TVD OneShots

See what you did?

I've only seen TVD once, and I've not even finished it yet, so I can't remember what Emily did. In this, she's a servant for the Salvatores.
Characters: Stefan, Damon, Lily, Giuseppe, Emily
Warnings: Mentions/descriptions of abuse
Pairings: None
Summary: Damon found a small journal that once belonged to Emily. In a last fight to get Lily to choose them over her Heretics, he reveals the contents to her.

"Holy crap, Stefan."
It was late evening, Damon and Stefan were going through an old study, one they'd never been into. Damon had just found a small, deep red, leather-bound book. He flipped open the front page and read 'Property of Emily Bennett'. Opening and flicking through, Damon saw there were only four entries. "What?" Stefan asked as he peered over his brother's shoulder. Damon showed him the front page. "Oh my god." They exchanged a nervous glance. Damon opened it up to the first entry and skimmed his eyes over it.

"This is from the day Lily died." He flicked over to the next entry. "This one's from her funeral." He turned the pages again a few times. "That's the day father told me he'd signed me up for the Confederacy." Stefan stiffened slightly and Damon's shoulders tensed. They both remembered how that day went. "This one's... this one's from when I got injured. I never found out what happened, I didn't remember a thing." Stefan sighed.
"You gonna read them?" He asked. Damon shook his head slowly. 

"Not by myself. And not just me and you either. I think we should read them to Lily."
"What?" Stefan exclaimed. "Are you- hang on. You want her back, don't you?"
Damon closed the journal. "Of course I want her back! She's our mother! I figure one last chance at redemption wouldn't hurt." Stefan smiled at his older brother. 

"I thought you'd given up on her." Damon grunted and huffed.
"I did, 'til I found this. Might actually make her feel something for us if she reads it." Stefan clapped him on the shoulder, a smile still plastered on his face. "I'll call her over." While Stefan went out to make the phone call, Damon couldn't help but flick through the rest of the journal. It was empty until the last two pages. Damon read the first sentence, then he slammed the book shut with a gasp and he felt his face go pale.

'Damon and Stefan Salvatore are dead.'

Luckily, Stefan chose that moment to burst back into the room. "I told her we'd found an old heirloom we want to show her, she'll be over in ten... are you ok?" Stefan asked, looking up from his phone and seeing his brother's pale complexion. "Peachy. Let's just get this over and done with." Without another word, Damon slipped out of the room, past a slightly startled Stefan.

"What heirloom is this, anyways?" Lily asked. She was seated on the couch on the right side of the fire. Stefan was on the couch opposite the flames, Damon stood behind him on his left, book in hand. "It's a journal... Emily's journal." Stefan said. Lily gasped and her hands covered her mouth. "As in Emily Bennett?" Both brothers nodded. 

"Let me ask you a question first, Lily." Damon said, moving round to sit next to Stefan. "Do you know what happened after we were told you'd died? What we went through? What father made me do?" Lily shook her head.
"I noticed in the prison world that you served in the Confederacy. That always made me proud." Damon scoffed. "Do you have any idea what you did when you left us? Any at all?" Once again, Lily shook her head. "Emily cared for us like a mother, even before you died. Maybe this can show you why you should've just stayed, or at least checked in on us." Stefan said. With that, Damon flicked the book open to the first page. Stefan and Damon's hearts were racing, neither of them knew what the book contained. It was just a mystery to them as it was Lily. Damon cleared his throat, then read aloud.

"'I don't usually write, but today I need to let things out. Damon and Stefan's mother died last night. Their father was tending to the body, leaving me to tell them.'" Lily already had tears in her eyes, staring wide-eyed at her eldest son. "'Little Stefan is only ten years old, he was devastated. Both boys were. Damon is seventeen, but as soon as I delivered the news, I saw the darkness in his eyes. Poor Stefan flung his arms around Damon's neck and sobbed like no child should sob.'"