"Ok," Jessa said, closing her eyes. "Let me try that again."
She was focusing on removing a Bonnie's cloaking spell from Jeremy. She knew he was somewhere in the Salvatore Boarding House, but that was all she knew. The first attempt was done when he was in the same room. She had to remove finding him and using touch. It took a little while, but she'd done it. This time, she was doing it by just reaching out with her mind and seeing if she could remove it with her mind. It was a long shot, but she wanted to see if she could do it. After all, less danger would be the best thing for everyone.
Jessa took a deep breath and silenced her thoughts. Everything felt cool and quiet and there was a slight buzz of something she couldn't quite put into words. Then she felt a rush. Pushing outward with her mind and smiling, she sent a small shock and heard Jeremy give a little shout. Bonnie gave a chuckle and she knew it worked.
"YES!" Bonnie yelled. "That was awesome!" The young witch said, as she and her boyfriend came bounding down the stairs.
"Sorry," Jessa said to Jeremy , wondering if she actually shocked him when she sent the uncovering spell to him.
He shook his head and kept his smile in place. "It didn't hurt, I just wasn't expecting it so soon. It took no time that second time."
Bonnie nodded, "Yeah, it's getting easier. Almost like the first try unlocks it and the second go is simpler even if it's more advanced." They sat down on the sofas in the library. "So, when Ric, Tyler and Damon get back, if they can find someone to attempt the more difficult reversal…"
The three got quiet. They all understood how difficult that assignment could be. Just finding a reversal subject would be paramount, not to mention attempting the actual reversal itself.
Suddenly, or so it seemed, Jeremy broke the ice.
"So you and Damon," he said, asking a question that everyone wanted to know the answer to, yet no one seemed to have asked Elena about.
Jessa could have laughed out loud at the eagerness on display that conflicted with the disgust. Both Bonnie and Jeremy wanted to know, but they were also horrified by it. Poor babes.
"Yes, Damon and I." She said, wanting to make them ask for it.
Bonnie sighed, understanding that Jessa wanted them to actually ask for specifics. "You knew each other as children?"
"I suppose you want our backstory?" Jessa asked, deciding to kill time.
Jeremy and Bonnie settled in, side by side on the couch, and Jessa tucked herself into the chair that Damon had sat with her on before. She started with the day that they met when she was four and he was twelve. Then she reminded them about what she'd read in her mother's diary or history, and how at fourteen years old she set out on her own with three servants to find her way in the world. That was due to the interference of Katherine Pierce and before the Hell on Earth she caused in Mystic Falls.
"I traveled a great deal. Hattie, she began as my servant, but became my friend, stayed with me until I realized she was beyond homesick. Ten years after we left America, I gave her leave. She and the two male servants, I gave them severance pay and they went their own way. Their lives were theirs to live as they saw fit, so back to America they went." Jessa smiled. "I kept searching. I knew about vampires by then. I even knew that Damon and Stefan were dead, or probably turned by then. It didn't matter to me. I needed to know what I was. And nothing seemed to fit. I wasn't a werewolf. I wasn't a vampire. Not a witch. So, I searched. I also started writing. It suited me. Traveling, writing, research."
Jessa sighed. It had seemed so easy and right at the time. Moving, writing, not really making connections.
"I came back once." She said, not realizing her voice grew quiet. "I felt like I had to see the house. And I wanted to see if the town had changed. For some unknown reason I told the founders' council."
"Damon and I," Jessa said, "I hadn't ever thought it possible." She shook herself. Almost like waking up. "When I left, all those years ago in 1864, I really thought that I had seen the last of him. Then when Liz called me to call in the favor of being a founding member, it all came rushing back. There are people that just are supposed to be in your life. And one way or another, they will be. That's Damon and me." She shrugged.
Bonnie looked at Jessa and smiled. "I think it's a little more than just 'suppose to be in your life'."
Jessa felt a blush start to creep up her neck, but was saved by the sound of people coming up the front drive. Or at least she could hear the sound of people driving up the front drive.
"We have company." She said, standing up.
"Who?" Jeremy asked, joining her.
Her eyes widened. "The guinea pig."