When Lea awoke, sun was filtering in from behind the room's curtains and Stiles was snoring softly right next to her. When she realized that she was still in her clothes from the previous day, she wrinkled her nose in distaste before untangling herself from Stiles and climbing out of bed. Once steady on her own two feet, she blurred to the dresser and picked out a clean outfit before heading to their personal bathroom. She took the fastest shower of her life, making sure to scrub herself clean and get any and all blood out of her hair before dressing in the appropriate undergarments, a gray tank top, and green plaid sleep shorts.

Realizing that Stiles was still sleeping and probably not going to wake up anytime soon, Lea focused on her hearing to see where everyone was at. She heard a few heavy breathers from the rooms next to hers, very little movement coming from the kitchen area, and the voices of Klaus and Elijah from the first level of the home. Slipping out of the room, she decided to head to the kitchen first.

Padding softly into the kitchen, Lea found Derek fixing himself up a snack of sandwiches and chips.

"Hey." She smiled softly at him. "Where's everyone at?" She asked since she had only sensed two other upstairs which left the three other pack members missing.

"Scott, Allison, and Isaac went out to meet up with Caroline, Elena, Jeremy." He told her. "They wanted to eat out and tour the town a bit before we left now that there's nothing to worry about."

"I see." Lea chuckled. "So that's Boyd and Erica snoring upstairs then."

"Yeah but don't let Erica hear you say she snores. She'll shift and attack." He smirked.

"Eh. I'll just knock her on her ass again during pack night." Lea shrugged as she moved around to open the fridge and scour the inside for something to eat.

"So you're pack then?" Derek suddenly stood taller. "I didn't overstep any boundaries last night when I claimed you to be pack when Scott didn't back down?"

"I'm pack." Lea assured him as she pulled out a blood bag from the fridge and poured it into a glass. "As long as Stiles is pack, I'm pack. I'm not going anywhere." She popped the glass into the microwave, letting the blood heat up before turning to face Derek who was grimacing as he stared at the microwave. Catching his gaze, Lea laughed. "Don't worry. Once we're back in Cali, I won't drink blood. I forgot how good it tastes and it actually rejuvenates me faster."

"No. No, it's fine." Derek shook his head to get image of blood in a glass out of his head. "It's part of who and what you are but it's still quite weird to see you drink it."

The microwave dinged and Lea pulled out her drink. "Yes, well, I'll talk to you later, alpha." She chuckled before taking a sip of the blood, the veins beneath her eyes slithering to the surface.

"Whatever you say, alpha." He threw the nickname back at her, reminding her that she's just as much his equal given her power and age. Lea's response was to flash him a bloody fangy grin.

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Standing outside of Klaus' study, where voices were coming from, Lea took a moment to let Elijah's voice soothe her. She stood there for a few moments with her drink in hand when the voices stopped talking. Guessing that they realized she was standing outside the door, she tentatively knocked before pushing the door open. Klaus sat behind his desk while Elijah occupied one of the two chairs in front of said desk. As she stepped in, Elijah immediately stood and opened his arms to her with a grin of his own. Setting her drink on the nearest bookshelf, Lea blurred into his arms and hugged him tightly.

"You really are here." She breathed happily.

Elijah merely hummed in response and Klaus huffed in annoyance. "Sure, I get slapped at our reunion and 'lijah gets a hug."

When Lea pulled out of the hug, she turned to glare at Klaus. "You left willingly, Nik. Elijah was daggered and taken away from me against his will so tell me, was that slap dignified or not?"

Klaus returned the glare before smirking. "It's dignified. Just don't ever do it again." The smirk slid off his face.

"Noted." Lea winked. "So tell me, old wise ones, what's the plan now that Caesar, Desmond, and Louis are dead? Is it still the same as discussed before?"

"Of course." Klaus said. "Before you came in, I told Elijah that he's to head to Headquarters ASAP and dismember what the Council has established."

"Good." Lea nodded. "It's about time everyone is responsible for themselves. We are not children who need to be babysat and if anyone is stupid enough to get caught and killed then so be it."

"And while I agree with the lovely Lea-" Elijah spoke up. "I'll only being going on one condition."

"Which is?" Klaus narrowed his eyes at his eldest brother. Elijah hadn't brought up conditions before.

"I want our little brother and sister undaggered."

"No." Klaus immediately shut him down. "They're a nuisance and need to learn how to behave in this day and age."

"The longer they're daggered, the more they'll act out when you finally decide to undagger them." Elijah sighed. "It's time you let them go to make their own decisions. After all, isn't that what we're fighting for with tearing down the Council's Headquarters?"

Klaus clenched his jaw in anger but Lea jumped in before he could explode. "He's right, Nik. They need to make their own decisions. You need to wake them up."

The Hybrid Original glared at his brother and his progeny but they held their ground against him. After a few tense moments, he sighed and looked away. "Fine. I'll have them wakened."

"Thank you." Elijah nodded.

"But they're going with you. Hopefully some time with you will allow them some time to think about their behavior and learn that Mystic Falls is not their playground." Klaus fished his phone out of his pocket, ready to make the call. "After the Salvatores and the Gilberts just laid their lives on the line, it's only fair that they're not to be messed with by our family."

"Agreed." Elijah spoke. "Now make the call."

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As Klaus placed the call to have his younger siblings wakened, Lea excused herself from the room to check up on Stiles. Taking her glass of blood with her, she easily drained the glass of it contents, blurred into the kitchen, and rinsed it out before blurring up to the bedroom she shared with Stiles. Hybrid speed came in handy when in a hurry.

Slipping as silently as she can into the room, Lea nearly has a panic attack when she realizes that the bed is empty. Before she can start screaming out his name, the bathroom door opens and Stiles stumbles out with steam billowing around him.

"The bed reeks of blood." He admitted bashfully. "I needed a shower."

Waiting for her heartbeat to get back under control, Lea sighed in relief. "No, yeah, I know." She mumbles as she walks up to him and briefly hugging him. "I'll have to throw that to wash in a bit." As Lea leads Stiles to sit on the edge of the bed, she can't help but notice how he's staring at her or how his mouth keeps opening as if he's going to speak but then promptly closes it. They sit there in silence and Stiles continues to look like a fish struggling to breathe. "Spit it out, will you?"

"The blood sharing." Stiles suddenly blurts, eyes going wide that he can't believe he just blurted that out.

Lea tenses knowing she's about to get her answer of what he wants to do. "What about it?"

"I want us to go through it." He tells her when he's calm enough. "But I want to complete the first stage right now because if I have time to think about it, I'll chicken out because the thought of drinking blood is kind of gross. No offense."

"None taken." Lea snorts as she turns to face Stiles, getting comfortable. "Are you sure you want to do this? I mean, I'm all in but I want you to be sure. Once you're completely bonded to me, that's it. There's no getting out of the relationship for either of us."

"I'm positive." Stiles tells her. "In case you haven't noticed, you're a babe." He waggles his eyebrows at her which earns him a giggle. "But before we complete stage one, I have one condition."

Lea rolls her eyes but grins nonetheless. "Name it."

"I want to be properly asked out."

Stiles says it with such seriousness that Lea bursts into laughter. When he doesn't join in with her, not even cracking a grin, she realizes he's being serious. "You're serious." She states the obvious. Stiles gives her the duh look and Lea immediately stands to her feet. "Oh. Okay. Well, um-" She suddenly looks nervous that Stiles has to internally chant don't laugh, don't laugh, don't laugh over and over again. "-Stiles Stilinski, will you go out with me?"

Her eyes are cast downward as if she's afraid of rejection and Stiles now feels like a jackass. "Hey." He catches her chin between his forefinger and thumb so she's forced to meet his gaze. "I was only joking before. I didn't really mean to make you ask but since you did-" He offers a wry grin. "I'd love to go out with you."

Lea laughs, punching Stiles in the process which makes him laugh. He pulls her back to him before catching her lips in kiss. They linger together for a few seconds, lips locked though neither try to deepen the kiss. After a few pecks, both pull back grinning at each other.

"So how do we do this?" He asks.

Lea rolls her eyes once again. "Are you sure you want to rush into the bond? We can wait if you really want to."

"No. No." Stiles eagerly assures her. "All this stuff about being bonded to each other sounds pretty cool. Let's do it."

Stiles' eagerness seemed to have been contagious seeing as Lea was now grinning from ear to ear. "Okay, well, we should probably sit down for this." Instead of going to the bed like Lea was expecting, Stiles immediately sat on the floor. Chuckling, Lea joined him. "Since you're already squeamish with the idea of drinking blood, I'm gonna bite into my own wrist since you have blunt teeth and then offer it to you. While you latch onto me, I'll bite into one of your wrists and we take three gulps each at the same time."

"Okay." Stiles deeply breathes. "Whenever you're ready."

Lea sits opposite Stiles on the floor, both of them sitting cross-legged. She watches him carefully and waits until his heartbeat slows down some. When it does, she slowly lets her hybrid visage take over and is impressed when Stiles merely grins at her. Stiles hesitantly reaches up, his fingers inches from her face. Lingering for a few seconds, Lea nods and Stiles runs his fingers along the raised veins beneath her eyes.

With a goofy grin, he pulls back. "You ready now?" Lea chuckles at him.

"Yep." He answers. "I've just always wanted to see if they raised or not. Sorry."

"It's fine." She assures him, her glowing yellow eyes practically smiling at him. Seeing as Stiles was as calm as he was going to be, Lea reached for Stiles' right wrist. Bringing his wrist up to her face, Lea slowly nuzzled the inside of his wrist while she kept her gaze locked on with his. She could've sworn that his pupils dilated but she ignored it, pulling back and quickly biting into her own left wrist and thrusting it towards Stiles' face.

Before the wound could close, Stiles latched onto the bleeding wrist and paid no mind to the pinch of breaking skin on his own wrist when Lea sunk her fangs in. "Drink." She mumbled around his wrist and at the same time, both pulled from the wrist they were latched onto and swallowed. They gulped down blood twice more before pulling away, Lea nicking the tip of her finger to rub her blood in the puncture marks she made on Stiles in order for it to heal.

"Wow." Stiles panted heavily, pupils blown wide. He had to blink a few times before his eyes were back to normal. "That was.. wow."

"Right." Lea was panting as well. "I don't know what I expected but I didn't expect this."

Both closed their eyes, relishing in the changes they were feeling in themselves at the moment. Each felt their own emotions, though Lea started to feel slightly aroused which was totally not her current emotion. Eyes snapping open, Lea found Stiles grinning like a goof. Tilting her head to the side and studying him, she nearly jumped when Stiles' eyes snapped open.

"Are- are you feeling curious about something?" He asked.

Eyes wide, Lea nose crinkled playfully. "You're feeling aroused?"

When Stiles blushed, she nearly laughed out loud. "We're already feeling each other's emotions?" He easily deflected. "I thought that dude was exaggerating when he said we'd be able to feel each other!"

"I guess not." Lea shrugged. "This isn't a problem, is it?" Her amusement slowly died.

When Stiles felt himself slowly falling into a saddened state, he immediately looked up at Lea. "What?! No, no. It's totally fine. Don't get upset." He leaned forward and pulled her into a hug.

Lea nodded against his shoulder before she laughed. "This is actually pretty weird but in a good way. We're going to freak everyone out when we can tell what the other needs without having to say it out loud,"

"No kidding." Stiles agreed, chuckling when he felt the uncertainty fade from within him.

They took a few moments to distinguish which emotions were their own and how it was that they knew which emotion wasn't their own. Once everything was under control, Lea stood and offered Stiles her hand. "Come on. I believe there are new guests downstairs and a fight might break out."

Eyes lighting up in excitement at the possible drama, Stiles took her hand and the two rushed out of their room.

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"What do you mean we have to leave with 'lijah?!" A blonde shrieked at Klaus, stomping her foot in the midst of her tantrum. "We've just been undaggered and now you're trying to order us around? What gives you that right?"

"Calm down, Rebekah." Klaus sighed in annoyance. "It's not like you have to be gone for good. Elijah just needs help to make sure Headquarters falls and everyone complies to the new rules. Then, you're more than welcome to return here with me as long as you learn to behave yourself."

"And what if they do not comply?" A dark-haired boy drawled. "What then, brother?"

"You're an Original, Kol. Act like one." Klaus dead-panned. "If the people at Headquarters refuse to comply with the new set of rules that Elijah has for them then rip a few hearts out, if you must. Decapitate a few if you're bored but make it known that everyone is responsible for themselves from now on."

"I'm allowed to cause mayhem?" Kol narrowed his eyes suspiciously at his two brothers. When they nodded and shrugged, Kol smirked. "Well alright then! I'm in."

Rebekah groaned but agreed as well. "Fine. But after all that is over and done with, I'm reclaiming my room here."

"That's fine, Rebekah. Now go pack up whatever clothes you have here. You leave tomorrow morning." Klaus told her. His senses picked up on an audience and all Originals turned to the doorway where Lea, Stiles, Derek, and the now awake Erica stood.

"Oh, what do we have here?" Kol eyed Lea before letting his gaze trail over Stiles, Derek, and Erica. "Are you keeping pets now, brother? Two humans and two wolves." Lea was almost confused as to why Kol thought she was human until she remembered that she was once again wearing her bracelet. Derek growled lowly, his gaze hardening on the very cocky vampire. "At least she's pretty." Kol shrugged and sauntered up to Lea, both Lea and Stiles freezing in place at not knowing the new vampire personally. "What's your name, sweetheart?" Kol asked, his pupils dilating as if attempting to compel Lea but since she was a hybrid, compulsion didn't work on her.

Growing agitated, Lea snarled and snapped her fangs inches away from Kol's shocked face. "We're not pets." She told him instead of offering her name.

Klaus and Elijah chuckled while Rebekah studied Lea and her brother's reactions. Slowly, she pieced it together. "You're Lea, are you not? Nik's first successful hybrid?"

Eyes flickering to Rebekah, Lea nodded politely. "I am. It's nice to finally meet Nik's sister." She offered her a friendly smile.

Rebekah cocked an eyebrow before grinning. "I can see myself liking you. I wish Nik would have introduced us instead of running away."

"Likewise." Lea laughed when she saw Klaus scowling at them from behind his desk.

Finally, Kol came out of his shocked reverie. "A hybrid, you say? Even better. I won't have to be so gentle with you now." He leered at her.

Disgust welled up in Lea which welled up in Stiles and combined with jealousy and possession did not bode well for him. Before anyone could speak, Stiles lurched forward and shoved Kol back, the vampire stumbling backward into Klaus' desk.

Derek, Lea, and Erica all lunged forward, each of them pulling Stiles back when Kol vamped out. Not knowing the story between Lea and Stiles, Kol lunged forward but was caught by the scruff of his neck by Elijah. "Leave it, Kol."

"What is he?!" Kol seethed. "He smells human but he shouldn't have been able to push me that far."

Everyone faced a wide-eyed Stiles who was gaping at his hands as if he couldn't believe what he just did. Seconds later, they all turned to Klaus who barked out a laugh. "Oops. Did I forget to mention that a human bonded mate would slowly gain all the positives of being a vampire and none of the negatives?"

I will finally be wrapping everything up in the next chapter!