Well that was Unexpected – Chapter 4

Disclaimer – I do not own anything from Harry Potter or the Vampire Diaries. That honours goes to JK Rowling and Julie Plec respectively. I only own the ideas and any OC's . Anything you see that you recognise is not mine.

Hallie (POV)

I woke up early the next morning because I had fallen asleep so early the night before. I was glad for it though as it meant I wasn't feeling jet lagged at all. I grabbed my glasses from the bedside table and then looked at my watch to see the time. It was 07:20 am so i got out of bed and headed to the bathroom. I came back and got dressed in some of the new clothes I had bought. I headed downstairs unsure if anyone else would be awake. When I got downstairs I saw that Liz was awake and dressed for work.

"Morning Hallie, your up early. Did you sleep well?" She asked while drinking a cup of coffee

"Morning Liz. I slept really well actually. I've been getting up about this sort of time for a while now so I've gotten used to it" I say as I join her in the kitchen

"Well that's good. I'm surprised your not jet lagged. You had a long day yesterday" She says

"I was surprised too" I say with a laugh

She smiles. " Well I've got to go into work, I'll be back tonight. Feel free to get whatever you want for breakfast. Caroline will be probably sleep in for a while"

"That's okay. I'll see you later" I say

She stands up and puts her empty cup on the side. "Oh I meant to give you these last night but you went to bed" She says handing me a set of keys. "Spare keys for the front and back door. That way you can go out whenever you want and don't have to worry about one of us being in all the time"

I smile." Thank you Liz"

"No problem" She smiles as she heads out.

Once she left I started making some breakfast. After looking at what was in I decided on having some cereal and some fruit with a glass of orange juice.

I sat down to eat while playing on my phone for a bit. Once I was done eating I washed the dishes and cleared things away. I know Liz would tell me that I didn't have to wash the dishes but it was a habit that was hard to break. After growing up with the Dursley's and being made to cook and clean after every meal I was used to washing dishes straight away after I finished.

It wasn't until about 10:00 when Caroline came downstairs after getting up.

"Morning Caroline" I said from the living room

"Hey Hallie. How did you sleep?" She said sitting down next to me

"Fine. How about you?" I ask putting my phone down as we talked

"Fine. Did mum already leave for work?"

"Yeah she left a few hours ago. I had gotten up just before she was getting to leave." I said

"Aah okay. So what are you thinking of doing today?" She asked

"I'm not sure. I was thinking of just walking around and exploring the town. Maybe take some pictures so I can show them to my friends when I go back home."

"That sounds fun. I'm sorry that I can't spend more time with you today. I promised Bonnie I would help her with redecorating her room." She says "But i'm free tomorrow so we can properly hang out"

"It's okay you don't need to apologise. I'm going to be here for a month. We will have plenty of time to spend time together" I say with a smile

"Okay as long as you don't mind" She says

"No it's okay. Like I said I can use today to walk around and get an idea where things are"

After talking for a bit Caroline went to make herself some breakfast while I went upstairs to get ready to go out. I grabbed my rucksack and put in what I thought i would need. I placed my wand in the arm holster and covered it with a thin jacket. I said goodbye to Caroline and headed out and began to walk around.

I spent a few hours walking round the town taking some pictures. After walking round the main area of the town and where the houses were I had a walk through the cemetery before walking around the woods. Once I was a decent distance into the woods I stopped and took a seat by a large tree and took out my phone. I had a few texts from friends which I sent amazed that I was even able to get signal out in the woods. I started going through the photos I had taken and planned to get them printed off and put into a photo album. I had also picked up a few postcards that I was planning on sending back home over the next few days.

I took out my bottle of water and drank some enjoying the shade from the trees. After taking a bit of a break I put my water back in my bag and stood up as I threw my rucksack on my back again. Just as I was about to set off again I heard some twigs snap as well as leaves crunch and I could tell whoever it was, was nearby. I frowned and hesitantly slid my wand out of my arm holster ready to defend myself if I needed to. I could always obliviate the person afterwards. I heard the twigs and leaves snap again this time behind me. I turned round and caught a glimpse of something running between the trees at an impossible speed. I kept turning around as I kept hearing it move around. I turned one final time and raised my wand and quickly shot off a spell at whatever was moving. "Stupefy" I cast and watched with confusion as a person dressed in a black leather jacket crumpled to the floor. I was extremely confused as no human should be able to move at such a speed. My eyes widen as the person started to move and slowly get up off the ground. He turned to me with a smirk.

"Impressive. I'll give you that but your no match for me. You might as well give up now "He says almost tauntingly

"You keep thinking that" I say as I shoot off another spell. "Bombarda" I shoot watching as he was blasted quite a distance away before crumpling to the ground once again before taking off running. While running i cast a concealment charm on myself hoping it would be enough to get out of the woods and back into town. Once I took off running I didn't stop or look back for even a split second. I quickly made it out of the woods and into the cemetery although I didn't stop. I didn't stop running until I was round the corner from the house. I quickly grabbed the keys out of my bag and headed inside locking the door again and sliding down the door onto the floor trying to catch my breath back. Once I caught my breath back I cancelled the concealment charm and headed upstairs to my room.

Bonnie (POV)

Caroline and I wee taking a break from redecorating my room when I suddenly shivered slightly as I sensed powerful magic being cast somewhere in the town. Caroline noticed but before she could ask me if I was okay I was pulled into a vision. It wasn't very detailed but I was able to make out a girl that looked about 17 or 18 out in the woods casting some kind of extremely powerful magic. It ende before I was able to get anything else.

"Bonnie are you okay?" Caroline said gently putting her hand on my shoulder

I blinked a few times as I looked at her. "Yeah i'm okay"

"Did you have a vision or something?"

"Yeah . It was a girl who looked about our age and she was casting some super powerful magic" I explained

"That's weird. What do you think it's about?" She asks

"I'm not sure but I don't think it was a coincidence. Just before I had the vision I sensed some extremely powerful being cast somewhere in the town. I think it was the same person" I say

She frowns. " How powerful?"

"Extremely. I've never sensed magic like it before. Not even when I've come across other witches. It's never been as intense as that."

"That can't be good. Ever time we've had to deal with another witch coming to down they have usually been accompanied by someone powerful intent on causing chaos" Caroline sighs

"Yeah we should tell the others. But we can worry about that later" I say

I spent the next hour or two trying to figure out what was going on. The man moved at an inhuman speed and my spells only seemed to do minor and temporary damage. He couldn't be a werewolf as he wouldn't be this strong or fast when it was nowhere near the full moon. He would also be covered in scars which he wasn't. I took a few of my books on magical creatures out of one of my cases and started to go through them. I eventually came across a section about vampires and the different species of them. Apparantly there was a species of vampire that existed that could walk around in the daylight through the assistance of an item of daylight jewellery made with a specific stone called Lapis Lazuli that had to be spelled by a witch for the vampire in question. The abilities listed seemed to match up to what I saw today and it made sense that he knew about the existence of magic as he wasn't confused when I had cast spells. One of the abilities that this species of vampire had that concerned me the most was an ability called compulsion. It gave the vampire the ability to compel a human to do, say or forget anything they wanted. The book said that the only way to combat this to ingest an herb called Vervain. It was also one of the few things that could weaken a vampire. It also said that unlike in popular fiction where someone is turned into a vampire through merely being bitten by one this species of vampire is created by a person being killed with vampire blood in there system. They would then wake up in transition and have to complete the process by feeding on human blood within 24 hours or they would die again.

After looking through some more of the book I saw that there was also other types of werewolves and even witches much different to the ones I was aware of. One species of werewolves still only transformed on the full moon and had no memory of what happened during their time as a wolf after transforming back to human but instead of it being something that could be passed on through being bitten or scratched by a werewolf it was a gene passed down through families. According to the book the gene could be inherited but wouldn't be triggered until the person killed a human. Then they would transform on the first full moon after triggering it.

The other type of witches was also interesting. This species called both male and female witches rather than wizards and witches. Also it seemed that the magic was much more spiritual and ancestrally based than my own. Similarly to the werewolf genes the magic was passed down through families and the longer line of witches in a family the stronger ones magic was as deceased witches were able to assist their living relative when casting powerful magic to make it easier. They also didn't use wands to cast spells. Covens of witches also existed which weren't a thing with my own type of magic.

I heard the door unlock as Caroline came home as I was putting my book away under my pillow. I heard her shout from downstairs. " Hallie are you home?"

I headed downstairs and heard her talking with a bunch of people so I assumed some of her friends were with her. I got to the bottom of the stairs and turned and headed towards the kitchen

"Hey Caroline, i'm here I came back a couple of hours ago" I said

"Cool. I wanted to introduce you to some of my friends" She says

I get to the kitchen doorway and look up. I am about to say something when I stop short. In addition to a few people that I recognised as Caroline's friends from her photos was the same person who had attacked me in the woods. The person I was almost certain was a vampire.

Authors Note – Sorry this chapter is a bit shorter than previous. I planned on making it longer but I thought it worked better if it was split up into two chapters. I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. Please leave a review if you have any ideas. I am hoping to keep updating this quite regularly it just depends on how busy my schedule gets. Thanks for reading.