AN: I am extremely sorry for the late update. I would have done it hours ago but my windows crashed and I had to reinstall it and everything else. But anyways here is another chapter. I hope it's up to your expectation. Honestly I am quite nervous about this chapter. Any ways lets see how it goes for you. And of course thanks to everyone for reviews. They are wonderful as always.

*Bee: You have asked me in the review why Jacqueline has to die. I couldn't send you a PM because it seems you don't have an active account on the site. Anyways, if you have seen final destination films it would be more simple for you and everyone else to understand who got confusion about the idea. For Jacq's presents in the world of TVD many didn't die like they should have. They in a way cheated death. And Jacq knows this that if she stays in their world longer than needed then all those who is living right now but should have been dead would die again because death will come after them eventually. And she can't let that happen. That's why she has to die. But after she would found out about the blood bond between her and Damon, you never know what she would do.

Chapter 45: Hey Nik!

It's been fifteen minutes already. I was waiting for Klaus to come back to Alaric's apartment. And I was really getting bored instead of feeling anxious. So, I found myself the same bourbon bottle from the cupboard that Katherine found for herself in the show and turned on the stereo in full volume. Then I started dancing around the room with the music, while taking small sips from the bottle, careful not to get drunk but to feel a bit relaxed. Obviously I didn't hear the door open or close again unlike Katherine and I definitely didn't notice someone standing in the room with bewildering expression on the face. Well at least, not until the music suddenly stopped playing and I opened my eyes and turned around to look. There Alaric or I should say, Klaus at the moment was standing in the room looking equally clueless and confused and shocked. I smiled brightly at him.

"Hey, you came... finally. I was waiting for you for quite some time now. How was your day honey?" I asked as if we were acquaintances and yes I just flirted with the Klaus. I approached him gracefully. Klaus glanced at Maddox's lying unconscious body on the couch and looked around for Katherine but didn't find her anywhere in the room. I knew what he had in his mind, what he wanted to know so I spoke up before he could ask anything.

"Katherine is not here but you obviously figured that out already. And don't worry about Maddox, he will be up in the morning, I guess." I said in a cheerful tone of voice. Klaus frowned at me angrily this time.

"What are you doing here?" Klaus asked me with a calm yet pissed off tone of voice. He was obviously trying to keep himself from bursting out with anger. And he definitely knew who I am so he didn't bother to ask that.

"I came here to talk to you. But first let me introduce ourselves properly. I am Jacqueline Gilbert, younger sister of your precious doppelganger. And you are Klaus, actually it's Niklaus Mikaelson. Elijah's younger, obnoxious, impulsive, vile and cruel, hybrid with a curse brother, well half brother anyway. Did I get that right?" I asked with a smirk on my lips. Alaric-Klaus approached me dangerously. He was shocked yes, but he was completely pissed off and mad as well.

"How do you know about me?" He asked gripping my throat and shoving me up against the wall, threatening to choke the life out of me. But I didn't falter at his move neither I got scared. Moreover I smirked at him even though my lungs were screaming for me to breath.

"I am friends with Elijah." I said even though it was hard for me to speak a word or make a single noise at the moment but I still managed to speak up clearly and fearlessly. Klaus left my throat after a while thinking of something but didn't move away from me and also kept hovering over me dangerously.

"Why are you here?" Klaus asked curiously but his temper was still there very fresh and still boiling.

"I am here to make a deal with you on behalf of Elijah." I stated to him getting to the business without wasting any time. Klaus frowned at me confusedly at first then looked at me as if I have gone crazy and speaking nonsense.

"He sent a human to make a deal with me. Is he out of his mind?" Klaus obviously didn't find any sense in it. But I answered him in one phrase.

"Nope, he isn't." I said and shrugged my shoulders at him carelessly and walked over to the kitchen cupboard. I found a glass and poured some Bourbon in it. Then held it over to Klaus.

"Why don't you calm yourself down first? We have a lot to talk about and I don't want you throwing an anger tantrum every time I speak." I spoke with calm tone of voice. Klaus viciously glared at me but took the glass from me anyway and gulped down the drink at once. I shook my head to myself and sighed out heavily. He obviously isn't gonna calm down anytime soon.

"How did Katerina get out?" Klaus asked when he was able to speak again after calming down enough. I walked around the kitchen isle and hopped up on it and settled down first.

"Elijah's warlock friend helped lifting off the spell from the door and she was on vervain so you could never really compel her." I informed Klaus and in return he sneered at me hatefully and again tried to attack me but stopped himself. I am sure that's only because he wanted to know what Elijah has to deal with him. Otherwise I would be dead by now even with him in Alaric's body.

"What does Elijah want?" Klaus growled out at me. And I could only smile at his frustration.

"I will tell you, shortly. But I have to clear somethings between us at first. You must be assuming that I am your sworn enemy but the truth is I am not. I am here not only to make a deal with you but also to help you Nik." I used the name purposely. Klaus looked at me as if I have two heads, four eyes and six hands.

"The name is Klaus." He hissed at me angrily but I shrugged my shoulders at him unfazed by his anger.

"Well, I don't like that name. It's old and rusty and evil-ish. I like Nik. And I know you like that name too after all your baby sister Rebekah and your brother Kol used to call you that. Of course until you daggered them. Anyway, stop complaining and hey Nik!" Klaus obviously figured it out that I must have learned that from Elijah so he didn't bother to ask me how do I know what Rebekah and Kol called him. I also waved my hand at Klaus when I said 'Hey Nik!' with a cheeky grin plastered on my face. That seriously turned Klaus all red due to anger and rage. He closed his eyes shut tightly and took in a deep breath to calm himself down with difficulty. Klaus looked back at me barely under control and my smiling face or should I say, smirking face wasn't making it easy for him at all.

"What is the deal?" Klaus asked with shaking voice because he was too mad to talk properly. I could almost feel exactly how much he was just wishing to snap my neck in two or feed on me brutally and kill me tortuously. I sighed to myself.

"I am not gonna talk in rounds with you right now, as you are already on the edge of insanity here. So, for a straight answer to your question, I know you want something, you want to become a hybrid which is why you are here. But Elijah also wants something as well. And you both are standing in each others ways from getting what you want. So Elijah is willing to strike a deal with you. He will let you become a hybrid but in return he wants something from you." I talked and Klaus listened to me attentively and he seemed to be calming down a bit too. Maybe hearing that Elijah is willing to let him become a hybrid made that happen. I am not sure. But Klaus and I both knew very well that if Elijah is around it is impossible for him to succeed in the ritual and live through it.

"What does he want?" Klaus asked with seriousness in his voice. I titled my head at him a little with a coy smile on my lips.

"He wants his family back, Nik!" I replied Klaus seriously as well. After looking at me for a while Klaus burst out laughing. He was laughing a mock laugh at me.

"Ahh, now I am sure Elijah has gone completely insane." Klaus said that more to himself than to me. Then he looked at me smugly.

"Haven't he told you this, I have already killed everyone." Klaus smirked evilly at me but got surprised when instead of shock on my face, he saw a cunning smirk there.

"Elijah told me this alright but I told him that you didn't. You haven't really killed your siblings, have you Nik? And you are carrying them with yourself for years now, locked up in boxes with daggers in their hearts. You are waiting for the right moment to awaken them, Finn, Kol and Rebekah. You still have them." I said confidently. Klaus was downright gaping at me this time with bewildered expression on his face. Though it was Alaric's shocked face I was seeing at the moment, but I could clearly imagine how Klaus's real face would look like with this expression. And it only made me smirk more.

"How do you know that?" Klaus gasped out loudly. I scratched my cheek with one hand lightly thinking of something to answer that question with and I came up with this.

"That's not important for you to know Nik. Right now all you need to know is that if you don't make a deal with Elijah, you will never be able to become a hybrid in your eternal life." I said with seriousness and for that Klaus glared at me furiously.

"Is that so? And how he is going to stop me? I am stronger than him. Elijah can't kill me even though he possesses the dagger now" said Klaus. Oh so he already knows that Elijah is back from the dead and roaming around the town with Elena right now. I thought in my mind. Klaus also knows that Elijah has the dagger now. That explains his pissed off look from earlier when Klaus just got here.

"You are right, you are stronger than Elijah and he can't kill you with just an old dagger. It doesn't even work on you. But he can always kill Elena or turn her into a vampire. And you know what's going to happen if he really does that. Your hope of becoming a hybrid will be over forever because Elena is the last doppelganger of the Patrova line. If she turns or dies, the line would end with her. And without a Patrova doppelganger you can never perform the ritual Nik. So if I were you I would think very carefully before making a decision." I said to Klaus and made him worried.

Actually if I am not wrong Klaus is horrified at the moment. And it's just so hilarious that I couldn't help but grin broadly at his face. Klaus remained completely silent for a while. Then he walked up near me and grabbed the bottle of Bourbon that was on the isle beside me. He gulped down the liquid from the bottle like a thirsty beast. I waited for Klaus to finally get a hold on himself and speak up again. He was definitely in deep thoughts. I am sure nothing is going like Klaus had planned and it was simply driving him crazy. Then after some time Klaus looked at me in the eye and nodded.

"Alright, I am willing to make a deal with Elijah. I will reunite him with his family but only after I complete the ritual and become a true hybrid for eternity" said Klaus and I shook my head inwardly when he said the word reunite. I knew exactly what Klaus has planned to do to reunite Elijah with his family.

"That's great, you really are smart for not wasting any time to make the right decision." I said and Klaus forcefully smiled at me and tried not to make it look evil. "But on a further important note, if you are planning to back stab Elijah but I am sure you are not planning anything like that but still to be on the safe side, if you are planning to do something evil, I don't know like maybe retrieve the dagger from Elijah somehow and drive it through his heart after you become a hybrid or even before that happens, then you should know this my lord, that you must not do that or even think about doing it at all." Klaus's face became cold again and he stared at me with hard emotionless eyes confirming me that that's what he exactly planned to do. I continued talking though avoiding that look.

"Because you have no idea what's going to happen if you do that. The minute you betray Elijah, his dear warlock friend would wake up Mikael, your daddy dearest. Mikael would be up from his peaceful sleep. And you know it very well that even if you will be a hybrid then, Mikael will still be able to kill you. So, please don't waste your brain cells on thinking about getting rid of Elijah, okay." I said with mock concern for Klaus and earned myself a deadly glare but he looked shocked once again.

"He would never do that. Elijah would never wake up Mikael because Mikael will kill him as well" said Klaus and I raised my eye brows at him in a questioning manner.

"Really that's strange. It's completely different from what I know." I said and frowned at him with fake confusion.

"I was thinking this entire time that Mikael just wants to kill you, not anyone else. Because you are not really his son, are you? It wouldn't be a problem for Mikael to end you. But others are his own flesh and blood. He would never hurt them." I said and guess I cruelly and viciously tapped on his last nerve by saying that. Because the next second I found myself lying on the isle platform. Alaric-Klaus's hand on my throat again in a bone breaking grip or should I say neck breaking grip as he held me down. I had no way to breath and Klaus was brutally damaging my vocal cod. He was enjoying looking at me as I struggled against his hold and tried to breath. Klaus is a bloody murderer, of course he enjoys seeing people suffer to their death. There was no intention of stopping in Klaus at that time. And he was really up for killing me right away. I turned my face to the side and saw the bourbon bottle in range on my reach. I quickly grabbed it and hit Alaric-Klaus with it, on his head. The glass bottle broke when collided with his skull and he instantly started to bleed. Alaric-Klaus groaned in pain and left my throat immediately and held onto his own head. Yeah, sometimes that's the best part of being human. We are so easy to hurt and cause pain. I sat up again gasping for air and coughing up violently. Klaus was writhing in pain as well. I looked at his wound and felt relieved because Alaric's body wouldn't die for the hit on his head because it was a very survivable injury. It just saved my life that's it, no serious harm done even though Alaric was bleeding. I found myself a bottle of water and gulped some freezing liquid down my sore throat. Klaus too was over coming the pain and stopped groaning. Thank god I chose to talk to Klaus while he is still in Alaric's body or I would really be dead by now.

"You are a complete douche, you know that? Freaking jerk." I said to Klaus out loud still gasping for air but then took in a deep breath to calm my panting breath down as much as possible.

"God, I should have said it the moment I started talking to this a-hole." I said to myself and walked up to Alaric-Klaus then grabbed his chin with my hand and made him look at me. His face was still scowling due to the pain.

"Listen to me carefully, if you ever do what you just did again and threaten my life in anyway, your precious doppelganger would be drinking blood with hunger before you could even blink. She got vampire blood in her system already and all it will take is just a snap and break of her neck. And your dream will be broken in pieces as well." I said warning Klaus for the last time. Of course Elena having vampire blood in her system was a huge lie but Klaus wouldn't know that, would he? I walked over to the fridge and found a ice bag. I threw it to Klaus and he immediately pressed it against his head side and sighed in relief but the wound still should hurt a lot. Klaus glared at me after his pain was almost gone which took some quality time and care as well. I even helped him cleaning up the wound even though I was the one who hurt him. When Klaus asked me why was I showing him kindness, I just said it's not him I am showing kindness to and that I am worried about my teacher's body. I was feeling a little bad for Klaus as well but I would never admit it to him. Klaus doesn't do good with kindness. He doesn't understand what it means to be cared at this time. Besides, Klaus did just try to kill me, didn't he? But still I did a careful good job in bandaging up his head. There was a silence between us for a while before Klaus spoke up again.

"How do you know Elijah?" Klaus asked avoiding looking at me and acting like an angry child. I sighed out heavily.

"When Elijah came to Mystic Falls. We met and got along." I said and Klaus looked up at me with utter annoyance on his face.

"That's it? You just met him and got along. You know how stupid that sounds." Klaus said as he stood up from his place and came closer to me with a dangerous look on his face.

"Tell me the truth, why are you making a deal with me for Elijah?" I felt a shiver running down my spine at his gaze on me but I stood my ground instead of backing away.

"Elijah promised me he will protect my family from you if I get him his family back." I answered Klaus truthfully because he was looking into my eyes to deeply that he would have known it right away if I had lied to him that moment. I know I am a very good liar but sometimes I could get caught too.

"And this is what you planned to do to get Elijah his family back, offering me an opportunity of becoming a hybrid in exchange for the whole family. But I think you are forgetting here that by letting me break the hybrid curse on me, you will loose one of your family members, your sister. You do know that she needs to be sacrificed in the ritual, don't you?" inquired Klaus and I shrugged my shoulders at him.

"I believe in the phrase, better one die than many. Beside, Elena is willing to sacrifice herself for her family and friends. So, I don't think she would mind it much if I make a deal of her life with death." I said, of course I would never let anything happen to Elena. But I didn't want Klaus to know it yet that he needs Elena alive more than anyone else if he wants to make his real dream come true. I needed some leverage against Klaus as well. My strongest one is the blood line fact. I will be doomed if Klaus finds out about it. Because as long as Klaus fears death, I can control him. But once he would learn that I am incapable of killing him for the sake of the people I love then it's Klaus who is going to control me. And I would die before I let that happen. Klaus went silent again but then he looked at me with a smirk.

"You know what I think. You are bluffing. You are bluffing this whole thing. You are lying about letting your sister die or releasing Mikael. Elijah would never wake him up no matter how much he hates me. You are just playing me." Klaus said confidently and got his cool composure look back. I rolled my eyes inwardly but crossed my arms over my chest. I gave him a cold stare this time.

"Underestimation, one of the things I despise with passion. But I don't blame you, well not this time at least. You don't really know me, do you?" I said with my own confident tone of voice.

"You think I am just playing you. Fine, lets think that. Let's believe that whatever I said I will do or whatever I said Elijah will do to you is a huge lie. But tell me something will I be still lying if I tell Elijah that Mikael never killed Esther, their mother and of course your mother as well." I said and Klaus's eyes went visibly wide and I toned up my voice more.

"That's why Elijah and your other siblings hate Mikael so much , don't they? They think he killed their mother." I smiled at Klaus this time seeing his horrified face. "Tell me Nik, will I be still lying if I tell Elijah that it wasn't their father but their dear brother Niklaus who killed their mother by ripping her heart out from her chest?" I asked and cocked my head at Klaus observing his expression very carefully. What could be more satisfying than to see a thousand year old original vampire werewolf hybrid looking at you with fear? What an amazing feeling!

"How do you know this?" asked Klaus frightfully but I rolled my eyes at him.

"How many times you are going to ask me that Nik? I told you it's not important for you to know. But-" I inhaled a deep breath before speaking up again. "You must know that if Elijah learns of this truth, he wouldn't care about making a deal with you anymore and release Mikael right away and he will kill you by tearing you off limb from limb." I said casually but Klaus gulped down his fear. We kept looking at each other. It seemed like a heated staring contest between Klaus and I. Then he opened his mouth again.

"Why didn't you tell Elijah about this already?" asked Klaus. I didn't expect him to ask this but I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly at him.

"Elijah already hates you enough for many valid reasons. I didn't want to add one more reason to his list. Besides, turning two brothers against each other is least of my interest. But if you still think that I am lying and just playing you and you are completely safe, go ahead and believe that. I will be more than happy to prove you wrong." I said sweetly and gave Klaus a friendly threat but that was enough though.

"Fine, you can have it your way then. But I am not giving up Elijah our family until I become a hybrid first" said Klaus and I nodded to that.

"You have your witch and the moonstone. I have your vampire already and the werewolf would be arranged shortly. The doppelganger is willingly ready in the wings. We just need to wait for the full moon." I said and Klaus nodded to that coldly.

"We have a deal then. I will take Elijah to his family afterwards I become a hybrid right away" said Klaus.

"Yeah we do have a deal now." I know it wouldn't be that easy and Klaus must be planning something evil in his mind, even at this very moment but I spoke up breaking my train of thoughts.

"You would want to get out of this body now. Katherine must have already informed everyone about you possessing Alaric's body. Sorry but you can't have the fun anymore." I said and Klaus nodded with a sneer on his face.

"Greta will be here by tomorrow. I have to stay in this body until then" said Klaus and I nodded to that and said-

"Right! But we better leave this place immediately. Certain people could come here looking for you. And I don't want you anywhere near them or them anywhere near you. And from now on, consider me your shadow. I won't be leaving your side until our deal is completely done." I said and Klaus did glare at me hatefully but said-

"Fine!" Well more like he snapped at me angrily but I was okay with it.

"BTW, I have to go to this decade dance tonight. And because I am not gonna let you out of my sight, we both have to go there together. Besides you wanted to do a grand entry in everyone's life, didn't you, Nik? I think I can allow you to do that. It will be fun." I said and Klaus forced a bitter smile at me. I wanted to go because if I don't go then Katherine would think that I am dead. But I don't want to meet anyone else. Because then I would have to go back to them but it's really important that I stick with Klaus for the time being.

"Of course it will be fun dear. But I would really appreciate if you not call me Nik anymore." Klaus said in a fake charming tone of voice. I scoffed at him as he said that.

"And call you what, Klaus-the evil hybrid? I don't think so." I said clearly indicating that I am not abiding by his wish. Klaus's lips formed a thin line of annoyance and mine curved up into a victorious smile. Things are definitely gonna be more fun.

Third Person's POV

After dropping Matt off at his house, Katherine went to the boarding house to inform the Salvatore brothers about Klaus possessing Alaric. Katherine thought she would sneak in like she always does as the door was open. But this time she couldn't enter the house.

"What the hell?" Katherine tried again but she just couldn't walk in. Katherine sighed out heavily and rolled her eyes to herself. She needed to clean up and change clothes as soon as possible. Her legs were still covered in her own blood strains. Katherine was feeling dirty and she was starving like hell. She needs to feed right away but something must have happened to the boarding house while she was enjoying her time with Alaric-Klaus.

"Stefan!" Katherine yelled because she didn't have a cell phone on her to call him.

"Damon!" She called for Damon too but no one was coming out. She sighed out frustratingly and considered leaving but the brothers appeared at the door finally with confused faces and narrowed eyes.

"Why the hell I can't get in?" Katherine asked before the brothers could open their mouths.

"Elena owns the house now and she apparently didn't invite you in" informed Stefan and Katherine rolled her eyes. Damon crossed his arms over his chest.

"What are you doing here? Hoping you would be dead by now" said Damon but he didn't really hope for Katherine to end up dead. He just thought she would die and it would be a lie if Damon says that he didn't feel a bit sorry for her at the thought of her dying. But Damon would never say that out loud in this life time. Katherine being Katherine she pouted at him.

"Why Damon? Aren't you happy to see me alive?" Katherine used her sultry voice making Damon glared at her more.

"No" said Damon at once. Stefan rolled his eyes at the two of them and noticed her blood covered legs before Damon could.

"What happened to you?" asked Stefan almost with concern in his voice that Katherine didn't miss to notice and it filled her heart with happiness. But she had to ruin the moment of happiness for her. She went all bitchy and smirked at Stefan.

"Aww Stefan, nice to see you still care about me" said Katherine flirting with him. Stefan rolled his eyes at her but didn't retort back like he wanted to and should have. Katherine went serious again.

"Now please call little miss sunshine and invite me in. I have got some important news for you guys" said Katherine. Damon glared at her unnecessarily again.

"She is not here. Why don't you just give us the news from outside the house and leave?" said Damon. Katherine put her hands on the door frame and leaned in near them as much as she could.

"I have been stabbing myself for hours Damon and I am starving right now. So, if you want to know what Klaus is up to then I suggest you do something fast to make me comfortable enough to give you that information" said Katherine with damn serious tone of voice. Damon glared at her hatefully and Stefan just frowned. Katherine's eyes flickered inside and she saw Rose standing there not so far from the Salvatore brothers. Katherine couldn't help but smirk.

"Who we have here?" Rose walked up near the door and obviously glared at Katherine more hatefully than Damon but Katherine ignored that.

"So, nice to meet you again Rose. I really wasn't expecting to see your face ever again but I am glad nonetheless." Katherine said with fake sweet voice that enraged Rose more but she stayed put and just glared at Katherine more. But Rose would have probably attacked Katherine if Damon wasn't having an arm wrapped around her shoulders at the moment. Katherine rolled her eyes at Rose saying-

"Rude!" quite dramatically then she looked at Stefan again.

"Would you please hurry up? I am not gonna stand here the whole day. And if I leave now, you would never find out what Klaus is planning to do" said Katherine this time being threatening. Stefan didn't waste anytime and called Elena to come back quickly.

"Elena is on her way" announced Stefan to the others. Almost half an hour later everyone including Elena was in the Boarding house living room. Katherine was drinking from a blood bag and everyone was impatiently waiting for her to talk.

"Would you speak up already?" Damon snapped at Katherine and she threw a glare at him in return.

"Did you guys meet Alaric today? Your history teacher slash vampire hunter?" asked Katherine with casual tone of voice. Everyone frowned in confusion when she asked that.

"Yes, but what does it have to do anything with Klaus?" asked Elena with a bitter tone of voice. Katherine just smirked at her.

"Then you have already met Klaus" said Katherine and Elena choked on her own breath and others were extremely shocked to hear that.

"What?" Rose gasped out loud.

"You mean to say Alaric is Klaus" asked Stefan horrified.

"At the moment yes, Klaus has taken over Alaric's body to blend in with you, keep an eye on you and get information out of you" said Katherine and Elena gaped at her with wide eyes.

"He can do that?" asked Elena still not believing what she just heard. That's why Alaric was so mad at her when he heard that she has pulled the dagger out of Elijah. Because it wasn't Ric, it was Klaus.

"With help from his witches, sure" said Katherine with a shrug of her shoulders. Rose frowned at Katherine then and asked-

"You were in Klaus's clutches right. How did you escape him so easily?" Katherine had to smile at the thought of how Jacq so easily rescued her. Otherwise Klaus would still be screwing her up. But now Katherine is worried about Jacqueline. She is praying to see Jacq at the dance tonight. She shouldn't have left Jacq with Klaus like that. Well Katherine did insist as much as she could but a stubborn Jacq is impossible to persuade. And it's still true that if a situation comes where Katherine has to choose between her life and Jacq's then she would easily say 'better you die than I'. But Katherine doesn't need to worry about Jacq finding out this truth. Because Jacq already knows this very well that Katherine would do that without a second thought. And perhaps that's why Katherine cared about that stubborn and difficult girl more than she should. Because Jacqueline is the only person who cares about Katherine even after knowing her true nature. Katherine quickly changed the smile into a smirk before anyone could notice.

"I have been successfully running from Klaus for five hundred years now. I escaped him as a human once, don't you think I would know how to escape him as a vampire more easily" said Katherine. Damon and Stefan felt like she was lying big times but didn't say anything against it. Elena sighed at that believing Katherine.

"What's his next move?" asked Elena worriedly.

"Klaus is going to show up in the decade dance tonight. Probably to have a dance with his precious doppelganger" said Katherine and Stefan glared at her for saying that.

"He won't get to come anywhere near Elena" said Stefan determined with gritting jaws that made Katherine roll her eyes at him.

"Oh please! Right now she is the most safest person in the world. Klaus will never hurt her, well at least until the ritual. Moreover he would protect her from any harm himself. So stop being protective of little miss sunshine for once Stefan." Both Elena and Stefan glared at Katherine for blurting the truth out so easily. But Katherine was jealous and she couldn't help it.

"So now what?" asked Rose to change the topic of the conversation.

"We will go to the dance tonight" spoke up Elena making Stefan and Damon yell her.

"What?" They asked in unison. Elena told them what she learned from Elijah in the meanwhile. About Klaus being a hybrid and about the real curse on the moonstone and what she and Elijah has planned to do.

"So, Klaus can be killed by the dagger as well" asked Stefan and Elena nodded to that not knowing it was a misinformation.

"Until he breaks the curse and becomes a hybrid, yes Klaus can be killed too but he will be dagger dead only" said Elena and Damon clapped his hands.

"Perfect, we will go to the dance tonight, lure him out of the crowd then dagger him. I mean it's four of us, Me, Stefan, Rose and Elijah against one. Even vampire barbie can help a bit if we need it. I don't think so Klaus is that strong to fight against all of us alone" said Damon and they were suddenly very excited about the plan. But Katherine rolled her eyes at them. How come Jacq is related with these bunch of idiots?

"Aren't we forgetting something here?" asked Katherine getting everyone's attention back to her.

"What?" asked Damon boringly and Katherine smiled bitter sweetly at him.

"Klaus is possessing Alaric's body right now and he is not leaving it anytime soon knowing Elijah is out. If you do something now, you will only kill Alaric and Klaus could easily posses someone else's body. Your idea of killing him with the dagger won't work until he is in his own body again" pointed out Katherine and everyone's face fell again hearing that.

"Then we shouldn't go to the dance tonight" said Rose but Katherine shrugged her shoulders to herself.

"That's up to you, I have to go anyway" said Katherine and Damon frowned at her.

"And why is that? You want to go back to Klaus again?" Damon asked seriously.

"Nope, I just feel like having fun tonight and what could be more interesting than the decade dance" said Katherine and Damon narrowed his eyes at her suspiciously.

"Tell us something, you betrayed us by siding with Isobel and ran away with the moonstone. It did land you with Klaus which I found hilarious by the way. But now that you escaped from Klaus, why did you came back to help us? Why didn't you just took off from Mystic Falls like the selfish bitch you really are?" accused Damon while wondering about Katherine's real intentions. The older vampire remained silent for a moment which confused all of them. Katherine didn't know what to tell them. She didn't know how to be sarcastic and bitchy this time.

"I didn't betray you. Not this time." Katherine decided to say the truth. "I knew that Klaus wanted me and I purposefully let myself be trapped so that I could get close to him and find out what he is up to. And admit it, you would have never known that Klaus is inside Alaric's body if I hadn't told you and you would still be happily sharing all your information with him." She sighed out a little. Katherine tried to be a little sarcastic but decided against it.

"I told you I am gonna help you kill Klaus and I didn't lie when I said that. I want him dead more than any of you. And I found hope for the first time of getting it done. So, no matter how much of a selfish bitch I am, I am gonna stick around for a while and help you. I am not gonna run anymore. It's time that I face him." Katherine stormed out of the room saying that, leaving everyone stunned behind her. Damon couldn't help but think that Katherine acted quite like Jacq this time. He still finds it difficult to digest the idea that Katherine and Jacqueline are actually friends. He has no idea how the hell that happened but Katherine was changing. Maybe only a slight amount but anyone with keen eyes could tell that the change is there in her.

"I think we all should go to the dance" spoke up Elena earning weird glances from others but she continued.

"It's possible that Klaus wouldn't even show up knowing Elijah is alive now. We shouldn't miss having fun as well." Stefan interjected immediately.

"It's too risky Elena."

"She is right, we should go. We can't kill Klaus now but maybe we can talk to him. Find out what he has planned to do. Besides, I want to know what Katherine's up to" said Damon and everyone eventually agreed to go to the dance.

"I have to go back to Elijah and tell him about Klaus possessing Alaric's body. We have to change our plans" said Elena. Only if she knew that Elijah never meant to do what he planned to do with her. Just like Jacqueline, said. Elijah was just keeping her busy. He was also looking for an opportunity to draw blood from Elena that they would need in the ritual. Elijah would need to do it before the full moon. This time everything needs to go as planned. One mistake could change everything for everyone.

AN: So this is it everyone? I hope you enjoyed it. Next update when it crosses 750 reviews LOL. And the next chap got lemons between Jacq and Damon. So hurry up and review folks. Love you all.