I know I said I needed a vacation before posting the Bonus chapter but I was so inspired to write so I thought; Why not?
I only have one exam left before the summer and I hope that everyone else will have a nice summer and "Stand By You" Will be back in the fall:)
Enjoy this bonus chapter :D
I do not own The Originals or The Vampire Diaries, only my OC.
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Suddenly, Everything Has Changed
Stefan`s p.o.v
I think that the image of watching my best friend die as she did in that church after she gave birth did something to me. It was one of the worst thing I have ever seen in my life but I`m glad I got to spend time with her on the other side and I am glad she`s ok. I had promised myself that if I ever came back to life, I would go to see her and the newborn baby. Then I did come back and Damon didn`t. Bonnie and Damon were gone and they couldn`t come back.
I was sitting in the cemetery with Caroline when Elena approached us with Alaric. She looked wrecked, just as I felt.
"I tried to call Jeremy but he didn`t pick up and I`m worried about him." Elena said and I froze. I had forgotten to tell them about Amy.
"I went to see Amy and Jeremy after I died. Amy was so heartbroken, so I decided not to visit her again." I felt the tears in my eyes.
"The witches in New Orleans induced her labor and she gave birth in the church." Caroline and Elena looked shocked and stunned.
"She had the baby? Are they ok?" Caroline asked and took her phone out to call Amy. Elena saw the look on my face and she just knew.
"Amy died, didn`t she Stefan?" She asked.
"She, uh.. Amy was killed instantly after giving birth. The witches needed her baby to do a sacrifice. Neither of us managed to hold back the tears.
"I talked to her though. I got to spend time with her before she came back to life." Caroline looked at me as she wiped away a tear.
"How? How did she come back?" Alaric asked.
"She still had the baby`s blood in her system. She`s a hybrid now." I told them.
Caroline jumped up suddenly.
"We should go to her and spend some time with Amy. Besides I want to see the baby." She said.
"Caroline, I don`t know if Amy managed to stop the witches in time." I explained.
"Oh, come on! This is Amy and Klaus we`re talking about, of course they did. They always get through things. I say we need this. We need to heal and we need to see Amy and the baby." Caroline said and looked at us with hope.
I wasn`t sure of about all of us going but I knew I needed to see that baby and my best friend.
Early the next morning, we took the plane towards New Orleans and Amy.
Amy`s p.o.v
I woke up slowly and looked around me. What was going on? Nik was still sleeping besides me and all I could do was to look at him. Suddenly I thought I heard a baby cry and I shot out of bed. I
ran into the nursery and opened the door. I walked over to the crib but it was empty. Of course, it was empty. Hope wasn`t here anymore. We sent her off with Rebekah last night to keep her safe. I never knew if I would see her ever again.
I took her blanket out of the crib and brought it up to my face to smell it. It still had a strong smell of my daughter and it made me so sad. I closed my eyes to try to stop the tears but it didn`t help at all. I broke out in small sobs not trying to wake the rest of the house but when you`re in a house filled with vampires, you`re pretty much screwed no matter what you do.
"Amy?" I turned around and saw Nik standing there.
"What are you doing?" He asked me as he entered the room.
"I, uh… I thought I heard a baby cry and it woke me up. I rushed in here but then I remembered, she`s not here anymore." I said as Nik put his arms around me.
"I`m sorry little wolf. I`m sorry we have to go through this." He told me and tried to calm me down.
"I don`t know how I`m going to do this, Nik. I miss her so much." I said looking up at him. His sadness reflected the way I felt.
"Look, I think we should walk out of here right now and go back to bed, it`s still quite early." Nik looked at me pleadingly. I nodded and took his hand. I looked back at the room one more time before closing the door behind me.
Kol poked his head out the door. He looked like crap and with a bedhead.
"Is everything alright darling? Do you need anything?" He asked tiredly.
"No, just go back to bed Kol. I`ll see you later today. Go back to sleep." I said and walked after Nik.
We reached our bedroom again and I sat back down on the bed. It felt like I couldn`t move a muscle and I just stared out into the room.
"Come here sweetheart." Nik said and pulled me towards him so I was laying onto of him. I leaned my chin on his chest and just stared into his eyes.
"I feel lost." I whispered.
"I know sweetheart, me too." Nik told me and I knew he were.
"Nik, I don`t want to you think that I don`t see you or think that you`re not hurting like I do, because I know you do. I can see it. Even though I may not say anything to you, I know you`re hurting just as much. I love you and I`m always going to want you no matter what." I said to him.
"I love you too Amy and we`re going to anything to get our Hope back, even though we know that Rebekah is going to take good care of her and I`ll always want you too, little wolf." Nik said and kissed me tenderly. I placed my head back on his chest and stroked my fingers over his tattoo as he caressed my back. Before I knew it, I fell asleep again in the safe arms of my fiancé.
A few hours later, Nik woke me up again. It was almost 11 and I needed to get up. I took a shower and walked out to the living room.
Nik walked into the kitchen to get us some blood bags and I walked into the living room. Elijah was sitting there with a cup of tea.
"Hello, Amy." He said calmly but I could see that he didn`t knew how to really talk to me.
"Hey, Elijah. Has my brother woke up yet?" I asked silently.
"I think he`s in the shower. How are you doing this morning?" He asked carefully.
"Not so good. I woke up around dawn and thought I heard her cry and ran into the nursery only to remember she is not here anymore." I said with tears threatening to escape again. Elijah put his arms around me.
"I`m so sorry you`re going through this Amy. I wish I could do something about it." Elijah told me.
"I know Elijah." I said into his chest. Nik joined us moments later with Kol and gave me the blood bag. It was still strange to drink blood and I hoped that I`d never kill a human. I really didn`t want to. I never hurt anyone when I was just a werewolf, only a few vampires.
Nik sat down next to me and I leaned into him with my legs thrown over Kol`s lap.
"When is Marcel coming today?" I asked as I sipped on my bag of blood.
"We`re expecting him in half an hour or so. Do you want to sit in on the meeting?" Nik asked me.
"No, I think I`ll go outside for a while. I need to do something else than just sit in here." I told him. Nik didn`t want me to go out by myself. He was afraid something would happen to me.
"I`ll join her." Kol said.
"No. You can stay here. I can take care of myself". I said and got up from the couch.
"If Jeremy needs me, I`ll be right outside." I said as I walked out on them.
"She`s not doing that good is she?" I heard Elijah say.
"Of course she`s not, Elijah. She misses the baby."
"We all do, brother." Kol said.
"Well, not like we do." Nik shot back at him. God! Right now, I hated the super vampire hearing. I rushed out of the gate and walked down the street. I just needed to get away and fast. I walked passed a little floral shop that was owned by an old nice little woman in her early 70`s. I looked at her roses.
"Good morning dear. What can I help you with?" She asked as she turned around and when she saw me, she stopped. She knew who I was.
"What do you need sweetheart?" She looked at me with sad eyes.
"I need a couple of roses. One of each color." I said.
"Of course little one." The old woman said and collected a few roses she packed it up for me.
"You know, I know that you`re dealing with a great loss right now and that you don`t like to talk about it but know this, if you ever need anyone to talk to, I`m always here. Don`t tell him I said this but Marcel used to come in here from time to time when he needed someone to talk to. He`s done that since I took over this shop after my mother almost 50 years ago. I`m a good listener, little one." The women said to me.
"Thank you, Mrs. P. It means a lot but if you`ve know Marcel that long that must mean you know about…"
"Yes, I know about vampires, dear but don`t worry. I`m on your side." The woman winked at me.
"Thank you." I said and handed her the cash but she stopped me.
"This is my gift to your daughter. Give her all the love from me." she said and grabbed my hand. This woman didn`t even know me and yet she was this kind to me.
I walked out of the store and over to the memory wall. It was a lot more flowers and candles now than yesterday. People were standing around but moved out of the way when they saw me approach. They had ungiven respect for me. I placed the roses under the picture and sat down on the ground.
"These are from the nice woman across the street. I love you, littlest wolf." I said to the picture. It was weird but it felt good to sit there and talk to the picture. I knew she was alive but this was my way to communicate with her, wherever she was in the world right now.
Stefan`s p.o.v
We arrived in New Orleans around noon and we retrieved our luggage quickly. I`m glad Alaric joined us. I think it will be good for Amy to see everyone again and of course show us the baby. I know I shouldn`t be this optimistic but Caroline had that effect on me. She always made me more positive, even though I just lost my brother.
"Do you know where to go to get to their house?" Elena asked me.
"Yes, I`ve been there before. Amy dragged me to a party. It was a complicated thing." I said, remembering all the troubles.
We took a taxi towards Bourbon Street. It was crowded but we managed.
"Are you sure Bourbon Street is the best place to spend vacations these days?" The taxi driver asked.
"Why would you say that?" Caroline asked.
"Because of the gang violence. Just night before last, it was a huge gang member fight and it was many casualties." He told us.
"Where was this?" I asked.
"Close to the Abattoir, just outside the Mikaelson Manor." He said and my insides froze. This wasn`t gang members, this was vampires. None of us said anything to this. We were dropped off just in the end of Bourbon Street after our own request. We walked for ourselves to the compound.
"This is a lively place." Elena said as she looked around. She tried not to sound affected by the loss of her boyfriend and my brother. We arrived outside the gates and I opened it.
"Here we are." I said and walked inside with them behind me. I walked out to the courtyard and everything seems different and to quiet. Then we heard Jeremy walking down the stairs. He stopped when he saw us.
"Jeremy!" Elena exclaimed and ran over to him to give him a hug.
"Elena. What are you doing here?" He asked surprised.
"We came here to see you both." She told him with tears in her eyes. I knew Jeremy was glad to see us but he looked so sad. He was so glad to see Alaric again and gave him a big hug. Jeremy were at the verge of tears and I`ve never seen him like this before. He looked so shattered.
"Are you ok man?" Alaric asked him.
"Define ok?" Jeremy said back, not wanting to say that much.
"So, where`s Amy?" Caroline asked.
That was when I heard a voice behind us.
"Stefan?"
Amy`s p.o.v
I really don`t know how long I was sitting by the memorial wall. Probably an hour and a half or something but I didn`t say anything more after I put down the flowers, I just sat in the same position and stared at the wall in a trance. The nice woman Ms. P from the floral shop even came out to me with a cup of coffee and some cookies. She just wanted to do something nice for me again.
After a while, I had to get back to Nik. I couldn`t stay away too long. Being with him made me feel closer to Hope. I slowly picked myself of the ground and walked back to the Abattoir. I got to the gates and I could smell other vampires and my first instinct was that I had to get rid of them and stepped inside and what I saw gave me a shock.
"So, where is Amy?" I heard Caroline ask.
"Stefan?" I choked out and stopped dead in my tracks.
"Hey bestie." He said when he turned around. At first, I didn`t think he was actually standing there but when he said bestie, I just knew he really was here. I ran forward and jumped into his arms crying.
"I thought I`d never would see you again." I sobbed into his shoulder.
"I`m here Amy." Stefan said and he was almost crying as well. I took some time before I actually let go of him and noticed my sister and Alaric. I gave both of them hugs as well before Caroline gave me a bone-crushing hug.
"I missed you after our road trip Ames." She said before suddenly letting me go.
"So, where is the little wonder girl? We`re dying to meet mini-you." She said and it crushed my heart all over again. They didn`t know yet. Jeremy nor I hadn`t gotten the chance to call them yet.
Jeremy were at my side in an instant, barely holding it together.
"Amy." Nik came out of nowhere and I sobbed into his chest. Elijah, Kol and Marcel stood upstairs watching us.
"Klaus, what is going on?" Caroline asked him worried beginning to realize what I wasn`t able to say. I could hear Nik swallow a little.
"The baby died last night. She didn`t make it." He said quietly.
"Amy, I`m so sorry. I didn`t know." Caroline said and took a step towards me. I couldn`t handle all the stares I got right now. The pity, the sorrow and the mourning in their eyes. I got out of Nik`s arms and used my vampire speed to get upstairs and away from everyone. I know Nik told me to stay out of the nursery but right now, I didn`t care.
I sat down on the rocking chair with Hope`s blanket.
"You`re all welcome to stay but I think Amy needs some time alone right now. If anyone is to go in to her, I think it should be Jeremy, Kol, Elijah, Stefan or me." I could hear Nik saying from the outside.
"We thought that everything would be ok. That you would get your happy ending." I heard Caroline say.
"Well, we didn't and now, Amy will never be the same. Neither will I." Nik said with a sad voice.
Then it was quiet for some time and I guessed that maybe they`ve left to do something else until I came out again but then someone knocked on the door. Stefan opened the door slowly.
"Is it ok if I come in?" He asked.
"No, you can`t but I can come out." I said and got up from the chair. It was strange but I didn`t want anyone but Nik and me in here right now.
I closed the door and I walked down the hall. Stefan put his arm around me and we entered the living room.
"Where are the others?" I asked.
"Alaric, Caroline, Elena and Jeremy went to get something to eat and the others are coming in now." He said as Nik and the others entered. Nik took me into his embrace.
"We have to go and fix some things. Do you want to come or do you want me to stay here with you?" He asked me.
"You can go. I`m good with Stefan but if you really want to stay, I won`t complain." I said.
"Then I`ll stay." He said.
"No, Nik. We need to fix this and that means that you have to do this right now. Those people are responsible for what…" I couldn`t even finish that sentence.
"Ok, little wolf. I`ll be back as soon as I can and while I`m gone, make sure your friends stay here. We don`t know where the Guerra clan is right now and it`s not safe for them." Nik said before he kissed me goodbye.
I got Stefan a glass of bourbon and sat down on the couch with him.
"How do you feel?" Stefan asked me.
"I feel like I can`t breathe at all, as if my oxygen has been cut off. After Hope died it felt so devastating that I don`t know how to live on from this anymore. My heart is missing and I don`t think I`ll ever get it back." I told him honestly.
"I`m sorry this happened to you Amy. I wish there was something I could have done to prevent this from happening." Stefan told me.
"There`s nothing you could`ve done. You were on the other side. There`s nothing you could`ve done to save her." I told him and touched his hand.
When I mentioned the other side, Stefan flinched a little and I saw it right away. He was hiding something.
"Stefan. What happened after I came back to life and you returned to Mystic Falls?" I asked him.
He told me the story about the travelers and their plans to take over Mystic Falls and how if vampires tried to enter the town, they would slowly die as they were supposed to have died. I flinched by the thought of how it would`ve affected me. Getting my throat sliced open. I shuttered.
"Damon had this brilliant plan to gather all the travelers in one place and then blow the place up and then use Bonnie to come back to life. They had a witch that could help them with the spell." He told me before he took a pause to finish his drink.
"Elena, being as stubborn as she is, decided to come with Damon, blow up the Grill so they could take the travelers with them to the other side. Bonnie were used as a portal to come back, Enzo walked right through without looking back, Elena got pushed through by Bonnie herself and I didn`t want to go back without Damon but Bonnie got ill and bumped into me and her I am." He said with tears in his eyes.
"Stefan. What happened to Damon and Bonnie?" I asked with tears in my eyes again.
"They didn`t make it back. Bonnie was never going to come back but she sent Alaric back before Damon and after that, nothing. Elena`s a mess, I`m barely holding myself together and here I am crying to you when you just lost your own child." Stefan said as tears slowly fell down his cheeks.
I gave him a big hug and held him there.
"I`m so sorry Stefan. You`ve lost someone too. It`s ok to cry." I said not wanting to let him go. It was true. We had both lost something that we loved the most in this world and we needed each other to lean on.
Alaric, Elena, Caroline and Jeremy all came back about an hour later with take out. Jeremy had shown them where you could buy the best junk food in town and they brought something back for Stefan and me.
They all looked like they didn`t know what to say to me. I decided to break the ice.
"Look guys, I`m not alright, I`m not sure I`ll ever be again but right now I just need my friends and even though the pain is there and all I can think about is her, I need you to just be yourself and I`ll try to be with you all the time." I told them and I clutched Elena`s hand. She was hurting too. She had lost her boyfriend.
"That`s a good thing because even though you`re not up for it, I brought movies." Caroline said and showed me the DVD`s. I knew Caroline meant well as she popped the first movie in. All I wanted was to go back to my room and be alone but I needed to be with people. I couldn`t lock myself in and rot away. The pain was unbearable but this was my humanity right now.
I was leaning into Stefan`s embrace and I didn`t really know what the movie was about. Stefan didn`t seem like it either but we didn`t move. After a while, I fell asleep on the couch whilst the others watched the movies. They didn`t want to move me.
The original brothers came home after dark and I still hadn`t woken up but I was aware of Nik being in the room and shot my eyes open just as he walked into the room. He only looked at me and he understood that I`ve had enough and I wanted to be alone.
"I think it`s time the for the little wolf to spend some time alone with me." Nik said as he lifted me up from the couch. I didn`t really care if I walked or not. I didn`t care about anything now but I still looked at all my friends with a small smile.
"Thank you for being here for me today. As I said, I was with you physically but not mentally. Either way, you made a difference for me. Maybe not a big one but I appreciate it even though I don`t show it." I said to them honestly.
All of them smiled at me before Nik took me back to our room. I was exhausted. Just 24 hours ago, Nik and I gave Hope to Rebekah and it seemed as if it was several years ago.
It was nice to have some private time with Nik. We both needed it and it was good for us.
I was still in denial in one way and it all seemed too unreal for me. Nik walked into the bathroom to get something when suddenly my phone buzzed. I had gotten a message from an unknown number.
I opened it up and I had to catch my breath.
"Nik! Get out here!" I yelled. In an instant, Nik was beside me on the bed.
"What`s wrong sweetheart?" He asked worriedly. I showed him the message and he was just as shocked as I was.
"I just wanted to send this before we go under the radar so she can be safe. I just thought you wanted to fill up that empty side in the locket Nik got for you. I will protect her with my life."
(Do not worry, this is a disposable and untraceable phone, that I`m destroying as we speak.)
I felt my tears swell up as I looked over at Nik. He had tears in his eyes as well.
Rebekah had sent us a picture. A picture of our beautiful daughter.
So this was a small bonus chapter. I`m sure I could`ve written on and on at this point but the whole deal was just to give you a little one.
Love it? Hate it? Let me know.
Just for the record: For now, this will not have an impact on the story when it picks back up in the fall. Maybe it will in the future but as of today it`s something I`ve written outside the story.
Until next time!
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