Chapter 39
Vaughn swaggered into the Mystic Grill and sat at the bar and ordered a drink and picked up his phone.
"Hello" Cassie answered.
"I just arrived at the grill," Vaughn told her "you didn't tell me just how many lady killers are in this town"
"Vaughn they are all off limits" she warned.
"I know, I know lass, just get here there's a British gent who is looking at me funny" he replied.
"I'm already here" she replied sitting next to him at the bar.
Vaughn smiled "miss me?" he asked.
"That depends" Cassie said taking a drink from his drink "what do you need?"
"I'll tell you during dinner" Vaughn said grinning.
"What makes you so sure I'll have dinner with you?" Cassie asked.
Vaughn slid a piece of paper over to her.
Cassie picked it up and read what was written on it.
She nodded and took out a lighter a lit the piece of paper on fire.
"You're buying," she said as she stood up and walked over to the booth.
"Thought so" Vaughn said following behind her.
"You going to tell me about the Brit behind me shooting daggers behind me lass?" Vaughn asked.
Cassie glanced over Vaughn's shoulder and saw Klaus. "That is a long story," she said.
"Well" Vaughn said in his Scottish accent "how original"
Cassie smiled "you have no idea"
Vaughn gave Cassie a half grin, "so that's him"
Cassie took a look a Klaus who seemed confused at how the two of them were talking. "That's him," she said.
"So shall we?" Vaughn asked standing up.
Cassie wrote something on a napkin and gave him a hug so she could slip it into his pocket. "Yes" Cassie whispered in his ear.
Cassie left the grill but right before she got to the do Vaughn yelled, "you never answered my question"
Cassie stopped and turned back to Vaughn "of course I missed you Vaughn" she said.
Vaughn gave her a wink and a grin.
Cassie rolled her eyes and left the grill.
Cassie kept walking into the town square where she saw professor Shane.
"Hey" she called seeing him "your professor Shane right?"
Shane turned to face Cassie "that depends" he answered
"I'm Cassandra Gilbert" Cassie answered holding out her hand for Shane to shake.
"Oh yes" he said "Bonnie was telling me about you" Shane shook Cassie's hand.
"Yes, I actually wanted to talk to you" she said motioning to the bench "do you have time?"
"Sure, I can make time" Shane said sitting down "but please call me Shane, none of that professor stuff"
"I can do that" Cassie said laughing "look, pardon the bluntness but I am well aware of the supernatural in the world and Bonnie happens to be a close friend of my sister so"
"So you want to know what I am doing with her?" Shane summed up for her.
"Among other things but that is a fantastic place to start." Cassie replied.
"Well I am teaching her this form of magic called expression," Shane explained.
"Yes, its a form that doesn't adhere to the spirits" Cassie said "which is what concerns me, witches are suppose to keep the balance of nature, and expression isn't exactly the balance of nature."
"True, but why hinder Bonnie to the rules of some dead witches?" Shane replied "what I am doing is going to help us get the cure, we need Bonnie to master expression."
"Why are you even helping us for the cure?" Cassie asked "your not supernatural, what do you get out of this?"
"I'm not helping for the cure" Shane replied. "I'm helping for what's buried with the cure."
"And that is?"
"Silas" Shane replied.
"Silas? As in the first immortal being?" Cassie asked.
"I'm impressed" Shane replied, "Most people aren't caught up in their parapsychology"
"Well I'm not most people" Cassie replied, "What do you want with Silas?"
"Its been told that Silas can raise the dead, I'm going to raise him so he can raise the dead." He replied.
Cassie didn't have anything to say as all of the puzzle pieces went sliding into place. "That's why you need Bonnie" she finally said "not for the cure, to raise Silas"
Shane started to get antsy as Cassie was close to putting all of the pieces together he looked at his watch "look I'm suppose to go meet the mayor something about being a judge for the miss mystic falls pageant, so it was nice to meet you Cassandra but I have to go" he said quickly before getting up and leaving Cassie sitting on the bench.
Cassie started at where Shane ran off to until her phone rang.
"Hello" she answered.
"The Scottish bane of my existence is complaining because you didn't stick to the plan" Katherine's voice came on from the other side.
Cassie rolled her eyes, as much as she enjoyed playing spy with Vaughn sometimes his dedication to it was ridiculous "tell Vaughn that as much as he wishes he isn't MI-6 and that he needs to calm down before I go Braveheart on his ass, I'll be there in a few" she told Katherine before hanging up.
Cassie stood up and started walking when a familiar presence fell in step with her.
"You know" Klaus said, letting his British accent take full effect "if its MI-6 your looking for Hamish MacHaggis is the wrong island"
Cassie didn't say anything but couldn't help the half smile that was brought to her lips hearing Klaus make fun of Vaughn.
"You know for someone who is suppose to leave me alone, your not doing a good job mate" she told him as they kept walking.
"I'm simply escorting a beautiful young lady home, there are terrible things that reside in the shadows, wouldn't want anything to happen to you" Klaus said.
Cassie rolled her eyes " and lets hear your excuse for eavesdropping on my conversation"
"Ah I would tell you but I'd have to kill you, you know how it is, the queen and her secrets" Klaus said.
Cassie couldn't help herself as a giggle escaped her lips.
"So what's the deal with you and the Scott anyway" Klaus asked.
"Are you jealous?" Cassie asked.
"Depends love, is there anything between the two of you that I should be jealous over?" Klaus asked.
"You mean besides the fact that he isn't suppose to be leaving me alone?" Cassie asked as they arrived to the Gilberts.
"Besides that" Klaus said
"Well I guess we'll have to see how this mission goes" Cassie said as she opened the car door.
"The meeting isn't here?" Klaus asked
"Nope" Cassie replied popping the p "kinda defeats the purpose of a secret meeting if you have it where you live."
"Then where is it" Klaus asked.
"Now Nik, if I told you that I would have to kill you" she said before sliding into the car door and driving off.
Klaus stormed into the mansion slamming the door.
"I told you to leave Cassie alone," Rob said seeing the state his younger brother was in.
"Well I had to see just how far gone she was" Klaus said.
"I tried to tell you, this is Cassandra she's all business" rob said
"Well perhaps you can gleam some information on the Scottish bloke that Cassie was with earlier." Klaus growled as he poured himself a drink.
"Vaughn?" rob said "Vaughn is back?"
"Is that a bad thing?" Klaus asked looking at his brother.
"For you brother, it is" Rob said grabbing his car keys "Vaughn and Cassie's history is long and tangled"
"Who's Vaughn?" Rebecca asked walking into the room
"He is another member of the five" rob answered "and because of that Cassie and Vaughn hardly ever work together unless the take down is big. But even then when they work together, its explosive"
"Explosive?" Klaus asked
"A hunter's high as Cassie calls it isn't something that you can slowly come down off of, you gotta use all of the extra energy that your body gives off, so Vaughn and Cassie always take down a huge number of vampires, then they use the left over energy to celebrate." Rob explained.
"Oh" Rebecca said softly
"Celebrate" Klaus growled
"Don't worry brother" Rob said heading out of the mansion "I'm on it."
Cassie drove up to the boarding house where she let herself in.
"All right Vaughn I'm here" she called.
"Finally" Katherine groaned "he has been driving me up a wall"
Cassie laughed "who annoys you more, Vaughn or Elena?" she asked.
Katherine paused looked at Cassie, "Vaughn" she replied, "I can't kill Vaughn"
Cassie rolled her eyes as Vaughn strolled in "ah, finally I thought Kitty Kat was going to explode" he said.
Cassie sat down in a chair "alright, so I followed your stupid clues, now what are we dealing with?"
Vaughn became serious in an instant and handed her a folder "your not going to like it"
After Cassandra finished reading she looked up at Vaughn.
"Well you know I'm already in, so what do you need." She asked.
"I have a way in, I just need a pretentious vampire and a willing human to put on a show, and I thought, well Cassie is dealing with all of those elitist original, surely there is one that isn't terrible" Vaughn said "from there I figured Kitty Kat, you, me, Mason, and maybe two others will be all that we need."
Cassie laughed and turned to Katherine "I'm thinking Jeremy and Alaric" she said,
"You want your dad there?" Katherine asked, "It's going to be dangerous."
"Ric, not only has an arsenal of weapons at his disposal but an eternity ring, but do you have any other ideas?" she asked.
Vaughn laughed "I have a felling like your dad and I are going to get along just fine"
"Stefan" Katherine put in.
"I'm ok with those three" Vaughn said "less work for you and me" he said motioning between Vaughn and Cassie. "That just leaves us with our distraction."
"I've got just the vampire" Cassie said "Vaughn your in charge of our human."
Vaughn nodded and jumped up to make the phone call, while Cassie pulled out her own phone.
"Who are you going to call?" Katherine asked "Klaus?"
"No" Cassie said making a face "someone who I promised I would call if I needed them."
The phone rang a few times.
"Hello" the voice answered
"How's your foxtrot?" Cassie asked.
Kol was lounging in the living room with a pouting Klaus, and Elijah who was looking at a map.
"This is boring" Kol complained. "Why did we get stuck with Mikael duty?"
Klaus just rolled his eyes while Elijah replied with a slap upside Kol's head.
"Ow" he said rubbing his head just then his phone rang.
"Finally a distraction" he said looking at who was calling.
"Hello" he answered
"How's your foxtrot?" Cassie's voice came from the other end.
Klaus's head snapped up at hearing Cassie's voice.
"Well you know me darling and how I hate bragging about myself," Kol said
"Got it," Cassie said "so what are your plans for tomorrow night"
"Well I thought I would get a little foxtrot practice in" Kol said.
"Great see you at eight" Cassie said before hanging up
Kol was grinning as he stood up "well it seems that I'm in need of a suit" he said "and some foxtrot lessons" as he blurred up the steps.
"We need to figure out this Mikael business fast so wee can get back to the cure." Klaus snapped.
"So we can get back to the cure, or so you can get back to Cassandra?" Elijah smirked.
Klaus didn't answer as the two of them continued there brainstorming.
"It doesn't make any sense" Elijah said turning to Klaus "how was Kol able to just un-dagger Robert so easily,"
Klaus raised an eyebrow "do you think that Mikael wanted us to un-dagger Rob?"
"I'm saying that until we know his plan for sure, we shouldn't dismiss it" Elijah replied.
"But then that means that Rob is betraying us" Klaus growled
"That's just a possibility," Elijah said.
Stefan, Jeremy, Mason, and Alaric all arrived at the boarding house after Cassie had called them.
"Guys this is Vaughn" Cassie said introducing them.
"We called you guys here because we need your help" Katherine explained as they all sat down.
The doorbell rang again. "I'll get it" Cassie said standing up "you two fill them in on the situation."
Cassie walked over and answered the door.
"Rob?" she asked, "what are you doing here?"
Rob motioned his head outside and Cassie stepped outside.
"I wanted to talk to you about my brother" rob said
"Which one" Cassie questioned.
"Nik" he said.
Cassie sighed and sat on the hood of Alaric's car. "Why do you want to talk about Nik?" she asked.
"Because I know just how crazy it's driving him that you two aren't talking" rob said
"Rob" she said
"No just hear me out Cass" Rob interrupted "he is sulking around and has resorted to following you around like some puppy just to see you and I can't believe he is acting this way over a girl"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Cassie asked a little offended.
"I mean that ever since Anita, he never even considered anybody else, and he believed love made you weak, and would tease us when we found it, and now."
"Nik's not in love with me" Cassie said
"No, but he is certainly smitten" Rob replied "and its killing me that his trust issue is what is preventing two people I care about from being happy"
"Its not his trust issues, Rob. Its me, I can't allow myself to think about being in love or even "being smitten" with someone. Finding this cure stuff is dangerous and my family is all at risk, I can't afford to be distracted." She said.
But Rob just laughed, "you have no idea how much you sound like Nik"
"Even he knows that it's not a good thing" Cassie retorted
"Maybe, but I know he is willing to try for you" Rob said "he is willing to throw years and years of living like letting anyone one in is a bad thing just for you Cass. You could at least give him another chance."
"I don't give second chances Rob, you know why" Cassie said softly
"But here I am vouching for him, saying you could be happy if just this once you thought about yourself and gave him one" Rob exclaimed "why do you keep running from it?"
"I " Cassie began but couldn't finish it because the truth was she was scared.
Scared of getting hurt, of her family getting hurt again because of something she had done. She wanted nothing more than to give Nik a hundred more chances because truth was; she missed him just as much as Rob claimed that he missed her.
She just couldn't.
"Rob, that all sounds fantastic, but its from you" Cassie said. "You know what I want and it's just like your just trying to throw me and your brother together."
"It's the truth Cass" Rob said, "I wouldn't lie to you, you know that"
Cassie pulled her knees up and hugged her arms around them while she rested her chin on top of them.
"I'll think about" she said softly "about giving him a second chance"
Rob smiled as he wrapped one arm around her. "That's all I wanted to hear."
Cassie smiled "I should probably get back in side, Rin and Vaughn might have actually killed one another this time."
"What are you doing with Vaughn?" Rob asked "every time the two of you get together, you guys kill a shit ton of vampires, then hook up the rest of the night."
"Your point?" Cassie asked, "I'm a big girl Rob, if I want to hook up with Vaughn then I'll hook up with Vaughn."
"And your second chance with my brother?" Rob questioned.
Cassie rolled her eyes and walked back into the boarding house ignoring Rob's question.
As she walked in she could hear Vaughn finishing up.
"What I don't understand is" Stefan begun "is why are we going after these guys?"
"There selling humans" Katherine replied
"Since when did you care about humans?" Jeremy asked.
"These aren't just humans" Cassie said stepping into the living room "they are selling kids."
AN: well another chapter up!
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