Our Town:
I was lying on one of the coffins containing one of Klaus and Rebekah's brothers as I watched in interest as Bonnie chanted in Latin in front of the locked coffin. The young witch was trying her hardest to open it with her powers. I cocked my head to the side as she finished chanting and watched as she smiled slightly and tried to open the box. She frowned instantly when it still wouldn't open for her.
"Why won't you open?!" Bonnie screeched angrily and I frowned in sympathy at the girl. When I was human we hadn't been that close but I had seen how the supernatural had affected her. The magically coffin disappeared and I slid down off the coffin I was sitting on as Bonnie and I both looked around the room curiously. I heard a creak come from upstairs and glanced up towards the roof. "Hello? Someone there?" Bonnie asked and I motioned for her to stay where she was and she nodded. I walked up the stairs and when I reached the parlour, I glanced around uncertainly. I heard a squeak from the stairs and turned to face Bonne, who was waiting at the bottom of the staircase. I smiled at her reassuringly and pressed a finger to lips to keep her quiet. I stepped quietly from the stairs and listened intently. I saw a figure walk out the front door of the house and sped out after them. I saw that the figure was a hybrid that had vamped out and was about to take a bite out of Stefan. I ran up behind them and thrust my hand into his chest as I let my finger curl around his heart. He grunted in a mixture of surprise and pain as I ripped his heart out of his chest with a satisfied smile on my lips.
"These hybrids, really bringing the neighbourhood down." I quipped as Stefan and Damon both stared up at me and I smirked as I dropped the hybrids heart on the ground at my feet.
Once again I was sitting on the coffin in the abandoned witch house, watching as with a smirk as Damon hit the locked coffin fiercely with a shovel.
"You're wasting your time. It won't open." I commented to him just as Stefan walked into the basement.
"Did you bury the body?" Damon asked his brother as he ignored me. Stefan came to stand next to me and crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned on the coffin.
"Yeah. Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?" Stefan asked me as I slid off the coffin and stood next to him.
"Nope, just the dead one." I replied to him with a smirk that he returned.
"Alright, Klaus has 6 siblings. Rebekah is now with Klaus. There was one dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world, which leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping originals, four coffins. So, who is in the locked box?" Damon asked me and I shrugged my shoulders.
"No idea. And the other brothers are Finn and Kol." I told him.
"But whatever is in here, Bonnie seems to think will help us kill Klaus. So, the sooner she can get this open, the sooner we will know if she's right." Stefan said to us and I pursed my lips in concentration.
"Oh, you think the spirits of a bunch of dead witches that can make the coffins invisible would have figured out how to open one." Damon said as he tilted his head towards the ceiling as he addressed the spirits. "Fine, don't help."
"You shouldn't talk badly about a bunch of powerful witches, Damon." I scolded him with a scowl and he rolled his blue eyes at me.
"You know, none of this is going to do us any good if Klaus' hybrid friends find our hiding place, right? They need to go away." Stefan said to us and I nodded in agreement with him.
"Oh yeah, that's a great idea Stefan. Why don't you just ask them to pack their bags and take a long rest while we are at it. How about try to keep the peace? Don't attract attention to the real thing we are trying to hide." Damon suggested sarcastically.
"Well, I'm not gonna play defence when I have what Klaus wants. He does what I say, or I dump his family to the bottom of the ocean."
"Bar Rebekah." I added and Stefan rolled his eyes at me.
"And then he kills you and everyone you know like, I don't know... me!" Damon said to his brother.
"No, he's bluffing. His family means more to him than anything else." I told them both nonchalantly.
"You sure about that?"
"Well I don't know Damon. I mean, I guess there's only one way to find out, right?" I asked with a sweet smile.
"Call his bluff." Stefan added as he wrapped an arm around my waist comfortably.
"The only way to call someone's bluff, Stefan, Ellyse, is to be willing to lose everything if you're wrong." Damon said spitefully as he pointed at the two of us. Stefan and I shared a knowingly smiled before we both smiled at Damon and turned to leave the basement. We both walked up the stairs and out onto the front porch. I leaned up against the pillar and Stefan leaned against the opposite one from me.
"I'm going to go see Klaus. Want to come?" he asked me with a smirk.
As Stefan and I entered the mansion that Klaus was currently renovating we could hear him in one of the rooms.
"Sweet dreams Rebekah. Show her to her room, would you, love?" I heard him say to who I could only assume was one of his hybrids minions.
"Sure." The hybrid answered just as Stefan and I walked into the room and we saw Klaus leaning over a table with blueprints on it.
"I'm surprised you're still in town. I gave you your freedom, you could have gone anywhere." He said to Stefan without turning around.
"I live here, Klaus." Stefan replied as if it was obvious as I leaned against the doorframe and watched as Klaus turned around to face us. He flashed a smile in my direction before looking back at the youngest Salvatore.
"Well, if we're playing this game, then... I was here first." He quipped and I giggled softly. The sound of my laughter made him smirk in my direction but I just rolled my eyes at him before looking back at the other side of the doorframe.
"You know, I don't like your hybrid friends. They're everywhere, kind of like fleas. I want them gone." I told him as I waved a hand in the carelessly.
"Yeah, well I kind of like having them around." Klaus said to me with a shrug. He paused for a moment and turned his attention back to Stefan. "You know, I'm hurt. I hoped that when I freed you, we'd pick up where we left off. But here you are, guzzling vervain like the rest of them, I'm sure. So much for friendship. And you, beauty, I suppose you are doing vervain shots as well?"
"I much prefer the acid down my throat than the betrayal of having my boyfriend compel me." I spat at him venomously and he held up his hands in mock surrender.
"Friends don't strip friends of their free will." Stefan shot back.
"Okay, granted, that was a little extreme, but I get a little moody. Just ask Ellyse or any of my siblings. Speaking of whom, isn't it time you handed them over?"
"Klaus, get your hybrids out of Mystic Falls or I will remove them myself."
"You see, if you continue to threaten me, I'm gonna be forced to retaliate. Kill people. And it will get messy again."
"Do whatever you want, I don't really care. Or you know what? Maybe I do. Maybe I care so much, that I'll drop Elijah in the Arctic."
"Well, maybe I'll be willing to lose one brother if it meant killing yours."
"Try me, let's find out." Stefan taunted him and I lolled my head back against the doorframe in boredom. I watched as a hybrid wandered into the room from the opposite door way from me.
"Is everything ok?" the hybrid asked Klaus with a raised eyebrow.
"Everything is fine, Mindy. Stefan and Ellyse were just leaving after failing to make a point." Klaus told the hybrid without looking away from Stefan. I sighed dramatically from my spot before rushing over to the hybrid, Mindy and using all my strength to knock her head clean off her shoulders. I smirked at the headless hybrid body and then glanced up to see Klaus looking at me dumbfounded and Stefan smirking at me.
"Well, one down. You may want to send the rest of them away before it gets messy, again." I told Klaus as I sauntered out the door without looking back.
I walked into the founder's party wearing a cocktails dress and smirked to myself as I number of heartbeats instantly picked up at the sight of me. Being a vampire was doing great things for my self-esteem. I glanced around the room quickly and smiled when I saw Klaus speaking with the mayor Carol Lockwood. I strolled over just as Damon approached them the other side.
"Look at what the cat dragged in. Nice vest." Damon said to the Original Hybrid in greeting and I chuckled lightly as I came up to the group.
"'Cat'. I see what you did there." I said to Damon as I chuckled at the pun and he winked at me. Carol gave me a bright smile as she took in the sight of me.
"Ellyse! Tyler told me you were back. It's so good to see you, honey." She exclaimed as she pulled me into a hug. I scrunched my nose up at the overwhelming smell of Dior that came off of her in waves.
"Hello, Carol. It's good to see you as well." I told her sincerely as I pulled back. Carol had always been like a second mother to me because she didn't have any daughters of her own.
"Thank you very much, good to see you, Damon. Carol and I were discussing about whether you would be the other big benefactor." Klaus said politely to Damon as he tried to wrap an arm around my waist but I elbowed him in the ribs.
"What do you say Damon? Klaus has made a very generous pledge. You know how we're chomping at the bit to begin the renovation." Carol said to Damon with a bright smile.
"Carol, don't take this the wrong way, but do you realize that you've been kissing the ass of an immortal hybrid who ruined your son's life?" Damon asked her sarcastically.
"Oh, come now. Some would say that I saved him from all that nasty full moon business. I've never had to go through it myself more than twice, to be honest, but still, I'm very sympathetic." Niklaus said to me and Carol.
"It's true, Damon. I heard from Tyler and mason that it's very painful." I told him with a sympathetic grimace.
"Klaus has promised to protect Tyler, Damon. And our town." Carol intervened sternly.
"From who? His hybrids are the one the town needs protection from." Damon argued.
"Well, I'd have no use for them if your brother and Ellyse would kindly return my family." Klaus pointed out and I snorted in amusement.
"Not gonna happen." I said as I smiled up at him innocently.
"That's what I thought, which is why I've come to an agreement with the Mayor. You and the Council stay out of my hair, I stay out of yours. Your town gets protected, my hybrids get left alone and everybody will be happy. All you have to do is to get Stefan to stop decapitating my friends."
"That was me that decapitated your hybrid. Full disclosure, I also ripped ones heart out as well." I told him as I bit my bottom lip.
"Please Damon, just get your brother under control or the Council will be forced to take action against him." Carol said to Damon as she ignored that I was part of the problem.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed.
"Oh come on mate, give peace a chance." Klaus said jokingly.
"Yeah, God, Damon." I scoffed at him as I turned on my heel and left the huddled group in search of the bar. As I was making my way over to the bar for a drink and I spied Stefan creeping around the edges of the party and hurried to catch up to him. I tapped him on the shoulder as I got closer and he spun around so fast it made me smile in amusement.
"Hey." He said to me and I quirked an eyebrow in silent question as to what he was doing. He sighed audibly and leaned back against the wall behind him. "I'm gonna make a statement to Klaus."
"Ooh! I'm in." I cried happily as I clapped my hands together in front of me. I pursed my lips together as I looked around the room. "Ah!" I exclaimed happily as I discreetly grabbed a long knife from one of the tables and motioned for a smirking Stefan to follow me down a vacant hallway. I saw a hybrid go upstairs and into a room so we silently followed him and closed the door behind us. The male hybrid spun around when he heard the door close and Stefan sped around to grip his arms behind his back so that I could stab him in the stomach with the knife. The hybrid grunted in pain as I pulled the knife out and pressed it against his throat. Stefan pulled his head back to expose his neck more and just as I was about to cut his head off someone pushed me to the side and I crashed into the wall. I looked up just in time to see Damon push his brother up against the wall opposite me.
"What are you doing?" I asked the older vampire as I moved over to stand next to them.
"What are you doing? No dead hybrids at the Founders' party!" Damon scolded us like children and I rolled my eyes as I leaned on the wall next to the brothers.
"No, we told Klaus to get his hybrids out of town, he didn't listen, so we're gonna say it louder." Stefan explained as he pushed Damon off of him and straightened his jacket.
"You don't think there's ten more where that came from? And if you kill them, Klaus won't make 20 more? Have you forgotten about Elena's part in all of this? Or do you not care if she is a human blood bag for the rest of her life?"
"I really don't care." I answered in a bored tone as I picked at the blood on my nails.
"Protecting Elena is your problem now. See, I'm not compelled by Klaus to do that anymore." Stefan agreed with me with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Don't give me that no-humanity crap, you can't just flip your switch! Your switch is fried, Stefan, just like your brain! You want to take Klaus? You want to beat the villain? You've got to be smarter." Damon said to us and I smirked at him as I pushed off the wall.
"No, to beat the villain, Damon, you have to be the better villain." I corrected him as I walked passed him. Stefan smirked at his brother as he clapped him on the shoulder and followed me out of the room. We walked out of the house and into the woods so that no one would overhear us.
"I have a plan." Stefan said suddenly and I stopped in my tracks. I turned around and looked at him expectantly.
I was standing by myself near the bar as I sipped my vodka and people watched silently. I felt a familiar presence come up beside me and I rolled my eyes as I supressed a grin.
"What do you want, Niklaus?" I asked him haughtily.
"You know, our anniversary is coming up." He replied conversationally and I turned to give him a incredulously look.
"We aren't together." I reminded him pointedly but he just waved a hand in the air dismissively.
"Technicality."
"That's not a technicality, Nik! It's a freaking major detail." I corrected him in a stern tone but he just gave me a full blown grin in response. "What?"
"You just called me Nik." He pointed out and I bit the inside of my cheek to stop myself from hit my forehead.
"Shut up." I growled as I looked away from him with a grimace but he just chuckled at my antics.
"We need to talk." Damon said as he rushed over to the two of us. Without waiting for an answer he grabbed my arm and started pulling my away from the crowd and into an empty study. I turned my head and saw Klaus following us into the room.
"What now? You just pulled me away from a fascinating conversation about the future of my relationship." Klaus said to Damon as he went and leaned on the study. I rolled my eyes at him as I sunk down on the couch in the room.
"Stefan just grabbed Elena." Damon informed the Original Hybrid and then all eyes were on me but I just started playing with the end of my hair.
"Well, you two are getting desperate." Klaus said to me and I just smirked in his direction.
"You'd know all about that." I shot back and he gripped his heart in mock hurt as I glowered at him.
"He's gonna try and use her against you. Do what they say, get rid of your hybrids." Damon instructed pointedly.
"Or what? Stefan would never dream of killing her. And I had to compel Ellyse to let me kill Elena for the sacrifice." Klaus reminded the elder Salvatore and I bit my tongue to keep from saying anything.
"You sure about that? They just tried to behead someone in the middle of a Council party. Stefan's operating on crazy right now."
"Well, crazy or not, that kind of love never dies. He's bluffing."
"Maybe he is, maybe he isn't." I said in a sing song voice from my spot on the couch and then smiled innocently as the two men glared at me.
"If you don't want to believe him, believe me. I know my brother better than anyone, and right now, I don't have a clue how far he is willing to take this. So if he says blink, I suggest you blink." Damon said to Klaus just as the hybrid's phone rang in his pocket. He took the phone out of his pocket and checked the caller ID with a smirk on his lips. He answered the phone and put it on loudspeaker so that we could all hear clearly even though we could already her with our vampire hearing.
"Stefan, how nice to hear your voice." Klaus greeted the younger Salvatore brother pleasantly.
"Tell your hybrids to get out of town, Klaus." We heard Stefan's voice respond.
"Well that's not gonna happen until I get my coffins back."
"Okay, well then I'm gonna drive your blood source off Wickery Bridge."
"I don't believe you Stefan. You won't kill her."
"No! No! No! What are you doing?" I heard Elena splutter pitifully in the background of the phone call.
"What's going on?" Klaus asked and I could hear the concern in his voice.
"I just fed her my blood. No more hybrids if she's a vampire." Stefan taunted him.
"Ellyse won't let you turn her twin sister."
"Why not? Then I can have my sister forever." I intervened from my spot on the couch.
"You won't do it." Klaus said to Stefan confidently after sparing me a quick glance.
"Really? Try me, because your coffins are next to go. Say goodbye to your family Klaus."
"Stefan, slow down! Stefan! Stefan ,stop it!" Elena screamed.
"Fine, I'll send them away, you win." Klaus said in defeat.
"Stefan! Stefan, stop!"
"Stop the car, Stefan!" Klaus screamed angrily.
"Ellyse?" Stefan asked me for my opinion and I bit my lips as I thought about it. I locked gazes with Niklaus and made my decision.
"Stop the car, Stefan." I ordered softly but I knew that he could hear me because we could all hear the car screech to a rough stop. Klaus hung up the phone furiously and left the room without a backwards glance. I locked gazes with Damon for a second before I sped out of the house without a word.
I walked into Stefan's bedroom later that night and found him sitting silently on the end of the bed with a glass on scotch in his hand. I went over to him without a word and sat next to him. I took the glass from his slack hand and finished it in one mouthful.
"Elena hates me." He said emotionlessly.
"Elena loves you too much to ever hate you." I replied confidently as stood up and walked over to the makeshift bar in the corner of the room. I grabbed a bottle of vodka for me and the bottle of scotch for Stefan. I smiled at him as I handed him the full bottle and he smirked back at me a little. I took a pull of the vodka and relished the burn as it ran down my throat. I skipped over to the radio and fiddled with the dials until I found a song I liked. "Ah! Yay!" I cheered as I danced back over to Stefan and pulled him to his feet. He struggled a little bit before I mock glared at him and he started loosening up a little bit. The rest of the night was full of music, drinking and laughter as we held our two person party alone in Stefan's room.