4. I Owe You?
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Warnings: Spoilers for TVD season 2 episode 21, MAJOR Elena Bashing, Damon Bashing, Blood, Death
Today
"Lack of boundaries invites lack of respect."
~Anonymous.
Stefan woke up to a sharp pain spreading throughout his body, as a result of the stake inside of him.
Great began to chant the next part of the spell, Klaus standing beside her, waiting for the next stage to begin.
Stefan tried to reach for the piece of wood on his back, but his fingers only grazed it, unable to get a good enough grip to yank it out. He gasped in pain, tying again but failing. He looked up at Elena, only to see her tear streaked cheeks begging him to try again. He turned away, knowing he was stuck, to see Greta, and Jenna's dead body, with the stake still logged into her chest.
"No." He groaned, as Greta poured the dead woman's blood into the ceremonial bowl. "I'm so sorry." He said, turning to Elena.
The doppelganger placed a finger to her lips and showed him, "Are they going to kill him?" She asked.
"Yes." Stefan whispered back.
"Honestly, how stupid can you be? Even if you're whispering, a baby vampire could hear you, so what makes you think my brother, an original, couldn't?" Rebekah groaned, only to turn her gaze to her brother, pointing at him, she demanded, "And you! You just let them!"
"Well it's not like they stood much of a chance." Klaus defended himself.
"Bonnie nearly killed you." Damon tried to remind them, only for Klaus, Rebekah, Kol, and even Finn to roll their eyes.
"Desicate. The most the witch would manage to do is dessicate me." Klaus corrected the older Salvatore, before turning to his sister, "I was also quite bored. Believe it or not, the wait time between stages of thousand year old rituals can be quite long.
"Of course it's going to be long. It's a thousand year old ritual, it takes time to gather that much magic." The youngest original brother imputed.
Klaus approached Elena, "It's time." He said, as the circle of fire disappears from around Elena.
Elena looks up at him, her body beginning to shake as the only source of warmth and the barrier between her and the vampire disappears.
Klaus extended his hand towards her, only Elena got up from the ground and walked past Klaus, ignoring him. The hybrid decided to ignore it, considering he'd be killing her within moments anyway.
Elena made her way to the altar and looked down at Jenna's body. The original follows her up to the altar and grabs Elena's face in his hand. Below them, Stefan struggles to get up from the ground. Klaus turns Elena's face so she is looking at him.
"Thank you, Elena." Klaus said to her.
Caroline bit her lip. Klaus didn't have any feelings for Elena, she was sure of it. But… the small part that had competed with Elena since they were kids, would never leave her. And then Stefan, Matt, and even Damon. She never truly loved any of them, she knew that, but it never changed the fact that they ALWAYS choose Elena. What if Klaus was the same…?
Rebekah glanced at Caroline, she never liked the other blond. It wasn't really disliked, but she wasn't a fan of how Caroline had the life she had longed for so long. Then, on top of that, she took away her favorite brother's attention.
But Rebekah also knew what Caroline was feeling. Of that constant paranoia that the ones you love, will be trapped in the doppelgangers allure, and choose them over you. She had no idea what it was at the time, but it had happened with Tatia, she'd watched it happen with Katherine, and now Elena.
Elijah repeated the cycle, but luckily Nik had learned better. But Caroline didn't know that.
"What's the point in thanking her, it's not like she's doing it out of the goodness of her heart." Rebekah asked her brother casually.
"Honestly, I couldn't care less about her," Klaus said, acting as if Elena wasn't even in the room, "but the fact that she was the doppelganger life that unlocked my werewolf side, will always be remembered."
"So basically like when people remember the fabric used in their clothes, but not the designer." Rebekah said cheerfully, then sighed, "Wait, that's wrong. She's more like the fabric used, our mother would actually be the designer."
The original sister ignored the doppelganger's snarl, and Katherine's laugh, instead seeing Caroline's eyes light up a bit.
Rebekah turned back to the screen, yes, she did not like Caroline Forbes, so this would be the only freebie she'd give the baby vampire… or at least that's what she'd tell herself every time she'd do something similar for months to come.
"Go to hell." The doppelganger growled
Stefan got more desperate, as he mustered as much strength as he could from his healing body and tried to stand up, but he fell back down, too weak to move.
Elena stared out, blankly, as Klaus sank his fangs into her neck and started to drain Elena of her blood. Well Stefan watched on, helplessly.
Klaus held Elena tightly as his eyes started to sprout more veins. Elena's eyelids fluttered and soon they began to roll into the back of her head and she died.
Klaus released her, letting her fall to the ground like a used blood bag.
Blood drips from Klaus' mouth as the flames in the bowl are extinguished. Elena's body lay lifeless. Stefan stared at her, sadly, and lowered his head to the ground in defeat.
Klaus breathes heavily and walks down the stone steps, his werewolf side finally in his grasp.
Elena abruptly stood up, "I can't. I can't do this!" the doppelganger said, turning to Caroline, walking out of the room.
Caroline paused, unsure if she should follow after her, but Elena had turned to her, so she must have been asking her for help. She couldn't abandon her friend when she was clearly crying out for help.
With that, she flashed out of the room and after her friend.
Rebekah rolled her eyes, "She knew it was there and coming. Please, does she have no mental strength at all?" She scoffed.
"She just watched her aunt die, again." Stefan defended the brunette.
Rebekah's eyes narrowed, as she glared at the younger Salvatore, "Yeah, what's harder, Watching someone you love die, or watching someone you love try to kill you?" The blond wasn't trying to gain any sympathy, but she wanted to remind Stefan that they all had suffered, both emotionally and physically.
That was one thing Stefan and Caroline had in common with the Mikaelsons was that they both knew what it was like to be hated by their parents.
Well Elena, soft little Elena; constantly had people protecting her, shielding her from the world. Willing to die, so she wouldn't suffer even minor inconveniences.
Stefan felt his eyes soften, knowing that Rebekah must have meant the centuries she spent running for her own father, and then recently finding out her mother, the one parent she thought had loved her, wanted her dead as well. But what he forgot was that Rebekah had loved him too, and she also knew about his plans to kill her as well. For someone who spent a lot of his time observing others, he failed to realize how his own actions had affected the women in front of him.
"She just died." Bonnie felt almost compelled to add.
"Yes, God forbid Elena Gilbert has to compromise and die when she knew she would come back, well it was ok for everybody else to put their life on the line, so she could stay alive on her terms." Kol said sharply.
Bonnie flinched at the tone, it was the first time he had directed it at her.
"I-"
"Don't try to deny it darling. You were willing to risk your life and die, just so Elena Gilbert would come back human. You knew Elijah would need your help to 'kill' my brother, and that it would require a tremendous amount of magic, yet you chose to cast another heavy spell, just so Elena Gilbert could come back blood human, like SHE wanted." Kol said, tone softer, but just as accusing.
Bonnie felt herself shrink at the ex-witch's words; and on top of that, she could feel Gram's eyes on her. She didn't even need to look the spirit in the eyes to know she was disappointed by her actions.
"Bonnie, I'd like a word with you please." Sheila requested, but the young witch knew by the older Bennett's voice that it wasn't a request at all. So she got up and followed her grandmother out quietly, like she did when she was five and had watched T.V. before doing her homework.
With Caroline's vampire senses, and speed, it only took her a second to locate Elena, and even less to reach her.
Caroline found the doppelganger in the Mikaelson's kitchen, looking through the cabinets, likely for a glass.
The brunette slammed the cupboard close, making an angry noise. "Uh, what's the point of the Mikaelson's having like 30 servants if they can't be useful."
Caroline frowned, "They do, but Klaus lets almost all of them clock out after 7 so they can be with their families, only the head chef, gardener, and 3 maids live in residence."
Elena narrowed her eyes at the blond, "How do you know this?" She demanded.
The baby vampire bit her tongue, she was tempted to retort that she knew all this from the countless times Elena and the Salvatoures had pushed her at Klaus, so they could have more time, but didn't want to upset her friend anymore than she already was.
"You just had to relive the worst moment of your life, how are you feeling?" Caroline asked softly.
"Every moment around them is the worst moment of my life, what do you expect?" Elena snapped, before deflating, "This is going to be torture." She whimpered.
"I can see why you'd think that." Caroline frowned, her feelings for Klaus suddenly feeling a lot heavier, as they were weighed down by the guilt of how her feelings would affect Elena. "But you just saw Jenna's death, again. You should take a moment to come to terms with those emotions."
The doppelganger turned her back to Caroline, well the blond paused, wanting to give her friend a moment to process what she just said, "Is there anything I can do to help? I can just listen if you want to talk." The baby vampire suggested, despite knowing that listening to Elena grieve would do nothing to relieve her guilt, but maybe she deserved it, for betraying her best friend.
Elena's eyes lit up, as she saw her opening. She turned back around to look at Caroline with big doe eyes, "I don't want to talk." She said, "But there is something you can do to help make me feel better."
Caroline sat up straighter, "Of course, anything." She nodded.
"I need you to seduce Klaus." Elena said, causing Caroline's eves to widen in shock, as she let out a breathless gasp. Of all the things Elena could have asked her, this hadn't even crossed her mind.
"What! Why?" Caroline demanded.
"I need you to seduce him." Elena repeated. "He likes you, and if you sleep with him, you can then ask him to bring Jenna back to life!" She explained.
"No." Caroline shook her head firmly. "I won't do this."
"Why? He said he could bring her back to life! So why won't you do this for me?" Elena pleaded, seeing absolutely nothing wrong with her request.
"I won't have sex with him, Elena. I won't have sex with him so he'll do what you want." Caroline shuddered at the thought, her body had already been used against her will, and she refused to sell it like a piece of meat when she finally had the power to fight for herself.
"It's for Jenna! You said you'd do anything!" Elena reminded the blond.
"Anything but this!" Caroline exclaimed. "How could you even ask me to do something like this in the first place! When Damon-"
But Elena refused to hear about anything between Caroline and the older Salvatore brother, so she cut her off, "You owe me!"
Caroline grew quiet as she processed the brunette's words, Elena smiled, thinking that Caroline had stopped arguing and had finally seen reason.
"I owe you?" Caroline repeated, voice quite, almost begging her friend to tell her she'd heard her wrong.
But Elena just raised her head higher and crossed her arms, "You do."
Caroline tried to take deep breaths to calm herself, but as she stared into Elena's eyes, and the doppelganger's words repeated through her head like a broken record, the anger she had been trying to push down, pushed its way to the surface like a tidal wave.
Bonnie followed her grandmother from one living room to another, not at all surprised that the Mikaelson's had multiple.
Sheila urged her granddaughter to take a seat, as she took the one across from her. Once the young witch had sat down, the spirit began speaking.
"Your heart may be in the right place Bibiana", Sheila said, using the childhood nickname her granddaughter had loved so much, so let her know that she wasn't in trouble. "But you need to start thinking your actions through, and their consequences as well, especially when you will be the one to pay them."
Bonnie's bottom lip wobbled, as she remembered all the times she had done exactly that, putting her well-being in danger, for one thing or another. "I just wanted to protect my friends' Grams. They're all I have left."
Shelia sighed, "There is nothing wrong with that, but when your friends become so dependent on you, that you are no longer offering, they are demanding. It's time to take a step back and let them grow on their own."
"I suppose it's my fault as well, for waiting so long to teach you." Sheila said, moving to the other couch and pulling her granddaughter into her arms. "I should start now. Better late than never."
Sheila called a sheet of paper and pen towards her using magic, and sat it down in front of her granddaughter. "Before you can learn more, I need you to reflect. I want you to list all the times you used magic, who it was for, and the consequences of them. This will take some time, so we should probably head back now, so I'd like the list by tomorrow. I'll need it before I can continue to teach you."
"Really?! You'll teach me again!" Bonnie said excitedly.
"Of course. We have all this time, I intend to take full advantage of this gift." Sheila smiled.
"I missed you." Bonnie said quietly, not realizing how much she truly had missed her, until she got the opportunity to just be with her again.
"I know." Sheila said, "You are always in my thoughts. Come now, wipe those tears, and let's join the group."
Bonnie nodded.
The Bennett were walking back towards the group, when they heard a shout. Bonnie recognised the voice as Caroline's, but before she could even process what her friend had said, there was a swift whistle of air flying by her.
Bonnie looked at her grandmother, having a feeling she knew exactly who had just flashed by them the second he heard Caroline's shout.
"I OWE YOU?" Caroline shouted, "FOR WHAT?" From the corner of her eye, she sees Klaus enter the kitchen.
She glances at him, before turning back to Elena, trusting that he'll be able to take her ques and know that she'll be able to handle this on her own. Everything was rushing out of her before she even got the chance to think about it, "Getting me turned!" At this point, the other vampires had joined them.
"REPEATEDLY dragging me into your fights and schemes?" The blond demanded, just as Bonnie and Sheila joined them.
"Or for Damon-" But Caroline quickly stopped herself as she saw Stefan's face. She hated Damon, but she couldn't kill Stefan's brother. If Klaus found out, he would surely kill him. And maybe Klaus couldn't kill Damon permanently here. But she wasn't sure could stop him once the witches lifted their spell, or if she even wanted to.
"But-" Elena began to speak, not even noticing that everybody else had joined them.
"No!" Caroline said firmly. "If you want to make a deal with Klaus, you can do it. You may be my friend Elena, but I WILL NOT seduce Klaus or sell myself, for you any longer."
Caroline's words caused what this was all about, to finally click for the rest of the group. Everyone had varying reactions to the news.
Damon, who had been thinking something similar, didn't see the harm in Elena's request at all.
Sheila and Bonnie looked at Elena in disappointment and disgust, well Stefan and Elijah couldn't believe what they were hearing.
Sage and Finn, who didn't know Elena that well, were surprised as well, just at the thought that a woman could ask that of another woman. In their time it wasn't uncommon for women to sell themselves when they had no other option and it was usually in desperation and for survival. But even at brothels, despite the intense competition the women had, there were some unwritten rules, one of those being that a woman would never force another to sleep with someone against her will. Even the 'Brothel Mothers', rarely did that. Even those cases were completely different. Pimping was one thing, but selling a body that wasn't yours, was a whole other. You didn't make deals for other women, or demand this of them. You just didn't!
Meanwhile, Rebekah and Katherine weren't surprised at all. Elena had always expected her friends to bend over backwards for her, no matter the request, so seeing Caroline say no was only a matter of time. A person could only take so much, and it was only a matter of time before Elena hit her friend's bottomline.
Katherine also could help but feel proud, there were some things a woman just shouldn't do, no matter who was asking her. It was about time Caroline stood up for herself.
Klaus' eyes flashed amber as he let out a low growl of anger, his muscles tensed as he was one step away from attacking Elena, the only thing keeping him back was knowing that Caroline needed to do this, and that she could handle herself.
"Why not! It's not like you're a virgin!" Elena protested. "You've done with Matt, Tyler, and Damon! Why can't you do it with-"
Elena was cut off by a loud slap, one that sent her head swinging to the side. Elena stumbled back in shock, her hand slowly going up to her stinging cheek that was quickly turning red.
"Why?" The brunette asked, tears gathering in her eyes.
Caroline, for the first time in her life, didn't feel an urge to protect her best friend when she saw her tears, but revulsion. "If you still don't know Elena, then that's on you! Not me." She said, giving Elena one last look of disgust, before storming out of the room.
Klaus was the first to react, he quickly followed Caroline out of the room. The vampire in him wanted to rip out Elena's heart before he left, but his wolf didn't want to waste even a moment on that wretched doppelganger, when his Caroline needed him.
Klaus found Caroline outside, in the stables, gently petting a male horse with pitch black fur, and a pale platinum mane. The same one she had seen the night of the ball.
The hoarse was leaning into her touch, enjoying the attention.
"He likes you." The hybrid complemented, approaching the blond.
Caroline let out a small scream, nearly jumping into the air. Once the voice registered in her head, she turned around and glared at him, "Give a girl some kind of warning next time." She ordered, before turning her attention back to the animal.
"I can't say I'm surprised to see you here." Klaus said, stepping closer to her, until her back was pressing up against his chest. He put his hand over hers, and gently moved her hand lower down the horse's neck, where he knew it liked being pet.
Caroline let him, and gently began running her hand up and down the area he had guided her to. "Yeah well you were right."
"You'll have to be a bit specific, love. I'm right about a lot of things." The original smirked down at her.
"Don't push it." Caroline said, craning her neck up to glare at him, she stepped to the side, to give herself some room to turn around. "But you were right about them being better company." The baby vampire admitted.
The hoarse let out a low 'neigh', wanting her to resume her motion, and was rewarded by her doing exactly that.
Klaus took a moment to just appreciate the beauty in front of him, before sighing. "About what the doppelganger-"
"Klaus," Caroline cut him off, "I'm not talking about that. I won't be doing anything like that, and that's all you need to know."
The hybrid wanted to press the issue, but decided it would be best to give her some time to come-to exactly what she wanted to do about it, on her own. But until then, he wanted her to know that she could trust him.
That he would support her.
"Are you alright now?" Klaus asked, taking a step forward and gently grasping her hand, and urging her to take a seat on a bench.
Caroline let him. "I'm not sure. I've done a lot for Elena, but-"
"I wasn't talking about Elena." Klaus corrected her. "It will take time for you to process that, and that's perfectly normal sweetheart. You've had a tiring day, nobody would expect you to know exactly how you feel about it right away, or what you even want to do about it."
"Then what?" The baby vampire asked, confused.
"Your mother." Klaus answered. "You just had to watch her planning how to kill not even hours ago. You were forced to relive it." He said, voice still soft, urging her to talk and unburden herself of what she had been carrying around for months now.
Caroline bit her lip, "I'm fine." She finally answered. "Me and my mom have moved past all that."
"But seeing all that-"
"May have been good for me". Caroline admitted, surprising even herself.
"Are you sure?" Klaus asked. He wasn't one for emotions, or discussing them, but even with his childhood, he knew parents attempting to murder you, wasn't the social norm.
Caroline nodded, "I guess I just needed to come to terms with the fact that; yes, it happened. There was a time where my mom wanted to kill me. But knowing that has changed, that we moved past that, really helps. I guess, looking back on it, I'm proud of how far we've come. Before I turned, my mom and I hardly had a relationship at all. But I guess, her knowing that I had died, but came back to life, that this was kind of a second chance for both of us. Was exactly what I, we, needed." She admitted, her voice growing heavy with emotion.
"Seeing it a second time doesn't make it doesn't make it hurt any less, and the memory will always be painful, for a long time. But I'm healing. We both are." Caroline admitted, being able to open up to Klaus honestly. Knowing that he would never judge her for her feelings. "Plus, knowing that she still sees me as her daughter, as her little girl, now, definitely helps." She said, turning her head to the side and letting out a shaky laugh as she attempted to mask the reminder of the pain she had felt, in her voice.
Caroline wiped her tears and turned to face Klaus, only to find the hybrid staring at her with… amazement.
Caroline felt her cheeks heat up.
People looked at Elena with those looks.
Those eyes filled with adoration.
Never her.
Yet Klaus…
"You truly are something amazing, sweetheart." He complemented, gently wiping away some of the tears that were still spilling from her eyes.
"I-It's nothing." Caroline said, waving the complement away. He must be mistaken. There was nothing special about Caroline.
If there was, then why would nobody notice it?
He must be mistaken.
He had to be!
"No, you're incredible." Klaus corrected her, unhappy with you easily she dismissed her own value! "Your brave, strong, and-"
"And full of light?" Caroline joked.
"Well it is true." Klaus told her sincerely. "You're strong, most people would break at the idea of what you were just forced to experience just once. But you didn't just come to terms with it, you came out stronger after the fire, like a priceless diamond."
Caroline was left speechless at the declaration, unsure of what to say. Luckily, she was saved from having to say anything when someone clears their throat next to them.
The two turned around to see Shelia standing in front of them, Caroline's eyes went wide in surprise, unsure how much of the conversation the old women had heard, well Klaus glared at her, for ruining the moment.
"I believe it's time to start again." The spirit reminded the vampires.
Klaus glared at her, not wanting to rush Caroline, well Sheila believed it was time to move-on. That there would be time to process everything later. The two were locked in a silent conversation that ended with the baby vampire speaking up.
"Alright, let's get back to it." Caroline interrupted the two, ending their deadlock.
Klaus glanced at her, and releanted. If she believed she was ready to move forward, he wouldn't stop her. The hybrid offered her his hand. Caroline stared at it for a moment, before smiling and accepting it, letting her help him up.
When Caroline and Klaus walked back into the room, the baby vampire ignored the human doppelganger's look of betrayal, and made a beeline for her pillow and moved it as far away from Elena as she could, unconsciously, moving it closer to Klaus' armchair.
This left Bonnie in the middle, Elena gave the witch an expecting look, urging her to come closer, only for Bonnie to look at her with disgust and move her pillow and blanket closer to her other childhood friend.
The brunette's doe eyes widened in betrayal as she looked at Bonnie, but she was only met with a glare from the Bennett witch.
'Elena has done some pretty selfish things since childhood, but who could have ever expected that choosing to hog a swing to yourself, could ever evolve to asking your friend to sell their body!', Bonnie thought, as she wrapped an arm around Caroline, comforting her and she turned her head and ignored Elena.
Well Stefan, who didn't want to sit next to Elena after what she had just done, but didn't want to betray her either, chose to stand behind everyone, leaning against the wall at the back.
Klaus looked at the new arrangement and couldn't help but be pleased at the development. Caroline was finally beginning to see the doppelganger for who she really was. He only wished that she didn't have to get hurt so badly for the rose-colored glasses to finally begin to lose their magic.
"I can feel it. It's happening." Klaus said, looking up at the full moon as he felt its full power for the pull time. With his mother's curse no longer chaining his wolf and keeping him from the pull, the wolf began to transform, and his bones began to crack and break without his control.
His eyes bled into a deep golden color, like a werewolf's, but the black veins under his eyes remained.
"Yes, yes!" Klaus shouted, but his joy was cut off as he was thrown through the air. The flames in the bowl began to reignite, startling Greta and causing her to take a step back in surprise. The witch turned around to see bommie coming down the hillside, chanting a spell.
Before the witch could react, Damon came up from behind her and snapped her neck, killing her. He then picked up Elena's body.
"Wow. And you claim to be the righteous ones, yet your answer was killing the witch, when you could have easily knocked her out at that point." Kol said, narrowing his eyes.
"You do it all the time!" Elena tried to defend Damon.
"Yes, but we never claim to be the 'good ones' or 'the victims'." Rebekah smirked. "Now I'm not an expert, and I have a lot of media to catch up on, but isn't it a rule of society that 'good people' don't go around killing other people, when they can prevent it. Like let's say, knocking them out?" The blond original smirked when Elena turned away, unable to argue with the fact that Damon had killed someone, when he didn't need to.
"Phasmatos Infero Eseri Gratas, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te." Bonnie chanted, "Victamas Veras. Phasmatos Tribum, Niha Sue Exilum, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Levam, Mina Sue Te, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Phasmatos Veras. Fes Matos Tribum, Mas Pro Tes Unum. Victas Ex Melam, Phasmatos Vanem. Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te."
"No!" Klaus shouted, "You were dead!"
Bonnie ignored him and continued to chant her spell. Klaus' body contorts into painful shapes as he screams. Meanwhile, Damon carries Elena's body towards Stefan and lays her down next to him.
Stefan gently grabs her arm. "Elena."
Damon kneeled down and ripped the remainder of the stake out of Stefan's back. Stefan grunts in pain. Damon grabs Stefan's shoulder, as if to help him up, but Stefan turns and looks up at him, grabbing a hold of his jacket.
"I need you to get her out of here!" Stefan ordered his brother.
"What about you?" Damon asked.
"I'm not leaving until he's dead. Go!" Stefan said.
Damon picked Elena up again, and carried her away. Stefan sat up, and watched Bonnie continue to chant the spell which is so powerful it causes trees to fall. Klaus screams in pain, lying against the rocks. Elijah approaches him and Bonnie stops chanting.
"Elijah?" Klaus asked, surprised.
"Guess you didn't see that one coming." Damon smirked.
"Oh, I did. I expected Elijah there, just didn't think he'd lower himself to working with your lot." Klaus smirked, looking at Damon like one would look at an ant. "Then again, he may have only done that for the aid of the Bennett witch."
"Hello, brother." Elijah greeted.
Stefan got up and walked next to Bonnie. Elijah punched his arm into Klaus' chest, grabbing a hold of his heart.
"In the name of our family, Niklaus…" Elijah said, twisting Klaus's heart.
"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus cried out in pain.
"What?" Elijah asked, surprised?
"Aww, it was just getting good. Why'd you have to stop?" Kol said disappointed.
Klaus let out a small growel and threw a vase at Kol's head, only for the youngest original brother to laugh and lean back and out of the way.
Elijah sighed "I just had the maid replace that."
"Guess you better start using the cheap ones." Sage joked, only for Elijah to look offended at the idea of him having a $35 dollar's vase from Target in his home.
"Their bodies are safe. If you kill me, you'll never find them." Klaus said, as he could feel his wolf becoming more angry as his chains weakend. It remembered how Elijah had held him down and sealed him away for centuries.
"Elijah! Don't listen to him." Stefan shouted at the original.
Katherine rolled her eyes, "Please, you lost him the second Klaus said they weren't in the sea. He wasn't going to even snap Klaus' neck then, let alone dessicate him, and killing him wasn't even on the table to begin with."
"Elijah. I can take you to them. I give you my word...brother." Klaus said.
Elijah stops, having second thoughts about carrying this out.
"Do it and I'll take you both out!" Bonnie shouted.
"You'll die." Elijah tells her.
"But I'd just be desiccating you, that was Elijah's plan all along. So I wouldn't die, that's what Kol said." Bonnie reasoned.
"Actually, desiccating one original, would normally kill a witch, but because you're a Bennett you would just lose your magic." Kol corrected, "Two, would kill you."
Elijah nodded, "And now, with Klaus knowing where the rest of our siblings are, I couldn't risk it. Especially if it meant we'd end up in your hands. Even if you did leave us there, it would take us decades to come back."
"We could just dagger you, it certainly kept your siblings down." Damon said cockily.
Rebekah rolled her eyes, "Silver doesn't work on werewolves you idiot. If it did, I'd stick all five daggers into Nik!"
"You also only had one, and last I checked, you had no idea what you were even holding or what it really did." Klaus added.
"What do you mean? And what did Elijah mean about you guys coming back?" Caroline asked, confused.
"Well there's more to the daggers than just stabbing someone. You need to know how they work." The hybrid answered. "The daggers prevent us from taking in the magic surrounding us, and bringing us back from the desiccation state. Without them, it would take us a decade or two to absorb enough magic from our surroundings to come back."
"Wait, how would magic be involved?" Bonnie asked, confused.
"Oh, magic is always involved." Kol answered. "How do you think vampires come back when you snap their neck?" He asked rhetorically. "You come back by absorbing the magic around you, from the earth. That's why, the massier the death, the longer it takes to come back."
"But the tomb vampires, they were there for decades, and they seemed dead." Bonnie pointed out.
"Yes, well, they were also much younger. Because we are originals, it's easier for us to absorb the magic around us. Blood is best to bring someone out of a desiccation state, magic will to, but like I said, it takes time." Klaus answered.
Caroline turned to Elijah, still not understanding something, "But you know the dagger wouldn't work on Klaus, so how did you plan to keep him dessicated then?" She asked, confused.
"Because I know how to make a desiccation last." The original answer.
Damon narrowed his eyes, "How?" He asked. If there was a way to keep an original down, he wanted to know it. So far, the dagger monologue was useless, he already knew that he needed to stab an original with them, but if there was another way…
"Now why would I answer that?" Elijah asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, Elena-"
Katherine cut Damon off, "Wrong doppelganger. His world doesn't revolve around her, it revolves arounds me."
Elena glared at her mirror image, "Why you-"
"Even if you did manage to dagger them, the daggers aren't a permanent solution." Finn said, cutting Elena off. "It would happen slowly, but they would come back. What would you do then?"
The rest of the Original's eyes widened at what Finn was saying. They hadn't considered that Finn was slowly becoming immune to the magic in the daggers. Rebekah, Elijah, and Kol were only under its influence for decades at a time, none having stayed under it even as close to as long as their oldest brother had.
They had just assumed he'd be in a dreamless slumber. But if he was slowly awakening… then that time, that he was kept still in a box for nearly a millennia, would be enough to drive the strongest men insane.
Kol frowned, he had a theory about that; if one spent enough time with the dagger, as a result of the research he did when he tried to create one for Klaus, but he never got the chance to test the theory. And distant as they may be, Finn was his brother. He was the one who'd tell them stories of Odin, and Thor when Mikael was angry or they couldn't sleep, to try and calm them. He showed have done something as soon as he considered it might be a possibility.
Klaus eyes widened, "Finn, we had no idea-"
"How could you? You basically forgot about him." Sage growled at the hybrid, putting her hand on Finn's to support him.
Rebekah glared at Sage, "Who the hell do you think you are!"
"Rebekah!" Finn shouted, glaring at his little sister, "You will not speak to my wife that way."
"But she-"
"She what?" Finn challenged. "Repeatedly tried to get me out of your clutches? Never gave up on me? Stayed loyal to me? Never forgot me?"
"You kept trying to kill yourself!" Klaus reminded his brother, "We were trying to keep you alive."
"Being alive, and living, are two different things, little brother." Finn growled. "You may have kept me alive, but that didn't make me wish for death any less. Sage does. You may be my family, but so is she." He said, leaving no room for arguments.
"I don't care." Bonnie growls.
Elijah looked down at Klaus and back up at Bonnie and Stefan. "I'm sorry." He said.
"No!" Stefan and Bonnie shout as they try to run towards Elijah and Klaus. But before either of them can get to them, Elijah flashes off with Klaus.
"That's impressive." Caroline said, in amazement.
"What could possibly be impressive about that freak-show?" Damon rolled his eyes.
Caroline ignored him, "Klaus' word was all Elijah needed, to give up a grudge he's been carrying around for decades. His word was all Elijah needed to trust him, despite the fact that all of Elijah's search for his family led him to dead ends. He had no proof that Klaus wasn't lying, in fact, he had a lot of reason not to believe him. Yet he chose to. Despite the continued betrayals and literal backstabs, they continue to trust each other. If that amount of trust isn't impressive, I don't know what is."
This left the Mikaelsons speechless; it wasn't uncommon for people to see them and only see their arguments, betrayals, and their constant fighting.
But what people forget is that they are siblings, they are family. That means that when push comes to shove, they do trust and stay by each other.
Yet this young woman, this baby vampire, had seen Always & Forever in all that bloodshed and fire, with just one glance.
Now that was impressive indeed.
Down in the basement of the old witch house, John was busy writing a letter. Well Alaric was leaning against the doorframe, patiently waiting for the others to come back. The sun had risen, yet they weren't back yet.
Alaric sighed, "We should have heard from them by now."
Jeremy, who was sitting in a corner, reading one of the Gilbert journals, looked over at John. "Did you read all this?" He asked the man.
"I did." John admitted.
"So you understand what happened to the child's mother after the baby was brought back to life?" Jeremy asked.
"Well that part is just obvious." Kol rolled his eyes. "Witches are all about balance. So for the spell to work, for the spirits to allow the young girl to come back to life, as a human, another human life, must be given."
"That's not fair." Elena protested.
"It makes sense." Bonnie sighed. Elena had always gotten everything she's wanted in the end. She wasn't like Caroline who had her family torn apart, or Bonnie, who has always wondered why her mother abandoned her. She's always been protected. First by her parents, then her aunt, then the Salvatores. "Life isn't fair. So why would death be any faier?"
"She saved her daughter. She found peace." John answered calmly.
"John…" Jeremy looked at him sadly.
John gets up and folds the letter in his hands, causing Jeremy to stand up from the floor as well when John hands the letter to him.
"I need you to give this to Elena for me." He tells the boy, "And also this." He says taking his magic ring off and handing it to the younger Gilbert.
Alaric looks on, confused. "Oh, hey, what's going on?"
John looked at Alaric, and sighed, "Take care of each other." he turned to Jeremy, "Please."
They then heard the sound of a door opening. Alaric was the first to react, rushing up the stairs, "I think they're here!"
Jeremy looked at John for a moment longer before following behind Alaric. John chose to turn back into the basement.
Damon came into the parlor room, holding Elena's body bridal style.
"If you come back as a vampire, I'll stake you myself. So don't." Damon begged.
"Willing to die because your brother's significant other does not get what they wanted? Is that the new stand?" Finn asked Sage, causing Klaus and Rebekah to let out a scoff, and Elena to look away.
"No, not all darling." Sage chuckled.
Damon layed Elena's body down on a sofa. He looks at her resting face, and can't help but push a strand of hair out of her face. "Because I can't stand the idea of you hating me forever."
Caroline turned to look at Stefan, wanting to make sure he was ok. But the look of clear pain on his pain, clearly said he was anything but. The blond was about to get up and comfort him, but the older vampire shook his head, and crossed his arms against his chest even tighter, his fingers digging into his forearm strongly, to ground him.
Caroline wasn't the only blond looking at Stefan, Rebekah's eyes filled with anger, wanting to do nothing more than rip the human doppelganger's head off, but she knew that as much as it would make her feel better, it would do nothing for Stefan.
Alaric and Jeremy rushed into the room, sliding down the hallway, they stopped at the entrance of the room.
"How is she?" Jeremy asked.
"I don't know yet." Damon answered, not looking at the men as he continued to stroke Elena's hair.
"You really don't have any shame do you?" Caroline scoffed.
"Caroline." Elena hissed, glaring at the blond, but the baby vampire met her glare head-on.
"Stefan trusted Damon to look out for you, not almost try to kiss you awake like sleeping-beauty." Caroline said, "I'd bet if Jeremy and Alaric hadn't come in when they did, he would have!"
"He wouldn't do that!" Elena said fiercely, defending the older Salvatore.
Caroline shook her head, letting out a forceful chuckle, "Of Course. We can always count on Damon to take no for an answer. To back off when needed…" The blond saw her sire's panicked look and couldn't help but smile a little, "but oh right, that's only for you isn't it?"
Klaus' spine stiffened. He wasn't sure exactly what she was implying, but there was clearly more history there then his minions had first reported, and if Caroline's tone was anything to go by, it was a lot deeper, and anything but good.
"He cares about Stefan." Elena said, refusing to hear any of what Caroline was saying.
"The only person Damon cares about is himself, maybe you, but even then, it's always been about him, and what he wanted." Bonnie spoke up, siding with Caroline.
"What about Jenna?" Alaric asked, not seeing the blond haired women anywhere.
Damon finally looked back at them, but couldn't say a word.
"No." Alaric shook his head, not wanting to believe what Damon was trying to silently say.
"I'm sorry, Jeremy." Damon apologizes to Elena's little brother.
Jeremy and Alaric stare blankly at Damon. From behind them, John came up from the basement and quietly walked out toward the front door. He paused, staring at Elena and Jeremy one last time, before walking into the yard.
Alaric, not wanting to be around anyone, walked away from the doorway and into a secluded area of the house. Outside, John looks back in the house. Suddenly, Elena gasps back to life.
"Elena!" Damon shouted, as Jeremy rushed to his sister's side, and Alaric came back into the doorway.
"What happened?" Elena asked.
Only for Damon to counter by asking a question, "How do you feel?"
"Damon, I- I-" Elena gasped, "I feel fine."
Damon and Jeremy both breathe a sigh of relief, well John watched the scene unfold from outside. He turned to look out into the woods, and shut his eyes.
He then fell to the ground.
Dead.
Rebekah rolled her eyes, "Great, another person bites the dust for Elena Bloody Gilbert."
Katherine smirked, "True. I wasn't exactly responsible for my parents' deaths, but we could really argue differently for you."
"I didn't ask for him to die!" Elena defended herself.
"Didn't you?" Kol raised an eyebrow. "How were you expecting to give yourself over to Klaus - for your boyfriends, and still stay human, without someone else paying the price and dying? It's the laws of nature. Balance needs to be maintained. Like sweet Caroline said, blood for time on this earth, time for power, and a human life needed to be taken, for you to come back human."
"Haven't I been through enough! How could you say something so mean to me!" Elena shouted, tearing up.
"Please, we've all been through things! In fact, the reason your friends have been through so much, can often be connected to your problems! They are YOUR problems, and your friends get dragged into them. They end up paying prices they never should have." Rebekah reminded the doppelganger.
"Shut up Barbie Klaus." Damon growled, standing closer to Elena.
Rebekah narrowed her eyes, "No. But I will shut you up." She growled, sick of his constant attitude towards her. She was an original, and she could end him with a flick. And that' exactly what Rebekah did, flashing to Damon, she thrust her hand into his chest, and pulled his heart out in one fluid motion.
Elena let out a scream as Damon's blood splattered her across the face.
Klaus sighed, staring at the carpet the blood was dripping down into. "There will be no saving that carpet, won't there."
Caroline hummed, "Actually, you just need water, baking soda, and white vinegar."
"How do you know that?" Kol asked, "Do you have a secret bloody streak? Then again, you are a vampire. No one would blame you darling." He teased her.
Caroline narrowed her eyes, "No. I was just a teenage girl who has had period mishaps like every other girl. That, and being a baby vampire involved learning how to eat cleanly. I may have learned control quickly, but nobody ever prepares you on how to drink from bunnies, without spraying blood everywhere. So it was either give up my white shirts, or learn to get the blood out of them. And I definitely wasn't going to do the first."
"Who cares about that, Rebekah just killed Damon for no reason", Elena shriked.
"I'm pretty sure it was not a matter of if, but when." Finn defended his sister, he turned to his wife, "That is how they say it, correct?"
"Yes it is." Sage smirked.
"He was only defending me!" Elena protested.
Sage raised an eyebrow, "From what? The truth? Because the trust is that people are constantly risking their lives, and oftentimes dying to save yours, yet you continue to put yourself in harm's way, for no other reason than you can get what you want. If I were you, I would have booked town and ran the second the sacrifice was over. But no, because that would have been incovent for you, right?"
Elena pressed her lips together, and Caroline couldn't help but agree. Why hadn't Elena just left after the sacrifice, Klaus had gotten what he wanted at the time, they had no idea about her blood. That would have been her only chance. But Elena didn't. She chose to stay in Mystic Falls, with Damon.
"Well I'm sure the man was given the proper burial he deserved", Elijah intervened, wanting to end the brewing argument that would soon turn into a storm if left unchecked.
At this, Elena was left speechless, well Bonnie looked to the ground in guilt.
"I…" Elena began, but didn't know what to say. She couldn't admit what she'd really done. Not in front of everyone. Plus, it wasn't her fault. She had so much going on.
Elijah's eyes widened in surprise, "Did you not even bury the man who gave his life for yours?" He demanded, astonished.
Kol let out a sharp, low whistle. "Wow, now that's cold."
"My mother found him." Caroline spoke up. "He was a member of the council, and everybody assumed that he had died fighting the vampires that came through town, and they didn't find his body until later. So he was given a councilman-barrel, and laid to rest in their tomb."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Elena demanded, angry that Caroline had kept this from her, and made her look bad. Couldn't she had said that ten seconds ago!
Caroline narrowed her eyes at Elena's accusing tone, "You never brought it up! He was your uncle, so I assumed you knew where he'd be buried. I didn't even find out until my mother mentioned that it would be where they would lay my father to rest!"
Elena huffed, and turned around.
The hair's on the back of Klaus' neck stood up, as Klaus' wolf raised its hackles in his subconscious. The beast and the man narrowed their eyes at the image that appeared on the screen.
Tyler was wrapped up in a blanket, and sleeping on the couch in his dad's study. Caroline had carried him in and sat down next to him.
Tyler began to wake up.
"Hey." The vampire greeted as Tyler pulled the blanket down and groaned. He examined the rifle wound.
"Ooh, yeah, you got shot." Caroline informed him, "But it's healing."
Tyler slowly sits up, feeling a spike of pain from the wind as he does, causing him to grimace. "You were right. I shouldn't have come home."
Klaus couldn't help but agree - the only thing he'd ever agree on with him. The boy would have saved him a lot of trouble if he had just stayed away, he also wouldn't be an obstacle in his way either if he did.
"No," Caroline shook her head, "you just...should have never left. And you shouldn't leave again."
"You're kidding, right? This is the second time I've tried to kill you."
Klaus' eyes narrowed, the boy had nearly killed her twice, before he'd even gotten the chance to meet her. No wonder Tyler had bitten her that night, he probably had hardly put up much of a resistance against the sire bond in the first place.
"Well, no friendship is perfect." Caroline joked, causing them both to laugh.
"Matt broke up with me." The baby vampire sighed.
"I'm sorry." Tyler said automatically.
"Yeah, well, you know, instead of just bailing on me again, you could just say…'Thank you, Caroline, for taking care of me. And I'm sorry that I tried to chow down on you again.'" Caroline said, voice light, with a tight layer of sadness underneath as she tired to resist the urge to cry.
"What do you mean, again?" Klaus demanded, turning to the blond, knowing that this must be about the first time the pup tried to kill her. He needed to know what happened then, so he could think of a punishment and multiply it by a 100 to make him pay properly.
"Oh no, someone's in trouble." Kol snicked.
"I highly doubt it." His sister sneered, knowing the vampire would never truly experience the full force of their older brother's anger; at least not directed at her.
"It was nothing." Caroline smiled nervously, trying to bury the issue.
"You said, 'again', meaning that he has tried to bite you before." Klaus said, determined to get his answer.
"He was in wolf form, he couldn't control it." Caroline argued.
"I could control mine!"
"You're a hybrid."
"That isn't an excuse." Klaus argued.
"But it is a reason." Caroline said, turning her face back to the screen, leaving no room for arguments.
If anyone else had acted like that, he could have cut out their tongues, but this only solidified what he knew about Caroline.
She was willing to forgive people who tried to kill her, but she'd fight against anyone who wronged people she cared about with an unwavering resolve. That kind of loyalty was next to impossible to find. and he wanted it. he's only met a handful of people with it - and none could hold a candle to her.
They both began to laugh, but Caroline's laughter quickly turned to tears.
"Hey. Hey. Come here." Tyler says, wrapping his blanket over Caroline as well, he pulls her close with his arm, causing her to lean into his chest. "Oh, easy." He says, as she lays her head on his chest.
"Thank you, Caroline. For taking care of me."
"You're welcome." Caroline smiled.
In the Gilbert's house, Damon and Stefan are waiting downstairs in funeral attire.
"We all set?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah." Damon answered. "Plenty of room with the Gilbert family plot and I compelled two of the grave diggers to do the dirty work. How's she doing?"
"She lost the only parent she had. She's in shock." Stefan said, feeling sad for the girl he loved.
Upstairs, Elena was placing her earrings in.
She looks at the pictures surrounding the frame of her mirror, which include one of her parents and one of Jenna.
Jeremy then walked into the doorway, and raped his knuckles against the wall as a warning. She glances at him, before turning back to the mirror, so he enters the room as Elena finishes putting her earrings in.
"I'm almost ready." She told him.
"Yeah, take your time." Jeremy said, not wanting to rush her.
Elena exhales through her nose unsure of what else to say.
"John wanted me to give you this." Jeremy says, as he hands her the letter and she takes it. "And this." He says once Elena accepts the letter. He pulls the magical Gilbert ring from his pocket and hands it to Elena. Elena hesitantly takes it and looks up at Jeremy. Jeremy starts to leave the room.
"Jeremy…" Elena begins, causing Jeremy to turn back around and look at her. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you've lost so many people."
"I still have you." Jeremy said, wanting to make her feel better.
Elena smiles at him and places her head on his shoulder. He wraps his arms around her in a warm embrace. They pull apart and look at each other for a moment before Jeremy leaves the room and goes downstairs. Elena tries to maintain her composure as she walks over to her window seat and sits down.
She opens up the letter and starts to read it.
John began the letter by saying, "Elena...it's no easy task being an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child."
"Extraordinary?! How?" Katherine demanded. "Her only skills are weeping, sobbing, and crying."
"I'm smart-"
"Caroline is smart, your average." Klaus reminded her, causing everyone to turn to Caroline, and the baby vampire to glance at the screen, unsure what to say. Nobody had ever looked past her blond looks, let alone actually ever brought up her grades before.
Elena was quick to turn the attention back to her, "Cheerleading-"
"You sucked at it! I only found out about it and was better than you in one practice." Rebekah reminded her.
"I'm pretty!" Elena said, getting more and more frustrated.
"Not a real SKILL, it's not even a real talent." Sage retorted, finally shutting Elena up.
"I failed in that task."
Stefan, Damon, Bonnie, Caroline, and Alaric were there to support Elena as she visited Jenna and her parents' graves.
"And because of my prejudices, I failed you. I'm haunted by how things might have played out differently. If I'd been more willing to hear your side of things."
Stefan had his hand in the small of Elena's back as he led her to Jenna's final resting place.
Elena held a bundle of roses clutched in her hands. She kneeled down and placed one of the roses on a grave plot. Weeping as she did so.
"For me, it's the end. For you, a chance to grow old and someday do better with your own child than I did with mine. It's for that child that I give you my ring."
Teary-eyed, Elena approaches her parent's graves. She looks down at the tombstone, she knelt, and places the remaining roses on their graves.
"I don't ask for your forgiveness or for you to forget. I ask only that you believe this. Whether you are now reading this as a human or as a vampire, I love you all the same as I've always loved you, and always will. John
Elena openly cried and Damon, unable to watch this, began to walk away. Elena looked up at him and began to stand, still crying.
Alaric walks towards Jenna's grave and places a rose on her plot. He stares down at her grave, sadly, before walking away. He squeezes Jeremy's arm gently and walks to the back of the group.
Damon is now standing some distance away from the rest of the group, and his brother approaches him.
"We're going to head back to the house." The younger Salvatore says.
"I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes." Damon says with his usual sardonic tone.
"Damon, she needs us right now. All of us." Stefan reminded his brother.
"And then what's the plan, Stefan?" Damon demanded. "The curse is broken. How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf vamp and his two-faced older brother?"
"White oak-stakes." Katherine and Sage both answered in unison.
"I have no idea." Stefan admitted.
Damon turns around to look at Stefan, "We need to get an idea. Fast." He says.
"I'm not going to let Elena lose anybody else." Stefan says determined.
"I wouldn't make any promises, brother." Says with a small grimace.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Stefan asks, not getting what his brother was trying to say.
"Tyler Lockwood bit me." Damon says as he pulls up his sleeve and shows Stefan the bite, which has gotten even worse. Stefan walks over to him with a look of pure anguish on his face.
Damon, looking down at the bite, sighed, "It's actually more of a nip, really, but there it is."
Stefan took Damon's arm and examined the bite. "We'll find something. A cure."
"There's no cure, Stefan." Damon reminded his brother.
"Well there was no cure the day before." Kol corrected, "After last night, it exists, but it cleary ain't cheap."
Damon and Stefan look off across the graveyard, presumably towards Elena. Stefan turned back towards Damon.
"We kept Elena human, right? We found the way when there was no way. Hey." He called, forcing his brother to turn his head and face him. "I will do this."
"You want to do something for me? Keep this from Elena. Last thing she needs is another grave to mourn." Damon says, gripping his brother's shoulder, before walking away.
Stefan watched his brother leave, his hand shaking in pain, with a look of agony on his face.
He couldn't let this be the last time he ever saw his brother!
Was this a little shipping heavy, maybe, but I personally liked it.
At the time I planned this chapter, I honestly thought Elena didn't bury John (because I say only like one tombstone), since I only saw (remembered-?) one grave, so I decided to just run with that.
I know I've been saying it a lot (and this will be the last time… I think), but I just want to clear it up - because the whole TVD thing focused on Stefan, Elena, and Damon, I don't think it would have actually been possible to write a TVD reaction fic, and make it fully Klaroline. If I was going to put that much work into it, I might as well make them react to a Klaroline fic. So the changes will really begin to happen when I show the future, and after season 4 and 1/2 or 5, I'm going to be taking them completely off the rails of TVD. So I wanna keep enough to show the faults in Elena and the rest of the problems I had with the show, but I still want to keep it Klaroline. Basically: This them reacting to a fanfic, not the actual canon show. (But I will continue to call the "show" part of the fanfiction, "the show", because I'm not really sure what else to call it).
Also, for the game, I'll only be counting the death's in the reactions, and not "the show", because… well that's what I've decided.
I have a discord server you guys can join for Update News, Requests, and even Teasers. In fact, I posted a small teaser for this chapter on that server. So if you want to be able to see things like that, then you can join it.
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Breaking this and the last chapter up was honestly an AMAZING decision. The last one was like 30 pages, and so was this one. I actually planned for this to be around 12-18 pages… but we clearly exceeded that expectation as a result of how carried away I got for the reactions to this episode. So that was definitely a good decision.
Anyways,
KLAROLINE FOR LIFE BECAUSE I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP!