A/N - Graphic depictions of violence (although I don't think they're too bad).
"So, what's the plan brother?" Klaus sighed when he heard the voice, turning away from the Salvatores to see Kol walking up the field.
"What are you doing here Kol?" When he had asked his family for help, the last person he had expected was Kol, well, it was Finn but Kol was a close second. He had hoped that it would be Elijah who would come to his aid, Kol wouldn't care at all about saving Elena, whereas Elijah would make it his first priority. And of course, she had to walk head first into trouble, with no thought for consequences for her, or anyone else.
He allowed himself, for the briefest moment, to have sympathy for his older brother who had dealt with such behaviour of his for a millennium, he was going mad and it had only been a day.
"Well, Rebekah said you needed help, and unlike our sister, I am not keen on running for another millennium. Especially with us all linked and Finn being suicidal. Besides, it seemed as though you were going to walk into trap and I'm not dying today. So here I am."
"I intended for Rebekah to pass along the message to Elijah, not you."
"He's somewhere in Europe I think. He's on a flight back, but I highly doubt he'll make it in time."
"Why Europe?"
"Oh, I don't know brother, perhaps he's enjoying some time in the countryside, reading and relaxing in some castle he compelled for himself. Now can we get to the point?"
"Alaric's a hunter, stronger than our father, and he holds a white oak stake. Bonnie here is going to perform a spell that will allow us to desiccate him."
"A desiccation spell, yes I suppose that could work. But that is some dark magic you're about to tap into, are you sure you can do it?" Kol said to Bonnie, with the kind of seriousness that he only reserved for witchcraft.
"It's the only way to save my friends." The witch said defiantly and Klaus wondered if it was the water in Mystic Falls.
Then he looked at Damon and figured it wasn't.
"You have to stop a human heart to do it."
"I know that. I'll perform the spell on Jeremy, he's wearing the Gilbert ring so he should be fine, and once his heart stops, so will Alaric's. You all need to drink my blood so that I can do the spell through you."
"Right, so Stefan, me and wolfie can do that-" Damon started, and he resisted the urge to roll his eyes at the vampire, he was in a bad temper, and had no patience for the older Salvatore.
"No," he said, but not before throwing a look of pure disgust at the older Salvatore, "Kol and I will do it, he's an Original after all."
"Don't you think four people are better than two?" Stefan asked, talking over Damon.
"Three, Derek will be here in a minute."
"We don't have time-"
"There he is," Derek was an asset, unlike Stefan and Damon who were liabilities. They could turn on him in an instant, helping Alaric to kill him, rather than helping him. He wasn't sure that they believed about the sire lines either. "The three of us will have more power than if I went in with you two."
"I think if we want this to work," Bonnie began, pulling out a vacutainer filled with blood, "then all five of you need to drink this, and then whoever gets to Alaric, needs to be in contact with his heart."
"Do you mean his chest or his heart? Cause that could get a bit bloody and this is a Wellington."
"Since when do you care about clothes? Or blood for that matter." Klaus asked irritated, his patience was thin enough already.
"Alright fine, but which is it?"
"Chest," Bonnie answered coldly before passing the blood, and leaving with a nod, Jeremy behind her.
Once they'd all had some of the blood, Klaus told Derek to take a quick sweep of the place from the outside, so they could locate where the man was holding the two of them hostage.
"Right, what's the plan?" Kol asked again.
"Damon and Stefan get Elena out and carry her to safety, while you, me and Derek subdue Alaric so Bonnie can complete the spell."
"And Caroline." Stefan said, making Klaus turn towards him, "carry Elena and Caroline out to safety."
"Yes, of course." Damon threw a suspicious glance at him, but he didn't care much anymore. Didn't even care if everyone found about him and the hold that she had over him, didn't care if they figured the unadulterated fear that had filled him the second he found out that she was in real danger. Part of him wished he could go back to the last year, when he didn't even know she existed, even if that meant not performing the sacrifice.
Because whatever it was that had unfolded after that night, it was the most nagging, incessant, intenseā¦..connection that he had ever experienced with anyone else, and it was almost all consuming.
But he couldn't go back, and, he suspected that he wouldn't even if he could.
"They're in a classroom in the back," Derek said when he got back, "sounds like he's torturing the vampire."
"Right, let's go then, unless you want him to attack us first." Kol said to the rest of the group, before walking inside. Klaus sighed and followed his brother, knowing the Salvatores were right behind him. The air was almost pungent with the smell of vervain, burning his sinuses, he could hear voices, he could hear her clearly, then the shattering of some glass, and Alaric's scream. He smirked slowly, knowing exactly who was behind the disruption, as he heard the blonde vampire meeting Stefan.
He heard more fighting, and rushed to the source of it, watching as the teacher slammed Elena against some lockers. He could feel burning rage go through him at the sight and allowed it to consume him. It was perhaps a testament to how well they knew each other, or perhaps it was just an instinct after a millennium, so that when moved to attack Alaric, Kol was with him, only a second behind him. The two of them trapped the Hunter against the locker, but this was hardly an even fight.
He wasn't a stranger to pain, but when Alaric threw him against some lockers, he felt the wind get knocked out of him. He knew just from the sounds, that Kol had met a similar fate, and in the few seconds it took him to get his breath back, the man had already attacked Damon and Stefan. He watched Derek take a swig at Alaric, and sped there quickly, his hand at the other mans chest. His brother was beside him a moment later, and they were all trying to tear at the hunters chest.
He hoped that whatever it was that the witch did would work, but before anything could happen, they were all pushed away. He felt his own back connect with a few lockers, and tore a metal door out, using it as a weapon against the enhanced, taking a shot at his head. Kol had picked up some glass on his way up and used his momentum to stab Alaric with it in his eye. Blood splattered over all of them, and Derek moved to reached behind the man to try and restrain him, as Kol tried to keep contact with his chest again. He allowed his own baser instincts to take over, feeling the change in his eyes and his fangs, and wasted no time in biting the vampire, trying to inject as much venom as he could.
He could still feel him fighting back, and he pushed into his chest with all his might, couldn't remember the last time this action hadn't torn into someone's chest. He felt fingers sinking into the back of his neck, tearing through his skin, and felt them wrap around his spine. He veered back at the sensation, and saw briefly as Kol pushed against the man, trying to restrain him with strength and sheer will powers.
It felt as though it was hours, an unbearable sensation going through him as he restrained himself from clawing at the hand on his neck, before finally, a greyish hue settled upon the man, and Klaus could almost feel his blood his stopping, as the hand on his spine turned cold.
It took all their effort to keep him upright as he froze into himself, and even then, nobody was ready to let him go, not after the effort it had taken them to subdue him.
A/N -I want to thank everyone for your comments on the last chapter. It was a dark time for me, but I'm doing better now, and for some reason, I can't stop writing, so the next chapter should be up by this weekend.
I didn't have Elena bargain with Alaric because Kol was there, and it didn't fit into the story that I have planned, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter regardless, it's hard to write from Klaus' perspective.
