"You can't kill him, you aren't invited in this house." "Well I can kill the owner, unless you two plan on staying in this house forever?" I am about to pounce, but Jay holds me back. "Careful, Mariana, don't do anything you'll regret," He says, pulling out a sharp wooden stake. He smirks and slowly walks away. "Fine." I can just feel him cockily smiling, even though his back is facing me. He turns around and says, "Give me your word." "I give you my word that I will help you kill Klaus if you make sure that my brother lives past his birthday, and protect him in any way possible when you are in this town." "Those are many demands, Mariana." "You ask for a lot from me, I will do the same in return," I say with a smile. "I give you my word," He says. "And just to let you know," I start, whilst walking closer to the doorway, "A man's word defines who he is as a person. It is his pride. Don't break your promise to me, Mikael." He nods, surprisingly willingly. "Then, to complete your task… you may come in." He steps inside and smiles. "I'm glad we're on the same page." I tell him about how Percy died and he reassures me that it won't happen to Jayden.
I am walking to the Salvatore house, looking for Rebekah. I see Elena's car leaving the driveway and hear Rebekah crying. I immediately flash next to her and ask, "What's wrong, Bekah?" "He killed her." "What?" "Niklaus killed Esther." "Oh my god." I can't even process or understand what Rebekah must be feeling. I know the feeling of being lied to and betrayed, but never to this extreme. I sit down next to her and pull her close to me. She sobs into my shoulder and I rub her back. "It's ok, Rebekah. We'll fix this. He will pay," I say, meaning that more intensely that Rebekah realizes. He will pay, whether I like it or not. I will always choose me brother over anybody else, even the man I love, or, used to love. I don't even know at this point.
I am at the Gilbert house doorstep. "Kol!" I yell. I scream at the top of my lungs and crouch down into a little ball saying, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no NO!" I say it over and over again. I know someone is beside me, threatening the people inside the house, but my dream wont let me see any of that. I can only feel pain. Whatever is going on, this is a bigger reaction than I had when my family died, so it must be big…
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I wake up crying and screaming with Tyler and Jayden next to me, shaking me, trying to make me get up. "Carmen! Carmen! What's wrong? Are you ok?" Tyler asks. Why is Tyler here? Oh my god. I haven't told Tyler anything. I asked everybody to not tell him everything because I didn't want to get him involved, but it's a little late now… I don't say anything. I just get up, walk over to my bathroom and slam the door. I lean against it and fall to the ground. I squeeze my knees and rock back and forth. After composing myself, I leave the bathroom, let out a deep breath, and say, "Just… a bad dream. That's all. Why are you here?" "I called him. When I find my sister screaming at the top of her lungs while fast asleep, I call somebody," Jayden says. I then hear someone, a vampire, downstairs. "Tyler, I really appreciate it, but as I said, it's nothing. I- uh, I need to talk to Jayden, though." "I can't leave until I know your safe. Partially because I am worried and partially because Klaus told me I couldn't." Mikael speeds in and snaps Tyler's neck and says, "Well isn't that unfortunate." We talk more with Mikael and devise a plan. Tonight's a full moon, but there are no wolves out. Mikael is going to compel somebody to lock Jayden up in the Lockwood Cellar, where he'll be safe while we are killing Klaus.
An hour later, I am at the Salvatore house devising a plan to lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls. "If you're lying to me, Stefan, your compulsion will expose you; so answer with your life. Is what you're saying the truth?" Klaus asks. Stefan is telling him that Mikael is dead and Klaus needs to come back to see it. "It's true. I saw it with my own eyes." "I want to talk to Mariana." I cannot believe I'm doing this, Carmen. Mariana would never do this. Yea, well Mariana didn't have a living brother to protect. This isn't protection, Carmen; it's being a coward. You're too scared to fight, so you help the enemy kill your love, so Jayden is protected. A real sister protects him herself. "That's not a problem. She's right here," Stefan answers as he hands the phone to me. "Hello, Niklaus." "What's this I hear about Mikael's tragic run-in with a dagger?" He asks. I look at Mikael's dead body and then at Elena. She nods and I say, "It's true, Niklaus. Rebekah is overjoyed, as am I. The bastard is finally dead. Now come home, Nik. Mystic Falls is dreary without you." We hang up and I give the phone back to Stefan. "He bought it. He's coming home." I then flash out. I am with Bonnie. "Hey," She says, seeing me. We are at her house. "Can we talk about what happened at Ric's flat?" She nods and we decide to go to a café in Town Square. "You think you're a witch?" Bonnie asks after we're seated. I nod. "Last night, and every night for the past few weeks, I have had one dream. Last night I woke up crying from it. All I know is that I am screaming and crying from it and saying one word – Kol." I decide, since right now she is the best friend out of everybody here (besides Jeremy, who I've already confessed everything to) to tell her everything that I haven't told pretty much everyone else. I rant on about all my dreams and go into full detail. I then tell her about when Maddox knocked me out and what happened. It takes two hours to do so. We decide to go back to her place. We are sitting in her living room with a dying flower in front of me. It used to be healthy, and then I tried to make it grow faster, and ended up making it start to die. "Just focus and say, Phasmatos Tribum, Plantus Vivifey, Plantus Herbus." This spell revives plants. I took in a deep breath, closed my eyes, and then let it out. "Phasmatos Tribum, Plantus Vivifey, Plantus Herbus." I open my eyes and see the still dyeing flower. "Ugh! I can't do this! I give up!" I say, slamming my hands on the table. I put my head in my hands and breathe deeply, trying to calm myself. "Carmen?" Bonnie asks. "What?" I ask annoyed. I look up and see a fully revived and blossoming flower. I smile and laugh out of pure happiness, as does Bonnie. She grabs a candle and says, "Never mind the incantation, just… will it to light. I nod and cup my hands around the candle. I think about happy things, like back in England with my family – laughing, playing, and fooling around. I then think about a candle that is lit. I picture in my mind a candle being lit. I then open my eyes and see that it was lit, as was the fire in the fireplace. We smile at each other and she says, "Now put the fire out." I look at the fire for a few seconds and then close my eyes. I think about happy times and then about a fire going out. I open my eyes and see that the lights have gone out, along with the fire. "That's odd. There's no storm, why did the lights go out?" "That was you, Carmen." "Oh my god…" I say, shocked. She nods in agreement. We spend a little while longer on this and then I see the time. "We best be going to Elena's house," I announce. In the car, I say, "Thank you Bonnie, for all of this. I don't know what's going on, but thank you for helping me." She nods and says, "It's good that you told somebody about everything, and I'm glad it was me. We are going to find out who did it."
We are at Elena's house and I'm with Jeremy and Bonnie is with Elena. I am sitting on the couch watching reruns of the game last Thursday between the Steelers and the Patriots. "You know their talking about you, right?" I ask Jeremy as he brings two sandwiches over. "I messed up, Carmen. Aren't you supposed to be the best friend who says that it isn't that bad?" "No. I'm supposed to be the best friend that constantly reminds you the mistake that you made and how you are supposed to get your ass off the couch and fix it!" "You're criticizing me about my love life? Like yours is perfect? You are trying to kill your lover." That went to far. "You want to know why I'm trying to kill him?" I screamed. "Because if I don't, Mikael will kill Jayden, and I will never put anybody before my brother."
"Hey, can you hand me the glitter gun?" Caroline asks Tyler. We are at the school getting ready for homecoming. Caroline and Tyler are decorating a big car very… colorfully, to say the least. "Thanks." Tyler sees me and gives me a look asking what's up. I mouth nothing back to him. I know I'm lying; he knows I'm lying; hell, Caroline probably knows I'm lying. We cover it up though, because causing an infamous Lockwood Family Argument won't help any. I haven't told Tyler how I broke the sire bond yet, because Klaus dying should break it. I walk over to Melissa; I think that's her name… She's a freak about history so I compel her, "Go to my house and get my brother, Jayden. Then bring him to the Lockwood Cellar and Lock him up. Don't let anybody get in your way." I give her my address and she obeys.
cgi/set?id=176392396 The dance was canceled because the gym flooded, probably of Klaus's doing. Tyler is moving the party to his house. I walk to the front and a hybrid immediately stops me and says, "Who are you?" "You have five seconds to move before yet another person is added to the list of people who died at the Lockwood house," I say, flashing my teeth. He immediately lets me in, partially because I'm a hybrid and partially because he was about to piss his pants. I walk in and immediately smell many more hybrids. I ignore it and go to find Bonnie and Elena. I find Elena and sense something off about her. "Elena!" She scoffs. "You're friends with Elena now? Who would've known?" I am confused for a second before saying, "You are sneaky." I see Klaus and I immediately say in a shaky voice, "I'm going to go find the food." I walk over to Nik, which was right next to the food table. I fix myself up some food while saying, "You came back." "Of course I came back. You wanted me here. How could I refuse?" I stop what I'm doing and look at him. I look into his beautiful eyes that I fell in love with so many times. I then feel Katherine watching us so I immediately snap out of my trance. I go to walk away, knowing that I am forgetting my food but not caring, before Klaus grabs my arm and yanks me back into his grasp. "I think you're forgetting something, sweetheart," His warm breath travels down my neck, making me shiver. I can't take it anymore. I look into his eyes and immediately our lips collide. We hold that passionate kiss for longer than we probably should have and finally break away. I am confused as to what I just did. In the same day, I signed his death certificate and I think I've fallen in love with him. I immediately pull away from his grasp, feeling immensely guilty. I speedily walk away and back inside. I run upstairs to my old room, which is now the guest room, with some of my stuff still in it, and sit on the bed silently and stare off into space.
"I love you, Mariana," he tells me. Just hearing him say it for the first time makes me squeal with delight in my mind. "I love you too, Niklaus." I lean in and kiss him ever so passionately until he pulls away. "What's the matter?" I ask. "Nothing," He says, cupping my face. "I want this moment to last forever." I giggle at his sappiness. "Trust me, Nik. It will last longer if you stop talking and kiss me."
"Carmen? Are you ok? Why are you in here?" I hear a voice ask. "Carmen?" My vision comes back and I see Tyler with a worried expression on his face. "Huh? Oh, I'm fine, I just needed a minute." "You kissed him." I look at him funny and ask, "Who told you?" "Nobody. Practically everybody saw it. You were kissing for like ten minutes." I laugh and then remember something. "You could've told me." "What?" He asks, confused. "You could have told me I am a Lockwood. And that you are my cousin." "Who-" "That doesn't matter." "I didn't tell you because my dad said I couldn't tell you. I didn't have a choice in the matter." I nod. "We can talk about this later. I need to get downstairs." "Wait, why?" "I need to fix what happened. I kissed him. I shouldn't have," I lied. Kissing him, for some reason, didn't feel like a mistake at all.
I go out and see Klaus playing beer pong surrounded by hybrids. He still doesn't know that I broke the curse, so I must be careful around him. "You have a visitor," one of the hybrids, Mindy, says. "Well, tell my visitor I'm on the brink of victory here." "He said his name was Mikael." I immediately rush out and ask Mikael, who is standing at the doorstep, "What aren't you coming in?" "I wasn't invited, if you recall the rules?" I turn and leave, while catching Nik's eye. I give him a scared look, even though I'm not. I watch from afar and see Mikael bring out "Elena" aka Katherine and threaten to kill her. Mikael stabs Katherine and Damon tackles Klaus and misses his heart the first stab, but before he can do it again, I rush and tackle Damon and Stefan throws him against the wall. "What the hell are you two doing?!" Damon demands. I step outside and see Mikael's burning body. "I told him that he would pay. I never break my word," I say, while standing next to Niklaus. He takes my hand and says, "I know it still hurts, Mariana. You lost probably the most important person in your life. I know it hurts." I let a tear drop. Damon probably heard that, so I have questioning to look foreword to, after he screams at me for saving Klaus… I immediately flash out and to the Lockwood Cellar. I see Jayden locked up, still breathing. "You're going to make it, Jayden," I say as I sit down next to him. "What happened? Is Klaus dead?" There is a moment of silence before he says, "Klaus is still alive, isn't he?" I nod. "I don't want to talk about that. I want this to be about you. I mean, you are surviving death, which is always fun…" I try to joke, but fail. I then see a werewolf bite mark start to form on his neck. He starts screaming in pain. "Jayden? Jayden, what's going on? Jayden!" I yell. A few bleeding bite marks start to form on his legs and arms. "No, no, no, this can't be happening! No!" I cry and scream, even though I know it won't help. "Jayden?" I croak out. "Jayden are you still there?" "I love you sis, don't- forget that. Goodbye." "No, don't say that, no! You can't die, please, please, please! You can't die!" I then hear silence. I hear the worst silence in the world. The silence when I hear my own heartbeat, but not Jayden's. The silence when I know that my brother is dead.
