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"Are you sure everyone shacking up in your house is ok?" Elena asked getting out of Matt's pickup.
"Yes, Elena. I was serious when I said I want to help protect everyone's siblings. Bonnie and I have lost enough." he said as she unlocked the front door of the Gilbert House.
"Jer!" she called out. "Are you home?" she called as she headed up the stairs.
"Elena!" Matt yelled from the kitchen. She ran back down the stairs and out into the spacious kitchen. "The back door's open."
"Jeremy!" Elena yelled as she went out the back door and into the yard. "Jeremy! Where are you?" She and Matt searched the entire backyard and they found no trace of the teenage boy.
"Where could he have gone?" Matt questioned.
"Without calling me or Ric first, no where." Elena answered panicked.
"I called the Grille and no one there has seen him."
"Oh my god. Where's my brother?" she said fighting the tears that were forming. Matt wrapped her in hug and then Elena's phone rang. "Hello?"
"Hello Elena." the slick voice said on the other end.
"Klaus."
"Yes. Where are you?"
"Why?"
"Tell me."
"My house."
"Good. Then this phone call is not for naught." Klaus said. "My associate and I decided that if we wanted to put the wheels in motion on our little plan, your brother was the best way to start."
"What does that mean? What do you want with Jeremy?" she asked fighting tears.
"He's young, strong, smart and he has a ring that brings him back after he dies a supernatural death. I think that he's plenty useful."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I didn't want you to worry about young Jeremy. He is in good hands. You'll see him again."
"I want him back now." she said angrily. "Don't hurt him."
"No. Jeremy is much too important to hurt. He is not in any harm from me or my associate."
"You trust Lilith?" Elena questioned.
"We supernatural beings have to stick together now, don't we?" Klaus said and Elena could tell he was smiling. "You're a Doppelganger and you have vampires and hunters watching your back. What's the harm in me and Lilith making sure that our backs are covered?"
"You won't get away with whatever your planning." she yelled.
"Good afternoon, Elena." he said before there was a click.
"What happened?" Matt asked panicked.
"Klaus and Lilith have Jeremy." she said as she scrolled through her phone. She pressed a contact and waited. "Stefan, Jeremy's gone."
X X X X
Damon, Cassie, Ric, Ruby and Caroline arrived at Matt's house the same time as Sam, Dean, Sarah, Stefan and Bonnie.
"Is he sure about this?" Damon asked Stefan as they approached Matt, who was standing in the open back door.
"He said that he was and I believe him." Stefan answered.
"We'll see." Damon muttered.
"Hey." Matt said to the group. "There's not a lot of room so you guys are gonna have to bunk but..." he said stepping into the house. "Come in." Stefan and Damon shared a looked and crossed the threshold. When it was Ruby's turn, Matt held up a hand to stop her. He reached down rolled the doormat back, broke the thick salt line, smiled at her and allowed her to enter.
"Thanks." she said with a smile.
"No problem." he said with a crooked smile. After everyone was inside, Matt closed the door, fixed the salt line and joined the group in the living room.
"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked.
"She in Vick's old room." Matt answered. "I just got her to stop crying." Stefan nodded and headed off toward the room.
"What happened?" Damon asked.
"Elena and I went to her house so that we could pick up Jeremy before heading over here but when we got there the house was empty and the backdoor was open." Matt explained. "Then her phone rang and it was Klaus." When he said the name everyone shared a look. "He told that Jeremy was useful and that after all of this was over that she would get him back in one piece. It's not like he can die with his ring on."
"What ring?" Sam questioned.
"The Gilbert Family ring." Ric answered holding up his hand. "Basically it prevents you from dying a supernatural death."
"Meaning?" Sarah asked.
"Let's say if Damon killed me, I would die but I would come back but if you killed me then I would just be dead because you are not a supernatural being." Ric explained.
"Oh, wow." Sam said.
"That would have come in handy all this years, huh Sammy?" Dean said with a sad chuckle.
"Uh yeah." Sam said clearing his throat. "Um, so what did you guys find out?"
"That they are injecting demon blood in to Hybrids and Hybrid blood into demons to see if they can cross all the things that are set in place to repel them." Damon said.
"Awesome." Dean said plopping down on the sofa. "Now what?"
"Now we find that dick Klaus and that bitch Lilith, kill them and save Baby Gilbert." Damon said with an aquiline smile.
"Lilith isn't just some regular low level demon." Ruby spoke up. "She powerful and she has an army to her disposal at all times."
"How are we supposed to fight against an army?" Elena asked as she returned to room with Stefan.
"Sam can do it." Ruby said.
"No." Dean said harshly. "Not happening."
"Dean..." Sam started.
"You said you were done with that shit. Was that a lie?"
"Of course not but that doesn't mean that I don't remember how."
"What all does it take Sam?" Dean asked.
"What?"
"What do you have to do to be able to use...whatever it is?"
"Concentration." Sam grumbled. "I can do this Dean."
"No." Dean said. "I mean it Sam. No." he said leaving the room. He stepped out the back door and was a silent for a minute before he spoke again. "Cas? Are you there, man?" When nothing happened he continued talking. "I know I said I wouldn't call you unless it was life or death but this time Cas...I think it may be." Dean sat on the single step and put his head in his hands. He didn't hear the heavy fluttering of wings.
"Dean." the low voice said. Dean let out a yell and jumped off the step.
"Damnit Cas, don't do that." he yelled.
"Sorry. What is it that you need?" the dark hair man in the trench coat asked.
"I don't know."
"You said that it was life or death. Are you in any danger?"
"Not exactly. You know Lilith is still breaking seals?"
"I am aware. Yes."
"Well now she has a...partner. An original vampire named Klaus."
"Yes."
"That's all you have to say?" Dean asked angrily.
"What would you like from me Dean?" Castiel asked looking the other man in the eye. Dean looked back at him. He blinked slowly and took a deep breath.
"Sam wants to go after Lilith alone because Ruby said that he can."
"He is still working with her?"
"Yeah. Apparently. The point is, there has to be another way so that Sammy doesn't have to use his freaky physic crap." Dean said, his eyes pleading.
"I will see what I can do." Cas said walking past Dean into the house.
