Past, Present & Future

15

The smell of blood lingered in the air but all traces of it were already gone. It looked nothing different than it should have. The moonlight shining through the tree tops, and the silence that showed the fact that all of the nature must have been asleep. There was no way for anyone to find me now. Who would look for me anyways? I guess this was the way it was supposed to end from the start. It was the way it was always going to end. With me dying, at the hands of my enemies. At the hands of Death Eaters or whoever they have become now.

I became too confident in myself lately, thinking I could take on all these people when in truth I was just a weak little girl who couldn't even save her own life. How could I have ever won against him – a muggleborn, a mudblood couldn't have possibly taken on the Dark Lord and his followers. At least they chose a beautiful spot for my end where millions of starts illuminated the dark sky which was no longer so mysterious and scary. Now, I could fully appreciate its beauty for the last time.

Few Hours Before

"So you are planning to kill someone in this dinner?" I asked bewildered and Damon hummed in response. For some reason that man thought we were the bestest of friends now, telling me all of his little plans and thoughts for no reason whatsoever. "Why are you telling me this, Damon? I don't even care. And do you not think of the possibility that I will just ruin everything for you?" I sighed.

"Well my witchy friend, I trust you now! I can tell by your faces that you will not tell anyone." He exclaimed and I shook my head. "Don't you have a certain Gilbert to annoy?"

"Oh sorry Jeremy is not my type, I don't swing that way." He said and I almost spat out my juice, not expecting such an answer. A light smile ghosted my lips as I thought about that stupid joke he made. "Really Damon?" We were sitting in the Grill, opposite each other. Of course, we didn't come together – I came here first to have a few moments to myself but it seemed I wasn't allowed that either as just minutes later the vampire also came in. "And you aren't going to convince me to come to that dinner, I don't want to see you kill anyone. What if this is your plan all along, maybe I'm the one you are secretly trying to kill?"

"Would I ever do such a thing!" He put his hand to his heart, pretending to be offended. "It's actually a surprise as to who this unsuspecting victim will be. I know you are curious."

"Oh and you know how much I love seeing you kill people!" I said sarcastically, but he did not catch on. "Exactly, so let's go." He grabbed my arm and tried pulling me but having enough of this I twisted his arm far enough to almost break it. "Okay, okay. Message understood; you don't like seeing me kill people."

"Good and you are right, I am quite curious now." I said sheepishly and followed him willingly knowing full well he was giving me dirty looks the whole way to the Boarding House.

Once in the house, everyone left to have their own little conversations. Jenna and another woman who's name I couldn't remember went off to talk about relationships whilst Damon and Alaric talked about the plan. I was stuck in the middle, not interested in either yet somehow a part of both. By now, the decision of coming here and actually witnessing all of this was more than terrible – I should have taken up the offer of just hanging out with Bonnie. I wasn't even planning to stay here for the whole dinner because I didn't want to be here when everything went terribly wrong – that was more than likely to happen as it always happens when Damon is involved.

Time passed more quickly than I hoped so as before I knew it the door bell rang, indicating the presence of the guest. Damon gave me one last smirk and went to open the door. Light chatter was heard but the tension also began to rise as I heard someone saying, "If you so much as make a move to cross me I'll kill you and everyone in this house."