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It was mid morning, and I alone occupied the Salvatore Boarding House. Now yesterday I spent the entire day going through all of my mother's belongings and something just didn't add up. Besides my mother's diary, and birth certificate there was nothing else among her pile of stuff that predated her and my father's wedding day. And to be honest my mother's journal is of no use to me seeing as the first entry ever written is about the first time she ever saw my father. Then from there it's just a one-sided documentation of all the dates and activates they've done which ultimately leads up to their wedding, and then after that nothing.
However, despite the disappoint I was feeling for not finding anything witchy among my mother's belongings. I did wind up finding a gold key taped to the last page of my mother's favorite book. But sadly enough, there wasn't anything among her things that hinted to what this opened. So in my desperate attempt to find answers about this mysterious key I decided to move all my family's belongings from the shed into the library. Where I was hard at work in search of some kind of clue that would reveal to me the purpose of the key I found, as well as shed some light on the never ending conundrum that was now my mother. While everyone else in Mystic Falls was preparing for the Night of Illuminations. Man, isn't life just grand? Insert sarcasm here.
Now I must have been completely focused on the task at hand to the point that I was completely oblivious to everything else around me. Seeing as out of nowhere I was suddenly startled by one Tyler Lockwood.
"Hey Sam." I heard a voice say from behind.
Taken by complete and utter surprise, my body immediately jerks in response to the shock. "Oh my god!"
"Sorry Sam, I didn't mean to scare you." said Tyler as he walked into the view with a big old grin on his face. Seeing as the sight of me jumping from sheer fright seemed to amuse him.
Following a deep breath and an eye roll I instinctually went back to sifting through my family's old belongings.
After a few minutes of silence I'm guessing Tyler finally realized that I had no intentions of striking up a conversation him, so he decided to be the one to break ice. Which makes sense since we haven't talked or been around one another since the founder's party. Where I found him having sex with Caroline while we were in a monogamous relationship.
"So Sam, what are you up to now a days?" asked a somewhat nervous Tyler. To which I ignored as I continued sifting through my father's box of crap.
"Sam I get that I'm the last person you want to see but we need to talk about this." stated Tyler as he then awaited some kind of response. But after yet another awkward silence the newly made hybrid quickly grasped the concept of the cold shoulder.
"So what? Are you just going to continue to ignore me, is that it?" questioned Tyler. "Sam look I get it. What I did was wrong, but you can't just shut me out and pretend I don't exist." explained a now flustered Tyler
Keeping my eyes forward and myself busy, I continued to ignore Tyler's plea. I mean who the hell does he think he is? Just because he's feeling incredibly horrible and despicable about what he did I'm now suddenly incline to hear him out? Sorry, but I don't think so.
"Jesus Sam would you at least look at me?" begged Tyler and again I just ignored him. Only this time instead of just letting it go the young and vital hybrid quickly bent over and gabbed hold of both my hands, forcing me to now acknowledge his presence as well as all the emotional baggage that came along with addressing the strapping young football player.
The instant I felt Tyler's hands wrap around mine my eyes were immediately diverted from the pile of crap stationed directly in front of me. To the union of both our hands, and I would be lying if I said it didn't feel good to have Tyler cup hands in his.
Pulling myself out of the absurd emotional wonderland that I just recently found myself divulged in. I instinctually yank my hands out of Tyler's grasp. "What the hell is your problem?" I asked seeing as thanks to Tyler my emotional flood gates were now wide open.
After a slight sigh of relief Tyler quickly attempts to engage me in conversation now that I've finally shown full acknowledgement of his presence.
"Sam…" started Tyler
"No don't Sam me, ok? You don't get to talk. You don't get to just waltz in here and demand that I talk to you just because you feel like shit. That's not how this works Tyler." I interjected as I rudely interrupted whatever it was Tyler was trying to say. "Now I get that you and Caroline feel horrible about what you guys did. Really I do, but that doesn't matter. You guy's feelings doesn't matter. And believe it or not I have a lot more pressing matters at hand, like finding out what this damn key opens." I declared just shortly before picking up the key, only to then slam it back on the table as my point was made. "Rather than just staying here and trying to make you feel better about the crappy thing you did to me." I stated.
As I sat there trying to get a better handle of my emotions, I could see from Tyler's hurt and remorseful facial expression that he had heard and understood every word I said to him. And from there Tyler and I just resided in silence. As neither one of us knew, or had anything else to say.
Luckily for the both of us it didn't take Tyler very long to start making his way over to the exit. But just seconds before he was about to leave the young hybrid turned to address me.
"Hey Sam." called out Tyler
Turning towards Tyler I was able to acknowledge him without ever having to say a word. And so taking that as a sign to continue, Tyler does just that.
"That key you showed me, it goes to a safety deposit box." stated Tyler
"Wait a second are you sure?!' I asked now a bit excited at the prospect of knowing what key opens.
"Yea I'm sure. My mom owns one, and she sends to go retrieve stuff for her all the time. So just a heads up, you might want to make sure to take a photo id of whomever the box belonged to when you head over to the bank." pointed out Tyler
With a sigh of relief I quickly glanced over to the key before then looking back at Tyler. "Thanks for that." I said. And with that I instantly turned myself back around and once again began sifting through my mother's things as I searched for the expired driver's license I had passed through out all my digging. Now as I went back to snooping, Tyler then quietly super sped out of the library as he took his leave of the boarding house.
0~o~0
"I'm sorry ma'am but there is no safety deposit box under the name of Selena Salvatore or Selena anything at this bank." stated the banker
"Oh come on would you just triple check please? I pushed
"Ma'am am I going to have to call security?" asked the Banker
"No, no, security isn't needed." I insisted. And only after I was sure that the banker wasn't going to have me thrown out of the bank did I reach in my pocket and pull out the key I found in my mother's belongings. "Look I found this key in my mom's things, and based on the word of a friend I was assured that this key belonged to a safety deposit box. So could you please just check again?" I somewhat begged
"May I see that?" asked the banker
Not thinking much of it I just handed over the key to the banker, hoping to god that he'd be able to point me in the direction of my mother's safely deposit box.
"Ah, I see the confusion now." smiled the Banker
"What confusion?" I asked now a bit confused
"Well you see ma'am this key is to a safety deposit box, just not ours. We have sister bank just one town over and they too use a key much like ours. The only difference is that their key has a distinct s marked sketching. Which is very subtly placed at the bottom of the key as seen here." pointed out the banker as he showed the s marked sketching at the bottom of the key before then handing it to me.
Taking the key back from the banker, I couldn't help but feel pretty bad about being such a pain in his ass with all my pushiness so I defiantly made sure to apologize to him "Thank you very much for your help sir, and sorry about early. I obviously didn't have enough caffeine this morning." I nervously chuckled before then hastily making my retreat. Seeing as I had aloe of ground to cover if I was going to get to the other bank and back by nightfall. So now on my bike I sped all the way through to the other town, stopping only after I had made it to the other bank.
0~o~0
After making it to the other bank it took quite a while before I was granted access to my mother's safety deposit box. Mainly due to the fact that just like the bank before, this bank had no records of a Selena Salvatore or Selena anything for that matter having own a safety deposit box with branch of back. And just when I thought all hope was gone I decided to show the banker my mother's expired driver's license. Now hopefully you can imagine just how shocked I was when the banker explained to me that he recognized the woman but not name. Seeing as the name associated with the safety deposit box was one Mila Caldwell. And then he went on to tell me that this Mila Caldwell also has a bank account opened with them which he estimates due to how long it's been there and how much dividends it's acquired up to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars bracket.
So after confirming that Selena Salvatore was actually Mila Caldwell and that she was in fact dead and that I was her daughter. The banker led me into a vault where the key I had, added with his was used to gain access to my deceased mother's deposit box. Then after that was over the man then lead me out of the vault and into private room. Where he then proceeded to tell me that I could go through and take anything from within the box that I so desired. And that he would be outside transferring my mother's accounts and everything else to my name, seeing as I was the last of kin.
So now here I am sitting alone in a private room going through my mother's most personal of things. And as I went through them I find a picture of my mother as a child, along with birth certificate for a Mila Caldwell. At that precise moment I truly realized just how little I knew about my mother. I mean here I thought Mila was just some alias, but everything in this damn box proves that Selena was the alias. The woman that I grew up calling mother was nothing more but a cover. And I don't even know what for? And you know what, you'd think that was the worst of it but it wasn't. For me the worst part of this whole thing was that as I got to the bottom of the box. I found a baby picture that I knew for a fact wasn't me or Zach as a child. So I just chucked the baby picture up as it being my mother. That was until I started reading the letter that came attached with the picture. The letter was addressed to Mila Caldwell informing her that her daughter was doing fine and that she missed her mother.
Man did I feel like someone just wound up and punched right in the gut. I instantly became sick to my stomach as it sunk in that somewhere out in the world I had a sister. A sister of whom I've never met and until today never knew about. Talk about a deep dark family secret I wasn't ready for. All I was looking for was some kind of physical proof that proved my mother was in fact a witch, and instead I find a proof of another sibling.
0~o~0
It was now night fall and here I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. Or at least I think I was feeling sorry for myself. I personally can't remember seeing as I was feeling a plethora of different emotions all at once thus making it a little difficult to pin point just one. All that mattered was that I was now home plopped down on the couch with everything from out my mother's safety deposit box shoved in a bag and now sitting on the coffee table stationed directly in front of me.
Now based on everything I just found out today, I honestly thought that I'd be curled up in the fetal position balling my eyes out in one of the corners of the house. But I wasn't and I truly believe that it's because I'm still in a state of shock over the whole ordeal. I mean normally skeletons have a way of coming out of the closet one by one, but it in my case the entire closet just fell on me, bam wham body slam.
As I sat in the living room attempting to gather my thoughts I suddenly felt a dark and cold presence. Which was then followed by a sudden breeze blowing across the back of my neck. Jumping of the couch I instinctually spin around in hopes of spotting whatever it was that caused that sudden gush of air. But as I peered down the hallway from the living room I saw nothing. And then just like that I felt to sudden bursts of air.
"Damon?" I called out hoping that it was the Older Salvatore just playing games with me. But after not receiving a response I then called out to the two other vampires that I know now resided in this house. "Stefan…..Rebekah? This isn't funny you guys."
Growing highly suspicious of who it could be that was now in the house me. I immediately made a quick b-line over to one of the end tables that stood just at the entrance of the living room. However just as I was about to pull the draw open and retrieve one of my modified guns, out of nowhere a firm hand instantly slams the draw shut. Peering up from the end table I quickly come face to face with a man I've never seen before.
"What's up sweet cake." teased the intruder
"Who are you?" I asked as I slowly backed away from both the man and the end table.
"Well I'm a vampire." answered the man as he glared at me like I was the last prime rib eye steak on a buffet table.
"Obviously, but that's not what I asked." I rebutted as I continued to slowly back away from the vampire.
"Looky here guys we got ourselves a smart one." yelled the vampire as now tauntingly began to approach me.
The vampire's comment was met with a few chuckles. So naturally I looked around my surroundings and found that this particular vamp wasn't alone.
"Who are you people and what do want?" I asked
"Who we are doesn't matter. All you need to know is that we intend on getting revenge against all the founding families for trapping us in a tomb for close to a century. And sadly for you you're a part of a founding a family, and not just any founding family, but a Salvatore. Which makes this all the more enjoyable." bragged the vampire
"Screw you." I said before trying to make a break for it.
The moment I made it to the foot of the stairs I felt a hand firmly grip mine just before pulling me towards them. Using the momentum from being pulled I swung a right hook catching the vamp square in the face.
Shortly after cracking his jaw the lead vamp smile at me. "I do love feisty." said the vamp just prior to grabbing me by the throat as he then sank his fangs into me.
Upon me letting out an earth shattering scream. I head a crunching sound which was then followed by the lead vampire loosening his grip on me just seconds before collapsing on to the floor. And behind him holding his heart in her bare hand was none other than Rebekah Mikaelson. I have to say I have never been so happy to see an Original. Ok that's a lie I was way happier to see Elijah back when he was on our side but I digress.
"Didn't anyone ever you tell you boys it's rude to victimize a poor, defenseless little girl." taunted Rebekah before then dropping the heart of the vampire she killed on the ground. "So, which one of you want to try your luck with me?" asked Rebekah
Following her question the ten vampires then all rushed Rebekah at once, causing the impressive female original to spin into action as she took them all on. As impressive and as powerful as Rebekah was these particular vampires didn't seem to stay down.
Rushing over to the end table I quickly retrieved one of my modified Beretta in hopes of assisting the Barbie original.
Just seconds before one of the vamps could drive a stake into Rebekah's chest, I plunged a wooden bullet into his head dropping him instantly.
"Nice shot." smirked Rebekah just prior to snapping the necks of two vampires.
It looked as though this fight was never going to end when all of sudden all the vampires including Rebekah suddenly dropped to the floor holding their heads as they yelled in agony.
Looking around I suddenly saw a woman who looked to be in her late forties early fifties suddenly emerge from out a dark corner of the room.
"Ahh Samantha, it's good to finally meet you." smiled the woman. As she was then accompanied by both Luca and Jonas who for what I could see were the reasons the vampires were in pain.
After glancing from Jonas to Luca my gaze finally settled on the woman who surprisingly enough knew my name. "Not that I'm not grateful for the assist, but who are you. And why are the Martin witches here?"
"Don't worry about Jonas and Luca they're not here to hurt you they're with me. Just consider them my little helpers." smiled the woman
"Ummm ok, but who are you?" I asked once again
"Sorry, I keep forgetting that we've never actually met though I've watch you grow up from the other side. Well I guess it's about time I introduce myself. Hello Samantha, my name is Victoria Caldwell. And I'm your grandmother." answered the woman
(To be continued)