COME BACK TO ME
Author's Note- This is set after Nora and Mary Louise sacrificed themselves to stop Rayna. Now if you were as heartbroken by this as I was, then you know the only way to deal with this is to bring them back...so I've only gone and done it!
Hope you guys like it.
As always, I own nothing, all rights go to their respective owners.
CHAPTER 1
She was in some sort of red orb. She had to be.
Nora frowned as she stood and tried to take stock of where she was.
Where was Mary Lou?
"Mary Lou?!" Nora called, her voice echoing around the cavernous place.
No one answered her. They sacrificed themselves together, so it only stood to reason that she would be here too.
There was no where else to go that Nora could see and for a moment, she worried that she was stuck in the stone, just like Stephan had been, but that couldn't be.
The stone had been destroyed.
"Mary Lou?!" Nora tried again. Where was she?
Nora became unbalanced as the ground beneath her boots shook and the walls started trembling. Then the wall in front of her opened up and she felt as though she were being pulled towards it.
No! Her mind screamed. She was not leaving without Mary Lou!
But the pull, whatever it was, was too strong and it kept on pulling until Nora fell through the wall and landed with a heavy thud onto a hard wood floor.
When she opened her eyes, Valerie was looking down on her.
"Welcome back." She drawled.
Nora glared at the other Heretic and got to her feet.
"What did you do?" She spat.
Valerie smirked at Nora's reaction.
"You're welcome."
"You should have left me! Mary Louise is trapped there! Why did you take me and not her?!" Nora shouted angrily as she paced back and forth like an untamed lion.
"Nora, I-"
"You send me back! Right now! I need to find her!"
"Nora."
The brunette looked up at the sound of a male voice.
"Damon?"
He nodded.
Nora glanced from Damon to Valerie and back again.
"Why are you helping her?" Nora asked slowly, trying to get her head around all of this.
"It's nice to see you too, Nora." Damon said with a forced smile.
Valerie sighed.
"We brought you back in the hope that you could help us bring Stephan back."
Nora was too distracted, she wanted to go back and find Mary Louise, that's all she wanted.
"Why didn't you bring him back the same way you brought me back?"
"The magic holding Stephan's soul is too strong and we needed help from someone like you and we thought that by bringing you back-"
"Bring Mary Lou back and I'll help you. I'll do whatever it takes." Nora implored.
Damon blinked.
"Wow, she's practically begging."
Nora glared at him.
"You would be too if it was the love of your life."
Damon remained silent.
Valerie looked at her.
"Nora, we have something to tell you...it's about Mary Louise."
Nora felt her heart stop. She knew that Valerie's next words would either shatter it or give it new life.
"Yes?" Nora pushed but her mouth went dry.
Damon glanced at Nora's arm.
"The marks' gone. The stone really is destroyed."
Valerie nodded.
"Good, now that's out of the way, I can tell you about Mary Louise."
"What does it matter if I was marked or not?"
Valerie sighed again, she hated having to explain things.
"If you were still marked when we brought you back, there was a slight chance that Rayna could hunt you but when you and Mary Louise destroyed the stone, Rayna lost her power and therefore your mark has gone. Rayna is still alive but she has no power anymore."
Nora checked her arm. It had gone. It was like it'd never been there in the first place.
"Now, about Mary Louise."
Nora listened intently.
Valerie looked at Damon and then back to Nora.
"She's already here."
Nora's face brightened considerably.
"She is?"
Valerie's face darkened a little but Nora noticed it.
"Well where is she? I want to see her."
"She's upstairs-
Nora moved and Valerie stood in her way.
"But Nora you should know, she doesn't remember anything."
Nora blinked.
"What? How is that possible?"
"We're still trying to understand that part but she's frightened, Nora. Be careful."
Nora nodded her head slowly and then turned toward the stairs.
She knew Mary Louise as the fearless type. The one who would defend her no matter what. To hear that she was now acting like a frightened little girl, that put Nora on edge. Mary Lou had always looked after her but now that Nora found she would have to be the one to do it, she felt unsure but she would do whatever was required of her. If it saved them, she would do it without question.
Nora took the stairs hesitantly, her hand trembling on the rail.
Valerie stood at the foot of the stairs.
"Do you need me to come up with you?"
Nora shook her head.
"No. I need to see her on my own."
Valerie nodded and watched as Nora walked up the stairs.
Part of her wanted to run up them and the other part of her wanted to take as much time as possible as she feared what she might find.
She turned the corner and went to their room. The door was shut and Nora took a breath before pushing on it and letting it swing open.
Nora could have cried, there was Mary Louise huddled on the floor, in a corner, hugging her knees tightly to her chest. Nora took small comfort in the fact that at the least the blonde wasn't ill anymore. It had gone, the same way as her mark from Rayna had gone.
"Mary Lou?" Nora said softly.
The blonde looked up at her and for a moment, Nora wondered if Mary Lou recognized her but then she grew fearful and tried to back herself even further into the corner.
Nora crouched down in front of her but kept a safe distance in case she scared the blonde more than she already had.
"Do you remember me?" Nora asked, her voice cracking as tears filled her eyes.
Mary Louise shook her head.
"Do you remember your name?"
She nodded after a moment's thought.
Nora licked her lips and moved an inch closer.
"My name is Nora. We...we have been together for over a 133 years now. Do you remember that?"
The blonde looked up and Nora smiled warmly, begging silently for Mary Lou to know who she was; what they meant to each other.
A tear fell down Nora's cheek.
"Please tell me you remember that." She whispered brokenly.
"I am sorry...but I do not know you." The blonde replied softly.
That broke Nora's heart and she forced herself to stay in the same room as the one who meant so much to her.
"We were engaged...you and I. We were going to start a new life together away from this place." Nora told her, her voice still not even.
The blonde shook her head.
"Please, Mare, you know it's the truth. Deep down, somewhere inside you know it. What do you feel when you look at me?"
Mary Louise looked at Nora.
"You seem like a nice person but I do not remember you and I do not believe that we were together."
"We were. I swear to you, we were. Yes, we've had our fights but we always find our way back to each other. I love you, Mary Lou." Nora said with tears running down her face.
Mary Louise flinched as Nora took hold of her hands.
"We died together to save others from undergoing the same fate as us. We did that and Valerie brought us back."
Mary Louise seemed to brighten at the mention of a name she recognized.
"Valerie. The woman who made me some tea."
Nora nodded but frowned a little.
"I suppose so, yes." Nora replied awkwardly because she wasn't sure if that is what Valerie did when they brought Mary Louise back, so she just went with it for now.
"She seems lovely."
Nora frowned.
"She's not. We hated her."
Mary Lou frowned.
"We did?"
"Immensely! But don't tell her that, she's also a very powerful Heretic." Nora said with a wink.
Mary Louise frowned again.
"What is a Heretic?"
Nora blinked. It was strange having to explain these things to the blonde. They were simple, everyday things that they both knew but the thing that broke Nora's heart the most was that Mary Lou refused to believe they loved each other.
"A Heretic is what we are. There was a lady called Lilian Salvatore and she changed us into Vampires but we are also Siphoners, that in turn, makes us Hybrids."
The blonde looked suddenly panicked and she squeezed her eyes shut, shaking her head.
"This is all very confusing, N...N-"
"Nora."
"Sorry, Nora. I have heard of Vampires, I slightly recall it from my childhood but I am not clear of what it means."
Then almost as if by magic, Valerie appeared.
"Mary Louise, Nora has to come with me now but she'll be back to see you soon, ok?"
The blonde nodded and Valerie took Nora by the arm and steered her out of the room and onto the landing.
"Ow, what is your problem?" Nora hissed, remembering to lower her voice so that Mary Louise couldn't hear her.
"She has just found out that she is a Vampire and a Heretic. The last thing she needs is you frightening her by explaining it. I mean let's be honest Nora, you're not exactly tactful are you?"
Nora folded her arms indignantly.
"I am just trying to help my girlfriend remember who she is."
"Yes well, she's not your girlfriend anymore, is she?"
Nora stared at Valerie and the other Heretic let out a breath.
"I'm sorry, Nora but she doesn't believe you ever had a relationship. We asked her about you when we brought her back...she doesn't remember you at all. She doesn't even remember that she loves you."
Nora's eyes darkened.
"She will. I don't care how long it takes, she will remember."
Valerie nodded that she understood.
"Now about our part of the deal. You helping to bring Stephan back-"
"I'll do it. I've said as much but I won't be helping anyone until Mary Lou gets her memory back."
Valerie sighed.
"We don't know if she ever will, Nora. We could be waiting for years!"
"Then we'll wait for years. If I have to wait to get my girlfriend back, Damon will have to wait for his brother."
Nora walked off, leaving Valerie to come to terms with what she'd just said.
She knew that bringing Mary Louise and Nora back and getting them to agree to do this would not be easy, especially Nora but maybe if she got Mary Louise to trust her, she could get the blonde to help bring Stephan back and then Nora would have no choice but to help. She knew Nora would do anything the blonde asked.
So maybe this was some sort of twisted blessing.
Valerie only hoped that she could gain Mary Louise's trust before Nora did then she shrugged carelessly, the way Nora was, it shouldn't be too difficult.
Author's Note- Hope you guys liked the first chapter, let me know what you think. X