"Where did you go last night? The witch I had follow you was found dead in an alley this morning, and there were no traces of you." I looked up at Elijah from my place on my couch. Kol had returned me here very early this morning.

"So you did have him follow me...One of those vampires killed him, and I had to hide. That's why you couldn't find me."

"Where did you hide? I looked everywhere."

"Did you happen to look inside the Salvatore mausoleum? I thought it would be a perfectly ironic place." I'd rehearsed this story with Kol several times, because I couldn't tell Elijah or anyone where Kol was hiding, or that I'd been with him at all.

"Well, I guess it is good that you got away from your attacker...Though I will insist that you remain inside to prevent anyone else from surprising you in that same way."

"Sure." Elijah was suddenly gone and I dug my phone out of my pocket. I quickly dialed Kol's number, and as soon as he answered, I said "He believed my story. Did you go to the mausoleum?"

"Yes, and it looks like you spent a long, dirty night in there. I even left a half-finished bottle of wine for Elijah to find with your scent on it. This isn't my first time hiding, Dani."

"I was just making sure...Now, are you really going to help me or not?"

"Of course I am. I'll even be at your

apartment in several minutes so we can discuss it in person."

"And discussing is all that'll be going on." Kol chuckled and I hung up.

As I nervously waited for him to show, my mind flashed back to last night. Sweat broke out all over my skin as I vividly remembered every kiss and touch, and I tried to push the images and feelings from my mind. It didn't work very well, because when a series of knocks resounded on the door, I nearly fell out of my seat.

"It's about time...Klaus." It wasn't Kol standing in my doorway, but Klaus. I took several steps back and Klaus entered, and I hurriedly asked "How...how can you come in? I didn't invite you..!"

"You don't own this place, remember? I easily found the witch my brother had employed. She's laying in her home with a broken neck, I'm afraid. That means her spells wore off as well."

"But...how? Why?"

"As I told you before, anyone that tries to steal you away from me will pay the price. I'm having a small amount of trouble locating exactly where Elijah is, though."

"Perhaps I could help you with that." My heart jumped into my throat as Kol appeared in the doorway. "I didn't realize there would be other visitors, Dani."

"What..?" Klaus' eyes shifted from his brother to me. "You were going to invite him in? Why?"

"He...was going to help me, to turn someone human...It isn't you, I swear!" Klaus' face darkened. "I don't know how to work the magic myself, and Kol was the only one that offered to help...Please don't be angry!"

"Oh, I'm not." Klaus stepped away from me and faced his brother. "I'd say I was furious. My younger brother trying to intrude in my affairs? Not your smartest idea."

Kol didn't back down from his brother. "Oh, I'd say it was incredibly smart, actually. You see, I've been helping Dani in ways you haven't, and she's very close to using her powers on her own. I'd say my assistance has done a lot more good than yours."

I knew Klaus had got the underlying meaning in Kol's words when he took Kol by the jacket and slammed him against my wall. "You touched Dani!?"

"Well, it wasn't all one-sided brother. She did touch me back." Kol chuckled and Klaus immediately snapped his neck, but I knew that wouldn't keep him down for long. He had my blood in his system from last night, and would heal even faster than usual.

With a grunt and a growl, Klaus turned to me next, evil clear in his yellow hybrid eyes. I hurried across the room, almost stumbling over the table and couch on my way.

I held my hands up and said "Please...please...I didn't mean to hurt you...I was just caught and I didn't know what to do!"

"Oh, but sleeping with my brother is the only thing you could think of? My brother!" Klaus sped to me and I screamed, and everything went dark.

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(Third Person PointOfView)

"What? How?!"

"It doesn't matter. If you want your precious Elena to be cured I suggest you have that little basement room ready for Dani by the time I get there."

"How do you even know she'll recover?"

"Half-vampire, remember? Just have it ready." Klaus hung up and took Dani's limp body in his arms, and hurried down the stairs. He stashed her body in the trunk before speeding off towards the Salvatore house, guilt heavy in his mind.

Truly, he didn't know if she would recover from her injury that he had caused. Even beneath the anger of his beloved Dani betraying him, he wished deeply that she would survive this. If she didn't, he didn't know if he would be able to handle it.

Klaus came to the Salvatore house and Stefan was already waiting outside, questions at the ready. As soon as Klaus presented Dani's body, he asked "Are you gonna tell me what happened now? Who broke her neck?"

"I did." Klaus hurried through the house to the small room in the basement that he'd previously been locked room had served the same purpose for several different vampires before. He laid her down on the floor and Stefan appeared in the doorway.

"Why did you break her neck? I thought you were the one that wanted to use her?"

"I highly suggest you move away from that line of questioning, unless you want to be the next one in here." Klaus went to the fridge full of blood bags the Salvatores kept and took one out for Dani. "Dani disappeared again, and I discovered she had spent the night with Kol, wherever he is hiding."

"Kol? I didn't know he was still in town." Klaus put the blood bag besides Dani's still form and tightly closed the door to the small cellar room.

"I'd kept him imprisoned in my home, but Elijah appears to have set him free."

"Then...do you think he sent her to Kol purposefully?" Klaus scoffed; even he wasn't that stupid.

"Of course not. He's the one that started all of this, the one that wants to get rid of all of us. He was protecting Dani, and probably lost track of her, the idiot."

"Okay...so why is it a problem? Did you really have to break her neck just because she hurt your feelings?"

Klaus slammed Stefan hard against the stone cellar wall, and could hear several of Stefan's bones crack under the force of the hit. "Say that again, and I'll make sure you don't say another word ever again. If you must know, Kol promised to help Dani use her powers to turn someone human again. I don't know who, I don't why him, so stop asking." Klaus released him and stormed up the stairs to the first floor.

There, he went to the parlor to retrieve himself some alcohol from Damon's personal stash. Stefan followed but didn't say a word, and soon after Damon arrived home. He looked at Klaus oddly as he entered, and he and Stefan had a hurried conversation regarding what had just happened.

Damon went to Klaus and asked "You were really stupid enough to let that happen?"

"I'll say to you what I said to Stefan; leave it alone, or you'll be the next one down there."

"Ooh, scary." Damon sat. "You know, if she doesn't survive this, you just ruined your own plan of curing Elena and making a boatload of new hybrids. And I though Stefan and I were stupid."

"Very funny Damon. Am I the only one that remembers Dani is half-vampire? She won't die from a simple broken neck."

"Well, I guess we'll just have to see."

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(Klaus' PointOfView)

She wasn't waking up. It had already been an hour and Dani still hadn't woken up yet.

"I'm going downstairs to check on her."

"What's the point? If she wakes up, she wakes up. If not...then you're screwed." I glared downward at Damon before going back to the cellar.

I could immediately tell something was wrong. The door to the small room was wide open, and Dani was not laying on the ground as I had left her. The bag of blood was still there though.

I heard the small shuffle of a footstep and turned and found a spatter of blood splash across my face. I stepped back, stunned, from the bloody face of Dani, and she shoved me back into the small room.

"You're awake..? Dani?!"

"Infero eseri gratas! Disasustos Vom!" I was thrown on the floor and I shouted as a horrible pain shot through my body. I looked up at Dani as she screamed her spell, blood still dripping from her forehead.

"Dani..!"

"Mas pro jeta sue te! Victas et melam..!" Dani suddenly froze in place and stopped chanting, and the pain ripping through my midsection stopped. I pulled myself to my feet and she still didn't move, and I was perplexed.

Stefan and Damon both appeared behind her with confused expressions on their faces. "What the hêll just happened?!"

"Dani, she...tried to cure me." I wasn't sure, but she had splashed her blood in my face and mouth right before she started screaming... "But I don't know what's going on now!"

I touched Dani and she twitched, then slowly looked up at me with tears now coming out of her dark blue eyes. What?!

"I...did I just...attack you?"

"Yeah, and you were dâmn-near close to finishing that spell of yours."

"What spell..? Oh no...no, no, no...I just tried to cure you!"

"Yeah, I figured."

"I didn't try to though!" She suddenly dropped to the ground in tears. "I just remember us arguing, and then you...broke my neck, and...I woke up with you screaming on the floor...What just happened?"

I looked at Stefan and Damon, and they didn't look like they knew what was going on either.

"Well, you lost control somehow...Let's just get you upstairs." I reached for her but she shied away, pulling herself up instead. "Dani?"

"I'm not an idiot, you know. You just snapped my neck, and whatever is happening is your fault."

"My fault..? I'm pretty sure you're the one that spent the night with my little brother doing god-knows-what." Damon made a noise and Dani rushed upstairs by herself. "Well, that's fantastic. Not only does she have a psychotic break, but I'm apparently target #1. Just fantastic..."

"Well, maybe you shouldn't have snapped her neck. It's not like you wouldn't go back to chasing Caroline if she wasn't here." I glared at Damon and he smirked, and I hurried up the stairs after Dani.

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(Dani's Point Of View)

I sat on the long leather couch and stared at the fire, unable to think of anything to say. What was there to say?

Apparently I'd had some kind of psychotic break, and had attacked Klaus without knowing it. And I'd tried to cure him, which would have been just as effective as killing him! Me!

I hadn't exactly gotten along with him the last week or so, but there was no way I would ever want to kill him...And the fact that I had tried was tearing at my insides.

"You have no idea what that was, do you?" I shook my head as Klaus slowly sat down beside me. "I don't blame you for doing that, love...There's no need no cry over it."

"But If I would've cured you, then you could've died...And I don't know if I could've handled that."

"How do you think I felt when I snapped your neck? I'm sorry about that..."

I shook my head. "It's okay, I'm okay...Okay, not really..." Klaus chuckled and pulled me to him, and I laid my head in his lap. I could feel him running his fingers through my silver hair as I said "I'm not mad that you attacked me...It's not like you didn't have reason..."

"Why did you go to Kol? He told me that he was assisting you with your powers...but is that really why?"

"In truth...I ran from Elijah and he had a witch following me, and Kol killed the witch. He didn't hurt me, so I was curious about what he was up to...That's why I went to his apartment. He offered to help me with my powers, said that he'd contacted Ayana...And said I could cure someone I cared about."

"Who?" I turned my face away from the fire and looked up at Klaus. He bent down and kissed me lightly and said "Go on love, you can tell me."

"He said I could use my blood to bring Alaric back from the dead." His eyes widened. "I don't know if it was Ayana or Kol himself that figured it out, but Kol told me that since Alaric was a ghost, that meant he was a supernatural creature and could still be cured. It didn't matter that he was dead...He could be brought back."

"That's...rather incredible...And you could bring anyone back from the dead like that?"

"I guess...I still don't know how to make it work though."

"What about that spell you were using?"

"That wasn't for a cure." I bolted upright and saw Bonnie standing in the hallway with Stefan. "You weren't trying to cure him."

"What? How did you get here so fast?" She walked in, not looking surprised at all to see Klaus sitting beside me.

"As soon as you came out of your episode or whatever, Stefan called me and told me what happened. He also told me some parts of the spell you were trying to use."

"And I wasn't trying to cure Klaus..?" I looked at him worriedly. "Then what was I saying?"

"The spell you were using is called the Incantation Of The Storm. I used it once before...When Klaus broke his hybrid curse, I tried to use it to kill him. That was before we knew it would kill Stefan and Damon too..."

"I remember that..." Klaus stood. "Now that I think about it, the sensation of ripping my insides apart felt quite the same as that. But didn't you need to power of many witches to perform that spell?"

"100, to be exact...And Dani isn't even supposed to be able to use magic. Her magic is supposed to be dormant in her blood. Something happened while you were knocked out that caused that to...I don't know, change."

I groaned. "Why..? After everything else that's happened, why do I suddenly have to have an evil personality try to kill my fiancé?" When I said that, everyone else in the room froze.

Damon looked at Stefan and asked "Could that really happen after one time? She doesn't even have a ring!"

"I don't know if it matters in this case...She does have a repressed half." They both looked at me.

"What? What are you talking about?"

"Do you know what happened to Alaric before he died? How he...changed?"

"Not really...What happened?" Him and Damon looked at each other again. "What is it?!"

"Alaric had a ring that brought him back when he died, but after he died too many times, he developed another personality...It went on a rampage and killed a bunch of people, and after Esther Mikaelson turned him into an Original vampire, it almost killed me and Damon."

"And...you think that's what's happening now? That Klaus killing me gave me some...evil other half that took control?" She shrugged. "Fantastic..." A thought popped into my head that made me bolt upright again. I looked at Klaus as I shakily asked "If I bring him back...Will he be him, or be that evil other half?"

Bonnie got between us and asked "What are you talking about? Bring who back?"

"Alaric! Ayana and Kol both said that since Alaric is a supernatural creature, he can still be turned back into a human...Even though he's technically dead."

She stared openly at me, her face going slowly from shocked to happy. I became minutely worried.

"Bonnie..?"

"If you can bring Alaric back...do you think...you could bring my Grams back too?"