Thanks so much for all the reviews! Means a lot, took a while to update, sorry, but here it is! Please don't forget to review and give me some ideas! I love them. xx
kankananime123: Breaking point is definitely coming, but Klaus is making it very difficult for himself!
IrisTurner: Brea's forgiveness is going to be running very short soon when she finds out Damon and Bonnie have been keeping secrets from her.
Mimi: Tides are turning!
Oz: Your line you asked for is in here! I'll definitely include Katherine in a bit for the rest of this season, don't you worry
Liz: Matt's torn between helping his friends and doing what he thinks is right and this is going to change a lot.
ShiannetheFangirlofEverything: Haha thanks, love! I didn't reply to one of their private messages so I think they just got a bit uppity that I said I wouldn't change my whole story to match one they wanted, consider their comment ignored ;) thanks for your support!
Guest: I'm not sure yet how I'm going to have other characters reacting, that's going to be a gross that bridge when we come to it kind of matter.
Coco11: I'll definitely get in a Finn flashback sometime soon for you. Can't wait for Elijah to come back.
RiRi: She will definitely call Elena out on it!
"I'm not in the mood," Brea groaned.
"Tell me," Jeremy pleaded. "Come on you owe me."
"Excuse me! I do not," Brea laughed.
"Yeah, you do."
"What for?" Brea asked.
"I told Elena you stayed at Matt's last night so you wouldn't have to go on a run this morning."
"I gave you 5 bucks for that! We're even."
"Tell me where you hid the Bambi DVD or I'm calling Elena."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Elena! I found Brea, she's up here!" he yelled and Elena came running up the stairs.
"You're dead traitor," Brea hissed.
"Brea, hey!" Elena said coming to stand in the doorway, "we thought you were at Matt's. Come on we're going for a run, it's part of Ric's training," she said pulling out Brea's workout gear and throwing them on the bed.
"I don't want to," Brea whined.
Elena laughed and threw the covers off of Brea, "don't care. You promised Ric you'd do more work, you really slacked off this past week."
"Yeah, I know. Because Rebekah ran out on me. I'm not in the mood, Elena, there's other stuff as well, I just don't want to talk about it," Brea said pulling the covers back up.
Elena gave Jeremy a look and he left the room, "Brea. You know how sorry I am for about Rebekah leaving. I feel awful."
"It's not your fault."
"I..." Elena stuttered. "The whole homecoming night plot was Damon and I's idea. We're the reason Rebekah left, we panicked her. But you have to take your mind off it. You haven't heard from her all week. I'm sorry, but we've got to get you moving. It's the best thing for you."
"Fine!" Brea groaned. "Make it an easy run, I've got training with a friend later today."
Elena sighed, "and by friend, you mean Tyler. I don't think you should go, Brea. He's sired, he's dangerous."
"It's not Tyler."
"Ok, sure," Elena said sarcastically leaving her room, "get dressed we leave in 5."
"It's really not Tyler," Brea muttered before getting ready.
"Slow down!" Brea yelled as she trailed behind her sister on their run. "I'm dying."
"You're not dying," Elena called back, not slowing down.
"Hey, I'd know," Brea puffed. "Done it a few times," she said. Elena then picked up speed and started sprinting. "Lena," Brea groaned as she tried to increase her speed also. Elena quickly ran out of puff and came to a screeching halt unexpectedly, causing Brea to crash into the back of her sister and bounce off onto the ground.
"You ok?" Elena laughed holding out her hand to pull Brea off the ground.
"I landed on my butt," Brea moaned and Elena laughed and turned around to walk home when the girls saw a suspicious-looking man running toward them.
"Let's go," Elena said nervously, she'd been very on edge lately.
"Yep," Brea agreed nodding her head quickly and the twins ran off together.
After running for a minute Elena looked behind her and saw the man was still behind them, "still there," Elena said nervously.
Brea turned to look, "I don't like this," she said nervously.
"Neither, we have to run faster," Elena said.
"Uh-huh," Brea agreed picking her pace up, this time with no complaints. "Take the corner," Brea instructed Elena and the two zipped around the corner of a street and turned to look behind to see the man gaining on them and following them around the corner. "Bugger," Brea said panicked, "next corner, next corner," Brea said shakily, running out of energy.
"Come on," Elena said grabbing Brea's hand to drag her along when she noticed her sister was slowing down. Elena dragged Brea around another street corner and the two ran as hard as they could, holding onto each other's hands for dear life. Elena quickly moved the two of them behind a tree and they spun around to see that the man was no longer behind them.
"Maybe we're paranoid?" Brea asked puffing frantically.
"Maybe," Elena said also out of breath. "Let's keep going," she said.
"What!" Brea exclaimed and the girls turned around only to have Elena walked right into the man who had been running after them. Both girls gasped loudly and Elena moved back quickly to stand next to Brea.
"Excuse me," the man said taking out his earphones. "Should have been watching where I was going."
"Don't worry about it," Elena said nervously.
"You both have a nice day," the man said running off again.
"Hybrid?" Brea asked as the man ran off.
"I hope not," Elena stuttered. "Can we go home please?" Elena asked looking around the street.
"Yup, I'll walk you home then I got to go meet someone," Brea said.
"Please don't hang out with Tyler, he's dangerous."
"Tyler is not dangerous," Brea laughed. "He's a loser, but he's not dangerous. Besides, I'm not meeting Tyler."
"Whatever you say," Elena smiled. "Hey, you ok? You don't look great."
"I'm exhausted from all the bloody running!"
"It's more than that, your eyes, you're tired. Are you ok?"
"No," Brea said looking down. "Nightmares."
"Same one you had as a kid?" Elena asked.
"No. Different, but it doesn't make any sense. Sorry, but I just don't really talk about it."
"That's cool," Elena said as they reached their house, "but I'm here when you are ready."
"Thanks, Lena, I'll catch up with you later?" she waved before walking off.
"Argh," Nik groaned as Brea shoved a stake into his stomach.
"Stop whining," Brea scowled.
"Hard to stop whining when you're shoving things into my stomach, sweetheart," he said pulling out the stake and handing it back to Brea.
"What did we agree on?" Brea asked.
"That I teach you self defence."
"Without…"
"Small talk," Nik said.
"Exactly," Brea said shoving another stake into his stomach, "and I'm angry. So you are going to help me work through these rage issues without annoying me," she said as Nik pulled out the stake and handed it back to her. "Finn, Elijah, Rebekah, Kol, Katerina and me. You made our lives a living hell," Brea growled throwing the stake to the side and picking up boxing gloves. Nik held his hands up and Brea started punching them. After a few punches, she straightened up quickly, blinking rapidly.
"You ok?" Nik said moving closer.
Brea held her hand up to stop him "I'm fine. I'm just tired that's all."
Nik moved closer, grabbed her arm, he took the boxing gloves off her hands before he lowered them. "You're exhausted, love. I could see it in your eyes when you got here. Tell me what's wrong."
"It's nothing. I've just had some nightmares, that's all. I can deal with that on my own."
"About…" Nik started before Brea cut him off.
"No. No. I'm not talking about Jenna with you," Brea snapped turning around to walk to the river and sit down.
Nik sighed and came and sat next top her, "you can tell me. If you tell me I might be able to help."
Brea turned to look at him and then groaned, "ok. The nightmare starts with you and me, walking along this river. You're human," Brea said and Nik looked down to give a small smile. "We're laughing. Having a good time and then I trip and fall. I go to get up, but you're gone, and Kol is there," Brea said and Nik's smile fell. "He helps me up, asks if I'm ok and he goes in to kiss me, but bites my neck instead."
"Bite's you?" Nik asks looking concerned.
"Yeah," Brea huffed turning back to look out over the river.
"No one in my family has ever bitten you. Not once."
"I know. Which is why it's so scary. I've only had them the weeks. But they wake me up every night. I can't sleep."
Nik grabbed Brea's hand and held it and she whipped her head around to look at him, "I promise you now, love, no one in my family will ever bite you. I know I speak for everyone when I say that. None of us would ever harm you."
Brea gave him a small smile before gently pulling her hand out. "I should probably go. Ric texted me, I'm meant to meet him at the Grill."
"Ok, I'll go with you if you wouldn't mind, love. You can drive," Nik said jumping up and grabbing Brea's hands to help her up. "I've been wanting a drive in that car. It's quite lovely."
"Katerina got it for me," Brea said as she got in the car, but not before she saw Nik glare. "Don't start, please," Brea asked and he smiled and nodded as she drove off to the Grill.
Brea and Nik pulled up at the Grill after a silent car ride and got out and walked to the door. As they were about to go in, Nik froze. "What?" Brea asked.
"Do you want the coffins back?" Nik asked and Brea nodded. "Elena and Damon are in there, stand by my side. I'm going to intimidate them."
"They don't know where the coffins are," Brea said. "They haven't heard from Stefan. I don't even think Elena knows he took the coffins."
"Look," Nik said gently to her. "I believe you, but do you think that when they do hear from Stefan they'll let you know where he is? They know you'll tell me," he said and Brea looked down, she knew it was true. "I need you to trust me here, I know that's asking a lot, but please," he said and Brea nodded and they walked into the Grill. As they entered Nik placed his hand on Brea's back and pointed out Elena and Damon, who were standing very close together by the darts board and he guided her over, "don't mind me," he said as he leaned against a bench.
"Klaus," Elena said shocked as Damon moved his body in front of Elena's, Elena's eyes darted over to Brea and she looked at her sister in confusion.
"Going to do this in the Grill?" Damon asked. "In front of everyone? A little beneath you don't you think?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Nik said walking forward while Brea stayed back. "I just came to my local pub to drop off a friend and grab a drink with a mate," Nik said turning behind to look at a man standing just behind Brea. Brea turned to see it was the man who was following Elena and her on their morning run. Brea's eyes went wide and she slowly stepped away from him and past Nik, to stand near her sister.
"You nearly killed me this morning," Brea said looking at the hybrid. Klaus turned around to look at his hybrid in alarm. "I am not fit enough to do sprints," Brea said glaring.
Nik subtly rolled his eyes and turned back to face the three of them, "get a round, then, would you Tony?" he asked his hybrid without even looking at him. Tony nodded before walking off, but he made sure to smirk at the twins one last time. Klaus' face lit up when he saw the uncomfortable look on Elena's face.
"Surprised you stuck around town long enough for happy hour," Damon said to Nik.
"My sister seems to be missing," Nik said, his face turning very serious. "Need to sort that out," he said and Brea snuck a side glance at her sister to study her reaction. She was calm and collected but Brea was suspicious, there is no way she'd leave without at least saying bye.
"Cute, blonde bombshell, psycho?" Damon asked sarcastically. "Shouldn't be too hard to find."
"Truth is," Nik said stepping forward to stand right in front of Damon, "I've grown to rather like your little town. Thinking I might fancy a home here," Nik said grabbing two darts out of Damon's hand, he waltzed forward and handed one to Brea. "No doubt you're wondering, how this might affect you. The answer is, not in the slightest. As long as I get what I want and everyone behaves themselves you can go on living your little lives however you choose," Nik said and Brea snorted. Nik smirked at Brea before adding, "you have my word."
"What more could you possibly want?" Elena asked shakily.
"Well, for starters, you can tell me where I might find Stefan," he said stepping right up to Elena.
"Stefan skipped town the second he saved your ass," Damon said placing himself in front of Elena again.
"Well, you see that is a shame," Nik said turning around and threw the dart to hit a bullseye. "Come on, love," Nik said waving Brea forward to throw her dart. "I've taught you how to play this before," he said smirking at Elena and Damon. Brea threw her dart and it landed just outside the bullseye, "not too bad love, little rusty," he said smiling at her, making sure Damon and Elena saw their full interaction. Nik turned to look at Damon and Elena again and his mood darkened, "your brother stole from us," Nik said, including Brea in his anger, making her give him a small smile that didn't fail to go unnoticed by Elena. "I need him found so I can take back what's ours."
"That sounds like a Klaus-and-Stefan problem," Elena said and Brea pursed her lips, knowing he wasn't going to like that answer. He stepped forward, but Damon again placed himself in the way, making Nik chuckle. "Well this is me broadening the scope, sweetheart," Nik warned with a smirk before he turned and wiggled his eyes knowingly at Brea before he walked off to join Tony.
"We need to talk about whatever that was with the two of you," Elena said coming up to Brea, "but right now we have a bigger family issue," Elena said taking Brea's hands and looking at Damon, signalling him to leave. "Jeremy got fired from the Grill," Elena explained.
Brea looked at her for a moment, she already knew, she didn't know it was a secret, "oh no," Brea said unconvincingly.
"You knew?" Elena asked.
"No. Pfft, how I would know?"
Elena sighed, pushing her hair back, "of course you knew. He tells you everything. But I… push him away, of course, he'd never tell me. We're having a family meeting with Ric. He's spiralling, we need to help him." Brea went to say something and Elena silenced her by holding a finger in the air, "no, Brea, Bambi marathons are not effective therapy sessions," Elena said before Brea could suggest it.
"You ready?" Ric asked the girls as Elena set the table.
"Vampires, hybrids and Originals?" Elena said, "no problem. My rebellious brother? I'm worried," Elena said.
"Proof you're still human," Ric said.
"I was beginning to think you were part robot," Brea said as she spun on a kitchen stool. "Can I have my phone back?"
"No," Elena smiled, "because I know you'll text Jeremy and then he won't show."
"Argh, you know me too well," Brea groaned slumping in her seat.
Jeremy then walked through the door and Elena called out, "just in time. We're cooking."
Brea jumped up to warn her brother, "Jeremy!" she called and Elena ran over and grabbed Brea, placing a hand over her mouth as Brea protested.
Elena laughed, "you're actually insane, you know that?" she said as she tried to control her giggles.
Jeremy came into the kitchen and froze, looking at his sisters confused, "sorry, just passing through," he said as he decided to ignore their antics and Brea threw a victorious fist into the air and Elena let her go with an eye roll.
"Oh, well, I thought we'd all stay in," Ric said, "have a meal together, like a typical, atypical family."
"Why?" Jeremy asked confused.
"Maybe because you got fired and you didn't tell anyone," Elena said as she went back to organising the table.
Jeremy froze and slowly turned to look at Brea who threw her hands up, "hey, you know me, bro, I'm not at fault here, some girl who works on the bar at the Grill sold you out to Ric."
"Look, can we do this later?" Jeremy asked turning to Elena. "I've made plans with Tyler. He's right outside."
"Wait," Ric protested. "When did you start hanging out with Tyler Lockwood?"
"I don't know. Does it matter?"
"Yeah, Jer, what the hell," Brea said lightly punching his arm. "How dare you hang out with Tyler without me? Remember when we cut Matt out so it would just be us three? Don't tell me you're replacing me? I'm the life of the party!"
"Didn't you want to cut Tyler out and replace him with me?" Jeremy asked.
"Oh yeah. I've cut a lot of people out and replaced them with you at different stages," Brea said sitting back down on her chair. "Can I join you guys and you get me out of here?" Brea asked.
"Brea!" Elena scolded.
"Yep," Jeremy said.
"Jeremy," Elena said, "it does matter. He was sired by Klaus. He's dangerous."
"He can still hear you," Jeremy noted. "He's right outside."
"Oh, crap," Brea sighed. "Hybrid hearing."
"Besides, you of all people are going to lecture me on who I can and can't hang out with?" Jeremy scoffed at Elena.
"Good point," Brea shrugged.
"What is with the attitude?" Elena asked Jeremy.
"Whoop, attitude," Brea said fist-pumping the air.
"Whatever, this is lame. Tyler's waiting. Coming Brea?"
"Yep," Brea said jumping up and following her brother.
"Brea!" Elena snapped before running after Jeremy and standing in front of him, blocking his way out, "no. Oh, no, no, no. You're not going anywhere, especially not with Tyler."
Jeremy turned to look to Ric for support. "I'm with her on this, Jer," Ric shrugged, "sorry."
"All right, you want me to stay in?" Jeremy challenged. "Let's all stay in," he said and Brea groaned. "Yo, Tyler, come on in!" he said inviting Tyler in.
"Bugger," Brea whispered as she realised she probably didn't help this situation.
"Jeremy!" Elena yelled shocked turning to the doorway as Tyler came into their house. Elena looked towards Jeremy with disappointment in her eyes and Jeremy smirked.
"Water?" Brea offered Tyler.
"Yeah, thanks," he said as he awkwardly took a seat at the table.
"Jeremy, get Ty a glass of water," Brea asked and Jeremy rolled his eyes but did it, filling up a glass and placing it in front of Tyler.
"Thanks," Tyler said.
"This is weird," Elena sighed. "Klaus has hybrids stalking us, now you're just sitting in our kitchen."
"Look maybe I should go," Tyler offered.
"No, stay, you're not doing anything," Jeremy defended as he set an extra place for Tyler.
"Unless you have to, you know, check in with your hybrid master," Elena mocked and Tyler chucked.
"It's not like that, Elena."
"Tell me, Tyler," Ric said as he came to sit down and he waved his hand and Brea got off the kitchen stool and sat down at the table. "What is the difference between being sired and being compelled?"
"Compulsion, that's just mind control," Tyler answered, trying to be reasonable. "Like hypnosis. Being sired is… it's like faith. You do something because you believe it's the right thing."
"So, you believe that serving Klaus is the right thing?" Elena asked.
"I don't serve him," Tyler said. "Klaus released me from a curse that was ruining my life. I owe him for that."
"What if he asked you to jump off a bridge?" Ric asked.
"He wouldn't. And even if he did, I'd be fine. I'm a hybrid."
"Ok, so what if he asked you to rip your own heart out?" Elena asked.
"Again, he wouldn't," Tyler answered, getting irritated.
"What if he did?" Elena asked.
"I don't know then I'd rip out my heart," Tyler snapped and everyone's eye's widened. "You guys sound like Caroline," he said exasperated. "Getting all freaked out over something you don't understand."
"You're right Tyler, I don't understand. Klaus has terrorised every single one of us and you're blindly loyal to him," Elena almost yelled.
"You're overthinking it," Tyler dismissed. "I can still make my own decisions."
Brea cleared her throat and turned to her sister and awkwardly said, "your eyebrows look really nice today."
"Thanks," Elena said touching her brows, "it's a new brow pencil." Jeremy's phone rang and he got up and took it into the kitchen to answer it.
"Can I borrow it sometime?" Brea asked awkwardly looking around the table.
"We have different brow colours?" Elena pointed out.
"Ah good point, was worth a shot," Brea said taking a big mouth full of water so she wouldn't start rambling.
"What was that about?" Elena asked as Jeremy got back to the table after finishing his phone call.
"It was nothing," Jeremy dismissed.
"I got to go," Tyler said getting up from the table. "Um, thanks for the food offer, but, uh…"
"Next time," Ric said.
"Catch you later Brea," Tyler said before he let himself out of the house.
As soon as he left Ric and Elena both got up from the table and went into the kitchen, "well, that was illuminating." When Elena and Ric turned their backs Jeremy stood up and signalled to Brea to stay silent as he escaped so she smiled and looked away so he could sneak out without her seeing, "so Tyler Lockwood is a lunatic who has access to our house."
"I mean, this whole sire bond thing is wild," Ric said as he folded napkins. "I don't even think Tyler is aware of what little reason lies behind what he's saying. It's like weird cult logic."
Brea got up and walked into the kitchen to throw in her two cents, "that's how sire bonds work, they're insane. It's blind, it sucks, seriously I've only seen this like four times in a thousand years and it never ends well."
Elena sighed, "well, great. That's a wonderful influence for you, Jer," Elena said turning around to find him gone. "Jeremy?" Elena repeated as if he would magically appear.
"That's his ring," Ric said seeing his ring on the table.
"What?" Brea asked panicked running forward to check. She grabbed the ring in her hand.
"Where'd he go?" Elena asked as Ric began moving towards the front door.
Brea had a bad feeling about this and yelled, "Jeremy!" as she ran towards the door.
Elena opened the door and they all walked outside to see him standing in the middle of the road. "What is he doing?" Elena asked.
Brea heard tires screeching and knew what was happening and she ran to the curb, "Jeremy move!" she screamed.
He wasn't moving and Elena said, "oh my god," as a car rounded the corner at speed and headed straight for Jeremy.
"Jeremy!" Ric yelled as he sprinted past Brea towards Jeremy.
Elena ran next to Brea and they grabbed onto each other, "Jeremy move!" they screamed. Just before the car could hit Jeremy, Ric threw him out of the way and took the impact himself. He bounced off the windscreen of the car and landed hard on the ground, the twins gasped in fright and shock as they heard the sound of bones crunching as Ric hit the ground. Elena and Brea ran forward and flung themselves on to the road as they frantically turned Ric's body over, he was dead. Brea grabbed his hand to double-check that he was wearing his ring as the car that hit him came back next to them and rolled down its window to reveal it was Tony the hybrid driving and Brea's eye's widened with the confirmation this was Klaus' doing.
"There I go again, bumping into people," he said before driving off. Jeremy snapped out of it and realised what was going on and got up and ran towards them.
"He's going to be all right," Elena assured. "Are you ok?" she asked.
"I don't understand," Jeremy said confused.
"Who was that on the phone earlier?" Brea asked, voice shaking.
"It was Klaus," Jeremy said.
Elena sighed, "you were compelled, Jeremy. We've got to get him inside. Help me," Elena said as the three of them picked up Ric and carried him inside.
The three of them got Ric inside and laid him on the couch and Brea looked at Elena and quietly said, "call Damon," and Elena nodded and ran out of the room to grab her phone. Brea then turned to Jeremy and let out a choking sound before pulling him into a hug. "Oh my god, please never to that to me again," she said letting him go.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he said desperately. "I don't know how that happened."
"Jer, Klaus compelled you," Brea said gently. "He's a monster. You get onto Damon?" Brea asked as Elena got back into the living room.
"Yeah, he'll be here in a couple of minutes," Elena sat down. "He's going to be ok," she said looking at Ric's body. Brea came and sat next to her while Jeremy sat down on the floor in the corner of the room and they sat in silence waiting for Damon.
"How is he?" Damon asked coming through the front door.
"He's dead," Elena said calmly. "But he had his ring. Klaus' hybrid hit him. Now we just wait."
"This always takes so long," Brea said sadly.
"Jeremy, why aren't you wearing vervain?" Damon asked. "Where's your bracelet?"
The twins whipped their heads around to see Jeremy's vervain bracelet was gone. Brea looked down to double-check her ring was still on. They'd been so preoccupied with Ric they hadn't stopped to think how Klaus compelled Jeremy. "I don't know," Jeremy said confused.
"It was Tyler," Elena snapped.
"It had to have been," Brea said looking down placing her head in her hands, "dammit!"
"That's why he was hanging out with you," Elena said. "To get you off the vervain."
"Klaus is trying to send us a message," Damon said.
"Well it's working," Brea scoffed. "You guys need to find Stefan, now."
"You're right," Damon agreed. "He wants us to find Stefan, who stole coffins full of his dead family."
"Coffins?" Elena asked confused, Brea hadn't filled her sister in on that yet, only Matt knew.
"Yep, didn't tell her?" Damon asked Brea and Brea shrugged nervously.
"I didn't want you to feel guilty because it was Stefan that took them. I know you, you'd feel guilty, but it's not your fault," Brea said to Elena and Elena wrapped her arm around Brea's shoulders to hug her.
"All we have to do is find four coffins and voilá," Damon said, "no one else on your families Christmas list needs to die."
Jeremy stood up angry, "wait, that's your big plan? To steal back four dead Originals so this evil hybrid doesn't kill me and everyone else we know?"
"Yeah," Brea said standing up next to Damon, "it's a good plan, Jeremy. He just wants his family back. Give him them back and we'll make him leave town. It'll keep you safe Jeremy."
"Got a better idea?" Damon asked Jeremy.
"Yeah. Let's get the hell out of here," Jeremy yelled. "Pack our bags and go."
"Jeremy, calm down," Elena tried to settle him.
"Give up?" Brea asked shocked. "Seriously Jer? What, do you think he won't follow us to the ends of the earth? Just relax and think rationally."
"No, I'm not going to calm down! This happens every time, no matter what we do. I mean, you get on my case about school and work. Who cares?" Jeremy snapped. "None of us are going to make it out of this town alive," he warned before he picked up his jacket and ran up the stairs.
"I'll go," Brea said, "you guys work out a plan," she said running up the stairs after her brother. "Hey," Brea said opening the door to Jeremy's room.
"I don't really want to talk Brea," Jeremy said and Brea walked in to see he was loading his crossbow.
"So… what you up to?" Brea asked sitting down at his desk.
"I'm going after Tyler," Jeremy answered. "I'm sorry Brea, but I'm doing it."
"Then I'm coming," Brea said.
"Brea…"
"No, I'm coming with you, Jer. And we're going to kick his ass," Brea said angrily.
Jeremy looked into his sister's eyes and saw the determination so he nodded, "let's go," he said.
Jeremy and Brea approached Tyler, who was sitting in the woods drinking beer, "don't do it, Jeremy," Tyler warned.
"Why not?" Jeremy asked. "You stab my back, I stab yours."
"I didn't stab you in the back," Tyler said jumping up from the ground and walking towards them.
"You got him off vervain Tyler!" Brea yelled.
"Is that why you wanted to hang out?" Jeremy asked. "To get me off the vervain?"
"Klaus asked me to," Tyler said trying to defend himself.
"And you have to obey your master right?" Brea asked glaring.
"I never thought he'd try to kill you," Tyler said.
"It's Klaus, Tyler!" both Jeremy and Brea yelled.
"What'd you think was going to happen?" Jeremy asked.
"He doesn't care about you, all he wants is to get his family back," Tyler said and Jeremy had enough and shot an arrow at him, which Tyler caught and grunted in shock.
"What the hell?" Tyler yelled throwing the arrow to the ground.
"Whenever Klaus wants something, someone ends up dead. You think about that next time before you blindly do whatever he says," Jeremy said storming off while Brea stood glaring at Tyler.
"Jer," Tyler called out. "You should get home, stay inside. Klaus isn't going to stop until he gets all those coffins back. He's not done with you," Tyler warned and Jeremy nodded slightly before continuing to walk towards Brea's car.
Brea walked up to Tyler, "you stay away from me, ok? I mean it, don't you dare come near me or my family until you've sorted out this sire bond complex. You nearly took my brother away from me Tyler!" Brea yelled. "You can tell your hybrid master the same thing goes for him," Brea snapped before walking to her car. "You ok?" she asked Jer as she got in the front seat.
"I'm mad."
"Me too," Brea said. "Let's just go home and check on Ric, ok?" she said and Jeremy nodded and she drove off.
"Woah, is that an ambulance?" Jeremy asked as Brea pulled up and they saw an ambulance leaving their house.
"Yeah, what's going on?" Brea asked. "Oh my god, Jeremy!" Brea squeaked.
"What?"
"That's Tony," Brea said as she recognised the hybrid standing in the entryway to their house.
"Tony?" Jeremy asked confused.
"Klaus' hybrid, the one that tried to hit you with the car," Brea said quickly.
"That's it," Jeremy growled. "I've had enough of this," he hissed as he loaded his crossbow.
"Jer?" Brea asked confused as he got out of the car, "Jer?" Brea called out following him. As Jeremy got closer, he shot the arrow into the hybrid's heart, knocking him out. "Oh my god!" Brea gasped, running to stand next to her brother.
"Jeremy, Brea," Elena breathed in relief as she saw them.
"He's not dead yet," Jeremy said angrily as he stepped over Tony's body and into the house. Elena turned to look at Brea, who raised her eyebrows and shrugged, she wasn't sure what her brother was doing either.
"Where are you going?" Elena asked Jeremy. Jeremy walked into the kitchen and Brea stepped into the house, besides her sister, just as Jeremy came back out again, only now he was holding a meat cleaver.
"What are you doing?" Brea asked nervously as he walked past her and knelt over Tony's body. "Jer, no!" Brea yelled as he brought the cleaver down on Tony's neck, cutting the hybrid's head off, killing him. Brea and Elena screamed in shock and turned into each other hugging, trying to avoid looking at the headless body on the porch.
They both slowly turned back to look, only to be confronted with Jeremy's face covered in blood, "now he's dead," Jeremy said as the girls stared at him in fright and shock. "We've got to get Alaric to the hospital now," Jeremy said, taking control of the situation. He stood up and dropped the cleaver before pushing past his stunned sisters to pick Ric up off the floor, "I need help guys," Jeremy said and Brea let out a shaky breath before turning around and helping Ric off the ground, "you're going to need to stop shaking if you're going to get us to the hospital in one piece," Jeremy said as the two dragged Ric to the car.
"Brea, wake up," Ric whispered gently shaking her awake.
"Ric?" Brea asked sitting up, "are you ok? They said they had to keep you overnight."
"I'm good, I'm good kid," Ric promised."Damon fixed me up. Let's go home."
"Jer and Elena are here, we have to get them," Brea said standing up from her chair in the waiting room.
"Ric?" Jeremy asked as he got back into the waiting room. "You alright man?"
"Yeah I'm good, where were you then?" Ric asked.
"Cafeteria, they have good muffins here," Jeremy shrugged.
"Where's Elena?" Ric asked.
"She took off after Brea fell asleep," Jeremy said, "said she'd meet us back home."
"Alright," Ric nodded. "You drive here, Brea?" he asked and she nodded, "all right let's go."
They almost went the entire walk to the car in silence when Jeremy spoke up, "so the ring brought you back to life, but it didn't heal you. Does that mean it's broken?" he asked, concerned about Ric.
"I don't know," Ric shrugged. "It's never happened like that before. I guess I have Damon's blood to thank for the fact that I'm still walking."
"He said to say you owe him a drink," Jeremy smiled.
"Huh, that's funny," Ric smiled. "I'd rather have head trauma," he said and Brea chuckled. "Hey, Jeremy," Ric said stopping to stand in front of them. "You ok?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Jeremy asked rhetorically. "I shot a hybrid in the back and chopped his head off with a meat cleaver. Typical Sunday, huh?"
"You can talk to me about this stuff. You know that, right?" Ric asked seriously.
"What could you tell me that I don't already know? This is the way things are. It sucks, but I just got to get used to it," Jeremy said walking to the car.
"What about you, Brea, are you ok? We never see you anymore, you're always staying at Matt's and Damon texted me saying that you were hanging out with Klaus today."
"Yeah, I'm just angry Ric. I'm so, so angry. At everybody. Klaus has been letting me stab him in the stomach with stakes as a way to release steam."
"That sounds… constructive," Ric said with a frown.
"It's not," Brea said. "But I can hurt him and it makes me feel better. Every time I stake him, I think of Jenna. I can't deal with her being gone," Brea said tearing up. "Stefan stole the coffins that include Kol," she sniffled. "Jeremy nearly died. You did die!" she cried wiping her eyes.
"Hey, hey," Ric said pulling her in for a hug. "You can always talk to me. I want you to know that ok? You can tell me anything, I don't have to tell Elena or Damon or anyone, so long as you're safe, ok? That's all that matters to me."
Brea was sitting in her room with a movie playing on her laptop, but she wasn't watching it, she had her head buried in her hands and her body shook as she replayed the day's events in her head. Someone knocked on her door and she said "come in," and Elena opened the door and walked in.
"Hey, you ok?" Elena asked sitting in the edge of her bed.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just overwhelmed," Brea sighed leaning back against the headboard.
"Ric, Damon and I came up with an idea downstairs, but I won't do it if you don't agree," Elena said.
"What is it?"
"We want to compel Jeremy," Elena said and Brea's eyes widened.
"To do what? Stay away from Tyler?" she asked.
"To leave town," Elena said sadly. "No 16 year old should have to chop someone's head off. He said we should all pack up and go. We can't, but he can. We can save him, Brea. But to do that we've got to let him go."
"Where will he go?" Brea asked, her eyes filling with tears.
"Denver. Stay with some family friends."
"I know the ones. They're nice," Brea sniffled. "Do it," she agreed. "I can't be there. I can't watch. But you're right, this is no life for a 16-year-old. We have to get him out. Do what you have to, it'll save his life," Brea nodded and Elena smiled gently and leaned forward to hug Brea before getting up and leaving.
Brea woke up in the middle of the night, after falling asleep while watching Bambi with Jeremy in his room one last time before he left. She got up off the bed and walked downstairs to get a glass of water. When she got to the bottom of the stairs there was a gentle knock on the front door that made her freeze, confused as to who would be knocking on the door so late. She walked over to answer it to reveal Klaus standing on the other side. Her eyes instantly darkened and she slammed the door in his face. She walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water before walking back upstairs and into Elena's room and she laid down and fell asleep next to her sister.
