A/N: I bring you part two and everything won't be mentioned.
Mystic Falls High School
Alaric in his classroom pulls out his arsenal of vampire weapons.
"Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night". Damon says impressed.
"I've you to thank for that". Alaric said.
"What are these?" Elena asked.
"Those are tranquilizer darts filled with vervain".
"Just get me in. I'll get Stefan and Gracie out". Damon said.
"That's your plan? You're just gonna take them all on yourself?" Elena asked.
"Well, I'll be a little stealthier than that, hopefully".
Elena takes one of the vervain darts.
"Whoa. What are you doing?" Alaric asked.
"I'm going with you guys". Elena answered.
"No. No. No. No. No way". Damon responses.
"You need me. I'll get in. You could distract them, and then I'll get Stefan and Grace out".
"You'll get yourself killed. You're not going in there".
"I'm going".
"So, when you get me in, get out as quickly as you can. I know how to sneak around where they can't hear me. You'll basically just be in the way".
"Damon, now is not the time to be the lone ranger".
"Fine. Elena, you can drive the getaway car. You're not going in the house".
"You can't stop me. It's Stefan and Grace we're talking about here. You don't understand".
"Oh, I understand. I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it. And I love Grace, I'll do anything to protect her".
"Can you just not joke around for 2 seconds?"
"I can't protect you, Elena. I don't know how many vampires there are in there. That's how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with your safety. Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from...Including Stefan and possibly Gracie. I know. I get it. I understand".
"If we're gonna go, let's go". Alaric says.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
Alaric knocks on the door. Frederick answers it.
"Oh, good, someone's home. Uh, could I use your phone? My car broke down a few miles up the road. This was the first house I saw". Alaric said.
"Well, lucky you". Frederick says.
"Yeah. Lucky me. It's no trouble, is it?"
"Not in the slightest".
"Great. Whew".
Alaric enters the house
"Hey, man, I really appreciate it. It's rough out there".
"Billy, show our visitor where the phone is in the kitchen. And get me something to drink".
"Yeah. Sure thing". Billy said.
"Hey, Miss Gibbons, this guy wants to use your phone".
"Oh, sure, honey. It's right there". She says sweetly.
"Thanks". Alaric said.
Alaric walks towards the phone, Billy comes at him with a stake. Alaric is too quick for him and grabs the stake and stabs him with it.
"Aah!" Billy yells in pain.
Alaric turns on the faucet and starts the blender to create noise.
"What's happening?" Miss Gibbons's asked scared.
"I'm really sorry. But you're gonna need to invite a friend of mine inside". Alaric tells her.
Alaric opens the door and Damon is standing outside.
"Oh, I'm sorry. He's not allowed in the house".
"I know that. But you've gotta make an exception".
"Get her out of the house. Now! Miss Gibbons, tell me the truth. Are you married?" Damon asked her.
"No".
"Parents, children, anyone else who lives on this property?"
"No. It's just me".
"No? Good".
Damon breaks her neck and promptly enters the house
"You were supposed to compel her". Alaric said.
"It doesn't work that way..."
"She is human".
"And I'm not! So, I don't care. Now, get out of here. And get rid of the body!" Damon had felt himself about to lose it if he didn't find his brother and niece. 'I'm coming guys just hold on'.
Down in the basement Stefan and Grace had heard the commotion and Stefan looked over at his young niece who had a look of relief on her face.
"It's Uncle Damon he came". Grace said happily.
"I told you sweetheart Damon will always come for us". Stefan said in a weak gentle voice.
Damon's Car
Elena is waiting in the car. She pulls a vervain syringe from her purse and examines it. A tree branch falls onto the car's windshield. Elena gasps.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
"Billy, what's the holdup?!" Frederick yells.
Frederick tells another vampire to go see what is up. He enters the kitchen and turns off the sink and blender. He approaches the pantry. Damon opens the door and stakes him.
"Aah!" Jacob screams.
Damon's Car
Alaric runs back to the car. He opens the door and sees Elena isn't there. He grabs his bag and leaves.
"Damn it, Elena!" Alaric curses.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
Elena jumps onto the porch. She stays by the wall to keep herself hidden. She starts to move on, but hears Frederick.
"Billy, Jacob, get back in here!" Frederick yells.
Elena runs past the door and goes down a staircase that leads to the cellar. She tries to open the door, but it is locked. She busts out one of the windowpanes, unlocks the door and opens it. A man is standing guard by a door at the end of the hallway. Elena gets her vervain syringe out and is ready to attack, but Damon gets to the man first. He sees Elena.
"Are you insane?" Damon asked.
Stefan, Grace, Harper are still trapped in the cellar.
"Uhh. Thank you. For trying to help me and my niece". Stefan said.
"They just needed somebody to blame. Someone to punish". Harper said.
Elena and Damon enter the cellar.
"Elena...You shouldn't be here..." Stefan said weakly.
"Uncle Damon you came". Grace said relieved.
"She was supposed to stay in the car". Damon said then turned towards his niece. "Of course I'd be here sweetheart now let's get out of here".
"Unh! No. No. No. Not him". Stefan groaned.
"Whatever. Let's get you down".
"There's vervain on the ropes".
"Elena, pull that.
Once the two were down Elena helped Stefan while Grace went straight for Damon who held her tightly.
"Unh!"
"All right, let's go. Clothes on".
"Wait".
"What? Guys, come on. We have to get out of here".
"Let's just go please". Grace added backing up Damon.
Stefan and Elena pull the stakes out of Harper's legs.
"Uhh!" Stefan groans.
"Come on, we gotta go". Damon says as he holds onto Grace's hand.
"The other one".
"Uhh!"
"Can you get him in the car?" Damon asked Elena
"Yeah". She responded.
"All right, go. Take Gracie with you".
"No Uncle Damon". Grace said.
"What about you?" Elena asked.
"You rescue, I'll distract. Go". Damon said.
"No I wanna stay with you Uncle Damon please". Grace said.
"I'll be right behind you guys I promise you just go with them alright sweetheart".
"Alright".
"Atta girl".
Frederick is getting suspicious. It's too quiet.
Frederick motioning to the stereo, "Turn that down. It's too quiet".
One of the vampires gets staked.
"Spread out. Now. You two, back of the house. Go. Check out both rooms. Cellar, now".
Elena is carrying Stefan to the car while Grace is trying to keep up with them.
"Are we almost there?" Grace asked.
"Uhh". Stefan groans.
"Can you make it?" Elena asked.
"Uhh! Unh".
"Uncle Stefan are you alright?" Grace asked worriedly.
"I'll be fine sweetie I promise". He assured her.
They fall down. Elena cuts herself on a rock and Grace had scraped her knees causing her jeans to rip.
"Ohh. You guys okay?" Stefan asked.
"I'll be ok". Grace said getting up, while ignoring the pain coming from her knees.
"Yeah. Come on, keep going. Come on". Elena said.
Elena pulls Stefan up and Grace catches up as they continue onwards.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
Frederick sees another staked vampire in the dining room. Damon catches him by surprise. They fight. Damon gets Frederick on the floor and starts punching him. Two vampires come up from behind and pull Damon off. Frederick leaves. The vampires and Damon start fighting. One of them approaches Damon from behind. Damon doesn't see him, but Alaric shoots at the vampire with a dart.
"I'm going after Frederick!" Damon yelled.
Elena, Stefan, and Grace arrive at the car.
"Come on, it's right over here". Elena said.
Elena puts Stefan in the car just as Grace got beside him and she goes around to the driver's side. She sees the ignition has been removed.
"Stefan..." Elena says worried.
Frederick busts the window on Stefan's side out and drags him out then Grace. He starts beating Stefan in front of Grace.
"Leave him alone!" Grace yelled.
"Aah!" Frederick cries.
"Ugh! Uhh..." Stefan groans.
"This is for Beth-Anne".
Frederick stabs Stefan with a branch.
"Aah!"
"And this is for the tomb".
"No!" Grace cried.
"No!" Elena cries.
Elena plunges the vervain syringe into Frederick's back.
"Ugh! Unh!" Frederick groans.
"Stefan..." Elena said moving to his side.
"Uncle Stefan". Grace cried.
Elena sits down next to Stefan just as Grace went to his right side and took his right hand.
"Unh. Uhh".
Elena pulls out the branch.
"Stefan...Stefan...No, Stefan. Stefan, Stefan. Stefan! Stefan!" Elena cries out
"Uncle Stefan no". Grace cries.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
Alaric is reloading his dart gun. A vampire attacks him. They wrestle to the ground. Alaric stabs him with a vervain syringe. Damon comes back into the hallway.
"Frederick's gone". Damon states.
"Let's get out of here". Alaric said.
"I'm gonna kill him".
Damon and Alaric exit the house. They see many more vampires approaching.
"How many of those vervain darts do you have left?"
"One".
"Not gonna be enough".
Woods
Elena and Grace are shaking Stefan, trying to get him up.
"Stefan, please. Stefan! Oh, Stefan, please get up. Get up, Stefan. Stefan". Elena pleaded.
"Uncle Stefan please get up, please". Grace begged her uncle.
Elena sees that Frederick is getting up. She notices the cut on her hand and puts it up to Stefan's mouth for him to drink.
"Here". Elena said.
"Elena, take Grace and please run". Stefan said weakly.
"No".
"Please. Take Grace and run".
"We won't leave you Uncle Stefan". Grace said.
"Stefan. My wrist. Here. Take my wrist. You need more blood". Elena tells him.
"Go, Elena. Run. Run...Both of you run". He tells them in a weak but stern voice.
"No Uncle Stefan we won't". Grace said.
"No. I trust you". Elena said.
Elena gives Stefan her wrist. He drinks her blood.
Miss Gibbons's Residence
Pearl and Anna come home.
"So, what you said to get me to do this, about my wife. It was a lie, wasn't it?" Alaric asked.
"Yep". Damon answered.
"Stop. What's going on here? What did you do?" Pearl asked.
"Me? Your merry little band of vampires spent the day torturing my brother and did god knows what to my niece". Damon snapped.
"Trust me. The parties responsible for this will be dealt with".
"Our little arrangement doesn't work unless you learn to control them".
"This wasn't supposed to happen".
"Well, it did. If I had a good side...Not a way to get on it".
Damon and Alaric leave.
Woods
Frederick is regaining his strength. He grabs another branch and walks towards Stefan. Stefan gets up and pins Frederick to a tree. He takes the branch from Frederick and repeatedly stabs him in the heart.
"Argh! Ahh! Aah! Aah!" Stefan yells.
"Stefan. Stefan!" Elena calls out getting his attention.
"Uncle Stefan". Grace said scared.
Elena tries to make Stefan stop. Stefan turns around, his face is still in its vampire form. Elena and Grace are frightened by him. Stefan stops. He looks horrified. Grace just stood in her place as if her feet were glued to the floor, she didn't know to run and finally hug her uncle or if she should run away from him. Damon was then running in the woods until he found Stefan, Grace, and Elena. Grace had seen her other uncle as he was approaching.
"Uncle Damon!" Grace called out.
She tried to run but her knees were in so much pain so she slowly walked then when Damon was in reach he swiftly picked her up and held her close, he kissed her head repeatedly. Grace had hid her face in his neck after a couple of minutes he put her down he scanned her over for injuries, he saw her scraped knees he didn't see no other injuries but he wanted to make sure.
"Are you alright Gracie? Did they hurt you?" Damon asked his niece.
"No but they were going to". She answered.
He then held her again for a few moments and released her as they went back to the house.
Salvatore Boarding
Elena is staring out Stefan's window. Stefan approaches her.
"How are you and Grace doing?" Elena asked.
"I'm okay. The wounds have mostly healed. And Gracie's fine Damon's helping her now". Stefan replied.
"Good".
"Elena..."
"Yeah?"
"What you did today, coming to help me and Gracie...You could have been killed".
"I know".
"And what I did, I'm sorry that...I'm sorry that you had to see it".
"I've just never...You were like this other person. And it's my fault. I made you..."
"What? No. no. no. no. You didn't make me do anything. You were saving mine and Grace's lives. And I was saving yours". Stefan caresses her face. "Everything's gonna be okay".
Elena's phone rings, she answers, "Hey, Jer...What-what's going on? Oh, no".
After Elena leaves Stefan went to go check on his niece who was still with Damon, Grace was sitting on the kitchen counter while Damon was cleaning her scraped knees. He poured some rubbing alcohol on a rag and started to clean her wounds. The second it touched her knee she hissed.
"It's gonna sting at first sweetheart". Damon said.
"It hurts". She said.
"Are you alright Gracie?" Stefan asked from the doorway.
"I'm ok". She answered.
She hissed again when Damon began cleaning the other knee. "Alright that's finished now I just add a little antibiotic cream ". He said applying it. "And now a band aid". He put a bandage on both her knees.
"Feel better?" Damon asked.
"Yeah thanks Uncle Damon". Grace said.
"Gracie I'm so sorry for getting you taken". Stefan said.
Damon then lifted Grace from the counter and put her down, she then slowly moved to her other uncle and wrapped her arms around his waist holding on tightly to him.
"It wasn't your fault Uncle Stefan, I don't blame you so don't blame yourself. It's over now". She said.
Both brother each had a small smile on their faces. "How'd you get to be so smart sweetie?" Stefan asked.
"I got good teachers I guess".
"Gracie go get ready for bed we'll be up in a minute to tuck you in". Damon told her.
"Alright".
Grace then went up to her room while Damon cleaned up the stuff on the counter.
"Damon I need to talk to you about something". Stefan said.
"What is it?" He asked.
"When Gracie and I were in the basement I heard Frederick say something about Grace".
Damon suddenly got angry as he clenched his fist together. "What'd he say?"
"He said that there was something off about her, like he got a weird odor off her".
"She's a kid they might smell".
"Not like that but in a different way, Damon what if she's supernatural?"
"Stefan you're talking crazy, if she was something supernatural don't you think we would have known by now?"
"I guess you're right but I think we should still look into it just to be sure".
"If you say so".
The brothers then head up to their niece's room to see her reading a book, she looked up when she seen the brothers enter her room.
"Alright Gracie time for bed". Damon said.
She put her book on her nightstand just as the brothers went to her, Stefan had tucked the blanket around her.
"G'night Uncle Damon...g'night Uncle Stefan". Grace said sleepily.
"Sweet dreams Gracie". Damon said.
"Sleep tight sweetie". Stefan said.
They kiss her head just as she dozed off for the night.
Later on in the night Damon enters Stefan's room. He sees blood bags that are empty. Then he sees Stefan sitting on the floor, drinking from another blood bag. He then heard whimpering coming from Grace's room so he quickly sped to her room, when he opened the door he saw her tossing and turning, she was also whimpering and crying softly he didn't waste another second he quickly rushed to her aid.
"Gracie wake up it's alright, it's all just a dream sweetheart. Wake up sweetie wake up". Damon said gently shaking her awake.
Stefan heard noises coming from his niece's room so he sped to her room to see his brother trying to wake her.
"Hey you need help?" Stefan asked his brother.
Damon didn't answer his brother when Grace awoke with a start, she woke up gasping for breath, she had tears running down her cheeks as she looked around frantically wondering if she's out of her dream state.
"Gracie hey calm down everything's alright, it was all just a dream". Stefan said gently.
The young girl had wrapped her arms tightly around Damon holding on to him tightly as he soothed her.
"Shh Gracie shh, it's alright now shh everything's alright. You're safe now sweetheart you're safe". Damon soothed her.
Grace cried for another couple of minutes till she fell back asleep but mumbled, "Don't leave me".
"Never sweetheart never". Damon whispered.
Stefan looked at his brother who was holding their sleeping niece he knew once Grace was ok he left the room and went back to his room. He got on his laptop and was looking for the police report about the car accident that killed Grace's parents. When he finally found it he looked over it and didn't find anything so far but when a picture came up of Grace's parents he had a confused look on his face so he took a picture of Grace out then looked between the pictures and noticed that Grace didn't resemble either of her parents. This made him get more curious so he went away from his computer and went to find Grace's birth certificate and seen the name on them but he knew something else was up.
Damon looked down to make sure his niece was fast asleep before he gently laid her down and covered her up then kissed her head, when he left her room he heard his brother going through papers and went to go see what he was doing.
"Stefan what are you doing?" Damon asked his brother.
"I'm trying to figure something out". He answered.
"Like what".
Stefan sighed and turned towards his brother, "I read the police report from the accident that killed Max and Jessica".
"Ok and".
"When i pulled their picture up they didn't resemble Grace at all I mean look take a look for yourself".
Damon then went to see what his brother was talking about, he looked at the picture of his distant relatives then when he saw the picture of Grace he then got a confused look on his face.
"See what I mean".
Damon then closely examined the birth certificate and saw something. "I think this is a copy if we get the original we can find the truth".
"Damon what if...what if she was adopted?"