AN: So I hinted in previous chapters that Derek did something that made Anastasia hate him and I wanted it to be something besides the fire. So I thought of things for awhile about what it could be. I want it to be bad, but yet something she can later forgive. So... I finally made my decision."
Anastasia lays in bed staring up at her ceiling. She hasn't talked to Elena since their fight, but she can already see changes in Jeremy. He's no longer sad and upset, which means he's dedicating himself to school rather than drugs, but Anastasia doesn't want her cousin to be forced to change by compulsion. She doesn't believe in wiping away a person's memory.
"Anya?" Anastasia turns and sees Bonnie standing in her doorway. "Elena says you and her are fighting." She walks in and plops down on her bed. "Wanna talk about it?"
"No." Bonnie cocks her head to the side.
"Come on, what's wrong?"
"Elena and I just didn't agree on something... It made me think of my family, the ones who are dead."
"Oh," Bonnie says as she pulls Anastasia into her arms. "I'm sure Elena feels terrible."
"Other words you want us to make up."
"She's one of the few family members you have left, do you really want to hate her. I mean look at your cousins Derek and Laura, you never even see them anymore." Anastasia tears up at the thought and Bonnie frowns. "Anya?"
"Derek called me a few weeks ago..." She wipes her eyes and looks down at the sheets. "Laura died. He thinks she was murdered by an alpha werewolf."
"Oh my god, Anya."
"I told Derek that I would go down and help him find her killer, but he says it's too dangerous."
"Have you heard from him since?" Anastasia shakes her head.
"I think he thinks I don't want to hear from him."
"Anya... I know that you and I never really hung out or talked before I found out I was a witch, but I have come to realize that I can trust you with anything. You're just so sincere and real. You speak your mind and opinions and you don't let anyone sway your thinking. You can be brutally honest, but I know you are 100% loyal. What I tell you you would never tell anyone else. I want you to feel the same way with me. I would never tell anyone anything you tell me in secret, so I am asking, you don't have to tell me, but why do you hate Laura and Derek?" Anastasia stares down at her hands.
"It's not Laura I hate... Laura didn't know the story, but she chose Derek's side, which is why I was mad at her, but I don't hate her."
"And Derek?"
"Derek did something pretty bad..."
"What did he do?"
"Well, the fire was caused by the Argents as you already now. The Argents are a family of hunters."
"Right."
"Well, Derek told one of the Argents everything because he thought he was in love with her."
"Wait, so-
"No that's the reason I mad at him, well partially, but there's more to it." Anastasia says. "Derek... he told this girl everything including about his family. So before the fire even happened, Derek's girlfriend Kate, found me. She told me Derek told her everything about me because at the time Derek and I were very close, so Kate knew what I looked like and she knew what I was. She took me back to family because I didn't realize she was a hunter. She told me she was Derek's girlfriend and I believed her."
"What did she do?"
"She tortured me for a full forty-eight hour. She shot me with wolfsbane bullets, that can kill a werewolf in a slow and painful death, while also doing other horrible stuff like electrocuting me. Eventually my father found me and saved me. I told Derek who the woman was when he asked and told him what she did to me. He went on to defend her and when I threatened to go to my dad to tell him who she was because he wanted to know in order to kill her, Derek told me that if I told anyone he'd shot me himself."
"Oh my god."
"He thought he was in love and that Kate could never do such a thing and that I was lying because I wanted his attention. At the time he made me afraid of him and then the fire happened. Between the fire and getting me caught by a hunter and tortured..."
"Your cousin got you tortured by a hunter/his girlfriend and then proceeded to get your family killed despite you telling him it was, in fact, his girlfriend and then threatened you into not telling anyone because he believed his girlfriend was innocent."
"I still have the scars," Anastasia says as she turns her back and lifts up her shirt. "They're faint. You wouldn't see them if you didn't know they were there. They blend against my skin." Bonnie runs her fingers over the whip scars that line all over her back. "Kate did this and even after showing Derek he didn't believe Kate did it."
"I'm so sorry, Anya."
"My werewolf healing made them heal pretty well. They're white, so like I already said, they blend into the rest of my skin, but they'll never fully heal."
"I don't blame you for being mad at Derek."
"I understand that she tricked him, but to believe her over me when I had just suffered forty-eight hours with her torture... That I can't forgive and I'm glad he regrets his decision to trust her over me." Bonnie pulls Anastasia into her arms and hugs her.
"I'm so sorry, Anya. You've been through ten times more than what most people go through their entire life. You were only eleven too when this all happened."
"I know." The two sit for awhile just talking, trying to make each other feel better. Soon, however, Bonnie keeps looking at the door. "You have to go?"
"I actually wants to tell Elena... about you know... My witchy abilities."
"And you want me to come with you to see her so that we can make up."
"Please?" Anastasia sighs and follows Bonnie out of her room and into Elena's. "You up?" Bonnie asks as she knocks on the door, opening to find Elena in her bed.
"No." She sighs as she covers herself in her blanket. Bonnie and Anastasia closes the door and walk into the room.
"I'm sorry for flipping on you before." Anastasia says. Elena pulls back the covers and looks at Anastasia.
"You're forgiven. And I'm sorry for being neglecting to your feelings. Just know that I do understand your past and your feelings and I might have been selfish by doing what I did, but... I thought I was helping and it seems I am."
"You're forgiven," Anastasia says before turning to Bonnie. "Happy now?"
"Thrilled." She smiles as Elena goes back to hiding under her covers, causing Bonnie to sigh. "Really, Elena?" Bonnie walks over, sits on the bed, and begins to pull the covers from Elena.
"No." She whines.
"Why haven't you called me back?" Bonnie asks as Anastasia flops down onto the bed beside Elena.
"I'm sorry." Elena sighs as she rolls onto her back.
"Are you gonna stay in there forever?" Bonnie asks.
"Yep."
"Move over." Anastasia pulls the blankets back and crawls in, moving down some, so that they may fit Bonnie also. "It's a little tight with us three, but we make it work. We're all tiny." Bonnie says, causing Anastasia to smile. Bonnie and Anastasia both roll onto their sides to face Elena. "We're officially worried, right Anya?" Anastasia nods in agreement. "What's going on?"
"I'm tired of thinking, of talking. I..."
"Can I get a one-line version, so I can at least pretend to be helpful?" Bonnie asks.
"Stefan and I broke up."
"I'm so sorry." Bonnie says as Anastasia hugs Elena.
"I'm sorry too."
"Are you okay?" Elena gives a look to Bonnie. "Right. Stupid question." Bonnie sighs. "I know I've been kind of M.I.A. And spending more time with Anastasia, no offense."
"None taken." Anastasia says.
"And I know you need me the most right now." Bonnie tells Elena. "I suck."
"You wanna make it up to me?" Elena asks.
"Get my mind off of it." Bonnie smiles.
"Just remember you asked for it." She says as she hops out of the bed. She closes the window and grabs a pair of scissors. She takes a pillow and takes the pillow case off before cutting it open.
"Hey!" Elena says as Bonnie empty's the pillow of its feathers.
"Uh..."
"Be patient." Anastasia sits up and crosses her legs in waiting. Bonnie sits back down and looks between Elena and Anastasia. "I need to swear you to secrecy. Anastasia already knows for a long reason, which we won't get into, but... now I want you to know, but I need secrecy."
"It's kind of a bad week for that kind of stuff." Elena tells her.
"Well, swear, 'cause I'm not supposed to be showing you this."
"Okay, I swear."
"Okay, there are no windows open, right?" Anastasia smiles as she realizes Bonnie's about to do some witchy stuff.
"Right."
"There's no fan, no air conditioning."
"None. What are you doing?"
"Grams just showed me this." Bonnie smiles, causing Anastasia to smile. "You both are gonna love it."
"I'm sure I will." Anastasia smiles.
"You ready?" Bonnie asks, causing them both to nod. Bonnie moves her hand causing a feather to follow her hand and float up in mid air going higher and higher before Bonnie sets it back down.
"Bonnie, what's going on?" Elena asks. Bonnie rubs her hands together and sigh before doing the same thing, but this time making a handful of feathers float into the air. Elena gasps as Anastasia claps.
"Bravo! Bravo!" Bonnie laughs at Anastasia and mocks a bow.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you all my beloved fans." She tells them before looking at Elena, then the pile of feathers. Suddenly all the feathers fly up into the air around them.
Elena gets up to her knees and starts laughing as they fly around her. "It's true, Elena. Everything my grams told me. It's impossible, but it's true. I'm a witch."
"I believe you." Elena says as Anastasia touches the feathers.
"This is amazing." Anastasia tells her. "You've been improving." Bonnie laughs as the three smile at each other.