Chapter Four-Flashback

Damon's Pov:

"Yes what you've heard is all true Clara is dangerous and is the first Vampire and along the line your true master." I said I knew that from experience when Clara had walked out on me and left me I hated it the feel of loneliness the way every couple that walked past were happy and that I had that and it slipped through my fingers. I had that with Clara.

"Are you ok you seem troubled?" asked the girl who looked very much like a vampire but she had a pulse must be a gothic girl.

"I'm fine thank you what is your name?" I asked Clara showed me that not always closing in on yourself was the best way forwards in life.

"My name is Eve that's Michael he's my husband." She said while pointing to the vampire this relationship seemed like Elena and Stefan. Where is my brother? Then she pointed to the boy. "That's Shane he's Claire's current boyfriend. So what are you to Claire exactly?" she asked me and I didn't know how to answer that because we weren't married but I had promised to always loved her but what could you call our relationship?

"I'm more her partner because of the situation were in." I replied that seemed more to it but I wasn't going to press too much into the past and what happened in 1961.

"So what brought you here to find Claire?" the boy Michael asked me. I looked at him he was young only turned a few years ago so he didn't seem to know everything.

"I'm here to find Clara because she is needed now for Ethel." I replied and I realised that I had said something that they didn't have to know.

"Who's Ethel?" asked Eve and I looked at her.

"That's the reason Clara left me." I might as well of told them that she left me clues on how to find her and that all the clues were to find her after 50 years of being apart and that only a human could find them, luck for us that one of Elena's friends found the first clue.

"What happened?" Shane asked me and it hit me like it happened all over again and I looked over at Clara lying there repairing herself looking as sweet as she was as she slept with a fake heartbeat.

"It all happened in 1961 I had gone off for some business in the town and I came back to find that Clara had gone." I said but that wasn't the half of it, it had left me bitter and heartbroken.

Flashback: 1961 Mystic Falls Boarding House

I got through the door I called for Clara but she didn't call back, I ran up the stairs to our room to find a note on the bed.

Dear Damon

I'm sorry that I'm leaving you by a letter but Klaus is getting closer to his revenge against me and I love you too much to let you get hurt and you'll always be in my heart and one more thing good luck. And tell Stefan I love him he'd the best little brother you could have and don't treat others any different and I'll see you one day that's a promise.

From

Clara

Xxx

p.s keep looking forever and always.

I felt like crying there and then but she had made me stronger and I knew she was coming back but I just hated the idea that she wasn't here anymore. After some hours Stefan came home and I had taken the witch ring off and was standing in the window burning he pulled me away and put the ring back on.

Clara's Pov:

Flashback: 1961 April 12th Boarding house in Mystic Falls: Clara leaving

I had been putting clues around the house and felt that I had to leave but I didn't want Damon to hate me, I went to our room and wrote a letter. I left it on the bed and walked off out the front door and held my stomach. "We're going to miss you my love." I said and walked to the taxi I had called and drove off.

1962 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel being born

Today was the start of everything I woke up in pain the pain of giving birth it had been nine months since I left the Boarding house, Damon my love and America and I had to leave or Klaus would have killed everyone there including my unborn child. The contractions were getting closer together and the midwife was telling me to breathe but I didn't need to breathe but I played along and started to feel better the pain was still bad but it was less of a pain.

After an hour of screaming with my new friend Lillian she was a witch and I had my baby girl in my arms and she looked so much like Damon and me the small Brown eyes they were mine then the nose was Damon's. I started crying thinking that he wouldn't be able to come see her and it was killing me to know all this. I went to sleep dreaming of Damon and how much I missed him and that I still had to wait to see him again when everything would fall into place.

1963 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 1st Birthday

It was Ethel's first birthday and I had all the withes to be there she was clever for a one year old just like me so I was told because my parents left me a journal from them saying how they felt and everything till I turned into the monster I once was. Ethel had said her first words and was learning to speak I had already made plans to leave at this time telling everyone to look after her and she would ask everything about who her father was and why I had left on her seventh birthday but it must be done. I decided that the journal my parents left me was one of the ideas I had and I started to write entry's to my own magical one that would only respond to me and when it was full after seven years it would open to Ethel and she would read it. I had worked out every detail of how this was going to happen.

1964 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 2nd Birthday

Again it was Ethel's second birthday and she was walking and I was telling myself only five more years till I have to leave and it never stopped me thinking of Damon and I knew I would be thinking of Ethel when I leave her and I hoped she'd understand along with Damon. We had cake that was homemade by a spell me and the other witches did and Ethel seemed to enjoy the food. And I was enjoying be here back home but was also wishing Damon could be here but him being here was too dangerous for everyone and I couldn't do that to Stefan and Damon.

1965 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 3rd Birthday

I only had four years left with Ethel and she was starting to gain her powers but I had learned I gained the powers when I was a new born but it was because I was a full witch and it seemed that I would have to teach her soon on how to use her magic. But I only had four years left to teacher her everything and it would have to be fast and I would have to spend everyday teaching her.

1966 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 4th Birthday

Three years left, I had been teaching Ethel everything and she always questioned why but I couldn't tell her and today was no exception and it was annoying because she was asking about Damon and what he was like and I thought if I could teacher her something it could be that love will never die and also how to create an illusion of someone close to your heart would be the other. I decided that it would be best to start telling her things about Damon and what he meant to me like I had planned to do when she was a little older. But she kept asking I showed her a picture of me and Damon outside in Mystic Falls woods and we were smiling and there was love in our eyes [image on profile]. She seemed happy to see that her parents loved each other and that they loved her as well and that her father was going to be there someday.

1967 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 5th Birthday

I went out to fetch the cake for Ethel she would be getting use to the other witches in the castle and I had to get use to being away from her. When I got back I saw that they were all dancing around listening to some old fashion music that I had listened to when I was younger. I put the cake down and was swung around by Ethel and we danced all day till Ethel realised that I had bought the cake. I laughed ad cut the cake and I wished that Damon would be here. But my wish wouldn't come true I knew that and Ethel's wish wasn't coming true either.

1968 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 6th Birthday

One year left I decided that it was time for Ethel to learn how to hunt for food for when the time came but that wouldn't be for a while we were in the moors and as I searched for food to hunt I saw that Ethel had already learned and it seemed I was a better teacher than I thought. We soon finished and it was time to go back to the castle and have the cake. I have little time with Ethel now and I want her to know that I love her and that I don't want anything to happen to her and that I can't help leaving.

1969 January 3rd Scotland Archer Family Castle: Ethel's 7th Birthday

It's today I decided that I would tell the witches as Ethel slept and they all agreed to look after her while I was gone and I left a note for her to read explaining everything. I went to her room and kissed her forehead and said my goodbye and walked out the door and kept on walking till I got to the airport. I got on the plane hours later and was on my way to America so that Klaus wouldn't be able to find Ethel. Hopefully, If my plan worked that is.

The end