I was at the school with Caroline, Elena, Bonnie, and Tyler. We had also invited Cassie. I was wearing a black long-sleeved dress because I wanted to try to be incognito, even though I was pretty sure no one would find out about this.
"I shouldn't be here." I declared as we were setting up mousetraps. It was Senior Prank Night.
"I probably shouldn't either." Cassie added. She was also about to be a junior.
"You need some fun in your life." Caroline told me. Was she saying that she didn't think that I was fun? "Even though you're not seniors, you can still be here. Now get the lights."
I was kind of confused as to what we were doing. It wasn't like any teachers would be there. Also, why we were doing this at the beginning of the year? On top of that, how were we going to get out?
The door opened the light went on, setting up all of the mousetraps. I noticed a very freaked-looking Matt in the door.
"What the fuck, seriously?" Caroline replied. "Do you know how long it took to set all of this up?"
"You forgot about Senior Prank Night, didn't you?" Tyler asked. If he had forgotten about it, what was he doing there?
"Clearly." Matt declared after taking a breath. I still couldn't think of a reason for him to be there on a Sunday night if he wasn't there for the prank part.
"How could you forget? We've only been planning this since freshman year." Caroline told him. Shouldn't he have known that already? Also why did they need to plan for it so long? A single year would probably be enough.
"Yeah, Matt, if I'm doing this, you're doing this." Elena remarked. It was a little hard to believe that she was doing it.
"I'm surprised that any of you are doing this, especially Mary." He stated. It seemed like I definitely didn't belong. He also didn't seem to know that Cassie wasn't a senior either.
"Caroline's making us." Bonnie explained. She pretty much was.
"We're about to be seniors." Caroline replied. Not me. "These are the memories that will stay with us forever and…"
"If we don't create these memories now, then what's the point of all?" Elena interrupted cheekily. It had been so long since I had seen my sister be sarcastic. I smiled because she seemed to be getting back to her old self.
The one thing that I didn't know was where Anna was. I still hadn't seen her, and she wasn't answering my texts. I assumed that it meant that she was still mad at me. Damon also seemed to be MIA, but I wasn't as concerned with his whereabouts. I was concerned about Anna. I really hoped that she was okay.
"Go ahead, make fun." Caroline declared. "I don't care."
"Well, I think you are all lame." Tyler remarked. "I've got ten more classrooms to prank."
I started to leave since I didn't really fit in with them. I hoped that I would be able to sneak away without any of them noticing.
"Where are you going?" Bonnie asked me. I had to come up with something. It seemed that I was bad at sneaking away without anyone noticing.
"I'm…going to glue Alaric's desk shut." I lied. It seemed like they bought it. I then added. Actually, I couldn't help but wonder if he had any liquor in there. I was pretty sure that he would ground me if I actually did it. "I'm making memories."
"Love you." Caroline called after me. I walked out into the hallway and found Tyler talking to some people that I didn't know. The number of seniors that I knew could probably be counted on two hands. I began to head for the exit when I suddenly bumped into the last person in the world that I wanted to see. No, not Stefan: Klaus. What was doing here?
"There's my girl." He declared. I was completely fucked.
"Klaus." I said. It was the only thing that I could think to say. I knew that I wouldn't be able to run.
"You're supposed to be dead." He stated before he grabbed me by the arm. "You put a rather large kink, Love. The whole point of breaking the curse and becoming a hybrid was to make more hybrids. Now my bet is that it has something to do with the fact that you're still breathing. Also somehow you seem to have been turned into a werewolf."
"If you're going to kill me, then kill me." I ordered. I didn't really have any way of stopping him. I really didn't want to die though.
"Not until I know that I'm right." He responded. It seemed like my death would at least be postponed a little. Hopefully I could continue to get it postponed until it was no longer happening. "But I do have plans of making you suffer in the meantime."
He carried me into the gym where a bunch of people had set a bunch of cups on the floor. I didn't understand what the prank was supposed to be there. What the fuck did these cups have to do with anything?
"Attention Seniors." Klaus said in an American accent. It was actually pretty good if you asked me. I couldn't help but wonder how long he had been practicing that. I then realized that I should stop focusing on that and focus on the fact that he wanted to kill me. "You have officially been busted. Prank night is over. You can all go home."
Everyone started to leave in disappointment before I noticed Dana and some guy.
"You two." He said to them. "I remember you."
"Who are you?" Dana asked. Don't just stand there, you idiot. Get out of here! He also seemed to remember the guy better than I did, but I was also pretty sure that I had never met him before.
"Don't worry. I wasn't in my right head last time we met." He explained before he went to compel them. "Lift your foot up, Dana."
She did so and it seemed like it was too late for them. To be honest, the main thing that I realized was we would have to replace Dana on the squad.
"Now, Chad, if she drops her foot, I want you to beat her to death." Klaus compelled.
"Come on, Klaus. You don't have to have to hurt innocent people." I tried to bargain.
"Don't be silly, Love. Of course I do." He explained. I definitely should not have come. I should've stayed home instead.
After a few minutes, Dana was clearly having trouble keeping her balance. Was Chad even capable of beating her to death? It probably wasn't a good idea to try to find out. Not to mention there was probably something in the gym that he could beat her to death with.
"Keep it up." Klaus instructed.
"Where's Stefan?" I asked. I felt like he at least owed me that. "What did you do to him?"
"Stefan's in a time out right now." He declared as Bonnie, Elena and Matt walked in.
"Bonnie, get out of here!" I yelled, but Klaus made it over to her first. It was probably a good idea to tell all of them to leave, but I was pretty sure that he wanted Bonnie the most.
"I was wondering when you'd show up." The hybrid said. "Now we can get started. Dana, you and Chad can sit tight."
Dana fell over onto Chad. He then looked over Bonnie.
"I assume that you're the reason that Mary is still living." He replied.
"Yes and if you're going to blame someone, blame me." She told him. "If you're going to kill someone, kill me."
"There's no need for blame, Love." He responded. Why did he say that to every girl? Was that something that everyone British guy did? "It's just your witchy interference has left me with some undesirable side effects and I figure that since you caused the problem, you should also solve it."
At that time, a tall, blonde girl dragged Tyler inside.
"Get off me." He ordered. I was pretty sure that judging by the strength that she displayed she was a vampire.
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet my sister, Rebekah." Klaus introduced. You know I needed to get Anna to tell me all about her family sometime because it was weird suddenly meeting a new member that I had never heard about. "Word of warning, she is quite mean."
"Don't be an ass." Rebekah responded before she shoved Tyler towards him. I had a bad feeling about what was going to happen.
"Leave him alone!" Elena demanded. She was in no position for that.
"I'm going to make this quite simple." Klaus explained as he fed his blood into Tyler's mouth. "Every time I try to turn a werewolf into a vampire-werewolf hybrid, they die. It's quite horrible actually."
He then broke Tyler's neck and we all gasped. I probably should have expected that since I knew that since I knew he was trying to turn werewolves into hybrids.
"I need you to save my hybrid, Bonnie." He added. "And for your friend's sake, you better hurry."
"He killed him." Matt stated. Yes, that was what happened.
"He's not dead." I reminded him. "Klaus wants to turn him into a hybrid and I might have to die for that to happen."
"Might is the key word." Klaus declared. "Go and fetch your grimoires and whatnot."
Klaus grabbed me so I couldn't leave before the three of them left. Was that really necessary.
"So this is the latest doppelganger." Rebekah commented as she looked me over. "The Original was much prettier."
How could she be prettier if we looked exactly the same?
"Enough, Rebekah." Klaus told her. "Go and take the wolf boy elsewhere."
She dragged Tyler's body away and left me with Klaus. I was kind of relieved that he couldn't compel me. As far as I knew, Originals could only compel vampires and humans, not werewolves. I still wasn't completely sure how I became one.
We waited a few minutes until the door opened. To my surprise, Stefan walked in. He was looking mainly at Klaus. What was he doing?
"You're here." I stated.
"Klaus." He greeted the hybrid.
"Are you here to save your damsel?" Klaus asked. I was pretty sure that he didn't care about me anymore. I wasn't sure how much I cared about him romantically to be honest.
"I'm here to beg for your forgiveness." Stefan explained. I wasn't sure what he was up to. Was he trying to do it as a distraction to get Klaus to let me go? I was pretty sure that was not going to work if that was his plan. "I want to pledge my eternal loyalty to you."
"You already broke that pledge once." Klaus stated. I couldn't help but wonder what happened between them. They seemed like such good friends before.
"Mary means nothing to me." Stefan remarked. He had made that pretty clear earlier. "I'll do whatever you ask."
"Okay, let's drink on it." Klaus responded. If he had some drinks, I wanted some. He then pointed to Chad and Dana. "Kill them."
"No, Stefan, don't do it." I told him. Klaus then came and smacked me to the ground. Stefan rushed over and grabbed him and Klaus responded by grabbing his neck. I was also disappointed that there wasn't any alcohol involved.
"She means nothing? Your lies keep piling up." Klaus said.
"Let her go." Stefan choked out. "I'll do whatever you ask. You have my word."
"Your word is meaningless to me." Klaus replied. "I lived by your word all summer and not once did I have to resort to this. Stop fighting and kill them. You will do whatever I say. If I ask you to jump, you'll do it without asking 'how high'."
I watched as Stefan ran over to Dana and bit into her neck before doing the same thing to Chad. It must have been what compulsion was like, but it was still extremely shocking. I really wished that Anna was with me, but I had Klaus's watchful eyes on me preventing me from even taking out my phone.
"It's so nice to see a vampire in his true element." Klaus told me as I watched Stefan chow on the two of them. I couldn't help but wonder if he was doing it to torture me for being alive. "Speaking of true elements, have you experienced the benefit of being a werewolf yet?"
I didn't quite see how it was a benefit.
"You did this to him." I pointed out.
"I only invited him to the party, Love." Klaus argued with a chuckle. "He's the one dancing on the table."
At that point, Rebekah stormed into the gym. She looked angry.
"Where is it?" She demanded. "Where's my necklace?"
Did that necklace belong to her? If so, how did Stefan get it from her? I didn't even know where it was. Also how did Elijah and Klaus not notice it before?
"What are you talking about?" Klaus asked as Rebekah stalked over to us.
"This little tart has my necklace." She explained as she showed him a phone.
"Well, well more lies." Klaus commented after looking at it.
"Where is it?" Rebekah repeated. She looked like she was about to lose her mind.
"I don't have it." I answered.
"You're lying." She declared before she started to run at me, but before she could do anything, she was thrown back and I noticed that Cassie had just entered the gym.
"What's going on here?" She asked.
"Well, another witch. This is unexpected." Klaus remarked as he rushed over to her.
"Klaus, please don't hurt her." I begged. "I'll do whatever you want as long as you let her live."
"Make her tell me where it is Nik!" She yelled.
"Well, you can start by telling me where the necklace is." He requested.
"I think Katherine has it." I answered.
"Well that's unfortunate." Klaus remarked as he pushed Cassie over towards me. "That necklace would certainly make things easier for your witch. You know I think we should put a timer on this."
Klaus set the basketball scoreboard to 20 minutes. I did wonder how he did it so easily. Seriously, how did he know how to operate the scoreboard? Had he done something like that before?
"If Bonnie hasn't found the solution by the time the clock runs out, I want you to feed on Mary." Klaus instructed. "You know you want a taste of her blood."
Apparently, he didn't know that Stefan had already drunk my blood before.
"No one leaves." Klaus stated. Apparently, he left and so did Rebekah. Who exactly was supposed to keep us inside? It was possible that Klaus was standing by the exit, but there were two exits.
"Can someone please explain to what's going on?" Cassie asked.
"Yeah, that was Klaus and this is Stefan." I explained. "I would introduce him better, but I kind of don't want anything to do with him right now."
After a few minutes, the timer was still running down.
"Stefan, you can drink from me." I told him. "I'll just heal."
"That was before I spent all summer losing the control that I had built up." Stefan explained. "I'm a ripper now and I drink from people until their heads fall off. That kills a werewolf."
"Well then you can fight the compulsion." I remarked. "Caroline's dad learned how to be resistant to compulsion."
I couldn't help but wonder if he was just seeming to ignore that Cassie would be able to protect me.
"Yeah, I'm sure that he had years of practice at that." Stefan replied.
"I know that you can fight it." I told him.
"Why because I love you?" He quipped.
"Yes, because you love me." I stated. "You're strong enough for this. Nothing's stronger than the power of love."
"I thought you didn't love him anymore." Cassie pointed out. That probably wasn't the best thing for her to say, even if it was probably true. Or maybe it wasn't. I wasn't sure.
"You know this whole summer you've been the one thing that's kept me from giving up." He replied. "I want to turn it all off and I can't help what I am, Mary. The more blood I have, the more I want."
I then noticed that the clock was almost at zero. I was getting nervous because I didn't know how close Bonnie was.
"Mary, you need to run." Stefan instructed. "There's no one guarding the exits. Just run."
I realized that he was probably right and grabbed Cassie's hand and where started to sprint just as the clock reached zero. I couldn't help but notice that Stefan kept running into things. It was like he was trying to slow himself down. Unfortunately, I ended up in Klaus's arms.
"Good news: you get to live." He told me. Did that mean that he had found out the solution to things?
He took me to the cafeteria where Stefan was. I noticed that he had a stake and was preparing to stab himself in the heart with it. Would he really rather die than kill me?
"Now this is interesting." Klaus remarked. "The only thing stronger than your craving for blood is your love for this one girl. Why don't you turn it off?"
"No." Stefan replied.
"Your humanity is killing you." Klaus stated. "Turn it off."
"NO!" Stefan repeated.
Klaus grabbed him and threw him against one of the walls.
"TURN IT OFF!" He compelled.
Stefan just stood there.
"What did you do?" I asked in shock.
"I fixed him." Klaus answered. "Now how about a drink from the doppelganger? Be careful though. I need to keep her alive."
He then came over. Cassie tried to protect me, but he pushed into the wall to the point that she blacked out and bit into me. I screamed as he fed until I also blacked out.
When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed. There was a nurse by my side. I was confused by everything. I hadn't dreamt the whole thing, had I? Actually, it probably would be a good thing if I did because that would mean that Stefan was not back in town and more importantly, it would also mean that Klaus didn't know that I was alive, but I was pretty sure that it hadn't been a dream because my body still hurt.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"You're in the hospital sweetie. You've lost a lot of blood." The nurse explained. Yeah, but it should have just come back. I didn't know how fast something like that would regenerate.
"I need to go." I declared as I tried to break free but was unsuccessful. I figured the blood loss made me lose my enhanced strength.
"That's not happening." She replied. I then noticed that the blood wasn't going into me, it was coming out. If I wouldn't run out of blood, would Klaus just be able to take it from me infinitely? That was a bit of a scary thought.
"Why are you taking my blood?" I asked.
"It's for your friend Klaus." She remarked. So, she had been compelled. She then stuck a needle into me. "You need plenty of rest."
I blacked out again. It seemed like there was nothing I could do. I could not believe that I was in such a situation. The other thing that I couldn't help but think of was that I really hoped that Cassie was okay. Klaus had promised not to hurt her, but he didn't say anything about Stefan hurting her. All I could do was hope at the moment.
I wasn't sure how much later it was when I woke up, but I was in Anna's arms.
"Is Cassie okay?" I asked. I knew it was probably not the first thing that I should be concerned about, but I really didn't want my new friend to be dead."
"Caroline found her unconscious but still alive and took her home. Let's get you somewhere safe." She suggested. I was relieved that she seemed to be fine.
She took me to the boarding house.
"Why did you bring me here?" I asked her. I did see several things that I was interested in.
"I figured that you needed a drink." She stated as she handed me a glass of bourbon. Thank God "I'm sorry that I wasn't there. Katherine kidnapped me. I'm never going to let that happen again."
"Stefan's really gone. I saw nothing in his eyes." I explained. "He's let it all go."
"Then you need to let him go too." She suggested. I was pretty sure that I had already done that.
"Well, isn't this sweet?" Stefan interrupted. Where was Damon anyway?
"What are you doing here, Stefan?" Anna questioned as she stood up to defend me. I was actually quite confident in her ability to do so because in the worst-case scenario, she could bite him.
"I live here." Stefan pointed out. I didn't expect him to come back. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you, Mary. As a matter of fact, since Klaus is gone, you are under my protection. Now just keep doing whatever you were doing."
"Let's get the hell out of here." Anna suggested after he went upstairs.
"Hold up. There's something that I need to do first." I stated as I took out my phone and called Caroline.
"Hello?" Caroline answered.
"Is Cassie awake yet? I need to talk to her." I declared.
"Let me go get her." Caroline remarked. There was a bit of silence before I heard what appeared to be Caroline giving Cassie her phone.
"Mary? Are you okay?" She questioned. I was really relieved to hear your voice.
"I think so. Are you okay?" I responded.
"I mean I have a bit of a headache, but I think I'm okay. I really shouldn't have gone to that thing." She stated. "Remind me not to try to rescue you again."
"I'm really grateful that you did." I declared. "I imagine you probably need to get home now."
"It would probably just be a better idea for me to spend the night at Caroline's house." Cassie suggested.
"Well good night then." I told her before I hung up.
"Do you have a crush on her?" Anna questioned.
"No." I responded with a blush. "I just…I don't…can we just go home?"
So it looks like neither Mary nor Cassie had a good time and it looks like Mary might also be developing some feelings for Cassie. How will that factor in with her feelings for Anna? Please don't forget to review.