Always and Forever ~2

Moving On or Failing to Live

"Sofia...how is this possible?" She calms down and looks at me.

"I'm here to bring us home." She gives me a bone-crushing hug.

"I never thought I would see you again!" She cries into my shoulder.

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I cook us a decent meal and Bonnie catches me up on everything she's been through in this hellish year. Apparently, this Prison World was made for a psychopath who killed his siblings out of hate and is a witch who doesn't have his own magic and must siphon it from another supernatural creature. Also during her time in this world, Damon was with her for a few months but this thing called The Ascendant allowed him to escape but at the sacrifice of Bonnie staying longer in this prison with Kai who later stabbed her and used The Ascendant to escape leaving her alone. "I can't believe you've been here for almost an entire year." I say looking around the familiar yet unfamiliar boarding house.

"I was alone for most of it and if it wasn't for you showing up I would have killed myself."

"Miracles have a funny way of doing that. Showing up when we didn't know we needed them."

"I know it's been about me all this time but how are you even here?" I hang my head low and place my drink down. I clear my throat wondering how I can say this without losing it.

"The New Orleans witches sought revenge on The Original family and wanted to use me to kill Klaus by somehow turning off my humanity and allowing my dark side to come forward."

"They could do that?"

"They have a lot of ancestral magic to back them up and...they did it."

"But how did you end up here?"

"they wanted me to kill Klaus but my dark side thought of an even more sinister way of making him suffer." I pause feeling my emotions getting worked up as I prepare myself to say what's next. "My dark side had the idea of having Klaus accidentally kill me which would make him suffer for an eternity."

"Klaus killed you?"

"I jumped in the way of him stabbing Rebekah and in the process killed myself and then I met your grams." She jumps up.

"You spoke with my grams?"

"She warned me months ago that she would need my help with something but I had no idea what she was asking of me."

"What did she tell you?"

"Nothing besides this being a Prison World and needing to help you escape. She told me to not trust anyone but you."

"She sent you to help me. She was my miracle."

"That sounds right since she sent me here right when you would need me. But I have no idea how to get ourselves out of here."

"But I do." Bonnie stands up but picks up an atlas. "But we need to go somewhere first." She shows me and points to a location.

"You have to be kidding me."

"I need to get my magic back and we have no idea what else could go wrong. Two witches with magic are better than one."

"If what you guys said about that damn island is true we better not die for this!" I warn her.

"We're already dead. Let's live a little." She smirks.

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The drive to Nova Scotia was more stressful than actually retrieving the tombstone of Silas which held magic in it that Bonnie could absorb since it came directly from her bloodline. I was able to rebuild The Ascendant and according to Bonnie all we had to do now was wait for the solar eclipse to be in the right place back home. Then we can get home free. "Okay, so I have my magic and Sofia's magic." She moves the recorder to me and I wave at it. "And the solar eclipse." Before we can do anything the ground shakes and rocks fall in the cave. The eclipse goes away and is replaced by a night sky with snow falling form it. We struggle to get out of the hole and when we do the land is no longer what we knew it as. "What the hell happened?" I ask her rubbing my arms from the cold environment.

"Okay, clearly we've been dropped into a snowy-tundra hell dimension. Either that or I've finally had a psychotic break."

"Shut that damn thing off Bonnie!" I scream not being able to take this vlog of hers any longer. I keep walking but stop when I notice footsteps that don't belong to us. "Bon..." I point and she looks at them too. "We're not alone." We're enveloped in bright colors and we look into the sky seeing Northern Lights shining above us. We keep walking and see a house in the middle of these woods. "Okay uh let's not go into the creepy mysterious house." Tell her but she ignores me and keeps walking. "Bonnie." I catch up with her not wanting to be alone.

We open the front door and the house has no lights on. "Incindia." We say together and candles light our way through the house. The decoration of this house does not fit anything we've seen before nor understood. There is no electricity but oil lamps. We find a journal on a table and flip through it and almost drop the lamp seeing the date of 1903. Where the hell are we now? 

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We look around and find a photo of both Damon and Stefan back from 1864 but before we can say anything the whole place starts shaking. We take off for the door but are met with a bright light. We step out and we're no longer in the winter environment and the solar eclipse is shining above us. Bonnie checks her watch and starts sprinting back to the cave. The environment keeps changing around us. "We have this Bonnie. They are both recurring events. We have magic and The Ascendant now let's get home." I hold her hand as I use the other to slice her other hand and she drops her blood onto The Ascendant. She begins to chant and the bright light opens above us.

"Who are you two?" A woman in period clothes asks us.

"Who are you?" Is all we got out before we're sucked into the light. This is it. This is the freedom we've been wanting. But I have no idea what reality awaits me when we get out.  

What fate does Sofia have to look forward to now that she's out of the Prison World? Also a brief explanation the time Sofia spent in the Prison World seems nothing more than a few weeks but the reason Sofia only found Bonnie almost a year after she had been trapped will be explained in the next few chapter