I'm rewriting this story because I wasn't very happy with it. The first few chapters won't be too different from what they were but there will be some changes that will definitely impact what will happen in the story later on. This still is a story about a girl from our world wishing to be in the TVD world and that this girl becomes a siphoner (and she also doesn't remember being anyone but the character she invented).
I hope you like this story. Tell me what you think!
Prologue
Sometimes–when she had nothing better to do–Blair liked to imagine ways in which she could change her favorite tv shows, movies or books. There was nothing particularly wrong with them (except for the last season of Game of Thrones, of course, which was despised by everyone with a brain and common sense), but she enjoyed the idea of the what if.
One of her favorite TV shows was the Vampire Diaries. It had its fair share of problems, no doubt, especially in the later seasons, but it remained–at least, in her opinion–one of the best of its genre (not to the level of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, of course, but which was?). It was certainly iconic.
What Blair liked best was the vast and varied world they had created, with its own set of rules and lore. Well, and Damon, obviously. She loved the Originals–well, not Finn, but definitely all the others–but her favorite character has always been and will always be Damon.
While Blair had loved the relationship between Damon and Elena, sometimes she wondered what would have happened if Damon had fallen for someone else instead. Especially since Damon had spent 3 entire seasons pining after Elena while she was with his brother. It was miserable watching him being so...well, miserable. What would have happened if, instead, Damon had fallen for another girl and not Elena?
But that wasn't all. Since she was pathetic like that, she had actually written a list of the things she would change or add to the Vampire Diaries.
She liked to imagine what it would be like to be a part of that world, spending hours thinking about what kind of character she would be. Like in a video game–what would her avatar be like and look like?
Her appearance, first of all. Her avatar couldn't look like herself. No, her avatar would look like Taylor Hill, but with bigger boobs, like Sophie Mudd, and very vivid jade green eyes.
Her name would be Blair, like her own name. But what about her surname?
She liked the idea of Blair being from one of the founding and she also liked the idea of Blair being related to Elena. Perhaps as a sister, maybe even in Jeremy's place. However, she wanted Blair to be in the same year as Elena, Bonnie and Caroline, as a junior in high school, not two years younger than them like Jeremy was. Perhaps, since there was already a minor character called Blair Fell, Blair could replace that character. However her name would be Blair Gilbert, sister of Elena Gilbert but trueborn daughter of Miranda and Grayson Gilbert.
But, to be possible for Blair Gilbert to be in the same grade as Elena, she needed to be born at the end of 1991.
Blair could be born in November 1991, and Elena in September 1992, ten months later. Let's say that, since Blair and Elena were so close in age, the Gilberts had decided to wait a little for Blair to start school so she and Elena could be in the same grade.
She also wanted Blair Gilbert to be the witch of the story, instead of Bonnie. However, she wouldn't be a normal witch–she would be a siphoner and part of the Gemini Coven.
The only way it'd be possible for Blair to be a Gemini witch, but not Elena, the witches would have to be in Miranda's bloodline. Therefore, both Miranda and Jenna would have to be witches. But since there was already a witch in canon from the Gemini Coven, she decided that Jo would be Miranda's sister and not Jenna.
Therefore, Miranda Gilbert would be born a Parker and a witch. She, and Jo and Kai, would be half-siblings though, with Miranda, and Jo and Kai, having different mothers but the same father (Joshua Parker).
The Blackwells (the name of Miranda's family of witches from her mother's side) could replace the Bennetts in canon, as the old bloodline of witches. Blackwell blood would be the blood used to create the ascendants and the prison worlds, but Parker blood would be the one necessary to awake Silas.
Consequently, Emily wouldn't be a Bennett anymore but Emily Blackwell instead–she imagined this Emily to look like Ruth Wilson. For the rest, she would be the same character as she was in canon, 'friendship' with Katherine included.
Miranda wouldn't be present during the massacre since she'd already be living in Mystic Falls with her husband and children by then. Her mother would originally be from Mystic Falls and Miranda would leave Oregon to live with her mother in Mystic Falls after her mother (Grace Blackwell)'s divorce from her father.
In Mystic Falls she would meet and fall in love with Grayson Gilbert, whom she would eventually marry.
After the massacre Jo would give up her magic (putting it inside a teddy bear and leave it in Oregon like in canon) and move to Mystic Falls to live with her sister. She would still become a doctor, she would still attend college in Whitmore and then she would start working at the hospital in Mystic Falls, taking the name Jo Laughlin (Laughlin being her mother's maiden name).
Jo would still be a witch, but in name only, since she wouldn't really practice any magic for a long time. But eventually she would realize that her magic could be useful to protect the people that she loves. She wouldn't die like Jenna did in canon. In fact, she would basically replace the role that Meredith Fell had in canon. And she and Alaric would get their happy ending.
Miranda would be the one to imprison Mikael, instead of Abby Bennett, after that giving up on magic altogether as well because of the effect wielding so much dark magic had had on her.
Matt would be the supernatural hunter–one of the Five–since Jeremy wouldn't be present in the story anymore. Perhaps he and Bonnie could have a thing for a while, like Bonnie and Jeremy did in canon–although Bonnie's endgame would be Enzo.
Obviously, the Bennets wouldn't be a bloodline of witches anymore. Bonnie could be another type of supernatural creature though. A banshee, perhaps, similar to Lydia Martin in Teen Wolf. She would be the one able to see ghosts since Jeremy wouldn't be present in the story. A near-death experience would be necessary to awaken her powers. Perhaps, she could be the one bitten by Damon during the party at the Falls and not Vicki.
Damon would need a Blackwell witch specifically to open the tomb, not just any witch. So, he would enlist her help. But Blair wouldn't know how to open the tomb only with the crystal so she would need to find Emily's grimoire and use the crystal as a source of power.
Damon, in exchange, would swear to leave the people Blair cared about alone; Blair would literally make him a list of the people that would be off-limits: her sister, her aunt, Caroline, Caroline's mum (unless directly threatening him), Bonnie, Tyler, Matt and Matt's sister Vicki (specifically because she's Matt's sister and not because Blair cares about her). And, of course, Blair would also want to get her hands on Emily's grimoire once they find it.
Damon would also swear not to feed or kill in town unless absolutely necessary.
Blair would be the opposite of 'good girl' Elena. She would be considered a troublemaker while younger and then a party girl while a teenager. She would be the most popular girl in school, a stereotypical Queen Bee, captain of the cheerleading squad, mean and spoiled, and promiscuous as well, with a high sex drive but reluctant to form true attachments.
She and Elena would be the ones having a rivalry going on and not Elena and Caroline. In fact, Caroline would be Blair's best friend while Bonnie would be Elena's best friend like in canon. Blair would love to steal what Elena has, especially boys Elena would be interested in. She wouldn't be all bad, though, obviously. She would be extremely loyal (in her own way) and protective of the people she'd care about, and brave, tenacious, witty, clever and perceptive as well.
Her mother Miranda would be the one to teach Blair magic–but in secret. No one would know about it but that would be because Blair would find out that her mother's family is a family of witches and she'd insist on learning, threating her mother that she would learn alone if she had to. Her mother, worried about her daughter practicing magic on her own, would relent and teach her all that she knew.
Blair would be aware of vampires as well. In fact, she would be fascinated by history and she would love to read the Gilberts' journals, especially the ones about the 1860's.
Miranda would be a little put out by the fact that Blair was born a siphoner, just like Kai, but she would remind herself that Blair is nothing like Kai and that Blair was her daughter and Miranda loved her.
There were other things she had written, three whole pages of them, in fact. Blair shook her head. What was the point though? The thing she wanted most after coming up with such a list would be to become her avatar–Blair Gilbert herself.
Though Blair wouldn't want to remember being anyone other than Blair Gilbert; she wouldn't want to remember that the life she would be living as Blair Gilbert was, in truth, a TV show. She wouldn't want to know what would happen before it happened. Where would be the fun in that?
Such a thing wasn't possible, however. She decided, therefore, to banish the thought from her mind.
Blair got ready for bed, not noticing the shooting star passing through the night sky outside her window. She went to sleep, not knowing everything would be different for her tomorrow–and unable to remember any of it.