AN: I"M BACK!

thanks for all of your support.

two notes before i give you the chapter.

one i do not own the vampire diaries just the things you don't see in the show

two read, review, and enjoy!

Chapter 50

After everything was settled down and taken care of, Cassie grabbed a bottle of whiskey and headed to the falls.

"Well look at you" Katherine's voice called from behind her.

Cassie patted the table next to where she was sitting.

"So I'm suppose to find out if you took care of the Shane problem?" she said swiping the bottle from Cassie.

"I took care of it" she replied. "had Liz arrest him for the town council slaughter"

Katherine chuckled "well that's one way to do it, And I heard about today" she said "is everything ok?"

"I took care of that too" Cassie replied taking a drink from the bottle.

"Are you ok?" she asked

"My brother has officially gone full on pyscho hunter attacking any vampire, which I swore to him I would never make him go through, so now he has to go somewhere where there aren't vampires to start all over. Plus my dad has an evil alternate personality which was caused by a magic ring that allows him to come back from the dad." She deadpanned.

"But you have Klaus" Katherine countered.

Cassie smiled and bit her lip, "I do," she said still not facing Katherine.

"Oh my god" she laughed "you have it bad"

"And you're not upset?" Cassie asked turning to her in surprise.

Katherine turned her head towards Cassie, "what that my best friend is together with the man who has been chasing me for five hundred years"

"Yep" she said popping the p " that's the one"

"Who can't help who you love" she replied softly.

"Still in love with Elijah then?" Cassie countered.

"I've been running for five hundred years" she replied "I don't have time to be in love"

"Maybe someday" Cassie told her sadly leaning her head on her shoulder.

Katherine laid her head on top of hers.

The two girls sat in silence, taking turns taking a sip of the whiskey.

"He asked me what I would do when this cure business is done" she absentmindedly told Katherine while she played with her ring on her finger.

"Really?" Katherine asked shocked "what did you say?"

"That I wanted to stay" Cassie confessed lifted her head up from her shoulder.

Katherine nodded her head "I wanted to know what was going to get you out of hunting, guess I know now" she replied.

"What?" Cassie asked confused.

"I knew you weren't going to hunt forever, I just wanted to know what was important to you." Katherine said.

"Its not just him" Cassie said " my siblings are so screwed up I have to help them put the pieces back together, and now I have my dad here, its almost home again."

"Your getting your family back" Katherine said "I get it"

"Not all my family" Cassie said, "Rin, I'm leaving you"

"But I'm not enough to make you stay away from here" she pouted.

"Rin" she started

"Save it," she said taking one last long drink from the bottle.

Katherine stood up and walked away.

"Rin!" Cassie yelled after her.

But Katherine just kept on walking.

"Ug" Cassie yelled before lying on the table once more, she closed her eyes and just listened to the sound of the water for a while.

"You know its not safe to be out here by yourself" Damon's voice rang out as he sat on the bench next to the table she was laying on "there could be monsters out here." He finished swiping the bottle from her. "See this is what I like about you and your dad" he exclaimed seeing the bottle "good taste in drink"

"Wish I could say the same about the company" she teased back sitting up.

"You wound me," he said clutching his heart as he rocked back in his seat.

Cassie gave a half smile at that.

"So mini you was giving me some chick flick moment today and she had a point" Damon said.

"mini me?" she asked looking up at him.

"yep Caroline, your basically her hero so I have dubbed her the mini you." Damon said. "and she made me sit and listen to her, so now its your turn."

"Ok, I'm going to stop you right there," Cassie, said holding her hand up to stop him.

"Why?" Damon asked confused taking a drink from the now half empty bottle.

"Because there where several things which you just said which tells me you are completely wasted," she countered.

"Name one" he challenged

"Caroline was right" she said raising an eyebrow to him.

"Ok, so maybe I am a little drunk, but I do my best thinking while I'm drunk." He reasoned.

"Ok" Cassie held her hands up in surrender "what was Caroline right about"

"Then when this is all done, when the dust settles Elena and Stefan will ride into the sunset, and now that you and the original hybrid douche bag, are together, that I'm going to be all alone again." He confessed.

"Oh" Cassie breathed out, not knowing what to say.

"Yep" Damon said taking another drink "oh"

"Damon, I" she started before trailing off again.

"Pretty much" he spat out.

"Its not fair" she whispered

"Not its not fair" Damon said standing up suddenly "you're right, its not fair but do you know what, I'll be expected to do it anyway."

He started to pace in front of her.

"Yes" she said.

Damon stopped pacing to turn and look at her.

"What?" he asked.

"Yes, you will be expected to do it, because it's the right thing, and its not fair to you, but do you know who it is fair for, your younger brother. And I know you like to play "I don't care about Stefan"" she said using air quotes "but you and I both know that we will do anything for our younger siblings, even if it means we our unhappy" she said quietly.

Damon just stood there taking in everything Cassie just said before looked up at her. "Are you happy?" he asked

"What?" she asked shocked.

"Are you happy?" he said taking a step forward towards her.

"Yes" she answered without hesitation "I'm happy"

"Are you sure?" he asked taking another step forward.

"Damon" she said, "stops"

"You said that you would do anything for your siblings, even if it means you being unhappy" Damon said.

"I would do anything for my siblings," she told him "but I'm not with Nik because it helps my siblings, I'm with him because I care about him. End of story."

"Oh come on Cassie, you said it yourself we both are older siblings" Damon began.

"Damon" she said standing up "end of story"

Damon was quiet. And then shook his head. "No, I don't believe it" he said.

"Damon" she sighed.

"Your first choice was me, hell Klaus wasn't even an option. And now all of the sudden you're head over heels for him?" Damon said.

"Why are you doing this?" she asked standing up off of the table, her voice rising.

"Because I remember the night we had together, I remember spending all of that time trying to convince you to give me a chance, I just don't remember the feelings behind my actions and your just going to throw it all away" Damon exclaimed

"What are you saying?" Cassie asked.

"I'm saying that when you come up with a way to defeat Mikael, which I know you will, my feelings for you are going to come back, just as strong as they were that night." He said closing the gap between them.

"We can go back to where we were," he whispered cupping her face and kissing her.

Cassie was shocked, until she realized what was happening, she pulled back and slapped him across the face.

"I'm happy with Nik, I want to be with Nik," she said before turning and leaving Damon alone.

Damon put his hand to his cheek.

"Well done" Mikael said standing next to Damon.

"Right, and why did I do that?" Damon asked turning to face him.

"Because I had to make sure that they both has true feelings for each other before I moved on to phase two" he said.

"Now go" he compelled Damon "and forget this conversation." He finished before blurring away.

Cassie walked into her dad's apartment, "dad?" she called.

She didn't hear anything.

She sat down on the couch and ran her hands through her hair.

What just happened?

She tried to process through each event by person, Katherine pretty much just told her to go screw herself because she was staying in Mystic Falls. She understood her hurt and pain how Katherine was losing someone she was close to, probably the only person she was close to since she started running was leaving her. But, she still had held out hope that she was going to understand and would have been happy for her.

Then there was Damon.

Oh Damon, she didn't even to go there.

She wasn't drunk enough for that.

Once again she understood where he was coming from, she knew his past and when they broke the compulsion his feelings would go right back to where they were the night they slept together, and that sucks.

It sucked and it wasn't fair.

And it was too much to ask of him; it was too much to ask of everyone, to once again let go of someone you have feelings for.

To be alone again.

Cassie laid her head back against the back of the couch.

She heard a noise in her dad's bedroom.

"Dad?" she called loudly "is that you?"

Silence.

She stood up, slipping a stake from her boot on her way over there.

"Dad?" she called a final time.

Still no answer.

She pushed the door opened a little bit. Peeking into it she slipped into the room.

She tensed feeling somebody else in the room.

She turned to go back out when someone grabbed her shoulder.

She grabbed it and twisted around and threw the person to the ground.

Cassie saw who it was.

It was her dad.

"Damn it" she said jumping over him, to get to her bag where her Taser was.

She hopped over the island in the kitchen and was just about to go around the board when her dad tackled her into it.

They flipped over it and onto the coffee table. Papers flying everywhere.

Cassie cried out as her side fell onto the corner.

She kicked him off of her and stood up.

"Dad this isn't you" she said taking a fighting stance.

"Your right this isn't him" evil Alaric said as he took a stance against her "this is a much better version of him."

He sent a kick to her stomach but she caught it and dropped an elbow to his nerve center in his thigh.

Alaric grunted as she threw his leg away.

He charged at her but she sidestepped him, managing to lay a punch to his face.

She reached her bag and found her Taser. But Alaric recovered faster then she thought he could and charged at her again. She landed on the hardwood floor with Alaric on top of her.

She gasped seeing stars, Alaric managed to punch her across the face again.

He lifted his arm again, but Cassie managed to throw her arms up again.

"You are one of the five," he hissed at her grabbing her hair and bashing her head against the ground again.

Cassie's head was swimming; she didn't know what was going to happen first, her passing out or her throwing up all the whiskey she had drunk.

"Your suppose to fight them, not sleep with them" he yelled again, bashing her head against the floor.

Cassie swung and managed to clip Alaric in the face again. Alaric rocked back on his knees and Cassie turned her body to grab the Taser that was on the ground.

She grabbed it and turned around to hit Alaric with it when she felt a knife pressed up against her throat.

"And I here I thought you would be useful" he said tracing the knife down the right side of her face. "That I could let you in on the plan"

Cassie laughed "ya right, from the get go, I have always been ok with vampires who aren't monsters" she said flinching slightly as Alaric kept up the trail as he made his way down to her shoulder.

"I would have punished you first" he said making a deep cut on the inside of her arm. Cassie's eye prickled with tears at the stinging sensation. "Like I had too as well, but then after." He said raising the knife high in the air "we could have been glorious."

Alaric made to stab her but Cassie was faster, she managed to Taser him in the side.

Alaric fell to the side convulsing from the shock as Cassie delivered one last punch to his face to send him unconscious.

Cassie left her head fall softly to the ground wincing as the pain struck her again. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Once she had collected herself she rolled up on managed to stand up.

She looked around the loft, seeing paper and stuff everywhere. She shook her head and decided the first thing she needed to do was get Alaric back to bed.

It took a while, longer then it would have if Cassie had been sober and unharmed, but she managed to get him up on the bed.

She limped back into the living room and started the slow process of picking up all of the papers that were around the living room.

She was about half way through when her phone started to ring.

She made her way over there as fast as she could and picked it up before it would wake Alaric up before he was his real self again.

"Hello" she whispered.

"I was about to go to bed when I realized that there is something missing from it" Klaus's voice came from the other end.

Cassie just smiled at that and tried to ignore the fact that her heart was racing from just seeing that he was calling her.

"Ya" she said still whispering "I thought after what happened today I should stick around the house tonight, so I just finished grabbing some papers from my dad's and am on my way there now" she lied.

"Ok" he said, trying to keep the disappointment from showing too much.

"I know," she said letting him know she was upset as well. "But, Jeremy is really gone off the yellow brick road this time" she said walking into the bathroom. She pulled up her shirt and saw the already black and purplish bruise forming on her entire left side from hitting the coffee table "so I'm thinking that maybe I'm going to take him to the lake house, detox him and start all over thing" she finished, wincing as she tried to clean up the cuts that were on her side as well.

"Does it have to be you?" he asked playfully

"Can you name another human who doesn't have to go to the high school every day?" she countered.

Klaus was quiet for a moment "touché" he said.

Cassie laughed softly, grimacing at the pain that shot through her when she did. "Well, I haven't decided if that's what I'm really going to do yet, but I'll let you know" she replied.

"Ok" he said drifting off into silence.

"Is there anything else, besides that fact you can't sleep without me?" she teased.

"I had a wonderful time with you today" he said.

Cassie was shocked into silence for a second time that night. "I'm sorry, I have been drinking a little did you just say you enjoyed today?" she asked.

Klaus chuckled at that "any time I get to see you and not just you but you dressed in a short dress," he teased.

Cassie felt a blush starting to creep up her cheeks.

"It's a good day" he finished.

"Thanks" she said softly "that means a lot"

"So I'll call you tomorrow" he said

"Ok, sleep well Nik" she said.

"Without you?" he said "never" and with that note, he hung up the phone.

Cassie smiled feeling a little bit lighter then before that conversation. That quickly turned into a frown however when she saw a clear black eye forming, plus the cut on her arm and the various other scraps and bruises. It would be a while before she would look normal again.

Which means it would be a while before she could see Klaus again.

Because if her dad is telling the truth, he doesn't remember what happens when "Evilaric" takes over. Which is good because he would never forgive himself if he did find out. He already has enough self-loathing and problems; she didn't need to add this to his plate.

Cassie finished picking up the loft and headed back to her house, she was teetering close to falling uncounciss and she was positive, she at least cracked a rib and had a concussion from the fight. Topping it off with the bottle of whiskey she had helped finish from early, it was a miracle she managed to get to her room before passing out on her bed.

Cassie groaned as she woke up, feeling stiff and sore she slowly made her way over her bathroom. She grimaced seeing the cut above her left eye while the dark blue-black bruising underneath her right eye. She gingerly peeled off her bloodstained clothes and stepped into the shower.

After finishing washing up Cassie slipped into a pair of sweats and a hoodie. She slowly made her way downstairs to the kitchen, after making her some hot chocolate she curled up on the couch and turned on the TV, finding a station the was playing Supernatural she zoned out.

Today, she reasoned. Today she was going to wallow in self-pity and pain because honestly she was to sore and hurt to do anything else.

She laughed thinking about how when she first came back home she would only let herself five seconds of wallowing, and today she was taking the entire day all for herself.

It kind of felt nice. She guiltily thought to herself. To not have any one depend on her or need her for something.

Jeremy walked in snapping her out of her selfish thoughts. And just seeing the look on his face as he realized everything he had done, to both of his sisters.

Seeing how hurt and in need of comfort he was, erased any thoughts Cassie had about wanting to not have any one need her.

Nobody could comfort her siblings like she could. And it wasn't arrogance or cockiness. It was because she was their sister, and she knew them better than anybody.

She held out her cup to him "season five" she said quietly.

Jeremy sat next to her and took the cup, seeing in her eyes that everything was forgiven at least between them. "Thanks" he said taking a sip out of the cup before handing it back to her.

He saw her eye and frowned. "Cass?" he asked seeing how she was sitting and how she had grimaced when he sat on the couch. "You ok?"

"Got in a fight," she replied quietly but firmly silently telling Jeremy that was all he was going to get on the topic and that the conversation was over.

Alaric groaned as he rolled out of bed, he tried to think about what happened last night but he blacked out again.

"Shit" he said walking into the bathroom. He stared at himself in the mirror and then looked into the front room, he noticed it was clean.

Alaric started pouring over the list of people Cassie and him had come up with of his likely targets.

Carol

Liz

Meredith

And Cassie.

Alaric ran over to the phone and started by calling Liz, he asked if anybody had been murdered last night.

Liz told him that no one had called it in yet but she would check out Carol and Meredith.

Alaric showered and changed before hoping in his car to go check on Cassie.

Jeremy heard a knock on the door; he glanced over at Cassie who had drifted off to sleep.

He walked over to the door and opened it.

"Hey Ric" he said pushing the door open to let him in.

Alaric walked into the house and started looking around.

"Hey, where is Cassie?" he asked

"She is asleep on the couch, she is pretty beat up" Jeremy said.

Alaric's heart dropped. "W-wh-what?" he stuttered?

"Ya, she woke up pretty late and fell asleep on the couch." Jeremy said.

Alaric and Jeremy walked into the living room.

"No" Alaric breathed out walking over to where she was; he squatted down to her level.

He slowly reached his hand out to her face he stopped just as his fingertips were about to reach her cut.

He looked and saw her eyes were open; she was staring at her dad, waiting to see what he would do.

"I'm so sorry" he whispered to her.

Cassie shook her head slightly "it wasn't you."

"Cass" he said lowering his head, he was so disappointed, so ashamed in himself to ever lay a hand on his daughter.

Cassie leaned forward and wrapped her arms around his neck. Alaric buried his face in her hair.

"Dad, I don't blame you" she said "its not your fault, it's that stupid ring we are going to find a way to fix it."

Alaric just pulled back and helped pull Cassie up off the couch.

Jeremy looked between the two of them "I'm confused" he said.

"Its nothing" Cassie said "nothing of importance"

"Ok, but just so you know, the two of you look terrible." Jeremy said before grabbing the car keys and leaving.

"I'm just going to head back home," Alaric said after Jeremy left "I have to finish what I was doing last night"

"Dad" Cassie called softly but Alaric didn't stop he just kept on walking.

Cassie hung her head as she heard the door shut.

AN: there we go chapter 50!

i hope you enjoyed it.

let me know your thoughts and opinions

since you guys have stayed with me for so long i dropped a hint in this chapter about the big plan =)