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Chapter 7 – Beacon Hills
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Glamour Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
As soon as she exited the room, Vivian Aurum's smile vanished. Fishing a cell phone out of her pocket with her uninjured hand, she dialed as she walked and held it up to her ear.
The man on the other end picked up within seconds. "Yes?"
"Hi, this is Vivian," she said. "Can you tell Sebastian that I want to speak with him, please? I'll be in the Tea Room."
"Yes, ma'am. I'll find him and send him over."
"Thank you." Hanging up the phone, Vivian hurried down the hallway and into a large, beautifully designed indoor courtyard, filled with various exotic plants. A large stone fountain in the middle of the room echoed with the sounds of splashing water, and the large skylight overhead filled the room with warm sunlight.
Vivian didn't take any time to appreciate the room's beauty; she walked straight over to a cabinet that was set into one wall, opened it, and withdrew a first-aid kit. She'd done this many times before, so it didn't take her very long to clean and bandage the cut across her palm. Once she'd replaced the medical kit in the cabinet, she walked to a nearby sink and poured herself a glass of cold water, then sat down at a glass table beside the fountain and waited.
A few minutes later, a door on the other side of the room opened and a young man strolled in. He was about five and a half feet tall, with neatly combed blonde hair, pale skin, bright blue eyes, and a confident smile on his face. He wore a black leather jacket, a white T-shirt, and blue jeans.
Upon seeing Vivian, he inclined his head in respect. "Hey, Mom. What's up?"
She smiled. "Hello, Sebastian. I have a very important task for you."
"I like the sound of that." Sebastian Aurum smirked. "What do you need me to do?"
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Three days later
Beacon Hills, California
The first of the two rental cars, a sleek silver Volvo, pulled up in front of Beacon Hills High School and parked. Stepping out of the driver's seat, Stefan glanced around with a smile, as Caroline and Elena also exited the vehicle. The driver's and passenger-side doors on the other rental car, a yellow Camaro, opened, and Tyler and Jeremy hopped out to join the others.
The past three days had been nonstop activity. After a fairly short flight from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, the group had "rented" cars from a dealership near the airport; Klaus and Damon had compelled the owner of the dealership to give them three of the most expensive cars they had, free of charge. Klaus, showing his usual style, had also purchased one of the largest mansions in Beacon Hills to serve as their base of operations. They'd spent the two days since their arrival in Beacon Hills settling in and filling out temporary transfer forms for the local high school, so that those members of the group who were currently in school could keep up with their education while they were in California.
"So," Stefan mused. "This is Beacon Hills."
"Does anyone else feel like this place isn't that different from Mystic Falls?" Caroline commented.
"Unless you count the fact that school here apparently starts a lot later in the year than it does back home, then yeah," Jeremy pointed out.
He had a point; Mystic Falls High School had already been in session for almost a month when they'd left, while Beacon Hills had apparently just got back from summer break that day.
Tyler shrugged. "Who cares? Let's just do this already."
"Fine with me," Stefan replied.
The five teenagers started forward, walking through the stream of arriving students and into the school.
"First stop's the attendance office," Caroline said cheerfully, leading the way. Stefan, Elena, Tyler and Jeremy trailed after her.
Arriving in the office, Caroline smiled at the woman behind the desk. "Uh, hi. We're the new transfer students; you should have received the message a couple of days ago?"
The woman flipped through a few files on her desk, then nodded in satisfaction and looked up, returning Caroline's friendly smile. "Yes, everything seems to be in order. The message said you would have the necessary forms with you?"
"Ah, yes, I do," Caroline answered, pulling a folder containing the files out of Jeremy's backpack and handing it to the woman.
After scanning the forms to make sure that everything was filled out correctly, the woman sorted them into several folders that had been stacked on her desk. "Everything seems to be in order; here, let me get your class schedules." Retrieving another folder from one of the desk drawers, she handed it to Caroline.
"Thank you very much," Caroline replied with a smile.
"Well, have a good first day. Enjoy your stay in Beacon Hills." With that, the woman turned and walked through a doorway into the back room.
"Okay," Caroline said, pulling out the schedules one by one and handing each of them to the corresponding student. "Let's see… it looks like Elena and Tyler have economics with Mr. Finstock, Jeremy's got chemistry with Mr. Harris, and I have English with Ms. Blake. Stefan, you're with me; let's go, we don't want to be late."
The group split up, heading off in different directions in search of their new classrooms.
"This is going to suck," Caroline muttered as she and Stefan headed down the hallway towards their English class. "We don't know anyone here; we're missing all of the important school stuff back home; and we…" She trailed off as they rounded the corner into one of the main hallways, and her mouth dropped open slightly.
The hallway was filled with arriving students; most of them were tall, well-built, and seriously attractive guys.
"Never mind," Caroline murmured. "I'm fine with this school. Completely fine."
Stefan chuckled. "We go halfway across the country to chase down a psychotic vampire and find a legendary artifact, and you're spending the first morning at a new school drooling over the freshman class?"
"Oh, shut up."
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Scott McCall leaned back in his desk, sighing to himself as he tried to relax. It had been months since the last supernatural threat in Beacon Hills, and he finally felt like things were getting back to normal (with the notable exception of a suicidal deer that had crashed into Lydia's car the previous night).
As he contemplated what could have caused that event, Scott glanced over to the door, just in time to see Allison Argent enter the room. His face lit up, his lips curving in a delighted smile.
Allison glanced around the room, clearly looking for an open seat. After a few seconds, she started in his direction. Scott glanced over his shoulder, to see that the desk behind him was unoccupied.
Yes! he shouted inwardly, but managed to conceal his delight.
Allison hesitated when she reached him, before indicating the seat behind him. "Is… is anyone–"
"No!" Scott hastily replied. "No, no, no. It's all you – all yours – uh, it's totally vacant." Inwardly, he groaned. Oh, my god, that was horrible.
Smiling faintly, Allison walked past him and sat down at the desk behind him. Scott breathed out slowly in relief and slumped in his desk again, looking forward so that Allison wouldn't see the grin on his face.
Abruptly, the door of the classroom opened again, and two other people walked in: a young man with spiked-up, light brown hair and green eyes, and a girl with shoulder-length blonde hair and blue-green eyes. They were both unusually pale, and looked very attractive.
Scott frowned. Who are they? I've never seen those two before, but they have to be in our grade... new students, maybe?
Abruptly, the sound of phones buzzing echoed throughout the room; every cell phone in the classroom had just received a text.
Scott pulled his phone out of his pocket and checked the screen; the text was from a number he didn't recognize. It looked like some kind of quote. As he began reading it, another voice cut in, reading it aloud.
"'The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds and the tranquil waterway, leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber over an overcast sky, seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.'" The speaker, a young woman with shoulder-length dark hair – obviously the new English teacher – walked into the room, reading from the screen of her own cell phone. She came to a halt behind her desk. "This is the last line to the first book we're going to read. It is also the last text you will receive in this class." She smiled and held up her own phone. "Phones off, everyone."
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Ms. Blake, as she'd introduced herself, was in the middle of her lecture when a tap on Scott's shoulder drew his attention. He glanced back fractionally, to see that Allison was holding out a note under the desk.
Reaching back with one hand, Scott took the note, lifted it up and unfolded it. It read; Can we talk?
This could either turn out very well or very badly, but Scott had never been one to avoid anything involving Allison. Flipping the note over, he scrawled Yes on the back. Before he could pass it back to her, though, another teacher entered the room and whispered something to Ms. Blake.
Immediately, she stopped talking and turned towards Scott. "Mr. McCall?"
Scott's eyes widened in alarm. Seriously? It was the first day of the school year; how could he be in trouble already?
Nervously, he stood up and followed Ms. Blake out of the room.
As they emerged into the hallway, she turned to face him. "Uh… I'm sure it's an emergency if your mother needs you to leave school, but I'm going to give you a warning in the nicest possible way. I'm well aware of your attendance record, and I don't want to see you slip back into old habits."
Inwardly, Scott was relieved; this meant he wasn't actually in trouble. He managed to conceal his relief, however, and nodded. "I won't," he promised. He had spent the entire summer working to regain the academic ground he'd lost the previous school year; he wasn't about to lose it now. "It's going to be different this year."
Ms. Blake frowned. "Resolutions are only good if you stick with them, Scott," she warned.
"I will," Scott replied firmly. "I promise I won't be ephemeral." He smiled to himself, pleased that he had managed to use one of the SAT words he'd been studying in conversation.
Now I just have to figure out what's going on with Mom, he thought.
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Stefan and Caroline sat in their desks, listening to the teacher's ongoing lecture. While Stefan was paying close attention, Caroline was rapidly growing bored; they had already covered this material at their school in Mystic Falls, and she'd never had a long attention span in class to begin with.
In order to relax, she started listening to the other students, seeing if she could pick up on any conversations to entertain herself. After a couple of minutes, she did hear something vaguely interesting.
"Hey, Lydia," a boy's voice whispered. "What – what is that? Is that from the accident?"
Caroline glanced idly back, and managed to catch sight of the speaker out of the corner of her eye; a young man with pale skin, tousled brown hair and light brown eyes, seated behind a girl with shoulder-length red hair and hazel eyes. The boy seemed to be indicating something on the girl's left leg.
"No," the girl – Lydia, presumably – whispered back. "Prada bit me."
"Your dog?" the boy inquired.
"No, my designer handbag," Lydia retorted. "Yes, my dog."
Caroline chuckled in amusement despite herself.
"Has it ever bitten you before?"
Lydia shook her head.
The boy leaned farther forward, asking, "Okay, what if it's like the same thing as the deer? You know, like how animals start acting weird before an earthquake or something?"
Caroline frowned. Okay, seriously, what are they talking about?
"Meaning what; there's going to be an earthquake?" Lydia asked skeptically.
"Or something," the boy pressed. "I just… maybe it means something's coming. Something bad."
"It was a deer and a dog," Lydia replies, but she seems more thoughtful now. "What's that thing you say about trouble coming in threes? Once, twice–" A loud thud echoed through the classroom, cutting her off.
Caroline turned, looking at the window of the classroom, to see a large smear of blood on the outside of the glass. Ms. Blake walked over to the window as most of the students turned to look as well.
"What was that?" Caroline asked anxiously, turning to Stefan.
Stefan shrugged, obviously just as startled as she was. "I have no idea." His eyes widened abruptly in surprise. "But, if I had to guess…" He pointed towards the window, and Caroline looked back over… just in time to see a huge flock of crows – dozens, maybe hundreds – flying directly towards the building.
And, as half of the students lurched to their feet, the first crows began smashing into the windows.
Screams echoed throughout the room as the students backed away from the windows. After a few seconds, one of the crows smashed through the glass and into the room. More birds followed the first one, breaking through the windows and flying around the room. The entire class was in chaos; students were running in all directions and ducking frantically for cover.
"Get down! Get down, everyone!" Ms. Blake screamed.
Caroline and Stefan ducked under their desks, crouching on the floor as the deafening sounds of cawing and screaming filled the air around them.
"Stefan, what's happening?!" Caroline shouted. "Stefan!"
"I don't know!" Stefan called back. "Stay down!"
After what seemed like an eternity, the sounds faded, and a deathly silence fell.
Stefan and Caroline emerged from under their desks, looking around the devastated room as the other students started to get up. There were dead crows and black feathers everywhere, strewn among broken glass and scattered sheets of paper like gruesome confetti.
"What the hell just happened?" Caroline gasped. "It was like they went crazy!"
Stefan glanced around the room, his eyes narrowed. "I have no idea," he muttered. "But I do know one thing." He looked back at her. "Something tells me that this town may not be so normal after all."
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A/N: Hello again, everyone! So sorry it's been such a long time since I've updated; hopefully this chapter made up for it. I'm sure you've all been waiting for the first official meeting between the Mystic Falls gang and the residents of Beacon Hills; don't worry, things will get much more exciting in the next few chapters.
Shoutouts to KaterinaPetrovah, KittyWolfM, xosummergirlox123, 50ShadesofGerardGay, lurkinq, Tala White 14, Joseph Dooley, Crystal, Micky-D12, and Saiyajin-Neko for reviewing; you guys are awesome!
As always, I greatly appreciate feedback on my writing, so if anyone has a comment or question regarding this chapter or the story as a whole, please review!
See you all next time!
Review Q&A:
Q: Love your story and can't wait for you next update. Plz say you not going to make Jeremy and Bonnie a couple later on. Bonnie is way to good for him.
A: We'll have to see how that turns out.
Q: I like how you've tied in some of the Teen Wolf lore here and it's really preparing for the scene shift.
A: Yeah, I figured, since I had the opportunity, why not tie in some of the Teen Wolf supernatural lore here? We'll probably see more of that sort of thing later.
Q: Also, in the previous chapter you mentioned that Stefan and Damon hadn't looked at the history book in over thirty years (I think you said thirty. Might have been fifty.), meaning, the also probably wouldn't have talked about the history to anyone. And that's a pretty big history to bring up in casual conversation. If Bonnie were to know about Blackwood, I would expect that she learned about him from her Grams or from Emily in a dream or something.
A: Well, Bonnie knows about Blackwood for the same reason that Jeremy knows about him; they were both present at the Gilbert house in Chapter 3, when Stefan and Damon explained the history of Blackwood and the Vampire War in Mexico.
Q: Honestly, I love this fic so much! your writing is beautiful and I love the fact that you did some research to build up the plot. The plot is absolutely amazing and honestly, I can see this as a TVD storyline. Continue the good work!
A: Thanks, I appreciate the compliment! Yeah, I tried to make it as plausible as I could, so it would seem like this could actually have happened and would make sense. Hopefully I'm doing a good job of that!
Q: Cool! Really interesting. Amazing writing style. Your words sound like living, breathing things. I can't wait for the next chapter!
A: I'm glad you're enjoying it! Please let me know what you thought of this chapter!
Q: A group of vampires headed to a town full of werewolves. What could go wrong.
A: I know, right? :)
Q: OMG, this story is soo good! :D I can't wait for the Teen Wolf characters to come into it! Is it bad that I actually like Jonathan, and him & Bonnie working together? :P I'm just waiting to see how you pull it all together to bring the two shows together, and I laughed at the ending of this last chapter when they were hoping that Beacon Hills wouldn't be anything like Mystic Falls! Hahaha, if they only knew! Anyway keep writing, and I will definitely reading it!
A: I was hoping somebody would say this; yeah, I've tried to make Blackwood a likeable character to add some complexity to him (in fact, he was actually a very good-hearted person once, a long time ago). So, I'm glad you like him! We'll find out a lot more about his character and origins as the story goes on. Yep, I thought people might find that comment amusing. The Mystic Falls gang are already finding out that Beacon Hills is a lot more like Mystic Falls than it appears at first glance. Hope you enjoyed this chapter; please let me know what you thought of it!
Q: HiHi! I love the premise of this fic its been very interesting and I adore the idea of Teen Wolf and TVD coming together in one glorious fandom! Um, few questions however, even though everyone is pretty much in character I've noticed that Klaus hasn't used any opportunities to flirt with Caroline, and Damon hasn't been ribbing Elena, which leads me to my second, is there going to be any romance in this story? I'm not upset if no, though if you're uninterested in particular ships it'd be wise to keep it semi-canon. xD
A: Yeah, I also love the idea of these two shows meeting, especially since their premises are so similar. As for the romantic stuff, there will be romance in this story, but it won't be the primary focus. So I'll be adding more of that sort of thing as the story continues. Character pairings will be mostly canon to the ones in TVD Season 3 and Teen Wolf Season 3A, but I'll be including a couple of crossover pairings as well. We'll have to see which characters will be involved, though.
