Chapter 4

No, no, no, no, that can't be true at all. They both look at me seriously and Damon looks a bit mad. I didn't know what he meant, how is HE my father? I was in shock. But also the daughter of a VAMPIRE, oh my god. I am the daughter of a fucking vampire, no no no I can't be. "This is bullshit, none of this is real!" I yell out and slap the paper out of his hand, Damon moves he goes to grab my hand, "No don't Touch me!" Stefan looked at me, "Emma please okay we didn't know about you before." Damon chimed in, "Your mo" ... I stepped back farther "No I SAID don't Touch me!" He stepped back to where he was before. Stefan looked at me, "Emma your mother Katherine, is also a Vampire, She hid the truth from us about you and gave you up after she was discovered to be a vampire when you were 8." I shook his head, "Yes Emma, she is a vampire. And The only reason we are so hellbound on figuring out everything from your past to now is Because you shouldn't have been born it is not possible." I looked up at Damon, "What the hell do you mean I should have never been born?!?"

Damon sighed, "Look, we will figure this out but for now you need to come back home with Stefan while I go search for your psychotic mother." Damon got into his car and drove off. Stefan walked over to me and pointed at the car across the parking lot, "You ready or do you need to grab your bag in the locker room?" I nod and walk back to the locker room, I grab my back and head over to Elena. "Hey, so I am heading home early, I will text you if anything happens okay." Elena smiles and nods. I get into Stefan's car and he starts to drive back to the house. "So what are we going to tell my foster parents?" Stefan looked at me for a split second and then back on the road. "Damon and I have already delt with that. This morning we went into the court house and showed them your birth certificate and his identification and went through a lot of paperwork but after hours of being in the court house, Damon is now legally your parental guardian. So he has full parental rights over you now." I looked at him with the most surprised look, "What about my stuff and asking me if I wanted to even have him as my father!" Stefan had a crooked smile on his face and continued to drive. We pull up to what looks like my foster parents house, OH MY GOD, this is my foster parent's house. We got out of the car and started to walk up the steps, I was in front. "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!" I look up and there stood my foster mom, After I had moved here they had given me a new foster family after I was with protective ones. They put me with a foster family that was greedy for money and make our lives a living hell.

I look into her eyes and try to not show emotions, "I. " She moves closer to me, "You know the rules child, no boys allowed in this house, You may go to your room and not leave it again and tell your friend that he needs to leave." I turn around and looked at Stefan with fear in my eyes, I did not want to be left alone with her not even for a second. Stefan walks in front of me, "Emma is no longer under your control. If you read the paperwork you will see that her father has been grated custody and given parental rights." He smiles and walks passed her, "Emma let's get your things and leave." Leana's mouth dropped to the ground. I chuckled and followed Stefan into the back room where all of my stuff is and where I used to sleep and my roommate Ceira. God I don't miss living here but I miss Ceira and Sianna and when the staff was here I would always lounge around with Miss Lyea who deals with the laundry. I sit down on the bed the room is a mess, it looks like Leana went through my things. Maybe she was looking for something to call the cops on me again or to make my parole officer take me to juvenile as she has done to many of the other kids that had lived here before and during me when they started to lower their money when the kid would get older.

It took us a little under 2 hours to clean up the stuff in the room to figure out what is mine and what wasn't mine. Once we had everything organized we were finally able to take the boxes we had packed out to the car. We loaded the car up and went back inside and handed the key back over to Leana. "I should have sent you off to juvenile court years ago." I turn away from her, glad to be out that retched place. But I am also worried about moving in with my so-called "Dad".

*Later that day*

I was unpacking my stuff into one of the rooms that Stefan had shown me that I was able to pick out of there was a few good rooms but I liked this one. It was the last room on the left side at the very top of the stairs. It had a lot of natural light coming in from the big window the showed out to the front of the Manor. I started to put my clothes away and just happened to look out the window and see Damon standing with Stefan and Elena. I open the door and walk out to the little terrace outside of the window, I lean against the ledge of the terrace. Damon stopped talking and everyone looked up at me, I looked closer at Elena and I noticed there was rope tied around her hands and her ring was missing. She was also wearing different clothes than what she was wearing a few hours ago. Elena's face changed from smirked to confused and surprised. I fixed my posture and straightened my back, Elena's face turned to mad and looked at Damon like she was going to kill him. She also looked over at Stefan and he looked down on the ground trying to ignore whatever she was saying. And whatever she was saying it was not nice, She was speaking so angry that her face looked like she was about to blow up.

I watch as they walk into the Manor, I decided to go downstairs and see what was going on. I finally made it downstairs and there stood Elena and Damon they were both arguing and Stefan walks over to me, "Hey, Um.. I really don't think it's a good time to be down here right now. Damon is trying to figure out something." I looked over at them, Elena made dead contact with me. Damon watches Elena like a hawk, Elena moves extremely fast and tries to grab me but Damon jumps in front of me first and stops her. I never knew Elena was a vampire as well... "Elena?...." Damon moves her back across the room. "Its not Elena. I know she looks like her but she is Elena's Doppelganger. Katherine, Your mother. My eyes widened and my heart stopped. I know I really don't remember what my mother looks like because of how awful my childhood was but wow, how have I never realized she looked like Elena?

 "Come on Damon, I could have at least messed with her mind for a few minutes at least." She grinned, Damon tossed her on to the couch, "Are you going to explain how the hell Emma is even here in the first place because we all know that you were never human when you knew me." Katherine chuckled and looked over at me. "I got a spell from Emily back in 1863, I got a spell where I could create a child when I want with whom I want. All I needed was a sample of their DNA. Whether it was hair, skin, blood teeth, or other items." Kathrine chuckled when Damon looked at her. "Why, why would you do this Kathrine?" She shrugged her shoulders and sat down, "Why not, it's fun to make you boys run around in circles." Kathrine looked at me, "You know you are not that bad. I raised you for 7ish years, and it wasn't that bad. But then the government was questioning me on why I never made a birth certificate for you, so they made me make one, on top of that they were questioning why you were always left alone at home. So they took me away, and I was okay with that then I did need to be held back and I can see neither did you." I looked away from her, I didn't want anything to do with her after saying that. It boiled my blood so much that I wanted to just hit the wall till my hand was broken. Stefan takes Katherine out of the room and down the stairs that I assume lead down to the basement.

Damon walks over to me and sits down on the couch and pats the cushion next to him to have me sit next to him. I looked at him confused. "What's wrong?" I wouldn't look at Damon. "I know you have to have some questions." I was thinking but I wasn't sure what to ask and what not to ask. "Am... am I a vampire?" I looked over at him, "From what I can see no, but at the same time I am not sure because you do heal pretty quickly but it takes a few hours." Damon stood up, "I think it's time for bed kiddo, you have school in the morning." I sigh, "Am I actually able to go to Cheerleading practice this time or am I only allowed to go to school and home?" I watched as he thought about it, "Lets just come home after school until we figure out if you are a vampire or not." I sighed and stood up. "Fine.." I walked away and went upstairs to my room, as I walked over to my bed I notice my phone had been blown up with text messages and missed calls. I pick up my phone and unlock it, they are all from Caitlin and Brianna. I read a few of the text messages and they are all about the same thing, everyone wants me to come out to the party that starts soon in the woods by the old graveyard. I guess I can go out and relax and have some fun with my friends. Especially since tomorrow I can't go to practice, Caroline is going to be so mad with me because I wont be there.

I change my outfit, i put on a really cute black skirt with a baby blue corset silk top with off-the-shoulder sleeves. I add a sparkly rhinestone belt in the loops of my skirt, I put on knee high socks and Mary Jane shoes. I climb out my window and into the tree that reaches over to my terrace. I make my way down the tree and look around to make sure Damon and Stefan haven't noticed that I left my room. I made my way into the dark wood following the path I was told to follow by Elena, After I made her promise not to tell Damon and Stefan that I went. I am have way there when I see a man standing in the far distance. I take a turn hoping to lose him, But when I turn to the right the man is now standing right in front of me, he is so close to me I can feel his breath hitting my face. "Well hello, darling" The man had this British accent, He was taller than me by an entire foot. I wasn't a tall girl anyway, "And where might you be going at this time of the night?" I look around, "I am on my way to a party with my friends." He smiles "May I attend the party with?" I shrug my shoulders, "Eh why not." We start to walk deeper into the woods. "May I ask what your name is?" I look at him while we walk, "Emma" He smiles again, "What a pretty name. Is there a last name to match?" I was a bit hesitant but whats the harm of saying it, I have a different last name at school anyways. "Salvatore" He stops, "Did you just say, Salvatore?" I turned around and looked at him with a confused look. "Yea, why?" He shook his head, "No reason." He smiled very small and started to walk again. We both finally got to the part but as soon as we walked up to the drink area he disappeared. I looked around me to see if I saw him again but he was no where to be found, Elena comes out of nowhere and jump scares me. "God Elena, you scared the living shit out of me." We both start to chuckle.

Elena, Caroline and I party away the night, Half way through i managed to get drunk enough to where we are leaning on trees to hold us up. "HEy, I.. I am goin to go, get more drink. U gonna go with or you bad to movin?" Elena looked over at me slowly, "I am great to stay!" She smiled and was wobbling. I stumble my way over to the table, i grab myself a new drink but then I realize I need to go to the bathroom. So I make my way through the crowd and tries to find a good place alone to pee. I find a place behind the big crypt, It didn't take long and I was done. I make my way back around the Crypt but I lose my balance and trip over the tree stumps on the ground. I started to fall to the ground bracing myself for the fall expecting it to hurt, I never hit the hard cold ground. I look up and see the guy I had met on the way to the party, "HEY, I thought you left with ot, saing goodbyeeee!" I close my eyes and smile. He lifts me up to where we are level, "And why would I leave you alone." I lean up against the outside wall of the Crypt, "YO.. You know , I nevver evennn got ur name mister!" I look at him curious as ever. He leans in closer to me, "My name, Ah yes. My name is Klaus, Klaus Mikaelson." He smiles, I look at him with stars in my eyes. "Wow, what a super name!"

He chuckles, "How much have your had?" I look down at my hands and start to count, but i lose my focus and look back at him and shrugged my shoulders and smiled big. Klaus shakes his head. "Well, then maybe you wont remember this." I looked at him confused but I am so drunk that I could care less. Next thing I know I start to feel a warm wet feeling trickle down my neck, I was stiff and couldn't move. I see out of the corner of my eye and see Klaus digging into my neck. I lose consciousness and black out. I feel cold, that is all I can remember, feeling extremely cold with warm blood flowing off of my neck.

I wake up in pain and freezing cold. My body is pulsing with pain and my neck feels like it is on fire. My head is pounding, this is one of the most worse hangover ever. I can barely remember what happened last night, I thought I was better on pacing myself with drinking... I need to get home, hopefully they haven't realize that I was out all night. I slowly get up, every limb I move sounded like it was a rice crispy treat, cracking and popping. I hold onto the crypt wall putting all of my wait on the wall, I pull out my phone. Once again it has been blown up by texts, calls, and tags from everyone posting last nights party online. I open my phone and read a few of my texts and then notice that Damon has called me more than 10 times. Fuck... he has to know that I am not home now.... I open Instagram and pictures of last night are all over Gianna's page. Caroline has spammed out her snapchat and my camera roll is full of drunk Elena, Caroline and I. Until I get farther into my camera roll, I see pictures of me and this man, who is clearly a foot taller than me. He has a light beard and dirty blonde hair, "Who is this guy?" I look at the rest of the pictures, there is so many of them. I get to the last couple of pictures and I see that there is blood on my neck, my eyes widen and notice that this man wasn't just a normal man. He was a vampire.... OH MY GOD, I let a vampire drink my blood while I was drunk...

I put my phone back in my purse, I slowly walk my way through the grave yard, I see many people still passed out and some are awake. I continue to walk my way back to the house I see that man in my photos from a distance. I panic and start to run in the direction of the house. As I am running I have to dodge trees and branches as I run frantically. I make it a bit away from the graveyard, but the man appears in front of me instantly. He grabs me by the neck and slams my body into a tree, i hear something snap. It didn't feel like a bone maybe my skin breaking? I winch in pain and shut my eyes in fear, "Awe, now you won't look at me?" I turn my head in the opposite direction but keep my eyes locked shut. "Look at me when I am talking to you!" He pushes me harder into the tree forcing me to open my eyes, there are tears dropping to the ground.

"You are my ticket to getting Damon and Stefan to give me what I want. And I want KATHERINE alive by midnight or there will be more consequences." Klaus ran us away from where we were and threw me at the front door of the Manor. I fell hard and felt my legs crush under my body and blood trickle down my head. I h it the concrete so hard that I split my skin open. I scream in pain and hear the door to the Manor open so fast that I was rushed into the house and then someone ran out the front door.

Stefan holds a towel on my forehead and has me laying down on the couch. Damon comes back in and slams the door hard. Hard enough to shake every window in the room. He walks over to me and looks at me with the most pissed off face I have ever seen. And that is saying a lot because he was mad with Katherine last night and this is worse.