Mary laughed, "You think I want to kill her? If I wanted her dead I would pick a less obvious way of doing. Besides, why would I want her dead." She took a moment to think as Elena asked Bonnie what she thought. Before Bonnie could reply she said, "You know what, just forget it. You have fun on your own. If you don't trust me then I don't want to be around you. I don't need to deal with your issues." Mary sat down and crossed her legs. "Have fun."
Meredith watched the goings-on in the room with horror. Everyone was at each other's throats. 'If this gets any worse, I may stay like this forever!' She actually jumped at the thought. "Mary, Damon, knock it off! We'll do it the way that sounds the best. We'll help you first, Mary. Then, we'll help me. Damon, do you agree that we can trust the real Mary, instead of this...thing in Mary's mind??"
Damon shrugged as Meredith voice echoed through his head. The ghost chick was really starting to get on his nerves. "I don't trust anyone." He hissed through clenched teeth. His canine teeth were slowly shrinking back to their original size, though the pounding in them was still there. It was a steady throbbing beat, like a heart, each pound sending silent messages to his brain to kill. He thought of Katherine's ring in his pocket. "Do whatever the hell you want. As for Katherine, she isn't going anywhere soon. She can't go out with out her ring, and even if she has another one stored somewhere, she won't be able to get to it until tonight."
Bonnie narrowed her eyes at her sister's rudeness and could sense the evil coming from Mary. "She's not my sister, not anymore." Her only hope was to find a way to save her from whatever, or whoever was in control of her mind. With a stony face she grabbed the rope from the floor and tied Mary's ankles up. "Well since you're not going anywhere you won't mind your new anklets now will you?" She smirked and turned toward the door. "I'm going back for my book." She tossed a look at Mary over her shoulder and gave Elena a brief smile. "Be back in a while. Oh by the way sis, love what you did to my car."
She made her way silently down the stairs and out the front door. Taking in a deep breath she released it and looked up to Stefan's window. 'Feel free to knock her out again if you so choose.' She tossed up to Damon and headed for her sister's car. Unlocking the car she sat in the driver's seat for a minute before starting the car up. "I'm really starting to think about moving out of this town." She grumbled as she put the car in reverse and backed out of the drive. "They should really start teaching stuff about the paranormal in elementary school around here, prepare the kids for all the shit that happens when you hit puberty like werewolves and psychic powers."
Keeping her eyes on the road she made her way back to her house, events of the past couple of days going through her mind. "Really can't wait for school to start, at least that will be a hint of a normal life." She had to laugh at the thought of a normal life. She hadn't had a normal life in over a year. "Maybe I should move to Kansas where nothing weird happens except the occasional tornadoes, but knowing my luck OZ does exist and I'll end up there with midgets as friends and a brainless scarecrow as my only hope of intelligent conversation."
She pulled into her driveway and turned the car off. At least she didn't have to worry about mommy and daddy coming home and finding out their precious nurse of a daughter has gone psycho and their disturbed little girl is seeing dead people again. She remembered her parent's little bout of worry when Elena had died for the second time and all the stuff with Vicki's 'suicide' and Sue's 'accidental' death at Caroline's house. Getting out of the car she quickly walked to the door unlocked it and headed straight up to her room to her window seat. Tossing Mary's keys in front of her she sat down and pulled the book into her lap. "Ok. Possession. Got to find something out about possession."
Damon left the group in the bedroom and walked down stairs to the kitchen. If they didn't want his help, fine, he sure wasn't going to fight them to let him. HE could just go to the hospital and charm a nurse into letting him know what medicine it was, if it was as safe as Mary said, and have her get it for him, but that would be just to chivalrous. He'd just let Stefan worry about it. He'd just try and fix the other problem. He walked out side and opened his powers up. Without a backwards glance at the boarding house he headed in the direction he thought he may have felt Katherine in.
"What is with everyone running off?" Elena hissed. She couldn't really say anything; hell she'd done it enough in the past day herself. Damon and Bonnie were gone. Matt was the distraction. Stefan was going to try and figure out Katherine. That left her and Caroline. Elena didn't know if she could fully trust the girl yet of not. She surely hoped so. "Looks like it's just the two of us and Mary." She said. She walked up to Caroline, turned her back to Mary so she couldn't see her lips and whispered, "I don't think I can handle her if she goes into one of her fits, what about you. If Matt creates the distraction, do you think we can get her in to get the medicine?"
~*~*~*~
(Katherine dreaming)
"So, are you fulfilling this whole "revenge" thing, you set out to do?" The Devil's voice could be heard all around Katherine.
"I'm working on it," she replied. Why was this room so cold? It didn't look anything like the rooms that she was normally in when it came to dreams. This room was bright; so much that it hurt her eyes.
"Ah, working on it, are we?" he chuckled. "So, where's my souls? So far, I've only received about five, compliments of you."
"I'm short one ring," she snarled. God this light was so bright...where was she?
"The ring that I forged myself? Aw...Katarine, I thought you could handle these *petty* humans. Just remember our deal."
Katherine snarled at the use of her German name. "I *can* handle them and I *will* handle them."
The Devil's laughter echoed throughout the room and as the lights became brighter, Katherine became lost in it, the sound cutting through her head and pounding into her brain.
Katherine sat up with a start, and stared at the darkness around her. She felt so... incomplete... without her ring. "Great," she whispered. "Now I'm on a deadline. And I didn't even ask him about that girl that helped me. Why would one of their own turn against them?" She lay there for a moment, listening to the silence, totally and utterlly perplexed.
