Break in the Dam
Bella's Point of View (out of body experience)
I was standing in a field near an altar that faced the ocean. On the ground around the altar were four symbols each representing the elements. I could smell the sea air and feel the breeze in my hair;
"Beautiful isn't it?" I heard someone ask behind me.
I turned to see a beautiful woman with mahogany hair and piercing green eyes; her skin was milky white and she had a small smile. She wore a dark blue renaissance type dress.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the first in our line of witches, but you can call me Brighid (pronounced like Bridget)" she replied.
"That means exhalted one." I said.
"Very good what else do you know of the name?" she asked circling me.
"My grandmother told me that Brighid was the daughter of the God Dagda; she was considered the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom." I replied.
"I'm far from a goddess, but I was named after her." She replied laughing, "You have come here for answers." She said and gestured me to follow her.
"Yes." I said and quickly ran to catch up to her.
"You are the last of our line aren't you?" she asked in her think Irish accent.
"Yes." I replied. "Where am I?"
"You asked to be brought to the beginning and this is where it all started." Brighid said as we walked towards a house. "You want to know about the curse and why this all began."
"Yes, I have to save my friends." I replied.
"Who are your friends?" she asked.
"Elena Gilbert who is a descendent of the Petrova clan." I said, "Tyler Lockwood, a werewolf, Caroline Forbes a vampire, and Bonnie Bennett a witch."
"Elena must be the Petrova doppleganger." She replied.
"Yes, but I can promise that in my time things have changed and she is a good person." I said.
"No Petrova is a good person." She spat. "Why should I help you save her or the other abomination werewolf or vampire? I will of course help a sister witch."
I got angry and yanked her arm so she had to face me, "These are my friends and I have trusted my life with them; they have never harmed nor betrayed me. If you won't help me tell me now and I won't waste anymore of your time, but know this I will find a way to stop this with or without your help."
She looked at me for a moment studying, reading me it seemed like, "You truly are a MacKenna."
MacKenna was my family's surname before they came to America.
"I am and I'm not backing down." I replied.
"Tell me Isabella these friends would they die for you, kill for you, do anything for you?" she asked.
"They already have killed to protect me and I won't allow them the opportunity to die to protect me even though I know they would and so would I." I said.
"Come Isabella." She said and took my hand.
She led me down a hill and onto the beach, "This is where it started; I was 19 and supposed to be married. My brother came rushing in telling us something was going down at the beach. My mother wished for me to stay and hide, but I refused. I had been the first witch in our family and I was the one who protected our village. I went down to the beach and they were there; vampires and werewolves. They came to claim our village for their own, but fought for who would control it. That is how the feud started, but their feud is not why you are here. They wanted us to bow down to them, but we refused. I had no idea at the time what they were, but in a flash they had my love in their clutches and drained him dry. I became so angry I used my powers and revealed myself. The leader of the vampires called for them to withdraw and they did. I assumed it was the end, but I was so wrong. A few weeks later they came back and sacked the village; Klaus the leader wanted me for his bride. He saw power and wanted it and when I refused he killed everyone in the village leaving only my baby sister and a young girl…a Petrova who was visiting from another village. He told me he would come back for me at nightfall and if I did not agree he would kill them. I decided not to allow that to happen."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"I made a sacrifice; my fiancée had given me the moonstone as a promise and I decided to use it. I infused it with my blood and the blood of the Petrova girl and before you ask yes I killed her. When Klaus came back that night I tricked him and a werewolf. I obtained their blood and cursed the vampires into the night and the wolves into relinquishing control over their phasing so that they were at the mercy of the moon." She said.
"Klaus killed you didn't he." I said.
"Yes, but not before I had sent my sister away and now I see my line has lived on." She said and stroked my cheek.
"How can I make it so Klaus can't use the moonstone, but release my friend Tyler?" I asked.
"A sacrifice." She said and then I heard thunder and saw lightning.
"What sacrifice?" I asked.
"You know what sacrifice already." She yelled as the thunder grew, "It's time for you to go; you have all the answers you need…..for now."
Lightning struck me and when I opened my eyes I was back in my room, but I wasn't alone.
"Bella?" I heard Tyler ask me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Bella what happened to your hand?" Matt asked ignoring the question.
"Never mind." I said and tried to stand but the moment I was vertical a wave of dizziness hit me and I sank into unconsciousness.
Damon's Point of View
"Damn old lady refusing to let us in." I said through clenched teeth.
"You gotta admit Bella had her bases covered." Stefan said.
"She always does lately; I can't even make her slip up once." Caroline pouted.
I looked up and saw Matt carrying Bella's limp body with Tyler, Elena, Bonnie, and Jake following with her things;
"What happened?" I asked rushing over to her.
"Don't know she was like asleep or something when we got in there, her hand was bleeding over the moonstone, then she woke up, stood up, and passed out." Elena said.
"She's used too much; I can feel her exhaustion." Jasper said.
"This is getting ridiculous; she's trying to take this on by herself and she can't do it." Bonnie said throwing Bella's bags into the trunk of my car while Matt placed her in the backseat.
"So what now?" Jake asked.
"Now we take her back to the boarding house and wait until she wakes up." Stefan said.
Stefan and Elena rode with me back to the boarding house due to the face Bella was in my car. Elena sat in the front and kept warning me about this and that; saying if I did anything I was going to have a stake in my heart. I ignored her as usual and just kept glancing in the mirror back at Bella. She was deathly pale and her cheeks were sunken in. I knew I had screwed up with what happened and I was wondering how I was going to fix it. Bella was everything I could ever want; a friend, a teacher, a lover (even though we hadn't officially experienced that part of our relationship and now probably never would.) She may never take me back and I could accept that, but I would not stand by and watch as she did this to herself. Slowly she was killing herself and it had to stop the question was how to stop her.
We arrived back at the boarding house and I quickly scooped Bella up and ran her up to my room. The others had decided to look through Bella's spell books to look for answers and had agreed that when she woke up I should be there, (probably because she was going to angry and I deserved a good ass kicking.) I left to go get a blood bag and when I returned Bella was sitting up in bed;
"How long have I been here?" she asked.
"About three hours." I replied. "Bella I don't know what happened with Rose."
"Doesn't matter." Bella said.
I froze, "What do you mean it doesn't matter?"
"I mean you are who you are Damon and I was naïve to think that you could be faithful. I've known you for a long time that I should have known better but I didn't. Consider it water under the bridge." She said.
I blurred next to her and forced her to look at me, "NO," I said, "I can change what happened with Rose was a mistake…a grossly huge mistake…..one that I will spend the rest of my eternity making up to you."
"We won't have that kind of time and right now our problems or whatever are not important." Bella said and stood up.
"Where do you think you're going?" I asked grabbing her arm.
"Downstairs to look in my books; you did bring them didn't you?" she asked.
"Yes, but let the others look through them you need rest and we need to talk." I said.
"There's nothing to talk about." She stated again.
"And I think there is." I said. "Now what is going on?"
"Nothing." She said.
"You know something Sirena." I said.
"What I know is my business now I need to go downstairs and look through the books." She said and headed down the stairs.
"Bella!" Alice exclaimed when she came down.
"Hello Alice," Bella said politely and walked to her books, "Having trouble understanding them?" she asked.
"Yeah, what language is this?" Caroline asked.
"Gaelic." Bella answered, "I don't need you to look through them I found the answers I wanted."
Bonnie looked at her for a moment and then her eyes got very big, "You didn't."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Bella said grabbing her books.
Bonnie grabbed her arm and forced her to look at her, "Bella tell me you didn't; you know in doing that you risk everything."
"I did what needed to be done, just as you did with the Gilbert device except I didn't put my friends in danger." Bella replied glaring at Bonnie.
"You idiot." Bonnie seethed.
"I have been doing this a lot longer than you Bonnie, I know the limits." Bella replied.
"What is going on?" Elena asked coming between the two of them.
"Bella's opened herself up." Bonnie said.
"What does that mean?" Jake asked pulling Bonnie away.
"Nothing." Bella said never breaking eye contact with Bonnie.
"You fool!" Bonnie said and broke away from Jake and started shaking Bella, "You damn fool, you are going to kill yourself! Do you realize that?"
"I'm fully aware of the risks and I'm willing to take them." Bella said.
"Well I'm not willing to stand by and watch you die!" Bonnie screamed.
"There's nothing you can do and I'm not going to die." Bella said.
"You've opened yourself up to the moonstone; you are going to feel every life that has been affected by it." Bonnie yelled.
"Someone explain this to us." Tyler said.
"Bella bled over the moonstone to open up a gate to the past, but it won't close until she sees everything and feels everything anyone who has ever been in contact with the moonstone has felt. Think of it as her visions only these could kill her because there is no off switch, there is no stopping it, and there is no telling when it will hit. She could go into a state like she did earlier and may never come out." Bonnie yelled and we all looked at Bella.
Bella merely shrugged, "You have such little faith in me." She said and headed for the stairs, but I stopped her.
"Isabella," I said and grabbed her arm, "Is it true?"
"Yes." She said.
"Why would you do that?" Elena yelled.
"Because it's the only way to get answers." She replied.
"No we could have figured another way." Bonnie said.
"Fine then I decided to do it because I have nothing left to fear; besides think of it this way if I die there's no reason for Klaus to come after you." Bella said.
I grabbed her tightly by the shoulders and shook her, "Don't even think about dying do you understand me." I said very low and seriously.
"Damon don't pretend to give a damn what happens to me; you made it quite clear where I stood with you when you slept with Rose. Now let me go." She said.
"I'm not letting you go Bella, I'm not letting you out of my sight; the only way that will happen is if you kill me. So either do it or get used to me being where you are." I replied.
"I don't want you near me." Bella replied.
"Well tough," I said and picked her up throwing her over my shoulder.
"Damon put me down." She screamed.
"No," I said and started up the stairs. When we got to my room I threw her on the bed and shut and locked the door, "Now you listen here you little witch, I've had it with this running off on your own. It's not happening anymore."
She got up, walked over to me and glared, "What are you going to do?" she asked.
I leaned down until my nose was touching hers, "If I have to Bella I will drain you." I said.
Her eyes got a little big and then she quickly masked her fear, "You lie."
I wrapped my arms around her torso and pulled her to me, "You're right I wouldn't do that, but I will make sure you don't go anywhere." I said and then I kissed her.
At first she fought me, but never once did she use her powers; finally her arms wound themselves around my neck and pulled me closer to her. I picked her up and took her over to the bed. I knew I wasn't fully forgiven, but damn it this was a good start.
A/N: Alright now you guys are kind of in the loop as to what started the curse. You will find out more about Brighid and the curse later on. Now for the record Bella hasn't forgiven Damon even though he thinks they are on the road there, but I can tell you that Bella isn't exactly feeling her own feelings right now. So things are going to get intense and kind of confusing. Review and let me know what you think