Trixie was fussing with the stupid scarf that was supposed to be a head band. She was trying to get it flat like it was supposed to be when Elijah walked up behind her and smiled to her in the mirror. He reached out and grabbed the ends of the scarf, got it flat on her forehead to help hold back her hair, and tied it in a knot that was just right.
"Thank you Elijah. I dont know why Damon is making me dress the part."
"Its just lucky he had something for you."
"Oh yes! Make me relive the whole reason why I hated the 60's to begin with. Rainbow is cool but doing it all up like this? Corney to me. But, its for a good cause." Trixie smiled as she held her arms out and the loose sleeves waved around her, they hung about four inches below her wrist when held out beside her and the bottom of the dress came right above her knees. The tacky calf high yellow boots with five inch heels was a bit of n over kill but Damon had such fun in picking it out for her that she was going to show him that it didnt bother her at all to wear it. The whole dress was rainbow-ed (pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) in consecutive order and it sort of wrapped around in a curve. She liked it in total honesty but she wouldnt be wearing it again after tonight. Trixie was putting her eye liner on when she heard the sound of her phone ringing in the background. She sighed as she walked into the bedroom of the hotel and saw Elijah holding her phone smiling.
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"Seems you date is waiting." She rolled her eyes as she glanced to the text Damon sent her to hurry up and get there. She sighed as she nodded and went back to finish her mascara before putting on a light pink lip gloss and smiling to herself. Elijah just shook his head as she came out and tucked her phone into her bra and smiled.
"Ok so Im ready. You want to drop me off like a good father or shall I walk?"
"I thought it was your idea to have me out of town?" Elijah smiled as Trixie nodded and went to the door.
"I know, just thought Id offer anyways. See you later."
"Remember to call if anything happens and you need me."
"I will Elijah. Have a good night here, safe." He smiled a bit as she waved bye and walked out of the hotel room, only barely making it to the woods edge in the heels before she rushed to Damon's house. Stefan, Elena and Damon were still there waiting on her as she walked through the front door and stopped mid-step staring at Elena. she was fussing with her huge heart earrings that were three different kinds of purple. Her dress matched the earrings and as Trixie tried to understand her outfit she noticed that she had the same kind of boots on she did but Elena's were white. She smiled as Elena turned to her and just stared at her as well.
"Damon?"
"Yep, Stefan get to you?"
"Yeah. Wow, its a wonder they are brothers huh?"
"Same type of taste if you ask me." Trixie smiled as Damon came walking up to her and put his arm around her waist smiling as she grinned to his simple black pants and black shirt outfit. Stefan smiled to Elena as he walked up to her side and as the girls looked over the simple way the guys were dressed they sighed a bit before deciding to leave. It wasnt a far drive to the school and as they got there Elena first noticed Bonnie and Jeremy talking but as she got closer Jeremy walked away, making Trixie smile, and Bonnie kind of frowned to Elena. Apparently since she had Damon erase Jeremys memory he had kept a sore spot for his sister and even though she shouldnt Trixie kind of enjoyed watching the girl finally being ignored. Elena did need to learn she wasnt the queen of everyone and can make decisions for everyone but Trixie also hated family fighting. She never had one really expect her father and she never fought with him, family is too important. The whole reason she was trying to help Elijah get his other siblings back, well that and she missed Kol.
"So, want to hang onto me like the hunk I am?" Trixie scoffed as she glanced up to Damon and shook her head. She followed them over to Bonnie and Elena and when she got close Bonnie smiled and gripped her arm as she nodded to the guys and drug Trixie off somewhere where they could talk.
"Trixie, I need to ask you something, Im worried about tonight."
"Why? Just go with the plan. Make Ric believe you have powers great enough to kill him."
"I cant though. I only have mediocre powers compared to you." Trixie sighed, she was right but as she smiled Bonnie grinned.
"Ok than. Stick beside me, if Ric gets you alone he will figure things out. Just stay with me and when he trys something I can make it seem as if you are doing the powers. I am another witch, he knows this, I will accuse you if I get weak. I'll say something like, youre stealing my powers as well or something. He wont stop to think and if we can make it seem as if you die after we weaken him greatly then he will run and we wont see him hopefully for a few days."
"The full moon is in four days. Will we be ready by then?" Trixie shrugged her shoulders as she glanced over the other witches shoulder and saw Damon and Ric talking at the drink table. She smiled as Damon caught her eye and Ric turned to see her as well. He genuinely smiled when he saw Trixie but then as he glanced to Bonnie he gave his signature evil grin. Trixie shivered as she grabbed Bonnie's hand and squeezed in reassurance as she glanced around and saw Ric smiling at her now.
"We will be alright. I wont let anything happen to you. Can you do a fainting spell?"
"Easy as pie."
"When I tell you to let my powers go, faint. I can make sure he wont hurt you and by that time Damon will get you out. You will be fine and he will be caught off guard the night of the ritual."
"Can't they hear us Trixie?" She frowned as she glanced to Damon and concentrated.
"I doubt it. I can barely hear him and Ric talking, and they arent whispering. The music and noise is helping to mask our whispers. But remember to to let him know you know its Nik ok? He needs to think he caught us off guard."
"That I can do. Im going to go find Jeremy."
"Ok, just keep an eye on me and if he asks you to go somewhere find me. Yell to me I dont care. I have to be around you when he grabs you."
"I will yell for you to watch Jeremy. That way he thinks im asking a favor and not for back up." Trixie smiled as Bonnie nodded and went to find Jeremy in the crowd. As Trixie walked up to Damon she smiled to Ric who was watching her intently. Damon wrapped his arm around Trixies waist and as he did she caught Ric glaring at the vampire.
"So, if this Klaus fella is a big and bad as you make him sound, why is she here and not running scared?" Damon glanced to Ric before shrugging and Trixie laughing.
"I told you the other day Ric, Im not scared of him. Just worried about the rest of the family." Ric nodded as Damon rolled his eyes.
"You dont like him already Damon?"
"Are you kidding! Hes an ass and he is going to regret the day he came to the town." Trixie sighed as she yanked on Damon's arm and sent him a death glare. Trixie was trying to keep Damon from letting Ric know that they knew who he was and what he was doing but Damon was acting like a total pompous ass.
"Hey everyone! Thanks for being here tonight. The dance is becoming a great turn out isnt it! We will get the music going again in a second, we have a shout out first though. This next song is for Elena. from Klaus." Damon and Trixie turned to find Elena and Stefan on the dance floor, Elena with a look of horror on her face and Stefan glaring right at Ric. He didnt seem to notice as Damon sighed and shook his head.
"Damon, go talk to your brother. I think hes getting a bit uptight about this whole thing. Make sure hes calm because if we see Nik tonight we dont need him making a rash decision." Trixie glared right at Damon making him understand she was telling him to make sure Stefan didnt blow their surprise but as he left he growled and mumbled. She shook her head as Ric chuckled and Trixie smiled to him. She was always comfortable around Nik but it was a little weird not to see the face she had grown used to.
"So, a dedication huh? Little wacked out dont you think?"
"No, Nik was always one for dramatics. He loves making his presence known and it was a cheap shot to rile up their blood. It worked, they are pissed."
"And youre not? Didnt you say he was close to you? Youre not upset he didnt all you out either?"
"He either doesnt know Im here or hes hoping to piss me off, but I stopped getting pissed at him the day he forgot I was a friend and began to think of me as a weapon. I dont care anymore about him, I just want my family back." Ric glanced to her and as he watched her face show her hurt feelings he knew she was telling the truth. He felt horrible as he put his hand on her shoulder and smiled to her.
"Dont you think he might have had his reasons not to get attached o you much? Damon mentioned something about his brother?" Trixie scoffed as she glanced to Ric.
"Yeah, but Kol only got interested in me after my change because he wanted a toy. I dont know where the difference between toy and girlfriend happened but as Nik pushed me further from him and closer to Kol things changed." Ric nodded as he glanced out over the crowd and noticed Damon and Elena laughing and caning. Stefan had disappeared, probably to go cool down, and as Trixie saw Bonnie and Jeremy she smiled as the young witch waved to her.
"Exactly how powerful are you? I mean he would have to have a good reason not to kill you right?" Trixie laughed a bit as she glanced to Ric and thought why are you digging for answers Nik?
"I am more powerful than you believe, but right now Bonnie would be the one that could kill him. I dont know if I would ever be able to kill him to tell the truth but I wanted to. For so long I wanted to, but I dont think I ever could. And to answer the other question, he didnt kill me because he loved me." Ric scoffed and as Trixie turned to him she smiled.
"Really? I doubt a monster like him could love anyone."
"Dont let what Damon told you confuse you. Katherine might have talked bad about him, but I lived with him. He was kind and loving when he wanted to be. He had a soul and still does, just somewhere along the line of trying to break this stupid curse he lost sight of it. I believe that one day he will have it back but by then it might be too late to rebuild the bridge he burned in the process."
"Did he burn the bridge with you?" Ric watched as Trixie's breath hitched as she frowned and lowered her head. She tried to think of what to say, she wanted to hurt him wanted to make him pay but as she thought back to the days with her and Kol she smiled and laughed.
"Me and Kol had a talk one day, about soul mates and the such. Nik was talking to a few witches that I learned from back in New Orleans and they told me that every creature has one soul mate. Someone that was made in the world just for them. I was told that the vampires were made out of anger, Kol confirmed that, and that every turned vampire would loose their first soul mate and gain another. Like, a human has their one love but once turned into a vampire they had a different one. Damon there, I believe he actually cared for me once, when we were human, but after we turned things changed. I was a witch Ric, I had and still have a human soul mate but since I am a vampire now too I have one of those as well. Kol was my vampire mate. I loved him, still do, but the witches down there told me something I never repeated to anyone except Kol and he threw it off as a plan to try and separate us. H didnt believe it would be real or that I could believe such nonsense he said. It hurt that night when he simply threw my feelings and words away as if I was crazy but I believe them to this day. No one else would though but that would be the number one reason that no, he hasnt burned his bridge with me. I understand him too well." Trixie smiled as Ric looked at her in confusion.
"What do you mean? What did Kol not believe?" Trixie laughed as she turned and smiled to Ric before putting her hand on his arm.
"The witches told me that two mates I would have, two that would fight till the day they died and it would split a family if I got between them. Two mates, one for each side of me that was still alive and even though I didnt want to believe them it was hard not to when Nik was the one who changed me. I spent the first ten years of my vampire life with him and if he remembers as well as I do of that time he would see exactly what I was talking about. I have never told him, didnt plan on it either, but I would never come between a family and once he was set on power rather than love, I gave up and went to Kol. Dont get me wrong, I love Kol, but it just hurts to know that I was put to the side so easily for the feel of power. Nik of course never knew how I felt, and he wont, but I hope one day he looks back on it all and realizes it before its too late." Trixie smiled before she went to walk away and find Damon but a she took a few steps Ric grabbed her wrist and turned her back to him.
"Are you saying that he was your mate?" Trixie chuckled as she shook her head.
"That would be crazy wouldnt it? I mean he is only a half breed like me. His human side still stuck there with his wolf. How could he ever have a mate and actually love that girl too? No to him I was power. Thats all." Trixie smiled as she nodded and walked towards the floor where Damon and Bonnie were talking. Ric stared after the girl and as he cursed himself for not realizing it earlier he had to rethink his plan of action fast. Now he was even more determined to free the human side of him, just to see if she was right or not. He had too, even if it was just for her.