Chapter Nine: Birthday Tradegies.Occurring: 3x11 - Our town. Set: Mystic Falls.
"So you're saying there's nothing you can do?"
"Compulsion cannot be undone by another vampires compulsion, original or not. I'm sorry."
Maya sighed heavily as she rested her palm against her forehead.
"Its fine. Thank you."
"Sorry I can't do more."
"Don't worry about it, I knew it was a long shot I just kinda hoped." She sighed, fiddling with her ring.
"Jeremy will be fine." Rebekah reassured.
She flopped back on her bed staring at the ceiling as she kept the phone to her ear.
"I hope so."
"Are you sure Elena won't change her mind?"
"Nope. She's determined she knows what's best but how the hell are we supposed to keep him safe if he's not even hear. Urgh, why did I come back? There didn't used to be this much drama."
"Well you were also eleven at the time, it is possible you just didn't notice."
"True. I'll see you later Bekah, I'm going to make sure Jer's got everything."
"Okay see you."
"Bye."
She pulled herself off of the bed and made her way to her brother's bedroom. He was packing his school bag. She leant against the doorframe. She'd been back less than a month and already things were falling apart.
She cleared her throat, both to get his attention and to distract herself. His head whipped up at the sound.
"Hey Mar."
"Hey Jer, sure you got everything?"
"Yep I'm all set."
"Good. Good." She nodded absent mindedly. "Come here. Give me hug in case I'm not here before you go."
He chuckled but came over none the less.
"God when did you get so tall." She muttered into his jacket while he laughed at her.
She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and buried her face in his neck, hiding the tears. And for a moment it was like they were kids again. Before everything went to hell.
She could make the most of this moment. She could do it. She wouldn't have a break down when he left. She would stay strong.
- TVD -
The last place she wanted be right now was at school. But she had to at least speak to Caroline. Then she spotted a familiar face ahead.
"Hey Bonnie." She quickly caught up with the girl.
"Hey Maya I'm actually sup-"
"I know decorating Caroline's locker. Sorry I just wanted to speak to you really quickly." She twisted her fingers together nervously around her textbooks as she tried to stamp down on the wave of nausea.
Clearly she hadn't been very successful if Bonnie's expression was anything to go by.
"Hey, what is it?"
She took a deep breath to steady herself.
"Elena got Damon to compel Jeremy to leave town."
"What? And you're okay with this."
"No but she won't listen to me. And really can't deal with anything else today but I just wanted to let you know, okay?"
"Thank you." Bonnie looked momentarily shocked.
Maya gave her one last smile before disappearing.
- TVD -
"Hey Bonn-"
"You're sending Jeremy away?"
Elena sighed.
"Maya told you."
"Yeah and she also said she tried to talk you out of it."
"It's not safe here for him anymore. Leaving will give him a better life. Look I know that you two haven't really worked out your stuff. And I thought maybe you'd wanna say goodbye."
- TVD -
Maya spotted Caroline in the parking lot looking pretty miserable after a discussion with Tyler. She approached slowly.
"Hey Care."
The blonde faced her slowly. She raised her arms for a hug. She gave a watery chuckle before stepping into the circle of the taller girls arms.
"No tears, it's your birthday."
That drew out another chuckle. The two pulled back.
"Here, happy birthday Carebear."
She gave her a watery smile but slipped.
"Thank you."
"I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on because I sure as hell don't, but I'm here for you, okay? Things will get better." Caroline nodded. "I'll see you later, alright?" Another nod.
"Take care, Carebear."
- TVD -
Some things never change, she thought to herself as she pulled up on front of the dance studio. She hadn't danced since moving back home, she was glad to see they hadn't knocked the building down in her absence.
A couple of hours should be enough to take her mind off of things.
- TVD -
Maya managed to get home before Elena that night. She was reading on the sofa when she heard a car pull up in the driveway. She got out of her seat to wait for sister. When the door opened minutes later, she stared at her for a moment.
"I think we need to have a chat don't you."
"Not tonight I can't it's Jeremy's last night, please don't."
Maya nodded her head thumping back against the wall.
"Fine. But you're not getting out of it El, I want to know the truth."
She nodded.
"You will."
"Good. Now come here your trembling."
Elena stumbled into her sisters arms. She'd missed this, she'd tried to kid herself that she was fine while Maya had been gone. That she was angry at her for disappointing their parents rather than for Maya leaving her and Jeremy. But now Maya was back but she was sending Jeremy away.
- TVD -
Everyone woke early the next morning to see Jeremy off.
"You gonna have to let me go, eventually."
"Be safe, okay?"
"Yeah, okay, alright. Alaric is waiting."
"Keep in touch kiddo." Maya reminded him.
"I know, I gotta go though."
"Good, you haven't left yet." Bonnie spoke from the porch.
"What are you doing here?"
"I came to say goodbye."
Bonnie engulfed the boy in a hug and the three girls watched him walk down the driveway and disappear down the road.
"Family meeting, now."
- TVD -
"Okay, where'd you want to start?"
"How did you know Maya?"
"Straight to the point." She mused.
"Wait, know what?"
"How did I find out about the supernatural? Well my roommate filled me in on compulsion, hence Damon's little trick didn't work. And you've all been acting suspicious since I got here. I'd figured out the whole vampire thing by the time of bonfire, when you," She spun around to fix Elena with a disapproving glare. "Took a leap from the bleachers. Then there was the ghosts and I ran into our Aunt Jenna who filled me in on the existence of werewolves and witches. And Rebekah gave me the basics about the species and their history."
"Wait since when do you talk to Rebekah?"
"Yeah, no. I already had this conversation with Caroline I'm not explaining myself to you. I don't know what your deal is with the Originals but keep me out of it."
Elena crossed her arms as she considered her younger twin.
"Did she tell you about the hybrid curse?"
"Parts of it. Apparently he pissed a lot of people off while breaking it to release his werewolf side."
"How diplomatic of her. Did she tell you how he had to break it?"
"No. Is there a point to this?"
"To break Klaus' curse he needed three sacrifices." Bonnie said softly.
Maya sat up straight, the previously nonchalant behaviour was gone.
"Who were the sacrifices?"
"Maya..."
"Who were the sacrifices?"
"A werewolf called Jules, Aunt Jenna and Elena."
"What?"
"Ma-"
"Why Aunt Jenna?"
"They needed a vampire and Damon saved Tyler and Caroline from being used so he retaliated."
"So our Aunt is dead but you're still. How did that happen?"
She stared Elena down as she awaited her answer.
"You remember our Uncle John, right?"
"Yeah, and I also remember seeing his headstone at the family plot. Let me guess he got dragged into this too."
"He gave his life so Elena could live."
Maya nodded slowly, some part of her, the part that had always been disregarded by her parents in favour of Elena, wanted to yell and scream and blame her sister for everything. But the other part of her, the bigger part, blamed herself. She wasn't there and now her family was dead.
"Why exactly did he need Elena? A vampire and a werewolf to represent the two halves of himself, and what? A human because that's what he'd once been."
"A döppelganger."
"A what?"
"Elena is a döppelganger, her ancestor was used in the spell that bound Klaus' werewolf side so-"
"A döppelganger was needed to unbind it."
"Yeah."
Maya scrubbed a hand down her face as a headache bloomed at her temple.
"Is there anything else I should know?"
"Klaus needs to keep me alive because my blood creates hybrids."
"Great! Just great. I need a fucking drink."
"Maya ple-"
"No, not right now Elena can we finish this in like ten minutes once I'm a little less sober?"
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry."
"Yeah me too Lena, me too."
A/N: So she knows. Honestly I didn't know what to write for this chapter so it's a little shorter but yeah Maya is now aware. I'm gonna start steering things away from canon now and we'll find up what's going on with Maya. If you enjoyed this chapter please let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Brookeworm3 (I realised I spelt your name wrong last chapter sorry sweetie!) and Shiko-Rae were killing me with your comments. Brooke: I have a very similar view on Elena which you can definitely see in these earlier chapters.
Shiko said: 'Now why is Rebekah trying to avoid Klaus knowing about Maya?' Well there's two reasons for this, which you guys will find out soon.
Bye guys :)
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