Elena, Bonnie and I were with a lawyer and Elena and I were signing the deed to the house.

"Please sign here and here." he told us.

"Okay." Elena said.

"So this place is all yours? They just gave it to you guys?" Bonnie asked us.

"For now. As the owners, we're the only ones who can invite a certain type of person in here, if you know what I mean." I told her.

"Your own personal safe house." Bonnie said.

"That's the idea." Elena said handing the papers to my sister.

"Wouldn't want to clean it." Bonnie said and we laughed.

"That's what a maid is for." I told her smirking. After we signed all the papers needed Elena and I walked him to the door.

"Thank you, Mr. Henry." Elena said as he walked away. The boys waited at the entrance to be invited back into their house. "I'm sorry. I completely forgot." Elena told them.

" I didn't." Damon gave me a look and they both looked at us expectingly.

"Stefan. Would you like to come inside my house?" Elena asked him with a smile on her face..

"I would love to. Thank you." Stefan said walking in. They walked into the living room and I looked at Damon.

"What are we, 12?" he asked me.

"One of us is. If I let you in, do you promise to obey the owners of this house?" I asked him.

"No." he told me honestly.

"Damon. My way. You promised. Elena and I call the shots. No lies, no secret agendas. Remember?" I reminded him.

"Yes, Nicole. Sure." he said and I gave him a look.

"Then please, come in." I said and he walked in. We walked into the living room and Stefan gave him a look.

"Shut up." Damon told him. Bonnie walked up to Elena and gave her a jacket.

"Thanks." Elena said.

"Wait, where are you going?" Stefan asked her.

"To school." Elena told us.

"Huh?" Stefan asked her.

"No, no, no. We didn't create a safe house for you to leave it." Damon said.

"Yeah, guys, Klaus is out there. We know that." I told them.

"Right. But where? No one knows. Look, I really appreciate what you guys are doing. And I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I'll be safe here, but I'm not going to be a prisoner." Elena said and I gave Damon a look.

"Your way, Elena." Damon said.

"Don't worry, I'm ready. If he shows his face, I can take him. Know how." Bonnie said.

"The way I see it, next to Bonnie is the safest place that I can be. Come on." Elena said and they left.

"Wait, um, coming." Stefan said running after them, leaving Damon and I alone.


I stood in the bathroom and looked at the baby bump. I ran my hand lovingly over it and I smiled. The shirt was tight enough so that you could see the outline of the bump but sometimes, like now, I needed to see it like this.

"Nicole. What are you doing?" I looked behind me in the mirror to see Damon looking at me strange.

"Sometimes I need to remember why I have to live. That I'm not just living for myself anymore." I told him. I lowered my shirt and turned to him. "What do you want?" I asked him.

"Just making sure you're okay." he told me and I sighed.

"When you confessed that you loved me, I had just taken vervain. I remembered everything." I told him. He just gave me a look and nodded his head.

"And?" he asked me.

"And nothing can happen. I still love Klaus, deeply. I care about you and you're my friend, but that's it." I told him.

"Figured." he said before walking away. I looked back into the mirror looked down at my necklace. Altogether it held the two lockets Nik got me plus Isobel's daylight necklace.

"I miss you, mom." I said with sadness deep in my voice. "I don't know what to do. Nik is here and everyone wants him dead, except me. I love him so much and he's the father of my baby." I put my hand back on the baby bump that let's the world know I was creating a little person. "I wish you could help me, now more than ever." I said, crying. I pushed myself back into the wall and sat down, sobbing into my hands.

"Shhh. It's okay. I'm here for you." I heard Damon say, but I didn't care who he was at the moment. I clung to him and cried into his shoulder while he stroked my hair. I knew he must have heard what I said but I was happy I wasn't alone right now. I needed comfort and that's what he was giving me right now.


After school Stefan, Bonnie and Elena came back here and we all joined together in the living room. Damon had sworn to keep my breakdown to himself so that they didn't worry about me.

"So we go to the dance, we find him." Damon said after they told us was happened at school.

"Really? How are we going to do that? We don't even know what he looks like." Stefan reminded him.

"I do." I told him.

"He could be anywhere at any time. He compelled somebody at school." Stefan said before looking to Elena and Bonnie. "I guess it's not as safe as you guys thought, huh?" he asked them. We heard someone knock on the door then saw Ric come in.

"There you are." Damon said to him.

"Sorry I'm late." he said.

"Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move." Damon told him.

"Make that two." I told him. Ric stared at me for a moment before glancing at my abdomen. I gave him a confused look. "You okay Ric?" I asked him smiling.

"Yeah." he told me, sending me a smile of his own.

"Ok, so we find him and then what, hmm? What's our plan of attack?" Elena asked.

"Me. I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him." Bonnie told us.

"That's not going to be that easy. I mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around." Ric reminded us.

"Alaric has a point. I mean, what if he..." Damon rushed over to Bonnie but she threw him to the other side of the room with her power, without touching him.

"Well, I was impressed." Stefan said.

"Only problem is that Klaus is an Original. A lot older and a lot stronger than both Stefan and Damon combined. Plus he most likely has at least one witch with him also." I told her.

"It doesn't matter if he's an Original or if he has a witch. I can take down anyone who comes at me. I can kill him, Nicole. I know I can." she told me trying to convince me to believe me.


Elena and I were looking through some boxes in Stefan's room looking for an outfit to where to the dance.

"Your relatives were such packrats." I told him as Elena pulled out two different outfits.

"Ok, so what do you think? Twiggy or sexy hippy?" she asked.

"Sexy hippy." I told her pulling out another outfit and some go-go boots.

"You know it's not too late to back out, right?" he asked us.

"And what, miss out on all the fun?" she asked him sarcastically as he walked up to us.

"Hey." he said holding her.

"All this time spent worrying about Klaus. I think I convinced myself that he's not real but he is." she told us.

"All you had to do was look and me and see that he's real." I told her before walking out of the room. I put on the white dress with splashes of red on it and the white go-go boots. I styled my hair and put a red hairband to keep some of my hair back. I saw Damon in the mirror I was standing in front of and turned to him.

"How do I look?" I asked him.

"Beautiful. As always." he told me smiling.

"Thank you." I said smiling.

"You're welcome." he said before walking to his brothers room to collect our siblings.


Damon and I walked up to the school and saw Bonnie and Jeremy talking to each other.

"Damon. Nicole." Bonnie greeted us.

"Evenin'" Damon said and I waved at them as we walking into the gym. Everyone was dancing so Damon drug me to the dance floor and we joined the fun. He spun me and dipped me a few times making me laugh.

"Thanks for being here, everybody. We have a special shout-out tonight." We turned to the stage to see one of the students on the stage. Damon and I joined Elena, Stefan, Bonnie and Jeremy in front of the stage. "This is for Nicole. From Klaus." a song started playing and I stared at the others.

"That was a lame, cheap shot. He's just trying to bait us." Damon said.

"I don't see him." I told them looking around.

"Maybe he just wants us to believe that he is." Stefan said.

"It's a party, people. Blend. Let him come to us." Damon told us.

"Good idea." Bonnie said taking Jer's arm.

"No, no, I really don't feel like dancing." Jeremy told her.

"Too bad." Bonnie told him and they went to the dance floor.

"There's Ric. I'll be back." Damon said and I followed him to Ric.

"Special dedication, huh? This guy's a little twisted." Ric told us.

"I'm not impressed." Damon told him.

"No?" Ric asked him and I gave Ric a curious look.

"Let me know if you see anything out of whack." Damon said pulling me to the dance floor.

"How you doing?" he asked me.

"Um, freaking out a bit. You?" I asked him.

"Cool as a cucumber. Come on, last decade dance the vampires were all, "ahh!" And your sister was all, "aahh!"" he told me and I laughed.

"Right. And let me guess you won?" I asked him with a smile on my face.

"Yes! We did." Damon told me doing some 60's specific moves with me.

"You're good at this." I told him.

"I've got moves you've never seen." he said and I laughed. After he and I danced for a bit he went to dance with Bonnie while Jeremy, Elena and I talked.

"What are they up to?" Elena asked looking at them.

"Who knows?" Jer said in a tone that was very down.

"Is there something going on, Jer? You ok?" I asked him.

"Fine. I'm fine." he said before he walked away and Stefan joined us.

"Everything all right?" he asked us.

"I'm not sure." Elena told him.


"We need to talk." I told Bonnie when Elena and I found her at the dance.


"How could you not tell us?" Elena asked her as we walked outside. Stefan had told us her plan of killing Klaus would also kill her.

"'Cause I knew how'd you react." Bonnie said.

"No. No way, it's not an option." I told her.

"It's our only option." Bonnie told me.

"Then we'll find another way, ok? Bonnie, you're not dying to save our lives." I told her knowing that Elena would agree with me.

"I have the power to save you! If I don't use it and something happens, that would kill me more." Bonnie said.

"We can't let you." Elena told her.

"Just answer one question... if the situation was reversed, would you do it for me?" Bonnie asked us and I looked away from her. "So you know why I have to."

"No. No!" Elena told her.

"Nicole! Elena!" We turned to see Ric running toward us.

"What is it?" I asked him.

"He has Jeremy." he told us.

"What?" Elena and I asked.

"What?!" Bonnie asked getting scared.

"Yeah, Klaus has Jeremy. Come on." he said and we ran off. We ran down the hallway following Ric.

"Ok, so where are you taking us?" Elena asked him.

"Just a little further." he said.

"Wait... Something's not right." I said watching Ric carefully.

"Where's Jeremy?" Bonnie asked him. We all stopped running and Ric started laughing.

"I just had to get away from that dance. The sixties, uchh. Not my decade." Ric told us. "I mean, whose call was that, anyway? I much prefer the twenties. The style, the parties, the jazz. You would love it Nikky." he said and I gave him a look. He'd never called me Nikky before.

"Alaric. Are you on vervain?" Elena asked him.

"Now why would you ask me that question, Elena?" he asked her and we began to back up slowly.

"He's being compelled." I said.

"Nope. Try again." he told us.

"What's going on?" I asked him.

"Ok, I'll give you a hint. I am not Alaric." he said and my eyes widened.

"Nik." I said.

"Surprise!" he said smiling at me.

"Who?" Bonnie asked me.

"Klaus." I told them.

"Oh, no. No, it's not possible." Elena said looking from me to him.

"Just relax, Elena. Nicole. I'm not here to hurt you. You're not on my hit list tonight." he said before looking at Bonnie. "But you are." Bonnie threw him against the wall with her powers and Elena held my hand tightly as he got up. "Now, did I mention that I knew a witch? You're gonna have to hit me a lot harder than that." He rushed over to us and she threw him against a display case and he laughed. "By all means... Fire away!" he said getting up. "If you kill this body, I'll just get a new one. Maybe Jeremy."

"Go. Run. Run!" Bonnie said and they ran pulling me with them. Bonnie closed the doors with her powers when Damon ran into us.

"What happened?" he asked us.

"Klaus is in Alaric's body." I told him.

"What?" he asked.

"He's possessing him." I told him.

"Go find Stefan. Now." Damon told Elena and I.

"Okay." Elena said.

"Now." She ran to find her boyfriend pulling me with her. Elena and I ended up in the gym looking for Stefan when we saw Caroline and Matt.

"Hey! Are you ok?" she asked us.

"Um...Yeah. I'm just... I'm looking for Stefan." Elena told her. I saw him and pointed him out to Elena.

"Seriously, what's wrong?" Care asked us.

"Uh, just, um, just stay with Matt, ok?" I told her as we ran to Stefan.


The three of us ran in the hallway trying to find Bonnie and Damon.

"There you are." Damon said.

"What are you doing? Where's Bonnie?" I asked him.

"She's doing what she has to do." Damon told us.

"What?" Elena asked him.

"Where is she?" Stefan asked his brother.

"Stefan, let her do this." Damon told him.

:Damn it, Damon, where is she?!" Stefan asked again.


We arrived where Damon said she was but Bonnie shut the door and we couldn't get in.

"Bonnie, no!" Elena called out to her. Bonnie continued fighting Nik as we screamed and Stefan tried opening the doors. Bonnie looked back at us and smiled with her nose dripping blood then fell to the floor. Everything stopped flying in the room and they rushed to help Bonnie. I went to go to her but someone grabbed me from behind and knocked me out.