Previously on Visions of Clara:
She hadn't laughed or smiled in weeks, and for once she forgot about the picture that was sitting on her bed, and her sadness about Damon, because for once in weeks, she was happy. And she wouldn't lose Clara, her sun of happiness.
Chapter 3:
"So this is the 21 century," said Clara running her fingers along the top of the light shade of the lamp upon Elena's bedside table.
"Yep," said Elena placing her hands into her pockets and rolled on the balls of her feet. "I can show you around if you like."
"I'd love that," said Clara looking up and smiling, but then she caught site of Elena's jeans. "But," she then pointed to them, causing Elena to look down and gasp. "I think you should change. That would be an awkward conversation with an innocent human."
Elena walked over to her closet. "I've been thinking about what you were saying before," said Elena from behind the closet door. "You said that you didn't have long here, that your presence was draining your energy. What does that mean exactly?"
"Well," said Clara pacing back on forth. "I'm currently using whatever energy I've been saving these past 5,000 years to project myself in here and talk to you. I may seem like I am here, but I am only a vision. My real body is in a cell underneath the grounds of Romania. And I can only stay here for a certain amount of time because the longer I am projecting myself, the longer I have to wait to restore the energy I lost."
"So," said Elena walking back from behind her closet with an entirely new outfit on. She was wearing dark blue jeans, a short-sleeve cranberry colored shirt, and tall tan leather boots with her hair tied up in a ponytail. "Who's keeping you in there? I mean if the spirits imprisoned you, how do the have they have the forces to keep you there?"
"Well, every 100 years or so I get visitors that feed me a small glass of blood, so I wont decay completely. I'm guessing they aren't just letting me die because they are planning to use me for something, but that is only a guess. Maybe they just want to torture me?" At this point Clara dramatically shrugged her shoulders.
"And these guests change every five hundred years. The spirits chose them specifically because they are just regular humans with a supernatural past, but without becoming supernatural themselves. That is the key point. The spirits then give them a body for the 10 minutes they are in there with me, and then they go back to being spirits on the other side and great beyond."
"But the other side was destroyed only weeks ago!" said Elena feeling a tug at her heart and spying the photo still on her bed, with Damon's beautiful face smiling back at her. "How can there be anymore spirits and visitors?"
"They are always there Elena, remember that-" Clara then gasped and her pupils dilated.
"Clara?" said Elena reaching her hand out, but then pulling back realizing she couldn't touch her. "Clara what's wrong?"
Clara's eyes then returned to normal and she then looked at Elena.
"They're here!" she whispered. Her voice shook with fright and her body trembled.
"Clara, don't be afraid. It'll be alright!"
"Goodbye," she whispered softly. Clara then slowly disappeared before Elena's eyes.
Clara weakly opened her eyes to see her prison around her. The moon shone through the small window in the right hand corner, casting shadows around the room.
Her arms were chained to the walls and dangling numbly above her head and she saw how her body was all wrinkly and decayed. She was glad she was able to change her appearance to Elena's eyes. She just need to see what she used to look like, not what the spirits made her into.
Clara then heard the slow footsteps behind the solid iron door. She watched, barely able to concentrate, as the door was pushed open and in walked a man.
She had never seen this man before, but all she could concentrate on was the small glass of blood in his hand.
The man walked slowly towards the body and Grayson Gilbert then kneeled before Clara.
"Hello Clara," he said with a smirk on his face. "Thirsty?"
I am so so so so sorry for not posting in ages! I went to 5 week sleep away camp and didn't have my computer, and then I've been busy with my family since I got back. I promise, Chapter 4 will be much much longer, and will not take this long to update! So sorry again!
~CSalvatore123