Start at the Beginning
Bella's Point of View
I had gotten all my things and decided to stay in a bed and breakfast just outside of town. My spell not only worked on my friends, but everyone who knew me. I had faked a paper trail that led over to Europe so when the originals came looking they would be thrown off. My room had a fire place so I lit it; fire can be a great scrying tool and can also allow you to see what happens. Right now I was scrying to see what happens as everyone wakes up. Through the spell I had replaced their memories of us with false ones to make sure there was no question as to why the Cullen's and pack were there, why Tyler knows all of it. I sat down in my chair and watched; everyone had finally woken up.
(vision in the fireplace)
"Carlisle how long are you staying?" Stefan asked.
"Oh we will be leaving tonight; it's good to see you after all these years Stefan." Carlisle replied.
"Oh now you're going to leave me out." Damon feigned hurt.
"Cut it Damon we all know you don't care." Bonnie snapped and turned to Jake, "Are you leaving too?"
They had imprinted and I allowed them to keep that memory just altering why they came.
"No, you're here and this is where I belong." He said.
Leah had decided to stay as well and after the pack and Cullen's goodbyes it was just Bonnie, Anna, Jeremy, Stefan, Elena, Caroline, Tyler, Leah, Jake, and Damon.
"What are we going to do about me?" Tyler asked.
"I could always kill you." Damon said as he poured himself a drink.
"Over my dead body." Leah growled.
I started to feel so drained and I had to let the connection go. I climbed into bed and although I was exhausted sleep evaded me. Instead sorrow racked my body as I sobbed; I knew what I did was for the best, but that didn't mean it hurt any less.
Damon's Point of View
The Cullen's and all the pack minus the imprinted ones left and for that I was glad; I didn't like them at all, but they were Stefan's friends. We had rescued Elena from Elijah and found out why they wanted her, but for now that was on the back burner due to the fact that Tyler had killed someone and would probably turn now.
"What are we going to do about me?" he asked.
"Well I could always kill you." I said smirking as I poured a drink.
"Over my dead body." Leah said getting defensive.
I was about to say something when I looked over to Elena and she didn't look so good, "Elena what's wrong?" I asked.
"Something doesn't feel right." She said.
"What do you mean?" Jeremy asked.
"I feel like this is an illusion." She replied and when we all looked at her like she was crazy. "Don't you even feel the least bit unnerved? I feel like things are all jumbled and not how they should be."
"It's alright Elena." Stefan said and I rolled my eyes.
"Why are you always so worried you have Stefan to protect you although the blood of bunnies doesn't exactly go a long way." I said and as I was about to take a drink I stopped.
Before tonight I had been obsessed and would have given anything to comfort Elena, but now I felt like that had suddenly changed; like I had someone else, but I didn't who.
"She's right." I said putting the glass down, "None of this seems right."
Bonnie took a step forward, "I'm with both of you there something feels like its missing."
"No it feels like someone is missing." Jake said chiming in.
"Well what do we do?" Caroline asked.
"I'll work on a spell, but everyone we need rest so let's go. Jake, Leah, I think you should stay here at the boarding house and I'll be by tomorrow." Bonnie said.
Everyone left leaving me, Jake, Leah, and Stefan.
"Something really isn't right, is it?" Stefan asked me.
"No and my guess is that we have another witch on our hands; something with my memories aren't right. They seem real, but it's like there's something underneath them." I replied and I headed up to bed.
I swear which ever witch that was messing with me was going to die when I found them. I laid down in my bed and suddenly I got a wave of loneliness; I looked to the empty space next to me and felt longing. Something was seriously wrong and someone important to me was obviously missing. I stared at the empty space for the longest time.
Morning came and I just laid in bed. I hadn't slept all night because I couldn't stop staring at the empty space and a scent that lingered on the pillow. It was the most inviting thing I had ever smelled, but something in my brain told me that whose scent this belonged to meant something to me.
Stefan had already left for school, Leah and Jake were getting their stuff ready to attend the school so that just left me. I needed a drink so I got dressed and headed out.
Bella's Point of View
I didn't sleep well at all; I needed answer and the only person to give them to me would be Katherine. I got dressed and headed down to the tomb. I had decided not to erase Katherine's memory because I was going to need her and it would have been harder to use her had I erased her memory. I opened the tomb and there she was;
"How are we feeling today?" I asked.
"Wonderful; I'm enjoying my vacation." She said and already the lack of blood was evident.
"Well this is what happens when you misbehave and use people as pawns. It could be much worse." I replied sitting down on a boulder.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"I want to know how to stop the originals in fact one by the name of Klaus." I said and she froze.
"How do you know him?" she asked.
"I had a vision and I heard his name; he is the center of it all isn't he." I said.
"If you're such a clever witch you figure it out." She said.
"Fine enjoy rotting here." I said and I started to close the door, "You know Katherine if you help me I help you. Think about that for a bit." And I closed the door.
It was noon and I needed some food so I headed over to Mystic Grill. Everyone was in school and I was sure Damon was out causing mayhem so I wasn't worried about running into them. I got asked if I was new in town and I told them I was just passing through. I was sitting at my table finishing my lunch when I saw Damon walk in. I wanted to go over and hug him and kiss him, but I couldn't. I flagged down my waitress to get my ticket;
"It's already been taken care of." She said with a dazed look.
"Who?" I asked even though I knew who it was.
"Well a pretty girl shouldn't sit alone or have to pay for her lunch." Damon said sitting down across from me.
"Thank you, but it was unnecessary." I said and stood to leave.
"Why don't you stay and have a drink with me." He said with his signature cocky smile.
"I can't I have to go." I said.
He grabbed my hand and the spark flew between us and he looked at me, "Do I know you?"
"No." I said and yanked my wrist from his grasp.
Damon's Point of View
I walked into the Grill and sat down at the bar; I was ordering my usual when I spotted a pretty blonde with these grey blue eyes sitting alone. She was captivating and I was drawn to her like a moth to a flame. I compelled the waitress serving her to say I paid for it and then I went over to talk to her. She was so gorgeous, but very hesitant. When I grabbed her hand I felt a spark of recognition;
"Do I know you?" I asked looking at her.
"No." she said and yanked her hand from my grasp and walked away.
I followed her because I knew somehow I knew her. I couldn't place it, but I was certain she was someone I had met. When she reached to door and pulled it open a breeze sent her scent my way and I realized that it was the same scent from my pillow.
"Who are you?" I asked grabbing her arm.
"Look I don't know who you are but let me go." She said.
My brother was suddenly behind her, "Damon let her go."
I released her arm and when she turned my brother gave her puzzling look like he knew her, but couldn't place her. She quickly got into her car and left.
"What was that about?" he asked.
"I know her from somewhere and she smells just like my pillows." I said.
"So you had her in bed." Stefan said.
"No that's not it; her scent is old and built up on my pillows. Stefan I know her and I could see it on your face you know her too." I said.
"I know; I feel like I've known her for so long and yet I can't place her." Stefan said. "We need to talk to Bonnie."
I agreed and we headed to the house.
"Okay so I found a spell that might help us." Bonnie said as she walked into the house, "Someone screwed with our memories."
"Thank you captain obvious how do we reverse it?" I asked.
"Only the witch that cast it can undo it. That's the easiest way, but there is another way. If just one of us can regain our memories we all regain them; the problem is that it's never been done." Bonnie answered. "The spell worked, but whoever we were supposed to forget we can't completely because we were so close to them. My thing is how someone could get that close to make us forget."
"What if the person who made us forget is the person we forgot?" Elena asked.
We all stood quiet processing what she just said. It was very possible that was the case, but why would someone we care about want to erase them from our lives? Also why did I have the feeling that whoever it was meant something more to me than Elena or Katherine and how was it even possible?
Bella's Point of View
The damn spell should have worked; well okay it did, but they still looked like they knew me. I got back to my room and looked through my spell book and found the answer;
The spell will work, but on some it might not. Depending on how deeply the ties are between the people will determine how well the spell will work. If the persons are deeply bonded then effect of the spell will show; they shall forget, but will have a lingering feeling. If not careful something can trigger the memory and the spell will be broken.
I slammed the book shut and took a deep breath; how was I supposed to watch over them when I could trigger their memory. I could always scry, but that took so much out of me and if they were attacked I could possibly be useless. I decided for now to scry until I could find a better alternative. I got up to grab my jacket and I got a vision;
(Vision)
Elijah hanging from the door of the mansion where I was held; suddenly his color started to come back and he pulled the coat hanger out of his chest.
(End vision)
I started breathing hard; there was no way he could be alive, but he was. I had to talk to Katherine so I grabbed some blood bags and headed to the tomb. I opened the door and there she was;
"You help me I help you." I said and threw her a blood bag.
She tore into it and drank it quickly, "More." She said.
"No you answer you get a bag; that one was for good faith. Now Damon staked Elijah and I just had vision of Elijah pulling the stake out and coming back to life; explain." I said.
"He is an original they're stronger than the rest of us. It takes more than a stake through the heart to kill them." She said.
I threw her another blood bag, "How do you kill them?" I asked as she drank.
"I don't know; they don't necessarily advertise that." She sneered at me.
"You better watch it Kathy; I'm the one feeding you so I would be nice otherwise I can just ask questions without blood." I said. "I feel like being nice so don't push it."
"You don't feed me; I don't answer." She retorted.
"Katherine you know what I'm capable of so I suggest you not piss me off." I said.
"You don't scare me." She hissed becoming more brazen.
"Fine," I said and stepped away from the door, "Let's see how you feel in a few days or maybe weeks." I said and closed the door to her protests.
I headed back to the bed and breakfast. I took my shower and fell asleep quickly.
Damon's Point of View
After several hours of discussing the possibilities we were all worn out and headed for bed. As I laid in my bed the scent hit me again and I remembered the girl from the grill. Something told me that she was the center of this and that I should had followed her. I fell asleep quickly and dreamt for the first time in 145 years;
(Start dream)
I was in a coffee shop with the girl from the grill except she was younger with long brown hair.
"So Damon how old are you?" she asked.
"21." I replied.
"No, I mean altogether." She said shaking her head.
"162 years." I replied.
"So you've been like this for 143 years." She said and I nodded my head. "Where are you originally from?"
"Mystic Falls." I said.
"So you're Damon Salvatore, brother to Stefan and uncle to Zach." She said.
"How do you know them?" I asked shocked.
"I spent summers in Mystic Falls with my grandmother and I know all about the council and the history. I know Zach because he and my grandmother worked together on the council and on my recent visit I met your brother." She explained.
"What do you think of him?" I asked expecting to hear she loved him and how hot he was.
"He's okay; too brooding for me. I mean things happen I get it, but at some point you gotta let it go and live. I mean when you have forever why waste it." She said.
"You are a curious human; here you are sitting with me which is dangerous and you aren't guarded." I said.
"I like danger." She said smiling.
"Well everyone likes a little danger, but I'm more than a little dangerous." I said leaning close to her.
She leaned closer to me, "So am i." she replied with a gleam in her eye.
"Careful Sirena, I bite." I said and quickly flashed my fangs.
"What does that mean; sirena?" she asked not phased at all.
"It's Italian for siren since your blood sang to me." I said.
"Maybe you can teach me how to speak Italian." She said grabbing her jacket.
I watched as she asked the waitress for a pen and then she took my hand and wrote her number. She turned to go, but faced me and leaned in until she was so close that if either of us moved a centimeter our lips would meet.
"Oh and Damon it's okay if you bite because I bite back." She whispered and walked away.
I sat there completely dazed and turned on deciding that tomorrow I would call her because I was drawn to this siren and I was not going to try and refuse the song she was singing.
(end dream)
I woke up with a start and shook my head trying to clear it. That dream was familiar and it felt right. How was it I knew the girl and she knew me, but now it was as if we were strangers except for the fact she seemed so familiar. The girl from the grill was in the center of all this and starting tomorrow I was going to find out who she was, where she was, and what happened.
A/N: Two chapters in two days I'm so excited that I got this up and I hope you like it. Now I can tell that the next few chapters the dreams people have will be their memories resurfacing. I hope you all will enjoy especially Damon's memories because they will show how Bella and he became close. Now this first flashback is of the night they met after they went inside out of the cold. Review and if I get over 123 reviews (it's an inside joke why I chose this number) I will post another chapter. Thanks for all the support and love you guys.