I woke up in the middle of the night after hearing a sound. My first reaction was to shake Anna awake.
"What?" She asked.
"There's someone here." I declared. "We need to check it out."
"Can't you do it by yourself?" She responded.
"They could be a threat and you're in charge of protecting me while Stefan isn't here" I explained as I pulled her out of bed. We walked down the hall and found…Ric in his underwear holding a bowl of ice cream. "We heard a sound."
"That was us." Jenna replied as she appeared wearing his shirt. She was probably the most covered of all of us, since Anna and I were in the kind of skimpy nightgowns that she had bought us.
"Well I'm naked, so I should go." Ric declared. He was only mostly naked, though I wasn't interested in seeing what he did look like naked.
"I'm sorry that we woke you." Jenna apologized. "So are you okay with him staying over?"
"He's family." I explained. "On top of that, he makes you happy and I'm happy that you are happy.
"Well I'm going back to bed." Anna stated. I sighed and followed her. "You didn't need me for that."
"How was I supposed to know it was my aunt and stepfather getting freaky?" I inquired. "Let's just go back to sleep."
In the morning, we were having breakfast we found Stefan and Damon at the backdoor. After they, came in, they explained that they had gone to see Katherine. I was wearing a blue-striped tee and jeans with a burgundy coat.
"Why did you see Katherine, especially if I'm not allowed to see her?" I asked.
"We tried to get the moonstone from her, but she said that she's going to give it to us unless we let her out of the tomb." Stefan told us.
"I thought she didn't want out of the tomb." Anna remarked.
"Well now she does and we obviously can't do that." Damon responded. "Rose's friend Slater said that we can destroy the curse by dispelling the moonstone."
"What about the part where Klaus kills you all?" I questioned. "Look, I'm not looking to die in the sacrifice in the sacrifice, but that doesn't mean that I want any of you to die either. I'm not going to make the same mistakes that she did."
"Mary, if we can get the moonstone, we can save your life." Stefan pointed out. I knew that was important.
"I didn't say that I didn't want you to get it, but I don't want you to take the word of some guy that I've never met or break the spell on it. Just get it and we'll figure out what to do with it." I instructed.
They then left I began to finish my breakfast when I was hit with an idea.
"You've got that scheming look on your face." Anna commented.
"I'm not going to school today." I replied. "Just compel someone to make them think I was there. I don't need you to distract Stefan."
"You two should really be more honest with each other." She suggested.
"Well, someone has to convince him not to destroy the moonstone." I pointed out.
"I'm definitely with you on that." She responded. "I may not know Klaus, but I definitely know of his wrath."
"Well try to convince them not to do anything stupid." I suggested.
I decided to go to the boarding house to see Rose. I walked inside because Damon still doesn't like to lock the door.
"It's not nice to leave a girl naked in the morning." She replied. I hoped that she thought I was Damon. She walked out in a nightgown. "Oh, you're not Damon."
"I need to talk to you." I explained.
"Let me get dressed then." She stated.
A few minutes later, we were in the living room.
"I need you to take me to see your friend Slater, the one who says that you can destroy the curse." I told her.
"And why would I help you?" She questioned.
"Because that's why you're here, isn't it?" I replied. "You want to find a way to help."
"I'm here because I don't have anywhere else to go." She stated.
"Yeah, I don't believe that." I argued. "You know if you help, I might be able to convince Bonnie to make you a daylight ring."
"Fine, I'll take you." She agreed. "I'll drive. Your car doesn't have the proper window tinting."
So we went to Richmond which was about an hour away. She parked in a back entrance that away from the light. I could tell that she really wanted a ring. It was something that I didn't really have any desire to give her. We walked up the stairs and to an apartment with chains on the door. That didn't seem like it would really help.
"Slater?" She asked, knocking on the door. There was no answer. "I don't think he's home."
"We're not giving up that easily." I remarked. She broke the chains and we walked inside. We began to look around. I could tell that it was very dark.
"I don't think he's going to be of much help." She stated from the other room. I walked over and saw a vampire with a stake sticking out of his chest. He looked pretty dead.
"So now what are we going to do?" I asked as she opened the blinds. "I thought…"
"Double-paned glass." She pointed out.
"Who do you think killed him?" I questioned.
"Well whoever it was, they didn't want us talking to him." Rose opined. "The guy was a vampire almanac. He's the one that told me about you. I guess knowing too much literally came back to bite him in the ass."
"Well maybe we can see if there's anything on his computer." I suggested. I went on and was hit with an enter password screen. I sighed and put my elbow on the keyboard. Of course, he would do something like this. It left a big question mark to how we would get information.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps and noticed that there was a woman in the door way. She looked kind of like Ashley Greene, but also kind of not.
"Alice?" Rose replied. That was a bit of a coincidence.
"Rose?" She asked. So they knew each other. She looked at Slater's body and tearfully gave the vampire a hug.
Rose took her to the kitchen to get some tea. I had to wait to see if she could get her to calm down. She came back with a cup for me.
"How is she?" I questioned.
"She's overreacting." Rose declared.
"I don't think that you can overreact to your boyfriend being killed." I pointed out.
"Though tears are for her and not Slater." Rose explained. "She was only with him because she wanted him to turn her. She's quite the actress because he had no idea."
"Well do you think that maybe she would know his password?" I whispered as Alice came into the living room. "I know that you're upset, but we came here to find out some of the information that Slater had. Do you think you can help us get into his computer?
"Who do you think you are?" Alice asked me angrily.
"Please." I suggested, but she just glared at me…or stared at me. It looked like asking nicely wasn't going to work. "What if I could convince Rose to turn you?"
That was basically the second promise that I made that I didn't intend to keep. I couldn't help but wonder if I was a terrible person for doing it, but I didn't know what else to do. I needed to see this information myself.
She went onto the computer and began to work.
"You know I have no intention of turning her, don't you?" Rose whispered.
"Yes, but she doesn't." I whispered back.
"So it looks like the hard drive has been wiped." Alice replied.
"It was probably by whoever killed him to keep people like us from accessing his information." Rose quipped.
"Luckily, for you Slater was paranoid." Alice continued as she typed away. "His password is Kristen Stewart. Slater was obsessed."
I noticed that Rose made a scowl. It seemed that she didn't share the same interest in the subject as him. I honestly thought that they just needed simmer down when it came to it and think of it as a work of fiction and not some truth about vampires. After all, there was probably no work that got everything right. Just because it was overwhelmingly wrong didn't mean anything.
I noticed that Alice was scrolling through some emails and I couldn't help but notice that one name kept popping up. It seemed that Slater was talking to one person very frequently. It seemed to be a pattern and I decided to voice my opinion on the subject. I pointed to the screen.
"Who's this guy? Cody Wheeler." I asked. She began to read some of the emails.
"It seems like Cody and Slater were frequently chatting and Slater used Cody to help him find Elijah." Alice explained. "I could try to contact him. You know has anyone ever told you that you're really pretty?"
"I have a boyfriend." I declared.
"I feel like I've seen you somewhere before." Alice persisted. "Have we met?"
"No." I answered nervously.
"Now, I know. You're the doppelganger that was supposed to be used in the sacrifice." She stated before she ran out of the room. I definitely had a bad feeling about that.
"What do you think that she's doing?" I asked.
"She's probably calling Cody to come and take you." Rose replied. "The existence of the doppelganger is not something that should get out and now you've gone and opened a can of worms."
"Well we need to stop her." I declared.
"I honestly don't care either way how this goes." Rose admitted. Why didn't I carry vampire hunting weapons with me wherever I went like Ric?
I heard a knock at the door and nervously went toward it. I decided it would be wise not to open it, but then it flew open anyway to reveal a very pissed off-looking Damon.
"What do you think you're doing?" He asked me angrily.
"Did you tell him?" I asked Rose accusingly.
"Maybe I care about you a little more than I let on." She suggested.
"Cody's on his…wow Damon Salvatore." Alice stated before cutting herself off. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Get rid of her." Damon ordered. Rose took her out of the room. I really was hoping that he would be able to get me out of here before Cody showed up.
A few minutes later, Damon came back out.
"Okay, she's been compelled and now we're ready to go." Damon declared. I couldn't wait.
It was at that point that the door flew open once more and Cody and two other vampires appeared.
"We're here for the girl." Cody stated.
"You're going to have to go through me first." Damon replied as I hid behind him.
"You know this is an interesting predicament." Elijah interrupted as the vampire in the back fell over dead. Rose took that moment to run away as fast as she could. I noticed that Elijah had the heart in his hands. The situation had just gone from bad to worse. He looked at the other two vampires. "Who are you?"
"Who are you?" Cody responded.
"I'm Elijah." The vampire in the suit remarked. I could then see a look of fear on Cody's face.
"We were going to give her to you…for Klaus." Cody stammered.
"Does anyone else know that you're here?" Elijah asked him.
"No." Cody answered.
"Then you have been very helpful." Elijah replied before he simultaneously ripped out Cody and the other's vampire's hearts. We looked at Elijah and Damon appeared ready to fight, even though the chances of beating him again were not very high. Elijah just looked at it us before he too ran away.
"What the fuck just happened?" I asked Damon.
"I don't know, but it seems like you are very lucky and also very stupid." He replied.
"All I wanted was more information." I declared. "I'm trying to find out if there is a way that we can stop Klaus and maybe even kill an Original. I'm sorry for how things went, but I didn't expect that girl to turn on us. Can you please just take me home?"
"You're not going anywhere after we getting back." He replied. "You also need to start going to school or I'm going to tell Ric to start counting you absent."
"Can I just say that I'm sorry?" I responded.
"Not when I have to keep saving your ass." He replied as he picked me up and put me in the front seat of his car.
"That wasn't necessary!" I shouted.
"If you think that I'm pissed wait until you see how people that love you are going to react." He responded. What did he mean by that? Stefan was the only one who loved me.
He took me home and I found Elena with a wound on her neck.
"Mary, there's something that you need to know." She declared. "We tried to get the moonstone, and we did, but Stefan is stuck in the tomb with Katherine."
I then found myself back in Damon's car as he took me down to the tomb. I ran down the stairs.
"Stefan? Stefan?" I asked. I prepared to walk inside to see if I could find him.
"No, you're not going in there." Damon declared. "That's how we got in this mess in the first place."
"Damon, you have to let me see him." I told him. "Stefan, please tell me that you're not locked in there."
"I can't." Stefan replied.
I then went home and headed up to my room. There was Anna and for the first time, she looked genuinely angry.
"That is the last time I'm letting go anywhere on your own." She snarled.
"Please, not you too." I begged. "I've already received enough of a tongue-lashing from Damon."
"Mary, you are all that I have right now." She pointed out. "If I had lost you, I don't know what I would have done."
"I'm sorry. In case you didn't realize, it was pretty bad for me too." I explained. "I was scared that I was going to die too."
"Maybe it would be best for us to just sleep on it." She replied as she grabbed her things and went to the guest room.
So Mary and Anna had their first fight. Hopefully they'll be able to make up soon. Also Mary definitely is not looking to die in the sacrifice. Please don't forget to review.