"More Than A Petrova"

Chapter 10:

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Summary: Before Isobel commits suicide under Klaus' orders, she leaves Elena a letter that leads her to the one and only Dean Winchester; a human that could be the key to Elena's survival against the Original. The thing is, a plan against Klaus is not the only thing that Dean brings with him when he arrives to Mystic Falls…he brings something that will further turn Elena's world upside down.

Time Frame: April 2014 - VD (mid-2x17) + SPN (post 8x06)

Ages: Dean Winchester (Jan. 24, 1979 = 35 years old), Sam Winchester (May 2, 1983 = 30 years old) and Elena Gilbert (June 22, 1996 = 17 years old)

A/N #1: You guys have done it again! I'm impressed! I reached my review-goal only after 2 days of posting it. You guys are simply the best; thank you so much! Your support for this story means a great deal to me which is why you are getting an update ahead of schedule. Also because its before my semester starts to really pick up for me.

A/N #2: Additional comments at the end to avoid spoilers. Warning: VD-dates are changed to fit the SPN-dates.

Q/A: Since I couldn't respond directly to the 'Guest' review (received 1/17/13) from Mexico, I'll answer it here. Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad you are enjoying the story. You'll see in this chapter (and in the upcoming ones) that Sam and Dean won't trust Meg so easily. I am currently viewing the brand new seasons of SPN (S8) and VD (S4) but I don't know when they'd be broadcasting them internationally. Sorry I couldn't help there.

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THEN:

"So do we have a deal boys?" Meg questioned the hunters in hopes that she didn't leave them enough silence to over-analyze her motives.

"I hate that saying." Dean sneered; deals were a bad road to travel on.

"We have an understanding." Sam clarified in hopes that he'd stop his brother before he ranted on about how he'd never make a deal with a demon again.

Meg grinned. "Exactly, so are you going to let me out now?"

The Winchester brothers looked to one another before Dean pulled out his switchblade prior to crouching down to the floor.

NOW:

Elena continued to watch from her position on the cot. She continued to tell Stefan that she was fine every time he asked her while she watched the makeshift interrogation. She truly didn't know how to take it all in but one thing was for sure; Sam and Dean weren't intimidated so easily. She had a feeling that if they could, they would spit in the face of their opponent without fear of being torn to bits. Fearless is what they were when faced against something that theoretically was more powerful than their mere mortal selves. It definitely astounded her.

She continued to watch as Dean crouched down with his switchblade to scratch out a bit of the marking on the floor. She realized earlier that it was the same marking she saw him draw in the other cellar earlier. At least now she knew what the drawing was used for. It was interesting for her to see that a drawing on a floor could render something as dangerous as a demon into a powerless being.

She knew to stay out of it though. Normally Elena would have asked questions but after her talk with Dean, she kept her mouth shut while he and Sam talked with the demon. She didn't want to cause anymore unnecessary problems because she couldn't stay quiet for a short period of time. Instead her mind kept on reeling when it absorbed every new tidbit of information that was revealed during the Winchesters' talk with the demon; it definitely brought more questions and confusion to her mind.

She only made a move when Sam and Dean had cleared the cellar with Meg sandwiched between them. Ultimately Damon led the way back to the second cellar where Alaric's body was waiting for them.

Bonnie slowly approached Elena as the latter got closer to the former's position. The girls linked arms with one another before they headed for the other cellar, with Stefan following behind them.

The trio didn't get far though as Damon stood on guard at the second cellar door; he wouldn't let them through. When they tried again, he growled at them and told them it would be safer for everyone to stay on their side of the reestablished salt line while the Winchesters were inside the cellar with Meg and Alaric. When asked why that was safer, Damon just rolled his eyes.

"You girls aren't protected like they are." The vampire explained as he pointed behind him, "Sam and Dean can't get possessed anymore and they don't want to risk Meg jumping into either of you…" he stated while pointing between the girls, "when she transfers herself into Ric."

"And the salt line?" Stefan questioned his brother with a skeptical look.

"Salt is a purity substance meant to repel evil. Demons and spirits can't cross over it. The salt line has created an invisible barrier around the cellar so that no demon could enter or escape from it." Damon recited the information he had picked up from Dean during their travels together before he turned to look inside the cellar. This encouraged everyone else to do the same.

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"So what are we dealing with?" Dean questioned after Meg circled Alaric's body a few times while trying not to get trapped in the devil's trap herself.

"It's a two-in-one for sure." Meg stated while she resisted her temptation to just poke the unconscious body. She could feel the presences of two souls in the mortal's body and yet, there was a very prominent difference between the two. "It's definitely an old soul inside there." She declared after a few more moments.

"He's not that old." Dean countered as he looked to Alaric.

Meg rolled her eyes before she gave the older hunter a pointed look. "I wasn't talking about this body's soul. I meant the intruder."

Seeing the new scowl on Dean's face, Sam tried to intervene. "Is that going to be a problem?" He asked before Dean could make his curses to the demon more vocal.

Meg shook her head as she continued to pace along the trap's perimeter. "If we were to put one of your souls in there, yeah but since I'm the one going in, it won't be." She stated with ease.

"So what? You're just going to smoke out of her and into him?" Dean questioned while paying no attention to the little audience they've acquired since they've switched cellars.

"Pretty much." Meg concluded with a nod.

Sam and Dean shared skeptical looks to one another; they didn't like the idea of a demon smoking in or out near them as they usually kill them on sight. "What happens to the intruding soul?" Sam questioned a few moments later.

"If you're worried about it jumping into you…don't. It won't and it's not because of those tattoos you boys have either." She assured them as she gestured to the Winchesters' chests, where they each had a tattoo of a flaming pentagram over their hearts; an anti-possession symbol. Ever since they've gotten it, their bodies have been locked boxes to any demon or spirit who tried to hijack their bodies.

"Then why?" The hunters asked simultaneously as they watched Meg continue her trek around the cellar.

Meg smirked as she gave the brothers an amused expression; their synchronization was adorable at times. "If it's not residing in the intended body, it will be forced to return back to its original body. It can't take on a substitute, if you will. It's one of the details for a spell like this." She elaborated before she continued her random walk-around. A detail like that needed to be included otherwise a 'body-hopper' could escape into anyone and wreck havoc.

Dean mulled that over for a moment before an idea came to mind. "Alright, if that's the case, would you be able to get the identity of the body-hopper once you're inside him?"

Meg pursed her lips as she thought about it. "That may be tricky but I'll see what I can do…" She paused just as a smirk started to appear on her lips. "For a price."

Dean scoffed. "Figures. What more do you want?"

"It's simple really, I'm not exactly in the most pristine of conditions." She pointed out while gesturing to her torn and bloody appearance. Demon or not, she still liked the notion of having a hygienic appearance.

Dean rolled his eyes yet he couldn't fault her for the request. "You can wash up after you've smoked in and out of him. Got it?"

Meg smiled at the hunter. "Just what this girl needed to hear." She declared before she moved to stand behind the chair, forcing Dean to move to stand by Sam. Luckily for the people on the other side of the salt line, the Winchesters left enough space between them to allow for them to have a clear view of Alaric's tied up form.

Everyone waited with bated breath as Meg got ready to smoke out. Dean had to resist the urge to pull out Ruby's demon-killing knife because he knew that if it were in his hands, he'd be more tempted to use it which he couldn't afford to do while Meg was in Alaric's body.

The Winchesters didn't flinch as black smoke emerged from the woman's mouth before it became a massive cloud in the cellar. They watched as it circled around the room for a few moments before it dived right for Alaric's face. A gasp was heard outside the cellar door when the unconscious man's eyes immediately snapped open once the smoke entered his body through his nostrils. Once all the black smoke had disappeared into Alaric's body, the man's head slumped forward before it jerked back up again with another gasp. The body fought against the ropes that tied him to the chair while it jerked in its spot, as if it were hosting a battle within him that he couldn't contain. Eyes were squeezed shut as the fight continued inside him before they snapped open, revealing his eyes to be pure black.

Meg had taken control.

The demon in Alaric's body gave an impressive whistle. "Damn, he's a strong one." Meg complimented as she continued to fight the intruding soul inside the body. She could feel Alaric's soul like all the others she's encountered during her possessions and then there was the intruding soul. It was a soul that she has never encountered before, both in quality and in strength. Then again, lower level demons (such as herself) are only able to possess humans and her theoretical gut was telling her that this intruder was no human.

"Meaning?" Dean prodded with a narrowed look as he continued to watch Meg squirm in Alaric's body.

Meg let loose an amused chuckle as she continued to fight with the other soul. "Meaning, who the hell did you piss off enough to want to spy on you two nubs?" She questioned the hunter as she tried to get something from the intruder. When demons possessed a human host, they gain access to all their thoughts and memories yet it seemed like Meg was having trouble accessing those things from the intruder. She presumed it was another indicator that the intruder wasn't human.

The Winchesters ignored Elena's semi-whispered questions to her friends as they thought of Meg's words. It wasn't much though, considering that the Winchesters had a very long list of enemies that they've pissed off over the years. It wouldn't really surprise them since they once had a measly teenager body-swap with Sam just so that he could obtain the demonic reward for Dean's head during their race to stop Lucifer.

"Can you get a name?" Dean firmly questioned as he noticed Alaric's body jerk around more often than before.

Meg growled. "He's fighting me." She declared moments later which was proven true when Alaric's eyes shifted between Meg's demonic eyes to Alaric's normal blue eyes.

"I don't care! Get something useful!" Dean shouted as he got into Meg's face.

The pitch black eyes returned, followed by a scowl on Alaric's lips. They all knew that it was Meg who was scowling but it was weird to see it on Alaric's face.

The demon did as she was asked and she concentrated on the other soul. It fought against her for quite some time but small flashes of images would pass over to her. It wasn't much but it was a start. There were images of bloody massacres with piles of dead bodies that impressed the demon, followed by many more scenes of blood being shed. There were moments where she heard the clashing of swords before she heard howling in the distance. Phrases from a different dialect where heard next, along with some words of betrayal and vengeance as they continued. She listened as best as she could as more moments broke through the intruder's protective barrier. She saw and heard a few moments of the soul's time in Alaric's body before the images would shift. Eventually one name was repeated over and over again in a way that Meg knew was a repetition over time. Niklaus.

"What did you say?" Dean demanded as he heard the demon mumble something moments before.

Meg tilted her head back so that she was face to face with Dean. "Niklaus."

She watched as rage swarmed the hunter's eyes as a fierce growl reverberated from his throat. "Klaus." He sneered with so much distaste that demonic instincts had Meg wanting to get away from Dean as quick as she could.

The vampires growled at the confirmation before they told the girls what they heard Meg and Dean say.

Elena gasped. "Klaus? He's been inside Alaric this whole time?" She frantically questioned as the paranoia started to sneak up on her. The fear quickly followed when she thought of how close they were to revealing their 'kill Klaus' plan to the hidden Original himself. Dean was right; his actions did save their asses. The doppelganger was brought out of her musing when she noticed that the exchange between Dean and Meg wasn't over yet.

"Is that enough?" Meg questioned through gritted teeth as she felt Klaus' soul putting up more of a fight than before. She was starting to exhaust her. "I can feel him pulling away." She elaborated when Dean didn't say a thing.

"Find out where Klaus' body is." Dean stated instead without missing a beat, causing everyone who heard to look at him with a mixture of stares.

Meg gave Dean an incredulous look. "What?"

"I want that bastard's location Meg!" The hunter shouted but when she hesitated, something inside of Dean snapped. He was no longer in control of his emotions as his anger started to boil to the surface, his eyes hardened even further in the process. "Get me that location or I'll throw you back in Hell where you belong!" He threatened in a venomous tone that the monsters in Purgatory were very familiar with. He wasn't kidding around anymore; no more Mister Nice Guy. "Let's see if the third time really is the charm when it comes to escaping Hell." He taunted as he reminded the demon that he had no problem in throwing her back into Hell because he knew that Hell was way worse than dying for some. Hell was just an eternity of endless torture.

"When I get out of this body…" Meg sneered, but she never got to finish her own threat.

"You'll do nothing." Dean interrupted as he smirked at the demon."You'd still be Crowley's bitch if we hadn't summoned you. Now give me that damn location." He demanded once again as he pulled out Ruby's knife for good measure. He wouldn't use it while Meg was in Alaric's body…but she didn't know that.

Meg stiffened at the sight of the knife before she ventured deeper into Alaric's body. Her confrontation with Klaus' soul was made visible when Alaric started to jerk around in his seat as his limbs tried to break free from the ropes.

Elena flinched at the sight of Alaric's struggles to a point that she almost crossed the salt line to help him. Luckily for them, Damon and Stefan blocked her path before she could cross the cellar's threshold. Tears started to buildup in her eyes as she continued to watch the scene play out before her.

Meg's struggles increased the more she attacked Klaus' soul yet before she could tell anyone anything, Alaric gasped before a puff of red smoke exited his body. The red smoke circulated the room for a moment before it disappeared.

Not knowing what just happened, everyone turned to face the black-eyed Alaric. "Klaus has left the building." Meg confirmed while continuing to glare at Dean.

"And?" Dean prodded through gritted teeth as his patience was waning thin.

Meg rolled her eyes yet no one would notice since they remained pitch black either way. "He's currently in a box while being transported to this body's address. It's being heavily guarded." She reported after a few deep breaths. She didn't want to tell him, after the threats he's made against her but Meg knew from experience that Dean would follow through with his threats if he felt justified in doing it. Her first exorcism with him instantly came to mind.

"We'll take our chances." Dean declared before he straightened himself up and tucked the knife behind him and in his belt. He made a moved to leave the cellar before Meg's frustrated sigh stopped him, along with her words.

"If you insist on getting yourselves killed…again…then you might as well know." She reluctantly stated as she waited for him to face her before she continued, "You've bought yourself a day or two before he'll reawaken in his body."

Dean turned to give Sam a confused look before they both faced her. "Why?"

Meg sighed again; she hated all the explaining she had to do since she was summoned. It was exhausting. "The spell was done with a time limit in mind. They all usually do." She mumbled the last part to herself before she continued, "Once expired, the soul reawakens in its original body but if the soul is ejected from its target host before then, well the original body is stuck in a slumber, with the soul returned to it, until the time limit is up." She finished, only to be greeted with not only grins from the Winchesters but from the vampires as well since they heard her words more clearly than the girls.

"The perfect window of opportunity." Dean stated with a chuckle as all possible ideas came floating to his mind. One look at Sam was enough for Dean to know that they were thinking along the same lines.

"You're welcome." Meg grumbled to herself before she tried the ropes around her current meatsuit's wrist once again. They were still as tight as they were before. She let loose a defeated sigh.

Sam gave Dean a pointed look before he took a few steps forward while taking out his own switchblade. He crouched down and scraped a bit of the paint off the concrete floor, breaking the devil's trap and allowing Meg to go free.

Not even a minute went by before Meg released a groan when Sam looked up and directed a pointed look her way before he shifted it to the woman on the ground. Meg got the message; he wanted her to return to her original meatsuit.

Alaric's mouth opened wide before the black smoke reemerged in the air. It circled around a few times before it dived for the unconscious woman. Alaric's head slumped to his chest once Meg left his body. Alaric, himself, was still knocked out from Dean's sleeper hold.

The moment all the black smoke disappeared into the woman, she immediately sat up. Her pitch black eyes were on display once they were open before she blinked them back to their acceptable state. She stood with ease before she brushed off any dirt that she could reach on her clothes. It didn't help with her already bloody appearance but it was a start.

She confirmed for the Winchesters that only Alaric's soul was in his body before she made her way for the cellar door. She couldn't go much further due to the salt line. It was only when Dean told Damon to lead her somewhere to get cleaned up was she able to move as the vampire broke through the salt line with his foot. With ease, Meg crossed the threshold before following Damon upstairs; he was leading her to his shower while he grabbed some of Andie's clothes that she had left behind in his room.

While Damon escorted Meg out, Sam and Dean worked to untie Alaric before Stefan took him into the cellar with the cot. They would have to wait until Alaric woke up on his own terms.

Everyone was silent as they cleaned up all the materials that the Winchesters brought with them. The only thing they left in place was the salt lines and the reestablished devil's trap on the ground. Once everything was cleared, they made their way back up to the main floor.

Elena and Bonnie tried to start the conversation up on what their next plan was but neither Winchester would answer. All they would do was stare up at the ceiling before they would look back down at the girls with a crooked eyebrow as if to say what's-your-point. The message was clear though; as long as Meg was still around, they weren't going to say much.

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The moment that a clean and presentable Meg walked downstairs to give her two-cents on the situation before she vanished was the moment that questions started to fly around. The most common one was what they were going to do next.

"While it pains me to say this, I believe there is a dance tonight that you were planning to go to." Dean stated as he brushed a hand through his hair before he moved to grab his jacket. They were all back in the living room again like before.

Elena gave Dean an incredulous look. "What? You can't be serious. Not after everything we learned today." She protested with a wave of her hands. She couldn't go to the dance now when they had a lead on Klaus to follow up on.

Dean turned to face his daughter with a stern look. "Oh I'm serious Elena and from what I heard, you were the one that wanted to have a normal night." He told her before he shook his head. "You can't have it both ways."

"But…"

"No buts." He interrupted her before she could argue. "Go get ready, have fun and don't worry about this." He told her while putting his jacket on. He never thought he'd dismiss her like he did just now but they needed to go and she couldn't come along.

Elena huffed as her hands landed on her hips. "You can't expect me to go to the dance and just forget about all this."

Dean exhaled deeply as he tried to keep his temper under control; Damon was right, she was stubborn. And it was because of her stubbornness that he decided on a move he knew she wouldn't like. "Elena it's either you go willingly to the dance, or I ask Damon to compel you to go and have fun." He suggested without giving Damon a second glance.

Bonnie and Stefan gave Dean wide-eyed looks for even suggesting compulsion while Damon was smirking like crazy. The older vampire did always find Dean's approaches to be amusing. Sam, on the other hand, was curious as to see what point his brother was trying to make since he'd rarely use a monster's power to his advantage if he could.

Elena gasped at the thought before she held her head high once again. "He can't compel me." She said with so much conviction as she remembered her necklace that Stefan had given to her with vervain in it. As long as she wore it, she was safe from compulsion.

Dean scoffed. "Why? Because of that necklace you're wearing?" He stated while pointing to the very necklace around her neck. Damon had informed him of the level of protection Elena had against vampires; it wasn't much but it was better than nothing.

Elena's hand immediately went to touch the necklace while everyone's attention shifted to it for the moment.

"Do you know how easily it is for a vampire to rip that off your neck and have you under their control?" Dean continued before he waited for the realization to don on his daughter; the hunter didn't know how that scenario had already happened to his daughter when she first encountered Elijah. He then gave a quick look to Damon before the vampire grinned.

Before anyone could process what happened, Damon had blurred across the room and back. The slight breeze in the room was the only indicator of any movement. Aside from Dean and Damon, everyone's heads started to shift for the source of the unexpected wind but Damon cleared his throat, bringing all their attention back to him and Dean. With a grin plastered on his face, Damon held up Elena's necklace in his hands; the very necklace that was around her neck moments before.

"Very easily." Dean said as he watched Elena frantically touch the spot where her necklace should have been. She had a look of fear in her eyes now and while Dean hated to see his daughter with that look, he needed her to feel it, to be aware of just how human, how vulnerable, she was.

Damon chuckled before he returned the necklace back to Elena. "Dean's got a point." He whispered to her after he clasped the necklace around her neck. He then returned to Dean's side.

"Then what are you going to do?" Elena asked a little deflated with the reminder of her vulnerable humanity. It looked like she was going to the dance after all.

Dean smirked. "My job and that's all you need to worry about."

Before Elena could ask more questions, Sam cut in. "Go be a teenager Elena. Have fun with Stefan and Bonnie and whoever else you were going to go to the dance with. At the very least, you'd have a vampire and a witch watching your back if you have any problems." He placated since he knew first-hand how experiencing a normal teenage moment in the midst of a crazy life is all a person needs to find their balance once again.

"Which you shouldn't." Dean firmly stated before he gave Sam a pointed look.

Sam chuckled. "Which you shouldn't." He repeated which got Dean to give a nod of approval.

Stefan and Bonnie didn't argue with the Winchesters' reasons since they've been trying to get Elena to relax a bit and take a step back before the stress of Klaus really did a number on her.

"What about Damon?" Stefan questioned moments later after remembering that Damon had wanted to be a chaperone at the dance after hearing that Klaus was going to make his appearance there. Now that they knew that Klaus would be stuck in a slumber for a few more days, did that mean that he wasn't attending the dance as planned?

Damon blurred to his brother's side before he gave him a firm pat on the shoulder. "Oh I'm going with the Winchesters little brother." He stated with a grin before he continued. "Besides I've lived through the sixties once already, I don't need to again." He stated with a chuckle before he blurred to his room and back, only to have his leather jacket on. He was ready to go.

Stefan nodded; he had mixed feelings about Damon's absence at the dance. On the one hand, it meant that Damon couldn't interfere between him and Elena yet on the other hand, it meant that Damon would be getting into more trouble with two hunters as his only backup instead of him, his vampire brother.

With that being said, Damon and the Winchesters left to pursue the clue that Meg had given them while Stefan and the girls prepared for the school's decade dance.

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A/N #3: And they are off! The gang knows that Klaus had temporarily taken over Alaric's body thanks to Meg...now what did you think of that whole experience? How about Dean's rage at the discovery? I definitely had a lot of fun writing a pissed off Dean. What about the little lesson that Dean had demonstrated to Elena before leaving? I just had to have Elena be put in her place somehow and I figured Dean, her father, could be my outlet for it. What did you think of it? Do you agree with it? What do you think is going to happen next? Any predictions? Please let me know in a review! Once again, reviewers will get a teaser for the next chapter!

Have a great week everyone!

Originally Published: January 20, 2013