"Let me get this straight, you called me over here telling me that there is an emergency, only to tell me that Damon was bitten by Tyler and now he's dying?" I ask them exasperated.
"Yes. I know that you and Damon have your differences but there has to be some way to save him." Elena states.
"I'm failing to see how this is my problem. Damon and I are not friends." I shrug, "Besides, how could I possibly help?"
"Oh come on! We all know that you know way more about the supernatural world than you let on. There has to be someone you can ask about this." Elena yells.
"Technically there are two people I could ask." I divulge.
"I'm assuming one of them is Elijah, but it's not as if he'd help us." Stefan finally says joining the conversation.
"You're right, he won't help you, me however." I trail off with a smirk on my face.
"Can you just ask him then?" Stefan pleads, "He's my brother…I can't just do nothing."
Looking at Stefan, my expression blank, "I can, but I won't. Damon is not my problem or responsibility. He's a big boy who has never been held accountable for his actions a day in his life. He's nothing to me anymore."
"How can you be so cold about this?" Elena shouts at me.
"None of you so much as batted an eyelash when he snapped my neck because he didn't agree with me. Why the hell would I ever willingly help save him when he had no actual knowledge that I would wake up after he did that?" I glare at her.
"Oh please, you know how Damon is. He acts before he thinks all the time, that's just who he is!" Elena cries out defensively.
"That isn't an excuse Elena! You honestly don't care that he did that to me! You care more about saving him than anything he's ever done to any of us! That's pathetic." I yell enraged. "I kept you alive Elena! You would be a vampire right now if it wasn't for me and you don't even have the decency to thank me or care."
"Of course I'm thankful." She rolls her eyes, "But right now Damon's life is in jeopardy!"
Standing up I grab my keys off the table, "You are one of the most ungrateful people I know, Elena. Honestly, I'm sorry Stefan but you should have known that coming to me for help saving Damon wasn't going to end well. If you can manage to find a way to save him, then good for you, just leave me out of it."
Starting the drive over to Alaric's apartment, I call Chris.
"Yeah?" He greets me.
"How would you like for your favorite person in the entire world to come and visit you for awhile this summer?" I ask him cheerfully.
"You know I never turn down a visit." He laughs at me.
"Good because I'll be leaving either tonight or tomorrow morning to come and visit!" I inform him, "I may be bringing Jenna with me…Kyle's still single right?"
"You are not playing matchmaker, Liv." He scolds me.
"Hush! They'd be perfect for each other. She needs a good guy who will treat her like a goddess! The last one was a secret dick." I tell him.
"I thought you liked him?" He asks me.
"I did. Now I like him just fine, but he isn't right for her. She wasn't happy, and she deserves more than what he can give her."
"Alright fine! But you leave me out of the matchmaking shit! I'm very happy being single." He jokes with me, "I'll go and set up the spare room so it's ready for human living again. I guess I should also stock up on alcohol and food."
"You're my favorite human!" I laugh, "I gotta go though. I've got some business to take care of and I just pulled into the parking lot. I'll let you know whether I'm coming up late tonight or early tomorrow."
"Can't wait Liv. Try to behave yourself until you get here." He tells me, "I love you, be safe."
"I always try! Trouble just seems to find me!" I defend myself, "Love you too loser!"
Getting out of my car, I send a quick text to Elijah as I walk up the stairs.
'I'm at Alaric's place. Try to hurry – I don't relish the idea of waiting long with Katherine.'
"What the hell are you doing here?" Katherine asks me as I close the door behind me.
"Well hello to you too sunshine." I say sarcastically as I take a seat on the bar stool next to the counter.
"Olivia. What are you doing here?" She asks me again.
"Waiting." I shrug.
"Waiting for what exactly?" She asks warily.
"More like who am I waiting for." I smile at her, "The answer is Elijah and Nik."
"Nik?" She asks confused, as she walks over to me in what I assume is a stance I should be afraid of. "Why are you waiting for them?"
"That's really none of your business." I tell her.
"I'm making it my business." She glares at me, "I mean, what would everyone else say if word was to get out that you are all buddy-buddy with the Originals?"
"I can imagine they'll all be pissed off at me." I roll my eyes, "But that's not really a concern of mine. I'm allowed to do whatever I please, that includes who I associate myself with. Besides, I'm practically family to them."
Katherine sputtered, her eyes getting slightly wider, "I'm sorry, family?"
Hearing footsteps outside the door, "Someone's here." I tell her, purposely ignoring her question.
We stay quiet, looking towards the door as Stefan peaks his head in, his eyes getting slightly wider in surprise at seeing me here.
"Hello Katherine…Olivia." He says calmly.
"I've been waiting for two days. Klaus is supposed to be dead." Katherine grits out to him.
"We ran into complications." Stefan sighs and I have to hold back a small laugh.
"Complications? That's one way of putting it." I mutter.
"It doesn't really matter, I just need to find him. Do you have any idea where he might be?" Stefan asks her before she shoves him into the wall and holds him there with her arm over his chest.
"Shh." She tells him quietly. "Klaus, you're back. Look who decided to come for a visit." She says louder as she pulls Stefan away from the wall and lets him go.
"You just keep popping up, don't you?" Nik says sarcastically. Turning to me he smiles a bit, "Hello love, you're looking ravishing."
"Shut it Nik." I laugh, walking over to hug Elijah first, then him. "Whatever would your brother think of you flirting with me?"
"Nothing he needs to know love." He smirks back.
"I need you help." Stefan cuts in, giving me a look of betrayal, "For my brother."
"Well, whatever it is, he's gonna have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my brother" Nik says waving his hand towards Elijah. "That requires my immediate attention."
Following Nik's movements with my eyes I step away from Elijah and back to the bar stool as I hear him talking to Stefan.
"You understand how important family is, or you wouldn't be here. My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own." Elijah tells him slightly somber.
"And so I shall." Nik tells him from behind, before he thrusts the dagger into Elijah's chest.
"Nik!" I yell as I run over to them, my eyes falling to Elijah's face as he looks up with anguish in his features.
"You are not leaving him on the ground like this." I tell Nik as he lets Elijah's body fall to the floor.
This is the second time I've watched him die, this would be worse than the first time. Knowing that he won't just wake up, that I won't be able to have a proper conversation with him for god knows how long now.
"Remember what we discussed, Olivia love." Nik reminds me, "You told me to do whatever it takes. This" he points to Elijah, "Is whatever it takes."
"I know that, but it doesn't stop me from feeling a little guilty about it." I mutter to him as he leads me over to the table again.
"I suppose I should tell you to cherish that feeling, in a few years time you won't feel guilty for anything you do." He laughs a bit, before his expression becomes dark.
Shoving Stefan into the wall, "Now, what am I gonna do with you?" Taking a knife he thrusts it into Stefan's chest, "Do you feel that? It's scraping against your heart. The slightest little movement, and you're dead."
Hearing Stefan groan in pain, "He's just trying to help his brother." Katherine says quietly.
"The witches said you had a cure." Stefan groans out, "Make me a deal. Just give me the cure, and I'll do whatever you want."
Taking the knife out, he walks over to the blood bag on the counter, "Trouble is I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now. You are just shy of useless."
Looking at the scene in front of me, I scrunch my eyes together trying to figure out just what Nik is planning. Though I come up completely blank, Stefan isn't exactly the ruthless, remorseless vampire.
Nik walks back over and crouches down in front of Stefan, the glass of blood still in his hand, "I heard about this one vampire, crazy bloke, always on and off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent. 1917, he went into Monterey and wiped out an entire migrant village." He stands up and looks down at him, "A true ripper. Sound familiar?"
Shaking his head, Stefan looks down, "I haven't been that way in a very long time."
"Well, that's the vampire I can make a deal with. That is the kind of talent that I can use when I leave this town." He tells Stefan as he stands up shakily. "Katerina, come here."
Placing her hand in his outstretched palm, his eyes dart to mine before he smirks and bites her wrist. I laugh loudly as she pulls it away from him crying out.
"Ah! No. No. No." She repeats shaking her head.
Biting his own wrist, he shoves it into her mouth forcing her to drink. My eyes dancing in amusement as I realize what it all means.
"Your blood is the cure." I say astonished, walking over to them and standing beside Nik, glancing down at Katherine's now healed wrist.
"Correct you are love," He smiles at me, turning to Stefan, "You want your cure? There it is."
"Olivia, grab me that bottle." He says pointing towards Maddox's things.
"Walking over I pick it up and walk towards the table, taking the seat beside him and hand it to him.
Watching him pick up the knife he had previously shoved into Stefan, he slices his hand open and lets it fill with his blood. "There it is. You want to save your brother? How about a decade-long bender? I have big plans for you when we leave this town."
"I'm not like that anymore." Stefan says defiantly.
Scoffing I roll my eyes at him. Earlier today they would have done anything to save Damon's life, and now he's too afraid to do what needs to be done. He's not truly ruthless, he just doesn't know when to stop, that's the only reason I ripper is so dangerous.
"Well, that's too bad. You would have made a hell of a wingman." Nik mocks as he begins to pour his blood into the sink.
"Wait." Stefan pleads quietly, his voice full of the emotions he's trying to drown.
"Now that's more like it. I want you to join me for a drink." Nik smirks as he tosses a blood bag down the counter.
"As fascinating as this is, Nik, I just wanted to see if you needed my help yet or if I can take off for a little while and escape this miserable town?" I ask him, as we watch Stefan down the third blood bag of the night.
"No, go and enjoy your summer love. I'll call you when it's time for you to help." He tells me, "Besides, New York is lovely in the summer."
"Alright fine, but if I don't hear from you in a few weeks I'll be calling your phone until you – wait a minute, how do you know I'm going to New York?" I ask him glaring a bit.
"I've got a lot of friends." He shrugs.
"False. You have a lot of people who work for you. I'm currently your only friend. How do you know that I'm going to New York, Nik?" I ask him again.
Sighing, "You're family, love. I like to know where my family is at all times. I know you're capable of taking care of yourself, but should you ever be in a position that you need help, there will always be someone there to look out for you if none of the family is around to do so."
Rolling my eyes, I pull him in for a quick hug. "You're incorrigible. I hope your hybrid making goes as planned."
"Have a good summer, and here take this." He slips me a piece of paper.
Opening it, I see an address, "What is this?"
"You'll find him there…in case you'd like to say goodbye before I leave this town." He tells me sincerely.
"Thank you Nik." I smile sadly. Turning to Stefan, "Good luck, Stefan. I hope Damon was worth all of this."
Parking in front of the warehouse Nik sent me to, I lean my forehead down on the steering wheel. Closing my eyes I take a few deep breaths, "You can do this Olivia, it's just one more time…one more chance to be near him." I mutter to myself.
Walking to the door, on of the vampires open it up for me and lead me through to the coffins. "Klaus told us to bring it out in the middle. Take as long as you'd like." The vampire told me as he walked away, leaving me alone.
Sighing I run my hand over the top of his coffin, just like the first time, "I'm so close Kol…I can feel it. I feel guilty though, about Elijah. He's daggered as well now and I can't help but believe it's my fault. I know he'll disagree and blame Nik for it all, but I'm the one who told Nik to do whatever he needs to do so I can wake you up.
"I'm lonely most of the time now…my life here is different. I'm different. I don't know when it all changed specifically, but it has. I don't belong in this town anymore, with these people."
Leaning down I kiss the top of his coffin, right over where is head is, "When you're finally awake, I'll never let you go Kol. You became the most important person to me the moment I learned about you and why my life is the way it is. I'll see you soon Kol…no matter what it takes."