Hey, I'm new here, this is my first FANfiction story and I hope you like it. I am trying to develop this new character of mine before I get to the good bits so stick around and review! Would be greatly appreciated :) Oh, note just pretend Anna didn't die, she plays a strong role in this story so I wanted to keep her and her mother. Sorry for the confusion! (I quite liked Anna too!) I have chapters 2 and 3 already written, so if you reveiw and want more I would gladly continue. :)
Thankyou!
All is fair in love and war, they say;
But I am not so sure.
When love hurts it does not kill.
Though hearts break they can mend.
Time heals all wounds
Winter 1863 – Mystic Falls
"Damon? Where are you?" Aurora Fell stuttered in the cold. The looming, dense forest just outside the Salvatore Manor was a deep rich green with spotted browns, which now was covered in icy tendrils and swirls of white mist. It was here Damon had chosen to play hide-and-go-seek. Aurora danced through the tress, looking in the darkest places for Damon.
"Damon, please come out!" Aurora yelled the frigid air turning her breath into swirling mist, Aurora giggled aloud. Aurora heard the small whizzing noise just before the snowball hit her square in the face.
"Damon you will seriously pay for that!" Aurora threatened into the forest as dusted off the reaming snow in her face, her laughter taking away what little effect her threat had. A deep, rich and soft laughter floated with the mist around her.
Aurora couldn't help but smile at the fact Damon was back, after his 'early retirement' as Stefan had nicely put it to that Salvatore's father, from the Confederate Army. Aurora made her way soundlessly up a nearby tree, lifting her skirts unmannerly and unladylike past her ankles. She waited silently for any sign of Damon. After about five minuets Damon scrambled out of a dense bush, dusted the leaves off his Confederate Army uniform and rested on the tree, laughing to himself quietly. Damon's dark, thick hair was slightly mused, his shoulders slumped and relaxed. Aurora silently dispatched herself from the tree and noiselessly circled around the body of the tree until she was just behind Damon, she was so close that she could smell the unique scent of Damon off his uniform. She smiled and quickly covered his eyes with her small hands. She laughed as she felt the shock and surprise through Damon's body and then his relief and almost inaudible laughter.
"Found you." Aurora whispered.
Aurora's eyes fluttered open to reveal a boring, slightly damaged beige coloured ceiling of a motel she's already forgotten the name of. As she sat up from the musty sheets that covered the squeaky mattress she remembered why she was here.
'1…2….3' she thought rather dully. The door opened to reveal Katherine, who eyed Aurora thoughtfully and sat down on the broken radiator. She was fully dressed, a smirk playing on her lips.
"Good morning." Katherine smirked, her eyes suddenly mischievous.
Aurora glared as she watched Katherine cross her legs and watched Aurora like some kind of puzzle.
Aurora sighed. "I won't do it Katherine, you're insane." Aurora pointed daggers at Katherine, not because Katherine had baited her to come here, or because of her 'little favour' she had asked from Aurora. No, Aurora was angry because she was made in spite of Katherine, to rein eternal annoyance and misery and for centuries she had done anything but.
"Oh Aurora, you will." Katherine said confidently.
"Why would that be?" Aurora asked, getting out of bed and pouring herself a glass of water from the tap.
"You owe me." Katherine sang, still situated on the radiator.
Aurora scoffed. "As I told you Katherine, I would've rather died."
Katherine sighed and tried a different approach. "Damon is in Mystic Falls, why don't you see him. Trust me when you see this girl, you would want to do what I asked, much easier."
Aurora tried not to look or sound confused. "If I were to go back to Mystic Falls it would be to see Damon, not to fill your little obsessive Stefan plan."
Katherine seemed unaffected by Aurora's words…which both worried and bothered her.
"Same could go to you and Damon Aurora…oh wait that was me." Katherine smiled a daring smile.
Aurora, under any other circumstances would've been hurt, with the re-opening of old wounds but she smiled at Katherine with her own daring smile.
"Oh, that's not what I hear." Aurora made her way to Katherine, who know was only a few meters away from Aurora, daring her to come closer with a flicker of dangerous eyes. "I hear both the Salvatore brothers have something new to brood and depress over, and it isn't you Katherine." Aurora savoured the words on her tongue as she saw the hurt and anger settle into Katherine's eyes and body. Before Aurora could fully savour the moment, Katherine's dark, dangerous, furious eyes were inches from Aurora's own, a light metal pipe from the radiator cutting into her lower abdomen searing pain all over Aurora's body.
"They always come back for me Aurora, I can't say that same for you." Katherine whispered venomously in her ear. Katherine viciously pulled out the metal pipe and smirked as Aurora toppled over in pain. "All is fair in love and war." Aurora heard Katherine say before she slipped out the door.
'You're here to see the Salvatore's, a visit; Katherine can't force you to do anything.' Aurora told herself again. She didn't know why she came, but since the Katherine incident yesterday she felt drawn to Mystic Falls more than ever. Mystic Falls was not at all an inspirational or exciting place. It was dull, quite and boring, that was saying something,especially since Damon Salvatore was walking in its streets. Aurora tried to picture a Damon on good behaviour and laugh aloud. From what Anna had told her about the vampire Damon before she came to Mystic Falls was that he was never good. Aurora had never seen the Salvatore brothers after they were turned and she doubted either brother knew she was alive…well veritably speaking. She had heard stories about Damon's 'adventures' over the past 145 years, but unlike those who had told her she could sympathize and understand Damon's actions. After all his grief, all the pain Katherine had caused who wouldn't want to turn off their humanity, block off the anguish and regret? Aurora knew from experience. After a few minuets of walking like a lost puppy around wherever she was in this new Mystic Falls she dialled Anna's number, and after four electronic rings she answered.
"Where are you?" She yelled her tone highly annoyed.
"I could ask you the same question." Aurora laughed in a playful tone.
Anna sighed. "I'm at the Mystic Grill, not the park, not the drug store and not any building that doesn't say Mystic Grill."
"I was not lost." Aurora laughed, smiling at Anna's tone; it was so nice to hear her again.
"Well you aren't here." Anna said half-heartedly and hung up.
It took Aurora a good twenty minuets to find the Mystic Grill but when she did she entered proudly. She saw Anna, situated on the top of the stairs looking bored and slightly annoyed.
Anna was flooded with relief when she saw Aurora. "You're here!"
"I'm glad to see you missed me after the past 145 years." Aurora laughed.
Anna rolled her eyes. "Well about half an hour ago I spent those years thinking you were dead."
Aurora tsked. "You should know not all things stay dead." She smirked and sat besides Anna.
"What are you doing back here anyway?" Anna asked interested, her façade slightly broken.
"To annoy Katherine, she is the bane of my eternal existence." Aurora joked.
Anna looked around paranoid. "Not so loud, people already think I'm a freak."
Aurora sighed and looked at Anna, despite her dark outfit she had looked the same as she always had.
"Her name is Elena." Anna whispered, glancing sideways at Aurora.
Aurora nodded and said nothing more. She had known nothing despite Anna's quite whispers about the girl and now Aurora finally knew something besides the fact both Salvatore's loved her.
"Who has she chosen?" Aurora whispered.
Anna looked at Aurora, realisation set in her brown eyes. "She's chosen Stefan…so far."
"Will you tell me anything else?" Aurora questioned.
"One, I'm not a stalker and two it's nothing you won't find out for yourself." Anna smiled and stood up. "I'll take you to the Salvatore boarding house." She rolled her eyes dramatically and smiled again.
Aurora stood up besides Anna and hugged her, she hadn't realised how much she missed Anna until now. "How did you know?"
"You aren't that hard to figure out." Anna replied, making her way towards the exit.
Aurora laughed under her breath. "So I've been told."