Chapter 24

Charlotte's POV

It's been a six days since Bonnie cast the spells on me. It's been five days since I had any more interaction with other ghost/spirits things. Tomorrow is my 22nd birthday. According to my doctor, I wasn't going to live to see my birthday. And technically, I am going to see my 22nd birthday, it just might not be while I'm in my body.

I sighed bored as I watched Bonnie and Elijah perform their daily healing and protection spell on my body. Matt was working so I had no one to talk to today. Damon was sitting in the chair across from the couch watching my body as he did for most of the day.

I noticed a beautiful blonde haired woman standing near Elijah, looking at him with a sad smile.

"Can you hear me?" I asked her.

"Yes, I'm dead." She said without taking her eyes of off Elijah. It clicked who she was in my head.

"You're Rebekah." I said to her.

"So, you've heard of me?" she assumed.

"Yes, Elijah talked about you and your family. And I got some things out of Matt too." I explained.

"I don't get it." I mumbled confused.

"Get what?" she asked.

"Why can only you, Klaus, and Mrs. Salvatore see me? Why not anyone else?" I asked her.

"My mother is only letting a selected few of us interact with you. We are to report back to her about whether or not we think you should live or not." Rebekah explained looking at me for the first time since I noticed her.

"So, I can't see Jenna or Elena's parents?" I asked her sadly.

"No, you actually knew them, so their judgment could be swayed to save you." She explained.

"Oh." I said simply and plopped down on the floor.

"Look, I know it must be disappointing, but you swayed Nik into saving you." Rebekah reasoned with me.

I looked at her suspiciously. "What?" she asked annoyed.

"Nothing, I've just heard very different things about you and none of them were that you were known for comforting humans." I said nonchalantly.

"Yes, well like Nik said, being on the other side makes you open you eyes more." She said with a shrug.

"I think we would have gotten along if I knew you before you died." I told her.

"Why would you think that?" she asked sharply.

"I don't know, from what Elijah told me, we kind of have similar personalities. Minus the being a vampire and love for killing people that annoy me." I explained to her.

To my surprise, she laughed at that. "I suppose we would have been friends. At least you have a better sense of fashion than the rest of your friends. Though I can't say the same about you taste in men." She told me.

"Yeah, I've always have a thing for the heartbreaking assholes." I said sarcastically. We laughed until she suddenly turned serious.

"Can you give Elijah a message for me?" she asked softly.

"Of course. Just tell me what you want me to say." I answered with a smile. She smiled back and started explaining what she wanted me to say.


I sighed loudly even though not one could hear me. Only fifteen more minutes until my birthday. I was lying on my stomach watching Damon try not to fall asleep.

"Isn't that sweet? Salvatore fell in love." Klaus taunted as he came into view.

"Great, the Satanist is back." I said sarcastically.

"As if I would worship that worthless myth." He scoffed. "I'm more of a Klausist." He said with a smirk.

I started laughing. "There was so many things wrong with that sentence." I told him.

"Like what?" he asked clueless.

"One, you said as if. What era are you in?" he rolled his eyes as I continued. "Two, you called the devil a myth yet vampires, witches, werewolves, and hybrids roam the world. And three, what the hell is a Klausist?" I asked him.

"A worshiper of Klaus, of course." He said smugly.

"Count me out of that club." I teased him.

"Your loss, darling." He said with a smirk and sat down across from me.

"So, to what do I owe the pleasure of a second visit from the all powerful hybrid?" I asked him confused.

"Just came to wish you a happy birthday, sweetheart." He said charmingly.

"Right, well you're about ten minutes early on that one." I told him.

"That's alright. I'll just wait here until the clock strikes midnight." He said with a smug smile.

"Of course you will." I said to him. He just smiled smugly.

"So, what was it like roaming the world for a thousand years?" I asked him.

"Lonely." He admitted. "Though it was nice to be able to see the world, you should really bring a companion or two." He added. I smiled knowingly.

"Elijah promised me that he would be my travel buddy when I wake up, but now…" I trailed off.

"Now you don't know what to do with Damon." Klaus finished.

"Yeah." I admitted. "Everything was so much easier when I didn't know that he loved me." I said sighing.

"Are you going to let him interfere with you plans?" Klaus asked.

"No, I want to see the world. I've been confined to such a small place because of my cancer and now that it might be gone…" I trailed off again.

"You want to see what the world has to offer." He finished for me again.

"Yeah, and I don't want to just leave Elijah and take Damon. Elijah's been so good to me and then I go and repay him by ditching him." I explained.

"I wanted to take Caroline to see the world." He said with a sad expression on his face. "She was the first person in my whole lifetime that had the audacity to call my bluff. She saw right through me." He said wistfully.

"Well, if I had been here, I would have totally shipped Klaus and Caroline." I told him truthfully.

"Why? I've killed people that her friends loved." He asked confused.

"Yeah, but once you noticed and started fancying Caroline, have you done anything that intentionally hurt her?" I asked him.

"No." he answered simply.

"Then I don't see a reason why Caroline shouldn't have taken your feelings into consideration. I'm not saying that her standing up for her friends was a bad thing, but sometimes you have to think about you for a change and not about what everyone else is going to say." I explained to him.

"Amazing." He commented with a scoff.

"What?" I asked.

"Where were you when I was alive? It would've been nice to have someone that was actually pro-Klaus." He said with a smirk.

"Sorry, I was too busy dying in West Virginia." I said sarcastically.

I jumped as the grandfather clock across the room chimed, signaling that it is midnight.

"Happy Birthday, Charlotte Buchanan." Klaus said as he stood up. I stood up too.

"Thank you." I said with a small smile.

He pulled something out of his pocket and opened it up.

"I believe a congratulations are in order." He said with a genuine smile.

"For what?" I said him.

"My mother deemed you fit to become the first Immortal to roam the world." He said and opened the small box. In it was a thin diamond bracelet.

"Klaus…" I said speechless.

"Mother said that she had to enchant something for you to return to your body, so I volunteered this. Think of it as a birthday present." He said and clasped it to my wrist.

"Thank you, its beautiful." I said gratefully.

"Your welcome, darling. Make sure to tell my brother hello for me." He said and took a step back and disappeared from my sight.


I gasped as I woke up I looked around and noticed that I was in my body again! I gasped again as I felt a rush of energy pass through me. I looked around for Damon and noticed that he wasn't here.

I heard the shower running upstairs. I gasped again and cover my mouth. I could hear all the way upstairs!

I smirked evilly. I now matched Damon's strength and I could finally torture him as he deserves. I heard the shower turn off and I sped off the couch and knocked over the three vases on the tables to get his attention and hid in the shadows.

I heard his zoom downstairs. He had his back turned to me and I quickly jumped on his back and snapped his neck.

He fell to the floor unceremoniously and I smirked.

"This is going to be fun." I said with a mischievous smirk.


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