~ I'm glad to see how this is being received so far. I wasn't originally going to post this, because of the number of stories that I currently have going, but I'm glad I did.
~ This contains a scene that I had written before the episode aired. I just tweaked it a little.
Nymartian: Especially with what is rumoured to happen between Damon and Elena in this season, Chelsea will be.. I guess you could say conflicted. I think a major thing for Chelsea will be what she overhears/sees at the end of the chapter. I already have slight plans for future chapters, just from the released summaries.
storylover3: I actually thought that the episode was okay, but I have plans for this story as a counterpart. There might be a little scene where Klaus might get pissed at Chelsea, or possibliy the other way around... but you'll just have to wait and read :) Rebecca won't be completely alone in this, but the scene with her and Klaus will happen the way it happens in the show.
ENJOY!
Chelsea's POV
Damon and I sat on Elena's window seat as Stefan sat at the edge of her bed. I could tell that Damon and Stefan were both worried about her. Damon's hand gently squeezed mine when Elena gasped for breath.
"Stefan." She said, almost breathless after looking around.
"Hey." He quietly said to her. "I'm right here." He gently placed his hand on her knee.
"What happened? Elena asked.
"You were in an accident."
"Oh my god. Matt is he..?"
"Alive?" Damon asked, finishing for Elena. "Ask Stefan. The hero." He said, as he looked at Elena.
"He's fine." Stefan said.
"Thank you." Elena whispered. "I thought that I... how did you?"
"Save you?" Damon asked, finishing for Elena again. "He didn't."
"When Jeremy brought you to the hospital before all this happened your injuries were worse than anyone knew." Stefan explained to Elena, which was also news to me. "Meredith Fell made a choice. She used Damon's blood to heal you." I looked at Damon.
"And when Rebecca ran Matt's truck off the road you had vampire blood in your system Elena."
"Oh my god." Elena said when she realized what happened. "Does that mean that... I... Am I dead?" Nobody said anything. "No, no, no no! That wasn't supposed to happen."
"Maybe it doesn't have to." Stefan said to her. "I talked to Bonnie. She said she's stronger than ever. There might be something she can do to help and with Chelsea's help..."
"There is no way around this." I said, making Elena and Stefan look at me.
"The only thing that's going to help is if you feed and complete the transition." Damon said to Elena.
"We have all day before she has to feed." Stefan said to the both of us. "That's all day to exhaust every possible way out of this."
"There is no way out of it." Damon said, basically repeating what I said earlier. "We all know the drill. you feed or you die. There is no door number three."
"What Damon is saying is that there is going to be no witch way around this." I said to Stefan before looking at Elena.
"I was ready to die." She said. "I was supposed to die. I can't be a vampire." I closed my eyes as Elena spoke. "If there is something Bonnie can do, we have to try."
"We will try everything." Stefan said, trying to reassure her.
"Your choice Elena." Damon said. "As always." He slowly got up and walked out of the room.
"I should go talk to him." I said as I stood.
"No. I will." Stefan said before walking out of Elena's room.
"Why are you here?" Elena asked me. I slowly took Stefan's place at the edge of her bed.
"Jeremy called me." I said, not telling her that I was here for Damon. "You should be the last person to have to go through this. And I know we don't get along, but we should start over or at least forget why we weren't getting along. I know I'm one of the last people that you really want to talk to right now, but you don't have to go through this alone. I know how you're feeling right now because I went through it last year. So did Caroline, Stefan and Damon. If you do decide to transition, then you won't be alone." She smiled at me.
"Thank you." I gave her a nod before I slowly left her room.
I walked down the stairs to see Damon in the kitchen again with a drink in his hand.
"I made a mistake that I'm going to regret for the rest of my life." I could hear Stefan say to Damon. "Now let me try to fix it." Stefan walked past me and towards the stairs.
"You shouldn't be giving him a hard time." I said to Damon as I leaned against the doorway.
"He killed her." He said as he took a drink from the glass in his hand.
"Rebecca did." I said to him. "If it wasn't for Rebecca, she would still be human. We can't blame your brother for something she did." I walked towards him. "I know you do care for Elena Damon, but it's going to be her choice."
"She won't turn."
"She will." Damon looked into my eyes. "She said that she wants to die, but nobody really wants to die." He was about to say something, but my phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Chelsea, I need your help." Bonnie said. "Meet me at the witch house with Jeremy." She hung up and I looked at Damon.
"Will you be okay without me?" I quietly asked him. He didn't say anything, but I knew by his eyes. "I'll just be a phone call away." I kissed him on the cheek. "Call me if anything goes wrong." He gave me a nod. We kissed before I walked towards the stairs.
After a few minutes Jeremy stood at the top.
"Bonnie wants us at the witch house." I said before he went into his room and got his keys and we left the house.
Jeremy and I walked down the stairs of the witch house to see candles lit up all over the place. I saw Klaus's coffin. 'I thought it would still be in the cellar' I thought before Bonnie spoke.
"It would help if channel you." I just gave her a nod before sitting across from her. I glanced at the grimoire in front of us before Bonnie took my hands. When she closed her eyes and started chanting, I closed my eyes and let her channel me.
Bonnie was chanting for a good five minutes before she let go of my hands.
"The spirits aren't listening." She said more towards Jeremy than to me.
"Was that it?" Jeremy asked when he stopped pacing. "Is that all we can do?"
"There's something else I could try." She said to him.
"What? Do it." Jeremy said before Bonnie got up, holding the grimoire.
"If the witches won't help me save Elena, then maybe I can go to the Other Side and bring her back myself."
"What?" I asked before getting up. "Are you crazy?"
"The Other Side?" Jeremy asked Bonnie, ignoring me. "The Other Side is for dead people."
"She's still in transition." Bonnie said. "Not fully dead, not fully alive. What if her spirit still exists on both sides?"
"Even if it does, you'd be stupid to try it." I said.
"How can you get there?" Jeremy asked Bonnie. "You're not dead."
"She has to die." I said in a whisper.
"No!" Jeremy stepped closer to Bonnie. "No, Bonnie!"
"I was able to stop your heart to stop Klaus's." Bonnie started to explain to Jeremy. "I'll do the same thing to myself. Witches have free reign on the Other Side. I will find Elena and I will bring her back with me."
"This is stupid." I complained.
"You don't have to help me." Bonnie said before turning her attention back to Jeremy.
"This is all assuming you wake up." Jeremy said.
"I'm stronger now. I found a new source of power."
"A new source of power?! What kind of power is going to let you kill yourself and bring someone back with you from the dead?" 'Dark magic' I thought.
"Do you want Elena back or not?"
"She didn't go anywhere." I said to Jeremy. "She's just in transition."
"I don't want my sister to be a vampire."
"It shouldn't matter what she is." I said to Jeremy, holding in my anger. "She is your sister and you should love her no matter what." I knew that he wasn't going to change his decision, so I walked away.
I stayed in room as Bonnie sat down with Jeremy across from her. She started to chant the spell, but I didn't look at them. 'He's being shallow' I thought about Jeremy. He doesn't want a vampire as a sister, even though there is no way around it. After a few seconds I could smell blood. I turned to see Jeremy looking at Bonnie with a worried look.
"Oh my God." I hurried next to him and saw that Bonnie was bleeding from her nose. "Bonnie. Bonnie, open your eyes. Bonnie, I can't let you do this! Bonnie, you're dying!"
"If she is it's your fault." I snapped at him. 'If he wasn't so stubborn, then maybe Bonnie wouldn't be in this situation' I thought before seeing veins started to ascend from her hands up her arms. "What the is that?!" I asked when I saw them.
"Bonnie, no!" Jeremy basically shouted when she started to hyperventilate. "Bonnie! Bonnie, wake up! Bonnie! Wake up!" He rushed to her side, shaking her body. "Chelsea, do something." I found myself rolling my eyes before bending down to her side. "Bonnie, wake up!" Jeremy continued to plead with her. I placed my hands on her side and focused, trying to bring her back. "Wake up! Come on. Open your eyes." I could hear the emotion in his voice. A minute later, Bonnie's eyes shot open. "You're awake!" I moved away as Jeremy moved closer. He pulled her into a hug. "You're alive."
"I couldn't do it." She said. "It didn't work." 'I knew it wouldn't' I thought before taking a few steps away.
My phone started to vibrate. I took a couple of steps away from Bonnie and Jeremy before answering.
"Hello?"
"Chelsea, are you okay?" Damon asked me with his voice filled with worry.
"Yeah." I said, glancing back at Bonnie and Jeremy. "I'm still with Bonnie. Why? What happened?"
"The council took Stefan, Elena, and Rebecca"
"What?"
"I'm going back to Elena's house. Stay with Bonnie." He said to me. "I don't want you to get hurt." I couldn't help but smile.
"I love you Damon. Be careful."
"I love you to." Damon hung up on me and I turned to Jeremy and Bonnie.
"We have to do something." I said and they nodded, without having me explain what happened.
I paced back and forth, worried about him. Bonnie was sitting on the floor with candles lit around her while Jeremy was standing behind her.
"Can you stop?" She asked, slightly annoyed.
"No." I said, trying my best not to be rude. "I can't stop Bonnie." I said as I continued to pace. 'I hope he's okay' I thought. He said he would text and he hasn't.
"They'll be here soon." Bonnie said to me.
"I'm not worried about that." I said. I didn't tell Bonnie what I did at Elena's house earlier. "You know what?" I asked before taking off my charm bracelet. "I have to go." I tossed the bracelet towards Bonnie. "Just keep that incase you need extra power." I picked up my purse "I can't be here." I started to make my way out of the room when I saw Caroline and Klaus in Tyler's body come down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Klaus asked me.
"Somewhere that's not here." I said before getting out of the witch house before he could say anything else. 'Klaus would ask me about this later" I thought. It doesn't matter though, because I don't love him.
I ran to Elena's house, the fastest I could. To my luck, Damon was still there.
"I thought I told you to stay with Bonnie." Damon said when he saw me.
"I got worried." I said to him before giving him a hug.
"With your vervain and Alaric's weapons, they could be anywhere." Liz said, making me realize that she was there. I looked around and saw that Matt and Meredith were also in the room.
"Come on, guys, think." Damon's said as his arm laid on my shoulder. "It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Reinforced steel, iron doors."
"Vervain, lack of blood." I added to Damon.
"The Pastor has a cattle ranch. " We all looked at Matt. "Those pens could easily be modified."
"It's remote, it's secluded." Meredith said to us.
"Well, guess what?" Damon asked as he looked at Matt. "Looks like you get a chance to prove how sorry you really are. Let's go." Damon's hand slid down to mine. "You to." I just gave a nod before leaving with Damon and Matt.
Damon and I were walking on each side of Matt.
"So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt asked Damon.
"Nah, we don't need weapons." I looked at Damon as we stopped. "Just bait." He bit into Matt's neck, drank some blood, and let him fall to the ground. "Yoo-hoo! Anybody home?" Damon yelled at towards the house as I slowly bent down next to Matt. "Big, bad vampire out here."
"Make that two big bad vampires." I said, glancing at the person that had just walked out. I turned back to Matt and bit in the same spot that Damon had made and bit into it, drinking some of Matt's blood. It didn't help that I didn't have enough today.
"Let him go." A voice said, bringing my focus from my hunger. "The boy's innocent." I slowly stood up, after knowing that Matt was still alive.
"Well, that's the point." Damon said as he glanced at me. "Give us Stefan and Elena, he's all yours." Damon picked up Matt from the collar, holding him close. "Come on, Pastor. You know I'll kill him." I faked a cough. "Excuse me," He glanced towards me ", WE will kill him."
"You know we will." I said, making sure my fangs were showing.
"Go away!" The Pastor yelled. "You are not invited in and I'm not coming out!" Damon and I both got shot in the chest. We fell to the ground. I looked out the corner of my eye and saw Damon, pretending to be knocked out. 'We have the same plan' I thought before closing my eyes. Even though I wasn't doing any magic, I could feel myself getting a bit weaker. 'What's Bonnie doing?' I asked myself as I heard footsteps approached us. One of them kicked my foot, but I didn't move. When I heard a snap I opened my eyes and saw that someone was standing over me. I bolted up and bit into the guys neck. His blood was slightly tainted with vervain, but that didn't stop me from draining all the blood from his body.
"Chelsea." I heard a voice say before feeling hands on my shoulders. "He's dead. That's enough." I slowly raised my head from the neck and watched as the body fall to the ground. I turned my head towards Damon, who was looking at me, slightly worried.
"I'm okay." I said in a whisper as I felt the veins around my eyes recede. "I'll be okay." He gave me a small smile. "I'll wait by the car while you wait for Elena." He gave me a small nod before I walked to Damon's car.
I could tell that Damon had a problem that Matt was still human and Elena was in transition. My mind went over how much has changed. Damon never used to care about me, the council didn't know about the vampires that were right under their nose, Bonnie never had to use dark magic, and I never lied to Damon about if Klaus was alive or not. I let out a sigh as I wiped the blood from around my mouth. After what seemed like an hour, Rebecca sped away.
"You turned." I said when I saw Elena talking to Damon. "I knew you would." She gave me a small smile. "Welcome to club vampire."
"I'm just gonna go back to Stefan." She said before turning around.
"You know I wanted what she wanted." I said to Damon as I watched Elena walk away. "I wanted a family, have kids before I planned to be like this."
"I'm sorry." I couldn't help but look at Damon. Those words rarely came out his mouth. "I took that choice from you a year ago and I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry Damon." I said in a whisper before taking his hand. "I may not be able to have children or the family I wanted, but I have my brother and you." I gave him a small smile before feeling his lips against mine.
"Have I told you how much I love you?"
"Three times today so far." I pressed my lips against his. "You should probably help your brother." I said in a whisper. "I have something I need to check. I'll meet you back at the boarding house." Damon nodded his head before giving me one last kiss.
"Be careful." I gave him a nod before I sped away.
I stopped in front of Klaus's mansion. 'Rebecca should be here' I thought. Even if I was going to go after her for what she did, but that didn't mean I couldn't make sure she was okay. I slowly walked in, slightly hoping that she wasn't inside.
"How dare you save Caroline over me!" I heard her shout.
"Hello brother. Thought you were dead." My eyes widened when I heard Klaus's voice. 'Bonnie did it.' I thought. "So pleased you're not."
"You left me!" She shouted.
"I only had time to save one of you and you can't be killed. Rest assured, I had a worse day than you. I think it's time for us to move on and find some more werewolves."
"So you can create your hybrid family?" Rebecca asked. "You don't know anything about family!"
"Well, I know how easily they can be silenced with a dagger."
"NO!" I heard Klaus yell. "Drop them."
"I mourned you! My heart broke thinking I'd never see you again!
"Put the blood down, Rebecca. There's a good girl." 'Is it some of the blood he took from Elena when she was human?'
"It's always been me! Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol, ME! I loved you through everything and you don't even care! Tell me one thing, do you even care for Chelsea?" My ears perked up. I remember at the decade dance he told me he loved me, but that was real... right?
"Just drop it Becca."
"You want your family? Here's your family!" I could smell the scent of the blood.
"You know something, Rebecca, you're right. I don't care." Something in me became saddened. "From this moment on, you're not my family, you're not my sister, you are nothing."When I heard a neck snap, I took a deep breath and decided to make my presence known.
"I guess the fire got rid of more than just your beard" I said when I saw him standing there. He looked at me with surprise, but something happened in me. There was a new memory in my head. It had been from when I helped Bonnie save him by putting him in Tyler. "She was your family and you treat her like nothing." I scoffed. "I guess you really don't have any humanity left in you after all." I turned to run away, but he appeared in front of me. His hands cupped my my face and placed his lips onto mine. For a second I was letting him kiss me, but then I pushed him away. "It's your fault." I said, trying to contain my anger. "You're the reason Elena's a vampire."
"You can't blame me love." I couldn't help but scoff.
"Really?" I asked when I crossed my arms across my chest. "Then why is it that everything went to hell AFTER you arrived in town almost a year ago? Everything was fine until you came to break your curse."
"What can I do to make things better?" I could tell that he was holding back his emotions.
"You can't do anything, but if you really want to try, stop being such an ass." I sped away, not giving him a chance to say anything else.
I ran straight for the boarding house and went straight into Damon's room. To my surprise, he was already lying in his bed.
"I told you I'd come back." I whispered to him as I slipped into his bed. I laid my head against his chest and closed my eyes.
"I got worried about you." He whispered as he kissed the top of my head. I could feel tears flowing out of my eyes. Neither one of us said anything as I slowly drifted off to sleep.
~ I wanted to have Chelsea overhear the conversation that Rebecca and Klaus had at the end. The actual ending of the chapter was slightly planned, but I cut it a little bit short.
~ Hopefully Klaus will be in 4.02 'The Memorial' , but if he isn't... I'll try to find some way to squeeze him in ;)
~ There are some parts that I'm unsure of, but watching the new episodes will make it clearer for things that I have planned.
~ If there is anything you want to see, don't be afraid to share. (Conversations, certain people in a scene, etc...) Hopefully I can put them in somehow.
~ I'm thinking about bringing Chelsea's brother back to Mystic Falls, but we'll just have to see how the show goes until I decided to or not.
R&R 'till the next update
