Been many months since coming back to this one, better dust this book off and get writing.

Chapter 2: The Night of the Comet

The paramedics arrived not long before Vicki Donovan was also found with the same damage to the neck, Stefan watched from afar as the two were being taken on the ambulance.

He knew of the initial killings but now Nolan and Vicki were targeted? It was no longer a coincidence to the one-hundred and forty-seven years of being an immortal being of the night.

Another vampire is behind the killings and tonight, near killings as both are alive and being taken to get help.

He said good night to Elena, hurrying home as fast as he could to not just find out who is doing it but to protect himself from the Council.

Opening the door to the boarding house, Zach looked at him pointedly as he walked passed. "There was another attack and it wasn't me, Zach." His distant nephew though he refers to the man as his uncle stood shocked.

Getting to his room, he shut his door and paced about for a few moments before a crow flew in his room, distracting him a second and then he heard a voice that he wished he didn't have to.

"Hello, brother." Damon greeted him half-heartedly and with a hint of sadistic joy.

"... Damon." His voice muttered and after taking a deep breath he narrowed his eyes, "The crows a bit much, isn't it?" Mentioning the crow brought a smile to his brother's face, Damon said that he should see what he does to the fog. "When did you get here?" He asked and Damon started trying to make conversation.

"Well I couldn't miss my little brother's first day, could I?" Damon told him and turned his eyes on the bookcase, "I like the haircut, couldn't really stand your grunge look back in the '90s." He could stand by and reminisce with Damon all night, but he doesn't.

"Why are you here?" Tired of wasting time, he wanted his questions answered. Damon gave him a terrible excuse to which he didn't believe, "You hate small towns, it's boring, there's nothing for you to do."

"I've managed to keep myself busy." Ah, that's it, he was the reason behind the six attacks.

"You know you left those two alive, tonight, pretty sloppy of you." He threw his brother's sins in Damon's face, the other 147-year-old vampire didn't so much as flinch but when he heard him mention two, his brother grew puzzled.

"That's impossible, I drained the toy-boy dry. Something about his blood, it smelled very tasty and I couldn't help myself. The other one, though, I meant to leave as a way to keep you on your toes." His brother told him, it made him question how Nolan even survived the attack if his brother meant to drain him.

Mystic Falls Hospital

Nolan's eyes opened and he felt very weak, groaning loudly had woken Colton who rushed to the hospital when his phone rang and someone that wasn't his son called him from his cellphone.

Part of him was angry as all hell, but when it came to his son being hurt and worse, being attacked by a vampire of all things? His anger had quickly evaporated from him.

His eyes glanced at the hospital room entrance, the rune he painted with invisible ink that protected the room from undead entities.

It didn't give him peace of mind to know that Mystic Falls had vampires infesting the town, it disgusted him to no end about worrying for his son's safety and especially when his ring was missing from his hand.

"Dad?" He heard his son call and he sighed happily, reaching into his pocket and taking out the ring his son threw in his locker. "What attacked me? It was a person but a monster, too." Nolan told him and he nodded yes.

"I wanted to keep you away from the supernatural business, to keep you out of the hands of what killed your mother." He started explaining and Nolan sat straight at the mention of Maria. "Son, listen to everything I am about to tell you, it's important." His eyes watched his son's expression change to a focused one.

He went into great detail about the supernatural world, about werewolves, about vampires, then Nolan asked him what he was.

"What am I? Am I a vampire, now?!" He wanted to laugh a little, his son watches one too many horror films and tv.

"Lore says you have to have vampire blood in your system, then you have to die. No, Nolan, you're not a vampire... You're a magic-user." His news came as a little shocking, "Other names you'll think of is a witch, warlock, but... Your family would prefer druid for a title." Nolan was silent for a long three minutes so he decided to continue.

"Your bloodline goes back as far as 475 AD, meaning your line is 1,534 years old." His son didn't get it as quick as he should, raising the ring to Nolan, he described it's purpose. "This ring had been passed down from Coven Leader to his or her heir for nearly 700 years, it protects and hides the druids or druidesses abilities until they come of age, you're are seventeen and should have been a user of magic by now but your mother and I were fearful for you." Colton saw the look of confusion in Nolan's eyes, he wants to know why.

"What's so special about my bloodline, dad, what's after me?" He didn't want to say anything, didn't want to go any further than this.

"Your bloodline is based on one of the greatest of our species, son... You're descended from the legendary Merlin, the founder of Clan Reese."

Pov Switch

"Wait, what the hell?" Nolan couldn't believe what he just heard, "You're saying that my ancestor swished around mops to clean his dungeon?" He asked with a large dose of sarcasm to which brought out a laugh from his old man.

"Funny but no, a lot of embellishment can be made in 1500 years, then a lot of that is blamed on Disney." His father told him and it almost felt like the old family he had back then was resurfacing after nearly a year.

Thing's were so weird right now, he didn't know whether he was in some sort of coma-dream or if he was just dead and gone to heaven or whatever passes as the afterlife.

What makes him weirder is that he felt his soul leave his body, he took his last breath and joined the dead but moments later he felt like a thunderbolt hit his chest and sent him back into his physical form.

"Dad... I did die, I felt it." His dad sighed heavily and he had a feeling the man didn't want to tell him.

"You did." That was blunt, not that he expected anything else, "The night your mother died, she cast a spell on you to preserve your life. No, it's not an immortality spell but more like a nine-lives thing, you were given nine chances to live and should anything befall you, this spell ensures that you survive any supernatural attack." That makes things a little better, it still sucks that he could die eight more times.

He tried to remember what happened to him, he closed his mind to try and remember who had done him in but he couldn't even imagine a face.

Everything, he can feel everything right now. "It's the magic, if that's what you're feeling." He nodded and his father continued, "Witches can feel nature, they have a foothold to it- Kind of like their job, it's their duty to keep the balance between everything good and evil." That is one toll to bear, a big responsibility for him and there are others out there like him? That makes him a little nauseous.

"Are you a witch, druid, I mean?" His father choked a little on the answer, it must be a tough question to ask right now.

"Yes and no, I am from a witch family but I've got a sort of deformity. I can't produce my own magic, I can, however, take it from other sources." His father described his own form of magic, Nolan sighed and saw his ring being held in his father's hand.

"It won't do you no good, remember? Once your magic began to surface, it became useless the moment you used your gift." Yet his father still handed it to him, "Yet, it's still your ring, your mother's and when you marry it will be your children's." Nolan closed the ring in his hand and then put it back on.

Feeling tired he slept for a number of hours, next time he woke up his father was gone and a note was left that told him he'd be back tomorrow morning to bring him home.

His father had also left a book with another note, it read that it was a learning piece to begin his practice of magic.

A grimoire, it said grimoire.

Pov Switch

Stefan raced to compel Nolan and Vicki of their terrible night, he also wanted to find out what made his fellow newcomer survive Damon's behavior.

Damon had been surprised as well, saying that he had bled him dry and that there was no way he was surviving these next few hours but he did, Nolan pushed through as the nurse who told him.

His first choice was to compel Nolan but then he heard a scream coming from another hallway, Matt ran out of the room and screamed for help which gave him a moment to quickly get inside.

Telling her a few times that it was just an animal that attacked her, that it wasn't what she thought it was.

A second after compelling Matt's sister he sped out in search of Nolan's room, he got there and couldn't even get passed the threshold. "What the... " He whispered and saw no one in the hospital bed, using his senses he found out that he was inside of the bathroom.

A smell invaded his nose, it was blood but it had an intoxicating aura that called to that part of him that was buried inside. He understood why Damon wasn't able to control himself but he wondered why he didn't smell it when they met yesterday? Questions for later.

Hearing footsteps and Matt's blond hair, he cursed and realized he'd have to come back but something was concrete about Nolan's survival.

The guys a witch, a magic-user.

Leading Donovan on a goose-chase for a few minutes and though the blood caught him off-guard, he was able to hop out of a window and escape from being discovered by the boy.

After getting away, he began making his way towards the school and looking at his watch, he seems to be running late.

Pov Switch

Bonnie met up with Elena and Caroline at the grill when school let out, they talked for a bit before landing on the comet coming through Mystic Falls tomorrow night.

"Well, I was talking to grams and she said that the comet is a sign of impending doom, the last time it passed over Mystic Falls there was lots of death. So much blood and carnage that it created a bed of paranormal activity." She said and Caroline sarcastically said she poured her grandmother another shot and told her about aliens.

She is a little torn up about it, she doesn't believe but when she touched Elena, and then Nolan who she found next to his car with a bleeding neck. It's starting to affect her life a bit.

God, she felt so bad for him, for Vicki too and who else it had attacked last night, two campers and that alone scared her from the woods. Her grandmother had teased her about going to visit Nolan in the hospital, she said it would be inappropriate right now.

His golden-haired friend turned their attention on Elena and Stefan's night, apart from the attacks. Eventually, Caroline's antics got down to the direct questions and accused Elena of withholding the smuttiness of their night together, it all came around to the laws that Care says they should follow.

"It's easy, see? Boy likes girl, girl likes boy... Sex." She rolled her eyes and Elena complimented Caroline on her wisdom.

It had gotten to Elena and she smiled, got up from her chair and when asked where she was going, Elena said that she was going to do what she had told herself she was going to do.

She then became a target for entertainment, "I didn't see the new boy working today, still in the hospital like Vicki?" She nodded to her friend's question and leaned back on the chair.

"Yeah, his dad was already on his way when I called him, he sounded like an ass." A pang of guilt went out to Nolan, she didn't realize he was living in a broken home.

Not that she has anything to compare it to, her father is all but distant and she hasn't heard from her mother in literal years.

"Wow, I hope he gets better, you need a love-life Miss Bennett." She threw her straw wrapper at Caroline for that, "Come on, Bonnie. When was the last time you've been on a date?" Been a while, a long while and the last one only lasted a day.

"Alright, Care, I promise to flirt with him when he gets out." She said halfheartedly to placate her friend for the time being, "Now, your turn. Describe me the hot mystery guy you met last night?" She asked her second best friend who blushed beat red and went into great detail about him, for however much she remembered.

Pov Switch

Nolan was out of breath and frustrated, throwing his hands up in the air in his anger.

His dad picked up before sundown and brought him home, mentally pushing him into his first lessons in being a druid. His green eyes looked up to his dad and using a free hand, he slicked back his dark hair.

"We've been at these spells for hours, dad, can't I stop for tonight?" He asked and the older Reese kneeled and looked at him with widened eyes.

"You wanted the truth, didn't you? Witches can't be compelled or made to forget so you're in it, now, son. Now, again." Huffing, he took a deep breath to calm himself down.

The incantations were a bitch to get down fluently, there were a few but only a few of them that are made to defend himself against outside forces such as vampires and other supernatural monsters.

Incendia, a fire spell to conjure flame in his hand or on the surfaces of objects. The next was the use of his mind, his dad said it works kind of like the comic books he reads from time to time. The third is less physical but more secretive, a silencing spell to keep werewolves and vampires from overhearing on conversations.

The rest were both simple and difficult in performing. A locator spell, healing magic, how to turn a room into an invite-only cubby hole.

His magical legacy is still a shock to him, but with the help of a couple of grimoires and his mother's journal which had encompassed a last letter to him.

It told him that she loved him, that she wished she didn't have to leave him. Her last wish was to live his life to fullest and meet a pretty girl, have a family and when the time came that they'd be reunited in the next life.

His emotions took out the power in the house, his dad said that's the first thing that he should work on while he practiced magic.

"Vas matos tribum... " He closed his eyes and the lit candles jumped like gasoline was poured all over it, he didn't see it but he felt that his father was smiling a little at his power.

The sound of his cellphone ringing took him out of his trance, his dad was caught off-guard by the intervention as he reached and answered it.

"Hello?" He said into the phone and was surprised to hear back from someone he didn't expect.

"Nolan, I heard you got released and wanted to see how you were?" He was a bit excited it was Bonnie, considering she was the one to find him laying out by his car the night he was attacked.

"Uh, Hi, Bonnie. I should thank you for finding me, the other night." He got up from his meditation seat and ignored his dad's commands to hang up the phone, Bonnie chuckled to his gratitude.

"No problem, anytime." Anytime? He likes that, "So, I hope you heard about the comet coming to town, tomorrow? I was wondering if you'd like to come and watch it with me, I mean, me and my friends, at the grill, where you work." That is a lot of nervousness for such a cute girl.

Too bad he's into nervousness, and cute girls. "That is an awesome idea, I'm in." He agreed and he could visibly hear her giggling on the other end.

His dad wasn't so agreeable to the date he had lined up, he looked at him pointedly with a big ole frown across his lips.

"No." Was all his dad said and he sighed, not interested in going through this again.

"Come on, I can defend myself, now." He tried to tell his father that he could do this,

"And you've been practicing for what, a day? You need to train a lot longer than that before I can even contemplate letting you go and play doctor with the Bennett girl." How did he know that it was Bonnie Bennett? He thinned his lips into a frown of his own.

"I'm going." He told his dad with a fit of growing anger, it made the lights start to flicker, he noticed his dad growing a little cautious.

The fight ended there and he also stopped the lessons for the night, heading up to his room and locking the door.

The night came and went, in between all that, however, he began to dream intensely and for reasons still confounding to him was that it involved his suppressed magic merging within his body.

Nolan opened his eyes and smiled from ear to ear, fully coming to terms with what he is. Using a free hand, he pulled a pop from his mini-fridge, he laughed slightly while looking nowhere important.

He dressed in his best clothes, a dark-blue polo with a logo of his favorite band on it. Black and grey pants faded at the knee, black shoes and the leather jacket he bought several months ago but never worn, mainly due to his mother dying.

Grabbing his beanie and his school bag on his way out, he quickly found his keys and left in his car to finally start his day.

The school day wasn't very noteworthy, he was stuck with a days worth of homework, especially from Tanner. Matt and Tyler found him at lunch while he shared some flirty glances with Bonnie who was chatting with her friends, Caroline and Elena.

What he did find a bit strange was that Stefan kept looking at him like he had something on his nose, he ignored it and listened to Matt give a report on how his sister was doing since the double attack at the bonfire.

When the last bell rang, he and Vicki both drove down to the Mystic Grill and start their shift, he asked the manager if he could get off early because he wanted to see the comet with his date.

The manager initially said no but he used a trick he started to practice behind his dad's back, a form of trance which lowered the inhibitions of people. The manager said yes and he was glad.

Night came and he got ready to leave, throwing on his jacket he immediately saw Bonnie walking with Elena. She looked stunning, a blue dress, black boots that went up to her knee and a dark coat to keep her warm, Nolan smelled his breath before walking toward her.

Pov Switch

Bonnie met up with her friends while she waited for Nolan to meet her.

She drove herself nuts on what to wear, she wanted vixen but with a little sophisticated mixed in and settled on her outfit for the night.

It wouldn't be a total lie to say she wasn't nervous, she hopes that she and Nolan have a fantastic night and perhaps even more after tonight. Caroline linked her arm with her own, giving her a candle to light and she would have lit hers with her friend but then she heard someone.

"Mind giving me a light?" She turned and saw Nolan smiling back at her, a sheepish but cute type of smile but most welcome.

"Sure." She lit her candle and lowered it to light her dates, the dancing flames making a motion around them.

Caroline did her a solid and found herself company with Matt and Tyler while Elena and Stefan watched the comet. Nolan took her hand and it felt different, not scary like before but like she can be at peace with everything around them.

She and her date found themselves a bench and sat down, looking up and watching while talking to one another.

"My favorite color is a mixture of blue and red, can never decide between them." She knew it was cliche to ask the first thing but she needed to start somewhere and she was happy Nolan was comfortable.

"... You know, I met your dad." She noticed him tense a little, "He seems very strict with you, sorry, I shouldn't have said anything."

"And yet you did," Nolan told her amusingly, craning his neck toward her. "I won't deny it, my dad's a hard ass. He's been like that since my mom died, they met each other at a young age and was like, perfect for one another, you know?" He said with a question to which she honestly couldn't possibly answer.

"I wouldn't know... Haven't met anyone like that, yet." She said with a blush, a blush that brightened when he smiled at her.

Leaving time for questions for later, she and Nolan sat back and watched the comet pass them by. She took a deep breath and felt him move his hand on her own, the electricity felt unreal to her like it was right out of a romance novel.

So, like a romance novel, she threw herself into it and linked their hands together.

A sort of light wind came and blew out most of everyone's candles except for hers and Nolan's, she felt incredible energy for some reason and the look on Nolan's face gave her the impression that he felt the same.

Matt asked everyone if they wanted to hang out at the grill when the comet came and went, she was surprised Nolan jumped to the invitation but then again, Matt and Tyler basically became friends with him on his first day.

Inside of the grill, everyone started chatting and Matt and Tyler turned their attentions on Nolan.

"So, Nolan, ever think about picking a sport, the football team needs a member." Tyler offered to Nolan who scoffed with a shake of the head.

"I am very tiny, you and a dozen others like you would destroy me. I need my precious bits." The table laughed and the conversation changed, "So uh, how long have you all been friends?" She decided to jump and debrief the circle's entire friendship.

"Well, the glorious group of friends started with Elena and Matt, basically been there since babies. Then came me and Caroline in preschool and Tyler joined us not long after that." Nolan nodded and locked eyes with Stefan again. "Elena has a little brother, Jeremy- Oh he's right there." The group saw the little brother and she noticed that Jeremy was super focused.

"Hey, guys have you seen Vicki?" Jeremy asked them all and they shook their heads.

"You should know, you're her stalker," Tyler said in a rude tone, the same respect was offered back when Elena's brother said he doesn't know. "She probably found someone else to party with, sorry pill-pusher, guess you've been replaced." Nolan jumped in at that moment to stop a fight from happening.

"Hey, she was still working when I got off." She was grateful for Nolan's intervention on the subject but Elena's curiosity kind of ruined his efforts when she asked her brother what Tyler meant.

"She's never going to go for you- " Jeremy cut Tyler off quickly by spilling the beans on his crush with Vicki.

"She already did. Over and over again." Matt got tired of the fighting and the news breaking out which already was a shocker.

Everyone decided to split up and look for Vicki, she wanted Nolan to go with her but Stefan asked if her date wanted to team up so she was stuck with Caroline and Tyler went with Matt.

She sort of knew Nolan didn't want to go with Stefan, it made her a little suspicious but she shook her head and tried to forget it.

Pov Switch

Nolan didn't feel right, his hairs were standing from the goosebumps.

Stefan was watching him like a wolf looking to eat its prey, it started to grate his nerves and when they got far enough from other people, he turned and closed his fists.

"What are you?" Stefan asked him and it was weird, he was supposed to be the one to ask that.

"I am human... Are you?" Stefan came at him with speed he didn't realize, he picked it up pretty fast and hit back, "Motus!" He yelled out and sent Stefan into a street pole.

Stefan had a look of complete shock on his face, and he didn't feel like himself for a moment.

He felt powerful. "You seem like a nice guy, I felt that when you grabbed me, Stefan... But don't ever come at me again." Stefan didn't have any hostile aura about him and when the guy looked up he must have seen something that made him vanish.

About thirty minutes passed and Vicki walked back inside of the grill and was chewed out by her brother for just disappearing, he sighed and walked on over to Bonnie and Caroline who were talking to Stefan.

He and the vampire exchanged one understood look, they'd back off from one another and there'd be no trouble with them.

When the vampire left, Bonnie smiled and he came over to see one with an upbeat expression and the other with depressed disposition.

"Sorry our date wasn't great, what with missing girl and all." Bonnie apologized and he waved his hand at her while taking a seat.

"It's no problem, I enjoyed our night so far." He said and she gave him a raised eyebrow, "As traditional as I recall, a date doesn't end until the boy takes his girl home." He hinted and Caroline smacked her hands on the table to cut the tension.

"Okay, you know what, I am calling it a night. See you all tomorrow." Caroline left and he offered to buy him and Bonnie a coffee, they talked for about an hour to finish the date before she accepted his offer of taking her home.

She didn't live far, maybe two or three miles away from his own home, her home looked night and not as small as his own in comparison.

He liked it, being there with her tonight and sharing a few laughs. Nolan got out of his car and helped her out, she thanked him and he walked her up to the door and she turned to him.

"I had a great night," He nodded and touched her hand, he liked doing that too.

"Me too, I hope that we can do this again, right?" He asked and she looked to the wood floors, then back to him with a nod.

"I would like that very much, Nolan." He didn't know if he should do it, kind of hesitating on doing it but then he thought, screw it. Nolan leaned in and kissed Bonnie on the cheek, she stood still and he could feel her energy as he pulled back, "Good night, Bonnie Bennett." He said farewell and left her for the night.

The drive home was slow, he felt very exhausted but he was able to get home quickly enough and fall right into his bed.

"Feeling out of it?" His dad asked him, he grunted yes. "Regain your strength, son, after tomorrow we have a whole weekend to practice magic." He didn't feel like debating, he didn't even hear his door shut and after a few minutes, he fell right to sleep.