silas

(a/n: The link for my fancast for Silas is posted in my profile. I decided to go with Charlie Hunnan from Sons of Anarchy. He just has a much more Silas look, not the clean cut boy that they cast on the show.)

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'i've seen it all before, you back out, and everything's changing
i needed something more, you stepped down, so what are you chasing?
i put it on rewind for this time only
(is that what you really want?)
i realize that i got red hands, i wanna change this (day-oh)
don't ask me why i choose to lie, i stay blind, oh (day-oh)
it's clear to me that you are human too,
your accusations are burning through-oo
(is that what you really want?)
oh yeah, oh yeah-ah, that gun is loaded
but it's not in my hand'
-'red hands', walk off the earth

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He watches the young man as he walks from the building, heading for the sleek black truck that was obviously his.

This kid was the perfect target. So unguarded, so oblivious to everything around him.

He needs to feed, damn it.

He needs to take the life force so he can continue to survive but his damn humanity is getting in the way.

In the past months since being brought back, he had hid in the shadows and fed quietly. Every person that he took, he would make sure to make it as quick and humane as possible. Being a warlock for nearly thirty five years before becoming entombed, he knew that just taking life without regard was something that was going to send him straight to hell and he lived by that. Today though, it was his only way of survival.

He wanted to die.

Everything about his resurrection, about being thrust into this new world that he was so unfamiliar with...he hated it.

There was a place in the afterlife that was waiting for him, along with his beloved. He would see her again.

He eyes the boy once again. He has to act now or he's going to lose his chance.

Now, Silas! Now!

So he springs.

He's faster than any human eye can see but somehow, the boy isn't caught off guard. He whirls around, catching the wrist that had come up to clamp over his mouth and twisting it, turning so quickly and sharply that he feels it crack.

That same hand, he can see the ink of the tattoo.

"Ah..." he says aloud. "You're one of the brothers, are you not?"

The boy smirks. "Just found out. Don't know who marked me but for some damn reason, I am."

That was the one good thing about being over two thousand years old and living on human souls. The Hunter's Curse didn't affect him.

He blinks, coming to a standstill for a moment. His eyes meet the boy's dark blue ones and he gives a bittersweet smile.

At a different time, he'd be defending this boy.

Now he was going to kill him.

"I'll make this quick," he sighs. "I'm so sorry."

"Oh, my god."

Bonnie blinks, glancing over at the blonde beside her on the couch.

"What is it?"

Caroline seems to be gripping her cell phone so hard that it threatens to splinter beneath her fingers. Her eyes dilate wide with fear and trepidation, alarm in her pretty features.

They had been living in a penthouse apartment for the last month, somehow getting along with the Originals. Klaus had rented the place out and when they got there, they discovered that there was only three bedrooms. The girls took one while Elijah and Kol took the other two, booting Klaus out to the sofa. His moaning and groaning could be heard all through the first night, whining about how hard the couch was and how he needed his beauty rest.

It may seem odd...okay, it was very odd, but it was a comfortable living arrangement. Kol was able to work with his magic in private, away from others without the fear of hurting anyone. He was still hearing the voices of the witches but they were fading away. He was able to fight it even more.

Rebekah and Caroline were somewhat getting along, only glaring at each other once a day now instead of every hour. Bonnie made sure to stay the hell out of that one.

Elijah stayed. He didn't disappear like it was usually his prerogative to do so. He stayed right there, never leaving his family's sight. Or was it, he never let his family out of his sight?

Caroline had finally been able to call her mother and let her know that she was okay. Bonnie didn't even bother to call her father, wondering if Rudy had even noticed that she was gone. Liz Forbes had informed Caroline that she and Bonnie had officially been declared missing, Amber Alerts being stretched for the both of them. All the vampires and the witches could hear the yelling and the screaming coming from that phone all night as the elder Forbes let her daughter have it before breaking down in tears.

Once the dust had settled, they had learned that the Salvatores and Elena and Jeremy had returned from New York, all safely compelled by Klaus and Rebekah, not remembering a thing about the battle for the cure on the mountain. They were settling back into their 'who does Elena love more' feud with an irritated Jeremy on the sidelines, the quest for the cure completely forgotten. They were also assisting in the search for Caroline and Bonnie but it didn't seem like finding their friends was really their top priority.

Big surprise there.

It had become much more evident over the past several weeks that Bonnie and Caroline had become a part of this family, even though it was the last thing on Bonnie's list that she would ever be privy too.

They had been accepted, not with open loving arms, but with an honest hand.

Klaus was making his lovey-dovey eyes at Caroline once again, now that she was finally within his grasp and Caroline was standing firm, reminding him that if he didn't cut it the hell out, she would be able to walk right out that door and never come back. She was only there for Bonnie.

Bonnie and Kol had settled back into their snarky, comfortable way. He would continue to make innuendos at her and she would turn around and give him a witchy aneurism, Rebekah sometime getting in the middle of their fights. But he never brought up what happened on that mountain before the fight for the cure. And she never brought it up.

It was all but forgotten. It never would be.

Now wasn't the time.

"Caroline, what is it?" Bonnie demanded for the third time, finally wrenching the splitting cell phone away from her. She glimpses what is on the screen and feels a gasp rip her throat. "Oh, god..."

They were alone in the apartment, the brothers having gone out hunting a while ago. Rebekah had stayed behind, having cited that she needed a break from Kol's continuous 'zapping of her brain for practice', taking in a few blood bags instead.

That's when Rebekah pops in.

"What's all the shouting for?" the blonde asks, nursing a blood bag. The blood bags were for Elijah and Caroline mostly but sometimes, Elijah would hunt with Niklaus.

"Do you remember Matt Donovan?" Caroline asks, her eyes shifting into a glare. "The boy you 'fancied' and then ran off a bridge?"

Rebekah rolls her eyes. "I don't 'fancy', Caroline. I like."

"Whatever."

"What's wrong with Matt? Is he all right?"

"No," Bonnie responds, her finger pressing to the phone screen. "He's missing."

"Missing? What do you mean, he's missing?"

"Why do you care?" Caroline scowls.

"Because Matt was the only person in that little pony town that treated me decent, that's why!" Rebekah growls. "What happened?"

Bonnie looks down at the phone, reading over the headline for the tenth time.

"It says that he is the 'third' disappearance in a matter of months, having disappeared last night from outside the Grille. It says that his keys and his truck were found in the parking lot but no him. I don't understand-"

Caroline leaps off the couch in vampire speed, disappearing from the living room and returning moments later with her jacket.

"Bonnie, we need to go. We have to go home."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You're not going anywhere without me," Rebekah shoots back, already shrugging into her own jacket.

"And who said that you were coming with us?" Caroline responded spitefully. "You nearly killed him!" Despite living together for nearly a month, the girls still butted heads. It usually took an aneurism to get them apart when they really got into it but mostly from Bonnie. Klaus's splitting headache for nearly a week after Kol had nailed him with one was a nice little reminder. Neither Caroline nor Rebekah were quite eager to be on the receiving end of one of them.

Rebekah crosses her arms in front of her chest, glaring at the other blonde. "How many times-"

"All right!" Bonnie's voice interjects. "Enough! Put the claws away and remember that this is Matt, all right? He's our friend. And yes, no matter how pissed off he was for being nearly murdered by you, Rebekah, he did still give a damn about you." Rebekah's look of satisfaction makes her want to vomit.

"I'll get my car," Rebekah says, ignoring Caroline's glower.

"What about Klaus, Elijah, and Kol?" Caroline asks once Rebekah is gone. "Should we just leave a note or-?"

Bonnie tries to push back the swoop of guilt in her belly. It was time for the break. Silas was down, never to be heard of again (hopefully), Kol was doing just fine with his powers, Klaus had his precious little family back, and all seemed well in Mystic Falls. She didn't need to be there anymore. Neither of them did.

Elijah really didn't play a part in this, except for the fact that he watched over all of them. Bonnie was very aware of the feelings that he still had for Elena, it was written all over his face any time a conversation went about Mystic Falls. Those feelings weren't ever going to go away but the fact that Elena had helped 'kill' Kol was still there. A person cannot move past that. Well, a person that wasn't Elena herself, that is.

Klaus and Caroline were growing closer, much to Caroline's chargin. She had no reason to be there anymore but she was, having walked away from her family but still getting word to her mother that she was all right. Bonnie had seen the worry and the fear in her face when Magdalene had introduced Klaus to her walls. She wasn't stupid and she wasn't in denial.

Okay, maybe she was.

Her blonde friend continuously jumped on her about her feelings for Kol and just maybe she had some. She wasn't sure-oh, damn. Right now, she was helping the man who had threatened to kill her less than two months ago. This was a man that had been an Original vampire for a thousand years, had been neutralized and desiccated for over a century, returned, died, returned again, turned and became a warlock. The Original warlock. How the hell was she supposed to cozy up to that?

But then her thoughts would travel to Matt. Poor Matt who had been left completely out of the loop and probably thought that she and Caroline were dead. Elena was a vampire and wanted nearly nothing to do with him anymore, her head wrapped around that dumb cure-maybe not if the supposed compulsion worked-and her feelings for Stefan and Damon.

She missed Elena very much but knew deep down that the real Elena had died on that bridge. Matt was still here though. Somewhere-maybe alive, maybe dead.

She had to try.

The drive back to Mystic Falls took place on back roads, away from highways and most of the police. If she and Caroline were declared missing, there still had to be an APB out or something so they weren't taking any chances. It took a handful of hours before they drove into darkness and found their way home.

All three of their phones were going crazy. Bonnie finally turned hers off, ignoring the nameless texts and missed calls from a certain vampy warlock. He even tried calling Caroline and of course his twin, causing both blondes to ultimately turn theirs off as well.

"Don't feel guilty, Bonnie," Caroline warns quietly as the car pulls up behind the Forbes house. "Don't."

"I'm not, Caroline," Bonnie snaps back, rolling her eyes. "Thank you, Rebekah."

The older blonde shrugs her shoulders. "Go get some sleep. I'm going home and waiting for my brothers. I know they will be catching up with us soon enough."

"I hope not," Caroline says with her own eye roll, gently closing the car door. "But thanks."

Rebekah shrugs again, kicking the car back into gear and disappearing back onto the wooded road.

"Caroline Beula Forbes!"

The taller girl's shoulders immediately go into a shudder, head bowed. "Uh-oh."

Bonnie smirks, turning the girl around and giving her a shove. "You're gonna get grounded."

Both of them glimpse the sheriff as she strides across the lawn, terrycloth robe wrapped tightly around her, same blue eyes as her daughter's that are filled with angry and relieved tears.

"If I wasn't so relieved to see you, I would smack you!" Liz hollers before pulling her daughter into a hard hug.

"Hello sister."

Rebekah lets out a small yelp as the light flickers on, filling the darkened room with a low pool of golden haze. As her eyes adjust, she sees Kol sitting on the sofa, flanked by Klaus standing behind him.

"Thank you for scaring me half to death!" she snarls, resting her hands on her hips. "How the hell did you three get back here before us?"

"Where's Bonnie?" is all that comes out of Kol's mouth as he stands up.

"She's at Caroline's house," Rebekah says. "Quit acting like a jealous boyfriend, she's not off gallivanting with Jeremy Gilbert."

At the mention of the Gilbert boy, Kol's eyes harden, losing their honeyed air.

"Why are we back here, Rebekah?" Elijah asks, stepping out from his spot in the shadows. "I thought we had left Mystic Falls for good." Rebekah folds her arms in front of her chest, setting a stone cold glare at her brothers. "I think Caroline, Bonnie, and I were just tired of being cooped up in that tiny apartment with you three for company."

Klaus's nostrils flare with anger and he zips around the sofa within seconds, standing in front of her with his teeth practically bared. "Rebekah, we cannot have this family separated again! The last time that happened-"

"I know!" Rebekah shouts, cutting him off. "You watched Kol die!" Klaus falls silent. Elijah stares, lips pursed. Kol freezes in his silent haste for the door, turning slightly on his heel to gaze at his twin sister. "Don't you understand that I think about that everyday? That I walked away from you, from Kol?! I mean, I know he was alive, just locked up in that stupid Shane's body, but he still died! And you watched him die, unable to do anything about it. I think about that moment every damn day!"

"Rebekah-"

She shakes her head, holding up a hand. "But in case any one of you three idiots have pulled your heads out of your asses and paid attention to the news, something is happening here. And someone-that I care about went missing."

"Who?" Elijah asks softly.

"Matt Donovan."

"The commoner?!" Kol's voice causes her to nearly jump out of her skin. "You still have a thing for that football playing, beer pouring, fry serving-"

"If you say another word, I will knock out your pretty little teeth," Rebekah snarls, her fangs slipping down for the first time in what seems like forever. Hell, Kol didn't have fangs anymore but he could still pack a good punch. Not that he needed to with the power of blood vessel bursting aneurisms just through a mere blink of an eye.

"Both of you, shut up for a moment," Klaus snaps, stepping between them. "Why is he missing? What happened?"

Once Rebekah explained the information that she did know, Kol was opening his mouth to retort some crude comment.

And then her phone rang.

"It's Bonnie," Rebekah says, glancing at the ID. She accepts the call and holds the phone up to her ear. At the mere sound of Bonnie's voice, Kol feels his jumpy nerves start to relax.

"After Caroline's mom stopped yelling at us, she told us more about Matt," Bonnie explains. "One town over, four people went missing a few weeks ago and their bodies were found, drained of blood about a week later. But their throats weren't torn into, they were cut, by a blade of some sort. How many vampires take blood that way?"

"Not many I've heard of," Klaus says. "Go on."

"The police are calling it an animal attack but it doesn't sound right. And it doesn't sound like a vampire."

"That's because it's not."

That came from Kol.

"What?"

"Vampires don't clean up after themselves," Kol says. "But someone who had experience like-"

"Wait a moment! If you say Silas, I will knock out your teeth!" Rebekah growls.

"It can't be Silas, Kol," Bonnie says. "The tomb is destroyed. The cure's gone."

"Maybe not."

"How is that possible?" Elijah asks.

"If any one of you three idiots had bothered to listen to me two months ago, we could have avoided all of this," the younger Original grumbles. "Listen, Silas is a very powerful creature. He could find a way."

"Find a way to come back from being a pile of ash?" Klaus says. "Sounds highly unlikely."

"I found a way back!" Kol snaps.

And there's silence on all ends.

"Kol?"

That voice is coming from the phone. The voice that could raise goosebumps on his skin (oh, the good kind of goosebumps) and the voice that could bring him back from the edge.

"What, lamb?"

"You better tell us everything right now before I come over there and hex you into next week."

I'm going to end it there. A set up for next chapter that is going to be badass!

I have always intended on bringing Matt into this story, mostly because I love him with Rebekah but I also think he deserves his own story. He and Bonnie are the most underused characters on the show and deserve to be given an amazing story of their own. But also, I am trying to slowly set this up for two possible sequels, the next one to be centered around Klaus and Caroline (and maybe Stefan later) and the third to be around Matt and Rebekah.

Obviously that's Silas in the beginning, grabbing Matt. Now, I was thinking instead of him being a vampire, when he awoke after Kol and Jeremy fled the cave, he did feed a bit on Shane's body and took in his life force (aka soul). He feeds on souls through the blood and that is how he slowly gains his power back.

Uh-oh! That spells trouble. Should have listened to Kol, guys. Seriously. But I do like that our Kol is back. He may be less vampy but he's still Kol. Just wait until he comes face to face with the Golden Trio.

Somehow, Matt is a new member of the Five. I think they actually had a great opportunity of doing that on the show, like how Conner had marked Jeremy to take his place. Did Jeremy mark anyone? Matt has hunting capabilities. But no, Jeremy's not dead, someone else is for this to be possible in my story. We'll be learning more next chapter.

Check out my fancasting for Silas. I love Charlie Hunnam and I actually think he'd make a great Silas.