A/N; Greetings! It's been a little while. Not sure how long but a while. Anyway, I was going to update this earlier, but I got sick! The flu for a whole week and I'm just now getting better, so yay... I'll edit this later, but for now, enjoy, this was kind of hard to write, not by way of lack of inspiration, but more like 'God, this shit is too long, what the fuck am I writing'. I always get worried about not keeping characters in ..character. Let me know, pls. Check out my Polyvore- randomfashionsxoxo for Nova's..everything, her face, her style, her room, everything, I put it in a collection. This fic is making me obsessed with Witches/Magic again.
A warning by the way...this chapter has smut, yes, yup, I did it. I made smut, I hope it's not terrible. I think I said this before but Nova is bisexual and enjoys it. So if anyone doesn't like that, this story, isn't for you, pshed, this website/this decade isn't for you. I made Nova bisexual cause it seemed natural for this type of character, and TVD didn't have a lot of..sexual diversity, especially the first handful of seasons.
Ask me a question, in reviews. I'll answer it next chapter! Random Fact: I listen to The Pierces Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge, to get into what I call 'Witchy Mood' when writing this story.
Nova knocked on The Gilbert's front door, grocery bags in both hands and her gym bag strapped over her shoulder.
Elena opened the door with a relieved look on her face. "Finally, I almost thought you bailed." Elena let her into the house, closing it behind her as they walk towards the kitchen.
"Yeah, like any of you would let me." Nova snorted in amusement before throwing her gym bag on the floor in the living room.
They both moved to the kitchen, and she dropped the grocery bags on the kitchen island where Bonnie was currently sitting.
"What are you going to make?" Bonnie asked eagerly as soon as she put down the items. Nova rolled her eyes with a smile at her sister, "Lasagna and garlic bread."
"Are you sure that's going to be enough? Did you get dessert? Are you going to put meat in it? Because you never know, they could be vegetarians," Elena questioned nonstop, her babbling reminding Nova of Caroline for a split second.
The last question makes Nova chuckle and Bonnie crack a smile her green eyes dancing in amusement.
"What's so funny?" Elena questioned looking between them in confusion.
"Twin inside joke thing," Nova explained vaguely, waving it away and Elena let it go with a hesitant nod.
"To answer your questions, yes, it'll be enough food, and yes I'm going to put meat in it and if they don't like it they can eat the salad, and Damon's getting the dessert," Nova answers all of Elena's questions while pulling out the food with the help of the girls.
"Are you going to tell us what's going on with you and Damon?" Elena asked with an eyebrow wiggle. Bonnie grins at them both while opening the Oreos.
"Don't, don't ever do that ever again...," Nova said slowly, slightly creeped out at how Elena had looked just like Katherine in that moment.
"Are you going to answer the question?" Caroline spoke, startling Nova as the blonde came from behind her.
"I told you guys already, I'm not touching that without life insurance and a shit ton of bubble wrap, we're...friends," Nova answered hesitantly before washing her hands, turning on the burner, pouring water in a big pot and putting it on the burner.
"...I want the dirty details, if I can't have a Salvatore, I'll just have to live vicariously through you two," Caroline declared grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge.
"As long as he's good to you, and I don't have to hear any.. dirty details, I don't mind you two being together," Bonnie put in reluctantly, sharing the Oreos with Elena.
"We should start doing double dates after this," Elena said enthusiastically to an unamused Nova.
Nova sighed and resigned herself to the fact that no one would believe her when she says that nothing is going on between her and the eldest Salvatore.
"Would any of you believe me if I said, once again, that I have no plans to sleep or date Damon?" Nova asked with a resigned sigh, pinching salt into the pot before putting the lid on.
"Not really."
"Nope."
"Yeah, right."
They all answered at the same time; Nova sighed with a roll of her eyes as all the girls smile at her.
"Do you even own a lasagna pan?" Nova asked Elena after a long moment of silence as she put a boiling pan next to the big pot of boiling water. "I think we have one- somewhere, I think.." Elena responded hesitantly before pushing the Oreos away, she moved towards the cabinets to look for said pan.
"Really reassuring," Nova said over the sound of pans and pots banging against each other as Elena looked in the cabinets.
"Why don't you just use your 'voodoo' to find it?" Caroline teased, now in the living room, flipping the pages of her magazine.
Nova rolled her eyes opening the jars of tomato sauce and pouring it in the boiling pan before starting to chop the tomatoes and garlic on the wooden chopping board Bonnie had set out for her.
"Voodoo is more of a religion than a form of magic, and finding things, that's more of Bonnie's thing, besides I think it'd be a little overkill to look for a pan with magic, Care," Nova responded, slapping away Bonnie's hand when she reached towards the Oreos again.
She bought those for herself, but now it's almost gone, she knew she should have hidden it as soon as she entered the house. Food hogs, Nova thought, slightly hypocritical, while eyeing her friends.
"I still don't buy the whole 'witch' thing," Elena told the twin, smiling, having partially given up on finding the pan she sat back down next to Bonnie. Nova shot her sister a challenging look, they then have a five-second silent conversation that Nova, of course, won.
Bonnie sighed as she got up from the island stool staring at the cabinets for a moment. "What are you-" Elena started to question Bonnie earning Caroline's attention as she turns around on the sofa curiously.
Before Elena could finish the question Bonnie pulled the lasagna pan out of the bottom cabinet.
There's a moment of stunned silence.
"Okay, so you've been in this kitchen like a thousand times." Elena broke the silence as Bonnie handed her twin sister the pan.
"Yeah, that's it." Bonnie replied unconvincingly before shooting her twin with a look that said; 'I told you, they won't believe us' which Nova replied with a look that said; 'Well if you got over your fear of actually telling them maybe they would'.
Bonnie rolled her eyes before looking over at a still stunned Caroline. "Hey, want me to help you with your hair while Nova cooks?" Bonnie asked the blonde who, blinking out her stunned daze, nodded in agreement.
They went up the stairs to look for the mysterious curling iron that Elena apparently actually owns.
"Need any help?" Elena asked eagerly.
Nova turned towards her slowly and with a bland smile, she nodded. "Yeah, you can heat these up, don't burn them, ok?" Nova responded hesitantly handing her friend the box of frozen garlic bread.
Elena rolled her eyes but silently went to put them in the oven, mumbling the directions softly under her breath. Nova smiled in amusement before going back to preparing dinner.
Almost everyone she knows can barely cook.
Caroline can manage alright but mostly survives off of the Mystic Grill's food, and the rare times Nova cooks dinner for all of her friends. It's a known fact that most of The Gilbert's suck at cooking, they're so bad that their food is infamous for being terrible, Miranda being the exception, she knows that Jeremy only knows how to make two things, sandwiches and pot brownies.
The rest of her friends are pretty much the same and it physically pains her that most of them hadn't ever had a home cooked meal before, so she hosts dinners every now, just her and all of her closest friends, the last one had been right before -
Mrs. and Mr. Gilbert's death.
"Are you okay?" Elena questioned pulling her out of her daze, she smiled nodding.
"Yeah, just thinking that it's been awhile since we've had dinner together," Nova answered truthfully finishing cutting the garlic and tomatoes up before adding it to the basil tomato sauce heating up on the burner.
"..It has been awhile, too long." Elena replied with a small sad smile.
Nova knows the other girl is probably thinking about just how long it's been, so she tries to clear the slightly melancholy air with a joke. "How the garlic bread going, you haven't burned it already have you?" She teased clearing the air quickly as Elena rolled her eyes.
"No, in fact, I haven't," Elena replied taking mock offense in the question. "Are you sure? I mean, I've seen you burn pop tarts, Lena, I figure burning bread has got to be easier," Nova asked in a faux serious tone.
Elena laughed and threw an oven mitt at her that she dodged in time. "I can see when I'm not wanted..I'll just go help Bonnie with Caroline's hair." Elena declares leaving the kitchen slightly dramatically.
"Are you sure just your presence won't just make it straight?" Nova raised her voice slightly as she put in the lasagna noodles in the big pot filled with boiling water.
Elena just huffs at her before continuing to stomp up the stairs. "Kids these days, so passive aggressive." Nova said to the empty room, stirring the tomato sauce before snorting at the irony; Nova's the queen of passive aggressiveness.
She's just too out the lasagna, the salad is in a giant wooden bowl, the garlic bread is in a basket, she's setting a pitcher of cold lemon water on the dining room table when the doorbell rings.
"I'll get it!" She yelled before rolling her eyes as she threw the apron down on the couch.
"I sound like a fucking house wife, ugh, I feel like a fucking housewife." She mumbled as she opened the door seeing an amused Stefan on the other side.
"Hi," Nova greeted just waving him in since she knows he's been invited in.
"Hi, something smells great," Stefan greeted stepping in the house, she closed the door behind him. "Thanks, dinner is pretty much done, just waiting for dessert," Nova said checking the window near the front door for any sign of Damon.
They could hear loud footsteps and thumps coming from upstairs.
"You cook?" Stefan asked curiously as they stood in the entryway, ignoring the chaos going on upstairs.
"Yeah, I'm not a chef or anything but when all your friends are terrible cooks, you have to learn," Nova explained to an amused Stefan, who nods understandingly.
She could hear footsteps coming down the stairs, her eyes took a mischievous glint to them as she continued.
"Elena is an awful cook, I wouldn't let her cook you anything, you'll end up with food poisoning, this one time-" Nova's cut off by said girl bumping into her, rudely, may she add, while Stefan looks on amused at their antics.
"Hey, great, you're here- don't listen to anything she says, she's a great big joker," Elena told her boyfriend with a big smile putting her arm around Nova and squeezing her shoulder slightly painfully.
"I didn't say anything that isn't true," Nova muttered despite knowing that both of them can hear her.
Elena shot her a mild glare as the rest of the girls came down the staircase at a more sedate pace.
Stefan was about to reply before the doorbell rang again cutting him off. Elena smiled apologetically at him before going to answer the door.
"I brought dessert," Damon declared smirking at his slightly shocked brother.
Nova turned to the girls who're watching curiously from the staircase. 'Go set the table.' She mouths to her twin sister and blonde best friend. Bonnie had to practically drag Caroline away from the drama that's obviously brewing between the brothers.
"What are you doing here, Damon?" Stefan finally manages to ask glaring at his brother while the girls look back and forth, both of them stuck in the middle of the pissing match between The Salvatore brothers. Again.
"Waiting for Elena to invite me in," Damon replied to his brother's question before looking at said girl with a smirk.
"Oh, yeah, you can-" Elena started to say only for Stefan cut her off in a slight panic. "No, no, he can't stay, can you, Damon?"
"What did you buy, please say chocolate." Nova interrupted, very hungry, one of the downfalls of cooking is either eating too much of your own cooking or eating none of it.
Tonight was the latter, sadly, she's starving and their little pissing match can wait until she's eaten a full course meal.
Damon's eyes flickered towards her, his eyes sparkling with amusement. "It's chocolate." He confirmed, making her let out a small 'yes' with a small fist pump as Stefan looked on in confusion at their interaction.
"He's got a date- didn't you say you have a date?" Stefan grasped at straws, it was kind of sad really.
"Yes, and here I am," Damon replied smirking at Nova, who frowned in endless confusion.
"I knew it!" They could hear Caroline say making her and Elena roll their eyes in unison.
Elena whose now exasperated wave in Damon. "It's fine, I invited both of you, come in," Elena spoke before Stefan could cut her off again.
Damon stepped inside smirking at Stefan before turning to Elena. "You have a beautiful home, Elena," Damon said to the teen, shooting Stefan a triumph look.
"Thank you." Elena replied with a slight smile before moving towards the dining room. Nova grabbed the cake from Damon's hands and put it on the table next to the lasagna pan, shooting the smirking vampire a weird look.
He looks way too excited by the fact he got invited into a teenager's home.
Dinner was slightly awkward, not even Caroline spoke up.
Nova, however, is hungry and her feet hurt from being on them all day, so slipped her sandals off under the table and ate, ignoring everything but her food.
"This is great, Nova, you cooked this all by yourself?" Stefan tried to break the silence.
To Nova's displeasure he asked this question while her fork was halfway to her mouth, she reluctantly put it down to answer the question. "Yes," She replied before bringing her fork back to her mouth.
Elena shot her a look, silently telling her to say more.
Nova sighed and put the fork down again. "Elena made the bread, set the timer and everything," Nova remarked with a grin at Elena, who rolled her eyes.
Caroline and Bonnie grinned, their tense shoulders easing slightly as the tension in the air dissipates.
"Well, I for one am having a blast, we haven't eaten a home cooked meal in forever isn't that right Stef?" Damon spoke up right beside her. Nova sighs in relief as she finally raised her fork to her mouth.
"Ooh, tragic backstory?" Caroline perked up at the sign of good gossip material.
"Stefan and I have watched almost every single person we've ever cared about die," Damon said nonchalantly, looking at his brother as he says this. "We don't need to get into that right now, Damon." Stefan looked uncomfortable, which actually wasn't much different from how he's looked all night.
"Oh, you know what, you're right, Stef, I'm sorry, the last thing I wanted to do was bring her up," Damon replied as insincerely as possible.
"I'm pretty sure everyone at this table has a tragic story." Nova butted in the conversation before it could worse.
Caroline nodded in agreement. "My dad left my mom for a man."
"Our mom just left us," Nova said picking up another piece of garlic bread, good thing she got the big box instead of the small one. "And our dad's not too great at the whole parenting thing," Bonnie added, finally speaking.
"My parents died." Elena tried for nonchalant but failed.
There was another awkward silence.
"Well aren't we a lively bunch," Nova spoke up after a beat with a sad smile at Elena. She frowned at her glass of lemon water, maybe she should have made Damon get wine.. or vodka. "I feel like maybe I should have served something stronger than water tonight."
Everyone hums in agreement; at least they can agree on that.
"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" Elena asked smiling at Stefan trying to keep the conversation going.
"Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right," Stefan replied trying to ignore his brother and so far failing. "I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team, Tyler must be seething, but good for you, go for it." Caroline piped in before hesitantly getting another plate of lasagna.
"Tyler used to be... maybe not nice, but a decent person, but as soon as he got hormones he became this Grade A dick," Nova told Stefan as all the girl's hummed in agreement.
"Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today, Tyler threw a ball right at him, and-" Elena told Bonnie trying to include the ever reluctant Bonnie in the conversation.
"Yeah, I heard." Bonnie cut her friend off, shifting in her seat awkwardly when all eyes are on her.
Bonnie has been on edge all night, with the two vampires in the same room as her and her best friends; their eyes on her made her twin look as though she's about to flee from the home as if it's on fire, Nova knows that look all too well.
Despite the fact Bonnie doesn't want to judge them for what they are, it doesn't mean she's very comfortable around either of them; especially Damon. The fact that she know's he's been leaving a trail of bodies around town must be putting her on edge.
"Well, I haven't heard the story." Nova successively pulled everyone's attention away from Bonnie, her twin relaxed slightly and shot her a grateful smile.
"Well...Stefan and I were just talking, when out of nowhere, Tyler threw a ball heading straight towards Stefan's back- and Stefan, he just turned and casually caught it like it was nothing, it was amazing." Elena practically gushed, beaming at Stefan.
It was sickening.
"Looks like you've got your own personal cheerleader, Stef." Damon butted in the conversation trying to get Stefan's attention.
"You didn't miss out on much," Stefan reassured Nova while still doing his best to ignore his brother.
"I don't know about that, it must have been pretty awesome. Elena sure is swooning over it, I think I saw drool," Nova said the last part under her breath.
Apparently, it wasn't very quiet because when her fork is halfway to her mouth a hard kick to her shin makes her fork slip from her fingers, and back onto the plate with a loud clang that made everyone look up from their plates.
Nova and Elena share mild glares across the table.
"You okay?" Damon asked the girl next to him, his knowing eyes sparkling in amusement. "Just peachy." Nova gritted out still glaring at Elena while clutching her leg in pain.
"Speaking of cheerleading, Elena, sweetie, I love you, you're one of my best friends, and I say this with complete sensitivity," Caroline says as gently as possible to the now wary looking Elena.
"But you were terrible today, I don't know how you're ever going to learn the routines since you missed summer camp." Caroline finished not pulling any punches.
"We'll work with her, she'll get it," Bonnie spoke for like the second time in a span of an entire conversation.
Elena doesn't look too happy with this conversation, probably because they're having a conversation about her, in front of her.
"You know, you don't seem like the cheerleader type, Elena," Damon said to the Gilbert.
"She used to be, she also used to be quite the party girl," Nova said sharing amused glances as Elena groaned in embarrassment.
"Remember the start of freshman year?" Caroline asked the girls before bursting into soft giggles.
"What happened in freshman year?" Stefan asked, looking at the sheepish Elena curiously.
"Let's just say we all went a little wild when we discovered the joys of alcohol," Nova replied to the question when she saw Elena wasn't going to answer.
"Ah," Stefan's face light up in recognition as he smiled at a sheepish Elena. "You girls seem really close."
"Well, we've only known each other since we've been in diapers." Elena finally spoke up.
"We should have the dessert in the living room," Caroline announced once everyone's plate had been emptied.
"I'll make some coffee and tea." Nova got up eager to get away and have a few minutes to herself.
"I'll help you," Bonnie said following her to the kitchen with a stack of dishes in hand; so much for the being alone part, Nova thought sadly.
Nova's setting the kettle on the burner when she can feel Bonnie's eyes on her as she sets the plates in the sink.
"What?" She asked pulling the instant coffee packets and the peppermint tea out. In response, Bonnie looked in the direction of the living room before turning the faucets cold water on and flipping the switch to the garbage disposal.
"Are we going to talk about what's going on?" Bonnie asked in a harsh whisper before cutting off what was going to be a denial.
"And don't tell me it's nothing, you did something, I can tell."
Nova sighed before turning towards her sister, she wanted to keep her sister away from what she's calling; 'Damon's Drama Saga' for a little while longer but it doesn't look like can't evade Bonnie anymore.
"I might have, maybe, magically bound us together in a deal." She confessed nonchalantly as she could while grabbing mugs out the cabinet.
"What?!" Bonnie shouted before lowering her voice when she could see her shout attracted some attention.
Nova smiled at her curious friends reassuringly before turning back to her sister's angry green eyes.
"Don't tell me you did an oath bound by magic- Grams warned us it'd kill the one making the oath if ever broken, those things bind us magic and soul till the day the witch dies, and if you're not careful it could be used against you. How could be so careless, Nova?" Bonnie practically ranted to an impassive Nova.
"Are you finished?" She asked calmly fixing coffee for the Salvatore's and tea for the rest of them.
"Yes," Bonnie huffed, slightly more relaxed now that she got that off her chest, she grabbed the plates and forks.
"It wasn't an oath, it was a deal, I tweaked the spell so it could be a mutual agreement instead," She hurried to finish when she saw the anger in Bonnie's eyes returning at the mention of her rewriting a spell that's ancient.
"He keeps his paws off my loved ones while I help him get in the tomb, the magic used to make the deal will go back to Nature once my end of the deal is done." Bonnie still doesn't look happy, she just even more worried in fact.
"I'll be fine Bonnie, and if the deal doesn't work out, I can break it." Nova fails to mention some minor facts.
Like the fact she can't break the deal without Damon's consent.
The fact she can't try to kill him while the deal is in intact.
Or the fact that if one of them tries to go out of the deal's outline that person will die a horrible death by Nature's punishment.
Minor details.
Bonnie is going to kill her if she ever finds out, and it's very likely that she will. Secrets never stay secrets for long, no matter how deep you bury them, people always find a way to dig them up, Nova thought with a frown.
Bonnie's quiet for a moment as she folded napkins on top of the china. "I don't like the fact that you're helping him, he's giving me bad vibes. He's killed at least four people in just two days, but I know nothing I could say would change your mind," Nova stays quiet as she stirs her cup of tea.
"I'll stand by you in your decision when we tell Grams everything.
I guess just wonder what's going to happen after the deal ends and he doesn't have the spell holding him back from killing our friends."
They're both silent for a moment as Nova processed the words and the weight of them.
"That's easy, I'm going to try to make him join the Dark side," She replied, breaking the silence and making her sister snort in amusement. "I thought we were the Light side." Bonnie returned while flicking the garbage disposal and cold water off.
Nova shrugged smiling slightly while putting the mugs, forks, and plates on a tray. "Potato, potahto."
They both share grins before jumping when Caroline yells from the living room. "I can't take any more of this awkward silence, could you two hurry it up in there?!"
They sighed in unison as they prepared themselves to go in the living room.
Bonine grabbed the tray from her sister, placing the plates on top of the tray next to the mugs before they walk into the living room, where there was indeed an awkward silence; no doubt the reason for the silence is also the reason for Damon's smirk.
Nova let Bonnie take the couch next to Caroline, the only space left was next to Elena and Stefan. Nova has no intentions of sitting next to the couple who look very much in their own little world.
Somehow she ended up sitting in Damon's lap, she's not going to even question it.
Questioning things that are done by Damon Salvatore usually ends up giving her a headache, or sexually frustrated, usually both.
She's just going to drink her tea and eat her cake while sitting on her new favorite pillow.
"Why don't you tell them more about your family?" Elena said to Bonnie trying to restart the conversation after everyone is given a mug and serving of chocolate cake.
Bonnie, while not as antisocial as her sister, and definitely opinionated as the rest of them, but the fact is, Bonnie is very much the quiet one in the group.
So it's not surprising to Nova when Bonnie answered very unenthusiastically. "We already talked about that, Elena,"
"No, I mean about the witches," Elena said, unaffected with her friend's mood, she turned towards Stefan, "The Bennett family apparently has a lineage of witches, It's really cool,"
"Cool isn't the word I'd use," Bonnie said shifting in the armchair, probably slightly uncomfortable with the irony of discussing her ancestors being Witches when she herself is one.
"Well, it's certainly interesting, I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s," Stefan said to Bonnie while Elena watches on silently. The whole purpose of this dinner was so that her friends would get to know her boyfriend.
Nova can get along with almost everyone, when she want's to that is, she's not very social but she's usually dragged around to social event's with Caroline and often get's roped into doing the blonde's bidding. Which involved people, unfortunately.
Caroline is a social butterfly and while not exactly easy to get along with all the time, the blonde certainly has a way with people and getting them to do things they'd normally never do under normal circumstances.
Elena's a natural charmer and can draw people in like magnets, people like her because when she's nice, it's genuine, it's rare to find those sort of people that are genuinely nice.
Bonnie doesn't interact much with people who are out of their circle of friends but she can charm people just as easily as Elena when she puts her mind to it. Which is obviously not now.
"Our family came by the way of Salem," Nova explained before shoving cake in her mouth.
"Really, Salem witches?" Stefan asked, very interested in the conversation. Nova can see Damon roll his eyes out of the corner of her eyes.
Dude has serious issues if he's jealous of the attention his brother is getting from teenagers. She's blaming Katherine, for like fifty percent of his issues. Nova got his attention by offering him her forkful of cake, desserts is the key to pure happiness. He looked at her curiously when she offered the fork but still ate it.
No, that was the wrong word, he didn't eat the cake- it was practically pornographic how slowly he licked the damn fork.
Fucking Salvatores, she thought in a slight daze as he finished licking chocolate off his lips.
"Yeah," Bonnie responded breaking Nova out of her trance.
Nova cleared her throat, turned her head towards her sister, and ignored the way she can see Damon smirking at her out the corner of her eye.
"I would say that's pretty cool," Stefan said, obviously trying to woo Bonnie on the Stelena side.
"Really, why?" Bonnie actually looked curious about what he's going to say, which was a total difference from how she was acting just two minutes ago.
"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity," Stefan replied making Bonnie smile reluctantly.
"Yeah, they are." Bonnie is officially won over on the Stelena ship.
"Witches, next thing you know vampires are going to be running around town." Nova jokes after a moment.
After sharing a look with Damon and they both burst out in laughter.
Stefan and Bonnie share an exasperated look, Elena and Caroline just look on very confused, and Nova is still giggling at her lame joke.
Once they finish having dessert, all of them chip in with the cleaning, well, everyone but her and Caroline.
Bonnie just went in to check on Elena after a long moment after Damon went in the kitchen.
Nova could feel Stefan's curious stare on her, she figures he probably wants to talk to her, considering her little joke was practically a confirmation she knows what he and his brother are, so she smiled brightly at a now wary Caroline.
"Care, could you do me a big favor and get me a glass of water?" Nova asked her friend.
Caroline looked like she was going decline, rudely, but she looked between Stefan and Nova in realization before nodding and quickly moving to the kitchen as Stefan watched on quietly.
Nova's been known to give all of her friend's significant others a little shovel talk, it had got confusing when she had to give both Elena and Matt the talk, confusing, but hilarious.
"You know," Stefan stated after Caroline left the room.
She turned towards him before smiling slightly blandly. "Yes," She confirmed, not going into detail about what she knows in case someone's listening in.
"What are you-" Stefan started to say, probably going to ask what she's doing with Damon.
"Not important," Nova cut him off, her eyes turn to steel as she leaned back into the couch. "What is important is your intentions with Elena,"
"I only want her to be happy," Stefan answered without hesitation.
"Good," Nova said beaming at the tense vampire who relaxed at her genuine smile."If you hurt her, in any way, I'll castrate you and send the remains to you on your birthday wrapped in a bow." She added casually looking at her nails, he folds his legs instantly and nodded hurriedly.
The next day is spent preparing for the game; Nova managed to sleep decently before she had to head to school, the game is in thirty, and she's currently busy letting off some steam, scratching an itch.
She feels like a walking cliche, fooling around behind the bleachers, with another cheerleader, she currently doesn't really care.
"More…" The other girl moans after her first orgasm.
Her hips writhing for more as Nova fingered her lazily under her uniform, her boy shorts hanging from Nova's bomber jacket.
"Please…" Emily whines when she doesn't move her fingers.
Instead of listening to the girl Nova pulls her fingers out of the girl's wet center making her groan in disappointment. Nova took a step back taking in the disheveled girl who's glaring at her half-heartedly, leaning on the bleacher's gate.
Nova not taking her eyes off the girl brought her two wet fingers to her mouth and licked at her fingers, she hummed at the taste, her eyes never leaving the flushed girl face.
"Patience…" Nova finally speaks, yanking her own boy shorts down stuffing them in her other pocket.
She walked back over to the other girl, who yanked her closer by her hips, Their mouths eagerly meet in a frenzied pace, their tongues moving over each other in a fight for dominance that Nova won as she sucked on the other girl's tongue.
Nova sat on the girl's slightly raised thigh, her fingers going back to work under the short skirt. She teased the blonde cheerleader, running her fingers lightly over her swollen clit, making the girl moan their mouths disconnecting as her hips followed the movement.
Nova's own hips moved at a sedate pace over her tan thigh, the thigh soon shined, wet with her own arousal. Nova stops teasing the poor girl and thrust her fingers into the blonde's dripping hole, her thumb rubbing against her clit.
"God, yes...fuck..." Emily sobbed in pleasure, gripping Nova's bare ass under the skirt, she pushed Nova's wet center harder against her thigh. Nova moaned picking up her fingers pace and humping the blonde's leg faster. Her head dropped in the crook of Emily's shoulder. Her fingers went in deeper and her thumb moved harder and her hips moved impatiently.
Nova bit the girl's neck as an orgasm washed over her, the move took Emily over the edge with her as she cried out in pleasure.
Nova had a few moments of pure bliss as she slowly calmed down from her orgasm before something- someone, interrupts her moment of bliss.
"...Well, isn't this cozy,"
Nova groaned in the blonde's neck before pulling back, as said blonde jumped in surprise at the sound of Damon's voice.
"Please don't stop on my account,"
Nova smiled apologetically at the blushing blonde, sending a glare at the smirking Vampire before looking back at the still out of it girl. "Sorry about him, Emily, I've been meaning to get him a bell...and leash," She added glaring at the still smirking Salvatore.
Emily just nodded, still shocked and leaning on the gate on slightly weak legs. "Why don't you go see if the rest of the girls are ready?" Nova suggested gently to the shell shocked girl as Damon watched on silently, highly amused.
"Yes..I..will go do that.." Emily replied starting to walk away, eager to get away if the burning of her cheeks is anything to go by.
"Oh, wait!" She stopped the blonde with a hand on her arm.
Emily gave her a slightly impatient and expectant look. "Here you go.." Nova hands back the girl's boy shorts, which just makes her cheeks turn even redder, it was adorable, and suddenly Nova is turned on again. And frustrated all over again.
Emily snatched the boy shorts from her hands before running away, passing an amused Damon on the way. "Well aren't you a busy little bee," Damon spoke to a still sexually frustrated Nova, who rolled her eyes at the comment.
"Busy little bee? Seriously? You couldn't come up with anything better?" She returned before yanking her own boy shorts from her bomber jacket and slipping them back on under her skirt.
He shrugged, nonplussed, crossing his arm over his chest. "I didn't take you for a voyeur, is that a vampire thing or a Damon thing?" She asked scathingly, fixing her slightly skewed ponytail, Damon watching her all the while.
"I was just checking up on my favorite cheerleader, I wasn't expecting my poor eyes to see you fingering some girl, behind the bleachers no less," He replied in mock horror.
She laughed slightly, her anger went as quickly as it came, she picked up her red and white pom pom's off the ground.
"You loved it, you got a free show," Nova shot back walking with him around the bleacher's and towards the roaming teenagers who're getting ready for the game.
"It was certainly the highlight of my day."
"You obviously need to get laid then."
"You wanna help with that?" Damon asked leaning into her space with a wicked grin, she rolled her eyes and pushed him away.
Which does nothing but make his grin widen and move closer.
He's really pretty, like really pretty. No one should be that good looking, Nova thought absently before shaking it off and leaning away from him.
"No," She said firmly making him tilt his head in confusion.
The guy has obviously never been denied, the fact kind of amuses her but she stomps down on her amusement so he doesn't think she's laughing at him.
"No?" Damon repeated bewildered, making her roll her eyes and take a step back.
"No, non, nullo modo, kekkou desu, no grazie-" She said no in at least four different languages before he cut her off with a roll of eyes, finally moving away from her.
"Okay, I got it the first time, and did you just say no thank you in Italian?" He asked rhetorically but she still nods in confirmation.
At this point, she's learning about four languages. French, Japanese, Italian, and Latin; of course, she can only speak two fluently, English and Latin. And sometimes she fails at speaking English, which is sort of sad.
"You need to work on your pronunciation," Damon replied like the dick he is, she sighed in mock despair.
"There's just no pleasing you is there?" She asked leaving before he could open his mouth and say something no doubt dirty.
She can hear the marching band playing close by, and she's as soon as she's close to the crowd of drunk teens, football players and cheerleaders, she's yanked on the arm by an annoyed Caroline. "Did you know?"
"That you're apparently stronger than you look?" Nova answered and also questioned. Caroline sighed shaking her head. "No, I mean did you know that Elena was going to quit cheerleading today."
"She didn't tell me, but I'm not surprised, I could see her heart just wasn't in it anymore," Nova replied honestly.
Caroline sighed heavily before pushing her towards the other cheerleaders. "Come on, they're about to burn the Lions scarecrow and Tanner's going to make his speech any minute now,"
"We do the same thing every year, Care, I don't think we're going to miss anything important," Nova said letting herself be pulled in the direction where the cheerleaders are already, well, cheering.
Caroline doesn't even respond and just pushed her next to a cheering Bonnie. "Where have you been?" Bonnie questioned out of the corner of her mouth, her smile wide as she waved her pom poms.
Nova raised her own high in the air, smiling just as widely as her sister. "I was just unwinding before the game," Nova replied sharing a glance towards Emily whose two positions away from them.
Caroline and Bonnie saw the look and both rolled their eyes. "Could you stop corrupting my cheerleaders?" Caroline practically pleaded while still managing to beam at the crowd.
"Sorry, I only can be good for one hour a day," Nova responded while grinning at the crowd, "Go, Timberwolves!"
Tanner made his speech after they burnt The Lion's scarecrow, which was just a stolen jersey on a badly made scarecrow.
After a moment, the crowd started to move towards a commotion and Nova ends up swept up in the crowd, she huffed in indignation. This would have never happened if she were taller, Nova thought in irritation.
Nova though short, was popular and had a reputation of repaying people who annoy her, she can be very creative in ways of 'repayment'. She managed to shove people out the way, and those she couldn't shove she glared at until they let her though.
By some miracle, she somehow managed to get there at the same time as Stefan and Elena. "Hey! He's down, that's enough!" Stefan yelled running towards the pair of fighting teens, Jeremy and Tyler.
Only once Jeremy is down, Tyler doesn't stop punching.
Nova having seen enough rushed passed a shocked and concerned Elena. "Nova, what are you doing?!" Elena yelled at her retreating back.
Nova being the overprotective idiot she is, jumped on Tyler's back and pulled him in a chokehold as he went back to repeatedly punching Jeremy obviously not listening to Stefan.
She's short and the only muscle she has is from cheerleading and the rare times she jogs in the mornings, which she hasn't done in like a week, maybe two.
Tyler is a jock through and through, and though his werewolf curse hasn't been triggered, he definitely has the rage that goes with being a werewolf; but what she lacks in strength she makes up in her mercilessness.
Nova kicks hard him in the balls before he can react to her somewhat weak hold. She could practically hear the sympathetic groans of all the male population as she does so.
Or was that Tyler actually groaning in pain? She can't tell, what she can see is Stefan wincing out of the corner of her eye.
"Calm the fuck down, dickhead." She whispered into Tyler's ear, and by some miracle, he listens. Nova didn't really think he'd listen, considering, she had called him a dickhead.
She hops down off his back once she think's he's calmed down, she relaxes once he turns around and doesn't attack her like a rabid animal.
She startled and jumped slightly when she heard Elena shout; "Jeremy, no!"
Jeremy rushed towards Tyler with a broken glass bottle, she sighed in relief when Tyler manages to dodge the blow, the glass instead ends up clashing with Stefan's raised hand.
"Tyler, knock it off!" Matt maneuvers himself in front of an angry again Tyler, who looks like he wants to kill Jeremy for what he tried to do. Elena tries to tend to her bleeding brother but is only getting glares in response.
"I'm fine!" Nova could hear Jeremy say in response to his sister's fussing.
"Come on, man, come on." Matt practically pleads with his best friend, and Tyler with one last glare at Jeremy leaves with an angry huff.
When the unhelpful crowd left, she left, leaving Elena and Stefan alone, as Elena projects her fussing somewhere else.
She walked after the limping Jeremy, picking up her dropped pom pom's on the way, huffing at the fact they got partially trampled on. She ran to catch up with Jeremy. Seven hells this whole having more than one friend thing is hard to keep up with, she thought as she ran, her loud footsteps alerting Jeremy to the fact that someone is following him.
"I said I'm fine, Elena!" Jeremy yelled turning slightly shocked to see Nova instead of his mother hen of a sister before sighing in exasperation. "What do you want now, Nova?"
"Haven't you heard? I'm your new stalker," Nova joked waving her pom pom's in the air, sighing when he didn't even crack a smile.
"My jokes are obviously wasted on you...I was just making sure you're okay."
"Did Elena send you?" He asked and she struggled not to punch him, or strangle him, but refrains from doing either as the poor dude looks like the wind could knock him over.
She sighed when his legs slightly buckled and ran over to help him sit down on the bleachers. "Believe it or not, I followed your moody ass of my own free will,"
Jeremy sighed in slight relief as his legs got a break, but still eyed her skeptically, she get's it, even though it annoys the shit out of her.
Elena can be just as much of a control freak as Caroline, it's why they clash so much, and also why they get along so much.
She pulled her phone out of the top part of her bomber jacket, and ignoring Jeremy's stare, she turned her phone brightness all the up and shined it into his eyes.
When he tried to lean away she grabbed his face in a tight grip that made him grimace.
Nova shined the light from her cellphone in his eyes, his pupils are slightly dilated, but she thinks that's more because he's drunk than the fact he has a concussion. "You're my friend first, and my best friend's brother's second, I don't care if you don't believe me, I'm here for good, I'm like...that mold stain that just won't go away."
He snorted in amusement before grimacing in pain when she poked his bruised cheek.
"What's the verdict, doctor?" He asked sarcastically making her smile slightly, still staring at his bruises. The only thing holding her back from giving Tyler another kick in the balls is because Jeremy needs her and despite the fact the guy has been acting like a massive tool lately; he's still her friend.
"You have a terminal illness, it's called stupidity," She replied in a faux serious tone. He rolled his eyes and she smiled at the headache it must have given him, if the grimace is any indication.
"I would prescribe a heavy dosage of this thing called self-preservation... and avoiding fist fights with people ten times bigger than you might also help," She added on as he stared at her slightly incredulous as she handed him a tissue for his bleeding nose.
"You do realize that you're being a little bit of a hypocrite? Person who jumped on the back of someone who's ten times bigger than you," Jeremy remarked, tilting his head back and holding the tissue to his bleeding nose.
"Didn't you know? We're all hypocrites," She informed him, putting her phone back in her pocket. "Besides, now I can say I kicked a guy in the balls," She said brightly probably taking too much glee in that fact as Jeremy gave her a wary look.
"...The look on his face was priceless," He confessed as she cleaned up his face with the small pack of tissues. "Was it, is it bad I hope someone filmed it?"
"Nope, dick deserves it."
She doesn't reply to that comment or ask why he was fighting with Tyler in the first place, she figures it was about Vicki.
"You're good to go, your pupils are dilated but that probably has more to do with the fact you stink of four different kinds of alcohol than the fact you might have a concussion," She stated before patting his face without thinking and grimacing when he hissed in pain when her hand came in contact with his bruised cheek.
"Thanks, doc," He said sarcastically, as she got off the bleacher and picked up her pom poms. "How do you know this stuff, by the way? You barely flinched when Vicki was bleeding from her neck," He asked curiously as she prepared to leave.
"I was a... clumsy kid, never really liked the hospital," She said before hesitantly continuing, "Your dad was the one who stepped in to take care of me every time I had minor scratches and bruises. He gave me medical advice when I showed minor interest, the guy never shut up about his job."
It was half truth, she hates hospitals because they remind her of all the time she spent in them in her old life, her mom had been in and out of them more times than she could count. But she's never been clumsy, in either life. Absent minded, sure, clumsy, no.
Those visits to Dr. Gilbert's office were mostly because of the explosions she and Bonnie caused while practicing their Magic, ah, good times.
Jeremy smiled for a moment before his gaze took a sadder tone, she was going to say something but her phone practically blew up in texts.
She unlocked her phone just as Bonnie called her, she answered slightly confused as Jeremy looked on curiously.
"Tanner's dead, where are you?" Bonnie said over the phone, her voice panicked.
"With Jeremy," Nova answered her sister. Not very shocked, or sad, with the news. "Good, I'm going home, we'll talk later." Bonnie said before hanging up before Nova could say anything.
Guess someone's not too happy with her.
"What is it?" Jeremy asked curiously, bringing her attention to him. "Tanner is dead, an animal attack apparently," She lied easily, shocking the teen with her news.
"Do you need a ride home, Jer?" Nova asked after a moment of silence, he shook his head. "No, but thanks, for this," He waves at his slightly cleaned up face, she nodded before turning to leave.
"And sorry for being a dick to you lately," He added as she walked away, she nodded, accepting the half hearted apology.
"Just make sure it doesn't happen again...or you'll end up like Tyler." She could practically hear the grimace coming from Jeremy as she walked away.
She ends up passing Vicki on the way, who glared at her before her shoulder 'accidentally' shoved Nova slightly.
What a fucking bitch, Nova thought as she left the school.