Chapter thirty four

North Carolina

Elizabeth

The screams just fueled my blood lust. The running just made the hunt more enjoyable.

"Let's not let this town turn out like Humanity, okay Liz? It won't be nearly as easy to clean up as last time," Poppy told me, as I burned a pile of bodies. We hadn't even been in this small North Carolina town for two days, and they were already adding up.

"Fine," I sighed. Then I looked up at the blonde, a smirk on my lips.

"I feel like getting back to basics tonight, Poppy," I informed her as the smell of charred flesh filled the air.

She smirked back, knowing exactly what was on my mind. "Ripper Lizzie's going to replace Succubus Lizzie, isn't she?" she asked.

"I want to try out some old tricks. Besides, I think that I've already killed this town's supply of decent looking men," I answered, as we walked away from the pile of burning bodies.

"Where to next, after we're done with this town?" Poppy asked.

"I had planned to go back to Mystic Falls, but we can extend our road trip, hit a couple other states before going back." we walked towards the abandoned house Poppy and I were staying at for the time being.

"Why are we even going back?" she asked, and I frowned at her words. That was a good question.

"I don't know…" I said, before giving her a look. "Wouldn't Klaus miss you?"

"He'd miss you more," she retorted.

I shrugged, still thinking about her words. "Maybe we won't go back," I said thoughtfully, and then I smirked. "Who knows? maybe Poppy and Lizzie can go international."

The blonde seemed to like that idea. "We have to go to Europe- I swear blood from different countries tastes different. We can compare."

Raising hell with Poppy was just like old times. With her being around, my humanity was shut away tighter. I was less human when I was with Poppy, and more of a predator, a vampire. I liked it that way.

As I prepared for tonight, getting ready and thinking up some games, I let my mind drift to my brothers. They probably already knew that I was gone, but they had no idea where I was. Stefan and Damon were bad for me- they were just reminders of my human life. They wanted the Elizabeth that cared, that had her humanity. That wasn't me, not anymore.

I heard Poppy's phone ring from the living room, and ran from my room to go answer it. Poppy was out taking care of the rest of our bodies. I picked up her phone from the small, battered coffee table, and answered it.

"Poppaea, where the hell are you, sweetheart?"

I smirked at his voice. "You know, she hates being called 'Poppaea,'" I said casually.

There was a pause. "Elizabeth," Klaus said, sounding mildly surprised. "I thought that you would be with that Gilbert boy that you love so much." He sounded bitter and… jealous?

I was glad to notice that I felt nothing when he brought up Jeremy. "I don't do love, Klaus. You're the one who told me that it's a vampire's greatest weakness, and I'm not weak. I don't feel and don't care anymore. Besides, humans are just too… breakable for me."

"Ah, so your humanity is off. I'm going to take a wild guess that you're behind the murders of all those men?" Klaus didn't sound surprised or angry or even like he cared. He sounded slightly curious and amused.

"They were delicious, in case you're wondering." I smirked as I sat down on the couch.

"I wasn't, but I'm glad that you're having fun, Lizzie. This may be a pointless question, but having your humanity off doesn't change the way you feel about me at all, does it?"

"Did you miss the part about how I don't feel anymore, Klaus?" I frowned. "The only men in my life are the ones that I seduce and then drain of blood."

"Sounds hot, though I'm not so sure that I like the idea of you seducing other men, even for food. What about your brothers?" he asked.

"Buzz kills." I shrugged, before smirking. "You called for Poppy? She's currently dumping bodies into a lake, but I can run and get her."

"I was simply wondering where she had run off to, but I know now that you've stolen her away."

"I have, and I don't plan on returning her to you any time soon," I told him.

"Funny, how two weeks ago you were angry with me for sending her to you," Klaus mused.

"Well, that was boring, stick-in-the-mud Elizabeth. This Elizabeth is fun and happens to like Poppy- we get into a lot of trouble together." I smirked.

"I can only imagine the hell you two raise together."

"Who are you talking to, Elle?" Poppy asked, walking back into the house.

I handed the phone to her. "Klaus," I told her, and she raised her eyebrows.

"What?" Poppy said, before walking out of the house.

"Where are you two?" Klaus demanded as soon as he thought that Elizabeth was out of hearing range. His tone changed from mildly amused and casual to serious and slightly angry.

"North Carolina, but I think that I'm taking Elizabeth to Europe. What's got you so uptight?" Poppy frowned. She was so glad that Elizabeth had her humanity off, that she wasn't the goody-goody her sister had turned her into.

"Nothing, Poppaea. Just… take care of Elizabeth. If something happens to her, I'll rip your heart out, okay?" Klaus threatened, but Poppy rolled her eyes.

"You don't sound very happy that Elizabeth's humanity is turned off," she pointed out. It was strange though, because Klaus was all for vampires being "true vampires."

"Of course I'm glad, why would I not be? I'm just reminding you that I'll hold you responsible if something happens to her," Klaus said, though there was something off about his tone.

He had pushed Elizabeth to return to her old ripper/succubus self, but now that she had, he wasn't so sure. Because it was the human Elizabeth that had caught his eye in the first place. Her spunk and light was what had drawn him in. soulless Elizabeth certainly had an attitude, but that light that had followed her into her vampire life was missing.

Klaus had urged Elizabeth to turn her humanity off because he had witnessed how talented she was at being a ripper, a succubus. But in truth, soulless Elizabeth wasn't the Elizabeth he truly cared for, who had made him break his own rules, who had made him care. That was the Elizabeth with her humanity.

"Don't worry; your precious Elizabeth will be safe with me." Poppy rolled her eyes, before hanging up on him.

Though she'd never say it out loud, it bugged Poppy that Klaus cared for Elizabeth. Firstly, because he was the one who had drilled into her head "vampires are not capable of love." But she was, admittedly, a little jealous. She and Klaus had what could be called a friendship, but they had had sex in the past, numerous times. Yet Elizabeth was the one he was so worried about, the one he cared for. It pissed her off.

~LG~

"For the love of God, shut the hell up!"

Poppy angrily slammed the basement door shut, after she shoved yet another crying human into the cramped space. We were up to about fifteen.

"When can we just get this started?" she grumbled, walking up to me.

"Now," I said calmly, excited for what we were about to do.

Poppy and I had spent hours collecting humans from town, and then putting them into the small, moldy basement. We left them uncompelled, because it's more fun that way. Plus, it's necessary for the game we were about to play.

"What do you want?" a particularly brave victim growled at me when I opened the door. He was a middle aged man, and I made a note to make him suffer especially.

"Oh, we're going to kill you," I said a calm, casual voice.

"But- but you're just a child! How old are you? Sixteen? Seventeen, maybe?" a woman with tears streaming down her cheeks whimpered.

I smirked at her. "I'm a hundred and sixty one years old," I told her, before turning my attention to the entire group.

"You all are going to decide the order in which you die. The longer you take, the more you're going to suffer," I said in a long voice, before shutting the door. I didn't lock it though, and I made sure that the victims knew it.

"Now we just wait," I said to Poppy, before we both walked out of the house. It was all a part of the game.

Sure enough, five minutes later, a small group of the victims tried to escape from the basement. The brave man was among them. Poppy and I watched from the trees as they carefully snuck out of the house. Once they saw the road, they started sprinting. It was a cruel joke, to let them think that they were safe, and then snatch them up again.

I was all about cruel jokes.

Poppy instantly killed two of the victims, tearing their throats out with her teeth. I killed one by draining her of her blood. That left the brave man who didn't look so brave anymore. I had something special planned for him.

I didn't bother to wipe the blood from my mouth, as I grabbed the man and dragged him back into the house. There were a few more victims trying to escape, and Poppy dealt with them. As soon as I got back to the basement, I glared at the remaining victims, and they backed away from me.

"I'm going to show you what happens when you run away," I growled, before turning to the shaking man in my grip.

I ripped his right arm off, and dropped it on the floor. He howled in pain, as the sickened victims watched on. A few looked like they were going to vomit.

Then I broke his legs so that he couldn't run away. The screams made me thirstier. My fangs descended, and after breaking a few more bones and ripping off a few more body parts, I sunk my teeth into his neck and drank him dry.

"So, who's next?" I asked as I dropped his body to the ground. My fangs were still out, and blood was all over my mouth.

"Me!"

I turned around and got a glimpse at Damon, Stefan, and Lily, before my neck was snapped and everything went black.

~LG~

A/N: just to make things clear, Elizabeth isn't a real succubus. It's a self-assigned nickname, nothing more.

I'm surprised by how much you guys like ripper/succubus Elizabeth. Personally, I like her better when her humanity's on. I guess that people who like soulless Elizabeth are the same people who like soulless Stefan. I prefer both with their souls.

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