I woke up on a bed with a headache. I looked around and saw that this guy who worked at the Grill was sleeping in a chair. I couldn't understand why Anna had kidnapped me and I was genuinely surprised that she was a vampire. I honestly wasn't sure if I should wait for her to come back or I should try to run.
I decided that I would run because I didn't trust the guy from the Grill. I think he used to be a football star or something. I slowly crept through the room and made my way to the door.
"Don't move." He tried to compel me.
"Wow, you're an idiot." I told him as I kicked his shin and opened the door, only to find Anna.
"You're an idiot." She said as she grabbed me.
"I told her not to move. I did that eye thing." He argued.
"You forgot about vervain." Anna pointed out. I realized that she could have easily removed my necklace if she wanted to compel me, but she chose to leave it on, meaning she didn't want me compelled.
"Anna, what's going on?" I asked her. "Why are you doing this?"
She didn't say anything and shoved into the bathroom where I noticed that I wasn't the only hostage. Bonnie was in the tub unconscious. I went to wake her up.
"Mary, where are we?" She asked in confusion.
"We're in a hotel room." I explained.
"Oh my God, Ben is a vampire." She stated. So that was that guy's name.
"I know." I replied.
"What do they want with us?" She asked next.
"I think they want to open the tomb." I declared. I didn't know why, though I had a few guesses and none of them involved Katherine. "They need you to cast the spell. We found Emily's spell book."
"Why didn't anyone tell me about this?" She questioned angrily.
"Because we weren't going to actually open it." I responded. "It looks like that's going to change now."
Then the door opened and Ben stood in the doorway.
"I'm not going to open the tomb." The witch declared adamantly.
"You can say that all you want, but we don't believe you." Ben replied before he grabbed me and threw me back into the room. I could walk on my own. "She wants to talk to you because she likes you."
The door closed and that left me with Anna.
"So why did you kidnap me?" I asked her. "Who's in the tomb that you want so bad? Is it your mother? I don't see her here."
"Yes, Jonathan Gilbert put her in there all because of Katherine's shenanigans. She kept turning people and feeding on the locals. She's the reason for everything that happened to them." Anna explained.
"You know you could have just told me the truth." I stated. "I want to help you get her out of there. You really didn't have to kidnap me to make it happen."
"How do I know that this isn't a trick?" She questioned.
"Because you're my friend." I told her.
"You know I don't understand you." She admitted before I noticed that she had my phone on the table. "We need to have a little chat with one of your boyfriends."
I didn't like Damon. I couldn't help but wonder why anyone would think that. I think that she was calling Stefan though. She put the phone on speaker.
"Mary, are you okay?" I heard Stefan ask. I don't think Anna wanted me to answer. I didn't even get the chance to.
"She's fine. Tell me that you have the grimoire and she'll stay fine." Anna replied.
"I can get it." Stefan responded.
"Which means that your brother has it." Anna finished. "I should have guessed that. You know you're girlfriend has agreed to help me and I have the witch. So I want one of you to meet me in the very public town square in half an hour so we can discuss how fun it's gonna be to work together."
Anna then hung up and handed my phone back to me. She grabbed her bag and stood up as Ben came out of the bathroom with Bonnie.
"Keep them here." Anna ordered. "Mary's not going to run, but you need to keep the witch here. Compulsion won't work. Just use violence."
"I don't suppose that you have a change of clothes for me, do you?" I asked. Everyone stared at me.
"If you really want something, you can look in my dresser." Anna stated before she left.
I decided to go through it and a put on a black see-through spotted blouse and a black leather dress. Anna sure did love the color black. I came out to see Bonnie and Ben.
"Are you seriously considering helping them?" Bonnie asked.
"No, I'm considering helping Anna." I responded. "This guy can fuck himself."
I noticed that he looked like he was ready to lunge at me.
"What are you going to do?" I challenged. "You know she wouldn't like it if you hurt me. She would probably kill you. That is if my boyfriend doesn't do it first."
"You know you don't scare me." Ben taunted. "You're just a little human."
I noticed that he was very close to me and I leaned forward and bit into his hand.
"Ow, let go of me you bitch." He cried. He threw me against the bed and then Bonnie threw some water on him and he began to catch fire. He shook it out and she began to run for the door. He tried to grab me but the door flew open and I noticed that Stefan was on the other side of it. Ben ran for cover as he began to burn. I could see that Stefan did not waste any time in trying to find me/us.
"Get outside." He instructed. I decided not to question him, even though I still wanted to help Anna.
From there we went to Bonnie's grandma's house. I was pretty sure that it was going to be the first time that I had officially met her. From what I gathered, she was a witch as well.
"How did you know where to find us?" Bonnie asked the old woman.
"A lot of things can fuel a witch's power: worry, anger. When Stefan told me that you had been kidnapped I had a lot of both. A simple locator spell was easy after that. I'm just glad that the two of you are alright." Sheila explained.
"You know this doesn't change anything." I replied. "Anna's still going to try to open the tomb and I don't want to stop her."
"Last night you told me that you were against opening it." Stefan pointed out.
"Yes, but that was before I knew that there was more than just Katherine in it." I argued. "I mean Katherine doesn't deserve to be out of the tomb, but Anna is, not was, my friend and I want her to get her mother back. Plus, maybe if we do get Katherine out, Damon will take her and go away forever."
"Okay, we'll do this." Sheila agreed. "I'll open the tomb and we'll get your friend's mom out and destroy the rest of with fire."
I was pretty sure that Damon wouldn't like that idea, but we could negotiate.
"We still have no guarantee that Damon will even give us the book." Stefan replied.
"Why don't you let me talk to him?" I questioned. "I think I can get through to him."
So that led to me going to the boarding house. On the way, I decided to call Anna.
"So are you still interested in opening the tomb?" I asked her.
"What do you think?" She snapped.
"There is just one that I want you to do in exchange for my help." I proposed.
"What's that?" She questioned.
"I want you to kill Ben." I remarked. "We'll be at the tomb tonight. Come alone if you're interested."
"You know most people would never talk their friend again if they found out that they lied about everything." Anna pointed out.
"Yes, but I'm kind of lacking in the friend department and can't be picky." I said before hanging up. I then walked into the house and the study where Damon was.
"Did you stage a jailbreak?" He asked me.
"Stefan." I replied.
"Ah, my brother, ever the white night." Damon quipped. "What do you want?"
"I want to open the tomb." I stated.
"That's nice." He told me.
"Damon, I seriously want to open the tomb." I repeated as I walked closer to him. "You were willing to let me help you yesterday."
"That was before I found out that you were a two-faced lying skank." He responded. I was not a skank!
"If you don't trust me, tell me why you didn't compel me in Atlanta. You could have made me do anything, but you didn't." I pointed out.
"How do you know that I didn't?" He challenged.
"I know that you didn't." I replied. "I remember everything and I absolutely know that you didn't compel me."
"I still don't trust you." He stated.
"Well then you can compel me to tell you the truth." I told him as I took my necklace off and gave it to him. "The only thing that I ask is that you don't make me kiss you."
He looked me over and then stepped behind me and put the necklace back around my neck.
"I didn't compel you in Atlanta because we were having fun." He stated before he poured me a shot of bourbon. "If you really want to believe you, we'll drink to it."
"Fine." I agreed as I drank from the cop. It was really strong.
"Just know that I'll kill you if you betray me again." He added. I definitely believed that, even though I might end up a vampire instead of being dead.
He then drove me to the cemetery and I noticed an unsettling number of cars.
"Why are all of this people here?" I asked. "It's not safe for them."
"That's your problem, not mine." Damon stated as Caroline walked over with Matt.
"Hey, Mary, where have you been? I was going to tell you about this." The blonde remarked.
"I was busy." I lied.
"We haven't met." Matt said to Damon as he held his hand out. "I'm Matt."
"Matt, there's a reason we haven't met." Damon remarked before he walked away and dragged me with him.
We then headed to the tomb by Fell's Church where Stefan, Bonnie and her grandma were.
"Brother, witches." Damon greeted them as we noticed them. I didn't see Anna anywhere. I hoped that she would show up. I also was feeling bit tipsy. There was a reason that I didn't drink whiskey.
"Let's just do this." I responded.
"Are you drunk?" Bonnie asked me.
"It was the only way that Damon would agree." I replied. "Let's open the tomb."
The two witches began to cast a spell in a language that I couldn't understand.
"Is that Latin?" Damon asked.
"No, it's not Latin." I replied as I attempted to listen.
"I'd going to go get the flamethrower." Stefan said as he went up the stairs. I then noticed that the door was opening.
"I can't believe that you started without me." Anna said as she came down the stairs. "I guess I will just go inside."
She walked in and then Damon grabbed me and prepared to take me in which led to some tension with the witches.
"Enough!" I shouted. "I'm going into the tomb with him, so shut up already."
As soon as I walked inside, he abandoned me. I looked around the scary tomb that reminded me of a zombie movie and also the alcohol was having an effect on me. I felt a sense of vertigo overtake me as I fell to the ground.
"I got you." Anna said as she held me up.
"Thanks." I told her. "Let's find your mom."
All of the vampires looked like zombies and I didn't know who any of them were so I just followed her.
"This is her." Anna replied. "You know I want to apologize for Noah did to you. I want you to know that I was against it."
"So what do we do now?" I asked. "How do we wake her up?"
"She needs your blood." Anna stated before she bit me without a warning. I screamed instinctively before she put my neck in her mom's mouth. Stefan apparently had heard my scream and pulled me away. I held the wound in my neck. I really needed to stop getting bitten.
"Don't hurt her." I told Stefan.
"Anna…" An unknown voice said. I looked over and saw it was her mother. I couldn't help but get misty-eyed as I noticed the tears of joy in Anna's before she gave her mother a tight hug.
"Thank you." Anna told me as she grabbed her mother and began to head toward the exit. "I hope that you still want to be friends with me."
"We need to find Damon." Stefan declared.
We walked down the halls and I tried to find him through my blurred vision. I began to hear his voice as Stefan headed forward.
"She's not here!" I heard him yell. Was Katherine not in the tomb? That didn't make any sense. I knew that I needed to get over to him because I couldn't imagine what he was feeling.
When I got to him, I couldn't help but noticed that he seemed to be in a mixture of a state of shock and denial. Stefan was trying to get through to him, but it was not working.
"Damon, we have to get out of here." I told him. "I'm sorry that she's not here, but we have to go now."
He grabbed my hand and we headed out the door. I noticed that Anna didn't seem to stick around. I would have to give her a call later.
I found that Elena was unconscious outside and figured that it would be a good idea to walk her home. I was pretty sure that I needed someone to lean on. I need to watch how much I drink with Damon. It could go badly.
"I don't know really know what happened." Elena told me. "I really didn't even drink that much."
Stefan had told me that Ben had attacked her and Anna actually had nothing to do with it. I also knew that Stefan had killed Ben. I didn't say anything because I really felt that I needed to go to bed. I started to undress, but didn't finish before I passed out.
So Mary and Anna are still going to be friends. It also looks like Damon wants her to be his drinking buddy, which could have some interesting results. Next chapter Mary finds out about her mother. Please don't forget to review.