Lights Go Out

A/N - Here you guys and girls another chapter i'll try and get more done next week since i have less hour now in work you'll get more updates. Allie learns about Nik's and Stefan's past in the 1920's and she finally meets Rebekah. Elena and Damon come to Chicago to get Stefan back but does her sister now that she hasn't come for her.

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Chapter 3 - Chicago

Katherine's POV (Till the World Ends - Britney Spears)

"You're interrupting my drink." Damon said over the phone sounding pissed off this made me smile.

"You miss me? I asked him leaning against the phone booth. Damon said to me sounding surprised, "Katherine. Where are you?" "Lurking outside your window, pining away." I whispered to him with a giggle. He asked me. "What do you want?" "I'm homesick. What have I missed?" I asked him. I heard a sigh, "Well, Stefan's still Klaus' little prisoner and Elena still thinks she can save him and no one's thought about you since you left." He told me. "And what about you? I'm sure now that you've given up on your brother, you're plotting some sort of way of moving in on his girlfriend." I asked him. He said to me, "I didn't give up on him. I just don't know where he is." "Hmm." I expressed through the phone. He said to me, "But you do. Are you trailing them?" "A hybrid who wants me dead, my best friend is now the hybrid's love and his sidekick who's off the rails? I couldn't be further away." I lied to him. He said to me, "Which means you know exactly where they are." "All I know is that Klaus pitched a fit once his hybrids didn't work. Now he's looking for some answers." I told him. "How do you know that?" He asked me. I smiled, "Spend 500 years running, and there will be a few people along the way that are looking out for you." I told him. "Is that what you're doing? Looking out for my brother?" he asked me. I shrugged, "Maybe, maybe not. I'm conflicted." I said to him. "Where are they?" he asked me.

Allie's POV (One Last Time - Ariana Grande)

Myself, Nik and Stefan get out of a car. "Welcome back to Chicago, Stefan." Nik told him.

"I always wanted to visit Chicago." I muttered to myself, I felt Nik behind me he kissed the top of my head, "I show you the world sweetheart." he said to me

Stefan sighed, "Not to interrupt you love birds….but what are we doing here?" he asked us both. "I know how much you loved it here. Bringing back memories of the good old ripper days?" Nik asked him.

A smirk came across my face, "Wait so you were like Damon when he came to town a long time ago?" I asked him aswell.

"Blacked out most of them. A lot of blood, a lot of partying. The details are all a blur." He said with a nodded.

Nik walked over to him, "Well, that is a crying shame. The details are what make it legend." He said to him i could sense that Nik had something with Stefan not remembering anything about Chicago.

"Word was the ripper of Monterrey got lonely, so he escaped to the city for comfort. It was Prohibition. Everything was off limits then, which made everything so much fun." He said to him. "Chicago was magical." he told him again.

I could tell that Chicago was magical. "Yeah, well, I'll take your word for it. Like I said, I don't remember most of it." He repeated.

Nik looked at me, I shrugged. "Going to get down to business, then?" He asked him. "Why am I still with you? We had our fun, your hybrids failed. I mean, don't you want to move on?" He asked Nik.

Nik smirked, "We're going to see my favorite witch. If anyone can help us with our hybrid problem, it's her." He said grabbing my hand and walked me over to the car his minion was holding the door open as I got back in the car.

Elena's POV (Cheerleader - OMI)

I was in bedroom, sleeping. I turns over I snuggle in the other side of the bed, "Rise and shine, sleepy head." Damon whispered to me, he on was lying on the bed beside her with his hands behind his head. My head was on his chest.

I suddenly sits up in bed and is surprised. "Aah! What are you doing?! Get out!" I said to him. He rolls his eyes, "You know you were dreaming about me. Explains the drool."

"Ugh. Oh, my God." I look at my alarm. "Six a.m. Seriously? Do you really have nothing better to do at six a.m.?" I asked him annoyed.

He looked at me, "Fine, don't come with me to bring Stefan home. See ya." He said getting up of my bed.

"Wait. Wait, wait, wait. What? What are you talking about? Where is he?" I asked him wanting to know where my boyfriend was.

"Windy city." He stated.

I was confused, "He's in Chicago? Well, how do you know?" I asked him.

"It came to me in a dream. I was naked. You would have loved it. Start packing." he said to me.

I sat up, "Is he okay?" I asked him.

"Well, let's just say he's not there to meet Oprah." He said to me, he opens one of her drawers and takes a pair of my underwear. "Ooh. Put these in the "yes" pile." I get up, took it from his hands and puts it back in the drawer.

Nik's POV (Centuries - Fall Out Boy)

Allie, myself and Stefan enter the bar. It's dim, quiet, and empty. "Looks familiar, doesn't it?" I asked him.

"I can't believe this place is still here." Stefan said to him.

"I can't imagine what this place would have looked like back in the 1920's." Allie said out loud, I looked at her. "I'll show you later." I whisper to her.

Another heartbeat enters, "You gotta be kidding me." I smile at her tone. "So a hybrid walks into a bar, says to the bartender…" I get cut off by Gloria. "Stop. You may be invincible, but that doesn't make you funny." She looks at Stefan. "I remember you."

Then she looks at Allie, "You finally found her then." She stated. "I told him about you back in the 20's sweetheart at you a vision." She said to Allie who was a bit taken back this new information.

"Yeah. You're Gloria. Shouldn't you be…" She cuts Stefan off this time, "Old and dead? Now if I die, who's going to run this place, huh?"

I told Stefan, "Gloria's a very powerful witch." "I can slow the aging down some. Herbs and spells. But don't worry, it'll catch up to me one day." She said to Stefan and Allie understood since her friend Bonnie was a witch.

I told Stefan, "Stefan, why don't you go and fix us up a little something from behind the bar?" "Yeah, sure thing." He goes to the bar. I look at Gloria, "You look ravishing, by the way." I tell her.

"Don't. I know why you're here. A hybrid out to make more hybrids? That kind of news travels and your new girlfriend what like you calling me ravishing won't you sweetie." she said to me and Allie, i turned to Allie who was glaring at me, I sighed, "So what am I doing wrong? I broke the curse."

I knew Stefan would be using his super hearing to eavesdrop. "Obviously you did something wrong. Look, every spell has a loophole, but a curse that old...We'd have to contact the witch who created it."

"Well, that would be the original witch. She's very dead." I confirmed to her.

She sighed, "I know. And for me to contact her, I'll need help. Bring me Rebekah." She said to him. "Rebekah. Rebekah is a bit preoccupied." I said to her.

"She has what I need. Bring her to me." She told him,

Stefan looks up from the photo. "What is this?" He asked showing the photo to me, Allie looked at it Stefan and Me as we were best friends thick as thieves back in the 20's.

"Well, I told you, Stefan. Chicago's a magical place." I told him again. He was confused, "But this is me. With you." he said.

Damon's POV (Control - Halsey)

Elena and I are walking along the hall in an apartment building. "Stefan could live anywhere in Chicago and he chose this?" She asked me.

"There used to be an all-girls high school around the corner, but it shut down for attendance issues. Weird." I told her. She shot me a look, "If you're trying to scare me into giving up and going back, it's not going to work." I put my index finger to my lips in a motion to keep quiet. "Shh." I break the lock and opens the door. "Here we are. Stefan's second personality home." We enter and look around.

"He obviously hasn't been here." She stated to me. I nod, "Tour is not over yet." I go toward a wall shelf panel next to the refrigerator, put my hands to the edge of the panel and pulls. The panel swivels open to reveal a dark back room. I motion to it, walks inside, and pulls a light cord. The light reveals there's a lot of alcohol on shelves against the back wall.

"Stefan hid his alcohol. What a monster."

"Look harder." She gets closer and sees a list of names, starting with Giuseppe Salvatore, John Beach, Randy Smith, Danah Leach, Terrilyn Henson, Catherine Marid, Matthew Wagner, Michael Reddinton, Christian David, Dianne Wagner, Ashley Holliday.

"It's a list of names." She said to herself.

I sighed, "Mm-hmm."

"These are all of his victims?" She asked me, the names are written in three columns and are about a hundred in number. "Still handling it?" I asked her, she seems momentarily shocked, then turns around and speaks to me.

She looked at me, "What were you doing in the 1920s? Paving the way for women's liberation?" she asked me, "I was around. Chicago's a big city. Stefan was a cocky ripper douche. But I could avoid him and still indulge in a few Daisy Buchanans of my own." When I told her, she seems disgusted.

"Where are you going?" She asked me.

I turned around, "His old stomping ground." I told her.

"I'm coming with you." She said to me.

"No. You stay here and whip up an actual plan. I'll come back when I find him." I said to her and I leave.

Allie's POV (Time To Say Goodbye - RWBY OST - Jeff Williams ft. Casey Williams)

Stefan and Klaus are walking in a warehouse. Stefan is still holding the photo, he pasted it to me I took a look at time they looked like brothers better than him and Damon.

I put the photo in my pocket. "This doesn't make any sense. Why don't I remember you?" He asked Nik standing next to me. "You said it yourself: that time had a lot of dark holes." Nik told him.

Stefan shook his head, "No, if you knew me, then why haven't you said anything?" he asked him. "I'm a little busy right now. Memory Lane will have to wait." Nik told him and walked through the warehouse. Stefan shook his head, "What the hell is going on? Answer me." He demanded I took a step back cause this was gonna get a bit much and I was getting a headache.

"Guys please my head's hurting...look Stefan he'll tell you soon." I said to them both walking off, Klaus walks over to a number of coffins which contain Original vampires. Klaus opens one. Rebekah is lying dead in it with a dagger stabbed in her chest. He smiles and gently touches her face.

"That's your sister." I asked Nik, he nodded.

Stefan looked at her, "I don't recognize her." He said shaking his head.

"Well, don't tell her that. Rebekah's temper is worse than mine." He told him, he pulls the dagger out of her chest. "Time to wake up, little sister. Any day now, Rebekah." She's still lying there dead. He looks at Stefan and me, "She's being dramatic." He added.

"I thought waking up an original took time anyway." I said to Nik. he nodded.

Stefan didn't care at this point, "Look, why don't you just tell me what the hell is going on? I mean, you obviously want me here for a reason, right?" He asked him.

"Well, you have many useful talents." He told him.

Stefan looked confused, "Do I?" He asked him unsure.

"In fact, I learned some of my favorite tricks from you." He said to Stefan which had me a bit confused. After Nik filled us both in on the tale of Stefan the Ripper he seemed even worst than Damon.

Back in the warehouse Nik is walking towards the exit with me holding his hand Stefan following behind. "I was your number one fan." He said to Stefan.

"Why should I believe any of this?" Stefan asked him. Nik stops in front of a guardsman and compels him. "When she wakes up, tell her to meet us at Gloria's Bar. Then volunteer your carotid artery and let her feed until you die." He told him and the guardsman nods.

"Where are you going?" Stefan asked him.

He let go of my hand, "You think I'm lying, Stefan. You and I knew each other. You trusted me with one of your secrets and now I'm going to prove it to you." He told Stefan I could tell that Nik wanted to tell him and Stefan wanted to know soo bad. "How?" I asked him.

He looked at me and grabbed my hand, "We're going to Stefan's old apartment." After 15 minutes we arrived, "What a charming little homestead. Do you feel that? Is anybody here?" Nik asked him.

I could sense someone was here. "It's been vacant for decades. People must break in all the time. Why'd you bring me here?" He asked Nik. Nik looked at me, I shrugged my shoulders i was giving up on Stefan, "Your friend, Liam Grant, the one who drank his wife's blood...I never could figure out why you wanted his name. And then you told me your little secret. It was all part of your special little ritual."

"To write it down." He finally let it out. The fact that he wrote down the name of his victims did make him worse than Damon.

Nik looked at him, "And relive the kill...over and over again." He said to him, and opens the hidden door. "You believe me now?" He asked Stefan. Stefan enters the closet to see the list. He turns his head to look at the list, Nik walks back into the apartment and looks at me, "Hey Love" He said kissing my forehead.

"I'm good Nik, I could use a drink you know with everything that's going on i'll be meeting Rebekah soon right." I said to him with a smile.

He nodded, "Yes you will be, Rebekah will like you a lot." He said with a smirk that made me blush. "I like making you blush. Its cute." he said to me. He lifted my chin up so i was looking into his eyes, he moved in closer and kissed me with all the passion he had within him. It ended short with a cough by Stefan.

"Look what I found…1918. Single malt." Stefan said standing in the doorway of the secret room.

I looked at Stefan, "My favorite. Let's go and find someone to pair it with." Nik said to him as Stefan closes the closet. "Come on we can drink this at Gloria's" Nik said grabbing my hand and dragged me along with him.

Elena's POV (Fix You - Coldplay)

Later, I was hiding ready behind a wall with a vervain dart in my hand. I heard someone coming but it's Damon. "Finally! I called you an hour ago!" I told him.

He tosses me a bag. "Make yourself presentable. I know where Stefan's going to be tonight." He said as he sits down.

"I told you that I was practically discovered by Klaus and you're worried about what I'm wearing?" I told him.

He looked at me, "I had an hour to realize what a bad idea it was to leave you here alone, process it, and move on. Are you okay?" He asked me. "Yeah." I told him. Damon looked at me, "Okay, good. Get dressed. You're all road-trippy and gross." He said to me.

"So you know where he's going to be?" I asked him, I was gonna see Stefan again.

He nodded, "Yes, with Klaus. So I'll distract Klaus and you deal with Stefan." He said to me. "Okay. Thank you." I said to him, "But you're going to have about five minutes tops before that hybrid freak rips my heart out. So please, tell me you can do this." he added.

"I can do this." I said to him with a firm look on my face, can i do this?

Allie's POV (Ain't It Fun - Paramore / Rude Boy - Rihanna)

Nik, myself and Stefan are at the bar. Gloria gives us all three beers. "Where's Rebekah?" "She'll be here. I can't just conjure her on demand." He told her, he takes a drink and looks at Stefan.

Nik looked at Stefan, "What's with you? I thought Chicago was your playground." Nik told him as i took a drink of my beer. "So this is why you asked me to be your wingman? Because you liked the way that I tortured innocent people?" Stefan asked him i rolled my eyes at him and downed some of my beer.

Nik said to him, "Well, that's certainly half of it." he told him.

"What's the other half?" He asked him, Nik starts pouring alcohol into three shot glasses.

Nik looked at me then back at Stefan, "The other half, Stefan, is that you used to want to be my wingman." He slides one of the shot glasses to Stefan along the counter. I down my shot like a pro. "Slow down love."

I looked at him and pulled my tongue at him, "Nah, I'm good i'm no lightweight."

"That's very true." Stefan added.

Nik looked at me, "Close your eye's love and i'll show you what it was like in the 20's." he said to me. i nodded and closed my eyes. I was standing behind Nik and Stefan at the counter drinking.

"They're jealous. Your family wants you dead because they can never be what you are." Stefan told him, I smiled. Nik looked at him, "What? An abomination?" He asked him. "No. A king." Stefan told him, I smiled he was a king to me, Nik smiled to and Stefan laughs. Nik said to him, "Look at us. Two sad orphans." He said to him, they look over and see Rebekah staring at them from a distance. I follow the line of sight Rebekah was beautiful. "My sister fancies you, you know." He said to Stefan looking back at him. "Mmm!" Stefan said with a sigh. Nik said to him, "But...I should warn you, Rebekah doesn't do anything half-speed, and that includes falling in love. So just be careful. She's totally mad." They both laughed which made me giggle. "I appreciate the advice." Stefan told him. Nik said to him, "And when the point comes where she inevitably leaves you...She can't help it, it's just who she is. Don't let your heart do anything stupid." He looked at him. "You know what, you're a good friend, Nik. I'm glad I met you." He said to him, he holds up his shot glass in cheers. The dream faded away.

Nik raises his shot of tequila. "To friendship." Stefan clinks his shot glass and downs it, I downed the other one that Nik had poured for me. I grinned at him, "I'll be back." I said to him, kissing his cheek.

"Where are you going we've only just started love?" He asked me.

I turn around and look at him, "I need to use the bathroom Nik." I turned back around and walked off. After I finished in the bathroom I walk back over to the bar to hear that Nik had compelled him to save Stefan and himself and his sister, but Stefan didn't think of it that way. Stefan turned his head and saw someone, I followed his line of sight to see Damon, who motions to come over to Stefan. Damon then walks behind a wall. Stefan then looks at Nik lucky for me that Stefan didn't notice me looking at Damon neither did Damon.

"I need another drink. A real one." He said to Nik, Damon has just walked outside and is looking from side to side. Stefan follows him.

I walk back up to Nik, I sat on his lap. "We have a problem named Damon Salvatore." I tell him, drinking my newly poured drink from Gloria.

"Did either of them notice you spying on them?" he asked me.

I shaked my head, "I'm a awesome like the Black Widow from Marvel's Avengers." I said to him he laughed and kissed my neck.

"You're amazing you know that, I like this devilish side I have unlocked within you." he said to me with a smirk.

I smiled at him, "Too bad that this moment is going to be ruined soon by Damon." I said to him leaning back resting my head on his shoulder. He kissed the top of my head.

Nik's POV (Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes)

I knew she was right, I could see the sad look on her face Damon was going to spoil this night. "Last call. Drink 'em up!" Gloria yelled out to the bar, Allie reached for her soda and drank the last of it and moved off my lap into Stefan's seat like she could sense Damon already cause I knew he was at the door approaching us both.

"I see they've opened the doors to the riff-raff now." I said to Damon and Allie giggled.

He smirked "Oh, honey, I've been called worse." Then his face dropped when he saw Allie, "Allie all this time, you've been running round with this psycho." he said to her.

"Wow, that's the thanks i get for looking out for Stefan all summer thanks Damon no wonder Stefan is my best friend and you're not." Allie said to him, giving me a evil look that could pretty much kill him.

I looked at her, "Shh love, he can't hurt you anymore...you don't give up, do you?" I said to him "Give me my brother back...You'll never have to see me again." He said to me and Allie, she just shakes her head and giggled. I chuckled along with her, "Well, I am torn. You see, I promised Stefan I wouldn't let you die, but how many freebies did I really sign up for? And clearly you want to die, otherwise you wouldn't be here, so…" I said to him. "What can I say? I'm a thrill-seeker." He said to me, I extends my hand and grabs his throat. I lift Damon off the floor by the throat with one arm. "Oh, dear, what was that? I'm boozey, so you'll forgive me if I miss your heart the first few tries." I said to him, Allie was finishing off the bottle of bourbon watching with a smile. I stab Damon in the stomach with a toothpick. Damon grunts in pain. "Ohh! No, that's not it. Hmm." I stab him again. Damon grunts in pain. I hear Allie laugh, "Ohh. Almost." I angle the toothpick upwards towards his heart. "You want a partner in crime? Forget Stefan. I'm so much more fun." He said to me.

"Actually i'm the partner in crime, and to be honest Damon...Stefan is more fun than you." Allie stated to him with a smirk on her face. I throw him backwards. Damon crashes on top of a table, breaking it, and lands on the ground on his back. Klaus walks over, rips a part of the chair off as a makeshift stake, and crouches over Damon. "You won't be any fun after you're dead." I said to him, with one hand I hold Damon down and with the other I raise the stake. Just at that moment Gloria sets the stake alight with her powers. I throws it away with a grunt. "Really?"

Gloria shouted, "Not in my bar. You take it outside." Damon tries to sit up but Klaus pushes him back down and looks at him. "You don't have to negotiate your brother's freedom. When I'm done with him, he won't want to go back." I tell him then I took my hand off him.

Elena POV (I May Fall - Casey Lee Williams and Jeff Williams RWBY Volume 1 OST)

I was sitting in the car, looking through the window and touching my necklace while I waited for Damon. He entered the car. "You okay?" "Just drive." I told him looking out the window I was so wrong maybe Stefan can't be saved.

Allie's POV (From Shadows - Casey Williams and Jeff Williams RWBY Volume 1 OST)

Nik enters the room in the warehouse full of his family's coffins. Rebekah's is empty and the guardsman is lying dead on the floor nearby. "Rebekah...It's your big brother. Come out, come out, wherever you are." he asked her. I felt something rush past me it was Rebekah, she rushes over stabs him with the dagger.

He gasps. "Go to hell, Nik!" she tells him.

Nik takes the dagger out of his chest, holds it out beside him, and drops it. "Don't pout. You knew it wouldn't kill me." He told her, I felt a pain in my chest as he got hurt.

Rebekah looked at him, "Yeah, but I was hoping it would hurt more."

"I understand that you're upset with me, Rebekah...So I'm going to let that go. Just this once. Brought you a little peace offering. You can come in." He said to me and Stefan, as we come in Stefan doesn't show any sign of recognition. "Stefan…" Rebekah said to him, Nik gets closer to him and compels him. "Now you remember." I could see that he remembers everything. "Rebekah." He walks closer to her.

"Stefan." Nik said to him. Stefan stops and turns to face Nik. Stefan looks at Nik. "I remember you. We were friends."

Nik nodded, "We are friends." He looks at Rebekah. "And now the reason you're here. Gloria tells me you know how to contact the original witch." He said to Rebekah. "The original witch?" She asked him, she looked at me.

"Who are you?" She asked me. "I'm Allie i'm Nik's Soulmate." I told her. She looked at me, "You finally found her."

Nik looked at me then back at Rebekah, "Yes I found her we will talk about this later...what do you have that Gloria needs?" He asked her. She touches her neck but realises her necklace is missing.

"Where's my necklace? What did you do with it? I never take it off!" I looked at Stefan then back at Rebekah it clicked. "I don't know. I didn't touch it."

Nik told her, "We need to find it, Nik. Now, I want it back!" She shouted at him, "Tell me that's not what she needs, Rebekah!" He yelled back, she looks into the coffin but doesn't find it so she throws it on the ground. Stefan looked concerned and so he should be he gave it back to Elena but Elena died didn't she? I started running it over in my head. Was she dead or is she alive?

hope you enjoy i'm get back to writing this story

sherry