Chapter 3

I look Stefan in the eyes for a few seconds, still winching at the pain that is expanding through my leg as I breathe. Damon looks at me and stops wrapping my leg. He moves it beside him and walks over to this long table in the other room. Stefan stands next to the fireplace. Damon walks back out with this file in his hands. "This file is yours. It has your birth certificate, social security number, and hospital records over the time from your birth till now." I looked at him with a confused face but also tired of listening to him already. "Okay and?" Damon comes closer to me. "You said that your name is Emma Pierce, But your birth records say your name is Emma Marie Salvatore." He looks at me with the most awful resting bitch face. "There is no way my last name is Salvatore. MY mother.." Damon stepped closer, "Your MOTHER was a lying conniving bitch who will hide anything in her life just to save her ass and she lied about who you are. She lied to her own daughter about who she is." I looked away as fast as I could, "NO, You are Wrong! My mother would NEVER lie to me about who I am!"

Stefan sighed and crossed his arms. "Damon, This isn't going anywhere, You can see that Emma doesn't know the truth about Katherine just as much as we never got the truth from her in the first place. You can't blame Emma for that." Damon sighed and sets the papers down on the coffee table the lies in front of me. I was tired and wanted rest. I lied down more on the couch, "Just leave me alone... I want to sleep." Stefan walks over to Damon and they both leave the room. I close my eyes and drift off to sleep hearing the last words before full passing out. "We need to find Katherine." After that I don't remember anything else.

Damon's POV:

Standing outside pacing back and forth, "How, How could I have not known about her for 16 years. 16 YEARS Stefan." I turn around to look at Stefan, "I hear you Damon, but Kathrine is always hiding things. So why are you so surprised the she hid Emma from us for this long. I look back over at the door it open to make sure we can see Emma if she wakes up.

Emma's POV:

I wake up but don't sit up immediately. I hear them both they sound close but not close enough to hear me. I slowly sit up and look at the door to see where they are. When I look over the couch and look out the door they were not there. completely empty. I turn back around and manage to push myself up off the couch and I am now relying on the coffee table to hold up my body. I look up and there stood Damon and Stefan. "Why are you up?" I looked at them and crossed my arms. "I am up because I can't just lye here all night. I need to get home before foster parents start sending out a search party for me." Damon and Stefan look at each other. Stefan moves close, "And why is that. Teens go missing all the time in the town to go to parties and drinking." I look back at the door and then at Stefan. Damon closes the door and comes back over to the lounge area, "Or is there something else that we don't know about?"

I look at my file, and then at them. "You said this was my hospital file right?" Stefan nodded, "And the file next to it is your foster file. Damon got it because we wanted to see what kind of family you have right now." My eyes widen and stumble down for the file. I grab it and move around the table limping on the brokenish leg. I open the file and fly through the pages, the more I read the more they could know about me. I looked up at them and Damon's arm is out with his hand open. "We didn't read that one yet because we wanted to give you the chance to tell us about your life first." I shut the file fast and hold it closer to my chest. "I am not giving you this file." Damon moves closer to me, "And why is that?" Stefan looks at Damon, "Maybe Emma has more of a colorful background then we know." Damon nodes and comes for the file. I panic and throw the files into the fire, they start to go up in flames. I went to grab my hospital file but Stefan grabs it before I could. Damon rushes over to the fire and tries to salvage what is left of my file as I made a run for the door no matter how much my leg was causing me pain.

I made it out the door and there drove up Elena, I run into her car door and hit it begging her to open it. She unlocked the door and I rushed in and locked it behind me. Stefan and Damon ran out after I got the seat belt on. "PLEASE, Elena. Get me out of here!" Elena sped us away, she took me back to her house and helped me get back inside the house and up to her room. "Emma what happened?" I held my head between my knees as I tried to collect what was going on and what happened to me. I look up at Elena. "Damon and Stefan were trying to keep me hostage and then was going through my files I think I broke my leg and Demon is like trying to act like he is in charge of me or some type of parental figure. Elena looks around the room and makes sure all the doors and windows are locked. She came back over to me and sat down. "It's going to be okay, Damon can't get you right now. I sigh with relief, Elena turns the lights off and we get settled for bed. we fall asleep fast, it felt goof to sleep without the fear of not knowing what is next.

*The next morning*

I wake up way before Elena does, I take a shower and try to pry this make shift of a cast off my leg, I use Elenas' scissors from the bed room to cut it off. I cut the makeshift cast off and look at my leg. It is just slightly swollen now. I guess it was just a really bad sprain. I get in the shower and wash off all of the dirt from the night before. I finish showering up and get dressed, luckily Elena and I were the same size clothes. I wake Elena up and she gets ready as well, after that we make our way to the car and head to school. I kind of limp my way into to class and sit down, Everything seems to be back to normal. I pull my books out and look at my phone, there are over 100s of messages between texts and calls from an unknown number. I read over a few of them and I notice that they have to be from Damon. There is no doubt that they are from Damon. It keeps mentioning my past foster families, I guess there was more of the file that survived then I expected. I put my phone away and try to ignore them, Elena comes in a sits down at the desk that is right next to me. Stefan walks in after her and sits down right in front of me, He turns around and looks me in the eyes. "When are you going to let us explain everything?" Elena looks over at Stefan, "Why are you guys bothering Emma so much? First you offer her a ride home, then Damon is digging through the fire for something and then Emma running out of your house a limping with some sort of a cast on her leg the day of her getting out of the hospital." Stefan looks away, class starts and things start to finally get somewhat calm.

*Later that day*

I walk to the locker room and get changed for Cheer practice. Elena, Caroline and Bonnie and Sabrina were all in the locker room as well. Elena and Bonnie were talking about a class they just came out of, Caroline and Sabrina came over to me, "So what is going one with you and the Salvatores', Why are they stalking you like a hawk?" I look around to see if anyone was there but it was just the five of us. "To be honest, I have no clue what is wrong with them but they will not leave me alone." Caroline agreed. We went outside to the field, There stood Demon by his cherry red car, waving a file around like it's no big deal. And It is not the burnt one either it is a perfectly normal file. Stefan comes up behind me as I was walking, he continued to walk me off the field and over to the car where Damon stood. I could feel everyone watching us but they couldn't hear us since they are farther away.

"You are in plain sight in the public so you don't feel like we are trying to hurt you or kill you or kidnap you." Stefan said as he looked into my eyes. Damon opened the file, "You know reading this really opened my eyes a lot on what kind of a person you are, Between your mother and me, You are more like me than I thought." I looked at him with a confused look. "What is that supposed to mean?" Damon Chuckles, "You really haven't pieced together all the little points that Stefan and I have been making have you?" I shake my head, "Not really. I have been trying to ignore your ass this entire time." Damon sighs "Well, Do listen, would ya." 

Damon opens the file and pulls out my birth certificate, "You have already told me that my last name really isn't my last name. So what more could you have to show me." He hands me the paper and points at the names on the bottom, "You see that, this name here is your mothers name, Katherine Pierce. And then this name right here is your fathers name." As I move over to the name of my father and right there in bold coloring is the name.

Damon Salvatore