Star P.O.V
Damon and I Sat on the steps to Nik mansion while I told him about my fate of purpose with Silas, Damon was taking it all in pretty well considering. I really expected him to be totally flipping out, I guess he wanted to hear it all before he did that. I started from the very beginning with him of when I found out the truth behind who I was, it all went back to year 2000 when I received contact by Luca. Who spoke about he knew my purpose, of course I was sceptical at first but that soon changed when he began to answer a lot of questions that had been in my mind for the last thousand years. I explained to Damon that he was the one who helped me embrace who I was, and the more he taught me about my abilities the stronger I became. Damon seemed to be taking all in very well considering it was only a small part of all this, now what frighten me is when I tell him about my link to the brotherhood of five.
"This is probably the most important piece of information that you need to know—" Damon looked at me curiously waiting for me to tell this this vital piece of information, I took in a deep breathe before turning away. "—to get to the cure, Silas needs to be woken." I could feel myself getting nervous because I knew how Damon was going to react, I turned back to him to see that he was frowning. "The only way to wake him is by my blood, so s member of the five destroy him once and for all." Damon arched his brow looking a little intrigue by it all, I didn't know what was worse him not saying anything or for him to flip out.
"I don't know why you're worried about tell me, so you got to give him a bit of your blood. That's no biggy." That was the problem it wasn't about giving him a drop of my blood, I don't know why I thought it would easy to talk about all this to him, because this is one of the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
"To wake him I have to let him drain me of all my blood." Damon looked taken back as those words came out of my mouth, he sat there with his jaw gapping opened not uttering a word. "Damon…" He looked at me with a mixture of emotions, wanting to say something but holding back.
"Yeah but your immortal. You'll heal." He was making this a thousand times harder for me, it wasn't sinking in what I was trying to tell him.
"Damon, I won't survive it, the reason I've been around this long is to wake him." Damon abruptly got up from the step, I stood up out of reflex the look on his face right now worried me it was filled with anger.
"There no way in hell I'm letting you do this Star!" I approached him and held his hand as I looked up into his blue eyes which were glazing over as he was fighting back his tears. I wanted him to understand why I needed to do this that now with news of the cure going around it was getting far to dangerous.
"Damon I've lived for a millennium, I'm tired of fighting I just want it all to be over with." He began to shake his head in disappointment, I cupped my hands around his face so he was looking directly at me. "This was always what I'm meant to do, I'm sorry." He placed his hands on top of mine and moved them from his face abruptly.
"You're sorry? You came back into our lives, and now you're planning on sacrificing yourself" He raised his voice again, he really wasn't taking any of this well. Maybe it wasn't a good idea that I told him, but if I didn't it would had just eaten me up inside.
"Keep your voice down your gonna wake up Nik." His eyes were a knife in my ribs, the sharp point digging deeper. Where there had been love was an emptiness, but not in any vulnerable sense. Uncomfortable with the void, he had filled it with an emotion he was more at ease with - raw anger. The unmoving gaze was accompanied by deliberate slow breathing, like he was fighting something back and loosing.
"Yeah talking about that, how is Klaus going to feel about all this? Screw Klaus! What about me and my brother have you even thought about any of us." He started to walk away, I couldn't have him being like this, and he will end up telling everyone out of his fit of rage. I intercepted him stopping him from taking another step once again there was that raw rage in his eyes as he looked at me.
"Do you even know what it been like for me over the last thousand years?" He was about to talk and I cut him off before he could respond with cocky remark. "No you don't. I've lived. I loved, and now I-I Just need to do this Damon. I thought if anyone could understand why I'm doing this I thought it would have been you." I couldn't hold my emotions anymore, tears began roll down my cheeks I felt vulnerable I was opening up about all this for the first time. Damon pulled me into a hug no words were said between us while we stood there, none were needed.
Damon trying to calm me down, he promised that he won't tell anyone what I had told him, just because he agreed to that it didn't mean that he was happy about me giving up my life. What he didn't understand is that if I didn't do this, my life will away be the same, be on the run watching who I can, and can't trust. It not like I could have a normal life like a mortal, where you meet the person you love and get married and have children, no I couldn't have that life. Granted I was lucky enough to fall in love with the most amazing man, but that wasn't enough. I knew no matter how much I loved Nik it will never fill that void I've always had. The only reason I came back to Mystic Falls is to tell Damon and Stefan the truth about myself, then I was meant to walk away. Not for any of this to happen, to allow my feeling for Nik to come back to the surface, allowing myself and him to think that we could have what we had before.
Damon had left and I made my way back into the house, I was a little concerned that Nik may be up and wondered where I was. I went in his room and he was still sound asleep, I crawled back into bed as I laid Nik wrapped his arm around me.
"You're freezing sweetheart." He spoke into my ear, after telling Damon everything all I felt right now was guilt lying next to Nik. "Come here." He turned me over so that I was facing him, he leaned in kissed me as he moved the hair from my face. He pulled away looked at me lovingly as he caressed my cheek, I knew I had to keep it together around him.
"So what do you have planned for today?" I didn't want Nik knowing I was upset from the conversation I had with Damon, he would start asking questions I couldn't deal with having that talk with him not after how hard it was with Damon.
"Well I need to finish of a piece that I'm doing for Winter Wonderland charity event." I began to frown, as this was the first I heard about this event. "Yes Star, I can be charitable sometime." I knew that Nik may portray the villain, but like everyone else in society he just wanted to accept.
"Well I better stop distracting you, and let you finish your masterpiece." I moved away from him and he caught my arm and drawing me back to him.
"You can distract me as much as you want." Nik being flirtatious right now didn't help me, I needed to gather my thoughts on what I'm going to do, I thought talking out loud about all this was going to help if anything it's just left me in a whirl wind of confusion.
"What about, I distract you later." I gave him a wink and he began to grin.
"Like you did last night…" He teased as I slipped out of his grip. I did take him by surprised last night with the way I behaved, I just wanted him to distract me, calm me down from my crazy behaviour.
I walked into his bathroom and had a shower I half expect him to join me, but he didn't and part of me felt a little relived that he didn't because I would have to continue with my act. I hated to feel like this, maybe I should just walk away from all of this once and for all. I don't think I could now they all knew about the cure so they would be still search or it, and Jeremy needs my help too I can't abandon him. Then there was the Salvatore brother could I walk away from them once again leaving without a word? Well I had to do it at some point, I mean Damon knew about everything now. Then there was Niklaus he wouldn't let me walk away from him, he will literally search the ends of earth for me to either plead me to come back or kill me for leaving him once again. I'm going to drive myself insane if I continue like this. I had to put it at the back of my mind just for now.
I began to dry my hair and curled it, I applied my make-up and get changed into dark jeans and a red cropped jumper I placed on my boots on. I walked out of Nik room and made my way down the stairs; I saw Nik was in the parlour painting on a canvas. That had always been his passion to paint, I used love to watch him as he turned a blank canvas into something with such beauty. As I walked in and he looked up smiling, I went over and kissed his cheek, then I admired his art work.
"It's very different." He turned to me frowning, it had been awhile since I've seen any of his work. "I mean it's a single snow flake, surrounded by darkness, but I knowing you Niklaus it has a deeper meaning." He began to smile as he wiped his hands on a cloth.
"Your right as always love." He wrapped his arms around my waist. "The snowflake represent something delicate and precious that is surrounded by darkness that's attempting to consume it." I turned to the painting and admired it, it made a little more sense now rather than it being a giant snow flake. "It's meant to symbolise our relationship." I turned back to him frowning, what did he mean by that? "Your pure of heart, innocent just like a snowflake, while I am the darkness that surrounding you waiting to somehow corrupt you." There appeared to be sadness in his voice, I didn't like him talking about himself like that, in my eyes Niklaus was perfect. I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"You shouldn't speak like that Niklaus." Nik face was filled with different emotions, if I could have one wish it would be for Niklaus not feel these dark thoughts about himself.
"Everything I touch I destroy Star. I'm just waiting—" I stopped him from talking by kissing him, closing the gap between us to intensify the kiss. We both heard someone enter the room as we pulled apart Stefan was standing a few feet away. He looked at both of us, which felt really awkward before looking at the painting.
"Looks like a giant snowflake." Stefan spoke as he studying it before looking over to Nik who still had me tightly in his arms. This moment couldn't be any more uncomfortable.
"I prefer to think of it as an expression of post modernism. It's my donation to the Winter Wonderland charity event." One of Nik's hybrids walks into the room, I think his name was Adrian, he always looked nervous I guess after what happened with Dean all of them were on edge.
"You said it was urgent." Nik removed his arms from me and looked at him with this smirk on his face.
"Yes, take this to the Mystic Grill immediately." He pointed at the painting and Adrian looked at him a little confused, I glanced at Stefan who didn't seem impressed with the way Nik was speaking to Adrian.
"You want me to be a delivery guy?" Nik walks towards closing the space between him and Adrian, oh god don't do anything stupid Nik.
"What I want is for you to do whatever I say. Without the attitude." Adrian grimaces and walks over to the painting, he picks it up and starts to leave the room. "And be careful with that. It's still wet." He called out to him, I really didn't like the way Nik treated his hybrids they were not his slaves.
"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, you know." He turned to me a little amused, it wasn't a joke he shouldn't be treating them in this way.
"What is the point of my hybrids being sired to me sweetheart, if I can't maximize on the benefits of free labour?" He placed a gentle kiss on my cheek then he turned to Stefan. "What are you doing here?" Nik spoke as he walked over to pour himself a drink.
"Elena is sired to Damon." Stefan announced, you could hear in his voice how much it was all hurting him knowing that Elena thinking she in love with Damon.
"I intuited as much." Nik walked over and handed a glass of scotch to Stefan.
"Which means I need to find the cure now more than ever, and yet here you are making postmodern snowflakes." Stefan sounded a little frustrated, what did he want Nik to do? I mean the only way we could get t to the cure is to revile the map on the hunter. That would be Jeremy, but he wasn't ready for any of that he needed to train, he needed to control trying to not kill his sister and his friends. I couldn't have Jeremy turn out like Connor did. No matter how much they wanted the cure, his just a kid.
"I've delivered." Nik snapped me out of my thoughts; I looked over at the both of them there was tension in the air. "I retrieved the Hunter's sword from Italy which we'll use to decipher the map hidden in the Hunter's mark. You're the one who is supposed to deliver the Hunter and his mark." This is really going to be a problem, they can't expect Jeremy to just turn into a hunter overnight.
"Well, Jeremy is the hunter, and he has to keep killing vampires to complete his mark. He can't be thrown into it he needs training Nik." Nik looked at me for a few moments taking in what I had just told him, he had to understand this wasn't something that was done overnight.
"Sounds like quite the chore. Which is why I feel perfectly justified doing a little charity work." I rolled my eyes I don't think Nik gave a damn about the kid, all he wanted was the get to the cure that was everyone focus.
"Hmm, or maybe you're lying about having found the sword." Why would Stefan think that Nik would lie about the sword, I saw him carrying it the night he came back from Italy.
"Why would I lie to you, Stefan?" Nik raised his voice a little and strides past Stefan and towards the other room. "We're in this together—" Stefan and I looked at each other and we followed Nik into the room, Nik turns the dial on the vault and opens it up he takes the sword out. "—The hilt acts as a cipher which we'll use to decode the marks on Jeremy's tattoo, when he's killed enough vampires to complete it." Nik placed the sword down on a table so that what the sword did it decoded the marks. Nik takes a seat on the sofa and props his feet up on the same table, Stefan picks the sword up and examines it. "I heard you moved out of your house." Stefan looks at me and gave me that look of why the hell did you tell him I didn't expect for Nik to be rubbing it in his face.
"Nik don't start…" Nik sat there with smirk if he was planning on getting in my bad book today he was heading the right direction of he didn't stop with Stefan.
"Bit of a martyr move, hm?" Nik teased him; Stefan didn't look at him he kept looking at the sword, I think he was trying to avoid a confrontation.
"I'm not here to bond, Klaus." Stefan places the sword back on the table.
"Oh, on the contrary, I think right now I'm the best friend you've got." They both looked at each other intensely; this is all getting all a little out of hand now. These two are determined to get to that cure, but we really couldn't rush this, my main concern here is about Jeremy. Not to make Katherine 2.0 aka Elena human once again, I'm already living with the guilt of the way Connor turned out. I need to get more involved in all of this, without any of them finding out what I'm meant to do. I know for a fact Nik and Stefan will try and stop me, and as much as it pains me I can't let them do that.
Stefan P.O.V
I went to see Klaus earlier I wanted to know if he actually going to be doing anything to bring us closer to finding the cure, well when I walked in I didn't expect to walk in on Klaus and Star all over each other. The first emotion that came over me was pure jealously seeing Star in Klaus arms and seeing his lips touching hers. I wanted to go over there and rip them apart, but I need to stop this jealously it my fault that Star ran back into his arms. I'm sure he used his British charm to get her back into his bed. So the actually reason I went there to see what the hell he was doing to get us closer to the cure. He had shown me the sword which decodes the map on the hunter mark, Star made a good point about not rushing Jeremy to kill vampires. She was actually genuinely concerned about Jeremy wellbeing, and the fact of him turning on all of us. Of course Klaus didn't care as long as he had Elena back to being human, he could continue with build his hybrid army. I needed to figure out a way to stop him from doing that to Elena.
I left Klaus home and made my way back to the boarding house, Damon had called me and told me that Elena had left to go back home. He was staying at the lake house help Jeremy to control his urges. I sat on the sofa in the library, reading through some old papers my phone goes off I looked at the screen and it was Caroline.
"Hey, sorry, I know I'm late." I was meant to meet her like half hour ago, with everything going on I had totally forgot.
"If I'm gonna be a friend in your time of need, then you to need to work on your punctuality. I'm in a crisis. Where are you?" She sounded a little frustrated what the hell had happened?
"I'm at my house. Why? What's wrong?" I heard her sigh.
"My boyfriend is a dumbass martyr. Wait, and why are you at your house? Aren't you trying to keep your distance from Elena?" It turns out that Elena could go back home, something tells me Star was behind that, there no way Damon would willingly want to train Jeremy.
"Well, she's not here anymore. Damon took Jeremy to the Gilbert lake house with Bonnie so I guess her house is safe for her again. Hey, listen; I got Klaus to tell me a little bit more about this Hunter's sword. You know that map in Jeremy's tattoo? The sword decodes it. It's literally the key to finding the cure." I didn't even know how it could be decoded, but now I knew I had to keep Klaus on side until I did.
"Klaus told you this?" Caroline asked with panic in her voice.
"Yeah, why?" why would that even freak her out?
"And did he happen to hand over the sword for safekeeping?" Yeah right like Klaus would do that, Caroline was acting a little shady..
"Uh, what do you think?" I heard Caroline sigh. "What's wrong?" Why was Caroline acting like this?
"We need to get our hands on that sword. Like today. Tyler and his hybrids are taking out Klaus tonight." She had to be kidding, how did they expect to take him down? She's right I needed to get hold of that sword. Then it hit me, Star who was practically joined at Klaus hip. What if they hurt her too? I need to do something to stop this from happening, Star had a right to know what going on, even though I hate Klaus I know it will kill her if something happened to him and I can't see her go through that.
Klaus P.O.V
Star behaviour when she came to see me last night concerned me, she looked frighten to death I tried talking to her, but she wouldn't tell me what had happened. She was literally all over me, her lips filled with hunger and her touch, I knew that whatever had happened Star did not want to talk about it. So we both went with our urges I could never get enough of Star, I loved caressing and cherishing every part of her, and when I would make love to her it would feel eutrophic. I'm ashamed to say this, but in a thousand years I have had many women in my bed, but none like Star. When we were intimate it felt like I was floating on clouds, I almost felt human again. The morning was glorious waking up next to Star, I had told about the piece I had done for the Winter Wonderland charity event. This took Star by surprise a little. While Star went to go and have a shower I went down the parlour to finish off the piece before she saw it, as much as I wanted to join her I wanted to surprise with it.
She finally came down looking beautiful as ever she began to admire the painting; I had explained to her what the meaning behind it all meant. She looked a little taken back by it all but that all I was waiting for, for me to ruin everything. I'm not meant to be this happy, I'm a man who needs to have control, and with this relationship with Star had no control over it. I couldn't control what direction it was going in, because for once I couldn't just think of myself I had to think of her. I had learnt from my past mistake of the cost of pushing her to one side, and I've beaten myself up for 500 years for that. Then I had the pleasure of Stefan coming to my home unannounced, and excused me of not retrieved the sword which rather annoyed me. I had shown him the sword that kept his mouth shut. Star spoke of her concerns about Jeremy Gilbert, but that weren't my problem all I need now was for Stefan to deal with the hunter.
He had left abruptly and Star had told me she had a few things to do, and she will see me tonight at the Winter Wonderland event. I would of rather her and I spent the day together, but of course I didn't want to come across too needy. I made my way down to the town square there were children are running around in the fake snow and starting snowball fights. I walked over to the grill and I saw Caroline is admiring the postmodern snowflake I painted. She seems to notice she is being watched and turns to see me looking at her, I smiles at her and she turns to face me.
"Here to steal Tiny Tim's crutches?" Typical Caroline with her witty comments.
"Dickens was a dark man. You would have liked him." I walked around the table towards her, but Caroline makes her way to the other side of the table so that they we are still apart.
"Nice snowflake, by the way." Did everyone in this town have no idea about art?
"Is my work really that literal?" I couldn't help but smirk a little, I thought Caroline was brighter than some of the people in this town.
"I'm serious. There's something… lonely about it." That not what it meant, but at least she saw behind the whole snowflake.
"I'm gonna take that as a compliment. Can I offer you some champagne?" Caroline turns around and starts to walk away I began to pursues her as she was acting a little odd.
"Look I don't need your girlfriend or wife whatever you wanna call her, throwing me through another glass panel." She spoke as she continued to walk away from me. What was Caroline on about?
"I'm sorry I'm a little lost. What did Star do to you?" Caroline stops and turned to me looking a little stunned and hesitant to reply. "Caroline…" I practically growled her name as I wanted to know what happened.
"She got a little upset by something Elena said, she was ready to rip her head off. So I went to help Elena, but I'm magically thrown through Damon shower." I pulled out my phone from my pocket began to search for her number. "You didn't know did you?" I looked up at Caroline while I place my phone by my ear.
"No I didn't." The phone was ringing, Star didn't pick up it went to her voicemail "Star can you please call me when you receive this." I closed the call and I looked up at Caroline and she looked nervous, I needed to find out where Star is and find out what had happened last night for her to behave this way, it was out of charter of her. Something was going on with her and I needed to find out what exactly that was, I began to walk off and Caroline caught my arm, I turned too looked at her.
"Klaus you're not go all possessive on her? She may have had a bad night or something." Maybe Caroline was right if I find Star and demand why she reacted like way it may drive us apart. "If we're going to be nice to each other, then I will need that glass of champagne." I smiled before walking away to get us some champagne. I can't panic over Star actions, I'll speak to her calmly when she calls me back. I'm sure she will have rational explanation to it all.
Star P.O.V
After the tension back at Nik's I knew needed to speak with Damon, I was really concerned about this whole Jeremy being dragged into all of this. It was too soon for him to be doing any of this, he was like a ticking time bomb. I had left the mansion and made my way to the boarding house when I got there Damon weren't there but Stefan was. Apparently Damon had gone to the lake house to help Jeremy, it was like he read my thoughts I felt relived hearing that. I know that Jeremy doesn't like Damon much, but Damon knows how important it is for Jeremy to be trained correctly not turn into another Conner.
"Star there something I need to tell you." Stefan spoke breaking me out of my thoughts, I looked over at him and he had this really concerned look.
"What wrong Stefan?" I really didn't like the way he was looking at me, he looks like that when his about to drop some bad news.
It was bad, Stefan had told me about Tyler and the hybrids are planning to take Nik down once and for, I felt my heart accelerate when he first told me. Then I calmed myself down as Nik wasn't like any other vampire, he couldn't just be staked, actually he wasn't even a vampire he was a hybrid the original hybrid. I began to frantically question Stefan of what they had planned, and he didn't have a clue what they had planned. He told me that we were going to be meeting Caroline soon and she may have answers. I wasn't too sure how Caroline was going to react to seeing me after what happened last night, I didn't mean to hurt her the way I did. I just felt so angry about the whole Elena and Damon situation, I just totally lost control with what I was doing. Of course I will apologies for my actions, I just hope she accept. I don't normally behave like that, and it did freak me out feeling all that rage at once.
Stefan and I left the boarding house we made our way to an alleyway where Stefan told me we were going to meet her. Stefan was leaning against the wall while I kept pacing back and forth I was worried about Nik, I didn't have a clue what they were going to do to him. Then there was the fact of what he might do to them, just thinking about it was making my stomach turn. I looked up to see Caroline approaching us, she didn't looked too happy to see me, and to be honest I didn't blame her after what I did to her.
"Hey what the hell is she doing here?" I totally deserve that I approached her and she took a step back, I wasn't going to do anything to her but she clearly thought I was.
"Caroline I'm sorry for what I did, I lost control after—" She looked at me worried before cutting me off.
"It's ok Star. I guess we all get a little crazy sometime." Why did she just brush that off?
"Hey, what going on between both of you?" Stefan asked as he came and stood beside us.
"Star got a little drunk last night and forgot her own strength." She gave me a smile that's when I realised she didn't want Stefan to know about what happened, if he knew my reason for losing control was because Damon and Elena slept together it would destroy him. "Did you find the sword?" She questioned him, I looked between the both of them they were trying to seal the sword that Nik showed us this morning?
"Nope." Stefan spoke with disappointment, why would they be looking for the sword?
"What are we gonna do now?" Caroline looked even more worried than before. This was simple get her hybrid and his hormonal hybrids to call this off, there has been far too many deaths in this town already.
"What you need to do is get Tyler to call it off. I'm not having anything happen to Nik!" I shouted at the both of them, how could they expect me to just sit back and just let them decide on his fate.
"Well, that's not gonna happen." I heard Tyler voice, I turned around and Tyler appeared on the stairway, he looked directly at Caroline. "You told them?" Tyler walks down the remaining steps towards us looking furious at Caroline. "I've had twelve hybrids sworn to secrecy for a month. I have Hayley and a witch risking their lives, and you're blabbing my plan to him and Klaus freaking girl?" Stefan steps forward, closing the gap between him and Tyler.
"Look, all I'm asking you for is a little bit of time, okay?" what!? I pushed Stefan out of the way.
"You not doing anything to Nik. I am making myself clear!" Tyler grabbed me by the throat and pinned me against the wall, I tried to fight him but I couldn't either his stupidly strong or there something wrong with me. Why the hell couldn't I get him off me he was only a freaking hybrid?
"You're not as strong as ever one says." Stefan was about to come over. "Don't Stefan I'll break her neck before you even get here." Stefan stepped back while Caroline looked at Tyler terrified, I tried to fight him but I just couldn't get him off me. "Your husband going down, and there nothing you can do about it Star." He kept his grip tight around my throat, I began to grasp for air.
"Tyler let Star go! All we are asking is for time that it." Stefan pleaded once again, Tyler turned his head to him.
"How long? An hour? A day? Because every minute that goes by that we don't do this, they're at risk. You and Klaus already served one of them up for Jeremy to kill, I don't owe you anything." Tyler turns around to me smirking. "I'm taking him out." Then everything was a blur I saw Stefan uses his super speed to take Tyler off me and I dropped to the door.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that." Stefan pushed Tyler into the wall. Caroline came over and helps me up from the floor; I held to my throat as it was hurting from Tyler tight grip.
"Stefan…" Caroline said with disbelief in her voice, Stefan was beating Tyler up. .
"Stefan…." I called out he followed my gaze he turned around and sees a half dozen of the hybrids standing on the stairs behind him. I turned around and saw the remaining hybrids in the alleyway, blocking any means of escape.
"Sorry man, but you don't have a choice." Two of the hybrid grabbed me forcefully, Stefan was about to help me but two stood in front of him "She going to make perfect bait to draw out Klaus, I'm sure he wouldn't want anything to happen to you." I couldn't believe any of this and why the hell couldn't I fight any of these stupid hybrid off? I can take down Nik but none of these what the hell going on?
Stefan P.O.V
I should of guess Tyler would have turned on us, when attacked Star I felt pure rage, I wanted to help her but he threaten to hurt her. What surprised me was the fact that Star tried to fight off Tyler and she couldn't, I mean I've seen Star move faster than any vampire and Damon told about her strength. So why couldn't she fight off? She looked frighten and all I wanted to do is help her, but then Tyler hybrid friends turned up and took us away. Tyler spoke about using Star for bait that wasn't a good idea, because as soon as Klaus find out what he done will murder each and every one of them for even touching her. They had brought us to the Lockwood cellar and I notice Star really didn't look too good, every time I tried to get near her to see if she was ok. One of the hybrid would get in the way. Tyler came in and he looked at Caroline with disappointment that she had told me about their plan, all of this was all getting out of hand right now. Tyler takes a chain from on top of a box and looks over at us.
"Tyler!" Caroline said stunned he was really acting strange not like the Tyler we knew, it was like his revenge for Klaus was consuming him, I had been there I knew what it felt like but if he carried on he lose everything.
"Keep them down here until we're ready to bring Klaus in." He drops the chains in front of Kim. "Use these if you have to." I walked closer to Tyler to try and reason with him, this was getting all out of control.
"Come on, Tyler, this is bigger than you. It's about more than revenge for us." Tyler closes the gap between us, to try and intimate me.
"I know what it's about for you, Stefan. It's about the cure. You know what happens to a hybrid when he's cured of being a vampire? We go back to being werewolves; turning on every full moon. We could give a rat's ass about the cure." Tyler walks past me Caroline steps forward towards Tyler maybe she could get through to him.
"Tyler, come on." He looked at her with anger in his eyes but also with disappointment.
"I needed you on my side, Care. That's all I wanted." He took one finally look at her before he walked out. We had been down here for a while and the hybrids are still keeping us prisoner in the cellar. Star kept looking at the door I knew what she was thinking and I just hope she didn't do anything stupid.
"Ugh, this is ridiculous. We are not hostages!" Caroline shouted out in frustration.
"Sure you are, sweetie" Caroline glares at Kim and super speeds to stand right in front of her, Caroline and Kim stare each other down. In that moment of distraction Star super sped out of the Lockwood cellar, Kim turned to the hybrids. "Go find her, if she gets to Klaus we are all good as dead!" If Star does find him, I'm sure she will tell him what they have planned for him. Caroline looked worried as she know like me that Star will tell him, and the fact Tyler the ring leader of all of this Klaus will enjoy killing him more. My phone starts to ring and a hybrid start to advance towards on me.
"Relax." They all stop in their tracks. "It's my brother." I answers the phone "What's up?"
"Don't ask how or why or who, but I just found the answer to your Tyler problem." I listen to how Damon had found out that professor Shane knew where the cure was and we didn't need Klaus to decode the hunter mark.
"You're kidding" I hung up my phone and looks at Caroline. "We don't need the sword." Caroline subtly raises her eyebrows, my only concern now is the fact they're going to be a war between Klaus and the hybrids. With Star was mixed up in all of this we couldn't let anything happen to her.
Klaus P.O.V
I had tried to get hold of Star majority of the day, and nothing she didn't answer my calls or messages and it was being to irritate me slightly. I felt like Star was hiding something from me, and she avoid me the more I got spurious. I went looking for in the town square as she told me to meet her here tonight, but instead of finding Star I bumped into that Hayley instead. I had just had a very heated conversation with that she wolf she really didn't like me much, but I do not care I'm not here to make friends. She walked away abruptly, and I saw Stefan approach me, I hadn't seen him since this morning when he burst into my home.
"She doesn't like me much. Where have you been all day?" He looked around the square like he was looking for someone.
"I've been around." He responded still not looking at me, what was his problem?
"I'm not interested in vagary, Stefan. You've been dodgy and Caroline's been lovely, which I've come to recognize as a tool of distraction, now, do you have something to share with me or should I compel it out of you?" they were plotting something behind my back, something tells me Star disappearance may have something to do with it all.
"I broke into your safe to look for the sword." Did I hear him correctly? Why on earth would he do that? I felt insulted I was the one who told him about the cure, who actually retrieved the bloody sword.
"Why?" I half shouted at him, why would he do something like that?
"Because I don't trust you." He spoke flatly, how could he not trust me I had been helping him the whole time. If it wasn't for me he would have never known there was a way to cure his beloved Elena.
"I showed you the sword. I explained its value. I've been on your side the entire time. What do you want from me? A secret brotherhood handshake?" I spoke through my teeth. I wanted Stefan and I still hold that friendship we used to, but he was testing my patience.
"I found the letters. You've had a few pen pals over the centuries," I smiled smugly at me, well he did search through my home thoroughly.
"Well, is keeping my victims' letters really so different from writing their names on a wall? Like you did, Ripper." Stefan doesn't respond, I smiled even more smugly now I knew I hit a nerve, he began to walk away. "Loneliness, Stefan that why, when I lost Star it all started" Stefan turns around and faces me frowning. "That's why you and I memorialize our dead. There's the briefest of moments before we kill where we literally hold their life in our hands and then we rip it away. And we're left with nothing. So, gathering other peoples' letters or writing their names on a wall is a reminder that in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone" Stefan approached me.
"There something I should tell you, and I'm not doing this for you, but for Star because for some reason she loves you." He looked around then back to me. "Your hybrids are planning on taking you down." I saw Adrian over Stefan's shoulder walks past Stefan, towards him but Stefan stops me "Klaus…." I felt anger knowing that my hybrid had gone behind my back to take me down how dare they.
"Stefan I'm warning you." I threaten him, I turned and walks off and grabbed Adrian forcefully, Adrian looked at me with fear in his eyes, I demanded where the others were. He informed me that they were in the woods I didn't speak a word to him after that. We arrived at the location and I could see my hybrid all getting ready to take me down, I pushed Adrian into the clearing.
"Kim…" He called out just before I tore out his heart.
"No!" Adrian falls down on his knees, Kim eyes advert to me standing behind him holding out his bloody heart in my hand, I dropped it on the floor. All I felt right now was pure rage within me. I didn't come alone… No I had brought along the hunter's sword which I knew would service me well. I began to rush at the hybrids, slashing at them with the sword. I will take each and every one of them down for trying to defy me.
Star P.O.V
I don't know how I did it but I somehow escaped out of that cell, I know I should of help Stefan and Caroline, but I didn't even know if I could get myself out. Then there was the fact that they were going to let Nik die, all they were concerned about was that stupid cure so Elena could become human once again. That infuriated me so much they didn't care about Nik or what happened to him yes to them he was a bastard. In my eyes he was a man that I adored more than anything I couldn't let anything happen to him, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't stop that from happening. I ran through the woods with my super speed I notice I weren't going as fast, I kept jerking and stopping ever so often. I knew the hybrids would be after me as they wanted to use me as bait to lure Nik. I wasn't going to be anyone bait, all I knew is that I need to find Nik and warn him of what they are planning to do. I need to somehow convince him not to hurt them or worse kill anyone for even considering it. I arrived in the town square and I began to look around for Nik, I couldn't see him anywhere. I saw Tyler instead, please don't let my power go like they did today. I began to approach him slowly and I saw that he was on his phone.
"Hey mom, I don't see you. Things have changed, it's gonna be fine." So his mom knew about all of this too? "I'll be back later. I'll pick you up." I was about to approach him but he began to walk towards Hayley, I followed him with caution. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be taking the witch to the Cellar." So she was involved in all of this too? Who wasn't part of this plot to take Nik down?
"There is no witch, Tyler." She spoke flatly, I felt my jaw drop what the hell was she playing at.
"What?" Tyler practically shouts, I walked over to them and Tyler looked at me, and he didn't come across like the cocky hybrid today there was clear fear in his eyes
"I made it up, I never intended for you to put Klaus down. I needed him for the sacrifice." As soon as I heard that I grabbed her by the throat, she looked at me all wide eye
"The what?" I screamed at her, Tyler tried to prey me off her but he couldn't looks that I've got my mojo back just at the right time.
"Star you're going to kill her." I turned to Tyler and glared at him, this little bitch just played him and he is defending her?
"She has sentence the lot of you to death by Nik hand, and you're worried that I'm going to kill her!" The looked in Tyler eye appeared that reality had sunk in for him that, because of this one girl they were all going to die and I couldn't let that happen "Talk Hayley, why did you betray your friends?" Her, her eyes began to glaze over as tears began to escape.
"There needed to be twelve for the sacrifice." I let go of her and she dropped to the ground, no she didn't, this couldn't be happening.
"Tyler where are the rest of the hybrids?" He looked at me and hesitated to talk. "Goddamn it Tyler tell me!" He look terrified, he needed to be all this talk about taking Nik down when it wasn't going to be all their deaths.
"In the woods northing clearing." I rushed off using my speed I need to find Nik before he does something stupid, and why 12 was need for sacrifice it sounded very familiar to me.
I arrived at the north clear and the first thing I saw was Nik slashed at one of the hybrids who fell to the ground, dead. Another hybrid jumps at him, ready to attack him, but Nik slices her head off with the sword. I stood there frozen Nik looked like a mad man I've never seen him like this before. He throws the sword at another hybrid and pinning him to a tree. Nik rips out of the hybrid's that was pinned to the tree, heart out of his chest. He takes the sword out of the now dead hybrid's chest, and slashes the throat of another one of his hybrids. I was watching a bloody mascara I couldn't believe what I was seeing Nik do with my very own eyes. I began to approach him with caution as Nik stood in the midst of all the dead hybrids, he was breathing heavily and had blood splashed across the front of his shirt. I could tell that he hadn't even sense my presence here. He turns looking in another direction and rushes off, I had never seen him like this and to be honest it scared me. I followed him, he went down into the cellar that they had us imprison earlier, I walked in and he was in front of that goby girl from today. She gets up and grabs the bars of the Cellar, trying to find a way out as she continues to sob; she turns and looks at Nik.
"Where is Tyler Lockwood?" The girl continues to cry, but does not answer, Nik points the sword at her throat and moves closer towards her.
"Nik please…"He turned to me while still hold the sword to her neck, I began to approach him slowly I could feel my heart accelerating like it wanted to jump out of my chest. "Nik please…" I touched his hand where the sword was to try and take it from him before he killed the girl. The next thing I knew I felt the back of his hand hit my face, I went flying through the air and my head hit the stone wall. I couldn't believe it Nik hit me, my face was pulsing from the hard slap he just gave me. .
"You'd do well to answer me, love." Nik places the blade against her throat and screams in her face "Where is he?!" He was out of his mind. He really had lost it. I could feel something trickling at the back of my neck, I touched it and my hand was covered in blood.
"I don't know!" She cried out to him, I tried to get up from the floor but I felt light headed and fell back down.
"Wrong answer!" Nik pushes the blade into her throat then she gasped for air, but he successfully presses the blade through her neck and chops her head off. I got up from the floor and looked at him I couldn't believe what I had witness, I looked down at my hands that were covered in blood. He turns around and looked at me his face is not full of rage anymore. "Star…." He began to approach me, and I used my super speed to get away from him, I had finally seen the face of the monster that everyone else had seen.
Damon P.O.V
Today had been so messed up from the moment when Star told me that she had to sacrifice herself to wake up freaking Silas. I'm not happy about any of it, I don't want Star to die and what hurts is that she came back into our lives knowing that she was going to do this. I thought I had eternity to spend time with her, and do crazy stuff together, but it looks like that won't be happening. She really pulled on my heartstrings when she told me that she wanted it over with, and I had no idea of what she been through over thousand years. To living in fear and then being told that your whole purpose being here is, so you can wake up some dick so he can be taken down once and for all.
When I went back to the boarding house Elena was in my bed sleep I had to stop this I couldn't continue this with her. Star was right Katherine had gotten between Stefan and I and I can't let Elena do that. Well it seemed a lot easier in my mind, but when Elena woke up and asked me to go down to the lake house with her, stupid me I agreed to go. Well my time at the lake house I had stop Jeremy from killing Elena once again, and I didn't trust that Shane as far as I could throw him. There was some real tension thought the whole day. I had suggested to use Bonnie as the go in between for Jeremy so he didn't kill any of us, and it worked, he was able to hug his own sister without wanting to kill her. So while I was deal with that I had to listen to Stefan dilemma back home with Tyler and the other hybrid wanting to take down Klaus. Personally I think they were nuts to do that, but it was there funeral. Then an interesting conversation with professor shady pants that he knew the location of the cure, well I let my brother know this and he seem a little stunned by it all. I know we were both thinking the same thing that if Klaus is taken down, how is it going to affect Star? All Stefan and I could do is be there for her.
While Elena and Jeremy were playing happy family I came to the conclusion that I needed to let Elena go, I couldn't let any of this go any further. Yes I love her but Stefan loved her too, and I'm tired of fighting with him over women, in the end we are family and family is important the love I have for my brother was a lot stronger than what I had for her. Another reason I came to this decision is because of Star, because I know in time she will be gone, and I would like for her to go away with the angels happy knowing that Stefan and I hadn't let another woman come between us. Star and Stefan are my only family want to keep hold of that. I'm going to be carrying the burned of knowing that she going to leave us soon, even though I'm concerned about how Stefan going to take to her death and not forgetting Klaus. She going to have a lot of people mourning for her, I just wish there was a way to keep her alive, cause she hell bent on taking Silas down. Maybe I try looking I might find something.
I had used the sire bond to send Elena home, I couldn't have her around me I had made my choice, and I chose my family over her. I know Damon Salvatore the selfish vampire actually put someone before himself. I walked out of the house and saw Jeremy and Bonnie pull apart from a hug and Jeremy smiles at her then Bonnie gets in the car and Jeremy closes the door for her. Jeremy walks back towards the house and waves goodbye to Elena. Elena smiles at him and turns to look at me as Jeremy walks in the house.
"I was ready to fight you on this, but suddenly every part of my body is telling me that I need to get in this car and leave you" She had to go I couldn't do any of this anymore, I couldn't have her being here telling me she's in love with me when it's likely the sire bond that making her say it.
"So don't." I opened the passenger side door for her and Elena gets in. The car drove off and I made my way back into the house I know I'm doing the right thing, but it doesn't stop the hurt of letting her go. I was broken out of my thought by someone banging down the front door frantically, that better not be Elena because I'll kick her ass if it is. I walked towards the front door and I saw Jeremy coming down the stairs with a worried look.
"Who's that?" Well I'm about to find out.
"Go back up, I'll deal with whoever it is." He nodded and goes up the stairs I opened the door and there stood Star with tears streaming down her face, she pushed me out of the way and close the door. I stood there stunned by her actions, how the hell did she even know where to come here? "Star what's happened?" She grabs hold of her head and burst into tears as she slid down to the floor crying. I went over to her and hugged her and she cried into my chest. I don't know what had happened to her but who ever had upset her like this I'm going to kill them.