Let me says now I'm totally for Bonnie & Bamon. When season 7 started, I was stoked till the episodes after 15 showed how disappointingly bad it would be. Then Season 8... let's not talk about that or acknowledge it. So I was seething and decided to fix it. It's my first story, but I'm going to try. Liberties taken and anything after S07E15, never happened. There will be mistkes.

I do not own any Vampire Diaries properties, nor do I make any money off the story.

Prologue

Stagnant silence has enveloped Nori's tomb for several centuries, resulting in minimum involvement in the surrounding world. Her cemented braids drapes in front of her face, emitting a small view, but enough to give her a warning if needed. Occasionally her sister comes by to prickle in her ear hoping for a twitch. Esha tells her of new prophecies, a seer who insinuates 'another' will rise from the dead sea very soon or was it last month? Perhaps they would get to their little sister first, side stepping the tribulations plaguing these malfunctioning reunions. Those afflictions had taken its toll. Hence, Nori parked herself in a lone sanctuary she owns, upon some ley lines, became placid and boycotted life. As well as dull pulses intruding against her psych were also overlooked, returning her mind towards nothing.

"You must wake... WAKE UP... Can't you feel it? She is emerging... Oh, come now... Wake up, WAKE UP!" Esha's exacerbated stomps demands a response. Nori hopes to ignore her and have this irritant pass, but the pulse nudges her again. It's a distinct, like when Esha emerged, but its off. "I know you felt that. Our sister needs us Nori." She can hear the desperation in Esha's voice as she brings her mind to the present, her eyes ease open, focusing on her glowing prancing sister before her. She feels the cracks spread across the lifespans of dirt caked on her skin, releasing her from voluntary entombment. She exhales the stale air of yesterdays, inhaling crisp air of the night? The lantern confirms the general time it was. Esha is kissing her cold cheeks as happy tears cling to her lashes.

"Miss you... I know you needed to do this…" Esha's voice trails off, not wanting to put her sister off, "I feel her strongly. We need to commune about this one. She is going off like a faulty beacon, so I figure if we can't get a good track on her, whoever else is tracking this, must be having a hell of a time too." Her glossy raven hair twirls about her in a mini celebration against the odds. She clasps her hands-on Nori's dusty cheeks, swiping at the grime that coats her. "Just try this with me and I'll... "she bites her lip knowing she has nothing to offer that would make herself relent. She will always search for the last one. "It's different from the others. Why does this one tickle the back of my mind, to turn around and see her? I know we have gone down this path a several times, all ending badly, but I can feel that she needs us. So, I'm here for your help. Her name sits at the tip of my tongue, begging to be spoken. Let's speak it together Nori." Esha whispers this blessing to sister, hoping maybe she will be swayed, as she finishes with a small smile.

"Esha..." Nori sighs, for such a small smile, her sister's beams brightly, lighting her guilt seated deep in the back. She can't fault her. It all lies with her, as big sister, to head this family, since the beginning till forever. In the face of such a burden, it can overwhelm you, taking you away from the original path. Still it is no excuse, and with that the time to stew evaporates. "I'm sorry you think you must beg me. Of course, I will help." Her arm creaks up towards Esha. As she is pulled up from her knees, dirt and dust rain down. Esha is tugging at her with one hand and trying to grab for the lantern with the other, turning to face the exit.

"I have a place we can go nearby." Esha is sputtering with excitement and relief. It takes a series of persistent tugs in the opposite direction to get her to focus on her just un-petrified sister. She stops, wondering what the holdup could be. She just wants to go.

"Come.", her sister hisses. Middle sister knows better than not to follow. She is lead to the center of the next room. There is a circle depression in the middle of floor. Nori croaks an incantation making the top disappear, revealing the ley lines underneath. Her sister holds her hand out, waiting for her to take it so they may start. Esha is amused. Her sister may have her issues but she prepares better than Egyptian for the dead or believers of the apocalypse. She grabbed her sister's hand and they start chanting. With the ley lines, it was much easier to access the spiritual plan. Awhile back the Other Side had been destroyed. The little info Esha found out was the anchor had been overwhelmed and the Other Side destroyed by travelers, yet the anchor lived. This mystery and others should unravel much easier with Nori assisting; not much had made sense.

As the air crackled and hummed, they lifted their heads up. Mouths gaped towards the sky waiting for the spirits to give it sound. Their backs seized, elevating them on their toes with arms stretched to the sky, eyes glaze over, they see a beautiful brown girl with sad emerald eyes. Her loyal golden heart beats erratically, they could feel the fissure within. A darkness trying to nestle in, priming the final strike to end her. The tone starts at the pit of their stomachs, bubbling up their throats, wailing into plea.

"Bonnie!"