LIBEROSIS:
o. the ninth chapter !
' familiar faces '

Ingrid's sore eyes begin to flutter open once she feels the sensation of a cool breeze on her body. She slowly rises herself up, looking around at the unfamiliar place. She was propped up against a large bed in a bedroom that was covered with books and journals.

"Good morning sunshine! How are you feeling?" Stefan says coming into the bedroom.

"What the hell? Where am I?" Ingrid questions with a groggily tone.

"You're in my bedroom. They dragged us in here after they shot us both." Stefan says rolling his eyes. "I mean I have to give them credit though. They caught us both off guard."

"Where is the tramp and the history teacher?! I'm going to rip their throats out!" Ingrid yells, throwing herself off of the bed.

"Woah, woah Ingrid call down." Stefan says blocking her from the doorway. "We don't need to kill them. At least not just yet."

"No, Stefan that's it I'm done with this stupid little town. I warned Damon that if they pulled something I would make their lives a living hell and trust me I'm keeping that promise." Ingrid grits her teeth.

"Okay, listen Ingrid go ahead and kill whoever you want, but you can't touch Elena. Your brother told me I had to keep her safe until he got back and I'm not trying to get my ass killed." Stefan confessed.

"Stefan, my brother should be the least of your worries. Trust me my brother is nothing compared to me. Now move out of my way." Ingrid commands, pushing passed Stefan.

Elena, Alaric, and Jermey sat at a table outside the grill discussing what to do with the whole Stefan problem. Elena had stolen some of Stefan's old journals to see how he was feeling when he went off the rails before.

"Hey, Jer, I need you to help me with something." Elena tells her younger brother.

"What's up?" He responds with an intrigued tone.

"I've been going through Stefan's old journals. Every single time that he's gone off the rails in the past, his best friend Lexi's been the one to bring him back." She confesses.

"So where is she now that we need her?" Alaric questions.

"She's dead." Jeremy says looking at Elena. "And you want me to try and reach her, don't you?"

You see the other side had somehow collapsed, causing all of the spirits to be able to roam around. The thing is that Jeremy should be the only one to be able to see them, but something went wrong and they are roaming the town.

"Well I thought maybe if she knew how to do it, I could help." Elena spoke.

"Finally, I've found the history teacher and the dopple-bitch!" Ingrid exclaims, walking up to the table.

"Such a wonderful day isn't it? The sun is shinning, the wind is blowing, so many people walking around to kill." Ingrid smirks, taking a seat.

"Ingrid, listen we didn't mean to shoot you it's just that you looked pretty mad an-" Alaric starts but is cut off my Jeremy.

"Wait what is going on?" He asks in confusion.

"I'm sorry who are you?" Ingrid questions the boy.

"Jeremy, I think you should leave. Maybe go try and do what we were talking about." Elena suggests.

"Are you two related?" Ingrid asks eyeing the two of them.

"Yeah, I'm her brother Jeremy." He says suspiciously.

"Perfect." Ingrid grins, before wrapping her hand around his neck and snapping it.

"Jeremy!" Elena shrieks, rushing over to her brother's body on the floor.

"Nothing to see here folks! He's just a little light headed that's all." Ingrid yells at the crowd of people who were looking over.

Ingrid bends down to Elena's level and grabs her arm. Elena snaps her head towards the blonde with teary eyes.

"Don't mess with me, Elena. I will kill everyone you love one by one if you keep pulling those tricks on me." Ingrid spats. "Have a nice day, sweetheart."

Ingrid gets up and walks away from the scene, making Alaric and Elena shiver with fear. Elena wanted Ingrid dead more than ever now, and she would do anything to have it done.

"Elena, he'll be okay he has his ring on it's fine." Alaric comforts her. "Lets get him home before anyone else sees."

"Alaric, I thought we just needed Klaus dead, but she needs to go too. All of those damn siblings need to go." Elena whimpers out.

"Listen we knew this was coming, didn't we? We pissed her off what else were we going to expect?" Alaric explains to the brunette.

Meanwhile Caroline and Bonnie are at the old witch house trying to perform a spell to uncover all of the ghosts to everyone. This was all new to Caroline so she paced around quite nervous.

"Are you ready?" Bonnie asks Caroline before she starts.

"Ready." The honey blonde responds, as a light breeze blows through the house.

Bonnie begins preforming the spell causing everything to shake. Caroline begins to start panicking telling Bonnie to stop the spell, but Bonnie continued on.

Suddenly someone grabs onto Bonnie's hand, causing her to open her eyes and stop the spell.

"Grams?" Bonnie questions with a smile, causing her deceased grandmother to give her a smile in return.

One by one everyone started seeing their deceased loved ones or enemies. Elena could see Anna now, Damon and Alaric could see their enemy Mason Lockwood, and finally Stefan ran into his best friend Lexi, who was determined to turn Stefan's humanity back on.

Ingrid on the other hand had no idea any of this was happening. She softly hummed while she walked along the busy streets of Mystic Falls not giving a care in the world.

"Ingrid?" A voice calls out from behind her.

The sandy blonde turns around to see someone who she though would never see again. Her breath hitched as she started at the man.

"E-Ewan?" She questions with disbelief.

"Ingrid, my love." He calls out, running towards her.

He wraps his large arms around Ingrid petite body and squeezes her as tightly as possible. Ingrid stares in shock at the man hugging her. The man she once loved that was killed by her brother was standing right here.

"How are you here?" Ingrid says pulling away from him.

"The wall from the other side is down. While it's down you can see me." He replies, cupping Ingrid's pale face.

"Oh how I've missed you, Ingrid. I've been watching over you all these years, you just couldn't see me." Sean confesses.

Ingrid stares into his chocolate brown eyes examining every part of his face. He still had his thick Scottish accent and his short chestnut brown locks. He still had his ivory skin but it was more dull now.

"I-I don't know what to say. This is insane." Ingrid spoke with wide eyes.

"You don't have to say anything." He gently spoke.

He began to lean in, only leaving a little gab between Ingrid and himself. He was so close that Ingrid could feel his cold breath against her pale skin. It felt so real. He felt so real.

"Ewan, I can't." Ingrid mumbles, pushing away from his grasp.

"Ingrid, it's me. It's me, my love. Don't you see that I'm here." He spoke, putting his hand on her face.

"Ewan, I'm sorry but I can't do this. You're a ghost, you're dead." Ingrid states, pushing his hand away.

"It's because of the Salvatore boy isn't it?" Ewan said with hurt eyes.

"What are you talking about?" Ingrid asked with confusion.

"Don't play dumb, Ingrid. I know that you love that other vampire. I know you two were together in the 20s and that you got daggered over him." Ewan sighed. "It was like history repeating itself with you two."

"Ewan I-I" Ingrid starts but stops lost for words. She was so overwhelmed with emotions she had no idea what to say.

"I saw you kill that boy, Ingrid. What happened to you? You were so sweet and innocent back then know you're a-"

"A monster." Ingrid spat with soulless eyes.

"That's not what I'm saying, but I've watched over you for centuries now. What happened to you?" Ewan questions with sad eyes.

"People kept telling me that I'd never make anything more than a monster, so I decided I'd just get really good at being one." Ingrid confessed.

"Now if you would excuse me, Ewan, I have people's lives to ruin." Ingrid spat, as Ewan looked at her in disbelief.

If people were going to doubt Ingrid and make her seem little she was just going to show them how big of a monster she could be and her first stop was finding Elena Gilbert.

A/N
I don't know if anyone remembers Ewan from the first chapter but he's Ingrid previous lover..