Sam half-smiled down at her. "That's what I told my vampire girlfriend. Although it was my blood not making her a monster." And Caroline had said as much to him, too, but he didn't want to allude to there being a vampire present. It wasn't his secret to tell.

"And I agree." He tried, gently, to smooth out some of the snarls he'd put in her hair. "But my family--some of my family," he amended, thinking of Henry and what he'd been intended to be. "Are hunters. We kill supernatural things. When we and the rest of the hunters found out about me..." Sam shrugged. "It hasn't been a warm welcome. My dad told my brother to kill me before he let me turn into a monster."