CHAPTER TWELVE

The brightness disappears as quickly as it came, and Nycole, Bonnie, and Damon all open their eyes. "What the hell?" Nyx mutters as she lets go of them and walks forward a few steps. They're still standing​ in the cemetery.

"What happened?" Bonnie asks. "Where is everybody?"

"You know, I could buy that we're all in hell, except for two things." Nyx says as she turns around to look at them. "I don't think it'd be in Mystic Falls — though it would actually be fitting, now that I think about it." She looks around.

"And the other?" Damon asks.

"I kinda thought there'd be a specially reserved area for you." She tells him, and Bonnie laughs.

"That's cute." He says sarcastically,​ and she smiles at him.

Bonnie starts walking away from them, and she ignores when Damon asks her where she's going. Nyx shrugs and then follows after her.

The three of them start walking around town, inside Mystic Falls. "Well, I feel a fang." Damon says as he pulls his fingers away from his teeth. "So, I'm still a vampire."

"So am I." Nycole says.

"Either we're dead vampires or Mystic Falls is no longer magic-free."

"Look." Bonnie points out the grill, but something else catches Nyx's attention.

"I definitely blew that up about an hour ago." He says, but it's currently intact.

"Why don't we see any people?" Bonnie asks. "If we're still on the other side, we should at least be able to see the living."

"I see someone." Nyx says, and they both look over at her. "Someone who's supposed to be dead."

"No way." Damon mumbles. "Is that..."

"Jenna?" Bonnie asks, uncertain.

"Nycole?" Jenna asks as she moves closer to them. "Bonnie? Damon?"

"This can't be real." Nyx mutters.

"Why do you two look so different?" She's looking between the two girls.

"Stop." She holds her hand up. "How do we know you're really you?" She questions.

"What?"

"Prove that you're really Jenna."

"I..." She shakes her head. "You're Nycole, my niece. You and Elena were born June 22, 1988 to Isobel Flemming and John Gilbert, but we didn't know John was your father then. Grayson and Miranda raised you two and Jeremy until they died in May, 2005. You left town, met a hunter named Dean. You guys started dating, and..."

"And? What's the last thing you remember?"

"Klaus told us that you were pregnant — with twins." Jenna looks at her stomach. "Are you still..."

"No." She shakes her head and then runs over and hugs her aunt.

Jenna hugs her back and squeezes her eyes shut. Both of them are so confused, but so happy to be together.

"Where the hell are we?" Damon asks as Nyx pulls away from her aunt. "And I don't mean geographically."

"I have no idea." Bonnie says, and he looks down at her.

"What's going on?" Jenna asks. "What happened to the sacrifice? What do you mean you're not pregnant anymore?"

"Jenna..." Nyx takes a deep breath as she looks back at her. "The sacrifice was two years ago. I had the twins... But​ you... You died that night."

"Hey, uh..." Damon gets their attention again. "So, this is Jenna, but who the hell is that?" All three girls turn, and Nyx's eyes widen when she sees who's walking out of the grill.

"Oh my God."

"Hey, I know you." The blonde girl says, looking at Nycole. Her hair is in tight curls and she's wearing jeans and a t-shirt as she makes her way over to them. "Your name's...Nyx, right?"

"You know her?" Bonnie asks, and Nyx nods.

"Yeah. Yeah, I know her." She says. "Her name's Jessica​. She was Sam's girlfriend years ago."