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❝THE LIBRARY FULL OF WEIRD ARTIFACTS❞

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"Victoria.... Victoria..."

Tori tossed and turned in her bed, struggling to fall asleep. The O'Connell-Mikealson groaned, before unconsciously heaving her body out of her bed. The hybrid left the room, being cautious of trying not to wake Amelia.

She wandered down the hall, eyes still shut.

"Victoria..."

Who was calling her name?

The voice sounded so familiar, yet so foreign.

"Victoria... Vic—"

"What the hell are you doing?" A voice asked, belonging to Carice. Upon Tori still being in a deep slumber, Clary stepped forward and grabbed the girl's hand before pulling her arm harshly to wake her.

Tori's eyes shot open, and she hadn't expected to see Clary of all people standing before her. She frowned, knowing that it hadn't been the Bailey who'd called her name.

"I ask again, what are you doing?" Clary asked, not realising that she still had ahold of Tori's hand. "Uh... well I was sleeping." Tori answered bluntly, before she looked around, taking note of where she was.

"Are you... okay?" Clary asked, though it seemed as though she had to force the words out of her mouth. Tori raised an eyebrow, knowing she didn't genuinely care. They were enemies, and that was all they'd ever be.

"Yeah. My dream just turned into a nightmare, because I saw your face. I'm gonna go back to bed." The Mikealson decided, ripping her hand out of Clarice's as the Bailey frowned at the hybrid.

She knew the Mikealson was throwing around harsh jokes to hide the fact that she was scared. If there was one thing Tori would fear, it was not being in control of herself.

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The next morning had arrived rather quickly, and a certain Kirby boy was feeling nervous for his date with Lucas.

Landon soon was distracted though, and had a look of puzzlement on his face, noticing how energised some of the vampires seemed. He walked down the corridor, before he bumped into Charlie and MG.

Charlie frowned at the Kirby, having a dislike towards the boy, but MG offered him a smile.

"Hey, what's up with the vampires today?" Landon asked, not meaning to sound so judgy. "What do you mean?" Charles asked. "They all seem a little... like they're on a high." Landon awkwardly explained.

"Yeah... I have no idea what that's about." MG replied, before he quickly stepped away with Charlie before the phoenix could ask anymore questions.

Truthfully, most of the vampires indeed met up with Rachel and fed on some townies, the previous night. MG and Charlie being rippers, decided not to go and instead stayed at the school.

"Landon, hey!" Lucas called out, approaching the Kirby. Landon spun around, his puzzled look turning into a bright smile upon seeing the Saltzman he was totally crushing on. "Morning, Luca." He replied, with a smile.

The usually cold and distant Lucas Saltzman, held a different expression on his face to usual. His face wore a soft, admirable smile. It was as though Landon melted through Luca's cold exterior.

"So, there's this cafe I wanted to take you too." Landon spoke up, "It's called Mainline coffee... they make some incredible coffee." He admitted. "Sure, let's go." Luca said, with a smile.

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All of the former Auclair students followed Charlie and Hope, as they lead them to the library.

"This is the Stefan Salvatore Memorial Library." Charlie said, with a look of pride on his face. "Don't touch anything though." Hope warned the students.

The students all wandered through the library, as Aphrodite had her arm linked through Liv's. The werewolf-witch hybrid leant her head on the redheads shoulder, affectionately.

"All of the artefacts in here have a supernatural history." Hope began to explain to the students.

Laura looked down at an artefact on display. "What's the story on this one?" She asked, curiously. "No idea, but in my experience, your safest bet is to not touch it." Hope responded to the Shiratori.

"So um... what are you?" Glen asked Hope, curiously. "I'm a lot of things." Hope replied, not wanting to get into it before Tori approached her, loosely throwing her arm around the tribrid. Her facial expression screamed mischievous.

"That blood that runs through Hope's veins isn't human... Our Dad was one of the Earth's original vampires." Tori explained openly and carelessly, though Hope didn't really seem comfortable on sharing this information.

"Was?" Liv blurted, not meaning to say that aloud. Hope gave the Auclair an awkward look, as Liv felt herself shrink.

"Turns out even immortal beings can find a way to die eventually." Tori spoke up, as everyone looked to her.

Hope swatted Tori's arm off of her, stepping away from her sister. Charlie frowned at Tori, knowing that Hope wasn't comfortable talking about her family, before he sympathetically looked to the tribrid.

Hope opened a book with a loud thud, as it landed on a page that read, "Klaus Mikealson: The Great Evil."

Liv stepped away from her mother figure, reaching Hope's side. She peered over at the book and studied it.

"Well, Hope isn't the only one with an evil parent." Clary spoke up, as herself and Rachel brought attention to Liv. Aphrodite and Myrical both glared at the Diamond and Bailey, not that they had noticed.

Liv decided to ignore Carice and Rachel, before she looked to the next page, which read, "Faith Mikealson: The Young and Evil."

"Who is Faith?" Liv asked quietly and curiously, as Charlie peered beside the girl, to look at this page. Despite being close with Hope, he had never heard of a Faith Mikealson.

Hope looked down sadly at the book before meeting the eyes of Liv and Charlie. "My twin sister." She said, seeming upset.

Amelia looked sadly at Hope, knowing how much talking about this upset her. The Claire-Mikealson then glanced at Victoria, knowing that this affected her too, but the werewolf-vampire hybrid looked away, not wanting to acknowledge these feelings.

Faith was the firstborn out of the pair, and had been snatched by Dahlia. It was unknown where she was, and if she was even alive, but it hurt Hope to know that she was robbed of her chance to be a twin.

"I'm really sorry." Liv spoke up, looking at the tribrid sympathetically. Hope smiled weakly at Liv, before she looked away, ready to answer anymore of the Auclair students questions.

"Why is there an empty spot here?" Valerie asked, as they pointed to the case that once held a knife.

"Yeah you can ask Landon about that..." Charlie trailed off, before Rachel replied with, "Well if he was here, I would. Should I also mention that Luca is gone?" Carice snorted before Rachel said, "Hm, maybe they're off boinking somewhere."

A few laughs were heard, though Tori and Beau awkwardly shared a look, knowing that Lucas wasn't exactly out yet.

The students continued to walk through the library, as Liv stopped at a large glass window that looked through into the corridor.

Josie and Lizzie walked past, as Josie suddenly stopped upon seeing Liv. Her cheeks heated up as she waved at the Auclair with a smile. Liv found herself blushing too, before she waved back.

Aphrodite's eyes lit up upon noticing Lizzie standing beside Josie on the other side of the glass, and frantically waved. Lizzie noticed this and waved back. What the Saltzman didn't expect, was for Aphrodite to blow her a kiss.

Lizzie's face flushed, as Josie burst out laughing upon her twins reaction. The Saltzman's linked their arms before leaving, as Aphrodite and Liv giggled to themselves.

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With dark clouds hovering over Mystic Falls, Lucas and Landon hurried to the small coffee shop, wanting to avoid the rain.

As romantic as a rain kiss sounded to both of them, it was literally their first date and they were both awkward messes. If it wasn't for the confidence Luca had felt with Tori and Beau being around, he may not have even asked Landon on a date.

The glass door to Mainline coffee closed loudly, as the boys entered the warm, lovely environment. "Hi, table for two please." Landon said to a staff member with an awkward smile— which Lucas found absolutely adorable.

Moments later, they were seated by a fireplace, and had ordered two large cappuccinos. "I thought today was supposed to be sunny...." Landon admitted, disappointedly as he wanted to take Luca to the falls.

"It looks like a shitstorm is approaching." Lucas stated blankly, as rain began to pour from the sky. "I hope this doesn't dampen the mood." The Saltzman said, worried that the miserable weather would inflict on them, while unintentionally making a pun.

"I actually really like this weather. The rain is kinda soothing." Landon admitted, before he looked to Lucas, "Nice pun by the way." He said with an amused smile, as Luca realised what he'd said.

"Oh my god—" Lucas facepalmed, laughing all the while, which caused Landon to laugh too. When Lucas removed his hand from his face, he found himself smiling at how adorable Landon looked when he laughed.

Finally, their coffees arrived to the table. The boys clinked their mugs together like dorks, before they sipped on the caffeinated beverage they'd desired all morning.

A strike of lighting then appeared in the sky, indicating that it was storming. "Looks like we might... be here for a while." Landon admitted, before Lucas offered him a small smile. "I don't see how that is a problem." He flirted, causing Landon's cheeks to flush.

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Meanwhile at the Salvatore school, a fight broke out in the common room between Jed and Beau.

Some Salvatore and former Auclair students all rushed to the pair, pulling them apart. Books flew everywhere, as Beau had been using his magic to throw them at Jed. Meanwhile, Jed had used his claws to defend himself and attack Beau.

"What the hell is going on?" Hope asked, as the boys kept their angry eyes on eachother before they erupted into yells, blaming eachother for saying horrible things to one another.

And truth be told, the things they said were only supposed to stay as thoughts in their own heads, but somehow they ended up blurting out of their mouthes.

"Well, I can explain this. You've all been truth-weeded." Penelope said, with a smirk on her lips. "You have got to be kidding me." Charlie grumbled, as the Park noticed everyone's horrified reactions.

"I thought we could play a little game to get to know eachother, while we wait out the storm and for the power to turn back on." She added, before Rachel took a seat beside the witch. "That sounds like fun." The blonde decided, before looking to Clary, expecting the same response. The Bailey instead looked ill.

"Well... I could think of worse things to do." Josie sighed reluctantly, as it seemed everyone didn't have anything better to do. With that, everyone sat in a circle.

"Well... how did everyone tur—" Before Tori could finish her question, MG frowned. "Can you stop trying to ask that?" He asked, unamused with the troublemaker.

"Well... let's start with something more... fun. What's an interesting fact about everyone?" Lizzie suggested.

Liv was the first to blurt out an answer, "I had a twin that I absorbed in the womb."

A few gasps were heard, before Alyssa blurted, "The Saltzman's should have absorbed eachother in the room. Dealing with one is a nightmare... but three of them?"

Charlie shot Alyssa a glare, "That's so rude!" He huffed, hating how mean the witch was towards his siblings. "Oh cry me a river, Charles. They're not even your siblings." Alyssa retorted back.

Lizzie got to her feet and crossed her arms, "You're just salty that you don't have any siblings!" She spat, not holding back. "Lizzie!" Josie blurted, with an expression of shock on her face, though she couldn't deny that Alyssa had said so many horrible things to them, and it was only a matter of time until one of them snapped back.

"I'm really good at gymnastics!" Amelia stated, taking the attention away from the Saltzman-Salvatore siblings, before Aphrodite added, "Can confirm— Though once Mia tried to teach me and I kicked myself in the face." She grew embarrassed, as soon as the words left her mouth, but she tried to own it. Some chuckles were heard from other students.

"I have some annoying seasonal allergies." Glen shrugged, "They're super annoying— I'm literally a wolf that turns and runs through the wilderness once a month but I'm allergic to all of the grass." He grumbled.

Val laughed at the irony before they said, "If it makes you feel any better, I'm allergic to kiwi fruit." Glen raised an eyebrow, "Val, how is that supposed to make me feel better? They're not even comparable." The Forde huffed. "I love kiwi fruit." Valerie responded sadly, their face faltering.

"I... think Hope is kind of cool. And hot." Lizzie confessed, before gasps were heard. "Wait... really?" Hope asked, with a smug smile as she looked to Lizzie. "Yes. God I hate Penelope right now." The girl complained, as she'd just called her frenemy hot.

"I wanted to be a belly dancer at some point in my life." Beau shrugged, as Tori seemed impressed. MG looked at the Lazuli with an expression of surprise, finding this witch more and more interesting by the day.

"Dude, we should both become belly dancers." Tori suggested, before she nudged her best friend. "Oh hell no!" Hope huffed at her younger sister, "You're 16– Old men will be all over that. Ugh, I can feel Dad and Cami turning in their graves right now." The older Mikealson confessed as Tori frowned, "Well technically I'm nearly 17..." She responded childishly.

Some students mumbled their answers so others couldn't hear them, though Rachel was eyeing Clary.

"Babes, what was your answer?" Rachel asked, with a smirk, as Carice gave her best friend the biggest frown. "I had a crush on Liv, when we were 15." She mumbled, earning surprised looks, especially from Rachel and Olivia.

"You... had a crush on me?" Liv blurted, seeming surprised. The pair used to be somewhat close, yet Liv had been completely oblivious to Clary's feelings.

"Wow... I had no idea that my best friend is a lezbo." The Diamond said, before her eyes widened with embarrassment that she'd just said that aloud.

"Did you... seriously just say that?" Myrical asked, deadpanning Rachel from across the room.

Seeing the attention on Rachel as she'd dropped a slur, Clary got to her feet and left the room, no longer wanting to play this game.