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I sat in Jeremy's bedroom. He came in and quickly shut the door behind him.

"Hey! You disappeared last night!" He hurried over to me. I wiped at my eyes with my sleeves.

"Yeah, well, I wasn't in the mood to talk to you." I mumbled. He looked at me sympathetically.

"What are you thinking about doing? Hugging me? You can't." I reminded him.

"I want to…" I closed my eyes for a second.

"You need to find Katherine, remember? Go, fly, be free." I let myself be pulled back into the other side so he could focus before he could protest.


That night, I went to Matt as he was on the other side. I was relieved that he had the Gilbert ring. Katherine and Jeremy ran straight past him.

"What the-." He started.

"Freaky, isn't it? The feeling… the void… the emptiness…" Matt looked at me.

"Beth? What's going on? Where am I?!" He demanded.

"The Other Side… The Gilbert ring brought you here when you died. That's how it works. It temporarily brings your spirit here. To go back, you have to reconnect with your body." I explained.

"My body's not even here!" He protested, looking around.

"That's because each time you die, you wake up farther and farther away from it… and you wander the Other Side until you find it." I'd recently become an expert in all things the Other Side.

"Wait… If I'm on the other side… how can you see me?" He asked.

"There's something you should know…" I sighed.


As we wandered, trying to find Matt's body, I explained everything.

"It actually hasn't been so bad! I mean, I have Jeremy. I see Lexi sometimes and I know you hate him and don't care, but I saw Kol once…" I told him.

"Beth, you don't have to pretend like its okay. You died… That's not okay." He told me.

"Matt, it has to be okay! I can't do anything about it!" I told him.

"What about your brothers? They don't know, do they?" He asked. I shook my head.

"Stefan's gone and Damon… He's having the time of his life. I'm not going to let Jeremy tell him and ruin it." I told him. Matt just shook his head.

"Beth, I'm so sorry!" He hugged me. I finally let myself cry, hugging him back.


We kept wandering.

"I think someone moved my body… It's weird, but I can feel it… I'm drawn to it." He said. I nodded.

"There it is." I pointed towards his body as Katherine and Jeremy waited by it in the bed of the truck.

"So, if this happens every time I die with the Gilbert ring, the second I go back, that means I'm just gonna forget about all of this. I'll forget that you're dead. Beth, you and Jeremy can't keep this a secret anymore! I'm sorry that you died, I'm sorry that all of this happened… I know that's hard, but you have to deal with death, your own in this case." He told me. I shot him a look.

"It was nice to see you, Matt." I told him dryly, tired of his conversation. He hesitated but then went to his body and placed his hand on it. He gasped to life in the land of the living. I sighed enviously and then walked off. I heard Jeremy coming after me. I waited until we were both out of sight before I stopped and looked at him.

"Hey, are you okay?" Jeremy asked. I was crying again.

"I'm not ready to be dead yet, Jeremy! Maybe I will be one day, but it's not today! And I don't know what to do… or what happens when Damon starts looking for me… or Stefan… Even Elijah will get suspicious after a while!" I sobbed.

"It's okay! We'll get through this. I can tell everyone that you're off exploring the world. That you finally feel free and you're taking advantage of it. I'll go to New Orleans myself to tell Elijah if you need me to… I might not be able to touch you, or hold you… but I'm here for you, no matter what you need." I smiled at him, started to step closer to him but then shook my head and walked away.