A/N: EXCUSE ME GUEST reviewer Claire…RUDE…I do not appreciate being told to fucking update because you don't feel like waiting around for 2 weeks…If you read my fucking A/Ns then you would know that I am in the middle of Finals and exams and writing papers that I procrastinated all semester…And that my procrastination over one paper was so bad that I had an anxiety attack and that made me physically sick over it…I procrastinated so bad to write this story because I enjoy writing it and people give me encouraging reviews…Not because people told me to fucking hurry up because they don't feel like waiting.
To my other amazing reviewers and readers…Thank you so much for being so lovely and so patient with me…I still have 3 more finals on M, Tu, We…but after the Klaroline scene in the finale, I actually felt happy about them for the first time in weeks…So Im taking a break from studying and getting ready for my sister's graduation (oh the irony lol)….and im gonna give u guys a chapter
That…and I hit my post limit on tumblr at like 8:50 Thursday night so I had some time to start this ;)…hahah
"Bonnie is coming over," Caroline said as she plopped down on the sofa. "Can you two stop fighting long enough to hear her plan out and not hurt her?" she asked with raised eyebrows.
Klaus and Elijah stood frozen on their opposite sides of the room. She knew that she had just walked in on an escalating fight—one on the topic of love.
Was Klaus capable of love? Like the genuine, all-consuming kind of love? Sure she had said she knew he loved her. But that had been on the brink of death, when his venom had been making her mind fuzzy and making her start to babble. She knew he felt something for her—something more than he was used to. Something that was making Elijah call him out on it.
Hell even her friends were aware of it. With Damon constantly using her as Klaus-bait—Elena telling her to turn it off so she wouldn't feel guilty about her dirty thoughts about him.
She glanced at Klaus who had suddenly found the drink he was holding very interesting. She turned her gaze to Elijah who was studying her.
She had to stop herself from cringing under his intense stare. Why was he studying her like that, it was unnerving.
"So what's the verdict on the cure?" Rebekah said suddenly, cutting through the silence. She stood between her brothers and turned to Elijah, shooting him an expectant look.
"There is no verdict," Klaus spat out lowly, glancing up from his drink to glare at her. Rebekah was willing to unleash hell on earth so she could be human for the next half a century? It was pathetic.
"Don't turn your moodiness on me Nik," Rebekah said sternly, putting her hands on her hips and facing him squarely. "Elijah has the cure so he is the one making the decisions—you being nasty to me isn't going to get you the cure."
"Sister," Elijah said calmly, "Miss Forbes says that Miss Bennett is on her way. I would like to hear the witch out before I hand over our possible only way of taking down Silas."
Elijah took a deep breath. His siblings were acting like children. Not that it was a surprise considering how often Niklaus and Rebekah had these spats. And the times when Kol was undaggered—that boy would egg them on further.
"Nik just said that the witch could find another way to take Silas down," Rebekah said waving her arm out to point at Klaus while she stared at Elijah. "Just hand it over and then ask Bonnie how to take him down."
Rebekah crossed her arms over her chest and let out a huff of indignation when they didn't respond to her request. Why couldn't her brothers do something for her for once in their lives? She spent her whole life following Nik and Elijah around from city to city—doing what they wanted. Sure Nik occasionally catered to her whims—but that was more so to make her compliant or more amiable, than to make her happy. Why couldn't they let her have this one thing? To be human, to have a family and human experiences.
"Uh—" Caroline said causing Rebekah to spin around to face her and both Elijah and Klaus to look at her. "Bonnie said she thinks she needs the cure to make sure that Silas goes to the other side," she said quietly.
Ok it was already getting weird being in this house with the originals. They were doing nothing to make her feel welcome—in fact she felt quite the opposite. Not that she expected them to really. But it would've been nice if they at least weren't shooting her all these looks that made her squirm in her seat.
Elijah especially. He kept looking at her like she was a puzzle to be solved. Like he couldn't figure her out. Why was he doing that? He had never shown interest in her before. It was always about Elena.
Fortunately the doorbell chose that moment to ring.
"I'll get it," Caroline declared, practically springing from her seat to escape the tension in the room. It was only a matter of moments before someone started threatening to dagger the other. Klaus had been just doing so to Elijah only minutes before.
She walked briskly to the door praying that it was Bonnie who was on the other side of it. As she pulled it open she felt her shoulders slump in relief as she let out a sigh.
"Bonnie," she exclaimed as she set eyes on her best friend and pulled her into a hug.
"Care you saw me a day ago—not weeks ago," Bonnie said with a laugh as she was crushed to Caroline in a bone tight hug.
"I just really needed to see a friendly face," Caroline said into Bonnie's shoulder. Oh how she wished that Bonnie knew about Damon and what he did to her. She so badly wanted to spill to one of her girlfriends about what Silas did—but none of them even knew about what happened to her last year.
"Care it's been a day" Bonnie said pulling out of the hug with an expression of half amusement and half puzzlement.
"So?" Caroline demanded "I can't miss my best friend?"
"Of course you can" Bonnie said with a smile as she let the questioning look she was giving Caroline drop from her face. Something was off—but they had Silas to deal with first. After they dealt with the immortal warlock she could figure out what was bothering Caroline.
"So—" Bonnie said with raised eyebrows.
Caroline just furrowed her brow in response and then her face instantly became alert as she remembered why Bonnie was there.
"Right—Silas," Caroline said suddenly as she closed the door and nodded her head for Bonnie to follow her back to the parlor.
Caroline returned into the parlor with Bonnie close behind. Elijah and Klaus were still on opposite sides of the room. Klaus was sulking in the chair near his bottle of scotch.
Seriously what was it with old vampires—or hybrids—and their day drinking?
Rebekah had apparently decided to pout in Caroline's previous seat on the couch. Caroline rolled her eyes as none of them turned and acknowledged her return or Bonnie's presence.
"Hello?" Caroline said impatiently rotating her glare between each of the original siblings who were all mentally elsewhere.
Elijah turned slowly from his position by the fireplace.
"Ah Miss Bennett," he said as he approached Caroline and Bonnie, "welcome."
"Thanks," Bonnie said dryly, as she glanced at the other two original siblings who were still ignoring them.
"I thought you guys were interested in my idea of how to take down Silas," Bonnie said as she shot a look at Klaus and then Rebekah who was pointedly ignoring them and picking at her nails.
Klaus looked up from his drink to see that his brother stood in the center of the room with the Bennett witch. Good. Now they could get this show on the road and get the cure from Elijah. He set his glass down and approached the Bennett witch.
"Well witch," he said as he sauntered over to them. "You better have a good plan, because I don't intend to let Silas get the better of me again. He needs to be put down—now."
"I agreed to help, not to be bossed around," Bonnie said shooting him a glare and placing her hands on her hips. Caroline said they would behave, so Klaus better—or she was leaving.
"You will do what you're told or I'll start killing loved ones," Klaus said lowly. His patience was at its end after Elijah's refusal to hand over the cure and how he had turned this situation into a bartering chip for Katarina.
"Klaus," Caroline protested, but he ignored her choosing to step closer to Bonnie—to tower over her. What was up his ass? A few hours ago he had been more than happy to hear Bonnie out. Now he was acting like the psychotic hybrid he was known to be.
"I'm here because Caroline asked me to be—she also said you wouldn't harm me," Bonnie said glaring up at him. She was the only witch who had intimate knowledge of Silas. He needed her if they planned on getting rid of him. "I saved your life a few months ago—if I were you I would be a little kinder to me. Or maybe I'll just desiccate you again."
"You do not threaten me," Klaus growled clenching his hands into fists by his side. He could feel Caroline hovering nervously behind him. He was reminded that this witch was her best friend—not some disposable and replaceable one.
"Niklaus," Elijah cut in, trying to prevent Klaus from lashing out. He did provoke him earlier—but he didn't think Klaus would destroy the chance he had at taking down Silas. "Let the girl speak—she said she was here to help—so let her."
"Klaus, you guys agreed to behave and not attack Bonnie," Caroline said behind him reaching out towards his arm. She let her hand drop when she realized he was ignoring her. Just like every guy did.
She told herself to snap out of it, this wasn't about her—it was about Silas. Now was not the time to let her newly returned emotions get the better of her.
He ignored her insistence and shot the Bennett witch one last glare before walking back over to the table he had set his drink on and grabbing it.
"Well then," he said as he took a sip and then waved his arm out at the table. "Show us what you have."
Bonnie rolled her eyes and then pulled her bag around in front of her. She had stuffed the old grimoire that Shane had given her inside it.
"Well," Bonnie said, mostly to Caroline and Elijah as she approached the table and set the heavy old book on it. She could care less if Klaus was listening, he was not her concern. "I told Caroline the basics of my plan yesterday," Bonnie said as she flipped through the pages, searching for one in particular. She stopped as she opened to the page about the veil. Most of it was in some ancient, dead language—but she could understand the basics of it.
"From what I can understand in here," Bonnie said pointing at the page for Caroline to look. Elijah approached as well and stood on the opposite end of Klaus. "The veil can be dropped by either Qetsiyah, one of her descendants, or Silas," she said.
"But Silas is immortal," Caroline said leaning over the table to the left of Bonnie. Klaus could keep his annoying hybrid asshole-self on the other end of the table.
"Yes—the immortality spell placed on him is similar to the one that your mother placed on you guys," Bonnie said glancing at each of the three originals. "He was a warlock over two thousand years ago and the immortality spell suppressed his powers."
"Then how come he can manipulate our minds still?" Klaus asked approaching the other end of the table and leaning against the back of the couch next to it.
Bonnie glared at him for a moment but then considered his question.
"The spell that made him immortal was slightly different," Bonnie said as she flipped through the book to the page on the immortality spell Qetsiyah had used. Once again it was in some dead language she couldn't read. "He still has some of his abilities and powers he held as a warlock—but they are severely limited."
"Rebekah was a witch right?" Bonnie asked glancing at the blonde who suddenly looked up at the mention of her.
"But she isn't any longer because she's a vampire" Caroline said as Rebekah let out a sigh and stood up to come see what they were going on about.
She stood between Caroline and Elijah to get a look at the dusty old book.
"Exactly," Bonnie said, "because the spell that made you all vampires was different—it suppresses witchcraft completely."
"Which is why any witch that is made into a vampire loses their powers," Rebekah said suddenly becoming interested.
Rebekah had been trying to ignore their master plan so that she wouldn't have to give up the cure to it—but Bonnie seemed to be onto something.
"So there are basically two ways that the veil can drop," Bonnie said flipping back to the page about the veil that her finger had been holding the place of. "It can drop at the hands of one of Qetsiyah's descendants or Silas can take the cure—releasing his suppressed powers and then drop it himself."
"Which is when he would kill himself to be with that woman he loved" Caroline finished with a small grin. She glanced up at Klaus to see his take on this, but he was looking at his nearly empty glass.
Caroline frowned. Klaus seemed to enjoy solving these intellectual mysteries with her—but now he wasn't even trying? He had enjoyed solving the puzzle of the cryptex with her—and then the third massacre's location. But now? Nothing.
"Exactly," Bonnie said, "So basically when we would have to kill him is after he takes the cure and before he drops the veil. The spell to drop it is challenging and draining—not to mention that he will be mortal again."
"So," Klaus said looking up from his drink and over at his brother expectantly. "About that cure."
A/N: Btw this story is AU so if it's not the same as the canon stuff (Silas and veil stuff) that's why
Basically since witches and warlocks control the balance of nature…when the veil is dropped...they can pass on naturally with their loved ones…unlike the show where the witches can come back when its dropped…idk bout the specifics of it yet…I may allow some leeway for witches who corrupted the balance of nature and can get stuck beyond the veil (cough*esther*cough)
Btw…Sorry for using so much space for A/Ns…but idk how else to communicate with all u guys…and some of these guest reviewers
I'm about to turn off guest reviewing if you guys are just going to be mean to me…Being mean to me is not a way to get me to update….I have a shit ton of stuff on my plate…I have a life outside of this story so when I leave an A/N saying that I may not update for a little while because I have finals and my education is more important than fans who are being rude to me…then get over it…u guys are ruining it for everyone else…pipe the fuck down in your demanding reviews…
I have like 95% nice readers and reviewers…but the other 5% of u guys need to chill the fuck out…I get you want more…I've been there…but I am not a writer…I'm a scientist…as I have previously mentioned…and these chapters take time for me…more than I think they would for other fanfic writers…I am trying because of nice fans…and if all I keep seeing is people cussing at me for not putting up a chapter in a timely manner…it's going to make me want to stop writing it all together…
On another note…after some talking with some reviewers I remembered why I had been putting off the kissing and them hopping into bed…because it has only been like 3 days for them…and Caroline just turned her humanity back on…and she killed 12 people…and she's still coming to terms with Klaus as more than just an enemy… so a kiss may happen soon…but they aren't going to jump right into anything else just yet
And this is kinda a filler ch…it's me trying to set up a type of dynamic between care, bon and the originals…I need to bring in some other key people who are part of my OTPs as well.. ;) hint hint….
Finals are over Wednesday…but then im on vaca from Thursday to Monday…and I have no wifi at my bay house…so ill try to get a chapter up after my last final…but there are no promises…
Reviews and suggestions? I love to read them! They make my day! Which would be especially nice in the middle of all this studying.