Reborn as a Gilbert

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT MY IDEAS AND EVERYTHING I WRITE IS FICTION

Summary: Riley Collins was a normal sixteen-year-old foster kid from Harlem. One night her curiosity got the better of her and it cost her her life, or that is what she thought. One moment she lays on the ground in the middle on Central Park where her life was being drained from her and then the next she is being reborn into a world where Vampires were real and her family has a legacy of vampire hunting. This is her journey.

Chapter 2: Through the years.

Riley 3rd Person POV

The first few months of young Riley's life was spent in routine. She would wake up, get fed by her mother, bathed by her father, take a nap, wake up only to be fed and changed before falling asleep again. It took about 2 months for her to stay awake any longer. Luckily for her family, she wasn't a big crier which meant nobody got robbed of their sleep. Finally, by the time she was three months old, she could stay awake and stay concentrated. By the time she was six months old she was beginning to talk and was standing up and walking with a walker which meant that she was ahead in her development as her father liked to put it. When her first birthday rolled around Riley had finally had a gameplan on what she was going to do with her life.

Find out more about her power and experiment with it.

Learn Martial Arts

Learn Mediation

Learn all she could about the supernatural world.

Do well in school but don't overdo it.

She had other things she wanted to accomplish but they fell into those main categories. See as much as Riley tried she couldn't get her power to do anything but she was able to feel it. Finally after many hours of thinking it over and going over every movie she had ever watched in her past life about people with powers Riley had finally determined that she was most likely just too young and her power wasn't strong enough to do anything. A Lot of the films had powers not showing up until pre-teen years. This meant that all she could do was prepare herself the best way possible which brought up the other things on her list.

Martial Arts would be a way to stay in shape and help protect her and her family. Mediation would help clear her mind and hopefully eventually help her with her power. Learning about the supernatural world is a must to help protect herself and her family. Schoolwork was another story. She could very easily skip a few grades when she started but that would bring unwanted attention to her and put more pressure on her.

At age 3 Riley had convinced her parents to sign her up for the little ninja's karate class. By the age of 8, she was already a black belt. Her parents then allowed her to take a judo class once a week in Richmond all the while still practicing Karate two times a week in mystic falls to keep her skills sharp.

When school began it became apparent that Riley was smart but she worked extremely hard to not show how smart she was. Although she enjoyed taking the top spot in her class every year she never let any else know that she was smarter than they thought. Also when school began she had a hard time making friends because let's face it Riley wasn't a normal child. In the end, she became a loner which was just fine with her but it worried her parents and teachers.

Over the years her parents stopped trying to make Riley make some friends and just accepted her for how she was. The other members of her family didn't though. Her uncle John loved her no matter what, her aunt Jenna disliked her because Riley liked John more than her, Elena hated Riley for lots of reasons that made sense to a child but made no sense to an adult, and Jeremy followed his big sisters lead. This was nothing new to Riley after spending her past life in the foster care system but her indifference changed to hate towards her siblings after her 10th birthday.

Long story short Riley got a kitten on her 10th birthday which made Elena jealous. Elena then turned around and got Jeremy to keep Riley occupied while Elena went to hide the kitten. This resulted in int the kitten's death because Elena locked it in a trunk in the attic and completely forgot bout it. Elena and Jeremy acted all sad in front of their parents but laughed in Riley's face when they were alone. That was the day that Riley's plans changed from protecting her family to protecting herself.

Now don't get me wrong Riley would always protect her mom, dad, uncle John and possibly her aunt Jenna but Elena and Jeremy were permanently off her protected list. You might say that it was a bit extreme over and animal but on top of all the bullying, pranks, and rumors that they spread around about Riley, Riley just had enough.

A few months after the kitten incident Riley had finally tapped into her powers while awake. See she had learned mediation through her martial art studies and had been practicing it for years and over the years she had been able to feel more and more of her powers and had even tapped into them to do small things while in a meditative state. She could sense and map out her surrounding area, make herself float a few inches off the ground, and make the light appear in her hand but the first time she was able to do any of that outside of a meditative state was in school one day.

The day started as every other day did, the three Gilbert children got up and went to school. Elena was in the eighth grade, Jeremy was in the sixth grade, while Riley was in the fifth grade. Now since Mystic Falls was a small school they only had two campuses. The first housed kindergarten - eighth grade while the other was the high school. Elena and Jeremy ganged up with their group of friends, Caroline, Bonnie, Tyler, Matt, and Vicki to teach Riley a lesson for being weird. They ended up shoving her into a locker without anyone seeing before running off to class. This was nothing new to Riley but she was still pissed off. While she was stewing in her anger she realized that she could feel her surroundings just like when she was meditating. Her anger was then forgotten while she explored this new development. It took about an hour but she finally had gotten a good grip on her power without mediating that she was able to unlock the locker.

After that day she began practicing using her power for other things. It was hard work because using her power was equivalent to a good workout session but as time went on she could use her power more and more. Riley theorized that whatever power she had was like a muscle and the more use the muscle got the more the muscle could do. In the beginning, she started with what she already knew she could do, sensing her surroundings, moving things, and making light in her hand.

When she mastered the basics again because using her power while awake was completely different from being in a meditative state, she began exploring more options. Like with her surroundings she began to expand the area she could sense and map out. Her telekinesis was a bit harder but she treated that power like a regular muscle which seemed to work pretty well. The more she worked that muscle the more the muscle could do. She gave herself a big pat on the back when she was able to lift her parent's car and hold in the air for half an hour while standing at her bedroom window. There was not much she could improve her light power except making it brighter or dimmer and changing the color. She eventually grew bored with only those three things to work on so she began to look at movies and comic books to get more ideas to see if her powers could do more.

By the time Elena had gotten their parents killed in the accident Riley's powers had grown majorly. Listed in the order of her learning her them.

Sensing and mapping out surroundings up to one mile and any living thing in that area.

Being able to follow a person's movements within one mile.

Telekinesis

Flying by using telekinesis on her body (limit to 12 hours of continuous flying but causing great hunger and tiredness. Note: Always carry protein and meal replacement shakes)

Her shield could stop a bullet (Only holds up for six bullets)

Can quickly make any wood object into a stake and shoot it in a vampire's heart.

Light Power ( Can have multiple balls of light in multiple colors and can use telekinesis on the balls.)

Fire

Light candles or other things on fire

Create fireballs to throw

Can cause a fire that does no damage

Can combine fire and light power and have a different color fire.

Shapeshifting

Change my appearance

Turn into animals

German Shepherd (great for tracking)

Black white and grey striped tabby cat (great for spying)

Eagle owl (makes flying easier)

Mindscape (protection and organization of the mind)

Perfect recall

Photographic Memory

After her parent's funeral Riley had told her Uncle John that she knew about the supernatural world and asked for his help in learning more about it so she could better protect herself. He agreed and it was decided that she would spend the summer with him so he could teach her the family business. While there John taught Riley everything he knew about the supernatural world which included: Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, The Originals, and everything he knew about Elena being a doppelganger and the sun and moon curse.

During a hunt, a vampire nearly got the drop on them but Riley saved them by using her powers in front of her uncle. Which led to her explaining an edited version of events. She said that through mediation she learned some things but she had always felt her power within her. Mediation just brought it to the surface. Fortunately, John took it all in stride and accepted Riley for who she was. It helped that she wanted to use her powers against Vampires. Like all good things though that summer came to an end which left Riley heading back to mystic falls to start her freshman year in high school.

I know this chapter was a bit fast-moving but I had to get through the years before the show starts. The next chapter will be the first episode and will mostly stay true to the storyline but will become AU when Uncle John comes to town.

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