Bonnie was so sweet she brought me a change of clothes, she so nice. I'm secretly geeking though because I'm pretty sure she gave me the grey sweatpants she wore when she dreamed of Kai! I check myself out in the mirror, and boy am I a hot mess. My pixie cut or at least what I call a pixie cut, is all matted to one side. It's really more a fuckboy haircut considering I practically shaved all sides of my head besides the top in my attempt to go natural. I realize I look like a man and despite my love for an androgynous look I was going to a house full of sexy men so now was not the time to look like a black Justin Bieber. I put the earrings I had on before and tease my hair to the front of my face, so I look more like a disgruntled rockstar. I check my booty out in the mirror and realize I definitely don't fill them out as good as Bonnie does, but it don't matter because Kai cuddled to these pants! But then I see all the scars on my back from what had to be the glass and that is not cute. I step out the bathroom, asking if anyone has a jacket I could borrow.
"Sure you can use mine." Answers Caroline handing me her jean jacket, with an eager smile.
"Caroline!" I scream as hug her, I'm so sorry her mommy had to die just so something could happen in the storyline. Her hair smells like strawberries.
"Girl, your hair smells and looks amazing." I say as I stop hugging her she's the only girl on this show whose hair is usually on fleek other than that terrible dread thing they did when she turned off the switch.
"Thank you, I'm glad somebody notices." She smiles as she tosses her hair back and side eyes her friends.
"I know you got them highlights." I also know she got extensions but that's a secret between her and I.
"I did!" She squeals, like the little ray of sunshine she is.
"I was thinking after this we should all go shopping?" I say as I look down to what I can only describe as hobo chic. And when I say all I mean all because if I see one more terribly patterned dress used as a shirt on Bonnie, I'm going to burn her whole wardrobe to the ground.
"I like her!" Caroline tells Bonnie and Matt who can only roll their eyes.
"Did you compel the nurse yet to release her?" Bonnie asks getting back to business as usual.
"Yes I did. I also compelled them to validate my parking. Also you have a bruised rib cage so it'd be better if you take things slow." Caroline turns to tell me as we head out.
"Good to know why my insides hurt." I answer, the second I get to the boardinghouse I'm going to convince one of these vamps to give me their blood so that I don't have to suffer through this.
When we finally get there I realize just how big and beautiful the boardinghouse is. I wish I could live there, I wish I could die there. Actually scratch that knowing this show I probably will and you know your girl trying to live.
I mentally prepare myself when Caroline knocks on the door, don't freak out, don't freak out. But when Stefan freaking Salvatore opens the door, I could not help myself. My jaw drops he was even hotter in person. Thankfully Caroline closed my jaw for me.
"I know, I had the same reaction when I first saw him." Caroline whispers as Bonnie giggles.
"And who might we have here?" Stefan asks already brooding trying to figure who the hell I was and why I would be here of all places.
"That's what we're trying to figure out." Bonnie replies as she walks in like she owns the place probably looking for Damon. We all shuffle inside and Stefan looks at me with wonder, why is everyone here even more gorgeous in person? Also how does he get his hair like that? I want him to leak the hair tutorial asap. But then I see the rest of the house and I am so glad to learn that it's not nearly as dark as they make it on tv. Sure it was angsty but there was still some form of light in the room. I spot the fireplace and start to geek that's the brooding fireplace. I'd a ran to it if my body wasn't slowly trying to kill me.
"Well let me introduce myself, I'm Stefan Salvatore." Stefan says cordially as he shakes my hand and all of sudden I've gone mute.
"And you are?" In love.
"Her name is Catia." Matt answers for me, seeing I clearly have forgotten how to speak.
"Tatia?" I hear a mouth mumble and spot two heads on the couch.
"No, Caaa-tee-yah." Well you look at that I found my voice again, I hate when people mispronounce my name.
"Well that's a lovely name, Ca-tee-yah." Stefan replies and my voice is gone again, why does my name sound like caramel on my tongue when he says it?
"Well Caa-tee-yah, what the hell do you want?" Damon asks as he gets up from his couch and I can tell he's belligerently drunk, probably trying to mourn the loss of Elena so my second guess is that Alaric's the other guy on the couch.
"Clearly you're not as welcoming as your brother." I've been here all of two seconds and he was already irking the hell out of me.
"Clearly you're new here."
"This is my ass of a brother, Damon." Stefan sighs and Damon pretends to be hurt.
"Trust me, I'm aware."
"I see my reputation precedes me." He saunters over to me and I can't help but roll my eyes. He puts his hand out and I don't trust him for a minute as I eye his daylight ring. I give him a fake smile and decide to give him my hand. Instead of shaking it he kisses it.
"Only good things I hope." He adds with his trademark smirk and I can't help but audibly gag, causing him to pull away, confused that his charms didn't work.
"No, more like you going on murderous rampages, whenever you get the slightest of manpain." I say with my usual snark, and Stefan couldn't help the snort that escaped him. Damon slams me into the nearest wall and if I wasn't in complete pain, some part of me would probably think this is pretty hot.
"You know I haven't murdered anyone in awhile." He sneers as he stares into my eyes and I can't help but notice that his eyes are so blue they could be considered transparent. He thought he'd scare me by pulling this, but trust me I got a sneer of my own.
"Damon!" Everyone yells in exasperation, I'm sure they're sick of his crap too.
"Such a pretty face but such a nasty mouth. Have you ever wondered if you're bipolar?" Now this is an honest question.
"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not have a throat?" I mean I know I should be scared, I mean my feet are dangling in mid-air, my health was certainly questionable and he was uncomfortably close but his eyes are so damn blue. But his breath on the other hand was stanky from all that bourbon.
"Damon put her down." Bonnie says strictly, and you could tell he's itching to deny her command but can't.
"Listen to your wife." I squint at him with a smile. Lol wife, I'm to damn funny. And now he's strangling me, sometimes I really need to keep my mouth shut.
"I'm gonna kill you." But he can't hide his confusion when I begin to laugh.
"You and I both know, that you can't do anything without your daylight ring." I smirk as I pull the curtain beside me to let the sunlight hit him. Immediately he lets go of me, as his pale skin starts to sear and he quickly runs to the safety of the shadows. I dangle the daylight ring I sntched earlier and try it on for a size, it fits like a glove considering my man hands. I admire it in the light with a smile, this ring is mad cute.
"Now I say we make a deal, you never lay your hands on me again and I'll give you your little ring back."
"Not a chance in hell.." His eyes scan me over. "Little boy." My face contorts as I fight back imaginary tears, and he so proud of himself. That is until I dazzle him with my smile.
"Like I've never heard that before. It just proves I'd be hot both ways. Now back to this deal." I say as I open the window and sit on the sill enjoying the sunlight. If Damon thinks he's gonna fuck me over he better think again.
"Give me one reason, why I should let you live?" Damon asks still recovering from his burns. Good fucking question is all I can think, but I don't let him read me.
"Other than I'm currently contemplating throwing your ring through this window? You're also on this whole path to redemption, right? I don't think Elena would be to proud if you killed an innocent little girl." I say with a bat of my lashes, I was having way too much fun right now watching his nostrils flare in anger. But he knew I was right, and I knew the answer was yes the second he looked at Bonnie. Her only response being a raise of her brows, oh god they are so married.
"Deal." He mutters as low as he possibly can but I hear it anyways.
"Good boy." I smile as I kneel on the floor and place the ring right there in the middle of the sun, and walk away back to the group as he grunts still not being able to get his ring back until the sun sets.
"Round of applause, anyone?" Stefan asks, I love his sass, as he begins to applaud and everyone else follows even a very drunk Alaric, and I can't help letting it go to my head.
"Funny but is anyone going to get my ring for me?" Damon asks still staring at his ring.
"I like you." Caroline laughs as she leads me to the kitchen.
"Bon?" Damon begs. She gives him a look and snaps back to me.
"I like you too. You remind me of me." Bonnie smiles and I am so flattered and I will totally consider this as her calling me family.
"Brother?" Damon pleads to Stefan and Stefan just laughs.
"Catia, let me give you a tour of the place." A tour from Stefan I'll take that any day.
"Buddy?" Damon looks at his last remaining friend.
"I'm gonna have to pass because this is pretty damn funny." Ric smiles for the first time in what looks like days and heads his way into the kitchen along with us.
After the grand tour in which I freaked out in each room I entered, came the interrogation. In which I said basically the same thing as the hospital, Stefan poked and prodded me with more questions. But like how am I suppose to know the answer if I have "amnesia".
"So you just expect us to believe that you know everything about us but nothing about yourself?" Damon asks his voice layered with skepticism but still he kept distance.
"Considering that's what I said, yeah." I sass him, I know he ain't calling me a liar even if I am technically lying.
"Are you a witch?" Alaric questions me.
"I don't know, but if I were that'd be pretty damn cool." I could just imagine giving Damon an aneurysm.
"Are you part of the Gemini Coven?"
"Oh my gawd! A-M-N-E-S-I-A, amnesia do you know what that means? It means I don't know diddly squat!" I yell as I clutch my ribcage, my screaming was really taking a toll on me.
"Are you ok?" Stefan asks always the considerate one.
"Yeah it's just that my ribs are bruised." I tell him as I crouch in pain but regain my composure.
"I got an idea, I'll just enter her mind and see what I can find?" WHAT! That is a terrible idea, maybe if I feign being sick I'll get out of it.
"I don't think that's a good idea you'll probably find nothing especially in the condition I'm in." I smile weakly and Stefan exits the room.
"It won't hurt at all, I promise." She smiles and who am I to deny her I'll look even more sketchy.
"Ok." I whisper as she places her hands on my head hoping that for once my brain stays shut. I focus on, only thoughts of TVD and all the stupid shit they have done. I remember Bonnie being stuck for months on the other side which was complete bullshit. I remember Ms. Cuddles, oh fuck Ms. Cuddles is the reason I'm here right now. Nope divert attention, I remember Elena being alive and Tyler never getting a decent storyline. Before I know it her hands are no longer on my head and I look up at her hoping she found nothing.
"That's strange." Was all she got out.
"What's strange?" I ask and I'm sure I look guilty as all hell.
"What did you find?" Stefan wonders as he re-enters the room with a cup.
"Here have this it'll make you feel better." Stefan states as he hands me the cup and I draw my focus back to Bonnie.
"Thank you." I tell him as I start slurping from the straw wondering what the hell Bonnie is gonna tell these people.
"I literally only found memories of us and memories of loud incoherent Spanish in the background." She says looking at me as she sits back down. The relief that just got lifted off my chest was amazing, I felt like I could run a mile. I smiled long enough to realize that whatever I was drinking was nasty.
"I told you I was Dominican." She was probably hearing my family constantly yelling.
"Oh you're Dominican? Catia?" Stefan asks pronouncing my name in a perfect Spanish accent and at the moment I am so glad I'm black because I was blushing out of my mind. Stefan was putting the moves on me, I can't resist a white boy with a jaw like that, that can pronounce my name perfectly.
"Yes, how did you know?" I ask intrigued.
"Damon and I have visited a couple of times and I'm fluent in Spanish. Although the Spanish down there is a little different." He chuckles and I laugh.
"You can say that again." Dominican Spanish is all types of fucked up.
"Now that we're all acquainted and we still know absolutely nothing about you. When are you leaving?" Damon states as he glares at his ring still in the sunlight.
"Rude." I answer as I get up sipping on whatever was in this cup, ready to leave despite having nowhere to go.
"It's ok, you can go back to Whitmore with us and we can have a sleepover." Caroline offers with excitement.
"Yeah I'll drive you there." Bonnie says as she glares at Damon.
"I should be heading out, as well." Matt adds as he says his goodbyes and I thank him for all his help, and of course he brushes it off. I'm so glad chivalry still lives on in Matt Donovan.
I stretch before I say my goodbye to Stefan when I realize my ribs don't hurt anymore.
"Stefan what's in this cup?" I ask with suspicion.
"Something that'll have you feeling better in no time." He answers with a sneaky smile.
"Mmmhhmm."
"What you don't believe me?" He acts hurt.
"No I believe you." I smile I'm pretty sure he just fed me his blood.
"Adios, Catia." There he goes with his perfect pronunciation.
"Gracias, Estefan." I smile as I walk out the house and head to Bonnie's car. She already has her seatbelt waiting for me to get in. I hurry as to the car and click my seatbelt on. When she decides to turn up the radio and Bitch Better Have My Money starts playing which is my motherfucking jam! I was about to start singing along too, until I realize she's just eyeballing me.
"You're not from around here, are you?" She whispers.
"No I'm from Rh-"
"No I mean you're not from this universe." Oh fuck she saw more than I thought she did.