Chapter 53: Homecoming
We were standing in the Boarding house, Stefan and Damon trying to come up with a plan.
"Aye-Let's say that Mikael followed Aj here, he tried to grab her, use her as bait" Stefan said.
"And what?"I scoffed "You vervained him?"
"No!" Damon huffed "WE vervained him! This guy is an Original to make it realistic"
"O.K. fine. We vervained him, and in the process discovered that he had a dagger"
"Which he planned on using on Rebekah but instead..." Elena said.
"We drove it through his heart" Stefan said.
"And what happens when he asks where Mikael's body is?" I demanded.
"Good point" Damon said "You my brother have been compelled to do what Klaus says, so the idea to lure him back here and kill him-last thing we need is you-"
"Getting tripped up and tongue tied" I said folding my arms.
"Well don't look at me" Stefan said "I am in just in charge of getting him back here"
"Klaus is smart" I said "If we tell him that Mikael is dead, he'll want proof"
"Then I shall be dead" A voice said.
I turned to look at Mikael and swallowed.
"What if he wants to see you in person?" Elena asked.
"Wel that means our plan is working, Klaus will want to see my body, you lure him here and I will kill him"
"With what? Those daggers won't work on him" I said.
"Well I'm in possession of a stake from the wood of the ancient white oak tree, then one that left these ashes when it burned" He said.
"Where is it?" Stefan asked. I eyed him curiously.
"Not here, the knowing of it's location is my insurance policy" Mikael stated.
"Against what?" Stefan asked.
"You leaving this in my heart, you see, a vampire can't dagger an original without dying. So it falls on you" He said.
He handed the dagger to me and I stared at it.
"You want me to actually dagger you?" I asked raising my eyebrow.
"Klaus will leave nothing to chance, especially when it comes to trust"
I sighed and moved forward "Cant someone else do it?" Stefan asked. "I mean...come on"
I glared at him "Shut up, Dick"
"Can you do this?" Stefan scoffed.
"Anymore of it and I'll shove it through you" I snapped.
"Well can you?" He scoffed again.
I turned to face him and then Mikael grabbed my arm and told Stefan to shush. I snorted and looked up at Mikael.
"Just pretend it's someone you hate" Mikael said to me. I eyed Stefan for a minute and then nodded.
"Oh well that's not hard" I smirked and stabbed it into his heart, he fell back, dead.
"Who did you think of?" Elena asked.
I didn't need to answer because I looked at Stefan and scoffed; he frowned and shook his head.
-LATER-
Stefan was on the phone to Klaus, I was standing with Elena, Damon and Rebekah.
"Your father is dead" Stefan said "Oh, my mistake, not your actual father and not dead. Mikael. Daggered. What do you want me to do with the body?"
Stefan began to explain what happened and rolled his eyes slightly. "Well he's here. Come by whenever...it's true, I saw it with my own eyes"
He then looked at Rebekah "That's not a problem, she is right here" He handed the phone to her.
"Hello Nik" She said and cringed slightly "It's true he's finally out of our lives for good. I miss you. I'm miserable here" She said "Good, I'll see you then" She then turned to us "He bought it, he's coming home"
"Now was that easy or what?" Damon asked.
"Let's just get this over with" I said and pulled the dagger from Mikael's chest.
-LATER-
I was standing in Damon's room with him, preparing weapons.
"We can't trust Rebekah not to turn on us" I said to Damon.
"Oh really?" Damon smirked "Cause these original vampires are usually so reliable"
"Shut up Damon" I snapped "She might be mad at Klaus now, but he's her brother"
"Her lying, Mama-killing-dagger-happy brother. Wolvesbane is ready"
"There are too many things that can go wrong with this plan" I said "Too many people that can make it go wrong"
"Well I'm formulating a secret contingency plan" He said.
"Really what is it?" I asked.
"Well if I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret"
Stefan appeared and I scoffed "I need to borrow a tie" he said.
"You have your own ties" Damon scoffed.
"Hm-I'm a 162 years old and I'm going to homecoming I need a better tie" He said.
"You could not go" I smirked.
"I'm compelled to protect you and if I look at your track record of highschool dances it's pretty tragic with my luck you'll go and get yourself killed by the homecoming queen"
"Yeah, it would be tragic Klaus ripping you to shreds...I can picture it in my mind...the thought makes me extremly happy" I smirked.
Stefan scowled and left and Damon nudged me "Bit harsh"
"Uh, no" I said shaking my head.
I picked up a wolfsbane grenade and Damon hit my hand.
"Ah-AH! No" He said.
"I know how to do it!" I said "Ric taught me"
He took the grenade and frowned "April, if this thing blows up in our face-just remember only one of us heals quickly" He said.
Stefan came back "Ah-please tell me you have better plans than wolfsbane grenades?"
"Never you mind brother" Damon said. "The less you know, the better"
"My freedom from Klaus rests entirely upon you two executing your plan perfectly so excuse me if I'm a bit cynical" he said.
"You're the one you should worry about" I snapped "If Klaus asks you the wrong question this whole thing falls apart...and you are his bitch Stefan"
"You do have reason to worry" He snapped back "But if I look back in our history of epic plan failures it's usually because one of us let our humanity in and it's certainly not gonna be me who screws it up"
"Oh no defiantly not" I scoffed "just do our sanity a favour and leave"
"I'll see you at homecoming" He said "I can't wait"
"Just go away" I said shaking my head.
-LATER-
I walked into Stefan's room and saw Damon moved a body.
"Who is that?" I asked.
"Rebekah" Elena said.
"Oh"
"In the back!" Damon said "Harsh"
"Shame it wasn't someone else" I huffed and folded my arms.
"It had to be done, Rebekah was never gonna be completely on our side" Elena said.
"Hey, I'm not judging you" Damon smirked "It's very "Katherine" of you"
"Not the way to make her feel better about herself Damon" I said.
"It was a compliment...of sorts" he said.
-LATER-
-TYLER LOCKWOOD'S HOUSE-
-THIRD PERSON POV-
Aj was standing looking around when someone pulled her into a dance. She looked to see Klaus.
"Oh...great" She said sarcasitcly.
"You're not very polite love, are you?" He asked.
"Hmm" She hummed.
"You look very beautiful tonight" He said.
"Um...thanks?"
"Has Stefan been looking after you?"
"If you mean annoying me to death...then uh, yeah" She said with a frown.
"Well...where's your date?" He asked with a smirk.
"Getting me a drink" She said.
"Well, luckily I can give you one" He said and moved back and went to hand her a glass. She shook my head "Well, seems I have you to thank for Mikael's demise"
"He came at me" Aj said "I didn't have a choice"
"Still I'm impressed, it's not easy for a human to dagger an original"
"I've seen it before" She said with a shrug.
"Right. Elijah, you seem nervous"
"I'm not nervous" She said "I just don't like you"
"Let's just get straight to the point then shall I love? People have been after me for 1000 years and I am always one step ahead of them so whatever it is you're thinking of trying give it your best shot, you won't succeed"
"Who say's I'm planning anything?" She asked.
"You're the doppelganger and your boyfriend seems to think it's ok to try"
"He won't" She said "Why would he? I mean you're the big bad original"
He leaned in towards her "Exactly, so if he tries, I'll rip his heart out right in front of you"
"No you won't" she said and folded her arms "Because I believe you're better than that"
"You believe I'm better than what?" He asked.
"Than this...all of this" She said and she shrugged "I don't believe you're as bad as you portray yourself out to be"
"Why would you think that?" He asked curiously.
"Because, you're like Damon" She said "Hard exterior but on the inside he just doesn't want to be alone"
He didn't reply and he looked away.
"See" She said and went to walk away but he grabbed her arm.
"How would you know?"
She stared at him and bit her lip "Because every vampire has humanity, even if they switch it off...it doesn't matter...it'll always come seeping back in even when they don't want it, like that night you slapped me" She said "You asked to see it...and then told me maybe you didn't want to kill me...why I don't know, but I'm gonna try and get your humanity in...if you like it or not"
"Why?"
"Because maybe" She said leaning in "I want to"
He stared at her and she pulled back and moved from his grip and walked out the back and was grabbed by Damon.
"Go, go now"
"What? Where?" She asked.
"just go...we've got this"
"Damon" She began but he crushed his lips to hers and moved back. "What was that for?"
"In case there isn't a later" He said.
"Damon-"
"Go" He said and shoved her to Bonnie.
"No! Damon!"
Bonnie dragged her to the car.
-LATER-
I was pacing the living room floor in the boarding house when Damon came in.
"Damon!" I cried and ran at him. He caught me and sighed into my neck "Don't do that to me"
"Klaus isn't dead"
"What?" I asked pulling back "But-"
"Stefan ruined it" He said with a frown.
"How did this happen?" I asked.
"We thought of everything April" He said Klaus having hybrids, Mikael turning on us, we brought Elizabeth and Katherine in so you weren't in danger, anything could have gone wrong we were prepared"
"I don't understand" I said. "Stefan wanted Klaus dead, more than anything that's what we were counting on"
"We blew it" Damon said.
"Where are Elizabeth and Katherine?"
"They ran for the hills like usual, the minute things got bad, and who can blame them? Klaus would've crushed them, I had him April this could all be over!" He said.
He threw a bottle of scotch into the fireplace.
"Hey Damon" I said "Hey, hey! Listen to me!" I said I grabbed his face. "We'll survive this, we always survive, trust me"
"We're never getting Stefan back, you know that don't you?"
"Then we'll let him go" I said "Okay? We'll let him go"
He nodded and he sighed.
"There has to be a good reason for this" Elena said coming into the room.
"I'm sorry Laney" I said shrugging "He's gone"
"No, he...he wouldn't just do that, there had to be a catch" She said.
I shook my head and walked over to her, tears were in her eyes, Damon answered his phone and left the room.
"We can't let him go" She cried.
"Laney..." She hugged me and my grip tightened. "Shhhh"
"Don't let him go..."
I sighed "Ok"
"What?"
"I won't let him go" I said and frowned "I'll get him back...even if it kills me"
"I think there was a reason he blew it all" She said into my shoulder.
Maybe she was right...but then again...who knew?
