Damon stood in his closet, pulling out the newspapers and maps that he had there. He saw Claire's clothes there, and all her important stuff. After last night, he was pretty convinced that Stefan was gone but he wouldn't give up on finding Claire. As he heard the news about Andie's death on the tv, he sensed a presence behind him.
"Just can't stay away, can you?" Damon closed the door, and Elena stood there silent.
"You've been dodgin my calls" Elena replied.
"Yeah, well, busy dating a dead fake girlfriend and all" Damon scoffe.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Elena looked at him.
"Happy Birthday, Elena. Stefan killed Andie. Cake?" Damon replied sarcastically, passing by her.
"He called me, Damon" Elena said.
"What?" He looked over at her.
"Stefan called me last night" Elena informed him.
"Well, what'd he say?" He questioned.
"He didn't say anything, but it was him. I asked Sheriff Forbes if she would trace the call's origin. It came from Tennessee" Elena explained.
"Where he's binge drinking on the country folk. We went through this, Elena. Stefan's gone. I don't mean geographically" Damon walked to the fireplace.
"If he was gone, he wouldn't have called" Elena whispered as she watched him burn the papers
"You need to move on Elena" Damon snapped.
"Oh yeah? Did you move on from Claire?" Elena shot back.
"Claire is a different conversation. She wants to be saved, can't say the same about Stefan" Damon replied. Elena just glared at him and stormed out of the room.
Alaris was trying to get some sleep, when a knock at the door disturbed him. He groaned, and rubbed his eyes, "Go away Damon!". It was too early to deal with him right now, and he just wanted to sleep, when the knocking got louder, Ric jumped off bed and walked towards the door.
"Hi." Elena breathed.
"You're, uh... Not who I expected." Alaric suttered, zipping his pants.
"I need you to tell me what you know about Stefan, Claire and Tennessee." Elena replied.
"Did you miss the part where I checked out all of this?" Alaric walked away from the door.
"Come on, Ric. Whatever Damon knows, you know." Elena said entering his apartment.
"Ask Damon." Alaric told her.
"Yeah, but Damon's not exactly in the mood to help right now." Elena sighed.
"For a good reason." Alaric replied "Because it's not safe for you. Stefan's off the rails."
"Yeah, but he's still holding on to his humanity, which means he can still be saved." Elena looked at him.
"And why do you have to be the one to save him?" Alaric asked.
"Because I'm not the kind of person who checks out. Look, he would never give up on me. I'm not gonna give up on him, like I know that Damon would never give up on Claire and vice versa. Tell me what you know, Ric, please." Elena begged.
"They've been tracking werewolves, he, Claire and Klaus. All over the eastern seaboard. We thought we had 'em outside Memphis..." Alaric trailed off.
Klaus, Claire and Stefan were walking through the woods of Smoky Mountains as Stefan held an unconscious Ray on his shoulders.
"You ok? Is Ray getting heavy?" Klaus smirked.
"I'm fine" Stefan replied simply.
"You sure about that? You know, we've been walking for quite some time now. If you need some water or a little sit-down..." Klaus began.
"You know, I get that we're, uh... we're stuck together, but if we could maybe just skip the chitchat, it'd be great" Stefan snapped.
"Amen to that" Claire piped in. She was a wearing a red shirt with squares that was tied with a node, showing a bit of her belly button, and jeans shorts with brown boots. Her hair was done in a ponytail and she wasn't wearing any make-up.
"You know, I've never pegged you for the broody type Claire. You were so much more fun before. And Stefan, your self-loathing is suffocating you, my friend" Klaus rolled his eyes.
"Well, it's not like I've been kidnapped by a crazy hybrid, and he has been a pain in my butt for the last 3 months" Claire replied sarcastically, Stefan let out a chuckle and Klaus just faked mocked with his hand on his chest.
"And maybe it's because we're a little tired of hunting werewolves. We've been at it all summer" Stefan cut in.
"Thanks to our pal Ray, we found ourselves a pack. There" Klaus pointed to a camp with people who were werewolves, Stefan dropped Ray to the floor.
"Ray! Oh, my God. What's going on? Who are you?" A woman with short brown hair ran to Ray.
"The important question is who am I. Please forgive the intrusion. My name is Klaus" Klaus smirked.
"You're the hybrid" The female werewolf said.
"You've heard of me. Fantastic" Klaus smiled.
Carol was pouring herself a glass of bourbon, as she walked over to the table with coffee and put some vervain into it for Tyler. He walked into the room and she saved the syring into a drywer.
"Hey, mom." Tyler smiled at her, and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Morning, sweetheart. Coffee's hot." She told him.
"Rough night?" He asked, seeing hr with a alcohol.
"Uh, rough week. I'm a little stressed. You?" Carol asked.
"Feeling pretty good." Tyler nodded.
"You know, if you're going to bring a girl home, I wish she'd have the tact to not sneak out like a prostitute." Carol told him.
"I'm sorry." Tyler mumbled. "She snuck out?" Carol just looked at him a little bit awkwardly.
Tyler shrugged and took a sip from his coffee, he made a face when he tasted it "Whoa. I think this cream's bad." He put his mug on the table.
"Don't wait up tonight." He kissed her cheek again "Oh, and Caroline, she's not a prostitute..." He told her, then he walked out of the room.
Carol grabbed her cellphone and dialed a number "Bill, it's, um, Carol Lockwood. I've gotten myself into a bit of a vampire situation..."
Klaus, Claire and Stefan were sitting on a large rock, as the others werewolves were staring at them, afraid and confused from the situation they were in.
"It's fascinating, actually... A werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun. A true hybrid." Klaus stated, as Ray woke up gasping fo air "Excellent timing, Ray. Very dramatic."
"What's happening to me?" Ray rasped, struggling to breathe. He felt his throat burn for some reason and the sun was hurting his eyes.
"Claire." Klaus looked over at the female hybrid, and she got up from the rock with a predatory expression.
"Are any of you human? Your friend here needs human blood to complete his transition to vampire. If he doesn't get it, he will die." Claire looked over to the pack.
"Doesn't take much, just a sip. Anyone? A boyfriend, a girlfriend, along for the ride?" He turned to Claire. "Pick one, sweetheart" She walked closer to the pack, scanning the group, when her eyes fell on a blonde man who looked nervous "You." She quickly grabbed him before he could escape and threw him to Klaus who bit on the blonde's man forearm and he threw the bleeding man to Stefan who knocked him down to the floor beside Ray.
"If you don't drink it, Ray, I will. Problem is I don't know how to stop." Stefan taunted.
The brunette with short hair went to attack Stefan but Klaus quickly grabbed her neck "It's a new order, sweetheart. You join us, or you die."
"I'd rather die that be a vampire." The woman spat.
"Wrong choice." Klaus replied and he bit his wrist to feed her his blood "She'll thank me for that later..." And Ray was feeding from the human man "Ok, who's next?" He asked as his eyes turned to a amber yellow color and his fangs popped out.
At the Grill Tyler was playing pool by himself as he was waiting for Caroline to show up, when Matt walked over him with coffee.
"You moving in or something? You've been here forever." Matt smirked.
"I thought I was meeting Caroline. You haven't seen her, have you?" Tyler questioned.
"Not keeping up on her comings and goings anymore." Matt trailed off.
"Look, man, I never meant for me and her being friends to be a problem for you." Tyler looked at him.
"It is what is it." He turned to leave but stopped. "Tonight's a full moon. She usually helps you?"
"Yeah. Whatever." Tyler shrugged.
"Do you, uh... is this the kind of thing that you need another person for?" Matt asked.
"I can handle it. But thanks." Tyler nodded and he took a sip from his coffee, it had the same taste of the coffee he drank this morning "Ah. What is up with my taste buds today?"
"It's the vervain. The sheriff has me slip it into coffee here every now and then." Matt informed him.
"That's what vervain tastes like?" Tyler made a face.
"Yeah. I'm surprised you can taste it, the coffee usually hides the flavour. For humans, anyway." Matt told him.
Alaric and Elena were walking through the woods of Smoky Mountains, as Alaric was explaining Elena what would happen when the full moon arrived.
"In a couple of hours, the full moon's gonna rise just about that Ridge." Alaric replied "If Tyler's right, that's where the pack'll be..."
"You were a boy scout, weren't you?" She asked curiously.
"Shut up." Alaric chuckled.
"A boy scout slash vampire slayer?" Elena countered.
"Slash whisky-drinking all-around lost cause." Alaric added, he opened his bag to reveal weapons.
"Wow. You came stocked." Elena stated.
"Well, we aren't exactly bird-watching. Here. Put that in your bag." He handed her a bottle full of wolfsbain.
"Vervain grenade?" Elena asked.
"Wolfsbane." Alaric corrected her.
"Well, since we're exchanging gifts..." She pulled out the Gilbert ring that would protect him from supernatural death.
"That's John Gilbert's ring..." Alaric trailed off.
"It was yours once. Go ahead. Take it. It'll protect you from whatever supernatural danger we're about to get ourselves into." She nodded.
"He gave it to you." Alaric looked at her.
"Yeah, but I'm a doppelg nger. It's not gonna work on me. He left it for if I ever have kids." Elena replied.
"Yeah, well, then why don't you save it for the future generations of stubborn, relentless baby Gilbert's?" Alaric smiled.
"Ok, and how about you borrow it until after we survive this? I'd feel bad if I got you killed before happy hour." She chuckled, and he took it hesitantly and slipped into this finger. Elena turned to face the water "I don't know why you think that you're a lost cause-" Suddenly she was thrown to the water by Damon, as Alaric pointed a crossbow but he lowered when he saw that it was the dark-haired vampire.
"Damon! How are you even here?" Elena yelled from the water.
"Thanks for the tip, brother." Damon smirked at Alaric.
"You sold me out!" Elena sneered at Alaric.
"You think I'd take you to a mountain range of werewolves on a full moon without backup?" Ric creased his eyebrows.
Klaus was giving some of his blood to another human "There. Good as new." He smiled down at him, and began to compel him "Now you relax, ok, mate? We're gonna need you when the rest of them wake up."
"They're dead." Ray whipered as he looked over to the dead wolves "They're all dead."
"Ah, he's through his transition. He should be feeling better soon." Klaus nodded.
"So is this your master plan?" Stefan questioned looking over to the dead werewolves "Build an army of hybrid slaves?"
"No, not slaves. Soldiers, comrades." Klaus told him.
"For what war?" Claire cut in.
"Oh, you don't arm yourself after war has been declared. You build your army so big that no one ever dares pick a fight." Klaus smirked.
"What makes you so sure that they'll be loyal?" Stefan raised an eyebrow.
"Well, it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team. That's something you both will learn once you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder." Klaus countered.
"So that's why you're keeping us around? To witness our attitude adjustments?" Claire scoffed.
"You'll both know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know." He looked over at Ray who had bleeding eyes "Something's wrong."
Stefan went to take a closer look to Ray "That shouldn't be happening, should it?"
"Well, obviously." Klaus huffed.
Elena stood in the water as Damon and Alaric were waiting for her to get out "Get out of the water, Elena." Damon sneered.
"If I got out of the water, you are gonna make me go home." Elena scoffed.
"Yeah. 'Cause I'm not an idiot like you." Damon spat.
"Right now, you're both acting like idiots." Alaric piped up.
"You gave up on him, Damon." Elena shook her head.
"I didn't give up on him, Elena. I faced reality. Now get out of the water." Damon ordered.
"No!" Elena crossed her arms over her chest.
"What's your big plan, Elena? Huh? You gonna walk though a campsite full of werewolves, roast a marshmallow, and wait for Stefan and Claire to stop by?" Damon scoffed, walking towards her.
"My plan is to find them and help him. Damon, this is the closest that we've been to them since they left. I'm not going home." Elena replied. "I thought you would be happy, to find Claire"
"Klaus thinks you died when he broke the curse. That makes you safe. This, this is not safe." Damon replied ignoring her comment about Claire.
"I'm not leaving before we find them." Elena replied stubbornly.
"It's a full moon tonight, Elena." Damon looked at her.
"We'll find them before that." Elena told him "Don't you want to be with the woman that you love again?"
Elena knew that she was taking low shots, but she knew that if she would bring up Claire, that Damon would change his perspective. She knew that Claire was his one weakness and she decided to use to her advantage.
"Damon, please." Elena begged.
"Ok." Damon gave in "But we are out of here before the moon if full and I'm werewolf bait."
"I promise." Elena nodded.
"Unless you want to do that deathbed scene again" Damon replied.
"I said, I promise." Elena huffed.
"You said it was gonna feel better. Why doesn't it feel better?" Ray asked as his body continued to shake.
"Some 'master race'." Stefan scoffed.
"Indeed." Claire put an arm on Stefan's shoulder.
"Loose the attitude. Both of you." Klaus snapped at them and the brunette wolf gasped awake. "Derek, go feed your girlfriend." He replied as Derek made his way to the brunette with short hair. Ray growled at them and ran into the forest Klaus looked annoyed and turned to Stefan. "Go get him." And he ran off. "Go with him, Claire." Claire zipped after Stefan.
Stefan jumped on Ray, pinning him to the ground but the wolf bit his arm and ran off again. As Claire caught up to him and didn't saw Ray.
"Where did he go?" She looked around and turned to look at Stefan's arm "What happened?"
"He bit me." Stefan sighed and her eyes widened.
"Crap! You need Klaus blood" She told him. Stefan and Claire were about to walk back, when they heard three familiar voices.
"How are you doing?" They heard Damon's voice.
"Fine." Elena replied.
"Just one little whoosh-"
"Yeah, with my luck, you'd drop me." Elena scoffed.
"What are you guys, 12?" Alaric snapped.
They walked closer to their voices, and saw them climbing a mountain. Claire couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat when she heard Damon's voice in such a long time, but she was too angry to notice that.
"What the hell were they thinking?" Claire growled. "They're going to get themselves killed!"
"Where did he go?" Klaus asked aproaching them, as Claire moved in front of him to block his view.
"He got away. Let's go." Stefan told him as he grabbed Klaus arm to stop him from seeing the three of them but Klaus gripped his arm to see his bite.
"A fatal werewolf bite. Ouch." Klaus smirked.
"Yeah, I'm gonna need some of your blood to heal that." Stefan said.
"Well I'll tell you what, you find Ray and then I'll heal you." Klaus smirked.
"You can't be serious!" Claire growled.
"You better hurry. That bite looks nasty." Klaus mused, he grabbed Claire's arm to drag her with him but she struggled against him. "I need to go with Stefan, is not in condition to running around the forest with that bite" She told him stubbornly.
"Don't worry, he'll be fine on his own. So you are coming with me." He grabbed her arm again but she twisted his hand in a blurr motion.
"Don't touch me."
But Klaus just walked closer to her and grabbed tightly her hair and yanked backwards, she had to greeth her teeth to not scream. He whispered in her ear. "I suggest you to control your temper, or I'll cool you off myself."
"Let go of me" She hissed.
He let go of her hair and turned to leave, when he saw that Claire wasn't moving he walked back to her again and grabbed her legs to threw her to his shoulders.
"What are you doing?" She yelled, hitting with her fists on his back and he just chuckled. "Let go of me, you crazy pyshco"
"Next time, you'll listen to what I say..." Klaus smirked.
When they arrived at the camp site, he put her on the ground again and she hit his arm, but he just smiled. He looked around and saw that the wolves were beguinning to wake up. A smile creeped across his lips, Claire walked around when she noticed that the female wolf was bleeding from her eyes just like Ray, she smirked. Klaus thought that Ray was only the exception, seeing that all wolves were awake now but he missed a particular one who was having the same symptoms that Ray had. But of course he didn't know this, but she did.
"We got about a mile left." Alaric informed them.
"The suns about to set." Damon observed.
"We can see that Damon." Elena huffed.
"Just saying." He held up his hands.
"The moon doesn't reach its apex for a while. We have time." Elena explained. They turned to see a bleeding man stepping out, it was Ray.
"Stay where you are!" Alaric replied and aimed a crossbow to the bleeding wolf.
"Vampire." Ray hissed before pouncing towards Damon, he smashed the vampire against the tree but Damon saw him coming and smashed him up against a tree. Rick shot a arrow at Ray. Elena went through her bag and pulled out a grenade.
"Damon!" She shouted as she threw the grenade to him. He caught it and exploded into Ray's face who dropped to the ground screaming and burning. Damon kicked him, knocking him unconscious.
"Let me guess. Hybrid." Rick said.
Jeremy and Matt walked into the Donovan's basement to see boxes closed up with Vicki's stuff in it. They started to go through the boxes to see some of her personal items.
"So this is all her stuff." Matt replied "We were supposed to donate it, but, uh, you know..."
"Well, everything I read said a personal item helps build a stronger connection." Jeremy replied as he pulled out her shirt from a box.
"Does her pipe count?" Matt joked and held a pipe before grabbing a picture of both of them from when they were kids "I don't know why I let you talk me into this, man."
"It's because it's your sister and you have a chance to help her." Jeremy looked at him as Matt put the picture on a table.
"I can't do this." Matt shook his head "I gotta go."
"Matt, please." Jeremy begged.
"Nah, man. I can't, alright? You gotta go." He told him, Jeremy nodded his head and walked out from the basement, Matt turned around and saw that picture on the table had moved.
"These ropes aren't going hold him much longer. What else do we have?" Damon asked as he was finishing tying Ray up against the tree.
"Ric, here. Take these" Elena replied holding ropes soaked in vervain.
"Ow!" Damon went to grab the ropes, but the contact made his skin burn so he pulled his hand back.
"I said Ric" Elena looked at him.
Alaric took the ropes and put it around Ray. "All right, that's the last of the vervain. We don't have enough stuff to hold him. I don't think we're going to make that Ridge before the full moon"
"If we can get him to talk, we don't have to" Elena replied and she walked closer to him, but suddenly he began to scream, he was transforming.
"Is he turning?" Damon asked.
"It's impossible. It's still daylight" Elena frowned.
"Tell him that" Alaric trailed off. Damon walked closer to Ray and grabbed his shoulders.
"There aren't supposed to be werewolves out here until the moon is full" Elena frowned.
"You know, those ropes aren't going to hold the wolf" Alaric replied.
"Damon, we've got to get out of here. We got to get out of these mountains now! Damon, now!" Elena exclaimed. He turned to run with them.
"Don't move" Damon told her.
Elena raised her head. She was face to face with a werewolf
"Here, doggie, doggie" Damon smirked before rushing off with the wolf following.
"Come on. Let's keep moving" Alaric said.
"We can't leave Damon" Elena protested.
"He can handle himself. Let's move" Alaric told them
"No. If he gets bit, he'll be dead. I'm the reason he's out here" Elena said.
"I am the reason he's out here. I told him where we were, and I'm telling you to keep moving. Let's go now!" he exclaimed.
"Bad news my friend. It's the end of the road for you." Klaus replied and bit Derek's neck killing him. The wolves were bleeding from their eyes as they were surrounding Klaus and Claire. One of the wolves growled at Claire but Klaus put her behind him.
"Careful. There's only one Alpha here." Klaus looked to the wolf, he turned to Claire. "You need to get out of here"
"Are you sure?" She asked.
"I'll be fine love, but good to know that you're worried about me" He smirked at her, and she just rolled her eyes. She sped off of the camp site.
"Blood hell." Klaus sneered to the wolves.
Damon, Alaric and Elena were running through the woods, when Elena tripped in a rock and fell to the floor. Damon turned to her but he froze when he saw a giant wolf staring down Elena.
"Don't move." Damon told her.
Elena raised her head to see a wolf growling at her, Damon tried to cath the wolf's attention. "Here, doggie, doggie." He taunted the wolf as he sped off into the woods with wolf close behind.
"Come on. Let's keep moving." Alaric told Elena.
"We can't leave Damon." Elena replied.
"He can handle himself. Let's move."
"No. If he gets bit, he'll be dead. I'm the reason he's out here." She replied guilty.
"I am the reason he's out here." Alaric shot back "I told him where we were, and I'm telling you to keep moving. Let's go. Elena, Now!" Alaric ordered and she followed him.
Damon walked through the forest when he suddenly saw Ray in his human form rushing towards him. They fought for a bit when Stefan ripped his heart out from his back as the wolf fell to the ground dead.
"Fancy meeting you here" Damon breathed.
"What part of "don't follow me anymore" got lost in translation, Damon?" Stefan sneered.
"Might want to take it up with your girlfriend. You don't want her chasing you, I'd stop with the late-night phone calls" Damon looked at her.
"I didn't call her" Stefan denied.
"Sure you did. She's not going to give up on you" Damon replied.
"She has to. Because I'm never coming back. Why don't you get her home? See if you could keep her there this time " Stefan told him, he grabbed Ray's body and he turned to walk away.
Then Damon felt someone pinning him down to the ground, he looked up to see Claire baring her fangs.
"You know, I don't know if I should kick your ass right now for waltzing into a mountain full of wolves. Or kiss you for looking so irresistable right now" She hissed in his face. He rolled her over, so he was on top.
"I'm all for the second suggestion" He did the eye thing that made her crazy. She smirked at him then she gave him a demanding and rough kiss. She bit his lower lip only to made him moan loudly, she ran her hands across his hair. She really missed him, missed his touch, missed his kisses, she missed everything about him.
But she pulled away from him, and in a flash she was on top of him again looking pissed off.
"You're not getting off the hook this time! Do you a have a death wish? You can't keep following me around Damon and neither can Elena!" She yelled at him.
"No need to get your nipples upturned, I'm fine!" He assured her. Then she gave a him a slap on his chest and muttered 'Dick'. And took a step towards him and threw her arms around him, he just held her.
"I missed you so much" She whispered in his shoulder.
"I missed you too"
"I know that Stefan killed Andie, and I know that you think that he's gone. But he's not. He can be saved, don't give up on your brother Damon" She pulled away to look at his eyes.
He just nodded and embraced her again, not wanting to let her go.
"Damon, I have to go... Klaus must be waiting for me right now" She said quietly, as much it pained her to let him go, she knew that if Klaus found out he would try to kill Damon.
"No! You can't seriously think, that will watch you walk away again" He said not letting her go.
"Look at me... Hey! Look at me. We will be together again, you have my word. I will come back, you'll just have to patient" She replied, then she grabbed the side of his face and made him look at her in the eyes. Damon just sighed and nodded his head.
"You have to keep going on, for me. Don't do anything that might put you in danger or Elena, and take care of yourself" She said with teary eyes.
"Just please come back, soon. I'm dying here without you" He whispered softly. She let out a tear, and wiped furiously so he wouldn't see.
"I will. I promise. I love you" She said leaning up and kissing him one last time.
"I love you too" He said before letting her go.
"And please cut your hair" She smirked before speding off of the woods.
Elena and Alaric were sitting in his car waiting for Damon's return.
"Stefan and Claire are out there somewhere and now Damon, and we're just sitting in this car?" Elena looked over at Alaric.
"Let the vampires fight the hybrid zombie mountain man. I'll take care of keeping the human safe" Alaric replied.
"I thought you were checked out of taking care of people" Elena huffed.
"I know what you're doing. Don't. There doesn't need to be a lesson here" Alaric told her.
'You're better at it than you think, you know?" Elena replied.
"Oh, boy, are you a sucker for a lost cause or what?" Alaric sighed.
"You're not a lost cause, Ric. You're just lost. But so is Jeremy, and so am I. Our family is gone. We don't have anybody. I'm sorry, but you don't have anybody either, so... We're kind of right for each other"
"I'm keeping the ring, then" Alaric nodded. Damon arrived and walked towards the car.
"Damon!" Elena said getting out the car running towards him. "Are you ok? Did you..."
"Fine, bite-free. Get back in the car, please" He told her.
"Can you just give me a minute to appreciate that you're not dead?" Elena scoffed.
"I'll give you 10 seconds. 9, 8... hey, Ric, did you happen to see where I parked my car?" Damon called out grabbing Elena, dragging her to the car.
"Damon, stop being such a caveman" Elena whined. When she got into the car, she thought that she was two familiar green eyes staring at her, but when she moved forward to look better, nobody was there.
Stefan arrived with Ray's body to the camp site, as Klaus was sitting in a banch tree, Claire was already there leaning against a tree.
"They went rabid." Klaus told them in a small voice "Some of them, I killed. The other's just... bled out. In the end... they're all dead." He stared into space and suddenly hell break loose.
"I did everything I was told!" Klaus screamed and threw his bottle of beer against a tree. "I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger!" He shouted. Claire and Stefan had to keep their face expressions emotionless, so they wouldn't gave in to the fact that Elena is still alive, Klaus looked up to Stefan and muttered, "You look like hell."
"Last I checked, I'm dying." Stefan said and showed his arm. He looked down to Ray's dead body. "I had to take him out. I'm sorry and I failed you." He replied. "Do what you have to do."
"What? No!" Claire took a step towards Klaus. "Don't let him die. Please" She pleaded but he just stared at her, then he turned to Stefan.
"It should have worked" He whispered. He picked up a bottle of beer and bit his wrist. He poured his blood into the bottle and handed it to Stefan. Claire sighed in relief when she saw that the hybrid accepted her request.
"Bottom's up." Klaus replied, then he looked at Claire. "We're leaving." He added before turning to walk away. Claire blurred to grab his arm to make him look at her.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"For what?" Klaus frowned
"For not letting Stefan die. It would crush Damon if I he knew that his brother was dead. And not only because it would affect Damon but because I care about Stefan. I see him as little brother." She confessed.
"Well, he wouldn't be so much fun, dead don't you think?" He replied sarcastically.
"I know you're feeling like you failed. And you don't need to pretend with me. Trust me, I'm the master of hiding my true feelings." Claire said and Klaus turned his body to face her.
"Why are you being like this?" He asked.
"Like what?" She frowned.
"One minute you hate me for ruining your life, and the other you're comforting me. I don't need your pity, you know" He growled.
"It's not pity Nikklaus" He flinched when he heard her calling by his full name. "It's called sympathy. I'm not that cold-hearted that you want or think me to be. Not even with you" She added before leaving. But this time it was his turn to grab her arm.
"Thank you, Claire." Klaus said quietly and Claire gave him nod before going off to find Stefan, leaving Klaus alone with his thoughts. After hearing Claire's words, made him him calm down a bit. It was like she was the only one who understand him and kept him sane. Even when she was first turned, he remembered that she was the one who always calmed him down and helped him. He knew that she loved Damon and would always love him, for some rason. But he couldn't help but wishing that some day it would be him for her.
[Flashback]
"I was feeling so lonely today in the garden without you my love" She whispered in his ear , while they crawled together in bed. "I missed seeing your beautiful face, Nik."
"You are truly amazing, did you know that love?" He mumbled kissing the back of her neck.
"I just want to see you happy. You deserve to be happy Nikklaus" She hushed lovingly, looking at his blue eyes.
"As long, you don't leave my side. I shall be the happiest man in the world" He gently took her face on his hands, and kissed her passionately. While her long dark brown curls fell on her waist.
"Love me forever Nikklaus, promise me that we will be together for eternity" She pleaded with her innocent blue eyes. He grabbed her thighs to pull her closer to his naked body.
"Eternity is not enough time to love you, like you deserve my queen. But it's a start" He said not taking his eyes of her beautiful face.
[End of Flashback]
Klaus sighed remembering those last memories. The memories when he was truly happy, maybe if he hadn't compelled her to forget him, she would still be with him. Klaus never was the chosen one, he was the bastard child on his family. But Claire always made him feel special, chosen and loved. He would regret for ever, leting her go. Was his obsession with making an army of hybrids really worth it? He just doesn't want to be alone. But he will have his queen back, after all he had eternity.
At the Lockwood cellar, Tyler woke up and he was naked because of his transformation. Carol stared at him shocked, from what had happened.
"I'll take care of it." Carol whispered "I'll make sure nothing happens to her."
"Thank you." Tyler nodded.
"I think we made a mistake." Carol said into the phone.
"Carol, you called me in to take care of the problem. Why the sudden change of heart?" Bill asked.
"Maybe a guilty conscience." Carol shrugged, clearly she was lying.
"Don't feel guilty. They're not human. They're monsters." Bill replied.
"What if we're wrong?" Carol asked.
"My family has been committed to this fight for almost 150 years, Carol. You married into it, so maybe you don't understand, but I do. I know what my obligations are." Bill told her.
"Wait-" But he had already hung up the phone.
Caroline was in a dark cellar while she was starting to awake. She looked around to ser surroundings confused, she was tied to a chair and she tried to break free.
"Hello!" Caroline yelled "Mrs. Lockwood! Somebody!" She heard footseps and door closing "Who's that? Mrs. Lockwood! Please." Then suddenly the door opened to reveal a person that Caroline knew well.
"Hello, Caroline." Bill looked at her.
"Daddy?" She whispered.
Poor Caroline, she is the hands of her crazy father :'(. So what you thought about this chapter? Damon and Claire finally had an encounter, granted she didn't come back to him yet, but they had a cute scene :), and what do you think about Claire and Klaus? I think that their relantionship is developing, I don't really want to rush them, so it is going to take a wild to make them more than 'enemies'... But that flashback that he had about her, just showed that Klaus really loves her but he can't really show her but he's not going to give up that easily, so Damon better watch out! Do you think that Claire was really feeling bad for Klaus, or it was just to trick him into believing that she is on his side? It could be a bit of both, if you ask me ;). Thank you so much for your reviews, and love, don't forget to review this chapter! And I saw a review where someone said that Damon had cheated on Claire with Andie in the last chapter, in case you're confused or I gave you the wrong idea, Damon didn't cheat on Claire, he just kept Andie around to help him track down his brother and girl, that's all, so don't worry about it, because Dlair is going to stay strong for a while!