Always Getting Over You:

The Reckoning:


3rd Person POV:

Rebekah Mikaelson lounged on one of the wooden coffins that her older hybrid brother, Niklaus carted around in the back of a moving truck because they contained the three remaining members of their family. She had been practically ordered by her brother to wait there with an unconscious Stefan Salvatore because he was worried about leaving the ever compassionate Rheanna with the man she still had lingering feeling for despite finding out about his betrayal. Niklaus had been understandably upset when Rhea had revealed her doubts about Stefan's loyalty so three siblings had hightailed back to the supernatural epicentre known as Mystic Falls. It hadn't taken the Originals long to realise what the young male vampire had been hanging onto and Niklaus was both happy and angry to find that the doppelgänger hadn't stayed dead from being sacrifice because he now knew what was causing his hybrids to malfunction. Rebekah studied her carefully painted purple nails as she waited for Stefan to wake up from her older brother continuously breaking his neck all afternoon. She glanced over at handsome unconscious man that her sister had fallen in love with back in the 20's and shook her head in disappointment at the man that was once her friend because if there was one thing Rebekah Mikaelson couldn't stand it was someone hurting her twin sister. Her head snapped up from her hands when as heard the faint sound of moaning coming from where the youngest Salvatore lay and saw that he was blinking his light green eyes in confusion.

"Oh, he lives." She said to him in mock surprise as she redid the lid of the purple nail polish in her hand and he looked over at her with a confused frown on his lips.

"What happened?" Stefan asked her as he pushed himself up on his knees weakly and Rebekah frowned at him in fake sympathy as she was angry that he had lied to her twin sister and brother about the death of the doppelgänger. Rebekah had never cared much for any of the doppelgänger's, starting with the original Petrova Tatia who had played her brothers Niklaus and Elijah against each other back when they were all human.

"You took a beating. My brother's been breaking your neck all afternoon. Quite the temper."

"Why did he bring us back to Mystic Falls?" Stefan asked her as he tried to push himself up to his feet although he knew the reason they had returned to his hometown but prayed that he was wrong and that Elena was safe from Klaus.

"You can stop playing dumb now. It didn't take him long to figure out what you've been hiding." Rebekah told him as she rolled her cerulean blue eyes at him and gracefully slipped down off of the coffin she had been sitting on.

"I'm not hiding anything. I've done everything Klaus has asked me to." He argued with her firmly as he stood up on two feet and narrowed his light green eyes at the blonde as she approached him.

"No, you just failed to mention that the doppelgänger's still alive. Rhea was quite hurt that you lied to her." Rebekah taunted him as she walked a few steps closer to him knowing full well that he was watching her every move and then she smirked when he flinched slightly at the mention of her sister because it was obvious he still felt something for the honey haired Original.

"Where is Klaus now?" Stefan asked her with false authority as he tried to ignore the guilt that he felt at the mention of Rhea because she had been nothing but understanding to him still she had woken up.

"With any luck, ripping that cow's bloody head off." She spat at him harshly as her blue eyes narrowed at him and he stiffened at the mention of harm coming to Elena before he rushed at her with vampire speed. Rebekah gasped in surprise as his hard body slammed into her and the two of them fell out of trunk on to the asphalted road underneath them making Stefan landed on top of the blonde as he naively wrapped his hand around her throat.

"Where is she?"

"You really do love her, don't you?" Rebekah asked him rhetorically a little breathlessly since he still had his hand around her thin throat before she used her superior Original Vampire speed and strength to throw him off of her roughly. She pushed him up against the side of the truck before grabbing a crowbar that was laying now the edge of the truck door and then grabbed Stefan by the collar of his shirt. "Consider me a protective big sister." She whispered into his ear unsympathetically before driving the end of the crowbar into his stomach and making him cry out in pain while she smirked in satisfaction.


Rhea's POV:

I tapped my high heeled foot impatiently as I waited for Nik to find the doppelgänger at the Mystic Falls high school while I waited in the gymnasium for him to join me. Some for the high school students were in the in the gymnasium placing red plastic cups on the wooden ground for some reason that I didn't understand. While Nik had spent the day continuously snapping Stefan's neck as punishment for lying to him all summer while Bekah and I searched for the reason behind the lies. It had been a surprise when we stumbled on an exact replica of Tatia and Katerina at one of the only food retailers in Mystic Falls.

"Not until I know I'm right. But I do have ways of making you suffer." I heard my older brother say to someone right outside the gymnasium door and my head snapped up in time to see him strolling in with his hand wrapped around the doppelgänger's forearm. I looked out from behind the bleachers I had been hiding behind so that the human teenagers wouldn't freak out about a stranger being in their school. "Attention, seniors. You have officially been busted. Prank night is over. Head on home." He called out to the humans in a fake American accent that made me smile in genuine amusement and I stepped out of my hiding place so that I was leaning against the brick wall with my arms crossed over my chest. "You two. I remember you." Nik said to a male and female student in his normal British accented voice and I immediately became wary about his intention because I hated harming children.

"I'm sorry. Who are you?" the female human asked him curiously as she tilted her head to the side in question and the human boy foolishly stepped in front of her slightly in order to protect her from the unknown man.

"Oh, don't worry, I wasn't in my right head last time we met." My brother answered her dismissively as he dragged the doppelgänger closer to the unnamed girl and then stared deeply into her eyes so that the compulsion would take effect. "Lift your foot up, please, Dana." He compelled her with a charming smile on his lips and I frowned in displeasure as I watched him turn his attention to the male. "If she drops her foot, Chad, I want you to beat her to death. Understood?"

"Don't, Klaus. You don't have to hurt anybody." The doppelgänger tried to plead with my brother desperately as she watched in horror as the other teens complied with his wishes.

"Oh, come on, love. Of course I do." He told her with a sickening smile on his lips and I shook my head in disgust at my brother as I silently left the gymnasium in order to find Stefan. I used my vampire speed to head directly to the moving truck that Nik had driven to Mystic Falls and then slowed down in the truck came into sight. I gasped at the sight of Stefan unconscious on the road with a metal crowbar lodged in his stomach before running to his side and immediately pulling out the crowbar easily. I crouched down on my knees next to his side as I gently brushed a fallen piece of his tousled light brown hair away from his forehead and scowled at the thought of whoever hurt the man that I still seemed to love despite myself.

"Come on, Stefan." I whispered softly with a worried frown on my lips as I waited for him to regain consciousness and then sighed in relief when his eye lids started fluttering to reveal his light green eyes.

"Rhea…" he murmured quietly in confusion as I smiled slightly in reassurance and helped him sit up on his own as he blinked groggily at me.

"Come on, sweets. We gotta go if you want to save your doppelgänger." I told him sympathetically as I stood up from my crouch next to him and he snapped his head around to face me in a panic. He instantly stood up from the road with a grief stricken expression and I frowned as I felt my heart crack a little as I realised that he really was in love with the doppelgänger before I replaced it with a mask of indifference. "Nik has her. We should go."

"Rhea, I'm so…"

"Save it, Stefan. I really don't want to hear your apologies at the moment." I interrupted him shortly as I refused to let any of my emotions show on my face but it was hard to do when his memorising green eyes radiated regret. I felt my resolve melt as I sighed audibly and ran my hand through my messed up hair before looking back at him with a soft smile on my lips. "You shouldn't apologise for being in love."

"I really do love her, Rheanna." He told me honestly with a small smile on his delectable lips and I bit my lower lips as I nodded my head slowly.

"I know. I can tell by the look in your eye because it's how you used to look at me." I said sadly as I shook my head at him with a smile and then looked back at the school where Nik and the doppelgänger were waiting for us.


Elena's POV:

I was crouched down on the gym's wooden floor next to Dana and Chad from my biology class as Klaus lounged halfway up the bleacher watching us with a sick smile on his face. I grasped Chad's hand in mine as Dana slightly wavered on one foot because she was getting tired.

"Keep it up." Klaus ordered her in an amused tone of voice and I scowled at him in disgust as I slowly stood up from my place next to Chad being careful not to bump over Dana. I stared up at the man that had killed my aunt Jenna and me before leaving town with Stefan and all I felt as hatred directed at him. I had spent all summer searching for my boyfriend only to find that he didn't want to be found and all I wanted was to tell him that I loved him. I knew that if Klaus was here in Mystic Falls, then Stefan had to be here as well because the only other alternative was unacceptable.

"Where's Stefan? What did you do to him?" I asked the Original Hybrid harshly as I glared at him through narrowed eyes but he just smirked at me as though he was amused by my brave act.

"Stefan's on a time out." He told me as his light blue eyes twinkled in delight at something I didn't understand but just as I opened my mouth to question him the swinging double doors opened and Bonnie and Matt watched into the room.

"Bonnie, get out of here!" I screamed at her in warning as my eyes widened in fear that my friends were in danger and they both froze when they saw me standing there.

"Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started." Klaus announced as he jumped gracefully down from the bleachers and moved closer to them with a smirk on his lips. His light blue eyes landed on the teenagers next to me as he pointed at them with a finger. "Ah, Dana, why don't you relax? You and Chad sit tight. I assume you're the reason Elena's still walking around alive?" he asked Bonnie in a faux friendly tone of voice and I scowled at the back of his head as my best friend glared at him determinately.

"That's right. If you want to blame someone, blame me." the young witch said as she crossed her arms over her chest resolutely and Klaus shrugged his broad shoulders in a disinterest.

"Oh, there's no need for blame, love. Just your witchy interference seems to have caused some undesirable side effects. And since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you find the fix."

"Get off of me!" I heard Tyler shout so I turned my head to in time to see him being dragged into the gym by a blonde haired girl who looked to be about our age.

"Hush now." She scolded him in a British accented that reminded me of Klaus so I gaped in horror as I realised that she must have been another Original Vampire.

"I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah. Word of warning... She can be quite mean." Klaus explained with a cheerful smile as he confirmed me theory and the blonde girl, Rebekah narrowed her matching blue eyes at her brother.

"Don't be an ass." She snapped at him as she threw Tyler into his waiting arms and I gasped in horror that another one of my friends was in danger because of me.

"Leave him alone!" I demanded loudly as I took a step closer to them and my eyes widened in fright at what was going to happen to us all.

"I'm going to make this very simple... Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid, they die during the transition. It's quite horrible, actually." Klaus started to explain to us before pausing to bite into his own wrist before shoving it into Tyler's mouth as the werewolf struggled in his hold. "I need you to find a way to save my hybrids, Bonnie. And for Tyler's sake... You better hurry." He concluded with a manic smile before pulling his wrist away from Tyler's mouth and leaving scarlet blood around his mouth as he spluttered trying to get the blood out of his mouth. Klaus's hands wrapped around the werewolves neck before snapping it and Bonnie, Matt and I all stared in shock as our friend fell to the floor in a heap. Matt and Bonnie rushed over to Tyler's prone body as I stood in shock not able to move to his side.

"He killed him." Matt said numbly as he knelt down next to his fallen best friend and I shook my head sadly at him in denial.

"He's not dead. Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire." I explained to him quietly as I stared in horror at the hybrid in question and he just smiled at the scene in front of him.

"And if Bonnie's successful, he'll live through his transition. Go on, then. Go and fetch your grimoires and enchantments and what-not. I'll hold on to Elena... For safe-keeping." Klaus told them as he walked over to me and grabbed my forearm to stop my from moving. I glanced over at Bonnie who was staring at me in question making me nodded my head at her to go before she grabbed Matt's hand in her and left the gym. I sighed in relief that my friends were out of immediate danger as the blonde female Original strolled over to me casually with a weird look on her face.

"So this is the latest doppelgänger. The original one was much prettier." She said to her brother in a haughty tone as she examined me shrewdly through narrowed cerulean eyes and I squirmed a little under her uncomfortable stare.

"Enough, Rebekah. By the way, where is your better half?" Klaus asked her curiously as he looked around the room as though whoever they were talking about would just appear out of nowhere and I looked between them in confusion.

"Where do you think?" she asked him knowingly with a smirk in my direction that I didn't understand and Klaus laughed a little as he nodded his head at her answer.

"Take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?" he asked her a tone that suggested that 'no' wasn't really an option before she gave me a tight smile and then grabbed Tyler's arm so she could drag his limp body out of the gym. Klaus sighed dramatically at his sister's antics as he moved to stand behind me. "Just ignore her. Petty little thing."

"She's a lot nicer than you." I spat at him venomously but he just chuckled at me as he walked back towards the bleachers.

"I'm nicer than the lot of them…" an unfamiliar female voice with a British accent corrected me from behind and I quickly spun around to see a beautiful honey haired, dark brown eyed young woman strolling into gym with Stefan walking directly behind her.


Rhea's POV:

I stalked towards the wide double doors of the gymnasium with Stefan walking behind me silently and I pursed my lips together in frustration because I could felt his presence without him being in my eye line. My high heels tapped noisily on the linoleum floor as Stefan's side gently brushed against mine and I had to fight the shiver that threatened to run through my body at the contact.

"She's a lot nicer than you." I heard the unmistakable voice of the doppelgänger say spitefully to who I assumed was my brother and smirked to myself in amusement.

"She has spunk, Stefan." I whispered softly in approval as I snuck a look at him through the corner of my eye and caught him smiling slight at the sound of her voice. We approached the double doors and I pushed them open easily with not even a quarter of my vampire strength.

"I'm nicer then the lot of them." I announced our presence as I walked into the gymnasium and everyone in the room turned to look at us with a mixture of expressions. Nik gave us a smirk of amusement from where he lounged on the metal bleachers while the compelled humans looked at us blankly and the doppelgänger's face froze a combination of relief and confusion.

"Stefan..." the doppelgänger breathed out in relief when she caught sight of estranged boyfriend but Stefan didn't even blink at her as he approached my older brother and I leaned against the brick wall with my arms over my chest so that I could see every inch of the room.

"Come to save your damsel, mate? Or have you and Rhea made up from your little spat?" Nik asked him with genuine amusement dancing in his light blue eyes and I scoffed at him as I rolled my eyes at him from my position on the wall.

"I came to ask for your forgiveness. And pledge my loyalty." Stefan corrected him as he ignored the comment about me and Nik tilted his head to the side in thoughts as he peered down at his friend.

"Well, you broke that pledge once already."

"Elena means nothing to me anymore. And whatever you ask of me... I will do." He said in a determined voice as he glanced at me once so quickly that I almost missed it before looking back at my brother.

"Fair enough. Let's drink on it. Kill them. What are you waiting for? Kill them." My brother ordered him and I stood up straighter with my eyes wide as he pointed a finger towards the innocent teenagers that were watching the interaction warily.

"No! Stefan, don't. He's not going to hurt me. He already said..." the doppelgänger pleaded with her boyfriend as her own pretty brown eyes went wide in horror and Nik pushed her backwards so that she fell onto the wooden floor. Stefan immediately went to attack Nik with his vampire features fully protruding and I gasped in worry as my brother grabbed him by the throat.

"She means nothing to you? Your lies just keep piling up." Nik hissed at him through narrowed blue eyes and I used my vampire speed to move next to them.

"Let go, Nik." I ordered him sternly as I pulled his hand from Stefan's neck and I was surprised that he actually let me because I knew that I stood no chance next to his hybrid strength.

"Let her go! I'll do whatever you want, you have my word!" Stefan said to me brother as I pulled him back a step away from Nik and winced slightly at the desperation in his voice.

"Your word doesn't mean much. I lived by your word all summer, during which time I never had to resort to this... Stop fighting." Nik compelled him as he took a step closer to us and I shook my head at him in denial.

"Don't do this, don't do this." Stefan begged him frantically as he shook his head at him as well and I gripped on to Nik's forearm as I tried to stop him off doing this.

"I didn't want to. All I wanted was your allegiance. Now I'm going to have to take it."

"Don't...Don't..." he repeated over again as tears filled his light green eyes and my chest started aching at the pain in his eyes.

"Please, Nik. No." I begged him as my nails dug into his arm to try and get his attention but he locked his eyes onto Stefan.

"You will do exactly as I say when I say it. You will not run, you will not hide, you will simply just obey." Nik compelled him with a straight face and an emotionless mask in place to hide his pain because Stefan considered a friend.

"No. Stefan!" the doppelgänger yelled as she watched Stefan watch become completely black under my brother's compulsion.

"Now kill them. Ripper." Nik told him as he took a step back from Stefan with my arm gripped in his hand so that I couldn't interfere as Stefan's fangs elongated due to bloodlust and he rushed over to the teenage girl to the side of the room.

"No! No, Stefan." I called out to him in a panic as I struggled in Nik's grasp and the man I used to love continued to drain the blood out of young girl. As the corpse of the girl fell to the ground in a heap, I relaxed against Nik's chest in defeat as I watched sadly as Stefan moved on to the young human male. Nik placed an arm around my shoulders as we watched Stefan sink his fangs into the boy and the doppelgänger watched in horror.

"It's always nice to see a vampire in his true element. The species has become such a broody lot." Nik said pleasantly as he squeezed my shoulder and I rolled my eyes at his comment as I watched Stefan anxiously.

"No. You did this to him." The doppelgänger spat at him angrily as she narrowed her deep brown eyes at us in disgust.

"I invited him to the party, love. He's the one dancing on the table."

"Stefan hates dancing on tables. He always said it was pedestrian." I commented absently as I watched the subject of our conversation in a morbid fascination and I turned my head to see the doppelgänger staring at me with an unreadable look on her pretty face. The double doors of the gymnasium smashed open so I snapped my head up to see Rebekah storming into the room with a silver cell phone in her hand and a scowl on her lips. I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion as she stalked towards me before shoving the cell phone into my hand silently and shooting the doppelgänger a heated glare. I took the phone silently and sighed as I looked down at the digital photograph of the doppelgänger and Stefan acting very much like a couple in love. "Why are you…?" I started to ask her angrily at thought that my twin sister would rub my face in my ex-boyfriend's happy relationship before I saw something familiar hanging around the doppelgänger's neck. I narrowed my eyes at the picture before looking up at a confused Elena and storming towards her with the phone out for her to see. "Where is it?! Where's my necklace?"

"What are you talking about?" Nik asked me in a bored voice when he saw me stalking towards the doppelgänger and I shoved the phone at him so that he could see for himself as I passed.

"She has my necklace. Look."

"Well, well. More lies." He scoffed as he looked towards Stefan angrily but all my attention was on the human girl that was standing in front of me.

"Where...is it?" I spat out through clenched teeth as I let anger seep into my words and I watched with satisfaction as she visibly pale a little in fright.

"I don't have it anymore." She told me in a shaky voice as her hand moved to touch where the necklace used to rest and I growled inhumanly in fury that my mother's necklace lost.

"You're lying!" I shouted at her in denial as I allowed my bloodlust to overtake me and my fangs elongated before I rushed towards the doppelgänger. I sunk my teeth into her thin neck viciously as she screamed in pain and I let her deliciously sweet blood invade all my senses until someone stronger than I pulled on my shoulders so that I was torn away from her.

"Knock it off!" Nik yelled at me angrily for hurting the doppelgänger when he still might need her for his hybrids but I was too upset about my missing necklace to be too concerned about that.

"Make her tell me where it is, Nik!" I demanded furiously as I glared at doppelgänger bitch that was clutching her neck wound from where she was sprawled on the wooden floor. Nik looked at me for a minute with something close to sympathy shining in his light blue eyes and I gave him a pleading look before I turned away towards Rebekah who wrapped a comforting arm around my shoulders. I watched anxiously as Nik crouched down in front of the doppelgänger with a stern expression on his face and she instinctively moved back a little at the proximity.

"You haven't been properly introduced yet. Elena, this is my other sister Rheanna. Rhea, this is Stefan's new girl Elena. Now, where's the necklace, sweetheart? Be honest."

"I'm telling the truth. Katherine stole it." Elena said to him as she quickly glanced at me before moving back to him and I lifted my head when I heard my friends name coming from her mouth.

"Katerina. Of course. Well, that's unfortunate. If we had the necklace it would make things a whole lot easier for your witch, but since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it, shall we?" Nik asked her rhetorically as he stood up from his crouch and moved towards the electronic billboard controller. He pressed a few buttons on the machine until the digital scoreboard above the basketball hoop activated and red number's spelled out 20.00. "20 minutes. If Bonnie hasn't found a solution by then, I want you to feed again. Only this time, I want you to feed on Elena. You know you want to." Nik compelled Stefan once more before turning his attention to me and Rebekah as we were silently watching the scene playing out in front of us.

"No, Klaus! Don't do this to him!" Elena yelled at him angrily as she took a step closer to him before freezing in place and I glared at her through narrowed eyes as Rebekah grabbed my hand in hers.

"No one leaves. If she tries to run, fracture her spine." Niklaus ordered Stefan sternly as he pointed Elena blindly before grabbing onto my other arm and steering us towards the wide set of double doors.


After Nik left Rebekah and I to our own devices, we decided to go and wait with the werewolf and his vampire girlfriend in one of the empty classrooms. Rebekah pushed open the door so that it slammed open with a loud clash that frightened the pretty blonde vampire with gorgeous blue eyes that was leaning on the table next to the dead werewolf. The blonde girl glared at my sister as we entered but Rebekah just smirked back at her while I rolled my oak coloured eyes at them as I walked over to the teacher's desk at the front of the room.

"And what's your problem, Miss Grumpy-Pants?" Bekah asked me in a cheerful tone as she strolled over to lean on the desk next to me as I gracefully jumped up to sit on the desk. I turned my head to glare at her through narrowed eyes but she just smiled at me sympathetically so I knew that she really wanted me to vent to her like she always did to me. I felt the tears building up in my eyes as I let the events of tonight wash over me like a tidal wave and I pursed my lips together in a hard line.

"I can't believe he gave my necklace to that doppelgänger bitch!" I practically screamed in frustration as I jumped down from the desk with a loud thump and the unnamed blonde baby vampire jumped in surprise at my sudden outburst as her head snapped up to look at me with wide blue eyes. "My necklace was around the wrench's neck. I can't believe that my necklace was around her neck. Stefan gave my necklace away. I know that he didn't remember me because of Nik but I am so angry at him." I ranted in a rush as I paced up and down the room restlessly while waving my arms in the air dramatically and Rebekah and blonde vampire watched me in rapt attention. I clutched my throat where my necklace used to rest as the tears silently rolled down my cheeks. "My necklace. My necklace. My necklace." I kept repeating quietly as I sobbed uncontrollably and sunk down to my knees while Rebekah moved at a vampire speed to hold me while I cried. After 1000 thousand years wearing that necklace every single day, I felt practically naked without it around my neck where it had been hanging still the day that my mother had given it to me when I was 14 and she found out that her gift for magic had been passed down to me. My sobs eventually died out while Rebekah cooed nonsense words in my ear low enough that the other blonde in the room could hear them and then I gave a small humourless laugh as I dried my cheeks of tears.

"You're going to be okay, Rhea." Rebekah whispered to me softly as she gently moved a lock of my honey coloured hair behind my ear and I nodded absently as I took an unnecessary breath to calm myself down further. I stood up from my crouch on the linoleum floor gracefully and moved to retake my seat on the teacher desk as Bekah jumped up next to me. I looked over at the handsome werewolf that was lying on the table dead with the pretty blonde soothingly rubbing his head even though he wouldn't feel it.

"A vampire dating a werewolf." I stated softly as tilted my head to the side curiously and the blonde snapped her head around to look at me with wide blue eyes filled with tears. "You're either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid."

"I'm incredibly in love." She replied to me with a fierce edge in her eyes and her voice that made me smile at her genuinely.

"A little bit of both then." I said to her with a slight smile on my lips that she returned just as the werewolf in question began to wake up and the blonde turned back around when we all heard a sharp gasp come from his body. I watched as the handsome werewolf opened his eyes widely and the blonde moved to his side quickly.

"Where am I? What happened?" he asked her in a deep voice as she rubbed her hand over his head in a soothing gesture.

"Tyler." The blonde breathed out in a sadly sigh as she prepared herself for telling the man that she loved his was either going to be a vampire or he was going to die.

"Don't be shy about it." Rebekah told her in a bored voice as she examined her fingernails with interest and I rolled my eyes with a smile at her blunt nature.

"What's going on?" the werewolf, Tyler asked in a worried voice as he looked between the three of us as though he could read the answers to his questions on our faces but I just kept my face blank because I felt that he should hear such news from a loved one.

"Klaus is turning you into a vampire. A hybrid. You're in transition." The blonde told him nervously as she clasped his large hand in her smaller one and I had to look away from the intimate gesture because he made my heart hurt for a time when Stefan and I were that in love.

"Don't leave out the hard part, sweets. You'll only survive if your witch is successful. If not... You're pretty much dead." Rebekah interrupted her explanation and I hit her arm in reprimand as Tyler started panicking at the prospect of dying tonight.

"You're going to be ok. Ok? It's going to be ok." The blonde tried to sooth him as she rubbed circles on his back and glared at Rebekah for telling him so candidly.

"I wonder how she's doing. Tick tock goes the gym clock."

"Rebekah." I scolded her lightly as I turned my head to face her and she just shrugged back at me innocently as I shook my head at her. I heard the door to the classroom open and looked up to see Nik walking into the room with a vial in his hand so I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion.

"Well, the verdict's in. The original witch says the doppelgänger should be dead." He announced to us as he stepped further into the room and I jumped down from the table with a smile on my lips as Rebekah slid down next to me with a smirk.

"Does that mean we can kill her?" I asked him in excitement as Rebekah grinned widely but Nik shook his head at us rejection to our question.

"No, I'm fairly certain it means the opposite."

"What?!" Rebekah and I asked in unison as we both pouted at him but he kept his light blue eyes locked onto Tyler as he walked over to the table he was still lying on.

"Call it a hunch..." he murmured quietly as he showed the test tube of scarlet red blood to Tyler and I moved to catch the blonde when she moved to protect him from my brother so that she wouldn't get hurt because I was starting to like her fire. "Elena's blood. Drink it."

"No! No, no, no, Tyler, don't!" the blonde shouted pleadingly from my arms and I cooed at her in sympathy as she struggled in my hold.

"If he doesn't feed, he'll die anyway, love. Consider this an experiment." Nik told her as he looked up to meet her eyes and I noticed that he faltered for a second at the sight of her before glancing away quickly. Tyler struggled to control his bloodlust but soon it won out as it always did and he took the small vial from my brother's hand so that he could drink it. He guzzled the blood as the blonde relaxed in defeat in my arms in a soothingly ran my hand up and down her arm as we watched her boyfriend wither on the ground in pain. His screams echoed around the room as he hold his head in agony until his face change and we gasped to the sight before us. Tyler had fangs and prominent veins around his eyes like any normal vampire but his eyes were a luminous amber coloured colour due to his werewolf side. "Well, that's a good sign."