Season 2 Episode 1

I am in a big, beautiful, grassy field. I am running as fast as I can. What am I running from? I don't know. Finally, I cannot keep at it so I pause for a rest by the tree. "You know, if the rabbit stops to rest, the turtle wins the race…" Kol whispers in my ear. "How is it fair that you, the turtle, have superhuman speed?" I demand. He laughs at this. "Come on, it is supper time. We may finish the race afterwards, even though we both know that I will win," Kol tells me with a cocky smile. I purse my lips slightly then smile cheekily. We arrive at home quickly as Kol had sped us there in the blink of an eye, which I still find unbelievable. "Look who's home, finally," Nik scolds. "We were only having a bit of fun, brother. Don't get jealous." I smile and kiss Nik on the cheek. He decides it wasn't enough so he pulls me in for a kiss on the lips. "I hope Kol did not treat you too poorly." "He was wonderful, Nik." I send a smirk towards my best friend, which makes him laugh. "Oh, living with you three should be a bloody job, you know!" Rebekah yells, while cleaning up Kol's mess. We all laugh and spend the rest of the night playing in the field, while Nik paints, but he eventually joins our bit of fun after my begging. I may have bribed him for a kiss, but, hey, at least he came out!
I shoot up on my bed, breathing heavily and sweating. After I shower up and put on /cgi/set?id=173833024, I get a ring from Damon and he quickly tells me to watch my back for an Elena look alike named Katherine. I smile. She's back!
I come downstairs and see Tyler inviting Elena in. "Hey," I say as I step down. She doesn't say anything; she just looks at me with a face full of recognition. "Um, hey Wo- Carmen." "Close call, Kat." I smile, realizing that it's not Elena. She comes up to me and puts an arm around my shoulder and whispers, "Hey Wolfie." That was her nickname for me back in England. I met her when I was a sophomore. She was killing somebody and I saw. She compelled me to forget but werewolves can't be compelled. After that, for some reason, we became friends. I kept her secret. For some reason, she didn't want anybody knowing. She was covering her tracks; But why? I figured out that part a little while afterwards. She was running from Niklaus Mikaelson. I didn't know who it was at the time, but according to my dream last night, I had knownhim intimately once upon a time. Kat and I caught up with each other and told each other what was going on. This probably isn't good since she on the best terms with my other friends, but she was my friend first, and she is my best friend. Bonnie comes speed walking over and I know that it's my time to leave. "Cheers," I say, laughing as I walk away. I walk into Richards's office and see Jeremy drinking one of his alcoholic beverages. I take it from him and say, "You're too young," and take a sip. Mason comes in, boots Jeremy out, and has a drink with us.
I am in the room with Tyler and he stands there, looking at a family portrait, and all of a sudden smashes it and throws all the other pictures down. "Tyler! What are you doing?" Carol demands. "I hate him." I put my hands on his shoulders and say, "No you don't, Ty." He pushes me on the couch and I get mad, very mad. Mason comes in and tackles Tyler, calming him down. I sit there, my jaw clenched, holding in my anger. That failed. I speed walk out the room and run outside. I hear Carol about to come after me, but Mason tells her to let me cool off. I run all the way to the Grill and contemplate whether I should go in or not. I walk closer to the Grill but somebody calls out behind me, "Hey!" I turn around to see a man who's about 6'0'', mid 30's, with brown hair and blue eyes. "Who are you?" "You're Carmen, right?" "Depends who's asking." He smirks. "I'm Maddox. I believe we could be of use to each other." "How so?" "You want to live and I want to please Klaus." He says with a grin before chanting a knockout spell, "Phasmatos Somnus." Then everything went black.
(A/N (Time skip to 2x17) I wake up, gasping for breath. I see Katherine on the floor and crawl over to her to try to prop her up. We both give each other looks saying what the hell is going on? Katherine tries to speed out, but is locked in by a barrier of some sort. "Zdravei, Katerina. I have missed you." "Klaus," She responds, obviously shocked. But trust me, there is nobody in this whole bloody world who isn't more frightened than me. A man that I apparently have a romantic history with, according to a dream set at least 800 years ago, is right in front of me. I am practically pissing my pants right now. I've hid my emotions all my life. Just think about how happy Jayden must be at camp right now! Breathe, in and out, in and out. "What, I don't get a magnificent intro, but she does? I'm wounded." Klaus smirks. Wow how did I do that? I didn't think I had that in me! "Hello, Mariana." He kisses my forehead.
I've been passed out for a week or two, or three, I don't know, Klaus won't tell me. I have been having memory dreams again, in first person too. Klaus trusts me for some reason, so he lets me leave, as long as I give him my word that I will return. Somebody very important to me taught me to always keep my word. It is a person's best quality. I don't know whom, though. Probably someone from my mysterious "other life." I wish I knew what is going on, Klaus seems to know; maybe I can make him tell me? Or maybe I can… bribe him, like in my dream? That seems to work. No, I have a feeling that it would be better that Niklaus doesn't know my "memories" are coming back.
I wake up in the apartment and go to the closet to get find an outfit for me, and one for Kat as well. (A/N Just thought I'd show you Carmen's tattoos /carmens_tattoos/set?id=174217619). I get dressed in /cgi/set?id=166360099 and leave the apartment, planning on going to my house, to get my hair chalk to color my hair differently. I get a call from Klaus and he tells me to go to the boarding house and then go to school with Elena.
I walk up the steps of the Salvatore Boarding House and hear, "Can we do one of those witch tracking spells?" "Their called locater spells, and no. Not without something that belongs to Ni- Klaus." That was a stupid move, Carmen! The boys both engulf me in a hug and Damon is the first to speak, "Where have you been, Carmen?" He scolds. Should I tell them? "One of Klaus's men took me. 'E tried to get answers out of me but when he didn't get anything useful, he left me in an alley to rot. Well, that is, after he spelled me into a two week coma." Klaus better give me a standing ovation for that improv. They catch me up on what is going on and then Damon asks, "Do you think he killed her?" "Katherine? Probably," Stefan said bluntly. "I don't think he did. Katerina has been running for 500 years, he wouldn't let her off that easily.
Elena lets Stefan in and then tells Damon he has to obey the rules or something. I secretly walk down to the cells and see Elijah's daggered body. I learned who he was two nights ago: the oldest Mikaelson. I don't think anybody understands how powerful they are, or the fact that they're family, but I don't plan on selling the Originals out any time soon. I scurry up to the parlor, where Bonnie is sitting, and ask her, "Hey, do you think I could talk to you about," I lower my voice so only she can hear, "witch business?" She nods and we go upstairs. As long as we whisper, Damon and Stefan can't hear us. I start describing my dreams, without much detail so I don't give away anything she isn't supposed to know. She sits there, shocked, and then says, "The way you describe these dreams it sounds like what memory dreams are, but that's impossible. That seems to be over 800 years ago, and you are an 18-year-old werewolf! You weren't alive 800 years ago." I start to get an immense pain in my head, enough for me to fall down on the floor. I start screaming in pain and Bonnie questions what's wrong. Sh starts chanting a spell that helps with the pain, and then I get some sort of vision, in the style of my dream.
I am in the field where my first dream was held. I seem to be in the dream myself. I see Kol running in the field, chasing me. But not me right now, but me from 800 years ago. "The Bennett witch won't be able to help," A voice says. I turn around and see a woman with long, dirty blonde hair and brown eyes emerging from the forest. "Who are you?" I ask. "I am Esther. I suppose you haven't gotten the part I played in your memories back yet. Let me tell you something. 856 years ago, I was on the other side, and you were with my children. You made them happy, which I was very grateful for, but then you implanted something into all of their minds – that vampires were not always evil. You turned my children against me even more so than they already were. So, in turn, I killed you. After 838 years of thinking it over, I decided that you didn't deserve that, so with some help, I gave you a new life. Don't make me regret my decision, Mariana. When I come back, you will help me; and you won't have a choice, because I can take away your life just as easily as I gave it." And then she disappeared.
I gasp for breath as Bonnie helps me up and we go downstairs. "What the hell was that about?" Damon questions, with a worried look plastered on his face. "Oh, nothing. Witch drama." Elena is finishing up talking to Stefan and we link arms with her. "I'm ready, I know what to do." Bonnie reassures a worried Stefan. "And besides, tonight is a full moon, I will kill anybody that touches any one of us," I say with an evil grin. "Sometimes, you are very intimidating," Elena says. I smirk and then laugh.
We walk into class and Elena shows Stefan the 60s decade dance flyer. He shook his head so she turned around and showed Bonnie and I. We nodded our heads and laughed. Bonnie hasn't talked about what happened, so I am planning on confronting her about it at lunch today, and telling her what happened. Ric walked into the classroom and asked what we were learning today. When someone answered the 60's, he started saying what happened. "Watergates was the seventies, Ric," I corrected. People glared at me so I said, "I-I mean, Mr. Saltzman."
At lunch, I overhear Jeremy and Bonnie talking. What does he mean she can't do the spell?! "You promised to keep my secret, I'm trusting you." At that, I walked over and sat next to Jeremy. "Sup Jerbear." I smiled at him and he hugged me. "Don't ever be kidnapped again." I laughed. "So, Bonnie. About the thing that happened at the Salvatore house-""I'm not gonna tell anybody," She reassured me. "We'll talk about it more later, yeah?" "Ok." I get up and leave to go buy lunch. When I come back, I see Dana talking to Elena and I sit down next to her. "But he wants you to save him the last dance, how cute is that?" She asks Elena. For some reason I feel something odd that makes my heart ache slightly, jealousy. I shouldn't be jealous. Klaus is only messing with Elena. I do always find myself wondering, does Klaus love me like he used to? "She's been compelled," Bonnie stated. I got a call from Ric and picked it up. "Ric?" I ask, secretly informing him that people are listening. "Ела да ми апартамент след училище." (Ela da mi apartament sled uchilishte/Come to my apartment after school.) Wow, Nik, you had to start speaking Bulgarian… "сигурен"(Siguren/sure) We all, minus Ric, go over to the Salvatores' and talk about Bonnie being our secret weapon. "If I can find him, I can kill him," Bonnie states. "That's not going to be that easy, I mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around," I defend."Carmen has a point. I mean what if he-" Damon speeds up to bonnie, but she tosses him across the room wiith the flick of a wrist. Ten minutes later, I'm at Ric's flat and I see Kat covered in blood with a knife in her hand, and Maddox talking with Nik. "Where have you been, Mariana?" He scolds. "At the Salvatores'. We've got a bit of an issue." I tell him everything that happened and he devises a plan with Maddox to kill him. You may be wondering why I am helping Nik instead of untying my friend and getting the hell out of there. Klaus threatened Jayden's life, so I have to do as he says or he'll kill him. After I finish explaining, Jayden's camp director rings me. "Hello?" "Hello, are you Miss. Ash, Jayden's caretaker?" "Yes, why? Is something wrong?" I ask as I take the bourbon Maddox handed me. "It seems that Jayden is… lashing out again. He is becoming very agitated with his fellow campers, and is hitting and punching them from time to time. I am going to have to ask you to take him out of camp for the time being, until his anger is resolved." Damn it. He can't be involved in this stuff. And what's even worse is that his anger is starting to show. "We will send him on the bus home, since it says in your records that you cant leave town at the moment. He'll be home tomorrow morning." The woman says. "Ok, thank you." I hang up and sigh in exasperation. "Well it seems that we will be having another Duval in the midst," Klaus said with a smirk. Duval is my birth name: Mariana Duval. "Klaus, I swear to god if you hurt him, I-" "You'll what?" Klaus asks, with a smirk still plastered on his face. "I'll find him, and I will send him after you," I threaten before storming out. I see the spark of fear in his eyes, and feel bad. Oh well… Waking Mikael is pretty much the biggest threat I could think of, and I wanted to be clear about my intentions. I went to the dance, as I was already dressed in my clothing. Everybody started slow dancing and Klaus did a shout out to elena, dedicating a song tl her, and I felt that pang of jealousy again. I saw one of my friends who I barely hang out with anymore, and went over to him. "Hey, Jack." "Hey, Carmen! You have really been on the down low for a while, where've you been?" he asked. "Um, visiting family out of state." He nodded and held out his hand. "Well, would you like to dance?" I took it and we started slow dancing. I felt eyes watching us, and saw Klaus look about ready to kill Jack. Huh, so maybe he does still have feelings for me? We keep dancing and I notice Jack is quite good. We laugh and Stefan comes up to me and asks Jack, "Can I steal Carmen for a moment?" He nods and walks away. "Klaus is here, so keep an eye out. If you smell anything, let me know, ok?" I laugh. "If I smell anything?" "Isn't that a thing? You sniff the bad guys out?" "um, no, I'm not a super wolf, sorry." He laughs and walks away.
I am running through the halls, in search of Elena, Bonnie, and Nik. I see them and see Bonnie fighting off Klaus. "Elena!" I yell, pulling her arm. "No! We have to help Bonnie!" "No, Elena, we have to get you out of here. I'm a werewolf, therefore, a hell of a lot stronger than you. So please Elena, don't make me drag you." She resists so I yank her arm and run out of there with her. Damon comes and tells us to get Stefan so we do so, Elena still resisting. We find him, and come back to where Damon is. "She's doing what she has to do." "What?" Elena asks, confused. "Where is she?" Stefan asks. "Stefan, let her do this," "Damn it, Damon, Where is she?!" He asks, angry. We all go to the cafeteria and Bonnie locks the doors. Eventually, Bonnie falls to the ground. Klaus disappears. Elena starts freaking out. "Get her home, Stefan. I'll deal with the body," Damon says. "What to you mean deal with it?" Elena demands, looking between Damon, Stefan, and I. "Sherriff can't know about this. Last thing we need's another mysterious death," Damon says. "This is Bonnie!" Elena yells. "Stefan, get her home, now so we can clean this up," Damon orders. I go back to the flat and get out my laptop after getting changed. Tyler is gone, Jayden's coming back, and I don't want to bother Carol with me staying there, so I pull up the house that I was looking at before. I really love it and know that Jay will too. I email my realtor, saying I want to look into buying the property with her tomorrow, gather my things, and go back to the Lockwood's.
I wake up and get dressed in /cgi/set?id=171310115. I go downstairs and have an awkward breakfast with Carol. I then tell her that I found a wonderful house. She is happy for me and sad at the same time. The realtor coming over overlaps with when I am supposed to pick up Jay, so Carol says she'll pick him up. The realtor comes and we talk about the house and start signing papers. We had discussed this before, so she is prepared with the necessary documents because she knows I would be buying the house. After I signed the last paper, she tells me that the house is mine. I start packing everything I can fit in my car, and call the storage facility that has the rest of my stuff to bring everything to my house. It is on the same street as the Salvatore house, which is brilliant. The storage people help me unpack all of the furniture into the house – ok, I don't actually do any of the work, but when they came to my house in LA to get the stuff, Luke had compelled them all to help me whenever I asked. I have them send for more people, and with so many workers, the house has all of the basic furniture unpacked quickly. I also almost finish unpacking my and Jay's clothing. We both have nice walk in closets, so it takes some time to finish. When I am done, I decide, for some reason, to take a walk in the park. As I am leaving, Jay and Carol pull into the driveway. I run up to Jay and hug him. Then I pull away and slap his head. "Ow! What was that for?" He demands. I glare at him. "I'm sorry, but the guy was being a douche, I just got… angry." "It's ok, just at least try not to be that stupid, Jay. I am not letting you trigger that damn curse at the age of 14." "Besides that, how was school?" I ask. "Boring, stupid, unnecessary." I laugh, thank Carol, and we start walking in to the living room. We sit down and I ask him, "Have you been having any particularly odd dreams lately?" "Um, no. Why, have you?" I have a feeling he's lying so I say, "Are you sure, Jayden?" he gulps, and probably hopes I didn't hear it, but I did. I yell, "If you are lying, tell me, Jay! This is really important, ok?"
Jayden's POV:
She breathes in and out, trying to calm myself. Sometimes, my sister scares me. I know her anger is from the werewolf gene but still, she can get really mad really fast. "Just," she pauses, "please. Have you been having weird dreams?" She asks more softly. "Ok, fine. Yea, I have been having weird dreams. But they aren't really dreams, more like warnings. There is a woman, with dirty blonde hair, brown eyes, and 10th century clothing. She keeps telling me these two phrases: Things are not as they seem. More people than you would believe are conspiring against you, Percy Duval.
Who the hell is Percy Duval and what does this woman want from me, Carmen?" She starts walking again, thinking about how to respond to my question. Sure, I didn't tell her everything that this woman tells me, but I told her all she needs to know for now. She starts explaining to me how she has dreams too. I can tell she is hiding something from me about these dreams, because she doesn't give names, or clothing. Just too many damn pronouns… When she finishes, she gets a call. "Hello?" She asks. "I don't want him getting involved, Klaus." "Good, but I'm still not going." "I swear to god if you touch Kat-" Katherine? The girl who befriended both of my sisters in England? She's here? "Fine. Just, don't try anything that will push me off the edge, Klaus. The threat still stands." She hangs up angrily and says, "You remember Kat, right?" I nod. "We're going for a little visit."

Carmen's POV:
I hear Carol say, "Elijah, Elena, what are you doing here." Jayden is about to ask me who they are but I put his hand over his mouth and silence him. I take it away and wave for him to come into the kitchen. We duck behind the counter and hear Elijah say, "Excuse me, I'll be down in a moment." I walk up with Jayden behind me and say, "What the hell is an Original doing in this house, Elena?" "I'm talking with him. And he brought me here, I don't know why." I hear Elijah beginning to descend from the stairs and I grab Jayden's hand and go out the back. We go into Ric's apartment and Katherine turns around with a bottle of bourbon in her hand and asks, "Jayden?" "Hey, Katherine." "Wow, didn't think I'd see you here, since everything that's going on." "What's going on," Jay asks, looking between her and me. "I'll explain everything later, but for now, pour me a bourbon, would you Kat?" I ask with a smile. "So, where are Ryland and Arden?" "They, um, passed away, along with my mother." "Oh, so it's just you two?" "Pretty much, yeah," I answer. A little while later, we leave and I tell Jayden, "Want to see something cool?" He nods and I start walking. We eventually arrive at our new house and Jayden asks, "Um, it's a nice house, but what are we doing here?" I ignore the question and walk inside, Jayden following close behind. "Welcome home, brother."
An hour later, I have told Jayden everything that I know about this town. Who the vampires are; what's happened so far; what Klaus really wants, everything besides the content of my dream. Then I hear my phone ringing and Nik tells me it is time for me to go to his apartment for the body swap. That is what he had called me about earlier. He told me to come when he was ready for the swap, because he wanted me to be there for some reason. "I've got to go do something, but you can go wherever you want. Tomorrow, you start school." He groans and then says, where are you going, Carmen. No more secrets, remember?" "I'm going to Klaus. He needs me there for the body swap." He nods and then says, "Ok, well I'm going to unpack my suitcases from camp." I nod and say, "Do me a favor? There's a gym downstairs, use it. I have a feeling you will need that strength in this town." He nods and I get in my car to leave.
I enter the apartment just after Klaus compels Katherine to sit down and shut up. I sit down next to her and when Greta walks in, I ask, "Тя не е ли малко по- млад, за да се направи магията (Isn't she a little young to do magic), Niklaus? Тя изглежда да е на същата възраст като брат ми – петнадесет

. (She looks to be the same age as my brother – fifteen)" Katherine laughs and Klaus says, "She is one of the strongest witches I know, she can do it, easily." Greta smirks and says, "Nice body, you ready to get out of it?" Greta asks flirtingly. There goes that feeling again, jealousy. Ugh, why am I jealous of someone flirting with an ass like Klaus? It is because we were once in love. He doesn't know that though, lets keep it that way. The little voice in my head tells me. Ok, yes, fine! Sometimes I talk to myself. When I'm alone it's out loud, but when I'm not, it's in my head, for obvious reasons, being as I don't want people to think I'm a lunatic. I see the coffin as some people wheel it in and immediately my vision goes black.
I am back in the same field, and I see Esther once again. "One death threat wasn't enough?" I ask. "Don't push your luck, love. I have come to give you your memories of Niklaus back. This will hurt, so lets hope Katerina's blood is enough to keep you alive in this process," She says with a smirk and then disappears again.
I shoot up and see Katherine and Klaus staring at me, while everybody else gets the spell ready. "are you alright? You passed out," Klaus asks with surprising concern in his voice. "You know, your mother can be a real bitch," I say before blacking out again. This time I am in the Mikaelson Mansion.
"Niklaus!" I hear Kol call. "Kol! Shut the bloody hell up, will you?" I yell from my chambers. I hear him laugh, and then hear Rebekah scream, "Shut up!" at the top of her lungs, which makes Kol and I erupt in laughter. "What is it, brother?" Nik calls. "We have a visitor." At that, I shoot up from bed and get dressed. I always love when people come and visit. There have been witches, warlocks, beggars, vampires, and even a few of my own kind. I rush to the door and see a woman with dark skin, brown eyes, and beautiful hair /F96Zk8. "You must be Mariana. I am Annalisa Bennett. I was sent by your mother." Something was off about her. Not only that she knew my bitch of a mother, but that she was sent by her. "Bennett? So you're a witch?" Kol asks, intrigued. She nods. "Why did my mother send you?" I ask. "May I come in so we may talk?" I nod hesitantly.
We are sitting by the fire with tea as we talk. "I have known your mother since I was born. She has always been so kind to me and my family." "Well I suppose we have met different versions of my mother, as she has always been in a nark around her children." "As you know, she has some mental disabilities. You mustn't blame her for being who she is." "I mustn't blame her!" I yell. Nik puts his hands on my shoulders from behind to calm me down. "The entirety of my life, I have known an awful person who is greedy and doesn't care for her children one bit, and yet she seems to have cared for you immensely. Just tell me why you are here, so you may leave." I tell her harshly. I don't mean the things I say, but my mother is a "sensitive" topic to say the least. She starts laughing. "She was right." I give her a look telling her I don't understand. "Esther was right about you. She said your temper is unbelievable, and that you aren't one to welcome newcomers and she was right. You did seem nice at first, so I am sorry that I must do this." "Do what?" I ask. Niklaus stands in front of me protectively, "Yes, what is it you speak of." She just laughs again and starts chanting, "Lihednat Dolchitni." I start suffocating and Niklaus runs after the girl, who has inconveniently disappeared, and then comes to me to try and help. I am still suffocating as the other Mikaelsons come downstairs and try to help. "Mariana!" Rebekah speeds over to me, trying to help. A few seconds later, I fall down lifelessly.
I am in a forest and the wind is blowing heavily in my face. "Carmen?!" I hear a familiar voice scream. I turn around to see Lexi standing there, crying. I go up to her and squeeze her tightly. A minute or two later, Lexi pulls away and says, "Wait, why are you here?" "I don't know, where is here?" I ask clueless as to what is going on. "Car, you're on the other side."