Chapter 15

Cassie groaned as her alarm went off. She got up and put on a black sports bra, a black shirt and a hoodie along with some bright yellow running shorts before going to wake Jeremy up.

"Jer." She said shaking him "come on its time to go"

Jeremy groaned, "Ok Cass just give me five minutes"

"Ok, I'll be downstairs" she said and she walked down the steps to find Alaric and Matt already there.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked

Alaric looked at Matt "we know Cassie" he said.

Cassie nodded.

"And we want to learn how to defend ourselves" Matt said "its clear that the Originals aren't going anywhere."

"Ok" she said as Jeremy walked down the steps.

"All right lets go," she said and they all piled into Alaric's truck

"Where to?" he asked

"The clearing on the Lockwood property" she said "Mason is meeting us there"

Alaric nodded and they drove off to the clearing.

When they got there Mason was already there.

They got out of the truck and Mason gave Cassie a quick hug.

"Ok, so lets get started, um stretch and then we will go from there" she said nervously

The little group started stretching while Mason and Cassie started talking.

"I didn't realize that you had Alaric and Matt coming too," he said

"I didn't know they were coming until right before they left. And if they want to learn how to defend themselves who am I to say they can't?" she told him.

'So how did Jeremy do last night?" he asked

"Really well actually" she replied 'I think the fact he knew all vampires aren't bad really helps"

"That's good, so how is Elena taking your sudden reappearance?" he asked

Cassie sighed, "not well, she doesn't talk to me and when she does, it's normally some kind of insult"

Mason hugged the girl, he knew how hard staying away from her family had been.

When they had all stretched they gathered around Mason and Cassie.

"Ok, so the main thing to remember when fighting any supernatural creature is that their cockiness is a weakness." She began

"When we fight humans, we don't see you as threats so we become, lazy and unguarded. We don't expect you to be able to defend yourselves." Mason finished.

"So using this against them is how you gain the element of surprise?" Alaric asked.

"Right" Cassie said nodding her head. "Always be aware that vampires especially like the hunt, the thrill of their prey being frightened. So say you running through your house and you open the back door." Cassie said

"And there is a vampire, you run to the front door, but the vampire knows that's what your going to do" Mason interrupted

"So turn back around and go back out the back." Matt said.

"Right" Mason nodding.

The three men nodded.

"The only way to really practice is to fight and learn" Cassie said. "So Mason and Alaric, Matt and Jeremy"

They paired up and stood across from each other.

"Now when fighting here you should focus on two things, one don't die, and two try and kill your opponent, no weapons this time but once you "kill" your opponent stop and start again Ready?" she asked

Everybody nodded. "Go" she said.

Cassie stood back and watched everybody fight.

Alaric was good actually.

Jeremy was decent, his hunter instincts were letting him know what he should do, and he just needed to hone his skills.

Matt was better then Cassie expected, he kept using Jeremy's sloppiness against him.

"You know a lot about vampires" came a cool voice in her ear.

Cassie turned around. "I don't believe we have met," she said.

He smiled "Kol" he said holding his hand out.

"Cassie" she said grabbing his hand. Kol kissed the back of her hand.

"Is there a reason you're here?" she asked

Kol ignored the question. "Why are you here?" he asked back.

"Helping my brother," she replied coolly. Turning back to watch them.

"Maybe a little demonstration is in order," he said in her ear again.

Cassie laughed "with who you?" she asked

"Why not?" he countered. Standing next to Cassie instead of behind her.

Cassie chuckled and shook her head.

There was silence between them, as the four guys started to tire out.

SMACK

Kol fell to the ground.

"Wha-" he asked.

Cassie was straddling him.

"There" she said. "I fought you"

Kol blurred and tried to switch places with her. But when he got up she was gone.

He stood up, and turned around.

"Hello" she said and stabbed him with a stake.

Kol grunted and pulled it out. He straightened up.

The four guys had noticed what was going on with Cassie and Kol and were watching.

Kol smiled "oh Cassie" he called.

"Oh Kol" she sang back.

Kol turned around. And saw her leaning against a tree.

"Good try" he said holding up the stake, "but it's going to take more than this to kill me."

"I know," she said smiling.

Kol blurred towards her, but she sidestepped so he ran right into the tree.

Cassie laughed; she was on the ground laughing. "Had enough?" she said gasping for air.

Kol rubbed his nose and looked at her, he smiled. "Sure" he smiling "we are done" he said reaching his hand down to help her up.

Cassie smiled and allowed Kol to help her up.

"I like you" he said

She smiled "your not so bad yourself" she said.

Cassie turned back towards the four guys who know where just standing.

"Well, I guess you guys are done fighting" she said.

Kol laughed.

Cassie looked at her watch " that's ok, its time for you to get ready for school."

Alaric looked at his watch "crap" he said

"Go ahead, Mason can give me a ride home," she said as Matt, Jeremy, and Alaric got into the truck.

They drove off and Cassie turned to Mason and Kol.

"Well that was fun but now I need to change my shirt now," he said pointing to where Cassie had staked him. "Drinks tonight?" he asked Mason and Cassie.

Mason laughed, "Sure I'm in"

"Me to" Cassie said.

Kol blurred away. Leaving the two of them alone.

Mason turned to Cassie, "so we aren't done yet are we?" he asked.

"Nope" she said, "we are going on a run"

"Figures" Mason said and the two of them walked over to Mason's car. Mason pulled his shirt off, and took a drink of his water bottle. "So how far are we running?"

"No idea, its just with all of these vampires I am a little on edge." Cassie said pulling off her hoodie and t-shirt so she was in her sports bra.

"All right" Mason said, "Shall we go"

Cassie took a drink from her water bottle and nodded. "Lets go"

Caroline was walking with Elena to history class.

"So I was thinking for this dance we forget the decades and go with a theme." Caroline said.

"What where you thinking?" Elena asked.

"I don't know" Caroline said as they walked into the classroom. "Maybe Cassie has an idea"

Elena remained quiet as they sat down and waited for Alaric.

"So why do you think Klaus sent that hybrid after her?" Caroline asked

"Because she is the one person in my family that he can hurt, he needs Jeremy and he wants me human" Elena said.

"You should tell her" Caroline said looking to Elena "she needs to know"

Elena started to say something when Alaric came in and started class.

She was think about what Caroline said, and what Stefan had told her earlier, she needed to talk to Cassie.

Kol walked back into the manor and Elijah.

"What happened?" he asked noticing the blood on Kol's shirt.

"Cassie staked me," he said taking his shirt off.

"What? I thought she said she didn't want to start anything?" Elijah asked

"Relax Elijah, she was training Jeremy and I suggested that we give him a demonstration." Kol said.

"So she staked you," Elijah said chuckling.

"Shut up Elijah" Kol said and he walked up the steps to get a new shirt.

Elijah thought about the girl, it was a good that she knew how to defend herself.

Kol came back down the steps. "Why were you with Cassie this morning." Elijah asked

"I like her, she's fun" Kol replied and he walked back out of the manor.

Elijah shook his head at the thought of Kol actually becoming with the girl who looked like Anita.

Cassie and Mason ran to the stream on the Lockwood property. Cassie bent over, breathing hard.

Mason looked around "do you remember this place?" he asked.

Cassie stood up and looked around.

"Ya" she said a ghost of a smile played on her lips. "We used to come here during founders parties."

Mason laughed, "Yep and then we would make out"

Cassie looked at him. "Do you have to be such a guy?" she laughed.

Mason looked at Cassie, her stomach had a few scars from her hunter career, and it hurt him to think that she gets hurt. Sure they used to date, then they broke up but they were still close. They were all each other had.

"Race you back?" Cassie called pulling Mason out of the past.

Mason turned to her to answer but saw that she was already gone. He rolled his eyes and ran after.

Matt walked over Jeremy.

"Hey Cassie asked that we don't tell anybody about her being like me, just that she is a hunter." Jeremy said

Matt nodded "I get that, I wont say anything I promise."

"Thanks" Jeremy said.

Matt went to go pat him on the back but couldn't "Dude I am so sore" he said laughing

"Ya, Cassie kicked my butt." Jeremy said.

"No she kicked Kol's butt" he retorted.

"Who kicked Kol's butt?" Stefan asked walking over to the two of them.

Matt opened his mouth to say something but Rebecca interrupted.

"And your talking about my brother's butt because?" she asked.

"He showed up this morning and challenged Cassie to a fight, and she kicked his butt" Matt said.

Rebecca laughed, "I might actually like this girl." She said and walked away.

Stefan turned back to matt and Jeremy, "why were you guys fighting?" he asked.

"Because we don't have super vamp strength and need to learn to defend ourselves. Matt told him.

"So what did Cassie do to Kol?" Caroline asked walking over to them,

Matt looked confused at Caroline.

"We also have super vamp hearing." She told him laughing.

"Um to summon it up, she staked him and then made him run into a tree." Jeremy said.

"Seriously?" Caroline asked, "I knew there was a reason I liked her."

AN: Sorry this took so long to get up, but now Finals are done and over with so expect more chapters to come out soon!

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