Dragging Tyler's body into a classroom, we place him on a table. And when I say 'we' I mean I attempted to help but Caroline did most of the heavy lifting. Boy that guy is heavy! The other girl had appeared again and was flicking her attention between us and the phone in her hand. Must remind myself to help Care get a new phone as that girl didn't look like she was going to let go of it any time soon.
Turning back to Care I squeeze her hand as her eyes become more and more sad every minute that Tyler doesn't wake up. Nibbling on my bottom lip I rub my forehead. How could such a boring day suddenly become crazy?
"Care, do you know who else is in the school? Are Elena and Bonnie safe?" I ask, rolling up my sleeves. Her blue eyes don't leave Tyler's face as she shakes her head.
"No, I don't think they got out before they arrived" she snarled the last bit. Leaning forwards from my position against a table I gently grasp her chin with my fingers and bring her gaze away from the comatose boy.
"I am going to go find them and help them Care, I can't just sit here and do nothing while they are out there, sweets" I nod at her before she grabs my hands as I move away.
"No! No, you can't go out there. She's bad but he is a hundred times worse! He will kill you!" Confused, I try to hide a grimace at her grip. Well, that's going to leave a bruise.
"As much as I hate to agree with her, but she's right. My brother will not hesitate to kill you" the girl states with a face of stone. Well then. That just fills me with glee.
"And who is this mysterious 'he' that you both have mentioned?" I ask while trying to get Caroline to loosen her grip.
"Someone who you shouldn't cross like your friends did". More confused than ever, I look at the girl properly. Her poker face was good. But if you looked close enough a small spark of fear was in her eyes. What did her brother do to her?
"Did you?" I question, my attention fully on her now knowing there was nothing more I could do to comfort Care at the moment. Instead I figure I should get a better understanding of this brother of hers that has hurt Tyler and is possibly hurting my girls. And the best way is by interrogating the vampire in front of us.
"Did I what?" flicking her hair behind her shoulder, those pale blue eyes focus on mine. She didn't look physically any older than Caroline, but in reality she could be hundreds of years old. But hundreds of years hasn't given her the ability to hide her emotions very well. But then again, vampires do feel things much more deeply than humans. Supposedly.
"Did you cross your brother?" I watch her eyes narrow. Well, I've gone and upset the vampire. Well done, Quinn.
She twists her body towards me and leans her elbows on her knees: "and what makes you think that I crossed my brother?" I return the small squeeze that Caroline gave my left hand. I know she was trying to tell me something but I didn't know what it was.
"I spent years with that same haunted look in my eyes that you have right now. That scared of saying the wrong thing look, scared of doing the wrong thing look. You learn how to hide it, distract people from it and you end up giving this attitude to the world that you couldn't care less. But perhaps you haven't crossed your brother, but I think maybe he believes you had and you paid the price for that". I finish my speech by linking my fingers with Cares. Uncle Bill may have been a sweet father to Caroline, but to me he was a vicious dictator. He used the excuse that life was cruel and harsh and the creatures in it worse so why should he be soft. He was teaching me how to survive. But that didn't absolve him of his cruelty to me during a time I needed a gentle father figure.
Those pale blue eyes widened for a second before the poker face was back but if I wasn't mistaken her eyes did soften slightly towards me. "Hmm, well yo-
Tyler's gasping brings all the attention back to him, clutching his neck he glances around the room then focusing on Caroline: "Where am I? What happened?" I let go of Caroline as I stand beside Tyler, opposite to Caroline and closer to the blonde girl.
"Tyler", Care grasps both of Tyler's hands giving him a sympathetic look.
"Don't be shy about it!" Closing my eyes at the girls snarky voice I place my hand on Tyler's shoulder as he asks again what happened.
Caroline looks worriedly at him and me before answering: "Klaus is turning you into a vampire. A hybrid. You're in transition". Wait. What? A hybrid. Frowning at Caroline, I turn to the other vampire in confusion. Klaus? I know that name from somewhere.
She smirked at me as she leaned forwards, "don't leave out the hard part, sweets. You'll only survive if your witch is successful. If not … you're pretty much dead". Feeling Tyler's heart start to beat harder I turn my back to the vindictive blonde and give the boy all my attention.
"Tyler, we are going to figure this out okay! No one is going to die lovely!" His eyes focus on mine, shaking his head he lets out a shaky breath. The kid is bloody terrified. And he had every right to be. Some psycho is attempting to turn him into a hybrid? In all my time around the supernatural I hadn't heard of anything like this.
"I wonder how she is doing?" I try to keep the two teenagers focus on me instead of her, knowing that them freaking out wouldn't help the situation at all. "Tick tock goes the gym clock", a quick glance over my shoulder showed a countdown with only two minutes left.
Focusing back on Caroline I worried my lip.
"Care, what happens when the two minutes is up?" Her hands shake slightly, that cannot be good.
"Well Elena di-" A slam of the classroom door grabs all of our attention. Does everyone like a flamboyant entry in this town or is it I've only met those who do?
The man who walked through was handsome with an arrogant smile, his blue eyes grazed over all of us until they focused on who must be his sister as they had similar features. His short curly dark blonde hair was tousled as he ran his one hand through it as he leans against the wall next to the blonde girl.
"Well the verdicts in. The original witch says the dopplegänger should be dead." Of course his voice was smoother than hot chocolate, why are all the hot guys evil? The blonde girl stands up from her chair with a smile.
"Does that mean we can kill her?" Uh, I hope they don't mean kill Elena? Thankfully the blue-eyed man shot down that plan.
"No, I'm fairly certain it means the opposite".
"What?" She snarls before zipping around the table and grabbing Caroline and yanking her back from Tyler. Slipping the stake and vervain spray out from my sleeves I lean over Tyler in a protective stance. Or as much as I could given my position.
The man smirked at us as he pulled out a test tube containing something dark red, probably blood.
"Call it a hunch…" as he steps forward I raise the spray higher so it was aimed at his face. Dude was tall. "Elena's blood, drink it" he holds out the test tube to Tyler who was looking up at me in horror.
"Easy Tyler, breathe" I murmur under my breath to the boy, my eyes never leaving the blue of the man's. Caroline shouting in the background to Tyler to not drink it barely catching my attention as a faint buzzing filled my ears the longer I stared into the man's eyes. It was soon broken when he turned his head to reply to Caroline.
Shaking my head, I pull myself together, this was no time to go goo-goo over a guy. Especially one who was seemingly hurting my girls and Tyler.
"Quinn? What should I do?" I look back to the boy who was sitting up on the table, his attention solely on me. Holding his hand I give it a gentle squeeze, reminding me of when he was young, back when I used to help him bind his wounds his dad gave him.
"This is your choice Ty, I can't see the harm in drinking some blood but it's not me who is drinking it" feeling his hand shake in mine I hold it tighter. "No matter what, I will help you throughout it all. Like I did before, I've got your back." I whisper that last bit, knowing the vampires could still hear me but for now Tyler needed my support. I'd rather him a 'hybrid' than dead. He holds his arm out to let the man drop the test tube into his hand. Letting go of mine he undoes the top, giving him self a reassuring breath and a quick wink from me he downs it.
"There we go. Good boy". Throwing a sharp glance at the man over Tyler's head, I rub the boys back as he starts to cough.
As he starts to cough more heavily, I think we may have made a mistake. I definitely think we have made a mistake when he rolls off the table onto the floor, rushing around the table I throw myself on the floor beside him, pulling Ty up by his shoulders so he can properly breath than being crunched against the floor. A gut-wrenching scream escaped him as he grabbed his head, looking up at Caroline I figure her face of horror matched mine. What have I allowed to happen?
Lowering my head so Tyler could look into my eyes I tried to get him to breath, his hands grasped onto my arms and squeezed so tightly I could feel bruises springing up from his fingers. My own hands found his face and gripped it softly. Worryingly veins started to appear under his eyes and his eyes started to change a glowing yellow. Shit.
A presence behind me made me grip on to Tyler tighter. The man's breath fluttered over my ear as he whispered: "Well, that's a good sign". Turning my head to glare at him, he gives me a wink and a smirk before standing back up. Rolling my eyes I turn back to Tyler who has thankfully let go of my arms.
"Ty, are you okay?" I don't remove my hands from his face until he nods and gives me a small smile of his own. I sit back on my butt as I rub my hands across my face. Not even a week into being back at Mystic Falls and the Supernatural has already reared its head and smacked me in the face. While having my mini breakdown both the man and girl had left, Caroline was hugging the life out of Tyler and I was ready to rip someone a new one.
Clearing my throat so the two love birds look at me. Caroline looked worried while Tyler was smiling, or he was until he was the unimpressed look on my face.
"So, does someone wanna explain what THE BLOODY HELL HAS JUST GONE ON?!"