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Elena POV

Walking into my house I pass Jeremy playing his x-box and walk towards the kitchen where my Dad is.

E- "Hey Dad."

G- "What's wrong"?

E- "Why do you assume something's wrong?"

G- "You're speaking to me."

E- "nothing's wrong Dad forget it." I turn shaking my head… what comfort did I honestly expect to gain from talking to him.

G- "no, Elena… please wait. I love you. Was there something you wanted to talk about?" You know what fuck it! I spin around and embrace my inner bitch.

E- "I met someone who promised to turn me into a vampire today I think I am going to do it, any thoughts?" He practically runs around the kitchen island trying to get to me.

G- "Elena, what happened? Have you been hurt? Did someone compel you?" Compel? Wait he just admitted it didn't he… all these years and finally he slips.

E- "So you do know they are real?" I see a darkness wash over him and I start regretting my decision to steer the conversation this way.

G- "You were testing me? Damn it Elena what the hell is wrong with you?" You know what no, I am not going to tip toe around him anymore.

E- "Nothing! Apparently there is nothing wrong with me! You spent my whole life convincing me I was insane that I was broken in some way… a… a burden to you! Mom died and I needed you and you sent me away for something you knew was true!"

G- "I SENT YOU AWAY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE REASON YOUR MOTHER IS DEAD AND I COULDN'T STAND TO LOOK AT YOU ONE SECOND LONGER!" I am stunned and suddenly mute.

J- "Dad!" Is that Jer, when did he come in… how much did he hear, I can't focus enough my mind my vision everything has gone cloudy.

G- "Jeremy go upstairs this doesn't concern you."

J- "I am not leaving you alone with Elena how could you say something like that to her." He is trying to stick up for me. That small act of consideration and kindness reminds me I am not alone and suddenly I feel like I can breathe again.

E- "Jer its okay please, I'll come find you after we're done talking so you know I'm okay." Jeremy looks at me not know if he should believe me or not. "I promise."

J- "Fine." He turns and leaves us after shooting our dad the scariest look I've seen and I spent my day with two vampires. When I hear his bedroom door close I turn back to my dad.

E- "Mom died of cancer, pretty sure I can't be blamed for that."

G- "The creature you saw in my lab-

E- "Damon." I interrupt.

G- "That creature's blood was healing her!"

E- "What?"

G- "And you let him go, so yes I blamed you unfairly for years. I lost the love of my life, I felt like a failure, as a husband, a father, and most frustratingly as a doctor." I blink at my dad in disbelief trying to soak up what he has just told me. "But I do love you Elena, and so did your mother, and the shame I carry for taking my grief out on you can not be measured. I told myself it would be better if you forgot... if you came to believe your little girl imagination had tricked you, that monsters weren't real. I didn't want that life for you but the life I gave you instead wasn't much better and I am so sorry for that."

Neither of us talks for the longest time but I finally break through the tension determined to get out of this room.

"I should go check on Jeremy." I start to walk away but he stops me.

"I need to know about this vampire you met, did you really come across one?" I don't hesitate to answer.

"No, just my latest theory about my childhood I wanted to confront you with. I don't know any vampires." No matter what my mixed up my feelings are towards Stefan and Damon and now my Dad I am not going to complicate matters by starting a witch hunt… or vampire hunt to be more accurate.

Upstairs I knock on Jeremy's door as I open it, "hey, coast is clear." He is sitting on his bed with a Gameboy he lightly tosses on the comforter.

J- "what was that? Yeah sometime you and Dad are tense and miserable to be around when your in the same room but I have never heard either one of you yell like that before, what is going on?"

E- "He thinks because he needed to constantly run around after me when I was little it stopped him from making some sort of breakthrough scientific cure for mom. He admitted it was wrong that he took his grief out on me, said he was sorry for everything he had put me through and that he loved me." Its close enough to the truth but I still don't like lying to Jeremy plus I feel like a hypocrite telling myself keeping him in the dark is for his own good but I just can't deal with anymore drama right now.

J- "Wow, so what happens now?"

E- "I don't know Jer, I really don't know."