Chapter Eleven

Lost Without A Map Or A Compass


AN: Warning Course Language


Alex stared at the black Dodge that will always been Roderick's Dodge and nothing could change that, although a new paint scheme had a good chance at doing so. Alex continued towards the abandoned warehouse where Elijah had compelled Roderick to remain so he posed no threat to anyone else.

Alex opened the same door she had chased Roderick through only a few hours ago. Once inside she found it unusually dark compared to earlier. But Alex continued forward although Roderick still possessed the strength to kill her. But when she found the glass table where Roderick had sat and watched her she also found Roderick.

"Shit," Alex cursed.

Roderick lied on his back, dead. But he hadn't died from the werewolf venom although it would have killed him eventually. Sticking up out of his chest was a piece of wood that appeared to have been torn from a wooden packing pallet. Alex sighed at the sight of Roderick dead. Although this was something Alex had always wanted to see it wasn't something she wanted to see now.

Alex neared his body and noticed how his hand was clasped around the piece of wood. It was clear he had killed himself, but then again he had been bitten by a hybrid. Maybe the slowly being driven insane wasn't something Roderick could live with.

Alex shrugged because she didn't care, although she would have preferred to find Roderick alive so she could question him about who turned him. Alex knelt beside Roderick's body where she unclasped his hand from around the make shift wooden stake. Alex stared at the ring Roderick bragged kept him safe from the sun. She pulled the ring from his dead finger and looked it over. She remembered when she was only a vampire how badly she wanted this ring but now as a hybrid she had no use for that ring.

"Useless sunlight ring, check," Alex said as she threw the ring away somewhere behind her.

Although Alex could have kept and sold it, or maybe even used it to track down the witch that created it Alex didn't care. The last thing she wanted in her possession was that ring because it was just reminder of everything Roderick had done to her.

Alex proceeded to search all of Roderick's pockets including his jacket pockets. In the end Alex found his Dodge keys, a few hundred dollars and his mobile phone, which surprisingly didn't have a passcode.

Alex quickly searched through the phone for anything that could lead her towards the vampire who turned Roderick. Alex only found a bunch of contacts to people, or at least names she didn't know. There were a few messages, even some strange ones that appeared to be in some sort of number code. But in the end Alex found nothing that could lead her anyway. It didn't make any sense to Alex. She knew to avoid the vampire that turned her but judging from the fact Roderick was rich by the time she met him he clearly had had help from the one that turned him, but there was nothing. Unless Roderick didn't know who turned him and he was just really lucky that the humans didn't notice his sudden increase in stature.

Alex shook her head and placed his mobile phone and the money he had been carrying into her pocket. She stood and left the warehouse behind with the intention of searching through his Dodge.

Alex did a quick search through Roderick's Dodge but gave up when she realised that this was useless. The only way she was going to find out which vampire turned Roderick was to ask Roderick and he was dead, for real, which met Alex was lost. Alex sighed and climbed behind the wheel of Roderick's Dodge. After the night she had had she needed a drink, so she went to the only place she knew supplied alcohol. Although it should have been closed at this time of night Alex didn't care.

Once finished at The Grill Alex returned to the Mikaelson mansion only to grab her stuff. There was no need to her to remain in this town for any longer than she had too. But when she saw her clean and comfortable bed she realised how long it had been before she had a good sleep. So she took the risk and decided to sleep. It was only one night, how bad could it be.


1926…

"I was not aware that you had an older brother," Alexandra said to Christian.

It had only been a day since Roderick visited them and met her son and now that William had left for bed Alexandra decided it was safe to bring Roderick up especially when Christian gave such a cold reply earlier.

"We were not close," Christian replied. "He is rash and quick to act," he added. "This got us in a lot of trouble when we were younger."

"He sounds like my brother," Alexandra said as she remembered her brother when they were younger.

"At least your brother cared about you," Christian quickly replied as he looked up at Alexandra. "I loved my brother very much so when he decided to enlist it broke my heart," Christian added.

"But he came back," Alexandra pointed out.

"He did not come back the same," Christian replied before he stood. "I would very much like it if we did not talk of my brother anymore."

Alexandra gave Christian a small smile and nodded before watching him leave the dining room. Alexandra sighed once Christian had left. Alexandra wanted to leave it there but her son had formed a very close relationship with Roderick in such a short time. Alexandra couldn't break her son's heart by making sure Roderick never came around again. She had to fix what was broken between Christian and Roderick.


Present day…

Alex was suddenly woken by the sound of her bedroom door being slammed open. Alex quickly sat up and turned towards the door. Alex was shocked to find Damon entering her bedroom. He was the last person she expected to find. Then again Klaus was probably the last person since he just died the night before.

"What do you want?" Alex demanded.

"I want that stake," Damon replied referring to the white oak stake that was still in the back of her jeans.

"What stake?" Alex asked. "Oh, wait, do you mean the white oak stake?" Alex asked. "Do you mean the one that can kill an Original? Haven't seen it," Alex added.

"Don't lie to me, I saw you take it," Damon replied.

"Yeah I took it," Alex admitted. "But I gave it to Elijah," Alex lied.

"Don't lie to me," Damon growled as he stepped towards her.

"Hey, calm down," Alex said as she quickly climbed off her bed and stood. "Why would you want it? Ain't it sort of deadly, you know, kill the wrong one and you're dead too," Alex reminded.

"Rebekah will pay for killing Elena," Damon growled.

"Okay, okay," Alex said as she held her hands up in surrender. "Look, I haven't got the stake, I swear," Alex added as she moved away from her bed hoping to make quick exit.

But Damon spotted her intentions and stepped backwards towards the door. Alex shook her head. She only had one chance. Elijah trusted her with that stake. She couldn't break his trust. Alex swallowed hard and rushed Damon in attempt to throw him off guard but he was prepared. When she ducked around him he turned twice as quick and gripped onto her leather jacket.

Determined to flee Alex ignored the damage her favourite leather jacket would gain if too much strength was used. Alex pulled against Damon tearing her leather jacket. Alex stepped into the hallway and quickly removed her jacket sleeves from her arms but it was too late. When Damon tore her leather jacket from her body it revealed the white oak stake's location.

Alex quickly pulled the stake out of her jeans deciding it would be easily to keep a hold of it if she held it. With the white oak stake in hand Alex started to walk backwards towards the grand staircase while she watched Damon as he stalked her. Alex knew it would have been easy to flee but how far would she be able to run and where would she run. Alex hardly knew this town and it wasn't like she could just appear in the middle of a public area.

Alex swallowed and got into the right mind set to fight. If she knocked Damon out, even for a minute or two Alex would be able to escape with the white oak stake. But what Alex forgot to account for was Damon's rage over the fact Elena had died.

Alex couldn't remember how it happened because it happened to fast for even a hybrid to recall. All Alex remembered was feeling Damon tear the stake from her hand before he disappeared towards the grand staircase. After a quick check Alex realised that Rebekah was in the same mansion, she had to stop Damon, especially since Klaus wasn't the sire to her bloodline. This left Rebekah, Elijah and Kol and Alex was not in the mood for a repeat of last night.

But Alex paused when she reached the small landing halfway down the grand staircase. The sound of gunfire sliced through Alex's ears and confused her. Damon had taken the white oak stake, why was she hearing gunfire. Suddenly the front doors burst open and before Alex had the chance to flee she was fired at.

Wooden bullets entered her chest and only about half of them left. Alex gasped in shock before losing her grip on the stairs. Alex fell down the stairs and once at the bottom she landed hard on her back. But thanks to the wooden bullets in her chest and the broken bones Alex was unable to move, at that moment.

Alex groaned and then hissed when someone stabbed a needle into her neck and injected vervain into her bloodstream. Although Alex was only half vampire vervain still hurt and with enough vervain she could still be knocked out and that's exactly what happened.


Alex eventually woke as the vervain faded from her system but when she did pain radiated through her chest. She really hated wooden bullets. But the one thing that was worse than wooden bullets was the fact she had been chained to the inside of a van and she couldn't move to remove the bullets.

Alex groaned as she tried to break the ropes, which from the feeling of it had been soaked in vervain. Without the bullets in her chest irritating her Alex could have broken the ropes easily. But she couldn't, not even being a hybrid could help her now.

"I wouldn't bother," Caroline said as she sat chained against the opposite side of the van.

"What in the hell happened?" Alex demanded as she tried pushed the pain vibrating through her chest away.

"Alaric sold everyone out to the council," Caroline informed.

"But he didn't even know about me," Alex said before she remembered that day at Wickery Bridge.

It was Damon who sold her out to Alaric who in turn sold her out to the council.

"Damn," Alex cursed as she tried again to break the ropes but failed. "What now?" Alex asked while Caroline shrugged.

Alex sighed and let her head fall backwards against the side of the side. A few minutes later Rebekah woke and Alex attempted to ignore Rebekah's conversation with Caroline about how this all happened and about what the council could possibly do to her. Alex was actually glad when the van came to screeching stop before it suddenly flew off the road as if something had rammed into them.

The van rolled several times before eventually coming to a stop. Caroline and Rebekah luckily ended up on their backs while the van sat on its side while Alex dangled above them and she had to admit it was more fun that it appeared.

"What the hell happened?" Rebekah demanded.

Moments later one of the rear doors was pulled off the van completely, Alex didn't care much about this. It was the name Caroline said next that took Alex was shock.

"I'm harder to kill than you think," Tyler replied while Alex was left confused.

Elijah had made it clear that Tyler had died and as a direct hybrid from Klaus he should be, that's how it was supposed to work. You kill an Original and every vampire bloodline they sired ends killing every vampire, or hybrid, along the way. Tyler should be dead.

Tyler quickly broke Caroline's bonds before helping her out of the van. Both Alex and Rebekah were left shocked when Tyler ignored them completely. Alex understood why but still. He was just going to let them die.

"Wait," Rebekah said. "What about me?" she asked.

"Don't you mean us," Alex asked. "Just because I'm upside down doesn't make me…"

"Keep them busy, little sister," Tyler said cutting Alex off as he crouched down towards Rebekah. "And Alex," Tyler said before he gave her a salute and disappeared.

"No. That's not possible," Rebekah said.

Alex was left speechless for about two seconds.

"Holy Shit," Alex eventually said. "I can't believe I never saw that coming," Alex said as she shook her head.

"Just, shut up," Rebekah sighed.

"You know I honestly thought he was dead, and here I was…"

"Please, stop," Rebekah begged as the police that had been ahead of the van reached them.

Although Alex was still trapped inside the van that was going to god knows where, her day was already starting to look better, although Alex was really worried about coming face to face with Elijah again, since she had lost the white oak stake, to Damon of all people.

The men dressed like officers of the law quickly injected vervain into both Rebekah and Alex and once again Alex fell unconscious she was really starting to dislike being unconscious.