I woke up early to the sound of my alarm. I had set it because I had something that I needed to do.
"Why is there an alarm?" Anna asked as she covered her ears. It probably would have been a good idea to tell her about that beforehand. You know for someone as powerful as her, she was really cute when she was tired.
"I need to get up to train with Ric." I explained.
"Well turn it off because I want to go back to sleep." She ordered as I got dressed in some sweats.
I met Ric in the hall and tried to talk to him, but he was having none of it. I believed it had to do with him not having had any coffee.
Not that long after, we went out into the woods. He had set up a training dummy, which I wasn't sure how he'd gotten. I wasn't sure where you were supposed to buy stuff like that.
"Now the pressure of your punch ejects the stakes." He declared as he demonstrated.
"Okay, that seems easy enough." I declared as I punched at it and the stakes came out.
"Wow, I honestly didn't expect that you would be strong enough to do that." He admitted. Did he just forget that I was a lycanthrope now? I could probably kick his ass and throw him halfway across the forest, not that I would.
"I'm a werewolf, remember?" I explained. "So now what?"
"Do you know what this is?" He asked as he pulled out a grenade.
"A vervain grenade, I've used them before." I answered. I wasn't sure why I had one at the exact moment though.
"Then you'd know that they are best used when you have the element of surprise." He explained. He then pulled the pin and handed it to me. "Surprise."
I then realized what he had done. However, before I could throw it away, it exploded on my hand. I watched as the damaged flesh started to heal itself.
"That wasn't funny!" I scolded him. "What if I couldn't heal?"
"I wasn't trying to be. You need to have better reaction time." He argued. "You have to be ready for this stuff. Vampires will do whatever they want and take whatever they want and hurt whoever they want."
"You don't have to use pronouns." I told him. Granted he could have also been talking about Klaus or Rebekah. Actually, I hadn't told him about Rebekah yet. "You can say his name."
"Look, I get why you want to do this." He explained. "Stefan hurt you and you want to hurt him back."
"Do you think that I'm crazy?" I asked. I probably was a little bit crazy considering that I had someone that I could go to already for a new lover.
"I think that you're trying to deal with a tough time." He explained. That was an understatement. "I know that you want revenge."
"Is this what you felt?" I questioned. I was glad that he had mostly forgiven Damon when what happened was his wife and John's fault.
"I think that we need to head to school." He replied. I didn't understand why he wouldn't talk to me about it.
We headed back to the house, and I put on a white cardigan. It was still kind of hot, so I was gonna use it as a top. I also put on a navy pleated miniskirt. You know I just felt more comfortable wearing skirts and dresses.
Once I got to school, the first thing that I decided to do was talk to Caroline and Bonnie about the previous night. Being back at school was definitely weird. I knew that I should probably try to find Cassie.
"So how is everyone feeling?" I asked. Elena probably should have been there, but she was having problems in her relationship with Bonnie. That was one problem with dating Anna that I was worried about.
"I think we need to move on from the bad stuff." Caroline opined. "I mean so what if my boyfriend is a vampire-werewolf hybrid."
"Yeah, and so what if my girlfriend is seeing ghosts of her ex and who knows who else." Bonnie replied. I didn't know all of the ghosts that she had been seeing.
"It's our anniversary." I realized. The two of them stared at me. "Technically Stefan and I met on the first day of school last year even though we didn't start dating until a few months later. He was the first person that I told that I wasn't a girl."
"Okay that does suck." Caroline replied. "You win. Are you sure that you want to be here?"
"Yes, I missed enough days last year." I stated. There was also the fact that if I did really well, I might still be able to get valedictorian, despite my subpar sophomore year. "I'm not going to let him scare me away from school."
I met Anna when I went into the school. I still needed to find out where Cassie was.
"So, were you able to get back to sleep?" I asked her.
"How did the training session go?" She retorted. I was going to take that as a no.
"I went better than I expected." I answered. "Now you need to remember that we have cheerleading after school."
"How could I forget?" She responded. We then noticed that Caroline was putting up a flyer for the back-to-school party at the Falls. Oh yeah, they were doing that again this year.
"What's this about?" Anna asked her. I forgot that she hadn't been around for it.
"It's an annual thing. I thought you were here last year." Caroline replied.
"I didn't get here until after the comet." Anna explained.
"Well it's…" Caroline started before Tyler cut her off with a kiss. Once she pulled away, she touched her lips.
"Is that blood?" I asked, noticing a spot on his shirt.
"I'm gonna find Cassie." Anna announced before Caroline dragged him into the bathroom. I reluctantly followed her. I probably should have with Anna.
"What's going on?" Tyler asked.
"The first rule of being a vampire: don't get your breakfast at school." Caroline explained as I prepared a wet towel. You know we probably didn't need to go to all of this trouble. There were several other reasons he could have blood on his shirt.
"Chill out. It was just a blood bag." Tyler argued. "Rebekah hooked me up."
"And why are you hanging out with Rebekah?" She asked. That seemed like it was a bad idea. I didn't know her but she left a pretty bad impression.
"Klaus told her to look out for me." He told her. "He wants to protect his new asset."
"You sound like a tool." I commented.
"Hey, I'm Klaus's first successful hybrid. Don't you think that's at least the tiniest bit awesome?" He asked.
"Actually, you're his second." I pointed out. Anna was his first hybrid.
"No, he wasn't trying to turn Anna. That just happened because she was linked to the curse without knowing." Tyler argued. I supposed he was right, but I also didn't want to continue the conversation.
"I'm gonna go now." I stated as I exited the bathroom.
I walked outside and like it was déjà vu, I ran right into Stefan. Only this time, I did not get knocked to the ground because I had more durability.
"Hey, funny how history repeats itself." He quipped. "Only last time, you were drunk."
"Get out of my way, Stefan." I ordered. I did wish that I was drunk at the moment, so I didn't have to deal with my ex. "I need to get to class."
"Class is that way." He declared as he grabbed me and pointed in the opposite direction. Had he enrolled in my AP History just to spite me? Though, it was a class that was typically taken by seniors and I was pretty sure that Anna and I would be the only juniors in there.
"Do you think that I want to be a high school student for the hundredth time?" He asked. "If I don't have a choice in the matter than neither do you, so go to class."
I was pretty sure that he did have a choice, and I was also pretty sure that he hadn't been to that many schools.
"What's going on here?" Ric interrupted. Stefan responded by pushing him against the wall.
"You might not want to be the tough guy around me" Stefan warned him.
"Get away from her." Cassie threatened as she started to give Stefan a headache.
"You really need to stop getting involved in other people's business." Stefan declared before he walked away.
That led to Anna and I meeting him in his room. I wished that Cassie was in there too, but she had to get to a different class.
"What is he doing here?" Ric asked.
"Klaus wants him to protect me. I'm one of his assets apparently." I explained.
"Well Stefan being here is not good for anybody." He remarked. We already knew that.
"We know that." Anna replied. At that point, the bell rang, and students started to come in. I took a seat next to Anna. I actually wasn't sure if I should give her a chance. I kind of wanted to get Stefan to turn his humanity back on before I dealt with any of that stuff.
"You're in my seat." Stefan said to the other guy who had sat on the other side of me. The guy promptly got up and Stefan smirked at me.
"Good Morning, Seniors, and Mary and Anna, welcome to AP American History." Ric lectured. He didn't need to call us out like that. "Let's cleanse the summer from our brains and start with our country's original founders, the Native American tribes."
"What about the Vikings?" Rebekah asked as she entered the room. Oh God, why was she at school? Things had just went from bad to worse.
"There is no evidence of Vikings ever settling here." Ric stated. "Who are you?"
"My name's Rebekah. I'm new and History happens to be my favorite subject." The Original declared.
It seemed that instantly the situation had gone from bad to worse. Now we had to deal with an Original. To be fair, I didn't know her, but everything that she had done made me believe she was a bitch. However, it was possible that being around Klaus just brought that side out of her though.
After school, I decided to run some laps for my warmups. The football team was practicing. It seemed like they had finally hired a new coach. I didn't why they couldn't do that last year. Maybe they thought the team wouldn't want to play without Tanner, but I was pretty sure they didn't like him.
"Hey, it's nice to see you." Stefan replied as he started running beside me.
"Go away, Stefan." I ordered. Did I think he would listen to me, no, but it felt good to say.
"You think I'm annoying now, just wait till Homecoming." He instructed. "Who are you bringing by the way? I don't want things to be weird between us."
Since I had my eyes on him, I ran into a guy. I felt pretty embarrassed by it.
"Sorry." I apologized with a blush.
"Watch where you're going, Dick." Stefan ordered as he pushed the guy down. That was rude and unnecessary. The guy ran off in fear.
"Who the fuck are you?" I asked. I couldn't believe that no-humanity Stefan was a bully.
"I'm someone who has been assigned to watch a walking blood bag." He stated before he walked away. I knew it was bad, but I wished that I could bite right now. I wasn't going to ask Anna to do it though. I went to meet the rest of the squad and saw Rebekah do an impressive series of cartwheels.
"Is she seriously on the cheerleading squad?" I asked Anna.
"Unfortunately, we need someone to fill in because Dana's kind of…dead." She explained.
"But I wanted to ask Cassie." I told her. I didn't know if Cassie wanted to be a cheerleader, but I wanted to at least ask her.
The following night was the party. I made sure to wear a dress to it. Before the party, we were having a meeting in Alaric's classroom to discuss our plan to deal with Stefan. Everyone was there. I made sure to include Cassie in this.
"So does everyone know what they're supposed to do?" I asked.
"I'm supposed to let you distract Stefan while I sneak up and neutralize him." Ric explained.
"Right. Caroline?" I responded.
"I will have the old Forbes jail cell ready." Caroline explained.
"What's Bonnie doing?" Damon asked.
"I'm leaving her out of this." I told him. She was still pretty upset. "That's why Cassie's here."
You know I realized that it was the first time the two of them had met.
"Well what are we going to do about a certain blonde Original that follows Stefan around wherever he goes?" He responded. "We seem to be out of daggers."
"That's where you come in." I remarked. "I need you to get her away from him. Flirt with her or seduce her or whatever."
"You'd probably have better luck finding a dagger." Ric quipped. He was still mad at Damon for breaking his neck.
"Are you ever not going to be mad at me, Ric?" Damon questioned.
"Not likely." The teacher answered. Damon needed to apologize. A lot of Damon's problems could be solved by just apologizing.
"Hey, I'm here." Tyler replied. I was wondering if he was going to come.
"Hey, I need to raid your mom's vervain supply." I instructed. It would be harder for Stefan to notice. "We're going to need a lot of it to keep Stefan down for a while.
"You can't do that." Tyler told me. Why not?
"Tyler, I know you're acting all differently now, but it's in Stefan's best interest." I explained. I probably should have been concerned about how he was acting, but he was still the nicest he had ever been to me. I also hadn't told him that he used to bully me when I was a guy.
"It's not in Klaus's." Tyler remarked. Why did that matter?
"But Klaus is the bad guy." I pointed out.
"He changed my life." Tyler argued. "I never have to turn again."
Damon then rushed over and stabbed him with a vervain needle.
"What the hell was that for?" Caroline shouted.
"He's been sired." Damon replied. "He feels loyal to Klaus and will do whatever he says."
"Wow I've never seen a sire bond." Anna remarked. "I thought they didn't exist."
"That's because they're extremely rare. Maybe that doesn't apply to hybrids." Damon explained. It was interesting that he knew something about vampires that she didn't.
"But I don't feel loyal to Klaus." She pointed out.
"It's because you weren't turned by him." I stated. "You're a hybrid by blood. No one else is."
"Well, what do we do about it?" Caroline asked as she looked at her unconscious boyfriend.
"Get a new boyfriend." Damon suggested. That was also pretty insensitive.
I decided to just go out to the party with Anna and Cassie. I was seriously thirsty for some booze.
"So, what are we doing?" Anna asked.
"We're going to get drunk." I explained. "It'll be a good way to get Stefan's attention."
"Are you sure that's such a good idea?" She questioned.
"It's still a party and I want to have fun." I told her. "This is your first one. Come on and party with me. Please, it's going to be awesome. And you two can protect me."
"Okay, but only because you asked so nicely." She answered.
"I have a confession. I've never been drunk before." Cassie admitted.
"Well we need to change that then." I replied
The three of us went to get some drinks. I just went for a bottle of beer whereas she headed straight for the keg. I really hoped that the plan would work, and we would be able to convince Stefan to turn his humanity back on. I wasn't sure how we were going to get to that point, but we would figure it out.
"Hello, Mary." He greeted me.
"Seriously, Stefan, I'm not going to let you ruin my buzz." I told him as I quickly downed the bottle that was in my hand.
"Hey, slow down." He instructed. "We both know that you're a little bit of a lightweight."
"That was before I started howling at the moon. I'm not going to let someone like you tell me how to drink." I replied. I then noticed that Damon was going with the plan and flirting with Rebekah. He really was the only one who could do it. Anna couldn't do to the fact that Rebekah was her aunt. Well Cassie could have, but I didn't want her to because I kind of liked her. That was probably not something that I would admit if I was sober.
A little bit later, the three of us were sitting on the bleachers. Well Cassie was lying down because she was pretty much passed out. I was pretty sure that she didn't have alcohol poisoning though.
"So do you know what that is?" I asked pointing to a constellation in the sky. My vision was blurry.
"I think it's the bear." Anna slurred. She hadn't gotten drunk with me in a while.
"You're drunk." Stefan remarked. I didn't why he was stating the obvious.
"What's your point?" I asked.
"I think you need to go home." He stated.
"Uh-oh Anna, it looks like the fun police is here." I joked. "Fine, just let me find my keys."
"You're not driving." He replied. "Come on, I'll drive you."
I then went to the top of the bleachers and stood up. I had an idea to get him to prove that he cared about me.
"Get down from there. You could fall and die." He declared.
"It's okay. She's a werewolf." Anna explained. I was pretty sure that I could still die if I broke my neck though.
"She could still break her neck." Stefan said to her.
"Let's find out." I declared as I jumped off the top. I really hoped that he would catch me, otherwise I could die if I landed wrong. Luckily, he did. "You saved me."
At that moment, Ric shot him in the back and Anna met us on the ground. Cassie also got up. She looked like she was having a little bit of trouble standing.
"Wow you three look not sober." He commented. Did he really think that we weren't going to drink anything?
"That was part of the plan." I explained.
We then headed to Ric's car. We put Stefan in the trunk before Anna and I got inside. Cassie was having some trouble with the door, I smelled smoke. I tried to get out, but the door wouldn't budge. I was pretty sure that Cassie was saying something was blocking her from using magic to open it. Anna tried to open hers, but it wouldn't move either. Ric tried to open it from the outside, but to no avail. Suddenly, I felt that whatever was holding me back stopped and the door opened. My first instinct was to get Stefan out. We managed to get out before the car went up in flames.
"What the fuck just happened?" I asked. Like the car, our plan had gone up in flames. I just didn't understand how? Who was the outside force who tried to kill Anna and I, even though I was pretty sure fire wouldn't kill us. Though, we could have been decapitated in the explosion.
Ric then took us in my car back to the boarding house. Anna was going to take Cassie home.
"Why did you do it?" Stefan replied. "You could have let me die in that car."
"I don't want you to die, Stefan." I explained. That was why I probably wouldn't bite him. "I just want you to return to the way that you used to be."
"You know that makes you pretty weak to hold onto hope like that." He told me.
"It's called being human, Stefan." I declared before I punched him in the gut and unleashed some stakes into him. Although I didn't want him to die, I did take pleasure in seeing him suffer. That probably wasn't healthy. "Maybe you should try it."
Ric then took me home and I found Anna was getting ready for bed. Cassie was sleeping on the couch. It turned out that she was too drunk to invite Anna into her place.
"So how exactly did we fail?" I asked her. "I mean it was like someone cast a spell to lock us in there. Do you think that it might be possible that Klaus could have had a witch do it?"
"No, Klaus wants all three of us alive." She explained. Yeah, he definitely wouldn't want to kill his daughter. "I think we might have another enemy."
So Esther tried to kill Mary and Anna. Or was she just trying to kill one of them? It'll take some time before they know. Please don't forget to review.