Ghost Town.
Author's Notes.
The characters do not belong to me the only plot is mine.
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Special Notes.
Few parts of this chapter are taken from the episode(Ghost World) but remember I am alerting storyline to fit my story. Now, this chapter will start from where we left the previous chapter.
For a while, they all were frozen to their spots as they come with terms about everything that just happened today.
Stefan was still hunched over as his body shook with a tremendous amount of guilt and shame.
Damon who was watching his brother tried to approach him cautiously.
"Stefan." He tried to call him but he didn't even respond to his voice.
However, before he could reach his brother his eyes shift towards Hope who was now staring ahead of something. "You?"
He looked up at what she was referring to but there was no one there. "Hope there is no one there." But she was already raising her hand again as she moves in front of Stefan. "It was you who trapped papa Stefan?"
This caught his brother attention who like him was staring at Hope and then his eyes search in darkness. "There is no one here?" He told her as he stood up beside her.
They all watched her eyes filled with fear and concern as she gave them one quick glance before turning to stare into the dark night. "I won't let you hurt my family!" She screams and for the eight-year-old girl, her voice was quite impressively threatening because they felt the air shift around them.
"I said Noooooo!" She screams again and pushed her hand in the air while screaming a spell.
Both Damon and Stefan saw countless spell in their lifetime but nothing prepared them as they watched an invisible force push Hope so hard that she flew backwards in the air.
Damon moves fast to catch her in midair before she could hit the floor but somehow Hope fell unconscious in his arms.
"Hope! Hope!" He screams desperately while shaking her a bit but she remains unresponsive.
He didn't realize when he was surrounded by Ric and Elena who like him were touching her. "What happens to her?" Elena asks as tears fell from her eyes.
Ric checked her wrists and then her neck before sighing in relief. "I can feel her pulse and breathing. She is just unconscious."
"But what happened to her then?" Elena asks and for the first time, he didn't have any answers.
"Did you felt when air shift?" His brother finally asks making Damon look at him.
Stefan was not looking at them but instead, his eyes were searching for something in this empty parking lot.
"Yeah, but I couldn't see what she clearly can." He replied while his own eyes search for this invisible threat.
"I think we should leave before anyone saw us here," Liz told them and once again he was surprised to not notice her in this class.
"Why did you bring her here?" He roared in anger but Liz looked more perplexed then being afraid. "I really don't know Damon? I was driving her to my place when suddenly her eyes rolled back and she start to keep saying her family is in danger. Next thing I know my car automatically start driving itself and didn't stop until we reached here."
Clearly, they all were too stunned after hearing this and Damon knew that he won't be able to lie when they start asking questions about her. "Liz is right, let's leave." He told everyone because he didn't want to deal with these questions right now.
Carefully he picked his granddaughter in his arms as he told Ric to bring Doctor.
He then left and to his surprise, Elena settles on the backseat with Hope while his brother sits next to him.
For the rest of the ride, they didn't speak at all, not even when they arrived home or when he placed Hope on his bed.
"I should change her clothes." Elena offers with a small smile and since he trusts her, he left them alone.
A few minutes later Ric arrived with none other than Doctor Meredith.
He only allowed Elena with them as she examines Hope. "I don't know what caused it but her body is in shock. Did she has been in an accident or something?"
He doesn't know why but this time he hates it when he had to make excuses to hide supernatural cause that hurt an innocent child. "No, but she was quite restless since yesterday."
He can see her getting suspicious again so he quickly compels her again as he asks. "Will she be alright?"
"Yes. She needs to sleep it off and by tomorrow she will be back to normal." The doctor replied and he was able to breathe in relief. "Great now forget about any suspicion you have regarding us."
With that, he called Ric and ask him to drop her off while instructing him. "If she asks any more question about Hope then do tell me."
Once they left Damon walked back towards his room making sure to avoid his brother questioning gaze.
When he opens his door, he stops to leaned at the doorway as he watched Elena caressing Hope's hair.
As soon their eyes met he knew that she needs answers but she was giving him the chance to decide whether he wants to talk about it or not.
"Come, let's patch up your wounds."
Elena quickly followed him into his washroom where he already has first kit box opened along with tap on the sink.
He tapped his ear and she understood why he did it.
Damon then starts applying ointment on her cheek even when she protested. "Give it to me! I can do it myself."
"Come on, you just got barbecued, it's the least I can do and apply first aid." With that, she gave up and watched him as he gently took care of her wound.
Damon can see she was itching to start this conversation and then her patience ran out as she said. "So our plan kind of worked?"
"Even not in the way we hoped for." He added sarcastically but Elena ignores his sarcasm as she reminds him. "At least you get a chance to flirt with Rebekah."
He chuckled while staring at her mischievously as he inquires. "Jealous?"
He can see her cheeks heating up but she denied with shrug. "I was faking it for Stefan."
"So was I." He simply replied but he did that eye thing which once again make her want to do things she would never admit.
So instead of admitting anything, she decided to ask a more important question. "Apparently you have been faking about lots of things, like Hope's real identity?"
She can see something change in his eyes as his eyes dart behind her but she knew he was staring at the girl in question.
Elena waited for what felt like a few minutes when his eyes finally move in her direction. "Before I tell you anything, I want you to be open-minded for this truth."
He can see she would agree to anything to know this mystery so he thought its better to warn her. "Also, I want you to understand that I don't know enough but only what she told me herself."
"Okay, I understand." She was getting truly impatient as she watched Damon struggling to come up with words.
Finally, he took a deep breath and then said. "Hope is not Zach's daughter. She um."
He stopped midway until Elena grabbed his hand and urged him. "She's what?"
"Hope is my granddaughter. Well, more specifically she is my Granddaughter from future who travel from her time which is 2040 to our time."
Just as he expected she didn't seem to believe him at first. "If you don't want to tell me."
"Its truth Elena! I don't know how or why but she is my granddaughter and that she came from the future! So you can believe whatever you want but you know me and you know that I will never make up something like this."
A rational side of her was unable to grasp this truth. Still, a part of her trusts him explicitly because as much she knows Damon all she has to do is stare in his eyes to believe him because they were incapable to hide anything from her.
"I trust you, Damon." She finally told him and she can see how happy this makes him. "I know all this sounds mad but."
"So is our world." He finished her thought while smirking at her and she has to agree. "You are right and nothing surprises me anymore in this world."
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The next morning when Damon woke up he smile because his arms were wrapped around his favourite girls who fell asleep with him.
Meanwhile, Hope was sleeping peacefully as she was cocooned between Damon on her right and Elena on her left.
She was still in deep sleep when their eyes open and for a while, they both were lost in this small bubble. It was only when Hope starts stirring that they break their gaze to watch this special girl.
"Hope?" He gently wakes her up and seconds later she opened her eyes.
For a while, she kept staring at both of them before she tried to sit up as she asks. "Where is she? Has she hurt anyone?"
Damon can see Elena was getting as worried as him but he put that aside so he can ask her. "What are you talking about? There was no one there?"
But Hope was shaking her head. "You can't see her but she was there!" She almost yells in desperation. "She is a really bad person and she always wanted to hurt my family."
"But who is she?" Elena asks while fearing for this little girl who clearly seems petrified.
"She is my grandmother." She told them shakenly but Damon felt horrified.
"You mean I have a daughter with the crazy, scary, invisible creature!"
At this, she frowned at him. "No Pappie, I didn't mean Nona." She briefly stared at Elena as she continues. "My Nona is a wonderful person." She told her.
Damon wonders if she was merely stating a fact of referring to Elena but Elena has other things on her mind. "So when you say grandmother you mean?"
"She is my Dad's mother but she is evil and she hates us a lot!" She explains and it was clear that this upset her a lot.
" How will we stop her invisible grandmother," Elena asks him and he felt extremely clueless about this evil grandmother problem.
Apparently what they said seems funny to Hope who starts giggling. "She is not an invisible creature. She is a powerful witch ghost."
"Witch!" Damon yelled while Elena squeak. "Ghost!"
"Yes! She is powerful witch well not as powerful as my aunt but my aunt always says that I have more power than anyone in our family."
This time they had to agree with whoever her aunt was as they witness recently her powers. "So let me get this straight. Your Grandmother ghost want to harm Stefan?"
Even as Damon ask this he knew she won't reveal the direct question and once again he found her struggling with words. "Not exactly, she wants to harm everyone and she was confused to see me because of I' I."
She was clearly finding it hard to explain any further but Damon understands a bit. "She was confused because you weren't supposed to be here?"
She just nods in reply and he pulled her in his arms. "Don't worry kid, after last night I don't think any bad witch will dare to harm anyone in this town."
Of course, he found out soon how wrong he was because as soon Elena left with Hope he was attacked by a ghost.
Stefan found him chained to chair with poker sticking into his chest.
"Who did this to you?" He asks while yanking poker out of his body.
"Who do you think? Ghost of Mason Lockwood has somehow returned from great beyond to take his revenge on me."
He didn't wait to elaborate and quickly left to get dressed while calling Elena. "Tell me you and Hope are safe." He asks as soon he heard her voice.
"We are fine but apparently something has gone wrong because I just saw Jeremy kissing Anna."
He rolled his eyes, 'leave it to little Gilbert to make out with his ghost girlfriend.' "I think crazy grandma has distributed extra passes to the living world because I just got a friendly surprise from a dead werewolf."
He then heard Elena gasp and then she says. "Damon, Lexi is here too."
He groaned and banged his head on top of his car. "I can't deal simultaneously with two people who are thirsty for their revenge but bring Lexi here so she can deal with my recently emotional brother."
"That's a great idea! But what about Hope?" She asks just as he starts driving.
"Bring her home. You will find Disney cartoon cd's in her stuff, that will keep you both entertained while Lexi deal with my brother and I will deal with this ghost problem."
After he hangs up he drives straight towards Grill but stopped when he saw Blondie and Witchy decorating the Road.
"Blondie, Witchy do you know that this town is on verge of turning into a ghost town?"
"What? Caroline ask clearly confused but the way Bonnie and Donavan stare at each other made him suspicious of them. "What did you do? Because I am pretty sure that Mason Lockwood skewered me this morning."
"I thought you close the door?" Matt asks Bonnie who stutter in return. "I' I think, I have."
Damon who didn't have time or patience for this, decide to interrupt these idiots. "Listen, I don't care what you do, I just want you to get rid of them because when I kill someone they supposed to stay dead."
For once they listen to him seriously so he left this problem to Witchy and her sidekicks.
He thought that he can finally relax and enjoy a drink with his buddy who still giving him a cold shoulder. "Come on Ric have one drink with me."
"I will have that drink." They heard a familiar voice nearby and sure enough, Damon found Mason Lockwood sitting on his other side.
"So, I killed you and now you want to kill me!? Well too bad, get in line." He whispered angrily at him but instead of attacking him Mason just smiled and said. "I want your apology."
Ric couldn't help but burst into laughter before controlling his expression as he told Mason. "Good luck with that.
Damon thought it was a joke but he was quite determined to hear his apology.
And so thus they hear they lamest apology ever in the history of mankind. "I know, I shouldn't have to kill you but sometimes I do things that I don't need to do."
"Seriously? That's your way of apologising?!" Mason ask with amuse expression on his face.
To Damon relief, not only did he accept his so-called attempt at an apology but he then led him to secret Lockwood tunnels that open up to caves.
Apparently, they held some kind of weapon to destroy Klaus because he was unable to enter the cave himself and to his disappointment Mason disappear right before he could tell him anything else.
So he called Ric who was still angry with him. "Listen, Ric, sometimes I do things that I didn't mean to do."
"Are you seriously recycling the same lame-ass apology to me?" Ric asks somewhere between being pissed and amusement.
"Well yeah." Damon shrug feeling tad bit embarrassed but to his relief, he accepted his apology and once again they were a friend.
He watched as his friend survey entire cave with interest. "What is it?" He asks impatiently to which Ric replied. "Its Originals History."
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Author 's Notes.
Here you go, another chapter of this story. Please send me your review and motivate me to write more and more.
