Kiss while your lips are still red

While he's still silent

Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled

Hold another hand while the hand's still without a tool

Drown into eyes while they're still blind

Love while the night still hides the withering dawn

Song title: Kiss While Your Lips Are Still Red

Artist: Nightwish

Chapter 36: The Sacrifice Part I

Somewhere in Mystic Falls, Virgina

Katherine Pierce woke up to the pain in her neck, she hissed in slight annoyance towards Edward- how did he know that she was a different kind of vampire anyway?

"Are you okay?"

Katherine's dark eyes landed onto the older woman across from her, dried blood was left at the corners of her mouth, her pale skin was covered with dirt and grime, her short, light brunette curls were a mess and dirty.

"Yes. I am fine." Katherine replied, then looked towards the woman, who had a light heart beat- like her own. "Who are you?"

"Renee." the woman replied, sighing. "Renee Dwyer."

"Wait." Katherine replied, walking towards the woman. "The same Renee that was married to Charlie Swan?"

"Yes- how do you know that? Do you know Charlie." Renee replied. "How come I can hear your heart? Why can I hear noises outside of this prison cell?"

Katherine then groaned in annoyance, trust whoever placed her in here had to place a newborn vampire with her. "Ah, you're a vampire, I'm a vampire." Katherine replied, she didn't have time to give the woman the 101 on being a vampire- she needed to escape. Before she could reach the cell door, Renee gave a small whimper as footsteps came towards their cell; a high sickening, sweet, bleach like scent came to Katherine's nose.

The cell door opened, two young children came into view- the youngest was the little girl who was dressed in a dark red, knee-length dress, her blonde curls was neatly combed and pulled back by a matching red ribbon. Her brother, and Katherine knew this since they looked like each other; was dressed in a light grey suit, he too had blonde hair but it was more towards the light brunette and combed to one side. Katherine then arched an eyebrow as a sickly, pale looking man came into view behind the children, his red eyes rolled towards Renee in a annoyed like way; the body of her human husband- Phillip still laid decaying in his room; his eyes then landed on Tatiana's doppelganger.

He touched Katherine's face lightly, coming his fingers through her curls; he smirked as Katherine growled in annoyance as he grabbed hold of her hair, pulling her face towards him- he took a whiff of her scent, her light heartbeat came to his ears, her scent was mouthwatering. He knew that Stefan and Edward chose well in this Doppelganger, when the sacrifice is over and done he and his beloved Tatia will rule over earth, enslaving all of mankind to do their biding.

The eldest Salvatore was right in one thing, he will not stop until the streets run with blood; if bloodshed gets his revenge over and done with then well, that is what has to be done.

"You are a perfect carbon copy of her." the man whispered, his voice sending a chill down Katherine's spine; her insticts were telling her to try and escape but she could feel the power coming from both of the children- witches, even if she overpowers this unknown Cold One she still had to out run the witches and whoever else was helping this creep.

How she wished for the Salvatore brothers to come whisking in right now and saving her ass, hell she'll even settle for Klaus, who is hellbent of killing her.

But no one came, she was still here, with this creep and Renee- things could not get any worse.

A sound came, the little girl pulled out a small silver cellphone; a wicked looking smile came across her face as her blue eyes bore into Katherine's then landed onto the man. "Master, they have him."

"Ah, and what of his soul mate?"

"He has her too."

"Good." the man replied, smiling evilly; as he stroke the girl's face in a slight fatherly way- was he her father or possible grandfather? Katherine didn't care nor wanted to know- she just wanted to get out of this hell hole that she just so happen to wake up in. "Now, time to go and pick up the main ingredient for the sacrifice."

"Sacrifice?" Renee replied, all eyes fell onto her as she spoke, Katherine forgot that she was there. "What sacrifice?"

"To make me into a Hybrid Vampire of course, sweetheart." the man replied, Katherine shivered as the word 'sweetheart' escape from his lips- it was too Klaus for her liking. "And your sweet, sweet daughter just so happens to be the main ingredient that I need."

"Bella!" Rene gasped, a dark growl escaped from her as she blurred towards him but she screamed as she fell to the ground, holding her head. "What's happening to me!"

"Twins... Stop." the man commanded, he then helped Renee to her feet and slapped her across the face, sending her flying into the wall and Katherine turned away as she heard a sicking snap. "Now... Time to go and pick up my date."

The Petrova Vampire was left speechless as she watched the unknown man leave with the twin witches, her brown eyes then landed back onto Renee; a sigh escape from her as she turned to wait until the newly turned vampire to wake up.

...

Richmond, Virginia

A couple of days had passed and no one had seen a single hair nor chin of either Frederick or Stefan, but they had a few close encounters with several compelled people to lure Bella away from the group, which was a red flag in Elijah's eyes; but he didn't want Bella to feel cooped up like she had been back in Forks with the Cullen family- yes, she was a fragile human- until she wishes for Elijah to change her and he would gladly do so but she was also her own person- she could think and speak for herself, something that the Cullens had came to realise.

So here Bella found herself in a bar of all places in the next town over from Mystic for Caroline's supposed surprised bachelorette surprise party- though it was Caroline doing all the planning- along with Rebekah, Caroline, Elena, Angela, Bonnie- who had decided to place Bella under a magical disguise, thanks to a spell her Grams had given her- Mandy, Sage and surprisingly to Bella- Alice and Rosalie had tagged along for some fun.

Bella smiled as Rosalie interacted with both Sage and Caroline, telling them of all the idiotic stunts that Emmett and came up with that had gotten him into trouble once or twice, Bella also couldn't help but giggle at some of Sage's reactions to that of the words coming out of Rose's mouth, she never knew a Cold One could do such things and yet still breathes to live another day.

"... And of all of the idiotic things he and Jasper came up with, that table was one of Esme's prize possessions and they destoryed it in a matter of seconds." Rosalie added, laughing as she finished her story.

A round of snorts and giggles came from the small group of females, as Caroline came back with another round of alcoholic shots; Bella took one glass and downed it much to the annoyance of Alice.

"What?" Bella asked, looking back at Alice, who still held her untouched shot glass in her hands and gave a small annoyed look at Bella. "Seriously, you're going to start on me for drinking?"

"No."

"Liar." Bella snapped, rolling her eyes as the brunette got to her feet, grabbing Elena and Rosalie; pulling them to the small dance floor. "Sorry to snatch you both away but I needed to distract myself before I pound into Alice with a crowbar or something harder- like a bat!"

Rosalie gave a small snort; rolling her eyes as she twirled the brunette Petrova reincarnation. "Just ignore her Bella, she's still a little bit peeved that you chose the Mikaelson family over us- well her and Edward mainly." the blonde replied, as the girls moved to the beat of the music, Bella nodded but she knew that Alice was staring at them.

"I agree with Rose, just ignore her." Elena added, smiling as Caroline, Sage, Rebekah and Mandy came to join them on the dance floor- the only person left to mind their belongings was Alice, who was texting on her phone looking quite bored.

Unknown to most of the girls, including the pixie-like Cold One due to the blarring of the speakers; Caroline's phone had continued to ring on a private number, when the young, blonde vampire noticed that she had several missed calls from an unknown number, she then was about to send a quick text to Klaus but stopped as another call came on her phone- this time it was her home phone calling.

Caroline quickly told Alice that she would be back as she needed to take the call as she thought that there was something wrong at Mystic that would make her mum, Liz call her from home; when Caroline found herself a quiet spot, she pressed the answer button.

"Mum? Are you okay? Why are you home?"

When there was no reply just heavy breathing Caroline instincts were telling her something wasn't right, she took another look at the ID, it was her mother's landline.

"Caroline, St..." Liz voice started then stopped as Caroline heard a scuffle was heard in the background as if the phone had dropped then picked back up and the heavy breathing returned.

"Mum?"

"Sorry Elizabeth Forbes can't come to the phone right now." a familiar male's voice replied, Caroline could hear her mother moan in the background.

"Stefan? What have you done to my mother?!" Caroline hissed, her eyes going dark as the blonde vampire started to shake with pure anger. "I swear if you hurt her..."

"You'll what Caroline? Kill me?" Stefan taunted, chuckling darker. "Get in line, as there are a few people who would love to kill me now, but why don't you return back to Mystic to see how mummy dearest is fairing? Talk soon, Care bear."

"Stefan, don't!" Caroline warned but it went unnoticed as the older vampire hanged up on her, tears flooded from Caroline's eyes as she started to type a long text to Klaus; only to walk into someone.

"Oh! I'm sorry."

"Don't be." the man replied, Caroline looked up at his slight English then her mouth dropped open as she was staring back into the red crimson eyes of a Cold One. "My, you are a pretty thing! Young Salvatore was indeed right about you."

"Frederick." Caroline hissed, her eyes going a shade darker as she glared at him. "What do you want?"

"A lot of things!" Came his small reply, as he came to Caroline's face though he smiled when she didn't back down from him. "The Swan girl, power, my beloved Tatia back from the dead, Klaus's endless suffering as he finds your dead body upon his doorstep."

"What?" Caroline whispers shortly before she feels a needle being inserted into her neck, she then pulls out of his grasp and smelt the liquid that oozed down her neck. "Venom?"

"Werewolf venom, seems your friend and ex-lover Tyler was more then just Katherine's little boytoy." Frederick chuckled darkly as Caroline's vision started to get a little fuzzy. "Oh dear, you seem to be a little unsteady on your feet, could that be from the vervain mixed in with it? Seems so."

With a quick flex of his hands, the blonde girl's neck snapped like a twig, he looked around to see if anyone had witnessed anything, when he was happy and a little sad that no one saw what happened between the two of them- he picked up Caroline's limp form and blurred of into the night air.

...

Mystic Grill, Mystic Falls, Virginia

With the girls out having a good time in Richmond, Elijah had decided to join his brothers along with that of the Cullen boys, Jacob, Alaric, Jeremy and the oldest Salvatore brother- Matt also joined them for a bit only to be called in for a last minute shift and made plans to join them once things had quieted down.

Kol was lining up some vodka shots for Finn, who had never tasted vodka before, to take and Klaus, who actually dared Finn to drink them all in one go had joined them in the little game.

Elijah chuckled as Klaus took a swing of the expensive Bourbon bottle that Matt had given him from the bar's top shelf, knowing the Original Hybrid's love of vintage things- mainly paintings and alcohol- when the second eldest Mikaelson brother couldn't help but thnk that something was wrong.

And just as he predicted, with keen eyes, Elijah stood up in slight confusion as Klaus suddenly looked as he couldn't breathe and lurches over the counter.

"Niklaus, are you alright?" Elijah asked, coming to his brother's side and saw that nothing was wrong- apart from the lack of air Klaus was getting.

"I think he had one too many, brother." Kol drunkenly replied, chuckling as he did so.

Klaus looks up, as darks veins started to spread across his face and down his neck as if he himself had been bitten by a werewolf. "Some... Something's wrong..."

"Sure is mate, you should see your face!" Kol yelled, looking like his eyes could pop out of their sockets, turning to face Finn, who then tried to steady Klaus on his feet.

"He seems to be having some sort of heart attack." Alaric mutters, looking confused along with that of Jacob- who was heading back to the small group from the Jukebox with Damon not far behind. "Can vampires have heart attacks?"

"No, that's highly unlikely." Elijah replied, then yelled in slight surprise as Klaus fell to the floor, taking Finn and Elijah with him. "Kol, Salvatore- a little help."

Both dark haired vampires came to Klaus's side, trying to get him of the floor and back into some slight comfort position. "What could be doing this?" Jacob asked the question they all were thinking. "Some sort of magic spell?"

"Frederick."

"My god the girls." Alaric muttered, getting to his feet and quickly calling Elena's phone but only got her voicemail. "Damn it, voicemail."

"Car... Caroline." Klaus whispered before closing his eyes and going limp; all pair of eyes from the small group came in contact with eachother, as they help the fallen Hybrid out of the Grill and calling their respective partners along the way to come straight back to Mystic.

...

Noticing that Caroline hadn't returned from her hazed exit from the bar, Bella had walked outside to see if she was anywhere to be found; when the form of the blonde vampire couldn't be found, Bella came back inside only to face the horror stricken faces of Sage, Rebekah, Alice and Rosalie- Elena, Bonnie, Mandy and Angela looked mildly confused as they tried to processed what had been told to them before Bella came back inside.

"What?" Bella asked, worry started to fill her tone. "What is it?"

"It's Klaus."

"What about Fluffytails?" Bella asked, giggling at his nickname but stopped as Rebekah expression still stayed the same. "Bekah?"

"He... Fainted or something." Rebekah replied, grabbing her stuff. "Where's Caroline?"

"That's why I went outside to look for her." Bella muttered, looking scared now. "But she's not there."

"She has to be," Alice added, making the girl's turn to look at her. "What? Her mother was calling her so she left to go out the front to answer it."

"Could she have returned before us?"

"Leaving her stuff here?" Rebekah snapped, glaring at Sage for thinking such a thing about the girl she considered a sister. "No, she wouldn't."

The small group walked back towards the cars that they had travelled in, but since Caroline had taken her own car- it would have to be sitting in the carpark until the blonde could be found; Bella then slightly stumbled on something with her shoe, looking down at the circular looking object- Bella's breath got caught in her throat.

"Guys..." she called, gaining no one's attention. "Guys. Guys!"

"What?" came some of their annoyed replies.

"I don't think Caroline is on the phone to her mum anymore."

"What makes you say that?" Elena replied, looking worried for her missing friend.

Bella then showed them the small, circular object she had picked up of the ground and that was when everyone and everything went quiet, apart from the beating hearts of the human girls.

It was Caroline's broken mobile phone.