I sat on the living room table, snatching the bourbon bottle out of Stefan's hands.
"Share, mister," I said with a grin. He gave me back a half drunkenly grin. In the background, Bon Jovi was playing and Lexi was standing in the sunshine dancing. I giggled and lied down on the table, shoving the alcohol that ran so smoothly down my throat. Suddenly, the music stops and I let out a loud sigh.
"Buzz kill," I said, knowing clearly who had entered. Living with the same people all these months have made me learn how their footsteps sound. It's creeping me out, to be honest.
"Damon," Stefan says, "Help me celebrate my 17th High School graduation. Hey, you remember my friend, Lexi, of course?"
"How boring. Graduating High School 17 times," I mumble right before Lexi vamp speeds off to Damon and grabs him by his throat, pinning him against the wall.
"What's up, buzz kill?" Lexi says with a smirk. That's my girl.
"Stefan," Damon says as he turns his head to his younger brother, "You're just gonna sit there and let her enact her ghostly revenge?"
"You reap what you sow," I say. Still pretty pissed at Damon for killing her. After I found out the true reason he killed her for, after Elena told me, I had been even more pissed.
"Let's be very clear," Lexi says grabbing him harder around the throat, "whatever time I have left here, I sure as hell don't plan on wasting on you. You got me?"
"Yeah. Got ya," Damon replies as Lexi lets him go and he inhales deeply. I sit up on the table and drinks some more from the bottle, before Damon walks up to me and grabs the bottle. I sigh.
"So if you," Damon turns to Lexi, "And Ric, and little Gilbert are all flesh-like and real seeming, that means something went horribly wrong when Bonnie tried to put that veil up. And here you three are, having dance party USA."
"You're right," Stefan says grabbing the bottle from Damon, taking a sip of it, "How selfish of me to be indulging in these precious moments with my formerly dead best friend. I should be sacrificing my own happiness for the good of others, right? I should be upstairs grooming my hero hair."
I chuckle, as Lexi grabs the bottle from Stefan but Damon quickly snatches it again.
"Are you drunk?" Damon asks him. Stefan grins as he replies,
"I don't know, mom, am I?"
"Well, I guess that's one way of celebrating our supernatural apocolypse," Damon says taking a sip of the bourbon, "Now, care to hazard of what the hell went wrong?"
He and I share an intense look as I lie back down on the table. I had to find Bonnie.
I stand in front of my mirror in my V-neck white lace dress. I had bought it with Bonnie a couple of weeks ago, when we were shopping for prom and graduation. Elena was supposed to join us, but she was currently in no humanity zone. And Bonnie and I both really needed a break from her drama.
I had felt like a jack ass afterwards, because she was my sister. My twin sister. I was supposed to help her out. But after everything, losing our parents, losing Jenna, the sacrifice, The Originals, losing Kol, losing Jer, we all needed a break. Especially since Silas also was out there, planning his move. Who knew when that were going to happen.
Trying to put my thoughts aside, I looked around the room hugging my own body. My brown hair was put up in a clip, I sighed. Today was gonna be a good day. It was my graduation day, for crying out loud! The day I had been looking forward to since the first day of kindergarten. But I still felt so... vulnerable, weak.
"Hey," I heard Stefan's voice say, pulling my out of my deep thoughts.
"Hey, you," I said with a tiny smile upon my lips. He went up to me.
"You know, you should really keep your hair down," He says pulling the clip out of my hair, letting my hair fall loose down to my waist, "It looks more beautiful when it's hanging down."
I smiled as I turned around to face him, "Are you ready to graduate?"
"Been there, done it," He says chuckling while I cut him off.
"Yeah, but 17 is a good number," I say with a grin. Before we could continue our conversation, we hear a gunshot down stairs. My eyes widen as we quickly run down the stairs finding Damon sitting on the couch with Vaughn standing in front of him, looking pretty pissed off. Uh oh.
Stefan quickly vamp speeds over to him and rips his heart out.
"Well, that's one way to change the topic," I say with a grin.
I rub my face as I walk up to Elena, Bonnie and Caroline. They're all standing in a circle, laughing and talking. A smile spreads across my face as my eyes slightly water. This was how it was meant to be. Peace and happiness.
"Hey," I say as I join them. I walk up straight to Bonnie to give her a hug as I mumble thank you quietly into her ear. Her arms around my waist tightens as I can feel her smile.
"I can't believe it. We're actually all here," Caroline says as Bonnie's eyes water. "Bonnie Bennett, are you crying?"
"It's our last hurrah before you guys go off to college," Bonnie replies, softly sobbing.
"Before we go off to college," I say with a grin, smacking her forearm playfully.
"I kinda sort off missed the deadline," My twinnie says, "You know, being an emotionless bitch."
"Well, the perks of being a vampire," Caroline says with a grin as I feel a wave of sadness wash over me, "We can go wherever we wanna go. We can choose our own dorm room, we could get a triple room!"
"I'm happy we're all here," I say.
"Aw, group hug!" Caroline says pulling us all into a hug before we run off to our graduation ceremony.
"Welcome, parents, family and friends. What a beautiful day for a graduation. Thank you for joining us on this special day, as we celebrate our graduates" Mayor Hopkins says, "So let's get started."
He starts to ramble up a ton of names, which a lot of them I don't even recognize. Nice keeping check off your classmate there, Hayley. Caroline, Matt, Bonnie and Elena all get up before me. But my eyes water and quickly falls down my cheeks when it's my time. I hug him tightly, knowing him since I was a kid. He was Bonnie's dad after all.
I went down to the boiler room, looking for Bonnie. I heard someone punching through an inivisble magic wall. I grinned walking up to were the sound was coming from. But when I saw who it was, my face fell.
"Hayley?" The guy's voice said.
"Kol?" I said before jumping into the magic barrier, wrapping my arms around his neck as if my life depended on it. Which it kinda did right now, seeing as he is a ghost. "Oh my god, I've missed you so much."
He wrapped his arms around my waist ever so softly, as a lot of tears flew down my eyes. I couldn't believe he was standing here, alive-ish, in front of me. And I could feel him.
"Hayley, get yourself together. We don't have a lot of time," Kol says as he pulls away. I wipe away my tears from my tear stained cheeks as I look into his eyes.
"I am so sorry for what they did to you," I say as I bring up my hand to his cheek, softly caressing it, guilt flashing my eyes, "It wasn't right. They shouldn't have."
"Hayley, it's your graduation day. Enjoy it. I saw how happy you were during the ceremony. I promise you, I will find a way back to you. I promise," He says placing a soft kiss on my forehead before he vanishes into thin air.
I stand there for a few minutes, before tears flow down my cheeks again. I wrap my arms around my body and leans against the wall, but I slowly fall down, crying into my hands.
I walk up to Damon's bedroom after getting back to the Salvatore house. I had heard about him almost dying today, from that nasty werewolf toxin. I had a few words on my mind to tell him.
"Hey," I say as I walk up to him. He grins.
"Hey."
"You feeling better?" I ask as I feel my blood slightly boil underneath my skin. He mumbles yeah, and puts on a shirt.
"So it's all healed up?" I ask.
"Fresh as a daisy," he smirks.
"Good," I say as I bring up my hand to his face. A loud smack is heard and you can hear chuckles down stairs. A proud grin spreads across my face. "I have to go."
I walk down stairs, as Stefan and I enter the same time.
"Stefan, could I talk to you for a second?" I ask. He nods as we walk into another room.
"Stefan, I," I start but I start to get confused with my own feelings. I wrap a arm around my body as I take a deep breath before continuing. "I just wanted to say thank you. You've been so good to me, and Elena, and Jer. It's more than anything I could ever have wanted. You've always been pure and just the sweetest towards us. You even wanted to take Jenna's place, just to make sure we had family left. That's very honorable,"
"But I don't have forever. And I know you don't like your vampire life. And the vampirism has never... it has never really been something I want. It doesn't feel like a good thing. Witches sees it as an abomination, and I know that I shouldn't care about what they think. But Klaus could get kill. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or in a thousand years, but he could. And I don't wanna have to live with the fear of knowing I could die some day because of that," I say as I pick up the cure from my leather jacket pocket and keeps it hidden in my hand.
"I want things as normal as I could have them. I'll always love you, Stefan. You've had such a big impact on my life, that I don't wanna lose you. It would hurt too much," I grab his hand and puts the cure in it, "Here. I want you to have it. You deserve it. You deserve a normal, human life."
He holds his hand closed fisted as I smile.
I walk into the high school, looking for Jeremy. I groan as I walk up to Caroline.
"Hey, you," I say as I hug her tightly. She hugs me tightly as I hear her sob quietly, "Hey no crying rule is still applying for all of us. It was your tip, remember?"
"Right," She said wiping away her tears. I smiled softly against her.
"Hey, have you seen my sister? She and I need to say goodbye to our brother," I say.
"Yeah, she was heading to her locker to pick up her stuff," Caroline replies as I nod.
"I'll see you in a bit," I say as I take off. I walk down the hallway until I hear Elena's voice. She's groaning.
"I stole your happiness?" I hear Elena ask. Who was she talking to? "You killed my brother!"
"I'll admit," I hear Katherine's voice. I quickly lean against the wall and focus my hearing on them. "That was nasty."
A growl escapes my lips as I hear Elena vamp speeding and a loud growl from her. Suddenly, I hear glass break. I wanna interrupt but not yet.
"I have nothing," Katherine says as I hear Elena cough. "But I'm about to change that."
"Kicking someone while they're down, classy until the end, Katherine," Elena says weakingly.
Katherine's scoffs, "Your end."
Elena starts coughing wildly, but then it gets really quiet and I peek out from around my wall. I see that Katherine has plunged a stake into Elena's neck and is about to shove her hand down my twin's chest. I take off my heals and get ready to interrupt.
"No, Hayley," Stefan says putting the cure back into my hands.
"No, Stefan," I say copying him, "You do deserve this. Elena is handling her vampire life, and I am sure she doesn't want it. And if she does, we can always figure out a way to get another cure. You deserve this, Stefan."
"I got this for Elena. Or for you, in case you ever needed it along the way," Stefan says with a genuine smile on his face. I sweetly return it.
"Bye bye, little girl," Katherine says pulling out the stake and Elena returns to counsiousness quickly. She gasps for air, coughing. Katherine shoves her hand down her chest grabbing her heart as I race in, running as quickly as I can.
At the same time I'm running, I pull out the cure from my jacket. Right before Katherine pulls Elena's heart out, Elena sees what I intend to do, so as soon as I've plunged the cure into Katherine's mouth, Elena grabs Katherine's jaw and crushes the jar that was holding the cure, forcing Katherine to swallow it as she falls into uncounsiousness next to my twin.
"Now you'll have something, kitty kat," I say with a smirk, watching my twin's doppelgangers uncounsious body, "Have a nice human life."
Hi guys! Wow, I've gotten amazing feedback so far. And this was fun to write. But it has taken about 2 hours and I am officially super tired. It has been a long day for me and I'm about to crawl into my sheets.
Anyway, in 5x11 my own storyline will start, sort of. I have a few plans, so Hayley won't be completely out of the picture while Katherine is possessing her. It will also give you some clues of what I will do for season 6.
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