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Prologue: The Plan
"I am still going to go with this is a very, very bad idea." Caroline said, probably for the hundredth time at this point. For three days she had been trying to convince Bonnie and Elena that this was a horrible idea, but they hadn't listened, like usual.
"Come on Caroline, stop worrying. I have checked the spell over and over again, this will work." Bonnie insisted as she lit the six candles in front of her, each representing one of the Original vampires.
"Why do you need six? Obviously Mikael and Finn are not the makers of my bloodline, as they are dead, and I'm not." Caroline pointed out, earning a sigh from Bonnie.
"It doesn't matter, for this to work I need a representation of each of the Originals." She explained and looked briefly at Elena before continuing, "I will need a drop of your blood on each candle Elena."
"Of course you do." Elena replied with a sigh but pricked her finger with the needle Bonnie held out to her, and put a few drops on each candle.
Bonnie took a small metal goblet and handed it to Caroline, "You need to fill this about halfway with your blood."
"Seriously? Elena gets a few drops on some candles and I get half a cup? Magic is so unfair." Caroline muttered but cut her wrist and filled the goblet anyway.
"Now, you're sure nothing will happen to us physically right?" Elena asked, just making sure she wasn't sending herself, Caroline or Bonnie to their deaths.
"Yes, it should just transport Caroline's mind through time to the Original that created the bloodline at the time he, or she, turned the first person in it." Bonnie explained again.
"Am I going to feel their death or transition or something?" Caroline asked, really wishing they could have used Stefan or Damon for this, but they knew neither would have ever agreed. And they wouldn't have been wrong, Caroline thought, After all when do any of our plans every work the way they are supposed to?
"You shouldn't. You should just be a casual observer watching the events unfold." Bonnie assured her, giving a small smile, "You guys ready?"
"I guess so, though they are a lot of 'shoulds' in that explanation." Caroline responded and looked nervously at Elena.
Elena nodded and watched anxiously as Bonnie began speaking in a language neither she nor Caroline understood. The wind picked up, swirling their hair around their faces, and the flames jumped high above all of their heads from where they sat on the ground. Caroline felt her body start to tingle, and glanced at Elena with fear in her eyes. Elena was looking fuzzy though, as if she was fading into nothingness. Caroline looked at herself and noticed that her body appeared just as transparent. The spell was not working right, that much was clear. Caroline shut her eyes, not wishing to watch herself disappear into the unknown, and really wished she had put her foot down and not agreed to this at all.