Dear readers,
This past week we lost a great and imaginative man. So in memory of him, I dedicate this chapter to the late great Stan Lee. His stories gave me the confidence and inspiration to create my own characters in every universe. RIP. I hope that the directors and producers and writers do justice to your very creative universe.
Thank all of you that have clicked and kept on clicking to read my story. (All of you are amazing.) Thank you to everyone that followed or reviewed to this story. I really appreciate it and if you review on more than one chapter I can possible add a minor character with your description in the next chapter or into a chapter with the episode that's your favorite. You give me the inspiration to write when I don't want to or even when I can't pull anything from my mind to write about.
Love, Beautiful Dreaming Warrior
PS: I don't own any of the canon characters. I only own Rayen, her family, and any of the characters I add in to spice the story up instead of it being Elena-centric.
PPS: This chapter can possibly make you cry. But I promise you absolutely nothing.
Previously on Divine Beauty:
"What would you like me to make ma'am?" The teen asks and I smile as I give him my champagne glass.
"I would like a martini without the vervain." I say and the teens eyes widen before I give him a smirk that makes him stutter out a yes. "Thank you handsome." I say as I give him a hundred. I smile as he starts making me my drink. I look at the flower arrangements around the room and I slyly powerful before pushing out a wave of my magic. I smile as I can feel them all growing while everyone mingles.
"Did you realize that when you use your powers your eyes glow green and your skin glows a slight gold?" I hear someone's voice behind me and I turn around to see someone lurking in the dark.
"Is that so?" I ask as I look to see a man wearing a dark red suit with a black tie. His hair brown as chocolate and his eyes as gold as well obviously gold. My first gut instinct is that he's a wolf.
"It is. So why is there a 17 year old Californian Native/ Virginia girl with one of the most powerful men in the world, at Buckingham Palace?" The man asks and I look up at him and I see that he has wolfish eyes.
"Why does a werewolf want to know about me?" I ask as I take the drink the teenager hands me and I take a sip of it. I watch his eyes widen in surprise and I smirk. "You think that I'm not aware of the supernatural around me?"
I make the vine climb up my leg before wrapping around my arm, "SO then I'll ask again. Why are you here with Klaus?" He asks and I lick my red lips watching his eyes follow my tongue.
"I'm just arm candy." I say as I walk away and look back at him. "Bye bye pup." I walk away and I get swept into a dance by Nik making me smile as I move my vine down to my ankle.
"Are you ready love?" He asks and I smirk as I take a drink before setting it on a tray.
"What do I need to be ready for?" I ask as he nods to the band and they start playing the tango.
"After this dance the Queen will appoint you a Dame." He says as we dance around the dance floor and I smile as we start incorporating some lifts and dips. I make sure that all of the photographers get great pictures of us while we dance.
"Are you serious?"
"Dead serious." We finish off with my left leg straight out and my right leg underneath me. "Why do you think everything around has something to do with you?" I double check everything as he pulls me to my feet and I smile as I give him a kiss.
"How did you manage this?" I ask softly as he escorts me to a table. He just gives me a smirk in return before the real festivities begin.
Time Jump
After the gala and getting appointed the Order of Thistle, I am now Lady Harjo-Maxwell and the official court Native American. We eat dinner with everyone and then we go back to his penthouse. We have some very satisfying fun and I hop into the shower as he goes to feed. I wash up and rinse off feeling something very wrong. I get out letting the water turn off before I lotion up my body. I feel a heavy weight in my chest and I bite my lip as I wrap myself in a towel. I look at myself in the mirror and I try to shake the feeling off before I walk out to the bedroom. As I towel dry my hair and walk over to my dresser to get my pjs I see Greta sitting on the bed looking apologetic and conflicted. I toss the towel in the hamper as I grab my nightgown before slipping it on. I toss the other towel into the hamper as well and I fix my wet hair so I can actually see her. I take my necklace off and set it in the jewelry bowl.
"Greta? What are you doing here? I thought he gave you the night off?" I ask as I walk over to her and she looks up at me with her eyes tearing up slightly. I grip her hands and I feel a surge of power. My body shakes and I try to get out of her hold.
"I am so sorry Ray ray." She says softly as she closes her eyes.
"Greta, why?" I ask as I try to pull my arms out of her hands and I feel something harder holding onto my wrists. My eyes widen as she won't let go and I see black smoke wrapping around my wrists. Slowly like a snake.
"You won't be able to remember dealing with any of his businesses or anything of that nature. You remember his full name or that he's a vampire. Or any of his secrets that he has told you in the past four months." She lets her tears fall down her cheeks and I try pulling harder as my friend keeps chanting the spell between the sentences. "Tonight you finish packing up your stuff and you will head home. You will get on with your life and find someone to fall in love with. You will only remember Freckles as the man that helped you gain some portfolio pictures. Your memories will return when you get the necklace back. Your relationship will be just a friendship nothing more."
"Greta what's happening? You know that I can't be compelled." I look to the door to see Nik standing there with a regretful look on his face as I feel my body shaking slightly. "Nik. What-" I look to see his eyes aren't looking directly at me. "You told her to do this."
"I can't have any weakness." He simply says in a monotonous voice and I kick my foot out making my vine wrap around his neck.
"I have already told you, god damn it Nik, I am no weakness!" I pull him closer with my leg as he doesn't even fight me. "Now let Greta break the fucking spell and I'll deal with these rumors." I say as I bring him down to his knees and make him look at me. I look at him trying to see the man that has stolen my heart. But all I see in his eyes are ice with none of his usual emotions behind them. It hits me hard making me let out a gasp as it squeezes my heart. I try to pull away from Greta as I lean down to him. "Nik, don't push me out. Please." I try to beg him by using my gift a bit and I rest my forehead against his as my tears well up faster threatening to fall.
He stands up straight and pulls the vine off from around his neck. He looks down at me as I see a single tear fall down from his face. He swallows hard before speaking. "Sorry love, but this is for you to be safe as well." He makes me turn to look at Greta as the smoke wraps around my entire arm.
"Please Nik. You know I won't say anything. Please Nik." I say trying to get him to let me go as my tears fall down my face. My body is shaking out of control as her magic reacts negatively to mine. He kisses my cheek and rubs my cheeks as he holds my face to look at Greta as she cries. "I love you."
"My little Wonder, I wish you could stay by my side with no repercussions. But unfortunately I have enemies that would hurt you. Just to get to me. I can't have that." He whispers and kisses the back of my head. "I love you too." He says as I see Greta's eyes go from brown to blood red before all of a sudden my world goes black as I fall limp.
Rayen's POV:
I open my eyes yawning and I see that I'm on a plane. I scrunch my eyebrows remembering coming back home from the gala and taking a shower before going straight to sleep. I sit up and I look around seeing all my suitcases that Freckles got me since my other ones were breaking when I landed. I look to see that I'm wearing a pair of white thigh high socks with a pair of black Mary Jane heels, a green and black lace skater skirt, and a white long sleeved crop top showing off my stomach. My hair all the way down in big soft bouncy curls with my bangs pinned back with silver bobby pins. As I run my hands through my curls and look around trying to find my camera. I see the case on the other seat and I relax.
"You're awake. Would you like anything to drink or eat?" I turn around to see that it's the Flight attendant with the Dutch name that blushed when I used the correct pronunciation of it. I see that her naturally red hair is now passed her collarbone since this time it's pin straight with two bobby pins to hold her bangs back behind her ear.
"Um can you get me a regular sized margarita, on the rocks, and without the salt, please and um if you have a steak with French fries, Breuckelen?" I ask softly as I look up at her.
"Of course." she blushes before running off. I hear multiple dings from my phone and I see that I got a newer model that what I had before. I shrug before going on it and I see that I have a shit ton of messages. I read through them, but most of them are from my native family except for Jeremy just venting to me mostly but sending me funny pictures. While my family members send me pictures of different pow-wows and their new regalia that they got cause of the casino earning more money than ever before. I smile softly as I send them pictures of me sitting in the plane being a complete dork and I notice my skin is even darker than before plus the tips of my hair has more of a turquoise tone to them. I get some cute texts back from them and some condolence texts which concern me. She hands me a tray with steak and my drink on it. I smile as I watch the clouds go by.
"Here Ray." she says softly and I nod before she walks away. I run my fingers through my hair once again fluffing my curls to make them bigger and softer.
"Thank you, Breuckelen." I say softly as I dig in after I finish eating I sit back and cover up with a really soft turquoise blanket. But even though I just ate my stomach feels empty. I look up at the ceiling of the plane and I suddenly feel like my chest is being constricted. It's like I'm not able to fully expand my lungs and it hurts. It just hurts to breathe.
'What the hell? What is this feeling? It hurts so much.' I blink my eyes as I feel cool water on my cheeks now and I clutch my shirt tightly. I wipe it off and I notice I'm crying. Suddenly I start sobbing and I curl my legs up to my chest. 'Why am I crying?' I ask myself as I put my hand to my chest. My lungs feel like I'm drowning as my chest feels like its tightening or like someone's ripping my rib cage open and pulling my heart out of my chest. I feel bile gathering up in the back of my throat and I quickly get up before going to the bathroom to throw up in the toilet bowl. Breuckelen pulls my hair back and rubs between my shoulder blades. I throw up once again and I cough before I put my hand on my forehead.
"It's okay, Lady Rayen. Let it out. Let out your pain." She says as I feel a warm feeling flowing through my body while I throw up once again. She helps me up after I threw up a second time before cleaning my mouth. She guides me to back to my seat and covers me up. She kneels down next to me, "Sleep." She pets my hair softly and I nod slightly. I close my eyes feeling more tears fall down my cheeks as my body shuts down.
Time Jump
I get to the airport and get my stuff before I sit down on one of the benches. I sit there as I look around for one of the cars. The breeze hits my skin and I cover up as best I can. I hear a familiar engine and see that instead of Mark or mom coming to pick me up that it's actually Ty and Mattie in Ty's car. I tilt my head and I paint a fake smile on my face. He jumps out of his car before running up to give me a hug. "God, I missed you Ray-ray." He says as he gives me a kiss on the cheek. Mattie waits his turn and grabs my luggage cart from the middle of the sidewalk.
"I missed you guys too. Why didn't Mom or Mark come pick me up?" I ask softly as he sets me down before grabbing my luggage cart and he packs my stuff into the back of his car. He freezes and looks up at Mattie as he puts his arm around my shoulders.
"Um a-actually I- I thought that Elena called you." Mattie says confused as he looks at an angry Ty.
"No one has called or messaged me or even tried to get a hold of me from our friend group since I left to go to Europe. Actually no, I was wrong, the only one to message me was Jer." I say as I look at the both of them and I can feel my blood running through my like ice. I lick my lips trying to keep them wet, "Guys come on. Tell me."
"So, yeah, um they were going to California and, fuck, this is hard." Ty says and I twirl out of Mattie's arm. Matt grabs my hand and pulls me close putting his hands on my cheeks holding it.
"Um, Well shit um Rayen when they were leaving a a powwow in Texas with Markus's girlfriend since your mother was asleep in the backseat, the- they were hit by a drunk semi-truck driver at a stoplight." Mattie whispers and my jaw drops.
"They were killed instantly. They felt no pain at all." Ty says as I look into Mattie's eyes. My heart follows my jaw to the floor and my knees wobble while I try to swallow my tears back.
"Ty let's get her home. She doesn't need an audience." He says as he helps me into the car and buckles me in before sitting in the back with me. Ty drives us away and back home. My body feels numb and I lean against Mattie's chest. He gently wraps his arms around me and pets my hair. "It's okay Moon-ray. I've got you." He says softly as he hugs me to his chest and as he uses Vicki's old name for me my walls crumble and break. Everything around me moves in slow motion as my heart feels like its breaking and the air gets stolen out of my lungs. For the entire ride home my tears turn to me sobbing my heart out. Me holding onto Matt's shirt while he hugs me to him letting me soak his shirt with my tears. When we get home it feels like all the strength in my body has been depleted. Mattie hands me off to Tyler and he carries me to the house. As we get in, the presence just feels still not electric like mom or mark made it to be. I whimper slightly before he cuddles me to his chest and carries me up to my room.
"Can you guys stay with me?" I look up at Mattie and Ty as they bring in my bags. "I can't be in this house alone." I look to see the both of them smile at one another and nod. "Thank you." They both lay down next to me and cuddle me as I feel my magic dulling. They put on the first Ironman and I sigh softly as I listen to the music.
"We'll stay with you as long as you want." Mattie says as he covers me up and I close my eyes before falling asleep.
No one's POV:
As Rayen falls asleep, Tyler and Matt carefully slide off her bed before going downstairs. They quietly walk down the stairs before stopping at one of the pictures of Mark, Rayen, and her mom with Rayen and Mark all decked out in their regalia. They sigh softly before walking down fully and into the kitchen. They look at one another, "So why didn't Elena call Rayen when she said she was?" Tyler asks as he opens the fridge to check her food level.
"I don't know. But we should really call my parents to see if they can restock the house." Tyler says and Matt pulls out his phone as he sits down on one of the bar stools.
"Okay. I'll call Care to come over to stay with her as she sleeps while we get our stuff ready." Matt says as he puts the phone up to his ear while Ty calls his mom and puts her on speaker. As the two of them talk, upstairs Riptide cuddles against his owners chest feeling that she needs some comfort right now. She doesn't even move from her position as he lays his head on her shoulder. She opens her eyes and they are glowing a dark gold with little wisps in her skin. She gently pulls him closer and she waves her hand out making the plants grow to put her stuff away and put her pictures on the wall. She before falling back asleep. While she sleeps more tears fall down her face and soak her pillows. Caroline comes over with a little bag before sending the boys out of the house and she walks into her supposed best friends room.
"I am so sorry Ray-ray." She says as she realizes that she hasn't messaged or tried to Skype her while she went to Europe. "I'm sorry, I didn't reach out to you." She whispers as she looks at all of her pictures that she took over there. But in most of them she can see that Rayen didn't take the instead they were taken of her. There's this one picture of her wearing a deep red v neck, A-line, spaghetti strap sash chiffon dress with her hair up in an asymmetrical French twist and the smaller hair curled but out of the twist. She's looking up at the Trevi Fountain holding a fifty cent piece and her face is being illuminated by the fountain lights. Then she walks over to another picture where she's being a goofball at Disneyland in Paris wearing a pair of ripped up jeans, a Stitch top, and her hair down all the way in waves. She smiles at the picture frame tracing the edges before her eyes find another picture. This time she sees Rayen taking a picture of an Italian villa from the top of its. The camera in her hands that are freshly manicured with bright blue nail polish, her hair passed her waist in curls, and wearing a white lace top with a dark blue silk high low skirt with a pair of white pumps.
She sits down as Tyler and his parents come in bringing food. Including bags with his clothes and his school stuff. "Tyler how did she take the news? Did she tell you?" She asks as she cleans up the kitchen.
"She broke down on the way here. I've never heard or seen her cry like that. Not even after the Armando incident." He says as he puts the meats into the freezer in their spots. "Elena didn't call to tell her what happened even though she said that she would." Tyler says as he puts her favorite dessert in the freezer. Carol and Richard look at one another as Tyler finishes putting the food away. "Matt and I are going to stay here until she feels better to figure out what to do with the extra rooms."
"Alright, I don't mind you staying here. What about you Richard?" Carol asks as she throws away the paper towel she was using to dry counters. He turns to look at his wife as he sees her eyebrow raised at him as if she's daring him to challenge her about the boys staying with Rayen. Her hope is that it brings Tyler and Rayen together.
He sighs and nods, "It's fine with me as long as the two of you watch her." He smirks teasingly at Tyler, "And stay in different rooms, Rohan would never forgive me if one of you two got her pregnant before marriage." He says and Tyler stands there in shock of what his dad just said before he starts blushing like a tomato.
"I'm not like that dad and if anything the both of us will sleep in one of the other rooms." He says as he helps them out of the house and he goes up to her room seeing Care has fallen asleep in Rayen's comfy chair. He smiles and grabs one of the extra Pendleton blankets from the closet in the hall before covering her up. He walks back down to the first floor to grab his stuff and he moves into Markus's old room. Matt comes back and they both decide he sleeps on Markus's old couch that he has in his old room.
Meanwhile in another part of town...
Alaric walks up to the bar at the Grill and pulls up a chair. He sighs as he is trying to pull himself together enough to be able to drive himself home. As soon as he had left Damon's side he went to drown himself in alcohol until the pain of finding nothing on his wife dissipates from his chest.
"What would you like tonight Ric?" The bartender asks as he puts a hand towel on his shoulder.
"Just a scotch on the rocks tonight, Peter." He says and he rubs his weary face while he watches Peter make him his drink. He sets it down and smiles trying to cheer him up. "After this keep them coming."
"No problem. You want a tab?" Peter says as he walks away knowing the answer. He takes a sip before sighing and putting his head in his hand trying to relax after the hard day he had.
"Hello, Ric." An extremely familiar feminine voice purrs from his right side. Alaric opens his eyes and he slowly lowers his head from where he was rubbing at the beginning of a throbbing headache. He licks his lips before turning his head.
"Isobel." he says in a broken whisper as she smiles at him and he looks over her to see her wearing a black skin tight outfit with heels.
"It's good to see you." Isobel tells him and Alaric blinks at her. "You look good. I hear you're a high school history teacher? How is that?"
Alaric isn't buying her small talk and rolls his eyes at her. "Where have you been, Isobel?" He asks with a deep hurt in his tone of voice that slips out without his knowledge.
"I don't have any reasons that are going to comfort you Ric. I don't have any explanations that are going to satisfy your curiosity. All I can say is that I wanted this. Nothing else." She murmurs trying to act human-like and he frowns.
"It's that simple for you?" He scoffs making his forehead furrowing deeper and his heart feels like when he found out she was gone the first time.
"Yeah. You were supposed to mourn me, and move on." She tells him in a matter-of-fact manner that is making him want to throttle her or just shove a stake in her heart.
"You're my wife, and I loved you. How could I not search for you?" He replies in a deeply offended tone.
"Because I wasn't lost, Ric." She replies with a small shake of her head. Isobel reaches for a napkin on the bar surface. "I understand that you know my daughter, Elena." Ric feels another pang of hurt echoing through his chest. She admits to having a baby before meeting him. Hearing it from her is different that hearing it from someone else. "I hear that she's been looking for me. So..." She quickly jots down on the napkin and slides it to him "I want you to arrange for a meeting with us. Oh and I want a get-together with the little Native girl too. I really want to meet her."
Alaric takes the paper from her with an incredulous expression clearly painted on his face. "You want me to deliver a message?"
She smiles at him. She doesn't care how angry and hurt he was with her making this decision. "Yeah."
Alaric drops the napkin in front angrily, not at all caring where it lands. "Screw you. You self bitch." He leaves the bar and walks over to his car. He manages to get it unlocked before he feels a presence move up behind him. He turns around to see that she has followed him, but this time she has a black pea coat over the little black dress.
"What do you want from me?"
"I told you." She shrugs carelessly.
"I'm not going to do anything for you." Alaric snaps at her, but she grabs him wrapping her hand around his throat before pinning him to his car.
"You better tell Elena and Rayen that I want to meet the both of them, or I will start killing the citizens of this town one-by-one, starting with your history students. Got it?" She growls at him.
"Rayen's not even in the country, Isobel. Her mother and her cousin sent her away after the tomb was opened."
"See that's where you're wrong Ric. She just got back from her little vacation. Her best friends picked her up and they're at her house now. From what I've been told they're all asleep."
"Why do you want to meet her?" Alaric frowns. Isobel frowns back at him and rolls her eyes at his curiosity.
"I have my reasons to wanting to meet her. You don't need to know them. So make the meeting happen and Lady Harjo better be there." She threatens and then pushes him away from her. The force of her throwing him makes him trip over his own feet and he hits the pavement while coughing and rubbing at his neck. He looks at the napkin that's slightly moving with the breeze and he grabs it before the breeze can pull it away from him. He stands up and scoffs at the piece of paper before he heads home.
Time Jump back to Ray's POV:
Care wakes me up early by pouncing on me and ripping my covers off while Ty and Mattie are downstairs making breakfast for all of us. Care goes through my clothes while she makes me take a shower. I wash up and shave while I let my tears fall down my face so I won't break down when I get out. I dry off and wrap up in my towel before I walk out. Care looks at me and smiles trying to stay strong for me. I smile and look at my plants that are wilting so I slyly wave my hand to make them healthy again.
"Alright, so I will so be borrowing these new clothes and how the hell did you get designer dresses?" She asks as she hands me a pair of black shorts, my Queen tank top, and a pair of my combat boots.
I dry off my hair and shrug, "I was able to get them when I freelanced as a professional selfie poser for some celebs over there." I say in a monotonous voice while I pull on a bandeau over my bra. "It was really fun. They paid me really well, but they also wanted to make sure that I looked great. Just in case if I were to get photographed with them on outings."
"That's awesome. Now just hurry up so we can get dressed before going to school to make the Miss Mystic Falls float." She says and I smile as I roll my eyes. I pull my clothes on before putting my hair up in a bun with some hair pins to hold my hair. I look at myself in the mirror and I put on some makeup to make sure that I don't look like a skeleton. I put some red lipstick on after putting my shades on. I quickly slip my combat heels and strap them on before walking down the stairs. I put on a fake smile before I give mom's picture a kiss. I turn it around before I walk into the kitchen and turn on the TV to put on my favorite Marvel movie. I smile genuinely as I see the opening for Fantastic Four. My favorite part with Stan Lee is when he is giving mail to Reed and Ben Grimm. Ty kisses the top of my head as I grab very little eggs and bacon while Care gives Matt a kiss. Ty leaves earlier than we do. Matt and Care update me on what's been happening around here since no one else has. We finish eating and cleaning up before we head to the school. Care orders me to help her get some ideas for the designs. I smile as I roll my eyes before I look down at the theme she wants before I start piecing in some ideas. I can feel the bile building in my throat and I excuse myself before I stand up. I quickly run to the bathroom on the other side of the school and upchuck all that I ate yesterday and lean against the wall. I pant lightly as I look up at the light. I hear a ping from my phone and I look down at it to see that it's Elena. I roll my eyes before I double check the date. My jaw drops as does my phone before I upchuck once again.
Now I was going to be really mean and cut it off there.
But I'll let your mind wander about what's going on and keep going, but it will continue on with a different scene.
Btw: Hope you enjoy this extra-long chapter I made for all of you loyal fans.
I walk into his classroom fully refreshed, thanks to Care's emergency make-out kit that she made me back in freshman year. I wash my mouth out really qick My mouth is all bubblegum fresh and I blow a bubble before I sit on my desk. "Did you ask her about Uncle John? Are they working together?" Damon asks Alaric, giving me another glance and I tilt my head curiously.
"No."
"No, they're not?" He asks and I look at Damon who is very far from me.
"No, I didn't ask."
Damon rolls his eyes. "What about the invention?"
"Didn't ask." Alaric shakes his head again.
"Did she know about the tomb vampires?"
"I don't know."
"Did words completely escape you?" Damon mocks as he gets in Alaric's personal bubble and I roll my eyes as I play with my nails.
"No, I was a little too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask questions." Alaric snaps at him making me smirk and Damon back up a bit.
Damon looks around at us. "What did she want?"
"She wanted to see us, Damon." Elena replies coolly and he looks her. "Rayen too." My head snaps up and I look at them all over my shades since I'm behind them all.
"Alaric is supposed to arrange a meeting. One for Elena and one for Belle." Stefan speaks up and I glare at Stefan cause I'm still mad at him for not telling me anything. "We don't know why or what she wants."
"You don't have to see her if you don't want." Damon says as I roll my eyes since Elena couldn't bother calling me to tell me about mom. "You don't either, Rayen." I smirk as I roll my eyes at him before fixing my shades.
"We don't really have a choice." Elena speaks up softly and I smirk as he looks at us all in confusion.
"She threatened to go on a killing spree." Alaric inform him and my jaw drops as my magic buzzes in me.
"Oh, I take it that's not okay with you guys?" Damon smirks and Stefan rolls his eyes.
Elena takes a breath. "I want to do it. I want to meet her. If I don't then I'll regret it."
Damon looks over to me and I see Elena stiffen, "And what will momma dearest say about this?"
"I don't know. How about you call a witch to call her on the other side ?" I say sarcastically as I fix my bangs.
Alaric frowns. "Rayen-"
"Yeah. Imagine my surprise when I got told once I got off the plane that my mother, my cousin, and his girlfriend were killed by a drunk driver." I say as I stand up and lean down to Elena's ear. "And here I thought I was your friend, but I didn't even get the phone call you told everyone that you were going to make." I whisper before I stand up and fix my top.
"Ray-" Elena starts before I cut her off.
"I don't want to hear your excuses Lena." I say before I walk over to Alaric.
"I'm sorr-" I put my hand on Alaric's arm to stop him as I look up at him to see he looks ashamed as well.
"Tell Isobel that Lady Rayen Harjo will gladly meet with her at the Grill today or no meeting at all." I tell Alaric before I go back outside and help Care with the float designs. We finish the designs earlier than expected and I tell the boys that they can either wait for me after they get done with classes or head back to my house. I'm only allowed to come on campus if I'm helping with functions since I finished this year's schoolwork three months ago. I walk closer to the town square and I'm assaulted by memories of my mother and me walking around. I look over at the shop and I start thinking of the first project that my mother and I did together. I shake the memories off before I can cry before I open the door. I walk into the grill and slap a fake smile as I take my shades off before I sit down in my signature booth. I drag my nail on the wood grains and I change the grains directions. I order some food from a new waitress and I play on my phone as I wait for her. I hear heels and I look up to see a beautiful woman that reminds me of Elena. "I believe that you're Isobel?" I ask as I motion her to sit down across from me.
The vampire flashes me a smile. "That's right. Wow you look a lot like your father despite the one eye color from your mother's side."
"It's nice to meet you and thank you."
"You're polite for someone your age. I like that." Isobel states and then she smiles. "Let's get down to business shall we?"
"What did you want to see me about?"
"I wanted to know…" She leans in closer to me trying to use compulsion on me, "why you were all around Europe being the arm candy of one of the most powerful men in the world? And then being appointed the first Native American woman into the Order of the Thistle?" I look up at her and tilt my head as my head hurts slightly while all I see is swirling black smoke.
"For one never try use compulsion on me. It's never worked. For two I was never anyone's arm candy. If I was it was cause I was working for them to find a great picture for them. For three I was appointed that position because I have friends in higher places than you." I say as I eat my fries and I look back at her and I see her pull out her phone.
"If that's so then what is this picture doing on the tabloids in Romania?" She asks showing me a picture of me wearing a red satin long ball gown that has an a-line cut with a scoop neckline that is ruffled. My hair is pinned in a chignon with some diamond pins and I'm smiling softly at the photographers while the man holding my hand is looking down at me. I tilt my head as I look at him and for some reason I'm drawing a blank. But I remember the event it was a charity event for feeding the poor.
"I don't know who that is, but he was probably told to take a picture with the odd woman out." I say as I roll my eyes at her and she keeps showing me pictures in different cities with the same guy on my arm. I wave my fingers slightly before I use the table to wrap a hand over her wrist.
"W-what? How did you do that?" I hear her ask in a whisper as I roll my eyes and I use the back of her seat to wrap around her throat to keep her quiet while I do what I want.
"That, Isobel Saltzman or is it Flemming again, is none of your business." I say as I take her phone out of her hand and I send them all to myself, so I can do some digging on this mystery guy. I give it back to her and let go of her wrist slightly enjoying the fact of her fear that's swimming in her eyes. I put down a fifty dollar bill before I stand up and fix my shades. "I would say that it was a pleasure to meet my friend's real mother, but then I would be lying. And I must not tell lies." I walk out feeling extremely satisfied that I was able to use that quote. I head home for a little bit just long enough to drink some milk and eat a pop-tart and grab my camera before I skate back to the lot. I walk through the floats checking the designs and taking pictures of the progress and I smile before a hand wraps around my arm. I get pulled away from it all and I wrap my vine around the arm making the person hiss in pain. I growl as I see that it's a man. I let the thorns dig into his skin making the vervain get into his system faster.
"Let go of me or I'll dig the thorns in deeper." I threaten him and he glares at me before letting go of my arm.
"Hello, Lady Rayen" Isobel says and I fix my jacket before looking up at her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm Elena's mother. I want to be more involved in her life." Isobel smiles and I roll my eyes before I turn to see that she dragged Elena over here as well.
Elena frowns and I fix my hair as I take pictures of the floats from here. "I don't want you in my life."
"I understand that. You both already have a lot of people that you care about. But I've been studying. Let me see if I got this right." She looks around and I see her looking at Bonnie. "There is the witchy best friend, Bonnie." She nods at the young witch. "Gonna stay away from her. Sad little brother/ tutor, Jeremy." She murmurs at the teen behind me. He is looking at his phone with a frown and I glare at Isobel. "And there's Caroline... oh so obnoxious Caroline." I glance at her working on the contestants float with a happy smile on her face. "I got all my info from her by the way. She had no idea who I was and she would not stop yapping." Her eyes find someone else. "And there's Matt, friend, ex, yappy's future ex. Lots of connection there. And Rayen's Bestie slash should be lover, Tyler."
"Matt/Tyler is not involved in this." Elena and I say in unison as we frown at her.
"They're involved with you, aren't they?"
"You dare touch them Isobel I will make sure that you wish you had died." I growl at her as I wrap my hand around her arm making my vine dig into her skin threatening to break skin.
"Look, you shouldn't be here. You need to leave." She says firmly.
"No, I have some friend here too." She nods over our shoulders before trying and failing to get out of my hold. "Look girls, you see that man over there, standing next to Matt by the float." The two of us look over at the good-looking man that is walking around the float Matt is underneath trying to fix it. My eyes widen, "His name is Frank, he's very handsome and also quite handy and he'd noticed that the axle is a little rusty which is very dangerous. So, all you have to do is apply a little bit of pressure and..."
"No!" Elena screams, but Isobel stops her from running over. I let a small spiky piece of the hybrid break off and travel through her bloodstream. Frank jumped onto the edge of trailer making it collapse on top of Matt, crushing his arm. Matt cries out and I quickly run over to him.
"Come on guys get your asses over here!" I yell out as I grab Tyler's arm.
"Get this trailer! Come on guys help me!" Matt screams in pain making my heart beat faster and my eyes widen as I unwrap my vine. Stefan runs over to help and he and I nod slyly before I use my vine underneath to push it up while Stefan just lifts it with his strength. Matt gets free and Caroline rushes over to Matt, making me narrow my eyes at the guy clenching my fists having the nearest tree root wrap around his leg and snaps it in half.
"Caroline, call an ambulance." Stefan says and I sit down next to Matt pulling off my shirt.
"Mattie, you remember how I interned at the hospital with Elena's dad when I was 14?" I ask and he nods in pain. "Good now bite down on this and um don't tense up." I hand him a broken twig and I rip my shirt in strips. "This is going to hurt. Steffie hold him as still as you can." I say and he does as I say making Mattie squirm more. "Now I'm going to snap them back in place or else you'll lose feeling in your arm and possibly could lose it." I say before I use my powers to snap the bones into place again. "1...2.." I quickly use my strength to snap the broken parts straight before I wrap it with the strips of my shirt, so the doctor's don't have to do it. I carefully wrap his arm before creating a sling for his arm.
"The ambulance is saying in fifteen to twenty minutes." Caroline says as she runs back giving me a hug.
"Shit if he doesn't get a proper cast then his arm will set wrong even with my help." I say before standing up as I fix my bandeau.
"I have my car. I can take him to the hospital." Tyler says and he looks at me and I nod.
"No, Ray or Caroline can take me." he says being stubborn and I roll my eyes at his behavior even in pain.
"I didn't drive. You drove Care here and I skateboarded over here." I say as I grab Ty's arm.
"I'll wait. It's fine." Matt says hissing in pain.
"You will not wait okay?! You need to see a doctor, Tyler is driving. End of story." Caroline says and I smile at the fact that the boys look at each other. "Go get your car!" Caroline orders Ty and he walks off.
"Mattie, I'm going to go call the attending in the ER so you can go right in." I grab my phone out of my pocket before going to the off to the side before I start dialing. I tell the attending to treat him immediately. I see a message from my bank to see that someone deposited 3,000 dollars in my account. My eyes widen slightly before I put my phone away.
Elena and Stefan run over to me as I turn around, "Isobel took Jeremy." My eyes widen and my anger rises. 'How dare she take the guy that's like my baby brother?'
"Call Damon and make sure he's at the boarding house. If he isn't tell him I'll make good on my promise." I say and just as Elena is going to protest Stefan stops her with his hand on her shoulder. "I'll meet you two in Alaric's room after I clear something up and fix my shirt."
"We'll be there." He says and I nod before I call my bank to see what's going on.
"Welcome to Chase bank. This is Larry how can I help ya?" He asks and I roll my eyes.
"Hey Larry, I was wondering why there's an extra 3,000 dollars in my account?" I ask as I grab my board from my hiding spot and start boarding into the school.
"What's your account or the name on the account?" He asks and I sigh softly. I board to Care's locker and see that she left me one of my shirts. I pull it on and realize it's one of my rare crop tops.
"It's under Rayen Harjo-Maxwell and the last four are 9339." I hear clicking on the other end letting him type in everything. I board to Alaric's room again but this time so much slower.
"So it says here that you have many incoming deposits with a tagline of, 'Payment for photos', 'payment for red carpet', and it looks like other things like that." He says and I nod slightly. "Is that all you needed Lady Harjo?" he asks.
"Actually can you raise my spending limit on my card to a thousand dollars?" I ask as I walk into the room as I put it on the desk I was sitting on earlier.
"Alright it's all set up. Have a nice day." He says and I hang up before I look at them seeing Bonnie's surprise.
"Why's Ray here? I thought she was in Europe?" She asks and I sit on Ric's desk.
"Nope. I came back early and good thing I did cause I can now put my mother next to her husband and Markus next to his twin back in California." I say with a condescending smile before I drop it. My anger increases my powers making the shadows around the room close and cover ever light source while I dig my nails into the desk making the desk warp with my powers flowing through me. "Now how are we going to get Jer back from the soon to be staked bitch?"
"Damon has the device. He's going to be difficult to reason with." Stefan says and I cross my legs tilting my head.
"Device?" I ask everyone.
"Oh yeah it's apparently a device that Johnathan Gilbert made." Damon says and I fix the desk so Alaric won't get in trouble. I nod and made the desk stronger than before.
"We'll go to him. I'll talk to him." Elena says.
"He's not just gonna hand it over, especially if it's harmful to vampires." Stefan says.
"What if it's not?" Elena says as she looks at Bonnie and Bonnie tilts her head slightly. I look up and I smirk knowing what she's planning.
Time Jump
We get to the boarding house in Stefan's car. I look around the library as Elena and Stefan tell Damon what happened at the set up today. I see that there's alcohol and as I open the bottle my stomach starts churning.
"Hey guys, umm where's the nearest bathroom?" I ask as I try to hold down my puke.
"Pass the grandfather clock and turn left." Stefan and Damon say in union. I quickly follow that instruction and run into it before throwing up in the bowl. I sigh lightly before I stand up and flush before washing my face and my mouth.
"Just listen please." Elena says as I walk back in and I make myself look presentable again.
"I'm not gonna give the device to Isobel, so she could give it to John, who is going to turn it against me to kill me. I like being a living dead person." Damon says with a smirk as I sit in one of their arm chairs.
"But it'll be completely useless. Bonnie can take its power away." Elena says as I notice Damon looking at me curiously while Steffie looks worried. I wave them off and they nod slightly.
"I don't trust her." he says motioning to Bonnie who is holding her ancestors' spell book.
"I can remove the original spell." Bonnie says determinedly.
"John and Isobel will never know." Elena says.
"No, I'll get Jeremy in my own way." Damon says.
"Really? How are you going to do that? Because Isobel is a vampire and Jeremy could be dead the second you walk in the door." Stefan asks and Damon turns his attention to Bonnie.
"Are you even up for this? I mean no offense, you're no Emily Bennett. Emily knew what she was doing." Damon says.
"I've been practicing." Bonnie says with an annoyed tone.
"It's not like piano lessons, honey." Damon says with a sassy tone in his voice and I try not to laugh as the lights flicker slightly while I play with my vine like it's a snake.
"What's your favorite book?" Bonnie asks as she stands up walking over to him and I raise my eyebrow.
"What?" Damon asks.
"Name a book, any book." she says.
"Name a book… How about 'Call of the Wild', Jack London?" Damon asks with a smirk Bonnie turns and looks at the library. A book flies and lands in Damon's hands and he looks at it making sure that it's the one he said. "Jack London. Great parlor trick." Damon says throwing the book aside and I grab it before it can get damaged.
"We're doing this, Damon. And we're doing it my way. Now give me the device. We're wasting time." Elena says and I roll my eyes looking up at Damon. He turns to Bonnie and I tilt my head.
"I don't trust you. I tried to kill you." he says.
"Mm… you're right, you can't trust me." Bonnie says with a double shoulder raise and an unapologetic look on her face.
"But you can trust me." Elena says and Damon scoffs.
"Hey Poison Ivy, what do you think? Do you think I should I hand it over to Sabrina?" Damon asks, looking at me and look at him curiously. He and I have tried to kill one another and yet he's asking me if he can trust Elena and Bonnie.
"If you can't trust any of the three of them, then trust me. I'm new to this whole supernatural stuff, but I'll be damned if this kid ends up dead because the stupid bitch didn't get something that she wanted." I say kneeling on the couch and looking at Damon in the eyes as I feel the plants pulsing around me. "Please Damon I don't want to use my shadows on an ally that can become powerful." He looks at me and his eyes soften before he sticks his hand in his pocket. He tosses Bonnie the device which looks like just a normal pocket watch to me. 'How can one little thing harm vampires to the point of humans and vampires wanting to start a war over it?' I think to myself.
"Thank you." Elena says.
"I didn't do it for you." he says walking off and I look to see him looking at me with a soft brotherly expression on his face. "I did this cause Poison Ivy actually has no reason to lie to the guy that tried to kill her and use her as a hostage."
Elena and Stefan place candles in the parlor and on the table. Bonnie has Emily's spell book with the device next to it and she pulls out a small piece while I light some candles for her. Damon hums slightly trying to be funny and I playfully slap his arm. He chuckles before I turn back to Bonnie to see her hands over the little piece and makes it levitate. She leans her head back with her eyes closed and the lights flicker slightly as the fires flare up. It starts to drop and she carefully catches it like one would hold a newborn duckling.
"Done." Bonnie says and gives the device to Elena.
"Great, now what?" Damon asks.
"And now we give it to Isobel." Elena says as Damon walks away and I look Bonnie to see guilt and something else hidden in her facial expression. I skateboard over to the square and I jump into one of the thicker oak trees. I bend and manipulate the branches into a hiding spot.
I play on my phone as we wait for Elena's bitch of a mother. I hear a slight whoosh and I tense up getting ready for anything.
"Where is the device?" Isobel says behind Elena and I look over at where the boys are hiding.
"Where is my brother?" Elena crosses her arms and I put my hands on the branches pushing my magic through them. I make the roots move underneath Isobel just waiting.
"This is not a negotiation. Where is the invention?"
"Where is my brother?"
"Do you really think that I came alone?" I see two people, who must be compelled otherwise they're vampires which doesn't feel like it, pop up behind Elena. I smirk and move the roots closest to them right underneath their feet.
"Do you think that I came alone?" Elena motions to behind Isobel as the boys walk up. I move the tree to have me come down like a queen and I smirk as I see that she is just now healing from the Hybrid seed I put in her.
"For god sakes, call home." She says and I look at Elena tilting my head as I pull my cell out before tossing it to her.
"What?" Elena asks.
"Call home and ask to speak to your brother Jeremy." Isobel says and she quickly calls home.
"Hello?" Jeremy answers and I sigh in relief. I look at the two of the guys as I make the roots wrap around their ankles.
"You were never gonna hurt him." Elena says, like she's just revealed something brand new making me roll my eyes.
"Elena, how you are so damn naïve?" I say as Steffie comes over and covers my mouth playfully.
"Oh no, I was going to kill him. Don't look for any redeeming qualities in me. I don't have any." She says.
"But you took a risk with Damon. How did you know that he was gonna give it to me?" Elena asks.
"I knew he was going to give it to Lady Rayen mostly because of them being so alike. You were a slim chance since he's in love with you." Isobel says with a smirk. Elena hands her the device and there is a long pause. I sigh softly before using the tree to swallow me up and push me to Elena's side to escape Steffie's hand.
"Thank you." Elena says.
"For what?" Isobel says confused and I smirk as I see where Elena's going with this.
"For being such a monumental disappointment. It keeps the memory of my real mother perfectly intact." Elena says.
"Goodbye, Elena." Isobel says. "As long as you have a Salvatore on each arm, you're doomed. Katherine was smart. She got out. But we all know you're not Katherine." Stefan zooms over and hugs Elena tightly while I turn back to Isobel. I watch her curtsy to me. "Goodbye, Lady Rayen I'll take my leave now."
"Good now have fun healing from that Vervain and Foxglove hybrid I implanted onto your blood stream." I say with a smirk as I grab my board before I head home to see Ty still here. I walk in and set my board down to see Ty on the couch watching The Incredible Hulk with a bottle of beer sitting on the coffee table with a bowl of popcorn next to it.
"Hey you okay?" He asks and I look at him.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Really then why did I find this?" He asks and holds up his hand. In it I see something that could change my life.