The bright light disappeared and the three looked around confused.
"Huh." Damon muttered, looking around.
The three looked down at their hands which were linked. And they all dropped them quickly.
Damon flexed his hand. "Well, that got awkward fast." He said, then cleared his throat.
Lia snorted in amusement causing Damon to shot her a quick smirk.
"You can say that again," Lia muttered, glancing around her.
"What happened? Where is everybody?" Bonnie asked.
"Yes, ask the people who have been with you this entire time, and know as much as you do, what happened." Lia said, sarcastically.
Bonnie shot her a glare of irritation and walked away.
"Where you going?" Damon asked after her.
Then he turned to Lia. "This is your fault." He accused before following Bonnie.
"Hey." He called.
Lia hesitated, trying to decide if she should follow the people she barely knew. She looked around the empty cemetery.
Was she dead?
Lia looked down at her necklace that hung down the front of her shirt. Hesitantly, she wrapped her hand around it and tried siphoning.
She gasped as she felt her magic surge through her.
She was a witch...which meant she wasn't dead.
"Yes!" Lia shouted out loud.
Then, she looked in the direction Bonnie and Damon went.
They didn't know she was a siphoner...
The Mystic Falls gang thought she was a normal witch and she never bothered correcting them.
If they asked she would tell them but for now, they could think she was a witch.
She put the necklace under her shirt, hiding it.
She glanced around the cemetery one last time and took off after them.
The three of them were walking down the street as Damon poked around in his mouth. The two girls exchanged a look behind his back.
"Well, I feel a fang." He commented. "I'm still a vampire."
The three looked around the town square of Mystic Falls.
"Either I'm a dead vampire, or Mystic Falls is no longer magic-free," Damon said.
Bonnie paused as she noticed something and Lia looked at her confused.
"Look," Bonnie said, staring at something.
They follow her line of sight to the Mystic Grill, which was still standing.
Where the hell are we? Lia wondered silently
"I definitely blew that up about an hour ago," Damon said with a puzzled look on his face.
"I mean, you could have hallucinated it," Lia suggested.
Damon turned to her sharply. "I did not." He disagreed.
"Why don't we see any people?" Bonnie asked, ignoring the two. "If we're still on the Other Side, we should at least be able to see the living."
"Did everyone die?" Lia asked, raising her eyebrow.
Damon and Bonnie frowned at those words.
Lia's eyes widened dramatically. "Holy shit, did the apocalypse happen and we not know it?" She asked, pretending to be serious.
The other two stared at her in disbelief. And Lia pretended to be horrified but she couldn't hold it for long and burst out laughing causing Bonnie to roll her eyes at her.
While the corner of Damon's mouth quirked up slightly in amusement at the younger girl's antics.
When Lia stopped laughing, Damon glanced around again.
"Where the hell are we?" He asked, worried. "And I don't mean geographically."
"I have no idea," Bonnie answered, and they were about to continue walking when Lia stopped them.
"Wait" Lia gasped.
They turned to her hesitantly.
"I'm starving." She declared.
Damon rolled his eyes. "You're always hungry. You're a literal bottomless pit. You'll be fine for a few hours while we figure out where the hell we are." He said, like a parent talking to his child.
"Hours?" Lia exclaimed, horrified. "No, I'm getting food now."
She turned to walk away in the direction of a store but Damon grabbed her arm.
"You're an actual child." Damon sighed as he began to pull her away, following Bonnie.
The sun had risen and Lia still did not have food in her stomach.
Stupid vampires...
Bonnie and Damon were walking down the street with Lia on Damon's back, giving her a piggyback ride.
How did that happen some might wonder?
Well, Lia's feet started to kill her and the other two refused to stop for a break. So Lia decided to be really annoying until they allowed a break.
However, Damon instead suggested her getting on his back and obviously she agreed.
Who didn't like piggyback rides?
The three continued down the street, looking around as they did so.
"Ugh. How many more streets are we going to wander?" Damon asked. "Lia is heavy."
"You're a vampire." Lia reminded. "Just put your back into it."
Damon rolled his eyes and continued to look at Bonnie for an answer.
"How many times are you gonna ask me questions I don't have the answers to? Hmm?" Bonnie countered.
Lia laughed.
"High five," Lia said, holding up her hand.
Bonnie grinned and high fived Lia.
Damon gave Bonnie a look that Lia couldn't see.
Bonnie ignored him and continued looking around and narrowed her eyes at the cars around them.
"There's something weird about these cars. " Bonnie stated.
Lia narrowed her eyes at the cars and noticed that they all looked old. She tapped Damon's shoulder causing him to stop and she jumped down from his back.
Lia walked past them and studied the cars.
"Yeah, there almost all 20 years too old or more, and yet they look brand-new," Damon agreed, inspecting a car to their right.
"Well...vintage is in style these days," Lia commented.
"That may be but not everyone would have them. They'd be way too expensive." Damon replied, running a hand over a car.
Both Bonnie and Damon froze staring at a large white house in front of them.
Lia looked at them confused.
"You guy's good? You look like you've seen a ghost." Lia said, glancing between them and the house. "Or a ghost house" She corrected.
Damon ignored her, staring at the house. "And that is Elena's not-so-burnt-to-a-crisp house."
"Elena? The doppelganger?" Lia asked, confused. But once again she was ignored.
Rude.
Damon looked down, seeing a newspaper. He walked over and picked it up.
He turned to Bonnie with a weird expression.
"What?" Bonnie asked while Mia stared at the newspaper curiously.
"Look." He ordered and Bonnie leaned forward.
"Rare solar eclipse expected to be seen across 12 states." Bonnie read.
"Huh, cool," Lia muttered under her breath.
Damon gave Bonnie an exasperated look.
"The date." He corrected, tapping a certain area of the newspaper.
Lia paused at those words.
Why would the date matter?
"May 10, 1994"
Oh no...
Time travel?
And why did that date seem familiar?
Bonnie gasped. "Is that-? Are we-? That's impossible." She stuttered.
Then all of a sudden the sky started to darken and Damon looked up to see the moon going in front of the sun.
"I don't think we should be asking where we are," Damon said, staring at the eclipse. "I think we should be asking when we are."
Well shit.
After the eclipse ended they headed up to Elena's house and the girls sat on the steps in front of the house, while Damon sat on the porch swing.
"I wonder if there's any booze in this empty retroville," Damon said, casually swinging.
Lia snorted in amusement.
Bonnie ignored Damon, looking around. "It feels so weird to be back here. I practically grew up on this porch."
"All right." Damon stopped swinging. "Talk me through it."
Bonnie turned towards Damon, while Lia got up and took a seat next to Damon on the swing.
"Before the other side collapsed my grams said that she made a sacrifice so I could find peace," Bonnie explained.
Lia raised her eyebrows.
Huh, someone had family that actually gave a shit about them...wonder what that was like.
"The part where you actually have a theory." Damon interrupted.
"Well, this clearly isn't peace. Otherwise, I wouldn't be stuck here with you." Bonnie countered.
"Rude," Damon muttered.
"Hey," Lia exclaimed, offended.
"I wasn't talking about you," Bonnie said to Lia. "Just Damon."
"Oh...that makes sense." Lia nodded in understand.
Damon frowned at Lia. "Hey! You're supposed to be on my side."
"Well, clearly she prefers me," Bonnie smirked.
"Nooo," Damon disagreed. "Lia, tell her how you like me better."
Both turned to her and stared at her expectantly.
"Uhh..." Lia looked between the two. "Why do I feel like a child having to choose between their mom and dad?"
That snapped them both out of whatever that was.
"Nevermind." Damon dismissed, turning back to Bonnie. "Continue."
"She must have, I don't know...sent me somewhere. And when I held you're guy's hands, I took you with me." Bonnie theorized.
"Well, did she happen to whisper a safe word in her last breaths? A clue maybe?" Damon asked, leaning forward onto his knees. "A witchy path out of here?"
"Can't you guys just be happy we're alive and not where ever, everyone else went?" Lia asked, raising her eyebrows.
"No" Damon replied annoyed. "Not if we're trapped wherever this is forever."
"Ok then," Lia muttered.
Bonnie stood up and looked at Damon. "No, she didn't but Lia's right, at least we're alive."
Lia grinned at Bonnie and Bonnie gave her a nod before turning back to Damon.
"Besides, if we got here by magic, magic should get us out," Bonnie said, but shortly after started frowning.
"And that frown that's not upside down is telling me what?" Damon asked.
Bonnie sighed and turned to look at an unlit candle.
"Phesmatos incendia." Bonnie chanted.
They all stared at the candle but nothing happened.
"Still can't do magic." Damon realized. Then he paused realizing there was another witch. "Lia, you try."
Bonnie looked at Lia in surprise, having forgotten that she was a witch as well.
Lia looked between the two of them. "Really?"
"Yes, really." Damon snapped. "Try."
"Whatever," Lia muttered, turning to the candle.
She stared at it and focused her magic, picturing what she wanted to happen.
"You gonna chant some witch-woo or what?" Damon asked and Bonnie shushed him.
The candle-lit.
"Oh..." Damon muttered.
"Now we have to find out how to get the hell out of here." Bonnie declared, smiling at Lia.
"And how do we do that?" Damon asked.
"We have to find the spell or door to this place," Bonnie explained.
"And I will repeat, how do we do that?" Damon inquired.
"I don't know, okay!" Bonnie shouted. "I don't know."
There was a long silence.
"We're screwed," Lia stated.
Damon face-palmed
Damon and Lia, we're now at the boarding house. And Damon was flipping pancakes, dancing along to the radio.
Lia was watching him amused from where she sat on the countertop. But she glanced towards the entrance hearing the door open and close.
It was Bonnie.
"I didn't know you cooked," Bonnie stated, entering the room.
"I don't" Damon responded. "How'd you sleep? Me, not good. My 1994 mattress was very lumpy. What'd you got there?"
"Oh," Bonnie exclaimed. "Miss cuddles. I lost her when I was 9. But I went into my house last night and there she was. I also found this at my grams' house. Her old grimoire."
Lia wondered when she should interrupt and tell them, she was leaving.
"Yeah, well, I found this," Damon replied, drinking his bottle of bourbon. "I drank it last year when Ric died."
Did everyone die in this town?
"So we're in this snapshot of another time or something." Bonnie wondered. "Everything that existed in 1994...still exists."
"For better or for worse," Damon said, holding up a CD and kissing it. He put it in the stereo but Bonnie prevented it from playing.
"Listen, there was a time when I couldn't practice magic. This grimoire taught me a lot. Maybe I can reteach myself." Bonnie said.
"Umm, why do we need you with magic, Little Miss Nova over there has some already," Damon questioned.
"True." Lia agreed.
"I know that, but two witches are better than one. Besides, while we look for the way out, I may as well try and get my magic back." Bonnie said.
"Also true." Lia piped up again.
"Whatever," Damon replied, rolling his eyes.
"Hey, guys? Is it a bad time to tell you I'm leaving?" Lia asked.
"What?" Bonnie exclaimed. "Why?"
"That's what I'd like to know," Damon said, narrowing his eyes at Lia.
"I going to go searching for a way out. As Bonnie said, this is like a snapshot of a time period so there must be thousands of grimoires around the world, right now. One of them has to have something." Lia explained.
"That makes sense, a better plan than useless over here, but how will we keep in contact with you?" Damon asked.
"These are my digits for a pager I stole from one of the stores I saw. Page me and I'll find a phone to call you." Lia said, handing Damon a slip of paper.
"Fine." Damon agreed.
"Be careful, Lia. We don't know what's out there." Bonnie said.
Lia nodded. "I will be. I promise."
Just as she said that the sky darkened outside and the three looked up at the skylight to see an eclipse.
"Bonnie, look at the date on the paper," Damon ordered.
Bonnie picked it up and gasped. "May 10, 1994."
"Same day as yesterday."
"Shit." Lia cursed.
"We're living the same day all over again." Bonnie realized.
"Well, that proves it. We're in hell." Damon declared.
"Uhhh, well nice seeing you guys. Peace out." Lia exclaimed and grabbed her backpack that she left on the ground and exited the boarding house.
