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This one's super short - Don't hate me!
NonBinaryAceKitten: I had a look and checked, you're completely right! I must have uploaded chapter 40 twice when I tried to fix chapter 39! I've definitely fixed it now! Thanks for telling me!
guest: I'm not gonna lie, I am kinda digging the whole Jenna/Elijah thing at the moment, she's free spirited where he's super uptight, I feel like she could get him into all sorts of trouble! I can't wait to show you what happens when Stefan finds out that the tomb is empty.
Serena Salvatore: Oh yeah, Klaus has time to work on himself, so he is. Lucien's increasing paranoia, and his anger is going to be fun to write. Hopefully Liz will start to come around to Jenna's way of thinking faster than she did in the show!
FirePheonixStar: Thank you! Hope you enjoy this, (even though it's short today).
jenniferprignano: Oh that would be hilarious to write! I could totally see that happening, especially because Damon and Enzo are struggling to get some serious alone time together lately.
xotinkerbella: Caroline/Kol has pretty much been cemented for me as endgame now, but it will definitely take Kol extra time to be ready for his 'forever girl' because he mostly strikes me as the type that has always been the love 'em and leave 'em type. Stefan's being a prick, the fact that he implied that Damon caused the accident is terrible, he has no idea what's going on, and just doesn't want to think about Elena being the bad guy in anything. Klaus does need to figure things out about Aurora, and fast! I had to put in some Kol complaining about Freya, I feel like they could totally be the type of siblings that purposely annoy each other, but have each other's backs no matter what. Lexi would definitely suspect something between Enzo and Damon, because she's not stupid (unlike Stefan), she didn't make an enemy out of Maya straight away, she befriended her, and she's always suspicious of Damon.
WiseGirlDivergence46: I can't wait for Klaus to show up too! I can't believe I put him so far away!
NaRuKo-InuTaiSHo-XD: Thank you, enjoy this one (even though it's short)!
Careena1: Stefan's getting on my nerves too, and I'm the one writing him!
MissingIdeas: Thank you!
jessisthebestduh: It's not silly at all, sometimes it's so relaxing to get lost in a world of fantasy, especially when we're having problems in the real world. I'm glad I can help. Katerina's going to be so fun to drop in Mystic Falls!
aandm20: I know, I'm really hating them both right now! I feel like Elena's just always going to be the bad guy in Maya's eyes, so she's just getting worse! Damon and Stefan need some serious alone time asap, I'll figure out where I can put it for them!
Felinegreat: You are right, something's coming...
"DAMON!" Stefan burst through the doors of the Boarding House after dropping Elena home, "DAMON!" he yelled again, whooshing through the house, looking for his big brother, but the older Salvatore was nowhere too be found. "Damn it!" Stefan cursed, pulling out his phone and calling his brother, but Damon wouldn't answer. "Damon where the hell are you? We need to talk, now, call me when you get this!" he left the message on Damon's voicemail and hung up. He whooshed back to his brother's room and started rummaging through the drawers. If Damon wasn't going to give him any answers, then he'd find them himself! He searched all night, for the first time cursing the fact that his brother didn't journal like he did.
/ / /
Maya looked over at Damon after they listened to the voicemail that Stefan had left him, "You know that Stefan's not gonna stop bugging you about this, right?" She pointed out, she didn't think that he and Enzo would have let Noah talk when they already knew why he was in town. But they had, and now Stefan had been alerted to the fact that Katherine was very much alive.
"That's not a problem," Damon shrugged.
"No? Why?"
"Because I'm never going back to the Boarding House!"
Maya let out a laugh, "Great, can I be there when you tell Mom you've moved in permanently?"
"Speaking of the lovely Jenna, did you know that she's dating the new teacher?"
"Yeah," Maya nodded.
"And you didn't tell me?!" he exclaimed, "He wants me dead! Don't you think that's a problem?!"
Maya shrugged in response, "D, if I had to spend my time keeping Mom away from everyone that wants you dead, I'd have no time for anything else."
"Not cool!"
"Damon just leave it alone! Unless he actually tries to kill you, let Mom do her thing!" Maya got up and headed out of his room.
"Fine!"
She poked her head back through the doorway, "And no tricking him into doing it! He has to try and kill you on his own!"
Damon crossed his arms, pouting, "You're no fun," he muttered.
Saturday morning had Stefan over at the Gilberts, "Well?" Elena asked, "Did you find out what that Vampire was talking about?"
"No," Stefan shook his head, "Damon wasn't home. And he's no longer returning my calls."
"What that Vampire said Stefan, about Katherine. You said she was dead."
"She is! She and 26 other Vampires were rounded up and killed, at the Battle of Willow Creek, the church was set on fire, no one escaped."
"Stefan that Vampire didn't say she escaped, he said that she was trapped, along with the others. And that Damon's here to let her out! Is that possible?"
Stefan shook his head, refusing to believe that, "There's no way Elena! The Church burned down! No one could survive that!"
"Are you sure?" she pressed.
"If Katherine was still alive then Damon would have-" he stopped, Damon wouldn't have said anything to him about it, because as far as Damon was concerned, he was the reason why Katherine was in that Church that night. He'd promised Damon that he wouldn't tell their father about her, but he was young and foolish, and just by sympathising with the Vampires he'd tipped his father off to who she was, and she'd been captured.
"Damon would what?" Elena asked.
Stefan sat down heavily on her bed, "If Katherine was alive there's no way that Damon would tell me," he whispered.
"Well how can we find out?" Elena asked.
He looked up at her, "If, if, somehow Katherine and others were still alive, then the first place to check would be the site of the Church."
Elena stood, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
/ / /
Stefan brought Elena to the Church site, and both of them started looking around for anything to indicate something other than what had happened, happened. "There's nothing here," Stefan sighed, after the two of them had looked for a few hours.
Elena looked around in frustration, "There has to be something Stefan."
"There's not Elena! There's absolutely nothing here!"
Elena threw her hands in the air as she thought back to the Vampire that attacked her, "He was going to 'open the tomb'," she muttered, eyes widening in realisation, "Stefan! He said that Damon was here to open the tomb! Did the Church have a tomb?" She took a step towards him, and suddenly the ground gave way beneath her feet, causing her to scream out in fear.
Stefan whooshed towards her, pulling her away from the hole before she fell in, "Oh my God," he said. The ground hadn't given in, it had literally disappeared, as if it had been spelled to look like normal grass.
Elena pressed back into Stefan, afraid that she might fall again, "Stefan, what is that?" she asked, spotting something ominous carved into the rocks below.
"I don't know..." he looked at her, tightening his grip on her, "I should take you home." He wasn't sure what was down there, and he didn't want to put her in danger.
"No," Elena protested, "We're in this together Stefan."
"Alright," Stefan nodded slowly, he lifted her into his arms and whooshed down to the newly revealed area.
Elena gasped at the sight of the pentagram carved on one wall, "What is that?!" Stefan placed Elena gently back on her feet, before walking up to the carved stone, that looked like it was some sort of covering, he tried moving it, but it wouldn't budge, "Stefan?"
He looked over at her, "We might need Bonnie."
"There's the lovely Jenna!" Damon smiled, speeding over to her.
"What do you want Damon?" Jenna asked.
"What makes you think I want anything?" he shot back offended, "Maybe I just want to spend some time with you!"
"Do you?"
"Yeah! I don't think that we spend enough time together and I want to remedy that!"
"And?"
"…"
"…"
Damon rolled his eyes, "And, I want you to break up with Alaric."
"WHAT?!"
"Just hear me out," he held up his hands.
"I'm listening." She stared at him, with her hands on her hips.
He dropped his arms, "Wh-Oh, I didn't think that you'd give in so easily…"
"Damon."
"Right, right! Alaric is a Vampire Hunter," he paused, waiting for her to blow up, but she barely reacted.
Raising an eyebrow, Jenna nodded, "I know."
"Wh-You know? You know?!" he looked incredulous, "Well, did you know that he wants me dead?"
"You killed his wife, didn't you?"
"She's not dead-dead!" he defended.
"But she is dead, dead-dead, a little bit dead, there's not much of a difference."
"Yes there is!" Damon threw his hands up in exasperation, "There's a huge difference! There's being dead in the ground, and being dead and walking and talking like nothing ever happened! And she's the second kind!"
"Yeah but he doesn't know that," Jenna replied.
"Jenna!" Damon whined, "How can you date him, knowing that he wants to kill me?!"
"Damon," she said quite calmly, "If I had to check with you every time, to make sure that whoever I want to date, doesn't want to kill you, I'd never have time to do anything else!"
Damon gasped, rather dramatically, and crossed his arms, so offended, "You two are exactly alike," he muttered, thinking about what Maya had said the night before, "Selfish," he pointed at her, "Both of you!" he marched out of the room and Jenna slapped her hand over her mouth, trying not to laugh.
"Jenna!" Enzo said, poking his head around the door, he'd been listening in, and had fought the urge to laugh himself, "You're a little twisted, you know?"
"What?" Jenna shrugged, "I need to have my fun somehow!"
/ / /
Klaus was enjoying a rare moment to himself, when his phone rang, "Hello Damon," he smirked, he had a feeling he knew exactly what this was about.
"Nik!" Damon said, "You will never believe what's going on here!"
"What?"
"Jenna's dating a Vampire Hunter!" he exclaimed, "One that wants to kill me! Can you believe that?!"
"That a Vampire Hunter wants to kill you? There are many things in this world that are unbelievable, but that is not one of them."
"No, that she's dating him!"
"Well," Klaus started slowly, "Did she know that he was a Hunter when she started dating him?"
"…No."
"And did she know that he wanted to kill you when she started dating him?"
"…No."
"Well then, honestly Damon, I'm not sure what to tell you, if Jenna had to make sure that every person that was a potential partner, wasn't also someone that wanted to kill you, she'd never get anything done."
"Oh!" Damon gasped, "Nik! You're my best friend! You're not supposed to agree with the 'she-devils'!" he hung up the phone, and Klaus couldn't supress his laughter, shooting a text off to confirm with a certain someone, that Damon had called him.
/ / /
Kol was scowling at the shelves in his magic room, he'd spent the morning searching through one of his storage vaults for something, and when he came back, the shelves were all re-arranged, his eye twitched in annoyance as he saw that Freya had reorganized all his ingredients into usage groups, instead of his much simpler alphabetical order. "I'm gonna kill her," he whispered.
Before he could act on this new feeling, his phone rang, for the third time in a row, "Hello Damon," he sighed.
"Finally! Where have you been?!" Damon snapped.
"I've been busy, my life doesn't revolve around you! I'm not Nik!"
"If you weren't the only person that I could talk to right now, I would so hang up on you!"
Kol put the phone on speaker as he started to take everything off the shelves, "What do you want Damon?"
"Jenna's dating a Vampire Hunter that wants me dead, and she won't break up with him because she didn't know it when she started dating him and now she likes him!"
"Well, if Jenna's expected to check in with you to make certain that whoever she dates, doesn't also want to kill you, she'd never have time for anything else!"
"ARGH!" Damon yelled, hanging up the phone in anger.
Kol shook his head as he let out a little laugh, that had certainly cheered him up a little.
/ / /
Damon went downstairs, huffing in frustration and bumped into Caroline on his way out, "Whoa, Damon, where's the fire?" she asked.
"I need a drink," he replied.
"And all the alcohol that you keep in the house isn't good enough?"
"If I stay, I might run into the Jenna, or Maya, and I'm mad at them." He crossed his arms.
"Why?"
"Jenna's dating Alaric and he wants to kill me, and she's not gonna stop seeing him, and Maya didn't tell me!"
"Did Jenna know that Alaric wanted you dead before she started dating him?" Caroline asked
"No," Damon muttered.
"Well, I can't really blame her Damon, if she has to make sure that every guy she meets doesn't want to kill you, how is she going have time for anything else in life?"
Damon scowled at the blonde, "I get no respect around here!" he complained, whooshing out of the house.
Caroline shook her head with a smirk, "Kol was right, that was fun," she said to herself, before going upstairs.
/ / /
Jeremy walked up to Damon, who was slumped in a seat at the bar in the Grill, nursing his drink, "Hey Damon!" he said cheerfully, taking a seat next to the Vampire.
"Not a good time Baby Gilbert," Damon replied.
Jeremy looked over at him amused, "What's wrong?"
Damon shot him a suspicious glance at first, before releasing his frustration in one breath, "Jenna's dating Alaric and he wants me dead, and Maya knew, and Jenna won't stop seeing him, and no thinks that it's a big deal!"
Jeremy nodded solemnly, taking in what the Vampire had just blurted out, "Okay, okay, what would you like to happen?"
"I want her to stop seeing a Vampire Hunter," he hissed.
"But she likes him," Jeremy replied.
"He wants to kill me!"
"Damon," Jeremy said, "If we have to check to make sure that all of our friends don't want to kill you, no one would get anything done!" Jeremy bit his lip to keep in his laughter at the look on Damon's face.
"WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING THAT?!" he finally exploded, drawing the attention of several of the patrons.
Jeremy tried to keep it together, he really did, but Damon was at his wits end, and it was just too funny, he burst into peels of laughter, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" he laughed, wiping tears from his eyes as he tried to control himself, "Maya sent out a mass text, she told us all what to say!"
"All of you?!" Damon asked incredulously, "ALL OF YOU?! I'm gonna kill her!"
He turned when he saw Caroline and Maya entering the Grill, and dragged Jeremy over to them, "You!" he thundered, looking down at the red-head.
"Me." Maya replied, not completely sure what Damon's issue was, but she had an idea.
"You told everyone to mock me?!"
"Jeremy! You told him?!"
"Don't blame Jeremy! You're the one that caused this!"
Maya pointed an accusing finger at Damon, "Oh yeah? Well maybe I only did it, because I know that you're the one that put chocolate pudding in my underwear drawer last month!"
Damon looked a little taken aback at that, before whipping his head in the baby Gilbert's direction, "Jeremy! You told her?!"
Jeremy looked between the two of them, thoroughly unimpressed, "Don't look at me like that! You both told me! Everyone knows I can't keep a secret!" he grabbed Caroline's hand, "I don't have to listen to this. Come on Caroline!" he tugged on her hand, dragging her out of the Grill with him.
Caroline squeaked in surprise, but followed the youngest Gilbert, "Catch you two later!" she called offering the Vampire and the Siphon a little wave as she left the Grill.
Maya and Damon were glaring at each other, when one of the servers came up to them, "Uh, is everything okay?" he asked warily, wondering if he should call the Sheriff.
Their attention snapped to him, "Go away!" they both said, Damon adding a little compulsion along with his words, and then they scowled at each other.
Rebekah threw her jacket aside as she walked into the house that she and Elijah had taken residence in, in Seattle, she was covered in blood and viscera, her and Elijah's search had turned up nothing at the second possible headquarters for Kingmaker, "Ugh," she complained, "I can't believe there was nothing there!"
"Well, I'd imagine that by now, Lucien knows that we're aware of him, and his misdeeds, he's trying to frustrate us." Elijah replied, handing off his jacket to the human resident of the house, along with his tie and shirt, all of which were covered in blood, he was going to have to throw away the whole suite, there was no salvaging it.
"Well it's bloody well working!"
"Come now Rebekah, at least now, by the process of elimination, we know where he's based.
"Yes," she wiped the blood from her face with a towel handed to her by the human, "Where was that again?"
Elijah sighed, "Maine."
"Maine?" she repeated in disgust, "You're not serious!"
"At least it's close to New York, once we're done there, we can go home."
Rebekah rolled her eyes, "That is if Nik lets us."
"Well, it's not as if he's staying there anymore." Elijah replied, "Now, lets get cleaned up and then we can come up with a plan for taking down Lucien, I imagine there will be far more security there, than his other offices."
"We should call Kol, he loves a good blood sport, and perhaps it will make him more amenable to speaking with us again." She replied, rather put off by the fact that in a whole year, Kol hadn't attempted to bother her once.
"Perhaps you're right." Elijah mused.
"Stefan wait," Elena pulled on his hand, stopping him from knocking on Bonnie's door, "I don't want to drag Bonnie into this."
"Elena, if Katherine is in that tomb, then Emily put her there, Emily was powerful, and Bennett, which means that a Bennett Witch will be the only one capable of opening that tomb."
"But why do you want to open it?" Elena asked, suddenly feeling insecure at the thought that Stefan may still have some feelings for Katherine.
"I don't want to open it Elena!" Stefan protested, "If Katherine's down there, then so are 26 other Vampires, 26 starving, angry, Vampires, and I won't inflict that on this town. But Damon will, he's still in love with Katherine, it has to be the reason why he came to town! And he's going to know that only a Bennett Witch can open the tomb!"
"What about Maya?" Elena asked.
"What about her?"
"Stefan…Maya's not a normal Witch! She steals magic, from anything. Couldn't she open the tomb?"
"…Of course," Stefan breathed in realisation, "That's why Damon's with her, he wants her to open the tomb!"
"But wouldn't she have done it by now? You couldn't get it open."
Stefan shook his head, "I don't know, maybe she needs something for it, maybe the spells to big for her to take all in one go! Damon's probably been working with her, trying to get her stronger! Now we really have to speak with Bonnie, and her grandmother."
"Stefan-"
"Elena, Damon's not going to care that opening the tomb, means releasing the other Vampires! We have to get there first and kill them all!"
Kol arrived in Maine, at the home that Elijah and Rebekah had compelled for themselves, the place was rather dreary if he did say so himself, God he was glad that Nik hadn't chosen to stay somewhere like this when he'd woken them all up. Knocking on the door, a human man answered, "Let him in," Elijah said, as he came down the stairs.
"Please come in," the human spoke, and Kol stepped inside.
"Alright," he said, walking into the living room, "I'm here, what's the plan?"
Elijah gestured to the blueprints that had been laid out on the dining table, "Well based on our…reconnaissance, this is the most likely location of Lucien's office." He pointed at where he believed the office was, "The blueprints suggest that it's heavily guarded, and based on our experience, he will have a small army of Vampires as security, ready to take down any intruders."
Kol looked over the plans with a critical eye, "He'd need more than a small army to take down one Original, let alone three."
"Maybe we should show him the error of his ways then brother."
/ / /
All three of the Originals walked into the office that they believed housed Lucien, or at the very least, Lucien's location, "Well isn't this boring," Kol commented, looking around the office.
"Does he just build these from a kit or something?" Rebekah asked, "It was the exact same for the last two offices. Same windows, same plants…"
"Same compellable receptionist," Elijah finished.
Kol rolled his eyes, "Out of the way," he pushed past his brother and marched up to the receptionist, "Hello love, we're here for a spot of search and potentially destroy. Do tell, where's your boss, and his office?" he compelled.
The receptionist offered him a wooden smile, "You just wait right here, and I'll have someone out to you to help you with your enquiry." Her hand drifted down, and pressed the panic button on the underside of her desk.
An alarm started blaring and guards were shouting, running into the room, "Well that's a good sign," Kol said.
"Gentlemen," Rebekah watched the guards readied their weapons to fire, "Shall we?"
"Ladies first sister," Elijah said, offering her first blood.
Rebekah smirked, her monster shining through, and she whooshed forward, taking out three of the guards, her brothers following suit shortly after. Causing the men and women to scream out in pain, shortly before they died. Kol sped over to the receptionist, hauling her up before she could escape, just as the last guard dropped dead, "Now, about your boss." He smirked viciously at the terrified woman, blood dripping from his mouth, monster on full display, "Where is he?" Kol had his back to one of the doors that lead further into the building, the receptionist's terrified panting in his ear, making it almost impossible for him to pick up any quieter sounds. He didn't see it, he didn't know, he should have.
Rebekah was the one to see it first, the door behind Kol slid open, and the olive skinned Vampire that had taken over from Lucien shot out, syringe in his hand, aiming for her brother. "KOL!" she screamed, whooshing over and shoving him out of the way, her arm raised to stop the Vampire from injecting her with anything. But mid movement, the Vampire, Arturo, changed direction and managed to stab her in the stomach with the syringe, and depress the plunger, flooding her system with whatever was housed within.
Rebekah gasped as she felt the burning pain in her abdomen, "REBEKAH!" Elijah yelled, appearing in front of the Vampire and snapping his neck in his moment of distraction, before turning to his sister.
"Rebekah," Kol said, "What- What did you do?" she had just taken the blow for him, without a second thought.
She looked down, pulling her top up, exposing her stomach, and the injection sight, "Oh my God," she gasped, the puncture wound was not only, not healing, but the skin around it quickly began to fester, in the exact same way it would, if a Werewolf had bitten her. The only problem was, this venom appeared to be working about a hundred times faster than regular venom. She looked up at Kol, who was now staring at her worriedly, "Kol?" she whispered, her vision blurring, before her eyes rolled back and she collapsed.
Kol dropped the receptionist and caught his baby sister before she hit the floor, "Elijah?" he asked, looking up at his brother in a panic, Werewolf toxin was not supposed to act this fast. Had Lucien actually managed to create his upgraded Werewolf venom? If he had, there was no cure!
I know it's super short! But I had to end it here!
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