The cell door slammed shut and Elena secured the latch. "I would have sank a needle full of vervain or wolfsbane into him but unfortunately I don't think either would have worked on a hybrid," the doppelganger was flippant.
"Don't worry, we don't need it to keep him down," Lydia reassured their little ragtag group. "I've spelled the room with sigils that will hold him in there until we're ready to release him."
"And when will that be," Caroline jumped in. "I mean, according to Klaus there's an entire pack of wolves out there waiting to hear from their alpha. How long do we have before they huff and they puff and they force their way in here?"
"I wouldn't worry about that," Katherine said, her sudden appearance had gone unnoticed as she had stepped out when Lydia announced Klaus was in the vicinity. "While Lydia circled the house to take down Klaus I took care of his mutts. Gave them a good kick to the nuts and they took off running. Only had to kill one or two of them to get the point across, too."
"Again," Caroline interrupted, "when exactly are we going to be ready to let Klaus free? Sooner or later he's going to wake up and anyone who helped keep him captive is going to have to answer for it."
"I really didn't want to rush things," Lydia said more to herself as she bit her thumb, contemplating her options. "Then again I didn't count on Elijah being so forthright with his brother. I had hoped Klaus wouldn't notice Elijah missing for a couple of weeks," she mumbled.
"Rush what," Elena asked. She had trusted Lydia more than she probably should considering her allegiance to Katherine, but there was something about her distant cousin that made Elena feel at home. That was something she hadn't felt in a long time, and she hoped her trust wasn't misplaced.
"The timeline for the ritual," the witch's head hung low as she continued to think. "I thought we'd have more time but I don't think we have a choice anymore. We have to call them."
"Call who," Elena cried.
"The others," Lydia whispered to herself more than anyone else. She wasn't quite prepared for this; in her mind there had always been plenty of time for perfection to be reached. One careless miscalculation was going to ruin her well laid plans.
Elena shot Katherine a glance. "What's she talking about?"
Katherine let loose a low, maniacal chuckle, shaking her head and pushing her hands into her hair by her temples. Pacing, Katherine stopped to kick a wall. Everything was going to pot. Lydia held out a hand and Katherine clasped it. "Our missing parts. If we want to free ourselves from Klaus we need every Petrova doppelganger around here to do it," she yelled.
Bonnie arrived at the Boarding house moments after Damon and Stefan, crossing the threshold to be met by an enthusiastic Caroline. Elena stood near Katherine and Lydia, avoiding her best friend and the harsh words she was afraid they would exchange.
"What's going on," she asked the blonde. "I thought I was too unpredictable to be of any help," she rubbed Elena's words back in the other girl's face.
"Well, I thought it would be a good idea to have you here," Caroline told her. Pulling Bonnie to the side, she began filling the other girl in as her co-conspirator. "See, I told them it would be a good idea for you to be here so that Lydia might be able to channel you, and I thought if you were here and Lydia tried anything funny you could put the kibosh on it."
"What exactly is she trying to do," Bonnie threw a glare towards the other witch.
"She says that in order to use the cure to raise the curse from the Petrova line she must do a ritual with all of the previous and current doppelgangers. If we were to give the cure to just one of them then the family lineage would still produce more copies of Tatia and Klaus could still make more hybrids."
"But according to her there's only one living doppelganger," Bonnie said. "How would only one girl help?"
"Get this, Lydia and Katherine left out some major details," Caroline gossiped. "Not only does the line split every two hundred and fifty years resulting in a doppelganger every five centuries, but each originator of the new lines is also a doppelganger. That means there's been more than just the four of them," the blonde basically bounced with excitement. "There's been eight," she squealed. "And Lydia thinks the ritual can be done tonight if she can summon all of them here."
"But," Bonnie faltered for a minute, "that would mean most of them aren't living anymore. Lydia would have to-"
"-Raise the dead," Lydia broke apart their little pow wow. "Are you two ready?"