Believer (Derp Crew/Vampire Diaries)

6: Secrets Uncovered

A hand entangled in my hair and yanked me to face them. "Forget this happened."

"Tom!" Ze argued.

"She's a liability if she knows!" He argued back.

"She deserves to know!" His brother hissed.

I touched the pendant around my neck. It was a heart shape with a sapphire gem on the outside. James had given it to me, told me it would keep me safe. I knew what he meant now.

"What was that? Mind control?" I asked.

"You're on vervain." Tom came to the conclusion, releasing me from his hold. "How?"

I gripped the pendant tighter on my slender fingers. "Fuck you."

"Your necklace. Where did you get that?!" He growled, reaching for it.

Ze grabbed his hand and wrenched it back. "Leave her alone."

Tom snarled and in a blast of cold air, he was gone.

I turned to Steven. "Who else knows?" I asked.

He shrugged. "Kayla and GaLm. That's about it. And they only know because they're-"

"What? Are they Vampires, too?" I asked, fighting back tears.

He shook his head. "They should tell you themselves. Whatever you do, please don't tell your family. Don't tell Sarah or Chilled or anyone else. You don't ever have to see me again. Just please.... keep this a secret." His green eyes were closing, tears streaming down his face. He was pleading with me to keep this from the people I loved most.

"I'll keep it a secret. But I don't ever want to see you, or your brother, again. I came here to get away from my old life, from my past and all of its sadness and mistakes. I came here to feel safe. Fuck you and your brother for ruining that." I turned and stepped from the car, walking away. Tears poured down my cheeks and my body shuttered with sobs.

I hadn't begun to feel okay since James left. Being around Steven tonight, before shit hit the fan, had felt great. I felt happy. But within the matter of a few short minutes, he managed to turn my whole world upside down.

Opening the door to my house, I felt eyes on me. All of our friends were over, having a blast. When they saw me, they all stopped talking and stared.

"Laz...?" John asked, standing up from his seat on the couch.

I shook my head and gripped at my hair, letting out a loud sob. I couldn't bear the thought of losing him because monsters ran rogue through the streets of our new home.

John pulled me into his arms and rubbed my back. He whispered words that were supposed to be soothing into my ear. I just crumbled to the ground, him following suit.

After everything in my life to go wrong, I couldn't get this one thing to be peaceful and safe, could I? James was lying when he gave me this stupid piece of jewelry. It wouldn't keep me safe. Mom lied when she told me name would protect me from hell's fire. I was burning in my own personal hell on Earth.

~~~

I knocked rapidly on the door, my hand burning with pain from the force of my knocks. The door opened up after a moment and GaLm stood in the entrance.

"Lapis, hey. What's up?" He asked, leaning against the doorway. His arms were folded across his chest.

"What are you?" I hissed. I needed answers. Steven said they knew his secret because they had secrets, too. If I was going to live here with my family, I needed to know who was safe to be around and who I needed to stay away from.

"What?" He furrowed his dark eyebrows in utter confusion. "Lapis, what are you talking about?"

"I know about Steven and Tom. I know what they are. And I need to know what you are. I need to know if I can trust you." I clenched my fists, digging my nails into my palms.

Anthony sighed and scratched at his head. "Kayla and I are witches. Well, she is. I'm supposed to be, but I just can't do magic."

"Witches?" I raised my eyebrow, staring at the man before and wondering if he was insane or not.

"Yes. We don't do black magic or anything bad. It's mainly just protection spells and healing spells. Nothing too major." He shrugged.

I ran my hands threw my blue hair. If Vampires existed for real, why wouldn't witches? This was all way too much.

A car pulled up in the driveway. Both Anthony and I turned to see it. My heart sank. It was Steven's car.

"The boys wanted to hang out so.." GaLm said as he shouldered on a jacket and closed the front door.

I nodded, averting my gaze. "Did Steven-?"

"Yeah, he told us all about it. Well, not about the attack. Just that things fell through. I'm sorry, for both of you." Anthony said as he walked towards the car.

I walked home, my head pounding. If Vampires existed, and so did Witches, did other things exist? Like Werewolves and Bigfoot and shit?

"Lapis, are you okay?" Marissa asked when I entered our shared home.

I shrugged. "Marissa... I don't like living here."

She frowned. "Why? Because of Steven? Laz, you can't let all of this boy drama bother you."

I glared at her. "Boy Drama? Marissa, my last boyfriend left me without so much as a goodbye! I went on my first date in forever and I was happy but no, he had to be dangerous and a freak!" I struggled to calm my breathing and keep in the tears.

"You didn't tell us what happened." She said, eyes full of concern.

I shook my head. "You would have to be there." I went past her into my room and locked the door. I curled up in my bed, pulling the blankets up over my head. Why was this my life?

~~~

~Steven's P.O.V.~

I sat in my room, head in my hands. Being around her made me feel human. She made me feel like I wasn't a monster. That was, until, I became a monster in front of her pretty blue eyes.

I never wanted her to find out, especially like that. She would have had to have found out eventually, but finding out the way she did.... There was no hope for her to ever want to be around me again.

Her name was Lapis, which was incredibly weird and funny. The gemstone in my bracelet was a Lapis stone because it kept me from burning in the daylight. Yet, all I wanted to do was burn in the sun. The pain would be easier to handle.

She didn't know about Vampires, but she was immune to Tom's compulsion.  Her mom must have known about us, because named her daughter after the very stone that protected Vampires from dying in the light of the sun.

I never asked to be this way. I never asked to be a Vampire. It was all Sapphire's fault.

Lapis looked just like her, but they weren't the same person. It was funny, in a twisted sense. Sapphire loved me, but she also loved my brother. Or, so she claimed. She was using us both for her own gain.

Lapis didn't want to be around either of us. The evil one used us and the good one couldn't care less. What a turn of events.