IN THE GILBERT HOUSE
Elena had earlier tried to bargain with Kol about everything to do with this Silas and Cure situation. He had suspected she was planning something when she kept going into the fridge 'looking for ingredients' for the alcohol they were trying to make, so they could 'have a conversation', as in, Elena was going to stall him until Jeremy could find Bonnie and Matt could find the dagger Rebekah had stolen from Klaus and use it against Kol to put him down.
There was a knock on the door, and nobody moved to answer it.
"I'm sorry." Kol smirked from the opposite side of it, "But I've already been invited in." When he kicked the door in, nobody was to be seen. Elena and Jeremy were off somewhere, hiding and plotting. "Hide and seek. Fun. I'll play."
Kol had eventually decided to call Klaus, "Do you know that your former hybrid blood bag and her brother are trying to kill me?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh, don't pretend you aren't in on it." Kol said, "Your obsession with finding the cure trumps any sibling loyalty you once had."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Klaus was genuine, he really didn't know what Kol was talking about.
"I'm going to chop off Jeremy's arm and kill Elena just for sport." Kol threatened, "Then I'm coming for you." He hung up the phone and walked towards the stairs, "Idiots."
Elena took the chance she had with the crossbow and shot Kol in the leg.
IN REBEKAH'S HOUSE
Everyone was trying to find the Cure, and Elena of all people wanted it the most. Besides Rebekah, as nobody seems to know, the blonde would like a long human life. Nobody knew of this fact, Kyra Blackthorn, on the other hand, was about to find out.
"So you know this Cure situation?" Kyra asked as Rebekah and herself were getting ready for the day. Putting on their makeup, doing their hair, changing their clothes, what anyone would typically do in the morning. They had a sleepover the night before. Nobody knew Kyra was back in town yet and it was going to stay that way for now.
"Hmm." Rebekah answered, brushing her hair, "What about it?"
"Why does everyone want to find it so bad?"
Though even if Kyra knew about it when this first started, she wouldn't much care for it as she doesn't care for it now. It may surprise you, but she actually likes who she is now compared to who she was before. She is a Vampire-Witch Hybrid and she loves being one.
"Well, Klaus wants to find it because he wants to use it on Elena to make more Hybrids, Elena wants it so she can be human, Stefan wants it to be human and to 'get rid of all the pain and suffering that comes with being a Vampire', as he put it."
"And why do you want it?" Kyra asked.
"There is one thing I've always wanted more than anything..." Rebekah put down her hairbrush and sat on her black and red comforter, "To be human, have a family. A husband, bear my own children, and watch my children raise their kids." she paused, "That was the thing I missed out on most in the world when Esther turned us into Vampires. I mean, unfortunately, Vampires can't procreate."
Kyra wasn't all that surprised by this and she didn't mind either. She didn't want children anyway. She didn't want to pass on the Twin Gene and have her offspring be cursed like she was. She knew if she were to have children, her mother would go after them too and end up destroying them for one of her psychotic plans. She didn't want to risk the destruction of future Blackthorn children, her own especially, and she won't. She can't. So, she could say that being a Vampire is a good thing, something she would call an upside to immortality.
"I'm sorry all of that happened to you Becky." Kyra sighed, playing with her bracelet, "I can understand being betrayed by your own mother."
"Because of the Merge thing with your brother?" Rebekah asked, "Oh, and that reminds me. You never told me why you miraculously disappeared for four months." she scolded, "Don't think I forgot about that, by the way. We couldn't find you anywhere. We looked all over the place and there was absolutely no sign of you anywhere."
"All right, you deserve to know," Kyra sighed, already thinking over what she was going to say, "So, I told you my mother is crazy..."
IN THE GILBERT HOUSE
Jeremy was down, Elena was staked through the stomach. Kol got mad because the siblings led him on a wild goose chase throughout the house, and then shot him multiple times so he staked Elena trough the abdomen, knocked out Jeremy and dragged him down the stairs before laying him on the kitchen island.
"Now, I'm not a big fan of the Hunter's Curse, so I'm just going to chop off your arm," Kol was casual, like this was something that happened on a regular basis, "But don't worry, I'll heal you up with a bit of blood after." Jeremy was squirming away, "Sorry about the sting." He was about to use the meat cleaver he was holding but then came to a sudden pause, "Wait, hang on, which one is it? Is it left or right?" he was actually thinking about the answer to that question. Jeremy was wearing long sleeves, and the tattoo wasn't visible to anyone but another Hunter or a Potential, therefore Kol wouldn't be able to tell which on it was, "Eh, I'll just do both to be safe."
Elena appeared with Tyler and Caroline next to her, and grabbed a hold of Kol's arm, "No you don't!"
She shoved him aside with the help of her friends, making him trip and fall backwards into the counter as she shoved the cleaver into his chest. Jeremy managed to untie himself and ran over to help Elena. He grabbed the handle on the sink that shoots water and pointed it at Kol, before using it against him. The town water supply was laced with Vervain, therefore it wasn't exactly too stupid of him to use against the Original, but it wasn't exactly smart either.
Elena spotted the indestructible White Oak Stake in Kol's jacket, and shouted as she grabbed it, "Jeremy, now!"
The Gilbert brother caught it and forcefully shoved it into Kol's chest, through his heart, watching as his body burst into flames and he fell to the floor. He was limp and suddenly stopped moving all together. Kol was dead.
Elena smiled at her brother and Jeremy froze, his gaze directly at the front door.
Kyra had a bad feeling. Her stomach was tingling and she could feel that there was something was wrong. Her suspicion was confirmed when she heard a shout from a few blocks over. She widened her eyes, thinking that everyone could hear the yell, but then she remembered that she now has supernatural hearing and she is the only one on the block who would hear it from where she was.
That being said, she walked towards the noise, and what she was seeing made her freeze in her spot and suck in a sharp breath from fright.
"What did you do?" Klaus asked darkly.
Nobody had noticed the Blackthorn yet.
"We didn't have a choice." Elena defended pathetically, "He was going to cut off Jeremy's arm!"
"Liar." Klaus growled, "He wouldn't have been invited in if you hadn't of been setting a trap like the idiots you are."
"You said you were gonna put him down too!" Elena yelled.
"I was going to make him suffer on my terms!" Klaus shouted, "You killed my brother!" his eyes flashed yellow but then went back to normal, "I'm going to burn this house to the ground. And when you try to flee for your lives, I'll kill you both without blinking."
"Think about this Klaus. If you kill us, you will never get the cure." Jeremy said defensively, standing in front of his sister in a protective manner, "You'll never be able to make any more of your hybrids."
"I don't care about my bloody hybrids." Klaus growled, "I want the cure so I can destroy it. I was going to kill you lot the second we dug it up, but now I'll just watch you burn instead." he paused, getting angrier, "You killed my brother, now you're going to suffer." He suddenly clutched his head in pain, "Ow."
Kyra watched as Bonnie appeared, sliding in the door passed Klaus, "Invite him in."
"What?" Elena panicked.
"Do it." Bonnie demanded.
"Come in." Jeremy said.
"Finally." Bonnie rolled her eyes and used her powers to drag Klaus through the door, "Living room. Now. Living room, now."
Kyra adverted her confused gaze to the burnt body of Kol, "Oh my god." She whispered to herself, realizing what had happened that was making the Original Hybrid so upset, "Kol, no." Then she remembered, "Klaus..."
Elena, Jeremy and Bonnie ran through the path to the living room and Klaus chased them, but was stopped from getting to them by some magical barrier. He hit it a few times, but he was still trapped.
"Witch," he growled, "You can't do this to me."
"You have no idea what I can do now." Bonnie challenged.
Kyra decided this would be the time to interrupt, coming to the conclusion that Bonnie is a stuck-up Witch with no chance at life if she continues to be cocky about her powers. Kyra stayed hidden for now, putting her hand up, giving those nasty aneurisms to Elena, Bonnie, Jeremy, Tyler and Caroline.
"Un rabia ut facto." She wasn't about to let them torture her friend. She wasn't about to let it happen, so she stepped passed the threshold and put her hand up, knocking Bonnie to the floor, Elena caught the angry gaze of the Blackthorn and widened her eyes. She used her magic to push Elena back into the stake that was planted into the wall. It went through her abdomen. Kyra won't kill her yet. She wants her to suffer first. She helped kill Kol and the Blackthorn is majorly pissed off about it.
Bonnie got up, going for Kyra but the stronger Witch caught her before she could, increasing her power, "Let him out."
"I bound the spell to the moon." Bonnie groaned, but she was still smirking, "He's trapped in there for three days."
"We'll see about that." Kyra rolled her eyes, before looking directly at the Hybrid, "Hello, friend."
Klaus' eyes widened at the appearance of his now dead brothers' girl, how much she has changed.
The Blackthorn smirked at his expression, "Get behind me."
He frowned, "I can't. I'm trapped in here."
"No you're not." she smirked at Bonnie. Klaus used his hand to see if the barrier was down, and he widened his eyes slightly and speed-walked to Kyra before getting behind her, "Are you okay?" The Hybrid nodded.
"As for you..." she paused, looking at the group, "Don't try that again, They have a Vampire-Witch Hybrid on their side to help protect them. Tyler and Caroline: I'm disappointed in you. I thought you were actually nice people. Turns out I was wrong. Jeremy: I know you're a Hunter, but don't think I won't hurt you if I have to. Bonnie: do not ever once think again that you're more powerful than me. You're not. Maybe if you were a Blackthorn, which you're not, you might stand a chance. You're weak."
"And you..." she adverted her gaze to the doppelbitch as she likes to call her frequently, using more power to make all their heads hurt more, "You killed Kol. I blame both you and Jeremy for that, because he was a steady part of the job too. So, don't you dare try and kill Rebekah, Elijah or Klaus because they have me and I will reign Hell on whoever was involved in killing them." she paused in thought for a minute, "Kol will want revenge if he ever comes back, and I'm sure he'll find a way. His charms work wonders. Therefore, I am not going to kill you now, I'll leave that job for him to decide what to do with you. But, for now..."
She smirked, before drawing on the power of the full moon, trapping Caroline and Tyler in the living room. They tried to get out but realized they were stuck. "Now your friends are trapped. Seems fitting enough since you attempted to trap Klaus."
Elena was shocked at how much power the Blackthorn Witch had, realizing that she was much stronger than Bonnie.
"Have fun trying to get out, Wolfy and Blondie. Jeremy, Elena and Bonnie are free to get out if they want, but only because they are crucial to finding this cure that I don't have much a care for." Kyra though for a moment, "Well, Elena isn't crucial to this whole thing so I could trap her here, but I want her to suffer. As for you two, you're stuck here." she paused with a shrug and a shake of her head, "I'm realizing now that Blackthorn Magic is more powerful than you'd think." she turned around to look at Klaus, "Come on," she said, walking to the door, "I can't stand being near these idiots for two more seconds."
Klaus didn't object and followed her out the door and down the street. They didn't speak for a good five minutes. Klaus was absorbing the presence of the woman in front of him, that Kyra was alive and she was in one piece. Kyra was in some kind of funk, she just found out her boyfriend died at the hands of those she thought she could trust at least a little bit, even though they used her. She knows now, she can't.
"So, um, Kol is..."
"I know." Kyra sighed, "I'm sorry, Klaus."
"Call me Nik." he said, letting out a sigh as he gave her a half smile, "At this point, you're basically family, call me Nik."
"All right," Kyra forced a smile over her sadness for him, "Nik."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I should be asking you that," she looked away with a blank expression, "Are you okay, Nik?"
"I'll live, but," Klaus said, "...I don't believe you when you say you're okay."
Kyra rolled her eyes at his blunt way of calling her a fibber, "Why is that?"
"Now I haven't known you for long," he grabbed her arm, making her stop walking as they stood in the middle of the abandoned street, "but I think I've figured you out."
She looked down, kicking a rock, "How so?"
"Observing." he said, "I've noticed a few things."
"Oh, really?" Kyra asked sarcastically.
"You cover your emotions with the opposite feeling." he told her, "You cover happiness and joy with boredom, sadness with hostility and anger. And you cover your combined anger and sadness with sarcasm."
"Um," she looked back up and sighed, "That's..." she breathed in, "...a valid point."
"Why do you cover so many emotions?"
"I was betrayed by my parents, who I held a deep love for." she said, darkly.
Klaus listened intently to what she was saying. He knew the waterworks were in the making, and as her friend, he was going to be there.
"My mother killed my brother and my father in cold blood," she confessed, feeling the tears build in her eyes. Klaus' eyes widened at what she was saying, "she kidnapped my brothers and I, torturing us for three months." The Original Hybrid could feel the anger swirling in him at the revelation and she couldn't hold it in and let a tear slip, "she turned us into Vampire-Witch Hybrids, put us on planes and sent us to five different corners of the world, leaving us to figure out how to control ourselves without each others' support and left us with no guidance." she sighed and laughed through her tears, though it wasn't a real laugh, "We all found somebody to turn to eventually..."
Klaus lowly growled in his throat, "She did what?"
"I mean, it doesn't matter anymore." Kyra said, wiping her eyes, as she started walking again, "I'm more powerful now, I guess."
"No, Kyra, no." Klaus stopped her again, "It does matter," he was extremely serious, "It does." he could tell she was holding back tears and he immediately frowned, pulling her into his chest, "Come here."
"I'm sorry." she whispered into his jacket, "I'm sorry, Nik."
"Shhh." he knew she would only get more upset if she talked, so her just let her get her tears out while she was willing to let him be there, "It's okay."