Chapter 11
I do not own The Vampire Diaries in any way.
A/N-Guess who's coming out soon?
I next morning I woke up to hammers and saws and all kinds of noises. I went downstairs and found Klaus in the dining room.
"Good morning love", he said.
"Whatever. Tonight, I'm sleeping at my house", I told him. I grabbed a thermos of coffee and said, "See ya".
"Where're you going?" he asked.
"Oh, just out. Away from this noisy place", I said. I headed over to the Boarding House.
"Hey", Stefan said, "Damon and I were about to head out".
"Well Klaus is probably going to be at the mansion all day, overseeing the work", I told him.
"Damon told me you lied to Klaus to protect me", Stefan said, "Why?"
"Because Klaus trusts me to never lie to him", I said, "I'm an excellent liar".
Stefan, Damon, and I headed to the abandoned house.
"You didn't say anything to Elena about the coffins, right?" Stefan asked.
"No, I said I wouldn't", Damon said.
"I know what you said", Stefan said.
"Why are you asking?" Damon asked.
"Because protecting the location of Klaus's family is my number one priority right now. And the fewer people who know, the better", Stefan said, looking at me, "You need to keep your mouth shut too and don't even think about un-daggering Elijah".
I rolled my eyes at him.
Damon stopped walking.
Stefan and I stopped too. "What?" Stefan asked.
"What's going on Damon?" I asked.
Damon flashed into the house.
"Stefan, what's going on?" I asked him.
"I don't know", he said, "But it's probably not good".
One of Klaus' hybrids came out and vamped out.
Before he could bite Stefan, Damon ripped his heart out.
"These hybrids, really bringing the neighborhood down", Damon said throwing the heart on the ground.
We went into the house and down into the basement where the coffins lay.
I opened Elijah's coffin and stroked his cheek. "I miss you", I said letting one tear slip down my cheek.
I noticed a lump in Elijah's jacket pocket. I reached in and pulled out a small velvet box. I started to open it when Damon picked up a shovel and started to hit one of the coffins. I put the box back in Elijah's pocket and closed his coffin and walked over to Damon.
"Like that's going to get it open", I said.
"You're wasting your time. It won't open. Did you bury the body?" Stefan said.
"Yeah. Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?" Damon asked.
"Nope, just the dead one", Stefan said.
"Alright, Klaus has 6 siblings. Rebekah is now with Klaus. There was one dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world, which leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping originals, four coffins. So who is in the locked box?" Damon asked. He turned to me.
I sat on one of the other coffins. "Don't look at me. I have no idea. Elijah never said", I told him.
"But whatever is in here, Bonnie seems to think will help us kill Klaus. So the sooner she can get this open, the sooner we will know if she's right", Stefan said.
"Oh you think, spirits of a bunch of dead witches that can make the coffins invisible would have figured out how to open one", Damon said, "Fine, don't help".
"You know none of this is gonna do us any good if Klaus's hybrid friends find our hiding place, right? They need to go away", Stefan said.
"Oh yeah, that's a great idea Stefan. Why don't you just ask them to pack their bag and take a long rest while we are on it? How about to keep the peace? Don't attend to the real thing we are trying to hide", Damon said.
"Well I'm not gonna play defense when I have what Klaus wants. He does what I say or I dump his family to the bottom of the ocean", Stefan said.
"And he kills you and everyone you know like, I don't know... me!" Damon said, "Because he sure as hell isn't going to harm a hair on Emilia's head".
"No, he's bluffing. His family means more to him than anything else", Stefan said.
"You sure about that?" Damon asked.
"Well I don't know Damon. I mean, I guess there's only one way to find out, right? Call his bluff", Stefan said.
"Elijah always said family above everything matters", I told him.
"The only way to call someone's bluff, Stefan, is to be willing to lose everything if you're wrong", Damon said.
Next, Stefan and I headed to the mansion.
We walked in and saw Klaus' closing Rebekah's new coffin.
"Sweet dreams Rebekah. Show her to her room, would you, love?" Klaus said to one of his hybrids.
"Sure", the hybrid said.
"I'm surprise you're still in town. I gave you your freedom, you could have gone anywhere", Klaus said noticing Stefan and I.
"I live here Klaus", Stefan said.
"Well if we're playing this game, then, I was here first", Klaus said.
I simply smirked at that comment.
"You know, I don't like your hybrid friends. They're everywhere, kind of like flies. I want them gone", Stefan said.
"Yeah, well I kind of like having them around. You know, I'm hurt. I hoped that when I free you, we pick where we left off. But here you are, guzzling vervain like the rest of them, I'm sure. So much for friendship", Klaus said.
"Friends don't strip friends of their free will", Stefan said.
"Okay, granted, that was a little extreme, but I get a little moody. Just ask my siblings and Emilia. Speaking of whom, isn't it time you handed them over?" Klaus said.
"Klaus; get your hybrids out of Mystic Falls or I will remove them myself", Stefan said.
"You see, if you continue to threaten me, I'm gonna be forced to retaliate. Kill people. And it will get messy again", Klaus said.
"Do whatever you want, I don't really care. Or you know what? Maybe I do. Maybe I care so much, that I'll drop Elijah in the Arctic", Stefan said.
"No!" I yelled, "Stefan!"
"Well, maybe I'll be willing to lose one brother if it meant killing yours", Klaus said.
"Try me, let's find out", Stefan said.
"Klaus don't", I said.
"Is everything ok?" Klaus' hybrid asked.
"Everything is fine, Mindy. Stefan was just leaving after failing to make his point", Klaus said.
Stefan rushed toward the hybrid and knocked her head off, much like Elijah did with Trevor. "Well, one down. You may want to send the rest of them away before it gets messy, again", Stefan said. Stefan and I left.
"How could you even say that?" I asked him.
"I was bluffing", he said.
"You know, I want to believe you, but I can't", I told him; "Now Klaus is never going to take me back. Now what?"
"Now, we hunt down every hybrid…and kill them", Stefan said.
That night, we went to Town Hall.
Stefan picked up a knife from one of the tables. He snuck up on one of the hybrids and stabbed him in the stomach. He put the knife to the hybrid's throat, but
Damon stopped him and threw him up against the wall.
"What are you doing?" Stefan asked.
"What are you doing? No dead hybrids at the Founders party", Damon hissed.
"No I told Klaus to get his hybrids out of town, he didn't listen so I'm gonna say it louder", Stefan said.
"You don't think there's 10 more where that came from? And if you kill them, Klaus won't make 20 more? Have you forgotten about Elena's part in all of this? Or do you not care if she is a human blood bag for the rest of her life?" Damon asked.
"Protecting Elena is your problem now. See, I'm not compelled by Klaus to do that anymore", Stefan said.
"Don't give me that no-humanity crap; you can't just flip your switch. Your switch is fried Stefan, just like your brain. You want to take Klaus? You want to beat the villain? You got to be smarter", Damon said.
"To beat the villain, Damon, you have to be the better villain", Stefan said. Stefan clapped Damon on the shoulder and left.
"He really has gone over the deep end", I told Damon.
He nodded. He picked up his phone and dialed Elena's number.
Going by his face and his side of the conversation, it wasn't good. "Come on", Damon said.
We searched the Town Hall until Damon found Klaus. He pulled him into an empty room.
"What now? You just pulled me away from a fascinating conversation about landscaping the Town Square", Klaus said.
"Stefan just grabbed Elena", Damon told Klaus.
"Well, he's getting desperate", Klaus said.
"He's gonna try and use her against you. Do what he says; get rid of your hybrids", Damon said.
"Or what? Stefan would never dream of killing her", Klaus said.
"You sure about that? He just tried to behead someone in the middle of a council party. He's operating on crazy right now", Damon told him.
"Well, crazy or not, that kind of love never dies. He's bluffing", Klaus said.
"I wouldn't be too sure of that", I told Klaus.
"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 he says blink, I suggest you blink", Damon said.
Klaus left the room.
I went over to Damon and said, "Please let me un-dagger Elijah".
"No", he said.
"But just think about it. When you return Klaus' family, take the dagger out of Elijah and keep it. By the time the coffins get to the mansion, Elijah will be alive and conscious. Maybe he can try to talk some sense into him. I guarantee Elijah still wants Klaus dead", I told him.
"That might work", Damon said.
I rolled my eyes.
That night, I went back to the mansion. I found Klaus in the living room.
"You lied to me", Klaus said.
"I did, but it doesn't matter, because Stefan wouldn't let me un-dagger Elijah", I told him. I kissed his head and headed up to my room. I layed on my bed and thought about that little box. I wondered what was in it.
Review and tell me what you think is in the little velvet box.
