Chapter 1

Sarah groaned as she kicked at her blankets and reached for her glasses on the night table. It was 5am and her last day working her shitty nursing shift work, at her shitty hospital with its shitty pay and shitty understaffing.

She took a deep breaths. Sigh. Yes. Today was the last day and then she was finally off on her round the world cruise, sipping unlimited pina colatas, pool side, in a bikini, on a giant boat...

No more responsibility. No more work. No more Debbie.

"Good morning! Good mooorrrning! Goooood morning, to you!" Came the morning song, from bloody debbie as she kicked Sarah's pile of dirty clothes on the floor and jumped on Sarah to start the day.

Debbie also worked the early shift and as Sarah's roommate was especially too happy (or stupid) to be near Sarah pre-coffee.

"Piss off deb or you're driving," mumbled Sarah, she rolled off her warm, comfy bed to brave the cold winter morning. Debbie scrambled out of the room and sarah got dressed for the day.

After grabbing her to-go cup of coffee and locking up the apartment for the day, the girls took off in Debbie's tiny, yellow beetle.

Debbie always raged with her morning heavy metal music to psych herself up for the day, as Sarah had long since become prepared with industrial grade earplugs for fine mornings such as these.

It was a particularly misty morning and Sarah had the high beam lights up and went to turn the heater up when she spotted a truck overturned on the road.

Sarah slammed the breaks and debbies head smashed on the front board of the car as the car flipped, airbags deployed, and a metal beam stabbed through the windshield right through Sarah's neck.

The last thing Sarah thought was how she was going to miss her long awaited and much anticipated (and well earned) holiday. Sigh. What can you do.

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"..."

It was distant.

"Bonnie," yeah that was definitely some type of noise.

"Hey! Hey! Bonnie!" The voice was right in her ear, "Bonnie wake up, Tanner's coming! Look alive!"

Some random blonde girl shook her awake, that actress from that show. Sarah saw it as a teenager, wasn't Tanner that teacher that people hated or something?

"Good morning class, let's get started. Today..." the teacher started the class and she needed the hospital.

Sarah grasped her throat and checked her arms. No blood, no pain, a bit of drool but otherwise she was fine.

'What the hell is going on?!' She thought, completely freaking out as she spots Paul Weasly making eyes at Nina Dobrev.

"...Miss Bennett?" Oh, shit. He was looking at her. Tanner stared at her with that half smirk, half condescending look on his face.

'What did Bonnie say in the show?!'

"Umm, like a lot?" Ok, that is not her voice. Super weird. Why is this happening to her? Is this a crazy dream?

"Cute becomes dumb in an instant Miss Bennett, Mr Donovan would you like to overcome your Jock stereotype today?"

Ok she was in the clear. She needed to get out of here. What the hell should she do?

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Everything was happening as it did in the show. Stefan showed up Tanner. Gets along with Elena. Caroline is interested but is politely declined.

Damon.

Sarah- or I guess Bonnie, sits alone at the Mystic Grill people watching while making her checklist to surviving The Vampire Diaries;

Don't let Bonnies grams die.

Don't let the tomb vampires kill out

Get the Gilbert device

Get the moonstone

Find slater

Warn Klaus about his mother and tell him where Mikael is - some tomb in Charlotte right?

Find Elijah

Undagger Rebecca

Save Enzo and destroy Augustine

Tell Klaus about the Cure for Vampirism and he can deal with it

The list is still a bit hazy form what she remembers from over 10 years ago when the show finally ended. She should probably also add learn magic.

"Hello there, Glenda was it?" And there stood Damon Salvatore in all his beautiful blue-eyed crazy glory. A small smirk on his lips as he tapped the wooden table twice and sat in the booth across from Bonnie.

"Bonnie, actually." She also wrote Emily's pendant, added to the list of things to make things less difficult for Bonnie. "It will cost you 5 million US dollars and I'll open the tomb for you," it was a massive gamble to come right out and say it but may as well try and negotiate a price for probably almost dying ti open the stupid tomb for him.

Damon's smirk turned sour as his fingers twitched and eye shift around the room, looking for ease droppers before he whispered, "you don't know who your playing with honey. Don't you with me, what do you know?" He was seething, not really the cool, swavue dementor he had in the show. He definitely had his humanity on.

"Witches talk. Even the dead ones, Damon. Especially, the dead ones. Emily says hi, by the way. But I'm a newbie. It's dangerous for me to attempt such strong magic, especially unweaving a one and a half century old containment spell, completed by a much more experienced witch. Even if I am of her bloodline."

"But you are her descendant-"

"Yes. But I would need a conduit, a connection to Emily. Or if I could get a sample of Katherine's flesh I can bind her to a protection amulet that would allow her to cross the threshold." She was seriously bullshitting now but he seemed to be buying it.

"That sounds like bullshit," yeah no he wasn't buying it.

"No, seriously it's much easier and the ancestors would be a lot more appreciative that I didn't let out all the other tomb vampires to rage on the town. But also on the other hand giving you what you want and you also don't go rage upon the town. It's a win-win all around!"

She was coming up with this on the spot but at least with Damon in the tomb he could see she wasn't in there and rage and kill all the tomb vamps and then she could let him out.

"Show me the spell and I'll think about it," came the reply. Bugger, so close.

"Yeah, sure thing." Sarah-Bonnie dug deep and scrubbed out a ritual looking circle with an ingredient list and some random Latin word combos from her Supernatural watching days and passed it over to Damon for inspection.

"Of course, being so close to her you can provide a single memento or possession of hers I can combine with the binding amulet and presto we are on our way to having her out of the tomb." She held her breathe as she waited for his reaction.

Damon stared at her comprehensively. Her heart rate was steady and she looked back at her list as she prayed this would work.

"5 million and you do this tonight." She silently screamed in joy. "I'll get everything on this list and she has to be out by tonight or I hunt down every person you love and send you their heads before I come for yours, understood?" Okay, this was getting very real.

"Completely, I'm sure you can track down where I live and you can take me to the site 8pm tonight."

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Sarah had everything set out as she had randomly placed in the drawing she gave Damon as he watched her through the moonbeams between the clouds.

God, how did she end up here.

Finishing up the last scribbles in the dirt, opening up some random pendant Damon had given her, she turned to him.

"Okay, it's time. I can use anything off her like a stand of hair, finger nail, whatever and when you found her give me a shout and I've got everything ready."

Damon was so antsy he didn't think twice and vamp zoomed through the gate of the cave and searched each body for his Katherine.

'Well that was easy.' She thought and then she passed out.