Here's the second chapter. (: I'm so glad that you guys are liking this story so far. This takes place in the first half of season 2 episode 1 'The Return'. I'm surprised at how long it is. Anyways hope you enjoy! :D
How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?
What if I could sing just one song and it might save somebody's life?
-Hope For Now by City & Colour
MAGGIE had been so focused on finding Bonnie or anyone of the group, that when she arrived at the hospital, she flew past the front desk and began to search for Caroline's room. She realized that she should have stopped at the front desk but she wasn't thinking clearly. She was worried and when Maggie got worried she didn't think.
She was wearing a long sleeved, dark green shirt with light blue jeans that covered her dark blue converses that she was wearing. As always she had her worn dark brown messenger bag, with the strap slung across her chest from left to right, and her light brown hair, which had natural red highlights, had been thrown up into a loose ponytail. Two pieces had fallen out and were now framing her face as her light green eyes darted around worriedly for anyone familiar.
Turning left, she smiled with relief, as she ran over to where Bonnie and Matt. She noticed that Matt's right arm had been in a cast. She came to stop beside the two of them. Maggie took in Matt's distraught face and the tears that were beginning to well up in Bonnie's dark brown eyes.
"Maggie." Bonnie stood up from the chair and threw her arms around one of her best friends.
She returned Bonnie's hug, pulling her close to her, rubbing her hand up and down her back in a soothing manner. When she pulled away, she looked at Bonnie with questioning eyes.
"Caroline, Matt and Tyler were in a car accident." Bonnie explained. "Tyler got some type of migraine and lost control. Caroline isn't doing too good."
Maggie's heart broke at the site of her best friend. She pulled Bonnie into another hug being the least that she could do. Maggie didn't hate Caroline and got along rather well with the happy-go-lucky blond but she wasn't close to her. Not like Bonnie was or Matt obviously. When she pulled away from Bonnie, Maggie knelt down beside Matt, placing a comforting hand on his arm. His blue eyes turned to her and he gave her a small nod and smile.
She hated seeing other people in pain, especially when she knew that she could do nothing to help ease it. A fault and gift of hers was that she was an extremely empathic person. She always had been. It sort of came with being a mute because she had learned how to tell who a person was by reading their body language. Damon just said that was a fancy excuse to stalk people. He was also the one who always worried about how empathic she was. He worried that she would spread herself too thin because of her empathy for people.
"How are you doing?" Bonnie asked Maggie. Despite Maggie being a year older than her, Bonnie worried about her.
"I'm fine." Maggie mouthed to her.
"Are you sure?" Bonnie asked.
Maggie nodded again and offered the other girl a small smile as if to prove it was true. But on the inside she was completely freaking out. Matt had a broken arm, Caroline was in God-only-knows-what condition and she still didn't know where Damon was or why he wanted her to leave the Founder's Day celebration. Plus she was still confused about the dreams she had been having lately. Especially with the dream she had earlier tonight about Noreen getting a curse placed on her. The dreams had never been that long or that detailed before. They had always been more of a snippet of what felt like a memory to her. Almost as if she was seeing a quick scene from a movie or something.
Her phone vibrated in her pocket. Maggie continued to sit on the floor beside Matt, amusing him because he wasn't use to her quirks like Bonnie was, as she pulled her phone out.
"Where are you?" Damon texted her.
"At the hospital." She texted back to him. "With Bonnie and Matt. Are you okay? Where are you?"
It was only a minute before Damon sent her a text back. "Easy there sweetheart. I'm at the hospital too. Still undead." With a wink face at the end.
"Damon?" Bonnie asked from her seat.
Maggie looked up at her and nodded. "He's here." She mouthed.
"Elena too. Lets go meet her." Bonnie stood up with Maggie following after her.
"Bonnie, how's Caroline?" Elena asked worried.
Maggie gave the girl a small smile, trying the best to comfort her, as Bonnie relayed the bad news.
"She's weak. They don't know if she's going to make it." Bonnie pulled Elena into her arms.
"What?" Elena asked.
Maggie rubbed Bonnie's back as she hugged Elena and rubbed Elena's arm. Trying to be the best comforter that she could for the girls. Caroline was so important to the both of them. She could feel her heart breaking for the both them. Caroline was so stubborn that Maggie had to believe that she was going to be just fine. She had her back turned so she didn't see Damon leaning against the wall, watching them carefully.
"Is there something you could do?" Elena asked Bonnie. "Like a spell? Maybe you both could do together?"
Bonnie was about to answer but Damon's voice interrupted her. "Mags doesn't have any powers and she doesn't know how." They turned to look at him as he approached them. "Do you?"
Maggie gave Damon a small smile of relief, glad to know that he was indeed safe and unharmed. He gave her a smile in return, rubbing her back gently, as he came to stand beside her. She didn't even want to think what would happen if he had somehow gotten hurt. She doesn't think she would be able to handle it.
"No," Bonnie sighed looking back to Elena. "I don't."
Elena looked even more worried and Maggie shook her head biting her lip. This wasn't fair. What else could they do?
"No you don't." Damon stated. "Because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that."
Maggie rolled her eyes as she looked up at Damon, giving him a behave yourself, look with her light green eyes. He knew how much Bonnie despised him but him being Damon had to stir trouble up.
"Well I can take down a vampire." Bonnie smugly replied as she stared back at Damon. "That spell was easy to learn."
Maggie inwardly sighed to herself. Bringing a hand up she ran it over her tired face. She was so not in the mood for dealing with Bonnie and Damon right now. Ironically the two most important people in her life despised each other. She knew that they were semi-civil with each other for not Elena's stake but also hers. Maggie knew it was the norm- witches hating vampires- but she wasn't part of the normal group. She was a mute witch with no powers and she lived with not only one but two vampires. One she just happened to be very very close with.
"I could give Caroline some of my blood." Damon turned to Elena.
"No, no way." Elena shot down that idea quickly.
That would work, Maggie thought to herself. It wouldn't harm Caroline nor would it change her. Damon's blood could heal Caroline and save her from dying. They all knew that Caroline would most likely die if she didn't receive the blood. And although she wasn't close with Caroline, she wasn't about to let someone as young as her die. Nope, no way.
"Do it." Bonnie said interrupting Damon and Elena.
All their eyes focused on her. Maggie knew that Bonnie would agree to it, knowing that it was going to save Caroline's life. She was willing to put aside her hatred for Damon for a minute for one of her closest friends. She gave the other witch a small smile.
"I do this," Damon pointed from himself to Bonnie, "you and me call a truce?"
"No." Bonnie shook her head. "But you'll do it anyways, for Elena."
Maggie's eyes snapped quickly from Damon to Elena and then back to the vampire. As much as Maggie hated it, she knew that Bonnie had a point. Damon would do it for Elena. She shook her head slightly as she crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against her right foot. She knew that Damon had feelings for Elena and she wasn't too keen on the idea. It's not that she didn't like Elena, it's just that, she knew that she was in love in Stefan. She didn't want Damon to get hurt and she knew that he would. Maggie especially didn't want anything to come between the thin bond that Damon and Stefan had recreated. Plus, maybe deep inside, she was a tad jealous that Elena had the same devotion from Damon that she had. Maybe not totally the same but he really was willing to do anything she asked.
Elena sighed, giving in, nodding at Bonnie and giving Maggie a small nod. Maggie looked up at Damon and he gave her a small smile before she turned and followed Bonnie, leaving Damon to talk alone with Elena.
"How can you stand him?" Bonnie asked her.
Maggie shrugged before looking at her and mouthing the words to her. "I just can."
"You have some serious patience then." Bonnie shook her head. "I can barely stand to be in the same room with him let alone the same house." She stopped walking and placed her hand in Maggie's. "You know you can move back in with me, right?"
She nodded, giving her friend a smile. Maggie knew that if she ever needed to she would always have a home with Bonnie. When her mother passed away, Bonnie's grandmother took her in and raised her with Bonnie. But then Maggie moved out to live with Damon in the boarding house, getting him to shut up, and because she felt a little safer living with the Salvatore brothers. Not that she would ever admit that to Bonnie though. But when Grams passed away, Maggie moved back in with Bonnie for awhile, being there for her best friends like she was for her.
Bonnie is sitting in the chair next to Matt while Maggie, yet again, is sitting on the floor, on Matt's other side. She always found the oddest places to sit and get comfortable. She'll never forget Stefan's face when he found her asleep on the table back at the boarding house. Damon just told him not to ask and to just go with the little freak. She still couldn't believe Damon said that. She wasn't little.
Maggie was concentrating on how clean the hospital floor was, tapping her fingers against her messenger bag, when Damon came walking up to her, looking annoyed and worried.
"Hey. I need to talk to you." Damon said.
As she rose up from the floor, he grabbed the upper part of her left arm, and led her away from a suspicious Bonnie and dazed Matt. Maggie looked up at him confused and worried. He was really anxious, this wasn't Damon.
"You are not to leave this hospital, okay?" Damon demanded. "Not with Bonnie, Matt or even Liz Forbes. No one."
Maggie nodded, her brows still scrunched together in confusion. She shook her head slightly and he understood perfectly what she was asking him.
"I'll explain later. But don't leave this hospital until I come get you." He gave her a quick kiss to the forehead before leaving her standing there. Still confused and very worried.
"What was that about?" Bonnie asked.
Maggie shook her head, telling her that she had no idea, as she took her spot on the floor, leaning up against the wall beside Matt's chair. People passing by gave her strange side glances but she was use to it. Being the only mute in a small town like Mystic Falls, Virginia, you get use to the strange glances and the whispers.
She even looked more odd sitting on the floor when Bonnie left to go back home, leaving Matt and her alone. She hadn't really talked to him much but he had always been nice to her. Despite being one of the popular people at the high school, quarterback of the football team, he never made fun of her for being a mute.
Opening her messenger back, she pulled out the notebook and black pen that she always kept with her. It was one of the ways she would communicate to people that she didn't know too well. She wrote on the piece paper and held it up to Matt for him to read.
"I'm going to the vending machine. Want anything?" Maggie had written.
His blue eyes met her light green eyes. "Uhm, I'll come with you. Need to take a walk anyways."
Maggie smiled and stood up, holding the notebook and pen in her hand, just in case she had to talk to Matt. With Bonnie and Stefan, she could mouth words to them and they would be able to understand her. Sometimes Elena did but Maggie went with texting as a way to talk to her. And Damon. He could just look at her and could tell what she was saying/thinking. That just showed everyone how close Damon and her really were.
The walk to the vending machine seemed long but it was mostly because of the silence that was surrounding the two teenagers. Maggie was use to walking in silence but she could tell that Matt wasn't. It made her smile a little knowing that he was a little uncomfortable and awkward. People always seemed to be uncomfortable and awkward around her at first because of her muteness but once they got to know her, things usually went smoothly.
Once they reached the vending machine, Maggie looked it over. Hospitals always had vending machines. She took out some change about to get herself a KitKat bar when Matt stopped her.
"I got it." He said. He put in the money and pulled out the candy bar and gave it to her with a small smile. "It's the least I could do. I mean, thanks for staying with me, Maggie."
Although she didn't really have a choice, considering Damon had ordered her to stay put, she would have stayed anyways. She wouldn't want him to be alone.
She offered him a 'your welcome' smile as they made their way back to waiting outside Caroline's room. This time she sat beside Matt in the chair that Bonnie had been previously sitting in. She had pulled her legs up so she was sitting cross legged in the chair and began to eat the chocolate bar.
Glancing over she saw that Matt was anxious and worried about Caroline. She remembered Bonnie telling her something about Caroline and Matt being a couple or item, something like that. Who knows. Grabbing the notebook she scribbled down on the page before she showed it to Matt.
"Caroline is going to make it, Matt." She had written.
Matt nods. "I hope you're right."
Maggie offers him another smile before she went back to finishing up her crappy source of food. She was so going to have Damon cook her something when they finally went home. She was starving.
"So, uhm, is writing the only way you can talk with people?" Matt asked.
Maggie shook her head. Then she wrote out on the notebook. "No. It's the easiest way. But it depends on the person. With Elena and Caroline I text."
"Oh." Matt said. "And with Bonnie and Stefan's brother?"
She wrote the answer out again and showed it to him. "I'm closer to Bonnie and Damon so they can read my lips. I mouth words to them. It varies."
"Can I see your phone?" Matt asked.
She nodded and took out her phone handing it over to him, curious as to what he wanted her phone for. If it had been Damon she would have given it a second thought but it was Matt. He wouldn't do anything bad with it.
He handed her the phone back and smiled. "Now you text me instead of writing. I think your hand would get tired."
Maggie smiled and laughed on the inside. "Just a little." She wrote out on the piece of notebook paper.
After what seemed like hours, Maggie had fallen asleep, yet again. And just as before she found herself dreaming but this was a different dream from before. It was outside somewhere and there was a man sitting on a stone bench of some sort. He was dressed in period clothing, typical for mid 1700s, with wavy brown hair that was semi long. He was reading a book, looking at such ease. And then his brown eyes moved up and looked at her. Or to her it seemed he was looking at her. He smiled at her.
She then found herself calling out to him, speaking a name. "Elijah!" She smiled to him.
Maggie was shaken from her dream when she felt some flick her nose. Opening her eyes she found Damon kneeling beside her, giving her an amused grin.
"Hey Sleeping Beauty."
She frowned at him and found that she was still in the exact same spot as she was before she fell asleep. Matt was sitting beside her, trying to hide and amused grin himself, while Damon didn't bother. He enjoyed waking her up.
"Caroline?" She mouthed to him.
Damon nodded. "Taken care of."
She gave him a small smile but then she noticed something flicker in his gray blue steel eyes, pain. She looked at him worried and he shook his head, telling her not to bother, he would explain later.
"Come on. Time to get you home." Damon said.
Taking out her phone she quickly texted Matt, ignoring the annoyed look she was getting from Damon. "Want me to stay with you?" She texted him.
Matt shook his head as he turned to look at her. "Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Go home and sleep. You stayed long enough."
She gave a smile and a squeeze to his shoulder as she stood up and followed Damon out of the hospital.
"When the hell did you get Matt Donovan's number?" Damon asked.
When they arrived back home to the Salvatore boarding house, she couldn't help but to feel a little more relaxed, especially knowing that Caroline was taken care of. Damon was in front of her in a second and opened the door for her, allowing her to enter first.
As they made their way into the kitchen, Maggie looked at him and mouthed, "where's Stefan?"
"Elena's." Damon said. "Most likely still."
She shook her head and placed her messenger bag on the counter top as she walked over and went to grab a pan to cook in when Damon quickly grabbed it from her hands.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Making food. I'm hungry and tired." She mouthed to him.
Damon shook his head. "Nope. You know the rules. No cooking for you."
Maggie was too tired to argue with him so she turned and took a seat on top of the counter, hopping up onto it with ease. She watched him for a few minutes knowing that he would know that she wanted to be filled on everything.
"Okay, I'll be quick." Damon spun around to face her. "John Gilbert used some freaky device that could kill vampires. I was almost kill but thanks to Bonnie and her witch juice I was saved. Tyler Lockwood's father was killed because apparently the device affected him but he's not a vamp and I kissed Elena." She widened her eyes. "Well, I thought it was Elena but apparently it was Katherine and now I'm ignoring the bitch." He held up a package of Roman Noodles. "This good for you?"
Maggie was stunned as she absorbed all the information that had just been handed to her. Damon almost died tonight and Katherine was back? What the hell? It then came to her that Damon knew John was going to use the device and that's why he had sent her home. To keep her away.
"See, I know that face." Damon sighed and placed a comforting hand on her knee. "Everything is fine, Maggie."
"You almost died?" She mouthed. She hopped down from the counter and looked up at him. "You almost died, Damon." She mouthed to him again.
She turned on her heels quickly and left the kitchen. She had walked into the living room where the fireplace was along with the big red couch that she occasionally dosed upon. Maggie bit her lip as she began to pace back and forth behind the couch. These were the moments where she wish she wasn't a mute. Where she wished that she could yell and let out all of her worried anger. She could have very easily lost Damon tonight, not to mention that Katherine was back. Where the hell did she come from?
Shaking her head she quickly walked back into the kitchen, ignoring Damon, as she knelt down, opening one of the cabinet doors. She pulled out a cleaning rag and some polish. The wooden tables needed to polished. They were in desperate need of polishing.
"Mags, come on." Damon sighed, following after her.
Since Maggie couldn't yell or talk, she had found a great method of maintaining her frustrations and worries. Cleaning. Whenever she was extremely worried, anxious or basically upset about anything she took to cleaning and listening to loud music. She continued to ignore Damon as she took out her i-Phone and but it into the speaker system and pressed play on a random song. Ironically it was a mellow song by City & Colour. She loved that man. And she began to polish the wooden table in front of the big, red couch.
"Mags." Damon tried again. "Maggie." He was kneeling before her, grabbing her hand to make her stop polishing. "Hey, I'm right here. I'm fine, okay? Not even bruised. Bonnie saved me, alright?"
Maggie was on the verge of crying. "What about Katherine?" She mouthed.
Damon became serious. "She won't come near you. Understand me? I won't let her hurt you. I promise."
Maggie allowed Damon to pull her into a tight hug. She needed that right now. This was the side of Damon that was rare and very few people got to witness. This was why she could put up with him and why she loved him so much (in a non romantic way of course). This right here. She knew that Damon couldn't really promise that Katherine wouldn't somehow get to her but she appreciated the effort. Inside though she was more worried about Damon and how Katherine's return was going to effect him.
So, what did you all think? Sorry if Damon seems a little out of character but I tried. I was literally watching this episode and pausing it to write it and then continue on. Hopefully you all liked it.
And considering Maggie's a mute, I think I did good, if I do say so myself :)
Reviews are very much loved. :D