I bet you all were wondering why I didn't write about the other inhabitants of Mystic Falls last chapter. Well, the thing is, I was going to but…it just didn't come up. You see, that was such a happy, silly, family-oriented chapter, I didn't want to stank it up with the Scooby crew. And sure, I could have added them at the end but, I didn't want to take away from Eris and Klaus' bonding. [applause]

Anyway, if you remember from the chapter before last, Bonnie found a spell to unlink the Originals from their sire lines. If you're confused, think back to canon when Finn was staked and as a result, everyone he sired and who they sired and so on so forth, perished as a result. Now think forward to a 'The Originals' plot, where the sire lines are unlinked. Bonnie found that spell, because why not, but she can't use it until the New Moon. Whereas the Full Moon just passed, and Eris and Klaus have bonded with it. Also, Eris has the uncanny ability to know when someone is trying to fuck with her. I'll just let all that marinate for a bit…

The morning after the bonding was much like the morning after Klaus' first conscious change into a wolf. The clearing was as beautiful as ever, sun shining and birds chirping and little forest dwelling animals being as cute as possible. His muscles were pleasantly sore, there was strange humming in the back of his head, his mate's scent was in his nose, her body was flush against his and again, her voluminous hair had become his pillow throughout the night. All in all, not a bad way to wake up. Not at all.

"Wake up, little witch." He nuzzled into her neck, rubbing his nose against the four fang marks that had healed over that night, but still stood in stark relief against her pale skin. "Or should I say, Mrs. Mikaelson?" He grinned, liking the taste of those words on his tongue.

"I think it would be more accurate to call you Consort Black, or Potter, or Slytherin, or Peverell, seeing as how last night was a magical bonding, not a court recognized wedding." She replied, sleepily, turning to bury her face in his chest. "Someone hasn't asked for my hand in marriage yet," she glared teasingly up at Klaus, "for shame."

"Well, why buy the cow when you're getting the milk for free?" Klaus bantered back.

"Did you just call me a cow?" The glare was a bit more sharp this time around, though she didn't move from her spot.

"Not at all. Just wondering aloud when the earliest I could wed my bride would be. I'll need to give Bekah at least three days to plan or she won't speak to me for at least a decade…though that has its merits too." He laughed when Eris hit his chest in reprimand.

"Stop it, Nik. You love her to death." She kept her hand on his chest, rubbing a pattern on his upper right pectoral. "So, you told your family then? I thought we were keeping this on the low for now?"

"I told Elijah. But based on how…flabbergasted he was at the possibility, there's no doubt in my mind that Bekah and Kol know too."

"Well, I can't talk. I called two of my friends back home to share the news. Turns out Sirius was behind me the whole time. That went well." She added sarcastically.

"Well, at least he can't follow through on those torture threats, seeing as I'm his son-in-law now. Gods, and how strange it is, someone younger than me, my father-in-law." He shook his head at the thought.

"Well, he could still try, but our newly bonded connection would nip that in the bud. Your immunity has just levelled up. Some of my magic now resides in you, specifically for defense of spells and the like."

"Oh? How can you tell?"

"Side effect of the bonding ceremony. Kind of a 'what's mine is yours' deal. Plus, my mark is on you."

"Where?" He began looking around the areas of his body he could easily see. She conjured a mirror, tilting it so he could see the area of his chest she was so preoccupied with. In what looked to be the blackest of black inks, there was a circle, within a triangle, with a straight line inspecting the two.

"That is the mark of the Deathly Hallows. They belong to me, just as you do now."

"Is that so?"

"Yes."

"And am I to presume that your increased possessiveness is a trait you've borrowed from me?"

"Perhaps, though you also smell more delicious than normal, and my teeth feel a little sharper."

"…we should definitely try those out."


The newly bonded couple decided that the Mikaelson Mansion would their best bet at getting showered and dressed without too much fan fare. They were wrong. The inhabitants of the mansion were all awake, having a lively conversation with Sirius, of all people. And by 'lively conversation' what was really meant was Sirius was behaving like a maniac, trying to wheedle out the whereabouts of his 'kidnapped' daughter from thousand-year-old vampires who didn't even know the answer to his question. His only saving grace for bothering them was that he held in his arms the embodiment of cuteness. Seeing no way around the confrontation, Klaus entered first.

"There that heathen is! He has corrupted my poor, sweet daughter!" Sirius cried, pointing to the patio doors, where Klaus walked in, his body hiding Eris' smaller one.

"Jesus! Nik, put some clothes on! I don't want to see any of that ever!" Kol shouted in disgust.

"Well, I would love to get showered and dressed, however, there are too many people in my home, blocking my staircase. My lovely bonded and I were just trying to make our way back home…"

"Bonded!? Pup, no. Say it isn't so!" He wailed, again, causing Teddy to look at his grandfather like he was crazy. Eris popped her head out from behind Klaus, not interested in letting anyone present see her in the buff other than Klaus himself.

"Stop being so dramatic Sirius. It's unbecoming." She said, rolling her eyes at the fully-grown man.

"Oh no, she has all sorts of sticks and leaves in her hair." He monologued. "You couldn't even have the decorum to deflower my daughter in a bed? You had to be in the woods?! Oh no!"

"Now that's someone I'd be more than okay with seeing." Chimed in Kol, prompting a slap on the head from Rebekah and a growl from Klaus.

"Sirius, are you being serious right now? We already talked about this. It's completely normal for a magical bonding to take place in nature. What was it you were telling me a couple days ago? 'Blacks do it in the dark?' Besides, I'm an adult. I'm so much of an adult, I already have a child, you're holding him. Good morning, Teddy-love." She waved to her baby.

"Ma!" Teddy waved back, reaching out as if she could pick him up from all the way across the rooms. Silly babies and their lack of depth perception. "Da!"

"We will be right back down to hold you love, mummy and daddy just were wrestling a bit in the woods, and we're dirty now-" insert snicker from Kol, "so as soon as we're cleaned up, we'll be back for you." And with that, Klaus sped them up to his rooms.

A family breakfast commenced when Klaus and Eris returned downstairs. Everyone was gathered around the table, Teddy happily placed between his parents, Sirius staring sulkily at his plate, and the Mikaelson siblings with various expressions adorning their faces.

"I can't believe you got married without me, Nik!" Rebekah started off. "I never thought you of all people would get married, but then you do, and you don't even let me plan it." She huffed and turned away from Klaus. Eris gave him a pointed look and a nudge, then continued to help Teddy spoon porridge into his own mouth.

"Bekah, don't be that way. You know I wouldn't exclude you from planning the wedding of the century." This made both women turn to look at him abruptly. Eris with a "what the hell?" face, and Rebekah with excitement. "Sorry, love." Klaus mouthed to Eris. He cleared his throat at turned back to his sister. "What Eris and I did was a private, magical ceremony. We still need a formal wedding."

"Done." Rebekah said, eyes shining surely with all the plan she had for the couple's wedding. Next it was time to tackle Elijah.

"So, Elijah," Eris started, her smirk hidden to anyone who's name wasn't Klaus. Sirius would've seen it, if he hadn't still been pouting with a dark cloud over his head in the corner. "I heard that you didn't believe Klaus was getting married." Elijah almost choked on his coffee. He was prepared for this. He had built himself up from the shock he received within the previous few days and he would not be bested again.

"You misunderstand, Miss Eris." Elijah started. "I was just… concerned, that Niklaus was misconstruing something you two might have spoken of and sought to clarify the situation for my own understanding."

"Is that so." Eris said, blandly. Elijah began to nod.

"No." Kol, interjected, grinning widely. "Not at all. Our brother. Our noble, stoic, gentlemanly, put-together, eldest brother fainted when he pieced together that the news of your upcoming nuptials was true."

"I did not-" Elijah shouted, like, legitimately shouted those three words in denial. It was a moment for the record books. He cleared his throat, surprised at his own outburst. "I did not faint." He repeated, back to his normally collected demeaner.

"He did." Kol mouthed.

"Pup. You must divorce him." Sirius finally inputted.

"You know there's no such thing as magical divorce, Sirius." Eris dismissed. "Eat your pancakes." He ate his pancakes.

Rebekah decided that she needed two and a half weeks to plan the most excellent wedding Mystic Falls would ever see. After a little chat, Eris reined her in a little. She didn't want a huge wedding, but this would make Rebekah happy, and she was kind of married to the family now too. If Klaus could deal with Sirius, and gosh, he would be meeting Draco and her friends in a little bit now, then she could compromise with the wedding.

Two days before the wedding, Eris froze mid-conversation with Klaus, a marked darkness cloaking the air around her.

"…Someone's plotting against you, Nik."

2 days earlier, Salvatore Boarding House

"Hey, did you guys get yet another invitation from the Mikaelsons?" Elena asked, walking into the house like she owned it. "When will they give up trying in ingrain themselves into the town?"

Despite their earlier walkout, Caroline, Jeremy and Ric were in attendance, not to actively plot against the Originals like Bonnie, Elena and the Salvatores, but to see if the others had also received the strange invite.

"Even I was invited this time, whoop-de-do." Bonnie said, still bitter that she was overlooked for the first Mikaelson Ball. "Too bad they'll all be on their way to dead before any celebrating can happen."

"Are you guys still planning against the Mikaelsons? Let it go. My dad died as a direct result of their presence, and I am slowly but surely getting over it." Caroline rolled her eyes.

"Oh no Blondie, we aren't just planning. We have found the spell, and it's only a matter of days before Originals are no longer connected to their sire lines and therefore free game for any and everyone they've ever fucked over." Damon revealed. Jeremy sighed in exasperation.

"Why are you guys so fixated on them, man? Has anyone even opened the envelope to see what's going on?" Jeremy posed. "No? Okay, I'll do it then." He broke the wax seal and lifted out the letter. "You are cordially invited," he read, "to the event of the century. The union of Niklaus Mikaelson and Lady Eris Black… Holy shit. They're getting married."

"This whole situation is getting worse and worse." Caroline said in a tiny voice. "Eris freaks me out. Okay. I'm gonna just come right out and say it. Even before we found out she was a witch - an insanely powerful witch by the way, no offense Bonnie but I am sure down to my vampire bones that she's got you beat – I was afraid of her. Now, she's actually marrying Klaus, and you guys want to make an enemy out of them both. Again, in the case of Klaus and family."

"Caroline, we need you to be on our side." Elena begged, her puppy dog eyes out. "You know they're terrible people."

"No. No, I don't know that. I know that the Mikaelsons have lived way longer than anything we can even imagine. And I know that the longer you live, that's just the longer you have to rack up sins. They haven't done anything to me, Eris especially, and I don't want to know any more of this so-called plan you have so that I can plead ignorance when this backfires." She got up and left.

"Caroline makes some valid points." Ric said.

"Not this again, man. Either you're in, or you're not. The spell's ready to go, and we've got slighted vampires coming from all corners of the globe to get in on some of this action." Shot Damon.

"…You've invited even more vampires to Mystic Falls?"

"Yeah. Can't kill the Originals with my good looks alone."

"Stefan, please talk some sense into your brother. You didn't even want the tomb vampires to be let out, because what was the first thing they wanted to do? Eat the townspeople." Ric ignored the 'join or die' propaganda.

"Elena, how can you be okay with this?" Jeremy appeal to his sister. "I get Bonnie, she has a fixation on killing vampires and since she can't seem to kill the Salvatores, she is setting her sights on something higher. I don't get it, but I'm aware of the underlying issue."

"What?" Bonnie said, offended.

"But Elena, weren't you the one who wanted to sacrifice yourself, so no one else got hurt? A lot of people are going to die if you don't call this whole thing off."

"Ha. As if Elena's in charge." Damon said.

"Oh, and are you gonna tell me now that both of you aren't still wrapped around her little finger?" Jeremy asked, looking between Stefan and Damon. "Pull the other one." He looked back to his sister. "Elena." He pleaded. She shook her head.

"This is something that needs to happen, Jer." She said. He rolled his eyes, swallowing back another retort. It wouldn't work. Elena always got her way.

"Fine, I guess I have to be on the same side as my only living relative."

"Ric?" Stefan asked. Ric sighed, wearily.

"What's the rest of the plan?"

Later on that night

"Ric, you know this isn't right." Jeremy whispered, following the older man outside.

"I know."

"So, what are we going to do about it? What can we do?" Jeremy asked. Ric opened the truck of his car, revealing a hidden weapons cache.

"We can be prepared, and when this plan doesn't work, we save the town, and hopefully the Mikaelsons are in a forgiving mood."

2 days before the wedding, Caroline's House

"Ugh! What do I do? Elena and Bonnie have been my best friends since we were in diapers, but they're so wrong about this. And honestly, they haven't been great friends lately." Caroline argues with herself. "It's been all about Elena ever since the Salvatores showed up. And Stefan's cool, when he's not being a ripper, but Damon, I still haven't gotten over what he did to me. And I can't believe that Elena is still trying to be with him, after I told her what he did to be under compulsion. He's a disgusting being.

"Not to mention Bonnie, turning into a vampire was not my choice or my fault, and she just abandons me because I accidently killed a boy she had just met, it's not like it was her boyfriend of five years or soulmate." She continued pacing. "What should I do? Should I warn the Mikaelsons? Would that put my friends in danger? But if I don't warn them and they trace it back to me knowing something that could have helped them, will that put my mom in danger? Ugh! I miss being human, back then my biggest problem was choreography the new cheer and making sure my clothes matched my shoes and hair."

Black Manor

"…Someone's plotting against you, Nik."

"How's that, love?" He asked, wrapping his arm tighter around her.

"I'm not sure what their plan of action is, but they're getting pretty close. It almost feels like their walking over my grave, disregarding the fact that I don't have a grave, and I won't ever have one, that is." She laughed, quickly sobering. "I'll need to call Luna to get a clearer picture of what will be going on."

"No need for that, love. Everyone's always trying to kill a Mikaelson, they've never succeeded."

"Well, I taste a lot of the death in the air." Their musing was interrupted by three short raps on the door. "Who could that be? No one but you and Sirius know where I live. Strange." Eris opened the door to reveal a blonde teen vampire.

"I couldn't help but overhear you saying no one's been close to ever killing a Mikaelson, and I think you should listen to what I have to say.

"So you're telling me that the Bennett witch somehow found an unlinking spell, and right at this moment possibly hundreds of vampires are on their way to end my family, tonight?" Klaus summarized, fuming.

"Yes." Caroline said, shaking in fear. Klaus roared in his anger. Eris pat his chest, trying to calm him down.

"Thank you for sharing that with us, Caroline. You pissed me off before, but I'm over it." Eris said, pulling her phone out to call the other Mikaelsons to gather and plan.

"My question is, what do you gain from sharing this with us? Are the witch and the doppelganger your 'besties'?"

"Yes. They were. But even without me coming here to tell you this, I knew it was going to end badly. I just hope when it does, you'll look at me and my mom favorably. We're not kids anymore, and this is a life or death, well, death-death, situation.

"Well, again Caroline, thank you very much for sharing that. Even though Bonnie is probably preparing the spell as we speak, you've given us enough time to at least hide those things important to us. You should go as well, take your mother, this should be resolved before the wedding."

"What-!" Klaus began, only to be cut off by a glare from his bonded. "Yes, be free, run off with your mother for a few days." He agreed, grumpily.

"There's one more thing." Caroline, said, getting up to leave, "Ric and Jeremy, they didn't agree with the idea either. They were vehemently against that plan, I think the only reason they stuck around was for Elena, she's the last of their family, you know." She left.

"Why didn't we put her in the dungeon, love?"

"Because, she chose a side." The other Mikaelsons decided to show up at that point. Eris invited them in.

"What's going on." Elijah asked. After Teddy and Sirius were sent off for a few days, the three others were apprised of the situation, they were much on the same vein as Klaus in terms of torturing Caroline.

"She waited much too long to tell us!" Rebekah said. "We have no time to prepare."

"She was torn. But she made the right decision in the end. And don't worry, this spell Bonnie's using won't work.

"But they were so sure. I'm not surprised a descendant of Ayanna would have an unlinking spell. Mother was always thorough." Kol said.

"Nik, you remember what I said about our bonding, right?"

"What's mine is yours…" He said, eye lighting in understanding.

"Exactly." She grinned, ferally.

"What are you two babbling about?"

"The spell won't work."

"And why not?" Elijah said.

"Because it's targeting me, and Eris' magic protects me." Klaus scooped Eris into his arms. "Darling, you are the gift that keeps on giving."

"I know. Are you ready to see my battle axes in action?"

"You know I am." He growled, eyes flashing golden.

"Perfect. I know that Stefan is your BFF from the twenties, but he keeps overstepping his bounds. You guys will have your hands full with whoever they invited to the party. I just ask you leave the witch and the Salvatores to me. I have a promise to uphold." She grinned, evilly.

"Yep. That was such a good threat." Kol said, reminiscing, "it still gives me goosebumps."


Like most things in a small town, the square was the epicenter of the festivities. Vampires, young and old gathered around the young Bennett witch, who was putting the finishing touches on a secondary spell.

"This spell will guide the Originals here to us, so we can get started." Bonnie explained to the Salvatores, and by extension, all the vampires in the area. Ric and Jeremy were suspiciously missing.

"No need for that Miss Bennett, as we've already arrived." Elijah spoke, introducing his and his family's appearance to the crowd of vaguely familiar faces. The vast majority was probably here for Klaus. His younger brother had such a way with people. "You, young vampires remain linked to your sires. The spell didn't take, I'm afraid."

"Stop lying! Yes, it did! I am a Bennett; our spells never fail."

"Yes, Bennett Witch, maybe your bloodline is more powerful than the others, but you've got nothing on my witch." Klaus said, wrapping an arm around Eris' waist.

"It's true. You may be powerful Bonnie, but I'm in a different league sweetie. I'm out of this world."

"You're nothing!" Bonnie yelled, getting angry enough to send an aneurism to another perceived human. Said human, tilted her head and frown as if she were thinking about something.

"That was cute." Eris said, "What it supposed to tickle?" she smirked and the shocked look on Bonnie's face.

"Behold," Klaus boomed, waving to Eris, "my mate! Now would be the best time to put some space between us if you fancy living a few more years. But if not, bring it on." Maybe twenty vampires ran off with their tails between their legs, assured that this new witch's power was more than the Bennett's, and therefore the Originals would not be dying today. The rest got ready to fight. Eris gripped her weapons in her hands, the goblin forged steel was warm in her hands, and the grips were custom for her. Each axe was double-bladed, and the span of two of her hands. It was quite comical to see this petite woman wielding these large twin axes, but she was poetry once she started moving. Bloody poetry.

Eris got first blood. A vampire thought she would be the easiest target because she seemed human. He lost a hand first, and then the opposing arm, followed by an axe to the chest, which didn't kill the vampire, but did make it so that Eris could reach into his chest cavity to rip out his heart. Which did kill him. Klaus watched the whole this with lust clearly written on his face. The fight was on, the family spread out among the masses to begin decimating them.

"Oh love," he said, mid-ripping of a heart out, "you are so delectable right now. I could just lick all the blood right off of you."

"You can," she said, dismembering another nameless vampire, "but later."

"Why aren't you beheading anyone, sweetheart? I was really looking forward to seeing that."

"I'm saving that for the Salvatores." She said, simply, meeting Stefan's eyes across the square. He must have heard her, based on the shock and fear rolling across his face. He turned to leave. "Not so fast." She pointed an axe at the younger Salvatore, channeling her magic through it, stopping him from running away, from the mess he created, like a coward. Her magic froze him and brought him to his knees. "Now where is your brother?" She muttered to herself, she didn't have to look long as Damon made his way to Stefan to tried and grab him and run. The same thing happened to him. The witch was hiding someone, she would weed her out eventually, but for now, with her last two trophies safe for later, she rejoined her bonded and husband-to-be and his family in the decimation.

Eventually it was over. Everyone was covered in blood, other than Elijah, who somehow only got blood on his hands, which he was now wiping off with his pocket square. Now, that was real magic.

"Love, you were magnificent." Klaus found himself back at Eris' side in no time. He leaned in to nuzzle her marks but ended up licking a stripe up her neck because they were covered in blood and not visible. Yes. If anyone asked, that was what he was going to go with.

"Later." She said, pushing him back a bit, just to press a kiss to his lips and walk up to the still kneeling Salvatore brothers. "I'd say it was a surprise to see you here but, I knew once I made you that promise we would end up here. I'll let you in on a little secret, I was ever so hopeful you'd break your word."

"You psycho bitch!" Damon yelled. "You are Klaus are perfect for each other."

"Of course we are, we're soul mates."

"Shut up, Damon." Interjected Stefan, "what Damon means to say is, we never tampered with the stakes. Our deal is still valid."

"Stupid boy. You think I'll just let this go? You called upon all these lost souls to help you try and destroy my family. Sure, you didn't use the stakes. And yes, that was what my original threat pivoted on, but guess what? This is me broadening the scope, sweetheart." And with an outward slash of each hand, the Salvatore brothers had their bodies relieved of their heads.

"She is so hot." Klaus said to himself. "I can't wait to get her home tonight."

"Lucky." Kol mumbled underneath his breath.

"Now the witch." Eris said, gathering the heads of the brothers. She promised them she'd keep them for entertaining. "Klaus love, can you hold these for me please? Once we get home I can preserve them.

"Anything you want, darling." He said, relieving her of her burden so she could hunt down the witch. "And if I may, love, she's hiding under the events booth over there." Eris gifted him with another quick kiss and ran over to corner the frightened and way over her head witch.

"Some of the vampires we were fighting died from projectile stakes and wooden arrows." Elijah told his younger brother. "Looks like young Caroline was right about the Hunter and young Jeremy. Klaus just nodded thoughtfully.

"Little witch, come out before I drag you out." Eris called to Bonnie. Bonnie found a modicum of courage and came out from under the table.

"Go ahead. Kill me. I'm not afraid of you."

"Then you're stupid, because look around you, I've given you plenty of reason to be. But enough of that, I can't fix stupid, though I've been told that experience is the best teacher."

"Are you going to kill me, or what?"

"Of course not. I'm going to do something much worse. Magic is important to you, yes? You can feel it in your veins, it's with you in the beat of your heart. Life would be so hard for you without it, now that you know its out there, wouldn't it?"

"No…" Bonnie actually looked frightened now.

"Yes. I wonder how hard life would be for you. Hard enough that you'll try to take your own life to end it? Yes? No? Well, I sure hope so, because when that happens, I'll just deny that request, and make sure you get a nice padded room in a lovely psychiatric hospital. How about that?" Eris placed her hand on Bonnie's forehead and pulled. Bonnie screamed for a good little while, and then passed out from the pain. Eris walked back to Klaus, shaking her hand as if to get something nasty off of it. "I do not like the feeling of that girl's magic. It's…so primitive." She said to her bonded. He just laughed and pulled her close.

"What I want to know is who's cleaning this up?" Rebekah asked, her hand on a hip.

And there we have it! We still need a bit of closure here. Bonnie's magic is gone, but what will happen next? We know what Eris wants to happen. Caroline is in neutral territory, and Jeremy and Alaric helped out the Originals, but what about Elena? She's still a guilty party. What will we do with her? Who knows, I guess we'll find out next time on, The Hybrid and His Mistress…