season two, episode one
❝ do you believe me now? ❞

┏ ON A DARK AND RAINY NIGHT, A DISHEVELED GIRL COULD BE SEEN RUNNING THROUGH A FOREST IN THE TOWN OF MYSTIC FALLS, LEAVES THAT HAD FALLEN FROM THE TREES CRUNCHING UNDER THE GIRL'S BARE FEET. The bottom of her white skirt wet and caked with mud from it dragging on the ground. Under a full moon that lit the night sky, the girl suddenly came to a halt, her eyes turning white like fresh snow that hides the ground in a soft blanket. If anyone were to come by the blonde haired girl who stood in the middle of the woods, it might've looked like she was gazing at the moon above. But actually she was having a vision. A vision about the future. Her visions were always true but no one ever confessed on that. Not even her own friends and family. Well the ones who knew about the supernatural. The girl's cousin had decided alone not to tell the mother of the blonde girl about what lurked in the shadows even when she said they should tell her mother about the vampires, witches, werewolves, dopplegängers and seers. 

You see, she was cursed. Cursed to be able to tell prophecies and see the future. The actual curse part of it all? No one would believe her even if she was right ( like she was every. single. time ). 

Cassandra Sommers is seemingly a normal girl with a normal life, but that is not correct. There she was, stood in the middle of a forest during a storm, having a vision about something tragic. Sometimes the visions were more detailed and sometimes they were just flashes, kind of like pictures. This time, they were the picture-like flashes. All that the girl saw was a dark silhouette of a woman, a blurry hospital room and a white oval stone of some sort. Once she came out of the vision, her eyes returning from fully white to her natural light green. She decided not to tell anyone about the vision she had because she would definitely be deemed insane. The amount of times she had to try and get everyone to believe her felt unreal but now she had decided to just let it go. 

They'll believe me some day, she had said to herself on a particular day when one of her prophecies came true like usual. 

During the sudden vision the girl had gotten, Cassandra had forgotten why she was running in the woods. 

Was she being chased by something...?

...

No...

That's not it...

....

Oh well!

She just shrugged before turning back and starting to walk the path that led her towards her home. As she reached the white family house, she noticed almost all of the windows being fully dark, except the one that was in her room. This made Cassandra confused. She remembered turning off the lights in her room. Cassandra tilted her head and squinted her eyes in confusion. She was about to start nearing the back door of the house when she noticed something, or someone, moving around in her room.

...

That's weird. Right?

Or is it just her imagination playing tricks on her..?

Yeah. That must be it.

It must've been a strange view to the neighbors of the Gilbert ( and Sommers ) residence to see the disheveled teen enter the house with bare feet, skirt caked with mud and the usually neat, wavy hair now wet from the rain. As she closed the backdoor behind her, footsteps could be coming down the stairs. 

What. The. Fuck.

Cassandra took soft but quick steps towards a specific drawer in the kitchen of her home. The one where they kept their knives. Once the blonde girl reached the drawer, she slowly opened it and took out a sharp looking knife. With the weapon in hand she advanced towards the stairs that led upstairs to the bedrooms of her cousins, her mother and herself. 

She saw nothing, no one, on the stairs. How? She had very clearly heard the footsteps. Maybe she was fucked in the head, like they said. The girl has been through a lot of therapy and psychologist appointments ever since she was little. Though it wasn't her mother who made her go there, but Miranda and Grayson Gilbert. Her aunt and uncle believed her to be crazy after her mum had told them about her seeing weird things and figures that weren't actually there. 

As she was walking the stairs up, towards the landing of the second floor of the house, Cassandra noticed the door to her room being slightly ajar, soft light seeping in to the hallway from the slight crack. She looked around and noticed that the rest of the doors were closed - like they were before she had left. She then advanced towards her room, pushing the door open lightly, only enough so that she could see the entirety of her room. The only weird thing she noticed was her window being open, the cold wind blowing into the room. She didn't seem to notice the shadow in the corner of her room staring at her. The exact same shadowy figure she had seen in her vision.

Cassandra then fully entered her room, setting the knife down on the dresser next to the door she had just entered through. She was walking towards her closet to get a change of clothes when she heard something behind her. She turned around at the same time as the figure walked in front of her from the corner it had been standing in. Cassandra stared at the woman in front of her before speaking up, "Elena? What are you doing in my room?"

The woman in front of her chuckled. "Oh honey," she said shaking her head, curls moving with her, "I'm not Elena."

Cassandra's face turned into one of confusion, eyebrows scrunching together, creating creases on her forehead. Then it suddenly hit her. Confirming her suspicions, she took a quick look at the woman's full body, noticing the way it looked similar to the shadowy figure she had seen in the vision she had had earlier in the woods. The next thing Cassandra noticed was the danger and the power radiating from the woman. What the woman said next confirmed more of her suspicions.

"You're a smart girl, aren't you?" the woman drawled.

She then remembered how Stefan and Damon had told her and the others about their ex, Katherine, and how Elena had seen a picture of the woman and said that they looked exactly like each other. 

"Katherine."

ATHENA'S DIARY:

merry christmas!!

here's a christmas gift for y'all <3

also what do we think of this
new writing style i'm trying out?