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Chapter Nine-Homecoming

"Let's say that Mikael followed Audrey in here." Stefan said as he, Damon, Elena and I walked into the living room, "He tried to grab her, so he could use her as bait."

"Then you vervained him?" Elena asked

"No, we vervained him." Damon corrected her, " This guy's an Original, we have to make it realistic."

"Yeah, there's no way Stefan could do it by himself." I added

"Fine." Stefan said, " We vervained him and in the process we discovered that he had a dagger."

"That he planned to use on Rebekah, but instead…" Elena trailed off

"We drove it though his heart." Stefan finished

"And what happens when he wants to see Mikael's body?" I asked

"Good point." Damon said, "You, my brother, have been compelled to do what Klaus says. So the idea is to lure him back here and kill him and the last thing we need is you getting tripped up and tongue-tied."

"Well don't look at me." Stefan told, " I'm just in charge of getting him back here."

"Klaus is smart." I pointed out, " If we tell him Mikael's dead, he'll want proof."

"Then I shall be dead." Mikael said, walking into the room

"What if he wants to see you in person?" Elena asked

"That means our plan is working." Mikael said, "Klaus will absolutely want to see my body. You lure him here, I'll kill him."

"With that?" Stefan said about the silver dagger in Mikael's hand, " Those daggers won't work on him."

"I'm in possession of a stake fashioned from the wood of the ancient white oak tree." Mikael informed us, "The one that left these ashes when it burned."

"Where is it?" Stefan asked

"Not here." Mikael replied, "Knowing it's location is my insurance policy."

"Against what?" Damon asked

"You leaving this in my heart." he replied, "You see, a vampire can't dagger an Original without dying so it lands on one of you two."

"You want us to actually dagger you?" Elena asked

"Klaus will leave nothing to chance, especially when it comes to trust."

"I'll do it." I said, taking the dagger, "Sorry about this." I drove the stake through his heart and he fell to the floor, dead.

"Call Klaus and tell him his fathers dead." Damon told Stefan

Stefan dialed the number while taking a seat in one of the chairs.

"You're fathers dead." He said to Klaus, " Oh, my mistake. Not your actual father and not dead. Mikael, daggered. What should I do with the body?"

Klaus replied but I couldn't make out what he was saying.

"Well, he's here. Come by whenever." Stefan said, "It's true. I saw it with my own eyes. That's not a problem. She's right here."

Then he got up and handed the phone to Rebekah.

"Hello, Nik." she answered, "It's true. He's finally out of our lives for good. I miss you. I'm miserable here. Good. I'll see you then. Bye." she hung up the phone, "He bought it. He's coming home."

"Now," Damon started, " was that easy or what?"

I rolled my eyes before bending down next to Mikael.

"Let's just get this over with." I said before removing the dagger from his chest.


"I hate every thing in my closet." Elena said looking for a Homecoming Dress, " I have nothing to wear for Homecoming."

"That's why you buy something a week in advance like me." I said from Elena's bed where I was sitting with Bonnie

"So don't go." Bonnie suggested, "Let's stay home, order takeout and overanalyze ancient hieroglyphic things with Alaric."

" As much as I love Ricky boy we have to go." I said, "Caroline will kill us if we don't ."

"Caroline actually has a date." Bonnie said

"You know that you can talk to us about Jeremy, right?" Elena told her

"I don't need to talk about it." Bonnie said, "He fell in love with his ghost girlfriend and lied about it. What's done is done."

"You have to talk about it." I said

"Yeah, I'm mad at him too." Elena added

"Your mad at your little brother and cousin." she said to us, " You'll yell at him, teach him a life lesson. You can't really be mad like I'm mad."

"Bonnie…" I started

"And you shouldn't have to be." she interrupted me, " He's family. So no, I really can't talk to you guys."


"We can't trust Rebekah not to turn on us." I told Damon as I grabbed some empty grenade bottles from his bed.

"Oh really." Damon said from the bathroom, " Cause these Original vampires are usually so reliable."

"Rebekah may be mad now but Klaus is her brother."

"Her lying, mamma killing, dagger happy, brother." he said, " Wolfsbane's ready."

I entered the bathroom and handed Damon one of the grenade bottles.

"There are two many things that can go wrong with this plan." I said, "Too many people that can make it go wrong."

"That's why I'm forming a secret contingency plan." Damn said, smirking

"Really? What is it?"

"Well, if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret." he said nodded towards the door.

I looked over and saw Stefan walk into the room.

"I need to borrow a tie." he said

"You have your own ties." Damon told him

"I'm a 162 year old and I'm going to a Homecoming Dance." Stefan explained, "I need better ties."

"You could not go." I suggested

"I'm compelled to protect you." Stefan said, "And if I look at your track record for high school dances, it's pretty tragic. With my luck you'd go and get yourself murdered by the Homecoming Queen."

" If we look closer at my track record for high school dances we can see that at one of them I was only trying to help Elena and at he other I was being pursued by your crazy hybrid boss."

Then I turned my attention to the grenade in my hand but before I could do anything with it Damon grabbed it, "Ah, no."

"I know how to do it." I protested, "Alaric taught me."

"Audrey, if this thing blows up in our faces just remember only one of us heals quickly."

"Please tell me you have a better plan then wolvesbane grenades." Stefan said

"Please tell me you have a better plan then your face." I told him earning looks form him and Damon, "Sorry, I couldn't help it."

"Never you mind, brother." Damon replied, " The less you know the better."

"My freedom from Klaus rests entirely upon you two executing your plan perfectly." Stefan said, " So excuse me if I'm a little cynical."

"You're the one we should be worried about." I said, "If Klaus asks you one wrong question this whole thing falls apart."

"You do have reason to worry, but if I look back in our history of epic plan failures, it's usually because one of us let our humanity get in the way." Stefan responded, " If we're taking odds on how this thing goes down, it's certainly not gonna be me who screws it up. I'll see you at Homecoming. I can't wait."

Then Stefan headed out of Damon's room and I turned to Damon.

"Would you be angry if I killed your brother?"

He thought about it for a minute before saying, " From the way he's acting I'll probably be the one killing him." he said, smirking

I smiled and gave him a quick kiss before continuing to work on the weapons for tonight.


I was walking to the kitchen to grab something to eat when I ran into Elena.

"Hey, Elena." I said

"Hey, Audrey." Elena said, " I have to tell you something."

"What's up ?" I asked her

She pulled out her phone and typed something before showing it to me.

We need to get rid of Rebekah.

She can't be trusted.

"I agree." I said before getting an idea, "Can I borrow the necklace Stefan gave you?"

She nodded before taking it out of her purse and handing it to me.

"Thanks." I said, turning around and heading up to Rebekah's room.


"Getting a head start, huh?" I asked Rebekah

"Embarrassing truth," she said, "this is my first high school dance."

"Ever?"

"I don't really had time for high school before. Nik and I were always moving around, running." she explained, "Anyway, I didn't want to leave anything to chance. Have you heard anymore from him?"

"No. But I'm sure when he does show up he'll do it with flair."

"And Damon and my father are ready with their plan?" she asked me

"Yes."

"Don't tell me." she said, " I just want to go to the dance and leave the rest to Mikael."

" I know it's really hard." I told her, "So thank you for helping us get Klaus back into town."

"Just be careful. I've been running for a thousand years for a reason." she said, " Mikael is not a good person and he is not to be trusted. No one in my family can."

"Are you okay?" I asked, seeing tears beginning to form in Rebekah's eyes

"I've spent my whole life loving and hating my brother with equal measure. I never thought I would be the one to help drive a stake through his heart." she explained, "No tears, don't want to ruin my make-up." She turned to the mirror, "How do I look?"

"You look amazing." I told her, "But you're missing something."

I pulled the necklace out of my pocket and held it up so she could see it.

"My mothers necklace!" Rebekah exclaimed

"You should wear it tonight. May I?"

She nodded and I walked up and put the necklace around her neck.

"Thank you." Rebekah said

Then she gasped as I took the dagger I had found on the way up and drove it though her heart before she began to turn gray.

"I'm so sorry." I said, " I can't leave anything to chance."


"In the back." Damon said, covering Rebekah's body with a sheet, "Harsh."

"It had to be done." I said from my spot on the bed, "Rebekah was never going to be completely on our side."

"I'm not judging you." Damon said, sitting next to me, "It's very Katherine of you."

"Not the way to make me feel better about myself, Damon." I said

"It was a complement. Sort of."

"Stefan's right." I said, resting my head on Damon's shoulder, "Someone's gonna let their humanity get in the way and screw this whole thing up. It's probably gonna be me."

"Audrey, you just daggered someone." Damon said, "You'll be fine."

"Yeah, but I feel bad about it." I explained, " I care too much, that's the problem, Damon. I'm the weak link."

"If it makes you feel any better, she's not really dead." he tried to comfort me

"Do you trust him?" I asked, " Mikael?"

"No."

"What about Stefan?"

"Not as long as he's under Klaus's control." he replied

"Then we need another plan."

"I know what to do." Damon said, " Your just not gonna like it."

I sat up and looked at Damon.

"Why not?" I asked hesitantly

"Because when this goes down, I don't want you having any part of it."

"What does that mean?"

"Do you trust me?" Damon asked, dodging the question

"Yes." I told him honestly

"Then you have nothing to worry about."


"So does this mean I don't have to go?" I asked Care over the phone after she told me the gym had been flooded, canceling the Homecoming Dance

"You wish." Care said, "No, Tyler's moving the party to his house."

"Kegs and beer pong for the Homecoming? That's- different…"

"Just say you're still coming." Care said

"I'll see you there." I said, hanging up and taking a seat on the couch.

Less then a minute later there was a knock on the door.

"ELENA!" I yelled not wanting to get up

"What?" she asked, walking into the living room

"Door."

"Really? You couldn't get up and answer the door?"

"No." I said, shaking my head

She rolled her eyes before going to answer the door.


I went up to my room in the Salvatore Boarding house to get ready for the dance. I quickly put on my strapless purple dress, black leather jacket, and black pumps. Then I went to find Damon.

"Hello…Damon?" I said entering his room

No answer. I looked around his room but didn't find him. I was about to leave when I was pushed up against one of the walls by Damon.

"Damon, what the h*ll!" I exclaimed

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked me

"The dance."

"What part of I don't want you having any part of tonight, didn't you understand?"

"The part where I don't go to the dance." I told him

"You're not going." he said, forcefully

"Yes, I am." I said, " Look, this can go one of two ways. One, I go to the dance by myself. Or, two," I began to smile, "you can take me. Either way I am not staying here."

"Fine! I'll take you." he said, "But first we have to take care of Stefan."

"Are you gonna let me go now?" I asked him

"Not just yet." he said, smirking, before bring his lips down to mine.

Damon placed his hands on my hips and I put my hands in his hair holding him closer to me as our kiss deepened. Our lips moved in sync for awhile before I pulled away.

"We can finish this later." I said, making him groan, "But right now, we have a plan to see through."

"Okay," he said putting an arm around my shoulder and leading me downstairs.


"Did my daughter go to the dance?" Mikael asked as he walked into the living room

"Yep. You missed the photo up." I told him, "Did you get the stake?"

"I did." he said

"I don't think we'll take your word for it." Damon told him, " No offense to your honor an all."

"None taken." he said taking out the stake and showing it to us

"Fancy." Damon commented, "May I?"

"It's the only weapon on this earth that can kill an original." Mikael said putting it in his jacket, " So I think I'll hold on to it. No offence…"

"I'd offer you a drink…" Damon started

"But Katherine tells us you're a vampire on the rocks kind of person." I finished

"Technically , Damon, you could still offer…"

"Well this just got awkward." I said, leaning on the back of the couch

"Why feed on vampires?" Damon asked Mikael curiously, "Don't tell me it's for the smooth aftertaste."

"I had a hand in creating vampires, but bloodlust was never my intention." Mikael explained, "Over the centuries I learnt to feed from the predator, not the innocent."

"Good intentions but still really creepy." I said, "It's like cannibalism."

"Change of plans." Stefan said, coming into the room, "Klaus is back. He's at the Lockwood's and he wants your body ," he pointed to Mikael, "delivered to his doorstep."

"I'm afraid he'll be in for a colossal disappointment." Mikael said

"Well he's certainly not coming here." Stefan said, "I hope your plan didn't depend on that."

"Didn't depend on that." Damon told him

"But you do have a plan, right?" Stefan asked

"We have a plan." I started, " It just doesn't involve you."

Then Mikael attacked Stefan and started to feed on him. After a few moments Mikael let go of Stefan and he fell to the ground, unconscious.

"You couldn't just break his neck?" Damon asked Mikael

"Well, that certainly occurred to me." Mikael replied wiping the blood from around his mouth.


When Damon and I arrived to the Lockwood's some random guy came up to us.

"Invite only, vampire." he said to Damon

"Here's my RSVP." he said before ripping out his heart, "Hybrid."

Then we continued on our way. When we walked inside we found Tyler right away and pulled him into the study.

"As the host you should know that hybrids don't make the best first impression." I told Tyler

"Whatever move you're making, Klaus is gonna be ready for you." Tyler warned us, " He'll kill everyone at this party if he has to."

"Tell that to someone who cares." Damon said before attacking Tyler

Tyler tried to fight back and almost bit Damon. Damon took out the stake Mikael had shown us early and was about to stake Tyler when they both started holding there heads and groaning in pain. I turned around and saw that Bonnie was doing that supernatural migraine thing.

"What the h*ll wrong with you?" Damon asked when she had stopped, "You weren't supposed to witchy migraine me."

"In her defense you weren't supposed to kill Tyler." I told him

"He tried to bite me!"

"What is that?" Bonnie asked, gesturing to the white oak stake

"Nothing." Damon said

"Oh my God, is that the …"

"Shhh!" I told her before whispering, "They're everywhere."

"Why do you have it , Damon?" Bonnie asked

"Because I'm the only one that can get into the house."


"So now what do we do?" I asked Damon as we walked around the Lockwood property

"We wait for Mikael."

"Well while we wait would you like to dance with me?" I asked him, smiling

"No."

My smile was replaced with a frown, "Fine, then I'll go find someone that will."

When I tried to walk away Damon grabbed my hand and pulled me into his arms.

"You didn't let me finish." he said, "I wouldn't like to dance with you, I would love to."

"Good because finding someone else to dance with would have been really awkward." I said, my smile returning

As we walked outside to where the other peope were dance the band started to play a slow song. Damon put his hands on my hips the same time I wrapped my arms around his neck and then we began to sway to the music. I rested my head on his chest and tried to soak in the moment.

"You know we could do this more often if you would just tell everyone we were dating." Damon said

"I will." I told him, "After all this Klaus stuff is over, I will."

"Good because this whole 'just friends' façade is not as easy as it looks."

"Trust me I know." I laughed before adding, " I love you."

"I love you too."

"Sorry to interrupt." I heard Mikael say and we both pulled apart, "I believe we have a job to do."

"Yeah have fun with that." I said before turning to Damon, "Don't get killed, okay?"

"You got it."

With that he and Mikael walked off.


I was walking around and listened to My Morning Jacket when a short woman with a pixie style haircut came up to me.

"Are you Audrey?" she asked

"Um… yeah." I said, "Do I know you?"

"No." then she grabbed me and put a hand over my mouth before pulling me away from everyone.


I struggled to no avail as the chick brought me to the front of the Lockwood mansion where I could see Mikael standing just outside the door talking to someone.

"Be quite or I will snap your neck." the girl warned me and I quickly became silent

"True." I heard Klaus agree to something I had missed, "But it'll make a h*ll of a party game. I'll I have to do is rub these two fingers together and they'll pounce."

"The big bad wolf." Mikael said, "You haven't changed. Still hiding behind your playthings like a coward. Only, you forget, they may be sired by you but they're still have vampire, and can be compelled by me."

With that I was pushed into Mikael's arms.

"Come out here and face me Niklaus." Mikael said, "Or she dies."

"Go ahead." Klaus told him, "Kill her."

"No, Klaus." I pleaded, "He'll do it."

"If she dies this lot will be the last of your abominations." Mikael informed him

"I don't need them." Klaus said, " I just need to be rid of you."

" To what end, Nicklaus?" Mikael asked, " So you can live forever, with no one at your side ? Nobody cares about you anymore, boy!" he spit out, "What do you have other than those whose loyalty you forced? No one."

"I'm calling your bluff father." Klaus said coldly, "Kill her."

"Come out and face me, you little coward, and I won't have to." Mikael said angrily

"My whole life you've underestimated me." Klaus started, " If you kill her you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on. Kill her. Come on, old man. Kill her."

"Your impulse, Niklaus." Mikael said, "It has and will forever be the thing that keeps you from being truly great."

Then he stabbed me in the side with something and I fell to the ground in pain. Almost instantly someone's wrist was shoved in my mouth and all I could taste was blood. I looked up and saw that it was Katherine and a look of disgust came to my face.

"Yeah, I don't much like this either but I promised to help." she said before taking back her wrist and standing up.

"Katherine!" Mikael exclaimed

She smirked before turning to the group of hybrids and saying, "Boom." before throwing wolfsbane grenades at them. I got up and looked into the Lockwood's house to see Damon stake Klaus in the stomach. Then Stefan came out of no where and tackled Damon.

"What are you doing!" Damon yelled

Klaus took the stake from his stomach and stabbed Mikael in the heart causing him to burst into flames and die.

"What the h*ll did you do, Stefan?" I asked running over to Damon who was still on the ground.

"He's earned his freedom." Klaus replied before turning to Stefan, "Thank you my friend. you no longer have to do as I say. Your free."

Without grabbing the attention of Klaus or Stefan, Damon grabbed me and we got the h*ll out of there.


"How did this happen?" I asked Damon when we had gotten back to the boarding house and in Damon's room

"We thought of everything, Audrey!" Damon shouted, "Klaus having hybrids. Mikael turning on us. We even brought in Katherine. Anything that could have gone wrong we were prepared!"

"I don't understand." I said, " Stefan wanted Klaus dead! More than anything! That's what we were counting on."

"We blew it."

"Where's Katherine?" I asked

"She ran for the hills the minute things got bad." Damon said before taking a sip of his drink, "And who blames her? Klaus would have crushed her. I had him, Audrey. I had Klaus. This could have all been over!" Then he threw his glass into the fire place.

"Hey. Damon." I said taking is face in my hands, "Hey, listen to me. We'll survive this. We always survive. Trust me."

"We're never getting Stefan back." Damon said, "You know that right?"

"Then we'll have to let him go." I replied, "Okay? We'll let him go."

Damon nodded. Then his phone started to ring.

"Not interested in a play by play of our failure right now, Katherine." he answered

"I'm just calling to say goodbye." I heard Katherine say, " I don't know what to tell you. You had a good plan Damon. And that's high praise coming from me."

"That's not very comforting at the moment." Damon told her, " You're going back into hiding?"

"At least my life isn't boring." she replied, "Goodbye, Damon."

"Take care of yourself, Katherine." he said before hanging up and turning back to me

"We will get through this, Damon." I assured him before kissing him


That night, after I had fallen asleep in Damon's bed I had a dream slash vision.

Klaus was on the phone and talking to Stefan.

"Stefan, miss me already?" Klaus asked him

"I'm just calling to thank you for my freedom." Stefan said and the vision shifted to show him standing in a house.

"Oh, I like to believe I'm a man of my word." Klaus said

"You took everything from me Klaus." Stefan told him

"Stefan let bygones be bygones." Klaus said, "Trust me, resentment gets old."

"You know what never gets old?" Stefan asked, "Revenge."

Then Klaus walked up to a moving truck and opened it revealing an empty truck.

"No." Klaus said, furiously

"What's the matter Klaus." Stefan said, and I could see that he was surrounded by coffins, "Missing something?"

"What are you doing?" Klaus asked him

"Just enjoying my freedom."

"I will kill you and anyone you have ever met."

"You do that and you will never see your family again." Stefan warned him, "I wonder Klaus, as someone who has been one step ahead for one thousand years, were you prepared for this?"

Author's Note

Thank you to Grapejuice101 for her awsomeness

I'm so sorry it took so long to update. I have been very busy do to finals week so I haven't have much time to work on this but I hope this fifteen page chapter makes up for it. Please review and tell me what you think because feedback makes it easier for me to know what to write which helps me write chapters quickly which results in faster updates. So you see reviews = faster writing = fast updates. So review. Go ahead, review.

Since I was especially bored this week lets have a chat with some of my favorite characters.

Me: So I was right this whole time.

Audrey: What are you blabbering on about?

Me: Oh, just the fact that you were always in love with Damon

Damon: How couldn't she be, I'm me.

Me: Good point. * Smiling flirtatiously at Damon*

Audrey: I saw that, you keep your hands off of my man.

Me: Make me.

Audrey: I am half Jamaican and half Virginian I will kick you're butt.

Me: Well I am also half Jamaican and fully the writer of this story so I can easily break you two up.

Damon: Ladies, ladies, no need to fight over me.

Me: You're right. It's my own fault for hooking you two up in the first place. But I am happy for you guys.

Audrey: Thanks for putting us together, I really appreciate that.

Me: I'm sure you do. *rolls eyes* Now lets say goodbye so you two can do romantic coupley things.

Me, Damon, Audrey: Goodbye readers.

Damon: * Doing the annoyingly hot eye thing* and make sure to review.