Summary: Kids grow up so fast and Delena get some unexpected guests for their Halloween night.
Hello, my lovely readers. Day two of Halloween… On with the show…
Chapter 2: Bewitched
There were still not too many nights where the parents got to take a night off, so for Damon and Elena Salvatore, Halloween happened to be a great night of the year. They could curl up on the couch, and watch old horror movies, eat popcorn and make out like teens. Of course, knowing that their kids had just entered their teens made those thoughts a little weird for Damon.
Tonight was different. Tonight, Bon Bon and Jer had come to join them. They were having a family Halloween night. Or let's not worry about what our newly-turned teenage kids are up to.
"Oh, that is just gross," Bonnie complained. She pressed her face into Jeremy's shoulder.
"Come on, Bon. You've seen, and done, a lot worse," Damon teased the psychic, who gave him a dirty look.
Before their augment about fake blood and guts could continue, the doorbell rang. "Somebody order out?" Jeremy's eyes flicked over his sister, brother-in-law, and wife.
"No," Elena shook her head, a wary look on her face.
Like they needed this tonight, of all nights, Damon thought with a frown.
Bonnie got to her feet. "I'll check it out."
"It could be girl scouts," Damon replied with a smirk. Somehow it sounded less spooky the first time he tired the line. Now that he was human, not as fun.
The doorbell rang again.
"Well, they are persistent," Damon muttered under his breath.
Jeremy got up and headed for the staircase. And Elena picked up the lamp on the end table. The weapons were in the basement. Between the four of them, one of them should be able to make a run for it, if this turned out to be trouble.
The doorbell chimed one more time before Bonnie wrapped her fingers around the knob. She looked over her shoulder, at Damon and Elena, and then she jerked the door open.
"Caroline?" they all greeted a smiling blonde vampire.
"Surprise!" Caroline cried. "We got out of the school!"
"Oh, my God!" Elena and Bonnie cried out as Caroline waited on the threshold.
"So, is someone going to invite me in?" Caroline inquired, still smiling.
"Come in!" Damon said, waving her in. "Hey, Care."
"Hey, Damon," Caroline said, hugging first Bon, Elena, and then Damon. "Look who I brought with me." She looked outside and Alaric popped his head around the corner.
"Ric!" Damon cried.
"Alaric?" Jeremy's voice came from the staircase.
"Hey, guys!" Alaric called, entering the house, and everyone began hugging, again.
"Where are the kids?" Damon asked Alaric.
"Well, that's another story," Alaric said. "Yeah. And I have some big news." He held out a hand and Hayley Marshall moved outside the door. "I kind of got married."
"You what?" Elena, Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy felt so confused.
Damon shook his head. He hoped that the kids were having a better night at their party.
~0~
No one at Mystic Falls' high school hosted a party quite like Todd Donovan and everyone was at his house that night. Even geeks, like Sam Salvatore, Fanny Salvatore, and Sandy Bennett-Gilbert, were tolerated. Mainly, because Todd loved Halloween, and it never hurt to have someone to terrorize tonight.
Smirking, Todd waited for the party to really go into full swing. He only had to wait until eight to turn up the music and start popping beer tops. None for the babies though. Couldn't get yelled at by his mom and dad. There was no way he was getting grounded, again. Not during his freshman year in high school.
The time wound down, and, on cue, the music went up, and Todd grinned, popping the top on a beer can. Man, did he love this holiday. Girls in tiny costumes. People freaking out.
"Hey, Todd," Sam greeted him and Todd glanced at Sam. Thirteen-years-old. He'd probably never have a girlfriend. He'd dressed up as some kind of gothic vamp. No imagination there. Todd was dressed up as President of the World. Or so his name tag told everyone.
"Where's Fanny?" Todd asked Sam, offering him a beer. If the kid told anyone, he'd bury him in the backyard.
"She's here. Somewhere," Sam replied.
Fanny appeared in the middle of the floor. She pulled at the bottom of her black witch's skirt. It was too short. One of Todd's fellow football players flipped the back of her skirt and laughed when she yelped. Todd decided to hit him, in the back of the head with the ball, during their next practice. Sandy threw a cup of punch in Todd's teammate's face.
Lifting his beer, Todd covered his smirk, and his gaze continued through the room. His eyes stopped when a girl he'd never seen before entered the room. She wore a purple dress. Looked like she thought it was prom, not Halloween. Ordinarily, Todd would tease her about her choice, but when her eyes met his, he swallowed hard.
The girl stopped as a pair of other girls came up behind her. One blonde. One brunette. Were they part of a girl band? The blonde's hair bounced in a ponytail and she tugged at the bottom of an old Mystic Falls cheerleading uniform. The brunette wore a pair of jeans shorts and an over-sized blouse which covered whatever kind of figure she had.
"Hold this," Todd said, shoving his beer into Sam's chest. He walked over to the girl in the middle. "Hey. You're new."
"Yes," the girl replied. She looked around at the other party-goers. "Who are you?"
"I think I'm supposed to ask you that." Todd grinned at the girl, who simply smirked back at him. "Okay. My name is Todd Donovan. This is my house. And my party. And you are?"
"Not interested," the brunette snapped, giving Todd a lethal look. "Let's go. I don't like it here."
"No, Jos. I want to stay," the blonde cried, looking around. "Who's your friend?' she pointed at Sam.
Todd looked from Sam to the blonde girl. "Sam. And he's not my friend."
"Oh." The blonde looked disappointed. She waved at Sam, who waved a can of beer at her, managing to pour some of its contents on himself and then set it down. "Bye." She moved across the room to join Sam.
"Li!" Jos shouted, looking from Li, to the mystery girl. "I should go, before she does, or says something stupid."
"Okay," the mystery girl replied.
Jos gave Todd a look. "Don't do anything to her, or I'll come back here." Stomping off, Jos stopped in front of Li and they began to argue while poor Sam looked worried and eased away.
"Do you dance?" Todd asked the mystery girl, who tore her gaze from Jos and Li.
Her eyebrows rose. "My step-dad taught me how to," she said quietly.
"Do you want to? With me?" Todd held out a hand and watched the girl make up her mind.
"I guess." She took his hand and they headed to the middle of the living room. Todd pulled her close. He liked her scent. She smelled like pinecones and honeysuckle. Very outdoors-y, and not like most other girls he knew. Her skin felt warmer than other girls. Her eyes lit up, with something that Todd wanted to call a magical glow, but he felt that was a bit too cheesy.
"Are you ever going to tell me your name?" Todd asked her.
"Maybe," the girl replied with husky laugh. Todd really liked her laugh. He liked everything about her. She was just nothing like anyone he knew.
"We should go," Jos said, interrupting the dance, and Todd stopped to give Jos a look. "Come on. Mom wants us to come over to the Gilbert's."
"You know the Gilberts?" Todd looked a the girls, who stared back at him.
"Do you?" Li asked.
"All my life. That boy you wanted to talk to. That's Sam Salvatore, his mom's, Elena Salvatore. Used to be Elena Gilbert. And Fanny Salvatore's, over there. Some jackass is trying to piss her off." Todd led the group over to where a junior had taken Fanny's hat and held it above her head. "Give it back, man," he snapped.
"Or what?" the guy asked.
"Or this," Todd punched the guy in the stomach and watched him double over.
"That's real impressive," Jos shook her head. Turning to Fanny, she examined the girl. "You're a Gilbert?"
"And you are?" Fanny retorted.
"Jos Saltzman. Alaric's kid." Jos folded her arms over her chest. "Our mom wants us to go to your place."
"O-kay," Fanny nodded, glancing at Sandy, who gave Jos a look. "Let me get my brother." Fanny disappeared.
Todd turned back to the girls. "Am I ever going to get the name of the girl I'm about to kiss?" he asked the mystery girl whose eyes rounded.
Leaning down, Todd kissed the girl. Yup. She was pure magic.
"Hope," the girl sighed when they parted. "I'm Hope Mikaelson."
"Mikaelson?" Sandy looked pale before she took off after Fanny.
"Something I said?" Hope inquired.
~0~
"You married the Big Bad Hybrid's baby mama?" Damon could not stop laughing. Might have had something to do with the third beer has was on though. Having Ric back felt like old times. And they needed to celebrate his best friend's escape from the Salvatore School from Hell.
"Yup," Ric continued to nod as Damon waited for the popcorn to finish.
The machine beeped and Damon snatched it out, blowing on his fingertips. He still could not deal with being human and burning from the tiniest of things, like super-hot bag of snack food. Grabbing a bowl, Damon ripped it open and poured the contents inside. "Details, man. Where did it happen? Who was the best man? How's the sex?"
Wriggling his eyes, Damon grinned when Alaric rolled his eyes. "The school, since we couldn't leave. No one, 'cause I was the only man. The kids all wanted to be bridesmaids. And not your business."
"Come on, Ric!" Damon cried as they headed into the living room. The ladies were laughing at something and Damon looked around the room. "Are you talking about the Hayric sex, 'cause Ric is giving me nothing on that front?"
"Damon!" Elena cried, smacking him when he sat down beside her. "No. Caroline was telling us about the wedding."
"Nothing special. Just a dress. Some flowers. And our kids." Hayley looked at the others before she took a long sip from her beer. "And the sex is good."
"Hayley," Ric looked like he might die again.
Damon began to laugh. "Okay. Now, I see it. It's like you married me. Only I have boobs."
Alaric's eyes flicked to Hayley who chocked on her beer. "Damon, I am going to kill you, man."
Grinning, Damon grabbed a fist full of popcorn and opened his mouth to comment when the doorbell rang, again.
"I've got it," Jeremy said. "Probably trick-or-treaters."
"Or Klaus. I bet he had his spies watching the school, just waiting for Caroline to exit, stage left," Damon said around a mouthful of popcorn.
"Damon!" Elena groaned, giving Caroline an apologetic look.
Caroline grabbed the popcorn bowl and began to eat.
Hayley shifted on the couch. "Klaus can't be here."
"Because of The Hollow? Bonnie patted Hayley's leg and offered her a sympathetic look.
Jeremy returned, teens following him and he took his seat beside Bonnie. "Kids are back," he announced.
"We can see that," Damon retorted. "How was the party?" His eyes flicked over Sam who wore his father's old clothes. They hung on the boy a little bit, but he'd grow into them. Fanny's witch's hat was missing in action. Sandy looked like she might fall asleep standing up. And then there were the girls he did not know. And Todd. Man, did Damon not want that kid in his house.
"It was fine," Sam said.
Elena got up and placed a hand on Fanny's shoulder. "Did you like it, honey?"
Fanny glanced at her mom and then her dad. "Yeah," she sounded glum and Damon narrowed his eyes at Todd, figuring it was his fault.
"Why aren't you at your party, Todd?" Damon demanded. "Did the police come, send all the little kiddies running?" He watched the boy closely, allowing his eyes to bore into Matt's only off-spring. How many times had Damon had to stop himself from making Matt the father of a dead kid?
"No. I just came to escort the girls home," Todd offered everyone a smile. Oh, yeah, the "I'm good boy" act. Bull crap.
Leaning back in his seat, Damon watched Todd look at the others. "You must be Caroline. My dad speaks highly of you, ma'am." He shook Caroline's hand. "And you're Alaric. It's good for the town you've returned. I assume you'll be reopening the school?"
"I will," Alaric said, taking Todd's hand.
"How are they so old?" Caroline whispered to Elena.
"I have no idea. How are they so young?" Elena's gaze passed over the strange girls in the room. "Josie? Lizzie?"
"Here," the brunette said, waving at them with a half-smile, the corner of her mouth turning upward. "I go by Jos now. This is Li," she smacked Li on the shoulder who yelped and glared at her twin. Then she turned to the other girl. "This is Hope Mikaelson."
"Mikaelson?" Bonnie looked at Elena and Elena froze for a second before she moved to Hope and held out her arms.
"Welcome home, Hope," Elena said, hugging the girl.
Damon wiggled his fingers at Klaus' spawn and hoped that the girl decided to date anyone but Sam. The last thing he wanted was a Mikaelson in the family. "Happy Halloween, kids. Who wants candy?"
"Sam, why do you smell like beer?" Elena cried as Damon made his way to the kitchen. Oh, boy.
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J