❝ 🪦‧˚꒰ ೯﹙ 𝗦𝗜𝗫 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 ﹚- ୭౿ ❞
ꗃ ⊹ ࣪ ˖ ﹙ BACK TO MYSTIC FALLS ﹚˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 ━━━ 𝖤𝖯𝖨𝖲𝖮𝖣𝖤 𝖥𝖮𝖴𝖱
𝘋𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘉𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘉𝘌𝘏𝘈𝘝𝘐𝘖𝘙 ╱ ╱ ⋆⭒˚.⋆

❝𝗜 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 understand why you want to bring Chili to a potluck.❞ Damon tells Elena as the two of them stand in the kitchen at the Gilbert house, cooking, "Everybody brings chili. Hey, Ric."

"What's up?" Alaric presses his hands against the counter as he watches the two.

"What time do you want to go to the Lockwood party?" Elena asked her history teacher, turned guardian.

"Ah. Those founders parties aren't really my thing." Alaric tells her.

"Show up, there's going to be nine other people that brought chili." Damon lets a smirk appear on his face.

"It's an old family recipe, okay?" Elena turns to look at Damon.

"Yeah! I know, I knew your old family. They made sucky chili." Damon looks at her with a smile, causing Elena to laugh as Alaric looks between the two of them before looking around the house, "Where's Anastasia?"

"She should be around here somewhere." Damon shrugged, "Knowing her, she's probably upstairs with baby Gilbert. Or she left after Dylan called her for the seventh time since we got here."

彡☆

ANASTASIA SLOWLY makes her way up the stairs of the Gilbert house, making her way towards the bedroom where her boyfriend was more than likely still sleeping. "Jeremy-," She chuckles as she notices him jump, "Whoa, I didn't mean to scare you."

"You - you didn't. I just didn't expect you to be here so early." Jeremy tells her as she stands up and moves closer to him.

"I told you last night that I was coming over early because Elena wanted my help cooking your family's old sucky chili recipe." Anastasia cringed, moving to wrap her arms around his shoulders.

"Hey, my family's chili does not suck."

"It does actually. It's terrible." She shrugged before standing on her tiptoes to peck his lips. "Hi."

"Hey." He mumbles, leaning back in to kiss her, walking her backwards so that the top of her thighs hit his computer desk as he quickly lifts her up to sit on top of it.

彡☆

BOTH TEENS grin up at each other as they exit Jeremy's bedroom, starting down the stairs.

"Jeremy!" A voice squeals, before Bonnie flings herself into the boys arms, hugging him tightly.

Anastasia quickly loses the wide smile on her face as Caroline and Elena share looks of disbelief and shock as they watched the two hug.

"Bonnie....I didn't - we didn't - know that you were coming back today." Jeremy chuckles nervously as he holds his arms out, looking towards his girlfriend with a look of "I'm not hugging her back" on his face.

"Well, you haven't been responding to my messages." Bonnie shrugged as she finally pulls herself away from him.

"I've been - I've been busy." Jeremy gulps as he backs away from the Bennett witch, making a show of wrapping his arms around Anastasia's waist as he pulls her closer to him.

"Stacie-,"

"Yeah, I have to go." Anastasia pulled herself away from her boyfriend's grip, harshly knocking her shoulder into Bonnie's as she made her way down the rest of the stairs and towards the front door, "I have to get ready for the Lockwood's."

彡☆

"HOW'S IT GOING in Mystic Falls?" Stefan asks his niece as she gets ready to go to Tyler's house.

"It's been going great since the last time we spoke. Except for the fact that Bonnie is back in Mystic Falls now." Anastasia tells him with a roll of her eyes as Daniel moves around behind her, also getting ready.

"I thought you and Bonnie were friends?" Stefan looks confused on his end of the call.

"Yeah, we were. Until she started to develop feelings for my boyfriend....and he spent the entire summer telling her about being able to see Vicki."

The Salvatore male frowned as he looked towards here Rebekah and Klaus were arguing with each other, "You can always break up with him and come stay in Chicago with me."

"Uncle Stefan, I don't want to break up with Jeremy. I love him." She sighed, "It's just....I don't know how to feel about him seeing his dead ex-girlfriend, and talking to some other girl about it instead of with me."

"Well, ask yourself this. Is it really worth it, if you're questioning him talking to Bonnie?"

彡☆

"SO, THE THREE of you are telling me that Elena's necklace burned her?" Anastasia looks between the three girls with Dylan standing next to her, arms crossed over his chest as he looks around.

"Yeah."

"I have an identification spell that might be able to tell us what magic affected the necklace." Bonnie says as she pulls her grimoire out of her bag as Elena gives her the necklace. "It's going to take a while, so tell me if anyone's coming, okay?"

Caroline looks over to Elena, "So you're not, like, switching Salvatore's, are you?"

"What?"

"Caroline...."

"Stay focused." Caroline tells the Bennett witch before looking back at Elena, "As your friend who worries for you daily, what is the deal with you and Damon?"

"Ugh, you and my dad?" Anastasia pretends to throw up, causing Dylan to laugh and wrap an arm around her shoulder, Bonnie eyeing the two unnoticed.

"There is no deal. He's been just as focused on finding Stefan as Anastasia and I have."

"I told you to stop looking for him." Anastasia shrugged.

"Yeah, but that doesn't make him any less Damon. If my own father, who I love dearly, can't change me. No one's changing Damon. Not even you." Caroline tells them.

"Look, why are we even talking about this?"

"Hey guys."

The four turn to Bonnie, finding Elena's necklace levitating in the air slowly.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm not doing anything. It has its own magic." Bonnie tells them before the three girls turn to Elena.

"Look, I don't want to be here anymore than the next person. Especially, if I have to sit and listen to Elena deny her feelings for my dad, even though we all clearly see it." Anastasia says, clapping her hands together, "So! With that being said, I'm going to find Jeremy and get the hell out of here. Kay? We'll go back to the house and we'll try and figure something out about the necklace."

"What about the rest of us?" Bonnie asked, pointing between the other three girls.

"Bonnie, at this point, I honestly wouldn't care if you got lost somewhere in the woods and croaked." Anastasia tells her, not caring about the hurt look that appeared on the witches face, or the shocked expressions on Elena and Caroline's.

"Wait! What about me?!" Dylan calls out, arms thrown up into the air.

Anastasia turns around as she walks away with a smirk on her face, "You get to be the babysitter."

"I don't want to be the goddamn babysitter!"

彡☆

"OKAY, TELL ME if you see anything in these grimoires that involves precious metals or a symbol that resembles a necklace." Anastasia tells her boyfriend as she sits on his bedroom floor, handing him one of the grimoires that she grabbed from her house, unspelling them so they wouldn't burn Jeremy.

"Wait, can't you just ask all the dead witches you and Bonnie were channeling?" Jeremy asked, sitting on his bed.

"I don't have access to them anymore. They cut me off." She mumbled, picking up another grimoire, "Bonnie can, but she's doing her own thing with this."

"Since when were you cut off?"

Anastasia pauses for a moment, "Since I brought you back to life. I messed with the balance of nature and there were consequences. Like, you being able to see Vicki and Anna from the other side. They wanted your attention, and now they have it." She shrugged.

"Hey, don't....,"

"Let's just focus on the necklace."

Jeremy looks at his girlfriend for a moment as she continues to look in the book resting in her lap before he picks his sisters necklace up, "Should I concentrate on the older books? Or, uh, I mean, how old is this necklace?"

"Old."

Anna appears behind Jeremy, him being the only one able to see her, "Jeremy. The darkness. It's here."

Suddenly, all of the grimoires burst into flames, making a gasp leave Anastasia's lips as the two stared at the books in shock.

"Jeremy!" She's quick to push the book off her boyfriend's lap, using her magic to put out the fire, "Are you okay?"

"What the hell just happened?"

"I have no idea."

彡☆

"JER, THERE'S ASHES all on your floor!" Anastasia calls out as Jeremy is in the bathroom, washing his hands.

"I'll go grab the vacuum."

"No, I got it." She tells him before leaving and as soon as she was gone, Anna appears.

"Are you okay?" Anna asked, causing Jeremy to close the bathroom door.

"Don't."

"What?" Questioned Anna.

"Stacie's here, okay? You've got to stop." Jeremy tells her, "My relationship is already in shambles because I talked to Bonnie about you and Vicki before I told her."

"I was just trying to warn you." She said, "I felt something bad. Dangerous."

"You...you just can't pop up every time she and I are together." Jeremy stated, "I care too much about Anastasia to be letting either of you get into my head."

"It's a two-way street, Jeremy. I only pop up when you're thinking about me. That's why you didn't tell her, isn't it? You don't want her to know that you still care."

"I've never cared for you, Anna. Get that through your head."

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that."

"Good-bye, Anna."

"Don't! Jeremy, please. Don't shut me out!"

Anna's voice begins to fade away as Jeremy closes his eyes, and when he reopens them, Anna is no longer in his bathroom with him.

彡☆

STEFAN WAKES UP with a start inside of the back of a truck filled with Coffins with Klaus looking at him. "Just give me a chance to explain myself, okay?"

"No need. I'm not bad, I'm just curious. Rebekah seems to think you're holding onto something. A piece of your old lie. The thing is, she's got flawless instincts, borderline supernatural. So I thought I would check it out. See for myself what it is you've been hiding."

Klaus moves to the back of the truck and opens the metal door. Stefan, blinding by the sun, brings his arm up to shield the sun from his eyes.

"Welcome back to Mystic Falls, Stefan."

AUTHOR'S NOTE 🦋💕🤍
Get ready for the next chapter, people! It's gonna get....intense.
Characters may die, characters
may get seriously hurt....and you
could possibly cry...😬 JK

But on a serious note....
ONLY 6 CHAPTERS LEFT
BEFORE WE GET A KOL
AND ANASTASIA REUNION!!