So…I hope I am not the only one who has wondered why Night World wasn't made into a T.V. series along with the VD series, and Secret Circle (before it was canceled). After a while of thought, I realized the (logical) reason why: There are a total of nine different stories, and they all take place in different settings. So, I created a new (altered) way to combine them, creating a somewhat new story while at the same time trying to stick with the original stories. So while not everything will be the same, I will try to do my best at keeping the characters straight.
To combine them, I created a new (nameless) place that has quite a few of the Day World and Night World occupants. So we have one town, divided into three parts. Circle Midnight, which is just to the edge of the west side of the town; Circle Daybreak which is on the edge of the east side of the town; and Circle Twilight which is dead center. Circle Twilight is where all of the humans, and most witches are at; which is neutral territory of sorts. Midnighters, and Daybreakers can't harm each other in neutral territory. Some characters will be in it immediately, and some will come later. After all, this is the Pilot, Season1 "episode" 1: 0101.
Thea Harman stared up at the house where she and her cousin would be staying to finish out the school year. Being expelled from every school in the state of Maryland was not something she was proud of, especially since she was a senior.
Their distant, great aunt Mrs. Burdock was taking them in, giving them one last chance to start over. Witch Wood was a safe haven for anyone in the Night World looking for a place to start over. It was more like a community then a city.
She was aware of the fact that after this, she had nowhere else to turn. This really was her last chance. Glancing over at Blaise she wasn't all that sure that she cared as much as she should.
"Come on, I want to get this over with." Blaise said, picking up her suit case, and walking up the rickety steps.
Thea was greeted with the sight of her cousin Jade sitting on the couch, a black cat purring in her lap. Her silver, blond hair was fanned out on the couch, and her green eyes were focused intently on them.
"You're here!" Jade cheered, standing up quickly, holding her cat to her chest.
"Yeah, where do we sleep?" Blaise asked, looking around the old fashioned house.
Just then, an old woman entered the room, her gray hair tied up in a bun, and a shawl wrapped neatly around her frail body. Thea knew that it was only in looks and that despite her aged body, she was just as strong as any lamia. Then again…she didn't drink human blood anymore, so there would be some notable differences.
"Rowan has set up a room for you. Just head upstairs and she will lead you the rest of the way." Mrs. B said, letting them pass and go up the stairs.
Thea slowly climbed the old creaking steps, kind of amazed at how clean the steps and windows were. She had expected for there to be a ton of dust, but it was as clean as a museum.
A tall; chest nut haired girl stood at the top of the stairs, counting sheets as she exited a room on the left side of the hall way. She looked up once she was aware of them, and smiled. She was beautiful, with all of the classic features of beauty.
"Your rooms are right next to each other, and I just put on new sheets." Rowan said, showing them to two doors on the right side of the wall, and quickly headed down the stairs.
Thea chose the one on the far side of the stairs, and Blaise picked the one closest to the stairs.
"The first time we get our own rooms." Blaise commented, entering her new room.
Thea entered her plain room, staring at the lilac wall paper, and the brown dresser, and the twin bed in the center of the room. There was a desk against the wall with the door, and the window next to her bed was fairly big, if not average. There was a small door next to the dresser, and Thea assumed that it was the closet.
This would be her room for the next year. And after high school, she would help Grandma Harman at the shop.
It wasn't her ideal future, but it was something.
Thea entered the living room, sitting in the only seat on the couch available, right in between Blaise and Rowan. Mrs. B sat on the only chair, and Jade and Kestrel sat on the love seat.
"You are new here, and I want you to know the ground rules. 1: we are in neutral territory; do not interfere with Circle Midnight or Circle Daybreak. 2: Do not tell the humans what you are. 3: do not put a human's or anyone else's life at risk. 4: Be here for dinner by seven thirty, or you don't eat. 5: You will do chores around the house; no questions asked. You get three chances, and after that you are done. I will not tolerate it." Mrs. B said, and Thea nodded, while Blaise just rolled her eyes.
"You are enrolled already, and Kestrel can show you around to your classes. Follow all of the rules, and you should find you stay here very pleasing." Mrs. B said.
Mrs. B got up after that, and went into the kitchen to start dinner.
Thea entered the building of her new school, taking in everything.
There were three girls hanging out against the walls of the lobby, just talking. One had very long legs, and seemed to be proud of them because she wore shorts that complimented them well. Her glossy brown hair was left in waves around her face. Another was a kind of short girl, with pale skin, and deeply endowed breasts. Her hair was a fiery red, and hung flat as a board to her shoulders. The last girl was mocha colored, and her hair was lightly curled around her face. She seemed to be the leader of sorts.
A girl with a bob cut of light blond hair approached her, and offered her hand.
"Hi! I am Bunny, the unofficial welcoming committee for Roseclear high." Bunny said, and Thea shook her hand.
"I'm Thea." Thea said politely.
"Do you need help getting to your classes?" Bunny asked.
"My cousin Kestrel was going to show me." Thea said, and Bunny's smile dropped for a second.
"Well, if you ever need anything…" She trailed off, and made her way to where a girl with long, dark brown hair with blue eyes, and a blond with heavily applied eye liner stood.
Thea walked further down the hall, when Kestrel entered, and directed her to her class.
"You are in room 308. That is the top floor, second door to your right from the middle stair way." Kestrel said, glancing at Thea's schedule; the schedule that Thea had yet to see for herself.
"Thank you." Thea said, taking the offered schedule, and heading for the middle stairs that Kestrel had pointed out.
Blaise compared their schedules before she could go, and her eye brows furrowed.
"We have third period, and lunch together." Blaise said, and handed Thea back her schedule.
"I guess I will see you then." Thea said, and made her way tl the stairs.
The stair way was semi crowded groups of kids talking, and hanging out with their friends. She spotted her cousin James Rasmussen standing next to a short, coppery curled hair girl. Thea noticed that her eyes were really green. James looked happy while talking to her.
"Thea!" a voice called out, and Thea turned to see Jade standing next to a boy with dark hair and blue eyes, and a guy with blonde hair, and the same green eyes as the girl talking with James.
"Hello." Thea said, and walked towards Jade.
"Which class do you have?" Jade asked.
"308." Thea said.
"Ohh, science with Mr. Leveret. Good luck." Jade said, and Thea felt slightly unnerved.
"Thanks." Thea said, and the blonde boy stepped forward.
"I'm Phil." He said, offering his hand for Thea to shake.
"Nice to meet you." Thea said.
"Likewise." He said, and The entered classroom 308.
The classroom was half empty, with kids sitting on desks, and talking about various things like parties, plans for the weekend, and homework assignments.
The teacher was standing in the front of the classroom, his glasses resting on his nose, and he was going over the lesson plans. He was on the chubby side, and he had a round-ish face.
"Mr. Leveret, I'm Thea Harman. I am new here." She said, and glanced up, his brown eyes meeting hers through his glasses.
"Oh yes, Ms. Harman. Sit next to Mr. Ross and Miss. Carter." Mr. Leveret said.
Thea looked around to see a boy with green eyes, and sandy blond hair raise his hand. He gave her a warm smile, and she assumed that he was Mr. Ross. There was a space in between him, and the girl she had spotted Bunny talking to earlier, the girl with dark hair and piercing blue eyes.
She took her seat between the two, and sat her books out in front of her.
"I'm Eric." he said, smiling at her.
"Thea." She said in return.
The girl sitting next to her was reading a book that looked like it was about stars. There was a star map of sorts of what looked like a color mist of colors. The girl was really into it, if the intense stare was anything to go by. She wrote something down in a notebook, with a bunch of different angles, and coordinates of some sort.
"So, where did you come from?" Eric asked.
"I was living in Maryland. My cousin and I needed a change of scenery, so we moved in with our aunt." Thea said, skipping over the details of why she needed a change of scenery. No one really needed to know that.
"Why come here though? Nothing exciting really happens here." He said.
"That is why this place is so nice. I hope to have a relaxing last year of high school." Thea said, telling the truth.
"It shouldn't be too hard, there really isn't much to do here." Eric said.
"I'm sure there is something, I mean, you have to do something for fun around here." Thea said.
"Well, I volunteer down at the veterinarian office." Eric said.
"You like working with animals?" Thea asked, genuinely surprised.
"It is what I plan on doing with my life. I will go to college, get my vet's degree, and open up my own vet office." Eric said.
Thea smiled, and was going to say something before being cut off by the bell. Suddenly the classroom started to fill up and almost every seat was filled. there were maybe three empty seats left, scattered across the filled classroom.
"Ms. Harman, you could share a text book with Mr. Ross or Ms. Carter until we get you one." Mr. Leveret said, addressing her in front of the whole class, and she just nodded. Some people began to glance back at her, noticing her for the first time.
Thea looked at Eric, who put his text book between the two of them.
"Thank you." Thea said.
"No problem." He said smiling, and his hand lightly grazed hers.
There was a weird electric fizz, and she immediately pulled her hand back. He looked just as confused as she felt. Maybe it was just static electricity. She smiled at him, and he turned the book to the page that Mr. Leveret had said.
She focused on the lesson the entire time, ignoring the tingly feeling that still went through her hand. It was probably nothing. Nothing at all.
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By lunch time, Thea had her schedule mapped out. She knew where she would go next class, and she knew exactly where the room was.
She stood in the lunch line, waiting as people pushed and shoved their way in front of each other. Her tray was in hand, and she waited to get to the pizza. It wasn't her favorite, but it was better than the burgers.
By the time she finally got out of the lunch line, she looked around the cafeteria, trying to find a spot for her to sit at. She usually looked for Blaise, but she hadn't seen her enter. She spotted Bunny sitting at a table near the window with the girl from first period sitting next to her, and then she spotted a table with the mocha colored girl and a attractive guy with brown hair. They were sitting at a table with the girl with long legs, and the girl with big boobs. There were a few people there that she didn't recognize, but that didn't matter.
She had nowhere to sit.
"Hey, Harman!" Kestrel called out, and Thea turned to look at the corner table that was concealed by the post that read off what was available for lunch that day.
James, James's friend, Phil, Jade, Jade's friend, and Kestrel sat there, all of which were looking at her.
Thea smiled and made her way over to them. Jade scooted over, and made space for Thea to sit down. She was sitting at the end of the table with Jade to her right, and James's friend sitting right across from her.
"I'm Poppy!" the girl said, with about as much enthusiasm that Thea had thought only Jade could muster up.
"I'm Mark." Jade's friend said, after being elbowed by Jade.
"Thea." She said.
"How was your first day so far?" James asked.
"Crowded." Thea said, and Jade nodded.
"Yeah, a lot of people attend here. I think that they should make the school bigger so that everyone isn't so crowded, but." Jade said, leaving the sentence at but.
Thea knew that she was referring to the Night World people being crammed into one place, even though there were Midnight, Daybreak, and Twilight members. They were all basically enemies, so even having one school on neutral grounds still was troubling. There was no way Daybreakers and Midnighters could get along, so from Thea had heard, there were occasional fights.
"Yeah, there is no room to really roam the halls." Phil said, and Mark nodded.
Kestrel made eye contact with James, and rolled her eyes.
That was pretty much how the rest of lunch carried out. Thea ate her pizza while Phil ignored James, and talked to Mark. Jade and Poppy had a really confusing conversation about different topics (it was really hard to follow), and Kestrel talked to both her and James about teachers and his latest girlfriend.
Thea noticed that Poppy looked a little down, maybe even irritated when they were talking about James's new girlfriend. It didn't take long for Thea to realize that Poppy liked James as more then a friend. She could tell that James felt the same from the corner glances he kept giving her.
The lunch bell rang, and everyone made their way to their classroom. Thea was headed down the hall, near the library, when a girl with dark hair, and slanted blue eyes appeared next to her. Her eyes were outlined in black, making the shape that reminded her of how ancient Egyptians had their eyes. There was a black dahlia necklace hanging from her neck, alerting Thea to which group she belonged to.
"Unity." Gisele said, and Thea repeated it back.
"I am Gisele, Gisele Maigny. I heard that you are a Harman." She said.
"Yes, I am." Thea said, avoiding all of the technicalities. She was technically an Avery, since her father had Harman blood in him and not her mother. You always go by the female side for witched to determine what their bloodline is.
"It is nice to meet you. We don't get many new witches here, especially one of Harman caliber. Anyway, I thought that you should know my circle always needs new members." Gisele said.
"Which circle would that be?" Thea asked.
"I am part of Circle Twilight. I don't like messing with dark magic like Sylvia." Gisele said.
"Who is Sylvia?" Thea asked.
"Sylvia Weald, she works with Circle Midnight. There are rumors that last year she set a car on fire on the highway, and killed two people. You don't want to mess with her. My advice is to just steer clear of her if you don't want trouble. My class is here, so see you." Gisele said, and Thea just nodded.
So now she had to look out for a dark magic using witch if she wanted to have a smooth year. It didn't sound so hard to do.
She wished that she could believe that. Usually if one witch was using dark magic, there were others to back the witch up. This means that there is dark magic being used in the town, which she knew that Blaise would get drawn to. This wasn't going to end well, she could just tell.
She made her way to class, ignoring the churning feeling in her stomach.
The awaited for Kestrel by the front of the building, sitting on the steps as people passed her by.
"Hey!" A voice called out, and she saw Eric waving and walking towards her.
"How was your first official day at Roseclear high?" Eric asked her, standing in front of her.
"It was pleasant." She said, smiling up at him.
"I hope it didn't bore you too much." He said, sitting down next to her.
"No, it was very nice." She said.
"So, do you need a ride?" He asked her.
"Oh; no. I am just waiting for my cousin. Well, my cousins." She said, changing it to a plural form.
"Oh, well, i guess I should be heading out. I have to pick up my little sister." He said, standing up and waving goodbye to her.
"Who was that?" Blaise asked, coming up behind her.
"Eric." Thea said, slightly unnerved. It was never good when Blaise asked about a boy.
"He was kind of cute." Blaise said, and turned away to look for Kestrel.
"Alright, let's head home before Burdock has a temper tantrum." Kestrel said, with Jade trailing behind her.
Everyone piled into the beat up car, and Kestrel drove them back to Burdock Farm.
Everyone sat at the table, with Mrs. Burdock at the head of the table, Rowan to her right, Kestrel to her left, and Jade next to Rowan and Thea next to Kestrel, and Blaise was sitting at the opposite end of the table.
"How was your day?" Mrs. Burdock asked.
"Boring." Kestrel said, taking a bite of her meatloaf.
"I got a B on my history test." Jade announced proudly.
"I was fine. Nothing much happened." Blaise said, and she stabbed at her meatloaf, inspecting it at the end of her fork.
"It was good. I made a few new acquaintances." Thea said, taking a bite of her broccoli.
"I hope that the rest of your stay is as good as today seemed to be." Mrs. Burdock said, smiling at them all.
Thea didn't know how their time would turn out, but she hoped that it would turn out better then all of the other places. She had already made a few acquaintances, and she knew that she would grow to love this place.
