The forgotten one
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Chapter 12
"So should I wear the red go-go boots or the silver dress?" I asked Elena holding up the two items. But she seemed to be in a trance. "Hello! Elena! Are you in there?" I knocked on her forehead and she snapped out of it and pointed to the silver, vintage dress that I was holding in my right hand. "So why are you so spaced out?"
"Klaus made his first move." What?! "He compelled Dana at school to give me a message." I vaguely remembered Dana, cheerleader, preppy and annoying.
"What was the message?" Klaus's making his move. I had nearly convinced myself that he wasn't going to turn up.
"To save him a dance tonight." Hmm ok so he's a creepy bad guy, couldn't he have just been one of those bad guys who skips all the bullshit.
"Does he know you have a boyfriend?" probably not the most important thing to be thinking about right now.
"Aria, focus." I smiled and picked up the straightener and ran it through my hair. "It's just this whole thing is freaking me out, I think I had convinced myself he wasn't real. But he is." I nodded and put down the straightener, I walked over to her and put my arm around her shoulders. She leaned her head into the crook of my neck, I squeezed her shoulder harder and stood up.
"Help me with my hair?" she nodded and started to straighten out my hair.
"So you have your own house now?" I asked.
"I signed the papers this morning, it's officially my very own safe house." I nodded, that was good, one less thing to worry about at least.
I put on my dress once she was finished and left, it was silver and shimmered and had a silver silk outlining, and it went to my neck and down to my knees. I put my hair up into a pulled back bun and put on my birth mothers necklace that looked retro enough and my diamond studs. On my way down the stairs, I nearly tripped multiple times because of my five-six inch silver strappy heels.
I drove my own way to the high school. Everybody was already there and I walked over to Rick who was standing away from the crowd and sipping on a glass of amber liquid, my guess is bourbon. He looked at me as I approached.
"Hey, how you going? Has Jenna talked to you yet?" I asked and poured myself some punch that was probably spiked.
"What? Uh no." he was very twitchy for some reason. And he kept doing a very Damon like smirk.
"Special shout out to Elena from Klaus!" Dana yells into the microphone then an upbeat but slow song starts playing. Damon heads over to us.
"Special dedication huh…this guy is a little twisted." Rick says and Damon looks around. I didn't see anyone out of place, I knew everyone here.
"I'm not impressed." Damon says, both Rick and I look at him with raised eyebrows. I thought it was a bit like the he was playing cat and mouse with us, didn't his mother ever teach him not to play with his sacrifices?
They were talking but I wasn't listening, I walked over to where Damon dragged away Caroline and took her place and stood in front of Matt. "Can I have this dance?" I asked, he smiled and we swayed to the slow music. "Where did Caroline go?" I asked, he looked down at Caroline's name. Weird.
"Off with Damon somewhere." He shrugged.
"Well I took pity on you and decided you needed some company." He laughed and twirled me around. "You're a good dancer." I said and he spun me around again. "Your gonna make me throw up." I laughed, a genuine laugh. "Ugh, my head is spinning."
"So, does Caroline seem strange to you?" he asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you think she has changed from the Caroline we used to know?"
"No. She's still the same Caroline. Why?" I studied his face but he looked away.
"No reason, just curiosity." I nodded, if he wasn't going to tell me I couldn't force it out of him.
Bonnie ran over looking frightened and worried. I pulled away from Matt, "I got to go." he nodded and I rushed away with Bonnie. "What's the matter?" I asked as she pulled on my arm urgently.
"Alaric says that Klaus has Jeremy." My breathing quickened and I ran after her. We burst into the cafeteria where Elena and Rick had just arrived.
"Wait… something's not right." I say and we all stop.
""I just had to get away from that dance. 60's ugh. Not my decade. Whose call was that anyway? I much prefer the 20's, the style, the parties, the jazz." He was acting strange, was he compelled?
"Are you on vervain?" Elena asks him. Alaric didn't answer, just smiled like a Cheshire cat. ""He's been compelled."
"Nope try again. Okay, I'll give you a hint. I am not Alaric." I look at him sceptically and figure it out, Elena and Bonnie still look stumped.
"Klaus." I conclude, he looks over at me evilly and smirks.
"Surprise. So you're the one with eyes for my brother." He walks over to me and picks up a strand of my hair, "you're a werewolf." He realized. I pushed him away with all the newly acquired strength I had and he went flying into a vending machine. He gets up and walks back over, "that all you got love?" I punch him in the nose and hear a sickening crunch under my fist, I didn't want to hurt Rick but I would hurt Klaus.
I'm about to punch him again in the jaw but he catches my hand and I hesitate in pulling away. This is Rick. Rick who's dating my Aunt Jenna and marks my history papers. He takes advantage of my hesitation and knees me in the stomach, I bend over and clutch at my stomach.
I'm about to kick him but then Bonnie sends him flying with a flick of her wrist and yells at Elena and me to run. We run back to where the dance is buzzing with energy and teen drunks.
We are running into the dance and Elena turns to me, "your eyes turned gold." She says, her eyes are wide and scared. I shrug and we search over the heads of everyone.
"Stefan!" Elena yells and we run over to him and explain that Klaus is in Alaric's body and Bonnie's trying to kill him. They also tell me that all this power is going to kill her.
We run back to where Bonnie was and see her with blood running from her nose and down her chin.
"Bonnie!" Elena yells, tears are flowing from her brown doe eyes in steady streams. She flicks her wrist and the cafeteria doors close in front of us. I try the door knob and push against the door, Elena is sobbing and she screams when Bonnie suddenly falls to the floor, her body limp and lifeless.
Alaric walks away and we all burst through the doors. Elena collapses by Bonnie's body and cradles her head in her lap. I reach across and close Bonnie's eyes. Elena starts to rock Bonnie's body and her wails echo in the cafeteria.
Damon walks in and see's the scene, he looks slightly remorseful but other than that he is expressionless.
"I'll take care of the body." He says and Elena looks up at him.
"What do you mean take care of the body? This is Bonnie!" she yells. Stefan has to drag her away and Damon picks up Bonnie's body and for a second I think I see remorse, then it's gone. He walks away with Bonnie in his arms and I stay sitting on the ground trying to come to terms with what just happened. Bonnie and I were never close but she was still a friend.
I sighed and got up, somebody needs to tell Jeremy. I walk outside the school and see Damon putting Bonnie's body into the boot of his car, he's talking to Jeremy. I walk over and hear them talking.
"Jeremy, there's something you need to know." Damon says softly, then he goes on to explain that Bonnie isn't really dead, Klaus just needed to think so. Jeremy goes with Damon to take Bonnie to the witch house.
I go home and fall asleep on the couch not even bothering to change out of my 60's dress.
I wake up to the sound of my phone ringing, I grumble and reach over, fumbling for my phone. I pressed the answer button and Stefan's frantic voice fills my ear.
"Where are you?" he asks.
"Home. Why?" my voice is raspy and Stefan breathes out a sigh of relief.
"Good stay there. Don't let Jenna meet up with Alaric and don't let him in. Do you know where Elena is?"
"Isn't she at your place?"
"She un-daggered Elijah and now we don't know where she is." He says hesitantly. Excitement and longing course through me at his words, the words that I had been longing to hear for so long. But questions filled my mind.
She un-daggered Elijah?
I wonder why he didn't call.
I hung up on Stefan without even a goodbye and dialled Elena's phone. It went straight to voicemail. Dammit Elena!
I'd just go to the boarding house and wait there for them.
"Your boyfriend isn't here." Was all Damon said as I walked through the door.
"Do you know where he is?" I asked, he shrugged and offered me a glass of bourbon, I gratefully took it and drank it in one big gulp and it left a burning sensation down my throat. He looked impressed and went to refill it but I slammed my hand over the top blocking him from doing so. I needed to be sober for this conversation.
"Why did she do it?" I asked, not that I wasn't happy. I was ecstatic. But I was curious as she was the one who daggered him in the first place.
"She's freaking out about Klaus." Weren't we all?
"So heard you got into a fight with Klaus and you got wolf eyes." I clenched my teeth, god couldn't Elena keep anything from her boy toys. I guess not. Whatever happened to blood before boys?
"Yeah." I look down at the ground, the carpet was suddenly very interesting. I would be turning for the first time when my sister would be getting sacrificed, good times. Cue the sarcasm.
"Do you have anywhere to chain yourself up on the full moon?" he asked, he sounded genuinely concerned.
"Uh, the tomb, maybe? I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. It's just all really sudden." He nods and pats me on the back awkwardly. What did you tell someone in this situation? And whatever he did say, probably wouldn't help.
The door opens and a frightened Jenna walks in slowly followed by Stefan.
"Jenna?" I ask, she looks over at me and her face is tear streaked and splotchy, her eyes are red and hold pure fear. She doesn't say anything in return she just lets Stefan lead her over to the couch. She sat down slowly and rocked herself. "What's the matter?"
"Alaric." I nod at Stefan and sit down next to Jenna. She looks at me.
"His face." Was all she said, I look at Stefan. Guilt floods into his face and I know he's done something.
"What did you do?" I accused.
"I had to fight Rick and she saw my face change." I nodded and did a shooing motion, Damon and Stefan nodded and left the room.
"What's going on?" Jenna's voice was small and only a decimal above a whisper. She needed to know what was going on, so I explained as best as I could about vampires, doppelgängers, werewolves, originals and witches. I told her who was what and how. By the time I was finished, I was sure by the look on her face that I had done more harm than good but then she mouthed 'thankyou.' And I knew that I had done the right thing by telling her. She rested her head against my shoulder and started to doze off.
She was nearly asleep when Elena burst through the door. She rushed over to Jenna and I. She didn't look at me.
"Your mom used to tell me stories about vampire, but I never thought any of it could be real." Jenna said to her.
"I'm so sorry for keeping all of this from you, I thought you were safer." I nearly snorted or laughed at that but I held it in for Jenna's sake.
They talked quietly but I didn't pay attention, so much was happening and all I wanted to do was ask Elena where Elijah was and run there and cry in his arms. But I had to stay for Jenna. She needed me and I couldn't go, not now at least.
Elena and I stood up when she said she had to go.
"Do you want to come with? I know you guys want to see each other." She said and glanced at Jenna who was staring into space in a trance of shock.
"Uh no. I need to stay with Jenna." She nodded and sighed, Damon and Stefan of course tried to keep her from leaving but she did in the end.
It was dark out now.
"I should go home." I said to Stefan. Jenna was asleep in a guest bedroom and Elena wasn't back yet.
"You should stay here. Where your safe."
I shook my head and gave him a small 'nah' and left.
The kitchen was a mess, lunch ingredients were scattered across the floor and knives were thrown on the floor and the door was left wide open. I put everything back in its place, put on my pink duckie pyjamas and grabbed the tub of chocolate ice-cream and spoon.
I heard the doorbell and carried my ice-cream with me to the door. I put it down on the table beside the door and opened it.
There standing in all of his British and godly beauty was the man that I loved with all my heart and soul.
"Elijah." I breathed his name out. He looked down at me. He was wearing a new suit and his skin was back to its usual healthy colour. I rushed over so that I was standing chest to chest with him and I crashed my lips against his. Need and desire filled me and I gripped onto him as if holding on for dear life. He was my anchor.
I pulled away and studied his chocolate eyes.
"I love you." I said softly and he crashed his lips back onto mine.
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