Chapter 11: Catch Me if You Can

Matt ran through the woods, panting as he was trying to escape as a newly born vampire gave chase after him. Matt then quickly hides behind a tree, trying to calm his heart down, he peeks out and saw no vampire was then then turns back, but sadly saw the vampire in front of him, Matt gasp as the vamp attacks him, biting into his neck as Matt tries to pry him off.

But then an arrow was shot and impales right into the vampire back, making him stop and falls back as he was dead, Matt slides down the tree and groans in pain. Jeremy puts the crossbow down and ran to him.

~A Few Moments Ago…~

"No way, I'm not going this." Jeremy snaps at them, "What makes you think you have a choice?" Klaus asks him, "You have to kill vampires to complete the hunter's mark. Mark equal cure you're in a bar full of vampires." Damon tells him as Matt eyes the newborn vampires. "So, get your hunter on." Damon tells him. "Screw you, you said I wouldn't have to kill any innocent people." Jeremy snaps at him. "They're not people." Damon informs him.

Serena groans as she was bored, "Enough, have at it or else." Klaus orders him. Jeremy looks at him, "I don't take orders him you, dick." Jeremy snaps and tosses the stake onto the ground at Klaus's feet. "Hunters can't be compelled." Jeremy reminds him, making Serena smirk. "Ooh, Backbone, sexy." Serena teases, Klaus shot her a look. Then laughs as he walks up to Jeremy "You're right, I can't compel you, but if you're consensus is getting in the way, allow me to make this easy for you because I can compel them." Klaus informs him as Damon looks over and saw a compelled woman feeding the vampires. "I'm going to give you a two minute head start and then I'm going to send every vampire in here after you. You kill them or they kill your friend, Matt." Klaus informs him. "Wha, wait a second." Matt said as he was against that idea.

"No, no, you turn them and he kill them. That was the deal, Serena." Damon informs the sorceress as he too was against that, Serena pulls herself off the counter and walks up to him, "We'll we all have to do the unnecessary to get what we want." she informs him. "You know it can't take them on all at the same time." he reminds her, "With you as his couch he'll be fine, it's Matt I'm worried about." Klaus informs him as Matt looks at the vampires. Damon sighs and looks at Jeremy, "Jeremy go get the weapons out of the car, I'll be right behind you." Damon tells him and Jeremy ran outside. Then Damon looks at Matt, "Both of you." he tells him and quickly followed after Jeremy. "And if I hear an engine start, I'll kill Matt, myself." Klaus shouts after them. The two ran out as the vampires were enjoying the blood that was getting feed to them.

~Present moment~

"Are you okay?" Jeremy asks him as he kneels down and looks at the wound. "Yeah, I just need a sec." Matt answers him as he covers the wound and pants, trying to catch his breath. "We don't have a second. They can smell your blood, we have to go." Jeremy tells him, but then heard something swoosh behind then, he stood up and aims his crossbow at it, but it was just and he jerks the crossbow out of Jeremy's hand. "Don't hesitate, he'll use me otherwise you two will be dead." Damon informs him and Jeremy took back his crossbrow. "You set us up." he accuses him, "I was trying to get this day over with, you're the one that pissed off Klaus and now you have to fight you way out of it." Damon informs him as he looks around.

Matt pulls himself back up and looks around, "We're are the other vampires?" he asks as he covers his neck, "They're newbies, still trying to figure it out how to track which means you have to two seconds to get ready to fight." Damon answers and Jeremy looks at him, "The Lakehouse is this way, if we can get there, they won't be able to get inside." Jeremy tells him then Damon looks at him, "Wait? You want to run?" Damon asks him, "They're going to kill Matt." Jeremy informs him and Damon sighs. "Fine, get out of here. I'll slow them down." he tells them and they took off. Damon then looks out and saw a vampire running after them, then he stood in his path, he smirks and slams his fist into the vampire's chest.

The vampire gasp as he looks down at his chest then back at Damon and he jerks his hand right out, the vampire collapses and Damon looks down into his hand as he held the vampire's bleeding heart.

~8~8~8~

Jeremy and Matt ran through the woods, trying to outrun the vampires, "Jeremy! Where are you?!" Matt calls out as it was too dark to see. "Keep going, we're almost there!" Jeremy calls out, but as Matt was running a vampire trips him, by grabbing his ankle and Matt falls out onto the ground, then drag him back, flips him over and jumps onto him.

Matt fought him off as the vampire was trying to feed off him but something then vamps right at the vampire, throwing him off of Matt, Samathea saddles the vampire and snarls at him, then she gets off, pull him up then snaps his neck and throws him right at a tree. Samathea calms down and then turns and walks back over to Matt and kneels down next to him, "Matt, are you alright?" she asks him, gripping his shoulder, "Better now that vampire's off me." he answers. Then Samathea helps him back to his feet as Jeremy was running to them, Samathea smelt blood and turns Matt's head, "Oh god, who did this to you?" she asks as she was horrified and angry.

"Get to the house, hurry." he said and they three broke out into a run and they ran for the lakehouse as it was in view. Matt get in the house first as Jeremy stood by the door. "Jer, can you please tell me what's going on?" Samathea asks as she stops next to him. "They're coming." he informs her and moves inside. Samathea turns her head and looks out seeing the vampires walk to the lake house. Anger boils in her boil as she steps out in front of the porch, "Sam!" Jeremy calls out, "You come after my brother, hurt my friend." she questions as her eyes flicker and invisible fore field stops the vampires from coming any closer, "You've made the biggest mistake of your undead lives." she warns them, then held her hand put and they flew back, making against the trees and onto the ground. Jeremy was in awe as Samathea lowers her hand and turns back to the house and walks inside and Jeremy closes the door.

~8~8~8~

The sun came up as Jeremy was looking outside as he held a hand rifle in his hand as Samathea was attending to Matt's neck. "Sun's up, they're long gone." Jeremy informs them as he sets the hand rifle down. Matt looks at Samathea as she blinks for a moment then straighten herself up, "How did you do that?" he asks her, she thinks to herself and shrugs, "I don't know, I just did." she answers, pulling the towel away. "There, you should be fine." she assures him putting the towel down and places an ice pack on his neck, "That will help with the ache." she tells him, "Thanks." he mutters and took a hold of the ice pack.

Then Damon walks into the room and Samathea looks at him, "What the hell is going on, Damon?" Samathea questions as she stood up. "You were suppose to train Jeremy, not send him and Matt to an all-you-can-fest vampire buffet." Samathea snaps at him. "Well, he's not the best student in the world." Damon states and pours himself a drink, "Wait, not this is my fault?" Jeremy questions him. "Stop talking." Damon orders him then he looks at Samathea as she crosses her arms. "Look, I know you're angry, but it was easiest, fastest and safest way to complete his mark and get you the cure." he tells her and sips the borbon. "I don't care nor do I want the cure, Damon. And putting my loved ones in danger, I'll go full bitch if I have to." Samathea informs him, "No argument there." Matt agrees.

"Well, there would have been no danger in he hadn't gone all bleeding heart." Damon states and points over at Jeremy, who in turn glares at him. "Jeremy killed someone to protect Matt, they were innocent." Samathea informs him as she steps over in between Damon and Jeremy, "The Mark grew didn't it?" he asks her, Samathea said nothing as she inhales. Then brushes back her hair, "Alright, but we need a plan to play out of this out. We have a group of compelled vampires outside somewhere and when the sun is gone and night comes, they'll come back. So we need to protect Matt as best as we can." Samathea informs him. "I know, which is why big Jer and I will go on a hunting exbidision." he tells her as he was standing next to Jeremy, Samathea turned to them and went to open her mouth to object. "Sam, I know, tragic. I get it, we call know Jeremy here also agreed to kill them, and we also added the intensive." he tells her jesting to Jeremy.

Samathea arch her eyebrow at him, "So you take the least most variable player home and Jeremy and I will finish this." Damon informs her and she shook her head, "And leave Jeremy alone without any other extra back-up? No way, I'm staying with you both." she objects then Damon walks in front of her. "Trust me, I will keep him safe. Okay?" he assures her, placing his hand on her shoulder, she looks at the hand, hesitated for a moment and sighs. "Fine, but just this once." she agrees with him.

~8~8~8~

Stefan had send Elena home the other night then he steps out of his bathroom as he freshens up from the shower, but then stops and looks to his bed, seeing Rebekah was laying on his bed and reading his journal. He turns to her, clearing his throat and she looks at him, "I know you were daggered for a really little while, but knocking is still a thing." Stefan reminds her then turns away and pulls the towel off his shoulders. "So is writing in your diary apparently, I'm just checking for doubts. You can never be too cautious when to comes to sibling love. One minutes you wanted me to compel Damon from Samathea's memories and the next I'm up coffin creek with a dagger in my back." Rebekah reminds him as he pulls on a shirt.

He just scoffs. "Right well, you can read it all you want. I'm done with Samathea and she's done with me." Stefan reminds her as he pours himself bourbon. "Until we find the cure, right?" Rebekah asks him, but he didn't answer her. "Hey, I'm taking to you." Rebekah reminds him as she sets the diary down and gets off the bed. "Oh I know you are, I'm just ignoring you." he answers her and Rebekah walks right over to him. "Look, we at a disadvantage with this whole race for the cure. Team Klaus has Jeremy the hunter and Samathea and Team Shane has Bonnie the witch." Rebekah went on and Stefan turns to her. "If you're here to remind me of our status, I am very well aware." Stefan states, "Actually, I have a plan. The cure is buried with Silas, that ancient and evil guy my brother Kol is afraid of. Shane was so edgered to prove his existence, that he gave away two of the keys to resurrecting him. His headstone and Samathea herself." she informs him.

Stefan scoffs "I see, you want to steal it and Sam." he states, making her smile. "Yes, and Team Shane will have to join to Rebekah when we kidnap Sammy-Sam Team Klaus will join Team Rebekah as well, Team Kol will be left out in the cold where he belong." she states and Stefan smirks at him.

~8~8~8~

Damon and Jeremy step out of the car and walk to the trunk, "You think they went back to the bar?" Jeremy asks as Damon opens up the trunk. "Where else are they gonna go? The cabin is your vacation home, so they can't get in." Damon reminds him as Jeremy looks at the bar, Damon pull out a gun and handed it to Jeremy, the hunter turns back to him, then takes the gun and stuffs into his back pocket. "Alright, here you go." Damon said and handed him the crossbow and Jeremy took it.

"Fine, lets get this over with." he states then places the crossbow head down and pulls the string back, "Listen, just shoot one at a time, only go for the heart, don't hesitate and don't miss." Damon reminds him as he handed Jeremy an arrow. The hunter picks the cross bow back up and took the arrow. "Save the teaching, Sam's not here you don't have to pretend to give a damn about me." Jeremy reminds him and loaded the arrow.

Damon then closes the trunk, "Trying to keep you alive dumbass." Damon reminds him and hated the arrow to him and Jeremy took them. "Let go." Damon said and they both walk to the bar.

The door to the bar opens and Damon steps inside following him was Jeremy as he was ready, they both look around as they could not see or hear any vampires. But the music kept playing, but Damon looks down at the blood trail on the floor as Jeremy lowers his weapon as well, looking at the blood. "Something's not right." Damon asks as he walks over the blood, following the trail as Jeremy followed after him, keeping his eyes out for any signs of ambush.

The blood trail lead Damon and Jeremy into the freezer in the back of the bar and they both walk inside and found a pile of the vampires that are now dead. "Looks like we're gonna have to find some new vampires. What a waste." Damon states as he looks down at the bodies. "What the hell happened?" Jeremy asks, can't believing that they were all dead. "I confess." Kol calls out and the two quickly turn and look at him, Jeremy raised the cross bow and aims it right at him. Kol steps out with his hands up. "I did it." he said with a smirk, "Kol?" Jeremy asks.

Then the Original drops his hands. "Jeremy, good to see you mate. Sorry about the mess it was a little crowded when I arrived and I prefer more intimate gatherings." Kol states and the two exchange looks. "And we three need to have a little chat." he states and took a sip of the whiskey he stole from the bar. Damon shot a look over at Jeremy and he sighs. Then Kol offered them bottle, "Care for some?" he asks, "He's underage and I don't like you." Damon answers as he steps forward as Jeremy lowers the crossbow and Damon shrugs at the Original. "So lets just cut to it." Damon said as he wanted to waste not time for idle chit chat. Kol just smiles at him "You know, by brother barged about his plan in completing Jeremy's hunter's mark. It was easy enough to track this lot down." Kol states and Damon looks back at the pile of corpses. "They were all hiding in the shadows, you know killing young vampires is easy or old one for that matter." Kol states as he eyes Damon.

Damon turns back and looks at him, "Why, what's it to you either way?" Damon questions him. "Because you're fools and you're zitled to find the cure either way and risk waking someone very dangerous." Kol answers him, Damon lets out an 'Oh.' as he shot a look over at Jeremy, "You must be talking about Silas." he states and looks back at Kol as he got the Original attention. "What do you know of him?" Kol questions him. "Nothing. Don't want to. Not our problem." Damon answers him, "Isn't it?" Kol states with a smirk and Damon shook his head. "A few hundred years back, I came across a group that worship Silas, his followers told me that he will raise again and when he did, he will trigger the end of all time. You know, being an immortal you can see what I'm oppose to all time ending, I've murdered all of them. And now here you are willing to risk raising him in your search for the cure. I can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can't I?" Kol snaps at them.

But Damon wasn't scared of him, "Well, we're not gonna back off the cure just because you've been told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiot." Damon informs him, then Kol pushes him out of the way, "Jeremy." Kol states as he steps forward, but Jeremy steps back and aims the crossbow right at him. But Kol raise his hand up, "We were mates in Colorado. You were a smart lad, won't you call of this imbecilic treasure hunt?" Kol asks him.

"Not calling anything off. Mate." Jeremy reports to him. Kol nods as he steps back, "Well, I could kill you." he states as he steps over to the shelve and steps the bottle down. "But then I have to deal with the hunter's curse." he states and moves away, brushing his hands off. "And I don't particularly feel like being haunted for the next century. Better idea, I'll just rip off your arms." Kol states and vamps to Jeremy, but Damon vamps right at him, shoving Kol at the wall and headbutted him and held him in place. "Jeremy! Run!" Damon calls out and Jeremy ran for it. Then Damon socks Kol in the face a few times, but then Kol grips a hold of the fist, turns Damon around and held him in a headlock, Damon could do nothing but squirm.

~8~8~8~

Stefan and Rebekah raided through Shane's boxes of his research, but came up with nothing. "Well, headstones not here." Stefan said as he was ready to give up. "Don't Ripper out on me just yet. we'll find it." Rebekah assures him bit Stefan shot her a glare she he was in no mood for jokes. "Ooh, you're all bottled up." she states as he looks through the drawers. "You need a release, maybe we can find you a voodoo doll or something." she states and looks through the desk drawers and found a bottle of herbs. "Ah, this should do the trick. Just something you'll need." she states and walks over to him and offers the bottle to him.

"The Professors stash of herbs." she states, he looks at the bottle then right at her. "Not interested." he answers and turns back to the drawers. "What happened to you, you were so much fun in the 20s." she asks him, he closes a drawer and turns to her. "I was a psychotic killer with no emotions in the 1920s." he answers her. "You may have been a killer, but you were far from emotionless Stefan. You had a blast I know you remember." she states with a smile. Stefan scoffs and looks away "The jazz the buzz, our little day glorious." she states and he looks at her with an amused smile. "Don't make me complete it out of you." she lightly threatens. He sighs and shifted in his spot "Alright, I guess we had a little bit of fun." he admits. "Thank you." she said, making him laugh a little.

"So now that we have established the fact that fun is possible, maybe you like to start having some." she states and offers the bottle to him once more. He looks down at it, "Don't worry about the professor, hr won't be back anytime soon, I made sure of that." she informs him, he sighs and finally took the bottle.

~8~8~8~

The front door to the Gilbert House opens and in steps Samathea and Matt. Elena walks down the stairs and looks at them, "Matt, Sammy?" she calls out, "It's us Elena." Samathea calls out and the older Gilbert walks down the stairs and hugs them. "Hey sis." Samathea mumbles. "What are you doing back so soon?" she asks them. "Damon." they both answered. She just lets out an 'ah'

Then Samathea turns to Matt, "Listen, I'm sorry this happened, I was really hoping that it was going to be a calm at the lakehouse for a while, but I guess I should of expected this from Damon." she states and crosses her arms then Matt turns to her. "Well, yeah what were you expecting Sam. it's Damon." he states and she shrugs. "This isn't what I wanted Matt, I never wanted anyone to get hurt." she answers him, "Then you shouldn't of left him in charge." he states and she looks at him in disbelief as well as Elena. "Really? You honestly think I wanted to leave Jeremy?" she questions him and Matt realizes his mistake. "Hey, hey. it's okay." Elena whispers to her, rubbing her arm. Samathea looks at her and she sighs with a nod. "Look, I'm sorry. I know you didn't have a choice, the sire bond and all." he tells her and she nods. "Yeah, but the sire bond effects my actions, not my feelings." she reminds him as Elena wraps her arms around her.

Matt nods, "All I know is that, the old you Sam would of never left Jeremy with Damon, especially with what happened last night." he states and she nods. "I know, but I've change Matt and I'm not talking being turned into a vampire change. And for the record, you forgot I can threaten anyone to prove my point of my protectiveness." she reminds him and the two smile a little. But then Samathea's phone rings, Elena removes her arms and rested her hands on her shoulder with her chin as Samathea pulls out her phone and answers it, "Jer? Is everything alright?" she asks him. "Sam, we're in trouble." Jeremy pants. "Whoa, whoa, Whoa, hold on take a moment to catch your breath." she states as Elena lifts her head off her shoulder and Jeremy took a deep breath. "What's wrong? where's Damon?" Samathea asks him.

"Listen, Kol attack us and I barely got away. He has Damon." he informs her and Samathea inhales sharply, her mouth kept opening and closing. Elena grips her shoulder, seeing that her younger twin was scared.

~8~8~8~

Klaus smirks as he looks out at the two people sitting in front of him, "It's a pick ironic you coming to me for help." he states as Samathea sighs and Elena shifts a little on her spot on the armrest. "Weren't you're friends trying to bury me in a cement tome?" he questions them and Samathea glares at him as she was twitching her foot, "You know we had nothing to do with that, we were to busy trying to save our brother." she snaps at him as Klaus was amused with her bite. "And besides, this is your fault, nothing of this would even be happening if you hadn't turned all those people." Elena reminds him. "And my little brat of a brother has gone and made things worse. Well, he never did like Damon." he states, "And who ever in their right likes Damon when they just meet him?" Samathea states, Klaus watches as Elena tries her best not to laugh and he smirks at them both. "Well, I suppose something about it." he states.

"Why else would we even be here if not that? Call him off Klaus." Samathea questions him. "You are in no position to make demands, love." he growls at her, "And you are? 'cause last I check, Jeremy is our brother and we will fight for our family, so yes I think we're in the perfect position to make demands. Klaus." Samathea warns him and Klaus looks at her and smirks, "Your bite get more ferocious, love. But whist I wish to cure you, to make more hybrids, I do have other reasons to find the cure, is of at least is which, destroying it so you lot can't use it against me." he states and Samathea clutches her fist ready to snap again, but Elena grips her hand, calming her down and she looks back at Klaus. "Whatever our difference have been, we all want the same thing." she tells him and Samathea lets out a shuttered breathe.

"Please Klaus, I am begging you. Call Kol off." she begs of him, Klaus looks between the twins, smirks and reaches into his pocket pulling out his phone, Samathea exhales as Klaus quick dials Kol. "Little brother, just two days home and I'm told you're already gone and made a mess." he states and looks right at Samathea. "Come on Nik, I was only having some fun." Kol informs him on the other line "Those vampires were for my hunter." Klaus reminds him. "Well, make some more, there's no shortage of people." Kol informs him and Klaus sighs "Where's Damon Salvatore?" Klaus asks him and Kol thought for a minute. "I gave him a good and proper beating, just for old time sake." Kol answers him, "Yes, well, you had your fun. Now let him go and come home and avoid anymore trouble or you'll find yourself back in a box." Klaus lightly threatens him. "Hey, no need to be nasty about it." Kol informs him as he did not like that statement. "On the contrary, I find essential whenever my siblings try to sabotage me. Listen closely Kol, stay away from the Gilbert boy, you understand." Klaus reminds him. Kol sighs. "Fine, I won't touch him, you have my word." Kol answers and hand up.

~8~8~8~

Kol hung up and fold his arms behind his back as Damon was sitting on a barrel with a peace of wood in his heart, glaring up at Kol. "Very good Darlin' now stab yourself a little bit further." Kol orders him and Damon had no choice but to do as he was told and pushes the wood deeper into his chest.

He cries out as he blood stained his hands and the wood and he pants, "If you're going to kill me… do it like a man." Damon growls at him, "Oh, I don't want to kill you. I just want to make sure you can be compelled." Kol answers him as she steps forward. "I'm going to repels you speene." Damon threatens him but Kol huffs. "You want to be thanking me. I am you really don't want the cure found." he states and Damon looks away. "You fancy Samathea and even more now that she's a vampire. Admit it." Kol taunts as Damon hisses from the pain. "But the last vessels of dear Sammy's humanity is her annoying little brother and twin sister, Jeremy an Elena." Kol states as he walks around Damon and reels his face in close "And deep down, I bet you want them dead, don't you?" Kol states and Damon looks at him.

"Nope." he answers and looks away, Kol smirks pats his back, making Damon groan in sudden pain and leans back, "You're lying." he said and moves back out in front of him. "I bet you'd love rip their heads right off." he states and Damon just said nothing as he kept looking away. "And I'm going to give you your wish." Kol states and Damon shook his head. Kol walks over to him and leans down in front of him. "You're not going to remember what I say. You're going to find Jeremy Gilbert and when you do, you're going to kill him." he states and Damon glares at him, then an idea comes to his mind. "Lets make it even more fun as wall, you won't remember this, but if you see Elena again, I want you to kill her as well."

~8~8~8~

Night had fallen, in the Gilbert house the weapons were seat on the table Elena was sitting in a chair, Jeremy closes the hallway closet door as he pulls more weapons out and Samathea was leaning against the door as she was twitching her thumb "Jeremy, it's over. You can put all this stuff away." Elena informs him "Klaus wants me to finish the mark and he not going to stop." Jeremy reminds her and loaded the gun and places it in his back pocket. "And he's lucky I can't kill him, so lucky." Samathea mutters. Elena sighs and stood up. "Okay, okay Sam calm down, we don't need you going crazy." she reminds her and Samathea stop twitching.

She nods and moves away from the chair, "Elena's right, I need cool my jets and besides, Damon is going to be back soon and then we can form some kind of a plan." Samathea informs him. "Wait, seriously? You still trust Damon?" Jeremy questions her, "He saved your ass, didn't he?" Samathea threw back at him, "He saved the map to the cure, he couldn't care less about me." Jeremy reminds her and she steps closer to him, "You're my brother Jer and I care about you and Damon doesn't want his ass kick by me if something were to happen to you." she reminds him, making Jeremy smile a little as well did Elena. "I will always protect you." she tells him and places her hand on his shoulder. But he smacks it away, "Don't!" he warns her and she looks at him as Elena walks behind her, "Whatever inside of me, that makes me want to hunt, right now it's on overdrive." he tells her, she nods at him, but then they both eye his hand.

"Jeremy." Elena states and he took look down at the stake that suddenly appeared in his hand. He looks at it then back at his sisters as Elena pulls Samathea next to her. He then quickly places the stake down and steps away from her. "I'm sorry." he tells her and she held her hands up, "It's alright Jeremy. it's the mark, not you." she assures him as Elena rubs her shoulder. "I know what I have to do Sam, Elena. I really want to get that cure for you, Sammy, but… I just… I don't know how to do this." he tells her. She sighs and nods at him as Elena steps closer to her, "You're not alone Jeremy." Elena tells her and he looks at her, "We're here for you. Sammy and me, we're going to help you threw this, like a family." she states and Samathea steps closer to him as well. Jeremy looks at Samathea and she smiles a little a him, Jeremy sighs, nods and smiles at them as well.

~8~8~8~

Stefan walks around the room as both he and Rebekah were high off the herbs they smoke and are inhaling. "So mush random crap in here." he states and picks a few of the items in the room. "Crap, maybe. Random, no. looks like Shane has a bit of an afterlife fetish. Hopi prayer feathers, a Har-dantasy soul flowers and that is a Polynesian sacrificial knife. A brutal way to died, but at least you please the gods." Rebekah informs him with a shrugs and Stefan smirks.

"Since when did you become such an artifact expert?" he asks her. "I enjoy other cultures Stefan. I know that might be hard for you to understand, considering dear sister Sammy and girlfriend Elena only ever thinks about themselves." Rebekah states, Stefan stiffens for a moment and then threw the knife right at her, but she catches it right in her hand. She laughs, half excepting him to do that. "Still a sensitive subject, I see." she states and then stood up walks over to him, "Do you know why I wouldn't compel Damon from Samathea's memories?" she asks him, "Because you want me and Elena to suffer." he answers her and she nods at him, "I did, but it's the only you and dear Sammy will learn. It took me thousand years and hundred betrayals to realize that love and caring are overdue." she answers him as well.

Stefan arch his eyebrows at her. "Hm. that's awfully bleak." Stefan informs her, but she just smiles. "Quick the opposite. it's liberating actually." she states and Stefan looks down as he watches her press the knife against his chest. "You know why we had so much fun in the twenties, Stefan?" she asks him again, pushing the blade even lower to his belly "Because we didn't care, Stefan. We did what felt good." she states and pulls the blade up and press it to his neck "Drinking, feeding, sex." she states and gently pulls the knife down his neck. "Sex wasn't good because we didn't care, it was good because you're crazy." he reminds her, she smiles at him, "Crazy sex is always good." he whispers to her and she leans in close to him. "You were hardly the model of sanity." she whispers to him, but Stefan grips her wrist, pulling the blade away from his neck and she smirks at him, liking his attitude.

He then pulls the arm away as the blade was away from the both of them. "Stop. Caring." she tells him and drops the blood. Then the two move in closer to each other, rubbing each other noses, Rebekah smirks as Stefan was letting go. But then the door open and the two vamps away. A man steps into the room, thinking he heard something but saw no one.

Then he closes the door behind him and then started to reach through the boxes of Shane's research, finding no stone, then looks through the drawers and on the shelves, knocking on them to find anyone hidden compartments, but then found one, he moves the objects away and opens the hidden compartment, finding the headstone and pulls it right out. "Good you found it." Rebekah states, getting the man to turn and look at her, her hand then snaps to his neck and he gasp and was push against the shelve. "The question is, who are you?"

~8~8~8~

Samathea opens the front door and there stood Damon, she exhales with relief, walking up to him and hugs him tightly in her arms. "I'm so glad to see you alright." she states and he pats her shoulder. "Thanks." he mumbles and she pulls away, checking for any wounds. "Are you sure you're alright, what happened?" she ask him, "Kol happened." Damon as he was pleased to hear her worry about him, but he didn't show it and grips her hands in his. "Sam. Sam." he said getting her attention.

"I'm alright, I'm alright." he tells her, gripping her hands tightly and rubs his thumbs against her fingers. She nods and exhales, "I'm glad, I'm really glad you got away, if Kol had got to Jeremy." she states as she took her hands back, then it hit her. -How did Damon get away? Unless… Kol did something?- she questions and was on high alert "Is he here, I want to talk to him really fast and Elena if possible." he asks gripping her shoulders gently, Samathea played cool "He and Elena went to the grill to check on Matt and Elena wanted to go with him, making sure that Kol doesn't try anything." she answers him.

Damon nods at her, "I should go apologize to him, I was… pretty tough on him today." he tells her, making the warning bells ring off in her head. She nods at him. "Sure, sure." she answers him and smiles, but behind her back, she had her phone out and sent a warning to Elena. 'Code red, Kol's compelled Damon to kill Jeremy and you Elena.'

~8~8~8~

The two of them arrived at the Grill and walk right up to Matt. Samathea spots Elena and the two nodded at each other. "Did you ever take a night off?" Damon asks and Matt turns to them, "I took two days off to help you at the lakehouse remember? I almost got killed if it wasn't for Sam." Matt reminds him as he shot a look at Sam and she winks at him, telling him that she has his back. "Where's Jeremy?" Damon asks him, "He's in the back I think." Matt answers him and Samathea stiffens.

Damon hums and walks pass them, Samathea sighs and Matt turns to her, "How are you really?" she asks him, "I'm good, all things considered." he answers her, she smiles at him and pulls out her phone, "Hows everything going on at the house?" she asks him and he was confused by her questions. "Good." he answers and she carefully gave him her phone. Matt looks down at it and saw the text she send Elena. 'Code red, Kol's compelled Damon to kill Jeremy and you Elena.' he snaps his eyes right at her and she press her finger to her lip and taps her ear. "Everything good, nice and quiet." she nods and looks over at Damon, seeing him eye Jeremy and Elena as they both steps out. "Excuse me." she tells him, he nods at her and quickly makes her way to Damon with a text ready to be send.

Damon stakes closer to the siblings as they step back. "Damon." Samathea calls out, he stops, turns and looks at her. "Are you okay?" she asks him, Elena looks down at her phone and saw the text Samathea sent her. 'RUN NOW!' it said and Elena took Jeremy's arm and ran back into the back room. "Damon." Samathea asks again,

Elena and Jeremy storm back into the storage room and looks around, then Jeremy pulls out his gun, cocks it and aims it at the doors, his hands shaking. But Elena pats his arms, he looks at her and she looks over at the block door to the underground tunnel. He catches on and nods at her.

"Damon, what's wrong, you don't look so good." she tells him, he couldn't find the right words to answer her, but then he looks back seeing that the siblings had retreated back into the back room, he glares and follows as Samathea followed after him. He storms into the room and she closes the door behind her as he looks around the room for Jeremy, "Damon, you don't want to do this." she states, but he stops and turns to her, "No I don't. It was Kol, he must of compelled me." he states and she stiffens. "I know you figured it out, because if I find Jeremy or Elena." he states and looks at the tunnel where Jeremy and Elena ran through. "I'm gonna kill them." he states and went to vamp out, but Samathea beat him to it and blocks his path. "I can't let you do that." she tells him. "Then kill me Sammy. I really don't want to do this." he begs her. She shook her head. "No I can't do that, if we find Kol and dagger him, the compulsion is gone." she tells him.

But Damon inhales "Then you better hurry." he said and vamps right at her, she stops him and grips his wrist and stood firm, "Because if I kill him and Elena before you dagger Kol, I would of killed your humanity." he tells her then tosses her out of his way, she stumbles and hits the ground. Samathea shook her head and vamps back to her feet, looking around and saw that Damon was gone. Then vamps to the tunnel and knew that she was going to need some help.

~8~8~8~

Jeremy walks through the tunnels with Elena following right behind him, but flinch at rocking tumbling onto the ground, Elena quickly hurries after him as the continued down the path, "Jeremy?" Damon calls out and the two panic. "Get you and Elena out of here, you hear me? Don't stop. Kol compelled me, there's nothing I can do." Damon warns them, Jeremy took Elena's hand and the make a turn.

"You and Elena can't hide in here, Jer. Even if you split up, if I find either of you, you're dead." Damon warns them as he looks around through the tunnels. "Jeremy are you listening to me?" Damon calls out as the siblings steps out of a tunnel and into another one. "You better run, I am coming to kill you and Elena. You both need to go now." Damon warns them as they hurried through the tunnels.

Damon walks through the tunnels searching for them, but then stops as he catches their scent and vamps down a turn.

~8~8~8~

The man screams as Rebekah drags the blade down his arm, cutting it open, "All you have to do to make is stop is tell me who sent you." Rebekah said to him, but he pants and kept his mouth shut. Rebekah wipes some blood off the knife and licks it as Stefan walks around and stood next to her.

"You're full of vervein, so I know you haven't been compelled." she states but Stefan looks at him "Or maybe someone compelled him before he digested it." Stefan states and Rebekah glares at the man. "He was after the headstone, we need to know who send him." Rebekah states, wanting answers. "Okay fine, we take him home, wait until the vervein is out of his system and then compel him to get whatever information we want." Stefan informs her, "That's not a bad idea." Rebekah agrees with him but suddenly the man started to cough up blood. The two step back in shock and Stefan grips the man and shoves him back and looks into the man's mouth. He sighs ans moves back, "He's just bite off his own tongue." he informs her ans she gasp in shock "So he does know something." she states and Stefan nods and looks at the man.

She pants in panic, then looks at the dagger in Rebekah's hand, he takes it and stabs himself in the neck, dying instantly. Stefan took a hold of the dagger and jerks it right out and the man laid there, limp in the chair. "I guess he was compelled." Stefan states and Rebekah stiffens with anger. "Was it mine bastard brother or yours?" Rebekah asks him, but he knew that was their style. "Maybe it's option number three." he suggests and Rebekah looks at him. "There's another team in the race." he tells her and she exhales.

But then Stefan's phone rings and he pulls it right out and looks at it, Rebekah looks at him, took the phone ans answers it. "Hello Samathea." Rebekah answers, "Put Stefan on the phone, now." Samathea snaps as she walks through the tunnels. Rebekah looks at the phone then at him, he looks away, "He doesn't want to talk right now." she answers her. "Well then he can listen, I don't what your deal is Stefan, but I don't regret sleeping with Damon, he might and you might, but get over the fact that I did it of my own free will, not because of some fucking sire bond." she snaps at him.

Rebekah applause her bravery. "But none of that matters, Kol has compelled Damon and he going to kill Jeremy and Elena and if you still care enough about my sister then come and get ready to drag Damon back to the boarding house, and Rebekah if you even want a chance at that cure, you'll dagger Kol and break the compulsion." she states and the two exchange looks.

"Please Stefan, don't Elena and Jeremy die for my choices." she asks him and Stefan looks away. Samathea inhales sharply, "Fine. Be that way. I'll save themselves, hope you and Rebekah have fun together." she snaps and hung up. Rebekah removes the phone and sighs, "Well that is a predicament, for the both of us." she states and Stefan still said nothing.

~8~8~8~

Jeremy and Elena quickly remove their coats, "Did you miss the part where I said, I'm compelled?" Damon calls out as Jeremy pulls out a flip knife and looks at Elena. "Don't stop." Damon shouts and Jeremy cuts his palm open and then cuts Elena's. "Seriously? you're being hunted by a vampire and now you're bleeding?" Damon questions them and vamps to the source.

He enters the slave quarters, but found no Jeremy or Elena, he steps in but stops as he looks down and found their coats. He kneels down and grips them in his hand and stood back up. Then Jeremy pops out from behind him and held him in a head lock. Damon grips onto his arm then bites down on it, Jeremy screams and Damon threw him over his shoulder and smack onto the ground. "Dumb move Jer." Damon warns him then Elena came out and went to swung at him, but he vamp turns to her, and stops her arm, then bites down on it, she screams and he throws her down next to Jeremy. She gasp and held her arm close to her. "Sorry Elena, I really don't want to do this." Damon apologizes to her.

She and Jeremy scoot back away from him, "You know you can't fight me in close quarters." Damon reminds Jeremy. "It was worth a shot." Jeremy answers and pulls out his gun, firing at Damon, hitting him in the gut, Damon groans in pain and falls to his knees. The two quickly stood up and Jeremy pulls Elena behind him. "You have to shoot me Jeremy. In the heart." Damon reminds him and Jeremy looks down at him as Elena grips her bitten arm. "I'm not going to be able to stop myself. Jeremy, you are a hunter. You know you want to." Damon states and Jeremy stares down at him. "Do it." Damon tells him and Jeremy kept staring. "Do it." Damon said again as he stood back up.

Jeremy nor Elena responded as Jeremy kept the gun trained on Damon, the vampire needed him to take the shot, so he makes the veins pulse around his eyes and Jeremy pulls the trigger.

~8~8~8~

Samathea ran through the tunnels as she heard gunshots, but then stops as she gasp and grips her arm, she looks down and pulls her sleeve, seeing a part of her arm glow red and in the form of a vampire bite.

"Oh no. Elena, Jeremy." she whimpers and vamps through the tunnels, trying to get to them faster, she then stops and looks around. Looking at the split paths. She pants then inhales, as she was smelling blood, fresh blood. Jeremy's and Elena's blood. She opens her eyes and vamps down the path that will lead to her siblings faster.

~8~8~8~

Damon opens his eyes and found himself laying on the floor of the quarters. "Ow." he peeps and sat up, then pulls his hand up to his head and dug inside, he groans and pulls out the bullet. He looks at it and it hits him. "He shot me in the head." he mutters as he just pulled the most stupid move ever in the history of hunting. Damon throws the bullet away "Stupid. Idiot. Borderline. Brain dead moron." Damon grumbles and pulls himself back up onto his feet. Then walks over to the tunnel knowing where they fled.

"That was dumb Jeremy." he calls out and walks into the tunnel. He groans and sighs. "Should of killed me when you had the chance." he calls out then stops seeing the blood stops on the ground and looks up the stairs. The veins pulsed around his eyes and he quickly followed.

~8~8~8~

Kol walks through Klaus's house as he was in a hurry, but then Rebekah stood in his path. "Going somewhere?" she asks him, he stops and looks at her. "I would if I were you, if Damon kills a hunter, he will not be pleased." she warns him, Kol just scoffs.

Then smirks at her, "I told Nik I wouldn't touch the kid, I didn't." Kol defends himself. "No, you just look for a loop hole and took it." Serena states as she steps out and stood next to Rebekah. "Yeah well, that was clever. I'm sure he'll really appreciate it." Rebekah states and Kol just smirks and walks pass them, but then Rebekah turns and press the dagger right into Kol's back. Making him stiffen in surprise. "You really dagger me?" he questions her. "I would without a second thought." Serena answers.

Rebekah shot her a look, Serena shrugs and Rebekah looks back at Kol. "If I do Damon's compulsion ends and this is all over." Rebekah answers him, Kol bites his lip and sighs, "Then you're no better then Niklaus. Daggering sibling when you disagree with them look at what this family has become. I mean Elijah won't even show his face, he's so disgusted by our bickering." he snaps and then inhales. "This cure has ruined us and it hasn't be found yet. Just imagine when it is." he states. And Serena rolls her eyes "And you're saying you were the perfect family for the past thousand years?" she questions him. "Serena's right. This family has been ruined long before the cure." she tells him.

Then Kol vamp turns around and went to stake her, but Serena steps in front of Rebekah and stops his arm in time and gasp as he was using the white oak stake, "Kol!" she questions as Rebekah looks over her shoulder and saw the white oak as well and he looks at her with insanity in his eyes. "I won't let any of you risk raising Silas." he growls at her as she was still in shock. But then Klaus and Eric vamp into the room and Klaus shoves Kol away from Serena. And he slams against the wall and glares at the man. "Enough of this foolishness." Klaus states as Eric was ready to pounce on him. "Are you done, Kol?" Klaus questions him, but Kol just vamps right out of them room and out the house. Eric walks up to Serena and pulls her into his arms as she was still in shock. Rebekah pants as she turns to her brother. "He was going to kill me." she states with tears in her eyes. "Well then, I think you need a lesson in how to property dagger a sibling." Klaus informs her as Serena's moves out of her brother's arms. Rebekah glares at Klaus and shook her head. "Burn in hell." she snaps at him and then turns and left the house.

Klaus just sighs and looks at the two, "I knew Kol can be an ass, but this… this was a whole new level of insanity." she states and Eric rubs her back.

~8~8~8~

Jeremy and Elena ran through the woods, trying to find a safe place to rest and reload. But then Jeremy smacks his arm against a tree and he stops, Elena stops and moves back to him, both were panting and Jeremy leans against the tree and slides right down it. Looking at his arm and leans his head against the tree. Elena grips her as she hisses in pain as she went to a knee and pulls her hand back, it was covered in her blood and she looks at Jeremy as he looks at her.

Damon walks out of the cellar and went to find them, but Samathea appears out of the cellar as well, "Damon, wait!" she calls out. And she stops. "I know this isn't you, I know you don't want to hurt my siblings." she states as she steps down the steps. "You can fight this Damon." she states and he turns to her. "I can't." he reminds her, but she shook her head. "No you can, you are more stronger than you know, strong enough to resist his compulsion." she tells him and he looks way. "Because Stefan was able to?" he growls.

"Because I love you." she answers him and he looks back at her, she steps closer to him, "Because we love each other. I know you would do anything for me, so please. I beg you." she said and took his hand and held it at her chest. "Fight this, fight the compulsion." she asks of him, he looks down at his hand then right back on her and smiles a little. She smiles too.

But then they both catches the scent of blood, making them look out, Samathea gasp in horror and they both look at each other and she shook her head. "No Damon please." she begs and grips his hand even tighter. "Sorry Sam." he said and vamps away, his hand slips through hers. "Damon, NO!" she calls out and quickly followed him.

Elena took the gun and cocks it as Jeremy could barley keep himself awake. "No, Jeremy. Jeremy, Jer." she mutters and shook his shoulder. Then Damon vamps right next to them, "Elena. Jeremy." he calls out, Elena quickly turns around and aims the gun at him, both of her hands were shaking. "Shoot now." he begs her. "I can't" she whimpers. "Elena please, I don't want to kill you, I don't want to hurt Sammy more than I already have." he begs her. Elena exhales and tries to steady the gun. "But I will say one thing, I don't regret sleeping with her, that night I kissed her. I'd thought I was in heaven and I wanted that moment to never end, so please. Kill me." he begs her again. Elena exhales and steadiness her hands. She her finger twitches a little and sent to pull the trigger. Then Samathea vamps right at Damon shoving him against the a tree as Elena pulled the trigger and hits the tree.

Damon gasp and looks down at her, "Damon you can fight this." she tells him he looks over at Elena and Jeremy but Samathea grips the sides of his face. "No, no, no, no, no. Look at me, look at me." she tells him and he did so. "Don't think about them, don't think about the compulsion or Kol. Just me, think about me." she tells him and he kept his eyes on her. Elena gasp as she watches Damon stare into Samathea's eyes. "You're going to be okay. you're going to be okay." she tells him a blue light radiated from her hands and into Damon's skin. Then she leans in and press her lips lovingly against his, he melted into the kiss his body suddenly became heavy and he slowly went to the ground, she followed after him and still held his head in her hands. She pulls her lips away and she looks at him as he cups her cheek "Why can't we be together? It isn't fair." Damon mumbles as she looks down at him, "Life isn't fair Damon, so many things keep pulling us apart." she tells him.

Then Elena slides down and sat next to Jeremy as the gun laid limp in her hand. "Sleep Damon, sleep." she whispers to him, "No, want to look at you a little longer." he mutters and then was out cold. She smiles bitterly and pulls away from him. Stefan walks out and looks down at his brother as Samathea stood up and looks at him, "Hurt him and I won't hesitate to kill you." she snaps at him. He nods as he didn't care much about her threat and walks to him as Samathea walks pass him and kneels down in front of her siblings. "Hey, you okay?" she asks them, the both of them nodded at her and pant. Stefan pulls Damon over his shoulder and walks away as Samathea feed her blood to her siblings.

~8~8~8~

In the boarding house, Stefan sat in the cellar, picking his hand at a rusty knife, then looks over at Damon's hand started to twitch and he came to, he groans and flutters his eyes open "Easy there buddy." Stefan said Damon raises his head up. Then Stefan steps off the wedge and to Damon as he looks around.

"You lost a lot of blood." Stefan informs him, "So you bleed me out?" Damon questions and props himself on his elbows "Yeah well, I really didn't have much of a choice. Kol's compulsion is still in effect, we don't have any vervein so, this was the only way I can weaken you." Stefan informs and Damon looks up at him shaking his head. "You sound real torn up about it." he snaps and Stefan smirks to himself. "Shouldn't be going after Kol, make him decompel me?" Damon questions him. "Yeah, yeah, sure. That sounds easy enough, Damon I'll get right on that." Stefan answers him, but Damon knew he was being a smart ass about it.

He then leans back and collapse onto the paper mat and coughs as he breath heavily. "At least let me see Samathea." Damon asks him, but Stefan just chuckles, "Come on, you know I can't do that, with the sire bond all you have to do is tell her to let you out of here. it's too risky." Stefan reminds him and looks down at Damon. "You're really enjoying them, aren't you?" Damon questions him. "It's better for Samathea if you stay in here for now at least until we find the cure." Stefan said and Damon forces himself back up. "And once she's no longer sire and you're no longer compelled, you're free to do whatever the hell you want." he states and steps backwards to the door, "Wait, Stefan. Stefan!" Damon calls out, but Stefan closes the door and locks it, he smirks at him and walks away, leaving Damon in the cell by himself.

~8~8~8~

Stefan walks back upstairs and stops as both Samathea and Elena steps out. "Stefan." Samathea said crossing her arms, "Samathea." Stefan said stuffing his hands into his pockets. "Why are you here? Going to see Damon?" he asks her and she glares at him, "Is that a problem?" she questions him, "Sam, you promised." Elena tells her and Samathea back off. "Well, sorry Sam. You can't you'll just let him out." he tells her and she arch her eyebrow at him. "Why because of some sire bond that made up my feelings for Damon?" she questions him. "Uh yeah that's exactly it." he answers her.

Samathea was ready to snap at him, but Elena grips her arm. "Just go see Damon, I have to talk with Stefan anyway." Elena tells her, Samathea looks at Elena and nods. But then glares at Stefan and slams her shoulder into his and walks to the cellar. "You shouldn't of done that." Stefan tells Elena, she shook her head, "I'm done hurting my sister and I know she won't let him out, she more stronger then you think." Elena tells him. "Yeah, but she won't have a choice, she's sired." he tells her. She shook her head as she couldn't believe the woods that are coming out of his mouth. "Is that all?" he asks her she licks her lips as she was far from done, "Stefan what were you doing with Rebekah today?" she questions him, "She tried to kill me." she reminds him.

"And this will be the second time Damon tried to kill Jeremy and the first time he's tried to kill you. So I guess, nobody's perfect. Right?" he asks her and she shook her head at him. "Are you punishing me, for taking my sister's side when she has sacrifice everything for me? Well, I'm sorry that I now want my sister to be happy." she tells him, "Why should I care. Elena? Your sister is free to do whatever she wants. I don't care." he tells her and she looks at him.

"You're hurt and you're acting out, Stefan, this isn't you." she tells him, "Sure it is, you just ever seen me like this. You don't know what I look like when I no longer care about Samathea." he tells her and she was taken back by his hurtful words. Stefan said nothing else as he refuses correct himself. She nods as tears form in her eyes. "Well, if that's how you feel, that I can't do this anymore, Stefan." she tells him and he wasn't fazed. "I can't be with someone that doesn't care about my sister when she care deeply about them and that's what happening right now." she tells him and he nods at her. "You're free to do whatever the hell you want Stefan. I'm no longer apart of it." she tells him and he still nods.

She backs away as he still hasn't said anything to her, "Cold and heartless, nice to see your true colors Stefan." she said with a bitter smile and was gone. Stefan hung his head and wipes away the tear that threatens to slide down his face.

~8~8~8~

Samathea walks down stairs and to the cellar, then opens the door and walks inside, Damon groans and turns his head to her, "Hey." he mutters and she smiles at him, "Hey, how ya feeling?" she asks and sits down next to him. "Bleed dry. You?" he asks her. She sighs and laid her head against his chest "Annoyed and ready to rage quit this fucking town." she groans. Damon's chest rumbles as he chuckles as he wraps his arms around her. "Yeah, that sounds about right." he said and the two laid in quiet for just a few moments.

"I really hate this sire bond thing, it's stupid." Damon mutters and Samathea sighs. "It must be the spirits way of a cruel joke and punishing us vampires for ever existing." she states and looks up at him, he sighs and nods. "Yeah, fucking spirits, I hate them" he tells her and she giggles. "You hate anything that's against you." she states and he look at her as he pulls moves his hand to her head up and brushed her bangs out of her face. "I was really happy when you said you loved me." He states she pulls herself up and looks down at him, with her hair brush over to the side.

"That's because it was the truth Damon." she tells him, Damon smirks a little then brushes away some of her hair out of her face and cups her cheek. She smiles and leans into his touch. "I really want to be with you Samathea, but I can't with is sire bond in the way, I want what you feel for me to be real and not because of some sire bond crap." he tells her and she smiles. "Me to, so I'm going to wait Damon, I'll wait as along as possible, I promise." she tells him and he nods at her. "You know what would make me really happy right now Sam." he asks her and she knew he was going to use the bond, "Damon, I'm not setting you free, no matter how you beg me." she tells him, "Kiss me." he tells her and she looks down at him in surprise. "What?" she asks him, "I want you to kiss me." she tells him and her heart flutters.

She smiles and nods at him, then leans down and press her lips to his, Damon returns the kiss and held her gently in his weak arms as they almost loose themselves in each other presences. Samathea then pulls back and press her forehead against his. "Thanks." he mutters and she nods. "Anytime, now rest. You need to recover from these wounds." she tells him, gripping his hand, he nods as his hand went limp at his side, he watches him flutters his eyes closes and was asleep. She then places his hand on his chest and pats it, "Sleep well Damon." she whispers to him stood up walking to the door and then went to leave, but she stops and looks at Damon as he was sleeping. She smiles fondly and closes the door and locks it and left the boarding house.

~8~8~8~

The Gilbert returned home and relaxed, "I can't believe Stefan became full on asshole." Samathea exclaims as she plays with a stake, "I know, he's change, doesn't want you to be happy I'm sure." Elena states and Samathea looks at the stake in her hands, "Can I kill him?" she asks and the two look at her, "It was just a suggestion." she states and lower the stake. "But seriously though, can I kill him?" she asks her and Elena giggles a little, "Samathea Gilbert hand that stake over." Elena orders her with a playful smile, Samathea pouts with the whole lip action, but she gave her a stern look.

Samathea sighs in defeat and handed the stake right over to her. Elena shook her head and tosses the stake with the other weaponry. But then there was a knock on the door. The three exchange looks and they walks over to the door. Samathea opens it and there stood Klaus. "You." she states as Elena stood next to Jeremy. "Good evening Gilbert clan." he said to the three of them. "What do you want Klaus?" Elena questions him, "I've come to fetch my hunter." he answers and Jeremy arch his eyebrow at him, "Seeing how my brother has become a liability, Jeremy will be safer with me." Klaus answers and the twins look at him, "I think I'll pass. I've killed enough people for you today." Jeremy answers him.

"You think you're safer here?" Klaus asks him as he looks at there house "Clearly you don't know Kol. he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants so strange as it may seem, I'm your best bet." he tells them, "And clearly you don't know me very well. I will stop at nothing to protect my family from yours." Samathea reminds him and the two glare at each other. "Sorry, I think we rather take our chances." Elena agrees with her sister. Then Klaus looks at the twins then steps closer to them "Fine. But when Kol does come and he will come, be sure to let me know." he tells them

"Preferably before he turns your little nice home to the ground." he advised the three, Elena glares at him, "And as for you hunter, there's no shortage of people to turn or loved ones to threaten, so sleep well. I plan on our little work tomorrow." he tells Jeremy then turns and walks away, Samathea inhales and shuts the door.

~8~8~8~

Rebekah sips her drink as she was standing in front of her mirror still replaying what Kol almost had done if Serena hadn't be there to save her. But then she turns her head and sees Stefan walk into her room. "Sure, just barge right in." she tells him and starts to remove her jewelry. "Well, I'd thought not knocking was out thing." he said, walking into her room and then turns to her.

"You didn't dagger Kol." he states, and she shrugs, "Well, a white oak stake was pointed at my heart, it made things a little difficult." she answers and removes her earrings, Stefan hums at her. Then she turns to him, "Do you believe my brother Kol has finally lost his mind?" she asks him, he shrugs. "Well that's alright, Jeremy's still alive and I took care of Damon." he states, she smirks and turns back to her mirror. Stefan then looks around her room. "So where did ya put it?" he asks her and she turns back to him. "The headstone? Someplace safe." she answers him. "That wasn't part of our deal." he reminds her.

She steps to him, "Well considering you betrayed be twice and I've betrayed never, I think I'm acting brilliantly, especially why that guy was looking for it." she tells him and he nods at her, "Did you work things out with Sammy?" she asks him. "Do you care?" he asks her. "No, just trying to figure out why you're here." she asks him, "Do you even have to ask?" he asks her, "What will Elena think?" she asks him, "And why should I care what she thinks." he asks her and she smirks at him, "No feelings, no attachments." she tells him the rules. "None, whatsoever." he agrees and slams his lips right onto hers.

They kiss each other roughly as Rebekah jerks his jacket right off, Stefan then turns them around and slams Rebekah right onto the bed, he pulls her right back up as she works at his belt and pants, but he growls, slamming her right back down and devours her lips.

~8~8~8~

The Gilberts stood at the table that was littered with weapons. "This is ever going to end." Jeremy states, Samathea sighs as she leans against the chair and Elena crosses her arms. "If Kol doesn't kill me, then Klaus is just going to kill more innocent people." he states and the twins look at him, "How many is it going to take? Ten? Hundred?" Jeremy questions Elena went to answers but then an idea hits her. Getting the siblings to look at her, "What are you brewing Elena?" Samathea asks her.

She then steps to her brother, "If you kill one Original vampire, their entire sire line will die with them. That thousands maybe tens of thousands of vampires." she states as she walks in front of Jeremy and Samathea up and stood next to Jeremy, "Yeah, a little fact that will happen." Samathea agrees with her. "Kol compelled Damon you." she states, the two exchange looks and looks back at Elena. "You're going to kill Kol instead."