I'm so sorry for the lack of updates, I've been consumed with managing school and work. I felt so bad for you guys that I have forced myself to continue writing so that I could post this chapter.
Also, I've finally come to a decision from where we left off the last chapter! You'll have to read to find out, though. *Wink*
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Elena walks around as Matt and Bonnie stay close by Tyler's unmoving body.
Every single cell in Elena's body is yelling at her to kill the smug hybrid, who's sitting on the bleachers with his sister. Her hands are still shaking but her fingers are also twitching and tapping together as her addled brain is trying to formulate a plan. Her eyes scan the room, ignoring the frightened forms of Chad and Dana. She's so lost in her head that she almost misses Matt's words.
"He killed him," he says, his voice caught in his throat. Elena detects a hint of shock and grief in his voice.
"He's not dead. Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire," Elena states calmly but anyone who knows her well enough can the touch of anxiety in her voice.
The sound of Klaus's voice intrudes on them and everyone looks over to the bleachers to see him striding over to them. He tells them that Bonnie needs to find a solution to help Tyler survive his transition. In doing so, she would be helping Klaus figure out how to make more hybrids. He gives Bonnie and Matt time to find a solution when all of a sudden she feels a rough hand grab onto her bicep.
She hisses in pain before raising her to glare again at Klaus, who has a smirk on his face.
"I'll hold onto Elena," he declares, staring down at her. Elena huffs in irritation and looks over at her friends. Bonnie shakes her head slightly at her, torn between not leaving her to deal with Klaus alone and trying to help Tyler. But Elena can take care of herself. Right now Tyler is their main priority. She nods her head to her friend, wordlessly telling her that she'll be okay.
Bonnie, who looks resign, takes Matt by his arm and rushes out of the gym, shooting worried looks back at her and Klaus.
Elena watches them leave the gym with no regret. She might be insane but that doesn't mean she doesn't still care for those she loves. Her attention is pulled away by Rebekah's voice, who startles her by standing close behind her. She looks at the original vampire, who walks around to face her. Seeing the woman's eyes run up and down her figure has Elena feeling a tad bit worried as a sense of dread also falls over her. Rebekah looks over at her brother.
"The original one was much prettier," she comments to him.
Suddenly all is silent. At least in Elena's head.
Elena feels herself internally holding back a much-enraged version of herself as she threatens to tear off Rebekah's blonde hair along with her head. She isn't very picky when it comes to her appearance but being often praised when she was little about how beautiful she's did raise her self-esteem. However, meeting Caroline and her parent's accident, lessened her desire to dress up. She didn't care anymore about what people thought of her which is why she dressed down her everyday wear the past year. But thinking back on some of her memories with Mister J, she did dress up more often and showed a lot more skin than she thought is possible.
Of course, she can't show her legs at the moment because of her tattoos. A shock, right? Elena Gilbert has tattoos! She woke up with them not too long ago. She was very shocked when she was changing in her room for her morning workout and she was about to wear shorts only to see intricate designs on her legs. She has some harlequin diamond tattoos on her right leg along with a few rows of small tick marks. On her other leg, there is a doodle of a skull head wearing a jester hat and some writing that she recognizes as her own. Random sentences like "Let me tell you a Sekret" and "I'LL WAIT FOREVER".
Elena isn't the lovey-dovey type despite general belief. Although she liked doing some sweet things with Matt when they were still dating, she was still young and felt like dating Matt was like sticking to what's familiar to her. She doesn't want that, though. She wants adventure and spontaneity. It's why she broke up with him in the first place. It was only bad timing that they broke up after her parent's died. Anyway, she found has another tattoo that is a heart struck by an arrow. It's placed above her knee so she has to lift her leg up to examine the tattoo closely. If there was any doubt about her growing feelings for Mister J, seeing that tattoo only solidifies how much that man means to her. In the middle of the heart are two initials added together: "L + J". She recognizes the "J" initial because of her mystery man but she wonders about the "L". It's possible that it refers to her but most people call her by her full name. Does he call her by a nickname or something?
Anyway, she did like to dress up from what she remembers of her time with Mister J. She's still dressing down, playing the part of normal human Elena Gilbert. But that doesn't mean she likes it. She has moments where she wishes she can dress to her preference. Maybe nowadays she can be a bit sensitive and vain about her appearance. However, hearing from someone she barely knows tell her that a corpse is prettier than her is insulting!
Back to the present, Elena manages to refrain from physically attacking the blonde vampire.
But the same couldn't be said for her mouth.
Elena pretends to inhale deeply through her nose, looking at the original vampires with a bright smile and open her eyes wide to top off her expression. "Oh, I love your perfume," she gushes.
Everyone in the gym is taken aback by the doppelganger's spontaneous reaction. Klaus and Rebekah are especially confused as Elena's response to the blonde original's comment is unexpected. Especially in the situation they are currently in. But what she says next completely throws them off.
"What is that, the stench of death?" Elena asks the original, laughing at her joke while some didn't find it as funny. She watches in excited delight as the blonde's expression darkens. She can't help letting her insane self out to play. Besides the original was just asking for it.
Rebekah takes a menacing step toward her before Klaus cut in.
"Enough, Rebekah. Take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?" he orders his sister, who looks back at the doppelganger with narrowed eyes then gives Elena a faux sweet smile.
Her smile told Elena in volumes that the blonde is going to get her back for what she said. She can't wait to see her try. Thrill thrums within her while her gaze stays on the woman. Rebekah walks over to Tyler's body, grabbing him by the arm and proceeds to drag him out of the gym.
Elena lets her smile die on her lips as her sanity resurfaces. But as her former glee die down, her aggressiveness rises. Elena moves to follow the blonde dragging her friend before a tug on her bicep pulls her back. Then she hears Klaus talking in her ear.
"Just ignore her. Petty little thing," he murmurs, both of their eyes trained on the leaving duo.
In the next hour, a lot of things happen. Stefan finally arrives and tries to convince Klaus that Elena means nothing to him. Which she personally calls bullshit, as she rolls her eyes when she heard him mutter that classic and boring line. It's unbelievable how Stefan is still trying to convince Klaus of his loyalty in that way. It's so old and overused. It almost appears as Klaus was ready to buy Stefan's pleads before Klaus orders him to kill Chad and Dana.
After hearing from Damon of how the victims they've been tracking are actually Stefan's and not Klaus's, Elena personally half-expected Stefan to go along with his order only to gaze in exasperation and annoyance when Stefan hesitates.
Seriously! What a way to quickly become a hypocrite, Stefan, she mentally berates him. Although a part of her is dying to laugh at Klaus's classic ultimatum.
"Is that it?" she asks, her eyebrows scrunched together in confusion. Everyone looks at her and she raises her hands up defensively.
"Hey, I'm only asking. But telling him to kill them is a bit much, don't ya think? It's the oldest trick in Bad Guys 101. I mean, couldn't you be a little more creative?" She mentions offhandedly.
Klaus, who is starting to get irritated at hearing the doppelganger talk endlessly, moves at a quick but normal speed and his right arm swings at her.
But his arm comes to a halt.
A nimble and petite hand is holding his forearm. Elena has blocked his punch.
She takes advantage of Klaus' surprise and grabs a hold of his shoulder with her free hand. Klaus yells out in pain as Elena literally pulls his arm taut. She then twists his arm and his yells increase in volume when she eventually breaks his shoulder, hearing the snap of his bone.
Klaus responds in a flash. He grabs onto her shirt with his free arm and lifts her off her feet, throwing her away from him.
Unfortunately, when Klaus grabbed her, Elena made sure she had a fist full of his shirt in her hand. So when he threw her, Elena brings him with her.
They land hard on the gym floor, tumbling for a bit before coming stopping. For some random chance of luck, Elena manages to tumble into a kneeling position on her feet and one knee.
She whips her head to look back and her eyes land on Klaus, who is lying flat on his back, slightly close to her. Unknown to her, her pupils dilate as she takes in the furious original hybrid and he goes to stand up.
She moves quickly, grabbing the arm she hasn't broken and place – more like stomps and crushes his ribs – one foot under his arm. Again she yanks on his arm with all of her strength. She hears another snap as he lets out another yell of pain.
"Who's suffering now, huh?" she growls at him.
Again she moves, placing her knees on both of his shoulders and she makes sure to put a lot of pressure to ensure that his shoulders won't heal. She punches his chest, cutting off his yell which comes out as a gasp. She repeats this motion over and over. She doesn't stop even when pain stings her knuckles.
Klaus spits up blood. Seeing this, Elena stops her punching and grab his hair in her hands.
Elena screams out her rage she's kept building up in her as she slams his head onto the gym floor once.
Twice.
Three times.
She keeps slamming his head until his body goes limp under hers.
That's when she halts.
Her eyes are wild and her breathing is erratic as Klaus's form is bloodied and broken beneath her. Briefly, she looks at her surroundings as she remembers their audience.
But no one else is in the gym. She realizes that Stefan must have taken Chad and Dana to safety and hopefully compelled them to forget tonight's events. But looking back down at the original's weak form, anger returns to her as their lack of audience now leaves her free to act however she prefers.
As Elena puts more pressure on his shoulders, the hybrid shouts in pain as his healing shoulders are broken again with a strong push and weight on his bones. She lifts his head close to hers, her grip tight on his short curls.
"Ya know; I really hate it when people mess with my things," she says as he looks at her furiously.
"This entire summer, I've been going through a lot of crazy shit." She laughs. "So crazy, I almost forgot how many people I've lost because of you. Isobel. John. Jenna. You've taken people I've loved away from me forever." She pauses to look at him. "And now you're threatening to take my friends."
Her face crumples, her eyes slightly teary as she shakes her head. Though she bites back her tears as the intense, bubbling emotions that's been pent up since Klaus returned and attacked her friends remains.
Her grip tightens which has her nails digging into his skull. Feeling unsatisfied, she digs her knees deeper into his broken shoulders. He groans in pain to her pleasure. His groan fades into a growl. He glares at the doppelganger as she calms down, her face more serious than before.
"You think you know everything but you know nothing," she mutters furiously in his face. "You come into my town and you act as if we owe you; but, we owe you nothing." They stare down at each other with fierce looks. "We did as you asked. My friends and I did as you asked last time but it seems all you ever do is take. Take, take, take, take, take, take, take." She swivels her head around as if she's making a catchy tune.
"And now you've gone and dragged Tyler down with you." She cackles a bit, her eyes wild with madness.
"Wrong move," she sings before snatching his throat in one hand.
She feels his chest rumble in response to her tight grasp on his throat and he peels back his lips to reveal blood covered teeth.
"To quote an old friend," she loosens her grip on his curls "I'm not going to kill you." Her hand around his throat tightens, making Klaus choke and his arms flail uselessly under her weight and power.
"I'm just going to hurt you." She leans closer to him. "Really." Her hand around his throat loosens a bit to let him gasp for breath. "Really." Her face is so close to hers, their lips so close to touching. "Bad," she whispers menacingly.
A snap resonates throughout the gym.
Elena releases her grip on Klaus's head which flops onto the gym floor.
She lets herself sit there and revel in the moment. The power of having someone at her mercy. Of having someone's life in her hands. It's exhilarating.
A slow smile play on her lips as giggles start pouring out of her mouth. Which turn into maniacal cackles. She feels like she's on cloud nine. Like she's invincible. The only thing that would make this moment perfect is if her Mister J is here. After that thought, Elena's high starts to fade. She gets up from Klaus's body, a smile still on full display.
She did it. She managed to take down an original. Not just that but the most feared one of the originals. She knew that she could take down the average vampire and werewolf but not an original. Elena feels like she's accomplished a great deed.
She goes to leave but her feet stop moving as a thought comes to mind. She cocks her head before turning to look back at the body behind her. She's promised to hurt him really bad earlier. But that didn't mean that has to happen now. She has time to plan. Right now, she has a friend who needs saving.
Elena quickly walks over to the storage room in the gym. Turning the handle, the door opens to her relief. Some senior must have managed to unlock it for a prank. She leaves it propped open as she scans the room for any tools she can use as a makeshift weapon should Rebekah comes back.
Elena is still searching the room when she feels a slight rush of wind.
She reacts instinctively and grabs the first thing in reach. Whatever she's gotten a hold of, Elena swings it around to hit whoever's behind her.
But she stops mid-swing when she see's Stefan, who's staring at her stoically. The adrenaline she momentarily felt slams into her as relief at the sight of him overwhelms her.
"Don't do that again. I could have smashed your brain out," she warns him, her hand still raised with her weapon in hand. He looks at said weapon with a raised eyebrow.
"With a badminton racquet," he says doubtfully. She finally looks at her weapon to see that it actually is a badminton racquet. And a broken one at that.
She looks back at Stefan with a shrug of her shoulders.
"I'd get creative about it," she defends lightly before turning back to her scavenging. She hears Stefan sigh from behind her.
"Elena, we have to go," he says to her but she ignores him.
"Hey!" He grabs her by the arm at which she throws off but he's finally caught her attention.
"Look, Klaus is down right now. If he doesn't get up in the next hour or so, we can make a run for it." She stares at him blankly.
"You're joking, right?" she asks him, searching in his eyes but see's he's speaking honestly. "Stefan, we can't just leave Tyler."
"Bonnie is figuring it out. Don't worry," he tries to reassure her. But Elena has made her decision and is already shaking her head in disagreement.
"No. Even if Bonnie does find a way to save Tyler. What about Rebekah? If she comes back and finds Klaus as he is now, who knows what she'll do to our friends?" she argues.
He sighs as he realizes the truth in her words.
Even if they've managed to temporarily take down Klaus, there's still another original vampire to deal with. From what he remembers of his time with the older woman, she can be quite vindictive when she wants to. He can only imagine what she'll do to the both of them when Rebekah finds out what they've done to the invincible hybrid.
Elena and Stefan have an opportunity before them but he doesn't have a plan. Looking at the young girl, he can tell she has one, though.
"What do you have in mind?" he asks her. She gives him a bright smile as she grabs an aluminum baseball bat. One hand on the handle which she uses to lightly smack the bat on the palm of her other hand.
Unknown to her, a tattoo appears on her right forearm.
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It took me awhile to write this but I've decided to go a bit rogue on the TVD scene and try my hand at something new. I'll probably be making changes as I edit but I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Not too many memories are in this chapter but there are some brief tangents that flow into Elena's character.
For those of you who might be a little confused or just wondering how exactly Elena is able to take down original, this is where my merging of the DC world and the TVD world comes into play when it comes to Elena's "Harley" persona. I'm making small twists as to how Elena first turned into "Harley" and how the Joker became the Joker.
Also, I think I've decided on what Elena's criminal name should be but I'm still open to suggestions. I won't be telling you guys now. You'll have to continue reading this story to find out what it is.
Bye, bye!