I have decided to go in a direction a little different than I first anticipated; I am going to jump forward in time, and then have flashbacks of what happened with Nora and Mary Louise. Also, I might change some facts about the show because it just helps the story to develop. I hope you all enjoy!

Nora and Mary Louise: Mistake

PRESENT DAY

"Nora!" I screamed in reaction to her tickling me. We were running around the house—she was chasing after me.

"Come back here, you!"

I continued to laugh.

"You'll just have to catch me!"

All of a sudden, I felt her come from behind me, and we both fell onto the ground.

"I caught you," she said, smiling.

"It seems that way," I managed to say through my laughter.

We were both on the floor; she was on top of me, holding my hands down onto the ground so I couldn't get up and continue running.

Once we finally contained our laughter, we both just stared into each other's eyes, taking in the moment.

"Even after all we've been through, I am still so in love with you," she whispered.

We both leaned in for a kiss, but it was a quick one as I pulled away to get out of her grip and stand up.

"Is something wrong?" she asked, still lying on the floor.

"No, my love. I just have to go to the bathroom,"

"Alright, well don't be long!"

"I won't be,"

I walked upstairs and entered my room rather than the bathroom. I sat down on my bed and started to think about what exactly we had been through. It had been two years since it all happened, and only one year since Nora and I were reunited, but I couldn't get what I had done out of my head.

2 YEARS AGO

I kept hearing Nora call my name, but I continued running. Eventually, I began to cry and had to sit down to get control of myself. I found a log and decided to sit on that. I looked around, but I was unaware of where I was. I knew it was the forest, but I didn't know exactly where I had run to.

"Is somebody there?" a woman's voice asked suddenly.

I wiped my tears away and realized that I was starting to get hungry. Killing this woman would surely make me feel better.

"I'm only a girl. I'm lost and I just want to find my way home. Could you help me?"

My back was turned to the woman who had spoken, so she didn't see me grin.

"Of course, my darling child. My family and I were just out for a walk, trying to find my son,"

I turned around and she pointed to five people behind her; one seemed to be her husband, the other four her children.

"We can take you back to our house so that you have somewhere to sleep for the night, and then in the morning we will help you find your way back to your own house. Does that sound alright, darling?"

"Actually, I'd rather just kill you," I said, my smile growing wider.

An expression of pure confusion and fear appeared on each one of their faces. I sped over to the woman and drained her of all her blood. The others ran away—the chase was the best part, though. In a matter of minutes, I had drained each one of them of their blood. I was satisfied. But all of a sudden, I heard Valerie's voice from behind me: "Well hello there. I see you had some fun here,"

PRESENT DAY

I went back downstairs after about ten minutes.

Nora had moved from the floor to the couch.

"That was not fast,"

"Sorry, my love,"

"Come here,"

She patted her hand on the part of the couch next to her, signaling for me to come over, so I did.

She had a huge smile on her face: "Lily told me that we could have the whole house to ourselves tonight,"

"And why would we want that?" I asked, confused. Was I missing something?

Her smile faded almost immediately: "Do you not remember what today is?"

"Should I?"

"Yes!" she cried. "It's our one year anniversary. Well, I suppose it has been more than one year, but it has been one year without any bumps in the road—one complete year without us breaking up or being apart," she laughed.

"Right," I replied.

"Well, it's alright you forgot. I guess I didn't expect you to remember that sort of thing,"

Nora was always the one to like those cheesy sort of things. Her love for them grew on me over time, though, so I started to enjoy them as well.

"Sorry, my love. I should've known, but I guess I've been a little preoccupied,"

"With what?" she asked.

"Well, we have the whole night to ourselves. I'll save it for later," I put on a fake smile.

She agreed, assuming it was nothing to worry about.

2 YEARS AGO

"What do you want, Valerie? How did you even find me?Did you follow me?"

"It wasn't hard to find you. Nora was worried about your whereabouts, so I offered to follow after you,"

"Well, you found me, so you can tell her I am fine. Now leave,"

"I don't think so,"

I rolled my eyes and started walking away, but she just followed me.

"Do you know who those people were?" she asked.

"No. And I don't care. But if you would like to go make friends with the dead, please do so. But I will be on my way,"

She laughed: "Nora will never forgive you,"

I stopped walking and turned around to face her.

"Forgive me? If anything, she should be worried about me forgiving her,"

"I'm not talking about your pathetic little fight about Adam. He always annoyed me anyway; he bored me,"

"Well, he's dead now so no worries," I continued walking and she followed.

"Oh, really? I was unaware of that. I guess Nora must have disposed of the body. Well then that makes this even worse,"

"What are you babbling on about?"

"Those people who you just killed,"

"What about them? They were weak and stupid. How shocking,"

She laughed: "They were Adam's family,"

I stopped dead in my tracks but I didn't turn around to face her this time.

"What are you talking about?"

"You heard me, Mary Louise. They were Adam's family. What a shame,"

"Shut up!" I screamed. I was in shock.

"I'm sure Nora would love to hear that you not only killed Adam—thank you by the way—but you also killed his family. That will definitely help your relationship grow,"

"Be quiet, Valerie!"

I started to whisper to myself: "No! What have you done? Nora will never forgive you,"

"If you would stop talking to yourself like a crazy person, then maybe I will help you,"

I turned around to look at her. I nodded: "Go on,"

"I won't speak a word of this to Nora if you do me one tiny favor,"

"And what would that be?"

"I need you to find Stefan Salvatore and tell me how he is,"

"Stefan Salvatore? It will take ages to find him. Why do I have to do this? You do it,"

"Would you like me to go back and tell Nora what you have done to Adam's poor little family?"

"Alright, alright. Fine. But where will I tell Nora I am going?"

"You are not to see Nora until I know how Stefan is. You are to leave this instant. I will make something up for you,"

I agreed.

PRESENT DAY

It was 9:00 in the evening. Our whole family had just left the house so that Nora and I would be able to celebrate together—alone.

"Mary Lou!" Nora screamed as she ran up to me, embracing me. "I can't believe it's been a full year. Can you?"

"No,"

She pulled back.

"You are very enthusiastic today I can see,"

"Sorry, but we need to talk,"

"Is this about what you've been preoccupied with,"

"Let's sit," I said.

"No it's fine. Let's just discuss it here. What's wrong?" she began to develop some concern in her tone.

"I just need you to know something,"

"What is it? And hurry up because I want to celebrate with you!"

"Nora, stop. This is serious,"

"Alright, alright. Go on, then,"

"When I left after I killed Adam, it's not what you think,"

"You mean you didn't leave because you felt guilty about killing Adam?"

"Not exactly,"

She looked very confused.

"I did something—something bad. And I wasn't sure you would be able to forgive me for it, but it's been on my mind lately and I hate that I've been lying to you,"

"Tell me what really happened, then,"

"I—"

"You what?" she began to get angry because I was taking a long time to get it out.

I looked down at the floor and whispered, "I killed Adam's whole family,"

"You did what?"

"I'm sorry, Nora. But you have to believe me, I didn't know they were his family!"

She walked upstairs without responding.