A/N: Alright here goes chapter 2. We see what's going on with Stefan and Caroline (kind of) and revisit Bonnie and Tyler. Sorry for any grammatical errors. Enjoy!

Chapter 2

Santa Barbara, California. Forbes Estate

Caroline wakes up and stretches as she moves her feet to the floor. Opening the blinds to her room the sun shine greets her bringing a well deserved smile to her face. Pushing her wavy blond hair out of her eyes, she grabs a robe and heads downstairs. She is surprised to see Stefan sitting in the kitchen when she comes in.

"Well, Good Morning Sunshine!" Stefan speaks not turning around to see her.

"Good morning to you to sir." She moves to stand by him as he pours her a cup of coffee filling it with three sugars and some cream. "I heard you had a late night last night. Who's the lucky girl?"

"I think her name was Lacey." Stefan shrugged his shoulders not recalling the name of the brunette who he had recently shared a night with.

"What do you mean you think?" The blonde vampire sipped her coffee trying to understand her counterpart. "Either it was or it wasn't."

"Okay it was definitely maybe Lacey." Caroline rolled her eyes, as she took a sip of her coffee. Stefan had been staying with her for the last eight months, when they accidentally ran into each other at a concert. They had been rooming together ever since then and everything seemed to be going pretty well. They lead their own separate lives, coming together occasionally, that sometimes they forgot that they lived with each other. Picking up his own coffee and paper he followed Caroline to her favorite spot on the back porch.

They get out there and Caroline can tell there's something wrong with Stefan. After all these years he's still pretty much the same. "I can still tell when there something wrong with you. Even after all this time."

"It's nothing Caroline. I just haven't been getting much sleep lately."

"Is it because of all the lady company you've been having?" Stefan laughs shaking his head letting her know that isn't the problem. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"I don't think so."

"Well let me at least try." She goes into the house leaving Stefan alone for five minutes before coming back out. Handing him a bottle he looks back up at her. "What is this?"

"It'll help you go to sleep."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm positive. Besides if you are going to stay with me I want to hang out with you more. I didn't know when you moved in I'd see less of you."

"I don't remember me being the fun type." Leaning back in his chair his gaze stayed on her.

"You can be fun we just have to loosen you up and let you get some rest." Caroline got up to walk back in the kitchen. "Then that's when all the fun will start."

Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Shenandoah

"Mommy? Mommy?" Bonnie looked over to see her daughter standing looking up at her waiting for an answer.

"Yes sweetheart?"

"Can we go to the park today? You said we could go this weekend when you were free." Lea bounces around in front of her mom with so much energy; Bonnie just wants to hold her still for a minute. But she can't lie. She loves when her little girl is happy.

"I did say that."

"Yup I remember because Cousin Lucy had just bought me a red Elmo cupcake." The witch had thought back to that day when her cousin was trying to bribe her to go another date with someone she met at the shop. "It was really good." Bonnie stared down at her daughter. She was beautiful she had looked like a carbon copy of her. Her curls cascaded to just below her shoulder as her green eyes with a hint of another color she just couldn't make out appeared, and that smile with a little crookedness to it. Yes that belonged to her.

She couldn't say no to the girl it wasn't in her vocabulary. If it was necessary for her to say it then of course she could but not with little things like this. Pulling the girls face closer to her she smiled, "Sure we can go." Then kissing her forehead she watched Lea's smile brighten as she ran to grab her things to go.

"What'd I say about running in the house?" Bonnie could hear her mother say to her granddaughter as she passed.

"Not so fast, Grams." Lea mumbled looking down at her shoes.

"Right, now where are you in a rush to?"

"Mommy's taking me to the park."

"Well you better hurry then." Abby smiled at her granddaughter before speaking to her own daughter. "How are you today?"

"I'm good Ma."

"So you're taking Lea out today." Bonnie had gone to the fridge to take some things for Lea to eat just in case.

"Yeah apparently I said I would." The sound of a phone going off interrupted their conversation. "Is that Stan?"

"He keeps calling me but I send him to voice mail."

"Mom!"

"What? First he's human and he doesn't know what I am. Secondly, I'm just not in the mood to date."

"Well I think you should date." Bonnie finished wrapping up snacks for Lea to eat later. "Let guys tell you how amazing you look and are. Why wouldn't you want that?"

"Because I have a family that I want to spend time with. I missed out on my daughter's childhood. I'm trying to make up for it now. Especially with Lea."

"I get that. But that doesn't mean you can't do some stuff for you. I should know." Bonnie thought back to her days of doing everything for everybody else and nothing for her. It got to the point where she was sacrificing her life every other day for her friends and they weren't doing it for her.

"Oh really. Please tell me how you spend you days off?" Her mom asked already knowing the answer. "Doing nothing."

"I do stuff. I help Lucy with the shop. I take Lea to dance. I help my students." She pleads her case.

"Okay but what do you do for yourself."

"I…" her mother waited patiently. "I spend time in my garden."

"Okay what else?"

"Isn't that enough?"

"It would be if you were 50 years old, but you're not. You are 25 years old." Bonnie sighed. She thought she was doing great. She was fine with her life. She and her mother were building a new bond. She had shared one with her daughter and even with her cousin. Everything in her life was going perfectly fine. "Listen ma, we were talking about you. I like Stan. He's a sweet guy."

The witch watched as her mother continued to think. She knew whatever was coming next she wasn't really going to like. "Alright let's make a deal I'll give Stan a fair chance if you go on one date with that guy Lucy found for you."

"I don't know." Reading her daughters face she made a quick assumption.

"Is it because of him?" Bonnie thought for a minute before she realized who her mother was talking about.

"That's different."

"Why?"

"I don't know it just is."

"Are you hoping that he'll come back?" she couldn't believe her mother would bring him up again after all this time. She had moved on from him. Like he had left her so long ago. Trying to forget about it she played dumb.

"Who are you talking about?"

"You know who?" Bonnie did but that didn't mean she was going to let her mother know. "If he hasn't come back by now truth is he won't be back. So why can't you find someone else and just be happy."

"Who says I'm not happy. I have Lea, you, Lucy and my dad. Everything is great in my world."

"Sweetie I can see the sadness in your eyes. And that's fine but don't act like it's not there." She wanted to prove to her mother that she wasn't sad. She was fine with everything happening in her life.

"Are you serious about the deal?"

"If you think Stan deserves a fair chance you give another guy a fair chance at getting to know my amazing daughter." Bonnie didn't really have to think about it. It should have been a quick no. But it wasn't.

"Fine but I get to pick what you wear on your date."

"I guess we have a deal." The pitter patter of feet turned both Bennett's toward the hallway.

"Mom. I'm ready" Bonnie turned to see her daughter staring at her with her toy in her hands and a jacket in another. Walking to her daughter, she gave her the small bag of snacks.

"Alright. You two should go before it gets dark out." Abby gets up helping her granddaughter with her jacket and leading her out to the car, as Bonnie followed closely behind.

"Say goodbye to Grandma."

"Bye Grams." Lea waved to her Grandmother as the car pulled away.

Brooklyn, New York.

He had awoken from a quick nap before it was time for him to leave for work. As soon as his eyes opened he could still clearly see her face from his dreams. It was more like a recurring nightmare he seemed to have, one that always ended up the same way. With her leaving him everytime.

His back felt the cool chair when he sat up and placed his feet on the stool. The image in his head sitting their ready for him to do something with it and he knew what he could. Looking at the time he had just enough before it was time for him to go. Moving over to his art studio he picks up a pencil and begins to place pencil strokes on the paper.

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"Ty?" he heard his name being called as he waited to cross the street. Turning around to see who it was he saw Fitz making his way over with Amy on tow. "What's going on man? I haven't seen you in few days everything okay?"

"Yeah just been lying low." It wasn't a lie, necessarily. But he had been keeping to himself.

"You have any more of those paintings to sell. Amy is still in love with the first one I bought her." Tyler smiled shyly. Fitz was one of the first people to buy one of his paintings and he was forever grateful for it. It was another reason why he had started taking art classes.

"I've been working on some stuff you can come by tomorrow and check it out if you want. I've got some things to do today."

"Is it OK if I bring a few of my girlfriends?" The strawberry blonde woman asked.

"No problem. I'll have everything ready around three so stop by then." He pulled the strap on his back pack up.

"We'll see you tomorrow then right." Tyler nodded.

Once he had left the couple and made his way to the coffee shop he saw his manager making a move towards him. "Lockwood. I thought you were off today?"

"I was Dan can't make it so he called me in for him?"

"That boy is going to be the death of me. Maybe I can let you go early if it doesn't stay that busy." That worked for Tyler

"Thank you sir."

"Next time you better tell Dan to get his ass here." Tyler smiled as he grabbed his apron and placed it around his neck.

A/N: Hoped you enjoyed. Now that we have pretty much been caught up to everything going on with the gang lately. I'm going to start building the plot next chapter. Till Next Time!