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Chapter 54

"We have nothing to say to you" Klaus growled.

"Oh I believe you do" Mikael said.

Klaus stepped in front of Rebecca.

"Nicklaus" Ester began "we know you are searching for the cure"

"And?" Rebecca asked. "Some of us want the chance to grow up and have the family you robbed us of"

"Enough" Mikael snapped.

"Leave" Rebecca sneered and Klaus felt her leave.

"You have heard my sister" Nik said, "You are not welcomed in this home leave"

"Nicklaus I'm warning you" ester said

"You tried to kill me and my siblings" Klaus roared "both of you have torn our lives apart for a thousand years now LEAVE"

Ester and Mikael turned to leave "your pride and stubbornness will be the undoing of you," Mikael warned.

Klaus laughed darkly "I remember you saying this right before I killed you the first time."

The two of them left without another word.

Klaus walked into the study where Rebecca had a glass for her and him full with scotch.

"Why do you think they wanted to talk about the cure?" Rebecca asked.

"I have no idea," Klaus said walking to the safe where the sword was hidden. He pulled it out just to make sure that it was still there.

"Why cant they just leave us be" Rebecca said throwing her glass against the wall "for a thousand years they have made our lives miserable, lives they forced upon us"

Klaus just let his sister rant, because honestly he had no idea what to say to make his little sister feel better.

Rebecca just left the room and the house.

Klaus laid his head against the couch; maybe they should leave once this cure stuff is over. Have a fresh start where the residents of the town didn't hate them already. New Orleans perhaps? They could be a family again there. He knew it.

Cassie, Mason, Jeremy, and Damon arrived at the lake house. They unpacked and got settled into their rooms.

"Dinner!" Cassie yelled up to the boys.

All three of them raced done to the kitchen and started loading food onto their plates. Cassie rolled her eyes and laughed at them, she walked into the living room and opened her book to finish reading it.

Ester and Mikael were standing in the old witches house, a bowl filled with ingredients were in between them.

"Are you sure about this?" Ester asked.

Mikael nodded "this has to be done" he said.

"But to do this to the girl" she protested.

"He loves her, and some how she loves him as well, we can't let them use her blood for the cure, it will ruin everything," he growled.

"So they want to grow old, is that such a bad thing?" she asked.

"You forget he ripped your heart out of your body," he said. "And killed me. We gave him a chance and he spat in our faces."

Ester nodded, "lets do this."

Ester started to chant over the bowl.

Cassie coughed and took a drink of water

Mikael poured a black liquid into the bowl.

Klaus tugged at his collar.

Cassie's coughed harder; she stood up and walked into the bathroom. Mason looked up at her.

Ester continued to chant while the ingredients started to boil.

Cassie leaned over the sink, spots of blood appeared on the tile.

Klaus unbuttoned his collar and walked over to the window.

"Almost time" Mikael said excitedly, the flames illuminated his features.

Cassie had started to panic; she couldn't breathe and was still coughing up blood. Her knees buckled and she hit the floor.

Klaus's chest started to burn; he ripped his shirt opened and saw black in his veins as they made his was towards his heart.

Mason and Damon raced into the bathroom and saw Cassie on the floor.

"Is this some sort of hunter cleansing thing?" Damon asked.

"I don't know" Mason said bending down to pick Cassie up to get her head up. "I don't think so"

Ester finished chanted and the flames died out.

Klaus's breath caught and he dropped to the floor.

Cassie gagged and passed out in Mason's arm.

"Is it done?" Mikael asked

Ester nodded "it is, now the young Cassandra's blood is unable to be used as a multiplier for the cure."

"Now there is only one dose," Mikael said grinning evilly.

"Only one, for Nicklaus" Ester said.

Jeremy was on the phone with Alaric telling him what had happened to Cassie while mason was sitting next to her on the bed.

"There" Damon said wiping his hands on his pants "clean up is done"

Jeremy turned to them "Alaric can't get ahold of Klaus" he told them.

"So are we thinking that this wasn't a hunter thing" Damon asked what everyone was thinking.

Mason nodded "she would have had to have a lot of vampire blood today and we have been with her since this morning, it can't have been" he reasoned.

Damon nodded "well bedtime for all of the campers" he said turning to Jeremy "breakfast at six"

"What" Jeremy asked, "no way, something happened to Cassie"

"And something is going to happen to us if Cassie wakes up and realize we have been ignoring the reason we came here in the first place." Damon retorted.

"Damon's right" Mason agreed.

Damon did a double take towards Mason.

"I'm going to call Bonnie and get her up here, the two of us will take care of Cassie, Damon can you handle Jeremy's training?" Mason ordered.

"Yep" Damon said "and as camp counselor I say it bed time"

Jeremy stormed out of the room

"Don't forget to brush your teeth" Damon called after him.

Mason chuckled "are you going to be this hard on him all the time," he asked.

Damon nodded "until we have a better idea of what's going on with Cassie, as long as he is thinking about how much he hates me, he wont think to much about Cassie."

Mason nodded, "I'm going to call Bonnie" he said getting up and leaving.

Damon took Mason's spot "look at you being a drama queen" he said softly to Cassie "I have no idea what's going on but maybe Sabrina will. You have to get better, I can't keep being the better person without you to help me"

Caroline and Elena were sitting at the Grill.

"So he broke up with you?" Caroline asked.

Elena nodded "yep" she said popping the p, "said since there are to many people thinking that we have been compelled it wasn't fair to me or to us to actually be together."

"Ah that's sweet" Caroline cooed, "He is finally being the good guy."

"Caroline" Elena said, "This isn't a good thing"

"Why not?" she asked confused.

"Because Cassie told him to break up with me!" she protested.

"She did what? Are you sure?"

"Positive, it sounds just like something she would do."

"Well, what did she say?"

"That she didn't, and she even left a voicemail before she left for the lake house saying she is here for me f I want to talk."

"And how does that make her the bad guy in this?"

"I know she told him to break up with me"

"I don't think so, Cassie has been pretty preoccupied with Klaus. And she said she was here for you to talk to. I think this is perfect opportunity for you two to reconnect like she wants to, like you have been claiming to want to." Caroline said.

Elena put her head in her hands.

"Elena" Caroline whispered.

Elena looked up at Caroline's face, her eyes were wide in fright. She turned to follow Caroline's eye sight. But she didn't need to because Mikael sat down next to Elena.

Caroline and Elena froze.

Mikael grabbed Elena's chin "you will forget everything I have compelled you to do." He said letting go of her.

Elena shook her head a little as memories and feelings came rushing back to her.

"Now" he said turning to Caroline "I want you to deliver a message"

Rebecca walked back into the manor with two more bottles of wine. "Nik" she called him as she walked into the living room.

"Nik" she cried as she saw Klaus passed out on the floor. She ran to him and checked his pulse.

She blurred to the fridge and grabbed two bags of blood. Blurring back into the living room she ripped opened a bag and blood poured into his mouth.

Klaus's eyes shot opened and they were the golden amber that they became when he was a hybrid. He grabbed the bag from Rebecca's hand and drained it.

Rebecca handed Klaus the other bag and he drained it in similar fashion.

"What happened?" she asked him when he had finished.

Klaus just shook his head. "I was sitting here and then there was this burning in my chest" he said looking down at his chest. There were still faint black lines retreating.

"Oh my god" Rebecca whispered as the two of them watched the black lines disappear. "What was that?"

"I don't know but it felt like my blood was burning" he choked out.

Bonnie walked into the lake house. "Bonnie" Mason greeted "Cassie is upstairs."

Bonnie nodded and walked into the room where Cassie was still sleeping.

"What happened?" she asked.

"She started coughing last night, and then started coughing up blood and then she passed out." Mason explained.

"Has she woken up?" bonnie ask sitting next to Cassie.

"She woke up early this morning" Mason informed her "her breathing has returned to normal, but she thinks something is wrong or that something has happened."

Bonnie nodded.

"So how long are you two going to talk about me by my bedside?" Cassie asked as she sat up.

Bonnie looked at Cassie, her once sun kissed skin looked pale and sickly she had dark green and black rings around her eyes.

"You look terrible" Bonnie commented.

"I feel terrible" Cassie agreed "like something has drained me"

"Well it looks like something drained you of course of what I can't say just yet," Bonnie said.

"Well what's your plan witch doctor?" Damon said walking into the room.

Bonnie glared at him.

"What's the news with Jeremy?" Cassie asked.

"Boy wonder is currently running around the lake, twice" he told her "how are you?" he asked, his voice full with concern.

Bonnie was taken back by the emotion in Damon's voice, only hearing that emotion come through with him once or twice since she met him.

Cassie gestured to her self.

"Touché" Damon answered.

"But that's a good question" Cassie croaked turning to Bonnie "what is your plan"

"Well, first thing I'm going to is just make sure everything we already know about you is still good" Bonnie said.

Mason nodded.

"Well" Cassie said looking down at her arm "my hunter tattoo is still there."

Tyler was sitting in the living room of the Lockwood house when Caroline and Elena walked in.

"What did you do?" Caroline screeched.

Tyler looked up at his girlfriend shocked "what are you talking about?" he asked

"She is talking about Mikael coming into the grill with a message for us to tell you" Elena said.

"Oh that, we are taking down Klaus" Tyler said "and the hybrids and us have teamed up with Mikael and Ester."

"Because the last time we thought working with Mikael was such a good idea" Elena quipped.

"Tyler, we have everyone working together, for once. No backstabbing, no double crossing. We all have the same goal." Caroline tried to reason.

"No we don't" Tyler said, "Do you know what happens when a hybrid gets a cure, they become a werewolf again. None of us want to help get the cure"

"So you help them become unsired, you don't plot to kill him," Caroline continued.

"We all are apart of Klaus's bloodline, when you kill him, you kill us all" Elena said.

"Ester figured out how to reverse the vampirism" Tyler said, "it's a one time use spell and it's painful but it rewrites the biology of the person."

"This is stupid" Elena said, "This can't end well, because Cassie isn't going to let this happen."

"Cassie can't stop this" Tyler said

"Because you can stop Cassie" Caroline snorted.

Tyler just shook his head.

"Well it doesn't matter because our message from Mikael is that if you back out or if we warn Cassie or the Originals." Elena trailed off.

"What?" Tyler asked.

"Tyler, they have your mom" Caroline said softly "and if something happens to this plan and it doesn't work"

"They are going to kill her" Elena finished.

Bonnie and Cassie were sitting around the kitchen table.

"Where are the boys?" Bonnie asked

"I sent them off with some drills for Jeremy" Cassie told her. "I didn't really want them around for this"

"Ok" Bonnie said nodding "well you said that your hunter mark is still there so I'm going to test your blood"

"Gross" Cassie commented.

Bonnie laughed, "blood is powerful just by itself, you can use it for spells and whatnot."

"Right" Cassie said nodding "I get you"

"Well with you being a doppelganger, same with Elena your blood is twice as powerful."

"Which is why my blood is part of the cure for vampirism"

"Right" Bonnie confirmed, "So I'm going to test it"

Cassie nodded and held out her hand "alright lets go"

Bonnie took out a knife and cut Cassie's hand. Blood dripped into the bowl.

And nothing.

"Please tell me that this is what is suppose to happen" Cassie said looking between bonnie and the bowl.

"No" Bonnie said "its not"

"Great" Cassie said as she wrapped up her hand "explain"

Bonnie chanted and did some magic voodoo.

"Well something drained you all right," Bonnie, said, "They drained you all magic properties"

"What does that mean?" she asked fear dripping into her voice.

"I mean your blood couldn't even be used for a simple spell" Bonnie said "let alone as part of the cure"

Klaus and Rebecca were sitting in the living room.

"Do you think that it was something that Mikael and Ester did?" Rebecca asked.

"I absolutely think that this is something that Mikael and Ester did" Klaus confirmed.

"Do you think that something happened to Cassie?" Rebecca asked concerned about her friend.

Klaus paused for a second and then picked up his phone to call her.

"Hello" she answered her voice shaking slightly.

"Cassandra" he said, "are you ok?"

"Um, not really" she said her voice still shaking "som- something happened"

Klaus looked up at Rebecca her fear evident in her face.

"Something happened to me as well," he told her "we just don't know what."

"Well, we called bonnie to come down and she tested my blood" she explained "and whatever happened it drained my blood of all of its magical properties"

"What does that mean?" he asked concerned.

He heard her take a deep breath "it means that my blood can't be used as a cure."

Klaus was stunned quiet, his mind racing Cassie's blood can't be used as the cure, then what were they going to do? They needed her blood and his to use a multiplier for the cure. Without that there was just one dose.

Just one.

Klaus and Cassie had discussed this, both deciding that they weren't going to tell anybody that there was only one dose, because they had figured out what they needed to do in order for everyone to be happy.

"Nik" he heard her voice.

"Ya, I'm here," he said

"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened or how it happened"

"No, Cassandra you have nothing to be sorry about, I know what happened and it wasn't your fault."

"What happened?"

Klaus took a deep breath "Mikael and Ester showed up at the house with Becca and I here, they wanted to talk."

"Are you two ok? What did they want to talk about?"

"We are both ok, and I don't know, I kicked them out before they could say anything."

"What are we going to do Nik?" she asked knowing that they only had one dose of the cure now.

"We will figure it out," he comforted her "just keep training Jeremy."

"Ok" she said

"Do you want me to come down there?" he asked.

"No" she said, "stay in Mystic Falls and stop them," she told him.

"Cass" he began.

"I got to go" she interrupted him "talk to you later, bye"

And then she hung up on him.

"Is she still ok?" Rebecca asked.

Klaus nodded "then she hung up on me when I asked if she wanted me down there with her."

"She is still mad" Rebecca said, "You did let her leave without saying goodbye."

"I did" Klaus said, "that's another thing I screwed up today"

"Well" Rebecca said, "fix it."

Cassie hung up the phone and looked at Bonnie.

"So beside my blood being non magical everything else is ok," she asked.

Bonnie nodded "but I don't understand why you are still a hunter?"

"The only explanation I can think of is that I am a hunter, its not something in my blood its hardwired in my DNA and brain." She explained.

Bonnie nodded her head "that makes sense" she agreed.

"So" Cassie said finishing her meal and orange juice. "Anything else?"

"I don't think so," Bonnie said

"Great" Cassie said standing up.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"I'm going to run" Cassie said.

"Cassie" Bonnie scolded, "This isn't a good idea."

"No Bon, I am tired of this," she said turning to the girl "I have been bait, and kidnapped and used as a pawn, I am sick of this and its not going to happen again."

Bonnie didn't say anything as Cassie walked out of the house to start her run.

Klaus walked into his study and picked up his notes on the cure. He knew the story of the cure and with Cassie's help and knowledge they had put together the steps for this.

There was one dose of the cure.

But together with Klaus and Cassandra's blood they could use it as a multiplier to create more doses for this.

However there was one part that Klaus kept from Cassie, the only secret he was currently keeping from her.

They joked around that true love saves the day.

But it did. In order for their blood to be used. They had to be in love.

Him with her.

And her with him.

Truly in love, not just like.

And that scared him. He didn't know if his parents "de-spelled" because they were in love. Or if they were just taking precautions.

Did he love Cassie?

Did Cassie love him? And did she still love him after he just left her leave?

"This is why I don't get involved with people" Klaus grumbled to himself "love makes you weak"

"No it doesn't" Rebecca said from the doorway "love makes you strong it brings people together and if you don't realize that soon, this is just going to get harder"

"When you love people they become weaknesses" Klaus said looking at his younger sister.

"So Cassie is your weakness" Rebecca said

Klaus turned his back on Rebecca "she isn't my only weakness" he said softly.

Rebecca just scoffed.

"Its true" he said facing her. "You have to know that"

"All I know is that you have a habit of daggering your siblings whenever they don't agree with you" Rebecca sneered.

"When they want to leave," Klaus agreed, "when I cant know every movement or know without a doubt that you guys are safe."

Rebecca was silent, not knowing what to say or what she felt about this.

"It was a bad decision, I know that now" Klaus said walking over to his desk where he had a sketch of Cassie next to his notes about the cure. "Cassie pretty much has told me over and over again."

"You love her" Rebecca stated, "Everyone knows it bu-"

"Yes" Klaus whispered so softly that is Rebecca hadn't been an original then she would have missed it. "I do"

Rebecca had a small smile, it was nice to see her brother becoming the person he used to be, back when he had Anita, before they became vampires.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"What?" she asked surprised.

"Well what the hell today I'm confessing everything," Klaus said as he quickly poured himself a drink and drained it. "I'm sorry that nobody here will be nice to you because you are my sister, I'm sorry that my foolish actions have taken us away from everyplace you have dared to call home. Once this is over, just promise you will call"

"Call?" she asked.

"I'm going to let you leave if you want" Klaus said

Rebecca stayed quiet knowing that this was hard enough for him to let her go, let alone for her to go human just yet.

"Nik" she said walking over to him "you're my brother, always have been, I love you. Always and forever just like we promised. I'm not going to lie to you every time you have daggered me or betrayed me it hurts"

"I know" he said "and I'm trying so hard to make it better."

"All because of Cassie" she said

"Because Cassie made me realize that the way I was handling certain situations weren't the best way." He said sitting on the couch.

Rebecca sat down next to him.

"Its my fault" he said clearly extremely not sober. "Cassie can't help her sister because I was to stubborn to listen. I have no idea what to do. I told her I would fix it but" he trailed off.

"Nik, get some sleep" Rebecca "sober up and together you and I will sort everything up."

AN: there you go another chapter up.

when i'm writing this its almost plays out like an episode in my head, which is the reason for some many scene jumps and cliffhangers. Also with this being written in third person i want to try to get as many thoughts from as many characters as possible. so i am hoping this plays out well when you read it and isnt something that just makes sense in my head.

but... Elena is Un-Compled! what does this mean?...

leave you thought and two points to whoever gets it right! (that is my plug to review you guys hint.. hint..)