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The Murder of One
Knock Knock Knock
"Go awaaaaay" I moan in annoyance at whoever is knocking on my bedroom door.
Knock Knock Knock
My mouth squashed against my pillow, "Leavemealoooooooone".
Knock Knock Knock
With a deep huff, I literally roll out of my bed and land on my knees before standing up and walking over to my door, "What?" I yawn out as I meet Elena.
With her head tilted in judgment, she says, "We were supposed to leave for Alaric's half an hour ago!".
"Ah, yeah, 'bout that, I'm not going so bye" I say quickly and try and close the door, only her foot stops the door from closing completely.
"Klarissa!" she exclaims in annoyance.
"Wow the full name, so this is serious" I snark and open the door again to see her disapproving glare.
Elena rolls her eyes, "Yes this is serious, Alaric obviously isn't okay and we need to check up on him".
"Look, Elena, as much as I am worried about Ric, giving him a muffin isn't going to you know, magically get rid of the serial killer that's currently taking up residence in his body" I shrug.
"He needs us" she tells me softly.
"I know, but I've got a few things I need to do today, I'll go check up on him later" I tell her honestly.
She responds, "You sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Damon might be there already?".
"Who?" I ask, and she rolls her eyes again, "Ya know, if you keep rolling your eyes at me, one day they're gonna get stuck there" and this time, I successfully shut the door.
•••
"Ugh why did we have to meet in the woods" I complain as I trudge along with Matt.
"Wait, I thought you'd know what was up?" he questions with confusion as he grabs my arm as I almost trip over a branch, "You know I thought for an Angel, you'd have a little more grace" he jokes.
I shrug, "Nope, no clue. Elena is super cryptic these days, can't say I blame her but-OW! Shit-" I cut off as I once again, almost trip, and elbow Matt in the side as he snorts at my clumsiness, "As I was saying, I can't really blame her, too many weird things have been happening".
"Weird? That's an oddly optimistic adjective for what's been happening in this town" he comments, as we finally come into the view of Caroline and Elena.
"Hey Guys!" the blonde vampire shouts in greeting.
"Hey Care" I say before turning back to Matt, "Also, I'm a Guardian, not an Angel, I don't think anyways, I don't know, the council isn't really the best when it comes to giving me an actual description of what it is I am. But I do know that the description doesn't say anything about losing my unwilling ability to fall over air".
Matt chuckles, "Right, sounds legit. Speaking of legit.." he turns to look at Elena, "What was with the text? And why are we meeting out in the middle of the woods?".
Elena shrugs her shoulders, "I don't know, Stefan just said to meet here".
Speak of the devil, "Where's Bonnie?" Stefan asks as he walks in tow with Damon, " I texted her too".
Caroline replies, "Bonnie's mom bailed on her again, so I think we should just leave her out of this".
"Uh, what are we doing here?" Matt asks the brothers with a look of confusion clouding his features,
"We found some more white oak" the blue-eyed vampire responds before adding, "Long story, wait for the movie".
I snort and mutter, "Knew this was your plan", and I look over at him to find his eyes already on me. Only, the expression on his face is unreadable.
Elena's brows furrow, "Wait, white oak? You have a weapon that can kill Klaus?".
Stefan shakes his head as he throws down the duffel bag he was carrying, "Nope we all have a weapon".
"You know, part of me kind of thought that you'd be smarter than this" I tell them unimpressed
"What other choice do we have?" Stefan questions with an irritated tone.
Hands on my hips I wonder, "I don't know, maybe one that isn't this stupid".
Damon scoffs, "Look, just cause you're sweet on Klaus-".
I cut him off with, "Oh, the way that you are with Rebekah?".
He steps closer to me, "Please-".
"Okay! We did not come out here to play witness to an episode of Days of Our Lives. Come on, Stefan walk us through it" Caroline jumps in between Damon and I, scowls on our faces directed at the other.
Ignoring us, Stefan explains "Klaus has always been one step ahead of us, but now we have the advantage. We're all armed and they are all linked, meaning we only need to kill one of them. We need to seize the best opportunity, which means we need to prepare for every opportunity".
"Scenario number one" Damon begins, "You get to play Klaus" and walks over to Elena and has her stand in front of everyone.
"Rebekah is our target, so we distract her and catch her off guard. To do that, we need to keep Klaus separate and occupied", Stefan says and looks over to me, "Klary".
"Why is it always me?" I grumble and walk over to where Elena stands.
Damon scoffs, "Cause he's in love with you".
"Careful there, D, you sound like you might be jealous" I say with a smirk and Damon just clenches his jaw and looks away.
Walking over the Caroline, Damon tells her "We need for you to be Rebekah, thus inviting Point Break over there as we need for him to distract her".
"How?" Matt asks, the point break insult flying right over his head.
"Act interested, she's lonely and desperate" Damon replies.
Caroline speaks up, "Clearly, she slept with you", before looking over at me with a wince, "sorry" she mouths and I just shrug at her.
Damon ignores her comment and walks over to Caroline, "Beefcake holds Bombshell. I come up from behind her, grab her arms like this" he demonstrates standing behind Caroline and pulling her arms back so that they are locked behind.
"Ow!" Caroline shouts.
"Gives me time for one shot" Stefan explains as he comes up to Caroline's front and imitates stabbing her with the stake, and Damon lets go of her. "Everyone got it?" he asks and at everyone's nod he continues, "Good. We all have one stake, we keep it hidden and we look out for any opportunity we have".
"No last minute attached of pity for any of them" Damon instructs before looking at Elena.
Elena shakes her head at him, "Don't worry about me, not after what happened to Bonnie's mom".
"Barbie?" Damon questions.
Caroline nods, "Oh, I'm ready. Anything that will free Tyler from his sire bond to Klaus.
"Busboy?"
"Do I have a choice?" Matt sighs.
Damon agrees, "Good point".
"Klary?" Stefan asks, "You good?".
Taking a breath I tell him, "Yeah, I'm good".
"We have twelve stakes, that means twelve shots at killing one Original. We can do this, alright let's try more scenarios".
•••
"Did you get a hold of Bonnie?" I ask my twin sister as we walk through town, after our run-down with Stefan and Damon, but by the sad expression that sits on her features, I already know her answer.
Elena shakes her head at us, "Straight to voicemail, I just asked her to call one of us when she's ready so we know she's okay".
"Uh, guys? Isn't that Klaus' brother in the middle of the town square?" Matt brings to our attention and we all look over to see Finn with oh no.
"I thought he left town?" Elena questions.
I look to Caroline to see her already tuning in on their conversation, "Seems like a weird lovers-meet-again cute".
I groan, "Uhhhh, not to like spring this on you, but that may or may not be the vampire that I totally lost my marbles on the other day".
"I'm sorry, come again?" Elena asks me, as the three of them look at me in confusion.
"Yep, totally sent an umbrella flying through her stomach - oh don't give me that look, I'm working on it - anyways, she can't see me with you guys so lemme go give Damon and Stefan a call, let them know where we are" I explain rather quickly, and with no last look in their direction, I turn around and start walking across to the other side of the street as I dial Damon's number. "Weird, no answer" I mumble, before calling up Stefan.
"What's up?" he greets.
I reply, "Hey, look not to sound too dramatic or whatever but Finn's here in the middle of the town square along with Sage, which can I just say makes absolutely no sense at all? Considering she was just getting all up and cosy with Damon not even a whole 24 hours ago, and-"
"Klary" the vampire cuts me off.
"Yeah?".
I hear Stefan sigh, "Can you please explain what you're talking about? I'm not fluent in the language of Klary ramblings".
"Ouch, dick".
"Klary" he says again.
"Okay, okay. Look, what do you want for us to do?" I ask him.
"Nothing, look that vampire? She's very old and very powerful so do not engage" he tells me.
"Uh, not too brag, but I also happen to be those things" I tell him confidently before adding, "Well not the old part.
"Klary".
I groan, "My God, can you please stop scorning me as if you were my father, damn. Look all I'm saying is we have an opportunity, shouldn't we take it?".
He responds, "No you shouldn't, listen to me, do not do anything, you won't stand a chance against her".
I scoff offendedly, "Wow, thanks for the belief in me, look tell that to the wood I almost killed her with the other day".
"The what?! Klary, I've already told you, do not do anything!".
"Ugh, fine! Just get Damon and get both your asses down here then" I tell him with annoyance before I hear his breath hitch over the phone, "What?".
Stefan signs, "I think we have a problem?".
"And what would that be?" I ask confused.
"Rebekah" is all he tells me.
•••
"What do you mean Rebecca has Damon?" I demand as Caroline and I walk through the door of the Salvatore Boarding House.
Alaric looks up from his place on the couch, "I'm not sure, one minute I'm upstairs, the next I've been thrown over the railing and all I got was a flash of blonde hair".
"She must have taken him to the mansion, I've got to go find him" I tell them as we make to leave before Caroline grabs my wrist in her hand to pull me back around.
"Are you sure that the best idea?" She questions me.
I shrug, "What else am I supposed to do? Stefan's gone to help Elena, and what if she kills him? I mean I wouldn't put it past her".
Alaric shakes his head, "Considering how pissed she seemed, I don't think she'd make it that easy for him".
"Even more reason to go" I say with another shrug.
Caroline grips my wrist tighter, "I think you should leave him be".
My eyes widen, "Are you serious, Caroline, this is Rebekah we're talking about!".
"Exactly, which means we need to be smarter about this. Look, she probably found out he was playing her and got pissed, which means you need an actual plan. I know you like to go in guns a blazing, but sometimes you need a little more groundwork before you go all in, okay? That's all I'm saying" she tries to explain.
Ripping my hand out of her grip I look at them, "I honestly cannot with the two of you right now" and go to make my way out the door, ignoring Caroline's shout of my name.
Slamming the door, I close my eyes and take a deep breath, when I open them, I'm no longer on the front porch of the Salvatore Boarding House. Hearing the heels of my boots click against the tiled flooring, I look around and realisation washed over me as I realise where I am.
Walking further down the corridor, I gasp in horror when the sight of Damon, tied up in some sort of make-shift torture device with blood covering him greets me.
"Oh my god" I whisper in shock as I rush over to him, taking his face gently between my hands, "Damon".
He's weak, but his eyes flutter open and relief washes over him, "Angel? What are you doing here?".
"I don't know.. I was just thinking about coming to save you and now I'm here" I tell him softly, not wanting my tone to be harsh in case someone else overhears.
"You can't be here" he breathes out, and I can hear the pain that laces through his tone, "Rebekah will kill you".
I shake my head, "I don't care, I'm getting you out of here" and removing my hands from it's hold on his cheeks, I go to one of the traps that encaptures his right hand and when I go to pull it open, more blood seems to pull and Damon groans in horrid pain. Stepping back I mutter as many apologies as my mouth will allow, "I'm so sorry, I don't know how to open them without hurting you even more".
Damon replies, "It's okay, but you need to get out of here, I can hear someone coming".
Holding his face in my hands once more I tell him, "I am not leaving you".
"You have to" he says weakly.
Shaking my head in disagreement, I let go of him once more so that I can roll up one of my long sleeves, "You need to feed, if I can get you stronger, it'll be easier to get you out of here".
"Angel…" he whispers, slowly falling unconscious again.
"Damon!" I exclaim in a hush, quickly bringing my wrist up to his mouth, "Please, you need to drink".
"Don't wanna feed from you...don't wanna hurt you" he murmurs.
"It's okay, baby" I tell him softly, and his eyes flutter more before they open and land on me, "Go ahead" I tell him and ever so gently, I feel his fangs tear into my flesh. A moan escapes me and my other hand grips on the nape of his neck as a spike of pleasure strikes through me. Another moan is heard, this time from Damon and I feel the lust pool in my core even more.
Before we can get carried away, I hear footsteps approaching and before I know it, I feel something yank me back away from him, and suddenly I'm back at the front of the Salvatore Boarding House.
"Ha? Wha?" I mutter in confusion.
"Klary! Look I'm sorry okay" I hear Caroline's voice behind me, and I turn realising that she has her hand on my arm. As she keeps rambling on, I feel my eyes glaze over with tears as I look down at my wrist and see two puncture wounds, "Klary, are you even listening to me?" she asks with snaps me out of my daze.
"He's in some sort of a trap, she has him tied up and bleeding out, oh my god, Caroline we need to go save him!" I cry out but she looks at me in confusion as she watches my eyes fall on my wrist.
"What the hell happened?" she asks me, confused at the bite marks on my wrist.
"I, I-" and the next thing I know, all I see is darkness.
•••
"What'd I miss?" I ask in confusion after walking down the stairs of the boarding house and seeing shattered glass and broken furniture litter the living room.
Elena looks over to me and sighs in relief, "You're okay".
I yawn before replying, "Yeah, I don't know what happened, I just feel like my entire body has nothing but liquid inside of it".
Elena's nose cocks up at the weird description but before she can reply, Caroline walks through the door as she dusts off her hands, "Ew, vampire disposal is not one of my strong suits" before she looks at me and runs over to hug me tightly, "You're awake!" she squeals.
"Uh yep, I'm awake" I say as I hug her back before pulling away, and raising an eyebrow at the mess, "Either of you gonna explain what happened?".
"Sage happened, and her sidekick, not important enough for me to remember his name but at least they carked it" Caroline explains.
Furrowing my eyebrows I say, "Huh?".
Elena rolls her eyes at Caroline antics, "Sage tried to attack us, she almost had the upper hand before she just, like, went up in flames".
"I don't follow?" I tell them confused.
"Earlier, the guys were able to stake Finn and so she must of come here to get her revenge, but, well…" Caroline trails off her answer and looks to Elena for guidance.
"Bonnie called earlier, she said Klaus forced her to perform a spell which unlinked the siblings, however, it still means that if one of them were to be killed, then their personal bloodline would also die along with them" Elena explains to me.
Shocked, I have no response for her before realistion washes over me, "Oh my god, if Bonnie was at Klaus' then that means she saw Damon".
Elena nods, "She said it wasn't good-".
Abruptly, I say "I need to go there" and try to step away but my legs are still feeling like jell-o and it takes Caroline steadying me before I can even try to walk again.
"Stefan's already there, trading the stakes for Damon" Caroline tells me before guiding me over to the couch so that I can sit down.
My sister nods in agreement, "Which means that you can rest, I don't know what happened to you earlier that made you faint, but you've lost a lot of energy".
And it's the look of concern on both of their faces that makes me want to tell them what happened with me, that I somehow mentally transported to see Damon, but it's also that concern that has me smiling weakly at them and saying, "I'm okay, just think the stress and worry of everything that's happened this past week has caught up to me".
"You sure?" Elena questions.
I nod, "Yep. So, you were saying that Stefan's is trading the stakes for Damon?".
"Not all of them, we still have enough to kill three out of the four, if we can figure out who to save" Elena tells me.
"Right, considering the whole, lineage turns to literal ash depending on who goes" Caroline says before adding, "But, how are we supposed to figure that out?".
Elena shrugs, "I have no idea, we know you were turned with Damon's blood, and Damon and Stefan were turned by Katherine, plus we know Katherine was turned by a vampire named Rose".
"Well, who turned Rose?" Caroline asks.
"We don't know, but it can only link back to one Original and if the odds are in our favour, hopefully it won't be Klaus so that we can still kill him" Elena responds thoughtfully.
Nausea eats its way through me as I chew on my bottom lip before speaking up, "Uh, girls.. Even if Klaus didn't create the bloodline, we know for a fact that he turned one of us".
Caroline's eyes widen in fear before Elena breathes out, "Oh my god, Tyler".
•••
After the intense conversation I had with Caroline and Elena, I retreated back upstairs to the only room I've felt comfortable in, in the boarding house. Sitting back on the soft cushioned day bed that sits underneath the wide window in Damon's room, overlooking the garden, I sigh softly as I rest my head on my bent knees before hearing the sound of the bedroom door gently opening and closing.
Turning my head, I smile kindly as my eyes meet Damon's tired ones, "Hi" I whisper, knowing he can hear me.
A tug of his lips upwards has him responding, "Hi". Standing up from where I sit, I walk over to him and reach out to touch him, still not sure if it's another episode like the one I had today, or - "I'm really here, Angel" he tells me, and the relief washes over me for a second before I'm throwing my arms around him.
"Thank God, you're okay" I murmur into his chest, as I feel his arms wrap around my waist and hold me against him tighter.
"All thanks to you" he mutters as his cheek rests upon the top of my head.
"So that did really happen" I say as I pull back, still in his arms, just now making eye contact with him.
Damon nods, "Sure did, I thought Rebekah was in my head, but I realised pretty soon that the taste of you was still left on my tongue even after you disappeared".
"I'm just happy it worked" I tell him sincerely with a soft smile, only he doesn't return it. Suddenly, the hazy cloud of contentment leaves from over our heads as Damon lets go of me and takes a step back.
"You let me feed from you, why?" he questions, insecurities tucked away in his head.
Confused at his hard tone I reply, "You were almost dead, Damon".
"Newsflash, Angel, I'm already dead" he scoffs.
Annoyance appears over me as I roll my eyes, "You know what I mean".
"No, actually I don't" he responds, putting more space betwen us.
"Damon.." I say quietly as I look at him, slowly trying to get back to the moment we had if only a second ago.
How quickly the moments between us can change. "No, Klary! This isn't fair on me either, the back and forth, saving me then letting go of me. How easy this all must be for you!" he yells as he begins to pace to the other side of the room.
"And you going around making decisions that you know will hurt me isn't fair either, Damon! You can't blow up at me when you're the one being selfish in the first place" I shout back at him before continuing, "If there is one thing that isn't easy for me, it's this!".
"And what's 'this'?" he wonders sarcastically.
I bite back, "Loving you, okay? Loving you isn't easy!".
Damon chuckles spitefully, "Love isn't supposed to be easy, but obviously you mustn't feel as strongly for me as I do for you, considering how easy it was for you to just break up with me and walk away as if we never even mattered!" venom is laced through his words.
"Oh my god, Damon! I broke up with you because I was mad at you, not because I stopped loving you!" I yell, louder than before, hoping that my explanation means something to him.
It's quiet between us at my confession, the only sound heard is the heartbeat pounding in my ears, "You still love me?" he questions, half out of disbelief, half out of want.
I nod as I cross my arms in front of me, hugging myself for support as I continue, "Of course I do, Damon, and I'm sorry that you have had to question that, but I need you to understand that right now, there are things that I need to figure out on my own" taking a deep breath I continue, "Because when I'm with you, I let go. I give up on myself, and there is so much that I need to learn, and I can't do that if I feel like I belong to someone else". Walking over to him, I release my arms from their grip around myself and I bring up one of my palms to rest against his cheek, "Please understand".
His eyes search mine for a moment before he slowly nods his head, "Okay".
A/N: Hi There, long time no talk. Firstly, I just want to apologise for the almost two year wait for a new chapter to this story. If I'm being honest, my love for The Vampire Diaries and this story has really diminished over the years, even before I went on this random hiatus. The truth is that I don't really like this story all too much, I feel like the first 30ish chapters are pretty much carbon copies of the show, just with another character added in which is why I've been trying to slowly stop that.. however, the amount of messages and outpouring of love for this story has meant so much to me which is why I will be finishing it. I just can't promise a schedule for the chapters like I once had in the past, and I hope that's okay.
I really just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who has waited for this new chapter, I cannot believe it, truly it means the world to me.
Now, a really important question - the fanfiction website has really taken a strange turn. I don't know what's with all the ads, and strange PM's I've been getting, but it's made it a really uncomfortable return to this site. So, I'm just wondering how you would all feel if I moved this story to Archive of Our Own? As well, as me possibly rewriting this story on there? Not so much a massive change, in terms of Klary's character, but more so just the originality of scenes/dialogue/etc. Please let me know, as I'll keep uploading my chapters on here, but I was thinking of doing a refresher on AO3, so please let me know what you think :)
Thanks for reading, and happy holidays to all who are celebrating xx