A/N: I do not own The Vampire Diaries I only own my OC and whatever changes I'll be making to the plot.
Believe it or not, this was actually going to be longer, I could have stuck to the script but that'd be boring, and repetitive, so I added my own scenes because The Bennetts didn't start having a lot of scenes until later in the series. If whoever is reading this is wondering about how I came up with my OC's name well it was between two names Thea or Nova. I liked Nova better because it was unique as the name Bonnie, and 'A supernova is an astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star's life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion.' Wiki quote, the name Nova means new and bright and star, and I thought it fit. The middle name Amelia came from a Bennett Ancestor since Bonnie has the middle name Sheila I thought I'd keep with that tradition. I haven't done a lot of magic scenes and I will add more as the plot comes along because that's why I made her a Bennett because I love magic and thought 'what if Bonnie had been taught at a young age.'
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When Elena admitted to the girls that Matt and her's relationship was slowly but surely fizzling out from the lack of passion, Nova knew that the next party could be the party where Elena bails on family night, only for Mr & Mrs. Gilbert to pick her up, their car to going off the Wickery Bridge.
And with their death comes the Salvatore brothers.
She was upset and feeling guilty even though she can't do anything about their deaths, just knowing when someone is going to die can fuck with minds; so Nova did what Nova did best when she's upset, she ignored the world around her with parties, alcohol, sex, and when that didn't work she painted her soul out onto a canvas, her room currently filled with canvases, the attic now too full.
The month of May is when it happens; it's 1 AM and the bonfire party is still growing strong, there's music coming from the outdoor speakers, and everyone is more than a little drunk.
Nova is currently dirty dancing in between two classmates, Penny and James, at least she thinks that's their names, all she knows for certain is that they're both great kissers, she hums to the music, dragging her hands slightly under the other girl's shirt.
Someone tapped on her shoulder, she turned her head slightly annoyed, that's leaning on James or was it, Jake, she's actually not sure if he actually gave her a name.
Nova smiles drunkenly when she saw Elena standing there with an amused look in her eyes. Elena, her best friend, her brother from another mother; only with boobs.
"Hey, I'm going to go, I called someone to pick me up," Elena says with a raised voice, with an apologetic frown.
Elena's reasoning for leaving makes Nova's grin disappear and her body chilled to the bone even though just a second ago she was warm and drunk, it practically sobers her. She pushes Penny away slightly, not saying anything to them, she leads Elena away from the dancing crowd and towards the big bonfire.
"Are you okay?" Nova asks in concern, slightly raising her voice to be heard over the music, nervously looking around for blue eyes and a leather jacket, she knows he's here, but she can't see the where part.
Elena smiles at her concern but waves her off, "Yeah I'm fine, just Matt, he started talking about marriage, and kids, I'm not ready for that, not with him. I just wanted to say goodnight, so you wouldn't worry." Elena teases her friend.
Nova is possessive of her precious people, and it shows in how she protects them; like the one time Bonnie got dumped by her first boyfriend, via text; Nova just might have talked the girls into egging the stupid bastards house.
They even filmed it and posted it on Youtube, anonymously, of course, it went viral within weeks.
"Okay well text me when you get home." She fakes a smile for Elena and gives her a hug, the skin contact makes Nova's eyes to glaze over as she has Visions of the crash, but it only makes her hold on tighter to the teen. Nova sighs at the images that are bombarding her, the car swerving off the bridge, Stefan Salvatore swimming towards the car, Mrs. and Mr. Gilbert's death, and all the while she ignores them trying to stay grounded, holding on tighter.
"Nova?" Elena says, her voice strained.
"Yeah?" Nova says, absently, still holding on tight.
"Can't. Breathe." Elena replied, with a grunt, exhaling when Nova finally let's go, "Are you okay?" Elena echoes back worriedly, seeing through the fake smile.
"I'm just drunk." Nova says waving away the concern, which is the truth but not what Elena was asking. "You didn't answer my question, Nova." Elena says, her eyes worried, Nova tends to worry about everyone else but herself.
"No, I'm not, but I will be." She reassures Elena, but it's more for herself.
Elena looks like she wants answers, all of the girls are really nosy and prone to pry, it's a shared trait, but shockingly Elena chose not to pry and just gives her another hug, gentler this time.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" Elena questions, as she lets go.
Nova just nods not trusting herself to speak without blurting out anything and with a gentle squeeze Elena leaves.
Now alone next to the giant fire she stares at the Element that killed her, before snorting at the irony of dying by fire; only to be reincarnated as a Witch.
From the corner of her eye she spots a cat running towards the forest; slightly curious, she follows as though in a trance causing her to miss the sight of a handsome raven haired male leaving the party to go lay on an empty road, waiting for dessert, only to end up seeing the woman he loves face on another girl.
Nova is now far away from the party in the woods, she knows these woods from having to practice spells here, but she still ends up tripping slightly in the dark, and currently feels like a fucking idiot, following a stupid fucking cat into the stupid woods.
When the black cat finally stops running, it turned to look at her before sitting casually.
She gasped; it was the eyes, eerily glowing in the dark, the same green eyes she died looking into.
She dropped down slowly onto the dirt ground and ignoring the pebbles digging into her bare knees, she never takes her eyes off the black cat and he doesn't take its eyes off of her as she holds out her hand.
The feline slowly walks over until his fur brushes her fingertips, her fingers automatically curling in his fur just the way he likes it.
She breathes in and out deeply as Magic surrounded them, practically suffocating her; she just sits their fingers in the black cat's fur until it gradually recedes and she can easier breathe again.
"Merlin." Nova breathes out in wonder, the cat just purred.
"How did you get here?" Nova questions picking up the cat to look in its eyes, she's still drunk and really doesn't suspect he'll answer, but you never know what you're going to get with Magic, but the cat just meows, causing her to slump in disappointment.
Well, no talking felines, guess she won't be pulling a Sabrina the Teenage Witch anytime soon, she'll have to get her answers elsewhere, for now, she just grabs Merlin and settled on the ground more comfortably.
"I don't know what the hell I'm doing here, I thought it'd be easier, me knowing things," She tugs the feline closer, sighing into the night, "I love it here, but I have a feeling my knowledge is just going to bite me in my ass instead of helping me."
Nova doesn't say anything more on the subject; never know when someone is listening on the Other Side. She just sits there, no tears, just blank faced and eyes distant, she's not sure how long she sat there, before without a word more she stood with Merlin in her arms, and walks slowly towards the party, one step closer to death, her constant shadow.
The party was over apparently because everyone was leaving.
"Hey, have you seen Elena?" Bonnie walks up and asks as soon as she sees her sister, worried expression in place, wanting to ask about the feline in her sister's arms but more worried about her friend.
Nova clutches Merlin tighter and nods her head, "Yeah, she called someone to come pick her up a while ago." Nova replies, her response makes Bonnie panic and clutch her twins shoulders in alarm.
"She can't be, please tell me she hasn't left." Bonnie practically begs her sister. "She did, what's going on, Bonnie?" Nova asks blandly because she already knows what happened.
"A car went off the Wickery Bridge, they said only one person made it out." Bonnie replied, biting back a sob, tears in her green eyes, the tears cause Nova to grab hold of Bonnie, pulling her close, her sister cries into her shoulder, Merlin unhappily squished in the middle.
Nova's eyes are filled with sadness and guilt as she hugs Bonnie.
'Never trust a hug, it's just a way to hide your face.' Nova internally quotes.
A week later the three girls are dressed in all black; while they all crowd under a giant black umbrella, the rain pouring down violently. Elena and Jeremy are ahead of them, in front of them are two fresh headstones, most had already left, the service had been over a while ago, the girls had stayed, to make sure the Gilbert siblings got home okay. Nova looks up at the stormy sky, "It's like the sky is crying with them." She mumbles softly, the girls simply nod, not saying anything.
After a while they see Jeremy walk away from the fresh graves towards the woods; leaving Elena alone standing alone under the umbrella, his sad drowned puppy look kicking her in the face.
Nova thought it over for a split second before handing the umbrella off to Caroline, before running towards the direction Jeremy went.
"Where are you going!?" Caroline yells over the noise of the rain, slightly confused, her twin, however, doesn't question her and has a knowing look in her eyes.
She loves Elena and she'll be there for the mourning teen when she's needed, but Elena has three best friends that love her and are there for her. Jeremy, however, has shit taste in 'friends' and while they gave sympathies, they'll never really try to be there for him like an actual friend would.
Nova's known Jeremy since he was in diapers, she knows he's going to go emo-drug dealer on them, no matter what she says to him now. Everyone has their way of mourning, hers is ignoring the pain until it either goes away or comes back with a vengeance; but emo-drug dealer or not he's one of her precious people, it's becoming a very long list nowadays.
"I'm going to look after the emo kid!" Nova yells back half jokingly, but mostly serious.
Caroline nods understandingly before her and Bonnie walk towards Elena who hadn't even known they were still there.
Nova walks in the rain, shivering as she gets pelted with raindrops, she's started to regret wearing heels, no matter how short of the heel it is, wearing any type of heel while walking in mud is just asking for a sprained ankle; so she slips them off, tracking Jeremy's foot prints into the woods. She's currently feeling like a drowned cat, walking in this rain, she prefers looking at the rain from her window, thank you very much.
When she finds him, after a couple wrong turns and following foot prints that were actually deer prints, she finds him sitting on a fallen tree, sobbing. Nova kind of just stares at him and silently wondered what the hell she was thinking, they haven't even been that close since he started hanging out with those boys he used to call 'friends' and thought him hanging out with a chick was 'totally lame bro', like she has fucking coodies, she's about to turn back only to step on a twig.
"Fucking shit!" Nova curses, hopping in one place with a giant ass splinter in her foot, making Jeremy turn towards her, his eyes showing his confusion when he see's her there.
"Nova, what the hell are you doing out here?" Jeremy asks, helping her hop over to the log he had been sitting on.
"Oh, you know just out for a stroll." Nova tries nonchalantly, only to yelp in pain when Jeremy starts removing the splinters.
"Barefoot, in the woods, while it's raining?" Jeremy questions skeptically, removing the splinters from her foot. "Okay so maybe the barefoot part was a bad idea-" She stops rambling when Jeremy just looks at her, "I was following you." She says, rather unapologetic that she got caught.
"Why?" Jeremy asks letting go of her foot, his tone biting, "I thought you'd be with Elena right now." Okay, she totally deserved that, maybe he's feeling neglected from the awesomeness that is Nova, she thinks to herself; it's completely normal.
"Elena's with Bonnie and Caroline right now," Nova pulls her feet in Jeremy's lap ignoring his glare, puppies have a better glare than him,"you, however, wanted to walk alone in the woods at night, that right there's a beginning of a cliche horror movie." Nova says pointing a finger at Jeremy, mockingly glaring at him.
She's totally being a hypocrite right now, but aren't we all.
Jeremy smiled slightly but it was halfhearted at best, pathetic at worst.
Nova doesn't say anything, she knows there's nothing she could say, she's not going to say 'sorry for your loss' or ask him if he's 'okay'. Jeremy already knows she's sorry for his loss without the worn out words that he gets on a regular basis and will be getting for months maybe even years after, and no he isn't okay, none of them are. Grayson and Miranda Gilbert had been big figures in their small town and the lost of them is felt; the family they left behind felt it most of all.
"I couldn't believe they were gone at first, when they told us they were dead," Jeremy says after awhile of just staring at the sky, the moon now peeking through the clouds, the rain having come to a light drizzle, "I don't think it had sunk in until they never came home, I keep expecting them to walk through the door, alive, but they haven't." She stays silent as he talks, she wonders when was the last time someone listened to him; his friends are shit, Jenna and Elena love him but they're mourning as much he is and won't be much help.
When his voice starts cracking from how long he's been talking, she pulled her ruined heels back on, before hauling his form up from the log towards the cemetery, where her new car is currently parked.
He doesn't resist but he also drags his feet, making it harder for her to get him to her car, in the dark, with only the light from her phone guiding her. She eventually manages to guide him, the difference in height didn't help though, he's shooting up in the height department, already taller than her, which isn't much of an achievement.
She popped her trunk before they got in, handing the practically drowned teenager two towels one to dry with and the other to put under him before he gets in the car, she wrapped one around her head and another one went on the drivers seat because she loves her car and in no way are they going to ruin it with water damage.
The drive to the Gilbert Residence was silent but not an uncomfortable one, she was mildly surprised when he broke it.
"Will it get better?" Jeremy questions, making her eyes flicker towards him before going back to the road.
"Why are you asking me?" Nova asks, curiously.
"You give great advice, even when we were kids, and you and Bonnie never talk about your mom so I assumed.." Jeremy trails off, his eyes taking in the houses speeding by.
"Mommy dearest abandoned us at a young age, but..advice, I can do advice." Nova changes the subject because this isn't about her problems, this is about his grief.
She's silent for a while just thinking; about what she went through, how she lost almost everything, she had died terribly only to be reborn as a new person, in a new universe; she lost almost everything that had made her, her, new life, same soul, same memories, but she's just different than before.
She remembers grief, she never lost both of her parents to death, but she did lose a lot. "Every day is going feel like hell-" She starts bluntly, vividly remembering her old life, her grandma's death is still a scar on her soul that she doesn't think will ever heal.
"Great advice." Jeremy scoffs, "Not finished." She shot back, she isn't upset by the interruption, she expected it to be honest.
"Every day is going to feel like hell, you'll be lost and angry at the world and when you do find yourself again, you might not be who you were before. Your life will be emptier without them and no, the pain never goes away, it's just waiting to come back to make you feel miserable at impromptu moments." Nova says, making the younger boy think she's finished, when he opens his mouth, no doubt to say something pessimistic and scathing she cuts him off.
"But it's okay to feel like shit, it's okay to be angry and lost for a while and not all change is bad, in fact it's necessary, but the world moves on even when you're sad and feel like shit, so find something that makes the days less hard and less like shit." Nova finished before parking on The Gilbert's street. Jeremy looks hesitant to go inside, so she grabs his shoulder making him turn to her, his eyes pitiful. "Listen, I know we haven't exactly hung out in a while, it's mostly your fault," He rolled his eyes in typical teenage fashion,"But I'm here for you, even when you don't want me to be."
Jeremy nods but overall stays silent as he gets out of the vehicle to walk towards the front door, she wanted to talk to Elena but she doesn't think it'd be right to intrude on the mourning family, so she just waves at the Gilbert siblings that are standing in the doorway, before driving away when they go inside the now emptier home.
School starts tomorrow, she's currently at her Grams house, sitting on the green grass, staring at the vervain that's growing in spades. "You have something on your mind." Grams states more than questions from behind her.
Nova tilted her head back and smiled sadly at her Grams.
"Something's coming." Nova replied, turning back to the vervain.
"The Salvatores." Grams states knowingly, when she see's what her granddaughter is looking at, before sitting down next to her.
Bonnie has a way of just knowing things, she has a gift for the Divination arts as much as Nova does, her predictions coming true most of the time; Nova, however, has Visions of the past, present, and future, it's not like predicting the future, more like Seeing the future, but the future is always changing, twisting and turning.
Nothing is completely set in stone.
"And with them will come more." Nova says a far away look in her brown eyes, before looking at her Grams. "So what are you going to do about it?" Grams questions brushing her fingers through Nova's hair making her hum in content.
"I'm going to prepare." And with that Nova grabs two pieces of fresh vervain and leaves the garden with her Grams in tow.
Nova began doing what she said she'd do, preparing, there's not much she can do yet, it's all about timing. She had bought a locket for Caroline earlier that year, the twins regularly spike their friend's drinks with vervain but this is more convenient and it's more protection if the girls one day forget to give them vervain.
Nova knocks on the Forbes' front door the day before school, shifting slightly as she waited for someone to come to the door.
"What happened to the door being too normal for you?" Caroline teases as soon as the door opened. "Ha ha ha, I was going to give you something, but if you don't want it.." Nova trails off and mockingly turns on her heel like she's about to leave.
Caroline gasps and grabs her arms, yanking the girl into the house.
"Don't you dare say such things, I'll always accept free things." Caroline says, her voice outraged, they walk towards the blonde's room.
The Forbes women had moved after Liz and Bill's divorce, Bill had insisted his ex- wife keep his last name, it's probably the nicest thing the man's done for his ex-wife; last names mean everything here, because if someone has 'Founder's' last name, they have power in the town, and Liz didn't need people undermining her at her job because she got a last name change. It's some small town, sexist, chauvinistic bullshit, but people had been skeptical of letting a woman be Sheriff let alone one who was young and lost her Founding member card because her husband turned out to be gay.
She ending up keeping the last name because the name gave her power. Like Nova said, bullshit.
"So what did you get me?" Caroline turns on her as soon as their in the room.
Nova simply hands her the necklace she hadn't bothered wrapping, it's a silver heart shaped locket with a smaller heart shaped gem in the center of the heart, it won't open without her because of the spell she used to practically smelt it from the inside. It has a lot of vervain in it that she'll have to take out when Caroline turns, the blue gem will also be taken out and traded in for lapis lazuli so the blonde could keep it when she did get turned into a vampire.
Caroline turning into a vampire is something she can't change, and she's not sure she would ever want to, because no matter how much of a selfish bitch Katherine is; her turning Caroline was one of the best things that happened to the blonde. It had made her more confident, powerful and comfortable in her own skin. Caroline is in desperate need of a confidence boost. What she can change though, is the abusive relationship Caroline and Damon would have had.
He can go find someone else to make into his own personal toy, she doesn't really care, but her friends and family are off limits.
"Ooh pretty, but it's not my birthday yet, omg, is this a lesbian necklace, are you in love with me?!" Caroline questions teasingly, but the question is still in her eyes while putting on the locket.
"Nah, you're too high maintenance for me." Nova waved away the question and ignored Caroline reproachful glare. "I just saw something I thought you'd like, and bought it." Nova says while the blonde goes to her full mirror to look at the locket. Nova starts playing with Caroline's nail polishes that are on the dresser, before slyly slipping liquid vervain out of her leather jacket, and into the clear nail hardener, it's the only one her blonde friend always uses.
"Well thank you for your random act of kindness, it really is pretty... but it won't open.." Caroline trails off confused as she tries to open the locket.
"It must have a bad lock, sorry." Nova apologizes half-heartedly, ignoring the first part because she's always nice; to her friends at least, most of the time.
She just finished mixing the liquid vervain into the nail polish bottle when her friend turned back towards her. "It's fine, the fact that it's really pretty, makes up for the fact it's broken, I'll never take it off." Caroline promises with a genuine smile.
Well at least that's one thing she doesn't have to worry about, Nova thinks.
"See you tomorrow Care!" Nova yelled from her car's open window.
"Be here to pick me up at 7 AM." Caroline practically threatens but it only makes Nova shrug, "Of course." Nova promises and with a wave, she drives off.
Nova is supposed to be driving Caroline to school; Bonnie had already left ten minutes ago to pick up Elena.
Nova, however, is only in her push up bra, black skinny jeans, and white socks, still looking in her wardrobe for a shirt. She knows it might seem shallow to other people, but she likes looking nice for herself, it's her armor. She's about to meet her first vampires, she'll need all the armor she can get. Nova pulls out two tops, one dark blue with long sleeves and one v neck white tank, turning to the other being in the room she holds them in front of her looking at herself in her vanity mirror.
"What do you think, blue or white, conservative or sexy?" Nova turned to her cat who's lying on her bed, staring at her with lazy eyes, his flicking his tail back and forth.
"You're completely right, conservative is for funerals and pre-school teachers, Merlin, sexy it is." Nova nods acting like the cat actually responded before she threw the top on the vanity's bench and sat down next to it. Staring at the reflection she's now getting used to seeing in the mirror, she put on makeup, the black cat now circling her feet under the vanity.
After the funeral Nova had looked everywhere for a clue to what Merlin is but there's so much folklore on cats, it's hard to filter out what's real and fake, luckily when Grams saw him she knew what he was; her familiar.
Apparently, it's rare for Witches to have one nowadays but it does still happen.
Familiars are supernatural beings, as much as a Witch is, they'll appear in animal form, sometimes mythical, sometimes domestic, or even non-domestic, if they like a Witch enough they'll bond themselves to the Witch in question, but not the other way around.
The Familiar will help their bonded Witch in any way capable.
Feline familiars are known to spy on enemies, and help guide the Witch bonded to them with spells, the how is unknown to her since Merlin won't fucking communicate with her at all and just stares at her with his eerie all-knowing eyes.
But what she does know, is that they hadn't bonded until the forest, there had been Magic in the air, she had felt it in her bones and practically tasted it on her tongue.
Nova makes funny faces in the mirror while putting on gel winged eyeliner and lip balm, keeping it simple because she doesn't like makeup caked on her face. After she's finished with her makeup she slides her white tank top on.
Nova's hand dig in her jewelry box while the other one plays with Merlin's raised tail, as he circles her feet, she's glad she has Merlin in this universe now, he's one of the things keeping her from questioning her sanity. Too much anyway.
Nova chose to wear her black studded earrings, she slides the ironic black cat and the vampire teeth rings on her fingers.
Just for shits and giggles.
She took a moment to look at her cell phone, checking the time, before cursing at Caroline's 'where r u?' text. "Shit" Caroline will skin her alive if she's late for the first day of school because of Nova's perpetual tardiness.
Running towards her bed she pulled her black and white all-star chucks from underneath before pulling them on her sock clad feet.
"See ya later Merlin, don't do anything I won't do." Nova laughs at her pathetic joke, the feline's eyes never leaving her form, while she grabs the black shoulder tote bag from her doorknob.
She left her bedroom door open for Merlin, so he could leave if he ever got hungry, she double checks she has everything in her tote as she walks, she has her Polaroid, color pencils, mint green lead pencils with the words 'you are totally magical' engraved on them that she ordered online, school books she picked up a week ago, a composition book, her sketch pad and journal. Before grabbing her black leather jacket from the couch, rushing to her car, locking the door behind her.
She practically melts when she turns to her car.
A freshly painted red 1974 AMC Javelin AMX.
The girls both chose a car after getting their licenses, Bonnie chose a 2007 Toyota Prius. Nova, however, choose a much more expensive ride, she also had to painfully learn how to drive stick shift and it cost her three months worth of allowance; but she's been saving her money since the third grade and the classic just spoke dirty things to her when she had seen it in the seventh car dealership they had visited out of town.
She had given her father a choice, the motorcycle they saw back at home that he 'forbids' her from getting or the nice but kind of expensive classic.
He chose to spend the money, for her safety he said.
Their father actually stayed for a full month after that, she thinks it was because he didn't realize they had grown up so fast. Like weeds.
Nova honks in front of Caroline's house, after a moment Caroline comes out dressed in a white cotton mini dress with lace inserts, a pink cardigan, and sparkly gold flats, and with a pink purse in hand, the locket Nova gave her hanging from her neck. Her face, however, is stormy from how late Nova is at picking her up.
"Get in, loser!" Nova quotes from her open car window, making Caroline crack a very reluctant smile before shaking her head in amusement.
Once the blonde is buckled in Nova drives away from the house and heads in the direction of the school, Caroline turns head towards Nova wind blowing her blonde locks as she took in her friend with narrows her eyes at her friend.
"What?" Nova eyes staying on the road, focusing on the gears, but she can feel Caroline's gaze like lasers.
"Something's different about you today." Caroline is still staring.
"Yeah, I got a new vibrator, it's helping with the premature wrinkles you girls give me." Nova smiles brightly when Caroline throws her a dirty look.
"Not funny." Caroline hides her smile.
"So funny." Nova shot back without a beat, stopping at a red light.
"I don't know what it is, but I will find out." Caroline states when the light turns green, pulling her compact mirror out of her purse to reapply her lip gloss.
"Of that I have no doubt, you always do." Nova replies; all of her friends are stubborn and really nosy, Bonnie included, she can relate to both traits, it's why they're all friends. She turns into the school's parking lot and parks next to Matt's 1981 Dodge Ram. "How do I look?" Caroline asks rhetorically, already knowing she looks great.
"Fetching." Nova smiling at her friend."How do I look." Nova echoes back, flipping her curled hair over her shoulder with an exaggerated pout.
"So fetch." Caroline replies seriously before they get out of the car with matching grins.
"Cool ride, Nova!" Jason from her art class says passing by, his fingers reaching towards her baby. "Don't fucking touch my ride, Smith." Nova's voice threatened bodily harm making his fingers freeze before his paint stained hands reached her baby.
Jason rolls his eyes and leaves with a mumbled 'crazy bitch' under his breath.
"I heard that Jason, you're more of a bitch than I am!" Nova yells at his retreating back and rolling her eyes at his raised middle finger with Caroline looking on in amusement.
"So protective of your car, you're like a female Dean Winchester, are you going to go trade your wardrobe in for a bunch of plaid shirts and jeans and go hunt ghost with Bonnie?" Caroline teasingly asked.
"Nah, I like fashion way too much, but hey, does that mean you're in love with me?" Nova asks her brown eyes filled with laughter as they walk towards the school's double doors. "No thanks, you're too high maintenance for me." Caroline echoes what Nova said yesterday, before grinning at the faux hurt look Nova threw her.
They separate from there, going to their different lockers as people walked through the double doors. She's barely been in her locker for three minutes when Matt walks towards her with Tyler trailing behind slightly hesitant to face the girl; probably because the last time they saw each other was at his last party aka the party they groped at each other drunkenly, before he vomited on her shoes.
After that, he avoided her like the plague.
She isn't angry for the groping, it had been the first party she had attended since Mr. and Mrs. Gilberts death, they had been both drunk, she had been horny, and by that point, everyone looked attractive enough to fool around with. Tyler had just been conveniently around, she was more upset about the shoes she had to throw out the next day, maybe she should start giving people a bill for every time someone ruins her shit. Nova smiles reassuringly at Tyler, her eyes telling him she's not upset, in fact, she kind of forgot about it until now; the groping, not the shoes, never the shoes.
Matt is apparently a man on a mission as he walks up to her, with no greeting, before saying, "Have you seen Elena?" Nova tries and fails not to roll her eyes.
She loves Matt, really she does, but damn did Elena make him a needy little bag of dicks. "Hi Nova, how are you, how was the rest of your summer?" Nova says to herself, putting some of the stuff that was in her tote in the open locker, she ignores Matt for the time being and continues talking to herself.
"It was fine Matt, how was the rest of your summer? You'll be going to get the stick Elena stuck up your ass surgically removed, that's so great." Nova finished causing Tyler to crack a smile not even trying to hide it from a disgruntled Matt.
"Sorry Nova, it's just-" Matt says, looking apologetic, making her finally turn her head towards him. "I know," Nova cuts him off gently, "you're worried about her, we all are, but she needed space, so we give her space." Nova answers his question, squeezing his shoulder, seeing the brunette in question walk in the school with her twin sister.
Elena waves at Matt when she see's him starting, but he ignores her and puts in his earbuds in, but no music plays. "Wow, Matt, what happened to; Have you seen Elena." Nova mimics his voice, eyeing the jock with annoyance while shutting the locker and putting the padlock on. "Yeah man, you said to me just last night, you just had to talk to her, now you're blowing her off?" Tyler questions disbelievingly.
"Don't." Matt warns, practically pouting, Tyler rolls his eyes at his best friend before leaving, probably to find a drugged up Vicki Donovan.
Nova is about to say something about how much of bipolar idiot he's being and ask him if he's sure he didn't get replaced with an alien when Elena dumped him; only to dragged away by the blur called Caroline.
Nova doesn't question it when she sees them heading towards Elena and Bonnie.
"Elena, oh my god," Caroline says, practically tackles the Gilbert in a hug letting go of Nova's arm. "How are you?," Caroline doesn't actually give the brunette a chance to answer before continuing, "Oh, it's so good to see you, sweetie," They all haven't seen the Gilberts properly since the funeral.
Which was four months ago; Calls and texts don't count, neither does that one time she had bumped into Jenna at the grocery store.
Nova smiles at her twin, side arm hugging her, as they stare at Caroline hogging Elena. "How is she, is she good?" Caroline asks Bonnie, releasing Elena.
"Caroline, I'm right here, and I'm fine, thank you." Elena said practically mimicking the voice of a broken machine.
None of the girls are buying the bullshit that Elena is selling, and it shows on all of their faces. "Really?" Caroline's disbelief is on her face. "Yes, much better." Elena replies slightly more convincingly, not.
"Oh, Elena..."Caroline says sadly, before hugging Elena again.
"Okay, Care, you can let go now." Elena says in slight amusement patting Caroline's back.
"Oh, Okay, I'll see you guys later?" Caroline says in mild disappointment that the hug ended but still pulling away.
"See you later, Care." Nova says, while Bonnie just waves while smiling in amusement when Caroline practically prances away back towards her locker.
"No comment." Elena says, closing her locker.
"I wasn't going to say anything." The twins say at the same time before smirking at each other; Elena rolls her eyes at the twins, being best friends since they've been in pigtails made her practically immune to their twin antics.
"You're not going to ask?" Elena questions after she gets her turn hugging the Gilbert, making Nova pull back slightly to look at her friend in confusion so the other girl clarifies. "If I'm okay."
Elena almost looks expectant for the slightly overused question, making Nova smile sadly. "No, I'm not, because I know you're not okay, not yet anyway, fake it till you make it right?" Nova replied before hooking both her arms into the crooks of the other girls before Elena could lie and say how much happier she is because they all know that's bullshit.
The girls walk around, chatting arm in arm, class not starting for another ten minutes. They walk over near the bathrooms, the school office doors open in front of them.
"Hold up, who's this." Bonnie asks, looking at the back of a new student; Stefan Salvatore. Cue moment of Déjà vu, Nova thinks.
"All I see is back." Elena joined staring at said back with Nova and Bonnie. "It's a hot back." Bonnie and Nova say together, not tearing their eyes away from said back.
Nova lets go of their arms to grab the Polaroid camera from her tote.
"I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar." Bonnie guesses teasingly, not trying at all. "You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" Elena asks smiling at Bonnie, making Nova stiffen for a split second before relaxing.
Grams had told Nova and Bonnie this week that she thought they were ready for the responsibility of telling people what they are, said it was time for them to start making their own choices with their Magic; the twins decided to tell Elena and Caroline. They chose to start by slowly easing them into the idea of the twins being less than normal and then tell them together, in case it goes wrong they'd be a united front.
Nova can see the subtle differences between the show and the reality that she has a feeling she changed already. Some people would be concerned with the change, she feels happy about it, because it means she can keep certain people from dying.
"Pretty much." Bonnie confirms, still staring at Stefan.
She had told Bonnie this morning that vampires were heading back to Mystic Falls, one who has ill intent and the other wished to live a normal life, Bonnie was naturally confused by the warning, but understood that her sister couldn't say anything more.
Nova knows that her sister will want to protect their friends, so does she, which is why the twins found out a way to put vervain in jewelry; and gifted them to Elena and Caroline. Elena is currently sporting a vervain leather cord charm bracelet on her left wrist.
She knows that Stefan will give Elena a certain locket, that's not changing, but a second good luck charm never hurts.
"I'll be back." Elena frowns suddenly and follows Jeremy in the men's bathroom.
Nova takes a picture of Stefan's back with a Polaroid camera, making Bonnie look at her in amusement. "Did you just?" Bonnie questions disbelieving before her eyes flickered back to Stefan.
"Yes, I believe I indeed just did." Nova says with zero shame, shaking the photo out and putting it in her journal for safe keeping.
"Please be hot." Bonnie mutters with a hopeful look on her face. Stefan turns and passes them with a small smile, that they both return happily, her camera flashes as it takes a picture of his face. She smiles at his amused face, she has zero shame, she'll treasure this photo for life.
Everyone in the halls is looking at the new guy, most of the girls staring in lust and more than a few males staring appreciatively, the rest of the school body are just nosy little fucks.
Nova wipes the slight drool from her mouth, stupid Salvatore genes.
"Come on we're going to be late for class." Bonnie says after she's pulled out what Nova is calling 'gorgeous person trance', walking towards their first class.
"Yeah, we'd really hate to miss that." Nova snarks at her sister but walks with her.