Chapter 14: Fool Me Once
December 12, 2009
Dear Diary,
Everyone is weird. Like honestly. Jenna wanted to have a family dinner last night with me cooking and what ends up happening? Damon cooks for us. I don't even know why he was at our house honestly. And I'm still not a fan of his, even if his cooking was good enough to be blessed by some Italian cooking god or whatever. It's getting really old with the way everybody is keeping secrets. It's not even just Elena and Stefan being shady, Jeremy's new friend Anna just straight up disappeared. She went to use the bathroom and then never came back. Strangest thing is, I woke up this morning with a really bad feeling in my stomach, like something was wrong.
Ellie sat next to Jeremy at a table in The Grill, texting back and forth with Caroline. Her favorite blonde had been texting her for ages asking Ellie for help with the speech she was preparing for Matt. Yes, an actual speech. Jeremy was drawing in his sketch pad and Ellie was idly watching Tyler play pool while she waited for Caroline to respond. Tyler was enthusiastically talking about Duke's party. "Ten kegs." Tyler was saying. "Do you know how much damage we could do with ten kegs? Duke's got it all hooked up."
"Duke's a douche." Matt said as he finished clearing a table.
"Yeah. A douche with ten kegs." Tyler reminded. "AKA, my new best friend." Jeremy laughed at Tyler's idiocy. "What's the problem, Gilbert?"
"Don't have one Lockwood." Jeremy replied without looking up.
"Yeah, I didn't think so." Tyler shot back.
"You ever get bored of it?" Matt asked curiously.
"Of what?"
"Yourself." Matt told Tyler before walking off.
Ellie and Jeremy laughed at it and Tyler just rolled his eyes. "Keep laughing, buddy."
"Hey Jeremy." Caroline called as she approached. "Where is Elena? I have been texting her and Bonnie all day about Duke's party. And Ellie here, doesn't seem to have a clue."
"Uh, she went somewhere with Stefan." Jeremy informed them.
With a groan, Caroline said, "I am so not going to be one of those girls who disappears just because she has a new boyfriend."
"Who is Duke?" Jeremy asked, effectively changing the subject.
"Some guy that graduated a couple years ago." Ellie explained. "And he throws a party every time he comes home from Duke."
"Wait, Duke goes to Duke?" Jeremy asked.
"His real name is Bob or something. He's a total ass, but he buys the beer." Caroline added. "You know, you should come."
"Uhh, yeah. I… I don't think so."
"No seriously, everyone goes." Caroline continued. "Even quiet loner little brothers."
"Do it Jer, I'll even sneak you drinks so Elena doesn't catch you, that is if she even shows up." Ellie said. "But wait, Care, you said Bonnie hasn't responded either?"
Caroline shook her head. "Nope, which is frustrating because I need assistance on picking out an outfit."
Ellie checked her phone to see if she'd missed a message from her witchy friend. "You know that's really really weird, because she was supposed to text me with more details about her date last night and I never got another message from her after she'd called me." Ellie said, a pit of worry bubbling in her stomach.
Picking up on it, Caroline said, "Maybe the date just ran later than expected and she went to sleep as soon as she got home, or maybe her phone is dead and she hasn't charged it. I'm sure she's fine." The blonde looked at something behind the Gilberts and said, "I need to go do something, but Jeremy, think about it. Hey!" She said as she walked over to Matt.
"Hey." He replied.
"So I have a speech." Caroline told him and Ellie turned in her seat so she could see them better. "It is fully scripted and well rehearsed. Are you ready for it?"
"You wrote a speech?"
"Yes." She confirmed. "It's a 'you kissed me and I don't want things to be weird' speech. It's preemptive."
"Preemptive." Matt repeated with a small laugh.
"Yeah, you know, in case you were having second thoughts or regrets or were like ooged out."
"Ooged, huh?" Matt grinned.
"Can I just get on with the speech part?" She asked.
"Yeah, go for it." Matt encouraged.
"So, I know that you don't think that this is going to work out between us. I just want to let you know that right here and right now, I'm offering you an out. Like an escape clause." Caroline told him.
"Why are you giving me an escape clause?"
"I don't want to make assumptions about what it is we are doing here."
"Got it." Matt replied.
"So, if you would like to exercise it, just let me know." She told him.
"I'm good, but thanks." He said.
Ellie grinned in the surprised silence from Caroline. "Ok." The blonde said after a beat. "Good."
"Yeah."
"So, see you for Duke's party tonight."
"Yeah." Matt confirmed grinning brightly at her.
She watched Caroline leave, a pep in her step. Once her happy blonde friend was gone, she turned back to where Tyler was playing pool. "Hey, Ty."
"Yeah." Tyler replied as he sunk the nine ball in the pocket.
"Pretty sure you're an alcoholic." She said. "Maybe you should see someone about that." He gave her a highly unimpressed look, even as Jeremy laughed beside her. "I'm just saying." She said innocently.
"Shut up." He said as he tossed a balled up napkin at her.
"Come on, Ellie, I need to go get more art stuff." Jeremy told her as he gathered his stuff.
"See you at the party, Ty." She called and laughed at the glare Tyler sent her way. As they walked out of The Grill a familiar dark haired girl caught her eye. "Hey, Jer, isn't that Anna over there?"
"What? Where?" Jeremy spotted the girl and called, "Anna!" They jogged across the street as he said, "Hey, what, uh, what happened to you last night?"
"Sorry, I had to leave. I told your sister to tell you. The other one." Anna apologized.
"Oh, I haven't seen her."
"Well, I gotta run, so-"
"Hey, do you wanna go to a party tonight?" Jeremy asked, cutting her off.
"Do I what?"
"Well, the guy that's throwing it is a total douche, but it's uh, it's supposed to be fun. I figured, you know, safety in numbers." Jeremy told her.
Anna chuckled and said, "So you're finally ready to go out with me, are you?"
"It's been a while since I've been to a party, and I kinda want to get back out there. And not be such a… a loner. And, uh, I like you. You're fun, and you're also kind of strange and lurky, but uh, I guess I like that too. So, yeah, you should come to the party with me. It's in the woods by that old cemetery." Jeremy explained.
"Oh, it's there, huh? That sounds cool. Uh, I'll meet you." Anna agreed.
Ellie watched the surprise dance across Jeremy's face as he said, "Oh… ok great! Cool!"
"Ok." Anna grinned. "Bye, Ellie."
"Bye, Anna." Ellie replied and as Anna walked off, Ellie tugged on Jeremy's shoulder looking like the cat that caught the canary. "My baby brother has a date oh my god!" She squealed as they walked. "Jeremy and Anna sittin in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
"Shut up."
"First comes loves, then comes marriage, then a emo little baby in a baby carriage." Ellie teased.
"I can't stand you." He huffed, but it didn't do much when his ears were a lovely shade of red, and it wasn't from the cold. "Why are you so irritating when you've never even dated anyone?"
She smirked at his defense. "Because I live vicariously through you and Elena." She retorted. "Come on, let's get more art stuff for the young mastermind." She figured she would give him more grief at the party.
After Jeremy and Ellie made it back home, Ellie snuck up to her room to finally put away all the things that Sheila had given her yesterday. Once her door was locked, she made her way over to her closet and pulled out a large trunk that had been her great grandmother's, or something. The things that had originally been in it had been placed in another box in some storage unit and the empty box given to Ellie. Setting up a false bottom to the trunk was easier than she had expected. She thanked Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the idea. She placed the grimoires down first and then the bottled herbs before replacing the fake bottom and piling clothes she knew Elena wouldn't wear inside it.
Just as she'd finished putting everything in place, her phone started to ring. Hoping it was Elena or Bonnie, she rushed over and answered it quickly, only to be greeted by the voice of Sheila. "Hello? Ellie?"
"Hi, I'm here." She replied. "Is something wrong?"
"Nothing too serious, but I need your help with something. Can you come to my house?"
The worry Ellie had been feeling all day sunk deeper into her stomach. Something must be up if Sheila was calling her for help. "Um, yeah, yeah, I'm coming over right now. I'll be there in a few minutes." She was already out of her room and rushing down the stairs before Sheila started to reply.
"Thank you." The call ended just as abruptly as it started and if Ellie broke a few speed limits, who could blame her when she was this worried? She arrived at Sheila's in record time, the door opening to reveal Sheila as she rushed up the porch steps. "Thank you for getting here so quickly."
"What's going on?" Ellie asked worriedly as she followed Sheila into the kitchen.
"I need your help with a spell, I can do it on my own but with you helping as well I'll get it done faster and it will be easier. There was a map surrounded by candles that flared to life as they entered. "Just a little locator spell." Ellie didn't flinch as the knife was dragged across her palm, and let the blood drip down onto the map. Then Sheila slit her own palm and her blood fell into the puddle of Ellie's blood. Sheila took a tight hold of Ellie's hands, the spell flowing from them naturally. This wasn't like the other locator spell that Sheila had shown her, even if the incantation was the same. She did not see who they were trying to find, but she watched in interest as their blood started to travel along the map and watched with fascination until it stopped.
Sheila pressed a towel to her hand and sent a message to someone, looking relieved. Ellie was entirely confused at the situation but muttered the spell that Emily had taught her under her breath, the redness from the injury fading away into her regular skin tone. "I'm glad to help, but what is going on? Why did you need my blood?"
"It's ok. Everything will be fine, dear." Sheila told her, although she might have been reassuring herself rather than Ellie.
"Do you want me to heal that for you?" Ellie asked rather than pushing for answers. "Phasmatos Sana Quod Sanguinem Vulnere." Sheila's skin stitched itself back together nicely and she gave the younger witch a proud smile.
"You're getting stronger." Sheila praised as she ran a finger down where her cut was a moment ago. "That's a good thing. I can see such potential in you. You'll be one of the strongest witches I know; I can feel it." Ellie followed Sheila into the kitchen, and let herself fall into the familiar routine of making chamomile tea with her like they always did. "Something is bothering you. What is it?"
Anxiously pulling on the edge of her sweater, Ellie confessed, "I've had this really bad feeling ever since I woke up this morning and I can't shake it. It might be nothing but I don't really know. Like you know in horror movies when that freaky music starts to play and all your hair stands on end and your heart starts to race?" She asked and Sheila nodded in confirmation. "Well it feels like that. And to top it off and make it even weirder, there's something in my gut that's telling me that it's not me in danger, it's someone that I care about."
"Well then we'll do our best to keep everyone safe. Intuition is something everyone has to a degree, some witches have a stronger sense of it. Everything will be fine, Ellie." Sheila said as they drank their tea. After a while, there was a knock on the door and Sheila said, "Here, why don't you go up into the attic and read through those books while I see who that is?" Despite the fact that Ellie found the suggestion odd, she allowed Sheila to lead her to the attic and then shut her in.
Ellie could hear voices and followed quietly trying to hear better. "How did you know where we were?" She could hear the voice faintly. Was that Bonnie?
"Many things can fuel a witch's power. Worry. Anger." Sheila said. "After… told me that… you. I had a lot of both." The heater kicking on had made it harder to hear. "Simple locator spell was easy after that." So they'd been searching for Bonnie? Why did Sheila need her blood for that? Ellie wasn't related to Bonnie.
"I'm sorry. About all of this." Bonnie apologized. What the hell was going on? Had Bonnie been taken? Was that why she'd never texted Ellie or Caroline back? Was that why she'd had such a bad feeling in her stomach?
"Not as sorry as they're gonna be." Sheila warned. Despite Ellie's need to know what was happening, she felt awful for eavesdropping on a conversation she wasn't supposed to be listening to. So, with effort, she forced herself away from the sounds of their conversation and back to the books and herbs. Returning to the grimoires, Ellie was surprised to find a spell that was meant to cause pain to the target. It didn't specify what kind of pain but it did note that witches were capable of a non-verbal variation that wasn't as strong.
Another passage talked about how witches all had telekinetic abilities, but that there were spells that were stronger than the non-verbal form. Unable to help her curiosity, Ellie turned her focus over to the random objects in the room, like the lamp sitting on top of an end table. She relaxed, before focusing in on the lamp, and watched as it rose slowly until it was floating a foot above the table. How much could she lift without a spell? Once the lamp was back on the table, she focused on lifting the table itself. To her surprise, it too rose with ease and stayed steady enough that she didn't have to worry about the lamp falling off. She continued practicing spells, seeing what could be done before verbally and non-verbally until Sheila returned. "Is everything alright?" Ellie asked as she followed Sheila into the kitchen for their customary tea.
"Just a bit of business I have to take care of, nothing to worry about. Did you learn anything useful today?" Sheila asked.
"I did. I came across this section that talked about pain infliction. It said that we have a natural ability to do it without a spell. Why would we need to do that?" Ellie questioned.
Sheila almost seemed reluctant to answer, but she did, saying, "It's good to know spells to defend yourself. Just because we have the knowledge or the ability doesn't mean we have to put it to use." Ellie accepted the answer and let it drop, despite being curious if Sheila had ever used it herself.
"Was that Bonnie I heard earlier? I was really worried about her." Ellie confessed.
"She's just fine, I appreciate your concern for her. She's lucky to have you as a friend." Sheila informed her. They settled into their usual routine of talking and Ellie listening as Sheila taught her more magic until Ellie got a text from Caroline who was making sure that Ellie was still coming to the party. "It seems like it's time for you to go." Sheila noted.
"Yeah, I have to get dressed before heading to Duke's party." Ellie said as she gathered up her things. To her surprise, before she could go, Sheila gave her a tight hug which she happily returned. "What was that for?"
"I just want you to know how proud I am of you." Sheila said sincerely and Ellie gave a grin.
"I know Miss Sheila. I hope you know how grateful I am that you're my teacher." Ellie replied.
Sheila gave her a fond smile and a nod before hugging her once more. "Alright, off you go. Have fun at that party. Stay safe." She said and Ellie nodded with a laugh before heading on to her car and driving back to her house to change.
"Hey Jer!" Ellie greeted as she strolled inside. "Ready for your date with Anna?" She said with a suggestive waggle of her eyebrows.
"You are way too invested in my love life." He said with a scoff, ignoring the question.
"I told you, it's because I live vicariously through you and Elena, but Elena's being shady so you gotta pick up the slack." Ellie said. "Hurry up and do whatever you need to do to be ready and I'll drive you to the party."
"Thanks." He told her and she rushed to change into a warmer outfit. Tonight was definitely going to be cold and the last thing she wanted was to catch a bad cold or the flu when they were getting so close to Christmas break. Soon enough they pulled up the party. Unsurprisingly, the party was already in full swing. "Hey thanks for the ride, I think I'm gonna go look for Anna."
"Have fun with your new girlfriend." Ellie sang, ducking out of the way before he could hit her. "Bye bye baby brother." She mingled in with the crowd of teenagers, bouncing between conversations as she drank.
Her attention was caught with Matt's call of, "Elena, hey!" She spun around to see Matt and Caroline approaching Elena and… Damon?
"Elena, oh my god. Where have you been?" Caroline asked as Ellie came to stand beside the blonde.
Her sister's attention dropped down to where Caroline laced her hand through Matt's before Damon said, "Long story, no time to tell it."
"I wasn't talking to you." Caroline retorted.
"Sure you were." Damon shot back.
"We haven't met. I'm Matt." He said as he held a hand out for Damon to shake.
"Matt, there's a reason we haven't met." Damon said. "You and I are going that way."
When Damon took a hold of Elena's arm, Ellie stepped over to block their path. "Actually Elena I'd really like to know where you've been? And why are you with this jackass?" Damon gave her a deadly look, but Ellie stood her ground. He had no clue what she was capable of.
"Ellie don't worry about it." Elena tried to dismiss.
"I don't think so. You can't go on about-"
"Ellie, I don't have time for this. We have somewhere we need to be." Elena insisted. "Stefan's waiting on us." Her sister seemed to think that name-dropping Stefan would be enough for her to let the issue go, but Damon didn't seem to care what Ellie thought.
"And we're going now." Damon said as he all but shoved Ellie out of the way, dragging Elena along with him.
"Ah, I'm sorry, you guys." Elena said as she let him drag her away.
"One of these days I'm gonna help Bonnie set that fucker on fire." Ellie said with a huff, storming off to find Tyler.
She found Tyler as he approached her brother. "...got any weed?" He was saying as she approached.
"Wait you're kidding me, right?" Jeremy asked curiously. "You act like a total dick every time we cross paths, and now you want to party with me?"
"Lighten up, Gilbert. I'm just asking you a question." Tyler replied.
"Dude, I don't get you, man."
"It's a party." Tyler reminded him. "You're a partier, ok? There's no need to psychoanalyze it."
"I don't party anymore." Jeremy said. "And even if I did, it wouldn't be with you."
"No problem." Tyler nodded. "Carry on just standing there, by yourself. All alone. The enemy of fun. Do you even have any friends?"
"Watch it, Ty." Ellie warned. "Just come on." She pulled him away, grinning slightly when she saw Anna approaching. "Hey Ty, if I ever wanted you to fuck someone up you'd do that for me right?"
"Do I need to kick someone's ass?" Tyler asked. He said it with a laugh, but she knew he absolutely would.
"It's just… stupid Damon and stupid Elena. She's done nothing but tell me and Caroline and Bonnie to stay as far away from him as we can possibly get but here she is coming to this thing with Damon and doing the total opposite of everything she's telling us to do." Ellie ranted, huffing slightly as she let Tyler tug her under his arm. "Like he is a major psycho I'm telling you. He gives me like the same kinda crazy vibes as your dad."
That really got Tyler to focus. Comparing anyone to his dad and saying they were similar to her meant this guy was definitely bad news. "Who is this Damon guy again?"
"Stefan's older brother. He dated Caroline for five seconds and was a major asshole to her. He's such a jerk that he makes you on your worst days look like a freaking saint." She informed him. "From the moment I met the dude I just knew he was bad news."
"Well, just say the word and I'll pummel him for you." Tyler told her. "Now come on, we need alcohol." She laughed as he pulled her over to the keg. Not long after that, Tyler was working on a nice buzz and Ellie followed him as he dashed up to Matt and said, "Swoop." As he stole Matt's beer.
"Hey!" Matt protested as Tyler chugged it.
"Ahh, where's your date?" Tyler asked once he finished the bottle.
"Who knows?" Matt replied.
"Ah, is the honeymoon over already?" Tyler asked.
"Be nice Ty or I'm cutting you off." Ellie warned.
"Maybe."
"After all that grief you gave me about liking her. I figured it would have lasted longer than five minutes." Tyler taunted.
"Look, I just… I don't know if I can do the whole public couple thing. She… she seems like she might be a little clingy." Matt confessed.
"Well, good. I need my boy single anyways. Ooh, incoming." Tyler said as he looked behind Ellie. She turned just enough to see her favorite blonde approaching.
"Hey, there you are." Caroline beamed.
"Here I am."
"Yeah, well, I'm not drunk enough. So I'm just going to get another beer." Tyler said.
"I'll go with you Ty." Ellie said, shoving him away from the couple but stopped when she was far enough away to not be suspicious, but she could still hear them.
"So." Caroline started.
"So." He repeated.
"I have another speech." Caroline confessed.
"Ok."
"The hand thing with Elena, it was lame. Well, I was lame. And, hey, your feelings for Elena aside, Damon was there, and he was always such a jerk to me. And I wanted to show off that I was with the good guy. So, anyways, I was lame. So… forgiven?" Caroline asked softly.
Matt hesitated for a moment before smiling at her and saying, "Yeah. Of course, yeah." Caroline let out a breath of relief and smiled back at him.
Ellie let out a pleased cheer, quiet enough to not let them know she'd been listening. "Come on, Gilbert, can you even keep up?" Tyler taunted as Ellie downed the contents of her cup. Suddenly, the cup fell from her hands and she swayed, collapsing. Tyler caught her before she hit the ground as Matt and Caroline rushed to her side. "Ellie? Ellie are you ok?" Tyler asked worriedly as Ellie's vision blurred.
"Oh my god, Ellie hey can you hear me?" Caroline asked worriedly. She could feel Caroline's hands on her face, possibly feeling for a fever or something, but she couldn't get her eyes to focus. "Was there something in that cup Tyler?" Caroline asked. Her tone wasn't accusatory, but afraid.
"There's no way I poured our drinks myself." Tyler replied, but everything was starting to sound like she was underwater. She felt hot and sick and dizzy and she was struggling to remain calm. "Hey, Ellie, come on you have to focus." Tyler tried.
She tried to make the words come out to try and explain what she felt but it felt like there was a disconnect between what she wanted to do and what she could do. She'd never reacted to drinking like this before, so what was happening? "Do you think I need to call an ambulance?" Matt asked worriedly. His voice was close, like he was squatting down beside her. She tried to focus on what she could hear since her vision was blurry. Her friends were all down beside her. Tyler was kind of behind her, holding her up. Caroline was in front of her. Matt down to her right.
With a great deal of effort, Ellie managed to shake her head to tell him not to call an ambulance, at least she hoped she did. Caroline assured her that she'd managed it when the blonde replied, "Why not, Ellie? You're really scaring me." Ellie let out a whine of pain right before Caroline let out a shriek. "Ellie, your nose, it's bleeding."
All at once, it was like someone popped a balloon and the headache that felt like someone was stabbing her in the head with a knife disappeared as her vision cleared, although the sick feeling remained. "Oh my god." Ellie groaned, leaning back on Tyler as she wiped away the blood from her nose. "What the fuck was that?"
Caroline sagged into Matt, eyes shining with worried tears. "Ellie, are you ok?" Matt asked her.
"Yeah, yeah I'm ok now. I have no clue what that was, though." She nodded as she let Tyler help her so she was standing. "Maybe I just got too close to the fire or something? Overheated." She suggested. "Matt you think I could lay in your trunk bed for a few minutes? Cool off. I still feel a little sick to my stomach."
"Yeah of course, come on." Matt said. Her three friends stayed close to her as they walked, and helped her up into the trunk bed carefully. Caroline even went so far as to lay a tarp down so that the metal wasn't too cold. "You two can go back and party if you want, I'll hang here with Ellie to make sure she's ok." Matt suggested.
"Are you sure?" Caroline questioned.
"Yeah, I'm ok other than feeling a little sick and Matty is more than enough to make sure I'm ok. You guys go and have fun." Ellie agreed. Reluctantly, Tyler and Caroline walked off to join the party again. "I'm just gonna lay here, Matty."
"Alright." He said and shot her a smile. "Let me know if you need anything."
"I will."
She must have dozed off slightly because when she came to, Matt was talking to Caroline. "Is this for real?" He asked her.
"Is what for real?"
"You being all cool and honest and open?"
"Speech number three? I want this to work. And I'm scared that you're going to change your mind and you're not going to want it. I don't want to mess it up." Caroline confessed.
"I don't want to mess it up, either." After Matt's confession was silent and Ellie guessed they were either kissing or having a moment, and both worked for her.
When Ellie finally got home, she found Elena in the bathroom with aspirin and a glass of water. "What's going on?" Ellie asked as she followed Elena into Jeremy's bedroom.
"Jer passed out at the party." Elena confessed before she asked him, "How's your head?"
"Uh, it's uh, it's alright. I just… I wish I knew how I passed out. I didn't drink that much, I swear." Jeremy told them.
"And you don't remember anything?" Elena questioned.
"The whole thing's pretty cloudy. I just… I know how this looks. I'm… I'm sorry." Jeremy apologized.
"No, Jeremy, don't be sorry. Elena and I know that you've been really good about not taking drugs and keeping the drinking down." Ellie told him.
"You didn't do anything wrong, ok?" Elena added. When Jeremy agreed she told him, "I've gotta head over to Bonnie's for a little bit but is there anything that you need?"
"Ah, no I'm just gonna crash." Jeremy told her.
"Ok, well, Jenna and Ellie are here, and I'll be back soon." Elena said before she headed out.
"Jer, I think I'm gonna go and get some sleep, but if you need something feel free to come and get me." Ellie said as she pressed a kiss to his cheek and ruffled his hair. "Night, Jer, love you."
"Love you too, Ellie." He replied as she got up to walk out. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. She pushed it off as still feeling off from whatever happened at the party and got in the bed. The awful feeling followed her into her dreams that night.
Author's Note:
Hey guys! Please take just a second to read this. I'm worried, since Ellie is taking so long to find out the truth, that you guys might lost interest. So, I'm going to give a little spoiler. Since several people seem to be very excited for Katherine and Ellie to meet and interact, they meet in about 13 chapters! Once they meet a lot of stuff is going to start happening very fast! Also we have now hit over 7000 views! Thank you so much to everyone reading this story. Also Happy Ramadan to those that celebrate it!
To Guest: Ellie telling him before Elena is a definite possibility. I'll confess there's still several chapters before she reveals it to anyone, I actually haven't even written that reveal yet. But I will tell you that she doesn't tell anyone before she meets Katherine. Elena is being very sketchy for sure.
To Guest (2): There's a definite possibility that it could play out that way. Her not telling Ellie about looking for their birth parents was really awful on Elena's part, but does it really surprise anyone that she'd pull something like that? And no, Elena didn't consider what Ellie might have wanted whatsoever.
To Only Reviewer: Jenna definitely deserves to know sooner than later. Maybe I've already got that in the works... maybe I don't. Either way, I promise you I'm going to do my best to treat Jenna better.
To Lilomaus223: Thank you! That means a lot to me!
To Oz: That's a very good idea! Elena definitely needs to get called out for the really stupid decisions that she's made in the show. I'll have to remember that.
To Mimi: I'm still figuring out how to get Caroline to where she doesn't hate Katherine, if I go that route. But I can promise you that I've written a good bit of interaction between Ellie and Katherine now. I just hope that it doesn't seem odd that Ellie makes the choices and opinions that she's going to have. Also, I didn't even consider having Ellie break his compulsion! That's a really interesting idea. I'd have to figure out a way for her to be able to do that though. Has there been some spell used in the show to do that already?
To NightsBlackRose13: Whether the relationship between them ends well or not, there's definitely going to be a breaking point and it most likely won't be pretty. And yes, there's definitely serious drama brewing. And agreed, Elena didn't deserve the loyalty she got from Bonnie. If it works out, I'm going to try and get Bonnie better treatment, because really she deserved better.
To Guest (3): That's a good idea. It was really just brushed under the rug on the show, but a call out would probably be interesting. Really, the majority of them need to get called out for the stupid decisions they made.
-Madame Magic
Posted: 5/8/20
