Chapter 2

*Flashback - 1864*

"Laura! I need to run upstairs and take Mr Salvatore his tea." My mother shouted at me. Why did I always have to give him the tea? I had so many other things to do before the day ended. I had to wash and clean the floors and make the guest bedroom for the arrival of a Miss Katherine Pierce in the morning. I started working for this family with my mother at the tender age of 8 and I have lived here since. The Salvatore's always made it comfortable for my mother and I to stay here and I could never say a bad word about them. They treated us all like family. I had never met my father so I guess that I thought of the Salvatore's as my family. Walking down the hall I had the familiar smell of herbs coming from Mr Salvatore's room. I walked in with his tea and in return with a comforting look in his eyes and a warm smile on his face, gave me a few of the herbs to give to the cook. He told me they were something that he received off a friend and they would help us lead healthy lives and to put them into our drinks. He said these herbs would protect us all...Who knew that later on in life, this herb would be my weakness.

*back to present day*

Coming out of my own imagination, I came up to a driveway. Looking at the house for the first time you would think that it was more than one house put together. I had never seen this before. I guess that it was put up when the other building was too old to live in anymore. I parked by the side of the road looking at the house and taking in a deep breath. This was it. I was finally going to meet them.

Walking up to the front door, I was very nervous. I had been searching for so long and now my search was finally over. I knocked on the door hoping someone would open the door. I heard footstep and suddenly the door was open revealing a tall boy with brown hair. I was shocked and he could tell it on my face. He looked at me confused.

"Can I help you?" He asked me with a concerned tone. I had not seen him since 1864 and it was a relief to find him at last, but I hardly doubt that he remembered me.

I managed to compose myself and started to speak. "Hi, yes..., I'm laura. I was looking for Stefan Salvatore. Is he in?" I had gone through this moment in my head a thousand time, figuring out what I would say and yet my brain had suddenly failed me and had gone blank. What on earth was I going to say to him?

He smiled slightly. "Umm.. yes that is me. Can I help you at all?"

"Oh great. I was just wondering if I could talk to you. It's an urgent matter about your family." I answered. I just hoped that he would invite me in.

He looked at me puzzled. I knew that there was a chance that he would not invite me in but I had to take this risk. Hesitantly he answered "Sure. Come on in."

I smiled and started to walk in. The next thing I knew I was up against the wall with his hand around my throat and his teeth bare. He had worked out what I was just by looking at me! How was that possible? No matter how hard I tried I struggled against his weight. He was much more powerful than me. He then looked at me struggling in confusion. "Who are you?" He shouted at me "How did you know I live here!"

Still up against the wall I stared at him fear flowing through me. Resisting the urge to fight back, I answered calmly "I have family business with you. I asked the first person I saw Sir."

He calmed down the second I had said Sir. He put me down and apologised. He looked at me with the concerned look he had carried since I had arrived here. "Who are you?" He asked again.

I took in a deep breath and finally said the words I had been dying to say since I found out the truth in 1864. "I'm Laura...I'm your half-sister"