Chapter 37

Cassie rolled over and snuggled into the soft bed, she inhaled the musky scent of Klaus, then everything came back to her. Her snapped opened and she looked around as much as she could with out lifting her head, she kept her breath steady in case any originals were close by.

Everything was clear.

She stepped out of the bed and walked over to the bathroom, she turned on the shower and closed the door. She went over to Klaus's dresser and grabbed a pair of his sweatpants and walked over to the window. It was on the second floor facing the woods.

"This is too easy" she mumbled to herself. She opened up the window and stepped out. Sliding the window back into place, Cassie grabbed the edge of the window ledge and lowered herself down before just jumping the rest of the way.

"is she up?" Rebecca's quite voice brought Klaus out of his thoughts. Klaus turned his vampire hearing towards to his room.

"she is in the shower" Klaus said.

"I don't understand" Rebecca said, "why didn't she say anything?"

"she tried" Klaus said bitterly.

"I mean during" Rebecca said, her voice barely audible even with Klaus's hearing, "she didn't say anything"

Klaus stood up "probably because she knew it wasn't going to do any good, why waste energy you can't afford to lose"

"what do you think is going to happen?" Rebecca asked.

Cassie took off running, she knew how to get home through the forest, she had done it enough times.

"I honestly don't know" Klaus said. "it has been a thousand years since I haven't known the end of a situation. But we need to prepare for the worst."

"the worst?" Rebecca asked.

She was halfway there. Her feet here bleeding from the ground, but Cassie kept running, she let all of her hunter instinct take over and she hoped. Hoped that she could make it back to the house.

"we just spent the night torturing a hunter, one of the five." Klaus said "we would be fools, to think that she isn't going to come after us."

"but, Nik this is Cassie" Rebecca said.

"no, this is Cassandra, the hunter" Klaus said "we lost Cassie the moment we became convinced she was working against us"

"no" Rebecca said "we didn't lose her, we can't have, Nik"

"do you think I want this!" Klaus yelled "but she is gone Rebecca,"

"she can't be" Rebecca said.

"she already is" Klaus said walking up the stairs into his room.

Rebecca followed him, "Nik, what are you, you can't"

"Rebecca, that shower has been on, for twenty minutes" Klaus said walking into the bathroom. "She's gone" he finished turning off the shower.

Rebecca took in the empty room, "Elijah once told me that not being able to trust anybody was going to drive everyone away from me" she said

Klaus gave one heartless chuckle, "he told me the same thing."

"and it looks like I was right" Elijah said from behind them.

Klaus and Rebecca turned around, Elijah and Robert were standing there.

"Kol is going to try to fix what happened" Robert said. "but don't hold your breath."

"why?" Rebecca asked.

"Because Cassie isn't one to forgive and forget, not anymore" Robert said "she learned that lesson the hard way and its not one she is going to forget easily."

"why" Klaus asked

"Its not my story to tell, and from the looks of it, its not one your going to hear anytime soon." Robert answered sitting down.

"Well then" Klaus said, "how about you tell us the story you can tell, maybe how you came to be un-daggered?"

Cassie saw the house, she picked up the last bit of speed she had and ran into the house from the back door.

When the door opened. Alaric, Stefan, Mason, Katherine, Jeremy, and Matt all snapped their heads towards the sound.

"Cassie" Alaric said running over to her and hugging her.

Cassie let out a sob.

"its ok" he said running his hands over her back.

Cassie closed her eyes, five seconds, she was going to give herself five seconds of this.

One. She took a breath and took in the smell of her dad.

Two. She listened to the sound of him trying to comfort her.

Three. She closed her eyes and tried to pretend everything was going to be ok.

Four. She tasted the salt tears that were falling down her face.

Five. She let her self relax into her father's soothing hug.

Then she pulled back.

"I'm ok" she said stepping out of Alaric's grasp. "but Stefan I'm bleeding so if you need to leave I'll understand"

"nope" Stefan said walking over to her "I can control myself" he gave her a big hug.

"ok, I need to know what happened" Cassie said.

"me too" Katherine said walking over to Cassie "one minute I'm enjoying a Spanish pool boy, the next Mason is calling me telling me to get it back to Mystic Falls, here" she added handing Cassie a glass with her blood in it.

Cassie nodded towards her and shot back the blood. "gross" she complained.

"ok" Jeremy said walking over to her, "my turn"

"hold on" Cassie said, "everyone can get there turn, I just need a few moments to change" as she said these last few lines she caught Katherine's eye.

Katherine nodded and slipped away.

"of course" Mason said

Cassie walked up stairs and into her room.

"what happened?" Katherine asked.

"I was stupid Rin," she replied. "I got angry, and lost my head"

"come here" she said pulling her close.

"I can't Rin, this is my own fault" she said.

"five seconds Cass," she replied

"I already used mine"

"then use mine"

after five seconds went by the two girls pulled apart.

"why aren't you more, cut up and bleeding" she asked taking in Cassie's appearance.

"I don't know Rin" she told her, "the last thing I remember was Klaus walking into the room I was being held in, the next thing I know, I'm in his bed wearing his shirt and clean of blood and injuries."

Katherine raised an eyebrow, Cassie knew this what she did when she was trying to figure out a problem.

Cassie's stomach turned.

"Rin" she said feeling nauseous.

Katherine looked at her, and saw her friends pale. "shit"

Cassie took off to the bathroom.

Stefan" Katherine yelled blurring back down to the kitchen, "its about to real ugly real fast so please tell me that you have a handle on your bloodlust. "

"I got, it" Stefan replied.

"What's wrong" Jeremy and Alaric said at the same time.

"She has to much vampire blood in her system." Katherine replied.

"damn it" Mason swore.

"Its time to play dad Ric, you going to have a sick kid" Katherine said turning towards Alaric, "go hold her hair, and keep calm, Cassie is about to freak out enough for the both of you."

"what?" Alaric said.

"look" she said grabbing his chin so he was looking in her eyes. "Hunters, can't handle a lot of vampire blood, and right now, she has to much, so her body is going to try and purge itself"

"purge itself?" Alaric asked "what does that"

But he didn't need to finish the statement, because everyone heard it.

"Rin" Cassie screamed "it's starting"

"go" Katherine told him.

Alaric nodded and ran off to go help his daughter.

"quarterback, you and Stefan need to get, water, lots of bottled water and some applesauce." Katherine commanded.

The two boys nodded and left.

"baby gilbert, you and me are on mess patrol." Katherine said.

Mason started his task having done this before.

"Tell me what I need to do" Jeremy said.

"you need, to pay attention" Katherine said, "because this can happen to you if your not careful enough, and I'm going to need you to keep calm."

"I can do that" Jeremy said.

"make sure that you do, and the moment you can't you leave and go get Mason, do you understand" Katherine said.

Jeremy heard Cassie crying as she threw up more blood.

"Jeremy" Katherine yelled "do you understand"

"yes" Jeremy said looking her the eye.

"good, get some rags wet and take them to Ric." Katherine said.

Jeremy nodded and went to go get some.

"this is bad" Katherine said walking over to Mason.

"we don't know how much blood Klaus gave her" Mason said.

"but its his blood, Mason, it's the strongest blood in the world" Katherine said

"Kol un-daggered me" Robert said. "woke up and saw my little brother smirking at me. Why didn't you un-dagger me, brother" he finished looking at Klaus.

"I didn't know why you were daggered Rob" Klaus said "for all I knew you could be a ripper on a huge bender."

"bullshit, Nik" Robert said. "tell me the truth"

Klaus stood up and motioned for his brother to come outside with him, away from his siblings.

Once the two of them were outside Klaus turned towards him. "Cassie told me that she had no idea that they wanted to dagger you only that she was the one who daggered Faye, I know how close the two of your are, I was afraid of you going after her, Rob."

Robert nodded, "Faye and I were close, but at the turn of the century, something happened she started treating humans as if they were nothing, leaving a trail of bodies wherever we were. She wasn't my twin anymore Nik. Then I met Cassie and we became friends, but she wouldn't let Faye treat people like they were nothing, I knew that something was going to happen sooner or later."

Klaus nodded and "Rob, I don't know if Elijah told you or not, but Mikael"

"I know" Rob said, "and it makes me sick at what he has done to this family, to my family Nik." He said turning around to his brother. "it's always been you and me Nik, you're my brother and nothing like who your biological father, changes that."

Klaus nodded and held out his hand to his brother. "just like old times"

Robert clasped it. "just like old times"

Kol came running "Rob, its Cassie" he said out of breath to his brother.

"what's wrong" Klaus asked.

"she's sick," Kol said, "and there is blood, everywhere"

Robert turned to Klaus, "how much blood did you give her."

"what?" Klaus asked.

"how much blood did you give her" he yelled again.

"a lot" Klaus said "she was gravely injured"

Robert blurred away.

Klaus turned towards Kol. "what happened?" he asked.

"I overheard Katherine saying that as a hunter, her body will reject large amounts of vampire blood." Kol said, the panic in his voice.

Klaus whipped his head towards his brother. "I didn't know" his voice soft.

"it was bad, Nik" Kol said just as soft.

The two of them sat in silence.

"damn it Nik" Kol suddenly yelled. "why did you do it!"

Klaus remained quiet, letting his brother vent.

"You couldn't let go of your pride for one minute and listen to what she was saying" Kol kept yelling.

"Dad" Cassie sobbed, "I can't breathe," she leaned over the toilet and vomited the some more blood.

Alaric had tied her hair up and just held her. "yes, you can Cass."

Katherine walked into the bathroom. "Rin" she cried. "it's getting worse"

Katherine nodded and sat next to her. she took a wet rag, "tell me what's wrong" she told Cassie.

"my stomach" she said, "it's still churning."

"ok" Katherine said, "You know that the worst is almost over, you can do it."

"its never been this bad" she whispered.

Alaric took a rag and dabbed Cassie's forehead. "sweetie, you heard, you're almost done with the worst." Alaric looked at Katherine for confirmation, she nodded.

"ok" Cassie said "I can do this"

Alaric grabbed her hand "I know you can"

Jeremy walked in and took the mess of bloodied rags from Katherine and handed her a new batch.

"Jer," Alaric said, "Take Cassie"

Jeremy nodded and took Alaric's spot as he walked out with Katherine.

"believe it or not" Katherine said, "you're doing really well"

"well" Alaric said exhaling a breath, "I'm sure what do, or say"

"I know" Katherine said.

"how many times" Alaric asked "has this happened."

"this is the third" Katherine answered. "the first time, Mason and I weren't with her, she called us right before she passed out, none of us knew that she couldn't have a lot of vampire blood."

"What happens next?" Alaric asked.

"think of it as when someone gets a blood transfusion that doesn't match their blood type" Katherine said.

"ok" Alaric said nodding.

"Cassie's body is fully rejecting the vampire blood, her stomach is the first thing, she throws most of it up, but as you can tell, it suffocates her. Cassie's worst fear is suffocation so it just freaks her out more. But once most of it gets out of her system, her ears start to bleed the rest out." Katherine said. "it's not pretty, but Cassie calms down and we can get some food in her to help keep her strength up."

Alaric nodded. "that's my daughter in there" he whispered. "and I can't do anything, for her."

Katherine put her hand on her shoulder. "she searched for you for years, she knew that Isobel had taken her away from you. It means the world that she found you and you're trying to be her dad"

"really?" Alaric asked "because I feel like it's too late, she is an adult now and all I can do is drink with her and now hold her while she loses all the blood in her body."

Katherine took a deep breath "look, I'm not going to say it doesn't suck, because it does, Cassie deserved a normal life, she has done so much good. But she doesn't and she accepts that, but she savors every normal moment that comes. So, yes your holding her while her supernatural body rejects vampire blood, but your holding her, you're here, and at the end of the day, that's all that's going to matter to her."

Alaric didn't say anything but walked back inside the bathroom as Katherine heard the door knock downstairs.

Jeremy held his older sister.

"I'm sorry" she whispered, her voice hoarse from everything. "Jeremy you shouldn't be here."

"do you think I would leave you, you have taken care of me so many times Cass, let me take care of you" Jeremy said as his sister leaned over the toilet again.

"but I didn't" Cassie said taking a drink of the bottled water. "I ran away Jeremy, I know that I say it was to be a hunter, but I was scared when mom and dad died. I thought you would blame me like Elena does."

"I don't" he said "I never did, and you were there for me, every time I needed to talk to you Cass, you were there." Jeremy said.

"I'm a terrible sister" Cassie sobbed as she started to heave again. "that's why Elena isn't here, she doesn't care anymore, and why should she? What have I done for you guys but run away"

"Cassie, you are the best big sister I could ever ask for, and yes you ran, but I turned to drugs, and Elena hid everything every emotion away. Who is to say what the best method of coping is." Jeremy said. "and don't worry about Elena, think about me and Alaric and the group of people you have waiting for you down stairs"

Cassie gave a weak chuckle "when did you get to be so smart"

"I had a great role model."

Cassie was quiet as she leaned over one more time.

Alaric walked in. "hey, princess" he said.

Cassie chuckled "what princess do you know that fights vampires?"

"mine" he replied and sat on the other side of Cassie.

The three of them sat there for three minutes.

"ok" Cassie said sitting up. "time for stage two"

Alaric and Jeremy helped her up and Alaric picked her up as they walked down to the kitchen.

Robert knocked on the door of the gilbert house.

Katherine answered it. "Rob?" she asked, "When did you get un-daggered?"

"later, I wanted to tell you that Nik gave her a lot of blood. He didn't know she couldn't handle it and wanted to make sure everything was healed." He told her.

Katherine nodded "I knew it would be hard for her because of how strong his

blood is, but with that much blood." She trailed off.

"how far is she" he asked.

"she isn't even halfway through throwing it up yet" she said

"shit" he said. "I don't understand, how did this even happen"

"from what I gathered, Klaus and Cassie got into a fight and Cassie told him she was one of the five" she told him

"Nik, thought she was working with Mikael and then Rebecca proceeded to torture her" Robert informed her.

"until Klaus came in and stopped it" Katherine said "he healed her and then cleaned her up, only she doesn't know why, neither do I"

"I told him the truth" Robert said "that she wasn't working with Mikael, and showed him some proof"

"that still doesn't explain why he cleaned her up" she said.

"he likes her" Robert said "I've never seen him this way, even with Anita it wasn't this bad, for the first time Nik has no control and its driving him mad, he thinks Cassie is going to start a war against us now."

"She wont do that," Katherine said "I know that she started to have feelings for him too, so she wont start a war, but I cant guarantee everything will go back to the way it was."

"Cassie holds no obligation to put things exactly where things were, but we can talk about this later, you just make sure she gets through this, I'll keep my family away till its over and then we can sit everyone down and deal with it then" Robert says

"Ok" Katherine said.

Robert nodded and blurred away.

"Here you go" Matt said sliding her the jar of applesauce.

"Thanks" Cassie croaked.

"Here" Mason said handing her a rag as her left ear started to bleed.

"Is there anything else I can do to help" Stefan asked

Cassie gave him a heartless chuckle "only if you can get Elena here, I need to talk to her."

"Can't help you there" Stefan replied solemnly.

"There is something up with Elena and Damon" Cassie said. "Dad, have you noticed anything different with Damon?"

"Not really" Alaric said.

"Ok, well I'll talk to Bonnie tomorrow about it" Cassie said.

Mason laughed, "You know perfectly well your going to sleep through tomorrow"

"Besides Bonnie has been spending time with that Professor Shane guy" Matt added

"He is helping her work on her magic, its been a little unreliable and with us trying to find cure, we need her magic" Jeremy said.

"Well, Mason has a point, so Jeremy, you and Matt talk to Bonnie and see how her magic is going and see if she can see what 's up with my sister" Cassie said mumbling while she laid her head on the table.

Katherine came walking back into kitchen. "Eat," she commanded seeing Cassie lying on the table.

"Yes mom" she said taking a bite of the applesauce.

Jeremy laughed at seeing Katherine and Cassie together, they were close and it was almost like how Elena and Cassie use to act.

After an hour of planning their next step, Katherine finally took Cassie upstairs to sleep.

She watched Cassie sleeping; making sure everything was done for the night when she sent an all-clear text to Rob.

When she came back down she address the group. "Whatever happened tonight, we don't talk about it" she explained.

"What do you mean, you don't talk about it?" Matt asked.

"I mean, whether Cassie actually forgets or just chooses not to talk about it, we don't bring it up." Mason said.

"So every conversation," Jeremy said "its like it never happened?"

"Yep" Katherine said "when she wakes up, the story will be that she made it home right before passing out"

"Well, anything else" Stefan asked handing Alaric a drink before sitting next to him.

"What happened, with Klaus" Katherine started.

"Cassie is going to blame herself, she is in the mind set that, it happened because she lost her temper and caught in a lie." Mason said

"Which is rule number one for a hunter," Katherine finished.

"Well, that's Cassie for ya" Jeremy said running his hand through his hair. "Always taking the blame"

"So she is going to do what Cassie does best," Mason said.

"What's that?" Stefan asked.

"Detach" Katherine replied coldly.

"She is going to pull back" Alaric replied softly.

"And start to turn back into the hunter she was when she first arrived" Matt finished.

"More then likely she will head back to headquarters for a few days when she wakes up, get some training then come back" Katherine said.

The group sat in silence for about five minutes.

"Well everything is cleaned up and Cassie is sleeping, quarterback and baby gilbert you two are make sure that Cassie is ok, other then that there isn't anything else we can do tonight." Katherine said.

"Is there nothing else?" Stefan asked.

"Unless someone can tell me where the hell Elena is so I can drag her in here and give her kick her ass." Katherine said nonchalantly.

"I don't know where she is," Stefan said solemnly. "Or Damon, those two just seem to be in their own world"

"Well there is defiantly something up with Elena" Matt said. "Cassie had that right"

"Well we can start thinking about that tomorrow, every one get a good nights rest, we're going to need it." Mason added.

Everyone left the house except, Matt, Jeremy, and Alaric.

Stefan and Katherine were walking back to the boarding house.

"You know" Stefan began. "The way you treat Cassie"

"Stop" Katherine said "stop right there Stefan, don't look into this to try and find some good. Cassie is my only friend and if she needs me on a night she will not remember, then I'll be there because she deserves it, that's it, no more no less"

Stefan nodded. "I'm worried about Elena and Damon," he said.

Katherine nodded, "in all honestly, with Mikael back, we should probably consider the fact that they are being compelled."

Stefan groaned. "I was thinking the same thing, I just hoped you were going to say something else"

Katherine chuckled "well, at least your starting to think like the enemy. The old Stefan wouldn't even know where to begin."

They were silent as they finished walking back to the boarding house.

They walked in and Katherine started to walk up the stairs.

"Katherine" Stefan called.

"Hm" she said turning to look at him.

"Cassie told me that she started to have feeling for Klaus" Stefan said.

Katherine flopped onto the couch "I knew that she was starting to feel something for him, but the fact that she actually admitted it" she trailed off.

"How bad is Cassie going to get?" Stefan asked.

"The only way I can explain it is that she thinks because she let herself get attached and started to let her guard down, she got weak. And the way her hunter senses have programmed her brain it's going to try to revert back to the original settings that Cassie has worked so hard to overcome." Katherine said.

Stefan sat across from Katherine in a seat. "Are there anymore hunter rules we should know about?" he asked.

"No, I think you know them all. Don't have too much vampire blood, um there hasn't been one of the five to turn into a vampire, so we don't know how that will turn out, and how hard it is for a hunter to distinguish between good vampire or bad vampire." Katherine said.

Rob pulled out his phone, "Cassie is good, she is going to be out for at least a day but she is going to be fine," he told his siblings.

Klaus relaxed, he was shocked to find how tensed he was.

"Thank god" Rebecca said.

"Look, I know you guys have gotten close with Cassie" Robert said. "But, Becca and Nik, I wouldn't hold your breath. She won't start a war, she is outnumbered and she still wants the cure for her sister, but to say all is forgiven and you guys are going to pick up where you left off, it's a long shot."

"Rob, what about Elijah and I?" Kol asked.

"Kol, you can't honestly believe that we can still be friends with Cassandra on the outs with Nicklaus and Rebecca." Elijah said.

"Like hell I can't, Cassie is the first person since I was un-daggered this time to treat me as Kol, and not as Nik's brother" Kol said "I'm not losing that."

Klaus stood up and walked out.

He kept walking until he got to the Gilbert's house.

He found Cassie's window and blurred to it.

Her window was opened and he saw her asleep, the smell of her blood and bleach were fresh in the house.

He just sat there and watched her, the barrier keeping him away from her; all he wanted to do was make sure she was ok.

"Who was at the door?" Stefan asked. "Before, when Cassie was sick."

"Robert" Katherine said

"As in Faye's twin?" he asked.

"Yep" Katherine said popping the p

"Do we need to worry about him?" Stefan asked.

"No" Katherine said standing up "he is one of the good guys, Cassie and him were close before the whole daggering, look it's a long story and it's been a long day, maybe tomorrow"

"Goodnight Katherine" Stefan replied.

Stefan watched Katherine walked up the steps waited for a few minutes then pulled out his phone.

Time to add a new problem to the list

AN: here it is my lovely readers ch 37, i know the updates are few and far between but its spring break so i'm going to get at least one more chapter up.

I realized that i don't put this in every chapter but i don't own the Vampire Diaries, wishes i did but i don't.

so as always, read, review and tell me what you think about this chapter.

and i hoped you enjoyed