It was Saturday and to my knowledge, Elena was still seeing ghosts. I was in town with her, Anna and Ric for some kind of lantern festival. I wore a blue long-sleeved blouse with white polka-dots, with a short-sleeved blue cardigan, blue skirt, hose, and black wedges with blue socks. I wasn't sure what the significance of the festival was.

"As a longtime member of the Historical Society, I am especially proud to be kicking off this day of festivities." Mayor Lockwood stated. "Thank you. Tonight we turn off our lights, and turn up the lanterns as started by our founders a hundred years ago."

We stood in the crowd as I noticed Anna, who was wearing my clothes because she forgot to wash hers. She seemed to be very good at pretending to be a normal cheerleader to the point where I thought that she thought she was a teenager at times.

"Now we welcome Founding Family member Tobias Fell with a history lesson." The mayor continued. He was also Tina's grandpa.

"What are we doing here?" Elena asked.

"As part of the Historical Society, I am required to be here." Ric explained. "And as Founding Family members, you're pretty much required to be here too and Anna follows Mary wherever she goes."

"Well I found this highly entertaining." Anna replied as Mr. Fell said something about the lanterns keeping people safe. "Safe from all of the vampires."

I couldn't help but giggle. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't too loud. It basically did sound like gibberish since I knew that pretty much everything he was saying was a lie. I couldn't help but wonder who would dumb enough to buy into any of it.

Eventually, we got bored with him talking, so we decided to take a seat at a table at the Grill.

"So, Elena, I need your help with something." I stated as I took one of Stefan's diaries out of his bag.

"With what?" Elena asked.

"Every time that Stefan has lost his way, his friend Lexi's been there to get him out of it." I explained.

"Where is she now that we need her?" Ric inquired.

"She's dead." Elena replied. "You want me to see if I can talk to her."

"Can you?" I questioned. "I want to know how she did it so I can at least try to help him."

"I don't know even know if she's on the Other Side." Elena told us.

"The Other Side, is that's what it's called?" I asked.

"That's what Savannah calls it." Elena remarked.

"Wait, you've been talking to Savannah Fell?" I asked. Savannah was Tina's older sister who died tragically during my freshman year. "So was she a vampire?"

"The council killed her." Elena explained. "I also may have cheated on Matt with her a little."

Hopefully she wasn't cheating on Bonnie with her, even though I was pretty sure that she couldn't actually touch the ghosts despite Vicki almost killing me somehow.

"So it's some sort of supernatural purgatory then?" Ric asked.

"Savannah says it's like they're here but no one can see them or interact with them." Elena added.

"Vicki could interact. She blew up on my car." Ric pointed out.

"Vicki had help from a witch." Elena argued. "The others don't have that."

"I'm just saying that maybe we shouldn't mess with this stuff." He declared.

"Speak for yourself. If I got the chance to talk to my mom again, I'd take it." Anna opined.

"I need this, Ric." I declared. "I'm basically running out of options. Is Savannah here right now?"

"No." Elena remarked hastily. "I have to pee."

She scurried off and I was sure that something was up.

"Hey everybody." Stefan greeted us before taking Elena's seat. "It seems my invitation was lost in the mail."

He grabbed his book and began skim it.

"Look at all these words, I forgot how much I used to care." He stated.

"I didn't." I replied.

"You know Mary, it's not a good idea to hold onto the past. You should just accept it and move on like I have." Stefan replied with that smarmy look at Jenna said Logan used to have.

"You can go now Stefan." Ric told him.

"I could but Mary's here and I need to protect her." Stefan stated.

"I'll protect her." Anna remarked.

"Yeah because you're so good at that." Stefan quipped. "Besides, this place is gonna be crowded and there will be plenty of people to eat. I'm kidding. Lighten up."

He then walked away.

"I can't drop it, Ric." I declared.

A little bit later, I walked into the Grill because I needed to use the bathroom. I opened it to see that see Elena was inside…and she was kissing Savannah.

"Savannah." I stated in shock.

I had to say that I was a bit shocked. I didn't understand how I was seeing her. I supposed that it was possible since I was also brought back to life by a spell. I then reached out and touched her and she was definitely tangible. She had a bright red blush on her face. I also couldn't believe that Elena was cheating on Bonnie with a ghost. Seriously, there was no way that she could possibly think that any sort of relationship would be possible. The sex couldn't be that great or satisfying.

I then got a call from Caroline. I wasn't sure why she was calling me, but answered anyway.

"So we have a bit of a problem." Caroline explained. "Apparently this witch cast a spell that basically allowed ghosts to enter Mystic Falls and interact with people. The good news is that there is a way to stop it, but to do it, we're going to need to destroy your necklace."

"Normally, I would say no, but I just came across a reason that I am completely okay with it." I replied as I looked at Savannah. "Don't tell Bonnie, but I kind of caught Elena kissing Savannah Fell."

"Oh my God." Caroline replied. "So do you know where the necklace is?"

"It's in the boarding house." I answered before hanging up.

One thing that I noticed was that Anna was gone, but I was pretty sure that she would be back soon. I really needed to deal with the problem in front of me first. I looked at my sister.

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?" I asked angrily.

"Don't be mad at her." Savannah said.

"I didn't ask for your opinion. I was talking to my sister." I declared.

"Mary, don't be mad at her. It's not her fault." Elena defended.

"You're right." I agreed before I looked at her. "It's yours. But she needs to disappear or do whatever ghosts do."

Savannah vanished, leaving the two of us alone. I wasn't entirely sure why I was upset since Bonnie and I were even that great of friends. I supposed that I just thought that my sister was better than that.

"Mary, please don't tell Bonnie." Elena begged.

"I'm not going to tell Bonnie." I replied as she breathed a sigh of relief. "You're going to tell her."

I walked outside to see if I could find Anna. Instead I found a long-haired blonde.

"Lexi." I remarked in surprise.

"What a good day it was to be thinking about me, Mary." She replied. "Come with me."

"Where are we going?" I asked as I followed after her.

"I'm taking to your first lesson in Ripper Detox 101." She explained. I assumed that meant she had captured Stefan.

She took me to the old Forbes jail cell. We walked inside and I saw that Stefan was unconscious and chained to a chair. It looked like some crazy stuff was about to go down.

"So what happened?" Lexi asked. I was surprised that she didn't know.

"Klaus compelled him to turn off his humanity." I explained. "So what do we do?"

"We're going to have to convince him to turn it back on." Lexi answered. "Now I want to warn you in advance that some of the things that you are going to see are going to be pretty unsettling. I need to know if you're going to be able to handle this."

"I can deal." I remarked. I still had no idea what she was planning on doing or how long she would be able to be in tangible form. She kicked his chair, waking him up.

"Huh, what's going on?" Stefan asked as he struggled against the chains. "Let me out."

"Hey, use your indoor voice." Lexi instructed. "I need to get inside of your head."

"Mary, will you please get rid of her?" Stefan requested.

"No." I denied. I was still watching intently.

"The first thing that we need to do is dry him out." Lexi told me. "It'll starve away the bloodlust."

"This isn't going to work." Stefan replied as she just stared at him. "You can't do this."

"I hope you're ready, Mary." She stated.

"I am." I confirmed as she continued to stare.

"What are you doing?" Stefan asked before he began to scream in pain. "What are you doing Lexi?!"

"I'm saving your life." Lexi answered as she kept staring at him.

Stefan kept screaming. I think Lexi had created some sort of illusion in his head.

"What are you doing?" I questioned. I didn't think I could do that.

"He's hallucinating." She answered. Yeah that was something that I definitely couldn't do. "That's three months of hunger, now nine, two years, and five."

"Did I ever tell you how much I hate you?" Stefan asked through his teeth.

"Oh, I miss you too." Lexi teased.

At that point, my phone began to ring and I went outside to get the call.

"Hello?" I asked.

"So the necklace isn't where you said it would be." Caroline declared.

"I need you to hold off on sending the ghosts back." I remarked.

"What, why?" She asked.

"Lexi is here and helping Stefan." I explained.

"Well let's just find the necklace and then we can choose between relationship dramas, okay." Caroline replied. "Do you know anywhere else it might be?"

"I know it's in the house." I told her before I hung up.

I went back inside and noticed that Stefan taking a lot deep breaths while Lexi hovered over him.

"Mary, she's hurting me. Make her stop." He begged.

"Don't listen to him." Lexi instructed. "You need to shut him out."

"This is me helping, Stefan." I declared.

"I'll do anything you want." He pleaded. "I'll change. I'll even help you kill Klaus."

"He's lying." Lexi replied. "He'll say anything at this point to get me to stop. Don't let him get to you."

"Mary, please get her to stop." He continued. He began to sweat.

"You can't let your emotions get the better of you." Lexi replied. I felt a little bit I was in a tug-o-war.

"Mary, I love you. I love you so much." He told me. I almost wanted to believe him.

"I don't believe you." I declared.

"I hate you. I hate you, you fucking bitch." He snarled. "I wish I had never met you."

"That's the ripper talking." Lexi noted. "Once he's weakened, you have to make him feel. You have to make him see past the blood."

She stabbed him with a stake in the side.

"This is something that you have to do every day like making coffee." She explained.

"I will rip you apart!" He threatened.

"You can't because I'm already dead." Lexi stated before stabbing him again.

"I need some air." I declared.

I went outside and heard sirens.

"What's going on?" I asked Anna and Elena.

"Some of the tomb vampires killed Mr. Fell." Anna stated before I gave her a hug. I then noticed something in her pocket.

"Why do you have this?" I asked, holding up the necklace. I wanted to be angry, but I also wanted to hear her side.

"I want to see my mom." Anna admitted.

"Anna, I understand that you miss, but if these ghosts are killing people, we have to send them away." I explained as I handed the necklace to Elena. "Take this to Bonnie at the witch house."

Anna began to cry. It wasn't hard to understand why because I had just ripped her dreams away from her.

"It's going to be okay." I told her as I hugged her tightly.

"Annabelle." A voice interrupted us. We turned to see Pearl standing in front of us. Anna ran into her arms and it made me want to cry. I knew that it wouldn't last but I was still happy that she at least was going to get her chance to say goodbye.

Once Anna was done saying goodbye to her mom, I decided to take her downstairs to let her see Lexi and what she was doing to Stefan. She stabbed him once again.

"You wasted your whole life taking care of me and now you're dead." Stefan taunted. She didn't seem fazed.

"You don't have much time left." I said. "The spell is about to be cast."

"I need more time." Lexi argued.

"I can't give it to you." I responded. "As soon as Bonnie gets the necklace, the door will close. The ghosts have started killing people and I can't wait any longer."

"The necklace: you have to remember giving it to her." Lexi remarked. "You loved her even then."

After a few minutes, I felt the air seem to change.

"It's up to you now, Mary." She stated. "You're going to have to be the one to save him."

She disappeared and I tried to figure out how I was gonna do that.

I decided that it would be best for Anna to go wait outside while I talked to Stefan because I didn't want it to feel like I was stabbing her in the heart.

"Stefan, I need you to feel something." I told him. "I need you to feel anything or you're going to lose me."

"What are you just going to stay here and wait like last time?" He asked. There was no way that I could stay.

"No, I'm going to go home and I'm not going to leave the door open this time." I remarked. "When you're ready to feel, I'll let you out."

So I needed someone to help with the plot, so I created a character played by AnnaSophia Robb. Also Anna took the necklace, but got to see her mom. Please don't forget to review.