CHAPTER 6: SOME NEWS HUH
Bonnie and Stefan were in the kitchen getting plates, cups and other dining utensils and heating the food they brought over while Caroline set up the DVD set in the living room. The meeting had ended an hour ago and Bonnie and Stefan decided to stay over and keep Caroline occupied, the food had been left untouched so it was decided that the girls would have a sleep over while Stefan hung out with them until Caroline's mom came home. It had been a hectic night and they knew that Caroline needed to relax, if not for her sanity then for her baby.
"Okay, I've got this thing up and running, what do you want to watch you guys?" Caroline said. As she sat kneeling in front of the DVD set looking at DVD's while she pondered out loud while waiting for her two friends to answer.
"What are you stuck on Care?" Bonnie asked. She knew Caroline had already picked a few movies but couldn't decide on which one to watch first.
"Well, I'm stuck on Clueless, Breakfast at Tiffany's or The Harry Potter Series." Caroline replied as she raised each DVD case so as to emphasize her choices.
"Ugh please, not the chick flicks, not the chick flicks!" Stefan said as he bemoaned at Caroline's choices, he expected it though but a little consideration for him wouldn't hurt them!
"Okay then, Harry Potter it is!" Caroline said as she crawled on her knees closer to the DVD player and put the first movie in. Caroline stood up and went into the kitchen to help her friends get the food back into the living room. Once they were settled on the couch, Bonnie and Stefan on either side of Caroline, she pushed the start button on the remote and the movie began to play.
A few hours later, one pizza box empty, a turkey sandwich that was obliterated by a pregnant Caroline and a fruit bowl that was half way done, was how Sheriff Liz Forbes found the trio sitting in front of the TV watching what it looked like the third installment of the Harry Potter series. So engrossed were they at what they were watching that they didn't hear her park and enter their home.
"Hi Guys, what's going on?" Liz said as she approached her daughter and gave her a kiss on the top of her head. "How'd it go today?" she asked.
"Hi mom, Ugh I don't even want to talk about it." Caroline said as she bit on her plastic spoon before releasing it from her mouth and scooping up a fruit and eating it. "Have you eaten dinner? We had pizza but we already ate it so we ordered another one which should be here in about 10 minutes." She said.
"It's fine Care, I'll get something to eat later, right now I'm just going to rest upstairs and get a shower." Liz said as she made her way to the stairs.
Once they heard Liz enter her room and close the door, the trio resumed watching the movie and then ten minutes later, the pizza arrived.
By the end of the third movie, the was pizza halfway eaten and Sheriff Forbes tucked safely in her bed after eating pizza with the girls and Stefan still sitting on the couch. It wasn't until Caroline stood up to change the DVD that Stefan looked at his wristwatch and noticed the time.
"Ugh, guys I better go, it's already late and you Care, have to rest." Stefan said as he stood up to leave.
"What? No! Stay Stefan! It's not all the time we get to do this! Plus mom already told you that you can crash here for the night!" Caroline whined as she finished putting in the fourth installment of the Harry Potter Series in the DVD player.
"Yeah Stef! Stay!" Bonnie chimed in, not getting up from the couch.
"I would love to but Damon and Enzo are currently alone at the house and you know how those two get." He said, as much as he wanted to stay, he couldn't stand to watch another Harry Potter movie and he knew that it was better if Care spent some girl on girl time.
"Care, I have to go, I need to speak with the two of them before they get so smashed and I find something I don't even want to see. I know you're going through a lot right now and I will always be here for you but we also need to acknowledge some of the facts that there are also somethings we need to fix, like the travelers invading Mystic Falls and the veil crumbling." Stefan said as he placed both his hands on Caroline's shoulder as if it would make her understand what he was saying.
"Fine. You can go but you owe me lunch tomorrow." Caroline said as she hugged Stefan and let go.
"Take care Stef, let us know if you find something." Bonnie said as she stood up to give Stefan a hug too.
"Alright. Have fun and have a good night." He said as he left the two girls and went home.
After Stefan left, the girls went back to their movie while chatting about random girl things.
"I really like this." Caroline said as she scooped up some peanut butter ice cream, " girls night. We haven't done this properly since before we found out about all of this supernatural stuff." She explained, "ugh, baby does not like peanut butter" she suddenly added as she picked up a tissue and spit the peanut butter ice cream on to it.
"Well, I'm loving this baby already! Auntie Bonnie loves peanut butter ice cream and since you can't have it, its all mine!" Bonnie said as she took the tub of peanut butter ice cream and scooped some onto her mouth. "And you're right. I missed this too."
Caroline stood up and went to the kitchen to grab the chocolate ice cream from the freezer and plopped back down the couch beside Bonnie, " I just wish Elena would call us. I can't believe she hasn't even made an effort to return our efforts to contact her. It's like she's purposely avoiding us." Caroline said as she began to eat her new ice cream to which the baby seemed to approve of as she did not feel the need to gag when she ate it.
The girls became silent as they continued to watch Harry battle with the Hungarian horntail.
"I wish you had a wand Bonnie. Can you imagine if you could do the things the witches in Harry Potter does? Haha" Caroline said.
"Okay, I'm going to tell you something my Grams told me a long time ago, you have to promise not to laugh!" Bonnie said as she faced Caroline.
"Okay, you're not going to tell me you secretly went to Hogwarts, right? Cause I would be so jealous of you right now if you say so!" Caroline said.
"Of course not! Hogwarts is only for witches and wizards in the U.K. remember?" Bonnie said, "Anyway Grams told me that this whole series is real. Like for real, real." Bonnie said.
"Now you're just pulling my leg! You're telling me, our favorite movie series of all time is real?" Caroline said, "right. Next you're going to tell me that J.K. Rowling either a witch or a squib."
"Not exactly, she was supposed to write a children's version of Harry's biography but the people at the ministry thought it was too revealing and too dark for children so they rejected it. She was already done with the story so she decided to take it to our world and have it printed but she changed the names of everyone so that she wouldn't break their so-called statute of secrecy. But after the whole series became so popular, the ministry got mad at her for releasing the book without permission so they exiled her and took away her magic." Bonnie said.
"That's awful! I mean awesome for us cause it's a really great series but awful for her cause she lost her magic!" Caroline said, her emotions showing across her face, she managed to pull herself together and said, "assuming that what you're saying is real."
"Care, its true! After the series became so popular, it became harder for them to hide cause non magic people kept visiting or attempting to go to the places where the book said could gain them entrance to their world so they amended the statute of secrecy to prevent anymore of their world from becoming known by outsiders. They're kind of witches and wizards are practically a super secret society now." Bonnie said, "And J.K. doesn't mind losing her magic, she is after all a 'muggleborn' so she didn't need magic that much, at least that's what she told grams a long time ago." Bonnie added.
"Wait, Grams met her? She actually met J.K. Rowling? That's awesome!" Caroline said.
"Yep, they met when grams went to the UK before. I wasn't even born then and mom had just graduated college so it was a really long time ago." Bonnie said as she continued to eat her ice cream.
The two focused on the movie once again, only occasionally talking about the movie and what Bonnie had just confessed to her.
A little while later, Caroline sat straight and then looked at Bonnie as if she's had an epiphany.
"Bon, if the witches over the U.K. use wands that means they're a different kind of witch right?" Caroline asked, eagerly awaiting Bonnie's reply.
Bonnie thought it over for a bit and then nodded, "yes, why?"
"How else are you different from them?" she asked.
"Well, for starters, they use wands to control they're magic, they also have a different way of casting spells and they have more access to rare ingredients for potion making and they can exhaust more magic than us. They are more complex than us." Bonnie said then she began to explain her kind's magic, "Our magic on the other hand, is bound to nature, we're more dependent on what our surroundings can provide, we can call on the power of nature to help us cast a spell or a hex, we use the abilities of the earth to create simple potions. In a sense they are much stronger than us because they don't always have to rely on nature cause their magic emanates from within them. We on the other hand draw our powers from nature, we perform rituals and we often need a lot of witches to create strong spells whereas they can do powerful spells on their own, depending on their magical ability."
"I see." Caroline said, "Are there any other kinds of witches out there?" she asked.
"I guess, I know that there are others who use sacrificial magic, they are mostly tribes though, I think the travelers are also a kind of witch coven, although they don't always rely on nature because of their curse and so they can only cast extensive spells when there are a lot of them, I know there are also some that practice ancestral magic, it means they can only perform magic where their ancestors are buried." Bonnie said.
"So every kind of witch has a different way of using spells, right? Even though they have different spells for the same purpose." Caroline asked.
Bonnie didn't say anything but nodded and then asked, "Care, what are you getting at?" Bonnie asked.
"I think I know how we can fix the veil, if my gut is right." Caroline said.
Movie forgotten, Caroline began to explain her theory to Bonnie.
"Okay, so we know that Harry Potter is real, so that means everything in the book, except for the changed names had happened before, right?" Caroline said. When Bonnie nodded, she continued, "So remember where Sirius died in the Ministry of Magic?" Caroline asked.
Bonnie nodded once more and said, "Yeah, he was killed by Bellatrix and went into…"Bonnie looked at Caroline, realizing where her best friend was going with this, "the veil."
"Exactly! So that means that there must be more than one veil therefore there must be more than one way to create or establish the veil since the one in the book is totally different from you!" Caroline said, "So maybe if we can get a witch of a different kind, we can ask them if they know a spell or how to re-establish the veil while using you as an anchor!" Caroline explained.
"Care you're a genius! I'm not sure if that could work but I'll ask Grams and the other witches if they think this is possible." Bonnie said.
With that, the two girls enjoyed the rest of their girl's night.
AN: Well! Really just random but I wanted another Bonnie and Caroline scene cause we don't really get them that much on TV. Plus here's nothing like good ol' Harry Potter Marathon to bond over during sleep overs! Or maybe that's just me and my bestie. LOL!
Plus we now have an idea on how to keep Bonnie in this world! All thanks to my favorite book and movie series! LOL! :D
Also I know that J.K. would have probably been a young adult preparing to start living in the real world when they met here and she had already written the book whereas in real life she was a struggling single mother but since this is Fan Fiction, I guess I can change stuff a bit? Right? I hope you all still like it! J
Lastly, I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY FREAKING KILLED ENZO! I mean seriously! He was just beginning his character development and then BAM! Why couldn't they just have killed Liv's twin brother? He's sort of pretty useless anyway!