Story Title: Snowed In

Rating: T (for language)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries.

Summary: Everyone in the town of Mystic Falls gets snowed in with no power when one of Bonnie's spells backfires. Who's stuck with who? And will everyone survive the night?

A/N: Does it even snow in Virginia? I don't know, and I don't care! Cause its snowing in Mystic Falls tonight!


Alaric carefully wound his way up the driveway to the Salvatore Boarding house. He'd spent the day up at Duke university pouring over his ex-wife's research trying to find a cure for a werewolf bite or any information about Klaus. His efforts had been fruitless. If Isobel had any information on the subjects she wasn't keeping it in her old office. He cursed his ex-wife for all the secrets she kept, for becoming a vampire, for being Elena's mother, and some how getting him mixed up in all this. It was because of her that he now felt permanently tied to this town and all the wackos in it.

Getting out of the car he sighed swallowing his anger back down, and headed up the boarding house steps. He knocked. No one answered. So he just went straight in. He found Stefan and Damon sitting in front of the fireplace drinking scotch as usual. He took off his coat and started to poor himself a glass as well.

"Let, me guess. You didn't find anything?" Damon said not even bothering to greet him first.

"No such luck." Alaric responded taking a seat on the couch next to Damon and staring into the fire.

"Well, what's plan B?" Stefan asked. "We can't just sit around unprepared waiting for Klaus to come find us…"

"Yeah, and Rose is getting worse by the minute." murmured Damon somberly, as he looked into is glass with a furrowed brow. "I don't know how much time she has left."

"Okay. So whatever we're going to do, we need to think of it fast…" confirmed Alaric rubbing his face tiredly. "Any ideas?"

Elena was making her way back up stairs to her room from the kitchen. She, Bonnie and Caroline were having a sleepover in an attempt to enjoy the last days of winter break. When she got back to her room Bonnie and Caroline were sitting on her bed right where she'd left them. Caroline was still talking animatedly about how she was finally receiving all this attention from both Matt and Tyler. She was conflicted because she didn't know which one she should choose or if she should just string them both along and make them suffer. Bonnie didn't seem to be paying any attention to Caroline and was braiding her blond hair into knots while staring out the window with a worried look on her face.

"Hey guys!" Elena said. They both turned to look at her. "Jenna's got some hot chocolate down in the kitchen to tide us over until dinner's ready!" .

"Great, I'm starving!" Caroline exclaimed. "I'm gunna go get some! You want?" she asked Bonnie as she stood to leave.

Bonnie looked dazed. "Uh, sure, Caroline. That'd be great." she said with an attempt at a smile.

"Kay!" Caroline chirped as she skipped out of the room.

With Caroline's cheery presence now gone Bonnie turned to look at Elena seriously.

"Elena this is stupid…" she said shaking her head. "We can't just sit here and pretend like nothing's happening!" she said exasperatedly.

Elena sighed and went to look out of the window. "Yes we can Bonnie. Look, we don't know when Klaus is gunna show up, or if he even will. And quite frankly I don't think there'd be much we could do to stop him if he did…" She turned to look at her friend. "I really think the best thing for us to do right now is just to live our lives and be happy. There's no use driving ourselves crazy over something we can't predict and have no control over! So lets just try and enjoy these last few days of the break. Okay?"

Bonnie sighed in a resigned manner. "You're right, Elena…" She shook her head. "You're right! There's nothing we can do about it." she shrugged her shoulders. "I guess we'll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it."

"Thanks for understanding Bonnie." Elena said sincerely.

"Of course. No problem." Bonnie said smiling weakly. She rubbed her hands together. "So what's next for this slumber party? I'm getting a little tired of being Caroline's hair dresser while she talks about her love life." She laughed. So did Elena.

"I don't know… A pillow fight?" Elena mused as she turned back to the window. It was iced over and the sky outside was grey and bleak, typical for these winter months. It looked like it might rain. "God, I wish it would snow! You know. Like really snow! Just once for a change…" she said absent mindedly.

"Well let's make it happen!" said Bonnie getting up from the bed.

"What?" said Elena smiling confusedly.

"Witch, remember?" said Bonnie pointing at herself. "If I can't use my powers to fight off Klaus, the least I can do is use them to bring us some winter cheer!" She pulled her Grimoire out of her duffel bag.

"Is there seriously a spell in there for that?" Elena asked trying not to get her hopes up.

"No. But there is one for rain in case of droughts!" said Bonnie paging through the book. "I figure I should be able to just replace the word 'rain' with 'snow'."

"Will that really work?" Elena was starting to get excited.

"It should. I don't see why not." She said finding the page she needed and running her finger down the spell. "I'm going to need a candle."

"I'll get one." Elena jumped up to grab one off her night stand. She lit it and placed it in front of Bonnie.

"Alright. Here it goes." Said Bonnie as she closed her eyes and began chanting. The flame on the candle rose a little.

Caroline came back into the room carrying two steaming mugs of hot chocolate. "Hey what's going on?" She asked looking from the chanting Bonnie to Elena.

"Bonnie's trying to make it snow!" Elena said excitedly.

"Oh, cool! I wanna see!" Caroline said. She tripped over a pillow in her haste to get over to the window.

"Oh my god!" Elena yelled and clapped her hands over her mouth as the burning hot chocolate spilled all over Bonnie. Bonnie screamed. Her eyes flew open, and the flame of the candle rose up to touch the ceiling. All of a sudden a booming clap of thunder shook the entire house, and a strong wind rattled the window as if threatening to break it. Blood started streaming from Bonnie's nose. She was shaking from the burn of the scalding liquid but was still chanting.

"Bonnie! Bonnie!" Elena shook her violently, forcing her to come out of the trance. The candle went out and Bonnie collapsed onto the floor unconscious.


Oh Caroline you klutz!

Wow! I'm really not sure where I'm going with this story. I originally intended for it to be a comedy full of awkward moments and parody humor. Mainly all about the boys of TVD being forced to have a sleepover together because of weather conditions. Rereading what I wrote though the whole thing sounds so somber and serious, apart from the hot chocolate... What do you guys think? Should I try to keep it serious? Or just let it flow and see what happens?