In the morning, Anna and I were called to the boarding house. I was wearing a white long-sleeved blouse a red plaid pleated miniskirt with a belt. Stefan and Damon hadn't told us what we were going there for. I also didn't know why we had to do so early in the morning either. I just wasn't that much of a morning person.
"So did they say why they wanted us here?" Anna asked. I was kind of surprised that they wanted her to come at all, but they probably knew that she would follow me.
"No." I replied. I assumed that it was important because they wouldn't have called us first thing in the morning otherwise.
"I just wanted to say now that Elijah's not dead." She declared. How did she know that? He looked pretty dead to me.
"But Damon stabbed him in the heart." I pointed out. I wasn't sure how a vampire could survive literally the most effective way to kill a vampire. "He was dead."
"Originals are different from regular vampires." She explained. Well, that would have been important information to know. Maybe that was why Anna wanted to leave so suddenly. "A stake to the heart only temporarily incapacitates them, liking breaking a regular vampire's neck. As far as I know, they are completely immortal."
From there we walked into the house, and I began to look for Stefan. I wanted to try to fix things with him. The way I saw it was that if I was able to forgive him for some of the things that he had done, he should be able to forgive me for cheating on him. It probably wasn't the best idea to compare trying to kill Amber to infidelity, but we had to be even. I had only done some things in the shower that I had never done with him, but I was ready to move on from Anna. We both knew it wasn't a good idea for us to date.
"Stefan?" I called as he appeared. That was still a little creepy.
"There's someone that you need to see." Stefan stated as he led us to the living room. Damon was there, but I doubted that Stefan called me over to see his brother. It was then that Rose came out.
"What is the fuck is she doing here?" I questioned angrily. I wanted something sharp so I could stab her in the heart.
"Mary, you need to calm down." Stefan told me.
"Calm down? She fucking kidnapped me." I pointed out.
"Yeah, because Elijah wouldn't do something like that." Anna added. Even though she was right, I wanted to know how she knew about that.
"How do you know that?" Damon asked suspiciously.
"Because…he's my uncle." Anna answered. Oh. That would explain how she knew so much about the Originals. To be fair, I never really asked about her family beyond her mother.
"I had heard rumors about the child of an Original, but I never knew that they were true." Rose replied. Why were we even letting her talk? What benefit was there to that? I didn't think she could provide anything useful to us.
"What did you want to talk about?" I asked since I figured that it wasn't Anna's genealogy. I supposed the best way was to ask her because I didn't think I would be able to leave until I did.
"You are still in danger." Rose told me. I wasn't sure if I trusted her. "Just because Elijah's dead doesn't mean that you're out of the woods. In fact there's someone worse out there that wants to complete the sacrifice."
"Who would that be?" I questioned, wondering how I became the center of the supernatural universe all of a sudden. Okay, I did. Katherine fucked up my life a lot worse than I thought.
"Klaus." Rose answered. So was he German then? Germans did a history of being evil.
"No way. I've never met anyone who's even laid eyes on him." Damon replied. So basically, Stefan and Damon did know about the Originals and never thought to tell me?
"That would be me." Anna remarked with a bit of an uneasy look on her face. "Also my uncle, but I don't really know anything about him."
"I can guarantee that Klaus is real. He's the strongest of all of the Originals." Rose replied. Anna had literally just told us that he was real, why did she feel the need to repeat that?
"So, you're telling me that the most powerful vampire in the world, who also can't be killed, is coming after me?" I asked in disbelief. That was definitely not ideal.
"Well, if what she's saying is true…" Damon started.
"Which it is." Rose interrupted. Shouldn't someone as old as her have better manners?
"And she's not just saying this stuff so we won't kill her…" Damon continued.
"Which I'm not." She interrupted again. Damon glared at her. Well, if she was done telling us all of the information that we needed to, then it would probably be a good idea to just kill her.
"Then we're looking at a solid…maybe." He finished. I supposed he was right. There was no indication that Klaus even knew that I existed.
"So, what are we going to do about it?" I asked them. If they didn't have an idea, what was I still doing there?
"You can't do anything." Rose replied. I really didn't know why we hadn't killed her yet. "If Klaus wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid of him, you're an idiot."
"We don't even know if he knows anything about you." Stefan stated. This was true.
"Well, is there anyone that I could talk to about him that's actually met him?" I decided to ask Rose. Anna made it sound like she hadn't.
"The only person that I know around here is Katerina Petrova." Rose answered. It was at that moment that I knew what I needed to do. I wasn't going to like it, but I realized that I needed to do it. I really wasn't going to like it.
"Well, it looks like we're not going to finding anything out from her." Damon remarked. Well, he wouldn't be. I wasn't entirely sure if she would tell me, but I supposed that I didn't have any other choice.
"I'm going to school." I declared. I wasn't actually going to school, but I needed them to think that I was. "If you expect me to check myself into a psych ward and be constantly afraid that Klaus is coming after me, that's not going to happen."
"Let me grab my bag. I'll come with you." Stefan offered. Now wasn't really the time for us to get back together.
"It's okay. Take your time. Anna and I know how to get there." I explained before I pulled Anna out the door. We headed to my car, and I began to drive, but not really towards the school.
"Um, school's in the other direction." She commented. I supposed that she hadn't caught on to where I was going. I hoped that she would end up supporting this idea before she noticed something. "What a minute? Is that blood that I smell? Why do you have a bag of blood in your bag?"
"We're not going to school." I explained. I supposed she could go if she wanted to. "Well, I'm not. You should probably say that I was feeling sick and went home and probably try to distract him in whatever way you can."
"You're going to see Katherine." She realized. I really liked how smart she was.
"Yes, and I need you to open the tomb so I can do that." I explained. I was pretty sure that the only reason it was sealed was so no one would have to hear talk…which was a pretty valid reason for keeping it closed.
I parked near Fell's Church and the two of us walked down the stairs where there was a stone slab in the way. I did say that I admired Anna's strength. Being a vampire was something that I wouldn't be able to understand even though parts of sounded awesome.
"Are you sure that you want to do this?" She asked. I knew that I didn't, but it was something that needed to be done and she was apparently the only one who could give them to me.
"I need answers, and she is the only person that can give them to me." I explained. "Unless you know anything else."
"You should be wary about what come out of her mouth." Anna warned me. "This girl can lie like Veronica Mars."
"That's why I brought something to get her to talk." I told her before she moved the slab over of the doorway. We then waited and heard footsteps as I saw her slowly stagger towards the exit. She was very pale and dirty and looked like a zombie. Although I liked horror, zombies really weren't something that I enjoyed because they were kind of disgusting.
"What do you bitches want?" She croaked. I shouldn't have been surprised that was how she referred to me.
"I want to talk about Klaus." I declared. I looked over at Anna. "I'll be fine. She can't get out of the tomb. Go distract Stefan for a little while."
"Call me if you need me." Anna instructed before she darted off. I hoped that she would be able to distract him at least. I wasn't entirely sure what she planned on doing, but hopefully, it was something that could keep him busy for a while.
"It must be nice to have so many people who will listen to your every whim." Katherine replied. I did not like her tone though. She wasn't referring to Anna as my servant, was she? "I haven't experienced that since 1864."
"I'm not here to talk about that part of your life." I cut her off. I was pretty sure that I already knew most of what happened to her in 1864. "I want to know about Klaus and the sacrifice. Tell me everything."
"Why should I tell you one word?" She questioned.
"Because I have this." I declared as I pulled out a bag of blood. I saw veins grow under her eyes and she darted toward me, only to be stopped by the invisible barrier of the tomb. I smiled at that because I liked having that power over her. After what she did to me, I liked being in control. "Give me enough information and I'll give it to you."
"It's surprising that you and I aren't related." She commented. Okay, maybe it was a good idea to stop. I did not want to act like her. I couldn't be like Katherine. I didn't want to be that person. "Okay, so I'll from the beginning in Bulgaria. I was 16 when I became pregnant, not unlike your mother. Of course such was very frowned upon, not because of my age, but because I wasn't married."
I listened intently, though I was a bit confused on what any of that had to do with Klaus. I didn't really care that she had had a child of wedlock. I also really didn't like the idea that teenagers were forced to be married back then. I was glad that women had eventually taken a stand and realized that they didn't have to do whatever men told them to do.
"When my baby was born, she was immediately taken from me. I only got to see her that one time." She continued. Damn, she was making me feel bad for her. I still wasn't sure what that had to do with Klaus. Also where had her baby gone? "In addition, I was exiled from my family. My father was a traditionalist and didn't want a harlot in the family."
So she definitely did seem to have more than one thing in common with Isobel. I supposed that I shouldn't have been surprised that they were so alike other than the fact that Katherine clearly had some humanity to her. You can't love if you don't have emotions. As far as I knew, Isobel's parents didn't actually have a problem with her being pregnant. I had read that their estrangement was from Isobel running away.
"After a long period of time, I became English. I learned to talk like, act like them and everything." She explained. I couldn't help but wonder how hard it would be to have to learn another language. I also couldn't help but wonder if she meant speaking with an accent, but if she was trying to blend in, she probably didn't want to have a Bulgarian accent. Also was that when she became Katherine Pierce? "I eventually was introduced to a nobleman named Klaus and I fell in love with him, but to him I was just a tool to break a curse. It's kind of ironic how I wasn't even the girl that we was looking for. Anyway, when I found out what he wanted to do with me, I ran. I had a friend help me out and led me to a small cottage."
"That's what Trevor did." I declared. "He rescued you."
"I see that you've met them." She commented. I didn't feel the need to tell her that Trevor was dead and for some reason, Rose was not. "Well that makes things easier. Anyway, I figured that it was more honorable to die on my own terms than be sacrificed, so I stabbed myself. Unfortunately, as I was bleeding, Rose found me and gave me her blood. She had planned to give me back to Klaus."
"So, what happened?" I asked. I couldn't help but wonder why Rose didn't just tell Klaus about that.
"Like I said, I didn't want to die by anyone else's hands. I grabbed the ropes that they planned to tie me up with hung myself with them." She explained. I couldn't believe that she had actually killed herself. It seemed like it wasn't intentional, and Katherine didn't know that she would turn into a vampire.
"I thought that it was going to be over, so I was very surprised when I woke up." She continued. I always thought that Katherine would be someone who wanted to be a vampire considering how much she enjoyed it. I did feel a little bit bad that she had no idea what she was getting into. I had to stop feeling bad for because I hated her too much for that. "I had an intense craving for blood and I grabbed their border and sucked her dry. I knew that I was stronger, faster, and I could do anything. I decided to run off immediately and not let them catch me."
"You ruined their lives." I declared. To be fair, I was pretty sure that she hadn't actually meant to do that, if she was telling the truth that is.
"They ruined their own lives by not letting me die." She argued. Okay that was a good point. Klaus might have still killed them for letting die, though. "Why should I care about them anyway? They weren't important to me. The only person that is important to me is me, at least until I met Stefan. Everyone else was collateral damage."
"So why did you turn me into a girl?" I questioned. I wasn't sure if she would answer that, but it was worth a try.
"I had a witch trace the genealogy of the doppelganger and it came back to your family. However, since you were a boy, you couldn't be a doppelganger. That was why I needed you to be a girl, to get Klaus off of my back."
So, she hadn't turned me into the doppelganger, it seemed that me being a girl made me the doppelganger. That didn't make a whole lot of sense, but to be fair a lot of stuff that happened in Mystic Falls didn't make a lot of sense. I still found it hard to believe that she had gone to so much trouble to find out. Did she really think that she could just give me to Klaus, and everything would be good?
"There's something more to the sacrifice as opposed to just the moonstone." I deduced. I was trying to get inside of her head and figure out her reasoning for everything that she had done. "Let me see, one of the first things that you did upon coming to town was turn Caroline into a vampire. You weren't doing it out of revenge. You need a vampire for the sacrifice, don't you?"
"She was definitely the most convenient." Katherine stated. That basically confirmed that she had used the information that Bonnie had given her about the blood. I had to admit that she was at least smart. I was also pretty sure that the reason she changed Caroline and not some random person was because she wanted to use people that I knew because those were people that I couldn't tell that I wasn't a girl and Caroline would be easier to manipulate than Stefan or Damon.
"Well, you had Mason under your thumb and as soon as he died, you triggered Tyler's werewolf gene. That means that you need a werewolf as well." I added. I felt a little bad for Mason because he was just a pawn in Katherine's game. He deserved better.
"And to think, you almost let that brain of yours go to waste." She replied. Had she been keeping track of how I had been doing in school or something? That was kind of creepy. "There's still one more thing. Can you figure that out?"
"Let me see: doppelganger, moonstone, werewolf, vampire." I remarked. It was at that moment that the light bulb went off. "A witch, you need a witch to break the spell. You wanted Bonnie. You were going to trade us to Klaus in exchange for your freedom. That's why you let Anna live in 1864. You wanted to use her and George for the sacrifice."
I was pretty sure that idea wouldn't have worked because I didn't think Klaus would sacrifice his own flesh and blood.
"I probably could have done it because there was a doppelganger in Mystic Falls in 1864. Of course there is the fact that the vampire I had chosen happened to be related to Klaus. I didn't know that until later." She explained. So that meant that she wasn't that close to Pearl and Anna. I needed to make sure to tell Anna that.
"So, it looks like your plan has been foiled." I pointed out. I had to at least take solace in that. I still wished that we had killed her instead.
"Maybe, but at least I am safe from Klaus right now." She declared. "He'd have to have someone get rid of the tomb spell in order to kill me. You know you seem awfully calm for someone whose life is in danger. Maybe you are not as smart as I thought you were."
"That's because I know that we can find a way to kill him." I stated. "I don't think anyone can be truly immortal. There has to be some sort of spell to beat him."
"Well, you're definitely confident." She declared. "Still, you should probably plan on writing your will."
"I'm done talking to you." I told her. I wished that I had a vampire to close the door. I didn't know how to do that.
"We had a deal." She pointed out. There was nothing making me keep it, but I didn't have any reason not to. I tossed the bag over to her and she dove for it. I had to say that it was pretty funny to watch.
I was preparing to leave when I heard someone running toward me. I then felt Stefan's arms wrap around me. I couldn't help but sigh because I didn't want him to know about this.
"What are you doing here?" I asked in surprise. "Did Anna tell you?"
"No, but I figured it out on my own." He replied. "Mary, how could you come down and talk to her? Why did you lie to me about it?"
"I didn't lie. I had Anna lie for me." I pointed out. That really didn't sound much better when I said it aloud. "I needed to talk to her because she was the only one who could give me answers."
"You shouldn't trust anything that she says." Stefan responded. "Everything that she told you was probably a lie."
"You know Stefan there is one part that I didn't say." Katherine interrupted. "After I was turned, I went back home. I wanted to let my family know that I was safe, but I was too late. Klaus had gotten there first and he had killed my mother, father, sister and all of my family's servants, all because I had interfered with the sacrifice. You'd be very dumb to think that he wouldn't do it again. I guess we will have to see what happens. It probably will happen if he doesn't have this."
I noticed that she was holding the moonstone. That was a bit of a problem. It seemed to be another reason why we should have just killed her. Granted, I wouldn't be able to know what I knew, but I think the pros would have outweighed the cons. I also wondered if it was really necessary to kill her family's servants. They hadn't done anything wrong.
"That's what this is about, isn't it?" Stefan asked her accusingly. "You want to trade the moonstone for your release. You are a manipulative bitch."
"I don't want to escape." Katherine countered. "Like I was telling Mary, Klaus can't get me in here. When he gets to ready to tear everything apart, I'll be the safest bitch in town."
"Stefan, let's just go." I suggested. I was also pretty sure if Klaus needed the moonstone, he could probably he get someone to undo the tomb spell in order to get it out, or just send a non-vampire inside to kill her and then take the stone. "She's not going to tell us anything else, but maybe you could seal her in, so we don't have to listen to her anymore."
He moved the stone slab, and I headed home. He followed me to make sure that I went home. I walked into the house and went to see if there were any leftovers. I decided to make myself a sandwich with various kinds of meat and I also added some nuts. I heard footsteps and saw that Anna had walked into the kitchen.
"I'm sorry. I tried to stall him as long as I could." She apologized.
"Well, I did get the information that I needed." I replied. "I also found out that Katherine was attempting to give you to Klaus to sacrifice you."
"I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't have done that." Anna remarked. "Even though we're not close, we're still family."
The way she said it made me think that she might have known a little more about Klaus, but I really didn't want to call her a liar.
"Well, if Klaus comes here, we'll find a way to kill him. There has to be some way to kill him, and we are going to find it." I remarked.
So Katherine's plan did require a little bit of luck and also Anna is the daughter of the one of the Originals. Please don't forget to review.