Damon

Stupid. Stupid Plan. He cursed inwardly. This was by far the most ridiculous plan he'd heard in a long time. And he'd come up with his fair share of ridiculous plans. He worried about Elena. He worried about Caroline. The annoying blonde had grown on him, she'd been there for Elena and the three of them had formed a friendship of some sort. He cursed himself for not apologising for what he'd put her through when he first arrived in town, if she didn't make it though the night he'd most likely be wracked with guilt. He even worried for Katherine. He rolled his eyes, he worried about Katherine? God, Elena made him so good. He sighed. If he didn't love her with everything in him, he'd most definitely be pissed. He didn't worry about Matt or Tyler or Jeremy directly, more about what their deaths would do to Elena if they were to occur. He didn't particularly worry about Bonnie, she could hold her own and fry all their brains with a look. He worried about his brother. He'd been withdrawn and bitter. He'd snapped Elena's neck. He'd switched off his emotions. But he was still his brother. In some ways, he was glad Stefan had dropped off the face of the earth, he didn't need to be involved in this ridiculous plan.

"You've got to be kidding me? You are kidding, right?" his snarky comments broke through the silence. "Okay. First, Bonnie has to agree which I doubt it going to happen." Caroline and Elena exchanged glanced with him snickering. "Second, do you realise how many things could go wrong and screw up this whole plan of yours? And lastly, what the hell goes on in your brain?"

Katherine smirked proudly "It's a good plan Damon, nothing will go wrong."

He scoffed. "Sure. Nothing."

He watched Matt and Jeremy exchange looks before Matt spoke up "You want us to be bait, basically?"

"Not bait Matt. Bait dies." Katherine grinned evilly before winking at him.

"Unless you use that bait-" he pointed to Jeremy "-that bait doesn't die. I've tried."

"Kat, really?" He watched Elena roll her eyes and smirk. She'd pointedly ignored his comment about her brother and focused back on Katherine. Kat? Their whole 'friendship' was beyond weird.

"Come on Elena, you have to admit it's smart!" Elena just shook her head before wrapping her arms around his waist.

"It's not that its not smart. 'Cause it freaking is-" Katherine flashed a look at him triumphantly when Caroline spoke "-It's the number of factors involved!"

"Care, where's Ty?" he noticed Caroline's eyes harden and she shrugged. She didn't seem willing to answer and Elena didn't push her.

They were interrupted by a knock on the door. Matt and Jeremy immediately stood up and headed to the door, leaving the vampires to their arguments.

He tuned out on Katherine's insistence that it would work and focused on the scene playing out at the door.

"Hey Jer, what's up?" Bonnie. He sighed and shot a glance at Elena. She hadn't realised and he wasn't going to tell her. The girls had to sort whatever girlie fight was going on and he sure as hell wasn't getting involved.

"Katherine has a way to kill Klaus but-" Jeremy was broken off my Bonnie storming into the room, rage practically flying from her.

"You're going to kill him! You realise he sired your bloodline so you'll all die?" The whole room shot her looks. As usual, she was jumping in and assuming.

"Bonnie, we're not killing him, do you honestly think we're that dumb?" Caroline was always good at dealing with Bonnie.

"Just sit down and listen for once." Even Elena was showing her frustration.

So Katherine told her, he watched her tense and fidget at some points. He figured it was because she'd been the one to put Klaus in someone's body. He and Elena had held off confronting her about it but clearly Katherine didn't have that problem.

"So, who d'you put Klaus into? We don't technically need to know but I figured most of this little group didn't know."

Everyone turned their head to look at her, their expressions ranging from shock to disbelief to anger to grim determination. He simply looked at her resigned.

"Tyler."

He groaned. They had had to shuffle their roles after Caroline had taken one look at Bonnie and stormed off, followed immediately by Elena. Everyone had let them go. They could manage without them. Just. His eyes searched the crowd before quickly finding Tyler. Or Klaus. Whoever he was, talking to Matt and Jeremy in the distance. He was still doubtful of this plan. It probably wouldn't work but they had to try at least. He braced himself. It was beginning.

Elena

She had never been so angry in her entire life. This was Bonnie. Bonnie was the good one. Back before everything she hadn't drank and she hadn't hooked up with random guys like her and Caroline. She'd always been good. She'd always been a great friend. She'd always put her friends before everything else. And now? She'd put Klaus, the enemy, the original hybrid into the man one of her closest friends was in love with. Her reasoning was good. She'd put Klaus into another body to stop everyone she loved disappearing. But Tyler? Why Tyler? She scowled.

"Care?" No answer. She pushed the door open and saw Caroline sitting on the edge of the bathtub with her head in her hands. She spoke no more, she simply was there. Offering words of comfort and unwavering support. What else was there do to? Neither of them knew the ins and outs of this situation. What happened when someone invaded your body? Of course, he'd invaded Ric's body before and he'd been fine-

Her insistent rambling broke off.

Ric had been fine until his vampire hating alter-ego had surfaced. They'd put it down to his ring, which was most likely the answer but what if it was more? He'd been pushed out his body. No one knew where he'd been during that time. Simply floating around aimlessly? Doubt it. She mirrored Caroline's position, her head in her hands. She could relate, in some ways she'd gone through the same thing. The person she loved being taken over by Klaus. Klaus controlling their movements. She hadn't known if she'd get Stefan back and without Damon there to hold her in place she would surely be lost. Caroline didn't have that, she only had her and she worried she wasn't helping.

"How could she?" Caroline's voice was so small and sad. She'd never heard Caroline sound so broken; she was always bubbly and happy, looking at the glass half full instead of half empty.

"I don't know Care, I don't know." She rubbed circles on her friends back before deciding they would be of better use if they were helping.

"You think we should go help Katherine and Damon? You need to get Tyler back Caroline."

She had expected resigned agreement and unwillingness but to her surprise the blonde shot to her feet.

"God what am I doing Elena? I should be out there doing something instead of sitting here." She even managed a small smile.

"Caroline Forbes, I swear you're bi-polar!"

"Elena Gilbert, I thought we agreed not to talk about that?"

She smiled and laughed before they raced to the Grill, arm in arm. She felt happy and carefree, even amongst all the chaos around them.

She walked laughing into the Grill. They'd been told to pretend everything was normal but they didn't halve to. Her and Caroline could make even the most dangerous situations relaxed. The scene before her was so surreal it almost shocked her.

The three guys were visible around the pool table, laughing and drinking shots Matt brought them. She could almost kid herself everything was normal and there was no such thing as vampires. They strolled over through the non-existent crowd, it was late, only stragglers remained and they were either passed out or close to it. She kissed Damon sweetly before elbowing and stealing the pool cue. Caroline kissed Tyler -Klaus?-before doing the same.

"Our game we think." They winked at the boys before pointing. "Bar. Go drink." She watched them happily oblige before catching Damon's eyes and nodding slightly. He nodded back.

She and Caroline watched out the corner of their eye, while talking idly. Within seconds, Damon had reached over and twisted Tyler's neck so he dropped instantly.

It was beginning.

Klaus

His mind was a blur or fog and darkness. He felt strange. He guessed he'd passed out but this felt different. He felt like her was being pulled, ever so slightly, upwards. Or downwards. He was too disorientated to be able to tell. His mind tried to sift through the fog that clouded his brain.

He had watched the girls walk in and looked for signs of anything odd. There was nothing but relaxation. He, himself relaxed slightly. His compulsion had stayed true and Katherine had been unable to spill his plan. Elena had kissed Damon and stolen the cue before Caroline did the same to him. His whole body lit up from the contact. They'd started a game, if you could call it that, he suspected it would be a complete shamble. He'd been dragged over to the bar and was unusually relaxed then...

He frowned, or at least he thought he frowned but he figured he wasn't actually. Everything after the girls had walked in was blank. Or more after he'd sat down at the bar. His mind was a fog of darkness and he was till moving ever so slowly. To where he did not know, but he was going somwhere.

A/u WOOOOOOOOO, still not sure where the hell i'm going with this, what do you guys think? reviews mean the world to me

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-Ex