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Frenemies

Elijah had his suspicions about his mother, having seen Elena upstairs the night before. He went to her home to confront her about it and she admitted Esther's plan to him. His mother had linked him and all of his siblings together, so that if one of them died the others would die as well. Bonnie and her mother would be helping her tonight as it was the full moon and she planned to kill Finn. Elijah laid the plan out for his siblings once he broke the fight between his brothers.

"She must have taken Violet for insurance," Elijah continued. "To make sure you don't try to stop her before tonight." Klaus began to pace, thinking and calculating. He knew that his mother had to be drawing power from the other witches and the only way to stop her was to cut off her power. Without any power, she wouldn't be able to hurt Violet either.

"What are you thinking?" Elijah asked of his brother.

"We need to break the witch line," Klaus told him. "We break the line, mother loses her power."

"And how do you plan on getting anywhere near her?" Elijah asked. "That's the whole reason she took Violet."

"We'll need someone else to do it," Kol chimed in. "Someone she doesn't know, that the witches think they can trust."

"I have an idea," Stefan said, knowing that his sister's life depended on it. "But..."

"But what?" Klaus asked him.

Klaus absolutely hated this idea, but knew that he had to go along with it. Stefan was really a genius for thinking of it. They had to get someone that hated the original family as much as their mother to go in and end the line that Esther was drawing power from. Bonnie and Abby wouldn't be expecting anything other than for the person to be on their side, to want Klaus dead as well. None the less, he still hated what he had to do as he drove up to the house and knocked on the door. He had convinced the others to let him go alone, figuring he could make his case the best this way.

"Oh," Damon said when he answered the door. "It's you." He looked him over once, knowing about Esther's plan through Elena; he didn't know that Violet was gone though. "Listen, if this is some last day on earth apology thing, you can-"

"Violet's gone," Klaus stopped him; Damon raised his eye brows.

"What?" Damon finally asked.

"My mother's taken her," Klaus explained.

"And I'm guessing you need me to help get her back?" Damon asked; Klaus couldn't get a read on what Damon was thinking.

"Damon-"

"Why would I do that?" Damon interrupted him. "If I go in there and they figure me out, Violet's dead. If I let your mommy go along with her plan, she lets Violet go and I'm rid of you." He smirked at him. "Win, win."

"You don't honestly believe my mother will just let Violet go?" Klaus asked him. "Are you really willing to risk that?" Rather than answer him, Damon shut the door on his face. Unable to go in the house after him, Klaus had no choice but to leave.

With Damon refusing to help them, they had to resort to another plan. After much debate, they decided that they would go and confront their mother. There wasn't anyone willing to help that wasn't connected to them. Unable to just sit and wait, the three brothers went to see their mother at the old house where the coffins had been hidden. Seeing them coming, Bonnie and Abby went into the house while Esther and Finn stood in a circle of salt that the other brothers could not enter. The brothers began taunting Finn and demanding that their mother end this.

"Stop this now mother," Klaus told her; she gave him a smile.

"Were my intentions not clear this morning when I took Violet with me?" Esther asked him.

"Give her back," Klaus demanded. "She has nothing to do with this." Esther didn't say anything. "You're going to kill us anyway, just tell me where she is so I can tell her brothers."

As he finished saying this, something went wrong. The earth was shaking and the fire of the torches burned extra bright. Esther called out to the witches, but they left her with no help. In a moment, her and Finn disappeared into the night, leaving the others wondering what had happened. Just then, Damon came out of the old house, smirk on his face.

"You're welcome," he said as he walked up to Kol, Elijah, and Klaus.

"You ended the witch line?" Klaus asked with raised eye brows.

"I couldn't just tell you I'd go along with it," Damon reasoned like it was obvious. "You wouldn't have come here then and she would have known something was up." He looked around once. "I take it Violet wasn't with her." Klaus shook his head. "She's not in the house either."

"Thank you Damon," Elijah told him, being the first of the brothers to be gracious towards him. "For your help." He looked to Klaus who was pacing. "We'll find her, brother. Let's just go back, talk with Stefan and Rebekah, and see what we should do."

"You want some help with that?" Damon offered; Klaus looked at him curiously. "Look, just so we're clear, I still hope you drop dead. I just don't need my sister missing and/or dead in the process."

"Friends till she's found," Klaus mused, offering his hand to Damon.

"Don't get crazy with the friend thing," Damon said, though they shook on it.

"Don't you have some kind of weird twin ESP thing you could try?" Rebekah asked. The original brothers and Damon had returned to the house where Stefan and Rebekah were. Though happy that their mother was unable to kill them for now, they were both still concerned over how to find Violet. With Finn and Esther gone, there were no leads as to where she might be. As Rebekah asked this, Damon gave her a look.

"No," Damon said like it was obvious and a very stupid question. "Pretty sure that's only for identical twins."

"It's not too crazy of an idea," Stefan interjected. "You were at home that one time and you still knew Violet rolled down the steps at church and broke her wrist, before we even got home."

"I was seven," Damon snapped.

"She knew you'd be coming home on leave because you got shot in the shoulder," Stefan continued, giving an example of when they were older.

"That was when we were still human," Damon said. "I didn't know when she was sick after she had Lucy, I figured it was because I was a vampire now."

"Maybe the connection broke because only one of you was a vampire," Klaus offered. "Now, you're both vampires."

"Everything gets heightened when you're a vampire," Stefan added; Damon still didn't seem convinced. "It's worth a shot Damon, if it means getting Vi back."

"I don't even know how to do this," Damon told them. "In case you all haven't noticed, me and Vi haven't been up on the twin bonding lately."

"Try this," Klaus said, taking Violet's charm bracelet from his pocket. He had found it on the floor of the cellar that morning. "It should help, she wears it all the time. Just take it and concentrate on Violet."

"I still say this is a stupid idea," Damon muttered, taking the bracelet. Everyone in the room was watching him. "Can I get some space or something? Jeez."

They all obliged him, leaving the room. It seemed to be taking awhile, so everyone split up on their own among the house. Klaus and Stefan waited patiently outside the door though while Damon continued to concentrate, thinking only of Violet. The more he focused, the more he was able to feel what she was feeling, emotionally mostly but also physically. Having gotten all that he could, he set the bracelet on the table and went out to Klaus and Stefan.

"She's in some place that's dark and cold," Damon told them immediately. "She's alone." He sighed. "She's panicking."

"Dark and cold," Stefan echoed.

"Like the caverns," Klaus offered.

With the others, they all immediately left to find Violet, splitting up in the caverns. The original siblings might not always get along, but they could see when one of them was really hurting and wanted to help. In this case, it was helping Klaus find Violet before it was too late and something happened to her. Rebekah loved Violet like she was her sister and was ready to tear Mystic Falls apart looking for her; Klaus was already two steps ahead of her. They had also called Tyler for his help since Violet meant something to him as well.

Some of them eventually returned home in the early morning light, unable to find where Violet could be. Tyler had caught up to them in the caverns, telling them that he would continue to look for her and that they all needed to rest. Klaus had insisted on staying, but eventually Rebekah dragged him home saying that they needed to talk about something important. Once alone in the house with his sister, she began to explain what she had seen while they searched the caverns. There were cave drawings that told their family history.

"There's another white oak tree some where," she continued. "If Damon and the others find it-"

"They won't," Klaus assured her. "We'll find it first, after we find Violet."

"Hey!" they heard Tyler calling. They went over to the entrance to the house and saw Tyler and Stefan, helping Violet inside. She looked frail and weak, her fair skin paler than usual. They had Violet's arms around their shoulders, her feet barely dragging on the floor. She had on the same clothes as she was wearing the previous morning, but had Stefan's jacket on as well.

"She was in my family's old cellar," Tyler explained as Klaus rushed over, taking Violet from them. She collapsed against his body, his strong frame holding her up.

"Are you hurt love?" Klaus asked as he steady her against him. Feeling her skin, it felt like she was on fire.

"Mmm, sick," she mumbled into his chest. Klaus scooped her up to carry her up to their room, knowing that something had gone wrong; vampires didn't get sick.

"Where's Damon and the others?" Klaus asked as he laid Violet on their bed. She began coughing, curling up and holding herself in pain.

"Your brothers went off to find your mother," Stefan explained. "We're sure she's the one doing this-"

"She doesn't have any power," Klaus stopped him, sitting on the edge of the bed next to Violet and gently stroking her hair as she grimaced in pain.

"She doesn't have enough to kill us," Rebekah said. "I'm sure she has enough to do this."

"Damon went to find Bonnie and Elena," Stefan continued. "If it's a witch thing, Bonnie might be able to help. But there's no way she will without Elena convincing her." They knew it was a long shot, given that Damon had just turned Bonnie's mother and neither of them cared for the originals or Violet.

"It hurts," Violet whimpered. "Please make it stop hurting."

"It's going to be all right love," Klaus assured her, kissing her head; she was burning up.

"Why would mother do this?" Rebekah asked.

"Because we ruined her plan," Klaus said. And because it's slow, he thought but didn't say out loud because of Violet who was still holding herself in a ball in pain.

"Maybe try your blood," Tyler offered. "It's the cure for a werewolf bite, maybe it's a magic cure all." Without many other options, Klaus helped Violet sit up enough so she could drink from his wrist. She immediately began coughing and spitting, turning to the side and throwing up blood on to the other side of the bed.

"It hurts," Violet sobbed, holding her middle and falling against Klaus's side. "It hurts so much."

"Shhh," he soothed her, kissing her head. As if he had seen this before, Stefan suddenly had an idea.

"We need Damon," Stefan told them.

"Why?" Rebekah asked.

"Your mother is obsessed with the balance of nature," Stefan started to explain. "After Violet had Lucy, I went back to the house to see her. I saw that she was sick like this, so I went to get Damon."

"This was how Violet was supposed to die," Rebekah said softly; Klaus glared at her as Violet started crying as a mixture of pain and fear.

"Look, every spell has a loop hole, right?" Stefan said. "Last time she was sick, Damon's blood brought her back."

"Get him," Klaus agreed with the plan, knowing they had no other choices at the moment. Stefan left to call Damon, with Tyler and Rebekah leaving so that Klaus could have some privacy with Violet.

"You'll be all right love," Klaus promised, holding her tight. "Everything will be fine."

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