Chapter 1: The Birthday

About two mouths have pass since, Stefan and Serena gave themselves over to Klaus for him to do whatever to them, Samathea lays in her bed, hair tired back into a bun, black tank-top, along with booty short, she then sits up and sighs. She then pushes her covers off herself and sat up, then makes her way out of her room and peeks into Elena, she cried herself to sleep again, Samathea looks at her as Elena just laid there in her bed, staring up at the ceiling, "Do you need something, Sammy?" Elena asks her, looking over at her.

"Wondering how you're doing." Samathea tells her, Elena shrugs, "I'm still breathing." she answers her. She nods, "I'll leave you alone then." Samathea tells her, then went to close the door. "Hey Sam." Elena calls out, Samathea stops and looks at her, "Yeah, Elena." she asks her, then Elena sat up, "Thank you, for worrying about me." she tells her, she nods at her, "You're my sister, Elena. It's my job to worry about you." Samathea tells her, Elena nods at her. "I'll be down in a few, ok." Elena tells her, she nods at her, "Ok." she said softly, then Elena falls back onto her bed.

Samathea sighs and then quietly closes the door, she then walks over and enters Jeremy's room, finding him fast asleep she sighs and then walks over and pulls his curtains open, he groans awake, "Oh, early, bad." Jeremy groans, then Samathea turns and walks over to him, "It's not early, you're late for work, Matt just called." Samathea tells him, pulling off his covers and Jeremy checks his phone. "Well, maybe they'll fire me." he states, Samathea smirks, "Hit them high." she said and walks out of his room, then down stairs, but then her phone goes off. She pulls it out and answers it.

"Hey Care, what are you doing?" Samathea asks her, "Just shopping for the party you and Elena are trying to bail out on." she tells her, "I or Elena never said yes in the first place." Samathea tells her as she reaches the bottom, "You were never going to, which is why I plan it in the first place and my mum wants you to call her." Caroline tells her and Samathea stops in the hall, "Did she find something?" Samathea asks her, "An animal attack in Manifest, its the third one this week in Tennessee." Caroline informs her, then Samathea walks into the kitchen finding Alaric was struggling with the coffee maker.

"You sure it's a vampire?" Samathea asks her as Alaric looks at her and Elena walks down the stairs, "Yes, but that doesn't mean it's Klaus." Caroline informs her, Samathea scoffs, "Doesn't mean it's not." she states, then walks over to Alaric, he moves away from the coffee maker and presses the button, "Call her." Samathea tells her, "I'll call her on her cell." Caroline states, "Tell her thank you for help." Samathea said to her, "Well alright, I'll see you in a bit." she said to Samathea. "Oh, Caroline, wait, just… keep tonight small, please." Samathea asks her, "Wear something pretty." Caroline tells her and hung up.

Samathea went to say something else, but Caroline hung up on her, she sighs and hung up as well, "She's not going to keep it small, is she?" Elena asks, Samathea shook her head, "Nope, oh and she said to wear something pretty." Samathea tells her and Elena nods her head, "Was that uh… Stefan news?" Alaric asks her as he remakes his couch bed, Elena then reaches into the cupboard and pulls out three cups. "Could be more Klaus victims." Samathea answers her. "Are you sure Stefan and Serena are still with him?" he asks her.

Elena then pours the coffee into the cups as it was done, "The other alternative, is that he's dead." Elena tells him, and the two look at her and Elena hands Samathea two cups of coffee, then Samathea looks over at him, "Are you sure you're okay with the couch?" she asks him and he nods his head at her. "Yeah, yeah I'm good." he tells her and she walks over to him, "You've spent half the summer on it. If you need your own bedroom…" Samathea tells him. "Sleep in your dead parents or my dead… girlfriend's room…" he starts. She sighs and hands him the coffee, "Right, got it." she states and he takes the coffee.

She then walks back to the table, pulls her purse onto her shoulder and the keys to her car, "Hey, Elena, Sammy." he calls out, Elena pulls away from her coffee and Samathea turns to him, "Happy birthday." he tells them, Elena smiles and nods at him and Samathea smiles as well. "Thanks." she tells him, and then turns to Elena, "I'll be back soon." she tells her, Elena nods and drinks her coffee and Samathea left out of the door.

~8~8~8~

Damon sat in his tub, a glass in one hand and he reaches over pulls out a bottle and pours the remains int the glass which were very little, he whines and places the bottle back, "We're out of champagne." he whines and downs the glass as Andy was in front of the mirror. "Huh, no you are out of champagne, I don't drink in the morning." she tells him.

"Well, will you be a dear…" he starts, "I think you can probably get it yourself, I'm not your slave." she tells him and does her nails, he 'hmph' at her and then stands up and steps out of the tube, she smirks at him, he smirks back at her and walks out of the bathroom, "I mean, you're dripping a little." she states, juestering to the water trail Damon left behind. "Mm-humph." he said to her and walks out of the bedroom, Andy just smiles and continues with her make-up.

Samathea walks in through the front door, she pulls her hair out of the bun and places it in a ponytail. She then walks up to the desk, "Morning." Damon said to her, "Hey, I was gonna…" she starts, turning around, but then gasp as Damon was naked, right in front of her, she then quickly turns away from him, he was just smirking at her, "You heard me, of course you heard me. You bloody knew I was here." she states, in no amusement. "You should learn to knock, what if I was indecent?" Damon jokes with her.

Samathea blushes scarlet red, then covers her eyes, grabs the towel and tosses it over to Damon, her eyes still covered as she was facing him. He catches the towel, then wraps it around his waist and ties it, Samathea peeks through her fingers and sees that he was covered, she pulls her hand away and sighs. "Sheriff Forbes gave us another location to check." she tells him and pulls out a paper and unfolds it, "Manifest." she tells him, "Another dead end, you mean?" he asks and steps up to her, "You don't know that." she said to him, "You're right, Sammy. This could be the one." he states as he a half a foot away, Samathea turns her head away. "After almost two months, this could be clue that tells us Stefan and Serena are alive and well and living in Graceland." Damon jokes, taking the paper from her.

She glares at him, and took the paper from him, "Fine, then I'll just go by myself." she tells him and walks pass him, he then vamps right in front of her, she looks at him unfazed when he vamps at her, "And let Klaus know you're tacking him. He thinks you're dead, lets kept it that way." he tells her and takes the paper back, "It's a new lead, Damon. We haven had one in a while and Elena need to know what's happening to Stefan." she tells him, "Ok, I'll check it out, if I find anything, I'll call you." he tells her and walks off.

"But…" she states, but he was already gone, Samathea inhaled with anger and turns back to the living, 'Why am I seeing people naked?' Samathea mouths to herself then groans and face palms herself.

~8~8~8~

Damon walks back into his room, reading over the letter and then walks up to a closet, opens it and revels that he too was tracking Stefan, all this attack, he was keeping notes on them all. "They move onto Tennessee." Damon tells Andy as she walks up to him, and then he thumb tacks the note. "That Florida victim you had me look into had family in Tennessee." she informs him.

"Which one, Pensacola?" Damon asks her, "Uh-huh." she tells him, "You up for a road trip?" he asks her but she just chuckles. "No can do, I have got to work, but I can see if I can get you an address." she tells him. He hums at her and kisses her, and she hum in approvement, "See you at the party." she tells him and walks off, "Give me that address." he tells her and looks back at the map.

~8~8~8~

Serena sat at the bar, enjoying her drink as Stefan and Klaus were torturing a werewolf for information about his pack's whereabouts. She sighs and downs her drink and slams it back onto the bar, "I think I had enough." she mumbles, then pushes her glass away and laid her head in her arms and held a thoughtful look as she thinks back to the past two mouth.

-I was right, Nik is gone, he died so long ago, whoever this is, this isn't Nik, this is a monster that just look alike him- she thinks to herself, she then heard a man walk up to her, her look harden and she slowly raise up her head, "Hey sweetheart, how are you doing this fine evening?" he asks her, she scoff, not impress with his attempt, "What do you want?" she questions him, he just smirk, "Well since we're getting to the point, you and me in the back. Just the two of us, what do you say." he tells her, she chuckles. "I say you need to find another that wants a man like you to get in her pants, because you're not my type of guy I would want in my bed." she tells him and went to leave.

But he grips her arm tightly, she stops, sighs at the weak grip on her wrist and look at him, "I don't think I was giving you a choice, bitch." he snaps at her, but then Klaus walks up to them, "Is there a problem here, love?" he asks her and places his arm over her shoulders and he held her close, the man looks at him and kept his grip. "Nothing much, this man want to take me out back and have his way." she tells him and Klaus glares at him.

He then moves his arm away from her shoulders and grips the man's wrist and makes him let go, "Are you trying to take my girl?" Klaus questions him, the man staggers over his words as Klaus was towering over him, "I don't like it when people try and steal my girl." he said darkly at him and then snaps his head and he collapse onto the ground, Serena shook her head and sat back down at the bar, "You're unbelievable." she mumbles, Klaus just smiles at that and then he turns to her and stood next to her, placing both of his arms on both sides of her and leans in close, "I got to do what I got to do." he tells her, she turns and looks at him, "And what is that I wonder?" she questions him.

He stops smiling at her, pulls his hand up and ran his fingertips along her soft skin, "I have to keep you safe, no matter how much you hate me." he whispers to her, she just looks at him, and he lovely presses his lips to her forehead, pulls back and left her at the bar, Serena held her heart leap in joy, but she quickly turns away and wipes away her frustrated tears, -Nik is gone. Nik is gone, he's gone!- she tells herself over and over, but she places her fingers on her forehead where Klaus kiss her and she felt his lips still there. It wasn't forceful and was to play with her, it was full of love.

She felt her heart just beat, she pulls her hand away and laid her head in her arms again and then the bartender walks up to her, "Need a drink?" he asks her, "Big time." she tells him, "Got it." he tells her and pours her a drink and Serena leans up, takes her drink and down the whiskey.

~8~8~8~

Samathea, Elena, Caroline, and Taylor were working on the party for tonight, "It's like, I'm constantly fighting Damon every single time we get a lead on Stefan and Serena." Samathea states as she hands the napkins to Elena, "Maybe he doesn't want to find him." Taylor states, and the three look at him. "Taylor." Caroline exclaims. "What, he's into you, isn't he?" he asks Samathea and hands her the bags, "The only reason Stefan and Serena left with Klaus, so that Stefan could save Damon's live and Serena went to kept an eye on Stefan and trust me, Damon wants to find him." Samathea tells him.

"But you kiss him." Taylor states, Caroline and Samathea look at him and Elena looks at Samathea, "Probably screw with his head." he adds, "You kiss Damon?" Elena asks Samathea, who sighs. "Taylor!" Caroline exclaims, then she turns and saw Samathea looking at her, "I'm sorry." she said to her, but Samathea shook her head and rubs the back of her neck, "Don't worry about it. Look, yes I did kiss Damon, but it was more of a good-bye kiss, I thought he was going to die." she tells him, Taylor shrugs his shoulders and sets the box down, and they Samathea phone buzzes, "Oh, I just miss a call from Bonnie, be right back. Elena." she states and walks out, Elena sighs and follows after her.

~8~8~8~

Night had fallen and both Elena and Samathea were dress in short dresses, Elena wore a white one with white heels with her hair let into loose curls as Samathea wore a forest green, green heels that strap at her ankles and the sleeves were in two parts and only came together at the elbows, her hair was in one big curl and swat over to her right shoulder and sat there. Samathea smooths out her dress and Elena adjust hers.

And then Samathea notices Damon in the mirror, "Don't worry, we won't loose them." she states and turns to him, "At least no before the cake, of course." she tells him, he just shrugs at her, "It's our guy's party, cry if you want to." he tells her, she smiles a little and walks into the room, "Ah Stefan such a pessimist." Damon states and took a picture of Elena and Stefan. Elena turns to him as Damon sets the photo back down and looks at them, "I got you both something." he tells them, "Damon…" Samathea starts.

"I know I promise not to buy you anything, but I wasn't going to pay for it." he tells then, pulling out a pouch, "You stole it?" Samathea asks him, "No." he tells them pulling out two boxes and opens them, "Found them." he said they both look down and saw their necklaces that Stefan gave to them. Then Elena and Samathea look at him, "Our necklaces." Elena states and they both look back down and took then out of the boxes, "I though I was never going to see this again with Klaus tore it off my neck." Samathea mumbles, "Alaric found Elena's in his loft and I find yours at the quarry, figured you want them back." he tells them.

Elena smiles and places hers on her neck, then Samathea looks at Damon, "I'm happy, thank you." she tells him, "I'll meet you downstairs." Elena tells her, Samathea nods at her and Elena left the room, "Can you…" she asks Damon, "Oh absolutely." he tells her, setting the boxes down and he takes the necklace from her, then Samathea turns around, he held his hands out in front of her, unclips the locks, then places it on her neck. Samathea moves her hair out of the way and he fastens it. He then pulls his hand back and she turns to him.

Damon then offers his arm to her, "Shall we?" he states, she sighs and locks her arm with his and they both walk out of Stefan's room, they then headed down the stairs passing people, "Happy birthday Sam!" one person calls out, Samathea looks over at her and smiles as they walk through the hall and more said happy birthday to her and she thank them. They then walk up to Elena as she was staring at the many people in the crowd, she then looks over at Samathea and the younger Gilbert looks at her. "Really?" she asks, Elena shrugs her shoulders.

Then Caroline came over to them after Damon was finish compelling a girl from taking his bourbon. "You like?" she asks them, Elena went to say something and then Caroline cut her off. "Don't answer that." she tells her. "This is what you call keeping it small?" Samathea asks her, but Caroline just smiles at them. They both look at each other and roll their eyes and look back at her, "What are we drinking?" Elena asks her, Caroline held out her arm to her and Elena takes it as Samathea steps down, and took Caroline other arm and the three walk off.

~8~8~8~

The three were laughing as they entered the office, "Oh, stoner den, buzz kill." Caroline tells them, Samathea giggles, then Matt walks up to them, "Hey guys." he said to them, with a smile and the two look at him, "Matt, hey." Elena tells him and he then kisses her on the cheek, Caroline looks away as Samathea look away and shook her head. He then pulls back and does the same with Samathea, she was surprise and looks at him, "Um… thank you…?" she said to him in a confused matter, "Happy birthday." he said to them and Elena nods, "Thank you." Elena said to him, and he walks off, "He hates me, his hatred of me has driven him to drugs." Caroline states. "He doesn't hate you, he hates that he's not with you… is that Jeremy?" Samathea states as she stops and looks over at Jeremy.

She sighs and held out her drink to Elena who takes it, "Thank you." she tells them and walks off, Elena looks over at Caroline and they both drink their drinks.

Samathea walks through the crowd and makes it outside, seeing Damon and Alaric talking with each other. And Damon notices her, "Hello birthday girl." he said to her and she held out her hand, "Drink." she tells her and he hands her his drink and she down it. Then sets the glass back down, "Jeremy is smoking again." she informs Alaric, pouring herself some more. "Does that mean he has a stash?" Damon jokes and Samathea look overs at him. "You're an ass." she tells him and turns back at Alaric.

"Can you and go and talk to him, please, he looks up to you." she asks him, then gave Damon back his half filled glass walks back into the house. Then Damon looks at Alaric, "You're screwed." he tells him and drinks his bourbon, Alaric just sighs.

~8~8~8~

Samathea saw Elena talking with a few of her friends and so Samathea just left her alone, then walks into Damon's room, "This room is off limits!" Caroline calls out, Samathea leans over and saw Caroline with a blood pack in her hands, "Caroline?" Samathea asks her, Caroline pushes herself off the counter, "Sorry… I just, needed to take a beat." she tells her and places the blood pack on the counter-top. Samathea sighs, "Are you hiding?" Caroline asks her with a smile and crosses her arms.

"Believe me, if I was, you would drag me back to the party." Samathea tells her, Caroline nods at that, "Besides, I was looking for Damon." she answers, "Well be better be here somewhere, because we haven't even done the cake yet." she tells her and uncross her arms. Samathea just sighs, "I think I'll pass on the whole cake thing." Samathea tells her, but Caroline looks at her in disbelief, "What, no way, no. it's yours and Elena's birthday, you know, it the dawn of a new day and you can't bet one with your lives until you made a wish and blow out the candle." Caroline rambles at her.

Samathea just starts at her, "Is that what you all want me and Elena to do, just… get on with our lives?" Samathea questions her, "No. maybe." Caroline tells her and then Samathea glares. "I just don't think anyone want to see you like this." Caroline tells her, "I'm not going to just give up on finding Stefan or Serena, Caroline." she tells her. "Of course not and you shouldn't, but you have to admit that, you're kinda of letting your life just pass you by and wasn't it Stefan and Serena the ones that wanted to make sure that you and Elena live it?" Caroline asks her.

"You want me to take a wish, I just want to know that if they're alive and ok, I need to give something to Elena so that she came smile a real smile again, not putting on a show." Samathea tells her and Caroline looks at her. "That it, that's my wish." she adds and went to walks out of the room, but something out of the corner of her eye, catches her attention. Caroline sighs, "I'm sorry, kay I'm just drunk and dumb tonight." Caroline tells her as Samathea moves closer to the closet that was crack open a bit. "I know I- what are you doing?" Caroline asks her, then Samathea opens the door and saw that their were reports on the animal attack all over the countryside.

"What's all that?" Caroline asks her, Samathea looks at the map, seeing thumbtack place in certain places and some with sticky notes on them, some said Klaus and others said Stefan. "It's Klaus. Damon's been tracking him without me." Samathea states, "Well, why wouldn't he just tell you?" Caroline asks her, Samathea shrugs her shoulder, "I don't know… I ready don't."

~8~8~8~

Hours later, Damon walks into his room and closes the door, pressing his back to the door, he then looks up and saw Samathea, she turns to him and hows the thick papers in her hand, "What, what are you doing here?" he questions her, "Why, why did you keep this from me?" she questions him, he groans, "Can't we not do this right now, I'm having a really bad night." he tells her and she walks over to him. "All summer, every signal time I came to you with a lead, you made me feel like an idiot for having hope." she tells him.

Damon looks at her, "You were an idiot." he tells her, her hand on the paper clutch, "We both were." he tells her and moves away from the door and went to move pass her, but she places her hand on his chest, "Tell me what you know, Damon." she demands off him, "I know you need to get back to your party, Sammy." he said to her, dodging her real question then pushes pass her. She growls softly, she turns to him as he gathered up the paper on the bed, "We were suppose to be in this together, why didn't you tell me that you were tacking Klaus victims?!" she snaps at him.

He turns to her, "Because they're not Klaus victims, they're Stefan's!" he tells her and she was surprise a little, "He's left a trail of body parts up and down the eastern sea board." he tells her and Samathea cast her eyes down. Then Damon walks over to her, "I've seen it before, he's flip the switch, full blown Ripper." Damon states and takes the paper out of her hands, "Stop telling me this, Damon." she tells him, "No you stop, Samathea! Stop looking for him, stop waiting for him to come home, just stop!" he snaps at her, making her stiffen and take a step back. "Stefan is gone and he's never coming back." he tells her and she just looks at him. "Not in yours or Elena's lifetime." he adds, she now looks at him with hurt in her eyes.

Damon stood there, realizing that he hurt her, he stood there but then walks pass her and walks out the door and closing it behind him, Samathea stood there, her hand moves up to her necklace that Stefan gave to her and held it tightly in her hand, refusing to give up him her friend.

~8~8~8~

Back at the bar, the wolf laid on pool table, grunting in pain and still refusing to give the location of his pack, Serena was leaning against the bar, watching as she had 30 glass shots of whiskey, but wasn't evening having a buzz or feeling tipsy.

She then saw Stefan walk in after he was done with his mission, she sighs and turns away, but then was now feeling what Stefan was feeling as he says he didn't care and no longer cares anymore; Regret, sorrow, anger, self-loathing, and his hatred for himself. She then looks over and saw Klaus was now picking on him about caring, she then stood up and walks over to them, "You need to back off, Klaus." she snaps at him, pressing her hand to his chest and pushes him back, Klaus looks at her and steps back, holding up his hands.

"As the lady wishes." he tells her, she rolls her eyes, "Don't you have a werewolf to torture or something?" she snaps, he just chuckles and walks off. Serena then sat down next to Stefan and looks at him, "What do you want?" he asks her, looking at her. "You don't need to lie to me, Stefan, I can feel what you're feeling right now." she tells him in a soft tone. "Yeah and what's that?" he asks, she looks at him sadly and places her hand on top of his, "In need of a friend." she answers, Stefan looks at her and sighs, then slowly clutches his hand on her fingers and gave a very light squeeze. "Thank you." he said to her.

She smiles at him and nods, "Anytime." she said to him, and Klaus glares over at Stefan, seeing that they were holding hands. And so he clutches his fist in anger and jealousy.

~8~8~8~

Back in Mystic Falls, Alaric packs his bag as Elena and Samathea walk into the room, they both look over and saw him doing so. "What are you doing?" Elena asks him, he stops and sighs. "I'm not going to stay here anymore." he tells them, then turns to them, "What, why?" Elena asks him, Samathea just looks at him, "I'm not a model. I drink too much, I say the wrong things, I encourage bad behavior." he tells her and then turns back to his bag.

"In school, I can pull it together, but in my own life… with Jenna, it's just I'm really not any good to anyone right now." he tells them taking his bags and walks to the front door. He looks at the twin and they look at him, "I'm sorry Elena, Sammy… you both are 18, you can do all of this alone now and you'll do better without me." he tells them and walks out the front door. Elena sighs and Samathea turns to Elena, they both were loosing people they cared about faster then they thought.

~8~8~8~

Samathea walks into her room, then headed for the shower. After an hour, she steps out, with her hair blow dried and in a ponytail, with her booty shorts and tank-top, she went to crawl into bed, but she heard her phone go off, she looks over at her mirror, walks over and answers her cell.

"Hello?" she asks, having the cell close to her ear, she heard a shuttled sigh then followed with a sniffles, Samathea stood there, confused at first then realization hits her, "Serena… Serena if this is you, tap the cell once." Samathea tells her and she heard one tap, Samathea smiles, "Serena, I don't know if Stefan is with you right now or not, but know I'm going to save the both of you and that you both will always be my friends." Samathea tells her and then heard a sniffle followed with a tap, "Hold on to that, both of you. Never forget that." she adds and Serena taps again.

"Good night, Serena, Stefan." she tells them both and hung up then gently places her cell down and looks in her mirror and smiles to herself, then her cell buzzes, she looks down as saw that she got a text from someone, she checks the message and gasp softly. 'Happy Birthday, Sammy -Stefan' she smiles again and turns off the screen and walks over to her bed and flops down onto it.

~8~8~8~

Stefan looks down at his cell and saw that Samathea texted him back, 'Thank you and hang tight, I'm going to find a way. -Sammy.' he looks away from his cell and at Serena who was smiling at him with a tear sliding down her cheek, he then moves over and pulls her into a well needed hug.

She wraps her arms around his next and laughs a little into her shoulder, neither of this needing words to express how they are feeling, Samathea and Elena are still looking for them and that they won't give up on them.