Lights Go Out
A/N - I'm back to writing this story i got some motivation by watching tvd and the originals over so i will try to get more chapters out soon i promise. (due to back pains and shoulder pains)
Allie and Rebekah build their friendship and Nik is happy to see his sister bonding with his girlfriend. Allie helps Rebekah by introducing her to the new world she is now apart of. Elena is trying not to seem that looking for Stefan was a bad idea and tries to get over it.
Chapter 4 - Disturbing Behavior
Allie's POV (It's My Turn - Casey Lee Williams and Jeff Williams)
Myself, Nik and Stefan are in a clothing store, drinking champagne and waiting for Rebekah who is trying on clothes. "There has to be more to this dress." She asked from the changing room.
"There's not." Nik shouted back, I felt his hand move slowly down my back and rest on my lower hip. She comes out of the fitting room. She is wearing a short, black dress.
"So women in the 21st century dress like prostitutes, then. You know, I got dirty looks for wearing trousers." She said to Nik.
Nik looked at her, "You wore trousers so women today could wear nothing." He said to her.
I got up, "I'll go and find you a better outfit." I told her. She looked at me and smiled, "Thank you...oh that statement wasn't aimed at you." she told me.
"I know." I said to her, I was looking throught the skinny jeans and shorts I picked up a some dark skinny jeans and some silver pumps.
"And what is this music? It sounds like a cable car accident." I heard her ask Nik and Stefan.
Stefan looks up, "It's dance music." he told her. "People dance to this?" she asked him.
"Hmm." Stefan respond to her.
Nik looked between Rebekah and Stefan, then he asked her, "Are we done?"
"And why are you so grumpy?" she asked him.
Nik sighed, "I needed one thing from you for my witch to find out why my hybrids are dying, one thing. Your necklace. And you lost it." he said to her, I walked out of the changing room leaving the new outfits for her.
"I didn't lose it. It's just been missing for 90 years." She said then she looked at Stefan. "So what do you think?" she asked him, as I walked over to Nik.
He looked at her, "I like it." he said, but she doesn't seem satisfied. "What? I said I like it."
"I can always tell when you're lying, Stefan." She said to him, she goes back into the fitting room.
Nik looks at Stefan. "Nice one. Good work." He said downing the last of his drink before pulling me into his lap.
"You're the one that pulled the dagger out of her." he said to Nik trying to be funny.
Rebekah shouted from the dressing room, "I heard that."
"All right. I'm going to get some fresh air." He said getting up. Nik pours himself and me some champagne.
"Here you go love." he said handing me a glass and kissing my cheek. I blushed straight away, Rebekah came out in her new outfit.
"Aww look at you too soo cute." Rebekah said to me, i hide my face in Nik's chest.
I heard him chuckle, "Aww come on love. You're too cute, and Bekah here thinks of you like a sister already." he said to me.
"Really." I looked at her, I said to him.
She nodded sitting next to Nik, "Yes i do you're really sweet I can see you make Nik happy and you're not like anyone else in your blood line." She said to me.
"You mean like Katherine." I said to her.
She nodded, "Yes her, she put a rift between Nik and Elijah and i will never forgive her for that." she told me.
"I know what that is like, my sister tried to do that with me and my birth parents." I told her openly.
She gave me a sad smile. She stood up and hugged me. "See you're both best friends already." Nik said which made me giggle.
"Yes we are Nik." I said to him with a big smile.
He smirked at me reaching out and grabbing my arm pulling me back into his lap kissing my neck. I giggled and i felt my cheeks heat up even more than they were. Rebekah chuckled and went back off to get changed.
"You're something love...so beautiful." he whispered to me.
I smiled brightly at him, "Thank you love...you're pretty handsome yourself." I said to him kissing his lips. He kissed back right away and pulled you closer.
"Okay I like this outfit!" Rebekah shouted from the dressing room. I pulled away from Nik and looked at Rebekah and I smiled.
"It really suits you." I told her.
She smiled, "Thank you sweetheart." she told me. I got off Nik's lap and he paid for Rebekah's clothes and we headed back to Gloria's to see if she had found the necklace yet.
Elena's POV (You Don't Own Me - Grace ft. G-Eazy)
Damon and I were cooking. "I just don't know why you want to bring chili to a potluck. Everybody brings chili." he said to me as Alaric enters the kitchen.
"Hey, Ric." Damon asked him.
Ric asked him, "What's up?"
"What time do you want to go to the Lockwood party?" I asked him.
Ric looked at me, "Ah. Those founders parties aren't really my thing." He told me.
"Show up, there's going to be nine other people that brought chili." Damon said to me and Ric.
I told him, "It's an old family recipe, okay?"
"Yeah! I know. I knew your old family. They made sucky chili." Damon told me, he looks at her and smiles. She laughs. Alaric look at them.
"Why are you here, exactly?" Ric asked him sounding annoyed by Damon
He nodded to me, "She knows." he simply said.
"He thinks I'm going to break. I'm not going to break. I am just going to keep making chili, pretend like I didn't just spend the entire summer looking for someone who didn't want to be found." I told Alaric.
Damon said to me, "She's in denial."
I look at him and whispered. "I'm not in denial."
"No?" He gets closer to me and touches my necklace. "You're still wearing this necklace. Isn't this the reminder of your unbreakable bond with Stefan?" he asked me I didn't answer him.
Katherine POV (Friction - Imagine Dragons)
Stefan walks up to me on the sidewalk. "What the hell are you doing here?" he asked me.
"You two look chummy. Klaus your new bestie?" I asked him.
He looked at me, "You know, if he finds out you're in Chicago, you're dead." He said to me.
"Happy to know that you still care. So tell me if I'm wrong...Rebekah's necklace that Klaus is looking for...That's the necklace that you gave to Elena." I said to him.
He looked at me again and turned to walk away, "Goodbye, Katherine."
"Hey, hey. Wait. You're up to something, tell me…" I asked him.
He turned back around, "They don't know where the necklace is. I just have to keep them from figuring it out. I have it all under control." he told me.
"Please, tell me you have a better plan than that." i said to him, but he doesn't answer me. "You do. Come on, Stefan. You're not the diabolical type. Whatever you're planning, it's not going to work." I said to him.
He answered back, "Well, if the most diabolical woman I know can't seem to figure it out, then I must be doing something right."
"Uh-huh. I forgot. You're bad now. Don't get too cocky. Klaus is smarter than you. He's smarter than everyone. And I've heard about that sister. Be careful. She'll ruin you." I told him.
He smirked, "Happy to know you still care." He said walks away.
Elena's POV (G.D.F.R - Flo Rida)
I opened the door. It's Caroline. She's holding a bowl of food in her hands. "I come bearing gifts!" She said with a bright smile on her face.
"Please say that's not chili…" I say to her, she steps aside. Bonnie appears and comes in. "Bonnie!"
"I'm back!" she said to me, we embrace each other. "I leave town for the summer and everything goes to hell for the both of you." Caroline and Elena look at each other. Jeremy comes down the stairs.
"Bonnie!" Jer shouted happily
She smiled, "Jeremy." She rushes over to him and they kiss and embrace each other. He looks over Bonnie's shoulder and sees Anna looking at him in the mirror on the wall.
Allie's POV (Halestorm - Mayhem)
We were back at Gloria's Bar, when Stefan enters. Gloria is sitting at a table, her hands floating above a large tome on a table filled with candles. Me, Nik and Rebekah are at the bar.
"You left us." Rebekah said to Stefan.
Stefan looked at her, "Yeah, sorry. Retail therapy was making my head explode." he said to her.
"Tell me about it." Nik said to him, I smack his arm. He just smirked at me trying to be cute.
Stefan looks at Gloria. "What's she doing?" He asked.
"She's failing." I said to him.
Gloria spoke up, "It's hard to find something when you don't have anything to go on."
"So use me. I only wore it for a thousand years." Rebekah said to her.
Gloria smiled, "See? Now this one offers a solution." she said as Rebekah sits on the table. "All right, give me your hand, sweetheart." Rebekah gives her her hand.
"She's, uh, she's looking for the necklace, huh?" Stefan asked him.
I nodded, "Yep the sooner we find it the sooner we can find out how to create hybrids." I told him, Nik put his arm around my shoulder.
"Smart and beautiful how did i get so lucky?" he asked me playfully.
I smirked, "I dunno, maybe because i'm amazing with putting up with you and your evil ways."
Meanwhile in Mystic Falls
"Both of you stop judging. He's just trying to be a good...ow!" Elena said to Caroline and Bonnie.
Caroline asked her, "Ahh! Did I splash you?"
"No, no, my necklace." she told Caroline, she pulls the pendant of the necklace off her skin. Her skin has a burn mark where the pendant touched her skin.
Back to Allie's POV
She still has Rebekah's hand. "I can sense something." She said to everyone, I looked at Stefan he seems a little bit worried. I was watching him closely he wasn't telling us something.
Back in Mystic FallsElena told everyone, "It burned me." She removes the necklace and holds it by the chain.
"Maybe it's a sign you shouldn't be wearing it." She told Elena
Bonnie shot her a look, "Caroline…"
"What, I'm just saying. If you're going to be "cooking" without Stefan." Caroline said to her.
Bonnie shook her head, "Let me see it." Elena holds it out while Bonnie looks at the pendant. Bonnie looks at the necklace and touches it but there's a zap and sparks fly out of it. Elena drops it. Bonnie and Elena look at each other. Elena seems shocked.
Allie's POV
Gloria casts a spell. Gloria drops Rebekah's hand and looks at Me, Nik and Stefan.
"I found it." she announced to everyone.
Rebekah looked at her and asked, "So where is it?"
"It doesn't work like that, doll. I get images. There's a girl with her friends…" she said to everyone.
Rebekah said to Gloria, "Yes, a dead girl with dead friends, if I don't get my necklace back." I giggled a bit she definitely had Nik's temper.
"Well, I'll have to dive back in to get the details." She said to us all.
"So dive." Nik told her.
She looked at him, "I need more time." Nik walks over and leans on the table Gloria is seated at. "And space. You're harshing my ju-ju."
"We can wait." I said to her.
She said to me, "I'm sure you can. But that's not what I asked."
"Hey. Hey, you know, why don't we just come back later. I'm hungry anyway. I'll let you pick who we eat." Stefan starts making for the door and looks back at them. Me and Nik look at Rebekah and we leave with Stefan.
Elena's POV (Donkeyboy - Lost)
The lawns of the mansion are filled with people sitting at tables at the party. Me and Caroline are sitting apart from the party on a bench. Bonnie joins them with her grimoire. "I have an identification spell that might be able to tell me what magic affected the necklace."
I give her my necklace. "It's going to take a while, so tell me if anyone's coming, okay?"
Caroline is looking at Me. "So you're not, like, switching Salvatores, are you?"
"What?" I asked her.
Bonnie shot a look to Caroline and said, "Caroline…"
"Stay focused." She told her and she looked back at Me. "As your friend who worries for you daily, what is the deal with you and Damon?" she asked me.
I told her, "There is no deal. He's been just as focused on finding Stefan as I have."
"Yeah, but that doesn't make him any less Damon. If my own father, who I love dearly, can't change me. No one's changing Damon. Not even you." she told me.
I shot her a look, "Look, why are we even talking about this?" I asked her.
"Hey guys." Bonnie said to use all the necklace pendant is levitating and rising slowly in the air.
"What are you doing?" Caroline asked her.
Bonnie said to us both, "I'm not doing anything. It has its own magic." Caroline and Bonnie were looking at me.
Nik's POV (Nine Lashes - Break the World)In a warehouse, I was on a couch drinking from a girl and Stefan is doing likewise seated in a chair. Rebekah and Allie looks at us both sitting atop a nearby crate.
"My girl's dead. I'm bored." She said sitting next to Allie.
I looked at Stefan. "You weren't kidding about being hungry." I said to him.
"Yeah. It's been a long day." Stefan said to him.
Nik smirks, "Try being related to her." he said and laughs.
"You're being mean. And why are you being mean? You used to love me." She asked Stefan.
Nik told her, "It's been ninety years, Rebekah. Give him a minute." I said to her, I wiped my mouth off and pushed the dead girl on the floor and I beckoned Allie over to me. She smirked and blushed and joined me she seemed tired.
"Why are you taking his side?" she asked me.
Nik sighed, "Because, my dear sister, I feel pity for any man who doesn't give you what you want."
"Will you stop making me out to be a brat? I am not a brat!" she shouted at me.
I smirked, "A thousand years of life experience says otherwise." I said which made Allie giggle.
"Well, you're no picnic, either. I mean, I've only spent one summer with you and I feel like I want to blow my head off." Stefan said to Me.
Rebekah laughs. "Fantastic." She said.
Stefan drops the dead girl he was feeding from on the ground. "I need to go." He said and got up and walks away.
"Where's he going?" Rebekah asked Me.
I sighed, "To write a name on a wall. It's a long story." I told her.
Allie looked at me, "What's wrong love?" I asked her.
"Stefan's hiding something i think he know why you can't create hybrids and i have an idea on how to draw him out." She said to me and looking at Rebekah and it clicked in my head and i smirked.
Stefan's POV (Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Clut)
I walked into the bar and see Gloria. "There you are." She said to me.
"Thought you were resting." I said to her.
She looked at me, "Well, now we both have a secret." she said to me.
"What did you see?" I asked her.
She said to me, "It's what I heard that's interesting. You know, the girls with the necklace, they were talking about you."
"Yet you didn't tell Klaus. Why?" I asked her wondering why she didn't tell him.
She smiled at me "Cause I wouldn't help that hybrid half-breed with anything. The necklace is a talisman from the original witch herself. I want it." she told me.
"Well, I'm sorry. I can't help you." I told her.
She shot me a look, "Don't be difficult. You know, I'd hate to have to tell Klaus what a liar his sidekick is." she said to me. I rushed over at her but she turns her head, looks at me and I suddenly stops and grabs my head in pain. "Guess I've got to get it out of you the hard way, huh?" she said to me as I falls to the floor.
When I wake up I was shirtless and lying on a table. There are lit candles all over the floor. Gloria has a knife.
"What is this? Why can't I move?" I asked her i was starting to get pissed.
She smiles, "Relax. It's just a little paralysis spell. Nothing major." She cuts my forearms with the knife. There's a recipient on the floor to collect the blood. "Just got to get the information out of your pretty little head. You know, witches nowadays, they're into that new age stuff, but...I'm a little more old school voodoo." She takes little iron hooks and puts them in the forearms wounds. I screamed. "This will stop that pesky healing." She told me.
"I won't tell you anything." I told her in pain.
She said to me, "You don't have to." There are glass receptacles on the floor under his wrists. When the blood falls into them, a cloud of vapor rises out of them. "You feel that? That's your essence. Your spirit. It lets me make a connection. Herbs help, too. Diviner's, sage, witch hazel." she takes something. "But my personal favorite…" She rubs her hands with it. "Vervain." She places her hands on my chest and my skin starts to burn. I screamed.
I was still on the table. She takes some red powder and rub her hands with it. "I'm impressed. You've got discipline, Stefan. It's not going to do you much good, but...Just let go, honey." she puts her hands on my chest. My skin burns and I scream again. "There you go, there you go." She see images of Me and Elena together and me giving her the necklace. "There's the girl with the necklace. You love her. You'd do anything for her. And you have. A lot of darkness, a lot of guilt. All to keep her away from Klaus. Why would he be interested in one girl?"
"Don't do this. Don't do this." I begged her i was in pain i could do anything she was going to find out that she was alive. She sees the sacrifice and Klaus killing Elena.
"She's the doppelgänger. She's supposed to be dead, and that's why Klaus can't make hybrids, isn't it?" She laughs.
"This is creepy." Katherine said as Gloria turns around. Katherine's beside her and she puts a stake through her neck. Gloria falls on the floor, dead. Katherine looks at Stefan. "Maybe you do need my help, after all."
Elena's POV (Judas - Lady GaGa)
Me and Caroline are talking. "Did Stefan ever tell you where he got the necklace?" she asked me.
"No. And I never asked. Hopefully Bonnie will be able to figure it out." I told her shaking my head.
Alaric rejoins us both. "Please tell me it's time to go." he said to me.
"Beyond. Where's Damon?" I nodded saying yes.
Caroline said, "Probably off somewhere doing bad things to good people. Consider me the honesty police." Suddenly she looks upset.
"What is it?" I asked.
Alaric asked her, "What the matter?"
"It's my dad." She told us both, Me and Alaric turn around and see Bill in the adjoining room.
"Why would he even show up here?" I asked her.
She shrugged, "I don't know. But I can't…" she said to me.
"I get it. I'll call you later." I told her nodding understanding the issues at hand. Caroline leaves and goes upstairs most likely to wait for Tyler.
Alaric looked at me, "Okay, what was that all about?" he asked me.
"Speaking of doing bad things to good people…" I said to him as we left, Damon opens the door behind them and walks down the stairs to them.
"Wait, wait, Houston, we have a problem." he announced to me and Alaric.
I looked at him, "Where have you been?" I asked him.
"Managing Bill Forbes. Apparently he's impervious to compulsion." he said to me and Alaric.
Alaric asked him, "How?"
"I have no idea. But he threatened to out me. Don't get me started on the irony of that." He told us both.
I looked at him, "What did you do to him? How do you know the compulsion doesn't work?" I asked him.
"That's not the most important piece of information I mentioned, Elena." He told me.
Alaric asked Damon, "What does he want?"
"He wants to control the council. Says it's been compromised." Damon announced.
"It has!" Alaric said to him.
He said to me, "He wants to put vervain in the town's water supply."
"Maybe it's not a bad idea. I mean, it'll help you keep yourself in control now that Stefan's not here to…" I told him.
He looked at me, "To what? To keep me in check? Make me behave? I should have killed him this morning." He said to me.
"He's Caroline's dad, Damon." I told him. Hoping he wasn't going to do that.
He nodded, "Yeah, and when I kill him, she'll have one more parent than we do." he said to me.
"Oh, come on, Damon!" Alaric told at him
Damon looked at Alaric, "You're repeatedly killing my buzz today, Ric. Step aside." he said to Ric.
"Yeah, it's not going to happen." Ric told Damon.
Damon looked at him, "Your temporary funeral." Damon told him and he kills Alaric by breaking his neck.
"Damon, no! What is wrong with you?!" I screamed at him, he just looks at me and leaves.
Katherine's POV (Bad Romance - Lady GaGa)Stefan was wrapping Gloria's body in a sheet. "I've been thinking about your diabolical plan." I said to him.
"Oh. Do tell." Stefan said to me.
I look at him, "Well, you must know that Klaus is too paranoid to ever fully trust you. But the sister, she loves you like it was yesterday. She's the easier mark. But you can't just pretend to care, because Klaus will know better, so you do the opposite. You bond with him; make her feel left out. That will only make her want you more." I announce to him.
"Oh! So you mean, I'm, uh, I'm taking a page out of the Katherine Pierce playbook." He said to me.
I said to him, "The only question is why, Stefan? I mean, I get it, you want to keep Klaus away from Mystic Falls, but...What else do you expect to get from it?"
"You know what's funny? You keep talking to me like I actually trust you enough to tell you anything." He said to me with a smile.
I looked at him, "Oh, come on, Stefan, we're beyond that. I saved you from Hilda the high voodoo priestess." I said to him.
"Okay. I knew them, back in the twenties. They were running from someone. Someone who scared them." he told me.
I clicked, "A Hunter. I heard stories about him centuries ago." I said to him.
"Don't you want to know why an Original vampire who can't be killed is afraid of a vampire Hunter?" He asked me.
I looked at him, "If you're planning on making a move against Klaus...I want in." I said to him.
"That's good. It's good to want things, Katherine." He said to me trying to be funny.
"Stefan…"
"Katherine. I'm in this alone. If you're looking for a diabolical partner in crime, I suggest you look elsewhere." He told me, and he leaves with Gloria's body on his shoulder.
Allie's POV (Omen - The Prodigy)
"Hey have you guys seen Rebekah?" Stefan asked me.
I looked at him, "Try in the next room." I said to him. He nodded and walks through the door closing it, but Stefan didn't know i was listening in on him lying to Rebekah.
"You're back. Finally. Nik went to check on the witch." she said to him. she looks at the coffin. "Dreary, isn't it? The family cargo."
I looked at her, "Hmm. Why don't you undagger them?" i asked her.
"Because he would hunt me down and kill me. He's a vindictive little bastard, my brother." She said to him.
I could hear everything from the other side of the door when Nik wraps his arms around my waist and starts listening in on Stefan's lies. "Your back, I take it Gloria is missing." I whispered to him.
Nik nuzzled my neck, "Your right, everything was cleared out." he whispered back to me.
Then he heard Stefan say, "But you still care about him. Why?" He asked Rebekah.
"Well, I hated him for a long time. It was exhausting." She said about Nik.
I felt his grip tighten on me. I squeeze his arm back.
"You know, when I met you two, you were both on the run." stefan said to her.
She answered him, "Also exhausting."
"Who were you running from?" Stefan asked her.
She said back to him, "What do you mean?"
He wasn't dropping it, "Last night I saw you, there was a man looking for you. You both seemed afraid. I just...I wouldn't think Klaus would be afraid of anybody."
I looked at Nik he looked pissed.
"What's going on Nik are you okay?" I whispered to him turning around in his arms to face him.
He looked at me, "I'll tell you once with outed Stefan." he whispered back to me. I nodded against his chest.
"No one in this world is truly fearless, Stefan. Not even Niklaus." Bekah said to him.
He kept pushing her, "Who was that man?"
"I can't. Please...If Nik knew we were talking about this, he would…" she said to him.
Stefan said to her, "No, no, no, I'm sorry...Just forget I asked. Okay?"
"He told me about the girl you loved. The one that died. He also told me that you're only with him because he saved your brother." She said to him.
Stefan told her, "It's true."
"I think he secretly admires that about you. You'd sacrifice anything for family. Don't tell him I told you that." She told him.
He told her, "Your secret's safe with me."
"Do you think you'll ever love anyone like you loved that girl?" She asked him.
"One day, maybe." he said.
"Well that's a lie." I said to him. Nik smirked because he knew Rebekah will know it was true also.
"I can always tell when you're lying, Stefan." She told him.
"What? I'm not…"
"Don't bother. Your kiss already gave you away." She said to him.
Nik took my hand its time love as we both in walking quickly. "Gloria's gone. She's cleared out. We need to find a new witch immediately." He stops and looks at them both. "What's going on?"
"Something's wrong. He was asking about Michael. He's not with us, Nik. I can sense it. Allie's is right he's lying about something."
Stefan shook his head, "She's wrong. Allie's wrong Klaus…" But Nik rushes over to him and breaks his neck.
"This is why you never trust a Salvatore." I said to him.
Nik looked at me, "You were right love, thank you for opening my eyes to that." he said to me, "How about we take a trip back home to Mystic Falls to find out what he is hiding." I smile and nodded to him.
The journey home was long but not boring Stefan got his neck repeatedly broken by Nik. "How many time will that work before you rip his head off?" I asked Nik.
He chuckled, "Wow he finally smiles again." I say to him as he sits next to me.
"I will always smile seeing a queen like you." he said to me kissing me, i wrapped my arms around his neck and biting at his lip. He bit me back as i pulled back for air. We heard stefan starting to stir. I let go of Nik.
Stefan wakes up with a start inside the back of a truck filled with the coffins. Nikis looking at him. "Just give me a chance to explain myself, okay?" Stefan said to him.
"No need. I'm not mad, I'm just curious. Rebekah seems to think you're holding onto something. A piece of your old life. The thing is, she's got flawless instincts, borderline supernatural. So I thought I would check it out. See for myself what it is you've been hiding." He opens the back of the truck. They're in Mystic Falls. "Welcome back to Mystic Falls, Stefan." He said to him as he helped me out of the truck.
