Coping with grief is hard enough without having heightened emotions. Still, life can't be even that simple. There's an army coming, and the threat of Jay losing more than she already has is very real.
She can't run away to a new town now; she's goin...
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"I'm sorry I haven't been able to make you a daylight ring yet." Marie says, and Jay shakes her head as she glances over at her. They're sitting in the kitchen eating ice cream, and they're on opposite ends of the room.
"Don't worry about it. That's one of the benefits of living in a place with barely any sun." She tells her. "Besides, you have to work through your...growing pains? Is that what Bonnie called them?" She asks, and her friend nods.
"Yeah. Headaches, nose bleeds — no fun." The witch shakes her head.
"You need sunlight outside to even do the spell anyway. So, don't start feeling bad until Summer rolls around."
"Oh, that's nice. Thank you." She says sarcastically, and Jay chuckles. "So, have you, uh... Have you talked to Paul lately?"
"A little bit." She nods. "He checks in, but he keeps his distance mostly. He knows that this has all been really hard for me. I spend most of my time with Damon and Stefan."
"Stefan goes to the high school with you now, right?" Marie asks, and she nods.
"He obviously won't pass as a Freshman... He started as a Junior, in case I still need him there after the Summer." She explains.
"The Salvatores are really going out of their way for you here." She smiles. "I'm glad that you haven't been completely alone. Though I am surprised that it's been Damon taking on the bulk of the responsibility when it comes to your well-being."
"Maybe it's guilt." Jay looks over at her phone when it starts ringing on the table, and she walks over as Marie picks it up to look at the caller ID.
"Bella." She tosses it over to her, and the vampire catches it with ease.
As soon as Jay answers the call, Bella's ranting through the receiver. Charlie lifted her grounding as long as she hangs out with her other friends and not just Edward, and he mentioned that Jake has been having a hard time lately. Bella was gonna drive down to see him, but Alice saw her decision to do just that, and then Edward showed up at her house and screwed with her truck so that she couldn't drive to the reservation. Jay hears that and then disappears, letting her phone hit the ground in the process. Marie picks it up to talk to Bella, not knowing what's going on.
Damon walks into the kitchen just as his car starts up outside, and he turns. "Who taught the rugrat how to drive?" He questions.
"Jacob taught her how to drive a motorcycle." The witch tells him.
"What about my car?" He asks, and she shrugs.
Jay pulls up outside of the Cullen house — after not driving the Camaro very well to get there — and she then gets out to head inside. Alice tries to stop her from getting past the living room, but she moves past her easily since it's her instincts guiding her movements and not an actual thought process — no decisions to watch. That ends when the big one shows up and locks his arms around her torso, pinning her arms to her sides.
