༺sunshine | niklaus. m༻

chapter 4

waking up in her own bed, sunny was both confused and disoriented. The soft, pale green bedding surrounded her like a comfortable cocoon as she began to sit up.

"sunny!" the still waking girl heard her younger sister yell from downstairs. "i going over to the stefan's! do you wanna come? he said it was important!" sunny lightly groaned but still replied.

"yeah give me a minute!" as she was fully sat up, she swung her legs over the side of the bed that sat in the corner of her room. she pushed the few fake vines and butterflies that hung from her ceiling away from her face as she moved towards her golden framed mirror that hung on the opposite side of the room above a white chest-of-drawers. stubbing her toe on her bright purple desk chair on her way past, she swore under her breath and screamed with no sound. she heard a few chuckles from the back of her head as the voices became more prominent, talking about how stupid she was for forgetting she had toes.

making her way over to her wardrobe, she reached for her pleated denim skirt, team edward shirt and platform doc martens. grabbing a red bralette from the small set of drawers within the wardrobe, she got changed.

"sunny! hurry up we need to go!" elena loudly sighed once again from downstairs.

"yeah! one more minute." sunny yelled back at her younger sister, quickly applying a red winged eyeliner and shoving the boots onto her fuzzy sock-clad feet.

the thump thump thump of sunny's feet could be heard the whole way down the stairs as sunny ran out the front door with a distant c'mon elena being yelled from her lips. already halfway down the pathway to the house, sunny sped towards the car, grabbing onto the door handle and tugging four times before realising it was locked. elena turned around after locking the house door and rolled her eyes as the sight of her childish older sister impatiently waiting for her to open the door. the quiet beep of the car unlocking was heard as sunny immediately smiled and opened the door, climbing in and slamming the door behind her. elena had walked to the car and around to the front drivers seat. the younger of the two put the keys into the ignition and started the car and sunny turned the volume up as dreams by fleetwood mac played over the radio.

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after reaching the salvatore boarding house, sunny excitedly jumped out of the car, running over to the large oak entryway door.

bouncing on the balls of her feet, the eldest gilbert waited for her sister to walk to the house before ringing the loud doorbell.

"hello elena, hey sun." damon said as he opened the door.

"damon!" sunny said excitedly falling on to him and hugging him with a tight force. "wait, wait, wait, i'm supposed to be mad at you right now." the loony girl said with an adorable pout on her face. "you left me behind." she stated after seeing at the confusion in damon's eyes. "but it's okay, i was saved." she smiled, once again hugging the confused vampire.

"wait you were there? with elena?" damon urgently asked, still confused.

"yeah, you-you didn't see me?" sunny said, her eyes beginning to water as the voices began screaming again. "its okay i guess, do you have any advil or adderall or something?" the previously energetic girl politely questioned as she covered her ears, attempting to stop the noise travelling through her head.

"sorry interrupt, but is stefan here? he called. he said it was important." elena said, looking further into the house, uncomfortable with the situation, she still didn't understand her sister.

"yeah, he's in the living room. c'mon sunny, we'll go to the kitchen and see if we have any pain killers." damon said, leading sunny away from her less than concerned sister.

sunny was seated on the kitchen island as damon stood beside her, watching her down four adderall, one after the other, until he forcefully grabbed them out of her hand.

"that's enough for you, young lady." damon scolded slightly.

he lifted the fuzzy brained girl off the counter and steadied her on her feet, she grabbed onto his arm in a vice-like grip and leant her tired head against his shoulder.

they both walked into the living room where elena was sat on the couch with stefan, and rose was seated on the opposing couch in front of the couple awaiting the duo's arrival.

"oh good you're here, what took you so long." sunny went to answer but elena interrupted. "nevermind. rose, what are you here for?"

"Okay, you have to understand I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not true. It's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus, I know he's real." sunny sighed in content when that name was again said out loud, she still wondered why it made her so calm.

"who is he?" elena asked.

"he's one of the originals. he's a legend" damon answered. now standing beside sunny as she sat on the lone armchair near the fireplace, leaning her head on his torso.

"from the first generation of vampires." stefan butted in.

"like elijah?" sunny heard elena say, the voices in her head began fading and the voices surrounding her became quieter as she started to fall asleep.

"No. Elijah was the Easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal." rose replied. minutely annoyed with elena.

"mmm, i like bunnies. they're soft and," sunny yawned, "and fluffy." she finally said before she passed out.

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the next few days were kind of blurry for sunny, elena went and talked to katherine, finding some rather helpful information about klaus and finally discovering that she was needed as a sacrifice. she then attempted to contact the big bad klaus with the help of rose's friend slater. slater died. elijah was discovered alive, but sunny already knew that.

jeremy almost died trying to get the moonstone out of katherine's hands, but stefan saved him from being sucked dry and was trapped in the tomb.

elena has gone full martyr and thinks she needs to leave and sacrifice herself to klaus in order for her friends to be safe, but the scooby gang want none of it.

rose was bit by jules, mason lockwood's werewolf friend, during the full moon and died.

damon and stefan contact isobel.

uncle john is back, that dick.

caroline was kidnapped and taken hostage by jules' werewolf pack, she's fine though.

john revealed that the only way to kill an original vampire is with a silver dagger dipped in white oak ash.

john worked with isobel to get katherine out of the tomb.

damon was tortured for the moonstone by jules' werewolves.

tyler left town with jules to get his werewolf-thing under control.

damon held a dinner party with andie, his girlfriend/sex buddy, jenna, alaric, elijah and john attending. then alaric stabbed elijah, literally in the back, and temporarily killed him with john's dagger.

and while all this was happening, sunny was watching the twilight saga on her tv in her bedroom, repeatedly. non-stop. in all that time, she had begun to speak to those pesky voices that hung out in the back of her mind, she spoke to them about her family, how she felt forgotten, separated from them. she spoke about how fiercely she hated jacob black and his stupid face, and how carlisle would have been the far better choice for a vampire boyfriend. and mostly she spoke to them about that wonderful name that brought peace to her mind whenever it was mentioned. klaus. oh how sweet it sounded she she spoke it, she loved the way it fell off her own tongue and fell in love with the name itself. she eagerly awaited the arrival of the name's owner, and she had the feeling they would be arriving sooner rather than later...

{umm merry christmas. i'm a lazy shit, so i take forever to write chapters. i'm sorry.}