A special thanks to my fans/reviews, I never knew where this story would go. Apparently its going far. I do not own any Vampire Diaries, all rights lay with the great L. Jane Smith. Here is chapter 3 where most of your questions will be answered, only to rise new ones. Enjoy!
Chapter 3
Later that day the six of them sat in the small attic room.
"But we still need answers." Bonnie declared sitting next to Meredith on the wooden floor. Heads nodded around the circle of friends. Then it was Elena's turn to speak.
"Since Prince has failed to tell us anything-useful-" Elena turned to Damon. " You have some explaining to do." Elena took a pause.
Everyone turned there attention to Damon who was sitting on his futon with his head buried in his hands, he felt the eyes on him and gave everyone a tired look.
"You did say you knew met her before, as a child." Elena finished getting closer to Damon.
"Yeah Damon how do you know her?" Matt asked from the floor.
"She tried to kill you and Stefan! What does it matter? We did get answered the main question, Prince is dangerous and we need to do something about it." Meredith came in.
Voices shouted in agreement, then they broke out into a uproar of fumbling conversations. Stefan tried to calm the voices but Damon's voice rose loud and demanding above the rest.
"No one is going to so much as touch a hair on Prince." Damon said coldly and full of venom.
The room fell silent.
"What are you talking about?" Matt asked confused. "But-"
"That's my final say about how dangerous she is, if you don't follow it there will be hell to pay." he said in a low harsh voice.
"She is to dangerous, brother!" Stefan agreed with the rest of the group.
"As am I! I am just as evil and as powerful as she is, you're going to get rid of me too?"
"No- Of course not" Stefan uttered "You're so much different, Damon, you have actually help this town in terror!"
"I don't care for words little brother, you or anyone else is not going to hurt her, you understand." Damon spat, getting up from the futon angry with Stefan's defiance.
"What is it about her that makes you say that? How do you know her enough to be so sure she won't do it to someone in town?" Stefan said slowly.
Damon sat back down his bed.
"Back off little brother." Damon said laying back putting a black pillow over his head.
"Why should I? There clearly is something you're not telling us, something important." Stefan teased.
"That something must be pretty interesting if you're embarrassed about it." Bonnie pointed out raising a brow.
"I'm never embarrassed." Damon's mumbled voice carried over to them.
"Obviously." Meredith smiled, elbowing Bonnie, she giggled and Elena tried not laugh but soon gave in.
"Well. . . " Stefan waited.
They all waited.
Damon gave out a deep sigh the he took the pillow off his face and slammed it down next to him.
"Its hard to explain without confusing you all." Damon started.
"Can you try not to?" Stefan said sitting on his bed with Elena sitting next to him-waiting.
"Not with out telling you this first." Damon looked up at the high wooden beams on the ceiling then continued. "Prince is a half-vampire as a matter of fact she is a Huntora."
"Huntora? How? I thought they were a myth." Stefan sounded surprised.
"A what?" Elena asked
" Huntora's are a band of vampire hunters that have somehow brought themselves to the halfway state they currently in. They can have children but there not completely immortal. They have a longer lifespan then the normal human-being by say a hundred years or so. The bad thing is they are harder to kill, staking them in the heart wont necessarily kill them. There human side gives them a slight immunity to wood. They train there young to hunt and kill vampire's" Damon said the last part slowly.
"You're not defending her case any." Stefan said.
"I know Prince is different, she isn't the same monster her family is." Damon said defensively.
"What makes you say that?" Stefan called.
"I'm not entirely sure."
"Well any way go on with your story" Bonnie said resting on her stomach.
Damon took another sigh.
"I met her ten years ago in Florence. Prince was only seven at the time. I met her older sister Natalie first at the ball, we danced. I knew what she was, and Natalie knew it too. Natalie got me alone and her two brother Fortanato and Drew were going to stake me, they had weakened me so I was not strong enough to win the fight." Damon paused and lifted his hand above his face and looked at his palm and continued; "Then out of no where came a little voice Leave him be!, and they did. They were scared of her, and I didn't blame them. She was still very strong back then, but not as strong as she is now. She saved my life, they left killing me to her, and returned to the party. But she didn't, instead she helped me escape. She led me through tunnels, that rested under the streets. I didn't realize the time or how long we were walking until our ears picked up the pursuit behind us. Prince panicked. She said we wouldn't make it to the surface in time. So she unlocked the closet door with a ring of keys and shoved me inside and locked it. I don't know why they never found me. So many things I question how they are the way they are." Damon wondered, now bringing his palm down over his face.
"Then what?" Elena asked, eager to hear more. They were all listening intently to his story.
"They found her. They argued-"
"Whose they?" Asked Bonnie
"The rest of the Huntora family. I think there's a total of 13, including the father. I don't know what happened to the mother." Damon stopped again.
They waited for Damon to pick up where he left off.
"I don't know for sure, what happened between them. I heard them argue with her, asking where I was. And she told them, she had disposed of my body somewhere. Then chaos. It was quick, I didn't even hear her scream. I had to break my way out of the closet. And then I followed the smell of her blood to her body. . ."
"And?" Stefan said.
"I took the keys, and escaped I don't remember much." Damon said flatly.
"Just like that- left her dead?" Stefan said.
"Well yeah, what was I supposed to do?"
"Stefan, this is Damon your talking to." Matt said.
"Okay, why does this surprise you little brother? She was or is an enemy of ours. Prince can kill both of us in seconds if she desired to."
Matt threw his arms in the air; "And you still wont let us kill her!"
"Did you not hear what I just said mutt? She is quick, lethal, and charming. You wouldn't stand a chance… not a one of you."
"Well thanks." Meredith huffed.
"It is too risky anyway. Prince is dangerous, but we have no choice but to listen to Damon right now." Elena said.
This time, Damon is the one with the answers, everyone nodded, despite their previous notions from Damon. He is only good when he wants to be. Which, isn't often.
Now it was 11 o'clock, and they were tired and yawning. Once everyone had left, and Stefan was back from taking his beloved home, he noticed Damon was holding a pair of long rusted iron keys tied to a small piece of rope.
He was sitting on the edge of his bed, leaning over his knees.
"Damon?" Asked Stefan.
"Leave me be." Called Damon, still looking down at the keys.
Stefan took off his leather jacket where he hung it in a small closet. He let the silence crawl over them, then he said; "You kept those all these years. Why?"
Damon sighed, turned the keys over in his pale hands and said; "I can't really tell you."
Stefan sat on the bed and bent over to untie his boots. Once the boots were off, he lifted his torso to ask a question; "Have you been thinking about her, since her death?"
"Every time I see these." Damon shook the keys; "I want to get rid of them, but every time I go to do so, I can't."
"Maybe they're trying to tell you something." Stefan quoted, laying down on his bed, looking over at his brother.
"Nonsense." Damon murmured.
"Not at all. Look at it this way, you saw her dead body, took the keys, and left. Ten years later, she turns up alive, grown, and powerful. Plus, what she said about if we stay away from her, we wont be in danger, like her stay here is only temporary. Not to mention, you don't remember. I think you should look more into this."
"I think you maybe right." Damon sighed.
Okay I hope you got some answers in this chapter. Keep reading for more, it only gets better from here. Why doesn't Damon a very powerful vampire remember why Prince is alive? Hehe I'm not goin got to tell you! Well I kinda have to, but not until later!