I woke up to this weird dream of this older guy that I'd never met biting into my neck and drinking my blood until I was dead. I looked over Anna who was still sleeping. After a few deep breaths, I decided to go back to sleep. I hoped it was just a drink because it was kind of creepy.
In the morning, Anna, Elena, and strangely Matt, and I brought Jenna home from the hospital. We slowly walked her through the doorway. I didn't know why Matt was there. It would have made a lot more sense for Alaric to be there. Regardless, whatever the reason Matt was there and he was helping us get Jenna into the house.
"I don't need you guys to baby me." Jenna remarked. I wished that I could have told her what really happened but how do you tell someone that an evil clone of your niece mind-controlled you to try to kill yourself?
"We just don't want you to rip your stitches open and die." I pointed out as we helped her onto the couch. I probably shouldn't have said that but I was trying to lighten the mood…I kind of had a dark sense of humor.
"The only thing I'll die of is embarrassment." Jenna stated. The story we came up with was kind of dumb, but it was all that we could of. "I mean I walked into a knife. Who does that?"
"I'm sure it's more common than you think." Anna declared. I wished that she hadn't said anything about that.
"Yeah, it happens to me all of the time at work." Matt chimed in. Matt didn't even know what really happened. Again why was he even helping us? I was confused by his presence. I also wasn't sure why people were trying to make her feel better. I was still seething with rage. Anna and I went up to our room
"So do you still wanna go to the masquerade with me?" She asked. I couldn't help but wonder if she was asking me on a date since both of us were single now.
"No." I replied. "I didn't get much sleep tonight and I don't know if Stefan's gonna be there and I just don't wanna go, but you can still go if you want. I'm sorry. I know you like parties like this, but I just don't think that it would be a good place for a first date."
"You know that we can't let Katherine get away with this." She pointed out. I knew that but I was out of ideas, especially since I didn't even know where she was.
"Well what am I going to do about it?" I questioned. I wished that I wasn't so helpless. "Even if this ring prevents her from killing me, I can't kill her."
"But we can kill her." Anna pointed out. That may have been true but I was just tired. "I can definitely kill her if I can get a clear shot at her."
"I really don't want to do it." I stated. "I just want some time to dwell on my breakup with Stefan. That's really all that I want."
"But if we kill Katherine, you two can get back together." She pointed out. I sighed. I hadn't told her that she was the real reason that I broke up with Stefan. "Okay, well I think I'm going to go to the boarding house."
I really wasn't sure what I was going to do. I didn't want to be that girl that stays home on a Sunday night when all of her friends are at a party, but I didn't really want to go anywhere either. One thing that I thought about doing was staying and watching some stuff on Netflix. It probably wouldn't be a vampire movie because they weren't as enjoyable anymore. I also was a little disappointed that I wasn't going because I had bought a dress for it. I supposed that I probably could wear it at any of the other big formal parties that the town throws. They threw a lot of parties.
One thing that I couldn't help but notice was that no one seemed to come to the house to check on me. Usually when I was feeling down, someone would come over. It was kind of odd. Yeah, a lot of people used to ignore me, but my sister was also gone. Of course, she had been ignoring me a lot more lately. I really wanted to try to become close to her again. I knew that she probably wasn't going to go to the masquerade because she didn't have a date and Katherine could also be there, so just what was she doing. No wait, she was in her room. I went there to try to talk to her.
"So have you thought about dating any other girls since you broke up with Anna?" I questioned. I still had no idea if the two of them were going to get back together.
"I think it's something that I haven't been paying much attention to because the only other lesbian I know is Blair Fell and we've never really gotten along."
I was not aware that Blair was a lesbian. I couldn't help but wonder how I didn't know that. It probably would have been nice is Mystic Falls High had some sort of gay club to let them know they're not alone. I also didn't want to tell Elena what I had done with Anna, because she probably wouldn't like to hear what I did with her ex.
"I do know that I don't want to date any more vampires for a while." She added. I was glad that she was saying something to lighten the mood at least.
"That seems like it's becoming increasingly harder in this town." I quipped. I wondered if it was possible that she and Caroline were going to date, even though I didn't really any evidence of if Caroline even liked girls. "I honestly don't think that someone being a vampire is enough reason not to date them. It would be like not dating someone for the color of their skin or how they dress. It's not something that they can change."
"Well, I just want to change it up." Elena replied. "My last two girlfriends were the same."
"You know Vicki and Anna are nothing alike." I pointed out. Anna was kind and matched my personality so well. Plus, she was something that you could count on, unlike Vicki.
"Well I'm not getting back with Anna." She declared. I wondered a little if she was in denial about it or if she genuinely no longer had feelings for Anna. "It's too bad that I don't have anyone to go to this stupid ball with."
"Were you gonna go?" I asked in surprise. She seemed not to like going to those parties anymore. I didn't know why being a lesbian made her so anti-social."
"Like I told Matt, I'm not going to without a date." She remarked. "So I heard that Ric was going to come over tonight. Maybe we could watch something together. We haven't seen DEBS in a long time."
"Looking back, I probably should have known before you came out." I remarked as she shoved me onto her bed. I was pretty sure that my mission to get closer to her was going well. She might even like to know that I was attracted to a girl, but she probably wouldn't like knowing that it was Anna.
That night, I couldn't help but notice that Anna didn't come back from the boarding house. Maybe she went straight to the party. I couldn't help but wonder where she got her dress. Granted she could have bought one, but I probably had something that she could wear. I could have let her wear my dress. I knew it would fit her because we were the same size.
Ric came over to the house with a pizza and I let him in. I hoped that it was enough to feed the four of us. I wished he had brought some breadsticks with him. It was kind of weird for him to only bring one pizza for four people. Of course, Jenna probably couldn't eat that much because her stomach was still healing, but it was still kind of weird to only have pizza.
"Why didn't you bring any breadsticks?" I asked.
"I didn't know that you wanted any." He replied. He could have asked if I wanted anything. Typically when you're getting food it's a good idea to ask if anyone wants anything.
"That's why it would have been a good idea to see if we wanted anything when you were ordering it." I pointed out. "So, Elena had this movie that she wanted to watch. It's like this lesbian spy comedy, but it is really funny."
"So how are you doing?" He asked me. I wasn't sure if he was referring to the Katherine thing or my breakup with Stefan. Both of them were pretty big.
"I'm as good as I can be right now." I stated. "I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't want to be with Stefan, and I don't want Katherine to get her way, but what choice do I have?"
I did understand the irony that I was basically lying about not wanting to lie. I could probably tell him that I had been turned into a girl, but I didn't really see the point of doing that. I couldn't even write it down around people and I couldn't show it to people if I wrote it down when they weren't around. I was a little bit surprised by how thorough Katherine's compulsion was.
"I think that you could do anything that you can put your mind to." He replied. That was a little strange. I was pretty sure that the fact that I was his stepdaughter didn't have anything to do with it. "You're one of the best students that I have."
"Well thanks for the praise, but I don't really want anyone else to get hurt." I told him. It was a pretty good reason to avoid Katherine.
"I think that who gets hurt and who doesn't is up to them." He argued. That was assuming that she didn't go after any innocent bystanders like she had with Jenna. I wouldn't put something like that past her. "So what do you want to drink?"
"Do we have any vodka?" I questioned. It would be a lot easier for me to do this if I was drunk.
"What do you want without alcohol in it?" He rephrased and I gave him a pout. He understood my drinking habit better than anyone, except for maybe Damon.
So I had the seen the movie a few times and I wasn't that interested in it. I still couldn't wonder what everyone was doing. It seemed like everyone was at the masquerade. So basically, for the first time in a long time, I was bored. I ended up falling asleep for a minute and I had a dream of me as Amy and Anna as Lucy and I had to say that I didn't know I was attracted to girls in tight spandex, but I supposed it made sense that I would be after seeing Underworld.
I didn't know what I was going to do. I mean there was still the Netflix idea, but then I would be in my room by myself. Now was a time that we could use some sort of party game. I decided to walk into the kitchen and talk to Ric.
"So where is everyone?" I asked him. "Also, why are you here right now when you're not paying much attention to Jenna?"
"Stefan asked me to keep an eye on you in case Katherine showed up while he was at the Masquerade Ball." He answered. That was a bit of a weird thing that to ask.
"Why would Stefan go to the Masquerade Ball?" I questioned. "He hates that kind of stuff and also if Stefan was at the Masquerade Ball, Katherine would probably go there knowing that I was not with him. So what's going? Is this a plan to kill Katherine that you guys left me out of?"
"You are too smart for your own good." He muttered. I was a little bit pissed. I couldn't believe that they would do that without me.
"What are you doing?" I questioned angrily. I had to stop them before they did something stupid. "You can't do this without me. I'm going to the Masquerade Ball."
"Yeah, I'm not going to let you out the door." He told me. Well, that was a bit of an issue, but fortunately, I was resourceful enough to get around that by literally going around him.
"Fine, I guess I'll just be in my room then." I replied as I walked up the stairs. The first thing that I needed to do was put on a dress. I knew that I couldn't go to the ball wearing jeans. I went through my closet and pulled out a blue V-neck sleeveless dress with a matching pair of heels.. I still had the other issue to get around, but that was easy enough. I put on some red lipstick before I grabbed some sheets and descended out the window, already holding my keys. Once I was in my car, I began to drive to the Lockwood mansion. I couldn't help but wonder how long it would take for them to realize that I was gone. Jenna was probably too out of it from the painkillers and Elena probably didn't care enough.
The masquerade was very lavish. For some reason there were guys playing with fire, which seemed like it had the potential to go very wrong. I looked around for anyone that I actually knew and happened to see Anna from behind, walking away from Katherine. I grabbed her and pulled her towards me. Surprised, she bore her fangs to me. I was a little surprised by that. She put them away as soon as she saw me.
"That is not something to do when someone touches you." I pointed out. She also looked absolutely gorgeous in her black dress. It almost made me want to forget that I was mad at her, or that Katherine was at the ball. "Secondly, you have some serious explaining to do."
"Mary, this is our best chance to kill Katherine." Anna explained. While that may have been true, I didn't like being excluded from it. I also couldn't help but wonder why tonight was better than any other time. It seemed like she would be ready for us trying to kill her because she always seemed to be ready.
"You could've told me about it." I pointed out. "I thought it would be just you, but Ric tells me that all of you worked on this. Well I kind of tricked him into telling me."
"He should not be in charge of watching you anymore." She muttered.
"Where is Katherine going right now?" I asked. I at least wanted to know the plan.
"Caroline was sending her to this room upstairs." Anna explained as Bonnie suddenly appeared. However that was when I felt something.
"FUCK!" I shouted as I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back like I had been stabbed. I noticed veins forming under Anna's eyes. I then felt something else in my shoulder. I was bleeding somehow. How was this happening? "What's happening?"
"She's linked to Katherine." Bonnie stated, looking at Anna. "Go run up there and get them to stop."
Anna darted off, leaving me with the witch. It hurt a lot. I couldn't help but wonder if I was dying. It felt like I was. I wished that Anna was still here because she could give me some of her blood.
"Make it stop." I begged with tears in my eyes.
"I can stop the bleeding but I can't break the link." She explained as another cut appeared across my palm. Bonnie used a spell and I felt the cuts closing up as I took some deep breaths and Anna returned to me. "Stay with her. I need to find the witch who's doing this."
"I knew it was too easy." Anna stated. "Someone as smart as Katherine wouldn't put all of her cards on the table without a backup plan."
"This is why you've shouldn't have done it." I pointed out. "Is Stefan okay?"
"Yeah, but now we can't do anything until you're no longer linked." She told me. I supposed that they had no way of knowing that I was linked to Katherine. It was actually good that I got there when I did, or I would probably be dead. "So, you look really pretty in that dress."
"You too." I told her. I knew it wasn't the time but I kind of wanted to make out with her. "So have you ever seen the movie DEBS?"
"I love that movie." She declared. I wondered if she had ever actually dressed as Lucy before. I had to stop thinking about her like because it was turning me on, and it probably wasn't a good idea for me to be turned on at the moment when my life was kind of hanging in the balance.
"How long do you think it'll take for me to no longer be linked to her?" I asked the vampire as I sat down on the grass. It probably wasn't the best thing to do in my dress, but I kind of wanted to be away from everyone else just in case I started bleeding again.
"It's hard to say. Bonnie would either have to convince the witch to stop the spell or we'd have to kill her." Anna explained. I wasn't sure if Bonnie had it in her to kill someone, so she would probably have to convince her.
"Can witches be guys too?" I questioned. "You know warlocks?"
"Yes, witches can be both male and female, but Bonnie said this one was a woman." She answered, taking a seat next to me. She grabbed my hand. It felt nice holding her hand.
"Well how about we talk about something else?" I questioned. "Where were you born?"
"I was born here actually." She responded. That was a little bit surprising.
"Really, I was expecting somewhere in China or something." I admitted. I also didn't think people were in this part of the world 1000 years ago.
"This part of the world one of the best kept secrets." She explained. Yeah I supposed it was if I had never heard of it. "People from all over the world lived here in harmony for many years."
"What happened?" I asked.
"It's a long story." She explained. Was she going to tell me the story? "I really don't even know the whole story because we left when I was young. We ended up settling in what's now Oklahoma and that's where I was turned. You know I just realized something."
"What's that?" I responded with interest. It was a bit of a weird segue.
"Stefan said that she had something that George wanted. She gave him the moonstone and that's how Mason ended up with it." She told me. I still didn't know what the purpose of the moonstone was or why everyone seemed to want it.
"How can one rock as small as that be so important?" I questioned.
"Well it's much easier to carry than a large rock." She quipped. I supposed that was true, but why was this particular rock so important why did everyone seem to want it. It was so confusing.
At that point, Bonnie walked back over to us. I hoped that she had good news.
"So I have good news." Bonnie replied. "I talked to the witch and she undid the spell. You two are no longer linked, well hopefully."
"Does that mean that you're going to kill her?" Anna replied. I was pretty sure that it meant that.
"Well we still can't be completely sure, so we're going to put her in the tomb instead." Bonnie explained. That would probably be a good idea.
"Well can we kill her once we're certain I'm not linked to her?" I questioned.
"I like the tomb idea." Anna admitted. "I want her to suffer the way that my mother did."
"I still think it's a better idea to kill her so we don't have to worry about her later." I pointed out. "But I guess that I don't have a say."
"Mary, wait…" She requested as I started to walk away.
I decided to walk over to the pond in the backyard. The water really was beautiful. I was a little pissed off how everyone was making these decisions without my input. I then noticed that Stefan was walking over to me. Anna probably wouldn't even have a say in whether or not they killed her anyway and I wasn't really mad at her. I was still mad at everyone else though.
"Did you come to tell me that you made another decision without telling me?" I questioned icily.
"That wasn't what I was expecting." He stated.
"Look, I know that I said that as soon as Katherine was out of the picture, we could get back together, but I don't think that I want to do anything tonight." I stated.
"Well maybe we could go to the boarding house and talk things out?" He suggested.
"Stefan, I can't back together with you." I remarked. "The truth is that I cheated on you. At first it was just a makeout session, but yesterday was something more. I think Anna and I have a connection that we really haven't been able to explore. Please don't be mad at her because it's not her fault."
The thing was I still wasn't sure if I wanted to be with Anna right now either. I didn't think that I should just switch from having a boyfriend to having a girlfriend so suddenly. It would probably be best for me to just be single for a little while and I wasn't even sure if things with Stefan were over for good.
"Oh and if you want my opinion, even though you clearly don't, I think we should put that bitch's head on a stick." I declared before I walked away.
I began to walk back to my car. I couldn't help but wonder if I possibly making a mistake by breaking up with him. I then couldn't help but wonder something. Did everyone forget about my ring? They probably could have killed me and her and I would have been brought back by the ring. Although, I did have to admit that I forgot about it myself. I probably wouldn't have liked dying very much anyway.
I stood in front of my car, waving goodbye to Anna as she drove away. I prepared to get in when someone came up behind me and put a rag over my face. The smell was making me sleepy. I had just been chloroformed. I couldn't even see who it was before I fell into unconsciousness.
So Mary ended up breaking up with Stefan again for a different reason. But before she could do anything with Anna, she got kidnapped once again. Please don't forget to review.