~ I almost got this up yesterday, but I wanted to make sure the end of this chapter was just the way I wanted. Hopefully the confrontation will be worth the wait for those that have been waiting for it. :) And plus I've gotten addicted to Plants V.S Zombies... lol

~ There is some Damon's POV in this chapter, but it may not be the best compared to the other times that I've done his POV. Hopefully you will like this chapter, especially with the confrontation :)

Anna.B: I use some small random ideas, but just not all of them. I think it just depends on what I have planned for the chapter and if I think it might fit or not. But they do give me some ideas on other little things. I can't even see myself abandoning this story, especially with what I have planned *insert evil face here* The confrontation between Chelsea and Elena is something I didn't originally have planned but it definitely fits with the end that I'm going with for this episode :) Since the Bennetts are descendants of Qetsiyah and Silas is potentially manipulating Bonnie (because she's a Bennett) to bring down the veil of other side, then maybe Silas might do a little of that to Chelsea, I don't know yet, but it's just an idea right now. It might be a little more than a snip-it of Damon's POV because of where I want to put it, so hopefully it's longer than the dream from the last chapter. The part of Chelsea stopping Klaus from biting Caroline but he bites her instead is actually a good idea. It would sort of change what I had planned for the next episode, but I think that idea would be better, lol. We'll just have to see :) Without spoiling too much, I can say that Chelsea is going to have a break from Klaus and Damon (relationship wise) but still have interactions with them after the chapter (or chapters) for Stand By Me. I'm not sure if Chelsea would pursue other people, but other activities, like for Bring It On she might get pulled into, which would be a distraction for her :)

ENJOY!

Chelsea's POV

After a little while, I sat in the cell with Damon, but on the floor. There wasn't anywhere to sit besides Damon's little cot, I didn't mind the floor. Klaus was standing inside the cell with us, with the door open. I knew that every time Damon looked over at me, Klaus was watching him.
"You know, none of this would be an issue if you'd have just done your job properly." Klaus said to Damon, breaking the silence. "I was perfectly willing to let you train Jeremy."
"No, you weren't." I said, which made the both of them look at me.
"You got there day two." Damon said to Klaus. "Do you know how hard it is to get these Xbox brains to focus?"
"Hey." I said, which got both of their attention again. "I have a Xbox brain to."
"Yours isn't as bad as theirs." Damon said, meaning Matt and Jeremy's.
"When I turned a room full of barflies into vampires for him to slaughter, you let Kol kill them." Klaus said, changing the subject. I moved, feeling slightly awkward. If Damon remembered, I knew he might have told Klaus that I helped Kol murder the vampires that he had created. 'Maybe I could just tell him after everything is solved.' I thought, not wanting to deal with Klaus's wrath at the moment.
"Your brother problem, not mine, buddy." Damon said before looking at me. I knew I told him that I was there, but not that I helped Kol.
"And whose bright idea was it to saddle Jeremy with a conscience, hmm?" Klaus asked Damon as he paced.
"Well, we couldn't have him trying to stake Elena in her sleep, now, could we?"
"Ah, yes, for the love of Elena." I rolled my eyes. Looking back I knew that Damon did care for Elena but without feelings for him, I could see clearly. Whatever feelings I had for him were gone because of the compulsion, so I wasn't blinded by them, if I was before. Damon clearly loves her and I know he told me that, but then he also told me he loved me. 'Maybe his feelings for Elena grew' I thought to myself. I noticed that Damon was looking at me as I thought about what his true feelings for Elena could be. "How is it that she manages to overlook every horrific thing you've ever done? Is it willful ignorance or perhaps something more pathological?"
"I've forgiven him for most of the things he's done." I honestly said to Klaus. "And maybe even killing me." I looked from Klaus to Damon. There was some hope in his eyes that I had seen in Klaus's earlier.
"Some people are just more capable of forgiveness than others." Damon said to Klaus after looking at me. "Bet you score about a negative 500 in that realm."
"Come on. There must be a secret. It can't just be the sire bond. What is it?" Klaus was slightly pacing, but not as much as he was before. "Compulsion? Manipulation?" When Damon didn't answer, Klaus stopped and looked at him. "What is it you say to her?" Damon stopped paying with the little rock in his hand and slowly moved into a sitting position.
"I think this has something to do with a certain blonde hybrid." I looked at Damon and our eyes connected before he looked back at Klaus. "I think when you dagger Kol, there's a chance that Chelsea might come back to me. Do you really think that I'd help you get with my girlfriend?" I looked from Damon to Klaus. "Especially after you killed Carol Lockwood?"
"You've done worse."
"Debatable." 'That's probably true' I thought before he started to speak again. "See, I don't mind being the bad guy, because somebody has to fill that role and get things done. You do bad things for no reason." Damon's eyes flickered to mine. "You do them to be a dick."
"Debatable."
"If you're gonna be bad, be bad with a purpose." Damon said after shrugging. "Otherwise, you're just not worth forgiving." He looked back at me, like he was trying to tell me not to forgive Klaus for all of the things that he has done. I took a deep breath before standing up and dusting my jeans.
"Where are you going?" Klaus asked with curiosity.
"I'm just going to get a blood bag." I said to him.
"Get me one." Damon said before I looked at him.
"If you get enough strength, you might break out." I said to Damon. "I'm not letting you get the hunter's curse even if I don't have any feelings for you." I walked out of the cell and went straight to the freezer.

There was a part of me that wanted to speed out of the boarding house and go find Kol, but I knew Klaus would stop me from even taking one step outside. It wasn't worth it to be near Kol if I knew I was going to be stopped. I couldn't help but think of the some of the things that Kol and I did that I didn't tell anyone. I took a bag out of the freezer and started to take a sip when I noticed Klaus standing in the direction of the cell.
"Did you think I'd run?" I asked
"He might of compelled you to do something that you didn't tell me." He said, clearly trying to keep the emotion out of his voice.
"Well, even if he did, I'm smart enough to know that if I tried to run you would stop me." I said before drinking the rest of the blood bag.

I went back to sitting on the ground of the cell Damon was in. Klaus had a blood bag of his own before re-joining us. My fingers were anxiously tapping on my arm because I wasn't near Kol. I could tell that the both of them noticed, but they tried to ignore it. I kept wondering if he tried to contact me, but I couldn't check my phone because Klaus had it in his pocket.
"Your brother's lack of communication is infuriating." Klaus said as he slipped his phone into his jacket pocket.
"It's one of his trademarks like his brooding and his hair." Damon said, which made me slightly smirk.
"I don't understand what's taking so long." Klaus said. "I mean how hard is it to steal a dagger?"
"Easier if your sister hasn't been stabbed in the back as many times as she has been." I said, thinking about how many times she has been stabbed in the back. Damon looked at me just before Klaus threw a vial of blood towards Damon.
"Sweet." Damon said with a small smile before slowly picking it up.
"You disappoint me, Damon." Klaus said to him. "You're not trying very hard to get out of here. I expected more the daring escape artist, less the cell potato."
"Well, I am compelled to kill Jeremy, so I figured it's probably smarter to sit here and chit chat with you than bust out of here like the hulk." 'Exactly why I'm not leaving' I thought.
"How do you think Elena felt about that by the way?" Klaus asked Damon. "Your inability to overcome Kol's compulsion for a single moment even though it meant saving the person she loves most in the world."
"She's met me. She knows impulse control's not my strong suit and I'm not in love with her." I noticed Damon's eyes flicker towards me. 'He still loves me?' I asked myself. I didn't have feelings for him but I didn't think that he still had feelings for me after all the things that have happened lately. Out the corner of my eye, I could see that Klaus looked at me before looking at Damon.
"Even so, it must be hard trying to live up to Stefan. I remember when I compelled him to feed off Elena. He fought it so hard, he actually managed to resist. Now, that's love." 'I remember fighting against the compulsion when Kol was torturing Damon' I thought.
"What do you know about love?" Damon basically sneered.
"I know that even though you're in love with Chelsea, you love Elena. And if Chelsea were to choose someone else, you'd be stuck with Elena." I found myself watching Damon as Klaus spoke to him. "You're afraid of what might happen when we find the cure at the end of the rainbow. Personally, I don't see a fairytale ending for you. All I see is Stefan and Elena. And me and Chelsea." There was a flicker of sadness in Damon's eyes. "I think you see the same thing."
"Don't be a dick." I found myself saying to Klaus. Damon chuckled with slight amusement.
"I'm not going to give up on her." Damon said to Klaus.
"I guess you're going to be disappointed mate." Klaus said, not replying to what I said.

I was looking at Damon just as Klaus's phone rang.
"Well, if it isn't the happy homicidal maniac?" Klaus asked into his phone and I immediately thought it was Kol.
"Did you know that your darling former blood bag and her brother are trying to kill me?" 'What?' I asked myself before I started to slowly get up off the ground.
"What?" Klaus asked Kol, saying my thoughts out loud.
"Don't pretend like you're not in on it." Kol angrily said to Klaus. "Your obsession to find the cure clearly triumphs any sibling loyalty you once felt."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Klaus said, clearly hiding the hurt that he felt when his brother accused him. 'He wouldn't do anything to hurt his family' I thought.
"I'm going to rip off Jeremy's arm and then, kill Elena just for sport. Then, I'm finding Chelsea and we're coming for you." Kol hung up and I looked straight from Klaus to Damon. He just finished the vial of blood before Klaus sped towards him and held him against the wall by his neck.
"What the hell's going on?" Klaus angrily asked Damon.
"I don't know." I knew Damon was telling the truth, even though he could have been lying.
"What is Stefan and Elena planning?" Klaus asked, not believing Damon.
"I don't know. I'm stuck in the penalty box with you and Chelsea since yesterday." 'It hasn't been a whole day''I thought. Klaus and I were only here since the morning. "Stefan won't talk to me, and Elena won't come to see me, so maybe you're right. Maybe she's written me up."
"Tell me what you know." I thought Klaus was compelling Damon, but I could tell that it wasn't working.
"I don't know anything about a plan." Damon said.
"Stay here until we return." Klaus said before reluctantly let go of Damon and semi-pulled me out of the cell. I closed the door behind us before we started to leave. 'I hope we get there in time.' I thought.

General POV

Elena and Jeremy watched as Kol's body burned. Kol's body fell to the ground, which made Jeremy look at his sister. His eyes widened when he saw Klaus and Chelsea. They were both looking at Kol's burning body in disbelief. Chelsea was now uncompelled but she didn't want Kol to die.
"What did you do?" Klaus asked Elena and Jeremy while trying to contain his anger.
"We, we didn't have a choice." Elena said in slight shock. "He was trying to cut off Jeremy's arm!"
"Lies." Klaus basically growled at the Gilberts. It didn't go unnoticed by Chelsea, but her eyes were on Kol's corpse. "He never would have gotten inside if you didn't set a trap for him."
"You said you were going to put him down too." Elena said to Klaus.
"He wasn't going to kill Kol you idiot." Chelsea snapped at Elena.
"I was going to make him suffer on my terms!" Klaus yelled so loud that it made Elena step back. He let out a sigh and looked at the archway of the door before looking at Elena. "I'm going to burn this house to the ground. And then, when you try to flee for your lives, I'll kill you both without blinking."
"Chelsea will never let you do that." Elena said, hoping to get Klaus to calm down. Chelsea rolled her eyes knowing that she wouldn't be able to stop Klaus from killing anyone once he decided to.
"You kill us, you'll never get to the cure." Jeremy said, hoping that he could get Klaus to change his mind. "You'll never be able to make any more hybrids."
"You really think I care for an instant about my bloody hybrids?" Klaus asked them. "I want it for her," He said, meaning Chelsea ", and so I can destroy it. I would have killed you all the second we dug it up. But now, I'm just going to watch you burn instead." Both Chelsea and Klaus started to scream in pain. Chelsea was taking more pain because she wasn't as strong as Klaus. Bonnie stepped behind Chelsea and Klaus. She looked down at the two of them before walking between them so she could get into the Gilbert house.
"Invite him in." Bonnie said to Elena. "Do it!" She said to Jeremy. Klaus slowly stood up, but Chelsea was still on the ground.
"Come in." Jeremy said, which allowed Klaus to come into the Gilbert house. Bonnie's magic help him in place.
"Living room." Bonnie said to Elena and Jeremy. "Now!" Elena and Jeremy went through the living room, into the kitchen and Klaus followed. Bonnie used her magic to create a barrier so Klaus wouldn't be able to lay his hands on them. He angrily punched his fist against the barrier as Jeremy took the white oak stake from Kol's corpse. Jeremy and Elena walked around and "Witch, you can't do this to me." Klaus said from inside the barrier.
"You have no idea what I can do now." Bonnie confidently told Klaus.
"I will hunt all of you to your end!" Klaus yelled, which made Elena and Jeremy start to back out the house. "Do you hear me? Do you!?" When Jeremy, Elena and Bonnie were out of the house, they noticed that Chelsea was laying on the porch.
"We can't leave her." Bonnie said.
"She was helping Klaus." Elena said with some disbelief.
"But she was compelled." Bonnie said. "We can't leave her here." Elena looked from Bonnie to Chelsea and sighed in disbelief before picking Chelsea up. She didn't like Chelsea much anymore because of what has been going on with Damon. Inside, Klaus could hear them and just hoped that he would get out of there soon so he could get Chelsea and revenge for Kol's death.

Jeremy, Bonnie and Elena arrived at the boarding house with Chelsea. Elena put Chelsea on the couch. Bonnie sat down on the couch across from Chelsea before Elena sat down next to her.
"It didn't work." Jeremy said as he started to pace while looking at the tattoo. It wasn't growing and it worried him.
"It took time for Finn's line to die off." Bonnie said to him. "Remember? It'll work."
"What if it doesn't?" Jeremy asked Bonnie with worry.

Damon's POV

"Where's that Gilbert optimism?" I asked, which made everyone look at me. "Hi." I said to Elena when she walked up to me. Out the corner of my eye I saw someone on the couch and when I looked I saw Chelsea. I blocked everyone else out and went to Chelsea's side. "Is she okay?" I asked as I kneeled down next to her.
"She was in the way of my magic." Bonnie softly said. "She should completely okay."
"Is she okay?" Stefan asked as he walked into the house as I brushed some of Chelsea's hair behind her ear. A soft groan came from Chelsea just before she started to slowly open her eyes.
"Damon?" She asked, which made me smile.
"You're okay." I said, mainly to myself. She nodded her head as one of her hands reached for mine. "I was worried." With Chelsea's hand in mine, I forgot that the others were there.
"Are you okay?" She asked and I nodded. "I'm sorry for not stopping him."
"But you tried." I said because I could remember that she was there. 'At least you tried' I thought.

General POV

Chelsea slowly moved into a sitting position and tried not to look at Elena or Jeremy. She was mad at them for killing Kol even though she was glad to be unaffected by the compulsion. Damon stood up in front of her and faced everyone.
"I got the Silas headstone." Stefan said to everyone.
"We're just waiting for Jeremy's mark to grow." Elena said, which made Chelsea realize why they killed Kol. 'His whole line will die.' She thought before taking a deep breath when she realized how mad Klaus was. "Klaus is trapped in our living room."
"Temporarily." Bonnie said to Stefan. "I drew on the new moon to bind the have three days to find that cure. Four max."
"That won't help." Chelsea said, finally speaking towards them. "Even if you find the cure, none of you will be safe." Everyone looked at her with slight shock. "If you manage to find the cure he could still kill everyone of you."
"But we could take him." Elena said to Chelsea as she slowly stood from the couch.
"Really?" Chelsea asked her. "You'd be stupid to think that he won't have a plan in case you actually do manage to shove the cure down his throat."
"Why are you standing up for him?" Elena asked with disbelief in her voice. "Don't you remember all the things that he's done?"
"Of course I remember all the things he's done." Chelsea said, feeling slightly offended. "The last time I've checked, we've all done terrible things. What makes him any different than us?"
"He's compelled you." Chelsea rolled her eyes and sped so she was within inches of Elena. Everyone was shocked because Chelsea wasn't the one to engage in many arguments.
"He hasn't compelled me Elena."
"How do you even know?" Elena asked, trying to be brave.
"Because I trust him and because I love him." Damon's eyes slightly widened. 'I've lost her' He thought. "I may still love Damon, but at least Klaus has never hurt me."
"He's lying to you." Chelsea took a deep breath, trying to control her anger with Elena. The fire in the fireplace grew bigger. Chelsea's veins started to show around her eyes, which scared Elena a little. Everyone in the room could tell that Chelsea was starting to lose some control.
"Unlike you I actually have some self control." Chelsea said after making her veins disappear. "The world doesn't revolve around you. The next time you get me mad, you better watch out." Chelsea said to Elena's face before speeding out of the boarding house. Everyone was in show but no one more than Damon. He was in love with Chelsea and never seen her act like that before. Damon could see that Chelsea was changing so he couldn't help but be worried about the person he loves.

Chelsea's POV

When I arrived back at the Gilbert house I was still angry, but I wasn't going to start a fight when I knew I would lose. I took a deep breath as I walked in the house. Nik was standing with his back against the couch looking at Kol's corpse. I couldn't help but feel sad for him, despite what Kol did to me. Nik didn't turn around as I walked closer to him.
"Nik." I said, hoping to get his attention. He turned his head towards me and I could see the tears that he was trying to control.
"I didn't think you'd come back." He said, which slightly hurt me.
"I had to come back." I said as I walked past the invisible barrier that I knew was up. "I love you Nik." I could tell that he was hurt from his brother's death so I gave him a hug. He was a little shocked at first but he wrapped his arms around me, hugging me back.

~ I had more planned in my head for the confrontation between Elena and Chelsea, but I guess it could be settled like that for now. I wanted the chapter to end with a Chelsea/Klaus scene, so I tried to make make a good one.
~ I didn't like Kol's death in the show and I didn't really like writing it in here, I had to for the story. Hopefully Kol will come back so I can have him present day for the spin-off for a possible Klaus/Chelsea/Kol triangle. Either that, or I could just start writing more to a slightly AU story that has Chelsea and Klaus... I could do Kol in that, but I really haven't decided yet because I'm still working on the first chapter for that. (The Story title for it is 'Out Of Place' if you want to read the summary for it on my profile.)

~ The next episode, Into The Wild, might end up being one chapter. I have two ideas, one from Anna.B and the other was one that I had planned, but both will work when it comes to what happens in the future chapters. Down The Rabbit Hole and Stand By me look like they might be two chapters each, but we will see.

~ I'm hoping to get chapters for 'Becoming Reality', 'You Can Never Forget', 'The Other Hybrid' and maybe 'The Salvatore Sister' up within the next month. If I'm lucky, I'll even be able to get a chapter up for 'Things Change' .

~ If each person that follows this story reviewed this chapter, there would be over 100 reviews.

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