Twisted Love
Season One
History Repeating
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries Characters, except for Grace, her family and her home :)
Bonnie was sitting in her maths class, she had been having bad dreams all night about Emily, her ancestor. Even though she hadn't been sleeping she had still made it into school, although, she was awfully tired and couldn't stop yawning.
"Today, we're going to talk about Shadow Reckoning." The teacher announced "This is a method of measuring heights by the suns shadow. Let's say for example that we're going to measure the distance of a shadow, we're going to take the measurement here." She pointed to the blackboard as she explained "Measure the length, and we're going to multiply by the height of the source... building height can also be measure using a..."
Bonnie hadn't been listening to the teachers well thought out explanation, her mind was else where, she saw movement in the hall way, she figured she was just hallucinating from the lack of sleep, so she got up and walked out of the room to see if she could see anyone.
"Hello?" Bonnie called
There was a sudden movement from behind her which made her turn around and see a figure walking away from her, but the person wasn't walking... she was floating. Dressed in old 1800s style clothes with her hair up in a bonnet like hat, Bonnie was sure this wasn't real
As Bonnie followed the young spirt out of the building she was leading her further and further into the old woods, the young witch wasn't too sure where she was until she saw a few gravestones and the rubble of a building. She was at the remains of Fell's Church.
"Please help me." A familiar face turned to her with desperation in her dark brown orbs
"Who are you?" The younger witch questioned pretty sure she knew the answer
"I'm Emily." The woman revealed with a playful smile "You know that, we're family."
"Where am I?" Bonnie questioned looking around, again she was fairly certain that she knew the answer
"This is where it all stared." Emily informed her "And this is where it has to end."
Taking several fearful steps back, Bonnie shook her head her tight curls falling over her shoulder as she did so.
"No, this isn't real." Bonnie tried to find reality
"Help me." The ghost begged
Suddenly Bonnie jolted awake and she was back in the same Maths class room, still learning about Shadow Reckoning. She had let out a tiny scream when she woke up and this attracted the attention of a few students around her
"What are you looking at?" The witch glared at one girl "Turn around." She ordered
When Bonnie turned back around she looked to the side of her and saw Emily sitting there, jumping out of her seat she let out a terrified scream, but before she knew it she was waking up again, she had slept at the remains of the old Fell's Church all night.
Grace, Elena and Caroline were walking into school, Grace had drive with Elena today seen as she stayed around her house again last night, but before they had got to school, Elena took Grace to her house to change. They we're talking about Bonnie and how they haven't seen her
"Have you even talked to Bonnie?" Elena questioned
"No, I'm mad." Caroline stated "She needs to make the first move."
"Because that always works." Grace noted sarcastically
"Shut up." Caroline's bright blue eyes narrowed at her
"Be the bigger person." Elena suggested
"That's impossible in her presence." Caroline growled
"Why are you so pissed at her anyway?" Grace asked suspicious
"She's a thief." Caroline stated bluntly "That's why. I have her my necklace and she refuses to give it back. It's a matter of principle."
"Alright, well I'm officially out of it, I've got enough problems." Grace looked at Elena
"Me too." Elena held her hands up "I'm mutual."
"Good, where's Stefan?" Caroline questioned looking around for Elena's knight in shinning armour
"He's avoiding me." Elena replied
"Why?" Caroline smirked
"It's complicated, I'll see you later." Elena walked away with Grace
The bell suddenly rang and Caroline saw Matt she smiled and was about to talk to him about the night they had shared together, but he just said 'Hi' kindly and walked away. Now she really was pissed
As Grace and Elena took their seats in history they both saw Bonnie walked into class before a handsome man in maybe mid 30s walked in behind her holding a bag setting it lightly on the desk before turning to the blackboard and writing his name 'ALARIC SALTZMAN'
"Good morning, everyone. Alrighty, I'm Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful, I know." He joked "Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue." He nodded "Saltzman is of German origins. My family emigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston... Now the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great grandfather, I will never be able to thank enough." He smirked "You'll probably want to pronounce it 'Ala-ric' but it's 'Al-ar-ic' ok?" He explained to them sounding his name out "So you can call me Ric, I'm your new history teacher." he gave them all a dashing smile
Meanwhile, at the Salvatore Boarding House Stefan was still asleep in bed, he was woken by Damon
"Rise and Shine, you'll be late for school." Damon warned with humour in his voice
"What... what are you doing?" Stefan demanded sitting up in his bed to look at his brother standing across the room
"Peace offering." Damon held out a coffee for him "Come on you need it for blood circulation." He stepped in front of his younger brother as he attempted to get past him "Does dead flesh good." Again trying to sell it "Alright, I'm sorry."
Stefan just glared with his brilliant hazel eyes boring into Damon's bright blue orbs "Step aside, please." And Damon did allowing Stefan to walk into the bathroom
"I got the town off our back." Damon found an excuse "It was for the greater good, bit I'm sorry." he drank a little bit of the coffee he made for his younger brother "and to prove it, I'm not going to feed on a human for at least a... week." Damon shrugged "I'll adopt the Stefan diet, only nothing with feathers."
"Cause I realise that killing your closest and oldest friend is beyond evil, and yet somehow, it's worthy of humour." Stefan pretended to be his heartless older brother
"Are you mimicking me?" Damon questioned
"Yes, Stefan, now that the secret society of Vampire haters if off out back, I can go back to my routine of trying to get Grace to notice me or trying to figure out how I can destroy Stefan's life this week, better yet I'll destroy Grace's life and she'll come running to me." Stefan continued
"And I can go about sulking and Elena-longing and forehead brooding." Damon creased his eye brows to give him a brooding look "This is fun, I like this." He broke character for a second
"And I will finally reveal the ulterior motive behind my evil and diabolical return to Mystic Fall." Stefan took a shot
"Yeah, I'm done." Damon walked past he hazel eyed boy "That's just like you, Damon, always have to have the last word." He was Stefan one more time before leaving
Bonnie and Grace stood outside of school waiting for Elena to get there so they could plan what they would be doing tonight
"And then I ended up at the remains of the old Fell's Church before I woke back up in the woods." Bonnie told Grace what had happened
"And you always see your ancestor Emily?" Grace questioned
"Yeah, do you believe in ghosts?" Bonnie asked timidly
"if you'd asked me that question two weeks ago, I'd probably said no." Grace nodded "But now... things have changed."
"I think I'm being haunted." Bonnie stated
"I got get it." Grace creased her eye brows "Why Emily?"
"Well, my Grams said she was a powerful witch back in the Civil War days and this pendant was hers... a witches talisman." Bonnie explained
"And it all started when you got the necklace?" Grace looked up at the witch
"I think she's using it to communicate with me." Bonnie's voice was nervous
"Ok, and what does your Grams say about it?" Grace asked
"I can't call her, she's gonna tell me to embrace it, like you Grams did when you found out you were a telepath..." Bonnie found the similarities between the events "Except I don't want to embrace it, I just want it to stop."
Jeremy had been called to the new history teachers office, probably going to give him a hard time about not getting work done, Jeremy thought as he entered the room to see the young teacher sitting there
"Hey, Mr. Saltzman, I'm Jeremy Gilbert." He introduced himself "You wanted to see me?"
Alaric waved for him to come in "You know that your old teacher had a jackass file?" He asked chuckling gently as he looked through the file "No joke, it's typed on the label." he explained showing it to him "It has all the troublemakers in, but really it's just an opus... to you." Alaric looked up at the young worried teen "Don't worry about it." Alaric got up and walked over to the bin throwing the papers away "I'm not him. Clean slate... now let's talk about grades."
"I know it's been a rough couple of months, but I've been trying to turn them around." Jeremy tried to explain
"I saw that but the problem is we're halfway through a semester and... half a fail is still pretty bleak." Alaric replied "This is the part where you say to me: 'But what can I do to change that?' Well, I'm glad you asked. How do you feel about extra credit?"
"Yeah, yeah totally." Jeremy agreed with his young teacher
"Good." Alaric smiled "Write me a paper then."
"Ok, about what?" Jeremy questioned
"History." Alaric stated obviously "Pick a topic, keep it local and no wikipedia regurgita." He chuckled "These old towns have rich history so just.. get your hands dirty, make it sing and you're back on track." He smiled "Deal?" He held out his hand
"Yeah, deal." Jeremy shook it noticing the large dark coloured ring on his finger "That's a cool ring." he noted
"Oh, thanks." Alaric smirked "it was my fathers, a little garish, but family." He shrugged twirling it on his finger "You've got a week." He reminded him
"Yeah." Jeremy smiled as he left the room
"Hey." Matt smiled at Caroline as they passed each other again
"Hey..." Caroline replied before turning "What is that?" She demanded
"What is what?" Matt turned confused motioning his friends to go on
"The 'hey' that's twice that's two heys. Don't you have any other words in your vocabulary?" She scolded
"What's wrong with 'hey'?" Matt questioned
"It reeks of awkward subtext." She replied bluntly "You spent the night in my bed, there was... cuddling." She lowered her voice "and then you stunk out before down so you wouldn't have to face me... which I must say is a total lame guy move that I did not appreciate." She glared "And now with the heys? Seriously? I mean, I may have been some pathetic, insecure mess after that party, but do not mistake that for me being a pushover, because I do not let guys mess with my head anymore." She vented
Matt's eye brows raised "I heard your mom in the morning and I didn't want to get you in trouble so I went out the window." he explained confused
"You went out the window?" She stated in disbelief "another lame guy move."
"Your mom's the Sheriff, and as for the heys... I'm pretty sure it's what I said to you everyday since the first grade." He looked at her as her anger slowly dissolved away under guilt "Trying to read into something... lame girl move." Matt turned her phrase on her before leaving her standing there on her own
As Elena and Grace step out of school they saw Stefan sitting on a picnic bench, both of the girls walk over to him
"You weren't in class, I was worried." Elena stated
"I got your messages, and sorry I didn't get back to you, but... what I wanna say shouldn't be said over the phone." Stefan explained
"I think a simple, 'I didn't kill my brother' text would have suffice." Grace smirked
"I didn't kill my brother, as much as he deserved it, he has you to thank for that." Stefan looked down at the small telepath
"So what did you want to tell me?" Elena questioned
"I wont be coming to school anymore." Stefan looked torn as he announced the news "I'm gonna back off and keep my distance, it's the right thing to do."
"Back of from school or from me?" Elena questioned angrily "Thank you for telling me." She suddenly said anger filling her voice
"It's better this way." Stefan told her
"Yep." She nodded "I got that."
"You're angry, that's good." Stefan got down off his seat "It will be easier if you hate me." He informed her before walking away
Damon appeared in front of the scared witch she jolted and jumped back away from the blue eyed monster, she truly had no idea what Damon was capable of
"Ok, it's your last chance." Damon warned
"I'm gonna scream." She stepped around him
"Don't do that." Damon warned "Lets stay on point, I want my necklace." He followed her as she walked towards her car
"You can't have it." She hissed
"You do want my help." Damon purred stepping in front of her car door as she reached it so she couldn't go in and drive off "You don't even know it, and you know why, you little witch? 'Cause you've stumbled into something you need to stumble out of."
"Just leave me alone or I swear-" he cut her threat short
"Don't." He shook his head "No threats, A) you hurt me last time and B) I wish you no harm." he looked straight into her dark brown orbs "Believe it or not, Bonnie, I want to protect you... let me help you get Emily off your back."
"How do you know her?" Bonnie demanded
"I know a lot of things and I know more about that crystal than you do, I know she's using it to creep inside you." Damon leaned towards the scared teen "See how scared you are? And you should be, because I will get that crystal, even if I have to wait for Emily to give it to me herself." He growled opening the door for her to get in "Next time she comes out to play, you tell her... a deal's a deal."
"He what?" Grace asked a scared Bonnie
"He's bad news, Grace, he really scared me." Bonnie told her friend
"You need to stay as far away from Damon as possible." Elena warned her
Grace got up from her seat "I'll meet you are your place, 'Lena." Grace put on her best calm smile
"Where are you going?" Elena asked
"Just to finish something." Grace replied keeping calm "I wont be long."
Quickly gather up all her items that she had brought with her, Grace started to walk towards the main part of town, she stopped when she saw 'MYSTIC GRILL' printed on the front of a building, walking inside she scanned the room for him.
As soon as she saw him she narrowed her eyes, killing Lexi was one thing but now he was threatening one of her best friends and she wasn't going to stand for it, he was sitting up at the bar with a bottle of expensive whisky placed beside him
"Afternoon." He greeted her before she reached him
"How did you know I was here?" She asked taking a seat next to him
"You smell delicious." Damon looked at her and hunger flashed in his eyes
"I'm gonna pretend like you didn't say that." Grace announced before changing the subject "Damon, you have to listen to me."
"I'm all ears." He turned to look at her longingly
"Stay away from Bonnie." Grace warned
"You see I can't do that." Damon shrugged a little
"Why?" Grace asked "What is so important about this stupid necklace that you're threatening one of my closest friends lives?"
"What do I get if I tell you?" Damon's finger tips ran up her forearm
"Well I suppose the prize gets better the more you tell me." Grace shrugged seductively playing him
"You think I'm an idiot." Damon smirked pouring himself another shot
"Well, I never wanted to say it aloud." Her eyes sparkled with humour
"Now tell me something." Damon looked towards her again "Why would I back off of that little witch, because when I do bother her I get these fantastic, flirty visits from you."
"I wasn't flirting!" Grace denied all accusations
"Sure." Damon rolled his sky blue orbs
"Damon, just listen to me now, if you try and even speak to Bonnie again, I will end you." She lowered her voice, her eyes as dark as the night sky "That isn't a joke..."
"Mmm." He hummed a response lazily "You and what army."
"I'm pretty sure I could find a few people." She replied bluntly
"God, when you act like this you remind me so much of her." Damon spoke more to himself that her
"Who?" Grace asked "Fayth?"
"So strong, yet so amusing and just altogether delicious." Damon leaned closer to her brushing her thick hair out of her dazzling eyes
Pressing his soft lips to her jaw line, he trailed down to her jugular vein where he stopped, she wasn't nervous, she was actually rather calm... this confused him, she was meant to be scared of the big-bad Vampire, but she wasn't
"Stop." Grace pulled back breathless "Why did you do that?"
"I find it hard to resist things I want..." Damon's eyes bored into hers "But usual I get them."
"Tell me why you want the necklace." Grace looked at him taking his head in her hands to make her look directly at him
"Guess." He grinned
"I couldn't if I tried." She replied truthfully
"Then, my beautiful telepath, you will never know will you?" Damon teased "At least until I reveal all."
Narrowing her eyes at him, she grabbed her bag and coat before walking out of the Grill she started to make her way to Elena's house texting her as she walked
Meanwhile, back in Mystic Grill, but over the other side Jenna and Jeremy were having their dinner there, Jenna had took note of a good looking man sitting across from them
"I like a man that can dine alone." She admired "A quiet strength."
"I thought you were still in the whole Logan depression thing..." Jeremy looked at Jenna confused
"I've sworn off men forever, but it doesn't mean I can't observe them from a distance." She shrugged laughing gently
"Well, I can introduce you."Jeremy offered
As soon as Grace got to the front porch she saw Elena and Stefan talking, she didn't look happy and he was still brooding from having to break up with her
"Damon and Stefan know Emily and he knows the necklace... he's seen it before, but not what it does." Elena looked at Grace
"How?" Grace asked
"She was Katherine's and Fayth's handmaid and witch." Stefan explained "That's where the got he crystal from."
"He knows about Bonnie being a witch." Elena looked at Grace with surprise filling her eyes "And that means Damon does too."
"doesn't surprise me." Grace leant against the door exhausted
"Where were you?" Elena asked concerned
"Trying to sort something out... didn't go as planned." Grace admitted giving a lopsided smile "If you're gonna go looking for Damon he's in Mystic Grill, to cut your search short."
"And how do you know." Elena cocked an eye brow at her
"Where do you think I was?" Grace gave her a look "Trying to negotiate with him, I thought if I flirted with him... but he really wants to keep whatever he's doing under lock and key..."
"It has to be something to do with Katherine or Fayth." Stefan announced "I'll get it out of him." He assured them before he turned and left
"C'mon, we'd better get back to Bonnie inside." Elena opened the door
Jenna picked at the chicken on her plate before looking up at her nephew and asking "Have you picked a topic yet?"
"No, not yet." Jeremy admitted "It's got to be a local and non-internet reacher, so..."
"That's easy." Jenna looked up excitement running through her orbs "You got all your dads stuff."
"What stuff?" The teen asked surprised
"How the Gilbert's come over on the Mayflower stuff, all the family lineage from way back. Your dad really loved all that family history stuff." Jenna informed him "It's all boxed up in the closet."
Alaric couldn't help but overhear the History conversation the Auntie and Nephew were having, raising form his seat he wandered over to his student and beautiful legal guardian
"Mr. Saltzman." Jeremy greeted him with a manly fist bump
"Hey, Jeremy, what's up, man?" He smiled at him waiting for an introduction
"This is my aunt Jenna." Jeremy motioned across the table to his aunt sitting there with a goofy smile planted on her face
"Alaric Saltzman." He named himself "It's nice to meet you."
"Jeremy was telling me about his paper. Thanks for giving him another chance." She smiled gratefully at the History teacher
"It was my first day. I wanted to make a good impression." He chuckled
Jeremy couldn't find it awkward and uncomfortable the way the two adults stared longingly at each other for a long period of time.
Damon was still sitting up at the bar when someone joined him he spoke before Damon had a chance to
"So, Stefan, you know I've been thinking." Stefan announced pretending to be Damon again "I think we should start over, give this brother thing another chance. We used to do it so well once upon a time." he reminisced in the memories
"I don't, Damon." Damon replied struggling to find his words pretending to be his broody younger brother "I can't trust you to be a nice guy, you kill everyone and you're so mean... You're so mean and..." Damon broke character when he couldn't think of anything else to say "You're really hard to imitate, and then I have to go to that lesser place..."
Stefan hummed "Can I get a coffee." He ordered "So what's with the bottle."
"I'm on edge, on this crash died, you know trying to keep a low profile, but it doesn't help when a certain naïve, delicious telepath keep coming to trying and get the truth out me tempting me and throwing herself all over me, I just wanted to bite-" he stopped himself taking a deep breath "But I wont, because I'm on the Stefan diet."
"You know, you could always leave." Stefan suggested "Find a new town to turn into your gas a sip."
"I'll manage." He flashed him a grin "You don't have to keep an eye on me."
"I'm not here to keep an eye on you." Stefan replied
"So why are you here?" Damon questioned
"Why not." He shrugged taking Damon's bottle of whisky and walking away
Bonnie, Grace, Caroline and Elena were all in the kitchen, no one was talking to each other and a awkward silence had a hold on the room, Grace slightly budged Caroline to get the apology ball rolling
"I'm sorry, there I said it." Caroline held her hands up "If you want the ugly-ass necklace, keep it. It's yours." She smiled almost kindly
"Well, I guess that was better than nothing." Grace gave Elena a look trying to hold in a burst of laughter
"Will you hate me if I told you I threw it away?" Bonnie asked timidly
"You threw it away!" Caroline exclaimed
"I know it sounds crazy but the necklace was giving me nightmares... I had to get rid of it." The witch explained to her blonde friend
"You could have given it back to me." Caroline's eyes were wide with shock
"Why?" Grace gave her a look "So you could give it back to Damon?"
"Screw Damon." The blonde hissed "Are we doing manicures or what?" She looked around at the nodding girls "Who has their kit?"
"Mine's in my bag." Bonnie pointed to her bag on the couch
"So, Elena, how long do you think this fight with Stefan is going to last?" Caroline asked nosily "Is it like a permanent thing?"
"I don't know, Caroline." Elena rolled her eyes
"Why are you such a little liar, Bonnie." Caroline's accusations flew across the room and the three girls turned with surprise
"What?" Bonnie asked before she saw the amber crystal shinning in the light
"Caroline!" Grace scolded
"I'm not lying, Caroline. I swear." Bonnie announced
"It's true, I watched her throw it into a field." Elena backed her friend up
"Then explain it." Caroline demanded
"Emily." Bonnie looked at Grace
"Who's Emily?" Caroline asked confused
"The ghost." Bonnie replied
"The ghost has a name now." The blonde mocked
"Caroline, please." Elena held her hand up for her to stop
"I wonder why she wont leave me alone." Bonnie asked both brunettes
"What is going on!" Caroline demanded "Why am I not part of this conversation? You guys do this to me all the time."
"That's not true." Elena replied
"Yes it is." Bonnie interrupted "I can't talk to you!" She told the blonde "You don't listen."
"That's not true." Caroline shook her head
"I'm a witch." Bonnie announced to the blonde
"And don't we all know it." Caroline smirked
"See!" Bonnie looked to Grace and Elena for support "That's what I'm talking about. I'm trying to tell you something, you don't even hear it." Bonnie walked from the room quickly
"I listen!" Caroline looked to the brunettes "When do I not listen?"
"Is that a real question?" Grace glared walking past her
Back at the Grill Jeremy had left his Aunt there, she laughed as she joined her new favourite man up at the bar
"Jeremy totally ditched me." She announced
"Where did he go?" Alaric asked with a smirk
"Home." Jenna explained "It's not far, he can walk." she added
""So are you from here?" Alaric queried "are you a townie?"
"I'm a returnee." She answered "Left town for a while, now I'm back."
"Why'd you leave?" Alaric questioned
"School." She replied before giving him a smile "And then there's the real reason, I was wronged... guy named Logan."
"What'd he do?" Alaric looked curious
"Basics... lied, cheated, lured me back in, left me again." She shrugged as if it was nothing "You turn, any sad relationship stories?"
"The basics... fell in love, married young, my wife died." He took a swig of his beer
"Oh, whoa." Jenna's eyes widened
"That's always a good conversation stopped." He nodded at her reaction
"What happened?" Jenna asked carefully
"Well, you, me and the North Carolina police department are all wondering the same thing." He answered "It what's know as a cold case." He added
Jenna was even more curious now "So why'd you move here?"
"A change of pace, new scenery. I like it here..." he eyed her "it's got a rich history."
Over the other side of the bar Stefan and Damon were playing darts, they were almost comfortable around each other again, obviously with the help of alcohol and sibling rivalry.
"Lucky shot." Damon mock glared at his winning younger brother
"More like a carefully honed skill over many decades." Stefan corrected him with a wolfish grin
"You're beating me." Damon counted the scores on the board
"Yeah, it's because I'm better than you." He teased
"I'm onto you." Damon glared taking the darts from his brothers hands "Reverse psychology, it a little transparent... but I admire the effort." he smirked
"You prefer the brooding forehead?" Stefan creased his eye brows to make the worry lines on his brow appear
"Seriously, what game do you think you're playing?" Damon looked at him
"That's funny, considering the fact I've been asking you that for a month." He shrugged carelessly "it's frustrating isn't it."
"Touché." Damon flashed him a look
Meanwhile back at Elena's house Grace and Elena were sitting in the kitchen picking pretzels out of a bowl and munching them down
"Is Caroline going to apologise?" Grace asked
"Probably." Elena looked at her "Wait, listen, you can hear them talking."
"Bonnie, look, it's just not me, I don't believe in the... but if you do, then..." Caroline paused "Ok, I'm in." She grinned "That's all it takes for me to jump on board, because I consider you to be my best friend... and I'm saying this knowing that Elena and Grace are in the kitchen listening to ever word I'm saying..."
Grace smirked as she glanced at Elena, the brunette warped her arms around the telepaths neck rejoicing the fact they were all friends again
"You two can come in now, we're done." Caroline called
Grace skipped into the room "Yay, we're all friends again." She jumped on the couch opposite the blonde and the witch, Elena was soon to join her
"So what do you guys want to do?"
"Movie?" Grace asked
"No, we've watched me all." Caroline shot her suggestion down "I know, about about we have a séance." her bright blue eyes sparkled with excitement
"I don't think that's a good idea." Bonnie shook her head
"I agree." Grace nodded
"Come on, let's summon some spirits." Caroline giggled jumping up "This Emily chick has some serious explaining to do."
The girls didn't exactly agree but Caroline was setting up anyway, they all sat in a circle in Elena's room, the lights off, curtains pulled and they sat around a single glowing candle
"I'm not so sure about this." Grace shook her head
"c'mon, live a little." Caroline took one of Grace's hands and one of Bonnie's
"What are we really doing here?" Bonnie tried to back out nervously
"Be quiet and concentrate." Caroline ordered "Close yours eyes." The four girls did "Now, take a deep breath. Bonnie, call to her."
"Emily, you there." Bonnie called peaking through one eye
Grace laughed hard at the witches attempt to call on dead spirits, a punch landed on her arm she looked up to see Caroline glaring at her with smouldering blue yes
"Really?" Caroline then turned her glare on Bonnie "That's all you got? Come on."
"Fine, jeez." Bonnie shrugged everything off and took one of Caroline's hands and Elena's free hand connecting the circle again "Emily, I call on you." She started with a clear confidant voice "I know you have a message for me, I am here to listen."
After a couple of seconds the candles suddenly flares all four girls jolted back when they felt the roaring flames, they all looked each other in disbelief, suddenly Caroline felt a sudden chill run down her back making her blood run cold
"It's the air conditioning." Bonnie tried to find reasons behind the sudden temperature change
Grace creased her eye brows when she heard a sudden high pitch ringing in her ears, she covered them in an attempt to block out the noise, the other three girls look on as the telepath doubled over in what looked like agony
"Grace." She could only see Elena's mouth moving, no words were heard "What's wrong."
"What is that noise!" She screamed, it was unnecessary to the others, but Grace couldn't even hear herself talk "I'm deaf, I can't hear!"
"What noise?" Caroline asked
"Ringing!" Grace replied "Ah!"
The noise was cut short when the window suddenly swung open a large gust of window blowing into the room, Bonnie jumped up in what seemed quicker than lighting tearing the necklace from around her throat and launching it to the floor down by the candles
"I'm done!" the terrified witch announced before the candle was blown out "Get the light, please get the light!" Bonnie begged
"I got it." Elena announced as she hit the light switch making the room illuminate with brightness again
"You guys, the necklace... it's gone." Bonnie announced as she looked down at the ground where she'd thrown the necklace
Stefan ran out onto the school playing field holding a football in his hands grinning as his older brother followed him out, he didn't look impressed
"What are we doing here?" Damon asked
"bonding." Stefan replied simply "Catch." He threw the ball lightly to his older brother
Damon caught it with one hand still holding a bottle of alcohol in the other hand to 'curve his cravings' he shook his head smirking before throwing it back carelessly to his brother
"Go on, give it a try." Stefan passed the ball back to his brother with a knowing smile playing on his lips
"Don't forget who taught you how to play this game." Damon retorted before launching the ball with all his strength and chasing it with his supernatural speed.
Stefan smirked before appearing in front of him tackling the raved hard boy to the ground with an audible groan from both brothers
"Ow, that hurts." Damon admitted as he lay there looking up into the night sky
"Downside of my diet, getting hit actually hurt." Stefan told his brother
"I'm impressed, Stefan." Damon nodded "Fun with booze and darts; sentimental with football and now starry night." He looked up at the beautiful sky "What do you want, Stefan?"
"It wasn't real, Damon." Stefan picked up the courage to bring up the sore subject "My love for Katherine, your love for Fayth. They compelled us, we didn't have a choice." He told the blue eyed man "Took me years to sort that out, to truly understand what she did to us..."
"We are not taking that on tonight." Damon shook his head before standing up
"What do you want with Fayth's crystal?" Stefan questioned standing up too
"How do you know about that?" Damon questioned
"Come on, you know Grace would tell Elena, and she's tell me..." Stefan almost smirked with smugness
"How do you know it was Fayth's?" Damon eyed him suspiciously
"Emily gave it to Fayth on her last night, in turn she gave it to Katherine,, I was with her on her last night... now what do you want with their crystal?"
"She didn't tell you?" Damon asked
"We had other things on our mind." Stefan shrugged "Unlike you and Fayth, Katherine and I were together on their last night..."
Damon's eyes darkened as he appeared in front of his brother with a whoosh of air standing there in an intimidating way "I could rip your heart out and not think twice about it." He growled menacingly
"I've heard that before." Stefan rolled his eyes
"I have a bigger surprise, Stefan... I'm gonna bring her back." he grinned picking up the ball and wandering off
Back at Elena's house all four girls were searching Elena's room looking for the crystal after it had disappeared
"Fun's over, Grace, give it back." Caroline growled "This isn't funny anymore."
"Ok, I so did not take it." Grace glared at the blonde "I was too busy being deaf and in pure agony, thanks." she turned around "Unless you took and are trying to frame someone."
Suddenly Elena gasped as she saw a shadow pass through the bathroom, she jumped back and all the other girls followed her line of sight
"What happened?" Grace questioned
"I don't know." Elena tried to deny it and find logic behind the shadow "Jeremy, are you home?" She called out but got not answer
Bonnie saw a shinning object on the rub on the bathroom floor, she took terrified steps in as she quickly picked it up and was about to exit when the doors closed abruptly
"You guys open the door." Bonnie demanded "Help me!"
Grace suddenly slammed her body against the wall as she heard the high pitch screech return, she called out. Caroline quickly ran over to the bathroom door and attempted to help Bonnie try and get out of the bathroom, whilst Elena ran to her best friend covering her ear
"Grace!" Elena called
"Help. Bonnie." Grace screamed over ringing
"Bonnie!" Caroline called
"Help! Help!" Bonnie screamed
"I'll check the hallway." Elena sprinted for the other entrance to the room to see that it was locked
"Bonnie, unlock the door!" Caroline called
As the door finally opened both the brunette and blonde fell through to see Bonnie was fine, standing there in complete silence, Grace too was now completely quiet
"Grace." Elena peered around the door to see Grace peeling herself off the floor giving her a thumbs up to say that she was ok
"What happened around you ok?" Elena asked concerned
"I'm fine." Emily replied through Bonnie's young witch body
"Unbelievable, you were totally faking it!" Caroline growled at the witch
"Caroline." Grace took her friends arm trying to pull her away from the door
"No!" Caroline slapped her hand away "You scared the hell out of me! She informed her before leaving the doorway
"Bonnie." Grace questioned the ringing was completely gone, but it got slight louder as she stepped towards the witch
"I'm fine, everything is fine." Emily replied smoothly walking past Elena to leave the room
"Are you ok?" Elena questioned Grace
"Yeah." Grace replied "I don't know what's going on but I think we should keep an eye on everyone."
"agreed." Elena nodded
"How can you bring Katherine and Fayth back?" Stefan questioned as he followed his brother off the field
"Before Fayth and the others were killed in the church, you remember what this town was like?" He questioned looking back at his younger brother
"I remember the fear and the hysteria." The hazel eyed boy nodded
"Townspeople were killing Vampires one by one, when they came for Fayth I went straight to Emily, said, 'I'll do anything. Now your price; just protect her' she did." Damon shrugged as if it was nothing
"How?" Stefan demanded
"There's a tomb underneath the church, the spell sealed Fayth and Katherine in the that tomb, protecting them." Damon explained
Are you telling me that Fayth and Katherine are alive?" Stefan asked dumbfounded
"If that what you want to call it." Damon smirked a response "they've been trapped in a mystical holding cell for the last century and a half, but you're the expert on starving a Vampire, how do you think they're going, Stef?" The older brother used his brotherly name for Stefan "Did you know that witches could use celestial dates to draw energy? Me either." He laughed "But in order to give the crystal power, Emily use the comet that was passing overhead, and in order for that crystal to work again..." he let Stefan work it out
"The comet had to return." Stefan finished
"Downside... Long time between comets and a couple of hiccups along the way with the crystal but the comet passed and I got the crystal... and then Caroline got the crystal... and not Bonnie has the crystal and here we are." He smirked
"Why would Emily... Why would she do this for you?" Stefan asked
"Because she knew they were going to come for her too, and she made me promise that her lineage would survive." Damon explained openly
"I remember." Stefan nodded "You saved her children."
"It's the only thing keeping me from ripping that little Bonnie girl's throat out to get my crystal back... that and having Grace coming to see me in a thrill, well a deals a deal... so, wanna go throw some more?" Damon asked nonchalantly
"I can't believe I fell for it." Caroline hissed at Bonnie as she followed the possessed girl
"Are you sure you're ok?" Grace questioned as she stood up from where she was sitting on the stairs
"I must go." Emily announced
"She's leaving. I'm leaving." Caroline found reason to leave this paranormal house
"You guys can't leave." Elena looked at the three of them
"I can." Caroline glared at the brunette "I've had enough freaky fake witch stuff for one night." She followed Emily down the stairs walking past her out of the building
"Thank you for having me, I'll take it from here." Emily told the two brunettes as she reached the bottom of the stairs with them
"Where are you going?" Elena demanded
"Back to where it all began." Emily replied
"Bonnie." Grace looked at her trying to read her thoughts she jolted as she head the ringing, finally she put the pieces together "Emily."
"I wont let him have it." The witch turned back to the telepath "It must be destroyed." She held the crystal firmly in her hand
"Wait!" Elena exclaimed as Emily left the house shutting the door locking it with her magic from the outside
"What happened?" Grace asked walking over
"I don't know. The door, it's not..." she tugged on the handle, Grace helped too
Suddenly the girls erupted with screams as the door swung open, Jeremy gave them both a look before walking in the house, Elena looked at Grace
"She's going to Fell's Church." Grace remembered Bonnie's dream "The remains, I've got to go after her, Emily will not take Bonnie like this!"
"Grace!" Elena yelled "Damn." She grabbed her phone dialling a familiar number "Pick up, pick up." She demanded
"What's wrong?" Stefan asked concerned
"It's Bonnie and Grace has gone after her..." Elena's voice cracked with fear
"Slow down, what happened?" Stefan asked calmly
"Emily is possessing Bonnie, she said something before she left." Elena remembered
"What did she say?" Stefan asked his voice more nervous now
"She said, 'I wont let him have it... it must be destroyed.' Then Grace said something about the old cemetery, Fell's Church and ran off too, we have to help them, Stefan." Elena's voice was low
"Just stay where you are, I'm going to find them." Stefan assured her shutting the phone turning around to see his blue eyed brother had disappeared
As Emily arrived at Fell's Church she started drawing a circle for her spell to work correctly, she was a very skilled witch working in an inexperienced witches body... but that didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things as long as she rid the world of the crystal
"Hello, Emily." She jolted as she heard a husky voice from the fringe of the clearing she was standing in "You look different." He toyed with her
"I wont let you do it." Emily looked at him with confidence
"We had a deal." Damon growled taking a step towards her
"Things are different now, I need to protect me family." Emily told him
"I protected your family!" Damon looked at her in disbelief "You owe me."
"I know, I'm sorry." She told him sincerely
"You're about to be a lot more than that..." Damon's eyes darkened as he ran towards her
He was shocked when the young looking witch blast him back into a tree, he felt the branch sticking through his abdomen, he looked down at it when he saw a dark pair of chocolate brown eyes looking up at him
"If I help you down, you can't hurt Bonnie." The small voice told him
"Can't promise anything..." He growled as he tried to remove himself
Alaric and Jenna were walking up the path towards the Gilbert house when they were stood on the porch joking around
"Oh, no, no, no." Alaric laughed "I've got you beat, I have pathetic down to a science."
"Oh, no." Jenna disagreed "We haven't ever covered high school. Braces, 'A' cup." she lowered her voice
"Glasses, skin condition." Alaric replied as she opened the door stepping into the house
"You can... you know what? I'm not gonna invite you in." Jenna mouthed 'Jeremy' to him knowing the awkwardness of the situation
"Well, come other time then." He nodded at the pretty woman "Have a good night, Jenna."
Alaric left and Jenna shut the door behind her as she made her way into the kitchen to see Jeremy rummaging through some of his dads old things
"So you found the boxes." She announced casually
"I found this too." He held out a picture of Logan Fell and Jenna when they used to be dating
"Me and Logan." Jenna announced "That's cruel."
"Cruel is dating my history." Jeremy retorted jokingly
"I'm not dating him." Jenna rolled her eyes "yet." she smirked before leaving to the fridge
Grace was trying to help Damon off the tree but it was too tall for her 5'2" stature to reach, she was moving to the side by Stefan whom helped his brother to the ground
"It hurts." Damon hissed "This is why I eat people." He explained
"you'll live." Grace told him turning to see Bonnie looking straight at them
"Stefan." She greeted him "Who is this girl?"
"This is Grace, a telepath, a friend of Bonnie's." Stefan explained
"This girl should never gave to know of such evil." Emily told him looking at the telepath "Your town does not deserve this."
"What do you mean evil?" Grace asked confused
"Emily, I sweat to God I will make you regret this." Damon warned her trying to stand
"Don't get up." Grace warned in a low tone
"I wont let you unleash them into this world." Emily finished the circle she was creating
"Them?" Stefan questioned "What part of the story did you leave out, Damon?"
"What does it matter." Damon stood weakly
"Emily, tell me what you did." Stefan looked towards the ancient witch
"To save the twins, I had to save them all." Emily replied
"You saved everyone in the church?" Stefan asked in disbelief
"I don't care about that, I just want Fayth." He stepped past Grace
Grace couldn't believe it but she actually felt a pain of hurt strike into her hurt when he said that he wanted Fayth and not her, all the flirting and she was just a you to him, she had been used
"I knew I should believe I single word that came out of your mouth." Grace hissed grabbing a sharp looking stick about to force it into his back when she was shoved back against a tree him hovering in front of her face
"That wouldn't have been very kind would it?" Damon questioned evilly
"You played me!" She struggled against his grip
"I didn't-" Damon tried to explained
"Stay away from me!" Grace managed to fall out of his grip to the floor away from him she got up brushing herself off standing next to Stefan
"This isn't about love, is it? This is about revenge." Stefan turned to his older brother angrily
"The two aren't mutually exclusive." Damon retorted
"Damon, you can't do this." Stefan looked at him trying to make him search for reason but he had been blinded by hope and "love"
"Why not!" Damon exclaimed "They killed twenty-seven people and they called it a war battle. They deserve whatever they get!"
"twenty-seven Vampires, Damon!" Stefan replied angry now too "You can't just bring them back."
"This town deserves this." Damon hissed in response
"You're blaming innocent people for something that happened one hundred and forty-five years ago!" Stefan looked at him with disbelief that he could actually feel this way
"There is nothing innocent about these people and don't think for a second it wont happen again. They already know too much, they'll burn your little grand-witch along with you." He looked at Grace "next to us when they find out. Trust me."
"They wouldn't!" Grace exclaimed backing away from him
"She's right." Emily looked at the telepath trying to calm her down "Things are different now."
"Don't do this." Damon begged stepping towards her
"I can't free them." Emily shook Bonnie's head before throwing the crystal to the ground her eyes getting darker than before "I wont." She added before calling out her spell "Incendia!"
Fire blazed around the witch in two circles that connected and a star shape, Stefan quickly moved Grace back to a safe distance standing in front of her to block her from the spell that Emily was casting
"No, no please!" Damon tried to step forwards but the flames were too intense
"Bonnie!" Elena stepped into the ruins too witnessing the spell that Emily was casting
"No!" Damon exclaimed
The necklace burst into many pieces, unrecoverable pieces, the fire died down and Bonnie stood there looking around her at the people she was with unable to remember most of what had just happened.
Damon suddenly growled in her direction and lunched himself at her and tore into her neck with his razor sharp teeth, she screamed and Grace and Elena screamed too running towards her. Stefan quickly pulled his brother back and they watched Bonnie fall to the earthy floor
"Bonnie." Grace dropped to her knees "Oh, God."
Stefan dropped to his knees too and pressed his ear against her chest, he could hear a faint heartbeat as Elena joined him on the ground
Grace suddenly stood up looking at Damon in a infuriated way, he himself looking completely in shock at what he'd just done to a witch whom was mostly innocent.
"I can't believe you..." She hissed
Damon opened his mouth unable to find the words "Grace, I..."
"Save it." She growled turning back to Bonnie to see Stefan feeding her his blood "If she dies, so do you." She told Damon without looking at him
Meanwhile in a more peaceful bedroom that belonged to Caroline Forbes she was getting ready for bed, she was fed up with everything supernatural and ghost like she just wanted to sleep the night away.
"Hey." Matt climbed through her bedroom window
"What are you doing here?" Caroline demanded
"Your window was open, I thought you should know." He joked
"Not funny." She scolded
"Earlier today, I lied." Matt admitted
Caroline was confused as she asked "About?"
"About being in bed with you. We cuddled and it creeped me out..." He told her
"It creeped you out? I mean, did you just come over here to insult me or what? Because it's been a really long night." She crossed her room and started to fold her clothes
"It's just that... I don't like you, I never have, but... it was nice." He informed her
"What?" She turned to him
"Being in bed with you, it felt nice." He admitted with a smile "And so, I was thinking about it and I thought that I could tell you and I stayed because you were all sad and alone and I felt bad for you."
"Well, thank you, 'cause I love being a charity case... you can leave now." She ordered hurt
"No, because... I know with Vicki gone and my mom off with Pete... whoever, it's just me, so... I know."
Damon was sitting on his own in the woods, after he'd been given a look like that off Grace and known he'd never be able to get Fayth back he was feeling pretty depressed
"Fayth never compelled me, I knew everything every step of the way." Damon told Stefan as he walked over "It was real for me..." He paused as he saw Grace walk over to them "I'll leave now."
"That would be best." Grace whispered
"I want you to know something." Damon stood up and Stefan left the two, but kept a distance just incase "Everything I said you... the kiss... trying to get your attention, that was real."
"I'm sure, I was just a little toy until you got Fayth back and now that's backfired you want to try and cover up what you did." Grace hissed at him "I know guys like you, Damon, I know how you manipulate girls and make them fall for you... and I know you break girls hearts on a daily bases..." A single tear rolled down her cheek "I just feel so stupid that I fell for it."
"I wish you didn't feel that way." Damon told her rubbing her tear away "But if you want me to leave... I will."
Without another word Grace turned away and walked over to where Elena was calling after Stefan she too was close to tears, pulling her best friend into a hug they both just stood there in the freezing cold
The door to the Gilbert house knocked, Jenna assumed it was Elena and Grace coming back to spend the night there, but when she opened the door she saw a familiar pair incredibly dark pair of black orbs staring back at her with a grin on his perfect lips
"Hello, Jenna." He smiled at her
"Logan." Her jaw dropped open
"Aren't you going to invite me in?" He questioned tilting his head to the side
A/N - Thank you for all the reviews, Favs and Alerts and for being patient with my updating I know I suck but I've been really busy with Christmas and stuff, but I promise to update more often :D
By the way, I hope everyone got what they wanted to Christmas and that they had a really good time with whomever they spent it with :)
Anywho, I hope you enjoy this part of the story, I tried to put it more Damon and Grace, but I don't want them to rush too fast into liking each other, I hope I'm not doing that. Also, I would really love to know what you think about Grace's and Damon's relationship please leave me a review Please :) (it would be a great late Christmas present ;))
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