Title: Bound
Category: TV Shows ยป Vampire Diaries
Author: LostGirl818x
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M
Genre: Romance/Drama
Rights: I own nothing, this is just for entertainment and not profit. Any characters I create are simply for storytelling purposes
To my dearest daughter Caroline,
This is the hardest letter I've ever written and by the time you finish it, I won't be there to protect you from what may come. I know that this will cause you pain and I hate it. To be the cause of your pain more than anything I've endured I hate that. Know that I made the best choices I could with what I was given and that above all else, you are my greatest joy. My greatest honor will always be being your mom. Caroline, the daughter who I somehow raised to be strong and brave, loving and bold. I'm drawing from your strength now. There is a part of me I kept hidden from you hoping that it would keep you safe and let you live a happy life.
I foolishly thought I had more time. Our lives are more alike than you realize. No more stalling, no more secrets here is my story. I was born a witch, a Syphoner. I could steal power from objects and people but couldn't create any of my own. Witches like me were looked down on because what witch can't create their own magic? Me, my family, my coven all we had was each other. We were shunned and not considered real witches. Being spurned did something to my coven, they couldn't take it. It twisted them, made them evil and wicked. Very few of us with sound minds got out. With nothing to my name and nowhere to go, I ran. I ran away with a boy who said he could give me a home and keep me safe.
The love story we sold you about your father and I is also a lie, a cover-up. He was a young hunter trying to impress his family and find new ways to fight supernaturals. You know your father's legacy, but it goes deeper than that. They're hunters, who hate all things magical. At the time, I did too. I hated my family and anything to do with that life. Your father was a way out. The long and short of it was that I met him when he was bleeding from a wolf bite. I Syphoned the magic out and he saw in me a golden ticket. He said his family would find a way to cure me but, in the meantime, I could do good and help people. I took his offer without any plan to look back. What happened after that doesn't matter. He treated me well your dad was a decent man.
When I became pregnant with you, everything changed. You were this innocent life inside of me that I needed to protect. I refused to let you go through life as I had, and your father's family would only use you and raise you as a hunter. I hoped that when you were born none of my powers would transfer to you. They did. You were born a Witch with all the abilities I once had. I was left human with a lot of battles to fight.
First, I needed to get away from the Forbes Clan. The fewer eyes on you the better. I petitioned the Forbes to come back to their hometown. It had become a cesspool of vampire history and they would need Bill and me. Then as a human, I became a Sheriff to have some kind of power. When you were born, I convinced Bill that you were human and that my powers had simply dried up in childbirth. The truth was, I had kept in contact with a few Witches in my old coven and one was willing to help me bind your powers. Maybe your memory doesn't go back that far, but she stayed with us for a few summers on and off until we lost contact. Anna and her daughter Ramona.
Anna had taken my place as the Forbes' Syphoner but would come down to give me the low down and help me keep this town safe. She was a great help. There is not much I can tell you about them now just that a decade ago Anna started using darker magic and methods and made her unhinged and unsafe. Ramona still kept in touch, she would send news and warnings when she could. One of the last ones she passed down was that Anna told the Forbes Clan that she bound your powers. They were going to come down but Ramona said she would think of something. I don't know what happened next you got into an accident and the whole thing with Bill happened. One of the last coherent messages Ramona sent me is that she had figured something out. I say that to say that madness is the illness that follows my old coven and Ramona went mad. The very last time we spoke she was hearing voices, arguing with someone who wasn't there.
I had a dream the other night, and against my better judgment, I sent a copy of this letter to Ramona. If, for whatever reason, you don't get the letter I left you that you would get this one. That this one would find you. Caroline, I know this is a lot to take in but you need to be ready. You are a vampire, and you are going to be hunted. They're not going to care that you are wonderful and controlled. You need to protect yourself and surround yourself with people that can protect you. I know you and Klaus Mikaelson have a friendship. His strength and relentlessness are well known and friends like him can be very good for you. If nothing else the look in his eyes when he looks at you has brought me some peace.
I may not be as perfect as you thought, but I love you, and that will never change.
-Present Day-
Ramona neatly put the letter back in the envelope and re-creased the folds. She didn't say anything, instead, she sat there quietly pouting. In the corner, her shadow man sits in a chair watching the news. "If Caroline hasn't reached out to find you, it probably means she didn't get this letter and you should rectify that. That's why Elizabeth sent you a copy." He tells her ignoring her hissy fit.
"I'm not rectifying jack-shit! If she wanted a favor from me, she should've been nice. I've been super nice! She basically called me crazy like my mother." Ramona huffs. Henrik Mikaelson stands up and touches nose-to-nose with Ramona. His eyes are stern, dark, and endless. "Ramona. If Caroline Forbes doesn't get that letter the Forbes hunters are going to catch her off guard. If she's killed it'll disrupt the revenge I've been patiently planning for over 1,000 years."
Character face: If you watched Teen Wolf a few years back think "Stiles" for Henrik and singer BeckyG for Ramona.
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