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A/N: Sienna Salvatore – Danielle Campbell.
River Fell – Meaghan Martin.
Luna Lockwood – Isabeli Fontana.
Stone Fell – Alexander Ludwig.
Chapter 15:
Guilt. The crippling emotion consuming Sienna, Luna, River and Caroline was unconditionally guilt as they clambered out of Stone's car and darted into the Donovan's abode where a desolate Sheriff Forbes sat with Kelly who looked to be a blubbering mess, her beautiful jade orbs red-rimmed and her golden complexion tear-strained.
After giving Elena an incensed tongue-lashing regarding her complete and utter moronic move of feeding a lethargic Stefan her blood that would no doubt trigger his uncontrollable Ripper phase she heard so much about in painstaking details from an amused Damon and a compassionate Lexi not long ago, they received a call from a frantic Caroline who literally ran smack-dab into Vicki Donovan's mummified corpse that became unearthed with the brutal, raging storm. Despite the fact Caroline knew of her cause of death, she had no choice but to report it in to her mother since she was stranded in the middle of nowhere and it would look suspicious if the body was located where she stood and was never reported in by her.
Sienna disregarded the collective background noise insisting they make a detour to the Hospital first and check on her condition after being held captive by the tomb vampires, stubbornly refusing and adamant in visiting Kelly and Matt. Left with no choice, Stone grudgingly drove the four sisters to the Donovans where they were now offering a shoulder to cry on along with their many condolences, each sister burying the guilt that threatened to cripple them since Damon murdered her first with the intention of activating her transition into a vampire because 'he was bored', and shortly afterwards Stefan was left with no choice but to kill her a second time in perpetuity since she posed a colossal threat to the denizens of Mystic Falls.
Matt remained sequestered in Vicki's room, ignoring Caroline's presence and only showed flickers of life when a woebegone Elena barged inside and throttled him with a crushing embrace, much to the quartet's utter disdain. Kelly on the other hand, proved more responsive and tightly clutched the four sisters as though they were a lifeline, crying into their arms and muttering a plethora of statements in regards to her being a bad mother.
The days meshed together following Stefan and Sienna's abduction and torture, and Vicki's death – which was officially ruled by the coroner's office as a drug overdose – and funeral; Sienna was forcibly dragged to the Hospital by Logan and Stone and after leaving with good news and the regular, tedious warning of keeping her blood pressure down, Sienna immersed herself in schoolwork and cheering up Kelly to keep her mind busy from the recent discovery of her awakened witch status. Unfortunately, Sienna didn't know why she thought, just for a minute, that she could ever fool Luna, River and Caroline; after a week of evading, she walked into the Boarding House, returning from yet another trip to the Donovans to see the living room packed.
Raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow, Sienna's almond-shaped olive green orbs scrutinized the room; Luna, River, Caroline, Logan, Damon, Stefan and Stone were congregated together, all seven of them staring back at her with stern expressions. Dumping her purse on the table, Sienna slowly ambled toward them and crossed her hands against her chest, "What's with the long faces?"
"Don't be smart with us, Sienna Aurelia Salvatore!" Luna snapped – ooh, Sienna couldn't help but grimace, knowing that her full name coupled with Luna's anger-filled tones meant nothing good for her. "We have staged an intervention. You've been dodging us long enough!" the incensed Lockwood ploughed on.
Luna definitely needed to cut back on her addiction to How I Met Your Mother. Sienna noticed that they even took the time to paint out a banner hung overhead in the exact replica of the show.
Scoffing loudly in retort, Sienna put her evasion tactics into good use, "Pfft. You've all wasted your day for nothing then. I haven't been dodging anything. Don't know what y'all are talking about. I'm already behind on my schoolwork since I've been skipping school like ca-razy due to this damn pregnancy, not to mention I've been visiting Kiki since ya know, Vicki died and all, and we're covering up the truth!"
"Wow. A+ in dodging 101, Sienna. There you go changing the subject again," Damon snarkily remarked, clapping his hands sarcastically in applause.
"I have no idea what you're talk-"
"S," and there River goes with her soft approach, "We know about what happened last week. Stefan told us."
Caroline nodded in agreement, "We've been giving you time to process it on your own without us badgering you."
"But enough is enough," Luna snapped, turning the tides from good cop into bad cop as though it were rehearsed, "It's obvious you've been avoiding your own thoughts. So you're a witch, whatever, learn how to wield your gift and move on!"
"I'M NOT A WITCH!" Sienna yelled, engulfing the room in complete silence, seven eyes solely fixated on her form in slight trepidation – not that she could blame them. Sienna was nearing her seventh month of pregnancy, and that coupled with her random hormones and her famous volatile temper, Sienna resembled a virago who could swoop down on them and breathe fire at any minute. "Don't you understand?! There is no lineage of witches in the Salvatore line! That means I inherited it from my mother who was never a mother to begin with! She and my dad dumped me with Uncle Zach when I was barely four years old." Covering up her despondence in a sarcastic mask, Sienna scathingly spat out, "1+1=2; therefore, for all you idiots who cannot add it up… I was abandoned by my own parents because of these fucking powers I have! I don't want to be a … Witch!" she hissed with a boatload of contempt, and not even giving them time to process the information she shared, Sienna shoved past them and ensconced herself into the safety of her room, slamming her door with an audible and resounding slam.
"Well," Damon eloquently spoke up after a minute of stupefied silence, "That went well. Great idea, Feisty. 'Let's stage an intervention; Sienna cannot go on like this forever!'" Damon spoke in a perfect imitation of Luna. The aforementioned girl did not appreciate the volatile vampire's sarcasm and glared at him with stormy gray eyes that were blazing with fury, "At least I came up with an idea. You were perfectly fine leaving her be to stress herself over what happened and avoid the truth!"
With a broody expression on his mien, Stefan sighed and returned to his room; he had to exercise – the mouthwatering aroma of Sienna, Luna, River, Caroline and Stone's blood permeated the air, taunting and tormenting him, and he needed a distraction. Thankful he may be to Elena for saving him and giving him the strength to finish off Frederick, Stefan couldn't help but bitterly curse his gorgeous girlfriend for opening up the maelstrom of his feeding frenzy; he had a blood addiction, and he didn't want to become a Ripper again, especially when he had a pregnant niece around. One Salvatore murdering a pregnant woman in this household was more than enough, thank you very much, and unlike Damon, Stefan wouldn't be able to live with the guilt. Of course, while Sienna avoided the Boarding House for the past week, Damon took it in his stride to taunt him and leave behind human blood to cajole him and redeem him to a liberal vampire – something he cannot have happen!
The next day, Sienna woke up with a rumbling tummy and she groaned loudly for her 'ingenious' idea in barricading herself in her bedroom the entire day without any meals. Concluding her daily routine in the bathroom, the pregnant teenager sluggishly donned on her robe and descended the staircase with heavy steps, pausing by the kitchen with wide-eyes at seeing Luna, River, Caroline and Logan waiting for her with an appetizing spread laid-out on the table.
"Eat up, Sienna," Logan strictly informed her after placing a chaste kiss on her forehead, "Don't think we were oblivious to the fact that you haven't eaten anything since breakfast yesterday."
Silently forking the scrumptious food into her mouth, Sienna continued with her silent scrutiny of the other four with suspicious gazes and only once the food vanished into their systems did she drop her utensils onto the plate with a resounding clang, "Okay. Spit it out already. Don't leave me in suspense."
"There's nothing to spit out," River shrugged as she helped her uncle load the cutleries into the dishwasher, "You made a valid point last night, and your reaction was profound. We understand where you're coming from, and just know that whenever you're ready to talk about it, we'll be here for moral support, just like we always were since nursery."
Damn hormones! The waterworks wouldn't stop and the next thing Sienna knew, she was trapped in a hug by her three sisters, Logan smiling fondly from afar; clapping his hands together once for attention, Logan made an announcement, "Right. Now that everything is straightened out. The Founders' Day 150 Year Anniversary Kick-off Party is tonight. You four should get ready."
Sienna whined and flashed Logan her best puppy-dog face, "Do I have tooooo?"
"Well, seeing as we're all part of the founding families. Yes. Now go on, scoot!" Logan chuckled, leaving the room. Sienna turned her puppy-dog expression to three girls, all of whom were adamantly returning it with a stern façade. Luna, being the elected spokesperson since she had the tough act out of them all and wasn't one to waver under peer pressure, resolutely shook her head, "Na-uh, we're immune to that look by now, S. There's no escaping the party which is being held at my house. My mom's forcing me to go, meaning you three will be dragged alongside me. It'll be …fun, c'mon."
After many tantrums that shook the foundation, and a lot of hormonal crying and screaming, a heavily pregnant Salvatore found herself forcibly escorted into the Lockwood's Manor by her three exhausted sisters and an amused Logan. "I cannot believe you practically dragged a pregnant girl to a night of torture. Oh thee have sinned," Sienna groused out with a pout after allowing Mayor and Mrs. Lockwood to endearingly embrace her.
"Oh quit being dramatic, S," Caroline giggled, rolling her eyes in amusement before they widened excitedly at the sight of Matt, "I'm going to check up on Matt and Kelly, I'll be back. You three keep her out of trouble."
"Hey! I resent that!" Sienna yelled after the bubbly blonde's retreating back before turning her pout to an amused Luna and River, grumbling under her breath, "It's not like I asked to have supernatural beings conspire against me for reasons I cannot comprehend!"
And just like that, the mood dropped significantly, bringing about identical grimaces on the brunette and the blonde's face at the startling reminder. Looping arms with the sullen Salvatore, River inflected chirpiness into her voice, "Don't be so morbid, S. Tonight is a night for celebration."
"Yeah, ixnay on the death speak," Luna added, looping her arm with Sienna's free one.
"Hey! Great party right? I cannot believe I got an invite to this shindig!" the three girls turned around, coming face –to-face with a flushed Avery Riggs – the new girl. With the ability to see a snarky remark a mile away when it came to Luna, Sienna quickly intervened with a kind smile, "Yeah. But spend more than a decade being coerced into attending founders' events, it gets boring real quick."
Avery gasped in sycophantic awe, creeping Luna out, "Right, I forgot. The Lockwoods, Fells, Salvatores and Forbes are part of the Founding Families. It must be so cool, huh? You four being best friends and part of the Founding Families as well. Wow!"
"Yeah. Shocker. Kind of blows our mind away," Luna drawled in a deadpanned voice, effectively scaring the new girl away as she stuttered out a meek farewell. Whipping around to face the intimidating brunette, River gave her a scolding look, "Lu! That was uncalled for. She's new in town and has no friends. You could have been nicer to her."
Scoffing, Luna waved a hand in the air as though she were batting away an irksome fly, "Nicer, shmicer, that girl gives me the creep and is sooo Ann-O-ying!"
"Hey you guys. Stefan's acting a bit odd," was Caroline's hello after returning from Matt halfway into the party. Immensely worried, Sienna whipped around to face the hyperactive blonde, "I'm sure it's nothing. Probably withdrawal from his moronic girlfriend feeding him her blood. He'll be back to his perpetual broody self in no time."
"Making him right as rain," Luna jibed, bringing about collective laugher from the other three. However, at that precise moment, their eyes narrowed in on Elena and Matt, both of whom looked increasingly comfortable side-by-side, ambling toward the garden. Hissing in contempt, Luna grabbed Caroline's wrist, and the four sisters followed them at a distance. It was obvious that Caroline was trying to keep a strong, nonchalant front, but no matter how good of an actress she is, she could never fool her sisters.
Jaw agape, Sienna's eyes widened comically and her face turned green, "I think I'm going to hurl!" Simultaneously, River moaned out, "I so did not want to see that!" and Caroline agreed, "I could have survived my whole life and died happy without that image seared in my head." But the three grossed out statements were drowned out and went completely unheard as Luna shrieked at the top of her lungs, "TYLER! WHAT THE FUCK!?"
In the Lockwood's garden, under a gazebo, sat Tyler and Kelly, their lips locked together in a fiery passionate kiss, hands roaming and groping fervently around every curve and private genitalia. At the sound of Luna's thunderstruck scream, their faces parted immediately, but before any words of defense could escape them, Matt charged with a loud, guttural bellow and he struck Tyler in the face, prompting Tyler to zealously strike back, both boys ignoring Sienna, Luna, River, Caroline, Kelly and Elena's pleading yells to halt, both absorbed in their anger and high levels of testosterone.
"Matt! Stop it!" Caroline and Elena screamed in unison, over Luna shouting at Tyler to back off seeing as he had the upper hand and was punching Matt into a pulp with his inherent strength. Alaric Saltzman and Logan Fell, who so happened to be nearby, heard the frantic commotion and just as they were about to intervene, Luna got in first. It was no secret that Tyler Lockwood had a temper, but a huge skeptic factor was that Luna Lockwood had a temper that rivaled Tyler's infamous one, and despite the fact that she was a skinny, curvaceous female with toned, yet twig-like hands, Luna packed a mean punch. Just as Alaric and Logan separated Matt from Tyler's incessant punches, Luna fisted her hand and it impacted with Tyler's face in a resounded SMACK, a crunch reverberating in the air before his face met the lawn.
"Ouch! Luna, what the hell?" Tyler heatedly groused out, spitting out a mouthful of blood. With an impressive sneer, Luna's face twisted in apoplectic fury as she looked down at her fallen twin, "Funny. I could say the same to you. You're making out with your best friend's mother and you beat him to a pulp! The fuck is wrong with you!?"
"I'll take it from here; I'll take it from here," the familiar smooth baritone of Mayor Lockwood pervaded the air, furious stormy grey eyes that Luna inherited glaring stonily at the scene. Standing over a subtly cowering Tyler who looked perceptibly shaken with the arrival of his father, Richard's eyes remained stony, controverting with the tender smile curved on his lips, "Are you hurt? No. Okay. Go get cleaned up. It's okay. Go get cleaned up."
Thanking Alaric and Logan for their aid, Richard turned around to face his daughter and her best friends who remained behind as everyone returned to the party indoors. He tenderly clutched Luna's right hand, a proud smirk blossoming on his refined, aristocratically handsome features, "You need to put that hand in ice?"
"Nah. Barely feel a twinge," Luna replied with a smile; unlike Tyler, Luna had a great relationship with her dad. Despite his tendency to be a major dick with anger management – a trait the Lockwood twins inherited – Luna adored her father, and they never once partook in a conflict, a complete controversy when it came to her mother. Richard nodded once, "Good. Great punch, by the way. If only your brother could behave like you in public," with a wistful sigh, he beamed at River and Caroline before frowning in concern at an ashen Sienna, his now clear grey eyes flickering to her womb in worry, "Sienna, honey, are you okay?"
"Yeah, just-, kinda sickened by the unholy twosome's show of PDA. Too much to stomach," Sienna joked with a weak smile. Chuckling softly, Richard waved the girls inside, holding on to Sienna as he escorted her to the bar and ordered a glass of chilled water, "Take care to yourself, sweetheart. I have to make an announcement for John's speech, but if there's anything wrong, anything at all, you call me. Got it?"
Receiving four obedient nods, the Mayor parted them with a fond, paternal smile and walked away toward the front of the hall. Smiling sadly, Sienna commented with a wistful note in her voice, "Your dad may be a somewhat douche to Tyler, but I wish he was my father."
Elbowing her softly, Luna grinned, "Oh, come on. You know that my parents already regard you as a second daughter. Last name or not."
"Going somewhere, hm?" Damon cockily strode towards John Gilbert who was approaching his car. Groaning loudly, Sienna trudged behind and hissed, "Damon! Stop it!"
Sapphire eyes flickered onto Sienna's features and dropped down onto her heavily pregnant stomach before confronting Damon, "I've never liked to be the last one to leave a party. It's too desperate," he grinned, both eyebrows arching and his face slackening momentarily in surprise at the congregated group ambling toward them. River, Luna and Caroline stood protectively next to a facepalming Sienna, a curious expression on their miens, followed by Logan and Alaric who were hoping to salvage the situation. "You're going to kill me again, or you're gonna let Mr. Saltzman do your dirty work? Logan, I was so sad to hear about your current affliction. Such a pity."
"Wait, what? Damon?!" Sienna glared at the unrepentant vampire with blazing eyes, "You promised no more killing!"
"Ms. Salvatore. As honorable as your intentions may be, you cannot tame a vampire," John commented, eyes piercing the pregnant teen as though he were looking right into her soul, "But I must say, I am shocked to see that the children of nearly every member in the council seem to be aware of the happenings and are deftly covering it up. Surprised and disappointed."
Returning to the situation in hand, Alaric frowned in confusion, "How do you know who I am?"
"Alaric Saltzman, a high school history teacher with a secret," John grinned in smug satisfaction. Raising both eyebrows, Luna sneered, "Huh, you know a lot for someone who just pranced into town."
Staring in amusement at the fiery daughter of the Mayor's, John nodded, "More than you all can imagine. My knowledge of this town goes beyond anything that any of you, or the council knows. So, if you're planning on some clever high speed snatch ring vamp kill move, know that if I die, everything I know goes to the council including the fascinating little tale of the original Salvatore brothers and their present return to Mystic Falls."
"Hold up. There won't be any killing around here. We can all solve this easily, we're all on the same side- I mean, the tomb vampires are the bad guys here," River pleaded softly, her navy blue orbs beseeching unmerciful sapphires. John scoffed, "You know, your parents are going to be severely disappointed when they find out that their precious children are siding with and playing house with a couple of vampires."
"You act all high and mighty, claiming the council protects the town, but when I was kidnapped and tortured by the tomb vampires, where were you, huh?" Sienna spat out, forgoing all decency and aiming for the kill, reveling in the brief surprise that flickered on John's previously smug visage, "Because if my memory serves correctly, it was Damon, Uncle Logan, Stone and Alaric that saved me and my unborn twins, not the council who swore to protect the townspeople from vampires!"
"How did you get that ring?" Alaric's voice cut in the tension, diverting a formerly stupefied John's attention onto him, "I had inherited one, my brother Gray had the other," he displayed a ring identical to Alaric's to them, "This was his, and I wouldn't have given mine to Isobel if I had known she'd hand it over to another guy."
"So you did know her?" Damon inquired.
John smirked, "Who do you think sent her your way when she wanted to become a vampire? Why, did you think someone else sent her? ... Maybe Katherine Pierce?"
"This is like some Grecian cluster fuck," Luna murmured, leaning into a flabbergasted Caroline and eliciting an amused smile out of John.
"Riv!" Stone's voice broke into the confrontation, confused navy blues scrutinizing the scene, "Mom and Dad are staying behind for a while. Let's go."
Staggering backward in shock, John stared, tongue-tied at the vampire hunter in training who looked to be aware of the vampires in town, "So, I presume everyone knows of the three vampires this town is housing. Fantastic."
River embraced her friends farewell and after shooting a scathing look at John, she ran toward her elder brother and began hissing quietly, obviously informing him of recent events as they clambered into the car. Luna's hands settled onto her hips as she glared at John, "Look Mr. Gilbert, just like you, we know that Damon, Stefan and Uncle Logan are vampires. We won't let you kill them, and if you even think about narking to our parents, I'll find a way to destroy you, I mean, you already admitted that you're in touch with Isobel – a vampire."
John wasn't insulted in the least bit, in fact, he smiled at them, his eyes focusing for a moment on Sienna's womb, "It was a pleasure meeting all of you." and he left, leaving behind six confused individuals in his wake.
Waking up, Sienna was hit with a bout of nausea and spent an hour throwing up her insides in her adjoined bathroom. Tears clouded her vision and cascaded down her olive complexion in rivulets and after a quick shower, she weepily muttered, "I hate being pregnant! Stupid effing hormones!" Of course, her symptoms were astronomically worse since she was pregnant with freaking twins and would therefore feel double the pain and double the nausea.
Sienna knew that attending school wasn't a possibility for her today; her breasts were extremely tender that she yelped when she went to don on a bra, forgoing it completely; she was utterly exhausted and could barely achieve two steps forward without feeling lethargic and the need to lean against a solid surface; another wonderful symptom – note the sarcasm – Sienna had been awake for two hours and her mood was already labile.
A whiny noise of triumph escaped her lips when she finally descended the last step and she perceptibly froze in her tracks, resembling a deer caught in the headlight upon perceiving John Gilbert in the living room, focusing intently on her and ignoring Damon and Logan who both looked to be extremely pissed off.
"What's going on?" Sienna muttered, sending Logan a grateful look when he returned with vampire speed, a breakfast tray in his hands, "Thanks, Uncle Logan."
"Well, your two uncles here weren't returning my calls, so I thought a house call was in order. You don't look so good," John remarked, prompting visible winces from the two vampires. Glaring heatedly at the attractive yet douchbag blonde, Sienna snapped, "Let's see how well you'd be doing if you had two babies growing in your effing womb! Oh no, no, no, no. Stupid hormones! Uncle Logan, Damon, make them stop!" Sienna bawled loudly, tears falling down her face without pause. If the situation where any different, she would have burst out into uproarious laughter at the comical sight of the three men cringing in the vicinity of a hormonal and weeping pregnant girl.
"Sienna, sweetie-"Logan slowly approached her weeping form as though she were a lion ready to pounce; Damon swiftly interjected, "Uh, Logan, I think it's best if we back off-"
"SHUTUP DAMON!" and just like that, in a blink of an eye, Sienna's mood swiftly morphed from hysterical melancholy into apoplectic fury and she grabbed her tray and waddled to the kitchen. Gaping at her retreating back, Damon mumbled, "What did I say?"
Regaining his bearings, John blinked and cleared his throat, "Uh, as I was saying before… Isobel and I share a mutual interest. The original Jonathan Gilbert has an invention that was stolen by a vampire. That vampire was then burned alive in Fell's church, or so Jonathan thought and the invention was lost forever. But then the vampire's weren't killed, were they? They were trapped and now they're free, thanks to Damon here, which means, the invention is retrievable."
"What is it?" Suspicion and curiosity colored Damon's tone.
"The only thing that matters is that I want it back and you're going to help me if you want your secret safe," John smirked, daring the two vampires for a rebuttal. Before Damon could put his foot in his mouth, Logan intervened, "Look John, let's cut the crap here and get straight to the point. I know what that device is, being that we were best friends for years and I heard the many epic ramblings of your ancestor. You want the device that incapacitates vampires, a device that was stolen by Pearl who was enamored with said ancestor of yours," Damon smirked smugly at the fuming expression that took over John's face at having his plan ratted out in the open. Logan held up a placating hand, "I think we can all work together and help each other out."
"Are you insane?" Damon snarled, not finding the situation amusing anymore. John on the other hand, scrutinized Logan with interest, a calculating expression vivid on his handsome mien; Logan and John were close friends during high school, bordering on best friends. Although John used to date Jenna for a while, he never had any hard feelings when she fell in love with Logan, and just like he and Isobel were high school sweethearts, the same could be said about Logan and Jenna. When John discovered his oldest friend had died and was turned into a vampire, he mourned and grieved in solitude but when facing the aforementioned vampire, he donned on an uncaring, nonchalant façade, and he admitted to himself, he didn't want to kill Logan, who he was pleased to find out, never once killed a human since his transformation and spent the entire time protecting his family and the three other girls his niece befriended since childhood. "What do you have in mind?" John shrewdly inquired, willing to hear his old friend out.
Sending Damon a warning not to interrupt, Logan focused on John, "According to Stefan, there is a price on Sienna's head by some unknown factor making a deal with the willing and vindictive tomb vampires. You said that you and Isobel share a mutual interest, well… we all have a common goal, and that is eradicating the tomb vampires from Mystic Falls. We can all help each other out. We preserve the invention until you need it, and in return, you protect the Salvatore brothers and me from its effect and rid yourself of the ridiculous notion of killing us. What do you say, Johnny boy?" Logan smirked, falling back to his the old nickname in jest and for the sake of familiarity.
"Why are you so adamant in keeping Damon and Stefan alive?" John sneered, not liking that part of the agreement. Clearing his throat obnoxiously, Damon snapped, "Uh, hello. I'm in the room, people!"
Ignoring the annoying Salvatore brother, Logan's face morphed into a solemn expression, "Irregardless of them being vampires, they're Sienna's family by blood. We both know that Giuseppe and Aurelia don't give two shits about her safety. Sienna's a seventeen year old girl, pregnant with twins and living in a town that despite the picturesque image it makes it reeks of danger and houses supernatural beings. I mean, come on, John, we both know that whether the Salvatore brothers returned to Mystic Falls, this town is a harbinger of supernatural creatures. It's the focal point of peril. Alone, I cannot keep Sienna, her twins, Stone, River, Luna and Caroline safe. And Sienna needs those two idiots in her life."
Mulling Logan's diatribe in his head, he grudgingly nodded with a loud exhale of irritation, "Fine. You three remain safe from the invention. You have a deal." He may be an ass, but even John wasn't cold and heartless toward a pregnant teenager who had deadbeat parents.
"Damon?" Logan confronted the gaping vampire, "Think of Sienna."
"Fine! Just- ugh, fine! You have yourself a deal, John. But if you double-cross me, I promise you, you'll be sorry. You're not the only one with a contingency plan around here," Damon snarled through gritted teeth.
"You won! Care-bear, you won! Congratulations!" River squealed, engulfing the bubbly blonde in a hug, joined immediately by Luna. Caroline giggled, happy tears streaming down her face, unable to believe that she actually won – truth be told, if were being completely honest with herself, she thought Elena would have won… as usual.
Luna and River weren't the least bit downhearted over the fact that they lost, in fact, they were ecstatic that Caroline won, knowing how much the title meant to her.
"If only Sienna was here," Caroline sadly commented.
As a daughter of a founding family, Sienna was supposed to join the three girls in the pageant, unfortunately, her pregnancy symptoms were acting up and she could barely move out of her bed, also, she vehemently argued with Carol Lockwood about attending with a nearly seven month stomach and wasn't excited about parading her bulging body and having her swollen ankles roaming around in heels in front of the denizens of Mystic Falls.
If only the jubilant celebrations lasted; the three girls were interrupted by a grimacing Damon and Logan who had a weepy Elena in tow; apparently, Stefan had fallen off the wagon and they had to save Amber from his Ripper-ing clutches.
"Why do all events have to end with a vampiric bang," Luna groaned, already texting her parents about sleeping over at Sienna's, Caroline and River mimicking her actions. There was no way in hell that the three girls were about to leave Sienna alone in the Boarding House with Stefan in the state he was in. in the end, their fears were unfounded; Elena tricked Stefan with a vervain dart giving Damon and Logan leeway into locking him up in the cellar to flush out the people blood from his system… yay!
"I fucking told you, Gilbert!" Sienna sneered, one arm wrapped around her womb, "You fed a blood-addict human blood. Why do you think Stefan feeds on animals?!"
Not deterred by the hormonal Salvatore, Elena stood her ground and heatedly retorted, "Because he doesn't like killi-"
"Ugh! Use your brains you moron!" Luna sneered, "He could drink from blood bags! Stefan doesn't consume human blood because he has an unhealthy addiction and loses control of himself!"
The doorbell suddenly rang, interrupting the four sisters who were verbally tearing Elena apart while Damon and Logan kept watch over Stefan in the basement away from the catfight. Groaning, Sienna stalked over to the front door, "I'll get it. I don't want to even look at the bitch!"
Yeah – so sue her, Sienna was annoyed that prissy bitchy Gilbert wouldn't leave her house, not wanting to be apart from her precious Stefan. Opening the door with a scowl, olive green orbs widened in surprise, "Bonnie? Uh, are you here for Elena?" Great – her house was turning into Elena's abode now.
"Uh, no actually. I'm here to give you these," Bonnie stammered uncertainly; Sienna frowned in puzzlement at the two cardboard boxes lined against her doorway. "I found them with my Grams stuff when I was cleaning out," she softly pressed on, hazel-green eyes watering at the reminder of her grandmother, "My Grams left me a letter about them. She was saving them for you, for when you came into your powers. Apparently your grandmother was friends with mine, and she left them in her possession to give to you, but she-, uh, she died before she could, so now that task fell onto me."
Swallowing the large lump that was dwelling in her throat, Sienna whispered out her gratitude, her eyes never once disconnecting from the two ginormous boxes, her hands itching to rummage through them and discover her innate roots.
"I didn't know you were a witch," Bonnie nervously uttered, seemingly uncomfortable with the first decent conversation they were having in their entire history especially since the last one didn't end so well. Sienna let out a bitter chuckle, "Yeah, well, join the club. I didn't find out until a group of vampires decided to torture me for kicks. Anyways, thanks Bonnie for uh, bringing them over."
Bonnie shrugged and turned to leave, "No problem."
Later on, while Luna, River and Caroline were snoring softly in her room, Sienna stealthily tiptoed into her bathroom and rummaged through the first box. It only took an hour of reading for her eyes to widen immensely in shock, rendered speechless by her overwhelming discovery.
A/N: I am so terribly sorry about the wait! Like REALLY sorry! Though I hope you enjoyed this chapter?! XD
Okay, first of all; I know not much happened, but there must be a few filler chapters before the action starts. Before Season 2 begins, the action will already be on its way. Next chapter will be completely immersed in the havoc and chaos that will change the four sisters' lives. And I cannot wait! ;)
Second of all; Sienna's background is very interesting. I already have it all written and planned out and a story of her maternal family in mind. Sienna isn't some regular witch, so don't worry, it won't be a bore. ;)
Third of all; please be patient with me. I promise you all my faithful readers, next chapter, the plot-twists and action will begin and there will barely be a filler chapter left. In all honesty, there isn't much action in canon season one, BUT I managed to plan a few plot-twists to the last two chapters of the first season, so hold your horses, be patient and sit tight for the overwhelming chaos that will change Sienna, Luna, River and Caroline's lives COMPLETELY.
Next chapter; a huge plot-twist on its way!
R&R.