Scarlett Salvatore

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 7

Previously On Scarlett Jimenez...

I look up and see him at the building.  Uncle Stefan is standing up there with Damon and a lady. 

“I don’t need her to be dead, but...you might” I hear Damon say creepily.

“Stefan Salvatore did this to you”Damon says. “Stefan Salvatore did this to me”She says. “He’s a vampire. A vicious murderous monster “Damon compels her.

Damon rips open the bandage on her neck and my eyes widen when the smell of her blood hit my nostrils. I breathe in and out and stare at it with wide eyes. This is weird. I’ve never felt this way. I walk closer to her body and stare at her wide eyed. I can feel my face changing.

I bend down and let out a sob. It’s to strong. I can’t—I’ve never smelled something so strong. What is happening?. I can’t—

“Scarlett let’s just—“Uncle Stefan starts but I don’t hear the end of his sentence because I sink my teeth into her neck and drink her blood.

“Scarlett!”Uncle Stefan screams and he pushes me off her body and that’s when I look down at Vicki and see that she’s screaming.

This has never happened to me. I never drink blood. I have fangs but I’ve never actually use them for what they are for.

I look at Vicki and guilt hits me like a truck. I let out a sob.

I get up, jump off of the roof and run away, as far as I can from them, from everybody.
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Scarlett’s POV
I am walking somewhere in some woods. I sat down on a log to take a break and I look around. I still have some blood on my mouth but it’s dry. I’m pretty sure that if someone saw it they would think I cut my mouth or something. I have no idea where I am and I don’t care. I don’t want to go back home. I can’t.

I’ve never drank human blood. I never felt hungry for it. But last night on the roof...something came over me and I was craving for it so bad. If Damon hadn’t opened that bandage or thrown her to Uncle Stefan I wouldn’t have bit her.

I am dangerous. Just like other vampires. I am a monster. I bit her and if Uncle Stefan didn’t push me off of her I probably would have killed her. I don’t want to kill anyone.

I hear some noise from behind me. Like someone is walking on grass. I turn around and look around. “Hello?”I ask slowly but no one answers so I just turn my head and look down at my lap. I feel a hand on my arm and I look up, wide eyed, trying to see who touched me. I start moving my arms to stop them from touching me. Panic rising in me as I try to stop them from getting me. “Scarlett...Scarlett. It’s ok”I hear Uncle Stefan say and I let out a sigh of relief and I look up and see Uncle Stefan looking at me with sad eyes.

“Uncle Stefan?”I say and look up at him as tears start forming in my eyes. He lets out a sigh and sits down next to me on the log and I stare at him.

“Why did you come?”I ask him. “You need to come home Scarlett”He tells me and I turn my head away from him. My hair coming over my face. “I can’t”I tell him. He puts his hand on my shoulder and I look up at him. “You can”He tells me softly. “No...I’m to dangerous”I tell him. “You’re not dangerous. You just don’t have control. I can teach you. You just have to come back”He tells me.

“Why do I have to be this way?”I ask him sadly as a tear falls out of my eye. “You’re the daughter of a vampire. There are complications and things you don’t like about it. But it makes you special”He tells me.

“I don’t want to be special. I want to be normal”I tell him. “Nobody wants to be normal Scarlett”He tells me. “But I do. My mommy is gone. I’m always doing something wrong and people leave me”I tell him and look down. “I love you Scarlett”Uncle Stefan tells me and I look up at him, “You do?.” “Of course I do. You’re my niece. Your smart, funny, and sweet. I’m not going to leave you”He tells me and I look down.

“Why doesn’t my daddy want me?”I ask him. “Damon...he doesn’t know how to love. I thought you coming here would change that but I was wrong”He tells me. “Did I do something wrong?”I ask him. “You did nothing wrong”He tells me. “I think I did. He hates me”I tell him. “He doesn’t hate you”Uncle Stefan says and I just shrug my shoulders and look down.

“Do you really think you can teach me how to not bite people?”I ask him and Uncle Stefan nods his head, “It’s going to take a lot of practice but I know that you’re strong enough” He tells me and I smile and I get up from the log and put my arms around his neck.

“I love you too Uncle Stefan”I say and kiss his cheek and he puts his arms around my waist before letting me go. “Come on. Let’s go to the house. Make sure to wash your face when you’re in the shower”He tells me, pointing to my mouth and I smile and nod my head, ok, and then we start walking out of the woods, hand in hand.
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