The crowd stood deathly silent as they heard a satisfying snap echo throughout the courtyard.

The nightwalkers watched quietly as the brothers strutted further in, power surrounding them.

Klaus smirked as his eyes roamed the congregation encircling him.

"Good evening. I'd like a word."

Marcel stood definitely at the top of the compound, his hands latching onto the railings tightly.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Elijah stood next to his brother, tugging on his jacket.

"It appears we have interrupted a collection of filthy amateurs! We've come for the girl. Give her to us, or we kill everyone here. Starting with you."

Elijah's eyes turned dark as he spoke of Alex.

Marcel licked his lips.

"You two got a lot of nerve, coming into my home and making demands."

Klaus plastered a fake smile on his face and raised his eyebrows at Marcel.

"Your home, is it?"

Elijah held his arm out in front of Klaus preventing him from pursuing Marcel.

"The girl. I will not ask again."

"I assume you're talking about Alex? Short, dark hair, bitchy attitude. Who is she anyway? Pretty sure she's not your pet."

"She is an old friend. You know how sentimental I am with old friends." Klaus replied sharply.

Marcel shrugged.

"Well, I ain't got her. And before you start whining, I did pay her a little visit earlier tonight. I was feeling nostalgic, so I took a trip out to the plantation where I used to be a slave. And, imagine my surprise when I realised the Original family of vampires had taken up residence. Your girl, Alex, answered the door, we exchanged hellos that was it. You don't believe me? Look around. Hell, I'll even help you find her. But the question I'd ask is: If Alex isn't here, then where the hell is she?"

…..

I groaned as I came round to my senses. My eyes begrudgingly opened and I frowned as I noticed I was bound in the back of an SUV.

I noticed the window and I adjusted my position before attempting to kick the window to escape, but the driver stopped the van. I moved back as I heard them come to the back. Just as they opened the door, I began kicking at him, but they blocked me and held my legs as the growled at me.

I gasped as I became familiar with my kidnapper.

"Tyler!?"

Tyler glared at me with glowering eyes.

"Seriously? You don't want to fight with me Alex. I heard about your little problem. You can't beat a hybrid."

Before I could stop him, Tyler grabbed onto my ankles roughly and bound them with zip ties.

I grunted in pain and growled at him.

"God damnit Tyler! Let me go, you backstabbing, half breed mutt!"

Tyler yanked on my ankles and I groaned as my head landed hard.

"Shut up!"

He pulled me out of the trunk and threw me over his shoulder.

…..

I winced as Tyler dropped me on the ground, in front of a little shack in the middle of the woods.

"What is this place?" I asked.

"The armpit of Louisiana." Tyler replied, whilst digging around in his pocket.

I shuffled backwards as he pulled out a knife.

"What are you gonna do with that?"

"Depends on you." Tyler grabbed my ankles and sliced through the zip ties, giving me a little bit of freedom.

"Hey. You attacked me remember? You ambushed me in my own backyard!"

Tyler growled deeply.

"It's not your backyard! It's Klaus'! You know, I knew you were going out with him and all, but I didn't think it would lead to this."

I narrowed my eyes at him.

"You've come a long way from the girl I met in Mystic Falls, you were my friend." Tyler's voice turned soft and I sighed, feeling sorry for him.

"Tyler, I'm sorry. But a lot has happened since the last time I saw you."

"I know that you're pregnant. Have you told the others? Have you told Damon?"

I pursed my lips and glared at Tyler.

"Damon, doesn't need to know everything that goes on in my life. He knows that I'm with Klaus and that's all he needs to know."

Tyler scoffed.

"Does he know you're here? In New Orleans? Does he know your having Klaus' kid? Does he even know you're not a vampire anymore?"

I growled.

"Why are you lecturing me of my life choices? This wasn't planned you know."

'Let me tell you what I've learned since being here." Tyler pulled on my sweater to reveal my crescent moon birthmark.

I glanced at him confused.

"This crescent birthmark, that both you and Grace have, means you come from a big shot family. Some kind of royalty for the werewolves of this region. And right here…" Tyler gestured around us.

"This is all that's left of them."

My eyebrows pulled together in sympathy, as I noticed more shacks and tents made of blankets around us. I was only young when Klaus turned me into a vampire. When I found out what he did, and feeling the bloodlust, I thought it was best to run away, but running from Klaus, made him angry, which is why he turned up at my home intended to kill my family. Only I beat him to it.

I couldn't control my bloodlust, all these years I had been blaming him when it was myself that killed them. But I had no idea about werewolf royalty, and that I was apart of that, that's where Grace must have found her lead from.

…..

"We should head south towards the water." Both Elijah and Klaus trudged through the woods trying to find Alex.

"You seem quite determined to find Alexandra." Klaus spoke sharply, trailing after his older brother.

"If I am moving too fast for you Niklaus, you're welcome to wait in the car. Do be certain to leave the windows down." Elijah replied, just as cold.

"Ah, so I've touched a nerve? May I inquire as to when you have started to admire what is mine? Perhaps, that's why you've been barking orders since your return, hoping to impress Alexandra by assuming the role of family patriarch."

Elijah stopped in his movements and turned towards Klaus.

"If you are going to insist on treating her like dirt, then that's your mistake."

A small groan shook the brothers out of their altercation. Klaus and Elijah came upon a SUV and walked round the back as they noticed a familiar figure lying on the ground with a gash in her head.

Klaus knelt down to her level and lifted her up gently.

"Grace? Sweetheart wake up."

Grace moaned as she came to. She opened her familiar eyes and furrowed her brows and they landed on Klaus and Elijah.

"Klaus?"

Klaus lifted her into a sitting position and he moved her short hair behind her ears as she adjusted.

"What happened?"

Grace's eyebrows pulled together as she tried to remember and she stood up hastily as she did.

"Alex!"

Elijah turned to the doppleganger.

"Do you know where she is?"

Grace shook her head.

"No, but I know who does."

Grace hesitated and Klaus growled low in his throat.

"It's Tyler."

"Tyler Lockwood?" Elijah asked, and Grace nodded in reply.

"I tried to stop him, but he knocked me out." Grace touched the wound on her head and winced.

Elijah turned to Klaus.

'And why would your little hybrid - sidekick from Mystic Falls have any interest in Alexandra?"

Klaus began to search Tyler's truck as he was speaking to Elijah.

"Back when I had the means to sire hybrids, he was my first. Although, I didn't give him much choice in the matter."

Klaus picked up a blanket and sniffed it.

" He was loyal in the beginning, but he grew insubordinate, turned my other hybrids against me. I couldn't have that, so I massacred the lot of them."

He began throwing things around, but sighed and stood up facing Elijah.

" Tyler ran like a coward before I could finish him off."

Grace crossed her arms and pursed her lips tightly.

"That's not the reason you made Tyler into a revenge fuelled psycho."

Klaus glared at Grace, but her stare was defiant and he sighed.

"There was this business with his mum."

"You killed his mother. Wonderful." Elijah replied incredulously.

"He needed to be taught a lesson!" Klaus snarled.

"And now you've gone and put Alex in danger!" Grace yelled.

"What lesson will you be taught Niklaus, if he retaliates by harming Alexandra?" Elijah glared at his brother.

Klaus growled lowly.

"So, you do care about her."

Elijah clenched his jaw.

"I have always cared about her."

Klaus snarled.

" Well, go on then. Have at it brother. Save her. Claim what spoils you have. I've possessed what she has to offer and let me tell you, she is exquisite…"

Grace gasped.

"Klaus!"

"Niklaus, so help me." Elijah interrupted, a fire burning within him.

Klaus growled.

"Enough! I'll kill Tyler Lockwood myself." Before Elijah could say anything else, Klaus blurred away, leaving both him and Grace alone.

…..

I watched on silently as Tyler paced back and forth.

"Tyler. There's been a wolf watching me lately. Protecting me, like it's instinctively knows that I'm apart of it's pack." I hesitated. "You're a hybrid, you can turn into a wolf whenever you want. Was it you?"

Tyler looked at me confused and shook his head.

"No. But you're right, only hybrids can control when they change. And I'm the only one left, besides Klaus. Which is why we're here."

I could feel my heartbeat increasing.

"Whatever you think you're doing, you know they're going to kill you. I'm apart of their family. What would Caroline think-"

I was interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing and my lips parted in shock as I recognised the ringtone.

Tyler took the phone out of his pocket and showed the screen to me and I clenched my jaw.

"Well, well, well. Shall we tell him exactly what's been going on?"

I widened my eyes.

"Tyler don't!"

"Damon! How nice to hear the sound of your egotistical voice again."

"Lockwood? Why the hell do you have Alex's phone?"

"Alex is a bit tied up right now-"

"Lockwood if you don't give her the damn phone right now I swear to God-"

I gulped at Tyler's gaze.

"What do you say Alex? Shall I tell him what you've been up to?"

"Tyler stop!" I yelled, tugging on my bonds.

"What are you talking about? Lockwood, give her the damn phone!"

Tyler held the phone to his mouth and stared at me menacingly.

"Hey Damon. Did you know that your precious Alex isn't a hybrid anymore?"

"Tyler!"

"What?"

"Yeah, a bunch of witches found out about her and Klaus, so they decided to get rid of her vampire half, turning her into a dormant werewolf."

Tyler scoffed and laughed sarcastically.

"That's not even the best part."

I froze at Tyler's disdain. My heartbeat increasing with every word. I felt tears escape me as his dangerous glare held my tearful eyes.

"Please. Tyler don't do this." I whispered.

"Alex? What's going on? Are you Ok?"

Tyler snarled, but none of us spoke.

I whimpered as I could already feel my heart breaking.

I saw the spark in his eyes as he held the phone back up to his mouth and I screamed.

"No! Tyler! Stop!"

I gasped as Tyler flashed his hybrid eyes and he moved so quick, I turned away from him and closed my eyes.

A gasp escaped me, unbeknown to me, I had held my breath waiting for him to hit me.

Instead I could feel how tense he was. Tyler's eyes were flicking back and forth from my weeping ones.

"Damn it!" He swore and punched the wall closest to him and I gasped.

"Alex! Lockwood I swear if you hurt her!"

Tyler turned to me and pointed.

"He deserves to know Alex! You can't keep lying to him!"

"Tell me what?"

I rose my eyebrows, desperately trying to get my point to come across the angry hybrid.

"And I will! But not like this Tyler! Please! Just let me go before Klaus finds you and kills you!"

Tyler growled.

"No! He has taken everything from me! I can take something away from him! And something away from you…"

"Tyler! No!"

Tyler growled and picked up the discarded phone.

"Alex is pregnant with Klaus' baby!"

"No!" I wailed.

Tyler gasped out of breath before glancing down the phone to see if Damon was still there.

"What?"

"It's true."

I cried hopelessly.

"Damon-" My voice broke.

"Is it true?"

I cried into my shoulder at his cracked voice.

"Is. It. True?"

Tyler brought the phone closer to me and I turned my head away cowardly, not being able to listen to his shattered words.

"IS IT TRUE!" Damon roared through the phone and I sobbed.

"YES. God Damn it. YES." I yelled as I shook.

There was nothing heard apart from my whimpers at my outburst.

"Lockwood."

Tyler brought the phone closer to him at Damon's word.

"Delete this number from her phone."

I cried.

"No! Damon!"

I heard him hang up before I broke down in tears.

I heard Tyler come close to me and I glared at him. I felt my insides burn and my stare became cold, and a red mist began to overtake.

"As soon as I'm free, I. Am. Going. To kill you."