A/N; I don't own The Vampire Diaries, just my OC, and some plot, some very vague plot. Hello..people who may be reading this, I was going to do this like two days ago but I lost track of time and whatever I think I'm updating this story pretty well, despite the fact I haven't written anything past like the third episode. My Docs is currently taunting me with how many chapters I've written, or haven't written, but anyway, this chapter is just showing you what's changed. Bonnie found out about what she is and what goes bump in the night, or day, at an early age and that changed her a little bit, if you have questions pls leave a comment, no please do, I'msolonely in my writer's corner. Enjoy ..stuff happens... Edited: like ten hours after it was updated.
Nova is sitting behind Elena it's the last class of the day, she's currently drawing the soon to be couple in her sketchpad.
Mr. Dickbag- Oh sorry Mr. Reject Snape- Oops she means; Mr. Tanner is talking and she's not really listening because everything that comes out his mouth is like the dirt beneath her shoes, aka, undeserving of her time and effort.
The man is frequently inaccurate with his history and an asshole to his students; he once made a girl burst into tears during class, that girl had to be moved to a different town because she kept breaking down in sobs every time she saw the man after the incident. The only thing that keeps him employed is the fact he's not a completely terrible football coach, and he's also poker buddies with the principal; the principal is also shit at his job, the whole student body could all be turned into vampires and the man wouldn't notice a damn thing.
"Once our home state of Virginia joined Confederacy in 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state." Nova doodles hearts coming out of Elena's and Stefan's eyes when she sees Elena subtly looking at her cell before looking at Stefan, who's staring, which is kinda creepy, just a little.
The fact he's pretty made up for the creep factor.
"People in Virginia's northwest region had different Ideals than those from the traditional deep south, then Virginia divided in 1863 with the northwest region joining the union." Mr. Tanner continues but all Nova can hear is blah, blah, someone fire this man, blah.
When does Alaric come to Mystic Falls, she thinks silently, she'll have to look in her journal later, it's hard to remember things from a television show she hasn't watched in decades.
Nova is putting all of her school books in her locker after class when Caroline walks over to her and with no warning, the blonde yanks her white tank down enough to see the Victoria Secret push up bra.
"I knew something was different, you're wearing your 'fuck me' bra!" Caroline exclaims loudly, while Nova covers herself back up, not caring in the least that Caroline practically stripped her in the middle of the halls and that at least five people saw it.
Caroline has done worse in public, hell, Nova has done worse in public.
"'Fuck me bra', really?" Nova quoted in question, extremely amused as she slams her locker shut snapping the padlock on. "You wear it every time you're trying to get someone's attention, and you haven't worn it in like forever." Caroline over exaggerates in a 'duh' manner, and it's kind of scary how well Nova's friends know her. This may be her favorite push up bra that she only wears on special occasions, she doesn't really wear it to get anyone's attention, but it does lift her boobs up better than any other bra she has.
"How do you notice that stuff, Care?" Nova ignoring the question as they walk out of the school doors and towards her car as Nova pulls back on her leather jacket she had taken off during class, before unlocking the car doors and sliding in.
"Who is it?" Caroline demanded to know, also ignoring the question, while she got in the car.
"No one you would know." Nova replies truthfully before turning on the radio, Rolling Stones 'Satisfaction' playing, she turns it up loud to drown out Caroline's questions, laughing at her friend when she pouts.
Later; Nova, Caroline, and Bonnie enter the Grill talking about, shockingly, Stefan Salvatore, [insert sarcasm here].
Nova likes him, even if she hasn't met him properly yet, but if she hears his name this much after today, she's moving to a different small town, with a different group of Vampires, Doppelgangers, Witches, Werewolves, Vampire Hunters, Original Vampires, and Hybrids.
Well, aren't they a special bunch, she thinks sarcastically.
"His name is Stefan Salvatore, he lives with his uncle up at the old Salvatore Boarding House," Caroline reports to them like a news reporter, as they walk towards their table, drinks in hand.
Bonnie stiffens at the name, they both know it well, with Grams having told them stories about the vampires who periodically visit Mystic Falls; and how most of the time their visits end in chaos and death. "He hasn't lived here since he was a kid." Nova pulls out her picture of Stefan from her tote, just admiring the art that is a Salvatore's ass.
"Military family, so they moved around a lot, he's a Gemini and his favorite color is blue." Caroline finishes.
"You got that all in one day?" Bonnie asks, forcing herself to relax under the blonde's gaze. "Oh, please, I got all that between third and fourth period." Caroline grins at them, "We're planning a June wedding."
"Am I invited?" Nova asks, not taking her eyes off the picture.
"Of course, you'll be my maid of honor, what are you looking at..." Caroline trailing off as she leans over the table towards Nova, snatching the picture from her fingers.
"Hey!" Nova mourns at the total lack of art in her hands, while Bonnie just smiles at her twin before leaning to sneak a peek at the picture.
"Is that?" Caroline asks eyes wide. "It is, she took it before class." Bonnie confirms leaning back into the chair.
"Wow..." Caroline says not taking her eyes off the beauty, "Can I have a copy?" Caroline says completely serious.
"Of course, I mean as your maid of honor, I have a duty to uphold." Nova answers, also completely serious, before snatching the picture back and hiding it in her tote, making the blonde pout.
A few soda's and plenty of gossip later, that Nova doesn't care about but pretends to for Caroline's sake; Nova gets up from the table when she sees Jeremy, while Caroline gets up to go to the bathroom.
Matt walks past Nova towards Bonnie, probably to ask about Elena, again. "Remember your manners, Matthew," Nova says to the jock, her voice mockingly stern. Matt ignores her, which is rude, she kind of wishes Matt and Elena never dated, he used to laugh at her humor, now it's like he's constantly PMSing.
Nova walks up behind Jeremy who's staring at Vicki Donovan. What the hell is it with the males she knows staring at girls, it's kind of creepy, she thought. Nova stands on her toes to whisper in his ear, what, she's like one inch taller than Bonnie, she remembers being taller than 5'3 and mourns the loss of height.
"Do know that staring is frowned on in some cultures?" Nova whispered in his ear making him jump slightly, before pretending that he had known she was there all along. "What do you want, Nova?" Jeremy asks moodily, turning back to stare at Vicki.
"I was just checking up on my half-man." Nova leans back on her heel, pulling the hood from his head, making him finally look at her.
"Half-man?" He questions uninterestedly, pulling the hood back over his head. "Yeah, you know, a provider," Nova continues when he keeps looking at her with a blank look in his eyes," a slinger, a d-boi or do you prefer street pharmacist?" Her voice teasing but her eyes deadly serious.
Jeremy's eyes widen as he looks around to make sure no one heard her before grabbing her arm pulling her over towards an empty corner. "How do you know?" Jeremy demands, looking around nervously, she snatches her arm back.
"What that you've been dealing?" She responds rhetorically, making him shush her, looking over his shoulder, "Calm the fuck down dude, you look suspicious enough as is." She scolds, hitting his arm, making him finally calm down enough to pay attention to her.
"First of all, I get invited to a lot of parties and people talk about the little Gilbert, who used to be clean as soap, dealing." Jeremy rolls his eyes, but Nova continues ignoring his attitude because she has worse attitude problems than he does. "Second, of all, you're shit at hiding your 'extra curricular activities', I'm surprised Elena hasn't found out," Nova says with air quotes, nodding her head at the girl in question who just entered the Grill with Stefan.
"You haven't told her?" Jeremy asks, shocked.
"If I had you would know because you'd be dead, for Elena's fury is terrifying." Nova snarks before continuing, "Besides, I'm not a snitch, no matter how fucking stupid I think you are right now." Nova is offended he thought she'd rat him out, she thinks it must show on her face because he looks guilty, good. "Elena's my friend, but so are you, sometimes, when you aren't being such a moody little shit."
And with that she left him alone in all of his emo glory, hurrying to reach Elena and Stefan, who just had a minor pissing contest with a jealous Matt; they're approaching Bonnie and Caroline when Nova slides between them grabbing hold of their shoulders. Stefan stiffens for a split second before forcing himself to relax, which she ignores to talk to Elena.
"Elena, are you going to introduce me to your new friend?" Nova pulls out the puppy dog eyes, leaning on her friend slightly, letting go of Stefan's shoulder in the process. Elena laughs, her eyes vibrant and her laugh genuine, wow, she thinks her heart skipped a beat. She hasn't seen Elena this happy in months; Stefan is clearly working his Salvatore magic already.
"Nova, this is Stefan Salvatore, Stefan, this is Nova Bennett, one of my best friends." Elena introduces them, Stefan shakes her offered hand. Nova easily ignores the feeling of death when she holds his hand, it sent a shiver down her spine, but she's used to the feel of death, it haunts her dreams every night.
"Nice to meet you, Nova," Stefan spoke with an amused smile when he recognized her from earlier, his eyes flickered to the rings on her hand curiously. She forgot she had those on, she tries not to grin and fails.
"You too." Nova reluctantly let go of his hand, and they continue to walk over to a wary Bonnie and a slightly over eager Caroline; let the integration begin, Nova thinks, grinning wickedly at a now mildly concerned Elena.
"So, you were born in Mystic Falls?" Caroline begins after introductions.
"Mhm," Stefan nods from next to Elena while Nova is next to her twin sister. "And moved when I was still young."
Nova would join in the interrogation if she didn't know almost everything about him. She has her sketch pad out instead, drawing Stefan with Bonnie looking over her shoulder every now and then.
"Parents?" Bonnie practically challenges, curious to see what he says now that she knows what he is, she presumably connected the dots, between the last name and Nova's warning, her twin should know what Stefan is; she can't be forthright with her knowledge, telling people what she see's in detail can end in disaster.
Either they go into denial or others try to change it, the change isn't always an improvement from what would have happened without their interference.
As soon as Grams found out about her Visions she was given a ancestors personal journal, inscribed on the aged pages are the day to day life of a Bennett Witch born in the late 1700's. Everything from her life born as a slave, how her accurate Visions got her the illusion of freedom and instantaneous fame, not to mention how her beauty captured the eye of a married wealthy caucasian male, how he took her as a concubine and how they fell in love and how it was a well-known secret in the village, how their children born out of wedlock were all Witches and Warlocks; and how one day she had said the wrong thing to the wrong person and it eventually got her drowned by the local priests, her family had managed to flee the wrath of the town by sneaking out as soon as her death reached their ears.
Her eldest son took over writing after her death, moving to a different village, doing what his mother did before him, he was more powerful and craftier than his mother, was always on the move, only using his gift for Divination for the wealthy. Only one day he wasn't so clever and foretold a prophecy, in the middle of the town, warning them of a plague, only to be accused of cursing them; despite how powerful he was, his kind soul got him killed, burned by the locals, despite knowing he was going to die he didn't fight, he said it was time for him to die, it was the last warning he ever told, his own death.
Nova is careful with her knowledge, always was going to be, Seer or not. She was never going to go around telling people their probable fates, only to get killed by Mystic Falls shit Council. She likes Sheriff Forbes, but all of the council members have access to a vervain supplier yet they never gave any to their children, not until it was too late, they talk a good game about keeping the town safe but in the end, most of them are just small minded people who don't know much about the universe and what they do know they judge based off of their dead ancestors judgements.
"My parents passed away." He forgot to mention he ate his father, she's not judging at all, from what she remembers his father killed his own flesh and blood, at least twice, and before that was just a stereotypical father in the mid 1800's, which just means he was a shit personality with very small views on the world.
"I'm sorry." Elena says understandingly, they do the whole staring thing again before Elena continues, "Any siblings?"
"None that I talk to, I live with my uncle." Stefan's technically not lying, but also he's not telling the full story. He doesn't talk to his brother, willingly; uncle, very distant great-great nephew, obviously the same thing.
Nova adds sparkles to the drawing of Stefan on a whim, making her twin laugh, before covering it up with a cough as everyone looked towards her curiously.
"So, Stefan, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow," Caroline states a little too eagerly if the look Bonnie shot her was anything to go by.
"It's a back to school thing, at the falls." Bonnie clarifies.
"Are you going?" Stefan questions Elena, cue intense staring, Caroline looking slightly put out about it.
"Of course she is." Bonnie and Nova say in sync; causing Stefan to look over at them, breaking the staring contest with Elena.
"How are you two related?" Stefan questions, looking between the twins.
"Oh, no, we just share the same last name, look alike and share a birthdate, totally not related." Nova teases, making Caroline and Elena roll their eyes with a grin. "We're fraternal twins." Bonnie cuts her sister off, knowing if she doesn't say anything Nova will become even more sarcastic and scathing.
"Ah." Stefan nods, not looking very surprised at the answer or the sarcasm.
After fifteen more minutes of idle chit-chat, Stefan leaves the local restaurant, leaving the three girls alone for the first time in months. Nova's slightly aggravated but not surprised when Caroline pounces on Elena, about Stefan, cue dramatic sigh.
"Are you two like a thing now, what about Matt?" Caroline questions the now slightly shocked teenager, probably because Stefan literally just left.
"Caroline, she just met him, today." Bonnie says, looking at the blonde in disbelief. "It totally could happen!" Caroline gives Bonnie a slightly dirty look for not siding with her before the blonde turns back to Elena with an expectant look.
"We're not together," Elena's slightly blushing at the thought, "he returned my journal from when we ran into each other earlier, and I invited him along because he's new and doesn't know anyone." Caroline relaxes at Elena's reassurance; Nova knows that Caroline is insecure, the girls are closer than they had been at the beginning of the show, it's something Nova initiated with the weekly slumber parties and complete lack of regard for personal space, but all of them still butt heads often, including Nova.
She feels like part of the reason Caroline had been a little bit of a bitch during 'season one' was because the blonde hadn't had anyone she could really talk to without judgment and without censoring her thoughts, badly, but all the same.
The blonde used to have her dad only for him to leave her.
Caroline had then been used and abused by a vampire who had flipped his switch but also was caught in the middle of The Salvatore brother's bullshit it had mentally scarred her and then suddenly she was turned into a Vampire by someone who looks exactly like one of her best friends.
No one had even noticed that she had been killed and turned into a Vampire until she killed someone.
Nova is closer to Caroline than she is to Elena, while Bonnie is closer to Elena than Caroline whilst the twins are well, twins, it ties all of them together more than it did when it was just the three girls, because Nova can listen to Caroline vent about how she feels second-rate to Elena, and Bonnie won't feel angry on Elena's behalf because she won't have to hear it.
All of the girls have issues and faults, they're so different from each other that it's impossible for them not to be irritated at each other at least once a week, but their friendship works because of the differences and despite them.
This whole wanting Stefan is more about someone wanting Elena over the blonde, which to be fair, has happened a lot in their childhood.
"And Matt?" Bonnie questions, but she looks like she already knows the answer.
"Matt and I are done, I can't stay with him when I'm not in love with him anymore." Elena looked so remorseful for breaking up with Matt because she doesn't love him anymore, but no one should force themselves to be in love someone, it just hurts both people in the relationship even more, and the relationship ends up becoming a lie.
"Just because you aren't dating Stefan, doesn't mean he doesn't want inside your pants, he was trying to woo you with his brooding eyes." Nova breaks the slightly awkward silence that had fallen.
The girls all laugh at that, poor Elena blushing, they end up talking for almost an hour, just catching up for lost time, the slightly uncomfortable tension broken.
Nova drove Caroline home and as soon as the blonde was tucked safely inside her home, she drove to the cemetery, a little paranoid as she kept checking her rear view mirror.
Nova had been procrastinating in her planning; but she can't any longer, she needs leverage over a certain Salvatore, and she needs help to get it, so she texted Bonnie after she parked not far away from the cemetery.
'Need help. Come 2 cemetery.' She pressed send, before waiting, it'll take Bonnie a while to get here, enough time for the already setting sun to go down.
She had a black backpack on her cramped back seat, she hauled it to the front and took out two black hoodies. She pulled off her jewelry and put it in her tote bag, yanked her nice shirt off, her hands knocking against the roof of the car in the process, her head thumping against the window as she changed into the black hoodie and her head knocked against her steering wheel when she thoughtlessly started to tighten her shoe laces, once she's finished changing she felt comforted by the fact no one had been there to see, she has her pride.
She left the other black hoodie for her sister, she was chilling in her car, the music playing softly, reading her journal, the page turned to what she wrote in her youth about everything she remembered from the 'first season', when twenty minutes later, she felt Bonnie's Magic before she saw her arrive in her rear view mirror.
Shutting her journal, she cut the engine off and got out of the car, pulling the backpack on her shoulders.
"Need help, come to cemetery, you know if you weren't my sister I'd think you planned to kill me and bury me in a marked grave." Bonnie reads the text off her phone, walking away from her parked car and towards her twin, eyeing her change in clothing curiously.
Nova rolled her eyes leaning on her car's trunk, "I'd be a little more creative than that." Bonnie eyed her sister warily, not sure if she was joking, before shrugging it off.
"What kind of help do you need in a cemetery?" Bonnie asks, her eyes flicking around uneasily. Nova grinned brightly at her sister, but it just makes Bonnie even more suspicious, which Nova ignored to unlock her truck, yanking the rug she half-assedly used to cover the items, pulling out a flashlight, and the only shovel that would fit in her trunk, before turning back to her wary sister with the items in hand.
"We're going grave robbing," Nova replied enthusiastically to her now shocked sister, before throwing her shocked sister the matching hoodie. "Put that on," Nova ordered before walking towards the closed cemetery gates, turning on the flash light.
"What, why?" Bonnie questioned after getting over her shock, rushing to follow her sister, pulling the black hoodie over her blouse.
"You know that with Stefan in town the eldest brother is soon to follow, and while they're both wild cards, Damon's the one we want to watch out for, for now at least, and I know what he wants." She replied eyeing the closed gate before shrugging.
Without a word Nova threw the shovel over the gate, it fell with a heavy thump that made Bonnie jump slightly, she then grabbed the black iron fence and started climbing it with the ease of an athlete, she reached the top quickly and swung over to the other side of the fence, quickly dropping to the other side, she smirked smugly at her sister once she got her bearings; Bonnie, though is rather unimpressed with the performance as she shoved the gate with a raised eyebrow as the gate thought to be locked creaked open.
"...Or you could do that, but I thought my way was much cooler." Nova said to Bonnie who walks in through the gate, staring at her sister in amusement.
Nova got over her minor embarrassment quickly as she grabbed the shovel and headed towards the older section of the graveyard, Bonnie one step behind her. Nova's brown eyes flickered around to make sure no one is here, despite how spooky this place is sometimes the stoners will 'party' around here; not to mention the fact that Ghosts and Spirits are very much real; and while they can't interact with the real world much, they still can find a way, particularly if they had been a witch before they died.
"And what does he want?" Bonnie asks after a moment of silence, not asking how she knows, figuring it was one of her Visions.
Nova doesn't reply, pointing to her ears, her twin understood immediately, and they quietly continued on from then on, silently looking for the Salvatore family graves, shining the flashlight on the graves.
"Here you are..." Nova eventually broke the silence a few minutes later, throwing the heavy shovel in the earth in front of the grave that's marked 'Giuseppe', it's rather old, the stone is gradually crumbling.
Nova threw the backpack to her sister, who caught it effortlessly. "Light the sage, I don't want to attract anyone with super hearing attention." Nova told her sister, keeping an eye out.
Bonnie complied without a word, she pulled the white sage smudge stick out of its packaging, before murmuring, her gaze firmly on the sage. "Incendia." The sage ignited at her words, the smoke spreading into the atmosphere. It'll keep Supernatural Beings from eavesdropping, just because they hadn't sensed anyone watching them doesn't mean they aren't eyes on them.
"You're such a drama queen, you could have lighted it without the incantation," Nova announced amusedly after she felt the smoke create the invisible sound barrier.
Bonnie huffed at her sister as she put the sage on top of the grave, a blush staining her cheeks that she ignored to turn to her twin with a raised brow, silently reminding her she still has yet to explain anything. "He wants to open a tomb in Mystic Falls that currently has twenty-six desiccated vampires inside." Nova answered the silent question nonchalantly.
"What!?" Bonnie yelled, making Nova stop to shush her, they both look around in panic, only relaxing when they remember no one can hear them. Bonnie looks to her silently asking her to clarify, "He's looking for someone, his old lover, the one who turned him and his brother, he thinks she's in the tomb." Nova clarified for her sister, playing with the flashlight.
"He thinks she's in the tomb." Bonnie caught on to the wording, with a raised brow. Nova smirks before continuing, "She's not there, she never was apparently, she escaped her fate and then faked her death." Katherine's a slippery one; always looking out for her own survival, never staying in any one place for too long, always changing with the tide of the ocean to blend in, it sounds like a very tragic and empty existence.
"Why don't we just tell him, that she's not in this tomb?" Bonnie inquiries, it would be easier, but also improbable for a number of reasons. "He wouldn't believe us, we could tell him everything we know about him, stuff people shouldn't know, and he still wouldn't believe us, he needs to see it for himself," Nova replied as Bonnie set the backpack on the dirt.
"I thought Grams said we could keep our friends safe but we weren't going to interfere in 'vampire business', and you still haven't told me why we're robbing a grave," Bonnie adds on as an after thought, eyeing the name and date on the grave.
"Grams is trying to protect us, we are trying to protect our friends and to do that we have to interfere, and we're robbing a grave because it has our family heirloom," Nova replied to each question, handing her sister the flashlight.
"Family heirloom?" Bonnie repeated questioningly, pointing the flashlight at the grave without being asked.
"Emily Bennetts Grimoire," Nova answered, shocking her sister for the millionth time tonight.
"Why the hell was a Salvatore buried with our ancestor's Grimoire?" Bonnie is rightfully outraged. Nova shrugged, equally bothered by the fact, she doesn't remember how he got it, she's not even sure if it was mentioned how or why he was buried with it. "I don't know why all I know is it's rightfully ours as Bennett witches and we'll definitely need it."
"Dig," Bonnie ordered, impatient now that she knows what they're after, pointing the flashlight at the grave.
Nova started digging without complaint, there's probably a spell they could have used, but she doesn't want to draw too much attention to the ever so meddlesome Spirits.
After a while, maybe about thirty minutes, she's dug up a sizable about of dirt, about halfway down to the grave she starts giggling, making Bonnie shine the light directly on her, "...Are you laughing while digging up a man's grave?" Bonnie questioned tentatively, but Nova just waves away the concern for her sanity, still giggling.
"It's just something Caroline said earlier, she asked if we were going to pull a Winchester." Nova replied looking up at her sister, panting and giggling at the same time. Bonnie rolled her eyes, grinning at her slightly delirious sister, before reaching towards her twin with her only free hand.
"Come on then, Dean, we'll switch, someone clearly needs a break." Bonnie teases, Nova sighed in pure relief, taking the hand and climbing up, before collapsing on the dirt. Bonnie handed her the flashlight, before skidding into the dug up hole. Nova stood up after a moment, before pointing the flashlight on the grave.
Nova should have brought snacks, and her mp3 player, and a blanket because it's fucking cold, maybe some hot cocoa too.
Bonnie interrupts her thinking thirty minutes later, around the time she started day dreaming - or is it night dreaming - about food.
"I think I got it."
Nova peers into the dirt hole, shining the flashlight into the dug up grave, she see's Bonnie attempting to lift the old wooden casket latch, if she could even call it that with it being so old, it takes her a while to open it and in the end she had to use her magic to pry it open. "Whoa.." Bonnie gasps when she finally got it open, she tried her best to ignore the eerie skeleton, seizing hold of the fragile light beige colored grimoire, she grimaced slightly as she had to yank slightly on the Grimoire to get the hardened skeleton hands to let it go.
"We got it." Bonnie looks up at her sister, they share a grin, before Bonnie hands the old grimoire to her sister, before throwing the shovel up after it.
Nova put the Grimoire carefully in the backpack, pulling out another book out of the backpack before running back towards a waiting Bonnie. "I thought we could put something in place of Grimoire, so poor Giuseppe won't be lonely," Nova explained when to her twin looks at her questioningly when Nova hands her the book instead of helping her out of the grave.
Bonnie looked up at her thoroughly amused, waving the book slightly, "A cookbook though?" Bonnie questioned. Nova shrugged with a mischievous grin, her twin didn't press about what she was up to, even though she was curious, she just placed the cookbook on top of the skeleton, before placing the broken half of wood back in place.
Nova immediately helped Bonnie climb up out of the grave, they don't have time to put the dirt back the old fashioned way, they've been here for nearly two hours, and the sage is essentially finished burning. "Ready?" Nova asked her sister, who nods confidently.
They lift their available hands towards the pile of earth, other hands clasped together; and chanted as one.
"Ingentia ad terram suam unde erat."
The pile of dirt gradually but surely descended back to where it had originated from, covering the place where there had once been a hole. The spell hardly fazed them, it was a simple one really, but they were tired and aching from all the digging, so after kicking some rocks onto the grave to make it look more natural, grabbing the shovel, bookbag and completely burned sage; they left the graveyard and headed home in their cars.
Back at home, after they both took a long shower, the twins are in their PJs, laying on the living room couch, having no choice but to do their homework before heading to bed, the only thing that softened the realization was the Ben & Jerry ice cream Grams had left in the freezer; Nova got the chunky monkey while Bonnie claimed the banana split, Merlin is currently circling below, waiting to pounce on the dessert. It's quiet as they work until Bonnie looks at her twin sister.
"So, vampires..." Bonnie affirmed.
"Mhm..I honestly thought you'd want to go guns a blazing towards the Salvatore Boarding house as soon as you saw caught his last name." Nova admits her eyes on her sister, but she remembers how Bonnie found out about Vampires in the show and thinks that being bitten savagely by a vengeful Damon might have turned her off.
He also was one of the reasons Grams had died, not to mention he turned Vicki Donovan and was just an all around dick.
Nova is looking at a solid maybe on the Damon Salvatore as the reason the old Bonnie hated vampires.
"I don't want to judge someone because of what they are, that'd make me a hypocrite," Bonnie answers leaning forward with her spoon in hand towards her sister's ice cream. They have a mini spoon fight before Nova gives up and they swap ice cream flavors.
"But it does make me nervous, them being here, and his interest in Elena," Bonnie admits fear creeping in her voice. Nova just scoops ice cream in her mouth not saying anything and just letting Bonnie vent; Nova can joke and talk as much as the next person, but she used to be a quiet yet sarcastic person and an excellent listener, and she still is, she knows when people need the silence and when they can't stand it. She's shit at talking about her own problems but she likes listening to other peoples problems and helping them.
"We've read about vampires. Grams even told us everything she knew about them, but learning about them and meeting one are two different things." Bonnie's just playing with the ice cream now, so Nova snatches the carton out of her sister's hand before setting both tubs of ice cream down on the coffee table.
"It makes it more real doesn't it?" Nova grabs her sister's hand comfortingly when Bonnie nods green eyes scared. Good, she can work with scared, scared is better than arrogant; too much confidence gets a person killed, there's a difference between believing in your Magic and just being fucking stupid.
"It's going to be hard, we'll probably never have a normal life, I know that's what you want, but I'll try to be here for you through it all, twin." Bonnie smiles at Nova's words before letting her head drop to her older sister's shoulder.
"Promise?" Bonnie asks her question reminiscent to when they were younger.
"I promise, that I'll try my best." Nova hugs her sister and playing with her dark brunette hair, she knows it's unrealistic to promise such things, and she can't lie to her sister about these things, not even if she tried, so she just promises to try.
That's the only thing she can promise to do.
Bonnie is so very young, Nova sometimes forgets just much how older she technically is because her twin always acts so mature and grounded, the total opposite of what Nova is. Nova's personality is as young as her body but she's intellectually around thirty, sometimes she feels older than she is, she always has, even in her older life.
She either acts too juvenile or too old; there's no in between with her.
Nova might die protecting her loved ones and she'd be okay with that, she doesn't want to die, but death stopped terrifying her long ago. Dying has never bothered her, leaving her loved ones behind, that's what bothered her, she has a second opportunity at life, not a lot of people can say that; she's going to enjoy her life and embrace the incredible along with the chaos and live how she wants to live until she dies, again.
Wasting her life is not an option, turning her back on her friends and family is not an option, she can multitask.
Nova loves them all too much to abandon them in need.
She's tried the whole dating thing, she wants to experience life to the fullest, having wasted her old life, and finding love had been a part of experiencing life, but it had only lasted one month before she got bored and the thought of being with someone till she died makes her skin crawl, she might be a little bit of a commitment-phobic in this life.
She adores her new life and her new friends and family as about as intensely as she could love anyone else. But she doesn't think she'll ever fall in love, and she's okay with that.
As long as she has her friends and family by her side, she can live without the Nicholas Sparks novel.
They fall asleep like that, just talking like they used to do when they were kids; It was perfect.