Revenge on a Salvatore

My side of 1864

*this is backstory for the character, the rest of the story goes to the time equivalent to the beginning of season two*

Everyone is running around, all I can hear is shouting, screams and guns shooting. I cannot find my brothers.

Father got Katherine and Stefan and Damon and they took off leaving me alone. This is the night, the founding families are rounding up the vampires.

Where the hell are they? I need to find them before Father realises what they are up too.

I see Emily with Anna, wait, shit! Mr Gilbert has got Pearl! Stupid Gilbert, he was so infatuated with her, how could he turn on her so easily. She is a mother!

"HEY!" Mr Lockwood yells to me, "what do you think you are doing out here Grace?" He starts running towards me, so I run, I don't know why I run, if I stayed still it might have been fine.

Ouch, my foot gets caught on a root and I hear a tear from my dress. Great, I am bleeding among angry vampires. I grab my dress and keep running, I hear Mr Lockwood's heavy footsteps behind me, he is a very angry man, he scares the shit out of me, he has been known to beat his children.

NO WAY! Stefan has his arms around Katherine's shoulders and Damon has a grip on her waist.
"What do you think you guys are doing?" I hiss at them as I approach them.

"Grace what do you think you are doing?" Stefan ask turning to me.

"Saving you two, you need to stop, Mr Lockwood was chasing me and he cannot be too far behind."

"We will be quick, just help us," Damon tells me. I help them lift Katherine out of the trailer and onto the ground. They both start untying her. I hear voices, I bolt up, SHIT!

"Hurry, I hear voices," I whisper yell to them. Damon stands up.

BANG!

Damon falls to the ground, a patch of blood forms on the shirt.

I sit next too Damon, he holds my hand. Tears form in his eyes and mine. I turn to see Stefan picking up the gun on the ground. I stand up, "NO!" I go to stand next to Stefan who pushes me to the ground behind him but I get up an push forward again. I cannot make out the dark silhouette who shot Damon, "Please let us go, you killed our brother, isn't that enough?" I cry out but Stefan grabs me and pushes me to the ground again behind Katherine and Damon. I look into Damon's eyes, this isn't fair. Damon was just trying to save the woman he loved and he was killed.

BANG! Stefan falls to the ground. NO NO NO! I stand up. Another BANG. I fall to the ground next to Stefan, he looks at me and mouths 'I love you' I say it back. The men come and pick Katherine up and put her in the trailer again. We are all going to die for nothing.
Death by a gunshot to the stomach isn't instant, I laid there, so did Stefan and Damon. It felt like eternity. It is true though, my life plays out before my eyes, I see my mother on her bed then her leaving us, Stefan and Damon playing with a ball in the yard while I sat and watched.
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I wake up to see Stefan and Damon, what the heck, I look around and see Emily. What is happening?

Damon sees me awake and helps me up and gives me a hug. He is crying softly, Damon never cries, "what is happening?" I ask him. He just hugs me tighter. I rest my head on his shoulder as he holds me. Stefan comes over and sits me down,

"Grace," he begins "we all died"

I nod holding back tears "I know, we were all shot"

"By Father." Stefan tells me.

I draw in a ragged breath as Stefan squeezes my shoulder in an attempt at comfort.

"So what is all of this, why aren't we dead?"

"Grace, you know how Katherine would feed on us then heal us with her blood?" Stefan asks

"Yeah..." I say confused.

"Well," Damon interrupts Stefan, "turns out if you die with Vampire blood in you system, you come back"

"Great!" I say "we can go anywhere becuase no one knows we're alive!"

"No, we can't yet" Stefan says

"Grace, if you die with vampire blood in your system and come back, you have the option to drink human blood and become a vampire" Damon says

"What's the other option?" I ask hopeful.

Stefan looks at the ground. "You die" he whispers.

I stand up and stare at them, "what?" I ask.

"You can become a vampire or die" Damon repeats.

"Well, there is no way we are going to drink human blood, we will not become murderers," I remind them.

"Well, Grace, I already did it" Stefan says.

I slowly meet his gaze "you what?" I say stepping to him.

"I drank human blood" Stefan says. "And it's amazing! You have all of this strength, speed, power!" He says demonstrating his speed.

"Stefan" I say "who did you kill?"

Stefan and Damon cannot look at me. " STEFAN!" I yell at him " Who did you kill!"

"Father" he says looking at his feet.

"You" I say in shock, "KILLED OUR FATHER!" I yell at him "HE WAS ALL THE FAMILY WE HAD LEFT!" I yell, I have never been more angry, I know Father killed us and was a terrible man who beat us but he was still our Father who thought he was protecting people.

"Grace, Father was a terrible man, he killed his own children" Stefan reminds me.

"He was still our father" I say quiet but angry.

Stefan disappears and brings back a corpse.

I step back.

"What are you doing?" Damon asks him grabbing my hand and pulling me behind him.

"Drink" Stefan says holding the body to us "DRINK" he says again desperate "and we can travel the world and do whatever we want"

He is stepping closer to Damon who is struggling to resist, then all the sudden, Stefan shoves the body and Damon cannot resist and he drinks. He keeps drinking till the body is empty.

"No," I whisper, I start to run. Obviously my vampire brothers catch up to me. Damon is telling me to drink and Stefan is shoving another body in my face.

"Damon, I thought you didn't want this!" I screamed. Then I realised who the body was. ELIZABETH! My brothers killed my best friend.

"I don't want this, but I don't want you to die!" Damon says holding me.

"You killed Elizabeth!" I screamed trying to get out of Damon's grasp.

"Grace, please," Stefan said putting his hand on my shoulder "I don't want to do this without you, I need you."

I see the blood dripping down her neck, tears are streaming down my face. Elizabeth is dead. There is nothing I can do about it. My brothers are vampires and there is nothing I can do about it. I'm going to die, which I can do something about, I can drink the blood of my best friend.

I smell the metallic scent of the red liquid falling to the ground from her neck, in an irritating "drip drip drip."

I look into Elizabeth's eyes, once full of life, now look at me, I see the fear that Stefan caused her frozen there forever.

"Please!" Damon says crying "I don't want to see you die" he is shaking me. I collapse on the ground, I'm tired, hungry and dead, or whatever this is. I'm now only inches from the puddle of blood, Stefan grabbed my arm and put my hand in the puddle of blood. My fingers felt the warm substance. I have never wanted anything more then to put it in my mouth. I lick my finger.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" I scream, I don't know if I'm talking to my brothers or myself. I just drank the blood of the person who was always there for me, who helped me get through loosing my mother, the person who always met me at 7 am for school and never missed a day. Now she is dead and I used her for blood.

"You will regret this" I say in tears to Damon and Stefan. Then I run.