Matt Donovan's P.O.V.
I looked down at Alaric's unconscious body and the front door to the Salvatore manor flew open. "Caroline." I said seeing her carrying Abby Bennett in her arms.
"They took her." Caroline said, laying Abby on the couch opposite Alaric. "They took her." She said again tears streaming down her face.
"What happened?" Elena asked taking a step forward.
"I tried to stop him. We tried to stop him." Caroline went on. I stepped forward putting my hands on either side of her face.
"Caroline, calm down. Take a breath." She nodded as Stefan and Damon walked into the room.
"Bonnie, they took Bonnie." Caroline finally said and my hands slid away from her face.
"Who?" Damon asked.
"Kol." She answered.
"He's back in town?" Elena asked looking to Stefan.
"It doesn't make sense. Why would they take Bonnie?" Stefan asked turning to Damon.
"Maybe it has something to do with the white oak." Damon said.
"They need her for a spell?" Elena asked.
"I thought all they had to do was burn it down." I said.
"Maybe they want a more definite solution." Damon thought aloud.
"Well what do we do? How do we get Bonnie back?" Elena asked still staring at the Salvatore brothers.
"We don't. They're three originals holding onto her." Damon said.
"What?" I asked.
"This is Bonnie we're talking about. We can't just leave her with them." Elena snapped. "We have to do something."
"Like what Elena? We don't even know why they took her. We don't have enough man power or –" Damon started but Elena interrupted, "Damon if it were me -" Damon jumped in shouting over her, "But it's not you Elena! It's Bonnie."
Elena looked to Stefan, "We don't even know what they're up to. It would be suicide." He said.
She shook her head, "I can't just let them kill her."
I caught Caroline's eye and motioned for her to follow me outside. She looked hesitant but followed as I made my way out of the Salvatore's home. "Come on." I said so Caroline would pick up her pace I didn't want anyone to realize we'd snuck off.
"Where are we going?" she finally asked as we reached my pick up.
"The Mikaelson's, we need to find out what they have planned and I've got an idea."
"What about the others. I mean shouldn't we at least-"
"Caroline, you still arguing with Rebekah about the Sheriff's Yearly Raffle tomorrow night?"
"Yeah, but I really think-"
"Look I need you to distract her while I try and figure out what it is they're up to."
"How will you even know where to look?" Caroline shot back.
"Remember when Kol crushed my hand at the Mikaelson's ball?"
"Yeah."
"Well, let's just say I got a good look around before I ended up in the E.R. I'm pretty sure I know where to look."
"I don't like this. You want me to help you break into the Mikaelson slaughter house. Damon or Stefan could get in and out a lot faster and a hell of a lot quieter then you. Besides what if something goes wrong?"
"Then you'll be right down stairs. We can do this Caroline. I can do this."
She took a deep breath and exhaled raking her fingers through her long blonde hair before finally agreeing with me, "Fine, but we're taking my car."
I positioned myself round back and just as Caroline rang the door bell I opened one of the many back doors. The enormous room was immaculate but not the room I was looking for. I needed to get to the second floor. I let out a deep breath and moved over to the main foyer where Rebekah and Caroline were exchanging catty banter. I walked up the stairs keeping my back to the wall. After reaching the second floor landing I turned right trying to remember if it was the second or the third room from the stair case. I guessed third and smiled looking into the cluttered study. I'd known Bonnie wouldn't be here but a part of me had hoped that maybe she would have been.
I pushed the small defeat to the back of my mind and as quietly as I could made my way to the desk. I trifled through the top books and papers, skimming through journals mentioning the white oak, until finally finding what I was looking for.
This wasn't exactly good news. I sighed shoved the spell book in a satchel I found on the floor and then started looking through the draws when I found them. Three daggers, the daggers Elena had mentioned and a small bottle of ashes next to them. I opened the bottle immediately and dipped one of the daggers in. I closed the bottle and just then "Hello Matthew." I laid the dagger on the desk and turned to see Kol Mikaelson's face.
"Kol." I said.
"Well we have quite the busy body. Tsk tsk tsk. What have we got here?" he asked seeing the satchel and I threw it to the floor. He smiled. My hand wrapped around the daggerthat lay on the desk behind my back. "Need a hand?" he lunged at me and I took a step forward hoping the dagger would get his heart. He stopped dead in his tracks.
His skin started to grey, and he collapsed to the floor. I didn't know what to do. I knifed an original. I turned to the window and looked back at Kol. I couldn't leave him here. They'd pull the dagger out. The daggers, I went back to the desk and took the other two daggers along with the bottled ash and threw them in the satchel. I took a deep breath and tossed it out the window. I walked over to Kol and lifted him off the ground barely and drug him over to the window. I was trying to take small shallow breaths so Rebekah wouldn't hear me but it was only a matter of time before Caroline's jig would be up. I leaned him against the sill of the window and flung him half way out then grabbed his feet and he slid out like water. I hadn't heard the thud from his fall but I didn't have vampire hearing or a dagger to even try to stab Rebekah. My mind suddenly went to Klaus and I froze.
He would have noticed something by now if he were here. I reassured myself and then climbed out onto the roof of the mansion and climbed down the ornate lattice by the window. I hopped down and text Caroline to leave her post and come help me out. I threw the satchel over my shoulder and grabbed Kol's broad shoulders. Caroline appeared next to me almost instantly and gave me the 'what did you do look'. I returned it with a 'what does it look like help me out here' glare and she lifted Kol into her arms and ran off to her car.
By the time I reached her she had already thrown Kol in the trunk. "What the hell happened? How'd you get one up on an original?"
"Definitely luck." I exhaled getting into the passenger side door along with Caroline. I strapped on my seat belt and when I looked up Rebekah was standing in front Caroline's car.
The blonde walked over to my side of the car and opened the door, "Leaving without a proper good bye are we?" she said reaching in and undoing my seat belt. "This will only take a minute darling." She said to Caroline who glared at her from her seat. I got out of the car and Rebekah closed the door. "Thank you." She said after a moment's pause.
"What?" I asked dumb founded.
"For whatever you said to Caroline to change her mind about the raffle. She didn't say as much but when I caught your scent in the back yard I knew it had to be you, that girl is just incapable of being nice on her own." I smiled and my pulse slowed.
"It was nothing really." I said looking back over to Caroline.
"Anyway I just wanted to thank you." I nodded and turned to go, when she continued on, "and apologize, for Kol." I turned around and looked her in the eye. She knew. "at the ball everything that happened with your hand and all. Does it still bother you?" She didn't know.
"It's fine. I mean it still flares up every now and then but it's nothing I can't handle." She smiled at my response and walked back toward the house. I got back in the car and we drove off.
"What were you thinking?" Elena yelled, "You could have been killed."
"But he wasn't," Damon snapped back in my defense, "Even bagged himself an Original. Touchdown for the Quarterback." He smirked giving me a pat on the back.
"It was reckless, Damon." Stefan said, looking at his brother.
"Caroline had my back, besides now we know what they need Bonnie for." I added.
"They're going to burn down the white oak like last time only now they're going to perform a spell to severe all magical properties the ash has over them." Caroline said.
"Which means the daggers will be useless." Elena said from the doorway. Only it wasn't Elena it was Katherine.
"Katherine." Elena said glaring down her ancestor.
"No, Its Taylor Lautner." Katherine snapped walking into the room. "I hear you're going to kill Klaus."
"What?" Damon said.
"We're going to rescue Bonnie." I jumped in.
"Aw how cute pretending that the little people in the story matter." She rolled her eyes. "If you're making a move I want in."
"Who says we want you as part of the team?" Damon quipped and Katherine looked over to Caroline.
"You said we needed man power. I figure you two plus me and Abby not enough to kill Klaus seeing as Katherine kicked your ass the last time you two took her on. So I figured…" Caroline trailed off and Katherine picked up where she left off, "Why not call in the champ. Plus I'm the oldest vampire either of you know a.k.a the strongest."
"What exactly do they need for the spell?" Elena asked ignoring Katherine.
"It says something about the lover must cover the earth before the servant can steal away the ashes power." Caroline read aloud.
"Well what the hell does that mean?" Damon asked looking around.
"It means that the witch's lover must be killed at the beginning of the spell and that the witch dies after the tree has turned to ash." Abby said walking into the room. She didn't look as bad as when Caroline had carried her in earlier.
"What?" Elena asked the wheels in her head turning and then a light bulb over my own head clicked on.
"Jeremy." I said.
"Why are we stopping here first we should be going to my house to get supplies?" Elena asked anxiously from the passenger seat of my pick up.
"I just need to get something. It'll take two seconds." I answered opening the car door.
"Matt, we don't have two seconds. They have Jeremy." She plead.
"I know that Elena, but I'll be right back." I snapped, slamming the door shut. "You know Bonnie is still out there. Just because Jeremy is involved now, it doesn't mean she's transported to some safe location and she'll be okay. Bonnie is still out there." I turned toward the Grill's employee entrance.
Once I walked inside I made my way over to my locker and spun in the combination. The door opened and I took Vicki's St. Anthony chain off the small hook on the door. The gold flashed and clipped it around my neck. I closed the locker and walked out through the bar.
"Matt." He voice rang through the air and as I turned around Rebekah was walking toward me. "I didn't think you were working tonight." She said plainly. I looked down at my plaid shirt and blue jeans, then back to her, "Right no uniform." I smiled at her my heart beating a million miles a minute and turned to walk away. "Stay for a drink with me then?" she asked and sighed. "Please, I was supposed to meet my brother Kol, but he seems to have found himself detained."
I turned back around and two drinks were already sitting in front of her. I sighed, "One drink. Elena's waiting for me." I sat down next to her and smiled trying to keep my composure.
"Do I make you nervous?" she asked as I reached for the mystery drink she handed me, "It's Whiskey and Coke." She said aloud almost reading my mind.
"No." I answered.
"You're lying to me." She snapped back.
"What?"
"I said you're lying to me. Remember I'm a vampire Matt if I pay attention I can hear your heart beat, and lately every time you see me your heart practically jumps into my hands." She smiled taking a sip of her drink. "So that leads me to believe that you're reconsidering your harsh words to me that night after the ball."
I took a sip of my drink. "Look Rebekah," I looked to the front door, "I liked you but then the whole thing with your brother happened and now all this stuff with Bonnie."
"What are you talking about?"
"I know you and your brothers kidnapped her. I know that you're using her for some spell, and I know you that if things pan out the way you want them to that Bonnie and Jeremy will probably be dead by the end of the night." I stood up and finished my drink. "Thanks for the drink, but I should get going. I've gotta go help my friends."
"Matt." She reached out grabbing my arm, "You can't interfere not tonight. If you and the others show up at the tree tonight you'll just be lining up for a slaughter." I looked her in the eye, "Please."
"You should let go of me now." I said glaring her down. She let go slowly, and then she wasn't the sweet girl I'd given my jacket to at the ball.
"Fine, see if I care if my brothers rip you apart or if the hybrids tear your friends to shreds." She got up and stormed off and I walked back to my truck.
"There four of them." I said, looking through the scope of my rifle.
"And Tyler." Caroline sighed.
"Look don't worry about Tyler. I'll take care of him." Alaric said patting Caroline on the back. She nodded and walked over to Stefan, Damon, Abby, and Katherine.
I turned to Elena, "You gonna be alright?"
"Yeah," she answered, "Just nervous. I mean I'm about to kill someone."
"A hybrid, someone who will kill you if you miss the shot. Remember fire on three with Alaric and me, then take off further into the woods."
"That's the part I'm unsure about I mean why are we waiting why don't we just run in to save Jeremy right away. I didn't even see him down there." Elena said anxiously.
"Bonnie's down there so Jeremy should be too, we have to give Caroline and the others time to stake Rebekah and Klaus."
"And in the mean time we do what?" she asked heatedly.
"The same thing you all expect me to do wait." I turned and walked away from her and to Alaric but Caroline grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the rest of the group.
"I don't know what Tyler is down there." She said, frowning.
"Look, Damon said he was pretty sure that when Klaus dies the sire bond will be-"
"You don't get it. Klaus took away the bond. I saw it with myself."
"Which means…"
"I don't know." She whined and I looked over to Damon. "No." she went on, "We can't tell him. They'll kill him on the spot."
"If he's working with Klaus he'll kill you on the spot."
"Matt please." She begged and I just shook my head.
"Fine." I turned from her and made my way to Alaric, to get more ammo for my rifle.
"Does anyone see the witch?" I asked, still staring through the scope of my gun.
"No." they each said after a beat.
"I see Damon though." Elena said, "and Stefan."
"Get an aim on your hybrid now Elena. Let Alaric and me worry about the others."
"He's right," Rick joined in, "You have the least experience with a gun. You might need a second shot."
I kept a close eye on Caroline and Katherine through my scope. Even though she wasn't Elena the fact that Katherine looked so much like her threw me off and kind of made me want to keep her as safe as I wanted to keep Elena. "They're about to reach the clearing where the white oak is." Alaric said, and I turned my rifle on the chest of the hybrid closest to Tyler.
"They're talking." Elena said.
"Focus on the big one Elena." We'd given Elena the largest Hybrid in hopes that if she missed at least he'd go down and Alaric or I could get off a second shot. "Alaric?" he was supposed to be looking out for the signal.
"One," he said starting the countdown. "Two." I locked onto the small brunette standing beside Tyler, aiming it centered at her chest, "Three." I pulled the trigger there was an explosion of gunfire.
My target went down and I moved my scope to Elena's who hadn't been hit at all. I took a deep breath aimed for his chest and shot. He went down. I stood up and grabbed Elena. "Come on." I said and dragged her through the woods. The pair of us ran leaving Alaric to run in the opposite direction.
We'd run for less than five minutes when Elena was ripped from my arms and tossed against a tree. She slunk down to the ground. I turned as Rebekah grabbed my throat and slammed me against the trunk of another enormous tree. I groaned in pain, and she smirked. "Sorry Riding Hood, I may have warned you about the wolves but I forgot to warn you about the bats." The blood rushed to her eyes and her fangs came out. She threw her head back and I felt them sink into my neck. I tried to free myself from her grasp but the harder I tried to get away the more ferociously she bit. I winced in pain as she finally pulled away from me. My blood oozed down my neck seeping into my shirt. I lost my footing and she caught me. "Now, now Matt I wouldn't want you to miss anything." She said and grabbed a fist full of my hair bashing my head against the tree. She tore open my flannel shirt and exposed my bare chest to the autumn chill. I could see puffs of my breath escaping my mouth as Rebekah smiled wickedly. "Nice." She said staring at my torso. She suddenly dug her fingers into my shoulder and raked them across my chest, a trail of blood following the graze of her talons.
I screamed and put her hand over my mouth. "Tsk tsk tsk." She snickered, "You're the one who has everyone else's back Matt but when you need rescuing who has yours?" she asked and then she leaned forward just a bit a gasp escaping her lips.
"The same one who has yours." Elena said and I pushed Rebekah off me as she fell to the floor collapsing in a heap of grey colored skin, a dagger sticking out of her back. I tried to compose myself but the shirt was a lost cause my whole chest was covered in blood. "Call me backstabber." She smiled and bent down get my rifle and hand it to me.
"Elena!" the screams came deep from within the woods, in the opposite direction of the tree. "Elena!" the voice screamed again, Stefan's voice.
"Come on." I said, motioning for her to follow me to the tree. Where we were needed.
"Matt." She begged and pulled her arm away.
I shook my head, "You still have the last dagger?" I asked not wanting to separate but Bonnie was more important to me than Stefan ever would be. She nodded and I took off into the woods toward the white oak.
My chest heaved for air as I burst through the brush and into the clearing. My heart raced as I scanned the ground for Bonnie. The clearing was surrounded by torches that lit up the entire field like an arena. "Matt!" The scream came from a make shift alter at the other end of the meadow. A guy a little older than me stood above her chanting raising some strange stick around. I pulled my rifle up and got the warlock in my sights when my gun was ripped from my hands.
"Now now, that's cheating." Klaus said with a smirk Caroline leapt onto his back moving his head from side to side. The bones in his neck snapped repeatedly and he collapsed to the ground.
"Go!" she yelled and jumped up into the tree line surrounding the field. I could hear Klaus' bones starting to snap back into place. I ran getting closer to Bonnie and Klaus' hand reached out to grab me as Katherine tackled him to the ground. He snapped at her with his teeth and Damon pulled him back tossing him to the opposite side of the field. I kept running and Klaus made another mad dash for me. Caroline charged out of nowhere heading right for Klaus and as they were about to collide baseball slid between his legs, just as Katherine leapt up into the air drop kicking him in the back.
I raced up the altar and punched the wand waving lunatic in the jaw. He fell from his perch onto the ground as I knelt down to undo Bonnie's bindings. "Matt." She sobbed as I pulled at the rope around her wrists.
"It's okay. Everything's gonna be fine." I consoled.
"Matt!" she screamed and I turned around just in time to see the psycho I'd just decked raise a knife to stab me in the chest fly back off the altar and onto the ground where he was just seconds ago.
Two figures, a guy and girl walked up behind me both holding hands. "Your soul is as dark as night, we bind your magick with our might." They chanted walking closer and closer to him as he screamed no over and over. I bent down and pulled the rope from Bonnie's wrists, just as the lunatic lunged at the female stranger. Her guy companion leapt in front of her the knife slicing across his chest. I jumped from the altar and grabbed the rope with both hands pulled it around the warlock's neck. He screamed letting go of the knife and I tightened my grip. He slammed me against the rock face, but I kept my grip. The rope cutting into my hands as I pulled as hard as I could til I heard the sickening crack I'd heard earlier when Caroline had broken Klaus' neck.
I left his lifeless body fall to the ground. I fell to the earth exhausted in need to catch my breath when I saw Klaus pin Damon to the ground, a stake nearly driven through his chest. Caroline grabbed hold of Klaus' left arm immediately attempting to pull him away and just as Suddenly Katherine was at Klaus' right. I looked for Abby and found her dead on the ground near the tree next to Jeremy's body. Tyler burst through the woods blood covering his face and he lunged for Caroline. The pair crashing to the ground I stood up. Katherine reached around positioning herself behind Klaus trying to keep Damon alive. I raced over to my rifle, lifted it off the ground, locked on to Tyler as he snapped his jaws viciously at Caroline and pulled the trigger. Tyler's whole body arched back and an explosion of blood filled the air. He fell forward and I tossed my gun to the ground. Caroline pushed him off her and stared at her arm a minute and Damon's scream filled the air.
"A little help Caroline!" Katherine shouted as the stake pushed through Damon's chest. Caroline shook her head and in a flash the girls had assumed the same stalemate they had been in earlier, Caroline and Katherine each pulling at Klaus' arms. I looked to Bonnie as the two strangers helped her up. The tree, it wasn't burning. I ran over to a branch and pulled with all my remaining strength, snapping a jagged weapon. I heaved breathing heavy reaching Klaus' back and plunged the stake into his heart. He screamed letting go of Damon, spinning around to hit me so hard I was back in the woods. I got up just in time to see him burst into flames, his body turning to ash.
"Faye Chamberlain. This is Lee LeBeque." The girl said, "Nice pecs ." she added walking back over to Bonnie.
"She can be a bit much." Lee apologized.
"It's fine. Most girls in this town are a bit much." I answered back and he grinned.
"Then it's a good thing I don't plan on staying in town then." He turned and went to join Faye.
I looked over at Damon and Katherine, "Where's Stefan?" I asked.
"He saw something and ran off after it? Nearly got us killed." Katherine said coldly.
I pulled out my cell and dialed Elena, nothing. I tried again but hang up when I noticed Caroline kneeling by Tyler's body. I put my phone away and walked over to her. "Hey." I said. She was crying, "I had to shoot him Caroline. He was gonna kill you."
Her sobs increased as she turned looked up into my eyes extended her arm and showed me the werewolf bite that would infect her blood. "He did." She bawled, and I fell to my knees holding her in my arms, with Klaus dead I couldn't think of a way to cure her.