Marina DiMera Salvatore

Marina DiMera was born in 1843 in Italy. Her parents were Luciano and Elisabetta DiMera. Her siblings were Carlo, Isabella and Rosalia. In 1851 Marina and her family moved to Mystic Falls where they immediately became friends with the founding families specially the Salvatores and the Lockwoods. No one knew that the DiMeras were dark witches. Marina has pale but tanned skin, jet black hair, 5'2 in height, beautiful pouty lips and gorgeous breathtaking blue eyes. She and Damon eventually got married. Everything was perfect until 1864, when Katherine arrived and sunk her claws into both Stefan and Damon stealing Damon away from Marina with her charms and compulsion. Damon and Stefan died trying to save Katherine from being killed but where instead turned into vampires. For over a century they believed that Marina had died but they are about to find out she did not die she was just cursed into being a sleeping beauty for over a hundred years.

Hey guys I am so sorry it has been almost 2 months since I last updated this story! To answer some of your questions, yes Marina is not going to forgive Damon so fast. In the last chapter with the almost kiss that got interrupted by Jeremy (cockblocker lol), I was trying to make it so that Marina is confused with her feelings and she's also pregnant which means she's hormonal. I do not plan for Marina and Damon to get back together anytime soon until maybe after the baby is born or something like that. I'm also thinking of whether to get someone else to be romantic with Marina or for her to be independent by herself? What would you guys like better?

Chapter 4

(Marina POV)

I was walking through the woods when I came across what used to be my home with Damon. I looked at it before looking down at myself, realizing that I'm dressed in a 19th century dress that used to be both mine and Damon's favorite. The dress was a beautiful shade of purple and it just looked amazing. I walk closer to the house and just as I'm about to walk up the front door steps I feel a set of arms wrap around my waist startling me and I let out a shriek.

"hey sorry I scared you" I hear Damon whisper in my ear instantly calming me down. I feel him plant a soft barely there kiss on my ear before he starts to plant more and more kisses down my neck. I feel him start to suck on the sweet spot in my neck that makes me weak in the knees making me let out a moan.

"I love you much" he whispers into my neck as he slightly pulls away. I then turn in his arms so that we are now facing each other. I wrap my hands around his neck and play with the ends of his hair.

"I love you so much too" I whisper before bringing his face down closer to my level and slam out lips together in a heated passionate kiss that makes us both moan at the contact. We continue making out for what feels like forever but at the same time not long enough.

As we are both about to break up the kiss in order to breathe I feel Damon jerk away from me making me open my eyes and see that someone dragged him away from me, Katherine. I gasp as I notice Katherine standing there in front of me with a death grip on Damon's arm keeping him by her side and away from me.

I take a step closer to them making Katherine's vampire face come out making me freeze and stop walking towards them.

"do you not get it? Damon loves me! Stefan loves me! They want nothing to do with you. They want to be with me forever. Damon wants to be with me forever. That is why he left you for me!" Katherine says making me tear up and shake my head in denial.

"if Damon really wanted you and if he really loved you he wouldn't have jumped in bed with me! you know that. And still you want him when he's already mine!" she continues talking and by now I realize that Damon has stopped struggling against her grip and he's just there standing next to her willingly making me cry.

"you don't know who you're messing with Katherine!" I hear myself say making Katherine laugh at me and in that moment I'm enraged so much that I feel my emotions surging my powers. I feel the magic ache in my veins begging for an outlet of pure hatred and rage, that I do just that. I let out a scream letting my powers explode out of my body and direct them towards Katherine. I vaguely notice the panic and horror in her face before she's engulfed in raging fire, and before long she's nothing but ashes.

I fall down to my knees exhausted from the huge power surge I just had. I then feels hands grip my hands softly and look up to see Damon looking at me with so much love like when we had just gotten married.

"hey, it's ok. I'm here and I'm never leaving you" he whispers smiling at me slowly caressing my face.

"don't promise something you can't keep!" we are both startled by another voice. We stand up quickly, me staggering a little still a little weak. Both Damon and I gasp out in horror as Moira Deamonne standing there with a bunch of witches behind her.

They step forward and start attacking us. As I'm both fighting them physically and magically I notice some of them surround Damon before they snap his neck making me scream.

"NO!" I scream as I kill a few of the witches running towards Damon. I can barely see through my tearful eyes but I manage to fall down by Damon's now dead body and cradle him in my arms while I keep muttering to myself over and over that it can't be real.

"humans… they are so breakable, aren't they?" I hear Moira mock at me fuming my anger and pain even more. I gently lie down Damon and get up to face the remaining witches.

"you will pay for that! You will pay for everything you have done to me and my family!" I scream at her.

"you're forgetting a very crucial part sweetheart… I'm already dead" Moira says as she suddenly hits me with a huge shock wave that sends me flying and grunting as I fall to the ground. Just as I get up she's standing right in front of me and I feel something wet in my stomach. I feel a pain in my stomach and I start getting lightheaded.

I slowly look down to my stomach to see an athame embedded in my stomach and a hand gripping it. I follow the hand to the smirking evil face of Moira.

"I may be dead but that doesn't mean I can't still cause you pain…" I vaguely hear her say before she pulls out the athame making me fall down to my knees as I continue bleeding out.

"oh dear… you were pregnant, weren't you? And I just stabbed you in your stomach…" I hear her mock before the panic hits me.

"no!" I whisper to myself over and over as the anguish of my baby dying hits me. I feel my hand try to cover the wound but I know I am too weak and I feel myself fall down slowly into darkness more and more.

(Third POV)

Damon and Stefan are woken up by someone crying. They both sit up on their individual beds in their separate rooms confused as to what is going on. The crying continues and then it gets worse so they both exit their rooms and face each other in the hallway. They look at each other with questioning eyes before the realization hits them both.

"Mar?" Damon questions before they both head over to Marina's room where they see her crying and thrashing all over the bed.

They both rush towards her and try to wake her up from her nightmare. But the more they try to wake her up the more she thrashes and the more she cries.

"come on Mar wake up!" Stefan says as he shakes Marina's body trying desperately to wake her up but it just makes her whimper and let out screams making the Salvatore brothers panic even more about Marina.

"come on baby! Please wake up!" Damon says as he shakes Marina a few more times. Marina finally wakes up letting out a blood curling scream that makes both Salvatore brothers flinch before trying to calm her down.

"hey Mar… it's ok… It's us… you're ok" Stefan says as Marina starts to slowly calm down from letting out little screams to just crying to finally just gasping for air.

"Marina? Are you okay?" Stefan worriedly asked as he saw the blank pained dead ish look behind Marina's eyes.

"Marina?... Mar?..." Damon asked as he realized that Marina hadn't even heard Stefan. Marina finally looks at them but they are even more worried by how pained and out of it she looks. Stefan and Damon look at each other worriedly not knowing what to do.

"Stefan?" they vaguely hear Marina whisper only because of their vampire hearing.

"yeah Marina? I'm here" Stefan says as he pulls Marina into a hug in which Marina melts into gripping Stefan's shirt like it's her only livelihood.

Damon looks at them feeling relieved that Marina is calmer but also hurt that he wasn't the one to calm her down. Deep down he knows that there has never been anything between his brother and Marina other than being brother and sister but he can't help feeling a little jealous. He shares a look with Stefan conveying to him that if he or Marina need him call him, Stefan nods understanding their silent communication and then Damon leaves Marina's room going back to his.

Stefan then slowly lies Marina back down on the bed keeping an arm around her comforting her and keeping her nice and calm. They all eventually fall back asleep for the remaining sleep time.

In the morning Damon and Stefan invite over the mystic falls gang over for breakfast where they specifically want to speak with Bonnie.

As they are preparing breakfast and everyone is arriving, Marina is still up in her room sleeping.

"not that this isn't great, but why today? What's going on?" Elena breaks the mostly comfortable silence making everyone look towards her and then towards the Salvatore brothers.

"something's wrong with Marina…" Stefan sighs making everyone but Damon gasp in confusion and worry.

"what's wrong? Is it the baby?" Caroline shrieks making both Damon and Stefan shake their heads.

"no the baby's ok… Marina… she had a… some sort of nightmare last night" Damon says.

"well I guess that's to be expected… she's only been awake for five days now…" Bonnie says.

"well yeah… we expected that much but you didn't see her last night" Stefan says.

"she was crying, thrashing all over the bed… screaming nonstop… and we couldn't wake her up…" Damon says and you can hear and feel the pain and worry in his voice and face.

"oh my god" Caroline whispers horrified while Elena also looks like she wants to cry.

"when we finally managed to wake her up it took so long to calm her down and when she finally did, she had this blank sort of dead ish look that quite frankly scared us" Stefan says making Damon agree and everyone else look extremely worried.

"do you know what she was dreaming about?" Bonnie asks after a little while to which both brothers shake their heads.

"she was too shaken up we didn't want to have her relive whatever it was" Damon says.

"but why did this happen now and not on her first night?" Tyler asks.

"maybe because last night was the first night she really slept. The nights before she didn't want to sleep saying that she had slept for far too long." Stefan says.

"I'll go talk to her. She might talk to me, like witch to witch." Bonnie says.

"ok yeah… I can hear that she just woke up" Damon says and then Bonnie heads up the stairs into Marina's room.

(Marina POV)

I wake up with a gasp realizing that I no longer have Stefan's arm around me. I then take a few deep breaths in calming myself down. After a few minutes of just lying down in my bed I hear footsteps entering my room, I open my eyes to see Bonnie walking over to the bed. I slowly lift myself up to sit down resting my head on the headboard.

"morning" she says as she comes over and sits on the edge of the bed.

"morning" I respond taking in a deep breath and returning her smile. "they told you" I say knowing that I must have really scared Stefan and Damon last night.

"they're worried about you… we all are" Bonnie says gently.

"I didn't mean to scare them" I say pulling my knees closer to my body.

"want to talk about it?" she asks making me sigh.

"I was dreaming that I was back in 1864… at first it was good… we were happy… but then Katherine showed up and she said something's… my magic lashed out and I-I killed her… then those witches- the ones who cursed me showed up and they… killed Damon and then stabbed me killing my baby and me"

"hey it's ok. All of those witches are long dead, they can't hurt you or your baby… or Damon anymore" Bonnie says taking hold of one of my hands in an assuring grip.

"I know… but I think that the curse those witches put on me might have messed with my mind… my head- I feel like I'm going… crazy…" I say.

"hey you're not crazy ok? You were cursed into sleeping for over a century, you can't expect to come out of it perfectly fine. It's only been a week, give yourself some time. You'll be fine." She says reassuring me.

"you think so?" I ask.

"yeah I do. I think you may be suffering from PTSD. Post-traumatic stress. You went through something traumatic and it's just going to take some time for you to fully heal and that's perfectly normal."

"yeah ok…" I say before Bonnie pulls me into a quick hug.

"now come on we are about to have breakfast and I don't know about you but I'm starving" she says making us both laugh a little. We both stand up and as I'm wearing black leggings and a big baggy shirt I decide that I'm good with going downstairs dressed like this.

We head downstairs where everyone is waiting for us. We serve breakfast and start to eat, some more than others. I then realize that no matter what is happening to me or how long it takes me to get over the trauma, I am surrounded by friends and family who will always be there for me no matter what. I also know they'll help me and my baby deal with the repercussions of that wretched curse.

Ok so what did you guys think of this chapter? I wanted to add some Marina trauma as you can't really expect someone to go through a cursed sleep for over a century and come out of it perfectly fine and with no mental trauma, right? Especially since when she woke up I mentioned that her sleep was not peaceful but it was restless and tortured so of course she's going to be dealing with some trauma. Tell me your thoughts on how long should she suffer from her trauma.

Also please let me know if while she forgives Damon (which will take some time) you want her to briefly get involved with someone or just be single? Also if you want her to briefly be with someone else who would you want it to be? Like Tyler? Or an oc? And if you do want me to bring in an oc, do you want him to be a warlock, vampire, werewolf or human? Or do you want it to be a her? Just let me know please.

I will say this Marina's relationship with Stefan will never be romantic. They have always been like brother and sister even before they actually were brother and sister in law.

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