Crimson and Stefan both woke up in Rebekah's bed. The short blonde had to guess that her parents were probably starting to get sick of her behavior. She removed Rebekah's hand from her and got dressed before Stefan also got up. She opened the door to go…and found Klaus on the other side of it.
"Leaving so soon?" He asked. She sighed, wondering if Klaus had realized what had happened the night before.
Rebekah was up and dressed in a few minutes.
"This is my place, Nik." She remarked angrily. "I don't appreciate you invading my privacy like some kind of creeping Tom."
"Well I apologize for breaking up this ménage a trois." Klaus declared as he entered the room. He knew. "But I do have some rather urgent business or have you forgotten that our paranoid brother Kol is running around with a white oak stake and homicide on the brain."
"He tried to kill me last night. I didn't forget." Rebekah spat.
"Well unfortunately, he seems to have absconded with my set of daggers." Klaus added.
"Oh, poor Nik, how ever will you get your way without your precious daggers?" Rebekah asked facetiously. Crimson thought it would be best to hold her laughter. "They were so handy when you wanted to end a conversation with one of us."
"Kol's irrational fear of Silas has pushed him over the edge." Klaus remarked. "We need to put him down before he does any more damage. Now I know you have the last dagger and I know you have some white ash, so hand it over."
"And leave myself unprotected?" Rebekah asked, crossing her arms so they were covering her chest. "You can file that request under no chance in hell. Be gone by the time I've showered, because you're not welcome here."
The water then began to run. Crimson and Stefan stood there.
"I need that dagger you two." Klaus told them. "Talk some sense into her."
"Why don't you talk some sense into her?" Stefan asked. "I'm headed home to play prison guard to Damon and Crimson's going to be put in prison by her parents."
"That's my point. If you let Kol roam free, bad things will happen." Klaus replied. "Jeremy won't live and I know that your girl won't like that, but if you help me dagger Kol, Damon will be uncompelled, Jeremy will live and we'll all be on our merry way to a human Elena."
Crimson decided to call Jeremy to make sure he was okay.
"What's up?" She asked.
"I am under house arrest." Jeremy replied. "Elena thinks it's the best way to keep me safe."
"I'm about to be as well." The blonde replied. "My parents aren't going to be thrilled about my night with Stefan and Rebekah."
"Did you?" Jeremy asked.
"Yes." Crimson answered. "It was strange."
"Elena has a solution to our problems." Jeremy replied. "Well maybe not yours, but she wants me to kill Kol which she thinks will complete the Hunter's Mark."
"That seems morally wrong." Crimson couldn't help but say. "Are you sure that you want to commit genocide?"
"It's probably our best option." Jeremy admitted. "I do want to kill Kol."
Crimson went home and decided to get in the shower. After she was undressed, she let the water run down her back and screamed very loudly. She turned the water off as soon as she could.
"What's wrong?" Austin asked.
"I think there's vervain in the water." She responded.
"The new mayor was talking about putting it in the water supply." Her dad explained. "I just didn't think it would be so soon."
"I need a towel." Crimson realized as her father went off to get her one.
Within a few minutes, Crimson was downstairs wearing a white tank and jeans with black boots.
"So about last night…" She started. "I did plan to come home. I was going to come home, but I fell asleep. I'm sorry and Klaus made me wait even longer to come home this morning."
"We've decided that your punishment will be not going to the 80s decade dance tonight." Ashley responded. Crimson was visibly upset since she really wanted to go to that. Crimson then got a text. "Yeah, I'm okay with that."
"What does that message say?" Austin asked.
"The dance is cancelled…" Crimson explained softly.
"Well I think that you should probably stay home tonight." Austin declared. "You are definitely not going to see Stefan."
"Can I talk to him?" Crimson asked.
"As long as he doesn't come over and try to spring you free." Ashley replied.
"I think that he has bigger things to worry about." Crimson admitted. She already knew how to get free if she needed. She had snuck out before she was a vampire, and it would be a lot easier.
That night, Crimson received a text telling her that she needed to help Jeremy find Bonnie. She knew what she needed to do. She headed toward her window. She realized that she was having some difficulty opening it. Apparently her parents had thought ahead and glued it shut. Though there was one thing that they didn't think that she would do. She ran at the window and jumped through it. Once she was the ground, she went to find Jeremy.
In Rebekah's house, Stefan went in to find the Original looking through various 80s clothes.
"So I think you should know that the dance is cancelled." Stefan told her.
"Are you here to ask for the dagger?" She questioned.
"You have trust issues." Stefan admitted.
"It's called being cautious." Rebekah responded. "I know you two tried to sneak out this morning."
"I don't think Crimson was into sharing me." Stefan remarked.
"Do you want it to happen again?" She asked.
"I don't think she does." Stefan responded.
"That's not what I asked." She pointed out.
"Maybe." Stefan admitted. "But I'm not looking to cheat on Crimson even if you were to give me the dagger."
"We could go to the dance. We could sneak into the school and have it all to ourselves." Stefan suggested.
"Are you sure that your girlfriend is okay with that?" She asked.
"It's just two friends hanging out at a dance." Stefan replied.
Crimson walked outside looking for Jeremy. She was pretty sure that her parents were going to put bar on her window, but she needed to do what was right. At the moment, it was helping Jeremy and Elena kill Kol. She still didn't feel comfortable about killing Kol's entire bloodline. It was bad enough that she killed an undeterminable amount of vampires when she killed Finn.
She eventually found Jeremy while wandering the streets.
"What's up?" The blonde asked.
"Kol is in the house and I can't find Bonnie." Jeremy explained. "Elena is trying to stall him."
He then took out his phone.
"Bonnie, where are you? I've called like 17 times." Jeremy said into a voicemail.
"Let me try." Crimson offered before she dialed Bonnie's number. "Straight to voicemail. You don't think she's in trouble, do you?"
"Let's just go to her house." Jeremy suggested as the two of them began to walk toward the mayor's house.
Jeremy began to knock on the door as Crimson felt herself unable to walk any further. The mayor was the one who answered the door.
"Is Bonnie here?" Crimson asked.
"She's busy." He replied. Jeremy grabbed the door and stepped inside.
"It's important." He declared as Bonnie walked to the door. Crimson wished that the witch would invite her in because she knew that her father wouldn't.
"What's going on?" Bonnie asked.
"I've called you like a hundred times. Kol is in our house." Jeremy explained.
"I have to go." Bonnie said as she looked at her father in fear.
"I said no." The mayor replied.
"Invite me in and I'll get you out." Crimson bargained. Crimson suddenly felt herself being thrown across the yard. She looked up and saw Bonnie's mom. She got up and snapped her arm back in place and found that the door was closed. She didn't think that it would be opened back up. That was definitely problematic for them.
Jeremy then walked out alone.
"Well this is a bust." Crimson noted. "What are we going to do now? We're not going to be able to take on Kol by ourselves. There has to be some way to get her out of there."
"So where is Stefan?" Jeremy asked. "He's been invited in Bonnie's house."
"Stefan is distracting Rebekah right now at the 80s dance." Crimson explained.
"Are you okay with it?" Jeremy asked. "He might be flirting with her right now."
"It's what needs to be done." Crimson pointed out.
"Let's just go back to the house to see if we can find Kol." Jeremy suggested. It looks like we might have to do this the hard way."
"We're probably going to get killed doing it the hard way." Crimson noted.
The two went into the Gilbert house, Jeremy wielding his weapon. They heard footsteps, but it was Elena who came out.
"I'm sorry. He left. I couldn't stall him any longer." The brunette vampire explained.
The doorbell then rang.
"That's Bonnie. She said she was behind us." Jeremy replied. Elena opened the door and Kol was back.
"I've considered your request for a truce." The Original stated. "Request denied."
Elena slammed the door shut, but Kol kicked it open and walked into the house. The three of them had already run off. Kol was not amused by their sudden disappearance. Crimson wondered if she should grab Jeremy and jump out another window.
Elena was the first one to move. She grabbed a crossbow and shot Kol with it, unfortunately only hitting in the leg. Crimson noted that he seemed to be going after Elena. It was give the two of them a chance to escape, but Jeremy wouldn't go for that.
"So what are we doing?" Crimson asked.
Jeremy shushed her and looked for something to write with. Then Elena ran into the room. They grabbed their weapons. After two stakes missed, Elena began to shoot him with wooden bullets.
"Get him out." She instructed Crimson. Kol came and grabbed Jeremy and threw him halfway down the stairs. Elena then jumped on his back and tried to stake him. Kol grabbed a stake and pinned her to the wall through her stomach. Jeremy was in pain and Crimson knew that she couldn't use her blood to heal him because turning him into a vampire would likely get rid of the mark. She went to the kitchen to look for anything that she could use a weapon. She needed to be perfect in her accuracy. She wished that she gotten a better grade on her archery assignment.
In the school, Stefan began to try to get the dagger from Rebekah by teaching her The Breakfast Club power slide down the hallway. She didn't seem to get it.
"It's the shoes. You need to take off your shoes." Stefan suggested.
Rebekah reached into her boot and pulled the dagger out.
"This is what you want, right?" She asked him, handing it to her.
Stefan was a bit confused by her sudden generosity.
"You're right, I do care." She admitted. "I want stupid koala corsages, and a prom. I want to have kids with someone who loves me enough to stand outside my window with a stupid boom box. I want to be human. So let Klaus put down my brother and let's go find the cure."
Stefan put the dagger away and left with her.
Kol brought Jeremy to the kitchen while Crimson waited in the dining room. She knew that she would only have one shot at it. She also knew that if she missed, she would have to run.
"Like I said, I don't fancy the Hunter's Curse, so I'm just going to chop off your arm." Kol told him. "Don't worry. I'll heal you right up with a bit of blood right after. Now which arm is it?"
Crimson had to admit that was a little bit funny, but knew it wasn't the time for laughter.
"I'll just chop off both to be safe." Kol declared. She knew that she had to act. She threw the wooden spoon at him. She managed to hit him before Elena came and attacked him with the knife. Jeremy then grabbed the sprayer from the sink and squirted him with vervain water. Crimson couldn't believe that they seemed to be winning. Crimson reached into his coat pocket and pulled the white oak stake out.
"Catch." She shouted as she threw it at Jeremy. Jeremy didn't hesitate and stabbed Kol with it. He screamed before he seemed to catch fire just like Finn did. He tried to get it out, but he was already ablaze after a few seconds. The fire didn't seem to be spreading, but then the three of them looked at Klaus standing the doorway. They knew that they were screwed. Klaus looked pissed and horrified about what the three of them had just accomplished however unlikely it was for them.
"What did you do?" The hybrid asked. He sounded upset.
"We didn't have a choice." Elena pointed out. "He was trying to cut off Jeremy's arm."
"Lies." Klaus declared. "He never would have gotten inside if you hadn't had set a trap for him."
"You said you were gonna put him down." Crimson reminded him. That only seemed to make him angrier.
"I was going to make him suffer ON MY TERMS!" Klaus yelled. "I'm gonna burn this house to the ground and when you try to get out, I'm gonna tear all three of your hearts out without blinking."
"You kill us and you'll lose the cure. You'll never be able to make more hybrids." Jeremy replied.
"Firstly, that's not true. I'd just have to find Katerina." Klaus stated. "Second, I don't care for an instant about my bloody hybrids. I want the cure so I can destroy it. I was going to kill you the second that we dug it up. Now I'll just watch you burn instead."
Klaus then screamed in pain. Bonnie walked inside.
"Invite him in." She told Jeremy. "Do it."
"Come in." Jeremy told him. Klaus entered the house prepared to kill, but Bonnie managed to create a magical cage. Jeremy grabbed the white oak stake and the three of them exited the house.
"Witch, you can't do this to me." Klaus said.
"You have no idea what I can do." Bonnie boasted.
"I will hunt all of you till your end!" Klaus threatened.
The four of them went to the boarding house. Jeremy looked at his arm.
"It didn't work." He declared.
"It took some time for Sage and Troy to die." Crimson pointed out. "We need to wait longer."
"What if it doesn't?" Jeremy asked in doubt. Crimson rubbed his shoulders.
"Where's that Gilbert optimism?" Damon asked as he stepped into the room. Elena gave him a hug. "Hi. Sorry, I missed all of the excitement."
"I'm just happy to see you." Elena declared.
Stefan then walked in with the headstone.
"Looks like I didn't miss much." He commented.
"We're just waiting for the mark to show up." Crimson replied as she let go of Jeremy's shoulders.
"Klaus is trapped in our living room." Elena added.
"I drew on the new moon to bind the spell." Bonnie explained to them "We have three days to find the cure or we are screwed."
"We might as well look up Katherine to see if she wants company in hiding if we don't." Jeremy remarked
"We'll find it, especially since Rebekah is taken care of." Elena stated.
"She's coming with us." Stefan replied. That made Crimson nervous.
"We need to bust Shane out." The blonde remarked. "Why do you think that you could trust her? I knew it was a bad idea for you to go with her. She's gotten under your skin. I shouldn't have agreed to everything. That threesome was a mistake."
"You need to calm down." Stefan instructed before Jeremy suddenly started screaming. He tore off his shirt and the ink started to form.
"It's happening." He declared. "You can see it?"
"Let's go." Damon remarked.
So even though Crimson ultimately went with it, she at least showed hesitation in it. Plus her relationship with her parents is not going to be good when she gets back. Of course there will be something else that will make it even worse and she's upset with Stefan for caring about Rebekah. Please don't forget to review.