Hey all! We are officially half way through season two, which is a good thing because i was i really want to hurry up and be done with it so i can get on to season three and all the originals and i know a lot of you are looking forward to it too! Anyway i have a new and quite long chapter for you all today but before we get to that, i've been thinking about doing a kind of side story to this but it'll be set before the VD started. I know that a lot of you love Scarlett and so i was thinking about doing another story of how Scarlett became Scarlett. Sort of one shots about her life starting with her being born and her growing up in Mystic Falls, which will let you see how Scarlett was as a kid and how she grew up with this whole vampire thing with Zach and her father Gabriel - who will make an appearance in this story but not for a good ten to fifteen chapters - and how his death changed her and how Scarlett along with Zach coped with that. Let me know what you think? Because if enough of you think it's a good idea i will do it and i promise there will be appearances by both Damon and Stefan. So let me know and of course enjoy xx


"Yo Red, you ready?"

Scarlett finished zipping up her hoody and once she straightened out her ponytail she nodded and proceeded to pick up the bag that was sitting by her feet. It had been two days since Stefan had gone and trapped himself in the tomb with Katherine and Scarlett had finally calmed down enough to go see him and so her and Damon were taking a care basket or rather a care bag with them. Everything they thought a person or rather a vampire would need when trapped in an enchanted tomb with their evil ex. "Yep, you got the blood?"

"Of course."

The two of them set off and most of the journey was in silence which suited Scarlett just fine because she wasn't sure what to say to Damon as she felt incredibly bad not to mention guilty for lying to him, which was a new one for her. Scarlett had never felt bad about lying to him or Stefan before and to frankly honest she didn't like it very much given that most of her life was built on lies but she had to remind herself that this was a necessary lie. As guilty as she felt, she couldn't let Damon or Stefan find out the truth about her heart, it was better for them all if the only people who knew were herself, Matt and Dr. Parker. Ten minutes after they had left the boarding house the two of them arrived at the opening of the tomb.

"Hello! Anyone home?" Damon called out much to Scarlett's bemusement as they knew someone was in there given that once a vampire went in there, they couldn't get back out and moments later Stefan arrived at the tomb entrance and was followed by Katherine who stood off in the distance.

"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked and Scarlett just rolled her eyes.

"What? No, hello and how are you? It's good to see you and thank you for coming to see me?" Scarlett questioned and Stefan just sighed and Damon just shrugged his shoulders. It seemed like Stefan wasn't exactly in the mood for pleasantries and Scarlett couldn't blame him as she wasn't usually and probably even more so if she was stuck where he currently was with Katherine of all people. "Don't worry Elena is fine, she's at her house and she's not going anywhere anytime soon, literally…"

"What are you talking about?" Stefan asked as Scarlett and Damon both shared amused looks.

"Well after her little attempted suicide mission, I had a little conversation with the witch and the younger Gilbert and we thought it be best if Elena was contained for a while in order to stop her from doing anything stupid Bonnie cast a spell on Elena and she's stuck in her house just like your stuck in here." Damon explained.

"You trapped her in the house?" Stefan slowly asked.

Damon nodded rather pleased with himself. "It's for the best. Trust me. Elena is on a martyr tear that rivals your greatest hits. You should be glad the witch and I are getting along. We brought you this."

"Care package: candles, lanterns and lunch." Scarlett stated as she made her way to the tomb entrance and threw the bag that she had brought with her into the tomb. Although she could go into the tomb without getting stuck, she didn't want to make the same mistake Jeremy did and end up being Katherine's personal blood bank. Scarlett had been in that tomb once and that was more than enough for her, she wasn't going to step back into it again anytime soon. After she did that Damon held out a bottle of blood for Stefan.

"Give that to me and I'm just gonna have to share it with her. " Stefan pointed out referring to Katherine who was still there listening in to the conversations and Scarlett looked at Damon that was the one thing that they hadn't thought about.

"It can be your working lunch Damon" Scarlett figured, if Stefan wouldn't take it and they certainty wasn't going to hand it to Katherine then Damon could drink it in order for it not to go to waste as Scarlett knew he was never going to turn down some nice freshly squeezed blood.

"That's true, thanks Red…"

"You three are surprisingly calm considering Klaus will hunt you down and kill you if you mess with his little plan." Katherine noted.

"Maybe but your forgetting that Klaus has been hunting you down for five hundred years and wants your head on a platter. So what if he kills us? It won't be bad as bad as what he probably has in store for you." Scarlett quipped with a bright smile which caused Katherine to scowl at her.

"I've been dead before. I got over it." Damon said as he nodded in agreement before turning his attention back to Stefan. "Once we deal with this moonstone, we'll figure a way to get you out.

"Don't worry about me. Just make sure Elena's safe. " Stefan stated and Damon made his way to leave but Scarlett stayed put and eyes Stefan carefully. She wanted to have a little word with her dearest uncle before she had to leave to go to work.

"Go ahead and check on Elena, keep me update with everything that's going on I'll be at work but I'll keep my phone on me." Scarlett told Damon and without having to be told twice Damon took his leave and Scarlett turned her attention over to Stefan. "I'm so going to kick your ass when you get out of here, you know that right?"

"I did." Stefan said with a small smile.

"It's not funny Uncle Stefan! What the hell were you thinking? Have you lost your bloody mind or something? You know what don't answer that because it will just end up winding me up even further than I already am. So just hold tight, like Uncle Damon said we'll figure out a way to get you out and keep vampyra over there in." Scarlett said directing the latter part of the conversation to Katherine.

"Honestly Scarlett I'm fine, just focus on Elena–" Stefan began.

"I'm not talking about Elena, I need your help with something."

"What?"

"The car." Scarlett simply said as she knew Stefan would instantly know what she was talking about. There was one thing that all the Salvatore men had in common, their love of vintage cars, Damon drove a mustang, Stefan had a vintage Porsche which he rarely drove and in the garage covered away was Scarlett's Grandpa Edward's 1954 silver Jaguar XK120 roadster with red leather seats. The car had in the family for over fifty years and had been passed down the years and would belong to Scarlett when she turned eighteen. It was a classic and car and Scarlett wanted it to stay that was and as such it was off limits to everyone. Scarlett only had to tell Damon once that if she caught him looking at the car let alone driving it then she would slash his tires and vandalize within an inch of it's life before turning it into a barbeque. He got the point.

"What's wrong with it?" Stefan questioned.

"The engine has died and I would get Matt to look–" Scarlett began.

"Ah! Matt, I had forgotten about him… Tell me how is he Scarlett?" Katherine began.

"Vampyra shut up, if I wanted you to speak I would say bark so pipe down I'm trying to have a conversation here!" Scarlett snapped before turning her attention back to Stefan. "Like I was saying I would get Matt to look at it I thought it was best if I didn't and I'm not getting some mechanic who will over charge me to fix it. So I need you to fix it, when you get out of here of course. I need that car up and running."

"Sure." Stefan replied with a small chuckle.

"Well I've got work today and I need to go back to the house and get my car so I'm going to take off now but I'll try and stop round later, if I'm feeling nice I might bring you some reading material as you must be bored out of your damn mind being stuck with the wicked bitch of the tomb all day long."

"I heard that!" Katherine stated.

"You were meant too!" Scarlett retorted in a sing song tone of voice.

"I'll be fine, now go to work and do something normal." Stefan advised and Scarlett waved goodbye to him before leaving, after going home to get her car Scarlett made her way to work to enjoy one the two normal things she had left in her life, work and Matt although the time were kind of off at the moment. After the big scary talk with Dr. Parker, Matt was overly worried about Scarlett and making sure she wasn't straining herself at work. Causing Scarlett to joke that she won't have a heart attack by carrying a couple of plates, she thought that was funny but Matt didn't.

As she pocket a tip of a departing patron Scarlett saw Tyler Lockwood come in and normal she wouldn't be fazed by this but he was a werewolf and tonight there was going to be a full moon. Scarlett watched as he acted all jumpy and her eyes met Alaric's as he seemed to notice this two as Tyler met Caroline and the two of them left pretty sharpish and Caroline gave the two of them this cryptic look. Something was going on. "Scarlett…"

"I'm on it Ric, don't worry." Scarlett said as she made her way out of the grill and jogged over to Caroline and Tyler who were walking towards Caroline's car and it seemed like they were going somewhere. Scarlett knew that Damon had left Caroline in charge of dealing with Tyler but that was all she knew. "Caroline! Hold up!"

"Scarlett? Are you okay?" Caroline questioned.

"Yeah I'm fine I just need to borrow you for a second." Scarlett began before turning her attention to Tyler. "You don't mind do you Lockwood?"

"Not at all Salvatore." Tyler said replying with the same fake sincerity that Scarlett had been used not that Scarlett cared as she had dragged Caroline off before Tyler had even finished speaking.

"Look I know there's something going on with wolf boy and it doesn't seem good so spill Caroline." Scarlett began.

"Some woman came to the Lockwood mansion saying that she was a friend of Mason's from Florida, she thought he might be here as he she can't get through to him and then Mayor Lockwood said that Mason was back in Florida and now they knowing something is up and Tyler told me that when he was leaving his mom was on the phone with my mom; she's reporting Mason as a missing person Scarlett!" Caroline stated and Scarlett swore under her breath.

"Okay, don't worry about it! Just do whatever is your doing with Tyler and be careful Caroline, it's a full moon tonight and werewolf bites can kill vampires." Scarlett warned before jogging back into the grill and over to where Alaric was still seated.

"You find out anything?" Alaric questioned.

"Yeah I did and we have a problem…" Scarlett replied and proceeded to tell Ric everything that Caroline had told her and he said he'd take care of it as she couldn't exactly get up and leave in the middle of the shift.

That turned out to be a very big mistake on Scarlett's part as Alaric called Damon and the two of them concocted a plan to get some answers from 'Jules' the mystery woman who they suspected of being a werewolf too. They figured they scam her and give her a drink with Wolfsbane and problem solved but she clocked them and now she had told Damon he was 'marked' which didn't exactly bode well on a night of a full moon. So the two of them had wasted the entire day with a stupid plan and ended pissing a werewolf on today of all days and Scarlett knew she should have never trusted those two. After all this went down

Scarlett's shift pretty much had ended and as she made her way to leave Alaric stopped her. "You need to go home."

"That's where I was planning on going Ric." Scarlett said.

"Damon is pissed off and riled up about that threat from Jules and he may do something stupid so you need to go home and make sure he stays there, lock the doors and the windows and take some of this." Alaric replied as he took Scarlett's hand and placed some Wolfsbane in it.

Not needing to be told twice Scarlett hurried home and when she got back she found Damon in the process of locking the front door and so she went about locking the back doors and shutting the windows, starting with the kitchen and working her through the house. Seconds after she walked into the living room Scarlett swore she could see something outside and before she could open her mouth to say anything, one of the windows smashed as a wolf leaped into the room. And Scarlett was face to face with a bloody werewolf and she was kind of freaked out of her bloody mind considering how quickly her heart was beating. She wanted to yell for help but the werewolf would try and hurt Damon given that werewolves were enemies of vampires and their bites could kill a vampire.

"Red!"

Scarlett realized that Damon must have heard the smashing glass and he would know what was going. "No don't come! I'm fine…"

She should have known Damon would ignore her because as she tried to slowly walk away from the wolf trying as hard as she could not to piss it off, Damon ran into the room followed by Rose of all people and Scarlett was pulled away by Damon and pushed towards the front door by Damon who had picked up a sword of all thing. What happened after that went by so quickly that Scarlett had barely anytime to follow, the wolf was growling and headed straight for Damon until Rose pushed him out of the way. Scarlett could only watch in sheer terror as the wolf attacked Rose until Damon stabbed it and the wolf took off.

"How bad is it?" Damon demanded as he knelt down on the floor to look at Rose's wound and Scarlett slowly made her way back towards them, she couldn't believe what had happened. The wolf was here for Damon. It went to go get Damon but Rose pushed him out of the way and allowed it to attack her. Werewolf bites were lethal to vampires, that meant that Rose was going to die…

Rose bit her lip and Scarlett anted to cry. "|It hurts…"

"Wait, it's healing." Damon said

"Oh my God, I thought a werewolf bite was fatal and I thought… " Rose began getting hysterical and Scarlett immediately felt a wave of relief at Rose being okay and how the werewolf bite thing was only a myth and she opened her mouth to say something but nothing would come out. And then the pain came, the sheering pain that she was so familiar with came back and Scarlett gripped her chest with one hand and the door frame with her other hand in an effort to stay upright but it didn't work. The pain got worse and Scarlett's legs gave out and she fell with a bang onto her side

"Red!" Damon yelled as he raced over to Scarlett and attempted to help her sit up. "Take my hand Red, take it and squeeze and do that thing you do to stop your heart. C'mon you can do it."

Even though she was pretty certain it wouldn't work Scarlett tried it any and it worked for a little while but then the pain got worse and Scarlett was finding it hard to concentrate and stay awake, she was going to lose consciousness soon. "I-Ice…and w-water…" She wheezed out and Damon nodded in agreement.

"Rose go to the kitchen and in the sink there is a plastic washing up bowl, I need you to fill it up with cold water and ice, NOW!" Damon barked and Rose took of and whilst she did that, he turned his attention back to Scarlett. "It'll be okay Red, you'll see just keep squeezing my hand."

Scarlett didn't have the strength to nod as she was going in and out, the last thing she remembered was Rose coming back in and Damon as saying something but she couldn't hear it as everything was hazy. Then the next everything thing was freezing cold and Scarlett couldn't move but there was something stopping her from doing and after about twenty second Scarlett was able to move her head around and she felt whatever was holding her head down move and seconds later she lifter her head up. The ice cold water was like a slap to the face for Scarlett which made her fully alert now no to mention slowed her heart back down.

Scarlett said nothing at first and instead looked around, Damon had a concerned look on his face and Rose was looking pretty freaked out herself and once she felt up to it, Scarlett slapped Damon across the face. "W-what is it with you and pissing werewolves off?" Scarlett heavily panted as she regained her breath, first it was Mason and now it was Jules.

"Bitch!" Damon yelled as he rubbed his cheek, he had to admit that hurt.

"Douche bag!" Scarlett retorted.

Damon chose not to respond to this as instead he pulled Scarlett into a tight bear hug and at first Scarlett did nothing but then she hugged him back. She had to admit that it was pretty close call there and it scared the hell out of them both. And insulting each other was about the closest the two of them would ever get to I'm sorry I scared you given how abnormal they were. But it didn't matter too much to Scarlett, the only thing that mattered was that were alive and lived to insult each other another day. Everything else could wait an hour or two.