Alex's P.O.V

I stood in a classroom with Jeremy, my brothers, Bonnie, and her date, and currently, the only person in the room who didn't hate me was Klaus. Damon didn't bat an eye towards me, and neither did Stefan. So I stayed in the back of the room leaning against the wall. I felt invisible, and I was afraid that this feeling would never go away when my brothers and I were in the same room.

Bonnie was chanting a spell, with candles lit up around her, while she was looking for Elena and Esther. Everybody watched her closely and it had been a few minutes since she started the spell, but nothing was happening.

"She does this all the time, right?" Her date asked.

"What's taking so long?!" Klaus asked, and Bonnie stopped her spell. "All boundary spells have a loophole." Matt walked into the room.

"People are walking right out of the dance, past the barrier," Matt said, and Jeremy looked at my brothers.

"Well if Matt and I can leave, we can stop Esther ourselves. We just gotta find out where she is," Jeremy said.

"It's suicide Jeremy," I spoke up. They might hate me, but I won't let them walk into a lion's den without knowing it. Jeremy and Matt turned to me with a shocked look on their face. Ok, so they weren't ignoring me, they didn't realize I was in the room. But it caused Damon to glance at me over his shoulder. Klaus sped over and grabbed Bonnies' date by the throat, as he starts to strangle him.

"Suicide would be disappointing me! Now work your magic, witch, or I'll start killing people you fancy." Klaus threatened her. I didn't move to stop him; there would be no point.

"Let him go!" Bonnie yelled.

"Not until you get us out of here," Klaus said, and Stefan walked up to him.

"Ah, don't be stupid, Klaus. Bonnie doesn't give a damn about us. The only reason she's helping us right now is to save Caroline and Tyler. You start killing the people she cares about; she'll tell us all to go to hell," Stefan explained to him. Klaus looked between the two of them before letting go of Bonnies' date and walking out of the room.

Everyone then looked at me, and Jeremy spoke up, "What do you think we should do Alex?"

"I think you should be smart," I answered to him. "Come up with a good plan, and once we find Elena, you can go get her, but make sure you kill Esther as well. She can't be trusted. Not to mention she wants me dead." I looked at my brothers who refused to make eye contact with me. "I'll go find Klaus and make sure he doesn't kill someone out of rage," Ok, that was one of the worst excuses I've ever come up with, but I left the room.

I found Klaus in the hallway leaning against one of the lockers. There were no dead bodies, and he smirked when he saw me walking towards him. "Have I told you how gorgeous you look in that dress?" He flirted with me, and I chuckled.

"No, I don't believe you have," I said with a small giggle. Klaus grabbed my waist as he stood up and brought me into his chest.

"Well, you look exquisite," Klaus said.

"You look very striking as well," I complimented and wrapped my arms around his neck. He leaned down and kissed me softly. I didn't stop him. I deepened the kiss by running my hand through his hair. I could feel him smiling into the kiss, and I pulled away to breathe.

I turned around when I heard someone walking towards us and saw Jeremy. He noticed how close Klaus and I were standing to each other. Jeremy looked as disappointed as everybody else, but still walked up to me and handing me a vial of blood.

I took the veil as Jeremy spoke, "Everybody told me you got together with Klaus. I didn't believe them at first, but I guess I do now." I went to speak, but Jeremy stopped me. "Don't. Just take my blood to Bonnie so she can find Elena. She's in the history room." He said and walked away.

I turned to Klaus, and he gave me a sad smile, before leading me down the hallway. I didn't know which room was the history room since it was burned down and rebuilt, so we just looked in all of them for Bonnie. When I found her, I walked in with Klaus behind me.

"Hey," I said to her, kindly, and she looked up at me. I could tell she didn't trust me anymore, so I just walked up to her and gave her the vial of Jeremy's blood. "Jeremy gave me some of his blood for your locator spell."

"Do I have to do this with you two lurking over me?" Bonnie asked.

"I get that you're angry with me, Bonnie-"

"No, you don't. How could you fall for him, Alex?" Bonnie asked me angrily.

"Look, I'm sorry that for once in my life I let myself be happy!" I growled at her. "I understand your anger, I get that you feel like you can't trust me, but don't you dare give me the same speech that Damon gave me, Bonnie Bennett, because I deserve to be as happy as anyone else." Bonnies' expression didn't change, but her eyes told me she would drop the subject for now. "Just do the spell so we can send Jeremy and Matt to kill Esther once and for all."

Bonnie turned to the map and poured Jeremy's blood over it, then began to chant. " Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras, Sequita Saguines, Ementas Asten Mihan Ega Petous. " I watched as the blood didn't move on the map. "Esther is fighting me," she explained.

"Esther couldn't possibly have this much power. Unless she's channeling something," Klaus said as he walked up to us. He looked down at the map and leaned against the table

"A hotspot?" Bonnie asked, and Klaus stared at the map as something seemed to click in his head.

"Get the humans ready; I know where she is," Klaus commanded and walked out of the room.

~Outside of the High School~

Everyone had left the dance. Klaus was still inside with Bonnie waiting for her to drop the boundary spell. I made him give me his word he wouldn't hurt Bonnie, and he said he wouldn't though I kept an ear out in case she screamed. It turns out his mother was in the cemetery the whole time.

I stood outside with Damon and Stefan. They weren't talking, just waiting to get the ok to leave. My older brother and I both watched as Stefan paced up and down the salt barrier. "Will you two stop ignoring me?" I groaned, not being able to take the silence anymore. They both looked at me.

"Why shouldn't we ignore you?" Stefan asked. "You're sleeping with the enemy!"

"Oh my god!" I yelled. "Can you both pull your heads out of your asses and see that he makes me happy!" Damon walked closer to me.

"Happy? How can Klaus make you happy?" Damon asked me.

"Why does it matter?" I asked him. "I'm happy. I'm fucking happy for once in my life. What with you two constantly killing any other boy who dares to date me. Not to mention Klaus might have stalked me or done horrible things, but he never killed the people I dated or my descendants."

"So that's it then? You've just forgiven him for everything he has done to us?" Stefan asked.

"Is that what this is about? You think I've forgiven him?" I asked them, and they didn't look away or speak up. "For the love of God, I haven't forgiven Klaus. Hell, we haven't even had that conversation. All I've done was stop denying the fact that I like him." I crossed my arms. "Oh, and let's not mention the fact that you too are hypocrites. Don't you get that he and I are almost exactly alike? Don't you get that he understands the demons in my head better than you two because he has them too? Don't you two care if I'm happy, or are you two just so obsessed with Elena that you've forgotten about my feelings?" I screamed at them.

"You deserve to be happy, Alex, but we don't understand why it has to be with him. He's trying to kill us!" Stefan exclaimed.

"Yeah, because you guys are trying to kill him," I said to them.

"So now you're defending him?" Damon asked.

"NO!" I screamed. "I'm not defending him. He knows what he's done, and I know what he's done. I know he made you feed on human blood Stefan, and I know he tortured you, Damon. I hate that. I do. That's why I denied the fact that I ever like him," I explained. "But we're no better. I act out on my anger, you," I gestured to Stefan. "Rip people's heads off, and you," I then gestured to Damon. "Torture people when you don't get what you want."

"That doesn't explain why you're still with him," Damon said.

"Well, that's a long-ass story," I spat. "Plus, you wouldn't believe me."

"Humor us," Damon said, and I took a deep breath.

I spoke slowly, "Klaus and I are soulmates," Then I saw Damon roll his eyes.

"Can't you see he has compelled you, Alex?" My older brother asked. "Soulmates don't exist."

"He can't compel me, Damon, naturally turned hybrids like Klaus and I can't be compelled," I explained. "And I said that at first too. But he has a mark on his chest that's the same as mine."

"How can you, of all people, buy into this?" Stefan asked me. "He's trying to manipulate you."

"Then why else would Esther want me dead, Stefan?" I questioned, and he went to answer me but didn't know-how. "Because I never saw her until the night of the ball. She wanted me dead because of my bond with Klaus. She said it in my dream. I was the only thing in her way from killing Klaus, so she tried to kill me as well."

"So what? You're just going to buy into this whole story about Klaus, and you begin destined for each other?" Damon asked.

"For the love of god Damon!" I yelled at him. "I passed out when you all daggered Kol. I was connected to them in the spell. Everything lines up and if you want to see the soulmate mark that proves it, I'll show it to you. And if you don't believe me after that, ask Bonnie. She found a bond between us when she was unlinking Klaus' family and me from each other." Damon and Stefan shared a look before looking back at me. "I can understand you won't approve of Klaus and I immediately, believe me, I was aware of that when I first realized I liked him. But I hate the fact that you hate me for being happy with someone, when I never stopped you two from being with someone, even though I didn't like them." I explained to them, but before they could answer Klaus walked out of the high school. I turned around to him and watched as he walked up the barrier.

We all saw as he placed his hand over the line of salt, indicating the barrier was broken. Bonnie came out of the High School as Klaus sped away. My brothers and I looked at each other before rushing after him.

~At the Cemetery~

We got there and saw Klaus speeding away with Esther's body. Jeremy had walked up to us and explained that Esther tried to turn Alaric into a weapon, basically Mikael 2.0, and failed. Though I knew Alaric wasn't going to turn into a vampire. He also said this is where Esther died a thousand years ago, and that's why she did the spell here. Jeremy walked back into the tomb, and I looked up to see our family name. This was the last place I wanted to be.

"The last time I was here was when we buried a casket for mom," I said to them, and they quickly glanced at me. "I haven't had the guts to come back here since." They sighed as more of our friends came to say goodbye to Alaric and Jeremy walked out of the tomb.

"We know," Stefan answered.

Alaric and Elena walk out to see a gathering of people outside my family's tomb. There were lit candles scattered around us that I didn't even notice. Alaric glanced at all of us and smiled as Elena walked over to my brothers, and I. Ric looked from Stefan and Elena to me to Damon, Caroline, and Tyler, Matt, Bonnie, Jeremy, and stopped on Meredith. We were all in tears. Alaric tears up gave us a nod, then goes into the tomb and closes the gate behind him.

Goodbye, Ric. It has been an honor to be your friend.

~At the Boarding House~

I sat in the parlor room drinking a glass of bourbon. Damon stayed with Alaric in the tomb to make sure someone didn't come by and give him some blood, and also so he wouldn't have to die alone. Stefan was with Elena at the school while she packed up all of Alaric's vampire-hunting gear to distract herself. Tears had started to fall down my face, but I wiped them away as quickly as they came.

My phone buzzed, and I looked down to see it was Klaus. I wiped back a few more tears and picked up. "Hey," I said to him.

" I heard about Alaric, " Klaus said to me.

"Yeah," I said, subdued.

" I'm sorry, Alexandria, " He said.

"Yeah," I repeated.

" Are you going to be ok? " Klaus asked me.

"No," I answered. "But I just want to be alone right now."

" I'm always a phone call away, " Klaus told me, and I smiled as a few tears rolled down my cheeks.

"I know," I said and hung up the phone. I walked upstairs to my room and went to sleep. Today's been a long day.