Repeat - V1 - Pairing - Vicki x Kol and Arcadius

Chapter 5

September 15th, 2009 - Tuesday

"You preformed a ritual?" Matt asks her in stunned disbelief and shakes his head. "Why would you do that Vicki? It's not.. damn it Vicki."

Vicki bites her lip again, a nervous habit by now it seems as she looks down, tears still falling heavily from her eyes after experiencing another death. She could feel it, the pain, the loss of blood, Damon's hands. .

She won't go through that again, but then, she literally just did. How often must she die?

"Because, we needed it. I - I need it Matty. I-I don't want to die again Matty, you weren't there. . You have no idea what it was like, what it felt like."

"How- how is this even possible Vicki?" Tyler asks, his voice quiet but shaking as he watches her.

He remembers seeing her dead body, as if they had actually went to the Grill and then she had disappeared for months. Or was it days? Then they had stumbled across her dead body by accident. He remembers believing the Salvatore's, that apparently are vampires were his friends only to find out that they killed his uncle and dragged Caroline- a vampire Caroline into it.

Matt looks at his friend and frowns, they were both able to recall it with clarity. "She said, it was the ritual." Turning back to Vicki he continues talking. "We're not going anywhere.
If that's the outcome then it's not happening. We will just stay home okay?"

One of the things that Vicki can't help but hate is that it seems like she is simply destined to die. Technically, that would be her first death here in this timeline, even if it's no longer the same timeline. It felt real, so, so real. The three of them had lived it, it was like it had actually happened, but then here they were. The question on both Matt's mind and Tyler's is, if it actually happened. .

September 24th, 2009 - Thursday

After what occurred on the 15th and a very skeptical Tyler was filled in they had become closely knit. Extremely close knit, enough so that Jeremy had taken to bothering Vicki any moment that he got her alone, for sex, for drugs, for anything that he thought could get him closest to her.

For Tyler, it made him ready to beat the living shit out of the Gilbert boy and Matt wasn't too far behind him with that idea.

"I swear Vicki," Tyler says darkly as he glares at the back of the Gilbert boy, Jeremy. "If that boy comes up to you again trying to pay you or guilt you into sex with him then I'm going to kick his druggy hoody wearing ass."

Vicki holds back a sigh and tries her best not to cringe. "I've been telling him no and that I don't do that stuff anymore, but he's..."

"He's not taking the hint Vicki. He didn't care if he said it in front of us or if it insulted you, Jeremy wanted a reaction." Matt says flatly as he shakes his head in disappointment.

"Well, he got one." Tyler all but growls as his hands curl into a fist and he shakes his head to get rid of the rising anger.

Matt and Vicki put there hands on his shoulder causing his stiff shoulders to relax. "Remember what happened last time?" Vicki whispers quietly near his ear.

Tyler grits his teeth and nods as Matt's other hand clasps around hers protectively. Vicki has 'died' nearly fifteen times in the last ten or so days, occasionally they all have as well. The repeats have been irritating. While they only seem to carry the ability to repeat the day with her if one of them dies they don't seem to carry any other separate abilities that they've noticed yet.

But last time, last time Tyler flipped. It was during one of the bad ones, really bad ones and Tyler had attacked Jeremy in retaliation. It didn't end well, everything is tied to the Gilbert's and it makes it a shit show for the rest of them.