go with no child gets along with their father." That made me laugh.
"It's a work in process." I said putting my arms around him and kissing him again.
"Can we go for a walk?" he said breaking it. I turned around and everyone were in groups talking. No one would miss us if we slipped out.
"Sure. What do you have in mind Mister Salvatore?"
"A walk Miss Brighton. In the garden. Like old times." He said taking my hand. We walked through the house to the living room and out the back door. The moon was fully up and the crickets were chirping. It was the beginning of summer and it was a gorgeous night. The stars were glimmering in the sky and there was a slight breeze. "This way." He said and he pulled me with him. I knew the Salvatore Boarding House had a garden but I was never in it. This one was deep into the property. It was huge and it was amazing. Rose bushes and flower trees everywhere. Statues were in the corners and a fountain in the middle. There were a few benches around. "See this bench?" he asked as he sat down on it. I followed suite. I nodded. "This is the bench you were sitting on the day I told you I was in love with you." I looked at him and then to the wooden bench I was sitting on.
"Really?"
"After we made the Boarding House, I went back to the old place. I found some of the statues still there so I took them. I don't know what made me go to your old house. I knew you weren't there. I thought you were dead. It was obviously still standing. I made my rounds in the house and found a few things that I would take. Plates, an old lantern, I went back for a couch. But when I went outside something pulled me to the garden and there under the dead willow tree you loved so much was this bench. I was already a vampire and I remembered telling you that I loved you and then I broke up with you. This bench reminded me of the best times I had with you. And I wanted it here so when I was pissed off or upset, I had a place to go to remind me of the better times in my life. The times that I had with you. Before Katherine took everything away from me."
"Oh Damon." I whispered.
"You know how much I loved you right? I mean I really did love you back then. I would have never left you on my own. Not willingly. And right as that bullet sent into my chest, you were the last thing I thought of before I died." Tears were building in my eyes. This is the Damon I fell in love with when I was a girl. The one that could be the real Damon with me when we were alone. He wouldn't have said this to me in front everyone back at the house. I understood now why he wanted to go for a walk. "Not a day went by without me thinking of you. What we would have been like as the married couple we wanted. What our children would have been like. Where we would have lived. All that crossed my mind every day for the last 150 years. And now I get to find all that out for the rest of my life. We have forever Selina. To love each other, and to be a family with Alex. And I want that."
"I do too." I whispered.
"I talked with Alex. He told me he was still mad about how I acted the first night here. At Ric's place." When I first got here, Damon and I had a fight. I ran off and bumped into Ric. The history teacher was nice enough to let me spend the night. But when Damon came in he thought something else was going on. Clearly, nothing had been. Ric was on the couch and I was in my clothes in the bedroom. Damon overreacted and treats were made, to me and to my son. "And you know me, I don't like to apologize. But I did. To make everything right with him I did. He said we still had work to do on getting us closer and I told him I was willing if he was. And he was. He also said that if I wanted to marry his mom he would be OK with it." I smiled at this. I knew already. But Alex had given me the OK too. The clear sign he was ok with Damon and I being together. "I had gotten this when my mom died since I was the oldest it went to me. Stefan wasn't happy about it. But he had no choice. I want to give it to you." He said as he took out a small square box. "So Selina," he said slipping off the bench and onto the ground on one knee. "On the bench were we first told each other I love you, for the first official time with a ring and all. Will you marry me?"
My hands were shaking; I had tears in my eyes. And I'm pretty sure I looked like a hot mess. There was a ringing in my ears, but the words kept replaying. "Will you marry me?" he had said it. He just asked me officially. It wasn't at a tree at the lake sneaking around behind our fathers back. It wasn't in my father's garden late at night after making love in the grass. It was a true proposal with his mother's engagement ring. It was right in front of me. And I couldn't talk. For the first time I couldn't talk. I was speechless. I looked from the ring to him. "Will you marry me?" it was still bouncing around my head. He looked nervous that I was going to say no. I couldn't find me voice. I wanted to scream yes. But I couldn't. I just nodded my head. He slipped the ring on me and I threw myself at him. He fell to the ground but picked us up and kissed me.
"About time!" I heard from behind me. I didn't care. I was kissing my fiancé. I knew the voice it was Caroline. I broke the kiss anyway, because I heard more people coming with her. Alex included.
"Nice speech." He said while he hugged me. He shook Damon's hand but pulled him into a hug. "Damon told me what he had planned. And I told him to go ahead with it. I told everyone else. We wanted to see the proposal. However, we missed the beginning. Something about how this bench means something to you?" he said looking at Damon.
Everyone made their rounds on their congratulations. Alex came over to me and puts his left arm around my shoulder. He grabbed Damon and put his right arm around his shoulders.
"So, for the first time in my 130 years I can finally say that my mom AND my dad are together." He said with a smile.
"You called him Dad." I whispered. Alex looked down at me. And then to Damon.
"No matter what the differences we have. He's still my dad."
AN::::So there you have it. The Untold Truth is over. What did you think? What was your favorite part about the story?
And here is a snippet out of my new story "Everyone Has A Secret"
Rylie finally found a small enough town to call home. All that was left was to find a place to live and a job off the books. Walking down the long curvy road she kept looking over her shoulder. She kept wondering if this was the right spot to start over. It had been raining and she was drenched. She didn't bother looking in her bag, she knew they clothes she had in there were just as wet. Up a head Rylie saw buildings. A small smile appeared on her lips. She was starving. The food she had was eaten hours ago. Her stomach needed something in it. It was starting to yell at her. She picked up the pace and hurried to the town. Just over the hill she saw it. She threw her head back in happiness. This is the first town she saw in days. She saw the random diners and delis in the middle of nowhere. But this was the real deal. She really didn't want to sleep outside again. Especially in the rain. Rylie reached the town and looked around. A coffee shop, an animal hospital, various clothing stores, a diner, a grill, a bar. She went to the coffee store. She needed something warm. But when she reached the door it was closed. Crap, she thought. She turned around and saw the diner and the grill. The grill was closer. Her legs hurt from her miles of walking. She walked to the small distance and was thrilled to see it was open. She pulled the door open and the noise poured out with the smell of burgers and food. Her stomach growled to the smell and her mouth watered.
"Welcome to the Mystic Grill. Can I get you a table?" a brunette host asked. Rylie looked at her and smiled.
"In a few. Where's the bathroom?" the hostess looked her up and down and pointed to the other side of the restaurant. "Thanks." Rylie walked towards the bathroom. She wanted to check the clothes she had. She knew they were wet but she wanted to just make sure. The clothes she was wearing felt disgusting. She entered the restroom and saw it was empty. Putting her bag on the counter she pulled out her hairbrush and toothbrush. After brushing her hair and teeth she started to go through her clothes. As she suspected, they were all drenched from the weather. At the bottom of her backpack in a small plastic bag was her money. She had enough for one maybe two months' rent depending on the apartment. She also had a few extra bucks for food. She pulled out a ten hoping it was enough for a burger and water. She went to the hand dryer to try to dry herself off. It really didn't work.
After the dead attempted of drying off she exited the bathroom. Looking around she saw how busy the place was. There were people of all ages in this place. She looked at the bar wanting an alcoholic beverage. But that would be more money than she was willing to spend. As she was taking in the scenery someone bumped in to her.
"Oh, sorry." The brunette said looking up from her phone.
"It's my fault I was just standing here." Rylie answered while walking away. She went back to the hostess and asked her for a table closest to the fireplace. As she sat down she opened her menu. The prices weren't that bad here. She was actually able to order a soda instead of just water. She made a mental note to get a water to go and not to eat her whole meal. She wasn't sure when she would be able to find work and an apartment.
The waiter came over and took her order. Before he left she asked him for a spare pen. After receiving one she took a napkin and started on a must do list. Find apartment, find a job, buy clothes, buy food, buy pre-paid cell. She didn't need much, just more than what she carried on her back. While she was writing her food arrived. She thanked the waited and bit into her burger. Rylie closed her eyes and enjoyed the burst of flavor in her mouth. She took a sip of her drink and put the burger down to start on the fries.
"Everything alright?" she heard the young waiter say.
"Great, thanks." She said looking at him. "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Is there anyone around here renting an apartment or looking for a roommate that you know of?"
"New to town?" He asked crossing his arms. Rylie just looked at her backpack.
"Yeah. I'm staying in town for a little while. I just got here tonight and have no place yet."
"I'm not sure about anyone looking. But if I hear of anything I'll let you know."
"Yeah, if you could that would be really great."
"I'm Matt by the way." He said putting his hand out. Rylie took it.
"Rylie. Thanks for all your help Matt." She said with a smile.
"All in a day's work. Where you from?" She didn't want to answer it. So she answered it like she did at the diner two nights ago and the deli four days ago.
"Around. I moved a lot. My dad is in the service."
"What are you doing in Mystic Falls?" How was she going to answer that without raising red flags to the locals?
"Once I find that out I will let you know."
"Well Rylie, if you need anything let me know." Matt smiled and walked away.
Half way through her meal she wanted to finish it. But she needed to keep it just in case there were no apartments available. She waved down Matt to pay her bill.
"Everything alright?" he asked as he approached.
"Yeah, I just want to take this to go and to pay the bill."
"On the house." Rylie looked at him. "You're new. Don't worry about it."
"Thanks." Rylie asked gathering her stuff.
"Good luck." Matt said waving her a farewell as she made her way to the front. She saw the hostess from before.
"Excuse me?" She asked. The brunette looked up with a snobby smile.
"Yes?"
"Do you know of any hotels in the area?"
"No, sorry. But there is the Salvatore Boarding House in the town." She took a piece of paper and wrote down a number. "Here's the number." She handed Rylie the paper and pointed to the pay phone to the side.
"Thanks." Rylie said as she looked at the paper and headed to the phone.
She grabbed the quarter out of her pocket and picked up the receiver. She slid the coin in and dialed the number. But nothing happened. She looked at the phone and then the receiver. She hit the end button a few times but with no result. She sighed in defeat. Putting her bag down she threw her blonde hair up into a loose ponytail while looking around the building. She was hoping to find another phone in the area.
Really, not my day right now. No phone, no address, come on I want a shower! She thought frustrated.
"Problem?" she heard from behind her. She spun around and saw a tall raven head guy with piercing blue eyes.