Ghost World

Caroline, Bonnie and I were hanging lanterns from a tree for the Night of Illumination. "So when you did the spell to send Vicki away, did that get rid of Anna, too?" Caroline asked.

"I wish. All I did was block the magic that was helping Vicki get a physical foothold here. Jeremy's still got a direct line to the other side, and as long as he wants to see Anna and she wants to see him, she's still here," Bonnie explained.

"Okay, you don't think I can actually resist commenting on that."

"There. You commented," Bonnie snapped.

"Bonnie..."

"What do you want me to say, Caroline? I went against the balance of nature when I brought Jeremy back to life, and now I'm paying the consequences."

"Well, I want you to say you're not ok with it," Caroline said.

"I'm a thousand times not ok with it. I just don't know what to do about it."

I looked at her sympathetically. "I'm sorry about Jeremy, Bonnie."

She shrugged. "Nothing I can do."

Damon stopped by where we hanging the lanterns. "Greetings, blondie, witchy." He winked at me and I rolled my eyes, but smiled. "Beautiful." Caroline scoffed. "I think you got your voodoo wires all crossed when you got rid of Vicki Donovan."

"What do you mean?" Bonnie asked. "Why?"

"Because I'm pretty sure I just got spit-roasted by Mason Lockwood's ghost," Damon told us.

"What?" I said.

"And why would you think that?" Caroline inquired.

"Maybe because he chained me to a chair and shoved a hot poker in my chest. Let's just say I'm having déjà vu."

Caroline gave me another one of her 'what the hell are you doing with him' looks and turned to Bonnie. "I thought you said that ghosts couldn't physically interact with people."

Bonnie shook her head. "They can't."

"Yeah, well, I don't have time for a vengeful Lockwood. When I kill someone, they're supposed to stay dead. Whatever you screwed up, fix it." I shot him a dirty look. "Please," he added to Bonnie.

He drove away. "You're dating that?" I narrowed my eyes at Caroline, who held her hands up in defense. "Just sayin'."

"I haven't seen Vicki, I swear. I sent her back like you told me to," Matt told us.

"Are you sure?" Bonnie asked. "Because she has just as much reason to haunt Damon as Mason Lockwood does."

"She's gone, Bonnie. If she was here, I'd know it."

"Why do you think it's Vicki and not Mason?" the blonde vampire questioned the witch.

"Because if any ghost other than Vicki Donovan has a physical foothold on our side, then that means Damon's right and something has gone really, really wrong."

"I knew there was going to be consequences," I said. "Someone can't come back from there without screwing something up."

Matt backed away from us. "I've had enough of this ghost stuff to last forever. So you guys can leave me out of this one."

We watched him walk away. "I feel so sad for him. It took a lot for him to send his sister away," Caroline said.

"Yeah."

"So much strength for a man."

"I've got a ghost problem to deal with, Caroline. Save the Jeremy lecture for later."

She grabbed her bag and everything fell out of it. She reached to pick up her grimoire, but a wind blew and opened it on a page. "Bonnie, did your grimoire just..." I trailed off.

"I think so."

She picked up the grimoire and read the page. I read it over her shoulder. To reveal veiled matter.

"Okay, please tell me that's a recipe for witch cookies," Caroline begged.

"It's a manifestation spell. It's used to reveal veiled matter," Bonnie told her.

"What's veiled matter?"

"Ghosts," I answered.

"It says that we need two witches," Bonnie told me as we entered the abandoned witch houses. "Even then, the spell might be too much."

I nodded. "I think we can handle it."

We entered the basement. "So this is where you brought Jeremy back to life?"

"Yeah. Sorry, I know it's creepy, but we needed a private place around here to do the spell," Bonnie told her.

"Hm..." Caroline looked around warily. "There's no chance it's haunted by the hundred dead witches who were horrifically burned to death in this very spot, is there?"

"They're not here anymore. And they made it clear they were never coming back."

"Right. A pinkie swear?"

Caroline lit the candle around us as Bonnie and I clasped each hands, muttering the spell. "Ready? Do you need me to do..." She saw that we were doing the spell and stopped. "Right. Okay."

Wind blew all around the room. I was a little scared and tightened my grip on Bonnie hand. The Bennett witch was the main witch in this spell, I was only assisting her with what little powers I had.

"Louise... Bonnie... I don't like this. Bonnie..." She gasped suddenly. "Oh, my God. Is that your...?"

We stopped the spell and I looked over to Bonnie's other side. Sheila Bennett, my old mentor.

"Grams," Bonnie breathed. She smiled at her Grams through tears. "I can't believe you're here!"

"Now stop your crying, we don't have time for tears." Sheila smiled at her. She looked over at me. "Louise Gilbert, my student. I've been watching over you. You've grown, child." I smiled at her. "Nice to see you again, Caroline."

"Hi, Miss Sheila."

Mrs. Bennett turned to Bonnie. "A fine mess you've made, honey. The witches told you there'd be consequences to bringing Jeremy back and you did it anyway."

"I didn't have a choice. I love him and I... I couldn't just let him go."

"I understand. But you cracked open the door to the other side. There's an old witch over here. She took advantage of it. She took advantage of you, honey. When you did that spell to send Vicki Donovan away, she wedged the door wide open. Giving a free pass to anybody with unfinished business."

"How do you know this?"

"Witches talk," Sheila said. "Even on the other side. Who do you think makes all the rules?"

"What does the witch want?"

"That's original vampire business, not yours. I don't want you getting in the middle of that. I'm here because you upset the balance of nature. And it's your duty to set it right. You need to close that door, and Louise is gonna help you."

"How do we do that?"

"The witch can draw power from this side because of her talisman."

"Talisman... My necklace?"

"It's her power source. I know you're not gonna like this, but Bonnie needs to destroy it."

"I just walked in on our brother kissing the reason I'm completely okay with that."

Caroline, who was listening with her vamp-hearing, gasped. Bonnie shot us a questioning look. I shook my head. "I'm gonna text Damon to see where the necklace is. Then we can deal with him."

"I'll call you right back."

"It's not in the soap bowl!" I groaned in frustration. "He said it was in the soap bowl."

"Hey, this is Damon. Sorry I missed your call... or not if I was avoiding you. Leave a message after the beep. Make it funny."

I hung up before I could hear the beeping noise. "Not answering?" Caroline asked me.

I shook my head. "No."

"I'll call Elena." Caroline took out her phone and dialled Elena's number.

"So the necklace isn't where Damon said it would be and now we can't reach Damon... What?!But you said you were in full support of getting rid of them... Okay, let's just find it first and then we'll choose between boyfriend ghost dramas... Vamp-hearing, remember? Louise didn't have to tell me."

Caroline put her phone into her pocket. Bonnie looked at the two of us. "What are you guys talking about?"

"Um...Lexi's back, so Elena wants us to hold off on destroying the necklace," Caroline explained.

"You said boyfriend dramas. Plural. What is it, Caroline?" Caroline pursed her lips tightly, so Bonnie turned to me. "Louise?"

I shot her a sympathetic look. "Uh... Elena caught Jeremy kissing Anna."

Bonnie's face fell. She looked as if she had been punched in the gut. "What?"

"I'm so sorry," I said sadly, my voice was shaking.

"He kissed her?" Bonnie whimpered.

I nodded slowly. "He's an idiot, Bon. But we're gonna find that necklace and send her back to where she came from from. Okay?"

We searched the house from top to bottom. I looked in Damon's most secret hiding places, even his wine cellar.

"Ugh! I give up. It's not anywhere in this room," Caroline exclaimed.

Bonnie's phone rang. A picture of Jeremy popped up. The witch shot me a pleading look and I took the phone from her.

"What do you want, Jeremy?" I growled.

"Louise? Did you find that necklace?" Jeremy asked, he sounded shocked that I was being so cold with him. What did he expect?

"Not yet. What's going on?"

"Ghosts of the tomb vampires killed Tobias Fell. You might want to find that necklace before they start going alphabetically through the founding families."

"Well, it's not where it's supposed to be. Unless someone took it," I said.

Of course, Anna did. That was what first came to mind. "Who?" my brother asked.

"Black hair, five hundred years old, you're stupid enough to kiss her when you have a great girlfriend... ring any bells?"

There was a pause before he responded. "She said she didn't take it."

"Oh, of course you believe her."

"You know what, yeah. Yeah, I do believe her."

"Jeremy, I love you to pieces, but you're acting like an absolute idiot. So wake up and see the light, baby bro. Before you lose everything."

Bonnie was driving us back to the witch house. Jeremy just told me that Anna did have the necklace, but because she wanted to find her Mom. I suppose I could forgive her... I would do anything I could to find my mom.

I had hoped to see Jenna. She was a vampire before she died, but maybe she wasn't there. Maybe she was spared the torture of having to watch over your loved ones but never touch them or speak to them.

"Jeremy's got the necklace. He's going to meet us at the witch house," I told Bonnie.

"Okay. What's going on up there?"

Carol Lockwood's car was up against a tree. The mayor was unconscious. "It's Mrs. Lockwood's car." The tomb vampires approached the car. "Bonnie? I'm going to get out of the car," Caroline continued.

"What?" Bonnie exclaimed.

"And you two are gonna drive the hell away from here."

"No, Care," I said, shaking my head. "We're not leaving you."

"Bonnie's got her ghost boyfriend drama. Elena has hers. You two have to send the freaky ghosts away and right now the mother of mine is about to be ghost bait. So go and send them all back to the other side, okay?"

Caroline got out of the car. Bonnie drove away from the sight and brought us to the witch house.

I got some more candles from a room upstairs, thinking of everyone I wanted to see today. Jenna... I was disappointed I didn't see her.

But when I turned around, there was. Her strawberry blonde hair was still the same, her smile was just as bright and her eyes were just as kind. "Louise," she said.

I smiled, tears pooling up in my eyes as I pounced on her, hugging my beloved aunt. "I've missed you so much," I whimpered. "I can't... I can't even describe it. God!"

She pulled away from the hug, smiling at me. "I'm proud of you, you know that? You and Jeremy and Elena... you're all so strong."

"I've made so many mistakes," I said, wiping my eyes. "We should have told you sooner."

She shook her head. "I realise now that you were only protecting me. Tell Alaric, Jeremy and Elena that I love them. And I love you."

I choked on tears. "I don't want you to go. I don't want to fix this. I want you to stay with us."

"You have to," Jenna said. "I'm okay. I'm with you always." She grinned. "And you and Damon..."

I laughed a little. "You gonna give out to me?"

Jenna shook her head. "He makes you happy. That's all that I want. That's what you deserve. Even though I would have chose someone more... non-Damony..." I laughed through tears. "I'm still happy for you." She smiled sadly at me. "I have to go now."

"Don't go," I whimpered.

"I have to, Louise. This will make it easier for you."

And with that, my aunt blinked away.

The fireplace lit with fire thanks to my powers as Bonnie lit the candles with hers.

"Bonnie!" Jeremy's voice echoed through the room.

I turned around. Jeremy showed us the necklace. Bonnie snatched it and tossed it into the flames. She clasped my hand in hers as we muttered the spell. I felt her grams' presence, helping us cast the spell.

The necklace burned.

"You are stronger than all of this. I'm so proud of you," Sheila said to her granddaughter before disappearing.

Bonnie fell to the ground, tears streaming down her cheeks. I wrapped an arm around her held as she cried.

"Bonnie..."

The sound of my brother's - the boy who cheated on her with a ghost - made her cry more. "Just go away, Jeremy," she snapped.

"I owe you an explanation."

Bonnie unwrapped herself from me and stood up angrily. "Matt let go of his sister before you let go of Anna. His sister, Jeremy. You know what you owe me? The respect of not making me listen to you explain yourself."

"I am sorry, Bonnie."

"You need to go."

"But-"

"Jeremy, go. Leave her alone," I snapped at him.

He left. Bonnie's eyes went to the fireplace. They widened, apparently shocked at something. I followed her gaze. The necklace... it was fine. Perfectly intact.

A/N: I know Jenna never went to the Other Side, but I couldn't resist writing this. I was so upset when they didn't bring her back. One episode! One freakin' episode! How hard could it be? And then they bring her back for like five seconds in 500 Hundred Years of Solitude? Where's the logic here?

Alright, Jenna rant over. Please review and tell me what you think!

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