Lucy was sleeping peacefully when a noise woke her. Her eyes snapped open, and she listened closely to the thrashing sound that was coming from the other room. Slipping her feet into her slippers, she followed the sound down the hall to Dante's closed door- pausing momentarily before knocking. She waited, but there was no answer. She was about to return to her room, when a banging noise echoed from behind the door.

Lucy swung the door open and peered inside. She was greeted by the site of a boxer-clad Dante, thrashing on his bed. The sheets had been thrown off the bed, and his face was arranged in an angry scowl. Steeling her nerves, Lucy approached the distressed vampire and placed her hands to his temples. Concentrating the bennet witch was submerged in Dante's dreams.

Lucy was falling through cold blackness, spinning furiously as she went, and then – Her feet slammed into marble flooring jarring her whole body. Sunshine was streaming from behind her, toasting her back. Lucy looked around carefully. Was this a memory or a dream? Lucy looked around searching for Dante. And there he was, at a large window right behind her.

This was a different Dante then what Lucy was used to. His hair was long and swept back into a ponytail. His clothes were odd to her 21st century fashion sense; he was clad in simple a black tunic that stretched across his well-muscled chest showing his physique. Thrown over the tunic was what looked like a normal waistcoat, and a thick black belt with a square bronze buckle was around his waist. Attached to it was a sheathed sword.

Lucy listened as Dante started speaking.

"This is madness Elijah; we can't let Niklaus take his anger out on the townspeople! It is not their fault Katarina escaped!"

"And what would you have me do? You know full well the only way to neutralize an Original is with the dagger, and Nicklaus is immune to its affects "said Elijah who was dressed similar to Dante but with a deep brown colouring.

"You must go talk to Nicklaus, I will deal with his mongrels that are terrorizing the village people," Dante said as he strode to the door.

Swinging it open he was greeted by three burly men.

"Lord Nicklaus has ordered no one leave the estate, now-"

The leader was cut off as Dante leapt forward with a snarl and buried his hand in the vampire's chest. Quickly extracting the heart, Dante turned- unsheathing his sword as he did- and quickly decapitated the two remaining men.

Not sparing the bodies a glance Dante strode away.

Lucy suddenly felt a tugging sensation in her gut; when her mind was bombarded with images. Dante fighting a large group of vampires his clothes torn and bloodied; Dante with his vampire face on display savagely decapitates a vampire before jumping on another one trying to escape. And the last image which burned itself into her mind, Dante with blood dripping of his body in droves with a pile of bodies behind him with his eyes narrowed into slits with a feral snarl on his face.

Before Lucy could process what she saw she was thrown into another memory.

Dante was striding down a passageway that was adorned with suits of armour and tapestries before coming to a stop and a huge ok door. Not missing a beat Dante kicked the door of its hinges and strode in the room. The man inside paused his painting to stare at the intruder.

"Problem Dante?" asked the man sarcastically.

"You know very well what the problem is Niklaus! Your men hassling the town's people"

"They are searching for Katerina; how they do it is no business of mine"

At that Dante growled making Klaus smirk.

"Oh don't be so touchy Dante I will have a word with them" Klaus stated clearly not meaning it.

"Oh there is no need "Dante stated with a smirk "there all dead".

With that said Klaus dropped his mask of civility, flashed over to Dante and wrapped his hand around dantes windpipe digging his fingers into the flesh as he did.

"Are you insane?! They are our protection from Mikael!

Dantes form blurred as he kicked the Klaus kneecap sending him to his knees with a pained grunt, grabbing the man's arm Dante twisted it behind his back locking it in place.

"With your men causing a ruckus do you really think Mikael is not on his way? Besides they would be no match for Mikael.

With a sigh Dante released Klaus and offered him a hand up.

"Come Niklaus I have made arrangements for our departure. We must leave immediately"

Klaus stared at dantes outstretched hand "and how do I know you didn't kill my men so Mikael had an easier time getting to me?"

"You are not the only one that lost a mother that day Niklaus, Esther may not have been blood but she was still my mother. I hate Mikael as much as you besides I made a promise we stick together as one, always and forever"

A hand had suddenly thumped onto her shoulder startling her. Jumping in shock she looked round to see who had hold of her, and feeling of horror settled over. A modern garbed Dante stood there, with an expressionless mask settled on his face.

"Having fun?"

And with that question Lucy felt herself rising into the air; the study evaporated around her; she was floating upwards through icy blackness with Dante hand still upon his her shoulder. Then, with a swooping feeling as though she had turned head-over-heels in mid-air, Lucy found herself back in her body, straddling a half-naked Dante.

Lucy scrambled of him quickly a blush staining her cheeks. She stared at Dante's emotionless face before stuttering out "Dante I'm sorry I just-"she was cut off as Dante emotionless mask broke cracking into a huge grin.

"You should have seen your face" he crowed in delight his laughter filling up the room.

Lucy scowled before turning and stalking to the door; she turned at the last minute and asked the question burning at the tip of her tongue

"Dante? That man, Niklaus is he really –"

"The Klaus?" Dante asked cutting her off. "Yes there was a time I considered him my best friend."

"What happened?"

Dante stared deep into Lucy eyes and answered, "He killed my wife."

Later on mystic grill

Bonnie rejoins Luka at the pool table. She smiled at him flirtatiously

"I come bearing coffee gifts." Stated bonnie handing him one of the cups she was holding.

Lucas smiled taking the offered mug "So you're talking to me now?"

"I found out what your mystery friend did, saving my friends from the wolf pack."

"Well, had I known that's all it took...?" Luka trailed of seemingly unaware of Bonnie's fishing.

"What do you say? You want to play a game?" Luka asked gesturing towards the pool table.

"Yeah"

"Yeah? " Smirked Luka

Luka suddenly lurched forward grabbing onto the pool table before him, his vision was foggy and the room was spinning around him

"What's happening to me?"

"You'll be ok." Bonnie answered moving closer to him.

As Luka collapsed forward he saw Caroline and Jeremy appear flanking bonnie.

"Why don't we go over here?" stated Bonnie in fake concern

"I got him, I got him," Jeremy replied as he caught Luka and brought him to a scheduled corner of the grill

"What kind of witch roofie was that?"

Bonnie smirked slyly before replying, "A Strong one."

Caroline's house

Bonnie and Caroline sat on the floor as Jeremy dumped Luca's body on the floor.

"We only have, like, an hour or two before my mom gets home." Caroline stated placing the candles she was carrying on the floor between them "And these are all I could find."

"Place these evenly around the room." Ordered bonnie not looking up from her Grimoire.

Jeremy takes some of them and started placing them around the room "How does this work?"

"Um" bonnie got a lost look on her face before glancing at the Grimoire "I'll put him in a trance and ask him questions. It's like hypnosis."

"You sure you're strong enough for this?"

"That's what the candles are for. I'll draw power from the flames." Stated bonnie, gesturing towards the candles.

"I'll get the matches." Said Caroline as she got ready to get up

Bonnie put her hand on her knee stopping her "I got it."

She closes her eyes and concentrates, and with a whoosh of air the candle wicks set alight.

"Never gonna get used to that."

"Caroline, please pass that bowl of water"

Luka starts to stir in the center of the circle, his eyes fluttering under his eyelids.

Bonnie quickly dips her hands in the water and places them on Luka's head. The candles flare up as Bonnie starts to cast her spell.

A short time later….

"How long is this gonna take?" questioned Caroline staring nervously at the clock "I can't exactly explain this to my mum if she's early".

Bonnies eyes where screwed up in concentration "I don't know. He's fighting me."

Her brow crinkled with beads of perspiration appearing on it as she concentrated harder her hands pressing harder into Luka's temples.

Luka's body suddenly arched of the floor his face screwed up in pain "Please stop! Please…" he trailed of as his body relaxed finally slipping into a trance. Bonnie immediately started firing of questions.

"There. All right, who mas the hooded man helping Elijah," she asked.

"He is someone who wants Klaus dead" answered Luka in a robotic monotone.

"What is he?"

"I don't know but he is something else, something powerful"

"Why are you working with Elijah?"

"Klaus. We both want him dead."

"You want to kill Klaus, too. Why?"

"Because he has her and we have to get her away from him."

"Who… who are you talking about?

"My sister."

"Why does he have her?"

"He's searching for a way to undo the curse without the doppelgänger. He's forced generations of witches to help him for centuries."

"What has Elijah promised you?"

"If we help Elijah kill Klaus, he's promised to return her to us."

"And how do you kill Klaus? How do you kill an original vampire?"

"He'll kill me if I tell you. Don't make me." Luka suddenly begged his monotone gone.

"How will you kill Klaus?" Bonnie demanded harshly, pressing more firmly into Luka's temples.

"After the sacrifice, Klaus will be vulnerable, weak. It's our only chance."

"What do you mean, after? "

"Klaus will be vulnerable."

"But Elena will be dead."

"Yes. Elena has to die."

Bonnie's arms dropped to her side in shock as stunned silence filled the room.

Gilbert Lake house same time

Elena was running her eyes wide with fear, adrenaline pumping through her veins as it urged her on.

But what could she do? She was a human and this guy was a werewolf. Knowing she couldn't fight him off Elena took of her sweater and rushed down the second set of stairs. She heard the thump of his boots as the man followed the scent of her sweater smirking she mad a dash for the front door. She made it outside the threshold before she was grabbed from behind. Brady smirks as Elena struggle and pulled the scruff of her shirt choking her slightly.

"Don't bother calling for help darling" he whispered in her ear letting an evil smirk grace his face as he heard Elena's heartbeat increase.

He gestured towards the woods and Elena's hopes were dashed as she saw Stefan pinned to the ground, two large stakes pinning his hands to the ground." We've already taken care of your little fanged boyfriend, now let's" he suddenly cut of mid-sentence a let Elena go. Elena drooped to the floor and spun around and was faced with a weird sight. Brady was clawing at his neck like he couldn't breathe and so were the two other wolves with him.

She jumped as she heard a cold voice behind here.

"You were warned"

She turned and saw someone cloaked in shadows one hand outstretched.

"No second chances" with a flick of the person's wrist 3 loud cracks filled the clearing as all the wolves fell to the floor. Their necks bent at an odd angle and glazed looks in their eyes.

All Elena could do was stare at the bodies before in fear before turning back to the mysterious person.

But there was no one there.