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Chapter 3

"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing." ― Rick Riordan, The Lighting Thief

There is an old woman who lives in Greece. People from all over the country flock into town just to see a glimpse of her. It is said she is one of the wisest and oldest Seers in Greece. With her age comes the strongest insights into the future. It is said her visions can last hours. It is said her house is filled with crystal balls and incense to conjure the strong prophecies she has. All of this is true.

The old women is my grandmother, Yiayia Delia. She is also my favorite person in the world.

Yiayia Delia is my mother's mother. Although my mother is a such coward that her own mother hasn't even seen or heard from her, Yiayia Delia has the most gracious spirit. She became a Seer when she was only 10.

One thing you have to know is that the longer you are able to prophesize the future, the longer your visions may last. Yiayia is now 82.

Although she is not the only Seer in Greece, she is the strongest and smartest.

When I was 18, my father bought me a ticket to Greece as my graduation present from high school. Yiayia Delia's gift to me was of sight. She had a ceremony prepared for my visit and to pass along her ability to me.

I wasn't surprised to find out that my grandmother was a Seer. I was kind of disappointed in myself for not being able to figure it out before hand. It made sense. Her calls of guidance over the years were of visions she had about me.

"Seeing for other's is a spiritual practice, Erin." She explained before the ceremony took place. A local witch in town arrived to help perform the spell which took some of Yiayia's ability and then gave it to me. Honestly, I really can't remember much from that night. I kind of blacked out .

Yiayia said that it was because the spirits recognized me as one of their own and bestowed upon me their power and wisdom that allowed me to see into realms of the future.

Being 26 now, my visions are still weak.

"The seer in you will grow." Yiayia Delia kept telling me.

Like I said before, it wasn't until my first year of law school where I could tell my visions were becoming a little more pronounced. I saw crimes and robberies, murders, and eventually vampires. Vampires and other supernatural creatures were not new to me. I had learned of them through Yiayia and I wasn't afraid.

My father and Yiayia were the only people who knew of my ability. Until now. And Damon Salvatore didn't believe me.

"I'm a Seer, Damon."

"A what" he snapped clearly not processing what I had just told him. "Seers don't exist. Try again." He looked angry. No. Murderous.

"Are we really going to play that game?" I shot back. "Look, believe it or not it's what I am and you're the only person in this town that knows that right now." I shoved my finger in his chest.

He grabbed my wrist and squeezed it tight. Well tight for me- clearly not to his full strength as he's a vampire and all. "Prove it. Right now."

"I'm a Seer not a genie, Damon." I rolled my eyes trying to free my poor wrist from his grip. "Ow, it doesn't work that way."

"Then explain to me "how it works." He let go of my wrist as he shoved it into my chest. He eyes bore into mine.

"Okay, how about how when I'm taking the god damn bar exam and I get a vision of you drawing a wolf in a tutu during Pictionary with Mason." I sneered nursing my poor, probably fractured, wrist.

His eyebrows shot way up and he sat back a little bit.

After a few moments he finally said "Okay what to do you want?"

"I want you to invite me to this dinner tonight." I shrugged. Simple.

"Why?"

"Because as soon as I find out why I'm having the visions I'm having about you and your brother and Mason and your stupid little town, the sooner I'm off to Boston to practice law in my dad's firm." I explained.

Damon let out a laugh and shook his head."Oh no hotshot, You're in this mess now. Until we figure out what Mason Lockwood wants, you're in this whether you like it or not."

I cringed. "Ugh, fine. Stupid morals and stuff."

"That's a good little lawyer." Damon grinned patting my head. "Jenna's house. 6 o'clock. Look nice." We both stood up.

"What are you doing now?" I was curious. What did vampires even do all day?

"I need to have a chat with Alaric about a certain little Seer in our lives now." He looked around campus before back down at me.

"Alaric?" I frowned. "Why does Alaric need to know?"

"Oh Erin, this is just the beginning.." he patted my pack leading me to my car.

Twenty minutes later I sat in my car staring at the steering wheel. Damon had explained to me everything that happened leading up to my grand entrance into their lives.

How did I not fucking see that Alaric Saltzman was a vampire hunter? Stupid sporadic visions.

Alaric Saltzman, nice guy, teacher, Jenna's boyfriend...

"What have you gotten yourself into, Erin." I pinched the bridge of my nose. The worst part was leaving Jenna out of this. She was my best friend. Poor innocent Jenna. What would she do if she knew all of this information?

She would run.

I jumped at the sound of my phone ringing. Glancing at it I groaned. Great speaking of Jenna.

"Jenna!" I greeted.
"Well?"her chipper voice boomed back.

"Well...what?" Did she know I knew?! Of course not. She knew nothing. I felt so paranoid.

"How was the bar exam!"

"Oh!" I half laughed and let out a shaky breath of air. "Over. Sorry. I'm kind of out of it right now." Not a lie.

"I bet! I'm proud of you! Hey, you should come to dinner tonight at my house." Damon must have compelled her to ask me. "I'm cooking! Scary I know, but it was Rick's idea."

"Okay, yeah sure." I said quickly.

"Great! It's just going to be a few people like you, me, Rick, my niece and her friend, Damon and a friend from high school that I recently ran in to."

"I'll bring a bottle of wine." I said before hashing out the rest of the details with her.

At this point I would need something stronger.

Six o'clock came too quickly for my liking. I picked up a bottle of wine on my way to Jenna's and when I arrived I could see I wasn't the first one there.

In fact, Alaric arrived about the same time I had.

"Alaric," I greeted nervously getting out of my car. This was just great. For some reason I really valued Ric's opinion of me. Maybe it was because he was basically Jenna's boyfriend, or the fact that I really didn't have very many friends to begin with. Thanks to my ability and all.

"Erin," he half grinned. An awkward silence took over as we both walked up the walkway.

"So" we both said in unison.

"I take it Damon filled you in on some things." I whispered walking behind him.

"Yeah, and I heard he filled you in as well." Alaric cleared his throat. Good. He seemed nervous too. "We'll talk later."

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