So a bit of a head's up someone figures out Scarlett's big bad secret and they'll find out why Scarlett is so desperate to keep it a secret from Damon and Stefan not to mention she finally acknowledges a big vocal point of the VD... This chapter is a bit shorter compared to the last one but don't worry the next ones will be way longer as i plan on chapter 60 lining up with the end of season two so i can move forward to season three. And to answer a review by Kalee, currently the story will continue to follow the show but i do change occasional things and do chapters that are completely original and with regards to season four at the moment i believe i will follow it but it all depends on where it goes and whether i like because if i don't i may branch out, it all depends... until then enjoy xx
Stefan was out of the tomb, apparently Elijah had some witches lower the spell on the tomb to let him out after making an deal with Elena; if she stopped trying to get herself killed then he would make sure everyone she cared about lived and then he would use Elena to draw out the Big Bad Klaus and then kill him. It was kind of a weird thing but Scarlett went along with it as Elijah did get Stefan out of the tomb and then compelled Katherine to stay in there. Which was a shocker, a vampire being able to compel another vampire? They didn't know how but they put it down to Elijah being an original vampire. So there was good news but then there was also the bad news. Rose was dying. It turns out that the myth about the werewolf bite being lethal to vampires was true but after she was bitten, it healed and so they all thought she was fine but then the wound came back and it was slowly getting worse. So Scarlett was essentially watching someone she knew die, someone who she knew and who liked. Rose had grown on her and she was a good kind of influence of Damon, which just made this even more harder.
"You're a very talented pianist Scarlett." Rose said as she sat on the sofa in the library reading a book whilst Scarlett sat quietly played the piano, she had been on Rose duty for the morning which she didn't mind as before Rose this vampire who had kidnap Elena but then she had become a friend of some sort ever since she jumped in the way of the werewolf Jules to save Damon. "How long have you been playing?"
"Just over twelve years now, I started not long after I was five and had lessons up until I was fourteen and didn't need them anymore. I don't intend to actually make a career of it, i play simply for enjoyment as it helps relax me given everything that goes on in my life on a daily basis." Scarlett stated.
"Can I ask you something Scarlett?" Rose wearily began.
"Sure go right ahead and ask away Rose, my life is pretty much an open book these days so nothing is off bounds…" Scarlett quietly joked although it was kind of true because a lot of people knew about the secrets she had been trying to keep for years and it got to the point where she wasn't even bothered by it too much. Because she was the only sane in that bunch of people.
"You do realize that both Damon and Stefan are–"
"–In love with Elena? Oh I'm perfectly aware of it and have been for a good while now." Scarlett idly said.
"And you're not bothered by it?"
"Uncle Damon and Uncle Stefan were turned into vampires because they were both in love with Katherine Pierce and that almost destroyed them and a hundred and forty six years later they are both in love with descendent doppelgänger. I've been bothered by this since uncle Damon came back because I knew he'd find out about Elena, right now the situation is slightly concerning so I'm keeping my eye on it and not saying anything but when I get an inclination things are changing I'll intervene. My family comes before anyone else in this town and I don't have history repeat itself by having a Petrova doppelgänger destroy my family again." Scarlett quietly answered.
"The other day after the werewolf had gone… Something happened to your heart, what was it?"
"Yeah, it's kind of confusing my heart is seemingly healthy but I have this condition that is called Atrioventricular Nodal Re-entrant Tachycardia or simply AVNRT it means that I have an irregular heartbeat because the impulses that make control my heartbeats don't work the way they should and quite often or not my heart will start beating quicker than it should I get these palpations like other night." Scarlett explained.
"Wow… that sounds intense."
"It is but it's perfectly okay Rose, it's manageable and I just have to avoid things in order to not set my heart off." Scarlett said with a small laugh.
"How long have you had it?" Rose questions.
"Since I was eight years old and on May 9th it'll be ten years to the day I was diagnosed with my condition." Scarlett said and she had to pause as that information sunk in, up until now she hadn't realized that it was on a decade since her father had died and she had found out about her heart condition. It seemed like it was a life time ago, so many thing had happened since them.
"Is often like how it was the other night? With Damon putting your head under cold water."
"Not usually, I can get my heart to slow down most of the time." Scarlett admitted, for reasons unknown to her but she soon realized that she'd have to be careful about what she told Rose because the last thing she need was Damon's playmates finding out, dying or not dying.
"So it's been getting worse then…" Rose began.
"No, it's just last night was pretty intense given that it was my first time seeing a werewolf who had come especially to my home to attack my boneheaded Uncle who just can't help but piss humans and supernatural being off alike, it's in his nature and then seeing you bet attacked was a bit too much and BOOM! My heart got a bit too excited that Damon had to use the ice and water to slow it back down to it's normal irregular beat." Scarlett said lying and somewhat telling the truth.
"Your lying Scarlett…"
"No I'm not Rose!" Scarlett quickly retorted.
"I saw you last night and you were terrified out of your damn mind and that was a regular thing that you've been experiencing for ten years then you'd be used to be but your not used to it, which tells me that it's a recent thing and you said that stress sets it off. And I doubt anything is more stressful then living in a town like this with your two vampire Uncles." Rose stated.
"Rose you can't ever adjust or get used to the feeling that your heart is seconds away from jumping out of your chest, it's painful and it always has been. There is no adjusting to what I have, you just have to live with it and I have been doing that." Scarlett said.
"Do they know?" Rose questioned and Scarlett just feigned ignorance as to what Rose was asking her. "Do Damon and Stefan know that your heart is getting worst?"
Scarlett didn't say anything for a while because this was the last thing she ever wanted to come out but she knew Rose wasn't going to let this go. "No, they don't because it's none of their business, it's my body not theirs and it's going to stay that way Rose besides I'm dealing with it so it's fine…"
"You have to tell them Scarlett."
"No I can't Rose, I can't tell them the truth and neither can you. You cannot tell them about this." Scarlett said trying her best not to raise her voice because if she did there was a chance that Damon or Stefan would hear her and she wanted to avoid that if possible. They had enough things on their plate without them being overprotective and wrapping her in bubble wrap. She wasn't Elena; she knew what she was doing.
"Why don't you want to tell them Scarlett? They are your family, unless… they are the reason your heart is getting worse." Rose began adding all the pieces together and Scarlett could even look at her. "I'm right aren't I?"
"Perhaps." Scarlett feebly said as she bit her lip in order to not start crying about this.
"Scarlett…"
"I've had this condition since I was eight years old and between that time and last summer I had maybe about fifteen attacks and they were minor one. Since Uncle Damon and Uncle Stefan came home I'm on twenty one and I can't fix them as easily as I used to because what the doctor taught me to do when I have a palpitation doesn't work anymore. My heart is getting worse and my doctor wants to give me medication and cut me open if these attacks continue the way they are! I can't tell Uncle Stefan and Uncle Damon that… How can I tell them that they are making my heart worse? They are my family and I can't tell the people I love that, it will kill the both of them." Scarlett stated with a small sniffle.
"They care about you Scarlett, they'd want to know that you were sick especially Damon, he thinks the world of you despite the fact he likes to pretend otherwise." Rose began.
"Hence why I can't tell them, if I do it will change everything and after what we've been through we're finally getting to some kind of stable place as a family. So please Rose, you cannot tell them. I'm doing this to protect them."
"You really love them, don't you?" Rose quipped.
"Yes I do, the two of them drive me up the wall but they are the only family I have and they kind of don't make it easy not to lose tem although I'd prefer it if they didn't know that as it would give Uncle Damon's ego a boost which it doesn't need." Scarlett laughed.
"– Speaking about me?"
Scarlett looked up from the piano to see Damon strolling into the libaray. "Just talking about your abnormally large ego, so nothing new."
"It that so?" Damon questioned as he looked to Rose for confirmation and Scarlett looked at her too silently pleading with her to go along and not tell Damon what they had been talking about.
"Afraid so, Scarlett and I were bonding over it." Rose replied and Scarlett took a mental sigh of relief. That was way too close for comfort…
