Put down the stakes for I am here.

I am so sorry guys, but I wanted to update this after all my exams were done but then i got infected with this little thing called procrastination.

But with out further a do, i present to you,

The Last Dance PT2

Alaric's apartment

Klaus walked into Alaric's apartment and didn't to groan about the witch. "Ah, you're right. This witch is all juiced up and aiming to kill." He admitted.

Katherine was still in the same spot as earlier that morning, her leg was bleeding.

"That's terrible." She said fake sympathy.

The warlock was in the kitchen, doing whatever warlocks do.

"We're gonna have to kill her, Maddox." Klaus announced.

Klaus walked over to the dresses and opened a random drawer, he looks through the shirts.

"Do you think this Alaric guy has anything vintage?" He looks at the shirts and sees that there's something under. He opens it to find a lot of weapons to kill vampires. "Crossbows, wooden bullets and automatics? Who is this guy, again?"

"He's the local vampire hunter." Katherine grumbled from her chair.

"Ahh. Well, that explains the clothing." He gestured down to his clothed body.

Klaus then walked into the kitchen to see Maddox holding a bottle of bourbon in one hand and a glass in the other. "All I could find. Guy likes his bourbon." He gave Klaus a glass, which he accepted.

"I knew there was something about him I liked. There's a high school dance and I'm gonna need you to take out witch bitch." Klaus demanded.

Maddox shook his head. "If she has that much power, she can sense me coming from a mile away. I won't be able to get near her. You have to do it." Maddox informed him.

"In this body? I'm a haggard history teacher." He gestured over his body. "She can easily hurt me. I mean, not me, Klaus me, but you know what I mean."

All throughout their conversation Katherine had been listening in intensely.

"No witch could handle channelling that much power. It'll kill her. It would kill me. You just have to make her use it." Maddox continued.

"You mean like provoking her to death?" Klaus asked.

"Won't take long. Just keep attacking her until it kills her. His body, Alaric's, will last longer than hers will."

"How? He's human." Klaus asked once more.

"I can help in that department. I can do a spell to protect you." Maddox informed.

Klaus turned to look at Katherine and she lowered her head. Klaus was just about to continue his conversation with Maddox when Katherine picked her head to ask something. "Did you find out about that girl, Thalia?" it's been bugging her ever since she met this girl, how could this girl possibly be of any help to Stefan. She's not a vampire. Klaus looked at Katherine for a long time, a cold, hard look before continuing with his conversation with Maddox, who was a little worried about his boss's reaction.

In fact Klaus had not stopped thinking about Thalia ever since he saw, he knew instantly it was the little Thalia he met a handful of years back.

Mystic Falls' high school

It's the decade dance and everyone is dancing. 'Alaric' arrives dancing about until he see's Dana with her date. He stopped dancing but his body was still slightly moving to the beat.

"Nice outfit, Mr. Saltzman. Totally far out." Dana complimented.

"Thank you, Dana. Thank you. Now who is your date?"

"It's Chad, Mr. Saltzman, from third period." Chad replied.

"Chad, of course. How would you and your friends like to earn a little extra credit?" Alaric went to 'explain' his extra credit worth idea. When he finished he turned to the door just in time to see Damon and Thalia walk in who were later followed by Stefan, Elena. Klaus just kept on starring at her. After Thalia got lost in the crowd Klaus let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. What is happening to me, why can't I get her out of my head?.

Outside the school just before they all entered.

Bonnie and Jeremy were having an argument but abruptly stopped when Elena, Stefan, Damon and Thalia met up with them.

"Damon." Bonnie greeted and nodded towards Thalia who gave back a two fingered salute. Thalia was wearing a red and black plaid dress that reached her mid thigh, with a black belt going around her waist, her hair was curled slightly with a small, red bow.

Damon replied with a simple "Evenin'" before entering the school with Thalia.

They are later joined by the rest of the crew when they hear that Klaus had a song dedicated to Elena. Elena seems stunned for a second.

"That was a lame, cheap shot. He's just trying to bait us." Damon said.

"I know everyone here." Elena claimed.

"Maybe he's not here. Just wants us to believe that he is." Stefan suggested.

"It's a party, people. Blend. Let him come to us." Damon said in his normal carefree tone.

"Good idea." Bonnie agreed, she then took Jeremy's arm and started leading him to the dance floor.

"No, no, I really don't feel like dancing." He tried to persuade her but to no avail. "Too bad." They then walked onto the dance floor, just as Damon spots Alaric grabs onto Thalia and make his way towards him with Thalia.

"Special dedication, huh? This guy's a little twisted." 'Alaric' started a conversation. Trying his best not to look at Thalia, because he knew if he did, he wouldn't be able to look away. She looked so pretty when she walked in... What is wrong with me, why am I thinking this way?

"I'm not impressed." Damon commented.

"No?" 'Alaric' continued still ignoring Thalia who didn't seem that phased.

Damon nodded "Let me know if you see anything out of whack." And left, Thalia wasn't paying attention to him so when he left she stayed and only several minutes after did she realise he had left. Thalia sighed loudly, making Klaus look down at her.

"Well, I don't think we've been introduced yet." Thalia decided to start up a conversation with the guy, might as well he's the closest I have to someone I know right now. "I'm Thalia." She stuck her hand out for him to shake.

He stared at it for a while before grabbing onto it with a smile on his face, "It's a pleasure to meet you Thalia, I'm Alaric." After their short hand shake Klaus saw that people were looking at them weirdly. "Maybe we should dance, don't want to stick out encase that sicko is watching." I know I'm just making excuses but I couldn't help it.

She looked up at him once more before tilting her head slightly to the side with a lopsided grin. "Why not?" he then lead to some space on the dance floor and started moving about in an oldish type of dance move.

Thalia chuckled lightly before joining him.

"So are you like Stefan and Damon?" 'Alaric' started, "A vampire?" Seriously curious as to how this small, fragile looking girl could help them in the slightest.

Thalia said a simple no, and Klaus carried on trying to guess.

"A witch?"

"Nope"

"Werewolf?"

"Guess again"

"If you're neither of those three are you?"

Once again Thalia gave him a lopsided grin. "You're really not going to tell me are you?" she just continued to smile at him. He gave up, for now anyway but he was going to give his everything to try and find out what she was, maybe that could help to find out what her father was and why he was so intimidated by him.

They carried on dancing with Klaus asking her random questions like: how old are you? And Thalia responded with 19, after some thinking, though Klaus paced it off as her debating whether or not to tell some guy she just met, but little did he know that Thalia literally had to think about it because after she quit the Hunters she started aging again, but ever since she joined them she never kept track of her age since she herself didn't age, and after she quit she forgot to keep track of it ever since.

They kept on dancing and then Klaus realised something, he would have noticed before but he was just so happy being with the little girl he met so long ago, but he started thinking, how can Thalia be 19? She must be at least in her late 20s (I'm not sure how old she would be so I'm just saying that, since I haven't decided how long she stayed in the hunt).

'Alaric seemed lost in thought and Thalia did notice this, she was about to ask if he was alright when Stefan showed up. "Hey Thalia come with me to meet Caroline." Thalia then said goodbye to 'Ric' and went off with Stefan. Klaus then walked off away from the crowd to make sure his plan was in place, while still deep in thought about Thalia. Maybe she isn't the Thalia I met, and only looks a lot like what I always imagined her to look like when she grew up. That's ridiculous, there is no chance that there could be another Thalia so much like the one I met, Thalia isn't even a common name.

Matt and Caroline were dancing together when Stefan came by to introduce his friend.

"Matt, Caroline, this is my friend, Thalia." Thalia gave both a small wave. "Hi, Thalia it's nice to finally meet you." Thalia was a little surprised by Caroline's enthusiasm but when she looked into her eyes she could a calculating look, like many others they were trying to find out how she could help in a fight. Matt only hoped she wasn't a vampire as well; he already had enough to worry about. Thalia only smiled knowing that as soon as they were alone she was going to have many questions thrown at her.

"It's good to meet you too." Thalia and Stefan nodded at them before leaving them to dance again. But not before Stefan leans in close to Caroline and whispers "Klaus is here, I don't know where but keep your eye out for anything weird." And with that Caroline's night was immediately ruined, but that didn't stop her from doing everything so that Matt's night wasn't.

And so the night went on with them keeping their eyes out for anything out of the ordinary, but Jeremy went and told Stefan of Bonnie's plan, and of course Stefan told Elena who went to confront Bonnie alone in the hallway. Stefan was confronting Damon about whether or not he knew of Bonnie's plan, which he did. They were then joined by Thalia who had a cup of punch in hand. She was then told of Bonnie's plan by Stefan while Damon rolled his eyes. Thalia's eyebrows shot up slightly but she chose not to say anything about the other girl's actions.

While this was happening Jeremy was alone when three guys start to fight him. Stefan, Damon and Thalia show up. One of the boys shoots a stake at Damon with a crossbow. "Hey idiots! Let me guess... Klaus says hi?" Stefan rushes to one of the boys and fights him off, while the other two rush to Damon and Thalia. Before the boy could do anything to Thalia, she grabbed his arm when he got close enough, turned away from him and flipped him over her shoulder, the force of the contact with the floor knocked him out. Damon is about to kill the last boy when Stefan interjects.

"No, no, no, no, don't kill him. He's compelled."

"So?"

"So, the whole thing's a distraction. Go find Bonnie and Elena. I got this. Go."

Damon threw the boy against the lockers and motioned for Thalia to follow him. They soon meet up with Bonnie and Elena after following the trail of broken glass cases, which they believed to be the work of Bonnie.

"What happened?" Damon asked when he finally got to them.

Elena was quick to answer. "Klaus is in Alaric's body."

"What?"

"He's possessing it or something." Bonnie supplied, Damon wasn't happy about this happening to his best friend.

"Oh my gods," Thalia started, Damon noticed the fact that she said gods, not God "I just danced with the guy"

"Priorities Thalia," Damon then looked at Elena "Go find Stefan." When she was about to object he said "Now" in such a stern way that all Elena could to do was as told.

"Okay." The three were then left alone.

"Can you kill him?" Damon asked Bonnie.

"He's got some kind of protection spell on him."

"You have the power of a hundred witches. Break it.

"I'm trying! If I kill Alaric, he'll just possess someone else. He knows I have my power, Damon. He's trying to kill me."

"No. Klaus does not get to win tonight, no way. You still willing to do whatever it takes to kill him?"

Thalia looked back and forth the two, she knew what Damon meant, but there wasn't much she could do about it. It was the only way, plus she didn't really know Bonnie so she wouldn't be too upset about it.

They continued with their conversation.

Bonnie is alone in the hallway, she walks towards the cafeteria with a look of determination on her face. She entered the cafeteria and surprise, surprise there was Klaus sitting in a chair with a knife in his hand.

"What took you so long? Now, do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?" Klaus asked smugly.

With a flick of her wrist she broke his wrist with her powers. With visible pain written across his face he popped it back into place.

"The hard way. Got it."

Elena and Stefan were running through the hallway when Damon and Thalia rejoin them.

"There you are." Damon exclaimed nearly out of breath.

"What are you doing? Where's Bonnie?" Elena asked, worry already creeping into her tone.

"She's doing what she has to do." Damon answered.

"What?" Elena asked once again. How could, Damon let her do this?

"Where is she?" asked Stefan angrily.

Thalia put a hand on Stefan's shoulder stopping him from advancing anymore towards Damon.

"Stefan, let her do this." Thalia warned.

"Damn it guys, where is she?!" Stefan shouted.

Shouts of pain could be heard towards the cafeteria and so both Elena and Stefan took off towards the sound, leaving Thalia and Damon behind, sighing and walking towards the cafeteria themselves.

As they neared the cafeteria they could hear Elena's cries.

"No! No. No, no, no, no, no! Bonnie! Bonnie, please, no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

They entered the cafeteria and took in the scene.

"Stefan, get Elena out of here. We'll deal with the body." Damon said, without any trace of emotion in his voice. Thalia just looked at the body of their fallen friend, her eyes drifting over her lifeless eyes. Not being able to look at her empty eyes any longer she turned her attention to the chair which Klaus previously sat, the only thing in the room which was not previously destroyed in the fight.

"What do you mean, deal with it?" Elena cried.

"The sheriff can't know about this. Last thing we need's another mysterious death." Damon nearly shouted.

"This is Bonnie!" Elena continued to cry.

Damon looked at Stefan. "Get her home. Now. So I can clean this up."

Stefan holds onto Elena and helps her stand.

"Hey, hey, hey." Stefan said softly.

"No. Jeremy. Oh, my God, Jeremy. What about Jeremy?" Elena couldn't stop herself from crying, she was thinking about how heartbroken Jeremy must get when he finds out about Bonnie.

"I'll find him." Thalia carefully added, turning her attention the others in the room.

Elena lets Stefan Take her away after she looks at Bonnie's laying form one last time, still crying she is lead out of the room. When Thalia and Damon are both alone, Thalia tries to look everywhere else but at Bonnie's Body. Seeing her like that just reminded her of all the fallen heroes after the war. Damon moved himself closer to Bonnie's form and carefully closed her eyes.

Damon is putting Bonnie's body in the trunk when Thalia shows up with Jeremy by her side. She still couldn't look at Bonnie's form, wrapped up in a blanket or not, it was still hard for her thinking about all the hunters that were lost in the war, she may not be part of them anymore but they were like family to her.

"Damon! Hey, I can't find anyone. Where's Elena, where's Bonnie?" Jeremy asked out of breath.

Damon stood up straight and looked Jeremy in the eye. "We need to have a little talk."

Salvatore's house

Elena is sitting by the chimney being comforted by Stefan when Thalia and Damon walk inside.

"What did you do with her?!" Elena cried.

Damon looked to Stefan and asked, "Will you please calm her down?"

"Don't talk like I'm not standing right in front of you." Elena's hadn't stopped streaming down her face but now she was screaming with rage.

Damon rolled his eyes, "Please calm down."

"You knew! Didn't you, both of you? You knew that if she harnessed all that power, that she would die, didn't you?"

"Yes. Yes, we knew." Damon announced, Thalia glance at him momentarily as Elena walked up to him and slapped him across the face. She moved to do the same with Thalia, but before she could Thalia grabbed her hand which was an inch away from her face.

"Trust me Elena you don't want to slap me." Thalia warned. Elena's eyes widened slightly before she yanked her hand away from Thalia, and continued to glare at Damon.

"You need to listen to me, and prepare for what I'm about to say. Bonnie had to die. Klaus using Alaric's body was a total surprise. She wasn't prepared for that. And he wasn't going to stop, and we weren't going to be able to stop him until he knew she was dead. He had to believe it." Damon said. Elena was left there looking a little confused at his words.

"She cast a spell. Bonnie's ok." Damon supplied before Elena could say anything.

He starts to move towards the stairs, Stefan follows him.

"You know, you could have told me." Stefan told him with a scowl on his face.

"How do I know when you're going to go blabbing things to your girlfriend?"

"You understand what you put her through?"

"See, that's why I didn't tell you. 'Cause you would have never been able to do it. Don't get me wrong, Stefan. I don't mind being the bad guy. I'll make all the life and death decisions while you're busy worrying about collateral damage. I'll even let her hate me for it. But at the end of the day, I'll be the one to keep her alive." With that Damon continued on up the stairs.

Thalia was sat in her room. She had changed into her pjs, which consisted of an old green day top, and some dark grey shorts. Her hair was straight again, with no traces that her hair was ever curled. She sat there with a necklace in her hands. She can't remember who she got it from, but she remembers having it from a young age. It was a simple necklace, it only had a small pendant in the shape of a star, with small blue crystals around the edges. She doesn't wear it (the only jewellery she normally wears around her neck is her camp necklace.), she normally carries it around in her pocket, hoping that maybe one day she'll get it out and it will all come back to her, but that's just wistful thinking. She removed the pendant from the chain and took off her camp necklace, she removed half the beads, from the necklace (she had about 4/5) and slipped the star in and then the other beads so that the star dangled in the middle. She didn't know why but the star was very important to her, or at least the person who gave it to herwas. She then got herself under the covers and went to sleep, to sleep about a certain man, who happened to be faceless in her mind, and she could never really remember what colour hair he had but all she remembered was a man who would pick up her small childish form and place her on his shoulders to go out for ice cream.