CENTURIES, stefan salvatore [1]

Our Town

CHAPTER 47: OUR TOWN

Mystic Falls High School

Jeremy Gilbert was going to leave Mystic Falls. Of course, not everyone was all for it, by that I mean Natalie Saltzman that refused to have anything to do with it as she believed that he was old enough to make his own decisions, but Elena just wanted him out because of the danger, so she got Damon to compel him and Alaric to agree. But Natalie understood that she just wanted him protected and she understood that she really wanted to yell at her, but that would be too exhausting as she was really getting tired of being angry at everyone (except for Stefan and Klaus, she still had plenty anger reserved just for them).

On a lighter note, Caroline Forbes was turning to 18. And this was the first birthday of hers that Natalie would be there for, so she really wanted it to be amazing and Caroline approved, which was really hard to do. And that's how she ended up decorating the blond's locker, even if she hadn't shown up yet.

And she didn't seem to notice that witch walking up behind her. "Hey, sorry I'm late, I...I got held up." Bonnie smiled at the seemingly very concentrated brunette, who jumped at her appearance, being so deep into her own work that she wasn't prepared.

"Oh my god, you scared me," Natalie breathed heavily, a smile on her face as her hand was on her chest as if it would steady her breathing. "And it's fine, just got here a few minutes ago myself. What's got you running late?"

The witch spent a second or two to come up with a good excuse as Natalie wasn't supposed to know what she and the Salvatores were doing, so she settled for a half-lie. "I was...working on some new spells. You?"

"Sleeping," Natalie mumbled lowly, ashamed of the fact that she just didn't want to go to school and settled for sleep. "So, I have to tell you something, and you're probably gonna hate it." she changed the subject with.

"What happened?" Bonnie frowned worriedly, hoping that Klaus hadn't struck them again with some awful means of Klaus-ness

"Ehm," Natalie sighed for a moment before actually explaining what was going on. "So, Elena may or may not have totally convinced Damon to compel Jeremy to leave town. Just so you know, I had nothing to do with it so I'd appreciate if you'd not kill me with your witchyness. Elena thought you should know because you never really cleared things up, but I just think you should get a chance to say goodbye. And I'm sorry for breaking this to you this way. I'm usually not good with this stuff."

Bonnie didn't respond with words, allowing her mouth to fly open in shock about the fact that the guy whom she loved and got cheated on by was actually leaving town, and it wasn't even because he wanted it, he thought it was because he wanted it, but it wasn't. Her gaze went to where the Gilbert boy himself was standing by his lockers and debated what she was going to do.

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After the worry for how she was doing after his brother not being able to be slightly nice to her, Damon decided to take a small break at trying to open the locked coffin in the old witch house to check up on her.

"Don't you have anything better to do than stalking me?" Natalie asked the elder Salvatore brother as she spotted him standing outside the school.

He rolled his eyes at her Natalie-ish behavior as he secretly looked for Elena in the crowd after their kiss the other night. "I'm just checking up on you. Since I happen to have great hearing I may have accidentally overheard you and Stefan's conversation the other day."

"Ugh, you heard that?" she groaned, not really wanting anyone to hear about her small breakdown and the lie about her actually starting to hate Stefan.