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AN/ what's your guys opinions on legacies?
Klaus was staring at his phone in confusion. When Caroline had warned them that the Salvatore crew was going to be trying to kill them (again) he had not expected then to receive a phone call from his old mate Stefan. Yet here he was, staring at his phone as it rang, undecided as to whether or not he should take the call.
"Holy crap Nik just pick up the damn phone already?" Rebekah called, irritated by the ringing, Nik rolled his eyes, but doing as she said answered the call.
"Stefan?" He asked, ignoring Rebekah's glance of confusion,
"Finally. Took you long enough. We have a problem." Stefan replied, urgency and impatience evident in his tone,
"Elaborate." Nik drawled out,
"It's Elena, her and Caroline have been taken by Alaric Saltzman, who your mother turned into a vampire who's even more powerful than you. She's been captured in the high school, and if you want your precious hybrid maker to survive, then you're going to help us get her out." He demanded,
"What do you want me to do?" He asked, Stefan had indeed captured his attention, but not for the reasons the younger Salvatore brother presumed, he cared more for his fiancee than the hybrid blood bank.
Klaus hadn't survived a thousand years running from Mikael and avoiding hundreds of plots to kill him, because he was dumb. No he was far more intelligent than that. He knew that this was likely a trap, especially because of the information Caroline had given them. So he definitely wasn't walking to the porch of the Gilbert house unprepared. Rebekah was watching from afar, even with a trap there was no way they could overpower two originals. Rebekah also had the added interest of wanting to know if Caroline was okay.
"Stefan, Damon." Klaus called, purposely lacing arrogance into his voice. "What an honour." He gritted. "What's your plan?"
"I will use a dessication spell, like my mum did to Mikael." Bonnie interrupted from the safety of the house, "All you need to do is get him here."
"All we need to do is get a vampire who's supposedly created by my mother to kill me and my siblings here. Easy." Klaus snarked, refraining himself from rolling his eyes at the Bennett witch.
"Just get it done." Bonnie snarled back, her anger at the original a permanent feature. "Otherwise there'll be no more hybrids, and you'll be all alone. Forever."
Ironic that Bonnie thought that Elena was the one he wanted - or needed - to save, the one who without whom he'd be alone forever, when in reality it was the blonde who'd been captured, and that it was the blonde and not the brunette that without whom he'd be alone.
He'd just found her, after a thousand years, he'd just found her. No way in hell was he about to lose her again, no matter the cost.
"Are you going to take her away?" Stefan asked quietly, causing Klaus to send a curious glance towards him,
"What?"
"I know at one point you were considering taking her away to Atlanta or something." It was odd, hearing the ripper sound so timid,
"You really do love her don't you?" He asked, obviously already knowing the answer to be true.
"You ever had someone? Someone who you'd do anything for? Someone you'd die for?" Stefan asked Klaus, unaware that that was what he was doing right now, Klaus smiled slightly looking down. "What happened?" Stefan asked curiously interpreting Klaus' reaction as confirmation.
"It was a long time ago, I was still mortal at that point. She was my fiancee and she died." He replied shortly, this story of course would have been the truth two weeks ago. Now it was a lie, because now his fiancee was in the building they were running towards.
"Sorry." Stefan murmured, confusing Klaus with the sympathy and compassion in his voice, almost making him forget that this was the vampire who was plotting to kill him.
"They're in Ric's classroom." Bonnie called, approaching the duo with Damon who was staring skeptically at Klaus. "Second floor," she added, directing it at Klaus who was the only one who didn't know based on that brief description.
"We all understand the plan, yes?" Damon began, "We get Elena, and we get out of there."
"Don't forget Caroline." Stefan intervened, glaring at his brother who simply smirked in response,
"As if I could forget my favourite barbie, sorry Rebekah." Damon raised a mischievous eyebrow towards Klaus who forced a laugh in response, despite internally thinking about the different ways he could gut Damon.
"Let's just go." Stefan cut in impatiently, speeding into the building, Klaus quickly followed,
"What? We not going to do hands in?" Damon grumbled, before following the two.
Inside the building, as per the plan they split up, Stefan taking a direct approach to free Elena and Caroline whilst Damon and Klaus distracted Alaric. However as Klaus approached the corridor he spotted a certain blonde.
"Shh, shh it's okay, you're safe, I'm here." He reassured in a hush voice gently removing his hand from her mouth,
"Nik." She sighed in relief, leaning into his chest for comfort, "Thank god you're here."
"Always." He murmured, "Come on let's get out of here before your evil history teacher/vampire hunter/vampire, comes and kills us." Nik said, feeling rewarded when Caroline let out a weak laugh, gently holding onto there he sped her out of there.
"Bonnie!" Caroline exclaimed as they got outside, exhaling another relieved weak laugh as she hugged her best friend, Klaus awkwardly looking on unsure of what to do.
"Thank god you're safe." Bonnie whispered, sending a curious but grateful glance towards the hybrid. As she pulled out of the hug she looked at him, addressing him directly, "You should go back inside to help." She demanded, but Nik just sent a quick glance to Caroline and shook his head.
"Should you not be stopping Jeremy's heart?" He asked, "There's no point in me being in there if you mess up your magic spell to save the day." He snarked, ignoring the look Caroline sent him.
"You want to make more hybrids then you'll save Elena." She warned him,
"That's not why I went on this rescue mission," He whispered, quiet enough that Bonnie couldn't hear him, but loud enough that Caroline's supernatural hearing could.
"What?" Bonnie asked curiously, wondering what the hybrid had just said, but Klaus simply shook his head,
"Doesn't matter. I'm not going in there and risking my life for Elena Gilbert."
"The almighty powerful original, scared of dying?"
"I have everything I want, why would I risk what I have."
"So you no longer want to make hybrid armies so you don't feel alone?" Bonnie retorted, growing impatient and worried at Klaus change of heart.
"I'm not alone." He replied simply, ignoring the strong urge to look at Caroline, or take her hand in his. Caroline however didn't resist the urge, instead staring at him openly, eyes wide and searching, a hint of a smile on her lips.
"You have to go back. You are connected to me by blood." Bonnie ordered him,
"You kill me then everyone here dies."
"There are ways to make you do something without killing you." Bonnie replied growing in anger,
"Bonnie!" Caroline exclaimed, sending her an incredulous look which the witch only returned,
"Look Caroline, I get that you've been time travelling or whatever so you may have missed the part when Klaus Mikaelson is an evil, serial killer who killed Elena's aunt and made Stefan a ripper, but-"
"Who's fault was that?" Caroline replied, her eyes flashing dangerously,
"Care, I'm sorry-"
"I'm not." Caroline interrupted quickly, "You know what, I don't regret letting you test that stupid spell on me, I don't. Because if you hadn't I'd have never gotten to live that life, and if I could, I would go back in a heartbeat." She paused, glancing at Nik, "I would, I- I wish I could go back. But I died. The day before I was meant to get married! I died. For the second time." A tear slipped down her face, and she glanced at Nik who'd edged closer to her, his finger subtly brushing against hers. "So sure, yes I might not have been there, but I still understand right and wrong. Torturing him is not right Bonnie. Torturing him just makes you in the wrong." Caroline turned her head slightly, as if she was about to walk away,
"Care, Elena's still in there, and Alaric is still in there, and when night comes Alaric can come out and hunt you down all over again. You won't be safe, - we won't be safe unless we take him down now."
"You think the girl who's just been tortured can help you take down a vampire who was made to be more powerful than an original?" Nik shook his head, "No way is she going back in there, that would be a death sentence."
"Since when do you care?" Bonnie retorted, "That wasn't what I was suggesting anyway."
"Really." Nik said, slowly advancing on the witch, "Then what were you suggesting."
"You. Go. Help." Bonnie answered shortly. Klaus stopped in his advancements, turning to face Caroline, silently asking her the question, she shook her head,
"I don't want to lose you." She whispered, making sure Bonnie couldn't hear her, "I'd break. I can't, I can't lose you." She paused, "I don't want them to die, but if they died I could survive, if you died. I would die."
"If I don't go in, they will die, and then where will Alaric come." Nik paused, still undecided.
"He will go into your home and kill you. Then every single one of your sire line will die. Then he will go and kill your brothers and your sister. Every single vampire will be wiped from existence." Bonnie intervened, aware that the opportunity was running short.
All it took was one look into Caroline's eyes. Moist from tears, yet still Nik could see a future within them, a future that could be ripped away from him which ever decision he made, yet somehow he knew, this was their best opportunity. With that final thought, his back towards Bonnie he mouthed three words, before speeding into the high school once again.