"So… you're the big bad brother?" Caroline asked and Klaus turned to see Caroline. "Ms. Forbs." He said before going back to looking about the store at frames. "…The gold one is nice." "Which one, there are a million." She pointed at it. "That's bronze." "No it's not." He picked it up and the light didn't shine on it the same way and it looked bronze. "Oh." "That happens so often I've become very good at establishing what it really looks like." "Getting the wrong frame?" She asked then he tried to play that off but not because he did something wrong. "Yeah, no big deal." He moved past all the shiny gorgeous ones and picked up an older worn one that was gold and had such beautiful carvings. It had seen better days but it was most definitely beautiful and old, like twenties old. "Perfect." "Really?" "Sometimes Ms. Forbs the old can be beautiful, especially if it has character." "…Was that a metaphor for something?" She asked following him to the register. "No, quite literal." He said looking back as they walked then Tyler walked over and the men did not exchange hellos but Caroline kept following. "You have paint on the bottom of your pants." He checked, red and gold, just a bit. "Thought I got it all off. Rebekah knocked some stuff over." "I did not." "You walked in and sat on a table covered with things that isn't even big enough for your ass." "You should have used a bigger table." She said wanting to punch him.
"So you paint… what exactly?" "Oh, he paints like-" "I paint, and a lot of things." He was telling his sister to shut up. "He's sensitive." "No, I just don't let everyone see certain paintings." Rebekah realized why that field looked familiar and nodded. "Oh." "Yeah." "…She'd have liked that frame." "That's why I grabbed it." He said with a smile. "She?" Tyler asked and both originals' faces showed loss before Rebekah said. "She was a good kid." Caroline grabbed a frame that stood out. "Hey, what about this frame?" Both looked over confused and Klaus started to say something dismissive but the frame was nice, really nice, something made it stand out to him. "Huh…" She smiled knowing she picked out something giving him an idea. "If I bought it could I have whatever you'd put in it?" He snorted a bit then checked his expression back to polite but distant. "I haven't done commission in a long time." "Oh?" "Roughly the same time as Da Vinci." "You two were friends." Rebekah chipped in as her usual sassy self. "And he doesn't brag about knowing the greatest painter in the world?" "He's always been better though Leonardo was quite good." They turned to another man. "Elijah Ms. Caroline Forbs and Tyler Lockwood. Our brother Elijah." Caroline offered a hand and Elijah politely shook it then Tyler's. "So… Finn will be here in an hour and Kol isn't returning my calls." "So he'll be here soon enough with a weapon only or not at all." Rebekah said before asking Tyler if he wanted to grab a coffee really quick before telling Klaus and Elijah to just catch her up later.
"…Are you two not talking because there's a human present? Because my mom is a cop and my dad may or may not be a hunter based on what I heard on the phone earlier, so if anything one call and two perfectly badass people can bust in." She said with a shrug. "Sorry love, it's not that simple and any human involved will most definitely be dead." "Did you just call me love?" She asked smiling a bit. "…My apologies." With that he walked off with both frames. "I… you don't have to stop calling me that- shit you probably heard that with your super hearing." She said clenching her eyes and a fist before stomping down her left foot. "And I didn't say that how it sounded." She added before turning back to find a confused Tyler. "Hi Tyler." She now felt really awkward and they hung out for another five minutes before heading to the Grille to hang out with the other. Rebekah dragged three guys in followed by one who was laughing and poking Klaus over and over. "Kol, I will break your finger." He then noticed Caroline and turned after a moment of eye contact. She mentally scolded herself, he was hot but he was evil, not the path to travel and Tyler didn't run as big as a possibility of killing her. Bonnie noticed that guy Kol who actually stopped when he noticed her, he liked what he saw, but kept walking, he'd be back for her later.
Bonnie and Kol were laughing, he happened to know quite a lot of spells and she'd try the smaller ones at the table adding an extra bit of excitement to it, he was cute. It was fun however she had to leave with the girls though they did swap numbers, after all he was cute and apparently there were a lot of vampires in Mystic Falls so why be picky about it? The girls left Elena eyeing Damon while clinging to Caroline's arm. "So why are you all scowl-y at Damon?" "Caroline!" "Sorry, I forgot you haven't embarrassed yourself just yet after finding out. I did at the store today." "Oh?" Bonnie asked before they got in the car and Caroline told them what happened. "So the most evil vampire we know turned into an awkward artist with a Freudian slip just from talking to you?" Bonnie asked finding it kind of funny. "Not funny, and then I went and got one too." "It must be L.O.V.E." Elena said before turning on said Ashley Simpson song on. "It is a good thing though, that you two won't have anything to do with the fight." Bonnie said then her two friends turned to her in horror. "You will?!" "No, but if I make my grams think that she'll help and kick some serious ass." They were weary none the less. "I promise I won't fight unless I have to." "Good." They said before going to Elena's to grab some stuff then to Bonnie's for her to grab stuff then to Caroline's.
"…So… how are things going with Tyler?" "Good… good… you know… stuff… may eventually happen sometime soon." None of the girls felt as excited as they did on their usual sleep overs so Elena got a sheet of paper then wrote. "Damon is hot." "Seriously?" They asked and Elena nodded and kept going. "At first I thought he wanted something rather than to keep me quiet and I kind of hit him lightly like 'oh stop it you' but then I really started hitting him because I remembered Stephan. Did you see his abs in that new shirt? I… he's too hot." She finished writing then shook the feeling off before Bonnie wrote down. "Kol is pretty hot, and he's kind of a bad boy and he's sexy and knows magic." They all giggled and started to doodle pictures and act like they did with their first crushes with those two boys. "What about you?" "Accidental slip of the tongue on both parties." She rolled her eyes while her friends laughed at her choice of words, she wasn't sure she wanted to admit something about Klaus… made her feel different and less… less vain. And that was weird. "How do you think planning is going?" Caroline asked so Elena texted Stephan who assured her he'd let her in on the plan when they had one since he didn't want them anywhere near it.
"So let's start." Finn said leading to an hour long debate about how he would attack. "You guys know your dad so little?" "In some ways, in others we know him better than ourselves." Kol said twirling his bat. "A complicated man that one." That was becoming more and more obvious. "…Damon… care to take a walk." There was clearly something that needed to be discussed without other ears. "…I have a friend with a bar in Atlanta." "Perfect." Then they took off into the night. "Does it worry anyone else that the two dark horse brothers left together?" Rebekah asked. "Of course it does sister. They didn't take me." Kol said before running off after them. "…We're the four good ones then." Finn said somewhat amused. "Never thought I'd see the day I fit on that list." Stephan then called Grams. "Hi… it's Stephan, Bonnie's friend. I know you know about vampires, I know you're a witch… I think we need to talk though. We need your help and if you can't help us… a lot of people will get killed despite our best efforts to stop it. And one of them could be Bonnie." She came over and they explained the situation. "He was locked up, but someone released him." Elijah said. "He was locked up in the middle ages for gods' sakes. Who would unearth a man from that time in chains and feed him blood?"
"So someone let him out intentionally?" Sheila asked nodding then sighed. "And anyone with a brain has the knowledge you're friends with Bonnie, and them. You've been here so long and there is evidence of you all together with her. They're targets now and because she's lived here she'll stay to fight to keep anyone who could be her friends alive. So we have to kill the son of a bitch." "Yes, there's only one weapon that can kill and original vampire however. White oak, my father has the only stake." Finn said and the group sat there worried but Damon ran back in and took the book case before finding one. "Ha, dad was good for something." "What?" Stephan asked. "We had a white oak tree once upon a time, dad was going to burn it but a man said it was a fortune for so much of it. A bridge in town, all of it is practically white oak." "Seriously?" "Yeah, but we can't just destroy a bridge." Rebekah said then asked which one. "Shit, Elena's parents died there." Stephan said reading the paper. "…Any chance there's a preserve keeping the bridge the same? The sign would be made of the same wood wouldn't it?" Elijah asked a few of them rushed off to protect Rebekah who got the sign. Sure enough it was white oak and they made stakes.
"All we need is for you to hold him down and we can take him out. We just have to get him here now." Klaus said. "Then we can go our spate ways again." Finn said and they all nodded. "You guys wouldn't stay together? Stephan and I hate each other but I find him constantly because there's no one I'd rather have with me for this kind of shit." "Aw, thanks brother." "Fuck you." Damon said lightly pushing his brother not meaning it they were funny though. "How do we get his here?" Rebekah asked filing her stake into a dagger, less conspicuous and she could make more since she broke the stake into pieces. "I've got just the plan." Elijah said then Klaus smiled. "You always were the best at planning." "I'll need your help though, if there's one thing I know, nothing else would tether him in better." "True, what are we doing?" Klaus asked filing away his plan as B. Kol and Damon exchanged looks knowing it was on the backburner but worried it might come to be all they had left so the bat toting original said. "Let's get this done."