I woke up to this weird dream of this older guy that I'd never met kissing me before this woman, possibly his mother killed me. I looked over Anna who was still sleeping. After a few deep breaths, I decided to go back to sleep.
In the morning, Anna, Elena, and strangely Matt, and I brought Jenna home from the hospital. We slowly walked her through the doorway.
"I don't need you guys to baby me." Jenna remarked.
"We just don't want you to rip your stitches open and die." I pointed out as we helped her onto the couch.
"The only thing I'll die of is embarrassment." Jenna stated. "I mean I walked into a knife. Who does that?"
"I'm sure it's more common than you think." Anna declared.
"Yeah, it happens to me all of the time at work." Matt chimed in. I wasn't sure why people were trying to make her feel better. I was still seething with rage. Anna and I went up to our room.
"So do you still wanna go to the masquerade with me?" She asked.
"No." I replied. "I didn't get much sleep tonight and I don't know if Stefan's gonna be there and I just don't wanna go, but you can still go if you want."
"You know that we can't let Katherine get away with this." She pointed out.
"Well what am I going to do about it?" I questioned. "Even if this ring prevents her from killing me, I can't kill her."
"But we can kill her." Anna pointed out. "I can definitely kill her if I can get a clear shot at her."
"I really don't want to do it." I stated. "I just want some time to dwell on my breakup with Stefan. That's really all that I want."
"But if we kill Katherine, you two can get back together." She pointed out. I sighed. "Okay, well I think I'm going to go to the boarding house."
I really wasn't sure what I was going to do. I didn't want to be that girl that stays home on a Sunday night when all of her friends are at a party, but I didn't really want to go anywhere either. One thing that I thought about doing was staying and watching some stuff on Netflix. It probably wouldn't be a vampire movie because they weren't as enjoyable anymore.
One thing that I couldn't help but notice was that no one seemed to come to the house to check on me. Usually when I was feeling down, someone would come over. It was kind of odd. I decided to talk to Elena since no one else was here.
"So have you thought about dating any other girls since you broke up with Anna?" I questioned. I still had no idea if the two of them were going to get back together.
"I think it's something that I haven't been paying much attention to because the only other lesbian I know is Blair Fell and we've never really gotten along."
It probably would have been nice is Mystic Falls High had some sort of gay club to let them know they're not alone.
"I do know that I don't want to date any more vampires for a while." She added.
"That seems like it's becoming increasingly harder in this town." I quipped. "I honestly don't think that someone being a vampire is enough reason not to date them. It would be like not dating someone for the color of their skin or how they dress. It's not something that they can change."
"Well I just want to change it up." Elena replied. "My last two girlfriends were the same."
"You know Vicki and Anna are nothing alike." I pointed out.
"Well I'm not getting back with Anna." She declared. "It's too bad that I don't have anyone to go to this stupid ball with."
"Were you gonna go?" I asked in surprise.
"Like I told Matt, I'm not going to without a date." She remarked. "So I heard that Ric was going to come over tonight. Maybe we could watch something together. We haven't seen DEBS in a long time."
"Looking back, I probably should have known before you came out." I remarked as she shoved me onto her bed.
That night, I couldn't help but notice that Anna didn't come back from the boarding house. Maybe she went straight to the party. I couldn't help but wonder where she got her dress. Granted she could have bought one, but I probably had something that she could wear.
Ric came over to the house with a pizza and I let him in. I hoped that it was enough to feed the four of us. I wished he had brought some breadsticks with him.
"Why didn't you bring any breadsticks?" I asked.
"I didn't know that you wanted any." He replied.
"That's why it would have been a good idea to see if we wanted anything when you were ordering it." I pointed out. "So, Elena had this movie that she wanted to watch. It's like this lesbian spy comedy, but it is really funny."
"So how are you doing?" He asked me.
"I'm as good as I can be right now." I stated. "I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't want to be with Stefan and I don't want Katherine to get her way, but what choice do I have?"
"I think that you could do anything that you can put your mind to." He replied. "You're one of the best students that I have."
"Well thanks for the praise, but I don't really want anyone else to get hurt." I told him.
"I think that who gets hurt and who doesn't is up to them." He argued. "So what do you want to drink?"
"Do we have any vodka?" I questioned.
"What do you want without alcohol in it?" He rephrased and I gave him a pout. He understood my drinking habit better than anyone.
So I had the seen the movie a few times and I wasn't that interested in it. I still couldn't wonder what everyone was doing. It seemed like everyone was at the masquerade. So basically, for the first time in a long time, I was bored. I didn't know what I was going to do. I mean there was still the Netflix idea, but then I would be in my room by myself. Now was a time that we could use some sort of party game. I decided to walk into the kitchen and talk to Ric.
"So where is everyone?" I asked him. "Also, why are you here right now when you're not paying much attention to Jenna?"
"Stefan asked me to keep an eye on you in case Katherine showed up while he was at the Masquerade Ball." He answered.
"Why would Stefan go to the Masquerade Ball?" I questioned. "He hates that kind of stuff and also if Stefan was at the Masquerade Ball, Katherine would probably go there knowing that I was not with him. So what's going? Is this a plan to kill Katherine that you guys left me out of?"
"You are too smart for your own good." He muttered.
"What are you doing?" I questioned. "You can't do this without me. I'm going to the Masquerade Ball."
"Yeah, I'm not going to let you out the door." He told me.
"Fine, I guess I'll just be in my room then." I replied as I walked up the stairs. The first thing that I needed to do was put on a dress. I knew that I couldn't go to the ball wearing jeans. I went through my closet and pulled out a formfitting long-sleeved royal blue dress with a matching pair of heels.. I still had the other issue to get around, but that was easy enough. I grabbed some sheets and descended out the window, already holding my keys. Once I was in my car, I began to drive to the Lockwood mansion.
The masquerade was very lavish. For some reason there were guys playing with fire, which seemed like it had the potential to go very wrong. I looked around for anyone that I actually knew and happened to see Anna from behind, walking away from Katherine. I grabbed her and pulled her towards me. Surprised, she bore her fangs to me.
"That is not something to do when someone touches you." I pointed out. "Secondly, you have some serious explaining to do."
"Mary, this is our best chance to kill Katherine." Anna explained.
"You could've told me about it." I pointed out. "I thought it would be just you, but Ric tells me that all of you worked on this."
"He should not be in charge of watching you anymore." She muttered.
"Where is Katherine going right now?" I asked.
"Caroline was sending her to this room upstairs." Anna explained as Bonnie suddenly appeared.
"FUCK!" I shouted as I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back like I had been stabbed. I noticed veins forming under Anna's eyes. I then felt something else in my shoulder. "What's happening?"
"She's linked to Katherine." Bonnie stated, looking at Anna. "Go run up there and get them to stop."
Anna darted off, leaving me with the witch.
"Make it stop." I begged.
"I can stop the bleeding but I can't break the link." She explained as another cut appeared across my palm. Bonnie used a spell and I feel the cuts closing up as I took some deep breaths and Anna returned to me. "Stay with her. I need to find the witch who's doing this."
"I knew it was too easy." Anna stated. "Someone as smart as Katherine wouldn't put all of her cards on the table without a backup plan."
"This is why you've shouldn't have done it." I pointed out. "Is Stefan okay?"
"Yeah, but now we can't do anything until you're no longer linked." She told me. "So you look really pretty in that dress."
"You too." I told her as I looked at in a black dress with a white diagonal stripe and sleeves. "So have you ever seen the movie DEBS?"
"I love that movie." She declared.
"How long do you think it'll take for me to no longer be linked to her?" I asked the vampire as I sat down on the grass.
"It's hard to say. Bonnie would either have to convince the witch to stop the spell or we'd have to kill her." Anna explained.
"Can witches be guys too?" I questioned. "You know warlocks?"
"Yes, witches can be both male and female, but Bonnie said this one was a woman." She answered, taking a seat next to me.
"Well how about we talk about something else?" I questioned. "Where were you born?"
"I was born here actually." She responded.
"Really, I was expecting somewhere in China or something." I admitted.
"This part of the world one of the best kept secrets." She explained. "People from all over the world lived here in harmony for many years."
"What happened?" I asked.
"It's a long story." She explained. "I really don't even know the whole story because we left when I was young. We ended up settling in what's now Oklahoma and that's where I was turned. You know I just realized something."
"What's that?" I responded with interest.
"Stefan said that she had something that George wanted. She gave him the moonstone and that's how Mason ended up with it." She told me.
"How can one rock as small as that be so important?" I questioned.
"Well it's much easier to carry than a large rock." She quipped. I supposed that was true.
At that point, Bonnie walked back over to us. I hoped that she had good news.
"So I have good news." Bonnie replied. "I talked to the witch and she undid the spell. You two are no longer linked, well hopefully."
"Does that mean that you're going to kill her?" Anna replied.
"Well we still can't be completely sure, so we're going to put her in the tomb instead." Bonnie explained.
"Well can we kill her once we're certain I'm not linked to her?" I questioned.
"I like the tomb idea." Anna admitted. "I want her to suffer the way that my mother did."
"I still think it's a better idea to kill her so we don't have to worry about her later." I pointed out. "But I guess that I don't have a say."
I decided to walk over to the pond in the backyard. The water really was beautiful. I was a little pissed off how everyone was making these decisions without my input. I then noticed that Stefan was walking over to me.
"Did you come to tell me that you made another decision without telling me?" I questioned icily.
"That wasn't what I was expecting." He stated.
"Look, I know that I said that as soon as Katherine was out of the picture, we could get back together, but I don't think that I want to do anything tonight."
"Well maybe we could go to the boarding house and talk things out?" He suggested.
"Why don't you want to kill her?" I questioned. "After all that she's done to us, I think letting her live is a mistake."
"She's probably already in the tomb by now." Stefan explained. "We couldn't kill her without being trapped in there ourselves."
"I still think that I'm going to go home." I told him. "I'll see you in the morning and we can discuss getting back together."
I began to walk back to my car. I wasn't sure if I was making a mistake by not immediately running back into his arms. I definitely loved Stefan more than anything. I then couldn't help but wonder something. Did everyone forget about my ring? They probably could have killed me and her and I would have been brought back by the ring. Although, I did have to admit that I forgot about it myself. I probably wouldn't have liked dying very much anyway.
I stood in front of my car, waving goodbye to Anna as she drove away. I prepared to get in when someone came up behind me and put a rag over my face. She smell was making me sleepy. I had just been chloroformed. I couldn't even see who it was before I fell into unconsciousness.
So Mary was kidnapped. What's going to happen when she meets Rose and Elijah and who will be there to save her? Please don't forget to review.