Nadia Gilbert
-Chapter 12-
Ghost World
When I wake up, I find that Damon's still no where to be found. Now, I'm growing worried. So I quickly leave the Salvatore house to go look for him...
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"As a long time member of the Historical society, I'm especially proud to be kicking off this day of festivities." Carol Lockwood says on stage with a big smile on her face. "Thank you, volunteers. Tonight, we turn off our town's lights and flare up lanterns in honor of the night of eliminations started by our founders a hundred and fifty years ago."
I zoom over to Elena when I see her. "Hey, have you seen Damon?" I ask.
"Wasn't he with you last night?" Elena frowns.
"No, he's been missing all night." I shake my head anxiously. "I've called him over a dozen times, but nobody's answering."
"Have you tried asking Ric?" Elena suggests, making me turn my head to see Ric and Jeremy standing on the other side of the school lawn.
"No, I'm going to do that now." I say, turning back to Elena. "Just call me if you see him, okay?"
"Of course." Elena smiles and nods before I walk over to Ric and Jeremy.
"Have either of you seen Damon?" I stop walking once I'm standing in front of them.
"Sorry, Nadia." Ric smiles at me apologetically. "Damon and I aren't exactly on speaking terms right now."
"Just call me if you see him, please." I sigh in defeat.
"I will." Ric smiles and nods.
"You too, Jeremy." I turn to my brother.
"Yep." He nods.
"I'm going to ask Caroline and Bonnie." I tell them before walking toward Caroline and Bonnie.
"So when you did the spell to send Vicki away, did that get rid of Anna too?" Caroline asks Bonnie just as I walk over to them.
"I wish." Bonnie sighs. "All I did was lock the magic that was helping Vicki get a physical foot hold here. Jeremy's still got a direct line to the other side, and as long as he wants to see Anna, she wants to see him, she's still here." She says as she climbs down from the ladder.
"Unfortunately, Jeremy's still hung up on Anna." I sigh before asking them about Damon. "Have either of you seen Damon? He's been missing since last night."
"Sorry, Nadia." Bonnie smiles and shakes her head.
"Me neither." Caroline says as I try calling him again, but once again, it goes straight to voice mail.
"Damn it." I say as I put my phone back into my pocket.
But just then, Damon drives up to us. "Where were you, Damon?" I say worriedly as I zoom over to him. "I called you like eight bajillion times."
"Yeah, my phone broke." Damon tells me before looking toward Bonnie and Caroline. "I think we're going to be in trouble..."
"What do you mean?" Bonnie frowns. "Why?"
"Because I'm pretty sure that I just got spit roasted by Mason Lockwood." Damon says.
"What?!" My large dark brown eyes widen in disbelief. "But he's supposed to be dead and gone!"
"Well, apparently, somebody did something when they sent Vicki Donovan away." Damon narrows his eyes at Bonnie. "And now ghost are coming to haunt us all."
"This isn't her fault." I shake my head, defending Bonnie.
"Well, Mason Lockwood just chained me to a chair and shot a hot poker in my chest." Damon tells us. "Let's just say I'm having deja vu."
"I thought you said that ghosts couldn't physically interact with people." Caroline frowns.
"They can't!" Bonnie shakes her head.
"Yeah, well, I don't have time for vengeful Lockwood." Damon says before suddenly whooshing over to me and putting me into the passenger seat as he sits back into the driver's seat. "Whatever you screwed up, fix it. I've got a girlfriend to protect." His words make me smile as I bite down on my full lips. And with that, he drives us away.
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"No, I've had enough vampires today." Alaric groans as Damon and I approach him.
"Oh, come on." Damon tries to soften him. "Have a drink with us, we got troubles."
"No, you got troubles." Alaric says in annoyance. "See, we're not a team, you killed me. We're not friends, I don't like you anymore."
"What?!" My large dark brown eyes widen at Damon. "You killed him?!" But Damon just shrugs nonchalantly.
"But remember back when you liked me?" Damon says optimistically. "We conspired to kill uncle werewolf Mason Lockwood?"
"Yeah." Ric nods. "And..."
"I think he's still a little pissed..." Damon trails off.
"In other words, what Damon's trying to say is that Mason Lockwood's ghost just came back and shot a hot pocker into Damon's chest." I explain to Alaric very clearly. He just gapes at me and Damon, speechless...
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Damon, Alaric, and I are sitting at Mystic Grill's bar when Mason Lockwood suddenly appears out of the blue and grabs the whiskey in Damon's hand. "Mason..." Ric says in shock.
"God, I miss whiskey." Mason says as he drinks the whiskey in one gulp before smashing the glass on Damon's forehead, making him yell out in pain.
"Mason, stop it!" I protest as I quickly stand up beside Damon. I grab a napkin and wipe the blood off of his forehead.
"I see you finally got the girl, Damon." Mason smirks as I glare at him...
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"How do we do that?" I'm on the phone with Caroline outside of the Mystic Grill. Damon and Alaric are still inside the bar with Mason.
"Apparently, the old witch can draw power from this side because of her talisman." Caroline says.
"What talisman?" My oval-shaped face forms into a frown. "Elena's necklace?"
"It's some juju power source." Caroline sighs. "And, I know you're not gonna like this, but Bonnie needs to destroy it."
"Look, Elena doesn't have her necklace." I tell her. "Damon has it somewhere. I'll text you when I find out where it is."
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"I'm never going to hear the end of that damn necklace." Damon says in irritation.
"Look, Bonnie needs it to make the ghosts go away." I tell him. "You do want Mason to leave you alone, don't you?"
As if on cue, Mason speaks up. "One of you paid for this, right?" He raises up a drink and smiles. "Cheers."
"Let's get to it." Damon says cooly. "I killed you, you want revenge, get a life."
"Actually, I want an apology." Mason says. To my surprise, Alaric laughs coldly.
"Good luck with that." Ric says.
"Mason, look, I can't say that I'm not sorry about what we did to you." I sigh as I push my waist-length, wavy dark brown curls back with a hand. "But I also don't regret it, because I was trying to protect the people that I really care about. We all were. If you were in our shoes, you would've done the same thing."
Mason looks at me silently for a few seconds with a raised eyebrow before shrugging. "Fair enough."
"Don't you have family to haunt?" Damon says to Mason. "You know your nephew was turned into a hybrid minion."
"That's why I'm here." Mason says. "To help Tyler."
"Whoa." Damon scoffs. "Sorry to break it to you, buddy, but Tyler can't be helped. At least not while Klaus's alive, which is like always..."
"Not necessarily." Mason says. "Not if you find a weapon that could kill him."
"There is no weapon that can..." Damon starts before a look of realization appears on his face. "What do you know?"
"I know that Klaus's in love with your girlfriend." Mason leans toward Damon with a smirk on his face. "I know that you want Klaus dead just as much as I do. We're gonna find a way to kill Klaus."
"Damon don't." I mutter. "It's too dangerous."
"You can trust me, Nadia." Mason smiles at me. "I promise I won't let your boyfriend die." He says before looking back at Damon. "Meet me at the old Lockwood's cellar, bring a shovel." And with that, he disappears.
"Don't go, Damon." I say worriedly. "It's too risky."
Damon stands up next to me and smiles softly as he raises a hand to caress my cheek. "I'll be fine, I promise. You go help Elena and the rest of the gang solve this ghost problem, and I'll go see if I can find a magic solution to the Klaus issue."
"I don't want you to get hurt, Damon." I bite down on my full lips anxiously. "Klaus's too strong. If he finds out, he'll kill you."
"Not if I kill him first." Damon says and before I can respond. He gives me a passionate kiss. I quickly kiss him back as I close my eyes. But just as the kiss deepens, he stops and I hear him whoosh away, making me open my eyes worriedly. Oh, Damon...
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"So, necklace isn't where Damon said it would be, and now, we can't reach Damon." Caroline's on the phone with Elena as I'm with her and Bonnie.
"Listen, I need you to get Bonnie to hold off in sending the ghosts back." I hear Elena's voice through Caroline's phone, making me frown.
"What?!" Caroline hisses in shock. "But you said you were in full support of getting rid of them."
"I was." Elena says. "I am... Look, Lexi's here and she's helping with Stefan."
"Okay, well let's just plan first and then we'll choose between boyfriend ghost dramas." Caroline says before hanging up.
"What are you talking about?" Bonnie asks in confusion.
"Um... Lexi's back so Elena wants us to hold off on destroying the necklace." Caroline says awkwardly.
"You said boyfriend dramas, plural." Bonnie frowns as she walks over to Caroline.
"Caroline, is something wrong?" I ask in concern.
Caroline looks at Bonnie sadly. "Elena caught Jeremy kissing Anna." Oh, Jeremy, how could you?
I look over to Bonnie too. "I'm so sorry, Bonnie." I say softly as she's growing tearful.
"He kissed her?" Bonnie cries quietly.
"Bonnie, come here." I pull her into a gentle hug. "We'll fix this, Bonnie. Everything will be okay, I promise." I say before Caroline joins in and hugs both me and Bonnie...
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Caroline, Bonnie, and I are flipping through the entire Salvatore boarding house, looking for Elena's necklace. "Ugh!" Caroline groans in frustration after she finished checking the soap container. "I give up! It's not anywhere in this room!"
Just then, Bonnie's phone vibrates. Bonnie walks over to check it. She looks at me helplessly. I sigh before walking over to pick up the phone. It's Jeremy who's calling. "You and I are going to have a good, long talk, Jeremy." I say into the phone.
"Nadia?" Jeremy says. "Did you find that necklace?"
"Unfortunately not." I sigh before frowning. "Is something wrong?"
"The ghosts of the tomb vampires killed by a spell, you might want to bring that necklace before they start going alphabetically for the founding families." Jeremy says worriedly.
"It's not where Damon told me it would be." I say in frustration before I suddenly realize something. "Not unless someone stole it."
"Who?" Jeremy asks.
"Well, why don't you think of someone who REALLY wants to stay on the living side?" I hint at him in irritation.
There's a second of silence before Jeremy replies. "She said she didn't take it."
"Really Jeremy?" I scoff angrily. "Well then, why don't you tell me who really took it."
"Look, if Anna says that she didn't take it, then she didn't take it." Jeremy says stubbornly.
"Fine." I say coldly. "Then you're going to find the necklace for us, and you're going to give it to Bonnie, you got it?"
"Yeah, I got it." Jeremy sighs before hanging up. I hang up too before heaving another sigh.
"Well, what do we do now?" Caroline speaks up as she looks between Bonnie and I.
"We are going to fix this entire ghost mess before there's a massacre." I say in determination. "Come on, let's go outside and see what's really going on..."
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"It looks like Anna did take it." I say after checking the newest message on my cell phone. "But Jeremy's got the necklace now, he wants to meet us at the witch house."
"What's going on up there?" Bonnie frowns as she see Carol Lockwood's badly damaged car.
"That's Mrs. Lockwood's car." Caroline mutters anxiously.
Bonnie steps on the brakes when one of the tomb vampires appear. He glares at us before walking away. He and his friends walk towards an unconscious Carol Lockwood.
"We've to save Mrs. Lockwood." I say nervously.
"I'm going to get out of the car." Caroline says bravely.
"No, Caroline." I correct her. "You and I are both going to get out of the car."
"What?!" Bonnie hisses as her eyes widen. "Are you two crazy?!"
"Bonnie, once Caroline and I are out, you drive to the witch house to meet Jeremy so you can send the ghosts back." I say as if she hasn't interrupted me. "Caroline and I will distract them."
"Come on, Care." I say as I open my car door to step outside. Caroline follows my lead...
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Caroline and I are struggling to fight off ghost vampires. We're relieved when they finally disappear. "Look like Bonnie's successful." I pant as the cool night air breezes on my pale skin.
"Thank goodness." Caroline says, sounding just as tired as I am. "I'm going to go home, and make myself a hot bubble bath."
"Yeah, me too." I laugh as we walk together...
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My large dark brown eyes widen in surprise when I see a flower bouquet on my bed. I pick it up to see there's a small white card inside. I take out the card and read it.
I apologize for my temperamental behavior. I've missed you, Nadia. Save me a date.
Sincerely, Klaus.
I swallow as I can feel my stomach do a nervous somersault. I tuck a few strands of my waist-length, wavy-curly dark brown hair behind my ear as I plop all a hundred lbs of me onto my bed. I resist the urge to groan as I leave the bouquet of flowers on the floor. What am I going to do...
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Author's note: Alright guys, another chapter. Klaus will be in the next chapter so please review!