Elena was pulling her frustation on Alaric's punching bag, as she was punching and kicking letting all out of her system. Alaric walked into the room and saw her pratically attaching his punching bag.
"Hey, you're gonna put a hole in that thing." Alaric joked "You want to talk about it?"
"Nothing to talk about." She replied firmly.
Damon was walking out of his bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. Stefan stood in the doorway with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Good morning." Damon mumbled with a grumpy face.
"You're late." Stefan informed him. "We're supposed to meet Bonnie and Claire at the witch house in ten minutes."
The eldest brother almost cringed hearing his ex-girlfriend's name, after what happen last night with Elena, he wasn't sure if he could look at her face without feeling guilt.
"Relax. You don't want your hair to fall out." Damon replied sarcastically.
"What got into in a such bad mood?" Stefan mused. "Oh, I know. Could it be for the fact that you were to busy entertaining someone last night that wasn't your girlfriend? Ups, sorry. Ex-girlfriend."
Damon stopped dead on his tracks and slowly turned around to face his brother, "What?"
"Oh, you don't know..." Stefan chuckled. "Well, Claire came to the witch house last night in hysterics, because she told me that she saw you kissing someone..."
"Damn it, damn it." Damon cursed. "She completely got it all wrong..."
"Did she?" Stefan cocked an eyebrow. "Just face it, brother. You completely lost Claire this time... I wouldn't try to get near her right now, she can set your ass on fire and rip your head off at the same time." Stefan didn't give him a chance to respond as he walked out of the room without another word.
Alaric was now holding the punching bag so Elena could punch and kick with more impact. "So, what's got you all worked up?" Alaric questioned.
"I didn't really sleep last night." She told him.
"Yeah, me neither. Probably something to do with dying..." Alaric mused
"Are you ok?" Elena asked concerned.
"Yeah I'm fine, I'm fine... I think the ring, however, is running low on batteries."
"Yeah, it's another reason why Jeremy has to get out of town. If those rings have a shelf life, he is not protected, neither are you." She kicked the bag harder this time.
"Nice, nice, you're getting stronger." Alaric nodded aprovingly.
"I'm just channeling frustration..." She breathed "I need coffee." She went to pour some coffe into a mug.
"I guess Damon's compulsion worked." Alaric replied. "Jeremy was packing, when I left the house... Going on about his school in Denver."
"Have you, uh, talked to Damon today?" Elena asked curiously.
"No... Why?" Alaric questioned suspiciously.
"No reason." She shrugged.
At the abandoned witch house Bonnie and Claire were trying to use a spell, to open the locked coffin. They opened their eyes and saw that nothing had happen. Claire was wearing a white top with black and white images on it, black denim shorts, transparent thigts, black leather jacket and black boots. Her hair was done in a high ponytail, she wore red lipstick. (Oufit in the profile)
Bonnie reached the coffin and tried to pry open "Why won't you open?" She snapped as the coffins disappeard
"Yeah, real thanks guys." Claire scoffed, talking to the dead witches. Then suddenly Claire could feel something different around them.
"Do you feel that?" She questioned Bonnie, and the younger witch nodded.
"Hello?" Bonnie called "Someone there?" Then they saw movement from behind them.
"You haven't said anything to Elena about the coffins, right?" Stefan asked Damon as they walked towards the witch house.
"No, I said I wouldn't." He replied.
"I know what you said." Stefan nodded.
"Why are you asking?" Damon scoffed.
"Because protecting the location of Klaus' family is my number one priority right now. And the fewer people who know, the better." Stefan told him as Damon grabbed his arm to make him stop.
"What?"
Bonnie walked towards the corner of the door with Claire behind, as she suddenly jolted when she saw Damon at the top of the stairs his finger on his mouth telling them to keep quiet.
Outside of the house, one of Klaus's hybrid slaves was leaving the house when he found Stefan in front of him, he changed his face ready to attack him but Damon sped over and ripped his heart out.
"These hybrids are bringing the neighbour down." Damon replied as he threw the hybrid's heart to the floor.
Elena was decorating Caroline's locker for her birthday as Bonnie ran over her. "Hey, sorry I'm late." She replied. "I... I got held up."
"It's okay. I just got here too. Could you pass me the balloons?" Elena asked and Bonnie handed her the balloons. "Thanks. Why are you running late?"
"I was working on some spells... You?" Bonnie lied.
"Working out with Alaric..." Elena sighed "So, I have something I need to tell you, Bonnie, and you're not gonna like it."
"What happened?" Bonnie asked worriedly.
"Jeremy is gonna be leaving town for a while. He'll be staying with some old family in Denver, until this whole Klaus thing blows over." Elena told her.
"Jeremy wouldn't just leave you to deal with Klaus on your own." Bonnie creased her eyebrows.
"I know." Elena lowered her head "I asked Damon to compel him..."
"You what?" Bonnie scoffed.
"I know Bonnie. But it's not safe for him here anymore!" Elena argued "Leaving will give him a better life. The only reason I'm telling you is because you two haven't really worked out your stuff... and I thought that maybe you'd want to say goodbye." Elena replied as Bonnie looked over at Jeremy who was standing at his locker.
Claire walked down the basement with Damon following behind, she has been ignoring him all morning and he didn't blame her.
"Claire, can we talk?" He called after her.
"I'm setting you on fire..." She threathened him.
"Look, whatever you saw last night-"
"Damon." She turned to face him. "I am this close to burn this fucking house down with you in it."
"You need to listen!" He growled. "I didn't kiss Elena! She kissed me, but I pulled her away."
"You know what?" She looked at him with indifference. "That maybe could be the truth, but I'm don't give a fuck anymore."
"What is that supposed to mean?" He frowned.
"I am done being Claire the 'pathetic heartbroken' girl. I am done crying over you, and I'm done people making me look like an idiot." She spat. "Because you and Elena can all go to hell for all I care."
"You don't mean that." He reached to touch her face but she caught and broke his hand. "Don't touch me. From now on, you are nothing but the shit underneath my shoe." She left him there with his hand broken. "Oh, and tell Elena to sleep with one eye open from now on." Then she walked out of the basement.
Damon was hitting the coffin with a shovel, with his supernatural strenght as Stefan walked into the basement "You're wasting your time. It won't open..." He replied as Damon threw away the shovel.
"Did you bury the body?" Stefan questioned.
"Yeah." Damon nodded "Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?"
"Nope, just the dead one." Stefan replied.
"Alright, Klaus has six 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." Damon looked at the coffins "And two others. Three sleeping Originals, four coffins. So who is in the locked box?"
"No idea." Stefan shook his ehad. "But whatever is in here, Bonnie seems to think will help us kill Klaus and Claire agrees. So the sooner they can get this open, the sooner we will know if Bonnie's right."
"Oh you'd think spirits of a bunch of dead witches that can make the coffins invisible would have figured out how to open one." The older vampire called out to the dead witches but nothing happened "Fine, don't help."
"You know none of this is gonna do us any good if Klaus' hybrid friends find out hiding place, right? They need to go away." Stefan told 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 on it." Damon suggested sarcastically. "How about we keep the peace? Don't draw attention to the real thing we are trying to hide." He talked about the coffins.
"There is no such thing as 'peace' when we're trying to bring down the enemy here." Claire announced as she walked into the basement to join the brothers. "Klaus isn't getting the memo, we need to send him a more effective one."
"Claire is right. I'm not gonna play defence when I have what Klaus wants. He does what we say or I'll dump his family to the bottom of the ocean." Stefan spat.
"And he kills you and everyone you know like, I don't know... me!" Damon scoffed.
"No, he's bluffing. His family means more to him than anything else." Stefan told him firmly.
"You sure about that?" Damon questioned.
"Well, we don't know Damon. I guess there's only a way to find out, right? Call his bluff." Claire smirked.
"Couldn't say better myself." Stefan supported Claire.
"The only way to call someones bluff, is to be willing to loose everything if you're wrong." Damon hissed.
"We're done here. We're taking charge right now." Claire growled.
"You're both insane! Claire what happened to 'sometimes it isn't always about power, you have to use your head too.'" Damon stood in front of her, only inches away from her.
"I'm done being catelous, Klaus only responds to actions... Well, this is war. And, I'm not going to play fair." She sneered, then she turned to Stefan. "Let's go." She walked out and the younger Salvatore followed her.
Back at the school, Jeremy was putting some books on his locker when Bonnie approached him "Denver, huh?" She mused "So, were you going to say goodbye?"
"I wasn't sure you cared." Jeremy shrugged.
"Of course I care." Bonnie scoffed "I was hurt by what happened between you and Anna, Jeremy. I didn't want you to leave town."
"I think this could be a good thing." Jeremy told her, duo to Damon's compulsion "Until all this Klaus stuff blows over. I think I could have a better life there."
"That's what Elena said." Bonnie muttered "It's exactly what she said."
"What do you mean?" Jeremy looked at her.
"Nothing." Bonnie shook her head "I'm just sorry you have to go, that's all."
Caroline parked her car on the parking lot of the school, she looked over at Tyler who was waiting for her and she sighed. She climbed out of the car and he walked towards her.
"I can't talk to you." She told him as she tried to walk past him but he wouldn't let her.
"I know you're upset but-"
"Upset?" Caroline scoffeds "You almost got Jeremy killed! And before you ask me to understand and support you at least tell me what you're planning to do about your sire bond to Klaus?"
"There is nothing that I can do about it Caroline!" Tyler shook his head "That's the point. I just wanted you to know that I understand why you can't be with me. Even though I want to put your first, before anyone, I can't, I'll never be able to. And I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I just want you to know that." His voice filled with sorrow.
"I'm sorry, too." Caroline whispered, with tears in her eyes.
Tyler pulled a wrapped present, it had a bracelet in it and handed to her "Happy birthday." He replied as he walked away.
Klaus was closing Rebekah's coffin with one of his hybrids waiting for his next request "Sweet dreams, Rebekah. Show her to her room, would you, love?" He asked the hybrid woman.
"Sure." She nodded obediently.
"I didn't know you left town." Klaus mused as he saw Claire walking slowly into the house.
"Well, yeah... Thought I could use a change of scenery." She shrugged. "But I came back! And decided that I should pay a visit to one of my many lovers."
"How thoughtful of you, love." Klaus smirked. "I'm just hurt that you decided to visit Damon first."
"Don't be bitter Nikklaus." She tsked him. "Green isn't a particuly suitable color for you."
"Hmm... So care to enlighten me to why this sudden visit?" He walked closer to her.
"Well, you see a little bird told me, that he was holding hostage of something of your possession..." She traced his strong jawline with her manicured finger. "And I happen to be exchanging some notes with this particularly birdie."
Klaus grabbed her hand and stared her down, "What do you think you're doing?"
"You tell me." She shot back. "What does it look like?" He continued to glare at her, gripping her arm but she stood emotionless.
"I'm surprised you're still in town." Klaus announced as he felt Stefan's presence on the doorway. "I gave you your freedom, you could go anywhere."
"I live here Klaus." Stefan replied.
"Well, if you're playing that game, then, I was here first." Klaus retorted as Claire pulled away from his grip.
"You know, I don't like your hybrid friends. They're everywhere, kind of like fleas. We want them gone." Stefan demanded.
"'Cause, I don't feel like ripping their hearts out all the time." Claire mused as she walked around the house.
"Yeah, well I kind of like having them around." Klaus told them "You know, I'm hurt. I hoped that when I freed you, we pick up where we left off. But here you are, guzzling vervain like the rest of them, I'm sure. So much for friendship."
"Friends don't strip other friends of their free will." Stefan sneered.
"Ok, granted, that was a little extreme, but I get a little moody. Just ask my siblings. Speaking of whom, isn't it time you handed them over?" Klaus questioned, Claire walked over him and grabbed his bottle of bourbon as she poured into a glass.
"Help yourself, love." Klaus smirked, Claire winked and lifted her glass in a 'cheers' motion.
"Klaus, get your hybrids out of Mystic Falls, or we will remove them ourselves." Stefan growled.
"You see, if you continue to threaten me, I'm gonna be forced to retaliate. Kill people. And it will get messy again." He smirked.
"And we're supposed to care because...?" Claire trailed off. "Look, we're not fucking around anymore. Get them out of Mystic Falls or you won't like what is going to happen to them..."
"But maybe we do care. We care so much, that we'll drop Elijah in the Arctic..." Stefan added.
"Well, maybe I'll be willing to lose one brother if it meant killing yours." Klaus challenged him.
"Try me, let's find out." Stefan dared him.
"Is everyone ok?" One of Klaus's hybrids stepped into the room.
"Everything is find, Mindy. Stefan and Claire were just leaving after failing to make their point..." Klaus replied replied and Claire gave him a small smile, then suddenly she sped over to the other hybrid and slapped her head clean off of her shoulders.
"Perhaps, this made our point..." Claire smirked as she cleaned her hand on the hybrid's clothes.
"Well, one down. You may want to send the rest of them away before it gets messy... again." Stefan nodded as he and Claire walked out of the mansion leaving Klaus fuming with anger.
Caroline walked into her house, still upset over Tyler when suddenly Elena, Bonnie and Matt jumped out of nowhere and with balloons and a pink banner "Happy birthday!" Matt grinned.
"What are you guys doing?" Caroline smiled.
"Well, you blew off school." Elena replied "Missed our work of birthday art, so..."
"Change into warmer clothes, we are going to the falls. Smores, camp fire." Bonnie beamed.
"Cake, like when we were little." Elena nodded excitedly.
"Except with tequila!" Matt grinned holding a bottle of tequila.
"Thanks, guys. Really, I'm just not feeling my birthday this year." Caroline shrugged.
"I'm sorry, what?" Bonnie looked at her in disbelief "You've already claimed your birthday as everyone's favourite day of the year."
"Yeah, and now, it's just a reminder that technically, I'm dead." She replied "I'm dead. I'm going to be 17 forever... and the only point to get to 17 is to be 18. It's a filler year, I'm stuck in a filler year."
"You're not suck, Caroline." Elena shook her head.
"Yeah I am. But it's ok... you know, it's all good, I will be fine. But I just need some time to wallow in it." The blonde told them.
"Ok, well I think I have another idea." Elena smiled.
Damon and Alaric were walking towards the Town Hall for the council meeting "I thought Stefan and Claire saved your life..."
"They did." Damon nodded.
"And now they are willing to risk it just to see how far they can push Klaus?" Alaric questioned.
"It seems so." Damon rolled his eyes.
"So... Is his humanity on or off?" Alaric asked. "And what's up with Claire?"
"I think there is another option playing, a dimmer switch, which is a huge problem." Damon replied. "As for Claire, I'm not really sure if she turned her humanity off or not, I mean that's the beauty of Claire we can never tell if she's faking or not... She's that unpredictable"
"Why?" Alaric asked.
"Because I can't predict how far Stefan is willing to go until someone gets killed... I know that Claire is pretty much going over to the last consequences."
"So, you suddenly care who lives or dies?" Alaric scoffed.
"I have a small list..." He looked over at Alaric.
"Talk about humanity dimmer switch." Alaric mused sarcastically.
"Screw you." Damon scoffed.
"Can't a council meeting ever just be a council meeting?" Alaric sighed as they walked into the town hall.
Claire was sitting at Grill, drinking away as her phone began to ring. She looked at the ID and was surprised to see who was calling.
"I wasn't expecting a call from you." Claire answered.
"I'm sure you weren't love." His thick british voice rang in her ears. "But I have a proposition."
"I'm all ears..." She replied.
"I would you give me the honour to escort you to the council meeting?" He questioned.
Claire scoffed, "You're asking me to be your date at the council meeting?"
"Yes I am, as far I know... You're a free woman now, so what do you say?" He asked with a hint of hope in his voice. She couldn't belive that he was asking her out, after all she was plotting against him to destroy him and helding his family hostage. Trust Klaus, for trying to make a move on her even if they were pratically enemies.
"I just decapited one of your hybrids and threatened you. And you still trying to allure me?" She asked in disbelief.
"Well, we can put our divergencies in stand-by, so I can ask you to be my escort." He replied. She still wasn't convinced, this was Klaus. He was always up to something, so she had to keep her guard up no matter what. But suddendly a thought popped in her head and she grinned immediatly.
"Hmm... Why the hell not? It wouldn't hurt. I need to go change, so you can pick me up at the Grill in 20 minutes." She told him.
"So, that's settled my dear." He gushed. "I'll see you then, love." He hung up, she quickly texted Stefan as she payed her drink and walked out of the Grill.
- I'm going to the council meeting with Klaus, how about we make another surprise for him? -Claire
He quickly texted her back saying, - I'm on it. -Stefan
Caroline, Elena, Bonnie and Matt walked towards the cemetary in the woods with Caroline's birthday items.
"There it is." Elena smiled.
"This is creepy, even for us." Bonnie shivered.
"No, Carline was right..." Elena looked over at her blonde friend "Technically, she is dead. Sorry. But you don't need a birthday, you need a funeral. You need to say goodbye to your old life so that you can move on with your new one."
"Ok." Caroline nodded "Here lies Caroline Forbes."
"Cheerleader, Miss Mystic Falls, third grade hopscotch champion." Elena continued for her as she put candles on her cake.
"Friend, daughter, overachiever." Bonnie added with a smile.
"Mean girl, sometimes, no offence." Matt added teasingly.
"Ah, none taken." Caroline chuckled.
Elena giggled "She was 17, and she had a good life. So rest in peace, so that she can move forward. That's what you really need. What we all really need. Amen, or cheers or whatever." She chuckled "Bonnie?" She looked over at her as the witch nodded and used her powers to light the candles "Nice. Ok, make a wish." Elena told the blonde girl and she closed her eyes to make a wish.
Klaus and Claire walked into the council together, as she grabbed his arm. She was wearing a bright one shoulder purple dress that stood above her her knees almost on her thighs, black pumps, a gold bracelet on her left arm with her white purse. Her hair was done in curls and she wore dark pink lipstick. (Oufit in the profile)
Everyone just stopped to gawk at Claire, she completely stole all the attention from all the females in the room as the males were undressing her with their eyes.
"Every woman in this room, wants to be you and every man wants to be with you, my love." Klaus whispered in her ear. She gave him a sexy smile as they walked towards Carol Lockwood.
"Mayor Lockwood, you look ravishing tonight." Klaus grabbed her hand and kissed the palm of it.
"Not as ravishing as our lovely Claire." Carol smiled at her. "I thought you would be here with Damon Salvatore."
"Damon and I are no longer together." Claire replied firmly.
"Oh... Ok, then." Carol nodded.
"I'm going to find something to drink..." Claire replied as Klaus nodded. She walked over to a waiter and grabbed a glass of scotch from him.
"What do you think you're doing?" An angry voice replied from behind her. She turned around to face a very pissed Damon who was fuming.
"Well, right now... I'm drinking some scotch, to get through this council meeting, so cheers!" She smirked as she downed her liquor.
"I mean what are you doing here with Klaus?" He questioned.
She shrugged, "He asked me to be his date and I said yes."
"You're kidding." He scoffed. She narrowed her eyes and set the glass on the table.
"Actually, I'm not. So if you'll excuse me." She went to walk past him but he grabbed her arm.
"Ok, you win Claire. Whatever game you're playing, if you're doing this to get back at me... Congratulations, you succeed it." He sighed.
"What we talked about touching?" She looked down at his hand.
"You didnd't seem to mind before..." He smirked.
"You know Damon not everything I do, is about you" She scoffed. "I'm going to say this one more time. Let. Go. Now." She ordered but he wouldn't budge. Then suddendly Claire felt a strong arm on her waist.
"Everything ok here?" Klaus questioned, glaring at Damon.
"Everything is fine." Claire pulled her arm out of his grip. Carol Lockwood was standing behind them with a worried face, she didn't want any problems.
"Look, what the cat dragged in." Damon smirked. "Nice shirt."
"Oh, thank you. Good to see you Damon." Klaus gave him a fake smile as the other vampire returned it. "Carol and I were discussing about whether you would be the other big benefactor..."
"What do you say, Damon?" Carol looked over at the dark-haired vampire "Klaus has made a very generous pledge. You know how we're chomping at the bit to begin renovation."
"Carol, don't take this the wrong way, but you do realise that you've been kissing the ass of an immortal hybrid who ruined your son's life?" Damon hissed as Claire had to hide a smile.
"Oh, come now, mate. Some would say that I saved him from all the nasty full moon business. I know, had to go through it myself, more than twice to be honest but still, I'm very sympathetic." Klaus replied.
"Klaus has promised to protect Tyler, Damon. And our town." Carol informed him.
"From who? Might I ask." Claire cut in "His hybrids are the ones the town needs protection from."
"Now love, you see, I'd have no use from them if you and Stefan would kindly return my family." Klaus shot back, looking at her.
"Not gonna happen." Damon replied firmly.
"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 protect, my hybrids get left alone and everyone will be happy." He placed a finger under Claire's chin to make her look at him, as Damon growled at the gesture. "All you have to do, love is to stop decapitating my friends."
"Well if they stop hovering around where they shouldn't be, I'll think about it." Claire retorted.
"Please Damon, just get your brother and Claire under control or the council will be forced to take action against them." Carol added.
"You do know, that I'm standing right here right Carol?" Claire growled. "Let's not step over the line, because I do have a habbit to lash out when I'm mad... Klaus would know." Claire had a smug smile on her face as she looked over at him.
"I can't believe you're siding with him." Damon turned to Carol.
"Oh, come on, mate, give peace a chance." Klaus through her a devilish smile.
Damon was staring at Klaus and Claire from distance. He hated that she was in another men's arms, Klaus of all people. Then the Sheriff walked over to him and they began to talk about Klaus.
"The Mayor is looking out for Tyler." Liz told him "For now we have to assume Klaus has her in his pocket."
"Oh please, don't tell me you're gonna drink the Klaus Kool-Aid." Damon scoffed.
"I'm not going to let him hold this town hostage." Liz replied firmly "But I'm also not gonna let innocent people get caught in the cross fire in a power contest between hybrids and vampires."
"Liz, I'm impressed, you're all strong and sheriffy." Damon mused.
"I'm not kidding Damon." She hissed "Get Stefan and Claire to stand down from this one before someone gets hurt."
Claire had managed to escape from Klaus as she spotted Stefa walking around the Town Hall, she walked over him.
"Klaus isn't taking this seriously." Stefan stated.
"I'm not playing anymore, time to let another message." She growled as she walked over to the food table and grabbed a sharp knife as she handed him so he could hid it.
They stalked one of Klaus's hybrids upstairs to one of the rooms, the hybrid was shutting the door when he turned and faced Stefan and Claire, the younger vampire shoved the knife into his gut, he fell to his knees as Claire was about to finish him off sliding his head off. Suddenly she was slammed against the wall by Damon.
"Get off!" Claire growled as she shoved him away from her.
"What are you both doing? No dead hybrids at the Founders party!" Damon hissed.
"No, we told Klaus to get his hybrids out of town, he didn't listen so we're going to say it louder." Stefan replied.
"You don't think there's 10 more where they come from? And if you kill them, Klaus won't make 20 more? Have you forgotten 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?" Damon sneered.
"Protecting Elena is your problem now. You see, I'm not compelled by Klaus to do that!" Stefan spat.
"Don't give me that no-humanity crap, you can't just flip your switch! Your switch is fried Stefan, just like your brain! And you're falling into the deep edge with Claire." Damon scolded "You want to take out Klaus? You want to be the villain? You got to be smarter!"
"No, no, to be the villain, Damon, you have to be the better villain!" Stefan hissed.
"He's right. I was serious when I said that wasn't playing anymore. Klaus is impulsive, we have to be twice as impulsive as he is." Claire growled. "Either you're in, or you back the hell off."
"I'm not going to support your crazy attempts to get revenge on Klaus." Damon scoffed.
"Then go deal with Elena the blood bag. While me and Stefan deal with the important stuff." She spat as she took off with Stefan behind.
Tyler and Caroline were standing out in the woods "I take it all back. Everything I said this morning. Klaus can't control me. Not when it comes to you!" Tyler told her firmly "I won't let him."
"Tyler, it's ok." Caroline whispered "Maybe we just weren't meant to be together. Maybe we just have to accept that and move on."
"I'm not moving on from anything." He shook his head "I love you."
"What?" Caroline looked at him in surprise, he pulled her for a passionate kiss, then he started to kiss down on her neck. Suddenly Klaus's words were replaying on his head, and he couldn't take anymore so he bit her neck.
"Ouch! What the hell! What just happened?" She touched the blood on her neck.
"Oh no." Tyler whispered.
"Did you just bite me!" She cried.
"Oh my God. I'm sorry." Tyler tried to retract his fangs.
"Oh my God! Just get away from me!" Caroline yelled "Get away from me!" And Tyler ran off into the night.
"Caroline!" Matt was searching the blonde in the woods with Elena.
"Great, we've been abandoned." Elena sighed "Ok, we're going on a search party, I don't trust that she won't get back together with him."
"Caroline!" Matt called.
"Come on Caroline we don't have anymore drinks!" Elena called "Matt's being haunted by the Fell ghosts." She teased, as she pushed Matt playfully and he pushed her back. Suddenly he was shoved against a tree.
Stefan sped over to Elena and covered her mouth with his hand, so she wouldn't scream and he dragged her away with him.
Claire was on the Town Hall as she lost track of Stefan, she pulled her phone from her purse and dialed his number.
"Hello?"
"Stefan, where the hell are you? You just took off." Claire replied.
"I'm taking care of the source that allows Klaus to make more hybrids."
"Does that mean what I think, it means?" Claire questioned.
"Yup. Let's see how long Klaus is willingly to sacrifice his 'blood bag'."
"Wow, you weren't kidding about the whole better villain thing." She smirked.
"No, I wasn't. I need you to do something..."
"What are you doing, Stefan?" Elena demanded as her phone began to ring, she went to answer it but Stefan grabbed from her hands.
"Hello Damon, she's a little busy right now." Stefan informed his brother.
"Why the hell do you have Elena's phone?" Damon frowned.
"I'm making my next move. Let me ask you something... What will Klaus do if he can't make anymore hybrids?" Stefan mused.
"What?" Elena whispered.
"Stefan, leave her out of this!" Damon growled but Stefan had already hung up, then he threw her phone away.
"What are you doing? Stefan let me out of this car." Elena told him firmly "Do you hear me! Let me out of the car!"
Damon was walking down stairs, he spotted Claire who was stalking another hybrid. He quickly ran over her and grabbed her arm and turned her around.
"This is twice today." She spat. "The next time, I won't be so forgiving."
"Stop stalking Klaus's hybrids, damnit!" He growled. "Did you know that my crazy-ass brother is trying to kill Elena to get back at Klaus?"
"Actually I did. I called him earlier, he told me that he was going to take care of the blood bag problem." She shrugged.
"Claire don't do this. Don't get Elena killed, just because your pissed at me." Damon looked at her.
"Like I told you before. This isn't about you, Damon. I told you that I could care less about you." She hissed. "Besides, this is all Stefan's doing. He was the one who came up with the idea." She walked away from him.
Damon dragged Klaus and Claire into an empty room as he closed the door behind him "What now?" Klaus huffed "You just pulled me away from a fascinating conversation about landscaping the Town Square."
"Stefan just grabbed Elena." Damon informed him.
"Well, I see you both are getting desperate." He looked over at Claire and she growled at him.
"He's gonna try and use her against you." Damon told him.
"Do what we say, get rid of your hybrids." Claire ordered as she stood in front of the hybrid.
"Or what?" Klaus scoffed "Stefan would never dream of killing her."
"You sure about that?" Damon cut in "He and Claire just tried to behead someone in the middle of a council party." He looked over at the female hybrid but she had a cold expression on her face "They operating on crazy right now."
"Well, crazy or not, that kind of love never dies." He stated a matter-of-factly "He's bluffing."
"Well, I'm not." Claire announced. "Are you willingly to bet Elena's life on that?"
"I don't believe you two for a second. Stefan is to weak to actually kill Elena." Klaus growled.
"Maybe he is, maybe he isn't but 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 they say blink, I suggest you blink." Damon spat.
Matt was carrying a very weak Caroline on his arms to her house. "Sheriff Forbes!" Matt called.
"What happened?" Liz questioned as she saw her daughter weak and pale on Matt's arms.
"Tyler bit her." Matt told her. He walked into her room and placed the blonde vampire on her bed.
"Oh my God, sweet heart." Liz whispered "Careful. Oh, honey." She stroked her hair. "Caroline, honey, can you hear me?"
"I'm sorry mom." Caroline's voice was weak.
"She keeps hallucinating or something..." Matt replied with fear on his voice "No one's picking up the phone!"
"It's alright, sweetheart." Liz soothed her.
Elena sat on the passenger seat terrified in the inside but trying to be calm in the outside as Stefan contined to drive the car "So what's the plan, Stefan?" Elena questioned. "What's the big move you're making?"
"I took Klaus's family to make him suffer." Stefan explained "I'm not gonna let him make himself a new one."
"So what are you gonna do? Are you gonna lock me in some cave and keep me hostage?" She scowled.
"Maybe I'll just turn you into a vampire." He mused as he dialed Klaus's number on his phone.
"Stop the car, Stefan!" Elena ordered "Stop the car, Stefan!"
"Stefan, how nice to hear your voice." Klaus announced on the phone.
"Tell your hybrids to get out of town Klaus." Stefan ordered.
"Well, that's not going to happen until I get my coffins back." Klaus replied firmly.
"Ok, well, then I'm going to drive your blood source of Wickery Bridge." Stefan yelled.
"I don't believe you Stefan, you won't kill her." Klaus scoffed.
Stefan bit into his wrist and forced his blood down Elena's throat "What are you doing?" Elena yelled.
"What's going on?" Klaus asked.
"I just fed her my blood." Stefan informed him "No more hybrids if she is a vampire."
"You won't do it." Klaus growled.
"Really? Try me, because your coffins are next to go. Say goodbye to your family Klaus." Stefan smirked as slammed his foot on the gas pedal driving the car at a very dangerous speed.
"Stefan slow down! Stefan! Stefan stop it!" Elena screamed.
"Fine!" Klaus growled "I'll send them away, you win."
"Stefan!" Elena cried "Stefan stop!"
"Stop the car, Stefan!" Klaus roared as Stefan stopped the car, slamming his foot on the break almost on the end of the bridge.
Elena was trying to breathe, as her heart was pouncing on her chest. She quickly got out of the car. "Get back in the car." Stefan demanded.
"Stay away from me." She whispered angrily.
"Elena, get in the car." Stefan called.
"How could you?" She cried with tears in her eyes "My parents died going over this bridge. I almost died. You knew that! You're the one who saved me!"
"Look, he had to believe that I would do it, alright? Your fear sold it." Stefan replied quietly.
"What if he hadn't?" Elena questioned.
"He did." Stefan answered.
"Well, what if he hadn't?" She looked at him with tears in her doe eyes.
"He did Elena!" He scolded "He backed down! He has a weakness. If I know his weakness, I can destroy him!"
"After everything, that's what mattered? Destroying Klaus?" Elena rasped as she stepped away from him.
"Destroying Klaus is all I have left." Stefan replied.
"You had me!" She yelled as she turned to look at him.
"I lost you the minute I left town with him and Claire. You just... you haven't let yourself admit that yet." His voice was filled with pain.
"Is that what you're doing? Trying to make me hate you?" She sobbed.
"I don't really care what you think about me anymore, Elena." Stefan lied as he walked away from her and got into his car, driving away.
Bonnie had called Claire to tell her that Caroline was bitten by Tyler, and she needed Klaus's blood to survive. The female hybrid didn't waste time to find Klaus, he saw him outside of the Town Hall and she walked over to him.
"What more do you want? I told Stefan that I would get my hybrids out of town." Klaus growled.
"I know. But this is something else. Caroline was bitten by Tyler, and she needs your blood to survive." Claire looked at him.
"What makes you think, that I'm going to give you what you want?" Klaus scoffed. "You decapite my hybrids, Stefan tries to get Elena killed and you two refuse to give me back my family..."
"I know that you don't own me anything. But I believe this was your doing, you told Tyler to bit her so you could get back at me." Claire spat.
"So, I guess we're even." Klaus smirked as he was about to leave but she blurred to stand in front of him.
"You know this just shows how you don't have any reedeming qualities in you, it just motivates me more to destroy you. Because you just didn't take everything from Stefan, you took from me too." She hissed, she turned on her heels and walked away.
At the Forbes House, Matt walked over to the door where Klaus was standing outside "Tyler and Claire came to see me. Poor boy, he seems quite distressed, he said Caroline had a terrible accident."
"You made him do this to her." Matt hissed "He would have never done something like this."
"I'm here to help, Matt." Klaus told him "My blood will heal her, please ask the Sheriff to invite me inside."
Liz was standing on the hall "I know how this game works. You want something in return."
"Just your support." Klaus replied
"Come in." Liz told him.
Caroline was laying on her bed as Claire was tucking her in and stroked her blonde hair.
"I'm so sorry Caroline." Claire whispered.
"For what? It wasn't your fault." Caroline whimpered.
"It was. I riled Klaus up and he did this to get back at me." Claire shook her head. Suddenly Klaus walked into the blonde's room, Claire looked up to see the hybrid.
"You actually came." Claire noted.
"I would've of come even if you hadn't ask me." He replied softly.
"Is he going to kill me?" Caroline whispered.
"On your birthday? You really think that low of me?" Klaus looked at her.
"Yes." She answered, Klaus walked closer to her and unconvered her neck so he could see the bite.
"It looks bad. My apologies, you are just collateral damage, it's nothing personal..." He replied.
"Yeah, right." Claire scoffed.
Klaus looked over at Caroline's bracelet that Tyler gave her "I love Birthdays."
"Yeah, aren't you like... a billion, or something?" She replied weakly.
"Well, you have to adjust your perception of time when you become a vampire, Caroline." He told her "Celebrate the fact that you're no longer bound by the trivial human conventions. You're free."
"No, I'm dying."
"I could let you die... " Klaus trailed off. "But then again, Claire would think that I have no reedeming qualities in me." He paused to look at the female hybrid who continued silent. "And that maybe truth, but not when it comes for her."
"You talk about her, like you actually love her..." The blonde whispered.
"But I do." Klaus nodded. "And deep down she knows that."
"This is about Caroline." Claire finally managed to find her voice. "I just want her to be ok."
"Very well." Klaus nodded "There is a whole new world out there waiting for you. Great cities, art and music..." He paused "Genuine beauty."
"And you can have a thousand more birthdays, Care." Claire continued. "Because being a vampire it isn't just being stuck in time, is also exploring the other side of eternity."
"All you have to do is ask..." Klaus countered.
"I don't want to die." Caroline looked at them with tears in her eyes.
He offered her his wrist as she leaned over and bit his wrist "There you go, sweetheart." Claire was stroking her hair softly "Have at it." She began to drink so she could heal herself. "Happy Birthday, Caroline."
Klaus and Claire had walked out of Caroline's house, they walked together for a while as she turned to look at him.
"Thank you." She breathed. "For saving, Caroline."
"You're welcome, sweetheart." Klaus stroked her face. "I did it for you."
"All those things you said to her..." Claire trailed off. "Was any of that real?"
"Would it change anything if I told you yes?" He retorted.
"Probably not. I'd still hate you." She shrugged. "But then again, I can never tell with you."
"Likewise. This pretending that you actually turned off your humanity is believable. But how much do you believe yourself?" He questioned.
"Who says, I'm pretending?" She scoffed.
"The day Ava died. Was when I thought that you would turn off, but you didn't." He replied. "Because pain, heartbreak, sadness, anger and despair it's not stronger than your control. That's why I told you so many times to turn it off, because I knew that you wouldn't. Your control is what makes you strong and powerful, we can control the way we feel. Otherwise you would had break a long time."
"I don't want to feel, not anymore. So control is all I have." She whispered, she quickly sped off leaving him there.
Damon was walking Elena to her house as they stopped in the porch. "Thank you for picking me up." Elena breathed.
"No problem." Damon nodded.
"You know Stefan and Claire won this round for us today. They pushed Klaus to the edge and Klaus blinked... I didn't think he had a weakness, but he does, Elena and now we know it." Damon told her.
"Well, Stefan's methods sucked." Elena countered.
"Still, we needed it. Klaus has been calling all the shots and they beat him at his own game... I knew that Claire could be vengeful but Stefan surprised me, he was the better villain." Damon replied.
"Don't seem so impressed" Elena scoffed.
"Well, I can't help be a little proud." He smirked. "Claire knows that you kissed me."
Elena gasped, "She must hating me right now, and I don't blame her. I shouldn't had tried to kiss you."
"Yeah, you shouldn't. But even if you hadn't she would still hate me." Damon sighed.
"She doesn't hate you, Damon. She loves you, she's just hurt and confused." Elena told him.
"I think that she turned her humanity off. The way she looked at me with so much disdain, I neved had seen her this way."
"I'm sorry Damon." Elena replied quietly. "It's my fault that you two are apart."
"It's my faul too, if I had believed her when she told me that she was just trying to save me..." Damon looked at her. "I need to get going. Goodnight."
"Goodnight, Damon." Elena replied as she walked into her house and he walked away.
Claire entered the witch house and saw Stefan looking out the window with his back turned to her.
"Would you had do it?" Claire whispered, referring about Elena. "If Klaus hadn't back down."
"I don't know..." Stefan answered. "Probably."
"You surprised me, never thought you could actually go with it." Claire replied as she stepped out from her heels.
"Me neither." Stefan turned to look at her. "How do you do it? To deal with the pain?"
"Pain is inevitable Stefan. Even if you don't know how to deal with it, you have to do it anyway." Claire told him. "But, I'm tired of pretending, of always being in control... I want to turn it off."
"Don't." Stefan walked over to her. "Don't turn it off."
"Why not?" She questioned.
"Because, you're stronger then this. Just the fact that you're pretending not to feel and being imune to all of this shows that you're better."
"Am I? Because, I don't even know if I believe this act I'm carrying, myself." Claire spat. Stefan grabbed her hands and pulled her to a hug.
"Jus don't do it." He whispered.
"You're stronger then this too, you know?" She looked up at him. "The fact that you're upset over almost killing Elena, shows that you're a good actor too." He didn't respond her because she didn't need him to, his silence was the answer she needed.
Caroline woke up from her deep sleep, feeling much better. And to see that her neck was healed, she looked over at her bed side table, a small box with a card on it. 'From Klaus and Claire' she opened the box and saw a beautiful diamond bracelet there.
A little while in the morning Elena was standing at the Wickery Bridge as Matt walked over her "You're not gonna jump, are you?"
"Thanks for coming." Elena smiled at him "I was just thinking about what you said, about is being stuck."
"I was buzzed, Elena." He replied "I can't be help responsible for being judgemental."
"I do feel stuck, Matt." She admitted "I feel like, I've been holding on to the girl that was supposed to die here with her parents. The girl who had a normal life and didn't fall in love with vampires."
"You're not that girl anymore." Matt lokked at her. "It's ok if you want to let her."
"Is it?" Elena whispered "Cause I feel like I disappointed her a little like, I disappointed them. My parents."
"My two cents, as a guy who knew that other girl, you're doing a lot better than you think." He smiled, he grabbed some flowers from the floor "Here lies Elena Gilbert. A fun girlfriend and an amazing friend." Then he threw the flowers to the water.
Alaric was sitting at the bar in the Grill, drinking so he could wash away the guilt from putting Jeremy on a plane "Thank God." Meredith Fell sat beside him "Someone else is here this late... I lost a patient... what's your excuse?"
"I put a kid on a plane." Alaric told her.
"Yours?" Meredith looked at him.
"No, it's a long story." Alaric sighed.
"Then you should probably buy me a beer." Meredith smiled at him.
Damon was out in the woods after Sheriff Forbes had called him earlier to meet her, about a attack that occured, they approached the crime scene.
"A hiker called it in. My guys got here first." Liz informed him.
"Another hybrid?" He questioned as he looked down at the dead man with a stake on his chest.
"That's what I thought at first." She replied "Brian Walters, the medical examiner."
"What's with the stake?" He creased his eyebrows "He's not a vampire."
"I know." Liz nodded as the cops were trying to find evidence or DNA "This was a murder."
A murder on Mystic Falls! That's interesting... So Klaus x Claire fans, I hope you're happy, they had many scenes together in this chapter :'). Damon and Claire are still on the outs, as Elena just got her heart broken from Stefan and she's trying to see comfort on Damon. So I saw a review last night, that said Claire wasn't real and the love of Damon's life is Elena... I mean, I'm not judging any ones opinion! But you have to know that this is a Damon/OC/Klaus fanfiction, so if you're a Delena fan, you probably shouldn't read this story :|
My personal opinion, I'm not really a Delena fan (I was once before, but I'm not anymore) or a Stelena fan, even though I chose to put Stefan and Elena together to follow the show... I would like to see Damon with someone who wasn't Elena and the same goes for Stefan, because for me what is more important is the bond of family and the true love story on this show for me is the brotherwood between Damon and Stefan... Anyway, thank you so much for reading and reviewing :')