A/N: I only own my ideas and my OC character Nova. The Vampire Diaries is not mine or we would have a less confusing season 1 anybody remembers the hawk or the fog?
Older Nova looks like Vanessa Morgan because I've always thought she looks like Kat Graham's sister.
I currently have about three chapter written and I'm already on the plot, but the chapters I post need to be checked over at least 5 times, this was actually supposed to be two chapters but I combined them because I wanted to you guys to get to the plot, I don't know if my OC is going to have romance, it's mostly just supernatural and friendship hence the genre, my character died without doing what she wanted to do with her life so now that she can live, she'll do whatever she wanted to do in her past life but didn't. She doesn't care about the sex of her 'lovers' or the species, so she's into girls as well as boys so if that bothers you I'm sorry but also not sorry.
There might be some smut if I can write good smut without giggling like a fourteen-year-old fangirl. There will be sexual references, crass language and sex will be implied but this isn't a smut first, story later kind of thing.
Neither is this an 'everyone loves her' character.
Because that's unrealistic and a character is never truly real until someone loves them and hates them.
This fanfic was inspired by a lot of people from different fandoms a Naruto fic called Sakura, a fucking awesome writer named LaDemonessa, and others that I can't recall. I don't like plagiarism. But I was Mused the fuck up by them. By the time I update this fic should be on ao3 my username is the same so whoever is reading this should be able to figure it out. This chapter was supposed to be split into two but I wanted to hurry to the plot. Next chapter is when it comes.
Enjoy the shit I call my writing! I'll probably find some kind of mistake I stupidly made as soon as I post this. *grins with tears running down my eyes*
Chapter 2
The Bennett Twins don't have a hard time convincing their Grams to teach them Magic, in fact it's almost too easy, so much so, Nova has to ask why it was so easy for the girls to convince the elder Witch to teach them when she hadn't sat them down for a serious conversation about their heritage with a demonstration of Grams' own magic.
"All you two had to do was ask, forcing you to learn Magic was never going to work, you had to come to me," Grams says the next day, sitting at the dining room table with them with a little smile on her face, like she's been waiting for this day since they were born.
She probably has been.
"You have to believe in your Magic and that it's yours before you're even taught the basics, always remember that." Grams visibly hesitated before continuing,"Also because your father never wanted you to know what you are."
That's probably why Grams never seriously sat Bonnie down in the show.
"He has no right to do that." Nova says with an angry huff that just looks adorable on her childish face.
"What she said, he's not even here, he's never here." Bonnie says sitting next to her, crossing her arms.
"You're right he doesn't have that right to deny you such things, but your father wanted you two to have a normal life for as long as you could," Grams says with a worried frown at the sulking girls.
"I tried to reason with him but he never listened, always thought Magic would make you distance yourselves from him, only he did that himself."
Grams changes the subject by promising to teach them everything she knows.
And she does.
The older woman has such a passion for Magic that it's not really hard to focus on what the elder Witch teaches them; Nova remembers vaguely that Grams is an Occult teacher at the local community college, the one with the super creepy scientist cult. She's been taking a lot of time off so she can 'help' raise them, more like raise them herself, when asked by a curious Bonnie when she'd go back to teaching she replied with,"When you two troublemakers are old enough to be left alone for more than a minute, then we'll talk."
When the girls aren't at school, which is tedious and mind-numbing for her, or at one of their friends house, which is always embarrassingly fun, she never had an enjoyable childhood in her old life, so sue her for having fun with kids mentally younger than her, they'll be learning witchcraft from the one and only Sheila Bennett.
Turns out there are rules to nature, which she kind of figured, but is still slightly disappointed about.
"Magic is not a weapon, or a new toy to play with," Grams begins sternly looking them both in the eye to make sure they're paying attention to her before continuing,"It's a part of you, in your very veins and something that will never completely go away as long as you accept it, even when you pass to the Other Side." She continues, sitting with them outside on the green grass, the tree providing shade from the bright sun, sage burning in a bowl.
"The Other Side?" Bonnie questions with a frown.
"It's where most of the dead Supernatural go." Sheila clarifies.
"More than just Witches exist don't they." Nova says, rather than questions, causing Bonnie's eyes to go wide in shock and realization for a moment. "Yes, we'll go over that more next time, for now, you can have this." Grams reaching behind her figure and pulled in her hands a worn down leather book the girls hadn't noticed before.
"Read this and memorize it before the year is over; it's a record the Bennett family have on all of the Supernatural Beings our family line has recorded." Grams says before gently handing it over to the twins.
"All of this is just on Supernatural Beings?" Bonnie is in awe of how many pages there are.
"Yes, but that's just the first volume," Grams says with pride, "Bennett Witches have been around for a very long time girls."
The twins look up at their Grams in awe before looking back at the leather bound journal."We'll make sure to take care of it, Grams." Nova says with reverence, while Bonnie simply nods in agreement her green eyes eagerly scanning the pages.
"I know you will, sweethearts." Grams says in such a way that says if they don't take care of it there'll be consequences.
The first thing they learn is the rules of Nature, what it means to be a Witch, the balance and what they can bend and what they can never break.
"Witches are supposed to uphold the laws Nature sets for them, sometimes a Witch will break the rules, for loved ones, or sometimes for themselves, when that happens Nature finds a way to punish the Witch in question, usually it's by having the Spirits take your Magic away."
Between Magic lessons, school, weekly sleepovers with the girls, and avoiding talking about Magic to their father, which is easy since he avoids it as well, the twins are busier than normal kids.
Bonnie asked if they could tell their friends about the twins being Witches but Grams denied the request, if only until they reach a certain level of maturity. Grams promised she'd tell them when it was time. Way back before the Salem Witch trials, and the world's modernization, Supernatural Beings could be open about what they were, now everyone who's Supernatural has to be careful who they trust.
Nowadays young Witches are given a certain time period to mature and learn about who they are as a Supernatural Being; and when their mentor or coven think they're ready they'll be given free rein on what to do with their gifts, say if the Witch, or Warlock, in question wants to tell someone human what they are; it has as much to do with how strong the Witch is as it does with being mentally old enough to decide who to trust. Witches normally start flourishing in both areas at the ages of fifteen or seventeen.
"You can have all the maturity in the world, girls, but you need the experience and knowledge to back it up. I won't hide the darker aspects of witchcraft from you, but you have to remember there are consequences to your actions whenever you defy Nature." Grams says to them at the age of thirteen, "You can bend the rules all you want but never break them for Nature will find a way to punish you." Grams warns them slightly ominously. "Magic is a give and take relationship, especially for the more powerful spells."
Months pass them by with them soaking up the information they are given; they don't practice with their magic until they get the basic rules of Nature down. When they do get the basics down they only actually do small spells, with no incantations, and all intent, like lighting candles, and levitating objects. Their bond of being twins seem to help focus them, their Magic will seemingly feed off of each other until it's combined; they did a simple spell, at the same time, that was supposed to light all of the candles placed in a circle around them, it had the side effect of making the spell even more powerful than it did doing it alone, the candles lite up alright, so did the grass around them.
Nova was forced to get over her fear of fire that day, and from then on they only practice in the woods far away from civilization.
They move onto more in depth teachings when they hit the age fourteen, which is also the time when they got sat down by their Grams for the birds and the bees talk; apparently most Witches are more open in the discussion of sex, she had never had to have the sex talk before, mainly because she had access to the internet at a young age and by the time her family tried to have the talk with her she had already known.
The look of absolute horror on Bonnie's face was worth the embarrassment of having 'the talk' though.
They learned the different types of Magic to make up for the embarrassment of the long hour explanation of where babies come from and the natural 'magic' of birth control and condoms. She had tried to refrain from laughing when her Grams said that, she kind of failed. Grams also may have threatened to skin them if they ever returned home sixteen and pregnant.
There are plenty of different Magics to learn and the girls had to learn about most of them so they could choose what to focus on, they'll learn more along the way but their Grams said it's always good to know and be experienced in at least three Magics; and decent in the rest.
Ancestral Magic is a Magic that you're basically using their remains as a power source so you'll be bound to only be able to do, that type of Magic anyway, near their resting place.
Then there's Voodoo which is more of a religion than a Magic, but the basics of making Voodoo dolls is linking someone's physical energy into an object, with any type of bodily fluids, the human bound to the doll will feel whatever is being done to the doll; then there's Hoodoo, which is not also not really a Magic but also not a religion but mostly about using things such as herbs, flowers, plants, oils, and minerals, as a to get different results for different things, sometimes blessings, sometimes a cure for a curse or maybe a poison. Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't, it all depends on the knowledge the person has then the power.
Connective Magic is a form of Magic which allows a Witch to form a semi-permanent bond that draws power from other Supernatural Beings; It's similar to Channeling which isn't really a Magic but a power source. Channeling is all about drawing on power from powerful sources like nature, an element, or celestial events like the sun; the moon, eclipses, aurora's, comet, and sometimes Witches. It's the type of Magic that Bonnie and Nova do unconsciously because of the bond they made in the womb.
Sacrificial Magic is pretty much self-explanatory, the Witch in question will sacrifice animals, humans, or other Supernatural beings to draw on every person's power or energy they sacrificed.
Spirit Magic is sort of like Ancestral Magic in that your drawing on someone else's power only instead of drawing on Ancestors bones, which is super morbid by the way, you'll be drawing power from their Spirits on the Other Side, drawing from Spirit and Body are different, it's also really powerful Magic but also can be limiting because when you use Spirit Magic your channeling Dead Witches, judgemental Dead Witches, so if they don't like what you're using their power for; they can cut you off.
Traditional Magic is Olde and the Purest form of Magic and is what most of the Bennett Witches specialize in, but it's also very draining because it uses your own Energy as a power source.
Dark Magic is when a Witch filled with intent to hurt, kill, torture or benefit for themselves instead of others, it's something to abuse often, every Witch has at least used it once in their lifetime, but get in too deep and Magic will have you pay the price, because most Dark Magic goes against Nature herself.
Expression is not really a form of Witchcraft, it's more a destructive, for the lack of a better word, force that the desperate, unaware or insane call on, it's probably one of the most powerful forms of Dark Magic, but also the most volatile because instead of the Witch controlling it, it could end up controlling the Witch. Grams told them about it with a heavy frown and a warning to not ever touch such Magics because it could twist the very being of what and who they are as Witches and people.
Divination is a is very tricky witchcraft and as vast; there are the mediums all Witches can use, such as tarot cards, mirrors, crystal balls, tea leaves, palm reading, bones, runes, blood, pendulums and some will contact the Spirits or their Ancestors from the other side for guidance. Sometimes a Witch will just know when something with impact is happening like when a death or an unnatural occurrence is going to happen, their minds will blank as they'll unconsciously write numbers or words that'll end up prophetic.
Locator spells are also part of Divinations since Divination is all about knowing that would normally be unknown by unnatural means, but known through supernatural means; Witches will use a map, personal items, and blood to locate the person in question.
Foresight is what Seers use; their eyes usually turn an unnatural shade of blue or white, her eyes, however, remain their color but turn eerily blank, like there's no one home. Divination is always a very vague art of Magic because sometimes the meaning will be completely misread by the Witch; the future is something that always can be changed with the right, or wrong, guiding hand.
Blood Magic is often confused with Sacrificial Magic but unless a Witch weaves together a spell that uses both practices of Magic together no one will need to die; different types of Supernatural Blood have different purposes and outcomes.
Elemental or also known as Earth Magic is the use of the four alchemical elements, Earth, Fire, Water, and Air; Bennetts are known to use this form of Magic as well, the more powerful a Witch the more easily they can use it and incorporate it in rituals and spells. Fire is one of the more commonly used Element that any Witch can use, the rest are harder to use and require may require a more powerful Witch.
Necromancy allows Witches to contact, control and resurrect the dead, not much is said on the subject for all of its popularity.
There are also other more obscure types of Magics that even the Bennetts haven't found enough about.
After discussing the different practices of witchcraft they were told to choose what to focus on for now.
Bonnie chose to focus her interest on Elemental, Traditional, Hoodoo and Channeling. Nova chose to focus on Elemental, Hoodoo, Traditional and Divination.
They'll have to stick with the subjects until they're comfortable in each practice. No witchcraft can be mastered, Magic is too vast and ever changing, but they'll have to be at least confident in what Magics they focus on.
Another year passes them by, and the girls are now learning about creating spells, all about how the intent, the wording and sometimes gestures that help and how something as simple as a language change can change the whole structure of the spell.
Bonnie and Nova have been slowly and painfully learning languages since they asked to be taught Magic. Latin is, of course, is the most popular language that every Witch needs to learn; but then there are runes, it's not a language, but more of Runic alphabets that some Witches use to power certain objects or certain spells.
There are other languages, of course, but those are the ones they need to learn to survive as not only a Witch, but a Bennett Witch. Mostly because Bennetts are notorious for being powerful and so they often get involved in other Supernatural Beings drama, not that witches don't have their own drama.
The twins are slowly taught Magic, along with juggling school, after school activities and a social life.
For Nova, this is the busiest she's ever been in either of her lifetimes, mainly because she's never really had a social life.
But now that she has loyal friends she'll protect them with everything she has; so when Caroline called her on her new flip phone, slightly hysterical, at 12 AM, at the age of fourteen, she somehow manages to sneak out her and Bonnie's room at Grams' house. Bonnie quickly going back to sleep after Nova told her she's got it, and she quietly tiptoed past her Grams who'd fallen asleep on the couch, with the television playing an old film.
Nova, had the foresight, haha foresight get it? Because she's a Seer, and, nevermind, anyway she had the foresight to put on her purple slippers and denim jacket hanging on the coat rack before leaving the house.
Nova is not going to lie, she's nervous, mainly because she's never snuck out the house before, ever, and she's a pretty, fourteen-year-old girl alone walking the streets at night in a town that's soon going to be the new Hellmouth, the only that keeps her focused and calm is the fact that she's going to have to get used to dangerous situations, the sound of Caroline crying through the phone; and the fact she feels her Magic ready to be called on at any moment.
Nova arrives at the Forbes residence in a normally twenty-minute walk but was shortened to a ten-minute sprint. She huffs on the front step for a little while, before looking at the house that has all of its lights on. Her eyes flicker back and forth to the door and to the window that she knows is to Caroline's room.
Nova shrugs, she knows she'll be in trouble for sneaking out the house, she might as well go out in style.
She quickly runs to the window and picking up small pebbles from the ground she throws one, and then two, and then another at the window before she hears Caroline's sniffling stop, and she shuts the phone closed when she hears Caroline cautiously go to the window. Nova hands can only reach to Caroline's window sill so she waves them through the closed window, "Hurry let me in Care." Nova says whispering, causing Caroline to drop the lamp she had in her hand.
"Nova, is that you?" Caroline questions, her blonde head sticking out of the window, hiccuping.
"Yes, it's me, let me in." Nova confirms whispering loudly, looking over her shoulder for anyone who wants to kill her.
Caroline opens the window and steps back as Nova grabs the window sill lifting herself up and into the room, tripping on clothes and makeup along the way.
"That always looks cooler in movies." Nova says sheepishly, rubbing her neck.
"Nova what are you doing here, and why didn't you go through a door like a normal person?" Caroline says confused, her face red and tears still falling.
"You called, crying, at twelve in the morning, where else would I be," Nova says genuinely confused, before continuing dismissively,"And normal is overrated anyway."
That causes Caroline to cry even more, which makes Nova panic thinking she said something wrong. "What's wrong, what did I do, or was it someone else, was it a boy, do I need to hurt someone?" Nova says in a panic, that causes Caroline to laugh.
"There's no boy, that's not why I'm crying," Caroline says, wiping her tears for what feels like the thousandth time.
Nova hesitates before she asks,"Then why are you crying." Caroline sat on the rainbow covered bed and with a tired huff and Nova sits next to her while she explains. "My dad is gay," Caroline says bluntly.
Nova's eyes widen and her mouth formed a silent 'oh' but doesn't say anything until Caroline finishes.
"My parents have been fighting lately," Caroline confesses, "I thought they were just going through what Cosmopolitan calls a 'rough patch' but it turns out he'd been having an affair, with another man, and was trying to file for a divorce," Caroline says, with a wounded look on her face she drops her head on Nova's shoulder.
"He left mom, he left me, with his boyfriend driving the car, tonight."
Oh.
Wow, she knew it was going to happen, she just never knew this was how Bill Forbes decided to come out to his family, it's a real shit way to come out. It'd always be a shit situation to come out to your daughter and wife, she has no objection to being gay, hell she's bi-sexual and proud of it, but to parade around the person you had an affair with around your teenage daughter and ex-wife is just fucked up.
She says as much to Caroline, causing her to smile a little before she starts crying again.
Nova holds her while the blonde cries into her shoulder she wonders if Caroline had to deal with this alone in the show, but quickly pushes it out of her head because one of her best friends needs her right now and she can think about that later.
Nova pulls Caroline closer and tries to think of anything to say to make it better but doubts anything can make this better, instead she does what she liked to do in her old life with her friend, and shares her pain.
"Hey, Care, wanna know something?" Nova says whispering.
"What?" Caroline asks voice hoarse from crying.
"I haven't seen my dad for longer than one hour a week since Bonnie and I turned ten." They moment it became obvious the girls were learning witchcraft from their Grams was the moment he started to distance himself even more than he already had.
Caroline looks at her in shock,"What!" Caroline exclaims, making Nova hush her.
"Why not?" Caroline asked in a lower voice.
"He says he's busy with work, but I think it mostly has to do with the fact the older Bonnie and I get, the more we look like our mother." Nova says, lays back on the bed looking at the ceiling.
"You guys never really talk about your mom, or your dad, mostly just about your Grams." Caroline said, her voice questioning, laying back next to her clutching a pillow.
"Because Grams is the one that's actually been there for us, mom left us and practically took our dad with her for all the little time he spends with us."Nova said this a little too callously because Caroline looks over at her in worry, but she just smiles at her.
"I'm not sad about it, just angry and disappointed really, but not sad." Nova says and continues when it looks like the blonde doesn't believe her. "I don't know them, not really, I've seen pictures of who they were before mom decided to skip town, but I don't know them enough for it to make me sad."
Caroline looks like she believes her so Nova nudges her with an elbow eyes lighting up as a new insane thought pops in her head.
"Hey, does this mean you'll get rid of me and find a new shopping partner in your newly out of the closet dad?" Nova says, pretending to pout with laughter in her eyes.
Normal people would take extreme offense to that sentence, thankfully, all of her friends are crazy and so it only makes Caroline giggle throwing the pillow she had been clutching at her friends face.
Caroline laughter made her mother check on her daughter. And as a knock was heard from the other side of the door before opening without waiting for a response. Before the door opens Nova see's her life flash before her eyes, okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration. But she does panic for a full second when the door opens before she just decides to accept her fate and decided to relax, sadly Caroline didn't have the same acceptance as her; Nova thinks wryly as she is rudely pushed off the side of Caroline's bed and onto the floor with a loud thump as her face hits the floor.
Liz looks around in confusion at the noise before her eyes settle on her daughter slightly red and blotched face, causing her eyes to soften.
Caroline's plan to hide her might have worked if Liz hadn't decided to try to come inside the room.
"Are you okay Caroline, I thought I heard something." Liz questions.
"I'm fine." Caroline snaps at her mother nervously, trying to block her mother from entering. Liz just sighs at her daughter's tone, too used to it to try to do anything about it.
"Okay, just checking." Liza says about to turn and leave but stops to say what she had come to do,"Oh and Nova?" Liz says in a knowing voice, causing Caroline's eyes to widen in shock. "Yes, Sheriff Forbes?" Nova says voice muffled from the wood floor her face still lays on.
"Your Grams called said if you try to sneak out this late again she'll revoke certain privileges, I'll be taking you back home later in the morning." Liz says with a frown,"I hope you don't plan on doing this ever again Nova Amelia Bennett."
"Of course not, thank you, Sheriff Forbes." Nova says slightly lying cause she might have to sneak out again, but the lie is believable apparently because Liz just nods at her daughter before awkwardly leaving with a soft,"Good Night Girls."
"Good Night." The girls echo, Caroline still stunned and Nova's face still squashed on the floor.
There's a moment of silence before it's broken by Nova hitting her head on the carpeted floor. "I'm going to be in so much trouble when I get home," Nova says, before getting up off the floor with Caroline's help.
"Thanks for throwing me on the floor, by the way, it totally worked." Nova's sarcasm could be heard from the next town.
Caroline smiles sheepishly," Sorry, I just panicked and I never asked you to walk to my house at twelve in the morning."
Nova kicks her slippers off, tosses her blue jean jacket on Caroline's desk chair, and slips under the covers without asking, the girls have had so many sleepovers that everyone's house feels like, a second, and technically third home. "I don't regret coming over, Care, I might regret it when my Grams guilt trips me in the morning, but for now, I don't regret it." Nova corrects herself, while Caroline turns off her light and joins her under the to her, really fucking bright, rainbow covers.
"Thanks, Nova." Caroline says, whispering in the dark.
"You're welcome, you totally owe me though, I thought I was going to get kidnapped." Nova says, back in an equally quiet voice.
Caroline laughs, thinking she's joking, but Nova is being completely serious, but she'll let her blonde friend think whatever she wants until she calls on that favor.
"Goodnight, Nova." Caroline says a grin in her voice. "Goodnight, Caroline." Nova replied before she fell asleep.
From then on Caroline and her are closer; and her Grams totally chewed her out for a whole hour once she got home, she had to then write a five-page report on the Magical uses of animal organs.
Nova almost became a vegetarian after that.
Almost.
It's a cold November on a Friday night the time is currently 9 PM, the girls are having their annual weekend pajama party, they're at the twins house this time, the twins dad gone for a business trip and their Grams had finally trusted them enough to go back to work.
The twins 'moved' back into the house that they never really had stayed longer than the few days out of a week their dad stayed at home, with their dad's permission they redecorated their separate rooms. Right now they're all piled in Nova's room with its dark wood floor, lying down on the floor different rugs piled on the floor underneath them.
Nova finished painting the room last week, the ceiling galaxy painted, the rest is a forest with starry skies a giant full moon painted in the middle of the room above her wooden headboard, a black and white bedspread with a shit ton of decorative pillows on the queen size bed. She painted animals and mythical creatures in the forest that represent her and her friends.
Twin black cats, one with brown and the other with green eyes, to represent Nova and Bonnie. A giant unicorn for Elena and for Jeremy a chestnut horse. Butterfly's with a kaleidoscope of colors on their wings for Caroline. Tyler's a giant wolf with its head tilted back howling at the moon, and Matt is a lion with blue eyes; of course, only she knows who the animals represent, it'd be hard to explain why she picked the animals, so it's her little inside joke.
Nova bribed Tyler and Matt with pot brownies to help her push two tall bookshelves to the only wall left unpainted, its shelves full of books reaching the ceiling. Next to the bookshelves, in the corner are movie posters that she pushed her antique wooden desk under, she found it in the attic and stole it, pairing it with a cheap black leather swivel chair. She kept her big old oak wood vanity mirror set and left it next to her bed, it has a shit ton of stuff on it, from makeup, different makeup removers, too many nail polishes to count, nail polish removers, a giant wooden jewelry box Bonnie got her for her fifteenth birthday, pictures stuck in the corners of the mirror, TV merchandise like a mini Tardis, a Supernatural anti-demon possession sticker on the mirror, and Buffy's stake 'Mr. Pointy' that won't do shit against an actual vampire but made her laugh.
Her closet is small so she has a tiny wooden wardrobe, but a lot of the clothes still spill out of the wardrobe and onto the floor.
She started painting and drawing at thirteen, she had drawn in her old life but never could afford to paint too often, now it was the only thing besides writing in her Journal that kept her sane, so she has an easel and her paints on the other side of her bed next to the door and beside the only window in the room, her canvases are always in the attic drying.
It took Nova and Bonnie two whole months to finish both of their rooms.
Completely worth it, bitches.
They're all wearing t-shirts Nova had gotten them as joint gifts this year.
Nova's ironically a supernova pattern with the words 'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. ' printed on the back.
Bonnie's a deep green that matches her eye color with the words 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
Elena's a deep red with the words 'Oh, no It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast'
And Caroline's a powder blue with the words 'I'm sorry people are so jealous of me. But I can't help it that I'm popular.'
Nova picked movie quotes because she accidentally got the girls addicted to television and movies. T-shirts because she had been walking around Mystic Falls when she found a small t-shirt shop, it was slightly out of place next to all the older stores, having just been built this year, but she had walked in and ordered the shirts made for her best friends and walked out feeling poor, but accomplished.
Caroline's radio she brought over is on, and Rihanna is playing,
'Don't tell me you're sorry 'cause you're not
Baby when I know you're only sorry you got caught
But you put on quite a show
Really had me going
But now it's time to go
Curtain's finally closing
That was quite a show
Very entertaining
But it's over now (but it's over now)
Go on and take a bow'
Nova was having such a fun time singing along softly to the music, mint facial masque on, rollers in her dark brunette hair with new blonde highlights, she'd never had a pajama party before in her old life and now she's having one every week, she loves it. Nova's painting Elena's toes a red wine, her own toenails already painted a glittery black, laying on her stomach out on top of her zebra print rug; she was in such a peaceful state, the calm before the storm her mind supplies rather unhelpfully, that she almost didn't hear what Caroline said but sadly whenever Caroline says something you have to pay attention or you'll have her ire to deal with.
"So has anyone else noticed how hot Tyler and Matt have gotten?" Caroline questioned her own mint masque on her face and her eyes full of mischief.
Nova pauses at the question because, to be honest, she hasn't noticed, mainly because she grew up with Matt and Tyler and only see's them as her childhood friends. "Not really, I mean Tyler's kind turning into a bit of a dick nowadays and Matt's not really my type, but Tyler does have nice arms and Matt has really pretty eyes." Nova voices her thoughts out loud, causing Bonnie to nod her head humming in agreement but mostly out of the conversation, magazine covering her face.
Nova can see Elena blushing beneath her clear peel off facial masque at the mention of Matt and she suddenly remembers that Elena and Matt dated for a while in the show, she doesn't remember much about that relationship, she does remember they dated and that Elena dumped him after the car crash; Nova had wanted to change Elena's adoptive parents fate, because even if Mr. Gilbert plays an even more fucked up version of Frankenstein in his spare time, his wife doesn't deserve to die.
Mrs. Gilbert who's sweet, funny, maternal, and who gives her and Bonnie's homemade chocolate chip cookies whenever they sleepover, just the thought of her dying when she could have done something about it, makes her feel sick, it's something that keeps her up at night the closer the night becomes; but also Elena and Jeremy don't deserve to lose their parents so young, causing Jenna to become their sole parental figure right after losing her sister.
But Nova can't mess with too much.
The information she has can not just get her, her friends and her family killed; but maybe even fuck up this entire universe and Elena's parent's death had too much impact on Elena's life.
Maybe if Nova and her friends had been born normal the damage would be less disastrous, but we're talking about a traveler/doppelganger whose face has probably been around for over two millenniums, two powerful Bennett Witches and a soon to be a badass vampire with incredible control for a new vampire.
Nova also knows in her very being if she changes too much or does the wrong thing, it'll cost her something steep and her price will be her being at Natures mercy, she doesn't know how she knows that only that she does.
Pulling herself back in the present she smirks at Elena while finishing painting the other brunette's toes.
"Oh why, Ms. Gilbert, are you blushing!?" Nova teases with a southern drawl, her smirk practically devious.
Bonnie finally pulls the from the magazine from her face, revealing her mud masque, while Caroline finished her toenails painted a mint green. "You're right, her face is definitely sporting a flush, Nova." Bonnie joins in the teasing, while Caroline squeals clapping in glee.
"I knew it, it's Matt isn't it?!" Caroline says knowingly, grinning like the Cheshire cat, causing Elena's tan skin which Nova didn't even know could flush, get even redder in its hue. "He might have kissed me that time we all snuck into that senior party." Elena says, smiling impishly.
Nova and Bonnie laugh when Caroline hits Elena with a decorative pillow, "That was two months ago Elena, why didn't you tell us!?" Caroline says, slightly pouting.
"Because you're horrible with secrets Care, and I didn't want to just tell the twins first and not you, I wanted to tell all of you when I was ready to tell Mystic Falls I'm dating Matt Donovan." Elena says, keeping her arms raised in case Caroline decides to attack again, looking slightly apologetic at Caroline.
"What are you talking I can totally keep a secret." Caroline says dropping the pillow in disbelief.
The girls all turn as one to look at Caroline, in disbelief themselves.
"Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said to Katie that her crush, Peter, thought she smelt like his dogs, or told Mary that her boyfriend, now ex-boyfriend, thinks Mary turned him gay," Caroline says thoughtfully, only to pause when she's finished. "Yeah, I suck at keeping secrets." Caroline realizes, not looking very guilty causing the rest of us to break into peals of laughter that Caroline soon joins.
Nova nudges Elena with her foot after they've all calmed down, "So if you're telling us now does that mean it's official, is Elena 'doe-eyed' Gilbert dating Matty 'blue eyes' Donovan." Nova teases, her brown eyes filled with laughter.
"Doe-eyed, where do you come up with this stuff Nova?" Elena asks, with an amused grin, Nova just grins back saying nothing.
"No, no, stop avoiding the question, are you dating Matt?" Caroline says, with Bonnie leaning in just as in eagerly.
"As of yesterday, yes, we're official." Elena announces to the room that's soon filled with squeals from all sides.
"This calls for a celebration and I have just the thing for it," Caroline announces, getting up from the soft gray rug to walk over to her duffle bag while the girls look on curiously. When Caroline just grabs a makeup bag, they get confused, until she pulls out the bottle of Vodka and then they all grin at each other.
"Vodka anybody?" Caroline asks, smiling at them when they all raise their mugs that had been filled previously with tea.
Alcohol is sadly easy to get in Mystic Falls, especially with Tyler as a childhood friend, he regularly supplies them with alcohol raided from his dad's cellar.
All the good teen parties are mostly planned by Caroline with Tyler supplying the food and alcohol. It's odd, being a party girl when she was a full-time nerd back in her old life and had never been to a teen party, not for lack of an invite but of more lack of interest, now she has a party girl reputation; when she gets drunk her filter gets thrown away and so do her already few inhibitions, like that time she skinny dipped in The Lockwood's fountain on a dare, in mid-October, also known as her biggest drunken mistake so far.
She would have just gone back to her anti-social ways if it wasn't for the girls, they keep her from feeling her mental age.
There's not much else to do in Mystic Falls but party like an idiot; there's ton of events to keep everyone busy year around like the monthly outdoor movie showings, or the ridiculous amount of balls mostly thrown by Mrs. Lockwood in an attempt to show the town how rich and 'perfect' her family are, carnivals at least once a year each summer, teen parties are thrown every weekend that even the parents know about but they're practically a Mystic Falls tradition itself then there's the actual town tradition of Founder Events which is really just something to make the rich and 'important' families feel, well, rich and important. The Bennett Family deserve to be there just as much as the rest of them, maybe even more, but what can you except when they've all been getting a millennium of history wrong.
Nova isn't sure when she became the 'popular' girl but apparently she's is, she blames being best friends with Caroline Forbes for the change, with her pushing them all to join cheerleading together, also maybe cause she's trying to not waste this new life so she tries with all her power to shove her anti-social tendencies down the toilet.
While her old self wouldn't have normally done these things like cheerleading, drinking at parties, making out with random guys and girls in the back of cars, losing her virginity in the back of a car, or even just being in Art club with Jeremy; she can admit the reason that she never did it was because the person she had been always played by the rules of other people, always hesitant to do things for herself, such a people pleaser she had always tried to be.
Now she's a different person. She's Nova Amelia Bennett; twin of Bonnie Bennett and best friends with Caroline Forbes and Elena Gilbert. She's loyal, funny, sarcastic, free spirited, artistic, and a little bit of a bitch; and the only person she has to listen to is Nature herself.
Sometimes her anti-social habits will come back with a vengeance, mainly when she reminisces about her old life, when that happens she'll lock herself away in her room with her curtains drawn the candles lit, and she'll look at the drawing she drew of her past life's family, sad music playing; it's probably a real pathetic sight and only her best friends can push her out of the funk, but at least she finally found a spell that makes the journal only open to her magic.
The girls eventually get tipsy and dance around the room for a while until they eventually wind down and finally start to take off their facials. Nova currently has Elena's phone in hand as soon as Bonnie and Elena left the room to clean off their facials first, "What are you doing?" Caroline whispered, her voice slightly slurring.
"I'm sexting Matt, as Elena." Nova said it as though it should be obvious, she's not as tipsy as her friend.
"Why would you do that?" Caroline looked adorably confused.
"Because I'm one of her best friends and it's my duty to embarrass her." Nova said, still texting.
Twenty minutes later, the other girls come back in the room to see Caroline giggling while looking over the shorter girl's shoulder.
"What are you two doing?" Bonnie questioned with an amused smile and tilt of her head, her face fresh but her eyes slightly glazed over from the alcohol.
"Is that my phone?" Elena questioned, before snatching the phone from a smiling Nova. "Oh my god, did you..you texted, Matt? As me?" Elena exclaims, hurriedly going through the texts as Bonnie comes to look over her shoulder.
'I'm so hot 4 U'- Elena
'We should have lots of sex' -Elena
'I thought you wanted to wait.'-Matt
'Talk dirty to me.' - Elena
'What do you want me to say?'-Matt
'Whateva you want, babe, xoxoxo.'-Elena
'Are you drunk?'- Matt
'Only on U bby' - Elena
"Technically, I sexted him, as you." Nova says as she slowly stumbled away from a red-faced Elena, she's not sure if it's from anger or embarrassment.
"Run." Elena advises, and Nova takes the great advice.
She runs out of the room passing an amused Caroline and Bonnie, while Elena follows her with much longer legs. Nova makes it down the stairs only to squeal when she gets tackled by Elena's limbs in the living room. "Why. would. you. do. that?" Elena hits her best friend with the couch pillow with each word.
They could hear the footsteps of their other best friends running down the staircase, "Because I was bored, and at least now you know Matt is shit at dirty talk?" Nova questioned with a smile, she honestly did it for shits and giggles. "Any last words?" Elena questioned her eyes amused but her face deadly serious, "I regret nothing." Nova states, her eyes also smiling.
Elena sighs exasperatedly at her friend, before falling next to Nova, the other girls came into the living room, looking down at them with amused grins.
"Are you two done now?" Bonnie asked the girls on the carpeted floor, the girls in question look at each other before looking back to Bonnie, before nodding, hesitatingly on Elena's part.
They all crowd on the couch before turning on the TV, the latest Supernatural season is re-playing, they had started watching the series online at first but there almost caught up with the current season.
They're taking shots every time someone dies.
Caroline is a part of Dean girls and Bonnie is a part of Sam girls while Elena and Nova love both and don't dare get in between the debates the other two girls have about the main characters, but it made Nova giggle at the ironic part of Elena loving both brothers, causing the girls to look at her funny before shrugging it off as Nova just being Nova; while she doesn't like her friends fighting the 'debates' are hilarious.
"But Dean like literally died for his brother, how can you not like him?!" Caroline yelled, drunk and outraged.
"It's not that I don't like him, I just relate to Sam better!" Bonnie says, equally drunk and outraged; the other two girls keep out of it, their eyes flickering back and forward, eating popcorn they originally popped for the Supernatural marathon, but it's currently paused, as they're enjoying the show their best friends are putting on for them.
"How in the world is Sam relatable, not that I don't love him, but he's far from 'relatable'!" Caroline says, with air quotes rolling her eyes at Bonnie.
"He just is!" Bonnie says not elaborating on it, her twin sister understands what she's trying to say though.
Bonnie may have accepted that she's a Witch and she does love being a Witch, but it doesn't mean she doesn't sometimes want a normal life. Nova herself doesn't understand why her twin wants to be whatever the hell 'normal' means because her life is far from 'normal' having died and coming back as a baby is not 'normal' in any way, and if she's being honest she likes this life better, she finally got to live instead of just being alive, so 'normal' can go fuck itself.
"I've created monsters." Nova slurs quietly, throwing popcorn in her mouth but missing her mouth completely, causing Elena to try to muffle her drunk giggles in Nova's shoulder. "You love it." Elena accused, also slurring, just as quietly, them still watching the girls yell at each other.
"Yup." Nova nods popping the 'p' grinning, only to pout when it makes her dizzy.
The girls soon stop arguing and settle the 'debate' with a simple agreement that the Winchesters are both hot and BAMF and they all soon go back to watching and Nova does not spoil anything for them because spoilers are the spawn of Lucifer; it's 2 AM when they finally finish. "That's it?" Elena questions disbelievingly, even drunker than before.
Nova checks on her laptop, that was on the coffee table, before nodding sadly, she hadn't finished the show in her old life and she wants more damn.
"They can't just leave us like that!" Caroline says, slightly buzzed.
"When does it come back?" Bonnie asks her sister, before changing her mind and snatching the laptop from Nova to check herself, "Not till...January the fifteenth, next year." Bonnie confirms sadly, her head lolling on Nova's shoulder. Yeah, she might have got them addicted.
That feeling she has right now, yeah, it's called pride.
They pick up the now empty vodka bottle and throw it into the trash, piling up their other garbage on top to hide it, the popcorn bags, candy wrappers, and empty water bottles. Before making it up the stairs to Nova's room. The lights go off and the girls all pile on the bed, really drunk, and really fucking sleepy.
The next day is full of water bottles, pain pills, and greasy foods.
Hangovers are not fun, and the twins Grams still hasn't given them her secret remedy for hangovers that Nova knows she has.