For those who wanted more Elena, she shows up more from here on out. The person that
was playing her left the game, and now someone else has her, so you'll start seeing her more
often. As for the Damon/Bonnie/Elena thing there's no telling what he's up to. Technically
it's only two or three days after the end of book for, so you can't expect him to make a
move for Elena right away... (Lol, I know cause he's the character I write.) But just be
patient, it can't do anything but get better!!!
~*~*~*~
Caroline watched Damon stomp out like a pouty spoiled child. He was really beginning to
annoy her. What is his point her in the town if he is just gonna be useless. Surely there are
more exciting spots in the world. She rolled her eyes. She saw Elena walk up to her. She
could practically smell the skepticism radiating from her. Either that or fear. She heard Elena
whisper about Mary and her episodes and not being able to handle it.
"If Mary starts up again. I might have to simply knock her out. At this point she might be
more of a danger then of use. She told us what the drug is...if we can get the key. One of us,
preferably you can go get the medicine and I can be the lookout. I can hear and smell much
better now. And if someone gets pushy. I can knock them out quietly too." she grinned. "It
can be a knockout party," she giggled almost as if she lavished the idea of causing some
pain." besides that's what Buffy would do. She'd knock them out," she stated pointedly.
Matt had decided he would feign some sort of stomach thing. Maybe that his appendix was
bursting or that he was passing stones. He would cause such a scene. The staff would think
he was dying. It could be fun. He had to remember not to scare bonnie to death though since
she scared so easily. He sat in the car and waited.
Mary tried not to grin when Damon stormed out. 'Oh poor little boy, you've lost your spot
light.' She looked up when she heard Elena and Caroline discussing her. They were
unaware that she could hear them. "I'll behave," she spoke up. "If I don't then just club me
stoutly about the head. Damon proved just how well that works. I'm almost surprised you
all aren't jumping in line for your turn. It really seems like none of you trust me." She rolled
her eyes and sighed, "Scratch that, I know you don't trust me."
She glanced at each of them, "It's up to you."
Elena glanced over her shoulder; surprised that Mary had heard her whispering. What was
this; did everyone have super senses now? "Do you blame us for not trusting you Mary. I
mean you are a couple years older than us, and never wanted to hang out with us before,
and now you've suddenly got all this power and it doesn't look like you want to use it in a
good way." She stopped and got a breath. "What gives Mary? Why is whatever that's in
your head coming after us?"
Caroline shifted her weight back on her heels, crossed her arms over her chest and cocked
her head towards Mary.
"Excellent question Elena...yeah Mary. What's the deal...because from over here. I can
smell the mojo working in you and by all standards. You smell barely human." she looked
deadpanly at the woman. "Who's in you?"
Stefan listened and watched as everyone argued amongst themselves. He let everyone get
their thoughts out into he open. He was interested in knowing what Mary had to say to the
question of what was inside of her mind. At the same time he was thinking of some way to
locate Katherine and what they should do with her once they found her.
Alaric also watched as everyone argued and was becoming frustrated as he wanted to help
Meredith as soon as possible. He couldn't wait until he could speak to her again. Instead he
just sat back and watched the girls bicker back and forth.
Finding a mention in the book about possession she read on to find out about how to banish
the evil:
In many Eastern religions spirits and ghosts are blamed for many ills, and are cast out
of people. However, such afflictions are not regarded as all-out battles for the
persons' souls. The typical Hindu exorcism practices consist of blowing cow-dung
smoke, pressing rock salt between the fingers, burning pig excreta, beating or pulling
the victim's hair, reciting prayers or mantras, and offering gifts of candy and other
presents to get the evil or troublesome spirits to depart from the persons. (*)
"Oh yeah. Sure, mess with cow poo and throw candy at my sister." Shaking her head she
continued to read.
The ritual employed in shamanism is that the shaman enters a trance during which he
attempts to discover the cause of the victim's trouble. Frequently the cause is thought
linked to a dead person. The shaman then is said to travel to the lower word to speak
with this soul. He then knows the cure of this victim's affliction, or may even bring
back the soul to cure it. (*)
"Maybe I'll have to travel into my sister's mind with someone else who has strong psychic
powers. Who ever it is in her head keeps talking about a game. Maybe we have to go into
her mind to play it." If this had been brought up a little over a year ago she would have been
laughing like crazy but playing 'their' game seemed to be the only option. "I've got to go
into her mind and free her from her own demons." Closing the book she leaned back against
the wall and took in a deep breath. She was starting to get a ridiculous hard to do list. "First
free my sister from who ever has control of her. Second help get Meredith back in her body.
Three find Katherine and get rid of her for good and last but not least get prepared for
school." Some where in between those things she would have to figure out what was going
on between her and Damon.
Standing up she tucked the book under her arm and headed back down the stairs. She'd
have to show what she found to her friends. Locking the house back up she walked to the
car and hopped in, placing the book in the passenger seat beside her. Starting the car up she
pulled out of the driveway and headed back towards the boarding house.
Meredith watched as everyone bickered amongst themselves. 'This is like watching a time
bomb...just waiting for it to explode. Or like one of those "real life" TV shows, waiting for
the next person to get voted off the island...or something like that.' She sat down on the
bed, only mildly surprised she didn't fall through, and closed her eyes, massaging the back of
her neck. 'I'm tired. Maybe I'll just lay here until a decision is made. Or maybe I'll
remember something from when my grandfather was...and that'll help somehow.' Meredith
leaned back against the headboard of the bed, keeping her eyes closed, and fell into a
restless slumber.
"Never wanted to be a part of your group? I always wanted to hang out, spend time with
my sister. I tried, but well, I always became the outsider, just as I am now." Mary placed
her bound fists to her fore head. An exhausted sigh escaped her lips. "It's a game! I said
that before. I don't know who they are, but I hear them talking about 'the game'."
Mary's blue eyes were pleading. She lowered her hands and her shoulder's slumped a tiny
bit. "I don't know how they take over me. I don't know how I do that wind thing either. I
just know it's a game to them."
Caroline just looked at Mary. It seemed almost pathetic they way she was acting.
"Oh please Mary. I can understand why you'd wanna hang with your sister. But be part of
the group? I don't buy that. You're a grown woman with a career. You'd hardly ever had
time for our silly teenager issues." she looked at Mary deeply. "A game? And why you? No
offense, but you're a strange one for the malevolent forces to be messing with. You weren't
ever involved in anything going on concerning Katherine or Klaus. You didn't help us fight or
help Bonnie contact Elena. You'd didn't help rescue me when I was being held for ransom
by the crazed undead." she looked back at Elena and Stefan. "I personally don't get it."
Elena nodded, she agreed with Caroline. The only thing that gave Mary an edge to being
possessed was that she and Bonnie did share the same druid blood. But if whatever powers
these were wanted to hurt them possessing Bonnie would have made much more sense.
"What kind of game?" She asked Mary, hoping to get more information out of the elder girl.
Coming to a stop in front of the boarding house Bonnie turned the car off and stared up at
Stefan's window, noticing that Damon wasn't there. She didn't feel him near the boarding
house either. Grabbing the book she got out of the car and headed inside the house. She
slowly made her way up the stairs to Stefan's attic room. Bonnie wasn't in any hurry to see
her sister again, it hurt to have hear the things Mary said and the way she looked at her. 'Be
strong Bonnie, you can do this.'
Stopping in the doorway she looked at Elena and Caroline who were looking upon Mary
with a curious expression as Elena asked what kind of game it was they were supposed to
play. "I'd like to know that myself." She said stepping into the room and sitting on one of the
upturned chests.
"I'm not much older than you. Besides what's it matter to you who I want to be friends
with, wolfy?" Mary scowled, "You've never wanted to be friends with them until recently.
No one has questioned you. You have no right to question me."
Mary looked up when Bonnie entered the room, "I don't know. I just know it's some sort
of game. I was the only one who could see them, I dreamed about them. The eyes... The
hands..." her voice trailed off momentarily.
"I was a threat to them I suppose. I'm not really sure how to get rid of them. I get them out
of me head, I always hear them whispering. The whispering just doesn't stop."
She looked from each of them, "Not like you would care or understand. So, that's ok.
You can call the nut house like I KNOW you have been thinking about, that way I will be
out of your way. But just because I am out of the way doesn't mean they will be. They'll
find a way around it."
Caroline's cat eyes slit in anger at Mary's words. She neared Mary and stared her down.
"Excuse me?" she ignored the whole wolfie part. "I have no right? I have been friends with
all of them since at least kindergarten." she crossed her arms. "Yeah...we had our issues this
year. Sometimes that happens between friends. But we are old enough to get passed them
when it really counts." she leaned back shifting her weight. "You however, were never part
of this group. You were always Bonnie's older sister. The one who supervised slumber
parties. Drove us to the movies." Caroline stopped. She could feel the heat rising in her and
she needed to calm down. "You are not one of us."
Clearing her throat Bonnie looked from Mary to Caroline. "She might not be part of the
group but she did help Stefan out when Elena, Matt and I found him in the well. She didn't
know what he was then but she helped him anyway even with the rumors going around town
about him being a murderer. And if it hadn't been for her I would have never known what to
do to Meredith's leg out in the clearing after she was attacked by Tyler. There are some
pluses to having a nurse for a sister."
Opening the book she came to the page she had read earlier and looked at Elena, pointing at
the paragraph. "I think we have to travel into her mind, try find a way to get them out of her
head. She's not crazy, she's possessed. I'm not talking about the whole Linda Blair with the
pea soup possessed, that's all Hollywood. She's just a vessel for whoever or whatever is in
her, a human suit to walk around and do their dirty work. I don't know why they wanted
Katherine free, probably to distract us from whatever it is they are planning to do."
Bonnie knew that not all of the negativity coming from her sister was the 'thing' inside her;
some of it was Mary's own personal feelings. 'I really should have hung out with her more
growing up but we are so different. I like fashion, she likes medicine. No look where the
emotional distance between us has gotten. She's possessed and I'm reading excerpts from a
spell book involving cow poo." Handing the book to Stefan she figured he might now a little
bit about possession, being from the land of the Roman Catholics and having been around
quite a long time. "Have you witnessed any type of possession Stefan?"
Taking the book from her and scanning the pages, Stefan looked over the paragraph about
possession. "I have seen a lot in my day. People who were believed to be possessed were
also accused of being witches and were killed. People would just convulse and start
speaking in tongues and stuff. At the time I just thought they were mentally insane but, I now
know a lot more about the paranormal now." He looked from Bonnie to Elena and then
glanced at Mary. "I think we need to get inside of her mind and get whatever or whoever it
is out of there. Bonnie, if you don't feel safe enough, you and I could both go together. Just
like we did to see Elena when she was..." he paused and stopped. "Gone".
Alaric was just sitting next to Meredith's body staring at everyone talk about Mary's
possession. "I have studied a little about possession in my time. I learned that psychic
intrusion were the best form of exorcism. Also, there are ouija boards that can be used for
communication. Maybe it would be best if we did that first before letting you two wander
into uncharted territory?"
Matt decided to go back into the boarding house. When he walked in, he saw Caroline and
Mary exchanging pissy looks, Bonnie and Stefan with some book, Alaric sitting down and
Elena just standing there, looking as if she had been struck mute.
"Did I miss something?" He asked puzzled.
Elena managed a small smile for Matt. "That's an understatement." She quickly filled him in
on what was and wasn't happening. "We should try to check it out before we dive in." She
said. "Caroline do you still have the origin board you guys used at the slumber party?" She
was a little wary of using it from this side of the paranormal, even when she of all people
knew that they couldn't hurt you through it. But whatever they might be, and whatever else
might decide to pop up was a little un-nerving.
Caroline looked at Elena and smiled at matt. "I think so. You think it would work?" she
walked closer to Elena and matt. "I hope I didn't break it and throw it away
after...well...you know....Sue."
Mary could feel something welling up inside her. It was like toxic sludge building up at her
inner core. "If I don't belong then I'll act like it. You can get the epinephrine on your own.
Have fun finding it and administering it."
Suddenly Mary was alone in this all over again. This time she didn't fight it. She was being
drawn down, deep, inside herself. She curled up in the bottle in her mind. 'Perhaps, if I stay
quiet I'll just go away. Just fade away, like a dream.' She let the lid slam shut. She watched
without a complaint behind her eyes. Her eyes were no blue windows she was willingly
locked behind. She watched as they debated over her. 'Just give up Bonnie, you know you
wanted to. Give up, I have.'
Elena shook her head at Mary. The girl wigs out on them then expects them to treat her as
nothing had happened. She shrugged her shoulders. "If you did break it or get rid of it,
we'll just have to get another one." She glanced around the room. "Afraid I don't have any
money, any body else want to volunteer to get one?" She felt a slight twinge of sadness
when Caroline had mentioned Sue. She had never been one of the group, never really been
a friend, but Elena hated that Klaus had drawn her into his little sick games to hurt her and
her friends. Yeah Katherine had tortured Vickie, then Klaus killed her and Sue. Now with
Katherine back and Mary crazy, Elena wondered who was next.
Damon walked deeper into the woods, his jacket shielding most of his skin from the suns
slightly painful rays, and the black sunglasses keeping his eyes from wincing, he looked
around for any place Katherine may have been hiding. He sneered as a deer darted across
his path, sensing the predator and taking off. 'Stupid deer, I don't eat animals.' Damon
thought to himself. He decided not to send out his powers to find Katherine. She would
probably feel him coming anyways, but this way he would get closer before she did. He
didn't feel anything yet, but something inside told him he was getting close....
~*~*~*~
* - The information from Bonnie's book really came from www.themystica.com
was playing her left the game, and now someone else has her, so you'll start seeing her more
often. As for the Damon/Bonnie/Elena thing there's no telling what he's up to. Technically
it's only two or three days after the end of book for, so you can't expect him to make a
move for Elena right away... (Lol, I know cause he's the character I write.) But just be
patient, it can't do anything but get better!!!
~*~*~*~
Caroline watched Damon stomp out like a pouty spoiled child. He was really beginning to
annoy her. What is his point her in the town if he is just gonna be useless. Surely there are
more exciting spots in the world. She rolled her eyes. She saw Elena walk up to her. She
could practically smell the skepticism radiating from her. Either that or fear. She heard Elena
whisper about Mary and her episodes and not being able to handle it.
"If Mary starts up again. I might have to simply knock her out. At this point she might be
more of a danger then of use. She told us what the drug is...if we can get the key. One of us,
preferably you can go get the medicine and I can be the lookout. I can hear and smell much
better now. And if someone gets pushy. I can knock them out quietly too." she grinned. "It
can be a knockout party," she giggled almost as if she lavished the idea of causing some
pain." besides that's what Buffy would do. She'd knock them out," she stated pointedly.
Matt had decided he would feign some sort of stomach thing. Maybe that his appendix was
bursting or that he was passing stones. He would cause such a scene. The staff would think
he was dying. It could be fun. He had to remember not to scare bonnie to death though since
she scared so easily. He sat in the car and waited.
Mary tried not to grin when Damon stormed out. 'Oh poor little boy, you've lost your spot
light.' She looked up when she heard Elena and Caroline discussing her. They were
unaware that she could hear them. "I'll behave," she spoke up. "If I don't then just club me
stoutly about the head. Damon proved just how well that works. I'm almost surprised you
all aren't jumping in line for your turn. It really seems like none of you trust me." She rolled
her eyes and sighed, "Scratch that, I know you don't trust me."
She glanced at each of them, "It's up to you."
Elena glanced over her shoulder; surprised that Mary had heard her whispering. What was
this; did everyone have super senses now? "Do you blame us for not trusting you Mary. I
mean you are a couple years older than us, and never wanted to hang out with us before,
and now you've suddenly got all this power and it doesn't look like you want to use it in a
good way." She stopped and got a breath. "What gives Mary? Why is whatever that's in
your head coming after us?"
Caroline shifted her weight back on her heels, crossed her arms over her chest and cocked
her head towards Mary.
"Excellent question Elena...yeah Mary. What's the deal...because from over here. I can
smell the mojo working in you and by all standards. You smell barely human." she looked
deadpanly at the woman. "Who's in you?"
Stefan listened and watched as everyone argued amongst themselves. He let everyone get
their thoughts out into he open. He was interested in knowing what Mary had to say to the
question of what was inside of her mind. At the same time he was thinking of some way to
locate Katherine and what they should do with her once they found her.
Alaric also watched as everyone argued and was becoming frustrated as he wanted to help
Meredith as soon as possible. He couldn't wait until he could speak to her again. Instead he
just sat back and watched the girls bicker back and forth.
Finding a mention in the book about possession she read on to find out about how to banish
the evil:
In many Eastern religions spirits and ghosts are blamed for many ills, and are cast out
of people. However, such afflictions are not regarded as all-out battles for the
persons' souls. The typical Hindu exorcism practices consist of blowing cow-dung
smoke, pressing rock salt between the fingers, burning pig excreta, beating or pulling
the victim's hair, reciting prayers or mantras, and offering gifts of candy and other
presents to get the evil or troublesome spirits to depart from the persons. (*)
"Oh yeah. Sure, mess with cow poo and throw candy at my sister." Shaking her head she
continued to read.
The ritual employed in shamanism is that the shaman enters a trance during which he
attempts to discover the cause of the victim's trouble. Frequently the cause is thought
linked to a dead person. The shaman then is said to travel to the lower word to speak
with this soul. He then knows the cure of this victim's affliction, or may even bring
back the soul to cure it. (*)
"Maybe I'll have to travel into my sister's mind with someone else who has strong psychic
powers. Who ever it is in her head keeps talking about a game. Maybe we have to go into
her mind to play it." If this had been brought up a little over a year ago she would have been
laughing like crazy but playing 'their' game seemed to be the only option. "I've got to go
into her mind and free her from her own demons." Closing the book she leaned back against
the wall and took in a deep breath. She was starting to get a ridiculous hard to do list. "First
free my sister from who ever has control of her. Second help get Meredith back in her body.
Three find Katherine and get rid of her for good and last but not least get prepared for
school." Some where in between those things she would have to figure out what was going
on between her and Damon.
Standing up she tucked the book under her arm and headed back down the stairs. She'd
have to show what she found to her friends. Locking the house back up she walked to the
car and hopped in, placing the book in the passenger seat beside her. Starting the car up she
pulled out of the driveway and headed back towards the boarding house.
Meredith watched as everyone bickered amongst themselves. 'This is like watching a time
bomb...just waiting for it to explode. Or like one of those "real life" TV shows, waiting for
the next person to get voted off the island...or something like that.' She sat down on the
bed, only mildly surprised she didn't fall through, and closed her eyes, massaging the back of
her neck. 'I'm tired. Maybe I'll just lay here until a decision is made. Or maybe I'll
remember something from when my grandfather was...and that'll help somehow.' Meredith
leaned back against the headboard of the bed, keeping her eyes closed, and fell into a
restless slumber.
"Never wanted to be a part of your group? I always wanted to hang out, spend time with
my sister. I tried, but well, I always became the outsider, just as I am now." Mary placed
her bound fists to her fore head. An exhausted sigh escaped her lips. "It's a game! I said
that before. I don't know who they are, but I hear them talking about 'the game'."
Mary's blue eyes were pleading. She lowered her hands and her shoulder's slumped a tiny
bit. "I don't know how they take over me. I don't know how I do that wind thing either. I
just know it's a game to them."
Caroline just looked at Mary. It seemed almost pathetic they way she was acting.
"Oh please Mary. I can understand why you'd wanna hang with your sister. But be part of
the group? I don't buy that. You're a grown woman with a career. You'd hardly ever had
time for our silly teenager issues." she looked at Mary deeply. "A game? And why you? No
offense, but you're a strange one for the malevolent forces to be messing with. You weren't
ever involved in anything going on concerning Katherine or Klaus. You didn't help us fight or
help Bonnie contact Elena. You'd didn't help rescue me when I was being held for ransom
by the crazed undead." she looked back at Elena and Stefan. "I personally don't get it."
Elena nodded, she agreed with Caroline. The only thing that gave Mary an edge to being
possessed was that she and Bonnie did share the same druid blood. But if whatever powers
these were wanted to hurt them possessing Bonnie would have made much more sense.
"What kind of game?" She asked Mary, hoping to get more information out of the elder girl.
Coming to a stop in front of the boarding house Bonnie turned the car off and stared up at
Stefan's window, noticing that Damon wasn't there. She didn't feel him near the boarding
house either. Grabbing the book she got out of the car and headed inside the house. She
slowly made her way up the stairs to Stefan's attic room. Bonnie wasn't in any hurry to see
her sister again, it hurt to have hear the things Mary said and the way she looked at her. 'Be
strong Bonnie, you can do this.'
Stopping in the doorway she looked at Elena and Caroline who were looking upon Mary
with a curious expression as Elena asked what kind of game it was they were supposed to
play. "I'd like to know that myself." She said stepping into the room and sitting on one of the
upturned chests.
"I'm not much older than you. Besides what's it matter to you who I want to be friends
with, wolfy?" Mary scowled, "You've never wanted to be friends with them until recently.
No one has questioned you. You have no right to question me."
Mary looked up when Bonnie entered the room, "I don't know. I just know it's some sort
of game. I was the only one who could see them, I dreamed about them. The eyes... The
hands..." her voice trailed off momentarily.
"I was a threat to them I suppose. I'm not really sure how to get rid of them. I get them out
of me head, I always hear them whispering. The whispering just doesn't stop."
She looked from each of them, "Not like you would care or understand. So, that's ok.
You can call the nut house like I KNOW you have been thinking about, that way I will be
out of your way. But just because I am out of the way doesn't mean they will be. They'll
find a way around it."
Caroline's cat eyes slit in anger at Mary's words. She neared Mary and stared her down.
"Excuse me?" she ignored the whole wolfie part. "I have no right? I have been friends with
all of them since at least kindergarten." she crossed her arms. "Yeah...we had our issues this
year. Sometimes that happens between friends. But we are old enough to get passed them
when it really counts." she leaned back shifting her weight. "You however, were never part
of this group. You were always Bonnie's older sister. The one who supervised slumber
parties. Drove us to the movies." Caroline stopped. She could feel the heat rising in her and
she needed to calm down. "You are not one of us."
Clearing her throat Bonnie looked from Mary to Caroline. "She might not be part of the
group but she did help Stefan out when Elena, Matt and I found him in the well. She didn't
know what he was then but she helped him anyway even with the rumors going around town
about him being a murderer. And if it hadn't been for her I would have never known what to
do to Meredith's leg out in the clearing after she was attacked by Tyler. There are some
pluses to having a nurse for a sister."
Opening the book she came to the page she had read earlier and looked at Elena, pointing at
the paragraph. "I think we have to travel into her mind, try find a way to get them out of her
head. She's not crazy, she's possessed. I'm not talking about the whole Linda Blair with the
pea soup possessed, that's all Hollywood. She's just a vessel for whoever or whatever is in
her, a human suit to walk around and do their dirty work. I don't know why they wanted
Katherine free, probably to distract us from whatever it is they are planning to do."
Bonnie knew that not all of the negativity coming from her sister was the 'thing' inside her;
some of it was Mary's own personal feelings. 'I really should have hung out with her more
growing up but we are so different. I like fashion, she likes medicine. No look where the
emotional distance between us has gotten. She's possessed and I'm reading excerpts from a
spell book involving cow poo." Handing the book to Stefan she figured he might now a little
bit about possession, being from the land of the Roman Catholics and having been around
quite a long time. "Have you witnessed any type of possession Stefan?"
Taking the book from her and scanning the pages, Stefan looked over the paragraph about
possession. "I have seen a lot in my day. People who were believed to be possessed were
also accused of being witches and were killed. People would just convulse and start
speaking in tongues and stuff. At the time I just thought they were mentally insane but, I now
know a lot more about the paranormal now." He looked from Bonnie to Elena and then
glanced at Mary. "I think we need to get inside of her mind and get whatever or whoever it
is out of there. Bonnie, if you don't feel safe enough, you and I could both go together. Just
like we did to see Elena when she was..." he paused and stopped. "Gone".
Alaric was just sitting next to Meredith's body staring at everyone talk about Mary's
possession. "I have studied a little about possession in my time. I learned that psychic
intrusion were the best form of exorcism. Also, there are ouija boards that can be used for
communication. Maybe it would be best if we did that first before letting you two wander
into uncharted territory?"
Matt decided to go back into the boarding house. When he walked in, he saw Caroline and
Mary exchanging pissy looks, Bonnie and Stefan with some book, Alaric sitting down and
Elena just standing there, looking as if she had been struck mute.
"Did I miss something?" He asked puzzled.
Elena managed a small smile for Matt. "That's an understatement." She quickly filled him in
on what was and wasn't happening. "We should try to check it out before we dive in." She
said. "Caroline do you still have the origin board you guys used at the slumber party?" She
was a little wary of using it from this side of the paranormal, even when she of all people
knew that they couldn't hurt you through it. But whatever they might be, and whatever else
might decide to pop up was a little un-nerving.
Caroline looked at Elena and smiled at matt. "I think so. You think it would work?" she
walked closer to Elena and matt. "I hope I didn't break it and throw it away
after...well...you know....Sue."
Mary could feel something welling up inside her. It was like toxic sludge building up at her
inner core. "If I don't belong then I'll act like it. You can get the epinephrine on your own.
Have fun finding it and administering it."
Suddenly Mary was alone in this all over again. This time she didn't fight it. She was being
drawn down, deep, inside herself. She curled up in the bottle in her mind. 'Perhaps, if I stay
quiet I'll just go away. Just fade away, like a dream.' She let the lid slam shut. She watched
without a complaint behind her eyes. Her eyes were no blue windows she was willingly
locked behind. She watched as they debated over her. 'Just give up Bonnie, you know you
wanted to. Give up, I have.'
Elena shook her head at Mary. The girl wigs out on them then expects them to treat her as
nothing had happened. She shrugged her shoulders. "If you did break it or get rid of it,
we'll just have to get another one." She glanced around the room. "Afraid I don't have any
money, any body else want to volunteer to get one?" She felt a slight twinge of sadness
when Caroline had mentioned Sue. She had never been one of the group, never really been
a friend, but Elena hated that Klaus had drawn her into his little sick games to hurt her and
her friends. Yeah Katherine had tortured Vickie, then Klaus killed her and Sue. Now with
Katherine back and Mary crazy, Elena wondered who was next.
Damon walked deeper into the woods, his jacket shielding most of his skin from the suns
slightly painful rays, and the black sunglasses keeping his eyes from wincing, he looked
around for any place Katherine may have been hiding. He sneered as a deer darted across
his path, sensing the predator and taking off. 'Stupid deer, I don't eat animals.' Damon
thought to himself. He decided not to send out his powers to find Katherine. She would
probably feel him coming anyways, but this way he would get closer before she did. He
didn't feel anything yet, but something inside told him he was getting close....
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* - The information from Bonnie's book really came from www.themystica.com
