CHAPTER 8
Author's Note- This chapter gets a bit smutty at the end, not too much though.
If this is not your sort of thing, don't read. You have been warned.
Nora waited patiently until Bonnie answered her phone.
She had thought about going to the witch's place but then thought better of it.
She had already unchained Mary Louise and now Valerie was in her place, her head hanging forward as she was still unconcious.
Mary Louise glared at the Heretic that she thought she could trust.
"Hello?" Bonnie's voice came through on the other end of the line.
"Bonnie, it's Nora. Could you come over here and try that spell again? Mary Louise wants to do it this time, for real." She said as she gave the blonde a wink.
"Yeah sure. Just give say...15 minutes?"
"No problem. We'll see you then."
Nora let out a breath and pocketed her phone.
"She said she'll be here in about 15 minutes."
Mary Louise nodded and then looked back at Valerie.
"What do we do with her?"
Nora shrugged.
"I'll think of something. Maybe along the lines of torture." She said with a cold grin.
The blonde didn't return it and Nora rolled her eyes.
"When you get your memory back, you'll remember how much fun a good torture session is, trust me."
Mary Lou nodded but she didn't seem convinced.
True to her word, Bonnie turned up 15 minutes later, a bag slung over her shoulder.
"Hey, I got here as soon as I could-" She stopped abruptly when she saw that Valerie was chained to the chair and Stefan's body was on the table nearby.
The witch frowned.
"What's going on here? I thought I was here to restore Mary Louise's memory."
"You are. The other two are mere...annoyances. Pay no attention to them." Nora said flippantly.
"What happened here?" Bonnie asked she slowly walked over to Valerie.
Nora sighed.
"I could explain but right now I need you to give my girlfriend her memory back."
Bonnie folded her arms and stared Nora down.
"I'm not doing anything until you explain all of this; is this why you left my place in a hurry?"
Nora nodded and then showed Bonnie the picture of Mary Louise knocked out cold on her phone.
"Valerie sent me this. I had to come back alone. That was the request."
Bonnie nodded.
"And Stefan?"
Mary Louise filled in the blanks for her there.
"Valerie manipulated me into helping her so that I would get Nora to help bring Stefan back from the afterlife. Once I turned on Valerie, she knocked me unconcious, chained me up and forced Nora to come back here so that we could both help her with the spell but Nora turned as well and we turned the tables on her. That is why she is tied up and that is why Stefan is on that table. Now, can we please get on with things?"
Bonnie nodded.
"Sure. Thank you...for clearing that up." She said awkwardly.
The blonde couldn't be less bothered by the witch's thanks and walked over to the middle of the room, sitting down and holding her hands out.
"Well?"
Nora grinned and sat next to Mary Lou while Bonnie sat on her other side and set up the items just like before.
Then Nora had a thought.
"Shit." She hissed, causing both Mary Louise and Bonnie to frown at her in confusion.
"What?" Bonnie asked.
"We need Valerie to take the magic prevention spell off of Mary Louise. She put it on her while she was out cold. It prevents her from using magic but I don't know if magic works on her."
Mary Louise glared at Valerie and got to her feet.
She strode over to the unconcious Heretic and slapped her hard.
"Wake up you bitch!"
Valerie didn't wake up.
Nora rolled her eyes.
"I spelled her. She won't be awake until it wears off."
The blonde turned back to her with wide eyes.
"And how long is that?"
"A few hours, give or take."
"A few hours?! Nora, that's too long! I want my memory back now!"
Nora got up and walked over to her girlfriend, taking Mary Lou's hands in her's.
"I know you do but we have to be patient. You will get your memory back but it will take a little time. We can wait...can't we?"
Nora cupped Mary Lou's cheek and smiled warmly into her eyes.
Mary Lou smiled back.
"Of course we can. I just want things to be the way they were...when I actually remembered how to love you, the way you deserve to be loved."
Nora smiled again.
Bonnie coughed a little to get their attention and they both turned towards her.
"Sorry, Bonnie." Nora said first.
"But this is something we both want."
The witch smiled.
"No problem. Just let me know when she wakes up and I'll come back."
Then she had another thought.
"Actually, I'll tell you what; how about you guys go for a walk, talk about your feelings and whatever and I'll ring you when Valerie wakes up?"
Nora looked at Mary Lou and smiled.
"That would be nice. Thank you, Bonnie."
"Don't mention it."
So Nora and Mary Louise left Bonnie with a chained up Valerie and went for that walk.
...
The sun was just starting to set and Nora walked beside Mary Louise.
Now and again their hands touched but then Nora would pull her's away.
Mary Louise frowned slightly, wondering why Nora was being a little cold towards her when she had been so loving a short while ago.
Nora licked her lips before speaking.
"I'm sorry I'm a little distant." She said suddenly, as though reading Mary Lou's mind.
The blonde faked a smile and shook her head.
"It doesn't matter."
"No, it does. I should explain."
Mary Louise looked at the ground as they walked, prefering not to look directly at Nora.
"No, it's fine. You really don't have to."
"Yes, I really do."
Nora stopped walking and the blonde felt trapped. At least while she was walking she had something to concentrate on rather than solely focusing on Nora's words which she was sure wasn't going to be all she wanted to hear right now.
Nora's green eyes locked with her's and Mary Lou felt her heart jump a little.
"I want to be normal with you but until you get your memory back I can't feel that it's really you, do you understand?"
Mary Lou nodded.
"When I get my memory back then I'll start feeling the way I did before. The way I feel about you now, it's like...I've only just met you."
Nora nodded and smiled a little.
"I'm glad you understand."
The blonde frowned, her eyes darkening a little.
"There is one thing; why were you more comfortable with me when I was tied up than now?"
Nora shrugged.
"Because you were vulnerable?"
Mary Lou nodded. She'd take that answer. Besides, she didn't really want to talk about it anymore.
They continued to walk and this time, the silence between them was even more uncomfortable than it had been.
Mary Lou took a breath and looked at the sun as it set just behind the trees.
"It's a beautiful sunset, isn't it?"
Nora nodded.
"It is."
"Like you." The blonde said and then closed her eyes after she'd said it. Too soon.
Nora chuckled a little, pushing a strand of brown hair behind her ear.
"I'm sorry...that was too much. I shouldn't have said anything."
"It's fine, really. It's something the old you would have said. The you that remembers all those things." Nora said with a genuine smile.
The blonde smiled as she looked down again, happy that Nora hadn't been annoyed with her over the compliment.
They walked some more, making awkward chit-chat about boring things; the weather, animals, people.
Before they knew what had happened, the sky had been taken over by the night and Nora frowned a little as she became hungry.
"You hungry?" She asked.
Mary Lou nodded with a slight grin.
Nora returned it.
"I trust you remember how to hunt?"
"Valerie taught-never mind."
Nora also ignored what Mary lou had been about to say and instead they both started looking for easy targets.
It didn't take them long. A couple out for a romantic walk, holding hands and talking quietly.
Nora nodded to Mary Louise and they followed them down a dark side street.
No one was around and as the couple headed towards an alley, Nora's grinned stretched. It was just too easy!
The vampires followed the couple and attacked them both in the middle of the alley. Mary Louise sank her teeth into the man while Nora cornered the woman and savagely bit into her neck.
Nora watched as the blonde drank deeply, her eyes rolling back into her head as she tasted her victim's sweet life force.
When she was done, she saw that Nora had finished and let her victim fall to the ground.
Both girls stared ar each other, fresh blood running through their veins and their hearts pumping not only from the bloodlust but from the adrenaline of a fresh kill.
Nora's eyes darkened as she moved to Mary Lou in a flash, pinning her against the wall and kissing her roughly.
The blonde moaned and returned the kiss, biting down on Nora's lip.
The brunette could taste a heady mixture of blood and Mary Lou and she dug her hands in the blonde's hair, pulling sharply and making the blonde vampire hiss in a mixture of pleasure and pain.
When Nora pulled back slightly to catch her breath, Mary Lou grinned at her but the grin was shaky as though she was unsure of something.
Nora was still in animal mode and grinned darkly at her.
"What's the matter? The Mary Lou I know always liked it a little rough."
"No, it's not that. You said you wanted me to get my memory back before...you know, anything happened."
Nora grinned.
"That was before we fed. This is just something else you'll remember once you get your memory back; after a feed, we always need a release. It's a side effect of the bloodlust but it's a great one. Now, come here."
Mary Lou let herself be pulled flush against Nora as the brunette ran her blood stained lips up the blonde's pale neck.
As much as Mary Lou wanted to experience this, to experience Nora, there was something holding her back and Nora felt the blonde become unresponsive to her ministrations.
She looked up at the blonde and licked her lips, wiping the blood from them.
"What's wrong?"
"This...feels wrong."
"Wrong? Why does it feel wrong?" Nora asked with a hint of annoyance. She always was an impatient girl.
Mary Lou shrugged.
"I don't know...maybe because for you, this is just sex but for me-"
"It's more? You don't even remember loving me!" Nora exclaimed.
"No, I don't. But I know that I love you now."
Nora rolled her eyes.
"And you're still in girlfriend mode, right?"
"What's that susposed to mean?"
Nora stepped back from Mary Louise and folded her arms across her chest.
"When we first met, you and I, we did the cute couple thing and now things have changed; you've gone back to feeling the first stirrings of love and I'm already there. Trust me, if you remembered anything, you wouldn't have felt anything wrong just then. In fact, if you could remember, you would have begged me not to stop."
Nora looked the blonde up and down and then walked off, leaving Mary Louise staring after her.
Did she follow? Did she stay where she was?
The blonde worried her bottom lip before she looked up.
"Nora!"
The brunette turned around slowly and watched as the blonde strode up to her, that bloodlust grin on her lips.
She took Nora's face in her hands and kissed her.
Nora smiled against Mary Lou's lips as the brunette pushed her back against the wall for the second time that night.
Mary Louise groaned as Nora bit her gently on her neck.
"Oh and Nora?"
The brunette looked up, wide eyes wondering what Mary Lou was about to say.
The blonde grinned.
"Don't stop."
Nora grinned and she hoped that when Mary Louise got her memory back, she would remember this night.
