"Okay, where was I?"
"How you became a vampire" Paul replied blandly, wiping a smudge off the lens of his camera.
"Oh right. Okay well..." Sophia closes her eyes as the memories come racing back.
"Sophia, my love, goodnight". Father smiles slowly and kisses her on the forehead. She turns around and heads back up the stairs to the second room on the left.
She closes the door behind her and looks around at the warm, feminine decor of her bedroom. 'It's so empty without Damon and Stefan'. She begins to slowly undress with the gentle hands of her chambermaid.
"Its alright hun, it'll be alright". Megan's knowledgeable, wrinkled hands quickly unthreads the lace from her corset and places it on the night stand beside her dresser. "I've warmed you some chocolate for your comfort, but" she places a finger to her lips, "don't tell your papa".
"Of course not, and Megan..thank you for everything." Sophia smiled at her closest and oldest friend as she walked over towards the hallway and closed the door behind her. Gingerly, she went over to her dresser and pulled on a crisp white linen night dress. Smoothing the wrinkles along the creases, she walks over to the bed and tosses back the covers. Lowering herself onto the white down coverlet, she pulls up the blanket and reaches across for the promised liquid sin sitting on her bedside table. "Mmmm" she moaned, savouring the warm trickle of chocolate over her tongue. Placing the nearly empty cup on the floor, she bends over and hides the cup behind the dust ruffle on the skirt of her bed. 'Just in case papa comes in to check on me, he's been doing that as of late' she thinks, tucking herself deeper into her covers and closing her eyes. 'Now come sleep. I have been waiting too long for you.'
Hours later, Sophia awakes to the sound of a throaty chuckle. "Sophia, little minx. Always with the chocolate".
"Damon?" She would recognize that voice anywhere. From the hardship of the past two weeks, the longing for her brothers' voices was almost unbearable. "You're dead. I buried you."
Damon Salvatore's eyes blurred with sadness as he took in his innocent twenty two year old sister. "I'm so sorry Soph".
"What are you talking about? People don't feel sorry in dreams. What's happening?... Am I dreaming?"
As quick as lightning, Damon tore his flesh on his wrist, bursting the vein underneath. The blood gushed out of him, causing Sophia's eyes to widen in panic. "Wake up, wake up Sophia! Enough! Father Father!"
Moments later, Damon thrust his wrist into Sophia's mouth, forcing the blood to flood into her open throat. "Swallow baby. Swallow." Tears began to pour from Sophia's eyes as her gag reflex kicked in and she vomited up the thick, curlish blood mixed with the remnants of the hot chocolate from earlier. Looking down onto her drenched night gown, she looked up at Damon with pleading eyes. "Damon stop. Please! I don't understand!"
Choking back a sob, Damon thrusts his wrist back onto Sophia's mouth, massaging her throat to force the life blood down into her system. "I know baby. Please swallow. My god, I am so sorry Soph"
Struggling to breathe, Sophia once more looks up into the eyes of her dead brother and starts sputtering up the thick liquid which she's covered in. The blood bubbles up out her nose, drenching her face. "I have to do this Soph. She's going to kill you otherwise." Finishing that statement, Damon grabs his sister by the face, kisses her forehead and in one clean motion, snaps her neck and picks up her blood-saturated, lifeless body into his arms. 'I'll help you through this. You don't understand now, but you will. Please believe me'. Carefully, Damon opens the bedroom window and jumps through, landing on the rosebushes beneath with his dead sister in his arms.
Silence filled the room. The crew shuffled awkwardly from foot to foot. "Uhh...Sophia?" Paul looked up from his camera, taking control. "I didn't know...I'm sorry".
Coughing into her shoulder, Sophia looked back calmly. "It happened a long time ago. It's okay. I'm over it...really."
"What did you mean exactly when Damon said to you that she'll kill you otherwise?"
"It means that Katherine was already playing with him. As I found out later, Katherine had told Damon that to test him and to see if he actually loved her, the other woman in his life must be eliminated. Apparently, according to her, there wasn't enough love for two women."
"So you're saying, it was either she killed you or he did himself?"
"Yep. That's the sordid truth of it." Sophia looked at her hands and nervously started picking at the metallic pink nail polish. "Needless to say, me and her have never really seen eye to eye." She got up and walked over to the door leading into the kitchen. "I'm going to pour myself a drink. Care for anything?" The crew shook their heads and proceeded to watch her through the doorway. Sophia entered her ancient kitchen and walked over to the cabinet adjacent to the fridge. Pulling out a malbec, she poured herself a glass and inhaled the rich scents wafting from the blood red liquid. Feeling her body relax, she took a sip and felt the liquid careen over her taste buds. Singling out each individual flavour, her senses flooded with the happiness only one other red liquid could afford her. Corking the bottle she returned it to the shelf and headed back into the great area.
"Sophia!"
"Elena! What are you doing here?" Sophia hurried over to her friend and threw her arms around her in a tight hug. "Glad to see you!"
"Same. Sorry, me and Stefan were just planning on spending the night in tonight. Making dinner. Maybe renting a movie. You know..." she finished awkwardly, becoming aware of the others in the room.
"Yeah, of course. No worries". Elena gives her a smile and walks past into the newly vacated kitchen. "See ya later Soph". Stefan ruffles her hair as he follows after his girlfriend.
"So thats how it happened eh?" Paul asked, drawing her attention back to the interview at hand.
"Yep. Thats the jist of it." Sophia smiled politely, looking down at the swirling liquid in her glass. "So what do you want to know next?"
"Tell us a story. How about, whats the most painful experience you've been through?"
Grimacing slightly, Sophia replied "Oh thats easy..."