Alex's P.O.V

Alaric, Damon, Elena, Caroline, Tyler, and I are all at Victoria's home. She left as soon as Tyler was invited in which lead to everyone except Damon asking me questions. "Who is she?" Elena asked.

"No one you should worry about," I told her.

"But how does she know you or that she can trust a bunch of random vampires in her home?" She asked, and I sighed.

"Elena there is a thing called compulsion, now I know you don't like to think about it, but vampires use it to do some not so nice things," I said to her, not wanting to explain my family's past. "So, what's the plan?" See, we would typically go to the school, but Alaric's classroom was one of the many that perished in the fire. Since then Damon and Alaric have been remaking all of his weapons.

"I'll lure Stefan away from the party and to the backyard of the Lockwood mansion. Then when he's distracted…" Elena said.

"I'll shoot him," Alaric said after her.

"Can't Bonnie give him a headache or something?" Damon asked.

"Yeah, I mean Bonnie is coming to the party tonight, right?" I asked them.

"Well, if she does show up, I want to keep her out of this. I don't trust that Stefan won't hurt her" Elena said. That's great Elena, but we need an actual plan, so your feelings aren't that necessary.

"Elena, darling listen to me," I said to her. "If Bonnie shows up she will be apart of it because the little witch is smart. She'll know we are up to something and it's best if we tell her, because if I know my little brother, and I do, then the second he sees Bonnie he'll think she's apart of all of this. So while you put everything into place, I will tell Bonnie our plan." I explained. "Not to mention, if I have learned anything from Lexi, we're going to need a place to hold Stefan as we tortured some emotions out of him." I turned to Caroline. "So you got that covered, Care?"

"Yes! I will make sure that the old Forbes jail cell generous donation and ready." Caroline said.

"We forget a key player here. Rebekah? Wherever Stefan goes, the blonde ponytail tends to follow." Damon pointed out to me, and I sighed.

"Why couldn't Klaus just take her with him?" I groaned. "Ok! Well then, Damon, since you brought it up, it's your job to keep her away."

"What?" He asked me. "Why can't you do it?"

"Because if I do it, I'm going to kill her, which is only going to either piss her off or bring Klaus back to town," I explained.

"And how exactly do you expect me to "keep her away?!" He asked while making quotation marks with his hands. "She's an Original. Last time I checked, we're out of daggers."

"So then preoccupy her with your charm," Elena said and I laughed.

"Might have better luck finding the dagger." After I said that, I felt my older brothers' glare on the back of my head.

"Really, what did I do this time?" Damon asked, and I crossed my arms.

"Let's see…" I said but was cut off by Tyler.

"Can we please stay on topic." He asked, and I turned to him. "Now is anyone going to tell me why I'm here?"

"We need you to raid your mom's vervain supply. Enough to keep Stefan down for a while." Elena said to him.

"You can't do that to Stefan." He said.

"Why not?" Caroline asked him.

"Trust me, Tyler, it's in his best interest," Elena said, and I nodded in agreement with her.

"Yeah, but it's not in Klaus's," Tyler said. I'm sorry what?

"Who gives a shit if it's in Klaus's best interest?" I asked him. "He's the fucking bad guy."

"Yeah, Tyler. Why are you acting like some freaky, hybrid, slave minion." Caroline said.

"Uh-oh." I looked at Damon, and we made eye contact. I furrowed my brows as Damon looked back at Tyler. I then looked back at him closely. Wait...no. It's impossible! He can't be. But now that I think about it, it makes sense with what Caroline told me at the Grill earlier.

"What?" Alaric asks us noticing our change in character.

"Klaus made me who I am, Caroline. I owe him everything." Tyler said to his girlfriend.

"You have to be kidding me." I groaned. "Also Tyler," The baby hybrid looked at me. "He killed you. You owe him nothing."

"He made me stronger-" I cut him off.

"He cursed you." I snapped at him.

"Okay, can we stop arguing with each other, please," Caroline asked as Tyler opened his mouth to say something else.

"What is going on?" Elena asked and Caroline looked at me for an answer. I watched Damon take the vervain dart off the Alaric's desk. Tyler noticed the exchange between Caroline and me and started to back up towards the front door.

"I'm just going to go," Tyler said. I'm sorry Tyler, but I can't let you do that. He turns around and starts walking to the door. Damon rushes over behind him and injects him with a vervain dart in his neck. Tyler then collapses, and everybody looked at my brother, and I pissed. The stupidity of this group never ceases to amaze me. He was a turncoat at the very least without them knowing anything.

"What are you doing?!" Caroline asked and ran over to Tyler, then bent down to check on him. Damon dropped the vervain dart on the floor.

"He's been sired," Damon answered her bluntly.

"What?" Alaric asked.

"Sired. Tyler feels loyal to Klaus because Klaus's blood created him." I explained.

"Loyal how?" Elena asked.

"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's rare. But maybe not so much in hybrids." Damon explained in more detail.

"And now I know why Klaus was so sure his newbie Hybrids would be loyal to him," I said.

"So how do I fix him?" Caroline asked.

"Get a new boyfriend." My brother said to her, and Caroline stood up then turned to me. What did she expect me to do?

"There has to be a way to fix him." She said not accepting Damon's answer.

"There isn't," I said to her. "You said it yourself; Tyler's been acting weird ever since he turned. It's better if you just let him go now." I began to walk up to her as I began to explain the threat of Tyler being sired. "Because if Klaus tells him to kill us, kidnap Elena, or bite you...he will."

"No Tyler wouldn't do that." She said, and I sighed.

"Caroline, the most control he would have over himself is begin able to say no," I said to her. "But at the end of the day, he'll still do what Klaus asked because Klaus took away his free will. The last time I saw a sired vampire was with Charlotte Damon's ex-sired girlfriend. She fell in love with him when she was human, then asked Damon to turned her, which he did, and because of her heightened love for Damon, she wanted to do anything to make him happy. Except in Tyler's case, love is gratitude for not having to shift every full moon."

"What about you then?" Elena asked and I turned to her. Well, that's a pointless and stupid question. Damon, with his arms, crossed over his chest, and I looked at each other, then back at her. "I mean she's a hybrid, so why isn't she sired to Klaus as well."

"Because Klaus didn't turn me, Katherine did," I answered.

"Then doesn't that mean you're sired to Katherine?" She asked, and I turned to her. Why would I be loyal to Katherine, do I look like my brothers to you?

"No," I answered. "I didn't trigger or know about, the werewolf curse when I turned. So when the curse broke, I simply became a naturally born hybrid with an original obsessed with her." Everybody was silent has Caroline sighed and looked back at Tyler, worried. I turned to her and sighed as well. "If there was a way to fix him. I would tell you; you know that."

"Yeah, I know. But what do we do with him?" Caroline asked.

"Lock him up until tonight's over," I turned to Damon. "Could you tell Carol? She likes you." I asked and he nodded while we all stared at Tyler sadly.

~At the Boarding House~

I was looking through my closet for a decent dress to wear. I sighed in frustration when I couldn't find anything. I heard three knocks on my door, and I turned to see Damon leaning against the door frame.

"Hey," I said sweetly, and he walked up to me.

"Having trouble looking for the perfect dress?" He asked me and I laughed.

"Is it that obvious," I said, and he looked through my wardrobe. He pulled out two dresses, then handed them to me and smiled.

"I'll leave you to deal with the shoes," Damon said, and I took the dresses out of his hands. "Stefan left for the party, and we should leave soon unless you want to be fashionably late."

"For your information, I like to begin fashionable late, and I know you didn't come in here to help me pick out my dress. So what do you want?" I asked, and he shrugged while holding up his hands.

"You caught me," He said to me. "You don't think this plan is going to work, do you?"

"Do you?" I asked him.

"No, which is why I would like to be brought in on plan B," Damon said, and I sighed.

"Plan A will work if Stefan doesn't bring one of the girls from this morning," I said to him.

"Which you knew he was." I nodded. "But why not tell Elena."

"She would have ruined it. Not to mention it's vital that she is the distraction for my plan to not be messed up." I told him, and he looked at me confused. "Look all you need to know is that when Plan A fails or gets canceled, Stefan will still end up with vervain in his system. Just keep Rebekah and Elena away from me..." I thought for a moment. "And possibly Caroline."

"So Caroline is aware of this plan," Damon said as I turned around to lay the dress on my bed.

"No, and she doesn't need to be. The only one I need to tell this plan to is Alaric." I paused for a moment while looking at the dress on my bed. "Though I would love to bring Bonnie into it, then again that all depends on if I get to her before Elena does to tell her my plan," I explained.

"And you're sure Stefan won't listen in on either of those conversations," Damon said, and I nodded as I turned around to him.

"Of course I'm sure, he can't protect both Elena and me at the same time if we are in opposite rooms," I told him, and he just looked at me unsure. "Now go, I have to get ready. I'll be down in a few." I said to him, and he sighed before walking out of my room and closing the door behind him.

~At the Lockwood Mansion~

I walked into the Lockwood mansion with Damon as I wore a long black dress. We looked around, and I spotted Stefan and his plaything walking up to us. I believe her name was Mariah...I don't know to be honest, and I don't care. She was wearing a long sleeve dress that covered her wrist and a scarf around her neck.

"Hey guys, funny running into you here," Stefan said and looked between Mariah and I. "But then again, I'm only here because of Elena and you." I looked at his friend. "Oh and this is Mariah, Mariah these are my siblings."

"It's nice to meet you." She said before I walked off to leave Damon alone with Stefan. I walked up to the bar and leaned my elbow on its counter. "Bourbon. Please." I said to the bartender as I looked around. I spotted Bonnie talking with Elena and Caroline. I then spotted Rebekah walking up to me, with a glass of champagne in her hand, as the bartender handed me my drink. Here we go.

"Hello, Alex," Rebekah said.

"Rebekah," I answered. "What are you doing here?"

"The entire towns here, not to mention I'm just making a very generous donation for my brother." She said, and I hummed fakely.

"And why would Klaus care about the school? I mean he did burn it down, right?" I asked her lovely, and she shrugged in response. Stefan then walked over to us, and I noticed that his little friend was gone. "Where's your friend?" I asked him.

"Flirting with some stranger," Stefan said before asking for a glass of whiskey from the bar.

"Excuse me," Elena said to us as she tried to get to the bar. "Champagne please?" She asked the bartender, and Stefan turned to her with a tight-lipped smile.

"Elena, hi. What are you doing?" Stefan asked her as she took the champagne glass in her hand.

"I'm having fun, Stefan. You have a problem with that?" She asked him. I laughed and took a sip of my drink, while she drinks her whole glass in one go.

"All right, take it easy. We both know you're a lightweight." Stefan pointed out and I looked over at him.

"Uh-oh, it's the fun police. Better get out while you can, Elena." I mocking warned her and she looked at me.

"Uh-huh. Don't worry Alex." Elena looked back at Stefan. "You think I'm going to let a blood addict tell me how to drink?" She asked, and I chuckled lowly at her comment as she walks away from us. Rebekah, who's chuckling at Elena's comment, and I then look at Stefan

"You see Stefan, this is what happens when you try to be Damon," I said, and he just looked at me.

"Shut up." Stefan snapped and walked away. Rebekah looked at me then laughs to herself at what just happened.

I watched as Elena somewhat distracted Stefan during the party. Damon was flirting with Rebekah, and everything was falling into place. I grabbed two glasses of champagne and slipped some vervain into one of the glasses. I then walked over to Bonnie and Caroline who were talking to Stefan's "date" without knowing it. I smiled at Mariah and handed her the glass with vervain in it.

"Thank you," she said and looked at me. "Your Stefan's sister, right?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry about earlier. It wasn't anything personal but little brothers can be a pain in the ass." I explained with a small laugh at the end. She chuckled too before taking a sip of her champagne. I turned to Caroline and Bonnie with a smirk. "And how are you two enjoying the party?"

"It's like every other founder's party," Caroline said, and Mariah then excused herself before walking away. Caroline watched as she left our eyesight and then turned back to me. "Why are you happy? You hate these things."

"You're right. I do hate these things, Care." I said to her. "Have you seen Alaric?" They shook their head in response.

"Why do you want to know where Alaric is?" Bonnie asked, and I looked at her.

"Doesn't matter," I said and spotted Alaric talking to the mayor in the next room. "There he is." They turned to see Alaric. "I'll talk to you guys later," I said to them before making my way over to him. Carol turned to me and greeted me with a smile once she saw me walking over to them.

"Alex," We hugged. "How are you?" Carol asked.

"I'm good, and you?" I asked her.

"Great, this fundraiser is turning out better than expected."

"Well, the kids do need to go to school," Alaric said, and I smiled.

"Alaric, I need to speak with you about something," I said to him. "Will you excuse us?" I asked Carol, and she nodded. I then directed Alaric into an office nearby and shut the door behind us. I turned around and stated bluntly, "Don't stop Stefan from feeding on that girl he brought with him."

"What?" Alaric asked.

"I made a different plan. No one else knows about it, but you must shoot Stefan after he feeds on that girl." I said to him.

"And why shouldn't I stop him? That girl is innocent." Alaric said.

"I know she is, but he has been feeding off of her since this morning," I told him. "Look, let's say I took a page out of brooding Stefan's playbook. It will work," I walked up to him. "Trust me." Alaric stared at me for a moment in hesitation.

"Ok." He said.

I watched as Stefan let Mariah hang off of him. I did get a chance to talk to her, and she seemed like a lovely person, and that only made me feel worse about what was going to go down. Stefan then excused them and walked out of the house and to the office. Alaric was waiting in the corner ready to bring Stefan down.

I walked over to the door of the office and leaned against the wall, then waited for any indication that he has fed off of her. I turned my head and saw Elena walk up to me. Oh, you have to be kidding me. When she was a foot away, she opened up her mouth, and I immediately put my hand over hers and sped her into a different hallway. I removed my hand, and she looked at me confused.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about, your part in the plan is done," I said to her and was about to go back when she stopped me.

"Alex-" I turned back to her and stood over her.

"Don't interfere with this Elena. Leave it be and go back to Caroline and Bonnie." I ordered her and sped back to the office. I heard Stefan groan and I opened up the door to see Mariah on the floor with her neck bitten and blood flowing out. She still heartbeat meaning passed from the pain. Stefan, who knew I was behind Mariah taking the vervain, was about to charge at me when Alaric came out of his corner behind him and shot him three times in the back.

"I took a page out your book, brother," I told him as he fell to the ground unconscious. Elena, Caroline, Damon, and Bonnie ran into the room and looked at the scene in front of them. "Care, take Stefan to the cellar before he wakes up. Damon, you go with her, so Stefan is tied up correctly." I said to them. Damon then grabbed Stefan and sped there with Caroline.

"What happened, Alex?" Elena asked, and I looked at her.

"Why does it matter?" I asked her, and she looked at me confused. "Stefan got the vervain in his system and is going to be locked up. You will soon have my brooding little brother back in your arms along with my older one. Though you walking up to me in the hallway almost ruined everything."

"I didn't know what was going on." She reasoned, and I nodded.

"Yes I know, and if you did you would have messed it up." I began to walk up to her. "But what I don't understand is why do you still want to be with him?" She was about to open up her mouth, but I stopped her. "Yes, yes, yes, I know you're in love," I quickly added. "But shouldn't have your survival instincts kicked in by now? Because if I were you, I would have run away at the first sighting of the Ripper. Not to mention, he and this world you now live in will be the death of you."

"You have no right to say this to me," Elena said, trying to stand her ground, and I walked up to her. Though when I did, she would take a step back, then another, and another, until her back was to the wall beside the doorway. My face was an inch away from hers, and she swallowed nervously, never have seen me this angry before.

"I have every right!" I growled at her but made sure not to attack her because I didn't want Bonnie to giving me a witchy headache. "I'm his older sister." I could hear Elena's heart starting to speed up. "So don't you ever think you have me wrapped around your little finger like you do my brothers. I've played this game before and trust me you're not nearly as talented as Katherine. Neither of you had their best interests at heart, and I'm not letting you ruin them as she did, and you don't even have a supernatural advantage, so don't even think about getting any arrogant notions. You take one step out of line, and I will shut you down." No compelling eyes were necessary here, I could tell by the water in her eyes, that I would always be the dominant here and she would never be able to stand against me. We stayed like that for a while, in the ominous silence, because I needed this truth to be associated with fear.

"That's enough, Alex," Bonnie said and I looked at her. I knew this was her way of warning me to move before she interfered...and so I did. In truth I wonder how a fight between us would go, as a vampire, she had a magical advantage over me, but not as a werewolf, she could only fight one side at a time, could she? I stepped away and watched as Elena let out that breathe she been holding in. I then simply looked at Alaric and Bonnie before heading towards the door. I stopped once I was standing beside her again, underneath the threshold.

"I could compel you, you know," I told her. "Rip that little necklace from your neck and compel you to walk away from this world. To forget that you ever met my brothers." She looked afraid that I might act on what I was saying. "Just remember that even though they will never admit it, it is truly the only way to keep you safe." I moved a bit closer which cause her to paralyze with fear. "And do you know what the saddest thing is when it comes to that?" I leaned closer to her ear and whispered, "The fact that you know it's true." With that said I backed away and sped out of the Lockwood mansion.

I was in my car because Damon and I took separate ones when I received a phone call. I looked down to see Klaus was calling me. I stared at it for a while before answering. "Hello?" I asked over the phone and looked around to see that no one from the party was coming over.

" Hello, love. " I heard him say.

"I thought I told you not to call me," I said to him.

" And yet you answered it, " Klaus said, and I could hear his smirk in his voice. "It makes me think you wanted me to call you. "

"Well, I didn't," I answered. "But you called me for a reason, so what is it?" I opened up my car door and got inside.

" I'm just checking in, is that a crime? " He asked me

"No, but burning down a school is," I stated.

" Which is why I told Rebekah to give the town a very generous donation to help them rebuild, " Klaus explained.

"Is that what you called me for? To show that you have a lot of money and to check in on me?" I asked.

"I only called to check in on you since Stefan hasn't called me back. " He stated. " Where is he anyway? "

"Feeding of someone," I told him.

" Well, if he doesn't call me back tomorrow, I guess I'll have to call you again, " Klaus said and I was about to protest when he cut me off. " Goodnight, Alexandria. " He then hung up the phone, and I groaned in frustration as I pulled it away from my ear. Then I threw it into the seat next to me before driving home.

~At the Boarding House~

I was laying on the couch in the living room drinking some bourbon in front of the fire. I was reading from where I left off in The Barbarian and the Geisha. I knew me threatening Elena would piss off my older brother, and also my little brother if he felt something, so I wanted to spend these few moments of peace before it was ruined. With that said I heard the front door slam shut and heavy footsteps come towards me. I looked up from my book for a moment and saw a furious Damon.

"Yes?" I asked him when he just stared at me.

"You attacked Elena," Damon said, and I hummed in disagreement.

"I didn't attack her, dear brother," I stood up and placed the book on the table in front of me before looking at him again. "I merely told her the truth in...fact Bonnie was there the entire time. I couldn't even have attacked her if I had wanted to." I explained, and Damon sped over then pinned me to the wall.

"You had no right," Damon growled, and I pushed him so hard off of me that he flung to the other side of the room. He sped back up to a standing position as I let my anger get the best of me.

"I HAD EVERY RIGHT!" I screamed at him. "She is the one who didn't have the right ever to think she held a higher place in his heart, that she could protect him more than me! He is my little brother, while she's just the girl that got us into this mess in the first place. " Damon still looked pissed, and I rubbed my hands over my face before looking at him again. Maybe I should approach this more calmly; then he'll understand where I'm coming from. "I didn't attack her. I didn't even touch her." I said softly. "I know what she means to you and Stefan, despite how much she annoys me on a day to day basis. But she thinks she the center of everything when it comes to this family, and honestly I couldn't give two shits about her and pathetic human life. We're family, and my opinion has equal value to yours, as it should always be." I said as the thought of her made me angrier.

"If you think she so pathetic then why do you help us protect her?" Damon said in a slightly raised voice.

"Because she means something to you!" I said again. "This is all about you and Stefan because when you two met her, she opened up a part of both of you that I believed to be long gone and that is the only reason I protected her. Because despite how much I hate it, she is your heart and I promised myself that I would never let anyone break your heart." I paused for a moment. "And let's not get started about all my lovers you carelessly killed over the years, Damon. I don't care if you were off your rocker these past decades, but I have long since stopped putting up with you and your high standards."

"That was different," Damon said and I looked at him confused.

"Really?" I asked him in an annoyed tone.

"Yes, because they didn't deserve you," Damon argued and I little out a single laugh.

"Didn't deserve me? Is that seriously your argument?" I asked him. "You want to talk about not deserving, look at your relationship with Elena. She doesn't care about you. She'll use you, Damon, just like Katherine did." I watched as Damon's face turned to stone. "I mean what do you think is going to happen when Stefan gets his emotions back on? Do you think that she'll just run into your arms? That the relationship you and she had while Stefan was gone, will grow into something more?" I asked him and his expression didn't change. "You know what? Why do I even bother?" I said sadly. "You'll always defend her over me. You'll always choose her over your baby sister. Your blood."

With that, I sped upstairs to my room and locked my door. I then stood in the middle of my room and looked around with an empty gaze. Why does Damon always take her side? I mean I know he's in love with her and maybe he can have his chance with her with Stefan being the way he is, but shouldn't he still trust my word over hers. As this kind of thought floated through my head, I walked over to my dresser and looked at myself in the mirror. As I stared into my eyes and became angry as I thought of the nonsense that came from Elena and Damon taking her side.

My fingers wrapped around the edges of the dresser as my hand-formed into fists. I stared at myself for a long time; hours seemed to pass in the form of minutes. Time loses all meaning when you're immortal, and because of that, I still wore the same face as when I died, when I lost my husband, my children, and the last vestige connection to my Salvatore life. I wondered if I could call myself one after all. I was a bastard born to a different man, then Damon and Stefan… Maybe that's why they never really valued my opinion because we never were real siblings. I shared Stefan's hair and Damon's eyes, but my face was of our mother and theirs of Giuseppe. Even if the man was awful, he was their father, but he never was mine. Maybe just maybe its because it was them over me and never us. Maybe that's why we're so fractured now.