A/N: Still the same chapter as before, I'm working on a rewrite, Sorry...
Eliza Dushku as Jessica Evans
Maggie Grace as Bethany "Beth" Evans
Taylor Kitsch as Grant Evans
Mary-Margaret Humes as Sarah Evans
Anthony Head as Joshua Evans
Judi Dench as Alexandria Keller
Links to pictures of Jessica and Beth outfits can be found on my profile.
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Chapter title's song reference: The Fray - You Found Me
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, only Jessica, Beth, other OC in further chapters, and the plot.
Chapter Eleven – You Found Me
After they said goodnight to Beth, Elijah walked Jessica back to her room.
"Thank you, Elijah, for being so kind and accompany me tonight, I had an amazing time, and I believe it's all thanks to you."
"No, Jessica, I am the one that should say thank you," Elijah smiled, and kissed her hand, making her face to turn very red, "for making this evening so… interesting."
Jessica started to get goose bumps, and without thinking, she gave Elijah a kiss on the cheek.
"I– I–" Jessica stuttered, making Elijah to smile. Jessica made a nervous laughter. "I'm sorry… I should probably go before I do something really embarrassing, and I see you tomorrow. Good night." Jessica said as she almost ran through her door, cursing in her mind over what she had just done.
Sighing, she sat down on the couch, turning on the TV but didn't really pay attention to what was on the screen. Her mind was a bit too cloudy with Elijah, Katherine, Elijah, Klaus… more Elijah… No, no, no more thinking about Elijah, or any vampire in fact…at least for tonight.
When she was getting out of her dress, she, without noticing, knocked over a wooden frame, and as she was about to get into bed, she saw it and picked it up. It was an old photo from when she was about seven, showing herself, Beth, Grant, mum (Sarah), dad (Joshua) and grandma (Alexandria) when they had all been in New York. She really wished that her dad was there, because he always knew what to do, and that is something she needed right now.
She tried to push that thought away but it only made it come back again and again, followed by others like it, making her miss her family so much. She was too tired to deal with this, so she went to bed instead.
Where was she? The room seamed so familiar, like she had been there before… She walked over to the next room, a kitchen, and an older woman sat at the table. Jessica knew she had seen her before, but she couldn't place her.
"Hello, Jessica, it's good to see you, it been too long. What's the matter, you seem like you don't recognize me…" The woman gave Jessica a channelizing smile, and that's when Jessica recognized the necklace she was wearing. It was the same that mum used to wear, that she had inhered from her moth-
"Alexandria?"
"Jessica, is that the way to greet your grandmother? Please call me Grandma, like you used to do when you were little. How have you been? Not that I don't know, I just find it more polite to ask first."
"I'm dreaming, right? So, how can you be here, no spirits can come near me, I've been using Wintergreen all over the house, which you should know since you where the one that taught me that spell."
"You know us 'old folks'– we always find a way back to the ones we care about."
"But I don't understand… mum said you weren't on the other side and that you moved on."
"Well, you messed up real big this time that I felt that you needed all the help you could get, to find your way back. We're going to take a look at all the reasons for you not to trust vampires. Let's start with number one."
Alexandra put her hand on Jessica's shoulder and the scenery changed into a small field right outside a small town, in the middle of the night.
"Where are we?"
"Don't you recognize it?" Jessica shocks her head. "It doesn't matter, what you should focus on is that." Alexandria points toward a child that was spying on a group of people, hiding in the bushes.
"Who is that?"
"That, Jessica, is you."
"Me? I can't be more than-"
"Eight years old and those 'people' are–"
"Vampires. I remember, they had been lurking around the school and I sensed them– and decided to take them down all by myself."
"Yes, but you didn't know that your father had followed you."
One of the vampires smelled "little Jessica" and attacked her, but as he was about to feed on her, Joshua pushed him away, screaming for Jessica to hide. Then the vampire bit Joshua in the neck, just as Joshua staked the vampire. Her dad was bleeding heavily but covered it for her, and told her to get her mum. Seconds after she left Joshua fell to the ground, dead, and Jessica and Alexandria were back in Alexandria's kitchen.
"Why did you feel like you had to show me that? Don't you think that I already blame myself for my dad's death?"
"I do, but you need to be reminded why vampires are not to be trusted. But let's move on."
"Wait, there is more you want to force me to watch?"
"Of course, I told you I would show you every reason why you shouldn't trust vampires. Now it's time for number two."
This time the scenery changed to a forest clearing in the middle of a battle. There were four vampires, fighting a witch… It was Jessica, this time fifteen years old. She managed to kill two of them, but then she fell to the ground, bleeding from several parts of her body. Her mum came sprinting and sent the vampires running; then she knelt down next to Jessica.
"Hey mum," Jessica said weakly, "here to say your goodbyes?"
"You're not going to die, I wouldn't allow it." Jessica gave her crying mum a weak smile, before she passed out.
Sarah ran to her bag, took her grimoire, and browsed rapidly through the pages until she found what she was looking for. She took some herbs, mashed them in her hands, grabbed Jessica's hands, and began chanting a healing spell. Immediately several people appeared around her, and Emily stood before Sarah.
"Sarah, you have to stop, you don't want to do this. If you do, there will be severe consequences."
"I have to go something; I can't just watch my daughter die without doing something about it. Please, Emily, I beg you to help me."
"Sarah, you have always a good mother and a good servant of nature, and I wish I could help you without consequences, but what you're asking of will take all of your life-force, as well as your magic, and transferred into Jessica, leaving you dead and your daughter dangerously powerful. Are you willing to do this?"
"Yes I am. Now, please, help me save my daughter." Emily nodded, and all the spirits forms a circle around Sarah and Jessica, starting to chant. A bright silvery light came from their hands, and Sarah began to choke, collapsing on the ground. Moments later Jessica woke up, looking really confused at all the spirits around her, and then at her mum.
"Emily, what's going on? Mum, why are you lying on the ground? Mum?" Jessica's confused mind cleared up quickly as she tried to wake her mother up. When she noticed Sarah wasn't breathing she was about to perform CPR, when Emily stopped her.
"Jessica, you need to listen to me. No matter what you do, your mother won't wake up."
"Why?" Jessica said while sobbing.
"Because she sacrificed her life to save yours, so you better live your life in a way that would make her proud." Emily said as all the spirits and the forest disappeared.
They were back at Alexandria's house, and Jessica felt nauseous and just wanted to wake up.
"I guess that you want me to admit I'm responsible for the death of both my parents."
"Yes I do. If you hadn't been so obsessed with killing vampires after your father's death, your mother would be alive. If it had been up to me, Sarah would never have been allowed to finished that spell. Now we have one more stop before we're done. Shall we?" Jessica wanted to object, but not a sound came out of her mouth.
The scenery changed for the last time into the front of an abandoned building. Jessica remembered it very well, since it only had been a few years since she'd been there.
"Please, Grandma, hasn't this been enough?" Alexandria didn't respond and her face was emotionless.
Time sped up, and it was twilight; Another battle, much bigger this time, was in process. At least fifteen witches and warlocks were fighting around twenty-five vampires, one of them being Katherine. Time shifted once again, and the battle had almost ended.Jessica, Beth and Grant had cornered Katherine, but before they had a chance to kill her, Katherine grabbed Grant, forced him to drink her blood and snapped his neck. Before his body hit the ground, Katherine was gone. Time changed, and Grant had just woken up, Jessica being the only one there with him.
"Jessica, what happened… wait, Katherine forced me to drink… and then she… Oh my god, am I dead? I'm a vampire, aren't I?" Jessica nodded as she started sobbing.
"You're in transition." Jessica said as she took a knife and cut her wrist so it started bleeding. "Here, drink it." Grant turned away from her, fighting the blood-lust.
"I can't do that. The last thing I want is to turn into a vampire."
"But then you will be dead… Please, Grant, being a vampire isn't the end of the world. You have so much to live for: Stephanie, Jill, Aaron, Beth and I."
"I can't be a good husband, father or brother as a vampire. I need to do this, for everyone's sake."
"You can't just leave us, we need you… I need my big brother." Jessica started to cry, and Grant dried them with his sleeve.
"You're one of the strongest people I know, not just as a witch but as a human being. I need you to take care of our family, to keep them all alive and safe. Can you promise me that?"
"Of course. I wish you would reconsider, but you're just as stubborn as me. I just can't get over the fact that you wouldn't even be here if I hadn't asked you."
"I came here because I wanted to." Grant sighed and sat down on the ground. "There are so many things I want to tell you. I'm sorry for leaving you and Beth for Los Angeles and college when I turned 18."
"You don't have to apologize for wanting your own life, and I shouldn't have said the things I did." Grant smiled, and gave Jessica a hug.
"Now that you have seen all the things you were supposed to see, my work here is almost done. Before I leave, a reminder: If you don't stop your deal with Klaus, we will stop it for you, and we won't stop until it's broken, no matter what."
"Not even if Beth and I are dead?"
Alexandria was stone-faced, confirming what Jessica just said.
"My own grandmother, who should love and support me, wants me dead, and I guess that goes for all my ancestors."
"Yes, and if we need to, we will make the order to kill you." Alexandria says as everything turns black.
Jessica woke up feeling extremely confused, out of breath, and with tears falling from her eyes. She didn't know what to do, but right now she didn't want to be in her room. She stumbled out of the room but when she was outside the bathroom, her legs didn't support her and she fell to the floor, crying hysterically.
"Jessica, are you okay?" Someone said in a gentle tone, but Jessica's head felt so heavy, she didn't look who it was, and her mind was too clouded to even try to recognize the voice.
Next thing she knew, she was carried back into her room and back into her bed. What felt like seconds later, that someone returned, and practically forced down water down her throat. This made Jessica snap out of her crying, and she looked up into Elijah's concerned eyes.
"Jessica, why are you crying?" But Jessica couldn't answer his question. Elijah sighed and was about to leave when Jessica took his hand.
"Please, can you… just, please stay. At least until I fall asleep." Elijah nodded, laid down next to her, and she crawled closer to him, the tears flowing freely again.
Elijah put his arms around her, rocking her gently until she finally fell asleep.
Elijah's POV
Elijah was reading Stephen King's "Full Dark, No Stars", trying not to think about the woman in the room next door. His mind kept drifting to images of them practicing dancing, the way Jessica looked at the ball… Elijah sighed and got back to his book, only to throw it away moments later, deciding to get some rest.
He woke up a couple of hour later to the sound of crying, and since it kept him from going back to sleep, he elected to check it out.
When he opened his door, he saw Jessica sitting on the floor, crying.
"Jessica, are you okay?" He asked, but she didn't answer or stop crying, seeming too confused. So he did the only thing he could come up with: he lifted her up in his arms and carried her back to her room, hoping she hadn't put that spell back on her door. Thankfully she hadn't, so he had no problem carrying her through the door. He put her back in her bed, and then got her some water. For a second he considered to throw it in her face, but instead he forced her to drink it, finally getting her back from her craziness.
"Jessica, why are you crying?" He wanted so badly to make her feel better. He would have done almost anything for her.
She didn't answer, and he didn't want to push the matter further, thus upsetting her more. He decided to go back to his bed, and try to talk to Jessica tomorrow, but when he turned to leave Jessica surprisingly asked him to stay. He made a silent chuckle, and laid down next to her. She looked so sad that, if his heart had been beating, it would not quite have broken, but at least cracked a little. He got a bit surprised when Jessica scooted closer to him, but before he could say anything she started crying again, making him do the same thing he used to do to Rebekah when she was a child and would crying– hold her tight and rock her gently. Soon, Jessica had stopped crying and was asleep.
He was about to leave for his own bed, but then decided to stay. He rationalized that her bed was more comfortable, but deep down he knew that wasn't the entire truth. The last thing he saw before closing his eyes was Jessica looking almost peaceful as she was laying in his arms, and he sincerely hoped it wouldn't be for the last time.
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