6 chapter 5: the monster that was created

"Cass!" lizzie says snapping me out of my trance. We were sitting outside of the Salvatore school. It has been a 2 weeks since I have woken up and there is still no sign of my brother. "Yes, sorry." I said. "I was asking you if you wanted to sign up for miss mystic falls this year?" she asked. "Huh?" I asked not knowing what it was. Lizzie then explained to me that it was a pageant that the young women in mystic falls compete in. Lizzie and I have grown close. At first she didn't like me that much and my feelings were mutual but after talking with her we became good friends. Josie and I were also close but she was going through a rough patch and liked to be left alone for a little bit. "I don't know, Liz." I said. "Okay, but you are still going, right?" she questioned me. "Yeah" I replied "Perfect!" she exclaimed.

She then dragged me up to her and Josies room to pick me out a dress. "Here, this belonged to one of my moms friends when they were about my age" as she handed me the box. "We can alter it to fit you" she continued. I opened the box to see a beautiful silky, blue dress.

"Oh my gosh. Liz, it's beautiful!" I exclaimed. She looked at me and smiled. "Cassidy, you never told me how you knew my ancestors from the gemini coven" I looked up at her and sighed. "I lived with the parker family for two years in Portland, the last time I was awake"

I walked around the room looking out the window. "I knew you and Josie's biological mother, she was my best friend" I continued. "So that means you knew our uncle Kai as well?" Lizzie questioned. I continued to look out the window; memories flooding into my head. "Yes, Malachi and I had a very difficult relationship. We were so different yet so alike. We were both treated horribly by your grandfather for being siphoners but I guess we bonded over that". Lizzie walked up next to me and said "But he was a monster from what my dad and Jo have told me" I looked at her "What do you mean was? And monster?" I shouldn't have left him by himself with his family. Lizzie looked at me "My dad, didn't tell you?" she asked "Tell me what?" I questioned.

"When my mom was 22 he stabbed her with a knife, killed 4 of his siblings, and was trying to kill my uncle Luke and my aunt Liv when they were 4" My eyes widened. I knew that Mr and Mrs Parker kept trying to have another set of children after they found out Malachi was a siphoner and was deemed unfit for the merge but I didn't think that they would succeed. My thoughts were pulled to the young children I was close to when I was there in Portland. Joey, Allison, Madilyn, and Aiden. I looked at Lizzie with anger glistening in my eyes. "When was this?" I said furiously. "1994" "and where are your grandparents and the rest of the family now?" I questioned. "Hold on im not finished" Lizzie said sternly.

"My mom tricked Kai into thinking she would merge with him but she put her magic away and the coven trapped him in a prison world. He got out in 2014 when my aunt Bonnie and uncle Damon were trapped there. This was because in order for him to get out he needed the ascendant, the eclipse, and Bennet blood from my aunt Bonnie. I had heard of the Bennet witches before and knew they were a powerful bloodline of them.

"He killed my uncle Luke when they merged because Luke took my moms place thinking he could win. They were the same age due to Kai being trapped at the age of 22. Kai won. He then killed my mom on her wedding day with our dad when she was pregnant with us. Now before you ask how we survived just wait. Because he was the leader of the coven, he killed himself; which caused the rest of the coven to die with him. He had vampire blood in him when he died; making him a heretic. Before they died, the coven magically put us in our mother, Caroline who is a vampire."

Lizzie continued while looking at me. "Our uncle Damon killed him but he came back in 2017 from hell and tried to kill me and Jo. Our parents arrived just in time to save us. We and our aunt Bonnie trapped him in a prison world again. We got trapped there a couple months ago and he escaped again but our dad killed him before he could hurt us. He's the reason Josie went dark." Lizzie said. To say that I was furious was an understatement. I looked at Lizzie and gave her a hug letting the tears that were forming in my eyes fall. It was my fault that he went evil. I left him. It was my fault.

"Come on, let's try on your dress" Lizzie said changing the subject while wiping the tears from my eyes. Even though I was older than her by a couple of centuries she had become an older sister to me. I turned around and lifted up the dress. I quickly changed into it and turned around for Lizzie to see.

She altered it to where it fitted me better and I walked to the mirror to look. I looked different as I was never one to dress up. Lizzie came up behind me and smiled. "You look beautiful" she said placing her hands on my shoulder. Something caught her eye. "What is it?" I asked nervously. "This tattoo, i've seen it before. Where did you get it?" Lizzie asked. "I was born with it, it came from my fathers pack." "Wait the Crescent pack?" she asked "Yes...." I replied hesitantly. "Oh my god." she said loudly.