I woke up in the middle of the night after hearing a sound. My first reaction was to shake Anna awake. I wasn't sure who could be in the house, but didn't want to take any chances considering what happened. Sure a vampire couldn't enter without permission, but they could compel someone to break in.
"What?" She asked sleepily.
"There's someone here." I declared. "We need to check it out."
"Can't you do it by yourself?" She responded. Apparently, she didn't see the same things that I saw.
"They could be a threat and you're in charge of protecting me while Stefan isn't here" I explained as I pulled her out of bed. We walked down the hall and found…Ric in his underwear holding a bowl of ice cream. Okay, that was not something that I expected to see. "We heard a sound."
"That was us." Jenna replied as she appeared wearing his shirt. She was probably the most covered of all of us, since Anna and I were in the kind of skimpy nightgowns that she had bought us. I was pretty sure that she had bought them back before we agreed that we shouldn't be together.
"Well I'm naked, so I should go." Ric declared. He was only mostly naked, though I wasn't interested in seeing what he did look like naked. He then walked away.
"I'm sorry that we woke you." Jenna apologized. She looked a little bit distraught. "So are you okay with him staying over?"
"He's family." I explained. He was my stepfather and he was also her boyfriend. I was pretty sure that she wouldn't let Stefan stay over though. "On top of that, he makes you happy and I'm happy that you are happy."
"Well I'm going back to bed." Anna stated. I sighed and followed her. It made me feel a little bit bad for waking her up. "You didn't need me for that."
"How was I supposed to know it was my aunt and stepfather getting freaky?" I inquired. I then realized that I shouldn't say it like that. "Let's just go back to sleep."
In the morning, we were having breakfast when we found Stefan and Damon at the backdoor. After they, came in, they explained that they had gone to see Katherine. I was wearing a white tee with a leather jacket a denim miniskirt. You know you get used to wearing skirts when you do it for several months. I could have probably asked for different clothes but I really wasn't accustomed to buying my own clothes. I might have to start doing that soon. I could get a job now I that I was 16, but it might be a good idea for me to finish school first.
"Why did you see Katherine, especially if I'm not allowed to see her?" I asked. I was a little bitter about the fact that Stefan was trying to control me even though I was pretty sure he thought that he had my best interests at heart.
"We tried to get the moonstone from her, but she said that she's going to give it to us unless we let her out of the tomb." Stefan told us. Did they think that she would just had it over? Katherine wasn't someone who would do something just because you asked nicely.
"I thought she didn't want out of the tomb." Anna remarked. Yeah, it was a bit strange that she had changed her mind.
"Well now she does and we obviously can't do that." Damon responded. He didn't need to point out the obvious. Of course we weren't letting her out. "Rose's friend Slater said that we can destroy the curse by dispelling the moonstone."
"What about the part where Klaus kills you all?" I questioned. I really didn't think that Katherine would lie about her family being killed. "Look, I'm not looking to die in the sacrifice in the sacrifice, but that doesn't mean that I want any of you to die either. I'm not going to make the same mistakes that she did."
"Mary, if we can get the moonstone, we can save your life." Stefan pointed out. I knew that was important. I also was pretty sure that it wouldn't be that easy.
"I didn't say that I didn't want you to get it, but I don't want you to take the word of some guy that I've never met or break the spell on it. Just get it and we'll figure out what to do with it." I instructed.
They then left I began to finish my breakfast when I was hit with an idea.
"You've got that scheming look on your face." Anna commented.
"I have an idea. I don't want Stefan to know what I'm doing though." I stated. "I think this whole getting the moonstone thing will serve as a distraction. I have an idea, but I don't want to tell you what it is, so you don't have to lie to him."
"You two should really be more honest with each other." She suggested. That may have been true, but right now I needed him to know that I didn't need him to tell me what to do.
"Well, someone has to convince him not to destroy the moonstone." I pointed out. "I was hoping you could do it."
"I'm definitely with you on that." She responded. "I may not be close to Klaus, but I definitely know of his wrath."
"Well try to convince them not to do anything stupid." I suggested. I hoped that it would be able to work.
I decided to go to the boarding house to see Rose. I walked inside because Damon still doesn't like to lock the door. It seemed like it was quite foolish because more than once people had just walked inside uninvited.
"It's not nice to leave a girl naked in the morning." She replied. I hoped that she thought I was Damon. She walked out in a nightgown. "Oh, you're not Damon."
"I need to talk to you." I explained. I couldn't believe that I was willing to work with her, but apparently she was the only one with answers. I could at least hold off on trying to kill her until she assisted me.
"Let me get dressed then." She stated. I supposed if we were going to see this Slater guy, it would be wise for her not to wear a nightgown, even though I wasn't sure if he would care.
A few minutes later, we were in the living room.
"I need you to take me to see your friend Slater, the one who says that you can destroy the curse." I told her. I needed to figure out if he instead knew a way to kill Klaus, because that would be much more beneficial.
"And why would I help you?" She questioned.
"Because that's why you're here, isn't it?" I replied. "You want to find a way to help."
"I'm here because I don't have anywhere else to go." She stated. She could have gone literally anywhere. As long as Klaus wasn't in the same place, she wouldn't have to worry.
"Yeah, I don't believe that." I argued. "You know if you help, I might be able to convince Bonnie to make you a daylight ring."
"Fine, I'll take you." She agreed. I couldn't help but wonder if she believed me. If I was going to ask for Bonnie's help with anything, it would be killing her. "I'll drive. Your car doesn't have the proper window tinting."
So we went to Richmond which was about an hour away. She parked in a back entrance that away from the light. I could tell that she really wanted a ring. It was something that I didn't really have any desire to give her. I was a little surprised that she was gullible enough to think I would do anything to help her. We walked up the stairs and to an apartment with chains on the door. That didn't seem like it would really help. Who exactly was he trying to keep out that would be affected by chains?
"Slater?" She asked, knocking on the door. There was no answer. "I don't think he's home."
"We're not giving up that easily." I remarked. She broke the chains and we walked inside. We began to look around. I could tell that it was very dark. Also if Slater was as smart and as friendly as she said that he was why was he not able to get a daylight ring?
"I don't think he's going to be of much help." She stated from the other room. I walked over and saw a vampire with a stake sticking out of his chest. He looked pretty dead. Judging by her reaction, I would say that was him.
"So now what are we going to do?" I asked as she opened the blinds. "I thought…"
"Double-paned glass." She pointed out. Again, why didn't he just get a daylight ring? It couldn't have been that hard. Anna told me that she had gotten hers hundreds of years ago.
"Who do you think killed him?" I questioned. I couldn't confirm that it was Klaus.
"Well whoever it was, they didn't want us talking to him." Rose opined. "The guy was a vampire almanac. He's the one that told me about you. I guess knowing too much literally came back to bite him in the ass."
"Well maybe we can see if there's anything on his computer." I suggested. I went on and was hit with an enter password screen. I sighed and put my elbow on the keyboard. Of course, he would do something like this. It left a big question mark to how we would get information. Of course the thing that I was still concerned about was the fact that he knew pretty much everything about vampires but couldn't figure out how to get a daylight ring. That was probably more useful than any of the other things that he had learned.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps and noticed that there was a woman in the doorway. She looked kind of like Ashley Greene, but also kind of not. She was wearing a rather sexy dress. I couldn't help but wonder why she was so dressed up.
"Alice?" Rose replied. That was a bit of a coincidence.
"Rose?" She asked. So they knew each other. She looked at Slater's body and tearfully gave the vampire a hug. It seemed like she was Slater's girlfriend or something.
Rose took her to the kitchen to get some tea. I had to wait to see if she could get her to calm down. She came back with a cup for me. I didn't want any tea. I wasn't sure why she thought it was a good idea to make a whole pot of it.
"How is she?" I questioned. The woman looked like she was kind of inconsolable. It seemed like the appropriate reaction. I hoped that she would be willing to help us, but I kind of didn't want to ask her.
"She's overreacting." Rose declared.
"I don't think that you can overreact to your boyfriend being killed." I pointed out. I wasn't sure how I would react to Stefan dying, but I didn't really want to find out.
"Though tears are for her and not Slater." Rose explained. What was that supposed to mean. "She was only with him because she wanted him to turn her. She's quite the actress because he had no idea."
Okay, so she was only using him to try to become a vampire. Maybe this guy wasn't as smart as Rose said that he was.
"Well do you think that maybe she would know his password?" I whispered as Alice came into the living room. I decided to try it. Maybe if she wouldn't comply, I could ask Rose to compel her. She couldn't compel me because I was drinking vervain too to avoid what happened with Elijah happening again. "I know that you're upset, but we came here to find out some of the information that Slater had. Do you think you can help us get into his computer?
"Who do you think you are?" Alice asked me angrily. Yeah, I could that she wasn't going to very much help. I had another idea though.
"Please." I suggested, but she just glared at me…or stared at me. It looked like asking nicely wasn't going to work. "What if I could convince Rose to turn you?"
That was basically the second promise that I made that I didn't intend to keep. I couldn't help but wonder if I was a terrible person for doing it, but I didn't know what else to do. I needed to see this information myself.
She went onto the computer and began to work.
"You know I have no intention of turning her, don't you?" Rose whispered.
"Yes, but she doesn't." I whispered back. "If she doesn't give us what we need, we can just compel her."
"So, it looks like the hard drive has been wiped." Alice replied. So, whoever had killed him really didn't want us to find out what he knew.
"It was probably by whoever killed him to keep people like us from accessing his information." Rose quipped. They must have been pretty smart.
"Luckily, for you Slater was paranoid." Alice continued as she typed away and yet he couldn't see that his girlfriend was just using him. "His password is Kristen Stewart. Slater was obsessed."
I noticed that Rose made a scowl. It seemed that she didn't share the same interest in the subject as him. I honestly thought that they just needed simmer down when it came to it and think of it as a work of fiction and not some truth about vampires. After all, there was probably no work that got everything right. Just because it was overwhelmingly wrong didn't mean that it needed to be ridiculed.
I noticed that Alice was scrolling through some emails and I couldn't help but notice that one name kept popping up. It seemed that Slater was talking to one person very frequently. It seemed to be a pattern and I decided to voice my opinion on the subject. I pointed to the screen.
"Who's this guy? Cody Wheeler." I asked. She began to read some of the emails. He had to be a friend of Slater's if the two of them were talking so much. Maybe he could be useful in finding out how to kill Klaus. It was probably the best chance that we had at the moment. I didn't think we had anything to lose at this point.
"It seems like Cody and Slater were frequently chatting and Slater used Cody to help him find Elijah." Alice explained. "I could try to contact him. You know has anyone ever told you that you're really pretty?"
"I have a boyfriend." I declared. I wasn't sure why she was flirting with me because I was not able to turn her. I was pretty sure that if I had brought Anna with me she would be flirting with her and I didn't really want to think about that.
"I feel like I've seen you somewhere before." Alice persisted. "Have we met?"
"No." I answered nervously. I wasn't sure where she was going with that but I was pretty sure that I wouldn't like it.
"Now, I know. You're the doppelganger that was supposed to be used in the sacrifice." She stated before she ran out of the room. I definitely had a bad feeling about that.
"What do you think that she's doing?" I asked.
"She's probably calling Cody to come and take you." Rose replied. "The
existence of the doppelganger is not something that should get out and now you've gone and opened a can of worms."
"Well we need to stop her." I declared.
"I honestly don't care either way how this goes." Rose admitted. It turned out that she was really that indifferent about me. She didn't care if I lived or died and she didn't care if I made it home. Why didn't I carry vampire hunting weapons with me wherever I went like Ric? If I did, she would be the first person that I killed.
I heard a knock at the door and nervously went toward it. I decided it would be wise not to open it, but then it flew open anyway to reveal a very pissed off-looking Damon. Okay, that was better than I expected. I did wonder how he had found out that I was here. It was then that I realized the answer.
"What do you think you're doing?" He asked me angrily. I was bit surprised that she had told him about me.
"Did you tell him?" I asked Rose accusingly.
"Maybe I care about you a little more than I let on." She suggested. It was probably more likely that she cared about Damon and she didn't want him to see any pain by something happening to me. The thing was that I didn't think she and Damon would have a future together, especially since I still wanted to kill her. I wished Elijah had knocked her head off as well.
"Cody's on his…wow Damon Salvatore." Alice stated before cutting herself off. Okay, that was pretty pathetic. She was literally willing to whore herself out to any vampire in order to become one herself. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Get rid of her." Damon ordered. Rose took her out of the room. I really was hoping that he would be able to get me out of here before Cody showed up.
A few minutes later, Damon came back out.
"Okay, she's been compelled and now we're ready to go." Damon declared. I couldn't wait. Part of me wondered why we went to all of that trouble. Alice wouldn't know where we were going. She'd either try to get Cody to turn her or she would be dead, but in any case, he wouldn't know where to find me.
It was at that point that the door flew open once more and Cody and two other vampires appeared. That was why it probably would have been a good idea for us to just leave instead of wasting time compelling her. We could have avoided this mess. Now we would have to fight our way out.
"We're here for the girl." Cody stated. I hoped that Damon would be able to take them. I didn't know if Rose would be willing to fight.
"You're going to have to go through me first." Damon replied as I hid behind him. I really hoped that they wouldn't be able to go through him. I wondered if he had any of Ric's weapons with him. It might not be a bad idea for him to keep some of them in his car.
"You know this is an interesting predicament." Elijah interrupted as the vampire in the back fell over dead. Rose took that moment to run away as fast as she could. I noticed that Elijah had the heart in his hands. The situation had just gone from bad to worse. He looked at the other two vampires. "Who are you?"
"Who are you?" Cody responded.
"I'm Elijah." The vampire in the suit remarked. I could then see a look of fear on Cody's face. Wait a minute, was Elijah here to protect me? That would be a rather surprising development.
"We were going to give her to you…for Klaus." Cody stammered.
"Does anyone else know that you're here?" Elijah asked him.
"No." Cody answered.
"Then you have been very helpful." Elijah replied before he simultaneously ripped out Cody and the other vampire's hearts. We looked at Elijah and Damon appeared ready to fight, even though the chances of beating him again were not very high. Elijah just looked at it us before he too ran away.
"What the fuck just happened?" I asked Damon. I was pretty sure that yes Elijah was here to protect me. It did leave a question of how he managed to figure out that I was in danger, though.
"I don't know, but it seems like you are very lucky and also very stupid." He replied. I didn't see what was stupid about trying to find a way to prevent Klaus from killing me and all of my friends. It just didn't happen to work out in my favor.
"All I wanted was more information." I declared. "I'm trying to find out if there is a way that we can stop Klaus and maybe even kill an Original. I'm sorry for how things went, but I didn't expect that girl to turn on us. Can you please just take me home?"
"You're not going anywhere after we get back." He replied. What were they just going to try to lock me up or something?
"Can I just say that I'm sorry?" I responded.
"Not when I have to keep saving your ass." He replied as he picked me up and put me in the front seat of his car. Why was he so mad at me for something that wasn't my fault. I also didn't know where Rose had run off, but I definitely wasn't going to give her a daylight ring now.
"That wasn't necessary!" I shouted.
"If you think that I'm pissed wait until you see how people that love you are going to react." He responded. What did he mean by that? Did Anna love me? If she did, why wouldn't she tell me that?
He took me home and I found Elena with a wound on her neck. What the fuck had I missed?
"Mary, there's something that you need to know." She declared. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like what she was going to tell me. "We tried to get the moonstone, and we did, but Stefan is stuck in the tomb with Katherine."
I then found myself back in Damon's car as he took me down to the tomb. I ran down the stairs.
"Stefan? Stefan?" I asked. I prepared to walk inside to see if I could find him, but I realized that it probably wouldn't be a very good idea if Katherine was still in there.
"No, you're not going in there." Damon declared. "That's how we got in this mess in the first place."
"Damon, you have to let me see him." I told him. "Stefan, please tell me that you're not locked in there."
"I can't." Stefan replied. I wasn't sure why I expected him not to be in there because I was pretty sure that Elena wouldn't lie to me about it.
I then went home and headed up to my room. There was Anna and for the first time, she looked genuinely angry.
"That is the last time I'm letting go anywhere on your own." She snarled. I felt really bad for making her worry about me like that.
"Please, not you too." I begged. "I've already received enough of a tongue-lashing from Damon."
"Mary, you are all that I have right now." She pointed out. "If I had lost you, I don't know what I would have done."
"I'm sorry. In case you didn't realize, it was pretty bad for me too." I explained as tears started to stream down my face. "I was scared that I was going to die too."
"Maybe it would be best for us to just sleep on it." She replied as she grabbed her things and went to the guest room. I didn't know how I was going to sleep, but eventually, I did managed to doze off.
So Anna and Mary had their first fight. Will everyone go okay for them? Please don't forget to review.