A/N: This one is a bit longer but after this each chapter should be about the same length. I apologize for the randomness (no I don't, if I was really sorry I would stop taking dares from the NaNo forums). Because this is for NaNo, it has absolutely zero editing so I really am sorry if it's shit. Again, reviews help keep me motivated! Enjoy
What the fuck just happened? James Potter had no idea where he was, when he was or how he got there. Last thing he remembered, he was at this party with Remus, Sirius, and Peter. He assumed he got drunk and wandered somewhere, but he didn't recognize where he was. It wasn't in Hogwarts, it looked like a library, but certainly not the Hogwarts library, it was too small and the books were very strange. Just on the shelf in front of his he could see what appeared to be young adult novels. He read some of the titles, "The Hunger Games, City of Bones, Uglies, Paper Towns, Eragon, and Harry Potter." Wait… Harry Potter? Just as James was about to take a second look, someone pulled him away, further into the maze of books.
"Holy shit James?" James squinted in the dim light at the man who had pulled him away. Sirius Black, his best friend.
"Holy shit Sirius?" James mocked, cracking a smile. "What's up? And do you have any idea how the hell I got here? Last thing I remem-"
"I. Thought. You. Died!" With each word Sirius hit him with a thick book that had been lying on a shelf.
"What? You act like I've never gotten drunk and ended up in some random location before. At least this time I'm wearing pants." There was that crooked smile that made all the girls at Hogwarts fall in love with Sirius. "Seriously Sirius, where the bloody hell are we… and why are you using an American accent?"
"I'm using an American accent because we're in America, in a town called Mystic Falls to be specific. I've been here for around a hundred and fifty years, oh don't look so damn shocked I'll explain," Sirius said in response to the expression on James' face. James made a small gesture, as if to tell Sirius to go on. "All right well, let's start with the fact that yes, I'm pretty sure you did die, Voldy killed you and Lily in your- "Sirius stopped, realizing what had been bothering him about James. James' automatic assumption had been that he had gotten smashed at a party, which is how he would have gotten to Mystic Falls, but that sounded like pre-Lily James. Post-Lily James wasn't much of a heavy drinker… or a heavy partier, if only because Lily didn't enjoy wild parties and hated when James got wasted.
"Voldy killed my Lily-Flower and I in our what?" Yep, that settled it, post-Lily James never called Lily, "his Lily-Flower," he had learned fairly quickly that Lily hated the nickname. For some reason, James didn't remember dating, or marrying Lily.
"Uh… in the common room… yeah he broke into Hogwarts, there was a big mass murder. That how I got here, and Remus too. We were killed and suddenly found ourselves in Mystic Falls… only a hundred and fifty years ago."
"Yeah about that, if you got here so long ago, how the fuck are you still alive?"
Sirius paused, considering how to explain to James about Katherine, being Stefan and Damon, and the blood sucking thing. "Well, you see, there was this girl… Katherine. When Remus and I first got here, we both fell for her. So Katherine, being the manipulative bitch she is, played us. She told me she was not that into Remus, and vice versa. Then she told us she was a vampire." James didn't look particularly shocked, which was definitely an advantage to explaining all this to a wizard vs. a muggle. Muggles first had to accept that vampires existed before they accepted that their friend had met one. "So she gave us this who lone spiel about being together forever and eternal love and all that shit… then she gave us her blood… than she killed us. When we woke up we were all vampy. I don't know if you've noticed, but vamps are kind of immortal, hence the still alive thing." James just nodded.
"Well that kind of suck for you and Remus. By the way, where is Remus?"
Sirius drew in a breath. He needed to approach this carefully. "Remus is kind of…" Ah screw it, better to just tell him than to draw it out, like ripping off a band- aid, "under an evil vampire- werewolf hybrid's compulsion."
"Hmm… well that's unfortunate. We'll have to work on that. I'm assuming since you want no way of non- vamp you finding you you're going by a different name?"
"Yeah, Remus and I are pretending to be brothers, Stefan and Damon Salvatore, I'm Damon, he's Stefan."
"Two more questions, at least for right now, you said Lily-Flower and I died together. Well first, why don't I remember it? And second, where is my lovely Lily?"
Lily Evans woke up in an entirely different location from James. Instead of waking up to the sweet scent of ink on paper, Lily woke up to white walls and a strong smell of coffee. Looking around it was clear where she was, a bathroom stall in Starbucks. An odd location to wake up in on any morning, but it was particularly odd for Lily, as Lily had a very specific memory in which she drifted off to sleep in a very comfortable, if not overcrowded as it contained three teenage girls, bed in the Gryffindor 7th year girls dormitory after an exhausting girls night with her best friends Emmaline Vance and Marline McKinnon. So how she got into a bathroom in Starbucks, Lily had no idea. They didn't even have Starbucks in the Wizarding world.
Lily heard some people talking outside, they sounded… not British. Lily couldn't specifically place the accents, but they were probably American. She looked down at herself, not surprised to find herself out of her pajamas and into muggle clothing. After digging in the pocket on the jeans she was wearing she found some muggle money.
Lily walked out of the bathroom and up to the counter. "One venti chai tea latte please." She handed the cashier her money and waited for her coffee. The barista called her name and Lily grabbed her coffee and walked outside. There was a very strange person out front. She had long brunette hair with a braided headband and a big sign, protesting Starbucks.
"Oppose coffee! It drains our minds and steals our souls!" She said.
Lily just smiled, "I'm a ginger! I don't have a soul to begin with!" Lily laughed as she strode away from her coffee. She was still laughing as she bumped into another brunette. This one was darker though, both in her hair color and in her demeanor. This girl looked like she had seen some horrors, it was in her eyes. "Oh, I'm sorry!"
"No it's fine. Hey I haven't seen you around Mystic Falls before. I'm Elena Gilbert. Are you new here?" Mystic Falls, so that was the name of this mysterious place.
"Uh, yeah you could say that. Sorry I'm a little… befuddled. It's so weird, I was at my school in Scotland, I specifically remember falling asleep, and then suddenly, I wake up here. I know I must sound crazy."
"Believe me when I say I've heard crazier. I was just going to meet a friend… and a not friend. Do you want to come?"
"Hey, I don't have anywhere else to go. I'm Lily by the way, Lily Evans." And so off they went, the two girls. Knowing not how their lives would soon become intertwined.
Stefan looked down at the pocket watch in his hand again. He had just found it in the library, he had no idea whom it belonged to, but Stefan was evil now, thanks to Klaus, so he didn't particularly have much of an interest in finding its owner. Stefan was waiting for Damon to come back to the small table they were occupying in the corner of the library with more potentially helpful books. Stefan wondered what was keeping him; he had been gone for nearly fifteen minutes now.
Stefan's finger pressed down on the small gold button that opened the watch. As the watch popped open Stefan knew something was off. Something was strange about this watch. It was remarkably accurate though. Why does time always move so much more slowly when you're waiting for something and\ or someone? Stefan wondered as he watched the second hand tick slowly around to each of the numbers.
As Stefan watched the watch, a song popped into his head, one that he hadn't heard in a while. Stefan started singing it in his head, and soon that turned into tapping his foot to the beat, and then to singing out loud, under his breath.
"I'm late; I'm late for very important date. No time to say hello, good-bye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. I'm late and when I wave, I lose the time I save. My fuzzy ears and whiskers took me too much time to shave. I run and then I hop, hop, hop, I wish that I could fly. There's danger if I dare to stop and here's a reason why: I'm over-due, I'm in a rabbit stew. Can't even say good-bye, hello, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late."
It was an odd little tune that was for sure. From Alice in Wonderland, that old whimsical story about a girl who gets lost in a mystical world while she was chasing after a rabbit wearing a waist coat and pocket- watch.
As Stefan was just finishing his song, a large blue box materialized. Out of which stepped a strange, tall man wearing a tweed jacket and a bowtie. He had a fez perched on his head and rather long (for a guy) brunette hair.
"Ah! You've found my watch!" The man spoke with a British accent. He plucked the watch from Stefan's hands and examined it. "Thank you very much I've been looking everywhere for it. Well off I must go. I'm meeting my wife. Geronimo!" Then he stepped back into his box and disappeared. Somewhere in a nearby aisle, a phone went off; Stefan thought he recognized the ringtone as LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It. In the middle of the song, in walked Damon.
"Hey look who I found," Damon said with a crooked smile, nodding towards James. James wiggled his fingers at Stefan in a wave. Over Stefan's shoulders, on a shelf James saw another copy of the Harry Potter book he had seen earlier.
"Hey I saw this book earlier, do you guys know what it's about?" James reached over to grab the book, only to get his hand slapped away by Sirius.
"You can't read that!"
"Why? I'm just curious!"
"For two reasons: first, I don't know if the world can handle James Potter reading a book that thick and two, spoilers!" At this James was exceptionally confused… or he would be if he knew how to spell "exceptionally". But he knew better than to argue about it with his best friend.
"Fine, I'll put it down." James said as he tried to sneak the book into his bag. Unfortunately, Sirius knew James much too well and grabbed the book from his hand, thwacked him in the head with it, and put it back on the shelf. "Damn it…"
"Hello Prongs."
"Moony."
"…Well as interesting as this conversation is, I believe I see Stefan's girlfriend and James' imaginary girlfriend walking into the library. Why don't we use the time we're wasting with the awkward silences to come up with some way we can keep Elena from finding out that we're, you know, not actually Stefan and Damon Salvatore?"
Lily walked into the library right behind Elena, pausing with her to look around for whoever Elena was looking for. Suddenly a petite blond slid in front of both of them.
"Elena, look what I made!" The girl held up a few white tee shirts with some lettering on them. "There's one for you, one for me, one for Matt, one for Damon (even though he probably wouldn't wear it, one for Stefan (he probably won't wear his either, one for Jeremy, one for Tyler, and one for Bonnie!"
"Uh, that's great Caroline… but what are they exactly?"
Caroline replied with a smile. "They are tee shirts! But I made them especially so that each of ours is about us! To everyone else they'll just be random shirts but we'll know what's on them is true! Look," She held up one of the shirts, "Mine says 'Juliet', you know, because of Tyler and me! His says 'Romeo'! Oh and yours says 'In love with the night'! Because you're-" She stopped, as if realizing for the first time that Lily was there. She leaned towards Elena to whisper, "Umm, who is she?"
"Oh sorry Caroline, this is Lily, Lily this is Caroline. Caroline have you seen Stefan or Damon anywhere around here, they said this is where they would be."
"Yeah, I think I saw them over in one of those mysterious, secluded corners with some guy. Anyway, I have to run I'm meeting Tyler. Here Elena, take your shirt, I better see you wearing it!" She tossed Elena a shirt and strutted away, turning over her shoulder to say, "Oh and it was nice meeting you Lily." And with that she was gone.
Elena and Lily looked through about half the secluded corners before they stumbled upon Stefan and Damon.
"Oh! There they are," Elena said, pointing. "I don't know who the third guy is though." Stefan and Damon's heads were turned away, so Lily couldn't see their faces, she could, however, see the third boy's face clear as day.
"I do. His name is James Potter and he is an arrogant toe rag who insists on asking me out every five minutes." Lily scowled and ducked her head so James wouldn't see her. Unfortunately for her, it was too late.
"Lily- Flower!" James exclaimed, standing up, only to be pulled back down by Damon and Stefan. He ignored them, standing up again. "Would you do me the honor of going out with you?"
"I've told you before, I will tell you again, you are an arrogant toe rag and no, I will not go out with you." Lily responded quickly.
Elena and Lily walked towards the table with the tree boys and heard Damon say to Stefan, "You ready?"
Stefan took a deep breath. "Yeah, let's get this over with." The two boys stood up and turned to face Lily.
"Holy crap. Remus? Sirius?"
