A/N: Here is chapter 7. Stefan makes a discovery and Bonnie wakes up. Short and too the point.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries. All rights go to L.J Smith and the CW.
Chapter 7
STEFAN
Being the calm one has always been my thing. For as long as I can remember I was the one to rationalize everything, but now it was turning out to be difficult. At the end of the long hall was a room. Not just any old hidden room but a lair of some sort. Everything in here looked magical, from the bottles of only God knows what, to over hundreds of spell books and grimoires. This place had looked like a different world. The ceiling seemed to reach towards the heavens and the room itself looked like a thousand people could fit in it. Elena and I both had been staring at it surprised, wondering many things, like who built it and how did they do it without lots of people noticing.
The room itself had not been dusty like the rooms upstairs. There was freshness in the air. Looking around I could tell that no one had been here but the items all looked brand new. The light in the room was bright and as we looked around there was no lights, windows or candles. As I thought about it I assumed that the light might be from some sort of magical source.
"This is amazing," Elena said glancing over a desk that appeared to be hand made."How did all this stuff get down here?"
"I can not imagine how someone would get all this down here without anyone knowing it was here." I walked over to the desk and glanced at a book open on a page about a group of magical beings called Unigangers. They were creatures who fed off something, I was about to turn the page when Elena spoke.
"So what exactly are we searching for?" Elena asked picking up a jar that looked like newts eyes. I had looked up to answer her question.
"I do not know. If you see anything out of place or creepy let me know." apparently the book had been sitting to close to the edge. It fell on the ground and a picture came out between the pages.
"Stefan half of this stuff looks creepy." I laughed because of her uneasiness. I reached down to pick up the book and grabbed what seemed to be a photo. Staring at it I saw two young women, one was a dark-skinned woman who had been pulling the other into a hug. My eyes then landed on the other woman and that is when it hit me. This woman was the same one that had been in Bonnie's dream pointing us to here.
"Elena I think I found something." Elena came rushing over to my side. I showed her the picture. "This is the woman that has been in Bonnie's dream."
"That can not be just a coincidence." She took the picture and turned it over to the back. "Meredith and Cecily, I wonder which one appeared in the dream."
I got up to see if I could find anything else. I watched as Elena got up to come and follow me, on her way over to the book shelf she bumped into the desk and we heard something drop. She grabbed her knee and we both looked to see what it was that had been knocked down.
She bent down and grabbed a thin book. It had been made of leather and there was a book mark in it. On the cover there was a name, Meredith McCullough.
"I think we have something of hers." I walked over to Elena and grabbed the book.
"We have a last name too." We were making some progress now and I felt like we could help Bonnie with whatever she needed help with.
"Let's go and found out about Ms. Meredith McCullough then." Elena said walking back into the hallway. I put the picture in the diary and followed her back out.
We arrived back to Elena's house 30 minutes later, first making a stop at the hospital to check in with Mr. Bennett about Bonnie. Elena had her laptop upstairs in her room.
"So I am going to Bing a Meredith McCullough in Mystic Falls Virginia and you can read her diary."
"It does not feel right to read this. I mean these are her private thoughts." I said looking over the cover of the book.
"She is dead Stefan. I do not think privacy matters much now." Elena said heading into her room.
"How would you feel if you died and someone read your diary?" I asked hoping she understood. She looked over and smiled.
"People would just think I was crazy, talking about witches and vampires." She was sort of right. "Okay you do not have to read it now, but you will sooner or later. There may be something in there that can help Bonnie."
"All right I will read it later. Now come on lets just research this lady okay." We made our way on to her laptop and I pulled up a chair and sat beside her.
She typed in the woman's name in the Bing search engine. There was about 2 links. One was an article and the other a college website. We clicked on the article first; it read College Student Found in Fire. Under that was a picture of Meredith smiling and happy. The article talked about how 2 bodies had been found one belonging to college student Meredith McCullough and the other body was unknown. It continued on to talk about how they had been found after the forest fire had been put out. This was pretty crazy to read about and it helped to know how she died.
We had gathered more information about her for the rest of the night. Elena's aunt Jenna let me sleep over on the couch downstairs because we had not finish researching until 1 a.m. I made myself comfortable on the couch and thought about the information we had found. My thoughts wandered off to Bonnie. Her beautiful smile and bubbly personality made me glad that I had met her. She was the one to help me feel better about not having Elena by saying rude things about Damon. It would cheer me up and she did a great job of doing that. She was as determined as her best friend. Thinking of Elena and Bonnie only gave me a head ache. I would say that I thought of Elena as my Peyton and Bonnie as my Brooke. I loved both of them and wanted them to stay in my life but they were best friends and it could not end well for one or the other. I thought of the night that I had learned that Bonnie had feelings for me and that Elena had not gotten over me. I was as confused as a kid in a candy store. I loved Bonnie and Elena, Elena was not the only one who had to make a choice now.
I awoke to the sound of someone on the phone. Opening my eyes I see Jenna on in the kitchen talking. I sit up and rub the back of my neck. She walks in and notices my action.
"Couches are the most uncomfortable places to sleep, that and the floor." I laughed as I got up to stretch.
"I am okay. It was not that bad."
"If you say so, When Elena wakes up tell her that I went to meet Alaric and call me if she needs anything or hears anything about Bonnie. " she grabbed her purse and sweater and walked out the door.
I get up to go to the bathroom and throw water on my face. In the kitchen I read the time to be 10:00a.m. That was an early time to wake up on a Saturday. I realized that I had not fed in a minute, so I left to go hunting and made sure to get back before Elena woke up.
I got back 30 minutes later and Elena had still been sleep. I went downstairs and started to read some of Meredith's diary.
September 6, 1928
I have no idea why I decided to go to college here. This place was like a supernatural haven, vampires, witches, werewolves, and too many other mystical beings to write. The creatures blend in well here, they seem like normal people. It was hard to tell them apart. The only reason I can is because I am mystical also, A witch to be exact. I have been practicing the craft for 10 years. Sometimes I hate it and other times it is my savior. No one knows what I am except my best friend, who I like to call my sister, Cecily. The greatest part about it all is that she is a witch too. We do lots of magic together and we teach each other everything we know. She is my only family because I ran away from home when I was 16. When I turned 18, I ended up here.
I skipped ahead because that part was becoming sad. I flipped the pages to a few weeks before she died.
June 2, 1929
I keep having these same dreams over and over again. I tried spells and whatever else I could to stop them but I can't. It always starts with me walking down a dark street and this man. Then I feel a pain in my back. I wake up at the same part every time. I told Cecily about it and it turns out she is having them too. But she says that it is not her that she is dreaming of but me. She watches all of this happen to me and she can not do anything about it. She says she sees me burn in a fire and that there is nothing she could do to stop or help. Each night we stay together waking each other up when the dreams start. We began to worry about how this is affecting us. So for spring break we plan to rent us a cabin in the woods where me and her could stay and think about what we could do to stop these so called visions.
I could not believe that I was reading this. It was explaining the same thing that was happening to Bonnie. I was about to finish reading it when my phone began to ring.
BONNIE
I was starting to get use to the fact that I could not wake up. It was nice to live a normal life in my head but I wanted to be conscious. Able to do what I wanted to do and not what my subconscious told me I wanted to do. This dream I had been in now was me and my dad and we are on a camping trip. We had never gone before because I was afraid to sleep in the woods at night. I am happy that I had that fear because we could have been another animal attack in the woods. My dad sat by the river with his fishing poles. It was quiet, when my dad started whistling the tune of Dawson's Creek.
"Really dad."
"Pacey and Joey are the only reason I watch it." I laughed at my dad he was a very weird man. I rolled my eyes at him as he finished whistling the song. Then I felt a presence, like someone was watching the both of us. I got up leaving my dad to his fishing and stepped in the woods. I was now standing in the same place that I had my dreams in. I turned around but my dad had disappeared.
"Hello Bonnie." It was a woman's voice that I heard. I was sure of it. My body turned slightly and I got a good look at her.
"You're the woman that was in my dream." I said eyes wide with shock that she was here.
"You can call me Meredith." I slowly walked until I was standing two feet away from her. "You know that I am not going to hurt you Bonnie. I just want to warn you."
"Are you going to warn me about the man who is trying to kill me?" She nodded her head.
"They are not going to stop."
"They...there is more than one person." fear becoming evident on my face.
"Yes." She was still standing by the tree and I started to think of why I always ended up here in my dreams.
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
"What is so significant about this place? I keep ending up here?" She looked around and smiled.
"This place is very special. You will learn why in time." I did not like that it was not an answer more of a half answer.
"Do you think you can elaborate on why it is special?"
"It is something you are going to have to find out on your own."
"Why can't you just tell me?"
"I do not have time."
"What do you mean you do not have time?"
"You'll see." I was getting ready to ask another question when I saw a bright light. I then took a deep breath and the next thing I knew I was looking at a white ceiling. I looked towards the door and saw Matt and Caroline coming in. Caroline finally looked at me and she hurried over to my side.
"Bonnie, you're awake." I tried to answer but my throat was a little dry, so it came out as grunt. She then plastered a smile on her face and asked Matt to go and get the nurse. A minute later a lady came in who was about 5 foot 3 with jet black hair in a ponytail. She asked Caroline and Matt to step aside and began to check the machines around me. After she had done that a doctor came in and basically did the same thing over again.
Now that the doctors have finishing checking everything out, they brought me some food. I sit up in the bed eating pudding, Turkey, and veggies. My dad would be happy to know that this food was way worse than any food of his I have ever tasted. I was placing a spoon of pudding in my mouth when Caroline and Matt came in and they had balloons and a big bear with them.
"You guys did not have to do that." I said with a smile on my face.
"Matt just thought that we should give you a card but I thought you deserved more." Caroline said looking over to Matt. Matt just shrugged his shoulders and put the bear down in the chair.
"That would have worked fine, too." I said not wanting to make Matt feel like he had to get something big.
"See Caroline it was not a bad idea." I smiled at my friends as Caroline gave Matt a look that said no I know my friend. She then turned to me and spoke.
"This is better." She said placing the balloons next to the bear.
"Thank you." I said giving them a genuine smile.
"No problem." they said in unison, it was sort of cute. I looked over at Caroline and I could tell she was beat.
"Caroline did you stay here last night?" I asked worry on my face.
"Yeah I did."
"Caroline." I began before she held her hand up for me to stop talking.
"Now before you say anything, I chose to be here. You are my best friend and I felt helpless not being able to do anything so I just spent the night to be here in case you woke up. Lucky for me you did." Caroline was so caring even if people did not notice. She really was a good person.
"Come here." I said opening my arms to give her a hug. "You are the greatest."
"I try to be." she said hugging me back.
She let go and stood next to Matt. He put his arm over her shoulder and asked me a question, "So what do you want to do now that you are awake?"
"I want you to take my best friend home so she can get some good sleep and then spend the rest of the day taking care of her."Matt smiled as he pulled her closer to him. She laid her head on his shoulder.
"That I can do." He said going to grab her jacket. "Thanks Bonnie and we hope to see you out of here soon."
"Me too." I retorted showing a cheerful smile as they walked away.
Left to my own thoughts I began to wonder about these people who were trying to kill me. I could not believe that people were trying to kill me and I had not done anything. I needed to quickly find out what happened eighty one years ago before I end up dead.
The time passed fast, as people came to visit me and left me so many balloons, cards, and stuffed animals. My dad had come to see me awake then he had to go back to work before his deadline hit. He bought me some assorted flowers with a card that said get well soon sweetie, Dad. My dad had put so much effort into being apart of my life, from watching some of my favorite shows or giving a few of the songs I listen to a chance. I loved him more than anything. Thinking about my dad, made me remember my mom. She had left us when I was 8 years old. My dad had told me it was because he wanted to stay here in Mystic Falls and she wanted to move to a big city. So she left us here, I could never understand why but now I did not worry about it that much. I was happy my dad let me stay because I did not want to leave Elena, Caroline, Matt, or even Tyler who were my friends. My mom use to send birthday cards but then when I turned 16 she stopped. I have not thought of her since, good riddance I tell myself.
I am flipping through the channels when I see Elena and Stefan at the door.
"Bonnie..." She ran up to me and hugged me tightly, "I am so happy you are conscious again."
"I was not going to be like that forever." Stefan made his way to the other side of the bed and kissed my forehead.
"Good to hear you talking again."
"It is good to be talking to other conscious people again." Elena and Stefan laughed until they saw my face get serious. "I am happy you guys came but I have to cut this short. Elena can you give me and Stefan a minute?"
"If this is about the dream, I know. Stefan filled me in on everything and I have been helping him." I looked over to Stefan anger about to explode from me and then I thought maybe it was better if she knew. She couldn't really help but was glad to have it off my chest.
"Okay then. I have to find out who is up to this because I want it to be over with."
"We found out some stuff to help you while you were out." I looked over to Elena and back to Stefan.
"You went to the cabin didn't you?"
"Yeah, and you will never guess what we found down there." Elena said.
"We found out the name of the woman who was in your dreams." Stefan said walking over to the chair.
"Meredith." I said. They raised an eyebrow." I will explain later."
They continued to tell me everything they had found. "So it turns out that Meredith's last name is McCullough and she was a student at the nearby college. She was found in the fire 81 years ago. "
"Wait... was it only her?"
"No it was another body but the police could not figure out who it was. But we found out the name of her best friend, maybe we can get some info on her and give her a call."
"In the cabin we found her diary." Elena said pointing to Stefan. He took it out the inside of his pocket.
"It is also a picture in there of her and her best friend Cecily." He handed me the book and the first thing I saw was the image of the two women.
"Seriously..." I said hating how this was turning out.
"What, what is wrong?" I pointed to the Cecily woman in the picture.
"That is my great-grandmother CeCe or Cecily Bennett. She died 10 years ago." I said shock forming on my face and on Elena's and Stefan's.
"This is crazy." Elena said.
"Tell me about it." I was ready to ask for a room in the psych ward.
"Now are you going to tell us about how you knew her name?" Stefan said looking curiously over me.
"She came to me in my dream but this time she was talking to me. She told me that they would not stop until I was dead."
"Who would not stop until you were dead?" Stefan said.
"I was asking her that but she would not tell me. Said I would know in time, what ever the hell that means." Stefan had that look on his face like he was thinking of something. "Anyways the doctors said that they would let me out tomorrow. So I will be at home and we can talk about this some more."
"Okay, I have to go anyways. I promised my aunt Jenna I would go grocery shopping with her today." Elena said getting up off the bed.
"And I have to find out what my brother is up to because he has been quiet lately." Stefan said. I looked over to him and could answer that question but to be honest I still did not want to see them until Elena made her choice. It was sad for me to be around Stefan and knowing he did not want to admit that he had some type of emotion for me.
"I will see you guy's later than." they walked out the door. And it had only been 5 minutes before someone else entered my room. I looked over and wished he would leave.
"Vampires should not be allowed anywhere without a human's consent." I said while Damon smiled and stood up against the wall.
"That would not be fun. We would be roaming the streets all the time."
"I would rather have safety over fun any day if it meant I would never have to lay an eye on you again."
"Well it is good to be hated again. I tell you I like the feeling of anger running through a person it makes me happy."
"Whatever, can you get out?" I was not asking him more like telling him and he could sense that.
"Good to have you back witch. I must say I have been a bit bored lately."
"Are you bored enough to leave."
"Not that bored." He grabbed one of my bears and held it out the window. I believed I had some strength so I got up and grabbed the bear. Apparently I did not have it all because I tumbled and fell back right into Damon's arms. "You should stay in the bed. We do not want you to faint again do we?"
I gathered whatever strength I had to shrug out of his arms. He laughed and took a seat in the chair. "What do you want Damon?"
"I came to see you, little witch, why is it something wrong with that?"
"Yes." I said placing my feet back up.
"You're right it is something wrong with that. So here is your purse and I will be on my way." He pointed to the stand and there was my purse.
"Hold on how did you get this?" He turned around and smacked his teeth.
"If you must know"
"I must."
"You left it at the restaurant on that night you were stabbed." I looked through my purse to make sure everything was there and it all was accounted for. "You think I took something. I may be a psychopath but I am not a thief."
"You can never be sure now a days." He smirked at me and I could not help but to smile back.
"You came all the way here to give me my purse. That was sweet of you."
"Don't do that. I came here to get some blood but since you were here I figured I could stop by. I thought you would still be sleep though." I could tell Damon did not respond well to someone being a nice.
"So you do not think that was a bit sweet."
"Okay witch, I am done here." He turned to walk out the door before I called his name.
"Damon..."
"What?" I heard the rudeness in his voice but I put it off.
"How good are you at finding out things that should stay secret?" He crossed his arms and grinned at me.
"What do you need to know?"
A/N: What is Bonnie up too and why is Damon helping her? Is Stefan going to tell Bonnie that he thinks he may love her?" Who is Elena going to chose? What is so special about that place in the woods? So many questions not a lot of answers.
P.S. If you did not know Peyton and Brooke are characters from One Tree Hill. They have been best friends since they were little but go through a rocky friendship when they are in love with the same person. Bonnie and Elena remind me of them a little so I compared them to each other.
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