NEW ORLEANS
Buffy stands over the portable playpen Joy was currently playing in, smiling down at the little girl who was playing with the stuffed wolf in her hands. However, the blonde's smile quickly fades as she hears footsteps a least a mile away heading in her direction.
Walking over to the window, the blonde peaks through, while the storm had finally passed which only made Buffy tense knowing that if Dahlia's storm had passed then something was wrong. But right now Dahlia wasn't her main focus it was on the five vampires currently approaching the cabin.
"Marcel." Buffy breaths realizing just who would have sent vamps after her, which meant the wolves weren't far behind. And given how much demon energy she had given into it was probably a good thing, she wasn't too sure she would be able to keep herself from killing the wolves. But vamps...that she had no issue with right now.
Glancing down at her daughter she kisses her forehead "Mommy will be right back."
With that, the blonde pulls off her jacket leaving her in the dried blood covering white tank and blue jeans. She honestly looked like a mess but right now she didn't even care.
Stepping out on the porch she ignores the scythe feeling more in the mood for a hand-to-hand fight.
"Let me guess." She says with a small smile as she looks around at five unfamiliar vamps, who were probably newbies considering she had never seen any of them around the Quarter "Elijah and Marcel say hi?"
Rubbing her knuckles together the blonde watches as the five circle around her, clicking her neck she nods "Alright then...show me what you got."
With that one of the vampire's runs right at her, the blonde quickly ducks out of the way from his hit before raising her leg kicking him in the chest then in the face. As he stumbles she steps onto his knee before leaping up wrapping her thigh around his neck.
Using the momentum she spins around tossing him to the ground with a newly snapped neck while she backflips away.
As two vamps run at her the blonde ducks under one throwing a punch to the other's gut before groaning as she feels a foot connect with her back sending her stumbling into a tree.
Pushing away from the tree she wipes the blood she could feel trickling from her nose and turns to face the four vamps now moving in on her. All of them freezing as black veins slowly begin forming under her eyes and black flecks begin forming in her eyes "Now that's gonna cost you." She warns before slamming her fist at a nearby branch ripping it from the tree and before the vamps could even breath she launches it at one of them, the strength of her throw not just impaling him through the heart but the vampire stood behind him, instantly killing them both.
Not given the last two a chance Buffy runs forward throwing a spinning kick at one before raising her other leg kicking the other in the chest.
Catching the first one's fist she then twists his arm behind his back and grasps his head with her hands snapping his neck. Without even a second to breathe, she tosses his temporarily dead body to the ground before flipping over the other vampire's head landing straight behind him. Shoving her hand into his back she promptly shatters his spine before ripping his heart out.
Dropping the bloody appendage to the ground the blonde moves over to one of the vamps with a snapped neck, ripping the leather jacket off his body she pulls it on before wiping the blood on her hands onto his shirt "Didn't your mothers ever tell you don't mess with a blonde. We always have so much more fun."
"She snapped." One of Marcel's vampires explains as he fills the vampire in on what had happened when he and a few others went to find the Slayer.
"She was happy snapping necks then Justin threw her into a tree...man her eyes were full demon mode."
Marcel sighs in annoyance as he walks through his loft listening, this is why he had given the order to keep their distance not to approach her, Buffy had been held against her will for days, and if her demon side was running things she would kill anyone who came at her without any self-control "How many?"
"Took out three, staked two ripped Steve's heart out. Knocked out me and Ned. When we came too she and the kid were gone. She took Ned's jacket too so he's bitching."
Marcel clenches his jaw, this is what happened when you sent newbie's in against someone so powerful, especially when that powerful being looked like she couldn't even lift a book. They had underestimated her despite his warning "Look let the wolves know where you found her. Then stay out of her way. Girl's instinct is to kill vampires. She won't be able to control herself right now."
"Do you want us to stay on Klaus?"
"Yeah. But if you find him, keep your distance. Like you should have done with her." He says before hanging up.
As he moves to grab himself a drink a familiar voice makes him pause "Sound advice."
Marcel clenches his jaw and turns quickly spotting Klaus sat in one of the chairs on the other side of the room. The hybrid watches him flatly before gesturing to the vampire's phone "Nice to know my Slayer escaped my siblings' treachery. Why don't you tell me where she and my daughter are."
As the hybrid stands glaring threateningly at the man he had once considered a son Marcel tries to defuse the situation "Look I don't know. She disappeared after she tore through my guys. Now before you get angry—"
The vampire was cut off as he suddenly found himself pinned to the wall Klaus' hand tightly wrapped around his throat "I'm well past angry, Marcellus. I'm mad with rage, but today is your lucky day because I'm not going to kill you. No, I need something from you. So instead I'm gonna take solace in the anticipation of ripping it out of you."
Without another word, Klaus snaps Marcel's neck tossing his body on the ground just as Dahlia enters the room.
MYSTIC FALLS
The Traveler who had saved them in an effort to get her husband back who now had control of Tyler Lockwood's body glances over at the Doppelgangers as they enter the town of Mystic Falls. "Word of advice." She warns as she continues to drive "Keep a low profile. This is exactly where Markos doesn't want you to be. If the Travelers or the hybrid spots you, you're going right back to that camp..."
Her words are cut off as she glances back at the road only for all of them to tense as there stood in the middle of the road her hand raised towards the car with Liv.
"Look out!" Stefan exclaims as the traveler quickly slams on the breaks.
Elena's eyes widen in confusion as she stares at Liv, she was supposed to be helping them "What the hell is she doing?"
"Trying to kill you. Just a wild guess." Maria hisses as she quickly slams her foot on the reverse pedal only for Luke to be positioned on the other side.
Suddenly Liv waves her hand and the front of the car shattered into them killing Maria while Elena and Stefan quickly run out of the car only for both of them to quickly be brought down by Liv and Luke who were quickly moving in on the pair.
"I'm sorry." Liv says honestly "I really am. But we need to make the doppelganger blood useless. One of you needs to die."
NEW ORLEANS
After luring Dahlia into their plan to end her life Freya freezes as the clay doll they had been using to trick Dahlia suddenly falls apart in her arms. Which could only mean something or someone had stopped the spell Rebekah had been performing to keep the image of Joy in her arms gone.
Reaching forward Freya wraps her arms around Dahlia pulling her into the killing ground "Elijah now!"
Elijah leaps forward intent on ending Dahlia with their weapon only to suddenly find himself pinned to the ground a furious Klaus pinning him down "And so the wheel of betrayal circles around once more." The hybrid hisses before launching his brother at the wall. Speeding over to him he grabs him by the throat holding his brother against the railing of one of the balcony's just over the courtyard.
As Elijah struggles against his brother's hold he tries desperately to break through whatever manipulation he assumed Dahlia had forced upon his brother "She's controlling you. You have to fight her."
The hybrid merely continues to glare at his brother his eyes full of anger and betrayal "The only thing she did is pull out the dagger you stuck in my heart."
Elijah growls before shoving his brother's hands off him quickly punching him across the face again and again in quick succession. The suit clad original jumps up kicking Klaus in the chest sending the hybrid stumbling back into the wall leaving a large dent in the marble of the wall.
The hybrid growls as he grabs Elijah and knees him in the stomach only to grunt in pain as his brother does the same before he slams the hybrid against the wall once again.
Klaus glares down at his brother hatefully before shoving Elijah off him sending him flying across the hall.
Elijah winces ever so slightly before standing managing in time to raise his arm blocking Klaus's arm as the hybrid swings it at him.
As the two exchange punch after punch, the hybrid finally gets the upper hand and slams Elijah up against the wall his hand tightly wrapped around his throat. Elijah gasps desperately at the hold before looking at his brother hoping that he could remind him that they all wanted to the same thing "She will take everything from us."
"You took everything when you broke our vow." Klaus hisses as he glares at his brother with more anger than Elijah had ever seen in their 1000 years "Perhaps I'll take something from you."
Grabbing Elijah's arm he bends it shattering every single bone in it as the Original cries out in agony, Klaus smirks before forcing Elijah to his knees and pinning him to the railing of the balcony so he could see into the courtyard where a newly compelled Gia was standing in the sunlight.
"You took my girl." The hybrid hisses, "I thought tit for tat and all. Gia...be a sweetheart and take off your daylight ring."
Elijah struggles desperately against his brother trying to break through his hold to get down to the woman he had come to care for "No! No!" He screams as he spots her reaching for her ring.
Gia merely stares at her own hand in confusion unable to stop it from moving closer to her daylight ring "I can't stop myself." She whispers tears streaming from her eyes as she pulls off the ring her body exploding into flames while Elijah's screams for her filled the halls of the compound.
As her burning corpse drops the ground Klaus watches emotionlessly "You seemed vexed, brother. Wait until you see what I've got in store for Hayley. For every hour of pain, Buffy suffered through when you shoved that serum in her heart...Hayley will feel a thousand hours of pain."
The grief-stricken original growls in anger and fury; ignoring his own pain he shoves his brother off him forcing him against the wall before the two of them struggle sending them flying down the stairs.
Klaus chuckles as he pulls himself back to his feet and looks over at his growling brother who was having trouble controlling his own eyes "Is that a hint of the fabled beast behind the red door?" he taunts "Come on, brother. Let him out to play."
As expected Elijah was too lost in his grief and anger so leaped at his brother only to suddenly realize he had played right into Klaus' hands. The hybrid grabbed him in a headlock forcing Papa Tunde's blade right into Elijah's chest "You should know better than to fight me in anger. For my anger is unending."
"Klaus!"
At the familiar voice Klaus drops his brother's screaming writhing body to the ground without a care as he turns to face the blonde-haired therapist "You shouldn't have come here Camille."
Cami takes a shaky breath forcing her eyes off of Elijah's body to focus on the hybrid refusing to show any fear "I came here because you need me. You need me to tell you that this—this is not you. I know you are hurt but please listen to me, you are better than this."
"Is there a problem?" Dahlia calls as she strolls into the room after having dealt with a now sleeping Freya.
Klaus merely watches Camille emotionlessly "Not at all. Just another victim."
As he begins making his way towards the blonde shakes her head not for a second believing that he would actually hurt her, he wouldn't she was sure of it "Klaus. No. I know you won't hurt me. I've known that from the second we met. I trust you."
Dahlia smiles slightly "You think too highly of yourself." She tells Cami who frowns in confusion "I promised him and the lovely Miss Summers a life together. If you think he'd risk that to safe you...then you clearly can't face facts."
With that Cami takes a shaky breath a scream escaping her as Klaus digs his teeth into her throat.
MYSTIC FALLS
As Liv continues to try and hold her down with magic Elena's eyes darken and she lets out a loud scream her arms letting out a sonic blast sending both Liv and Luke flying off their feet.
Elena groans as she finally stops screaming only to wince, so much for keeping a low profile, moving to help Stefan up the two stand side by side as Luke and Liv pull themselves back up to their feet.
As the witches move to fight they both freeze unable to use their magic, which could only mean one thing...they were too late.
The curly-haired blonde turns to her brother in a panic "Luke it's started. The spells started."
Elena ignores the witch as she raises her hand letting out another scream knocking the two witches down, walking over to Liv she places a foot on the witch's throat slamming her head against the pavement "We trusted you."
"It doesn't matter." Liv coughs "Stefan, will be dead any second."
Stefan frowns in confusion before he lets out a small wince of pain, as his skin begins burning "My ring's not working."
Elena's eyes widen and she lets go of Liv and runs over to Stefan grabbing his arm pulling him away, they had to get him out of Mystic Falls now before the magic completely disappeared from his body and he was nothing more than a guy that was shot by his father...which meant dead "We gotta get you out of here!"
NEW ORLEANS
Buffy sighs in relief as she pushes a few branches out of the way of her sight, clutching Joy tightly to her the blonde places the scythe back in her holster. Her eyes glued to the highway just up ahead.
"Okay, mama has to steal a car now." She warns her little girl who looks up at her with a look, which looked like a lot like a look Caroline might give her "You can't judge me. You're 1. Stop it." She laughs before speeding onto the road.
As she spots a car moving towards them Buffy quickly speeds up behind the car and grabs the back wheel ignoring the smell of her burning flesh as the wheel continues to spin wildly.
Lifting the car off the ground slightly she drops it violently just as the driver climbs out to check what the hell had happened however the guy doesn't get a second to question it as Buffy peaks in the back seat "Look at that empty car seat perfect." She breaths before punching the driver across the face knocking him unconscious.
"Sorry!" She yells as she begins buckling Joy in before climbing into the driver's seat "Again so sorry! Go luck with the concussion!" Without another word, Buffy grabs the wallet out of the vampire's jacket that she was wearing and tosses it at the unconscious man before speeding off with the guy's car. Right now she needed to find Klaus.
MYSTIC FALLS
As the magic started to fade out of Mystic Falls Damon had run as fast as he could till he was just outside the magic's reach. Looking down at the bloody shot wound on his stomach he groans as he stumbles up to the road sighing in relief as a car pulls up near him.
Stumbling over to the car Damon's eyes widen in relief as he spots none other than Jeremy Gilbert in the driver's seat. Who would have thought he would be happy to see Jeremy? Sure as hell not him, but today was no ordinary day it seemed. "Little Gilbert, I have never been so happy to see you."
Jeremy sighs as he takes in the sight of a weak Damon "Get in."
"What do you mean the vortex took her?" Xander scoffs as he paces back and forth in Bonnie's living room. Enzo just having explained that he had lost their one chance at coming back. The Traveler Maria had the spell they needed but now that she was gone into the void; there were running out of time till it was one of them who got sucked up into the endless pit of nothingness.
The vampire groans in annoyance "It was either the vortex took her or both of us." Enzo hisses just as Bonnie enters the room moving out of her bedroom only to spot the panicked looks on Xander and Enzo's faces "What happened?"
Enzo groans turning to her with a small shrug "We hit a little snag."
NEW ORLEANS
"Any sign of her?" Hayley asks Jackson as she walks back over to the pack, all of them had been searching for Buffy high and low with no luck. They were pretty sure they had searched every inch of the damn Bayou but alas no even a hint of the blonde demon anywhere.
Jackson shakes his head in worry rubbing the back of his neck "If she managed to get to the highway she could be anywhere."
Hayley groans and runs a hand through her hair as she tries to think of a plan, they had to find Buffy, now that Dahlia was roaming around with the storm having passed they needed to get Buffy and Joy to the Slayer's as soon as possible "I'll try Rebekah see if she can do a locator spell—"
"My sister's a bit preoccupied at the moment." A familiar accent filled voice pipes up from behind the couple causing them both to turn just as Klaus walks into the light illuminating from the trailer next to them. Allowing the pair to see the smirk on his face "Good evening, Crescents. It will come as no surprise to learn that things will not be ending well for you."
At his words, Jackson steps forward blocking Hayley from view "Go get the car and go find Buffy and Joyce."
"I can help you."
Jackson clenches his jaw not daring to take his eyes off from the hybrid "Just get Buffy and Joyce and run."
Hayley hesitates once more before running while Klaus quickly finds himself surrounded by wolves, Jackson throws one more glare at the hybrid before nodding at his boys "Take him."
MYSTIC FALLS
As they pass the town line driving to where they had agreed to meet with Bonnie, Caroline, and Stefan, Elena glances over at Damon "Buffy's still not answering. Pretty sure that's a sign not to head to New Orleans."
"If this thing keeps spreading they're gonna need to now." Damon reminds her as he continues driving "Plus if Klaus dies we're all screwed, so keep trying."
Elena nods before moving to call the blonde again only for her eyes to widen as she spots Alina stood in the middle of the dark road blood covering her entire face and most of her clothes "Damon, look out!"
The vampire's eyes widened but before he could do anything Alina lets out a powerful scream the force of it sending the car flying through the air before it spun over and over across the highway.
Alina's heels click loudly against the concrete as she strolls over to the now upside down car, ripping the driver's door off the car she yanks Damon out of his seat smirking up at him "Sorry hot cakes girls only." With that she snaps his neck before tossing him on the ground without a care.
Elena gasps as she watches Damon's body drop to the ground, pulling herself out of the car the brunette drags her bleeding broken body against the concrete of the road. She was pretty sure both her legs were broken given she couldn't feel anything below her waist right now.
As she struggles she ignores Alina's slow clapping as the hybrid approaches her "Look at you...you try so hard." The banshee taunts as she grabs Elena by the hair yanking her up ignoring her cries of pain.
As the banshee goes to scream Alina without hesitation snaps Elena's neck, the sound of her neck shattering echoing through the cold streets.
Alina merely offers the banshee body a kind smile "See you soon on the flip side girly." She taunts before dropping her dead body right next to Damon.
NEW ORLEANS
Buffy was driving past the Bayou when she sees two stumbling figures running out into the road, watching closely her eyes widen as she finally sees their faces clearly. Hayley and Mary. Slamming on the breaks just in front of them the blonde speeds out of the car grabbing Hayley by the throat and tossing her to the ground.
Hayley hisses in pain as she goes rolling across the hard concrete floor "Ah!" She cries out in pain however before she could even stand Buffy was in front of her and the platform boots the Slayer was wearing connected with her face.
"Buffy, stop!" Mary screams but the blonde ignores the older woman as she moved in on Hayley, picking the wolf up by the throat lifting her off the ground her feet dangling in the air. Buffy glares at the blood and bruised covered face of the wolf her hand tightening around her throat "I fought for you and the wolves." The blonde hisses betrayal filling her expression as she glares at the wolf "I worked with you yet you after all your speeches let them poison me and take my baby."
"We didn't know." Hayley coughs as she claws at Buffy's hands trying to get the blonde to loosen her hold "Elijah told us you would sleep, that you wouldn't feel any pain. If we had known what it was doing to you we wouldn't have allowed it."
Buffy arches a displeasing brow as she finally lets go of the wolf before punching her in the chest knocking the wind right out of her causing the brunette to drop back to the floor with a painful grunt of pain.
Buffy walks towards the wolf who was stumbling backward as she tried to explain "Buffy the moment we found out we knew you and Joy would never be safe. We were going to take you to Cleveland. To the Slayers. Get them to heal you. I promise you...we thought we were protecting you."
Buffy listens carefully to the wolf's words, honestly, she knew she wasn't lying she could hear Hayley's heartbeat and it was as steady as ever. The blonde clenches her jaw in frustration hating every second of this, the Mikealsons had tricked her wolves, poisoned her, daggered Klaus.
The blonde sighs and turns to Hayley watching her carefully "I don't trust you." She hisses "But I believe you...however let me make myself clear you may live now but I haven't decided if you'll survive after I kill Dahlia."
"I understand." Hayley whimpers as she carefully pulls herself back up "Buffy whatever you need me to do...I'll do it."
Buffy clenches her fists tightly as she watches Hayley however before she could say a word both Hayley and Mary gasp in agony, their screams echoing through the forest.
Buffy's eyes widen and she quickly jumps over to Hayley "What the hell is happening?" She breaths as she spots Hayley's bones beginning to shatter.
Which could only mean one thing...that she was turning, but given the horrified look on Hayley's face, Buffy quickly realized she wasn't turning by will.
"Oh my god." Buffy breaths taking a step back as Hayley screams "Buffy run, we can't—ahhh!"
Buffy winces as Hayley howls of pain and the shattering of her bones filled the air, honestly, she had never seen a wolf like Hayley shift, she had heard mainly about the transition from Caroline when she and Tyler had been together. And from what Caroline said it was a horrifying torturous sight to see. To watch as someone you cared about broke every bone in their body.
"Lovely punishment isn't it." A familiar voice says from behind the blonde causing the blood soaked blonde to spin around her eyes widening a the sight of Klaus stood there his hateful gaze on Hayley "I stole something from Marcel. The Crescent curse he once used on your pack." He says as he steps towards the screaming wolf on the floor while Buffy moved over to the car closer to her daughter noticing that Mary had run into the woods as she shifted.
"Dahlia was all too happy to make the necessary adjustments." Klaus reveals making Buffy's eyes widen in horror, the last time she had seen him they had been in Dahlia's head refusing to work with her, and now here he was doing the witch's dirty work.
Klaus doesn't notice Buffy's horrified expression as he crouches down in front of the still screaming Hayley "Now you will be trapped in wolf form, save for the full moon. Leaving you very little time to cause any further mischief. And because of the unification ritual linking you to your pack...now they will share your fate...traitor."
"Nik." Buffy breaths in shock as she watches Hayley gasp in pain as her spin began to break piece by piece.
"Traitors deserve punishment, my love." He tells the blonde while Hayley groans biting her lip to keep from crying out again "She'll steal them away from you Klaus."
The hybrid glares down at the wolf "It was you who tried to steal what is mine. And for that and the betrayal of your Queen's trust, you will suffer."
Buffy gasps as she watches Hayley cry out in agony again her teeth forcing their way through her gums, turning to Klaus she stares at him in shock, cursing them was one thing, but working with Dahlia to do it, she felt sick "What the hell did you do?"
MYSTIC FALLS
Stefan and Caroline who were waiting for Bonnie and Jessie to show up so they could get the hell out of here both nervously stood by as Julian now possessing Tyler's body spoke to them, clearly in search of his wife. A wife he didn't yet know had died saving Stefan and Elena.
"The town's completely overrun." He informs the two vampires, Julian frowns when he notices an odd look cross Stefan's face "What's the problem? Did Maria tell you where she was headed or what?"
Stefan sighs and instead of lying like he probably should of he couldn't these people had betrayed their own to help them, Julian deserved the truth "Listen, uh, you're not gonna see Maria again."
"What are you talking about?"
Stefan inhales tightly before taking a step towards Julian a sympathetic look covering his face "She's dead...I'm sorry." He tries to offer him a gesture of sympathy only for a shocked horrified Julian to shrug him off violently.
Caroline's eyes widen and she turns to Julian whose anger was quickly rising as he glared at Stefan "It wasn't Stefan's fault."
"She saved your punk ass." Julian hisses at Stefan ignoring the blonde attempts to reason with him.
"I wasn't the one who killed her. The witches did." Stefan argues but clearly the wolf nature was getting at the former Traveler, his rage quickly growing as he glared at the doppelganger.
"Someone's gonna have to pay for it." He hisses at Stefan shoving him back but Stefan raises his hands in surrender, he wasn't going to fight the man who was simply grieving for his dead wife.
"Hey, I'm in no mood to fight tonight, all right?"
"Look at me." Julian hisses "My wife's dead. I'm in somebody else's body. I'm got nowhere to go. My own people are trying to kill me."
Wanting to calm this down before it all got out of control the vampire speaks calmly "We're gonna stop this spell. Even if Mystic Falls is gone we're gonna find a way to save ourselves."
As Caroline attempts to go and snap Julian's neck the new hybrid shoves her off sending her stumbling back. His anger now completely snapped he speeds over to Stefan and without care shoves his hand into Stefan's chest ripping his heart from his chest.
Caroline's eyes widen and she gasps loudly her hands coming up to her mouth as she looks down at Stefan's now desiccating body "No!"
NEW ORLEANS
Buffy remains completely frozen as she stares in the direction that the now wolf Hayley had run off in, she was horrified by what she just witnessed.
Spinning around she looks over at Klaus with wide eyes but he was merely watching her taking in the sight of her blood-covered state.
"What-why-what did you do?" She stutters out in confusion only to instantly take a step back as he moves towards her not noticing the way he flinched at her movement away from him.
The hybrid sighs, he didn't have long till Dahlia joined them and he had to complete the final task to completely lower the witch's guard. An act that was going to hurt him more than anything he had done today, it was the thing he had been dreading the most.
Ignoring the way the blonde backed away from him he approaches her grabbing her shoulders forcing her to face him as they stood under the harsh light of the highway lamps "Buffy, you need to listen to me, we don't have long."
Buffy takes a shaky breath as she shoves his hands off her, she didn't want him touching her right now, not till she knew what the hell was going on "Dahlia...you're working with her? I stood by you Nik...what..."
"Buffy please." He begs cupping her blood-covered face in his hands trying to get her to see "I have a plan, you will be fine I promise you. And when you wake...I hope you'll understand."
"What?" She breaths before the pair's conversation is cut short as Dahlia approaches them from the darkness.
"All the Crescents are now cursed." The witch tells the pair focusing on the elder hybrid who looked so torn about what needed to occur next.
"It's time, Niklaus."
Buffy frowns in confusion before clenching her fists tightly and shoving Klaus's hands off her as she gets into a protective stance in front of the car where Joy was currently crying in the back seat "What is she talking about?"
When Klaus remains silent Dahlia sighs "If you want the Salvatore boy erased from her memory this is the only way. When she wakes she will have seen the life that I showed you. She'll understand."
Buffy frowns in confusion she had a horrible feeling going up her spine right now, fear and anger coursing through every nerve ending of her body. What the hell had Dahlia shown him to get him to help her "I will end you." She hisses at the witch who merely smiles "Buffy it's only a small sleep. Your dreams this time will be filled with the images I showed Niklaus. A life you will have soon enough. The two you at peace together with Joy and more children."
Buffy lets out a small scoff as she realized what Dahlia had done, she had promised to erase Stefan from her mind, to give her and Klaus a life all in exchange for channeling their child's power.
"I won't let you touch her." She hisses before punching Klaus across the face as he takes a step towards her "Don't touch me."
The hybrid's eyes glow bright yellow as the two face-off, having not fought since their time as enemies so long ago. As his eyes flash yellow hers turn black, black veins forming under her eyes.
Dahlia's eyes widen at the sight of the Slayer's true demon forms "You will be so useful...once you're agreeable."
Klaus who was momentarily frozen at the sight of her demonic eyes clenches his jaw, this was the only way, once it was done she would know the truth but for now, he had to weaken Dahlia's guard. This would be different if he had the time to fill Buffy in on his plan but the witch had been watching his every move. It was too late.
Running at the blonde he grunts as Buffy swings her leg at his gut before spinning around swinging her other leg at his back. As he stumbles the blonde leaps up swinging her leg again but he blocks the blow shoving her leg back down. Buffy growls and leaps into a side aerial her feet connecting with his face.
As her feet land back on the ground she blonde shoves her hands into the hybrid's chest sending him skidding back.
Running at him again she swings her fist at his face again and again before she gasps in agony as shockingly he shoves his hand into her chest.
"Ahhh!" The blonde cries out in agony as she feels his hand latch onto her heart, the hybrid takes a shaky breath wrapping one arm around her waist pulling her closer so her chin was rested against his shoulder "It's the only way Luv." He whispers before pulling back tears in his eyes as he spots the betrayed and completely heartbroken look on her face as she realized what he was about to do.
"Nik..." She whispers before she gasps as the hybrid finally tears her heart from his chest causing her to stumble forward completely into his arms.
The blonde blinks a few more times and as her body begins to desiccate she feels the hybrid's lips on her forehead before his voice filled her mind.
"Buffy, I spoke to Marianna, this won't kill you. Your heart will re-grow. Camille has been informed to give you a vile of my blood the second they find you. I have told her how to kill Dahlia. I found a way. The second you wake drink my blood to get your strength back. There is a plan. Trust me if I had the time I would tell you, but Dahlia has not left my side since I awoke. This was the last thing she wanted me to do, I needed her guard lowered. Understand I will keep our child and you safe from her clutches no matter what...I'm sorry."
As his voice ends Buffy eye's finally flutter shut her body completely desiccated in his arms. The hybrid looks down at her sadly wiping the blood from her lips and pushing the hair out of her face. With a shaky breath he carefully lifts her body up into his arms hating the fact that this moment, the image of ripping out her heart would haunt him for all eternity.
That he was sure of.
As he carefully moves to lay her across the driver's seat and the passenger seat he then walks around to the backseat where Joy was sat in her car seat tears spilling down her face. It was like she could sense that a horrid misdeed had just occurred to her mother.
Smiling sadly at his little girl as she turns to look at him with teary eyes "Hey..." He whispers "Daddy here's. It's all going to be okay. I promise."
"And there she is." Dahlia says from behind them quickly causing the hybrid's smile to disappear from his face. Turning to face the witch he couldn't help but clench his jaw at the way she was watching the sad little girl.
"Such a beautiful child. Spitting image of her mother." The witch whispers a small smile playing on her lips as she gazes at Joyce. Slowly the witch's gaze turns to the hybrid "I want to thank you for your hand in procuring her for me. Both of them." She mumbles her gaze dropping over to where Buffy's desiccated body lay, a body Klaus couldn't even bare to look at right now.
"It must not have been easy betraying your family." Dahlia says softly before nodding towards the Slayer "And I promise you...she won't remember this."
The hybrid clenches his jaw as he watches the witch standing protectively in front of the vehicle "I will not see my daughter nor the woman I care for handed over like spoils of some war. To that end, I remind you of your promise. You will protect and mentor Joyce, as well as any other children Buffy and I have, drawing from them only what power you require to keep them safe."
Dahlia nods as she turns her gaze back to the child "I will bond her to me first. Once I can channel Joyce's power, I will not only be able to alter the Slayer's memories but I will be able to keep them both safe from all harm." She assures him as she begins moving towards him her focus completely on the quiet little girl in the backseat "Always under my protection."
As Dahlia moves to reach for Joy Klaus raises his hand blocking her from taking another step towards his daughter "I think not. You offered an alliance that would benefit my daughter and now you wish to link to her even though you yourself suffer from that sleep spell. I will not lose my daughter to your affliction."
Dahlia couldn't help but glare at the hybrid's words "I will use her power to free myself, as I said."
"And if you fail..." he challenges knowing she was falling right into his plot "...or if Joy is not strong enough? She is, after all, but a child. And we both know due to the amount of demon running in Buffy's blood you wouldn't dear risk channeling her. I will not condemn Joy to your fate. Not when there is so obvious an alternative. If you require power to be immortal without the need to sleep for centuries...then why not channel one who already has eternal life? Bond yourself to me. The immortal hybrid. Once your sleep spell is broken, then and only then...may you link yourself to Joy."
WHITMORE
Bonnie stares at the wall ignoring Enzo's questioning as tears run down her face, first Elena had shown up, and then Stefan. Bonnie's heart was completely broken after having to watch two people she cared for pass through her to get to the other side.
Elena had disappeared in search of finding Xander and she didn't know where Stefan was so here the Anchor was sat staring off into space.
Enzo paces back and forth ignoring the Anchor's broken expression "There has to be another way."
"Maria was the only one willing to help us who knew that spell." Bonnie whispers, it was over, Xander was dead, Elena was dead and now Stefan was dead. There was nothing they could do to bring them back now.
"Well, I can't control the great beyond." Enzo hisses "We're running out of time."
"Bonnie?"
At the familiar voice, Bonnie's head shoots up only to spot a blood-covered Buffy stood there with a massive hole in her shirt just where her heart was, blood completely drenched around the area.
Bonnie quickly stands staring at Buffy in shock shaking her head, no this couldn't be happening, not Buffy too, this couldn't be real "Buffy?"
Enzo's eyes widen, he actually liked the crazy blonde so hearing she was dead was not something he liked. Honestly, his time with her and Damon had been a blast "What?"
Bonnie ignores him and walks towards the blood-covered blonde "What happened?"
Buffy sighs as she rubs her chest where Klaus had ripped her heart out, taking a shaky breath as images of his blue eyes looking into hers as he finally killed her forcing their way into her mind. Blinking back tears she turns to Bonnie "Klaus...he um...he ripped my heart out."
"No." Bonnie cries as she walks right in front of the blonde shaking her head, it was always her and Buffy who died for everyone else, this wasn't fair it wasn't right "No."
"It's okay." Buffy whispers "It's only temporary. My heart will re-grow. I'm immortal and all, guess it's just gonna take longer than a simple snapped neck."
Bonnie sighs in relief as she wipes the tears from her face relief filling her as she watches her best friend "Okay...well, once you pass through you won't have long to get back to New Orleans to get back to your body. If your still here when the Other Side goes...I don't know what will happen."
Buffy nods in understanding "Okay, I'll get with the Road Runner second I'm there." She breaths her mind still focused on getting the hell to Dahlia and just praying whatever Klaus had planned worked.
To say she understood was true but she was also furious right now, the image of him looking her in the eye as he ripped her heart from her chest...she wasn't sure that was something she would ever get past. Even if she understood it...she honestly wanted to punch him a bit more once Dahlia was dead. And Elijah... she was going to snap his neck repeatedly for at least 100 hours.
As she moves to take Bonnie's hand Bonnie backs up as she realizes just who Buffy would see when she passed over "Oh my god, Buffy."
"What?" The blonde whispers her eyes widening as tears begin streaming down Bonnie's face, something was very wrong right now.
Bonnie takes a shaky breath as she runs a hand through her hair the aching in her chest returning "I lost the spell. And they're over there...I can't bring them back."
Buffy frowns in confusion for a long moment before it clicks, the look on Bonnie's face it was grief...which means someone she knew was on The Other Side "Bonnie...whose on The Other side? Bonnie?!"
"I'll find something to bring them back...oh god, I'm sorry." Bonnie gasps before taking Buffy's hand allowing Buffy to pass through to The Other Side.
THE OTHER SIDE
Buffy's eyes slam open as she finds herself sat in the middle of the graveyard that she used to spend so much of her teen years in back in Mystic Falls. But there was something wrong here, everything was dark and grey. Buffy couldn't help but wince at the sight of the place, it looked like a living nightmare, just the sky itself looked like it was collapsing in on itself.
As she stands she looks around the familiar graveyard before her entire body goes stone cold as she spots who was stood across from her with a teary-eyed sad smile on her face.
Buffy stumbles back feeling her knees go weak at the sight of the figure, this couldn't be happening. After everything, this couldn't be.
After all the death, the pain, the sacrifice...this was the one thing that was never supposed to happen.
"This is not how it's supposed to be." She whispers shaking her head refusing to believe it as the figure begins moving towards her "No...no, you're not dead."
Elena smiles as she places a hand on Buffy's cheek wiping the tears from her little sister's face "Sorry little sister."