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Chapter 24:

"So this is where you've been hiding all week?" Marcus asked.

Callie rolled her eyes and looked over her shoulder briefly, but stayed put at the shore of the river she'd found deep inside the woods. She had heard the sound of the waterfall, so she went to the beautiful waterfall and found herself staying there for longer time than she'd planned.

"And here I thought you liked being alive…" she said.

Marcus snorted and sat down beside her. "Callie, I know that the real you is still somewhere in there and I'm not leaving before I get her out."

Callie looked at him and smirked. "You must really be damn foolish if you think there's anything to save. Your ex-wife is dead. Get over with it and just move on. Seeing you sticking around and trying to 'help' is just getting pathetic now."

"Ouch! Sorry, but that's just not good enough. I'm staying and you can't do anything to stop me."

She suddenly stood up and was about to leave, so he followed her and grabbed her arm, making her instinctively kick him so hard in his stomach that he flew into the water with a big splash. She grinned of the sight and left the place without looking back once.

"Freya, stop!" someone suddenly said.

Callie stopped walking abruptly when she heard it and for a moment she thought that she'd heard wrong, until she heard the voice say her name again.

"My dear Freya, please do not leave."

She turned slowly around and found herself standing face to face with her own mother, who was able to show herself thanked to a female witch Marcus knew. Marcus, on the other hand, stood beside the witch and tried squeezing the water out of his clothes.

"That's a low blow even for you, Marcus. You think me seeing her, will change how I am?" Callie said coldly.

"Actually, yes. And if not your mother, then I'll try waking up your father or hell – I'll even go find that crazy grandfather of yours if that's what it takes!" Marcus said.

Callie was not pleased about this, but when she looked at the worried look in her mother's face she couldn't help but feel a faint twinge in her heart.

"You're wasting your time, Mother. Move on or go haunt someone else." she said.

"And watch you turn into this cold-hearted and dishonouring version of yourself! I will not! You hear me, Freya? I love you and so does your father. You think he would want to see you like this?" Serena asked.

Callie snorted. "It doesn't matter what you or my father feel and want from me… You are dead, Mother. So is my oh-so-honourable father. The only person I trust and will obey is Klaus. He accepts that I'm a monster and will help me kill the man who took away the life I should've had."

Serena sighed heavily and was about to say something, but Callie was tired of listening to her and swiftly ripped the witch's heart out, making Serena disappear again before them.

"Like I said. You're damn foolish, Marcus, and nothing you can do will change my mind."

Marcus' shocked facial expression disappeared and he smirked instead. "Well, then it's a good thing I contacted you grandfather. He's actually in town as we speak, talking with Damon and Stefan at a bar not that far away. I–"

Callie left before he could finish and went to the bar Marcus was referring to. If he truly was telling the truth about Mikael being in town, then she had to warn Klaus and stop Mikael for him.

She sent Klaus a text about it before she went inside, but when she entered the bar she stopped dead in her tracks at the sight of her grandfather. She recognized him immediately from the pictures she'd seen and from what her father had told her about him.

Mikael was in fact talking with Damon and Stefan, but he didn't look like he was doing it because he wanted to or because he liked them. He was doing it so he could find Klaus and kill him and Callie couldn't have that.

"Meet me at the back entrance alone." she said, knowing that he would hear her.

He looked up at her briefly and as he did she left the bar again and went to the back entrance. She was anxious about meeting him, because this was the same man, who had compelled her mother to leave the village when he found out she was carrying his son's child.

"I did wonder when you were going to show up," Mikael said as he joined her in the dark alley. "Did you ever find my dear son then?"

Callie said nothing and merely looked at him with so much hatred and anger in her eyes. She wanted to rip his heart out, but she knew that it would be foolish of her to attack first. He was after all the first vampire ever created and the oldest.

"The older Salvatore said that Klaus made you turn your emotions off… so you would work for him and betray the ones you love. Is that true?"

She snorted. "And why would you care about that? You're only here to kill Klaus." she said coldly.

Mikael smirked a little. "You may have been a disgrace to me back then, but I have realized that what I did was wrong. You are still my granddaughter and therefore I will not let Klaus turn you against your own father like he turned his siblings against me."

Callie laughed darkly. "Pathetic old man… I don't need you respect, apologies or love. I only live to serve Klaus and hope that he will succeed in killing you, for you truly deserve to die."

She flashed her fangs at him and prepared herself for a fight, but Mikael didn't move one inch. He just looked at her with a sad look in her eyes that she never expected to see. From all the things she heard about him, then Mikael never regretted anything he did and he was never sad.

"You want to fight your own grandfather? Kill me for sending your mother away when I in reality saved her from all the chaos in my family?" he asked.

"You didn't save her from anything! You just ruined her life and mine too! I spent 1000 years searching for my father! 1000! I blame you for that and only you!" Callie snarled.

Mikael held his arms out, baring his chest to her. "Fine, then do it. Kill me. Take your revenge and become like that bastard of an uncle you have!"

Callie lost control and attacked him, quickly moving up behind him when he thought that she would attack his front and went to penetrate his back with her hand, but he turned around.

Mikael grabbed her hand, twisted it around to her back and slammed her hard against a wall with such strength that she felt her jaw break at the impact with the wall.

It healed up again, but when she turned around to face Mikael, she spotted Damon next to him along with Stefan. She flashed her fangs warningly at them and tried breaking free of Mikael's iron grip, but she couldn't.

"What are you waiting for? Kill me if you want to! I don't care." she said.

"Kill my only grandchild? I am no monster, child." Mikael said.

Callie scoffed. "No monster? You killed your own children and turned them into vampires! You are a monster and frankly, I understand why Esther cheated on you."

Something inside Mikael snapped and he slapped her hard across her face. Her bottom lip broke, but she didn't care. Him doing this only made her want to kill him even more.

"I should punish you for being disrespectful towards me, but I will not. Instead I will teach you a lesson and help the Salvatores fixing you." Mikael said.

Callie frowned, but when she understood what he meant it was too late. He broke her neck and picked her limp body up into his arms, then handed her to Damon.

"I have done the first part of our deal, now do your part." he said.

"Oh, we will. Just don't screw up your second part of our deal." Damon said.

Mikael raised an eyebrow, but said nothing. He brushed a lock of her dark blonde hair out of her face and looked at her for a moment before leaving her literally in the hands of the Salvatores.

"She's 1000 years old, Damon. If you can't fix me, then I hardly believe you can fix her." Stefan said.

"I don't need to fix her, brother. I just need to stay out of our way for now, so we can kill Klaus." Damon said.

The pair returned to the boarding house and as Rebekah saw who they were carrying, she didn't look angry but more relived. She'd heard and seen how her niece had changed and couldn't take it anymore – not that she was going to admit that, of course.

"What are you going to do to her? Torture her until she feels something?" she asked.

"That's none of your business, Barbie. Go annoy Stefan or something instead." Damon snapped.

Rebekah rolled her eyes, but went to see Stefan who'd already left the house. She pouted and went back to the living room, while Damon placed Callie on the floor of the basement's cells. It saddened him to see her like this, but until he'd killed Klaus there was nothing he could do.

"I know it hurts, but I've seen her at her worse and this… this is just her warming up. We need to keep her here." Marcus said, standing at the doorway.

"That I actually believe, but how are we even going to keep her in here? Vervain doesn't do much on her anymore." Damon said, turning to him.

"Well, I tried reminding her about her mother's love for her and you tried yours, so there's only one thing left that can make her feel something."

Damon raised an eyebrow. "And who is that? Mikael?"

Marcus shook his head. "Partly, yes. But I was more thinking about Elijah. He is her father and she didn't spend 1000 years trying to find him for nothing."

"But we can't get to Elijah. He's locked up somewhere and daggered last I checked."

"Then we'll just continue trying to change that. But for now we let Mikael try. She's still terrified of him underneath that façade she puts on. She's never told it to anyone, but she's so scared of him and feared that he'll take her father away from her again once she found him."

Damon sighed heavily and looked down at Callie again. "Fine. But if that man tortures her…"

"I promise I won't let him. You go focus on Klaus and then I'll make sure she stays here."

He nodded and left the room, while Marcus stayed behind. Marcus grabbed a couple of chains soaked with vervain that he used to tying Callie up with despite it burned him badly and once she was tied up, he called Mikael to let him know that she was ready for him.

"Remember – don't hurt her. I don't want her to suffer because of something Klaus did to her," Marcus said when Mikael arrived. "I'll be right outside if you need anything."

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