I Do Not Own Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
Davina sighed as she came to the house Bonnie had decided to use for her ancestors and shouldered the bag of candles she had brought with her as well as the other supplies. Bonnie's car came crunching up the gravel. She turned at the witch got out of the car and came towards her.
"So… what are you teaching me today?" Bonnie asked.
"Nothing," Davina answered as she looked at the other witch and smiled a little. "I'm going to ask a massive favor of you, which I will happily pay back."
"What favor?" Bonnie asked carefully.
"I need you to trust me," Davina said. "If you can do that then I'm going to ask for you to help me."
"With?"
"Well to tell you that I need to know if you trust me," Davina pointed out.
Bonnie seemed to think about it carefully before she nodded slowly. "I do trust you, Davina," Bonnie said carefully.
"Good," she nodded and walked into the house.
"Where's Kol?" Bonnie asked her.
"He is arranging transport and supplies for our trip to go kill Silas." Davina had bartered this with him, if he took care of supplies and arrangements, she would let him, and everyone meet 'Little Davina' as they were terming her younger self.
"Do you… do you want help with that?" Bonnie asked warily.
"I think it's for the best if I don't tempt trouble by having people who want to use the cure with me. Kol, Klaus, Hayley and Marcel are going with me and that'll be enough," she shrugged.
"Really?" Bonnie mused.
"Kol and I were going already, Klaus is coming because he probably wants to annoy Kol or attempt to find the cure for his diabolical schemes, which I will have to thwart, Marcel is coming because he doesn't trust me with Kol and Klaus together, and Hayley's coming as my reinforcement for when those three are at each other's throats," she explained.
Bonnie snorted. "That sounds like quite the plan," she chuckled.
"It'll be something," Davina admitted.
"So what do you want my help with?" Bonnie asked. "You seem to always have everything in hand. I don't see what I could teach you or help you with," Bonnie said.
Davina put up a barrier that would silence any sound out of the room they walked into, it was precaution in case Kol decided to snoop. Bastard was nosey by nature when he was curious.
"What I am about to tell you will have to stay between us, no matter what. Other than Kol, Hayley and Marcel no one else knows, and only Marcel will know all of what I'm about to share with you, Kol and Hayley don't know this."
"Okay?" the teen said nervously.
"I'm not from this time," Davina stated as she set down her bag and started pulling her candles for her spell. "I am from the future, where I am an adult, don't ask me how or why I'm here because I'm not entirely sure but there was a dark object involved. In my time I was dying, and then I woke up in this time."
"What?"
"In this time, my sixteen-year-old self would have been used for sacrificial magic, a ceremony known as the Harvest. In this time, she, or rather I, woke up the day after having just witnessed my three dearest friends be slaughtered before my eyes by my coven Elder. The three girls you have seen around me when I channel magic are Abigail, Cassie and Monique, currently, Davina's body, this body, houses their power, as well as her own. Until this morning I hadn't known exactly where my sixteen-year-old soul was, merely that I was here in my sixteen-year-old body. Now my younger self's soul is awakening, and I need to commune with her."
"Holy…!" Bonnie sputtered.
"My sixteen-year-old self is strong," Davina stated. "I am a witch prodigy, I am powerful in my own right, but she is tapped into the power of our dead friends right now, as am I, and I need you with me on the astral plane to help us keep the peace between us while I negotiate with her."
"Negotiate?" Bonnie gaped.
"The last thing, she, I, remember is that I was about to be sacrificed for the selfish needs of my coven as ordained by my coven, that'll still have to happen, but I, she, was terrified, I was out of control with magic, and power, terrified, pissed off, and had lost complete control of my life. She, I, will not be reasonable to manage and I need to make sure we have a mediator while she and I work out some things."
"How old is the you I'm talking to?" Bonnie asked.
"Thirty-four," Davina answered.
"Oh… so you're… you're old."
"I beg your pardon!? I am not old!"
"You're thirty-four."
"The Originals are Old! Silas is Old! The ancestors are Old! I'm thirty-four! That's not old!" Davina stated. "I am young, in the prime of my life, and happily married! I did all my penance for teenage nonsense, and I've done, and seen more than you ever will! I'm not old!"
"Ok… sorry," Bonnie bit her lip.
"Good," Davina stated as she flicked her fingers to light the candles then put a mark on her third eye as well as Bonnie's.
"How did you learn all this?" Bonnie asked.
"Kol," Davina answered.
"So… you've known him a while?"
"Since I was seventeen. Now, take my hands," Davina said as she held her hands out crossed while they sat on the floor. "Whatever I tell younger me, you must never repeat to anyone, ever, do you understand?"
"I understand," Bonnie admitted as she took Davina's hands.
"Good," Davina murmured. She started whispering the spell as she felt her soul and magic unfurl slowly, letting it wrap around the room as she surrendered her soul to the Other Side.
Bonnie gasped as voices and flickering images filled the air around her as her soul seemed to be pulled along.
"I beseech you, accept this offering as a sign of our faith."
"And for the record, I like this face just fine."
"This Is Not My Magic!"
"I love you, Kol Mikaelson."
"Hey D!"
"This is not manipulation. This is one thing in exchange for another. I'm offering you a deal."
"Hayley, I wanted to thank you."
"For what? Free fashion advice?"
"You need to let me go."
"I'm a French Quarter Witch. I was born with blood on my hands!"
"Come on, you don't recognize this roguish grin?"
"God, I missed you!"
"Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
"I do."
"Well you're a twice resurrected Harvest Girl with an Original Vampire boyfriend!"
"I took you in like you were my own blood!"
"I'm not ready to lose you yet, love."
"I want you to have someone, to love, when I'm gone, Kol."
"Not at the cost of you."
"You know, when Aiden died, there were days when I would sit in Jackson Square, just daring myself to take this ring off. To give up. And I think part of me knew that I was never gonna be that happy again. If there was any way to bring Aiden back? I would. No matter what. If there's even a chance for you to be with the guy you want to be with... You've gotta do it."
"I don't know how long I have, but I had to see you to thank you. For visiting me and talking to me. Josh, I was always there."
"I can't choose. Please don't make me choose!"
"I'm not. Under the same stars there's some guy, and he's with his girl. He thinks he's got all the time in the world, and he's right… And I hate him."
"Davina… Davina baby, I'm so sorry, I really need your help."
"Provided you're not concocting a new paralytic to use against me, I'd like a word with my brother."
"This is not a house, Kol, it's a castle!"
"Please don't do this!"
"You remember the first day we met? You told me you wanted to be normal."
"You're all liars! I'm gonna bring back the only one of you who has ever meant anything!"
"Davina, I haven't called out to you in a lot of years, because I didn't think you could hear me. But I think you can hear me now. I need your help with the ancestors."
"What are you doing?"
"I asked the Ancestors to give me magic to lift your curse. Since it's Cadeau… they granted it."
"Davina, whatever you may think of me, I'm a man of my word."
"My Valkyrie, I'll follow you wherever we may go."
"You're weak!"
"Stay. Away. From. My. Niece!"
"Right now, I'm the only thing standing between you and the Hollow."
"If there's a shred of Davina left over there, then she can accept the offering!"
"DAVINA!"
"You should destroy this. Hayley could die."
"And why is her life more important than yours!?"
"I can't take a little girl's mother away from her Kol!"
"Enough Games Davina!"
"Give it up, you are nothing but a fractured soul!"
"Will you marry me?"
"That sounds like a beautiful dream. But it was just a dream."
"We can do anything, can't we?"
"Your time is up. You need to know what you're up against. She only has one weakness."
"Ohhh… I can't be here, Davina, this is a bad idea…"
"It must really suck to have to be you all the time."
"It appears someone has knocked you head over heels, quite literally. I thought I'd have the honor."
"You're Hayley. Klaus' wife."
"Ew, No! Never! I'm the pregnant werewolf. And you must be all-powerful, super-witch, Davina?"
"Do something! You can turn her! I'll turn her!"
"No. No Hope. We aren't turning her."
"All you need to know is I beat you, again."
"That's my girl."
"Losing you broke me, I will not stand around and let it happen again."
"I'm a gay club kid who died and came back as a vampire. Yeah, Normal's kind of relative, you know? Here, pinky swear on it."
"How about a coven of three?"
"You want to?"
"It won't work!"
"Is that a challenge?"
"Auntie D!"
"Do not go where I cannot follow, love."
"Now I get it, You'll always protect me no matter what. Even if I hate you for it."
"Davina?"
"I'm right here."
"For a moment I thought…"
"It's okay, I'm still me. Flesh and blood, and alive… for now."
"And linked to a monster."
"How can you joke right now?"
"You know, it's a good thing you didn't steal the stake from me. Or I would have been the one torturing you!"
"Your friend Timothy has moved on, Davina. I'm truly sorry for what my son did to him."
"Pretty girl to the rescue, eh?"
"You'll help me save Josh?"
"I can't let Tim die!"
"Do you know the first time that I saw you?"
"In the record store."
"No, it was before that. I was dead for ages Davina. And when I woke up, it was a mess of manipulation and family drama in a body I didn't know. All this anger I couldn't shake. And that very night, I saw you leaving the church with this look on your face like the whole world was on your shoulders. You brushed up against some dead flowers and you stopped. You looked around and you bought those flowers back to life with your magic and you smiled and something inside of me cracked wide open. I was dead for ages Davina Claire and only then did I feel alive again. I love you."
"A witch needs a coven, even if it's just two."
"NO! You promised to help, but you're not helping! You're hurting us! And I won't let you!"
"I have stood up to Klaus. I'm not afraid of some second-string copycat."
"I loved her! I swear I did!"
"Music to my ears, my little witch."
"Just hold me."
"I got you, love."
"I never doubted you for a second, Davina Claire."
"Are you slicked? Those sad eyes might fool some people, but not me! I know what you're after. You've got a lecherous heart, Davina Claire. I won't be used. Not for my body nor my medicinal herbs! We can hold hands, that's it!"
"We can't be lying to each other. I'm trying to protect you."
"Well in that case, you best kiss me before I go!"
"Not to be forward, but it's time you put a ring on this finger."
"No, I'm glad for you guys. Really, I am. It'd be depressing if one of us didn't get a happy ending."
"You're going to like me, Davina Claire, and I'm going to let you pretend for a while that you don't already."
"Davina, wake up, wake up, please!"
"No one can control you unless you let them."
"Can you do me a favor? Can you tell Josh not to be sad? Tell him that one really good friend is more than enough and that most people don't get that. And tell Marcel thanks for being my family."
"A psychotic maniac… But I didn't have you. You're worth being good for."
"Keeping you as a slave seems like something the older generation would do. I'd rather have you as a friend."
"What does it take to complete the ritual?"
"I have to die."
"As for the magic… If you ever get the urge, there are other ways. You don't have to do magic to feel it."
"My mother said: Kill the spell or Kill her. And I happen to like you."
"Davina, I need you to help me bring those girls back over here. And then you and me we could work together. I shouldn't be doing this ritual because I lost faith in the ancestors a long time ago, but I never once lost faith in you!"
"You're nothing, little girl, I have consumed all the power there is and you are nothing."
"Most girls like this, but then, you're not like most girls, are you?"
"You know, I can give you a list of people who have underestimated me. Not one of them has done it a second time."
"Kind of hard to rest when there's a thousand year old psycho in the next bed."
"You say that, I sound like a bit of a creeper."
"Don't you owe it to yourself to find out? You're a witch, Davina. You can't change your DNA any more than I can, so you might as well embrace it."
"I have been trying to charm you, and your resistance is as impressive as it is baffling."
"We can't just pick up another body at a farmer's market, we don't even have a spell for that!"
"Well, since we bothered to be the only ones who turned up, it would be a shame to leave empty-handed. Why not head back, get up to no good?"
"I love goats. But do you know how many of them I've had to sacrifice!? Just once, I'd like to get a gift card. I mean, I know this is all tradition, but it's just not me. And you know what I really hate!? This choker scarf! And I only did it because Josephine did…"
"Hey! Cami is my friend. Now, if you can't play nice, you're gonna sit here, and I'll go get it."
"Okay. I'll behave. Let's go."
"What were you supposed to do? Lock me in an attic and keep the world at bay forever? You didn't let me down. I just grew up. Thank you for saving me that first time. And for everything else after. I love you, Marcel."
"Take my power, channel me."
"Davina? Marcel told me you were up here. Do you want to tell me what happened?"
"Give 'em hell, Davina Claire."
"You can stop showing off."
"This isn't fair. I've waited so long to have you back."
"Wait a little longer, bring me back when my mind is right. As it is, you can't trust me, which means you can't love me. Not as I love you."
"You know, he was supposed to stop hovering like, ten minutes ago."
"Sooooo, what's his name? Hot guy with the fiddle?"
"Davina?"
"If I don't save you, then I can't save Josh and I can't save Kol, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if something happened to you guys."
"When are you going to stop being such a bitch to me, Monique?"
"When you stop being weak!"
"We could make out, but that's entirely distracting."
"Chain him. Bleed him. Dump him in a river."
"That's a bit harsh, isn't it?"
"She broke everything in me! I'm a broken soul in a broken body! There's nothing left!"
"She couldn't break us, love. There's you, and me, and that's enough for me; love. Is it enough for you?"
"It's everything to me."
"And if it is… if this is all I have, I've had a lot. I had Monique, and I had Tim… and I had someone who fought for me from the moment you met me."
"Have I told you that you're awesome? Cause you are! I'm in the sun… daylight rings… that guy jogging in a tank top…"
"I'd ask if everything was okay, but you wouldn't be here if it were."
"They want you to kill me, right? They want revenge. Why didn't you say something?"
"Are you ready to go?"
"Anywhere."
"Anywhere? Everywhere."
Bonnie gasped as she found herself standing in the astral plane where there were two Davina's now.
"What…?" Bonnie scrambled back from the two girls. She had felt so much… too much, and if she had thought Davina reconnecting her too nature had been all consuming, all the love and passion the young woman had shared through her memories just now was reality shattering really. All that love, that pain, that life! Bonnie was having trouble comprehending it as she scrambled up to her feet.
"Sorry about that, I can't stop the memories," Davina stated as she walked towards Bonnie. It was now that she noted this Davina had a blood-stained shirt, her jeans were dirty and torn, the jacket was obviously a man's and too big for her, and her hair was lighter, there were small signs of age around her hazel eyes, and her hair was up in a tail. The other Davina was obviously the one Bonnie was used to seeing, long, loose hair, dressed in a white dress, bare feet though.
"What's happening?" younger Davina asked nervously backing up.
"Nothing, right now nothing is happening," the older Davina stated. "I just want to have a talk with you."
Three other girls appeared, all of them surrounded the younger Davina, while four other girls hovered behind the older Davina.
"That hurt, is it supposed to hurt?" Bonnie asked her.
"It can when the other soul doesn't desire to commune," Davina answered.
"Who are you, why are you here, what is going on?" younger Davina asked.
"I am you, in about twenty years, but you all the same," Davina answered as she walked forward. "This is Bonnie Bennett, she's a fellow witch, not in the coven, we're safe, no one in the French Quarter is coming for us right now."
"Hey," Bonnie smiled at the other soul, the younger girl stared at her with tear eyes and a bloody mark on her brow.
"You're not with a coven?" Davina asked as she huddled with the other three souls.
"No, I'm not, just a lone witch you," she tapped the older Davina's shoulder then. "Are helping. I'm pleased to meet you, younger you, technically."
"I'm helping you?"
"I was practicing Expression," Bonnie explained and snorted as the child Davina wrinkled her nose in utter disdain and looked like she had just been fed something foul.
"Expression!?"
"Yeah, this is what happens when other people are manipulated," older Davina informed her younger self. "Doesn't just happen to kids or us."
"You're me," Davina whispered.
"Yes. I am, and I think we need to have a talk."
"You… you're controlling my body!" younger Davina snarled.
"Not by choice, trust me, puberty sucked enough the first time, I don't particularly want to be in this body," Davina snorted. "I mean, my body wasn't all that after what Inadu did to me, but it wasn't running off of raging hormones. Being a teenager, sucked."
"Then why are you in my body!" younger Davina snapped.
"Time Magic. And since I'm here, I think you and I should work together."
"Why?"
"Because we want the same thing, and when the time of the Reaping comes, and it will, I will go, you will remain," Davina stated. "Now that I know you're awake, and here and not lost in time, I will go, you will stay."
"I'm not…" Davina started shaking her head.
"Whether you desire to or not, the Reaping will happen Davina Claire because this power we possess, it is not ours and if we do not relinquish it, it will consume you," Davina snapped. "However, death isn't particularly pleasant, and you're young, I've lived a life already, so at the time of the Reaping, I will go, you will remain, and Abigail, Monique and Cassie will be returned. But until the Reaping there are things we need to do."
"We?"
"We. And if it works, we'll destroy the ancestors. That's what you want, right?"
"You should know, you're me."
"I am, but I need verification."
Bonnie looked between the women and saw younger Davina eyeing her cagily.
"I'm not taking sides here, I'm just here to neutralize power," Bonnie admitted.
"What do we need to do?" younger Davina asked carefully.
"Well first, we're going to kill Silas."
"Silas is a myth," younger Davina stated.
"Apparently not, so… Davina Claire, do you want to help us?" Davina asked.
Slowly the younger girl nodded her head. "But I want to see Marcel."
"Thank God because Marcel wants to see you too. And I really don't need to be in control of your body all the time, so we can work out something."
"You're being… weird." Younger Davina stated.
"I must agree," Bonnie admitted.
"I'm on a timetable here, I don't have time for teenage skepticism or disbelief here!" Davina stated.
"Who's Kol?" younger Davina whispered to Bonnie.
"Kol is…"
"A wily old fox, and you'll probably meet him when we sort out our body problem." Older Davina stated.
"Kol's cool, he's got a very witchy brain," Bonnie decided with a giggle as the younger Davina's face pinkened a little.