Surprisingly, convincing the Mystic Falls gang to regroup and camp out at Casa de Mikaelson went smoothly, especially with the looming threat of the Vampire Council hanging over their heads. While Stefan, Damon, Elena, and Jeremy went looking for Caroline and Tyler, everyone else headed back to Klaus' home so they could inform the rest of the pack about what just went down.

Upon arriving and entering the home, Derek hollered for his pack which really wasn't necessary seeing as they were all seated in the kitchen area anyway. Klaus let Derek take the floor since it was his pack after all, and the pack took the news well. Well, all except Allison whose mind flashed back to the news of Lydia's attack, and tensed. Realizing that a group of vampires was going to be staying under the same roof as she was made her fidget uncomfortably but when she didn't speak her mind, Klaus sensed her nerves and assured everyone that he'd make sure they were on their best behavior.

When the talk dwindled down, Scott took it upon himself to suddenly question Stiles why he smelt like Cola and why it was sprayed all over his side. Catching a sudden case of the giggles, Lea fled the room using the excuse that she was going to change into her pajamas for the rest of the night.

When the Mystic Falls gang showed up, Lea was lounging at the bottom of the stairs in a tank top and plaid sleeping shorts. It didn't surprise her when the door swung open without so much as a knock or the ring of a doorbell. Damon was, unsurprisingly, leading them in as one by one they dropped their bags or suitcases near Lea who was still seated on the stairs.

Klaus, Derek, Stiles, and Scott come into the room to investigate but Lea has her attention on the missing people from the Mystic Falls gang. Caroline and Tyler are nowhere to be seen.

"Hey, uh, where's-" Elena frantically shook her head, effectively cutting off Lea mid-question when a sniveling Caroline walked in, her eyes glued to the floor.

"Is everything alright?" Klaus immediately butted in at hearing Caroline's sniffles.

"Barbie got dumped." Damon shrugged as if it were no big deal.

Elena and Lea's eyes went wide at his bluntness but before Lea could say anything, Elena beat her to it. "Damon!" She smacked the back side of his head.

"What?!" He grimaced. "It was bound to happen sooner or later. The hybrid puppy only cares about himself."

"Really?" Lea frowned at him. "Could you just stop talking?"

Derek, Stiles, Scott, and Jeremy all looked uncomfortable with the crying female vampire while Klaus was the only one who had any resemblance of a grin on his face. Leave it to him to feel giddy about Caroline and Tyler's breakup. As Stefan and Elena made a move to wrap their weeping friend in a hug sandwich, Lea stood up to go comfort her as well.

"No. I-It's for the best." Caroline shook her head back and forth, her curls bouncing. "It's better now that I know Tyler was never someone I could count on." She choked back on a sob as she looked up at the occupants of the room, her eyes tinged pink and puffy.

Allison, Erica, Isaac, and Boyd entered the room when they heard Caroline crying to see what was going on. As she choked back more sobs, Lea rushed forward to hug her, rubbing soothing circles in the vampire's back as she looked to Allison and mouthed, "What do I do?". In all of her existence, she never had a friend, let alone a female friend that she had to comfort in their time of need.

Everyone then turned to Allison, who shrunk back under everyone's gaze, to hear her answer. "Ice cream, maybe?" She murmured. "And maybe lots of alcohol?"

Elena's eyes suddenly lit up. "A girls night." She nodded along, agreeing with Allison and offering the human girl a small smile. "We need a girls night in since we obviously can't go anywhere else."

Lea pulls out of the hug from Caroline, looking the still sniffling vampire in the eyes. "What do you say? All us girls camping out in the sitting area licking tubs of ice cream clean and downing expensive alcohol?" At Klaus' huff of agitation, Lea turns to see him pouting at her. "Oh, settle down. I'll replace whatever we drink."

"You'd do that for me?" Caroline mumbles.

Turning back to face her, Lea nods. "Sure. Erica, Allison, and I can go round up blankets and pillows and we'll all camp out downstairs. We'll eat, drink, and trash talk about boys."

"Well while that idea sounds splendid," Klaus piped up. "The rest of the lot need to figure out room situations. There's only two rooms left, Elijah's and Rebekah's, so good luck to those who room in there. And some of you are going to have to share."

"I call Elijah's room!" Jeremy beats everyone to the punch of claiming a room.

"And I'll room with Lea." Damon winks.

Lea looks highly amused when she hears Derek growl, and catches Stiles and Klaus glaring at him. "Sorry, Casanova." She chuckles at him. "Stefan and Elena can have my room. I'll bunk with Stiles."

Stiles grins goofily while Damon feigns hurt. "Fine." He sighs. "I'll take Rebekah's room." The room goes quiet as everyone looks around, seeing who's willing to give up their room or volunteer to share. When no-one says anything, Damon smirks. "Sucks for you, Blondie."

Caroline rolls her eyes but surprisingly, Klaus comes to the rescue. "You can have my room, love. I hardly think I'll be able to sleep anyway and if I do, I'll make room in my study."

The blonde vampire is so tired that she doesn't even fight against sleeping in Klaus' bed. "Okay."

"Great!" Lea clapped her hands together. "Now that the room situation is taken care of, girls go get changed and boys," She paused to look at the male population around her. "-disappear. Go somewhere that doesn't involve the sitting area 'cause that's where us ladies are going to be camped out."

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Four tubs of ice cream and seven liquor bottles later, Lea and Allison found themselves the only semi-sober ones awake. Elena, Caroline, and Erica had really taken to the alcohol, Lea and Allison included but they knew when to cut themselves off. They were all an uncontrollable giggling hot mess.

"So," Erica drunkenly purred from her spot in one of the arm chairs, her back against one arm rest while her legs were thrown over the other. "-now that everyone is happily buzzed, what is the real excuse Lea's little brother ran out of town with his tail between his legs?"

"He's not my brother!" Lea scowled. "Dickhead didn't even like me." She mumbled.

Erica shrugged. "You have the same Daddy Sire."

Lea blanched at her words. "Please.. please don't let me hear you ever call Nik daddy sire ever again."

Elena and Caroline, who were seated side-by-side on a loveseat leaning on one another, started to giggle before each taking a drink from the bottle of liquor they each held.

Allison sleepily grinned from her spot, where she was layed out on majority of the regular sofa, her legs thrown over Lea's lap. "That does sound a tad bit creepy when you say it, Erica."

"Oh, come on. The dude's old and good-looking. You know someone had called him 'daddy' before."

Elena burst into laughter, her head falling into Caroline's lap. "Please, stop. I don't need those mental images."

Everyone else erupted into a laughing fit before they all calmed down and fell into a quiet, peaceful moment. Caroline's drunken award winning smile dimmed, her smile faltering before it fell into a frown. "We didn't officially break up, you know? Tyler didn't leave because he didn't love me." She murmured as she caught the room's attention. "He left because he didn't love me enough to set aside his differences with Klaus. He bitched-" Caroline huffed. "-about taking charity from the monster who made his life a living hell. I can bet you that once this all over and done with, Tyler will be back as if nothing ever happened and be happy to have me on his arm again."

Lea's face scrunched up in disgust at the possibility that Tyler might actually do that. Any man who was capable of leaving his girlfriend to fight on her own was no man at all. "You totally deserve better." The words slipped out of Lea's mouth before she could even stop them, her eyes going wide as she suddenly covers her mouth. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean for that-"

"No. No, you're right." Caroline chuckled. "A boyfriend who claims to love you wouldn't leave you all alone. He chose himself and his grudges over helping to protect me and this town."

Caroline smiled sadly as Elena pulled her friend into a sideways hug. "It's alright, Care. You still got us."

"Exactly!" Allison suddenly leaned up, grabbing her drink from the floor and saluting the saddened vampire. "Even the Beacon Hills pack. We're here for you!" She grinned before taking a drink and laying back down.

Erica laughed at her friend's behavior before agreeing. "Especially that hot piece of ass that's upstairs." At Caroline's confused stare, Erica rolled her eyes. "Please, I know you're not that oblivious. It's obvious that Daddy Sire has the hots for you."

Lea groaned at the nickname as Caroline fought off a smile but agreed nonetheless. "Yeah, it's kind of hard to miss all those lingering stares."

Elena and Allison snorted in amusement, proving that they too have seen the looks. Desperate to get the spotlight off of her, Caroline huffed. "And what about you, little Miss Innocent? I see the longing looks being traded between you and the pale one. Stiles, was it?"

Erica and Allison roared with laughter as Lea gaped at her. "Wh-.. that's no-.. ugh." She gave up.

"That's what I thought." Caroline grinned proudly. "If you mention anything about Klaus and I, I'll bring up you and Stiles."

Lea playfully narrowed her eyes at Caroline who winked at her before going back to her drink.

Once again, the girls fell into an uncontrollable giggle fest before Allison suddenly sprang up, her face slightly pale.

"What's wrong?" Elena was the first to realize that something seemed off.

Allison's wide eyes slowly met Elena's as everyone grew quiet to hear what she was going to say. "I just realized we're in a house full of werewolf and vampire guys." At everyone's duh expression, she explained further. "Werewolf and Vampire guys who have very sensitive hearing and who were more than likely listening in to hear what we were going to talk about!"

As realization dawned on everyone, they sobered up for a few seconds before they roared with laughter yet again. Yep, they were totally going to regret this when they woke up.

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Another hour or two passed by and the girls had finally fallen asleep. Well, all except for Lea. She sat on her side of the sofa, her feet planted firmly on the ground while Allison took up most of the sofa, her legs comfortably thrown over Lea's lap. Erica lay curled up in the sofa chair, an empty bottle still held firmly in her grasp while Elena and Caroline were still on the love seat. Elena had her back against the one of the arm rest, her legs stretched out on the seat while Caroline used Elena's lower body as a pillow. She chuckled to herself knowing full well that everyone was going to wake up with a kink somewhere in their body.

As the room grew quiet once again, the soft padding of feet on the stairs catches her attention. She could hear the rhythmic beating of a calm heart and kept her gaze on the archway to see who would pass by.

She isn't disappointed when she sees a groggy Stiles pass by.

Gently as she could, Lea lifted Allison's legs and slipped off the sofa. Allison grunted in her sleep, turned over but curled up nonetheless as if nothing had just happened. Breathing a sigh of relief, Lea followed the sounds of cabinets opening from the kitchen.

Creeping quietly into the kitchen, she stands back and watches as Stiles rummages through the cabinets until he finds a glass to drink from. "You do know there's bottled water in the fridge, right?"

Her voice startles him, the glass slipping from his fingers but Lea blurs across the room and catches it before it can shatter on the floor. "Jesus Christ, Lea." Stiles breathes, his hand against his chest over his heart. "Make some noise next time, will you?!"

Lea giggles as he takes the glass from her, filling it up with water from the faucet. "I repeat," Lea smiles. "-there's bottled water in the fridge."

"Yeah but room temperature water is better when trying to fall back asleep." He takes a gulp from his glass. "What are you doing up anyway? I thought you were all asleep when it got quiet down here?"

Lea shrugged before hopping up on the counter next to Stiles. "Eh. I have a lot on my mind. The girls drunk themselves silly and passed out."

"Oh yeah, we know." Stiles' lips twitched in amusement. "You all were too busy chugging down liquor that you all didn't notice us guys were sitting at the top of the stairs and listening in." Lea's eyes widened as her mouth fell open. "Yeah, I don't think Erica will want to be in the same room as Klaus for a while. She'll never live down the fact that she kept calling him 'daddy sire'."

"Oh no." Lea groaned which then turned into laughter. "I can't believe we didn't stay alert enough to make sure no-one was listening in."

"Yeah." Stiles chuckled along with her. "Although I'm pretty sure Klaus is happy that he got called a hot piece of ass and Caroline doesn't want anything to do with Tyler anymore."

Lea started to giggle uncontrollably before her giggles ceased, her mind just remembering something else. "You didn't hear anything else, did you?"

"Like what? Lingering stares?" Stiles batted his eyelashes at her.

Lea's lips twitched in amusement but she pushed down her smile. "We really need to talk about that, don't we?"

"Yes." Stiles agreed. "But not when you're drunk."

"Please." She scoffed. "I think I'm at my bravest right now to let you know what's going on."

"And what exactly is going on?"

Lea bit her lip to keep from speaking, her eyes meeting Stiles' gaze, all joking now set aside. "I-.. Do you-.." She exhales loudly before plucking up her courage. "Do you believe in soul mates?"

Stiles' eyes bulge, his heartbeat picking up speed, before he too breathes out heavily. "I-.. I don't know." He tells her honestly. "I mean, Scott and Boyd have talked about their love for Allison and Erica. They're always talking about how they're it for them. There's no-one else they'd rather be with but I don't know. Is it possible that they're ready to settle down with Allison and Erica for good?"

"Yeah." Lea tells him. "They've found their mate."

"Okay." Stiles drawls. "So what does that have to do with us?" As Lea's eyes look at anything but him, the information sinks in, his heartbeat picking up again. "Are you saying we're-"

"Sort of." She mumbles. "But what we have, it's something different."

"How different?"

"Bonded different." She sighs. "We're something rare, Stiles. What we are, we're called Bonded Mates."

"And how is that different?"

Lea grumbles, hopping off the counter and started to pace back and forth in front of him. "Regular mates have it easy. When they love, they love. And should something fatal ever happen to their significant other, they'll mourn but they'll eventually move on with their lives." Lea took a moment to catch her breath. "With us-" She stops pacing and looks him in the eye. "We're actually it for one another. Should something happen to you or me, there's no moving on. The death of a bonded mate could be fatal to the living mate should no-one be there to keep them on track."

"Oh."

"Oh?" Lea repeated. "Oh?! What you do mean oh? Shouldn't you be freaking out?"

Stiles shrugs. "Not really. This actually explains a lot." He tells her. At Lea's confused expression, he rolls his eyes. "What? Don't tell me you don't feel it? How your day sucks until you see my face? How my voice brings a smile to your face? How protective you feel of me?"

"You feel that?"

"Yeah." Stiles nods. "And I'm only human. When you got staked that one night, you have no idea how gut wrenching it was for me to see it happen. How it felt like the world stopped spinning when you fell to the ground and that was because we barely knew each other then."

"There's more to it, you know?" Lea swallows around the lump in her throat. "Nik tells me there's more that I don't know yet. He's going to tell us after the Council falls."

"Are we the only ones who know?" Stiles asks.

Lea shakes her head. "Derek knows. He talked to me back at the Grill and I'm pretty sure Damon, Stefan, and Elena know though they're not saying anything until I told you and eventually everyone else."

"And Derek didn't get all territorial over me?" He mock gasps. "I thought an alpha was supposed to fight for the member's of his pack. I can't believe he's going to let an outsider whisk me away."

"Pft. Outsider." Lea smirked. "Haven't you heard? I'm the newest member of the Hale Pack."

Stiles' mouth dropped open. "What?!"

"Yep." She grinned. "But don't tell anyone. About anything." She clarified. "I want to know everything there is about our situation before everyone else finds out. Okay?" Stiles nodded along, his gaze never leaving hers. "Good." She swooped in planting a chaste kiss to his lips. "Now go to bed. If the girls wake up and find you down here, they'll most likely scream at you for interrupting their girls night."

That shook him out of his stupor. "Yeah but they're asleep."

"Asleep and drunk." Lea chuckled. "Drunks are unpredictable. Especially the females."

"Alright, alright." Stiles smiled. "I'll see you in the morning." He pecked her cheek before jogging towards the stairs and up to his temporary room.