So first things first sorry for a lack of Stefan he will be returning shortly and he along with Damon will find out about Scarlett's heart in the fifty seventh or fifty eight chapter and there will be a bit of a time jump from this to the last dance episode but i promise you it will be worth it. And i MUST stress this, Scarlett WILL NOT be the one to tell Damon and Stefan about her heart, because i'm close to hitting a hundred thousand words and you've all ben lovely as per usual i will try who will reveal that it's MATT! He reveals the big secret in order to 'save' Scarlett in a manner of speaking - but don't read too much into that but anywho enjoy xx


Rose had died. Damon had killed her in order to spare her from anymore pain and now he was shaking up with tv reporter called Andie and things in Mystic Falls were going from bad to worse. Namely it was on the werewolf front and the Elijah front put there were two new witches in town who were up to something not to mention John Gilbert was back in town with a way to kill an original. It was all very messy and complicated and just giving Scarlett a major headache, she literally just wanted to get away from it all and go away. Unfortunately that wasn't going to happen as Damon was unfortunately dragging her along to the Historical Society's tea party because Elijah was there pretending to be a visiting author researching small towns so Damon wanted to go and scope things out and with Stefan off somewhere with Elena, that meant she had to o.

The only reason Scarlet wasn't kicking up a fuss about this was because she was pretty sure Damon wasn't over this Rose thing so she went along, even submitted to Damon's request of putting on a dress without any use of sarcasm. And when they arrived they had to go greet Mrs. Or rather Mayor Lockwood as she was now known as much to Scarlett's dismay. "Damon!"

"Carol." Damon replied with less enthusiasm as Mayor Lockwood as the two of them kissed on the cheek and Scarlett just rolled her eyes, she wanted to see who this big bad vampire was and be over with it already.

"What a surprise!" Mayor Lockwood began before turning to a tall dark haired gentleman beside her. "Elijah I want you to meet Damon Salvatore and his cousin Scarlett, their family is one of Mystic Falls' founding families."

"Such a pleasure to meet you." Damon says and the edges of sarcasm are blatantly obvious to everyone apart from Mayor Lockwood who was always oblivious to everything that went on around her.

"No. Pleasure's mine." Elijah begins as him and Damon shake hands as Carol left before Elijah turned his attention over to Scarlett who had to admit that he was very good looking in an older guy who was a billion years old not to mention charming as he took Scarlett's hand and placed a kiss. "It's very nice to meet you Miss Salvatore."

Scarlett couldn't help but start laughing and Damon hit her on the back and she responded by stamping on his foot before turning back to Elijah. "Sorry I just don't get called Miss Salvatore that often, well no one calls me that at all. It's either Scarlett or waitress or my favourite the weird Salvatore girl."

"Red?"

"What?" Scarlett says with a roll with her eyes.

"Run off for a minute and give Elijah and I a moment talk." Damon said glaring at her and Scarlett just glared right off before walking away, she had no idea why he had made her come here with just to send her away. It was all so baffling not to mention a waste of her time, so she'd go and find something to do. For once she had the day of work so she decided to go back home and do something there. As Scarlett made her way out she ran into Alaric who was with John Gilbert.

"Hey, where you going?" Alaric questioned.

"Oh hey Ric, Evil Spawn back there told me to take a hike and I don't need to be told twice so can you give the moron a ride back to the house because I'd rather not wait around to drive him home?" Scarlett said as she used her thumb to motion to Damon who along with Elijah was making their way to the mayor's office.

"Sure thing."

"Hello Scarlett."

"Hello John, Goodbye John." Scarlett said as she made her way out of the Mayor's house as quick as her feet could go because it was not her favourite place to be in the world and as soon as she got home Scarlett stripped out her dress and got changed into a t-shirt and shorts and instead of relaxing she set about cleaning the house because that's what she did. Stefan did it occasionally and the closest thing to cleaning Damon got was winding up the grandfather clock and making sure blood didn't get on the carpet. And given the size of the house it took a while as Damon seemed to think of Scarlett as his personal maid.

And several hours later Damon along with his 'bestie' Alaric both returned to the house to have their little bonding session over booze and little lord Damon requested that Scarlett go to the store to pick up some coffee as they were running low, so she figured that she might as well go food shopping whilst she was it so she went to the kitchen to check what was needed but as she did there was a loud crash and the sound of a struggle and making her way back to the living room Scarlett saw Alaric lying on the floor seemingly dead and Damon too was lying on the floor surrounded by Jules and what Scarlett took to be several other werewolves who were all armed with various weapons. They hadn't seen her but Damon did.

"RUN!" Damon mouthed and nodding Scarlett ran back to the kitchen and escaped through the back door to the garage where her car, and climbing in she started her engine and drove away as fast as she could. She knew she needed help but Alaric was done, Stefan was over an hour away and Bonnie not to mention Caroline were dealing with Luka Martin so there was no one and even Katherine was still in the tomb. And there was no one to help her but it then it came to Scarlett, there was someone who could take on a bunch of werewolves and survive and she was hoping that they'd be where she hoped they were.

Fifteen minutes later Scarlett found herself knocking on the door of the Lockwood Mansion and not surprisingly Carol Lockwood answered. "Scarlett, what brings you here so late… If it's Tyler your looking for he's not here."

"No I'm not, is that writer Elijah still here?" Scarlett questioned.

"Yes, he'll be staying with us whilst he does the research for his book."

"Can I speak to him it's important!?" Scarlett said and Mrs. Lockwood obliged and let her in and led Scarlett to the living room where she found Elijah sitting down on a couch and reading a book.

"Elijah you have a visitor." Mrs. Lockwood said before taking off.

"Scarlett Salvatore, now to what do I owe this pleasure?" Elijah questioned.

"I need your help, Damon is in trouble well scratch that he's doing to be killed if you don't help me and I know your not his biggest fan and I know the feeling is mutual but he will die if you don't come with me. I know you made some deal with Elena not to harm the people she cared about if she stopped trying to get herself killed and this isn't a part of your deal but please Elijah. They are at my house and they will not hesitate to kill Damon and I can't lose him. I need your help. You're the only one I knew who could help us." Scarlett pleaded.

"My deal Elena with does not extend–" Elijah began.

"I know that your deal doesn't extend to saving Damon from trouble of his own making but he is my family, he is one of the few people I have left in the world and I can't lose him and even if you don't want to save him, you should know–"

"I'll do it." Elijah said taking Scarlett by surprise.

"Really?"

"Yes. I find you oddly fascinating given that you live with your dysfunctional vampire relatives in somewhat peace and I admire your determination to save your family even if it is Damon of all people to be fascinating not to mention you seem to be a rather honest person." Elijah informed Scarlett.

"Umm… Thanks, I'll have to drive us back to the boarding house and you should know that it's the werewolves that I'm told you warned to leave town, their the ones the house and well I think their looking for the moonstone as well as getting revenge on Damon, he has a bit of tendency to piss people off." Scarlett explained and Elijah just nodded in understanding before motioning for Scarlett to go ahead and he followed her out of the house and climbed into the passenger seat of her car.

"Are you sure we'll get there in time?" Elijah questioned.

Scarlett had to pause in order to think how she answered the question as she pulled sped down the Lockwood's driveway. "Damon killed one of their own and has pissed a few of them off recently, I'm hoping that he'll still be alive by the time."

"I assume that Damon isn't your cousin." Elijah said.

"Nope he's my great, great, great, great, great Uncle give or take a great or two, I'm not exactly sure but I do know that he is my relative. One of the few I have left unfortunately." Scarlett wearily said as she sped up a bit further, the speed limit wasn't really a concern with her at the moment.

"How so?"

"My mother walked out when I was three years old and my father killed himself was I was eight and then my gracious Uncle Damon killed my other living relative, my Uncle Zach days before I turned seventeen. I only have him and Uncle Stefan now, I used to hate them for being vampires but now I can't imagine my life without them. I can't live with them and I can't live without them now." Scarlett honestly admitted.

"You've known about vampires for a long time." Elijah noted.

"I can't remember a time where I haven't know about vampires, there isn't a time where I wasn't aware of the existence of vampire. I've always know and I keep the secret not to mention I've picked up a few other secrets." Scarlett revealed

"Why?"

"My family. They are and will always be my main motivation for keeping the secrets that I do. Anyone find out the truth then they may try and taken my uncles away from me and I don't want that to happen. We've become an odd sort of family, we take care of each other in our messed up ways and I don't want to lose that. Everyone else can form a que after that if they're not on my hit list like Carol Lockwood."

"You don't like her?"

That's putting it lightly, I hate the woman and the feeling is completely mutual." Scarlett said as she pulled up quietly in the driveway and turned off her engine and climbed out of the car.

"Will I need to be invited in?" Elijah questioned pointing to the front door and Scarlett just shook her head as they made their way to the front door and Scarlett slowly pushed it open careful not make any noise and as they walked in they heard voices coming from the library so the two of them made their way in that direction.

"…Where's the moonstone?" Scarlett heard Jules says.

Damon scoffed. "Get over it, honey. You're never gonna get it."

"You looking for this?" Elijah questioned as him and Scarlett walked into the library and saw that Damon had this weird collar device round his neck and was chained to a chair. All the werewolves turned to look at Elijah as he twirled the moonstone in his hands before putting on the table in front oh him. "Go ahead take it, but you don't touch the girl."

Scarlett assumed that the girl was her and she was vaguely touched in a way and she watched as one werewolf made his way towards Elijah but the vampire was too quick and ripped the werewolf's heart out before proceeding to do the same to two other. During this time Jules managed to escape and then there was one little werewolf, crouched down on the floor trying unsuccessfully.

"What about you, sweetheart, hmm? You want to take a shot? Yes, no, yes?" Elijah questioned before turning his attention to Damon. "Where's the girl?"

"I don't know." Damon said

"It doesn't really matter." Elijah said in a bored tone of voice before punching the lone werewolf squarely in the face no doubt killing him at the same time before proceeding to make his way over to Damon and removing all the chains. "So you realize this is the third time I've saved your life now?

"Yes I do, so thanks I guess."

"I didn't do this for you, I did it for your niece for some reason she thought you were worth saving." Elijah said as he made his way out of the library, picking up the moonstone on his way out but Scarlett wasn't paying attention instead she was focusing on the dead bodies, the several hearts on the floor and the blood stained antique carpet.

"Get yourself sorted and then get that rug into the kitchen, I may be able to save it." Scarlett wearily said to Damon as she left the library in order to catch up with Elijah before he left. "Hey Elijah! Do you need me to give you a ride back to the Lockwood's?"

"No thank you, I'll be able to make my own back, I apologize for the mess I've made in your home, dealing with werewolves can be very messing."

"It's fine, I'm used to cleaning up after the supernatural attack the house… but thank you for what you did. I really appreciate it." Scarlett began and Elijah smiled at her before making his way out of the front door and Scarlett turned and sighed and headed back to the kitchen as she a blood stained antique carpet to deal with.

And twelve hours later she had managed to do so and she was sick of looking at that damn carpet and scrubbing Damon's blood out of all of it but there was no way she was going to throw the rug away, it belonged to her Nonna Helene and Scarlett would rather kiss Carol Lockwood's ass that throw that rug away. Looking over the rug Scarlett sighed in appreciation over getting in clean, not that it was done she could go upstairs and get some rest and Scarlett had to say she deserved it because during she had also helped Damon clean up the mess from last night although she refused to touch any of the hearts or dead bodies. It had been a long night given that everyone else was busy too, Elena and Stefan were attacked by some werewolves including Tyler and Bonnie, Caroline and Jeremy had found out from Luca that Elijah was going to allow Elena to die in the sacrifice. So it had been a long night

"Ah Red, there you are!"

Scarlett sighed as Damon strolled into the kitchen, he wanted something from here and she knew she wasn't going to like it. "What is it now Uncle Damon? I'm about to go to bed…"

"Umm well first thing Tyler Lockwood has run away and your going to have to change your plans as I'm hosting a dinner party tonight and I need you to come up with a menu and cook it." Damon said flashing Scarlett a grin.

"FUCK OFF!" Scarlett loudly stated.

"Red I need you to do this no questions asked." Damon said placing his hands on his shoulders and looking her in the eyes.

"You can't compel me."

"I know I can't but I need you to do this and I'll explain it all to later but just make yourself a cup of coffee, get in the shower, clean yourself up and take a two hour nap then come back down and start cooking." Damon said and Scarlett sighed she was too exhausted to argue with him so she went ahead with it all and several hours later Scarlett was bringing the food out of the kitchen and into the dining room.

"Don't come and help Damon, after all I am the one whose spent the entire afternoon cooking this damn food." Scarlett sneered as she put the side dishes onto the table before turning to Rick, John, Andie, Jenna and Elijah. "I'd apologise for my lack of manners, if I had any to begin with."

"–Wait? You're doing this all by yourself Scarlett?" Jenna questioned.

"Damon could have cooked but he chose not to so duty fell to me and my beloved cousin thinks that because I spend my day waiting on other people he can turn me into his personal slave when it suits him." Scarlett snorted in disbelief as she made her way back into the kitchen to get the plates only to be surprised when both Alaric and Elijah came into help with the plates of food back into the dining and once everything was set Scarlett left them to it.

"Scarlett you should join us!" Andie called out.

Damon shook his head and scowled at Andie. "No he shouldn't"

"C'mon Damon, she cooked all this food so she should join us." John added.

"I'm not exactly the company you want at dinner parties and I'm pretty beat so I'm going to be bed, I have actual people to wait on tomorrow so just clean up after your done otherwise I will kick some serious ass' and we all know I can." Scarlett said waving to them all and leaving the dining room but didn't make it as far as her bedroom, she reached the living room and just crashed out. It was just that exhausting being her.