Spotting Jeremy and Bonnie outside the school I walk over to them, "Hey guys. What's going on?"
"Nothing, Liv." Jeremy says, putting his ring back on his finger.
"You told him then?" I ask Bonnie, turning to look at her.
"No. He figured it out." She says not looking at either of us directly.
"Like I told you earlier, it's your life. You make the decisions in it, Bonnie. Just really think about what you're willing to do." I tell her again.
"Just because a bunch of dead witches gave me a warning, doesn't mean I'm gonna die." She tells us – mainly Jeremy – pleadingly.
"So there's a fifty-fifty shot you wont?" He asks her, "Look, I'm sorry but you know I don't have the best luck in the girlfriend department."
Sighing, Bonnie closes her eyes, "Listen I…I can't explain it. But I can feel them. I'm empowered Jeremy, I can do this. I know I can. I'm strong enough."
Shaking my head at her I take a step back, lying to my brother to try and get him to stop worrying, not the brightest idea she's ever had. She's failing to remember that once Jeremy cares about someone, he has the hardest time letting go.
Watching her pull him into a hug, I notice Damon walk up behind them.
"Damon," Bonnie says pulling away from Jeremy.
"Evenin'." He smirks directly at me as he walks inside the school.
"Do you think anyone would really care if I actually shoved a stake through his heart?" I ask out loud.
"As much as I would pay to see that, we kinda need him alive." Bonnie laughs.
"Hey you guys." Elena says as her and Stefan walk towards us, "You two look nice!"
"You too, sexy hippy?" I ask her as she pulls me into a hug after Bonnie.
"It was either this or Twiggy. Sexy hippy won. You're dress is amazing though." She says looking me up and down in approval.
"You guys ready to do this?" Stefan asks.
"I'm not a part of this. I don't agree with this plan at all, just wanna put that out there." I tell them as we walk inside.
"Thanks for being here everybody!" Dana announces up on the stage, everyone stops dancing to turn, cheer and listen to her. "We have a special shout out tonight. This is for Elena, and Olivia…from Klaus."
I look over at Elena as everyone starts to cheer and clap, "What the hell?"
"That was a lame, cheap shot." Damon says walking around Elena, "And why did he mention your name?"
Ignoring Damon, I look around the room trying to find Nik again.
"I know everyone here." Elena says, looking at me with anxiety in her eyes.
"Maybe he's not here. Just wants us to believe that he is." Stefan comments, his eyes still moving around the room.
"It's a party people. Blend. Let him come to us." Damon says with arrogance.
"Good idea." Bonnie says, pulling Jeremy towards the floor to dance.
"No, no. I really don't feel like dancing." He pleads with her.
"Too bad." She says with a smile.
"There's Ric. I'll be back. You should come with me." Damon says turning to me.
Glaring at him, "Choke on vervain."
Watching him walk away I turn to Elena, "Go. Have fun. I'll find you if anything happens."
"Did you know?" Elena asks me angry as she pulls me over to her and Bonnie.
Shrugging out of her grip, "Know what?"
"That Bonnie will die if she uses her power to kill Klaus." She says.
"Oh…that. I figured it out by myself actually. All that power, it was bound to have a consequence." I tell her.
"It's our only option." Bonnie says determined.
"Then we'll find another way, okay?" Elena pleads, "Bonnie, you're not dying to save my life."
"I have the power to save you! If I don't use it and something happens, that would kill me more."
"I can't let you." Elena tells her.
"It's not up to you, Elena." I chime in for the first time, "It's only up to Bonnie."
"I can't let her! How can you be okay with this Olivia?" She asks hysterically.
"I'm not, Elena. Frankly, I'm tired of people dying but this decision is not ours to make."
"Just answer one question," Bonnie interjects. "If the situation was reversed, would you do it for me?"
Elena stops, breathing deeply and nods her head a bit.
"So you know why I have to." Bonnie tells her.
Elena shakes her head back and forth slowly, "No. No! I can't"
"You need to stop trying to control everything, Elena." I tell her with a sigh.
"Elena! Olivia!" Alaric shouts as he runs over to us.
"What is it?" She asks him.
"He has Jeremy." He tells us.
"What?" I shout at him. I swear to god I will murder him myself if he hurts my brother.
"Yeah, Klaus has Jeremy. Come on." He tells us, motioning for us to follow him.
Walking through the empty halls, I notice we're getting further and further away from the dance. Stefan and Damon nowhere in sight – no one in sight actually.
"Okay, so where are you taking us?" Elena asks him as we continue behind him.
"Just a little further." He says with annoyance in his voice.
"Wait. Something's not right." Elena mutters, slowing down behind him.
"Where's Jeremy?" Bonnie asks him.
Laughing, Alaric stops walking and turns to face us. "I just had to get away from that dance. The sixties, ugh! Not my decade. I mean whose call was that anyway? Though you, Olivia, have managed to make the fashion a bit more bearable. Still, I much prefer the twenties. The style, the parties, the jazz."
"Alaric." Elena says as he takes a few steps in our direction, "Are you on vervain?"
Pausing in his step, "Now why would you ask me that question, Elena?"
The smirk on his face becoming more prominent as he gets closer to our direction, "Holy shit." I whisper to myself, causing him to look directly at me.
"He's been compelled." Elena tells Bonnie.
"Nope. Try again." He tells her, "Better yet, why not ask the lovely Olivia for the answer she so brilliantly worked out."
"It's Klaus." I tell them, grabbing Elena and pulling her behind me a bit.
"Surprise!" He says with a smile.
"No. No it's not possible." Elena mutters to herself in disbelief.
"No, it's very possible. I told you that you all underestimated him!" I shout at her in annoyance.
Of course he would show up in a different body. I swear he's more dramatic than a woman.
"Oh don't worry, you're not on my hit list…tonight." He tells her, turning to Bonnie, "But you are." He lunges for Bonnie and she deflects him effortlessly.
"Bonnie! He'll just use a different body! You can't kill Alaric." I yell at her as she throws him back into the trophy case.
"Olivia's right, what makes you think I won't choose Jeremy next?" He taunts her.
"Run! Run, run!" Bonnie shouts, grabbing Elena's hand and taking off the other way.
Pausing slightly to turn back to him, "I'd tell you not to kill her, but you won't listen."
"I am sorry this will hurt you." He tells me as he walks the other way, leaving me alone in the hall.
"Where did you go? You missed everything! Bonnie died, but not really. She used some spell to keep herself alive, Klaus thinks she's dead though. She said you weren't there when she got back and no one has seen you since then. Look, I…I'm taking the dagger out of Elijah and I need your help. He trusts you. Hell he likes you, please just call me back."
Sighing I sit back down on my bed, listening to Elena's voicemail again. I went home after that. There was no point in sticking around while my friend went on a suicide mission to save my sisters life. The same sister who daggered an original, and now has decided to take the dagger out and beg for help. If they had listened to me in the first place then they wouldn't be in this mess.
Throwing my hair up into a messy bun, I pull on some dark wash skinny jeans, my worn New York hoodie, and my converse. Picking my phone up just as it rings, I answer it without looking.
"Yeah?"
"Is that anyway to talk to a man who has been daggered for days?" I hear Elijah's voice on the other end.
"Elijah!" I shout happily, "Where are you? I'll meet you there now."
"The Lockwood estate. Your sister is with me, do hurry." The line clicks.
Rolling my eyes, I grab my wallet, keys and coffee and run out of the house.
Not bothering to knock on the door I let myself inside, throwing myself into Elijah's arms once I see him. "Thank god!"
"I take it I was missed?" He asks me with a small smile.
"I tried to take the dagger out. Damon snapped my neck for it." I tell him, "Feel free to repay the favor."
"We can continue that conversation when we're alone. Right now your sister is looking at us and she may faint." He says glancing over at Elena.
"I didn't think you two were that close." She manages to get out without stuttering.
"I do have other friends. Plus…Elijah, well there's more than meets the eye remember?"
"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us." Elijah states, sitting down next to me.
"No." Elena says, "I'm sorry."
"And Katerina. She would have been released from my compulsion when I died." He says, looking directly at Elena.
"Klaus took her." She tells him, "We think that she may be dead."
"I doubt that." He smirks at her, "Not Klaus' style. Death would be too easy for her after what she did."
"I don't understand. You say that you want Klaus dead, but you still made Katherine pay for betraying him." Elena says looking at Elijah in confusion.
"I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay." He tells her, his eyes growing darker, "There was a time I'd have done anything for Klaus." He goes into a tale of his life before all the animosity between them occurred.
"Yes. Klaus is my brother." He tells her after he finishes his small story from the past.
"I heard that." Elena stumbles, "I'm still processing."
"Yes, I'm a little behind on the times but I believe the term you're searching for is, 'O.M.G.'" He scoffs as he takes a sip of his tea.
Laughing to myself, "Please never, ever say that again Elijah."
"Wait…there's a whole family of originals?" Elena asks astonished.
"My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in Eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children." He tells her as he fixed his tie in the mirror.
Elena stands up, "So your parents were human?"
"Our whole family was." He says plainly.
"Honestly Elena, did you really think they were born vampires?" I ask her incredulously.
"Our origin as vampires is a very long story, Elena." He tells her, "Just know, we're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the original family, and from us all vampires were created."
"Right. But Klaus is your brother. And you want him dead?" She asks disbelief clear in her voice.
"I need some air." He says with a shake of his head, "I'm still feeling a tad…dead. Come."
Following him quickly, I latch my arm around his and lean in. "I need to talk to you about your family when she leaves. It's important."
Glancing down at me, he nods his head in acknowledgment.
"So as you've seen, nothing can kill an original." Elijah begins as we make our way across the lawn, "Not sun, not fire, and not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree; a tree my family made sure burned."
"That's where the white ash for the dagger comes from." Elena says, putting it together slowly.
"Yes. The witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain a balance."
"So if the sun can't kill an original, why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the sun and the moon curse?" She asks him.
"Right." Elijah scoffs, "The curse of the sun and the moon. It's all so…biblical sounding, don't you think?"
"What's so funny?" She asks him with a shrug of her shoulders.
"The curse isn't real, Elena. It's fake." I tell her rolling my eyes, "Klaus drew the Aztec drawings. They created the entire legend."
"Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings and any other culture or continent we felt like planting it in." Elijah tells her.
"But why?" She asks him.
"Easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelgänger or to get your hands on some long, lost moon stone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout for it." Elijah tells her with a smirk.
"If it's not real…I don't understand." Elena says.
"Klaus and I faked the sun and the moon curse dating back over a thousand years." He tells her.
"But if there's no curse…" She says confused.
"There's a curse. Just not that one." Elijah cuts in, "The real one's much worse. It's a curse placed solely on Klaus."
"What are you talking about?" Elena asks, shrugging her arms out by her side.
"Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years, and you were his only hope." He tells her, turning to face her abruptly.
"Well what is this curse?" She asks him.
Sighing, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out her phone. "Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing. Answer it, please."
Sighing she takes the phone, "Stefan – what's wrong? No. No, Okay…I'll be right there. No Olivia's with me, I'll tell her."
Looking at me, "Klaus went after Jenna. We have to go to her."
"I'm afraid that wasn't part of today's arrangement." Elijah informs her.
"She's my family, Elijah. I have to." Elena pleads with him.
"Just go Elena. I'll stay with Elijah. We have some things to discuss between us as it is. Tell Jenna that she's going to be fine, and not to worry so much. She's most likely just in a shock, you need to remember she's not as fragile as you all want her to be." I tell her, pushing her back towards the house.
"I'll be back. You have my word." She calls over her shoulder as she turns and leaves.
"Can we go back inside and sit down?" I ask him, suddenly finding myself incredibly anxious to bring everything with Nik up to him.
"Of course." He says, leading me back into the house.
"You're worried I'll be angry." He says to me as we sit down, "What could you possibly have done since I've been daggered?"
Laughing a little, "You'd be surprised what I can get myself into. But no, I didn't really do anything. I just sort of, had a conversation with Nik…uh Klaus."
"Nik?" He asks raising his brow in confusion. "When did this occur?"
"It happened when I went to New York to visit my friend Chris. I was wandering around this cute little bookshop – that's not important. What is important is that I know where your family is." I tell him.
Looking at me, I can see the war going on inside of him, one part of him holding onto the hope that they aren't buried at sea and the other part not wanting to believe it.
"That's…not possible."
"I saw them. I touched Kol's coffin! I could feel him, Elijah!" I exclaim. "He never buried them at sea. He just keeps them hidden."
"Hidden from what? Why would he lie to me?" He asks me.
"I don't know why he said it to you, that's something you'll have to ask him. I do know that he won't hurt me. He – Nik feels the same way for me that you do. He knew who I was the moment he saw me, rather before that. He seemed to know more about me than I thought he would to be honest. I want to help him. I want to help him break his curse, get your family back and keep my sister alive through it all…but I need you to help me with it." I plead with him.
"Why should I help him? After everything that he has done." He asks scathingly, his anger directed at me but not meant for me.
"Because it's the only way to get your family back Elijah." I tell him, looking directly into his eyes. "The only way I'm going to get Kol."
We sit in silence for a few minutes. Neither of us making a sound, I'm patiently waiting for him to agree with me. I love my family, but I can't spend eternity alone. I wont spend it without Kol and if this is how I can get him, so be it. As long as Elijah helps me keep Elena alive through the sacrifice, then Nik can break his curse and this can be one step closer to getting Kol and the rest of the Original family back to the land of the living.
"I will help you." He tells me quietly, "Only because I know how badly it is to spend time wishing you could have the one thing you cannot. If you tell me that my family is safe, I'll help you. Just tell me what you need from me."
Throwing my arms around him, I hug him to me, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I'm being incredibly selfish in this, but I don't give a damn."
"In the prospect of love, everyone is selfish Olivia." He laughs, "Do you have a plan?"
Smirking at him, "Of course I have a plan."
Hearing the door open we both look to see Elena walk through, determination clear on her face.
"Welcome back." Elijah says to her.
"Tell me." She demands, "What is Klaus' curse?"
"Please." He gestures for her to sit, "My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."
"A war between the species?" Elena asks confused.
"The vampires…" Elijah begins.
"And the werewolves." I finish for him, speaking for the first time since Elena walked back into the house.
"So Klaus' real father was from a werewolf bloodline?" She asks him, "What does that make Klaus? A werewolf? Or a vampire?"
"He's both." He tells her. "A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefor the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant."
"That's the curse that Klaus wants to break?" Elena asks sitting forward in her seat.
"He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race. Endangering not just vampires, but everyone." He says solemnly.
"But you helped him." She says shocked.
"I helped him because I loved him. That's changed, now he must die." He tells her.
I watch as Elena gets up, looking over at Elijah I wonder how long it took him to become such an amazing liar.
"We have the dagger now. We can stop him." She says with a determined smile.
"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger. So you see the conundrum. The dagger does not work." He tells her with an irritated sigh.
"What are you saying? That Klaus can't be killed?" She asks him as she paces around the room.
"There's one way to kill any supernatural species, at the hands of the servants of nature themselves."
"A witch." Elena breathes out, "If they can channel that much power…but it would kill them."
"The curse must be broken during the full moon, Elena." I chime in, " When Klaus is in transition, that's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power can kill him then."
"I thought you were against this? Against Bonnie dying." She asks me.
"That was before Elijah and I had our conversation after you left. We figured quite a few things out while you were gone." I tell her with a shrug.
"And if Bonnie can channel that much power, and not die…we can kill him?" She asks him.
"There's one more thing you should know." Elijah tells her, "I found a way to keep the doppelgänger alive. Unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her own hands before I could tell her. I believe you already know how that played out."
"You cared about her, didn't you?" She asks him as he watches him hand me my jacket and help me up from the couch.
"It's a common mistake, I'm told." He says looking at her, "And it's one I won't make again."
"We should go tell your lovely Salvatore boys about the change in plan, don't you think?" I say with a smile on my face as I follow Elijah out of the house.
Walking into the house, the first thing we hear is the growls and grunts coming from the parlor…followed by a loud crash.
"Hmm, think they're fighting again?" I ask sarcastically.
"Stop!" Elena yells as we enter the room. Amazingly, they both listen.
"Now you've invited him in?" Damon asks annoyed.
"Elijah and I have renewed the terms of our deal." She tells them.
"Really?" He mutters sarcastically.
"The two of you will come to no harm at my hands." He tells them, walking up to the railing, "I only ask for one thing in return. An apology."
"A what?" Damon taunts, squinting his eyes as if he didn't hear it right.
"Jesus Damon! An apology, I know you're incapable of remorse, but it's the least you could do." I growl at him, coming to stand next to Elijah.
Sighing, Stefan steps up, "I'm sorry for the part that I played in your death. I was protecting Elena. I will always protect Elena."
"I understand." Elijah tells him.
All of us turning to look towards Damon, already knowing there is no way he will apologize for what he did to Elijah.
"The sacrifice is going to happen Damon." I tell him, "We figured out a way to have Bonnie kill Klaus without hurting herself, and I told you right after you daggered him, that Elijah knows how to keep Elena alive."
"I told you I'd find another way." Elena tells him, proud of herself.
"Is that true?" Damon asks Elijah.
"It is."
"And you're trusting him?" He asks us incredulously.
"I am." Elena tells him, "Olivia trusts him, that's more than enough for me."
"You can all go to hell." Damon glares as he walks out of the room.
Waiting until he was fully up the stairs, "Well that went much better than I expected it to."
"Not the time, Olivia." Elena says.
"Always the time. He killed me, remember?" I tell her with a glare, "Anyway, Elijah and I have some errands to run. We'll meet you all here tomorrow to go over the plan with everyone."
I apologize for the slight delay in the update this week. I tried to post this Sunday but it just wouldn't upload correctly. I finally managed to upload it tonight.