Chapter 2

I'm sure, at one point or another we have all wished we could be in a more different world than the one which we are in, because it felt so boring and normal. Or our life would change and be similar to one of our favourite movie, tv show or book.

I come from the second category though, from the day I first started to hear fairy tales and stories with all happy endings, I always wished to meet my biological family. But never in my wildest dreams did I thought I would meet my supposedly dead father in a different world and not just any world, but in "the tv version vampire diaries world".

Let me explain, this all started 7 days back;

7 Days Back:

Since when was opening my eyes made my whole body protest with pain instead of lethargy, I thought as I successfully opened my eyes, only to close as bright white lights assaulted my vision and I moaned in protest. I felt rough arms gently but firmly hold my hand and heard a voice trying to calm me down saying,

"Shush calm down sweetheart; everything is alright, Daddy is here, sweetie"

I turned my head to the right, the first thing I noticed was the IV line placed in my forearm, next was another large hand holding my smaller one in a firm and gentle grip and I looked up to see an middle aged man, who for some reason seemed familiar, wearing check shirt and an jacket over it, looking at me with a pure expression of relief and happiness, and as I looked I saw a lone tear escape his right eye.

I realised I was in an hospital seeing the IV line and remembered my life's second attempt to tempt the fates through the similar manner of car accident/drowning. But what I didn't understand was, who is this man and why was he so happy to see me? Who was the one who spoke earlier calling himself my father? and why the hell does everything hurts so damn much? So I decided to ask him just that.

"Who are you?", I managed to ask him as my throat felt dry as a desert in summer.

I felt his grip on my hand waver and his expression change to one of worry as he said,

"It's me Lee, your dad" " You must be feeling a bit disoriented right now, I know, I would be too if I got an head injury like that"

"I'm not disoriented, this is an hospital and I was in an car accident. So tell me who are you? and why are you calling yourself my dad?"

This next few minutes passed in a blur. The mystery man who called himself my dad started to panic and then ran out of the room. Only to return about 10 minutes later with another guy, who I recognised as an doctor named Rihaan Malik, seeing his attire and name plate. He was of the same height as the mystery man but that is were the similarities between the two ended. While the mystery man had trimmed dark brown hair, with green eyes, strong jawline, slim but athletic physique; While the doctor had a tanned skin, with jet black hair, dark brown eyes, a broad physique and clearly half the age of the mystery man.

"Hello, Leah", the doctor said with a bright but weary smile on his face.

Weird, he greeted me using my name instead of my surname, as if he was greeting a friend. I decided to let it go and greeted back,

"Hello"

Apparently, that was not the greeting the doctor wanted as his smile dropped.

"Adam, told me you woke up and that you don't seem to recognise him but remember that you were in an accident", he said in an overly practiced calm voice.

"I didn't recognise him, because I don't know him doctor", I said and before I could speak more, he asked,

"Do you know who I am?"

"I guess, you are my doctor?"

"I'm your friend, we work together in this same hospital"

"No, I don't, I'm a nurse not a doctor, and I think you have mistaken me for someone else"

"No, Leah, I have not and I believe I know what's wrong "

"What is it?", the mystery man, now recognised as Adam asked.

"I believe Leah is suffering from a partial amnesia, she remembers the most basic things about herself like her name, her job, like that", he paused and turned to me and asked "When is your birthday?"

"27 July 1986", I replied automatically; wait that's not right I was born in 1995 not 1986. But before I could correct myself, the doctor started speaking.

"She even remembers her birthday but couldn't remember anything else, like the people in her life and the places she has been to"

"But she remembers the accident", Adam said.

"I believe she remembers it because that is the last thing that happened just before she got the hit at the back of her head, which I believe is the reason for her amnesia", the doctor said to Adam. Then he asked me,

"Leah, do you remember the Gilberts who were with you during the accident?"

"No", I said. But before I could tell them, that I don't remember any Gilberts because there was no one there with me in the car and that I was alone, I got cut off again by that stupid-irritating doctor.

"Don't worry Leah, it's only a minor setback from the accident. Let's look at the bright side, you are finally awake, your wounds will heal in about 2 weeks but you will have to wear the cast for atleast a month", he said. And that's when I noticed the blue scotch cast present on my left leg which was kept elevated using 2 pillows.

A small vibration sound was heard from the doctor's apron pocket. He took out his fip phone from his pocket and, I think, read some message and closed his phone and put it back in his pocket. Oh, did I mention it was a flip phone, a damn flip phone, who uses that anymore?

He looked at Adam and I and said, "everything else looks good, I'll see you later, Leah" "Take care" , he said giving us a small smile and left the room.

A silence descended the room after the doctor left. Adam left a small sigh and said without looking at me, " You must be feeling hungry, I'll go and get you some lunch".

I felt a bit of sympathy for him, so instead of telling that what the doctor said was wrong and that they all had really mistaken her for someone else, I simply nodded my head and said ok.

Five days went by and with each passing day I would have started to believe the story everyone was saying, considering the number of hospital staffs and people from the town who came to see me and tried to make me remember my supposed past and also seeing all the photos everyone and Adam showed me; especially with the photos of me and my supposed mother, who for some reason had an uncanny resemblance to my real mother or atleast to the memory of my real mother. But I knew what had happened, I am inside the vampire diaries universe.

The first clue I got that showed something fishy was going on, was the year, it was 2009 here but it was clearly the year 2018 before I woke up in that hospital bed. The second, was the fact that the town's name is Mystic Falls. The third and the final nail to the story was when I met Caroline Forbes's mother Sheriff Liz Forbes. She came to meet me, more like came to interrogate me, regarding whether I remembered anything about the accident as she was investigating about it.

So according to this world, I'm Leah Lewis, not Leah Lewins, atleast I got to keep my name with a similar sounding surname. I'm 23 years old nurse working in the Mystic Falls Hospital for the past 2 years. My father's name is Adam Lewis and my mother was Evangeline Lewis nee Park; Evan as my father would like to call her. My mother died when I was 2 years old in car accident only 2 days after we had moved into the town. Adam Lewis worked for about 15 years as a cop in Mystic Falls then later took voluntary retirement and just 3 months back bought and became the proud owner of, don't your know, the famous Mystic Grill. He has got 2 plus points in my good book just for that.

And also the famous car accident which played a big part in the TVD universe has a slight variation to it. Apparently that night as I was driving back to my apartment, my car tire punctured and as I got stuck in the middle of the road, Mr & Mrs Gilbert, who were going back to their home with Elena, offered me a ride which I happily took; we all know, how it turned out. As this was the accident which had caused me to be in the hospital right now and took the life of Elena's parents.

Now that I have figured out this much, the only thing remaining to know was why and how did this happen? How did I got replaced to Leah Lewis? What happened to real Leah Lewis? What happened to me in the real world? Is the real Leah Lewis in the real world being me, Leah Lewins? Why did this happen? Was it a witch who did it? If yes who and why?

I was so engrossed in my toughts I that I jumped a bit and the spoon nearly fell from my hands, when I heard Adam swear loudly. He had somehow spilled his shirt with the sauce.

"I'll go and clean this up" "You finish the dinner", he told me and I gave him a nod. He got up and went to the washroom.

It has only been language of head nodding between us. I don't think I have said anything other than ok, no and alright to him. I haven't called him neither dad nor Adam to his face, actually I haven't spoken a complete sentence to him, only words. I kept calling him Adam in my head because I couldn't think him as my dad.

Adam came back from the washroom, he was only wearing his sleeveless innerwear. He spread the shirt over the chair and I saw a wet spot were the sauce was spilled. As he spread the his shirt over the chair in a matter of seconds, I saw something that made my heart skip a few beats.

Over his right shoulder was a birthmark of a crescent moon.

At first I didn't understand, what this meant only that it looked cool and it somehow looked familiar and felt important. But as slowly recognition start set in, I finally realised what this meant.

Adam Lewis is a werewolf or a potential werewolf depending whether he had killed anyone. For some reason I have a feeling that he is an triggered werewolf instead of a potential one.

But, did that mean I am too.

"Leah"

"huh"

"I have been calling for sometime" "But you were clearly in some other world"

"Sorry"

"Don't be" "What happened?" "You look like you have seen a ghost".

Instead of answering I asked,

"Is that a birthmark on your right shoulder?"

"Oh, the crescent moon?" " Yes, yes it is"

"It's an family birthmark, all the members of our family has them, even you have the same mark on your right shoulder."

"I do?"

He nodded his head and I wanted to scream.

"Leah, what's wrong? Are you feeling alright? Should I call Alice"

"No, no it's alright, I'm okay"

"Then eat the dinner Leah, you haven't even eaten half of it."

"I'm not hungry"

"Leah, please eat a bit more. You haven't been eating much "

"I'm not hungry ", I almost screamed at him.

It wasn't fair, I was taking out my frustrations on him even though he does not deserve it. But I couldn't help it, was it not enough to drag me into this crazy universe that now it had to make me an potential werewolf.

I couldn't bring myself to sleep that night as pure fear started to grip my heart with each passing thought in my mind. And when I finally fell asleep my wicked imagination/dream decided to torment me more.

I was back in the road to Mystic Falls where I met mom last time. As I looked around, I saw her sitting in the open field on a mat. I went over and sat in front of her. She looked exactly the same as she did in my last dream.

"This is not a dream, sweetie ", she said.

My expression must have showed her that I needed a bit more elaboration than that.

" It's complicated, but I will explain everything, as best as I can. And for that I needed start from the very beginning. But before I begin I would like to ask you to please keep the questions for the last, after I finish my story. Can you do that for me, Leah?"

I nodded my head, which seemed to be the only thing I'm capable of doing anymore. She started her story,

"I was born as Evangeline Parker not Park, younger sister to my twin brothers Joshua and Samuel Parker. Long story short, after the death of Samuel, I left Portland as I couldn't live with my family after I lost my big brother. I went to New York, where I met your father in college. Like me, he too had left home with the excuse of studies to get away from his family. We connected through our mutual self exile and became fast friends and before the end of college we had fallen irrevocably in love with each other. We got married just a day after graduation admist our small group of friends. And when you were born it felt like all our dreams came true. But little did we knew that our past was just waiting to catch up with us."

"You see Leah, there is something I haven't told you. It may sound crazy but I'm not lying, what I'm about to tell you is 100% true."

"I'm a witch, from the family which leads our coven, named the Gemini coven, and your father is an werewolf, from the family of alphas who lead the pack called the Crescent wolf pack. His surname is not Lewis but Labonair. "

"After you were born, a witch in my coven had a vision stating that you could either be a curse or an blessing to the coven. Because you were a siphoner witch who had wolf genes, the coven decided that you would be dangerous in future."

"You have to understand Leah, our coven considered siphoner witches unnatural and treated them like an abomination, because siphoner witches have to siphon magic from magical objects and beings as they don't have magic of their own"

"Then witch started to hunt you in order to kill you. We were being chased by her for so long. That I did a spell to get you to a safe place, a safe dimension. I never even told Adam that I had been planning to do this spell."

With each word she said I felt a pit start form in my stomach. Was it not enough that I was a potential werewolf, do I have to be witch too. And not just any witch, a siphoner Gemini witch with a potential to be werewolf alpha of the Crescent wolf pack.

Oh My God No Please No

" I know this a lot to take in but this is the truth baby girl, all of it. I know you have so many questions but right now we don't have enough time"

"Seems like we never have enough time for me to ask anything ", I didn't even realised I had said it out loud instead of thinking about it.

Mom froze hearing my comment and pulled me to her in an embrace and whispered in my ears,

"I'm so sorry sweetie. I don't have much time, this might be the last I will be doing this."

Stay away from the witches burial ground, tell your father about this meeting, you need him just as much as he needs you"

"Take care baby girl " " Be strong".