History repeating
A/N: Hello guys. I'm really sorry that I haven't updated for what seems like ages. To make it up, here is the longest chapter I've ever written. And a little surprise for you at the end.
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I was sitting at my desk next to Bonnie in the math class. That was as boring as ever. The teacher was talking about measuring the height of an object using its shadow, or something like that. I looked at Bonnie who just as bored as I am. We both turned around simultaneously like we just felt the same presence in the hallway behind us. We looked at each other not feeling very safe, but nonetheless, we decided to go what or who was in in the corridor.
"Hello," Bonnie muttered. We clung at each other feeling less and less assured as every minute passed. We kept moving slowly throughout the hallway. There, in a corner was a woman who looked like she came straight from the 1800s. The woman walked through the double door without uttering a word, and we followed her like we were hypnotized. We have barely left the school and we found ourselves in the woods near the old Fell's Church.
"Please help me" the 1800s woman pleaded. She stopped in the front of the old church.
"Who are you?" Bonnie asked her, but somehow I felt that Bonnie already knew the answer.
"I'm Emily. But you know that. We're family" she answered
"Where are we?" Bonnie replied
"It started here and it's here it has to end" she answered cryptically. Okay, this charade had lasted long enough. I felt the sudden urge to interfere in the weirdest conversation ever.
"Excuse me, but if you're Bonnie's family, then where do I fit in?" I didn't know what to do at that moment.
"We all have a part to play in this. Including you, Isabel" she answered just as cryptic. Great, we weren't making any progress. The next thing I remember is waking up in the middle of the woods, near the old Fell's church. It cannot be a coincidence. I just rose up and snuggled in my bathrobe. I mean, I was alone in the woods, defenseless, with psycho vampires roaming the woods looking for their next prey.
I was sitting into history class waiting for the new history teacher to come. Maybe he will be cooler than Tanner. This said it's not hard to be cooler than him. Bonnie arrived almost late, looking rather distraught. I looked at her and she nodded. She remembered it too, and she woke up in the woods too. We did not have time to think more about it because the new teacher had finally arrived.
"Alaric Saltzman. I know it's a mouthful. But since I'm a super nice guy, you can call me Rick. I am your new history teacher" the new teacher introduced himself. I already liked him. Maybe I would not dread school anymore.
Stefan's POV"Rise and shine" Ugh, the worst wake up ever. Damon. He handed me a coffee.
"What are you doing?" I asked
"Peace offering" he answered. So either, he's up to something or he is drunk at 7 am. Then, he started mocking me about Lexi and my diet. So, he's just to bother me.
" So, I realized that killing your closest and oldest friend was beyond evil. But, somehow, I find it worthy of humor" I mimicked him
"Are you mimicking me?" He asked, surprised.
"Yes, now that the secret society of vampire haters is off our backs, I can go back to my daily routine of how can I destroy Stefan's like this week?" I pushed this game a little bit farther
"And I will go back to sulking and Elena-longing and forehead brooding. This is fun. I like it." He's mocking me now.
"And I will reveal the ulterior motive behind my diabolical and evil return to Mystic Falls" I talked back. Maybe this game can help me find what Damon and Tristan are up to.
Isabel's POVI was having lunch with Bonnie and Elena. We were explaining to her that we just had the same dream, the same night and that we both woke up in the middle of the woods.
"And you always saw Emily" Elena wondered
"Elena, do you believe in ghosts," Bonnie asked clearly frightened because of everything that is happening. I can understand that, I'm not delighted to be tormented by a ghost.
"Two weeks ago, I'd say no, but…" Elena answered. I guess that when you know about vampires, a ghost represents nothing.
"Because I think that I'm…" she looked at me "we're being haunted"
"I don't get it. Why Emily?" Elena tried to get to the bottom of all this mess
"Grams said she was a powerful witch. And this necklace was hers. I think she's using it to communicate with me" Bonnie showed Elena the crystal she was wearing underneath her clothes.
"Okay, have you talk to Grams about that?" Elena inquired
"I can't. She'll say that we should embrace it. I don't wanna be possessed by a ghost. Do you?" Bonnie answered
"Me neither" I voiced my opinion.
The school was over, at least for the day. It was late afternoon and the sun was faded away. We were in Bonnie's car. Bonnie was driving the car, Elena was seated in the passenger seat and I was in the back seat. We were discussing the fact that Damon came to… try to make Bonnie give him the necklace.
"He's bad news" Bonnie insisted
"You need to stay as far away as possible from Damon" Elena replied
"I'm trying. He just keeps showing up" Bonnie talked back.
"You're both staying at my place tonight. We can make a whole night out of it. It's not safe for you to be alone " Elena declared. Suddenly, Bonnie pulled over to the side of the road and got out of the car. Where the hell is she going? Bonnie ripped off the necklace from a neck and threw it into the field.
"All my problems were because of this. I don't understand why I didn't throw it away earlier" Bonnie seemed a lot more relaxed. Maybe Emily will stop haunting me too.
"What Grams will think about it?" Elena inquired
" Grams isn't the one haunted by a hundred and fifty-year-old ghost is she" Bonnie talked back.
We were now at the Gilbert residence. Bonnie, Elena, Caroline and I were preparing for a girl's night. It was also a secret plan between Elena and me to reconcile Bonnie and Caroline.
"I'm sorry. There. I said it. If you want that horrible necklace. Then keep it. It's yours" Caroline sighed.
"Will you hate me if I told you that I had to throw it away?" Bonnie looked guilty.
"You had to? Or you could had give it back to me" Caroline seemed annoyed.
"For what? So you could had give it back to Damon" Elena snapped.
"Screw Damon. Are we doing manicures or what? Who has her kit?" Caroline changed the subject. Okay, do not discuss topic.
"So Elena, how long do you think this fight with Stefan is going to last? Is it like a permanent thing?" Caroline riffled through Bonnie's purse searching for her manicure kit. "Why are you such a little liar?" Caroline was suddenly angry. I understand why when she took out…Emily's crystal from the purse. We well all astonished. Caroline was holding up the crystal, and we all gasped in shock.
"I'm not lying Caroline. I swear" Bonnie repeated for nth times.
"It's true. I watched her throw it into a field" Elena confirmed Bonnie's story.
"Then, explain it" Caroline was getting annoyed.
"Emily the ghost" Bonnie tried out
"So, the ghost has a name now" Caroline mocked
"Caroline please" I stepped Caroline aside. "I wonder why she would not just leave us alone" I intervened
"Stop it. Why am I not part of this conversation? You three do this to me all the time
"That's not true" Elena snapped
"Yes, it is. We cannot talk to you. You're not listening" Bonnie snapped. "I'm a witch" Bonnie tried to prove her point.
"Yeah, and don't we all know it" Caroline mocked
"You see? I'm trying to tell you something important, and you don't even hear it" Bonnie seemed more sad than angry.
Bonnie left angrily to the living room. Caroline went too far this time. Elena and I started pushing to go to the living room in order to apologize. Which she hastened to do, she seemed to agree that she went too far this time. She walked calmly to the other room. We let them a few minutes in order for them to work things out.
"Elena, Isabel, you can come in. We're done" Caroline screamed. I joined them on the couch happy that my two best friends are finally reconciled. "So what do you guys wanna do? Oh, I know. What about a séance. Come on, we're going to wake up the spirits. I think that little Emily has some serious explaining to do?"
A little while later, we were sitting in the dark on the floor of Elena's bedroom.
"What are we doing?" Elena wondered. I might be a witch but that doesn't mean that I know a thing about how to contact the dead.
"I don't know " Bonnie admitted, just as left behind as I was.
"Be quiet and concentrate. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Bonnie. Call her"
"Emily, you there?" Bonnie muttered, but nothing happened
"Really, Emily you there? That's all you got?"Caroline reprimanded Bonnie.
"Fine, geez. Emily, I call on you. I know you have a message. I'm here to listen". The candles immediately flared stronger. Bonnie and I were scared. I mean, we're the one who has been haunting our dreams lately. Elena doesn't seem to know what to think, and Caroline looked so… calm
"Emily, if you are among us, show us another sign" Caroline called. We waited a moment but nothing happened.
"See, it's not working" Bonnie was trying to calm herself down but it was clearly failing. Just as she finished talking, like to contradict her, the burst open scaring us all. Then, all the candles shut off leaving us in the total dark
"Get the light on. Somebody. Get the light on" Bonnie shouted panicked. Elena rushed to the switch on button. But when she switched the light on, we all had a major shock: the necklace was… gone. We were there standing in the aftermath of the séance, shocked. First, we thought that Caroline took it for, I don't know… to prove a point. After all, it was her idea to do a séance in the first place. But she denied everything, and I could tell that she was sincere, even a little bit… scared. But suddenly, Bonnie began to stare at Elena's room entrance, like she saw something or… someone.
"Jeremy, are you home ?" Elena walked through the corridor, but there was no one, neither Jeremy nor… a noninvited ghost nor someone else.
"Guys…" I saw Bonnie walked slowly frightened toward the bathroom. Suddenly, the bathroom door slammed shut as she was inside the room. " You guys open the door! Help me!" We heard Bonnie screamed. We kept pounding on the door as Bonnie screamed for help. After was seemed endless seconds or minutes, the door finally unlocked and Bonnie stood there with her head in her hands
"What happened? Are you okay?" Elena asked visibly worried.
"I'm fine" Bonnie raised her head. Her face perfectly calm, with no emotions at all. Something was stranged with Bonnie, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
"Unbelievable. You were totally faking it. You scared the hell out of me" Caroline angered at her, for good reasons I must confess.
Stefan's POVWe were still on the football field after Damon's revelation. I was still in a major shock about Damon's latest revelation: Katherine was alive.
"How can you bring her back?" I wondered
"You remember how it was back then in 1864? Townspeople were killing vampires one by one. When they came for, I ran straight to Emily, said I'll do anything. Name your price. Just protect her. She did." He explained proudly.
"How?" That's all I managed to ask. I still couldn't understand how she could have been alive for so long without me knowing it.
"She did some kind of spell. So when we thought she was burning inside the church. Well she wasn't" he continued
"But how. I saw them got her inside" I wondered
"There's a tomb underneath the church. The spell locked Katherine in the tomb. I'm gonna bring her back" He explained
"You're saying that Katherine is alive?" I already knew this.
"You can call it like this. She's been locked in a tomb for the last one hundred and fifty-five years. Well, you're an expert on starving a vampire. So how do you think she's doing?" Damon mocked me
"But what does Tristan has to do with all of that?" I kept wondering
"That's another story. Save it for another brother bonding time" He answered mockingly.
Isabel's POVI was still in shock about what happened during the séance. Elena, Caroline and I were running after Bonnie, who was rushing down the stairs
"I can't believe I fell for it" Caroline was mad, still blind about what was really happening.
"Bonnie are you all right?" Elena was sensing too that something was off.
"Thank you for having me. I'll take it from here?" Something was off. Bonnie was speaking like… a 1800s woman. "Bonnie" was now halfway through the stairs and Elena were yelling at her to stay, with clearly no idea on what was really happening.
"Where are you going?" Elena shouted
"Where it all began" Bonnie answered cryptically. And then I knew. I wasn't talking to Bonnie.
"Bonnie? Oh my god, Emily" I exclaimed. Then, "Bonnie" turned around, and I knew I was right.
"I won't let him have it again. It has to be destroyed" Bonnie/Emily said with no emotion on her face, before walking through the door and closing it. We tried frantically to open the door but it won't unlock.
Despite Stefan's warning, Elena and I rushed toward Fell's church to save Bonnie. Who knew what Emily would do to her? We arrived just in time to see Emily set ablaze the pentagram she carved around her and created a wall of flame between her and us. She threw the necklace into the air, and it exploded above us. Then, the fire turned off and everything was dark and so calm again. Bonnie looked like she had just wakened up from a nightmare. Damon was livid, ran toward Bonnie and then bit her. Elena and I yelled in fear, and Stefan rushed over and pulled Damon off of her. He kneeled next to her and checked her pulse. He then bit his own wrist and fed Bonnie his blood. Then something that I have never witnessed in my whole life happened: her neck was healing visibly.
After Elena promised to take Bonnie home, I decided to let Stefan and Elena some privacy and to walk home by myself. That what I was doing when I was met by none other than Lucien.
"Hey" I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Hey" he returned my greeting and my smile. "Are you all right? I mean, I noticed the scrap that was happening earlier" He enquired. And he looked genuinely concerned by how I felt about it. And…. I didn't know what to say. Sensing my unease, he continued "I wanted to intervene and help your friend but I see that Stefan was handling the situation, and I was afraid that I would do more harm than good if I just barged in" he was justifying himself. But… I wasn't mad at him.
"That's okay. I'm not mad at you" I assured him. That seemed to please him.
"Can I walk you home? It may not be safe for a lady to walk home all by herself. You know, in case some creepy old vampire is lurking around" he joked
"That's okay. I know you're not going to hurt me" I didn't know what I said that out loud. After that, the rest of the walk continued in an awkward silence. So, I was relieved when we finally reached our destination.
"We stopped at the porch, we turned to face each other, not really knowing what to say. That was Lucien who finally broke the silence.
"You were right. I would never hurt you. Quite the contrary for real. You may not be mad at me right now, and I hope you wouldn't be after that" he talked very seriously. What the hell was he meaning!? I should have walked inside and closed the door, but I couldn't. I was like frozen on sight, and I found myself desperately wanting to know what he meant. Then, he did something that I wasn't expecting
He lowered his head and put his lips on mine.
Gilbert Residence
Fell's Church
Forbes Residence