Alaric was sitting at his desk in his old classroom with his feet on the desk as he twirled around the stake in his hands. He stopped when he heard Caroline speaking on the phone with Claire.
Claire's sleep was interrupted by her phone, she cursed under her breath and grabbed the phone from the night table and saw the I.D, she pressed 'Answer'.
"You know there's only so much favors you can ask me." She snapped, she wasn't at all a morning person and everyone knew that.
"I know! But I really, really, need your help." Caroline told her.
"What now?" Claire huffed as she ran a hand through her hair.
"I'm here at school with Rebekah! We're cleaning the gym, and since Matt bailed... We could use an extra-hand."
"You're kidding? Do I look like I clean schools?" Claire creased her eyebrows.
"Please, Claire... We want to get this done, and it will be much faster if you help. Maybe you can use your ju-ju to clean everything!" The blonde suggested. Claire just rolled her eyes, leave it to Caroline to say things like that.
"I'm not Sabrina the teenage witch, Caroline." She told her. "This is the last time you wake me up at 8 in the morning for this kind of shit."
"I promise! Thank you so much Claire, you're the best." Caroline's voice was perky.
"Whatever, give me 15 minutes." Without another word she hung up the phone. She got out of the bed and walked to her bathroom so she could take a shower. After the shower, she grabbed her clothes from her closet. She was wearing a striped trassed tank top with the america flag printed on it, black and white striped jersey leggings, black leather vest, cross necklace and zorrba boots. Her hair was curled and she wore red lipstick. (Outfit in the profile)
She didn't see any sign of Damon or Stefan, they were probably asleep. She walked out of the Boarding House and drove to the school.
Claire walked into the cafetaria to see Rebekah and Caroline cleaning up the place, the two blondes turned to look at her.
"If you decided to only come around 8:30, you shouldn't had come at all." Rebekah snapped.
"Well, I still can leave if you want..." Claire crossed her arms over her chest.
"No! She doesn't want you to leave, do you Rebekah?" Caroline turned to the other blonde.
"Whatever. If you're going to help, start now." The Original huffed. "I managed to turn up on time and I didn't even get to attend the dance that I organised."
"I'm sorry about your mom." Caroline spoke up "I mean I know you like, hated her and everything, but still I'm sorry."
"Yeah, I mean I still don't like you. But no mother should treat her child like Esther did with you." Claire added, Rebekah looked over at them and nodded her head.
"I'm sorry about your teacher." Rebekah replied quietly. "He seemed like a nice guy."
"Yeah. He was." Caroline nodded as Claire lowered her head a little, she considered Alaric one of her closest friends so it was still hard for her to talk about him.
"I'm going to get started on the gym." Rebekah told them, she walked into the hallway and she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw a very alive Alaric.
"You're supposed to be dead." She whispered.
"I am." He nodded, she quickly rushed over to him but he just threw her against of the lockers with his new strenght and he pulled out the stake about to strike but Caroline and Claire pinned him against the locker and stabbed him with his own stake on the chest.
"You guys can go." Claire spoke up.
"What? No! He's going to kill you." Caroline shook her head.
"Just go! I'm right behind you." The brunette told her, the two blondes exchanged a look and they ran outside. Alaric managed to break free from her grip and he threw her against the hallway. Claire injured her leg as she struggled to get up to her feet, the new vampire stalked towards her and she quickly ran away from him. She was already outside as she stumbled towards her car, before she could open the door Alaric was already behind her and he quickly snapped her neck before dragging her back into the school as he felt his skin burning because of the sun. Rebekah watched everything from distance stunned.
At the Gilbert House, Elena and Jeremy were painting Alaric's old room as Stefan walked into the room.
"Going darker, huh?" Stefan mused as he leaned against the doorway.
"It's the only colour we had." Elena replied.
"That's what happened when you decide to paint your dead guardian's room in the middle of the night." Jeremy spoke up.
"I don't suppose anyone tried to talk you guys out of doing this so soon." Stefan replied as he looked over at them.
"We have to keep moving." Elena told him as she walked around the room, painting the walls. "Otherwise we'll start thinking and we don't want to think."
"Want a hand?" Stefan offered as he smiled at her.
"So, are you two like back together or something?" Jeremy questioned curiously.
"What? No, Jer... We're-"
"I-I was just checking up on you guys." Stefan trailed off as he glanced over at Elena "Seeing how you were doing, after everything."
"We're fine!" Jeremy told him firmly "But, if you are trying to be the good guy again, why don't you do the right thing and give us one day. Just one day without any vampires in it!" He stormed out of the room.
"He didn't mean that." Elena told him.
"Yeah, yeah he did." Stefan nodded as the doorbell rang "I'll get that." He walked out of the room and jogged downstairs to open the door to reveal Damon grabbing Bonnie by her arm as she was bleeding from her neck.
"We have a problem."
At the Mikaelson Mansion, Klaus was packing his stuff into boxes as he prepared himself to leave this town, Rebekah walked into the room with a worried face.
"Alaric Saltzman just tried to kill me." Rebekah announced.
"Alaric Saltzman is supposed to be dead." Klaus told her as he looked over at her.
"Well, he's not and he's a vampire thanks to mother's spell with a white oak stake that can't kill him." She growled "He's strong, Nik. Too strong."
"Where is he now?" Klaus questioned.
"He's stuck at the school without a daylight ring, but as soon as night falls he'll come after us. We need to leave now." She told him.
"Fine." He sighed as he continued to pack his paintings "I'll collect Elena, we'll be on our way."
"Forget Elena!" Rebekah yelled "You don't need any more stupid hybrids!"
"What I need is protect from Esther's continued assaults against us." Klaus hissed as he turned to look at her.
"We'll protect each other, like we always have." Rebekah told him as she walked closer to him. "Always and forever, Nik."
"I am not leaving without her." Klaus told her firmly, as he grabbed the rest of his stuff.
"I'm leaving now." She replied firmly. "You can either walk out that door with me or you are on your own." She warned and he just stared at her not saying anything. "Fine. Trust your hybrids over your own family." She spat "Let your spite be the death of you, see if I care." She stormed out of the room and she bumped into Tyler. "Move it, sire boy!"
"What's her deal?" Tyler questioned as he placed the box on the floor.
Bonnie, Damon and Stefan were in the kitchen of the Gilbert House, as Damon explained his brother what had happened.
"What do you mean he turned?" Stefan scoffed as he paced the kitchen. "I thought you were standing guard!" Stefan added as he handed Bonnie a towel for her bleeding neck.
"Don't blame me." Damon huffed. "Blame Bonnie the blood bank, she fed him."
"I had no idea what was happening." Bonnie told them firmly. "Ok, the witches led me there. They wanted him to feed so he turned."
"So, where's the stake now?" Stefan questioned.
"Oh, you mean the white oak one?" Damon mused sarcastically "The one that can kill an Original and wipe out an entire line of vampires? We don't know." He glared at Bonnie.
"If you are so upset with me, why did you feed me your blood to save my life?" Bonnie hissed.
"Because I do stupid things, Bonnie." Damon retorted. "I do things, like let my friend die with dignity when I should have just killed him!"
"Alright, so how do we kill him now?" Stefan looked over at Bonnie.
"I've been trying to figure that out." Bonnie spoke. "A witch can't truly make an immortal creature, there is always a way to undo the spell."
"So, what's the witchy work around?" Damon questioned as he stared down at the witch.
"That's the problem. I don't know." She answered.
Elena was still painting Alaric's old room, when he phone began to ring. She grabbed and saw the ID and she froze when it said Alaric
"Who this is, it's not funny." Elena huffed as she answered the phone.
"Well, who else would it be?" Alaric retorted with a sinister tone.
"Ric?" Elena froze.
"Listen closely, I'm at the school, I have Claire, and if you want to keep her alive, I need you to get in your car and come down here right away." Alaric told her as he looked over at Claire who was sitting at one of the desks, pencils pierced into her skin and cloth wrapped around her mouth soaked with vervain. "If you tell anyone where you are going, I will kill her."
Jeremy heard the doorbell rang and he walked downstairs to open the door, to reveal Klaus on the other side.
"What the hell do you want?" Jeremy spat.
"Now is that any way to treat a guest?" Klaus questioned as Stefan walked over to the door.
"What are you doing here, Klaus?" Stefan questioned with annoyance.
"Well, for starters, young Jeremy here should show some manners and invite me inside." Klaus smirked as Damon approached the door and Stefan stood in front of Jeremy.
"Why don't you go up to your room?" Stefan suggested as he glanced over at Jeremy, the human boy stood in his place and Damon turned to him.
"Now." Damon added as Jeremy huffed and went upstairs.
"Hm, poor lad. Loses one questionable father figure only to be replaced by the likes of the two of you." Klaus shook his head.
"Yeah, about that. Something happened." Damon told him.
"Oh, I know all about my mother's indestructible little creation and that's why I'm here." Klaus grinned. "I'm leaving town, just need to pick up a few road trip necessities. Spare tire, flashlight, doppelg nger."
"Can't help you there." Damon scoffed as he clasped on Stefan's shoulder to pull him back and he shut the door on Klaus.
"Call Claire, with Alaric running around she needs to be safe." Stefan told his brother. Damon pulled out his phone and began to dial her number, after 5 rings he gave up.
"She's not answering." Damon began to panick. "Why isn't she answering?"
"Ok, calm down. I'm sure, she's still at the Boarding House... It was too early when I left." Stefan replied.
"Doesn't explain her phone!" Damon growled. "Where the hell is she, Stefan?"
"We need to stay calm, we'll figure out. I'm going to check on Elena." Stefan told him as he walked over to the stairs. "Elena." He called.
Klaus was pacing the porch of the Gilbert House, he saw a newspaper at the front door and picked it up.
"Where is she?" Stefan questioned as he walked into Alaric's old room to see Jeremy still painting.
"I don't know." Jeremy shrugged "She was just here a few minutes ago."
Stefan ran downstairs to see Damon trying to call Claire again, but it went straight to voice-mail.
"She's still not picking up?" Stefan looked at him.
"I swear to God, if something happens to her, I'll-"
"Hey, nothing is going to happen ok?" Stefan grabbed his shoulders. "I can't find Elena."
"What? She's missing too?" The dark-haired vampire creased his eyebrows.
"What's going on?" Bonnie questioned as she walked into the hall.
"Klaus wants in." Damon spoke as he looked through the blind to see Klaus pacing outside with a newspaper in his hands "We have to keep him out." Damon saw Klaus ready to throw the newspaper at the window. "Duck!" The newspaper smashed through the window and Damon ducked down and Stefan grabbed Bonnie making them duck.
At the school, Alaric was sitting on his desk looking over at Claire who was whimpering in pain and was struggling to continue conscious since the cloth was soaked with vervain and zophole.
"Right on time." Alaric mused as he heard Elena walk into the school, the doppelganger could hear the hybrid's whimpers and she followed the noise to stop at the history classroom.
"Claire." Elena whispered as she looked over at Alaric. "Let her go, Alaric!"
"Free her yourself." He pointed to the female hybrid, she hesitated for a few moments and then she ran over to her as she knelt down in front of her. She was about to pull out the pencils from her hand and suddenly she screamed in pain when Alaric slammed back into her hands. Elena looked up to see him standing there. "You said that you would let her go!"
"How many times do I have to tell you, Elena? Stop trusting vampires!" Alaric yelled at her.
Damon, Stefan, Bonnie and Jeremy were in the kitchen as the dark-haired vampire was still trying to get a hold of Claire.
"Elena's car is gone." Stefan informed them as he looked outside.
"Why wouldn't she tell anyone where she was going?" Bonnie questioned and suddenly a football came flying from the door, Damon turned to look at the door.
Klaus was holding two white pickets as he fired one, missing Damon's head, the picket hit the wall. Stefan grabbed the young witch and Jeremy and pulled them down.
"Missed me!" Damon called out as he pulled the picket from the wall and threw it back to Klaus, grazing over his shoulder. The hybrid snapped the picket in two and threw the other half to Damon and only this time it hit a picture making Damon duck. "Missed me again!" He taunted as Klaus was about to launch the last piece of picket.
Stefan's phone began to rang and he quickly pulled out to answer the phone "Alaric."
Klaus walked over to the Gilbert House again, holding a propane tank and a newspaper rolled up on fire.
"Put it out." Stefan ordered as he approached the door.
"Come outside and make me." Klaus told him and the younger Salvatore walked out of the house to stand in front of him.
"Elena's not here. Alaric has her and Claire and he's going to kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him." Stefan informed him in a fast tone, making the hybrid growl under his breath, not only he would loose his source to make hybrids but he would loose the woman that he loved.
He threw the newspaper and the propane tank to the ground, as he looked into the vampire's green eyes. "Now, I know you're not asking me to walk into a certain death."
"I really wish we could." Stefan narrowed his eyes. "But unfortunately, if Alaric kills you there's a one in four chance that we die too."
Damon walked over to them, holding one of the pickets over his shoulder. "I'll take those odds."
"And a hundred percent chance that Tyler dies." Stefan scoffed as he stared his brother down.
"I'm good with that too." Damon shrugged without a care in the world.
"Why don't we just figure out a way to put Alaric down?" Stefan suggested. As the vampires began to pace the porch, trying to find a solution.
"Ok, how about Damon sneaks in and distracts Alaric, while Stefan grabs Elena and I'll grab Claire." Klaus suggested.
"Huh, that's a great idea. What's to stop me from being killed instantly." Damon narrowed his eyes as he looked over at the hybrid.
"Nothing." Klaus shrugged.
"Now that would be just handy for you right? I would be out of the picture and then you would ride into the sunset with her." Damon growled as the two vampires stood in front of each other. "Just so you know, even if I did die she wouldn't go for you anyway."
"This isn't really helping too much." Stefan spoke up as he moved his brother away from the hybrid.
"I might have an idea. My mom used a desiccation spell on Mikael that immobilized him for over 15 years. If I can get it, I might be able to use it on Alaric." Bonnie announced as she walked over to the three vampires.
"If and might?" Klaus scoffed. "Your words inspire such confidence."
"I'll get it." Bonnie told him confidently. "But even with the spell, we'll need a lot of vampire muscle to take him down. Including yours."
"Just so we're clear, the sun sets in about eight hours." Klaus spoke up as he looked up to the sun. "If we don't succeed before then, Elena and Claire will be dead, I'll be gone, and the rest of you will be left to fend for yourself."
Alaric plunched the cloth into the globet full of vervain mixed with zophole as he looked over at Claire who was almost ready to pass out, he walked over to her with the cloth.
"No, no more, no, stop!" Claire whimpered in a raspy voice, he was about to put the cloth but Elena got up about to stop him but he pushed her back down.
"Sit down!" He growled. "This keeps the vervain and zophole in her system. It's like inhaling razor blades with every breath." Alaric explained her as he wrapped the cloth around Claire's mouth and knotted at the back of her head.
Claire cried as she felt the vervain and zophole burn her skin, making her weaker and weaker. She was fighting to keep conscious but was feeling her system shut down.
"Why are you doing this?" Elena cried as she looked over at the hybrid hopeless.
"To make it easier on you when you put her out of her misery." Alaric replied as he picked up the stake that could kill all vampires, even hybrids.
"What!?" Elena gasped as she shook her head. "No!"
"Isn't this what you wanted, Elena? For me to teach you how to kill a vampire?" He held the stake for her. "Well, here's a vampire, Elena. Kill her."
"This isn't what I wanted." Elena denied as she looked over at Claire.
"Of course it is." Alaric retorted. "All those hours you spent training, getting stronger, you could be a hunter, Elena. But you never actually staked a vampire through the heart."
Damon and Bonnie were in the Boarding House, waiting for Abby. As Bonnie was pacing the room and Damon was drinking himself into coma, trying to not think the worst that could happen to Claire.
"Well, this is promising..." Damon hissed as he looked over at the clock.
"Relax, Abby will be here." Bonnie told him.
"I'm sorry, I forgot about her stellar track record in the dependability department." Damon scoffed sarcastically and Bonnie shot him a look.
"Jamie said she was coming, ok. Just give her time." Bonnie sighed. Just then, the doorbel rang and the witch quickly walked over to the door.
"Don't get your hopes up. Might be a Girl Scout." Damon's voice was dripping with sarcasm.
Bonnie opened the door to reveal Abby standing outside, she sighed in relief to see that she actually showed up.
"Hello, Bonnie." Abby gave her a small smile.
"Thanks for coming." Bonnie nodded.
"Jamie's worried about you." Abby told her. "He said it was urgent. I just didn't think you'd ever want to see me again."
"Like Jamie said... It's urgent." Bonnie answered as she walked into the house and Abby followed her inside.
Klaus and Stefan was pulled up to the school and climbed out of the car. Stefan's phone buzzed and he pulled out to see a text from his brother saying that Abby arrived.
"Abby just showed up." Stefan informed the hybrid.
"Good. Perhaps this plan won't be an epic failure after all." Klaus mused as he leaned against the hood of his car. "You know, if this does go off and we drop the history teacher in the Atlantic, I'm still leaving with Elena."
"I'll go with you." Stefan nodded, he would follow Elena to everywhere if it meant that she would stay safe.
"Really? What's the catch?" Klaus questioned as he gave him a questionable look.
"There's no catch." Stefan shook his head, as he turned to face him. "I'd turn my back on everything here to make sure Elena's safe."
"Fair enough. This is why you and I have so much in common." Klaus smiled at him. "We would do absolutely everything for the woman that we love. I just wish Claire would see that."
"You know all this time and energy you spent trying to break Damon and Claire apart, it's actually had the opposite effect." Stefan told him firmly. "They will find their way back to each other."
"Has it?" Klaus chuckled. "Has it really? Like I said before to your brother, it's only a matter of time until she finally realizes who her true love is, in the meantime I'll let her have her fun with Damon, because what Claire and I shared is far more powerful that anyone could imagine."
"Why didn't I have to be invited in?" Abby questioned as she looked over at Bonnie who was sitting on the couch.
"Only vampires live here." Bonnie replied as Damon walked into the room with a glass of blood.
"We had signed the deed over to Elena, but she died." Damon explained her. "The seal broke, very long story." He held the glass of blood for her to take. "Blood?" She just stared at the glass. "Ah, come on. I think of it as a peace-offering." He smirked but she stood silent. "Fine. More for me." He sat next to Bonnie.
"We called you here because we need your help with a spell." Bonnie got up and walked over to her."Esther created a vampire that can't be killed. I want to desiccate him like you did to Mikael."
"Bonnie, it's too dangerous." Abby shook her head as she stared her down. "Your magic comes from the Earth. It's pure. This spell asks you to tap into dark places. Places of temptation, places you can't handle."
"You turned your back on me for sixteen years, you have no idea what I can handle." Bonnie retorted.
"Gotta say I'm Team Bonnie on this one." Damon held up his hand. "How hard can it be to parch a vampire?"
"The spell allows you to stop a vampire's heart." Abby spoke up. "The blood will stop flowing and the body will desiccated."
"That's exactly what we want to do." Bonnie nodded.
"To stop a vampire's heart, you need to find a balance among the living. Can you handle that?" Abby countered.
"What?" Damon looked at them completely confused. "What does that mean? Bonnie, I don't speak witch."
"I have to stop a human heart."
Back at the classroom, Claire was still holding up together the best she could as Elena sat next to her and Alaric was pacing the room.
"Why are you doing this?" Elena spoke up.
"Because you need me." Alaric told her. "Because you're an 18 year old girl without parents or guidance or any sense of right and wrong anymore."
"Look at you. How is this right!?" Elena growled as she looked over at Claire.
"She's a murderer." Alaric pointed the stake to her, and her heard skipped a beat when she saw the stake so close to her. "She took away so many lifes, because she could and she liked it. Now how is that right? Listen, Elena, you parents led the council. It was their life's mission to keep this town safe. They weren't dead six months before you undid it all."
"You don't know anything about them!" Elena gritted her teeth.
"Why, am I wrong?" Alaric retorted. "Do you actually think that they'd be proud of you?" He knelt in front of her. "If you don't side with the humans, you're just as bad as them. Now kill her." Alaric roared as he handed her the stake. "Or I'll do it for you and I'll make it hurt." When she didn't move, he grabbed her wrist to make her stand in front of Claire. "Get up!"
Elena looked into Claire's pleading blue eyes, she quickly turned around about to stake him but he grabbed her hand before she could do it.
"I thought I taught you better than that." Alaric smirked.
"You did." Elena nodded and with her other hand she grabbed the goblet with vervain and spilled it over Alaric's face, he screamed in pain letting her go. She quickly walked over to Claire's desk and removed the cloth from her mouth and the pencils from her hands. "Get help!" Elena ordered and Claire sped off of the room, Elena went to follow her but Alaric stood in front of her blocking the exit.
Claire was running through the hallway, when she stoped and didn't see Elena behind her. The female hybrid was about to turn back to save her, she couldn't let her with Alaric after what she did to save her, she owed the doppelganger that much. But suddenly she was grabbed by a pair of strong arms and she felt a hand covering her mouth.
"Shh." A British voice soothed her. "It's ok. It's ok. It's me." She calmed down a little when she realized that it was Klaus. "It's ok. You're safe. We'll save Elena. You go straight to Elena's house, you stay inside and do not come out, do you understand?" He turned her around so she could face him.
She nodded weakly, staring into his coloured mixed eyes as he stroked her burnt cheek. "Thank you." She whispered as she gave him a thankful smile and he zipped down to the hallway and she sped out of the school.
Alaric threw Elena against the lockers and held her by her throat. "I should kill you." He growled. "I should gut you like Brian Walters, Bill Forbes, and all the other cowards I plan on ripping apart. You're the worst offender of them all, Elena. You don't deserve to live."
"So then, why am I still alive?" She gasped. "There's obviously no humanity left in you, so what's stopping you, Alaric? If you want me dead then kill me!" His face began to change to his vampire features. "Do it! Kill me!" His face turned back to human and he let go of her throat as she tried to catch her breath. Suddenly he was grabbed by both Stefan and Damon.
"Do it now!" Damon called but Alaric was way stronger than them, he threw them away from him. He broke Stefan's spine knocking him out. Damon went for him but the vampire hunter snapped both his wrist and neck as he fell to the ground temporarily dead.
Klaus quickly rushed over to him and shoved his hand into Alaric's chest to build the connection for Bonnie's spell.
Bonnie and Jeremy were in the woods, the human boy was laying on his back as Bonnie was knelt beside him.
"They made contact." Bonnie told Jeremy. "It's happening." She put her hands on Jeremy's chest as she began to chant the spell.
Alaric pulled Klaus's hand from his chest and threw him agaisnt the hallway as he went to grab the stake.
Bonnie stopped the spell when she felt that the connection was gone, she looked down at the human boy.
"What's wrong?" Jeremy questioned.
"Something happened, the connection broke." Bonnie answered.
Elena opened her eyes, she looked around the room confused. When she saw a nurse pushing a needle into her arm to draw blood for the bloodbag.
"Be careful." The nurse cooed. "Moving only makes it hurt more."
"What are you doing?" Elena questioned weakly as the nurse walked away, she saw Klaus sitting on a couch.
"Draining you of all your blood." Klaus told her, the doppelganger tried to move but she was tied to the chair. Tyler walked into the room with a box in his hands and he stopped when he saw Elena.
"Elena?" He questioned confused.
"Tyler, help me." Elena begged, he dropped the box and ran over to her.
"He can't." Klaus announced as the younger hybrid stopped dead in his tracks. "He needs to go fetch me more empty blood bags. About three litres worth, please Tyler."
"Tyler, please. Get Stefan, please." Elena pleaded as Tyler looked at her hopeless.
"No, Tyler, get the bags." Klaus hissed, he hesitated for a few moments then he went to sped over to her but Klaus stood in front of him. "Forget the girl and get the bags. Now." Tyler shot a look full of sorrow to Elena and walked out of the room.
"So, that's it? You're just gonna bleed me dry?" Elena questioned as Klaus walked around her.
"Yes, but don't worry, it'll be completely painless. As the last drop is drawn, you'll simply fall asleep." Klaus told her with a sick smirk.
Back at the school, Damon's phone was vibrating and began to wake up and went to reach for his phone. "Why am I still alive?" Then he felt a presence hovering over him.
"Get up." Alaric ordered as Stefan began to wake up too. "I said, get up. Klaus is going to kill Elena."
"What are you talking about?" Stefan scoffed as he and Damon stood up. "Klaus needs Elena's blood to make hybrids. She's the last person that he'd kill."
"The witch bounded my life to Elena's. If she dies, I die." Alaric informed them. "Klaus figured that out and now he's taken her. Now, I'm trapped here until the sun does down, so you two better get going." He walked between the two brother shouldering them.
The nurse walked into the room so she could switched one of Elena's bags with an empty one. She was fading fast as she felt herself weaker, becoming pale.
"What about your hybrids?" Elena looked over at him. "You'll need more than this to create your army." The hybrid grabbed one of the bags from the nurse.
"These last few litres will have to suffice." Klaus replied as he looked down at the bag. "You see, by attempting to kill us, my mother strengthened the bond between my siblings and I." He lied. "I don't need hybrids. I have my family."
"If you believe that, then why take my blood at all?" She narrowed her eyes. "You want a backup family. You know that your siblings will never trust you again."
"You know Stefan blames me for tearing Claire and Damon apart. But I would say that someone had a part on that too." He smirked as he referred to Elena.
"I learned from my mistake. Claire and Damon belong to each other and I blame myself everyday from being one of the reasons to why they aren't together anymore." She growled. "But you... You completely destroyed their relantionship, just because you can't stand the fact that she will always love Damon more than you."
"Are you sure it's entirely my fault? I wasn't the one who forced Damon to sleep with my sister or when he didn't believe her when she saved me to save him as well." Klaus smirked. "And that's the thing I would never do that to her, because I love her that much."
"You don't know what love is. Someone like you should rot in hell." Elena hissed and he nodded his head chuckling.
"You're welcome. Sweet dreams, Elena. It's been fun." He walked from the room.
Elena was struggling against the ropes when Tyler walked into the room as quietly he could before Klaus could show up. He walked over to her chair and began to pull out the ropes.
"What are you doing?" Elena rasped.
"Shh." He sushed her before the hybrid could hear anything. The doppelganger's eyes widened when she looked over at Tyler's shoulder.
"Tyler..." He turned around to see Klaus standing in the doorway with a deathly look on his face.
"So much for that sire bond." Klaus scoffed.
"I'm not your little bitch anymore." Tyler spat as Klaus smirked and walked further into the room.
"How did you break the sire bond?" Klaus questioned.
"By breaking ever bone in my body a hundred times for the girl I love." Tyler told him.
"That's impossible." Klaus hissed.
"Is it?" Tyler retorted as he walked closer to him. "Or maybe real love is stronger than fake loyalty. But what would you know about that?"
"You know, you should be thanking me. I gave you a gift. I took away your misery." Klaus countered.
"You didn't give a crap about me!" Tyler yelled. "You just didn't want to be alone!" He turned so he could help Elena stand up. "Come on."
Klaus zipped over to them and shoved Elena out of the way as she hit her head and Klaus grabbed Tyler's throat. "Goodbye, Tyler." He was about to pull his heart out but suddenly Tyler twisted his arm and Stefan and Damon ran into the room, the younger Salvatore grabbed his arms as Damon shoved his hand into his chest to make the connection that Bonnie needed. Just then they heard footsteps approaching them and they all turned to see Claire standing on the doorway shocked.
Bonnie began to chant the spell again, putting her hands on Jeremy's chest again. When the human boy 'died' in front of her, she felt black veins creeping into her face.
Klaus's skin began to desiccate as he looked over at Damon's shoulder to see Claire standing there with a hopeless face. The man who once destroyed her life, who transformed her into a monster was about to disappear and all will be over. But they weren't only imobilizing the evil hybrid who once took everything away from her, they were imobilizing the man that she still had feelings for. He looked over at her and mouthed 'I'm sorry' and she felt tears welling up in her eyes.
Stefan stepped away from them so he could walk over to Elena "Are you ok?" Stefan questioned as he helped her stand up. "Come on."
When she finished the spell, she looked down at Jeremy's body and saw that he was still unconscious, she began to chant so she could revive him again but nothing was working, then she began to shake his body.
"Oh my God! Jeremy!" She cried. "Jeremy! Jeremy!" Suddenly he gasped and sat upright, Bonnie grabbed him and pressed her forehead against his.
When Klaus was fully desiccated, Damon removed his han from his chest and Tyler layed him on the floor carefully, then the eldest Salvatore turned to his brother.
"We should get her home before the sun sets." Damon spoke as Stefan led Elena out of the room and Tyler followed them, Claire continued to stand in the doorway as she stared Klaus's body down. Damon looked one last time at the body, then he turned to Claire who had tears in her eyes. He walked over to her and placed his hands on her face.
"He's gone for good. And he's not coming back, I know you have feelings for him but he was a threat to everyone, and he was about to kill Elena. So, we took the chance to finish him off with Bonnie's help. Can you understand that?" He stared at her, it hurt. A lot. It hurt that he had to share the heart of the woman that he loves with another man, he didn't want to believe that the feelings she had for him could be that serious.
"I understand."
Stefan drove Elena back to her house as Damon led Claire to the Boarding House, the atmosphere was tense between them. They walked into the mansion and Claire went to sit on the couch as Damon walked towards the stairs.
"I know it's selfish." She blurted out. He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her confused. "I know I don't deserve you, because after all the shit I put you through, you still love me and I know that it seems that I'm stringing you along but I can't loose you Damon, as selfish as that sounds... Just the thought of you quitting me it pains me-"
"I can't quit you." He snapped. "Don't you get it? I could never quit you, I mean I want to but I just can't."
She knew that, she always did. And she felt like a selfish bitch who had two men fighting for her affections and she couldn't make a decision already, and today seeing Klaus out of her life probably forever... She never thought that she would feel so upset about it.
"It's, uh, it's been a long day." He sighed. "You need to rest and drink a blood bag, I'll call you when we dump Klaus's body in the Atlantic."
She nodded her head, Klaus was finally out of her life, the thought once made her feel happy and at peace, and now... Not so much, was she that screwed up to the point that she was having feelings for the man who destroyed her? She always believed that you don't destroy the person that you love, but in some way they say that you find love in places that you never thought of finding.
"Be careful." She told him. "Alaric is still on the loose, and you and Stefan need to be careful."
"We won't be able to find us." Damon replied firmly. He walked towards the front door and walked out of the house without another word.
At the Lockwood Mansion, Carol walked over to the door to let Sheriff Forbes in, the Mayor had a serious expression on her face.
"Carol, what is so urgent that you called an emergency council meeting at this house?" Liz questioned as she walked into the mansion.
"I didn't call the meeting, Liz." Carol replied as they walked into the living-room to see Alaric with the council. "He did."
"Join us, Sheriff." Alaric looked over at the two women. "I was just telling the council about our vampire problem. Or should I say your problem."
"What do you think you're doing?" Liz hissed.
"Well, perhaps you and the Mayor can enlighten the group on the strides you've taken to eliminate the issue. Oh, that's right, you haven't." He chuckled sarcastically. "You see the Sheriff, a woman we elected to keep our families safe and town secure, has a vampire for a daughter." The council members all looked over at the Sheriff shocked. "And our lovely Mayor, a son who is half vampire, half werewolf."
"Why are you doing this?" Caroline growled at him.
"These woman are hypocrites. They claim to spearhead our defence against the supernatural presence, then cover up the violent attacks committed by their children." Alaric informed the members.
"That's enough!" Liz scowled. "We're done here, It's time to go." She turned to leave but Alaric zipped to stand in front of her.
"Sit down, Liz. We're just getting started." Alaric smirked.
Stefan was driving Klaus's car with the coffin where the Original was in, as Damon turned to pat the coffin affectionately, then he smiled over at Stefan.
"What?" Stefan questioned.
"How many desiccated hybrids does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Damon joked.
"You're in a good mood." The younger Salvatore noted.
"Yeah I'm in a good mood." Damon nodded. "Klaus is dead, my brother is half way sane, again. Things between me and Claire may not be great, but at least without that crazy hybrid, there is a chance that things may be go back to normal. Give or take an immortal hunter who wants to kill us, we won, Stefan. Come on say it. Say it." He smiled over at his brother.
"We won." Stefan replied firmly.
"Once more with feeling." Damon pressed.
"We won!" He replied more loudly as he looked over at his older brother.
"Thank you!" The dark-haired vampire smirked.
"You know what? Thank you." Stefan glanced over at him. "Turns out, we make a pretty good team, huh?"
"It took a century and half." Damon noted.
"So, what happens now between you and Claire?" The green-eyed vampire questioned.
"Well, whatever is supposed to happen it will happen... She has feelings for him, there is nothing I can do about it. She knows where I stand and now it's up to her to make a decision." He answered. "You and Elena?"
"I feel like things are getting to the way they were before and we are working on our relantionship." Stefan nodded.
"Well, at least one of us gets the girl in the end." Damon smirked. Stefan moved his attention from the road to look at his brother.
"She loves you. She's just confused right now because of Klaus, but you're the one who she loves." Stefan told him firmly. The brothers stood in silence for a while, then Damon was the first to break the silence.
"All this over two girls uh?" He chuckled.
"They are two pretty special girls." Stefan muttured.
"Yes, they are."
Jeremy was still painting Alaric's room as Elena walked over to the room and stood in the doorway. "Hey. Everyone gone?"
"It's just us." Elena nodded.
"I hate this room." Jeremy told her.
"Me too." Elena sighed. "Mom and Dad were right. Alaric should have just killed all the vampires and put an end to all of this. But then that means, Caroline dies and Bonnie loses her mom, the mayor loses her son, and I lose Stefan and Claire and Damon lose each other." Elena paused for a moment. "So, if it makes me the bad guy for wanting to keep those people alive, then fine, I'll be the bad guy."
"You forget that Alaric never wanted any of this. Once he carries out his plans, what if he decides he doesn't want to live anymore and he kills his human connection to end his life? That would mean I would lose you. I'm not going to let that happen." Jeremy replied in a firm tone. "I'm going to go shower and get some sleep. Goodnight, Elena."
Elena grabbed the paintbrush so she could continue to paint the room, suddenly she felt a pain in her head and she fell to the floor unconscious with her nose bleeding.
Klaus is gone! For now ;), anyway when he was about to be disaccated what do you think he was sorry about? And Claire was upset when she saw him, poor girl she's getting really confused about her feelings for the two handsome vampires :o, but in the next chapter it's going to the moment that some of you were waiting for ;)
In the next chapter, things are going to change for Claire when she makes a decision to save everyone from Alaric and when I say changes, I say consequences, you'll understand better in the next story when season 4 premiers! Thank you so much for reviews, you guys are really out of this world. I love you :')
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