A/N; Hi Sorry about the delay. Its more time consuming to be writing my new beginning ending story as well as this one. But I just finished Stefan's funeral and the time leading up to it and it took more chapters than I thought.
I wanted to clarify a couple thing here that people have had questions about. Klaus and Caroline do have an intense connection. It is true that they have barely met but love at first sight does happen to people and it is extremely intense.
Most of the time it happens to only one person not both. My husband knew there was something different about me and id dare say fell in love with me hard and fast much like Klaus and Care did. I didn't feel it nearly as strong as he did and it took me time since he was in fact my first boyfriend and came into the relationship shy and not sure what to expect.
So since they both felt the connection it is even stronger. She does love him, she can see a future with him and she had justify bad things he has done because she can see his heart and they have shared deeply. She knows why he is the way he is even its just scratching the surface of a real relationship its a strong foundation to build on. So people feeling she should have gone to Elena and Damon sooner or she shouldn't feel quilty about what she did to Klaus, she does feel horrible and we will explore that more in another chapter later.
The other thing is the timeline. Stefan had only had the bite for about 2 days so far. I'm not sure how the timeline would actually go but I, saying 2 to 3 days to fully metabolize in the vampires system and destroy it. He would not still be alive if it wasn't for Damon feeding him his blood to regenerate his organs again and again. I hope that helps makes some sense.
Special thanks to my sweet husband for letting me bounce ideas off him and being so supportive of my writing. He has given some great boom moments in this story and the previous ones and I love his help. He is even one of my faithful reviewers! Thanks so much babe. You are the best.
Enjoy the chapter!
Damon heard Elena gasp out at what Caroline had said and he spun around just as he saw her start to sink down. He caught her in his arms and held her up as he turned back to their friend.
His voice was shaky as he spoke. "She...I mean WE are going to have twins? Elena is pregnant with two of MY babies?" He was incredulous at the thought. Part of him was scared that was an incredible amount of responsibility. He had thought the idea of one child was overwhelming already in itself... but two?! But the other part of him was so excited to be having a miracle family with the woman he loved.
Caroline smiled at him nodding slowly. "That's right Damon. Bonnie told me herself. She had been trying to tell us, any of us yesterday about what she had done."
Damon looked toward Bonnie outside. She too looked like she was understanding what was being said and nodded in conformation to them. Jeremy was hugging her tight but a man, one of Klaus' minions no doubt was watching them closely probably to keep them there.
The dark haired vampire cradled Elena in his arms, keeping himself between Klaus and her as the Original was still standing no more than a few feet away on the porch. He had his head down for quite a while and then now slowly and menacingly lifted it to bore his eyes into his.
"You can't protect them forever Damon," his voice was low and ominous and Damon felt chills running down his back. "She will be mine one way or another, the latter being you dead as I take them all away from you. They are mine. They have always been mine."
"Like hell!" Damon growled, his eyes filling with blood and his veins pulsing. How the fucking hell could they get out of there? He needed to get his family safe! He felt Elena bury herself deeper in his embrace and he felt her fingers clutched so tight around his waist.
"You are fighting a losing battle." Klaus said calmly."I made them exist, Damon. It was my spell that allowed her to be pregnant. You have done your part and I thank you. After seeing you and my doppelganger kissing nearly naked out in the rain, I knew it was only a matter of time for you to consummate that burning passion."
Damon's eyes were wild listening to Klaus speak about them so candidly. What the hell was he getting at? He pulled Elena further behind him and backed up more away from the door.
Klaus was not finished and his eyes were on Damon's again. "I wasn't sure what was going to happen but you passed my tests and showed your strength and your courage. I could have killed you and I almost did a couple times and you showed your sheer determination to stay alive and protect her. You even resisted my compulsion by nearly killing yourself to keep yourself from giving her to me. You Damon...are the perfect DNA for these powerful, magical infants."
Damon was reeling. He did not know what to do. The first focus in his mind was very much on escape. There had to be a way to get her and his babies safe. Elijah said that his witches could cloak Elena and all they had to do was get to them and then they could help keep her hidden. But they needed a way out of the cabin and past the Original bastard first.
He looked to Elijah, a pleading look in his eyes. But the brother to their enemy seemed not know what to do either to get them out of there. There had to be a way.
Elijah had been watching everything, not saying a word. He had no idea his brother had found a spell that allowed him to unleash power through children. That was crazy and so wrong. He had to think of something, There had to be a way to stop him. Elena was pregnant with twins now too he heard. His brother had certainly been busy to make all this work.
Damon sucked in a breath letting in all the rest of what Klaus said. It was more than just that they needed to escape. This was meticulously planned. Everything they did, what they went though...was all so Klaus would bring them together to create these babies, for him? Fuck, he felt like he had just been sucker punched.
"I will always be one step ahead of all of you. Even my own brother had no idea what I was planning. You won't be able to stop me. I am thinking 3 moves ahead of you at every turn. And if you don't let me have them," Klaus whispered to him."You will not live to see her or your children ever again."
Damon growled a deep, rage filled vampire growl at him. He would never let that happen! He heard Elena whimpering against his chest, her eyes shut tight. This was not the time they should be feeling so much fear. This should be such a joyful time since discovering that he is having not one but two babies with the love of his life. He wanted to see how she was doing with everything. She looked so scared and so weak.
She had lost a lot of blood over the last day and now too had been throwing up so much that it was no wonder she felt weak. She had told him over and over that she would not take any of his vampire blood to replenish her strength. At first she was scared of the risk of turning into a vampire and Klaus coming after her family. But now she was scared of what it could do to the baby and so he had respected her about that. He did not even think in everything that happened with Jeremy that she had even eaten at all yet today. She needed to keep her strength up. For both of his precious angels.
Caroline had stepped back off the porch, and down the stairs, as Klaus had been so focused on Damon and Elena and walked down to the front yard. She thought that Klaus would not hurt her and took the risk, heading to Bonnie and Jeremy. She hugged her friend and Bonnie was shaking in her arms. They held each other like that for a minute and Caroline looked back at Jeremy standing beside them.
She knew what he had become. She watched Nic feed him Bonnie's blood to complete his transition before he dragged them out of there. But what could Nic be planning?
She stepped back onto the porch having what she needed and stood in front of him. He was blocking the door and she needed to get in the cabin somehow. "Nic, please," she whispered. "Please just stop this. Elena and Damon and their children do not deserve this. There has to be another way to defeat your father."
Klaus stood between Caroline and Damon and turned to her as she pleaded with him. He wanted to let this go. He wanted to do whatever he could to make her happy. He knew love at first sight was powerful. It was usually intense when even one person felt that connection but he had no doubt that they both had felt it and there was no way he could not do everything he could to protect her. She was too important to him. He loved her, he knew that but he did not trust her at all. She had lied to him and he did not know what about their relationship was real. It rocked him to the core at the thought that he could lose her.
He motioned with his hand behind him. He did not have time to deal with the witch possibly getting stronger and getting in the way again. He had too much to focus on here. "Take her back. Keep them tied up. I will need them later."
Bonnie cried out and fought as the man put one arm on Jeremy and one on her and started to drag them away. Jeremy fought and tried to get the man off her but he was too strong. Then Klaus held up his hand. "No, leave him with me. Just take her back and leave her with the other one."
"Jeremy, no!" she whimpered and he still fought to get the man's hands off her. Klaus' goon dragged them both toward the porch and toss him at his boss. Klaus grabbed Jeremy's shoulders and whispered something to him. Then he just stood silently by the porch, compelled. He was gone, probably told to ignore her cries and she slumped in the man's arms as he carried her back toward the garage.
Klaus turned back toward Caroline, he still had not moved from the doorway. He saw her eyes on his as he looked down at her. He reached out to put his hands on her arms. He saw her flinch and that made him even more sad. She was scared of him. After the way he had treated her in the garage he did not blame her. He had been so sure she had stolen his blood and that made him furious.
"I wish there was another way Caroline. I do. I have searched for centuries for the power to defeat him. He is so much more powerful than I am. He is the Original oldest vampire and because of my mother's sin he had made it his life's goal to destroy me."
He was angry and yet so sad as he looked at her. "I could let you go. I could let all of you go but I know somehow he will find out about my love for you. He has spies everywhere, luv. It would only be a matter of time and he could find out about the Petrova doppelganger descendants power too. He could use them too. They would never be safe."
Damon was listening to all this while trying to keep Elena calm. Her little human heart was racing and he knew that could not be good for the babies. She was shaking in his arms, both her hands were over her belly again, like she could protect their children with just her hands alone, from all the outside enemies.
They would never be safe? He did not want to hear that. Especially now after knowing for sure that he was in fact the father of these precious miracle babies. He wanted nothing more than to keep his little family safe.
It still seemed unreal that things had changed for him in such a short time. A few days ago he was the cocky, selfish, single vampire pining for the girl he thought he didn't deserve. He had killed Elena's little brother in a fit of rage after he tried to force her to kiss him when he was very drunk and flooded with rejection. She had screamed that she hated him, told him shortly after that that he had lost her forever.
And now here he was madly, and desperately in love with her, was going to make her his wife and they were pregnant with supernatural twin babies! They should be planning their wedding, spending their days in bliss in bed, reveling in their new found love. Not fearful of being ripped apart forever, their children used for their power.
But the fucking enemies that wanted his children could not even be killed! How the hell was he supposed to keep them safe then? He cringed hearing that more than just Klaus might come looking to hurt his family.
They had to run, and if he had to remain in hiding their whole lives he would do it. But right now they were cornered like pigs at slaughter, if he could not find a way to get her out of the damn cabin. But he heard too that Klaus was only doing this to defeat his father. He had heard Elijah say too that his brother had a way that no one would have to die. What the hell did that mean?
Caroline had her arms on Klaus' and he turned his head away from her forlorn expression. She could not change his mind. He had already been prepared to show Elena what she was giving up if she did not turn herself over to him. He had her brother and her witch friend and the vampire Stefan was still dying too. He had searched Caroline and was confident that she had not stolen blood from him. He hated that he even thought that she would do that. He knew he had treated her so badly.
Rage and manipulation had been drilled into him far too young. He had had to compromise so much of the innocent child that he was just to stay alive after he and his siblings ran from their father. He had never asked for the hate and abuse and the constant belittling his father did to him. He had only ever wanted to be loved and accepted. He had killed and hurt and taken advantage of many people in the name of keeping himself alive with the single thought that one day he would be free to live like he had dreamed of when he was a boy. He wanted love and family and safety and peace. He felt like he had not really lived at even in his 1000 years on the earth. And living, enjoying life would not been a reality till his father was dead.
He looked back up to the blue eyed vampire standing between him and the answer to his search for the power enough to finally destroy his enemy. The young pregnant human was his only answer. He turned his head back to Caroline. His eyes soft, his voice full of emotion. "There is no other way. I can't let him win. I can't let him burn you alive like he did to Aurora. That is exactly what he would do."
She was shocked and scared of even the thought of Klaus' father burning her alive. She could see too the fear in his eyes for her. But she had knew the lives of the two little babies were more important. She could not let him go through with his plan.
"I know you are scared for me. I see that Nic. But I can't let you hurt innocent children. Not even for me. I would never forgive you. And I am sorry I really am." she mumbled back at him, her hand caressing his cheek feeling him leaning in to her touch. She knew that what she was going to do would break him even more. She pushed past him into the cabin and pulled out the vial of blood from his jacket.
Flashback: Bonnie hugged her and she whispered right in her ear. "The blood," and her friend quickly passed it to Caroline's hand. She closed her hand over it and slipped it into Klaus' jacket pocket. She smiled at Bonnie and turned back around to head to the cabin.
She raced forward seeing Stefan laying on the couch and shook him. "Stefan, hey. You are going to be okay. Wake up for me please."
Klaus' eyes went wider and wider as he watched. No! It couldn't be! He felt the rage building as he watched the woman he loved leaning over the dying vampire. There was only one way that she would have said he would be okay...
Elena was watching in rapt attention and moved closer to them and out of Damon's arms. She nearly gasped remembering that Damon had told her that Caroline had a way to get the cure for Stefan. Was this it? Was he going to be okay? She knelt down at his side and stroked his hair from his eyes. She watched them open slowly. They looked so full of pain. He smiled at her weakly.
"Elena, I don't want to hurt you," he gasped out and went into a fit of coughing. She held his head until he stilled.
Elena looked to Caroline and they nodded to each other. Caroline stroked his face too. "Hey Stefan. Can you swallow? It's me Caroline. I brought the cure. You are going to be okay."
His eyes opened more at that and he tried to lift his head. He felt Elena's hands under his head and he opened his mouth slowly. The cure! He was not going to die! He lifted his tongue so eager for the pain to stop.
There was a crash and wood splintering as Klaus snarled as his eyes glared a deep yellow. "You lied to me! You did steal my blood!" He was furious at her. She turned her face back up at him her expression hard to read. She looked strong and determined and yet he could see a twinge of sadness in her eyes. Had she really loved him or was that all an act just to get the cure for her friend.
"You have no idea what you have done Caroline. The beast you have awoken." He was seething with rage, his eyes full of fire at her.
She unfolded her hand and handed the vial to Elena. Caroline was scared. Really and truly scared at the way Nic was looking at her. She opened her mouth to say something, anything that would fix this. She knew the risk she was taking when she decided to steal from him. She had almost gotten caught if she had not thought to give Bonnie the vial to hide. She took one more look at the wild betrayal in the vampire's eyes and pulled herself to look away. She made her bed, as empty and alone as it was and now, and she had to lie in it.
Damon had turned to them too and knelt down by his brother. She did it? She actually did it. His brother was not going to die? With everything he had just learned he knew he needed Stefan more than ever so they could both work to protect Elena and keep his babies safe.
Elena had sat behind him and pulled Stefan's head into her lap to help him lift up to get the cure down his throat. Elena opened the vial, tipping the weak vampire's head back and poured the blood in his dry mouth. She flinched as a split second later, Stefan's lips burned. Not bad but a little as he swallowed weakly. Why would that have happened?
He cried out at the burning but still swallowed the rest with fervor. Eager to be free of the clutches of the most horrific pain he had ever experienced. His lips tried to curl up into a smile at his brother leaning over him. "I'm so sorry Damon. I was so scared I'd hurt Elena and the baby. I knew I needed to protect them. I would rather die than hurt them" He said as he swallowed hard, feeling Damon stroking his hand down his sweat soaked hair.
"Hey, its okay Stef. I know. I know you would never hurt our babies. You are going to be okay. Just let the cure work." Stefan nodded slowly to him and put his head back down in Elena's lap. But then he lifted it up again looking back at Damon with a bright, but weak smile on his face. "Babies?"
Damon smiled and nodded to him, brushing his hair out of his eyes. "That's right Stef. Your big, bad, never gonna settle down, vampire brother is having twins with Elena." He saw Stefan gasp and smile up at him again as he swallowed making sure he had not missed a drop of it.
"Wow, that is incredible." Stefan breathed out hardly believing what he just heard. Damon was nodding and smiling and Stefan looked up to Elena above him and saw her smiling too.
Caroline had been watching him carefully and saw the blood burn him as he swallowed. Why would it do that? Only the sun would burn a vampire. Or vervain...Vervain.
She was shaking as she knelt down in front of him. Elena had covered him with a blanket and she slowly peeled it away from his arm. The bite was still there. It wasn't healing.
Damon saw the confusion in her eyes. "What Blondie? What's wrong?"
She was mumbling to herself. "Why the hell would it not be healing?" She turned to look back at Stefan's face. "Stefan, what are you feeling? What did it taste like?" She needed to be wrong. Please God be wrong.
He cleared his throat, coughing a bit. "It tasted like blood, like the way I felt when Damon fed me to keep my organs pumping. Vampire blood. I can feel my heart pumping a bit stronger again. And I'm sure that it was vervain that I felt on my lips." His eyes were wide and he too was watching the skin the was so torn up, bloody and pus-filled waiting for it to heal. "Why? How long does it take to heal?"
Klaus was still silent watching them. He had not said a word since he told Caroline she had awoken the beast. She had no idea what he was capable of. She had not even seen him nearly kill Damon on the porch the previous day. She had been unconscious when he had been so vicious to get Elena to come out and trade her life for his. She had lied to him over and over and she was about to come face to face with his bad side. But it appeared that they were not as clever as they thought.
Elena was watching too as Caroline's eyes looked wild with uncertainty. Then they all heard a low chuckle. "You want to know how to heal a werewolf bite...let me show you." He blurred back behind him and just as fast was back at the door and threw Jeremy in the cabin.
He landed with a thud on the floor and Elena lifted Stefan off her and immediately went to his side. "Jeremy are you okay? He moaned and sat up, his hand on his head. He still had blood on his neck and down his t shirt. Then Elena saw something on his skin by his sleeve. She pulled his shirt higher on his arm and saw a small drop of blood by itself dried up on his arm like a pinhole from a needle. Then she nearly jumped back as she saw thick red veins appear and disappear on his skin.
"Oh my God Jeremy! What happened to you?" she cried out.
Damon was by her side in an instant and lifted the boys arm up and looked at the other one too. Oh God no…
Bonnie fought as the man tied her up and dumped her down on the floor just inside the door of the garage. Her legs and arms were tied and she struggled to sit up. She landed hard and heard a groan from beneath her as she tried to sit up. There was someone else there! She squinted in the dim light and let her eyes adjust the windowless space. After a few more seconds she could make out that a bag was on the person's head. She had no idea who it was. She leaned closer and the person moved and groaned again. It sounded like a man's voice but it was so muffled.
"Hey, are you awake?" she called to him. The man guarding them had left and was standing outside the door it looked like. He groaned again and Bonnie shuffled herself around till she was practically leaning over him facing him instead of looking away from him. She grabbed the thickly woven bag by her teeth and pulled on it. He lifted his head from the dusty floor and she got it over his head.
She blinked more in the darkness. He turned to face her.
"Tyler?" she gasped out.
Elena looked frantically at Damon who was holding up Jeremy's arm. She saw the raised veins in his arms and now it looked like they had spread to his neck too. "Jeremy what wrong?" she begged. She was scared what was she seeing. What had happened to him?
Klaus was still leaning against the door, a small smirk on his face as he watched them. "That's werewolf toxin flooding his system...and it works much faster when injected straight into the vein as opposed to a bite to the skin." He watched them as they processed what he had just said.
Elena was the first to react. Her eyes widened as she ran over and over in her mind what the Original had just said. Werewolf toxin..in Jeremy? Where would he get werewolf toxin? She felt like she was going to faint. Her heart was pounding so rapidly in her chest. "But that would mean that Jeremy is..."
Klaus' lips curled up into a smirk. "A vampire?" he finished for her.
She was already shaking her head at him. "No! That's not possible. He's going to be fine." She turned to Damon and he came closer right away. "Damon tell me Jeremy is going to be fine!"
Damon looked sadly at her kneeling on the floor in front of her brother. He looked weak and he could see the veins in his face already thickening as the venom spread. "I'm so sorry Elena," he whispered, running his hand over hers. "I got there too late. He was already dead when I raced into the garage. That was what all the blood was from. He had such a bad gash on his neck. His throat was in ribbons. Katherine must have killed him after he set her free."
He saw his love shaking her head back and forth at him and he placed his hands on either side of her head to steady her. "I'm so sorry but its true angel. Jeremy died with so much vampire blood in his system from Katherine feeding on him so much. I healed him. I gave him the blood. I'm to blame."
Elena shook her head some more and grabbed his face sitting beside him on the floor. "No Damon. It's not your fault. It's his!" She glared at Klaus and again but her hands over her belly still so scared of what he wanted with her babies.
"Ah ah ah," Klaus called out. "I didn't kill young Gilbert here. I merely found him and Damon after Katherine had been freed. Katherine probably sucked him dry before she escaped, just like your boyfriend said." He still hated that she had gotten away with the moonstone. But she was dying too so he knew she would not be able to get far without begging him to heal her. It was only a matter of time.
Elena stroked her hand down her brother's cheek. "You're dead?" she breathed out, not wanting to believe it.
Jeremy didn't want to believe it either. "I think so El. I'm so scared." He looked at his arms and it looked like the veins and now a rash was spreading. She pulled him into her arms and held him close. But he jerked away fast, leaving her with a puzzled look. "I could hurt you Elena. I can smell your blood. You need to stay back.:" He voiced softened as he spoke and he took her hands in his. "I heard that you are pregnant El? With Damon's twins?"
She nodded as tears started pooling in her eyes.
Jeremy smiled at her. "Wow, that is unreal sis. I'm so happy for you."
Klaus cleared his throat. "Alright, enough with the dramatics, the lot of you. I told you I would show you how to heal a werewolf bite. It's obvious that Stefan still has his bite mark. Nothing has been healed yet as it looks. So let me show you."
He lifted his arm and bit into his wrist, letting the blood slide down his forearm. "Jeremy come here and have a taste. You know you want to."
Elijah was watching things unfold and he still had no idea what his brother was planning. He seemed so confident, casual, relaxed almost and he knew he needed to know what cards he had up his sleeve. They needed to beat him at his own game. He blinked again hearing that Katherine had escaped. He had hoped his brother would have killed her by now.
Damon and Elena stood up and he pushed her behind him gently. He was watching Jeremy as he stood up and moved toward the door. Elena was struggling in his arms.
"No Damon, he can't. It's too dangerous." Elena whimpered. She had no idea how to feel. Her mind was reeling. The possibility that Stefan wasn't healed and Jeremy a vampire and her having twins at 17 years old. She felt like she was going to indeed pass out.
"That's it. Come here." Klaus called to him softly. He had been watching Caroline this whole time too and she had been kneeling beside Stefan and he could see she was watching his bite waiting for it to heal. He was livid that she had stolen his blood. He had no idea what to do with that. That women was giving him whiplash with how he was feeling about everything that had happened.
Jeremy stopped in front of Klaus, his eyes were flooding with blood and the vampire veins under his eyes pulsed. Elena sucked in a breath at the sight of her little brother like that. How could she ever make things right? Her heart was breaking for him. But the thought that he too could go through all the pain that Stefan had gone through was unbearable and she knew she had to let him take the chance to be healed.
He stepped past the magical boundary to stand on the porch outside and Klaus still held up his arm. His wound had healed but the blood was still fresh and warm as it touched Jeremy's tongue. He felt the wildness of the taste of it and he opened his mouth more and bit into the vampires wrist. After a few sucks Klaus pulled him off and pushed him back in the cabin.
"Watch his arm Elena. You'll see." She leaned closer and saw the veins in his arms receding and the rash color go back to normal. She lifted his arm and saw no signs of the toxin. It had melted away instantly. It was that easy.
Caroline let out a gasp. Stefan's bite was still there. It hadn't healed. "That means...she switched it." Caroline stood up from beside Stefan. "Damn it she took the cure!"
Damon turned toward her with a puzzled look on his face. "What are you talking about?"
"She did take it! Damn it!" Caroline screamed, throwing her hands in the air. "I woke up after someone snapped my neck and I thought it was fine. The blood was in a vial in my jeans and the only one missing was the one in my jacket. I was frantic looking for it and then when I found it I gave it to Bonnie to keep safe. But she took it! Katherine fucking Pierce took the cure I stole for Stefan!"
Caroline was furious. It was one thing that she had already betrayed the man she still truly loved but quite another that it was all for damn nothing!
Klaus cursed under his breath. The bitch was cured? Katerina who still had his damn moonstone was cured. Damn it! How could he have let that happen? He needed that stone. He could not conjure up the spell to release the power of the doppelgangers babies to bind it to himself without it.
And now she wouldn't be coming begging him to heal her. That had been his ace in the hole with her. He had planned to just drain her of the vervain and compel her to tell him where the moonstone was but that did not work because the stupid human boy let her go. He was mad at himself that he wasn't one step ahead in every aspect of this issue like he had just gloated to Damon.
Stefan's head fell back down into the couch cushions. He felt so defeated. He was going to die. He didn't get the cure. The Petrova bitch stole it. He thought she actually loved him and would have wanted him to be cured. But of course why should he think differently. She was always looking out for herself first, everyone else be damned. Even him.
He just wanted it to be over. He looked back up weakly at them feeling the blood he had been given already working its way out of his system, most of it focused on healing his organs again. The blood seemed to be going through his torn apart system faster and faster. Damon giving him his blood would probably not work for much longer.
He saw the smears of blood dripping down still from where Jeremy had bitten Klaus' wrist. The blood was taunting him, teasing him that that was all it took for the pain to stop. The cure was so close, yet so, so fucking far away he could scream. But he didn't even have the energy to scream. He just wanted to die.
Elijah knew now what he needed to do. If Kathrine got away with the moonstone then that changed everything.
"So Stefan, no such luck for you. Or is there…" Klaus was smiling, actually smiling as he saw him lift up a vial and toss it in the air. Then he opened it in a flash and bite again into his skin and let the blood fill up the small vial. He pushed the cap onto it and tossed it in the air again and catching in his hand again. Stefan saw Damon actually jump forward as he tossed the miracle blood in the air, taunting them.
"You can have this. I'm not completely heartless. I will still get what I want." The last thing he said he snapped his gaze back to Damon. His voice was chilling but all Stefan could think of was that vial of blood just laying there in the Originals outstretched hand. He wanted it so, so badly.
Damon stepped forward not entirely sure what to do. Was the bastard that wanted to take away his family seriously just offering to heal his brother? Something did not feel right...
Tyler Lockwood sat up more and blinked a couple times to adjust to the dark. He had tape across his mouth and he moved to rub his face against the metal shelf behind him. The tape started rolling up and he stretched it more with his lips till it his mouth was free enough to talk.
"Bonnie, what are you doing here?" he whispered hoarsely.
"Me? What are you doing here? Did Klaus kidnap you?" She saw him nod rapidly while looking around.
"I'm not sure how I got here. All I know is I woke up in the trunk of a car a while ago." He rubbed his lips back and forth. "Uhh, my gums hurt like hell."
Bonnie frowned at him. "Your gums? Why would that be." He pulled on his hands still tightly shackled behind him and tucked his legs up to get his hands in front of him. He pulled and pushed and ended up breaking his ankle to get his hands under his feet.
Bonnie watched him cringing as he snapped his bone and then saw it heal shortly after. "Couldn't you just break the cuffs," she suggested.
He shook his head, his hair falling in his face. "No they are too strong and its not a full moon so I don't have nearly the strength that I normally would." His dark washed jeans rubbed against the floor and he scooted closer to see if he could free her. Her hands were only tied up with rope and not metal cuffs.
She held up her hands and he bit into the ropes and tugged till he heard them start to rip and she quickly pulled the ropes off her. "Thanks Tyler. But I don't know how to get you free."
He shook his head at her. "That okay Bon. But I need you to check my mouth. It feels really weird."
Bonnie nodded, quickly unraveling the ropes on her ankles first and then knelt in front of him. He opened his mouth to her and she pulled him over a bit so his face was in the stream of light from the crack in the door. "I'm not sure. I can't see anything strange. Why where does it hurt?"
Tyler grunted with his mouth still open. "Like up above my front teeth but in the gums."
Bonnie gasped. "Tyler where does your venom come from?"
He looked back at her, his eyes as wide as hers. "Venom? What the hell are you talking about. I mean I'm new with this but I've only turned once and I never want to do it again. You say I have venom, like poison?"
She nodded back at him. "Yeah Jeremy told me what he learned about werewolves and that their bite is fatal to vampires. Your venom is poison. It can kill them. Stefan is dying right now with a werewolf bite."
He leaned back against the wall, not sure about everything he was hearing. "Well who would want to hurt vampires? The only vampire here is Caroline and she would not have done anything to anyone right?"
He pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers and let out a deep breath. "I remember the creep at the bar talking about Elena and telling us we couldn't leave. He knew I was a werewolf. How would be know that? And then the next thing I knew I heard a snap and then nothing. Wait you said Stefan was dying from a werewolf bite. Stefan is a vampire?"
Bonnie drew in a deep breath herself. "Yes, his brother Damon too. I guess there is lots you aren't in the loop for Tyler. I know this all sounds crazy but the creep from the bar is a vampire too and is after Elena." She avoided telling him that she knew Jeremy was a vampire too. He looked like he was barely grasping all she had been telling him.
"Elena?" Tyler scrunched his face up in confusion. This was way too much information. "What is going on with Elena?"
"Too much right now. But we have to get out of here and help them. We need to help them get away from Klaus." She saw a puzzled look on his face. "The vampire creep from the bar."
She shook her head at him. Dread just spreading across her body making her shiver. "Him with your venom...well lets just say it's not a good combination."
Klaus looked around at the group staring at him. He smiled at his brother still just standing by the window watching him. Elijah just looked at him, studied him like he was trying to figure out his plan. Whatever they came up with it would be too late.
He placed the vial down and rolled it into the cabin. It spun up over the doorstop and wound it's way across the floor till it lay still almost against Damon's boot.
"Go ahead. Heal him," he said simply.
Damon picked up the vial and looked around again. It felt too easy. After all this time, all of Stefan's suffering...it was seriously this easy? It couldn't be. There had to be a catch. Something he was missing. It could be a trick. Just like what Caroline had brought them to heal Stefan before.
Maybe he should sample it first to make sure it was okay...
Next chapter: Damon makes a big decision
Elena and him have some heart to heart time discussing that they are having twins and they find a little time for romance.
Stefan may have only hours left.
Caroline and Klaus have a huge fight.
Plan in place and they prepare to run.
Exciting and drawing to a sort of mid season finale climax of sorts here. There will a time jump soon too.
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