I am a woman of my word. I did say 85 and you have me 85:) SO as promised here you go. I promise not to make it as easy.
Chapter 2,
Maybe if the stars align, maybe if our worlds collide
Maybe on the dark side we could be together, be together
Maybe in a million miles, on a highway through the stars
Someday soon we'll be together
-Major Lazer
Dear Elena,
It's been awhile since I have actually written in you. I feel bad but I have been so busy with more research. Though not on the St. John's like I should have. I decided to do more research on this patronizing bitch Maria. The Armory was bound to have some information her, wouldn't they?
Well I had to actually know a lot about her to actually do research on her. She was a difficult person to do research on. The woman had been a live for centuries, well one. She had created enemies, and she was still alive. She reminded me of Klaus, though he was someone that hadn't been a problem for a while…
I looked through the database and found very little on her. What did amaze me that this database had information on every viable super natural that has ever walked the planet. Even the one that have walked through me to get to the other side. Though Maria's infomaton was very limited.
Name: Maria Surname: Jenkins
DOB: Unknown
Age: Appearance has ranged her between 24-29 years old
Specie: Vampire (former witch)
Family History:
Mother: Anne-tonette Jenkins (nee Louis)
DOB: 12 April 1869
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Specie: Witch
Coven: French Quarter
Former regent before band from city in 1887 at the age of 17 for sacrificing her sister for a spell (still unknown to this day)
DOD: 9 June 1919
Cause of Death: Vampire Attack.
Spouse: Joseph Kaine Jenkins
Children: 2
Father: Joseph Kaine Jenkins
DOB: 27 June 1865
Place of birth: Atlanta, Georgia
Specie: Vampire (former human)
Turned: Unknown
Occupation: Owns bar in Atlanta City (unknown location)
Spouse: Anne-tonette Jenkins
Children: 2
More information: Maria had a twin sister, Margery, whose whereabouts dates back to 1910. It has been said that Margarie and Maria performed a spell that led to Margery's demise…
"Which led to Maria's insane outlook." Enzo said making me jump. I turned to see him reading over me. He chuckled a little at my reaction causing my heart to flutter because that brilliant smile…I shake my head and glare at him.
"You do know that in this day and age what you just did is considered incredibly creepy." I stand up from the table and cross my arms.
"Lucky I've lived so long to not know the difference." He winks at me and says sarcastically.
"I will remember that for next time I read about your exes." I say sarcastically. I then looked at him, "You were gone long?"
"Yeah," Enzo rolled his eyes, "Yeah you can thank MJ for that one. She did some spell that had the Armory believing that you were in Canada."
"Canada?"
"You have to give her some credit," Enzo says walking towards the kitchen, "She is smart."
"Smart MJ, or Smart like your crazy ex." I raise an eyebrow at him.
"Crazy ex." He chuckles, "Why are you looking into them anyway?" He asked putting the kettle on, "Last I checked, I'm very sure Maria didn't even know about Bennetts or my family in her time."
"You're speaking in past tense," I lean against the counter, "As to say she would know now about the Armory and my family."
"The armory, no." He takes two mugs out the cabinet, "Your family, I wouldn't put it past her."
"Oh?"
"Well Maria had a weird obsession with having a witch or two in her position, a powerful witch at that." He says shrugging.
"Powerful?"
"According to MJ," Enzo sighs, "Your family is considered one of the most powerful…covens if you will, in the witch world."
"She's not wrong." I sigh, "Next to a Mickelson, we are by far meant to be the most powerful."
"Anyway, Maria keeps witches around her, powerful or not," He says looking at me, "You know, for resourceful purposes."
"Like someone else I know." I raise an eye brow at him and then look at him sincerely, "How is she?"
"MJ is very good at adapting." He shrugs, "And she has amazing self-preservation…she's a survivor. So I'd imagine round about now," he looks at the clock mounted to the wall, "she's adapted."
"Almost like her great grandmother I suppose?" I ask him and watch as he slowly watches me.
"Exactly like her." Enzo says and then starts pouring the sugar in the mugs after he has placed teabags in them, "Besides that whole family believed in surviving."
"Whole family?"
"Yeah," Enzo walks to the fridge, "Including Maria."
"Wait what?" I say shocked, "Is the other child that Anne-tonette Jenkins had? Was it Magenta?"
"Uh unlikely College girl," Enzo chuckles, "since Maria's sister's name was Margery and Magenta…is still Magenta, no variations."
"Oh," I look down, "So Magenta is Maria's…" I trail off.
"First cousin." Enzo sighs, "As I believe it. You saw the bit about Anne being a regent in New Orleans," I nod at him as he pours the milk, "You see in the past regents were chosen in some form of a bloodline way."
"Back in the day?"
"Yeah," Enzo says, "Now they'll have any old riff raff as their regent. As I understand it, it's not a pleasant job."
"It wouldn't be," I agree with him, "Being regent means you have access to unlimited power provided by dead witches but that comes at the price of being told how to use that power. Which means being controlled by the ancestors."
"I hear that can also be a bitch." He says and pours the hot water but smiles brilliantly at me. My heart once again skips faster than usual. I quickly get back on the topic.
"So Anne was shunned…" I look at him.
Enzo hands me my mug and we walk back to the table, "She performed some spell that involved a sacrifice of a young child…this was just a rumor however." Enzo rolls his eyes and looks at Maria's documents, "When she was shunned, she didn't want to leave her younger sister, Annalise in New Orleans who was pregnant."
"Younger?" I look at him, "That would mean she was pregnant in her teens."
"She was," Enzo looks at me, "It wasn't uncommon in that time love. I think she was about sixteen when she was pregnant." I can't but imagine a girl that looks exactly like MJ with a bulging belly, "You see Magenta's father was told to be the second bloodline that would take over as regents if the Louis bloodline could no longer fulfill their duties at regents."
"Two regent bloodlines make for a very powerful child." I state and then look at Maria's name on her document and then I chuckle once without humour. As if a lightbulb just went off in my head, "That is why she wants MJ…Magenta was that powerful child."
"Exactly," Enzo says sounding impressed with my quick thinking tactics, "However that is why MJ was able to escape Maria…that amount of power is instant. MJ said that she was able to escape by cloaking herself. But MJ's DNA was everywhere in the pace where her previous foster parents were killed. Maria had a witch cast an unhinging spell, you know the spell that is meant to injure witches so badly that they're meant to bleed out."
"That spell wouldn't work on MJ," I say sipping my tea, "Her blood is basically made out of power. She will just heal, and you gave her blood which made the process faster. If not fed her power."
"So this blood line…it's that powerful?"
"Ancestors can't control her, no one can. The way my magic doesn't work on Rayna…it's not the same with her, her magic works on her." I say to him, "She's more powerful than them all. That is why she's immune to anything…which means…." I trail off as another light bulb goes off.
Enzo looks at me, "What?"
"That child that Anne sacrificed? How old were they?"
"Joe said not more than a day or two old?" Enzo shrugs and then looks concerned, "Why?"
"Maria's madness isn't a result of losing family," I say to him, "It's a result of the fact that her mother made a spell protecting her cousins bloodline and not her own. She's angry, not mad."
"I don't understand."
"Think about it," I say to him, "When Magenta died, what happened to Malika…"
"I compelled her," Enzo says shrugging, "She had a normal life and Maria never found her."
"But Maria found Malika's daughter," I look at him, "And Malika died of an animal attack in her thirties." I take a file out and show him her file, "Millicent, Malika's daughter, then disappeared."
"Probably props to Big Joe for that." Enzo says looking at the file.
"And because she cloaked herself." I say to him.
"At the age of," Enzo looks at the file, "Five?" He looks at me in disbelief, "highly unlikely."
"Enzo," I look at him, "The spell Anne created years ago back fired…she was meant to protect her own bloodline, but also give them access to unlimited power. She tried steal that power from the Ancestors, her ancestors. That must have pissed off a lot dead witches, so they probably did a counter spell which meant the spell bounded."
"The spell bounded onto what?"
"The same blood, just a different line," I look at him and he looks down, "Did Annalise die giving birth to Magenta?"
"Yes." Enzo frowns and then looks as he understands, "Every new generation comes with more power."
I nod slowly at him, "Annalise had to die for the spell to be activated. For the next generation's magic to be…let say activated the previous generation needs to die or lose their power. That's a lot of power to take and then lose."
"How come Annalise died but Magenta? Malika? Millicent? They all lived Bonnie?"
"The first line is always the sacrifice," I explained to him, "Power is only accessed when a sacrifice is made. Nature works in give and take tactic. The Ancestors took Annalise…in exchange for unlimted power," I look at him as I say the last part, "Which also means that MJ can't die and that's why the unhinging spell didn't work. It couldn't work; MJ has to give birth to her next generation for her to be killed by magic or even by a supernatural for that matter."
"Does that mean she's immortal?"
"No," I can't help but chuckle, "She's still bound to nature…which mean that nature will still takes it's course. So when old age kicks in, she will die at the right time."
"This is so interesting," Enzo says, "I wonder if she knows."
"That doesn't matter," I look at him and take his hand without thinking, "Tell me, she's absolutely protected."
"She is." Enzo nods and looks at our hands. I quickly move them away, "That's good…I can only imagine what Maria wants with her."
"I do." Enzo says sipping his tea, "Magenta locked away the Louis family magical object. Objects that are said to contain unlimited and crazy power."
"Enough said," I roll my eyes, "Let me guess MJ is the only one that can open this thing that contains all these objects."
"MJ is the only one that can use the objects." Enzo says, "She the only witch in that bloodline. Maria is not a witch anymore."
"What is in there that she wants so badly?"
"Why does anybody want anything so badly?" I look up to watch him gaze at me. This is the feelings I can't describe. These are the things that shouldn't exist but do. My confusion that is deep inside of me. The fact that I'm imagining a life where I am not in perpetual doom, a life where he isn't related to a bunch of crazies. A life where he isn't a vampire and I'm not a magicless witch. A life where he loves me and I him. But everything there is impossible, especially the latter.
I shake my head and stand up with my cup of tea and Virginia's diary, "I think I'm done looking into your ex-girlfriends and need to get back to your family now." He grabs my arm as I'm about to walk away sending electricity down my back.
"I don't know what I want Bonnie." He says making me gasp quietly. I look down at him.
"Neither do I." I whisper, "But it's not us…I do know that…it's can't be us." It hurt me to say it but he was avoiding saying it.
He looks up at me with his brilliant eyes, "How right you are." Then lets go of my arm. The minute it leaves my skin, I feel cold as if it should be there. He then picks up his note book that I gave him and smiles, "Thank you for the little incentive about this."
"Can I read it." I force a smile hoping it will get rid of the uncomfortable feeling that is inside of me, "I want to make sure you're still not bashing my fire making skill."
"More your guitar playing in fact."
"Ha ha." I say sarcastically and watch as he chuckles.
"And the answer to you reading it," He winks at me, "Is no?"
"Why?"
"Cause it's private," He smiles at me, "Think of it as "A Vampire's diary."
"Now that," I walk to my room, "would make for some killer TV."
"Excuse the pun." He smiles at me and I close the door.
The minute it is closed, I put the diary and my tea on my chest of drawers. I run to my bed and bury my head in my pillow. And Elena, I don't know why but I just start crying and I feel like I can't stop.
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Authors note,
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CJR