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Dia and Bonnie continued to attempt to open the locked coffin. Dia had gone through her entire book and nothing had worked. She stood with Bonnie who was chanting a spell in Latin. When she finished she tried to open the coffin with no success.
"Why won't you open?" Bonnie complained.
"There's got to be something we haven't tried" Dia looked at her.
"I don't know what else to do" Bonnie replied.
The coffins disappeared suddenly. Bonnie and Dia looked at one another and heard something from inside the house.
"Hello? Someone there?" Bonnie called out from the bottom of the stairs. She sighed and looked at Dia.
"I'm going to check it out" she told her. "Stay here." Dia nodded as Bonnie walked back upstairs.
Dia turned around and saw that one of the coffins had appeared again. She began to feel that pull she had earlier. She walked over to the coffin and put her hand on top of it. She felt chills up her spine. She knew whose coffin it was. She lifted the top and her heart sank when she saw Elijah. His body gray, the color of ash looking as though he was just sleeping. She looked at the dagger in his chest. It was taking everything inside of her not to pull the damn thing out. She hear movement upstairs and quickly closed the coffin. Footsteps were heard coming down the stairs.
"Dia" Bonnie called out.
"Everything alright?" Dia asked walking to the doorway. She saw that Stefan and Damon were with her. One look at Damon made her blood boil.
"Hybrid trying to spy" Damon replied. "He's taken care of."
"Dia we better get to school" Bonnie looked at her.
"Yeah you're right" Dia said quickly walking past Damon.
"What no goodbye kiss?" he asked. Dia turned and looked at him silently before turning around and walking up the stairs with Bonnie.
"What's with her?" Stefan asked.
"I don't know" Damon frowned.
Elena stood in front of Caroline's locking decorating it with balloons and posters for her eighteenth birthday when Dia and Bonnie arrived to help as well.
"Hey, sorry we're late, we" Bonnie stopped and looked at Dia. "We got held up."
"It's okay. I just got here too. Could you pass me the balloons?" Elena asked as Bonnie complied. "Thanks. Why are you running late?"
"We were working on some new spells. You?" Bonnie asked.
"Working with Alaric. So, I have something I need to tell you, and you're not going to like it" Elena started.
"What happened?" Bonnie asked.
"Jeremy is going to be living town for a while. He will stay with old family friend in Denver, until Klaus will blow over" Elena replied.
"Jeremy wouldn't just leave you deal with Klaus on your own" Bonnie stated.
"I know, I asked Damon to compel him" Elena told her. Dia looked at Elena and then at Bonnie.
"You what?" Bonnie asked in disbelief.
"I know, Bonnie. But it's not safe here for him anymore. Leaving will give him a better life. The only reason I'm telling you is because I know that you two haven't really walked out on your stuff. And I thought maybe you'd want to say goodbye" she told her. Bonnie nodded and looked over and saw Jeremy and began to walk over to him.
"So what's new with you?" Elena asked.
"Nothing" Dia said simply.
"Have you talked to Damon?" Elena asked uncomfortably.
"Not really" Dia only said.
"Dia is everything alright?" Elena looked at her.
Dia looked back at her. She took a deep breath and listened in on Elena's thoughts.
I wonder if Damon has said anything to her about what happened.
"I have to go" Dia suddenly blurted out. She quickly walked away leaving a very confused Elena behind.
Damon hit the locked coffin with a shovel continuously trying to get the box to open as Stefan watched.
"You're wasting your time. It won't open. Did you bury the body?" Stefan looked at Damon.
"Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?" Damon asked.
"Nope, just the dead one" Stefan replied.
"Alright, Klaus has 6 siblings. Rebekah is now with Klaus. There was one dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world, which leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping originals, four coffins. So who is in the locked box?" Damon wondered.
"No idea. But whatever is in here, Bonnie and Dia both seem to think that it will help us kill Klaus. So the sooner she can get this open, the sooner we will know if they're right" Stefan explained.
"Oh you think spirits from a band of dead witches and gypsies that can make the coffins invisible wouldn't figure out how to open one. Fine, don't help" Damon growled.
"You know that none of this is going to do any good if Klaus's hybrid friend find our hiding place, right? They need to go away.
"Oh yeah, great idea Stefan. Why don't you ask them just to pack their bag and take a long rest while we are on it. How about to keep the peace? Don't attend to the real thing we are trying to hide" Damon asked him.
"Well I'm not going to play defense when I have what Klaus wants. He does what I say or I dump his family to the bottom of the ocean" Stefan told him.
"And he kills you and everyone you know like, I don't know... me!" Damon huffed.
"No, he is bluffing. His family means more than anything else" Stefan said.
"You're sure about that?" Damon asked.
"Well I don't know Damon. I mean, I guess there's only one way to find out, right? Klaus bluffs" Stefan replied.
"The only way to know if someone bluffs, Stefan, is to be ready to lose everything if you're wrong" Damon told him.
Caroline walked into her house. Even though it was her birthday, she couldn't find herself to enjoy it. She went into her living room, when Matt, Elena, Bonnie, and Dia appeared from behind the couches.
"Happy birthday!" Matt smiled.
"What are you guys doing here?" Caroline asked surprised.
"Well you blew of school and miss our work of birthday art" Elena begin.
"We worked hard on that too by the way" Dia piped in.
"So…" Elena began.
"Change your clothes, we are going to the falls. S'mores, camp fire" Bonnie finished.
"Cake, like when we were little" Elena smiled.
"Except for the tequila!" Matt smirked.
"Which I will be respectfully declining" Dia said.
"Thanks, guys. Really, but, I just no feeling my birthday this year" Caroline told them
"I'm sorry, what? You already claimed your birthday as everyone's favorite day of the year" Bonnie frowned.
"Yeah, and now, it's just reminded that technically, I'm dead. Look, I'm not even 17. And the only point to 17 is to get to 18, it's a failure year, I'm stuck in a failure year" Caroline sighed.
"You're not stuck Caroline." Elena spoke.
"Yeah I am, but it's okay. It's all good, I will be fine. But I just need some time to get used to it" Caroline said sadly.
"Okay, well I think I have another idea" Elena said.
"So here it is" Elena said as she, Matt, Dia, Bonnie, and Caroline walked into a tomb in the graveyard.
"This is creepy, even for us" Bonnie spoke.
"I kind of like it" Dia said quietly.
"Caroline was right., technically, she is dead. Sorry. But you don't need a birthday, you need a funeral. You need to say goodbye to your old life so then you can move on with your new one" Elena told them.
"Okay, here lies Caroline Forbes" Caroline began.
"Cheerleader, Miss Mystic Falls, third grade hopscotch champion" Elena looked at her.
"Friend, daughter, perfectionist" Bonnie told her.
"Mean girl, sometimes, no offense" Matt said.
"Ah, no taken" Caroline smiled.
"Blondie, Barbie, loyal, a good listener" Dia finished.
"She was 17, and she had a really good life. So rest in peace, so that she can move forward. That's what you really need. What we all really need. Amen, or cheers or whatever. Hum, Bonnie?" Elena looked at her.
Bonnie smiled as she lit the candles on the cake with her mind.
"Nice. Okay, make a wish" Elena told her.
The group laid on some of the tombs. Elena walked over to Caroline and took one of the alcohol bottles from her.
"I need it more than you do, trust me" Elena said and noticed her texting. "Caroline, what are you doing?"
"What? Nothing" Caroline protested.
"Okay, you're a bad sober liar, and even worse drunk liar" Elena looked at her.
"I might texted Tyler" Caroline gave in.
"Caroline..." Elena groaned.
"What? I'm frail" Caroline whined.
"Give her a break. You can't control what everyone does all the time" Bonnie said angrily.
"Wow" Elena breathed.
"Sorry, I know it's Caroline birthday, funeral or whatever but, I just feel it's really wrong to compel Jeremy to leave town" Bonnie spoke.
"I'm doing it to protect him, Bonnie. I want to give him a chance to have a quiet normal life" Elena said.
"He should be able to choose how he wants to live it, you're taking his choices away" Bonnie told her.
"Bonnie, you can't tell him" Elena protested.
"Why? Are you going to compel me not to?" Bonnie huffed.
"You know, you guys are ruining a perfect funeral" Matt said.
"I'm sorry. I just go sleep it off or something. Happy birthday" Bonnie said getting up and walking out of the tomb.
"I probably should go" Dia said getting up. "I have some stuff I have to do. Happy Birthday Caroline."
Dia walked out of the tomb when Elena followed her out.
"Dia what's going on?" she asked softly.
Dia stopped in her tracks and turned around. "I know you kissed Damon."
To be honest I'm not too happy with how this chapter turned out, but I really don't know what else to do. I'll try to make the other one a little better. It should be since there will be a lot of drama. Keep checking back for the next chapter. Give me like an hour and a half to two hours. Maybe more maybe less, but I'm not going to sleep till part two is up! Apparently Dia and Elijah has a ship name now thanks to the MissCharlotteFck. So I'll now start calling you Dia and Elijah shippers Elia shippers! Read and review and as always thanks for the reviews.