A/N: Disclaimer: I do not in any way or form own The Vampire Diaries, I just like to play in their sandbox every now and then.
To answer your questions JulietteHeart, we will in later chapters find out why Bonnie went through the spell, we will also explore the others reactions and reasons for doing the things they did. And about what Elena thought when she was whipping Stefan, you'll find out when she is confronted about it, but something I can tell you is that it's not going to be pretty ;P
Previously
"What are we going to watch?" Stefan actually looked forward to spend a day cuddling with his brother and Reya in bed, watching movies. He felt like he didn't need to be strong or be the protector with them, which was a nice freeing feeling.
"Well I have Transformers, Blade III, Resident Evil and Iron man." Reya was almost bouncing in her seat.
"Bring them all up to my room and we'll choose there." Damon decided. Then he sent Reya and Stefan to his room while he fixed the soda and the popcorn. This was going to be an awesome day; he was certain of it.
Today he was going to relax, cuddle and spend time with his baby brother and Reya. Tomorrow he could start planning the gruesome murder of one Elena Gilbert but today popcorn and movies came first.
XOXOXOX
The morning dawned bright and early for Jeremy as he snuggled closer to the warm chest he was half laying on. When they all went to bed yesterday, he had been laying alone on his own bedroll but Jeremy was unused to sleeping under the stars and quickly got cold. He had apparently woken both Niklaus and Elijah up with his shattering teeth because they moved closer to him so they could share their, mostly Niklaus', body heat. Even though their mother had suppressed Niklaus werewolf side he still ran hotter than a normal vampire.
Which leads to now; Jeremy snuggled into Niklaus chest with Elijah pressed against his back.
"Stop wiggling." Elijah murmured into Jeremys neck.
"Having a bit of a problem, dear brother?" Niklaus teased, knowing exactly what Jeremys wiggling about was doing to his brother.
"I hate you." Elijah groaned and rolled away from Jeremy and stood up.
"No, you don't!" Niklaus proclaimed cheerfully as he too got up.
"How can you be so cheerful in the morning Nik?" Kol growled from his own bedroll. "It's abnormal."
Jeremy looked around at the siblings slowly backing away their bedrolls and teasing each other. And when he looked at Kol he had to look away before he started to laugh. Kol looked dreadful, his hair sticking up in every direction, like he had stuck a finger in a power outlet, and dried drool on his chin.
Then he felt it, the feeling of having to leave. Was he going to time jump already? It had only been a couple of days since the last jump and he didn't want to leave yet.
"What's with the sad look, Jeremy?" Rebekah asked as she came back from washing in the stream.
"I think I will be leaving today." Jeremy told her sadly and the activity around them stopped.
"How do you mean?"
"Already?"
"How do you know?"
The questions came from all the Mikaelson siblings at the same time so Jeremy couldn't really say who asked what.
"Like last time I got this feeling of having to leave and a few hours later I was gone." Jeremy shrugged, knowing he couldn't explain it better than that.
"Do you know when you'll leave?" Elijah asked as he came up to Jeremys side.
"No, I just know that the feeling will get more urgent and then I'll just go poof." Jeremy smiled with a quiet chuckle.
"Poof?" Kol asked with a raised eyebrow and the others chuckle at Jeremys embarrassed shrug.
They placed their packs on the horses and Niklaus helped Jeremy up on Whiskey and they were off. As they rode, Jeremy ate the meat that was leftover form yesterday's dinner.
"Aren't you guys hungry?" Jeremy asked them uncertainly.
"Why? You offering?" Niklaus teased.
"If you need it." Jeremy agreed without hesitation.
"You would actually let us drink from you? Even after what our father did?" Rebekah sounded confused.
"None of you are your father and I trust you." Jeremy smiled at her.
"We don't need to feed yet, we might have gone on a slight spree in town before you woke up yesterday, but thank you for the offer." Elijah smiled at him with respect shining in his eyes.
"Okay, if you're sure." Jeremy nodded to himself. "But tell me if you change your mind."
"Hey Jeremy?" Kol asked around thirty minutes later.
"Yeah?" Jeremy looked up at him from where he was riding between Niklaus and Elijah.
"What's the food like in the future?" Kol wondered as he slowly. "Like what sort of food do you miss the most from your time?"
"Pizza." Jeremy said without having to think about it. "Sadly, it won't be around until 1738 so I'll have to wait for a while and you guy will have to wait even longer, I at least get to take a shortcut, sort of."
"What do they have for sweets in the future?" Rebekah wanted to know.
"One of the most popular things is chocolate, which you all have already tasted." Jeremy smiled at them. "One of my favorite things to snack on is Oreos. But it has to be double stuffing other vice it's not as good."
"What are Oreos?" Kol asked curiously.
"I might actually have some left in my bag, if we're lucky." Jeremy quickly started to look through his backpack in his quest for double stuffed Oreos.
"Aha!" Jeremy triumphantly pulled out half a package of double stuffed Oreos. He quickly realized that he only had enough for everyone to have one each and gave the siblings an Oreo while keeping one for himself.
"Oh, these are sooooo good!" Rebekah gushed after she had taken a small bite.
The others quickly tried their own and the only one who seemed to not crow over them was Elijah.
"Don't you like it?" Jeremy hesitantly asked.
"It's good but I think it's almost a bit too sweet." Elijah took another bite of his Oreo. "I like it but I don't think I could eat more than one in a row without feeling that it was too sweet."
Jeremy felt the beginning of the time jump start in the middle of his chest and quickly told the siblings. "See you in a few years and don't get into too much trouble without me."
"Hopefully it won't be two hundred years before we see you again." Elijah smiled and leaned over his horse to hug him. His siblings doing the same and Niklaus even kissed him on the cheek with a blush. Then there was a bright light and Whiskeys' saddle was empty.
XOXOXOX
When Damon came up to his room with the snacks and soda Stefan and Reya had already decided that they would watch Blade Trinity, because vampires, duh. They had all made themselves comfortable on the bed, with Damon leaning against the headboard, Reya between his legs with her back to his chest and Stefan leaning against Damons side with his hand holding Reyas.
Ever since the blood circle they had felt the need to have physical contact with each other, feeling uncomfortable if they didn't touch at least one of the other two. And that should scare them or at least make them feel concerned but in reality, it felt like it was something that had always been there.
Before they could actually start the movie there was a decisive sort of knock on the door and Damon groaned as he got up to answer it.
As Stefan and Reya waited for him to come back they just relaxed into each other and stole some popcorn. Stefan tilted his head to the side like he was listening to something that Reya couldn't hear then he stiffened and gave a tired sigh.
"Seems like we have guests we can't ignore." Stefan got of the bed while pulling Reya with him and together they slowly made their way down to the hallway where Damon was.
Five minutes earlier
Damon sighed with irritation as he made his way to the door. he pulled it open a little more forcefully than was strictly needed but he was annoyed at whoever was on the other side. When he saw the, unwanted, guests on the other side he froze.
"Elijah?" Damon asked shocked. "What can I help you with?"
"We wanted to discuss terms for the 'alliance' we have and you wanted to know about Jeremy so I thought we could kill two birds with one stone so to speak." Elijah smile was as charming as ever.
Damon just groaned dramatically. "Fine I guess it would be best if you come in."
"Thank you." Elijah nodded his head then he indicated towards his companion. "This is my brother Niklaus, which I assume you already had guessed."
"Yeah, wasn't really that hard to come to that conclusion." Damon said then turned towards the stairs. "Stefan can you and Reya come town to the hallway, we have guests."
They all heard some shuffling from the upper part of the house and then two pars of feet made their way down the stairs. Stefan came down first wearing a tank top and sweatpants, leading Reya by the hand. Reya was wearing a shirt, that was several sizes too big for her, and yoga pants, pared with what looked like very fluffy socks.
At that Elijah and Klaus finally registered what Damon was wearing, a tight, light grey V-neck and a pair of soft looking pants.
"Are we interrupting something?" Klaus drawled.
"Yes, a movie day." Reya deadpanned then she turns towards Elijah with a small smile. "Nice to see you again, Elijah."
"Like vice, Reya." Elijah smiled back.
"Sorry about the interruption." Klaus said then he took Reyas hand and kissed the back of it. "I'm Niklaus Mikaelson, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Reyanda DeWinteres, call me Reya." Reya said back.
"Reyanda? That's an old name." Elijah hummed. "It means mischievous spirit. From the words rey which means mischief and anda which means spirit or soul."
"Not many people know that, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you do if my suspicion about your age are correct." Reya looked pleased that someone knew what her name meant.
"Sadly, we'll have to have the meeting in the kitchen because we have not had time to clean the blood from the parlor yet." Damon said as he led them all to the kitchen.
"On that point," Damon turned towards Klaus. "If I would accidentally on purpose torture the doppelgänger to death, how would you feel about it?"
"Calm down, Niklaus." Elijah grabbed Klaus arm as he made to attack Damon then he turned to Damon with a raised eyebrow. "Why would you do that when you know we need the doppelgänger for the ritual?"
"Because the fucking bitch whipped my brother with a vervain soaked whip to the brink of death!" Damon snarled. "If me and Reya had come home a few minutes later he might have desiccated!"
"She did WHAT?!" Klaus exploded with a vicious snarl.
"I don't want to talk about it." Stefan mumbled to himself as he backed away from them. "I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't."
"Shhh Stefan, everything will be okay." Reya pulled the terrified, eternal seventeen-year-old into her arms.
"I'm sorry for losing my temper." Klaus murmured quietly to Stefan to help calm him down, but Stefan just kept back away from him.
"Maybe you should let him remember." Elijah told his brother when he saw how much it hurt him to have his best friend backing away from him in fear.
"Let him remember?" Damon asked slowly.
"I knew Stefan back in the 1920 but I had to compel him to forget to protect him against my father." Klaus explained
"You can't compel vampires." Damon scoffed but it sounded uncertain.
"Normally you can't but we are the originals, we have a few more tricks up our sleeve then the regular vampire." Elijah smirked.
"So, you can compel a vampire?" Damon asked intrigued. "Prove it!"
"Damon, I want you to tell me one of your most precious memories." Elijah looked into Damons eyes as he compelled him.
"The first time I held Stefan in my arms when he was a baby. That was when I decided that he was mine, that no one was going to harm him and I was going to be the best big brother ever." Damon told them monotonously then he shook his head to clear it. "Okay, that was a tiny bit freaky."
"I'm one of your most precious memories?" Stefans quiet voice sounded from behind him.
"You are part of most if not all of my most precious memories, little brother." Damon pulled him from Reyas arms into his own.
Stefan turned his head to look at Klaus but didn't pull back from his brothers' arms. "So, we knew each other?"
"Yes, we actually spent a lot of time together back then." Klaus smiled in remembrance.
"And…how was I?" Stefan hesitantly asked as if he was afraid of the answer.
"What Stefan wants to know is if he was on his bunny diet or on one of his ripper binges when you knew each other." Damon translated with a smirk.
"You were not on your bunny diet." Klaus frowned. "But you weren't exactly a Rippah either."
"What?" Stefan pulled back from Damon to be able to look directly at Klaus.
"What's a ripper?" Came the quiet question from Reya before Klaus could answer.
"A ripper is a vampire who enjoys 'ripping' their food apart while they feed and most of the time they have shut of their humanity when they do this." Elijah explained efficiently.
"Okay." Reya shrugged. "Thanks for explaining."
"You're not disgusted by me now?" Stefan looked scared as he asked.
Reya went up to him and placed a hand on his cheek. "Stefan I would never judge you for something you did in the past, for what you did when you didn't have your humanity or even for enjoying ripping someone apart."
"So, you wouldn't care if Damon or I went out on a killing spree right now?" Stefan worried.
"Something you should know about me is that while I do have a moral compass, I have lost the needle to it." Reyas response made them all chuckle. "And I can very well judge you by human standards, can I?"
"I guess you're right." Stefan smiled at her.
"Darn right I am." Reya nodded with a smile.
"But to answer your question, Stefan." Klaus brought them back to the ripper/bunny diet question. "You drank human blood during the time I knew you but you didn't rip them apart most of the time."
"So I could control it?" Stefan sounded so hopeful. "And what did you mean by 'most of the time'?"
"You could control it but that didn't mean that we didn't rip some of them apart and over indulged every now and then." Klaus shrugged. "Do you want to remember?"
Stefan looked uncertainly at his brother and Reya.
"I'll support you whatever you choose." Damon smiled kindly at him.
"As long as you are happy, I'm happy for you." Reya beamed at him, bouncing in place.
Stefan turned towards Klaus with a determined look in his eyes. "I want to remember."
Klaus walked over to him, tenderly placed his hand on Stefans shoulder and looked him straight in the eyes. "Now, you remember."
Stefan gasped quietly as all his memories of his time with Klaus and Rebekah came back in one big rush. He remembered the love he felt fore Rebekah, one of the few women in his life that he felt at least a little comfortable around, and the camaraderie he had with Klaus, who didn't judge him for the darker parts of his personality.
"Klaus." Stefan laughed and pulled his long-lost friend into ha hug. He also remembered why he liked Klaus so much, in the beginning he reminded him of Damon, but the more time Stefan spent with Klaus the more Klaus became his own person.
"I have missed you to, old friend." Klaus hugged back just as tightly.
Stefan took a step back and punched Klaus in the face. "That was for making me forget!" Then he pulled him back into another hug.
Damon smiled at seeing his brother happy and stealthily went down to the basement to get some blood bags. When he came back, he turned to the two Mikaelson brothers, "You want some?" He gestured with the blood bags.
"We wouldn't want to intrude." Elijah smiled. "Didn't we interrupt your day earlier?"
"Yeah we were going to have a movie day." Stefan smiled brightly.
"Why don't you two join us?" Reya offered somehow knowing that Stefan didn't want Klaus to leave yet. "You will, of course, have to change; you can't have a movie day in bed while wearing a suit."
"In bed?" Klaus asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, I have the only tv in the whole house in my bedroom." Damon laughed as he poured the blood in three big mugs. In the fourth mug he poured two thirds of animal blood and the last third he filled with his own blood so Stefan also had something to drink.
"I don't really have anything else to wear." Elijah almost looked embarrassed.
"You two can borrow some of my clothes." Stefan offered, happy that one of his oldest friends were staying for a while.
Elijah and Klaus looked at each other and then followed Stefan so they could change. After both of them had changed into sweatpants and t-shirts they followed Stefan again but this time to where Reyas and Damons voices where coming from.
As Stefan opened the door to Damons bedroom he saw that Damon and Reya had taken up the same position on the left side of the bed that they had been in before Elijah and Klaus had come knocking on their door. He smiled climbed in on Damons right side and retook his own position form earlier.
Both Elijah and Klaus hesitated in the door for a few seconds until Damon indicated that they should join them on the bed. Elijah took the same position as Damon beside Stefan and pulled Klaus into a similar position that Reya was in, making Stefan feel protected in the middle of the cuddle pile.
"So, what are we watching?" Klaus asked as he stole a handful of popcorn from the bowl that had been placed in Stefans lap.
"Blade Trinity." Reya beamed at him. "Every seen it?"
"Not that I can remember. What is it about?" Klaus wondered while he accepted the mug of blood Damon held out to him.
"Vampires." Reya informed him with a devious smirk and started the movie.
A/N: Another chapter, yay!
The meaning of Reyas name is completely made up, just so you guys know.
I must admit that I absolutely love the way Klaus says Rippah :D
I am leaning more and more towards a Damon/Reya pairing and I really hope that is okay with everyone.
And by the looks of it, Elijah and Niklaus is planning to share Jeremy as long as Jeremy is okay with that, but then comes the question who I should pair Kol with?
Until next time
XOXO
Nyxi