Bonnie, Damon and Jade sat in the old Salvatore crypt, legs crossed, and there hands all joined, while Bonnie chanted. Everyone's eyes were closed as a large gust of wind came rushing through the room. Once the wind had died down, the group cautiously opened their eyes and looked around the room.
"Did it work?" Damon questioned. Jade let go of their hands and held them out in front of her, palm down towards the dirt they sat on. Closing her eyes she concentrated on growing something from the earth beneath her palm.
"Umm, Jade." Jade opened her eyes at Bonnie's words and looked under her hand, where nothing had changed. When she looked back up to Bonnie that is when she saw it. Flowers, small white and beautiful were everywhere. "I have my powers again." Jade smiled, then frowned, "and I still have no control"
"Hey." Bonnie spoke reaching for Jade's hands and taking them into her own. "I will help you, you saved us, it's the least I can do." Jade just smiled at Bonnie, then the two stood.
"Bonnie?" Elena's voice sounded throughout the crypt. "Well this is new, usually I can only see Damon when I drink this stuff." Damon stood quickly and rushed towards Elena. Reaching to grip her face in his hands, a lone tear traveled down his face.
"I thought I would never see you again. I had been so close to giving up." Damon whispered staring into Elena's eyes. "Damon, you see me every day, everyday I come here." Elena then pulled away slightly to look behind Damon at Bonnie, that's when she noticed the other girl. One she didn't recognize. "Wait, who's that?"
Bonnie stepped forward still keeping Jade's hand in her own. "Elena, we're back. We're alive again."
"Bonnie?" Elena whispered trying to take in what she was being told. "It's really you!" Looking back at Damon now, she noticed the moisture on his face. "It's really you." She whispered. Throwing her arms around Damon she hugged him tightly.
Elena pulled away from Damon, turning she looked at Bonnie and the girl she did not recognize. Then stepping towards them, she watched as Bonnie dropped the girls hand so that she could put her arms around Elena.
"We thought you were gone for good this time Bonnie." Elena began to cry herself now, overwhelmed with seeing her once dead friend and love again. Pulling away she reached into her pocket for her phone, sending a quick text to everyone telling them to get to the crypt now.
Elena then put her phone away and looked between Bonnie and the girl she did not recognize. "Elena." Bonnie began taking Jade's hand in her own again for reassurance. "This is Jade, she is the one who helped bring us back here, and Jade this is Elena, one of my best friends."
"I know who you are Elena, it is so nice to finally meet you." Jade pulled her hand away from Bonnie's so she could hold it out to Elena in greeting. Instead however Jade found herself in a bone crushing hug from Elena.
"Thank you so much for bringing them back." Elena whispered as she pulled away from Jade.
"Really, it is them who saved me." Jade smiled turning to look at Bonnie.
"Damon?" Came Caroline's voice from the entrance way. "Bonnie!" She screamed rushing with vampire speed towards the dark haired girl and wrapping her arms around her. Jade felt slightly awkward now, and really it was only going to get worse as everyone else arrived. While Bonnie was busy with Caroline and Damon with Elena, Jade figured now would be a good time to sneak out and let them have some time to visit.
Quietly Jade made her way out the front entrance of the crypt and into the forest it was housed in. Crossing her legs and sitting on the forest floor she began to meditate, trying to once again feel the earth below her. It had been a long time since she had magic, so long without feeling the world around her. She could hear each new person as they arrived at the crypt, to overwhelmed with the news of their returned friends to ever notice her.
It had been about an hour, and Jade could hear everyone talking, and crying. "Jade?" Came Bonnie's voice from the doorway of the crypt. Opening her eyes Jade turned to look back at Bonnie. "Everyone wants to meet you, that is if your ready for it?" Jade stood and walked towards Bonnie nodding her head in response. "Just let me know if you get overwhelmed okay, and I will get you out. It's been a long time since you've been around anyone, let alone a room full of supernatural creatures."
Jade smiled at Bonnie's concern, and followed her into the crypt. There was a good dozen people now, and the small room filled with so many caused Jade to feel slightly claustrophobic, but she just swallowed her anxiety and proceeded to follow Bonnie.
"Everyone, this is Jade. She is the one that saved us." Bonnie smiled looking at everyone and then to Jade, who now had a small sheen of sweat on her forehead. Bonnie reached down and took Jade's hand in hers and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"Is she a witch?" Came Tyler's voice from among the crowd. Jade went to respond but found she could not speak. Her voice was failing her just as her nerves were getting the better of her. Bonnie noticed this and decided to help.
"She is, kind of. According to Jade, she is more like magic itself. She doesn't so much as control it as it controls her." Bonnie smiled looking at the group. "In exchange for her teaching me the spell to come home, I told her I would train her."
"So why couldn't you just do the spell yourself." Elena questioned her arms still rapped firmly around Damon.
"I um...I could not use my power in the other plain." Jade stuttered, her hands starting to sweat. She looked at Bonnie for guidance, she was not sure how the group would react if they found out the horrible things she had done.
"She couldn't use her powers there." Damon spoke quickly seeing Jade's distress.
"Why couldn't she use her powers?" Elena questioned pulling away from Damon and looking between him and Jade.
"She had no one to teach her how to use her powers, so she created a place where she wouldn't have to worry about hurting anyone with them." Bonnie squeezed Jade's hand as she explained the situation to everyone. As Bonnie told everyone what she could Jade looked around the room at everyone. She knew them all, she had watched them. From her safety world she could still watch the world unfold in this reality. She watched empires rise and fall, love and death. She watched mystic falls, she watched the lives of everyone in this room, not by choice however. Her view into this world showed her what it wanted, why she did not know but this group, she got to watch grow. Tyler, Stephan, Caroline, Elena, she knew them better then they probably even knew themselves. Matt and Jeremy, she had watched fighting for everything they held dear. Then there was Alaric, she had seen him a lot. She watched him now that he was back in the land of the living, and she watched him struggle with his vampirism.
Now she watched him, here in the flesh struggling to contain his hunger. She watched as sweat dripped off his forehead, and the veins under his eyes slowly became more prominent as his hunger took over. His eyes snapped to hers, sensing that he was being watched by the witch he felt embarrassed by his lack of restraint. Quickly he left the crypt and wandered into the forest.
Jade slipped her hand from Bonnie's and quietly made her way out after Alaric. Once she was outside, she spotted him, sitting on a fallen log with his head in his hands. "Please, don't come any closer." He whispered into the night air.
"I can help." Jade spoke as she approached Alaric slowly.
Alaric stood quickly and put some distance between them. "Please, I don't want to hurt you. It's hard enough to try and live with this hunger." Alaric held out his hands to stop Jade from coming any closer. "I look at you, and all I want to do is rip into your throat and drain you dry."
"Alaric, I know you do not know me, and you really have no reason to trust me. But I know, you will not hurt me." Jade slowly walked toward Alaric.
"Please I am so hungry." Alaric's eyes turned red and his fangs came out, as he fell to the ground. Jade came to stand in front of him, dropping down onto her knees, she took Alaric's head in her hands and forced him to look at her. "Please." Alaric whispered, his vampire features overtaking his face.
"I trust you Alaric, you will not hurt me." Jade slowly craned her neck to the side and pushed what stray hairs had laid there out of the way. Alaric's eyes fluttered from her eyes to her neck, and then back again. Jade closed her eyes, then breathed out and she felt Alaric's lips on her neck, then the feeling of his fangs breaking her skin.
She tasted different, she tasted good. Then the realization hit him, he was feeding on Jade, she was trusting him to not lose control. She brought back his best friend, he had to be strong, he had to keep in control. That's when he heard it, without his super hearing he probably would have never had heard it but he did. Her moan broke him out of his drunk like state. The fact that it was not of pain, but of pleasure caused his fangs to retract and his eyes to slowly fade back to normal, but he didn't pull away. Instead he leaned back down and placed a small kiss on her wound then pulled away. Bringing a hand up to her face he gently lifted her head back upright, and he moved her hair slightly to cover her wound.
"Thank you," Alaric whispered leaning in toward Jade and resting his forehead on hers. Jade just smiled in response.