𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞

"I'm fine Damon!"

"No you're not, you're spiraling" He corrects causing me to scoff in disbelief.

"I am not spiraling, okay? Samaria Griffith does not spiral" I roll my eyes sassily. Damon gives me a blank stare.

"So are you going to tell me why you're spiraling or not. I've only got all of eternity and well, how ever long you can live" Damon gestures for me to speak. I pout with puppy dog eyes.

"I am not spiraling" I huff when he gives me a stern look.

"Fine, last night when I told you that I was upset about Stefan wasn't partially true" I begin softly. Damon rolls his eyes with attitude.

"Could have never guessed" He replies sarcastically.

"It was because I let Elena call me the nickname only my parents used to call me. And I told her it was okay, but I can't help but feeling the dull ache of guilt that's eating at me, so much that I feel like I'm gonna throw up when she says it" I rant before taking a deep breath.

Damon nods taking everything in.

"Then tell her the truth" He advices simply, lifting my feet to stand up.

I stare at him gobsmacked.

"That's it, just tell her the truth?" I ask in disbelief, Damon shrugs chugging the remains of alcohol in his glass.

"Yep, because until you tell me what's really bothering you, there's not much I can say" Damon shrugs again before strutting into the kitchen. I rush after him.

"What do you mean tell you what's really bothering me? I just did" I snap in frustration.

He goes to the fridge to get out a blood bag.

"No, you told me what you think is bothering you, but deep down you know that's not it" He tells me continuing to pour the blood into a glass.

I rake my hands through my hair trying to understand what he's saying.

"B-but I don't, I don't understand Damon!" I yell as tears of anger blur my vision. He sighs deeply before placing his glass down and walking to stand in front of me.

"Who called you Sam?" Damon asked me calmly.

"My parents" I answer automatically.

He shakes his head.

"Who called you Sam?" He asks again causing me to furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"My parents" I answer again. He squints his eyes challengingly.

"Who called you Sam?"

"My parents" I repeat whenever he asks, taking a step back whenever he took a step forward.

The question flys out of his mouth over and over and over again. And I answer with the same words.

"Who. Called. You. Sam?!" Damon shouts as my back hits the wall.

Tears stream down my face as the hidden memories resurface, and I relive the horrid events over again.

"They did" I break down while sliding down the wall and bringing my knees to my chest. The hot tears burn my face turning my cheeks a dangerous red.

"Who did?" Damon asks softly crouching down in front of me. I lift my head up from my knees and look into his eyes.

"The witches who killed my parents"

"What happened?" Damon ask softly leading me to the couch. I move away from him to the corner of the couch.

"After they killed my parents, they still managed to kidnap me. For 6 months I was with them" I tell him as tears flow down my cheeks.

"They tortured me, starved me, drowned me, and they...r-raped me" I choke on a sob bringing my knees to my chest and wrapping my arms around them.

"Him and his partner took turns with me and whenever they would- assault me, they called me 'their little sam'" I squeeze my eyes shut as the memories replay over and over again.

Damon stares at me in despair as tears begin to blur his vision. He pulls me into his side and places me onto his lap, before rocking me back and forth. I wail into his shirt as I start to shake uncontrollably.

Damon starts to rub soothing circles on to my back as the front door opens. Stefan walks into the room with furrowed eyebrows.

"What hap-" he cuts himself off when he sees me shaking in his brothers arms. He rushes over to us with wide concerned eyes.

"Damon what's going on-" Damon cuts him off by shaking his head vigorously before mouthing "she'll tell you when she's ready"

Stefan reluctantly nods and goes on to run his fingers through my hair. After crying for 15 more minutes I fall asleep from exhaustion.

So, Damon hands me to Stefan who takes me to his room.

Damon's pouring himself a drink when Stefan comes back down the stairs.

"So are you gonna tell me what happened?" Stefan ask expectantly was Damon took a big gulp of his drink.

"She'll tell you when she's ready" He says staring into the fire place. Stefan drops his head in defeat.

"Okay, okay. But, Damon I need to protect her" Stefan says gaining his brothers full attention.

The blue eyed vamp turns to his brother with furrowed eyebrows.

"Protect her from what?" He ask setting his drink down.

"I did some research, and the group who was looking for her are still out there. But, instead this time they are much bigger" Damon shrugs before looking back to Stefan.

"Then we'll protect her from those witches" Stefan sighs heavily.

"No, Damon listen, 6 years ago maybe it was just the witches who knew about the prophecy, but now it's werewolves who don't want to turn every full moon, vampires who want to be human again, witches who want her power, and anything else. Sooner or later every supernatural creature will be after her and we have to be the ones to protect her" Stefan explains causing Damon to stand up out of his seat.

"Okay, okay. We need to protect her at all cost, but we're gonna need some help" Damon mumbles the last part to himself but Stefan heard it. He takes a step forward.

"Like who?" Stefan asks crossing his arms skeptically. Damon smirks at his little brother.

"I know exactly who"

"Damon what are we doing here?" Stefan asks as they walk up the steps of the house.

Damon turns to his younger brother with smirk.

"You said we needed help right? Well here we are" He explains going to knock on the door.

After he knocks it only takes a few seconds before the door opens and a women is revealed. The older version of Samaria steps from behind the door.

"Damon, What the hell are you doing here?" Tiare asks scowling in disdain at the vampire.

Stefan's eyes widen in shock.

"You two know each other?" He questions looking between the two. Tiare rolls her eyes.

"Unfortunately" she grumbles under her breath causing Damon to roll his eyes.

"Look we didn't come here for you to insult me, we came here for Maria" Damon answers in all seriousness. Tiare straightens up at the mention of her younger sister.

"What happened?" She snaps in concern.

Stefan looks around and behind them.

"Maybe we should discuss this inside" He suggests nodding towards the door, Tiare reluctantly nods in agreement.

"Come in"

"Wait wait wait, so you're telling me that all supernatural creatures are coming after my sister as we speak" Tiare questions from her seat across from the brothers.

They glance at each other before nodding. Tiare stiffens and rubs her face in stress.

"How did they find us I put a cloak on her ages ago?" She mumbles to herself. Stefan leans forward in his seat.

"What do you mean?" He asks with furrowed eyebrows causing Damon to raise an eyebrow in curiosity.

Tiare looks between them before continuing.

"I mean after she was rescued I placed a cloak on her and myself before we came here, and there is no way a spell that powerful just goes away" She rushes out in explanation.

They all begin to grow worried thinking of ways that something like this could have happened.

"Then how did-" Stefan cute himself off as a theory comes to mind.

"How did what?" The older Griffith woman asks looking him up and down. Stefan continues to stare off into space.

Damon shakes his head.

"Sure Stef, take your sweet old time" Damon taunts sarcastically causing the woman to glare at him. The ravened hair vamp shrugs in response.

Stefan finally snaps out of his trance and looks to his brother.

"Damon, how did you get out of the cell?" He asks confusion written all over his face.

Damon looks taken aback at the question.

"I don't actually know, I was in it all weak and miserable you know like you" He points to Stefan who scowls at his older brother.

"And then suddenly my juice came back and I was back to normal" Damon finishes telling his story.

"Then that's when you saw Maria?" Stefan says as Damon nods along not following where his brother is going with this.

Stefan can tell the other two aren't understanding what he's suggesting. He sighs before standing from his seat.

"Right after you're miraculously healed and back to normal, you see Maria" He continues gesturing for them to pick up what he's trying to say.

A look of realization flashes across Damon's face as he stands up too.

"And right after her emotional spike the cloak falters" Damon says finally getting what his brother is saying. Tiare stands up in front of the brothers.

"So what you're saying that her powers are what caused this stuff?" She looks between them with a raised eyebrow.

"I mean think about it, when you first placed the cloak on her she was younger and her powers weren't at their full enchantress mojo. So as she's grown so did her powers, meaning the cloak couldn't contain them" Damon tells the sister simply. She nods in understanding before looking back up at Damon.

"Okay, but that still doesn't explain how she healed you" Tiare points out.

"Well her prophecy says she can reverse any sin, so that probably includes pain and suffering" Stefan places his hands in his front pockets with a shrug.

"And when she showed up she was an emotional wreck and we've clearly established that emotions plus Maria equals power spike" Damon shrugs crosses his arms across his chest.

Tiare nods in understanding.

"Okay, then when should we tell her?" The older sister asks looking between the guys. The look at each other then back to her.

"We have to tell her?" Damon asks scrunching his face in annoyance. Tiare looks to Stefan to agree with her, but he looks away while scratching the back of his neck nervously.

Tiare scoffs in disbelief.

"You don't want to tell her. Are you serious?" Tiare pops her hip sassily. Damon rolls his eyes.

"Come on, the less she knows the better" Damon whines irritation evident in his features.

"No the more she knows the better. Think about it, in order to control her powers she needs to keep her emotions in check and who can keep her emotions in check better than her" Tiare snaps walking closer to Damon with each word.

Damon stares at her blankly before releasing a heavy sigh.

"Fine whatever, do what you must" He smiles sarcastically before brushing past her.

"Come on Stefan, we're leaving" Damon orders his little brother. Tiare looks to Stefan for help.

Stefan sighs.

"I get where you're coming from and if it makes you feel better I'll tell Maria myself" He reassures placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Thank you" She gives a small smile. Stefan returns it before following after his brother.

"We can't tell her" Damon says as cuts the engine to his car.

They had just made it back to the boarding house.

"Yes we can and we will" Stefan replies getting out of the car and walking into the house.

"We can't tell Maria and you know we can't" Damon snaps hot on Stefan's tail. Stefan spins around to tell his brother off only to be cut off by his girlfriend.

"Tell me what" Maria says from her spot on the couch.

Maria's sitting on the couch drinking tea. She's wearing a pair of Stefans sweats and her crop top. The brothers heads snap to her. Stefan fumbles for words as Damon squints his eyes at him.

"Good luck brother" Damon says giving Stefan a pat on the back before exiting the room. Maria and Stefan watching him leave before they look back to one another.

"Tell me what?"

It's the next day and I'm getting ready to go to the sexy suds car wash thing. If you're wondering what happened after Damon left, well I'll tell you. Stefan told me everything from beginning to end about the witches not being the only people after me now and how my emotions cause my powers to spike which makes my cloak falter a bit every time. And I took it surprisingly well considering, well and do to the fact that now I have to keep my emotions in check.

But anyways after that I stayed the night there in Stefan's room and before you ask, no nothing happened. I just spent the night and he dropped me off at my house this morning. Oh, I've also just found out that my sister and Damon know each other, definitely did not expect that.

So moving on from that. After a 10 min drive I arrive at the sexy suds car wash. I jump out the car and make my way to Elena and Caroline. As I'm walking I hear wolf whistles and catcalls from behind, I turn around and flip them off before continuing on my path.

"Well don't you look hot" Caroline compliments as I walk up causing Elena to turn around. I do a little spin as I giggle.

"Just a little something" I wave them of before leaning in to hug them both.

I have an a hot pink playboy bikini with shorts and pink slides. I was going to just bring my shorts and then take them off, but Stefan said to keep them on so eh what can you do? You can ignore what he says is what you could do or you could just listen to him for once. But...I'm kind of leaning towards the ladder.

"Okay so, I've already given Elena the run down so get to work" Caroline orders rushes off to order more people around. Elena and I just shrug before beginning to take off our shoes and stuff.

"I thought Stefan said not to take them off" Elena raises an eyebrow as I slide my shorts off. I roll my eyes with a scoff.

"Stefan does not tell me what to do and he's not even here so what do I have to lose?" I smirk mischievously. Elena laughs with a shake of her head.

"Alright!" She praises with a high five. I grin back at her as we start cleaning one of the cars.

"This is so bad" I voice to Elena, she glances up at me but her eyes widen when she looks behind me. I scrunch my eyebrows in confusion.

"What is it-" My heads widen when I turn around and come face to face with someone. Stefan crosses his arms while staring me down.

"Where are you shorts?" I look to Elena for help only for her to shake her head and sneak away.

I look down at my feet and twiddle my thumbs before looking up to give him the puppy dog eyes.

"You see what had happened was"

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This is the longest chapter yet💞