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Klaus woke up with Ariel in his arms. She was still sleeping. She never looked more peaceful than in her sleep. He smiled as he watched her breathe and he started to stroke her hair. She slowly opened her eyes and she knew he was awake. She smiled when she felt his hand in her hair and she looked up at him.

"Hello, love," he grinned at her.

"Hi," she said with a small voice before she closed her eyes and laid her head on his chest again.

He chuckled. "We should get up, love. Rebekah is already gone," he said and she sighed.

She made pancakes for breakfast and they were packing Klaus' arts when Rebekah arrived in panic.

"Alaric Saltzman just tried to kill me!"

Klaus looked up at his sister and raised his eyebrows. "Alaric Saltzman is supposed to be dead."

"Well, he's not!" she yelled. "And he's a vampire thanks to mother's spell! With a white oak stake that can't kill him! He's stronger, Nick! Too strong!" She was obviously afraid.

Klaus looked down at Ariel who was now scared too. He took her hand and she looked up at him.

"Where is he now?" he asked.

"Stuck at the school without a daylight ring but as soon as night falls he'll come after us," she told him. "We need to leave now."

Klaus sighed. "Fine. I'll collect Elena and we'll be on our way."

Rebekah frowned and Ariel looked up at him.

"Forget Elena! You don't need any more stupid hybrids!" she said. "No offense," she told Ariel who shrugged, timidly.

"What I need is protection from Esther's continued assaults against us," he told his sister.

"We'll protect each other, like we always have," she told him. "Always and forever, Nik," she reminded her. He stared at her in silence for a few seconds.

"Klaus…" Ariel whispered his name and squeezed his hand. She took one step towards him. He looked down at her and got lost in her green eyes.

Did he really need more hybrids? If he left with her, he would put her in danger but he promised her he would never leave her alone. He needed more hybrids to protect her.

"I'm not leaving without her," he said.

Rebekah was disappointed and angry. "I'm leaving now," she said. "You can either walk out that door with me or you two are on your own," she said.

Klaus stared at her than looked down once more at Ariel.

"You're killing her, I hope you know that," she said before she walked out. "Move it, sire boy!" she yelled at Tyler who was in her way.

"What's her deal?" he asked but Klaus didn't answer. He had tears in his eyes. Ariel let go of his hand and he watched her walk away from him and she kept packing with Tyler.

"Tyler stay here, with Ariel," he said.

"Where are you going?" he asked but he didn't answer and Tyler looked down at Ariel who shrugged. She looked sad. "Are you okay?" he asked and she shrugged again.

They were still packing when Ariel's phone rang. It was Klaus.

"Hello?"

"Love," Klaus said. "I'm going on a rescue mission," he told her. "I should be back soon but be prepared to leave before sunset."

"Okay," she said but he had already hung up.

"What was that about?" Tyler asked.

"Alaric Saltzman is a vampire," she said.

"What?" Tyler's eyes grew big and she just nodded and kept packing.

When Klaus came back, he wasn't alone. He had an unconscious Elena with him. She couldn't watch him drain her of her blood so she walked around the mansion, making sure they hadn't forgotten anything. But she stopped in the hallway and listened to what Elena and Klaus were saying.

"These last few liters will have to suffice," he said. "You see...By attempting to kill us, my mother strengthened the bond between my siblings and I. I don't need hybrids. I have Ariel. I have my family."

"If you believe that, then why take my blood at all?" she asked. "You want a back-up family. "You know that your siblings will never trust you again. And you're afraid of losing Ariel. You're afraid she'll leave you just like your siblings did. But the truth is, they didn't leave you. You drove them away. And you'll drive her away too."

Ariel started to tear up at the doppelgänger's words.

"Have a nice death, Elena," he said before he walked out of the room.

Ariel heard someone come in the mansion. She stayed hidden but saw Damon and Stefan following Tyler in the room where Elena was. He started to untie her.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Shh."

"Tyler," she could only whisper and he turned around and saw Klaus. Damon and Stefan were hidden and the hybrid wasn't aware of their presence.

"So much for that sire bond," the hybrid said.

"I'm not your little bitch anymore," Tyler told him.

Ariel stayed hidden. She looked for a stake and broke a chair to get one.

"How did you break the sire bond?"

"By breaking every bone in my body a hundred times for the girl I love," he answered.

"That's impossible."

"Is it? Or maybe real love is stronger than fake loyalty. But what would you know about that?"

"You know, you should be thanking me. 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!" he yelled.

Ariel heard him walk away from Klaus. "Come on," he whispered to Elena. But then, she heard someone fall.

"Good-bye Tyler," he said but then she heard him scream. She rushed into the room and saw Tyler and Stefan holding Klaus and she did the first thing that came into her mind. She stabbed Stefan in the back.

"No!" Tyler breathed out, shocked Ariel would do something like that. Klaus watched with big eyes Stefan's skin turn grey.

"What did you do?"

She turned to see Damon in the entry of the room looking down at his brother's lifeless body. But before Damon could do anything, both Klaus and Ariel were gone.

"Get in," Klaus told Ariel who quickly got into the car and he drove them out of Mystic Falls. "Call Rebekah," he said. But when she didn't move he turned to look at her. She was staring at her hands. "Are you okay?" he asked but she didn't move. "Ariel!" he called her name and she jumped and looked up at him with big eyes.

"I'm sorry, wh… what?" she asked with a shaky voice.

"Are you okay?" he repeated.

She looked at him like, no, she wasn't okay, how could she be okay?

"Is he…?" she closed her eyes and shook her head at the simple thought. "Did I…?"

"Yes," he said and she opened her eyes. He was focusing on the road. "It was him or me, Ariel," he told her.

She stayed silent for a minute.

"I just killed someone," she whispered.

"Are you gonna be okay?" he asked.

She took a deep breath and nodded. She took her phone and dialed Rebekah's number.

"What should I tell her?" she asked in a cold tone. He looked at her in silence for a few seconds, she was looking at the road.

"Tell her Elena Gilbert needs to die," he said and she nodded.

She did as he told her without a blink.

"Are you crazy?" Rebekah said over the phone, "I am not going back there!"

"If Elena dies, Alaric will die with her!" Klaus told her and the blonde sighed.

"Why can't you do it?" she asked.

"Ariel just killed Stefan Salvatore," he said. "We can't go back there!"

"Damn it, Nik!" she yelled.

"Bekah!"

"Alright, alright…" she sighed. "I'll call you when it's done."

"She'll probably be at the hospital," he said. "And kill Damon too if you can."

She groaned before she hung up.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

He sighed. "First, we'll stop at a hotel but we need to get you far from Mystic Falls, I doubt Damon won't look for you," he said.

"I just killed his brother," she whispered.

"Once Elena's dead he'll have nothing better to do than to go after us, we'll need to get the white oak stake from them."

Ariel nodded and sighed. She leaned back in her seat and looked by the window.

Klaus stopped at a diner a couple of hours away from Mystic Falls. Ariel was still looking by the window. He took her left hand and she turned her head. She looked sad.

"We'll wait here until Rebekah calls," he said. He took her face in his hands and locked his eyes in hers. "Everything will be fine," he told her. She gave him a sad and tiny smile and she looked down. He kissed her forehead before they got out of the car.

Ariel was sitting next to Klaus but she wasn't hungry. She probably was starving, but she didn't want to eat.

"You need to eat, love," Klaus told her.

"Does it ever go away?" she asked and he frowned.

"What, love?"

She sighed. "The guilt?" she looked up at him.

"It gets easier with time," he nodded. "Eat."

Ariel stared at her plate for a few minutes before she finally took the fork and started eating. Half an hour later, Klaus's phone rang.

"Rebekah, is it done?" he asked. Ariel looked up and tried to listen to what she was saying.

"The doppelgänger's dead," she said. "So is the history teacher," she sighed. "Damon tried to kill me but I'm fine, he's not dead though… I have the white oak stake."

Klaus told her where there were. "We'll be waiting for you."

"I'll be there in two hours," she said and she hang up.

"How are you feeling?" Klaus asked Ariel again.

"I'm fine," she said. Stefan deserved to die. He kidnapped her, tortured her and repeatedly tried to kill Klaus. "You left Elena's blood behind," she said.

"I don't need her blood, now that Alaric is dead," he said and she raised her eyebrows. "I just need you." He was looking down at her and she lost herself in his blue eyes. I just need you. His words echoed in her head and she placed her right hand on his cheek and kissed him. Klaus moved his hands on her waist and pulled her closer to him and deepened the kiss. She broke the kiss so she could breathe but she stayed close to him.

"I heard what Elena said, earlier," she said and she looked him in the eyes. "I'll never leave you," she said. He smiled and kissed her again.

Klaus knew he had to leave his car behind, so they stole another one and left right after Rebekah joined them.

"I called Kol and Elijah," the blonde said. "They know everything."

"What did they say?" he asked.

"Elijah didn't pick up the phone but I left him a voicemail. Kol said if we needed anything, he'd be in France."

Klaus chuckled. "France… What will he be doing there?" he asked.

Rebekah sighed. "I don't know," she shrugged. "Drink, kill…more drinking?"

Klaus laughed at his sister's comment.

"And where are we going, Nik?" she asked. "What will we be doing?"

Klaus looked in the mirror and saw Ariel was sleeping in the back of the car.

"What about New-Orleans?"