RoseWood1: I'm told by one of my new male friends that I'm really pretty…gorgeous in fact, but that's just what he says. You don't really like Daniel? I like him, but then again, he's my character. I know you love Bonnie, I'm not really fussed on her, but I think she's all right. I hope I haven't waited too long to update this time, sorry about last time. ;)

Thea101: Pigging out on popcorn eh? Have fun with that. I think that nice guys can turn nasty. They might be nice for a while, until they get bored with you, then they show their true colours. ;)

Leiska: Hi honey. No, I won't keep you waiting. See I've updated quicker than I usually do with this story.

Therasa Silvernite: Well, I wouldn't go as far as saying that he's possessive for monogamy, but then again, he might. Thanks for reviewing by the way. ;)

A/N: Guess what? This story is almost coming to an end. In about another two to three chapters' time it will be. Marie gets a little aggressive in this chapter by the way…you could say a bit p***ed off!! Thank you to those who have reviewed. I hope to get more reviews soon. ;)

Part 9: Preparations.

"Stefan!" I cry, going over and fall on me knees beside my twin. I pull out the six inch blade that I carry in my right knee high leather boot, and cut his ropes, I pull the duct tape off Stefan's mouth. Damon is over untying Elena, Meredith and Matt.

"Stefan?" I ask, shaking him slightly. When he doesn't wake up I slap him hard on the side of the face, leaving a red handprint.

"Stefan!" he finally wakes up and looks around himself. "What happened?" I ask, his green eyes settling on mine. My eyes are undoubtedly the same shade of green that his are, if not a bit darker.

"I…I…got hit on the head." Stefan replies, rubbing the back of his head, where there is probably a bump.

"Did Daniel attack you?" Damon asks, looking Stefan in the eye, while untying the last of the ropes on Matt.

"I don't know. I was hit from behind." He looks around himself, and then back at me. "Where is Daniel? And Bonnie?" he asks.

"I have no idea." I reply. I too look around the room, and for the first time, I see a white envelope sitting on the chair that Bonnie and I shared. I walk over to it and see my name written on the front in spiky, but elegant writing.

I rip the envelope and read the note inside. The paper has a crest on it; a shield with a black panther holding it up on one side and a leopard holding the other side, in the middle of the shield is two birds: a golden eagle and a hawk. My crest, the one that Daniel and I share. The note reads:

Marie-

If you want to see your beloved again, meet me in the graveyard in Fell's Church. I think we can settle this disagreement like civilised people. Bring your beloved's friends and your two brothers, I wish to see the infamous Damon Salvatore. If you are not in Fall's Church at the graveyard by midnight tonight…well let's just say you'll be all alone again. By the way, I will never forgive you for what you have done to me.

See you at midnight.

-D.

Bastardo! I think to myself. I'll kill you Daniel. I crumple the piece of paper in my fist. Then I turn and walk out of the room and upstairs. I take my clothes off and get changed into something else. Before, I was wearing a black suit, but now I am wearing black leather trousers, a short black leather top, black leather boots and my long black leather duster. All of these are Italian cut leather.

I pull my long black hair into a single long braid, I tie it with a black hair tie, and I put a black crow's feather through the elastic.

I put on a pair of dark sunglasses, and hide quite a few knives. I turn around to pick up my leather duster when both Damon and Stefan walk into my room. My back is to them.

"Nice tattoo." Damon comments, seeing the tattoo of four dragons on the small of my back. Two ordinary dragons are holding a circle, one dragon is dark green, and the other is red. Inside the circle are two Chinese dragons, one white and one blood red. These dragons are in the shape of the yin yang symbol, each holding a ball; the white dragon is holding a blood red ball, and the blood red dragon is holding a white ball. The two ordinary dragons, complete with wings, are breathing fire.

"Thank you." I say, still with my back to them. I strap a samurai sword on my back, and then put on my leather duster; the sword is now hidden.

"You're dressed to kill." Stefan says. "Look's like you've seen a few wars."

"Three hundred. Not including Vietnam, I never really liked the country." I say, turning around and heading for the door. I pause in the doorway and look at my brothers.

"Well?" I ask. Damon and Stefan exchange a glance.

"Well what?" Damon asks. I roll my eyes at them.

"I swear, you're both blonds really, and you just dye your hair black." They both look at me is if I've gone nuts. I sigh before answering them.

"Are you coming?"

"Uh…where to?" Damon asks.

"Back to Fell's Church, we have to meet Daniel there at the graveyard for midnight." I reply.

"Do we have to?" Stefan moans.

"Yes, you have to." I say, turning my back and walk out the bedroom door, the other two follow closely behind.

"No guns?" Matt asks, seeing my hidden weapons when my duster billows out.

"I prefer fighting sticks, knives and swords." I reply, attaching another knife to my arm on a spring mechanism.

"Why?" Elena asks.

"Well, you can't control the amount of pain inflicted my a bullet, but you can with a knife, sword or fighting stick." I reply dryly.

"You sound like an expert." Meredith comments.

"I have experience in things like this. I am also an expert in using my body as a weapon." I reply, grabbing the keys to my four by four and ushering my guests out the door. We all climb into my black Jeep, and I speed off towards Fell's Church.

We get there about an hour later, only another hour and a half before midnight. I park the Jeep as far as I can go, and then we all walk the rest of the way to the ruined church. The others sit on the remainders of the walls, or beside the Fells' tomb, but I pace back and forth, waiting for my lover to show up.

At midnight exactly, I see two figures walking towards the ruined church, one male and one female, they are both clutching onto one another. They reach us a few minutes later.

"Let her go Daniel." I say, putting the last five hundred odd years into my voice.

Daniel just minutely shakes his head, and clutches onto Bonnie even tighter.

Bonnie looks ill; her face is paler than usual. She is swaying on her feet, as her head flops to the side, I can make out two faint puncher wounds on her throat.

"Daniel! You son of a bitch! I'll kill you!" I scream, launching myself towards him and Bonnie.

"Marie!" I hear, I stop dead in my tracks and look around. The voice is female, powerful and menacing. And it is vaguely familiar.

"I brought you here, to witness the death of you beloved." The voice says. I look around and finally see the owner of the voice. The figure is about my height, long blond hair and hard, cold emerald eyes.

All at once I remember a tavern in Ireland, back in the seventeen hundreds. A waitress coming up to me and I rip her throat out. I make her a vampire, and she makes her ten-year-old son one as well. Her child going around and blabbing to the town's folk about being a vampire, killing children and adults alike.

I killed the demon child, and I staked his mother. But I must not have killed her, for that woman is now the one standing in front of me, holding both Daniel and Bonnie by the throat, and grinning savagely at me.

"Damara!" I hiss, earning a pointed toothed smile.

"Marie." She says pleasantly. "I see you've come to die with your vampire lover. And your vermin girlfriend!"

I growl low in my throat.

"Ah, ah, ah." Damara taunts, shaking her head at me. "I'll kill Isabelle, just as I killed her in her last life."

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A/N: Ooh! So it wasn't Daniel who killed Isabelle before. And by the way, Damara was supposed to call Bonnie Isabelle; she doesn't know that her name nowadays is Bonnie, just in case you thought that I had meant to say Bonnie. Find out what happens in the next chapter of Marie.