AN: Thanks a lot readers for your inspiring reviews. Here is another chapter for you. Sorry for all the grammatical and spelling mistakes. I hope you enjoy reading it. This chapter is actually an answer to your questions- why Jacq wants to leave TVD world this time? And again the plot is changing a lot. Here continues the story...
Chapter 21: It's Time For The Originals
It's been a week since Bonnie destroyed Amelia's necklace come talisman in the ritual. Nowadays everyone's been avoiding Amelia like plague. Before the necklace was destroyed, everyone used to follow Amelia around but now, she wonders around the town all alone. Loneliness is her only companion. No one joins her when she's sitting all alone at a table at the Grill. No one from the group is on talking terms with Amelia. They are not hostile towards her or anything but they simply ignore Amelia which seemed to be more cruel to her. Amelia resembles a ghost now, at least to me. There's nothing but helplessness in her demeanor. Arrogance, rudeness, confidence, everything seemed to have just vaporized from her personality. Without any doubt Amelia was suffering horribly. Some say that Amelia deserved what she got; others like Elena, Stefan, and Jenna think that she deserves a second chance. Unfortunately they are outnumbered. So all they do is throw pitiful looks at Amelia's way.
Whereas everyone was ignoring Amelia, I was ignoring everyone at any cost. I didn't interact with Damon for two days after that hot make out session with him in his bedroom. He tried many times to speak with me but I didn't give him a single chance. Unfortunately it was impossible for me to avoid Damon for long, a) because he was stalking me everything and b) I was still under his stupid compulsion. Even though I had to start talking to Damon after two days but I wouldn't exactly call it having friendly conversations with him. It was downright arguing, bickering and tormenting each other with words. Damon was hell bent on bringing me back in his life and be lovers again but I was hell bent on denying my feelings for him and not let him enter my life again. Everyday, Damon was growing more frustrated with me. I'm kind of expecting an outburst any day.
Others were not resting either. They are trying to get close to me as well in their own ways. They're trying hard to persuade me to forgive them for screwing up my plan of escaping this world. Everyone's trying to convince me to stay and forget about leaving them. They say that they love me. They don't want me to go away again. I believe them. But their love is the problem in this situation. And my care for them is the reason I must leave. If I hadn't loved them, I'd have been selfish enough to let them protect me all they want and get killed in the process. They maybe willing to die for me but I wasn't ready to let them lose their lives for me. I did try to make them understand at first that being around me is not safe for them. I also tried to explain why they should stay away from me. Why they shouldn't care about me anymore. But their desire to be my protectors didn't let them understand a word I said. So having no other choice, I started to avoid everyone. I avoided talking to them and even ignored looking at their way if not absolutely needed. For past few days, I just went to school and afterwards I worked at the Grill and then I came back home from work. And I'd very much like to keep that routine until I achieve my goal.
I entered the Holmes' residence AKA my house at the end of a not so interesting yet very tiring day. I dropped my schoolbag on the couch table and then dropped myself on the couch. I inhaled a deep breath and closed my eyes for a moment in order to relax my mind. Even though my eyes were closed and I could see nothing but still I sensed that someone was inside the house. I realized that I'm definitely not alone.
"I know you are here." I said without opening my eyes. And when I did open my eyes, I saw Amelia. She was standing in front of me, just a few feet away from the couch.
"What are you doing here now? Weren't we suppose to meet tomorrow morning before school?" I asked her while making myself more comfortable in the couch. Amelia walked over to the couch and took a seat across from me.
"I had a different dream about the werewolf today when I fell asleep for a while in the afternoon. I thought you might want to know about it." Amelia said and I sat up straight hearing that.
"What did you see?" I asked sounding very curious. Amelia inhaled a deep breath first and then began talking.
"The wolf didn't ask me to help him this time. He asked me to kill him today. He said that's the only way I could set him free." I was confused hearing that. Amelia's dreams about a certain werewolf were quite disturbing. It wasn't an ordinary dream for sure. It was something much more. But what? Also you must be wondering why Amelia is talking to me about her dreams. The other day after I ran out of the boarding house, I went straight to Amelia's house. No one was home at that time. Amelia was supposed to be at school but she wasn't. She had herself locked up in her own room.
Flashback
I was standing in front of the main entrance door of the Wilson's residence. I knocked on the door quite a few times but no one opened it. I knew someone was in the house since the door was locked from the inside. I figured that it must be Amelia who was home alone because her parents would've opened the door by now. Inconveniently, Amelia wasn't answering to my knocks. Having no other choice, I started looking for another way to get inside the house. I found an open window at the back of the house but it was on the first floor. Thankfully there was a tree right beside the window so I was able to climb it and reach the window. Once I got high enough, I saw Amelia inside the room. She was lying on the floor and both her wrists were bleeding horribly. Just as I feared Amelia was trying to commit suicide. I quickly got inside through the window. She was barely conscious. I rushed to her side and checked her pulse on her neck. It was weak therefore the bleeding needed to be stopped immediately. I searched for a first aid box and quickly found one with ease since the house belonged to a doctor. Thankfully I knew how to do stitches a little bit though I wasn't an expert. I stopped the bleeding as fast as possible. Amelia was my last hope. But even if she wasn't important to me, I wouldn't have let her die like this.
Afterwards, I put Amelia on her bed facing some difficulties but I managed anyway and then, I cleaned up the blood off the floor while Amelia slept peacefully. However, her sleep didn't remain peaceful for long. Suddenly, she started twisting and turning in her sleep and her body was getting all sweaty as well. Amelia was having a nightmare. I remembered Tyler telling me once something about Amelia's nightmares about a werewolf. She must be having that nightmare again, I assumed. Before I could wake her up, Amelia jolted up from her sleep and let out an air piercing scream. She was breathing heavily and seemed quite frightened at the moment. I let her calm down on her own and didn't announce my presence in the room right away. I watched as Amelia took in a few deep breaths and finally calmed down enough. The first thing she noticed after calming down was the bandages on her wrists. It was my cue to let Amelia know that I was standing in her room.
"You should wear wrist bands for a few days, I'm sure you don't want your parents to know about your attempt of committing suicide." As expected, Amelia jumped up a little, feeling startled as I spoke up. It took her some time to really believe that I was indeed there. And when Amelia finally believed that, once again as expected, she got mad seeing me standing before her.
"How did you get in here? And how dare you come here?" Amelia glared at me angrily, almost murderously as she asked me those questions.
"What no 'thank you for saving my life' but you are welcome anyway." I said sarcastically and it angered her more.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Amelia snapped at me with enraged voice. "Haven't you done enough? You've destroyed everything for me. Everyone hates me now because of you. Damon hates me now because of you. He wouldn't even look at me. You never said anything about my necklace's powers and tricked me into taking it off. You ruined my life. Are you happy now? You came here to see me suffer, didn't you? You came here to enjoy my misery." Amelia took in a deep breath when she couldn't speak anymore. But obviously she wasn't done.
"Get out of here before I lose my control. Just get out!" Amelia yelled at me while looking furious but despite all that anger, tears also started to leak out of her eyes. Besides, her threat meant nothing to me. Amelia wouldn't dare to hurt me now because she knew it very well that if she hurts me this time no one would spare her.
"Are you done with your anger tantrum? We've some serious things to talk about." I said in a very calm tone of voice which was of course very contradictory to Amelia's tone of voice. The girl frown at me with both anger and confusion.
"The nerve of you, you got me into this messed up situation in the first place and now you want to talk to me. But I've no wish to tolerate your presence anywhere near me. So get the hell out of my house and leave me alone." Amelia yelled at me but I shamelessly ignored her pathetic insults. Moreover I sat down on the chair of her study desk and made myself comfortable.
"You know if you were less rude and arrogant with people around you, no one would be so mad about this whole thing. So, this might sound very bitter and hard to digest but the truth is you're in this fucked up situation for your own faults." My voice was calm and demeanor chillaxed but I was certain that Amelia's blood was boiling in her veins due to too much anger and hatred. By the look on Amelia's face, I realized that she was about to do some voodoo magic on me.
"Don't even think about it Amelia. You know what's gonna happen if you hurt me in anyway. Besides, I come in peace and I saved your life so there's no reason for you to be hostile towards me." Amelia gritted her teeth in rage and threw a nasty glare at my way. I couldn't see any sign of her calming down anytime soon.
"I didn't ask you to save me." Amelia snapped at me bitterly.
"Of course you didn't, you weren't exactly in talking condition at that time." I said full blown smirking at her. Finally Amelia sighed out in frustration and seemed too exhausted to keep arguing with me and threatening me.
"Why are you doing this to me?" She asked with desperation and helplessness in her voice.
"I have an offer for you Amelia and I can't let you die until I hear your decision about it." This time she frowned at me with confusion only.
"What kind of offer?" She asked curiously, though rage didn't leave her voice completely.
"Do you want everyone to be friends with you again minus the magical force working behind it? Do you want everyone to care about you and love you naturally this time?" Amelia nodded her head almost instantly.
"Yes, of course I do. But what can you do about it?" She asked sounding quite interested now. I inhaled a deep breath before beginning my explanation.
"For past few months you were trying to take my place in everyone's life. And it worked too with the help of your magical pendant. But we both know that the spells are completely destroyed now and everyone kind of hates you for controlling them even though you didn't know about it yourself…the situation is much more complicated now and you have no persuading magic working for you this time. So this time I myself gonna help you take my place in their lives." Amelia gaped at me for sometime before speaking up again.
"Let me get this straight, I turned your friends against you, made your boyfriend fall in love with me, and also made him loath you but still you want to help me take your place so that everything will be back to normal for me again. Do I look such an idiot to you who wouldn't see that you are just bluffing about this? This is ridiculous." Amelia muttered some curses under her breath before looking back at me.
"You should hate me like the rest and I'm sure you do. I'm also sure that in the form of helping me, you are actually just planning to take revenge on me, aren't you?" I rolled my eyes at Amelia as she assumed up such things. Though I'm sure if she was in my place, Amelia would really be planning on taking revenge on me. But there are a lot of differences between us.
"Don't you think I would've let you bleed to death if I hated you so much?" I pointed out to her a simple fact that made her think for a moment but then she spoke up again to say another stupid thing.
"So, you want me to suffer before I die, don't you?" I sighed out heavily and shook my head to myself.
"Look I have more important things to do than see you suffer and I'm not bluffing about my offer. I am really gonna help you take my place." I said sounding dead serious this time but Amelia only scoffed at me.
"Oh I forgot; you are the Saint Jacqueline, always up to greatness. Thanks for the offer but I don't want your help" said Amelia bitterly and I sighed out a little, slowly losing my own patience.
"Listen to me carefully, by helping you out I won't be doing any charity, okay. I want a return favor from you, if you agree to take my help that is." Amelia frowned at me with confusion.
"What kind of favor?" She asked curiously.
"Sure the talisman is destroyed but you Amelia are a descendant of Cassandra. You must have a connection with her that you don't know about yet. Together we'll discover that connection and then you will ask Cassandra to send me back to my world again. If you do this for me, I promise no one will hate you anymore and everyone will accept you as their friend once again. And this time it will last for forever." Amelia and I stared at each other. I looked into her eyes with assurance that she can trust me and hoping desperately that she would believe me without much difficulty. Amelia spoke up after a while.
"You are really serious about this, aren't you?" Amelia asked and I nodded my head. She sighed out heavily.
"I don't understand it, why would you want to go back now? Everyone knows who you are and they want you to stay here with them. Why don't you want to have a life here?" Amelia asked seriously and with strong curiosity. I sighed out heavily before giving her a reply that actually wasn't a proper answer.
"I have my own reasons." I said to her shortly but she wasn't satisfied with that.
"Well, if you want me to agree with this deal, then you have to spill out your reasons otherwise you can forget about my help." I glared at Amelia and she glared back at me. But she had upper hand in the situation. Sighing to myself I decided to tell her.
"Fine, I am telling you. When Cassandra brought me into this world, I knew everything about it. I knew what's going to happen and when exactly. I knew from beforehand when someone's gonna get attacked or get into life threatening situation. I knew when one is going to face death in this world. And I could change it, prevent it from happening. But Cassandra had set me up, she sent me dreams that if I don't leave this world, after my work here is done then everyone will start dying again somehow. So after putting Klaus out of everyone's life, I made Bonnie kill me. Things were going fine but then you resurrected me using Damon's blood bond. And so, my soul came back in this world again. But now Cassandra wants me to die again and she won't rest until she gets what she wants." I paused to take a deep breath.
"But you don't want to die again, do you? And staying in this world is now quite dangerous for you. So the only way for you to live is to get back to where you came from. But aren't you being a coward by surrendering so easily? I heard you were quite the brave hero and courageous the last time you were here. So why aren't you challenging Cassandra and stay here no matter what? Besides, everyone here would do anything to protect you anyway." Amelia stated a bit bitterly but this time she actually tried to hide her distaste about the concept of everyone protecting me.
"Cassandra is a very powerful witch Amelia. How many attempts do you think Cassandra would need to get me killed? How long do you think everyone here could protect me before they start dying one by one? Do you want Damon to die trying to protect me? Do you want others to get killed in order to keep me alive?" A flash of horror washed over Amelia's face. Amelia loved Damon and she would never want him to die and absolutely not for some other girl.
"Before my death in this world; I knew everything Amelia, I knew about every single moment that came for us. But now, I know nothing. I'm absolutely clueless like you are right now. Death would be standing right in front of someone we both love and care about but I wouldn't know anything about it. I can't protect anyone this time moreover, I am a danger to everyone here. So, if you really love Damon and everyone else like you claim to then help me get back to my own world." Amelia nodded her head agreeing to help me instantly this time.
"Alright, I'll help you but I have a condition." She said sternly.
"What is it?" I asked curiously, I would have agreed to anything at that point.
"You don't have to get me my friends back, I will get them back myself eventually…. But I want you to stay away from Damon, as far as possible. I don't want to see you with him or have anything to do with him." I nodded my head without a second thought though I felt a stringing pain inside my chest as I agreed with Amelia.
"Deal but I should inform you this; Damon had compelled me to stay around him." Amelia's eyes widen as she heard me say that.
"What?" She exclaimed in disbelieve.
"Yeah, he did this to make me suffer. He wanted to keep me around so that I would've to watch him with you all the time and go through hell. If Damon hadn't compelled me I would have left town already and perhaps I wouldn't be bothering about going back to my world so much either. Well what's done is done, there is nothing to do about it now. But don't worry; there won't be anything happening between us. I promise." I said confidently however, Amelia still narrowed her eyes at me.
"Well you better keep your promise because the minute I find out that you are being romantic with Damon behind my back, I'll call off our deal and you'll be stuck here forever. And then if anyone dies trying to protect you; it will be your fault Jacqueline. So be very careful." I just nodded my head to her.
"One more thing-" I said. "No one must know about our little deal. I think you're smart enough to realize what's going to happen if anyone finds out about this." Amelia nodded her head in understanding.
"Don't worry, not a single soul would know about this." I pulled out Amelia's necklace from my pocket and handed it to her. A small smile appeared on her lips.
"Thanks." She said quickly and I felt like she meant it even though she didn't really want to say it out loud.
"You are welcome, don't wear this though. People will get suspicious." I warned her. Amelia looked at me, her eyes holding a bit intensity this time.
"I guess we are a secret team now" said Amelia and I breathed out a laugh hearing that.
"Yeah, I guess we are."
End of Flashback
"Your werewolf is really giving me a hard time Amelia." I sighed out heavily as I said that. Amelia leaned back in the couch and exhaled a deep breath.
"How do you think I feel then?" She asked but honestly I didn't wanna know.
"We really need to get his address. Where the hell is this werewolf? Have you ever tried to confront him? You have to do everything possible. Next time throw an anger tantrum in your dream. It might work." I said teasing Amelia and earned a glare from her right away.
"Ha ha very funny, I forgot how to laugh." She said rolling her eyes to herself.
"Okay jokes apart, but we really need to solve this mystery. I've a feeling if we solve this werewolf mystery, you would be able to contract Cassandra directly." I said that more to myself than to Amelia. Since we made that little deal, I have been helping Amelia practice some spells that should allow a witch to contact or talk to other witches on the other side. Those spell are quite dark in nature but Amelia seems to enjoy practicing them. Well good for me. Things would've been a little difficult if Amelia left wrong about it.
"Okay genius, so tell me how can we solve this werewolf mystery because I'd really like to get rid of these nightmares, like forever." As Amelia spoke hatefully about her nightmares which was kind of usual, I started to think very seriously and deeply. There must be a way, there has to be. If there's a problem there must be a solution.
"I think we really should start looking for your real parents. They might know something." I said to Amelia and I was quite serious about it.
"But where are we gonna look for them? And frankly I don't even know if they are still alive or not?" said Amelia frustration getting on her nerve again.
"Even if they aren't alive but there has to be something, like some rumors or stories, histories of them. We just need to look in the right place." I said confidently but Amelia rolled her eyes at me since she thought I was being crazy.
"And where is this right place exactly? You speak as if you're just gonna go out there and magically find someone who would tell us everything about my family, what are you a spy or something?" Amelia spoke sarcastically but I smirked at her.
"Better than a spy actually. You would be surprised to see my skills. Back in my world, if I wanted to find someone, that person couldn't escape from me no matter where he or she went to hide. That's why I was very special in the underworld gang I worked for." The statement suddenly reminded me of my past life and I sighed out heavily. Amelia noticed that and she hesitantly asked me-
"I don't understand it; you were a remorseless criminal once, why did you commit suicide? And how come you are such a philanthropist now?" Suddenly silence consumed us and I didn't want the soundless minutes to end anytime soon. But I had to break the silence at some point.
"Four months before I killed myself, I was in Cape town. There I met a girl named Grace, twenty two years old. We met at the beach. She was sitting alone, and seemed very upset. Later I found out that she caught her fiance cheating on her and she just broke up with that guy. I befriended her and sold her drugs for a few days to earn some money. Heartbroken people were always the easiest targets. Three months later that meeting I crossed path with her again, but this time in San Francisco where she actually lived. Grace was extremely addicted by that time. She couldn't go on without taking drugs even for an hour. She liked to stay high all the time in order to escape her pain I guess.
One day news came to me that Grace was in the hospital and she would die any moment because of the overdose of strong drugs. Usually when these kind of accidents happened before, I used to flee away from the town. But that time, I stayed and I even went to the hospital. I don't know why I did that but I just did." I stood up from the couch and walked up to the window. I felt Amelia's gaze glued to me and I let out a heavy sigh as I lost myself in the past.
"When I went to the hospital, I found that Grace was the only earning member of her family. She had a mother who had paralysis and a little sister barely seven years old. When Grace became a highly addicted druggie she lost her jobs. She stopped her mother's treatment because she was spending all her savings to buy more drugs. Her little sister had to stop going to school in order to take care of both Grace and their mother. The entire family was starving for weeks. For the lack of treatment and medicines, Grace's mother died at some point. It set her off even more and she consumed all the drugs she had with her at once and landed herself in the hospital. There was no chance for her survival.
When Grace saw me at the hospital, she was unable to talk but her eyes were so accusing. The way she stared at me, it crushed me from inside out. I realized I was responsible for her mother's death as well, in a way and I was the reason Grace was dying so young. That time I also started thinking, how many more lives I've taken like that. It felt- terrifying. I remember Grace's little sister. She was lying with her in the small hospital bed, hugging her tightly. That little girl wasn't ready to let her sister go. Because even the seven year old kid understood that the moment her sister would take her last breath and leave her forever, she would become all alone in this world. She'll become an orphan, just like I was. And she was not ready for that.
That time when I looked into Grace's eyes, I felt like she was asking me 'why did you do this to me? What I had ever done to you?'. She was asking me 'what is going to happen to my sister now? She will be all alone.' I couldn't stay there anymore so I walked out of the hospital. Grace died a few hours after I left. There was no one to give her a proper funeral, so I arranged one for her through some people I knew. When I went there to attend the funeral, everyone was talking about me, Grace's killer. They were cursing me, wanted to see me punished and if they had known that I was the person who was responsible for Grace's horrible end then they would've killed me right there.
However, Grace's little sister wasn't saying anything. She wasn't cursing me or holding a grudge against me but her helpless face started to haunt me terribly. She lost everything, home, mother, sister…..everything because of me. And I couldn't even do anything for her. I changed town, tried to forget about the two sisters and tried to keep working like nothing happened. But all I could think about was how hatefully Grace looked at me and how helpless that kid looked at the funeral. I couldn't work, I couldn't eat or sleep. I was simply losing my mind. One day I couldn't take the mental torture anymore and I killed myself." I stopped talking in order to take deep breaths because I was feeling suffocated suddenly. There was a pressure in my chest that I really wanted to go away.
"And then you came into this world." Amelia concluded the story and I nodded my head.
"Is this why you're hell bent on not letting anyone protect you? And all you care about is keeping everyone safe and alive? And you're willing to do anything for it." I nodded my head again.
"I won't be able to handle it if anyone dies again because of me, no matter what the reason is. Even after all these months, I still can't forget about Grace and her sister. I still have nightmares about them sometimes. If I was a vampire I would've turned off my emotions but unfortunately I'm simply a human so there's nothing I can do to help myself. Sometimes, I wish I could go back in time in my world and change everything I did." I said breathing out a sad laugh.
"But that's just impossible. However, if you manage to send me back I'll find Grace's sister this time and I'll take care of her. I know there's nothing I could do to make up for the lives I've destroyed but still for the sake of my sanity, I'll take her responsibility and try to give her a better life." Amelia stared at me intensely and silence fell over us; a very uncomfortable one.
"You are a changed person Jacq. You're a good person now. Think about all those people you've saved in this world. I know you don't think so but you too deserve to be happy in life." I was really surprised to hear Amelia say this. I guess I wasn't the only one changed. Amelia was also changing and for the better.
"If you really think that I deserve to be happy then try your best Amelia and send me back to where I belong. I really need to redeem myself in that world." Desperation dripped my voice as I spoke. Amelia nodded her head.
"I promise you, I will try my best."
Amelia spent the night at the Holmes residence. Together we practiced spells. Well Amelia practiced spells and I helped her with that. Also we searched for clues about Amelia's real parents. Amelia even tried locating spells to track her parents but that didn't work so well. But I was far from giving up hope. After all it was only the beginning of the search mission. The following morning I went to school and Amelia went to her home first. She'll go to school from there. I had thought that like previous days, the first day of another new week would go indifferently however it didn't. Something happened. Something big. Something I did not expect at all.
So, after school, I went to work like always. I was still working at the Grill. While I was working there almost everyone was there. Even Amelia, who was sitting in a corner and sulking as usual. She was watching the people she was once friends with but now there were treating her like a stranger. Amelia and I don't talk in front of other for obvious reasons. Actually we pretend to hate each other and our acting we pretty convincing too. No one could guess that secretly we were socializing with each other and are quite friendly actually. And I hope that that remains a secret forever. Or at least as long as I don't get what I want.
Speaking of the people we were once friends with, the girls and their lovers were gathering in the middle of the room, however they weren't really having fun. Their eyes were following me as I took orders from other tables. They were talking among themselves in low tone of voice. Probably, well possibly about me. Damon and Alaric were at the Grill as well. And obviously drinking their ass off at their favorite bar. Actually Alaric was kind of trying to stop Damon from drinking too much. Though it'd probably take a lot more for Damon to get drunk tonight. Being a vampire and all, he has high tolerance for alcohol. I shook my head to myself as Damon finished one large beer glass in one gulp. At that time, the current bar tender looked at me and said-
"Jacq, my shift is over, it's your turn now." Which meant, now I've to work in the bar. Just wonderful. Even though I was dreading it inwardly, I simply nodded to her and walked over to the bar. After serving one more customer, the girl walked out and I walked behind the counter. Both Damon and Ric followed me with their eyes as I started to take orders and serve drinks. After ten minutes of me ignoring them, Damon couldn't stay quiet anymore.
"You know you can't ignore me forever Jacq" said Damon when I came near his spot. Ric just looked between the two of us mutely. What else could he do anyway?
"I'm working right now Damon." Saying that I walked away from his spot and started serving the furthest customer from him.
"I want bourbon on the rocks." Damon ordered for himself. It kind of became a regular thing. Damon will keep ordering drinks just to keep me standing there in front of him even though I won't talk to him. I put his drink in front of him and tried to walk away but he suddenly grabbed my wrist, preventing me from going anywhere.
"What is going on here?" A stranger guy, who was sitting two stools away, got ready to confront Damon thinking that he was misbehaving with me. I on the other hand was struggling to free my hand but it was just impossible. Damon looked at the stranger guy and compelled him to mind his own business. After taking care of that, Damon looked back at me.
"I heard from Katherine, that you're ignoring everyone including her because you think that being around you is dangerous for us." I sighed out in frustration before saying-
"Yes, you heard right, now let go of me." I tried to pull my hand out of his grip again but he didn't let go.
"This pathetic excuse can't be the real reason for you to avoid us. I think you're actually up to something, aren't you? And you're trying to keep it a secret from us. That's why you're avoiding everyone including me, right?" I rolled my eyes to myself.
"Think whatever you want to think Damon but right now you need to let go of me." I said firmly but Damon didn't bulge and kept staring at me with anger in his eyes.
"Ric, please tell him to leave me alone." I requested Ric as talking to Damon seemed pointless.
"Ric, stay out of it." Damon said instantly without taking his eyes off of me.
"Damon, everyone is staring at you two." Ric informed Damon in hushed tone of voice but he didn't tell Damon to leave me the hell alone like I wanted him to.
"I'm pretty sure, I don't care about that" said Damon cockily. I saw from the corner of my eyes that others were looking over at us including Amelia. Her expression was unreadable as she watched Damon holding my hand forcefully. I got more anxious to get away from Damon.
"Damon, please don't create a scene here and let me go right now." I said strongly in a commanding tone of voice but did that work on him? Obviously not. Then suddenly a very familiar voice, yet a voice I haven't heard before during my time in the world of vampire diaries spoke up from beside Damon and I swear, it stopped my breathing for a while.
"Two tequilas please." And the order came from none other than Kol Mikaelson. He got a thick English accent and seemed to be in a happy mood. Kol noticed Damon holding my wrist.
"Would you mind letting go of the lady so that she could get me my drinks?" Kol asked making Damon stop staring at me for a moment. He looked at Kol instead. I bet Damon was ready to compel Kol to fuck off like he did with the other guy but when Damon looked at Kol, the original compelled Damon instead.
"I said leave the girl."
Damon wasn't on vervain so he let go of my hand right away. Damon did what Kol asked him to do without understanding that he just got compelled by an original vampire. The action confused Ric as well and when he glanced at me, he got more baffled because I was kind of gaping at Kol, openly so. On the other hand, Kol looked back at me after dealing with Damon and obviously saw me gaping at him. I wasn't even blinking. I was kind of stuck in the moment due to shock. Kol smirked to himself before saying-
"Darling, I know I am very handsome and it's very hard to look away from me but would you please get me my drinks first and ogle at me later." Kol's remark snapped me out of my shocked state and I quickly apologized to him while blushing terribly due to embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, I'll get your drinks right away." I quickly said stuttering a little bit in the process. I noticed from the corner of my eyes that Damon was frowning at me. He looked quite disturbed. I can only imagine why. After all I was boldly gawking at Kol just a moment ago. And of course he was burning with jealousy as well. Ric was frowning at me too but only with confusion. I quickly came back with Kol's drinks even though I didn't really want to. However I had to because Damon suddenly thought it'd be nice to start talking with Kol moreover in a bitter and sarcastic way. Which was definitely not a good thing. Kol wouldn't tolerate Damon's rude attitude for long. They might start fighting right here without caring about exposing themselves. I knew very well that both Damon and Kol are reckless vampires and had a care a damn attitude in them.
"I haven't seen you around here before; you must be new in town. Why are you here?" Damon wasn't only rudely asking questions, he was downright interrogating Kol. My heartbeat was increasing with every passing second. I should get Damon away from Kol right away before things get out of control. And things could very easily get out of control since it involved Kol and Damon. I knew Kol well enough and knew what he is capable of doing. And I really didn't wish to witness his craziness. Speaking of Kol, he was smirking like a smart ass at the moment. He glanced at me once before answering Damon's question.
"Just visiting our hometown, we used to live here a long time ago" replied Kol, his voice was friendly but anyone could tell that it was completely artificial. Then Kol openly started checking me out to aggravate Damon more. And boy it worked so effectively because Damon was on the verge of attacking Kol. Obviously he wouldn't care that it was a public place and his vampire face shouldn't come out. I quickly stepped in before Damon could make any stupid mistake and get himself killed.
"Are you here alone? I mean did you come here all by yourself?" I asked with a pleasant and shy smile that bothered Damon to no limit. He almost growled out. But I didn't pay any attention to that, well pretended anyway. Kol smirked at me, quite satisfied to see my interest in him. I thought he liked girls with a challenge, not the easy ones. My approach towards him should've made Kol uninterested right away. But I guess that rule wasn't absolute in every case because Kol seemed quite attracted to me. His eyes said it out loud as he memorized every inch of my face. His ancient eyes raked over my body as well and he seemed impressed with what he was seeing. I on the other hand felt conflicted about my feelings. should I be happy that Kol was attracted to me and encourage his interest more, meanwhile tactfully handle the heated situation? Or should I dislike Kol's attention and just get Damon out of here and dismiss Kol in the process? Well I went with the first choice. I shouldn't walk out the Grill with Damon. It'd get his hopes up.
"No, I'm here with my sister actually. She's arranging a place for us to stay in." Holy shit Rebekah is here as well. I thought to myself as Kol informed me of his sister. What the hell are they doing here? It was obvious that Elijah has pulled the daggers out of the rest of the family already and let them out in the world. But what Kol and Rebekah are doing here in Mystic Falls? And where the hell is Elijah? Does he even know where his siblings are right now? I was certain that Kol and Rebekah didn't come in this town only for visiting. They are here clearly with a purpose.
"How long are you planning on staying here with your sister?" I asked a bit too curiously that caught Damon and Ric's attention right away. And it Kol got suspicious as well. "I mean I personally love seeing new faces here. I hope your stay here in a long one." I gave Kol a seductive smile in the end and the original forgot whatever he was thinking earlier about my excessive curiosity about his stay in town. I couldn't feel relief though because, after what I said, Ric had his eyebrows raised at me and Damon was glaring at me so coldly that I actually felt the hair on the back of my neck standing up.
"I'm sure we'll stay here long enough to properly get to know the place and make a few friends." Kol said with a smirk. Oh no, this can't be good. What are they up to? I asked myself again.
"I hope your stay here will be delightful." I said forcefully smiling at him sweetly however it looked genuine enough. Kol smirked at me and said-
"I'm sure it will be." Then Kol extended his hand towards me.
"I am Kol by the way." I took his hand and shook it lightly ignoring Damon's deadly glare at us.
"Jacqueline, but call me Jacq." I said but Kol didn't let go of my hand right away instead he brought my hand to his lips and kissed on the back of my palm before slowly letting it go.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Jacq." Kol said smirking at me. By the way his smirks were quite attractive. I smiled back at him with shyness.
"The pleasure is all mine." I blushed as I said that, not sure why. Damon on the other hand, was turning red too but it had nothing to do with shyness but with extreme rage. Kol noticed it as well and he started to full on flirt with me. I was kind of enjoying it too; pissing off Damon I mean. So I flirted back with Kol.
"How come such a gorgeous looking girl like yourself is still single? I don't believe it." I smiled while faking my blush, as Kol said that to me. Somehow our conversation got to that point.
"How come you have no girlfriend then? You are quite handsome yourself and got great personality. You should have dozens of girls running after you." I boldly kept complimenting Kol and Damon kept getting angrier. If Ric wasn't sitting right beside him; Damon would've done something stupid or reckless by now. Why was I putting him through hell? Well it was a payback for compelling me when he shouldn't have. After talking some more, Kol gulped down his second shot in a blink of an eye and prepared to leave. He was about to pay for his drinks when I stopped him.
"You don't have to pay, it's on me. Welcome to Mystic Falls." I said giving him another shy smile of mine. Kol smiled back at me which looked like a smirk. Damon was shaking with rage by that time and on the verge of exploding.
"Thanks darling, I'll see you soon, I promise." Saying that Kol leaned over the counter table and came closer to me and then out of nowhere, he lightly kissed the corner of my lips. I was shocked to say the least when he did that. Seeing me startled Kol smirked at me and simply walked away from there feeling proud of himself. I touched the spot near my mouth with my fingers where Kol just kissed me. I can't believe an original vampire just kissed me. Now that is really something. And I had a feeling that it wasn't gonna be my last meeting with Kol. More meets are yet to happen. And speaking of Damon, he was ready to go after Kol but Ric stopped him somehow. I sighed out in relief as Kol walked out of the Grill and thankfully no one got hurt. A smile was plastered on my lips for that reason, however when I looked back at Damon my smile fell instantly because he was glaring daggers at me. It was terrifying to say the least.
"Jacq, what are you doing and what the hell is going on?" Ric finally asked. Should I tell them? Yes, I think I should inform them that two originals are in town right now and it's very possible that they're up to no good. Everyone should stay alert.
"Ric, tell everyone to come to the boarding house right now, I think we have a problem at our hands." I said with serious tone of voice and left to see the manager to inform him that I'm getting off work early today. Within an hour everyone except for Amelia was at the boarding house. Damon was still filled up with anger and he was shooting really dangerous glares at my way that I completely pretended to ignore.
"So, what kind of problem we have now?" Stefan asked with his serious brooding face. I was leaning against the couch side with arms crossed over my chest. I wasn't hyperventilating like I should have considering the problem here; rather I was quite relaxed about the whole thing.
"We have two originals roaming around the town right now." I said calmly and just like I expected everyone got shocked hearing this.
"You've got to be kidding me. Please tell me that Kol guy wasn't an original vampire" said Damon exclaiming loudly and I couldn't help but smirk at him.
"As a matter of fact, he was. How else do you think he was able to compel you?" I asked with nonchalant tone of voice but Damon was stunned to hear this.
"He compelled me?" Damon said in a questioning tone of voice. He looked at Alaric and he nodded his head in affirmation. Then suddenly Damon was right in front of me with a pissed off look on his face.
"You knew he was an evil original vampire and still you were flirting with him and you even let him kiss you. Are you slowly descending to madness Jacq?" Damon yelled at me angrily right at my face. I glared back at him this time and stepped back from him to increase some distance between us.
"Descending to madness? Of course not, flirting with Kol was a smart move. Actually you should thank me for flirting with him." I said with a cool attitude and a wise face.
"What? You did not just say that." Damon widened his eyes at me. He was really getting pissed off. However, I didn't care about that and narrowed my eyes at him.
"If I hadn't distracted Kol from your rude behavior, you would be dead by now along with a few more innocent people back at the Grill." I looked at everyone else as well.
"Whatever you do, don't get on Kol Mikaelson's bad side. He really knows how to get even with his enemies." I warned them with dead seriousness in my voice. I vividly remembered Damon and Elena's encounter with Kol in the show when they went off to visit Mary. If they weren't off limits at that time, Kol would have finished both of them without a second thought. Damon sneered to himself thinking about the original.
"Well there won't be any side to him because I'll drive a white oak stake through his heart before the sun rises tomorrow" said Damon more to himself than to us. I rolled my eyes to myself. I hope Bonnie kept those stakes that Ric and I made somewhere safe and secret where Damon wouldn't be able to find them.
"No, you wouldn't do anything like that." I said as a warning but Damon heed no attention to it.
"Watch me." Damon said to me smirking and I couldn't help but glare at him.
"Listen to me carefully Damon; killing Kol will be the end of all the other vampires he ever created. We can't touch him, or any other original. Get that through your thick skull." Damon wasn't happy about it as expected but he agreed not to kill him in his mind though he didn't say a word to us out loud.
"I'm still gonna make him pay for kissing you" stated Damon like a stubborn child and I narrowed my eyes at him right away.
"Correction, he kissed me because I let him. It wasn't forceful. Besides, it was just a kiss. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?" Damon glared at me as I said that.
"I know you were deliberately trying to piss me off but still I can't believe you let him kiss you. And yes, it is a big deal for me and it's because I love you and I'm jealous right now and I won't get any peace until I kick his original ass." I sighed out exasperatedly and shook my head to myself.
"Look Damon, we've a loads to do, so please don't make us waste our time arranging a funeral for you. Messing with Kol is nothing but a death wish. He'll break your neck and rip your heart out before you would even know about it. So, I suggest you forget about your plan of kicking his original ass and do us all a favor." I think I explained quite elaborately why Damon shouldn't go after Kol but as hot headed as Damon was, he ignored every word I said.
"Why do I have a feeling that you're actually trying to protect him while showing concern for me? Whose side are you on really?" Damon asked with eyes narrowed at me dangerously. And I rolled my eyes at him.
"Obviously on Kol's, I know the truth is always bitter but he is far more important than you are. Besides, he's good looking and actually I kind of like him." If you think that I'm trying to provoke Damon's anger more, then you are thinking absolutely right. And it worked perfectly too. Damon was practically shaking with rage and his vampire face was coming out as well. Oh how I enjoy tormenting him.
"Hey knock it off you two" said Stefan and he got in between us. He pushed Damon away from me.
"Jacq, stop toying with Damon, you know how he gets." Stefan said to me like a concerned father. I lowered my face to hide my smirk.
"Let's get back to business shall we? Who is the other original in town?" Katherine asked. She looked tensed about the originals roaming around in town. I understood her fear. I took in a deep breath before answering her question.
"Well the other original is Kol's sister Rebekah. She's the only girl original. She has quite a temper and very impatient. She can be extremely cruel when needed otherwise she has a good heart. Also she is a lonely girl and craves for attention." I described Rebekah and Kol some more for everyone to understand them.
"So, what do you suggest we should do, if not kill them?" Caroline asked curiously.
"All we need to do is keep an eye on them and find out why they are here? Though I've a feeling that they're here to retrieve Klaus's body but I could be wrong. But still, we need to protect the cave all the time and see what else they are up to as well. And some of us should try to find Elijah. If things get out of control with them all on a sudden, we won't be able to calm down the situation without him." I said in a conversational tone, not being so worried about the originals unlike others.
"But we have no idea where he is" said Rose still fearing to speak Elijah's name. Though the fear was a lot less than how it was before.
"Well that's your problem. I had to warn you about the originals so I did. My job is done here. Now how you handle the situation is up to you guys?" I said calmly and prepared to leave the house as well. I should warn Amelia too. I don't think the group would be able to handle the originals properly without my help. I will be there to help of course and have their backs for sure, it's just they wouldn't know about it. Because the more I'm gonna interact with them in person the more I am gonna let them in my life which I absolutely shouldn't allow, moreover prevent it from happening at all cost.
"So you're still on 'don't want anything to do with us' mode. Why did you bother with warning us then?" Damon asked me rudely. I kind of anticipated this question from him and I had the answer ready too.
"I want you guys to stay away from me because I don't want you involved in my problems but original vampires aren't exactly my problem only. That's why like the good responsible citizen I'm of this town, I had to let you know. Otherwise I really wouldn't have bothered informing you about them. You should be thankful to me for giving you a heads up about this rather than be rude to me." Damon sighed out heavily in hopelessness. The others didn't say anything even though they wanted to take Damon's side and argue with me on this matter. I started to make my way towards the door when my eyes fell on Elena's necklace. I had completely forgot about this part.
"Um… Elena, I think it's best you don't wear that necklace for sometime." Elena frowned at me with confusion like others.
"Why?" She asked. Elena is up for a shock now. I thought in my mind.
"Because it actually belongs to Rebekah and last time I mean in the show, she tried to kill you for wearing this." Elena gaped at me as I said that and looked at Stefan who was equally shocked. Before they could ask me some more questions about it, I walked out of the Boarding house. I didn't know why but I had a feeling that it was only the beginning of something terrible.
AN: This is it for now. The next update might take some time to come up. Lots of love, kisses and hugs.