I woke up early in the morning before going to Ric's apartment, where I proceeded to start beating the crap out of a punching bag. I was angry, not that I had kissed Anna, but maybe because of what Klaus had done. I was imagining I was hitting Klaus even though he could probably take more than the punching bag. I even knocked it back pretty far.
"Careful, those aren't cheap." He stated. "What's got you so upset this morning?"
"I didn't get a lot of sleep last night." I remarked. I had been thinking about the kiss with Anna. Part of me had even wanted to take it farther, but I was pretty sure that would be a bad idea. I was pretty sure doing that right after her father had tried to kill my sister would not have been a good idea.
"I didn't either, but that had to do with dying." He explained. We still hadn't figured out why the ring had only brought him back to life without healing him like it normally did.
"Are you okay?" I asked before punched the bag again. I still wasn't entirely sure if I wanted to kill Klaus. If he was anyone but Anna' father, I would be on board, but he was Anna's father. Anna had not killed my father despite having some very good reasons to and I probably had even more reasons to want to kill Klaus.
"Yeah, but I think we may need to get the ring repaired." He joked. I wondered if we could actually do it. There was probably something magical that could fix it. I wondered if Bonnie had anything that could be useful for that.
"You should probably avoid dying until we can figure out what's wrong it." I quipped. He rolled his eyes at that. At I managed to get him to smile.
"So, I guess Anna's compulsion worked." He stated. "I saw Elena packing this morning."
Did he expect it not to work or something? Elena wasn't wearing vervain.
Once we were done, I changed into a black sweater and floral skirt with tights. I almost thought about wearing my cheerleading uniform because of what day it was, but it was already pretty chilly, and I didn't think that would be a good idea. I went and met Anna and Bonnie at school where we were decorating Caroline's locker. It was a lot of pink and purple and sparkles.
"I think I'm allergic to this overdose on estrogen." Anna remarked. I kind of felt like if I wasn't already a girl, seeing this locker could turn me into one.
"It's what Caroline likes." Bonnie replied. I was pretty sure that she noticed someone was missing at the moment. "So, where's Elena?"
"I have a feeling that you're not gonna like this." I remarked. It was kind of a big deal, and I didn't know how to say it. How do you tell someone that their best friend who they used to date was leaving town?
"Mary asked me to compel her to leave town." Anna explained. I supposed that was one way. It was probably a little bit too blunt to be honest, but subtlety wasn't one of Anna's strengths.
"What?" The witch asked.
"She's going to be staying with Bob and Sally in Denver." I added. "It's only until we figure this Klaus thing out."
"I can't believe you would do that." Bonnie remarked. Was it really that hard to believe since I had done it before? Well, I had had her compelled, even though I hadn't compelled her to leave.
"It's not safe for her and she actually say that she wanted to leave town." I replied. "I just decided to give her a little bit of a push. She's still here if you want to tell her goodbye."
I did wonder if I was being a bit selfish in wanting to keep her safe, but Klaus did already kill Jenna and I couldn't allow him to hurt any more members of my family, especially since Elena was the only one left. Okay, Ric was also technically family, but only by marriage.
One thing that I noticed was that Caroline never seemed to show up. It was strange because every year she always made her birthday a big deal. A Caroline Forbes birthday party was always legendary. It was something people always wanted to go to. As a kid, I went to one as Elena's tagalong and she had ponies. I couldn't think of why she would skip on her birthday. The day after her 18th birthday, I would understand, but not the day of.
The plan was to go to Caroline's house and surprise her because I had to figure why she was so upset. I understood that she was upset because Tyler had broken her heart by basically siding with Klaus, but her birthday was a night where she could forget about all of her problems and just have fun and also get really, really drunk. I gathered everyone that go in her house, which unfortunately did not include Anna. It basically left Matt, Cassie and Bonnie. Caroline walked in and we took positions.
"SURPRISE!" We shouted. She jumped when she saw us. She was definitely surprised. I was pretty sure that she didn't expect us to be there. I also couldn't help but wonder what she had done all day if she wasn't in school.
"What are you doing here?" She asked. Technically, we had broken and entered, but I was pretty sure that it wasn't against the law. Even if it was, we wouldn't get in trouble for it.
"Well since you skipped school and didn't see the amazing job that we did, we thought we'd show up here." I explained. We needed to have a party for her. It would still be pretty small compared to Elena's, but that was because it was a school night. Plus, I didn't have a lot of chances to get drunk on a school night.
"Get changed into some warmer clothes, because we're going to the Falls." Bonnie ordered. I was glad that I had planned for the weather. "We're going to have cake, campfire and s'mores like we used to."
"But with tequila." Matt added with a stupid grin that got her to crack a smile.
"Thanks, but I'm not really feeling my birthday." Caroline stated.
"Why not?" Cassie asked.
"I'm sorry, but didn't you declare your birthday a national holiday?" Bonnie asked. Maybe that was why she skipped school.
"Well now it's just a reminder that I'm dead." Caroline responded. Okay…that was not what I expected her to say. "I didn't even like 17 and that's age that I'm always going to be.
"Well, how about we try something else." I suggested. I wanted to try to do something to make her feel better. I wasn't sure how well it would work, but maybe just maybe it would get her to be less miserable on her birthday. It was my only idea, so I hoped it worked.
I decided that we should take her to the cemetery, specifically to the Salvatore family crypt because I was pretty sure that neither Stefan nor Damon minded. They were the only ones that I knew that had a crypt and needed something similar to a table for this.
"This is weird even for us." Bonnie commented. I didn't understand what was so weird about it and I was pretty sure that we had done weirder things.
"Caroline's right." I explained. "She's dead, so she doesn't need a birthday, she needs a funeral. We can say goodbye to the human Caroline and welcome the vampire one. You know some countries view funerals as a celebration of a person's life."
I noticed that Caroline smiled at the idea. I hoped that was a good sign. I just hoped that it would put her in a celebratory mood, because I really wanted some alcohol.
"I like it." Caroline stated. "Here lies Caroline Forbes."
"Head cheerleader, junior class president…" I interrupted. I wondered what else I could say about her.
"Friend…" Bonnie continued. It seemed like we were catching on. This was going well so far, and I was happy that people were getting into it.
"Daughter…" Cassie added.
"Mean girl." Matt replied. I glared at him, but she just shrugged. I supposed she did have her moments, but I didn't think it was intentional unless the person deserved it. "Sometimes."
"But she was a great person." I finished as I put some candles on the cake. I kind of wished that Anna was here so she could try to light it. I kind of forgot to call her to come. "She was 17 and she had a great life. So, rest in peace so we can move on."
Bonnie lit up the candles and Caroline blew them out. I wished that I could read her mind so I could find out what she had wished for. What would she wish for? Would it be for Tyler not to be sired anymore? I was pretty sure that a simple wish wouldn't be able to break the sire bond. Their love story looked like it was over. I supposed sometimes love did not conquer all. I had pretty much already figured it out. Though ever since I came back to life, my feeling for Stefan really weren't as strong as they had been in the past.
We then began to have some cake. I didn't really like tequila that much, but it was all that we had, so I would have to deal with it. I seriously hoped that he hadn't done it for exactly that reason. I didn't understand why everyone kept treating me like I had a drinking problem. I wasn't blowing my family's savings for booze, but I did want something that wasn't tequila. It was too bad that I couldn't get any and I would be stuck with the sour stuff. I then noticed that Caroline was all by herself.
"What are you doing?" I asked as I looked at Caroline who had her phone out.
"I definitely was not texting Tyler." She remarked. I glared at her. "What? I'm delicate."
"Leave her alone. You don't decide what everyone does." Bonnie snapped at me. I was definitely not expecting her to say that to me. What had even prompted that?
"What the fuck do you mean?" I asked her angrily.
"You had no right to compel Elena to leave town." She told me. Did she really have to tell them about it? I mean I supposed that they would notice Elena not being there, but she didn't have to scream it out.
"I don't trust Klaus not to go after her again." I responded. I wasn't sure how good his word actually was. "She deserves a normal life."
"It's not your choice to make." Bonnie argued. She had made the choice herself. I was at least giving her somewhere to go. I was pretty sure that she didn't even have a plan.
"I'm protecting her." I pointed out. I wished Anna was there to back me up. I couldn't help but wonder where she was at the moment. I decided to text her. I also kind of wanted to be making out with her at the moment.
"Hey, you need to stop fighting." Matt piped in. I stared at him in surprise. "You're ruining a perfectly good funeral.
"I'm gonna go." Bonnie announced. "I'm drunk and I get cranky when I'm drunk."
She then walked away, and I couldn't help but be a little bit confused.
"Okay, so let's keep this going!" Cassie remarked. I was pretty sure that she was drunk too. At least she hadn't passed out yet.
I then got a text from Anna saying that she was at a fundraiser with Ric and Damon. I couldn't help but wonder if she planned on donating something. I read in the paper that they were planning on rebuilding Wickery Bridge and renaming it The Grayson and Miranda Gilbert Memorial Bridge. I didn't know why they needed to rebuild it. The town was fine without it. Not to mention, they didn't exactly ask us if we wanted to have it named after our parents. That was kind of rude.
I then got a call from her. I figured that it must have been important if she had decided to call me.
"We have a bit of a problem." She told me. "It turns out that the council is siding with Klaus against Stefan. You have to convince him to back off."
"Stefan doesn't want to listen to me." I stated. How was it that even when Stefan wasn't around, he still managed to be a giant buzzkill. I was really starting to get sick of him. "I'd love to help, but there's nothing I can do."
She hung up and I noticed that Caroline was lying on the tablet. It might have been offensive to dead people, but it was kind of funny. Suddenly, Tyler walked in and all of us immediately went quiet and stared at him.
"I didn't mean to crash the party." He stated. There was a reason why we hadn't invited him. I kind of wanted Cassie to light him on fire, even though I wasn't particularly sure if fire even killed hybrids. I couldn't help but wonder if I was being territorial like a wolf when a wolf from another pack showed up.
"So don't." Matt told him. It looked like their friendship was also on the outs because of hybridism. Well, none of us really wanted to be friends with him anymore. I was pretty sure that the two of us weren't ever friends and I only really kept him around because everyone else seemed to like him. I was kind of glad that I wasn't the only one who disliked him right now.
"I need to talk to him." Caroline stated. "Maybe it would just be best if we went outside."
I then realized that her holding onto hope that Tyler could be fixed wasn't much different than me initially holding onto hope that Stefan would go back to being the way that he used to be. O didn't think that I wanted Stefan back anymore, but I had wanted it at one point.
"Okay, so do you wanna play cards?" Cassie asked us. Did we have cards?
"You brought some cards with you to a funeral?" I questioned in disbelief.
"Well, I've had them in my purse for a while, but don't really have many chances to use them." She explained. Okay, I supposed that made sense. "How about some poker?"
"I think we should go get Caroline." I remarked. I already didn't want it to turn into strip poker. It was mainly because I didn't want to see Matt like that. "You can stay here while Matt and I go look for her."
"You don't think that they'll be making up and having sex out here, do you?" I asked. Matt just looked at me. "Last time I was out here, I found him doing it with Vicki."
"I'd rather not think of that." Matt replied. I supposed he didn't want to think about his sister like that.
All of a sudden, Stefan showed up and knocked Matt to the ground before he grabbed me and dragged to his car and put me in the front seat. He buckled my seatbelt before he began to drive rather quickly. I couldn't believe that I was in this situation. I knew he was going really fast, but maybe I could still break free. Or maybe I would be able to talk some fucking sense in him. He did seem like he was worse than Klaus at the moment and that was kind of hard to believe.
"Where are you taking me Stefan?" I demanded as he continued to speed. Didn't any of the deputies actually do traffic patrol. I didn't think that he would stop, but someone had to notice that he was driving way over the speed limit.
My phone started to ring, and I saw that it was once again Anna. Before I could answer it, Stefan grabbed it. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like what he was about to do.
"Your girlfriend's a bit busy now." Stefan replied. Did he know that we had kissed? I had to admit that it was a bit ironic that they had switched roles. Now he was the one had kidnapped me. I really needed to stop being kidnapped.
"What did you do to her?" Anna demanded. I had to admit it was nice to be able to hear people's calls now because of my enhanced hearing.
"I'm making my next move." Stefan explained. "I have a question for you. How will your dad feel when he can't make any more hybrids?"
I had a really bad feeling about what he planned on doing. Stefan wouldn't kill me, would he? Also how was he planning to kill me? I was pretty sure that I would heal from a car at this speed unless I was decapitated or had my neck broken and I was pretty sure it would hard to do something like that on purpose. He probably would have been better taking me out of town.
"Let her go!" Anna commanded. Stefan hung up and then chucked my phone out the window. I probably should have gotten it insured, but I didn't expect my ex-boyfriend to kidnap me and throw it out of a speeding car. To make matters worse, getting a new phone would be a hassle because I would have to go with Anna to the mall several towns away and she would have to compel people.
"So, what's the plan Stefan?" I asked him. "Are you going to kill me? You know that there a lot of quicker ways than a car accident. You could just break my neck."
"I took Klaus's family so he would suffer, but he cares more about making hybrids than anything." He explained. That still didn't answer the question of why he didn't just kill me. I was pretty sure he was trying to avoid the question. He may have not actually wanted to kill me.
He then took out his phone and called someone that I was assuming was Klaus. His phone was not on speaker. I kind of didn't even feel the need to listen to what they were saying, because there was nothing good that would come from it. Stefan did seem like he was acting crazier than Klaus at the moment. I still didn't understand what his problem was.
"Tell your hybrids to get out of town." Stefan ordered. "I have Mary with me right now. I'm going to drive her off Wickery Bridge and you won't be able to make any more. I will do this."
Stefan then broke away from the call. I wasn't sure if Klaus actually believed him at this point. It sounded like he was agreeing to whatever Stefan's demands were. At that point, the car suddenly stopped before it flipped over. I looked in front of me and I saw that Cassie was standing there. I couldn't help but wonder how she managed to figure out where we were going. I got out of the car and went over to her where she hugged me tightly. He then came out after I did.
"You bastard." I declared. Now I felt angrier than I ever had before. There was a part of me that genuinely wanted to kill him. I was pretty sure that the fact that I was a werewolf was not helping in the matter, especially since it was so close to a full moon. "You fucking bastard! How could you?"
"He had to believe that I would do it." Stefan replied.
"Stay away from her!" Cassie ordered. "If you take one more step closer, it'll be your last."
I was kind of surprised that she was being so protective of me. I also couldn't help but wonder how we were going to get back home since she had destroyed his car.
"Stefan my parents died here! Elena almost died here!" I shouted as tears began to rain from my eyes. In addition to being pissed, I was also incredibly upset. The bad memories came back from the worst day of my life.
"He backed down." Stefan pointed out. "I can take everything from him just like he took everything from me."
"He didn't take everything from you." I responded. "You had me. I loved you. I tried to save you. You had your brother. You're the one who decided to push everyone away."
"I lost you as soon as I left town with him." He stated.
"Let's go home Mary." Cassie suggested as she held my hand.
"Let me take you home." Stefan replied. Both of glared at him.
"Do you honestly think that I trust you to take me anyway after that?" I asked. "I never want to see you again. You kept trying to push me and congratulations you fucking did it. I don't care what happens to you anymore. Go ahead and get yourself killed. That's all that's going to happen from you fighting Klaus at this point.
I went home and found Anna who probably gave me the tightest hug that she could without crushing my bones. Granted, they would probably heal, but it still would probably be very painful.
"I'm fine, Anna." I assured. "As convincing as he was, I don't think that actually planned on killing me. Not to mention, Cassie showed up just in time to protect me"
She grabbed me and tried to give me another kiss.
"Anna, we can't do this." I told her. "I don't really up to it right now. I'm sorry."
"Mary, I get it. You need more time." She replied. "While we're on the topic of being mad at people, my dad told Tyler to bite Caroline and he did. Fortunately, I was able to convince him to go and heal her. He makes me so frustrated sometimes and it just sucks that he's my dad. And despite all of the bad things that he does, I can't not love him."
"I get it. Even though what John did wasn't as bad as what your dad did, I couldn't hate him. I wanted to, but I couldn't." I admitted. "I really feel like I hate Stefan right now. How the hell did we get here? Who would have thought that I would ever hate Damon or even Klaus less than I hate Stefan right now?"
"Why don't we talk about something?" She suggested. I supposed I could use something to take my mind off of things. "How was the party?"
"Well it started out okay until Tyler showed up." I replied. "Why is it that we can never make it through a party without something bad happening?"
"I don't know. Maybe it would be a good idea for us to go to bed right now." She explained. "So, I'm kind of surprised that Cassie came over to you and flipped over Stefan's car. It's a good thing that this town is at least walkable."
The two of us went up to our room and I felt like I should probably take a shower. Maybe in the morning, I would feel better. I was kind of worried that I would once again have a hard time sleeping. After I got out, I dried off in the bathroom before I put on my robe. Anna was waiting in bed for me. Even I didn't want to date her, I did like being able to spend the nights in bed with her. I laid down beside her and grabbed onto her before I drifted off to sleep.
So Mary and Anna are still on the backburner, especially with Cassie still in the picture. Will she be able to choose between the two of them? Please don't forget to review.