With a sudden stop, Hadrian and Caroline appeared in his home, whilst Hadrian was fine, Caroline, who had never traveled that way before was on her knees, tiring to stop her stomach and head from spinning. Chuckling, Hadrian rubber her back "just breath, I know it feels weird, but it will pass", He was right, in moment Caroline was feeling better, turning her head, she gave him a smile, in which she got a smile in return, as they walked into the house, Caroline was talking all the home in, Artwork filled the house, some of them, to her amazement, was moving, some of the people even waving at her, she couldn't help but wave back to a small girl in one of the painting, she was rewarded with a large blush as the child hid behind her mother skirt.
As they moved into the lounge, Caroline was speechless, she had seen big homes, the Salvatore boarding house and the Lockwood, but their homes had nothing on this, it was HUGE, artwork, books, and weaponry adorned the walls, she noticed pieces of Leather armor that looked centuries old, and old War Hammer was on a rack, but what truly caught her eye was the large painting above the fireplace, it was a large portrait, she recognized Hadrian, but none the others, she could see 4 other boys and a girl, Hadrian was sat in a large chair, whilst the others crowded around him before she could ask who they were, Hadrian sat her down in one of the large armchairs by the fireplace, "I'll get you some blood, it will do you good", with that he walked off, presumable to get the blood.
As caroline watched him walk away she began to think about how they had met.
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Flashback 2 weeks ago.
Caroline was still reeling from what she had learned, Elena had made a deal with an Original, the very original she had met at this bar, and she was going to hand over her life to them, and for what, some stupid curse, as she sat at the bar, slowly drinking her sprite. As she drank, she wished she could have a proper drink, but even though she could compel the bartender, it would raise eyebrows, and that would not do, before she could take another sip, a voice startled her from the side "Hello Love" as she looked to her left, she almost let out a small shriek, Hadrian Mikaelson, was sat next to her, she quickly spun her head around the room, only to see, to her horror, the other occupants were no longer there, they had all gone, before she could panic Hadrian spoke, "Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you"
looking back at Hadrian, all she could do was look incredulously, a small smile wormed his way on Hadrian's face "Sorry about the subterfuge, but the fewer ears the better" as he said this he took the seat next to hers, "I want to help you, Caroline". This stumped her, "Help me with what".
"You Caroline, are a very impressive Vampire, I've seen you, and the level of self-control you have is incredible, for a vampire of your age, most of them would be trying to tear into all they could find" To this, she blushed, she was very proud of her self control before her ego could grow, Hadrian continued "But you could be better". Looking back at Hadrian she asked, "Better at what".
Smiling at Caroline "All of it, tell me if I'm wrong, but no one is teaching you, correct"
"well Stefan did help me in the beginning, but then all this stuff with Katherine and you happened," Carole said
"Ah yes Stefan, the Vampire on the Animal diet, whilst it's a noble goal, it's not a reliable one, you need to learn how to feed, how to stop from killing them, the art of compulsion, your speed, the strength and how to manage all of your senses."
As Hadrian spoke Caroline was getting more and more enthralled, she was having difficulty with her strength, multiple times she had nearly ripped her locker off its hinges, and she was scared when touching most people. "What do you say, Caroline, will you accept my offer" Hadrian spoke, and extended his hand for Caroline to shake.
For the next two weeks Hadrian and Caroline would meet in secret, and he would help her to control her urges, and how to manage all of her newfound abilities, in that time she began to find how much she enjoyed spending time with him, but at the back of her mind, she couldn't forget about the deal he had with Elena
...
"Caroline", startled from her memories, she looked up to see Hadrian, gently shaking her arm, as she looked up he smiled down at her, and handed her a bag of blood, which was quickly devoured, Caroline was even moaning at the taste, unbeknownst to her it was Dragons blood, a rare delicacy to Vampires, seeing Caroline enjoying the blood brought an even brighter smile to Hadrian's face, as he sat in the armchair next to her, as she finished the blood bag, Hadrian took it and quickly vanished it.
"How are you Caroline", At this Caroline let out a sigh and grimace, she felt, dirty, and weak, looking back to Hadrian she responded
"I felt weak, even with all you have been teaching me, I could do nothing as they tortured me, even when I thought I was going to die, I was so scared, all I did was freeze", as she began to ramble, Hadrian gently placed his hand on hers, "Caroline", she slowly looked up and into his eyes "You are still very new to this, you have nothing to be ashamed of, you will learn, grow stronger and become more fierce as you get older"
Smiling back at Hadrian, feeling better about what happened, not realizing the small dose of calming draught Hadrian placed in her blood, she sat back in her chair, as she did she noticed Hadrian still had her hand in hers, which with a small blush she removed, as he sat back Caroline looked over to him, "Hadrian",
"Yes Caroline"
"Just how old are you"
"That Caroline is a long story"
...
30 minutes earlier,
After Hadrian and Caroline disappeared, Damon and Stefan looked back at each other, simply happy there were not the ones directing Hadrian's ire, as they surveyed the scene before them, they looked over to Tyler, who was still standing there, in shock of what happened, Damon, seeing no reason to stay, quickly sped away, leaving Stefan with him. Looking over to Tyler "This is what I was trying to avoid" having said his peace, he too sped away, leaving Tyler to clean up the bodies that littered the forest clearing.
Arriving back at the boarding house, Stefan found Damon, once again drinking, quickly calling Elena he told her about tonight, about all that happened with Tyer, with Caroline, and with Hadrian, she quickly drove over to the house, and as she walked in the boys were surprised to find bonnie with her, "Wheres Caroline" "Is she okay", both Elena and Bonnie asked at the same time, Stefan was quick to answer "Shes fine, Hadrian appeared, Slaughtered the wolves, healed Caroline and they disappeared" Hearing this Elena dragged out her phone from her pocket, she quickly called Caroline, as soon as the phone was picked up "Caroline, are you okay, where are you, Stefan just told us what happened"
"Elena, I'm okay, Hadrian got there in time, he's healed me up and given me some blood, I'm fine",
For Elena, this just raised more questions "Why are you with him, he hasn't hurt you has he".
"No Elena, I'm fine, listen I will explain it all to you when I see you okay, just trust me, I'm fine", hearing the sincerity in her friend's voice, she calmed down "Okay, ill talk to you soon"
As she hung up the phone she explained what Caroline had said, as she did Bonnie added "When did those two become friends", no one could answer her, seeing as everything was okay, Bonnie soon left, wanting to search through more of her grimoires. Damon, seeing nothing was happened too left, as Elena and Stefan were alone they quickly embraced, and shared a short but passionate kiss, as they pulled away, their foreheads resting against one another "Why don't we get out of her for the weekend, just the two of us", Elena could help but smile,e thinking how she would like nothing more than to spend some time alone with her boyfriend, away from all the drama, "Mister Salvatore, that is a wonderful Idea"
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After leaving the Salvatore boarding house, all Bonnie could think of was the two Warlocks she had met, Jonas and Luca. As she was walking in the middle of the town, the two of them walked next to her, before she could say anything, Jonas simply said that he knew she was a Wiccan, before she could even blink, he added that they too were practisers of magic and that they knew about what was happening and could help. She had dismissed them, but after learning about what had happened with the Werewolves, and now Caroline was with Hadrian, she decided to speak to them, they had decided to meet at the Mystic Grill, nice and open.
When Bonnie entered the grill, she could feel them, the magic surrounded both of them, it was similar to what she felt with her grams, but not so familiar. Quickly walking over to their table she sat down, "Dr. Jonas, Luca" She said nodding to them, after a quick hello back she ordered a small coffee, once she received this, she looked back to Jonas, "You said you knew what was happening, and that you could help", At this Jonas nodded, "We know a lot, Bonnie, we know about the sun and the moon verse, the ritual and most of all, we know about Hadrian".
Bonnie was happy to finally have another magic user to speak to about this stuff, after losing her grams she felt so alone, "How do you know all of this", At this Luca piped up, "we collect grimoires, mostly from other witches who had past, but with no living relatives to pass their knowledge to, their belongings go on sale, and in one of them it mentioned the sun and moon curse and in that it detailed the ritual", To this bonnie nodded, "And how do you know Hadrian", as she said his Name, Jonas's face clenched in Anger, "That Abomination, we first heard of a vampire with magic in another grimoire, a Wiccan from centuries ago learned of him and tried to end him, obviously she failed. But also because of my daughter, before she passed my wife, Greta, and Luca's mother became addicted to darker forms of magic, I tried to shield both of them from it, but Greta always took after her mother, and one day, she left, disappeared, it was only thanks to a few locator spells and a few more people in the right place to confirm she was with the Originals, we want to get her away from them, away from their influence, heal her as best we can"
Bonnie felt awful for him, "How can you help", Jonas Smiled, "You see Bonnie, we think we know a way to Kill Hadrian, and in doing so make Klaus vulnerable enough for him to be killed" Bonnie couldn't believe her ears they had a way to save Elena and put an end to Hadrian. "How".
"From what we can gather, if a witch can channel enough power, she can kill an Original, if you used that to Kill Hadrian, then the magical backlash combined with the ritual effects should be enough to let us kill Klaus".
"But how can you channel that much power", with this Luca smiled, "By going to a place where mass witches were killed, if there were enough spirits, one could channel the energy, and have enough power to do it".
...
The following morning, as Stefan and Elena went to the lake house, Tyler had just finished gathering all the bodies that had scattered the woods, just as he had finished he saw Jules, and what appeared to be the rest of the pack join him, together they burned the bodies of those fallen, as they burned, Tyler looked across to Jules, "I think you guys need to go, that guy clearly didn't like wolves", at this Jules nodded "and we will, but first we need your help with something" As she spoke two other people came to stand with them, "We need you to help us find the moonstone", Tyker wanted to roll his eyes, "Someone needs to tell me what is so important about this stone"
"This stone helps break the curse of the sun and the moon" one of the men added,
"I have no idea what that even means man" Tyler added, looking annoyed
Jules was quick to respond "It's an old curse, one that was placed on both Vampires and Werewolves, it's what stops Vampires walking in the day, and what forces us to turn on the full moon"
The first man also added "you see, if the vampires break the curse, they can walk in the sunlight, but if we break it, we don't have to turn on the full moon, or ever"
Happiness was shining in Tyler's eyes, the thought of never having to turn again was almost too much to dream of, this came crashing down, as he realized who had it last, "I don't have it anymore, I gave it to Mason".
At this, the others looked at each other, Jules spoke, "Then it looks like we need to pay Damon Salvatore a visit"
...
At the Salvatore boarding house, Damon and Alaric were drinking, Damon because Stefan was away, he could relax and not have to worry about his brother, Alaric because John Gilbert had not long ago arrived at Mystic falls, and his little comments were beginning to rack at his and Jenna's relationship. Quickly seeing the time, Alaric realized he had to leave "Sorry Damon, but I have to pick up Jenna soon, things are rocky enough, I don't want to give her any more cause to get annoyed at me" as he said this he stood from the couch, as he walked away Damon just gave him a wave, still looking into the fire, suddenly he heard a loud groaning coming from behind him, as he looked behind him he saw Alaric stumbling backwards, as he turned he realized why, a large kitchen knife was sticking out of his stomach, as Ric began to fall, Damon sped over and kneeled over him, "Ric, what the hell happened" Damon asked confused before he could get a response, he felt hands on his head and chin, and with a twist, his neck was snapped.
A little while later, Damon awoke, his neck still stinging, as he opened his eyes, he noticed where he was, whilst he was still in the sitting room, he was now stuck to a chair with a lot of chains, he also had a collar around his neck, which was filled with wooden spikes, "Hello Handsome" hearing this Dmoan looked up, only to let out an annoyed grunt, standing before him was Jules and what little remained of her pack, what really got his attention was the shotgun in her hand, "We need to have a little talk Damon"
As she finished, one of the men with her pulled on the rope that was attached to his collar, as he did he felt it get tighter, as the wooden spikes were rammed into his neck, letting out a loud grunt of pain, he started to breath faster, trying to push through the pain, before long, the man stopped pulling on the rope and with that, the spikes were pulled out. "now Damon, you're going to talk, if you don't, well, it won't end well" she ended this by cocking her shotgun and grinning at him.
Deciding to irritate them, he spoke "and what do you want to know lassie",
Jules just smiled and nodded to the man holding the rope, as the man pulled the rope and as Damon let out a loud grunt, Jules spoke "Funny Damon, keep it up", after a few moments, Jules nodded to the man again, and he stopped pulling the rope, "Now Damon, we want to know where the moonstone is".
At this Damon just laughed, "I don't know sweetheart, try Walmart, I hear they have everything a modern American needs", as he said this the man pulled on the rope, with even more force, this time Damon couldn't help but let out a small scream in pain. Jules just looked at him, as she did, she lowered the shotgun to his knee and pulled the trigger, at this Damon screamed, as buckshot was ripped through his knee, "now Damon, shall we try that again"
After a few short hours, Damon was covered in blood, it was dripping down his body, his knees, whilst healing was destroyed, his neck filled with holes from the wooden spikes that had been ripped in and out so much, "Damon, I'm just going to ask, one more time, where is the moonstone".
After the hours of torture, Damon was too tired to fight just as he was about to answer, someone answered for him, "Damon, Damon, Damon, what do you get yourself into", as they all turned their head, Damon was struck silent, as stood there, in his expensive suit, was Elijah, looking at them all in amusement, as Elijah surveyed the group he looked over to the wolves, "I believe my brother's message was quite clear" As he said this Jules began to panic before anyone could move, Elijah was in front of them, as he moved one of the wolves had their head ripped off, the other two had their hearts ripped out, Jules quickly sped to the open door, just as she got there someone was stood in her way, as she looked up she saw another person, "Hello Darling" it was all she heard, as suddenly she was hit so hard in the head, her vision went black, and she was out cold.
Elijah, who had now cleaned his hands with a handkerchief, which was self Cleaning thanks to Hadrian, a solstice gift he had received some years ago, looked over to Kol, who now had the unconscious woman in his arms "Thank you Kol, Take her to the house" His brother simply nodded and sped away, taking Jules with him. As Elijah looked back to Damon, he tutted at him, as he walked over he ripped the chains and spikes off of Damon, and dropped them on the floor.
Damon, looking confused, looked at Elijah "Your Dead", Elijah just smiled "For centuries now, my Brother made a deal with Miss Gilbert, and when our family makes a deal, we honor it" with that Elijah sped away, leaving a very confused Damon with three now dead Werewolves, and one who had been left alone and appeared to be stuck in abject fear over what happened, before he could move Damon pounced and drained him, helping him to heal from the damage done to him.
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In the dark, gloomy, rat-infested tomb, Katherine was slowly desiccating, when she heard footsteps at the enterance, thinking it was Elena again, she began to slowly walk towards the enterance, as she arrive at the enterance she froze in her tracks, it was not Elena, but Hadrian. As Hadrian noticed her, his eyes glowed, as they did a chill ran up her spine in terror, "Hello Katherina", Katherine looked at him.
"Hadrian, finally come to kill me", with this Hadrian just smiled,
"Kill you, Katherine, no I have not come to kill you", before Katherine could smile Hadrian continued, "That honor, belongs to another" before she could ask, footsteps were heard from outside, as someone was slowly walking down the stone steps, soon none other but Klaus walked into frame, as he did Katherine backed away in fear. As Klaus stood next to Hadrian, he looked to Katherina, "Zdraveĭte, Katherina" as he said this he looked to his brother, they both smiled, and looked back at her, all she could do was gulp
