~ I was going to post this last night, but then I would have rushed through the end and I wanted to take time with the ending. This ended up being one of five chapters that I feel good about after finishing it (for this story).
~ There is going to be a short but nice Chelsea/Tyler friendship moment towards the end of the chapter along with some nice Chelsea/Caroline friendship that I haven't really written since My Brother's Keeper (Chapters 15-17).
xxxRena: I know what you are saying even with words missing, so it doesn't make much of a difference (: lol When it comes to the talk with Damon and Elena, we won't know much about it until Stand By Me or Bring It On, I'm not completely sure yet. Yes, Chelsea forgave Klaus, but who's to say if it's for all the bad things he's done or the bite that he accidently gave her? Maybe even both... but we'll have to see.
Anna.b: Of course they are worth something. If I don't possibly use them in the chapter they could fit it, they would either be used as for an idea in the future for this story or for one of my other stories. If someone gives me an idea or semi-helps me with a chapter (like you did with the last chapter), I'm going to credit that person. I've done it for my story TVD on Facebook. :) Heated scenes will come, I don't know if I'm looking forward to it or not... but I kind of want to write it... lol With some of the stuff I have planned, Chelsea will start to use more of her powers and definitely with the trying to help bringing Jeremy back to life part. I think it Bring It On, there would be both (hopefully) jealous Damon and Klaus when it comes to the episode. Chelsea doesn't know where the island is, but she will be around the gang when it comes to Bring It On but I don't exactly know until the episode airs. I have a few ideas when it comes to the Bonnie trying to finish the expression triangle... but I'm going to let people find out when I get to the chapters (or chapter) for Stand By Me (because I'm that evil... lol) and not until the end of the episode. I think when it comes to Chelsea becoming a little darker, that might happen if 'Shane' or Bonnie starts to talk about the plan to bring down the veil to the other side. I like it when characters become darker (why, I don't know... lol). We'll see if it happens to Chelsea or not. For a showdown between Bonnie and Chelsea, we'll have to see what happens in the show. The same thing goes for the possible showdown between Chelsea and Elena.
ENJOY!
Chelsea's POV
I woke up early in the morning and noticed that I was still on the couch. Nik was underneath me, sleeping. I slightly smiled at him and slowly moved into into a sitting position. When he didn't move, I stood up. I brought my hand to where he had bit me and I could feel the dried blood. The memory flashed in my head which made me take a deep breath. I saved Caroline from getting bit but then I almost died instead. He was still sleeping on the couch so I slowly walked out of the house. I wanted to change clothes, get rid of the dried blood, and I wanted to be away from him for a little bit because of what happened. When I got to the front door, I looked back to make sure he was still sleeping before I walked out.
I took my car to the Boarding house, not wanting to explain the blood to my brother. It was strangely quiet with everyone gone searching for the cure. The silence was actually a bit unsettling to me but I tried to ignore it. I quickly got up to my room and put my phone in the speaker while at the same time hooking it with it's charger. I put the music on shuffle and practically blasted it so it wouldn't be quiet. The music replaced the silence as I went into the bathroom.
My eyes went straight to the reflection of the dried blood on my neck. The image with Klaus showing his hybrid features flashed in my mind. I let out a sigh before finding a wash cloth and getting rid of the blood. When I got it all, I looked back at my reflection. My hair was a little messy but I knew that wouldn't be a problem once I took a shower. I took off the bracelet that I got from Klaus and put it on the counter before looking at the reflection of my necklace. My hand went up to it and I held it for a second before I slowly took it off and placed next to the bracelet before I went back into my room to pick out some clothes to put on after the shower.
I stopped at my phone and sent a quick text to Caroline telling her I was alive before I went into the dresser it was on. I quickly picked out a pink tank top that looked like it had white paint splattered on it and a pair of jeans. Caroline texted me back just as I tossed them onto my bed. She was glad I was alive and told me that Damon had been kidnapped. It made me worry about him, but I knew he could take care of himself. She also told me that they were going to try and decode pictures of Jeremy's tattoo. I knew that they would more than likely pay Klaus a visit later, but I was just glad that someone was letting me know what was going on.
After my shower, I got two blood bags from the basement. One I drank before I left and I had planned to bring the other one to Nik. There was a part of me that didn't want to go back because of the bite, but I told myself that him biting me was an accident. I kept repeating that to myself as I pulled up in front of the house. I tried not to focus on what happened or what his reaction might be as I walked up to the house and opened the door.
When I walked in, I noticed that he was sitting on the couch. His head turned towards me and I could tell that he was slightly surprised. I knew why, but I didn't focus on that.
"I had to change clothes." I said, not mentioning the part about needing to be away from him for a little bit. "And I thought you might need this." I chucked the blood bag towards him and he caught it before it hit the ground. I walked closer to him, but stayed where he couldn't get to me.
"Are you mad at me?" He asked in a soft tone which surprised me.
"I don't know." I honestly answered without looking at him. "You did save my life again but at the same time if it wasn't for me, you would have bit Caroline." I knew that the bite to me was an accident, but he meant it to be Caroline. "I was just lucky that you saved me, despite my own stubbornness."
"I wasn't going to let you die love." He said, which made me finally look at him. "Even if you are a bit stubborn."
"I can be more than a bit stubborn when I want to be." I said with a small smile before he looked behind me. I turned and saw Caroline coming in with Tyler.
"Well, if it isn't little orphan Lockwood." Klaus said to them, which I tried to ignore. "Come to show how laughably impotent you are against me?"
"I'm just trying to help my friends find the cure." He said as Caroline sat on the couch. Tyler unraveled something. "Found this in your attic." I took a step closer to Tyler to get a better look. He still wasn't completely on my good side, but I knew he wasn't going to do anything.
"And you think finding the sword brings you closer to the cure?" Klaus asked Tyler as I got a good look at the sword.
"You tell me. I was playing around with the handle on the ride over, and I found this." He unwrapped leather that was on top of the sword, revealing something.
"And what do you think 'this' is?" Klaus asked when he took a step closer to the barrier.
"It's called a cryptex." Tyler and I looked at Caroline, who stood up from the couch. "I've seen The da Vinci Code."
"You turn the different sides to the different symbols to get the translation on the other side." They both looked at me. "My brother and I watched that movie."
"With the magic of the internet, Elena sent over these." Caroline held up some pictures of what I thought was of Jeremy's tattoo. "So now all we have to do is cryptex away." Caroline sat back down with the pictures in her hand. "If you happened to want to help, we wouldn't stop you."
"Right. Well, might I suggest using the magic of the internet to purchase an Aramaic-to-English dictionary from your nearest retailer." Klaus said and when I looked at him he had a smirk on his face.
"What's Aramaic?" Tyler asked.
"It's a dead language." I said.
"It hasn't been used since, like, biblical times." Caroline said, adding to what I said.
"Qetsiyah's native tongue, I'm guessing." Klaus said to the three of us. "You know, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate." He sat down on the table that was inside the barrier. "Perhaps weeks. "In bas so-teen-too ara-ma-eet.""
"What does that mean?" Caroline asked him.
"If only you spoke Aramaic." Klaus said with a grin.
"Show off." I couldn't help but say. He just looked at me and I felt myself slightly smile. 'I should have known that he knows the language' I thought before looking at Caroline. "I'll help." I said before walking towards her.
Caroline and Tyler were sitting on the couch while I was standing near Klaus. I had helped them a little bit, but I was taking a small break and letting Tyler help her.
"Okay, this is it." Caroline said after she wrote something down. "We've translated all the symbols on the tattoo. 'Passage inside... requires a young senator, and a pretty flower.'" Caroline read from some notecards that we had made. "Okay, none of this makes sense!" She put the cards down in frustration.
"Then we probably did it wrong." I said before sitting by her side on the couch. I took the hair tie that was on my wrist and put my hair in a ponytail before taking a good look at everything on the table in front of us. Caroline put them in order and I looked at them to try to see where we went wrong. I looked at the cards that had Caroline had looked at before. I took the pencil that was on the table and crossed out the translations. "I think it make more sense if it was this." I wrote 'hunter' on the senator card and 'witch' on the flower card.
"Passage inside requires a hunter and a witch." Caroline read with my edits. "That does make more sense." Klaus started to say something and I figured that it was in Aramaic.
" 'Requires a powerful witch and a hunter in full bloom.' " Klaus said in english and I figured that he was telling us the right translation.
"What are you doing?" Tyler asked.
"I don't need to tell you my reasons." Klaus said to Tyler before looking at me. "Chelsea love, bring my sword over here." I looked at Tyler and Caroline before picking the sword off the table and bringing it near Nik.
" 'Silas rests on the far side, the means of his destruction at hand.' " He looked at me before glancing behind me. "Turn the cryptex to the right." I started to turn it towards his the right until he told me to stop.
" 'The top of the hilt reveals a key to a nautical map.' " He looked up from the sword to me. "Turn it to the left." I turned it to the left. "Now turn the other piece." I turned the piece that was underneath it. "There's something else."
"It's not good news, is it?" I knew by Nik's expression that I was right. He read the sword out loud in Aramaic.
"What does it mean?" Caroline asked from behind me. He just smirked at her.
"Nik, what does it mean?" I asked.
"There's only one dose of the cure." Nik said as he looked at me. 'Only one person can be human again'
I had put the sword back on the table and was standing near Nik, but he still couldn't get to me if he wanted to. Tyler and Caroline were still sitting on the couch and I knew that they were going to send most of the information to Rebecca. Nik didn't say anything to me as Caroline dialed Rebecca on her phone and put it on speaker.
"Hello?" Rebecca asked as she answered.
"Hey, it's Caroline. We have the translation of the tattoo." Caroline said to Rebecca as Tyler did some things on the laptop. "We're emailing you pictures of the map and instructions right now."
"Got it. Thanks." Rebecca said after a few seconds.
"Actually, it was me." I looked at Nik out the corner of my eye.
"Nik, you helped?" Rebecca asked with some surprise in her voice.
"You sound so surprised, little sister."
"Shouldn't I be?" Rebecca asked. "I mean, you don't want me to be human. You don't want any of us to be human." I couldn't help but turn my whole head towards him with curiosity. "Why would you help us find the cure?"
"Maybe I finally realized the longer I stand in the way of what you want, the longer you'll continue to hate me. Perhaps I want my sister to finally know happiness." I slightly smiled even though I wasn't completely sure if he was telling the truth.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times..."
"No more fooling. No more games. I hope you get to live, and die, as you wish." 'There's his nice side' I thought with a small smile.
"So do I."
"There is one more thing, Rebecca." I looked from him to Caroline and Tyler before looking back at him. "There is only one dose of the cure. You need to find it first and take it. It's the only way you'll..." Tyler quickly hung up on Rebecca and I let out a sigh. 'There it goes' I thought when I looked away.
I stayed in the house, even though there was a part of me that wanted to leave. Caroline and Tyler were on the porch and I tried not to listen in on their conversation. I knew that they were talking about what to do because Klaus wanted to kill Tyler and there would be an argument about who gets to use the one does of the cure. I put everything that was on the table into a neat pile while I knew Klaus was watching me.
"Are you disappointed?" He asked, which made me stop organizing. "About the cure?"
"Yeah." I said before standing up. "I should have gone with them." I thought out loud as I got closer to him.
"Why didn't you?" Nik asked and I looked at him. I didn't think I really had to say anything for him to know my answer. There was more than one reason, but there was one less that I had to tell him. We stood there for a few minutes before Caroline came back in.
"You can't kill Tyler." She said to Nik.
"Not only can I, I have to." I looked from him to Caroline. "I have a reputation to uphold. Moreover, I want to."
"I'm not asking you to forgive him." Caroline said to Nik as she stepped up to my side. "All I'm asking is that you let him live, somewhere far from here."
"So he gets to live a happy life after he turned all my hybrids against me? After he tried to kill me and Chelsea, after he made it his life's mission to find the cure so he could use it against me."
"We all want the cure." Caroline said to make him stop talking.
"Do we?" Klaus asked her before looking at me. "Do you?"
"It doesn't matter Nik." I said as I leaned against the wall where they could both see me. "There's only one dose and it's not like either of us will get it." I pointed to Caroline. He knew I actually wanted the cure, but it doesn't look like I would be able to use it if I had the chance.
"But if you had the chance..." I looked away, not completely knowing if I would have or not "...you wouldn't, would you?" I could tell that he looked at Caroline. "You prefer who you are now to the girl you once were. You like being strong, ageless, fearless." I could feel him take a step closer to us. 'I'm not exactly strong if I keep almost dying.' I thought. "The three of us are the same."
"Then show me." Caroline said to him. "You know how much I love Tyler. You can see how scared I am to lose him. If the three of us are so similar, then show me your compassion." I couldn't help but look at Caroline. "Show him the mercy that Chelsea would show you." I looked at Nik, who was now looking at me.
"Mercy... for Tyler. Very well." I didn't think that he would show mercy for Tyler, so I couldn't help but think that he was going to say something else. "Tell him to leave town immediately." He turned around and took a few steps away from us before turning back around. "And tell him to run and hide in a place I will never find him."
"Of course. " Caroline said before looking at me with a small smile. I gave her a small smile before she picked up her jacket that was on the couch.
"Tell him that this is the mercy I extend for her sake..." I looked back at Nik because I knew that he was talking about me "... that I will give him a head start before I kill him."
After a minute, Caroline left and I couldn't help but turn towards Nik.
"Since I became a vampire, I came close to a permanent death almost ten times." I said to Nik. "And if I'm being honest, I felt better before I turned." I stepped past the barrier to get closer to him. It was the first time since the morning that I was in the same room as him. I thought that maybe he would say something, but he didn't. Instead he stepped up to me, placed his hands on each side of my head and kissed me. "I want to say goodbye to Tyler." I said when he pulled away. "He's my friend." I said when I gently pulled his hands from my face. I looked at him for a moment before I started to walk towards the door.
When I got to the door, I could tell that Caroline and Tyler were still talking and I didn't want to interrupt them. I could hear their conversation, even though I didn't want to listen in. I had to take a deep breath to try and control the sadness that I felt when I heard Caroline cry. There was nothing I could do to make Klaus back off of killing Tyler and I knew it, but that didn't make the situation better. I knew that Tyler didn't know that Haley had the hybrid bite me and almost kill me. He was my friend, even with what happened. I let out a sigh when I knew they finished talking before I stepped onto the porch.
"You can't leave without giving me a goodbye hug." I sadly said to Tyler before we hugged. "I forgive you." I whispered before pulling away.
"I'm going to miss you Chels." He said and I slightly smiled.
"You also better miss Caroline." I said, glancing at her. "She is your girlfriend." He gave me a small smile. "I'm going to miss you to. Hey, don't forget us."
"I won't." He gave a sad look to Caroline before he finally walked away. I stood there for a minute before I sat next to Caroline on the bench swing.
"You'll see him again." I softly said to her. "I'll make sure of it." She gave me a small smile and I decided to give her a hug because of all her tears.
Caroline stopped crying after a while, but I stayed with her. We just sat on the bench and she was holding my hands as comfort when we noticed that the front door opened. 'The spell must have worn off' I thought when Klaus stepped onto the porch.
"How did you get out?" Caroline asked him.
"Something must have happened to Bonnie." I thought outloud. I knew that he would have been in there for at least three days and it's only been two. Nik started to walk towards us, which made Caroline stand up.
"Don't worry." He said to her. "I'm not going to hurt you." I slowly stood up so I would be at Caroline's side.
"You've done enough." She said to him.
"I've done more than enough. I've shown kindness, forgiveness, pity... because of her." Nik looked back towards me. 'You've shown more than just that' I thought when some of the memories of us together flashed in my head. I couldn't help but slightly smile at him. "It was all for you, Chelsea." I let out a breath and stepped up to him so I could give him a hug. I could feel his arms around me. Over the past few days he didn't show too much of his humanity that I knew he had, so I just felt like I had to give him a hug. I still couldn't shake the fact that he bit me, but was ignoring that at the moment. I slowly pulled away and looked into his eyes before he reluctantly walked away. When he had walked away, I turned towards Caroline.
"Do you want to stay the night at the boarding house with me?" I asked, knowing how she was feeling.
"Sure. Thanks." She said before we slowly walked of the porch and made our way to the boarding house. I didn't exactly want to spend the night with Nik, but I didn't want to be alone at the same time.
~ I figured that the Boarding house wouldn't have vervain in the water... mainly because they say they don't by Bring It On so I just decided that they could just be getting their water from somewhere that's not the Mystic Falls water supply. Or maybe they have a filter that's been there that filters vervain and we didn't know about it.
~ Stand By Me might be one chapter like these last two episodes have been, but we will have to see when I get to it. Do you like it better when it's one chapter for each episode or two chapters an episode?
~ I'm working on a chapter for seasons 1 & 2 for Chelsea. The story (for those of you that don't know) is called 'Into The Darkness'. I'm on the episode 'There Goes The Neighborhood' (which is an episode from season 1). I hope to get it updated once I get this story exactly in line with the show, which hopefully will happen within the next week before 'Bring It On' airs.
~ I have updated Becoming Reality, which is on it's fourth chapter, but I won't start to type the next chapter until it gets a total of 10 reviews, so hopefully if you like this story, you'll check that one out.
~ 7 more reviews until this reaches 100! Do you think we can reach that before the next chapter?
R&R 'till the next update
