RoseWood1: Thanks, glad you liked it. I just made Marie bisexual as a change, and me being bi myself, which I think most women are though. Anyways thanks for reviewing, I hope you like this chapter.
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Thea101: Hello again. Yes M'am I'm updating, I'm updating! Hold your horses, give me time. I'm still sick remember? I've now got the cold; the flu is still there, though not as bad. Well, here you go. I hope you understand this chapter? Thank you for the reviews, and thank you for loving the Dark Prince; glad you liked the ending for it. I'll se you in the next review no doubt? ;)
Okay, this is the start of Marie's memories, that's why it says Part I. I'm just putting down things that happened between Marie 'dying' and coming back as a vampire, and what she did for five hundred and some years, until she is reunited with her darling brothers. Damon…yummy. Sorry, snap out of it woman! Anyways here's the next chapter, hope you like it?
Part 2: Memories part I: Loss of Innocence.
Everything is so dark. What is going on? I look around, but I cannot see anything. I reach up and I can touch something rough and hard, it feels like stone. For the first time since waking up, I find myself lying down on my back on something equally hard, like the ceiling. I am in some kind of small room, I feel around myself even more panic setting in.
I am not in any room; I am in some kind of stone box! I have been buried alive. No! I start to sob my heart out, crying out to see if anyone can hear me.
"Help! Help me, please!" I scream at the top of my lungs. I stop making any noise and hold my breath, waiting, listening.
I hear nothing; I start to thump the stonewalls, ignoring the pain shooting up in my hands. I open my mouth and scream again.
"Damon! Stefan! Father!" I scream, the tears and panic coming in full force now. "Somebody please! Help me! I am not dead! Somebody…" I say that last word as a whisper.
I suck in a deep breath and then hold it. Was that a noise? Maybe it is just my imagination? No, there it was again, the rhythmic sound of footsteps approaching.
"Hello? I am in here! I have been buried alive! Help!" I scream. I hear the footsteps coming closer. Then…they stop, right next to my head. I hear the scrape of stone against stone, and the lid of the stone box is push away. I look into the darkness, not as black as the box was, and I see a face looking inside.
"Marie? Are you all right?" the voice is feminine, vaguely recognisable. I finally figure out whom the voice belongs to.
"Katherine? Is that you?" I ask.
"Yes, it is I. Are you all right?" she asks again, reaching into the box and pulls me out.
"No. I woke up in here, and I was so frightened." I gasp, sobbing again. Katherine wraps her arms around me, and holds me tighter.
"It is all right Marie. You are safe now." She consoles.
"Why was I put in there?" I demand, trying to figure out what had happened before I woke in the box.
"You were dying, so I made you a vampire. You 'died', so to speak, and were put into a tomb." She explains. It all comes rushing to me. Me lying in bed, too weak to even speak, Father, Damon, Stefan, Katherine and a few servants were all gathered around my bedside.
Later on that night, Katherine came into my room, Damon being downstairs with the others, asking if I wanted to die, I shook my head and then I remember the pain of teeth onto my throat, the feeling of my blood being sucked out. Then the feeling of something strange being poured into my mouth; exotic, and burning slightly. And then the feeling of being even more weak, and closing my eyes to go to sleep, and then waking up in that tomb.
"Oh…oh God!" I gasp. "I am a vampire?"
"Ja, I am sorry, but I could not let you die, not when I have the ability to help you." Katherine says.
"So my family think that I am dead?" I ask.
"Ja. You were put into that tomb three days ago, I have been keeping watch waiting for you to wake up." She explains.
"Where am I going to go?" I start to sob again.
"I do not know. Wait here and I will go get my maid Gudren." Katherine picks up her skirts and turns towards the direction of the house.
I am alone; I sit on the lid of the tomb and just think. I think of the good times I had with my brothers, the time that I slashed an enormous cut on Damon's arm from swordplay. I apologised to him but he just laughed it off.
I remember the time when there was a storm when I was about three or four, and me running from mine and Stefan's room, into Damon's, and hiding under the covers Damon holding on to me to comfort me. I remember the times that Stefan pushed some boy for making fun of me. And of the times that Damon called me bambino, I doubt that I will hear anyone call me that again.
I am pulled out of my thoughts by footsteps coming towards me; at first I think it is Katherine come back with her maid Gudren. But as the footsteps come closer, I hear voices and neither of then are female.
"Damon. Why are we out here in the middle of the night?" the first voice says. Instantly I know that it is my twin brother Stefan.
"We are here because I want to know if Marie is a vampire or not." The second voice says. That belongs to my elder brother Damon. "Remember that Katherine is a vampire? I wanted to see if she had gotten to Marie on time and saved her life."
I do not want either of my brothers to see me, so I jump off the lid of the tomb and hide in the shadows far away from where my brothers are.
The footsteps come closer, and I can see both of them now. Damon is holding a torch and the firelight catches his pitch-black hair, making it seem as though his hair is made of fire. He also has a grave and sad expression.
Stefan is right behind Damon, he is not holding a torch but is brandishing a stake. Is he going to stake me? I wonder to myself.
"Well?" Stefan asks.
"Well what little brother?" Damon sighs impatiently.
"Where is she?" Stefan finishes, looking at the closed tomb. Neither of them is strong enough to lift it by themselves.
"I do not know." Damon answers, looking around the mausoleum for any sight of me.
"Marie?" Damon calls out. "Marie? Are you there? Come on out, we are not going to hurt you."
Reluctantly, I step forwards so that they can see me. Damon whirls around and gasps.
"Marie?" Damon asks, he does not know whether to laugh or cry.
I nod my head; Stefan looks as though he has seen a ghost.
"Vampire!" someone yells. I snap my head up to look behind Stefan, and I see my maid Clara backing away, she must have followed Damon and Stefan out here. She turns and runs away, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"Vampire! Vampire! Somebody help me!"
I let out a growl, and I chase after her, I catch the back of her tattered dress and spin her around so that she is facing me, and she sucks in a breath to scream. I clamp a hand over her mouth and lunge at her throat, tearing the flesh and tapping in to the bloodstream.
Each mouthful makes me stronger and washes away the aching pain that had begun in my chest.
I drink until there is none left, and I throw away Clara's limp body.
"Marie?" I hear a weak voice ask, at first I think that it is Damon, but as I turn around and face the voice, I find that it was Stefan who spoke. He is very pale, and is swallowing a lot, looking as though he is about to vomit.
I cannot bear the expression that is pasted on his face; I turn around and flee into the night, with Damon screaming after me.
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A/N: Sorry it took so long for me to update, I was finishing off The Dark Prince, and also, I'm still dying from, not the flu any more, but the cold. Please review and let me know what you think of this chapter. I'll cherish these reviews forever. I already have 99 reviews in my fan fiction reviews folder in my email address anyways. ;) Hopefully this chapter was longer than the last? If not, I'll make the next one longer. ;)
