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I hear his breathing stop breathing for a few seconds. "The doppelganger? A human doppelganger?" His voice is slow and almost hopeful.
"A human doppelganger."
"Are you sure?"
"As sure as I have ever been."
There is a long pause before he talks again. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
Guilt overtakes me. "Because, Elijah was stopping me from doing so." It is truthful. I wasn't going to call Nik until I was sure he was not in harm from coming here. He doesn't respond so I continue explaining. "Elijah was planning to kill you, lure you in with the doppelganger. I thought I would be safer to keep you away."
"Elijah was planning to kill me?" His voice is full of pain and heartbreak.
I take a deep breath. "Yes. He is daggered."
"How did you find her?"
"I was on my way to Mystic Falls, then I saw Katerina," I hear his breath going angry, "Nik let me finish, she told me where the doppelganger was, after I found the doppelganger I got Katerina thrown into a tomb as to where she couldn't leave, Elijah showed up and I found out about his plan of killing you, so I became friends with the people who are close to her, Elijah got Stefan Salvatore, he's in Mystic Falls so when we wake up Rebekah we have a peace offering, out of the tomb which Katerina was in however compelled her to stay in it. But then after we daggered Elijah the compulsion wore off and she got away." I explain, most of it is the truth.
Niklaus seems to believe it. "I will be there in a few days, I need to get a few things. Goodbye, Alex." So he called me Alex which is a good sign. He doesn't sound mad, but he doesn't sound happy either. I guess that's because I also just told him that Elijah is trying to kill him and not to do with the fact that I let Katerina escape, maybe a bit of both.
I sigh and say "See you soon, Nik." Then the call drops. Let the fun begin.
I'm bored out of my mind. No one and I repeat no one. Is talking to me. The Salvatores caught on that they can't trust me so have been avoiding me like the plague. Caroline is too busy with her drama with Matthew, so I don't even have them two. I don't even have Katerina to keep me company. I'm so bloody bored. I have nothing to do. Niklaus isn't even answering my calls, Elijah is daggered as are my other siblings. I have no one to talk to. Hell, I would even want Mikael right now, that's a bit too far. I never want to see Mikael.
Then for the first time in three days, my phone starts ringing. I grab it quickly. I see Alaric on my phone id. I was not expecting this, Alaric and I aren't friends. We were more allies against Elijah but Elijah is daggered. So why in the name of God would he be calling me. I answer it. "Alaric, I'm busy. Killing, plotting, being evil, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..." I trail off.
I hear him chuckle, it sounds so familiar. "Killing? Plotting? Being evil? Alex, are you not always doing that?" He asks with an amused tone. Alaric never calls me Alex. He never jokes about anything which I just said. "Do you ever stop with the dramatics?" My eyes widen. Alaric never says anything like that to me. This definitely isn't Alaric.
So if this isn't Alaric, then it's "Niklaus."
"Was I that obvious?" He asks and I can hear the amusement present in his voice.
I chuckle. "Yes, but then again I know you better than anyone else. So maybe not so much." I answer with a giant smirk on my face. He chuckles. "Are you staying at Alaric's apartment?"
"Of course, I cannot blow my cover, sister."
"I will be there in five minutes."
I arrived at Alaric's apartment. I knocked twice. I wonder if this is actually a trick and they will try and get rid of me too because I seriously have no idea why Niklaus would want to change bodies. I guess he could get closer to the doppelganger but how's that of any use, we could just take her. We know where some wolves are, we can create vampires, we have the doppelganger, we have a witch and I know where the moonstone is. It's not that hard, so why does he have to change bodies.
My thoughts are ended when the door swings open revealing Alaric, or Niklaus. I don't truly know which. He is holding up two shirts. "Alex, I was half expecting you to just bargain in."
Yup, this is definitely Niklaus. "I would if I was invited in. So can you so kindly, brother, invite me in?" I tell him leaning on the door frame. He chuckles.
"I will but first which looks badder?" I laugh slightly at him.
"Dark colors, Niklaus."
"I just needed a second opinion." Then he walks away from the door. Second opinion? "Alexandra, you can come inside." Then I step over the threshold.
Then I spot Katerina. I pull a face of annoyance before speaking. She is slightly pleading with me. "I thought you left." I say to her with no emotion in my voice before turning back to my brother.
"Let's have a pop quiz." Niklaus announces with a smirk.
"You are a teacher now, I guess." I mutter and Niklaus rolls his eyes.
I sit on the window ledge and lean against the glass. "So the dagger and the white oak ash are in the possession of the Salvatores, correct?" Niklaus pulls on his jacket when he asks this.
"Yes, the dagger was used to kill Elijah and you will find him in the basement of the Salvatore house." Katerina answers and I raise an eyebrow. How does she know this? She probably stayed at Casa de Salvatore, didn't she?
"That dagger needs to stay right where it is, I don't want is Elijah to be resurrected." Niklaus comments with a serious tone. Then he turns to me. "Is he still a buzz kill?"
I laugh then answer "I think the stick which is forever lodged up his arse has gotten worse."
"Don't forget you're on the outs with your girlfriend, Jenna." Katerina adds, has Klaus compelled her to be helpful? I stare at her for a long moment before shrugging. I'll ask her later, I guess.
Niklaus nods. "Right. Elena's aunt. For the lies about Isobel. What else?"
"That's it." There is fear in her voice as Niklaus walks over to her.
Then he touches the side of her face and she jumps. "So jumpy." I roll my eyes. He won't kill her yet, hopefully.
Her breathing is rigid. "Please just kill me, I've told you everything I know."
Niklaus leans on the arms of the chair she is sat on. She moves back as far as she can. "You see, I believe that you believe that, but what could you not know. What could you be keeping from me? Hmm?" My eyes dart between the two. I jump off the windowsill and edge towards them. "Tell me." He is now using compulsion.
"They were trying to find a way for Bonnie to kill an original without a dagger."
"Bonnie the best friend? I thought you said she didn't have any powers anymore?"
"She doesn't, or didn't, I don't know. You kidnapped me, remember. I'm kinda out of the loop." I scoff at that. Niklaus straightens up and is now deep in thought, or something like that. Maybe he's plotting. "Please just kill me, Klaus, and be done with it." She begs and I look back at Niklaus.
"And show you kindness?" Then he shakes his head. "I've searched for you for over 500 years, your death is going to last at least half that long. Know I want you to take this knife." He shows her a hunting knife. She does. "And stab yourself." Katerina looks at the knife then back to Niklaus. She stabs it right into her left thigh. She groans in pain. "Now take it out." She looks down at her already healed leg. "Now I want you to keep doing that until I get back and if you get bored switch legs." He uses compulsion.
"Where are you going?" I ask trying to not look at Katerina.
"To lay eyes on my precious doppelganger. Keep an eye on this one." Then he turns around and starts to leave the apartment. "Again." He orders. Then she stabs herself again.
Once I know Klaus is fully gone. I grab the knife from her, to make sure she cannot keep stabbing herself. I look down at her and sigh. "Why are you still in Mystic Falls?" I ask and she looks a bit nervous. "Let me guess, you were working with the Salvatores to kill Klaus." I state and shake my head.
"Alex, I'm sorry."
"No, you're sorry that you got caught. I love you so much, I betrayed my brother for you and all you do is lie to me. Now I only have one choice or I'll lose Niklaus also."
"What do you mean?"
I grab her chin and compel her "You will forget that I ever helped you, I never saved you in 1492, you realized that I never loved you that night, you got a family friend who was a witch to get you a daylight, you won't remember until I say so." I almost feel my own heart break in my chest as the compulsion takes effect. I stand a few steps away. I stab the knife back into her leg. "You weren't doing it hard enough." I comment with a fake smirk on my face. Her whole expression goes scared, hopeless. Niklaus can never know, even if it means losing Katerina. Forever and Always.
Niklaus comes back an hour later. I spent most of the time on my phone listening to music to drown out the sounds of pain coming from Katerina. Her whole left thigh is covered in blood. Maddox, the witch helping Niklaus, came over shortly after. "Ah, you were right that witch is juiced up and aiming to kill." Nik tells us.
"That's terrible." Katerina says in a monotone voice.
All of us ignore her. "We are going to have to kill her." Klaus tells us as if she was a fly on his window. Well, that's because she mostly likely is, Bonnie thinks just because she is a powerful witch. She can kill us. She's stupid and ignorant. She's fought Damon, who compared to Niklaus and I is nothing, but never against an original.
"What a shame." I add in a sarcastic voice.
"Does this Alaric guy have anything vintage do you think?" Then he goes rummaging around in the draws. He finds Alaric's secret weapons. "Crossbows, wooden bullets, and automatics. Who was this guy again?"
"The local vampire hunter."
Then I scoff. "Yeah, the local vampire hunter who's best friend is a vampire." Niklaus raises an eyebrow at me before roll his eyes.
"Aah well, that explains the clothing."
Maddox coming towards Niklaus and I handing us bourbon. "All I can find is bourbon." I take a sip at the exact same time as my twin brother. I think it's a twin thing, or we have spent so much time together we are basically the same person. I guess a bit of both.
"I knew I liked something about this guy." Then Niklaus sighs. "There is this high school dance, and I'm going to need you to take out witch bitch." He tells Maddox with a serious tone.
"If she has that much power, she will be able to sense me from a mile away, I won't be able to get near her, one of you two have to do it."
"They know what I look like, they won't let me anywhere near her and, no offense Niklaus but in that body, he is just a haggard history teacher," I begin but Niklaus finishes my sentence.
"She can easily hurt me, well not me, Klaus me, but you know what I mean."
Maddox moves on. "No witch can channel that much power, it will kill her. It would kill me." I'm pretty sure mother used a lot more power to turn us into vampires but again mother was one of the most powerful witches that was ever born so she probably can channel that much power. Well done Mother. "You just have to make her use it."
"You mean like provoking her to death."
"It won't take long, just keep attacking her until she dies. Alaric's body will last longer than her's." Maddox explains, when did witches, warlocks, whatever, get so smart? They are always so easily to outwit. Wait aren't we doing that with Bonnie, I guess Maddox is the only smart witch alive.
"How? He's human."
"I can help in that department, I can do a spell to protect you." Maddox tells us. Niklaus looks over at Katerina with a smirk, I don't know why. Maybe it's saying you have no hope of him dying. I don't really know.
I ended up coming to this stupid dance. I mean they know Klaus is here. I ended up grabbing some things which I did actually wear in the 60's. I can't fully remember exactly happened in the 60's. I think there was the moon landing, JFK, some war and the Beatles but that's really it. It was such a boring decade, my favorite and always will be my favorite decade is the 20's.
I walk right up to Damon who is in the parking lot. I wave slightly. He looks a little bit scared of me now. "Why are you here?" He asks in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Well, my brother is here and asked me to keep an eye out for our little doppelganger, make sure she doesn't get herself killed." I say with a tone which says duh. Damon scowls. "Damon, can I give you some advice?"
"No."
"I'm giving you some advice." I tell him ignoring his answer. "I do consider us friends but just because I do, doesn't mean that I will join you. You knew that from the start. So my advice is to leave. Leave Damon, leave Mystic Falls. You can't save Elena, save your own life. You cannot kill Klaus, even if you do I will kill all of you. Don't do something stupid for a doppelganger who is love with your brother." I know I hit the low blow for saying that whole in love with his brother thing but I need him to stay the hell out of it. I don't wait for a response then I walk off and away from Damon.
I watch from the entrance as the girl who Niklaus compelled announces about his shout out and the song. I look over at Niklaus who seems smug with himself. Then I look over to the scooby-doo gang who all seem worried. Then I see Damon make his away over to 'Alaric'. I decide to go over to them. "Did Elena like the dedication?" I ask, Niklaus looks at me but then I give him a look which says 'go with it'.
"Here to gloat or to give me advice again?" Damon asks and I roll my eyes.
"Can I not do both?"
"Well, I think it was a little twisted." 'Alaric' says with a humorous glint in his eyes.
"Anyway, your brother hasn't impressed me yet."
"Really?" Both Niklaus and I say at the same time. Darn, us and our need to always say things at the same time. Damon looks weirdly at us then shrugging.
"I'll go tell him, maybe we could make the art teacher create art by letting her blood splatter across the walls, I like how poetic it is." I tell them walking off. I can see Niklaus is trying not to find it funny but is, he is hiding quite well, though.
I decide to walk over to Matthew who is getting two drinks. Probably for him and Caroline. He seems worried about something. He almost jumps out of his skin when he sees me. "What's got you so jumpy?" I ask raising an eyebrow.
"Hmm, nothing." I can tell he is lying.
"You're lying, what is? Matthew, I am your friend, you can tell me." I tell him with a warm smile.
He nods and I can tell he is scared of something. "I know I might sound crazy but Caroline is a vampire and she made me forget but I remember and I don't know what to do."
I can see he waiting for me to laugh. "Not crazy." I all I say. His eyes widen. "Matthew, do you love her?"
"Well yeah, but she's a vam-" I put a finger to his lips effectively shutting him up.
"I didn't know Caroline before she turned but she's a good person Matt. There are vampires who are bad but Caroline is one of the good ones, she probably only kept it from you for your own safety, she drinks from blood bags, she still has those morals which most of us lose very quickly. Being a vampire doesn't make someone a monster, the person makes them a monster. Caroline isn't a monster." Then I pause before saying the next part. "I should know what a monster is because I am a monster. I'm a both vampire and werewolf, I kill like it's nothing, I wreck lives for the hell of it. I'm a true monster." Then I walk off.
Niklaus in the hallway revealing himself to Bonnie and Elena who he is. I'm waiting out here because I know they will run this way. I hear Bonnie use her magic throwing Niklaus into some glass because of the loud smash. Then I hear a chuckle coming from my brother. Bonnie tells them to run. I let Elena find Stefan. I know Bonnie went back in to try and kill Niklaus.
I watch from just outside as Bonnie locks Elena and Stefan out. She then moments later drops dead. I walk inside just after Elena has reached Bonnie. I grabbed Niklaus and got us out of there. He has a smirk on his face. I would say this is another victory for the bad guys, because well we aren't the good guys. So 1 point Mikaelson, 0 points team Doppelganger.
So Klaus is in Mystic Falls, Alexandra was a bucket full of advise in this chapter with both Matt and Damon. Plus you can see now who Alex cares about more between Katherine and Klaus because of what she did. I hope you enjoyed.
Next chapter- Alexandra wants Elijah's body back and there is a flashback to the night Katherine escaped.
