Have A Nice Rest Of Your Life

Hayley was pushing around the mush on her plate and thinking disdainfully about the group therapy session that was due later in the week when Tyler sat himself down in front of her.

She was surprised someone was actually sitting with her, not like she really cared, but most of the other people in their group was sitting on the other side of the cafeteria. Tyler and her had never really had a conversation, although they had only been there a couple of days, and she hadn't left the room but to eat.

"I don't like the others." He muttered, his tone full of venom. "They piss me off."

Hayley couldn't help but smirk. "At least you've only got one of them in your room. I got stuck with the two 'besties' who decide to spend most nights getting to know each other."

Aggressively tearing a piece of bread, stuffing it in his mouth, and chewing, he sniffed, and swallowed. "Yeah but Kol's a piece of fucking shit."

Hayley contemplated this for a moment. "That we both can agree on."

They sat in a comfortable silence, both eating their food. Finished, Hayley stood, and picked up her tray, leaving to get her medication, and go, until Tyler stopped her. "Wait. Sit down."

"Why?" She asked, confused. Okay, they had a friendly exchange, but she wasn't going to sit there and wait for him to finish his food so he didn't have to eat alone.

"Just sit down." He said, that time more firmly. Muttering a "whatever" under her breath, Hayley sat, staring at him with raised brows.

"What do you want?"

He looked from side to side; his eyes almost shifty as he contemplated the clinically white tiled lunchroom around them. "What do you think of that Kai guy?" His voice was lowered, as though he was scared someone was going to overhear the conversation.

Rolling her eyes, Hayley sighed deeply. "Did you seriously stop me from leaving because you want to gossip about some weirdo. I don't gossip Tyler, for fucks-"

"Just answer the question!" He spat out, a burst of apparently unintentional anger shooting out. Hayley just stared at him. Who did he think he was? Thinking he could order her around? "Look, I'm sorry." He started, looking down embarrassed. "I shouldn't have shouted at you like that, it's just, you know, intermittent explosive disorder, sometimes gets away from me."

Hayley crossed her arms and just stared back at him, an unimpressed look in her eyes, but she stayed put, nonetheless.

"What do you think of him?" He continued, a strange look in his eyes.

She shrugged. "I don't know, he arrived in a straitjacket accompanied by two nurses, and everything he's done and said since then scream that he's completely deranged, but aren't we all. I mean - that's why we're here."

"I read about him."

Hayley blinked, confused. "What?"

"Online, before I got sent here, I read about him."

"Well?" Hayley asked, shaking her head. "Are you going to tell me what you read about him, or do you want me to beg? That's why you made me stay here, because you want to tell me."

He leaned forward over the table, so his hushed voice could be heard over the chatter. "He tried killing his family."

Her eyes widened, air was sucked out of her lungs, and her mouth hung open in shock. "What the fuck?"

"Apparently he's from Oregon, and his father was like the leader of this cult thing, he was one of seven children." Tyler glanced around the room to make sure Kai wasn't anywhere nearby to overhear them, but he wasn't even in the room, probably in his room in isolation eating after yesterday. "I read he was really badly abused by his father and family, and he wanted to get back at them, so he planned this mass murder on some really significant night for the cult."

"Mass murder?" Hayley repeated stupidly.

"Yeah, when the night came by, he had only managed to stab one of his brothers before he was stopped. Basically, his dad had found the plans the night before and was planning on sending him to a mental institution the next day." Sitting back, Tyler felt a rush of relief over the fact that he told someone.

"But this is a mental recovery center. Not an institution, or better yet, a jail, where he should be." Hayley couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe that she had to share a room everyday with someone who had attempted murder. And Hayley was a pretty tough person, but the thought of someone trying to take another's life without their permission, the thought of murder, made her sick. Especially if it was your family, because she knew if she had ever been gifted with knowing her relatives, that she would treasure them to no end.

"That's not all." Tyler replied. "He was only sixteen when that happened." Pausing, Tyler allowed that to sink in. "That was six years ago. He did go to a jail for the criminally insane."

She was having a hard time wrapping her head around it all. "But, then why is he here at a mental recovery center in central Virginia?"

"He was released after six years, his family tried to stop it, but he was out early on good behavior. Saying he had schizophrenia, they sent him over to the other side of the country as far away as possible to here, a small town mental 'recovery' center, where they'll leave him for the rest of his life, I bet." Tyler couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Kai walk in the room in that first session, he looked exactly like he had in the photo in that news article about his release that Tyler had read, he felt ill at the sight of him. But he didn't want to say anything; he didn't want to make an enemy of the self-proclaimed sociopath.

Hayley hugged herself tightly. "God, I don't think I can stand to be in the same room as him in the group therapy session."

"I know right. We may be craz- unstable, but at least we haven't tried to kill anyone." Tyler replied, staring at his food blankly, unable to finish it anymore.

They were both quiet.

"What should we do?" Tyler suddenly asked.

Hayley looked at him. "What do you mean?"

"I mean," He said, raising his eyebrows at her, "we can't just sit back and pretend like we don't know about it. We need to do something."

"Like what?" Hayley shot back, annoyed. "There's nothing we can do about it, the people on the medical board have already said it's okay for us to share the same food as the attempted murderer, I don't think the complaints of registered mental patients is going to make them change their minds."

"Oh so what?" He asked loudly. "Just because we have mental health issues we don't have a voice? That's bullshit, you and I both know that."

"Yeah, it's bullshit, but that's the way the system works." She whispered harshly, trying to calm him down. "We are not deemed mentally competent, so any complaints we have aren't taken seriously."

Clenching his jaw and swallowing thickly, he stared at his plate, knowing she was right. "God… this fucking sucks." He cursed, frustrated.

"I know." Hayley agreed. "But-"

Tyler suddenly jumped up before she could finish what she was saying, his eyes plastered to the clock in the wall above her head.

She narrowed her eye irritated that he wasn't listening to her. "Tyler I-"

"-Recreation time starts now." He muttered hurriedly, grabbing his tray. "I'm going to tell the others what I know, if we can all band together, then I know we might be able to do something, there's strength in numbers!"

Hayley stared after him blankly as he scurried away, knowing there was no way in hell she was going to follow him into that room of perdition.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Tyler immediately spotted them when he walked into the room, and he wondered how they had all gotten there so quick. But not only that, but he was also shocked that most of the people in his group were sitting in the same lounge area, considering that there were really some conflicting personalities there. Yet, they all seemed to be tolerating each other; Elena was smiling small as Damon talked her ear off, Bonnie was reading quietly, Kol and Klaus appeared to be bickering between themselves, Stefan and Caroline conversed, and Rebekah talked to Enzo, however was also stealing jealous looking glances at the insomniac every other second.

The only person Tyler didn't see was Hayley, who he wasn't surprised hadn't followed him since she pretty much hated them all and had never been in the social room, and Kai, who he was glad not to see, since he was about to tell everyone about him.

He felt hopeful that everyone would listen to him and they could get rid of the psycho attempted murderer.

"We all need to talk about Kai." Tyler started urgently as he sat down in the free armchair, grabbing all of their attention through his frantic tone. He saw Bonnie noticeably tense at the mention of his name, as she clearly was still unnerved by the guy after what happened. Tyler almost felt guilty at bringing it up, but they needed to know, it was for the best, he knew they needed to do something about it.

Damon stopped talking to Elena, and sat forward, his eyebrows peaked in interest. "What about the little sociopath? Did he attack you like he did Judgy?"

Elena elbowed him in the ribs sharply, and Tyler grinned as he saw the asshole hiss in pain. Taking Bonnie's hand in her own, and squeezing it comfortingly, Elena looked at Tyler. "What are you talking about?" She asked gently, her dark eyes warm with concern.

"Well…" Tyler started, suddenly unsure of how to put it. "You know how there's something kind of, off, with Kai?"

Enzo scoffed loudly, pursed his lips, and shook his head at Tyler, seemingly confused. "Oh no! I think that he's completely fine, I mean, other than the fact that he arrived in a straitjacket, called himself a sociopath, and attacked Bonnie all in a few days, I think he seems completely absolutely 100% flipping sane! I can't imagine why ever he is in here?!"

Wavering in his seat, Tyler furrowed his brows, and frowned, confused at what Enzo was saying, as it made no sense. He didn't understand. Enzo's tone of voice was as weird as his convoluted words. Tyler remained silent, wondering why would Enzo say he thought Kai was completely fine and sane, when he obviously wasn't-

"-It's called sarcasm, darling, a tool of the English that American's clearly are yet to fully comprehend." Rebekah sighed loudly. Tyler cringed, embarrassed that he hadn't understood that Enzo was being sarcastic. He then decided that he blamed the stupid accent, which was barely intelligible, especially when being sarcastic. Rebekah exchanged a knowing and incredulous glance with Enzo, and then turned back to Tyler, widening her eyes. "I take it that you were trying to imply that Kai is probably the most insane person in this state?"

Tyler nodded quietly, glancing around as everyone stared at him, second hand embarrassment playing out across their eyes. He then became bitter, as it appeared he was the only person, including the Americans, who hadn't understood that Enzo was being sarcastic. That damn accent.

"Why are you telling us something we already know?"

It was Bonnie who had spoken that time, snapping Tyler out of his humiliation, and back into the reality of the situation. And before he could stop himself to ensure it made any sense, he had already blurted out everything he knew about Kai. Everything. The cultish family, his murder plans at sixteen, the arrest, his release, and then his family flying him all the way over to the east coast to get him as far away from them as possible. It all just fell out of his mouth, first in what he thought was incomprehensible sentences, but by the looks on their faces, he knew they understood.

Everyone, even Kol, stared at him with widened eyes, speechless.

Then, Bonnie let out a mangled sound, and her smacked her hand to her mouth to smother any more, her eyes watering, and her face distorted into one of shock. Elena quickly gathered the small girl into her arms and held her as Bonnie shook violently, and even Damon leaned his arm around Elena and put a comforting hand on Bonnie's shoulder, squeezing softly.

"What do we do?" Caroline was the first to ask the question, indignation painting her face. "He doesn't belong here with us! With his past, and him having already attacked Bonnie, he should've been kicked out days ago." She crossed her arms angrily, her brows heavily furrowed as the others around her nodded in agreement. Stefan placed his hand on her arm and squeezed it in support.

Having both seen the gesture, Klaus and Rebekah immediately jumped up with panicked expressions. "I say we-" Rebekah started.

"-Get rid of him!" Klaus finished loudly. The siblings both desperately were looking at Caroline and Stefan to see whether they caught their attention.

"We can't." Tyler replied flatly, and the Mikaelsons snapped to his attention, appearing to be slightly rattled.

Enzo leaned forward, and pursed his lips. "What do you mean 'we can't'?" He asked with his lips twisted into a leer.

"I mean," Tyler mirrored his movements and expression, "no one is going to listen to anything we say, and we have no power here. We can't get rid of him, whether we like it or not."

Everyone was quiet for a moment, their looks crestfallen as they realized that what Tyler said was right. They didn't have power. They were there because they weren't considered in their right minds. If they tried throwing around ideas like getting a fellow patient kicked out, it wouldn't work because they weren't considered mentally competent do suggest things like that. Who were they to say who was too insane to be there? But it sucked, nonetheless. It really did.

"It's not fair." Elena stressed, rubbing circles onto Bonnie's back, who remained silent. "He doesn't belong here."

"No he doesn't."

Everyone turned around to the source of the new and foreign sounding voice, and found two women patients standing beside each other, shaking their heads. All who were seated stared at the newcomers in confusion.

"We know everything about this place, and to our knowledge he actually belongs in Ward D." The redheaded one continued, as they both moved around and sat on the empty sofa.

"Yes," The brunette piped up, "that's were my girlfriend is."

"And Oscar. And Beau." The redhead added.

The brunette gave her a look. "Beau was brought back down to C last month, Val, didn't you know?"

The redhead tipped her head back, a look of understanding over taking her face. "Oh yes, I remember now." They both nodded at each other, and then turned to stare at the others, knowing looks on their fine features.

No one really knew what to say to the random patients who intruded on their conversation.

"Um…" Stefan started awkwardly.

"Who the hell are you?" Damon asked rudely, but they didn't seem to care.

The redhead replied, giving them all a curt nod, "I'm Valerie, and this is Nora." She gestured to the brunette, who flashed them a smirk. "We know everything about this place, and we over heard your conversation about your little friend Kai."

"What's Ward D?" Rebekah quickly asked the strangers, who claimed they knew everything, the question that they were all thinking.

Nora's smirk widened when she looked at Rebekah, and she licked her lips. "This mental recovery center is split into four Wards: A, B-"

"Wait let me guess!" Damon interrupted sarcastically. "Are the other two Ward C and D?" Elena once again elbowed Damon in the ribs, but Nora just rolled her eyes at him.

"We are currently in Ward A and B, this is where they place the low security patients, the ones who were admitted voluntarily either by themselves or by others." Valerie continued on, but that struck a chord in a certain someone.

Enzo perked up, and frowned. "But I wasn't admitted here voluntarily…" He replied, confusion painting his voice.

"Whatever, no one cares about your sob story." Damon shot back, causing Elena to up her game of elbowing him in the ribs to stomping on his foot.

"This Ward is generally for the low risk patients." Nora directed at Enzo, ignoring Damon's reply. She then continued on with her explanation, uncaring to the inner group tensions. "Ward C is where they put people who they believe are might harm themselves, and thus need more security, or are flat out refusing to receive help."

"They are basically more difficult to deal with than us." Valerie summarized.

"That's where Beau is, he's a mute." Nora added, smiling at the memory of her friend.

"What's Ward D?" Klaus repeated his sister's question, more urgently.

Nora bit her lip, and Valerie shot him a look. "Ward D is for the violent patients."

"Or the disobedient get sent there." Nora added, her face stoic. "Trust me, you don't want to get sent to Ward D."

Elena leaned forward, her eyes soft. "Why is your girlfriend there?" She asked Nora gently.

The brunette's eyes flashed with anger, and her nostrils flared. "One of the Nurses said…" She paused, and took a shaky breath; everyone remained silent as they waited. "He said, 'God hates fags, it's a shame we can't just lynch you all anymore'."

Kol hissed. "Jesus Christ." He muttered, the out of character disbelief painted his face as it did everyone else's.

"Mary Louise punched him, and she got sent to Ward D." She sniffed, and shook her head, sitting up from her slouch, and hardening her face. "Anyway, like I said, people who are disobedient are sent to Ward D, it's meant to be the mental institution equivalent of hell."

Bonnie let out a breath of disbelief, and shook her head. "Then why isn't Kai there?"

"Who said he isn't?" Damon countered. He gave a pointed look around the room. "He doesn't seem to be here for play time, and we all know how the little sociopath doesn't like to be restricted."

"He's probably there." Valerie agreed, nodding at Damon. "So don't worry Bonnie, you'll only have to see him during the group sessions."

Tyler let out a choking sound. Everyone instantly turned their heads to watch as he seemingly suffocated on the air he was breathing. It continued on for a few moments, but no one did anything, because they really didn't know what to do other than watch as Tyler's face grew redder and redder and more and more spit sprouted from his lips.

"Um…" Rebekah started awkwardly.

Caroling quickly took initiative and rushed over to Tyler, patting him on the back. He quickly recovered after Caroline's help, and looked at Valerie, his eyes wild. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'LL ONLY SEE HIM DURING THE GROUP SESSIONS?"

Nora once again rolled her eyes, and Valerie tilted her head, looking at him questioningly through thoughtfully squinted eyes. "What Val means is that Kai is still assigned to Matt, so he'll be in your sessions, but other than that you won't have to see him." She replied like it was easy.

"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Enzo butted in, his voice incredulous. "Are you saying that we still have to interact with the lad after everything he's done?"

"Yes."

Kol stood, shaking his head. "How is this place a medical establishment? Putting people here against their will, and making them interact with attempted murderers?" Klaus and Rebekah were both shocked at their brother's morality, and his lack of Tina Fey quotes. That definitely meant that he felt bothered by the revelation. He stepped away from the lounge area, and headed towards the door. "I'm going to take a nap." He stated, and then left.

Kol's exit started a silence between everyone as they took in all that they had just found out. Everything that Kai did, and how they had to still be around him even though he was clearly a danger to everyone. It was a lot to take in all at once.

"Well," Valerie began after a minute, giving a side-glance to Nora, and they both rose in business-like unison. "It was nice ushering you towards your new found knowledge of how corrupt the Augustine Center is." She gave them a cordial smile, and a curt nod, as if they had just completed a fair negotiation, and not that they were stuck wining and dining with an attempted murderer.

"I hope you all have a nice rest of your lives here, and we'll probably see you later." Nora added, matching Valerie's grin, and they both turned and walked off, leaving unsavory tastes in all of the remaining peoples mouths.

Rebekah jumped up, pursing her lips. "Well I certainly need time to recover after that." She announced grandly, as if people actually cared how she felt, flipping her hair over her shoulder. "Stefan, would you please escort me to my dorm?"

It was a question but was stated as a command, and Stefan knew that. So he nodded, and followed after her, offering her his arm, which she gratefully took, and no one other than Stefan missed the vicious glare she threw at Caroline over her shoulder as they strolled out.

Klaus chuckled. "Looks like my sister will have a bounty out for your head by tomorrow Caroline."

The blonde just furrowed her brows, and groaned. "I haven't done anything wrong though!" She huffed, throwing her hands up.

"Exactly."

Caroline gave him a look, and Klaus just smiled wider. "Why don't you come with me to the dining area, and I can explain?" He suggested, a twinkle in his gaze. Caroline rolled her eyes, but they both left together, Klaus leaning in towards her whispering inaudible words, causing Caroline to slap in playfully on the chest as they walked out the room.

"And then there were five." Damon stated loudly, a knowing smirk on his lips.

"Think again." Bonnie muttered sullenly, and that was when Damon noticed with a flood of relief that his 'pal' Enzo was gone.

Tyler leaned forward eagerly, rubbing his hands together. "We need to get Kai out of here." He announced.

"Oh yeah? And what have you got planned Copernicus?" Damon yelled sarcastically, staring at Tyler with his mouth hung open in astonishment at the stupid things that came out of the kid's mouth. When Tyler didn't respond because he was too busy trying to figure out what the hell a Copernicus was, Damon stood, and waved his hand towards the door. "Come on Elena, let's get away from here before his stupidity becomes contagious."

Elena looked uncomfortable, and glanced at Tyler, and then at Bonnie, who was still curled up on the couch beside her, her head rested on a pillow and her eyes staring blankly ahead. "What about Bonnie?" Elena mouthed silently at him.

"Okay, Bon Bon can come as well." Damon relented, tugging at Elena's arm as she stood and started towards the door, but immediately stopped when she saw Bonnie wasn't following.

"Bonnie…?"

But the girl shook her head, giving her friend a weak smile. "It's alright Elena, you go, I'm going to stay here for a bit longer."

Elena accepted this pretty easily, and was gone with Damon but a moment later. And when she saw this, Bonnie quickly sat up, her blank eyes igniting into ones of determination. She leaned forward with her elbows on her knees, folded her hands in front of her, and looked at Tyler dead on.

"We need to get rid of Kai."

So yeah, finally came up with a plot. Honestly, I just love Kai so much (he's a terrible person, don't get me wrong, but he's my problematic fave), and he's clearly less sane than all the other characters, so I thought that it would be an interesting story to look at. I could've done one about Matt not actually being a doctor, but as I said, Kai lover over here.

But the story isn't just them trying to get rid of Kai, it's also about their overall journey, and you learn more about their characters as well as their relationships with each other and their road to recovery. It's not just going to be focused on deposing of Kai.

There will definitely be more Nora, Valerie, and eventually Mary-Louise coming up, and you'll find out more about why they are actually there. I'm thinking of adding Katherine as well, but I need to figure out what to do about the whole 'she looks exactly the same as Elena' thing.

Anyhoo, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thank you to everyone who followed and favorited! Tell me what you think, and also tell me if you want me to add any other characters and whether you'd like to see Katherine. Follow and/or favorite if you want to be alerted about future updates. Thank you so much for reading! X

Next Chapter - There will be an interaction between Caroline and Klaus which will show some unrequited pining. Klaus will also see Kol up to some suspicious behavior. Then, there will be a group therapy session that will quickly erupt into chaos because of a certain two that end up in a fistfight.

(I will warn you though, that these Next Chapter plans sometimes change when I'm writing and editing, so it's just a rough idea.)