billie forbes

GRANDMA? Liz was startled for a moment by the outburst only calming when she realized this was a thing. She was meeting her grandchildren out of order. “I don’t know! I-I lost Stefan somewhere at the apple stand.” But never mind that. She found herself moving with the new grandchild, calling out to her, “Wait! What’s your name?” Because despite every emotion she felt in the last few days, she was someone who had to stop and let information sink in. Hell, she wanted a better look at the young woman.

“I meant luicen,” she said, giving the crowd another look over before she moved to behind a big trailer that fenced around in. She looked to the exit, one exit to fight was better than in the open. She then turned to Liz. “I can handle Stefan,” she said. “Don’t worry.” Stefan was human after all. She looked to her grandmother and smiled. “Billie. After my grandfather.” 

“I’m closing up shop in about five minutes but I guess I can make an exception for you. Gotta love using your power for corruption, right?” She joked before a look of shock came on her face. “ A boy? Who?” She tried to feign innocence.

“Is 5 minutes enough time for a beautiful butterfly,” she joked. “I can pay you if you need, what are you charging the kids?” She asked. “Oh, okay, so I should report him then. For being in the girls dorms,” she asked, a smirk on her lips, daring her sister to lie to her again. 

“I’M SORRY,” She really wasn’t, “but I couldn’t handle another song centered around Stanksgiving.”

“Well it’s nice, I don’t really know any of the songs to start with.” It wasn’t like they had alot of music in the future. They followed online but with no way to go to consents or go met others. It was pretty limited. 

“Ah, you got me there,” he said as he pointed to her for a moment before letting his hand fall down to his side. “You seem to know about Mystic Falls, care to share with a curious stranger?”

“I think you basically know the important part. You can’t go in,” she said lightly. “There is an anti-magic barrier around the town. Any witch magic doesn't work inside the town. E.g. the magic that keeps vampires alive disappears and you return to what you would be without magic... which is dead. Mystic Fall isn’t that close to here, why were you going there?”

“I don’t know why they insist on making everything pumpkin flavored honestly. It’s tragic.”

“Maybe they just have alot of pumpkins,” she joked. That’s what happened in the future once, they did a whole harvest of pumpkins and given it was one of the only food they had, you had just make do with it. Turn it into everything. “Though pumpkin bread isn’t that bad.”

Marcel smirked at her, a tipsy smile on his face. “Make it two dogs,” He said before slamming the hammer down, nearing breaking the carnival game. “Make your pick Forbes,”

She reached over and pointed out the one she wanted. When it was in her hands she smiled. “Thank you,” she said, brining to teddy to her chest. “Though I do think it counts as cheating a little.”

“Yeah, it’s probably not going to be easy,” she admits. What Billie didn’t know is that doing what she needed to do involved walking directly into the lion’s den, but she’d keep that to herself for now. She didn’t need anyone else worrying about her. “I’d be happy to let you at this point,” Caroline said with a sad smile. There was nothing she wanted more than Lucien to be out of their lives for good.

“Yeah well playing with more than half your team on the bench tends to be like that,” she commented honestly. “And I get that this is something you struggle with and I know that Dr Saltzman struggled with it as well from reading his book, but... we are stronger than you. We have the ability to protect people and fight the battles that otherwise couldn’t be won. Sometimes being a good parent is letting us fight, and trusting us to win.” Over what she was clearly doing now which was trying to keep them out of it. But she nodded when the other said that she wanted Lucien dead. “I’ll make a call.”