𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦-𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘬𝘢𝘩 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯

thirteen

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
children of the damned

The soft hum of music playing on the radio is what kept Samuel sane as he watched the road. "So where exactly are we going? I feel like I've been driving for hours and we're surrounded by woods".

He tapped his fingers along the steering wheel as he turned his gaze slightly toward Rebekah. "Not trusting my sources? This witch is the one who's been helpful for weeks, the others were frauds and easily disposable when it came to it".

Samuel chuckled slightly "you think I'd not trust you? I'd be an idiot to not trust an original vampire, I wish my sister would ditch the vampires she's hanging with, they're gonna get her killed".

His hold tightened on the steering wheel "I think it's sweet that you're worried for her, I wish my family worried about me that much, but of course they're not exactly kind when it comes to protecting me".

Samuel watched as she rubbed at her chest, he felt a sting in his heart as he bit into his lip slightly. "Is that your family's solution then? Daggering each other until they decide to wake up?".

Rebekah sighed "it's not a lovely experience, you're left forgotten inside a box while the world keeps going, and it can happen at any time. I left the second I could, I'm not going back in that box".

Samuel turned the radio off "you don't have too, maybe you can turn your life around for once, start fresh somewhere, your family can't find you".

Rebekah smiled slightly, it didn't reach her eyes as Samuel turned down a road "I wish it were that easy, but my brothers very insisted on finding me, he's made it very clear, he'll always find me".

She looked outside the window and Samuel looked down at his phone when it went off. Elena's name felt so too see, half the time he ignored it and pretended she didn't exist. This time felt different, knowing what was going on back in mystic falls made him anxious.

He had never felt this way before, he left the town so easily without even a thought about the people he left behind. This time felt different, he was expecting the worst as he looked away from the phone.

Elena wasn't his problem, she could handle whatever mess she got herself into herself. At the end of the day he knew she'd die, even if it wasn't now it would happen one of these days. It was a curse, he watched so many people die at the hands of vampires.

Half the time he wanted to kill them all himself so no one else would suffer. Elena was caught in the crossfire of it all, it would get worse with time if everything caught up to him.

He left town for a reason and now everything was leading back to Elena, the sole reason he left was because of her and now she was in danger again.

Samuel licked his lips nervously, he had normally felt such an intense emotion before but when he was beside Rebekah he felt it so strongly.

He found lying so easy, but when he looked at her he felt like he was stuck. His heart was beating like crazy and he felt his body start to shut down as he turned down another road towards a small house.

"You alright? Your heart is racing like crazy? You can trust me you know, I haven't got any reason to kill you". Samuel kept his eyes on the road and he could feel her eyes melting into his skin as he heard his phone go off again.

"Yeah I'm fine" he sounded so bitter and it annoyed him as he tried to relax his heart. He was so good at keeping himself calm around vampires but this time felt so different, everything was different.