Hello everyone. I am so sorry about not updating sooner. I've had a lot to do lately but I'm hoping I will be able to update a couple times a week starting from today but I can't promise anything. Anyway I hope you like the new chapter I might be able to do another one today, again depending how long it would take me.
xxx-Gilbert-House-xxx
It's been months since Olivia came back to life, gradually she was regaining her memory but it's a very slow process. Sometimes things just trigger them, or se just has dream but really they were memories.
Olivia had returned to the Gilbert house after a week of being back, everyone thought it would be better for her to be home but some part of her still felt out of place. She had learned from Jeremy and Elena about the death of her parents and Jenna. A guy named Alaric Saltzman was living in the same house as them as well; he had been looking after herself and her siblings since their aunt Jenna was killed by Klaus.
Olivia had also learned that she was adopted not by being told, but a memory from after she died, when she was on 'the other side'. Olivia hadn't told anyone yet about being there but she wanted to tell someone, maybe she would.
Everyday Caroline had been spending with Olivia; it scared her that her best friend might have gone again. Caroline never wanted to go through that pain again.
In Olivia's bedroom, Olivia was tossing and turning under the covers with tear marks covering her cheeks. She was getting a memory. One that haunted her every day after that day.
Olivia walked down an alley way, it was about 6pm and she was on her way home. Her parents had allowed her to go to the Mystic Grill with Caroline but she had to find her own way back home. She had her bag on he, her parent had given her some money and a phone in case she need it.
As she turned a corner a 19 year old boy jumped out of nowhere holding a knife. Olivia stumbled back into the wall as the knife was pointing as her.
The guy smirked "Well, hello little girl. Now are you going to give me that bag and not scream or am I gunna have to make you. Which I would love to do by the way." Olivia was breathing hard she didn't know what to do.
Olivia turned and started to run only to be pulled back and shoved into the wall banging her head hard. Her vision was blurry; she could slightly make it out. The guy was hovering over her as he was taller than her the knife was still in his hand.
He held her throat, she was only just able to breath, and tears fell down her face. He tutted her "Now, that wasn't very nice. Shouldn't have tried to do that little girl. Now you get punished" he smirked and glided his knife down her arms. He had his hand over Olivia's mouth, muffling her screams. Blood fell down her arms and leg from the cuts made on her body.
As if on instinct Olivia glared hard at the guy and had her palm facing him, she was scared and full of hatred that made the next thing happen.
The guy stepped back as the girl crumpled to the floor in pain. She held out her palm towards him and his clothes started burning. His eyes went wide "Stop it!" it seemed to anger her more and he felt his skin burning. He screamed and his body engulfed in flames. No one could hear his screaming, loud music was enough to cover it.
Olivia couldn't get herself to stop. The guy's body turned t ashes, which made her take down her hand. She covers her mouth with her hand and started sobbing. She killed someone. Suddenly she felt something inside her trying to claw itself to the surface. Olivia bent over his pain wailing. There was a broken mirror by one of the dustbins enabling her to see her reflection. She looked in it and saw her eyes had turned amber. Olivia screamed hiding her face with her arms.
Olivia woke up by her own scream.
Jeremy down the hallway was working on a sketch when he started hearing crying and a scream. He furrowed his brows in confusion and rushed to investigate. He looked in Olivia's room and saw his sister curled in a ball crying her eyes on the bed.
He rushed over and touched her shoulder, which startled her and backed up slightly. He said softly "It's me Jeremy. Olivia?"
"Jeremy?" he nodded and took her into a hug. He knew his sister it must have been something terrible to make her like this. She was shaking and he wanted to know why. But it would take time.
xxx-Time-Skip-xxx
Olivia strolled downstairs hours later, the memory had really shaken her up but she was getting better. Jeremy had already left for work so it was just her, Elena and Alaric in the house.
As she reached the kitchen, Elena came in behind her. With her super hearing she could hear the conversation. It was with Caroline. Lately she had been trying to work out her powers again. Most of it was easy but since she doesn't have much of a memory of how to control them, she had to try again.
Elena walked down the stairs as Caroline said through the phone "Just shopping for the party you're trying to bail out on.-"
"I never said yes" Elena replied. Olivia said 'Hi' to Alaric and fixed herself a bowl of cereal.
"Your were never going to. Which is why I planned it anyway with Olivia" Caroline replied in her natural perky voice. Elena looked over to Olivia, who was smirking. Elena shakes her head with a smile. She heard Caroline pause before continuing "Olivia's listening to the conversation right now isn't she?" you could basically hear the smile in her voice.
Elena chuckles. "Yeah, she is. I have to say it's quite annoying actually" Olivia huffs but still had a cheeky smile on her face.
"Oh" Caroline chirps "My mom wants you to call her"
Elena stops "Did she find something?"
"An animal attack in Memphis. It's the third one in Tennessee" Caroline states. Olivia perks up at this. She knew that Elena had been trying to find Stefan and bring him home all summer.
"And you're sure it's a vampire?" Elena questioned glancing at Rick and Olivia. Olivia looked at Rick, his face said it all. He was hiding something from everyone, maybe with Damon?
"Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's Klaus"
Elena chuckles with some hope mixed in "Doesn't mean it's not. I'll call her" and moved over to hell rick with the coffee machine.
Caroline sighs "Well, call her on her cell."
Olivia shakes her head. Honestly Elena needs to try and move on. From what she can gather it's not even Klaus that's killing. Why would Klaus do the killings when he has a ripper sidekick who could do it for him? Klaus won't have to get dirty then.
"Tell her thank you for her help" Elena smiles. "And keep small tonight please
Caroline replies "All right. I gotta go. Wear something pretty and oh, and tell Olivia hey from me" and with that she hung up before Elena could say anything else. Elena sighs and hangs up. Olivia got up and placed her empty bowl in the sink and gathered the sketches she was doing.
Rick spoke up while picking up some things from where he was staying in the living room "Was that, uh, Stefan news?" Olivia looked at him with her eyebrows lifted. The pauses he made make him even more suspicious.
Elena opened one of the cupboards after putting her phone away "Could be Klaus's victims."
Olivia speaks up this time turning to her sister "Elena, how do you know their Klaus's victims. They could be Stefan's?"
Elena sighs in frustration and turns to Olivia "He wouldn't do that and of course their Klaus's victims and you don't know him Olivia, you weren't here"
Olivia's puts her hands up in surrender "Ok, just wondering. Besides I know enough from before I died"
Alaric looks at Olivia, she did have a point. Everything Damon and he had been doing and it was all Stefan as far as Damon could tell anyway. Olivia seemed to know quite a bit. He said before Elena could retort "You're certain Stefan's with him?" he folded his blanket.
"Easy to be certain when the alternative is that he's dead" Elena poured coffee and Olivia did the same.
Olivia grabbed her coffee and looked over to Rick concerned "Are you sure you're still okay on the couch?"
Rick smiled slightly "Yeah. Yeah, I'm good"
Olivia took a sip and said "Because, you've spent half the summer on it. If you need you own bedroom-?"
"And sleeping you dead parents room or my dead girlfriends room, no" Rick interrupts before she could finish her sentence. Elena nodded and passes him his coffee and strolled of towards her bad and jacket in the kitchen. Rick called out to her "Hey, Elena. Happy Birthday and to you to Olivia" saying the last part to Olivia.
Olivia smiled and thanked him; Elena did the same and left. Olivia's smile faded and looked at Rick. He seemed to noticed and had the look of confusion on his face "What?"
Olivia stood from her chair and faced him "Okay, what's going on? Spill"
He still didn't get it "Uh, I have no idea what you are talking about"
Olivia rolls her eyes "Oh, come on. You and Damon have been doing an investigation behind Elena's back" she smirks. Rick looked uncomfortable.
"I have no idea what you are talking about. Even if we were you don't have proof" Rick said crossing his arms.
Olivia snorts "Come on Rick. I may have been dead for almost 2 years but I can tell when someone is lying. Your face says it all" Rick groans. From then Rick told her everything that him and Damon had been doing since Stefan left.
xxx-House-In-Texas-xxx
Olivia stood outside the house. An hour earlier Alaric had called her to day that he and Damon where going to check out the new location. Olivia wanted to help out all she could but part of her feel like it's hopeless.
A car pulled up on the drive and stopped. Damon got up and didn't look very happy to Olivia standing by the front "What the hell are you doing here?" he yelled at the girl.
Olivia said calmly "Easy, I came to help. Besides it was easy to figure out what you were doing all along and Rick gave me the address so I ran here since it was faster to run than a car." She shrugged and smiled.
Damon narrowed his eyes to his partner "You told her, she could tell Elena"
Olivia shakes her head "I won't tell her Damon. I already think its Stefan's work not Klaus's."
Damon looked towards her and both he and Rick walked up to her "How do you know that?"
Olivia had to roll her eyes "Lexi told me quite a lot of things Damon. Beside I've been getting my memory back at a fast rate" and shrugged.
Rick groans and says "Ok, let's just get this over with" with that all three of them walk inside. Damon's phone rings. Olivia and Rick look at him when Rick questions "Elena?" the silence was the answer Olivia says to the both of them "I don't know why you just don't tell her where we are"
Damon says slightly irritated "Well Bambi, you don't have to be here in the first place but anyway, Andy said this was a half-lead. Don't wanna get her hopes up"
Olivia hums "It could be that or you don't want Elena to find out that it's really Stefan doing the killing" Damon looks at her questioningly but Olivia simply shrugs "Come on, why would Klaus be doing the killing when he has his very own ripper by his side" and continues walking on.
Damon asks "How did you know he was a ripper"
Olivia rolls her eyes "I'm slowly getting my memory back Damon. Beside Lexi pretty much told me everything before and after I died. You know what just forget it"
Each of them stops when Rick says "It's quiet"
Damon nods "Yeah, too quiet" Damon opens the front door and slowly moves through it "Oh, yeah"
Olivia and Rick follow behind looking around as they go. Olivia stiffens when she catches a scent. Damon and Rick look at her as Damon says "What is it Bambi?"
Olivia takes a deep breath "Blood, lots of it. Stefan was here as well" she walks on following the trail of blood scattered along the walls, ending up in the living room. At the sight stifles her gasp. There were two bodies, female sitting on the couch like a show. She could hear Damon and Rick coming in behind her both digesting the scene.
"Vampire for sure" Rick states.
Damon and Olivia say simultaneously "Stefan for sure" Rick looks between them and asks "How do you know?"
Damon gets a little closer while Olivia stayed back "It's his signature. There's a reason why they call him the ripper…feeds so hard, he blacks out, rips them apart, then feels remorse. It's the damnedes thing" he wiggles on of the girls legs and the head rolls of "He puts them back together."
"Back together?" Rick echoed, feeling rather sick. It didn't seem to affect Olivia so much; she just looked at the girls in sadness. No one deserves to die like that. Olivia nods and says "Definitely Stefan." Justthen her phone rings, both the boys look at her. She smiles sheeplishly and answers "Hello?"
A chirpy voice on the end greets her "Olivia, where the hells are you?"
"Caroline?" she questions "Sorry, did we make plans?"
She could here Caroline groaning "Yes, you were supposes to help set up for the party tonight. Where are you?" Damon smirks at her.
Just then Olivia's brain kicks "Oh, my god Care I'm so sorry. I completely forgot I'm on my way right now" she said sympathetically
"Ok you better hurry. Meet at Damon's house" and she hangs up. Damon smirks and says "Well, Bambi don't wanna keep you waiting. Olivia rolls her eyes and turns to Rick "I have to go. Try not to kill each other. Bye" both of them say bye together and Olivia races back to the boarding house with her super speed.
xxx-Salvatore-House-Time-Skip-xxx
Olivia was ready in her party clothes walking around the party holding a bottle of vodka. Normally she would be enjoying a party but she doesn't feel it. Ever since she came back she felt different in some way.
She wore a knee length pink dress with black high heels. She sighs, taking the bottle and walking outside to get some fresh air finding Alaric and Damon out there too. Damon leaves after getting Andy from the news station.
Olivia sat next to Rick on the brick wall. Rick turns to Olivia seeing a weird expression on her face. He asks "What's up?" it seems to startle her slightly as she looks towards him she mumbles "Huh?" Rick smiles, she was drunk. "I said. What's up? You seem down, you can talk to me you know. You've been through hell compared to all of us possibly more that Damon."
Olivia looked at him before taking another gulp from the bottle "You honestly want to hear my problems?" narrowing her eyes at him. He just shrugs and nudges her encouragingly. She sighs; it made her feel like she had her parents back a bit. Olivia takes a deep breath "Ever since I came back…" he looks at her feeling curious, she shrugs "I dunno, I just feel out of place and every night I get memory's, half of them scare me to death though"
"What kind of one's?" Rick questions, really concerned for the girl next to him. A tear falls down her cheek as she takes another swig from the bottle and reply's "When I was 13 I killed someone. A 19 year old, he was going to hurt me, he did. He cut me" Rick could see she was close to breaking down "And something in me just snapped I used my powers to burn him alive." Rick eyes widen "That was the day I broke the werewolf curse and do you wanna know the scariest part" looking at rick "I liked it. I wanted to kill him" they just sat in silence for a moment until Olivia stands up and puts the bottle down and starts walking home leaving Rick to his thoughts.