When I woke up, I found out that I wasn't the only person in my bed. Stefan had told me that he would be fine and I should go home. Currently, I had to deal with the issue in front of me.
"I'm sorry." She apologized. "You were already asleep and I didn't want to wake you."
"What are you doing here?" I asked her. It was at that point that I noticed the tears and gave her a hug.
"My mom…" She started, but she couldn't get out the rest. I was able to fill in the rest even though she hadn't said it.
"It's going to be okay." I assured her. "How about you go take a shower and then come back in here? Jenna is gone right now."
I decided to call Stefan to see how he was doing.
"Stefan's phone." Damon answered. "He can't talk because he's in the shower. What are you up to today?
"I'm getting ready because Caroline says that I need to help with the Miss Mystic Falls float." I told him. "Well how is everything going?"
"I'm great. I just had a nice warm breakfast." He explained before I rolled my eyes.
"I meant about Stefan." I corrected.
"Oh, him, he's terrible." He stated as I felt my concern grow.
"What's wrong?" I asked him.
"You made him all boring again." He replied as I breathed a loud sigh of relief. "Now he has nothing interesting about him."
"You helped." I pointed out.
"I hate myself for it." He responded.
"Now we have something in common." I quipped before I hung up and Anna walked back in the room a towel. "So I need to get going soon."
"I think I want to stay inside and grieve right now." She explained. "Could you not tell anyone that I'm here?"
"Well make yourself at home, but not too at home. If you make a mess, clean it up." I told her. "What do you want me to tell Elena if I see her?"
"Tell her you haven't seen me." She instructed. "I can't face her right now."
"I'm really bad at lying." I pointed out before I went out the door.
I went to school and met up with Stefan but before I could go over to where Caroline was, I was pulled away by Alaric. He took us to his classroom.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"Your mother showed up last night." He explained. "She wants to see and is threatening to start killing people if she doesn't. Someone call Damon."
It took about fifteen minutes for Damon to get there.
"Sorry I'm late. Dog ate my…" He started before he noticed our serious faces. "What's going on?"
"Isobel's back." Alaric explained.
"You know your mother and his wife, Isobel?" Damon asked.
"Do you know any others?" I responded in annoyance.
"Did you ask her about Uncle John?" Damon asked.
"No." Alaric replied.
"Are they working together?" Damon questioned.
"No." Ric replied.
"No, they're not, or no, you didn't ask?" Damon responded.
"I didn't ask." He clarified.
"What about the invention?" Damon inquired.
"Didn't ask." Alaric said.
"Does she know about the tomb vampires?" Damon asked.
"I don't know." Alaric replied.
"Did words complete escape you?" Damon questioned in frustration.
"I'm sorry. I was a bit too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask any questions." Ric told us in annoyance.
"Well what does she want?" Damon replied.
"She wants to see me." I answered.
"You know you don't have to see her if you don't want to." He stated. It normally would have been sweat.
"I kind of do." I declared.
"She's threatened to go on a killing spree." Stefan added.
"Oh…I'm guessing that's not okay with you guys." Damon stated.
"I want to do this." I announced. "I at least want to know why she abandoned me."
"Okay, I'll call her." Alaric stated.
That led to me going to the Grill. I sat at a table alone while Stefan stood nearby.
"Can you hear me now?" I asked like I was the Verizon guy in a low voice. He nodded. "Good. I'm really glad that you're here. It makes it easier."
"I love you." He mouthed. I smiled before a woman with blonde hair wearing all black sat in front of me.
"Hello, Mary." She greeted me. "You know I feel like I'm looking in a mirror."
"Yes I am your daughter." I told her bitterly. "The one that you abandoned."
"Is that supposed to make me feel bad?" She asked.
"Why did you tell that man to kill himself telling me to stop looking?" I replied.
"Drama impact. Wish it had been more effective." She stated.
"I did stop looking." I answered. "I haven't thought about you at all since I heard that you abandoned your husband to become a vampire. Now how about we get to the good stuff? Who is my father?"
"He was a teenage waste of space." She replied.
"What's his name?" I questioned.
"Has anyone told you that you ask a lot of questions?" She responded. "You seem to think that I'm going to answer them."
"Why won't you?" I challenged. "Don't you care that your daughter wants to know about her family?"
"I don't care about anything." She explained. "That's the beauty of being what I am. You don't care about stuff."
"No, that's wrong." I refuted. "I know other vampires."
"You mean like your boyfriend over there?" She asked as I noticed Stefan flinch. "Stefan Salvatore. Why do go for Stefan instead of Damon?"
"I'm 15." I reminded her. I wasn't even sure if she knew how old I was.
"None of that is going to matter when you're a vampire." She stated. "That's right, I said when. Because one of two things is going to happen. Either you're going to become a vampire, or you're going to die. I'm sure that you've thought about it. What girl doesn't want to be young and beautiful forever?"
"What do you want?" I finally asked her.
"I want what your uncle wants." She told me. "Give me Jonathan Gilbert's invention."
"I don't even have it." I declared. "I don't know where it is."
"I know for a fact that it was given to Damon. So you have to get it from him." She replied. "If you don't, well then the blood will be on your hands."
She got up and then Stefan looked at me, but at the moment, I just really wanted to go home. I went up to my room by myself and found that Anna was still there. Once I was inside, I immediately started to punch my pillow repeatedly.
"Whoa." The vampire remarked. "Do you wanna talk about why you're so angry?"
"My mom's a bitch." I declared. "I thought that maybe by meeting, I would realize that she wasn't as bad as I thought she was, but it turns out that she's even worse. It makes me wish that I had never met her…and I am so sorry. All of this talking about my mother can't be doing anything to console the fact that you don't have one anymore."
"Hey, from what it sounds like, you don't have one either." She told me. "You just have a person that you happen to be related to."
"You know I'm building the float tomorrow. I'd really like it if you came with me." I told her.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think that I'm ready for the outside world yet." She declared. I frowned, but she was still doing better with grief than I ever did. I couldn't help but wonder if it had to do with the fact that she had already lost Pearl once. I did really enjoy the warmth of her body when she hugged me. That was definitely one thing that I was glad that Twilight was wrong about. Who would want to cuddle with someone really cold…not that I would cuddle with Anna.
In the morning, I got dressed in a black and white patterned dress. It probably wasn't the best thing to wear for manual labor, but I didn't really care. I wanted to wear what I wanted to wear.
I headed to the school, ready to work. However, before I could get to any of that, I was pulled away again, this time by Bonnie.
"What do you want?" I asked. "The last time that we talked, you made it pretty clear that you hate me."
"I don't hate you and maybe I was a little harsh, but I had something important that I need to tell you." She stated.
"I don't really want to talk right now." I admitted as I walked out. What could I say? I was in a bad mood. I began to walk around and look for the float, which I think was going to be based on Gone With the Wind, because that was a very Caroline thing. I never saw what was so great about a three and a half hour movie about a girl who gets dumped.
However, before I could get to her, Isobel appeared in front of me.
"Can't you go and be a bitch somewhere else?" I asked her.
"I told you what I want and you're running out of time to give it to me." She remarked. "You know I've been doing some studying lately. It turns out that you have quite a few friends and acquaintances. We've got Bonnie, the witch, I'm staying away from her, but there's also the sad older sister Elena, the douchebag ex, Tyler, Caroline, the chatterbox that told me everything even though she had no idea who I was. She just kept yapping. And finally Matt, the golden boy who is also Yappy's future ex. Did I do good?"
"I still have no idea why you're here." I declared.
"Well you see, I have some friends too." She explained. "See that man is the cowboy hat. His name is Frank and he's very handy. He's noticed that that float Golden Boy is working on has a damaged axle. All that you need to do is apply a little bit of pressure and…"
At that point, Frank jumped on the float and it collapsed on top of Matt's arm. He screamed in pain as I looked over Isobel. Luckily, a group of guys headed by Tyler and Stefan managed to lift it off of him.
"By the way, if you're interested in seeing your sister again, you'll give me the invention." She added. I looked to where Elena had been and she was gone. The whole thing with Matt had been nothing but a diversion and I couldn't believe that I had fallen for it.
I then decided to see Bonnie to see if she could help. Desperate times called for desperate measures.
"Okay, so what I found out was that Jonathan Gilbert never successfully invented anything." Bonnie explained. "Emily had been secretly spelling the items. Here's the compass, ring, and this: the mystery device."
"That's it, well part of it." I confirmed.
"Are you sure that Isobel wants this?" Bonnie asked as she looked over the picture.
"Yes, why, what does it say?" I questioned.
"This is a weapon against vampires." Bonnie remarked.
"Well that's going to make it hard to convince Damon to give to us." I declared.
I knew at that point that I needed to call someone and it wasn't going to be Damon.
"I don't want to come out, Mary." Anna replied.
"Well I found a reason that you should." I declared. "Elena's been kidnapped by my crazy birth mother. Meet me at the boarding house in 15 minutes."
She was there and we managed to convince Damon that Bonnie could deactivate the device and Bonnie even did it there. That led us to the area where Isobel told us to meet which happened to be the very public town square. It really wasn't that public considering that it was nighttime.
"So glad that you could meet me." Isobel stated. "Now where is the device?"
"Where is my sister?" I responded.
"This isn't a goddamn negotiation. Where is the device?" She repeated.
"Where the hell is my sister?" I challenged, not showing any fear.
"Do you think I came alone?" She asked as Frank and some slutty girl came out.
"Do you think I came alone?" I mimicked as Stefan and Damon appeared.
"For god sakes, call home." She replied. I called the house to find out that Elena was there.
"Did you ever plan on hurting her?" I asked.
"Yes, I planned on killing her." Isobel replied. "I still can, so you better have the invention. Don't look for anyone redeeming qualities, in me Mary, because all you'll find is that I do not have any."
I then put the device into her hands, even though it would actually be a good opportunity to kill her. She was already dead to the world.
"Here, take it and I really wanted to thank you for this moment." I declared.
"Why is that?" She asked me with a look of confusion on her face.
"Because thanks to you, I'm happy that I had a mother that cared about me." I told her. "Thanks for being such a fucking disappointment."
I then went to the boarding house to meet with Anna.
"Well, where's Elena?" She asked me.
"Isobel let her go." I explained. "You know, I think it's time that you told her that you're okay. If you love her, you should let her know."
Speaking of love, I decided to head to Stefan's room. I really wanted to make love to him. I knew that the timing wasn't the best, but it really wasn't ever the best and we hadn't had a lot of changes to have sex lately. He was too busy with all of his blood issues.
"So it's been so long since we've done this." I said after we were naked under the covers. "I love you."
"You know I'm sorry that Isobel turned out to be a colossal bitch." He stated. "I wanted you to be happy."
"I am happy." I declared. "I'm with you. So anyway, Caroline is doing this Gone With the Wind thing for Founder's Day. I need your help finding a dress that's era appropriate."
"I can help you with that." He promised.
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