I am so sorry I did not upload this long, but I was very busy with college and everything. But there will be updates from now on! :) Chapter 10: History repeating
Heather apparated back to her room, and with a flick of her wand, opened the curtains. Some time later, she peeked outside, only to notice Damon on the tree outside her balcony. Heather sighed and walked out on to the balcony.
Damon jumped down from the tree onto her balcony when she came out.
"Why did you help me?" he asked her, looking at her intently.
"Because I pity you," Heather said, looking at him. "I pity you because you have a brother, someone who is your family, someone who loves you, but you refuse to acknowledge that love, you refuse to believe that you have a family. You could be happy, but you make it your choice to be unhappy. I pity you because I know if I had family, I would treasure them more than anyone else. And you have that option and yet you throw it away because you are ignorant and pitiful. I helped you so that maybe you'd realize that, and come to your senses."
Damon stared at Heather, who stared back. This was unusual for Damon, because no one had ever said things so cruel and so true to him in his entire life.
"Goodbye, Damon. I need some time to recover from what happened," Heather said, and climbed on the bed, pulling over the covers. With a flick of her wand, everything went dark. The curtains were in their place again, and the windows shut. The door was a little open.
"Go, please, Damon," she said from under the covers. "Good night."
When she heard the door shut slightly two minutes later, she realized Damon was gone.
"Lumos," she said softly, and looked around. The room was empty. She sighed and fell asleep.
Elena and Caroline were walking towards the school.
"Have you even talked to Bonnie?" Elena asked.
"No, I'm mad at her. She needs to make the first move," Caroline insisted stubbornly.
"Be the bigger person," Elena suggested.
"Impossible in her presence," Caroline was not ready to give in.
"Why are you so pissed at her anyway?" Elena asked.
"She's a thief, that's why. I gave her my necklace, and she refuses to give it back. It's a matter of principle," Caroline answered.
"All right," Elena sighed. "Well, I tried. I'm officially out of it."
"You shouldn't have been in in the first place," Caroline said. "Anyway, this way is better. It's your turn now. Where is Stefan? Have you talked to him?"
"He's avoiding me," Elena answered wistfully.
"With good reason," Heather said, joining them.
"Why? What is the reason?" Caroline asked but the bell rang.
"It's time for class," Heather said, and she and Elena left, taking that as an excuse.
"We'll see you later," Heather said, over her shoulder.
"Bye," Caroline answered. Just then, Matt passed her.
Elena and Heather took their seats in the class near Bonnie as Alaric, the new teacher, prepared for his class.
"Good morning everyone. Alright," he said. He wrote his name on the chalkboard.
"Are you okay?" Elena mouthed to Bonnie, who simply shrugged. Heather shook her head.
"Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful, I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Saltzman is of German origins. My family emigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough. You'll probably want to pronounce "Alaric" but it's "Alaric," okay? So, you can call me Rick. I'm your new history teacher," Alaric announced.
"There is something wrong with the new history teacher," Heather said, as soon as she came out of the class.
"What?" Elena asked, worriedly.
"Well, he doesn't fit in. I've had experience with people like these," Heather said, remembering Quirrell, the impostor mad eye moody, Lupin and the other defence teachers. "He might be the biggest trouble we'll have… or he might even be an ally."
"How is he trouble, then?" Bonnie asked.
"There is something off about him, trust me," Heather said.
Heather decided to go pay Stefan a visit, as she knew what sort of a condition he might have been in, seeing as Damon had tried to kill his best friend the previous night.
She apparated inside Stefan's room.
"Privacy, woman!" Damon said, looking at her sudden appearance. "Must you do that?"
"It's a weight off my shoulder now that you people know. I don't have to walk around. I can just.. appear and disappear at will," Heather said, looking at him.
"Rise and shine!" Damon said, handing Stefan the coffee. "You'll be late for school."
"What? What are you doing?" he turned to Heather. "Heather! What are you doing?"
"Well, I just wished to check on you," she said. "I know how it feels to almost lose a friend."
The sadness in her voice was so deep that Damon and Stefan both noticed it.
"You- you've lost a friend?" Stefan asked her slowly.
At that, Heather huffed. She did not want to tell them about her past. They knew she was a witch and that was enough.
"Not really," she said, and looked to change the topic. "The weather is nice today."
Damon and Stefan noticed the change in topic but they let it pass.
"I got the town off our back. It was for the greater good-," Damon said but Heather interrupted him.
"Greater good?" she mocked. "Greater good does more harm than one can think of."
"I am sorry. And to prove that I am sorry, I'm not gonna feed on a human for at least a week. I'll adopt a Stefan diet! Only nothing with feathers," Damon said.
"You know, Damon, you are one big asshole. You do realize that you tried to kill your brother's best friend yesterday? How can you even joke about a thing like that?" Heather asked, crossing her arms.
"You will finally tell me why you've returned to Mystic Falls or not?" Stefan asked him.
"No," Damon said.
Bonnie was driving er car, with Elena in the passenger seat and Heather at the back, and they were discussing what happened.
"He's bad news, Elena. He really scared me," she said, looking at Elena.
"You need to stay as faw away from Damon as possible," Elena said.
"I'm trying! He just keeps showing up," she said. "Heather, why don't you do something?"
"I could do something, if you want, Bonnie. But it won't be permanent, because you know, a spell doesn't last forever. It will fade away with time. Protection spells need to be enforced again and again," Heather said, thinking. "I'll have to be there with you all the time to keep enforcing the spells."
"I don't want you to be alone," Elena said. "You're sleeping at my place tonight, we can ake a whole night out of it."
"He wants the necklace, doesn't he?" Heather asked suddenly. "And then he would leave you alone?"
"Ye-es," Bonnie said, not knowing what Heather was suggesting.
"Give it to me," Heather said. When she saw Bonnie hesitate, she insisted. "Give it to me, Bonnie."
Bonnie pulled out the necklace and handed it over to her. Heather pulled her wand out, and tapping the necklace, whispered, "Geminio."
That was a spell she had learnt from Hermione in the Ministry of Magic. The necklace replicated itself and Heather picked up the copy.
"Wear that and I'll give this to Damon," she said. "You'll be safe, that way."
"Thanks, this is cool. I wish I was a witch of your type," Bonnie remarked. Heather laughed and pocketed the copied necklace. Bonnie pulled her car at a side, and got out of the car.
"What happened to her, suddenly?" Heather asked Elena, as Elena asked Bonnie where she was going.
Bonnie ripped off the necklace and threw it in the field.
"All my problems were because of that stupid necklace. Now it is gone," Bonnie remarked.
"What will your grams say?" Heather asked.
"Grams isn't the one being haunted by a hundred and fifty year old ghost, is she?" Bonnie asked.
"I still don't think it is a ghost," Heather said. She had explained this to Bonnie earlier. She didn't think it was a ghost, because only wizards and witches could come back as ghosts. "I think it is a shadow of her who needs something done, after which he will leave. Ghosts are forever."
"I accept, Heather. But still, since you don't have a name for it, I'll call it a ghost," she said. Heather smiled faintly.
Elena and Heather were sitting inside, and Elena asked Heather.
"What do you think Damon wants to do with the crystal?" Elena asked.
"You know, I could find out," she said.
"How?" Elena asked.
"I'll get into his head," she said. "If you don't want to talk to Stefan, it's fine. I'll find out."
"Please," Elena said. Heather apparated to the boarding house to find Stefan.
When she looked around, it wasn't only Stefan she found, but also Damon.
"I need to talk to you both," she said, formulating a plan in her head.
"I am honoured," Damon said sarcastically. Stefan looked at her worriedly.
"I am sorry about this," she said and she whipped out her wand.
"Arresto momentum," she said, pointing her wand at Damon. Damon found that he couldn't move fast, his speed had been slowed to a great extent. Heather repeated the process on the unaware Stefan.
"What are you doing?" Stefan asked her, surprised.
"You won't like what I am going to do to your brother, so you will try and stop it," she said. "It was necessary."
"Incarcerous," she said, pointing her wand at Damon. Ropes flew around Damon, and bound him to the chair Heather had conjured from the thin air.
"Trust me Damon, you don't like witches of my kind," Heather said, looking at him. She fixed Stefan at his spot with a spell, and turned to Damon.
"Finally," he said. "I want to know why you need that crystal."
"If you think binding me like this will make me tell you, you are wrong," Damon replied scathingly.
"Oh, don't worry. I won't go through the pain of questioning and answering, Damon," Heather said, again pointing her wand at him. "Legilimens."
Damon began to scream, and Stefan tried to move from his place but he was stuck to the spot. Half a minute after Damon's screaming, Heather pulled herself out of his mind.
"You are the evilest thing I have ever seen," she said, looking at him.
"What did you do?" Stefan asked.
"I looked through his mind to find out what he wanted to do with the crystal," she said. "Katherine's crystal. I am sure you know about it?"
"Yes, what about it?" he asked.
"Stefan, trust me. You need to co-operate with me if you want the whole truth," Heather said, turning to Damon.
Damon was not looking too good. Heather decided to wipe away his memories.
"Obliviate," she said, pointing her wand at Damon. "I could do with removing some of these memories."
"Why am I tied?" Damon asked, and as soon as Heather removed her spells, he broke free and held Heather against the wall by her neck. He was surprised to find Heather gone in a moment.
"Damon, I've told you about myself. Please don't make me do that again," she said. "I got you what you needed. I stole it from Bonnie so that you would stop troubling her. If I see you near her again, I'll kill you."
"How did you steal it from Bonnie?" he asked suspiciously.
"Bonnie was being haunted by Emily, you do know that," Heather said. "She threw it away in a field, and I simply summoned it to myself with a spell. It's an easy one, though I learnt it only in my fourth year. I needed it for the triwizard tournament. Though, I don't know why am I telling you all that?" she babbled.
"Here," she said, handing him the necklace. "Now stay away from Bonnie, you ass."
She turned To Stefan.
"I want to talk to you. Whenever you can talk to me without this ass tailing you, do stop by at my place," she said.
It was not Stefan, but Elena's call which shook Heather up. She had been sitting in her home, preparing potions and all, leaving Stefan, Damon, Elena, Caroline and Bonnie to their problems for a while.
"Elena, hi!" she said.
"Heather!" Elena's voice was frantic. "Emily is possessing Bonnie."
"What?" Heather shouted from the other end.
"Yes, she said something about not letting him have it," Elena said.
"Where has she gone?" Heather asked.
"I don't know," Elena said, thinking. "Fell's church, by the old cemetery. That's where she took Bonnie in her dreams. We have to help her, Heather."
"Stay wherever you are, I'll go get her," Heather said, and picked up her wand and her bag of potions and apparated to Fell's church where she saw Damon and Bonnie.
"Hello, Heather. Oh, Emily, you look different," Damon said.
"I won't let you do it," Emily said.
"We had a deal," Damon said, angrily.
"Things are different now. I need to protect my family," Emily replied.
"I protected your family," Damon commented angrily. "You owe me."
"I know, I am sorry," Emily said.
"You're about to be a lot more than that," Damon said and before Heather knew it, Emily had thrown Damon up against a tree, where he was impaled on a branch through his stomach. Heather ran over to Damon and pulled him off the tree branch.
"It hurts. This is why I feed on people," he said, while Heather pushed back his jacket and shirt to apply the Murtlap essence. It healed Damon quicker than he had thought.
Just then, Stefan and Elena arrived.
"These people don't deserve this. They should never have to know such evil," Emily said.
"What do you mean evil?" Stefan asked.
"Emily, I swear to God, I'll make you regret this," Damon said and Heather looked at him angrily.
"I won't let you unleash them in this world," Emily said.
"She is right," Heather said, knowing the whole story from Damon's memory search.
"How do you know about it?" Damon asked Heather.
"I am a witch, Damon," was Heather's only reply. Stefan knew how she knew.
"I couldn't come because Damon won't leave me alone. He realized the necklace you gave him was a false one, and I came to know he wanted to bring Katherine back," Stefan told Heather. "What did Emily do?"
"She saved everyone in the church," Heather told him.
"With one, comes all," Emily said.
"I don't care about them, I just want Katherine," Damon said stubbornly.
"I knew I shouldn't have believed a single word that comes out of your mouth. This isn't about love, is it? This is about revenge," Stefan said. It was more of an assertion rather than a question.
"The two aren't mutually exclusive," Damon said.
"Damon, you can't do this," Heather interjected.
"Why not? They killed 27 people, and they called it a war battle. They deserve whatever they get," Damon said.
"Are you kidding me?" Heather asked. "These people are innocent, Damon. They know nothing! It all happened 145 years ago!"
"There is nothing innocent about these people, and don't think for a second it won't happen again. They already know too much, and they'll burn your little grand witch right next to us when they find out. Trust me," Damon said.
"Things are different now," Emily said.
"Don't do this," Damon said.
"I can't free them, I won't," Emily said, then started chanting. "Incendia."
The pentagram Emily carved into the dirt around her set ablaze, and flames created a wall between Emily and Stefan, Damon, Elena and Heather.
"No! No, please," Damon said.
Emily threw the necklace into the air, and it exploded above them. Once the spell was completed and the crystal was destroyed, Emily departed from Bonnie's body. Bonnie finally reawakened, and looked around in horror, having no idea what had just occurred. Damon was furious, and since his deal with Emily was off, he bit Bonnie and fed on her. Elena yelled in fear, and Stefan rushed over to pull Damon off of her. He knelt next to her and checked her pulse
"She is alive, but barely. I can save her," he said. Heather looked at him.
"Save her," she nodded, knowing that she could give Bonnie the blood replenishing potion after she was healed a bit.
Stefan bit into his wrist and dribbled hi blood into Bonnie's mouth. Elena watched in shock as her wound closed up right before her eyes.
"I'll give her the blood replenishing potion," Heather said, and fed Bonnie the potion after which she felt stronger.
Stefan left to find Damon and Heather stayed with Bonnie.
"I don't understand, Elena. Heather, what happened to me? He attacked me, and his face was like…," Bonnie left her sentence unfinished.
"Bonnie, a lot has happened for you to take in. Please relax, and drink some more of the potion. You need it," Heather said, handing her a bottle. Bonnie took a little sip of the potion and made a face.
"Disgusting, I know. Just thank God you haven't gotten your bones removed. I had, once. Skele grow is more disgusting," Heather told her sympathetically.
Just then, Stefan approached the girls, and Bonnie immediately became frightened and weary of him.
"I'm not gonna hurt you," Stefan said.
"What's going on, Elena?" Bonnie asked.
"I'll explain everything, Bonnie. Okay? Let's just get out of here. Bonnie. Bonnie, look at me. He's not going to hurt you. Come on. Come on," Elena said. "Heather, could you look after her?"
Heather nodded, and stayed with Bonnie. When Elena returned, she was crying.
"What happened?" Heather asked her.
"Stefan's leaving," she said. "Please talk to him, Heather."
"He won't listen to me if he didn't listen to you," Heather said. "And it is not my place to tell him what to do and what not, Elena. If he thinks what he is doing is for the best, let it be. Let him go."
Elena nodded, her eyes still full of tears.
"I am taking Bonnie home. Do you want to come?" she asked.
"No, I need some lone time," Heather told her, backing off from the car. "See you, Elena."
Heather walked through the length of the woods, and saw Damon. His eyes were full of tears. She went over to him to say something, but thought better of it at the last moment, and swiftly turned away, disapparating. Damon heard her, and turned to look behind, but it was dark. There was no one.
I hate this episode, and hence a bad chapter. I promise to get a better one next time! Reviews are appreciated! :)