I woke up in the morning and headed to the bathroom to prepare for my shower. Instead, I found Elena was brushing her teeth. I didn't expect her to be up so early. She didn't shower in the morning like I did. I hoped that wasn't going to change because that would cause problems.
"Sorry." I apologized. She was fully-dressed as well, which was also very odd.
"No, I'm done." She told me as she spit into the sink.
"You're up early." I noted. What was going on with her?
"The sheriff is organizing a search party for Vicki." She explained. Were they doing a search party even though she had only been missing for a few hours? Stefan had told me that they had found her, and she was at the boarding house. She also couldn't really leave since she couldn't go out in the sun.
"But you have school." I pointed out. I had actually been skipping less than before. I wasn't sure how my grades were though.
"Since when do you care about school?" She questioned. It was probably because I got to see Stefan at school, even though I wasn't sure if he would be going. He probably needed to keep Vicki in the house for a while. "She's missing, so school can fuck itself."
I sighed. I really needed to talk to Stefan. I wanted to talk about the other issue that we had, but I didn't know if we would be able to do that with Vicki around. So far, he was the only person that I was able to tell. I also didn't know what kind of story I was supposed to tell regarding Vicki's whereabouts. I got dressed and headed downstairs. I knew I wouldn't be going to school. I would really have to work on my grades. I managed to get up my English grade to C, but I was still failing History, which we still didn't have a teacher for, but as of right now, I had more important things to worry about. I hoped this vampire stuff doesn't cause me to have to go to summer school. I headed to the boarding house and rang the bell. It was answered by Damon. Oh joy.
"Is Stefan here?" I questioned. I hoped that Stefan hadn't told him about what I told him, but they didn't like each other, so I doubted it.
"Yup." Damon told me. That wasn't very helpful.
"Where is he?" I asked in annoyance, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Well good morning to you, Mary." He greeted me. He was really starting to get on my nerves.
"How can you be such an asshole after everything you've done?" I questioned.
"How can you be such an idiot to call a vampire an asshole?" He challenged.
"You're not going to kill me." I declared confidently. I wasn't sure why I felt so confident about it, but I was. "So where is Stefan?"
"He's upstairs playing the rain in Spain." Damon answered before he left. Where was he going? Was he watching My Fair Lady, one of the worst movies of all time? I sighed and stepped into the house. It looked like I would have to find him myself.
"Stefan?" I called upstairs. I then noticed that he was in front of me. I almost jumped. I thought he was going to stop doing that. It was weird. "Do you know where Vicki is?"
"She's upstairs." He told me. I couldn't help but wonder if she could hear us. He hadn't been clear on the super hearing thing. Sometimes vampires had it and sometimes they didn't.
"We need to come up with something fast because my sister and half of the town are looking for her?' I explained. "Do you think people will believe that she's in rehab?"
"Maybe it might be something worth considering." Stefan agreed. Of course, people might ask what center she was staying at. It would require some research. "Right now, I need to teach some things and she still can't go out in the sun. I don't really have a solution for that at the moment, but I need to keep her here for a while."
"How long is that?" Vicki interrupted from upstairs. Yeah, it seemed like she could hear us. He never told me how he got his special ring that allowed him to walk in the sun. We probably needed to find a way to get Vicki one.
"We'll talk about it later." Stefan told her.
"Vicki, how are you?" I questioned. As soon as the words left my mouth, I realized what a stupid question it was. I didn't know why I asked that because I hated hearing it and I imagined that she didn't want to hear it either.
"I'm fucking peachy." Vicki replied. Yeah, it was a mistake to ask that question.
"Do you a shower that I can use?" I asked Stefan. I probably should have taken one at the house, but I was a little anxious and kind of forgot to.
So, after I got out of the shower, I was in the living room with Stefan and Vicki. He gave both me and Vicki a cup of coffee. I probably should have told him that I didn't like coffee. I did notice some liquor. I wondered if I could have some of that. Then again, it might have been Damon's.
"Coffee is our friend. It warms our bodies, and the caffeine gives us energy which helps distract us from the need for blood." Stefan explained. You know I couldn't help but get the image of some jittery vampires in my head when he said that.
"But what if I want to drink human blood?" Vicki responded. I couldn't help but wonder how effective a diet of animal blood really was. It seemed like it was forcing someone to be a vegetarian. It seemed wrong to try to force it on her because it would only make her want it more.
"You're going to have to live with that urge and fight it one day at a time." Stefan told her. He sounded like someone in a drug-counseling program.
"Oh, don't give me any of that 12 Steps crap." Vicki replied. It seemed that she had noticed it as well. "School counselor has been down that road and failed. It doesn't work for me."
I currently felt like I needed to take some of Damon's liquor. I wondered if he would mind, but I didn't want to give him a reason to kill me. I wondered if any of it was Stefan's. Did Stefan drink at all?
"It can work." Stefan argued. "You just have to want it enough."
"So, are you saying that you've never had human blood?" Vicki asked him. I was curious about that myself. There was no way that he could have gone without it for almost 150 years.
"It's been a long time." Stefan replied. I guess that meant that he had had it before.
"How long?" Vicki persisted. Why was she being so nosy about it? I mean I wanted to know as well, but it was possible that Stefan didn't want to talk about it in detail.
"Years and years." Stefan declared. That was still pretty cryptic. Maybe I could ask him about it later. "The point is if I can do it, you can do it too."
I couldn't help but wonder if Stefan wanted to drink my blood. Was there a safe way for him to do that? Did I want him to do it? Was I weird for wondering what it would be like to have a vampire bite you? I knew it wasn't fatal because Caroline seemed to be fine.
"Does this sketchy feeling ever go away?" Vicki asked. "It's like I have a massive hangover and this no going in the sun thing is a bitch. I need more blood. I have to pee. Why do I have to pee? I thought I was dead."
That definitely did seem odd. Stefan directed her to the bathroom, and she got up and walked away. The situation was beginning to get uncomfortable. I never knew that Vicki could be so whiny. She always seemed to be in good control when she was at work, but she may have been on drugs when she was doing that. I was guessing that Mystic Grill didn't do drug tests.
"I'm gonna go get her some blood." Stefan announced. How was he doing that anyway? Did he have deer carcasses hung up on his wall or something? Did I really want to know? A lot of this was pretty morbid but I just had a lot of questions. I may have been too obsessed with monsters for my own good. It did mean that I was alone to think to myself about what I would say to Stefan about it.
Less than a minute later, Vicki returned. It looked like I really wouldn't get much of a chance to think.
"False alarm." The new vampire declared. I didn't know why she needed to tell me that. "My body is really fucked up right now, but it's a good kind of fucked."
She pretty much swore as much as I did. I then noticed her taking out her phone. She started to text someone. I had a bad feeling about that.
"Who are you texting?" I asked her.
"Elena." She answered nonchalantly.
"Vicki, you can't see Elena right now." I told her in frustration. "I don't want her to know that you're a vampire."
"Don't tell me that. I'm gonna see whoever I want to see." She argued. I had a feeling that this was not going to end well.
"I don't want Elena to know that you're a vampire at this time." I repeated. I didn't know why it was so hard to understand. "She could freak out or you could hurt her?"
"I would never hurt Elena." She tried to tell me. She didn't know what she was capable of. She was being such an entitled bitch.
"We can't take that risk right now." I remarked. She didn't seem to get that I was only trying to protect her and my sister. I didn't want to keep them apart. I wanted my sister to be happy. "You and Elena are gonna have to break up until you have it under control."
"Or what?" Vicki challenged before she grabbed me by the neck. "Listen here, Bitch, I'm done listening to you. First you say that I shouldn't be with Tyler and now you don't want me to be with Elena. I'm going to do whatever I want because I have some fun new abilities and I won't think twice about ripping your cute little head off."
She then dropped me to the floor, and I took some deep breaths as I grabbed my neck. Stefan returned and I grabbed him and took him outside. That definitely went a lot worse than I had hoped it would. I was pretty sure that I needed to avoid her.
"She threatened me, Stefan and she squeezed my neck." I told him as I massaged my larynx. At least I was pretty sure it was my larynx. I probably wasn't going to be a doctor like my dad. "I think I might have whiplash."
"She's on edge." Stefan told me. I wasn't sure if that was true or not. "Imagine every cell in your brain working all at once. It's not easy."
"Well how much longer is she going to be like this?" I asked as I took some deep breaths. It hurt like a bitch. How could she do that to me?
"I don't know. It could take a while." He explained. That didn't exactly sound encouraging. I didn't think we had a while.
"Well how long did it take you?" I inquired.
"A long time, but I didn't have anyone helping me." He pointed out. It seemed like he still wasn't ready to tell me this information. "The main thing is it's hard to resist certain people right now. Every emotion in your body can blend together into hunger. It means that she can't see Elena right now."
"I need to get home." I told him. He looked a little upset by that. "Stefan, I can't be here right now. I'm sorry but I don't like having my neck squeezed."
I couldn't imagine that anyone did, but there were some weird kinky people out there. I took my bike home, glad that Jenna was in class. I wished that I had someone who could use that mind control to make people think that I was at school. I was just glad that Jenna was on campus. I wondered if Stefan would be willing to help me out with my grades.
That night, I needed to talk to Elena. She needed to know that Vicki was okay, but it was a bad idea for them to be together at the moment. I hoped that she wouldn't take it as homophobia because I would be perfectly okay if it was any other girl who wasn't a vampire. I wasn't entirely sure what the best way to do this was.
"So, I heard that Vicki called Matt and that she's okay." I stated. It was probably good to start with something small.
"That's nice." Elena muttered. She didn't seem to be very interested in that.
"Do you want to go to this Halloween party at the school tonight?" I questioned. I did have a costume. I was a little nervous about wearing it, but I had a costume. Elena had bought it for me. "It sounds like it could be really fun."
"Sure, whatever." She responded. I guess she was miserable from not seeing Vicki. Apparently, she didn't want to see me in the outfit that she had bought me.
"Elena, Vicki needs to get better right now." I told her. "I mean you saw her on a wild trip yesterday. Being in a relationship with a drug addict is dangerous."
"You seemed fine with it yesterday." She pointed out. That was before I knew she was a vampire. Part of me thought that I should tell her but one: I didn't know if she would believe and two: I didn't even know if that would deter her. "Vicki makes me feel special. Being with her has been amazing. I don't want to let that go. I want to help her through whatever issues she has."
I realized that there was nothing that I could do as she walked upstairs to change into her costume. I went to change into mine. I was a princess costume, but not any particular princess. I was actually more a basic medieval dress. It was nice and loose at least. Elena came down dressed in her nurse costume from last year. We got into her car, and she drove us to the school.
Once we got to the school, we came across Matt. His was dressed in scrubs.
"Hey, you went with last year's costume too." He said with a smile. She did not return it.
"Are you supposed to be someone in particular?" Matt asked me as Elena walked away. "What's her problem?"
"We got into a fight." I told him. I wasn't sure if I could classify it as a fight since she really wasn't showing much emotion.
"Yeah, I almost didn't come because I got into it with Vick." He explained. Stefan didn't tell me that Vicki had escaped. That was not good. "I'm gonna give her space. You can't miss her she's a vampire."
"You know I just remembered that I have to go the bathroom." I stated before I frantically exited in search of Vicki. I decided to text Stefan to let him know that she was here at the school. I hoped that he would get her soon.
I ended up finding both of them with Stefan holding onto her arm. She probably didn't like how he was treating her like a child, but she had been acting like one. I hoped that he would be able to get her away from everyone.
"Oh, thank God." I remarked. At that moment, Matt walked over. I didn't know how we were going to get out of this. His timing could not have been worse.
"What's going on?" He asked in confusion.
"I told you to quit bothering me." Vicki shouted as she broke free of Stefan's grasp. "Matty, he won't leave me alone. Get him to leave me alone."
"You need to back off." Matt replied as he got in Stefan's face. At that moment, I noticed that Vicki had run away. She was smarter than I gave her credit for.
"Guys, Vicki's gone." I replied. I immediately ran off to look for her, hoping that she wasn't with Elena because that would end very badly. Since Stefan said that stakes worked, I might need to find one. I ran outside to over wear the buses were parked because the door had been opened. It probably wasn't a good idea to go into creepy places, but I didn't have a choice. I had to protect my sister.
I ended up finding Elena and also Vicki who looked downright feral to be honest. She bared her teeth and had bright red eyes. I was pretty sure that Elena knew that she was a vampire at that point. I had to do something to get her away. Against my best judgment, I grabbed a 2x4 and swung it at her, only for it to break against her. Fuck. She grabbed me and threw me onto a palette of wood. I winced in pain. I was at least glad that I managed to get her attention off of Elena. Now I really felt like I was in a horror movie with the monster.
Suddenly, Stefan appeared and grabbed her. He did his best to hold her back, but she managed to elude him and get away. She disappeared and we looked around for her. Yeah, being in a horror movie was not fun. I hoped that I would still be able to watch them after this.
"Get inside." Stefan ordered.
I grabbed Elena's hand and headed for the door. Just before we got inside, Vicki came and bit into my neck. Okay, I no longer wanted to be bitten by any vampires. I screamed in pain before she suddenly stopped, and I noticed that Vicki had been impaled with a piece of wood. I watched as her skin began to turn grey as she stopped moving and fell to the ground. Stefan had just killed her. I couldn't believe that he had just killed her, but he probably didn't have a choice.
"VICKI NO!" Elena screamed in anguish as she looked at her lover's body and tears began to rain down her face. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can't be dead."
"Stefan, get her home." I ordered. She needed to be taken away immediately. "Now!"
Stefan did as told as he removed her from the scene. I waited by her body. I was pretty much in shock as well because Vicki had been one of my friends and she was dead. I didn't know if I wanted to cry. I was probably in shock at the moment. I also didn't know how much blood she had drunk. I hoped that I wouldn't have anemia.
Damon then arrived looking rather smug. I was not in the mood see him at the moment.
"You did this." I told him as he looked over her body. "This is your fault. You fucking killed her!"
"You confuse me for someone who feels remorse." Damon pointed out. I then began to repeatedly pound my fists into him. "You need to leave. You have several open wounds and it's making me very hungry."
I then walked out to the parking lot with a bit of a limp. I had Elena's keys so I could drive home. I had never driven before but I wasn't drunk. It couldn't be that hard.
"Whoa what happened?" Matt asked as he saw me. I tried to think of what I could say.
"Some fucker sprayed me with blood." I lied.
"I can't find Vick." He told me. I wanted to cry when he said that.
"I haven't seen her." I lied once again. I couldn't tell him the truth. I just couldn't.
"Is this what I'm in for, a lifetime of worrying about her?" He questioned. Now I felt even worse. He walked off and I headed to the car and began to cry.
I then drove home and found Stefan outside. I wondered if he had said anything to her at all. She obviously knew that vampires were a thing now, but this was definitely not a thing to talk about.
"How is she?" I asked him.
"She's a wreck." Stefan replied.
I then went inside and up to her room. I needed to make sure that she was far away from sharp objects. I didn't trust her. What was I going to do? I couldn't lose my sister. I just couldn't.
"Do you understand what happened?" I asked her.
"No." Elena wept. "Why does everyone have to die on me? First mom and dad and now Vicki?"
"Elena, I'm still here." I told her as I gave her a hug. "You can't tell anyone what happened out there tonight."
She began to cry some more, and I didn't know what to do. I was afraid of what she'd do.
"I don't know what to do Stefan." I cried as he held me in his arms. "I feel that if I leave her alone too long, she'll slit her throat."
"I'll do anything that you want me to do." Stefan promised. It was then that I had an idea. It might only be a temporary solution but maybe he could it.
"I need you to use your mind control to make her forget what happened tonight." I replied.
"Mary, I don't know if I can do that." He told me. "Even if I could, there's no guarantee that it will stick. I don't drink human blood, so compulsion doesn't really work well for me."
"I'll do it." Damon offered as he appeared suddenly. I didn't know why he was here, but I supposed I could use his help.
"Really?" I questioned in disbelief.
"Yes, just tell me what you want her to know." Damon replied. I had a feeling that there was a catch, but I guess I would have to pay it.
"I want her to think that Vicki told her that she was leaving town, and she won't look for her and she'll move on." I instructed.
"Okay." Damon agreed as he entered the house. I looked at Stefan. It seemed like there was no catch.
"So can we talk about what I said last night?" I questioned.
"What happened?" He asked.
"I don't even know. I remember going outside and then I woke up and I was a girl. Everyone thinks that I've always been one and I haven't been able to tell anyone otherwise. I don't know how I was able to tell you." I explained.
"Well, I don't care who you used to be." He admitted. "I like you however you are."
For the first time, I felt like I wanted to kiss him, but I didn't.
So Mary is starting to fall for Stefan. She also dressed as a princess for Halloween. How will her relationship with Stefan further develop? Please don't forget to review