The End Of Forever

Chapter 36

Before Damon could even come up with something to say to make Kai step away, or even blink for that matter, Klaus had Kai slammed up against the outside wall of the house, his feet dangling in mid air. "What have you done with my daughter?"

Kai rolled his eyes and shot him a quick smile, seemingly un-bothered by the fact that he was being choked. "I assume you mean the little baby? Huh, so weird. I totally thought that was my niece!" He shot a sly smile over Klaus's shoulder and winked at his sister. When Alaric started to step forward in anger, Kai rolled his eyes again. "Oh calm down, I know I don't have the BEST track record with my family members, but I would TOTALLY not hurt my niece. Everyone is safely sleeping inside. I figured they needed a nap until the rest of the party arrived since I didn't want to tell my story more than once."

Then he started whistling.

Glad that Kai was slightly distracted, as obnoxious as he was, Damon slipped his phone out of his back pocket and handed it to Elena behind his back. "Text Bonnie, tell her to stay away." He whispered behind him. He could feel the phone slide from his grasp, and confident that she was able to hear him, turned his attention back to Kai.

Elena stepped further behind Damon's back, sliding out of view from Kai, happy that her body was so much smaller than her normal one. Usually she and Damon were about the same height, but this Elena was petite and barely came up to Damon's shoulder blades. She scrolled through the contacts on his phone until she reached the end, where she recalled that he had Bonnie listed under "Witchy." Surprised when she couldn't seem to find that name in his address book, she scrolled up to the top again and smiled when she saw the name "Bon-Bon" listed right under "Blondie" and "Barbie Klaus." She suppressed a giggle. It was cute that he'd updated her in his phone book and if they made it through the night alive she was definitely going to have to remember to tease him about it.

She was also going to ask him why he still had Rebekah in there.

Not that she was the jealous type or anything. But she knew that he would probably get a little flustered and she always thought that was adorable.

Focusing back on the task at hand, she looked down at the phone. Found Elena. Don't come to the boarding house, Kai's here. Will text when safe. She quickly typed and hit send. When she knew it went through, she turned the phone on silent just in case Bonnie replied and then slipped the phone back into Damon's back pocket. He reached behind him again and she grabbed his hand to give a little squeeze, then stepped out from behind him to focus her attention back on Kai.

Klaus lowered the unknown man back to the ground, unsure if he really should or not. He glanced over his shoulder at Damon. "Care for me to get rid of this problem?" He asked.

Damon was about to give his approval when Elena gently placed her small hand on his shoulder. "We don't know what he's done to the others." She reminded him softly. He sighed. Of course. This was one of the many reasons he needed Elena. She was his voice of reason. The little angel voice on his shoulder telling him not to do all the things he wanted to do.

Like kill people.

He could hear footsteps behind him as the others gathered around. "Kai, What do you want?" Jo said, her voice sounded tired. They'd all had way too much excitement for one day.

Kai straightened his shirt and shot another crazy smile at Klaus before turning his attention to his sister. "I see it really hasn't been long then, you're only slightly showing! Unless you did have the kid already and you just haven't lost the weight?" At her glare he laughed lightheartedly waving his hand in the air. "Nevermind. Let's all go inside and wake everyone up!" He moved to the side of the door and motioned for them all to go in with his hand. "After you!"

Klaus glared at him from the corner of his eye, but eager to see that both Hope and Caroline were okay, he sped past him into the house. The others were a little more cautious as they passed him, not completely comfortable with having their backs to him. Damon tugged on Elena's hand and squeezed it, then threw his other hand around her shoulder as Kai stared at him with a weird smile on his face. As they passed, Kai clapped his hands. "This is going to be SO funny." He laughed, following them in.

As they reached the main sitting room, they Klaus was already leaning over the carrier and picking a quiet Hope up. He breathed a sigh of relief. "She really is just sleeping then?" He noticed, brushing a finger across her cheek.

They all looked around at the others, all sat up in different spots around the room as if they'd been strangely positioned like dolls.

Kai shrugged, waving his hand toward them and then leaning against the wall by the fireplace. "Yeah, I kind of needed the house to be quiet when I came back. I didn't want anyone in the house to be caught up in anything." His voice had taken on an oddly serious tone, something so completely unlike him that it made the others nervous. He looked over everyone that was slowly stretching and waking up, focusing on Lily.

Jo eyed him wearily. It was so unlike her brother that she was almost suspicious. But he HAD been different since he'd received Lukes power so maybe, just maybe, he wasn't a bad guy anymore and had a heart. He had seemed happy for her when he told her about the pregnancy a few weeks earlier, so maybe he had changed.

"I'm a little confused." Damon said, stepping forward, not happy that Kai's attention was placed on his mother. "I thought we left you back in the prison world. How did you get back?"

"Oh, that was the easy part, after Lily sent the ascendant back to us. That was very nice of you by the way." He said, smiling as Lily stared at him confused.

Enzo growled next to her, just waking up himself. "I thought you were giving up on that." He said angrily.

Lily shook her head. "I … I did! I thought we destroyed it!" She reached her hand out to hold his. "I swear to you, I had no idea."

"You probably burned it? Am I right?" Lily nodded. "Yeah, you probably didn't know this but that's how you send it back to where it's from. ANYWAY-" Kai said, rolling his eyes at the couple on the floor. "Since I knew you guys hadn't meant to leave me there, despite Bonnie going all PSYCHO on me - which I totally deserved..." He stopped and looked around. "Where IS Bonnie anyway?"

"Haven't seen her." Damon said. "How did you know we didn't want to leave you there?"

Kai laughed, pushing himself away from the wall. "Well, considering you left another really important thing behind, I figured you didn't mean to leave quite yet. And I ACTUALLY got you a present, a peace offering, since I knew you wanted it so much. Though…. I see that you don't really need it anymore since you're already human somehow." He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a tiny red vile, flipping it up into the air. "So, What should I do with this now?"

Damon's heart nearly stopped as he watched the vile with the cure be flipped into the air so carelessly. "I'm sure we can find something to do with it. There are plenty of other vampires who might want to take it." He tried with everything in him to not show how much he wanted it. He didn't want to give Kai the upper hand in this situation.

"Yes!" Lily said, pushing herself gently up from the floor. "Please. I don't know who you are, but I would love that for myself. I'm so tired of being a ripper." She said, shooting a small glance at Damon. She saw him stiffen from his spot across the room and she raised an eyebrow at him hoping that Kai didn't notice. Hoping against all hope that Damon would understand that she wasn't telling the truth to whoever this man was and that she was actually trying to get it for Elena. She saw his shoulders relax and let out a sigh.

Kai shrugged and tossed it over to her and she quickly caught it and held it protectively against her chest, glad that she could at least be some use to her son.

"I actually came here to warn you." Kai said, still not taking his eyes from Lily. "Your friends aren't happy at all, that you left them there. That's why I put everyone in the house to sleep when we came back. I didn't want to turn this into world war three." He glanced around the room, an eyebrow raised. "That hasn't happened yet right? I'm a little out of the loop."

Damon rolled his eyes. "No, not yet. Just get to the point."

Kai shrugged, glancing over at his sister. "The heretics, and they are CRAZY bunch, have given me a free pass because I helped them get out of the prison world. But they are going to go after the Gemini coven for putting them there in the first place, so I suggest you hide for a little bit until we can figure out how to get rid of them. We have a little time though, because they were talking gibberish about how they first planned to go after another group that were the ones to be the whistleblowers in the first place." He shook his head. "I'm not really sure who those people were but I know the Gemini coven doesn't have the power to put someone in a prison world all by themselves. That's why they needed that Bennett witch to help with me." He explained, looked around the room again.. "Are you SURE you don't know where Bonnie is?"

"She's out on vacation with her boyfriend, not that it's any of your business. Why? Do you have a crush on her?" Caroline finally said, wiping the sleep from her eyes and getting up from her spot on the couch. She was glad to see Klaus holding a fidgeting Hope in his arms and he sent her a small smile as if to say that the baby was alright. She felt like a complete failure for not taking care of her and she was so happy that Klaus wasn't mad at her. After making sure that she was alright, she made her way over to a still sleeping Matt, who was propped up in one of the arm chairs, and tried to make sure that he was okay. Both he and Sarah were still snoozing away and she hoped that whatever spell Kai had put on them was okay for humans.

The smile dropped from Kai's face and he actually looked genuinely upset. "Uh, no. Just wondering." He muttered, looking at the floor.

Damon laughed, even though he knew he shouldn't be provoking Kai, especially since he was a human, it was just too funny. "You do. You really do have a crush on her even though you tried to kill her a dozen times!"

Kai looked hurt. "You know I tried to make up for that after I started having normal feelings. And I do understand why she stabbed me the last time I saw her and I wanted to tell her that it was okay and that I won't hold it against her."

"I'll give her the message." Damon said, smirking. Elena tugged on his shirt just a slight bit, still hiding behind him a little as to not draw attention to herself. He sighed. "I promise."

Suddenly, Kai's smile came back and he clapped his hands, looking behind Damon. "Oh man, this was kind of the part that I was waiting for."

Confused, as he wasn't looking at Elena, Damon spun around to see where Kai was staring.

And his eyes met a very confused brown.

"Damon?"

"Elena?" He choked.

Her hair was wet as if she had just come out of the shower and she was holding one of his towels in her hands, wearing one of his black button down shirts. Everyone in the room gasped, and the hand that was gripping his, squeezed tight.

The Elena in front of him didn't move, but her gaze slowly shifted from his, to the girl beside him.

"Who's she?"

Man, it's been a hell of a ride.

There are still a few chapters left, and I'm really sorry for bailing out on you guys. I have this horrible problem where I can't write when I'm not alone and it has to be silent and I haven't been alone in forever.

Right now, I'm back in New York for a few weeks, so I'm happy to say I'll be watching the finale with a friend of mine, very excited about it.

What are you guys thinking of this season? I think it's funny that Kai came back!

Also, I haven't seen many episodes, but when I watched this week's, I thought the scene in the kitchen with Bonnie and Caroline (with the wedding planner binders, was VERY similar to mine, don't you think?)

Anyway. My friend challenged me to finish this before the finale, so, lets see if this can be done!