AN: this is where I begin to mess with the timelines a little bit more
meeting the first of the brothers
Bella being at the boarding house to hear the story the older vampire had to tell seemed to confuse the female if not more so than the friendship she saw between Bella and Damon. According to Damon the female had been spouting warnings all night but refused to say more until the doppelganger was present for her explanation. What was confusing to Bella was that the female seemed to be under the impression that Damon should have been following in his brothers foot steps in falling in love with the doppelganger and was shocked to find that he wasn't. The confusion she was feeling seemed to shift to amusement as she watched Bella help Damon needle the two once the girl showed up the two had decided not to help with whatever plans were being formed as the older vampire weaved her tale of the sun and the moon and the doppelganger and an original vampire they all needed to fear.
Bella did listen when she described the man that Damon claimed to have seen his brother kill when rescuing the girl if only for the description of claiming he was like the easter bunny. Bella also listened when the female warned about the other original that would come to town and his comparison to the boogie man. From the fear Bella could see in her aura the female really seemed to think the original was the boogie man. Which Bella found interesting since the only other time she had seen a reaction like that was herself when someone mentioned her name in town. Bella caught Damon's eye and with a quick jerk of her head to say no Damon stopped needling the vampire by poking holes in her story to bugging his brother and the doppelganger again. If a five hundred year old vampire was not willing to notice the fact that the legend was planted well then scooby gang and any one else they involved would certainly deserve to get the attention of the one who planted the legend in the first place.
Damon's brother in his infinite wisdom decided that since Damon and Bella were being so much help making jokes about his girlfriends life that they wouldn't need to be involved in their plans. He couldn't really stop them though when Damon noticed a look that came across the doppelgangers face that said she would not be going to school that day no matter what his brother thought. With a quick text to Bella he acted like he didn't over hear the doppelgangers plan and decided to trail his brother girl while Bella responded that she would follow the female and his brother to the meeting with her contact out of town. While he stuck around to watch what other stupid plan the doppelganger concocted would play out having a feeling it involved his sire some how.
Bella found the fact that her glamour to hide from the two vampires on her bike was not needed until getting into town while she stopped across the street from the building. This also confirmed her need to not learn their names because it would not be worth the I.Q points she would lose from them thinking she should be included into their plans. Things got really interesting as she was waiting for the meeting to be over as she was not paying them any attention since she really didn't care what was said because it was nothing new to her having read about the curse a hundred times over and had long ago figured out it was a fake. The reason it got interesting was in his approach having felt him before she saw him appear down the sidewalk from her and directly across from the window the others were sitting in while they held their meeting.
He bent down and tipped the guitar player he was next to a hundred dollars before picking up the pocket change. Bella could tell he was listening in to their very stupid plan because just as the conversation turned to going against an original in their plan, he acted. The change in his hand went flying across the street with a casual flick of his wrist and shattered the window taking out a few humans with it. Bella chuckled at the screaming from the vampire that was stupid enough to agree with Damon's brother before the man vanished just as the others made their exit. Bella was still laughing as she followed them back to town after taking her glamour off. She didn't think the contact was going to be living for much longer if the originals reaction was any thing to go by.
Damon was just as amused to find out how the original handled the situation though they both wondered how he wasn't dead from being staked. Damon also filled Bella in on the doppelgangers decision to visit Katherine in the tomb to get answers. Bella spent the rest of the week laughing with Damon over the doppelgangers continued stupidity and the lengths other were having to go to stop her. He also relayed to her about what Katherine had filled the doppelganger in on which was mostly her own version of the story and what happened to her family for her turning into a vampire and then running away. Bella's favorite thing to find out was being told the Bennett witch trapped the doppelganger in her house to keep her from doing anything else was funny. Which made finding out Damon's brother got trapped in the tomb with Katherine for a attempt to retrieve the fake moonstone was even more so.
The following weeks Bella turned her attention to Tyler's first full moon as a werewolf and planning accordingly. Her duckling having found out about Tyler breaking his curse had also decided she was going to help and distract herself from the break up she was going through. Between the three of them they managed to find Mason's journal and video of his first transformation neither of which was pretty. Tyler of course looked a little unsure about the cellars and when Duckling left to go talk to the scooby gang Bella showed him where his transformation would really take place. Bella took her cousin to her backyard and across the ring that had finally finished forming around one of the trees as she walked inside with him. so that her queen could help her explain what she was and the fact that she had magic and how it would help keep him from doing anything he was worried about. After a few demonstrations involving Damon volunteering to run into a invisible wall to prove she could hold her cousin during the full moon Tyler finally believed her about being able to hold him.
Damon spent the day of the full moon spying on the scooby gang while Tyler skipped school and spent the day exploring some of his cousins horde for any werewolf books he could find. When that distraction didn't work he then got his cousin to play video games with him instead of doing anymore research and just after dinner time they headed into the ring. Puck was going to be present along with Queen Mab to observe the curse in action and to see how the bond between the two cousins would be affected by said transformation.
Once the hour was right for the transformation to start a few differences between his uncles transformation process and Tyler's began to show right away. As the pain began to shoot threw his aura Bella moved his head to her lap and with her hand making contact with his skin the process could still be seen through his aura but Tyler was no longer feeling it. When his bones started breaking to rearrange themselves as long as Bella had some form of contact Tyler didn't seem to feel it as his body contorted at odd angles and as his clothing began to tear Bella was glad for the differences. Shortly after he changed completely by sprouting fur with a shout the wolf looked around the circle for a minute. Bella and Queen Mab studied his aura noticing that Tyler was still awake behind the wolf who seemed to recognize the others that were present. The wolf then proceeded to lay back down around Bella content to just lay there though his aura also showed he was on alert for what he preserved as danger. As they sat there the bond strengthened more healing a few more cracks though cementing Bella's need to find a way to make her cousin immortal. That morning Bella threw some clothes at her cousin after he changed back before they both fell asleep on the couch.
Bell knew about the new pack that was in town and about the new witches that had shown up with the original. She found out from Damon about the witches and the original as he laughed with her over the doppelganger and the choices she seemed to be making that were pissing off the rest of the scooby gang. Damon thought it was funny how they were managing to play games with each other without his interference. Listening to the doppelganger make a deal to stop trying to get herself killed if the original saved her boyfriend and kept her friends safe was a boon. Bella also found the fact that Tyler, Damon were not on that list of those to protect very telling since the doppelganger claimed to care for all her friends and she kept trying to claim Tyler and Damon as such when trying to bribe them to get involved with her plans. Damon also reported to her that the warlocks were trying to sway the Bennett witch over to the originals side with little success. Though her amusement at the situation to a turn to anger when she found out about the wolves that showed up. Her Aunt seemed to have assumed that with the death of her husband that Bella's overreaction to the incident would no longer be in affect since their had been no indications or pranks to remind her about the threat her niece was. The phone call from Tyler that Bella received would set the tone for the rest of her stay in the town and remaining so called family members would realize her protection only extended to Tyler and would soon regret not listening to her original threat. It would also showed the town that they were right to still be scared of her that should any indication of harm or actual harm befall her cousin.
Tyler had waited to call her until after the third time of finding the female wolf following him around town. He thought he could handle it at first but after her third attempt to try and corner him to ask the same questions over and over about their uncles disappearance and not liking the answers he gave. Coupled with the fact that the she wolf seemed to ignore Tyler's warning the first time she managed to corner him and still ask her questions and then processed to ignore the rest of his words when he said that he honestly didn't care and that the last he heard his uncle was in Florida . Then the she wolf figuring out that Tyler had triggered his curse and proceeding to keep trying to follow him even to the mansion a few times in hopes of convincing him to meet with her pack to help them find his uncle she had sealed her fate in Bella's eyes. To say Bella was not pleased when Tyler said he had even saw his mom talking to the woman before telling him later on that he needed to speak to the woman just made Bella's mood worse.
It was for those reasons she was heading to the mansion at the moment in her jeep and not trying to find the warlocks in town to get her hands on those grimoire they had to have. Bella told Tyler over the phone to pack for how ever long he wanted to stay with her before hanging up. Pulling up to the front door Bella got out of the jeep sensing her cousin in his room packing she smirked knowing her aunt was not going to like the interruption to her event but she brought it on herself in Bella's opinion. Looking down at her high rise leather pants, the white tank top and her black heeled boots. Bella grabbed her keys out of the ignition before slamming the door knowing good and well it would catch a few peoples attention and from their auras it had if the fear that began to creep through was to be believed.
Heading for where she sensed her aunt, Bella noticed that Damon was also there and standing next to him was the original whose aura switched from annoyed to intrigued as the room fell silent at Bella's entrance. Bella ignored the whispering that followed knowing that some were trying to find a place to hide until she left with how mad she looked. Bella did notice the originals appearance as she came to a stop in between him and her aunt. He had short dark brown hair and stood about five foot ten inches while wearing a suit. Knowing the best way to get to her aunt Bella looked towards the top of the stairs as if she was contemplating sending someone else down them and to the hospital again. She noticed Damon aura shift with his demeanor from trying to needle the original to looking like he couldn't wait for what was going to come next this change also seemed to catch the originals attention.
As Bella cocked her hip and crossed her arms while was waiting for Tyler to come down she took note of sense the urgency that began to fill in her aunt aura increase as she tried to find the cause of Bella's displeasure. Her aunts eyes started darting around the room When nothing was found and it became apparent that the cause of Bella's mood was not present her aunt took to her second method trying to distract her from her ire by bring Bella's attention to the original she was standing beside. Carol Lockwood's voice wavered slightly as she began to speak and draw her nieces attention to herself remembering what happened to her husband not so long ago.
"Elijah Smith this is my niece Bella, Bella this is Elijah Smith he's a writer and came to town for its history, I was just informing him that you were probably the one to talk to for that information." Bella heard the way her Aunt emphasized writer that she was hoping to distract her from her anger so that she wouldn't act on it and just caused Bella to study her aunt aura closer.
Acting like she was humoring her aunt Bella's eyes darted over to the original noticing his eyes were brown before Making a show of looking him up and down and letting out a hum. Looking back towards the stairs as she could feel Tyler heading towards them. Bella's actions got a chuckle out of Damon since he knew what she was doing having seen her humor her mother in a similar way when being introduced to others. As Tyler arrived at the top of the stairs Bella tilted her head at her aunt as she felt an unknown werewolf heading towards the mansion.
Making sure Bella had eye contact with her aunt she spoke, "Tyler's going to be staying with me for a little while so I can take care of a problem that seems to be following him around town."
Watching the understanding go through her aunt's aura then hearing her next words just made Bella's anger spark more, "She's just looking out for our.."
Holding up her hand to silence her aunt as Tyler joined the group Bella cut her off saying. " What was my response the last time you tried to tell me that the people involved were just looking out for the family, because if my memory serves me correctly the person responsible found themselves in the hospital and others seemed to wish they were as well. " Feeling her Aunt Carol's fear spike and from the twitch of Damon's lips gave Bella could tell that he and Elijah could smell the fear coming off of Carol as she finished talking.
"That woman comes with in ten feet of my house because you encouraged her behavior towards your son and we'll be revisiting that conversation we had about family aunt. "They watched as she excuse herself to go up stairs and the wrinkle Tyler's nose gave from not being use to the strength in smell Bella could tell her statement had the effect she wanted before looking at Damon to ask if he was coming with. After receiving a nod Bella turned and headed out the door with her cousin. Hearing Damon's last words to the original.
"We should get together sometime the discussion would be quite enlightening for all evolved."
As Bella walked around her jeep to the drivers side door she made eye contact with the female wolf walking their way before shutting the door. Damon pulling up behind her and waving his fingers at the woman tauntingly as he followed behind to Bella's cabin. Their actions might have been the cause of the she wolfs next reaction though it did allow Elijah to be invited for dinner at the boarding house and lead to Bella finding out about the scooby gangs latest stupid stunt.
In a bid to get back at Masons killers and trying to get the "moonstone" Bella received a texted from "Damon" that he needed to talk to her. Arriving at the boarding house with her glamour already in place and was a good idea from the amount of werewolves she could sense and the amount of pain Damon was in. Walking into the living room Bella leaned against the wall behind Damon as the she wolf looked down; checking Damon's phone that one of the others was holding while she pointed a shot gun at Damon. Dropping the glamour as Bella crossed her arms and smirked as the wolves jumped then growled at her.
As she wolf switched positions to point the gun in Bella's direction. Bella raised an eyebrow at her before flicking her wrist in the she wolf's direction sending her flying cross the room into a wall. As the she wolf began to stand another aura showed up at the house and Bella recognized it as Elijah's before he walked into the room. Damon chuckled before saying, "their looking for the moonstone." Elijah response was to bring out the stone from his pocket and held it up for all the wolves to see before setting it on the table next to him and waited for someone to make a move. Bella counted to ten under her breath before what little impulse control they seem to have left the pack as they charged at Elijah. After the third wolf lost his heart and the she wolf taking off, leaving only the wolf who was holding the chains that were causing Damon to bleed around his neck. The wolf who upon seeing he was the last one left dropped down into the fetal position hoping the three others in the room would forget he was there.
Once Elijah snapped his neck and removed the chains around Damon before going to collect the "moonstone" and placing it back in his pocket. He paused as Damon caught his attention, "You do realize that we are not apart of your deal with Elena right?" The rasp sound in his question cleared as he chuckled while standing up and the chains dropped to the floor.
The curiosity and amusement in Elijah spiked before looking at the two in front of him, "I thought it a oversight on her part." This of coarse put a smirk on Bella's face as she pushed herself off the wall and walked towards him.
"Oh, but it wasn't, you see the scooby gang, as we call them, they don't like our games and to be honest we find watching their notorious stupidity in action good entertainment. It's why we know the dinner party you were invited too tonight is a set up for one of their plans, they never seem to learn."
She watched his emotions jumble as he worked out the warning he was given as; Damon toss his arm over Bella's shoulder and steered her towards the door she shouted out her own invitation. "You know where to find me to trade information have fun playing games with the gang." she felt his aura vanish off the property before they were even out the front door and heading to her bike.
Later on that night she was watching Tyler and Damon playing video games when she felt his aura appear on her back porch. Sensing his anger and agitation Bella stood up and walked towards the door to see him pacing across the porch. Opening the door before stepping out to sit on the swing she waited for him to speak.
"she knew exactly what they had planned didn't she," he sat down on the swing next to her as Bella turned her head to face him and answering him.
"That I'm clueless and the innocent one here act gets old real fast, doesn't it?" He shook his head before looking out into the woods Bella's question causing him to smirk.
"So much so that I had my warlocks make a fake body to see how they would fix their first mistake with their plan."
With a giggle Bella stood up and opening her backdoor spoke, "why don't you come in and we can talk about were to go from here." Feeling his anger simmer down a little and his curiosity to overcome it. Bella felt him following her down the hallway and towards the game room were she had left Damon and Tyler who stopped their game and joined the other two in the hallway. Bella kept walking into her cave before plopping down on one of the soft leather chairs. She watched as Elijah took in the large number of grimoire on the shelves and even stacked on the ground with all the other books that caught Bella's attention over the year aboard. Once she was sure she had his attention she asked?
"So the location of the witch burial ground or are you looking for some other information?" Bella refrained from asking about the other originals or about knowing the curse was fake. She knew that soon thanks to the scooby gang she would have her answers when Klaus shows up.
They spent the rest of the hour explaining to Elijah about the location of the old house that sat on the burial ground and his realization that getting to know the three in front of him would be good if only to introduce them to his family.
A few days after talking to Elijah Bella was going to the grill to get lunch when she over heard the witch talking to the youngest Gilbert on how the warlocks were killed and that she was about to go look through the grimoire she had taken from him. Glamouring herself Bella followed them to the Bennett house and followed them inside to see a hundred grimoire in boxes as Bella looked through them under the glamour she found that about half of them were already copies of the ones she already owned. the other half she grabbed the originals and left the copies before coping all of the Bennett grimoire. Feeling proud for expanding her horde Bella left the house and headed back to the grill placing the books in her jeep before going into the ally to drop the glamour and going into the grill to get the food before going home.
The second month the Quartet filled their time with trying to find the cold ones that were killing nearby before narrowing it down the location to Whitmore college. Before they could go explore the campus the full moon had to be dealt with. Upon seeing the faces that Elijah and Damon made at the sight of Bella sitting in the woods around her house with Tyler in his wolf form curled around her seemed to solidify something that the two thought about her. Bella figured that night was what prompted the two to believe her when she told them she wasn't a witch like they originally believed her to be. They also managed to get Elijah to join in on playing games with the scooby gang in just enough time for Damon to receive a phone call from his brother asking for his help in guarding his annoying girlfriend. This plan apparently involved Bella having to join them at the school dance as a chaperone though Bella knew Elijah would still be trying to convince them he had been daggered.