Chapter 14

"We have to get to the church. They're waiting." I hear a voice as I found myself in the middle woods. Stefan was having another memory.

"Circle around that way. I'll distract them. Go." He says to Damon as I see him turning to the others. "Over here! There's another one! Quick! Help me!"

"Arm yourselves." A man says as they all follow Stefan. I see Damon hitting a man and knocks him out as I see the was the only guard of the carriage at that moment Stefan returns. Damon grabs the keys out of the man's pocket and unlocks the carriage.

"We don't have long."

"Katherine. Katherine." I hear the older brother say and I realize this was what happened after she was captured, they tried to save her.

"We're going to get you out of here. Damon, hurry. Hurry." He says as they lift Katherine at that moment I see Damon get shot and I cover my mouth with shock.

"No! No. Damon." Stefan rushes over to his brother but I could see the shot was effective. Damon died trying to safe her.

"Come on. Let's go." A man says and I see Stefan grabing a gun but at that moment he is shot and killed too.

I get back to reality as my hands were still shaken and I noticed Damon and Elena arguing about something but right now I couldn't care less to be honest. I just saw to people die in front of my eyes, again.

I wake up with the felling a lot of pain as I see all my legs and belly cover with blood as the old door opens and another person is taken inside, I didn't need to see much more because I knew it was Erik. Now we are domed, they got us both trapped.

"You're ok?" Damon asks me and I jump ready to attack but I stop myself before I hit him and he looked shocked.

"Sorry, reflex." I say adjusting myself as I see Damon reflecting about something as I wait for him to speak.

"I can see it."

"Where is Elena?"

"She left, I told her if something happened I would call her but she couldn't do much more right now."

"Thank you."

"Did you have another flashback?" Damon asked him. Since Stefan as been a week in the cell I told Damon the same things I told Stefan and the stories I knew about both of them.

"Yes I did."

"What did you saw?"

"You and Stefan. You were trying to get Katherine out. You… Hum."

"We died." He tells me and I nod as I see him touching my hair close to my eyes. "I'm sorry you have to watch it."

"Katherine had me make that for you weeks ago." A voice speaks as I see Stefan walking up and noticing he didn't had any marks of bullet and had a ring on his hand.

"Where am I?"

"The quarry just north of town. My brother and I brought you here last night. We found you dead in the woods."

"Where's Damon? Am I... Am I a...?"

"Not yet. You're in transition."

"But how? I..."

"You had Katherine's blood in your system when you died."

"No. I never..."

"She's been compelling you to drink it for weeks, Stefan." Poor Stefan he didn't choose to be this way he was forced too.

"And Damon?"

"No compulsion was necessary. He drank from her willingly."

She says and I noticed Damon looking over at the river and Stefan walks in his direction as I follow him.

"I woke up last night. I didn't know where I was. I went to the church. And I watched them drag her inside. Then they set fire to it. And the whole church went up into flames. They killed her, Stefan. She's gone."

I return back to the Salvatore basement and I look over at Stefan giving him a little smile.

"You saw it didn't you?" He asks and I nod. "You saw us dying to didn't you?" I nod again and I see him getting even sadder. "I'm sorry."

"It's ok you just can't block your mind from thinking besides Knowing you're story makes it easy to understand."

"It's still must be hard, having to feel all of it."

I touched Erik's arms as we both relax in his bed with only the white sheet covering our naked bodies as we both enjoy some alone and almost peaceful time. I look over at the number on his arm and I close my eyes felling the sadness of all the terrible things the man I loved went throw. All the stories he shared with me always bring my back to the number of his arm. My emotions started to boil when I noticed him kissing my hair as it was relaxing me.

"It was a long time ago." He tries to console me which was what I should be doing to him. After I couple of seconds I turn back to him with a smile as I look at his beautiful face starting by his eyes that always draw me to him.

"I could stay like this forever."

"Never leave this bed. I could do that." He tells me with a smirk as I bit my lips as I feel his hands on my under thigh going higher but very slowly, almost torturing rhythm.

"Erik." I say is name with more pleasure and moaning that what I expected as he rolls our bodies so he's on top of me again kissing my collarbone and I just let my head fall on the pillow enjoying the moment.

I come back from reality as I see Stefan looking at me confused as I look at him trying not to be embarrassed but I knew he knew very well what I was thinking about.

"I'm going to cheek on Elena and Damon." I tell him and I see a little smile coming from his face.

I walk into the living room as I found Damon with the object Pearl gave him and my sister on the couch looking at the object too.

"Did you ever figure out what that is?"

"Nope. Whatever it is, it doesn't work." Damon tells me as I come close to him.

"Pearl didn't say anything else about it?"

"She thought she was stealing his vampire compass, but that was a pocket watch. That Jonathan Gilbert was a crazy scientist. Have you spoken to your uncle lately?" He asks Elena who is now next to us.

"I've been avoiding him, actually. That, and I've been here most nights."

"So, you'll be here again tonight?" I ask her and she looks at me confused.

"Is that a problem?" She asks looking at me and Damon. I was just asking because I didn't want Jenny to worry, I think she knows that. Why should it be anyway?

"Yes. You're a complete nuisance." Damon says and I chuckle touching my head in his arm without even releasing we were that close.

"Heh. See you later."

"Want a ride?" I ask her and she nods.

"You are leaving me." Damon asks me with a cute pout. Cute? Ok I am crazy.

"Yes. Some of us have work besides I need to change before I leave." I tell him and Elena was already leaving so I followed her.

"Have fun dancing with the little kids." I hear Damon tells me and I grin and Elena looks at me strangely.

"What?"

"Nothing."

I was walking entrance of my apartment when I saw Alaric as he hold to the door so I could pass.

"Thank you." I tell him with a smile as we both walk into the same direction. "How are you?"

"I am fine. I found something about Isobel."

"Really?" I asked him surprised and he nods. "Are you going to follow that lead?"

"I think so. I need to find her or at least something about her."

"I understand, you want a close off." I tell him and he looks at me surprised but nods. "Maybe you should call Damon."

"Damon?"

"Yes you never know what you will find. Or who. He can be a pain in the ass but if as to do with Isobel and John he will help."

"You too seem very close." He tells me and I try not to laugh.

"Sorry. I just happen to know how to deal with him… most of the times, the other times I just want to kill him." I say and I see him laugh at this and I take card and a pencil from my bag as I point a number and give it to Alaric. "It's Damon's number. Give him a call. I would go in road trip with you guys but gotta work." I tell him smiling.

I walk pass the bar where the girls are and I smile and compliment they work when another vision came to me.

I see Stefan with a pail of water as he walks to here Damon is sitting and they wash out their shirts with the water trying to clean the blood.

"I bet Johnathan Gilbert has told father by now. Wonder how he took the news that we're dead."

"As if he cares. He betrayed us." Damon sure didn't liked his father but to be honest for what I saw didn't did I.

"He thought he was protecting us, Damon. He thought he was protecting this town."

"God. This sun hurts my eyes."

"It's part of it. The muscle aches, the sick feeling...Emily says it's our bodies pushing us to feed, to complete the transition."

"That's not gonna happen." Wait what?

"Is that your choice, then? To die instead?"

"Isn't it yours? This was all to be with Katherine. But she's gone. I want it over." God Damon was that in love with her.

As I bring back to reality I see the brown eyes dark haired girl look at me and I try to focus back on the work.

"You need to keep your arms higher to have better balance but good work Emma." I tell the young girl who smiles at me.

"Dear God." Not again. I look at Stefan and he sees his father writing in his journal.

"Even in our death, you only feel shame?"

"You're one of them now."

"No. Father, I came to say good-bye."

"I watched you die."

"You were there when we were shot?"

"I pulled the trigger myself."

"You killed your own sons?" God I hated him. Not Stefan, his father. He and my mother sure would be a good pair.

"You were both dead to me the moment you sided with the vampires. I only thank God that your mother isn't alive to see the disgrace you've become."

"I haven't turned yet. I don't want to. I'm going to let myself die, father. Please."

"Yes, you are." He says as I see him trying to stake Stefan but the son throws him against the wall and the stakes impaled the older man and Stefan ran to him worry.

"Father, I didn't mean to."

"Get away from me."

"No, let me help you. Please." He says removing the stake from his father chest. But then he's expression changed and I noticed the blood on his fingers which he licks. He then touches his father's wound and licks more blood from his fingers and his eyes start to transform.

"Ohh. Ohh."

"Uhh. Uhh! Oh, God. What's happening to me?" He says as I see the fangs coming in his mouth.

When I come back from reality I was sitting in the middle of the dance studio after doing some stretching. So that is why Stefan hates himself for what he is.

"You're here." Elena says as I get into the living room of the boarding house.

"Damon had the best whiskey collection." I tell her walking to the alcohol table as I like to call it and serve myself of a drink. "How is Stefan?"

"He's ok, he was been telling me some part of the story."

"I know." I tell her turning to her and she looks at me confused. "There is something I need to."

"Ugh. God. You're still here?" Damon says coming inside.

"Were you expecting anything else?"

"No. Ahh. Is that my alcohol?" He asks me and I wink raising the glass to him as he sits next to me putting my legs on his lap as Elena sits on the other couch looking at us strangely, again.

"So, how was the "errand"?" She asks and I realize he did go with Alaric on the trip. I missed bros bonding time I see.

"Futile. Although, I think I witnessed the teacher having an existential crisis. Has Stefan eaten yet?"

"I thought you didn't care." She tells him and I try to keep the smirk for appearing.

"Chalk it up to morbid curiosity." I look at Damon knowing very well he did care for his brother, no matter what he said.

"I think he's getting there. But he's got a lot of guilt that he has to deal with. And it doesn't help that you've spent the last 145 years punishing him for Katherine getting caught."

"This is my fault now?" He asks Elena and I take a deep breath. Here we go.

"No, it's no one's fault, Damon. I'm just... saying you're not exactly innocent. You've made it your life's mission to make him miserable." She says and I noticed he starting to move his hands on my legs as if he was trying to call himself.

"Let me ask you a question. In all this important soul-searching and cleansing of the demons of Stefan's past, did you ever manage to get the rest of the story?"

"He said there was more."

"Yeah. That's an understatement." At this Elena comes close to Damon.

"Damon...Damon. Tell me." She says and I see Damon looking at me as if he was asking if he could tell and I realize I am going back on time again so I nod.

"What are you doing? Who is that?" I see Damon ask as Stefan comes with a girl.

"I brought her for you. She's a gift. Have a seat, please." He tells her as she obeys.

"What have you done, Stefan?"

"Damon, I've been to see father. He came at me. I didn't know my own strength. There was blood everywhere. He was dying, and the blood was too strong. I needed it. I had to have it."

"You fed."

"Yes. And it's incredible. My body is exploding with power, Damon." Did Damon and Stefan wished places or something?

"No."

"I can hear things from far away. I can see through the darkness. I can move, like it's magic. And the guilt, the pain...Damon, I can turn it off. Like a switch. Katherine was right. It's a whole another world out there, Damon."

"Katherine is dead, Stefan. There's no world without her."

"No. You can turn that off, too. You don't have to feel that pain anymore."

"I don't want it."

"You're weak. You'll be dead soon. You need this."

"No."

"You'll die."

"No. I can't."

"Please. I won't let you die."

"No. I can't.

"Don't fight it. We can do this... together." He tells his brother as Damon gave in and drank the girl's blood and I came back to reality.

"From the moment Stefan had his first taste of human blood, he was a different person. I suppose I should thank him. It's been a hell of a ride. Heh."

"Oh, my God. He said he wanted to die. That's why he won't feed. Now I understand why, but..." Elena says with sadness for her boyfriend.

"His choice. If he's stupid enough to make it, so be it."

"Don't do that. Ok? Don't pretend like you don't care." I tell him heatedly making him look at me.

"What are you going here Sofia?"

"My boyfriend sister was a huge dependency problem. I came to help."

"What do you understand about it?" He asks me and I look away regretting that I even bring the theme. Sometimes he just gets into my nerves. I look around and I didn't saw Elena.

"Where is she?"

"How do you feel?" I hear Stefan voice and I am back into the past.

"You were right. It is a whole new world." Damon tells him and I realize this is after he fed on the girl.

"We can explore it together."

"You got what you wanted...You and me for all eternity. But here this, brother. I will make it an eternity of misery for you."

"Damon!" he says but Damon had already left.

"You went back in the pass didn't you?" Damon asked me and nod felling a little headache as I put my hands on my forehead. "Sofia, you're ok?" He asks coming close to me and I noticed it the same tone he used when he saved Elena and I.

"I'm fine but I think these time travel are start to affect my head."

"Can you control it?"

"I don't think so. It's not that bad. I mean I am kind of sick of seeing you and Stefan all the time but it's not that bad."

"I will get you a glass of water." Damon tells me but I could see the smirk on his face.

"You've transitioned." I listen to the woman tell Stefan.

"You'd have rather found me dead?"

"Katherine saved my life once. I owed her. That doesn't mean I'd wish her curse on anyone."

"It feels more like a gift."

"That will change."

"Why is that?"

"Because even in death, your heart is pure, Stefan. I sense that about you. That will be your curse."

"Emily, wait." He screams but she had already left but this time my eyes didn't opened.

When I came back I hear voice not too far from me but my body was too tired to even respond.

"Little boy lost."

"I'll be upstairs, OK?" I hear my sister says and I realize Stefan was back.

"Ok"

"Good night, Damon."

"Thank you."

"No, Stefan, thank you. You're back on Bambi blood, and I'm the big badass brother again. All is right in the world."

"I mean it. Thank you. For... helping her take care of me."

"You brood too much. Everything on this planet is not your fault. My actions, what I do, it's not your fault. I own them. They belong to me. You are not allowed to feel my guilt."

"Do you feel guilt?"

"If I wanted to, it's there. Emily waited till after I turned to tell me she'd been successful in protecting Katherine with her spell. She didn't want me to know about the tomb. She thought it would impact my decision."

"She didn't want either one of us to turn. She said it was a curse."

"Witches...Judgy little things."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"'Cause I didn't want you to know. 'Cause I hated you and I still do." Oh Damon why do you say that.

"I know."

"But not because you forced me to turn."

"Then why?"

"Because she turned you. It was just supposed to be me, Stefan... Just me." Damon says walking into the room as he sees I am awake and I just gave him a little smile as he sat again pulling my legs on his lap again as I see him touching my ankle. As I noticed him examination them very well and I knew he's looking and finding more scars. "You know it's not fair. You get to see our pass and I don't get to see your past or even hear of it." He says and I take a deep breath looking at the selling as I found my voice trying to lack any type of emotion.

"I have a nice childhood. Dad worked as a SEAL but he was home enough to see me and I remember the best moments on my first 10 years were with him."

"What about your mother?"

"She was beautiful but selfish, always waiting more and more no matter what but she knew how attractive she was so she got what she wanted by seducing man, that's how my father and I bet many men felt in love with her." I tell him and he looks at me surprise.

"I can see you have a deeply bound with her." He says sarcastically and I nod. He had no idea.

A.N: I know that for now there is not very attion but I still find important to steel and build Sofia's story but thank you for reading it. By the way any guess on who is the mother?