Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries characters except the ones I created in the fanfic, namely Scarlett Stone, Nicholas Stone, Susan Stone, Steve Stone, Serena (Ayanna's younger sister), Suzanne Stone and all other characters that we might meet along the way.

Chapter 2

Seattle

Scarlett, her parents and Elijah were all sitting in the lounge, trying to figure out how they were going to find Nicholas. Scarlett was on the couch, sipping tea with her mother, Susan, while Elijah paced around the room, talking with Scarlett's father, Steve.

"What would anyone gain by taking Nicholas?" Elijah muttered.

"Nothing! Niklaus is dead and my sister is gone! So I don't see how anyone could gain anything by taking Nicholas!" Scarlett cried.

"Scarlett, it's only been a few hours. I'm sure who ever took him isn't far off." Susan tried to soothe her daughter.

"Crucial hours are going by and for all we know, whoever took Nicholas is probably a supernatural element, a hundred miles from here!" Scarlett shouted.

"Scarlett, you're not being rational. Whoever took Nicholas is carrying luggage that is alive and kicking and that's going to slow him down." Steve said. Elijah walked over to one of Scarlett's landlines and called Rebekah.

"Hello?" Rebekah frowned.

"Rebekah? Where are you?" Elijah asked.

"In Mystic Falls, where else, Elijah. What about you?" Rebekah answered calmly.

"Seattle." Elijah replied.

"I'm assuming you're with the lovely Stones." she sighed.

"Yes. Um, any more information on Klaus's bloodline?" he enquired.

"Well, the whole gang is still alive apart from one crucial member." she revealed.

"Alaric is dead?" Elijah frowned.

"Him and the oh-so precious Elena." Rebekah smiled, "I'm tired of running, Elijah. Elena had to die otherwise Alaric would not have stopped. Elena was just a means to an end, brother."

"You killed her?" he boomed over the phone.

"No, I just stood in between her, Matt, his truck and her chances of ever seeing her friends again while they took a dip from the Wickery Bridge straight into what lay beneath it." she told him.

"Elena drowned?" he was in shock.

"Yes, brother, drowned, plunged to her death, went over the bridge. Our problems are now solved and we can all stay in Mystic Falls, our real home." she proclaimed.

Elijah slammed the phone in her ear and sat down.

"Was that about the Petrova doppelganger? She's dead?" Susan asked. Elijah nodded in response.

"If Elena Gilbert is dead, that means the Petrova lineage is gone, dead." Steve muttered.

"The Salvatore brothers. What if they took Nicholas?" Scarlett whispered.

"No, Niklaus sired their bloodline so they must be dead..." Elijah trailed off.

"Elijah, what?" Scarlett demanded. Elijah remained quiet.

"Elijah!" she called out his name again then stood up and walked towards him. Elijah picked up the landline and dialed the numbers.

Mystic Falls

The Salvatore's landline rang and Damon picked up the phone.

"Salvatore Boarding House, Damon here." he said cockily and the line on the other side went dead, "Really now?" he stared at the phone then put it down.

"Who was that?" Stefan asked.

"A nobody, like usual." he smirked as he entered the lounge. Elena and Caroline were sitting on one side of the lounge while Bonnie and Jeremy were on the opposite side.

"Bonnie, please say something." Elena pleaded with one of her best friends.

"Elena, don't." Jeremy shook his head as he comforted Bonnie. Bonnie felt so upset and furious. She made a deal with Klaus so something like this could be prevented. Now she has lost another friend to the vampires.

"Don't worry, Elena. Witches don't stay judgy little things for long. She'll come around...after giving you a couple of mind-blowing aneurysms that is." Damon grinned then sipped some bourbon.

"Damon, not now!" Caroline shot at Damon, "Lena, we'll figure something out."

"Caroline's right, we should be focusing on Elena and everything else." Stefan said.

"Well, I say give Elena some Founder's Council blood and all our problems are solved." Damon smiled.

"Damon, we don't need your snide remarks, right now!" Jeremy said.

"Okay, scrap that. How about Bonnie does her a little witchy mojo here, a little witchy juju there." Damon played up his eyes.

"No! I'm not going to use magic! I'm done with everything!" Bonnie cried.

"But the whole Council knows about our business, Bon-Bon and I don't think Evilaric even spared you from the 'tidbits' he gave them. So I would think very carefully if I were you." Damon said.

"Elena is in transition, Damon, and Matt is in hospital. I've just lost one of my closest friends again! And you just expect me to bounce back and help you." Bonnie said as she stood up and walked towards Damon.

"Bonnie, don't listen to Damon, he's just being an ass, like always." Caroline said and walked up to Bonnie to hug her.

"Don't touch me!" Bonnie jumped away from Caroline.

"But-" Caroline felt a flash of pain.

"Bonnie, don't leave, we need you." Stefan began to plead.

"No, you need my magic, that's what you need." Bonnie scoffed.

"Bonnie, no. We need a friend. Someone who will be our voice of reason, someone who will be there when we all need some kind of reality to hold onto." Caroline said.

"Let her go. We've dragged her into this mess deep enough." Elena stated coldly.

"Then I'm going with you, Bonnie." Jeremy stood up. A knock came through the door and Stefan went to answer it.

"Meredith, what are you doing here?" Stefan was puzzled.

"The Council, Stefan. They know. We have to fix this." Meredith spoke anxiously.

"We know." Stefan said, stepping to the side to let Meredith in.

"Sheriff Forbes and Mayor Lockwood are on their way." Meredith said as she entered the lounge.

"You mean, former Sheriff and Mayor, Dr. Fell." Damon waved at Meredith.

"You shouldn't be here!" Elena cried.

"I'm sorry for what I did, Elena but I didn't know you would die with the vampire blood in your system." Meredith retorted.

"You gave her the vampire blood?" Bonnie and Jeremy asked.

"Yes, but that's for another discussion. Right now, the Council are going to come here or worse tell the entire town we have vampires and other supernatural elements running around town." Meredith urged the others.

"She's right. We have to do something about the Council." Stefan supported Meredith, then looked at Bonnie and Jeremy, "Please stay." The was a knock at the door again.

"I'll go get that, it's probably Liz and Carol." Damon strode off. Carol and Liz rushed into the lounge and Liz and her daughter shared an embrace.

"Where's Tyler, Caroline?" Carol was worried. Caroline looked up at her.

"I'm so sorry, Carol, but...Tyler isn't here, he's gone." Caroline sobbed.

"What, did he leave already?" Carol asked.

"Klaus is dead, Carol. He was staked by Alaric. And since Klaus definitely sired Tyler's bloodline, he died within an hour after Klaus was staked." Damon stated matter-of-factly.

"Tyler is dead? But how?" Carol began to cry and felt everything begin to slip away and Damon caught her before she hit the floor and put her on the couch.

"Carol, the Originals were the very first vampires and they're the reason we exist today. If an Original is staked with a white oak stake, he or she will die. And when an Original dies, so does every vampire from his or her bloodline." Stefan explained.

"And Klaus was the one who turned my son." Carol said and she silently began crying. Liz and Caroline went over to comfort her. Meredith cleared her throat.

"Not now, Meredith!" Elena glared at her.

Seattle

Elijah was busy packing all of Scarlett's clothes and some of Nicholas's stuff at vamp speed while Scarlett tried to keep up with him miserably.

"Elijah, stop and say something!" Scarlett shouted.

"The Salvatores are still alive." Elijah said.

"So?" Susan asked.

"I am...was sure that Klaus sired their bloodline, but now I don't know..." Elijah trailed off.

"What does this have to do with Nicholas?" Scarlett asked.

"Rebekah told me over the phone she was responsible for Elena...Elena's death and I wouldn't be surprised if they were to plan a retaliation of some sort against Klaus's family." Elijah began thinking aloud.

"No, it couldn't be them. And even if it was them, how do you explain them being on the otherside of the USA at this time?" Scarlett pointed out.

"She's right, Elijah." Steve said.

"But Damon was the one who answered the phone. Stefan on the other hand has gone as far as taking Klaus's family away from him and he has done it all for Elena." Elijah said, "I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted revenge for Elena's death."

"But no one apart from the people in this room know about Nicholas. Mom? Dad? You guys haven't said anything, right?" Scarlett looked at her parents.

"No, dear. Nothing to risk Nicholas's safety." Susan told her daughter,pulling her into an embrace. Steve stood beside them with his hand on his daughter's shoulder.

"Still, I think we should go to Mystic Falls and try and find out what's happening." Elijah interrupted.

"Go with him, Scarlett. We'll stay in Seattle and ask some friends to help look into Nicholas's disappearance." Susan assured.

"Katherine, Elijah, what about her?" Scarlett questioned.

"No, she's trying to put as many miles as possible between her and Klaus. And if she knows he's dead, she's either headed back to Mystic Falls or staying in the lap of luxury." Elijah expelled Scarlett's doubts, "But right now, our best leads about Nicholas are in Mystic Falls. So are you coming?" Elijah outstretched his hand towards Scarlett.

She reached out to take it.

Mystic Falls

"Damon, could we talk?" Liz whispered to Damon.

"Sure." Damon smiled. He and Liz excluded themselves from the little group that had formed in the lounge. Once they were out of everyone's hearing range, Liz began to speak.

"Is Elena going to transition? Is she willing to drink human blood?" Liz asked.

"Right now, I don't know. Elena's gonna be like another Stefan excluding the Ripper part hopefully. She's all vengeful and a little broody right now and trying to get over the fact that she's something she never wanted to be - a vampire, Katherine 2.0." Damon said.

"Well, Caroline explained everything to me and I asked her about her transition. She drank from a blood bag to complete her transition, Damon, and your brother lived off animal blood. Maybe we can try and teach Elena that first." Liz suggested.

"Mmmh, Liz, I would love to be the optimist here but most if not all vampires have killed a human being because of their bloodlust and I don't think the good Elena is any different." Damon said. Liz nodded, then proceeded to go back to the group and Damon followed.

"Elena? Are you okay?" Caroline asked her best friend.

"Yeah. I'm just really scared, Care. I don't want to transition but I don't want to die either. Gosh, I know technical, I am dead, but now I've come back as my worst nightmare, the last thing I would want to become." Elena spoke trying to hold back the tears.

"We'll find a way, 'Lena, we'll find something." Caroline comforted Elena.

"Bonnie wants nothing to do with us anymore. She probably won't be willing to just be there for me anymore." Elena said, " And she probably has every right to because I have been so selfish towards her, Care."

"We've all been selfish towards her, 'Lena." Caroline thought out loud.

"Stefan, we have to talk about the Council." Meredith said.

"I know, but everyone has a lot to deal with now." Stefan quietly said.

"I realise that and know the timing's bad but we have to think of something to get the Council off this trail that Alaric has set them on even if it's for a few weeks." Meredith was getting impatient, "The Council is probably out for blood, vampire blood. They want you all dead, really dead."

"Damon Salvatore! It's the Council! We have some questions that need answering! Salvatore!" A voice came shouting through the door accompanied by banging.

"Oh brother." Damon mumbled as his blue eyes stared at the door.

Oh dear! What will the gang do to get out of this situation? This and more of your questions will be answered in the rest of the story. Thanks to my first reviewer beverlie4055 and my second reviewer camila2198! You guys helped keep me going, as well as my AMAZING beta reader JacobSalvatoreBlack!