Chapter 1
A/N: Hello everyone, I just want to let you guys know from the beginning that this story is not going to be completely canon. I've had this idea for a while now, I'm going to drastically change some events and I hope you guys like it. Okay, onto the story!
Stefan Salvatore did not know what to make of his brother's behaviour. Now this is not unusual but he is trying and failing to come up with a reason for why Damon is in maid mode. It's not like he and his brother are slobs as the boarding house is always fairly clean and due to the truce they have formed with the Mikaelsons, there was no need for Damon to spruce up the guest bedroom, and the one closest to Damon for that matter, unless...
Stefan narrowed his eyes and decided to bite the bullet, bracing himself for the worst, he asked.
"What have you done?" Damon paused then looked at his brother puzzled.
"I haven't done anything Stef."
"I'm being serious Damon. Why are you preparing a guestroom? Have you done something to piss Klaus off? Is he going after Elena or someone else we know? I told you to behave, we need this truce."
Damon scoffed but Stefan could see he was also amused and this did not inspire confidence that all was well.
"First of all, when have you ever seen me cleaning up in order to hide someone? You need to chill Stef, your brooding is making you paranoid." Damon said while giving Stefan his customary smirk.
"So what are you up to then?" Stefan asked. He realised that Damon had a point besides if something had happened, he would have heard about it by now. They never could catch a break when danger loomed.
"Well, a friend of mine is coming over to stay for a while and I want her to feel comfortable."
That was absolutely the last thing he expected to hear leave his brother's mouth. To his knowledge, Damon had no friends except maybe Alaric and Elena and even those are on the complicated side. He concluded that Damon was full of shit.
"You expect me to believe all this is for a friend? A female one at that?" Stefan asked. The disbelief quite evident in his voice.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Damon asked defensively. "She is very real and I've known her since the 70s. When you meet her tonight you'll even see that she is quite fond of me." Not that Bonnie would ever give him the satisfaction of admitting that out loud but he just knew it.
Stefan sighed. It didn't seem like they were about to become victims of imminent peril so he decided to leave Damon and wondered what exactly was going to happen tonight. Damon's story of it being a visiting friend, female at that, just wasn't cutting it but he'll wait and see.
Caroline Forbes cannot believe her eyes. Damon is in the supermarket, on a queue about to pay for the groceries he bought. The sight is so bizarre she immediately thinks something is up. No one within their group is human except Jeremy and despite Damon's infatuation with Elena, she cannot imagine it's at the level where he is willing to go food-shopping on her behalf. The only reason why she's even in the supermarket is because she's was tasked with getting the ingredients for the bake off sale needed to raise money for a school project!
She immediately calls Stefan as she watches Damon leave with his groceries. The call connects and she doesn't even wait for a greeting.
"What the hell is going on? I'm in the supermarket and Damon just left after buying foodstuffs. Human foodstuffs! Am I the only one that finds something wrong with that picture? Please tell me nothing sinister is going on and that you guys are planning some kind of...I don't know...get together or anniversary?!" she says all of this in one breath.
"What do you mean he got human foodstuffs?" Was Stefan's reply.
"Seriously? That's all you got from my rant?" Stefan didn't sound too bothered and she's beginning to wonder if she overreacted.
"Sorry, it's just that he told me a friend of his from the 70s is visiting for a while and I just assumed she was a vampire. Now you're telling me he's buying human foodstuff."
"Wait, Damon's got a friend? A female human friend who's probably at least thirty years old? You understand if I find that hard to believe." Caroline deadpanned.
Stefan chuckled. "Yeah, I said as much to him and he told me she's quite real. Apparently, she'll be here tonight and will be staying for a while."
"Okay now I'm curious. I can't imagine any human knowing Damon for that long and still willing to stick around. I bet you she's got grey hair already."
Stefan laughed. "Well you're welcome to come by tonight to find out for sure. Besides I'm not prepared to deal with whatever tonight has to offer by myself."
Caroline smiled. "You don't need to convince me to be your knight in shining armour, I need to see this for myself so I'll be there. Hey, would it be too awkward if Elena is there?"
"No, not on my part at least. I understand what she's going through and I respect her decision even though I'm not happy with the events leading up to that decision."
"Alright, I'll call her. I'm so curious, I hope it doesn't end up killing me! I'll see you tonight, bye."
Caroline hung up and thought of what she'd just learnt still finding it hard to believe. If it's even true, she curious about what sort of relationship dynamic exists between Damon and his older female human friend. She calls Elena and when she hears her greeting, she proceeds to relay the gossip.
Rebekah Mikaelson strode into the Mikaelson mansion and headed to the living room for a drink. High school was definitely not all she thought it would be and she was beginning to regret her decision to experience it. She walked in and found that all her brothers were in there as well. Klaus had his sketchpad with him, Elijah was reading a book and Kol was on his phone, probably familiarizing himself with all that this new world had to offer. She got her drink and slumped on the nearest couch sighing.
"What's the matter, sister?" This was from Elijah, he was the one to always inquire when he notices a change in any of them.
"Nothing, just regretting my life choices," she replied sardonically. "I miss private schooling, no extracurricular activities."
"You can still avoid the extracurricular activities or dropout like Kol did." This was the simple solution in Elijah's view.
"True, but if I do that then I wouldn't be able to enjoy making Elena and company squirm, besides being around them keeps them in check and allows me to learn things like I did today."
That got their attention.
"What did you learn? Is our tentative truce broken?" This was from Klaus but she can see that Elijah and Kol were also interested in her answer.
"No, I don't think so. I was in the supermarket gathering materials for a school project when I heard Caroline talking on the phone to Elena. She was inviting Elena over to the boarding house to meet Damon's female human friend who is arriving tonight. Apparently, he's known her since the 70s and she'll be staying there for a while."
I don't understand, how is this of any importance? Except maybe for the fact that Damon Salvatore actually has a friend he can invite for a sleepover." This was from Kola though it was more than obvious Klaus and Elijah shared his sentiments.
"Exactly. It just doesn't sound right and the others were sceptical about it as well. It could be that Damon is hatching a plan against us and the visiting friend is just a cover story or it could be true that he's got a friend coming over but it could still be for a purpose that is detrimental to us."
Rebekah could see that what she had said had gotten to them as they were all wearing contemplative looks on their faces.
"Does this mean we're crashing a party?" Kol asked jovially.
"Yes, I think we should go and introduce ourselves to the newcomer, determine if she's a threat or not. If nothing else, this could be a source of entertainment." Klaus says with a smirk on his face and a look in his eyes that plainly reads that he's ready to respond in kind if at all this ends up being a threat.
Rebekah muses, with a grin on her face, that very soon she and her family would either maintain the peace or shed some blood. She is hoping for the latter, things have gotten a bit dull.
There was a knock on the door and everyone in the boarding house living room looked at one another in puzzlement. It had been a long time since anyone knocked on the boarding house door as it was common knowledge to members of their group that the door is always unlocked. Damon had left an hour and a half ago to pick his friend from the airport and even then he would have no need to knock.
Stefan sped to the door and the others were behind him just in case he needed help, he opened it to reveal the Mikaelsons, who all walked in as though they were invited.
"What are you guys doing here?" Stefan asked already anxious despite the truce that was still in place to the best of his knowledge but then again the Mikaelsons were a troublesome bunch.
Klaus replied on their behalf, "we have reason to believe that a friend of Damon was going to be in town tonight, we simply came to welcome her to Mystic Falls, we even brought her a gift, a bottle of Bordeaux wine so that she can know that we're all friends here." Klaus says with a smile on his face that made Stefan uneasy.
Stefan took the wine from Klaus, meanwhile Rebekah and Kol were making themselves comfortable in the living room and since it was obvious that the Mikaelsons were not going away anytime soon, the rest of the gang ventured back into the living room.
"So tell me, what is this friend of Damon like?" Elijah directed this question to Stefan.
"I don't know, I've never met her. We don't even know her name. Damon left to get her from the airport before we could ask, we were still l stuck on the part of knowing that he has other friends besides us." Stefan replies wryly.
"I see. I find it rather odd that that you know nothing of a woman your brother has been friend with for at least thirty years." Elijah says with a look on his face that makes Stefan wary. Alaric notices his wariness and moves to join Elijah and Stefan and reaches them to hear Stefan saying that he and Damon had not always been so close for him to know who stuck around in his brother's life.
Meanwhile, Klaus engages Caroline in conversation trying to sway her to give him a chance to give her everything she desires.
Although Caroline smiles and is flattered, she gives him the same reply as always.
"All I want is Tyler and if you can remove the bounty you placed on his head then you would have given me all that I desire."
"I doubt that is true love, you only say that because you have known no other desires. Right now you're sticking with what you're familiar with but I'm a patient man when I choose to be." He says with a boyish grin that Caroline is ashamed to say affects her more than it should.
On the other side of the room is another mini group comprising of Elena, Jeremy, Rebekah and Kol with the girls engaging in passive aggressive conversation and Kol taunting Jeremy on how they can be best mates again.
The door opens and the Mikaelsons lurk behind while Stefan, Elena, Caroline, Jeremy and Alaric move to the entrance to welcome Damon's guest but are somewhat taken aback as she is not what they were expecting.
They see a caramel skinned beautiful young woman with green expressive eyes who is of average height and dressed in dark skinny jeans, a blue silk top, black leather jacket and heeled boots which emphasize her femininity and power at the same time. She looked nothing like they expected her to look and it was obvious to the supernaturals in the room that the woman before them was a witch, a powerful one at that.
Before anything could be said, Rebekah's voice, full of suspicion, rang out for all to hear.
"What is going on? You two look like you've seen a ghost. Do you know her?" Everyone turned to see that Klaus and Elijah were looking at the new guest as though she were a ghostly apparition.
"Bonnie?" asked Klaus, still not believing it was the same person.
When her face displayed disgust when she looked at them, they knew it was her. Elijah suddenly felt very uncomfortable but both he and Klaus were quick to compose themselves as they had an audience.
They looked at her and several questions ran through their minds and Klaus ended up asking the most important one.
"How are you still alive?"
The young woman whom everyone now knows as Bonnie replies caustically.
"It sure as hell wasn't thanks to the both of you."
A/N: That's the end of the first chapter. Please let me know what you think. I will provide a bit of back story in the next chapter, please let me know of any criticisms and I will take them into consideration when writing this story.
Thanks for reading!