Book 7: Drama Falls
Song: Brand New Day By: Ryan Star
"I've stayed in one place for too long
Gotta get on the run again
I saw the one thing that I want
Hell bent, get outta bed
I'm throwing rocks at your window
You're tying the bed sheets together
They say that we're dreaming too big
I say this town's too small/
I've taken hits like a brother
But I'm getting back up again
And from the moment I saw her
I was hell bent with heaven sent
I'm throwing rocks at your window
We're leaving this place together
They say that we're flying too high
Well get used to looking up
Dream
Send me a sign
Turn back the clock
Give me some time
I need to break out
And make a new name
Let's open our eyes
To the brand new day
It's a brand new day"
Mystic Falls:
~Time Skip~
2 Months Later:
Dear Diary,
Everything has been crazy over the last two months or so. We got the tomb opened and got Pearl, Anna's mother out. The only problem was that we couldn't stop all the other vampires from getting out. I feel so bad for Damon and we all got a shock. Katherine was not in the tomb like everyone thought. Damon took it so hard. I still remember when I was watching them outside the tomb and Elena hugged him. Anna wouldn't let me go in because she knew I'd try to use my magic which means that Stefan still has no clue who I am. Damon seems to care about Elena, but she's with Stefan; I might not of been there in the 1860s but I just hope that history doesn't repeat itself. Damon's in so much pain, he's been through too much to be heartbroken again. There's been so much drama and I've kept to myself for the most part except for talking to Damon. Anna has gotten closer to Jeremy, much to her mother's dismay and Elena and Damon discovered that Isobel, a women that Damon turned is in fact Elena's mother. Plus the Bonnet witch Bonnie's grandmother died after opening the tomb and Bonnie left for a while. There's been a few problems with some of the tomb vampires, especially Frederick. I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid.
Sincerely,
Bree Hale
I was standing in the rain with Damon and Elena thinking about how this whole thing started. We were trying to figure out the best way to get Stefan out of the house and Alaric would be here any minute.
Flashback:
I was following Frederick and Bethanne, I had a feeling that they were going to do something bad. I saw them going toward the Salvatore boarding house and I started to panic. I knew that Damon wasn't there and that with Stefan drinking animal blood he would be no match for the two of them. I texted Damon and told him to get home now. When I got to the house Frederick was going for Damon who had just run in before me and Bethanne was about to stake Stefan. I immediately went to help Stefan and when I did Bethanne ended up getting staked. Frederick looked murderous.
"Pearl will hear about this." –Bree
"You will all pay for this." Frederick said and ran off.
I looked around to see Damon with a stake sticking out of his stomach. I ran over to him and pulled it out.
"Damon are you ok? Oh my God, it just missed. Are you ok? Damon!" –Bree
"I'm fine I just need blood."- Damon
"You know he's not going to let this go and with Pearl and Anna gone for the week helping some of the tomb vampires relocate he practically has free reign." –Bree
"I know." –Damon
"Who is this girl Damon?" –Stefan
"I'm…"- I started looking from Damon to Stefan.
"She's a friend of Anna's and she's staying here for the moment."- Damon
"What?"- Bree
"If you go back while they're gone after what just happened he'll kill you before you walk in the door."- Damon
"But-"- Bree
"You might be part cold one, but you're still part human and that part of you makes you vulnerable." –Damon
"Thank you for helping me. I need to go see Elena." –Stefan
Two Days Later:
I was sitting in the living room of the boarding house and everything was starting to take its toll on me. I missed my mother and I hated lying to her. The situations I have been getting myself into have been extremely dangerous. And well just everything. I started to just let everything out as I sat there. I didn't even notice Damon walk in until he wrapped his arms around me in a comforting hug (completely innocent, friendly hug).
"Are you ok Bree?" –Damon
"It's just everything's starting to take a toll on me, all the lying and the situations that I've been in lately. I guess I finally feel like I'm an adult."- Bree
"Welcome to the club."- Damon, I playfully punched him the arm.
"Does Rosalie know that you're here?"- Damon
"Yes and no." –Bree
"Bree, what's that mean?"- Damon
"She knows that Anna and I are here, but not why. I just told her I wanted to see where Isabella and Sarah grew up and she doesn't know that you're here." –Bree
"I see. Hey I'm not going to judge if you don't want to tell her, I don't care, just be careful because if something happens Rosalie will come after me."- Damon
"Ok, you know you you're not a monster Damon. I know what happened that night Damon, I know what would've happened if Isabella hadn't intervened but I don't blame you Damon, neither do Jane and Alec. I hated you for many years, but I think I finally understand you. Everyone makes bad decisions and sometimes they lead to disaster but that's life, that's humanity. You may be devious sometimes and try to hide your feelings, but you have a heart, and you fight to control it."- Bree
Just then Elena ran in saying that Stefan was gone. We knew it was Frederick.
End of Flashback
"We have to do something." –Elena
"I know and I will."- Damon
"So am I." –Elena
"You are staying here and that goes for both of you. I can't try and get Stefan out of there if I have to worry about both of you." –Damon
"But-" Elena
"Fine. Be careful, don't argue Elena, when Damon makes up his mind, nothing can stop him." –Bree, I saw Damon wince when I said that, he was most likely thinking about Isabella. It did not go unnoticed by Elena.
A while later Damon left to go to the house and as I had planned Elena and I went to go find Stefan anyway. We found him but he was in bad shape. He ended up needing to drink from Elena and I had to kill Frederick. If my mother only knew what I had gotten myself into. I shuttered to think what she'd do.
A week later everything was back to as normal as it could be and Anna and I had been trying to help Jeremy deal with the death of Vicky which caused me to become closer with Jeremy too, I could see that he was good for Anna.
Anna and I decided to take Jeremy to the Mystic Grill to help keep his mind off things. We decided to play a game of pool: girls verse Jeremy.
"Hey, this is totally unfair!" –Jeremy
"You're not afraid of two girls are you Jer?" –Bree
"No but-" –Jeremy
"Prefect!" – Bree and Anna
"What have I got myself into!" –Jeremy
I laughed as Anna set up the balls on the pool table. I glanced toward the bar to see Damon there drinking of course. He smirked and nodded at me. I could see Alaric and Jenna talking at a table on the other side of the grill. Alaric did not seem to happy to see both Anna and I with Jeremy. I knew he suspected that Jeremy knew about vampires.
A few days later it was the founder's kick off party and Elena had asked for Damon's help with Stefan. She suspected that Stefan was back on human blood, which I confirmed for Damon after seeing Stefan steal blood from the blood bank. Jeremy also found out that Elena had been lying to him. It seemed that all the bonding that him and his sister (or cousin as he only recently found out) have done, all the trust was broken.
Now it's the day of the Founder's Court party at the Lockwood Home. Jeremy escorted Anna and Damon escorted me. Damon wasn't going to stay with me the whole time but he still wanted me to have the experience of going to a ball. He may be devious but he could still show some people a nicer side. I could hear Anna and Jeremy talking out in the garden.
"So you were here, at the original Founder's party?" -Jeremy
"Yes, actually my best friend and I were part of the Founder's Court, I can remember it so clearly. I was escorted by William Samson and my best friend Isabella Watson was escorted by none other then Damon Salvatore."
"Wait, Damon came with someone other then Katherine?" –Jeremy
"Yes, actually Katherine came with Stefan." –Anna
"Wait, so Stefan was at the first party escorting Katherine and he's at this one escorting my sister or cousin or whatever and she looks exactly like her. Do I have that right?" –Jeremy
"yes, exactly." –Anna
"Wow, all this is just a lot to take in, it's like in the last few months my whole understanding of the world of everything has changed." –Jeremy
"I know, I'm sorry Jer." –Anna
Just then I decided to make my presence known to them. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Elena look confused and start to come toward us but Damon intercepted her. He told her something and they both ran off together. I guess Stefan saw them talking because a second later he rushed past me.
"Well well well, what do we have here?" –I asked Jeremy and Anna
"Bree." They both said.
"You clean up well Jeremy." –Bree
"Thanks." –Jeremy
"So you heard our whole conversation?" – Anna
"Yes, you know it's nice being here. I feel like I'm closer to my ancestors. Sarah was here with you and Isabella wasn't she?" –Bree
"Yes. It's odd in a way, it's different being here but yet the same. The Salvatores, The Lockwoods, The Forbes, The Gilberts- Elena who looks like Katherine being escorted by Stefan, me being escorted by a Gilbert just as my mother was, you being here just as Sarah was. It's so much the same." –Anna
"So then you're a witch like Bonnie right? Anna told me about Sarah." –Jeremy
"Yes, I am. I must be the freakiest mythical creature ever, Half- human, Half-vampire, and full witch. Oh and don't worry, I used a spell no one can hear us."- Bree
"I want to be turned. Anna I want you to change me." –Jeremy
"What?" Both Anna and I said.
"Before I thought I wanted to be changed for the wrong reasons, but now I know what I want, I want you to turn me." –Jeremy
"If that's what you want then I will, but you're not ready yet." -Anna
"Elena won't be happy about this, nor will Jeremy's Uncle. We need to keep this to ourselves. That means not telling Pearl either." –Bree
"Ok." –Both Jeremy and Anna said.
Over the next two weeks everything went down hill. I found out that Stefan had almost killed someone and both Damon and Elena had locked him up to get him off human blood. Pearl had also given Damon the Gilbert device. Stefan tried to kill himself but Elena stopped him. Anna and Jeremy had shared blood but she didn't turn him yet. Elena's mother had had come to town again. Jeremy confronted Elena about lying to him and Elena wanted to know why Jeremy was with Anna so much, they kept fighting. Bonnie had deactivated the Gilbert Device because they had to give it to Isobel. But I was suspicious of her. Again I couldn't use my magic to do it because it was a device to be used against vampires and no one would let me at least attempt it. I felt that it might not affect me because I'm part human and part cold one. Stefan said he called a friend to come help if they should need it and Damon decided that Stefan had a right to know about Isabella so he told him about what happened. To say that he was shocked was an understatement. It just caused more fighting between them. Though I found out that wasn't the worst of it all…
I was going back to the house that Anna and Pearl were living at when I heard a scream and saw John Gilbert get in his car and leave. I ran over to the house only to see Pearl dying. John had staked her. I ran to her holding her.
"Pprrottect Annnnaa, pppleasse." Pearl said with her dying breath.
"I will." I said just as I turned to see Anna scream and run toward us.
"NO! Why? Who did this?"- Anna said crying and holding on to her mother.
"John Gilbert." –I said as I hugged Anna.
"No!"- Anna
We stayed like that for a few minutes.
"You need to go. John did this and he's most likely going to try and turn Jeremy against you now. He's seen you with him. You need to tell Jeremy what his Uncle has done." –Bree
"I—" –Anna
"Anna, go we can't do anything now, John has most likely told the Sheriff that she's here. We can't be here when that happens. I'll go tell Damon what happened. You need to go to Jeremy. He might try and do something to keep him away from you regardless to if he wants to or not. (I look up to see the Sheriff's car coming) Anna, go!" –Bree
Anna POV:
I got to the Gilbert house and went in through Jeremy's open window because I saw John entering the house with stake still in hand. I could hear John talking to Jeremy downstairs and I doubted that the stake went unnoticed by Jeremy. Bree was right John was telling Jeremy how evil vampires, all vampires are. He was trying to turn him against me, trying to use the Gilbert name to bring Jeremy over to his side. All I could do was listen, if I went downstairs I would end up killing John Gilbert right in front of Jeremy and as much as I wanted to kill him, I couldn't do that to Jeremy. After a few minutes I heard Jeremy yell at John about how much trouble he's caused and come up the stairs. As soon as he opened the door and saw me he looked behind him and closed the door quickly.
"What's wrong? What happened?"- Jeremy
"She's shhhe's gone. He killed her. You're Uncle kkilllleed my mother."
He pulled me to him as I fell into his arms.
"I'm sorry, I'm sooo sorry. When I saw the stake in his hand I didn't know what to think, for a moment I thought that maybe it was you and it scared me. I'm so sorry that your mother's gone. He can't get away with this." –Jeremy
He started to pull away and I panicked and grabbed him and pushed him into the wall lightly. I hugged him to me.
"Jer, no! You don't know how he'll react. Please just stay here with me."- Anna
"ok, shh, it's ok." –Jeremy
"Jer, I don't know what's going to happen next. The tomb vampires want revenge on the town and we still don't know why Isobel wanted the device. Bonnie said she disarmed it, but Bree is suspicious. I have a bad feeling about Founder's Day tomorrow. Please, Drink some of my blood. If something happens it'll save you." –Anna
"Ok and don't worry, nothing will happen to me or you." –Jeremy
I then bit down on my wrist and gave it to Jeremy. He drink for a minute and I had to tell him to pull away. I healed and just as he went to hug me again. John Gilbert opened his door and before John even looked up I was gone through the window.
