Freaky Friday

-1- Elena -1-

Elena Gilbert sighed as she put her book down. She missed Stefan a lot and having Damon around so much had proved to be a bad, bad idea. She had started to sway from her promise to wait for him. She threw an angry glare at the cover of Twilight and made a point in hiding it udner her pillow.

She wanted Stefan back. She wanted her Vampire back.

Unknown to Elena someone else was making that exact same wish. Someone that, Elena thought, lived in a book. Someone who thought Elena herself was nothing more than a tv series character.

Bella threw the remote on the bed next to her. She could understand why Jessica had given the Vampire Diaries DVD but she couldn't help but wish she had learned how to say 'No'. Looking at the deranged version Stefan had returned to the show she couldnt help but wish Edward came back the same way. Well, preferably not deranged and high on human blood, but come back to her.

She wanted Edward back. She wanted her Vampire back.

-2- Elena -2-

Elena grumbled as she turned around in her bed. She must have been laying very close to the end of the mattress or her bed just got a LOT smaller because she fell off of it with a mess of sleep tangled hair blocking her view.

"ouch"

She moaned as she sat up rubbing her sore knees and pushed her hair out of her eyes. She didn't have purple walls in her room. she wasn't in her room. Tentatively she looked down at herself and sighed seeing she was dressed in a pair grey sweats with a couple holes on the knees and a long sleeved brown tee. Who dressed her? Cinderella?

Kicking the covers away she got up and looked for her phone. No cell in sight. Where the heck was her phone and her clothes and she herself? she opened the bedroom door and saw a narrow corridor. Opening doors she saw a bedroom and a bathroom. She slipped into the bathroom and looked herself at the mirror hoping she didn't look like the mess she felt.

she let out a loud screech seeing at her reflex ion.

the door was pushed open seconds later by a half asleep man in plaid pajama bottoms and a black t-shirt.

"What's wrong bells?"

"you're Charlie"

she said amazed. the man looked at her weirdly

"yes I am. Are you alright bells?"

hastily she nodded

"cockroach"

she lamented stammering. Charlie rolled his eyes and announced

"I'm going back to bed"

before going back to his room. Elena turned around to look at the mirror again and examined her reflex ion. her tanned skin was gone. so was her perfectly straight brown hair and her toned stomach. Instead her skin was pale, her hair was tangled with half curls and knotted and while she was thin she could tell she wasn't fit. The worst of all was her face. She wasn't Elena Gilbert anymore. The face that greeted her and resounded to her commands was that of the heroine in the book she had been reading the previous night.

She was Bella Swan!

-3- Bella -3-

Unlike Elena, Bella woke up slowly, her eyelids fluttering gently before waking up. For a moment she allowed herself to dream Edward was there holding her but the absence of a cold body next to her forced her daydream to be over. sighing heavily she opened her eyes. a white wallpaper with some flowers greeted her.

"what the...? did I stay at Jessica's again?"

she muttered sleepily but her voice sounded different to her ears. paying no attention to it she stood up and grabbed the clothes that were left on a chair shivering in her tiny shorts and tank top and got dressed quickly frowning at the too-revealing-for-her-taste jeans and red tank top. opening the bedroom door she followed the smell of something burning downstairs to a vast kitchen.

A teenage boy was playing x-box with his back to her. a blond man was trying save a burning pan while a brunette, younger man was making fun of them both while drinking something that did not look like coffee.

"morning!"

she called out nervously. she wished they'd turn around because suddenly she felt scared. when they finally did she took a step back. In front of her stood Jeremy Gilbert, Damon Salvatore and Alaric Saltzman.

"Damn you Jess. Now I have weird dreams"

she muttered under her breath. not only jess had given her a full season of the vampire teen drama to 'lift her spirits because if Stefan - who according to Jess Stanley is average - came back, then so would Edward'. that was supposed to be a compliment, Bella thought

"are you ok Elena?"

Damon asked her having heard her. Bella lifted an eyebrow. Elena? she took another step back and her back hit the wall. Jeremy and Alaric turned to her as well. she looked down at herself. no scar on her right wrist, no scar from the stitches from her birthday, tanned skin, perfect straight brown hair, a locket on her neck.

"oh crap"

she muttered before fainting.

She was Elena Gilbert.

-4- Elena -4-

showers always calmed Elena down so she decided to take one. while she scrubbed and shampooed she tried to think what was going to happen then. she was in a movie, looked like the lead actress and she had seen freaky friday with jenna and her mom a few years ago. how long was she going to look like that before she returned to her body?

deciding she would still look her best even if it was in a different body - yes, she knew it was fickle but applying makeup and always looking her best comforted her - she took her time straightening her hair and applying makeup. plucking the eyebrows from the spock-like straight line to something far more feminine and got dressed in one of the few flattering clothes Bella swan owned.

walking downstairs she found a cordless phone in the kitchen and called home. the number didn't exist

"figures"

she muttered. feeling hungry she headed to the kitchen tripping over her own two feet.

"dammnit Bella"

she swore under her breath rubbing her sore butt. feeling like the walls were closing in on her she put on the girl's jacket and headed outside only to be stopped short at the freezing cold and the snow.

"snow"

she exclaimed looking at the sky. she'd never seen snow before at mystic falls. wait, if she was inside a book, did that mean that that mystic falls and her life didn't exist?

She felt like crying but she had a strange feeling of relief. She had no idea if Stefan would come back but she knew that in her favourite book the hero came back and the heroine did live (after quite a few tribulations) happily ever after. With a deep breath she huddled the heavy jacket and got in the red rickety truck. She had read the books enough times to know that like the Grill at Mystic, there was a similar place for her to go in Forks. Double pumping the clutch she went along in her merry way.

-5- Bella -5-

smelling something disgusting Bella fluttered her eyelids open. a crispy, black, could easily be a coal when it actually was a burnt egg was being passed in front of her nose.

"get that thing away from me"

she growled as the putrid scent invaded her nostrils. behind the egg she could see Damon covering his nose with one hand and holding the egg with the other.

"are you ok Elena?"

he asked carefully. numbly at the realization she wasn't dreaming (her sore shoulder told her so) Bella nodded.

"I need some fresh air"

he hasted to say and grabbing a jacket and a purse that were hanging by the door she left the house. she began walking randomly, with no real destination thinking about her predicament. she made a wish for her vampire to come back, went to bed and woke up as a heroine in a tv-series.

what now? Try to call home or go with it and wait till its all over? fingering Elena's cell phone in her purse she decided to do the unBella thing and just roll with it. She already knew the outcome, according to the DVD's, Stefan would make his grand comeback sometime this week.

She was walking outside the Grill (which besides its name did not in fact have a restaurant part - even though according to Jessica it did have one in the first season) when a bubbly blond rushed to her bubbling something about a senior prank night. Bella only blinked for a few moments before deciding to go along with Elena's actions and agreed to the meeting.

Of course she regretted later on as psycho Stefan returned, was compelled to drink some of her blood and sent her to the hospital as the moron had hit her sending her flying to a wall. Of course at some point Klaus had turned the local wolf boy to a hybrid but that wasn't a big part of the plot.

"why are vampires such morons?"