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March 13, 1994

Caro, diary

Now, it seems like Damon's and my relationship is getting better by the day. Every night we talk about things, like what made our relationship crumble. There are a lot of things that we had kept from each other, and I suppose that if we would have gotten it all out of our systems, then none of this would have happened.

Bonnie suggested marriage counseling, but then I asked her what we would say were we to go to one.

"Hey, we've been married for over five-hundred years, we had two children, but we never got to see them grow up because a few weeks after our youngest child was born, my crazy grandmother kidnapped me, and forced me to write a note to my husband who she didn't like saying that I hated him, and never wanted to see him again, so that he would abandon me, and she could marry me off to the sweet, but very overbearing man that she wanted to see me married to?"

I did write the note, but only because she locked me in a room without food, or weaponry for two weeks, along with a very large man who had a whip, and knew how to use it.

Then, it would be Damon's turn to chime in.

"After I got the note, since I wasn't aware that it was all fake and that she was actually in trouble, I thought that our two children would grow up without a mother figure. Since I lost my Mama when I was eight, I knew how it felt, and didn't want my children to have that misery, so I made it my duty to find them a mother figure.

"The first woman I saw after my wife left was her cousin Katherine, who she didn't like very much. But soon after we began our relationship, I found out that she was a vampire. So, for the sake of our children, I let her turn me into a vampire and-"

Here I would break in:

"Avete desiderato Katherine essere un sostituto me! Come potreste? Damon, quello deve essere il dumbestidea che mi sono sentito mai!"

I would basically tell him how stupid it was to try and substitute Katherine for me, while secretly admiring Damon's desire to give his children a mother figure.

Then, he would continue:

"And it was only after that that I found Selina back home. Because she was now back, I turned her into a vampire, letting her brother raise our children. They grew up thinking that we died of some disease, or something like that."

Then, our therapist would look at us patronizingly while secretly calling the closest institution.

So we ignored that idea, and settled on talking to each other at night. It's been working really well.

Sadly though, now that I've dealt with one problem, another has to show up.

Damon and I were out with Stefan and Elena and her friends earlier today when Katherine decided to grace us with her presence. I wish she would have just stayed in Germany after I convinced her to make the dogs stopattacking the people of Fell's Church, but no, she has to come back.

And, she has to bring the skeletons in my very fashionable closet with her. She chatted with us for a bit while I tried to hold my tongue. Then, she motioned for a guy who she introduced as her boyfriend to introduce himself.

He did, and I shrunk back, hoping he wouldn't see me. Then, Elena asked how they had met.

Katherine told her. "We met in a war hospital in Germany during World War I. I was his nurse and he was dying."

He nodded. "She was my angel. She changed me because she didn't want me to be lonely. I had a wife before the war, but I was afraid that she would be too afraid of my vampire self to keep our relationship going."

Then, he finally noticed me in the shadows. Well, not all the way.

"Katherine, who's that?"

She laughed softly. "That's my cousin Selina."

Trying to keep my expression neutral, I stepped into his vision. I saw his eyes widen. Then, for the first time in 77 years, I my second husband and I spoke.

"Maria? Is that you? I've been watching you, trying to figure it out."

I nodded. "Yes, James. It's me."

More news on damage control tomorrow.

Fino a che non veniamo a contatto di ancora,

Selina

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