Everything happened so quickly, Elena was arguing with their parents about being grounded because she snuck out to go to the party while Ava rolled her eyes at her sister being dramatic.

"Lena it's two weeks, not the end of the world, stop being so dramatic."

"Ava was there why isn't she being grounded too?"

Ava scoffed "because unlike you Elena I didn't sneak to go, Dad knew I was going." Elena rolled her eyes.

"Ugh, that's so unfair." Elena didn't see why their dad practically let Ava do whatever she wanted.

There was a blinding light and Ava screamed "DAD! LOOK OUT!" Elena grabbed her sister's hand as Grayson jerked the wheel and the car swerved and flipped over the railing plunging into the water under Wickery Bridge.

Water filled the car rather quickly "I love you, little bird." Grayson told her before he looked at his wife and Elena, "I love you all." He knew that was a slim chance they would get out of this alive.

"I love you too dad." Ava took a deep breath as water raised above her head. She tried to get the door open but it was useless. She locked eyes with her Dad, and she saw something in his eyes that looked like regret but she didn't have time to question it as Ava felt Elena's hand go limp in hers as she held her breath and she tried to open the door again to no avail.

She started seeing spots in her vision and the last thing she remembered was her dad looking at something out the window and pointing back to her and Elena and then seeing a pair of green eyes before she blacked out.

Ava woke with a start hearing her alarm go off. She was breathing heavily as she wiped the sleep from her eyes, it was the same nightmare of the crash that killed her parents while she and Elena survived. She had it very frequently.

She sighed flicking the hair band on her wrist to ground herself, something that her therapist encouraged her to do "you're okay Ava, it's over you're breathing, you're okay." She muttered to herself.

Once she calmed down she got out of bed and walked into her bathroom, to shower. Once she was finished she wrapped a towel around her and walked out of the bathroom and over to her closet to pick out an outfit to wear to school this was the first day back since the accident.

Once she had everything picked out she got dressed and walked over to her vanity, she did a natural make-up look and put on the two jewelry items that she wore all the time that both came from her dad, one was a necklace with a bird on it since he called her little bird and the other a bracelet with her birthstone and Zodiac sign on it.

Though she was unaware that the bracelet was from her biological mother, it had a protection spell that let Andy know that Ava was okay and protected Ava as well.

Once she was happy with her look Ava grabbed her bag and headed downstairs to the kitchen, she was the first one of her siblings down, Ava smiled at her aunt Jenna "morning, Aunt J." Then she started making herself a cup of coffee and some cereal for breakfast.

The strawberry blonde smiled at her eldest niece "morning Ava, how'd you sleep?"

The brunette made a so-so motion "eh."

"Nightmares?"

Ava nodded "it's not happening as frequently as in the beginning but I still get them."

Ava was sipping on her coffee and eating her cereal when Elena walked into the kitchen.

Jenna looked at Elena as Ava already had food, "Toast. I can make toast."

Elena shook her head at the woman " It's all about the coffee, Aunt Jenna."

Jeremy came into the kitchen "Is there coffee?" then he stole the cup out of Elena's hand making her roll her eyes and grabbed another one.

Jenna looked between the three of them "Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared. Lunch money?"

"I'm good," Elena said.

Ava shook her head "no thanks Aunt J, I'm good." while Jeremy took the money. Ava gave him a look, he just shrugged at her with a small smile. The youngest Gilbert ruffled her hair as she got up to put her bowl in the dishwasher.

Ava playfully stuck her tongue out at him, and Jenna smiled at the scene, while Elena watched slightly jealous since Jeremy only ever brushed her off whenever she tried to talk to him since the accident.

"Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?"

Elena looked at the strawberry blonde "Don't you have a big presentation today?"

Jenna looked at her watch "I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at...now. Crap!"

Ava smiled at her "then go, Aunt J, we got this." then Jenna left the three siblings.

Elena looked at Jeremy "You okay?"

"Don't start." then he walked out of the room.

Elena looked at Ava "how come he never brushes you off like that?"

Ava gave her a look "Lena, you have got to let him grieve in his own way and I don't baby him about it, the way you do." then Ava walked out of the room "Hey Jer do you need a ride to school?"

He came back down the stairs with his backpack "is Caroline picking you up?"

"yep, she sure is." then they heard a horn go off "and that would be her now."

"Sure." The two siblings walked out of the house to see Caroline's car in the drive, Ava opened the passenger side door and Caroline looked at her "is baby Gilbert hitching a ride with us today?"

Jeremy climbed into the back seat "yeah he is." Caroline nodded and once they were all in the car she pulled out of the drive and headed towards the school.

Once the blonde parked the car they three got out and Jeremy looked at his sister's best friend "thanks for the ride, Caroline."

"No problem baby Gilbert," she called out as he walked away from the two girls. Caroline linked her arm with Ava's "so how are you today?"

Ava smiled at her "as good as I can be right now, I had it again last night... second time this week."

"oh sweetie," then she squeezed her shoulder "at least they're getting less frequent than before which is a good thing."

Ava nodded "yeah." and the duo walked into the school.

Once they were inside, the duo saw Elena and Bonnie and Caroline pulled Ava towards them, Caroline unlinked her arm from Ava's and Ava smiled at the Bennett girl "Hey Bonnie."

Bonnie gave her a quick hug "hey Ava."

Caroline looked at Elena "Elena. Oh, my god." then she hugged the doppelganger. "How are you? Oh, it's so good to see you." The blonde looked over at Bonnie "How is she? Is she good?"

Ava bit back a smile at Caroline's antics, Elena had clung more to Bonnie after the accident so she didn't hang out much with Caroline, unlike Ava who hung around the Forbes household more but still spoke to Bonnie when she saw her or Bonnie had texted her to check up on her.

"Caroline, I'm right here. And I'm fine. Thank you." Elena told her.

The blonde looked at her "Really?"

"Yes, much better."

"Oh, you poor thing." Caroline hugged her again.

"Okay, Caroline."

"Oh! Okay, see you guys later?" Caroline linked arms with Ava again.

"Bye guys."

Elena and Bonnie both said goodbye and the duo walked away from them. They stopped at their lockers which were beside each other and got their stuff, they had different classes right now, Ava had History, with Bonnie and Elena and Caroline had English.

Ava got her stuff and smiled at the blonde "I'll see you after class Care." Caroline pulled her into a hug.

"Later Ava."

Ava walked towards the HIstory classroom only to bump into someone and drop her stuff, she sighed and crouched down to pick it up while Stefan did the same "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run into you."

Ava looked at him as he helped her pick her stuff up "it's fine I wasn't watching either." she looked at his green eyes and got a sense of deja vu like she had met him before "I'm sorry but have we met before?"

Stefan shook his head "I don't think so but I'm Stefan."

Ava shook her head "Ava, sorry you just look familiar that's all." They both stood and Stefan handed her, the book of hers that he picked up. she took it "thanks."

Ava walked off down the hall to her class, she could shake the feeling that she had seen him somewhere before but she couldn't place where.

Ava took her seat in Mr. Tanner's class with a sigh, she loved history but hated their History teacher. A little while later everyone was seated and Tanner started talking. "Once our home state of Virginia joined the confederacy in 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state. People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south. Then Virginia was divided in 1863 with the northwest region joining the union." Mr. Tanner droned on but Ava tuned him out and noticed Stefan staring at her sister... Ava really wished she could remember where she had seen this man before because she was sure that she's seen him somewhere.

She met up with Caroline after History at their lockers and they headed to their next class which was one that they shared. Before they knew it school was over and Caroline was driving Ava home.

"I'll see you tonight at the grill Care."

"See you soon Ava." Ava walked into her house and headed up to her room to drop her stuff off, there was a small box on her bed. she picked it up there was a note on it "found this in your parent's stuff, the box has your name on it so figured you would want it, Aunt J." She moved the note to see her name written on the box just like Jenna said. She opened the box and teared up seeing a folded piece of paper inside.

"Happy Birthday Little Bird, I know it's two days after your birthday but this one didn't come in until this afternoon so I didn't get to give it to you on your birthday, but its the friendship charm bracelets that you wanted for you and Caroline, I had them customized the way you said you wanted them so that is what took so long. love you little bird."

Ava sat down on her bed with the box in her lap and brought her hands up to her face and wiped the tears that welled up in her eyes. She took a moment to collect herself before she smiled still slightly teary-eyed as she looked at the bracelets in the box.

(Pretend that the initials are an A and C, I couldn't find one with those exact initials on it so let's pretend.)

They were two silver bands with two little charms hanging on them one said Best Bitches which was on both of them and the other charm had an A for Ava and the other bracelet had a C for Caroline. "exactly how I wanted them, thanks, dad." and unknown to Ava both bracelets were infused with vervain.

Ava clipped her bracelet around her wrist and slipped the box into her bag, so she could give Caroline hers when she saw her at the grill later. The brunette walked into her bathroom to touch up her make from her little tear fest from finding the note and stuff on her bed.

Once she was done she grabbed her bag and headed back downstairs. Jenna stuck her head out of the kitchen hearing Ava come down "Hey, did you see what I left on your bed?"

Ava nodded at her as she hit the last step "yeah, thanks aunt J."

"What was it?"

"A late birthday present from dad, customized friendships bracelets for Care and me, I saw them while we out shopping one day and I wanted them but couldn't get them at that time so Dad asked me how I wanted them and I told him, turns out he went back later and ordered them just the way I wanted, but the customization caused them not to get here in time for my birthday, he was gonna give it to me the night of the accident since that was the day they came in." Jenna pulled her into a hug.

Making Ava smile, she held her wrist up and showed her bracelet to her aunt, after she let her go from the hug "oooh that's cute."

"Care's has a C on it but other than that they are identical... I'm leaving now, I'm meeting Caroline at the grill."

Jenna smiled at her with a nod "alright, it's a school night so don't stay out too late."

Ava nodded "gotcha aunt J." Ava walked out of the house and to her car and As promised Ava met Caroline and Bonnie out front. "Hey, guys."

"Hi, Ava."

"Hey Ava," they said at the same time as they walked inside the grill.

Caroline looks at the two brunettes " His name is Stefan Salvatore. He lives with his uncle up at the old Salvatore Boarding House. He hasn't lived here since he was a kid. Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a Gemini, and his favorite color is blue."

Bonnie gave the blonde a look "You got all of that in one day?"

Ava grinned looking at the Bennett girl "Bon come on this is Care we're talking about here."

The blonde playfully shoved Ava's shoulder " as I was saying oh, please, I got all that between third and fourth period. We're planning a June wedding."

Ava grinned at her best friend "and I get to be your maid of honor."

"Of course, you do Ava, just like I get to be yours when you get married as per the pact we made when we were 12."

"Damn straight."

Bonnie just laughed looking between the two amused she was used to them acting like this. The Bennett girl left the two to their own devices and walked over to talk to Matt.

Ava smiled at Caroline "I got you something."

The blonde looked at her "oh my god Ava what is it?"

Ava pulled the box out of her bag and handed it to the blonde, "open it and find out."

Caroline opened the box and grinned seeing the bracelet, she looked up at Ava "oh my god, the bracelets that we wanted, you got them?"

Ava held hers up "actually my dad got them, for us, he was gonna give it to me as a birthday present but they didn't get here in time, Aunt Jenna found the box it some of dad's stuff that's still in their room which she is staying in and laid it on my bed."

The blonde held her wrist up towards Ava "will you clasp it?"

"Of course Care." then she clasped the bracelet around the blonde's wrist. A little later Bonnie, Stefan, and Elena joined Ava and Caroline at their table.

Caroline looks at Stefan "So, you were born in Mystic Falls?"

Stefan nodded "Mm-Hmm. And moved when I was still young."

"Parents?" questioned Bonnie.

" My parents passed away."

Elena gave him a sympathetic smile "I'm sorry. Any siblings?"

"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle." Ava noted that he said that he had a sibling but they just didn't talk.

Caroline smiled at him again "So, Stefan, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow."

"It's a back-to-school thing at the falls," Bonnie added to what Caroline said.

Stefan looked at Elena "are you going?"

Ava smirked at her sister answering for her "of course she is."

***

Ava shot up in her bed at the sound of her alarm she had the nightmare once again, she was breathing heavily but her eyes widened when she realized that the reason that she recognized Stefan's eyes, it was because that was the last thing she saw before she blacked out after the accident, Stefan had to have been, what her dad saw before he pointed to the backseat, Stefan had to be the one that pulled her and Elena out but she just didn't know how that was possible.

She got up and got dressed, she planned to question the Salvatore about this later if she could get him on his own. Once she was ready she headed to school but couldn't find Stefan before class so there she sat bored out of her mind in History.

"The Battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle? Ms. Bennett?"

Bonnie looked at him "Um...a lot? I'm not sure. Like a whole lot."

"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms. Bennett. Mr. Donovan? Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?"

Matt just shook his head "It's okay, Mr. Tanner, I'm cool with it."

"Hmm. Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significant historical events?"

Elena shook her head " I'm sorry, I--I don't know."

" I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." Ava gripped the edge of her desk until her knuckles were white, she glared at Mr. Tanner speaking up "that's not fair, our parents died four months ago, you can't just throw that in her face because she didn't know the answer to one of your questions, it quite unprofessional if you ask me... oh and by the way, there were 346 casualties."

Elena gave her a thankful smile, while Tanner glared at Ava, he handed her a slip and sent her out of the classroom, making her roll her eyes as she made her way to the principal's office and a few minutes later she sat across from Mr. Vance their principal.

"What is it this time Ava?"

"Mr. Tanner was being an ass as usual and took it too far and I was just standing up for my sister, he threw our parent's deaths in her face because she didn't know the answer to his question, and I wasn't going to stand for that blatant disrespect so I mouthed off to him and he wrote me up for it but it was his fault, to begin with for being disrespectful about the death of our parents."

Principal Vance nodded at her, students often complained about Mr. Tanner but they didn't have anyone qualified to replace him to fire him, and he dismissed Ava from his office.

Ava rolled her eyes as the bell rang and she met up with Caroline she was getting ready for the party with the blonde.

Once they got to Caroline's house, Caroline curled Ava's hair, and then while Caroline was getting dressed, Ava got dressed as well and then did Caroline's hair the way she wanted it done. 

Once they were ready they left and headed to the party. Ava grinned at Caroline "Let's get drunk."

Caroline laughed "that's the spirit, Ava." the two headed off to get drinks.

A few drinks in and Caroline and Ava were both dancing when Caroline said she was going to get another drink and then Ava saw Elena and Bonnie and made her way over to them "hey guys."

"Ava, Hi." Bonnie smiled at her.

"What are we talking about over here?"

"Just about where Stefan is."

Ava nodded "ahhh gotcha."

Elena discreetly rolled her eyes, " I don't know. You tell me, you're the psychic one."

Ava looked at her "oooh since when?"

Bonnie laughed "just recently Ava, apparently. Right, I forgot. Okay, so give me a sec. Grams says I have to concentrate."

Ava grinned "oooh wait, you need a crystal ball."

Elena nodded "like Ava said," then she picked up an empty beer bottle and handed it to Bonnie. "crystal ball." Bonnie takes it and touches Elena's hand. Bonnie spaces out for a while, comes back to her senses, and abruptly pulls her hand back.

"What?" the doppelganger questioned.

Bonnie looked freaked out "That was weird. When I touched you, I saw a crow."

Ava gives her a concerned look "that's weird."

Bonnie nodded agreeing with her "A crow. There was fog, a man. I'm drunk. It's the drinking. There's nothing psychic about it. Yeah? Ok, I'm gonna get a refill."

Ava shared a looked with her sister "that was weird I am going to go and see if she's okay." Elena nodded.

"Okay." Ava walked off leaving Elena alone but not for long since Stefan showed up behind her.

Ava caught up with the Bennett girl "hey, you okay?"

Bonnie smiled at her "that was really weird but I'll be fine."

Ava squeezed her shoulder "okay just thought I'd check on you."

"Thanks, Ava." then Ava walked off and she saw Stefan by himself and made her way over to him.

"Hey, Stefan."

"Ava, Hi what is it?"

She just get straight to it "I knew you looked familiar but I just could not place why, until this morning and it hit me, you saved us, me and Elena, the accident, dad saw you outside and told you to save me and Elena first, the last thing I remembered seeing before I blacked out was your eyes... I don't know how you did what you did it without diving equipment or anything but I know you did it, so thanks for that."

Stefan looked at her surprised "you have a good memory no use in denying what you already know." he could smell the vervain in one of her bracelets so he knew he couldn't compel her.

Ava snorted "Yeah, good memory, more like I see the scene in my nightmares, quite frequently... I need another drink." then she left him there to get another drink.

After all the excitement and Vicki getting attacked by some kind of animal in the woods or so they were saying anyway.

Ava sat with Caroline and Bonnie at the grill trying to sober up.

"Are you guys sober yet?" Bonnie asked the two.

Ava shook her head "nope."

"Me either." Caroline agreed with Ava.

Bonnie pushed coffee cups at the two of them "Keep drinking. I gotta get you both home. I gotta get me home."

Caroline looked at Ava and Bonnie "Why didn't he go for me? You know, how come the guys that I want never want me?"

Ava just laid her head on Caroline's shoulder while Bonnie held her hands up "I am not touching that."

" I'm inappropriate. I always say the wrong thing. And...Elena always says the right thing. She doesn't even try! And he just picks her. And she's always the one that everyone picks, for everything. And I try so hard, and...I'm never the one."

Ava gave her a look "one day you'll be the one for someone Care-Bear, you just gotta wait it out." Caroline smiled down at her sleepy best friend.

Bonnie looked at the blonde "it's not a competition Caroline."

"Yeah, it is."

Bonnie got up and looked at the two of them "you guys coming?"

Caroline shook her head "I need to sober up some more." Bonnie nodded and looked at Ava.

"what about you Ava?"

Ava shook her head "I don't want to leave Care here alone so I'll get her home." Bonnie nodded and left the two. "I am going to get us some more coffee in hopes it helps." Caroline nodded at her.

Ava made her way up to the bar "Hey David, can I get two more coffees?"

David nodded "sure thing."

"You just order coffee in a bar?"

Ava looked at him "well I need the caffeine, I gotta get my friend and I home... I'm Ava by the way just while were making conversation."

"Damon Salvatore."

Ava nodded "Any relation to Stefan Salvatore?"

Damon smirked "Stef is my baby brother..."

David placed the two coffee cups in front of Ava, she nodded at him "thanks David." then turned to Damon "ahh so you're the sibling that he doesn't talk to, it was nice meeting you Damon, but I've got to go." then she walked back over to Caroline and sat one of the cups in front of her.

"Thanks, Aves." Ava smiled at her and they both drank their coffee.

Ava got Caroline home and then looked at her "would your mom mind if I stayed over? I'm texting Jenna right now and telling her that I'm staying with you tonight."

"Nah mom wouldn't mind as long as it's cool with Jenna."

Ava texted Jenna and her aunt said that it was okay as long as it was okay with Liz. "she said it was okay as long as it was okay with your mom."

Ava borrowed some of Caroline's clothes and they both passed out on the blonde's bed.

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Here we go chapter one (: there are going to be a few changes that you will notice Ava and Kol already have my heart and they haven't even met yet lol but I will say at they are Soulmates.

The way I am doing this one is that for Kol everything was just dark until Ava was born and then he got to watch her life when she went to sleep and she will get to see some parts of his life while she's sleeping just the important parts at least since Kol is really old. Just thought I would mention that.

Also, Ava gets her first glimpse into his life in the next chapter, so yeah I hope you guys enjoy the chapter (: