Chapter Eight Part Three: He Knows & Wants Them
3rd Person Pov
"There you are, you almost missed me." Caroline said to her mother when she came home. "How do I look?" She twirled around.
"Jackie O?" Liz asked.
"Ha Ha duh." Caroline chuckled.
"You look good." Liz smiled at her daughter.
"Thanks." Caroline smiled.
Liz tensed up as Caroline stepped forward.
"Is everything ok?" Caroline asked as she saw her mother tense up.
"Uh, just some work stress." Liz lied.
"Well, you work too much." Caroline replied.
Liz was gonna say something but then heard footsteps behind her. She turned and saw Matt. Caroline smiled before opening the door for her date. Matt and Liz shared a look.
"Mr. President." Caroline began to lean in for a kiss.
"Woah, sheriff." Matt pulled away and turned to Liz.
"Sorry." Caroline apologized.
"Have fun." Liz told them.
"We will." Caroline told her.
"Nice outfit Mr. Saltzman. Totally far out." One of his 'student' said to him.
"Thank you Dana, thank you. Now who's your date?" He asked.
"It's Chad, Mr. Saltzman, from third period." He replied.
"Chad, of course." He pretends to remember. "How would you and your friends like uh to earn a little extra credit?" He asked.
Stefan, Damon, Elena, Bonnie and Jeremy came into the school. As soon as they did, Dana made an announcement.
"Ok, we have a special shout out tonight. This is for Elena. From Klaus." She said into the microphone before going off stage.
As the music started playing, Stefan and the others looked around to see if they could find people they don't recognize.
"That was lame cheat shot." Damon said as the song was over. "He's just trying to bait us." He said.
"I know everyone here" Elena said.
"Maybe he's not here." Stefan said. "He just wants us to believe that he is."
"It's a party, people, blend." Damon told them. "Let him come to us."
"Good idea." Bonnie agreed before she pulled Jeremy away.
"No, no. I really don't feel like dancing." Jeremy said.
"Too bad." Bonnie told him.
"Hey there's Ric, I'll be right back." Damon said as he went toward him.
"Special dedication huh? This guy's a little twisted." 'Ric' said as Damon came up to him.
"I'm not impressed." Damon said.
"No?" He asked.
"Oh here, Caroline wanted me to give you this." Damon handed him an envelope.
"What is it?" He asked.
"See for yourself." Damon told him. "Let me know if you see anything out of whack." Damon said as he spotted Caroline dancing with Matt.
'Ric' opened the envelope. Hmm Damon and Caroline want this Ric guy to be their quadruplets godfather. What if he goes to the christening as well?
"This is definitely going to be interesting." He smirked.
Damon made his way to the two lovebirds.
"Mind if I cut in?" Damon asked.
Caroline and Matt looked at him. Caroline nodded at Matt.
"No, not at all. I'll uh get us something to drink." Matt said before walking off.
"Jackie O huh?" Damon asked as he took her in his arms. "Never really got her choice of style." He commented.
"Says the guy in a dress shirt." She said. "You didn't even try." She told him.
"Eh to be fair, I'm not exactly here to dance." He admitted. "Got a super powerful vampire to catch." He told her.
"Hmm is that top priority number one or number two...or number three?" She asked him.
"This is about the kids." He realized.
"Well what else would it be about?" She asked.
"Caroline, the kids would always come first. You know that." Damon told her.
"Yeah, I know that but do you?" She asked him.
"Ok, what is this really about Caroline?" He asked her. "Is this about Elena? Klaus wants Elena and we need to protect her as well." Damon told her.
"I know but if what Alison said is true, Klaus would forget all about Elena and go for the kids instead." Caroline told him.
"I know." Damon told her. "And we will be there to protect them. Klaus' gonna have to go through me to reach them. And I'm gonna make sure that never happens." Damon assured her.
Elena and Stefan saw Damon and Caroline dancing.
"It's either going to end badly or not badly." Stefan said.
"Does he think Caroline's just going to forgive him?" Elena asked. "I mean, they seem fine being in the same room as far as I can see." Elena said.
"No, he doesn't think Caroline's going to forgive him." Stefan replied. "But I believe they need each other. Romantically or not, they are co-parenting. I think they know that they need each other to help the other." He told her.
Elena and Bonnie were talking when 'Ric' found them.
"Elena." He went up to them.
"What is it?" She asked him.
"He has Jeremy." He told them.
"What?" They both asked.
"Yeah, Klaus has Jeremy. Come on." He led them inside and they both followed.
"Okay, so where are you taking us?" Elena asked.
"Just a little further." He told them.
"Wait, something's not right." Elena said.
"Where's Jeremy?" Bonnie asked.
He laughed.
"I just had to get away from that dance." He said. "60's, ugh." He groaned as Elena and Bonnie looked at him confused. "Not my decade. Ha Ha." He laughed as he turned away to face the two girls. "I mean who calls was that anyway?
I much prefer the 20's." He admitted. "You know, the style, the parties, the jazz." He added.
"Alaric." Elena called. "Are you on vervain?" She asked him.
"Now, why would you ask me that question, Elena?" He asked as he walked toward them smirking.
"He's being compelled." Elena told Bonnie.
"Nope, try again." He told them.
"What's going on?" Bonnie asked.
"Ok, I'll give you a hint." He told them. "I am not Alaric."
"Klaus." Elena said.
"Surprise." He said.
"Oh, no." Elena shook her head. "No, it's not possible."
"Just relax Elena. I'm not here to hurt you. You're not on my hit list tonight. Turned out I don't need you at all. I found myself some new, fairly quite small but very powerful source more powerful than a doppelganger and a Bennett witch combine." He told her. "Guess who I'm talking about?" He asked.
"The Quadruplets." Elena gasped. "Damon would kill you before you would be able to get to them." She told him.
"Maybe but he hasn't figured out a way to kill me has he?" He asked. "But you…" He turned to Bonnie."On the other hand, is on my hit list tonight." He vamps speed toward Bonnie.
Bonnie used her magic to throw him across the hall, making him hit his back against the lockers.
"Did I mention, I know a witch?" He asked getting up. "You're gonna have to hit me a lot harder than that." He went toward her.
Bonnie forces him across the room, again, this time he hit the trophy case, smashing the glass. He laughed.
"By all means, fire away." He told her. "If you kill this body, I'll just get a new one." He admitted. "Maybe Jeremy's." He smirked.
"Go, run, run." Bonnie told Elena.
They both turned and ran as fast as they could. Damon found them.
"What happened?" Damon asked.
"Klaus is in Alaric's body."Elena told him.
"What?" Damon asked.
"Like he's possessing it or something." Bonnie told him.
"Damon...he knows about them. He said he doesn't need me anymore." Elena told him.
"Damn it. That son of a bitch." He punched a locker. "Go find Stefan and Caroline. Now" He told Elena.
She nodded and went off to find Stefan and Caroline.
"Can you kill him?" He asked Bonnie.
"He's got some protection spell on him." She told him.
"You have the power of a hundred witches. Break it." Damon told her.
"I'm trying. If I kill Alaric, he'll just possess someone else and he will go after the Quadruplets and we won't know it's him before it's too late." She told him.
"No. Klaus does not get to win tonight or ever." Damon told her. "You're still willing to do whatever it takes to kill him?" He asked her.
Bonnie nodded.
After Elena found Stefan, they went to Caroline and told her about Klaus possessing Alaric's body and he knows about the Quadruplets. Caroline freaked out and asked them if they could tell Matt she left for some emergency. They told her yes and then she quickly went to the Boarding House.
She came into the house and saw Alison rocking Jaceson. She ran to them.
"Hey babies, I'm here." She hugged them all,
"Did you guys get her? Where is she?" Alison asked.
"What? Who are you talking about?" Caroline asked as she carried Florence.
"Katherine. Did you find her?" Alison asked.
"I don't know. I wasn't with them the whole night." Caroline cradled her daughter. "And beside, Katherine is the least of our worries." She told her.
"What? What do you mean?" Alison asked.
"Klaus is possessing Alaric's body and-" Caroline started.
"He knows about them." Alison gasped.
"Yeah." Caroline nodded.
Alison looked at the quadruplets. This is bad. Klaus would not stop until he gets what he wants and he wants the Quadruplets.
"Hey, I'm gonna go home and change, can you watch the kids for me until I get back?" Caroline asked.
"Sure, yeah." Alison replied.
"Thanks." Caroline thanked her before vamp speeding home.
Bonnie went to find Klaus. She found him in the cafeteria holding a knife.
"What took you so long?" He asked. "Now, do you want to do this the uh easy way or the hard way?"
Bonnie used her magic to break his hand, which caused the knife to drop on the floor. Klaus groaned, twisting his hand back to its place.
"The hard way, got it." He said.
Bonnie continued to break him.
"What? Would you kill your favorite history teacher?" He asked groaning, putting his shoulder back in place.
"It's what Alaric would want." Bonnie told him. "And he'd want you to suffer first." She added.
"Look at you, ha ha, is that all you got?" He asked as blood trickled down her nose.
"Let's find out." She told him after she wiped the blood away.
Stefan and Elena ran through the hall trying to find Damon and Bonnie.
"There you are." Damon came into view.
"What are you doing? Where's Bonnie?" Elena asked.
"She's doing what she has to do?" Damon told her. "Caroline?" He asked.
"With the kids." Stefan told him.
"Good." Damon said.
"What? Where is she?" Elena asked.
"Elena, let her do this." Damon told her. "It was either her or the kids. She made the decision, not me." He told her.
They didn't listen to him. They ran and found Bonnie. She closed the door on their face.
"Bonnie no." Elena yelled.
Bonnie then turned back to Klaus and finished the job as Stefan tried to get the door open but it wouldn't budge. Lights started flickering as Bonnie broke Klaus, who is still in Alaric's body. Klaus groaned. Elena kept banging on the door.
"DIE!" Bonnie yelled.
The light stopped flicking. Elena stopped banging on the door and watched Bonnie start to fall on the ground. Everything then went black and the door started to open.
"No." Elena ran to Bonnie. "Bonnie." She fell to the ground beside her. "Stefan, she's not breathing." She told him. "Stefan. Stefan. I can't find her pulse. Stefan." She cried. "Do something please, Stefan." She begged.
"It's too late. I'm sorry" Stefan told her before looking down at the witch's body.
"No. No. No. No." Elena repeated.
"Stefan, get Elena out of here. I'll deal with the body." Damon told him.
"What do you mean deal with it?" Elena asked.
"The sheriff can't know about this. Last thing we need is a mysterious death." Damon told him as he went to pick up the body.
"This is Bonnie." Elena yelled at him.
"Get her home now." Damon told his brother.
Damon picked up Bonnie's body as Stefan led Elena out. Damon put her in the trunk of his car. He stared at her.
"Thank you Bonnie." He said before closing the trunk.
"Damon. Hey, I got your message. I can't find anyone. Where's Elena? Where's Bonnie?" Jeremy asked.
Damon look at the Gilbert boy for a second, trying to figure out what to tell him. He kind of felt bad for leaving everyone in the dark but the plan had to work and it did. And as much as he hate to say it, he's thankful for the witch.
"We need to have a little talk." Damon told him.
"What did you do with her?" Elena asked Damon as he came into the house.
"Will you please calm her down?" Damon asked Stefan.
"Don't talk like I'm not standing right in front of you." Elena told her.
"Please, calm down." Damon told her calmly.
"You knew didn't you?" She asked him. "You knew that if she harnessed all that power, she would die, didn't you?" She asked.
"Yes, yes I knew." Damon told her.
Elena slapped him, which didn't faze him at all.
"You need to listen to me and prepare for what I'm about to say." Damon told her. "Bonnie had to die. Klaus using Alaric's body was a total surprise. She wasn't prepared for that and he wasn't going to stop. And we weren't gonna be able to stop him until he knew she was dead. He had to believe it. She cast a spell. Bonnie's okay. From this point on, Klaus doesn't need you anymore. As far as we know, you are no longer in danger from him. But my kids are. And as much as I hate to say it, I am thankful for what Bonnie did. But it's not over yet. We now know that Klaus won't stop until he gets what he wants and I won't let him get it. I guarantee you that." Damon told them before walking away.
"You know you could have told me." Stefan said.
"How do I know when you're gonna go blabbing things to your girlfriend?" Damon asked as he started to walk up the stairs.
"You understand what you put her through?" Stefan asked.
"See? That's why I didn't tell you." Damon turned to face his brother. "Because you would have never been able to do it. Don't get me wrong Stefan. I don't mind being the bad guy. I'll make all the life and death decisions while you're busy worrying about collateral damage. I'll even let her hate me for it. But what I care the most about is trying to keep my kids safe, and quite honestly I don't even know how to do that, Stefan." Damon told him before continuing going upstairs.
"Elena I am so sorry." Bonnie apologized.
"It's okay. It's okay." Elena told her. "I just needed to see you myself."
"There wasn't enough time for me to tell you." Bonnie told her.
"It's okay seriously." Elena told her. "Damon explained it all."
"I had to, we both know Damon would have died for them, if he had to. As much as I hate to say it. He's a great father." Bonnie said.
"Yeah, he is." Elena smiled at the thought.
End of Chapter