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 of 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.
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Chapter 6: Riley's Seer Heritage and Stefan's short football career
Riley was surprised as she entered Sheila's kitchen after the fiasco with Vicki at the Comet viewing. On the kitchen table were a small cake and a present with her name on it. Sheila chose that time to make her way into the kitchen as smiled when she saw Riley's shocked look.
"What you didn't think I would allow you to go through an unknown and untested magical heritage without at least celebrating your birthday now did you," Shelia commented.
Riley smiled at the old witch and stepped around the table to hug her.
"Thank you, Shelia. You have no idea what this means to me."
Sheila hugged the young teen back before shooing her back to the table to open her present and eat some cake before it was time to prepare. The cake was chocolate marble which of course was Riley's favorite. Her present was a necklace that had an S and J intertwined. Sheila explained the necklace as she helped Riley put it on even though Riley had a good idea of what the letter represented.
"The letters represent your biological family. The S is for Saltzman and the J is for Jones. The necklace itself is spelled, by me, of course, for protection. It pulls magic from nature around it and it detects lies. So basically if someone lies to your face the pendant will heat up slightly."
"Thank you, Sheila, it is perfect."
Finally, it turned 11 and they began to prepare for what might happen. Sheila drew a pentagram of protection on the floor of the living room and would have Riley lay down in it when it closer to 12. She also placed magical items around the pentagram for calmness, stillness, and serenity as extra precautions to keep Riley calm. It was time. Riley laid down inside the pentagram and at exactly 12 her world went dark once again.
If you haven't watched the vampire diaries or the originals note that there will be spoilers in this next part but I will try to word it so it doesn't spoil too much of the show.
When she opened her eyes she was in Elena's room watching her write in her journal. That was weird Riley could swear she was just at Sheila's house waiting for her seer heritage to be unlocked or at least she thought that was correct, her mind was a bit foggy right now. Elena then stood up and without even looking at Riley, walked straight through her. Holy shit was the only thing that was going through Riley's mind. The next thing was, Am I a ghost. Riley didn't know but before she knew what was happening she was being pulled by an invisible force to follow Elena. Great just great.
They walked into the kitchen where Aunt Jenna was freaking out about breakfast and their first day of school. But that was wrong, they had already had their first day of school. The rest of the day was like deja-vu for Riley as she was dragged behind Elena as her sister went through a day that Riley had already gone through. It wasn't until lunchtime that Riley noticed something that chilled her to her bones, she wasn't there. Whatever reality or parallel dimension or whatever she was witnessing Riley Gilbert didn't exist in it.
Over the next few weeks, Riley somehow became used to her new and hopefully temporary life. She just pretended that it was a new Virtual Reality seminar or something, that way she wouldn't go crazy. It became crystal clear real fast that whatever version of her sister this Elena is, she is the same BHB just without a sister to focus all her rage against. Riley concluded that any version of Elena would always be a spoiled brat and there was nothing she could do about it. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months and months turned into years. She grew tired of watching everything play out and having no say in anything but there was still nothing she could do however she did learn some things.
Her uncle John not only hated vampires but all supernatural creatures in this version of reality so did that mean that he was just hiding his true self from her in her reality or did he actually care about her. Next was that Alaric was a good guy but got dealt a crappy hand in life and if her reality had an Alaric she wanted to change that. The Originals also came off as the villains but in reality, they were just a family just trying to survive like everyone else. Not to mention that Elijah was really cute after he cut and styled his hair. Klaus and Kol weren't too bad either. Rebeka was actually cool once you go to know her but Finn, Ester, and Mikael could all just die and stay dead for all she cared. Damon was also a good guy underneath everything and he was smokin as well. Stefan was just a sore loser and a drug addict in denial. Bonnie was a complete badass but she got used too many times by her so-called friends that it hurt to watch. Jeremy took the family legacy to a whole new level with his hunters' mark and need to kill vampires. Liz turned out to be pretty cool but it sucked that she died. Tyler turned out to be a decent guy under everything but poor Mason. In the end, it seemed like everyone who lived got their happy endings but the thing is so much of that heartbreak was so easy to avoid. In fact, most of it could be avoided.
Maybe that was her purpose here, see what could happen in a reality that she wasn't in thus giving her a chance to change it when she got back to her reality. When Riley watched Elena get reunited with their family after her death Riley felt herself slipping away. She crossed her fingers and hoped that she would wake back up in her reality. Ya, not a chance. The next time she opened her eyes, she was in a car with none other than Klaus Mikaelson and they had just passed the Welcome to New Orleans sign. Great just great.
So Klaus can procreate after getting his werewolf side unlocked, that is just perfect(note the sarcasm). Klaus is still Klaus, daggers included, and he does try to do the right thing but he went about it all wrong. Marcel is a pretty cool guy and if Klaus could get off his power trip he might be able to see that Marcel would help him protect the baby which is technically Marcel's little sister. Esther really is the wicked witch of the west and just wouldn't stay dead. Dahlia is a piece of work but hey she is related to Esther. Why is it that almost everyone who dies somehow comes back to life I mean come on would somebody just die and please stay dead for once. When they say the Mikaelson's would do anything and everything for family they weren't joking.
At least this time I only had to follow Klaus around about 16 years until he died. In the end, Klaus did turn things around and become the father for Hope that he never had in Mikael or that he let himself have with Azeal. Just as Elijah and Klaus disappeared Riley felt herself slipping away again and again she crossed her fingers hoping to wake up in her own body in her reality.
When Riley opened her eyes next she was indeed in her own body in her reality but before she could do or say anything her head exploded in pain. If felt like somebody or something was tearing her brain apart. She was so consumed with the pain that she didn't even realize when she started screaming. Luckily Sheila's house was spelled for sound so none of Riley's blood-curdling screams reached the neighbors. The pain seemed to last for hours not the 15 minutes it did, not that Riley would know how long it lasted for she had passed out from the pain 30 seconds in. She also didn't know that when the pain started a tornado of light started to swirl around her and in that light animal forms appeared. A German Shepherd, an eagle, a cat, a horse, and a lemur. The German Shepherd had the name Ace under it, the eagle had the name Ares under it, the cat had the name Salem under it but the last two had question marks under them. Shelia guessed that these were her animal forms and the unlocking of her seer heritage boosted her powers enough so that she now had two additional forms.
15 minutes after the light tornado started it slowed down and was slowly absorbed into Riley who had blood coming from her nose. When she finally sensed that it was safe, Sheila quickly made her way over to Riley to access the damage. It seemed that whatever had just happened somehow rewrote how parts of Riley's brain worked. She wasn't for sure but if she had to guess, Riley would now be able to sense supernatural creatures that were nearby and would probably be able to tell what kind of creature they were as well. She would also just know things without knowing how she knew them like having a gut feeling about something, but overall Sheila didn't believe that she would be able to see the future.
After Riley passed out from the pain she awoke in her mind just outside of her mansion. She could feel that her mind was changing somehow but she also knew without knowing how she knew that her mind-scape was safe. She tried to wake herself up but the second she tried she felt the pain she felt earlier and stopped trying. She would wait until the pain stopped. She decided to take a walk around her estate to try and clear her head some before she would start to sort through all the had witnessed and learned while following her alternate sister and alternate Klaus around. As she walked she saw her animal forms running around playing but the two unknown forms stopped her in her tracks. She only allowed physical representations of her animal forms to roam in the walls of her estate so how did a horse and a lemur get in here.
She walked over to the two unknown animals and placed her hands upon them. Weird she got the same feeling she did from her animal forms, did this mean that due to her heritage being unlocked she now had two new animal forms. That must be it and the horse neighing and nodding his head just made her laugh.
"Well if you are two new forms I guess I need to name you and introduce you to my other forms as well."
Riley turned to the horse and observed her. The horse was a full adult female black Arabian horse.
"I think I am going to name you Shadow."
Riley then turned to the Lemur and promptly named her Stripes.
After that, she decided to stop putting it off she headed into the library to start sorting. Her library was a mess, all of her books and DVDs were strone all across the floor, some were even torn and broken. Well, she took a long breath before rolling up her sleeves and got to work. She started by stacking all the books on the tables and used her magic to send all the DVDs to the second floor, she didn't' even know how the DVDs made it down to the first floor, to begin with. Then as she was placing the books back on the shelf she found some she never remembered reading but knew that her alternate sister had and some she knew could have only been read by Klaus because of how old they were. So that meant that she had gained the knowledge of the Alternate people that she had watched. Unfortunately to gain the knowledge she would have to read the books before being able to put them on the shelves so those books went into their own pile. Well more like a mountain when she got done, turns out Klaus likes to read, who knew. She did make a separate pile for spellbooks. The DVDs were done next and she amassed a mountain there as well.
Riley was so glad that time passed differently in her mind or it would take her a lifetime to read and watch everything. After getting done sorting through everything she grabbed a pile of books and began to read and what better place to start than all the grimoires that Klaus had read. After she finished every book she would then add it to her grimoire and then find a place on the shelf where the book would fit best. She created a secret room behind one of the bookcases to put everything about magic. Going back to her grimoire you would think that she wouldn't need her library after adding all the books to the one book but she technically wasn't adding the books just linking them. The only book that was truly combined was her journal which had been absorbed by her grimoire so there was only one copy of it. The rest just flashed and appeared in the table of contents. However with how many books she had linked to it the table of contents was as big as a book on it ms own. She learned through trial and error that if she took notes in her grimoire while reading a book the notes would also appear in the real book. This is why she still needed her library and also she occasionally just like to pick a random book off the shelf and relax in front of the fire. When she woke up she would offer Shelia to copy grimoire for grimoire, meaning that if Shelia lets her copy a grimoire she has then Riley will reproduce and write out a grimoire of the same value to keep. Now she wasn't going to hoard all this knowledge and if Shelia asks then Riley will bring her into her mind and let look through them but it would take too long to reproduce every single grimoire she now had access to.
Finally, the books were done and now she has to sit through tons and tons of movies and TV shows. Although she loved not having to wait for the rest of the Avenger movies to come out and she just got to binge-watch them all. Bad news for everyone else the major movie download included stuff from the future alternate reality. She finally got done with the books and movies so she headed to the third floor to see what condition her memories were in.
Chaos utter chaos. If you combine the damage of both the movie section and the book section you wouldn't even get half the damage that her memory floor took. Every single memory book was torn to shreds, the bookcases laid broken or tipped over and the furniture was in complete ruin the only thing that wasn't in ruin was her previous life memories. This would take forever to clean up.
She started by magically pushing all the books, furniture, and bookcases into their own separate piles. The bookcases and furniture were the easiest to take care of and put back where they belonged and next was her destroyed memories. Just like when she first began she started with the earliest to the latest and since the books were beyond repair she had to banish them and relieve the memory all over again she didn't link her memories with her grimoire. When that was done now all she had to do was the alternate memories but like her past life and power memories, she couldn't just let them be out in the open.
Instead of putting those memories in the library Riley traveled to her magical core and built a secret underground room under her power core to store those memories. The room didn't have anything that was very inviting in it because she planned to seal the room and never open it again. She did keep her grimoire with her as she went through these memories and took cliff notes on what she thought was important like their possible future enemies, those enemies' weakness, and that kind of thing. She didn't pay attention to who got with who because there was no guarantee that those relationships would happen here and she didn't want to play matchmaker. She also re-watched a few memories a couple of times to write down some spells she witnessed but didn't have in any of the grimoires. Finally, after literally 80 years in her mind which was around 26 hours in real-time, she finally was able to wake herself up knowing her mind was alright. You know if Riley counted the years that she spent inside her mind she would be well over 200 by now. She was also extremely lucky that unlike in the waking world she didn't need sleep or anything else and her mind was able to stay on task otherwise she would have never had the patience to do all that.
When she finally woke up it was dark outside and Sheila was asleep on the chair by the couch. The living room had been cleaned and put back right and there was no evidence of what went on last night. Without waking Sheila she got up and took care of her needs. For instance, she hadn't washed or used the restroom for over 24 hours and she was bursting at the seams. When she came out of the bathroom she looked in on Sheila and used her trusty power to gently move her onto the couch so she could sleep better. Riley made her way into the kitchen she smiled when she saw the note that was left on the table.
Riley since I don't need to see the future to know that you would be too stubborn to wake me up if I fall asleep I made you breakfast it is in the fridge under a stasis spell so it is still good and warm. And make sure you at least wake me up at 5 so we have time to see what changes were made before we have to start our days. Oh and by the way I called Bonnie and told her to tell Elena that you and she stayed over here last night and you caught the 24-hour stomach bug I had and since you didn't want to get anyone else sick you just stayed here until it passed. She is expecting an explanation by us after school by the way and before you even think about it I am telling you all this in the note because I know we will be to busy after I wake up for me to remember to tell you. Now go eat and don't try anything besides those cool new animal forms until after I am awake. Better safe than sorry.
Sheila was officially awesome in Riley's book and she became even more awesome when Riley opened the icebox and saw that Sheila hadn't just cooked her breakfast but she cooked her a feast. There was a plate of waffles, pancakes, an entire plate of sausage and bacon, scrambled eggs, and toast. Riley ate all of it and even fixed herself a small fruit salad and an extra big glass of milk. She had really gone through her energy in the last 26 hours. When she was finally full and didn't feel like she wanted to eat a whole cow she went into the back yard. She checked her senses and found no one in the immediate vicinity awake and she could vaguely feel both of the Salvatores at the boarding house just outside of town so she was good to practice. Luckily her senses are the one power she can access while in animal form but hey maybe her seer heritage awaking changed that. It would be so cool if she could use all of her powers in all of her forms.
Next, she started to go through her animal forms and see if anything had changed with them. Ace was first, then Ares, and then Salem. She jumped with joy when her hope of using her powers in animal form came true. If anyone was awake to see her they think they were going crazy seeing her shifting from Ace, to Ares, and to Salem while jumping around the backyard with glee. When she was done and had her emotions under control she started in on her new forms.
Going from smallest to biggest she went ahead and brought up a picture of the lemur she saw in her mind and then pushed her power forward just like with the other transformations. There was resistance at first but in the end, she felt herself shift. Opening her eyes and allowing all of the natural instincts that came with her new form to run into her mind was surreal. It was the same for the first time in any of her forms because her mind was flooded with new senses, new instincts, and new feelings all at once. It would take about half an hour until her mind could properly sort and place everything where it wouldn't confuse her, so for that half-hour, she explored the backyard while exploring her new body. Climbing was definitely easier in this body but she almost fell on her head when she tried to hang upside down with her tail. She could jump pretty far and she loved how sharp her claws were, they were even sharper than Salem's but not sharper than Ares. Finally, the half-hour passed and she moved on to her horse form Shadow.
Again her mind was flooded and it took a moment to adjust to her long legs, even falling once or twice. Not that she would ever admit it. Man, she was tall in this form and since she was so big she couldn't do much in the backyard so against her better judgment she decided to jump the fence and go exploring. It took her a few tries before she got jumping in horse form down but she did make it over the fence. She however didn't take into account that she didn't have horseshoes on the bottom of her hooves so the pavement hurt like a b****. Because of that fact she didn't go far just enough to get used to how her body moved and she went back into the backyard, not 10 minutes after she left it. Since there were still five minutes to go until her half an hour was us she decided to lay down. That was an experience trying to lay down as a horse was weird, first she had to bend her front legs so she was basically kneeling on the ground and then she put her back legs down. Getting up was just as hard and to make sure it became natural she spent an extra seven minutes after her half-hour was up just practicing getting up and laying down.
She still had 45 minutes until Sheila wanted to be woken up so Riley sat down in the back yard after setting a timer on her phone and began to meditate. She didn't go into her mind-scape this time, she just opened up all of her senses and was one with nature. Riley didn't do this as often as she probably should but when she did she felt so connected to her surroundings. At least she now knew the reason for that is because of her magic. She would never get used to saying she had magic.
Her alarm went off and Riley was brought back to the land of the living. She made her way into the house and decided to have some fun. Shelia felt a soft tapping on her cheek that wouldn't go away, finally, she opened her eyes and almost screamed. Looking back at her were two small amber eyes surrounded by white. When she got her bearings, she realized that it was a lemur, meaning it was Riley. That theory was proved correct when the lemur fell to the ground and started rolling around and doing a funny lemur laugh.
"Well, I see that you have mastered your new forms missy."
Riley just changed back to human and continued laughing. Sheila ignored her and went to get ready for her day.
When Riley got herself composed she decided to repay Shelia's kindness by making her some breakfast. Riley couldn't cook as well as Sheila but she could make a decent English breakfast which is what she did. Sheila walked into the kitchen and smiled at her youngest student.
"You didn't have to do this sweetheart."
"I know but I wanted to pay you back for your kindness. I wasn't your responsibility but you took me under your wing and have been so kind to me."
"Well thank you Riley but you need to know that any decent witch would've done the same thing. As witches, we have gotta stick together you know."
After breakfast, Sheila led Riley down into the basement into a magic shielded room.
"I thought my daughter to harness her magic in this room and I am planning on teaching Bonnie here until she is far enough along in her lessons to not catch the house on fire. We can use it for now so no outside magical interference can happen while we discover the lengths of your seer abilities. It is not only shielded but specifically spelled to not let a new witch practice to the point of magical exhaustion which could lead to death."
"This room would have been a godsend when I was figuring out my abilities. I don't know if I told you or not but I put myself into a coma a couple of years ago because I used too much of my powers. After that day I used my sensing ability to keep an eye on my power levels constantly so it wouldn't happen again."
"I remember that. Now that I think about it all the signs did point to magical exhaustion, I can't believe I didn't put the pieces together sooner. Well can't change the past, let's get started."
For the next hour, they dipped into her new power and pushed it to its limits. Riley did have gut feelings about something without having to do anything. An example of that is when Shelia began to name off random people and Riley could tell if they were good news or bad news and she just knew that if she met them face to face that she would be able to tell if she could trust them. Puzzles and riddles were no problem because as soon as she heard or saw them she knew the answer. She could also tell if immediate danger was going to happen. Sheila had her close her eyes and dodge the balls she threw at her. When the ball got close a yellow flash would appear in its direction and a green glow would show her the best path to avoid it and she could even feel the colors if that made any sense. They figured out that yellow meant immediate non-damaging danger, red meant immediate fatal danger, orange meant immediate non-fatal but harming danger and green meant safe. Sheila may have sent a curse of two at Riley to gauge what would happen but she kept Riley safe while doing this.
An alarm went off meaning it was time for Riley to head to school and Sheila had to go to work. They went their separate ways but Riley only made it a block before Bonnie pulled up alongside her and motioned for her to get in.
"So why exactly am I covering for you with your sister and aunt and what does my grams have to do with this."
"Bonnie I know you don't like me and we don't see eye to eye on a lot of things but trust me when I say this you will want to hear this from her. It is nothing bad but she must be the one to explain things."
"Fine. I will wait till after school to get answers but just know I will still bug you for this."
They arrived at school and right before Riley could escape the doors locked. Riley could guttly feel that Bonnie wanted to ask something so she looked at the older girl and said. "Bonnie I know you want to ask something so just ask."
"Why do you think I don't like you?"
This stopped Riley for a second not knowing how to answer that.
"You always hang out with Elena and Elena hates my guts for just living. You never stand up for me so I just assumed that you felt the same way."
"You know what happens when you assume Riley. You make an ass out of u and me." She said while trying to hide her laughs at her own joke. "But seriously, I don't hate you and you always seemed to be a pretty cool kid. I just always side with Elena because she needed someone in her corner since you were so mean to her. I mean you even killed her cat."
"Wow hold up there Bonnie who told you that I killed her cat."
"Elena did. Why was she not supposed to tell me what you did?"
"I didn't do that Bonnie. She and Jeremy did that me."
"What?"
"I was ten and had gotten a kitten for my birthday. She got jealous and convinced Jeremy to help her hide my cat. They locked it in a trunk in the attic and it died. Also, I have never been mean to her she has always been mean to me, you can even ask Jeremy."
"But she said…"
"Let me guess she made everything about her and said how I stole our parent's attention and that I made her life a living hell. Right."
"Well, yeah."
"She lied Bonnie. Everything she told you she was doing that to me not me to her."
"Oh my goodness. Every time we shoved you into a locker for payback for something you did to her we were the ones being the bullies. OHhhhhhhhh now I feel terrible. How can you even stand to look at me right now heck how are you not punching my face right now."
"Because I know what kind of person you are compared to what kind of person she is. She is mean, selfish, and attention-grabbing. You on the other hand are kind, selfless, and put others before yourself. You are nothing like her, you were just trying to help your friend in the only way you thought you could."
Without warning, Bonnie pulled Riley into a hug.
"I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship whether Elena likes it or not." She said
They got out of the car and started walking towards the school.
"So did anything happen while I was sick at your grams house."
"Well, Stefan put Mr. Tanner in his place yesterday and got put on the football team. Elena, Stefan, and I had a weird dinner party last night so I could get to know Stefan which was going well until Caroline and Damon crashed it."
"So Caroline is now with Damon Salvatore."
"Ya it is so weird and he even got her to wear a scarf. She hasn't worn a scarf in like forever."
Just then the bell rang, signaling the start of their daily prison sentence. Bonnie went off to her class and Riley went off to hers deep in thought. She had forgotten about the Caroline and Damon relationship and knew that she couldn't let it continue for either of their sake. Caroline did become one kick-ass vampire and Damon was a vampire and had his own nature but what he was doing with Caroline was so not cool. She decided to take care of that tonight. Her classes were the same as always but of course, Mr. Tanner had to make sure her school work stayed on track. She was packing up her things about to leave the room when Mr. Tanner called for her to stay after and gave her the homework she missed from his class and said he was glad she was well again.
When she closed the door Mr. Tanner brought the CPS complaint forms from under some paperwork and signed his name before sticking them in his jackass file to keep any snoopers from seeing them. He would take them to the nearest CPS office tomorrow and hopefully get something changed in the Gilbert household because it has become clear to him that Jenna Sommers was not the right person to be raising these kids and helping them through their grief at losing their parents. He just hoped something changed before something terrible happened.
Since Riley had some extra time she decided to go have lunch at the Grill instead of school. It also had the added bonus of being a place she could put her thoughts in order. The rest of the school day was normal for her and she soon made it to Shelia's house where she was informed that today was a football game and Bonnie wouldn't be making it. Shelia then suggested that they focus more on her seer powers. They were working for the 3rd hour in a row and Riley thinks that she had a pretty decent handle on her new powers when she suddenly stopped.
"What is it, child?" Shelia asks when she sees a strange look on Riley's face.
"I don't know. I just have this very intense feeling that I need to do something and be somewhere else."
"Then that is what we are going to do."
"What?"
"We are going to use this as training and we are going to have you follow your feelings."
"How do I follow my feelings?"
"Close your eyes and let it guide you."
Riley did as she was told and closed her eyes. She submerged her mind in the feeling and saw a glimpse of Bonnie and the football stadium.
"Bonnie is going to need us at the football stadium."
They found Bonnie sitting on the ground looking at a pool of blood while a body was being rolled away by the corner. When Bonnie saw them she ran to her Grams and started crying and babbling about numbers and Mr. Tanner. It wasn't until later that night when she was calmed down enough were they able to get the whole story. Bonnie's magic was manifesting and predicting the death of Mr. Tanner freaked her out. Riley decided to head home and let Sheila handle this. Halfway home she realized that she still had the Damon and Caroline problem to fix.
After a short phone call to Caroline outing Damon as a vampire, Riley sat down on a bench in the local park to wait for Damon to show up. She knew that Damon would have some type of compulsion on Caroline to alert him to anyone finding out his secret so all she had to do was wait. She felt him before she saw him and just for a bit of fun she used her powers to drag his feet out from under him and drag him to the nearest cover of trees and hang him upside down in the air. What Shelia said to practice her powers, well she was practicing them alright. She slowly got up and walked to where Damon was hanging and laugh at his attempts to get himself down.
"Well well well if it isn't Damon Salvatore."
"Well well well if it isn't my next meal."
"Very funny Damon but before you eat me I think you might want to hear what I have to say."
"And why should I do that."
"First off Damon stop trying to sound all dark and dangerous. I am literally hanging you upside down and I have enough power to hold you there for as long as I need. And second I am offering you a chance to increase your brother's misery tenfold or maybe more." When she had thought of this plan she was only going to convince him to stop using Caroline as a blood bag or else but now standing in front of him she changed her mind. For someone who played the bad boy so well her power was letting her know that if she gained his trust he be one of the loyalist friends, she would ever have. Sheila was going to kill her for this.
"Alright, you have my attention Little Witch how about you put me down so we can properly talk."
Riley knew he was just trying to get himself down so he could attack but she was ready for that so she let him fall face-first into the dirt. Before she could blink he was charging at her vamped out and everything but oops Riley forgot to take down her shield. The laws of physics prevailed and all Damon did was break his nose and jaw by how hard he hit her shield.
"Owwwww. What the hell was that?"
"Please Damon do you honestly think I would just let you down and not have something like this place."
He got up after his face was done healing and looked at the young witch in front of him with more interest now.
"Now that I have your attention I think I should introduce myself. My name is Riley Gilbert."
"Gilbert as is Elena Gilbert."
"Yes Damon as in Elena Gilbert, unfortunately, that stuck up bench is my older sister."
"Bench?"
"I am trying to dial back how much I cuss."
"Ahh. So how come I have not heard of you."
"Because my bench of sister is a stuck up selfish bench who wouldn't dare let any attention leave her spoiled rotten little ash."
"Wow. I'm not feeling any sibling love going on between you two."
"Because there's not. Now can we please get to the reason I got you out here, unlike you I actually need my sleep."
"Fine. You said you could help me make Stefan miserable. How?"
"How about we go somewhere where we won't be overheard and I won't be seen doing things that a normal person can't do."
Before he could answer she pulled him towards her and jumped on his back before launching them into the air. They landed deep in the woods in her meadow, she went into her mind-scape and then allowed him to follow her there so her explanation would not take as long. The next five hours were spent on the shore of her lake with her telling Damon everything. She knew this could backfire on her but the best way to gain someone like Damon's trust was to just be as blunt and honest as possible. When she got to her seer she just gave the cliff notes of what she saw and told him she just didn't feel right showing those memories to anyone.
He was surprisingly understanding, he may pretend to be a bad person and have no emotions but that was because he didn't want to get hurt. He was still a world-class jackass and okay he was still a bad boy but he was a loyal and trustworthy jackass bad boy to people who he knew he count on and Riley had become just that. He did flip out a bit when she got to the part about Kathrine not being in the tomb and he might have destroyed about half of her forest but it was better than him going on a killing spree. When he calmed down he broke down crying and Riley held him, she didn't even let go when she felt his fangs pierce her neck. He didn't need blood inside her mind but she guessed it was a comfort and since she couldn't die in her own mind she allowed him to drink as much as he wanted. She finally finished with her story and they just sat there looking over the lake.
"So what exactly is you plan Shift." He started calling her that after she told him of her shifter animals.
"I honestly don't know right now. I am still learning about myself and my powers, heck I am still just a kid but I do know that I want to make a better future than the one I saw. I know that it came to a happy ending but so many people got hurt or died when they didn't have to and it all revolved around my sister. My stupid sister who couldn't make up her mind and kept putting everyone in danger because she always believed that she was always right. Sorry for yelling."
"Hey, no problem I know first hand how stupid siblings can be."
"I do know that one thing I am going to change concerns, Bonnie and Caroline."
"Controlling Blonde and Bennett Witch right?"
"Ya. Bonnie needs to learn without Elena dictating her life and Caroline was truly made to be a vampire."
"Well, then that is our first quest on this long and perilous journey milady." Damon said while giving an old fashion bow while still sitting down."
"Another thing is the tomb. Kathrine isn't in there but the 27 vampires need to be killed well not Pearl. Pearl can live but we will need to get Anna on our side first but all that can wait for now. I just want to go home and get some rest." Riley said standing up "You should too Damon, we have a long and exhausting day tomorrow."
"We?"
"Yes, Damon we. Sheila is explaining everything to Bonnie tonight and tomorrow I get to tell Shelia that I spilled all of my secrets to the homicidal vampire that is currently terrorizing our town. I am so dead. Oh, and we have to plan for our Master Plan to make Stefan and Elena's lives miserable."
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