Note: I gave up on the version I did before. Anyone remember it? No? Good.

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Abigail Bennett: Nicole Beharie (Sleepy Hollow)

Rudy Bennett: Winston Duke (Us)

Lucy Bennett: Indya Moore (Pose)

Hayden McClaine: Dewanda Wise (Someone Great)

Giuseppe Salvatore: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural)

Lily Salvatore: Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel)

PT I

everything you own in a box to the left

"Don't freak out until I'm done talking, okay?" Bonnie instructed, passing one of her very best friends, Tyler Lockwood half of her doughnut.

The two of them were sitting poolside in the backyard of the Bennett house, under the flutter of the leafy trees above.

"I'll chew." He offered, promptly stuffing the entire thing in his mouth.

"So...remember that time we kinda thought my dad was having an affair with that student of his, who was like, always at his talks and whatever?" Tyler nodded. "Well, my mom apparently walked in on them one day while I was at cheer practice-" Tyler choked on the ball of pastry in his mouth. "I know. Here's the thing though...to save their marriage... or so they say... we're all moving to LA."

"What-"

"Ty-"

"That doesn't even make sense? They could get a divorce, like mine. You could stay here," his head was tilted as he began to process the sheer audacity of uprooting Bonnie's life in her second last year of high school. "We're supposed to get through all of this shit together, remember?"

"I don't want to leave," Bonnie explained. Her green eyes shone earnestly. "This was never the plan."

"Move in with us, she's never home anyway and you know he's always off 'campaigning'." Bonnie's heart clenched at the thought of how alone he'd be without her.

"They said I have to." Bonnie sighed loudly, looking down. "The papers for the new house were signed before they even told me. This morning when I woke up, dad had already piled up a stack of boxes and some tape in the corner of my room-"

"This isn't fair!" Tyler growled, wiping angrily at the sides of his mouth, to get rid of the cinnamon sugar. Bonnie helped him and then took both of his hands.

"I'm leaving the first week of the holidays. Come stay with me there for break? I don't know, I'm trying to make this work." Bonnie rambled.

"Will they even let me?" Tyler wondered.

"I don't give a fuck," Bonnie said, surprising herself, "I need you with me."

All of her life, Bonnie had only known one place.

Her parents had travelled to and fro between them, but she'd always been in school. Outside of work, her parents never had time for a real holiday.

Her mother was an interior designer, and her father was an acclaimed psychologist, who had a history of high profile cases, and a reputation that had set him in good stead for life. Every magazine spread her mother's work was showcased in, was matched by a summit her father was speaking at.

Before the scandal had broke, they'd been labelled perfect, inspiring, a cornerstone in the black community in Mystic Falls.

Bonnie had managed to live a life between the chaos of the both of them.

She'd made friends, the cheer-leading team, debate team, had gotten listed on every stage production since she'd started at Mystic Falls High. She knew her neighbours as well as she knew her own extended family, she'd lived in the same house for as long as she could remember. The resentment boiling in the chambers of her chest began to ache at the thought of never experiencing anything she'd taken as a given, ever again.

One of them being her best friend Tyler.

She loved him. Had loved him when he was dating head cheer-leader Caroline Forbes, and after, when Caroline had kissed her boyfriend at the time, Matthew Donovan at one of the bonfires in the cemetery. She loved him more when he punched Matt in the face and told his ex-girlfriend to get lost. But she loved him the most when he wrapped his jacket around her and walked them both back to his Jeep, to drive her home.

She'd waited most of the night for him to be asleep, so that she could watch his face in the moonlight.

She spent that whole night wishing she was allowed to kiss him.

A month later, her life fell apart.

Bonnie was walking through the halls with her headphones on.

With it being the last week of school term, everyone was in good spirits.

Adventures were being planned, the decade dance was the coming Friday, and between the drama of her own love life and her parent's, Bonnie wasn't exactly taking part in any social interactions anymore.

Tyler'd had a meeting with the prom committee, so he was dealing with Caroline and Matt while Bonnie did her best to disappear into the colour scheme of the hallway. Her cellphone buzzed, interrupting her humming as she approached her locker.

Still crying then, huh? - Luce

Before she could type a response, her aunt Lucy chose to call. Slipping her headphones off and onto her neck, she unplugged the chord and answered the call.

"How are you doing, baby?" Lucy's voice was warm as always, but wherever she was, it was loud and festive.

"Are you still in New Orleans?" Bonnie wondered instead.

"Hell no! Elijah Mikaelson is not boyfriend material. Honey, no. I'm in Barcelona!"

"We're moving to L.A." Bonnie informed her.

"I knew that."

"Your brother-in-law had an affair."

"Did my sister grill his ass, or her brain?" Lucy asked.

"What part of we're moving to L.A makes you think my mother put up a fight?" Bonnie chewed out, leaning against her locker.

"Oh baby...you're mad huh?"

Tears came in the blink of an eye as Bonnie deflated at the sound of sincere sympathy in her aunt's voice.

"I don't want to leave because of this," Bonnie said between hiccups and crying. Wiping at her face she made a beeline for the nearest bathroom. "Everything I have is here." Walking into a cubicle, the girl shut the door, closed the toilet seat and sat on top of it, lifting her feet onto the lid as well, so that she could rest her chin on her knees.

"That's not true, baby." Bonnie listened as Lucy moved somewhere quieter, shutting a window and giving her undivided attention.

"You know what I mean, Lucy." Bonnie defended sadly, "the same way you like to live your life crossing borders and getting into trouble, is the same way I like knowing my postman's name, seeing Tyler every day, walking Gush with Mrs Friedman from across the road." Bonnie pressed her eyes shut, willing the tears to stop. "Do you know how many kids have asked me about it? How little tact and respect the women in this small town have?" Bonnie took in a deep breath.

"Our entire lives are falling apart, and my mother's solution to all of it, is to take all of this baggage with us, to a different city. Like the scope of the people she's so desperate to impress don't have fucking instagram-"

"Language-"

"And dad is even worse. He's started calling me champ again, like one of those old white men he loves so much. Neither of them are being honest with me, nevermind one another, and I'm just supposed to let this situation drag me out of my life and into a new school, a new neighbourhood, w-w-what am I going to do? How am I supposed to move past this when I feel like I'm the only one being punished?"

Lucy sighed long and low.

"Baby you know that's not true. You're just the only innocent one between you. Well, you and Gush." Bonnie knocked her forehead against her knees. "Get your head up off of your knees girl, we have thinking to do."

"Please...call her, or kidnap me, or just-"

"I'm gonna talk to her okay, baby?"

"Thank you." Bonnie exhaled into her sweater, wiping at her face again.

"I love you, Bonnie-bee."

"Love you too, Lucy-bee." Her aunt made a quick kissing sound, and hung up. Bonnie packed her headphones and cellphone into her bag, before stepping out of the cubicle.

Making her way to the mirrors and sinks, she put her bag down beside a sink and tied up her hair. Splashing cold water on her face until she felt all evidence of her crying was gone, Bonnie then dried off and let her hair loose. As she was fluffing her lengthy curls, Caroline Forbes walked in, stopping her hands as they hung mid-air.

"Get out." Bonnie said seriously when Caroline froze as well.

"Can we just talk about what happe-"

"Can you give me some privacy, or is that just another thing you want to take away from me?" Bonnie spat harshly.

"Fine. I'll leave." Bonnie bugged her eyes out until the other girl did just that.

Fixing her make-up, she smoothed a little product onto her hair as well and left it falling down in waves until her waist.

"Pull it together." Bonnie said to her reflection, before shouldering her bag and walking out.

Tyler was waiting for her at the end of the school day, as she made her way out of the building, talking to Jeremy Gilbert.

"Don't be so hard on yourself Jer, your style needs to be refined, not changed completely okay? No one just wakes up with everything they need to be the artist they want to be. Gotta earn that shit."

"You're the best, Bon. Thank you! See you later."

"Bye!" She sang over her shoulder, as she ran over to Tyler.

"Practice is cancelled." He told her as they hugged.

"Are milkshakes at The Grill cancelled, too?" Bonnie pouted, making him laugh.

"Of course not, get in."

Abigail Bennett had just sent her husband the email confirming her daughter's schedule of the new school near their new home when her phone rang.

Seeing who it was that was calling, she rolled her eyes and ignored the call.

Her phone rang another three times before she answered.

"Let me guess," Abby said by way of greeting, "I've done something wrong."

"What? You thought hiding behind your husband's infidelity would make you a saint?" Her sister Lucy shot back.

"Fuck you, what do you want?"

"Bonnie's magic is lifting." Lucy said matter-of-factly.

"Impossible." Abigail hissed under her breath, eyes flickering around her office unnecessarily.

"Then explain why a simple emotion tether is letting me see through her eyes."

"My powers were taken from me," Abby ground out through gritted teeth, "There is literally no source for her to have gotten magic from."

"Maybe the people who screwed you over are playing a new game?" Lucy mused, "You did underestimate the shit out of them-"

"I made a hard decision-"

"And you chose wrong-" Lucy clapped back.

"I lost everything!" Abby cried.

"Not yet...but at the rate you're going...you will." Lucy ended the call with that, leaving Abigail to fret in the silence of her opulent office.

Bonnie'd gone to the bathroom just as their shakes had arrived, and on her way back to Tyler's booth, Matt stepped into view.

"Bon, can we talk? It's been a month..." He said, scratching the back of his head the way she'd found so endearing.

"A month of hints that seemed to have missed." Bonnie said curtly, crossing her arms.

"I was trying to give you space for what happened with your parents, but I still called, I still tried-"

"And it's still not good enough." Bonnie snapped. "Matt...I was in love with you, I did everything in my power to make sure you were happy, that I wasn't too needy, that we fooled around enough, that I was there for every away game, that you'd be proud of me, that you'd never have to ever think about anyone else-"

"I know," he said, voice begging, eyes shining, "The idea that this one mistake I made, had the kind of timing that ended up being something I can't fix, and I don't want that, Bon. I love you...I'm still in love with you. Please let me fix this. Come to the dance with me." Bonnie waved a hand between as her mind reeled with his words.

"Or what? I'm the villain? Because now I'm the one telling you you're not good enough? in public? Making a spectacle of us all over again?" Bonnie asked pointedly, aware that there were eyes on them. "Did you stop to think for a single second what I needed? Because the word sorry has yet to leave your mouth."

"Well, I am. I am sorry!" He insisted as Tyler approached, swinging his arm around Bonnie's shoulder as he joined them.

"As you should be, Donovan." Tyler winked. "Now fuck off before I add some fresh colour to those blue eyes."

Matt smiled a bitter smile.

"Was it really me kissing Caroline that stopped you from picking up one of the thousand times I called, or was it him?" Bonnie didn't even have time to react, as he turned from them and walked straight out of the restaurant.

"Shows over, suckers." Tyler said loudly, locking eyes with everyone who'd done nothing but eavesdrop since Matt and Bonnie had started talking. "Don't you have a culture to appropriate?" He hissed at a group of cheer-leaders that had taken his ex-girlfriend's side, ostracizing Bonnie since the news broke her family's scandal as well. "Sycophants." He hissed under his breath, steering Bonnie back to their booth.

"What did your mom say, by the way?" Bonnie asked, ready for a subject change.

"About?" Tyler wondered around a mouthful of fries.

"You coming with us for break?"

"Oh, she doesn't care. She even gave me spending money to spite my father. So when my father asked, I lied and doubled the amount she'd given me, and he doubled that. It landed in my account this morning. I booked our tickets, business class, obviously."

"My parent's are gonna be pissed." Bonnie chuckled. "Dad booked a movie van for us to drive in, the bulk of everything has already been sent to the new house."

"They can take Gush, you and I are going on vacation. Fuck our shitty parents, and fuck our shitty exes!"

They clinked their milkshake glasses and laughed.

"Let's go walk Gush, please, he misses you." Bonnie batted her eyelashes, feeling her spirits lift for the first time in a while.

"Anything for you, Bon." Tyler beamed.

Stefan watched from the kitchen window, as the movers delivered furniture, a co-coordinator pacing back and forth, confirming this and that.

His father made his presence known suddenly, clearing his throat.

"Spot our new neighbours?" The father wondered.

Stefan saw a flicker of his brother's silhouette in a bedroom in the empty house, and quickly said a small prayer for whoever was about to move into it.

"Nothing yet." Stefan said, turning away from the window before he triggered his father's temper.

A/N: Bonnie and Stefan are going to be neighbours! Bonnie and Tyler would make perfect lovers! BUT magic has other plans for the both of them.