Chapter 8

"Who would do something like this?" Rebekah asked. Caroline looked and shrugged.

"Maybe someone who hates happiness? If everything in here was showing us a time that happiness was occurring as well as whatever badness...who would have the most to gain from making sure that nothing that happened-none of those pairings-would happen again in this world?" Caroline voiced out.

"Maybe it was the big and scary t'ing from my dream." Jeremy piped up. "It was big and scary and it made me feel sad. I didn't like it."

"What kind of big scary thing?" Caroline and Rebekah asked almost in unison.

He looked in the book and was flipping through it before he scurried behind Rebekah. The picture showed a mass of smoke and it was coating the entire village.

"I keep seeing it and it scares me." He whimpered and Rebekah looked at him in confusion until Sheila explained it softly.

"Because he is still at the age where fairytales and other such things exist, whatever he remembers have been blocked but not taken like the others. He also, for some reason, has a magical aura surrounding him."

"How do we fix it?" Rebekah asked.

"I don't know-the only way I could think of is dangerous." Sheila said but as she was looking through it, her eye caught on something. Going to the back of the book, onto the back cover she pulled at the paper covering it.

She ended up looking at them.

"It said something but it's been smudged. It'll take me a while to figure it out." Caroline looked worried.

"What if someone finds it and steals it from you?" Sheila looked and

Rebekah nodded.

"Then we hide it somewhere in plain sight." Rebekah whispered. "We hide it with someone...who still believes."

All three looked at Jeremy who had his eyes shut tightly.

"No one would question him as to why he has a fairytale book." Sheila told them.

"Jeremy you have to keep this book really safe. You can't lose it or let anyone else have it," Caroline worried.

He looked at it and at her.

"I will keep it safe. Promise." He said with a smile. Caroline smiled back and Rebekah ruffled his hair before looking curiously at Sheila.

"Was Jeremy in the book?" She asked.

Sheila nodded. "He's in it." She didn't want to spoil that part for them yet. She was surprised that it showed that Elena and Elijah were his parents...but he's been thinking of Elena as his sister.