chapter one.
London, England.
Elena was sat on the sofa her legs clad in denim across her boyfriends lap, Elijah was running one hand along her calf a smile on his face as they watched a comedy show on bbc three. "so what do you have planned for tomorrow?" Elena asks taking her eyes of their shared plasma screen t.v to look at her husband of 2 years.
"nothing planned although I was thinking about getting a table at-" he was cut off by both of their phones vibrating on the glass coffee table.
sharing a look with each other they both reach for the interrupting devices, GAME ON. looking at each other they share a confused look before a smile spreads across each of their faces "dinner can wait we have packing to do husband" Elena says before getting of the sofa to run into the bedroom.
Miami, Florida.
Bonnie sat on her large bed watching her long time girfriend Paint her nails a deep shade of red, laughing lightly ever time she tiggles her feet "stop or you'll end up with a whole toe coloured red" Rebekah says trying to hide her amusement at her girlfriends innocent laughter.
"I'm sorry it tickles" Bonnie says laughing, just as Rebekah starts on another toe both their phones go off "check mine please" Rebekah asks bonnie as she stretches to reach both phones. "huh thats weird" Bonnie says "what is"
"we have the same message" bonnie says staring at the screens in her hands "well are you going to tell me what it says" Rebekahs asks "they say GAME ON,"
Rebekahs sits up and smiles before getting up and walking to their walk in closet "hey what about my toes" Bonnie calls as she watches Rebekah pull out 2 large suit cases.
Dublin, Ireland.
Damon and stefan sat at the bar drinking scotch and laughing over memories of their childhood when both off their phones go off.
"what does that exactly mean, brother" Damon asks looking from his phone to his brother who is already putting his coat back on "it means fun brother come on we have a plane to catch Damon" Stefan says dragging a still confused Damon out of the little tavern they were in.
Hotel in Barbados
"Everything set" Caroline asks as she sits down in front of their t.v room, "yeah just waiting for the rest of them to arrive" Kol says taking one of her strawberry twizzlers.
on the screen in front of them they have 4 small t.v's showing different angles of the entrances to the hotel, the large t.v above them showing the function room of the hotel where they all will be directed to go.
"ooh look Bon and Bekah are the first to arrive, who do you think will be next?" Caroline asks "our dear Klaus, will be the next, you know that he cant stand being away from you too long" Kol says laughing.
"he's gonna be mad when he doesn't find me there then " Caroline says chuckling along with Kol.
Klaus was the last to arrive at the Hotel striding confidently into the lobby with a still confused Marcel behind him, "NIK!" Rebekah calls from the little group that had formed.
The pair join the group saying a friendly hello to his family and their partners "Stefan, Damon, those of you who don't know, this is Marcel" Klaus says gesturing to Marcel who was smiling brightly at Rebekah, Earning a scowl from Bonnie.
"former king of New Orleans right, anyway enough of the pleasantries will someone tell me what we are all doing here?" Damon asks getting evil eyes from Marcel who he ignores and turns to face the hybrid, before anyone can say anything a hotel manager comes over.
"welcome all, if you would please follow me to conference room b please" she says before turning on her heel and walking over to the doors leading them into the medium sized function room.
Inside there in a row of chairs set up in front of a a large white screen. "please take a seat, the film will begin shortly" the small brunette says.
not long after they take their seats does the room lighting dim and the screen light up showing the smiling faces of Kol and Caroline sitting on a large ash coloured sofa.
"hello our dear friends and Damon" says kol which earns some laughter and a whispered 'what ever' from Damon "so your all probably wondering what on earth is going on" Caroline says taking over from Kol "well its quite simple really, you all have been called here for a game of sorts" "a scavenger hunt really" kol says
"we have decided to bring some fun back into all of your boring domestic lives" "with a series of challenges that you will have to do in order to find your clues that will lead you on to your next challenge" Kol says.
"dont worry about where we are because our location isnt important right now" "so are you ready for the rules?" Caroline asks having Kol take over from her "too bad if your not because here they are... you will be spilt randomly into 2 teams" "which we will chose randomly from this large bowl in a moment" "which no if you don't like your team members you can not change, Nik" kol says
after her laughter stops Caroline continues "rule 3 no backing out, although if one of your challenges is not something you wont do then one of your team members can take it for you, Unless its a challenge that has been made for you specifically, if you still refuse to do your challenge, then you have forfeited and will give your opposing team a 24 hour head start to get to the next clue."
"rule 4, no killing or torturing of any kind, for in your group or your opposing group" Caroline says her face filled with seriousness that has Klaus smiling up at the image.
"rule 5, luggage!, you are each allowed on back pack for your personal items," "so only pack a few necessities bekah, because you will not have room for all of your shoes" Kol says interrupting Caroline, "bloody wanker" Rebekah says scowling at the screen.
"any way, along with your own back packs there will be the team bag which will contain all the things that you might need for challenges and a water proof seal for your clues. at the front of the room is 2 boxes once we have called your names and designated your teams and captains you will each get that box where you will find your back pack and first clue, once you have retrieved it you will only have an hour to pack before the game begins" Caroline says
Every one looks towards the front of the room where the two large plastic boxes are labelled A and B .
"so now that you have the rules and don't those forgetful bunch the rules are written down for you just in case, you are all wondering where me and Carl will be, not to worry we'll be watching, you will also be given a camera each that you can use as a dairy so to speak and a team phone that we can call, but we will only call if you are luckily enough to earn extra privileges which we will be in charge of rewarding" Kol says an evil smirk on his handsome face.
"teams!" Caroline excitedly exclaims "well lets pick the team captains darling" Kol says using his hand to making a calm down motion "and team a's team captian is..." Caroline says picking out a folded piece of paper as Kol taps a drum roll out on the coffee table "Elijah" Caroline says with a smile.
"B teams captian is... surprise surprise Nik" Kol says before turning to the screen as if hes looking for Rebekah "lets hope this doesn't go like Tatia" "why would you bring up that whore" Caroline says turning to look at Kol on the screen her jealousy apparent for every one in the function room watching the screen.
after Kol is calming Caroline down stefan turns to look at Klaus whispering " I swear Kol is the only one who can calm her down so quickly" "I know" Klaus says through gritted teeth
"okay so back to picking out teams I'll be picking names for Elijah and Kol will call out Klaus's team members names" Caroline says her face back to being perky as it was before the mentioning of Tatia "on Elijah's team is... Elena, aww cute " "why is that cute" "because they get to stay together" Caroline says as if it was the most obvious answer in the world which has the room laughing bar Damon.
"anyway, on nik's team is ... Stefan, oh Niks gonna love that" Kol says laughing "shut up Kol, next up is Marcel" Caroline has to elbow Kol who is still laughing "on Klaus's team, is Bon- Bon" Caroline has to say for him.
Every one is laughing watching Caroline beat up Kol after he moans about her cheating, "she is fearless" Klaus says after 5 minutes of waiting for them to appear back on screen Kols hair ruffled from the beating "any way..." "on Elijahs team.." "Bekah" "Kol" Caroline growls at him "and lastly with the only one left Klaus gets the other useless Salvatore" "Kol, be nice Damons not that bad" "cheers blondie" Damon says smiling genuinely at the screen.
"any way now that you have your teams you should go collect your box and get started while we drink mimosa's have fun" Kol says the screen shutting off in the middle of Caroline saying love you to Klaus.
as Elijah and Klaus go up to get their teams box they meet each others eyes "good luck brother, your gonna need it" Klaus says with a smirk "we'll see Nikklaus".
"this is going to be so much fun" Caroline says turning to Kol and placing her feet onto his lap "it certainly is darling" .