Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries, some of the Dialogue used, or anything else you may recognize.
Warning: There is some cursing in this chapter.
On a side note, let's talk about this week's episodes of the Originals and Vampire Diaries. Does anyone else hate Elijah right now or is that just me? Silas is dead, but I don't think we've seen the last of him, do you? Bonnie is alive, Yay!
On with the story!
Mystic Falls high school, September 26
8:17 A.M.
Rebekah gave a large sigh as she walked down the hallway. She and Caroline had just spent fifteen minutes cleaning up after the dance, only exchanging short, curt sentences. Vampire speed and strength did have their perks. Well, thank god that was over.
She stopped short when she saw someone blocking her way out of school. It was Caroline.
"I thought you took the other way out of school?" Rebekah told her in confusion.
"Rebekah."
Rebekah looked behind her to see Caroline behind her with a terrified look on her face. Rebekah was confused for a moment before realization dawned on her. Silas slammed her against the lockers before she could run. He pulled out the White Oak stake and was about to stake her when Caroline threw him off Rebekah. Caroline then twisted Silas arms back and forced him to stake himself. Silas painfully pulled the stake out of his heart and watched as the wound healed itself in seconds. He looked back up to see the blond Vampires had vanished.
Caroline was at her car, hurriedly trying to find her keys when she saw the reflection of a second her in the car window. Before she could react, Silas put his hands on her throat and snapped her neck. After she fell to the ground, Silas grabbed her left leg and started to drag her back inside the school. From behind a tree, Rebekah watched all this in utter terror.
Gilbert house
9:43 A.M.
Elena and Jeremy both sat at the kitchen table, picking at their breakfast in disinterest. They were both startled by a knock at the door. The Gilberts got up from the table and walked towards the door. They opened it to reveal Bonnie standing on the other side of the door.
"Hey Bonnie." Jeremy greeted softly.
"What are doing here?" Elena asked confused.
"I thought I'd check in; see how you two were doing with….everything." Bonnie told them, giving Elena a hug.
"Well our guardian was just turned into a vampire so all things considered, I think we're doing all right." Jeremy said as he stepped aside so his sister and ex-girlfriend could come inside.
"Well Damon called me, gave me the 411 on how Alaric's doing." Bonnie told them as they sat down at the kitchen table.
"So how is he?" Elena asked urgently.
"Well Damon's trying to teach him some self control." Bonnie told them.
"Are you sure Damon's the person for that job?" Elena asked skeptically.
Bonnie gave Elena a look that said 'really Elena really?'
"I know you and Care have Stefan on a pedestal but…wow. Just wow." Bonnie chuckled in shock.
"What?" Elena asked confused.
"Allow me to shatter this illusion that you and Stefan have created for yourselves," Bonnie said, "Damon is not the one who needs to constantly be kept in check. No, that position belongs to the self proclaimed 'good brother', Stefan."
Elena looked at her best friend in shock as Jeremy looked on curiously. After being out of the loop for so long, he was curious as to what Bonnie's opinion on the whole 'Damon vs. Stefan' debate that seemed to be going on nowadays was, as it had obviously changed while he had been away.
"In one day, one day, Damon was able to teach my mom more self control than Stefan has been able to teach himself in one hundred and sixty-six years," Bonnie told her, "Elena, I think it's time to consider the possibility that the brother that you and Caroline think is so under control and so safe…is really the one that is the most unstable and dangerous to us."
Salvatore Boarding house
10:07 A.M.
Damon walked over and handed Alaric a glass of Bourbon. Alaric looked at it questioningly before looking at Damon confused.
"Drink, it'll help dull the cravings." Damon told him gently.
Alaric glanced at the glass uncertainly before drowning it one giant gulp. He found that Damon was right, it did help slightly nullify the intense thirst for blood he had. Alaric sighed.
"How do you deal with it every second of every day?" Alaric asked.
"Decades of practice," Damon told him honestly, "At first it was hell on earth, right behind Katherine's 'death', but by the time I met up with Stefan fifty years later, I had managed to gain complete control over my hunger."
Alaric looked at him probingly. Damon hardly ever talked about what happened between him becoming a vampire and his arrival in Mystic Falls last year. Even this was new news. Now that he had all of eternity, maybe he would learn all of Damon's secrets.
"Come on, let's get back to work." Damon told him as he moved to get another blood bag.
Gilbert house
10:47 A.M.
Elena was drying her hands off in the bathroom when her cell phone rang. She put the towel back and picked it up.
"Hey Caroline." She answered it.
"I'm sorry, Caroline can't come to the phone right now."
"Damon?" Elena asked confused. What was Damon doing with Caroline's phone?
"Guess again."
"Silas." Elena said breathlessly her heart sinking.
"Give yourself a pat on the back Elena. Now, I have Caroline at Alaric's classroom. Get here fast or I will kill her. If you tell anyone I will kill her right there and then." Silas threatened before hanging up on her.
Down stairs at the kitchen table, Jeremy ran a hand through his hair.
"How did our lives get so messed up?" He asked Bonnie.
"When Stefan decided to enroll in our school." Bonnie told him dryly.
"It always comes back to Stefan's obsession with my sister doesn't it?" Jeremy asked sarcastically.
"I'm afraid so." Bonnie told him.
An awkward silence quickly descended upon the pair. Jeremy looked at Bonnie, had a brief inner debate with himself, and decided to go with it.
"Bonnie," He said drawing her attention, "look, I never told you this but…I am sorry."
Bonnie looked away from him for a moment. Jeremy thought that she was going to storm out for a moment when she spoke.
"How could you do that to me?" She asked in a vulnerable voice.
"Because I'm an idiot," Jeremy told her causing her to smile slightly, "look, I'm not gonna ask for your forgiveness, but I need you to know I'm sorry, more sorry than I've ever been in my life."
Any further conversation was interrupted by a knock at the door. Jeremy and Bonnie walked over to it and opened it to reveal Klaus.
"What are you doing here?" Jeremy snarled.
"Be careful Jeremy. I'm just on my way out of town. Thought I'd pick up a few road trip necessities. Spare tire, flashlight… Doppelganger." Klaus told him with an evil smirk.
"Go to hell." Jeremy snarled as he slammed the door in his face.
Jeremy and Bonnie both ran up stairs. Jeremy knocked on the bathroom door urgently.
"Elena! Elena, open up we have a problem!" Jeremy shouted.
There was no response. Jeremy and Bonnie exchanged a worried look before opening the door to reveal an empty bathroom. The duo ran to Elena's room to reveal on open window.
Salvatore Boarding house
10:55 A.M.
Practice was interrupted by Damon's phone ringing. Taking it out, he answered it upon seeing who it was.
"What is it Witchy?" Damon asked.
"Klaus is trying to get in the Gilbert house and Elena ran off." She told him hurriedly.
"What do you mean Elena ran off?" Damon demanded as Alaric stiffened in worry.
"I mean Jeremy and I came up stairs to tell her about Klaus and she was gone. And now Klaus is trying get inside the house." Bonnie told him.
"Damn it. Ric and I will be there soon." Damon told her quickly before hanging up.
"What about Stefan?" Alaric asked as they blurred to Damon's car.
"I haven't seen him all morning. We'll figure that out after we find Elena." Damon told him as they got in the car.
Damon started the car and they drove off at top speed.
Mystic Falls high school, Alaric's class room
11:07 A.M.
Elena walked into the classroom and froze in horror. Caroline was at her desk, gagged with a white cloth that was probably soaked in Vervain with her hands staked to the desk by two pencils. Every couple seconds, she would let a muffled cry of pain. And if she didn't know better, she'd say that the person sitting at Alaric's desk was Damon.
"Let her go Silas." She told him.
"Free her yourself…if you can." The immortal said with a dark smirk.
Casting a wary look at Silas, Elena slowly walked over to Caroline. She kneeled down and slowly began to pull the pencil out of Caroline's right hand. Just as Elena had almost managed to pull it out, Silas had slammed it back in. Caroline let out a muffled scream as Elena glared at Silas.
"You promised you'd let her go!" She shouted at him.
"And you believed me? You need to stop trusting people so easily Elena," Silas told her as he began to walk away from her, "especially today."
"Why today, what makes today so special?" Elena inquired.
Silas paused, turning back to face her with a twisted smile on Damon's face. Seeing such a smile on Damon's normally handsome face unlevered Elena.
"Today marks the beginning of a war," Silas began to explain, "but not a war between nations that you read about in your history books. No, a war between species; a supernatural war. On one side of the conflict is me. On the other side is Caroline, your precious Salvatore brothers, Alaric, Klaus and his siblings, and every other Vampire on the planet."
Elena looked him in horror as he smirked at her horror struck face.
"I'm sure that you've heard of my story from Damon or one the Originals. At first, all I wanted to do was be reunited with my lost love, but your little circle of friends and enemies have become a thorn in my side one too many times. Now, all I can think about is how much I want to kill them. Once that is done, I will find a way to die so I can be reunited with my lost love." Silas explained his motives to the shocked Doppelganger.
Silas walked back over to Alaric's desk and sat down in his chair, putting his feet on the desk like he owned the place.
"Well I guess this must put an effective end to your little love triangle doesn't it Elena? Personally, I don't see the point in it all." Silas admitted as he began tapping the White Oak Stake on the edge of the desk.
At Elena and Caroline's confused looks, he decided to explain.
"Do you know why I took Damon's form Elena?" He asked the Doppelganger.
Elena shook her head in confusion. What possible reason could he have for looking like Damon, then again, what reasons could he have for taking the appearance of anyone?
"It's because he is the one you wanted to see most at that moment and the person you want to come to your rescue most. It is not Stefan that your mind is screaming to come save you and Caroline, but Damon. He was your first thought when I first meet you as Esther, he was what you were thinking about last night when I arrived at your house last night as Meredith, and he's who you want to save you right now. Every time you and I see each other he is what you are thinking about. That is the very definition of love." Silas told them stopping his tapping and pocketing the stake.
Gilbert house
11:17 A.M.
Bonnie and Jeremy were up in Elena's room when they heard someone blur in through the window. They turned to see Damon standing in front of the window.
"Where's Alaric?" Jeremy whispered.
Damon gestured out window towards the corner where his Camaro could be seen. The trio walked out of Elena's room and walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"Elena's car is gone." Damon told them.
"Why wouldn't she tell anyone where she was going?" Bonnie asked the two males.
Further conversation was interrupted by the front door slamming open. The three of them, startled, looked to see Stefan standing at the door. Before Damon could inquire as to where he had been, He blurred over to Bonnie and put her in a neck lock. Klaus walked up to the door with a smug smirk as Damon and Jeremy looked on in shock.
"I deliver to the two of you an ultimatum," Klaus told them, "invite me in, or Stefan will snap her little neck."
"What is wrong with you Stefan?" Jeremy asked aghast.
"Isn't it obvious Jer," Damon said causing the human to look at him, "Rebekah tortured him, bled him dry of Vervain, and somewhere in that time period Klaus compelled him."
"Well done Damon, you always were the only one in your little group who could see the bigger picture." Klaus smirked at the younger Vampire.
"I must admit Klaus, you've thought of everything," Damon said turning to face the hybrid, "choosing to do this while we're distracted by Silas, doing it while Alaric is in no condition to be around Elena and Jeremy, compelling Stefan. It's brilliant. There's just one thing you over looked."
Curious, Klaus raised an eye brow at Damon. Faster than anyone, even Klaus could blink, Damon blurred behind Stefan and a sickening crack was heard. Stefan's arms went limp and his arms slide apart from Bonnie's throat as he fell to the ground. Damon stepped in front o Bonnie protectively as he stared Klaus down fearlessly.
"I'm faster, stronger, and a hell of a lot less restrained than my brother." Damon told him.
Klaus gave him a dirty look, then turned around and walked away. Knowing this wasn't the end of it, Damon was about to ask Bonnie and Jeremy if they had any ideas when his phone rang. Opening it up, Damon answered it after checking the caller ID.
"Now's not really a good time Blondie." Damon told who he thought was Caroline.
"Is that so Damon?"
"Why do you have Caroline's phone Silas?" Damon demanded upon hearing his own voice.
"Because I have her and Elena here in Alaric's classroom. Now, unless Klaus surrenders himself to me, they will both be dead by sundown. So, deliver my message Mr. Salvatore." Silas ordered before hanging up.
Damon pocketed his phone and locked to see Klaus coming up to the porch with a flaming news paper and a gas tank. Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.
"Put it out." Damon told him as he walked to the doorway.
"Then why don't you come outside and make me mate?" Klaus snarled.
Shrugging, Damon walked out the door and in front of Klaus.
"Elena's not here, Silas has her and Caroline at Alaric's classroom and he's gonna kill them both unless you surrender yourself to him." Damon told the hybrid.
Klaus stared at Damon for a long, tense moment before throwing the news paper down on the porch and setting the gas tank down away from it. Klaus then gave Damon a calculating star.
"Now I know you're not asking me to walk into certain death." Klaus told him.
"Well I wouldn't have a problem with that if it weren't for the fact there's a one-in-four chance that I would die with you." Damon told him.
"So why should put my life on the line?" Klaus demanded of him.
"Because Silas has Caroline. Don't you have a thing for her or did she reject you one too many times?" Damon asked him.
Before this could erupt into a brawl between them, Bonnie walked outside.
"I may have an idea." Bonnie told them.
Damon and Klaus turned their attention towards the witch, obviously eager to hear the plan.
"My mom used a desiccation spell on Mikael that immobilized him for over fifteen years. If I can get it, I might be able to use it on Silas." Bonnie told them.
"If and might, your words inspire such confidence." Klaus said dryly.
"I'll get it, but even with the spell we'll need a lot of Vampire muscle to take him down, including yours." Bonnie told him.
Klaus turned around. He looked up at the sun for a moment.
"Just so you know, in about eight hours, the sun will be down, Elena will be dead, I'll be gone, and the rest of you can fend for yourselves." Klaus told them.
Alaric's classroom
11:29 A.M.
Silas tied around a white rag around Caroline's mouth as she groaned painfully.
"The gag is soaked with Vervain, keeping it in her system. It's life swallowing razor blades for a vampire." Silas explained to Elena.
Caroline's mouth started to steam and she started to moan in pain as Elena glared at Silas.
"Why are you doing this?"She demanded.
"Because I hate Vampires," Silas told her, "They're all just a sick perversion of me."
He paused as he walked around Caroline, looking at Elena piercingly as he flashed her Damon's signature smirk.
"I disgust you, is that it? Well, I'll disgust you a lot more once I kill your friend here." Silas told her as took out the white Oak Stake.
"What, no! You told Damon he had until Sundown!" Elena shouted in protest.
"I lied. It's what I do." Silas told her condescendingly.
Before Elena could blink, Silas staked Caroline. Although Elena was immensely relieved to see that it was in the shoulder and not in the heart.
"You you eight more hours until you die little Vampire. So don't think this over." Silas whispered in Caroline's ear before taking the stake out.
"Take that as a lesson. You can't always believe what people tell you." Silas told the stunned Elena.
Salvatore Boarding house
11:45 A.M.
Stefan came to and looked around dazed. He was lying on the couch at the Boarding house, the fire place burning. Bonnie was in front of him pacing back and forth. She stopped when she saw that he was awake.
"How are you feeling?" She asked.
"Confused. What happened, the last thing I remember is Klaus telling me to restrain you." Stefan answered her as he got off the couch.
"Damon snapped you're neck and we fed you some Vervain to take away the compulsion. Silas has Elena and Caroline at school and I'm waiting for Abby to show up so I can ask her about the Desiccation spell she used on Mikael." Bonnie explained.
At that moment, the door bell rung. Bonnie walked over to the door and opened it, revealing her mother on the other side.
"Hello Bonnie." She said.
"Thanks for coming." Bonnie said quietly.
"Jamie said it was urgent." Abby said.
"It is, come in please." Bonnie said as she led her mother inside.
Mystic Falls high school parking lot
11:47 A.M.
Damon and Klaus exited Klaus's van as Damon's phone when off. Damon looked at the text as he slammed the door shut. Damon looked over at Klaus.
"Momma Bennett showed up." Damon told him.
"Good…you know that if we go in there and take down Silas, that I'm still leaving with Elena." Klaus said to him.
"Over my dead body." Damon declared threateningly.
"You'd die...all for one human girl who has hurt you repeatedly. Why?" Klaus asked him.
"Well maybe if you'd ever loved someone other than yourself you'd understand." Damon told him coldly.
Salvatore Boarding house
11:57 A.M.
Abby was staring at Bonnie as Stefan looked on.
"You want to use the Dessication spell that I used on Mikael on Silas?" Abby asked in disbelief.
"Mom, there's no other option. If we don't stop him he will kill Elena and Caroline." Bonnie told her.
"It's too dangerous," Abby insisted, "your magic comes from the earth, it's pure. This spell is too much for you."
"You abandoned me for sixteen years; you have no Idea what I'm capable of." Bonnie argued coolly.
"This spell allows you to stop a vampire's heart, but you must find a balance among the living. Can you handle that?" Abby challenged.
At Bonnie's look of realization and horror, Stefan walked over to them.
"Bonnie, what's she talking about?" He asked.
With a shaky breath, she turned towards him.
"I have to stop a human heart." She told him.
Outside Mystic Falls high school
12:11 P.M.
Alaric and Jeremy were sitting on the bench as Stefan and Bonnie got out of the car and walked towards them. Across the grass, Damon and Klaus began walking towards them. Once they were all in the same place, Bonnie took out a vial of blood.
"drink this. This is a vial of my blood; it will bring us all together so when I stop Jeremy's heart, I'll be able to stop Silas's. you need to make a physical connection to his bloodstream. An artery, vein, something connected to his heart."
"One of us gets a clean shot; the other two hold him down." Stefan said as he passed the vial to Damon.
"What do you mean, I'm going with you." Alaric interjected.
"You're less than twenty four hours old Ric, your staying here to protect Bonnie and Jeremy." Damon told him in a tone that left no room for argument as he passed the vial to Klaus.
"Before we go ahead, let's make sure we're on the same page. I was the one who created your bloodline, so I am responsible for the life of the two of you, and Tyler's life, Caroline's life, and of course Abby's life should anything go wrong." Klaus told them as he drowned the blood.
"Or you're lying to save your skin." Alaric argued.
"Well why don't you test that theory, let's let Silas kill me. I guarantee that your friends here will all be dead soon after." Klaus said with a smirk.
"Enough talk, let's do this." Damon said as started to walk into the school.
Alaric's class room
12:15 P.M.
Silas stood up from the desk and walked in front of Caroline. Then to the surprise of the two girls, he unstaked her hands and ungagged her.
"Go ahead, your free to go." Silas told her as he waved his hand dismissingly.
"What?" Caroline asked in shock.
"You've served your purpose," Silas told her, "oh sure, I had lots of ideas, but the end game was always to lure Klaus here. I took all the necessary steps. I compelled everyone but you and Rebekah to skip the clean up duty so I could capture the two of you. When Rebekah escaped, I wasn't certain that Klaus's affection for you would be enough, so I trapped his means of creating Hybrids here with you."
Silas then used his hand to lift her chin up to where she locked eyes with him.
"Now Caroline, you're going to go home and stay there until someone tells you otherwise. Understand?" He compelled her.
At her nod, he dropped his hand back to his side. Caroline stood up and blurred out of the room. Once she was out of sight, Silas turned to Elena with a predatory smile. Elena felt fear that she hadn't felt because of that smile that she hadn't in over a year.
Silas walked over to her and dragged her out of the classroom by the arm. He slammed her against the lockers and grabbed her throat.
"You doppelgangers all disgust me. I'd kill right now…if I didn't need you once I'm done with this war." Silas whispered in her ear menacingly.
Silas then punched her in the head hard enough to knock her out. As he dropped her to the floor, His arms were restrained by the Salvatores. For all of one second, they had him. Then Silas used his mental abilities to assault them with a barrage of painful images. That was all the distraction he needed to throw them off. Silas then snapped Damon's neck. Stefan stood up as Silas faced him.
"So shall we dance Stef?" Silas asked him mockingly.
Stefan growled. He had enough on his plate without this guy coming into town and threatening the people he cared about.
"I agree," Silas said with a mocking smile throwing Stefan for a loop before he remembered that Silas could read minds, "I mean it must be exhausting continuously alienating the only family you have left all for a human girl who may or may not still love you."
Stefan tried to ignore him, instead trying to figure out where Klaus was. He happed that The Hybrid hadn't balled once Caroline was safe.
"Want to know a secret Stefan? After being inside Elena's head, I know exactly how this little triangle of yours is going to end." Silas revealed.
Stefan froze. As much as he wanted to deny it, he wanted the burning question of whether Elena still loved him answered, even if that answer came from Silas.
"Honestly Stefan, even if by some miracle you manage to kill or Dessicate me, I don't see the words 'they lived happily ever after' in your future," Silas told him cruelly clearly enjoying the look of despair on Stefan's face, "what I do see…is Damon and Elena. Don't get me wrong, she'll probably still choose you…at first. Because when it comes to her feelings for Damon, Elena Gilbert is a coward. However, it is only a matter of time. Maybe a week, maybe a month, heck, maybe years and years afterwards, she'll show up at his door, ready to be with the Salvatore brother she really wants to be with."
Seeing Stefan's look of denial, Silas's smirk widened.
"What don't believe me while I look like your brother," Silas said before he changed into an attractive blond woman causing Stefan to step back, "Well how about now that I look like your old friend Lexi?"
At that moment, Klaus blurred over and stuck his hand right where Silas's heart was, causing the immortal to scream in pain.
Behind the school in the woods
12:17 P.M.
Jeremy was lying down on the grass as bonnie stood kneeling over him. A little ways away, Alaric stood standing guard. At an unknown woman's scream, Bonnie turned to Jeremy.
"They've made contact. It's happening." Bonnie said to them.
Bonnie placed her hand over Jeremy's heart and began chanting. As she chanted, the wind picked up and leaves began blowing all over the place.
The school
12:18 P.M.
Klaus was holding his hand slightly in Silas's heart when a searing pain suddenly ran pierced his skull. Klaus removed his hand from Silas dropped to his knees, screaming in pain.
Outside
Same time
The wind suddenly stopped and Bonnie drew her hands back. Jeremy looked at her as Alaric glanced over at them worriedly.
"What happened?" Alaric inquired.
"I don't know. I lost the connection." Bonnie explained.
The school
12:19 P.M.
Silas took out the White Oak Stake and Tackled Klaus to the ground. He was about to stake him when Stefan tackled him off of Klaus. Klaus, taking advantage of their scuffle, stood up and blurred over to Elena before getting them both out of there. Seeing this, Silas snapped Stefan's neck before going after the Hybrid.
After blurring outside and seeing that he was nowhere to be found, Silas angrily skulled back inside as Damon was beginning to come to. As Damon sat up, groaning, he looked over to see Stefan with his neck snapped. Hearing foot steps behind him, Damon looked up to see someone who looked like Lexi.
"Klaus just took off with Elena." Silas told him.
Damon processed this for all of one second before blurring over to Stefan, throwing him over his shoulder, and blurring out of the school.
Mikealson Mansion
1:21 P.M.
Elena tried to focus her mind, but the large amount of blood that had been drained from her body by the tube and into the bag made it difficult. She distantly, or felt like distantly, hear a pair of footsteps. It was probably just Klaus again, she mused. But she felt her hands being untied and tube being removed from her arm. Looking up, she saw Tyler throwing the IV down.
"What are you doing?" She asked weakly.
"Shh." Tyler shushed her.
As he got the ropes of her hands she looked past his shoulder and saw something that made her heart freeze in horror.
"Tyler." She called.
He looked at her and, following her gaze, saw Klaus standing outside the room, looking far angrier than Tyler had ever seen him. Tyler stood up and stared the older Hybrid down.
"So much for that Sire bond." Klaus said in a tone that spoke of great fury.
"I'm not your little bitch anymore." Tyler told him defiantly.
Klaus smirked wickedly before striding into the room like he owned the place…which technically he did. Tyler tried not to let him know how much fear he felt at the Originals presence.
"How did you break the Sire bond?" Klaus inquired.
"By breaking every bone in my body a thousand times for the girl I love." Tyler told him coolly.
"That's impossible." Klaus said in disbelief.
"Is it? Or maybe real love is stronger than fake loyalty, but what would you know about that." Klaus challenged him.
"You know you should be thanking me," Klaus hissed, "I gave you a gift; I took away your misery."
"You didn't give a crap about me; you just didn't want to be alone!" Tyler shouted.
Tyler turned his back on Klaus and walked to Elena. He picked up and lifted her into his arms. However, Klaus blurred over and shoved her out of Tyler's arms, causing her to fall and hit her head on the fireplace mantle. Klaus then shoved Tyler up against the wall.
"Goodbye Tyler." Klaus said causally before lifting his free hand back so he could rip out Tyler's heart.
However, Tyler twisted the hand holding his down, breaking it. As he gasped in pain, Damon blurred over and restrained one of his arms and Tyler grabbed the other. Stefan then blurred over stuck his hand slightly into Klaus's heart the same way Klaus had done earlier with Silas. As he screamed, the two Vampires and one Hybrid heard his heart begin to slow. It slowed to the point where he could not fight back. Seeing that it was no longer necessary to restrain him, Damon dropped his arm and walked over to Elena. He helped her up as Klaus's heart stopped. They all looked on as Klaus's skin turned a clay-like grey.
Lockwood Mansion
7:00 P.M.
Elizabeth Forbes walked through the door, looking at Carol Lockwood in exasperation.
"What possessed you to call an emergency council meeting at this hour?" Liz asked.
"I didn't call the meeting," Carol told her as she led Liz to the lounge, "He did."
Liz looked inside to see Damon standing as the other members of the council, minus Alaric, stood sitting in various pieces of furniture in the room. Damon looked up as the two women entered the room.
"Join us Liz, I was just telling the council about our Vampire problem, or, to be more accurate, your Vampire problem." Damon said.
"What are you doing?" Liz asked angrily, was Damon trying to get himself exposed?
"Well perhaps you and the mayor can enlighten the group on the strives you've taken to eliminate the issue. Oh that's right, you haven't." 'Damon' said.
Liz and Carol looked at him in horror. He wouldn't, would he?
"You see the Sherriff, a woman we elected to keep our town safe and secure, has a vampire for a daughter." 'Damon announced.
The council began murmuring amongst themselves as Carol and Liz looked at 'Damon' in shock.
"And the Mayor, a son who is half Vampire, Half Werewolf." 'Damon' announces.
"Why are you doing this?" Carol asked him angrily.
"These women are hypocrites," 'Damon' continued ignoring Carol, "they claim to spear head the defense against the supernatural presence, then cover up the violent attacks committed by their children."
"That enough," Liz interrupted sharply, "This meeting is over."
She turned around and began to walk out of the house but her path was quickly intercepted by 'Damon.'
"Sit down Liz, We're just getting started." 'Damon' told her with a predatory smile and a dark look in his eyes that spoke of unspeakable evil.
"It was at that moment that Liz and Carol realized that the man in front of them was not Damon Salvatore.
Stefan's car, en route to Mystic Falls Quarry
7:10 P.M.
"Come on Stef, say it." Damon insisted.
"We won." Stefan said while rolling his eyes.
"Once more with feeling." Damon told him.
"We won." Stefan said more upbeat.
"Thank you." Damon said.
"No, thank you. Turns out we make a pretty good team." Stefan admitted.
"Only took us a century-and-a half." Damon said.
"So…what happens when Elena makes her decision?" Stefan asked him.
"You know how these things work. She'll probably make a list of pros and cons and dump both our asses." Damon said off handedly.
"And…if she doesn't?" Stefan asked.
"Then she'll pick one of us." Damon said slightly bitterly showing who he thought she'd pick.
"What I do see…is Damon and Elena. Don't get me wrong, she'll probably still choose you…at first. Because when it comes to her feelings for Damon, Elena Gilbert is a coward. However, it is only a matter of time. Maybe a week, maybe a month, heck, maybe years and years afterwards, she'll show up at his door, ready to be with the Salvatore brother she really wants to be with."
Silas's words flashed through Stefan's mind almost mockingly. As he took a deep breath, Stefan made a choice that, if she ever found out, he knew Elena would hate him for. He would manipulate his brother's sense of nobility.
"Well if she chooses you…I'll leave town and let you two be happy." Stefan told his brother.
"And in sixty years, none of this will have mattered right?" Damon asked rhetorically.
"Right." Stefan said softly.
There was a short silence that was broken by Damon sighing.
"Fine. If she chooses you…I'll leave town to," Damon promised reluctantly, "…all this over one girl."
"She's a pretty special girl." Stefan said wishfully.
"Yeah, she is." Damon said with a soft smile.
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