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Act 2, Chapter 5;
A Fool's Mate Move
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For someone as intelligent as Lucy you'd think she'd enjoy an activity like chess; a game made to challenge the intellectuals that have always been three steps ahead of the majority. It was always inspiring to watch two go head-to-head in a game that only needed your brain and nothing more.
However for Lucy that was the exact problem, the game simply lacked empathy; something that always went hand-in-hand with the human brain. A necessary emotion to keep humanity alive and to stop civil society from completely ceasing to exist.
You see, when people see chess, Lucy sees a war brewing between two pairs of cruel hands. When people see pawns, Lucy sees casualties lining up to get slaughtered for the sake of nobility. And when people see someone laying down their king, all Lucy sees is someone willing to surrender everything just to save themselves the embarrassment of loss.
But that's chess for you; a game that simply has no room for guilt, remorse or chivalry.
Which is exactly why Katherine Pierce seemed to be winning in all aspects of the game with zero signs of anyone else beating her, especially someone like Lucy Salvatore.
So the youngest Salvatore has no choice but to change the game, to turn chess' weaknesses into her game's strength. Rendering someone like Katherine completely useless.
It seems like a pretty good plan, only down side though would be that Lucy had no idea how to do that in the first place. Meaning her only available option would be to sulk in the boarding house while everyone tried to think of their next move.
"Are you ever going to open that box?" Lucy suddenly asked, sick of the silence that spread through every corner of the Salvatore house like sunlight. Her eyes glaring at the wooden antique box in her brother's hands.
