Dreams Where Ur Murdered - X Lovers
I woke up screaming.
Again.
Ever since Bonnie had woken me up from my supernatural slumber I had been a mess. I hated the fact that I rarely got a good night's sleep. The world around me may have significantly changed, however, just like 1994, I was still an insomniac.
Stefan jolted awake next to me as I was untangling myself from his covers. I could feel my cheeks were wet and I didn't want him to see me cry again.
Stefan was one of the nicest guys I'd met and a gorgeous vampire at that. We became fast friends when I awoke. He taught me everything I need to know to navigate modern day society- I must admit, at first I was confused but with his help I managed.
After fifteen years locked in a secret tomb under Mystic Falls, Virginia, I'd like to think I was doing good.
"What happened?" Stefan asked. He wrapped his arms around me, stroking my head as he rocked me back and forth. "You're okay."
"I just...I...," My words wouldn't come out of my mouth. Everything I wanted to say was in my mind but the words just wouldn't come. Get it together Ferrah for fucks sake.
"Shhh you're okay." Stefan lulled. "I promise."
I sniffled into his chest. The way he cared for me warmed my heart. I'd never felt this level of comfort. Not before I was in the tomb and obviously not in the fifteen years I was knocked out.
I was so glad that Stefan, Bonnie and the others had accepted me like I had been friends with them for years. Bonnie began re-teaching me magic when I was stable enough, the years I was magically unconscious left my powers unpredictable. Therefore I only used it if I needed to or with assistance, at least for a while. Since Elena and Bonnie went to college I'd picked up doing more magic considering there was always someone or something to sort out in mystic falls. Bonnie couldn't keep running back to us for all of this supernatural nonsense. From the Originals to Silas and Ammara and then the travellers , it was safe to say we had our hands full, most, if not all of the time.
"Do you need me to stay with you?" Stefan asked, his eyes giving away that he was worried about me. I glanced back up at him, pushing away lingering thoughts.There was however, only one issue at hand now.
"It's light out now. Maybe later." I smiled. He brushed my hair out of my face and tucked it behind my ear, a look of worry still written on his face. "Plus today we need to get Bonnie and Damon back from the Prison World, they've been there for four months and everyone has officially gone off the rails. We need them."
Stefan nodded. The loss of his brother had been hard on him. For months we were under the impression that Bonnie and Damon had died- assumed they had found peace or something. However they were trapped in a prison world according to twins Olivia and Lukas, our new little witch friends - I'd nicked named them the witchy-woo twins though both of them seemed to take a dislike to it. Olivia had done a spell to get herself there and spoke to them- how she knew about the prison world wasn't known to us- though their coven, the Gemini Coven, seemed shady. I was weary of her and all of them. However, the others and myself agreed that if we could use them to get Bonnie and Damon back, we would learn to live with their ambiguity.
The twins agreed to do the spell, if it meant that I would go in and get Bonnie and Damon rather than them going. For some unknown reason they refused (and looking back at this, I shouldn't have been as comfortable with the decision as I was). However I missed my best friend, my other one needed her boyfriend back and Stefan most definitely needed his brother -no matter how much they didn't get along. Getting trapped there was a risk I was more than willing to take.
I showered in Stefan's bathroom, stole one of his t-shirts and put on my low rise jeans, before heading downstairs to meet the others. I waited as long as possible to get out of bed and start doing things so that I would have as much time as possible to get myself back into a stable headspace and forget about my nightmare. I anxiously played with the rings on my fingers and my bracelet too- it was a habit that I couldn't kick. If I did I would have been pulling my hair out when I was anxious.
Everyone was buzzing in the living room. Both Gilbert siblings were becoming increasingly impatient with the remaining witches of the group- not including me of course. Not that Luke and Liv were really a part of our group. If we were being honest I would have got rid of the twins a long time ago if they weren't useful- though it was hard to look past their utility when they were cocky, secretive and overall insufferable.
"Elena relax." I rubbed her shoulders and gave her a reassuring smile. She was anxious about my departure to the prison world, as was I, though I didn't show it. "They will both be back before you know it. We all will. I'll be an hour tops!"
"Why are we sending Ferrah in again?" She asked the others. The plan was already set in stone. Everyone in the group had to pull their weight on situations like this and now it was my turn.
Liv sighed and rolled her eyes- a typical reaction from her. "I've told you, it's easier to get a witch over into the prison world than anyone else."
Elena shot Liv a dirty look, however she knew that if that was the case there was nothing that we could do about it. Liv knew more than anyone else about the prison world. Much to our dismay.
"I won't let anything happen to her. She knows what to do Elena." Liv reaffirmed with her and the group, though it sounded like she was trying to convince us more than anything. Elena nodded and gave me a look just to check that I was okay with everything. I think that I, more than everyone else was okay with this.
I was surprised when Elena and I became good friends. During Klaus' rampage around mystic falls and the arrival of the Original Vampires, we didn't get along all that well. It was only when we lost more people close to us did we realise our disagreements and petty grievances were pointless. Who would have thought that centuries old vampires would have made us best-friends.
She gave me a concerned look and I could sense she was worried about me performing a big spell when I hadn't used my magic since the whole mass-suicide-traveller incident.
"If I get trapped there, you're the only one who's allowed to wear my clothes okay. Caroline got blood on my white shirt last week." I joked. Elena laughed though I could tell she forced it. Her nerves weren't settled by my not-so-comforting joke.
"Promise me you will be fine." Elena whispered as she pulled me into a tight hug. This girl had an awfully tight grip on my ribs when we hugged, even before she was a vampire.
I hugged her back just as hard, though I gave up when it slowly became harder to breathe. "Okay- can't breathe-" I choked.
"Sorry." She gushed. I couldn't help but laugh at the expression etched onto her face. Elena was such a worrier.
The chanting that had begun to echo around the room, turned my attention to the twins. They had started and all they were waiting for was me. I held my hand up to Olivia, indicating I'd be one more minute. She rolled her eyes in response and considering that it would have usually pissed me off, I didn't give her the satisfaction of a reaction. Instead I ran to Stefan, flinging my arms around his neck and squeezing tight. His arms wrapping around my waist made me feel even worse for leaving them, even if I was the only chance they had of getting Damon and Bonnie home again.
"You're coming home to me okay." Stefan whispered into my neck. Moving my head back allowed my eyes to meet his. For some reason I felt as though I would be lying if i said yes. It was a gut feeling that I couldn't quite explain. It made me anxious and slightly concerned considering my gut feelings were usually right. I nodded instead and gave him one last squeeze before joining Olivia and Lukas in the centre of the room. For once I was praying that I would be wrong and we'd come out of this all okay.
"I'll be fine." I assured them as I looked around at their glum expressions. Realistically lots of things could go wrong but now was not the time to go down that road. I was a very glass-half-empty kind of person and they weren't as such. Only Damon was. Probably one of the reasons we got along so well. We were very similar people.
The incantation that the twins were chanting wasn't hard to pick up, though the magic it took to be a successful spell was something else. Olivia had said something to me about this 'prison world' being a product of a Gemini coven...'problem'. That was the world that she had used. I asked her to elaborate, yet she didn't. Seemed sensitive. Whatever was in the world along with my friends can't have been good. The twins' faces hid nothing, their emotions were constantly written all over them and it made it rather easy to figure out if they were hiding something. They usually were.
"Be right back." I winked at my friends. I picked up the chanting too and Olivia nodded at me encouragingly. That was probably the nicest thing she had done- sad honestly, though not surprising. A bright light erupted in the air above us and as the twins stepped back out of it, their chanting became fainter, as if I was in a glass box or something. It quickly engulfed me and before I knew it the twins chanting was completely gone. I was alone in a hole in space and time which was a rather weird feeling.
As the light faded a room came into view. In fact it was the one I had just been in. I was standing in an empty Salvatore living room.
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A/N-. I'm going to try and make chapters longer though I know it's fine to have shorter ones- I need to keep telling myself that haha. I hope you're as excited as I am. Once the written chapters are all edited I will release them once every couple of days, if not every day, then have another update once a week-ish. There were 18 chapters written that are now being edited.
Fun things are coming!
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