Elena and Elijah arrived just as the witch circle finished their session.

"We are done."- Bonnie said getting up from the round table. She looked at Elena with eyes that asked if things went well with her and Elijah since they arrived together. Elena signaled her with a small nod that it was not good.

"I have to go."- Bonnie said- "Damon appeared."- she said to Elena.

"Ok?"- Elena looked surprised at her friend.

"Things are getting complicated. It's like we have a third front open in the war of witches."-Bonnie said- "I will see you later."

She then left.

Elijah now looked at Freya, who gave him the news.

"Dahlia broke the seal on the Salvatore tomb."- she said.

Elijah went very somber upon hearing the news, something he had hoped would be delayed.

"Who at does that mean?" Elena asked.

"It means that more badass Old vampires are out to get us!" - Caroline said before Freya could explain any further.

"They want my blood or my heart for something too, am I right?"- Elena now looked at Elijah and then at Freya.

Sophie nodded and added- "To enhance their powers."

"They are shapeshifters;"- Elijah said-"She has done this because she is sure that Klaus is close to triggering his witch side."

"Everything is stirred up again."- Freya said- "this is like one nightmare extending into another one."

"Can you explain what is going to happened and where are they"- Elena wanted to know more.

"The Salvatores were put to sleep in a tomb in Nova Scotia."- Sophie explained- "that part is known only to some covens of white witches."

"Put to sleep?! Seriously?! So, they were not killed?!"- Elena now looked at everyone.

Elijah could now see and feel that Elena was very much disturbed by the new development.

"No." Elijah said- "they are Immortal like us. This is one reason more why I have been searching for you. And we find you first and I will protect you, as I swore to do."

"Right"- Elena said- "huh... I just... I am going home."- Elena said looking at Caroline who now went with her friend. Sophie followed them.

Freya looked at Elijah and she knew that things are getting to dark.

"It feels like you are standing in the flames."

"You know me all too well."- Elijah then said " Katerina is alive and she is with Celeste Dubois."

"Oh! This is bad news."- Freya said.

"Yes, it is. Celeste is as powerful as the Bennett witch."

"And she hates us immensely."- Freya added.

*****

Bonnie walked in the bar where Damon waited for her. He turned his head as she stepped in. Her scent drove him slightly crazy. From the first meeting in the woods he was enchanted by her.

Bonnie now sat on a bar stool next to him and ordered a drink.

"Scarlett O' Hara."- Bonnie said.

"Quite a witchy cocktail. Passion written all over it. Pretty bloody colour."- Damon said.

"Shut up."- Bonnie remarked.

"There is a somber look on your face- not good right?! Tell me that the almighty Mikaelson family is stuck in this magical game of chess?!"- Damon continued.

Bonnie took a sip of her cocktail.

"Come on, say it- I can take it. I fried big fish already."- Damon said.

"There is a ransom out for your heart."- Bonnie said- "did you know that?!"

His blue eyes now blazed at her with disbelief.

"Guess what- I am the witch who is supposed to eat it."- Bonnie continued.

He now sipped his drink down and the barman poured him another.

"He is compelled to keep it coming."- Damon explained as Bonnie found it odd that the man acted like a robot as soon as Damon put the glass down on the counter.

"Don't worry- your heart is safe."- Bonnie said- "I decided to be on the team good guys and not side with the dark magic in my family."

"Right. Thank you so very much." Damon said somewhat relieved and continued- "what is the damned connection between witches and my family?!"

Bonnie then remembered what Freya told them that Damon and Stefan were compelled not to know of their Salvatore ancestry. She now fabricated a lie-

"Something like Elena having mystical blood your family has something in your blood that gives dark witches power."

"You know that our father has turned us?!"- Damon said.

"Yes."- Bonnie said, although she knew that the truth was completely different-it was her ancestor Ernestine.

"It feels like a curse most of the time."- Damon then said- "Stefan loves it. I hate it."

Bonnie was surprised to hear it, as he didn't give out that it was anything like that-

"Seriously, you could have fooled me"

"I am good at fooling. But you are not."-Damon said.

"Excuse me?!"

"Tell me now what is really going on and why do you suddenly care about me?"

Bonnie wished she was cool and collected like Sophie. Hide all her emotions and accept everything like it was the most ordinary thing in the world. But ever since she learned the intertwined history of the Salvatore and the Bennett family, things changed in her.

"I wish I didn't know what happens to you, but I do"-Bonnie thought to herself.

****

In another bar, not far away, Elena and Caroline also indulged in some cocktail time off.

"I hate this waiting madness"-Elena said-"I wish it was done and over with?!"

"As in your heart is cut out and we have a badass old vampire witch dark witch powers making our lives hell?! Lena, you looked so majorly pissed off at Elijah, who swore to protect you- did I miss something in the damned tango that you two do?!"-Caroline now addressed Elena's recent behaviour.

"Tango?!?!"-Elena looked at her friend as if clueless about the remark.

"Omg! Maybe it's my werewolf special senses, but you two have something pent up thing going on since we got to New York, put him out of his misery already?!"

"He has put himself out of the misery"-Elena said huffing a bit.

"Oh! Ook... did you at least kiss?"- Caroline knew her friend was pretty old fashioned concerning guys, she always wanted the whole romantic big deal going on before she starts anything with a guy.

"Oh, yeah, I kissed him!"-Elena then said-"now I wish I didn't cos I can't stop thinking about it and he plays a knight in shinning armour!!'

"Maybe it's all about him sacrificing himself and if it all goes wrong- you don't have to... I don't know... complicated, right?! Talking about not being able to forget kisses and firey sex - I have a confession to make- you can't tell anybody about it-swear you won't!!?"

Elena knew it was something serious as Caroline was acting somewhat nervous.

"Tell me? What happened?"

"The Nik guy... it's actually their brother Klaus! Well, tonight Freya showed me his picture..."- Caroline said- " I thought someone punched me in the stomach."

Elena now looked at her friend with her eyes wide open.

Caroline continued- "you don't know the best... Sophie said that he needs Clairemont werewolf for the ritual..."

"Care... oh... one disaster after another. Welcome to our messed up lives... but... you know what...screw that all. Screw them. We made a pact long ago that we will do things our way- and so we are going to do things our way."

- Elena's eyes shone as if she had an epiphany.

"What's our way?"- Caroline exclaimed.

"Come on...not here... Let me call Bonnie."- Elena now got up and both women left the bar.

*****

In a small town somewhere in the state of New York, Celeste Dubois read the lunar tarot cards.

"So, what do they say?"-Katherine asked.

"The fortune is on our side. I still don't understand why you have agreed gave up the location of the hearts to Klaus? They are family and they could turn against you in no time. We killed the Gilberts for nothing."

"Have we!?"-Katherine said-"You who says that claims to have a black heart all of a sudden show remorse?! The Gilberts knew too much. Reason enough to remove them"-Katherine said-"as for Klaus and Elijah and the whole Mikaelson family?! I will take my chance- Klaus is power hungry and this is all he really cares about. You said that the witches' hearts are now spoiled with dark magic, right?! I can't wait to see Elijah's face when his beloved sister turns evil!"-Katherine smiled wickedly.

"Let's just hope the magic we put on them works!"-Celeste thought.

***

In New York, Elena. Bonnie and Caroline got together in their apartment.

"So, what is so hush hush?"- Bonnie looked at Elena.

Caroline also looked at her friend eager to find out what it was that made it all so important and secretive.

Elena then started -

"You said that you found the immortality spell in the Grimoire-"

"Wait... you are not thinking what I think you are thinking?!!"-Bonnie was stunned at Elena's implied suggestion.

"Yes. That's exactly what I am thinking. I want you to do it. I am not going to sit and wait that someone rescues me or makes deals over me or cos of me. Elijah needs my blood for his sister's curse thing. I will give it to him. And about everything else- it's my life and I am taking things in my own hands. So, I want you to do it!"

Bonnie was quiet for a moment.

Caroline welcomed the idea-

"Yeah, let's kick some ass. Elena is right. We are nothing but lambs to the slaughter- that's not us. Hell yeah, let's twist this!"

"Huh!'- Bonnie exclaimed somewhat unsure about it-"what if it all goes literally to hell??"

"My life is not my own anymore"- Elena started-"and it seems it never really was"

"Neither is mine"- Caroline agreed and added-"neither is yours, Bonnie!"

All three of them knew the harsh truth and fact that this statement was so very true.

"All right!"-Bonnie said-"that means we are going to set fire to yesterday!!"

"I am so ready to set fire to yesterday!"- Elena said.

"So am I"- Caroline said her blue eyes sparkling with glowing amber.

I can feel the heat rising, everything is on fire

Today is a painful reminder of why

We can only get brighter

The further you put it behind ya

....

Yesterday was the tornado warning

Today's like the morning after

Your world is torn in half

You wake in it's wake to start the mourning process

And rebuilding, you're still a work in progress

Today's a whole new chapter

It's like an enormous asth-ma

Thunderstorm has passed ya

You weathered it and poked it's eye out

With the thorn bush that you

Used to smell the roses

Stopped to inhale, can't even tell your nose is, stuffed

So focused on the bright side

Then you floor the gas pedal

And hit the corner fast the more asserted

Never looking back

May hit the curb

But every day is a new learning curve as you

Steer through life, sometimes you might not wanna swerve

But you have to

To avert a disaster

Lucky no permanent damage

Cause they hurt you so bad

It's like they murdered your ass

And threw dirt on your casket but you've returned from the ashes

****

Elijah walked the streets restless.

"The devil appears when you are very tired and makes a reasonable request that you shouldn't grant"-the words played on his mind. He was thinking of Elena, and then what a witch told him nearly a thousand years ago-"and maybe the one that bears the mark of the sun reverse all"

I'm standin' in the flames

It's a beautiful kind of pain

Settin' fire to yesterday

Find the light, find the light, find the light

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