Crimson woke up in a hospital room. She was wearing a gown. She looked around and saw Meredith in front of her.
"What happened?" The blonde asked.
"You had a seizure." The doctor explained. "The good news is that you're going to be fine. I've called Elena to come and pick you up."
"Why not Mom and Dad?" Crimson asked.
"Because I don't want them to know that you were here. I didn't even use your name when I signed you in." Meredith explained.
"Are you sure that I'm okay to leave?" Crimson asked. She had never had a seizure before.
"Positive because I gave you something that will definitely make you better." Meredith stated. Crimson realized that Meredith had given her something that she wasn't supposed to be using. "I brought some clothes for you to wear."
The clothes in question were the ones that she had in the bathroom: a beige sweater, black skirt, tights, and boots.
Meredith gave her sister some privacy so she could change. She went to her office and was surprised to find Alaric sitting in her chair.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him in shock. "You are supposed to be dead."
"Well I wouldn't be the first person that you saw to walk out of here that was supposed to be dead, would I?" He challenged. "You've had people walking away from certain death for a while. You know as a member of the council, you're supposed to kill vampires, not use their blood for your own gains and possibly create more vampires. I'm going to have the board have your license revoked."
With that he took her stash of blood and poured it out.
After he left the room, he began to look for Crimson. Unfortunately for him, she had already been taken by the Gilberts. They got her into their house as fast as possible. Caroline and Tyler had helped.
"Jeremy's going to get some food." Elena told her. "So what happened?"
"I was fine one minute and the next I was wigging out." Crimson explained.
"Well Meredith said that you were okay." Elena replied. "I think maybe you should rest a little."
No longer than she got on the couch did Crimson's phone ring. It was her father. She sighed and answered it.
"Hi, Dad." She replied.
"Alaric Saltzman has taken over the council. He said that you're dating a vampire." Austin remarked.
"Dad, I don't really want to talk about this right now." Crimson replied. "It's been a long day."
"You are not to see this guy again." Austin remarked.
"Dad, he's not even here anymore." She replied. "We broke up, but you don't even know him. Would you be this upset if I was dating a black guy?"
"This isn't something like race. He's a vampire, a demon, an abomination against nature and a murderer." He explained.
"Dad, you taught me not to judge people before I get to know them." Crimson reminded him. "I have gotten to know him and I like him and don't give me anything about him being a murderer because Alaric killed two council members in case you forgot."
Crimson hung up and was seething a little bit. There was a knock on the door and it was Stefan.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Jeremy told me that you were in the hospital and I came back." He replied.
"You love me, don't you?" Crimson questioned.
"I do and I really wanted to make sure that you were okay." He responded before he stepped into the house. "Damon still has Klaus's body."
"But Alaric has the council on his side and he told my parents about us." Crimson explained. "It's not safe for you here."
After he was seated at the table, the doorbell rang again. She hoped that wasn't Alaric. He wouldn't be able to get in, but she didn't want to see him.
Elena answered the door. Crimson got up and walked over and noticed that it wasn't Alaric, but a man in a suit.
"Elijah." Elena remarked.
"I wish to speak to you about my brother's body." Elijah declared before he stepped in the house. Crimson was surprised. She didn't know any Originals had been invited in.
Elijah took a seat at the table while she, Elena, Matt, and Stefan joined him. Damon was on speakerphone.
"So I understand that Alaric's life is tied to Elena's." Elijah remarked. No one felt like correcting him in that regard.
"What's your point?" Matt asked.
"Well I think that we should make a deal." Elijah proposed. "You agree to hand over my brother's body and my family and I will scatter, protecting your bloodline from any harm."
"How do we know that you'll be able to get away from him?" Crimson asked.
"My family successfully was able to stay hide from our father for a thousand years." Elijah explained. "We can survive another 75 or so easily and when Elijah dies, either naturally or to become a vampire, Alaric will die."
"How do I know that you won't release Klaus?" Elena asked as Crimson pondered Elijah's statement. She knew that she could end it all. All that she had to do was commit suicide and Alaric would be dead. She would even come back as a vampire. There was just one problem preventing her from doing it. She couldn't commit suicide. She couldn't hang herself. She couldn't cut her wrist. She couldn't stab or shoot herself.
"I will not release Klaus in your lifetime. I plan on keeping him incapacitated at least as long as he kept Rebekah locked up." Elijah vowed.
"Hell no!" Damon said over the phone. "Last time we made a deal with you Jenna was sacrificed."
"All we have to do is get that stake away from him and he will be harmless." Elijah countered.
"Well how do we know that his psychopathic siblings will even follow this deal?" Damon challenged. That was a good point.
"Rebekah and Kol have already agreed." Elijah remarked.
"I think it would be best to let Elena make the call." Stefan proposed.
"No. She always makes stupid decisions." Damon declared. Crimson wanted to push the end button.
"Okay let's do it." Elena replied. Damon's groaning could be heard aloud.
After Elijah left, Jeremy returned with the food. He looked distressed.
"What's wrong?" Elena asked.
"Alaric found me at the Grill." Jeremy explained. "He asked me to tell him where we were taking Klaus's body."
"I say that you tell him." Crimson replied. Everyone looked at her. "I was going to say tell him the wrong answer. Send him halfway across the country so Elijah can get the body and begin running."
"That's a great idea." Stefan concurred before they explained the deal to Jeremy. Jeremy didn't like it particularly, but went ahead and told Alaric that Damon was taking the body to Lake Michigan.
"So, I guess what I hate most about this deal is what if some other vampire, like Katherine for example, finds out about this and also that it's Crimson is the one who has to die and decides to kill her?" Jeremy explained. That might be a problem because Crimson could easily mistake her for Elena.
"We won't let that happen." Stefan promised. "I won't let that happen."
"No offense, but I really think you and Crimson need to break up for good." Jeremy opined. "Katherine is obsessed with you."
"Well I already made the mistake to turn my back on the girl that I loved once. I'm not going to do that again." Stefan remarked.
"I'll be okay." The blonde told Jeremy. "Where did Caroline and Tyler go anyway?"
"They got word from their moms that after the council is done finding Klaus they're gonna start looking for vampires." Matt replied. Crimson hoped that her parents wouldn't be involved with that.
"Maybe I should just go back." Crimson stated. "Maybe I should just go back to boarding school. Stefan can probably use his compulsion to get me back in. Or maybe I could go to a different school."
"No, you can't do that." Jeremy told her. "I don't want to lose you again."
"Jeremy, things were better off when I was gone." The blonde argued. All I had to worry about was whether or not I was going to pass my math test. I didn't have to worry about this."
Jeremy and Crimson went up to his room. They were getting ready for the plan to be put in action.
"Jeremy, could you hold still for a second?" She requested.
"Why?" He asked before she kissed him suddenly. He backed away immediately. "What?"
"I was trying to see if I had any feelings for you." Crimson admitted. "I'm guessing from your reaction that you don't have any for me.'
"Crimson, I think we should just be friends." He stated.
"I agree." She declared. "You see, I didn't feel anything. It was weird. We're better as friends. Hopefully all of this will be over soon and I can get to finding you a girlfriend."
"I don't really need you to help me with that." Jeremy remarked.
"I still find it hard to believe that a guy who had never had a girlfriend like you had three when I came back. I mean yeah two of them were vampires and one is a witch, but that still amazes me." Crimson replied. "So do you still see ghosts?"
"I try not to think about them that much." Jeremy admitted. "I can't love a ghost. I can't love someone that I can't touch."
"We should probably get ready to go." Crimson stated.
Damon ended up taking Klaus's body to a storage facility. He was going to meet with Rebekah with who he was making the exchange. Unfortunately for him, Alaric had found him.
"How did you find me?" Damon asked as he struggled under the former teacher's grasp.
"You would be amazed what the law enforcement can accomplish when it's not corrupt." Alaric declared. "Now tell me where you hid Klaus's body."
"It's in one of these storage lockers." Damon declared. "Go ahead and try to find it."
While he was searching, he happened to hear Rebekah arriving. As she was looking for Damon, the younger vampire grabbed her from behind to let her know that the hunter was there. The two went to get Klaus's body, but before they could put it back in Damon's car, Alaric drove his stake into it. Rebekah wanted to break down and cry, but Damon told her to run so she wouldn't meet the same fate. She made it out as she fast as could and tried not to cry while she was in her car. She needed to end it.
Crimson was with Stefan when the vampire's phone suddenly rang.
"I've got some bad news." Damon remarked. "Ric staked Klaus."
"How do you feel?" Stefan asked. "It took Sage an hour before she was dead."
"I don't know." Damon answered as Crimson knew exactly what was going on. Stefan hung up and decided that he needed to tell everyone.
"Stefan, if you die, I think I'm going to go back." Crimson declared. "I'll stay this through, but I don't know if I'll want to live here anymore without you."
"You should stay for Jeremy." Stefan told her. "He's your friend."
"I might, but I don't like Jeremy. I know because I kissed him and I felt nothing and he didn't feel anything for me either." Crimson explained.
After about an hour, nothing seemed to be happening. Apparently Tyler had died, but all of the rest of them were still alive. Make Klaus hadn't generated their bloodline.
Stefan's phone rang again. This time it was from Rebekah.
"Hello, Stefan." She stated.
"I'm sorry about your brother." Stefan declared.
"No, you're not." Rebekah replied. 'He made your life hell and you're glad that he's gone, especially since you get to keep on living."
'You're right." Stefan agreed.
"You know what's funny? " Rebekah asked. "Klaus thought it was Elena whose life that Alaric is connected, but then I realized something. From the moment I first saw that tiny blonde, I knew I had seen her somewhere. That was when it hit me. She's a doppelganger of the girl whose blood my family and consumed to become vampires and Alaric would have to do the same."
"Rebekah you need to calm down." Stefan replied.
"I don't want to run anymore." Rebekah declared. Suddenly the line went dead and Stefan was grabbed from behind by Kol. While this was happening, Rebekah grabbed Crimson by the neck and twisted it.
In the storage facility, Damon was getting his butt kicked by Alaric when suddenly the hunter seemed to lose all of his strength. Damon then noticed that he was starting to turn grey. He was dying. Damon cried as he held his best friend in his hand.
Jeremy had returned home and was currently in his kitchen.
"Hey Jeremy." Alaric replied.
"Look, I'm not doing anything else for you." Jeremy declared. He then realized something important. "Wait a minute. How did you get in here?"
"I just wanted to come here and here I was." Ric responded.
"You're dead, but that means…" Jeremy said before he started to cry realizing that his best friend was dead.
Meredith was making her way home when she saw Stefan in the hallway, holding her sister's body. Her head was hanging awkwardly.
"Meredith, I couldn't do anything." The vampire apologized. "I'm sorry. I couldn't save her."
"Stefan, there's something that you need to know." Meredith explained. "What happened was Crimson had a grand mal seizure. It was worse than I let on, potentially brain-damaging even. I wasn't sure if she was going to make it and I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want them to worry."
Stefan looked around the blonde in his arms and was hit with a moment of realization.
"So are you saying?" Stefan asked in shock.
"I helped her." Meredith confirmed.
So there were no flashbacks like in the episode, but I didn't feel the need for them because most of Crimson's family is still alive. Also, instead of drowning , Crimson died a more traditional way. I am going to turn Elena, but it will be in a later chapter. Please don't forget to review.
